concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Actum Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentem per nos vigore Actus illius nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia facias exequaris cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Per breve de privato Sigillo Barker A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 31. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo septimo die Octobris proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo quarto die Julii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo primo Grimston Pengry A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 32. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Oxoniam vicesimo primo die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo secundo Grimston Pengry The Jointure of the Countess of Peterborow in Turvey THIS Indenture made the Sixth Day of August in the _____ Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred _____ Between the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey the Honourable William Mountague Esquire Brother to the Lord Mountague of Boughton Sir William Farmer of Easton in the County of Northampton Baronet and Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath of the other part Whereas the Maner of Turvey and certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Turvey in the County of Bedford except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs were settled or intended to be settled upon Penelope Countess of Peterborow for her natural Life for her Jointure and in lieu of her Dower and Thirds of the Estate of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and a certain Decree hath been made in the High Court of Chancery for the Establishing the same for her Jointure accordingly and it is the intent and purpose of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow that the same shall be enjoyed accordingly Now witness these Presents That the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and in consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of Lawful Money of England by the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents well and truly unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors and Administrators for ever by these Presents and for divers other good Causes and Considerations him thereunto moving hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Admininistrators and Assigns all the Maner or reputed Maner of Turvey in the County of Bedford and all Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow situate lying and being in Turvey aforesaid or accepted reputed taken demised or known as part or parcel of the said Maner of Turvey aforesaid except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs To have and to hold the said Maner of Turvey and all the Premises in Turvey aforesaid except as before is excepted unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns from and after the death of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and during and unto the full end and term of Ninety nine Years from thence ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended if she the said Penelope Countess of Peterborow shall so long live Nevertheless upon this special Trust and Confidence That the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall permit and suffer the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to be received and taken in pursuance of and according to the said Decree and according
and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the Life of the said Elizabeth and after the Death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the said John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with the remainder over like in every thing as is above expressed of the said Fifty Pounds Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and all time and times within the said Eight Years after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons above named and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate in the Law by Feoffment Fine Recovery Releases with Warranty Confirmations or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be avised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Woods Rents Reversions and Services the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes hath within the Realm of England the said Persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the foresaid Fifty Pounds Provided always That it shall be lawful to the said John Elmes to Appoint and Assign Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds parcel of Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except always Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances before expressed and named to the said yearly Value of Threescore Pounds to be Appointed and Assigned for the Jointure of the said Edith the said Twenty Pounds to be and go to and for the Exhibition Marriage Advancement of his Children and to pay his Debts and to the performance of the last Will of the said John Elmes so it extend no further but for term of Life or Lives or for the term of Twenty Years next ensuing the Death of the said John Elmes And also provided That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him so to Marry for the term of her Life of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the Premises under the yearly Value of Forty Pounds at the pleasure of the said John Elmes Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage no do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer to be done any manner of Act or Acts whereby any manuer of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which did come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof as is before expressed of the said Fifty Pounds And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffered any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by and after the decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue-Male the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the Old Inheritation thereof For the which Premises on the party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Five hundred Marks of lawful Money that is to say At the Feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming after the date hereof One hundred Marks And at the Feast of Saint Peter the Advincula commonly called Lammas day Fifty Marks and so yearly at every of the said Feasts Fifty Marks until the said Summ of Five hundred Marks be counted and paid And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall purchase with the same Five hundred Marks which the said John Elmes hath of the said John Mordaunt for the same Marriage and with the Summ of Two hundred Marks which the said John Elmes shall have delivered to him by the said Thomas Pygott the day of the said Marriage solemnized Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly Value of Forty Marks And that the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns after the said Lands so purchased shall Enfeoffee the said Persons of the same to have to them and to their Heirs in Fee the same persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of his Heirs for ever And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Elibeth his Mother do Alien Sell Discontinue Release or put away by any manner of means any Maners Lands Tenements or any other Hereditaments of the Inheritance of the said Elizabeth from the said John Elmes or from the Heirs of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten except certain Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances lying in Littlecote in the County of Buckingham to the yearly Value of Four Pounds or thereabouts That then the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall have Ten Marks parcel of the said Forty Marks so to be purchased to the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs for ever And the said persons so being seized of the said Forty Marks incontinent after the said Alienation and Sale or Discontinuance or any other matter of Act by the said Elizabeth so made
