every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
desire of seeing Italy so as there was no occasion for her Highness or any others concerning themselves in his motions The Gentlemen departed and the Earl immediately gave an account to the King and the Duke his Master of what had happen'd and the discouragement he had met and though he directed his Servants and Equipage to remain at Lyons till farther orders yet he resolv'd himself to proceed as far as Turnin where resided an Embassador of France who had the reputation of presiding over the French affairs in Italy to whom he might communicate what had happen'd and to take some measures with him about his farther proceeding He repaired immediately to the Embassador's House after his arrival at that City and enquired of him Whether he had any orders to assist him in the affair in question wherein the World esteem'd the King his Master the chief mover The Embassador assur'd his Lordship he had never been made acquainted with that business and that if his Master were concern'd in it it was likely he design'd to send some Man of Quality on purpose who would be particularly instructed in the management thereof But he said that to his particular surprise he had two days before receiv'd a Letter from the Dutchess of Modena wherein she pray'd him That if his Lordship came to Turin and did confer or advise with him upon that matter he would signifie to his Lordship an impossibility in the accomplishing of it for the reasons had been before expressed in the Letter his Lordship had at Lyons received from Nardi This second appearance of an averse proceeding began very much to discourage the Earl of Peterborow and after he had given an account thereof to the Court he was in doubt what to do or how to make any farther advances But the French Embassador who though unimploy'd in this affair did now believe his Master much concern'd in bringing it about advised the Earl to a little patience and that continuing the pretence of a casual Traveller he would advance his Journey down the Po to an agreeable City called Plaisance where he might find occasion to remain and entertain himself till he had farther orders The Earl follow'd his Counsel arriv'd at the place agreed on and lodged himself as conveniently as he could to the appearance of a private Traveller but for all his caution the Second or Third day after he came to Plaisance one of the Servants brought him word one Morning how there was a Gentleman desired the favor of being admitted to him who came from the Dutchess of Modena The Earl sent immediately to have him introduced and it proved the same Nardi himself who had written the first Letter to his Brother at Lyons He had the appearance of an ingenious Man who spoke well and was practised in all Italian civilities He presented now to his Lordship a Letter from the Dutchess her self wherein she wrote That having heard of his Journey into those parts with the end and causes thereof she thought it her part before a great King and his Minister should expose themselves in the demand of a thing which could not be accomplish'd out of respect to them to manifest the reasons of it that she might be excused from seeming any ways the cause of their dissatisfaction There was likewise in her Letter repeated what was contain'd in hers to the Embassador with something more but to all she added That indeed there were other Princesses besides her Daughter to one of which if the King his Master did think fit it was possible he might be admitted to address himself And however in the mean time if his Lordship would come and divert himself in that Court she should esteem her self favour'd by his reception and he should be very welcome The Earl after having excused himself to the Dutchess from the trouble his coming into those parts seem'd to cause unto her Highness and thanked her for the Honor she did in the rest with a fair excuse he told her again There was no cause for the first because he was but a private Traveller without design or orders to disquiet any body with pretences were not agreeable to them nor indeed with any of that nature which might answer the latter also So Nardi return'd with a seeming satisfaction at that time But the next day his Lordship receiv'd a Letter from the French Embassador at Turnin whereby he acquainted him That there was now by the King of France's Order upon the way the Marquess of Angeao design'd by his Majesty to come with most pressing desires to the Dutchess for a consent and conclusion to this Match and to assist his Lordship with all the offices and endeavours imaginable This did much satisfie the Earl of Peterborow if on the neck thereof there had not come an Express out of England to assure him of the same as to the part of Monsieur d' Angeao but with direction That when he came instead of the young Princess from whom they took it all the difficulties did arise they should demand an Aunt of hers which in all manner of circumstances was inferior to her and from divers considerations improper for the Duke's occasions This sudden change in the Affair did infinitely mortifie the Earl whose Head turn'd round under this variety of uncertainties But he had but to obey and be patient And now some days after came Nardi again with new Complements from the Dutchess and Expressions how glad that Court should be if the Honor was supposed to be intended to the Daughter might be transferr'd on any other Princess of that Family for it seems they had been enform'd that something of that kind had been listned to in France The Earl that was in expectation of his French assistant who was not yet near continued still upon his first guard owning no Orders at all but alledged the cause of his stay to be a little Indisposition which he expected should soon pass and return'd the Dutchess his Duty and humble Thanks for the honor of her Civilities About a week after this another new Express came out of England countermanding again the last directions and assuring the sudden arrival of Monsieur d' Angeao who was to use the uttermost power of the King of France's mediation in demand of the Princess's Daughter and no other Whereof if at last they should come to fail the Earl was then commanded to return to Paris without any farther delay Accordingly about a week after the Marquess of Angeao came and the Morning of his arrival hastned to Visit and Complement the Earl at his Lodging acquainting him That his Commission was to assist him in his Negotiation with all the offices of France which he would improve with his best industry This Marquess was a Man of good appearance very cunning and bred to all the Arts and Confidence of Courts It was soon concerted between them That this Envoy should go first to Modena having had formerly some acquaintance with
