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 CORNWALL 441 bv Anne, yr. of the 2 daughters and coheirs of Richard (Neville), Earl of Warwick, and Salisbury. (See "Cornwall," Dukedom of, 1453). On 15 Feb. 1477/8 he was cr. EARL OF SALISBURY, by his uncle Edward IV, and (under the name of "Edward, eldest son of the Kina;") was cr. (by his father) 24 Au?., and inv. 8 Sep. 1483, as PRINCE OF^ WALES and EARL OF CHESTER, with rem. to his heirs, Kings of England. He was knighted 8 Sep. 1483. He d. unm. and v.p., aged 10 years, suddenly, 9 Apr. 1484, at Middleham Castle, and was probably i>ur. at Sheriff-Hutton, when his peerage dignities lapsed to the Crown. VIII. i486 Arthur (Tudor), DUKE OF CORNWALL,(^) at to his birth, being ist s. and h. of Henry VII, by 1502. Elizabeth, "of York," eldest sister, and heir of line to Edward V. He was l>. in St. Swithin's Priory, Winchester, 20, and iap. 24 Sep. i486, at Winchester Cathedral, his grandmother, Eliza- beth, the Queen Dowager, being one of his sponsors. K.B. 29 Nov. 1489. On the same day (by charter delivered into Chancery i Dec. following) he what ground a legal title to the Duchy was established, without charter or patent, unless the King considered that the Act of Parliament passed immediately upon his accession, which declared King Edward's marriage to have been a ' pretensed mar- riage,' all the children of the said King Edward ' bastards,' and all the issue of George, Duke of Clarence, ' dishabled by attainder,' had constituted him heir to the first created Duke, Edward the Black Prince." [Courthope, p. 10, note " h "). Such, doubtless, was the ground, being the same as that of the King's own title to the Crown. See, however, ante, p. 438, note " b." (*) Probably by the same force majeure as that under which his father became King. See, however, ante, p. 438, note " b." It is also to be noted that " his mother. Queen Elizabeth, was not only heir to the throne as eldest daughter and coheir of her father. King Edward IV, but, as such, she was also heir to the fint created Duke of Cornwall; King Henry trusted not, however, to a title to the Duchy for his son, which should be derived through his mother, and iji the Pari, held at Westm., 7 Nov., 1st of his reign, it was therefore enacted that the King should have, hold, and enjoy from the 2ist Aug. last past the Dukedom of Cornwall, in as large and ample manner and form as the Kings Henry VI and Edward IV enjoyed the same, and further ordained that 'whensoever our sovereign lord have first a son of his body lawfully begotten, that the same son and prince have and enjoy the said duchy of Cornwall, i^c, in as ample and large form and manner as any Prince first begotten son of any King hath had and enjoyed before this Act.' Coke's Reports, part 8." See Courthope, p. 10, note "i." To this, however, it may be added, that, granting that Elizabeth was heir to the ist Duke of Cornwall, she can hardly (though Queen Consort) as the wife of one who was acknowledged as " Rex," before their marriage was arranged, be considered as Rex Anglie, under the meaning of the Act of 1337, and that, unless she was both such heres and such rex, her son could have no claim under that Act to the Dukedom of Cornwall. It has, however, been ingeniously queried whether Henry VII could not, jure uxoris, be reckoned the heres of the first Duke (Prince Edward), in which case his son would, of course, be entitled to the Dukedom under the Act of 1337. 56