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
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
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
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
more plainly shall appear Which recoveries of the said Mannors and other the premisses were had for the only surety of payment of one thousand pounds to the use of the late noble King of Memory Henry the Seventh our most dear Father by the said John Mordaunt Son and Heir of John Mordaunt Knight Deceased to be paid And after the said thousand pounds were fully content and paid then ye and your joint Recoverers should be Recoverers or Feoffees to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son and his Heirs for ever as by certain and divers Covenants in certain Indentures specified between Giles Dawbeny late Lord Dawbeny for the part of our said dearest Father of the one party and the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son of the other party made the xxth day of January the year of the Reign of our said Father the twenty second more plainly may appear Of the which sum of a thousand pounds four hundred pounds were paid to the use of our said Father to John Heyron Knight late Treasurer of the Chamber of our said Father by the said John Mordaunt the Son And we for certain Causes and Considerations us moving have remised and pardoned two hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds to the same Sir John Mordaunt the Son And one hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son hath paid to Sir Harry Wyat Knight Treasurer of our Chamber to our use And for three hundred pounds residue of the said thousand pounds the same John Mordaunt the Son by the name of John Mordaunt Knight is bounden by several Obligations to certain persons to our use for the sure payment of the same three hundred pounds to be paid to our use as by the same several Obligations thereof made and remaining with the same Sir Harry Wyat to our use it may appear Wherefore we signifie unto you that our Pleasure is and we will and Command you that ye without any delay do seal the said two Releases and deliver them as your Deeds to the bringer of them to the use of the said Sir John the Son And these our Letters Signed with our Hand and Sealed with our Seal shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the _____ A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Justified by Ancient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Drayton were Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules Of the Name Original Descent Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Drayton THE Mannor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble of the Country wherein it lies both for its Commodities Situation and the Royalties belonging thereunto was in the dayes of those Kings that did precede the Conquest among the Possessions of one Oswinus a famous Saxon. But upon the distribution of the Lands acquired by King William it became part of the Estate of Aubrey de Vere who first Entred England with that Prince From this Earl Aubrey the Elder for so he was termed the Lordship of Drayton did descend to Earl Aubrey the Second who was Father to the first Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it was given in Partage as a Foundation of his Fortune to Robert his second Son with the Lordships of Adington the greater and the less as likewise the Lands he held in Twyvell of the Abbey of Thorney and other fair possessions This Mannor and Lordship consisted at that time of a fair ancient Castle encompassed with four large high Walls Embattailed round with such Fortifications as were necessary both for resistance and offence It had as parcels thereof very useful Demesnes a Park a Warren and flourishing Woods besides the Villages of Luffwick Islip Slipton and certain Lands in the Parishes of Aldwinkle and Tichmarsh in each of which the Lords had Courts of their own the Advowsons of the three Churches belonging thereunto with free Warren upon all those Lands and free Fishing for a long Tract upon the River of Avon To this Robert de Vere Lord of Drayton did succeed Sir Henry de Vere who left his Inheritance to Sir Walter de Vere his Son who from the Excellency of the place and his great love thereunto did assume the Name thereof to remain to him and his Posterity ever after A thing in those days very usual as may be instanced in several Examples too long for this Occasion This Sir Walter de Vere having among other Heroes of that time design'd his Application to the Holy War took for his Arms as a mark of his Intention Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules which was afterwards constantly born by the Successors of this Family and under that same Name and Ensign did flourish a fair Posterity of several Noble Knights which upon this Lordship of Drayton did long live in much honour and opulency in possession of that Noble Mannor with other Lands in Sudborow in Brigstock and in Irtlingborow in the County of Northampton of fair possessions in Luton and Flamstead in Bedfordshire of the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Stoke-Goldington in the County of Huntingdon and of the Lordship of Southnewenton in Oxfordshire Their Alliances were not less Illustrious than their Original they having been contracted with the Houses of Bassett and de la Zouch of the great and ancient Baronage and other Families famous for high Actions and the faithful Service of their Princes This Lordship notwithstanding with its Name and Arms came afterwards to be incorporate into the House of Greene and by them as to what is most remarkable through a fatal revolution of humane things after near four hundred years unto the Original Veres again by Isabella Greene who being Married to Sir Richard Vere that was Lord of Thrapston and Adington and descended from Robert Brother of that Walter we first mentioned by the Issue which she brought Created such a Title as for default of Posterity from Constance Countess of Wiltshire the Daughter of the last Sir Henry Green the Lordship of Drayton came to Elizabeth Grandchild of this Richard Vere and by her to the Mordaunts that were descended from her Sir WALTER of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton Luffwick Islip Addington Twyvell and other Lands and Lordships WAlter de Vere the eldest Son of Henry the Son of Robert that was second Son of Aubrey Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of England being then very young and in the Life-time of Sir Henry his Father did attend King Richard the First into the Holy Land and on that Occasion assum'd for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrail'd Gules After he had there won his Spurs by divers generous Actions and received the Honour of Knighthood at the hand of that victorious King he returned home with several Companions of that
