death of Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick his Kinsman he had the custody of all the Lands belonging to Warwick Castle together with that Castle during the minority of his heir And the same year went again into Scotland In 12 13 Edw. 2. he was likewise in those Scotish Wars and in 19 Edw. 2. was sent into Gascoign to make provision against the Kings coming thither In 1 Edw. 3. he was again in Scotland and the same year had a special Commission to execute the Office of Constable of England in a particular case but died in 2 Edw. 3. leaving William his Brother and Heir then forty years of age Which William had also been a Military Man for many years For in 25 Edw. 1. he was in that expedition made into Flanders and in 26 Edw. 1. in Scotland Likewise in 34 Edw. 1. and 7 Edw. 2. And in 10 Edw. 2. had the Sheriffalty of Worcestershire granted to him during the minority of the Heir of Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick In 13 Edw. 2. he procured a Charter from the King for another Fair to be kept yearly at Alcester for eight days beginning on the Eve of S. Bernabas the Apostle In 14 Edw. 2. he was made Governor of S. Briavels Castle in Com. Gloc. and of the Forest of Deane and in 15 Edw. 2. constituted one of the Kings Commissioners for the safe custody of the City of Worcester In 1 Edw. 3. he was again in Scotland but farther I find not of him To this William succeeded Giles his younger Brother who in 15 Edw. 2. was made Sheriff of Carnarvonshire and Governor of the Castle of Beaumaris and in 12 Edw. 3. was in that expedition then made into Flanders In 13 Edw. 3. being in the Kings service beyond Sea at his great expences he had a special discharge for providing of those six Soldiers in the Isle of Wight for his Lands there unto which otherwise he had been liable In 14 Edw. 3. he obtained License to fortifie his Mannor-house at â—â—cester called Beauchamps Court with a Wall of Lime and Stone and to embattle it And in 16 Edw. 3. had the like License to fortifie his house at Freskwater in the Isle of Wightâ— and to embattle the Walls thereof having divers other priviledges granted to him for that Lordship This Giles left issue Iohn his â—on and Heir of whom I have seen little else saving his Foundation of a Chantry in the Parish Church at Alcester in 36 Edw. 3. for one Priest to celebrate Divine Service daily at the Altar of All-Saints for whose maintenance he gave eleven Messuages one Shop eleven Acres of Land and four Acres of Meadow lying in Alcester and that in 3 Rich. 2. he was in that expedition then made into France Which Iohn had issue Sir William de Beauchamp Knight as also Sir Walter de Beauchamp a younger Son from whom the Beauchamps Barons S. Amand did descend Which Sir William in 16 Rich. 2. was made Constable of the Castle of Glocester in 3 Hen. 4. Sheriff of Worcestershire and in 1 Hen. 5. of Glocestershire and having married Catherine one of the Daughters to Gerard de Vsflete left issue Sir Iohn Beauchamp Knight who in 17 Hen. 6. upon the death of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick was constituted one of the Commissioners for the Guardianship of all his Castles and Lands during the minority of Henry his Son and Heir Moreover having purchased from Thomas de Botreax the other moity of the Mannor of Alcester which had continued in that family for divers descents did in 25 Hen. 6. in consideration of the many good and acceptable services performed by him to that King and to King Henry the Fifth his Father obtain a special Charter for divers ample Immunities and Priviledges with another Fair yearly to begin on the Eve of S. Dunstan and to continue for two days following Furrhermore in the same five and twentieth year of King Henry the Sixth for the like consideration as above is expressed he was upon the second of May advanced to the title and dignity of Lord Beauchamp of Powyke and had an Annuity of Sixty pound per annum out of the Fee-Farm of the City of Glocester granted to him and his heirs for their better support of that Honor being at the same time constituted Justice of South Wales with power to exercise that Office by himself or his sufficient Deputy After which ere long viz. in 28 Hen. 6. he was made Lord Treasurer of England but in that Office he continued not full two years This Iohn by his Testament bearing date 9 April Ann. 1475. 15 Edw. 4. bequeathed his Body to Sepulture in the Church of the Dominican Friers at Worcester in a new Chappel to be made on the North side the Quire to which house of Friers for his burial there he gave twenty marks to be bestowed in Vestments and Stuff beside an Organ of his own and appointed that a Priest of that Friery should dayly say Mass at the Altar within that Chappel before his Tomb after the order of a Trental for his Soul as also for the Souls of his Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters his Childrens and Ancestors Souls and especially for the Soul of Sir Iohn Fastolf Knight William Botreaux and all Christian Souls taking by the week for that Mass so daily to be said eightpence for evermore Which Chappel and Tombe with his Effigies thereon in Alablaster he did by this his Testament ordain that his Executors should cause to be made and departed this life the same year leaving Margaret his Wife surviving and Sir Richard Beauchamp Kt. his Son and Heir then forty years of age which Margaret by her Testament dated the Wednesday next after the Nativity of our Lord Anno 1477. 2 Hen. 7. bequeathed her body to be buried in the Church of the Dominican Friers commonly called the Friers Preachers at Worcester with her Lord and Husband and thereby ordained that a Priest should sing for her Soul during the terme of one whole year next after her decease within the said House of Friers receiving for his pains an hundred shillings She also willed that a Tablet of Alablaster should be made of the Birth of our Lord and the three Kings of Coâ—eyn to be set on the Wall over her Body when it should be buried Likewise an Image of Alablaster of St. Iohn the Evangelist containing three quarters of a yard in length with the Chalice in his hand to be set over her in likewise Also a Candlestick of white Iron with three branches to set on the Tapers of Wax of four pound to burn before that Image every Sunday as long as they should endure Moreover on the day of her
Nephew then Captain of Calais and Lieutenant of the Marches there And in 1 Ed. 4. having fought valiantly for that King in the Battle of Touton where the Lancastrians received a fatal overthrow had in consideration of his great merits Licence to transport an hundred sacks of Wooll Custom-free and soon after advanced to the title of Earl of Kent as also made Lord Admiral of England Which title and Honour he did not long enjoy but departed this life leaving issue three Daughters his Heirs viz. Ioane the Wife of Sir Edward Bedhowing Knight Elizabeth of Sir Richard Strangways Knight and Alice of Sir Iohn Conniers Knight and was buryed in the Priory of Gisborough in Com. Ebor. Edward Nevill Lord Bergavenny THis Edward being fourth Son to Ralph Earl of Westmorland by Ioane his second Wife wedded Elizabeth the sole Daughter and Heir to Richard Beauchamp Earl of Worcester Son of William Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny and doing his Homage for the Lands of her Inheritance in 14 H. 6. And though he had Livery of them accordingly yet was he kept out of the Possession of the Castle and Mannor of Bergavenny by Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and after him by his Son Henry Beauchamp Duke of Warwick so long as they lived but at length upon the humble remonstrance of himself and his Wife in 27 Henr. 6. he obtained Livery of both Anne the Daughter and Heir of Duke Henry being then in Ward to the King whereupon he was stiled Lord Bergavenny and within two years after viz. in 29 Hen. 6. summoned to Parliament by that Title This Edward surviving the before specified Elizabeth did afterwards marry Katherine the Daughter of Sir Robert Howard Kt. but for this marriage they were both Excommunicate in regard they had Carnal Copulation together in the life time of his first Wife and likewise for that he was of near kindred to her viz. within the third degree of Consanguinity Howbeit at length making their application to Pope Nicholas the fifth they were absolved and had a special Dispensation for that their marriage dated at Rome 15 Octob. Ann. Dom. 1448. In 9 Edw. 4. this Edward was one of the Peeres who in full Parliament did vpon Oath make recognition to Prince Edward the Son and Heir apparent of the King And departed this life upon Thursday 18 Octob. 16 Edw. 4. being then seized as Tenant by the curtesie of England of the Inheritance of the said Elizabeth of the Mannors of Merworth and Beriyng in Kent Hokam Tebinham Berghe Sutton with the Hundreds of Laundiche and South-Grenhowe in Com. Norf. of the Mannors of Ottelee Lydgate and Wrydelington in Comitat. Suff. of the Castle and Mannor of Ewyas Harold in Com. Heref. of the Mannors of Kiderminster Biset Kiderminster Burnell Dunclent Purshill Rushale and Inkeburowe in Com. Wigorn. of the Mannors of East-Becheworth Westcote Padingden-Pembroke and a third part of the Castle of Reygate in Com. Surr. of the Mannors of Dicchening Peccam Rottyngdon North-Ese in the Town of Iford of the third part of the Castle and Mannor of Lewes with the third part of the Chase of Cleres and Forest of Worth as also of the third part of the Hundreds of Buntinghill Strete Berecompe Swanbergh Helmestrowe Yousemere Walesbone and Ponynges with the Moytie of the Hundreds of Wyndham and Fishers-gate all in Com. Suss. of the Mannors of Fordham East-Hanyngfield West-Haningfield Thorâ—ton Rideswell and South-Hanyngfeild in Com. Essex and of the Mannors of Aston Cantelow Shelfeild Allesley and Fillongley in Com. War leaving Sir George Nevill Kt. his second Son by his first Wife his next Heir at that time twenty six years of age for Richard his eldest Son dyed before him and was buried in the South Isle of the Collegiate Church at Stanedrope in the Bishoprick of Durham under a flat Marble Stone with his Portrature in Brass upon it Which George in 26 Hen. 6. was found to be one of the Coufins and Heires to Sir Rowland Lenthale Knight viz. Son of Elizabeth Lady Bergavenny Daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Worcester Son of Ioane sometime Lady Bergavenny one of the three Sisters and Coheires of Thomas late Earl of Arundel Brother of Margaret Mother of Edmund Lenthale Esquire Son of the same Sir Rowland and Margaret And died in 7 Hen. 7. leaving Elizabeth his wife surviving who afterwards married to Richard Nayler Citizen of London and five Sons viz George his Son and Heir William Edward Thomas and Richard and two Daughters viz. Iane Wife to Sir Henry Pole Lord Montacute and Elizabeth Wife of Sir Edward Berkley Knight to whom he gave part of his Plate and Jewels Which George shortly after had livery of his Lands And in 8 Hen. 7. was one of the principal persons in the Battle at Black-Heath against the Cornish men then in Rebellion and there happily vanquished In 14 Hen. 7. this George being under suspition for favouring of Edmund de la Pole Earl of Lincolne at that time in Banishment was clapt into Prison but nothing of guilt appearing against him he was enlarged and received to greater favor then before And in 2 Henr. 8. was made Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports He was also present in 12 Hen. 8. at that memorable Enterview betwixt King Henry the eighth and Francis the first King of France betwixt Guisnes and Arores And having married Mary Daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham was suspected of privity with him in those treasonable attempts wherewith he was then charged and Imprisoned for the same but afterwards received to favor Moreover in 22 Hen. 8. he was one of the Peers who subscribed that Letter to Pope Clement the seventh importing that in case he did not comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce from Queen Catherine he should lose his Supremacy here And by his Testament dated 4 Iunii 1535. 27 Hen. 8. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Birling in Kent and departing this life shortly after left issue by Ioane Daughter of Thomas Earl of Arundel his first Wife one Daughter called Elizabeth married to Henry Lord d'Aubeny and by Mary his second Wife Daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham Henry his Son and Heir as also five Daughters viz. Catherine Wife of Iohn S. Leger Esquire Margaret Wife of Iohn Cheney Son of Sir Thomas Cheney Knight Dorothy Wife of William Brooke Son of George Lord Cobham Iane Wife of Sir Henry Pool Knight and Vrsula of Sir William S. Leger Knight Mary Brooke alias Cobham who had been his Concubine but then his last Wife being great with child at that time by him Which Henry his Son and Successor was
Which William had the Mannor of Uppingham in Rutland of his Fathers gift and Robert other Lands in that County who notwithstanding his former activeness on the Barons part with his Father was afterwards received into favorwith the King Having thus finished my discourse of this Peter I shall observe that in him this family was in the Meridian of its glory which thenceforth daily faded For being the fourth in Descent from Thurstan who had been first inriched with such fair Possessions by his Kinsman the Earl of Warwicks gift as before is noted and honored with divers imployments of special trust through the favor of his Soveraign being puffed up with ambition which prompted him to a Confederacy with the Rebelliâ—us Barons of that age he became at length partaker of that deserved destruction which then befel them And that thenceforth the luster of his Descendants though no whit abridged of their ancient Patrimony in regard of that indulgent Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth which admitted them to Grace upon favorable terms began daily to diminish till in the like fourth Descent his Male-line was in a manner extinct much of the ancient Inheritance with the Castle of Beldesert their principal Seat then divolving by Females to other Families and the memory of his name preserved only in an Illegitimate Off-spring I now come to Peter his eldest Son This Peter fiding with his Father in those his Rebellious Actings before specified was with him taken prisoner at Northampton in 48 Hen. 3. being as it seems the Commander in cheif of the Forces then there met for no less saith an Author of that time Horum erat praecipuus Petrus de Monteforti junioâ— qui ad castrum confugerat sed in crastino reddidit se. But the next mention I find of him is That he was wounded and taken prisoner in the Battle of Evesham where his Father lost his life and thereupon committed to Thomas de Clare unto whom his forfeited Lands were granted and whereof he received the benefit according to the Dictum de Kenilworth But shortly after was not only admitted to grace and favor to the reinjoying his paternal Inheritance but had restitution of an Annuity of fifty five pounds per annum to be received out of the Exchequer by himself and his Heirs which had been formerly granted to his Father in lieu of certain Woods lying in the Forest of Rutland wherein he had quitted his title to that King After which resolving on a Pilgrimage to S. Iames in Gallicia he constituted Humphrey de Hasting and Richard de Wrenbull or one of them his Attorney to transact his affairs in the mean time But whether he went the same year or not I make a question viz. 56 Hen. 3. For in 3 Edw. 1. he had another License to that purpose and within a short space grew in such esteem with King Edward that being imployed in his service in those Wars then had against the Welsh in 5 Edw. 1. he obtained in the eighth of that Kings Reign a Grant unto Queen Eleanor of the marriage of Iohn his Son and Heir with power that she should dispose of him in that kind to whom she pleased And in 11 Edw. 1. attended the King in that expedition then made into Wales those parts being then totally reduced to obedience for which service he was acquitted of fifty pound debt due by him to have been paid into the Exchequer After which scil in 15 Edw. 1. he departed this life leaving issue Iohn his Son and Heir and Elizabeth a Daughter afterwards married to William the Son and Heir of Simon de Montacute for which Lady there is yet standing a very noble Monument of Marble with her Effigies cut to the life in the Chappel on the North side of the Quire at Christ Church in Oxford heretofore the Conventual Church of S. Frideswide where there was afterwards a Chantry of two Secular Priests founded to celebrate Divine Service daily for her Soul and for the Soul of the same William de Montacute as also for the Souls of Iohn Bokingham Bishop of Lincoln Sir Peter de Montfort her Father the Lady Maud her Mother and of Iohn de Montacute William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury Simon de Montacute Bishop of Ely Edward de Montacute Alice de Aubeny the Lady Mary Cogan Elizabeth Prioress of Haliwell the Lady Hawise Bavent the Lady Maud Abbess of Berking the Lady Isabel a Nun at Berking Children of him the said Sir William de Montacute and her And moreover for the Souls of Sir Thomas de Furnivall her second Husband Sir Peter de Limesey her Kinsman Simon Islip and for the Souls of all her Parents and Friends I come now to Iohn de Montfort Son and Heir to the last mentioned Peter This Iohn was a Servant in Court to King Edward the First and in the twentieth of Edward the First obtained from Queen Eleanor a Grant of the marriage of William the Son and Heir to Simon de Montacute before mentioned to marry Elizabeth his Sister In 22 Edw. 1. he was in the Wars of Gascoigne and having been summoned to Parliament the next ensuing year amongst the Barons of this Realm departed this life in 24 Edw. 1. being then seised of the Mannor of Preston in Com. Butl. Acstead in Com. Surr. As also of the Castle and Mannor of Beldesert with the Mannors of Wytechirche Wellesborne and Ilmindon in Comit. Warr. leaving issue by Alice the Daughter of William de la Plaunch two Sons viz. Iohn his Son and Heir at that time five years of age and Peter as also two Daughters Elizabeth and Maud the one married to Frevil the other to Sudley whose posterity afterwards came to possess a great part of the Inheritance belonging to this Family For Iohn their elder Brother who had been summoned to Parliament to sit with the rest of the Barons of this Realm in 7 Edw. 2. and the same year received his pardon for the murther of Piers de Gaveston wherein he had a hand then marched with our English Army into Scotland and there lost his life in the Battle of Strivelin without issue Peter his Brother having none legitimate Which Peter was first in Holy Orders but after his Brothers death enjoying the Inheritance was notwithstanding his sacred Function so dispensed with that he betook himself to the World and became a Knight and standing loyal to King Edward the Second in the time of that great defection when many adhered to Thomas Earl of Lancaster was joyned in Commission with William de Beauchamp and Roger de Ailesbury for the safe custody of the City of Worcester in 15 Edw. 2. And in the twentieth of that Kings Reign was constituted Governor of
to her for her Dowry For the Wardship of which Robert as to his Lands Almaric de S. Amand in 11 Edw. 1. gave five hundred marks and two hundred marks more for his marriage Which last mentioned Robert died childless so that William his Brother became his Heir and left two Sons Robert that died without issue and Iohn both Knights as also three Daughters Elizabeth who died unmarried Lettice the Wife of ... Ayotte and Hawise wedded to Sir Robert de Daventry Knight Which Iohn having issue Iohn who deceased in 49 Edw. 3. without issue and Wentheline a Daughter that never had child Maud the Wife of William de Cressey and Margaret the Wife of William Wotton succeeded in the Inheritance ¶ A word or two now of William de Keynes second Son to the first Ralph This William at the time of the General Survey possessed Barton in Hertfordshire and Flore in Northamptonshire It is reported of this William for I take it to be him that being in the Battle of Liâ—coln in 6 Steph. on the behalf of Maud the Empress he had a vigilant eye on King Stephen and observed where he was who fought most courageously first with his Pole-Ax till it broke and afterwards with his Sword so long as it held Which when he discerned he rushed in upon him and took him by the Helmet crying out Come hither come hither I have hold of the King and so took him prisoner The name of his Wife was Adelais who survived him and gave to the Monks of Lewes two hides of Land in Doclinton for the health of his Soul Which Grant Hugh his Son confirmed and gave to the Monks of Grestine in Normandy all the Tithes of his Lordship of Witeford and one Acre of Land there with Common of Pasture for twenty five Sheep and two Oxen as also four Acres of Land in Pevensel in Sussex Hanselyn IN the Conquerors time Goisfrid Alselin was possest of these following Lordships viz. Of Branton Canteley and Hatlege in Yorkshire of Laxinton Schidrinctune Wilgeby Echering Walesby Almentune Chenapetorp Calveâ—â—une Bestorp Carletune Nord-Muscham Stoches Ghelling Carentune Bertune Scelford Newton and Obetorp in Nottinghamshire of Alwoldestune Emboldestune Torulfestune Eâ—ewell Elvodestune Hoilant Eghintune Braidestune and Ochebrock in Derbishire of Reschinton Amvine Dorinton Dicbâ— Rovestune Branzewell Dunesby Rosby Evedune Westburgh Dodinton Claipol Warageby Eleham and Chetelby in Lincoâ—nshire and of Alctone Gouteby Theitorp Billesdon and Rovestone in Leicestershire Which Goisfrid made choice of Shelford in Nottinghamshire amongst all these for the Head or Principal Seat of his Barony From this Goisfrid descended Ralph Hanselyn who in An. 1138. 3 Steph. was in that memorable Battle in Yorkshire near North Alverton against the Scots called Bellum de Standardo where the English obtained a glorious Victory of which Battle I have spoke largely in my discourse of William Earl of Albemarle In 11 Hen. 2. this Ralph paid sixteen pounds thirteen shillings four pence upon levying the Scutage of Wales And in 12 Hen. 2. upon the Aid for marrying of the Kings Daughter certified the Knights Fees which he then had to be in number twenty five whereof twelve a fifth and twelfth part were De Veteri Feoffamento for which in 14 Hen. 2. he paid twenty five marks but soon after this he died For in 18 Hen. 2. upon levying the Scutage of Ireland upon those Barons who neither went in Person nor sent Soldiers or Money Thomas Bardulf accounted twenty five pounds for Escuage of those Knights Fees And in 6 Rich. 1. twenty five pounds more for Scutage of the same Fees towards the discharge of the Fine for the Kings redemption Morâ—over in 8 Rich. 1. upon levying of the Scutage of Normandy Hugh Bardulf answered the like sum for those Fees And in 13 Ioh. the Tenants of Doun Bardulf accounted for them all viz. twenty five upon levying the Scutage of Scotland Whence it is probable that Doun Bardulf was Son of Thomas Bardulf by the Daughter and Heir of the same Ralph Hanselyn and had the Inheritance of this Barony of whom and his Descendants I shall elswhere speak Sudley AT the time of the Conquerors Survey Harold Son to Ralph Earl of Hereford who in King Edward the Confessors days suffered the Welsh to enter that City and destroy it by fire being possessed of the Lordship of Bochenton in Berkshire Wiche in Worcestershire Celverdestoch and Derceton in Warwickshire as also of Sudlege and Todintune in Glocestershire had his cheif Seat at Sudlege and afterwards obtaining Ewyas in Herefordshire Founded there a little Priory for Monks of S. Benedicts Order This Harold had two Sons viz. Iohn Lord of Sudley and Robert who residing at Ewyas assumed his sirname from that place And not only confirmed the Grants of what his Father had given to those Monks but added the Church of Burnham thereto To which Iohn succeeded Ralph de Sudley who in 12 Hen. 2. certified the Kinghts Fees then held of him to be in number four This Ralph Founded the Priory of Erdbury in Warwickshire within the Precincts of his Lordship of Celverdestoch before-mentioned now vulgarly called Chelveres Coton for the health of his Soul as also of the Souls of Emme his Wife Daughter of William de Beauchamp of Elmeley Otwell his Son and Heir and the rest of his Children and gave to the Knights-Templars certain Lands lying in Hardwick in Com. War Which Otwell in 4 Rich. 1. paid for his releif twenty marks and upon levying the Scutage for the Kings redemption in 6 Rich. 1. sixty shillings but dying without issue Ralph his Brother became his Heir and in 10 Rich. 1. gave three hundred marks to the King for Livery of his Lands In which sum sixty marks were included which had been imposed upon his Brother Otwell as a Fine for the defect of a Soldier whom he ought to have maintained in Normandy Which Ralph had issue Ralph his Son and Heir who in 6 Hen. 3. paying an hundred pounds for his Releif had Livery of his Lands And he Bartholomew who was Sheriff of Herefordshire and Governor of Hereford Castle for the last half of the fifty fourth year of Henry the Third and again Sheriff for the fifty sixth year of that King and 2 Edw. 1. but died in 8 Edw. 1. leaving issue by Ioane his Wife Daughter to William de Beauchamp of Elmeley and Sister to William de Beauchamp the first Earl of Warwick of that Family Iohn his Son and Heir then twenty four years of age Which Ioane being afterwards interred in the Priory of Erdbury Walter Langton Bishop of Coventry and Leitchfield in 13 Edw. 2. granted
with Horse and Arms and to attend the King at Rokesborough in Scotland upon the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula to march against the Scots then in Hostility As also soon after another Precept to attend him with ten Men at Arms at New-castle upon Tine on the morrow after All-Souls-day next ensuing In 8 E. 2. he receiv'd farther Summons to be at Newcastle with Horse and Arms upon the Feast-day of the Blessed Virgin And had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 23 E. 1. during the whole Reign of that King So likewise to all the Parliaments of King Edward the Second's Reign and part of King Edward the Third's viz. till 6 E. 3. inclusive but was not a Baron that is to say held not his Lands by Barony as appeareth by the Testimony of this Record which I have thought fit here to insert EDWARDUS c. Thes. Baronibus suis de Scacc. salutem Ex parte dilecti c. Thomae de Furnivall senioris nobis est ostensum quod licet ipse Baro non sit nec terram suam per Baroniam vel partem Baroniae teneat nichilominus idem Thomas pro quibusdam defaltis in quibusdam Curiis nostris incidit ut dicitur in iisdem Curiis tanquam Baro amerciatus fuit vos xxviii l. xiii s. iv d. per diversas particulas ab eo ad opus nostrum eâ de causà exigi faciatis in ipsius Thomae dispendium c. Teste c. Et modo ad Quindenam Purificationis Beate Mariae venit hic praefatus Thomas c. Et dicit quod non est Baro neque tenet nec unquam tennit aliqua tenementa in Com. praedictis per Baroniam nec per partem Baroniae Dicit enim quod tenet manerium de Sheffeild in dicto Com. Ebor. de Domino Rege per Homagium tantum manerium de Whystan in eodem Com. de Galfrido Lutrel maneria de Wyrksop Gresthorp in Com. Nott. de Rege ut de Honore Tykhill per servicium quatuor feodorum quarte partis feodi unius militis manerium de Eyom in Com. Derb. de Rege ut de Honore Peverel manerium de Middleton in eodem Com. de Thomâ de Chaworth manerium de Bracington in eodem Com. Derb. de Honore de Tuttebury c Et quod idem Thomas aliquo tempore tenuit manerium de Tyreswell in dicto Com. Nott. de eodem Honore per servicium quartae partis feodi unius militis quod manerium perquisivit de Thomâ D'eyvil sed postmodum se inde dimisit c. Similiter c. quod idem Thomas tenet de Nich. de Langford de manerio suo de Haveâ—shegg in eodem Com. Derb. unum Hamelettum vocatum Baumford per servicium sectae ad Curiam ejusdem manerii de tribus septimanis in tres c. And having married Elizabeth Daughter to Peter de Montfort of Beldeâ—â—rt-Castle near Henley in Arden in Com. Warr. Widow of William Son and Heir to Simon de Montacute Progenitor of the Montacutes Earls of Salisbury departed this Life on the morrow after the Feast of the Purification of our Lady Anno 1332. 6 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Wirksop and Gresthorp in Com. Nott. Eyom and Stony middleton in Com. Derb. the Castle and Mannor of Sheffeild as also of the Mannor of Treton in Com. Ebor. Thomas his Son and Heir being then thirty years of age having likewise had two younger Sons William and Nicholas Elizabeth his Widow for her Dowrie having the Mannor of Wyrksop in Com. Nott. Wbiston in Com. Ebor. Eyom and Stony Middleton in Com. Derb. with vii l. ii s. xi d. Rent in Baumford in the same County then assign'd unto her Which Elizabeth afterwards scil on Tuesday next ensuing the Feast of the Blessed Virgin 28 E. 3. departed this Life being then seised of the above-specified Mannor of Whistane with its Members viz. Aston Totewyke Treton Ullay Brampton Cuâ—â—eclift and Orgrave in Com. Ebor. of the Inheritance of Sir Thomas de Furnivall Knight her Grandson then of full age She also held in Dower the Mannor of Wryksop in Com. Nott. with the Mannors of Eyom Stony-Middleton Baumâ—ord and Haversegge in Com. Derb. For this Lady there is yet standing a beautiful Monument of Marble with her Portraiture thereon cut to the Life on the North-side of the Quire of Christ-Church in Oxford heretofore the Conventual Church of St. Frideswide's Monastery there where there was afterwards a Chantry of two Secular Priests founded to celebrate Divine Service daily for her Soul and for the Soul of the said William de Montacute as also for the Souls of Iohn Bokyngham Bishop of Lincolne Sir Peter de Montfort her Father Maud her Mother and of Iohn de Montacute William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury Simon de Montacute Bishop of Ely Edward de Montacute Alice de Aubenie the Lady Mary Cogan Elizabeth Prioress of Haliwell the Lady Hawise Bavent the Lady Maud Abbess of Berking the Lady Isabell a Nun at Berking Children of him the said Sir William de Montacute and her And moreover for the Souls of the before-specified Sir Thomas de Furnivall her second Husband Sir Peter Limesie her Kinsman and Simon Islip and for the Souls of all her Parents and Friends But I return to Thomas This Thomas doing his Homage the same year viz. in 6 E. 3. had Livery of what so descended to him by his Father's death But here I must look back a little In 10 E. 2. his Father then living for which respect he was called Thomas de Furnivall junior upon the Feast-day of St. Matthew the Evangelist he took to Wife Ioane the eldest of the four Sisters and Coheirs to Theobald de Verdon a great Baron Widow of William Son of William de Montacute but without the King's Licence for which Transgression he afterwards paid CCl. Fine Which Ioane in 12 E. 2. making proof of her Age had Livery of those Lands which upon Partition made of them in 10 E. 2. were allotted to her viz. the Castle and Mannor of Alveton with its Members viz. Bredeleye Farleye Coten Wotton Denston Staunton Streingeshull Buckenbale Fenton and Balterdeleye all in Com. Staff Moreover in 1 E. 3. his Father being still alive he was in that Expedition then made into Scotland And in 2 E. 3. there being a new Partition made of the Lands of his Wifes Inheritance had Allotment of the said Castle and Mannor of Alvetone with its Members then thus exprest viz. Wotton Stanton Farleye Rammesobere Corene Brayelepe Spenne Denston Strongeshull Shene Wytston and Bedulf Furthermore in 5 E. 3. doing his Homage with other the Husbands of the rest of the Coheirs he had another Livery of the Lands which were of his said Wifes Inheritance And in 7
her one Son called Henry and two Daughters Anne Married to Henry now Earl of Norwich Earl Marshal of England And Elizabeth to William Earl of Powys He secondly Married the Lady Margaret O Bryen Daughter to Henry Earl of Thomond by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Mary which died in her Infancy And departing this life 3 Aprilis an 1667. was buried at Ragland To him succeeded Henry his Son and Heir now Lord President of Wales and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter who Married Mary the Daughter of Arthur Lord Capell Widdow of Henry Lord Beauchamp by whom he hath had Issue four Sons 1. Henry who died young 2. Charles called Lord Herbert of Ragland 3. Edward and 4. Another Henry who died young Likewise two Daughters Elizabeth who died in her Childhood and Mary Maners Earl of Rutland 5 H. 8. THough none of this Family arrived to the dignity of Peerage until the Reign of King Henry the Eighth yet were they persons of great note in Northumberland for many Ages before for in 25 H. 2. Henry de Maners paid Lxxx. Marks for Livery of his Father's Lands in that County From which Henry descended Robert de Maners of Ethale in that Shire who in 15 E. 3. obtained Licence of the King to fortify his Mannor-House there with an embatailled Wall of Lime and Stone And from him Iohn de Maners who in 1 H. 5. was Constituted Sheriff of the same County Which Iohn with Iohn his Son being guilty of the Death of William Heron Esq and Robert Atkynson at Etall as it seems though how is not expressed and prosecuted for the same by Sir Robert de Vmfravile Knight and Isabel then the Widdow of William Heron at length upon a Reference made by the persons on each part concern'd unto Iohn then Prior of Durham and Thomas Prior of Tinmouth there was an Award made bearing date 28 Sept. 9 H. 6. That the same Iohn Maners and Iohn his Son should cause five hundred Masses to be sung for the health of the Soul of the said William Heron within one year then next ensuing and pay unto Sir Robert de Vmfravile and Isabel to the use of her the said Isabel and the Children of the same William Heron CC. Marks in money This Iohn de Maners died seised of that Lordship of Erall in 17 H. 6. leaving Robert his Son and Heir Which Robert in consideration of his special services perform'd in the Marches toward Scotland had in 27 H. 6. a joint grant with Sir Henry de Percie Knight of all the goods and Chatals of Sir Robert de Ogle Knight who was then Outlaw'd In 33 H. 6. this Robert was made Sheriff of Northumberland so likewise in 3 E. 4. being at that time a Knight In which year Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick and Salisbury in consideration of his services done and to be done granted him an Annuity of xx Marks out of the Revenues of his Lordship of Barnard-Castle to be enjoy'd during his life And the next year following was Constituted Deputy to Richard Dâ—ke of Gloucester then Admiral of England Ireland and Aquitane for all the Sea-Coasts in the Bishoprick of Durâ—am from the Mouth of Tese to the Mouth of Twede And by Dame Alianore his Wife Daughter of Thomas and Sister and Coheir to Edmund Lord Roos had Issue George who had thereupon the Title of Lord Roos Which George took to Wife Anne the sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas St. Leger Knight and Anne Dutchess of Exeter his Wife Sister to King Edward the Fourth And by his Testament bearing date 26 Oct. an 1513. 5 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church next unto the place where he should happen to die To the Abby of Rievaulx he thereby gave fifty Marks To the Abby of Kirkham fifty Marks and to the Abby of Wartre all in Yorkeshire fifty Marks to the intent that every of those Abbies should find an honest Priest to say Mass daily for his Soul by the space of seven years next after his decease and once every year perform his Obit in every of their Churches for his Soul and his Friends Souls Before the end of which year being with King Henry the Eighth at the Sieges of Therouene and Tournay he there fell sick and died and was buried near the high Altar in the Priory of Haliwell within the Suburbs of London leaving Issue by the said Anne his Wife Thomas Maners Lord Roos who in 14 H. 8. was Constituted Warden of the East-Marches toward Scotland and in 16 H. 8. had a special Livery of all the Mannors Castles and Lands descended to him from the Lady Alianore his Grandmother Sister and Coheir to Edmund Lord Roos as also from Isabel the other Sister and Coheir to the said Edmund Which Thomas was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Rutland upon the 28 th of Iune 17 H. 8. at the King 's Royal Palace of Bâ—idewell in the City of London and had thereupon an Augmentation to his antient Arms by reason of his Descent from the Sister of King Edward the Fourth viz. in chief querterly Azure and Gules on the first two Flower de Luces Or and on the second a Lyoâ— passant-gardant of the first The third as the second the fourth as the first In 22 H. 8. being one of the Peers then sitting in Parliament he subscribed that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the Seventh Whereby he had intimation that unless he did comply with King Henry in that business of his Divorce from Queen Katherine the loss of his Supremacy in England would be much endangered Upon the Insurrection in Lincolâ—shire in 28 H. 8. occasion'd by the dissolution of the lesser Monasteries and certain Injunctions in matters of Religion he received Command together with the Earls of Shrewsbury and Huntington to require them by Proclamation upon peril of their lives to return to their due obedience And soon after that upon the like in Yorkeshire called The Pilgrimage of Grace offered his service in order to the suppreâ—â—ing thereof In 32 H. 8. he was Constituted Chief Justice in Eyre of all the King's Forests beyond Trent And in 33 H. 8. obtain'd a grant of the Mannor of Muston in Com. Leic. part of the possessions of the late dissolved Priory of Osulveston in that County Likewise of the â—annors of Waltham and Croxton in the samâ— County as also of the Mannors of Upwell Outwell Elme and Emnithe in the Counties of Norff. and Suff. part of the possessions of the late dissolved Monastery of Nun-Earon in Com. War Also of the Mannour of Braunston in Com. Northt part of the possessions of the Abby of Lilshull in Com. Salop. and of the Mannours of Billesdale and Helmesley with
or outward pride of the World appointing that certain Masses and Diriges should be done for him there by all the Priests of that Colledge and other his Chaplains according to the antient custom of the Church of England As also that no black Gowns or Coats should be given at his Funeral except to his own Servants and Torch-bearers Likewise that C l. should be distributed to the poorest Housholders of his Tenants and others dwelling next to his Houses of Tatshall Eresham Eâ—â—â—ow and Grymesthorpe in Com. Linc. to pray for his Soul And that a Cup of Gold should be made of his Collar of the Garter and given to the King After which viz. the next ensuing year he departed this life upon Saturday 24 Ang. An. 1545. 37 H. 8. and was not buried at Tatshall as he directed but in the Royal Chapell of St. George in Windsore-Castle at the Kings charge by the Door of the Quire on the South side of that Church near unto the place where King Henry the sixth is interred and in the same Grave with his Aunt ... Daughter to the Lord Dacres of the South Wife of Sir Thomas Brandon his uncle as by the Certificate taken at his Funeral appeareth This great Duke had four Wives First Margaret one of the Daughters to Iohn Nevil Marquess Mountagu Widow of Sir Iohn Mortimer Knight but by her had no Issue Secondly Anne Daughter of Sir Anthony Browne Knight Governour of Calais by whom he had Issue before marriage as some say a Daughter called Anne Wife of Sir Edward Grey Lord Powys and another after marriage named Mary Wedded to Thomas Stanley Lord Mont-Egle Thirdly Mary the second Daughter to King Henry the seventh Widdow of Lewes the xii th King of France by whom he had Issue one Son called Henry created Earl of Lincoln at Bridewell in 17 H. 8. but died in his life time unmarried and two Daughters Frances first married to Henry Grey Duke of Suff. but afterwards to Adrian Stokes and Elâ—anore to Henry Earl of Cumberland Fourthly Catherine Daughter and Heir of William Lord Willoughby of Eresbp by whom he had Issue two Sons Henry and Charles who died both of them upon the 14th of Iuly An. 1551 5 E. 6. in the Bishop of Lincolns House at Bugden in Com. Hunt of the sweating sickness Marny 19 H. 7. THe first mention I find of this Family is in 9 E. 3. William de Marny about that time obtaining a Charter for Free-Warren in all his demesn-Lands at Leyre-Marny in Com. Essex To this William succeeded another William who in 3 H. 4. was constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Essex and Hartford and died in 2 H. 5. being then seised of the Mannour of Leyre-Marny with the advouson of the Church as also of the Mannours of Arderne-Hall in Horndon Gippecroke in great Totham and Hebregge in the same County And to him Sir Thomas Marny Knight Which Sir Thomas left Issue Margaret his Daughter and Heir who died in her minority so that Iohn her Uncle became her next Heir Which Iohn had Issue Henry who being a person of great Wisdom Gravity and of singular Fidelity to that prudent Prince King Henry the 7th was made choice of for one of his Privy-Council in the first year of his reign and in 2 H. 7. fought stoutly for him against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents in the Battel of Stoke near Newark He was also in the Battel at Black-Hethe in 12 H. 7. against the Lord Audley and the Cornish-men then in Rebellion And upon the death of King Henry the seventh being likewise chosen one of the Privy-Council to King Henry the 8th was shortly after install'd Knight of the most noble order of the Garter From which King he had such high esteem as that he was made Captain of his Guard and in 13 H. 8 upon the attainder of Edward Duke of Buckingham procured a grant in special tail of the Mannours of Little-Brickhill Burton and Esington in Com. Buck. with the advousons of the Churches as also of the Burrough of Buckingham then in the Crown by reason of that Dukes forfeiture And in 14 H. 8. 4 Febr. was made Keeper of the Privy-Seal as also upon the ninth of April following advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the name of Lord Marny After which the next ensuing year he accompanied Charls Brandon Duke of Suffolk then General of the English Forces sent into France landing with him at Calais And by his Testament bearing date 22 Maii the same year bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Church at Leyre-Marny where divers of his Ancestors lay interred in case he should depart this life in or near London Appointing that his Body should be conveyed out of London with the four orders of Friers in that City and every one of those Orders to have xx s. Item to every Church meeting his Corps by the way iii s. iv d. And to every Church where his Body should rest by the way vi s. viii d. Also that there should be xxiv Poor men to hold xxiv Torches at his Burying and Mass and every of them to have a Black Gown and a Hood and xii d. in money Item that his Executors should cause to be said for his Soul and for the Souls of Sir William Marny his Grandfather and Dame Katherine his Wife Sir Robert Marny his Great-Grandfather Sir Iohn Marny his Father and Dame Iane his Wife and for the Souls of his own two Wives Thomasine and Elizabeth as also for the Soul of Thomas Marny and his other Children First at Scala Câ—â—li in Westminster a Trentall of Masses at the Friers-observants at Greenwich a Trental at every of the four orders of Friers in London a Trentall at the Black-friers in Chelmsford a Trentall at the Cross-friers and Gray-friers in Colchester a Trentall and at the Friers at Mâ—ldon a Trentall He also willed that with the profits of his Lands the Chapell which he had begun adjoining to the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Leyre-Marny should be new made with a substantial roof of timber covered with Lead and the Windows glased with Imagery accordingly Likewise that a Tomb of Marble should be set in the wall betwixt the Chancel and the same Chapell vaulted over with Marble and his Image of black Marble or touch thereon with every thing convenient and appertaining to the same Also that two Images of Laton should be made with the Pictures of his two Wives with their Cote-Armours upon them Thomasine on his right hand and Elizabeth on his left on the said Tomb. He likewise willed that a new Almeshouse should be made and set up with five partitions for five Poor Men and one common Kitchin for them all the walls to be
the Duke of Guise did appoint should remain Captives and be put to ransome After which in 15 Eliz. he was one of the Peers who sate in judgment upon Tryal of the Duke of Norf. also in 29 Eliz. upon Tryal of the Queen of Scots and departed this life in 33 Eliz. By Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Wentworth of Gosfeild in Com. Essex Knight he had two Sons William who married Elizabeth the Daughter of William Lord Burleigh and died in his life time without Issue and Henry as also Elizabeth a Daughter married to William Son and Heir to Sir Francis Hynde Knight Which Henry succeeding him in his Honour departed this life in 36 Eliz. leaving Issue by Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir Owen Hopton Knight Widow of Sir William Pope Knight Thomas his Son and Heir Who having been made Knight of the Bath at the Creation of Henry Prince of Wales 4 Iunii an 1610. 8 Iac. was created Lord Wentworth of Nettlested in Com. Ebor. as also Earl of Cleveland 5 Febr. 1 Car. 1. And afterwards made Captain of the Guard In which place and other Commands of trust he manifested his Loyalty most exemplarily to that King of blessed memory throughout the time of his greatest distresses in divers Battails suffering imprisonment in the Tower of London and other places after the cruel Murther of his Sovereign during the greatest part of the late Usurpation yet lived to see the happy Restoration of King Charles the Second under whom he enjoy'd his former place of Command till his Death He Married two Wives Anne Daughter of Sir Iohn Crofts of Saxham in Com. Suff. Knight and by her had Issue two Sons Thomas and William And two Daughters Mary Married to Iohn Lord Lovelace and Anne who died Unmarried Secondly Catherine Daughter and Coheir to Sir Iohn Wentworth of Gosfeild in Com. Essex Baronet by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Catherine and departing this life ... was buried at ... Which Thomas his eldest Son commonly called Lord Wentworth Married 〈◊〉 Daughter to Sir Ferdinando Carye Knight and died in his Fathers life time leaving Issue one sole Daughter his Heir called Henrietta Maria. ¶ Thomas Lord Wentworth Son to Thomas late Earl of Cleveland sent by our present Sovereign King Charles the Second in an 1652. into Denmarke to seek assistance on his Majesties behalf Bray 21 H. 8. THE first notice I have taken of any thing memorable touching this Family is in 1 R. 3. Reginald Bray Son of Richard Bray being at that time a trusty Servant to Margaret Countess of Richmund and Derby and most happily instrumental in advancing Henry Earl of Richmund her Son to the Royal Throne by his faithful and sedulous transacting in that affair with Henry Duke of Buckingham Morton Bishop of Ely and divers of the Nobility as also with Sir Giles D'anbeny Sir Iohn Cheney and many other considerable persons This Reginald was a Knight Banneret and Knight of the Garter but had no Issue whereupon Margerie the only Child of Iohn his next Brother became his Heir Which Margerie Married to Sir William Sands Knight afterward Lord Sands Besides this Iohn there was also a younger Iohn Brother likewise to the said Reginald Which Iohn had Issue Sir Edmund Bray Knight who I presume enjoy'd the greatest part of that Estate whereof Reginald his Uncle died seised which qualified him the better for that Honour whereunto afterwards he attained For it appears that in 21 H. 8. he had Summons to the Parliament then sitting at Westminster which began 3 Nov. the same year and was admitted into the House 4 Dec. next ensuing And in 24 H. 8. attended King Henry to Boloin This Edmund by his Testament bearing date 18 Oct. an 1539. 31 H. 8. having bequeath'd his Body to be buried at Chelsey near the Grave of Iohn his Father departed this life within few months after for the Probate thereof bears date 12 Iunii then next ensuing leaving Issue by Iohn his Wife Daughter and Heir to Richard Haliwell by ... his Wife Daughter and Heir to Iohn Norbury Iohn his Son and Heir and seven Daughters Which Iohn being summon'd to Parliament in 37 H. 8. had his first admittance into the House 3 Nov. the same year And in 38 H. 8. was one of the Commanders of those Forces then sent into France under the conduct of the Earl of Hertford Also upon that Insurrection in Norfolk 2 E. 6. he accompanied the Marquess of Northampton with those Forces then sent for the suppressing thereof In 5 E. 6. he was likewise appointed to attend the same Marquess upon his Embassy into France at which time he carried with him the Ensigns of the most noble Order of the Garter to the King of that Realm In 4 Mariae he was at the Siege of St. Quintiâ—s in Picardy And by his Testament bearing date 17 Nov. an 1557. 5 4 Pâ— M. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in Christian Burial constituting Iane his Mother his sole Executrix and dying the very next day following without Issue was buried in the midst of the Chancel at Chelsey with his Father and Grandfather under an high Tomb Anne his Wife Daughter to Francis Earl of Shrewsâ—ury then surviving Whereupon his seven Sisters became his Heirs viz. Anne Married to George Brooke Lord Cobham Elizabeth first to Sir Rapbe Vernon Knight and afterwards to Sir Richard Catesby Knight Fridiswide to Sir Percival Hart Knight Mary to Robert Peckham Esq Dorothy first to Edmund Bruges Lord Chandos afterwards to William Lord Knolles Knight of the Garter Frances to Thomas Lifeild of ... in Com. Surr. Esq and Anne Mordant 24 H. 8. OF this Family that which I have in the first place observ'd to be most memoraable is that Iohn Mordant of Turvey in Com. Bedf. Esq was one of the King's Commanders in 2 H. 7. at the Battel of Stoke near Newark upon Trent against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his Adherents then in Arms And that being a person learned in the Laws he was call'd to the state and degree of Serjeant 25 Nov. 11 H. 7. as also within a short time after made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster And meriting much by reason of his great abilities had summons to Parliament amongst the Peers of this Realm in 24 H. 8. where he took his place accordingly upon the fourth of May. In which year also King Henry going with great state into France and landing at Calais 11 Oct. he attended him thither and so to Boloine where he had a magnificent reception by King Francis the First This Iohn by his Testament bearing date 1 Aug. an 1560. 2 Eliz. stiling himself Lord Mordant of Turvey bequeath'd his Body to be
