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 422 DORSET 1585. (^) Inq. p. m. at Torrington 25 May 28 Eliz. Will dat. 15 Apr., pr. 29 Nov. 1585. She d. at Sheen, 21 Nov., and was bur. 5 Dec. 1559, in Westm. Abbey. M-I.C") Will dat, 7, pr. 28 Nov. 1559, by her said husband. (') EARLDOM. I. Thomas Sackville, only s. and h. of Sir Richard jy ^ Sackville,^) by Winifred, da. of Sir John Brugge (or "^' Bruges), Lord Mayor of London in 1520; was b. between 1527 and 1536, at Buckhurst in Withyam, Sussex; said to have been ed. at Oxford (Hart Hall) and at St. John's Coll. Cambridge; Barrister of the Inner Temple; M.P. for West- morland 1557/8,0 for East Grinstead 1559, and for Aylesbury 1563-67. He is said to have been Grand Master of, Freemasons 1560-67; was, 8 June 1567, knighted by the Duke of Norfolk, in the Queen's presence at Westm., and was, the same day, cr. BARON OF BUCKHURST, co. Sussex, receiving, until the creation of the Earldom, writs directed Thome Sackevyle de Buckhurst ch'r.{^) He was cr. M.A. of Cambridge 30 Aug. 1 57 1 ; in 1572 was ambassador to Charles IX of France, to congratulate him on his marriage, and was one of the Peers that sentenced the Duke of Norfolk to death. P.C. between 26 June 1582 and Feb. 1585/6; in Nov. 1586 he conveyed to Mary, Queen of Scots, the confirma- tion by Pari, of her sentence of death. (^) In 1587 he was Ambassador to writes: "When Richard Bertie was claiming the barony of Willoughby in right of his wife, under Elizabeth, he urged that 'Justice Brooke in his abridgement [1568] reciteth an opinion of a mad judge in an uneven time, and in the heat of his indigna- tion against one Mr. Stokes, borrowed from the Roman laws, quod mul'ier nobilis nuhens viro ignohili desinit esse nobilis, &c.' " V.G. (*) He m., andly (lie. from Bishop of London 10 Apr. 1 572), Anne, widow of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton (who d. 12 Feb. 1570/1), da. of Sir Nicholas Carew, of Beddington, Surrey. V.G. C") Her epitaph runs " Nupta Duci prius est; uxor post Armigeri Stock." (■=) Her will is printed in Misc. Gen. et Her., vol. ii, pp. 215-6. V.G. (•*) " Or, as the people called him, Fill-Sack, by reason of his great wealth and the vast patrimony he left." (Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia). He was Chancellor of the Exchequer 1559 till his death. (') He was elected for Westmorland and for East Grinstead in 1558, but sat for the county. V.G. (') " He wrote several poems, besides being (with Thomas Norton) the joint author of Gorhoduc, the first respectable tragedy in the English language. It was acted by the Gentlemen of the Inner Temple, before the Queen, 18 Jan. 1 56 1." (Jesse's Stuarts). Spenser, the poet, refers to his " Induction " to the Mirror for Magistrates, as "golden verse, worthy immortal fame." The life and character of this Earl are given on no less than 36 pages by Sir Egerton Brydges in Collins, vol. ii, pp. 110-145; truly, as Jesse remarks, "the Earl has no reason to complain of neglect." (8) He had been named one of the Commissioners for her trial in Oct. 1586, at Fotheringhay, but was not present thereat. See the names of the 24 noblemen who sat thereon, ante, p. 21 1, note " e," sub Derby.