according to the same Covenants to Sir Nicholas Latimer and to the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten with the remainder as is abovesaid Data Indentura Anno septimo Henrici Septimi Item It appeareth by Writing in Paper Sealed and Subscribed with the hand of Sir John Turbervile That he granted a Bargain with John Smith for certain Lands in the County of Kent That if the said Sir John Turbervile died without Issue of his Body lawfully begotten That then the said John Smith should have all the said Mannors to him and to his Heirs Dated decimo quarto die Octobris Anno decimo septimo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain so made between John Turbervile and John Smith the said John Smith bargained and sold all the said Mannors to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and his Heirs except the Mannor of Estpullham with divers Covenants as it appeareth by the said Indenture Data Anno decimo octavo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain the Kings Grace that dead is without Cause or Colour would have caused John Smith to have Enfeoffed the Lord Daubeny and other of the said Mannors to the use of the Kings Grace and his Heirs which he refused so to do because he had made the former Bargain and by Advice of the Councel of the said King And to satisfie the same Kings Appetite for the time the said John Smith Enfeoffed Giles Lord Daubeny and others to them and their Heirs and Assigns to the use following That was Ad eosdem hujusmodi usus intentiones prout ego praefatus Johannes Smith die Confectionis praesentium in eisdem seisitus existo in praesens habeo in praemissis vel in aliquo praemissorum Which uses and intents upon the true Examination of the Premisses appear plainly to be to the use of Sir John Mordaunt Knight and of his Heirs for ever Memorandum That we the said Richard Eliott John Ernley and John Porte having seen and examined all and every of the Premisses and by the tenor and sight of all the Premisses it appeareth evidently That the King had no Title nor at any time had to any of the said Mannors nor to any part of them And all that is here under-written is to shew the truth as appeareth after by the shewing of John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight ITem All the Premisses notwithstanding the Kings Grace after the Decease of the said Sir John Mordaunt and of Sir Nicholas Latimer caused the said Lord Daubeny and others to sue several Writs of Subpoena as well against John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John and William Mordaunt one of the Executors of the said Sir John as against the said John Smith The said Lord Daubeny and other surmizing by their Bill in the Chancery That they had bought all such Right as one Walter Turbervile should have to the said Mannors as Cozen and next Heir to the said Sir John Turbervile Whereas the said Lord Daubeny and others had never any such Bargain of the said Walter And though he had made such Bargain with the said Lord it had been clearly void because the said Sir John Turbervile before his death sold all the said Mannors as above is expressed Item The Subpoena was sued to the intent That the said John Mordaunt the Son William Mordaunt and John Smith should have been compelled to deliver all such Evidences as they or any of them had concerning the same Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs And also that the said John Mordaunt the Son and John Smith should release to the said Lord Daubeny and others all such Right as they or any of them had in the said Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs except that they would compound with the King to give him such Monies as he would desire Item The said William perceiving the Premisses and that the Kings Grace against all good Right and Conscience desired and would have the Premisses performed sued to the Kings Grace to have him good Lord to the said John Mordaunt the Son and that he should not be compelled against all Right and good Conscience to release his said Right nor to deliver any such Evidences And by that Suit he was commanded to sue to Edward Dudley to know farther the Kings Pleasure by the which Edward it was shewed to the said John Mordaunt and William That the Kings Grace would have Twelve Hundred Pounds or else the Lands and the Evidences And for fear of the loss of the Lands and that they should have been compelled to deliver the Evidences the said John Mordaunt the Son was agreeable to indent with the Kings Grace to give him a Thousand Pounds and Master Dudley said that he would pay the Two Hundred Pounds residue in hand And to have therefore the said John Mordaunt the Sons Interest in Estpullham whereto the said John Mordaunt had no Title Item Upon this Master Dudley caused the Indenture to be made up by the which Indenture John Mordaunt should have had a years Rent and a half then remaining in the Kings hands which he never had And also the Thousand Pounds should not have been paid till certain Covenants contained in the same Indenture had been performed on the Kings part which to this day was never performed and no penny ought to have been paid by the Indenture And yet that notwithstanding they were called upon and were compelled to pay Four Hundred Pounds thereof at several times for the which Money they have sued to have restitution and to be discharged of the residue and to have the Indenture delivered because it appeareth That there is no cause that the Kings Grace should have had any penny which Restitution and Indenture with a Release of the Right of the Persons named for the King in the same Indenture she said John Mordaunt yet desireth for Charity and in discharging of the Kings Soul that dead is A Letter from Sir Giles Strangewayes To my Right Worshipful Brother Mordaunt RIght Worshipful Brother I heartily recommend me unto you Sir As touching the Releases of John Latimer I have them ready Sealed by him and all the names of them that were present at his release and delivery of the same Sir I would ere this time have sent it you but I durst trust no Messenger but my self For with Gods good Grace I trust this Term to be at London and then to bring it to you my self Also as touching the Land that ye have lately bought of one Narborow within Devilish according to your desire and writing I my self have taken possession thereof for your behoof and also retained the Tenants to you by a penny in the presence of Sir Thomas Trenchard Knight Robert Sturges Esquire and others Also as for the Pedigree of William Juell and Thomas Lond I have done the best that in me lies to have known it howbeit I can
