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A30714	The survey and antiquitie of the towne of Stamford in the county of Lincolne with its ancient foundation, grants, priviledges, and severall donations thereunto belonging : also a list of the aldermens names, and the time when they were chosen : with the names of 10 Lord Majors (of the Hon. city of London) borne in the foresaid county of Lincolne / written by Richard Butcher, Gent. ...	Butcher, Richard, 1583-1665?	1646 (1646)	Wing B6261; ESTC R2120	34,702	55

have borne the honourable Office of Lord Majors of the City of London since the time of the Norman Conquest till Anno Dom. 1633. And here is to be noted that no one County of England can say so much as this County in regard of the number of L. Majors of London as have descended out of the same as hereafter appeareth IT will be no great digression nor much from the purpose if I now walke a little out of Stamford into the County of Lincoln in wch County this town standeth and since I have in their order and succession set downe the Names of the prime Majestrates as they have successively borne Office in this Towne give me leave in the next place to set forth such as this County of Lincoln● hath from time to time sent up to London who have borne the head Office in that mighty City It is true this County hath received back as it were by way of exchange two Families of Gentry which are descended from Majors of London and have planted their houses in this County In the first place I find the Family of the Granthams which from Iohn Grantham Grocer Major of London in the third yeare of the raigne of K. Edward the 3. which was in Anno Dom. 1328. are descended and ever since setled in the County of Lincolne as appeares by the Armes of that Iohn Grantham borne by the Granthams of this County at this day The next Family which London hath lent to this County to garnish the same with the flowers of her Gentry is the illustrious Family of the Askewes of Lincolnshire which from Sir Christopher Askew Draper the Son of Iohn Askew of Edmunton in the County of Middlesex being Major of London in anno Dom. 1534 being in the 26 yeare of the raigne of K. Henry the 8. are descended as appeares by the same Coat-armour borne by the Askewes of Lincolnshire at this day It is true this Towne of Stamford hath never beene so fortunate as to have any Major of London descended out of the same but what this place hath been defective in the County hath given a larger supply then any one County of England having sent up Tenn● Majors besides other Aldermen and Sheriffes to that City I. First in Anno Dom. 1470. which was in the 10.th yeare of King Edward the 4.th Sir Iohn Stockdon Mercer the Sonne of Richard Stockdon of Bratoft in the County of Lincolne was Major of London at what time the Bastard Falconbridge assaulted the City at Algate and at the Bridge-gate who for his Valour in the defence of the same with a XI more of his Brethren the Aldermen and Vrswicke the then Recorder of London were then Knighted in the field by the said King Edward the fourth II. Sir Nicholas Alwin Mercer sonne to Richard Alwin of Spalding in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in anno Dom. 1500 in the 15.th yeare of King Henry the 7.th Hee gave xij d a peece to 3000 poore people in and about Spaulding and to as many more in and about London III. VVilliam R●mington Fishmonger sonne of Robert Remington of Boston in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in anno Dom. 1501. which was in the 16.th yeare of King Henry the 7.th IV. VVilliam Foreman Haberdasher sonne to VVilliam Foreman of Gainsborough in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in anno Dom. 1539 which was in the 31.th yeare of ●ing Henry the 8.th V. Sir Henry Hubberthorne Marchant-Taylo● sonne to ●●●●stopher Hubberthorne of Wadingsworth i● the County o●Lincolne was Major of London anno Dom. 154● which was in 〈…〉 of K. Henry the 8. VI Henry A●coles Fishmonger sonne of William A●coles of Astrap in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in anno Dom. 1549 which was in the second yeare of Edward the 6th VII Sir Iohn Langley Goldsmith sonne to Robert Langley of Althorpe in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in anno Dom. 1577 which was in the 19.th yeare of Queene Elizabeth VIII Sir Nicholas Moseley Clothworker sonne to Edward Moseley