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 72 DERBY. trial of the Queen o£ Scotsp) and 11 April 1589, was Lord High Steward for the trial of the Earl of Arundel. He m. 7 Feb. 1555, in the Royal chapel, Whitehall, Margaret( b J 1st da. of Henry (Clifford), 2d K.utL ok Cumberland, and the only child that survived infancy of (his 1st wife) Eleanor, da. of Charles (Brandon), Duke of Suffolk, which Eleanor was 2d ami yst. da. and coheir of her mother the Lady Mary (Tudor) da. of King Henry "VII. He d. 25 Sep. 1593, and was fan at Orniskirk. Will dat. 21 and 22 Sep. (1593) 35 Eliz., and pr. 17 Oct. 1594. His widow d. in Cleveland Kow, Midx., 29 Sep. 1 590, aged about 56 and was bur. in Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 7 Aug., IS and 20 Sep. and pr. 12 and 15 Nov. 1596. XIV. I;i93. J. Ferdixasdo (Stanley), Eabl of Derisy, Lord Sthasuk df. Knockin [1299], Lord Stanley [1456], and Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man, s. and h., b. in London about 1559, and styled Lord Stranue till 1589, when he was sum. to Pari. v. p. iu his father's Barony as LOKD STfiANGE by writs 23 Jany. (1588/9) 31 Eliz. to 19 Feb. (.1592/3) 35 Eliz. being present in the Pari, of 1589 ; was cr. M.A. of Oxford 17 Sep. 15S9, having matrie. there (St. John's Cull.) in 1572,( c )at the age of 12. He sue. his father iu 1594 a* Lord Lieut, cos. Lane, and Chester. Having rejected a treasonable project to assume the Crown in right of his grandmother, Margaret Clifford( b ) and caused one Hesketh, who (on behalf of the Jesuits and others) had suggested that assumption, to be arrested, he was in all probability poisoned^ 1 ) in revenge. He m. about 1580 Alice da. of Sir John Spencer, of Althorpe, co. Northampton, by Katharine, da. of Sir Thomas Kitson, of Hengrave, Suffolk. He d. (as afsd.) s.p.m., 10 April and was bur. 0 May 1594, at Ormskirk,( c ) when the Baronies of Strange de Knockin and Stanley fell- into abeyance between his three daughters and coheirs.( f ) Will dat. 12 April 1594, and pr. 12 Oct. following. His widow w. 20 Oct. 1600, as his 3d wife, Thomas (Egerton), 1st Viscount Brackley (better known as Lord Chancellor Ellesmere) ( a ) The 24 noblemen who were on the Commission for the trial of Que Queen of Scots at Fotheringay iu Oct. 1586 were nine Earls, Viz., Oxford, Kent. Derby, Worcester, Rutland, Cumberland, Warwick, Pembroke, and Lincoln ; one Viscount, viz., Montagu, and fourteen Barons, viz., Abergavenny, Zouche, Morley, Stafford, Grey de Wilton, Lumley, Stourton, Sandys, Wentworth, Mordaunt, St. John of Bletso, Burghley (the Lord Treasurer), Compton, and Cheyney. Besides these, there was the Lord Chancellor (Sir Christopher Hatton), and " the Privy Councillors Hatton, Walsiugham, Crofts, Sadler (who had held Mary Stuart in his arms when she was a baby), Mildmay, and Sir Amyas Paulet," as also the two Chief Justices (Wray and Anderson), the Chief Baron (Manwood), and four other Judges. See Fronde's " Elizabeth," vol. vi, p. 281. ( b ) This Margaret was looked upon by many Englishmen (circa 1557) as the legal heir [presumptive] of the Crown. See Cat. of Slate Papers, Venetian, ed. by EL Brown, p. 107. ( c ) The three brothers Ferdinando Strange [sic], Loudon, aged 1 2 ; William ' Stanley, London, aged 11 ; and Francis Stanley, Herts, aged 10, matric. together (St. John's Coll.) in 1572. ( d ) The story is told iu full in Camden's " annals," sub 1591 and extracted in "Collins " vol. iii, p. 81. (°) He was a Poet and is noticed iu Park's "Royal and Noble Authors," vol. ii, p. 45. (') These were (1) Anne, b. 1580, m. firstly Grey (Brydges), Buron Chandos, and secondly, 1624, the notorious Earl of Castlehaven [I]., wdio was beheaded 1631 (2) Frances, Countess of Bridgwater, and (3) Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon. The representation of Lady Chandos is very obscure, which is remarkable, inasmuch as if Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (son of Lady Katharine Grey by Edward, Earl of Hertford) be considered (which he frecpiently was) illegitimate, the Oram would have vested in her issue after the death of Queen Eliz. under the will of Henry VIII (made in accordance with Act of Pari.) which excluded the Scotch line. The most accurate account of this issue ia in Long's " Royal Descents " [4to 1845], p. 3. See also " N. and Q.," 5th S. xii, pp. 238, 195, &C, alluding to the account (by Sir Egerton Brydges) iii the Gent. May. which, however, is far from accurate.