or done shall be seized of the same Ten Marks to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of his Heirs for ever Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Edith within the time and space of Six Years after the Marriage solemnized do dye having no Issue by the said John Elmes alive That then the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns shall repay or cause to be repaid to the said John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns Two hundred Marks parcel of the said Five hundred Marks within the space of Two Years next and immediately after the Decease of the said Edith To all which Covenants Bargains Promises and Grants on the part of the said John Elmes to be performed and kept the said John Elmes bindeth him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns in a Thousand Marks And to all the payments well and truly to be performed and kept on the Party of the said John the said John Mordaunt bindeth him his Heirs Executors or Assigns to the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors and Assigns in Six hundred Marks In Witness whereof c. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Servant John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And whereas this Year last passed after the conclusion taken between us and our dear Brother Cousin Confederate and Allie the French King as well for firm Peace Love and Amity as of Alliance by way of Marriage God willing to be had and made between our dearest Daughter the Princess and the Dolphin of France a personal meeting and Interview was also to them concluded to be had betwixt us and the said French King which upon urgent considerations and great respects was by mutual consent for that year put over and deferred So it is now that the said French King being much desirous to see and personally to speak with us hath sundry times by his Ambassadors and writings instantly desired us to condescend to this said interview offering to meet with us within our Dominion Pale and Marches of Caleys whereas heretofore semblable honour of preeminence hath not been given by any of the French Kings to any of our Progenitors or Ancestors we therefore remembring the manifold good effects that be in appearance like to ensue of this personal meeting as well for Corroboration and assured Establishment of Peace and Alliance concluded between us as for the universal well tranquility and restfulness of all Christendom taking also to consideration the great honour offered to us by the French King for the said meeting within our Dominion have condescended thereunto accordingly the same to be God willing in the Month of May next coming And in as much as to our Honour and Dignity Royal it appertaineth to be furnished with honourable Personages as well Spiritual as Temporal to give their Attendance upon us at so solemn an Act as this shall be for the Honour of us and our Realm we therefore have appointed you among others to attend upon our dearest Wife the Queen in this Voyage willing therefore and desiring you not only to put your self in a readiness with the number of Ten tall Personages well and conveniently apparelled for this purpose to pass with you over the Sea But also in such wise to appoint your self in Apparel as to your degree the Honour of us and this our Realm appertaineth So that ye repairing to our said dearest Wife the Queen by the First day of May next coming may there give your Attendance in her transporting over the Sea accordingly ascertaining you that albeit ye be appointed to the number of Ten Servants to pass with you as is abovesaid yet nevertheless in as much as that at her arrival at Caleys you shall have no great Journey requisite to occupy many Horses ye shall therefore convey with you over the Sea for your own Riding and otherwise not above the number of Four Horses Howbeit our mind is not to Coact or Restrain you to the said Precise number of Four Horses for your coming up to our said dearest Wife and accompanying you to the Sea side which thing we remit to your Arbitrament but only to ascertain you what number of Servants and Horses be appointed unto you to pass over the Sea like as we have ordered all other Lords and Nobles as shall attend upon our said dearest Wife the Queen according to their Degrees Fail ye not therefore to accomplish the premises as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Eltham the Six and twentieth day of March. An Indenture between John Elmes and John Mordaunto. THIS Indenture made the Ninth day of May the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir Apparent of Elizabeth Pygott Widow one of the Danghters and Heirs of John Iwardeby Esquire deceased and late Wife to the said William Elmes on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Party Witnesseth That it is Promised Covenanted and Agreed between the said Parties in the manner and form following that is to say The said John Elmes granteth and promiseth by the Grace of God to espouse and take to his Wife Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these Presents if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in like manner the said John Mordaunt granteth and promiseth That the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes before the foresaid Feast if the said John Elmes thereunto shall agree and assent And it is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the costs of the said John Mordaunt And that the said John Elmes shall apparel himself at his Pleasure at his own cost and charges and in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at his proper cost and charges And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Agreeth by these Presents That he before the Feast of All-Saints next coming at the cost and charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall make cause or do to be made to Robert Brudenell Knight the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and to the said John Mordaunt John Thyney of Drayton in the County of Buckingham Esquire Robert Thyney Thomas Tyrynghin the Elder Thomas Brudenell the Elder William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Hardyng John Spencer and Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs a sure and lawful
Estate in the Law in Fee-simple and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds by the Year over all charges whereof the Maners Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said John Elmes or any other to his use hath in Lilford Wiggesthorp in the County of Northampton shall be parcel to the use and behoof hereafter ensuing And also shall further do suffer and cause to be done at the costs and charges of the said John Mordaunt as well before the foresaid Feast as at all times after within the space of Four Years next after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt by his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their costs and charges a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple to the foresaid Robert Brudenell and the said Co-feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them and to their Heirs to the use ensuing by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of and in the foresaid Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments And that the said Persons their Heirs and Assigns beside of and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Fifty parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Sixty shall stand and be seized to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith immediately after the said Marriage had and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said William according to the old Inheritance thereof Ten Pound residue of the said Hundred Pound that the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the life of the said Elizabeth his Mother and after the death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the same John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith for term of her life and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with like remainder in any thing as is above expressed of the said Hundred Pounds And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and at all time and times within the space of Four Years next after the Feast of All-Saints when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons abovenamed and to their Heirs or to the survivors of them and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate by Feoffment or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be