On this Day in History ... 31st January

31 Jan is in January.

1308 Boulogne Agreement

1547 Death of Henry VIII Accession of Edward VI

1606 Gunpowder Plot

1667 Poll Bill

1874 Wedding of Prince Alfred and Grand Duchess Maria of Russia

1880 Disappearance of HMS Atalanta

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Events on the 31st January

Florence of Worcester. 31 Jan 1140. Winchcombe and other places attacked. Milo, the ex-constable, having assembled a numerous body of troops, assaulted Winchcombe on Thursday, the second of the calends of February [31st January], and burnt the greatest part of the place, which he plundered; and carried off those whom he had stripped of their goods, to exact from them, most unjustly, the Mammon of unrighteousness [in the shape of ransom]. Thence he diverged to Sudely, but whilst he was meditating an attack, the royal garrison of the place fell on him, and forced him to retreat, leaving, as it is reported, two of his men dead on the spot, and fifteen taken prisoners. The king and the earl of Worcester came with a large army to Worcester, and after a few days, the earl first, and then the king, advanced to Little Hereford in great force, for the purpose of driving out their enemies. During the king's abode in those parts, the earl, mindful of the injuries received from his townsmen, attacked Tewkesbury with a strong body of men-at-arms, and burnt the magnificent house of the earl of Gloucester, which was within a mile of Gloucester, and everything in its vicinity, as well as some property belonging to others; but, yielding to the supplications of the lord abbot and monks of Tewkesbury, he spared their possessions. Having taken much spoil, both of men and of their goods and cattle, he was moved by clemency to order the release of the captives, and permit them to return to their homes; and on the morrow he returned to Worcester, declaring to all that he had scarcely ever made such a conflagration either in Normandy or England. The king, also, on his return to Worcester, set forward on the road to Oxford.

On 31 Jan 1308 King Edward II of England (age 23) and a group of England's leading nobles signed the Boulogne Agreement that attempted to curtail King Edward's (age 23) rule. The signatories included Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Jerusalem (age 63), John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey (age 21), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 33), Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 57) and Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 36).

Chronicle of Gregory 1447. 31 Jan 1447. Ande in that same year there was an armyrer and his owne man fought whythe yn the lystys in Smethefylde [Map] the laste day of Januer, ande there the mayster was slayne and dyspoylyde out of his harnys, and lay stylle in the fylde alle that day and that nyght next folowynge. And thenne afty[r]ward, by the kyngys (age 25) commaundement, he was d[r]awyn, hanggyde, and be-heddyde, and his hedde sette on London Brygge [Map], and the body hynggyng a-bove erthe be-syde the towre.

On 31 Jan 1512 Henrique Aviz Cardinal King Portugal was born to Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal (age 42) and Maria Trastámara Queen Consort Portugal (age 30). Coefficient of inbreeding 8.38%.

Letters. 31 Jan 1513. France. A hundred spears of Mons. Robert de Framyselle's company are coming towards Boulogne, and 50 are there already. The French King has come 3 day's journey from Blois towards Paris, and has very much ordnance with him. There has been a great fray among the lanzknechts about Rewe, and many of them slain in consequence the punishment of one. At Fynes there are 100 of the country people. At Tyrwyn plenty of victuals have arrived; and there and at Boulogne strict search is made upon every man that passes. An archer with the French King has advised a friend in Picardy to send all his goods to St. Omer's or elsewhere within the Archduke's lands for surety.

Letters. 31 Jan 1513. Florys [D'EGMONT, Lord of ISSELSTEIN,] to Henry VIII. Asks safe conduct for a ship with a cargo of herrings to be exchanged for wine at Bordeaux, he and the garrisons of Gueldres being totally unprovided because nothing can come down the Rhine. The lettres de pas to be delivered to the bearer, Ysselstain, his officer of arms, for whom he begs credence. Malines, 31 Jan. 1512. Signed.French, p. 1. Add. Endd.: "For ships.-A ship of viiixx tons with c. last haryn. John Tison servant and factor to the Lord Isilsten."

Letters. 31 Jan 1513. The Dragon. Account for repairs, gunstocking, &c., in the Dragon, 24 Nov. 4 Henry VIII., 28 Nov. at Dover, 8 Jan. in Solent and finally (no date given) at Armew, where a new foremast was fitted and a compass and "viewing glasse" bought. Wages to ship's carpenters, 8d. a day; meat and drink, 2½d. a day.

"Sir, as to these costs done by Walter Loveday upon the King's ship the Dragon, as cawking, as stocking of certain guns and lead that he hath paid for, with other costs writ within the same, he ought to be allowed of all as to that is contained herein bought. My fellow William Gonson saw what he (?) bought. Per me John Hopton."

Letters. 31 Jan 1513. Cables. Bill drawn by William Gonson and John Ysham, payable at sight to Leonard Freskoball, for £34 19s. 2d. Fl., in payment of cables and ropes for the carrack received from Deryk Derykson, roper, of Ermew. 31 Jan. 1512. Signed by Ysham.

2. The like for £51 19s. 10d. for cables from Arden Frysce. Same date. P. 1.

3. The like for £25 14s. 6d. for cables from Awdryan Jacopson. Same date.

Annales of England by John Stow. 28 Jan 1547. Edward (age 9) the first borne at Hampton court [Map] (by the decease of k. Henry (age 55) his father) began his raigne the 28 of January, and was proclaimed k. of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, and of the churches of England and also of Ireland the supreme head immedlatly in earth under God, & on the last day of January, in the yere of Christ after the Church of England 1546 but after the accompt of them that begin the yere at Chatfimas 1547 being then of the age of nine yéeres. And the same day in the afternoone the saide young king came to the tower of London [Map] from Hertford, and rode into the City at Aldgate, and so along the wall by the crossed Friars [Map] to the Tower hill, & entred at the red bulwarke [Map], where be was received by sir John Gage (age 67) constable of the tower, and the lieutenant on horseback, the Earle of Hertford (age 47) riding before the king, and sir Anthony Browne (age 47) riding after him: and on the bridge next the warde gate, the archbishop of Canterbury (age 57), the lorde Chancellor (age 41), with other great lords of the Councell received him, and so brought him to his chamber of pretence, there they were sworne to his majesty.