chief time of tryal took up Armes for His Majesty King Charles the First of blessed memory against the Power of the late Usâ—rpers Whereupon he had the hard fate to be slain in that Battel fought near Newberie in Com. Berks. 20 Sept. An. 1643. leaving issue by Anna-Sophia his wife daughter to Phâ—lip Earl of Peâ—â—â—broke and Mourgomerie Charles his son and heir Who succeeding him in his Honors married Elizabeth daughter of Arthur Lord Capel and by her hath had issue two sons Charles and Williâ—â— who both died young and three daughters Elizabeth married to Philip now Earl of Chesterfeild Isabella and Anna-Saphia Villers Duke of Buckingham 13 Iac. THat this Family originally of French extraction hath been of great Antiquity in Leicestershire and possest of a faire Inheritance in those parts is clear enough from what Mr. Burton in his Historical work of that County under the Title of Brokesby their chief Seat hath well observed Of which was Sir Gearge Villers Knight a person of eminent note who married â—wice first Audrey daughter to William Sanders of Harington in Com. Northamps Esquire and secondly Mary daughter to Anthony Beaumont a younger son to William Beaumont of Cole-Oxton Esq By which Audrey he had issue two sons viz. Sir William Villers Knight and Baronet father of Sir George Villers now of Brokesby Baronet and Sir Edward Villers Knight from whom the now Vicount Grandison in Ireland is descended He had likewise issue by her two daughters Elizabeth married to Sir Iohn Butler of Hatfeild Woodhall in Com. Hertf. K t and Baronet afterwards created Lord Butler and Anne to Sir William Washington of Packington in Com. Leic. son of Laurence Washington of Sulgrave in Com. Northampt. Esquire And by Mary his second wise three sons viz. Iohn afterwards Vicount Purbeck George who by his great and high advancements to honor added no small lustre to this worthy family and Christopher Earl of Anglesey as also one daughter called Susan married to Sir William Feilding of Newnham in Com. Warr. Knight afterwards Earl of Denbigh Of these his children George the fourth son being the person of whom I am chiefly to speak I shall deliver what I find related of him by Sir Henry Wotton K t late Provost of Eaton-Colledge and other sufficient testimonies This George born at Brokesby 28 Aug. An. 1592. 34 Eliz. was from the age of ten years educated at Billesden-School in that County where he also learnt the grounds of Musick until he arriv'd to thirteen at which time his father died And being then taken home by his Mother to her House at Godeby she trayn'd him up in Dancing Fencing and such Man-like Exercises wherein he became a great proficient and at the age of Eighteen sent him into France where making his abode for three years he much improv'd himself in the Language of that Country and returning back continued with her a Twelve moneth Then going to London and inclining to be a sutor to Sir Roger Ashton's daughter a Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to King Iames and Master of the Robes falling into acquaintance with Sir Iohn Grabam one of the Gentlemen of the Privy-chamber he diâ—â—â— waded him from marriage and encouraged him to wooe fortune in the Court Whereunto hearkning it hapned shortly after that the King casting his eye upon him at Apethorpe in Northamptonshire being then in his Progress took so great a liking to his person as that knowing Sir Iohn Grabam to be his familiar friend he gave him private directions how and by what degrees to bring him into favour About this time Robert Earl of Somerset a person in no small power with that King for very great reasons beginning to grow less in His Majesties royal esteem this hopeful Gentleman being of stature tall aâ—d comely his comportment graceful and of a most sweet disposition became daily more and more noted in so much as his Majesty discerning him to be a person properly qualified first entertain'd him as a Cup-bearer at large but the next summer following admitted him in ordinary During his imployment in which service observation being made of his modest and courteous behaviour it was thought fit by some eminent persons whereof the then Archbishop of Canterbury D r Abbot was not the least to drive out one nail with another Somerset's insolencies being such as that the King began to grow weary of him And because His Majesty had a quality to admit none to nearness about him but whom the Queen recommended she was moved therein and after much sollicitation prevail'd with though at first she refus'd giving her reasons which being done he was Knighted in her Bed-chamber with the Prince's Rapier It is also observ'd that when the King gave order to Swear him of the Bed-chamber Somerset moved that he might be only Sworn as a Groome But those of his friends whose aime was to lessen Somerset sticking to him he was Sworn as a Gentleman 23 Apr. An. 1615. 13 Iac. with an Annual Pension of a Thousand pounds payable out of the Court of Wards In which place he so won upon the King's affections that upon she fourth of Ianuary the same year he was made Master of the Horse the Earl of Worcester then surrendring that great Office After which farther honors and advantages were in short time heapt upon him For on the 24 th of Apâ—â— next ensuing he was elected into the Society of Knights-Companions of the most noble order of the Garter and install'd upon the seventh of Iuly following As also upon the 25 th of that moneth made General Warden and Chief-Justice of all the Forests North of Trent and on the 27 th of August advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realme by the Title of Lord Whaddon that great Lordship of Whaddon in Com. Buck. then in the Crown by the attainder of the Lord Grey of Wilâ—on being then bestow'd on him and the Ceremony of his Creation performed at Wodstoke the Lords Compton and Norris introducing him and the Lord Carew carrying his Robe And after a little space the dignity of Vicount by the title of Vicount Villers the Earl of Suffolk and Vicount L'isle introducing him the Lord Norris carrying his Robe and the Lord Compton his Coronet where the Queen and Prince were both present Moreover on the fifth of Ianuary next ensuing An. scilicet 1616. 14 Iac. he was created Earl of Buckingham in the Presenâ—â—-Chamber at Whitehall the Queen and Prince being then also present Nor did that great King's favours here make a stop for on the first of Ianuary An. 1617. 15 Iac. he advanced him to the Title of Marquess of Buckingham but without any solemnity other then the delivery of the Patent the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Lord Treasurer the Duke of Lenox the Marquiss of Hamilton the Lord
1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Piâ—rpont of Holme Pierpont in Com. Nott. and Vicounâ— Nâ—wark and upon the 25 th of Iuly the next ensuing year was Created Earl of Kingston upon Null This Robert giving many testimonies of his Loyalty to his late Majesty King Charles the First upon the very beginning of the late great Rebellion had thereupon first Commission to raise a Regiment of twelve hundred Foot for his service and soon after that was Constituted Lieutenant General of all his Forces within the Counties of Lincoln Rutland Huntington Cambridge and Norfolk But upon the assault of Eaynesborough in Com. Linc. by the Parliamentâ—Forces fortun'd to be there taken Prisoner 30 Iulii an 1643. which being discern'd by those of the King's party then near at hand they stoutly endeavoured his rescue but with ill success for he lost his life therein by the casual shot of a Bullet against those who were carrying him away by Barge towards Hull This noble Earl left Issue by Gertrude his Wife Daughter and Coheir to Henry Talbot third Son to George Earl of Shrewsbury five Sons Henry who succeeded him in his Honours William Pierpont of â—horesby in Com. Nott. Francis Pierpont of Notingham As also Gervase and George And two Daughters Frances who died in his life time and Elizabeth Which Henry most loyally attending the said King Charles the First in his Garrison at Oxford and sundry other places in the late perillous and troublesome times being one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council was in respect thereof and other his great Merits by Letters Patent bearing date 25 Martii in the twentieth year of his Reign raised to an higher degree of Honour by the Title of Marquess of Dorchester in Com. Dors. He first Married Cecelie Daughter to Paul Vicount Banning and by her had Issue two Daughters the Lady Anne and Lady Grace And afterwards the Lady Katherine Daughter to Iames late Earl of Derby by whom he had Issue one Son called Henry who died in his Infancy ¶ Of the other Sons to the before-specified Earl William Pierpont of â—horesby the second Married Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir to Sir Thomas Harris of â—onge-Castle in Com. Salop. Baronet by whom he hath had Issue five Sons 1. Robert who Married Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir to Sir Iohn Evelyn of Dene in Com. Wilts Knight and died in his life time leaving Issue Robert a Son and a Daughter called Gertrude 2. Henry who died unmarried William who died in his Infancy George and Gervase and five Daughters Frances Married to Henry Earl of Ogle Son and Heir to William Duke of Newcastle Eleanore and Margaret who died in their Infancy Grace Wedded to Gilbert now Earl of Clare and Gertrude to George Vicount Halifax Lord Hervey of Kidbroke 3 Car. 1. IN an 1619. 17 Iac. Sir William Hervey of Kidbroke in Com. Cantii Knight descended from an antient Family of that name which were possessors of â—hirley in Com. Bedf. was advanced to the degree of a Baronet upon the one and thirtieth day of May the same year with remainder to William his Son and the Hâ—irs Male of his Body also shortly after that to the dignity of Lord Hervey of Rosse in the County of Wexford in Ireland And lastly by reason of his eminent services at home and abroad both in the times of King Iames and King Charles the First as well in Council as in the Wars and other Foreign Expeditions was created a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Hâ—rvey of Kidbroke with the like remainder as abovesaid as by certain Letters Patents bearing date 7 Febr. 3 Car. 1. appeareth This William Lord Hervey married two Wives first Mary Daughter of Anthony Vicount Mountagâ— Widow of Henry Earl of Southampton but by her had no Issue Secondly Cordellia Daughter and Coheir to Brian Anslow of Lewsham in Com. Cantii Esq by whom he had Issue three Sons William slain in the German-Wars as also Iohn and Henry who died young and two Daughters Elizabeth married to Iohn Hervey of Ickworth in Com. Suff. Esq now Treasurer to her Majesty Queen Catherine and Helen who died unmarried and departed this life ... Iunii an 1642. Vicount Bayning 3 Car. 1. UPon the 24 th of Sept. an 1612. 10 Iac. Paul Bayning of Bentley parva in Com. Essex Esq Son to Paul Bayning Sheriff of London in an 1593. 35 Eliz. was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet and upon the 27 th of February 3 Car. 1. to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Baron Bayning of Horkesâ—ey in Com. Essex as also on the eighth of March next following to that of Vicount Bayning of Sudbury in Com. Suff. This Paul married Anne Daughter to Sir Henry Glemham of Glemham in Com. Suff. Knight and dying at his own House in Mark-lane within the City of London 29 Iulii an 1629 5 Car. 1. was buried in the Church of St. Olave Hartstreet London leaving Issue Paul his Son and Heir thirteen years of age and four Daughters Cecilie Married to Henry Vicount Newarke eldest Son to Robert Earl of Kingston Anne to Henry Murray one of the Grooms of the Bed-chamber to King Charles the First afterwards created Vicountess Banning of Foxley by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 17 Martii 26 Car. 2. Mary first to William Vicount Grandison afterwards to Christopher Earl of Anglesey and Elizabeth to Francis Lord Dacres Which Paul married Penelope sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Robert Naunton Knight Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries and by her having Issue one Daughter named Anne died at Bentley-Hall in Essex 11 Iunii 1638. leaving her the said Penelope great with child of another born after his death and called Penelope Which Anne afterwards became the Wife to Aubrey Earl of Oxford and Penelope of Iohn Herbert the youngest Son to Philip late Earl of Pâ—mbroke and Montgâ—mery Lord Maynard 3 Car. 1. IN 3. Car. 1. Sir William Maynard Knight Son and Heir to Henry Maynard of Estonâ— parvâ— in Com. Essex by Susan his Wife Daughter and Coheir to Thomas Pearson Esq Usher of the Court of Star-Chamber having first been dignified with the title of Baronet 29 Iunii an 1611. 9 Iac. next with that of Lord Maynard of Wickbow in Ireland by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster 30 Maii 18 Iac. an scil 1620 in consideration of his farther merits was by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster upon the fourteenth day of March in the third year of King Charles the First advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Maynard of Estaines ad Turrim in Com. Essex otherwise called Little Easton This William married two Wives First the Lady Frances Daughter to William Cavendish the first Earl of
in an 1665. leaving Issue Charles his Son and Heir who Married Philippa one of the Daughters of Arthur Earl of Anglesey now Lord Privy Seal Hicks Vicount Cambden 4 Car. 1. UPon the first of Iuly an 1620. 18 Iac. Sir Baptista Hicks Knight a wealthy Mercer in London was advanc'd to the degree of Baronet and afterwards sâ—il 5 Maii 4 Car. 1. to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hicks of Ilmyngton in Com. Warr. as also of Vicount Cambden of Cambden in Com. Glouc. with remainder for default of Issue Male of his Body to Edward Lord Noel and the Heirs Male of his Body That which I find farther memorable of him is that in an 1612. 10 Iac. being then a Knight and one of the Justices of Peace for the County of Middlesex at his own charge he erected a fair piece of Building Brick and Stone in the midst of the Street called St. Iohns-Street in the Suburbs of London part thereof to be a meeting place for the Justices of that County for the holding of their Sessions and the other part a Prison or House of Correction whereupon it had the name of Hicks his Hall Also that at Campden in Com. Glouc. he founded an Hospital for six poor men and six poor Women in which each of them have two Rooms and a little Garden and two shillings by the Weâ—k for their support By Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to Richard May of London Sister to Sir Humphrey May Vice-Chamberlain â—o the King he had Issue three Sons Arthur Arthur and Baptist who all died young and two Daughters Iulian Married to the said Edward Lord Noâ—l and Mary to Sir Charles Morison of Caisâ—â— Bury in Com. Hertf. Knight but after to Sir Iohn Couper of Winburne St. Giles in Com. Dors. Baronet And departing this life at his House in the Parish of â—t Laurâ—nce in the Iury within the City of London 20 Oct. 5 Car. 1. was buried at Campden Savile Earl of Sussex 4 Car. 1. THâ—t this Family of Savile hath been of great antiquity and eminent in the Northern parts of this Realm is evident from sundry testimonies For in 48 E. 3. Sir Iohn Savile of â—land in Com. Ebor. Knight was constituted Eschaetor for the Countiâ—s of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmorland And in 3 6 and 11 R. 2. Sheriff of Yorkshire as also Governour of the Castle of Yoâ—k Moreover in 2 H. 5. Thomas Savile of â—hornhill in Com. Ebor. being at that time one of the Esquires to Edward Duke of York was in consideration of his good services made Forester of his Chase and Park at Aryngdâ—n within the Lordship of Sowrby in the same County From which Thomas descended Sir Henry Savile of â—hornhill made Knight of the Bath in the time of King Henry the Eighth who by ... one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Thomas Southell of Southell Esq had Issue Edward his Son and Heir an Ideot and by ... Barkston a Concubine another Son called Sir Robert Savile alias Barkston Knight Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 15 Eliz. Which Sir Robert by ... his Wife Sister to Iohn Lord Hussie and Widdow of Sir Richard Thimelby Knight had Issue Sir Iohn Savile Knight who underwent the Office of Sheriff for the same County of Lincoln in 32 Eliz. And being seated at Howley in Yorkshire served as one of the Knights for that County in divers Parliaments of King Iames his Reign and the beginning of King Charles the First He was also High-Steward for the Honour of Ponâ—â—ract And by Letters Patents bearing date 21 Iulii 4 Car. 1. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Savile of Ponâ—â—ract After which being made Comptroller of his Majesties Houshold and one of his Privy Council he lived not long as may seem by the Probate of his Testament which bears date in an 1630. 6 Car. 1. This Iohn Lord Savile Married two Wives First Catherine Daughter to Charles Lord Willoâ—ghby of Parham but by her he had no Children Afterwards Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Edward Carey Knight by whom he had Issue three Sons First Henry who Married Hellen the eldest Daughter and Coheir of William Oglethorpe Esq and had Issue Iohn who died without Issue Secondly Edward who Married Anne Daughter and Heir to Richard Tolson of Cockermouth in Com. Cumbr. Esq but by her had no Issue Thirdly Sir Thomas Savile Knight as also Robert and Edmund who died unmarried He had likewise four Daughters viz. Catherine Married to Sir Thomas Bland of Kipax in Com. Ebor. Knight Anne to Piers Leigh Son and Heir to Sir Piers Leigh of Lime in Com. Cestr. K t Elizabeth to Alveray Copley of Batley in Com. Ebor. Esq afterwards to Richard Banks and Frances to Thomas Bradley Dr. in Divinity Rector of Castelford in Com. Ebor. To which Iohn succeeded in his Honour Sir Thomas Savile Knight his third Son shortly after made Vicount Savile of Castle-barr in Ireland as also Comptroller of the King's Houshold Whereupon attending his Majesty at Oxford in the times of the late Troubles he was by Letters Patents bearing date the twenty fifth of May in the twentieth year of his Reign dignified with the Title of Earl of Sussex and departing this life ... This Thomas Married two Wives First Frances Daughter to Sir Michael Sonds of â—brouley in Com. Cantii Knight Widdow of Sir Iohn Leveson Knight by whom he had no Issue Secondly the Lady Anne Daughter to Christopher Earl of Anglesey and at length sole Heir to Charles Earl of Anglesey her Brother By whom he had Issue Iames his Son and Successor in that Honour who Married Anne Daughter of Robert Wake a Merchant in Antwerpe and died ... an 1671. without Issue As also Frances a Daughter Married to Francis Lord Brudnel Son and Heir to Robert Earl of Cardigan Savile Vicount Halifax 19 Car. 2. OF this Family of Savile the principal branch is Sir George Savile of â—hornhill in Com. Ebor. Baronet Son and Heir of Sir William Savile Baronet by Anne his Wife Daughter of Thomas Lord Coventre sometime Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England and he Son of Sir George Savile of â—hornhil Knight and Baronet by Mary his Wife Daughter to George late Earl of Shrewsbury This Sir George Savile in consideration of his Father's and his own faithful Services to the late King Charles the first of blessed memory as also of his own deservings from our present Sovereign King Charles the Second was by Letters-Patent bearing date at Westminster 13 Ian. in the nineteenth year of his Reign advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Savile of Elande in Com. Ebor. and likewise to the dignity of a Vicount by the name of Vicount
Porter of the Castle to betray it into his hands one Robert Veel the Viscount's Engineer being likewise an active person in that design giving Bond to Maurice King in the summe of an hundred pounds that so soon as the work should be accomplished he should be made keeper of Wotton Park with the Fee of five Marks per annum during his life But this Plot being discovered by Maurict King so much perplexed the Viscount L'isle that he forthwith sent this Lord Berkley a Challenge requiring him of Knighthood and Manhood to appoint a day and to meet him half way to try their quarrel and title to eschew the shedding of Christian Blood or to bring the same day the utmost of his power This Letter of Challenge under the hand of that Viscount was sent 19 Martii 10 Ed. 4. he being then not fully twenty two years of age having sued out his Livery upon the fourteenth of Iuly before and his Wife then with Child of her first-born Unto which the Lord Berkley returned this answer in Writing viz. that he would not bring the tenth man he could make and bid him to meet on the morrow at Nybley-Green by eight or nine of the Clock which standeth saith he on the Borders of the Livelode that thou keepest untruly from me Whereupon they accordingly met and the Viscount L'isle's Vizor being up he was slain by an Arrow shot through his head After which the very same day the Lord Berkley advanced to Wotton and rifling the House took thence many Writings and Evidences of the said Viscounts own Lands with a sute of Arras Hangings wherein his Armes and the Armes of the Lady Ioane his Mother Daughter and Coheir to Thomas Chedder were wrought and brought them to Berkley Castle To this Skirmish came divers from Bristoll Thornbury the Forest of Deane and other places to the number of about a thousand which exceeded what the Viscount brought But the business did not so end for the Widdow of the Viscount L'isle brought her appeal against this William Lord Berkley and against Maurice and Thomas his two Brethren for thus killing her Husband with an Arrow through his Head and a Dagger in his left Side as she alleadged Whereupon in the Parliament of 12 Ed. 4. upon Petitions on all parts it was enacted that for the appeasing of these variances c. thus moved and of long time continued the said Lord Berkley should quietly enjoy the Mannor and Borrough of Wotton under Edge with the Mannors of Simondshall and Arlingham paying to the said Margaret the Viscountess an hundred pounds yearly at St. Peters Church in Gloucester at four usual Feasts in the year After which she the said Viscountess married Henry Bodrugan of Bodrugan in Cornwall Nor did this yet determine the Controversie for Sir Edward Grey Knight second Son to Elizabeth Lady Ferrers Daughter to the Lady Isabel this Lord William's Mother who by marriage with Elizabeth eldest Sister and Coheir of the said Thomas Talbot Viscount L'isle was in her right created Baron L'isle 14 Martii 15 Edw. 4. and afterwards Viscount L'isle by King Richard the third Margaret her other Sister and Coheir being dead without issue began new sutes for those Lands which at length through the mediation of Thomas Marquess Dorset elder Brothers Son to the said Lord Grey as also friend and kinsman to this Lord William were determined by agreement 25 Feb. 21 Edw 4. in manner following viz. that the Lands so claimed should remain to this Lord William then Viscount Berkley and to the Heirs male of his Body with remainder to the said Lord L'isle and Elizabeth his Wife and to the Heirs of her the said Elizabeth for ever And that the said Viscount Berkley should grant an Annuity of twenty pounds per annum to them and to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth issuing out of those Lands but to cease upon the death of Margaret Vicountess L'isle and then to be an hundred pounds per annum But from this Agreement they afterwards fell off And in 1 Hen. 7. he had a Grant of the Office of Marshall of England to himself and the Heirs male of his Body in as ample manner as Iohn Duke of Norfolk held it This Lord William at length Marquess Berkley as hath been already shewed gave certain Lands to the Nunns of Walling-Wells in Com. Nott. in respect whereof they granted to accept of him and his Heirs for ever as one of their Founders He was also a benefactor to the Monks of Worcester for which cause they made him partaker of all their Prayers and Almes To the Friers Austines in London he gave an hundred pounds in money in consideration whereof they were to say two Masses presently and for ever at the Altar of our Lady and St. Iames where the Body of Iane Countess of Notingham his former Wife lay buried between those Altars He had three Wives first Elizabeth Daughter of Reginald West Lord La Warre from whom he was divorsed by Iohn Carpenter Bishop of Worcester before he had any issue by her Secondly Iane Widdow of Sir William Willoughby Knight Daughter of Sir Thomas Strangways Knight by whom he had issue Thomas and Katherine who both died young and were buried in the Chappel of Berkley-Church with their Grandfather the Lord Iames. Which Iane e died on St. Matthias day 1 R. 3. and was buried in the Friers-Austines in London betwixt the Altars of our Lady and St. Iames. Thirdly Anne Daughter of Iohn Fienes Lord Dacres of the South who surviving him after married to Sir Thomas Brandon Knight and died 10 Sept. 13 Hen. 7. without any issue But long before her death doubting that he should have no Children and taking occasion to except against his Brother Maurice for not marrying with a person of honorable parentage by an Indenture bearing date 10 Dec. 3 Hen. 7. he covenanted to assure the Castle and mannor of Berkley together with the Mannors of Hamme Appuâ—rugge Hurst Slymbridge and Cowley for want of issue of his own Body unto King Henry the seventh and the Heirs male of his Body and for default of such issue to his own right Heirs Likewise the Mannors of Came Alkington Hinton and Portbury to the use of himself and Anne his then Wife and the Heirs of his Body and for want of such to the King ut supra in lieu whereof the King gave him leave to convey twenty five of his other Lordships to whom he pleased By this assurance he setled for want of issue of his own Body upon that King and the Heirs Male of his Body his Castle of Berkley twelve Mannors and three Advousons all in the County of Gloucester two Mannors in the County of Somerset four in the County of Warwick eight in the County of Leicester six
the fourth then King of that Realm was slain and for his special service there received the honor of Knighthood at the hands of Thomas Earl of Surrey the then General In 14 Hen. 8. he executed the Sheriffs Office for the County of Glocester And in 22 Hen. 8. was one of those Lords who subscribed a Letter to Pope Clement the seventh importuning him to give his definitive sentence in that cause of Matrimony concerning the King and Queen Katherine which not only to the two Universities of this Realm but divers other in forrein parts as also many learned men had deemed unlawful being there placed next after the Lord Dacre and next before the Lord Morley And in 24 Hen. 8. was made Constable of Berkley-Castle in which year by his Testament bearing date 11 Ian. he ordained that his Body should be buried without great pomp or pride in the Parish Church of Mangotts-field in Com. Glouc. near to the place where he used to kneel under the partition between the Quire and his own Chappel and afterwards viz. within one quarter of a year be brought to the Abby of St. Augustines near Bristoll and there buried near unto his first Wife Willing that the Executors of Maurice Lord Berkley his Brother should pay to the Abbot and Covent of that House all Legacies by him the said Maurice given He likewise bequeathed to the Lady Cecilie then his Wife his Chain with the Cross And appointed his Executors to find a Priest to sing where his Body should be buried for the space of ten years as also that they should bestow forty pounds upon a Tombe to be raised over his Grave This Lord Thomas married two Wives first Elianore Daughter of Sir Marmaduke Constable of ... in Com. Ebor. Knight Widow of Iohn Iâ—gelby Esq Son and Heir to Sir William Ingelby Knight Secondly Cecilie Widow of Richâ—â—d Rowdon of ... in Comâ— Glouc. Esq And departing this life 22 Ianâ—â—r Ann. 1532. 24 Hen. 8. was first buried at Mangoâ—s-field but afterwards removed to that new Tombe which he had set up in the Abby Church of St. Augustines near Bristoll leaving issue two Sons and two Daughters viz. Thomas his Son and Heir who succeeded him and Maurice who taking to Wiâ—e Frances the Daughter and Coheir of Richard Rowdon Brother and Heir of Walter Son of Iohn left issue by her Sons and Daughters The Daughters were these Mary married to Sir Robert Throgmorton of Coughton in Com. Warw. Knight and Iane to Sir Nicholas Poinz of Acton Knight Which Thomas being of full age had Livery of his Lands the same year and had also two Wives first Mary the Daughter of George Lord Hastings by whom he had no issue and secondly Anne Daughter to Sir Iohn Savage of Frodsham in Com. Cester Knight and departing this life at Stone in his journey from his House at Yale in Gloucestershire towards London 19 Sept. An. 1534 26 H. 8. was there buried leaving issue Elizabeth a Daughter then scarce three quarters of a year old afterwards married to Thomas Boteler Earl of Ormund and Henry a Son born nine weeks and four days after his death Which Henry by the death of King Edward the sixth the last heir male to King Henry the seventh came to 〈◊〉 Berkley-Castle and all those other Lordâ—hips so given to that King by William Marquess Berkley as hath been observed and by the special Grace and Favor of of Queen Mary had Livery of them in 1 2 Phil. Mar. before he arrived to his full age Which Castle and Lordships had rested in the Crown by the space of sixty one years four months and twenty days and were then of the value of six hundred eighty seven pounds and five shillings per annum in old Rent not accounting the Parks and Chases in them contained This Henry thus repossessing the old Barony of his Ancestors being summoned by Writ to Parliament in 4 5 Phil. Mar. was there placed 25 Ian. He first took to Wife Katherine third Daughter to Henry Howard Earl of Surrey by Frances his Wife Daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford Which Katherine died at Calaudon 7 Apr. Ann. 1596. 38 Eliz. and was buried in the North Isle of S. Michaels Church in Coventre Secondly Iane Daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope Knight Widow of Sir Roger Tounsend Knight who survived him and died 3 Ian. Ann. 1617. 15 Iae. without issue By Katherine his first Wife he had issue two Sons viz. Thomas born at Caloudon 11 Iulii Ann. 1575. 17 Eliz. and Ferdinand who dying at â—ale in Gloucestershire was there buried And four Daughters viz. Mary Wife of Iohn Zouch Son and Heir to Sir Iohn Zouch of Codnore in Com. Derb. Knight and Frances Wife of George Shirley of Aâ—â—well in Com. Northamp Esquire afterwards a Baroner Which Thomas married Elizabeth only Child of Sir George Carey Knight then Knight Marshal and Governor of the Isle of Wight Son to Henry Lord Hunsdon and after his Fathers death Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain of the Queens Houshold and Knight of the Garter But all that I have seen farther memorable of this Thomas is that upon the death of Queen Elizabeth he rode into Scotland to carry the News thereof to King Iames and being made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of that King died at Caloudon 22 Novemb. 9 Iac. and was buried in St. Michaels Church in Coventre near to the Grave of his Mother in his Fathers lifetime leaving issue George his Son and Heir and Theophila a Daughter married to Sir Robert Coke Knight Son and Heir to Sir Edward Coke Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. This Henry Lord Berkley lived to a very great age for his death hapâ—ed not till the 26 Nov. An. 1613. 11 Iac. at Caloudon before-mentioned Whence his Body was honorably conveyed to Berkley and buried in the Chancel there over which a Fair Tombe hath since been erected to his Memory To whom succeeded George his Grandson and next Heir who took to Wife Elizabeth the second Daughter and Coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudburne in Comit. Suff. Kt. 13 Apr. 12 Iac. he being then of the age of thirteen years and she nine Which George departed this life ... Ann. 1658. leaving issue two Sons viz. Charles drowned at Sea in his passage towards Diepe in France ... Ian. Ann. 1640. unmarried and George now Lord Berkley As also Elizabeth a Daughter married to Edward Coke Son and Heir to Iohn Coke of Holkham in Com. Norf. Esquire Son of Sir Edward Coke Knight sometimes Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. This George now Lord Berkley took to Wife Elizabeth the eldest Daughter and Coheir to Iohn Maâ—â—ingberd Merchant of London of the East-India Company and hath issue by her two Sons viz. Sir Charles Berkley made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of
Lord Berners Likewise a daughter called Anne married to Iohn Moubray Duke of Norffolk And was buried in the Conventual-Church at Lanthony near Glocester Which Henry in 5 H. 6. was in that Expedition then made into France And in 8 H. 6. being retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in those his wars with Thirty three Men at Armes and One hundred and fifteen Archers landed with them at Calais upon the 27 th of Aprill Furthermore in 11 H. 6. bearing then the Title of Earl of Ewe upon the death of Elizabeth the Widow of Sir Lewes Robsart daughter and heir of Bartholomew Lord Bourchier before-specified without issue he was found to be her cosin and next heir as hath been already observed And in 13 H. 6. had summons to Parliament by the name of Earl of Ewe but never after by that Title In 18 H. 6. he took shipping at Portsmouth with the Duke of York then made Regent of France and landed with him in Normandy And in 19 H. 6. was in another Expedition then made into France Also in 21 H. 6. he was Captain of Crotoy in Picardy In 25 H. 6. he was advanc'd to the dignity of Viscount Bourchier as it seemes for by that Title he had summons to Parliament the same year and afterwards And in 28 H. 6. was joyn'd in Commission with Iames Earl of UUiltshire and others in the Governership of the Town and Castle of Calais the Tower of Rysebank and Marches of Calais for five years Moreover in 32 H. 6. he was sent to Calais by King Edward there to consult with the Soldiery for the safe custody and defence of that Garrison and in 33 H. 6. 29 Maii was constituted Lord Treasurer of England Moreover in 38 H. 6. taking part with the Earles of March and UUarwick he was with them in the Battel of Northampton where they had the better of the day against the King's Forces Whereupon soon after viz. 18 Martii 1 E. 4. he was again made Lord Treasurer by that King And by Letters Patents bearing date 30 Iunii the same year was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Essex This Henry being a person of singular parts had such esteem from Richard Duke of York son to Richard of Conyngsburgh Earl of Cambridge as that in his younger years the more to oblige i him to the Interest of that House in those great and sharp contests which for a long time continued betwixt it and the House of Lancaster that Duke gave him his sister Isabell in Marriage And in 4 E. 4. that King in recompence of the charge he had been at in his service granted him License to transport sixteen hundred Woollen Clothes of his proper Goods or any others without any Accompt or Custome for the same Moreover upon the 22 th of April in 11 E. 4. he was again constituted Lord Treasurer of England And in 14 E. 4. in consideration of his farther services he obtain'd a Grant of the Castle Honor and Lordship of UUerke in Com. Northumb. as also of the Honor and Lordship of Tindale in the same County to hold to himself and her the said Isabell his Wife the King's Aunt and to the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten by Fealty only for all services As also of the Mannors of Aylesbury â—oorton and Woddesdon in Com. Buck. with the Advouson of the Church part of the possessions of Thomas Courtney Earl of Devon attainted Likewise of the Mannors of Great Holand and Forherd in Com. Essex with the Advouson of the Church of Holand of the Mannors of Acton and Moreves in Waldingfeld in Com. Suff. Chellefeld Estwell juxta Chellefeild Asthe juxta Frenyngham with the Advowson of the Church of Chellefeâ—d in Com. Lanc. late of Iames Earl of Wiltshire attainted Of the Mannor of Chyngford in Essex with the Advouson of the Church part of the possessions of Thomas Lord Roos attainted and of the Mannors of Colviles Zouches Mannors and Sherdlowe in Fulburne in Com. Cantabr with the Advouson of the Church of Fulborne part of the possessions of Iohn Ormund alias Boteler attainted to hold to him and her the said Isabel ut supra In 17 E. 4. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with others deputed by Lewes King of France touching a prorogation of the Truce formerly made betwixt both Crowns Not long after viz. in 21 E. 4. with the Lady Isabell his Wife Sir Iohn Dynham Knight and others he obtain'd a License to found a certain Gild to the glory of God and the blessed Virgin consisting of two Wardens and divers other Men and Women of the Parish of Ultyng in Com. Essex as also of such other persons as out of their Devotion would enter into that Fraternity in a certain Chapel of our Lady situate in the Church-yard of Ultyng and to purchase Lands of Ten Marks per annum value for the maintenance of a Priest to celebrate Divine Service there every day for the good estate of King Edward the Fourth and Queen Elizabeth his Conâ—ort during this life as also for the health of their souls afterward and for the good estate of them the said Henry and Isabel and all other the Brethren and Sisters of that Fraternity And departed this life 4. Apr. 23 E. 4. being then seised s of the Mannors of Aylesbury and Woddeston in Com. Buck. Colviles and zouches Mannors and Sherdlowes in Fulborne in Com. Cantabr Acton Moâ—eves in Wadingfeld Bildeston Driâ—geston Hoptâ—â— and Shelland in Com. Suff. Chellefeld Esthall and Ashe juâ—cta Fremingham in Com. Cantii Holland Magna Foxherd Chingeford Langeford Totham magna Totham Onesey Tolleshunt Lachingdon Staunford Eystanes ad Turrim Rothing Ethorp Stansted Halfted Brenge Fordham parva Moreton Laver parva Messing parva Burcher's Mannor in Rewenhale Assheldeham Maldon Magna Maldon parva Ultyng Broxhede Stockhall Wakeryng magna Wakeryng parva Ramesdon Belhouse Halingbury parva Manhale Grenstede Patchinghall Wodehall and Little-Hays in Com. Essex And was buried with his Lady within the Chappel of the blessed Virgin in the Abby of Bylegh juxta-Maldon in Com. Essex leaving Henry his Grandson his next heir viz. son of William his eldest son who died in his life-time by Anne the daughter to Iames Luxemburgh Earl of St. Paul eleven yeares of age and the before-specified Isabel his Wife surviving who soon after died viz. 2 Oct. 2 R. 3. The other children of this deceased Earl besides the said William who so died in his life time were these viz. 2. Sir Henry Bourchier Knight who married Elizabeth the daughter and heir to Thomas Lord Scales of Nucells 3. Humphrey who bore the Title of Lord Cromwell having married Ioane the daughter of Richard Stanhope Neice and coheir to Raphe Lord Cromwell of Tatshall which Humphrey
war doon to hym and to hys Realme and he gave to hym then at his depertyng greatt gyftes And at the comyng home agayn of the seid Erle for the truste that the Kyng our Soverayn Lord hed to hym hys Grace made hym one of hys Executors And after the dethe of Kyng Henry the seventh Kyng Henry the eighth made hym lykewise of his prevay Counsayll and still continued Tresourer of Englond and made hym high Marshall of the same and for the syngler truste that the Kyng had aswell to his truthe as to hys wysdome and actyvytte at hys goyng into Fraunce with hys pussunce havyng wyth his Highnes the moste part of hys Nobles of this Realme lefte the seyd Erle wyth a certâ—yn power in the Northe partys and made hym Lyvetenaunte-generall from Trente Northward to defende the Realm ageynste the Kynge of Scottys whom hys Highnes had no trust unto for cause of the leege betwyxt Fraunce and them in case the seid Kyng wold invade thys hys Realme whiche he dide in deede contrary to his Oth and promyse wyth the hoole power of the Realme of Scotland Whiche when the seid Erle hard of he made as greatt haste towardis hym as he coude wyth the Kyngys power of the North-partys and toke hys lodgyng in the Campe or playn callyd Wollar-haugh in the Countie of Northumbreland which was in the sight of the Kyng of Scottys and of all hys Army then lying on Flodden-Hill a ground more like a Campe or Forteres than any meete ground to gyve Batayle on Contrary to hys promyse made to Rogeâ—ras Pursesâ—vaunte at Armys before sent unto hym from the seid Erle wyth Message that the seid Erle wyth the Lord Howard then Admerall of Englond hys Son and the nobull men of the North-partis wyth other the Kyngs Subgettis of the same North partys was come thedir to represse and resiste hys Invasyons of hys Soverayn Lordis Realme desyring the seyd Kyng of Scottis to gyve him Betayle Which his Message the Kyng of Scottis take very thankfully and joyusly promysing hym to abyde ther on the same grounde wher he than was Whyche hys promyse he brake as is aforesaid and tooke Flodden-Hillys a ground impregnable and shot at hym hys grete Ordenaunce where as he lay like one mynded to kepe it like a forteres And when the seid Erle did perceyve that â—e had broken hys promys and takyâ— so stronge a grounde as Floddâ—n Hillys he then the seyd Erle removed all hys Batâ—yle into a playn besydis Barmenâ— Wood to the eâ—tente to get betwene hym and hys own realme of Scotlond and ther leygeed but one nyght and on the next mornyng toke hys passage over the water of ... at â—wyfull-forthe and than be marched the sayd Kyng and his oâ—te in such maner as he gat betwene hym and hys aâ—ne Reame of Scotlond by force whereof the seid Kyng was fayne to leve hys Campe and to prepare hymself to Batayle witthe seyd Erle on a Hyll besydis Bramston in Northumbrelond very near unto Sandyford wher the seyd Erle witthe good assistauns of the nobull men and the power of the seyd North partys fought witthe seyd Kyng and hym vanqueshed and slew in plain Batayle derectely before hys own Standard In which Batayle were slayne on the Scottyshe parte two Byshoppes Eleven Erles seventene Barons four hundred Knyghtis besydes other Gentilmen with seventeen thousand in nombre whiche ware nombred asweel by Scottyshe-men as by them that dyd bury the most part of them And of trouth divers Gentylmen and others aswel of the seyd Erlys servantys as of the North-partyes and of Cheshire and Lankashire war ther slayne for hard it ys and half impossible yn such a conflicte and Batayle to be wonne wythout losse of men whoys deth may be joyed among ther frendis to dye in so hygh a servys doon to ther Prynce And thys noble act was don by the helpe of Almyghty God to the hygh Honour of the Kyngis Hyghnes honour and prayse to the seyd Erle and to all other noble men and other the Kyngis Subgettis that war ther wyth hym atthe Batayle the nynth day of Semtembir in the fivth yere of our Soverayn Lord Kyng Henry the viii th And this doon the seyd Erle went to Barwike to establyshe at thyngys well and in good order and sent for the dede Body of the Kyng of Scottis to Barwike and when the Ordenaunce of the Kyng of Scottis was brouth off the Feld and put in good sueâ—â—e and all other thyngys in good order then the seyd Erle toke his Iorney toward Yorke and ther abode during the Kyngis pleasure and caryed with him the dede Body of thafforseyd Kyng of Scottis and ther lay unto such tyme as the Kyngis Hyghnes cam from beyond the See after hys wynnyng of Tyrwin with Torney and then hys Hyghnes sent for the seyd Erle to mete hym at Richemond and so he dide and ther delyvered unto his Hyghnes the dede body of the Kyng of Scottis whych dede Body was delyvered in the Charter-hous ther andther to abyde duryng the Kyngis plesur And for the service that the seid Erle dide he was honourably restored unto hys right name of Duke of Norfolk and also had geven unto hym great possessyons by the Kyngis Hyghnes And whan the Warre betwyxt the Kyng our Soverayn Lord and the Frenche Kyng was eended then the seyd Duke was sent into Fraunce as chieff Commyssioner wyth Lady Marye the Kyngis Suâ—ter to be marryed unto the French Kyng Lewes And after when the Kyng and the Quene were both out of the Reame to mete wyth the Frenche Kyng Fraunces at Guynes and the Prynces remaynyng in the Reame beyng a Childe the seyd Duke was left behynde as Protector and defender to mynister Iustice and to see good rule and governaunce in the Reame in the absons of the Kyngis Hyghnes and so continued about the Kyng and of hys prevye Counsayle tyll he was of age of fourescore yeeris and then the Kyngis Highnes was content that the seid Duke shuld go home into hys own Countrey unto the Castell of Framlyngham wher he contynued and kepte an honourable Howse unto the houre of his dethe and ther dyed like a good Crysten Prynce I now to wytnes whose sowle Iesu pardon And at hys depertyng out of Framlyngham-Castell towards his Buryall he coude not be askyd one Grote for his dette nor for restitution to any person and so was had to this present Abbâ—y of Thetford with moche honor accompanyed wyth many greatt Lordis and the Neble-men of both Schires of Norfolk and Suffolk Levyng then lyvyng these hys Children hereafter named that is to sey hys Son and Heyre the Lord Thomas Duke of Norfolk the Lord Edmond Howard the Lord Willyam Howard and the Lord Thomar Howard witthe Lady Elysabeth Wyffe to the Vicount Rocheford the Lady Agnes Countes of Oxenford the Lady Kateryn espoused to the Heir of Sir Rice ap Thomas of Walys the Lady
