EOUnCHIER — IiOUHGH. 395 X. 1G01, I'K RoBSIlT DicvEiiEux, only s. and h., who, g<g.jj to M 3 - being (with his sisters) restored in Hood and honours' =^ ■ 18 April, 16.04, became E.uu. ok Kssk.x, Viscount HekkkORD, 1G10. LoitD Feiuikus DB Ciiaiiti.rv, nnd IjOHD BoubciiikilM Hi </. s.p. 11 Sep., liilii, when the Earldom of Essex became f extinct, the Yiscountey of Hereford devolved on his cousin and h. male, and the Bareniet of Ferrers dc Chartln/ and of Bwrchicr, fell into abeyance j ^ between his 2 sisters, or their issue.( b ) J « =1? BOURCHIER (or BOURGIICHIER) de BERNERS. Sno " Berners " Barony, a: 1-155. John Bourcliier, who m. Margery da. and h. of Richard Berners, was sum. to Pari, as a Baron by writ 2G May 1155, directed " Julii Bourjelticr itc Bcracrs." The Barony is, however, generally held to bo that of "Iktnm." BOURCHIER de CROMWELL [1461.] Sim: "Cromweu. Barony, <■>■., 1 375. Humphrey Bourcliier, 3rd & of Henry, Earl of Essex, baring m. Joaue, da. and coheir of Sir Richard Stan- hope (by Maud, da. of Ralph [Cromwell], Lord Cromwell, and sister and h. of Ralph, Lord Cromwell), was sum. to Pari, as a Baron by writs 20 July, 1481, to 15 Oct. 1170, directed " JIumfrido Bourcliier dc Cromwell," Ilumfrido, D'no Cromictll, "or Humfrido Croinnxll, C/d'r." If these summons at. a new Barony, it became extinct at his death s.p. 11 April, 117). The Barony, however, is presumed to be i hat of Cromwell. BOURCHIER (or BOURGHCIIIER) de FITZ-WARYN [1472.] Sou '• Fitz-Waui.ve " Barony, <v. 1295. Fulko P.ourchier, s. and h. of William, LOSS Fitz-W.uiyn, was sum. to Pari. oa a Baron, by writ 19 Aug. 1472 directed "Pulfoni B oit'ihchkr dc Fit'icaryn." The Barony is however held to be that of " FUs-Wttrtne." DOURGII, nURGil, or BOROUGH m ©AXKESBOaO.' Seo "Bunon " Barony (ljy writ) vr. 1187. The writ, however, issued 20 Apt. (15:10;, 31 lieu. V 1 11., to the 3rd Ljrd, was directed " Thome Bouvjh, Chl'r." (") It should bo Doted, however, that the titles assumed by the 1st Karl (of the Devereux family), are attributed to his son in the act of restoration, which recites that "the said Robert, late Karl of Essex, before his said attainder was lawfully and rightly infested . . . with the oasie, state, place, and dignity of Karl of Essex and Buy, viscount Hereford and Bourcliier, lord Ferrers of Chartley, and Lord Bour- chierum/ J.uraine. " See Certiorari bundles. Jac. [. No. 11. ('•) These were (1) Frances who hi. William (Seymour), Duke of Somerset, and d. 23 Nov., 1679, whose representative (thro' the families of Seymour, Bruce, BrydgOS, and Qrenyille), is now ( lS8(i) the Duke of Buckingham and Chamlos ; and (2) Dorothy who w. firstly Sir Iloury Shirley, Bart., and secondly William Stafford, and d. 30 March, 1(»3<>. Her grandson and h. Sir Robert Shirley, Bart., who in her right represented a moiety of the liarony of Ferrers de Chartley, was sum. to Pari, in that Barony 11 Dec. 1677. The abeyance of the Barony of Bourcliier has never been terminated, tho', in 17S-1, on the creation of George iTownshend), Lord Ferrers de Chartley, as Earl of Leicester, be is by '•unaccountable negligence or ignorance" called in that Patent " Baron tie Ferrers of Chartley, Boron Bourcliier, Locuine, Basset, and Compton," of which Baronies the three marked in italics never veste.l in him. See aide page 25S, uoto " f " line 25, sub. " Basset de Drayton."
