Earl of Wiltshire, Fifth Creation (1510)
- Henry Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1479–1523) (extinct)
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“See the kind seed-receiving earth
To every grain affords a birth:
On her no showers unwelcome fall,
Her willing womb retains ‘em all,
And shall my Caelia be confined?
No, live up to thy mighty mind,
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