made with Brick roofed with Timber and Tiled Also a ground for a Garden-place to be closed with a Brick wall and that the said Poor men should have yearly xx load of wood in their Yard out of the profits of his Lands each of them towards his maintenance ten pence every week and against the Feast of St. Michael the Arch Angel one Gown of Russet Frise ready made Also that every of the said five Poor Men should be such as should say at the least their Pater Noster Ave and Creed in Latine for the which Wages and Salary he willed that every morning at their uprising they should say for the Souls of Sir Robert Marny Knight and his Wife Sir Iohn Marny his Father and Iane his Wife his own Mother also for the Souls of Thomasine and Elizabeth his Wives the Souls of Thomas his Son and for the Souls of all his Children five Pater Nosters five Aves and one Creed and every day to go to the Church of Leyre-Marny and there to hear Mass in the New Chapell before mentioned Moreover that at their first coming into the Church every of them should kneel down before the Sacrament and say a Pater Noster and an Ave and then go to his Tomb and there kneeling down to say for his Soul and for the other Souls before named three Pater Nosters three Anes and one Creed in Worship of the Trinity and then to go down into the Church and there in the time of Mass or Masses or else before their departure from the said Church to say for the before named Souls our Ladies Sawter And at night before their going to Bed every one of them to say kneeling on their knees five Pater Nosters five Aves and one Creed for the Souls aforesaid And that such of them as can say de profundis to say it in lieu of the said five Pater Nosters five Aves and one Creed Also that every Wednesday and Friday they go into the Church at afternoon and there kneeling about his Tomb to say for his Soul and the Souls of other before rehearsed Our Ladies Psawter And if any of them could say Dirige then to say it in lieu of our Ladies Psawter Furthermore he willed that his Executors should find two good and honest Priests to say Mass daily in the Chapel aforesaid and in their Masses every day to say de profundis for his Soul and the other Souls before rehearsed Also to say every Sunday Mass of the Nativity of our Lord and of the Annunciation of our Lady On Munday of the Holy Ghost and of the Nativity of our Lord On Tuesday of the Trinity and the Conception of our Lady On Wednesday of the Resurrection and Purification on Thursday de corpore Christi and the Assumption of our Lady on Friday of the five wounds and of the Cross and on Saturday de omnibus Sanctis and de Requie And that every Wednesday and Friday every of the said two Priests should say Placebo Dirige and Commendations for his Soul and other the Souls before named Also that there should be a Chamber made over the said Almshouse for to lodge those two Priests to the intent that those Poor Men might be the better guided and ordered every of those Priests having yearly for his Salary ten marks This Henry Lord Marny married two Wives Thomasine Daughter to Iohn Arundel of Lanherâ—e in Com. Cornub. by whom he had Issue Iohn his Son and Heir and Catherine a Daughter married to Thomas Bonham Efque Secondly Elizabeth Daughter of Nicholas Wifeild Lord Mayor of London in 29 H. 6. but by her had Issue only one Daughter who became the Wife of Sir Henry Bedingfield Knight and departing this life at his House in the Parish of St. Swythin in London upon the xxiv th of the same month of May being Whitsunday was buried in the same Parish Church of Leyre-Marny Which Iohn succeeding him in his Honour was Squire of the Body to King Henry the eighth in the first year of his Reign being then made Governour of Rochester Castle in Kent but surviv'd his Father not long so that there is not any thing farther memorable of him that I have seen excepting his Testament which beareth date 10 Martii An. 1524. 16 H. 8. whereby he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the new I le on the North side of the Parish-Church of Leyre Marny in the midst of the said I le directly against the midst of the said New-Chapell six foot from the partition betwixt the Chapell and I le in a Vault of Brick so large as two Bodies might be laid therein Over the which Vault he appointed that a Tomb should be set and made of such Sâ—one as his Fathers Tomb was made if it could be gotten else of gray Marble and to be eight foot in length and five in breadth as also four foot high to be wrought in like sort as that Tomb for his Father except the Vault above and the Arms about the Tomb which to he changed according to the direction of the Herald Likewise that about the said Tomb there should be made a grate of wainscot and at every corner thereof a principal pillar with a white Lybard upon the top thereof and upon it an Image of himself like unto that on his Fathers Tomb and portraied in Coat-armour with his Helmet and Crest at the head and a white Leopard at the feet And on either side of his Image one Image of Brass for each of his two Wives Dame Christian and Dame Bridget with their Coat-Armours Also that at the West end thereof there should be an Altar whereat a Priest to sing for him perpetually By this his Testament he likewise bequeathed CC l. sterling towards the new building of the Church at Leyre-Marny appointing that his Executors should find an honest Priest to pray for him and other after named within that Parish Church for ever as also to say Mass at his Chauntry-Altar at the end of his Tomb and there pray for his Soul and for the Souls of Henry Lord Marny his Father Dame Thomasine his Mothers Soul for the Souls of his Wives Dame Bridget Dame Christian and Amy Marny and for the Soul of his Brother Thomas Marny The Probate of which Testament bears date 28 Iunii An. 1525. 17 H. 8. leaving Issue by the said Christian his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Roger Newburgh Knight two Daughters and Heirs Katherine married to George Ratcliffe and Elizabeth to the Lord Thomas Howard Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk Which Thomas was afterwards created Lord Howard of Bindon His second Wife Bridget was Daughter of Sir ... Waldgrave Knight Widow of ... Fynderne who surviving him by her Testament bearing date at Little-Horkysley in Com. Essex xvi Sept. An. 1549. 3 E. 6. bequeath'd her Body to be buried at the High-Altars end in the Chancel of the
Tikhill Being come to Brugge-North he raised notable Works against it and framed certain Military Engines for assault thereof staying there three weeks And having by private gifts corrupted those of the Welsh of that Garrison in whom this Rebellious Earl did most confide whereof Iorwerth ap Blethin was the cheif he obtained a Render thereof Howbeit this Earl deeming it not safe to trust wholly to Garrisons he left Shrewsbury to the care and charge of Rogâ—â— the Son of Corbeth Robert de Nevil and Vlger Grosvenour unto whom he joyned eighty Stipendary Soldiers and making peace with the Welsh allured to his party Caducan and Gervatus two of their Kings Sons of Rese by whom with his own Troops he frequently disturbed the Kings Forces But William Pantolf a great Man in Shropshire who was â—leighted by this Earl and thereupon received into the Kings favor having two hundred Soldiers sent to his aid and the Governorship of Stafford Castle committed to his charge not only galled the Earl beyond all others resisting him also with his Counsels and Arms even to his utter destruction but so wrought upon these Welsh Kings by rewards and promises that he drew them to his party Which ill success attending this haughty spirited Earl and the render of that his strongest Castle at Brugge-North wherein he reposed most confidence coming to his ears did so much perplex him that being almost mad he knew not what to do The King therefore discerning his advantages commanded That Shrewsbury should be besieged But the ways being bad and narrow about Malpas and the Woods thick wherein Archers lay which annoyed the marching of his Soldiers he was necessitated to appoint Sixty thousand Foot Soldiers who were then in that expedition to cut down that Wood and to make a large passage through it The Earl therefore hearing of all these things and considering the event of this his desperate condition with all humility implored the Kings clemency upon his approach near Shrewsbury and acknowledging his crime of Treason offered to him the Keys of that Town Which the King graciously accepted suffering him to have safe Conduct with Horse and Arms for his passage to the Sea Coast but seising on all his Honors and the Possessions of those that had adhered to him in this his Rebellion Whereupon ensued the most general joy to all the Kingdom imaginable that they were thus rid of so great a Tyrant and such a savage Oppressor For he was so stupendiously cruel that he rather chose to inflict miserable torments upon poor Captives than to receive much Money for their Redemption Which so much heightned the Kings displeasure towards him that he could not endure any of his Relations but caused his Brothers Roger of Poictou and Arnulph who were both wealthy Earls to be utterly extirpated Nay his whole Family was so odious to him that in regard Emme his Sifter was Abbess of Almanisca he took away those Lands which Roger de Montgomery their Father had bestowed on that Religious House and gave them to one of his Soldiers Being thus banished England there was little respect given to him in Normandy scarce any one there abiding him yet his wealth which he had treasured up in Thirty four strong Castles formerly built for his Rebellious purposes supported him sufficiently Of which such was his inhumanity though besides this he did solâ—ly possess all his Fathers great Inheritance in those parts he would afford his Brothers no share at all Roger of Poictou therefore betook himself to the Castle of Carof which was of his Wives Inheritance and there continued till his age and Arnulph after many troubles and miseries for this his Brother being discontented applied himself to Curthose and having taken the Castle of Almaniâ—ca by surprise delivered it to him Being therefore thus forsaken of his Brother he durst not confide in any and having been so terrible to others could not trust those of his own party yet such was his proneness to evil that he forbore not to lay hold upon any occasion to act mischeif For when as in the Moneth of Iune this year some Soldiers of the Dukes id est Robert Curthose having a desire to plunder the Countrey entred the Abbey of Almanisca and stabled their Horses in that Sacred place he hasted to them and set fire on the Monastery took divers persons prisoners whereof some he killed and others according to his wont dismembred Curthose hereupon marched towards him with his Army Whereupon he puts his Forces in order and boldly meeting him upon a Causey routed him Which success so elated him that scorning the Duke he aimed at no less than the subjugating all Normandy to his own power and in effect he accomplished it the people having no head to flee to being necessitated to submit to him Curthose therefore discerning this desolation to his Countrey and being not able to defend it against the power of this Belesme regardless of the Accord made with King Henry of England his Brother made peace with him yielding up his Fathers Lands and Honors as also the Bishoprick of Sâ—â—s and other things before noted But the next ensuing year King Henry passing over into Normandy with a great power where he was honorably received by the Nobility of that Countrey sent to his Brother Curthose and told him of his breach of that Accord which had been made betwixt them formerly in England by thus making peace with this Robert de Belesme a wicked Traytor to them both without his advice and restoring unto him those his Fathers Lordships rebuking him also for divers other miscarriages after which he returned into England Howbeit no sooner was he gone than that this wicked Belesme studying to make more mischeif incited William Earl of Morecon and whomsoever else he could seduce to take up Arms in those parts Whereupon ensued no little slaughter rapine and spoil Of which King Henry being advertised he forthwith hastes over into Normandy again landing at 〈◊〉 in the last week of Lent And lodging soon after at Corenton received grievous complaints of the miserable condition of the Countrey amongst which that this Robert de Belesme had burnt the Church of Cornay in the Diocess of Sais and in it Forty five persons Men Women and Children But in Autumn following this Robert de Belesm and William Earl of Moreton standing in fear of King Henry applied themselves to Curthose Whereupon the King getting some Forces together marched to 〈◊〉 and there raised Works for the siege of that place but notwithstanding those Works William Earl of Moreton whose Town it was
Bishop of Durham in the County Court and in his Synods readily assisted that venerable person with his Secular Authority Moreover as to his Works of Piety certain it is that he gave to the Monks of Durham the Church of our Lady at Tinmouth with the Body of S. Oswyne King and Martyr there Interred Howbeit not forgetting the barbarous murther of Earl Aldred his Grand-father which was committed by that treacherous and cruel Carl Son of Thuribrand as I have already shewed he sharply vindicated the same upon his Children causing them to be slain at Setâ—rington when they were all feasting together at that place But at length being trained into that plot of Raphe de Waher Earl of Norfolâ— Roger Earl of Hereford and others who designed the expulsion of King William he was cast into prison And though Lanfrank then Archbishop of Canterbury his Confessor did affirm that he was not at all guilty of that charge for having revealed the same to him by his advice he hasted to the King then in Normandy and discovered it yet his impious Wife saith mine Author affecting a second Marriage conspired with some of the Normans who greedily gaped after his Earldoms of 〈◊〉 and Huntingdon and specially with 〈◊〉 Talbois Earl of Anjou who thirsted after his other possessions and plotted his death so that he was soon after beheaded at Winchester being brought to the place of Execution in his Consular-Robes Whereupon his Body was first there interred upon the meeting of two High-ways but afterwards translated to 〈◊〉 and buried in the Chapter-house of that Monastery by Wulkitel the then Abbot whereunto he had formerly given the Lordship of Beâ—nak in Noâ—thampâ—onshire wherein there is a famous Quarry of Stone of great use to that Religious House It is reported by one of the Monks of that place that not long after his Sepulture there the Countess Iudith his Widow becoming very penitent for her former miscarriage towards him brought a Pall of Silk and laid it on his Tomb which being too short by a Divine Power stretched it self forth to a fit length And that when Abbot Ingulph translated his Corps out of the Chapter-house into the Quire he found it perfect in all parts and not corrupted with any putrefaction Moreover that being laid near the High Altar many infirm people who came of devotion thither were miraculously cured by his merits Likewise that the same Abbot devoutly meditating in his Bed of what had so wonderfully hapned falling at length a sleep he saw in a Vision S. Bartholomew the Apostle and S. Guthlac the Confessor cloathed in white Priestlike Rayments and assisting him at the Tomb. Also that when the Apostle saw his Head firmly closed to the Body and only a red circle like a thred about his neck he said Is not this an Headless Man and that S. Guthlack standing at the Feet answered He was an Earl whereunto the Apostle replied But now he is a King He also addeth That when the Abbot had declared his Vision to the Monks he earnestly incited them to a due reverence of his Relicks and to render like praise to God who is marvellous in his Saints Likewise that One hundred twenty nine years after his Martyrdom Abbot Henry caused a Tomb of Marble with his Effigies thereon to be erected near the Steps ascending towards the High Altar on the left hand and thither removed his Relicks with great solemnity and devotion upon the xvi th Kal. of April An. Mccxix On which Tomb this Epitaph composed by the Relator viz. Don William a Monk of that Covent was written Hic Waldeve Comes tumularis incineraris Parte tamen meliore tui super 〈◊〉 loâ—aris Et merito nam cum juvenis in carne fuisti Mortuus huic mundo caelestia regna petisti Cum fieres gemini Comitatus clarus honore Clarior extiteras mentis morumque â—tore Firma fides stabilis spes puri fervor amoris Te colâ—ustrarunt interni luce decoris Tu qui praeciâ—rus praeclara stirpe fuisti Praeclaris meritis praeclarius enituisti Tu qui Marte potens famosa Trophaea tulisti Temet 〈◊〉 faelicius ac domuisti Tu qui dives opum per opes inopes relevasti In caelo tibi thesauros hac arte parasti Sed te plus quam Job mulier Sathan mediante Tentavit propria tibi conjuge fata parante Haec accusavit Rex credidit tibi mortem Intulit assignas cum dampnatis tibi sortem En monus haeredes mulieris fe superari Saeve fraude sinens to jussit decapitari Rubra cruore tuo quondam Wintonia luxit Exuviis post freta tuis Croilanda reluxit Quam faelix locus hic thesaurus cui datur iste Per quem languentes curat tua gratia Christe Clare Comes praeclare Deo Gualdeve beate Willelmi sint quaeso tui laudes tibi gratae After the death of this Earl King William offered Iudith his Widow in Marriage unto Simon de S. Liz a Nobleman Norman but she refusing him in regard he was lame on one of his Legs the King in much wrath disposed of the Earldom of Huntingdon to that Simon Whereupon being extreamly terrified she fled away with her three Daughters and lurked in several places and became so sensible of her guilt in promoting her Husbands death that in great penitency she continued all the days of her life a Widow Of these three Daughters Maud became the Wife of Simon de S. Liz beforementioned unto whom the King so gave the Earldom of Huntingdon Alice otherwise called Iudith was married to Raphe de Toeni sive de Conchis Lord of Flamsted in Hartfordshire unto whom she brought the Lordship of Welcomstow of her Fathers Inheritance and ... to Robert the fifth Son of Richard de Tonebrugge Of the Lands which this great Earl did possess in King Edward the Confessors days the Conquerors Survey takes no notice of any more than Brantone Hardingsâ—one â—eoweâ—â—e and Bosicte in Northamptonshire Dodinctune in Huntingdonshire Toteham in Middlsex Hohton and Hadre in Leicestershire and Wichingedene and Exentione in Lincolnshire But those which the Countess Iudith had at the time of that General Survey were very great viz. Wileâ—meston in Essex Poteham in Middlesex Meretone and Petintone in Oxfordshire besides Thirteen Lordships in Hartfordshire Nine in Glocestershire Nine in Huntingdonshire Twenty seven in Bedfordshire Fourscore and â—ix in Northamptonshire and Rutâ—and Seventeen in Lincolnshire and Thirty eight in Leicestershire This Iudith Founded the Priory of Helenstow in Berkshire and likewise procured from King William a Charter of divers Immunities and Priviledges for the Monks of Saltry in Huntiâ—gdonshire of the Cistercian Order which Religious House she much frequented in her time ¶ Unto Earl Waltheof succeeded next in the Government of this Province Walcher Bishop of
is That he gave to the Hospital of S. Michael in Warwick all the Tithe arising out of the Assarts of Wedgnock and likewise of the Paunage and Venison To the Nuns of Pinley certain Lands in Curdeshale within the Liberties of Claverdon and to the Nuns of Wrokeshale one yard Land lying in Bailes This Earl had two Wives viz. Margery the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice the Daughter of Iohn de Harecourt Widow of Iohn de Limesie and departing this life in 6 Ioh. left issue divers Children Of which Henry being the eldest succeâ—ded him in this Earldom Waleran had the Mannors of Gretham and Cotesmore in Com. Rotel with certain Lands in Com. Wigorn. given unto him by his Father but died issueless Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife became the Wife of William Manduit of Hanslape in Com. Buck. having for her marriage portion the Mannor of Wauton since called Wauton-Manduit in Com. Warr. but being married very young continued in the custody of her Mother for some time after her Espousals and Gundred his other Daughter brought up in the Abbey of Dinley with Isabel his Neece for whose education he granted in his life time to the Nuns of that House two marks of Silver yearly to be paid by the hands of his Steward at Claverdon At which time for the health of his own Sonl and for the Souls of Margery his Wife Roger his Father Gundred his Mother Earl William his Brother and all his Ancestors he gave to those Nuns of Pinley the Redecimation of his Lordship of Walton in pure Alms. Which Alice his second Wife surviving him in 6 Ioh. gave a Thousand pound fine and Ten Palfreys that she might continue a Widow so that she might not be compelled to marry and that she might have the custody of those Children which she had by this deceased Earl as also Threescore pounds per annum Lands which he gave her freely to dispose and likewise her reasonable Dowry of his Lands and Fees And the next ensuing year gave three Palfreys more that she might by a Jury of Twelve lawful Knights have her Dowry admeasured out of those Lands and Fees What was done therein I find not but about two years after by Agreement with the Succeeding Earl Henry she had the Mannors of Tanworth and Claverdon in Com. Warr. and Chedworth in Com. Gloc. with the service of two Knights Fees the one in Ladbroke and the other in Loâ—ley assigned unto her I now come to Earl Henry the eldest Son and Successor to Earl Waleran This Henry being in minority at his Fathers death was committed to the custody of Thomas Basset of Hedendon near Oxford Which Thomas in consideration of a fine paid to the King in 7 Ioh. had a Grant of his Marriage to the intent he might match his Daughter to him as afterwards he did though she was not his first Wife and accordingly had Livery of his Lands with the Castle of Warwick In 12 and 13 Ioh. upon Inquisition taken as to the number of Knights Fees held of the King in capite by the great Men of this Realm it was then certified that there were Fourscore and seventeen belonging to this Earl For which with the rest being all in number One hundred and two and a third part he paid Two hundred four marks eight shillings and ten pence upon levying of that Scutage for the Kings expedition into Wales And in 15 Ioh. arriving then to his full age had Livery of the Tertium Denarium de Comitatu Warwici as his Ancestors heretofore had In 16 Ioh. contributing Forty two marks towards the Kings Wars in Poictou he was exempted from the Scutage then levied for that service And having been Loyal to King Iohn in the time of his great troubles with the Barons obtained the Kings special Precept unto Hugh de Nevil unto whom the custody of Warwick Castle had been committed during those distractions to deliver it up to him and Thomas Basset as also to make Livery unto him of all the Lands of those Rebels which held of his Fee to retain during pleasure Nor was he less faithful to King Henry the Third for y at the siege of Monâ—â—orrel Castle in the first of His Reign he joyned with the Earls of Chester and Albemarle as also in the Battle of Lincoln the same year where the Rebellious Barons were totally overthrown So likewise in 5 Hen. 3. For when William de Fortz Earl of Albemarle had rebelliously fortified his Castle at Biâ—ham in Com. Linc. he attended the King in person to the siege thereof having Scutage from all his Tenants by Military Service for the support of his charge in that expedition And in 9 Hen. 3. paid Forty nine pound two shillings five pence upon Levying of the Scutage of Montgomery Nevertheless when divers of the great Men in 11 Hen. 3. put themselves in Arms on the behalf of Richard Earl of Cornwal the Kings Brother he adhered to them but that business was soon composed and in 13 Hen. 3. obtained the Kings Letters deprecatory to all his Tenants who held of him by Military service for Aid towards the expences he was like to be at in a voyage into Gascoigne and to discharge some debt then due by him to the King During the minority of this Earl Henry it was That King Iohn scil in the Fourth of His Reign gave the Seignory of Gowher in Wales of his Inheritance unto William de Braose concerning which the succeeding Earls of Warwick had great Sutes as in due place I shall shew He had two Wives viz. Margery the eldest of the two Daughters of Henry D'Oily of Hoke-Norton in Com. Oxon Sister of Henry who died without issue by which means part of D'Oilies Inheritance came to this Family His other Wife was Philippa one of the three Daughters and Heirs to Thomas Basset of Hedenoon before mentioned and departed this life ... in 13 Hen. 3. Whereupon Philippa his Widow gave One hundred marks to the King that she might not be compelled to marry again but to take to Husband whom she should like best in case he were a Loyal Subject Whereupon the same year she wedded her self to Richard Siward a turbulent spirited person but of a Military disposition from his youth For in 17 Hen. 3. he took part with divers great Earls and Barons in their Rebellion begun about that time which was not well quieted till 22 Hen. 3. But from this Richard she was afterwards divorced And afterwards in her pure Widowhood gave to the Canons of Berencester id est Bisseter in Com. Buck. Seven shillings yearly Rent issuing out of certain Lands in Studley in Com. Warr.
to find one Lamp continually burning before the Altar of S. Iohn Baptist in the Conventual Church of Berencester for the health of her Soul and all her Ancestors and Childrens Souls and lieth buried in the Monastery there of her Fathers Foundation The issue which this last mentioned Earl Henry had was only one Son viz. Thomas and one Daughter called Margery both by his first Wife Which Thomas was of full age at his Fathers death for the same year paying One hundred pound for his relief he had Livery of his Lands And in 17 Hen. 3. four years after inherited D'Oilies Lands in Oxfordshire by the death of Henry D'Oily his Uncle without issue Of which paying One hundred pound for his releif and two Palfreys and doing his homage he then had Livery and at Whitsontide following the King then keeping that Festival at Glocester was girt with the Sword of Knighthood with Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk and Hugh de Vere Earl of Oxford Nay I make a question whether he had full Seism of this Earldom of Warwick till then though he had Livery of his Lands four years before for the Kings Precept to the Sheriffs of this County bearing date at Tewksbury 24 May the same year saith thus Rex ciâ—xit Thomam de Warewic â—ingulo Cemitatus Warewic mandatum est Vicecomiti Warwici quod eidem Comiti habere faciat de praedicto Comitatu id quod habere debet nomine Comitis Warwici de quo praedecessores sui Comites Warwici â—eisiti fuerunt tanquam ad eos pertinente nomine Comitatus Warwici And that this was the meaning of that Writ viz. That he should thereby be invested into this Earldom may seem by what the Historian addeth to that mention of his being Knighted with Roger Bigot and Hugh Vere scil Willielmus Longespe accingitur gladio Militari sed non fit Comes Sarum which was at that very time In 25 Hen. 3. this Earl Thomas gave Clxxx marks fine to the King to the end he might be exempted from attendance upon him in his expedition into Gascoigne which sum was over and above his Scutage thereupon due For discharge whereof and that he might levy the like upon his Tenants he paid the year following Cxx l. more But farther than this I cannot say of him other than that he married Ela Daughter to William Longespe Earl of Salisbury Natural Son to King Henry the Second As also that he departed this life without issue 26 Iune An. 1242. 26 Hen. 3. and was buried at Warwick Moreover that upon the new Building of the Quire of the Collegiate Church there in King Edward the Thirds time his Monument with divers other of his Ancestors were removed and never set up again Which Ela surviving him had by the Kings Precept bearing date 29 Iuly next ensuing the Mannors of Tanworth Claverdon and Sutton all in Com. Warr. as also Hoke-Norton and Bradam in Com. Oxon. with all the Corn and Hay then being upon them assigned for her Dowry And by vertue of another Mandate from the King to the Archbishop of York and William de Cantilupe obtained an augmentation thereto For it appears that besides all these she was possessed of the Mannors of Hatherop and Chedworth in Com. Gloc. And had of the Kings gift also for her better support the Mannor of Dimmock in the same County during her Widowhood Which Mannor afterwards upon her marriage with Philip Basset was at the request of Richard Earl of Cornwal the Kings Brother granted to her to hold during her life This Ela was a Benefactress to the Monks of Reading to the Canons of Oseney to the Nuns of Godstow and to the Canons of S. Sepulchers in Warwick to which last she gave all her Lands in Claverdon formerly granted unto her by Sir Henry de Lodbroke Knight and others And was so great a Friend to the University of Oxford that she caused a common Chest to be made and did put into it Two hundred and twenty marks out of which such as were poor Schollars might upon security at any time borrow something gratis for supply of their wants in consideration whereof the University were obliged to celebrate certain Masses every year in S. Maries Church Which Chest was in being in King Edward the Fourths time and called by the name of Warwick Chest. And to the Gray-Fryers in London she gave a parcel of Land with the Buildings thereon for the enlargement of their House In 17 Edw. 1. she released to William de Beauchamp then Earl of Warwick all her Right in the Mannor of Tanworth in Com. Warr. which she held in Dower And departing this life very aged viz in An. 1300. 28 Edw. 1. was buried before the High Altar in the Abby-Church of Oseney at the head of the Tomb of Henry de Oilly under a flat Marble in the habit of a Vowess graven on a Copper Plate This Thomas dying thus without issue the Inheritance of this great Earldom came to Margery his Sister who first became the Wife of Iohn Mareschal Brother to William Mareschal Earl of â—embroke as some say and afterwards of Iohn de Plessets of whom in due place I shall speak farther Earls of Warren and Surrey THough it doth not directly appear that this Earldom of Surrey was conferred upon William de Warren until the time of King William Rufus yet in regard it is manifest that he was Earl of Warren in Normandy in the Conquerors days I shall take the boldness to rank him amongst the Earls of His Reign and so begin my Discourse of these Titles with him This William standing nearly Allied to Duke William of Normandy viz. Nephew to the Countess Gunnora his Great Grand-mother accompanied him amongst many other gallant Men of that age Normans French Britons Anjovins and Flemmings in that his Signal Expedition for England in An. 1066. and fought courageously on his behalf in that notable Battle against King Harold wherein the Duke became Victor and thenceforth King For which he had diâ—ers Lordships and Lands in Norfolk and other parts of this Realm conferred upon him and amongst them Carletune and Benington in Com. Linc. After this viz. in An. 1067. when Odo Bishop of Bayeux and William Fitz-Osborne had the whole Government of the Realm the King then going into Normandy committed to their charge he with Hugh de Grentmesnil and some other active Soldiers was sent to accompany them and yield his assistance Nay he was in such great esteem with that King that he constituted him together with Richard de Benefactis an eminent Baron of that time his Substitutes for the universal Administration of Justice throughout the whole Realm Whereupon
Hostages for their future peaceable demeanor But this fair shew of Peace proved no other than a deceitful contrivance to entrap the English For the Scots hereupon gathering their whole strength together about Scrieuin thereupon enticed our Earl to march thither who inadvertently adventuring the most of his Forces over the Bridge saw them utterly routed and destroyed before he could get to their relief Which caused so great a consternation upon himself and the remainder of his Men that they fled immediately to Barwick and thence into England Notwithstanding which loss he was again constituted General for an other expedition into Scotland and thereupon with divers other of the English Nobility advanced thither But tidings being brought of a Peace which was concluded by King Edward then in Flanders and the Scots no farther acts of hostility were then done on either part And in 28 Edw. 1. was made Governor of the Castle of Hope in Com. Derb. In An. 29 Edw. 1. he was sent with Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and others to treat with Agents from the King of France upon Articles of Peace betwixt King Edward and the Scots And in 32 Edw. 1. again imployed into Scotland on the Kings service But before the end of that year he died at â—enington near London upon the fifth Calends of October having continued Earl of Surrey no less then Fifty four years and was buried in the midst of the Pavement in the Quire of the Abbey of Lewes before the High Altar with this Epitaph upon his Tomb-stone Vous qe passer ov bouche close Prier pur cely ke cy repose En vie come vous esti jadis fu Et vous tiel ferretz come je su Sire Iohan Count de Garenne gist ycy Dieu de sa alme eit mercy Ky pur sa alme prierra Troiz mill jours de pardon avera Certain it is that he was a person in high esteem with the King as may seem by that special Precept directed to the then Bishop Elect of London whereby signifying how pious and before Almighty God a meritorious work it was to pray continually for the dead that so they might be the more easily delivered from the burthen of their sins and that this our Earl who had been a most faithful and useful Subject and Servant to him and the whole Realm was then departed this life to his very great sorrow he required him that he should cause his Sonl to be commended to the Mercy of God by all Religious and Ecclesiastick Persons throughout his whole Diocess of London The like Precept was directed by the King unto the Archbishop of Canterbury for his whole Province as also to the Abbots of S. Augustines in Canterbury Westminster Waltham S. Albans S. Edmunds-Bury and Evesham Moreover for Indulgencies to such who should pray for his Soul I farther find that Robert then Archbishop of Canterbury granted forty days Gilbert Bishop of Chichester forty days Thomas Bishop of Rochester thirty days the Bishop of Durham forty days the Bishop of â—arleol forty days the Bishop of Lincoln forty days the Bishop of Coventry and Liechfield forty days and Iohn Bishop of Chichester forty days His Wife viz. Alice already mentioned Sister by the Mothers side to King Henry the Third departed this life the fifth Ides of February An. 1290. 19 Edw. 1. and was buried under a Marble-stone before the High Altar in the Abbey Church of Lewes whereon the Figure of a Dragon with a Branch in his Mouth was graven By her he had issue William who wedded Ioan Daughter of Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford and had with her the Mannors of Medmenham in Com. Buck. Crawmersh in Com. Oxon. and Beston in Norfolk in Frank-marriage as also the Mannors of Prittlewell Tiburne Wulfhamstone Nechamsted and Ginges and Lands of Ten pounds per annum in Cestreham He had also issue by her the said Alice two Daughters viz. Alianor and Isabel which Alianor was first married to Henry Lord Percy and afterwards to the Son of a Scotish Earl and Isabel to Iohn Baillol afterwards King of Scotland This William died in the life time of the Earl his Father upon the eighteenth Kalends of Ianuary in An. 1286. 14 Edw. 1. leaving Ioan his Lady great with Child with Iohn his Son and Heir afterwards born upon the second Kalends of Iuly the same year and was buried before the High Altar in the Abbey of Lewes Which Ioan departed this life upon the eleventh Kalends of December in An. 1293. 21 Edw. 1. and lieth buried with her Husband before the High Altar at Lewes under a high Tomb. ¶ I come now to Iohn Son to the said William but born after his death as hath been said who next succeeded in these Earldoms of Warâ—en and Surrey as Heir to Iohn his Grand-father This Iohn having an offer made unto him by the King in his Chamber at Westminster in Parliament upon Munday next before the Feast of S. Edward King and Martyr 33 Edw. 1. Of Ioan Daughter to Henry Earl of Baar gratefully accepted thereof he being not then fully twenty one years of age and took her to Wife That which I find next memorable of him is That at that great solemnity of making Prince Edward Knight at the Feast of Pentecost An. 34 Edw. 1. he then received the like honor the whole number then Knighted being no less then Two hundred threescore and seven In the next year following the last of that Victorious Kings Reign he was with him in that his Scotch expedition wherein he died And in 2 Edw. 2. was at that great Tourneament at Wallingford unto which Piers Gavaston brought such a multitude of strangers to the great affront and abuse of the English Nobility In 4 Edw. 2. he went again into Scotland being in such favor with the King that he obtained a free Grant the same year of the Castle and Honor of Peke in Derbishire together with the whole Forest of High Peke to hold during his life in as full and ample manner as William Peverel antiently enjoyed the same before it came to the Kings of England by Escheat In 5 Edw. 2. upon that high discontent by the Nobles of this Realm against the new raised Minion Piers Gavaston this Earl with the Earl of Pembroke besieged Peirs in Scardeburgh Castle and forced him to render himself In 6 Edw. 2. he obtained the Kings Charter for a weekly Market every Tuesday at his Mannor of â—igaâ—e in Surrey Also for another Market at his Mannor of Cukefeld in Surrey upon the Monday and a Fair there yearly upon the Eve day and morrow after the Feast of the Holy Trinity Likewise for a Market every Tuesday at â—ychening in Sussex and a Fair
Abbot of S. Albans permission in regard he was of that Fraternity as his Father had been And after this he gave to that Church of our Lady the Land which Waleran his Purveyor held in Hungreton and the Tithe of the Rents of all his Lands in what sort soever payable to himself or his heirs for the time to come That he had the addition of Brito wheresoever mention is made of him is very apparent by sundry authentique Testimonies the reason thereof being because there was at that time another great Baron of this Realm who was called William de Albini also with the addition of Pincerna in respect of that great office of Butler to the Kings of this Realm at their Coronation which he bore as I shall elswhere shew This William de Albini Brito is he who behaved himselfe with such valor in the Battle of Tenerchebray in Normandy on the behalf of King Henry the first against Robert Curthose of which Batle I have spoke largely in my discourse of Robert de Belesme Earle of Atundel and Shrewsbury For commanding the Horse of Britanny in that sharp encounter he charged the Enemy with such courage as put them to an utter rout for which service he hath this glorious memorial by an eminent Historian In hoc opere potissime potentissimus laudandus fuit Willihelmus de Albineio Brito qui gladio discurrens inter acies extracto Belli negotium consummavit In this encounter chiefly deserveth Honour the most valiant William de Albini the Britain who with his Sword broke through the Army and put an end to the Fight Moreover he was a person learned in the Laws as it seems for it appears that he was a Justice Itinerant with Richard Basset in King Stephens time but adhering to Maude the Empresse sole Daughter to King Henry the first this his Castle of Belvoir with his whole Barony and all his other Lands were disposed of by that King to Ranulph Earl of Chester He took to Wife Maude de S. Liz daughter of Simon de S. Liz the first Earl of Huntendon of that name and Widow of Robert Son to Richard de Tunebrigg Ancestor to the whole Family of Fitz-Walter which Maude gave the third part of her Mannor of Cratesfeâ—d of her Frank-Marriage to the Monks of St. Neots in Huntendonshire in consideration whereof they received into that their Monastry two Secular Priests to be shorn Monks and to be perpetually maintained therewith to celebrate Divine Service there for the health of her Soul and the Soul of her Father whose Body lay interred in that place as also for the Souls of her ancestors and successors Moreover she gave to the Monks of Daventre for the health of the Souls of her Father and Mother and for the Soul of Robert Fitz-Richard her husband and the Souls of all her Children three Mills and one Yard Land in Daventre as also eight Acres of her own Demesn there to buy Frocks and Cowles for those Monks This William de Albini dying not long after the beginning of King Henry the seconds Reign as I guess lyeth buryed on the North side of the Chapter-house at Belvoir near to Robert de Todenei the founder of that Priory leaving issue William and Raphe Which William being called William de Albini the second alias Meschines as also Brito in the twelfth year of King Henry the second certified to the King what Knights Fees he then held of him viz. Thirty two de Veteri Feoffamento id est whereof he was enfeoffed in the time of King Henry the first and six Knights fees and an half de Novo Feoffamento that is to say whereof he was enfeoffed since the beginning of King Henry the seconds Reign whereof Raphe his Brother held of him fifteen Robert Poher five and an half Simon de Roppsleai three Simon de Bosco-Rahard id est Borhard three Raphe Cheinduit one William de Vans one Raphe de Hotot half one Raphe de Brandon one Aelard de Saincler two Raphe de Chaworth one Iwanus de Albenni one Geffrey de Chavenney one Robert Briton one Raphe Briton one Elias de Albenni one and Hugh de St Vedast half one This William the second gave to the Monks of Thorney in Cambridgshire his Land at Pipewell with a Carucate of Land in Stoke Likewise to the Priory of Belvoir an House and Land which pertained to his Chappel And confirmed to the Monks of St. Neots in Huntendonshire the Church of Cratfield with certain Glebe thereto belonging which had been given to them by Maude de S. Liz his Mother He had two Wives Adelize and Cicilie and departing this Life in the fourteenth year of King Henry the second was buried in the old Church of the Priory of Belvoir before the Cross both his Wives being interred not farr from him leaving issue William de Albini the third in ward to the King in 14 H. 2. as appeareth by the Accompt of William Basset at that time Sheriff of Roteland who then answering for the issues of this his Barony had allowance for his maintenance His mother Maude de S. Liz long survived him as it seems for in 32 Hen. 2. she was living and sixty years of age This William de Albini the third was with King Richard the first in his Army in Normandy in the sixth year of his Reign And in 7 Ric. 1. had the Sheriffalty of the Counties of Warwick and Leicester for the last half of that year So also of Roteland in 8 9 10 Ric. 1. and again of Warwick and Leicester for the last half of the ninth year In 10 R. 1. he was likewise Sheriff for Buck. and Bedfordsh in which year he accounted to the King six hundred Marks for Agatha Trusbut with her inheritance whom he afterwards took to Wife So also in 1 Ioh. In 2 Ioh. he had a Special License to make a Park at Stoke in Com. Northampton and liberty to hunt the Fox and Hare it lying within the precinct of the Kings Forest of Rokingham In 3 Ioh. upon that discontent of the Barons by reason the King would not restore them their rights which caused their refusal to attend him into Normandy he thereupon requiring the delivery of their Castles into his hands began first with this William and demanded e Belvoir who submitting gave up his Son in Hostage and so retained it still In 4 Ioh. the King by his Charter dated at Alencon in Normandy 15 Ian. gave him the Lordship of Oskynton now called Ouston in Com. Notingham and an hundred shillings of Socage Land lying in Wilberston and Stoke in the County of Northampton In 16 Ioh. he was joyned in Commission with the Archbishop of Canterbury William Earl Warren and others for the safe conducting all those persons who came to
Grand-fathers Foundation leaving issue by Agnes his Wife Daughter of ... Earl of Arundel two Sons Nigel and Roger. ¶ Which Nigel in 8 Hen. 3. paying Five hundred pounds for his Releif had Livery of all his Lands and the same year accounted One hundred seventy six marks and an half for Fourscore and eight Fees and a fourth part upon Collection of the Scutage of Montgomery This Nigel de Moubray Wedded Maud the Daughter and Heir to Roger de Camvil but had no issue by her and departing this life at Nantz in Britanny in the Thirteenth year of King Henry the Third was there buried After which in 14 H. 3. Ralph Fitz-Nicholas the Kings Steward gave to the King Five hundred pounds that he might have the marriage of the same Maud for one of his Sons And in 17 Hen. 3. Hugh de Patshul her Uncle paid Three hundred marks fine to Hubert de Burgh to have the custody of the Lands of the same Nigel as also that she might marry to whom she should please and have her Dowry in the Mannors of Hovingham and Burton in Yorkshire as also in the Lordship of Rivers in Kent And in 18 Hen. 3. Iohn Earl of Lincoln and Constable of Chester having for the Fine of a thousand marks gained the custody of the Lands of this Nigel with the Wardship and Marriage of Roger his Brother and Heir which sum he was to pay into the Kings Exchequer by Five hundred marks per annum obtained favor to pay the same by Three hundred marks per annum And in 22 Hen. 3. affigned this his Wardship to Thomas de Furnival a great Baron who had a purpose to marry him unto his eldest Daughter But that marriage did not take effect as it seems for certain it is That this Roger took to Wife Maud the Daughter of William de Beauchamp of Bedford and being of full age in 25 Hen. 3. doing his homage had Livery of his Lands In 29 H. 3. this Roger de Moubray paid Eighty eight pounds five shillings for those Eighty eight Knights Fees and a fourth part which he held of the King upon Collection of the Aid for marrying of the Kings eldest Daughter And in 38 Hen. 3. the like sum upon making the Kings eldest Son Knight In 42 Hen. 3. when the Scots most disloyally held their King in restraint whom King Henry whose Daughter he had married took into Protection this Roger received command amongst other of the Northern Barons to prepare himself with Horse and Arms and to march into Scotland with such Forces as King Henry should send thither for rescue of that King out of the hands of those Rebels The same year he had likewise Summons to attend the King at Chester sufficiently accoutred with Horse and Arms to restrain the insolencies of the Welsh then in Arms under Lemelin ap Griffin Prince of Wales who had committed divers outrages in the Marches In 44 Hen. 3. he had the like Summons to be at Shrewsâ—ury on the day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin to march against the same Lewelin and his adherents And the next year following to be in like sort armed at London on the morrow after Simon and Iudes day So also in 47 Hen. 3. at Worcester on the Feast day of S. Peter ad Vincnla thence to attend the King in Person upon his expedition into Wales But not long after scil in 51 Hen. 3. He departed this life in the Isle of Axhoâ—me and was buried in the Friers Preachers at Poutfract in which year the King rendred to Maud his Widow the eldest of the Coheirs of Ioan de Beauchamp deceased the Castle of Bedford and confirmed the Grant which Richard King of the Romans the Kings Brother had made to the same Maud of the custody of Roger her Son and Heir then in minority Which Maud soon after became the Wife of Roger le Strange Besides this Roger de Moubray he had divers other Children viz. Robert Andrew Iohn Edmund and William all which died without issue and three Daughters whose names I find not I now come to Roger de Moubray Son and Heir to the before specified Roger and Maud. This Roger in 6 Edw. 2. making proof of his age and doing his homage had Livery of his whole Inheritance And in 10 Edw. 1. Entailed all his Lordships of Chresk Kirby-Maleiart Burton in Lonesdale Hovingham Melton-Moubray Eppeworth and the whole Isle of Arholme upon the Heirs of his own Body lawfully begotten and for default of such issue upon Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and his Heirs In the same year being in the Wars of Wales he had Scutage of all his Tenants In 13 Edw. 1. he levied a Fine of the Mannor of Balshal in Com. War upon a Warranty of his Ancestors Charter whereby that Lordship was first given to the Knights Templars For which respect he was made partaker of all their Prayers and other their devout exercises In 15 Edw. 1. he was in another Welsh expedision In 22 Edw. 1. 8 Iunii he had Summons amongst others to attend the King with all speed wheresoever he should be to give his advice concerning the great Affairs of the Realm and the same year received command to repair to him at Portsmouth well provided of Horse and Arms and thence to attend him into Gâ—â—coigne for defence of that Province against the French He had also Summons to the several Parliaments of 23 24 2 Edw. 1. And in the same twenty fifth year being in that expedition which the King made into Flanders was in the company of the then Bishop of Durham where he departed this life in Gant the next year following whereupon his Body was brought over into England and buried in the Abbey of Fountains By Râ—se his Wife Sister to Gilbert Earl of Clare he left issue Iohn de Moubray his Son and Heir born 2 Novemb. 14 Edw. 1. whose Wardship and Marriage was given by the King to William de Brewes of Gowher to the end he might marry Aliva Daughter of that William Which marriage was consummated accordingly she afterwards becoming one of the Coheirs to the same William ¶ Which Iohn in 34 Edw. 1. had Livery of all her Lands though he was not of full age in regard he then attended the King into Scotland well accoutred with Horse and Arms that being the time when Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke so successfully advanced against Robert de Brus Crowned King of Scotland and the same year received the Order of Knighthood with Prince Edward and many other in great solemnity In 35 Edw. 1. he still continued in Scotland And in 4 Edw. 2. received command to attend the King at 〈◊〉
