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Viscount of Haddington, and Lord Ramsay, of Barns, 

 June 11, 1606, and augmentation to his arms, etc. Upon 

 the accession of King James to the throne of England, his 

 lordship accompanied his royal master to London, and, after 

 participating to repletion in the royal bounty, was, some 

 years afterwards, January 22, 1621, made a peer of the 

 king's new dominions by the title of Earl of Holderness, with 

 this special addition to the honour, that annually, on the 5th 

 of August (the thanksgiving day for the king's deliverance 

 .from the Earl of Gowrie and his brother), he and his heirs 

 male should bear the sword of state before the king, in the 

 solemnization of that day's service. He died without leaving 

 issue in February, 1625, when his titles became extinct. 



^^ Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield — eldest son 

 of John, 2nd Baron Sheffield and Douglas, daughter of 

 William, Lord Howard of Effingham — succeeded his father 

 in 1569. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth he distinguished 

 himself by many military services, particularly in the cele- 

 brated defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 ; and was about 

 this date made Governor of Brill and a Knight of the Garter. 

 He was appointed President of the North, September 19, 

 1602, and was subsequently confirmed in that office by James 

 L By Charles I. he was created Earl of Mulgrave by patent, 

 dated February, 1626. He married, ist, Ursula, daughter 

 of Sir Robert Tirwhit, of Ketilby, county Lincoln, by whom 

 he had no less than fifteen children ; and 2ndly, Mariana, 

 daughter of Sir William Urwyn, Knight, by whom he had 

 three sons and a daughter ; and notwithstanding his numerous 

 issue, his titles and honours shortly afterwards expired for 

 want of heirs. Edmund, 3rd Lord Sheffield, and ist Earl 

 of Mulgrave, died in 1646, aged eighty years. This nobleman 

 lost all his sons by accidents, with the exception of Charles, 

 the eldest, who died in childhood. John, Edward, and Philip 

 were drowned in their passage over the Humber at Whitgift 

 Ferry, in December, 1614; William was drowned in France ; 

 and George killed when exercising a horse in his father's 

 riding-house. 



