was buried in the South Porch on the West part of the Cathedral there But on these his faithless and cruel practises little comfort or quiet attended for no sooner was King Harold dead but Hardi-Canutus King of Denmark who succeeded him in the Throne calling to mind the injuries done by Harold unto himself and his Mother sent this Earl Godwyne with some others unto London causing them to dig up the Body of that deceased King unto whom he had been so obsequious whilest he lived cut off his Head and threw it with his Body into the Thames and moreover growing most highly displeased with him would not accept of any other attonement than a present to be made of a Ship Gilt with Gold and Tackâ—ing suitable wherein were Fourscore Soldiers in Gilt Armor each of them having two Bracelets of Gold on their Arms weighing sixteen ounces as also Habergions or Coats of Fence of Gold Gilt Helmets Swords with Gilt Hilts girt to their Loyns and a Danish Ax of Gold hanging on their left Shoulders In their Left-hands each bearing a Target with Gilt Bosses and Nails and in their Right a Lance called in English a Tegar And having by this extraordinary present thus qualified the King to excuse his cruel murther of young Ethelred in the Isle of Ely as hath been said he laid the fault wholly upon King Harold affirming that against his will he was compelled thereto by him But observing notwithstanding this specious excuse that the English Nobility were highly incensed against him for that perfidious and barbarous Act so that his safety here was much in danger he fled into Denmark and there continued for the space of four years his Lands and Possessions here being in the mean time confiscated Howbeit taking notice of the singular Piety and Clemency of King Edward sirnamed the Confessor who upon the death of Hardi-Canutus was Crowned King he adventured again into England and came to London where the King and all the great Men of the Land then â—ate in Parliament imploring the Mediation of his Friends and Kinred for Favor and Mercy who thereupon being brought into his presence and charged by the King with the guilt of his Brother Elfreds Blood denied the fact and put himself upon tryal of that Court where after divers Arguments by the Earls and Barons at that time so assembled some in favor of him and some otherwise up stood Leofric Earl of Chester a Person of great Integrity and no less Piety and said That though Earl Godwyne waâ— a Man of the greatest Parentage of any in England yet he could not deny but that by his procurement Elfred was put to death And therefore advised That the same Earl Godwyne and his Son with those Twelve Earls who were his Friends and Kinsmen should in all humility go to the King each of them carrying as much Gold and Silver as he was able to bear and offer it unto him as an atonement for that transgression most humbly beseeching his pardon for the same and restoration of his Lands upon doing of his homage and fealty All which being accordingly performed the good King did not only condescend thereto but to put the greater obligation upon him took unto Wife Edgitha his Daughter But within few years after it hapned that upon the landing at Dover of Eustace Earl of â—olâ—in who had married Goda the Kings Sister some of his followers being rude and imperious in taking up Lodgings there killed one of the Townsmen whereat the rest grew so enraged that they presently fell upon the Earls Retinue with all violence slew twenty of them and wounded very many more Earl Eustace therefore who hardly escaped their fury with one of his men hasted to the King then at Gloucester and made a grievous complaint to him of this mischeif Whereupon the King sent for this Earl Godwyne and commanded him That with his power he should vindicate this injury so done to the Earl of 〈◊〉 but Earl Godwyne rather excusing the fact then endeavoring any reparation for the same under colour of restraining the incursions of the Welsh raised the Kentishmen with those also of Suâ—â—â—x and West Saâ—ony his eldest Son Sâ—anus acting in like manner throughout the Counties of Oxford Gloucester Somerset Hereford and Berks and Harold another Son amongst the East Saxons East Angles Huntingdon and Cambridgeshires and formed a very great Army Whereupon King Edward forthwith sent for Leofric Earl of Mercia and Siward Earl of Northumberland who forthwith got what Forces they could together Raphe Earl of Hereford Nephew to the King viz. Son to his Sister Goda assisting with all the power he could raise But in the mean while Godwyne marching into Gloucestershire pitch his Tents at â—angtreo in that County and sent Messengers to the King requiring the delivery up of Earl Eustace and all his followers then in Dover Castle and threatning otherwise that he would denounce open War against him Howbeit the King refusing so to do and Earl Godwyne discerning that the Army which the King had raised by the help of those Earls was not inferior to his submitted to an amicable Treaty to be held at London for appeasing of that quarrel Whereupon the King marched with his Army thither and Earl Godwyne likewise with his which he quartered in the Borough of Southwark In order therefore to this peaceable composure the King sent to Earl Godwyne to come to his Court with no more than Harold his Son and twelve of their Retinue unarmed requiring also that they should deliver up unto hem what Military Services were due unto them throughout all England But in answer to this Message they alleaged That they durst not adventure themselves without Hostages to that Contion of Factious Men for so they termed the Kings Council then about him nor without peril and disgrace come thither with so few men and unarmed But the King observing that the Soldiers of Earl Godwyne fearing the strength of his Forces did by little and little out-run their Colours caused open Proclamation to be made that the Earl should appear at his Court as before he had required or depart out of England within five days Whereupon with Gytha his Wife and three of his Sons viz. Tosti Swane and Gyrth he hasted to Thorney where having a Ship ready to transport them they soon got unto Baldwyne Earl of Flanders whose Daughter Iudith Tosti had married his two other Sons Harold and Leofwyne sailing from Bristol into Ireland But long it was not ere this great Master of Mischeif making all hostile preparations for that purpose returned into England again so also his Sons Harold and Leofwyne who came back out of Ireland and entring the Mouth of Severne made no small spoil in Somerset and Dorsetshires
the fourths Reign I find nothing more of this Duke Henry but soon after it is said that he speedily dispatched one Pershal his trusty Servant in all hast unto Richard Duke of Gloucester then in the North and that Pershall being privatly admitted to speak with him in the dead of the night told him that his Master had sent him to offer him his service and that he would wait on him with a thousand good Fellows if need were Likewise that thanks being returned and some secret Instructions from Richard the Messenger went back and within few daies met with him again at Notingham Moreover that when Richard came to Northampton this our Duke himself with three hundred Horse received him there and that having long conference with him it was beleived that the designe for effecting what soon after followed was there privily laid for after that time it was observed that he stood up vigorously for Richard and as one of his cheif confidents was with some others sent to the Queen who fearing the destruction of her Sons by the Duke of Gloucester their Uncle had taken Sancttuary with them at Westminster by fair pretences and promises to gain them out of her hands Which being done and Hastings late Lord Chamberlain to King Edward the fourth whose furtherance in his wicked purposes he despaired to obtain cut shorter by the Head lest Morton Bishop of Ely a person of singular prudence and Gravity might stand in his way he committed him to the custody of this Duke who thereupon fent him to his Castle of Brecknock in Wales And having so done to secure this Duke the more firmly to his ends he made him Cheif Justice of all South-Wales and North-Wales as also Constable of the Castles of Caermardyn Cardigan and divers other in those parts his Patent bearing date 18 Maii Richard being then Protector and King Edward the fifth alive Nay an Author of that time reports that he gave him all his riches so that he then made his boast that he had as many Liveries of Staffords Knotts as Richard Nevill the late great Earle of Warwick had of Ragged Staves with large promifes of far greater Matters as I shall shew anon Wherewith being corrupted he stuck at nothing that might carry on that Tragical designe which both of them had so closely layd for our Historians tell us that in the time of Dr. Shaa's Sermon at Pauls Cross where that Doctor endeavored to make the people beleive that the Children of K. E. 4. were not lâ—gitimate and upon the coming in of the Protector said This is the Fathers own Figure his own Countenance c. it was observed that this Duke accompanied him And two days following came to Guild-Hall where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Commons of the City were assembled and in a long Oration depraving the Government of King Edward the fourth by sundry instances represented to them the illegitimacy of his Children much magnifying that Sermon preached by Dr. Shaa on the Sunday before and withall insinuating that K. Edward the fourth himself was not lawfully begotten but that Richard Duke of Gloucester the then Protector was the really begotten Son of Richard Duke of York telling them that all those things well considered together with the Knightly prowess and manifold virtues of the Protector that the Nobles and Commons of England especially of the North were determined to make their humble Petition unto him to take upon him the Government of the Realm Moreover the next day after having procured another meeting of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Chief Commoners of the City at Baynards-Castle the Protector likewise meeting them there as the Mouth of them all he humbly desired him to take upon him the Rule Which when the Protector seemed modestly to deny he answered that it was finally determined by the Realm that King Edwards Line should no longer Reign And so it happned for that very day or the night ensuing was that horrid Murther of the young King and his Brother committed secretly in the Tower of London Furthermore soon after this viz. upon the fifth of Iuly he rode with him in State from the Tower to Westminster through the City of London And the day following in that solemn Proceeding from Westminster Hall unto the Abby in order to his Coronation bore his Train with a white Staff in his hand signifying the Office of Lord High Steward of England for that day Having thus been the principal Agent in advancing Richard to the Throne and thereupon pressing his performance of what had been privately promised this new King signed a Bill for Livery of all those Lands unto him whereunto he pretended a right by descent from Humphrey de Bohun sometime Earl of Hereford and Constable of England An abstract whereof I have here inserted together with a Schedule of the Castles and Mannors affixed thereto R. R. RIchard by the grace of God King of England c. To all c. Know ye that We not only considering that our right trusty and right enryrely beloved Cosyn Henry Duke of Buckinhgam is Cosyn and Heir of Blood to Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and rightfull Inheritor of such Inheritances as were of the same late Earl but also the true feythfull and laudable service the which our seid Cosyn hath in many sundry wisez done unto us to our right singular wele and plesure Considering also and understanding that the Mannors Lordships and Lands specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed the which were parcel of the Inheritance of the said Earl and were chosen and accepted in purpartie by Herry the fifth late King of England Son of Mary one of the Daughters and Heirs of the said late Earle of a partition betwene the same late King and Anne Daughter of Alianore another of the Daughters and Heires of the sayd late Earle made by authority of Parliament the second year of his Reigne in allowance of other Mannours Lordships Lands c. of the like value allotted and assured in purpartie to the same Anne come unto the hands of Edward the fourth late King of England our Brother by virtue of certain Act or Acts of Parliament made against Herry the sixth deceased without issue so that our said Cosyn as true Inheritor to the sayd Inheritance in forme abovesayd should by his death have had and inherited the said Mannors Lordships c. specifyed in the sayd Schedule if the sayd Act or Acts of Parliament had never been made And also for certain other considerations us especially moving wille and grant to our sayd Cosyn that in our next Parliament to be holden he shall be surely and lawfully by Act of Parliament restored frothe Feste of Easter last past to all the foresayd Mannours c. specifyed in the sayd Schedule and the same have hold and enjoy to him and to his Heires according to such
States and Titles as he should or might have done if none Act of Parliament had been made against the sayd King Herry the sixth touching the sayd Mannours c. at any time since the death of the sayd late Earle And that our said Cosyn now forthwith enter into all the same Mannours and thereof take the issues c. to his own use fro the sayd Feast of Easter unto the time he be thereto restored by authority of Parliament in fourme above remembred without any accout or other thing yeilding to Us or our Heires for the same And that he have the making of all Officers Gifts and Benefices Wards and other Proffits c. In Witness whereof We have set our Signet and signe Manuell Yoven at our Mannour of Grenwich 13th of Iuly of our Reign the first Essex Waldene Depedene Quendene Leighes Dunmow Masheby Badewe Plecy Castrum Manerium Higstre Waltham Wykes Shenefeld Chishull Histre Court and Honoâ— Farneham La Fee del Counteâ— de Essex Suff. Elmesse ove Somersham Oston Gloucest Southam Buck. Wycomb Crendone Vn Tenement ove certains Terres in Westcot Berks. Vp-Lambourn Speene Henton Wiltes Pool Manyngford Midd. Enefeld Le Tenement appele Hakenose London Blanch-Apleton Hertford Le Court de Hertford ove le vieu de Hodesdon Northamstede Cantabr Le vieu de Sawston Norf. Fulmodeston Lincol. Long-Benington Oxon. Kirklington Dadington Piryton Ascote Wiltes Vphaven Le vien de Nether-haven Le Court de Apuk-Farley Wokesey Gales Le Chastel Mannour de Galdecot Neuton ove I'appurtenâ—nces Surr. Walton Gloucest Whitenhurst Dors. Les Terres Tenements in Gwyssyth Heref. Le reversâ—on del Mannour de 〈◊〉 le quel Will. Rasyn tient puâ— terâ—â—e de vie  li. s. d. Le total Sum valoris 1084 01 â—9 And within two dayes after advanced him to that high and great Office of Constable of England constituting him also Constable of all the Castles and Steward of all his Lordships lying within the Counties of Salop. and Heref. and likewise Cheif Justice and Chamberlain of all South-Wales and North-Wales But whether itâ— were trouble of Conscience in this Duke in having been thus Instrumental in raising Richard to the Throne by that barbarous murther of his Nephews which begot some remorse in him and Consequently occasioned his retiring to Brecknock in Wales or whether he saw the King by degrees to neglect him is hard to say certain it is that soon after his comming to Brecknock which was not long before the Parliament was called whereby the Lands before-mentioned should have been setled on him he plotted with Morton Bishop of Ely then his prisoner there how to advance Henry Earl of Richmund the only Heir Male of the Lancastrian line to the Crown and to unite the two long divided Houses of Lancaster and York by the marriage of that Earl with the eldest Daughter to King Edward the fourth which contrivance was not so closely carryed on but that King Richard had a glimpse of it who standing upon so slipery a foundation as was the Blood of his murthred Nephews had cause enough to fear what might be the issue thereof And therefore being not ignorant that this Duke of Buckingham was the principal in that contrivance sought to regain him by fair and kind Letters and Messages but those not prevailing used threats which caused him hasâ—â—ly to put himself in Arms and with a power of the Welch to advance towards Salisbury Thomas Marquess Dorset in Yorkshire Sir Edward Courtney with the Bishop of Exeter his Brother in Devonshire and Cornwall and Richard Gilford in Kent being risen also at that very time expecting likewise that the people to whom the bloody murthers of King Richard seemed odious would have come in very numerously unto him And so marched through the Forest of Dâ—ne with purpose to pass the Seâ—erne at Gloucester and joyn with the Courtneys and such other of the Western men as were confederated with them But the extraordinary Floods then hapning hindred his passage over Sâ—berne so long as that the Welch for want of Money and Victual dispersed themselves So that being thus forsaken he was necessitated to betake himself privately to the House of his Servant Mr. Humphrâ—y Banâ—ster in 〈◊〉 not far from 〈◊〉 whom he had tenderly brought up and above all men trusted Of which disaster so soon as the Courtneys and others of his party elsewhere had notice they fled into 〈◊〉 So that order being thereupon given to stop the Ports and Proclamation made that whosoever could reveal where the Duke was hid should be rewarded with a thousand pounds Banaster betraied him to Ioha Mitton then Sheriff of Shropshire who apprehending him in a little Grove near Banasters house conveyed him then apparelled in a Pil'd black Cloak to Salisbury to which place King Richard was by that time come who instead of that reward promised refused to give any thing at all to Banaster saying that he who would be untrue to so good a Master would be false to all other It is said that this Duke being examined strictly by some of the K. Councell franckly discovered the whole plot expecting that having dealt so ingeniously he might have had liberty to speak with the King but that instead of any such favour he was upon All-Souls day following without Arraignment or Judgement beheaded on a Scaffold in the open Market place at Salisbury By Katherine his Wife Daughter of Richard Widevil Earl Rivers this Duke left issue three Sons viz. Edw. his Son and Heir Henry afterwards Earl of Wiltshire and Humphrey who died young and two Daughters viz. Elizabeth married to Robert Radcliffe Lord Fitz Waltâ—r afterwards Earl of Suffeâ— and Anne first married to Sir Walter Herbert Knight but afterwards to George Earl of 〈◊〉 Which Henry created Earl of Wiltshire in 1 Hen. 8. married Muriel Sister and Coheir to Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle but had no issue by her and died 6 Martii 14 Hen. 8. But I return to Edward his elder Brother who succeeded his Father in his Lands and Honors Of this Edward I find no farther mention till 13 Hen. 7. that he appeared in Arms against the Cornish-men upon that Insurrection then made by them on the behalf of Perkin Warbeck But after this the next ensuing year viz. 14 Hen. 7. doing his Homage he had Livery of all his Lands And in 24 H. 7. obtained a grant from the King of the Castle and Town of Bredles the Mannors and Lordships of Cantrecelley Brendieys Penkeiley and â—leranders-town with the third part of the Barony of Penkelley in South-Wales and Advousons of the Churches appertaining to those Lordships That which I next find to be most memorable of him is That in 2 Henr. 8. he had licence to impark a thousand Acres
