HUNSDON. 279 HUNSDON. ( a ) Barony. ]. Henry Carey, only s. and h. of William C, Gentle- T 1559. lllan ot tlle Vrxx T Chamber and Esquire of the body to Hon. VIII., by Mary,() da. (whose issue in 1603 became sole heir) of Thomas (HoleynV Eaiu, of Wiltsiimie, was b. about April 1526; sue. his Father 22 June lf>20, beiug then between two and three years old anil sue. his mother (in somewhat larger possessions) 19 July 15-13 ;>') M.P. for Buckingham, 1547-55. On the accession, of Elisabeth, his 1st cousin, to the throne in Nov. 1558 he was knighted and, soon afterwards, 13 Jan. 1558/9, was er. B.VRON HUNSDON of llunsdon, co. Herts, being granted the manors of HnnsdonC 1 ) and Eastwiek, Herts, and others in Kent and £4,000 a year to support his peerage ; elected KG-., 22 April 15G1 . In 15t!4 he conveyed the Order of the Garter( u ) to the King of France at Lyons. In the rebellion of 1509, being Governor of Berwick, he gained a signal victory over Sir Leonard Dacre, the Warden of the Northern Marches. In 1571 he sumptuously entertained the Queen at llunsdon. -At the time of the menaced Spanish invasion in 1588 he had charge of the Queen's person at Tilbury. He was also Recorder of Cambridge ; High Steward of Ipswich and Doiicaster, 1590; Lord Chamberlain of the Household and Capt. of the Gent. Pensioners. He m. (Lie. Fac. 21 May 1545) "Ann Morgan of the family [i.e., household] of our Lord the King, Gent.," which lady( r ) was apparently da. of Sir Thomas Moug.vx, of Arkestone, co. Hereford, by Anne, da. of Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, eo. Gloucester. He d. at Somerset Black Bourton (who was not so descended) who d 1657, being sue. by his s. and h., Sir Edward Rungerford, KB. f the Spendthrift "1 who sold the estates in 1686 and who was bur. at St. Martins in the fields, Midx., 8 July 1711, aged 79. On the death of Edward's surv. sou in 1 74S, at Black Bourton, the male line of Hungerford appears to have become extinct. (") See vol. iii, p. 310, note " a," sub " Falkland." • ( b ) This Mary, who was sister to Anne Boleyn (Queen Consort of lieu. VIII. ) is said to have been, at the time of, or after her marriage (4 Feb. 1520/1) "mistress" to the King who is even supposed to have been the father of Henry Carey, hereon. It is certain that as early as Dec. 1529, Chapuys (" Spanith Calendar" iv, part i. p. 369), writes of the King, when purporting the marriage with Anne Boleyn, that " had he, as he asserts, only attended to the voice of conscience, there would have been still greater affinity to contend with in this intended marriage than in that of the Queen, his wife ; a fact of which every one here spenht ot i/uitc cpcidy." The fact of the existence of such a connection is much confirmed by the special words inserted in the dispensa- tion for the King's marriage in 1533 with the said Anne, ic, that it might be with any woman even in the first decree of affinity " ex quocunque licito, sen illieito, coitu coujuncta." In 1533, also, an act of Pari, was passed to permit marriage with the sister of a discarded mistress but in 1536 (after Anne Boleyn's death and when her marriage had been annulled) the old Canon law was restored which forbad the same. See " Anne Boleyn," by Paul Friedman, pub. in 1884. The seniority of the sisters is doubtful, but it seems clear that Anne, tho' Camden asserts her to have been b. in 1507, must have been at least five years older. See an essay on the " Early life of Anne Boleyn," by J. H. Round. Mary is stated by her own son, Lord Hunsdon, to have been the elder of the two sisters, and he founds his argument as to his light to the Earldom of Ormonde on such seniority. Such a statement appears to be of more weight than the M.I. to Lady Berkeley and the generally received pedigrees which assert the contrary. ( c ) In her Inq. post mortem she is called da. and sole h. of Thomas, late Earl of Wilts and Ormonde, the child (afterwards Queen Elizabeth) of her attainted sister not being taken into account. See " Her. and Gen.," iv, 130. ( d ) Hunsdon was sold by the 4th Lord (1st Earl of Dover) on 6 March 1653, to William Willonghby, afterwards 6th Lord Willoughby of Parham. (») See vol. ii, p. 192, note "a," sub " Cathcart," for a list of these special Garter missions. (0 The paternity of Ann Morgan has been wrongly assigned to Sir Thomas Morgan of Fnlham (•' Top and Gen.," vol. i, p. 60, note " d," see also p. 496 of the same) who in his will dat. 18 Dec. 1595, leaves his "gray hobbie " to the Lord Chamberlain Hunsdon This Sir Thomas (whose wife was Dame Anne de Merode) bore for arms "the griffin segreant," while the (Herbert) coat of "three lions