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 the Earl's Brother and the Lady his Wife called before her Mariage Mrs Elizabeth Cary had by much officiousness and many endeavors during the King's Exile acquired a great share in his favour but most of all with the King 's Chief Minister the Lord Chancellor Hide afterwards Earl of Clarendon and having great and incomposable differences with the Earl of Peterborow about the settlement of his Estate whereunto against his will they pretended to Inherit they had to encline them to their partiality in case the decision of any of the differences should come to depend on them done sundry ill offices to the Earl so as at the King 's first Arrival he receiv'd marks enough of the King's coldness and the ill impressions they had taken But the Earl of Peterborow who could speak well having means by some Friends of the contrary Faction to have access to the King soon dispersed those Clouds and convinced his Majesty of the Art and Malice of his Enemies and of the untruth of those suggestions which were partly the cause that enclin'd the King and his Minister to suffer the remainders of Rygate to be taken out of the Crown by which the Earl lost one of the Noblest Houses in the South of England and such Lands and Revenues belonging to that Priory as were worth a Thousand Pound of yearly Revenues The King after this promised proportionable Recompence to the Earl and by the interposition of the Lord Chancellor had given him a Commission for Captain General of the King's Forces to be sent into Africa and to be Governor of the City of Tangier To this undertaking then the Earl of Peterborow wholly applied himself and although from the Division of the Councel which did at that time consist of two very powerful Factions neither of them much favouring what ever the other did propose great obstructions and difficulties did arise unto the Earl both in the preparations that were necessary and in the after performance of several things that were undertaken yet with his industry and diligence he overcame the envy and secret opposition of that affair Embarking the ...... of ...... with Three Thousand Three Hundred Men under his conduct and proportionable Provisions for them of every sort and landing at Tangier the ...... of ...... took possession of it for the King of England and establish'd himself Governor thereof The History of his Government there being too long for this place I shall only say That for the time he stay'd there was never place kept in better order better paid better provided for nor where all sorts of Men had better Justice or Protection It is true Two reasons made him desire to be recall'd the first That his spirit and his endeavours were so limited as that little Honor was to be obtain'd by his residence in that place having not Troops enough to march or attempt any thing into the Country nor Money enough to design such Fortifications or so proceed with the business of the Mole as might render the Town safe against an undertaking Army or the Sea advantageous to a Trading Fleet. But the chief Thorn in his Foot was the Envy and Malice of some considerable Enemies at home who endeavor'd to support an under Officer of his own in his pretension of competition to some powers that were incompatible with his Honor and Authority And they engaged the best and otherwise the justest Prince in the World so to favor what that Officer did aim at as the Earl must have submitted to his Adversaries or encurr'd the last enmity from that person for whom he had the greatest service and veneration that could be Seeing it was like to come to that extremity the Earl of Peterborow desired leave to lay down his Government and return It was so agitated by his Friends as that he had it granted with all the circumstances of honor and kindness that could be as appears by a Letter of Thanks under the King's Hand for his faithful and good Services and in consideration thereof he had under the Great Seal of England a Pension granted him for his life of a Thousand Pound by the Year Upon his return he found the King engag'd in a War that was like to prove very fierce between himself and the States of the United Provinces And resolving to acknowledge the King's Bounties on every occasion that should present it self by the constant offer of his Service he desired the Command of a Ship to serve in that conjuncture and it was granted with acknowledgments for the Example But upon notice thereof among the Men of Quality it was so much and so suddenly followed as it put a necessity upon the King to refuse it to others of as great merit and zeal as could be or to have his Fleet commanded for the most part by Men of greater Quality than Experience This put a stop even to the Earl's pretension But since he could not serve in that capacity he was resolv'd to go a Volunteer which he hid in the Ship and company of the Noble Earl of Sandwich they first setting to Sea from Portsmouth But the Fleet soon returning by reason of the lateness of the Season his Lordship did so too remaining that Winter making his court to the Princes The next Expedition which the succeeding Summer did produce he went again to Sea in good earnest and because it was a Second-rate Ship of good force and accommodation he was order'd aboard the Vnicorn Commanded by one Captain ...... Tidiman wherein he remain'd during that great Fight of the Third of June in the Year .... where to his immortal glory the present Great King James the Second shew'd more personal Valor and Conduct than any other Prince of the House of England since the Conquest who had kill'd by his side the Earl of Faymouth his Brother's Favorite and his own his first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber the Lord Muskery the generous Mr. Boyle with many other Gentlemen and Souldiers The behavior of the Earl in the Ship where he Sail'd was not unsuitable to his Quality and the other actions of his life He encouraged the Souldiers with his Actions and his Words too and the Captain in truth of not too forward a Nature did perhaps more than otherwise he would to hide from his Men the great difference there was between the intrepidity of the Earl and his own circumspection In fine there was nothing scandalous but his Lordship did not look upon it as good Fortune to have accompanied a Man no more sollicitous to get Glory in so great an occasion for that purpose The Earl of Peterborow after his Engagement by Sea had it intimated to him by a private Friend about the Duke That if he thought he could apply himself to a Court-life wherein attendance would be necessary and a particular devotion to all the interests of his Master he believed his Highness would not be unwilling to engage his Lordship in his Service even in
Tenements aforenamed and the said Lands called Hobberlerkeys after the death of Edmund Brown Uncle to the said William and also the Maners of Langenthorp Whiteroding and all other Lands and Tenements which were the said Robert Brown's or any other to his Use at the time of his decease after certain Debts of the same Robert payed and after the decease of the said William and Elizabeth should go to the Heirs begotten of the Body of the said William And thereupon the said Elizabeth took to Husband the same William For which Marriage and other Premises and Promises well and truly to have been performed the said John Mordaunt should have payed Three hundred Mark and Four Shillings whereof he the said William hath payed Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence to Sir William Capell for redeeming the said Lands in the Saint Martins hath payed to divers persons for the contentation of divers of the Debts of the said Robert Brown Six Pounds and because the said Lands that the said John Mordaunt should have had during the Non-age of the said William were not of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds according to the said Agreement and Promise by much Money therefore it was agreed by the said William and his Friends That the said John Mordaunt should rebate and keep still in his own hands and in full recompence of the said yearly Value of ...... the other ...... the residue of the said Three hundred Marks whereunto the said William before the Date of these Presents and also now agreeth by these Presents and confesseth fully to be satisfied of all such Money as should be due to him by reason of the said Marriage and by reason of the Money payed by the said John Mordaunt the Debts of the said Robert were the sooner payed and the said William sooner attained and had the Possession of the said Lands Moreover the said William contrary to his said Agreement hath sold the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins to the said John Bardefeld for Twenty Pounds whereof the said William hath received Four Pounds and the same William hath ........... the said Bardefeld the Ten Pounds and also upon ........ hath ........ and given to John Wro and Sybill his Wife by Fine the said Maner of Stokhall with the appurtenances to have to them and their Heirs of the Body of the said Sybill begotten for all the said considerations and many other causes in recompence of the Premises and in recompence of the full Jointure and Dowre of the said Elizabeth upon agreement had between the said John Mordaunt and William the said William by his Deed bearing Date the Tenth day of June the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Enfeoffed the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne John Mestot and Thomas Heron of the said Maners of Langenhoo Rokewodhall Whiteroding Brown's Manner and of all his Lands and Tenements in the County of Essex of the Avowson of the Church of Langenhoo to have to them and to their Heirs and the same John Mordaunt William Gascoigne John Mestot and Thomas Heron according to the same Agreement at the desire and request of the said William have by Deed bearing Date the Eleventh day of June the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh made estate of all the said Maners of Langenhoo Rokewodhall Whiteroding and Brown's Maners and all other Lands Tenements and Avowsons in the said County of Essex to Robert Whiteing William Mordaunt George Whiteing Humphrey Brown John Jenour William Sewster and Thomas Kirkeby to have to them and their Heirs for ever to the use of the said William and Elizabeth for Term of their Life and of the longer liver of them yeilding to the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne John Mestot and Thomas Heron and to their Heirs Ten Pounds Four Shillings out of the said Maners of Langenhoo to the uses and intents specified in the said Indenture and after the Decease of the said William and Elizabeth the said Robert Whiteing William Mordaunt George Whiteing Humphrey Brown John Jenour William Sewster and Thomas Kirkeby to be and stand feoffed of and in all the said Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to be and stand Feoffes of the Premises to the uses and intents specified in the same Indenture as by the same it more plainly appeareth It is now Covenanted Assented and Agreed between the said John Mordaunt and William at the departing of the said William from Turvey by these Presents in form following That is to say That where the said William hath received of Glasyer late Farmer of Stokhall One and Twenty Pound Four Shillings and Eight Pence which was due to the said John Mordaunt by reason of the same Farm and also whereas Bogdich late Farmer to the said John Mordaunt of Rokewodhall had all the Maners Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding to Farm with divers Goods and Cattels of the said John Mordaunt That is to say Two and Thirty Kyne a Bull Eight Horses a Cart and Cartgeer and Plough and Ploughgeer for term of years and departed from the said Farm being then in debt to the said John for the said Farm in Ten Pounds over and besides the said Cattel and of which arrearages of Ten Pounds and of the said Goods and Cattels the said William hath received a good substance and also whereas the said John Mordaunt hath found the said William and Elizabeth their Children their Servants as well Men as Women and Horses meat and drink continually from the time of the said Marriage unto the time of making of these Preserts one Year and a half only excepted and at divers times in the mean season hath found the said William to School and to Accompt at London to the great cost and charge of the said John Mordaunt the said John Mordaunt giveth to the said William the keeping and finding of him his Wife his Children and Servants as is aforesaid freely unto the date of the making of these Presents and also releaseth to the said William all Actions for the said Goods Debts Money and Cattels received by and of the said Glasyer and Bogdich Farmers of Stokhall and Abbesroding and also whereas the said William hath borrowed of the said John Mordaunt Fourteen Pound ready Money and is bound for the same by his Obligation to the said John and also whereas the said William hath certain and divers Stuffs of Houshold which were late William Mordaunt's Father of the said John Mordaunt and Elizabeth to make the said William clearly discharged at his departing against the said John Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors the same John releaseth by these Presents to the said William all Actions and Demands as well in Conscience as otherwise For the which Premises and all other benefices that the said John hath done to the said William the said William
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
fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Oxford secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sexto Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parliamenti Toung Irrotulatur in Memorandis Scaccarii de Anno nono Regis Henrici octavi videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sanctae Trinitatis rotulo ..... Ex parte Remem Thesaurum A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we intend that our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots shall now shortly repair unto our City of London at whose coming our mind is That she be honourably accompanied and conveyed from Shire to Shire by such Noble-men and other Gentlemen as be Inhabitants of those paris amongst whom we have appointed you to accompany and attend upon our said Sister from the Town of Stony-stratford to Saint Albans We therefore will and desire you to put your self in a readiness so that against the Fourteenth day of April ye be at our said Town of Stonystratford there to meet with our said dearest Sister and from thence to attend upon her till her coming to the said Town of Saint Albans Not failing hereof as ye intend to do unto us honour and pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Two and twentieth day of March. