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Harting, and was a neighbour and personal friend of the Pole family at Lqrdington. He was connected by marriage with Anne Rede, the second wife of Sir Adrian and mother of Anthony Fortescue ; his grandfather Myles Windsor married Johan Green, whose sister Katherine Green was the second wife of Sir Edmund Rede, of Borstall (Herald and Genea- logist, i. 211 et seq.). Sir Anthony Windsor married the daughter and heiress of Con- stance, the last of the Husseys of Harting. This Constance in 1526, being then the wife of Sir Roger Lewknor (and stepmother of Jane Lewknor, the wife of Sir Arthur Pole), presented Reginald Pole to the living of Harting.

"April 10, 1526. Reginald Pole, clerk, admitted to the Rectory of Harting, Chichester Diocese, vacant by resignation of William Gibson, last rector; patron, Henry Pole, Lord Montacute, acting as commissary for Sir Roger Lewknor and Lady Constance his wife, patrons of the church for this turn." Register of Bishop Robt. Sherburn, p. 52.

Reginald Pole is described as rector of Harting in * Valor Ecclesiasticus,' 1535 (Gordon's 'His- tory of Harting,' 50).

Anne Rede's mother, who was a daughter of Nicholas Warham of Malsanger, was first cousin of Anne (daughter of Hugh Warham), the wife of Sir Anthony St. Leger (Berry's 'Hampshire Pedigrees,' 252), who in 1553, in conjunction with Sir Geoffrey Pole, was keeper of the manor and park 'of Slindon, co. Sussex, a few miles east of Lordington ('Castles and Manors of Western Sussex,' 202). Sir Warham St. Leger, son of Sir Anthony, married Ursula Nevill, niece of Jane, wife of Sir Henry Pole, Lord Montague (Swallow's ' De Nova Villa,' 237).

Margaret Pole, daughter of Sir Geoffrey and sister-in-law of the conspirator, married Walter, son of the second Lord Windsor by his wife Margaret, daughter of William Samborne, of Southcote, co. Berks. Margaret Sambprne was related to Sir Adrian Fortes- cue, inasmuch as their respective grand- mothers were stepsisters, daughters of Thomas, Lord Hoo (Genealogist, N.S., xiii. 150). Anne' sister of the second Lord Windsor, was the wife of Roger Corbet, of Morton, co. Salop (Collins's ' Peerage,' fourth edition, iv. 71-4), whose first cousin Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Lacon, was mother of Sir Thomas Bromley ('Vis. Shropshire/ Harl. Soc., 78 136. 307).

The before-mentioned Jane Lewknor was twice married, and by her first husband, Sir- Christopher Pickering, had an only daughter Anne ('Vis. Suffolk,' 1561, Howard edition ii. 268). This Anne, stepdaughter of Sir Arthur Pole, married Sir Henry Knyvet

son of Sir Thomas Knyvet, by his wife Muriel Howard (Banks's ' Baron ia Angl. Cone.,' i. 158). Sir Henry Kny vet's aunt, Elizabeth Howard, was wife of Thomas Boleyn, first cousin of Sir Adrian Fortescue (Collins's 'Peerage,' fourth edition, i. 77); his uncle Edmund Howard married Dorothy Troyes (ibid., i. 80), aunt of Clare Pound, the first wife of Ralph Henslowe (will of Thomas Troyes, 1508, P.C.C. 9 Bennett) ; his second cousin. Thomas, Lord Went worth, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue (' Vis. Essex,' Harl. Soc., 111-12, 314) ; and his first cousin's eldest son, Sir Thomas Knyvet, the unsuccessful claimant of the barony of Berners, married Muriel, daughter of Sir Thomas Parry (Banks's ' Extinct Baronage,' ii. 51 ped.). On her mother's side Jane Lewknor was first cousin of Sir Anthony Wingfield, whose son Sir Robert Wingfield married Cicely Wentworth, daughter of Anthony Fortescue's stepsister ('Vis. Hunt- ingdon,' Cam. Soc., 126-7).

Warblington Castle and Manor, some three or four miles south-west of Lord- ington, sometime belonging to the Duke of Clarence ( ' Materials for History of Henry VII.,' i. 45), were inherited by the Countess of Salisbury, and used by her as a residence after the death of her husband, Sir Richard Pole. Here the countess was arrested in 1538, prior to her imprison- ment in the Tower and her execution in 1541 ('Diet. Nat. Biog.,' sub 'Margaret Pole'). Shortly afterwards this castle and manor were in the possession of Sir Richard Cotton, who died here in 1556 (Longcroft's 'Hundred of Bosmere,' 330). One of the trustees under his will was Nicholas Dering, of Stansted (will of Sir Richard Cotton, 1556, P.C.C. 23 Ketchyn), whose eldest son, Thomas Dering, had married Sir Richard Cotton's niece (Wotton's ' Baronetage,' iii. 612) ; her nephew, George Cotton, married Mary Bromley, niece of Sir Thomas Bromley (ibid.). Nicholas Dering's mother was first cousin of Sir Geoffrey Pole's wife (ibid., iii. 608, and Berry's 'Hampshire Pedigrees,' 219) ; his wife Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir Henry Owen, was niece of Sir George West, who married Elizabeth Morton, sister (Berry's 'Hampshire Pedigrees,' 200) or niece (Collins's 'Peerage,' fourth edition, vi. 186) of Sir Robert Morton, the husband of Anne Rede's aunt, Jane Warham (Berry's ' Hampshire Pedigrees,' 252). Stansted, the residence of Nicholas Dering in 1556 (Genea- logist, N.S., xiv. 204), adjoined Lordington, and, with the neighbouring manor of West- bourne, was the property of Henry Fitzalan, Elarl of Arundel ('Castles and Mansions of