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 214 DERBY 17th Earl of Oxford, by his ist wife, Anne, da. of William (Cecil), ist Baron Burghley. She, who was b. 2, and bap. 10 July 1 575, at Theobalds, d. at Richmond, Surrey, 10, and was bur. 11 Mar. 1626/7, in Westm. Abbey, aged 51. Will dat. 19 Feb, 1626, pr. 19 Feb. 1649/50. He </. 29 Sep. 1642, and was bur. at Ormskiric, aged about 65. XVI. 1642. 7. James (Stanley), Earl of Derby, s. and h., b. 31 Jan. 1607, at Knowsley, co. Lancaster; M.P. for Liverpool 1625; K.B., under the designation of Lord StrangEjC) 2 Feb. 1625/6, at the Coronation; Joint Lord Lieut, (with his father) cos. Lancaster and Chester, and Joint Chamberlain of Chester 1626-42, becoming sole Lord Lieut, and sole Chamberlain 1 642-47. He was sum. to Pari, v.p., as LORD STRANGE, from 7 Mar. (1627/8) 3 Car. I to 3 Nov. (1639) '5 C^'"* ^> by writs directed Jacobo Stanley de Strange, Chl'ry(^) under the erroneous belief that the Barony of Strange of Knokin [1299] was vested in his father, and was placed in the precedency (") of that ancient Barony. In 1642 he was one of the first to join the King at York, and, being that year Lord Lieut, of North Wales as well as of Cheshire and Lancashire, had intended to set up the Royal Standard (afterwards erected at Nottingham) in those parts. He subsequently removed to the Isle of Man to secure that place, while his wife sustained the celebrated siege (raised 27 May 1644) of Lathom House. ('^) He was nom. K.G. (at Jersey) 12 Jan. i649/50,(*) but never installed. He w., 26 June 1626, Charlotte,^) da. of Claude de la Tremoille, Duke of Thouars, in France, by Charlotte Brabantine, da. of William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, and Charlotte of Bourbon his 3rd wife. Taking part in the rising on behalf of the young king, he was severely wounded, 26 Aug. 1651, at the fight in Wigan lane, and taken prisoner after the battle of Worcester, 3 Sep. 1 65 1, and beheaded (pursuant to a Court Martial of the Pari, army) (*) This was under the (erroneous) impression that the Barony of Strange [1299] was vested in his father. See, however, the coheirs thereof, ante, p. 212, note " f." (") For a Ust of heirs ap. of peers sum. to Pari, v.p., see vol. i. Appendix G. (•=) See an account of precedence erroneously allowed to this and other Baronies (Clifford and Percy) cr. by writs issued in inadvertence, vol. i, Appendix D. (■*) A second siege thereof lasted nearly two years. It is said to have cost the enemy no less than 6,000 men. See Dugdale, where a very full account is given of the Earl and his wife, and see also Collins for a different but still more elaborate account (vol. iii, pp. 83-93), where the Earl's defiant letter to Cromwell, 12 July 1649, refusing to surrender the Isle of Man, is given in full. (') The riband and George were sent to him in the Isle of Man. (') She is a prominent character in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak. An interesting portrait of her by Paul van Somer belongs to the Marquess of Lothian. "The Duchess of Tremouille is come with her daughter, who is lately married to my Lord Strange, and hath brought him down upon the nail a portion of ^24,000, he making her but j^i2,ooo a year jointure." (Mr. Pory to the Rev. Jos. Mead, I July 1646). V.G.