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 210 STAFFORD. the restoration of his wife to the Earldom of Stafford [1351] &c, by the repeal of the attainder (1.121), of her ancestor, Edward, Duke of Buckingham, Sic. Be was F.R.S., 13 .Ian. 1665, being (1674), one of the Council of that Society. On the " false "(») testimony of Titus Dates and otliers he was "censed (with four other( b ) nobles) of being concerned in "the Popish Plot," and accordingly confined, 28 Oct. 107S, in the Tower of London being, after two years imprisonment, found guilty, and accordingly btheadtd on Tower Hill, 29 Dec. 1630, aged about 66.( c ) Having been attainted, 3 June 167S, all his honours became forfeited. He was bur. in the chapel of St. Peter ad vincula in the Tower. His widow, em jure Daroness Stafford, generally (notwitlistunding her husband's attainder; known as YiscorxTEss STAVV0itr>, was sum. na Barmta Stafford to the OOionation of James II, in 1683.('l) She was cr. 5 Oct. 1688.(') (in the same patent/; that her son was cr. an Karl) COUNTESS OF STAFFORD for her life. Sj bhe </. 23 Jan. 1693/4, in her 7 1 1 1 1 year and was bur. in YVistm. Abbey. On her death the Earldom of Stafford [16'SS], conferred on her for her life, became atmtt, while the Barony of Stafford [1640], the right to which devolved on her issue, could not be inherited by them, in consequence of the attainder of their father, and so became forfeited. Earldom. J. The Hon. Henry Stafford-Howard, formerly X. 1G88. Howahd, 1st s. of the above, 6. Hi58, was cr. 5 Oct. 1688,'( r ) (in the same patent that his mother was cr. a Countess) EAHL OF STAF- FORD, with rem., in fault of heirs male of his body, to his brothers successively in like manner ; he assumed at the same date the name of Staford before that of Bovxtrd : Col. of Keg. of Foot, Nov. to Dec. 1688, soon after which date he accompanied James II. into France. He m. there 3 April 1691, Claude-Charlotte, da. of (the well-known) Philibeit, Count de Ghamont, by Elizabeth, 1st da. of Sir George Hamilton, Bart. [S.] He d. s.p. 27 April and was bur. 12 May 1719, at Yestm. Abbey, in his 72nd year.(") Will dat. 2 Feb. 1699 [O.S.] to 22 March 1715/6, pr. (») In the bill which passed the House of Lords, 3 June 1685 (tho' it was dropped by the House of Commons), it is stated " that the testimony on which he was convicted was false." ( b ) The live " Popish Lords " thus accused were the Fail of Powis, Viscount Staflord, the Lords Arundell of Wardour, Belasyse, and l'etre. (') This most disgraceful judicial murder was accomplished by 55 votes to 31, among which last were the Lords Halifax and Clarendon. The majority included Prince Kupert, the Duke of Monmouth, the infamous Lord Grey of Werk, the Earl of Carlisle, the worthless Lcrd Howard of Escrick, ami apparently all his kinsmen, excepting Lord Mowbray, afterwards Duke of Norfolk. Lord Station!, says Evelyn {Diary, ii, 15-1), " was not a man beloved, esptcially of his own fumily." A portrait of him " after Van Dyck " is engraved in " JJoyle" f d ; See p. 215, note "b" circa Jincm. ( e ) See similar instance of mother and son being so created, in the Barony of Shel- burne [I.], this sume year, 16S8 ; an earlier instance of the same nature is that of the Dukedom of Norfolk, 1397. (f) This forms one of the ten creations in the English Peerage made by James II., for which see vol. iii, p. 78, note "a," sub " Derwentwater." (g) '• The sume instrument also granted the precedence of the children of an Earl to her two younger sons, John and Francis, and her three daughters, Mary, Ursula, and Anastasia." [Courthope]. ( h ) He is called in his burial register" Earl, Viscount, and Baron of Stafford," tho', owing to his father's attainder, he was not entitled to either of the last two named dignities, The Earl of Ailesbury, in his "Memoirs" (written about 1729) remarks as to Lord Stafford's life in Brussells that he " saw nobody nor any came to hint, h« Btood upon great chairs and other nonsense, and so kept home, and be was angry WOT me for abasing myself ... his estate was forfeited, and he at last being in g««' want treated with K. WiUiam.'s growing favourite at Loo, and got his estate again, paying that Lord £7000 aud £500 to the pel sou that undertook it."