8 DACRE VII. 1458. (*) 7. Joan, according to modern doctrine suo jure Baroness Dacre, aged 26 and more in 1459, grand- daughter and h., being da. and h.C') of Sir Thomas Dacre,(') by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir William Bowet, of Horsford, Burgh St. Margaret's, and Great Hautbois, Norfolk, (by Joan,('^) da. and h. of Sir Robert Ufford, of Horsford, if^c), which Thomas was ist s. and h. ap. of the last Lord and d. v.p. She m., in or shortly after June i446,(') Sir Richard Fiennes,(') s. and h. of Sir Roger F., of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, by Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Holland, of Northants. By patent, 7 Nov. (1458) 37 Hen. VI, the King accepted him as Lord Dacre,(^) and by writs 9 Oct. (1459) amplius Et quod Johanna uxor Ricardi Fenys militis est consanguinea et heres dicti Thome Dacre . . . propinquior videlicet filia Thome Dacre militis filii predicti Thome ... Et est etatis xxvj annorum et amplius." (Ch. Inq. p. m.. Hen. VI, file 174, no. 33: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 204, no. 10). Similar writ, 8 Jan. 36 Hen. VI (Duchy of Lancaster, C/ose Roll 2, no. 7). Inq., Tuesday after the Purification [7 Feb.] 1457/8. Date of death, and h. male, aged 35 and more, as before. (Towneleys Abstracts, vol. ii, p. 65: orig. missing). (=") The Editor is greatly indebted to Henry Ince Anderton for numerous correc- tions and additions to the rest of this article, and to the next; and he is also under obliga- tions to Thomas Barrett Lennard, whose privately printed book, The Families of Lennard and Barrett (1908), has been freely drawn on for information. V.G. C") Her sister, Philippe, w., at the same time as herself, Robert Fiennes, her hus- band's br., but d. s.p. in her grandfather's lifetime. {The Families of Lennard and Barrett, ut supra, p. 170). V.G. (<=) His yr. br., Randolf, the h. male, was sum. to Pari. 9 Oct. (1459) 38 Hen. VI. See p. 18. (<>) She is called Joan on De Banco Roll, Easter 12 Hen. IV, m. 293. (') The Families of Lennard and Barrett, ut supra, p. 58. (') See next article, Dacre (of Gilsland), afterwards Dacre of the North, for account of proceedings between him and Humphrey, Lord Dacre, the heir male. (8) "This patent contains no words of limitation, and must be considered to be a confirmation of the original Barony, with all the rights belonging thereto." {Court- hope, sub "Dacre"). See vol. vii. Appendix A, for a list of, and some remarks on, Baronies cr. by patent before Henry VIII. "Sir Richard Fienes, who by this patent was declared Lord Dacre and one of the Barons of the Realm, had married Joan, granddaughter and heir of Thomas, Lord Dacre of Gillesland; he was declared 'Lord Dacre' by patent, 7 Nov. 37 Hen. VI, 1458, but, to show the uncertainty of the issue of a writ at this period, both he (as 'Lord Dacre') and his wife's uncle, who was heir male of her said grandfather (as 'Lord Dacre of Gillesland'), were sum. to the same Pari., 9 Oct., 38 Hen. VI, 1459. That the Barony given to the wife's uncle was the Barony of Dacre of Gillesland, both the description and the summons (upon his decease without issue) of his next brother seem to show; and if so, the principle of tenure was here preferred to repre- sentation in blood. The Barony given to Sir Richard Fiennes could not have been that 'of the courtesy,' as no patent was necessary for such a purpose; it must therefore have been a new Barony, which, having no words of inheritance, was yet descendible to heirs general, in like manner as the Barony of Fanhope (also without words of in- heritance) was considered by Lord Lyndhurst, in his speech on the Wensleydale Peer- age, to have been a descendible dignity." {Courthope, p. xliii, note "c").