of Hough in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in anno Dom. 1600 which was the 42.th yeare of Queene Elizabeth IX Sir George Bowles Grocer sonne of Thomas Bowles of Newbold in the County of Leicester descended from the Bowles of Lincolnshire as by his Coat of Armes agreeable with those appeareth was Major of London in anno Dom. 1618 which was in the 16.th yeare of King Iames X. Sir Nicholas Raynton Haberdasher sonne of Robert Raynton of Highinton in the County of Lincolne was Major of London in Anno Dom. 1633 which was in the 9.th yeare of King CHARLES The Conclusion Thus have I at the length brought this Survey to the wished end according to my poore abilitie THrough times of trouble Prisonment and all Distractions which can wretched man befall I have at length through my Creators ayd The Towne of Stamford seriously Survey'd And by the paine of my now wearied Pen It lies apparant to the view of Men Who first the building of the same contriv'd And when in time it grew more longer liv'd With what disasters it was then turmoyl'd By Hereticks undone by Danes much sackt and spoyl'd Yet at the length her Ruines were redrest By Kings and Friends her enemies supprest In strength and state with walls and Castle proud With Grants and Priviledges great indowed She flourish'd under Governours discreet Till the whole Land with Civill warres did meet When Yorke and Lancaster their Swords out drew And like mad Lyons keene their kindred slew The Northerne souldiers all with rage incenst With quenchlesse flames they Stamford glory quencht Who never since her Towring-crest could raise To former greatnesse as in former dayes Though our fourth Edward by his Charter kind Did shew his Princely love his royall mind For Stamfords good and his Posterity Confirm'd and added What was necessary Yet what 's the Cause as yet I cannot tell Great oddes there is 'twixt us and being well God send the Kingdome better for to fare And then I hope Stamford will have a share In that Well being Let us all repent Then God no doubt in mercy will relent And make our Cities and our Townes to shine Againe in glory Earthly and Divine Heaven grant the same 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 day That Stamford and the rest may rest in Joy Amen FINIS * Cum Edwardus Senior ●ustrales fluminum ripas contra Danos et Aquilone irruentes communi●et è regione etiam hujus i● Australi ●ipa que nun● Stamford-Baron vocatur firmissimam arcem construxisse Nusquam tamen hodie apparet nae● quod intestino bello Stephanus contra Henricum Andegavensem firmavit in ipso oppido fuisse et firma obtin●● ipsius area etiamnum ostendit Camden Britt in Com. Lincolne Cambden Britta● 〈…〉 Stow pag. 131. Lamb fol. 125. Bradshaw in vitae Wirburg cap. 16. 19 Hen. 7. cap 7. Du-Bart●● Camden B●●tan pa. 368. Ob●●● anno Christi 9●2 Col Ramsy in Ar●hi vi● Scaccarij Hic requiescit Alwinu●in●liti regis Edgari cognatu●●●tius Anglia Aldermanus et huius sacri coe●●bij miraculos ● fundatur Here lies Alwin kinsman to King Edgar Alderman of all England and the miraculous founder of this sacred Cell The word Elderman saith Hovenden in England is the same with Senior or Senator in Latine not so much so called propter senectutem sed propter sapientiam not so much for their age as for their wisdome and divers others have it to the same purpose in other words by way of notation observing that those whom the Saxons formerly called and now we call Eldermen or Earles the Romans called Senators Et similiter ●lim apud Britanes ●emporibus 〈◊〉 in Reg●● isto Britania vocabantur 〈◊〉 qui ●oste● 〈◊〉 Sax●num vocabantur Aldermani non propter aetat●m sed propter sapientiam dignitatem cum quidem adolecentes essent Iurisp●riti tamen super hoc experti And likewise in times past amongst the Britaines in the time of the Romanes in this Kingdome of Britaine they were called Senators which afterwards in the time of the Saxons were called Aldermen not so much for their age as for their wisdome c. Hov●ndes pag. 607. Poly hron Polidor Virgill inter leg●● 〈◊〉 * Cum ut habet Hunting donensu Picti Scoti omnem regionem ad Stamfordiam usque ●●ripuissent ubi Hengistus noster cum sub Saxonibus in 〈◊〉 eximia fortitud●ne furentibu● baba●is ita iter occusit ut plurimis peremp●is pluribus cap●i● reliqua fugam und●que capesserunt Camd. in Brittan i● Com. Lincoln Ingulphus St. Mryes St. Georges All-Saints St. Iohns and St. Michaels S. Ma●tins in Stamford-Barō