Diary of Edward VI. 31 Jan 1547. The next day, being the [31st] of [January], he was brought to the towre of London, whear he taried th'espace of three wekes; and in the mean season the counsel sat every day for the performaunce of the will1, and at length thought best that the erle of Hartford shuld be made Due of Somerset, sir Thomas Seimour Lord Sudley, the erle of Essex Marquis of Northampton (age 35), and divers knights should be mad Barons, as the lord Sheffield (age 25), with divers other.2 Also thei thought best to chose the duke of Somerset to be Protectour of the realm and Governour of the Kinges person during his minorite, to which al the gentlemen and lordes did agre becaus he was the Kinges oncle on his mother's side.3 Also in this time the late King was buried at Windsor with much solemnite, and th' officers broke their staves, hurling them into the grave.4 But thei were restored to them again when thei come to the towre.

Note 1. The Will of Henry the Eighth was printed at length in 4to. 1793. The proceedings of the privy council with regard to its execution will be found in the Appendix.

Note 2. The creations were:

1. The protector to be Duke of Somerset;

2. The earl of Essex (age 35) (brother to the queen dowager) to be Marquess of Northampton;

3. The lord Lisle (age 43) to be Earl of Warwick;

4. the lord chancellor Wriothesley (age 41) to be Earl of Southampton;

5. sir Thomas Seymour (age 39) to be Lord Seymour of Sudeley;

6. sir Richard Rich (age 50) to be Lord Rich of Leez;

7. sir William Willoughby (age 32) to be Lord Willoughby of Parham; and

8. sir Edmund Sheffield (age 25) to be Lord Sheffield of Butterwick. The ceremonial of their creations will be found in the Appendix.

Note 3. On the subject of the Protectorate the reader is referred to the Appendix. The duke was also constituted Lord Treasurer on the 10th of February, and the next day sworn in to that office before the lord chancellor in Westminster hall. He further became Earl Marshal (see the next page), both these high offices being vacated by the attainder of the duke of Norfolk.

Note 4. The ceremonial of the Funeral of Henry the Eighth is printed at length in Strype's Eccles. Memorials, vol. ii. Appx. A. The interment was accomplished on the 14th Feb.

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs. John Lomas, Agnes Snoth, Anne Wright, Joan Sole, and Joan Catmer

These five martyrs suffered together, January 31, 1556. John Lomas was a young man of Tenterden. He was cited to appear at Canterbury, and was examined January 17. His answers being adverse to the idolatrous doctrine of the papacy, he was condemned on the following day, and suffered January 31.

Agnes Snoth, widow, of Smarden Parish, was several times summoned before the Catholic Pharisees, and rejecting absolution, indulgences, transubstantiation, and auricular confession, she was adjudged worthy to suffer death, and endured martyrdom, January 31, with Anne Wright and Joan Sole, who were placed in similar circumstances, and perished at the same time, with equal resignation. Joan Catmer, the last of this heavenly company, of the parish Hithe, was the wife of the martyr George Catmer.

Seldom in any country, for political controversy, have four women been led to execution, whose lives were irreproachable, and whom the pity of savages would have spared. We cannot but remark here that, when the Protestant power first gained the ascendency over the Catholic superstition, and some degree of force in the laws was necessary to enforce uniformity, whence some bigoted people suffered privation in their person or goods, we read of few burnings, savage cruelties, or poor women brought to the stake, but it is the nature of error to resort to force instead of argument, and to silence truth by taking away existence, of which the Redeemer himself is an instance.

The above five persons were burnt at two stakes in one fire, singing hosannahs to the glorified Savior, until the breath of life was extinct. Sir John Norton, who was present, wept bitterly at their unmerited sufferings.

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On 31 Jan 1580 Henrique Aviz Cardinal King Portugal (age 68) died bringing to an end the House of Aviz. He was succeeded by Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain (age 52) who was elected successor in 1581 following a military invasion of Portugal in Nov 1580.

On 31 Jan 1606 at the Old Palace Yard, Westminster Palace Rookwood, Thomas Wintour (age 35), Robert Keyes (age 41) and Guy Fawkes (age 35) were hanged, drawn and quartered.

On 07 Aug 1616 William Savage (age 62) died. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map].

On 31 Jan 1631 Giles Savage (age 46) died. He was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map].

On 11 Jun 1674 Katherine Dalston (age 84) died (she the wife of Giles Savage (age 31)) at Elmley Castle, Worcestershire. She was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Elmley [Map].

Alabaster table tomb with father, son and daughter-in-law. She holding a Chrisom Child probably representing stillborn, or died soon after birth. At their feet two lions and what is described as a stag with an arrow through its neck.

William Savage: Around 1554 he was born to Francis Savage.

Giles Savage: Around 1585 he was born to William Savage. In or before 1623 Giles Savage and Katherine Dalston were married.

Katherine Dalston: In 1590 she was born to Richard Dalston.

Diary of Anne Clifford 1619. 31 Jan 1619. The 31st my Coz. Russell’s (age 26) wife (age 39) was brought to bed of a son (it being the 7th child) at Chiswick, which was christened in the Church privately and was named Francis.

On 29 Jan 1622 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire (age 42) shot himself with a crossbow at Rycote, Oxfordshire [Map]; probably deliberately.