Service to be performed in the Chappel at Cainho three days in the week for which munificence both he himself Nigel his Brother and Cicily their Mother were received into their Fraternity as Monks of that Priory Moreover in 22 Hen. 2. he paid an amercement of One hundred marks for trespassing in the Kings Forest. And in 2 Rich. 1. he accounted Twelve pound ten shillings for the Scutage of Wales but died in 4 Rich. 1. as it seems or somewhat before For in that year Robert his Son and Heir paid to the King Ninety six pound thirteen shillings four pence for his releif In 6 Rich. 1. this Robert the Second was with the King in his expedition into Normandy And in 13 Ioh. was acquitted of payment for Twenty five Knights Fees upon levying the Scutage of Scotland In 16. Ioh. he answered Fifty pounds for Twenty five Knights Fees upon collecting the Scutage of Poâ—ctou But in 9 Hen. 3. he died Robert his Son being then in minority and thereupon in Ward to William de Beauchamp Baron of Bedford Which Robert the Son lived but a short time as it seems For in 18 Hen. 3. William de Hocton who had then married Isabel one of the Daughters of the second Robeâ—â— Sister of this last Robert accounted for Eight Knights Fees and a third part and a third of a fourth part which were of her Inheritance the other two Daughers being thus married viz. Iâ—an to Ceffrey de Beauchamp and Asselina to Ralph de S. Amand which Ralph de S. Amand in 21 H. 3. paid Fifty marks for the Releif of the third part of that Barony of Cainho which he had in marriage with Asseline his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of the same Robert the Wardship and Marriage of which Asseline was granted unto Almaric de S. Amand Father of the said Ralph to the end that his Son should take her to Wife Of Ioan I farther find That in 26 Hen. 3. she had a Charter for a Market to be held at Amâ—thil in Bedfordshire every week upon the Thursday and a Fair yearly upon the Eve Day and Morrow of S. Mary Magdalen But this Ioan dying without issue as it seems her third part of that Barony came to be divided betwixt the two other Sisters as is evident by the Releif for the same paid by them in 25 Hen. 3. Ralph de S. Amand then accounting Twenty five pounds and Isabel the Widow of William de Houton or Hocton Twenty five marks which Isabel in 28 Hen 3. gave the King a Fine of Threescore marks for liberty to marry again whom she thought fit and accordingly had Drogo de Pratellis afterwards for her second Husband Bigod THe first of this great Family that setled here in England was Roger Bigod who in the Conquerors time did posses six Lordships in Essex and an Hundred and seventeen in Suffolk This Roger in the first of William Rufus adhering to those great Men who put themselves in arms against the King of whom I have in my Discourse of Odo Earl of Kent already spoke fortified the Castle of Norwich on the behalf of Robert Curthose and wasted the Countrey thereabouts During that Kings Reign I have not observed any thing farther memorable of him but in the first of Henry the First being one of those who stood firm to that King he was a witness to his Laws and had Framingham in Suffolk of his gift Moreover by the advice of the same King Maud his Queen Herbert then Bishop of Norwich and the Lady Adeliza his own Wife he Founded the Abbey of Thetford in Norfolk in An. 1103. 3 Hen. 1. He gave also to the Monks at Rochester his Church of S. Felix at Waletune and departing this life in An. 1107. 7 Hen. 1. was buried in his Abbey of Thetford with this Epitaph on his Tomb. Clauderis exiguo Rogere Bigote Supulchro Et rerum cedit portio parva tibi Divitiae sanguis facundia gratia Regum Intereunt mortem fallere nemo potest Divitiae mentes subvertunt erigat ergo Te piâ—â—â— virtus consiliumque Dei To whom succeeded William his Son and Heir which William being Steward of the Houshold to King Henry the First in the Twentieth of that Kings Reign perished in that lamentable shipwrack with the Kings Children and divers other of the Nobility passing out of Normandy into England To this William succeeded Hugh Bigod his Brother and Heir who was also Steward of the Houshold to King Henry the First But after the death of that King which hapned to be in Normandy he became the principal instrument for advancing Stephen Earl of Boloigne to the Crown of England for being Steward of the Houshold to King Henry an Office which gave him great repute he hasted into England and in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury averred upon his Oath that King Henry on his death Bed upon some dislike towards his Daughter Maud the Empress did disherite her and appoint Stephen Earl of Boloigne to be his Heir whereupon the Archbishop being over-credulous solemnly anointed him King For which great service as some say it was that King Stephen soon after advanced him to the Earldom of the East-Angles commonly called Norfolk for by that title viz. Comes East-Anglorum he is stiled in An. 1140. 6 Steph. But before the end of that first year of His Reign it so hapned that King Stephen fell into a Lethargy which occasioning a report that he was dead this Hugh went thereupon to his Castle at Norwich and refused to render it to any but the King himself In 10. Steph. this Earl Hugh was one of the Witnesses to King Stephens Laws In 18 Steph. he held the Castle of Ipswich against Henry Duke of Normandy but being not timely relieved rendered it unto him And afterwards upon that great defection of Geffrey Magnavil in the same Kings time was of his party In 2 Hen. 2. this Hugh for what respect I find not gave up his Castles to the King And in 12 Hen. 2. upon Assesment of the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified his Knights Fees De Veteri Feoffamento to be in number One hundred twenty five and those De Novo Feoffamento Thirty five How soon after it was I cannot say in regard the date of his Creation is deficient but evident it is that K. Henry the Second advanced him a new to the dignity and title of Earl of Norfolk as by his Charter bearing date at Northampton appeareth By which Charter also he had a grant of the Office of Steward to hold and enjoy in as ample manner as Roger Bigod his Father held the same in the time of King Henry the
in Tiltings and other Pastimes Which as it was then said the King did not duly recompence But hereupon he waxed proud beyond measure insomuch as his own Son Geffrey called him the King of Folly He also kept the Round Table of Knights in Wales for a pride in imitation of King Arthur Other particulars of his haughtiness and insolence were these viz. that with Queen Isabel he caused a Parliament to be held at Northampton where an unworthy Agreement was made with the Scots and 〈◊〉 Roll of Homage of Scotland was traiterously delivered as also the Black Cross which King Edward the first brought into England out of the Abby of Sâ—one and then accounted a precious Relique That with the Queen he caused the young King to ride twenty four miles in one night towards Bedford to destroy the Earl of Lancaster and his adherents saying that they imagined the Kings death That he followed Queen Isabel to Nottingham and lodged in one house with her â— That he commanded the Treasure of the Realm and assumed the authority which by common consent in Parliament was conferred on Henry Earl of Lancaster at the Kings Coronation And that he was one of those who practised against the Kings Councel for saying that Edward of Caernarvon was murthered by his means At which his demeanor finding that Edward Earl of Kent the Kings Uncle was much offended he informed the King that his Uncle had a designe to poyson him to the end he might be King himself as next heir to the Crown Iohn of Eltham Earl of Cornwall being newly dead and likewise that he had designed the escape of King Edward the second out of Prison for which soon after he lost his life The truth is this Mortimer bore such sway that he got what he had a mind to it is evident by these followinging grants which he obtained for himself from the young King viz. the Castle and Mannor of Hanley with the Chaces of Malverne and Cors in the Counties of Worcester and Gloucester Likewise the town of Wiche in Com. Wigorn. Also the Castle of Clifford and Mannor of Glasebury part of the Possessions of Hugh le Despenser the younger then attainted And to himself and Ioane his Wife in Fee divers ample Liberties and Jurisdictions to be excercised at his Castle of Trim in Ireland besides the inheritance of all the Territory of Danahmaine in Ireland with very large priviledges thereto Moreover to Geffrey his Son he procured a Grant of the Castle of Donnyngton in Com. Leicest as also the Mannors of Lechelade and Sodington in Comit. Gloucest the mannor of Wokking in Com. Surr. Byeby and Castre in Com. Linc. Ashburne in the Peke in Com. Derb. Ryhale in Com. Roteland and Kyneley in Com. Wilts late Edmund Earl of Kent 's attainted As also the Wapentake of Rysley in Com. Derb. the Wapentakes of Plumtre and Alreton in Com. Norff. the Mannor of Reseby in Com. Leic. and Mannor of Alreton with certain Lands in Drayton in Com. North. likewise parcel of the Lands of the said Edmund the remainder for want of issue of him the said Geffrey to him the said Roger and his heirs But not long after this growing odious to the people by these his Insolencies and evil actings the King was made sensible of the impending mischeif and therefore by the advice of his councel at Nottingham in the Quind of St. Michael taking into consideration his own dishonor and damage as also the impoverishment of his people and revealing his mind privately to Sir William de Montacute gave him immediate command to take the assistance of some trusty persons which he accordingly did viz. Sir Humphrey de Bohun and Sir William his Brother Sir Ralph de Stafford Sir William de Clinton Sir Iohn de Nevile of Hornby Sir William Eland and some others and upon Friday the morrow after the Feast of S. Luke in the dead time of the night getting into the Castle by a way under Ground which through the Rock passeth with Stairs up to the Keepe and still by reason of this his surprize called Mortimers hole entred a room next to the Queens Lodging where finding him with Henry Bishop of Lincoln and some others who made resistance he slew two of them viz. Sir Hugh de Turpliton Knight then Steward of the Kings House and Iohn de Munmouth for which he afterwards had pardon m and took him thence cheifly by Sir William Elands help And having him thus in his Custody on the morrow after seized upon the rest of his adherents and followers who lay in the Town amongst which were two of his Sons viz. Sir Geffrey and Sir Edmund both Knights who were all sent to London with guards there to be secured till the Parliament which was to begin upon the twenty seventh of November next ensuing Whereupon precepts bearing date 23 Octob. were directed to several persons for the seizing of his Castles Mannors and Lands in Wales he being then under Arrest for several mesdemeanors tending to the dammage of the K. and Kingdom as the words therein did import And within three dayes following Commission was granted to Iohn de Kingston and others to take an inventory of all his Treasure and Jewells in Wales and the Marches but not to carry away any thing out of the Wardrobe of Ioane his Wife then at Ludlow or that belonged to any of her Children or Servants Upon the meeting of which Parliament divers Articles were exhibited against him the Chief whereof were in effect as followeth viz. 1. That he was consenting to the murther of King Edward the second in Berkley Castle 2. That he was an impediment to the Kings Honor at Stanhope Park in restraining the English to fall upon the Scots 3. That he had received twenty thousand pounds of the Scots to give them leave to escape and that he caused a dishonorable peace to be afterwards made with them as also that unworthy contract of Marriage betwixt the Kings Sister and David the Son of Robert de Brus. 4. That he had basely consumed the Kings treasure and that of Hugh Despencer after the Queens returne so that the King was in a wanting condition 5. That he had got the richest Wardships of England into his hand And 6. That he was an evil Councellor to the King and the Queen-mother and too familiar with her Whereupon the King commanding the Earls and Barons that just judgement should be done therein they found him guilty of all especially that touching the murther of King Edward the second and gave sentence that he should be drawn and hanged Which being accordingly executed at the common Gallows called the Elmes near Smithfield upon the Eve of S. Andrew his Body was permitted to hang
Servants and constituting Isabel de Harley Ralph Tangeley and Iohn Fulvesâ—e her Executors desired her Husband to be assistant to them in the performance thereof This Noble Earl had Divers Children of whom I will only make a brief mention Guy his eldest Son who received the honor of Knighthood in 29 Edw. 3. with a Grant from the King of â—n hundred pounds per annum out of his Exchequer till his Fathers inheritance should descend to him or that he could otherwise provide for his suport married Philippa Daughter to Henry Lord Ferrers of Grobâ— and had Issue by her three Daughters Katherine Elizabeth and Margaret whereof the two later were Nunns at Shouldham in Com. Norf. This Guy was a stout Souldier and upon his going into France in 33 E. 3. to attend the King in an Expedition then made into those parts declared his Testament at Canterbury upon the 26 of September and thereby bequeathed his body to be buried where his Parents should think fit To the Earl his Father he gave his best Gold Ring to the Countess his Mother his next To Philippa his Wife the third To Katherine his Daughter then a Nun at Shouldham in Norfolk the fourth And appointed that the Church of â—ekâ—ton in Norfolk of his Patronage should be appropriated to the Monastry of Shouldham before mentioned for the maintenance of Katherine and Margaret his two Daughters during their lives and Afterwards that House of Shouldham obliged to find a Priest to celebrate Divine Service daily for the Souls of his Father and Mother his own and his Wives Soul as also for the Souls of the said Katherine and Margaret and all the Faithful departed After which in April following his Father still living he died at Uendosme in France and was there buried in a Chapel behind the high Altar towards the East having a fair Monument of Alablaster with his Portraiture thereon neatly cut and over his Harneise a Surcote of his Armes upon the verge of which Monument is this Inscription Icy gist Monseigneur Guy de Beauchamp l'eyne Filz de tresnoble puissant home Monsieur Thomas de Beauchampe Counte de Warwike Mareschal d' Angleterre qui trespassa le XXVIII jour d'Averill l'an MCCCLI Upon which Monument are the Arms of Beauchamp and Mortimer This Guy was found to dye seised joyntly with the Lady Philippa his Wife by virtue of his Fathers Feoffement of the Mannor of Saham with the Hundreds of Wayland and Grimesho as also the Mannors of Neketon Cressingham parva Fransham parva and West-Wrotham with the Advowson of the Priories of West-Acre and Shouldham in Com. Norff. leaving Katherine and Elizabeth his Daughters and Heirs viz. Katherine then aged seven years and Elizabeth one year and upwards Of these what became of Elizabeth I know not but that she was living ten years after her Fathers death appeareth by the Testament of Katherine Countess of Warwick her Grandmother as I have already shewed As for Philippa the Widow of this Guy being a devout Woman she resolved to continue a Widow during her life and to that end upon the 11 of August Anno Dom. 1360. made her solemn vow of Chastity in the Collegiate Church at Warwick in the presence of Reginald Bryan then Bishop of Worcester which vow with the ceremony thereof I have here thought fit to insert 11. die mensis Augusti An. Dom. 1360. apud Warwick dictus Venerabilis Pater altam Missam in Pontificalibus in Ecclesiâ Collegiatâ beatae Mariae Warwici antedictâ celebrans votum castitatis Philippae nuper uxoris Domini Guidonis de Warwic admisit acceptavit dicta Philippa votum castitatis emisit sub hiis Verbis En le nom de le Seint Trinitie Piere Fil Seini Espirit jeo Philippe que fu la feme Sire Guy de Warwyst face purement des queor voluntee entierement avow a Dieu seint Eglise a la benure Virgin Marie a tout le hele ompaigne celestine a vous reverent Piere en Dieu Sire Reynaud per le Grace de Dieu Evesque de Wircestre quâ— jeo ameneray ma vie en chastitee desore en avant chaste serra de mon corps a tout temps de ma vie The rest of the Sons of Earl Thomas were these viz. Thomas who succeeded him Reynburne so named in memory of Reynburne Son to the famous Guy of Warwick in the Saxons time who died before the 35 of Edw. 3. leaving issue one only Daughter called Alianore married to Iohn Knight of Hanslape in Comitat. Buck. which Iohn had a Daughter by her called Emme Wife to ... Forster from whom the Forsters of Hauslâ—pe derive their descent William the fourth Son was Lord â—ergavenny of whom I shall say more anon and Roger the fifth son died without issue as I think Some are of opinion that he had two more Sons viz. Iohn and Hierome in regard that amongst those Portraitures which were in Glass in the North Cross of the Collegiate-Church at Warwick there are the pictures of two such as appeareth by their surcotes of Armes and those names on the side of them Which I cannot gainsay but am not convinced thereof in regard that neither Iohn Rous makes mention of them nor any of those entails whereby that Earl setled the greatest part of his Lands upon his issue Male. But he had nine Daughters whose portraitures are curiously drawn and placed in the Windows on the South side of the Quire of the Colegiate Church in Warwick before mentioned and in the habit of that time Seven of them were married and have their paternal Armes upon their inner Garments and on their outer mantle their Husbands Armes viz. Maud the Wife of Roger Lord Clifford Philippa of Hugh Earl Stafford Elizabeth Alice potius to Iohn Lord Beauchamp of Hacche in Somersetshire Ioane of Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton Isabel of Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere afterwards of William Vfford Earl of Suffolk for which respect her Picture is twice drawn there Margaret of Guy de Montfort afterwards a Nunn at Shouldham Agnes of ... Cokesey and afterwards of ... Bardolf The other two were Iulian and Katherine the former whereof died unmarried and the later being a Nun at Wroxhall in Comit. Warr. was buried in St. Thomas Chapel there He had likewise another Son and Daughter both illegitimate the Son called Sir Iohn Addurston Knight and Mary the Daughter Wife to Sir Richard Herthull Knight ¶ I now come to Thomas who succeeded Thomas his Father in this Earldom Guy the eldest dying before as hath been observed This Thomas received the dignity of Knighthood in 29 Edw. 3. with his Brother Guy and having had an hundred marks per annum granted to him at that time by the King
title of Earl of that place Whereupon the King and Hugh the younger betimes in the morning entred into a little Vessel behind the Castle with purpose to get to the Isle of Lundy a place invincible or else into Ireland But after they had been eleven days at Sea and perpetually driven back with contrary winds at length being necessitated to land they came on shore at Glamorgan and thence repaired to the Abby of Nethe where trusting to the promises of the Welsh they expected security But fear possessing his spirits this Hugh privately went to the Castle of Kaerfilli which he stoutly defended against the Queens Soldiers till Easter and then upon terms of capitulation for his safety as to life and limbs rendred it unto them and got again to the King After which it was not long ere they were both of them discovered and taken viz. 16 Cal. Decemb. being the day of S. Edmund the Archbishop near the Castle of Lantrussan whence being brought to Hereford by Sir Henry Beaumont Son to the Lord Beaumont and delivered to the Queen and her Son as prisoners the King was sent to Berkley Castle It is said by some that this Hugh in his passage to Hereford was bound on an Horse with a Tabard over him such as Traytors and Theeves use to wear and in that manner carried in scorn after the Queens Troops through all the Towns with Trumps and Canairs till they came thither where the Queen then kept the Feast of All Saints with much Royalty great multitudes of people flocking to see him and making such a horrid noise by shouting and opprobrious exclamations that the like was never heard Others say that the more to disgrace him they put on his Surcoat of Arms reversed and a Crown of Nettles on his head and that upon his Vestment â—ix Verses of that Psalm beginning thus Quid gloriaris in malitiâ was written and that being brought before William Trussel Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament he was charged upon his arraignment that in the Parliament held at Westminster in the fifteenth year of that King his Father and he being adjudged Traytors and Enemies to the Realm were banished and nevertheless that he returned into the Realm and plundred two Dromonds to the value of forty thousand pounds Moreover that he had stirred up the King to raise Arms against the Nobles of the Realm and by the aid of Andrew Harkley and other Traytors had caused the good Earl of Hereford to be murthered as also Thomas Earl of Lancaster Kinsman to the King to be condemned and murthered at Pontfract Castle and divers of the Nobles and others to be put to shameful deaths viz. Sir Warine de l'Isle Sir William Touchet c. It is farther said of him That favoring the King of Scots he was the occasion that the English were defeated at Strivelin likewise that he had set difference betwixt the King and Queen whereupon she fled into France to the King her Brother Also that by bribes and gifts he caused her to be sent out of France into England causing the Pope to send Letters to the King of France to command her to quit the Realm and that thereupon she went to William Earl of Henault c. Moreover that to this charge he could give no answer Whereupon he had Judgment given against him first to be drawn on an Hurdle with Trumps and Trumpets throughout all the City of Hereford and then to be brought into the Market-place where all the people were assembled there to be tied on an high Ladder that every man might see him and in the same place a great fire to be made and there his Privy-members to be cut from him because they reputed him as an Heretick and so to be burnt before his face then his heart to be taken out of his body and cast into the fire because he was a false Traytor of Heart and that by his Trayterous Council and Extortion the King had dishonored His Realm and brought it to great mischeif for he had caused to be beheaded the greatest Lords of his Realm and so induced the King that he would not see the Queen his Wife nor Edward his eldest Son and caused them to quit the Realm for fear of their lives and then his head to be stricken off and sent to London According to which Sentence he was executed on a Gallows fifty foot high on S. Andrews Eve An. 1326. 20 Edw. 2. And being then quartered his Limbs were sent to four several places and his Head to London-Bridge being drawn in a Chariot with his Arms thereon and that expression of the Psalmist before recited written thereon viz. Quid gloriaris in malitia c. unto that Verse Ego sum Oliva Upon whose Execution this Distich was then made Funis cum lignis à te miser Ensis ignis Hugo securis Equus abstulit omne decus The Rope because he was drawn with it the Wood because he was hanged thereon the Sword because he was beheaded therewith the Fire because his Bowels were burnt the Ax because he was quartered therewith and the Horse because he drew him It is said that one of his Quarters was buried near the High Altar by the Lavatory at Tewksbury and that long after the rest of his Limbs were brought thither and buried in that Abby This Hugh the younger had two Sisters viz. Ioane and Eleanor who were Nuns at Semplingham in Lincolnshire and had twenty pounds per annum allowed them towards their maintenance by King Edward the Third out of the Revenues of the County of Lincoln Touching Eleanor his Wife I find that she was kept prisoner with her children and family in the Tower of London until 5 Febr. 2 Edw. 3. Moreover that she afterwards married to William la Zouch of Mortimer and that she departed this life 2 Calend. Iulii An. 1337. 11 Edw. 3. then seised of the Castle of Langley in Worcestershire and Mannor of Bisley in that County as also of the Mannors of Tewksbury Fairford Sobiry and Hamlet of Archeâ—stoke in Com. Gloc. leaving Hugh her Son and Heir at that time twenty nine years of age as also two other Sons viz. Edward and Gilbert and a Daughter married to Richard Earl of Arundel before he was of ripe years by constraint for which cause being afterwards divorced he married Eleanor Daughter to Henry Earl of Lancaster ¶ Which Hugh in 2 Edw. 3. being in prison under the custody of Roger Mortimer Earl of March at that time Justice of Wales was removed to the Castle of Bristoll and there still detained But afterwards the Beams of the Kings favor beginning to shine upon him he betook himself to his service
In 2 Ric. 1. he gave the King a thousand marks for the Wardship of the Heirs of Gilbert de Monemuthe And in 4 5 6 7 8 9 and 10 R. 1. was again Sheriff of Herefordshire In 6 Ric. 1. he paid fifteen pounds for Iohn de Monmouth upon levying the Scutage for the Kings Redemption but was acquitted from the Scutage of Normandy the same year in regard he was then in person with the King About this time Rese Prince of Wales besieging the Castle of Payne in Elvel belonging to this William was pleased to draw off his forces upon an amicable composition then made between them In 7 Ric. 1. this William and Oliver de Traci the other sharer in the Honor of Berstaple came to an accord touching that Barony by which it appears that Oliver did pass his title to the inheritance thereof unto this William he thereupon being content that Oliver should hold all those Lands for his life and receive an Annuity of twenty pounds from him for terme of his life also And in case the said Oliver should die leaving no issue by his then Wife and born after the date of this agreement that then all those Lands should remain to this our William and his Heirs for ever But if the same Oliver should have such an Heir so born as aforesaid then that the Mannor of Freminton with the appurtenances should come to this William and his Heirs with five Knights Fees there mentioned In 1 Ioh. upon levying the Scutage assessed after the Kings Coronation he accounted thirty marks for the Scutage of Iohn de Monmouth and forty five marks and an half for the Scutage of Adam de Port. In 2 Ioh. the King granted unto this William and his Heirs a special Charter dated at Faleise in Normandy that no Sheriff or other of his Officers should for the execution of their Offices lodge within the Lands of his Honor of Bâ—aose but that his own Officers should give Summons for all the Pleas there belonging to the King As also that the King's Justices Itinerant whensoever they were to come into the Baliwick of Faleise should sit at Braose and there hold plea of all things belonging to the King receiving entertainment for one day at the cost of this William And moreover by this his Charter granted to all the Tenants of this William within that his Mannor at Braose that they should be exonerated not only from all Carriages and Aid to the Sheriff or Constables of Faleise but from all Customs of Victual whatsoever which should be bought or sold at Faleise In the same year this William de Braose purchased of King Iohn for the summe of five hundred marks all the Lands of Philip de Wirecestre and Theobald Walter in Ireland but Philip de Wyrecestre recovered part of his again by a strong hand and Theobald by the help of his Brother Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury compounding for five hundred marks repossessed his again and became his liegeman If this were the Honor of Limeric as I suppose it was then is our Historian mistaken in the Summe for the Record expresly says that in this second year of King Iohn he gave the King five thousand marks for the Honor of Limerit excepting the City and Advouson of the Bishoprick and Abbies In 5 Ioh. the King bestowed upon him ten pound Lands at Frome in Herefordshire which were part of the Possessions of Stephen de Longchamp To this William and his Heirs it was that King Iohn granted or rather confirmed the whole Land of Gowher lying within the precincts of Kaermerdynshire in Wales to hold by the service of one Knights Fee In 5 Ioh. he gave a Fine of a thousand pounds to the King for the Widdow of Hugh Bardulf to be Wife unto one of his Sons It should seem that she thereupon married Iohn de Braose and that he died soon after For in 6 Ioh. the King issued out his Precept to the Barons of his Exchequer requiring them that in case fifty pounds of that money were then paid they should take no more then twenty five pounds of the remainder and acquit this William of all the rest Within two years following that Widdow gave to the King two hundred marks and five Palfries that she might not be distrained to marry again but continue a Widdow as long as she pleased and that she might enjoy her right to her Fathers Barony In 7 Ioh. this William de Braose gave eight hundred marks three Horses for the great Saddle five ... Chacuros twenty four ... Senâ—as and ten Grey-hounds to have Livery of the Castles of Grosmont Skenefrith and Lantelio which were of his inheritance and which he held of the King by the service of two Knights Fees In 10 Ioh. the King perceiving that this his Realm was interdicted by the Pope and therefore fearing more mischief sent Souldiers to all the great men of England especially to those of whom he stood in any doubt requiring Hostages from them to the end he might the better reduce them to his Obedience in case they should be absolved from their due Allegiance by his Holiness Whereupon some delivered up their Sons and others their Nephews and near Allies Coming at length to this William and requiring from him the like Hostages they found a Rub for Maud his Wife stept out and told them in short that she would not suffer any of her Children to come into the Kings Hands in regard he had basely murthered his own Nephew Arthur whom he ought to have treated honorably But William rebuked her for speaking thus rashly and said if he had in any thing offended the King he was ready to make satisfaction according to the judgement of the Court and the Barons his Peers upon assignation of a certain day and place without giving any Hostages Whereupon the Messengers returning and reporting to the King what had passed he presently sent his Souldiers and Officers to seize upon him privily and bring him to his presence but William having notice thereof fled forthwith together with his Wife and Family into Ireland As to this story of King Iohn's dealing with him it is in another manner related by some One saith viz. a Monk of Lanthony that this William having Warr with his great Adversary Gwenhunewyn conquered him and slew more then three thousand of the Welch in one day at Elvel viz. on the morrow after the Feast of St. Laurence the Martyr Ann. 1198. which falls out in the last year of King Richard the first and that for this cause King Iohn disherited him and banished him the Kingdom without any formal judgement and that in this Exile he died As also that Maud his Wife with William his Son and Heir were then likewise cast into Prison and there died which Prison was the Castle of Corf Another delivers it thus This
into Scotland with her Sons William and Reginald and all her own Family and with her Hugh de Lacy But when the King came to Karrickfergus he received advertisement from Duncan de Carriâ— of Galwey that he had taken her and her Daughter Wife of Roger de Mortimers Son together with William de Braose her Son and his Wife with their two Sons but that Hugh de Lacy and Reginald de Braose her younger Son were escaped Whereupon the King sent two Ships for them under the conduct of Iohn de Curcy and Godfrey de Crancumb Being thus brought to the King she made offer of that Fine of forty thousand marks whereof the King accepted but within three days after repenting her bargain she said she could not make it good The King therefore departing from Karrickfergus for England and taking her with her family along with him she again offered him the forty thousand marks with a penalty of ten thousand marks more in case she paid it not Whereupon the accord was put in writing and sealed on each part both their Oaths being likewise given for performance thereof and not only so but the Seals of those Earls and Barons who were then present for attestation thereto days of payment being appointed accordingly And because the Sheriff of Herefordshire had proceeded against her Husband as a Malefactor in regard of the mischeif he had done in that Countrey and should have Out-lawed him thereupon the King by reason of this Composition commanded the Sheriff to respite the same till his return into England Moreover upon his return having her and her company at Bristoll under Guard she there petitioned that her Husband might have leave to come to her Which being granted he was admitted to the presence of the King and freely expressed his consent to make payment of the Fine In order therefore unto it the King sent a servant of Geffrey Fitz-Piers then Justice of England to go along with him that he might have no impediment in his passage in regard he had been noted for so great a Malefactor But after all this when the first day of payment came the King sending his said Justice of England Geffrey Fitz-Piers and likewise the Earls of Salisbury and Winchester with divers other great Men unto Maud the Wife of this William for the Money she plainly told them they must expect nothing she having no more Money in her Purse then twenty four marks of Silver twenty four shillings of Besants and fifteen ounces of Gold so that neither then nor ever after any thing could be expected from her or from her Husband Which being made known to the King he presently commanded that Proclamation should be made from one County to another for this great Malefactor and in case he came not in according to the Laws of the Realm then to be Outlawed Thus far the Kings Narrative From these various Relations therefore it is no easie matter to discover what his demerits were but what usage he had at last take here from the credit of these two Historians who lived near that time This year viz. An. 1210. 12 Ioh. quoth Matthew of Westminster the Noble Lady Maud Wife of William de Braose with William their Son and Heir were miserably famished at Windsore by the command of King Iohn and William her Husband escaping from Scorham put himself into the habit of a Beggar and privately getting beyond Sea died soon after at Paris where he had burial in the Abby of S. Victor on the Eve of S. Lawrence And Matth. Paris putting his death in An. 1212. which differs a little in time says That he fled from Ireland into France and dying at Ebula his Body was carried to Paris and there honorably buried in the Abby of S. Victor But after these great troubles in his later days I shall now say something of his pious Works To the Monks of Lira in Normandy he gave the Church of Orsesleve And being by Inheritance from his Mother Lord of Bergavenny he gave to the Monks of that Priory all the Tithes of his Castle there viz. of Bread Wine Bear Cider all manner of Flesh Fish Salt Honey Wax Tallow and in general of whatsoever should be brought thither and spent there And moreover two marks of Silver out of his Lordship of Espines and two marks of Silver yearly out of his Lands in England so soon as God should enlarge them to forty pound per annum As also the Toll on the Market day within the Gates of that his Castle Which gift he so made to those Monks of Bergavenny upon condition that the Abbot and Covent of S. Vincenti in Maine to which this Priory of Bergavenny was a Cell should daily pray for the Soul of King Henry the First as also for the soul of him the said William and the Soul of Maud his Wife And it is observed of him that in his usual Communication he would reverendly use the Name of God viz. In Gods name let this be done or If it please God or By Gods grace so likewise in all his Letters he wrote Moreover that in his journeys whensoever he came into a Church or beheld a Cross though he were then discoursing with another he would leave off and betake himself to this devotions and having said his Prayers return to his former discourse Likewise when he met any Children in the way he would salute them courteously to the end he might have a return with the benediction of Innocents By Maud his Wife called Maud de S. Waleric he had issue William who was famished with her at Windsore Giles Bishop of Hereford and Reginald as before hath been observed and four Daughters viz. Ioane who was the Wife of Richard Lord Percy a great Baron in the North Loretta wedded to Robert Fitz-Parnell Earl of Leicester who had with her in Marriage the Lordship of Tavestoke in Com. Devon with thirteen Knights Fees Margaret the Wife of Walter de Lacy and Maud Wife of Griffith Prince of South Wales Of Philip his Brother all that I have met with is That after the Conquest of Ireland upon the return of King Henry the Second thence amongst other persons of note which he left behind him there he was one and under him twenty Soldiers As to the Lands of this great but unhappy Man it appears That in 11 Ioh. the Sheriff of Devon accounted for Toteneys Cornwrthy Barstople and Lappeford and that the stock of Cattle upon some other was sold for the Kings use For in 12 Ioh. William de Nevill accounted for eighty four pounds and five shillings for three hundred thirty seven Kine part of the number of seven hundred and four which came from his Lands each Cow then rated at five shillings Moreover as to his Barony of Brembry it was then in the hands of Richard Earl of Cornwal by reason of this his forfeiture
very large extent as may appear by the Boundaries thereof as also the Advowson of the Hospital of Saint Leonard at Kickby in â—endal and fishing in the River of Leven To the Canons of Cockersand in Com. Lanc. all his Woods in Forton and whole Demesn there as also four Ox-gangs of Land in Garstang with a certain fishing in the River of Lon called Childe Also to the Canons of Leicester two Ox-gangs of Land in Cokerham And having married Gundred the Widow of Roger Earl of Warwick Daughter to William the second Earl Warren which Earl Roger died in 18 Steph. left issue William his Son and Heir called William de Lancaster the second as also a Daughter married to Richard de Morevill Which William the second was Steward to King Henry the Second and at the instance of Helewise de Stuteville his Wife gave to Hugh the Heremite a certain place called Askelcros and Croc to look to his fishing upon Loyn as also his Woods there for the benefit of his Hospital at Cockersand and left issue one only Daughter his Heir called Helewise whom King Richard the First shortly after his Coronation gave in marriage to Gilbert the Son of Roger Fitz-Reinfride Which Roger was one of the Justices of his Bench and had so been in the time of King Henry the Second and likewise a Justice Itinerant and executed the Sheriffs Office for the County of Sussex from 23 untill 33 Hen. 2. inclusive So likewise for Berkshire in 34 Hen. 2. and 1 Ric. 1 This being moreover memorable of him viz. that in 28 Hen. 2. he was amongst others at Waltham when the King by his Testament did there make a disposal of divers summs of money to pious uses viz. to the Knights-Templars and Hospitalars for defence of the Hâ—ly-Lâ—nd as also to sundry Forreign Monastâ—ries But I returne to Gilbert This Gilbert in 1 Ric. 1. in consideration of sixty marks of Silver then paid to the King was acquitted for himself and his heirs from a certain Tribute called Nutegeld which he did use to pay out of his Lands in Westmorland and Kendall Also from suit to the County-Court Hundred-Court and Tithing Likewise from Aid to the Sheriff and all his Bailiffs And moreover obtained a Grant of Free-Forest in Westmorland Kendale and Furneâ—se in as ample manner as William de Lancaster Son of Gilbert before-mentioned enjoyed the same and by those very Bounds Also that Forest which King Richard had granted to him and his Heirs in Kendale with six pounds Land in as ample Manner as Nigell de Albini ever held the same and that whatsoever was wast in the Woods of Westmorland and Kendale in the time of the before-specified William de Lancaster the Son of Gilbert should continue so still In 7 Ric. 1. This Gilbert and Helewyse his Wife setled that division of the Mountaines of Furnesse coâ—monly called Furnesse Fells by a Fine levied upon Sunday next ensuing the Octaves of the Blessed Virgin betwixt himself and her on the one part and the Abbot and Covent of Furnesse on the other part Whereby it was accorded that they the said Gilbert and Helewyse and their Heirs should enjoy that part which lieth towards the West as it was then set forth by certain Limits to hold of the Monks of Furnesse by the paiment of twenty shillings yearly for all services Whereupon those Monks granted to him and her the Lordship of Ulveston for ten shillings yearly Rent to be thenceforth paid unto them and their Successors And in 1 Ioh. in consideration of an hundred pounds and two Palfreys then given to that King obtained a confirmation of the Charters above-mentioned In this year also he accounted for the Ferme of Westmorland for the sixth year of King Richard the first And in 6 Ioh. obtained a Grant of the Custody of the Honor of Lancaster to hold during the Kings Pleasure After which viz. from the seventh to the seventeenth of that King's Reign he executed the Sheriffs Office in that County Howbeit notwithstanding this trust he adhered to the rebellious Barons in Armes against that King in the seventeenth of his reign under colour of asserting their antient Customs and Liberties Which the King wanting strength to cope with them was then neceâ—â—â—ated to ratify But being soon afterwards sufficeently apprehensive of the ill consequence which those compulsory condiscensions would produce and addressing his complaint to the Pope whereby he shewed that through their insolencies and injurious Actings he had been constrained to grant what they required his Holiness forthwith made void the same Which favor gave him so much Countenance that he soon raised a potent Army and understanding that divers of those his Enemies were got to Rochester Castle he advanced thither which after a short siege he took and in it amongst others William de Lancaster the Son and Heir to this Gilbert Fitz-Reiâ—fride Which unexpected disaster so allarm'd Gilbert that he soon thought fit to make his Peace and to that end procuring Letters of safe Conduct came to the King from whom in consideration of twelve thousand marks he obtained pardon as also that William de Lancaster his Son Ralph de Aiâ—curt and Lambert de Bâ—ssy his Knights should be freed from their imprisonment having been taken in Rochester Castle as before is expressed Nevertheless he was not so far trusted as to be at liberty without giving divers Hostages for his own future fidelity and for the fidelity of William his Son viz. Benedict the Son and Heir to Henry de Reidenan the Son and Heir of Roger de Kirkâ—y his Daughters Son the Son and Heir of William de Windleshore the Daughter and Heir of Ralph d'Eincurt the Daughter or Son and Heir of Roger de Burton the Daughter and Heir of Adam de Yelond the Son or Daughter of Thomas de Bethâ—n the Son or Daughter and Heir of Walter de Strickland the Daughter of Richard de Copland and the Son of Gilbert de Lancaster And if it should happen any of these Hostages to die that then he should deliver other Sons or Daughters of those Knights or of some other persons in their stead Moreover besides all this he delivered into the Kings hands his Castles of Merhull and Kirkeby to dispose of at his pleasure All this being effected at Berewâ—â— upon the twenty second of Ianuary the same year And in 18 Ioâ— procured other Letters of safe-conduct for his coming to the King to confer with him on the behalf of William his Son and for his enlargement from Prison Likewise after the death of King Iohn who departed this life before the end of that year he obtained the like Letters of Safe-conduct to repair
as it seems William of great esteem in the Court of King William Rufus being offered the Daughter of Robert Earl of Moriton to Wife buâ— refusing travaâ—led into Apulia and having married Mabel the Daughter of Robert Wiscard there died upon his return from Antioch Hugh the third Son died in his youth Ivo the fourth and Alberic the fifth who in his youth betook himself to literature but afterwards became a Souldier His Daughters were these Adeline the Wife of Roger de Ibrei Hadewise died unmarried Roese married to Robert de Curci Maud to Hugh de Mont-pincon Agnes to William de Saie and Hawise who died unmarried Which Ivo enjoying his Fathers posseâ—sions here in England but favoring the title of Robert Curthose in 3 Hen. 1. made War where he had power wasting the Countrey by Fire and Sword for which cruelties being fined at a vast summe of Money he addressed himself to Robert Earl of Mellent then one of that Kings chief Councellors and imploring his mediation 〈◊〉 to shelter himself under his wingâ— but beâ—â—g â—â—rplexed in 〈◊〉 partly for his 〈…〉 Antioch and partly for 〈…〉 of ever regaining 〈…〉 resolved to go once more to Hierusalem a 〈◊〉 to make his peace with the King and to that end borrowed five hundred mâ—rks from the Earl of Mellent for securing whereof he mortgaged all his Lands for fifteen years it being agreed that 〈…〉 should take the Daughter of Henry Earl of Warwick Brother to 〈…〉 then that restitution 〈…〉 estate Which Agreement being settled by Oath and with the Kings assent he began his journey his Wife accompanying 〈…〉 therein Whereupon that inheritance was subjected to strangers All that I have farther seen of 〈…〉 that for the health of the Soul of his Father and Mother he gave Brokesburne which was of her inheritance to the Monks of Bermundsey in Surrey her body lying interred in that Monastery From this Ivo descended Hugh de 〈◊〉 who had it seems a great part of his Ancestors Lands restored unto him viz. the Honor of Hinkley in Leicestershire and the Stewardship of England for it appears that Robert Blanchmaines Earl of Leicester Grand-Son to Robert Earl of Mellent before-mentioned taking to Wife Petronill the Daughter of the said Hugh had in her right the same Honor and Stewardship Of which Petronill I have spoke farther in my discourse of that Earl Bek of Eresby AT the time of the Norman-Conquest Walter Bec though he had a fair inheritance in Flanders came over into this Realm with Duke William whom we vulgarly call King William the Conqueror and of his gift had Eresby in Comit. Linc. and divers other fair Lordships This Walter gave the Church of Newton to the Nunns of Alvingham and took to Wife Agnes the Daughter 〈◊〉 heir of Hugh the Son of Pinco of whom I have taken notice in my discourse of the Family of Tatshall To which Hugh King Henry the first confirmed all the Lands which Pinco his Father did possess granting unto him divers ample priviledges therein and had issue by her five Sons viz. Hugh Henry Walter Iohn and Thomas Which Agnes gave to the Monks of Kirkstede in Com. Linc. for the health of her own Soul and the Soul of Hugh her Son and Heir and all her other Childrens Soules all her Lands lying in the fields of Kirkby together with her Body to be buried in that Abby of Kirkstede But this Hugh dying without issue in his return from the Holy-Land and Henry his Brother being a person weak of understanding his two other Brethern viz. Walter and Iohn shared with him in the inheritance Thomas the youngest having only all the Churches which were of their patronage Henry enjoying for his part Eresby Spillesby ... by and Wisperton Walter possessing Lusceby Wynceby Newton and Fulestowe and Iohn Beby in Kesteven with two other Lordships in those parts Which Walter had issue Henry who sold Foulestow unto Stephen de Langton and he Walter afterwards Constable of the Castle of Lincolnâ— But I return to Henry This Henry had issue another Walter who married Eva the Neice of Walter de Grey Archbishop of York and he Iohn Which Iohn in 7 Ioh. gave an hundred pounds and four Palfreys to the King for license to marry the Widdow of William Bardolph To whom succeeded another Henry who took to Wife Hawyse the Sister of Thomas de Muleton and had with her in Frank-marriage certain Lands in Braitoft Friskeni Irebi and Wynethorp all in Comit. Linc. by the gift of Thomas de Muleton her Brother And to him succeeded another Walter who had issue three Sons viz. Iohn Bec Lord of Eresby Anthony and Thomas Which Iohn in 4 Edw. 1. had license of the King to make a Castle of his Mannor house at Eresby and in 23 and 24 Edw. 1. was summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm This Iohn granted the Isle of Stepholme with the Advouson of the Church of Breen to Henry de Laci Earl of Lincoln which descended to him upon the death of Thomas his Brother who was Bishop of St. Davids And by his Testament made at Eresby on Wednesday preceding the Feast of St. Margaret Ann. 29 Edw. 1. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Chappel of St. Maurice within the Abby of Kirkstede whereunto he gave his best Horse price forty marks his Coat of Male his Gantlets his Harness of Iron his Lance and Target with all other accoutrements appertaining to his own body Moreover to Walter his Son he bequeathed all his Cattel and Horses To Sir Robert de Willughby and Sir Iohn de Harecurt the remainder of his Armes to be divided betwixt them To his Brother Anthony Bishop of Durham his standing Cup To Margaret his Sister a Ring To William de Thorp his Nephew a ... To his Sister of Alvingham twenty shillings And because his Brother the Bishop of Durham was so much imployed for the King and in his affairs he constituted Iohn de Aldebury Bishop of Lincoln Sir William de Willughby Knight his Son in Law and Sir Robert de Willughby Son to the said William his Executors and died in 31 E. 1. leaving issue Walter his Son and Heir as also three Daughters viz. Alice the Wife of the before-specified Sir VVilliam de VVillughby Margaret married to ... Harecurt and Mary Which VValter departing this life without issue Robert de VVillughby Son of Alice and Iohn de Harecurt Son of Margaret his Sisters became his next Heirs A word now of Anthony his Brother This Anthony was signed with the Cross in 54 Hen. 3.
