. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. ssession of Sir Stephen de Peneshurste,or Pencestre— a very learned man, according to Harris, and a famous warden of theCinque Ports. In that of Edward the Second, it was the property of Sir John dePulteney, who had licence to embattle it: and who was four times Lord Mayor ofLondon. In that of Richard the Second, it was sold to the Regent Duke of his death, his brother, the good Duke Humphrey, inherited; and on his death—bymurder, at Bury, in 1446—the estate reverted to the Crown, and was granted by Henry,t
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. ssession of Sir Stephen de Peneshurste,or Pencestre— a very learned man, according to Harris, and a famous warden of theCinque Ports. In that of Edward the Second, it was the property of Sir John dePulteney, who had licence to embattle it: and who was four times Lord Mayor ofLondon. In that of Richard the Second, it was sold to the Regent Duke of his death, his brother, the good Duke Humphrey, inherited; and on his death—bymurder, at Bury, in 1446—the estate reverted to the Crown, and was granted by Henry,the Sixth to his kinsman, Humphrey de Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. In his family itremained until the reign of Henry the Eighth, when, by the attainder of Edward Duke ofBuckingham, it fell again to the Crown. By Edward the Sixth, it was given to Sir RalphFane; but on his execution, as an accomplice of the Protector Somerset, it was by letters * According to Hasted, the name is derived from Pen, an old British word signifying the top of anything ; and hyrst, a PENSHUEST. patent granted to Sir William Sidney (one of the heroes of Flodden Field) and his heirs—Sir William being lineally descended from Sir William Sidney, Knight, Chamberlain tothe Second Henry, with whom he came out of Anjou. In 1553, his son, Sir Henry,inherited. Sir Henry was from infancy bred at Court, being a companion, and manytimes a bedfellow, to the young Prince, afterwards Edward the Sixth, by whom he wasknighted. He was twice Lord Deputy of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth—a period oftrouble and continual danger; during which he discharged his duty as an energeticsoldier, a sound practical reformer, and a merciful man. The Historians of his timedescribe him as of a very public spirit, of great abilities, modest, pious, and patient; andin his younger years, for comeliness and beauty, the ornament of the Court. Sir Philip Sidney—styled the Incomparable —was his eldest son; and at Pensh
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