On 31 Jan 1622 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire (age 42) died of the wounds he had received two days earlier. He was buried at Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map]. His daughter Elizabeth Norreys 3rd Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 19) succeeded 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote. Earl Berkshire and Viscount Thame extinct.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1660. After a game at cards, I went home and wrote by the post and coming back called in at Harper's and drank with Mr. Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, that whereas my Lord Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament to-day, he wrote a letter and desired a little more time, he being a great way out of town. And how that he is quite ashamed of himself, and confesses how he had deserved this, for his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to pay part of the money, paid out of the Exchequer during the Committee of Safety, out of his own purse again, which I am glad of. Home and to bed, leaving my wife (age 19) reading in Polixandre. I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's (age 35) letter, which Hawly brought me, concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that I would get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have the greater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a public employment.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1660. Here I met and afterwards bought the answer to General Monk's (age 51) letter, which is a very good one, and I keep it by me.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1660. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my Lord's (age 34) lodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here I met with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at sea and at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where I paid; 1200l. to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of the Excise office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of his that wanted; 7l. in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home and dined with my wife (age 19) when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from his master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his lawsuit with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to Westminster Hall [Map], where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee, at the Star Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones, and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but the Committee did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour or two with Mr. Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street.

On 31 Jan 1663 John Spelman (age 56) died. On 12 Jun 1649 Anne Heveningham died. They were buried in All Saints Church, Narborough [Map].

Anne Heveningham: she was born to John Heveningham of Ketteringham and Alice Shelton. Before 01 Aug 1640 John Spelman and she were married.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1663. In the evening examining my wife's letter intended to my Lady (age 38), and another to Mademoiselle; they were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them, and took occasion to fall out about them with my wife, and so she wrote none, at which, however, I was, sorry, because it was in answer to a letter of Madam about business. Late home to supper and to bed.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1665. Up and with Sir W. Batten (age 64) to Westminster, where to speak at the House with my Lord Bellasses (age 50), and am cruelly vexed to see myself put upon businesses so uncertainly about getting ships for Tangier [Map] being ordered, a servile thing, almost every day.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1666. Thence to the Duke of Albemarle (age 57), who tells me Mr. Coventry (age 38) is come to town and directs me to go to him about some business in hand, whether out of displeasure or desire of ease I know not; but I asked him not the reason of it but went to White Hall, but could not find him there, though to my great joy people begin to bustle up and down there, the King (age 35) holding his resolution to be in towne to-morrow, and hath good encouragement, blessed be God! to do so, the plague being decreased this week to 56, and the total to 227. So after going to the Swan [Map] in the Palace, and sent for Spicer to discourse about my last Tangier tallys that have some of the words washed out with the rain, to have them new writ, I home, and there did some business and at the office, and so home to supper, and to bed.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1666. By and by to the 'Change [Map], and there did several businesses, among others brought home my cozen Pepys, whom I appointed to be here to-day, and Mr. Moore met us upon the business of my Lord's bond. Seeing my neighbour Mr. Knightly walk alone from the 'Change [Map], his family being not yet come to town, I did invite him home with me, and he dined with me, a very sober, pretty man he is. He is mighty solicitous, as I find many about the City that live near the churchyards, to have the churchyards covered with lime, and I think it is needfull, and ours I hope will be done. Good pleasant discourse at dinner of the practices of merchants to cheate the "Customers", occasioned by Mr. Moore's being with much trouble freed of his prize goods, which he bought, which fell into the Customers' hands, and with much ado hath cleared them. Mr. Knightly being gone, my cozen Pepys and Moore and I to our business, being the clearing of my Lord Sandwich's (age 40) bond wherein I am bound with him to my cozen for £1000 I have at last by my dexterity got my Lord's consent to have it paid out of the money raised by his prizes. So the bond is cancelled, and he paid by having a note upon Sir Robert Viner (age 35), in whose hands I had lodged my Lord's money, by which I am to my extraordinary comfort eased of a liablenesse to pay the sum in case of my Lord's death, or troubles in estate, or my Lord's greater fall, which God defend! Having settled this matter at Sir R. Viner's (age 35), I took up Mr. Moore (my cozen going home) and to my Chancellor's (age 56) new house which he is building, only to view it, hearing so much from Mr. Evelyn (age 45) of it; and, indeed, it is the finest pile I ever did see in my life, and will be a glorious house.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1667. Thus the month ends: myself in very good health and content of mind in my family. All our heads full in the office at this dividing of the Comptroller's duty, so that I am in some doubt how it may prove to intrench upon my benefits, but it cannot be much. The Parliament, upon breaking up, having given the King (age 36) money with much ado, and great heats, and neither side pleased, neither King nor them. The imperfection of the Poll Bill, which must be mended before they rise, there being several horrible oversights to the prejudice of the King (age 36), is a certain sign of the care anybody hath of the King's business. Prince Rupert (age 47) very ill, and to be trepanned on Saturday next. Nobody knows who commands the fleete next year, or, indeed, whether we shall have a fleete or no. Great preparations in Holland and France, and the French have lately taken Antego1 from us, which vexes us. I am in a little care through my at last putting a great deal of money out of my hands again into the King's upon tallies for Tangier, but the interest which I wholly lost while in my trunk is a temptation while things look safe, as they do in some measure for six months, I think, and I would venture but little longer.