advised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances and all other his Hereditaments with the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes now hath And the said Persons to be and stand seized of the same other Maners to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the said Hundred Pounds Provided alway That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him to Marry for the time of his Life of Maners Lands Tenements parcel of the Premises to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds or under at the pleasure of the said John Elmes And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgate nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any manner of Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which be come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except before excepted to come grow and descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the said John Elmes according to the Old Inheritance thereof And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give or lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend in power or in use to the said John Elmes as Son and Heir of the same Elizabeth by and after the Decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the old Inheritance thereof For the which Premises on the Party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money for the which summ of a Hundred Marks the said John Mordaunt hath made to the said John Elmes Ten several Obligations for the sure payment of the same Six hundred Marks by the same Obligations Sealed with the Seal of the said John Mordaunt and remaining with the said John Elmes more plainly it doth appear And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edith within the time and space of Four Years next after the said Marriage solemnized do dye having no Issue by the said John Elmes that then the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns shall repay or cause to be repaid to the said John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns Two hundred Marks parcel of the said Six hundred Marks within the space of Four Years next and immediately
twenty Years to come grow descend in possession Reversion or in Use to the said Edmond and to his Heirs for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace at his liberty to make a Jointure to any other Woman that he shall fortune hereafter to Marry if the said Dorothy now his Wife fortune to decease of and in Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks to the yearly value of Forty Pounds for term of Life of the same Woman only Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace for to declare his Will of the said Maners Lands and Tenements of the value of Three hundred twenty five Marks during the Non-age of the said Edmond and during the Non-age of the next Heir of the said Edmond if the said Edmond fortune to decease before he shall accomplish the Age of twenty one Years And also for to declare his last Will of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Forty Marks parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks for the term of Ten Years after the decease of the said John Fettyplace And after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and twenty Years for the preferment of the Younger Sons and Daughters of the said John Fettyplace and for the contentation and payment of his Debts Provided also That it shall be lawful for the said John Fettyplace for to give to every of his Younger Sons which shall fortune to be in Life at the time of the Death of the said John Fettyplace severally by himself Ten Marks parcel of the said Three hundred twenty five Marks during their lives only And if any of them happen to decease that then after the Death of every of them that Ten Marks of him that is so Dead to come go and return to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever For the which Premises and also for other Covenants Grants and Agreements on the Party of the said John Fettyplace his Executors and Assigns for to be performed and kept the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors and Assigns shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Fettyplace his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following that is to say One hundred pounds of lawful Money of England at the sealing of these present Indentures of the which Hundred Pounds the said John Fettyplace acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and payed And the said Sir John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged by these presents And at the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle next coming after the date of these presents Fifty Marks of lawful Money of England at the Feast of Pentecost which shall be in the Year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundred and twenty five or within twelve days next following the same Feast One hundred Marks of lawful money of England and so yearly at the Feast of Pentecost or within Twelve days next following after the same Feast One hundred Marks until the time that the said Six hundred Marks be truly contented and paid And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edmond during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye before the said Marriage had between them and before carnal copulation that then Thomas second Son of the said John Fettyplace or he which at that time shall be Heir apparent to the said John Fettyplace shall Marry and take to Wife the said Margaret if the said Margaret will thereto agree and the Law of the Church will so suffer and permit the same and to have like Covenants Grants and Agreements for to be made between the said John Fettyplace and Sir John Mordaunt as well for the payments to be made as for the Marriage of the said second Son or the next Heir apparent of the said John Fettyplace at that time being as the said Sir John should have had if the said Edmond had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Margaret during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye after Marriage had between the said Edmond and the said Margaret and before carnal copulation that then the said Edmond shall marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Sir John Mordaunt if the said Dorothy will thereto agree and the Laws of the Church the same will suffer with like Covenants Grants and Agreements and also payments of the same summ of Six hundred Marks as then is and shall be paid for the Marriage of the said Dorothy as should have been if the said Margaret had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth That the said Sir John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall have the keeping and custody of the said Edmond until the time that the said Edmond come to his age of One and twenty Years and that the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall have the said Twenty pounds to the use of the said Sir John his Executors and Assigns any Covenant or Grant in these present Indentures to the contrary made notwithstanding to and for the finding of the said Edmond and Margaret And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Edmond Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond unto the time that the said Edmond come to the age of One and twenty Years And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said John Fettyplace shall have the keeping custody and rule of the said Margaret as long as it shall please the said John Fettyplace to have her for which the said Sir John shall content and pay to the said John Fettyplace for the finding of the said Margaret as long as the said Margaret shall be in the House or at the finding of the said John Fettyplace Ten Marks of lawful Money of England And if the said John Fettyplace be not disposed to have the said Margaret and to find her himself that then the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Margaret Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the said Margaret unto the time that the said Edmond come to the full age of One and twenty Years And it is further agreed between the said Parties That after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the full age of One and twenty Years that then the said Edmond shall receive and take the Profits of the said Twenty Pounds And also all other parcels as be appointed by these Indentures for the Jointure of
