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 214 STAFFORD. XIII. 1 60 > Edward (Stafford), Rakon Stafford, only s. ami li., i. 1573 :(") sue. to the peerage, IS Oct. lt!03, and wag gain, to Fjrl from 10 March (16C3/4), 1 Jar. L, to 12 Feb. (1623/1). -'1 Jac. I. ; Keeper of Kings' polo Warren, CO. Stafford, 1605. He m. probably shortly before 22 Nov. 15<»5,fl>) Isabel, da. of Thomas FOBSTKB, of Tonge, co. Salop. He </. 25 Sep. aged 52. Admon. 21 Jan. 1625/6, to his sister " Dorothy Stafford alius Jervis, widow" his widow renouncing. XIV. 1625. 5. Henry (Stafford), Baron Stafford, gramlson and h., Wing the only s. ami li. of the Hon. Kdward Stavkomi, by A»ne,l c ) da. of James W'n.Foiin,!' 1 ) of Xewnham Hall am! QueildoD, co. Essex, which Kdward, was only child and h ap of the late Baron, but (/. v. p., April 1621,(°) aged 21. He was ''. (posthumously' 24 Sep. 1621, and sue. (o (Ac yeiragi:, 25 Sep. 1625. He d. unui. Oct. 1637, aged 16., r ) XV. 1G37, 6. Roger (Stafford), Baron Stafford [1 r>47], cousin to and h. male, being only s. and h. of the Hon. Richard STAFFORD, 1G40 ? by Mary, da. of John Cohiikt, of Lee, co. Salop, which Kicbard, was a yr. s., apparently the 8th and yst. s. of Henry, the 1st Baron.(S) He was b. about 1572 — r57. r >, at Malpas, co. Chester, and is said to have been known the greater part of his life by the surname of Floyd. He sue. to the peerage in Oct. 163" (when about 62 or 6f> years of age), as heir mule of the body of the grantee, and "accordingly claimed it but is said to have beeu unjustly denied the dignity on the ground of his poverty ,"(>') the King, to whom he had submitted his claim, having (inasmuch as lie favoured the claim of the Howard family) decided "that the said Roger Stafford, having no part of the inheritance of the said Lord Stafford nor any other lauds or means whatsoever, should make a resignation of all claims and title of the said Barony of Stafford for His Majesty to dispose of as he should see fit."('} He accordingly, 7 Dec. 1639 (Hil. Term. 15 Car I.] for the sum of £800, surrended the same to the King, the' " this'surrender was clearly illegal.'Y') He, however, d. num. soon afterwards [1640] when the Baron g nf Staf,.nl, or. in 1547. became extinct, as also, presumably, did the male line of the illustrious family of Stafford. j*) (f ) Of him, his father writes to Lord Burghley, 25 Jan. 1586/7, as " a good scholar for 15 years old," proposing to marry him to one of his Lordship's blood. ( b ) This is the date of a letter of Rowland White to Sir Robert Sidney (Sidney Tapers) stating that ' my Lord Stafford's son is basely m. to his mother's chamber- maid, " who, it may, accordingly, be presumed, was the lady mentioned in the text. ( c ) Her admon. as " the Hon. Anne Stafford, of High Holborn, Midx., widow," was granted 21 March 1648/9, to " Henry Wilsford, alias Wildford, of Ridley Hall, co. Essex, Esq.," for use of Mary, Viscountess Stafford, da. of deed. ( d ) This James was grandson of Sir James Widford, who, having taken in siege the town of Haddington, "was to have been made Viscount of that place, but d. of his wounds before he was rewarded." [Pedigree entered iu the book called " Howard " (p. 13), at the College of Arms]. (») "Edward Stafford, gent, son to the Lord Stafford," was bur. 6 April 1821, At St. Andrew's, Holborn, out of Thomas Shearratt's house, Tailor, Fuilwood lane." ( r ) Mary, his only sister and heir inherited the estates of the family and was cr. Baroness Stafford, 1640, and Countess of Stafford, 16SS, as mentioned in the text (B) Besides the 4 brothers (Henry, Henry, Thomas and Edward) already mentioned there were 4 whuse order of birth is not clear, viz. , George, who was in the rebellion of 1569 j Walter, living 19 Nov. 1570 ; Myles and this Richard, who is said [Fat- brooke's " Gloucestershire "] to have died very poor, his widow surviving till 1632, when she d. of congestion, and was bur. at Breretou at a great age. ( h ) Courthope. ( f ) Banks's "Baronage" ( k ) Jane, b. about 1581, his only sister, m. a carpenter of Newport, near ShiiTunl, Salop, and was living a widow in 1637, having a son by trade a eobler. [Ex. inform B. W. Greeuhuld.J One of her descendants is, in all probability, thus alluded to by