late hath permuted a Benefice that he had in Northbeneflete in Essex for the said Benefice in Addington with oon Master John Ovyn late Parson there and as he saith ye doe now pretend that a Graunt was made unto yow by the said Master John Ovyn in his time of the Ferme of the said Parsonage of Addington for the space of a Yere which pretence I understand the said Master John Ovyn utterly denyeth saying that he never was agreable thereunto and how that ye have no writing thereof but onely that ye intend with strong hand to keep the said Ferme against the will of the Parson there and contrary to all good reason and conscience Wherefore I pray yow as hertely as I can that as well for my sake as in discharge of your owne conscience ye woll deal favorably with the said Parson and to suffer him to occupy and enjoy his Benefice according to Right without your interruption wherein yow shall give me cause to be good Lord unto yow in eny thing ye reasonably can desire me And if ye doe the contrary the matter will be ferther attempted against yow to your trouble and charge Written the third day of March. Franceys Lovell To my Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Squier TRusty and Welbeloved I grete yow welle and let yow wite that I am credibly informed how ye grevously and contrarie to all right vexe and trouble the Tennants and Inhabitants of the Towne of Addyngton in the County of Northampton belonging unto the Abbot of Crowland whereof I am Steward and had not I have been the said Abbot had ere this time shewed it unto the Kings Grace my Lady his Modre and alsoe unto my Lord of Oxford in as moche as he is Chappellaine unto them which as I suppose would have been to yow none ease gif he had so doon Wherefore I advise yow from hencesorth no more to vexe ne troble the said Tennants and Inhabitants but to leave such your wrongful dealing among them and suffre them to have their Comunes and Herdes as they have had in times past for drede of that may ensue thereof And that yow will surcease of any more troubling with them as I may say unto yow gramercy at our next metyng And if I understand that ye doe the contrary I shall provide a convenient remedy therefore And alsoe as for such mattris as been depending betwix yow and my Servant Richard Clerc I shall when we next speke togedyre see a remedy therein Moreover that you will give credence unto the Bringer hereof whych is a Servant of the Kinges and myne Yeven under my Signet at the Mannor of Shene the three and twentyeth day of May. John Viscount Welles A Letter from the King to Henry Vere To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Squier By the King H.R. TRusty and Welbeloved we grete yow wel And wot ye wel grevouse Compleynt hath be made unto us on the behalf our trusty and welbeloved in God th'Abbot of our Monastery of Crowland how where he in the right of the said Monastery hath a Fermor and certeyn Tennants in the Towne of Addington ye without matter or cause sufficient of your pure malice not onely at divers times heretofore have by your sinister menes vexed and trobled the said Eermor and Tennants that they ne are of sufficient power defending their life to pay and content to him their Fermes due unto the said Monastery for their termes in the same but as well put them dayly in such feare of new trouble that he is like to be destitute of any sufficient Fermor and Tennants to occupy the Mannor and Tenements lying in the said Towne at any time hereafter to the utter impoverishing of our said Monastery as we be informed Wherefore we willing the said Abbot peasibly to enjoy the profits of our said Monastery as far as he ought of right to doe by reason of his Dignity there most specially in consideration of that it is of our foundation whom we are bound to defend in all the right of the same woll and straightly charge yow if it be as is surmised unto us in this parte that ye not onely dispose you lawfully to compound with the said Abbot for such injuryes and offences as ye have attempted in this partie contrarie our Lawes and good conscience but alsoe at all times hereafter to suffer the said Fermors and Tennants now being and hereafter for to be peceably to occupy their tenors in the same without eny vexation inquieting or trouble of you or other in your name or for you into the contrary so that the said Abbot have no cause of reason eftsoons to pursue unto us in the premisses as ye woll answer unto us at your uttermost perill Yeven under our Signet at our Towne of Stamford the fourteenth day of March. To his Right Worshipful and Welbeloved Brother Sir Henry Vere be this delivered RYght Worshipful Brodyr in the most herty wise I commend me unto yow and Brodyr I have sent unto yow your Aporne and Gussets of Mayse I trust not appaired and I thanke yow right hertely for them and if it like yow not to have them againe ye shall have for them what ye will think reasonable And Brodyr I have sent yow be this the Bringer hereof the Copye of the evidence of Barton and Sywell and I will be with you with the Grace of God on Tewesday or Wednesday next coming and bring to you all the dedys concerning the Mannor of Sywell with th' appurtenances And Brodyr I pray yow to lend to me be the Bringer hereof five Marcks that ye promissed I should have had at the first payment for ye promissed me twenty Marcks and I had but ten Pounds And I pray yow of all gentilnesse that I may have this five Marcks now or els that ye will send me forty Shillings for it would doe me great ease now and I have nede thereof and ye shall finde me in all behalfes as I have promissed yow with the Grace of Jhesu who preserve yow Written at little Okely in haste on Sainct Peters Eve And I pray yow that this Bill may recomend me to my Sister Your loveing Brodyr John Tresham To his Right Worshipful Brodyr Sir Henry Vere be this delivered RYght Worshipful Brodyr in the most loving wise I recomend me unto yow and unto my Sister your Wife And Brodyr whereas I sent yow word by your Servaunt to have been with yow as this day I pray yow to take it for noon unkindnesse that I come not for I have such a sorenesse in my Throat that hit grevys me to speake or to swallow any thing and the Wether is soe farvent colde that I dare not aventure forth And alsoe your Servaunt shewed me that ye should understand that I have sold more Londs in Northampton to Chauncey and for certein so have I done And though I help and ease my selfe with parte of myne inheritance that is fee-simple to bring me