to Dru de Monceaux To whom succeeded Hugh his Son and Heir Which Hugh notwithstanding the great favors he had received from King Henry the First who took care of his education as of his own Son disciplining him in Military Exercises restoring him to his Fathers Honor which Dru de Monceaux his Mothers Husband had possessed and advancing him amongst his cheifest Nobles in An. 1184. 30 Hen. 1. joyâ—ed with Stephen Earl of Albemarle and divers others against that King endeavoring to advance William Son to Robert Curthose Duke of Normandy to the Throne of this Realm and manned his Castle of Gurnay with other places of strength against him Moreover he surprised the Castle of Plessey and committed it to the custody of Hugh Talebot his Nephew And in An. 1137. 2 Steph. when divers of the great Men in Normandy instigated by the French and Flemings deserted King Stephen whereupon the King marched to â—iseux purposing to beleaguer Geffrey of Anjou at Argentoile or some other place there hapning such a mutiny in his Army as that divers forsook him he followed some of them to Pâ—nt-Audomare and there took this Hugh de Gurnay with several other stout young Men whom partly by good words and partly by threats he endeavored to reconcile But failing therein concluded a Truce with the Enemy for two years Howbeit some time after this viz. in An. 1151. 16 Steph. favoring the parts of King Stephen against Henry Duke of Normandy he admitted the Dukes Enemies into his Castle of Gurnay Furthermore in An. 1173. 19 Hen. 2. upon that Rebellion of young Henry against the King his Father he as also Hugh his Son with eighty of their Soldiers were taken prisoners by young Henry who burnt that Castle in Normandy which they then held Lastly having married ... the Sister of Ralph de Parrone Earl of Uermandois he died in 31 Hen. 2. as it seems for then did Hugh de Gurnay his Son give an hundred pounds for his releif Which last meâ—tioned Hugh in 3 Rich. 1. was at the Siege of Acon in the Holy Land where upon the taking thereof an equal partition being made on the part of King Richard and the King of France Dru de Marlon with an hundred Soldiers took charge of that half part which belonged to the King of France and this Hugh de Gurnay of that other half appertaining to King Richard In 4 Ioh. Robert de Vipount received command to deliver unto him all the prisoners which were then taken in the Wars of France except those Martin Algeis took In An. 1203. 5 Ioh. this Hugh observing that King Iohn devoted himself totally to Luxury whereby the King of France got much advantage for recovery of Normandy he gave up the Castle of Montfort to the French whereupon many others forsook him so that Roan was soon after lost In 12 Ioh. this Hugh paid a Fine to the King of seven hundred marks for the Mannor of Wendover in Com. Buck. and that he might not be disseised thereof but by Judgment of the Kings Court and in 15 Ioh. obtained the Honor of Wherwelton in Com. Ebor. by the gift of that King Moreover the same year he attended the King into Poictou and in 16 Ioh. was made Sheriff for the Counties of Buckingham and Bedford In which year discerning himself infirm he procured the King to take the homage of Girard his Son and Heir but not to dispossess himself of his Lands during his own life Shortly after which he took part with the Rebellious Barons as it seems For in 18 Ioh. it appears that the King disposed of his Mannor of Wendover to William de Fednes id est Fienes And in 2 Hen. 3. William de Cantilupe obtained all his Lands in Lincolnshire which were then in the hands of Hugh de Gurnay his Son But in 6 Hen. 3. he died for then did the King direct his Precept to William de Cantilupe to restore unto Hugh his Son Girard being dead as it seems all the Lands of his Inheritance then in his custody The like command had the Sheriff of Norfolk for all his Lands in that County Which Hugh highly incurring the Kings displeasure for being in that Tourneament at Blithe in Com. Nottingh in 7 Hen. 3. contrary to his prohibition the Sheriffs of Warwick Leicester and Glocester had command to seise all his Lands in those Counties Nor was this all for the same year he boldly presumed to hunt with Hound and Horn for the space of three days in the Kings Chase of Bristoll without leave and contrary to the command of the Foresters Whereupon the Constable of the Castle of Bristoll was required to seise all his Lands Goods and Chattles within his Liberty But after this I have not seen more of him then that he married Lucy the Daughter of Robert de Berkley and died in 22 Hen. 3. Whereupon William de Cantilupe gave five hundred marks Fine for the Wardship of Iulian his Daughter and Heir and custody of her Lands as also of the Child unborn wherewith Maud his Widow did then travail Which Iulian became the Wife of William Bardulf ¶ I come now to Anselme de Gurnay younger Brother to the last Hugh This Anselme married Eve Sister and Heir to Maurice de Gant and by her had issue Robert de Gurnay Which Robert in 15 Hen. 3. doing his homage had Livery of the Mannor of Poelet in Com. Somers part of the Possessions of the said Maurice de Gant his Uncle whose Heir he was so likewise of all his Lands in the County of Glocester excepting the Mannors of Beverstan Weston Radewick Oure and Ailbrinton and made his solemn Protestation in the Kings presence that he did not lay any Claim to the three Hundreds of Beminster Harecliff and Perbiry acknowledging that the said Maurice his Uncle had no title in them but for term of life so that after his decease they were to come to Thomas de Berkley and his Pleirs And in 16 H. 3. had liberty to pay the Remainder of the hundred pounds due for his releif being seventy five pounds by twenty five pounds each half year In which year also he performed his homage for one half Knights Fee in the County of Somerset descended to him by the death of Robert the Son of Iohn de Harpetre his Grandfather Furthermore in 26 Hen. 3. this Robert gave twenty pounds to the King to be excused from attending him at that time into Gasâ—â—igne And in 41 Hen. 3. had Summons to be at Bristoll in the Octaves of S. Peter ad Vincula
It is also said that after the death of King William the Conqueror this William went again into Apulia and at his return brought with him certain Reliques of St. Nicholas which he gave to the Church of St. Peter at Norum and bestowed thereon likewise the Mannor of Traâ—iton in England with the Church and Mill as also the Tithes of all his Hamlets thereto belonging And lastly that in Ann. 1102. 3 H. 1. upon that great Rebellion of Robert de Belesmo Earl of Shrewsbury against King Henry wherein he had gained Caducan and Gervat the Sons of Rhese Prince of Wales of his side this William was by him disherited of all his Lands in that County for not taking his part and that thereupou applying himself to King Henry who had long discerned him to be a person of a brave Spirit he had a chearful reception and being thereupon made Governor of Stafford-Castle had two hundred Souldiers to attend him in that service so that he did much annoy that rebellious Earl both by his hostile Acts and discovery of his Plots By Leceline his Wife this William had issue four Sons viz. Philip Robert Ivo and Arnulph and dying very aged left his Lands in Noâ—mandy to his Son Philip and those in England to Robert and was buried in the Cloyster of the Abby at Norum The Lands in England whereof he was possessed at the time of the General Survey were twenty nine Lordships all in the County of Salop whereof Wemme being one of the chief he made it his seat all which he held of the before specified Roger de Montgomerie To these his Lands in this Realm succeeded Robert his second Son Philip the eldest enjoying those in Normandy And to Robert Hugh and to Hugh Ivo Which Ivo gave to the Monks of St. Peters Abby at Shrewsbury his Mill at Sutton And to the Monks of Cumbermere Bromhale Spipford and Clive To this Ivo succeeded William his Son and Heir who gave to the Canons of Stone in Com. Staff the third part of all the Tithes of Corn and small Tithes of his Lordship of Cublesdon in Com. Staff and two parts of the Tithes of Hay Orchards and Paunage Which William with Burgia his Wife are said to have been Founders of the Priory at Langele in Comit. Leic. And for the health of his Soul and the Souls of his Ancestors gave to the Nunns of that house the Church of Dalby with six Oxgangs of Land as also the Church of Sumerseby with one Yard-land and the Tofts and Crofts thereto belonging This William taking part with the rebellious Barons was one of those who held Beauboâ—-Castle against King Iohn but at length returning to his due obedience was received into protection I now come to Hugh Brother * of Ivo In 24 Hon. 2. this Hugh Pantulfe was amersed for trespassing in the Kings Forest in Northamptonshire And in 26 H. 2. being constituted Sheriff of Shropshire continued in that trust till 1 Ric. 1. inclusive In 6 Ric. 1. upon collection of the Scutage for the Kings redemption he paid forty shillings for his Knights Fees in Stanâ—â—ordshire Having the Title of a Baron he left issue William his Son and Heir who in 9 Hen. 3. doing his Homage and giving security for the payment of an hundred pounds for his Relief had Livery of his Lands lying in the Counties of Staff Salop. Hereâ— Wigorn. And the next ensuing year obtained the Kings Precept to the Barons of his Exchequer for the discharge of that hundred pounds which he did owe for his Relief it being for five Knights Fees said to have been belonging to Robert de Belemes of the Kings Escheats Betwixt the Lordship of Wemme belonging to this William and the Lordship of Prees belonging to the Bishop of Coventrey and Lichâ—ield there was a perambulation made whereby the bounds of each were stated Which Perambulation so made was confirmed by King Henry the third in the twelfth year of his reign But in 17 Hen. 3. he departed this life whereupon Fulke Fitz-Warine gave six hundred marks for the Wardship of his Lands and Heir with the benefit of her marriage whose name was Maud afterwards married to Ralph Boteler of Oversley in Com. Warw. by means whereof the Lordship of Wemme with the rest of the Lands of her Inheritance came to that Family Newmarch AMongst other the followers of William Duke of Normandy upon his first arrival and Conquest of this Realm Bernard Newmarch was one as it seems for it appears that he was a Witness to one of his Charters granted to the Monks of Battail in Sussex upon his foundation of that Abby That which in the next place I find to be most memorable of him is that after the Conqueror had got full possession of this Realm and aiming at a peceable enjoyment thereof had almost totally disherited the Native English by distribution of their Lands amongst his Normans and other followers which occasioâ—ed a farther confluence of more Aliens hither this whole Realm being too little for their greedy appetites Robert Fitz-Hamon in the time of King William Rufus having Conquered Morganoc in Wales there were divers others who obtained leave to invade the rest of that Countrey amongst which this Bernard was one who undertook the Province of Brecknock and accordingly won all the three Cantereds of that territory After which seating himself there he founded a Priory of Benedictine Monks near to his Castle And for the health of the Soul of King William the Conqueror and his Queen as also for the Soul of King Henry the first and his own Soul with the Souls of his Wife and Children endowing it with Lands and Revenues of a large extent gave it to the Abby Battail which King William had founded in Memory of his Conquest whereupon it became a Cell thereto He was also a munificent Benefactor to the Monks of Gloucester by the gift of the Lordship of Glasebury and the Tithes of his whole demesnes in Brekenny viz. Corn Cattel Cheeâ—â— Venison and Honey Likewise of the Church of Cowerne magna with the Tithe and Glebe of that whole Parish as also of one Hide of Land called Betele But of this Bernard it is farther noted that after the death of King William the Conqueror taking part with Odo Bishop of Baâ—eux and many other of the Nobility against King William Rufus on the behalf of Robert Curthose the elder Son he joyned with Roger de Laci in the invasion of Herefordshire And that he married Nesta alias Agnes Daughter to Griffyn Son of Lewelyn Prince of Waâ—es by whom he had issue a Son
Kings Charter for a weekly Market upon the Thursday at his Mannor of Wymersley before mentioned as also a Fair yearly on the Eve and Day of St. Martin in Winter But considering that none of these had ever any Summons to Parliament and consequently stood not in the degree of Barons of this Realm I shall not pursue my story of them any farther then briefly to take notice that Elizabeth the Wife of Iohn Nevill of Althorpe in Com. Linc. was the Daughter and Heir of Robert Newmarch and he the Son of Ralph Newmarch descended from the before-specified Roger Newmarch as may seem by the Inheritance which she enjoyed viz. the Mannors of Wilmersley Askerigge and Scothorp In Comitat. Ebor. and Whatton in Com. Nott. Peverell of Nottingham THe first of this name of whom I find mention is Ranulph Peverell who at the time of the Conquerors Survey held four Lordships in Com. Salop. six in Norfolk nineteen in Suffolk and thirty five in Com. Essex Which Ranulph was the reputed Progenitor of the several Families of that name for having married ... the Daughter of Ingelric founder of the Collegiate Church of St. Martins le Grand in the City of London who had been a Concubine to William Duke Normandy not only those Children which he had by her but that very William begotten on her by the same Duke before his Conquest of this Realm had the name of Peverell Of these therefore being next to speak I shall begin with William so begotten of that Concubine This William in the second year of the Conquerors Reign when all places of strength were committed to the trust of the Kings chiefest friends and allies had the Castle of Nottingham then newly built and scituate most advantageously both for defence and pleasure given to him and with it or soon after divers Lands in sundry Counties of a large extent for by the General Survey it appears that hethen had forty four Lordships in Northamptonshire in Essex two in Oxfordshere two in Bedfordshire two in Buckinghamshire nine and fifty five in Noâ—â—inghamshire with forty eight Tradesmen's Houses in Nottingham yielding thirty six shillings Rent per Annum as also seven Knights Houses and eight Borderars there of all which the Honor of Peverell did consist in Derbysâ—ire fourteen whereof Bolâ—sover and the Castle of Peke with the Honor and Forest were part and six in Leicestershire Of this William it is farther memorable that upon the breach which hapned betwixt Robert Curthose and King William Rufus he himself with eight hundred men held the Castel of Helme in Normandy against Rober Curthose but upon siege laid thereto was constrained to give it up And after this viz. in 1 Steph. being one of the temporal Lords in that great Councill then held at Oxford he is mentioned amongst the Witnesses to the Laws then made and ratified by King Stephen Likewise that in 3 Steph. conducting the forces of Nottinghamshire he was one of the chief Commanders in that notable Encounter with the Scots near North-Alverton in Yorkshire called Bellum de Standardo and worthily shared in the Victory then obtained by the Northern Barons against those bold Invaders But in 7 Steph. fighting stoutly on the Kings part in the Battle of Lincolne and being there with him taken Prisoner his Castle of Nottingham was disposed of by Maud the Empress to William Painell howbeit the year next following his own Souldiers recovered it again by a stratagem in the night time Moreover he founded the Priory of St. Iames near Northampton and likewise that of Lenton near Nottingham for Cluniac Monks amply endowing it with Lands and Revenues for the health of the Soul of King William the Conqueror and Maud his Wife K. William Rufus King Henry the first and Maud his Consort as also for the Souls of William and Maud their Children and likewise for the health of his own Soul and the Souls of Aveline his Wife William his Son and all his other Children Of which William his Son it is chiefly memorable that having poisoned Ranulph Earl of Chester about the later end of King Stephens Reign and fearing the severity of King Henry the second for that foul crime he fled to a Monastery of his own Patronage which doubtless was Lenton where he caused himself to be shorn a Monk but being advertised of King Henries coming that way from York he quitted his habit and privily fled away leaving all his Castles and possessions to the Kings Pleasure some of which continued many years after in the Crown as appears by the Sheriffs Accompts and at length were given by King Henry the second to Iohn Earl of Moreton afterwards King But some came to the Family of Ferrers in marriage with Margaret Daughter and Heir to this last mentioned William as Higham in Northamptonshire one of the Lordships whereof William his Father was possessed at the time of the Conquerors Survey afterwards distinguished by the name of Higham Ferrers from another of that name called Cold-Higham in the same County Peverell of ... ¶ HAving thus done with the Descendants of William Peverell of Nottingham I come next to Haman Peverell the eldest Son of the before-specified Ranulph This Haman was one of the Barons id est chief Tenants to Roger de Montgomery Earl of Shrewsbury founder of the Abby of St. Peter in the Suburbs of that place shortly after the Norâ—â—n Conquest and in the time of Earl Hugh Son and successor to Roger gave the tithes of all his Lordships in Com. Salop. to the Monks of that great Abby viz. Burton under Lime Wulrinton Arkalon Heâ—tone Wilsipeland Cley Brugelton and Kincardesei Moreover he gave unto them the Lordships of Witenton Chinardesei Crugelton and Selepe Sybill his Wife joining with him in the Grant But farther of him I have not seen nor of Sybill his Wife then that she was the Daughter and Heir to Gerard de Tournay which Gerard gave the Lordships of Beâ—ton to those Monks of Shrewsbury Peverell of Dovor THe next Son of the said Ranulph was William Peverell of Dovor so called in regard he was Castallan id est Governor there This William gave to the Monks of St. Maries at York eight Carucates of Land in Rudstan and was Witness to that Charter of King Henry the first whereby he settled the Episcopal See for Somersetshire at Bathe which antiently had been at Welles Moreover he founded the Priory of Hatfield Peverell in Com. Hertf. which was a Cell to that great Abby at St. Albans and Confirmed to the Monks of Thorney the Grant of seven Acres of Land at Copthorne with a Meadow in Botulbrigg belonging thereto given unto them by Hugh de Leisures To which William succeeded William his
afterwards scil ... in Ann. 1360. departed this life Aquila BEfore I begin to discourse of this Family it will be fit to take notice that this Sirname de Aquila became originally assumed from Aquila in Normandy of which an Ancestor to Gislebert was an inhabitant as also that the Town had that denomination by reason an Eagle made her nest in an Oake growing there when the Castle was first in building And though I begin with Gilbert I must not forget that Eugenulf de Aquila his Grandfather was one of those valiant Normans who arrived here with the renouned Duke William and fighting stoutly against the English in that memorable Battle near Hastings in Sussex wherein King Harold was slain and Duke William thenceforth King of England there lost his life Moreover that the same Eugenulf had issue three Sons viz. Richer which I take to be the same with Richard Gislebert and Roger which Richer married Iudith Daughter of Richard de Abrincis Sister of Hugh the first Earl of Chester and taking part with King William against his rebellious Subjects of Maine had the hard hap to be slain in that War in Ann. 1085. leaving issue two Sons viz. Gislebert and Egenulph and Maud a Daughter Wife of Robert de Molbray Earl of Northumberland which Maud afterwards whilest he was prisoner by the permission of Pope Paschal married again to Nigel de Albini but at length was divorced ¶ This Gilbert was possessed of Weitlei in Surrey in King William the Conquerors time And upon that rebellion of the Normans in Ann. 1090. 3 Will. Rufi against Robert Curthose their Duke when Roan was in danger to be lost by the defection of the Inhabitants he firmly adhered unto him and brought him a Company of stout Souldiers over the Bridge on the South part of that City In that War which King William Rufus had with Philip King of France in Ann. 1097. 10 Will. Rufi at which time he wasted the confines of Chaumont he was taken prisoner by the French But he did not long continue in that restraint as it seems for the following year after the King had gotten Maunt he was constituted one of the Governors thereof In 3 Hen. 1. he was one of those that assisted in the destruction of that wicked and â—irannous man Robert de Belesme Earl of 〈◊〉 and Shrewsbury the chief disturber of the peace of all England and Normandy and out of the great Devotion he had to the Abby of St. Ebrulf at Utica granted the one moity of his Town of Aquila thereto so that Richer the Knight whom I take to be his Son should hold it of the Monks of that House the other moity which they had by the gift of Richer his Father being by them held in Demesne This Gislebert took to Wife Iuliana Daughter of Geffrey Earl of Mauritane and by her left issue Richer Eugenulf Geffrey and Gislebert of which Eugenulf and Geffrey afterwards perished in that lamentable Shipwrack with the Children of King Henry the first ¶ In Ann. 1118. 19 Hen. 1. this Richer was one of those who took up Armes against the King and endeavoured to restore William Son of Robert Curthose to his Fathers Honors and when he saw the flame of Rebellion much spread in Normandy demanded his Fathers Lands in England but the King denied him saying that his Brothers Geffrey and Eugenulf who were then Servants in his House did expect them as their hereditary right Whereupon in great discontent he forsook the Court then in Normandy and hasting to K. Lewes of France offered to adhere to him against King Henry if those his Lands which he had so demanded were not restored to him Whereunto King Lewes answered that if he would so do he should have sixty stout Souldiers and Almaric de Montfort fifty to man his Castle of Aquila Richer therefore well weighing this Offer returned to King Henry and moved him again for those Lands but prevailing not went away very sad Howbeit on the morrow Earl Rotro his Uncle coming to the King and earnestly importuning him therein and withal representing to him that this refusal might tend to the increasing of the Rebellion then begun obtained his desire Of which good success when Richard did hear he was so much joyed that he went to King Lewes with those Forces he had raised and told him that he could not then perform his promise to him for that King Henry had now restored to him all those Lands which he claimed so that he ought therefore in all justice to be faithful to him Unto whom Lewes replied Go and I will do what I can Presently therefore did Richard go to his own House whom King Lewes slowly followed with his Army to the Gates of Aquila which being discerned by the Inhabitants they stood upon their guard but by what chance it was not known there hapned a suddain Fire which by the means of the Wind raged so fiercely that it soon consumed the whole Town Richard therefore necessitated by this misfortune went again to King Lewes and renewing his agreement gave up his Castle to him But after became a Robber and the next year following having plundred Ciseâ— and being followed by the Neighbours for the recovery of their goods he turned back upon them with his armed men which the people discerning and that there was no Garrison at hand whereunto they could fly for succor espying a Wooden Cross they all fell down before it whereat he became so moved that he suffered them to go without any harm But notwithstanding he stood thus reconciled to King Henry whereby he repossessed his paternal Inheritance he again scil in An. 1127. 28 H. 1. joyned with Robert de Belesme and other discontented persons who took part with William Son of Curthose before-mentioned And afterwards associated himself with that famous Archer Robert Boel as also with many other lewd companions and did great mischief in Normandy by plundering and robbing Yet at length being allured to King Stephen by the gift of 〈◊〉 he assisted him with all his power against his Norman Rebells After this in his return to England with fifty Souldiers unarmed he was surprised at Liâ—a by Robert de Belesme notwithstanding they were on peaceable termes and by him kept prisoner at Britoll for six Moneths in which space Belesme much wasted his Lands by Plunder and Fire but ere long he was releived and enlarged through the power of Earl Rotro his Uncle Howbeit returning to his rapines and rebellious practises King Stephen compelled him to give Hostages for his better demeanor and burnt his Fort at Bonmokne which was the
her Heirs at law and him touching her Inheritance of the moity of the Barony of Burgh they claiming the present possession thereof and he the continuing it during his own life by the courtesie of England having had a Child by her which was born alive but for ought I find the Heirs prevailed This Eustace afterwards had to Wife Agnes the second daughter of Ioane de Percy which Ioane was fifth daughter and one of the coheirs to William de Bruâ—re a great Baron that age ¶ There was likewise about that time another Bernard de Baillol who in 28 Hen. 3. had a Grant of the marriage of Agnes the Widow of Richard de Percy to the end he might take her to Wife if he could obtain her consent But to return To Hugh de Baillol succeeded Iohn his son and heir who in 13 Hen. 3. paid one hundred and fifty pounds for his Relief of those 30 Knights Fees he then hold and upon collection of the Scutage of Kery in Wales had a special discharge for them This Iohn married Dervâ—rguill one of the three daughters and heirs to Alan of Gâ—lway a great Baron in Scotland by Margaret the eldest Sister of Iohn Scot the last Earl of Chester and one of the heirs to David sometime Earl of Huntingdon by reason whereof he was seised of Galwey in Scotland and had in her right an Assignation of the Mannor of Thorkesâ—y in Com. Linc. as also of Gernemuth and Luddingland in Norfolk until the King should make them a reasonable exchange of other Lands in satisfaction of her part of the Earldom of Chester In the Parliament held at London 28 Hen. 3. requiring a pâ—cuniary Aid from the people for discharge of that debt which he had contracted by his Expedition into Gascoigne upon their advice the preceeding year this Iohn was one of the twelve then chosen to consider of it and to represent their opinion therein to the Parliament In 29 Hen. 3. he paid thirty pounds upon levying the Aid for marrying the King's eldest Daughter for the thirty Knights Fees he held Upon the death of Christian Countess of Albemarle Sister to Dervorguil his Wife the King's Eschaetor had command to assign unto this Iohn and Dervorguil all her part of the Inheritance of the same Christian lying in the Counties of Northhampton and Lincoln This Iohn executed the office of Sheriff in the County of Cumberland from the 33 to the 39 of Hen. 3. inclusive and was made Governour of the Castle of Carliste Upon the marriage of Margaret the King's Daughter to young Alexander King of Scotland the tuition of them both and of that Kingdom being committed to this Iohn de Baillol and Robert de Ros of Werke within two years after they were both accused before the King at Notingham for abusing their trust in that imployment the particulars wherein I have in my discourse of that Robert de Ros expressed but partly for his Father's sake who had been very serviceable to King Iohn in his greatest distresses and partly for money of which he had store he made his peace In 40 Hen. 3. he paid sixty pounds for the thirty Knights Fees he held upon levying the Aid for making the King 's eldest Son Knight And in 42 Hen. 3. had command to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the hostile Incursions of Lewelin Prince of Wales Also in recompence of his services to the King as well in the Realm of France as here in England he had a Grant of the Wardship of William de Wassingle instead of the sum of two hundred Marks which the King had bestowed on him for that respect In 45 46 and 48 Hen. 3. he under-went the Shireevalty for the Counties of Notingham and Decby and in 46 Hen. 3. had the custody of the Honour of Peverell committed to his charge And standing firm to the King in those troublesome Times when the Barons put themselves in Arms under colour of asserting the rights of the People did not submit to those Ordinances made at Oxford whereupon they seised his Lands and detained them till he sent his Son by the King's permission to undertake for him therein In 48 Hen. 3. being in Arms with the King against those Rebellious Barons he stoutly assisted him in that great defeat then given them at Northhampton but soon after fighting on his part was with him taken prisoner in that fatal Battel of Lewes yet made his escape at it seems for it is affirmed by my Author in reporting the power of Mountfort Earl of Leicester who at that time had the King in his custody that all England was then subject to that great Rebel excepting the utmost parts of the North which opposed his usurped dominion at the instigation of the King of Scots and this our valiant Iohn de Baillol And it farther appeareth that having authority from Prince Edward he there joyned with other of the Northern Barons and raised all the force he could for the King's Redemption as also that he died in 53 Hen. 3. leaving Hugh his Son and Heir twenty eight years of age who then doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands But of this Hugh I have not seen any thing memorable other than his marriage with Anne the Daughter of William de Valence Earl of Pembroke and that he departed this life in 56 Hen. 3. without Issue leaving Alexander de Baillol his Brother and Heir of full age the extent of whose Barony consisted in these Lordships viz. New-bigging Wodhorne with Lynmuwe and Hirst its members Haliwell Lynton Ellyngton and Cressewell Heyden with its members Bethfeld Nigram Heddon Staunfordham the moity of Dalton with its members Rihill Gunwarton with Swinborne a member thereof Newton del West Newton del Est Acum Stelling Ovington Eltrincham Mickeley Quiccunstal Faldirley Bromley and the moity of Bywell with Stokesfield Which Alexander dyed in 7 Edw. 1. whereupon the custody of his Lands was committed to Robert de Evre To whom succeeded Iohn de Baillol who in 10 Edw. 1. had Scutage of his Tenants in regard he was himself in the Welch Expedition at that time made This Iohn wedded Isabell the Daughter of Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey and in 19 Edw. 1. was one of the chief Competitors for the Kingdome of Scotland the dispute whereof being by the joynt-consent of all totally referred to the decision of Edward the First then King of England the right was adjudged to this Iohn who thereupon enjoyed the Crown of that Realm where I shall leave him his Barony here being involved with that dignity And shall conclude with Alexander de Baillol Brother to this Iohn This
Alexander being of the Retinue with that magnificent Prelate Anthony Beke Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Ierusalem in that Expedition which King Edward the First made into Flanders in 25 of his Reign he had all his Lands in Scotland restored unto him which had been seised on by King Edward the First for his former Rebellion He was likewise again in Scotland in his service of King Edward in 31 Edw. 1. so also in 32 Edw. 1. And in 34 Edw. 1. 〈◊〉 again into Scotland in his service In 〈◊〉 Edw. 2. he had command to attend Iohn de Britannia Earl of Richmond then the King's Lieutenant in Scotland with Horse and Arms and to yield him his best assistance against the Scots But Alexander his Son for what cause I find not was imprisoned in the Tower of London Howbeit upon security given by this Alexander his Father and two of the Lindseys for his future fidelity to the King he was enlarged This Alexander took to Wife Isabell the Daughter and Heir to Richard de Chilham Widow of David de Strabolgy Earl of Aâ—holl Mother to Iohn Earl of Asceles who was hanged for Felony in right of which Isabell he held by the courtesie of England during his life the Castle and Mannor of Chilham in Kent He was also Lord of Caures in Scotland and summoned to the Parliament of England by King Edward the First from the 28 till till 34 year of his Reign inclusive Vaux OF this Family there were three Brothers who first setled here after the Norman Conquest viz. Hubert de Vallibus Ranulph and Robert Of these Hubert had the whole Barony of Gillesland granted to him by Ranulph de Meschynes on whom King William the First had bestowed the whole County of Cumberland Ranulph had Sowarby Carlaton and Hadbrughtly and Robert the Barony of Dalston To this Hubert succeeded Robert his Son and Heir to whom King Henry the Second granted divers Priviledges throughout all those his Lordships in Cumberland which he enjoyed as Heir to Hubert his Father viz. Soc Sac Tol Theam and Infangtheof and freed him from the payment of the common Tax called Neutgeld This Robert Founded the Priory of Lanâ—rcost in Cumberland for the health of the Soul of Hubert his Father Graecia his Mother his own with all his Ancestors and Successors Souls And in 5 Steph. gave a Fine to the King of Liij l. vj s. viij d. â—or Livery of the Mannor of Hactâ—n in Norfolk which was of his Wifes Inheritance In 15 Hen. 2. he paid two Marks for two Knights Fees whereby he held Gillesland upon levying the Aid for marriage of the King's Daughter and in 18 Hen. 2. accounted forty shillings for Scutage of those Knights Fees he held in regard he was not in that Expedition then made into Ireland In 21 Hen. 2. he was Sheriff of Cumberland which County yielded no benefit to the King that year by reason of the War He was also Governour of Carlisle at the same time and after a long Siege laid thereto by William King of Scotland wanting victual was â—eâ—â—ssitated to come to this conclusion viz. That it King Henry did not relieve him before Michaelmass he should then render it And continued Sheriff of that County from the 22 till the 30 of Hen. 2. inclusive To the Canons of Carlisle he gave the Church of Helton with one Carucate of Land lying in that Lordship In 23 Hen. 2. he was one of the witnesses to that memorable Award then made by King Henry for appeasing the differences betwixt Aldefonsus King of Castile and Sanctius King of Navarre touching divers Caâ—â—les and Territories This Robert married Ada the Daughter and Heir of William de Engaine and by her had Issue Robert who in 12 Ioh. gave the King seven hundred and fifty Marks for regaining his favour In 13 Ioh. the Lands of this Robert were assigned to Alice his Mother Wherein he had offended I find not but in 16 Ioh. he gave another Fine of Dâ—lxvj l. xiij s. iv d. to pacifie the King To this Robert succeeded Ranulph de Vallibus his Brother And to that Ranulph his Son another Robert to whom in 17 Ioh. the custody of the County of Cumberland and Castle of Carlisle were committed Which Robert soon after took part with those Barons then in Arms against the King as 't is like for before the end of that year all his Lands in Cumberland Norfolk Suffolk Somerst and Dorsetshires were seised on by the King and given to Robert de Vipount But those froms being over in 6 Hen. 3. he took upon him the Cross and went on Pilgrimage to Ierusaleâ— having License to lett his Lands for the term of three years after he began his journey according to a Constitution of the Lateran Council In this 6 year of Hen. 3. he paid four Marks upon levying the first Scutage of that King for the two Knights Fees he held in Gillesland In 7 Hen. 3. he was constituted Governour of the Castles of Caermerdin and Cardigan In 13 Hen. 3. he accounted four Marks upon levying the Scutage of Kery which sum was paid in Norfolk And in 18 Hen. 3. executed the Sheriff's office for the County of Devon for the first quarter of that year To this Robert succeeded Hubert his Son who left Issue one sole Daughter and Heir called Maud Wife of Thomas de Multon whereby the Barony of Gillesland first came to that Family ¶ I now come to Robert de Vallibus the youngest of those three Brothers that had such large Possessions in Cumberland by the gift of Ranulph de Meschines about King Stephen's time This Robert seating himself in Norfolk there Founded the Priory of Penteney for the health of his Soul and the Souls of Agnes his Wife and their Children and left Issue three Sons William Oliver and Henry Moreover he gave to the Monks of Casâ—le-Acre in that County for the health of his own Soul the Souls of his Wife and Children as also for the Souls of his three Brethren viz. Robert the Fat Gilbert and Hubert his Mill at Pentney called Middel-milne and a Meadow thereto adjoyning with certain Lands in Gaâ—elai and Masâ—â—gham Which Grant William his Son and Successor confirmed This William had also three Sons viz. Robert Adam and William Prior of Pentney Which Robert had seven Sons viz. Robert William Oliver Iohn Philip Roger and Hugh But of these Robert the eldest dying without Issue Oliver his Brother became Heir to the Estate And in 13 Ioh. gave five hundred Marks and five Palfreys for License to marry Petronill the Widow of Henry
their Chapels of his Fee viz. Eglosbrek Connarton Eglâ—â—â—eil Eglessant Egâ—oseraweyn with the Chapel of Bonnarton the Church of Melidan and Chapel of â—â—rmoch Also the Church of Esâ—removille in Normandy with its Appurtenances and acquitted the Monks of S. Peters at Gloucester of Toll in Bristoll â—â—erdiff Newport and all other his Lands and likewise the Church of S. â—â—thlake at Hereford from Toll throughout all his Lands in Wales as also the Monks of Goldcliff from Toll throughout all his Lands in England and Wales viz. Bristoll Caerdiff Newport Caerleon and Chepstow This Earl married Hawyse the Daughter of Robert sirnamed Bossu Earl of Leicester and had Issue by her a Son called Robert who died in his life-time and was buried in the Monastery of Chaynsham which he founded in memory of him as also three Daughters viz. Mabell married to ... Earl of Evereux in Normandy Amice to Richard de Clare Earl of Hertford and Isabell And to the end his Inheritance should not be divided amongst Females he constituted Iohn a younger Son to King Henry the Second his Heir After which viz. upon S. Clement's night Anno 1173. 20 Hen. 2. departing this life he was buried at Chaynesham before-specified But being thus dead King Henry the Second retained this Earldom in his own hands for six years and in the last year of his Reign giving Isabell the youngest of those three Daughters above-mentioned in Marriage to his Son Iohn bestowed it on him which he accordingly held all the space of his Brother King Richard the First 's Reign within which time he built the long Bridge at Tewksbury and gave the whole Toll of his Market there for the repair thereof Howbeit for this Marriage in regard they were of kin viz. in the third degree of consanguinity Baldwin Archbishop of Canterbury put all his Lands under an Interdict for which Iohn complained to the Pope's Legate and Bishops by reason the Archbishop had so done after an Appeal to the Apostolick See whereupon the Legate ratified the Appeal and released the Interdict but having no Children by her after he came to the Crown he procured a Divorce from her yet held the Honour of Gloucester still with the Castle Borough Berton and Hundred of Bristoll Whereupon Geffrey de Mandevill Earl of Essex took her to Wife and after his death Hubert de Burgh Justice of England neither of them having Issue by her When she was dead Almaric Son to the Earl of Evereux by Mabell the eldest Daughter of Earl William had this Earldom of Gloucester for a short space Which Almaric in Anno 1200. 2 Iohn by the command of King Iohn quitted all his right in Evereux and the City of Evereux to Philip King of France in the presence of both Kings in lieu whereof King Iohn gave him an equivalent exchange and wedded the Daughter of Hugh de Gornai having with her in Frank-marriage by the gift of her Father the Mannor of Horstan but dying also without Issue by her the Inheritance of this great Honour totally devolved to Amice the Wife of Richard de Clare by reason whereof her Posterity afterwards enjoyed the title of Earls of Gloucester as I have in due place fully shewed Earls of Hereford OF this County the first who had the title of Earl after the Conquest was Milo commonly called Miles by Parentage Son to Walter Constable of England and Emme his Wife one of the Daughters of Dru de Baladon Sister to Hameline de Balun a person of great note in that time Which Hameline with his two Brothers Gwynok and Winebald came into England with King William the Conqueror and being the first Lord of Over-went in Com. Monmouth founded the Castle of Bergavenny in that place where a certain Giant called Agros had sometime built a Fortress but dying without Issue left that Territory unto his Nephew Brien Son to the Earl of the Isle commonly called Brien Fitz-Count or Brien de Walingford by Lucia his Sister Which Brien held it all the time of King William Rufus and leaving two Sons who were both Lepers put them into the Priory of Bergavenny giving for their maintenance divers Lands Churches and Tithes belonging to that great Lordship and afterwards taking upon him the Cross and going to Hierusalem left the same to the before-mentioned Walter his Nephew then Constable of England Touching which office of Constable as it then stood I take it to have been the same as Captain of the Guard in after-times for he was then called Princeps militiae domûs Regiae Moreover it is farther observable of this Walter that he founded the Castle of Gloucester upon his own Demesn Lands also that he built the Castles of Bristoll Rochester and Tower of London Likewise that he had the custody of that at Gloucester and also of the Castle of Hereford Furthermore that he gave the moity of his Lordship of Bernytone to the Canons of Lanthony in Wales and that in his age taking upon him the habit of a Canon-regular at Lanthony he died in that Monastery and was buried in the Chapter-house there Having said thus much of his Ancestors I proceed To this Milo being a Servant in Court to King Henry the First and one of his chief Counsellors as also an expert Souldier that King gave in marriage Sibyll the eldest Daughter to Bernard de Newmach Lord of Brecknock begotten on Nesta the Daughter of Griffin ap Leweline together with the Honour of Brecknock So likewise all his Fathers Lands held in Capite with the office of Constable of his Court as by his Charter dated at Roan appeareth It is said of this Milo that upon the death of King Henry the First expecting through the interest he had with Maud his sole Daughter and Heir to attain to the Earldom of Hereford he subtilly used all his power on her behalf and went with some strength to his Castle at Gloucester where she then was and fetcht her with honour thence But King Stephen notwithstanding this carried himself obsequiously towards him as it seems for it is most manifest that from him he obtained a restitution in Fee of the whole Honour of Gloucester with the custody of the Tower and Castle there which he had held as his Patrimony in the time of King Henry the First and likewise the Barony of Brecknock with all those Offices and Lands whereof he was possessed in the time of that King But notwithstanding this in 4 Steph. Maud the Empress landing in this Realm he fell off from the King and repairing to her at Bristoll
