Henry Clifford, earl of Cumberland (1591-1643).

[654]From the pedigree of the earles of Cumberland[CI]in the hands of Elizabeth, countesse of Thanet, daughter of the earle of Burlington and Corke.

George, earl of Cumberland, had seaven[XLVII.]castles in the north. He was buryed with his ancestors at Skippon Castle. Obiit about the beginning of King James's raigne.

[XLVII.]Quaere quot castella[655].

Vide epistle to George, earl of Cumberland, before theHistory of the Massacre.

Henry, earl of Cumberland, was a poet; the countesse of Corke and Burlington haz still his verses. He was of Christ Church, Oxon[CJ]. Nicholas, earl of Thanet, was wont to say that the mare of Fountaines-abbey did dash, meaning that since they gott that estate (given to the church) they did never thrive but still declined.

Henry, lord Clifford, first earl of Cumberland,obiit 34 Henry VIII <1542>; sepult. in ecclesiaSkippon. Knight of the Garter.|Henry, lord Clifford, second earlem.Anne, daughter of William, lordof Cumberland, obiit 12 Eliz., 8 | Dacres of Gillesland, his secondJanuarii 1570 . He | wife. She died in Skipton Castlewas knight of the most noble order | in July 1581, and was buryed inof the Garter, and lord of | the vault of that Church.Westmorland and Vesse. Buried in |Skippon Church. |+-------------------------------+-----+| |1. George, thirdm.Margaret, 2. Francis,m.Mris Grizell Hughesearl of Cumberland, | daughter erearl of | of Uxbridge, widowknight of the | of Francis, Cumberland. | to Thomas[656]Garter, that made | earl of | Nevill, lordthe famous | Bedford. | Abergavenny.expedition to | |America. Obiit | +------+1605 in the Savoy | |at London. Sepult. | |in Skippon Church. | || |Richard,m.Lady Annem.Philip, Henry, lordm.Frances Cecill,earle of | Clifford earl of Clifford; | only daughter ofDorset. | (quaere Pembroke, last earl of | Robert, earl ofObiit at | obiit). etc. Cumberland | Salisbury, LordDorset | of that line. | High Treasurer.house, | Obiit in | Obiit 14 Feb.28 March, | Yorke, 1643. | 1643.1624. | || +---+| |had issue only ElizabethmariedRichardtwo daughters. Clifford, (1635) Boyle,borne in earle ofSkipton Corke andCastle. 1613. Burlington.

[657]Henry, the last earle of Cumberland, was an ingeniose gentleman for those times and a great acquaintance of the Lord Chancellor Bacon's; and often writt to one another, which lettres the countesse of Corke and Burlington, my lady Thanet's mother, daughter and heir of that family, keepes as reliques; and a poeme in English that her father wrott upon the Psalmes and many other subjects, and very well, but the language being now something out of fashion, like Sir Philip Sydney's, they will not print it.

Notes.[CI]Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'checquy or and azure, a fess gules [Clifford],' surmounted by an earl's coronet. Anthony Wood has a note here:—'George, earl of Cumberland,A.M.1592: A.B. Aed. Christi, 1608, quaere'—this latter degree belongs to Henry, fifth earl.[CJ]Matric. Jan. 30, 1606/7: took B.A. Feb. 16, 1608/9.

[CI]Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'checquy or and azure, a fess gules [Clifford],' surmounted by an earl's coronet. Anthony Wood has a note here:—'George, earl of Cumberland,A.M.1592: A.B. Aed. Christi, 1608, quaere'—this latter degree belongs to Henry, fifth earl.

[CJ]Matric. Jan. 30, 1606/7: took B.A. Feb. 16, 1608/9.

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