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 272 CLARE. Feb. 1471. For the better support of his new dignities, the King, by letters patent, 20 Sep. 1462, granted to him, " com. houorem et dnium nrm. Riehmondie Mueqiudem, com. honorem et dnium lidmundus Hadham imp. comes Kichemondie, nup. h'uit et tenuit."(") Having hi. at Calais, 11 July 1409, Isabel, 1st da. and coheir presumptive of Richard (Nevtll), Earl ok Warwick and ok Salisbury, by Anne, da. of Richard (Beavciiami'), Earl ok Warwick, he joined his father-in-law in the rebellion against the King (his brother) in favour of the deposed King, Henry VI, but, changing sides, assisted in King Edward's victory at Barnet, 14 April 1471. In this battle his wife's Father was slain, whereupon he, "in consideration of that his marriage," was, by separate patents, each dat. 25 March 1472, <tr. EAHL OF WARWICK and EARL OF SALISBURY. On 20 May following he was made Great Chamberlain of England. His wife, who was b. 5 Sep. 1451, at Warwick Castle, d. there in 1476, and was bur. at Tewkesbury. He thereupon proposed to marry Mary, da. of the Duke of Burgundy, a match which was much opposed by the Queen Consort. Thro' the influence chiefly of his br. Richard (afterwards King Richard III), he was accused of high treason, found guilty, and attainted, 15 Jan. 1477/8, whereby all his honours became forfeited. He was executed in the Tower of London 18 Feb. following (said to have been drowned in a butt of malmsey) and was bur. at Tewkesbury afsd. Earldom. 2. John Holles, of Haughton, Notts, s. and h. of I. 1624. Denzill H., of Irby, co. Lincoln, by Eleanor, da, of Edmund (Shekfield), 1st Baron Sheffield ok Butterwicke (which Denzil H., who cl. v.p. April 1590, was s. and h. ap. of Sir William H., of Haughton afsd., who was 2nd s. of Sir William H., Lord Mayor of London, 1540), was b. May 1564, at Haughton, being above 24 years old when he sue. his grandfather, 15 Jaiiy. 1590/1 ; Was ed. at Cambridge and at Gray's Inn, London ; served in the Netherlands and in the sea fight in 15S8 ; was a Captain in Ireland, where he was Knighted 1593 by the Lord Deputy ; served also in Hungary against the Turks and in Spain, 1597, under the Earl of Essex. He was one of the Gentlemen Pensioners ; M.P. for Notts, 1604-11, and 1614-16 ; Comptroller of the Household to the Prince of Wales, 1610-12 ; and, on 9 July 1G16, was er.( b ) BARON HAUGHTON, of Haughton, co. Nottingham, and on 2 Nov. 1624, EARL OF CLARE,^) co. Suffolk. He appears (a) He appears to have thenceforth styled himself (after his Peerage title) as " Dominus de Richemond [i.e. Lord of the Honour of Richmond] et inagnus Camerarius Anglic." (°) Both peerages were obtained by the influence of the Duke of Buckingham, the then Court favourite, to whom he paid £10,000 for the Barony, and £5,000 in addition for the Earldom, the last being probably above the average price as having been hitherto a Royal dignity see, in fra, note " c." The preamble to both these patents are in Collins' " Noble Families " (1752), pp. 87-89. ( c ) Only six years before the title of Clare had been refused to the Lord Rich (who thereupon selected that of Warwick), " because the title of Clare, which is the same as that of Clarence, was a higher honour than could well suit with a family in a manner upstart." See Camden's "'Annals of James I." In Collins' "Noble families," p. 89, the following remarks on this creation are made by Gervase Holies, the antiquary. " It was not a little wondered at that he could obtain this title of Earl of Clare for the Lord Rich (when he was cr. Earl) did very much desire this title, and the King's Council, after several debates about it, concluded that since the time that the firbt Earls of Clare determined [1313], the honours of Clare had ever been conferred on a Prince of the Blood Royal, Clare and Clarence being one and the same title, and therefore not to be allowed to a meaner subject. But the power that procured the dignity prevailed for the title which [power] was the Duke of Buckingham." Again, the newly created Earl writes thus to the Bishop of Lincoln : " My patent is now past for the Earldom of Clare, the title wherein my Lord of Warwick was so emboged, but what is it that a powerful favourite cannot do ?" It appears, also, that the grantee had no connection whatever with the estate of Clare or with any of the former owners of the title, so that its adoption was a mere piece of swagger to give a false lustre to a hitherto not very illustrious race.