but marching downwards came in to the King his Brother about three Miles Southward from the Town of Warwick Nevertheless though he so did he left no means unassayed to work a Reconciliation betwixt that Earl and King Edward unto which he found the King inclinable enough So that it might very well have been effected had it not been for the obstinacy of that haughty spirited Earl of Warwick Whereupon he marcht with the King towards the City of London into which entring upon the eleventh of Aprill King Henry was delivered up to them In the mean time the Earl of Warwick being come up to St. Albans and King Edward resolving to encounter him both Armies met on a plain called Gladmore-â—eath near Barnet upon Easter-day 30 April where King Edward placing his Brother the Duke of Glocester in the Van and with the assistance of this Duke leading the main Battel himself the Lord Hastings commanding the Rear a sharp Fight ensued wherein Warwick was slain and his whole Army routed Shortly aftger which viz. 4 Maii next following those of the Lancastrian-pary then unsubdued making head again in Glocestershire were met with at Tewksbury and there utterly destroyed At which time Prine Edward son to King H. 6. being taken prisoner and asked by King Edward How he durst bear Armes against him Answering To recover his Fathers Kingdome and Heritage this George Duke of Clarence with his Brother Richard Duke of Glocester and the Lord Hastings suddenly Murthered y him in cold blood A most barbarous and unmanly Act not one of them afterwards enjoying much content in this World but coming in a short space to untimâ—ly deaths Having therefore in these greatest Exigencies stuck thus stoutly to his Brother in the very same year viz. 11. E. 4. the Parliament then siting he did there with divers other of the Peers recognize his Right and Swear Fealty to Edward his eldest son And in 12 E. 4. in consideration of that his Marriage with Isabel the eldest daughter and coheir to the said Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick and Salisbury was by special Letters patents bearing date 25 Martii created Earl of Warwick and Salisbury with the Fee of Twenty pounds per annum issuing out of each of the Counties of Warwickshire and Wiltshire to himself and the heirs male of his Body for the better support of those dignities Moreover he obtain'd a Grant for life of the Lordship of Clavering in Com. Essex as also of the Mannor of Newport paynell and Parke of Tyford in Com. Buck. with the Mannor of Solâ—hull and Park of Fulbroke in Com. Warr. And likewise of a certain House called The Herber in the City of London and of the Castle and Lordship of Nore-end After which in 14 E. 4. he was retein'd by Indenture to serve the King with One hundred and twenty men at Armes and a Thousand Archers And by Letters Patents bearing date 18 Iulii had a grant in special tail of two parts of the Mannor of Ros in Holdernessâ— In 15 E. 4. he was at the Enterview at Piquenni near Amiens betwixt King Edward and the King of France And in 16 E. 4. had a grant in special tail of the Lordship and Mannor of Ludgarsale in Com. Wilts with all the Knights Fees thereto belonging As also in 17 E. 4. another in reversion after the death of Margery Lady Roos of the Castle and Mannor of Helmesâ—ey in Com. Ebor. But after all this the King being jealous k of him designâ—d his destruction It is reported by our Historians that he did endeavour to possess the people that the King his Brother used by Negromancie or Poison to make away those that he hated Also that he was a Bastard and therefore not fit to Reign Moreover that he himself had procured divers of the Kings subjects to be sworn to him and his heirs without reservation of their Allegiance to the King It was likewise then said that the King was much tâ—rrified by a Prophesie that a person whose name began with G should succeed him in the Government which afterwards in truth was fulfilled in the Duke of Glocester Others gave out that this Duke having buried his Wife did by the help of Margaret Dutchess of Burgundy his sister endeavour to obtain Mary the only daughter to Charles Duke of Burgundy and that King Edward maligning his advantage thereby hindred it which revived the old Grudge betwixt them Which of these in particular was the chief cause of the distast then taken against him by the King is hard to say but certain it is that being offended with him he caused him to be imprison'd and that soon after he was Murthered by drowning in a Butt of Malmsey By the Inquisition taken after his death it was found that he died that is to say that he was so Murthered 18 Feb. 17 E. 4. being then seised of the Mannor of Bretâ—ys in Com. Essex As also of the Mannors of Hauâ—bere Iwarn Courtney Ebberton Ramsam Wroxhall Child-Frome Ientcome Maperton Pound-Knoll Hoggs-Toller and of the Castle and Mannor of Corff in Com. Dorset of the Mannors of Somerâ—on Erle Kyngesdone Crukerne Hunspill Misterton Grove Exton Charleton Makerell Dunhede and Stoke Michell in Com. somerset of the Mannor and Burrough of Tyverton the Mannors and Lorships of Plympton and Okehampton of the Burrough of Challeghe and Mannors of Collcome and Whiteford in com Devon of the Mannors of Shemoke Weston Tony Trelowye Portlo Port-pigham Crofthale Northyll and Landeer in com Cornub. of the Mannor of Bassyngburne in Com. Cantabr of the Mannors of Frampton Wykes Boston on the East-side of the Water Gayton with the Soke Momby with the sokes Washyngburgh Futâ—ek Ledenham two parts of the Mannors of Freston and Boston on the West-side the Water of the Castle and Lordship of Somerton of the reversion of the Mannors of Barton and Stewton immediately after the death of Katherine then Dutchess of Norffolk and of the reversion of the third part of the said Mannors of Freston and Boston on the West-part the Water after the death of Margery Lady Roos Likewise of two parts of the Mannor of Ros in Holderness as also of the reversion of the Castle and Mannor of Helmesley in Com. Ebor. after the decease of the said Margery Lady Roos and of the Mannor of Solyhull in Com. Warr. Edward his son and heir being at that time three years of age and upwards Soon after which he was attainted in the Parliament begun at Westminster upon the sixteenth day of Ianuary He likewise left issue by the same Lady Isabell his Wife one daughter called Margaret married to Sir Richard Pole Knight of whom I shall say more when I come to speak of Henry her son who was advanced to the title of Lord Montague by King Henry the Eighth But
descended to him and it so clog'd with Debts that for the disengaging thereof he Married the said Frances his Grand-Daughter and Heir to Humble Ward the only Son of William Ward a Wealthy Goldsmith in London Jeweller to the late Queen of which Humble I shall speak farther in due place And departing this Life 23 Iunii an 1643. was buried in St. Edmund's Church at Dudley since pull'd down in the time of the late troubles by reason of its nearness to the Castle ¶ Having now done with this Line of the Barons of Dudley I come to Iohn the second Son to Iohn Lord Dudley This Iohn by Elizabeth his Wife one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Iohn Bramshot Esq Lord of the Mannors of Eatton Calbourne and Whitwell in the Isle of Wiht as also of the Mannor of Brâ—mshot in Com. Suth had Issue Edmund his Son and Heir which Edmund upon her Death 12 Oct. 14 H. 7. was found to be thirty six years of Age. And having been trained up to the Study of the Laws in Grays-Inne as it seems by his Arms then set up and still remaining in a Window of the Chappel there became so great a proficient therein as that though then but young in 1 Henr. 7. he was made choice of to be one of the Privy Council to that prudent Prince proper prudentiam singularem fidem gravitatem saith Polyd. Virg. In 19 H. 7. being then Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament he should have been made Sergeant at Law upon the 13th of November But for what reason appears not he did Petition that he might be discharg'd from assuming that Dâ—gree Whereupon the King directed his Precept to William Bishop of London then Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Commanding his forbearance to make out any Writ for his Call and in 22 H. 7. he obtain'd the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastitings in Com. Suss. This Edmund wrote a Book called Arbor Reipublicae Whether he with Richard Empson another Lawyer Son to a Sive-maker in Touceter as our Historians affirm discerning King Henry to be of a frugal disposition did first project the taking advantage against such as had transgressed the penal Laws by exacting from them the forfeitures according to those Statutes Or whether the King perceiving so fair a gap open to rake vast sums of money from his subjects finding those persons to be fit Instruments for his purpose did put them upon such courses for filling his Coffers 't is hard to say But certain it is that these were they whom he constituted his Iudices fiscales Dudley being an eminent man and one that could put hateful business into good Language as the Lord Verulam saith And merited so well in that imployment as that he obtain'd a grant of the Wardship and Marriage of Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Edward Grey Viscount L'isle whom he made his Wife and by her had issue divers Children But after King Henry had long made use of the services of him and Empson to that end he exposed them to such advantages as the discontented people had any colour to take against them for their manifold Extortions For their course was to proceed secretly to the Outlary against men and then seize their Estates Besides this having also packt-Jurors upon all occasions who were sure to them in any Verdict which serv'd for their purpose they at length had their just reward for those oppressions For King Henry the Eighth in the first year of his Reign being desirous of popularity did by his Proclamation divulge that whosoever had received Injury by the Injustice of any should upon complaint to him have redress Which liberty did so incourage the vulgar who were sufficiently imbittered against them that nothing would then satisfie but their lives so that the King to appease the multitude gave way that they might be legally proceeded against which accordingly was done Whereupon this Edmund being arraign'd at Guild-Hall in London upon Munday next after the xv m e of St. Iohn Bapt. 1 H. 8. before Edward Duke of Buck. Henry Earl of Northumb. Thomas Earl of Surrey George Earl of Shrewsbury Thomas Earl of Derby Thomas Prior of St. Iohns of Hierusalem in England Sir Charles Somerset Knight Lord Herbert Stephen Iennings then Mayor of the City of London Sir Iohn Fineaux Knight Sir Robert Rede Knight Sir William Hodie Knight Robert Brudnell Humphrey Coningesby Sir Iohn Fisher Knight Iohn Boteler William Grevil Sir Thomas Lovel Knight Sir Edward Poynings Kt. Sir Henry Marney Knight Sir Thomas Englefeild Knight and Sir Thomas Drury Knight Justices to inquire c. upon an Indictment of divers high Treasons and thereupon convicted he was on Wednesday next preceeding the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin attainted in Parliament and had his Head smitten off on Tower Hill with Empson who had been-tryed at Northampton for the Peoples satisfaction upon the 28th of Aug. 2 H. 8. by virtue of the Kings Special Precept to that purpose leaving Issue three Sons Iohn Andrew and Ierome and a Daughter Married to William Lord Stourton Which Andrew being afterwards a Knight and in that Conspiracy upon the Death of King Edward the Sixth for raising the Lady Iane Gray to the Royal Throne had with others sentence of Death in 1 Mariae for the same Of these Iohn the Elder scarce of eight years of Age at his Fathers Death had to his Guardian Edward Guilford Esq of the Body to the King Who by his Petition exhibited in Parliament 3 H. 8. obtained a special Act for the Repeal of the said Edmunds Attainder and restitution of this Iohn in name blood and degree so that he might enjoy all his Fathers Lands Being therefore thus young many years passed before he appeared in any publick Employment so that till 15 H. 8. I have not seen any farther mention of him but then it appears that he was Knighted by Charles Brandon Duke of Suff. General of those forces sent into France against the Duke of Bourbon Also that in 19 H. 8. he accompanied Cardinal Woolsey into France who then went Ambassador thither and that in 26 H. 8 being the Kings Servant he was made Master of the Armory in the Tower of London for life with the Wages of xiid. per diem for his Groom in that Office Moreover that in 31 H. 8. he was Master of the Horse to the Lady Anne of Cleve then landed in this Realm in order to her Marriage with King Henry And in 32 H. 8. in those triumphal Justs held at Westm. upon the first of May and several days after was the first and principal of the Challenges against all Comers his Horse being trapt with white Velvet After which about two years by reason of his Descent on
of Age Ioane his Wife surviving who by her Testament bearing date 3 Dec. an 1485. 1 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of All-Hallows at Herst Monceaux near to the grave of Sir Richard Fenys Kt her Husband And to Elizabeth Lady Clinton her Daughter Wife of Iohn Lord Clinton and Thomas Fenys her Son gave all her Chattels and Jewells to be divided betwixt them Which Thomas accomplishing his full age in 7 H. 7. had Livery of his Lands Shortly after which viz. in 10 H. 7. he was made Knight of the Bath upon the Creation of Henry the Kings second Son Duke of Yorke And in 8 H. 7. appeared in Arms against the Cornish-men who had then made a great Insurrection So likewise shortly after when the Scots had laid Siege to Norham-Castle he marcht with the Earl of Surrey to the raising thereof This Thomas having been summon'd to Parliament from 11 H. 7. to 21 H. 8. by his Testament bearing date 1 Sept. an 1531. 23 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Herst Monceaux on the North-side of the high Altar Appointing that a Tomb should be there made for placing the Sepulcher of our Lord with all fitting Furniture thereto in honour of the most blessed Sacrament Also that towards the Lights about the same Sepulcher C l. in Wax should be imploy'd in Tapers of ten pound weight a piece for to burn about it Likewise that his Funeral should be solemnized according to the degree of a Baron and a Tomb set over his Grave to the end it might be known where his Body resteth Moreover that an honest Priest should sing there for his Soul by the space of seven years taking annually for his Salary and to find Bread Wine and Wax xii marks sterling And died in an 1534. 26 H. 8. as it seems for then doth the Probate of this his Testament bear date leaving Thomas his Cousin and Heir Apparent to succeed him Which Thomas in an 1541. 33 H. 8. being seduced by some extravagant persons to course in the night time in Laughton-Park in Com. Suss. belonging to Nicholas Pelham Esq by the way at a place called Pikehay met with three persons betwixt whom and those of his Company there hapned a fray wherein one of them was mortally wounded and died soon after Whereupon he was indicted of murther for the same and being found guilty thereof upon Tryal by his Peers upon the xxix th of Iune being St. Peters day was carried from the Tower of London to Tiburn and there hang'd After which his Body was buryed in St. Sepulchers Church near Newgate he being then not above xxiv years of Age. Whose death was much lamented in regard of his youth noble disposition and the King 's inexorable rigour It is said that this Manslaughter for it was no other was committed by those who were of his Company at that time he not being present And that being call'd in question he was through the subtilty of some Courtiers who gaped for his Estate perswaded to acknowledge the Murther for that the Indictment charg'd him with and to submit himself to the King's mercy Unto which advice imprudently hearkning he had Sentence of death and suffered accordingly leaving Issue Gregory his Son and Heir and a Daughter called Margaret Which Gregory with his Sister being restored by Act of Parliament in 1 Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Lincoln in 14 Eliz. then sent Embassador to the King of France at Paris Where the League not long before concluded on at Bloys was fully ratified This Gregory Lord Dacres dying without Issue 26 Sept. an 1549. 36 Eliz. was buried at Chelsey leaving Margaret his Sister his sole Heir Which Margaret being Married to Sampson Lennard Esq and making claim to the Honour it was declared and adjudg'd by the Lords Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England in the second year of King Iames with the privity and assent of the King that she the said Margaret ought to have and enjoy the name state degree stile honour place and precedency of the Barons Dacre to have and to hold to her and to the Issue of her Body in as full and ample manner as any of her Ancestors did enjoy the same As also that her Children might and should take and enjoy their place and precedence respectively as the Childern of her Ancestors Barons Dacre formerly had and enjoyed This Sampson also by the special favour of the King in 10 Iac. obtaining a grant to himself during his Life for to take place and precedence as the eldest Son to the Lord Dacres of the South had Issue by her the said Margaret Henry his Son and Heir to whom the Title of Lord Dacres was afterwards confirm'd Which Henry died 10 Aug. an 1616. 14 Iac. and by Chrysogona his Wife Daughter of Sir Henry Baker of Sissinhurst in Com. Cantii Knight left Issue three Sons Richard Edward and Fienes And two Daughters Margaret Married to Sir ... Wildgoose Knights and Philadelphia to Sir Thomas Parker of Willington in Com. Suss. Knight Which Richard Lord Dacre departed this Life at Herst-Monceaux 18 Aug. an 1630. 6 Car. 1. leaving Issue by Elizabeth his first Wife Daughter and Coheir to Sir Arthur Throkmorton of Paulere Perie in Com. Northt Knight four Sons viz. Francis Richard Thomas and Henry of which Sons Richard and Henry died young And by Dorothy his second Wife Daughter of Dudley Lord North one Son called Richard and Catherine a Daughter To whom succeeded Francis his Eldest Son who Married Elizabeth Daughter of Paul Vicount Banning and died in an 1662. leaving Issue by her two Sons Thomas advanced to the dignity of Earl of Sussex by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 5 Octobris 26 Car. 2. and Henry Fienes Lord Say 25 H. 6. ¶ I Now come to Iames the second Son of the before-specified Sir William de Fienes Kt. This Iames being a valiant Souldier in 6 H. 5. obtain'd a grant from that Victorious King of the Lordship of De la Court le Comte within the Bayliwick of Cauâ— in Normandy part of the possessions of the Lord of Lymers and likewise of all those Lands lying within the Bailiwick of â—oben and Cauâ— which did belong to Roger Bloset and his Wife The next year following upon the render of Arqueâ— he was constituted Governour there And in 8 H. 6. attended the King into the France for the better defence of those parts In 15 H. 6. he was made Sheriff of Kent So likewise in 17 H. 6. of Surrey and Sussex And in 18 H. 6. being Esquire for the Body to that King had a grant of Câ— yearly Pension to
