D ACRE. 3 9 Oct. (1459), 37 Hen. VI, to 15 Nov. (1482), 22 Ed. IV, directed Rkhardo Pcnys Domino de Dacre Militi, he was sum. to Pari, in that Barony, and (as Lord Dacre) swore fealty to Prince Edward (son of Edward IV) in 14/1. On 8 April 1473, the King made the final award of the lands of the late Lord Dacre, between the heir male and the heir general, whereby, with a trivial exception^- 1 ) the estates were secured to the former tho' with a rem., failing heirs male, to the heir general,( b ) while, as to the Peerage, it was declared that the said Sir Richard Feuys in right of Joan his wife and the heirs of her body " be repute, had, named and called the Lord Dacre," and " keep, have and use the same seat and place in everie of our Paris, as the said Thomas Dacre, Knt., late Lord Dacre, had used and kept." Lord Dacre was Chamberlain to Elizabeth, the Queen Consort, was in 1473 Constable of the Tower, and in 1475 Privy Councillor. He d. 1484, and was bur. at Hurstmonceaux. His widow d. 14S6 and was bur. there. Will dat. 13 Oct. 1485, pr. 14 June 1486. VIII. 148G. 8. Thomas (Fiennes), Lord Dacre, aged 12 in I486, grandson and b., being s. and b. of Sir John (or Thomas) Fienues, by Alice, da. (whose issue was coheir) to Henry (Fitzhugh), Lord Fitzhugh, which John (or Thomas) d. v.m. He was sum. to Pari., 14 Oct. (1495), 11 Hen. VII, to 5 Jany. (1533/4), 25 Hen. VIII, by writs( c ) directed Tltomce Ptincs de Dacre. KB., 1494 ; took part in the defeat of the Cornish rebels at Blackheath, 22 June 1497, and was at the raising of the siege of Norhum Castle. He m. Anne, da. of Sir Humphrey Bour- chieh, Knt. (a. and h. ap. of John, LonD Berners), by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Frederick Tii.nev. He </. 1534 and was bur. at Hurstmonceaux. Will dat. 1 Sept. 1531, pr. 18 May 1534. IX. 1534. 0. Thomas (Fiennes), Lord Dacre, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Sir Thomas Fiennes, by Jane, da. of Edward (Sutton). Lord Dudley, which Thomas was s. and h. ap. of tho last Lord and d. v.p. Barons of the Realm, had married Joan, grand-daughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Dacre of Gillesland ; he was declared ' Lord Dacre ' by patent, 7 Nov., 37 Hen. VI, 1458, but, to show the uncertainty of the issue of a Writ at this period, both he (as 'Lord Dacre'/ and his wife's uncle who was heir male of her said grandfather (as ' Lord Dacre of Gillesland') were sum. to the same Pari., 9 Oct., 38 Hen. VI, 1459. That the Barony given to the wife's uncle was the Barony of Dacre of Gillesland, both the description and the summons (upon his decease without issue) of his next brother seem to show ; and if so, the principle of tenure was here preferred to representation in blood. The Barony giveu to Sir Richard Fienes could not have been that ' of the courtesy,' as no patent was necessary for such a purpose ; it must therefore have been a new Barony, which, having no words of inheritance, was yet descendible to heirs general, in like manner as the Barony of Fanhope (also without words of inheritance) was considered by Lord Lyudhurt, in his speech on the Weusleydale Peerage, to have been a descendible dignity." — Vide Note, sub "Fanhope." [" Courthope on Dignities," p. xliii, note "c."] The patent (1458) states that Thomas, Lord Dacre, who was seized "sibi et heredibus suis of that dignity, had lately died leaving Joan, wife of Sir Richard Fienes his cousin and heir, in consideration whereof the King accepted and reputed the said Richard Fienes to be Lord Dacre. Banks, in his " Baronia Anglica" remarks " The heir general m. Richard Fiennes, who had not any blood of Dacre in him. He • was sum. to Pari, as Richard Fenys, Lord Dacre. This summons cr. him Lord Dacre, which would seem to be a new Barony in him, for, tho' his wife was heiress of the •personal honour, there was no courtesy of that personal title, courtesy only appertain- ing to property, aud the Baronial property was not in her. She was heiress to the Barony of Mutton of Gillesland, if that Barony be not considered to have emanated from and have attended upon the possession of that territory" [which was then in possession of the heir male of the Dacre family.] (") The manors of Holbech. co. Lincoln, and of Fishwick and Eccleston, co. Lan- caster. See Coll. Top. et Qcn.. vol v, p. 320, correcting Dugdale's account thereof. ( b ) On the death of the heir male of the house of Dacre in 1634, these estates were claimed (as heir general) by the then Lord Daere. ( c ) There is proof in the Rolls of Pari, of his sitting. B 2 - . -