of them again And the same year obtained the King's Letters to David King of Scotland for restitution of his Lands in that Realm which had been seised by Robert de Brus his Father In 5 Edw. 3. he was constituted Governour of the Isles of Garnesey Ieresey Serke and Aureney So likewise in 6 E. 3. he was again in the Wars of Scotland as also in 11 E. 3. And in 13 Edw. 3. being appointed Guardian of the Sea-coasts in Lincolnshire against the danger of an Invasion and having in that service many Souldiers under him for whose support he had been at great expences he was in consideration thereof discharged from finding such men at Arms Hobelars and others for his Lands in Yorkshire whereunto otherwise they had been liable In this year the King returning from Brabant came about mid-night to the Tower of London and finding no more than three servants there and his own Children grew so highly offended that he presently caused the Lord Mayor of London with the Lord Chancellour and Treasurer as also this Thomas several of the Judges and other persons of note to be sent for and committed them to several prisons but soon after being set at liberty with honour in 16 Edw. 3. he was in the Wars of France In 17 Edward 3. he obtained License for a Market every week upon the Munday at Buttercram in Com. Ebor. and two Fairs yearly one on the Feast day of S. Butolph the other on S. Leonard And in 21 Edw. 3. gave one Toft and ten Acres of Land in the Moor of Blakeshowe in Farnedale in Com. Ebor. to the Crouched-Friers for the building of an Oratory with other Edifices for their Habitation As to his other Works of Piety he founded a Monastery first at Newton near Cotingham in Com. Ebor. and afterwards translated it to Haut-Emprise plentifully endowing it with Lands and Revenues for the health of his Soul and for the Soul of Blanch his Wife daughter to Henry Earl of Lancaster as also for the Souls of Iohn his Father Ioane his Mother their Children Parents Ancestors and Heirs for the Pope's approbation whereof the King wrote his Letters And having been summoned to Parliament from 11 Edw. 2. till 22 Edw. 3. inclusive departed this life without Issue 31 Maii 23 Edw. 3. being then seised of the Mannor of Stivington in Com. Bedf. of the Castle and Mannor of Lydel in Com. Cumb. of the Mannor of Merton in Com. Westm. Stowe-Bydon in Com. Norff. Ware in Com. Hertf. Colne-Wake with the Advowson of the Church in Com. Essex Cheâ—erfield with its members in Com. Derb. Wyastngden in Com. Rotel of the Castle and Mannor of Brunne with the Mannors of Dieping and Kelby in Com. Linc. And of the Mannors of Cotyngham Wyneton Kirkeby-Moreshed Atton Hemlyngton Buttercram Middleton Cropton and Langton in Com. Ebor. leaving Margaret Countess of Kent Widow of Edmund of Wodstoke Earl of Kent his Sister and Heir forty years of age Which Margaret performing her Fealty had Livery of them shortly after Blanch his Wife then surviving who had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Mannors of Brunne Deping and Kelby in Com. Linc. Styvington in Com. Bedf. Ware in Com. Hertf. Colne-Wake in Com. Essex As also certain Lands in Stepenhithe in Com. Midd. ¶ A younger Son to the last Baldwin Lord Wake was Hugh Wake who in 34 Edw. 1. was in the Scotish Wars so likewise in 4 Edw. 1. This Hugh had by the gift of his Father the Lordships of Blyseworth in Com. Northt with divers other Lands and left Issue Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas in 4 Edw. 3. obtained a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn Lands at Blyseworth Crauely and Helpeston in Com. Northt as also in those which he then had at Deping in Com. Linc. But neither he nor his Posterity whose chief seat hath since that time been at Blyseworth having been Barons of this Realm I have no more to say of them Trusbut THE first of this Family of whom I have seen mention was Geffrey Fitz-payn which Geffrey had his residence at Wartre in that part of Yorkshire called Holderness but of him nothing farther memorable than that he there founded a Priory of Canons-regular of S. Augustines Order and gave to the Canons of Nostell two Bovates of Land lying in Tockwith This William took to Wife Albreda Daughter of ... Harecurt one of the Coheirs to Maude de Dover as the Descent here drawn doth shew and had part of her Inheritance which Albreda calls the Canons of Scokiâ—k Dominicos Canonicos mei Domini mei her and her Husband 's own Canons This William Trusbut was also seated at Wartre and left Issue three Sons Richard Geffrey and Robert and three Daughters Rose Hillaria and Agatha Of which Sons all that I have met with is first that Richard in 3 Henry 2. accounted to the King forty Marks for his Lands at Reibi and that Geffrey did adde so much to what his Grandfather had given to the Canons of Wartre that he thereupon had the repute to be the first Founder of that Religious House Likewise that Robert gave to those Canons of Wartre the Church of All-Saints at Melton within his own Fee But none of these Sons having Issue the three Sisters became Heirs to the Estate Rose being Wife to Everard de Ros a great Baron in Holderness Hillaria of Robert de Budlers and Agatha first of ... and afterwards of William de Albini of Belvoir the third of that name Of which three Sisters Hillaria departing this life without Issue the Lands of her Inheritance were shared betwixt William de Ros Grandson to Rose the eldest Sister viz. Son of Robert Son of Everard de Ros above-mentioned and Agatha the third Sister Widow of William de Albini as hath been said Which Agatha gave to the Nuns of De la pre near Northampton four Ox-gangs of Land viz. two in Brandestone and two in Falclibe but deceasing also without Issue the whole at length devolved to the same William de Ros whereupon in 32 Hen. 3. he paid one hundred pounds for his Relief for that whole Barony of Trusbut and Wartre Traili IN the time of King Henry the First Geffrey de Traili with William Gilbert and Nicholas all Sons to Albreda second Sister of Walter Espec a great Baron in the North were witnesses to his Foundation-Charter of Rievaulx-Abbey in Com. Ebor. As also to his Foundation of that at Kirkham in the same County This Geffrey with Albreda his Wife as also William and Geffrey his Sons bestowed the Church of Giâ—eldene on the Monks of Thorney and in 5 Steph. gave a Fine to
at Renath in Tiperarie In 5 Ioh. he gave two Palfreys for Licence to go into 〈◊〉 And having married Maud the Daughter of Robert Vavasour with whom he had the Mannors of Eâ—lington and Newbourgh with the Lands of Boulton in Frank-marriage he departed this Life in 9 Ioh. Whereupon Robert Vavasour Father of the said Maud gave to the King a Fine of Twelve hundred Marks and two Palfreys for the benefit of her Marriage and Dowrie together with all the Freehold of Theobald Walter her late Husband lying in England and Ireland excepting Amunderness with her Thirds therein and in Aleton Which Maud afterwards married to Fulke Fitz-Warine who in 17 Ioh. had Livery of her Dowrie in 〈◊〉 This Theobald had Issue Theobald and a Daughter called Maud whose Tuition King Iohn committed to Gilbert Fitz-Reinfrid Baron of Kendall From which Theobald who assum'd the Sirname of Boteler by reason of the Office of Boteler of Ireland which he enjoy'd the Noble Family of the Botelers of that Realm afterwards Earls of Ormund are lineally descended Courtney IN the time of King Henry the Second Reginald the Son of Florus a younger Son to Lewes le Grosse King of France assuming the Name of Courtney from his Mother who was an Heirâ— female of that Family came into England and taking to Wife Hawse the sole Daughter and Heir of Robert de Abrincis and of Maude Baroness of 〈◊〉 her Mother Hereditary Sheriffess of Devoâ—sh setled himself there upon her Inheritance Touching the Parentage of which Maude in regard she was so great an Heir I may not omit to observe That she was the onely Child of Raâ—dulph Avenel by Adelice his Wife sole Daughter and Heir to Adelice Daughter of Faldwin de Briâ—niis a Noble Norman Knight by Albreda his Wife Niece to King William the Conquerour Which last-mention'd Adelice was also Sister and Heir to Richard her Brother on whom King William after his Victory over King Harold bestow'd the Honour of Okehampton as also the Castle of Exeter and Sheriffalty of Devonshire and thereupon called Ricardus Vicecomes This is that Richard who began the Foundation of an Abby for Cistercian-Monks at Brightley within his Honour of Okehampton in the first year of King Stephen's Reign and dying without Issue was there Interr'd Which Monks being soon after translated to Forde removed his Bones thither But I return to Maude Daughter of Randolph Avenel and Adeliza who brought this great Inheritance as hath been observed This Maude had two Husbands first Robert de Abrincis by whom she had Issue a sole Daughter and Heir call'd Hawise and secondly Robert Natural Son to King Henry the First who begot on her another sole Daughter call'd Maude Which Daughters by each Husband being great Heirs and in Minority at their respective Fathers Deaths were by King Henry the Second committed to the Custody of this Reginald de Courtney He therefore discerning the advantage he had by thus being their Guardian took Hawyse the elder for his own Wife and match'd Maude the younger to William de Courtney his own Son by a former Wife All which the Descent herewith drawn will more compendiously demonstrate I now come to speak of what I have observ'd farther memorable of this Reginald de Courtney In 14 H. 2. having obtain'd the Wardship of Walter de Bulbec he accounted vi l. xiii s. iv d. for the Knights Fees of his Inheritance And in 21 H. 2. was one of the Witnesses to that Agreement made betwixt King Henry the Second and Roderic King of Connach in Ireland as to the Conditions whereupon Roderic should hold that Dominion of Connach from King Henry To the Monks of Forde de gave C Marks in Money as also certain Goods and Jewels And having devoutly commended himself to their Prayers departed this Life upon the fifth Calends of October Anno 1194. 4 R. 1. whereupon he was buried on the North-side of the Quire in that Abby leaving Hawyse his Wife alive Which Hawyse besides other Donations thereunto gave her Land at Hertoyne for the Maintenance of three Poor People in their Lay-Infirmitory for ever And dying the Morrow preceding the Calends of August Anno 1209. 10 Ioh. was buried on the South-side the Quire before-mention'd This Reginald had a Brother called Robert de Courtney whom I suppose to be the same Robert that was Sheriff of Cumberland in 5 Ioh. and married Alice de Rumeli the Widow of Gilbert Pipard third Daughter of William fitz Duncan as also one of his Heirs by Alice the Daughter and Heir of Robert de Rumeli Lord of Skipton in Cravene with whom he had Aspatrick and the Barony of Allerdale together with the Liberty of 〈◊〉 but no Issue by her Which Alice over-liv'd him and in 11 Ioh. gave a Fine to the King of Five hundred Pounds ten Palfreys and ten Oxen for to have Livery of the Lands of her own Inheritance in as full a manner as she had enjoy'd them before her Marriage with him and to have a reasonable Dower assign'd her out of the Lands of both those Husbands as also that she might not be compell'd to marry again But I proceed To Reginald and Hawise succeeded Robert de Courtney their Son and Heir But before I proceed to speak of him I must not omit to say something of William his elder Brother born in Normandy of his Fathers first Wife This William was Founder of the Priory at Wospring in Somerset shire and in 9 Ioh. gave a fine of CCCC Marks to the King for Livery of the Lands of Baldwin de Buillers which were of his Inheritance When he died I can give no account but certain it is that in 26 H. 3. William de Cantilupe and Vitalis Engaine two Great Men of that Age made claim to the Lordship of Badmundesfeild in Suffolk as Heirs to him Which Lordship Hillaria Trusbut sometime held in Dower I now return to Robert de Courtney This Robert in 3 Ric. 1. paid a Fine to the King of CCC Marks that he might enjoy the Mannor of Sutton in Berk sh. now called Sutton Courtney in peace Which Mannor King Henry the Second gave to Reginald his Father saving the Right of the Heirs of William his elder Brother when they should be of age And as to the Honour of Okehampton being the Inheritance of Hawyse his Mother in 7 Ioh. he gave Five hundred Pounds and five Palfreys to have Livery thereof with the Knights Fees thereto belonging which were in number no less than ninety two and a third part as appeareth upon levying the Scutage of Ireland in 12 Ioh. and that of Wales in 13 Ioh. But for the Mannor of Sutton which
was also one Walter de Scoteni which Walter held fourteen Knights Fees and an half of Alice Countess of Ewe who then possess'd the Honour of Hastings in Com. Suss. This Walter gave Kokesby to the Monks of Koche-Abby in Com. Ebor. But in Anno 1259. 43 H. 3. being the principal Person of Counsel with the Earl of Gloucester and likewise his Steward he was suspected for giving Poyson to that Great Earl and to William de Clare his Brother of which Poyson William died and the Earl himself hardly escaped This 't was believ'd he did for a great Sum of Money then given to him by William de Valence Shortly after which having his Trial by the Country and being found guilty thereof he was drawn through the City of Winchester to the Gallows and there hang'd Peche IN the tenth year of King Henry the Second's Reign Hamon Peche being Sheriff of Cambridgshire so continued till half of the twelfth year at which time upon the Assessment of that Aid for Marrying the King's Daughter he certified his Knights Fees in Suffolk to be eleven an half and two fourth parts and in Cambridgshire seven and a twelfth part de veteri Feoffamento as also an half third and fourth part de novo Which Fees in Cambridgshire were of his Wifes Inheritance viz. Alice Daughter to William Peverell one of the Coheirs of Pain Peverell her Brother as part of the Honour of Brunne For all which Fees in 14 H. 2. he paid xii l. xiv s. viz. a Mark for each Fee And in 2 R. 1. upon Collection of the Scutage of Wales ix l. x s. ix d. To this Hamon succeeded Gilbert his Son and Heir who in 6 R. 1. upon the Collecting of that Scutage then assess'd for the King's Redemption paid xix l. xx d. for the Knights Fees of his Paternal Inheritance and two Marks and an half for those of the Honour of Brunne which descended to him by his Mother In 6 Ioh. this Gilbert gave C Marks to the King for Livery of his Purparty in Brunne which he held of Hugh the Son of Henry de Longcamp whereof he had been dispossess'd by seisure into the Kings hands amongst those Lands which belong'd to the Normans in respect that the Dukedom of Normandy was then recovered from King Iohn by Philip Augustus King of France After which viz. in 14 Ioh. the whole Barony of this Gilbert was committed to the Custody of Hugh de Boues he being then dead as 't is like for I find no more mention of him leaving Issue Hamon his Son and Heir Which Hamon in 2 H. 3. upon Collection of the first Scutage of that King paid xxxiv Marks ii s. ii d. for seventeen Knights Fees and a twelsth part whereof his own Barony did consist and ten Marks for five Knights Fees of the Barony of Brunne In 7 H. 3. this Hamon having been in that Expedition then made into Wales obtain'd the King's Precept for levying Scutage upon all his own Tenants by Military Service within the Counties of Cantabr Norff. Suff. Linc. Oxon. Wiâ—tes Dorset and Somerset And in 25 H. 3. departed this Life in his Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Whereupon his Body was brought over to the Priory of Barnewell near Cambridge of the Foundation of the Peverells his Ancestors and buried in the Chappel of our Lady there leaving Issue by Eve his Wife by birth an Alien Gilbert his Son and Heir and five others viz. Hamon Hugh Robert Thomas and William Of which younger Sons Hugh adhered to the Rebellious Barons in 49 H. 3. This last-mention'd Gilbert in 26 H. 3. giving Security for the Payment of his Relief scil CC Marks and doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance but died in 19 E. 1. To whom succeeded another Gilbert who in 22 E. 1. attended the King in that Expedition then made into Gascoine and had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 28 E. 1. till 15 E. 2. inclusive And having married two Wives the one called Maude de Hastings the other Ioane Daughter of Simon de Grey had Issue by the first of them two Sons Iohn and Edmund unto whom he left little giving most of his Estate to his Children by the second and made King Edw. l. Heir to the rest of his Barony to whom likewise in 12 E. 1. he gave the Patronage of the Priory of Bernwelle ¶ Another Branch there was of this Name and probably from the same Stock the first thereof being Robert Peche Bishop of Coventre in King Stephen's time Which Robert had Issue Richard Archdeacon of Coventre to whom another Richard viz. Son of Geffrey Peche succeeded as next Heir Which last-mentioned Richard by Right of Descent from Petronill his Mother Daughter and at length Heir to Richard Walshe possess'd that fair Lordship of Wormleighton in Com. Warr. and left Issue Sir Iohn Peche Knight who in October 49 H. 3. soon after that memorable Battel of Gâ—esham had the King 's special Letters of Protection to be in force till Whitsontide following which shews that he stood Loyal to the King in that troublesom time Nor did he after that want Employments of Publick Trust for from 53 H. 3. till 9 E. 1. inclusive he was frequently one of the Justices of Gaol-delivery at Warwick and in 15 E. 1. in that 〈◊〉 Expedition under Edmund Earl of Cornwall to whom the King being then in France had committed the Guardianship of this Realm during his absence Moreover in 26 E. 1. he was in the Scottish Wars So likewise in 32 E. 1. and 34 E. 1. And in 15 E. 2. upon Information given to the King That one Thomas Blaunâ—front and others had possess'd themselves of Warwick-Castle then in the Ring 's hands by reason of the Earl of Warwick's Minority he receiv'd a special Commission to accompany the Sheriff of that County thither and requiring the Render thereof to imprison the Transgressors Whereupon he was constituted Governour of it and the next ensuing year was one of the Commissioners for arraying of Soldiers Horse and Foot to march against the Scots being the same year also made Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-Ports and in 19 E. 2. Governour of Corffe-Castle But in that Confession made by Edmund Earl of Kent in 3 E. 3. when he stood charg'd with Treason for reporting Edward the Second his Brother to be alive and that he had conspired his Enlargement from Prison and Restitution to his Thronc being accused to be one of that Earls Abettors therein Precepts were issued out to the
as one Man Whereunto though the King yielded not this Spark did not then break out to a Flame For the next ensuing year solemnizing the Feast of Christmass at Westminster this Hubert by his especial appointment propos'd to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal then present an Aid for vindicating the Injuries done to the King and his Subjects in the Parts beyond-Sea And having executed the Office of Sheriff f for the Counties of Norff. and Suff. from the beginning of the first till the end of the ninth year of this King's Reign as also of Kent from the beginning of the third till the end of the eleventh he was upon the eleventh day of February the same year advanc'd to the Dignity of Earl of Kent Gladio Comitatus Cantii accinctus saith M. Paris And upon the same day obtain'd a Grant to himself and the before-specified Margaret then his Wife in Fee of the Mannor of Eâ—â—brigg in Kent to hold by the Service of a Sore-Sparhawk at Lammas yearly Likewise of the Mannor of Ospring in the same County to hold by the Service of half a Knights Fee as also of the Mannor of Saham in Com. Cantabr by the like Service And within two days following of the Mannor and Honour of Keylée with the Knights Fees thereto belonging the Mannors of Hadlee Watlée Mereste Kenewode Ofwode Wichford and Purle part of the Possessions of Henry de Essex in Essex the Hundred of Rochford in that County the Mannor of Hagenet with the Constablery and Knights Fees as also of the Mannor of Neyland with the Knights Fees in Com. Suff. Likewise in March following of the Mannor of Ellesham in Com. Norff. with the Hundred paying the ancient Farm thereof to the King's Exchequer as also of the Mannor of Erdele in Com. Staff to hold by the fifth part of a Knights Fee And in July after had a special Discharge for the Sum of Six hundred forty five Pounds and half a Mark due from him to the Exchequer for the Fine which Beatrix de Warren his former Wife by whom he had Children made with King Iohn for Livery of the Lands of William de Warren her Father of her Inheritance and for Licence to Marry as also for an Assignation of her Dowrie of the Lands of Dodo Bardolf her first Husband Moreover in September following he obtain'd the King's Confirmation to himself and her the said Margaret and to the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten of divers Lordships and Lands by him purchased from sundry Persons viz. of the Castle of Borbroc from Baldwin Earl of Gisnes and all his Lands in Newyton near Hethe in Kent of the Mannor of Wynfrid from Gilbert de Aquila of the Mannor of Tunstall from Robert Arsic of the Mannor of Elmore from Roger Fitz-Nicholas of the Mannor of Asperele with the Advowson of the Church from Reginald de S. Walerie of the Mannor of Hornebie with the Castle Honour and Soke and Advowson of the Priory from Henry de Monegeden Montebegon as also of all the Lands of the said Henry in Mellyng and of the Mannor of Haâ—â—feild-Peberell from William Wyle And besides all this procur'd the like Confirmation to Margaret his eldest Daughter by the same Margaret of that Grant which he himself had made to her of the Mannors of Portisiade in Com. Suss. Seggebroc in Com. Linc. and Croxton Furthermore he then obtain'd a Grant to himself and Margaret his Wife and their Descendants with Remainder to his Right Heirs of all the Territory of Irchenfeild with the Hundred of Wirmelaw in Com. Heres So likewise the next ensuing year of the whole Valley of Wiresoale with the Lands of Gersingham set forth by Metes and Bounds in Com. Lanc. As also of the Mannor of Tichefelo in Com. Suthampt. part of the Possessions of Iohn de Gisorz and of the Mannor of Meleburne in Com. Somerset which belong'd to Guy de la Val to hold till such time as the King should think fit to make Restitution of those Lordships to the Heirs of the said Iohn and Guy And within few days after in consideration of his eminent Services to King Iohn and to this King Henry the Third by the Advice of the Peers of the whole Realm had a Grant of that Great Office of Iustice of England to hold during his whole Life as also of the Castle and Port of Dovor with the Revenues of that Haven and likewise of the Castles of Rochester and Canterbury during his Life with the Fee of a thousand Marks per annum for the Custody of them to be paid out of the Exchequer Moreover he then obtain'd the like Grant of the Castle of Montgomerie and of CC Marks yearly for the Custody thereof but in case of War to have a farther Augmentation to those Fees And the same year was constituted Governour of the Castles of Dovor Kochester Canterbury and Montgomerie for term of Life In which year being at Montgomerie and befieged by the Welch he was reliev'd by Forces sent from the King Whereupon finding a Place call'd Cridie which had been a chief Receptacle to that rude People he began to build a Castle there but before it could be finish'd many on each part were slain so that being constrain'd to make a Truce with the Welch it remain'd unperfected and was afterwards called Hubert's Folly Being thus created Earl of Kent in 13 H. 3. he obtain'd a Grant from the King of Fifty Pound Sterling yearly in lieu of the Third Peny of that County whereof he had been so made Earl to be received yearly from the Sheriff at Easter and Michaelmass by even Portions Which Annual Rent was thereby given to him and the Issue of his Body by Margaret at that time his Wife and for want of such Issue to his Right Heirs As also of the Inheritance of the Mannor and Hundred of Eylesham in Com. Norff. with the Mannor of West-Hale in Com. Suff. in exchange for the Mannor of Camell in Com. Somerset which he had of the Gift of King Iohn and Mannor of Tichefeld in Com. Suthampt. Koninton and Feltham in Com. Midd. Moreover of the Town Castle Valley and Honour of Montgomery with the Advowsons of the Churches and Knights Fees thereto belonging to Fee which Illaria Trussebut and Wenthlian Tet held in Dower of the Lands belonging to that Honour to hold by the Service of one Knights Fee Likewise of the Honour of Eye in Com. Suff. with the Wards Eschaets c. thereto belonging part of the Possessions of the Duke of Lubein to enjoy till the King should restore it to that Duke or his Heirs And of the Mannor of Stratton in Com. Salop. with the Advowson of the Church paying yearly to the Exchequer xvi l. per annum Sterling As also to himself and her the said
Margaret and for want of such Issue to his Right Heirs of the Mannor Castle and Honour of Cnaresburg Oldborough and Burrow-brigg in Com. Ebor. with the Knights Fees Soke and Forest thereto belonging paying C l. per annum into the Exchequer Having likewise by the same Grant the Gift of Ten thousand Marks due to the King from the Heirs of William de Stutevill and charg'd upon that Castle and Honour Furthermore he was then made Governour of the Castle at Bristoll and upon the Collection of the Scutage of Kery at that time answered for fifty six Knights Fees an half and tenth part of the Fees of Henry de Essex Likewise for Fifty Fees of the Honour of Hagenet and for xxxi and an half for those of the Honour of Peverel London But before the end of this thirteenth year about Michaelmass the King having a Rendezvouz at Portesmorth of the greatest Army that had been seen in this Realm it consisting of English Irish Scotch and Welch designing therewith the recovery of what his Father had lost in Forein Parts and expecting all things in readiness with Ships for their Transportation but finding not half so many as would suffice for that purpose he wholly attributed the fault to this Hubert and publickly calling him Old Traytor told him That he had taken Five thousand Marks as a Bribe from the Queen of France and thereupon drawing out his Sword would have kill'd him had not the Earl of Chester and some others prevented it but displaced him from his Office of Justice whereupon he withdrew till the King grew better pacified as it seems he soon was For the next ensuing year when divers valiant Knights coming to the King out of Normandy earnestly besought him to land Forces in that Country assuring him that it might be easily recovered this Hubert wholly disswaded him from attempting it anâ— prevail'd with him to make an Expedition into Gascoigne and Poiâ—â—ou where he succeeded so well that having little opposition he freely received the Homages of the Inhabitants of those Countries Moreover upon the death of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester this year he obtain'd the Custody of all his Lands And in 15 H. 3. procur'd a Grant to himself and the same Lady Margaret his Wife and the Heirs of their two Bodies in augmentation of the Honour of Kaermerdin and Cardigan which the King had then given them of the Homage and Service of Iohn de Braose due from him for the Honour of Goher As also Licence to himself and the said Margaret and their Heirs to build a Castle at Hadleg part of the Honour of Keylegh the Inheritance of which Honour he had formerly obtain'd from the King And about that time having Intelligence that the Welch had committed divers Outrages especially in the Parts about Montgomery he march'd thither and out of that Castle sent a Party of Soldiers who flew many of them and brought in divers Prisoners whose Heads for terrour to others he caused to be cut off and sent to the King Which Cruelty so far provoked Leoline Prince of Wales that he raised all the Power he could and retaliated the like to the English setting fire also on the Churches by which means many who fled thither for Sanctuary were burnt whereof some were Gentlewomen of good Quality And yet continuing his Interest the next ensuing year he procur'd a special Charter of Privilege viz. That in case he should thenceforth be employ'd in the King's Service beyond-Sea or on Pilgrimage or otherwise or that he should happen to be infirm and weak in Body at any time so that he could not in Person undergo that High Office of Iustice of England that then he should have power to assign a Substitute to be approved of by the King Soon after which he obtain'd a Grant of the Office of Iustice of Ireland for life as also of the Custody of the Tower of London with the Castles of Odyham â—indfore and Wardenship of that Forest answering for the same as had been accustomed In which year Pandulse the Popes Legate absolv'd him of his Vow of Pilgrimage to the Holy Land But soon after this the King's Favour towards him declined apace his Affections being wholly captivated by others for the very same year through the instigation of Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester who then bore the chief sway at Court he was first totally displaced from that Great Office of Iustice of England as also from the Custody of the Castles of Dovor Canterbury Rochester Windsore Odiham Hertford Colchester and the Tower of London Stephen de Segrave being put in his stead in all these Trusts And not only so but strictly required to give an Account of all the King's Treasure wherewith he had at any time medled and of the Debts owing as well to King Iohn as to that King As also of all the King's Lands from the day of the death of William Mareschall Earl of Pembroke Governour of the King and Kingdom whilst he lived both in England Wales Ireland and Poictou and likewise of the Liberties in the King's Forests Warrens and all other Places how they were kept or aliened Moreover of the Fifteenth Sixteenth and other Revenues which had been brought into the Exchequer the New-Temple at London or any other place Likewise of Prizes made for releasing the King's Right as well in Lands as Moveables Also of whatsoever else had been lost through his negligence and for many other Particulars whereof for brevity I omit the mention Whereunto he answered That as to what was charg'd upon him relating to King Iohn's time he had a general Charter of Release from any Account which might be required of him that King having so great a confidence in his Integrity that he expected none at all Unto which the Bishop of Winchester replied That such a Release could not be of any validity after the death of King Iohn But these were trivial things in comparison of what his Enemies afterwards objected against him For they farther laid to his charge 1. That when the King had sent Embassadors into Austria in order to a Marriage with the Daughter of that Duke he wrote Letters to the Duke dissuading him from yielding thereto 2. That he dissuaded the King from making a Military Expedition into Normandy for the recovery thereof so that much of the King's Treasure was vainly lost 3. That whereas King Iohn had given him the Custody of the Daughter of the King of Scotland to the end he should marry her he on the contrary most Traiterously defiled her by getting Children upon her in Fornication and afterwards married her in hopes
Chedel in Com. Staff and of the Mannor and Castle of Beneseld in Com. Northampt. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir xxii year of age Which Elizabeth enfeoffed Iohn Duke of Somerset and others in all the Lands of her Inheritance to the intent that out of the Revenues thereof they should discharge her Debts as also her Funeral Expences at Aylesford in Kent where she appointed to be buried by her Loâ—d and Husband and to find a Priest to sing there for the Soul of her said Husband her self and Children for seven years and to pay to the Friers-Preachers at Stanford Ten Pounds Sterling to pray for the Soul of her self her Husband and Children She likewise ordained * That Henry Lord Grey of Codnoure her Grandson or his Heirs within two years after any of them arrived to the age of twenty one years should make a sure Estate unto Iohn the Son of William sometime Lord Zouche and Elizabeth his Wife her Daughter of the Mannor of Cheyle-Hall and certain other Lands But I return to Iohn Son and Heir to the last-mention'd Richard This Iohn had Livery of his Lands the same year his Father died his Homage being respited but died in 9 H. 6. leaving Henry his Brother and Heir xxv years of age Which Henry had Livery of his Lands the same year And having married Margaret one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Henry Lord Percy of Athol in 11 H. 6. shared in the Inheritance of that Lord Percy 's Lands Which Margaret afterwards became the Wife of Sir Richard Vere Knight This Henry died 17 Iulii 22 H. 6. being then seised of the Mannors of Newbottle in Com. Northampt Upton and Toneworth in Com. Suthampt. Evyngton in Com. Leic. Toweton Brokestowe and Radcliffe upon Trent in Com. Nott. and of the Castle and Mannor of Codnoure with the Mannors of Henoure Denvy and Stoke in Com. Derb. leaving Henry his Son nine years of age Which last-mention'd Henry much affecting the Study of Chymistry in 3 Edw. 4. obtain'd a Licence from the King to practise the Transmutation of Metals by his Philosophical Skill How he sped therein I cannot say But in consideration of his many and great Services to the King he obtain'd in 13 E. 4. a Grant of all those Lands in the North of Ireland called le Cale and of all the Castles and Lordships therein as also of all Arde in that part of Ireland to hold for the term of Forty years freely without rendring any account therefore Moreover the next ensuing year viz. 14 E. 4. he was retain'd by Indenture to serve the King for one whole year in his Wars of Normandy and other Parts of France with twenty Spears and Clx Archers And in 1 R. 3. obtain'd a Grant of the Mannors of Okham Langham and Egeston in Com. Rotel Hengrave Haverell and Hersham in Suffolk to hold to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body lawfully begotten But this Gift ended with his Life for having by his Testament bearing date 10 Sept. 8 H. 7. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Chancel of our Lady in the Freres at Aylesford in Kent and given to Richard Gray his Bastard-Son his Mannor of Ratcliffe upon Trent in Com. Nott. and to the Heirs of his Body as also appointed That his other Bastard-Son named Henry whom he had by Katherine Finderne should marry Cecilie Charleton he died in 11 H. 7. without any lawful Issue Whereupon the Mannor and Castle of Codenoure with some other of his Lands came to Elizabeth his Aunt and Heir Wife of Sir Iohn Zouche Knight a younger Son to William Lord Zouche of Haringworth From which Henry his Natural Son the Grays of Langley in Com. Leic. are descended Grey of Wilton I Come now to Iohn de Grey second Son to the first Henry de Gray This Iohn in 9 H. 3. was Guardian to Oliver D'aincourt and paid Lxx l. at that time for him upon levying the Scutage of Poictou In 23 H. 3. he was Sheriff for the Counties of Buck and Bedf. for three parts of that year and in 26 H. 3. had Summons to fit himself with Horse and Arms to attend the King in his Expedition then made into France In 30 H. 3. he was made Constable of the Castle of Gannoc in North-Wales And in 33 H. 3. being then Justice of Chester had a Grant of all the King's Lands in Cheshire and North Wales viz. Ros Rewennyoc Dyffrencloyy and Englefeld to hold from the Feast of the Purification of our Lady for one whole year rendring to the King Five hundred Marks at the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist and the Nativity of our Lord by equal Portions The like Grant he had in 34 H. 3. But Wales being then brought in subjection to the King Alan la Zouche supplanted him and gave a greater Rent viz. Eleven hundred Marks per annum for those Territories In 35 H. 3. the Lady Ioane Peyvre Widow of Pauline Peyvre a Great Man in that Age being possess'd of all her Husband's Estate sold to this Iohn the Marriage of her Son for Five hundred Marks he undertaking to discharge her of any Fine to the King Whereupon he married him to his own Daughter And when this Ioane heard that the King had given her Marriage as she was a Widow to one Stephen de Salines an Alien she by the advice of her Friends being theâ— at London match'd her self to this Iohn de Grey upon Tuesday next before the xv mc of St. Michael Which being told the King he grew much offended but at length accepted of a Fine of Five hundred Marks from him for that Transgression Which lady Ioane departing this Life at Leyham about five years after was buried at Wonbury by this Iohn de Grey her Husband In 36 H. 3. the King intending a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land and causing the Bishops of Worcester and Chichester with the Abot of Westminster to stir up the People to the like Devotion though few were moved thereat yet this Iohn and Richard his Brother assented which so pleased the King that embracing them in his Arms he kissed them and called them Brothers In 37 H. 3. this Iohn was made Governour of Northampton-Castle and in 38 H. 3. constituted Steward of all Gascoigne upon the twenty fourth of August the King being then at Burdeaux and about the beginning of October following by reason of Sickness his Brother Richard was substituted in his stead But in 40 H. 3. being an aged Knight much esteem'd for his Civility and Valour as also Chief of the King's Council being weary of the Vanities of the Court he withdrew himself In 41 H. 3. he was made Governour of the Castle at
Priscilla Which Henry upon the death of his Father succeeding in his Honour wedded Mary the Daughter of Sir William Courtene Knight by whom he had Issue two Sons viz. Henry who died ... Anno 1644. and Anthony and departed this Life ... leaving the said Anthony surviving at this time Earl of Kent who took to Wife Mary the sole Daughter and Heir to Iohn Lord Lucas and one Daughter named Elizabeth afterwards married to Banastar Maynard Son and Heir to the Lord Maynard Grey of Groby I Next come to Sir Edward Grey Knight second Son to Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn by Ioane his Wife Daughter and Heir to William Lord Astley This Sir Edward married Elizabeth the sole Daughter of Henry Son to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and by reason of the said Henry's death in the Life-time of William his Father became next Heir to the same Lord Ferrers Whereupon doing his Homage having then Issue by her he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance and bore the Title of Lord Ferrers of Groby as appeareth by that special Dispensation which he obtain'd from Iohn Stafford then Archbishop of Canterbury bearing date at Lambethe 8 Nov. Anno 1446. 25 H. 6. whereby in respect of the great distance of his Mannor-house of Groby from the Parish-Church and foulness of the ways thereto he had Licence to Christen that Child therein by the Vicar of his Chappel wherewith Elizabeth his Lady was then great and near the time of her delivery Which Dispensation was directed thus viz. Nobili viro Edmundo Domino de Ferrers de Groby But about two years after scil 27 H. 6. being then xxx years of age he had Summons to Parliament as Lord Ferrers of Groby to distinguish him from the Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This Edward died 18 Dec. 36 H. 6. leaving Sir Iohn Grey Knight his Son and Heir twenty five years of age as also Edward Grey a second Son afterwards called Lord L'isle as I shall shew by and by Reginald a third Son slain in the Battel of Wakefeild and Anne a Daughter married to Sir Edward Hungerford Knight Which Sir Iohn Grey married Elizabeth the eldest Daughter to Richard Widvile Earl Rivers and being slain in the Battel of St. Albans on the King's part in 39 H. 6. left Issue two Sons viz. Sir Thomas Grey and Sir Richard both Knights Which Sir Richard was afterwards beheaded at Pomfret in 1 R. 3. Elizabeth their Mother still surviving with whose Beauty King Edward the Fourth when she came to him at his Mannor-house of Grafton as a Petitioner on the behalf of her self and her Son being captivated made her his Queen and for her sake so much favoured her Son Sir Thomas that upon the twenty fourth of August in the eleventh year of his Reign he created him Earl of Huntendon Moreover in 14 E. 4. he retain'd him to serve in Normandy with Forty Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And upon the eighteenth of April in 15 advanc'd him to the Dignity of Marquess Dorset only per cincturam Gladii Capae Honoris Dignitatis impositionem the Coronet being omitted Upon which day he sate in his Habit at the upper end of the Table amongst the Knights in St. Edward's Chamber and in 22 E 4. gave him Livery of his Lands without making proof of his age Nevertheless after the death of King Edward in respect of his near relation to the young King Edward the Fifth whom Richard Duke of Gloucester his unnatural Uncle caused to be unnaturally murthered he was attainted of High Treason But having taken Sanctuary for the preservation of himself from that blood-thirsty Man he got privily away and fled into Bâ—itanny with divers other Persons of Note to the aid of Henry Earl of Richmund who then had an Army of Five thousand Men with Ships ready to transport them for England and finding the Earl gone thence went to Venice but hearing of his return hasted back Howbeit after this being invited by the Queen his Mother whom King Richard by Flattery had abus'd to return into England with promise of great matters despairing of the Earl's Success he went from Paris by night into Flanders with purpose to get into England Which being made known to Richmund he forthwith sent Humphrey Cheyney after him who overtaking him at Compeigne prevail'd with him to return But it was not long ere the Scene became altered by the destruction of King Richard in the Battel at Bosworth Whereupon Richmund obtaining the Crown by the Name of King Henry the Seventh sent for him to return having left him at Paris in Pledge with Iohn Bourchier for certain Moneys borrowed there Whence being return'd he fully restor'd him and made him one of his Privy-Council Nevertheless after this the King grew jealous of him for being at Walsâ—â—gham in Norfolk to prevent those who stood not firm to him from getting into Flanders and hearing that he was coming thither to clear himself of those Suspicions which some had rais'd of his Fidelity he sent the Earl of Oxford to meet him and carry him to the Tower of London concluding That if he were not cordial that was the best way to prevent mischief from him but if he were as in truth he was that then he would not take it ill And accordingly after some time did not only set him at liberty but receiv'd him into his former Favour and Familiarity And in 7 H. 7. dispatch'd him into France with that Army intended for the Aid of Maximilian the Emperour against the French under the Conduct of Gaspar Duke of Bedford and Iohn Earl of Oxford After which in 11 H. 7. he was one of the principal Persons in the Conduct of those Forces which vanquish'd the Lord Audley and his Fellow-Rebels at Black-heath in Kent This Thomas caus'd the Ditch of the old Castle at Grâ—by to be fill'd up and began the Foundation and Walls of a great Gate-house and a Tower there of Bâ—â—ck but did not finish it He built also two Towers of Brick on the Front of the House correspondent to the Gate-house on each side one By his Testament whereunto there is no date he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in his College of 〈◊〉 in Com. Warr. before the Image of the Blessed Trinity in the midst of his Closet within the same College and appointed That his Executors should cause to be said for his Soul in every of the â—ouâ— Orders of Freres in London an hundred Mâ—ssâ—s and that at the time of his Burial an hundred Marks should be disposed in Alms to poor People Moreover he willed That the Hospital of â—â—tterworth in Com. Leic. of his Patronage should be