intermixed with Teares affirming that she would depart from him as willinger to hear both of his disgraces and dangers than either to see the one or participate of the other The Duke therefore imbracing this womans cousel yeilded himself both to advise and devise for the destruction of his Brother The Earl of Warwick had his finger in the business and drew others also to give either furtherance or way to her violent desires being well content she should have her mind so as the Duke might thereby incur Infamy and Hate Hereupon the Lord Sudley was Arrested and sent to the Tower and in very short time after condemn'd by Act of Parliament and within few dayes after his condemnation a Warrant was sent under the hand of this his Brother the Duke whereby his Head was delivered to the Axe His own fierce courage hastning his death because equally balanced betwixtâ—â—â—oubt and diâ—dain he was desirous rather to die at once then to linger long upon curtesie and in fear The Accusations against him contained much â—rivolous matter The Act of Parliament expresseth the causes of his Attainder to be the attempting to get the person of the King into his custody and Governing the Realme Also making much provision of Money and Victuall and endeavouring to marry the Lady Elizabeth the King's Sister Likewise for perswading the King in his tender age to take upon him the rule and order of himself But he was never call'd to answer so that the Protestations which he made at the point of his death and the open carriage of his life did clear him in the opinion of many Hereupon a general hatred arose in the People towards the Protector for being thus instrumental in the death of his Brother whereby it was observed that with his left hand he had cut off his right many of the Nobility crying out upon him for a Blood-sucker and a Murtherer and that it was not fit the King should be under the Protection of such a ravenous Wolfe Besides all this many well disposed mindes conceived a very hard opinion of him for causing a Church near Strand-Bridge and two Bishops Houses to be pull'd down to make a â—eat for his new Building called Somerset-house in digging the foundation whereof the Bones of many who had been there buried were cast up and carried into the Fields And because the stones of that Church and those Houses were not sufficient for that work the Steeple and most part of the Church of St. Iohn of Hierusalem near Smithfield were mined and overthrown with Powder and the stones carried thereto So likewise the Cloister on the North-side of St. Pauls Cathedral and the Charnel-house on the South-side thereof with the Chapel the Tombes and Monuments therein being all beaten-down the Bones of the dead carried into Finsbury-fields and the stones converted to this Building and it was confidently affirm'd that for the same purpose he intended to have pull'd down St. Margarets Church at Westminster but that the standing thereof was preserved by his fall The Earl of Warwick therefore spying this fit opportunity drew to him no less than Eighteen of the Privy-Councel to joyn with him against this Protector Whereupon they withdrew from the Court and fell to secret Consultations walking in the streets of the City with many servants in new Liveries Which so startled the Protector that he sent Secretary Petee to them in the King's name to understand the causes of such their assembling and to declare unto them that he would thank them for hating him in case they did it in love to the King intreating them for the King's sake if not for his safety that they would forbear open shew of Hostility and resort unto him peaceably that they might commune together as Friends But in the mean time he Armed Five-hundred men part the Kings and part his own rampier'd the Court-gates caused many men to be raised both by Letters and Proclamation to aid the King and the more to increase the present terror remov'd the King by night from Hampton-Court to Windâ—ore with a Company more resembling an Army then a Train Hereupon the Lords at London took possession of the Tower sent for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City to Ely House where the Earl of Warwick lodg'd and there presenting themselves secretly Armed caused the Lord Rich then Lord Chancellor to make a Speech to them Wherein first laying open to them the Imperfections of the Protector as want of Eloquence Personage Learning or good Wit and that nevertheless he was so peevishly opiniative and proud that he would neither ask nor hear the advice of any but was absolutely ruled by that obstinate and imperious woman his wife whose ambitious and mischievous will so guided him in the most weighty Affaires of the Realm that though he was Counselled by others what was best he would do quite contrary lest he should seem to need their advice In general he said he was guilty of Bribery and Extortion and that he had laid his hands upon the King's Jewells and Treasure left by his Father which were known to be of an inestimable value and had given forth that King Henry died so poor as that had he lived one quarter of a year longer he had been utterly shamed Moreover that he had upon pretence of necessity made Sales and Exchanges of the King's Lands as also of Offices and Preferments nothing regarding the worthiness of the person erected a Mint at Dureâ—me Place for his own private advantage made sale of Colledges and Chanteries Levied Subsidies under colour of War imbezelled the Kings Treasure extorted Money by Loanes yet left the King's Soldiers and Servants unpaid buried much Treasure in his sumptous Buildings Adding his unnatural endeavors for the death of his Brother and his practises to dispatch such of the Nobility as were like to oppose his mischievous drifts Also his endeavor to win the Common people by strained Curtesies and Looseness of life And to make the French King his Friend by betraying unto him the King's Forts beyond the Seas Likewise that he intended to procure a resignation of the King's Sisters Rights and others who were intitled to the Crown and entail the same upon his own issue Urging the Citizens upon all these confiderations to joyn with the Lords of the Council to take him away And the next day the Lords at London dispatch'd a Letter to the Lords at Windsore wherein they charged him with many disorders both in his private Actions and manner of Government requiring that he would disperse the Forces that he had raised withdraw himself from the King and be content to be ordered by Justice and Reason Hereupon the King fearing farther mischief dissolv'd all his Companies excepting his Guard And the Protector sent Secretary Petâ—e once more to the Lords at London to perswade them that for the Publick good all either private grudges or unkindnesses might be laid aside but neither did he return nor was
for that in so doing he had endeavored to deprive his eldest Son Ethelbald of his Right to succeed him and partly because in his return he had wedded Iudith Daughter to Charles then King of France Earls of Dorset THe first Earl of this Province that I find is Aethelhelme who in the year 838. King Egbert then Reigning after an honorable Victory which he had upon the Danes that then invaded this Land in pursuing them farther than was safe lost his life ¶ The next is Osric or Osred who in the year 845. in the time of King Ethelwolph joyning with Earnulf Earl of Somersetshire and Alstane Bishop of Shireburne encountred the Danes in Battle at Pedredesmuth slew a multitude of them and obtained a signal Victory This is that Osric whom some of our Historians do call Earl of Hantshire ¶ After him scil in the Reign of King Edgar Egelward of whom I have not seen any other memorial than his being Founder of the Abbey of Pershore in Worcestershire Earls of Devon THe first Earl of this County that I read of was Karl who in the year 851. Athewulph being then King of the West Saxons fought valiantly against the Pagan-Danes which did then much infest this Kingdom and obtained a great Victory against them at Winborne in Dorsetshire The next was Odda who in the year 878. King Alfred Reigning was besieged in a certain Castle by those Pagan-Daneâ— After him Edred of whom I find no other mention than that he died in the year 901. a Moneth before the death of King Alured and that he had been a faithful assistant to him in many Battles Then Ordgar in the time of King Edgar of whose beautiful Daughter called Alfrida there is a notable Relation first of her marriage with Ethelwolfe Earl of the East Angles and afterwards with King Edgar himself whereof I shall take notice at large when I come to speak of the said Ethelwolfe Of this Ordgar this is cheifly memorable viz. That he Founded the Abbey of Horton in Dorsetshire which was a Cell to Shireburne and likewise Tavestoke in Devonshire in the year 961. And dying in the year 971. was buried in that Abbey where he had a fair Tomb as also that he had a Son called Edulf of a Giant-like stature and wonderful strength of whom it is reported That coming to Exeter with King Edward Son and Successor to King Edgar and finding the Gates of the City shut up and barred he with his hands and fâ—â—t burst them open and that this Edulf had a Monument also in the same Abbey of Tavestoke in proportion suitable to the immensity of his Bulk This 〈◊〉 is sometimes called Ordulf and by some reported to have been the Founder of that Abbey of Tavestoke After Ordgar a certain Norman Earl called Hugh was made Earl of this County by Queen Emme which Hugh partly by his negligence and partly treachery suffered Sweine King of Denmark to enter Exeter and make great spoil there To him succeeded Ailmâ—â—â— who being also Earl of Cornwal is under the Title of that County spoke of And to him Odo unto whom King Edward the Confâ—ssor gave also the Earldoms of Somerset and Dorset Earls of Kent OF Kent the first Earl whereof I have seen any mention and that upon a memorable occasion was Ealhere viz. A Victory against the Danes in this County in the year of Christ Dccclii Who arriving in the Mouth of Thames with 350 Ships landed a great Army wasted the City of London and foiled Beortulph King of the Mercians in open fight But at length coming to Sandwich were encountred by King Ethelstan Son to Athelwulph the West Saxâ—n King and by the help of this Earl Ealâ—ere after great slaughter totally put to flight nine of their Ships being then also taken About two years after this valiant Earl with the assistance of Wada Earl of Surrey gave them Battle again in the Isle of Shiâ—ey where though at the first onset he had the better of the day yet at last the Danes prevailing he lost his life The next Earl of this County that I meet with was Ceolmund so constituted by King Aelfred in the year of Christ Dcccxcvii to withstand the incursion of those Pagan-Danes which then much infested this Land In the time of King Canutus Godwyne a person of great note in those days and of a most Noble Extraction was Earl viz. Son of Wolnoth Son of Egelmar Son of Egelrick Brother to that great Edric-Streona Earl of Mercia in the days of King Ethelred commonly called the Vnredy In the year 1024. this Earl Godwyne was General of the English Forces in that expedition made by King Canutus with his Army consisting of English and Danes against the Swedes in which he performed most signal service for discerning the King to have great loss in the first days fight he privily assaulted the Enemies Camp in the night following slew a multitude of them and routing the rest compelled Vlfe and Eiglafe Kings of that Nation to peaceable terms But the next thing memorable of him that I have met with was a most perfidious and ignoble Act which much clouded the honor he gained by that brave and heroick exploit the Story whereof is briefly this The year following the death of King Canutus who was in truth no other than an Invader here Aelfred Son to Etheldred late King of England by just Succession having remained in Normandy with Duke Richard his Uncle for a long time made sail hither with Five and twenty Ships full of stout Soldiers to challenge his rightful Inheritance and arriving at Sandwich advanced to Canterbury whereof Earl Godwyne having notice he went and met him and having assured him of his Fidelity feasted with him that Evening But soon after in the night time when Aelfred and his followers were asleep in their Beds at Guilford in Surrey he rushed in upon them with a multitude of armed Men and binding their hands behind them set them on a row causing them all to be beheaded except the tenth man and not satisfied with that decimated them once over again so that â—â—w were left alive After which he bound the Royal Aelfred himself a young Prince of great honor and carried him to the City of London unto Harold Son to Canutus by the power of this Earl then made King who upon sight of him commanded that he should forthwith be carried to the Isle of Ely and his eyes put out which being performed he soon died The substance of this most perfidious action of Earl Godwine doth Simoen Dunelmensis also relate but with instances of greater barbarity taking notice that upon the death of young Aelfred at Ely as is above exprest his Body
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
King Henry the fifth at the siege of Harfleu 3 Hen. 5. became distempered by eating of Fruit with the Flux as divers other great persons then were and was therefore necessitated to return into England before that famous Battle of Agincourt which soon after ensued where King Henry obtained so glorious a victory And in the next ensuing year was by Indenture retained to serve the King in his Warrs of France with an hundred Men at Arms and three hundred Archers whereof himself to be one five Knights and the rest Esquires wherof the third part to be Foot-men and the rest to serve on Horseback In 5 Hen. 5. he was in Normandy in K. Henry's service and commanded part of his Army at the Seige of Cane continuing in those parts till the death of that victorious King And in 1 Hen. 6. was again reteined to serve the King in those Warrs with one Baneret four Knights an hundred and fourteen Men at Arms and three hundred and sixty Archers Moreover in 3 Hen 6. in the Parliament then held at Westminster he was restored to the title and dignity of Duke of Norfolk using no other than E. Marshal and Notingham before And in 4 Hen. 6. being of full age and doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands In 8 Hen. 6. he was again reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Warrs And by his last Will and Testament bearing date 20 Maii 7 Hen. 6. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Charter-house within the Isle of Axholme ordaining that the Bones of his Father which lay buryed at Ulenice should be translated thither To Katherine his Wife Daughter to Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmerland afterwards married to Thomas Strangwayes Esq and after that to Iohn Viscount Beaumont and lastly to Sir Iohn Widvile Knight Brother to Anthony Earl Rivers he bequeathed all his Plate of Gold and Silver or Silver and gilt and appointed that she should hold during her life the Castle and Honor of Brembre in Sussex with the appurtenances as also the Castle of Gâ—â—her in Wales and departed this life 19 Oct. 11 H. 6. leaving issue Iohn his Son and Heir then seventeen years of age But over and above what she had by this his bequest there was â—ssigned to her for her Dowry the Lordships of Forueseat Lopham Southfield Eresham Haneworth Framingham Parva with the Hundreds of Laundiche and Soâ—th-Greenhow with two parts of the Mannor of Loche in Norfolk likewise the third part of two parts of Forty shillings of the custom of the Market at Guildford in Surrey the Castle Mannor and Borough of Strogoâ—l in the Marches of Wales the Mannor of Tudeham in Com. Gloc. The Mannors of Silby Mountsorel the Park of Overton and Hundred of Goscote in Com. Leic. The Mannors of Great Chesterford Dâ—vercourt Rumford the Borough of Harwich the third part of two parts of the Mannors of High Rothing and Onesham Hall and the thrid part of the Mannor of Langetous in Canefield Parva in Essex the Castle of Bedford with the Mannors or Hames Willington and Stotfold in Com. Bedf. And the Mannor of Pen with six Messuages one Carucate and one Virgate of Land in Morton and Smethâ—ere as also the Mannor of Wenge and the third part of two parts of the Mannor of Medmenham in Com. Buck. Which Iohn Son to the last mentioned Iohn came of full age in 14 Hen. 6. and in the seventeenth of that Kings Reign was sent Ambassador into Piccardy to treat of Peace betwixt the Kings of England and France After which viz. in 23 Hen. 6. upon confirmation of the title of Duke of Norfolk to him which was first conferred on Thomas his Grandfather he had a grant of place and seat in Parliament and elswhere next to the Duke of Exeter In 25 Hen. 6. this Iohn went on Pilgrimage to Rome And in 35 Hen. 6. making his vow to go likewise on Pilgrimage to divers holy places in Ireland Scotland Britanny Piccardy and Cologne and to the Blood of our Saviour at Windesnake as also to Rome and Ierusalem for recovery of the Kings health he had License to that purpose In 1 Edw. 4. he was constituted Justice Itinerant of all the Forests on the South of Trent but departed this life the same year and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford in Norfolk leaving issue by Eleanor his Wife Daughter to William Lord Bourchier Iohn his Son and Heir Which Iohn in 29 Hen. 6. 