said John More to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said John More and of his Heirs for ever And of all other the said Lands and Tenements residue of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before expressed to the use of the said John More for the term of his Life without Impeachment of wast The Remainder after his decease to the said Thomas More and his Heirs for ever discharged of all former Rights Titles Claims Uses Dowers Demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these Presents That he the said John More his Heirs and Assigns shall from time to time during the space of Three Years make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied such further Assurances and Surety to the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns or to any other Person or Persons by the said Lord his Heirs Executors or Assigns to be limitted and named of and in the Maners Lands Tenements and other the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the uses and intents before expressed and declared as shall be devised by the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by his or their learned Council in the law at the costs and charges in the law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That he the said John More before the said Feast of Pentecost shall make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied to the said Sir Thomas Audely Sir Gyles Strangeways and other his said Co-feoffees before named their Heirs and Assigns a good sure sufficient and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple of and in all his said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and all other his Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Oxford That is to say Of the Maner of More with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton of the Maner of Haddon with their Appurtenances in Bampton of the Maner of Esthall otherwise called Asthall and Astally and of all other his Maners Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton Staunton Harecourt Bampton Clanfield Norton Asthall Esthall and Astally in the said County of Oxford or elsewhere within the said County of Oxford except certain Lands and Tenements in Handborough to such uses and intents as hereafter followeth That is to say Of and in the said Maner of More in More and Moreton to the use of the said John More and of Jane now Wife to the said John More for term of their lives and of the longest liver of them without Impeachment of wast during the Life of the said John More And after the Death of the said John More and of Jane his Wife then the said Feoffees their Heirs or Assigns or the over-liver of them his Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof as at the date of these present Indentures made And of and in the Maner of Haddon in Bampton the Maner of Esthall Asthall and Astally and of all the said Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments and other the Premises before rehearsed in Bampton Esthall Asthall and Astally the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the longest liver of them and his Heirs to be continue and stand Feoffees thereof to the use of the said John More for term of his Life without Impeachment of wast the Remainder after his Death to the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Assigns by these presents That he shall suffer all other his Maners Lands Tenements and all other his Hereditaments with all and singular their Appurtenances whatsoever they be whereof he or any other be seized of in Right Title Possession or in Use other then before expressed and declared except one yearly Rent of Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings which the said John More hath out of the Maner of Newbolt in the County of Northampton now in the Tenure of Sir William Newenham Knight which Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings is parcel of the Jointure of the said Jane Wife of the said John More to come grow and descend in Demeasn Possession Reversion Remainder or in Use immediately after the Death of the said John More and of the said Jane his Wife to the said Thomas More and to his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made discharged of all former Rights Titles Uses and demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of that Fee or Fees hereafter to be due only except Provided always That if the said Jane now Wife to the said John More fortune to decease that then it shall be lawful to the said John More to make a Jointure of and in the Maner of More and Moreton to any Wife or Wives that hereafter the said John More shall fortune to Marry during the Life or Lives of the said Wife or Wives any Covenant Grant Use or Article before expressed to the contrary notwithstanding For all which Covenants Grants and Agreements on the part of the said John More his Heirs Executors and Assigns for to be truly observed performed fulfilled and kept the said John Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents To pay or cause to be paid to the said John More his Executors or Assigns Four hundred and fifty Marks of lawful Money of England That is to say at the day of Marriage had and solemnized one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England And at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady then next coming One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England And so yearly at the said Feast of the Purification of our Lady One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England unto the time the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be to the said John More his Executors or Assigns truly contented and paid In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid interchangeably have put to their Seals and Sign Manual to these present Indentures the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and
Assigns to pay yearly to the said Silvester Twenty Pounds for his finding at the pleasure and liberty of the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns And it is further Agreed between the said Parties that where the said Dame Anne alloweth to the said Lord Mordaunt in the price of the Marriage of the said Silvester One Hundred Marks for and towards the finding of the said Silvester his Wife and Children during the Non-age of the said Silvester over and beside the said Six hundred Marks which the said Lord Mordaunt hath paid and is bound to pay to the said Dame Anne as before appeareth For the said Marriage the said Lord Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if it fortune the said Dame Anne to die and decease within the space of Three Years next after the date hereof whereby the said Silvester and Elizabeth his Wife shall have Lands and Tenements in the County of Cornwall to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds as by this Indenture it doth appear That then the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to the Executors or Assigns of the said Dame Anne yearly Ten Pounds during as many of the said Three Years as shall remain after the decease of the said Dame Anne as is aforesaid In witness c. A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we be informed that the Pestilent Idol Enemy of all Truth and Usurpator of Princes the Bishop of Rome perceiving his most detestable doings to begin now to appear to all our good Subjects which fully minded in his Rage do seek all the ways to him possible to Rob and Spoil this our Realm as heretofore he hath accustomed and to Invert the good Religion of the same with the Torment and Disherison of all our good Subjects We let you witt That intending to put the same our Realm both by Sea and Land in such a readiness as shall be necessary towards his Malicious and Devilish purpose which by all meanes he laboureth to Cloak and Colour pretending only in Words the advancement of true Religion without any the disturbance of our People to the intent he may blind their honest and simple Eyes and so the more easily compass his most Cruel and Devilish Enterprize We have among other our loving Subjects appointed you to furnish unto us to do us service on the Sea the number of Forty able Persons And therefore we will