that Dutchess when as one of the Cardinal 's Neices she remain'd in France and there try the power of his Reasons and Perswasions to which if the Dutchess proved inflexible the Earl from the knowledge thereof might return without exposing either himself or his Character And if he did succeed it would make way for his Lordship to declare his pretences to assume his Character and be receiv'd into that Court with the Honor and Respect due to his Dignity and Business The Marquess departed the next Morning and with such dexterity did demonstrate to the Princes of that House their true interest both in constantly deserving the Protection of the King his Master and the Alliance of England that all the Court and Council became desirous of it except a cunning Jesuit that was Confessor to the Dutchess and indeed her chief Minister one Father Garimbert that was a Subject born of the Duke of Parma's and always much influenced by that Family This Garimbert whether it were that he desired to make the Match with the other Princess who was Daughter to a Lady of the House of Parma or else that he was engaged as some did suspect to cross this Match at the secret desire of that Family who thought so Royal an Alliance would advance a Neighbour Prince in Honor and Power above that balance whereunto they wish'd it should be kept unto their own Italian Princes being not only very jealous and emulous of their Neighbors but subtle too He did all he could to make averse unto it both the Dutchess and the Princess her self But the reason of the thing was so strong in it self as at last it did over-rule the Dutchess and all that were concern'd in her Service and Councels The Marquess of Angeao wrote then to the Earl of Peterborow how all difficulties being overcome he might now take off the mask and advance to Modena where his addresses would be receiv'd and the Dutchess wrote to him also to the same effect with all the respectful Invitation that was suitable They declar'd there remain'd now only one difficulty which was in obtaining a Dispensation from the Pope for Celebration of a Marriage with a Catholick Princess to a Prince not declar'd of the same Religion of which notwithstanding they did not seem to doubt But the Earl not knowing the delays or even the repture might proceed from this pretence refused to appear publickly in that Court till that difficulty were overcome but consented to come privately thither where he might incognito see and converse with the Princes and their Ministers The Abbot of Angeao Brother to the Marquess being gone to Rome to negotiate the Dispensation with his Holiness and the Cardinal Nephew in the mean time His Lordship advanced then privately to Modena and about a Mile out of the Town was met by Nardi the under Secretary with a Coach and Six Horses into which the Earl being receiv'd he was carried into the City and set down at the Palace of ............ who was Brother to the Bishop of Modena of which he was put in possession in the name of the Dutchess there to remain till his Lordship should think fit to appear in publick and assume his Character The Earl did expect to have had a House where he might have lived at his own Expence and under the care and government of his proper Officers But he found there several appartments all nobly furnish'd for himself and the rest of his followers according to the quality of every Man and each Office full of the Dutchess's Servants with Provisions suitable for keeping a noble House and at the time of Supper there was a Table for himself another for his Steward and superior Attendants with a third for Livery-Men and others all nobly provided with that plenty and magnificence as at first did not please his Lordship seeming contrary to his intentions of being private and giving cause of discourse to Men of a proceeding that was not ordinary The Earl told Nardi That this was contrary to what he had desired but he reply'd That though the Dutchess in publick at his Lordship's instance omitted to pay him the respects that were due to him yet she was not tyed from serving him her own way in all the accomodations were necessary to his living and subsistance wherein he would have found difficulty his Servants being strangers and wanting the advantage of the Language In the mean time the Abbot was at work in his Negotiation at Rome to procure a Dispensation the Earl of Peterborow was receiv'd incognito to the sight and conversation of the Dutchess He was led thither the first time by Nardi alone who fetch'd him up to the Palace in a private Coach and by a back way led him up into an appartment where he found the Dutchess standing with her Back to a Table whom he approach'd with the Respect was due to a Soveraign Princess in her own House she received him likewise with much courtesie and Chairs being set the Earl began to expose the true cause of his coming and how he was furprized to find a difficulty in a thing the World judged to be so advantageous to all the Parties The Dutchess did seem to excuse her self much upon the aversion her Daughter had to a Married life and the great desire she had to be Religious she said likewise That the Princess was young and of a Constitution not very strong and that besides the Italian Princes depending much upon the reputation of Zeal for the Catholick Religion there would be difficulties in obtaining a Dispensation for an Alliance with a Prince though never so great that was not declar'd of the same Church let the Opinion of his true Faith be what it would To every particular of these his Excellency answer'd what he thought proper and so as her Highness confessed to have appeased the greatest difficulties of her own thoughts and so much as if the Abbot's Negotiation in obtaining the Dispence did prove successful she knew not but that they might proceed to a happy conclusion This first Conversation ended with the Earl's desire of being favour'd with a sight of the young Princess whose possession he had so long thought necessary for his Master's happiness and the Dutchess's having promised it for the succeeding Evening So he retired home in the same manner and way as he arrived But now from Rome there was advice by the Abbot of Angeao of great difficulties that arose in the consultations of this Affair The French Embassador the Duke d' Estrée favour'd the Marriage with all the Power of the French Faction so did the Cardinal Barbarin and the other Friends and Allies of the House of Esté But his Holiness himself was very averse and Cardinal Altieri who was the governing Nephew a profest and violent opposer Various pretences were alledged for excuse of this obstinacy but the true cause was the jealousie of the See of Rome concerning any encrease of Greatness to the
