Henry carey 1st baron hunsdon fox
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HENRY CAREY, first Lord Hunsdon (?), governor of Berwick and chamberlain of Queen Elizabeth's household, born about , was only son of William Carey, esquire of the body to Henry VIII, by his wife Mary, sister or Anne Boleyn and daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn. Through his mother he was first cousin to Queen Elizabeth. His father died of the sweating sickness in , and his mother remarried Sir William Stafford, who died 19 July
Carey first comes into meddelande as member of parliament for Buckingham at the end of ; he was re-elected for the same constituency to the parliaments of April and November , and of October In Edward oss granted him the manors of Little Brickhill and Burton in Buckinghamshire. He was knighted by his relative Queen Elizabeth soon after her accession, and was created Baron Hunsdon on 13 Jan. , receiving on 20 March following a grant of the honour of Hunsdon and manor of Eastwick in Hertfordshire, together with other lands in Kent.
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On this Day in History 23rd July
Vatican Regesta Vol. DCLXXXV Secretarum Tomus IV 2 Innocent VIII. 10 Kal. Aug. Decree, at the petition of king Henry (age 29) and queen Elizabeth (age 20), that a notarial copy of the process before James, bishop of Imola, Apostolic Nuncio with the power of a legate de latere, in regard to the dispensation granted by him to them to contract marriage, notwithstanding the impediment arising from their being related in the double fourth degree of kindred, shall have the same credence as the original letters of the said bishop. The Pope (age 54) exemplifies the said letters and process as follows:
Public instrument, setting forth that in the year of the Incarnation , after the computation of the English church, the 4th indiction, anno 2 Innocent VIII [16 Jan ], in the chapel of St. Mary [the Virgin] on the east side of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London [Map], before James, bishop of Imola, apostolic legate to England and Scotl
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Henry Carey, 1st Earl of Dover
English peer and Member of Parliament
Henry Carey, 1st Earl of DoverKB (ca. &#;&#; 13 April ) of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire was an English peer and Member of Parliament.
Life
[edit]Carey was the son of John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon. Cambridge University awarded him an honorary MA in [1] He was knighted, as a Knight of the Bath (KB), on 3 June
He was elected MP for Sussex in and Hertfordshire in [2]
Carey succeeded as 4th Baron Hunsdon on 17 April On 6 July he was created Viscount Rochford, a title previously held by his great-great-grandfather Thomas Boleyn, and on 8 March was created Earl of Dover. He acted as Speaker of the House of Lords in , and was Colonel of the regiment of Oxford Scholars between and
In , he sued a London merchant Humphrey Fox for abuse, after Fox had allegedly insulted Dover's livery, worn by a London waterman.[3]
In he was indicted for counterfeiting coinage and was obliged to sel