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 SUFFOLK. 303 Barony of VMird fell into abeyance.!*) He was lur. at Campsey priory afsd. Will <kt. 12 tii 18 .lime 1381. pr. at Lambeth, 24 Feb. 1381/2. ( b ) His widow, by whom lie bad no issue, took the veil, 21 March following, and, surviving liiui 25 years, d. 2!) Sep. 1116. Will, directing her burial to be with her late husband at Campsey, dat. 26 Sep. 1116. [RonEUT L'fford, presumably styled Loud Ufford, 1st s. and li. ap., by lirst wife ; had lie. JS Oct. 1371, to marry Eleanor, da. of Richard Fitzalan, s. and h. ap. of Richard, E.UU. OP Aklndel, but d. in boyhood before 1374, leaving three yr. brothers, Thomas, William, and Edmund, then living, all of whom d. yuung and within a year from that date]. III. 13sr>. 1. Michael (de La 1'ole, or At-1'ool), Lord de la to PtifiK, Chancellor of England, was er. 6 Aug. 13S.1,t") KARL OF 1388. SUFFOLK. He was s. and b. of Sir William DB la Polk, of At- IWl, sometime [1339-1340] second Baron of the Exchequer, formerly ■a merchant *) of Kingston-upun-HuH (and one wlio bad rendered valuable pecuniary assistance to the Crown), by Catharine, said to be da. of Sir Walter, or Sir John, NoliWK'H(°) ; was li. about 1330 ; kniijhtcd before .May 1335 ; served iu the wars in France, under the Black Prince ; «uc. his father "Jl April, or 22 June 1366, having shortly before been sum. to Parl.( r ) as a Baron,s) (Loud Dl la Pole), 20 Jan. (1365/6) (») The coheirs, iu 1332. were his three nephews and his surv. sister, viz. (1) Robert (Willoogbby), 4th Lord W'illoughhy de Kresby, h. 1319, s. and h. of Cicely, his eldest sister, by John, the 3rd Lord, being ancestor of the succeeding Lords ; (2j Roger (de Scales), 4th Lord Scales, b. 1 Feb. 1844/5, s. ami h. of Catharine, another sister, by Hubert, the 3rd Lord, being ancestor of the succeeding Lords; (3) Henry (de Ferrers), 4th Lord Feners de liroby, 6. 1356, s. and h. of Margar-t, 1st wife of William, 3d Lord, being ancestor of the succeeding Lords ; (4) Maud de Utt'ord.a nun at Campsey, living 1416, but d. num. (>') See p. 802, note " b." {') He obtained therewith the then usual donation (see p. 301, note "a " ' of 1,000 marks yearly, He,, and "had a munificent grant of the lands of the last Karl, for the rapport of this title." [Fuss's " J ndyrt."]. (") This is, apparently, the first mercantile family who obtained (1366) peerage honours. It's origin was not forgotten 100 years later, for thus writes, 13 July 14G5. John Huston to Margaret l'aston, (peaking of the then Duke of Suffolk, great 1 pr.uidson of the 1st Earl, " Item as for the pedegre of the sevd Dewk, lie is sone to William Tool. Dewk of Suffolk, sone to Mychel Pool. Krl of Suffolk, of the Polis, mad k King Richard seth my fader was born ; and the seyd furst Mychell was sone to on William Pool, of Hull, whech was a wnrehepfiill man grow be fortwue of the werld. And he was furst a marchant. anil after a kuygth and after he was mad baneret." William, Duke of Suffolk. here, mentioned, is be whose murder is recounted in Shakespeare's "Henry VI.," and who is there spoken of by one of his murderers, as 'Poole . . . kennel, puddle, sink.'' (°) Dugdale says " Sir John," if, however, she was a da. of Sir Walter de Norwich, of Mettingham, she would be a sister of Margaret, wife of Robert and mother of William (de Uflbrd), late Earls of Suffolk. The pedigree of Norwich is obscure, but there is no mention of any match with De la Pole iu that given iu Carthews " I.aunditch Hundred," which commences with Sir Walter N., who if. I Sip. The heirship of the Norwich family seems ultimately to have vested iu the descendants of Ull'ord only, not conjointly with that of De la Pole. . (') There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (s) In an able review, by Professor " T. F. Tout," of Pike's " Constit. Mist, of the House of Lords" [" Knylish Historical Review," vol. xl, Jan. 1S!>6] dealing with Pike's ductrine [undoubtedly a true one] that the word " Huron, was no tide iu the 14th century," (inasmuch as " a Baron need not be described us such in legal proceedings, and that, well on in the 15th century, n Baron was commonly described in most formal documents as Knight or Chiridcr") it is remarked that "'this description of the Boron as Chivalcr, brings him in closer touch, than we are apt to imagine, with the Knight of the shire," ns "illustrated ... in the case of Michael de la Pole, afterwards Earl of Suffolk, and the first lay Chancellor, who was also a Barou of