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we understand that at the time of the late repair hither of our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots ye according to our Letters to you then Addressed right thankfully acquitted your self in giving your Attendance for Her conducting and honourable conveyance We therefore give unto you our special thanks And where it is appointed that our said dearest Sister shall now return unto the Realm of Scotland we will and desire you to put your self in a readiness likewise to accompany and conduct her at this her said return from our Castle of Windsor where she intendeth to be the Sixteenth day of this Moneth so to attend upon her to Stony-stratford whereby ye shall deserve a further thanks to be remembred accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Eight day of May. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well Forasmuch as a right-great and Honourable Ambassaor shall within short time repair unto our Presence out of France at which season it is requisite and right expedient that our Court be Honourably furnished with Lords and other Nobles for the receiving and entertaining of the said Ambassador We therefore have appointed you among others to give your Attendance in our said Court at their coming Wherefore we will that forthwith upon the sight of these our Letters ye put your self in such a readiness in your best aray that ye may be here with us by the Twentieth day of this instant Month at the farthest without failing thus to do as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Tenth day of August Alliance of Mordaunt and Elmes THese be the Articles and Agreements had made and concluded the Twelfth day of February the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir apparent of Elizabeth now Wife to Thomas Pygott Esquire one of the Kings Serjeants at Law and late the Wife of the said William and one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Iwardely Esquire Deceased on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Partie for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Elmes and Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt First it is agreed That the said John Elmes shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Wife the said Edith if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in the like manner the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes if the said John Elmes will agree and assent thereto The said Marriage to be had and solemnized before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these present Agreements Item It is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the Costs of the same John Mordaunt Item It is also agreed by these Presents That the said John Elmes shall Apparel himself at his pleasure and at his own Costs and Charges And in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall Apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the Feast-day of All-Saints shall at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the said John Mordaunt Robert Brudenell Knight one of the Justices of our Sovereign Lord the King at the Pleas before him to be holden Thomas Pygott one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law and to William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Gardiner John Spencer Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs and at all time and times after the said Feast of All-Saints within the space of Eight Years when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt or by by his Heirs or by his Executors or by his Assigns a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly Value of Threescore Pounds over all yearly Charges and of such Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances of the Inheritance of the said John Elmes as by the said John Mordaunt shall be named and appointed the said Persons to be and stand seized of Fifty Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Threescore Pounds to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith Mordaunt after their said Marriage had 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 right Heirs of the said William according to the Old Interest thereof And of Ten Pounds residue of the said Threescore Pounds that the said Feoffees shall stand
Sir John or his Deputy thereto be required by the said Rector and Scholars or by their Successors according as it hath been there used in times past in all the foresaid Maners in the said County of Buckingham requiring for him or his Deputies only the Fee rehearsed This Patent by William Shyrby and Henry Brown which William and Henry had it at the Hands of Sir Richard Lyster Gentleman William Shyrby Per me Henricum Brown Alliance between Mordaunt and Fettyplace THIS Indenture made the First day of July in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth Between John Fettyplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Knight on the other Party Witnesseth That the said John Fettyplace hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth Bargain and Sell to the said Sir John the Marriage of Edmond Fettyplace And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said Edmond before the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady next coming after the date of these presents shall Marry and take to Wife Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Margaret thereto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents that the said Margaret shall Marry and take to Husband before the foresaid Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the said Edmond if the said Edmond thereto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast at the Costs and Charges of the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John Fettyplace Covenaneth and Granteth by these presents That his Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Edmond for the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Margaret for the day of the said Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Margaret And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Gyles Strangeways Sir William Gascoign Knights Thomas Englefield one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law Edward Eynes John Elmes Edward Purfray Philip Fettyplace and William Fettyplace of Maydencote Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Gentlemen Thomas Nethercote and John Duke and to them their Heirs and Assigns and to the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns such a sufficient sure and lawful Estate of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the County of Kent to the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds discharged of all former Bargais Sales Jointures Dowers Uses Judgments Executions Recognisances Statutes-Merchants Statutes of the Staple and of all other Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by their Learned Counsel at the costs and charges in the Law of the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns be it by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise The same Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to such Uses and Intents as hereafter follow That is to say