this William de Valence so that he and his Wife might satisfy the other participants for their respective purparties About that time this William de Valence residing at Hertford Castle as it is said rode to the Parke at Haethfel belonging to the Bishop of Ely and there hunting without any leave went to the Bishops Mannor-house and readily finding nothing to drink but ordinary Beer broke open the Buttry-doors and swearing and cursing the drink and those who made it after all his company had drunk their fills of the best Wine in the Cellars pulled out the Spigots out of the Vessels and let out the rest upon the Floor And that a servant of the House hearing the noise and coming to see what the matter was they laughed him to scorn and so departed In 37 Hen. 3. upon Saturday after the Feast of St. Hillary there was an agreement betwixt Athelmare elect of Winchester and this William on the one part and Richard de Clare Earl of Gloucester and Hertford on the other by which it was concluded that Gilbert the Son to that Earl should take to Wife Alice the Niece to them the said Athelmare and William Daughter to Hugh le Brun sometime Earl of March and Angolesme their Brother her marriage Portion being five thousand Marks In 39 Henry the third this William having been promised two thousand and two hundred marks for the supporting himself and his Souldiers which went with him to the Holy-Land and having received no more thereof than ninety pounds obtained the Kings precept to the Abbot of Westminster for payment of what was in arrear And in 41 H 3. procured the Kings discharge for the summe of four hundred Marks which he did then owe to the Exchequer for the purparty belonging to Ioan his Wife of the Dowry of Alianore Countess of Leicester Sister to the King of such Lands as were Walter Mareschall's sometime Earl of Pembroke In 42 Hen. 3. upon the Insurrection of the Welsh he had summons amongst others to fit himself with Horse and Armes and to attend the King at Chester on Munday preceding the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist. About this time those discontents which hapned betwixt the King and many of the great Lords by reason that the King hearkened to the Counsel of Aliens whereof this William was one of the chief growing very high such was the potency of those Lords then siding in that quarrel that the King saw himself necessitated to comply with them and to submit to those unreasonable Ordinances which they had made in that Parliament then held at Oxford afterwards called Parliamentum Insanum The Mad Parliament whereupon this William fearing some danger by his stay upon the 5 Cal. of Aug. that year sailed into France whereof Henry de Montfort eldest Son to Simon Earl of Leicester having notice calling to mind how he had affronted his Father in the Parliament at London by giving him publickly the Lye and branding him with the name of an old Traitor followed him into those parts with purpose to take him But this William being got to Boâ—oâ—n and finding that he was thus hunted after sent to the King of France for Letters of safe conduâ—t through his Country into Poictou and so escaped him Howbeit though he thus got away there remained here so great an hatred towards him that his Adversaries laid hold on William de Bussy his Steward and imprisoned him in the Tower of London which hard dealing struck such a terror to the Lady Ioan his Wife that so soon as she could she passed the Seas and went to him Nevertheless about two years after the times were more calm viz. in 45 Hen. 3. so that the King being then beyond-Sea made haste to return for perfecting an accord with those haughty spirited Barons and brought this William de Valence with him But so much did those powerful men distaste his return that they would not suffer him to land unless he would give Oath to observe those Ordinances which they had so made at Oxford It seems that upon that flight so by him made his Lands were seized for upon this his return upon the termes before expressed he had restitution of them again together with the Castle of Hertford but was constrained to accept of a Pardon for so the Barons had ordered it Yet all this would not do fierce animosities still continuing on either side so that at length with great forces they met first at Northampton where this William being with the Prince they took that town by assault utterly routing all the strength the Barons then had there But within a short time after the remnant of them recruiting themselves chiefly by the conjunction of the Londoners marched to Lewes in Sussex where viz. Maii 48 Hen. 3. the King encountering them unhappily lost the day and was himself with the Prince made Prisoner But this William then called Earl of Pembroke and not before for ought I have seen being a principal Commander in the Van of the Kings Army â—seeing the day lost with the Earl Warren and some others escaped by flight first to Pevensey and thence into France After which all being in the power of the Barons his Lands were seized and those in Surrey and Sussex committed to the Custody of Iohn de Abernun and Iohn de Wauton And whereas Ioan his Lady was then great with Child and with her Children and Family in Windsore Castle she was commanded to depart thence and betake her self to some Religious House or other place near at hand until after her delivery In which distress the King still their prisoner being forced to comply with them in whatsoever they required submitted to their Ordinances of Oxford the chief of his friends also giving Oath for the due observance of them amongst which this William de Valence then come back into England was one But long it was not ere the two principal Ringleaders in this Tragick Action viz. Montfort Earl of Leicester and Clare Earl of Gloucester fell at odds Clare stomaching Montfort for assuming to himself the whole sway in the Government betaking him therefore to those true-hearted Royalists who had stood firm to the King in his greatest miseries a means was contrived for the Prince to escape from Hereford Castle where with the King his Father he was kept Prisoner Whereupon this William Earl of Pembroke with Iohn Earl Warren who had been banished the Realm by a publick edict of Montfort landing at Pembroke about the beginning of May with about an hundred and twenty men Horse and Foot joyned with them and within a short time after giving Battle to Montfort and his party at Evesham totally vanquished all their whole
Burial in all charges viz. Black Gowns the Dole the Herse the Dinner and carriage of his Corps to Spillesby two hundred pounds Sterling Also that the Chantry of Spâ—â—â—esby should have to the building of it and the Church two hundred pounds in Sterling Money in recompence of the Lead that he had there And six pounds a year to find a Priest to sing for himself his Wife his Father Mother and Children and good Friends as also four pounds for an Obit every year for himself for ninty nine years This William Lord Willughby being at the Siege of Tournay in 5 H. 8. was associated with the Vicount L'isle id est Charls Brandon for the defence of the Ordnance with their Bands and was one of the chief of those Commanders which entred that City upon the render thereof He had Summons to Parliament in 1. 3. and 6 H. 8. and departing this life at 〈◊〉 in Com. Suff. 19 Oct. 17 H. 8. was buried in the Collegiate Church of Metâ—â—ngham in the same County leaving Issue one sole Daughter his Heir named Catherine whose Wardship in 20 H. 8. Charles Brandon then Duke of Suffâ—â—k obtained Which Catherine making proof of her age in 26 H. 8. had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance and afterward became the fourth Wife of that great Duke but without any Issue surviving afterwards Married to Richard Bartue Esquire of whose Descendants I shall speak in their proper place Willoughby Lord Brooke I Come now to Sir Robert Willoughby Knight Son and Heir of Iohn Willoughby a younger Branch of the Family of Eresby and Anne his Wife one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir Edmund Cheney of 〈◊〉 in Com. Wilts Knight by Alice his Wife Daughter and Heir of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Hoke Knight and Grandson to Thomas a younger Son to Robert Lord Willoughby and Elizabeth his Wife Sister and Heir to Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer This Sir Robert Willoughby Married Blanch one of the Daughters and Heirs of Robert Champernon Esquire and having Issue by her doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance In 1 R. 3. bearing an hearty affection to Henry Earl of Richmund he was one of those who rose in Armes on his behalf against King Richard And when he discerned that the Duke of Buckingham who was the principal person in that Insurrection did miscarry in his attempt he fled into Britanny with Thomas Marquess Dorset and others reserving himself for a fitter opportunity which within a short time after happened For returning with that Earl he became a succesful sharer in the benefit of his great Victory at Bosworth-Field King Richard being there slain Whereupon as a person of much trust the Earl of Richmund then assuming the Title of King by the Name of Henry the Seventh he was by him sent into Yorkshire to suppress any Tumult which might be made in those parts and to bring with him from Shiriff-Hoton Castle Edward Earl of Warwick Son and Heir to George Duke of Clarence a youth of about fifteen years of age whom King Richard had caused to be there kept Prisoner Soon after which in consideration of his especial Services and singular Fidelity he was advanced to the Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Brooke by reason of his residence at Brooke near Westbury in Wiltshire so called from that little Torrent running there Moreover being an expert Souldier in 4 H. 7. he was made Captain General of those Forces then sent in aid of the Duke of Britanny against the French and in 5 H. 7. reteined to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea towards Britanny with four Knights twenty six Men at Arms and nine hundred and seventy Archers for the space of three Months In 8 H. 7. being constituted Marshal of the English-Army then sent into France wherein the King himself was he attended him at the Siege of â—â—loine And in 12 H 7. upon the Cornish-Mens Insurrection was one of the Chief Commanders in the Army raised for the suppressing them Having been summoned to Parliament in 11 and 12 H. 7. by his Testament bearing date 19 Aug. An. 1502. 17 H. 7. he bequeathed his Body to be Buried in the Church of that Parish wherein he should happen to dye appointing that part of the Issues and Profits of Mâ—â—ton and Kelmesham c. in the County of UUorcester and the Mannors of Helpringham Thorpe Latimer Skredyngton Heckington Ledynghall and Swynehed in Com. Linc. then lately belonging to Richard Lord Latimer should be employed for the space of twenty years next after his decease to the finding of a Priest to sing in the Parish-Church of Hoke in Com. Dors. for that term taking for his Salary every year ten Marks and to the Relief of fourteen poor Men and Women by the space of the said twenty years to pray for his Soul as also for the Soul of Blanch his Wife and the Souls of his Father and Mother After which ere long he departed this life for the Probate of that his Testament beareth date upon the twenty fifth of December next ensuing To whom succeeded Robert his Son and Heir who in 22 H. 7. obtained from the King a Grant in Fee of the Mannor of Trethewe in Com. Cornub. also of all the Lands in Trethewe which did belong to Henry Bodrigan and in 3 H. 8. was one of the chief Commanders of those Forces then sent into Biscay on the behalf of Ferdinand King of Arragon against the French with design to invade Guyen This Robert having Married Elizabeth the eldest of the three Daughters and Co-heirs to Sir Richard Beauchamp of Powick in Com. Wigorn and of Alcester in com War Knight on whom he begot a Son called Edward had in her right the Mannor of Alcester within which the principal seat is called Beauchamp's-Court He afterward Marryed a second Wife viz. Dâ—rothie Daughter of Thomas Grey Marquess Dorset by whom he had Issue two Sons Henry and William who died of the Sweating Sickness and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Iohn Pawlet Marquess of UUinchester and Anne to Charles Blount Son and Heir to William Lord Montjoy And by his Testament bearing date 1 Oct. An. 1521. 13 H. 8. bequeathed his Body to be Buried in the Hospital called the Savoy in the Suburbs of London before the Image of St. Iohn Baptist appointing that a Priest of honest conversation should be provided to sing and pray for his Soul as also for his Wives Soul and all his Ancestors Souls for ever in the place where he should be buried taking for his yearly Salary seven pounds To his Bastard-Sons William and George when they should arrive to the age of twenty four years each of them sixty six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for their promotion and
daughter to William Lord Honard of Essingham succeeded in this Earldome and all other the Honors belonging thereto Which Henry married Rachel daughter of Franâ—s Earl of Westmorland and departing this life without issue 15 Aug. An. 1654. lieth buried at Tawestoke with his Ancestors where he hath a noble Monument â—rected to his Memory with this Epâ—taph engraven thereon Hic situs est Dom. Henricus Bourchier Comes Bathoniensis Qui longâ propagine numeroso stemmate à vetustissimis juxta ac nobilissimis familiis de Bourchier Fitzwarine effluxit jure haereditario ac titulo cognationis ascita sibi Insignia de Woodstoke Bohun Say Mandeville Bruse Badlesmer Clare Montchenscy Cornehill Windsor Peverell Clifford Gifford Martin Mohun Tracy Cogan Dinham Courtney Rivers Stourton Hangford reliquarum celebris notae Familiarum Arma natalitia cum propriis Insignibus intertexta ac circumfusa Scuto suo gentilitio complectitur posteris Marmore hoc insculpto exhibet Satis est Lector habes jam tandem compendiosam suorum Natalium seriem ubi generis splendorem prosapiae suae sublimitatem spectes Si verò virtutes Animi supellectilem lustraveris Nomen sâ—um aere perennius Marmore diuturnius aut quovis Eulogio vel Epitaphio conspectius tandem aliquando consulas Bourchier Lord Berners I come next to Sir Iohn Bourchier Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter fourth son to William Earl of Ewe Which Sir Iohn having married Margery the daughter and heir to Richard Lord Berners had summons to Parliament in 33 H. 6. and afterwards by the Title of Lord Berners In this 33 th year of King Henry the Sixth he was on the King's part in the first Battel of St. Albans But notwithstanding he then stood up for the House of Lancaster in 1 E. 4. he had such fair esteem from the other side that he was by that King made Constable of Windsore-Castle as also Warden of the Forest and Parks thereto belonging for life And in 2 E. 4. attended him into the North at which time he laid siege to the Castle of Bamburgh and the rest in Northumberland then held out by the Lancastrians In 12 E. 4. he was again made Constable of Windsore-Castle that King having then recovered himself after his expulsion Shortly after which viz. in An. 1473. 13 E. 4. by his Testament bearing date 21 Martii he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Chapel of the Holy-Rood within the Abby of St. Peter at Cherâ—sey and gave to the Monks of that House a Cross of Silver gilt having a foot whereon were the Images of Mary and Iohn as also other Jewels and Ornaments to the value of Forty pounds to the intent that they should pray for his Soul and the Soul of Margery his Wife and all their childrens Souls And departed this life 16 Maii 14 E. 4. being then seifed of the Mannor of Sende in Com Wilts leaving Iohn his Grandson viz. Son of Humphrey his eldest son by Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Sir Thomas Howard Knight which Humphrey was slain at Barnet-Feild on King Edward the Fourth's part and buried in UUestminster Abby his next Heir at that time seven years of age and Margerie his Wife surviving who died on Munday next after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord the ensuing year viz. 15 E. 4. being then seised of the Mannor of West 〈◊〉 in Com. Surr. Berners-Bury in Iseldon in Com. Midd. Berners in Ikelingham in Com. Suff. Estle Chigenhale Tany Chigenhale Zoyne Norton Southorpe Northorpe Berner-Mershe Pole-mershe Berners-Roding Beamont-Crippinge Berners-Berwyke and Springfelde in Com. Essex He had also another Son called Thomas who came in to Henry Earl of Richmund afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Seventh upon his March towards Bosworth-Field and took part with him in that happy adventure And after that in 12 H. 7. joyned with his Forces in that Fight at Black-heath against the Cornish-men then in Rebellion But I return to Iohn Grandson and Heir to the before-specified Iohn Lord Berners In 5 H. 8. he was Captain of the Pioneers at the Siege of Theronvene In 6 H. 8. being made Chancellor of the Kings Exchequer for life he attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France to her Marriage with King Lewes the Twelfth and in 19 H. 8. obtained a Grant from the King of the Inheritance of the Mannors of Okam Effingham UUaldingham Titâ—ey and divers other Lands in Com. Surr. Stratron-Audley in Com. Oxon. Knoke in Com. Wilts Up-Clatford in Com. South with all the Knights Fees and advousons of Churches to those Mannors belonging And by his Testament bearing date 3 Martii An. 1532. 24 H. 8. being then Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of our Lady within the Town of Calais appointing that an honest Priest should sing Mass there for his Soul by the space of three years He likewise bequeathed to Humphrey Bourchier his Son his Gown of Damask-Tawney furred with Jennets and certain Legacies to Iames and George his other Sons but all these were Illegitimate as it seemeth for upon his death which hapned 16 Martii An. 1532. 24 H. 8. Ioane his Daughter and Heir by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Iohn Duke of Norf. then Married to Edmund Knyvet of Ashwelthorpe in Com. Norf. Esquire had Livery of his Lands It is farther observable of this Iohn Lord Berners that he was a person not a little eminent for his Learning and that thereupon by the command of King Henry the Eighth he translated the Chronicle of Sir Iohn Froissart Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to King Edward the Third as also to Queen Philippa out of French into English He likewise translated out of French Spanish and Italian several other Works viz. the Life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight the famous Exploits of Hugh of Bourdeaur Marcus-Aurelius and the Castle of Love He also composed a Book of the Duties of the Inhabitants at Calais and a Comedy intituled Ite in Vineam Touching Humphrey his Son it is reported that he bestowed much cost in translating the House of Nunns at Mergate in Com. Bedf. to a Mannor place that is to say in pulling down the whole Structure of the dissolved Monastery there and converting it to a Mansion House for himself but did not finish it Humphrey Bourchier Lord Cromwell THis Humphrey was third Son to Henry the first Earl of Essex of that Family and having married Ioane the Daughter of Richard Stanhope Neice and Co-heir to Raphe Lord Cromwell of Tatshall had Summons to Parliament in 1 2 6 and 9 E. 4. by the Title of Lord Cromwell Moreover in
New Bigging to become bound in Ten thousand Marks for the rendring himself prisoner at a certain day in case he did not pay the Ransome then agreed on Of which payment making not performance the King upon complaint commanded Henry de Perci Earl of Northumberland Roger Lord Clifford and Raphe Lord Greystoke to bring him personally to his Presence and to find sufficient security for the indempnifying of those his sureties Nevertheless he neglected so to do by reason whereof the said Iohn de Nevill of Baby was constrain'd to pay the Ransome which was a Thousand Marks Whereupon making complaint to the King in 5 R. 2. he sent his Precept to the Sheriff of Westmorland to levy that sum upon the Goods and Lands of this Thomas as also to Arrest him and keep him in prison untill he should make full repayment thereof the Money having been paid by Nevill to the Earl of March whose Prisoner he was This is all that I have to say of him other than that his summons to Parliament was from 24 E. 3. until 47 E. 3. inclusive and that his Descendents being persons of great note in those parts do continue there to this day Benhale 34. Edw. 3. IN 10 E. 3. Robert de Benhale was in that Expedition then made into France Likewise in 12 E. 3. in that into Flanders And in 34 E. 3. had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm but never after Edmund de Langele Earl of Cambridge 36 Edw. 3. EDmund the Fifth son of King Edward the Third born Edmund at the King's Mannor-house of Langele in Com. Hertf. An. 1341. 15 E. 3. and baptized by Michael then Abbot of St. Albans took thereupon his Surname from that place And in 21 E. 3. being then but six years of age had a Grant from the King his Father in special tail of all the Castles Mannors and Lands beyond Tâ—ent formerly belonging to Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey but in regard of his Minority Quen Philippa his Mother received the Profits of them for the maintenance and education of him and other her younger children From which time till 36 E. 3. I have not seen any farther mention of him but then the Parliament sitting though he was at that time in Treland he was created Earl of Cambridge his Patent bearing date 13 Nov. And in 37 E. 3. obtain'd a Grant in Fee of the Castle Mannor and Town of Stanford as also of the Mannor of Grantham both in Com. Linc. In 38 E. 3. it appeares that he should have married Margaret heir to the Earl of Flanders but for neerness of blood the Pope being sent to for his Dispensation therein and Charles the Fifth then King of France craftily hindring it she became the wife to Philip Duke of Burgundy Brother to that King Notwithstanding which it appeares that in 39 E. 3. which was the next ensuing year Sir Nicholas de Tamworth Knight and Iohn Wyn Esquire were sent by King Edward to all the Nobles and other his Friends beyond the Seas to sollicit their help for the expelling those Strangers who had invaded the Counties of Burgundy Nevere and Reth of right belonging to the Countess of Flanders and her son which were to return unto this Edmund and to the Dutchess of Burgundy daughter to the same Earl of Flanders in regard of that Matrimonial Contract made betwixt them as the Record apparently doth manifest In 42 E. 3. Peace being then made with France this Edmund was one of those who on the behalf of the King his Father made Oath for the performance of the Articles then agreed on Also in 43 E. 3. being sent with the Earl of Pembroke and others in aid of the Black Prince then in Normandy he was at the siege of Bourdelf and having taken it Marcht to the Castle of Roche sur yone Moreover after this upon winning the Garrison of Bell-Perch he led away the Duke of Bourbon's Mother and all that were therein And then joyn'd with the Duke of Lancaster his Brother at Bergerath to keep the Frontiers against the French In 44 E. 3. he still continued in those Wars and in 46 E. 3. upon the taking of Lymoges by the Black Prince with the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Guischard de Angle he entred and did much slaughter there After which he attended the King in that Expedition design'd for the rescuing of Thouars but therein being crossed by contrary Windes nothing was attempted Before the end of that year therefore he returned with Iohn Duke of Lancaster his Brother at which time they brought with them the two daughters of Don Pedro King of Castile viz. Constance and Isabell which Isallell shortly became his wife In 47 E. 3. he was retein'd by Indenture to serve the King for one whole year in his fleet at Sea with Two hundred and fifty Men at Armes Two hundred and fifty Archers thirty Knights and Two hundred and twenty Esquires and in 48 E. 3. was joyn'd in Commission by the King his Father with Iohn Duke of Britanny in the Lieutenancy of France and all other Forreign parts Whereupon he â—ailed into Britanny and had the Town of St. Mathews on the Sea-coast with the Castles of Brest and Orrey rendred to him After which they besieg'd Kemperle wherein most of the chief Men of Britanny at that time were and had taken it but that a certain Knight brought them Newes of a Truce betwixt England and France with command from King Edward that they should leave the siege and return home speedily In 50 E. 3. he was made Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports And in 1 R. 2. in which year he was again retein'd to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea for a quarter of that year with One hundred Men at Armes and One hundred Archers whereof himself and one Banneret to be part of the number twelve Knights and the rest Esquires Froisard saith that upon the appearance of the French near to the Coast of England about that time this Edmund and Thomas of Wodstoke his Brother were at Dovor in the head of an hundred thousand men with Banners display'd In 2 R. 2. he was again in the King's Fleet at Sea And in 4 R. 2. was one of the Principal Commanders in that great Army then sent into Portugall Whereupon he obtain'd a Grant from the King that whereas by reason of his former services and in that voyage to Portugall he had contracted divers Debts his Executors should therefore reteine the profits of all his Lands for one whole year after his death as also receive that sum of Five hundred Marks which had been granted by King Edward the Third to be paid yearly unto him
of Richmund at his landing Which was really his intent though he durst not shew it till he came near Bosworth but had Conference with him at Atherston about six Miles short of that place coming thither with great privacy to him the day before the Fight Approaching therefore near the Field he openly appeared notwithstanding the King's Message to him letting him know that unless he did forthwith repair to his presence he would put his Son the Lord Strange to Death and marcht with him in the Rear of all his Forces with one Troop of Horse and some few Foot until the whole Army was fully marshall'd Whereupon the Battel soon after ensued in which King Richard being slain and his Crown he that day wore found amongst the spoils he set it upon the Earl of Richmund's Head and Proclaim'd him King by the name of Henry the Seventh After which upon the 27th of October he was advanced to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Derby and Constituted one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Lord High Steward of England upon the thirtieth day of that month which was the day of his more solemn Coronation as also soon after that made one of his Privy Council And in 3 H. 7. one of the Commissioners to exercise the Office of High Steward of England upon the day of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Wife to that prudent King He Married two Wives First Eleanore the fourth Daughter to Richard Nâ—vil Earl of Salisbury by whom he had issue six Sons and four Daughters viz. Thomas and Richard who died young George called Lord Strange of whom I shall speak farther by and by William died young Edward afterwards Lord Mont-Egle and Iames elected Bishop of Ely in 22 H. 7. Which Iames being also Warden of the Collegiate-Church at Manchester in Com. Lanc. lyeth buried in the Chapell of St. Iohn Baptist on the North side of that Church by him built with this Inscription on his Tomb Of your Charity pray for the soul of James Stanley sometimes Bishop of Ely and Warden of Manchester who deceased this transitory world the xxii of March in the year of our Lord God 1525. upon whose soul and all Christian souls Iesu have mercy His four Daughters were these Ioan Catherine and Anne who died young and Margaret married to Sir Iohn Osbaldeston of ... in Com. Lanc. Knight His second Wife was Margaret Daughter and Heir to Iohn Duke of Somerset Widdow of Edmund Earl of Richmund before mentioned the happy Mother to King Henry the seventh but by her he had no issue By his Testament bearing date 28 Iulii an 1504 19 H. 7. bearing then the title of E. of Derby Lord Stanley Lord of Man and great Constable of England he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the midst of the Chapell in the North Isle of the Church of the Priory of Bourâ—cough near Lathom in Com. Lanc. of his Ancestors foundation where the Bodies of his Father Mother and other of his Ancestours lay buried having provided a Tomb to be there placed with the personage of himself and both his Wives for a perpetual remembrance to be pray'd for and likewise appointing that the personages which he had caused to be made for his Father and Mother his Grandfather and Great-grandfather should be set in the Arches of the Chancell within that Priory in the places provided for the same And though he had formerly given to the Prior and Covent of that House large gifts in money Jewels and Ornaments and likewise made great reparations there he farther bequeath'd unto them xx l. to the intent that they should be obliged by their Deed under their Covent Seal to cause one of the Canons of that house duly to say Mass in the before-specified Chapel for his Soul as also for the Soul of his Lady then living after her decease Likewise for the Soul of Alianore his former Wife and for the Souls of his Father Mother Ancestors Children Brethren and Sisters Also for the Soul of William late Marquess Berkley and for the Souls of them who died in his or his Fathers service or that should die in his service And at every Mass before the Lavatorie audibly to say for the said Souls appointed by name and all other in general De profundis clamavi and such Oriâ—ons and Collects as are used to be said therewith Furthermore he willed that his Son Sir Edward Stanley should have and enjoy the Castle of Hornby so long as he lived And departed this life within the space of three months after as may seem by the Probate thereof which bears date 9 Nov. next ensuing To whom succeeded Thomas his Grandson and Heir by George his eldest Son who died in his life time Of which George before I proceed it is proper to take notice that having married Ioan the Daughter and Heir to Iohn Lord Strange of Knokin he had summons to Parliament by the title of Lord Strange in 22 E. 4. and afterwards until the twelfth of H. 7. inclusive Also that before his said marriage he was one of those noble persons which receiv'd the Honour of Knighthood by Bathing c. with Prince Edward the Kings eldest Son 18 Apr. 15 E. 4. and that in 1 H. 7. he was made one of the Lords of the Privy-Council Likewise that in 2 H. 7. being one of the principal Commanders in the Kings Army at the battel of Stoke juxta Newark he shared in the honour of that Victory which was then obtained against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents and was made one of the Knights Companions of the most noble order of the Garter Furthermore that in 9 H. 7. upon the siege of Norham-Castle by the Scots he advanced with Thomas Earl of Surrey and many other of the Nobility against those bold Invaders but performed nothing of consequence at that time the enemy retreating before they wrought thither And departing this life 5 Dec. 3 H. 7. his Father then living was buried in the Parish Church of St. Iames Garlik-hythe in the City of London leaving issue by the said Ioan his Wife two Sons viz. Thomas and Iames and two Daughters Iane married to Robert Sheffeild Esq and Elizabeth Which Thomas had livery of those lands whereof his Father died seised 9 Iulii 19 H. 7. And in 5. H. 8. his Grandfather being dead attended King Henry in that great expedition by him then made into France at which time he won Therouene and Tournay By Anne his Wife Daughter of Edward Lord Hastings Sister to George the first Earl of Huntington of that name and with whom he had four thousand Marks he had issue three Sons Iohn who died in his life time Edward his Successor in his honours and Henry as also one Daughter
Stop-ford bridge but that he rais'd his Siege upon the 27th of May an 1644. and marcht to Bolton a strong Garrison of the Enemy Where with the addition of other Forces to two thousand of his own he made up a Body of two thousand five hundred Foot and five hundred Horse Upon notice whereof to the Prince he marcht directly thither and gave Order for an assault Which though gallantly attempted succeeded not at the first he therein losing two hundred men the Enemy killing all they took upon the Walls in cold blood in his sight Whereupon a second affault being resolv'd this Earl desired to have the Command of two Companies of his own old Foot and the honour of the forlorn Which at his importunity being granted and all things ready the Town was entred in the space of half an hour on every side he himself being the first man that set foot into it upon the 28th of May. Whereupon Rigby made his escape leaving two thousand of his men behind amongst which there was one Bootle a Captain formerly a Porter in Lathom and upon his leaving that House voluntarily swore that he would never bear Arms against the King who being in the heat of the storm encompassed with Souldiers beg'd Quarter of this Earl who answered him thus I will not kill thee my self but I cannot save thee from others Nor did he Nevertheless his death was afterwards most falsly laid to his charge Upon the taking of this rebellious Town Prince Rupert sent all the Colours to the Countess at Lathom And so marcht to Leverpole for reducing that Thence to Lathom where he staid four or five days but before his departure gave directions for repairing and fortifying the House and at the request of the Countess disposed the Governorship thereof to Captain Edward Rawsthorne whom he made Colonel of a Foot Regiment and two Troops of Horse for its defence by which Captain it was stoutly defended for full two years more in a second Siege but at last by his Majesties Order delivered up having cost the Enemy no less than six thousand men and the Garrison about four hundred it being one of the last places in this Realm that held out for the King After all these great things done by this noble Earl and his incomparable Lady who were then gone into the Isle of Man their Children perfidiously seized and made close Prisoners and he himself tempted with the promise of a peaceable enjoyment of his whole Estate in Case he would deliver up that Isle he stoutly refused even when the Cause was given by all for lost saying be would never redeem his Children by his disloyalty In which Isle he continued until the year 1651. that upon the advancing of our present Sovereign King Charles the Second out of Scotland towards Worcester he receiv'd Command to attend him upon assurance that the Presbyterians would cordially join with the Royalists in Order to his Restauration At which time when he discern'd that their Ministers did obstinately refuse any Conjunction unless he would take the Covenant he said If I perish I perish but if my Master perish the Blood of another Prince and all the ensuing miseries of this Nation will lie at your doors His next misfortune was at that time the Engagement he had with a party which endeavoured to hinder the King in this his march with whom he met in Wigan lane Where with six hundred Horse he maintain'd a Fight for two hours against three thousand Horse and Foot Commanded by Colonel Lilburne in a place of much disadvantage In which encounter he received seven shot on his Breast-plate thirteen Cuts on his Bever over a Steel-Cap and five or six wounds upon his Arms and Shoulders having two Horses kill'd under him nevertheless through all these difficulties he made his way to the King at Worcester Whence upon the loss of the day there 3 Sept. an 1651. he fled with him into Staffordshire Where having seen him hopefully secured in such a place and with such trusty persons by whose means he most happily escaped the cruel Hands of those blood-thirsty Wretches that then sought his Life shifting for himself he had the hard hap to be taken in Cheshire by one Major Edge but upon condition of Quarter Nevertheless against the Law of Arms was most barbarously sentenced to Death by a certain number of faithless men who calling themselves a Court-Marshal sate at Chester viz. Colonel Humphrey Mackworth Major Mitton Colonel Robert Duckenfeild Henry Bradshaw Thomas Croxton George Twisleton Lieu. Col. Henry Birkinhead Simon Finch Alexander Newton Captain Iames Stepford Sam. Smith Iohn Downes Iohn Delves Iohn Griffith Thomas Portington Edward Alcock Ralph Pownall Richard Grantham Edward Stelfax Vincent Corbet Where having voted him guilty of the breach of the Act of 12 Aug. 1651. Intituled An Act for prohibiting correspondency with Charles Stuart or his Party and Sentenced him to be put to Death at Bolton in Lancashire upon the fifteenth of October he there suffered most Christianly and was buried with his Ancestors at Ormeskirk to the no little sorrow of all loyal people unto whom he was known After which his Lady continued in the Isle of Man until it was betray'd by one who had been her own Servant who having corrupted the Inhabitants seised upon her and her Children and kept them Prisoners without any other relief than what she obtained from the Charity of her impoverished Friends until his Majesties most happy Restauration This Noble Earl married the Lady Charlote Daughter to Claude Duke of Tremoüille in France by the Lady Charlote his Wife Daughter to the Renowned Count William of Nassau Prince of Orange and Charlote de Bourbon his Wife by reason whereof the Dukes of Tremüille stand allied to the Kings of France as also to the Houses of Bourbon Monpensier Bourbon Conde Dukes of Anjou Kings of Naples and Sicilie Arch-Dukes of Austria Kings of Spain Earls and Dukes of Savoy Dukes of Millian and divers other Soveraign Princes By which Lady Charlote he had Issue three Sons Charles who succeeded him in his Honours Edward and William who both died unmarried As also three Daughters the Lady Mary married to William Earl of Strafford the Lady Catherine to Henry Marquess of Dorchester and the Lady Emilia to Iohn Earl of Athol in Scotland Which Charles so succeeding him married Dorothy Helen Rupa Daughter to the Baron Rupa a German by whom he had issue which survived him four Sons William Robert Iames and Charles and two Daughters viz. Charlote now married to Thomas eldest Son to Thomas Earl Rivers and Mary who died unmarried And departing this life upon the xxi day of December An. 1672. was buried at Ormeskirk Which William his eldest Son and successor hath married Elizabeth Daughter to Thomas Earl of Ossery eldest Son to Iames Duke of Ormund Sir William Stanley Knight HAving thus done with the principal branch of this most Noble Family I come to the collaterals
as shall suffice to finde six poure men and one to serve them Wife pray for me and take the said Ordre that ye promised me as ye had in my lyfe my Hert and Love God have mercy upon me and save you and our Children and our Lady and all the Saints in Hevyn helpe me to salvation Amen With my hand the 27 day of Iuly William Pembroke The Inquisition taken shortly after saith that he dyed upon Thursday next ensuing the Festival of St. Iames the Apostle which Saints day falls out upon the 25 of Iuly So that 't is like he was beheaded about three or four days after the Battel and that he was then seised of the Castle Mannour and Lordship of Chepstow as also of the Mannours of Berton Tudenham Magore Radewyke Caldecote Mortimers-court Milescort with the Castle and Mannour of Ragland in the Marches of Wales Likewise of the Castle and Mannour of Pembroke the Hundred and Lordship of Castel-Martin and St. Florence the Forest of Coyderath the Castle of Tenby the Lordships and Bailiwicks of West Pembroke and East Pembroke the Bailiwicks and Lordships of Dougledy Rous and Kemeys the Town of Kilgaran the Forest of Kevendryn the Castle of Lanstephan and Lordship of Penryn the Mannours of Osterlowe Trayne and Clinton Also of the Lordship and Burrough of Haverford West the Castle and Lordship of Kylpeck the Castle and Mannour of Swanesey the Lordship and Territory of Gower the Lordship and Territory of Kylvey the Castles and Mannours of Oystermouth and Llonghom the Mannours of Landymore Ressely Kythull Trewydna Limon Pennard and West Gower the Castle Town Lordship and Mannour of Crugehoel and Stradu Issa Tretour the Mannours of Domrum and Egloysyeyll the Castle and Lordship of Dyngastowe the Castle and Lordship of Roche and Pyll and also of the Castles and Mannours of Munemouth and Dynas leaving William his Son and Heir nine years of age upon the fifth of March the same year By Anne his Wife Sister to Sir Walter D'Evereux Knight he had likewise Issue two other Sons Sir Walter and Sir George Herbert of St. Iulians both Knights and six Daughters as some say Cecilie Married to the Lord Greystoke Maud to Henry Earl of Northumberland Katherine to George Earl of Kent Anne to the Lord Powys Isabel to Sir Thomas Cokesey Knight and Margaret first to Thomas Talbot Vicount L'isle and afterwards to Sir Henry Bodrigham Knight By another Testament of his bearing date 16 Iulii the same year he appointed that Maud his Daughter should be wedded to the Lord Henry of Richmund Anne to the said Lord Powys and Iane to Edmund Malysaunt and bequeath'd to Cecilie Katherine and Mary his Daughters two thousand and five hundred marks Which Sir Walter Herbert being a person of no small Interest in South-Wales upon the landing of Henry Earl of Richmund at Milford-Haven in 2 R. 3. raised all the power he could to oppose him by reason whereof losing his favour when he obtain'd the Crown he made his Nâ—ece who Married to Sir Charles Somerset Knight Heir to his Laâ—ds But besides these he had also Issue by Maud Daughter and Heir to Adam ap Howel-Graunt his Paramour Richard Herbert of Ewyâ—s Father to William who was made Earl of Pembroke by King Edward the Sixth and to Sir George Herbert of Swansey Knight To him succeeded William his Son and Heir who in 14 E. 4. was retain'd to serve the King in his Wars of France and Normandy for one whole year with forty men at Arms and CC. Archers But King Edward having a mind to dignify his Son Prince Edward with the Title of this Earldom procured a Resignation of the same from this William and in lieu thereof created him Earl of Huntington as by his Charter bearing date at York 4 Iulii in the nineteenth year of his Reign appeareth Which William 15 Nov. 1 R. 3. was constituted Justice of South-Wales and upon the last of February next following entred into Covenants with that King to take Dame Catherine Plantaginet his Daughter to Wife before the Feast of St. Michael then next following as also to make her a Jointure in Lands of CC l. per annum value the King undertaking to settle Lands and Lordships of a thousand marks per annum upon them and the Heirs Male of their two Bodies Whereof six hundred marks per annum in possession and after the decease of Thomas Lord Stanley CCCC marks per annum more Likewise that in the mean time they should receive four hundred marks per annum out of the Lordships of Newport Breckneck and Hay in Wales promising farther to be at the whole charge of the Wedding Whether this Marriage took effect or not I cannot say for sure it is that she died in her tender years In 3 H. 7. he obtain'd from that King a Confirmation of his Creation to the Title of Earl of Huntington But farther of him I have not seen than that he Married Mary the fifth Sister and Coheir to Richard Widvile Earl Rivers and that by her he had Issue one sole Daughter his Heir called Elizabeth Married to Charles Somerset Earl of Worcester ¶ And now though the Legitimate Male-line thus ceased to keep on the Title of Earl which the first William so had by the grant of King Edward the Fourth I shall descend to William the Grandson of that William viz. Son to Richard Herbert of 〈◊〉 his natural Son before-mentioned buried under a noble Tomb at Bergavenny by Margaret his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Mathew Cradok of Swansey in Com. Glamorgan Knight In 35 H. 8. this William was made Captain of the Castle of Aburstwith in South-Wales And in 36 H. 8. being then a Knight was one of the Gentlemen of the King's Privy-Chamber Also in 38 H. 8. the King being then on his Death-Bed constituted one of his Executors and appointed to be of Council to the Prince his Son and Successor In 2 E. 6. upon that Insurrection of the Commons in Wilts and Somerset shires for pulling down Inclosures with a well armed Company he suppressed them And in 3 E. 6. upon the Death of Sir Anthony Brown Knight he was made Master of the Horse The same year also he marcht with the Lords Russell and Grey to suppress another Insurrection in the West He was likewise twice General of the Forces which were sent into that part of Picardy called Uermandoys and twice Governour of Calais In 5 E. 6. being then Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and Lord President of the Council in the Marches of Wales he was by Letters Patent bearing date 10 Oct. advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Herbert of Caerdiff and on the Morrow Created Earl of Pembroke