decease as God forbid before the said John hath accomplished the said age as before specified that then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand seized of all the said parcels of Lands and Tenements above limited to the said John Fisher and Anne from the Death of the said John Fisher to the use of the said Anne for term of Life of the said Anne in such manner and form as they should be if the said John Fisher should have lived to his said lawful age That is to say Immediately after the Death of the said John Fisher the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the one living of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners of Westlyngworth and also of and in the said Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth to the use of the said Anne for term of Life of the said Anne And immediately after the said John Fisher should have accomplished his age of Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of the said Lands and Tenements in Clifton aforesaid to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And immediately after that the said John Fisher should have been of the age of Twenty three Years the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of the said Lands and Tenements of the yearly value of Four Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And after that the said John Fisher should have accomplished the age of Six and twenty Years then all the said other Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Four Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence in Felinshin shall be to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And immediately after the Death of the said Michael Fisher the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of the said other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid and also of all the other Lands and Tenements and Pastures in Clopton to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall suffer Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the Counties of Bedford Oxenford Northampton Sussex and Middlesex to the clear yearly value of a Hundred and forty Pound over and beside the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances above expressed for the Jointure of the same Anne to come grow and descend immediately after the death of the said Michael the Jointures of Juliana Clopton and of Margaret now his Wife and the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except to the said John Fisher and to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Michael Fisher for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said Michael to make a Jointure to the said Margaret now his Wife of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Hundred and forty Pounds to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds for term of life of the said Margaret Provided also That if the said Margaret do die before the said Michael and that the said Michael do fortune to Marry any other Wife or Wives That then it shall be lawful to the said Michael for to make a Jointure to the said such Wife of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances parcel of the said Hundred and forty Pounds to the yearly value of Threescore for term of the life of the said second Wife or Wives Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said Michael to declare his last Will during the space of Six Years of all the residue of the said Hundred and forty Pounds over and besides such Jointures as any of his said Wife or Wives shall have after the death of the said Michael And after the said Six Years expired and determined then the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to be to the use of the said John Fisher and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Michael for ever Provided alway as it is agreed between the said parties That if the said John Fisher shall happen to die his Heir or Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten then being within Age that then it shall be at the liberty and pleasure of the said Michael Fisher for to make and declare his last Will of all the said Lands and Tenements of the value of a Hundred and forty Pounds during the Non-age of the said Issue and no longer For the which Premises on the part of the said Michael to be performed and kept the said Sir John Mordaunt shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns Six Hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following That is to say at the sealing and delivering of these Presents One Hundred Pounds of the which Hundred Pounds the said Michael acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and paid and the said Sir John his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged And for the Three hundred Pounds residue of the said Six hundred Marks the said Sir John Mordaunt John Elmes Esquire Nicholas Hardyng stand and be bound jointly and severally to the said Michael his Executors or Assigns by several obligations bearing date the day of the date of these present Indentures to be paid at certain days contained and specified in the said Obligations as by the same Obligations it more plainly doth appear In Witness whereof to the either part of these present Indentures the Parties abovesaid interchangably have put to their Seals the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And albeit that we by our other Letters to our Right trusty and right intirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Marquess of Dorset directed willed him to take Five Hundred quick Deer within our Chace of Leicester and within Leicester Fryth and within the Honor of Leicester for the enstoring of his Park yet nevertheless we will that in no wise our said Cousin shall take the said Deer himself but that ye shall deliver the said Five Hundred Deer unto him your self like as we will and command you so to do accordingly To be taken to him of our Gift our said other Letters in any wise notwithstanding And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Sevententh Year of