Of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Twenty Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof immediately upon the Marriage had and solemnized to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof from the date of these present Indentures to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father unto the time that the said Edmond his Son and Heir apparent come to the full Age of One and twenty Years And after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the said Age of One and twenty Years and after the Death of Dame Alice Besellys Widow that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Twenty Pounds residue of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father for term of Life of the same John Fettyplace the Father without Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said John Fettyplace the Father And immediately after the Death of the said John Fettyplace the Father and after the said Edmond shall come and be of the Age of One and twenty Years that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And the said John Fettyplace the Father Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall leave Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly value of Three hundred and twenty five Marks over and beside the said fifty Pounds before appointed for the Jointure in the County of Berks Oxfordshire or elsewhere within the Realm of England immediately after the decease of the said John Fettyplace and of Dorothy his Wife and after the decease of Dame Alice Besellys Widow and after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One 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
you have for the Third part And after that the Lord Mordaunt's Servants carried away to the Lodge of Drayton-park most part of the said Tree and the said Rowland had certain Arms and the Body of the said Tree Also the said Richard Slade by the Lord Parre's Commandment accompted for to fell more Wood upon the said brink Freeborde bottom of the Ditch and of the Bank which was about the Commotion time in Lincolnshire Whereupon James Wavenson Servant to the Lord Mordaunt was sent to the Lord Parre for to have his pleasure in the same Which Lord Parre made answer to the said James saying What have you to do therewith And then the said James said I come for to know if it be your pleasure that your Servants shall so do upon my Master's Ground Then the Lord Parre answered and said I shall make your Master and you also answer when I do see my time And so the said James departed from the said Lord Parre Also the Lords of Drayton were at all times from time to time by pains laid in the King's Courts of Swanymote dryven for to make sufficient Fence either with Hedge and Ditches or else with pale for to keep the King 's Deer out of Drayton-park So that it is to be thought clearly that if the Lords of Drayton had encroached any part of the King's Ground or Wood that the said Encroachment should have been from time to time presented in the said Court of Swanymote as well as the pains there laid and presented for default of making of Pale Hedges or Ditches And where it is said That the Lord Mordaunt and his Servants of Right ought not for to have any Interest or Title to the said Wood growing of the brink of the Ditch of Drayton-park then they would have fellen the same before this time and not have suffered the same so long to grow to old Wood. So that the Lord Mordaunt maketh this Answer That he and his Co-partners have suffered as old Wood to grow upon the brink of the Ditch within the Park of Drayton as is without and that will well appear by old Trees and Stumps of Trees now growing on the brink of the said Ditch within the said Park whoso please to view and search the same Where also it is Invented That forasmuch as the Keeper of the little Park of Brikestock do make a little piece of pale between Plumbwel-gate and Drayton-park-Pale and so do go on the Ditch with the said Pale and within the same Pale next unto the said Pale of Drayton-park that by the rest they would have the Ditch and Freeborde To this the Lord Mordaunt maketh answer That many times his Keeper of Drayton-park hath made the said Pale from Drayton-park-pale over the said Ditch and Freeborde which from time to time for divers Years hath been plucked up again by the Lord Parre and his Servants for to make a common Riding and a Foot-path as well of that part as of more for the Lord Parre and his Servants to ride and go through Drayton-park at their pleasures And also at such time as the said Lord Mordaunt and his said Co-partners had Deer within the same Park of Drayton that the said Lord Parre and Keepers did come into Drayton-park and break down the Pales in every corner of their Grounds and Hunt out the Deer and killed also Deer and all was done to put the Lord Mordaunt to all displeasures that might be invented and compassed And all such Displeasures as the Lord Parre did to the Lord Mordaunt he did the same in the Names of Wistan Brown and Sir Humphrey Brown and not in the King 's Right Also it is well to be perceived if Men would the same well consider and weigh the same indifferently according to the Truth That the said brink of the Ditch was by the Owners of Drayton-park set with Thorn as well as with other Wood but especially with Thorn of that side that is adjoyning to Brikestock-park as also round about all the Park of Drayton as well of the insides as of the outsides which was done to good purpose for a safeguard to the Wood growing between both Hedges or else the Cattle or Deer that from time time did or should go within Brikestock-park would have destroyed the Spring of the Ditches and all the said brinks be called in this Shire of Northampton Ward-Hedges made for safeguard of the Spring Also it is further to be noted The Antiquity and long continuance of Drayton-park the space of Three hundred Years Enparked and the little Park of Brikestock before it was enclosed was a common Ground called Bootesley whereupon the Tenants of Brikestock Grafton Slipton Twywell and other Towns had Common for their Beasts And if at that time the Owners of Drayton-park having a Park there had not well considered the preservation of their Ditching and Setting and for the continuance of the Wood to grow the said Inhabitants would have clearly destroyed the same with their Cattle and so it cannot be thought otherwise of Right but that the said Ditches and Freeborde doth belong to Drayton-park And many other displeasures the Lord Mordaunt can declare that he hath sustained and born and had at the Hands of the Lord Parre and his Servants and all such displeasures began for the Denial of the said Wood and for denial of granting a Fee to the said Lord and for that the Lord Parre could not get rule of the third part of all Greenslands about Drayton Grafton Luffwick and other Towns at the pleasure of the said Lord Parre which displeasure the Lord Mordaunt will not express Matters laid and objected by the Lord Parre the Regarders Verders and others against the Lord Mordaunt for what cause the Lords of Drayton