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 294 CLIFFORD fatal battle of Towton, he was slain by a chance arrow, close to that field, at Ferrybridge, and is supposed to have been bur. in a pit with some of those who were there slain. On 4 Nov. following he was attainted, whereby his peerage was forfeited^ and his estates confiscated. (^) He m. Margaret, da. and h. of Henry (de Bromflete), Lord Vessy, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, da. of William (Fitzhugh), Lord Fitzhugh. On her father's death s.p.m.y 6 Jan. 1468, she appears to have considered herself entitled to the Barony of Vessy.('') She m., 2ndly, Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, of Threlkeld, Cumber- land, and d. 12 Apr. 1493, being bur. at Londesborough, co. York. X. 1485. 10. Henry Clifford, called "The Shepherd Lord," SherifF of Westmorland, s. and h., b. about 1454. His existence was (for security against the disfavour with which his family was regarded by the reigning house), concealed by his mother, he being brought up, it is said, as a Shepherd. He had a gen. pardon 16 Mar. 1471/2. On the accession of Henry VII, he was knighted, his attainder reversed^ 9 Nov. 1485, whereby he became LORD CLIFFORD, and his estates restored. He was sum. to Pari, from 15 Sep. (1485) i Hen. VII to 23 Nov. (15 14) 6 Hen. VIII, by writs directed Henrico Clifford de Clifford cKr.(^^ K.B. at the Coronation of Henry VIII 23 June 1509. He fought at Flodden, 9 Sep. 1 5 13, capturing 3 pieces of ordnance which he mounted at his castle of Skipton. In 1522, he contributed no less than 1000 marks for the French expedition. He m., istly, before 1493, Anne,('') da. of Sir John St. John, of Bletso, Beds, by Alice, da. of Sir Thomas Bradshaigh, of Haigh, co. Lancaster. He w., 2ndly, before 11 July 151 1, Florence, widow of Sir Thomas Talbot, da. of Henry Pudsey, of Berforth, co. York, by Margaret, da. of Christopher Conyers, of Hornby, in that co. He Q d. 23 Apr. (*) The Lordship of Westmorland was granted to Richard, Duke of Gloucester; the Barony of Skipton to Sir William Stanley. C') The peerage of de Vessy had, however, become extinct, having been ex- pressly limited to the heirs male of the body of the grantee, by the writ, 24 Jan. 1448/9, under which it originated; a singular (and indeed, in England, ««/y«f) instance of such limitation in a Barony cr. by writ. G.E.C. Nevertheless this John Lord Clifford and Henry his son, are each called in the Patent Roll, 3 Hen. VIII, part i, m. 12, "Lord Clifford Westmorland and Vescy," though they were only hereditary sheriffs of Westmorland and neither was Baron of Vessy. V.G. i^) He figures in a bogus list concocted by Dugdale [Summonses, pp. 491-2), as having been sum. to a Pari, beginning 12 Nov. 7 Hen. VIII (really the date to which the Pari, which first met 5 Feb. 15 14/5 had been prorogued). As to this list see note sub Robert, Lord Willoughbv (of Broke) [1502]. V.G. {^) This Anne was ist cousin by the half blood of the King; her grandmother, Margaret Beauchamp (who m., istly. Sir Oliver St. John), m., 2ndly, John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, whose da. and h., Margaret, was mother of Henry VII. See tabular ped. in vol. ii, p. 206. {^) He seldom "came to Court, or London," residing chiefly at Bardon tower, near Bolton, and devoting his energies to astronomy and astrology. Wordsworth's Song at the feast of Brougham Castle as also his IVhite Doe of Rylstone gives an account of this Lord's romantic career.