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 208 ST. — STAFFORD. ST., sec under Saint. STACKALLAN. i.e., " Hamilton of Stackallax, co. Meath," Barony [[.] (Hamilton), cr. 1715; see " Boynk," Viseouutey [I.J, cv. 1717. STACKPOLE COURT. i.e., "Foxford of Stackpole Court, co. Clan-," Barony (Pery), cr. 1815 ; see " Limerick," Earldom ft}, cr. 1803. STAFFORD [name and county.] Barony by 1. EDMiTNDDESTAFFORD,( a ) who possessed Stone- itml ninny Writ. other considerable estates in co. Stafford and elsewhere, was s. and li. I 1 °99 °^ ^"i c ' ui ' as UE Stavtuuu, of the same, who was s. and h. of Kobf.ht ' DK Stakfohd,; 1 '; of the same (d. 1282), by Alice, da. and at length coheir of Thomas OonBET, of Cans, co. Salop. He sue. his father (who was killed in l'287( c ) by the falling of the walls at the siege of Droselan), proving bis age and having livery of his lauds ill 1294. He Berved in the wars in Gascony and in Scot- land ; was sum. Seo. 1298 " ctjuis el armis " to Carlisle, and was sum. to Pari. William Fullarton, of Glenquich, great-grandson and h. of William Fullarton, by Margaret, 1st da. aud only child that had issue, of Alexander (Lindsay), 2d Lord Spynie. The House of Lords, however, 18 April 1785, decided against him on the ground that " it sufficiently appears from the act of ratification of 1592, the charter of 17 April 1593 and the charter of 10 June lU'Jl, that the descent was limited to the heirs vmlc of Alexander, Lord Spynie," Lord Mansfield, nailer whose direction this resolution was arrived at, was (to quote the words of G. Burnett, Lyon King, in a letter, 8 March 1889, to the Editor) *• egregiously wrong in the Spynie case." The Act of Ratification of 159i expressly declares that, the title should go to the heirs lawfully begotten " of the first Lord and his then wife [which Col. Eullerton was] and onj'ailurt of such heirs [only] to heirs male wdiomsoever," the charter of 1593 following upon and passed under the authority of the Act appears, according to Mr. Maidiuent's report, to have been in similar terms" [//cwtcU] while as to the charter of 1031, inasmuch as there had been no resignation of the dignity, it could in no way affect it. The matter is fully discussed in " Hiddell," pp. 051— 707, aud indexed therein as " including glaring misconceptions, contradictions, and misrepresenta- tions of Lords Mansfield and llosslyu." See, however, p. 207, note " f." ( a ) The Editor is greatly indebted in this article to Benjamin Wyatt Greenfield, F.S.A., a well-kuown authority on early genealogy, and more particularly so ou matters relating to the family of Stafford. ( h ) This Robert was s. of Hervey de Stafford (d. 1237) who took that name in lieu of his patronymic of Bagot in right of his mother, Millisent, wife of Hervey Bagot, sister and h. of Robert de Stafford, great grandson of Robert de Toeni, who possessing 131 Lordships at the time of the Domesday Hurvey, of which 81 were in Staffordshire is presumed by Dugdale, to have assumed the name of Stafford as being Gov. of Stafford Castle, which was not, however, at that time (tho' it became so not long sub- sequently) in the possession of the family. (°) " In the escheats of that year, 1 6 Ed. I., No. 67, it is stated that Philomena, da. of Thomas de Kersewell, held in free marriage with Hugh, s. of Vynus de Saut, or Salte, a free tenement and appta. in Bradeley, co. Stafford, held in chief of Nicholas, late Baron of Stafford." [Ex. inform, B. W. Greenfield.]