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 SAYE. 65 grant of them to himself,^) nn inept act (as regards a peerage dignity), and one which was in no way respected by the heirs of the granter. Being an adherent of the party of the Duke of Suffolk (Delapole), he obtained large grants from the Crown, which together with his extortion and maladministration made him very unpopular. He became in 1447, P.O., Chamberlain of the Household, and Constable of the Tower; and from Oct. HW to April 1451 was L, Treasurer. lieing accused of complicity in the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and being held mainly responsible for the Surrender of the provinces of Anjou and Maine, his estates were sequestered, and he ww finally committed to the Tower, but was given up therefrom by the Gov. (Lord Scales' to " Jack Cade'' ami the rebels under him, by whom he was beheaded at the Standard in Cheap, 4 July 1431, dragged thro' Southwark, hanged and quartered,! 11 ) but finally bur. in Grey Friars. (') Will dat. 12 April 1449. He m. Euioliue, da. of ( — ) Ckomkr, of Willinghatn, by ( — ) da. and coheir of ( — ) Trillow. She, for whom robes of the Order ut the Garter were made in 1448, ( d ) and who was aged about 24 at her husband's death, rf. 5 Jan. 1452, and was bur. as afsd. II. 1451. 2. William (Fiexnes), Lord Save and Sele, only s. and h., aged 22, when he sue. to the peerage, 4 July 1451, having previously, 12 April 1449, been knighted. He was sum. to Parl.(°) from 13 April (1451), 29 Hen. VI. to 7 Sep. (1469), 9 Ed. IV. In 1451 he sold his hereditary VYnrdensbip of the cinque ports ; l'.C, 1454 ; was in the wars with France ; Constable of l'orchester and of Pevensey Castles, 14(51 ; Keeper of the New Forest, 1461-07. Vice Admiral of England (under the great Earl of Warwick), 1462. Fled with Ed. IV. to Flanders in 1470, and, returning with him, was slain (on his side) at the battle of Barnet,( r ) 14 April 1171, aged about 42,(e) He nt. Margaret, (») " John, Lord Clinton, s. and h. of Sir William de Clinton, who was grands, and h. of Idonea de Say, by deed dated Not. 1448, ' gives, grants, ratifies, and confirms to James, Lord Say and Sele, his cousin, his heirs and assigns for ever, the name and style of Lord Say, relinquishing all interest therein as well as right to the arms there- unto belonging for himself and his heirs, and also granting that the said James, his heirs and assigns, should be known and called by the title of Lord Say without any other addition, with a clause of warranty against all persons whatsoever.' On the 2nd Dec. following the two parties executed an indenture by which, after reciting the abovementhmed deed, Fienes renounced all pretensions to all advowsons, knights' fee?, wardships, marriages, reliefs, escheats, rents, services, and forfeitures which by reason of the said lordship (ratinne dominii) of Say had belonged to Clinton before the date of his release, or might in future devolve upon him or his heirs. This agreement, though showing the claim which Lord Clinton, as eldest coheir, considered he possessed over the Barony, cannot be considered as in any way affecting the determination of the dignity,— the grantee not being himself even a coheir." [Courthope.] ( b ) His son-in-law, William Cromer, shared the same fate at Mile End on the same day. (°) See " Nat. Biogr." as to "the mistaken idea" of Gibbon, who calh him "a patron and martyr of learning " founded on Shakespeare's '* Henri/ J'l." where the anachronism of this Lord having caused printing to be used is introduced. (") This seems an extraordinary honour for the wife of one who was not himself a K.G., hut probably it was the intention to confer that order on the L. Treasurer. Beta (" Knights of the Garter," p. ccxxiv) calls her " Emeliua Willingham." ( e ) There is proof iu the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (') Sir John P&ston in his letter, 18 April 1471, writes that "There were killed upon the field half a mile from Barnet, on Easter Day [Richard (Nevill)] the Earl of Warwick [John (Nevill) his brother] the Marquis Montagu, and on the King Edward's P«ty [Humphrey (Bourchier)] the Lord Cromwell, and [William (Plenties)] the Lord Bays," m ( g ) Leland in his " Itinerary" as quoted by Dugdale, says of this Lord that ho being in renown was twice taken prisoner, whereby he suffered much, and that 'hereupon he grew necessitated to mortgage the greatest part of his lauds, so that, since that time the Barony became extinct [i.e. dormant], and that the heirs male "f the family were called only Fiennes." P