24 Martii his Father then living was created Earl Waâ—ren and Surrey an in 11 Edw. 4. was one of those Lords who subscribed their names to that recognition then made in Parliament to Prince Edward the Kings eldest Son Moreover in 14 Edw. 4. he was retained to serve the King in his Wars of France for one whole year with forty Spears himself accounted two Knights and three hundred Archers But of him I find no more than that he departed this life at his Castle of Framingham in Norfolk upon Tuesday next after the Feast of the Epiphany 15 Edw. 4. and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford leaving issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Iohn Talbot the first Earl of Shrewsbury of that name Anne his sole Daughter and Heir four years old in 17 Edw. 4. Afterwards Wedded to Richard Duke of York second Son to King Edward the Fourth but died without issue by means whereof the Inheritance of this great House resorted to the Families of Berkley and Howard in respect that Isabel and Margaret the two Daughters to Thomas Moubray first Duke of Norfolk beforementioned were so married as I have already expressed Which Anne lieth buried in the Chappel of S. Erasmus in the Abbey Church of Westminster Albini of Cainho THe first of this Line of whom I have found mention is Henry de Albini a younger Son of Nigel de Albini without doubt Which Henry with the Lady Cicily his Wife in the time of King Henry the First gave two Hides of Land lying in their Mannor of Coâ—es unto that little Cell of Nuns called Sopwel situate near S. Albans in Hartfordshire To whom succeeded Robert de Albini his Son and Heir which Robert added the gift of a Yard Land lying also in Cotes unto that Cell at such time as he placed Cicily his Sister to be a Votress there and confirmed what Henry his Father had formerly given thereto with Amicia his Sister This Robert was Founder of the Priory of Beaulieu in Hartfordshire a Cell also to that great Abbey of S. Albans and gave to the Monks of that House Pasturage for ten Oxen to graze with his own Oxen in Clophell alias Cainho So also Pasturage for One hundred Sheep and likewise Fifteen Acres of Land for
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
the death of Ioane the Wife of Iohn de Coupland upon them the said Ingelram and Isabel and the Heirs of their two Bodies Moreover in 8 R. 2. he procured from the King a grant of â—uensborough Castle in Kent to â—â—ld for terme of the Kings life and his own and in â—ase he should be the surviver then to himself and the heirs male of his body for ever and the same year was reteined to serve the King in his Scottish Warrs for forty daies Besides all this in 9 R. 2. the K. having reteined him into his imployment did in consideration of the great Costs and expences he was at in his service give him the Castle and Lordship of Okeham in Rutland with all the Forest of Rutland to hold for terme of his life and then to the Heirs Male of his Body And purposing to exalt him to much higher dignity viz. to confer on him the title of Marquess of Dublin that he might the better support that Honor assigned unto him in reversion after the death of Iames de Audeleigh the Castle Mannor and Burrough of Barnestaple the Mannors of Fremington Ilferecombe Combe-Martyn South-Molton Holdesworthy Nemet-Bowe Uppeye Body-Tracy Holne Dertyngton Kyngeston Blackdon and Lang-aâ—re with all other the Lands of the said Iames de Audeleigh lying in the Counties of Devon Cornwall and Somerseâ— which after the death of him the said Iames were to descend to the King And upon this his creation of Marquess which was done in Parliament the same year granted him the Land and Dominion of Ireland with all profits c. as amply as the King himself ought to have the same excepting to the King the Homages Resort and Superiority of that Countrey Which title of Marquess had never till then been heard of in Enâ—land and therefore was much distasted by others of the Nobility in regard that thereby he was set higher than themselves not being superior to them in Wisdom or Valor as my Author saith And moreover bestowed upon him all the benefit and advantage which might be had by Iohn the Son of Charles de Bloys then Prisoner in Gloucester Castle to the intent he might be the better enabled to maintain five hundred men at Arms and a thousand Archers at the accustomed Wages of Warr by the space of two years after he should arrive in Ireland which he intended about Candlemass the same year in order to the Conquest of that Realm And in another Parliament held at London about Michaelmas after esteeming that Honor so lately conferred upon this his cheif favorite too low for his merits advanced him to the title of Duke of Ireland upon the Feast day of S. Edward the Confessor and having so done ordained that the Heir of Charles de Bloys who challenged the Dukedom of Britanny and whose ransom he had obtained should sell it to the French for thirty thousand Marks to the intent that this new Duke with that money might by force get the Dominion of Ireland which the King had so given him and Land there before Easter ensuing Whereunto the Lords and Commons readily assented being rather content to want the money there than be troubled any longer with his Company Soon after which the King gave him liberty to reâ—ide at Berhamstede-Castle one of his own Royal Palaces affording him fuel to burn out of his Woods and Park there Being therefore thus pufft up with Wealth and Honor he grew libidinous and insolent and put away the fair Lady Isabel his Wife kinswoman to the King with purpose to take another of mean extraction who came out of Bohemâ—a with Queen Anne which gave great distast to the Nobility though the King favored him in every thing especially to the Duke of Gloucester the Kings Uncle who though he could not at present vindicate his neice so repudiated reserved himself for an opportune time to do it But soon after this Easter being passed and the expectation of his going for Ireland still continuing the King to prevent any tumult by the Nobles accompanied him into Wales where continuing retired for a while they laid their heads together how they might murther the Duke of Gloucester and likewise the Earles of Arundell Warwâ—â—k Derby and Nottingham And having staid in those remote parts till the people had forgotten this so much talked of voiage into Ireland returned with the King to Notingham Castle there to consider farther how they might best act the designed murther of those great men before mentioned The Nobles therefore discerning what was like to befall them raised all the power they could and met together at Haringhay Park near Higate in Com. Midd. in an hostile manner which so startled the King and those then about him who were the cause of those high discontents that all of them then began to desire an accommodation and to that end sent to the Lords so met at Haringhay to come to Westminster that there upon a calme debate together the business might be quietly composed Who meeting there accordingly after a short speech made to them by the Bishop of Ely then Lord Chancellor in the closure whereof he told them that the King desired to know the Cause of this their Insurrection they answered that it was for his advantage viz. to rid him of those Traitors which he then had about him amongst whom the first they nominated was this Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland But the King giving them fair words and taking them into his Chamber where he made them drink together told them they should all meet together in Parliament and equal justice should be done to each Matters at present being therefore thus qualified the Duke of Ireland by the Kings connivance hasts forthwith into Wales there to raise what power he could but discerning his danger privily got away being disguised as it was reported in the habit of a Servant with a Bow and a Quiver of Arrows on his Back and so with five others in his company alike accoutered came to Chester and soon after that fled beyond-Sea with Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk But long it was not e're he landed in England again with about four or five thousand men and being got into Oâ—fordshire came to Radcote Bridge upon the River Isis on the Feast day of S. Thomas the Apostle which Bridge Henry Earl of Derby had broken in three places and fixed Souldiers there to stop his farther passage The Duke therefore seeing himself in this desperate condition and that the E. of Derby with his power was not far distant displaid the Kings Banner and animated his men to fight advancing before them to the Bridge which being not passable he allighted from his Horse and
Liberties in â—organnon should be forfeited but because he had married Ioane the Kings Daughter by whom he had issue and that by vertue of an Entail c. he had estate but for Term of Life therein it was resolved That they should be forfeited to the King only for Term of this Earls life and that he should be remanded to prison paying to the E. of Hereford One hundred pounds damage And on the other side it was concluded That the Liberties of the Earl of Hereford should for his offence remain in the Kings hands as forfeited for ever and the said Earl of Hereford be remanded to prison But by reason the King and his Council did not deem the Earl of Herefords offence so great as was that of this Earl and because he had married the Queens Kinswoman the King was pleased at the Queens instance that the forfeiture should only extend to his life and that his Heirs might not be disherited Howbeit after this being both of them committed to prison this Earl paid to the King a fine of One thousand marks for an attonement and the Earl of Hereford as much From which time I have not seen more of him till his death which hapned in the Castle of Monmouth 7 Id. Dec. An. 1295. 24 Ed. 1. And that he was buried in the Church of Tewksbury on the left hand of his Father leaving issue by Ioane of Acres his Wife Gilbert his Son and Heir then five years of age and three Daughters Which Ioane surviving and being in Frank-Marriage Enfeoffed of all the Lands belonging to both his Earldoms soon matched her self to a plain Esquire called Ralph de Monthermer clandestinely without the King her Fathers knowleâ—ge whom afterwards she sent to her Father to receive the honor of Knighthood But when the King understood that she had much debased her self in marrying so meanly being highly incensed he caused all her Castles and Lands to be seised on and sent her Husband Monthermer to strait imprisonment in the Castle of Bristol Nevertheless at length through the mediation of that great Prelate Anthony Beke then Bishop of Durham a reconciliation was made After which she resided at Marlborough for a time and the year following in the Parliament begun at London in the Moneth of Iuly all her Lands c. were restored to her so likewise was her Husband being afterwards beloved of the King as his own Son and had Livery of all the Lands belonging to this great Earldom to hold by the service of fifty Knights Fees in the War of Flanders Whereupon also he had the title of Earl of Glocester This Ioane of Acres gave to the Canons in the Chapel of our Lady at Caversham in Com. Oxon. for the health of her Soul and the Soul of Gilbert de Clare sometime Earl of Gloucester and Hertford her Husband a certain piece of Land within the inclosures of that Lordship for enlarging the grounds which the King her Father had given them near the same Chapel and departing this life in Ann. 1307. 1 Ed. 2. was buried in the Church of the Friers-Augustines at Clare the King her Brother and most of the Nobility of England being at her Funeral And now before I proceed with my Story of these Earles I must take leave to say something of Thomas de Clare before mentioned Brother to this last Earl Gilbert This Thomas was in such esteem with that great Rebel Montfort and those other of the Barons who had thus vanquished King Henry the third in the Battle of Lewes that in April following they made him Governor of S. Briavell's Castle in Com. Glouc. But having done such good service in order to the Kings deliverance as hath been observed he was in 50 Henr. 3. made Constable of the Castle of Colchester In 51 Hen. 3. being signed with the Cross he went into the Holy Land and in Anno 1271 55 Hen. 3. brought four Saracens into England whom he had taken Prisoners in those Holy-Wars In 1 Edward 1. he was constituted Governor of the City of London In 14 Edward 1. he joined with Richard de Burgh Earl of Ulster in that solemn compact made betwixt them two on the one part and Patric Earl of Dunbar together with his three Sons Patric Iohn and Alexander Walter Stuard Earl of Menteth Alexander and Iohn his Sons Robert Brus Lords of Anandale together with Robert Brus Earl of Carryk and Bernard de Brus his Sons Iames Stuard of Scotland and Iohn his Brother Enegusius Son of Donewald and Alexander his Son that they would thenceforth adhere to and take part with one another upon all occasions against all persons whatsoever saving their allegiance to the King of England and their fidelity to him who should gain the Kingdom of Scotland by right of Blood from King Alexander then lately deceased Which Agreement bears date at â—urnebyrâ—e in Carryk on the Eve oâ— S. Matthew the Apostle Anno 1286. 14 Edw. 1. But the year next following he died 4 Non. Septemb. Anno 1287. 15 Ed. 1. and was buried at the Gray-Friers in Liâ—eric Leaving issue a Son called Gilbert who with many other received the sacred ceremonies of Knighthood in 34 Edw. â— when Edward the Kings Son was honored with that dignity I now come to Gilbert Son to the last Earl Gilbert and Ioane of Acres Though this Gilbert was in minority at the time of his Fathers death and in Ward to the King yet he made his address to the Lords in Parliament the next ensuing year for the possession of all his Lands Rents and Franchises lying in London according to the Custom of that City alledging them to be held in Socage Whereupon it being required that the Mayor and Aldermen should come before them and certifie the truth thereof they accordingly did so and affirmed it to be the custom in case the Heir were of such age as that he knew how to manage his Estate And it being likewise found that then he was about eighteen years of age and had discretion to govern himself and what he had it was resolved by that great Councel that he should have Livery of them as also of all Advowsons of Churches within the Precincts of of that City which had been seised into the Kings hands by reason of the death of Ioane Mother of him the said Gilbert wherein she had estate for term of life So likewise of all his Socage-Lands lying in the Towns of Gloucester Sandwich and St. Edmundsbury and wheresoever else in England And as to the Mannor of Wexcombe the Town of Bodwinde and Hundred of Kinardeston in Com. Wilts the Hundred of Chadelington in Com. Oxon. the Hundreds of Rishmore Haâ—elore Craneburne and Pymperne in Com. Dorset and the Mannor of Claret in Comitat. Essex which he also
betwixt his two Sons viz. Thomas and Wilâ—iam To his Son Wilâ—iam he gave also a Ring and a Cup with a Cover the best next after his elder Brother had chosen with twenty four Dishes and as many Saucers of Silver as also two Basons and two Ewers with twelve pieces of Silver To Isabel his Daughter a thousand pounds to her marriage To Margaret his Daughter a Nunn at Shouldham in Norfolk a Ring and a Cup with a Cover as also forty Marks in Money To Katherine the Daughter of his Son Guy a Nunn likewise at shouldham a Gold Ring with twenty pounds in money and for the charges of his Funeral five hundred marks Hereunto adding that his Executors should make full satisfaction to every man whom he had in any sort wronged Likewise that his Son William should have Lands of four hundred marks per annum value settled upon him and his heirs male Moreover that the Testament of the Countess his Wife should be compleatly performed and fulfilled out of his goods Also that his Executors should new build the Quire of the Collegiat Church in Warwick where he purposed to be buried That with the residue of his goods his Executors should cause Masses to be â—ung for his Soul and distribute Almes with all speed that might be especially at Bordesâ—ey Worcester and Warwick as also in other places of the Countrey whereunto he had most relation And that all the Vestments of his Chapel should be given to the Collegiat Church at Warwick where he had made choice of his Sepulture His Jewels he thus disposed To his Daughter Stafford an Ouche called the Eagle which the Prince gave him all his Pearles and a Cross made of the very Wood of our Saviours Cross a Ring with an Emrald which his Countess bequeathed unto him another Ring whereof she herself was to make choice a set of Beads of Gold with Buckles which the Queen gave him and the choice of one of his Cups of Gold with that Silver Bowl which he always used himself as also his best Bed with the whole furniture thereto To his Daughter Alice his next best Ouche which his Lady the Countess gave him with a Cup of Gold a set of Beads and a Ring To his Daughter Clifford an Ouche called the Eagle which his Son William had bestowed on him for a New-years-gift with a Cup a set of Beads of Gold and a Ring To his Daughter Isabel a Cup with an Ewer and a Cover to it guilt and his next best Ring after his other Daughters before remembred had chosen To the Bishop of Lincoln a Cross of Gold which the Lady Segrave gave him that had sometimes been the good King Edwards wherein likewise was part of the very Cross of Christ and other Reliques To his Son William a Casket of Gold with a Bone of S. George which Thomas Earl of Lancaster bestowed on him at his Christening To Sir Iohn Beauchamp a Cross of Gold wherein part of the very Cross of our Saviour was contained enameled with the Arms of England and