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between his nieces Maude and Joan. On Joan's death in 1490, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Maude, the fourth holder. When she died childless in 1497 the peerage once again fell into abeyance, this time between the daughters of the first baron. The title remained in abeyance for over 400
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reported in favour of the petition for the termination of the abeyancy of Selina
Frances Bewicke-Copley. She was the daughter of Sir Charles Watson Copley, 3rd Baronet, and one of the co-heirs of Maud, daughter of the first baron Cromwell. Selina died in 1923 and in July of the same year, the
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The third creation of the title came in 1461 when Sir
Humphrey Bourchier was summoned by writ to Parliament as Lord Cromwell. On his death the barony became extinct. The fourth creation of the title came in 1536 for the famous statesman
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Committee for Privileges of the
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Godfrey Wolesley Bewicke-Copley, 5th Baron Cromwell
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187:Godfrey John Bewicke-Copley, 7th Baron Cromwell
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125:Barons Cromwell, second creation (1375)
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246:Barons Cromwell, fifth creation (1540)
207:Humphrey Bourchier, 1st Baron Cromwell
201:Barons Cromwell, third creation (1461)
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143:Ralph de Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell
271:Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
256:Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
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169:Maud Stanhope, 4th Baroness Cromwell
118:John de Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell
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