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 534 APPENDIX B as holders of peerages, biographical particulars are recorded in the body of this work. They have been supplied, as far as possible, in the case of those knights who did not attain to the rank of a Peer of any portion of the United Kingdom. a -d t> ^ A.B.B. The Knights In a Chronological Series from the Date of the First Feast Founders King Edward the Third, Sovereign ^2. Henry, Earl of Derby, later Earl and Duke of Lancaster ^3. Thomas (Beauchamp), Earl of Warwick. 4. Jean de Grailly, Captal de Buch, Vicomte de Benauges ^ 5. Ralph, Lord Stafford, later Earl of Stafford ^ 6. William (Montagu), Earl of Salisbury ''7. Sir Roger [Lord] Mortimer, later Earl of March '' 8. Sir John [Lord] Lisle (of Rougemont) ^ 10. Sir John [later Lord] Beauchamp (of Warwick) 'II. Sir John [Lord] Mohun (of Dunster) 12. Sir Hugh Courtenay, ^. before 2 Sep. 1349 ''13. Sir Thomas Holand, later Earl of Kent '' 14. Sir John [Lord] Grey (of Rotherfield) ''15. Sir Richard Fitz-Simon, latest notice of him 1348 17. Sir Thomas Wale, d. 26 Oct. 1352 "19. Sir Nele Loryng, d. 18 Mar. 1385/6 20. Sir John Chandos, ^.31 Dec. 1369 ''21. Sir James AuDLEY, d". i369('') ''22. Sir Otes Holand, d. 3 Sep. 1359 (^) The Knights thus marked had Garter Robes issued to them in 1361, the first year for which the extant Wardrobe accounts supply such information. The Knights represented by nos. 4, 20, and 21, were out of England at that date. () Nicolas {Orders of Knighthood, vol. i, p. 42) remarks that the inclusion of the names of the Knights here marked () "stands on no better authority than the Windsor Tables, which were not compiled before the reign of Henry IV, and the Statutes compiled in the reign of Henry V." In the cases of nos. 12, 17, 20 and 24, there is or has been confirmation of the Tables by the preservation in St. George's Chapel of Stall plates bearing their names. i^) This is the date usually assigned for the death of Audley, and appears to be confirmed by a MS. marked B9 in the College of Arms recording his Inq.p. m. in the 45th year of Edward III, and assigning his death to "anno xliii." But the Diet. Nat. Biog. says that he died in 1386 and his " obsequies were attended by the [Black]
 * I. Edward, Prince of Wales
 * 9. Sir Bartholomew [later Lord] Burghersh
 * 16. Sir Miles Stapleton, d. 4 Dec. 1364
 * i8. Sir Hugh Wrottesley, d. 23 Jan. 1380/1