Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 1 Vol 7.djvu/214

 212 STAFFORD. Earldom. VII. Barony. VIII. Richard III. nn 1483, when hav ~ and S. Henry (Stafford), Duke of 1460, Buckingham, Earl ok Stafford, &c, grandson to and h., being only s. and h. of Humphrey Staf- 1483 ford, styled Earl op Stafford, abovenamed, He was b. 4 Sep. 1 1.16 ; st;,lid Kakl of Stafford alter his father's death till he sue. to the pen-tun; as above, 10 July 14ti0. He conspired against was beheaded (without any legal trial) at Salisbury, 2 Nov. g been attainted all bis honour* became forfeited. 1 = - Earldom. VIII. Barony. IX. 1485. to 1521. S ami 0. Edward Stafford, 1st s. nnd h., b. at Brecknock Castle, Wednesday, 3 Feb. 1477/8W was restored by act (M8, r .) 1 Hen. VII.,(>>) to the honours lost by the attainder of Ill's father, becoming thereby Dl'KK op BUCKINGHAM [144-1], Karl of Stafford [1361], Bahun('-) Stafford [1298], alto not improbably Earl of Buckingham, and possibly Earl of Hkrf.ford and Northampton, alnodejure Lord Audlbt [1321]. He was attainted 13 and beheaded for high treason, 17 .May 1521 (cou- 6rmed by Pari. 31 July 1523), when all his honours became forfeited. ■3 .» J Barony. 7. Henry Stafford, only s. and h. of the above Duke, X 1547 ^ Eleanor, da. of Henry (Percy), 1th EaRL of NORTHOMBKRLANIi,4. at Penshurst, co. Kent, Saturday, IS Sep. 1501, (") styled Earl Or Stafford from his birth, but never assumed the peerage during the period between his father's death and the Act of Attainder in 1522. He was granted by the King, 20 Sep. 1522,0') several of the estates in Staffordshire and elsewhere (for- feited by his father) and, on 15 July 1531, certain others, including the castle and manor of Stafford : Constable of Stafford Castle, 1532 ; M.P. for Stafford, 1 547. By act of Pari. 4 Nov. (1547), 1 Ed. VI., he was restored in blood and declared to be BAHO.V STAFFOBD, with rem. to the heirs male of his body( l ) and was sum. to Pari. ( a ) These dates, &c, are from " The Stafford Register," begun by Edward, Lord Stafford, 2 Jan. 15G8/9— now [1395], in the possession of Lord Bagot. [1th Sep. Uhl. MSS., p. 328]. ( b ) " Creations, 14S3-1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. (>') See p. 209, note "a," as to the title of " Baron." ( a ) " Dugdale states that Henry, Lord Stafford, was restored in blood in 1522, but on a reference to the authorised Collection of the Statutes it appears that in 11 and 15 Hen. VIII. the Act iu question was passed, and [sic] which merely enabled the said Henry Mtd Ursula, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, to hold and enjoy certain estates granted them by Letters Patent dated 20 Dec, 14 Hen. VIII., 1522." [Mcohs.] ( e ) By this Pari, of 1547 it was enacted " that the said Henry and the heirs male of his body may aud shall be accepted, taken, known, reputed, called and written, from henceforth by the name of Lord Stafford, and that the said Henry, and the heirs males of his body coming, shall have and enjoy in and at all Parliaments and other placeB, the room, name, place, and voice of a Baron ; and that the said Henry, and his heirs, be and shall be, by authority of this Act, restored and enabled in blood, as son and heir and heirs to the said Edward, late Duke of Buckingham, and made heir and heirs to the said Edward, late Duke of Buckingham, by the name of Lord Staffobp, in blood ; and that the said Henry and his heirs may use and have any action or suit, and make his pedigree and conveyance in blood as heir, as well to aud from his said father as also to any other person or persons in like manner and form as if the said Duke had never been attainted, and as if no such attainder were or had been had, the corruption of blood between the said late Duke and the said Henry and his heirs or any Act of Parliament or judgment concerning the attainder of the said late Duke, or any other thing whereby the blood of the said late Duke is or should be corrupted, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding ; so always it be not to convey the said Henry or his heirs to any estate, dignity, name, pre-eminence, possessions, or here-