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4i8 CORBET when any hereditary barony which may be supposed to have been cr. by writ of sum. became extinct.{^) CORBET OF LINCHLADE VISCOUNTCY. Sarah Monson, 4th da. and coh. of Sir Robert MoNSON, of North Carlton, co. Lincoln, by Sarah, da. 1. 1679 of William Clayton, of Wakefield, co. York, was b. to about 1624; m., before 1642, Sir Andrew Corbet, who 1682. was cr. a Baronet as "of Moreton Corbet, Salop," 29 Jan. 1 64 1/2, in reward for his devoted loyalty, and who ^.28 Dec. 1656, aged 40. On 23 Oct. 1679, she was cr. VIS- COUNTESS CORBET OF LINCHLADE, co. Buckingham, for life. She m., 2ndly (2 months after her creation), 18 Dec. 1679, as his 4th wife, at Stoke Newington, Midx. (lie. Vic. Gen.), Sir Charles Lee, of Billesley, co. Warwick, then aged 58, who was bur. at Edmonton, Midx., I 8 Oct. 1700. Will pr. same month. She ^. 5, and was i-ar. 10 June 1682, at Edmonton afsd., when her life Peerage became extinct.^') Admon. 30 June and 11 July 1682, and 7 Nov. 1709. CORK (County of ) (') EARLDOM [L] Edward,('^) s. and h. ap. of Edmund, Duke of York, 5th s. of King Edward III, having been cr. EARL OF I. 1396. RUTLAND 25 Feb. 1389/90, was, at some later period, to before 11 July 1396 (at which date he is called in the 141 5. Patent Rolls Comes Rutland et de Cork., &"€.), cr. EARL OF CORK [I.]. On 29 Sep. 1397 he was cr. DUKE OF AUMALE, of which dignity, however, he was deprived 6 Oct. 1399. On I Aug. 1402 he sue. his father as DUKE OF YORK, ^c. He d. s.p., being slain at Agincourt, 25 Oct. 141 5, when all his honours, acquired by creation, became extinct. See fuller account under "York," Dukedom of, ir. 1385. (") His coheirs were the descendants of his aunts, (i) Alice, m. Robert de StaflFord, whose great-grandson and h., Ralph, Lord StaflFord, then aged 32, inherited the Castle of Caus, is'c; and (2) Emma, m. Sir Bryan de Brampton, of whose great-grand- daughters and coheirs, Margaret, then aged 46, was wife of Robert Harley [ancestor of the Earls of Oxford], and Elizabeth, then aged 42, was wife of Edmund de Cornwall. (*>) Her s. and h.. Sir Vincent Corbet, Bart., d. 4 Feb. 1680, leaving an only s. and h.. Sir Vincent Corbet, Bart., who d. unm. 6 Aug. 1688, in his 19th year, when the Baronetcy became extinct. ("=) For some account of the honour or Lordship of Cork (the largest in the south of Ireland) before the i6th century, see vol. xi. Appendix A. C) As to his supposed name of " Plantagenet," see vol. i, p. 183, note "c."