also his best Tilting-horse To Sir Roger Beauchamp a Ring the best he could choose after the râ—st which were disposed of and his next best Tilting-Horse To Sir Guy de Brienne a Cup and a Horse the next best also that he could choose All the rest of his Jewels he appointed that his Executors should dispose of for his Souls benefit which were these viz. the Earl of Stafford Thomas and William his own Sons Sir Roger de Beauchamp Sir Guy de Bryenne Sir Iohn de Beauchamp Sir Ralph Basset of Sâ—pcote Knights Sir Richard Piriton Governor of Northampton Sir William Forde Sir Alan Fen Sir Iohn Blake Sir Iohn Harwood Sir William Mâ—rton and Iohn Rous all which last mentioned were Priests as I conceive Touching his death the manner thereof was thus King Edward having called a Parliament at London in the 43 year of his Reign wherein the breach of Peace by the French was discussed sent an Army into France about the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin under the conduct of his Son Iohn Duke of Lancaster and Humphrey de Behun Earl of Hereford to claim his right therein who being gâ—t ever-Sâ—a encamped at a place called the Chalke-Hull near Calais towards whom the French presently advanced but the two English Dukes delayd fighting so long as that their Army grâ—w in want for provisions so that many dyed by Famine and the Plague and pretended they were not strong enough to give them Battle without more men In which interim this Earl of Warwick hearing that the French Army was thus drawn out hasted away with some choice men and sailed towards Calais whereof the French having notice they in great amasement left their Tents with all their victual behind them and fled So soon therefore as he came a shore he highly blamed those that occasioned the English to forbear fighting saying I will go on and fight before the English Bread which I have eaten be digested and thereupon presently entred the Isle of Caus which he wasted But alas in his return towards Calais he fell sick of the Pestilence and died on the thirteenth of November parem sibi in Armorum strenuitate Regi Regnâ—que fidelitate superstitem minimè derelinquens leaving none his equal for military valour and fidelity to the King and Kingdom saith my Author After which his body being brought over into England was interred in the midst of the Quire of the Collegiat Church in Warwick according to the direction of his Testament where his Tombe is still to be seen with the statues of him and his Countess in white Marble excellently cut viz. Katherine the Daughter of Roger Mortimer created the first Earl of March by King Edward the third Which noble Lady dyed before him as by what I have already said appeareth yet not many weeks for her Testament bears date 4 August the same year by which she appointed her body to be buryed wheresoever the E. her Husband should think fit to whom she bequeathed her Goblet bound with Gold and those Buckles of Gold which she used to carry as also a Ring having an Emrald in it To Thomas her Son she gave her Book of Ch. To William her other Son a Tablet of Gold To Maud de Clifford her Daughter a Cup enameled with Dogs To Philippa de Stafford her Daughter a Bole with a Cover To her Daughter Alice a Cup of Silver Guilt To Margaret Montfort her Daughter the Cross with the Pedestal in her Chapel To Isabel her Daughter a Cup. To Elizabeth the Daughter of her Son Guy a Cup. To the Covent of Friers-Preachers in Worcester twenty pounds To the Friers-Preachers of Shrewsbury twenty pounds To the Friers-Minors there twenty pounds To the Friers-Preachers of Northampton twenty pounds To the Friers-Minors of Coventre twenty pounds To the Friers-Minors of Lichfield twenty pounds Divers other Legacies she gave to her
Oxford they would compel him thereto by force But in all these things the King gave them satisfaction at Northampton in August following After which viz. in 13 Hen. 3. this Earl was imployed by the King in his service of Wales And in 16 Hen. 3. was one of those unto whom the custody of Hubert de Burgh formerly a potent Man was committed In 17 Hen. 3. having taken to Wife Agnes one of the Sisters and Coheirs to Ranulph Earl of Chester he accounted fifty pounds for the Releif of those Lands of her Inheritance and the next ensuing year had Livery of her Purparty viz. Of all those which lay betwixt the Rivers of Ribble and Mersey for which he and she were bound to pay yearly a Goshawk or forty shillings into the Kings Exchequer as had usually been In 19 Hen. 3. he was again made Governor of Bolesover Castle in Com. Derb. And the same year obtained License to assart and impark his Woods at Wodham within the Forest of Essex Moreover in 21 Hen. 3. he was one of the three cheif Counsellors recommended to the King by the Barons upon that reconciliation of their discontents for the violation of Magna Charta the King then renewing his promise for the strict observance thereof and choâ—e his Counsellors making oath That they would not for any respect give him other than wholesome advice which so well pleased the people that they then gave a thirtieth part of all their movable Goods excepting of Gold Silver Horse and Arms. In 26 Hen. 3. he gave one hundred pound Fine to the King for Livery of those three Wapentakes of Lancashire lying betwixt Ribâ—le and Merse viz. West Derby Leland and Saltford which had been seised into the Kings hands for certain misdemeanors of his Bailiffs And for the health of the Soul of Agnes his Wife and his Ancestors Souls gave to the Monkes of Tutbury the Tithes of all his Paunage Venison Honey and Rent arising out of his Forest of Duffield As also the Town of Thornihull and ninety two Acres of Land near Adgarleg But in 31 Hen. 3. scil 10 Kal. Oct. he departed this life having been long afflicted with the Gout his Countess dying also in the same Moneth having been Man and Wife at least Seventy five years if my Author mistaketh not for he affirmeth That S. Thomas of Canterbury celebrated the marriage betwixt them who died in 18 Hen. 2. But I have seen an Autograph mentioning their marriage to have been in An. 1192. 4 Ric. 1. which falls short thereof no less than twenty years This Earl William had a younger Brother called Robert who served King Iohn with five Knights himself accounted in that War with his Barons in 17 Ioh. For which respect he had a Grant of the Lands of Roger de Cressey lying in the Counties of Buckingham Norfolk and Suffolk And the same year gave a Fine of five hundred marks for License to marry Ioane the Daughter and Heir of William de Bocland and to enjoy all her Lands lying in the Counties of Bedford Hertford Bucks Oxon and Berks. Of which sum he was acquitted two hundâ—ed marks in 18 Ioh. He was also one of those who met in that Tourneament held at Blithe in 7 Hen. 3. for which his Lands were seised And in 8 Hen. 3. had the Honor and Castle of Lancaster committed to his charge But farther I cannot say of him than that he died without issue whereupon upon William Earl of Derby his Brother became his Heir as I have already observed I now come to William Son and Heir to the last mentioned Earl William This William in 32 Hen. 3. it being the next year after his Fathers death doing his homage h had Livery of Chartley Castle as also of all other the Lands of his Mothers Inheritance And the same year sate in that Parliament held at London where the King made so stout an Answer to the Demands of his impetuous Barons Moreover he obtained the Kings Precept to the Sheriff of Lincolnshire to be aiding to him in distraining his Tenants by Military Service and other for performance of their services due to him for the Lands of his Inheritance in that County The like Mandate he had to the Sheriff of Lancashire for the enjoyment of such Lands betwixt Ribbel and Mersey as his Uncle Ranulph Earl of Chester formerly possessed He also purchased from Iohn de Verdon certain Houses with a Garden and Court lying in that Street called Sholande within the City oâ— London which Houses c. Roese de Verdon Mother of the same Iohn had of the Grant of Michael Belet Furthermore he obtained a Charter for Free-Warren to himself and his Heirs in all the Demesn Lands throughout his Lordships of Liverpole West Derby Evertone Crosseby Waverere Salford Bowelton Penelton Buttuhton Sweinshurst Boureton-Wod and Chorles in Com. Lanc. Esseborne Underwood Bredlow Offidecote Benitlege Thorpe Mapeltone Penewicke Alsope Eytone Huntendone Wednesâ—eg Sniterton Heke-Narton Caldelaw Crumbeford Midilton Kertinton Hopton Wirkesworth Bonteshal Yptone Mulnfield Matlock Willardeâ—â—eg Hertindone Eroudecote Buestanes Nedham Wildon Skernedal Hordlow Heyttone Duffeld Alrewasleleg Beaurepeyre Makeney Winleg Holebrok Suwode Heyhege Cortelege Ravenesdale Holand New-Bigging and Screpton in Com. Derb. Tutbury Rolveston Mercinton Uttokeshather Ioxhale Bartane Tatenhull Hambury Falete Cotes Draycote Hore-Cros Tunstal Borschalenge Condelege Certelege Stowe Wesâ—on Huctesdon Heywood Ambrictone and Grenlege in Com. Staff And gave to the Canons of Derly the Church of Bolesover in Com. Derb. Which Grant Robert and Wilâ—iam his two Sons afterwards confirmed He had a Brother called Thomas unto whom Agnes their Mother gave the Castle and Mannor of Chartley which were of her Inheritance Whereupon the King by his Letter signified unto him That if he did not deliver them up accordingly the Sheriff of Staffordshire should compel him thereto About this time he entered into Articles of Agreement with the King that Robert his Son and Heir should marry Isabel the Daughter of Hugh le Brun Earl of Angoleâ—me and that she should be endowed of the Mannor of Stanford in Com. Berks. and Perry in Com. Nâ—rthampt As also That if this Robert should die before him that then he should make good unto the same Isabel Lands of two hundred pound per annum value in some other part of Northamptonshire in case those should fall short of that worth Likewise That if the same Robert should survive him that then he should endow her with the third part of all his Lands In consideration whereof as a portion for her the King covenanted to give one hundred pound per annum sterling to be received out of his Exchequer at Michaelmass and Easter by even portions out of that sum of four hundred marks per annum which he had formerly
to whom the King directed his Letters by which he required him to send his Seal for ratifying thereof in case he could not then personally repair unto him And in 47 Hen. 3. upon those hostile Incursions then made by the Welsh received Summons as did other of the Barons-Marchers to come to Hereford on the third day after the Epiphany well fitted with Horse and Arms for defence of the Marches And after that another Summons to prepare himself with Horse and Arms to attend Iames de Aldithele one other of the Barons-Marchers at Ludlow for preventing the like Incursions Nevertheless soon after this viz. in 48 H. 3. adhering to the Rebellious Barons he was with some of them in the Castle at Rochester but long he did not continue there For it appears that before the end of that year being in Arms for the King in the Battle of Lewes he was with him taken prisoner This Iohn died in 52 Hen. 3. as it seems leaving issue by Maud his Wife Daughter of Roese de Verdun Iohn his Son and Heir then twenty two years of age who doing his homage had Livery of his Lands paying a hundred pound for his releif for his own Barony in Shropshire and elswhere as also twenty five pound for the fourth part of the Barony of Hugh de Albiny late Earl of Arundel Of which laâ—â— mentioned Iohn I have seen no more then that he departed this life upon Friday preceding the Annunciation of our Lady 54 Hen. 3. leaving issue by Isabel de Mortimer his Wife Richard his Son and Heir five years of age upon the Feast day of S. Blase Shortly after which viz. in 1 Edw. 1. the custody of the Castle of Blancminster and all other the Lands of this last deceased Iohn were committed to Iohn de Oxinden and the Wardship of the said Richard granted to Roger de Mortimer Howbeit Isabel his Mother in 8 Edw. 1 obtained the custody of the Castle and Honor of Arundel during his minority so likewise of the Castle of Blancminster and Hundred of Oswaldster Yet within two years after Edmund de Mortimer Son to the before specified Roger procured the Kings Grant for the custody of Arundel Castle as also of the Castle and Hundred of Oswaldstry But in 13 Edw. 1. this Richard was out of Ward and obtained a Grant for a Fair at his Mannor of Arundel in Sussex upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross. That this Richard thus possessing the Castle of Arundel thereupon enjoyed the Honor viz. the title of Earl without any formal Creation or other Investiture is clear enough from sundry Authorities First from the Letters of Protection which he had in 26 Edw. 1. upon that expedition then made into Scotland wherein he was he being therein called Richardus filius Alani Comes Arundell Next by that Precept in 29 Edw. 1. directed to him from the King whereby taking notice that he had raised certain Forces to march against Fouke Fitz-Warine a great Baron in Shropshire he is therein also sâ—iled Comes Arundell and required under the penalty of forfeiting whatsoever he held of the King to forbear any act of hostility against him the said Foukâ— As also by the Inquisition taken after his death the next ensuing year wherein he is likewise so called Moreover That Iohn his Ancestor had before him that title is evident from the Kings Mandate to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer in 35 Edw. 1. to enquire what debts Edmund then Earl of Arundel Son and Heir to this last mentioned Richard stood charged with either in his own name or in the name of any of his Ancestors In which Mandate there is this expression Quod idem Edmundus nobis tenetur ad Scaâ—carium praedictum in Ciiil. xvi â— ixd. de duobus debitis quae inveniuntur in Rotulis Scaccarii nostri praedicti sub nomine Iohannis filii Alani quondam Comitis Arundelliae Antecessoris praedicti Edmundi c. And lastly from the Act of Parliament in 11 Hen. 6. which declareth That all who had been possessed of the Castle and Honor of Arundel were Earls thereof without any other Creation But of this Richard Earl of Arundel I have no more to say then that he took to Wife Alizon Daughter to the Marquess of Saluce in Italy and left issue by her Edmund his Son and Successor sixteen years of age in 30 Ed. 1. As also two Daughters viz. Maud Wife to Philip Lord Burnel and Margaret to William Boteler of Wemme Which Edmund in 34 Edw. 1. having received the honor of Knighthood with Prince Edward and divers persons of note by the solemn Ceremony of Bathing c. attended the King in his expedition at that time made into Scotland So likewise in 35 Edw. 1. In 3 4 Edw. 2. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and in 5 Edw. 2. obtained the Kings Charter for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at his Mannor of Ruiton in the Marches of Wales with a Fair yearly on the Eve and Day of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist and three days next following About this time it was that Thomas Earl of Lancaster took upon him to redress what was amiss in the Government divers of the Nobility adhering to him in that design whereof this Earl was one But notwithstanding he so appeared therein in 10 Edw. 2. he was constituted Lieutenant and Captain General to the King from Crent Northwards as far as Roxborough in Scotland In 11 Edw. 2. he was charged with providing two hundred Foot for the Kings service in Scotland out of his Territories of Blancminster and Clun And in 12 13 Edw. 2. marched again into Scotland in which Wars and other his imployments he performed his trust so well as that in 15 Edw. 2. the King bestowed on him and the Heirs-male of his Body all those Houses near Algate within the City of London as also the Mannor of Ideshale in Com. Salop. Which by the forfeiture of Bartholmew de Badlesmere a great Baron in â—ent were escheated to the Crown So likewise the Mannor of Eâ—worth in the Isle of Axhoâ—me and all the Lands besides within that Isle which did belong to Iohn Lord Moubray and which by his Rebellion were then forfeited with all other Lands there which belonged to any other Rebel As also the Castle Mannor and Lands of Chirke the Castle and Mannor of Dolverne and likewise those Lands of â—ery and Kâ—dwey in the Marches of Wales which were part of the Possessions of Roger Lord Mortimer of Wigmore and also escheated by his Rebellion Moreover he stood in so great favor with that King and was so far trusted by him that in 18 Edw. 2. he
