276 SINNINGTON. 



daughter of Humphrey Stafford, Esq ,of Grafton,in 

 the county of Worcester, by whom he had six sons, 

 John, William, Thomas, Marmaduke, George, and 

 Christopher ; and 6 daughters, Margaret, married 

 to lord Willoughby de Brooke, Dorothy, Elizabeth, 

 Catharine, Susan, and Joane ; and died 22 of 

 Henry VIII , 1531 ; when John, his eldest son and 

 heir, had a special livery of his lands. 



John lord Latimer married to his second wife the 

 celebrated Catharine Parr,* daughter of Sir Thomas 

 Parr, (and afterwards the last wife of Henry VIII.) 

 by whom he had issue John and Margaret. Which 

 John, ihe last lord Latimer of the family of Neville, 



* Young, in his history of Whitby, p; 732. observes 

 that " Danby castle belonged to lord Latimer; and that 

 " Catherine, wife of John lord Latimer, and afterwards 

 " the last queen of Uenry VI II., is said to have resided 

 " here, before her elevation." Now Leland observes 

 in his Itinerary, vol I. 59. " that at Sinnington, the 

 <l lord Latimer hath a fair manor place;" is it not 

 therefore probable from the vicinity of the two places, 

 and both of them belonged to the same lord, that the 

 fair manor place at Sinnington had also the honour of 

 Jbeing the occasional, I had almost said, from its super- 

 ior situation, the FAVOUHITE residence of Catherine Parr, 

 before she became the queen of Henry VIII. ? This 

 queen, as is well known, survived the king ; though she 

 had a narrow escape from that terror of the female sex; 

 extricating berself from his snare with the most consum- 

 mate skill ; which see detailed at length by Hume vol. 

 IV, chapter 33, towards the conclusion, 



Dugdaie, (vide Baronetage, I. p. 313 ) says that Ca- 

 tharine Parr had a son and a daughter, John and Marga- 

 ret, by the lord Latimer ; but Bankes, (vide " Extinct 

 and Dormant Peerage/' vol. ii. p. 297.) says that she had 

 no issue by lord Latimer ; but (hat this John and Mar- 

 garet de Latimer, were by his former wife Dorothy, 

 daughter of the earl of Orfoid. 



