216 HEREFORD. William Bourchier, styled Viscount Bourchier, ( :i ) great grandson of Eleanor, da. and coheir of Humphrey (Bonos), EaIIL of Hereford, abovenanicd. He sue. to the peerage on the death of his father, 5 March 1501, being then but 10 years old and was sum. to Pari, (as LORD FERRERS) from 17 Oct. (1.109), 1 Hen. VIII., to 24 Nov. (154S), 2 Ed. VI. KG., 18 July 1528 ; Chief Justice of South Wales, 1 525 ; served in the French wars and was at the taking of Boulogne, 1545; P.C.. Jan. 1549/50, and was cr. Viscount Hereford 2 Feb. 1549/50, as abovestated. () He pi. firstly Mary, da. of Thomas (Ohev), 1st Marquess of Dorset, by Cicely, >uo jure B.*roness Harinoton and Bonville. She ri. 22 Feb. 1534. He m. secondly Margaret, da. of Robert Gahnevs, of Kenton, co. Suffolk, by Ann, da. of Thomas Bacon, of Baconthorpe, co. Norfolk. He d. 27 Sep. 1558. and was bur. at Stow.(°) co. Stafford. Will pr. 1558. Inq. post mortem at Brecknock. His widow m. (as his 2d wife) William (Willoughbv), 1st Bahos Willouguby of Parham, who rf. 1574. Her will dat. 13 Feb. 1593/4, pr. 28 Jan. 1.199/600. directs her burial to be with him at Parham, co. Suffolk. II. 1558. 2. Walter (Devereux), Viscouxt Hereford," and Lord Ferrers, grandson and h., being s. and h. of Sir Robert Devereux (who d, v.p. 13 Oct. 1.147) who was s and h. ap. (by bis first wife) of the 1st Viscount. He a'c. 28 Jan. 1,170/1. to the Barony of Bourchier. He was cr. 4 May 1572, EARL OF ESSEX. He d, 12 Sep 1576. III. 1576, 3. Robert (Devereiw), Earl of Essex, Yis- to count Hereford, &c, 6. 1567 ; styled Viscount Hereford, 1601. M72-76. He, who was the celebrated favourite of Queen Elizabeth, was beheaded and attainted 25 Fell. 1600 1, 1 32 ; [5] Lovel (Lord), cr. 1483; orfeited 1487 ; [6] Lisle (Grey), cr. 14S3 ; ex. 1503 ; [7] Welles f Welles), cr. 1 487 ; ex. 1 498 ; [8] Lisle (Brandon), a: 1513 ; surrendered 1528 ; [9] Fitzwalter (Radclijfe), cr. 1525 ; ex. 1641; [10] Rociiford (Boleyn), a: 1,125; ex. 1538; [11] Beauchamv (Seymour), cr. 1536 ; forfeited 1552 ; [12] Hereford (Devereux), cr. 1550 which (some 100 years later) by the extinction in 1641 of tho Viscountcy of Fitzwalter (abovementioned) became th; Premier Viscountcy of Fur/land. (») This William was s. aud h. ap. of Henry, 1st Earl of Essex (so cr. 1461) who was s. and h. of Sir William Bourchier, Count of Eu in Normandy, by Anne (Dow. Countess of Stafford), the only child that left i*sue of Thomas (Plantagenet), Duke of Gloucester, by Eleanor, 1st da. and coheir of (whose issue in 1471 became sole heir to) 41umphrey (de Bohun), Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, abovenamed. The representation, however, of the said Eleanor vested in her eldest sou, Humphrey (Stafford), Duke of Buckingham, and still remains in his descendants, the Lords Stafford. ( b ) In the patent is a clause that " he and his heirs male should enjoy the rank and degree of Viscount Hereford in all Parliaments and councils within the realm of England and other the Kirufs territories and kingdoms " whereby (writes Collins, vol. vi, p. 6), " according to the opinion of Sir Richard St. George, Garter King at Arms, the Viscounts Hereford were entitled to a seat as well in the Pari, of Ireland as England." (=) In which parish Chartley Castle i* situated.
