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
said John and Constance and to the heirs of theire two bodyes begotyn the remayndre thereof for defaute of suche heirs to the right heirs of the said Duc. Item Hit is agreed and accorded between the said parties that the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe shall have the rule and governaunce of the said Constance after the said mariage had duringe the spousel between the said John and Constance and fynde her at the costes of the same Duc. Item The said Henry graunteth by these Presents that the said Constance his Doughter shall have after his decesse and after the decesse of such persone or persones as now hath or by the said Henry or by his Feoffees at his desire shall have any Londs or Tenements for terme of lyfe whereof the reversion is or shall be to the same Henry or to any other to his use all the issues and profits of all the Londs and Tenements that he or any to his use hath without diminution or abregement and the Feoffees in and of the same Londs and Tenements that now be or shall be shall within six monethes after the dethe of the same Henry make thereof Estate to the said Constance and to her heirs if they be thereto requyred except that it shall be lawful to the said Henry to graunte or doo to be graunted to Margaret his wyfe and to other his servants Londs and Tenements of the same to the yerely value of three hundred markes to have to theyme onely for terme of lyfe of theyme that the said Grauntes shall be made unto soe that the reversion thereof after the decesse of the said Henry and of such persones as the said Grauntes shall be made unto shall come to the said Constance and to her heires Except also that hit shall be lawful to the said Henry for to doo and aleyne at his will and pleasure all such Londs and Tenements as he hath purchased before this tyme now beyng in his handes or in any other mannes to his use and also all such Londs and Tenements as he shall purchase hereafter not beyng at this day in his owne hands nor in none other persones to his use Except also other Londs and Tenements to the yerely value of two hundred marks whereof the Feoffees of the said Henry that now bene or shall be after the decesse of the said Henry shall suffer the said John and Constance to take the profits unto the tyme that the same John and Constance or outher of theyme or any othir by theire excitation sturryng or commandement lette disturbe or interrupte in any wise the Estates made or to be made by the said Henry or by any othir at his desire to the said Margaret his wyfe or to other his servaunts for terme of theire lyfes of the said three hundred marks worth Lond above except or any parte thereof or elles disturbe or interrupte the last wyll of the said Henry to be made by him of the said Londs by him purchased or to be purchased or of his moveable goodes and if any suche disturbaunce or interruption be then the said Feoffees shall restreyne the said John and Constance of takyng of any profites of the said two hundred markes worth Lond and shall applye the profites thereof for the soule he le of the said Henry or elles for perfourmynge of suche wyll as the said Henry shall thereof declare For seene alway that if the said Henry happen hereafter to have any other issue by the said Margaret his wyfe that then all his said Londs and Tenements except thereof one hundred pounds worth land by yere and except the said Londs and Tenements purchased and to be purchased after the fourme aforesaid shall descende or come to such as the Common Law will shall be heire to the said Henry of the body of the said Margaret begotyn And the said Henry graunteth that if hit happen him hereafter to have issue male by the said Margaret his wyfe that notwithstondyng the said Constance shall have to her and to her heires after the dethe of the said Henry one hundred poundes worth Londs above except of the said Londs and Tenements And if hit happen hereafter the said Henry to have other issue female by the said Margaret and dye withoute issue male begotyn of the body of the same Margaret then the said Constance shall have after the dethe of the same Henry one hundred pounds worth Lond by yere of the said Londs and Tenements over such part as shulde come to her by the dethe of the said Henry her Fader after the course of the Common Law and the same Henry shall not hereafter make any wyll to the contrary of the premisses Item The said Henry graunteth that he shall be bounden to the said Duc by his obligation to be enrolled in the Kyngs Courte at the costes of the said Duc in two thousand marks upon condition to be conteyned in the same obligation that he shall not alien ne discontynue ne make to be aliened or discontynued any Londs or Tenements which he or any other persone or persones to his use hath in demene or reversion otherwise than is abovesaid but if hit be to the entente abovesaid ne any thing elles doo or cause to be done touching the said Londs and Tenements that shall be in derogation or prejudice of the premisses or contrary to the entente abovesaid Item The said Duc graunteth by these presentes that if hit happen hereafter as God defende the said John his Sonne to dye after the said mariage had lyvyng the said Duc and Constance then the said Duc within two monethes after the decesse of the said John shall delyver or doo to be delyvered to the said Henry or to his Executours at Milton in the Shire of Northampton at the costes of the said Henry or of his Executours the said Constance unmaried and unassured of mariage to any other persone by the sturryng procurynge wille or assent of the said Duc and the same Duc shall do his parte for to lette the said Constance to be maried or assured of marriage to any other persone before the said livere of her made to the said Henry or to his Executours Item The said Duc graunteth that he shall deliver within a halfe yere after the said mariage to the said Henry to the use of the said John and Constance all the Evidences that the same Duc or any other to his behof hath concernyng onely the said Londs and Tenements whereof the same Duc shall make or doo to be made a state to the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William Cumberford as is abovesaid and if any Evidences there be concerning to the same Londs and Tenements or any parte of theyme and other Londs and Tenements that then the said Henry shall have the Exemplification of theyme at the costes of the said Duc if the said Henry desire them In witness whereof to that one parte of these Endentures with the said
Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid parties or other Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the premisses And we the aforesaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsels of the said parties hearing and seeing their Tytels Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegances concerning their aforesaid Tytles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said parties Award Ordain and Deme of and upon the premises in manner and form following that is to say forasmuch as the aforesaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Browne George and John Browne have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Erle of Wiltshire and seal'd with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and will'd that same Will to stand in his full strength and vertue and for his last Will and in that Will there is no clause whereby the said Erle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shew'd unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the foresaid Mannor of Drayton and other the said Mannors Lands Tenements and hereditaments to be yeven in tail to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Erle of Wiltshire and that the same Erle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same tails and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Browne and Audrey be Cosens and next heires to the said Constance Mother to the said Erle of Wiltshire and to the said Erle on his said Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Mannors and other premises by reason of the same tayles Wherefore we Award Ordain and Deme that the foresaid Elizabeth George Browne and Audrey shall have and enjoy all the foresaid Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premises to them and to their heirs according to the foresaid Titles of Inheritance and that the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury shall by his several Deeds sufficient in the Law to be enroll'd release to the said John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humphrey Browne George Browne and John Browne and Audrey his Wife and to such person or persons as they shall name to the use of the said Elizabeth George and Audrey and their heirs all such Right Title Claim Interest and Demands as the said Erle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresaid Mannors Lands and Tenements and other the premises by reason of any Gift or Will in the premises or any part of them made by the foresaid Erle of Wiltshire to the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt John and George Browne in all things And furthermore the said Erle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said John Mordaunt Humphrey Browne John and George Browne or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premises as soon as it may be conveniently done for the which Releases and other things above specified and for other Costs and Charges which the aforesaid Erle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premises We the said Arbitrators Award Ordain and Deme that the said Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humphrey Browne and John Browne shall content and pay to the said Erle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns two hundred Marks of lawful Money in forme following that is to say the said John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns in the day of the Feast of St. George the Martyr next coming after the date above written at the Rode of the North dore in the Cathedral Church of Pauls in the City of London between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the Clock of the same day a hundred marks and the foresaid Sir Wistan Humphrey Browne and John Browne shall content and pay to the foresaid Erle his Executors or Assigns in the day of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the said Rode in the said Church between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the same day a hundred marks residue of the foresaid two hundred marks Also we Award Ordain and Deme that the said John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Browne Humphrey and John Browne by their Deed and Deeds as sufficient as the said Erle of Shrewsbury by his Councell shall advise shall release to the said Erle of Shrewsbury and as many persons as the said Erle shall name and appoint in writing before the Feast of St. Michaell th' Archangel next coming after the date hereof which hath done labour'd or spoken for the said Erle in his foresaid cause all actions of Trespasses Debates and Demands personal had or done before the date of these presents at the Costs and Charges of the said Erle of Shrewsbury and the said Erle and all the foresaid persons which have done spoken or labour'd any thing for the said Erle of Shrewsbury in or for his tryal or possession of the premises or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the same Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humphrey Browne George Browne John Browne and Audrey his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have against the same Erle or the foresaid other persons for any cause had or done touching the premises afore the date of these presents In witness whereof the foresaid Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put to their Seals this twentieth day of March the sixth yere of the Reign of King Henry the Eight A Release from the Erle of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Mannor of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit nos Georgius Comes Salopiae salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae uxori ejus uni consanguinearum haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts ex parte matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet filii Constanciae filiae haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Browne Georgio Browne filio haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Browne filio haeredi Amiae alterius consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Browne Etheldredae uxori ejus tertiae consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae
sayd Earle in his foresayd Cause All Actions of Trespass Debates and Demands personal had or done before the Date of these Presents at the Costs and Charges of the Earle of Shrewsbury And the sayd Earle and all the foresayd persons which hath done spoken or laboured any for the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury in or for his Tytyl or possession of the premisses or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humfrey Brown George Brown John Brown and Audree his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have ayenst the sayd Earle or the foresayd other persons for any cause had or done touching the premisses afore the Date of these Presents In witnesse whereof the foresayd Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put their Seals this twentieth Day of March in the sixth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth A Release from the Earl of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Mannor of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Nos Georgius Comes Salopiae salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxori ejus uni Consanguinearum Haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes ex parte Matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet Filii Constanciae Filiae Haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Brown Georgio Brown Filio Haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Filio Haeredi Amiae alterius Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Brown Etheldredae Uxori ejus tertiae Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae Montague Willielmo Pemberton Haeredibus Assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxoris ejus Humfridi Brown Georgii Brown Etheldredae Uxoris ejus Haeredum ipsorum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton Ac de in omnibus aliis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis Reversionibus Boscis Pratis Pascuis Pasturis aliis Haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum