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 GLOUCESTER. 45 King Edward IV., and was », DUKE OF GLOUCESTER^) in Pari. 1461. He had a grant of the honour and Castle of Richmond, co. York, in 1462, and is by some writers considered (without any apparent ground) to have been EARL OK CARLISLE.(») Constabls ok England, 1469-70, and again, for life, 1472 ; Giieat Chamberlain, 1471-72, and 147S. He distinguished himself in the Was of the Roses both at Barnet and Tewkesbury in 1 171, at which last place he is said to have slain Edward, Prince of Wales, s. and h. ap. of King Henry VI. He m., 12 July 1472, Anne, widow of that Prince, yst. da. and coheir of Richard (Nevill), Earl op Salisbury and ok Warwick (the celebrated " King-maker"), by Anne, auo jure Countess ok Warwick. Soon after the death of his br. (9 April 1483) he was [14 ?] May 1 183, declared Protector and Defender of the realm and shortly afterwards, 26 June 1483, me. to the throne as Richard III. (his wife being living) when all his honours merged in Vie Crown. [Edward Plantagenet, only s. and h. ap., b. 1478, en Earl op Salisbury, 15 Eeb. 1477/8; became Duke ok Cornwall, 26 June 1483, on the accession of his father to the throne and was cr., 24 Aug. 14S3, Prince of Wales, &c. He rf. unra. and v.p. aged 11. See fuller particulars under "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1483 to 1481.] IV. 10401 Prince Henry Stuart, 4th but 3d surv. and yst. s. of to King Charles I., by Henrietta Maria, da. of Henry IV, King ok 1660. France, was b. at Oatlands, co. Surrey, S, and bap. there 22 July 1640. He was in all probability at that time( c ) declared to be DUKE OF GLOUCESTER,^) by the King, his father, at all events, he was noin. K G. as Duke of Gloucester, on 4th and inv., 14 April 1053, at the Hague. He is said to have been cr. by patent, 13 May 1669, EARL OF CAMBRIDGE and DUKE OF GLOUCESTER and took his seat in the House of Lords (tho' under full age) under that title, 31 .May 1660("). He d. unm. at Whitehall of the small pox, 13 Sep. 1660, aged 20, when all his honours became extinct. He was bur. (from Somerset House) at Westui. Abbey on the 21st iust. CO " Dugdale states that he was cr. Duke of Gloucester in the first Pari, of Edw. IV. but no notice of it appears in the Rolls of Pari. ; but Dugdale is no doubt right, for by a writ dat. 1 Nov. 1461, the Sheriff of Gloucester was directed by the King to pay to his br. Richard, whom he had cr. Duke of Gloucester (ciayendo sibi yladhtm ft pa- apposicCcm cappc capiti suo) £40 per annum for life. He was not sum. to Pari, until 10 Aug. (1469), 9 Edw. IV., when he was sum. by writ addressed Richardo Duci Glouccstrice." [Conrthope.] ( b ) See "Nicolas," p. 111. (°) " There was no Duke of Gloucester," writes Mr. Nichols, "for nearly 160 years, During the reign of James I., when so many aucient titles [including the illustrious one of Clare or Clurenci] were bestowed on new families this was still respected as peculiar to the Royal house." ( d ) A good account of the Dukedom of Gloucester, since the 17th century, written by Sir C. G. Young (Garter) is in the Gent. Mag. (Dec. 1851) xxxvi, n.s., p. 619. (°) No patent was then produced neither has one been enrolled, nor apparently ia there any dooquet thereof, but the validity of the creation, recognised by sitting in the House of Lords, cannot be doubted. In the copy of " Nicolas " at the Coll. of Arms, which formerly belonged to T. W. King, York Herald, is the following note hereto by that very accurate and painstaking Herald. " Searched Rolls Chapel, 15 Car. I. to 14 Car. II., for his creation as D. of G. but found no record of the presumed patent. On 3 July (1660), 12 Car. II., pt. 18, No. 31, he had the office of Keeper of Hyde Park granted to him, in which patent he is called Henry, Duke of Gloucester, T.W.K., York, Nov. 1851."