our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And will and command you That for the enstoring the Park of our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Hastings ye deliver or cause to be delivered unto him or his Assigns in that behalf Three hundred of quick Deer to be taken of our Gift in our Chace of Leicester and within our Park there called Leicester Fryth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf or at all times hereafter any restraint or commandment heretofore made or had the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Seventeenth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales Henry R. By the King HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales within our County of Hertford and in his absence to his Deputy or Deputies there Greeting Forasmuch as we have not only commanded our welbeloved Servant Hector Asheley Master and Controuler of our Works at our Maner of Hunesdone in our said County of Hertford to fell and cut down or to cause to be felled and cut down with all diligence in either of our said Parks there such and as many Oaks as he from time to time shall think needful and expedient as well for Pale for the inclosing of a Paddok within our old Park of Hunesdone for a Winter pasture there as also for the empaling of the Parsons ground within our new Park at Hunesdone but also we by these presents for certain causes and considerations us specially moving have freely given and granted unto our said Servant all the Lops and Tops of the said Oaks and of every of them without any thing therefore paying or accompt yeilding unto us or our use at any time hereafter We will therefore and command you and every of you to permit and suffer the said Hector Asheley to have use and enjoy the whole effect of this our commandment and gift without any your challenge lett or interruption to the contrary as ye tender our pleasure And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaulieu the Twelfth day of August the Nineteenth Year of our Reign Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnricus Octavus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Rex Fidei Defensor Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus dilectis fidelibus suis Majori Civitatis suae Londini Johanni Mordaunt militi Conciliario nostro Christophero Hales Solicitori nostro Rogero Wygston Armigeris Salutem Quia accepimus quod Johannes Gysours filius Johannis Gysours Armigeri Fatuus Idiota in vita sua fuit quod regimen sui ipsius terrarum tenementorum suorum non sufficit quod ipse in fatuitate sua magnam partem terrarum tenementorum suorum alienavit in exheredationem suam nostri prejudicium manifestum nos indemnitati nostrae perspicere volentes vobis mandamus quod ad loca ubi terrae tenementa illa infra civitatem Londinum existunt in propriis personis vestris accedatis de statu suo qualis ille erat dum in humanis agebat viis modis quibus poteritis informari omnes affines cognatos vicinos suos circumspectè examinetis Et nihilominus per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de civitate praedicta per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis utrum idem Johannes Gysours junior fatuus idiota in vita sua fuisset nec ne si sic utrum à nativitate sua seu ab alio tempore si ab alio tempore à quo tempore qualiter quomodo si lucidis gaudebat intellectualibus si idem Johannes in eodem statu existens terras tenementa aliqua vendiderit seu alienaverit nec ne quid pro eisdem recepit si sic vendiderit tunc quae terrae tenementa ubi vel in vel quibus in quorum vel cujus manibus terrae tenementa sic alienata existunt qualiter quo modo quae terrae quae tenementa haeredibus suis adhuc remanent de quo vel de quibus tam terrae tenementa sic alienata quam terrae tenementa sibi retenta teneant per quod servicium qualiter quomodo quantum valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus quis propinquior haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis inquisitionem inde distinctè apertè factam nobis in Cancelaria nostra sub sigillis vestris sigillis eorum per quos fuerit sine dilatione mittatis hoc breve c. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto die Maii Anno Regni vicesimo Newman Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our Right welbeloved Counsellors Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Roger Wigston Esquire and to our welbeloved Robert Harward Thomas Borett and John Duke greeting Know ye that we having Trust and Confidence in your Wisdoms Fidelities and Circumspections have appointed deputed and authorised you and by these presents give unto you and two of you and to such Persons bringers hereof as ye shall substitute name and assign in your place and absence full Power and Authority to take and provide to and for the use of our Fortifications Munitions Buildings and Reparations of our Ordnances and other things concerning as well the Safeguard Defence and Tuition of our Town and Marches of Caleys the Castles of Guysnes Hammes and Newnambrigge as also other necessaries and requisites of and for the same purpose to be taken and had not only within our Lordships Maners Woods and Parks and other Grounds within our Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex but also to be taken and had within any Lordships Maners Lands and Tenements of any other Person or Persons within the said Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex at convenient and reasonable prices and by this we give unto you and two of you full Power and Authority in manner and form above-specified to take Carpenters Workmen Artificers and Labourers apt and convenient for Felling and Squaring of the said Timber and Trees to the use aforesaid and also all manner of Carriages as well by Sea and Salt-Waters as also by Fresh-Waters
Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after their deceases to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt for ever And of all the residue of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which lately were the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or Freehold jointly or severally or otherwise in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last Day of August in the said Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to such Person and Persons and to such use and uses as by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son shall be declared in Writing for and during the space of Ten Years or under and not above so that the same to be declared first for and to the Payment of his Debts And after his Debts paid then to and for the Advancement of his Children Unmarried and after his Debts paid and his Children Unmarried advanced then for the Performance of the Legacies of the same Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after the same Ten Years ended and expired then to the proper use and behoof of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the same Dame Eilzabeth Mordaunt for ever And also That if the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son doth convey and assure unto the said Lewis Mordaunt to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt all the Estate Right Title Interest which the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son hath in and to the Maner of Snelson in the County of Buckingham and in and to all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Snelson aforesaid and in Turvey Harold Lavenden and Brafeld or elsewhere to the said Maner of Snelson belonging which were sometime George the Earl of Kents in the County of Buckingham and Bedford And also do permit and suffer the said Lewis Mordaunt quietly to have hold occupy and enjoy all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which be conveyed or assured unto the said Lewis according to the true intent and meaning as well of certain Indentures Quadripartite made between me the said John Lord Mordaunt on the one Party and the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols on the other Party bearing date the last Day of August in the Second Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is as also of other Conveyances and Assurances made by me unto the said Lewis Mordaunt And also do permit and suffer my Executors to execute and perform my Will without any Impeachment or Disturbance That then my Executors shall well and truly content and pay or cause to be contented and paid unto the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son within One whole Year next after such lawful and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis the Summ of Three thousand Marks of Lawful Money of England towards the payment of his Debts and Advancement of his Children Unmarried And further That then the said Lewis Mordaunt shall assure or cause to be assured unto the said Dame Joan now Wife to my Son Sir John Mordaunt one yearly Rent of One hundred Marks during her Life with a sufficient clause of Distress in Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the yearly value of One hundred Pounds for the not payment thereof at Two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also my Will is That all my Funeral Debts Legacies and Charges of this my Last Will and Testament paid and discharged that the said Lewis Mordaunt shall have all the residue of my Goods Plate and Chattels whatsoever they be Executores Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Johannis Mordaunt Militis Domini Mordaunt tertio decimo die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo anno regni Reginae Elizabethae quarto Robertus Tirewhite miles Henricus Darcy Armiger Thomas Nichols Generosus Ludovicus Mordaunt Armiger Georgius Mordaunt Armiger Johannes Ashecomb Generosus Thomas Darcy Armiger Quilibet Executorum praedictorum assumens super se onus Testamenti mei habebit viginti libras Also I make Sir Robert Catlin Knight and my loving Cousin Justice Anthony Brown Supervisors of this my Last Will and Testament and I give to either of them Ten Pounds for their pains taken herein these being Witness John Hatcher Thomas Larkin Robert Pemberton John Moreton Edward Knight Robert Bennet and John Richardson SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT In the Parish Church of Turvey Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Third of that Name Second Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt the Younger Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we are determined upon the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and do to be Celebrated at Westminster with all due Circumstances of Honor the Coronation of our most dear and welbeloved Wife the Lady Anne our Queen as to her Estate and Dignity doth appertain at which time it hath been accustomed to advance to the Honor of Knighthood to be made and ordered with the Ceremonies of the Bath such of the Nobility as was at that time by the Sovereign thought convenient for the same And therefore minding to pretermit nothing that might set forth the Honor of the said Coronation and thinking you right able and worthy to receive that Degree have appointed you to be one of those whom we intend to advance to such Honor. And therefore our Pleasure is That ye being advertised hereof do make such Preparation against the time aforesaid and put your self in such a Readiness as shall be requisite for you in the acceptation of the said Order and as for the Honor thereof hath been used and accustomed Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and twentieth Day of April Hollinshead 's Chronicle page 931. No. 50. ON Fryday at Dinner served the King all such as were appointed by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath which after Dinner were brought to
their Chambers and that Night were Bathed and Shriven according to the Old Usage of England and the next Day in the Morning the King Dubbed them according to the Ceremonies thereto belonging Whose Names ensue The Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Water the Lord Hastings the Lord Mounteagle Sir John Mordaunt the Lord Vaux Sir Henry Parker Sir William Windsor Sir Francis Weston Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Hulston Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Savill Sir George Fitz-Williams Sir John Tindal Sir Thomas Jermine Stow 's Chronicle page 610. 