Chancellor of England and four Daughters viz. Alice married to Thomas Holland afterwards Earl of Kent to whom and the Heirs of their two Bodies in 38 Edw. 3. the King granted the Mannors of Kirkby Moresheved Buttercramp and Cropton She is likewise said to have been the Wife of Henry de Beaufort who was afterwards the rich Cardinal before he took orders Eleanor died young Ioane Wife of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Mary wedded to Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere Which Iohn his second Son was afterwards a Banneret and in 1 Rich. 2. retained to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea for a quarter of an year with two hundred Men at Arms and two hundred Archers whereof twenty nine Knights and one hundred seventy Esquires he being then also Marshal of England and of the Retinue unto Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham Uncle to the King This Iohn took to Wife Eleanor the Daughter of Iohn Lord Maltravers Sister and Heir to Henry Lord Maltravers and was summoned to Parliament in 1 2 3 Rich. 2. in the last of which years being sent with divers Knights and others in aid of the Duke of Britanny he perished by Shipwrack about the Feast day of S. Nicholas It is reported that before he hoised Sail he plundered the Countrey people and being utterly cursed by them for so doing this miserable fate soon overtook him By the said Eleanor his Wife he left issue a Son called Iohn Which Iohn had likewise issue Iohn Son and Heir who upon the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel without issue being his next Heir-male possessed the Castle of Arundel and divers other Lordships by vertue of an Entail made by Richard Earl of Arundel in 21 Edw. 3. as I shall more fully shew anon and by reason thereof had the title of Earl of Arundel But I return to Richard Son and Heir to the last Earl Richard This Earl Richard being constituted Admiral of the Kings Fleet to the Westwards in 1 Rich. 2. and soon after that to the Southwards was retained by Indenture to serve the King at Sea for one quarter of an year in the Company of Iohn Duke of Lancaster King of Caâ—â—â—le And in 7 Rich. 2. was in that expedition then made into Scotland About which time he procured License of the King to imploy what Agents he should please to the Abbess and Covent of Almenesches Alien to treat and conclude with them for the purchase of certain Lands part of the Possessions of the Priory of Leveminster in Sussex belonging to those Nuns As also a Charter for a weekly Market at his Mannor of Estangmering in Sussex upon the Saturday and a Fair yearly upon the Eve and Day of the Apostles Peter and Paul He also obtained the Kings farther License to travel into Forein parts and there to continue as long as he should think fit But if he did then travel he staid not long abroad for in 8 R. 2. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of Scotland And in 9 R. 2. joyned in Commission with Thomas D. of Lancaster for the tryal of Michael de la Pole and some other of the Kings Favorites whom the Commons in Parliament had then charged with divers high crimes Whereupon De la Pole was adjudged to suffer death and his estate to be confiscate In 10 Rich. 2. being made Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet to the West and Northward he received the moity of that Tenth then given to the King in Parliament by the Clergy as also the moity of that Fifteen given by the Laity for the Publick service of the Realm in a Naval expedition And putting to Sea upon Sunday the Eve of our Ladies Ascension encountred with a great Fleet of Flemings French and Spaniards and after a sharp fight got the victory wherein he took of Ships great and small no less then an hundred all laden with Wines containing Nineteen thousand Tuns which he brought into the Port of Orwell and other Havens And after this having new rigged his Navy arrived at Brest in Britanny where he soon took one of those Forts which the French had newly raised against the Castle there and burnt the other And having then victualled that Castle for a year and recruited the Garrison with all necessaries returned into England with great honor though much envied by the Duke of Ireland and others that bore great sway at Court who did all they could to deprave him by speaking sleightly of these his noble exploits And not only so but growing more insolent the King being totally guided by them they conspired the death of divers great persons of which this Earl was one So that now there being no other help but that either those haughty spirited men must be supprest or many of the most eminent Noblemen ruined This Earl with the Earls of Warwick and Derby resolved to put themselves in Arms. The King therefore discerning their purpose forthwith deliberated how he might destroy them before they had united their distinct Forces and to that end sent the Earl of Northumberland and others with him to Rigate Castle where this Earl then was with resolution there to surprise him But when Northumberland got thither and saw what strength he had he returned without any attempt upon him After which some were sent to take him by night and bring him to the King or at least to murther him The Lords therefore being in this strait having raised a great power soon met at Haringay Park near Highgate in Com. Middl. wherewith the King being alarmd and mediation made for a peaceable composure of these discontents they came to Westminster and upon expostulation with them by the King touching this their Insurrection told him it was for his and the Kingdoms advantage and to take from him those Trayterous persons viz. The Duke of Ireland and other his favorites who were enemies to the Commonwealth the issue whereof for the present terminated in the ruine of divers who had so mis-guided the King as in due place I shall shew The tide therefore then running with these Lords this Earl was by general consent in the Parliament of 11 Rich. 2. made Governor of the Castle and Town of Brest in Britanny as also the Kings Lieutenant in those parts And shortly after being Admiral made Lieutenant as also Captain-General of his Fleet at Sea with Commission to treat of Peace with Iohn de Montâ—ort then Duke of Britanny and hoising sail after Whitsontide soon met with the Enemy of whose Ships he sunkâ— and took fourscore entred the Isle of Bâ—as which he burnt and spoiled and likewise the Islands
of Michael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the first gave them to his Father as also Bergedone now called Berwedon in Com. Ruti with the whole Soke which Queen Maude gave to the before-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the same William Farthermore this William had by the Grant of that Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of his Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Porchestre and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them Moreover in consideration of his good service he had Haverberge and Bugedone with the whole Soke then given unto him as also the Constablery of Richege in Fee with an hundred pounds per annum Lands of such of the Dukes own Demesne as he should first happen to be possessed of And after Henry had by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony whereof his Father died seized as well in England as Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its apurtenances Bergedone with the Hundred in Com. Rotl and Manetone in Com. ... with all other the Lands which he had formerly given to his Father at Notingham as also Scaâ—dene and Herlege with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy Being therefore possessed of this inheritance upon the assessment of the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter in 12 Hen. 2. he certified his Knights Fees de Veteri Novo Feoffamento to be in number four and an half for all which in 14 H. 2. he paid sixty shillings viz. twenty three shillings and four pence for his Fees de Veteri Feoffamento and for those de Novo thirty six shillings and eight pence And after this ere long viz. in 26 Hen. 2. was made Sheriff of Rutland in which Office he continued to the thirty third of Henry the second as also three parts of the thirty fourth year So likewise in 1 and 2 Ric. 1. And in 6 R. 1. was in that expedition then made into Normandy When he died I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the rebellious Barons in King Iohns time as it seems for it appears that in 1 H. 3. the K. granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances unto Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the third this Robert died whereupon Isabel his Widdow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of that year giving security for the payment of his reliefe viz. an hundred pounds had Livery of his Lands This William in 17 Ioh. was constituted Governor of Rokingham Castle but the same year taking part with the rebellious Barons he made a Garrison of his House at Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcase de Breant who was then a bold Souldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolished it upon the fourth Cal. of December Which hardening him in his rebellious actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King Iohn which hapned the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Armes against King Henry the third in the Battle of Lincoln 1 Hen. 3. the whole power of that rebellious party being then utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his estate and in 7 Hen. 3. making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings gift five Does for the storing thereof In 10 Hen. 3. doing his Homage for those Lands which descended to him by the death of Isabel Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in 17 H. 3. obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the dayes of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year After which ere long viz. in 26 Hen. 3. he had Summons amongst divers other eminent men of that time to fit himself with Horse and Armes to attend the King in his Expedition into France But in 41 H. 3. he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in Com. Buck. as also of the Mannor of Bermedon and Hundred of Wrangedyke with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham all in Com. Rutl. and likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartlegh in Com. Southampt leaving issue by Aliie his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of ages Which William in 41 H. 3. had so much favor from the King in payament of a debt of two hundred marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serganty he held viz. an hundred pounds for his Relief for his Barony and fifty marks for his Sergeanty as that it was accepted of fifty marks per annum The next year following this William had summons to attend the K. at Chester well accoutered with Horse and Armes to oppose the Incursions of the Welch and in 47 H. 3. doing his Homage and paying an hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran E. of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof Iohn de Plessets E. of Warwick died seized and which by Hereditary right were descended to him viz. the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Armes thence to march into Wales against Leweline ap Gryâ—â—in at that time in Hostility And the next year following had the like summons to repair unto the King at Oxford in Mid-lent for the same respect but so great was the strength that the rebellious Barons had then got together that the King grew necessitated to let his Welsh intended Expedition alone and march to Northampton and in all probability sent away this Earl to make sure his Castle at
Livery of his Lands Margerie his Mother surviving who had for her Dowrie an Assignation of the Mannors of Driffeld and Faxfleâ—e with their respective Members and two parts of the Mannor of Ecclesaâ—e in Com. Ebor. Also of the Mannors of Paulyns Crâ—ye in Com. Cantii Fisâ—yde in Com. Essex the Advowson of the Church of Boudon in Com. Leic. the third part of the Mannor of North Muskham in Com. Nott. the third part of the Mannor of Carleton in Kesteven and Mannor of Bernoldby in Com. Linc. Likewise of ten Marks yearly Rent payable out of divers Lands in North Dalton and Twenty Pounds yearly Rent out of the Fee-farm of Kingston super Hull But I return to Henry This Henry in 22 R. 2. being then a Knight married Philippa Daughter to Guy Son of Sir Guy de Brien Knight and one of the Cousins and Heirs to the same Sir Guy and in 6 H. 4. obtain'd a Grant from the King of the Mannors of Threske and Haâ—yngham in Com. Ebor. part of the Possessions of Thomas Moubray Earlâ—Marshal and Notingh attainted to hold for term of his Life all this being in his Father's Life-time In 7 H. 4. he was employed in that Embâ—ssie to Isabell Queen of Denmarke and Eric King of Denmarke to treat concerning the Dowrie of Philippa the Daughter of King Henry then married to that King of Denmarke and for a League betwixt both Crowns In 8 H. 4. he buried the before-specified Philippa his Wife Daughter of Sir Guy Brien she departing this Life 19 Nov. Anno 1406. 8 H. 4. being then seised in her Demesn as of Fee in the Mannors of Somerton Erle Kingesdon Dunhed Stoke Shokerwyk and Batheneston in Com. Somerset and of the Mannors of Cheltesfeild Est-Hall Asche and Faukeham in Kent leaving Elizabeth the Wife of Robert Lovel her Sister and Heir xxiv years of age In 11 H. 4. this Henry Lord Scroope was made Treasurer of the King's Exchequer and the next ensuing year married to his second Wife the Lady Ioane Dutchess of Yoâ—ke one of the Sisters and Heirs of Edmund Holand Earl of Kent whereupon he had an Assignation of her Purparty of the Lands of her Inheritance In which year also the King considering his great Abilities as also the necessity of his Presence in Parliament and Councils assign'd unto him for the time of his stay at Westminster or London the Towns of Hamstede and Hendon in Com. Midd. for Lodging and Entertainment of his Servants and Horses Nor had he less esteem from King Henry the Fifth as it seems for in the first year of his Reign he constituted him one of his Embassadors to treat of Peace with the French But this great Trust he shamefully abused for being a Person in whom the King had so great a confidence that nothing of Private or Publick Concernment was done without him his gravity of Countenance modesty in his Deportment and Religious Discourse being always such that whatsoever he advised was held as an Oracle upon this his Solemn Embassy into France which none was thought so fit to manage as himself he treated privily with the King's Enemies being in his Heart totally theirs and conspired the King's Destruction upon promise of Reward from the French His Confederates in this Design being Richard Earl of Cambridge Brother to the Duke of Yorke and Sir Thomas Grey a Northern Knight But before this mischievous Plot could be effected which was to have kill'd the King and all his Brethren ere he went to Sea five Ships being ready at 〈◊〉 to waft the King over into France it was discovered Whereupon he had a speedy Trial for it at Suthampton and being found guilty there lost his Head His Arraignment and Conviction was 5 Aug. 3 H. 5. before Thomas Duke of Clarence and other his Peers and the Lordships whereof he died seised these viz. Masham with its Members Coverham Buâ—ton Constable Clifton Aynderby with the Stepyll Hunâ—on Garston and Bellerby Silton Upsale and Driffelâ— all in Com. Ebor. leaving no Issue Whereupon those of Masham Clifton Watlâ—wes Thirne Nostrefeld Burton Constable Huntone Garstâ—ne Bellerby Coverham Aynderby with the Stepyll Berningeham and Newesome were by the King bestow'd on Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh to hold for his Life This last-mention'd Henry had Summons to Parliament from 8 H. 4. to 2 H. 5. To whom succeeded Sir Iohn Scroope Knight his Brother and next Heir Which Iohn upon the death of Stephen his Brother Archdeacon of Richmund in 2 H. 6. doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands And immediately thereupon by the Assent of the Lords in Parliament obtain'd a Grant from the King of the whole Farms and Rents of all those Lordships which came to the Crown by the Attainder of Henry Lord Scroope his Brother to hold for four years This Sir Iohn Scroope wrote himself of Massham and Upsale where he had two eminent Seats and in 4 H. 6. was first Summon'd to Parliament In 6 H. 6. having obtain'd Licence from the King he travelled beyond-Sea And in 9 H. 6. was one of the Embassadors sent to treat with others from Scotland touching Satisfaction for such Injuries as had been committed by the Subjects of either Realm against each other contrary to the Tenor of the Truce formerly made betwixt both Kings Whereupon he grew into such esteem with the King as that the next ensuing year 26 Febr. he was advanc'd to that Great Office of Treasurer of the King's Exchequer After which I have not seen any more of him till 29 H. 6. that by his Testament bearing date 1 Iulii he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in a new Tomb made for himself and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife in the Chappel of St. Stephen commonly call'd Scropes-Chappel within the Cathedral Church of St. Peter at Yorke appointing That at his Funeral his Corps should be carried by his Sons and Servants being then at his House to the same Chappel twenty four Poor Men cloathed in White Gowns and Hoods each of them having a new Set of Wooden Beads proceeding before it and that those Poor Men should stand sit or kneel in the Isle before the entrance to that Chappel saying their Prayers as well at the Dirige as at the Mass each of them for his pains having Sixpence He also willed That his Corps thus brought into that Chappel should be laid upon that Tomb and covered with a Black Woollen Cloth with a large Cross of White Linen upon it as also That two fair Candlesticks of Silver gilt with his Arms upon them which he lately had given to the High-Altar should be placed upon his Tomb each of them having a Taper of four Pounds weight in Wax burning for the whole time of his Exequies To the Altar in St. Maries Abby at Yorke he
