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 England, 1509; Sheriff of Kent, 1511, and again, 1617; Constable of Norwich Castle, 1512; was on several important embassies, iz., to the Emperor, to the Low Countries, to France (where he arranged the famous interview called the field of the Cloth of Gold) and (1522-23) to Spain; P.C., 1518; Comptroller (1520), and Treasurer (1521-25) of the Household; K.G., 23 April 1523, being cr., 18 June 1525,(a) VISCOUNT ROCHFORD.(b) On 17 Feb. 1527/8, after reciting that "divers contentions and variances" had arisen between the daughters and heirs of the late Earl of Ormond and "Sir Pyers Butler, Knt. [the Earl's] cosyn and heir male," the said parties agree that the said Earldom "shall be from henceforth entirely at the disposition, pleasure, and will of our said Sovereyne Lord," the King. Accordingly a new Earldom (that of Ossory) was six days later conferred on the heir male while, within two years, the abeyance (so to speak) of the old Earldomn of Ormond was terminated in favour of the heir of one of the two coheirs, viz., the said Viscount Rochford who was cr., Dec. 1529, EARL OF WILTSHIRE, in England, with rem. to heirs male of his body and EARL OF ORMOND, in Ireland, with rem. ("heredibus suis in perpetuum") to his heirs general.(c) He was, 1530-36. He. before 1506 Elizabeth, 1st da. of Thomas, , by his first wife, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Frederick. She d. in childbed, 3, and was bur. 7 April 1537, in the Howard aisle at Lambeth church. Funeral certif. He (having survived some two years the execution of his only son and of his da., Anne, the Queen Consort), d. s.p.m.s., 13(d) March 1538/9, aged 61, at Hever, co. Kent, and was bus. there. M.I.(e) On his death the Earldom of Wiltshire and the Viscountry of Rochford became extinct, while the representation of the ancient Earldom of Ormond [I.] (as declared, in 1529, in his favour to the exclusion of Dame Anne St. Leger, the other coheir) devolved on his grandchildren,{f) the issue of his two daughters.