40. THE same Twelfth of July word was brought to the Council being then in the Tower with the Lady Jane That the Lady Mary Eldest Daughter to King Henry the Eighth was at Kenhinghall-Castle in Norfolk and with her the Earl of Bath Sir Thomas Wharton Son to the Lord Wharton Sir John Mordaunt Son to the Lord Mordaunt Sir William Drury Sir John Shelton Sir Henry Beddingfield Mr. Henry Jermingham Mr. John Sutierd Mr. Richard Treston Mr. Serjeant Morgan and Mr. Glement Higham A Letter from Queen Mary to Sir John Mordaunt and to the Lady his Wife To our Trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to the Lady his Wife Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and right welbeloved we greet you well And whereas we have received certain Advertisements That our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain was Embarqued at the Groyne Six Days past Forasmuch as we considering that the Wind serving as it doth it cannot be but that he is near the Coast of this our Realm We have therefore thought good both to signifie unto you the Premises and also to require you to put your self in Order withal Diligence to repair hither towards our Court to the intent ye may give your Attendance upon us at the Solemnity of this our Marriage as shall appertain whereof we require you not to fail Given under our Signet at our Maner of Bishopswaltham the Fifteenth Day of July the Second Year of our Reign Vltima voluntas Johannis Secundi Domini Mordaunt probata IN the Name of God Amen The Sixteenth Day of April in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith I Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt calling to Remembrance the uncertain State of these our Transitory Lives and minding to reduce and set in order such Goods Chattels and other things as God hath endued me withal being somewhat weak in Body yet thanks be to God of perfect Remembrance do make my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I do bequeath my Soul to Almighty God my only Maker and Redeemer my Body to be Buried within the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford in such decent Order and Sort and with such Funeral Charges and Expences as by mine Executors shall be thought meet and convenient for my Estate and Degree Item I will chiefly and above all things That mine Executors shall pay or cause to be paid unto all and every Person and Persons unto whom I shall at the Day of my Decease be indebted and all and every such Summ and Summs of Money as I shall owe unto them or any of them Item I give and bequeath unto Vrsula my Daughter Four hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid her by my Executors at such time as they conveniently may And in the mean time I Will That mine Executors shall find unto the said Vrsula sufficient and convenient Meat Drink Apparel and Clothing necessary for her Degree Item I give unto George Monox and to Humphrey his Son Forty Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be bestowed upon a Bason and Ewre of Silver Guilt parcel Guilt Item I give and bequeath unto Anne Actem one of the Daughters of Margaret Actem my Daughter Two hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England at the Day of her Marriage or at her Age of Eighteen years which of them shall happen and if it happen the said Anne Actem to dye before her Marriage or before she shall accomplish the Age of Eighteen years then the Gift to her to be void And then my Will is That the said Two hundred Marks bequeathed unto the said Anne Actem shall be imployed and bestowed among the rest of the Sons and Daughters of my said Daughter Margaret Actent as shall be then living Item I give and bequeath unto the rest of the Sons and Daughters of the foresaid Margaret Actem my Daughter Six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence a piece to every of them at their several Ages of Eighteen years Item I will and bequeath to every one of my Servants being no Officers One years Wages over and besides the Wages as shall be unto them due at the time of my Decease Item I will to Anne Witney my Wife's Daughter Forty Pounds Item I will to Mary Price Fifty Marks towards her Marriage Item I will to the Three Children of Henry Witney Five Marks a piece Item I will That my Executors shall bestow Two hundred and fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England upon an I le to be builded and made upon the South-side of the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford aforesaid and for a Tomb for me to be erected and set up within the said I le Item Whereas I the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife and Sir Lewis Mordaunt Knight by the name of Lewis Mordaunt Esquire by one Indenture Tripartite bearing date the Third Day of November the Fifth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is did amongst other things Infeoff Sir William Peter and Sir Henry Tervel Knights John Talbot Thomas Lucas Edward Tirrel George White Thomas Brownly and Thomas Nichols Esquires and their Heirs of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of me the said John Lord Mordaunt within the County of Essex late the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight Deceased to certain Uses as by the same Indenture Tripartite bearing date as is aforesaid more at large it doth and may appear Amongst which the Maners of Cranham Gingeraff Tiptofts and Amies in the County of Essex and all Lands and Tenements known by the name or names of Amies and Nokehall and the Farms called Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances and all those Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Brownfordmagna in the County of Essex then late in the occupation of one Rowland Walhead or of his Assigns or appointed after the decease of me John Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife unto the use and behoof of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of me the said John Lord Mordaunt for the term of Ten years next ensuing the decease of me the said John Lord Mordaunt and the Lady
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was 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 late Lord Mordaunt might 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 Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want 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 Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan 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 said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into 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 said late Lord Mordaunt and 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 Wast 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 term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of 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 said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast 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 Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon Camden's Britannia page 205 treating of the County of Essex THorndon quondam Habitatio Clarae Familiae Fitz-Lewis quorum ultimus si qua fides vulgò incensis fortuitò Aedibus Nuptiali Festivitate misero