Deb 17 December 1920 vol 39 cc562-4

Report made from the Committee for Privileges—

That the Barony of Strange of Knokin is an ancient Barony in fee.

That it is proposed by the Writ of Summons addressed to John le Strange, the Ancestor of the Petitioners, in the 28th year of Edward 1st (1299) and by the other evidence adduced on behalf of the Petitioners, that the Barony of Strange of Knokin was in the reign of Edward 1st vested in the aforesaid John le Strange.

That John, 8th Lord Strange of Knokin died leaving an only child and heir Joan, in her own right Baroness Strange of Knokin, who married Sir George Stanley, eldest son and heir apparent of Thomas, Earl of Derby and that the said Sir George Stanley was summoned to and sat in Parliament as Lord Strange of Knokin.

That the Barony of Strange of Knokin descended to Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby, who died in the year 1594, when the said Barony fell into abeyance between his daughters and co-heirs, namely, the Ladies Anne, Frances and Elizabeth.

That the Barony of Stanley is an ancient Barony in fee.

That it is proved by the Writ of Summons addressed to Sir Thomas Stanley the Ancestor of the Petitioners in the 34th year of Henry VI (1456), and by the other evidence adduced on behalf of the Petitioners, that the Barony of Stanley was thereafter vested in the aforesaid Sir Thomas Stanley.

That the Barony of Stanley descended to the aforesaid Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby, who died in the year 591, when the said Barony also fell into abeyance between his aforesaid daughters and co-heirs, namely, the Ladies Anne, Frances and Elizabeth.

That the said Lady Anne married successively Grey Bridges, Lord Chandos, and Mervyn Tuchet, Earl of Castlehaven, and had issue but that it is not known that any descendant of hers now exists.

That the said Lady Frances married John Egerton, Earl of Bridgwater and left issue and that George Henry Robert Child Child-Villiers, Earl of Jersey, and George Granville Sutherland Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, and the heir or heirs, if any, of Diana, wife of Frederick Calvert, Lord Baltimore, are now her representatives and co-heirs.

That the said Lady Elizabeth married Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon and left issue and that Edith Maud Abney Hastings, in her own right Countess of Loudoun, one of the Petitioners, Elizabeth Frances, wife of John Wynford Philipps, Viscount St. Davids, the other of the Petitioners, the Lady Flora Anne Rawdon Hastings, Cecil Talbot Clifton, Lord Grey de Ruthyn. Constantine Mary Joseph Bodenham Lubienski, May Flora Amy Kirwan, and Charles Marsham, Earl of Romney, are now her representatives and co-heirs.

That the Baronies of Strange of Knokin and Stanley are now in abeyance between the said Earl of Jersey, the said Duke of Sutherland, the said Countess of Loudoun, the said Viscountess St. Davids, the said Lady Flora Anne Rawdon-Hastings, the said Lord Grey de Ruthyn, the said Constantine Mary Joseph Bodenham Lubienski, the said May Flora Amy Kirwan and the said Earl of Romney and the heir or heirs, if any, of the aforesaid Lady Anne, successively wife of the Lord Chandos and of the Earl of Castlehaven, and the heir or heirs, if any, of the afore-said Diana, wife of the Lord Baltimore.

That the Baronies of Strange of Knokin and Stanley are at His Majesty's disposal. Read, and agreed to: and resolved and adjudged accordingly; and Resolution and Judgment to be laid before His Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.