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portion of the barony descended in direct succession through two 
or three generations of De Rooses to (in 1390) an infant daughter 
of John de Roos, who afterwards became the wife of Sir William 
de Parr, from whom it descended to Sir Thomas Parr, Master of 
the Wards and Comptroller to King Henry VIII. 
I need hardly tell you that Catherine, the eldest daughter of 
this Sir William de Parr, after being first married to Edward 
Borough, or Burgh, secondly to John Neville, Lord Latimer, 
became, on her third matrimonial venture, the sixth wife of Bluff 
King Hal, and having seen him quietly disposed of, married for 
her fourth husband Thomas Lord Seymour, of Dudley. Besides 
Catherine and her sister Anne, Sir Thomas Parr had a son, William 
Parr, who was created Lord Parr and Ross of Kendal, in 1538, 
and in 1547 Marquis of Northampton, upon his receiving which 
latter title the portion of the Barony of Kendal belonging to him 
acquired the name or title of the “ Marquis Fee,” and retains it to 
the present day. This William Parr, Marquis of Northampton, 
died in 1570 without issue, in consequence of which the Fee 
reverted to the Crown, then held by Queen Elizabeth. 
Turning to the other portion of the barony, which fell to 
the lot of Helwise’s sister Alice, on the death of her brother 
William de Lancaster, son of Gilbert de Reinfred, Alice married 
William de Lindesay, and they had a son, Walter, from whom the 
Fee descended in direct succession to his great granddaughter 
Christian de Lindesay, who married Ingelram de Guienes, Lord de 
Courcy, in France. Their eldest son, William, was born in 
France, and, according to the law of those times, could not inherit 
land in England; and as their second son, Ingelram, born in 
England, died without issue, the estate escheated to the Crown. 
William, who, as I said before, was born in France, had two sons, 
Ingelram the eldest, and William the youngest; and the then 
King of England (Edward III.) gave the fee to William, the 
youngest son; but he, William, also died without issue, and the 
Fee again escheated to the Crown. King Edward III. then 
granted it for life to John de Coupland, of Coupland, in North- 
umberland, and Joan his wife, during their lives, This John de 
