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 in the same house on 14 May 1595. Only a few weeks before her decease she had to defend herself from the charge of wishing to appropriate her husband's estate to herself (ib. 9 April 1592, No. 120). She and her husband were buried in the More Chapel in Chelsea Old Church, where, by her desire, a very magnificent marble monument was erected, exhibiting their effigies of full size under a Corinthian canopy, richly adorned with festoons of flowers. Her epitaph describes her in very laudatory terms as   Fœminei lux clara chori, pia, casta, pudica; Ægris subsidium, pauperibusque decus; Fida Deo, perchara tuis, constansque, diserta; Sic patiens morbi, sic pietatis amans. On the rebuilding of the church in 1667 this monument was removed to the south aisle. By her will, which is a long and very interesting document couched in a deeply religious spirit (Lansdowne MSS. lxxvii. Nos. 29, 30), dated 20 Dec. 1594, three months after her husband's decease, Lady Dacre made provision for the erection of an almshouse for twenty poor persons, ten of each sex, and a school for twenty poor children, in pursuance of a plan she and her husband had hoped to complete in their lifetime, the funds for its support being charged on the manor of Brandesburton in Yorkshire. The whole of her manors, lands, and houses at Chelsea, Kensington, and Brompton she bequeathed to Lord Burghley and his heirs. She begged the queen's acceptance of a jewel worth 300l., as ‘a poor remembrance of her humble duty for her manifold princely favours to her husband and herself.’ To her brother, Lord Buckhurst, she left, with other jewels, her majesty's picture, set round with twenty-six rubies, with a pendent pearl, ‘as a special remembrance of her love, being a guifte she very well did know would of all other things be most pleasing and acceptable unto him.’ The will contains many bequests to her gentlewomen and servants, not one of whom seems to be forgotten.

[State Papers, Dom.; Collins's Peerage; Lansdowne MSS.; Faulkner's History of Chelsea.]  FIENNES, EDWARD, (1512-1585). [See ]  FIENNES or FIENES, GREGORY, tenth (1539–1594), the younger son of the unfortunate Thomas Fiennes, lord Dacre [q. v.], executed at Tyburn 1541, and his wife Mary, daughter of George Nevill, lord Abergavenny, was baptised in the parish church of Hurstmonceux, Sussex, 5 June 1539. The death of his elder brother Thomas in 1553 left him heir to his father's honours, to which he and his sister Margaret were restored by act of parliament in 1558, the strictness of the entail having rescued the estates from the courtiers, whose ‘greedy gaping after them’ was, according to Camden, a chief cause of their father's judicial murder (, Eliz. ap., ii. 580). In February 1553 the lad, then in his fourteenth year, was a royal ward (Cal. State Papers, Edward VI, Dom. sub ann.). He married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sackville, but had no children by her. She complained that he was kept in undue subjection by his mother (ib. Dom. xxvi. 573). In 1572 Lord Dacre formed one of a great train of noblemen who accompanied Lord Lincoln to the court of Charles IX to ratify the confederacy of Blois, only a few months before the massacre of St. Bartholomew. He is described by Camden as ‘a little crack-brained.’ He died 25 Sept. 1594, at his wife's house at Chelsea, in the church of which place he was buried beneath a sumptuous monument. His title and entailed estates were successfully claimed by his sister Margaret, the wife of Sampson Lennard, esq., of Chevening, Kent. His wife is noticed above.

[Camden's Eliz. ap. Kennett, ii. 444, 580; Collins's Peerage.]  FIENNES, JAMES, (or )  (d. 1450), was the second son of Sir William de Fiennes and Elizabeth, daughter of William Batisford, a great Sussex heiress. His father died in 1405, and was buried in the parish church of Hurstmonceux, where a fine memorial brass remains bearing his effigies in full armour. Sir William was son of William de Fiennes, who married Joan, daughter and heiress of Lord Say, and died in 1361. Sir William's grandfather, John (d. 1351), had married Maud de Monceux, through whom the Hurstmonceux estates passed into the Fiennes family. The Fiennes had come to England with William I, and derived their name from a village in the Boulonnais district. James Fiennes's elder brother, Roger (d. 1445?), was treasurer to Henry VI.

James began military life at an early age. He was one of Henry V's captains in the French wars, and for his services obtained in 1418 grants of the lordship of De la Court le Comte in the bailiwick of Caux, part of the property of Lord Lymers, and land in the bailiwick of Rouen and Caux which had belonged to Roger Bloset and his wife. Next year he was made governor of Arques, being already bailiff of Caux. In 1430 he attended