marshal of the army, so giving great offence to Sir John Norris and his brother Sir Edward Norris. As for Pelham, he shared Leicester's prejudices against the Norrises, and at a drinking bout on 6 August at Count Hohenlohe's quarters at Geertruidenberg, he was the cause of a brawl which nearly cost Sir Edward Norris his life. A few days later, while inspecting the trenches before Doesburg in company with Leicester, he was wounded by a shot in the stomach; the wound did not prove immediately fatal. He was able to take part in the fight at Zutphen, and, according to Fulke Greville, it was the desire to emulate him that made Sir Philip Sidney lay aside his cuisses and so to receive the wound that caused his death. He was entrusted with the task of bringing the recalcitrant citizens of Deventer to heel. He returned to England with the Earl of Leicester in April 1587, and took the waters at Bath. He was sent back with reinforcements to the Netherlands in the autumn, but died shortly after landing at Vlissingen, on 24 November 1587. Works Pelham's Letter Book, comprising his diary and official correspondence when lord justice of Ireland, is preserved among the Carew Manuscripts at Lambeth. It was compiled by Morgan Colman, and consists of 455 leaves. The title page is elaborately ornamented. Pelham wrote commendatory verses prefixed to Sir George Peckham's A true Reporte of the late Discoveries ... of the Newfound Landes: By ... Sir Humphrey Gilbert, London, 1583. There is a tract by him, with the title, A form or maner howe to have the Exersyse of the Harquebuse thorowe England for the better Defence of the same'', in 'State Papers,’ Dom. Eliz. xliv. 60. Family Pelham married, first, Eleanor (died 1574), daughter of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland and his first wife Anne Manners. By her, he had one son, Sir William Pelham, who succeeded him, and married Ann, eldest daughter of Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham and Margaret Clinton. He had a second wife by 1576. She became Dorothy Pelham (died 1623). Her father was Anthony Catesby of Whiston, Northamptonshire, and she was the widow of Sir William Dormer, He and his first wife had two sons, (e.g. Peregrine) and a daughter, Ann. Dorothy left an endowment that became part of the foundation of the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.