Note 1. Antigua, one of the West India Islands (Leeward Islands), discovered by Columbus in 1493, who is said to have named it after a church at Seville called Santa Maria la Antigua. It was first settled by a few English families in 1632, and in 1663 another settlement was made under Lord Willoughby, to whom the entire island was granted by Charles II In 1666 it was invaded by a French force, which laid waste all the settlement. It was reconquered by the English, and formally restored to them by the treaty of Breda.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1667. So home and to the office, and late home to supper, and to talk with my wife, with pleasure, and to bed. I met this evening at Sir R. Viner's (age 36) our Mr. Turner, who I find in a melancholy condition about his being removed out of his house, but I find him so silly and so false that I dare not tell how to trust any advice to him, and therefore did speak only generally to him, but I doubt his condition is very miserable, and do pity his family.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1667. In the evening stept out to Sir Robert Viner's (age 36) to get the money ready upon my notes to D. Gawden, and there hear that Mr. Temple is very ill. I met on the 'Change [Map] with Captain Cocke (age 50), who tells me that he hears new certainty of the business of Madrid, how our Embassador and the French met, and says that two or three of my Lord's men, and twenty one of the French men are killed, but nothing at Court of it. He fears the next year's service through the badness of our counsels at White Hall, but that if they were wise, and the King (age 36) would mind his business, he might do what he would yet. The Parliament is not yet up, being finishing some bills.

Pepy's Diary. 31 Jan 1668. Thence to talk of other things, and the want of money and he told me of the general want of money in the country; that land sold for nothing, and the many pennyworths he knows of lands and houses upon them, with good titles in his country, at 16 years' purchase: "and", says he, "though I am in debt, yet I have a mind to one thing, and that is a Bishop's lease"; but said, "I will yet choose such a lease before any other, yes", says he, plainly, "because I know they cannot stand, and then it will fall into the King's hands, and I in possession shall have an advantage by it". "And", says he, "I know they must fall, and they are now near it, taking all the ways they can to undo themselves, and showing us the way"; and thereupon told the a story of the present quarrel between the Bishop (age 75) and Deane of Coventry and Lichfield (age 61); the former of which did excommunicate the latter, and caused his excommunication to be read in the Church while he was there; and, after it was read, the Deane (age 61) made the service be gone through with, though himself, an excommunicate, was present, which is contrary to the Canon, and said he would justify the quire therein against the Bishop (age 75); and so they are at law in the Arches about it; which is a very pretty story. He tells me that the King (age 37) is for Toleration, though the Bishops be against it: and that he do not doubt but it will be carried in Parliament; but that he fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists with the rest; and that he knows not what to say, but rather thinks that the sober party will be without it, rather than have it upon those terms; and I do believe so. Here we broke off, and I home to dinner, and after dinner set down my wife and Deb. at the 'Change [Map], and I to make a visit to Mr. Godolphin (age 32)1 at his lodgings, who is lately come from Spain from my Lord Sandwich (age 42), and did, the other day, meeting me in White Hall, compliment me mightily, and so I did offer him this visit, but missed him, and so back and took up my wife and set her at Mrs. Turner's (age 45), and I to my bookbinder's, and there, till late at night, binding up my second part of my Tangier accounts, and I all the while observing his working, and his manner of gilding of books with great pleasure, and so home, and there busy late, and then to bed. This day Griffin did, in discourse in the coach, put me in the head of the little house by our garden, where old goodman Taylor puts his brooms and dirt, to make me a stable of, which I shall improve, so as, I think, to be able to get me a stable without much charge, which do please me mightily. He did also in discourse tell me that it is observed, and is true, in the late fire of London, that the fire burned just as many Parish-Churches as there were hours from the beginning to the end of the fire; and, next, that there were just as many Churches left standing as there were taverns left standing in the rest of the City that was not burned, being, I think he told me, thirteen in all of each: which is pretty to observe.

Note 1. William Godolphin (age 32), descended from a younger branch of that family, which was afterwards ennobled in the person of Sidney, Earl Godolphin, Lord Treasurer (age 22). William Godolphin was of Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated M.A., January 14th, 1660-61. He was afterwards secretary to Sir H. Bennet (age 50) (Lord Arlington), and M.P. for Camelford. He was a great favourite at Court, and was knighted on August 28th, 1668. In the spring of 1669 he returned to Spain as Envoy Extraordinary, and in 1671 he became Ambassador. On July 11th, 1696, he died at Madrid, having been for some years a Roman Catholic.

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Evelyn's Diary. 31 Jan 1689. At our church (the next day being appointed a thanksgiving for deliverance by the Prince of Orange (age 38), with prayers purposely composed), our lecturer preached in the afternoon a very honest sermon, showing our duty to God for the many signal deliverances of our Church, without touching on politics.

Roger Whitley's Diary. 31 Jan 1690. Friday, I dined at Ship in Gratious Streete with Biddolph, 2 Mainwarings, 2 sons, daughters, Morgan, Minshall &c; went about 6 to a Quakers Taverne in Cornehill; there was Dashwood, Lewes, Thomas, Smith, Morgan, Mainwaring, my sonne (age 39) &c; parted past 9.

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Licence for Sir Samuel Thompson, knight, high sheriff of Bedford, to dwell out of the county during his office. [Ibid.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Warrant to the Governors of the Charterhouse to admit Richard Hodges to a pensioner's place on a vacancy. [H.O. King's Letter Book 1, p. 46.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Passes for Margaret Field and her two children to go to Harwich and Holland [S.P. Dom. Warrant Book 36, p. 477]; for Peter Lombard, recommended by President de la Tour, ditto; for Mary Beston, ditto; for Anthony Servaes, Herman Krijger, John Quartier, and Henry Hegelitz, ditto; for John Carstens and Martin Cornelis, ditto; for Ellie Harmens, and her three children, ditto [Ibid. p. 478]; for Susanna Reyniers, and her two children, ditto; for Joos Romano and John Arientz, ditto; for Roeloff Straetman, Cornelis Van Dijck, Philp Brughman, and Jacob Balkhuysen, ditto; for Gerrit Barthelis and Mary his wife, ditto; and for Francis Carrion, Albert Van Wanroz, Joost Rentd, Herman Smith, and Elardt de Roode, ditto [Ibid. p. 479].