vel alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae seu in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel Haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes nobis factis sive habitis Salvis omnino reservatis nobis Haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habuimus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per jus haereditarium per aliquem Antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum Haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wiltes nobis facta sive habita Ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec Haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione Juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Martii Anno Regni Regis Henrici octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Justified by Antient and Authentick Testimonies By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Fitz-Lewis were Argent a Cheveron Sable between three Trefoils of the same Of the Original Descent Noble Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Fitz-Lewis ALthough the House of Fitz-Lewis has been possessed of Advantages in its Original Alliances noble Possessions and continuance that might do honour to the pretences of any Successor whatsoever Yet I was doubtful whether I should insert it among the other Genealogies they being all so strong in extant and apparent Proofs and to this there remaining only Fragments in my power by reason that with Westhornedon and the other of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands there were delivered to the Lord Peters a prudent and wary Purchaser all the Records Deeds and Papers which did belong to that Family there having and by chance only continued among the Evidences of the Lord Lewis Mordaunt who did sell that Estate an ancient though very authentick Pedigree Yet with the help thereof and some other Pieces that have been gathered by accident there being so great a conviction of the value of this splendid Family I have thought it a due to its Memory and Descendants to establish the remembrance of it The Family of Fitz-Lewis through the power of Nature if not under the Laws of Marriage does derive from Royal Bloud being descended of Charles the VIII King of France who was a great King in his time through the person of a Lady that was of high Nobility in this Nation though her Name shall be unmentioned out of respect to other great Families which by her after-marriages to a noble Husband are descended from her It was endowed with many fair Possessions Lands and Lordships It was allied by Marriages to the greatest of all the English Lords and deserv'd to be honour'd by the famous Camden in his Provincial Description thereof with the Epithet of Clara Familia Fitz-Lewis so as I doubt not but my endeavours herein will be acceptable to such as are curious in things of this nature and particularly to the noble Persons concerned in the Bloud and Succession of the Family LEWIS Prince of France who came afterwards to be King LEWIS VIII LEwis Prince of France commonly at that time called Monsieur Lovis de France and in Latine Instruments Dominus Ludovicus de Francia having in the Year 1251. been called into England by several of the greatest Lords of the Kingdom in opposition to their natural
Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. between the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath Sir Oliver Luke of Hawnes in the County of BEdford Knight and Sir Samuel Luke of Woodend in the said County of Bedford Knight of the other part Witnesseth That the said Countess Dowager for the settling of the Mannor and Lands hereafter mentioned in the Name and Blood of her the said Countess And in consideration of the summ of Five shillings of lawful Money of England to her in hand paid by the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke whereof she acknowledgeth the receipt and for divers other good causes and considerations her the said Countess hereunto especially moving hath Granted Bargained Aliened Sold Enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Alien Sell Enfeoffe and Confirm unto the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke all that the Mannor of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh in the County of Surrey with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and all Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Commons Wasts Warrens Courts Court-Leet view of Frankpledge Privileges Goods of Felons Deodands Franchises Profits Emoluments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Mannor belonging or appertaining or as part parcel or member thereof commonly accepted reputed taken or known and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of her the said Countess Dowager scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh aforesaid Godstone Cateram and Horne or any of them in the said County of Surrey To Have and to Hold the said Mannor Lands and Premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke their Heirs and Assigns for ever to the use behoof intents and purposes and with upon and under such limitations as are hereafter in and by these presents limited expressed and declared and to and for no other use intent meaning or purpose whatsoever That is to say To the Use of the said Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow for and during the Term of her Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after her Decease then to the Use and Behoof of Henry Earl of Peterborow Son and Heir Apparent of the said Countess for and during the Term of Fourscore and nineteen Years if the said Earl of Peterborow shall so long live without Impeachment of Wast And afterwards to the Use of the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke for the Life of the said Earl of Peterborow upon Trust and to the intent that the Contingent Remainders herein after limited may not be prevented defeated or destroyed without the Consent of the said Countess And nevertheless That the said Earl of Peterborow may have and receive the Rents and Profits of the said Mannor and Premises for the term of his Life And after the Decease of the said Earl of Peterborow to the Use of the Daughter or Daughters and Younger Son or Sons of the Body of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten And of and for such Estate and Estates either in Fee Simple Fee Tail for Life or Lives or Years or otherwise of the said Mannor and Premises and every or any Part or Parcel thereof And to the intent that such Son or Sons Daughter or Daughters may have and receive such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money out of the Premises or any Part thereof as the said Earl of Peterborow at any time during his Life by any Writing or Writings under his Hand and Seal testified by Two or more Witnesses shall limit and appoint And for Default of such Limitation and Appointment or as the Estates so limited shall respectively end and determine and charged or chargeable with such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money as shall be so limited Then to the Use and Behoof of the First Son of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Second Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Second Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Third Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Third Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of the Fourth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fourth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Fifth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fifth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of all and every such other Son or Sons of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten as they shall be in Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs of their several and respective Bodies lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of the Daughter or Daughters of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of such Daughter or Daughters lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Esq Second Son of the said Countess for and during the term of his Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after his Decease then to the use and behoof of the First Son of the said John Mordaunt lawfully to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully to be begotten And for default
