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Mary's accession to the throne in 1553 he withdrew to Germany, returning, however, to England before her death in 1558, in the December of which year it is recorded Elizabeth made him a member of the Privy Council, and, subsequently, Vice-Chamber- lain of the Royal Household, and Captain of the Halberdiers. He was also employed on several important negotiations abroad. In 1559 we find him again in Parliament, sitting for Arundel. In 1562 he was re- turned for the town of Oxford, and from 1572 till his death he was M.P. for Oxford- shire, being also, for the like period, Treasurer of the Household to Elizabeth. In 1563 he was appointed Governor of Portsmouth. When about 73 years of age (1587) he was chosen one of the judges for the trial of the unhappy Queen of Scotland. In 1593 he was made a K.G. He was a strong Puritan, and wrote a treatise against the usurpation of the Papal bishops. He died 19 July, 1596.

Sir Francis married, as above mentioned, Catherine Carey (who died, aged 39, 15 Jan., 1568/9, and was buried in Westminster Abbey), by whom he had issue six or seven sons (authorities differ), and four daughters. Tne two best remembered were the second son, Sir William Knollys, and the eldest daughter, Lettice. Sir William Knollys was made by Elizabeth Comptroller of the Royal Household and P.C., 30 Aug., 1596, and was Treasurer of the Household to James I. By letters patent, 13 May, 1603, James created him Baron Knollys of Greys in co. Oxford. On 10 Oct., 1614, he was appointed Master of the Court of Wards, and within a short time after (namely, on 24 April, 1615) was created K.G. On 7 November in the following year he was raised to the dignity of a viscount under the designation of Viscount Wallingford. On 18 Aug., 1626, he was created by Charles I. Earl of Banbury, the patent containing a clause " that he shall have precedency as if he had been created the first Earl after his Majesty's accesse to the crowne." The Lords resisted this grant of precedency as an infringement of their privileges, but when a committee met to consider the question Charles sent a gracious message desiring " this may pass tor once in this particular, considering how old a man this Lord is, and childless." Accordingly, 9 April, 1628, the Lords resolved to allow the Earl " the place of precedency " for his life only. He married secondly he had no issue by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk. His death on 25 May, 1632, s.p. (v. his funeral j

certificate in the College of Arms, which describes him as so dying), was followed by a very remarkable litigation regarding the succession to his honours.

Sir Francis's eldest daughter, Lettice, by her first husband, Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, was mother of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the ill-fated favourite of Elizabeth.

The above notes are compiled from Banks, ' Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' 1809 edition, vol. iii. pp. 44, 383 ; Burke, ' Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies,' 1840 edition, p. 292 ; ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vol. xxxi. pp. 275, 281, 286 ; and Maunder' s ' Biographical Treasury,' 1856 edition, pp. 407, 488.

FRANCIS H. RELTON.

8, Lansdowne Road, East Croydon.

REV. DR. ROGER MANDER (US. xii. 183). " Roger Mander, Bac. of Div. of Ball. Coll.," was elected Master of the College on Sunday, 23 Oct., 1687 ('A. Wood's Life and Times, collected from his Diaries and other Papers by Andrew Clark,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., vol. iii.

?. 241), and was Master until his death in 704. He began the work of reconstruct- ing the College buildings, and was a notable benefactor, bequeathing, besides a con- siderable number of books, the sum of 3101. ('Balliol College,' by H. W. Carless Davis, pp. 164, 166). He was Vice-Chancellor at the time of Queen Anne and Prince George's visit to the University in 1702 ( Hearne' s ' Collections,' vol. vii. p. 276). As is natural in the case of a man of his position, there are plenty of references to him in University memoirs. In 1675 he was one of the " Re- peaters " (preachers on Low Sunday). See f A. Wood's Life and Times,' ii. 304. On 19 July, 1691, Wood was told that his book had been characterized by the Master of Balliol in language which would have been more fitting for the lips of Squire Western half a century later. Hearne mentions Dr. Mander (or "Maunder" or "Maunders") on several occasions, chiefly in connexion with the Bodleian Catalogue. Hearne also mentions in several places Henry Maunder (or Mander) of St. John's College, " a blind man, & a great Whig." On 25 April, 1714, he notes that he has been made Prebendary of Lichfield. EDWARD BENSLY.

All that there is to be known about Dr. Roger Mander is to be found in Wood's ' Colleges and Halls,' pp. 85, 103 ; and in Mr. Hi W. C. Davis's ' History of Balliol,' p. 164-7. There is not much. Ho died

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