was descendable to the Heirs general he setled his Estate so as that both Honours might properly be supported And departing this life upon the 14 th of April An. 1587. 29 Eliz. lieth buried at Botsfordque leaving issue by Isabel his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft of the Uale-Royal in Com. Cestr. Knight one sole Daughter and Heir called Elizabeth Wife of Sir William Cecil Knight commonly called Lord Burghley Son and Heir apparent to Thomas Earl of Exeter by whom he had Issue William called Lord Ros who died in Italyin An. 1618 18 â—ac unmarried Which Elizabeth departed this life 11 Maii An. 1591. and lieth buried in Westminster Abby To this last Earl Edward succeeded Iohn his Brother and Heir Male who in 29 Eliz. was made Constable of Notingham-Castle and in 30 Eliz. Lieutenant of Notinghamshire And having by his Testament bearing date 23 Febr. An. 1587. 30 Eliz. bequeathed his Body to be buried at Botsford died 21 Febr. the same year leaving Issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to Francis Charlton of Apley in Com. Salop. Esq Roger his Son and Heir Francis Sir George and Sir Oliver Maners both Knights Bridget married to Robert Tirwhit of Ketilby in Com. Linc. Esq Frances to William Lord Willoughby of Parham Elizabeth to Emanuel Lord Scrope of Bolton and Mary Of which Earl Roger the Epitaph upon his Tomb at Botsford giveth this Testimony viz. that in Aâ— 1595. 37 Eliz. he began his first travels into divers parts beyond the Seas as France Italy Grâ—seland and the Low-Countries where he continued three years Afterwards that he went voluntary the Island-Voyage and that he was Colonel of Foot in the Irish wars in An. 1598. Moreover that he was made Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in the first year of King Iames Also that the same year he went Embassadour into Denmarke to the Christening of that Kings first Son and with the order of the Garter to the King himself To which I shall add that in 42 Eliz. he was made Constable of Nottingham-Castle and Chief Justice of the Forest of Shirewode In 1 Iac. Steward of the Mannour and Soke of Grantham and in 6 Iac. Chief Justice of Shirewode Forest. This Roger married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to the famous Sir Philip Sidney Knight but died without Issue 26 Iunii An. 1612. 10 Iac. Leaving Francis his Brother and Heir whose memorable actions are thus set forth upon his Monument at Botsford viz. At ten years of age he began to travel An. 1598. in France Lorayne and divers parts of Italy where he was honourably received by the Princes themselves and nobly entertain'd in their Courts In his return through Germany he had like honour done him by Ferdinand Archduke of Austria at Gratz By the Emperour Mathias in his Court at Uienna By Count Swartzembourg Lieutenant of Iavarin in Hungary By Count Rossembourg at Prague in Bohemia By the Marquess of Brandenbourg the Dukes of Saxony and other German-Princes in the Court of Berlin In An. 1604. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames. In An. 1612. Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and afterwards Justice in Eire of all the Kings Forests and Chases on the North of Trent In An. 1616. he was made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter being the same year one of the Lords who attended King Iames by his Majesties special appointment in his journey to Scotland And in An. 1623. had the command of his Majesties great Ships and Pinnaces to bring Prince Charles out of Spain which service he happily performed To all these I shall add that discerning the Title of Lord Ros then claimed by William Cecill and accordingly enjoyed could not justly be made use of by himself as Heir Male by reason that Cecill was Son and Heir of Elizabeth the sole Daughter and Heir to Edward late Earl of Rutland who had that Title by right of descent from Elianore his Grandmother Sister and Heir to Edmund Lord Ros he procured a special Patent bearing date 22 Iulii 14 Iac. whereby in consideration that he was then possessed of the Land and Barony of Hamlake it was declared that he should therefore be accepted and called Lord Roos of Hamlake and that his Son and Heir should also enjoy the same Name and Title This Earl Francis had two Wives viz Frances Daughter and Coheir to Sir Henry Knevet of Charleton in Com. Wilts Knight Widow of Sir William Bevill of Kilkhampton in Com. Cornub. Knight by whom he had Issue one only Daughter and Heir called Catherine first married to George Duke of Buckingham and afterwards to Randulph Mac Donald Earl of Antrim in Ireland Secondly Cecilie Daughter to Sir Iohn Tufton of Hothfield in Com. Cantii Knight and Baronet Widow of Sir Edward Hungerford Knight by whom he had Issue two Sons Henry and Francis who both died in their childhood by Sorcery as 't was thought He died at Bishops-Stortford in Com. Hertf. upon the 17. day of December An. 1632. 8 Car. 1. and was buried at Botsford To whom succeeded in this Earldom Sir George Maners Knight his Brother and Heir Male. Which George married Frances the Daughter of Sir Edward Carey of Aldenham in Com. Hertf. Knight Sister to Henry Vicount Falkland and departing this life at his House in the Savoy in the suburbs of London 29 Martii An. 1641. 17 Car. 1. without Issue was buried at Botsford with his Ancestors So that the Title of Earl did thereupon resort to Iohn Maners Esq then Lord of the Mannour of Haddon in Com. Derb. his Principal Seat as next Heir Male viz. Son and Heir of Sir George Maners Knight Son of Iohn Maners Esq second Son to Thomas the first Earl of Rutland of this Family Which Iohn took to Wife Frances Daughter to Edward Lord Mountagu of Boughton and by her had Issue three Sons George and Edward who both died young and Iohn Lord Ros now living Which Iohn Lord Ros Married the Lady Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquess of Dorchester but from her being lawfully divorc'd by Sentence of the Court-Christian and the Children which she bore disabled by Act of Parliament for inheriting any Lands or Honours from him the said Iohn or Iohn Earl of Rutland his Father as also enabled by that Act to marry again and that the Children by such other Nuptials shall inherit He next Wedded the Lady Diana Daughter to Robert Earl of Aylesbury Widdow of Sir Seamour Shirley of Stanton-Harold in Com. Leic. Baronet and surviving her took to Wife Catherine the Daughter to Baptist Vicount Campden by whom he hath Issue ... This Iohn Earl of Rutland had likewise Issue seven Daughters viz. Frances Married to Iohn Earl of Exeter Grace to Patricius Vicount Chaworth Dorothy to Anthony Lord Ashley Son
Eliz. took his place there upon the second of April In 15 Eliz. he was one of the Peers upon the Tryal of Thomas Duke of Norff. And the same year upon the League made by Queen Elizabeth with the States of the United Provinces was one of the Lords then sent into France with Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral for ratifying thereof In 29 Eliz. he was also one of the Peers which sate at Fotheringhay upon Tryal of the Queen of Scots Likewise in 43 Eliz. upon that Insurrection made in London by Robert Earl of Essex he was one of those Lords which appear'd with him therein and thereupon suffered Imprisonment This William Married two Wives First Christian Daughter of ... Anslow Esq by whom he had Issue one Son called William And to his second Wife Catherine Daughter of Edmund Lord Chandos by whom he had Issue one Daughter named Elizabeth Married to Sir Edwyne Sands Knight Son and Heir of Miles Sandys of Latimers in Com. Buck. Esq Master of the Kings Bench Office and departed this life 29 Sept. an 1623. 21 Iac. To whom succeeded William his said Son and Heir Which William took to Wife Alathea eldest Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Panton of Brinneskiâ— in the Parish of Hanthlan in Com. Denb Esq and died 12 Nov. an 1629. 5 Car. 1. without Issue Whereupon William the Son of Colonel Henry Sands Son of the said Edwyn and Elizabeth which Colonel being mortally wounded on the Kings part in the Fight at Bramdene near Alâ—ford in Com. Sutht 29 Martii 1644. died 6 Apr. next ensuing becoming Heir to this Honour had Summons to Parliament accordingly And having Married Mary the youngest Daughter to William late Earl of Salisbury died in an 1668. without Issue This last mention'd William had three other Brothers viz. Henry Miles and Edwyn and six Sisters Hesther Married to Humphrey Noy Son to William Noy sometime Attorney General to King Charles the First Alathea to Francis Gofton of Alderidge in Com. Sutht Esq Mary to Dr. Henry Savage Principal of Baliol-Coll in Oxford Iane to Iohn Harris of Old-Wodstoke in Com. Oxon. Esq Margaret to Sir Iohn Mill of Tachbury in Com. Sutht Baronet and Margery to Sir Edmund Fortescue of Fallowpitt in Com. Devon Baronet Which Henry now Lord Sandys Brother and Heir of William is yet Unmarried Vaux of Harwedon 15 H. 8. THis Family whose Seat hath been at Harwedon in Com. Northt for more than two hundred and fifty years do derive their Descent from Robert de Vaux a great man in the North of this Realm in the days of King Stephen and Henry the Second being then Founder of the Priory of Laâ—ercost in Cumberland as I have elsewhere shewed Being thus fix'd there William Vaux in the time of those great and sharp contests betwixt the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster lost all for his adherence to King Henry the Sixth but at length Henry Earl of Richmund obtaining the Crown Nicholas his Son and Heir had restitution thereof Whereupon he fought stoutly for that King in the Battel of Stoke near Newark in 2 H. 7. against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his Adherents then in Arms on the behalf of Lambert Simnel set up as a Counterfeit Son to George Duke of Clarence for which good service King Henry being there Victorious he receiv'd the honour of Knighthood And in 17 of the same Kings Reign at that great Solemnity of Prince Arthur's Marriage wore a Gown of Purple Velvet adorn'd with pieces of gold so thick and massy that beside the Silk and Furs it was valued at a thousand pounds as also a Collar of SS weighing eight hundred pound in Nobles In 1 H. 8. this Nicholas being made Lieutenant of the Castle at Guisnes in Picardy in 5 H. 8. was at the Siege of Therouene In 10 H. 8. he was one of the Embassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace betwixt King Henry and the French And in 11 H. 8. in order to that famous Enterview near Guisnes between King Henry and the King of France was one of the Commissioners at that time sent thither to make preparation for the same After which he grew in such high esteem at Court as that in 15 H. 8. 27 Apr. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm the solemnity of his Creation with some others then being at the King 's Royal Palace of Bridewell in the Suburbs of London But he lived not long to enjoy that Honour For having by his Testament bearing date the same year by the Title of Lord Harowden bequeath'd his Body to be buried at Harowdon in case he should depart this life in Northamptonshire if in London then in the Black-Fryers and if at Guisnes in the Church there appointing that C l. should be bestow'd upon Priests Clerks and poor People at his Funeral and ordained a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass in the Parish-Church of Harowden for the Souls of his Grandfather Father and Mother as also for the Souls of his two Wives his Children and other his Ancestors Souls And having likewise bequeath'd to his Daughters Margaret Bridget and Maud five hundred pounds a piece for their respective Marriages and to his Sons Thomas and William all his wearing gere except Cloth of Gold Cloth of Silver and Tissue he departed this life soon after as by the Probate of that his Testament which beareth date 3 Iulii next ensuing appeareth This Nicholas had two Wives First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Henry Lord Fitz Hugh Widow of Sir William Parr Knight by whom he left Issue three Daughters viz. Catherine Married to Sir George Throkmorton of Coughton in Com. Warr. Knight Anne to Sir Thomas Strange of Hunston in Com. Norff. Knight and Alice to Sir Edward Sapcote of Elton in Com. Hunt Knight Secondly Anne Daughter of Thomas Greene of Green's-Norton in Com. Northt Esq by whom he had Issue two Sons Thomas and William and three Daughters Margaret Wife of Francis Pultney of Misterton in Com. Leic. Esq Maud of Sir Iohn Farmer of Eston juxta Touceter in Com. Northt Knight and Bridget of Maurice Welsh of Sudbury in Com. Glouc. Esq Which Thomas his Son and Heir in 19 H. 8. was one of those who attended Cardinal Wolsey when he went Embassador in such great state beyond-Sea to make Peace betwixt the Emperour King Henry of England and King Francis of France In 22 H. 8. being summon'd to Parliament he took his place there 19 Ian. And in 24 H. 8. waited on the King to Calais and thence to Boloine In 25 H. 8. upon the Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen this Thomas was one of the Knights of the Bath then made for the honour of that Solemnity He was also Captain
amplum obsequii amoris ergo Patriverâ— pio verè Catholico Thomas mâ—stissimus filius haeres multis cum lachrymis scripsit posuit Beati qui in Domino moriuntur Leaving Issue one only Son viz. Thomas and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Dixey Hickman of Kew in Com. Surr. Esq and another Elizabeth to Andrew Windsor Esq her Kinsman Which Thomas succeeding him in his Honours Married Katherine the Daughter to Edward Earl of Worcester but dying Issueless 6 Dec. an 1642. was buried at Tarbick with his Ancestors Whereupon the Title of Lord Windsor being in the King's disposal so that he might confer it on the Issue of either of these Sisters before-mention'd or retain it His Royal Majesty King Charles the Second considering that this last Thomas Lord Windsor had setled the greatest part of his antient Inheritance upon his Nephew Thomas Windsor Hickman Son of Dixey Hickman by Elizabeth his elder Sister was pleased to dispose and confirm to him and his Heirs the said Title of Lord Windsor with such place in Parliament as his Predecessors had formerly enjoy'd as by his Letters Patent bearing date 16 Iunii in the twelfth year of his Reign appeareth Which Thomas thus hearing the Title of Lord Windsor Married two Wives Anne Daughter to Sir William Savile of Thornhill in Com. Ebor. Baronet Sister of George now Vicount Halifax by whom he hath Issue one Son called Other and Mary a Daughter Married to Sir Thomas Cokesey of Bentley in Com. Wigorn. Baronet Secondly Vrsula Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Widdrington of ... in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he hath Issue two Sons Thomas and Dixy and a Daughter called Vrsula Iohn Lord Hussey 21 H. 8. WHat relation in blood this Iohn Lord Hussey of whom I am now to speak had to that Family of Hussey whereof I have already made mention in the first Volume of this work I have not seen nor can I discover more of him than that he was Son to Sir William Hussey Knight who being a learned Lawyer was first constituted Attorney General to King Edward the 4 th in 11. of his reign next Serjeant at Law in 17 E. 4. and lastly Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench 7 Maii 21 E. 4. In 2 H. 7. this Iohn was in Arms for the King at the Battel of Stobe against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents and in 13 H. 8. being then a Knight was made chief Butler of England In 21 H 8. he was one of the Knights for the Kings Body and being summoned to that Parliament begun at Westminster 3 Nov. the same year was admitted into the House upon the first of December following In 22 H. 8. bearing then the title of Lord Hussey he had a grant of the custody of the Mannour of Harewode in Com Ebor. and was one of the Lords who subscribed that Declaration then sent to the Pope whereby they intimated to his Holiness that unless he did comply with King Henry in that cause of his divorce his Supremacy would not much longer be owned in this Realm And in 24 H. 8. being then one of the Lords of the Council had a grant of the wardship and marriage of Thomas the Son and Heir of Christopher Wymbushe deceased But in 28 H. 8. being in that commotion in Lincolnshire occasioned by the assessment of a Subsidy he suffered death for it at Lincoln in Iune the next ensuing year Whereupon his lands were confiscate and his Mannour of Sleford in Com. Linc. where he had his chief residence was granted by Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury to Richard Goodrick of London Esq and Mary his Wife in Fee This Iohn Lord Hussey married two Wives and by them had many Children First Anne Daughter to George Earl of Kent by whom he had Issue two Sons Giles and Thomas and five Daughters Bridget first married to Sir Richard Morison Knight afterwards to Henry Earl of Rutland and lastly to Francis Earl of Bedford Elizabeth to ... Hungerford Anne to Sir Humphrey Browne Knight one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas Anne to ... Dimock and Dorothy to ... Doâ—wray Secondly Margaret Daughter and Heir to Simon Blount by whom he had Issue Sir William Hussey Knight Giles Hussey of Carthorpe in Com. Linc. Sir Gilbert Hussey Knight and Reginald and one Daughter called Elizabeth All which Sons and Daughters were restored in blood only in the Parliament held at Westminster 5 Eliz. Wentworth 21 H. 8. OF this Family though of great antiquity in Yorkshire the first that became advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm was Thomas Wentworth Son of Sir Richard Wentworth of Nettlesâ—ed in Com. Suff. Knight who after the sitting of that Parliament which met at Westminster 3 Nov. 21 H. 8. and continuing by Prorogation till 27 of that Kings reign gave the first fatal stroke to the Monasteries of England was admitted as a Peer upon the second of December in the same 21 th year by virtue of a Writ of Summons This Thomas having married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue Knight and by Anne her Mother Heir to Sir William Stonore Knight had a special livery of all the lands which by the death of the said Anne descended to her And upon that Insurrection of the Norfolk Men led by Captain Ket in 2 E. 6. accompanied William Marquess of Northampton then sent against them Being afterwards Lord Chamberlain of that Kings houshold he died 3 Martii 5 E. 6. and was buried in the Abby Church at Westminster leaving Issue eight Sons viz. Thomas Henry Richard Philip Iohn Edward Iames and Roger and nine Daughters scil Anne married to Iohn the Son of Edmund Poley Cecelie Mary Elizabeth Margaret Margery to Iohn Lord Williams of Tame afterwards to Sir William Darcie Knight and lastly to Sir Iohn Crofts Knight Iane Catherine and Dorothy To whom succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir who had summons to Parliament in 6 E. 6. and being about that time made Deputy of Calais was shortly after removed from that trust by reason of his youth and want of experience Upon the death of King Edward the sixth he was one of the first that appeared for Queen Mary And in the first year of her reign being one of her Privy-Council was again made Deputy of Calais and the Marches thereof and so continued till the fatal Siege of that Garrison by the Duke of Guise in 5 Mariae whose Army was so great and the assaults made by it so irresistable that seeing no hopes of defending it he craved a parly whereupon it was yielded upon condition that the Inhabitants should depart without carrying any thing away and that the Governour with fifty other such as
daughter to Henry Earl of 〈◊〉 as also for ratifying his Marriage with the said Elizabeth and Legitimating the children which should be begotten betwixt them but the Earl of Derby with the Bishops of 〈◊〉 and Norwich as also the Lord Stourton dissented to the Bill Shortly after this he was sent Embassador to the King of France to Present him with the Order of the Garter and to Treat with him touching certain private Affairs being accompanyed with the Bishop of Ely and certain other persons of Note And before the end of that year sate with other of the Peers upon Tryal of the Duke of Somerset But upon the death of King Edward and Proclaiming of the Lady Iane Gray he accompanyed the Duke of Northumberland at his going out of London with Horse and Foot for the suppressing of those who were risen in Suffolk on the behalf of Q. Mary For which being first committed to the Tower of London 26 Iulii in the first year of that Queen he was Arraigned before the Duke of Norfolk then sitting as High Steward upon the eighteenth of 〈◊〉 following and had Judgment of death passed upon him Howbeit notwithstanding this sharp Sentence Execution was forborn and before the end of that year was restored in blood by Act of Parliament but not to his Honors so that he had no other Title than William Parr Esquire late Marquess of Northampton and stood in no higher a degree until Queen Elizabeth began to Reign But she graciously considering that through the Potency of his Adversaries he had been bereaved of those Titles by her Letters Patent bearing date at the Tower of London 13 Ian. 1 Eliz. advanced him again to the dignity of Marquess of Northampton restored him to his Lands and made him one of the Lords of her Privy-Council She likewise joyn'd him in Commission with some of the Bishops and other learned Divines for Reforming that Liturgie set forth by her Brother King Edward the Sixth and made him Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Overliving Elizabeth Cobham his second wife he lastly married Helen daughter of Wolfangus Suavenburgh born in Sweden but had no issue by any of them and departing this life in An. 1571. 14 Eliz. was buried at the upper end of the Quire of the Collegiate Church at Warwick on the North-side where the Atchievements hung up at his Funeral did remain till of late years And where his Body about Fifty years since being dig'd up to make room for the Burial of an ordinary Gentlewoman was found perfect the skin intire dryed to the bones Rosemary and Bayes lying in the Coffin fresh and green All which were so preserv'd by the dryness of the ground wherein they lay it being above the Arches of that fair Vault which is under the Quire and of a sandy condition mixt with rubbish of Lime as hath been related to me by those who were eye-witnesses thereof Dying thus without issue Henry Earl of Pembroke his Nephew by one of his Sisters became his next heir Helen his last wife surviving him who married afterwards to Sir Thomas Gorge of Longford in Com. Wilts Knight and having many children by him dyed in April An. 1635. 11 Car. 1. Lord Parr of Horton I Now come to William Parre Uncle both to this VVilliam Marquess of Northampton and to Queen Catherine the sixth and last Wife of King Henry the Eighth This VVilliam residing at Horton in Com. Northampt. being Chamberlain to that Queen his Neice was shortly after her marriage with King Henry viz. 23 Decem. 35 H. 8. created Lord Parr of Horton And in 36 H. 8. the King designing a Royal Expedition into France and thereupon constituting his then Queen Catherine Parr General Regent of this Realme during his absence amongst other her Assistants as to matter of Council he appointed this VVilliam Lord Parr of Horton to be called upon some occasions By his Testament bearing date 20 Iunii An. 1546. 38 H. 8. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Horton Shortly after which he died as may seem by the Probate thereof leaving issue by Mary his wife the daughter of Sir VVilliam Salisbury Knight four daughters his heirs 1. Maud married k to Sir Raphe Lance Knight 2. Anne to Sir Iohn Digby of Ketilby in Com. Leic. Knight 3. Elizabeth to Sir Nicholas VVoodhall Knight 4. And Mary to Sir Thomas Tresham Knight Thomas Lord Audley of Walden 30 Hen. 8. OF what Extraction this Thomas was I have not seen for of the Family of the old Lords Audley I suppose he was not the Armes which he bore being totally different from theirs Nor have I observed any thing of him till 18 H. 8. that he became the Autumne-Reader in the Inner-Temple Whereby it appeares that having been a diligent Student of the Laws he arrived to a great proficiency in that commendable Learning in which within a short time after he grew so famous that in 21 H. 8. he was made choice of for Speaker in the House of Commons in that Long-Parliament which began upon the third of November the same year and continuing by Prorogation till 27 H. 8. proved fatal to the Religious Houses by the Dissolution of all those whose Revenues were not certified to exceed the value of Two hundred pounds per annum In which his service was so acceptable to the King as that the next ensuing year viz. 22 H. 8. he was constituted his Atturney for the Dutchy of Lancaster Also in Mich. Terme Graft Mart. advanced to the state and degree of a Serjeant at Law and upon the fourteenth of November following made the King's Serjeant Nor was any farther Promotion thought too great for him for in 24 H. 8. upon the Resignation of that worthy Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas Moore he was Knighted and made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and before the end of that year Lord Chancellor of England Being therefore thus raised to that high place discerning the Pope's Supremacy newly abolish'd whereupon the Title of Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England was vested in the King who consequently took upon him by his own absolute power to suppress the Priory of Canons of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ-church near Algate in the City of London he obtain'd the Scite and Precinct of that Religious House and converted it to a fit Mansion for his own residence having likewise all the Plate and Lands thereto belonging bestowed on him And in 30 H. 8. sate High-Steward upon the Arraignment of Henry Courtney Marquess of Exeter then accused for Conspiring the advancement of Reginald Pole afterwards Cardinal to the Crown That this Thomas had been not a little instrumental in carrying on that great design for dissolving the lesser
to ... Cart a Divine Mary and Diana who died young Elizabeth wife of ... Vicount Strangford in Ireland Frances and Isabella Of which sons Philip who beareth the Title of Vicount L'isle married Catherine daughter to William Earl of Salisbury by whom he hath had issue a son called Robert who married Elizabeth daughter to Iohn Earl of Bridgwater and two daughters Dorothy the wife of Thomas second son to Sir Thomas Cheeke of Pergo in Com. Essex Knight and Elizabeth who died young Knolles Earl of Banbury 1 Iac. THough none of this Family arrived to the honor of Peerage till the beginning of King Iames his Reign yet were some of them men of great note in their times for Robert Knolles who was at first a person but of a low fortune betaking himself to a Military course of life made such advantage by the troubles in Normandy and Britanny as that in 32 E. 3. abounding with riches gotten by the Wars he became an eminent Commander e in those parts Whereupon in 41 E. 3. he was chosen by Prince Edward commonly called the Black-Prince to accompany him into Spain to the aid of Don Pedro then King of Castile and Leon against Henry the Bastard-son of King Alfonsus his father And in 44 E. 3. was made General of all those Forces which King Edward at that time sent into France In 1 R. 2. he was Governor of the Castle at Brest in Britanny and in 3 R. 2. went with Thomas of Wodstoke Earl of Buckingham and divers other brave men in aid of the Duke of Britanny against the French Whereupon landing at Calaâ—s they marcht quite through France without resistance This Robert also in 4 R. 2. upon that dangerous Insurrection of Iack Straw and his followers led on the Citizens of London for the suppressing thereof And besides these his Military Actions which made him famous in those dayes he built that stately Bridge over the River Medway near Rochester in Kent commonly called Rochester-Bridge and enlarged the House of Friers-Carmelites commonly called the White-Friers in the City of London He likewise Founded a Collegiate-Church of Secular Priests at Pontfract in Com. Ebor. And departing this life at his Mannor of Scene-Thorpe in Com. Norff. about the Festival of the Blessed Virgin 's Assumption in An. 1407. 7 H. 4. was buried with the Lady Constance his wife in the body of the Church at the White-Friers which he had newly builded From which Robert descended another Robert who in 9 H. 8. being then one of the Gentlemen-Huishers of the Privy Chamber had a Lease for certain years form the King to himself and Lettice his wife of the Mannor of Rothetfeild Gray commonly called Greys in Com. Oxon. and left issue Francis his son and heir Which Francis in 30 H. 8. obtain'd a Grant of that Lordship in Fee and in 34 H. 8. was one of that King's Gentlemen-Pensioners But upon the Reformation set on foot by King Edward the Sixth became so zealous for the Religion then profess'd as that when Queen Mary began to Reign and grew severe towards the Reformed he fled into Germany For which respect he had such esteem from Queen Elizabeth who stood totally affected to the Reformation as that in the first year of her Reign he was made choice of for one of her Privy-Council and shortly after that Vice-Chamberlain of her Houshold next Captain of the Guard afterwards Treasurer of her Houshold and lastly Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter It is also memorable of him that in 11 Eliz. he was trusted with the custody of the Queen of Scots then Prisoner at Bolton-Castle in Yorkshire and that in 29 Eliz. he was one of those who by Commission sate in judgment upon that unfortunate Lady Likewise that by Catherine his wife daughter of William Carie Esquire of the Body to King Henry the Eighth by Mary his wife daughter of Thomas Bullen Earl of UUiltshire as also sister to the Lady Anne second wife to King H. 8. he had issue William his son and heir and divers other Children Which William in 41 Eliz. being one of the Delegates for making Pace with the Dutch in 43 Eliz. was made Treasurer of her Houshold And in 1 Iac. by Letters Patent bearing date 13 Maii was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Knolles of Grays in com Oxon his chief seat the ceremony of his Creation being performed in the Tower of London Also upon the tenth of October An. 1614. 12 Iac. made Master of the Wards And within a short time following Knight of the Garter Moreover upon the seventh of November 14 Iac. he was raised to the dignity of a Vicount by the title of Vicount Wallingford and upon the 18 of August 2 Car. 1. created Earl of Banbury He first married Dorothy daughter of Edmund Lord Bray sister and coheir to Iohn Lord Bray widdow of Edmund Bruges Lord Chandos by whom he had no issue and afterwards * Elizabeth eldest daughter to Thomas Earl of Suffolk by whom he had likewise no issue as the Certificate subscribed by her the said Elizabeth who survived him doth testifie And departing this life 25 Maii An. 1632. being then eighty eight years of age lyeth buried in the Church of Grays before-mentioned But notwithstanding this her Certificate and an Inquisition taken after his death importing as much it was not long after ere she married Nicholas Lord Vaux and produced two Sons viz. Edward who by reason of a suddain quarrel hapning on the Road-way betwixt Calais and Gravelin was there slain and buried in the Church of the Friers Minims at Calais the other Nicholas was frequently called Earl of Banbury but never had summons to Parliament Lord Wotton 1 Iac. OF this Family the first touching whom I have seen any considerable mention is Robert Wetton of Bocton Malherbe in Com. Cantii Knight who by Anne his wife daughter and coheir of Henry Belknap had issue two sons Sir Edward Wotton Knight and Nicholas Doctor of Law both of them persons famous in their times Which Sir Edward being of the Privy-Council to Henry the Eighth was in 37 of that Kings Reign made Treasurer of the Town and Marches of Calais as also constituted one of his Executors and by him assigned to be of Council to Prince Edward his son and successor being a person of such great abilities that he might have been Lord Chancelloor of England but that he modestly declined it Nor was his Brother Nicholas inferiour to him in point of learning and other excellent endowments being likewise of the Privy-Council to that King and one of his Executors as also his
same consideration the like Grant of the Forestership of Thornwoods on the Southern part of Shirewoâ—â— in that County with the Fee of four pence a day for executing that Office Nevertheless no sooner did the Earl of Richmund land in this Realm though but with a very slender strength that that he with his six valiant Brothers viz. another Sir Everard then also of Tilton Iohn Digby of â—etilby Rouland Digby of Welby both in Leicestershire Lybeus Digby of Luffâ—am in com Rotel Thomas and Benjamin not forgetting the old Lancastrian Interest came in freely unto him and fought stoutly on his part at Bosworth-Field against King Richard where the Victory falling to that Earl being thenceforth King by the name of Henry the Seventh he advanced Iohn and Thomas to the dignity of Knighthood making the former also Knight-Marshal of His Houshold and the other one of the Gentlemen Huishers of His Chamber conferring on him the Bailywick of â—â—ney in com Buck. and Keepership of the Park there where he thenceforth made his residence But none of them had better advantages for their faithful services to that King than Simon for in the first year of his Râ—ign he obtained the Stewardship of certain Lordships in com Rutl. viz. Uppingham Preston Barouâ—hdon Esenden and Greteham and of all the Lands formerly belonging to George Duke of Clarence to hold for life as also the like Office and Receivership for the Mannor of Bâ—dale in com Ebor. And having in the second year of his Reign been a Commander in His Army at the Battel of Stoke had in consideration of his acceptable services a Grant of the Mannor of â—avysbâ—ry in the parish of Micham in com Surr. and to the heirs male of his body and the next ensuing year a Grant of the Office of Comptroller of the Petty-Customes in the Port of London as also of the Forestership of Thornwoods in Shirewood formerly conferred upon him by King Edward the 4 th and in 11 H. 7. of the Lordship of Coâ—eshill before-specified in special Tail being at that time Deputy to Iohn Earl of Oxford Constable of the Tower of London Which Lordship came to the Crown by the attainder of Sir Simon Montfort Knight for his adherence to Perkâ—n Warbeck After this in 12 H. 7. he had a Commission to exercise Marshal-Law in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall against divers Malefactors and having been Sheriff of the Counties of Warwick and Leicester in the first and ninth years of King Henry the Eighth by his Testament bearing date 22 Aug. 9 H 8. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Chancel of the parish Church of Coleshill under a fair Toâ—b there erected in his life time and departed this life 24 Febr. 12 H. 8. leaving issue by Alice his wife daughter and heir to Iohn Waleys of Est Raddon in com Devon Esquire Reginald Digby his son and heir as also a younger son called Thomas from whom the Digby's of Mansfeild Woodhouse in com Nott. are descended Which Reginald by Ann his wife daughter and coheir to Iohn Danvers of Cothorpe in com Oxon. Esquire had issue Iohn who took to wife Ann the daughter of Sir George Throkmorton of Coughton in com Warr. K t And he George who being at the siege of â—utphen in 28 Eliz. had there the honor of Knighthood conferred on him and by Abigail his wife daughter to Sir Arthur Heveningham of ... in com Norff. Knight left issue l three sons Robert Philip and this Iohn Which Robert being afterwards a Knight and taking to wife Lettice the Grandchild and heir female to Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland left issue Robert his son and heir created Lord Digby of Geashill in that Realm by K. Iames whose descendents do still enjoy that honor As to the advancement of this Iohâ— it was his own meer merits which brought it to pass For having first been a Fellow-Commoner in Magdalen-Colledge Oxon. and afterwards travelled into France and Italy whereby he became singularly qualified upon that designed Insurrection on Dunsmore Health in Warwickshire by those Unparallel'd Gunpowder-Conspirators about the beginning of November 3 Iac. in order to the surprisal of the Princess Elizabeth the King's daughter then residing at Combe in that County whereof the Lord Harington her Guardian had private intimation he was by that Lord dispatcht to the Court to acquaint His Majesty therewith Where his abilities and fidelity being amply discern'd by that prudent King he was admitted Gentlâ—man of the privy-chamber and one of His Majesties Carvers Also upon the sixteenth of March 4 Iac. Knighted at Whitehall And in the moneth of April An. 1611. 9 Iac. imployed Embassador into Spaine so likewise in October An. 1614. 12 Iac. Moreover 3 April An. 1616. 14 Iac. made Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and one of his Privy Council And the next ensuing year 15 Iac. being sent again into Spaine upon his return was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 Nov. 16. Iac. by the title of Lord Digby of Shireburne in com Dors. After which scil An. 1620. 18 Iac. he was sent Embassador to the Arch Duke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in October An. 1621. he was again scil in An. 1622. 20 Iac. employed Embassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage betwixt Prince Charles and the Lady Maria daughter to Philip the Third then King of that Realm and created Earl of Bristol 15 Sept. the same year He married Beatrice daughter to Charles Walcot of Walcot in com Salop. Esq widdow of Sir Iohn Dive of Bromham in com Bedf. Knight by whom he had issue two sons George born at Madrid in Spaine in the month of October An. 1612. and Iohn born in England in March An. 1617. who dyed in France unmarried As also two daughters Mary married to Sir Arthur Chichester now Lord Dunegal in Ireland and Abigal to George Freake â—ldest son of Iohn Freake of Shroughton in â—om Dors. Esquire And departing this life at Paris in France 16 Ian. An. 1653. was there buried in the common burial place of the Hugâ—enots in that City To whom succeed George his son and heir installed Knight of the Garter An. Apr. 1661 which George married Anne daughter to Francis late Earl of Bedford and by her had issue two sons viz. Iohn his son and heir who first married Alice the only child of Robert Bourne of Blake-Hall in the Parish of Bovenger in com Essex Esquire by whom he had no issue secondly Rachel daughter of Sir Hugh Windham Knight one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas the name of his second son was Francis slain in that sharp Fight at Sea
18 Iac. advanced to the dignity of Vicount St. Alban his solemn Investiture being then performed at Theobalds his Robe carried before him by the Lord Carew and his Coronet by the Lord Wentworth Whereupon he gave the King seavenfold thanks first for making him his Sollicitor secondly his Attorney thirdly one of his Privy Council fourthly Lord Keeper of the Great Seal fifthly Lord Chancellor sixthly Baron Verulam and lastly Vicount St. Alban But long he enjoyed not that great Office of Lord Chancellor for in Lent 18 Iac. Corruption in the exercise thereof being objected against him of which 't is believed his servants were most guilty and he himself not much accessory the Great Seal was taken from him and committed to the custody of Henry Vicount Mandevill at that time President of the Council and certain other Lords Commissioners and upon the tenth of Iuly after to Doctor Iohn Williams Dean of UUestminster afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Towards his rising years he married Alice one of the daughters and coheirs to Benedict Barnham Alderman of London with whom he had an ample portion but by her had no Children to perpetuate his memory which his learned Works being for the most part composed in the five last years of his life will amply supply being then totally retired from all civil affairs and applying himself daily to contemplation and studie the particulars were these viz. ¶ The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seaventh Abcedarium Naturae or a Metaphisical piece now lost Historia Ventorum Historia vitae mortis Historia Densi Rari not yet Printed Historia Gravis levis which is also lost A Discourse of a War with Spaine A Dialogue touching an Holy War The Fable of the New Atlantis A Preface to a digest of the Laws of England The beginning of the History of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth ¶ De Augmentis Scientiarum or the advancement to Learning put into Latin with several enrichments and Enlargements ¶ Councils Civil and Moral Or his Books of Essays likewise enriched and enlarged ¶ The Conversion of certain Psalmes into English Verse The Translaion of the History of King Henry the Seventh into Latine as also of the Councils Civil and Moral and Dialogue of the Holy War ¶ His-Book de Sapientiâ veterum revised ¶ Inquisitio de Magnete ¶ Topica Inquisitionis de Luce Lumine Not Printed ¶ Silva Silvarum or his Natural History He departed this life upon the ninth day of April 1626. being Easter day in the sixty sixth year of his age at the Earl of Arundel's House in Higngate near London to which place he casually repaired about a week before and was buried in the North side of the Chancel in St. Michaels Church at St. Albans according to the appointment by his last Will and Testament because the Body of his Mother lay there interred it being the only Church remaining within the precinct of old Verulam where he hath a Monument of white Marble representing his full body in a contemplative posture siting in a chair erected by Sir Thomas Meautys Knight formerly his Secretary but afterwards Clerk of the Council to King Iames and King Charles the first On which is this following Epitaph composed by the learned Sir Henry Wotton Knight Franciscus Bacon Baro de Verulam S. Albani vicecomes seu noâ—ioribus titulis Scientiarum lumen facundiae lex â—ic sedebat Qui postquam omnia Naturalis sapientiae Civilis Arcana evolvisset Naturae decretum explevit composita solvantur An. Dom. MDCXXVI Aetatis Lxvi Tanti viri memoriae Thomas Meautus superstitis câ—ltor defuncti Admirator H. P. Hamilton Earl of Cambridge 17 Iac. THe first of this Family that enjoyed this Honor was Iames Marquess of Hamilton in Scotland son to Iohn Earl of Arran Which Iohn being the first in that Realm who bore the Title of Marquess was son to Iames Earl of Arran Regent of Scotland upon the death of King Iames the fifth and made Duke of Chasâ—all-Herauld in Poictou by Henry the second King of France and he Grandson to Sir Iames Hamilton Knight created Earl of Arran by King Iames the third whose sister Mariana he had married In the year 1619. 17 Iac. this Iames Marquess of Hamilton was by Letters Patents bearing date 16 Iunii advanced to the dignity of Baron of Ennerdale in Cumberland and Earl of Cambridge also made Gentleman of the Kings Royal Bedchamber 4 Martii An. 1620 18 Iac. and Lord Steward of his Houshold likewise Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter towards the latter end of that Kings Reign And having married Anâ—e Cunningham daughter to Iames Earl of Glencaâ—ne by her had issue two sons Iames and William as also three daughters Anne married to ... Lindsey Earl of Craford in Scotland Margaret and Mary and dying at UUhitehall 2 Martii An. 1624. 22 Iac. towards the end of which year King Iameâ— himself departed this life was buried at Hamilton in Scotland with his Ancestors Whereupon Iames his eldest son succeeding him as well in these his English as other his Scotish honours grew in such favor with King Charles the first then newly arrived to the Crown as that he was shortly after made one of the Gentlemen of his Bedchamber Knight of the Garter and Master of the Horse And in An. 1638. 14 Car. 1. upon those Tumults raised in Scotland under colour of asserting the Religion there established was about the end of May imployed thither in order to the appeasing thereof whence he returned in November following Moreover upon that great Insurrection oâ— the Scots in An. 1639. 15 Car. 1. which occasioned his Majesty to raise considerable Forces by Sea and Land himself also marching in person thither this Marquess had the whole Fleet prepared for that service committed to his trust and conduct And after that upon a farther Insurrection theâ—e being sent again into that Realm in order to his Majesties Service for the better countenancing him therein had the Title of a Duke conferred upon him Where he continued until the year 1643. At which time the Scots having levyed another Army consisting of eighteen thousand Foot and two thousand Horse in ayd of the English Rebels whose power at that time began much to decline by reason of the many Victories which the king had obtained in sundry parts of the Realm against them He hasted to the King then at Oxford accompanied with his Brother Lanerick giving out to all the Governors of such Towns and Castles as lay in his road that being banished their Country for their Loyalty to his Majesty and plundered of their Estates by the Covenanters they were at that time thus constrained to â—lee for the safety of their lives What cause of suspition the King then had of his Fidelity is unknown to me