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 CLARENCE 263 parents, Sandringham Hall, Norfolk, 14 Jan. 1892, aged 28, and was bur. in Windsor chapel, when all his honours became extinct.(^) i.e. "Clarence," Earldom of [H.R.H. Prince Leopold), cr. 1881, with the Dukedom of Albany, which see. CLARENDONC) EARLDOM. I. Edward Hyde, 3rd s. of Henry H. (^/. Mich. X ,^ 1632 at Salisbury), of Purton and Dinton, Wilts,('=) by Mary, da. and coh. of Edward Langford, a rich clothier of Trowbridge, was b. 18 Feb. 1608/9, ^^ Dinton afsd.; matric. at Oxford (Magd. Hall), 31 Jan. 1622/3; a demy of Magd. Coll. 1624; B.A. 14 Feb. 1625/6; Barrister (Mid. Temple), 22 Nov. 1633; Keeper of the writs of the Common Pleas, 1634; M.P. for Wootton Basset, being also elected for Shaftesbury (Short Pari.) 1640, and for Saltash, 1640-42; P. C. 22 Feb. 1642/3, re-sworn, to Charles II, 13 May 1649, ^"^ removed 4 Dec. 1667; knighted 22 Feb. 1642/3; Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer, Mar. 1642/3 to June i66o;('') Councillor to of Stewart from 1459 to 1543, at which last date the then Lord obtained an act of Pari. [S.] to exchange the title of Lord Avendale for that of " Stewart of Ochiltree." (^) His untimely and unexpected death was a great shock to the nation, and was rendered more sad by his having been but a few weeks previously betrothed to his cousin, the Princess Mary of Teck, afterwards wife of his brother. C") Clarendon, latinized as Clarentia domi?iium, anciently a Royal forest of about 4,300 acres (some three miles from Salisbury), in the palace whereof Henry II, in 1 164, held the council which passed the laws, called therefrom " the Constitutions of Claren- don." It was granted, by Charles II, to George (Monck), Duke of Albemarle, from whose successor it was inherited by the family of Granville (Earls of Bath), and, finally, in I7i3> was purchased by the Bathurst family, who still possess it. i^) He was yr. s. of Lawrence H., 3rd s. of Robert H. His br., Sir Nicholas Hyde, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1627-31. They were of a respectable but undistinguished county family who had held the estates of Norbury and H)de in Cheshire from very early times. V.G. {^) Doyle [Official Baronage, vol. i, p. 402) states, without reference to any authority, that he was made Under Treasurer of the Exchequer 19 July 1642 and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Feb. 1643; hut these offices, since the reign of Henry VII, have always been held by the same person. Doyle's dates, though given with apparent exactitude, cannot be depended upon when, as here, he cites no authority. Clarendon himself records that he first held office when he accepted the Chancellorship of the Exchequer in succession to Colepepper at the end of Feb. 1642/3; moreover Colepepper is described as "Chancellor and Under Treasurer of