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 454 NOTES AND QUERIES. ii2s.vm.juNB4 f 1921. VISCOUNT STAFFOBD, 1680 (12 S. viii. 409). His Christian name was William. His three surviving children were Henry, John, and Francis. Coat : or, a chevron gules. As to a country house of his own, as a younger son of that date (1612-1680) it is most unlikely he ever had one. On the fashionable outskirts of the town, he lived in Tart Hall at the north end of James Street (now known as Buckingham Gate), which he inherited from his mother, Althea, daughter and co-heiress of Gilbert the seventh Earl of Shrewsbury. If Stafford had wished for the country, he would ; certainly have stayed in the Arundel homes, on which, through both his parents, he had a dual lien. His title is still memorized in ''Stafford Cot: F.P.B., 1811," which is j threatened with immediate demolition ; and in the brand-new flats which face it. | Stafford How has long since disappeared. M. E. W. William Howard,|Viscount Stafford, be- headed Dec., 1680, married Mary Stafford, only sister and heiress of Henry Stafford, Lord Stafford, and left issue, among others : Henry Earl of Stafford, d.s.p., 1719. John, left issue two sons and a daughter, whose great-grandson, Sir Geo. Jerningham, was restored to the Stafford Barony. Francis, d.s.p. Isabella, Marchioness of Winchester. Anastasia, m. Geo. Holman of Warkworth. j Seat unknown. Arms : gules, a bend between six cross- j lets, fitchee argent a crescent for difference. I Henry, son of Viscount, was created | Earl of Stafford in 1688, and this title j became extinct in 1762. The Barony was! restored, on the reversal of the attainder, in 1824, in the person of Sir Geo. Jerning- ham. L. F. C. E. TOLLEMACHE. 24, Selwyn Road, Eastbourne. This was William Howard, Viscount Stafford. I have lately had in my hands an MS. account of his speech upon the scaffold on Tower Hill, "as it was given by his own hand to a Spectator there, by William Barrass," the writing being dated Dec. 29, 1681. An account of the pro- ceedings was " taken by J. Rous, who was appointed by the sheriffs for that very j purpose," and is inexpressibly sad. GEOKGE SHEBWOOD. The Viscount Stafford^ beheaded in 1680 | was William Howard, fifth son of Thomas ; Earl of Arundel. He married Mary, daughter of Henry fifth and last Baron Stafford (ob. 1637). He and his wife were created by letters patent of Sept. 12, 1640, Baron and Baroness Stafford, with remainder, in default of male issue, to their heirs female. .Lord Stafford was created Viscount Stafford on Nov. 11, 1640. He left three sons and six daughters. On May 27, 1685, a bill for reversing Stafford's attainder was read for the first time in the House of Lords. After it had passed the Lords it was read for the second time in the House of Commons on June 6, but dropped when Monmouth's rebellion broke out. Stafford's widow was created Countess of Stafford on Oct. 5, 1688, and at the same time his son Henry Stafford- Howard (1657-1719) was created Earl of Stafford. The line came to an end with the fourth Earl, John Paul Stafford - Howard, who died April 1, 1762. At the beginning of the nineteenth century some abortive proceedings were taken before the committee of privileges by Sir William Jerningham and subsequently by his son, Sir George William Jerningham, descendants of Mary Plowden, Stafford's granddaughter. In 1824 a private Act of Parliament was passed for reversing the attainder of William late Viscount Stafford, and on July 6, 1825, the House decided that Sir G. W. Jerningham had established his claim to the Barony of Stafford, created Sept. 12, 1640.' The above is taken from J. A. Doyle's ' Official Baronage of England ' and the article by Mr. G. F. Russell Barker in the ' D.N.B.' The latter points out that Doyle's statement that Lord Stafford served as a volunteer in the Royal Army, 1642-6, is incorrect. It may be added that Doyle by a slip calls Lord Stafford the second son of the Earl of Arundel. The last Earl of Stafford. John Paul Stafford-Howard, displayed in the first quarter the arms of Howard with a crescent for difference (' Official Baronage '). EDWABD BENSLY. The querist interested in William Lord Stafford may care to be reminded of the following note which occurs in the His- torical Manuscripts Commission's Report, vi. 394: Sir H. Ingilby, Bart. " Copy of a prayer of the Lord Stafford at his execution " ; at its foot is a note in Palmer's writing : " Given me by Moses