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 304 SUFFOLK. 39 Ed. Ill, and by subsequent Trits to 28 Sep. (138-1) 8 Rie. II, directed " iiichidc la Pole," the one for 1 Dec. (1370) f>0 Kd. Ill, having the additional words '• Ailmirallo regis jtutrc nariuia vtrnu partes bortala " ; Admiral of the North. 1376-1377, accom- panying John, l>»ke of Lancaster, in his Foreign expedition, with a retinue of one banneret, S knights, 130 esquires, 1-10 men of arms, and 1 10 arehers ; I'.C. 1379 ; being sent that year on an embassy to .Milan ins to a proposed marriage between liicttard I). and Catherine, da. ot Bamabo Visconti of Milan) anil to Home ; joint Gov. of the King, 1381 : L. CkaNCKLLOR ok EtiaLAND,(") 1883-89, being a:, 0 Aug. 1885, Earl of Suffje, as above stated. His favour with the King made him unpopular, ami he was impeached ami convicted iu l'arl. in 13S0,' 1 ') tho' the proceeding was declared void by the judge* in Aug- 13S7. In Feb 1387/8, however, the l'arl. found him (as al.-o the Archbishop (Neville) of York, Robert (de Vers), Duke of Ireland, Chief Justice Tresilian, &c.) guilty of high treason, whereby all his honoars became forfeited, nut he himself escaped to r"rance.( c ) He in. about 1360, Catharine, da. and h. of .Sir John WlNui-IKl.l), of Wingtield Castle, co. Suffolk, by Elizabeth, da. and ll. of Sir Ralph (, La N vile. He d. at Parte, 5 Sep. 13S!>.('<) His widow d. before 1 July and was bur. at Kingston on Hull afsd. IV. 1397, ;?. Sin Michael dk la Pols, 1st «. nml li. of the alwve; and b. about 1361 ; knighted I by Hie. II.) If, July 1377 ; was '■ Capt. of 139!). men at arms and archers for Calais," 1386. He was restored to hit fathers 's dignities by l'arl. in l.'lf>7 (21 Rie. II.', becoming thus KARL OF SUFFOLK and LORD DE LA PuLK, but the l'arl. of 1899 .1 Hen! IV.) having annulled the proceedings of the said Pari, of 13P-7 (21 Rie. II.) ami confirmed those of Part. ; Pole, who had been sum. to Pari, as a Baron since 1885, is described, even by so admirable a scholar as C. K. C. [vol. iii, p. 43] as 1 Baron de In Pole 61/ in-il,' but in contemporary records no such title is known. Pole is, for instance, spoken of, 1383, in the rolls of Pari, as ' Mom, Michel de la Pole, Ckivalcr, Vhanceller tl' t'xgle- terrc.' In the Chancellor's opening address, Pole salutes the assembled estates as g&int de la nohle Owe d' ' Ewjleterre ctj present:.' Here we have the Piarnnial Chancellor repudiating association with his Petri to claim compauionship with the kni'jhls of the shire." It must, however, be observed with respect to the treating the Barony of De h. Pole and similar Baronies as originating with the first writ of summons to Part, Set., that the decision (late iu the 17th century) of 1671, in the case of the Barony of Clifton, compels the peerage writer to acknowledge retrospettiechj such uiode of creatiou, e.g., no other date seems possible to assign for the origin of the still existing Barony of Willi.ughby de Ereshy, than '46 July 1313, being that of the date of summons to Pari, of sir Robert YVdloiighby, who, like his successors in that dignity, must therefore be tansidtred (tho' doubtless it was not the style that he used) as '• Lnrtl Willoughby de Ereshy," ami as enjoying a Barony by writ, (a) A lay Chancellor was, then, very unusual and tho', some few years previously, the experiment had first been tried (by the successive appointment* of Sir Robert Thorpe and Sir John Knyvet, 1371 to 1370), it never again occurred till Sir Thomas Mere was so appointed in 1529 ; tor the claims of Sir John Portescue, soi-disaut Chancellor to Henry VI. (1-101 h need not be considered. Pole's appointment brought oil him the envy of the powerful ecclesiastics who looked on it as an interference with tljeir "gilts. (b) "The long duration of the official connexion of the Earl with his Shire is well illustrated in his case, as under. " When in 1386, Pole was impeached and degraded, the large grants of land, largely belonging to the older Earls of Suffolk, that Kie. II. had made him when he was a: Earl [of Suffolk] were taken away ; but Pari, iu thus depriving the Earl of his endowment, thought it necessary to guard against the inference that the Earldom went with the land/, by providing that it was not the intention of the King and Lords that the judgment should extend to make Pole lose the name and title of Earl nor the £20 a year granted from the Suffolk county revenues for the afsd. name and title. (Hot. Pari., iii, L'19-b.)" [T. V. Tout's " Review" as on page 303, note "g".J ( c ) There are many stories of his wanderings and disguises. It is said that he was refused admittance into Calais by his own brother, Edmund de la Pole. ( d ) There is an admirable notice of him in the " Nat. Bioyr." where it is observed that " the English chroniclers give a prejudiced account.''
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