CARLISLE. 151 of ESOO marks a ycar.(") Jealous of thu favour shewn by the King to the family of Despencer, he intrigued with the Scots, and aspired to marry the sister of their Kin;,'. He was detected and tried at Knurcsbornugh 27 Feb. 1322/3, and condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, his sword to be taken from him and his spurs hacked from his heels. He m> Krmerarde. He d. according to the sentence, 3 March 1322/3, when, having been degraded, all his honours were forfeited. John (I'lan'taiucxet) " of T,ancastcr," Duke ov Bedford (so <t, 1411 and 1133) is "by some authorities called KARL OK CARLISLE, but it does not appear that he either received or used that title.) He d. s.p. 14 Sep. 1435. Richard ( Plant auenet), Duke of Gloucester (su cr. 1161), has, "by some writers, beea considered EARL OF CARLISLE, but there appears to be little gi-ound for ascribing that title to btBU*^ He afterwards became Kin'j A'ichard III., and </. s.p.s. 22 Aug. I486. II. U>22. 1. Jambs (Hay), " Yjsuhjnt Doxcastbr, Bahos of Sawi.ey," was on 13 Sep. 1622, ci: EARL OF CARLISLE, co. Cumberland. He was 4. about. 1680 in Scotland, being of Pitcorthie, co. Fife ; was ed. in France ; was Gent, of the Bedchamber to the King, 1603 to 1615 ; was naturalised, 14 May 1604, being then a Knight, and, by patent, 2,1 June lti06 was Sr. LOUD HAY, without, however, a seat in the Upper Housed) Lieut, of the Robes, 160S ; Master of the Wardrobe, 1013-18. K.B., 1 June 1610. On 2'.' June 1615 (as Dominiis Sag ") he was or. BARON HAY OF SAWLEV, en. York,(<i) on 5 j llly iois, he was cr. DISCOUNT Di »NCASTKli, and four years afterwards was cr. Earl of Carlisle as above. He was also Ambassador to Paris and Madrid, July to Oct. 1616: to Germany, 1619-20 ; to Paris, again, April 1(522, to Paris raid Madrid, Feb. 1623 and to Venice, April to Oct. 1628. P.O., 1617. El. K G., 31 Dec. 1624, inst., 13 Dec 1625. He was equally in favour with Charles I. as with the late King, and was first Gent, of the Bedchamber, 1626 ; Groom of the Stole, 1631. On 2 July 1627, he was made Gov. of the Caribbee Islands. He m. firstly, 6 Jan. 1604, Hunora, only child of Edward (Denny), EARL OK Nouwn.li, and Lonn Denny de Wai.tha.m, by Mary, da. of Thomas (Cecil), Earl of Exeter. He m. secondly (in the King's presence, but without her father's consent) 6 Nov. 1617, Lucy, da. of Henry (Percy). Kami. OS Northumberland, by Dorothy, da. of Walter (Dkvbrbux), 1st Karl ok Essex. He it. at Whitehall, 25 April 1636, and was bur. from his house in the Strand, in St. Paul's Gathedral.(«) Fun. cevtU". at Coll. of Anus. Admou. 20 May 1637. His widow d. 6 Nov. 1660, s.p.,C) at Little Cashiobury House, aged about 60, aud was 6«r. at Petworth, with her father. Admon. (as of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields), 20 Dee. 1660. (») " This being the first patent of creation unto Honour wherein say preamble, importing the merits of the pel-sou bo dignified, was ever used." See " Dugdale," ii, p. 97. (") See "Nicolas," p. 111. (°) According to "Dugdale," ii, p. 427. "with precedence next to the Barons of England." This precedence, however, evcu if uot specified, would, it is presumed, be the natural effect of such a creation. (") This creation was " without any solemn investiture (being the first that ever was so created) the Lawyers then declaring that the delivery of the Letters Patent was sufficient, without any ceremony." — "See "Dugdale," ii, p. 427. ( e ) Lord Clarendon says of him, " He was surely a man of the greatest crpense hi his own person of any in the age he lived, and introduced more of that expense in the excess of clothes and diet than any other man. After having spent, in a very jovial life above £400,000, which, upon a strict computation he received from the crown, he left not a house nor acre of land to be remembered hy." O She, who was one of the beauties of her time, is said to have been the person who gave Pym notice of the King's coming to the House to seize the five members. She appears to havet&en been Pyni's " mistress," having certainly previously been so to the famous Earl of Strafford. She is appropriately styled " the Eriuuys of her time," her charms and foibles being celebrated by Waller, Suckling, &c.
