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 440 CUMBERLAND. Hughes of Uxbridge, Midx. She d. 15 June 1613 sit Londesborough and was bur. there. M.I. He d., in the same chamber in which he was born, 21 Jan. 1640/1 and was bur. at Skipton. V. 1641, 5. Henry (Clifford), Earl of Cumberland [1525] to and Lord Clifford [1628], Her. Sheriff of Westmorland, only s. and 1643. h. He was 6. 28 Feb. 1591 at Londesborough ; mati-ic. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 30 Jan. 1606 ; B.A., 160S ; X.B., 3 June 1610, at the creation of the Prince of Wales ; M.P. for Westmorland, 1614 and 1621- 1 22 ; Councillor of the North, 1619. From 17 Feb. 1627/8, to 3 Nov. 1639 he had been sum. to the House of Lords, v.p. as a Baron, by writs addressed "Henrico Clifford, Chevalier " under the (erroneous) presumption, that the ancient Barony of de Clifford [cr. 1299) was vested in bisFatner,( a ) he being, accordingly, placed in several Parliaments in the precedency of 1299.( b ) Lord-Lieut, of Westmorland (on the nom. of Pari.) Feb. 1642 ; Lord-Lieut, of co. York, July 1642 ; Gen. of the Hoyal forces in the north, 1642, not, however, being "in any degree active or of a martial temper."( c ) He m. 25 July 1610 at Kensington, Midi., Frances, da. of Robert (Cecil), 1st Earl of Salisbury, by Elizabeth, da. of William (Brooke), Lord Cobham. He d., s.p.m., of B fever at one of the Prebendal houses at York, 11 Dec. 1643, and was bur. the 31st at Skipton. His widow rf., within 3 months' time, 14 Feb. 1643/4, also at York, aged 50 and was bur. in York minster. On his death the Earldom of Cumberland became extinct, but the Barony of Clifford (a: by the writ of 1628) devolved on his da. and solo h. Elizabeth, Countess of Cork [I.] (") Dukedom. "Prince Rupert [Duke of Bavaria], Count Palatine I 1644 op THE Ehine i"( 0 ) 3rds. of Frederick, King of Bohemia, Elector, ' Palatine of the Rhine, by the Princess Elizal>eth, da. of James I, -, (. air) b. 27 Dec. 1619 at Prague, served in the Army when but 13 ; ed. at lD8 -- the Univ. of Leyden ; Hon. M.A. Oxford, 30 Aug. 1636 ; was taken prisoner near Wesel, when IS, in 1637, and detained 3 years, when he came to England ; was el. K.G., at York, 20 April and ir.v. Aug. 1642 at Nottingham (installation dispensed with, at Oxford, 2 March 1614/5 he not being personally installed till 22 April 1663), made Gen. of the Horse 1642, naturalised 19 Jan., and, on 24 Jan. 1643/4 was cr. (by his uncle, Charles I) " EARL OF HOLDERNESS, co. York, and DUKE OF CUMBERLAND."(°) President of the Council in Wales, Master of the Horse, and Com.-in-chief of the Royal army, 1644 to 1645. His fiery disposition and rashness, often most damaging to the royal cause, as at Mnrstou moor, &c, are a matter of history. He was Master of the Horse to Charles II in exile, 1653-55, by whom he was sent as Envoy to Vienna, in June 1654. P.C., 1662; Col. of a Reg. of Horse, 1667 ; holding high appointment in the Navy, in which in 1673 he was Admiral of the Fleet and first Lord of the Admiralty, distinguishing himself in several engagements against the Dutch ; Lord-Lieut, of Berks, 1670, of Surrey, J675 : Constable of Windsor Castle ; F.R.S., &c. He d. unm. at his house in Spring Gardens 29 Nov. and was bur. 6 Dec. 1682 in Westm. Abbey, when all his honours became extinct. Will dat, 27 Nov. and pr. 1 Dec. 1682.( f ) ( a ) See ante, p. 297, note " a," ( b ) See an account of precedency (wrongfully) allowed to this and other Baronies cr. by writs issued in inadvertence, in vol. i, p. 20, note " b," circa fincm. ( c ) See " Clarendon." m See under " Clifford " Barony, cr- 1628. ( B ) " Creations, 1483—1646 " in ap. 47th report of D. K. Pub. Records. ( f ) By Frances, da. of Henry (Bard), Viscount Bellomont [I.] he left an illegit. son, called "Dudley Bard," who was slain at the siege of Buda, 13 July 1686, aged about 20. The chief of his property he left to another illegit. child, Ruperta, b. 1671 and to the child's mother, Mrs. Margaret Hughes, the celebrated actress. Ruperta, vi. Gen. Emanuel Scropc Howe, br. to the 1st Viscount Howe [I.J