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 CORNWALL. 367 tained possession of the person of the then King, Henry VI, was, on 25 Oct. 1460, declared 1 >y consent of Pari., Hum ajeaUENT to the Grows and Protector of the Realm, and was granted for life tho Principality of Wales and the Counties of Charter and Flint, under the style of Prince of Wales, DUKE OF CORNWALL, and EARL OF CHESTER. He d. 30 Dec. 1460. aged 48, being slain at Wakefield when the dv/nities thus created to him fur life expired therewith. For fuller par- ticulars see " York," Dukedom of, er. 1385, under the 3rd Duke. VII. 1470, Edward (Plantagenet), DUKE OF COENWALL, and at his birth.( a J being 1st a. and h. ap. of lung Edward IV, by Eliza- 1 171, beta, da. of Sir Richard Wydevii.k. He was b. 2 Nov. 1470 in the t„ .Sanctuary at Westminster. B} charter, 26 June 1471, he was cr. 1183. Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, being invested by charter of 17 July following, with the Principality of Wales and the counties of Chester and Flint. 13v patent of the same date 17 July 1471, he was, in Pari., cr. DUKE OF CORNWALL,;*') " habend. et tenend. eidein Duct et ipsiua et heeredum suorum, Uegum Anglia?, 6L primogeuitis et dieti loci DucibuB, fcc. He was knighted by the King, 18 April 1475. El. KG., IS May 1475. On IS July (19 Ed. IV) 1479, he was cr. EARL OF MARCH and EARL OF PEMBROKE, to hold the same daring the King's pleasure. On 9 April 14S3 he ascended the throne as Edward V (post conquestum), when all his honours merged in the Crown. VIII. 1483. EmvAitD (Plantagenet). Eael op Salisbury, became, to on the accession of his father to the throne, 26 June 1483, DUKE OF 1484. CORNWALL. (*1 He was 6. at Middleham Castle, co. York, 1473, being only s. and h. ap. of Richard, Duke OF Gloucester (after- wards King Richard III), by Anne, yst. of the 2 daughters and coheirs of Richard (Nevill), Earl of Salisbury and of Warwick. (See " Corn- wall," Dukedom of, H53.) On 15 Feb. 1477/8 he was cr. EARL OF SALISBURY, by his uncle Edward IV, and (under the name of " Edward, eldest son of the King") on 24 Aug. 14S3, was er. (by his father) Prince of Wales and EARL OF CHESTER, with rem. to his heirs. Kings of England. He was knighted 8 Sep. following. He d. una, and v.p., aged 10 years, when his pecrwjc dignities lapsed lothc Crown. ( il ) Under the Act of 1337. ( b ,i " Edward IV, though heir of Edward the first created, was not the heir of Henry [afterwards Henry V] the last created Duke of Cornwall. He probably considered therefore, that a new creation was the safer means of vesting the Duchy in his eldest sou, and quotes the acts of his predecessors, Edward III and Henry IV, the latter ' indede and not in ryght Kyng of Engloud ' as the 'reason for his having delyvered the said duchie to Ids said first begoteu sone.'" See " Courthope," p. 10, note "g." It seems, however, more probable that the reason of this creation was that the King considered that the original creation of 1337 was somewhat invalidated by the usage of the last 70 years, which had set it aside. The death (6 May 1471) of Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke ot Cornwall, &c. (of the house of Lancaster) had occurred but a few months before this creation. ( c ) " There are several documents to testify to the fact of his having been con- sidered Duke of Cornwall, amongst them a patent for the foundation of a chantry at St. Mary of Rykall (York) to say mass for the earthly welfare and the souls of the King, Queen Anne, Edward, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, and Earl of Chester, and the founders, dated 4 Dee. 14S3; it is, nevertheless, difficult to conceive upon what ground a legal title to the Duchy was established, without charter or patent, unless the King considered that the Act of Parliament passed immediately upon his accession, which declared King Edward's marriage to have been a 'pretensed marriage,' all the children of the said King Edward ' bastards,' and all the issue of George, Duke of Clarence, ' dishabled by attainder,' had constituted him heir to the first created Duke, Edward the Black Prince." See " Courthope," p 10, note "h." Such, doubtless, was the ground, being the same as that of the King's own title to the Crown. See, however, p. 365, note " e."