Tower-Roll in the third yeare of King Edward the first Per veredictum duodec●m minorum Ville de Stamford R●tul hundred Lincoln ibi fuerunt duodecem qui vocantur LEGEMANI qui sic vocabantur quia ab antiqu● fuerunt Iudices legum in eadem Villam Whereby it is manifest that in those dayes there were Twelve men in Stamford which were called Legemani because they were Iudges of the Law and had the law in their hands for the Government of this Towne Edward the 4th in the first yeare of his Raigne Anno Dom. 1461. by his Charter directed to George Chapman the first incorporate Alderman and others both of the upper and lower Bench then called the Comburgesses and Capitall-burgesses being then the first and second Twelve as they are more particulerly named in the said Charter but since inlarged by a later Charter To the Alderman and twelve Comburgesses and to the number of 24 Capitall Burgesses did incorporate the said Towne both in Name and Deed by the name of the Alderman and Burgesses of Stamford and thereby gave or rather confirmed unto the same many great and profitable Priviledges as to be freed from the Sheriffes jurisdiction and from being put on Inquests out of the Towne to have the returne of all Writs to be freed from all Lords Lieutenants or their Deputies in respect of taking of Musters as touching the Militia of the said Towne making the Alderman for the time being the Kings immediate Lieutenant within his Liberties and Iurisdiction and to be within the same the second man within the Kingdome to have one or more Mace or Maces of Gold or Silver at his choyce to be carried before him for his greater honour and dignity to have a common Seale at Armes and for the more honour thereof the same are allowed to be the Armes of England both in Field colour and posture without difference impaled with the checkie Coat Or and Azure of Earle Warren the ancient Lord as hath been said of this Towne and further to doe and execute within the same and Liberties thereof Vt ab antiquo usu fuerunt as of ancient time they had been accustomed which makes it evident that this Charter is but a new Confirmation of more ancient Priviledges The Naturalists report that the Viperous brood are procreated by the destruction of both the Parents the Male destroyed in the act of generation the Female at the time of bringing forth Such a generation of Vipers have frō time to time unfortunatly been gotten and brought forth in this Town I meane men who have been begotten into prime O●fices by the votes and suffrages of others by which very act they have proved the ruine of those which begat them and being conceived in the wombe of their Offices to make themselves a Birth to their better benefit and greater prefe●ment have torne out the bowels of this their nourishing Mother by purloyning from her her ancient Records Charters and miniments rending to the death and destruction of this Corporation only to advance their private designes together with the designes of the Townes common enemy whereby our ancient Immunities appeare no otherwise then scatteringly here and there upon the Tower Roll little better then meere circumstances yet pregnant Evidences of more ancient Priviledges So that at this day wee ca● shew none under any authentick warrant beyond the first yeare of the Raigne of King Edward the fourth But to proceed since the obtaining of this first Charter the same hath been Confirmed by divers Iuspeccimusses from all the succeeding Kings and Queenes that have been Soveraignes to the time of King CHARLES that now is and divers new Grants added as the Munday Market the three Fayres of Simon and Iude Gréene-goose Fayre and St. Iames Fayre having formerly but the Friday Market and the great Mid-lent Mart the profits of which only belong to the Lord these later to the Corporation By a late Inspeccimus there is granted to the Alderman and Burgesses to hold a Court of Pleas of all actions Reall personall or mixt to the value of 40. l. And to hold Sessions and Goale delivery for all Criminall actions perpetrated and done within the Liberty high Treason and pettie Treason only excepted This Towne hath as many other ancient Boroughes of England have a power to send up two Burgesses to every Parliament So that they have not only the power to execute Lawes but also a share in making of lawes And