Ordain and Deem That the foresaid Elizabeth George Brown and Audrey shall have and enjoy all the foresaid Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the Premises to them and to their Heirs according to their foresaid Titles of Inheritance And that the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury shall by his several Deeds sufficient in the Law to be enrolled release to the said John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humphrey Brown George Brown and John Brown and Audrey his Wife and to such Person or Persons as they shall name to the use of the said Elizabeth George and Audrey and their Heirs all such Right Title Claim Interest and Demand as the said Earl of Shrewsbury or any Person or Persons to his use hath in the foresaid Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises by reason of any Gift or Will in the Premises or any part of them made by the foresaid Earl of Wiltshire to the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury at the Cost and Charges of the said John Mordaunt John and George Brown in all things And furthermore the said Earl of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said John Mordaunt Humphrey Brown John and George Brown or to their Deputie or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the Premises as soon as it may be conveniently done For the which Releases and other things above specified and for other Costs and Charges which the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the Premises we the said Arbitrators Award Ordain and Deem That the said Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humphrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the said Earl of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns Two hundred Marks of Lawful Money in form following that is to say The said John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns on the Day of the Feast of Saint George the Martyr next coming after the Date above-written at the Rode of the North-door in the Cathedral Church of Paul's in the City of London between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the Clock of the same day a Hundred Marks and the foresaid Sir Wistan Humphrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the foresaid Earl his Executors or Assigns on the day of the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle then next ensuing at the said Rode in the same Church between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the same Day a Hundred Marks residue of the foresaid Two hundred Marks Also we Award Ordain and Deem That the said John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Brown Humphrey and John Brown by their Deed and Deeds as sufficient as the said Earl of Shrewsbury or his Counsel shall advise shall release to the said Earl of Shrewsbury and to as many persons as the said Earl shall name and appoint in Writing before the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming after the date hereof which hath done laboured or spoken for the foresaid Earl in his foresaid cause all actions of Trespasses Debates and Demands personal had or done before the date of these Presents at the Costs and Charges of the said Earl of Shrewsbury And the said Earl and all the foresaid Persons which hath done spoken or laboured any thing for the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury in or for his Title or Possession of the Premises or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the same Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humphrey Brown George Brown John Brown and Audrey his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have against the same Earl or the foresaid other persons for any cause had or done touching the Premises before the date of these Presents In Witness whereof the foresaid Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put to their Seals this Twentieth day of March the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth A Release from the Earl of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Maner of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit nos Georgius Comes Salopiae Salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remississe relaxasse omnino pro nobis haeredibus nostris quietum clamasse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae uxori ejus uni consanguinearum haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts ex parte matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet filii Constanciae filiae haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humphredo Brown Georgio Brown filio haeredi apparenti dicti Humphredi Brown filio haeredi Amiciae alterius consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Brown Etheldredae uxori ejus tertiae consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae Montegue Willielmo Pemberton haeredibus assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae uxoris ejus Humfredi Brown Georgii Brown Johannis Brown Etheldredae uxoris ejus haeredum ipsarum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae Totum jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus ceu unquam habuimus de in manerio de Drayton ac de in omnibus aliis maneriis terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus boscis pratis pascuis pasturis aliis haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum vel alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ceu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae aut in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis ceu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts nobis factis sive habitis Salvis omnino reservatis nobis haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habemus ceu habere poterimus in praemissis ceu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per jus haereditarium per aliquem antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus ceu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quae habere poterimus aliter quam per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wilts nobis facta sive habita Ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis ceu nomine nostro aliquod jus statum titulum clameum interesse ceu demandum de aut
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
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms