SOUTHAMPTON. 193 1539. In Dec. 1539 he conducted Anne of Cleves from Calais to England, and v»3 accused by Cromwellf) of having encouraged the King in false hopes about her. He Mi Nov. 1513, Mabel, sister of Henry (Clifford), 1st Karl of CUMBERLAND, da. of Henry, Loud Clifford, by his first wife, Anne, da. of Sir John St. JoUN, of Bletso, Beds. He d. while leading the van of the army into Scotland, Oct. 1.542, aged about 52, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was probably buried. (b) Will dab 10 Sep. 1542, pr. same year.( c ) At his death the Earldom became extinct. His widow tl. 1 Sep. 1550, at Farnham, and was bur. there. II. 1547. /. "Thomas [Wbiothhslbt], Baron Wriothesley, Chancellor of England," was cr. 16 Feb. 1546/7. EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON. He was s. (apparently only s,J of William Wriothesley, otherwise Wrytiik.C 1 ) York Herald of Anns, by Agnes, da. and h. of [ — ] Drayton, of London ; was b. about 1500, at Garter Court, Barbican, in St. Giles' Cripplegate ;(°) ed. at Trin. Hull (or St. John's Coll.) Cambridge ; Clerk to the Cofferer of the House- bold, 1529 ; Joint Clerk of the Signet, 1530 ; Coroner and Attorney in the Court of Common Pleas, 1535 ; Joint Visitor of the Monasteries, 1535-36 ; knighted, 19 Oct. 1537 ; P.O. and one of the Secretaries to the King, 1540, being employed on several missions of great importance ; Constable of Southampton Castle, 1541, and of Por- chester Castle, 1842 ; M.P. for Hants, 1542-44 ; Joint Chamberlain of the Exchequer, 1543, being rr. 1 Jan. 1543/4, BARON WRIOTHESLEY, and then styled " one of the King's Principal Secretaries " jy 1 ) L. KEEPER of the Grf.at Seal, April to May 1544, and Lord Hion CHANCELLOR, 1544-47 ; one of the Council of Regency, July 1544 ; el. KG., 23 April, and inst. 17 May 1545 ; Joint Executor to Hen. VIII. in Dec 1546; P.O. and Joint Governor of Kdw. VI., Jan. 1546/7, and was cr. 16 Feb. 1546/7, Earl of Southampton as abovestiited, bearing the Sword of State at the coronation on the 20th. Being an opposer of the reformed religion, and of tho Protector Somerset, he was, for a somewhat technical offence, deprived of the Great Seal, 6 March 1546/7, and tho' still on the Council of Regency, was, even after the fall of the L. Protector, passed over in the new distribution of offices. He m. beforo 1535, Jane, da. and coheir of William Chunky, of Cheshnm Boys, co. Bucks. He d. at his house, Lincoln Place (afterwards called Southampton House), Holborn, 30 July, and was bur. 1 Aug. 1550, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, but removed to Titchtield, co. Hants. M.I. Will dat. 20 July 1550, pr. 14 May 1551. His widow i. about 1571, and was bur. at TitchGcld, co. Hauts. Will pr. 1574. (") He was, however, reveuged on him, when at his arrest, 10 June 1540, he, (according to .Marillac), "stripped the Garter off the fallen Minister." [Fronde's "iff". 17//."] _('■) In his will he directs his burial to be at a chapel to be built at Midhurst if he die within 100 miles of it, but, tho' the chapel was built, there is no tomb therein. ( c ) HiB estates were chiefly in Sussex, Surrey, and Hants, his principal seat being at Cowdray, co. Sussex, which ho purchased in 1528. These (to the exclusion of his nieces and coheirs, see p. 192, note "b"), he mostly left to his uterine brother, Sir Anthony Browne, K.G., whose son was cr. iu 1554 Viscount Montagu and in whose family they long remained. His portrait "after H. Holbein " is engraved in "Doyle," being taken from a picture in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, supposed to be a copy of the one destroyed by the fire at Cowdray iu Sep. 1793. [Suuex Arch. Coll., vol. vii.] ( d ) He was eider br. of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, othn-wiso Wrythe, Garter King of Arms, who d. 24 Nov. 1534, both being sons of John Wrythe, also Garter King, who d. April 1504 at a great age. (°) Lloyd's " Worthies." ( r ) "Creations, 1433-1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. It is to be observed that there is no territorial description in this creation (tho' it exists in that of 1603) ; notwithstanding that the words " of Titchlield, co. Southampton," are usually (tho' erroneously) added. I s ) his was one of the batch of peerages which the Governors of the Realm at that date bestowed on themselves and their allies, as to which see vol. iv, p. 223, note o, sub " Hertford." " U.! 0 ' u ' 3 " Worthies" [1065], gives him a very high character, saying that affable and acceptable ho was as More ; quick and ready as Wolaey ; incorrupt as 0