to serve the King during his Life for the Fee of CC l. per Annum he had a Grant of the Town Castle and Bertone of Marlebergh to hold for Life in lieu thereof Likewise in 18 R. 2. he was again by Indenture retain'd to serve that King in his Wars beyond the Seas with Thirty Men at Arms Forty Archers on Horseback and Ten Archers on Foot In 19 R. 2. being made Lord Chamberlain of the King's Houshold he was one of the Embassadors sent to contract a Marriage for King Richard with Isabell eldest Daughter to Charles the Sixth King of France In 20 R. 2. he was again made Governour of Quenesburgh-Castle for Life as also of the Castle of Beaumarys and in 21 R. 2. Chamberlain of Ireland Whereupon he also had a Grant of the Castle of Bamburgh with the Fee-Farm of that Town for Life Soon after which upon the Confiscation of the Estates of those Great Lords who pretended to be Reformers of what was amiss in the Government he obtain'd a Grant to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body of the Castle Town and Lordship of Bernard-Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham as also of the Mannors of Middilton and Gaynesford part of the Possessions of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and being thereupon advanc'd to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Wiltshire by Letters Patents bearing date 29 Septemb. the Title of Earl of Salisbury which is the Principal Town of that County being at that time in William de Moâ—tacute obtain'd a Grant of the Mannors of Welkhampstowe and Lowehalle in Com. Essex with all the Hamlets thereto belonging likewise of Paynescastell with the whole Territory of Elbylond Colnem Albrede Elvel Royll and 〈◊〉 with their Appurtenances in Wales with their Commotes Mannors and Lands pertaining thereto all which were part of the Possessions of the said Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick then attainted Shortly after which he was constituted Justice of Chester North-Wales and Flynt And had a Grant of the Office of Surveyor of all the Forests within the Principality of Chester as also of the Lordships of Bromefeild Yale Chirkland and Oswestre Likewise of the Hundred of the Eleven Towns and of the Lordships of Shrawardyn Keynardesley and Eggerley late Richard Earl of Arundel's attainted to hold for Life Also another Grant to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body of the Lordship of Bernard-Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham with the Mannors of Midleton and Gaynesford in Com. Ebor. and of the Castle of Dalâ—ley with the Chace called Welington-Hay in Com. Salop. part of the Possessions of Richard Earl of Arundel then attainted to hold for the space of twenty years Moreover before the end of that year in order to that Expedition which the King soon after made into Ireland he was by Indenture retain'd to serve him in that Journey for half a year with Forty Men at Arms and an hundred Archers on Horseback and to be Shipt to and fro at the King's Charge Whereupon he receiv'd a Quarters Pay in hand for himself and his Retinue and in 22 R. 2. was made Captain of the Castle of Calais for the term of fifteen years as also Constable of the Castle at Guisnes for ten years Likewise Constable of the Castle of Knaresburgh and Warden of the Forest with the Park there late part of the Possessions of Iohn Duke of Lancaster to hold till such time as Henry of Lancaster Duke of Hereford should by Law recover them out of the King's hands and lastly Treasurer of the King's Exchequer But as his rise to this Wealth and advancement to Greatness and Honour was quick and hasty so was his Fall as sudden and unexpected For before the revolution of one year hearing that the Duke of Lancaster was upon the Sea and ready to Land being one of the Chief of Counsel to that unfortunate King Richard the Second he advised That they should remove from London to St. Albans and there raise Forces to resist the Duke Which being endeavoured accordingly those who came in to him thither bearing a fair respect to the Duke resolv'd to do him no harm Whereupon with some other discerning a dangerous Cloud approaching he forthwith fled to the Castle of Bristoll But within a short space the Duke Landing at Ravenspur in Yorkshire carried all before him and pursuing these Fugitives took them at Bristoll where though some escaped Death this Earl had no favour being there Beheaded the next day after and attainted in Parliament 1 H. 4. Turnham IN the time of King Henry the Second Robert de Turnham having large Possessions in Kent founded the Priory of Cumbwell in that County for Canons-Regular of St. Augustine's Order and left Issue two Sons viz. Robert and Stephen Which last mentioned Robert being with King Richard the First in that famous Expedition of his to the Holy-Land had the Command of the one half of those Gallies which compassed the Isle of Cyprus and upon the taking of it with the Emperour thereof Prisoner was joyn'd with Richard de Camvill in the Government of that Place Moreover upon the death of the same Richard who going without the King's leave to the Siege of Acon there died being the sole Governour thereof he rais'd a considerable Power and giving Battel to the new Emperour conquer'd him and hang'd him on a Gallows After which in 4 R. 1. upon that Accord made betwixt the Emperour of Almaine and King Richard whereby the King was to be set at liberty from that Restraint wherein he had been kept since his Surprisal in his Return from the Holy Land this Robert de Turnham being an intimate Servant to King Richard was sent into England with the King's Harness and by reason of his notable Services performed in that Journey upon Collection of the Scutage levied in 6 R. 1. for payment of King Richard's Ransom had a special Discharge for what did thereupon wax due from him In this year he executed the Sheriff's Office for the County of Surrey the one half thereof So likewise for the two next ensuing years in the last of which he was acquitted from the third Scutage of Normandy In 9 R. 1. there hapning a great Controversie between this Robert and Philip then Bishop of Durham touching the Lordship of Cliff viz. Whether he had a real Right in the Inheritance thereof or held it only as Tenant to the Bishop it came to a Trial at Yorke before Hugh Bardulf Roger Harundell and Geffrey Haget at that time Justices-Itinerant where by a Jury of Twelve Men it was found that he had a clear Title thereto in right of Ioane his Wife Daughter of William Fossard In 9 and 10 R. 1. he
And in 8 Edw. 1. quit-claimed to King Edward and Queen Elianore all his right in and to the Mannors of Torpell and Upton in Com. Northamp as also to the Advowsons of the Churches of those Mannors Which Mannors he held by the service of four Knights Fees And in 10 Edw. 1. having been in that Expedition then made into Wales had Scutage of all his Tenants by Military service But that which is most memorable of him is that having married Margaret the Daughter and Heir to Sir Iohn de Gatesden Knight Which Margaret better affecting Sir William Painell Knight departed from this her Husband and lived adulterously with him he thereupon came to an accord with Painell and by a formal Grant in Writing under his Seal quitted unto him all his right and title to her as also to all her Goods and Chattels as by the said Charter a Coppy whereof I have thought fit here to insert appeareth viz. OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Johannes de Cameys filius haeres Domini Radulphi de Cameys salutem in Domino Noveritis me tradidisse dimisisse Spontaneâ voluntate meâ Domino Willielmo Paynel militi Margaretam de Cameys filiam haeredem Domini Johannis de Gatesden uxorein meam Et etiam dedisse concessisse eidem Willielmo relaxasse quietum clamasse omnia bona catalla quae ipsa Margareta habet vel de caetero habere posset etiam quicquid mei est de praedictâ Margaretâ bonis vel catallis cum pertinentiis ita quod nec ego nec aliquis alius nomine meo in praedictâ Margaretâ bonis catallis ipsius Margaretae cum suis pertinentiis de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus nec debemus imperpetnum Ac volâ— coneedâ— per praesenâ— Scriptum confirmo quod praedicta Margareta cum praedicto Domino Willielmo sit manâ—at pro voluntate ipsius Willielmi In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto Sigillum meâ—m apposai Hiis testibus Thomâ de Depeston Johanne de Ferrings Willielmo de Icombe Henrico le Biroun Stephano Camerario Waltero le Blound Gilberto de Batecumbe Roberto de Bosco aliis After which departing this life and leaving her alive she formally married her self to the same Sir Wâ—lliam Paâ—nel who thereupon by petition in Parliament in 28 Edw. 1. laid claim to the third part of the said Mannor of Torpell as her Dowry whereof her Husband Comois was formerly seized But to this claim the Kings Atturney made answer that she had no right at all thereto in regard that she did voluntarily forsake her said Husband long before his death and lived adulterously with Painell as also that she was never reconciled to her Husband Camois Unto which answer Painell and she replied that though she abode with him it was not in an Adulterous manner but by virtue of that Grant before recited Whereupon the decision thereof was referred to the next Parliament which began at Lincolne on the Octaves of St. Hillary 29 Edw. 1. And afterwards to the Parliament at Westminster on the Octaves of St. Iohn Baptist 30 E. 1. But in conclusion the Kings Council urging the Statute of ... whereby it was enacted That If a Wife do of her own accord forsake ber Husband and live Adulterously with another man she shall for ever be debarred from her Dowry unless her Husband do again receive her without Ecclesiastical cohertion and being reconciled to her do cohabit with him Judgement was given against her that she should have no Dowry of the Lands of her said Husband Camois To this Sir Iohn succeeded Sir Ralph de Camois Knight his Son and Heir who in 25 E. 1. was in that Expedition then made into Gascoine and in 28 Ed. 1. in the Scottish Wars all this being in his Fathers life-time So likewise in 31. E. 1. in which year he obtained a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesne Lands at Hamptonet in Com. Suss. And in 34 E. 1. having received the Honour of Knighthood with Prince Edward and many others by Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies went with him into Scotland being then of the retinue with Hugh le Despenser In 2 Edw. 2. this Ralph was again in the Scottish Wars and the same year obtained another Grant for Free-warren in all his Demesne Lands at Wolbedyng in Com. Suss. In 4 Edw. 2. upon the death of Margaret his Mother doing his Fealty he had livery of the Mannor of Elynge in Com. Southamp which was of her Inheritance And in 6 E. 2 obtained a Charter for a Market every Munday at his Mannor of Bradwater in Com. Suss. as also for a Fair yearly there on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle Moreover in 7 Edw. 2. he was again in the Wars of Scotland being of the retinue with Hugh Despenser the elder And in 12 Edw. 2. had another Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesne Lands at Pilketon and Caneshore in Com. Northamp Stivecle in Comit. Hunt as also in Elings Lasham and Hamelton in Com. Southampt Furthermore in 13 Edw. 2 he was made Governor of Windsor Castle and Warden of that Forest And in 18 Edw. 2. constituted Governor of Helegh Castle in Com. Staff The same year he had likewise a Grant to himself and Elizabeth his Wife as also to Hugh their Son and to the Heirs of his Body of the Mannor of Westbury in Com. Southamp which divolved to the Crown by the forfeiture of Robert Lewer and obtained another Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesne Lands at Westbuâ—y Estumme and Westumme in the same County Lastly in 20 Edw. 2. he obtained another Charter for a Fair yearly at Rogate in Com. Suss. as also for Free-warren in all his Demesne Lands there and at Hertings â—ortwike Tudaham and Aldradesham in the same County But as he had been of the retinue unto Hugh Despenser the elder so was he an adherer to Hugh the younger who suffered death with his Father as I have in my discourse of that Family shewed Wherefore in 1 Edw. 3 he procured the Kings pardon for that transgression And in 7 Edw. 3 was again in the Wars of Scotland This Ralph had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons from 7 E. 2. untill 9 Edw. 3. inclusive But after that time I have not found farther mention of him I come next to Thomas de Camois who in 19 Edw. 3. was in the Wars of Francâ— as also in 20 Edw. 3. being then of the retinue with Thomas de Brewose At that time also there was another Ralph de Camois in that famous Expedition then made into France being of the retinue with Henry Earl of Lancaster Which Ralph continued
Brother to this last mentioned Nicholas the Family of Poinz still residing in Glocestershire are linâ—ally descended Plugenet 23 Edw. 1. IN 2 Hen. 2. Hugh de Plugenet had Lands given to him in Hedendune in Comit. Oxon. and in 13 Hen. 2. was owner of Lamburne in Com. Berks. In 22 Hen. 2. he was amerced at twenty Marks for trespasses in the Forest and in 2 Ric. 1. gave an hundred pounds Fine for livery of his Lands in Lamburne Westberie and Heddington And having married Sibill the Daughter and Coheir of Iosceus de Dinant had issue by her two Sons Alan and Iosceus Which Iosceus in 14 Ioh. upon the death of his Mother gave an hundred marks and one Palfrey for livery of the Lands in Lamburne of her Inheritance To one of these succeeded another Alan Which Alan in 49 Hen. 3. after the King became victorious over his Rebellious Barons at â—vesham was made Governor of Dunster Castle in Com. Somers And in 52 H. 3. being then a Knight obtained a Grant in Fee-ferme from Robert Wâ—lroâ—d his Uncle to himself and the Heirs of his Body of the Mannors of Langâ—ord and Whaddon in Comit. Wiltes Kingeston and Mangareston in Com. Dors. and Wateley in Com. Somers As also of the wardenship of New-Forest and Advowsons of the Churches of Whaddon and Langford paying yearly to him the said Robert and his Heirs an hundred and forty pounds at four usual days The like Grant also he had from him of the Castle and Mannor of Râ—â—pec in Com. Heref. as also of the Mannor Harnham paying yearly an hundred and forty pounds and one Spar-Hawk at three termes in the year Moreover standing loyal to the King in his Wars with the Barons he had a Grant of the Lands of Ralph Musard then forfeited by reason of his Rebellious actings in those turbulent times but afterwards upon composition restored them to him again And in 1 Ed. 1. upon the death of Robert Walrond his Uncle refusing the Escheator entrance into the Castle of Kilpec contrary to the accustomed usage in such cases hasted to the King then at London and rendred it to him Whereupon command was given that the Escheator should take it into his hands permitting no other person Nobleman or Knight to come into it But before the end of this year he obtained a special Precept directed to Bartholomew de Sudley to make diligent enquiry and to certifie whether the said Robert Walrond had any Children or not Whereupon it being found that he died Issueless this Alan performing his Fealty had livery thereof accordingly as also of the Mannors of Langford Whaddone and Harnham in such sort likewise limited In 10 Edw. 1. he was in that Expedition then made into Wales and the same year obtained a Grant of the Mannor of Haselbury in Comit. Dors. part of the possession of William de Mareschal attainted Shortly after which viz. in 14 Edw. 1. he procured a Charter for a weekly Market there upon the Munday as also for Free-warren in all those Lands and Lordships which had been granted to him in the time of King Henry the third And in 15 E. 2. was constituted Governor of Drosâ—elan Castle in Wales which belonged to Rhese ap Meredith then a Rebel Furthermore in 18 Edw. 1. he obtained another Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesne Land within his Lordships of Little Kington Great Kington Batecumbe Mulebury Bolbe Bere and Kington in Com. Dors. Culmeston Wadden Langford and West-Harnham in Comit. Wiltes And in 22 Edw. 1. received command to attend the King at Portsmouth upon the first of September well fitted with Horse and Armes thence to sail with him into Gascoin In 25 E. 1. the King being in Flanders and constituting Edward his Son Governor of the Realm in his absence this Alan being a person highly esteemed for his wisdom and military knowledge was appointed one of his Assistants for advice therein And having been summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 23 Edw. 1. untill the 25 th year of that Kings Reign inclusive departed this life in 27 Edw. 1. being then seized of the Castle of Kilpec in Com. Heref. which he held by Serjeanty to be Bailiff to the King for his Hay of Hereford Likewise of the Mannors of Longeford Mobbevyle Wheddon West-Harnham and Saltertone in Com. Wiltes as also of the Mannor of Hedington in Com. Oxon. and jointly with Ioane his wife of the Mannor of Genge in Com. Berks. with Mudeford Torry Pultenay and Haâ—elbere in Com. Somers leaving Alan his Son and Heir twenty two years of age And Ioane his Wife surviving who had also the Mannor of Winfroid assigned to her for her better suport Which Alan doing his Homage had livery of his Lands before the end of that year And in 28 Edw. 1. was in the Scotish Wars So likewise in 29 and 31 Edw. 1. And in 34 Edw. 1. being made a Knight at the Feast of Pentecost with Prince Edward and many others by Bathing c. attended him in that Expedition thereupon made into Scotland and continued there in 35 Edw. 1. In 2 Edw. 2. this Alan obtained Licence for a Market every week upon the Friday at his Mannor of Kilpec in Com. Heref. as also for a Fair there yearly on the Eve and Day of the Assumption of our Lady and two days following In 4 Edw. 2. he received Summons to be at Roxburgh upon the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Armes to march against the Scots So likewise in 8 Edw. 2. to be at Newcastle upon Tine upon the Festival of the blessed Virgins Assumption And having been summoned to Parliament in 5 Edw. 2. and no more departed this life soon after as I ghess leaving Ioane de Bohun his Sister and Heir who doing her Homage in 19 Edw. 2. had livery of the Lands of her Inherinance Which Ioane died without issue in 1. E. 3. whereupon the Lands of her Inheritance resorted to Sir Richard de la Bere Knight Son of Richard de la Bere Brother of the whole Blood to Alan Plugenet her Father Fauconberg 23 Edw. 1. OF this antient Family the first of whom I find mention is Peter de Falkeberge Son of Agnes de Arches founderess of the House of Nuns at Nun-Kelling in Holderness Which Peter for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Beatrice his Wife as also for the Souls of William Walter and Stephen his Sons and all his Ancestors Souls gave to the Monks of Pontfract his moity of the Church of St. Michael at Catchewic in consideration whereof they covenanted to celebrate his Obit and Anniversary and likewise the
