288 HUNTINGDON. nbout 1530, as Lord Botreaux, Lord Hi'Xoerford, and Loud dk Moleyns. In 1536 lie was in command against tlie rebels, in the rising called " the Pilgrimage of C'race." He in. about Deo. 1509, .Anne, widow of Sir Walter Herbert da. of Henry (STAFFORD)* 2d DUKS OF BUCKINGHAM, by Katharine (sister of Elizabeth, the Queen Consort), da. ol Richard (Wyiivii.lk), Earl Rivers. He d. 24 March 1544/5, and was bur. at Stoke I'ogis, Bucks. Will, in which lie directs his burial to be at Ashby de la Zouch, co. Leicester, dat. 13 June 15344*) Adinon. 7 Feb. 1560/1. Imp post mortem 21 July 1544, at Crokehorn, Somerset. His wife survived him holding Stoke I'ogis in dower where she was buried. XIX. 1543. ~. Francis (Hastings), Earl of Huntingdon, &<•., s. and h., i. about 1514; styled Lonn Hastings, 1529-45 KB., 29 Mav 1533 ; sue. to the Earldom, 24 March 1544/5 ; carried King Edward's stall' at the Coronation of Edward VI., 20 Feb. 1546/7 ; K.G.,(<=) 24 April 1848. He was at various dates from 1-50 tn 1581 Lord Lieut, of the coiiuties of Uutland, Leicester, Derby, and Warwick. P.C., 1550, to Edward VI., and, tho' at first implicated in opposing the accession( d ) of Queen Mary, came over to htr side and tock the Duke of Suffolk prisoner, lie was in 1558 Capt. of the Vanguard forces to that Queen, In 1559 he was Muster of the Hart hounds. He 111. (settl. 24 June 1532), Catharine, eldest of the two daughters and coheirs of Henry (POLE), EoRD MoNTACt'TK, by Jane, da. of George (NeVIIL), Ldbd Abkroavenny, which Henry was s. and h. of Sir Richard Pole, K.G., by Margaret, suo jure Countess of Salisbury (the last of the l'lantagenct family), da. and eventnallv* (1-199) sole h. of George (Pi.antaceset), Duke of Clabence, next surv. br. to King Edward IV. He <(. 20 June 1561, aged about 47, and was bur. at Ashby de la Zouch. M.I. Will pr. 1661. His Earls in the House of Lords. In [Cardinal] Pole's time he was regarded as a »ovu3 homo." Hook's "Archbishops of Canterbury" (vol. viii, p. 264, sub "Pole.") See vol. iii, p. 69, note "c," tub "Dehby." The derivation of this term is usually considered as from the ttin of a eat, and it has been suggested that, in the 17th, or late in the 1 6th century, an order was issued that ermine should be used instead of cat-skin for the robes of Peers. It is very doubtful, however, if skins of eats ever were so used. If they were, why do we not hear of " CaUkln Dukes " and " Catdiin Barons '<" The robes of an Earl consist now of but three rows of ermine, but in some early representations an Earl is depicted with four rows the same as a (now) Duke. It seems, therefore, more probable that these four rows, to which at a later period the (more modern) Earl had no right, may have given the name of Calskin (or QueUre- skin) to the Earl of ancient creation whose robes were thus decorated. Handle Holmes in his " Academy (Book i, cap. vii, p. 68), writes of " a late described order for the distribution of the Powdering* according to the dignitie of the wearer "in which a Duke is allowed " only four rankes, a Marquiss three rankes and a halfe, and an Earl three rowes only. ' See 11 N. and Q-," 7th s , ix, passim. (•) Test. Vet., p. 659, The will of his son, Sir Thomas Hastings, dat. 10 May 1556, mentions that both the Earl and his widow were bur. at Stoke I'ogis. ( b ) It is often stated that he was sum. v. p. to Pari., as Lord Hastings, on the day of his father's creation as an Earl. The writ, however, of 3 Nov. 1529, is to his father, George, and not to himself. ( c ) The Baronies assigned to him, on his Garter plate, are Hastings, Hungerford, Botreaux, and De Moleyns, to all four of which he was entitled. To these the Barony of Moela is added on his epitaph to which (tho' not entitled) he was a coheir. The absurd assumption of "Hornet" and "Peverell" is absent in both places. Seep. 186, note " b," sub "Hastings." ( d ) He was one of the four Lords (Arundel, Northampton, Huntingdon, and Pembroke), who with the Duke of Northumberland (her father in law) did homage 9 July 1553, to Lady Jane Grey, as Queen. See also vol. iii, p. 70, note "f," sub "Deiiby," as to his being one of the signatories to the letters patent (16 June 1563), of Edward VI. settling the Crown upon the said Lady Jane.
