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 CONYERS. 349 > x 1 & CO I: s the precedence intended to lie conveyed, viz. " the ancient liberties, places, and states tn Pari, and clscirherc in England of John, Lord Darey( a ) [i.e. 1332j( b ), and of John, Lord Conyers " [i.e. 150SIJ. ('*) He accordingly (says " Cruise ") " took his seat in the I louse of Lords under a patent of restitution and creation," on 20 Jan. 1641. On 13 July 1644 he became entitled to the Barony of Conyers {a: by the writ of 1509) by descent as aboveatated. He m. Dorothy, da. of .Sir Henry Belasysk, 1st Bart., by Ursula, da. of Sir Thomas Fairfax. He d. 3 March 1653/4. His widow d. 1663. Both were bur. at Hornby. V. 1654. J. Conyers (Dahcy), Lord Conyers [1509] and ], Lord Darcy and Conyers [1641], s. and h. He was sum. to ' Pari, from 8 May 1661 to 1 March 1679/80 as "Conyers Darcie dc Darcic,"{ h ) with, in the Inst two writs (7 Oct 1678 and 1 March 1679/80), the addition of the words " el MeynitV ."(*) On 5 Dec. 1682 he was cr. EARL OF HOLDER- NESS within the parts of East riding, co. York. He d. 14 June 1689. VI. 1680. i>. Conyers (Darcy), Lord Conyers, s. and h. ap., who was sum. v.p.C 1 ) in his father's Barony of Conyers [1509] 1 March 1679-80, as "Conyers Darcv dc Ouni/ers."{ b ) On 14 June 16S9 he sue. his father as EARL OF HOLDERNESS, &c. He d. 1692. VLT. 1602. 7, Robert (Darcy), Earl of Holderness, Lord Conyers, and Lord Darcy and Conyers, grandson and h., being s. and h. of John Darcy, s. and h ap. of the last named Peer, who d. v.p. and before his father's accession to the Earldom, 7 June 1688. He d. 20 Jan. 1721/2. VIII. 1722. S. Robert (IXuicy), Earl of Holderness [1682], Lord Conyers [1509], and Lord Darcy and Conyers [1611], s. and h. He d. s.p.m.s. 19 May 1778, aged 60, when the Earldom of Holderness and the Barony of Darcy and Conyers (both being in tail male) became extinct, but the Barony of Conyers [cr. by the writ of 1509] devolved as under. J m IX. 1778. .9. Amelia, suo jure. Baroness Conyers, only surv. child andh. of Robert (Darcy), Earl of Holderness, Lord Conyers, &c., abovenained, by Mary, da. of Francis Doublet, Member of the States of Holland, b. 12 Oct. 1754, m. 29 Nov. 1773, at Holderness House, Hertford Street, St. Geo. Han. ( !1 ) In his petition to the King in Pari, he sets forth not only his descent as heir male from his great grandfather Thomas, Lord Darcy (cr. 1509) but that he is " s. and h. of Elizabeth, da. and coheir of John, Lord Conyers, lineal heir to Margery, da. and coheir to Philip, Lord Darcy, son of John, Lord Darcy, one of the Barons of this realm temp. Hen. IV." This Margaret Darcy, the coheir, m. Sir John Conyers, by whom she was mother of Sir John Conyers, and grandmother of William, cr. Lord Conyers in 1509 as in the text. ( b ) The precedency of 1332 was allowed to Conyers (Darcy) Lord Darcy (s. and h. of the grantee of 1641), who, in the Pari, of 1661, was placed between Lord Dacre (1321) and Lord Stourton (1448) and in the Pari, of 1679 between Lord Ferrers (1299) and Lord Fitzwalter (1369). The precedency of 1 509 was allowed to that nobleman'ss. and h. ap., Conyers Darcy (the 3rd successive bearer of that name) Lord Conyers, who had in 1680 been summoned v.p. in his father's Barony of Conyers, and who was placed in the Pari, of 1685 between Lord Stourton (1448) and Lord Cromwell (1539, or 1540). ( c ) The Barony of Meynell, or Meinill, if it can be considered as a heritable one cr. by the writs of summons [1336-42], vested in the Lords Darcy from 1342 to 1418, when it fell into abeyance between the families of Conyers and Strangeways. In 1644 Conyers Darcy represented the former coheir. It was probably from an erroneous impression that the patent of 1641 " restored " this Barony as well as that of Darcy, that the words were here inserted. ( a ) This is the only instance of the s. and h. ap. of a Baron (possessing two Baronies) being sum. v.p. in one of his father's Baronies ; a like summons, in the case of the s. and h. ap. of a Viscount (Viscount Conway), occurred in 1628.