and desire you that immediately upon the sight hereof ye will furnish unto us the said number whereof as many of them to be Archers and Gunners as you can make well Harnished to do us service as before and the same to be in a readiness with Habiliments meet for them upon one hours warning whensoever our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Southampton our Admiral of England shall by his Letters give you admonition or call for the same and in the mean time with all diligence to make unto him your Certificate of the same your number whereby you shall deserve our hearty thanks Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh day of April A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And cannot a little marvel to hear that notwithstanding our sundry Advertisements lately made unto you for the doing of your Duty and such Office and Administration as in our Common-Wealth is committed to you and others the said Justices of the Peace within this our said Realm many things be nevertheless rather directed at will and pleasure than either upon any just Contemplation of Justice or with any regard to the good Admonitions which heretofore we have set forth for the Advancement of the same Minding yet once again before we shall correct the Leudness of the Offendors in this behalf with any Extremities of the Law to give a new general Admonition to the intent no Man shall have colour of Excuse by Ignorance we have thought meet to write these our Letters unto you and every of you of all Sorts and Degrees and by the same to desire and pray you yet nevertheless to Charge and Command you upon your duties of Allegiance That for the repairing of all things negligently passed and then avoiding of all such danger as may for lack thereof happen unto you you shall have special care and study to the due and just Observation of the Points following First We have with our great Study Travel and Labour expelled the Usurped Power of Rome with all the Branches and Dependents upon the same Our pleasure is That you shall have principal regard that the privy Maintainers of that Papistical Faction may be tried out and brought to Justice for by sundry Arguments it is evident to us That there wanteth not a number that in that matter and dependances of the same retain their old feigned Fantasies and Superstitions muttering in Corners as they dare to the maintenance and upholding of it what Countenance so ever they shew outward for the avoiding of danger of Law those kind of Men we would have tried out as the most Cankered and Venomous Worms that be in our Common-Wealth both for that they be apparent Enemies to God and manifest Traitors unto us and to our whole Realm Workers of Mischief and Sedition within the same Secondly You shall have vigilant Eye That all Raisers of Bruits and Rumors that may in any wise touch Us our Honour or Surety or touch the State of our Realm or the Mutation of any Law or Custom thereof may be apprehended and punished to the Example of others disposed to the like Evil. Thirdly You shall have special regard That all Sturdy Vagabond and Valiant Beggars may be punished according to the Statute lately made for that purpose your default in the Execution whereof proceeding upon an inconsiderate Piety to one evil person without respect of the great Multitude that live in honest and lawful sort hath bred no small Inconvenience in our Common-Wealth And to the intent you may more exactly put this Statute in Execution where by the Statute it is appointed that Common-watches shall be kept from the Ascension-tide till Michaelmas Our pleasure is That you shall not only see the said Watches duely and substantially kept according to the limitation of the said Statute but also that you shall continue the said Watches for this Year till Allhallowtide Having also special regard That if any Remissions or Resistance shall chance to be made upon any Watches or other Officers the Offendors therein may be produced to Justice for their condign Punishment Fourthly Our Pleasure and most dread Commandment is That all respects set
approbatis quo minus in dicto Parlamento apparere personalitèr interesse valeam Nobilem principem Edwardum Ducem Somerset totius Angliae Protectorem simulque personae Regiae Majistatis Gubernatorem nobiles viros Willielmum Paulet militem Dominum Southamptoniae Magnum Magistrum Hospitii Domini Regis Dominum Russell privati Sigilli Domini Regis Custodem meos veros legitimos Actores Factores Procuratores nomino facio constituo Dans concedens eisdem conjunctim divisim plenam authoritatem potestatem tractandi assentiendi seu dissentiendi ac omnia alia generalitèr faciendi Rempublicam concernentia prout eisdem vel alteri eorum videbitur melius expediri nomine meo vice meâ prout ego ipse facere possum aut deberem si personaliter interessem Promittoque me gratum ratum habiturum totum quicquid dicti Procuratores mei statuerint seu fecerint vel alter eorum statuerit seu fecerit in hac parte In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus apposui Datum apud Articles of Agreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son William Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Ninteenth day of May the Second Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Churches of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Between the Right Honourable John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and William Mordaunt the third Son of the said John Lord Mordaunt of the other party Witnesseth That where the said John Lord Mordaunt for the great entire and natural Love that he hath and beareth to the said William is contented to do what in him is to buy get and obtain the Custody Ward and Marriage of the Body and Lands of one Agnes Booth Cousin and next Heir of John Booth Clerk That is to say Daughter and Heir of Charles Booth Brother of the said John Booth Clerk that in consideration of the Premises and for such costs and charges that the said John Lord Mordaunt shall sustain and bear and be at for obtaining and getting of the said premises The said William Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns That he the said William after the same William shall by the Grace of Almighty God Marry and take to Wife the said Agnes Booth the same William shall suffer the said John Lord Mordaunt to take and perceive all the Issues and profits which shall yearly come grow and arise of the Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said William as in the right of the said Agnes may have or hereafter shall have within the Realm of England during the Espousals between the same William and Agnes without Let Impeachment Suit Vexation Interruption or in any other manner of wise to be Expulsed Sued Vexed Inquieted or Disturbed by the same William to the time that the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath and shall plenarily and fully wholly and entirely have received perceived and taken of the Issues and profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes all such Summs of Money which the same John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath ar hereafter shall pay for the obtaining and getting of the Ward and Marriage of the said Agnes and all manner of Costs Charges and Expences concerning the same or any part or parcel thereof Provided always and the said John Lord Mordaunt is so pleased That the said William shall have yearly Forty Marks of the Issues and Profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes towards the living and finding of the said William and Agnes to be paid to the said William and Agnes at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also where the said William standeth bound to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns in the Summ of One thousand Pound Sterling by his Obligation bearing date the day of these Presents The said John Lord Mordaunt Granteth unto the said William That if the said William doth well and truly observe perform fulfil and keep all and singular Covenants Grants and Agreements specified and comprised in these present Indentures which of the part and behalf of the said William are to be performed fulfilled kept and done And also if the said William from time to time do make cause or do to be made such other further good sufficient Surety