suffered the Wood growing of the Freeborde of the Park of Drayton to grow so long whereupon the Lord Parre now claimeth the same for the King's Graces Majesty Decimo tertio die Aprilis anno primo regis Edwardi Sexti And the Lord Parre's Regarders Verders and others do say That if the Lords of Drayton should have had any right to the Hedges Ditches Freeborde and Wood between Drayton-park and Brikestock-park that they would not have suffered Rowland Slade Richard Slade otherwise called Richard Smith and other Keepers of Brikestock-Park for to have fellen the Wood of the said Ditch to the King's use For Answer whereunto the Lord Mordaunt saith as hereafter followeth First Edward Stafford late Earl of Wilts deceased in Anno decimo quarto Regis Henrici septimi After whose Death the Rule Order and Profits of the said Park went to the performance of the said Earl's Will and the Executors of the said Earl took the Profits of the Park and did maintain the Hedges belonging to the said Park and did fell cut and prostrate armes of Trees and other Thonrs for making of the said Hedges between Drayton-Park and Brikestock Park After that Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight which at
the said Drayton-Park came into the Hands and Possession of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners And the said Drayton-Park being in their hands the said Lord Parre and the King's Officers and Keepers of Brikestock-Park complained and said That the said Pale made by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne was no sufficient Pale for the Pale was so low that the Keepers of Drayton-Park might stand and did stand upon the top of the Dike of Drayton-Park and Shoot over the said Pale unto the said little Park and Killed the King's Deer being feeding within the said little Park And divers times the Lord Parre laid to the charges of the Keepers of Drayton-Park for Killing of divers and many such Deer and the Lord Parre not contented with the said Pale complained to Sir Thomas Lovel Knight at that time being Justice of the Forests for not maintaining and making a sufficient Pale or Hedge between both the said Parks And that complaint notwithstanding divers Pains were laid in the King's Grace's Court of Swanymote upon the said Lord and his Co-partners for to amend the said Pale and Hedge sufficiently Whereupon the Lord Mordaunt caused certain number of Oakes to be felled in Grafton and Grafton-Park and in other places within the bounds of Grafton for the new amending of the same Pale and Hedges and thereupon took down the old Pale and made a new Pale of a greater length and did certain costs of the Ditches of the said Park and did fell certain Thorns and other Wood for Ports Rails and Stumps for the good amending of the same new Pale which Pale so newly made continued divers Years and no default found at the same by the said Lord Parre or any of his Officers or Keepers And after this the Lord Parre's Keepers of Brikestock would in the Winter time being Frost and Snow break up the said Pale to the intent that the King 's Deer of the little Park might come into Drayton for to have their feeding there or else the said Deer would have Perished and Starved for hunger And yet the said Favour notwithstanding a new Complaint was made a new pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote That the Lord Mordaunt should amend his Pale and Hedge and scower his Ditches by a day upon pain of Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And after that within certain Years another like pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote for to make the said Hedges and Ditches between Drayton-Park and Brikestock-Park sufficient And the said Lord Parre at this time being Friendly with the Lord Mordaunt shewed Robert Catbyn Gentleman thereof to the intent that the Lord Mordaunt might have knowledge thereof for to make the Hedges and Ditches sufficient whereby the Lord Mordaunt might avoid the Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And forasmuch as such pains were so laid in the King's Graces Courts of Swanymote as well in King Henry the Seventh's days as also in the days of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth for that the said Sir Thomas Cheyne as also the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners should amend and repair the said Pale Hedges and Ditches of Drayton-park of that side that is between the said Drayton-park and the said Little Park of Brikestock by certain several days to them prefixed as by the Books of the said Courts of Swanymote it will more at large appear That if the Lords of Drayton-park had made any Encrochment upon the Little Park of Brikestock or of and upon any of the King's Ground that then their Encrochments should have been as well found and presented as for the amending and repairing of Drayton-park-pale and of the Hedges and Ditches of the said Wood in the said Courts of Swanymote remembred and presented A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD After my hearty Commendations where by virtue of a Commission ye procure a Freeborde to be had within the King's Majesties Little Park of Brikestock there is upon the same past a Quest and Verdit by them given which Quest and Verdit as it is taken rather serveth for your purpose than for the Conservation of the King's Majesties Right The said Commission being never Executed in my Uncle the Lord Parre's life whose Office in the said Park I now have And that neither the King's Solicitor being then in those parts nor any other his Learned Council for the Soliciting and defending of his Grace's Right was called or Privy thereunto I thought hereby notwithstanding your Proceedings in the premises to require your Lordship to forbear to meddle or intromit with any thing within the said Park until it may appear unto my Lords of the King 's most Honourable Privy Council or otherwise by the Law what you have to shew for your Claim Thus I bid your Lordship heartily well to fare from Hampton-Court the Seventeenth day of October Your Lordships Loving Friend W. North. A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD AFter my hearty Commendations perceiving by your Letter that according to such Commission as you have already proceeded in ye be desirous to enjoy the Freeborde within the Park of Brikestock to the which Commission notwithstanding my Uncle was Privy thereby to know your Claim and Title of the said Freeborde yet if God had continued his life till it had been sitten on he would have found and caused matter to be alledged for the King as would have been for the conservation of his Majesties Inheritance By the death of whom and for lack of the King 's Learned Council to speak in his cause it is thought the thing hath not past in his Highness's behalf in such ways as it might have done And as I have heard say The King's Solicitor hath before time advised you that ye should not take upon you to Encroach upon any part of the King 's old Inheritance this being parcel of the oldest his Grace hath in those parts To the proceeding of which Commission the said Solicitor being in that Country me seemed that he should have had warning and been privy to the Execution thereof to have spoken for the King 's Right Nevertheless because it may appear that as little as I can shall be by my time done in the said Parks to the derogation of the King's Inheritance Therefore I will procure another Commission either to the foresaid Commissioners or to other Gentlemen of good Estimation at the Execution whereof some of the King 's Learned Council shall be there for the defence of his Cause and I doubt not but you against the same time will provide as shall be best for your Claim And if upon the Tryal thereof you shall have Right to the said Borde I shall be well content ye enjoy it accordingly And in the mean time I require you not to intermeddle with any thing within the said Park by virtue of
Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendum mandavimus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatum utrinque concilium impensurum Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negociorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo tertio A Letter from the Duke of Albemarle To the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow or to the Officer in chief with his Regiment My LORD UNderstanding there are some dissatisfied Officers lately disbanded who are endeavouring to bring the Souldiers into mischief if special care be not taken to prevent the same and so the Souldiers will loose their Arrears besides the dishonour that will fall upon the Officers in whose Regiment it happens I desire you will be careful to keep the Officers of your Regiment with their Commands And if they hear any Officers or Souldiers speak discontented words to take away their Arms and secure them and you are to acquaint the Officers and Souldiers that though they be shortly to be reduced yet they will receive Arrears before disbanding And there is an Act of Parliament that they may set up their Trades in any City or Town corporate I desire you to acquaint the Captains of each Company under your command herewith and that they may be careful to observe the same I remain Cockpit 11 September 1660. Your Lordship 's very humble Servant ALBEMARLE If your Lordships occasions will not give you leave you need not repair to your Regiment A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General and Governor of Tangier CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting Whereas we intend forthwith to settle and secure our City of Tangier and the Territories and Dominions adjacent in or near the Coasts of Barbary or the Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco some or one of them in the continent of Africa and for that purpose have resolved by and with the advice of our Privy Council forthwith to raise draw forth and transport thither such Forces of Horses and Foot as we shall judge necessary for our service in defence of the said City of Tangier and our Dominions and Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco Know ye therefore That we reposing an especial trust and confidence in your Honour's Courage Wisdom and Fidelity have constituted and ordained and by these our Letters Patents do make constitute ordain and appoint you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General of all Forces both Horse and Foot raised or to be raised and now sent or which hereafter shall be sent by our Royal Authority or Commissions and of all other Forces whatsoever which are or shall remain or be drawn into our City of Tangier or any other of our Dominions or Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco and of all Forts Castles Cities or other parts or places whatsoever which by your good conduct and success shall be reduced to our obedience and subjection And we do hereby give and grant unto you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow our Captain-General full power and authority by beat of Drum Proclamation or otherwise in our Name to raise lift arm array and put under Command such or so many Voluntiers both of Horse and Foot within this our Kingdom of England or any other our Kingdoms or Dominions as shall make up and compleat the number defigned by us in the establishment for that Service and to give Commission to Officers and Commanders to be set over them and conduct lead and imbark the said Officers and Souldiers to be transported to our said City of Tangier and to remove and cashier any such Officers or Souldiers as to you shall seem convenient And we do further by these Presents give full Power and Authority to you our said Captain-General from time to time to muster exercise and train our said Forces and all other our Armies and Forces which you shall there raise or entertain into our service or which shall be sent to you from hence or any other place and to drive train conduct and lead out or otherwise imploy the Natives or other Inhabitants if need shall require and with them to defend our said City of Tangier and any other our Dominions which already are or hereafter shall be in our Power or Possession and to lead them forth against any Enemies Rebels and Traytors and them to fight kill and slay and subdue to our Obedience and to invade surprise and reduce such Towns Forts Castles or Countries as shall declare or maintain any Hostility against us or that may endanger the Peace or Security of our City or Territories aforesaid and to possess and strenghten them with Forts or Garrisons or otherwise raze dismantle or disable them as to you shall seem expedient and to arm discipline and entertain into your Service all such as you shall think fit to receive under your Command out of any the Kingdoms Dominions or Territories aforesaid And we do further by these Presents ordain and appoint you one of our Vice-Admirals with power to give ordain and command to all our Naval Forces and Commanders at Sea that shall be appointed by us or our Authority to attend the service of our said City of Tangier and upon the Coast of Africa and likewise to require them by your Orders or Instructions to prosecute any design which you shall judge to be for our service and also when and where ye shall think meet to appoint constitute and keep a Court of Admiralty and appoint Judges and Officers for the same for the hearing and determining all Maritime Causes belonging to the Jurisdiction of a Court-Admiral as it is exercised in England And for the better discipline of the Forces under your Command both by Land and Sea We do hereby give you full Power and Authority to ordain publish and execute Laws and Ordinances-Martial according to the Constitutions and Practices of a Court-Martial and to punish by death or otherwise or to pardon Offences as in your discretion you shall judge meet And we do hereby give unto you all such further Powers Preheminences and Authorities as to a Captain-General or to one of our Vice-Admirals do any ways appertain or belong And we do by these our Letters Patents make ordain and constitute you our chief Governor of our said City of Tangier and Subburbs thereof and of all other Cities Towns Villages Forts Castles