DACRE 2«; ■vizs attainted 2 Apr. 1571. He J. s.p., in great poverty, at Brussels, 12 Aug. 1573, and was bur. in the church of S. Nicolas, Brussels.(') VIII. 1573. 7. Edward Dacre, of Morton, co. York, calling himself Lord Dacre (of Gilsland), 3rd() br. and h., was attainted With, his br. Leonard in 1571, and fled the country. He was in Madrid, Aug. 1572, and went to Flanders in 1573, being a pensioner of the King of Spain. He appears to have travelled about in the Low Countries, Italy,() and Spain, for some years, and d. 23 Aug./2 Sep. 1584, at Beveren, near Antwerp.('^) IX. 1584. 8. Francis Dacre, of Croglin, Cumberland, calling himself Lord Dacre (of Gilsland), 4th and yst. br. and h. M.P. for Westmorland 1588-89. He laid claim to the title, and was for a short time in possession of the family estates in Cumberland, about 1584. An action was brought against him in the King's Bench, but before it was tried the estates were declared, by virtue of some former entail, to belong to the Crown. Despairing of obtaining any redress, he left the kingdom about 1 591 (for which he was attainted), and entered the service of Philip II of Spain, who made him a Capt. of Musqueteers. In or before 1597 he was back in Scotland. (^) On3 Jan. i6o8/9awarrantissuedordering annuities of ^200, ;(^ioo, and ^^50 respectively, for him, his wife Avice, and their son Randolf, for their natural lives.(*) He w., istly, before (^) His M.I. is printed in Le Grand Th^&tre Sacrl: du Duchi de Brabant, by Jaques le Roy (1734), torn, i, p. 240, and was perhaps still visible when that volume was published. According to a note in Sir Cuthbert Sharpe's Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569, published in 1840, it was then no longer to be seen. V.G. (*>) His next elder br., George, d. s.p. (Harl. MSS., no. 154, f. 25b; Dodsworth MSS., vol. iii, p. 43; Egerton MSS., no. 1075, p. 17; Harl. Soc, vol. xvi, p. 85; Trans. Cumb. and West. Antiq. Soc, O.S., vol. iv, ped. between pp. 482, 483). V.G. {'=) He contributed towards the paintings of the English martyrdoms in the church of the Ens^Iish College at Rome. {Letters and Memorials of William, Cardinal Allen, p. 193). V.G. C) State Papers [S.], Mary, Queen of Scots, vol. xiv, Oct.-Dec. 1584, no. 90. V.G. («) On 28 May 1592 he arrived at the English College in Rome, where he stayed 8 days. (Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, vol. vi, p. 565). In Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield House MSS., part viii, are several references to him in 1597/8, as "the Lord Dalcers," intriguing on the Scottish border, and causing anxiety to Elizabeth's Ministers. On 15 Mar. i 599/1 600, he writes to his sister, Viscountess Montagu, about a pension for him and his son, and of a match offered to him, and his son, in Scotland; he speaks also of his da. Bess and other daughters. (Hatfield MSS., part x, p. 71). V.G. These annuities appear to have been discontinued by 1622, for in Apr. of that year Francis was petitioning for a pension. {Hist. MSS. Com., 4th Rep., App., p. 277). V.G. 4