to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns for the sooner Payment Contentation and Satisfaction of the said Summs of Money so said further expended and paid by the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns without Trouble Suit Vexation of the said William or of any other by his procurement assent or agreement And also if the said William Mordaunt during the natural Life of the same John Lord Mordaunt be Governed Ruled Ordered and Demained in all Causes by the same John Lord Mordaunt That then the said Obligation of the said Summ of One thousand Pounds to be utterly void and of none effect or else to stand in its full Strength and Vertue In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid have enterchangably set their Seals and Signs-Manual the Day and Year above-written John Mordaunt A Division of Lands and Tenements between the Lord Mordaunt Sir Humphrey Brown and others THIS is the Agreement for a Partition to be had between Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Elizabeth his Wife on the one party and Sir Humphrey Brown Serjeant at the Law and George Brown his Son on the other party of all the Maners Lands and Tenements hereafter following The said Sir John Mordaunt is agreed to take in allowance of his part a third part of the Maners hereafter mentioned and allowed to the said Humphrey and George the third part of the Maners hereafter next following and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same Inprimis The third part of the Maners of Drayton and Luffwick Islip and Slipton with all the Members and Appurtenances with the Advowsons of the Churches of Luffwick and Islip The third part of the Maner of Sudburgh in Reversion The third part of the Maner of Thrapston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Emberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Woolston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Wavendon cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Thalton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maners of Rawnes Ringsted and Cotton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Buckworth cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Buckworth and Woolston The third part of the Woods following and the
twenty five Marks of Quit-Rent out of the Mannor of Thrapston Lands and Tenements or twenty Pounds in Land during hyr life and that she have twenty Mark in money for hyr Chambre so that she aske ne take no stofe out of the Mannor of Addington Alsoe I will that as in Shepe Nete and allodyr Cattell she have hyr part accordyng to the Lawe and let hyr chuse whedyr she will have twenty Pound in Land or the said Quit-Rente Alsoe I will that she have the two littel Salts that goe daily abroad with the Silver Spones and a Pese that Thomas Ashe have Alsoe I will that all such Goods as I have in the Mannor of Addington unbequest remayne to the said Mannor while the World last or the said Goods endure that is to say Bedding Chests Tables Brasse Pewter and a Coffer of Plate with Harnesse Gold Rings Owches and a Chene of Gold with other Jewels in the same Coffer Alsoe I will that my Dawter Elizabeth have the same Mannor in parte of hyr Chose and all my purchased Land in the same Towne and also in Addington parva more than hyr chose to meynteyn the seyd Mannor Alsoe I will that my Dawters Anne Constance and Audre have an odyr Coffer called a Gardewyn with certain Plate a Chene Girdyll and odyr Stoffe to be partyd among them when they come to Age and if the one dye the t' other to depart it than if one dye the t'other to have all if they all depart the said Coffer to remain to the Mannor again Alsoe I will that William Marbyry have the Rule and the gyding of my Children till they come to Age to gyde themselves Alsoe I will that the said William have the Receits of my Land till the said Children come to lawful Age alsoe the kepyng of all other moveable Goods that I have bequeathed to them and when they come to lawful Age or els happyn to be marry'd then to deliver to them syche as I have besett them as he think most profit to them Alsoe if it happe the said William Marbyry decesse ere all this be fulfilled and performed then I will that the foresaid William Marbyry to chose or to assigne such a person or persons as he can bethink best with the avise of Mr. John Bloxham if he be then alive or els of Sir Thomas Thornton now Parson of Addington Alsoe I will that if it happe my Children all decesse and noe Issue of them then I will that my Goods and Stoffe in my Mannor of Addington and odyr not delivered to them be sould and done for my soule and the soules of my Fadyr and my Modyr and all Christen soules and if there be any of nere kin that have need in their Marriage I will that they be holpyd and succuryd before odyrs Alsoe I will that eche of my Sisters have ten Shillings and eche of their Children six Shillings eight Pence alsoe William Marbyry during his life three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence Alsoe Robert Marbyry to be Steward of all my Lands haveing for his Fee six and twenty Shillings eight Pence for terme of life Alsoe I will that my Servaunts that will byde till our Lady Day shall have their Wages and eche of them three Shillings four Pence over their Wages Alsoe I will that John Daundely have every Yere three Shillings four Pence to pray for me dureing his life Alsoe any Preste that comes to the Day of my Beriall seventh Day or Months every one six Pence a pese Alsoe every odyr Clarke two Pence Alsoe I will and I charge my Children that they nor none of them nor no odyr shall troble ne vex William Marbyry whom I have made Receyver of my Londes and of all odyr Goods for to call him to accompt or reckynnyng but to make it after his owne Conscience and soe I put my trust in him Alsoe I will that there be given twenty Shillings to the Abbey of Crowland to pray for me Item to Sir Thomas Whotton six Shillings eight Pence besides his Wages Alsoe I will that if that Maister William Marbyry may not have the Rule ne the Marriage of my Children to syche as he will with his counseil so if any of my Children will not be rulyd be him then my Executors shall have my purchased Land in their kepeing and possession unto the time that my Will be fulfilled and than to gyff hit to them or one of them as they think best in all manner of things the Stoffe both Plate and all odyr to dispose them for my soule Alsoe I will that William Dounhall have the Lond that I shuld have in Harawld for the Wyfe of William Milner terme of hyr life as they of Harawld and I have agre Alsoe I will that myn Executors be suffred to receyve the profitts as well of all my Londs in Fee-tayl as of my Londs in Fee-simple ....... my Children to be kept and maryed be their assents then I will all such Goods as I have assigned to remaine in the Mannor of Addington aforesaid be taken and kept be my said Executors and the profitts of my Londs in Fee-simple unto the time my Children be of reasonable Age and then to dispose the said Goods and profitts of Londs after their discretion as they find cause and se my Childrens disposition Provided alway that and my said Executors may not have and receyve the revenue and profitts of Londs aforesaid to performe this my last Will then I will they see it performyd with my moveable Goods and the revenues and profitts of my Fee-simpul Lands SIGILLVM HENRICI DE VER Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 298. HEnry Vere was the Son of Richard Vere of Addington Esquire by Isabel his Wife Sister and at last sole Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton Esquire of whom formerly This Henry was after Knighted and dying without Issue Male Elizabeth his Daughter and Coheir was married to John first Lord Mordaunt to whom she brought Drayton in this Country and other fair Lands as the Partage of her Portion Here lyeth the Body of Sr Henry Vere Knt. who was once Lord of this 〈◊〉 He was Father of Elizabeth Wife to Iohn the first Lord Mordaunt vnto whom his eldest Daughter Coheire did decend the Greatest part of his Ancient 〈◊〉 In heritance On whose Soule God have Mercy ELIZABETH VERE Lady Mordaunt Lady of Drayton Thrapston Addington and Inheritrix of all the Lands that belonged to the Greenes and Veres her Predecessors Specialis Liberatio Terrarum Greene Vere assignata per Regem H.R. REX c. omnibus c. Sciatis quòd Nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris concessimus licentiam dedimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quantum in nobis est dilectis fidelibus nostris Thomae Cheyne Militi Elizabethae Uxori ejus Filiae