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Certificate that Hugh Hughes, gentleman, employed in their Majesties' service in Germany, returned from thence into his Majesty's presence on the 10th of December, 1692. [H.O. Warrant Book 6, p. 480.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Caveat that nothing pass concerning the rectory of Cavestock [Tavistock?] in the diocese of Exeter, till notice be first given to the bishop of London. [8.P. Dom. Entry Book 78, p. 15.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. J. Sotherne to Richard Warre, enclosing an account of naval stores lent to the Dutch; also the charge of pilotage since last account.

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Warrant to Viscount Sydney to cause Hugh, Earl of Mount Alexander, to be sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland. [S.P. Dom. Signet Office Letter Book 12, p. 566.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. The Earl of Nottingham to the Lord Lieutenant of Iveland. I have shown the King the information of James Lillis, mariner, which Sir Cyril Wyche sent to Mr. Warre by your order, and his Majesty commands me to tell you that the account contained in it is certainly false, as all the letters from France make one believe; so that this person may justly be suspected of being a disaffected man, and one who has reported this with ill design, and the King commands that he should be prosecuted for spreading false and seditious news. [S.P. Ireland King's Letter Book 1, p. 445.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. The same to the Commissioners for the Exchange of Prisoners. The ship lately come from France to Southampton with prisoners of war must not be discharged or the Frenchmen belonging to her exchanged. You must also take care the two Frenchmen, brought up to London to be examined, be kept safe, and not exchanged without the King's special order; and for this purpose you must take them out of the hands of the officers who brought them to town. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 613.] 01 Jan 1693. Whitehall. 1698. Jan. 81;

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. The same to the Commissioners of the Treasury. The King has been moved upon the enclosed letter of the Commissioners of the Admiralty about making free a ship, the New Diligence, in place of the Diligence, formerly made free, to be employed in what may relate to the Navy for his Majesty's service. The King commanded me to transmit the said paper to you that you may report your opinion thereon. [H.O. Letter Book (Secretary's) 2, p. 619.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Warrant to Sir Henry Goodrick and the rest of the principal officers of the Ordnance to supply arms, &c. to one regiment of dragoons, one regiment of foot, in Ireland, and two regiments of foot to be raised in Scotland; the same arms to be sent to Chester, and from thence transported to Dublin, and there delivered to Henry, Viscount Sydney. [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 324.]

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Commissions for Hunt Withers, esq., to be captain of the company whereof Capt. Lepell was late captain in the royal regiment of fusiliers commanded by Col. Edward Fitzpatrick [H.O. Military Entry Book 2, p. 326]; for Walter Douglas, gent., to be ensign to Capt. Fulville's company in John, Lord Cutts' regiment of foot [Ibid., ». 827]; for Nathaniel Taylor, gent., to be ensign to Major Arthur Taylor's company in Col. Ferdinando Hastings' regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 828]; for Richard Hammaker, gent., to be ensign to Captain John le Hunt, in John, Lord Cutts' regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 829]; brevet for Samuel St. Leger, esq., to command and take his rank as captain of foot [Ibid., p. 831]; for David Douglas, gent., to be ensign to Captain John Cuningham's company in Col. George Lawder's regiment of foot; for John Howsden, gentleman, to be Leutenant to Captain John Hedlam's company in Col. John Tidcombe's regiment of foot [Ibid., p. 886]; and for Duncan Campbell, gent., to be lLeutenant to Captain Alexander Steward in' Col. Ferdinando Hastings' regiment of foot [bid., p. 338].

Calendars. 31 Jan 1693. Whitehall. Proceedings upon the petition of Isaac Hopkinson, a poor man with several children to maintain and an inhabitant of Cambridge. He prays for a beadsman's place in Trinity College. Granted on the next vacancy. [S.P. Dom. Petition Entry Book 1, p. 449.]

Calendars. Jan 1693. Whitehall. Observations made by Richard Spencer of London, master of the tose frigate, taken off Cape Ortigall, by five French men-of-war and privateers (from 50 to 24 guns each), on 18 Oct., 1692, and carried into Bayonne and kept there till 11 Jan., 1693.

Bayonne is the sole place that doth supply all western France with shipbuilding timber, tar, hemp and iron, &e., all which is carried out of the port by sea. In this port they build ships of from 70 to 80 guns, three being launched when I came away, and three going to be set on the stocks; and there are nigh on 80 sail of privateers, from 36 guns to 8, which were built here and belong to this port, and daily go in and out; they have brought in upwards of 250 sail of merchant ships, suppressing our trade very much. 'There is not 18 ft. of water on the bar in spring tides, and it is under two cables' length in breadth, so that four or six ships loaded with stones and tarrace, and sunk on the bar, would for ever hinder any ship sailing in or out; and this might be done without the loss of one man, there being no fortification. St. Jean de Luze is also a shelter for their men of war and privateers, and is a bar place which might be similarly blocked. [H.O. Admiralty 6, Vol. 6, No. 1.]

On 31 Jan 1756 Maria Teresa of Savoy was born to Victor Amadeus III King Sardinia (age 30) and Infanta Maria Antonia Spain (age 26). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

On 31 Jan 1760 Mary Radclyffe (age 46) died of smallpox in Brussels [Map].

On 31 Jan 1830 Bishop John Luxmoore (age 64) died. Memorial at St Asaph Cathedral [Map].

Bishop John Luxmoore: In 1766 he was born. In 1799 he was appointed Dean of Gloucester Cathedral. In 1808 Bishop John Luxmoore was translated to Bishop of Hereford. In 1815 Bishop John Luxmoore was translated to Bishop of St Asaph.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. It is said that few people achieve greatness, but that some have it thrust upon them. I can class myself with the latter, for I could have married a Prince of the Royal Family of Spain, the Count de Montemolin (age 26), who was at one time regarded as the rightful King of Spain.

