BEDFORD 75 At the coronation, 20 Feb. 1547, he bore the third Sword, and was Lord High Steward tor that occasion. For his assistance in carrying out the order of the Council against " images " and for promoting the new religion, he was, on 19 Jan. 1549/50, cr. EARL OF BEDFORD.'(^) In 4 Edw. VI (1550) he and Lord Paget were the ambassadors who concluded a treaty of peace with France, at Guines. Lord Lieut, of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Dorset, 1552. On 16 June 1553 he was one of the 26 Peers who signed (as did also his s. Lord Russell) the settlement of the crown on Lady Jane Grey.(*') On 3 Nov. 1553 he obtained a new patent as Lord Privy Seal, and was one of those sent to attend Philip II into England, on his coming from Spain to wed the Queen. He ;;?., in the Spring of 1526, Anne, widow of Sir Richard Jerningham, and formerly of John Broughton, of Toddington, Beds, da. and h. of Sir Guy S.pcote, of CO. Huntingdon, by Margaret, da. and h. of Sir Guy Wolston. He d. at (" Russell House ") his house " near Ivy^ Bridge "C^) in the Strand, Midx., 14, and was bur. 20 Mar. 1 554/5, C*^) at Chenies, Bucks, (^) aged about 60. M.I. Inq. p. m. at Watford 9 Apr. 1555. Will dat. 2 Feb. 1554/5, pr. 2 May 1555, and again 16 July 1605. His widow d. 14, and was bur. 21 Mar. iSS^hy ^Iso at Chenies. M.I. Will dat. 19 Aug. 1558, pr. 22 Mar. 1558/9. Inq. p. m. at Walnesford [now Wansfordj, Northants, 18 Jan. 1559/60. ^- ^5SS- -• Francis (Russell), Earl of Bedford, &c., only s. and h., b. 1527, being aged 28 at his father's death. Ed. at King's Hall, Cambridge. He served under his father at the siege of Montreuil 1544. He was one of the 40 knights made K.B.(^ 20 Feb. 1 546/7, at the coronation of Edward VI. Sheriff of Beds and Bucks, 1 547- 48; M.P.(8) for Bucks, 1547-52; Lord Lieut, of Bucks, 1552. On 5 Jan. (*) This dignity for the last 200 years had been one connected with the royal family. At the same time Lord St. John was cr. Earl of Wiltshire, both appearing for the first time under their higher titles on Monday, 20 Jan. 1 549/50. Wriothesley's Chronicle, vol. ii, p. 31, is in error in adding that Sir W. Paget was cr. Lord Paget at the same time; he had been so cr. 3 Dec. 1549, and had taken his seat the same day. V.G. () For a list of these, see note sub Edward, Earl of Derby [1521]. {^) His son, who resided there, refers to it in his will (1584) as in St. Clement Danes' parish. It had been formerly the house of the Bishops of Carlisle. "Bedford House," Strand (see note " b " on previous page) was not then built. () " His last service, when he was sent by the Queen, as her Deputy, with a font of massie gold worth ^1^1043, '° hold King James at his baptism; with express command not to acknowledge my Lord Darley [Darnlev] as King." (Lloyd, 1665). V.G. (*) Chenies was inherited by the Russell family under the will of Dame Agnes Cheney, dat. 20 Nov. 1494, through her niece Anne Semark {m. 2ndly, Sir David Phelip, and d. his widow i Aug. 15 10), who, by her ist husband. Sir William Sap- cote, was mother of Sir Guy Sapcote, father of Anne, Countess of Bedford. (*) See note sub Henry, Earl of Derby [1572]. (8) He appears to have been the first h, ap. of a peer of higher grade than a
