CONTENTS. I. PETITION of Sir WILLIAM JERNINGHAM, Baronet, to the Crown, claiming both the Old Barony of STAFFORD under the Act of Reftitution in the first of King Edward the Sixth, and the New Barony of STAFFORD under the Letters Patent of Creation in the fixteenth of King Charles II. OPINION and ARGUMENT of Mr. HARGRAVE in 1800 in Support of Lady ANASTASIA STAFFORD HOWARD's Right to the New Barony of STAFFORD, notwithstanding the Attainder of her Ancestor LORD VIS- COUNT STAFFORD in 1680 for Treafon in being concerned in the alleged POPISH PLOT including Remarks on the Origin and Progress of that memorable Accufation, and on LORD VISCOUNT STAFFORD's Trial and TO THE KING's Moft Excellent MAJESTY. The humble PETITION of Sir WILLIAM JERNINGHAM of Coffey in the County of Norfolk, Baronet, claiming to be Baron of Stafford, TH SHEWETH, HAT Robert de Stafford, or Statfort, the petitioner's an◄ ceftor, who lived in the reign of King William the first, appears by Domesday Book to have been feised of large landed poffeffions in the county of Stafford, and other counties. That Nicholas de Stafford was fon and heir of the faid Robert de Stafford and sheriff of Staffordshire in the time of King Henry the first. That Robert de Stafford was fon and heir of the faid Nicholas de Stafford, and in the 12th of King Henry the 2d, on the affeffment of the aid for marrying that king's daughter, appears by the Black Book of the Exchequer, to have certified his fees of the old feoffment to be fixty in number, and 51 of them to be holden by military services. That Robert de Stafford, fon and heir of the last mentioned Robert de Stafford, was feifed of the honor or baronial eftate of Stafford, of which the manor of Stafford and castle of Stafford, now in the poffeffion of the petitioner, were, or one of them was, the head, and died so seised without iffue, leaving his fifter Milifent de Stafford his heir; and she having married Hervey Bagot; the B |