Carlos Luis Fernando de Bourbon, Count de Montemolin (age 26), born 1818, was the eldest son of the first Don Carlos (age 45), the legitimist claimant to the Spanish throne on the death of his brother, Fernando VII (age 48), in 1833. After the ending of the first Carlist war in the defeat of the legitimists and the establishment of Isabella (age 14) on the throne, the old Don Carlos (age 56) retired into private life and abdicated his claims in 1845 to his eldest son Montemolin (age 26), who thus became the second Don Carlos. He was a young man of some ability but weak and unstable. There was a strong party in Spain desirous to bring about a reconciliation of the two branches of the Royal Family by a marriage between the young Queen Isabella (age 14) and her first cousin, Montemolin (age 26), but political passion and personal animosity stood in the way, and all Europe took part in the intrigue known as the Spanish Marriages. This ended of course in the disastrous marriage of Isabella (age 14) with her cousin Francisco, and that of her sister Fernanda (age 12) with the Due de Montpensier (age 20), the son of Louis Philippe (age 71), a defeat for English diplomacy which nearly caused a war with France. The Carlists had never been favourable to the idea of a marriage of Montemolin (age 26) and Isabella (age 14), whom they regarded as a usurper, and they looked out a legitimist Royal Princess for him. His younger brother, Don Juan (age 22), married Princess Beatrix of Modena, and their son was the late Don Carlos. Queen Isabella married in 1846, and dissensions very soon broke out between her and her wretched husband, who really, like most of the Royal Family, was a Carlist at heart. Montemolin had issued a manifesto at Bourges in France in 1845, when he saw that he could not marry Isabella (age 14) on his own terms, and his father had abdicated in the same year, and he soon after came to London, mustered his party, and began to organise a fresh Carlist rising in Spain. English diplomacy had suffered a great defeat and he found plenty of people here to help him; he was made much of in Society and became a lion for a time, being treated with full royal honours.

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Notes and Queries 1852 Volume 5 Number 118. The Crime of Poisoning by Boiling [Page 112]

Mr. J. B. Colman has directed attention to the special act of attainder passed in 22 Hen. VIII. in order to punish Richard Roose for poisoning the family of the Bishop of Rochester; but I have reason to believe that he is wrong in his assertion that, prior to that statute, "there was no peculiarity in the mode of punishment" for the crime in question. In the Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London, which I am now engaged in editing for the Camden Society, I find an instance of the like punishment being inflicted for the same crime in the 13th Hen. VIII.:

"And this yere was a man soddyne in a cautherne (sc. a cauldron) in Smythfelde, and lett up and downe dyvers tymes tyll he was dede, for because he wold a poyssynd dyvers persons."

I would therefore beg to inquire whether Mr. Colman has taken a correct view of the statute of 22 Hen. VIII. as prescribing a new punishment, retrospective to the case of Richard Roose; and whether the act was not, so far as he was concerned, simply one of attainder, to deprive the culprit of the "advantage of his clargie," whereby he might otherwise have escaped the legal punishment already provided for the crime. Having declared Roose attainted of high treason, the statute proceeds to enact that all future poisoners shall also be debarred of the benefit of clergy, and immediately committed to death by boiling. Roose's own case is recorded in the Grey Friars' Chronicle with the same horrible circumstances as those related in the former instance, of his life being gradually destroyed:

"He was lockyd in a chayne and pullyd up and downe with a gybbyt at dyvers tymes tyll he was dede."

A third instance occurs in 1542, when—

"The x day of March was a mayde boyllyd in Smythfelde for poysynyng of dyvers persons."

This last is the same case which is cited by L. H. K. in your Vol. ii., p. 519. If my view of the statute of 22 Hen. VIII. be the right one, it still remains to be ascertained when this barbarous punishment was first adopted; and is it certain that it ceased with the reign of Hen. VIII.?

John Gough Nichols.

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The Times. 02 Feb 1874. THE MARRIAGE FESTIVITIES IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURIG. Jan 31 Yesterday the Duke (age 29) and Duchess of Edinburgh (age 20), the Prince (age 32) and Princess of Wales (age 29), and Prince Arthur (age 23) were present with all the Imperial family at the ball given by the Cesarewvitch. The Prince of Wales (age 32) wore the uniform of the Norfolk Militia and Prince Arthur (age 23) that of the Rifle Brigade. This evening a grand dinner, to which 400 guests are invited, will be given by the British Ambassador to the Crown Prince and Princess of Germany and Prince Arthur. Later on in the evening all the English Princes will go to the ball given at the Hall of the Nobles at 9:30.

On 31 Jan 1880 HMS Atlanta, serving as a training ship, set sail from the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda for Falmouth, England. It was presumed that she sank in a powerful storm which crossed her route a couple of weeks after she sailed. The search for evidence of her fate attracted worldwide attention, and the Admiralty received more than 150 telegrams and 200 personal calls from anxious friends and relatives after it was announced that the ship was missing, and possibly lost.

Philip Ernest Fisher (age 22) was presumed drowned.

On 12 Jan 1884 Robert Nicholas Hamond (age 74) died. On 01 Mar 1893 his wife Sophia Caroline Musters (age 71) died.

On 13 Dec 1869 Anthony Hamond (age 65) died. On 31 Jan 1900 his wife Mary Anne Musters (age 77) died.

On 30 Mar 1895 Anthony Hamond (age 61) died.

Memorials in All Saints Church, West Acre [Map].

The London Gazette 26019. Whitehall, January 31, 1890. THE Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto William Scovell Savory, of Brook-street, in the parish of Saint George, Hanover-square, in the county of London, Esquire, one of the Surgeons Extraordinary to Her Majesty, and lately President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and the heirs male of his body la-wf ully begotten.

