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STRANGE. 269 Barony by 1. James Stanley who had been (e.rron- Writ. eously} styled Lord Strange, b. and h. ap. of William r u i (^oq (Stanley). 6th (XVth) Earl oh Dkiiby, was sum. to YW) iu-o. piH v ]) m I ()Rn STRAN0 E by writs, 7 March [1627/8), 3 Car. 1-, to 3 Nov. (1639), 15 Car. I., directed " Jacnbo Stanleu dc Strange, I 'lift •., " under the mistaken belief that the Barony »f Strange de Knokin (eft by writ, 1299), was vested in his father,( a ) and was accordingly (in error) placed in the precedency of that ancient Barony.,) On the death of his father, 29 Sep. 1642, he sue. as 7th (XVItli) K.MU, OK DKRBT. He was beheaded for his fidelity to the Koy.d cause. S Sep. 1651, aged Hi. II. 1651. ?. Charles (Stanley), Earl ok Derby [14861 and Loud Stranok [1128], s. and h., b. 19 Jan. lfi2S: stifled Loud Sthaniik till he sue. to the peeraye, as above, 3 Sep. 1651. He <L 21 Dec- 1672, aged 44. III. 1672, -1. William Geobsb Kiciiakd (Stanley), to Raul of Perry [1485], and Loud Stranok. [1628], s. 1702. '>••*• about 1655 ; ill/led Loud Strange till be sue. to the peerage, as above, 21 l)ec. 1(172. He d. s.p.m.s , 5 Nov. 1702, aged about 47, when the Barony of Strange fell into abtycuta.[') [Jambs Stanley, styM Lord Strange, only .=. ami h. ftp., b. 28 and bap. 29 June 1680. at Knowsley chapel : d. v.p. and unm. shortly before 17 Oct. 1699,(4) of small pox, at Naples or Venice, and ■rat for. M April 1700, at Ormskirk.] » * • * • IV. 17U. 4- Henrietta, Baroness Ashiiurniiam, and, by inheri- tance. BaRONESS StRAKGH, 1st da. and on the death of her only sister, 23 April 171 1. sole heir of the said K.vui. or Dkuhy. 4th Loud STRAKOB, aboveuamed, by Elizabeth, sister of James, 2d DfKE DV 1)8 M O.N n, 0 f Thomas Butler, stijleil Karl ok Ossoiit. She was b. about 168S ; m. 21 .May 1706. John (Annesley). 4th Karl ok Anglesey, who ,/. s.p.m.s., 18 Sep. 1710, and was bur. at Earnborough. «>. Hants, aged 31. She m. secoudly 24 July 1714, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, as the second of his three wives, Johu (ASHBDRKHAM), 3d Baron Ashburnham, who, alter her death, became (1730) 1st Kari.oh Ashhcrnham, and who rf. 10 March 1736/7, in his 49th year, being bur. at Asbbunihaui, co. Sussex. She d. s.p.ui. 26 June 1718, in her 31st year, and was bur. at Ashburnham. V. 1718. -7. Henrietta Bridget, by inheritance Baroness Strange, but usually styled Lady Henrietta Bridget Ashburnham, 2d but only surv. da.(°) and heir of her mother, being her only child by her second husband. (*) That Barony had vested in his cousins, the daughters and coheirs of his father's eldest br., Ferdinando (Stanley), 5th Earl of Derby, who had d. s.p.m., 18 April ].'94. See vol. iii, p. 72, note "f," under " Derby." ( b ) See vol. i, p. 20, note " b " [circa Jinem), for account of precedence erroneously allowed at certain periods to this and other Baronies (Clifford and Percy) or, by writs issued in inadvertence. As to the place allowed to this Barony, the L. President declared, 7 June 1628, "that the Heralds have ranked the said James in the place of the aucient Barony of Strange." Accordingly, 20 Jan. (1628/9), 4 Car. I., he was placed " proximus post sedem I loinini Percie," but it was ordered that the said writ and rank was not to prejudice Anne, Countess of Castlehaven, or any claiming as heir of Ferdinando, late Karl of Derby. i (°) The coheirs were his two daughters (1) Henrietta, the survivor, who in 1714 inherited the Barony (2j Elizabeth, d. unm., 23 April, and was bur. 1 May 1714, in westm. Abbey, aged 17. ( J ) Luttrell's " Diary " of that date. fl Her elder sister, of the half-blood, was Lady Elizabeth Aunesley, only child of