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 194 SOUTHAMPTON. III. 1550. ~. TTexry (Wriottiesley), Eart. of Soutitampton, and Baron Wkiothesi.ey, only a and h. ; bap. at St. Andrew's, Holbnrn, 21 April (on the eve of St. Mark), 1515, the King [Henry VI II.), the Princess Mary, and the Duke uf Suffolk, being sponsors ; stijltd LiORD Whiotiiesi.kv, from 15 17, till he me, to the peeroije. 30 July 1550. His " well wishes " to the contemplated marriage of the Duke of Norfolk with Mary, Queen of Scots " (to whom and her religion he stood not a little affected) occasioned him no little trouble. 1 ' (") He in. 19 Feb. 1566/8, at her father's house( b ), Mary, da. of Anthony (Browne), 1st Viscocnt MoNTAOOB, by his first wife, Jane, da. of Robert ( Raocuffe), Karl of Sussex. He (/. I Oct, 15Sl,at Ythel, co. Hauts, and was bur. at Titchtield afsd Will dat. 20 June 15S1, pr. 1583. His widow in. Sir Thoniaj Hf.neaoe, Chancellor ot the Duchy of Lancaster, ami subsequently (as his first wife) May 1598, Sir William Heuvey, er. in 1620, Baron Hervey of Rosse [I.] and in 1628, Haron HkrYEY of Kidiikooke [K.], who il. 8 July 1642. She d. (before he was raised to the peerage) 1007. Will, directing her burial to be at TitehfieM, dat. 22 April, pr. 11 Nov. 11507. IV. 1581, 3. Henry (WitioTriEsr.EY), Earl of Southampton, ami to Baron Wriothesley, only s. and h, b. 0 Oct. 157.3 ; stiilnl Lord 1601. Wriothesley till he sue. to the peerage, as above, 4 Oct 1581 ; ed. at St. John's Coll., Cambridge; M A., 1589; incorporate.! MA. of IfiOS Oxford, 10 Aug. 1502 ; served under the Karl of Kssex (by whom he was knighted in 151'7, both in the fleet against Cadiz in 15 l J7 and in Ireland (as Gen. of the Horse), 150!', and taking part in that Karl's insurrection was found guilty and attainted, 1001, whereby all ins honours litre foifeitei. From Feb. 1000/1 to 10 April 1003, lie was a prisoner in the Tower of London. liy the new King, James I., h.3 was. however, greatly favoured: el. KG., 25 June, and hist, 9 July 1603, and was er. 21 July 1003. ('') BARON WRlOTHKSLKY OFTITCHFIELD, eo. Southampton, and EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, with " place and precedence as previous to his deprivation."^) He was made Capt. of the isle of Wight, 1003 ; joint L. Lieut, of Hants, 1004, and was rtstored in lilnoil, 18 April 1001 ; Councillor for Virginia, 1000, and for New England, 1020, being P.O., 1610 ; Col. of an English Kgerton ; apprehensive and knowing as Bacon"; but, on the contrary, Foss, in his " Judges " writes of him that " few persons, who have held a prominent position in the State, have had so little said to their credit. . . haughty towards his inferiors, and slavishly subservient to those who were above him. W hen advanced to high office his conceited opinion of his own superiority made him treat with disdain those who differed from him." Foss mentions also " his severity and cruelty " to those of the reformed doctrine, and that tho' most zealous for the old faith "he had no scrnplts in sharing the plunder arising from its destruction " not only from King Henry (as by the grant of Titchfield monastery, etc.) but even "from the council that was planning his disgrace." He appears to have had a stock of wise and good sayings, e.g., "Two things my servants shall not gain by me — my Livings and my Decrees — the one :ire God's and the other the King's," also, " Force awes, but Justice governs the world," &c. An engraving of his (contemptible-looking) portrait, " after H. Holbein," is in " Doyle." («) Dugdale. ('') In a prayer-book fomerly belonging to Lady Southampton, which was sold March 1895, at the sale of some of Sir Thomas Phillipps' collection is the following. "M.' 1 that my Lord of Southampton was marred the teivesday, the xix daye of February, anno domiui 1505, the viii yere of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Queue Elizabethc, the marriage was solemuyzed att London in my Lord Moiitagew s bowse by hys advise without the consent of my Lady, his mother." [Ex inform. J. H. Round]. (") See vol. iii, p. 113, note "c," sub " Devonshire," for the creations made on that day. ( d ) "Creations, 1483— 1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. This _was a new creation, the rem. being only to the heirs male of his body which in this case however included all such heirs of the first grantee. The grant of precedence is to be noted as a stretch of the prerogative. See vol. i, p. 229, note " a," sub " Ban- bury," for similar instances, altho' this case (one in which the Uoyal warrant ins confirmed by the letters patent) has inadvertently been omitted.