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 212 DERBY OF Suffolk., which Eleanor was 2nd and yst. da. and coh. of her mother, Mary (Tudor), da. of Henry VII. He d. at Lathom, 25 Sep., and was bur. 4 Dec. 1593, at Ormskirk, aged 62. Will dat. 21 and 22 Sep. 1593, pr. 17 Oct. 1594. His widow d. in Cleveland Row, Midx., 29 Sep., and was bur. 22 Oct. 1596, in Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 7 Aug. and 18 and 20 Sep., pr. 12 and 15 Nov. 1596. Inq. p. m. 30 Mar. 39 Eliz. XIV. 1593. 5- Ferdinando (Stanley), Earl of Derby, Lord Strange (of Knokin), and Lord Mohun (of Dunster) [1299], Lord Stanley [1456], and Sovereign Lord of the Isle of Man, 2nd but 1st surv.(*) s. and h., b. in London about 1559, and styled Lord Strange from 1 572. Matric. at Oxford (St. John's Coll.) 1 572, C") aged 12. He was sum. to Pari, v.p.^ in his father's Barony of Strange from 28 Jan. (1588/9) 31 Eliz. to 19 Feb. (1592/3) 35 Eliz., by writs directed Fi?r^/«rfW6i D'no Straunge, and was present in the Pari, of 1 589; was cr. M.A. of Oxford 17 Sep. 1589. He sue. his father in 1594 as Lord Lieut, cos. Lancaster and Chester, and was also Vice Adm. of these cos. Having rejected a treasonable project to assume the Crown in right of his grandmother, Eleanor Brandon,('=) and caused one Hesketh, who (on behalf of the Jesuits and others) had suggested that assumption, to be arrested, he was generally supposed to have been poisoned ('') in revenge. He »?., shortly before 1580, Alice, da. of Sir John Spencer, of Althorpe, Northants, by Katherine, da. of Sir Thomas Kitson, of Hengrave, Suffolk. He d. (as afsd.) s.p.m., 16 Apr., and was bur. 6 May 1594, at Ormskirk,(') aged about 35, when the Baronies of Strange of Knokin, Mohun of Dunster, and Stanley, fell into abeyance between his three daughters and coheirs. (') (*) His elder br., Edward, d. young. V.G. C") The three brothers, Ferdinando Strange [j/V], London, aged I2; William Stanley, London, aged 1 1 ; and Francis Stanley, Herts, aged 10, matriculated together at Oxford (St. John's Coll.) in 1572. ("=) His mother's mother. See text above, and note "f" on preceding page. (^) The story is told in full in Camden's Annals, sub 1594, and reproduced in Collins, vol. iii, p. 8l. A Dr Hackett was tortured, and hanged as a wizard, for having caused his sufferings and death, by making a waxen image of him and sticking pins into it, V.G. (•) He was a poet, and is noticed in Park's Royal and Noble Authors, vol. ii, p. 45. Spenser thus refers to him in " Colin Clout " — " He whilst he lived was the noblest swain That ever piped on an oaten quill; Both did he other, which could pipe, maintain And eke could pipe himself with passing skill." His portrait is thus described — "The build is light, the complexion fair and the hair dark brown, the beard peaked, and like the moustache sandy. The eyes are blue. The expression is singularly amiable and intelligent." V.G. (') These were (i) Anne, h. 1580, m., istly, Grey (Brydges), Baron Chandos, and 2ndly, 1624, the notorious Earl of Castlehaven [I.], who was beheaded 1631; (2)