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 424 BURGH V. 1584. 5. Thomas (Burgh), Lord Burgh, 2nd('') but ist surv. s. and h., aged 26 and more in 1584. Gov. of the Brill in Flanders, 1 586/7-1 597. He took his seat 2 Nov. 1584, and con- tinued to be sum. till 24 Oct. (i 597) 39 Eliz. Norn. K.G. 23 Apr. and inst. 25 June 1593; Ambassador to Scotland, 1593; Lord Deputy of Ireland, 18 Apr. 1597. M.A. Oxford 10 July 1598. He m. Frances, only da. of John Vaughan, of Sutton-on-Derwent, co. York, by Anne, da. and h. of Sir Christopher Pickering. C") He d. 14 Oct. 1597, at Newry, in Ireland, and was bur. in England.('^) Inq. p. m. 30 May 1598. Will dat. 12 Oct. 1597 (not signed "thro' failing memory," but attested), pr. same year. Admon. 16 May 1598. His widow was bur. 19 July 1647, at St. Mar- garet's, Westm. Her admon. as "of Westm." 20 Feb. 1649/50. VI. 1597 6. Robert (Burgh), Lord Burgh, only surv. s. and to h., aged 3 years in Aug. 1 597. He d. an infant and unm., 1602. 26 Feb. 1601/2, at Waltham Palace, when in the care of Thomas Bilson, Bishop of Winchester,('^) and was, as "Lord Burroughs," bur. at Winchester Cathedral, 19 Mar. 160 1/2, when the Barony fell into abeyance.(^) BURGH (Cumberland) i.e. " Baron of the Barony of Burgh, Cumberland," see "Lonsdale," Earldom of, cr. 1787; extinct 1802. BURGH or BOURKE (of SomerhiU) see BOURKE (*) His elder br., Henry Burgh, d. s.p., being "slain in a duel, by Holcroft," Jan. 1578. The only other br. was Sir John Burgh, also killed in a duel, by John Gilbert, 7 Mar. 1594, aged 52. ('') Yorkshire Visitation Pedigree of 1584, signed by her br., Francis Vaughan. The statement by Cole and others, that she was da. of John Vaughan of Golden Grove, Carmarthen, is wrong, (ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G. (c) uj^ grave and steady man, skilled in most languages, observing everything, but affected with nothing; keeping a great distance between his looks and his heart, as between his words and his thoughts." (Lloyd, 1665). He left his family in penury. V.G. (^) Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield House MSS., part xii, pp. 65, 66, where is a long account of his illness and death. V.G. (*) The coheirs were his 4 sisters, among whose representatives this Barony is in abeyance. These were (l) Elizabeth m., 1599, George Brooke, 4th s. of William, Lord Cobham, and had issue. (2) Anne m., 1 1 Oct. 1 604, at St. Margaret's, Westm., Sir Drew Drury. (3) Frances m. Francis Coppinger, whose descendant (of West Drayton, Midx.), took the name of de Burgh. (4) Katherine m., 28 Feb. 1620, at St. Mary le Strand, Thomas Knyvett, whose h. gen. is Lord Berners. On 13 Jan. 1637, Edward Burgh, of Stowe, co. Lincoln, s. and h. of Richard B., who was s. and h. of Henry B., both of the same (the said Henry being a yr. s. of Thomas, 3rd Lord Burgh), entered his pedigree at the College of Arms, as "now heire male to that familie." A claim to this Barony, by Col. Alexander Henry Leith, as the senior coh., and by Cuthbert Matthias Kenworth, and Reginald Gervase Alexander as junior coheirs, was, in 191 1, before the House of Lords. G.E.C. and V.G.