side of the Altar a Tomb of Marble meet and convenient to serve for the Sepulcher at the Feast of Easter and also that the said Edmond shall pay or cause to be paid during the space of twelve years next and immediately after the decease and death of the said Joan Matthew Widow every year six Pounds eight Shillings four Pence to my Executors toward the performance of this my last Will. Also I will That the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond shall receive my Aunt Petre's Pension and during the said term shall find her Meat Drink and Cloathing and other Necessaries meet for her Degree during her life as long as she shall be content to be at my Executors appointment And if it chance that she will refuse to be ruled after the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond or the Survivor of them then I will that my Executors shall suffer her to receive her own Pension and to deliver her thirty three Shillings four Pence yearly and to go whither she will And if it chance that she happen to over-live the said term that I do demise unto her yearly four Pounds Rent to be perceiv'd and taken out of my Mannor of Westhornedon aforesaid at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions And if it chance the said Rent of three Pound to be behind unpaid by the space of a Month after any of the said days of Payment that then I will and grant that the said Petres or her Assigns shall enter into the said Mannor of Westhornedon and there to distrain and the distress so taken to carry away and to retain until she be fully satisfied and paid of the Rent and the Arrearages of the said Rent if any shall appear to be behind Furthermore I will that the said Lord and the said Edmond shall suffer my Heir when he comes to the Age of two and twenty years to have occupy and enjoy all the premisses so that the said Heir will be bound by such ways and means as shall be demised or thought most convenient by the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors of the Survivor to perform the execution of this my last Will the residue of this my last Will which shall chance to be at that time unperformed allowing unto my Executors all their Costs and Charges had or sustained in executing of this my last Will and that hath not been taken and lowed of the Issues and Profits of the foresaid Lands and Tenements any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Occasions of Disagreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis Mordaunt THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Ely Fitz-Lewis Daughter and sole Heir unto Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid thirteen hundred Marks Her Lands which she had by Descent were five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir apparent for the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the last Lord Mordaunt might then have had divers great Summs of money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Ely then his Wife to levy a Fine of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Ely then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Ely then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Ely Mordaunt dyed after whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Johan Mordaunt now his Wife after which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a recovery of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to trust of himself for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after his decease to trust of such as at pleasure himself to appoint for the term of ninety two Years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore to the intent that not only he but also my Lady his Wife may declare their wills thereof during the same ninety two Years whereof the late Lord Mordaunt had certain intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed or appointed Whereupon the late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estate of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such recovery thereof to the disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being right Heir of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and the bringing of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the right course of Inheritance again did suffer recoveries of his own Lands to the uses and upon condition following To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt and of his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was married and after to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of his Executors until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the death of the said late Lord Mordaunt and further to the same Executors for twelve Years towards the performance of his Will And after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life to the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queens Majesty as much money as shall amount to one Years value of the full third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier season thereof and twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it
Joan my Wife and the longer Liver of us And after the same Ten years being ended and determined then to the Use and Behoof of the said Sir Lewis Mordaunt and of his Heirs for ever as by the same Indenture and Conveyance aforesaid more at large appeareth And whereas after the same Conveyance so made the same Sir Lewis Mordaunt by another Indenture dated the First Day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is and other Conveyances did grant convey and assure unto the said Lord Mordaunt and to his Heirs for ever all his Reversion Remainder Estate and Interest of and in the said Maner of Tiptofts in the County of Essex and of the said Farms Lands and Tenements and other the Premises called Pinkneys and Wareleys in the said County of Essex as by the same Indenture and other Assurances last mentioned more at large also it appeareth I Will and my full Intent and meaning is That my Executors hereafter named the said Conveyance or Assurance of the said Reversion or Remainder notwithstanding shall have hold and enjoy for and towards the Performance of this my Last Will and Testament all the said Maner of Tiptofts and all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Pinkneys and Wareleys in the said County of Essex And all other Lands Tenements Remainders Reversions and Hereditaments contained in the said Indenture dated the First Day of May and assured and conveyed unto me and mine Heirs And all Lands and Tenements contained in an Indenture dated the Tenth Day of February last made by me to the Lord Windsor and others together with the said Maners of Cranham Gingeraff and Amies and all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called and known by the name or names of Amies or Nokehall And all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Bromford-magna in the said County of Essex sometime being in the Occupation of one Rowland Walehead or his Assigns from the time of my Decease and the Decease of the said Lady Joan my Wife unto the full end and term of Ten Years the next following fully to be compleat and ended And after the said term of Ten Years being fully ended and determined I then Will That the said Maners Lands Farms Tenements and Hereditaments called Tiptofts Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances in such sort manners and forms and to such uses intents and purposes as heretofore I have limited and appointed the same shall be conveyed and assured by the right Honourable Edward Lord Winsor before recited and other his Co-bargainers or Co-feoffees unto whom I have assured the same in hope they will duly perform and accomplish my full Intent and Meaning therein to the Principal of the King's Hall and Colledge of Brasen-nose in Oxford and to the Scholars of the same and to their Successors for ever And for the better having and enjoying of the said Maners Farms Lands Tenements and other the Premises according to this my present Testament My Will Intent and Meaning