The London Gazette 26019. Whitehall, January 31, 1890. THE Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto Sir Albert Abdallah David Sassoon (age 71), of Kensington-gore, in the parish of St. Mary Abbots,. Kensington, in the county of London, and of Eastern-terrace, in the borough of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, Knight, Companion of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

The London Gazette 26019. Whitehall, January 31, 1890. THE Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom unto John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, of Penllergare, in the parish of Llangyfelach, and of Ynis y gerwn, in the parish of Cadoxton juxta Neath, both in the county of Glamorgan, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

On 31 Jan 1907 Anne Dorothy Byng (age 26) was accidentally shot and killed by her husband Captain James Harold Cuthbert (age 30) when he slipped whilst out on a shooting party at their home Beaufront Castle, Hexham [Map].

Births on the 31st January

On 31 Jan 1232 John Cornwall was born to Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall (age 23) and Isabel Marshal Countess Cornwall, Gloucester and Hertford (age 31) at Marlow, Buckinghamshire. He a grandson of King John "Lackland" of England.

On 31 Jan 1512 Henrique Aviz Cardinal King Portugal was born to Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal (age 42) and Maria Trastámara Queen Consort Portugal (age 30). Coefficient of inbreeding 8.38%.

On 31 Jan 1607 James Stanley 7th Earl of Derby was born to William Stanley 6th Earl of Derby (age 46) and Elizabeth Vere Countess Derby (age 31) at Knowsley, Lancashire. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 31 Jan 1633 Frances Napier Lady Barkham was born to Robert Napier 2nd Baronet (age 30) and Penelope Egerton Lady Napier (age 24).

On 31 Jan 1702 Alan Brodrick was born to Alan Brodrick 1st Viscount Midleton (age 46) and Lucy Courthorpe.

On 31 Jan 1722 Charles Louis Buck 4th Baronet was born to Charles Buck 3rd Baronet (age 30) and Anne Sebright Lady Buck.

On 31 Jan 1735 Tilly Kettle was born.

On 31 Jan 1736 James Langham 7th Baronet was born to William Langham (age 37).

On 31 Jan 1756 Maria Teresa of Savoy was born to Victor Amadeus III King Sardinia (age 30) and Infanta Maria Antonia Spain (age 26). She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

On or before 31 Jan 1764 William Henry Pennyman was born to James Pennyman 6th Baronet (age 27) and Elizabeth Grey Lady Pennyman. He was baptised on 31 Jan 1764 at St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Beverley. Dugdale's visitation however gives the baptismal date as the 21st of January 1764.

On 31 Jan 1769 Henry Howard was born

On 31 Jan 1769 Hugh Evelyn 5th Baronet was born to Charles Evelyn.

On 31 Jan 1785 Henry Pelham-Clinton 4th Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme was born to Thomas Pelham-Clinton 3rd Duke Newcastle-under-Lyme (age 32) and Anna Maria Stanhope Countess Lincoln in Walton, Northamptonshire. He a great x 3 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 31 Jan 1796 Nathaniel Jocelyn was born.

On 31 Jan 1806 Frederick Baring was born to Alexander Baring 1st Baron Ashburton (age 31) and Ann Louisa Bingham Baroness Ashburton (age 24).

On 31 Jan 1820 George John Browne 3rd Marquess of Sligo was born to Howe Browne 2nd Marquess of Sligo (age 31) and Hester Catherine Burgh (age 20).

On 31 Jan 1850 Katherine Louisa Phipps Countess Ellesmere was born to George Phipps 2nd Marquess Normanby (age 30) and Laura Russell Marchioness Normanby (age 34).

On 31 Jan 1863 Lewis Vernon-Harcourt 1st Viscount Harcourt was born to William George Granville Harcourt (age 35) and Maria Thérese Lister at Nuneham House, Oxfordshire. His mother died a day after his birth.

On 31 Jan 1864 Ethelreda Caroline Gordon was born to Charles Gordon 10th Marquess Huntly and Maria Antoinetta Pegus Marchioness Huntly (age 43).

On 31 Jan 1885 Guy Colin Campbell 4th Baronet was born to Guy Theophilus Campbell 3rd Baronet (age 30).

On 31 Jan 1907 Maureen Constance Guinness Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava was born to Arthur Ernest Guinness (age 30) and Marie Clothilde Russell.

On 31 Jan 1907 Edward Russell 26th Baron de Clifford was born to Jack Russell 25th Baron de Clifford (age 22) and Evelyn Chandler aka Eva Carrington Lady de Clifford (age 20).

On 31 Jan 1909 Cynthia Ella Foley was born to Colonel Frank Wigram Foley and Eva Mary FitzHardinge Milman 16th Baroness Berkeley (age 33).

Marriages on the 31st January

Between 05 Nov 1598 and 31 Jan 1599 William Hervey 1st Baron Hervey (age 34) and Mary Browne Countess Southampton (age 46) were married. Her third husband.

On 31 Jan 1631 John Peyton 3rd Baronet (age 23) and Mary Bellingham (age 21) were married.

Before 31 Jan 1633 Robert Napier 2nd Baronet (age 30) and Penelope Egerton Lady Napier (age 24) were married. She the daughter of John Egerton 1st Earl Bridgewater (age 54) and Frances Stanley Countess Bridgewater (age 50). She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

On 31 Jan 1688 David Murray 5th Viscount of Stormont (age 23) and Marjory Scott Viscountess Stormont were married.

Before 31 Jan 1702 Alan Brodrick (age 46) and Lucy Courthorpe were married.

On 31 Jan 1715 John Eden 2nd Baronet (age 37) and Catherine Shafto were married. They were given Windlestone Hall, County Durham as a wedding gift.

Before 31 Jan 1720 Thomas Grey 2nd Earl Stamford (age 66) and Elizabeth Harvey were divorced amid accusations of adultery.

On 31 Jan 1724 Jacob Bouverie 1st Viscount Folkestone (age 29) and Mary Clarke were married at St Paul's Cathedral [Map].

On 31 Jan 1739 Henry Erskine 10th Earl of Buchan (age 28) and Agnes Steuart were married. He the son of David Erskine 9th Earl Buchan (age 67) and Frances Fairfax Countess Buchan.

