HADDON : THE HALL, THE MANOR. AND ITS LORDS. 1 3 



Sir Henry Vernon, who, ])y an Inquisition, was found to be 

 twenty-six years of age in 1467. (///^. p. m. 6 Edw. IV.) He 

 was appointed Governor and Treasurer to Prinre Arthur (born 

 i486), who lived at Ludlow Castle; and when that Prince was 

 created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester and Flint in 1489, Sir 

 Henry was made a Knight of the Bath ; and, according to tradi- 

 tion. Prince Arthur spent much of his time at Haddon with 

 Sir Henry Vernon. One of the apartments at Haddon was 

 called the' Prince's Chamber.' Sir Henry witnessed the marriage 

 contract between Prince Arthur and the Princess of Arragon. 

 This marriage took place in 1501, when the Prince was only 

 sixteen years of age. Sir Henry represented the County of 

 Derby in Parliament in 1478, and was High Sheriff for Derby 

 1504. He was one of the nobles, knights, and gentlemen who 

 gathered round the Royal Standard, June, 1487. He married 

 Anne, daughter of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (Mar. Sett. 

 6th October, 1466), by whom he had a numerous family, of 

 which three sons are commemorated at Tong, viz., a monument 

 to Arthur, priest, fifth and youngest son; Richard Vernon, Esq., 

 of Haddon, who succeeded his father; and a monument to 

 Humphrey, third son. Sir John, the fourth son, was the ancestor 

 of the Lords Vernon of Sudbury. Sir Henry died 13th April, 

 1515^ and Anne, his wife, 17th May, 1494, and were buried in 

 the Vernon Chapel, in Tong Church, where there is a fine altar- 

 tomb, with stone efligies, commemorating them, which has the 

 following inscription (translated) : — 



" Here lie the bodies of Sir Henry Vernon, Knight, the 

 founder of this Chantry Chapel, and Dame Anne Talbot, his 

 wife, daughter of John, Earl of Shrewsbury, which said Henry 

 died the 13th day of the month of April in the year of our Lord 

 15 15, and the said Lady Anne died the 17th day of May in the 

 year of our Lord 1494, on whose souls may God be merciful." 



The following extracts are from the will of Sir Henry Vernon, 

 dated i8th January, 15 15 : — 



" Item. — I bequeath my body to be buried at Tong, where 

 I have assigned my selfe to lye. And for as inuche as wt good 



