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 DACRE 23 Duke of Buckingham. She d. s.p. He ;«., 2ndly, Elizabeth, 2nd da. of Sir James Leyburne, of Cunswick, Westmorland, being ist da. by his 2nd wife, Helen, da. of Thomas Preston. He d. at Kirkoswald, I, and was bur. 25 July 1566, in Carlisle Cathedral. Admon., 9 Sep. 1566, at York. His widow ;«., after 9 Sep. 1566, as his 3rd wife, Thomas (Howard), Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded 2 June 1572. She d. in childbed, at Kenninghall, Norfolk, 4,(^) and was bur. there 18 Sep. 1567. Admon., 19 June 1568, P.C.C. VI. 1566 5. George (Dacre), Lord Dacre (of Gilsland) to and Lord Greystoke, 2nd, but only surv.C") s. and h., 1569. under 5 at his father's death, who (though described as infra atateni) was sum. to Pari. 30 Sep. (1566) 8 Eliz. He d. 17 May 1569, from a fall off a wooden horse, at Thetford, Norfolk, aged 7 years. The nature of his Peerage (which was assumed by the heir male as a Barony in tail male) being called in question, it was adjudicated by the Commissioners (■=) as having been cr. by writ,() and consequently as being (then) in abeyance between the three sisters and coheirs of the last Lord.() Any right possessed by the Lords Dacre (1516-69) to the Barony of Greystoke, fell also into such abeyance. (^) Ch. Inq. p. m., II, vol. I 51, no. 2. V.G. ('') His elder br., Francis, d. an infant. (Egerton MSS., no. 1075, p. 17, Harl. MSS., no. 154, f. 25b, 465, f. 39, and Harl. Soc, vol. xvi, p. 85). V.G. (°) These Commissioners were appointed at the request of (the Duke of Norfolk) the Earl Marshal (in lieu of adjudicating thereon himself) to avoid suspicion of favour, inasmuch as he was stepfather and guardian of the three sisters and coheirs of the last Baron, all of whom he afterwards married to his three sons. Their decision, how- ever, appears to have been much influenced by the Duke's views and interest. Townsend (in Coll. Top. et Gen., vol. v, p. 328) remarks on it, "This decision was wrong. The award of King Edward IV did certainly entail the Barony of Dacre of Gillesland, with advice of the Judges in Pari, upon the heirs male of the body of Thomas, Lord Dacre, who d. 37 Hen. VI [w]; George, the young Lord, inherited the dignity as heir male, and upon his death without issue, Leonard became heir male, and in that character rightfully assumed the title of Lord Dacre of Gillesland." See also next p., notes "a" and " b." i^) The writ to which they ascribe its origin is "13 Edw. IV," a writ which actually does not exist, no Pari, having been sum. between 12 and 22 Edw. IV. To this lastnamed Pari. (1482) the first Lord was first sum., while the date (1473) 13 Edw. IV, was that of the award of the Barony to heirs male. The Commissioners do not appear to have had before them this award of the King, it having, not im- probably, been purposely withheld to favour the Howard claims; at all events no refer- ence whatever is made to it, so that, if produced, it must have been purposely ignored. (^) These were, 15 June 1569, (i) Anne, aged 12 years, 2 months, 3 days, who m. in I 571, Philip (Howard), Earl of Arundel, ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk.