WILLIAM, 13TH LORD GREY DE WILTON (d. 1562), who SUC ceeded to the title on the death of his brother Richard, about 1520, fought in France during the concluding years of Henry VIII.'s reign, and was one of the leaders of the victorious English army at the battle of Pinkie in 1547. He was then employed on the Scot tish marches and in Scotland, and in he was engaged in sup.
pressing the rebellion in Oxfordshire and in the west of England; in 1551 he was imprisoned as a friend of the fallen protector, the duke of Somerset, and he was concerned in the attempt made by John Dudley, duke of Northumberland, to place Lady Jane Grey on the English throne in 1553. He was pardoned by Queen Mary and was entrusted with the defence of Guines; in January 1558 he was forced to surrender the town and for some time he re mained a prisoner in France. Under Elizabeth, Grey was again employed on the Scottish border, and besieged Leith in May 1560. He died at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on Dec. 25, 1562.
See his son Arthur's Commentary of the Services and Charges of William, Lord Grey of Wilton, K.G., edited by Sir P. de M. Grey Eger ton (Camden Society, 1847)• Grey's elder son ARTHUR, 14TH LORD GREY DE WILTON (1536 '593), was during early life with his father in France and in Scotland ; he fought at the battle of St. Quentin and helped to defend Guines and to assault Leith. In July 158o he was ap pointed lord deputy of Ireland, and of ter an initial defeat in Wick low was successful in reducing many of the rebels to a temporary submission. He must be held responsible for the massacre of 600 Italians and Spaniards at Smerwick in November 1580. Grey frequently implored the queen to recall him, and in August 1582 he was allowed to return to England (see E. Spenser, View of the State of Ireland, edited by H. Morley, 1890, and R. Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors, vol. iii., 1890). While in Ireland Grey was served as secretary by Edmund Spenser and he figures as Artegall in book v. of the Faerie Queene. Grey was one of the commissioners who tried Mary queen of Scots, and he took part in the preparations for the defence of England against the Span iards in 1588. His account of the defence of Guines was used by Holinshed in his Chronicles.