250 BOURCHIER Elizabeth Brooke, to be valid. The Marquess d. 28 Oct. 1 570, aged about 58, and soon afterwards his divorced wife (the Baroness) d. in obscurity and s.p. legit., 28 Jan. i 570/1. See fuller account of him under "Northamp- ton," Marquessate of, cr. 1547 and 1559; extinct 1570. VIII. 1570. 8. Walter (Devereux), Viscount Here- ford, Lord Ferrers, and Lord Bourchier, calling himself also " Viscount Bourchier,^' (f) cousin and h., being s. and h. of Sir Richard Devereux, who was s. and h. ap. of Walter, ist Viscount Hereford, fePc., who was s. and h. of John (Devereux), Lord Fer- rers, by Cicely, sister (whose issue became sole h.) to Henry (Bour- chier), Earl of Essex, Viscount Bourchier and Lord Bourchier, father of Anne, sua jure Baroness Bourchier, abovenamed. On 4 May 1 572 he was cr. EARL OF ESSEX. He d. 22 Sep. 1576. IX. X 1576 9. Robert (Devereux), Earl of Essex, fffc, to s. and h., the celebrated favourite of Queen Eliza- 160 1. beth. Beheaded znd attainted, 25 Feb. 1 600/1. 1604 10. Robert Devereux, only s. and h., who, to being (with his sisters) restored in blood and 1647. honours 18 Apr. 1604, became Earl of Essex, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers, and Lord Bourchier. (**) He d. s.p., 14 Sep. 1646, when the Earldom of Essex became extinct, the Viscountcy of Hereford devolved on his cousin and h. male, and the Baronies of Ferrers and of Bourchier fell into abeyance between his two sisters, or their issue. (") C/5 n n n c C 3 I?, n is -< ON wi W ■-I o 3 o (*) Will dated 14 June 1576, styling himself " Erie of Essex and Ezve, Viscount Hereford and Bourchier, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourcheir and Lovayne." Of these titles, as to those marked in italics, the first belonged to the Earl of Bath, the second was extinct in 1540, and the third never existed as a Peerage Barony. C") It should be noted, however, that the titles assumed by the Ist Earl (of the Devereux family), are attributed to his son in the act of restoration, which recites that "the said Robert, late Earl of Essex, before his said attainder, was lawfully and rightly invested . . . with the name, state, place, and dignity of Earl of Essex and £ii;^, Viscount Hereford and Bourchier, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, and Lord Bourchier and Lovaine." See Certiorari bundles, Jac. I, no. II. (') These were (i) Frances, who m. William (Seymour), Duke of Somerset, and d. 23 Nov. 1679, whose representative (through the families of Seymour, Bruce, Brydges, and Grenville), was the last Duke of Buckingham and Chandos {d. 1889); and (2) Dorothy, who m., istly, Sir Henry Shirley, Bart., and 2ndly, William Stafford, and d. 30 Mar. 1636. Her grandson and h., Sir Robert Shirley, Bart., who in her right represented a moiety of the Barony of Ferrers, was sum. to Pari, in that Barony, 14 Dec. 1677. The abeyance of the Barony of Bourchier has never been terminated, though, in 1784, on the creation of George (Townshend), Lord Ferrers, as Earl of Leicester,