is That the said Edward Lord Windsor and other to whom I have assured the said Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises called Tiptofts Pinkneys and Wareleys and every of them as much as in them is or conveniently may be at the Costs and Charges of my Executors hereafter named shall do cause and procure to be done such reasonable Acts and things for the assurance hereof according to the true Intent and Meaning of this my present Will and Testament as by my said Executors hereafter named and by the said Principal and Scholars or their Successors or any of them or by their or any of their Council Learned in the Laws shall be reasonably devised and required And with part of the Issues of the same I will Scholars to be named from time to time by mine Executors or by the Survivors of them during their Lives and after by mine Heirs shall be continually found and other Deeds of Charity shall be done as I have limited to mine Executors Item I will and bequeath to the Lady Joan my Wife all that my Mansion-House and all other my Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments scituate lying and being in or near the Hospital of Little Saint Bartholomews in Smithfield within the Suburbs of the City of London To have the same to the said Lady Joan for and during the full term of Fifty Years if the said Lady Joan my Wife shall happen so long to live And the residue of all the Estates Interests and Terms of Years that shall be to come of and in my said Mansion-House and other the Premises in or near the Hospital of Little Saint Bartholomews for all the Years that then shall be to come in the same shall be sold by my Executors hereafter named or the Survivor of them and all Sums of Money as shall be had and received for the same to employ towards the Payment of my Debts and towards the Performance of this my Last Will. Item I make and ordain the Lady Joan my welbeloved Wife my Brother-in-Law Thomas Farmer Edward Plowden Esquires and William Goodfellow my Servant mine Executors of this my Last Will and Testament And moreover I do refer to the discretion of mine Executors this my Last Will and Testament And thus revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made or declared I ordain and establish this to be my very true Last Will and Testament And moreover I do refer to the discretion of my Executors which of my Legacies shall be first paid and which after and likewise the Time of the payment thereof I refer to their Choice and Discretions And I will mine Executors shall bestow Sixteen Pounds of lawful Money of England as I have declared to my Wife Item I Will That my Executors shall have towards the payment of my Debts the Two hundred Pounds decreed to be paid to me in the Chancery by Clement Tanfield and all other Debts due to me Item I Will That my House shall be kept at the Charges of mine Executors for Two Months next after my Decease The residue of all my Goods and Chartels Real and Personal and of the Debts due to me and all the Residue Profit and Commodity of the Premises appointed to mine Executors for the said Ten Years remaining after my Funeral Debts and Legacies paid I give and bequeath to my said Wife Saving Twenty Pounds of lawful Money of England which I will and bequeath to the foresaid Edward Plowden Esquire and saving Ten Pounds which I will unto the aforesaid Thomas Farmer Esquire and also saving Ten Pounds which I will unto the aforesaid William Goodfellow In Witness whereof to this my Last Will and Testament I have put my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written These being Witnesses whose Names be hereafter subcribed John Mordaunt Anne Ratcliff John Farmer John Cams per William Colshill Henry Witney Robert Nicholsmark John Bickerton Emanuel
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Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. 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Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHĀ CA LIS IVSTICI VS OMNIVM FORES VM ET MARCA VM TRENTAM An Indenture Tripartite for the Settlement of the Estate of Henry Lord Mordaunt THIS Indenture Tripartite made the Fourth Day of January in the Year of our Soveraign Lord James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith that is to say Of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth between the Right honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt on the the First Part and Thomas Lock of Grays-Inn in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and John Rowe of London Gentleman on the Second Part and the Right honourable Edward Earl of Worcester of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Master of the King's Majesty's Horse and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Knight Sir Edward Ratcliff Knight Sir Thomas Compton Knight and George Sherley Esquire on the Third Part Witnesseth That the said Lord Mordaunt as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he beareth to his Children hereafter in these Presents named and for the continuance of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned in the name and blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it shall please God And for the better supportation of the Honour and Dignity of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the Heirs of his Body as also for the better Maintenance and Provision in living and Portions to be had made and raised for the Younger Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters and for the payment of the Debts which the said Lord Mordaunt shall owe or any others shall stand chargeable for the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of his Death and for other causes and considerations him thereunto specially moving Doth for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner and form following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will leave and suffer to descend unto such person and persons as shall happen to be Heir or Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of the Death of the said Lord Mordaunt all these his Lordships and Maners of Netherbery Collesden Carlills and Throgmorton in Roxton and the Maner of Woodend and the Maner or Farm of Kempstonborn and his other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Roxton Cranfield and Bereford in the County of Bedford with their and every their Appurtenances Rights and Members to the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to either of them belonging and to the Advowson of the Church of Meppersall in the said County of Bedford and the Maners of Thrapston Gale Ringsted and Raundes and of Much-Addington Luffwick Islip and Slipton in the County of Northampton with their and every and either of their Appurtenances Royalties and Commodities to the same Maners and to every of them belonging and appertaining and the Chauntries of Much-Addington aforesaid and Luffwick-Mills and the Maner of Drayton and all the demeasne Lands to the said Maner belonging or appertaining in the said County of Northampton The Capital or Mansion-House of the said Lord Mordaunt in Drayton aforesaid and the Parks called Drayton and Sudburgh-Parks and one Close called the Great Pasture and another Close called the Mile-close one Close called the Lymekill-Close another called Clay-Close another called the Warren-Close and another called the Horse-Close leading from Drayton-house to Luffwick only excepted And one Free Rent of Thirty three Shillings two Pence half penny or thereabouts issuing out of certain Lands in Barton and another Free Rent of Thirty eight Shillings and eight Pence issuing out of certain Lands in Stanwick in the aforesaid County of Northampton and also the Maner of Clifton Reynes with the Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham to the end That the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the same Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments before mentioned shall and may have and receive the full benefit of Wardship primer Seisure and Livery as the case shall require happening or to happen by or upon the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Which said Maners Lands Tenements amounting to the full third part of the aforesaid Lord Mordaunt's Maners Lands Tenements and Revenues the said Lord Mordaunt doth for that