incendio periit ELY FITZ-LEWIS and JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Lord and Lady of Westhornedon A Will or Testament of John Lord Mordaunt THIS is the last Will of John Mordaunt Knight Son and Heir apparent of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt confirming the order disposition and demise as well of my Goods and Chattels as of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances that I have and am seised of Estate of Fee-simple in the Counties of Essex Northampton and Somerset or elsewhere within the Realm of England First I will and demise that all my parts portion and demand Right Title Possession and Interest that I have of and in the Mannors of Granham otherwise called Bishop Wokenton in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhal to Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed within the County of Essex with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or hath been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Grangeham otherwise called Bishop Wokengton Greice Brumford in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhall unto Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed in the County of Essex together with the Advowsons of the said Mannors to Dame Joan my Wife To have and to hold and enjoy the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the said Dame Joan and her Assigns for term of her natural life Also I will and demise That all my Right Title Possession Interest that I have of and in the Mannor of Westhornedon and Gingeraps and also Cranham in the said County of Essex the reversion of the said Mannor of Cranham after the decease of Dame Joan my Wife with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods and Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or haye been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps with the Advowsons belonging to the said Mannors To have hold and enjoy the Premisses with all Rights Revenues Profits Uses Commodities Emoluments and Arrearages of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements Ways Meadows Pastures and other Hereditaments and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father and to Edmond Mordaunt my Executors and to the Surviver of them and to the Executors of the Surviver for term of thirty Years next ensuing after my death without impeachment of Waste to the intent that they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses and every part thereof coming and growing from time to time during the said Term shall find and provide to my Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt Margaret Mordaunt Anne Mordaunt Ursula Mordaunt and every of them sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging Apparel Learning and other Necessaries for them until they be married and also give and deliver to every of them towards their several Marriages the Summ of four hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be paid to every of them at the day of their several Marriages If that my said Executors have loned or at any time or times hereafter the said Marriages as it may be loned of the Issues and Profits of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps And if it shall so chance that one or two of my said Daughters to dye and depart out of this transitory life unmarried I will that her or their Parts Portions and Summs of Money that to her or to them by this my last Will and Testament did belong shall remain grow come and be deemed amongst the other of my Daughters which shall so fortune to overlive And if it shall so chance that more of my said Daughters than two to dye and depart out of this transitory life I will that their Parts and Portions shall remain still in the hands of my Executors to be delivered to my Son and Heir when he cometh to two and twenty Years of Age. And if I chance to depart to God without Issue Male then I will that the moyety of the said money equally to be divided amongst my said Daughters which at that time shall chance to be alive and the residue to be distributed in deeds of Charity according to the discretion of my Executors my said Lord and Father and my Brother Edmond Mordaunt Furthermore I will that if any of my said Daughters happen to marry her self against the will and appointment of my Executors the said Lord Edmond Mordaunt or the Survivors or the Survivor of them within the Age of twenty one Years or if any of the said Daughters doe refuse any lawful marriage tendered or offered by my Executors the said Lord and Edmond Mordaunt my Brother or by the Survivors or Survivor of them within the said Age of one and twenty Years to the intent to marry themselves at their own pleasure That then I will That she or they shall tarry for her or their part until the time that all my Daughters be set forth and married and then to be delivered to my said Daughter or Daughters so marrying themselves or to the Children of her or them according to the discretion of my Executors the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them And further I will and demise that my said Executors with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses during the said term shall find a Priest to sing Mass in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid to pray for my Soul and Dame Ely my late Wife deceased and all Christian Souls And also shall distribute every Year during the said term to the help and sustentation of the poor and needy people in Westhornedon Gingeraps Cranham and Nevendon according to the discretion of my Executors And also give and distribute unto the maintaining of High-ways and Bridges wheresoever my Executors shall think most meet and convenient any where within the County of Essex Also I do demise unto the said Edmond Mordaunt my Brother the reversion of certain Lands and Tenements Pasture Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments in Coume and Sturmest in the County of Somerset with the appurtenances which I the said Sir John did purchase of one Richard Matthew one of the Sons of Robert Matthew deceased which Joan Matthew Widow doth now claim for to hold for term of her life as parcel of her Joynture To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs in as large and ample manner as ever Robert Matthew did hold or occupy the premisses upon this Condition following that is to say that the said Edmond or his Heirs shall make or cause to be made within two years after the death of the said Joan Matthew in the Church of Westhornedon of the North