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 8 DACRE Hutnfrey Dacre, Knight, mid the hcir.i male of the body of the said Thomas, late Lord Ducre coming, be reputed, hud, named, and culled the LOUD DACRE OF GILLES- LAND " aud "' have use, and keep the place iu our Paris. (■') next adjoining beneath the said place, that the said Richard Fenys, Kilt., Lord Dacre now hath anil occupieth," whereby, apparently, a Barony in tail Mali*, was created.^ 1 ) He was sum. to Pari, ax a Baron, by writs 15 Nov. (1482), 23 Ed. IV, to 'J Dec. (1484), 1 Rie. Ill, directed " Humfrido Ducrcs dc Gilkdand. He was muster forester of [nglewpod Forest, 1470, governor of Carlisle Castle, was present at the coronation of Richard 111, in 1483,(°) and was iu 1481, warden of Marches. He m. Maud, da. of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, by Alice, da. of Sir Thomas TunstalL of Thurlaud Castle. He d. 1485, and was bur. at Lanercost. III. 1485. 2. Thomas (Dacre), Lord Dacre of Gillesland, s. and h. He was sum. to Purl, by writs directed " Thoniw Dacre dc Dacre" (LOUP DACKE DE DACRE), from 17 Oct. (1509), to 12 Nov. (1515), 7 Hen VIII. He was at the siege of Norhaui Castle, 1494, and distinguished himself at the head of a troo|i of horse at Floddeu, 9 Sep. 1513. Warden of the West Marches, 1509-25 ; el. KG. 24 April, inst. 16 May 1518. He hi. Elizabeth dc jure, apparently, suo jure Baroness Grkystock, da. and sole h. of Sir Robert Ghevstock, by Elizabeth, da. of Edmund (Grey), Earl of Kent, which Sir Robert (who d. v. p. 1483), was s. and 1l ap. of Ralph, Loud Greystock, who d. 1487. She d. 13 Aug. 1516. He d. 24 Oct. 1525 and was bur. at Lanercost. Admou. (de bonis non) 2 Nov. 1565. IV. 1525. 3. William (Dacre), Lord Dacre of Gillesland [and LORD GREYSTOCK ?], s. and h. He was sum. to Pari, by writs, 3 Nov. (1529), 21 Hen. VIII, to 21 Oct. (1555), 2 and 3 Ph. and Mary, variously directed to him aa " Willielmo Dacre de Dacrc and Greystok;" as "de Gillesland ; " or " of Grcystok," or as " de North " (LORD DACRE DE DACKE AND GREYSTOK, LORD DACRE DE GILLESLAND, LORD DACRE OF GKEYSTOK, or LORD DACRE DE NORTH.( l1 ) ) In 1525, he had livery of the lands of Greystock, his maternal inheritance. In 1530, he subscribed the letter to the Pope urging the Queen's divorce. In 1534, he claimed precedence of the Lord ( a ) See Vol. i., p. 229, note "a," sub. "Banbury" as to Precedency of Peers in Pari, by Royal Warrant." ( b ) " From this period, therefore, I conceive, tliis Sir Humfrey Dacre is to be accounted Baron Dacre of Gillesland, holding that dignity only to liimself and the heir imiU of the body of his father, and not as a Barony by Writ." See Townsend's additions to " Dugdale," in "Coll. Top. et Gen." vol. v. p. 321, of which the article on Dacre of Gillesland is one of the most valuable. See also infra, p. 9, notes "a" and'-b." ( c ) At the coronation of Richard III, 6 July 1483, there were present 45 Peers, viz: 3 Dukes, 9 Earls, 2 Viscounts, 21 Barons and 70 Knights. The nobles (whose sur- names when differing from their title are given in italics within brackets), were as under, viz: DuKKs— 1, Buckingham (Stafford); 2, Norfolk [Howard) and 3, Suffolk {De-la-pole). Earls— 1, Northumberland {Percy) ; 2, Arundel {Fitzalan) ; 3, Kent {Grey); i, Surrey (Howard); o, Wiltshire (Slaprd) ; 6, Huntingdon (Herbert) ; 7, Nottingham (Berkeley) ; 8, Warwick (Blantayenct) and 9, Lincoln (Dc-la-Bole). Viscounts— 1, Lisle (Grey) and 2, Loveli. Barons— 1, Audley (2'uc/iet); 2, Dacre ; 3, Ferrers de Chartley (Devereux) ; 4, Powis (Grey) ; 5, Fitzhugh ; 6, Scrope of L'psall ; 7, Scrope of Bolton ; 8, Grey de Codnor ; 9, Grey de Wilton ; 10, Stourtou ; 11, Cob- ham (Brooke); 12, Morley (Lovel) ; 13, Abergavenny (Nevill) ; 11, Zouch ; 15, Ferrers de Groby (Grey) ; 16, Wells (HaUinys) ; 17, Lumley ; 18, Maltravers (Fitzalan, s. and h. ap. of the Earl of Arundel) ; IS, Herbert (Qy. if s. and h. of the Earl of Hunting don?) 20, Beauchamp [of Powyek] and 21, Stanley [cr. a few months Later Earl of Derby] whose name, however, is omitted from the list (I. 18) in the College of arms, but given in that printed iu the " Jixcerpta Mistorica" (1831), where (pp. 379-384), is a full account of that Coronation from an old roll, with a list of those pre- sent (the varations therein from the above list and from another list in no. 1386 of the Harl. MSS. being duly noticed) taken from Harl. MSS. 2115. ( d ) These Lords were generally called Dacre of the North, to distinguish them from the Lords Dacre, resident in Sussex and Kent, generally known aa Dacre of tlie South.