here is to bee observed the reason why the Princes and policy of England have had a regard as it were to the fencing and hedging about the Cities and ancient Boroughs of this Land with Priviledges and Immunities for the stronger defence preservation and maintenance of the same and that for divers great and weighty ends and purposes In the time of William the Conquerour it is constitured by the said King in these words Item nullum Mercatum vel forum sit nec fieri permittatur nisi in Civitatibus Regni nostri in Burgis clausis muto vallatis Castellis locis tutissimus ubi consuetudines Regni nostri jus nostrum commune dignitates Coronae nostrae quae constitutae sunt a bonis Praedecessoribus nostris deperire non possunt nec defraudari nec viol●ri sed omnia rite ●er judicium justiciam fieri debent Et ideo Castella Burgi Civitates sunt fundatae edificata scilicet ad tuitionem gentium populorum Regni ad defencionem Regni idcirco observari debent cum omne libertate et integritate et ratione So as by this it appeares that Cities and ancient Boroughs as this Towne is were instituted for three purposes First the conservation of the Customes of the Kingdome and the common Right and Dignity of the Crowne 2. For the defence of the Nation and the people of the Kingdome 3. And as for the defence of the Kingdome so for the conservation of the Lawes thereof by which Lawes every man injoyes his owne in Peace for tuition and defence of the Kings subjects and for the keeping of the Kings peace in time of suddaine uproares and finally for the Defence of the Realme against outward and inward hostilitie And indeed the Graunts of Kings and Soveraigne Princes either to Counties Cities or Townes corporate makes such Counties Cities and Townes corporate as it were small County Palatines within themselves in giving them power for the better Government of such places to have Magistrates of their owne members and for their more ample Authority and peculiar rule to make Lawes constitutions and ordinances to bind themselves and every member within their Iurisdiction When the Conquerour created Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester he made that Shire a County Palatine upon which Creation Henry Bradshaw a Munk in Chester about the beginning of King Henry the 8. speaking of the manner of the Conquerours graunt to the said Hugh hath these

Lord of this Town in the time of K. Iohn standing upon his Castle walls in Stamford viewing the faire prospe●● of the River and Medowes under the same saw two Bulls fighting for one Cow a Butcher of the Town the owner of one of th●se Bulls with a great ●asti●●e Dog accidentally comming by set his Dog upon his owne Bull who forced the same Bull up into the Towne which no sooner was come within the same but all the Butchers Dogs both great and small followed in the pursuit of the Bull which by this time made starke mad with the noise of the people and the fiercenesse of the Dogs ran over Man woman and child that stood in his way this caused all the Butchers and others in the Town to rise up as it were in a tumult making such an hideous noise that the sound therof came into the Castle into the ear●s of Earle Warren who presently thereupon mounted on Horseback rid into the Town to see the businesse which then appearing to his humour very delightfull he gave all those Medowes in which the two Bulls were at the first found fighting which we now call the Castle Medowes perpetually as a Common to the Butchers of the Town after the first grasse is eaten to keepe their Ca●tle in till the time of slaughter Upon this Condition that as upon that Day on which this sport first began which was as J said before that day Sixe weekes before Christmas the Butchers of the town should from time to time yearly for ever find a mad Bull for the continuance of that sport An ominous thing to the Towne for some of the Lords of the same of his succession though not of his Descent have since upon their hornes of greatnesse tossed the best of the Burgesses out of their gownes and why Because the Burgesses were no● Foxes otherwise they would not have suffered themselves to have been so abused by such Buls whose eare● were longer then their hornes And so much for the sports of Stamford CHAP. XI A list of the Names and Succession of the Aldermen of Stamford since the time of the ●irst incorporation of that Towne by Letters