On 31 Jan 1804 Oswald Mosley 2nd Baronet (age 18) and Sophia Anne Every were married.

On 31 Jan 1862 Allen Bathurst 6th Earl Bathurst (age 29) and Meriel Warren (age 23) were married at the St Peter's Chapel, Tabley House [Map]. He a great x 4 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 31 Jan 1888 Herbrand Arthur Sackville 11th Duke Bedford (age 29) and Mary Caurroy Tribe Duchess Bedford were married at Barrackpore. He the son of Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford (age 68) and Elizabeth Sackville-West Duchess Bedford (age 69). He a great x 5 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 31 Jan 1963 Murray Beauclerk 14th Duke St Albans (age 24) and Rosemary Frances Scoones Viscoutess Exmouth were married. He the son of Charles Beauclerk 13th Duke St Albans (age 47) and Nathalie Chatham Walker.

Deaths on the 31st January

On 31 Jan 1030 William "Great" V Duke Aquitaine (age 61) died. His son William VI Duke Aquitaine (age 26) succeeded VI Duke Aquitaine.

On 31 Jan 1351 Richard Lovel (age 75) died. Baron Lovel of Castle Cary extinct.

On 31 Jan 1408 or 01 Feb 1408 John de Lisle 5th Baron Lisle (age 41) died. His son John de Lisle 6th Baron Lisle (age 22) succeeded 6th Baron Lisle.

On 31 Jan 1580 Henrique Aviz Cardinal King Portugal (age 68) died bringing to an end the House of Aviz. He was succeeded by Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain (age 52) who was elected successor in 1581 following a military invasion of Portugal in Nov 1580.

On 31 Jan 1615 Henry Grey 6th Earl Kent (age 74) died. His brother Charles Grey 7th Earl Kent succeeded 7th Earl Kent, 10th Baron Grey of Ruthyn. Susan Cotton Countess Kent (age 63) by marriage Countess Kent.

On 29 Jan 1622 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire (age 42) shot himself with a crossbow at Rycote, Oxfordshire [Map]; probably deliberately.

On 31 Jan 1622 Francis Norreys 1st Earl Berkshire (age 42) died of the wounds he had received two days earlier. He was buried at Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire [Map]. His daughter Elizabeth Norreys 3rd Baroness Norreys Rycote (age 19) succeeded 3rd Baroness Norreys of Rycote. Earl Berkshire and Viscount Thame extinct.

On 31 Jan 1704 Robert Bacon 5th Baronet (age 52) died. His son Edmund Bacon 6th Baronet (age 23) succeeded 6th Baronet Bacon of Redgrave in Suffolk.

On 31 Jan 1705 Robert Lucas 3rd Baron Shenfield (age 55) died. Baron Lucas of Shenfield extinct.

After 31 Jan 1705 Essex Howard Baroness Griffin died.

On 31 Jan 1720 Thomas Grey 2nd Earl Stamford (age 66) died. On 31 Jan 1720 His first cousin Henry Grey 3rd Earl Stamford (age 34) succeeded 3rd Earl Stamford, 4th Baron Grey of Groby. Dorothy Wright Countess Stamford (age 35) by marriage Countess Stamford.

On 31 Jan 1723 William Wolstenholme 5th Baronet (age 33) died. His uncle Thomas Wolstenhome 6th Baronet (age 63) succeeded 6th Baronet Wolstenholme of London.

On 26 Feb 1746 Thomas Watson 3rd Earl Rockingham (age 30) died without issue. Earl Rockingham extinct. His first cousin once removed Thomas Watson 1st Marquess Rockingham (age 52) succeeded 6th Baron Rockingham of Northampton, 6th Baronet Watson of Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire. He left his estates to his first cousin Lewis Watson 1st Baron Sondes (age 17) who changed his surname from Monson to Watson on 31 Jan 1751.

On 31 Jan 1768 Richard Colley aka Wesley 1st Baron Mornington (age 78) died. His son Garrett Wellesley 1st Earl Mornington (age 32) succeeded 2nd Baron Mornington.

On 31 Jan 1830 Bishop John Luxmoore (age 64) died. Memorial at St Asaph Cathedral [Map].

Bishop John Luxmoore: In 1766 he was born. In 1799 he was appointed Dean of Gloucester Cathedral. In 1808 Bishop John Luxmoore was translated to Bishop of Hereford. In 1815 Bishop John Luxmoore was translated to Bishop of St Asaph.

On 31 Jan 1837 Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton 7th Baronet (age 35) died. His son John Dalberg-Acton 1st Baron Acton (age 3) succeeded 8th Baronet Acton of Aldenham Hall.

On 31 Jan 1863 Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 3rd Marquess Lansdowne (age 82) died. His son Henry Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice 4th Marquess Lansdowne (age 47) succeeded 4th Marquess Lansdowne, 5th Earl Shelburne in County Wexford, 5th Earl Kerry. Emily Jane de Flahaut Marchioness Lansdowne (age 43) by marriage Marchioness Lansdowne.

On 31 Jan 1864 Elizabeth Brodie Duchess Gordon (age 69) died.

On 31 Jan 1887 Margaret Paston Lady Paston-Bedingfield (age 80) died.

On 31 Jan 1918 Alfred de Rothschild (age 75) died. Almina Wombwell Countess Carnarvon (age 41) inherited £50,000 and his Mayfair house with its art collection.

On 31 Jan 1929 Frederick Lambton 4th Earl Durham (age 73) died. His son John Frederick Lambton 5th Earl Durham (age 44) succeeded 5th Earl Durham.

On 31 Jan 1944 John Beresford 5th Baron Decies (age 77) died. His son Arthur Beresford 6th Baron Decies (age 28) succeeded 6th Baron Decies of Decies in Waterford.