Patents in order according to the Yeare of our Lord in which each of them governed   Anno   1 1461 George Chapman   1462 Iohn Browne Esquire 1 1463 Iohn Gregory 1 1464 William Hickman 1 1465 Robert Haunce 1 1466 William Browne Esquire 2 1467 VVilliam Hickman 2 1468 George Chapman   1469 Thomas Rayston 2 1470 William Browne Esquire 2 1471 Iohn Gregory 2 1472 Robert Haunce   1473 John Neale   1474 Alexander Dye●   1475 Iohn Gibbes 1 1476 Iohn Dick●ns Esquire 1 1477 Henry Cooke Esquire   1478 Robert Skinner 3 1479 VVilliam Hickman 3 1480 George Chapman 3 1481 Robert Haunce 1 1482 Christopher Browne Esq. 2 1483 Iohn Dick●ns Esquire   1484 David Malpas   1485 Iohn Steede   1486 Thomas Keyston 2 1487 Henry Cooke Esquire   1488 Iohn Freebarne 1 1489 Thomas Phillip   1490 VVilliam Gaywood 2 1491 Christopher Brown Esq. 1 1492 Nicholas Bilsden 3 1493 Iohn Dickons Esquire 1 1494 Thomas Edwards Esq.   1495 VVilliam Ratcliffe Esq.   1496 Iohn Cleypoole   1497 Richard Cannell   1498 Robert Crant 2 1499 Thomas Phillip 2 1500 Ieffery Hampton 3 1501 Nicholas Bilsden 2 1502 Christopher Brown Esq. 1 1503 VVilliam Ratcliffe Esq.   1504 David Cecell Esquire   1505 Nicholas Trigge Gent. 1 1506 Thomas La●y Gent. 1 1507 Iohn Cobbe   1508 Iohn Hardgrave 1509 Iohn Tyard   1510 Richard Wastling Esq.   1511 Robert Martingdale 3 1512 William Ratcliffe Esq. 1 1513 Iohn Lea Gent.   1514 VVilliam Rankell 2 1515 David Cecell Esquire 2 1516 Iohn Cobbe 1 1517 Maurice Iohnson 1 1518 Thomas Crosse   1519 Iohn Thomas 2 1520 Iohn Hardgrave Esquire 1 1521 Henry Lacy Gent. 4 1522 William Ratcliffe Esq. 2 1523 Iohn Lea Gent. 1 1524 Andrew Canne   1525 Edward Browne Esq. 3 1526 David Cecell Esquire 2 1527 Maurice Iohnson 3 1528 Iohn Hardgrave Esq. 2 1529 Thomas Crosse 3 1530 Iohn Lea Gent. 2 1531 Henry Lacy Gent. 1 1532 Thomas Watson   1533 Richard Engham 1 1534 Roger Beale   1535 Thomas Gedney   1536 Robert Hand 2 1537 Andrew Canne 3 1538 Maurice Iohnson 2 1539 He●ry Lacy Gent. 2 1540 Thomas Watson   1541 Iohn Fenton 1 1542 Iohn Allen 2 1543 Roger Beale   1544 William Button   1545 Robert Winwick 1 1546 Nicholas Wiles   1547 Henry Lea Gent.   1548 William Wiles 3 1549 Thomas Watson   1550 Andrew S●arre   1551 William Fenton 1 1552 William Camponet 2 1553 Iohn Allen 1 1554 Raph Harrup   1555 Henry Ta●pian 2 1556 Nicholas Wiles   1557 Francis Thorney 1 1558 Iohn Haughton   1559 Iohn Ryder   1560 William Bagget 1 1561 Henry Inman   1562 Thomas Ball 2 1563 Raph Harrup 2 1564 William Camponet 1 1565 Godfrey Dawson 2 1566 Iohn Haughton   1567 Gregory Burton   1568 Alexander Antony 1 1569 Reynold Harrison 2 1570 Henry Inman   1571 Iohn Backhouse   1572 Richard Barton   1573 William Lacy Gent.   1574 Iohn Hawkins 3 1575 Iohn Haughton 3 1576 William Camponet 2 1577 Godfrey Dawson 1 1578 Iohn Elmes Gent. 1579 Richard Eveley   1580 Iohn Wimblesby 4 1581 Iohn Haughton 2 1582 Reynald Harrison 1 1583 Richard Shute Gent. 1 1584 Robert Meadowes 1 1585 William Clarke   1586 Lawrence Wilsbey 1 1587 Toby Loveday   1588 Anthony Gu●son   1589 Robert Langton 1 1590 Robert Ramsden 2 1591 Richard Shute Gent. 3 1592 Richard Shute Gent. ib.   1593 VVilliam Watson 2 1594 Robert Mead●wes   1595 Cutb●rt Greenbury 2 1596 William Clarke 1 1597 Lyonel Fetherston   1598 Nicholas Lambe 2 1599 Iohn Elmes Gent. 3 1600 Robert Meadowes 2 1601 Toby Loveday 1 1602 William Salter Gent.   1603 Reynald Waters Gent. 2 1604 William Salter Gent. 3 1605 William Clarke   1606 Iohn Loveday 2 1607 Robert Ramsden 1 1608 Iohn Browne Esquire 2 1609 Lyonell Fetherston 1 1610 Thomas Iack-son 1 1611 Robert Whatton   1612 Francis Cole   1613 Robert Fawcet 3 1614 Toby Loveday   1615 Thomas Watson Gent.   1616 Toby Aslocke 1 1617 Edmund Corker 3 1618 William Salter Gent. 2 1619 Iohn Browne Esquire 2 1620 Thomas Grason 2 1621 Thomas Iackson 2 1622 Robert Whatton 1 1623 Peter Fullwood 1 1624 Henry Rastell Gent.   1625 Vincent Hall   1626 Henry D●the Gent. 2 1627 Nicholas Lambe 2 1628 Peter Fullwood 2 1629 Edmund Corker 2 1630 Richard Wolphe   1631 Vincent Hall   1632 Iohn Atton   1633 Edward Cammocke   1634 Thomas Palmer   1635 Abraham Fdlkener 2 1636 Henry Eldred 2 1637 Henry Rastell Gent.   1638 Richard Wolphe   1639 Leonard Cole   1640 Ieremy Cole   1641 Richard Langton Gent. 2 1642 Robert Cammocke 3 1643 Edward Cammocke   1644 Vincent Hall   1645 Richard Damalt● CHAP. XII The Names of such Lincolnshire-men as