the great affairs of the Realm And soon after that received command to fit him-himself with Horse and Armes and to be at Southampton upon the first of September thence to accompany the King into Gascoine This Giles had Summons to Parliament in 25 E. 1. but no more and died in 31 E. 1. seized of the Mannor of Fulmere in Com. Cantabr as also of Wenyngore and Werplesburne in Com. Suss. leaving Richard his Son and Heir six years of age Who making proof of his age in 11 Edw. 2. and doing his Homage had livery of the Lands of his Inheritance This Richard had also Summons to Parliament from 11 till 15 Edw. 2. inclusive To whom succeeded another Richard his Son and Heir in 8 Edw. 3. found Heir to Iohn de Lancaster of Stanâ—rede in Com. Essex and at that time twelve years of age but died upon Wednesday preceding the Feast of All-Saints in 33 Edw. 3. being then seized of the Mannors of Fulmere in Com. Cantabr Yford Wanynggore and Werpesburne in Com. Suss. Wetynges Toftes and Knapeton in Comit. Norf. Dkeley magna and Bentefeld-Bury in Stanstede in Comitat. Essex leaving Iohn his Son and Heir eighteen years of age Which Iohn had issue Margaret his Daughter and Heir married to Sir Iohn Howard Knight Ancestor to the Howards Dukes of Norfolk c. St Iohn of Lageham 25 Edw. 1. IN 46 Hen. 3. Roger de St. Iohn obtained License to fortifie his House at Lageham near Walkested in Com. Surr. and so to hold the same whilest he and his Heirs should continue loyal to the King But in 48 Hen. 3. after the Battle of Lewes where the King was taken Prisoner by the Rebellious Barons he was one of the nine persons elected to be of the Council of State To this Roger succeeded Iohn who in 31 Edw. 1. was in the Wars of Scotland So likewise in 4 Edw. 2. And in 8 Edw. 2. received command to be at Newcastle upon â—ine on the Festival of the blessed Virgins Assumption well fitted with Horse and Armes to restrain the Incursions of the Scots And having been Summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 25 Edw. 1. to 9 Edw. 2 inclusive departed this life in 10 E. 2. being then seized of the Mannor Swalefeld in Com. Berks. Walkenested with a Tenement called Lageham in Com. Surr. as also of the Mannors of Barton and Staunton in Com. Oxon. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir forty years of age Which Iohn in 11 Edw. 2. was in that Expedition then made into Scotland and departed this life in 16 Edw. 2. being seized of the Mannors of Great Barton and Staunton St. Iohn in Comitat. Oxon. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir fifteen years of age and Alice his Wife surviving who afterwards married to Reginald de Pavely Which Iohn took to Wife Catherine the Daughter of Geffrey de Say and making proof of his age in 5 Edw 3. had Livery of his Lands But in 20 Edw. 3. upon the death of Margerie his Mother being so infirm that he could not come to the King to do his Homage he had respite thereof and Livery of those Lands which she held in Dower This Iohn had Summons to Parliament from 11 Edw. 2. to 5 Edw. 3. inclusive but not after nor any of his Descendents and dyed 8th April 23 Edw. 3. being then seized of the Mannors of Barton and Staunton St. Iohn in Com. Oxon. and Lageham in Com. Surr. leaving Catherine his Wife surviving and Roger his Son and Heir Twenty yeares of age Which Roger in 25 Edw. 3. released to Sir Nicholas de Lovayne Knight and Margaret his Wife all his right in the Mannor of Lageham and died in 27 Edw. 3. leaving Peter de St. Iohn his Kinsman his next heir forty years of age Ap Adam 25 Edw. 1. IN 19 Edw. 1. Iohn ap Adam having married Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Iohn de Gurnai had livery of her Lands doing his fealty And in 21 Edw. 1. procured the King's Charter for a Market every week upon the Monday at Beverstan in Com. Glouc. a Mannor of her inheritance Also for a Fair there every year to be kept upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Assumption of the blessed Virgin with Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands of that Lordship In 24 Edw. 1. upon the death of Oliva the Mother of Elizabeth his wife this Iohn had also livery of her Lands lying in Com. Somerset And in 26 Edw. 1. obtain'd another Charter for a weekly Market upon the Wednesday at his Mannor of 〈◊〉 in Com. Somerset as also for a Fair once every year on the Eve and Festival of the Assumption of our Lady and for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Baâ—ewâ— in that County In this year he was in the Wars of Scotland So likewise in 34 Edw. 1. And having been summon'd to Parliament from 25 Edw. 1. until 2 Edw. 2. inclusive died soon after leaving Thomas his son and heir then in minoritie whose Wardship Raph de Monthermer in consideration of Six thousand Marks obtained Which Thomas arriving to his full age in 18 Ed. 2. had livery of his Lands doing his Homage but in 4 Edw. 3. sold the Castle of Beverstan with the Mannor and Mannor of Overe in Com. Gloue to Thomas de Berkley and Margaret his VVife and to the heirs of him the said Thomas de Berkley After which time I have not seen any thing of him or his posterity Welles 27 Edw. 1. THe first mention I find of this Family is in 6 Rich. 1. Adam de Welles then paying ten Marks for his adherence to Iohn Earl of Noreton who at that time took more Authority upon him whilst the King his Brother was prisoner in Almaine than he could justifie The next is in 9 Ioh. of William de Welles who gave fifty Marks for one Knights fee in Gremesbi in Com. Linc. To whom succeeded another William who in 11 Edw. 1. obtained License for a Market every week upon the Tuesday at his Mannor of Alfourd in the Province of Lindsey in Com. Linc. and a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow of the Festival of the holy Trinitie This William by Isabel de Vesci his Wife had issue Adam Which Adam in 22 Edw. 1. being of the Retinue with William de Vesci a great Baron in Northumberland was in the King's service in Gascoine So likewise in 25 Edw. 1. in consideration whereof he obtained the King's Precept to the Treasurer and Barons of his Exchequer that they should not take any of his Wools of that years growth and in 27
heirs viz. Alianore the wife of Walter de Lucie Philippa Married to Hugh Courtney and Margaret to Thomas Arundel Edmund of VVodstoke Earl of Kent 15 Edw. 2. THis Edmund the second son to King Edward the First by Margaret his second VVife born at Woodstoke in An. 1301. 29 E. 1. was thereupon surnamed of that place And in 12 E. 2. had the Castle and Honor of Knaresburgh committed to his charge In 13 E. 2. he was in the wars of Scotland and the same year obtain'd a Grant from the King in tail general of divers Lordships Lands and Rents to the yearly value of Two thousand Marks viz. the Mannor of Cammel with the Parke in Com. Somerset the Mannor Town and Hundred of Somerton the VVarren and Pastures of Bingesmore the yearly Rent of Fifty four pounds payable by the Bishop of Bathe unto the Exchequer for the Mannors of Congresbury Axebrugge and Ceddre the yearly Rent of Twenty pounds payable by the Prior and Covent of Bathe into the Exchequer for the Town and Berton of Bathe all in Com. Somerset the Mannors of Kenton Shaftebirie and Chetecumbe with the mannor and Hundred of Liston in Com. Devon the Ferme of Eighteen pounds thirteen shillings four pence yearly payable by the Abbot and Covent of Clyve for the Mannor of Bramâ—ton the yearly Rent of Thirty pounds payable by the Abbot and Covent of Cirencester for the Town of Cirencester and the seven Hundreds in Com. Gloc. the Mannor of Aulton and Hundred with the Rents in that Town the Mannor and Town of Andever with the Hundred and whole increase of the Ferme of that Town the Mannor and Town of Basingstoke with the Hundred all in Com. Southampt the Town of Wiche in Com. Wigorn the Mannors of Torpell Upton and Eâ—ton in Com. Northampt. the annual Rent of Fifty pounds of the Ferme of Fifty seven pounds ten shillings eight pence which the Abbot of Waltham usually paid to the Exchequer for the Mannor of Waltham in Com. Essex Twenty pounds yearly Rent of the Ferme of Twenty two pounds two shillings payable unto the Exchequer by the Abbot of Stratford for the Mannors of Suthberye and Hamme in the same County the Mannor of Basebye with the Soke of Waltham in Com. Linc. the yearly Ferme of Fifty pounds payable by the Inhabitants of Grymesby unto the Exchequer the Town of Castre with the Soke all in the same County the Mannor of Ashfourd in the Peke in Com. Derb. the Ferme of Ninety pounds payable yearly by the Abbot of Kirkstall unto the Exchequer for the Mannor of Colingham in Com. Ebâ—r All which were granted to him as abovesaid to hold by the service of two Knights Fees and Rent of three shillings unto the Exchequer in part of performance as it seemes of what his Father King Edward the First by his Testament appointed viz. that his son King Edward the Second should settle upon him as he expected his Blessing Lands to the value of Two thousand Markes per annum And in 14 E. 2. procured License for a Fair yearly at his said Mannor of Aulton in Com. Southampt upon the Eve and Festival of Pentecost and seven days next ensuing The like for a Faire at Somerton in Com. Somerset on the Eve and Day of St. Andrew the Apostle and seven dayes after As also for Free-warren in all his Lordships of Basingstoke Cammel Kenton Lyston Shafteberie Chetescombe Torpell Upton Eston Beseby Castre and Ashfourd before-specified Likewise a Grant for life of the Castle Berton and Tyne of Glocester Moreover in 15 E. 2. being then created Earl of Kent he had a Grant of the Castle of Okham in Com. Rutl. and Shirevalty of that County And in farther supplement of those Two thousand Marks per annum so designed to him as hath been observed had a Grant of the Mannor of Kingsbury in Com. Somerset In this year also he was constituted Governor of the Castle of Tonebrigge in Kent And upon that Insurrection then made by Thomas Earl of Lancaster was one to whom the King granted Commission to pursue and take him and to that purpose to lay siege to his Castle of Pontfract Likewise upon the taking of that Earl at Burrowbrigg he was one of the chief persons that gave Sentence of death upon him Furthermore in 17 E. 2. being chosen amongst others in the Parliament then held to go into France to Apologize for the not appearance of King Edward to do his Homage for the Dukedome of Aquitane he had a very honorable Reception there The same year also upon that Invasion of Gascoine by the French in regard that Homage was not perform'd being sent to defend those parts he went to Regula and there upon Treaty agreed of a Truce for the present the Constable of Burdeaux receiving Command to furnish him with such Moneys as he should have occasion to lay out in Manning and Victualling the Garrisons in that Country In 19 E. 2. he was again sent into Gascoigne but in his imployments there t is said that he lost much and got nothing And before the end of that year leaving those parts came to Paris there to Treat with the Earl of Henault for a Marriage betwixt Philippa the Daughter of that Earl and Prince Edward his Nephew which being accomplisht he accompanied him with Queen Isabell his Mother and those Forces they then brought landing with them at Harwich in Essex In 1 E. 3. he was in that Expedition then made into Scotland and the same year obtained a Grant of the Town Castle and Honor of Arundel in com Suss. as also of the Mannor of Cuveâ—e in com Wilts part of the possessions of Edmund Earl of Arundel attainted Likewise of the Castle and Town of Donington in com Leic. and Mannor of Allerton in com Nott. Of the Mannor of Lechelade quit of the Fee-Farm of one hundred pounds per an and of the Mannors of Bardesle Musardere and Sudington all in com Glouc. of the Mannors of Woking Sutton Purifrith Talworth and Hamlet of Hoke in com Surr. of the Mannor of Bedehampton in com South Swanescombe in com Cantii Ryhale in com Rotel Gretham in com Linc. and certain Lands in Caldecote in com Hunt to hold by the Service of four Knights Fees And in 2 E. 3. in consideration of his good and acceptable Services as also in part of satisfaction of what was deficient in Lands which his Father King Edward the First did appoint he should have as abovesaid obtained a Grant in Fee of all those Lordships in com Leic. which by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser Earl of Winchester escheated to the Crown excepting the Mannors of Loughborough in Com. Leic. and Mannor of Brettilby with the Fees of de la Haye in Com. Linc. which Alice de Lacy Countess of
8 R. 2. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Gray Friers at London appointing that six Tapers in the form of a Cross should be placed upon his Herse and that six Men in white raiment should then bear six Torches each of them having forty pence for his pains Also that every poor Man coming to his Funeral should have a penny to pray for his Soul and all Christian Souls Moreover he gave to those Friers for his Burial there forty Marks and appointed that so soon as possible after his death a thousand Masses should be sung for his Soul and for the Souls of his Father and Mother To Margaret his Wife he gave four dozen of Silver Dishes and six Chargeours of Silver but after her death to remain to Iohn his Son and in case of his death to Ioane his Daughter And having been summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 8 R. 2. until 16 of that King's Reign inclusive departed this life in 17 R. 2. whereupon Margaret his Widdow Daughter of Sir Iohn Barre Knight had an assignation of her Dowrie To him succeded Iohn his Son and Heir which Iohn was also a Knight but died in 20 R. 2. before he accomplished his full age leaving Ioane the Wife of Sir Walter Fitz-Walter Knight his Sister and next Heir Philippa his Widdow one of the Daughters of Guy de Brien deceased and one of the Cosins and heir of Sir Guy de Brien Kt. Father of the said Guy surviving Which Ioane making proof of her age and doing her Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance ¶ Having now done with the principal branch of this Family I come to William D'evereux of Bodynham in Com. Heref. Esquire younger Brother as I ghess to the same Sir Iohn D'evereux who died in 17 R. 2. as is before observed In 45 E. 3. this William was Sheriff of Herefordshire but farther I have not seen of him To whom succeeded Walter who being a Knight in 2 R. 2. obtained Licence for a Market every week upon the Tuesday at his Mannor of Bodenham as also for a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Assumption of our Lady And in 7 R. 2. Married Agnes the Daughter of Thomas Crophull Cosin and Heir to Sir Iohn Crophull Kt. then in minority and in 9 R. 2. making proof of her age had Livery of her Lands But in 4 H. 4. this Sir Walter D'evereux died upon Tuesday the Festival of St. Iames the Apostle leaving Issue by the said Agnes his Wife Walter his Son and Heir fifteen years of age being then seised of the Mannor of Wibley in Com. Heref. of her Inheritance Which Walter by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Merbury Knight had Issue Walter D'evereux Esquire Cosin and Heir to the before specified Agnes viz. Son of Walter Son of the said Agnes and a Daughter called Anne Married to William Herbert the first Earl of Pembroke of that name In 26 H. 6. this last mention'd Walter was Sheriff of Herefordshire and married Anne the sole daughter and heir to William Lord Ferrers of Chartley in Com. Staff she being at that time Eleven years of age and eight moneths and in 31 H. 6. by the Kings special favour had Livery of her Lands without farther proof of her age In 34 H. 6 he was also Sheriff of Glocestershire being then a Knight And in 1 E. 4. being advanc'd to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ferrers in farther recompence of his manifold services vast expences and sundry perils whereunto he had exposed himself in the Wars against King Henry the Sixth and his adherents viz. Henry Duke of Exeter Iasper Earl of Pembroke and Iames Earl of Wiltshire all which the King gratefully acknowledg'd obtain'd a Grant to himself and the heirs male of his Body of the Mannors and Lordships of Sutton Courtney in Com. Berks. with the Advouson of the Church Also of the Mannor of Hillesden in Com. Buck. late Thomas Courtney's Earl of Devon attainted Of the moiety of Ricards-Castle in Com. Heref. Salop. parcel of the possessions of Sir William Vaux Knight attainted of the Mannors of Oxenhale Graunâ—emysocle and Cold Aston in Com. Gloc. with the Advousons of the Churches appertaining to those Mannors sometime belonging to Iames Earl of Wâ—â—tshire attainted Of the Mannor of Tilton in Com. Leic. with the Advouson of the Church late Everard Digby â—s Esquire attainted togegether with the Mannors of Broughton and Sywell in Com. Northampt. Likewise of the reversion of the â—annors of Lyveâ—on in Com. Northampt. Which William de Aldwincle Esquire then held for life of the Inheritance of Sir Thomas Tresham Knight â—â—tainted And in 10 E. 4. in consideration of his faithful services had a Grant for life of the County of Caernarvon and Chief-Forestership of Snowedon-Hills in North-Wales then in the Crown by the death of William Earl of Pembroke In 11 E. 4. he was one of those who in the Parliament Chamber did recognize and make Oath to Prince Edward eldest son to King Edward the Fourth And in 14 E 4. was retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in his Dukedome of Normandy for one whole year with Twenty men at Armes and Two hundred Archers But adhering to King Richard the Third was slain with him at Boâ—worth-Field 3 R. 3. leaving issue by the before-specified Anne his wife daughter of Sir William Ferrers Knight son and heir to William Lord Ferrers of Chartley and Cosin and heir to the said William Iohn his son and heir then a Knight who in 1 H. 7. had a special Livery of all his Lands Which Iohn was summon'd to Parliament from 3 H. 7. until 12 of that Kings Reign and by Cecilie his wife daughter to Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex sister and heir to Henry her Brother left issue Walter his son and heir who took to wife Mary the daughter of Thomas Marquess Dorset Which Walter in 1 H. 8. had a special Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance And in 2 H. 8. with Sir Edwâ—rd Belknap Esquire of the Body to that King was joynt Governor of Warwick-Castle with him In 3 H. 8. this Walter was in that Expedition then intended for France under the command of Thomas Marquess Dorset it being then resolv'd that they should land in part of the Spaniard's Dominions by reason that Ferdinand of Aragon had promised to assist in that War and to invade Guyen In 4 H. 8. upon that Confederacie betwixt the Pope the Emperor Henry King of England and Ferdinand of Aragon against Lewes the Twelfth of France by which the King of England was to invade Aquitane Picardy or Normandy he was in one of
deteins by thy wicked Council or such as thou art which will neverâ— be for his Advantage I think If thou beest so much concerned for the Kings profit why hast thou coveteously taken from him a thousand Marks per annum since thou wast made an Earl Which expression soon silenced the Chancellor In this year being a Banneret he was reteined to serve the King in his Scotish Wars for forty days and obtained a Grant to himself and the Heirs Male of his body of five hundred pounds per annum Lands part of the Possessions of William de Vfford late Earl of Suffolk deceased viz. the Castle Town Mannor and Honor of Eye and a Discharge from the farther payment of twenty eight shillings and five pence Renâ— which he had usually paid for the Mannor of Costley in Com. Norff. as also of ten pound yearly Rent payable to the Queen for the same Mannor Likewise of ten pound per annum more due out of the same Mannor to the Abbot of Bona Requie in France and of twenty pound yearly due to the King out of the Issues of the County of Suffolk by which Patent he had also a Grant of twenty pound per annum to be paid unto him as Earl of Suffolk out of the Issues of the same County In this year he caused a great number of Souldiers from all parts of the Realm to come up near London to the end they might be ready to resist the French in case they should attempt an Invasion But the Parliament then sitting he was much complained of by the Commons for divers Misdemeanors and Frauds and in particular for purchasing Lands whilst he was Chancellor in deception of the King and being found guilty therein was adjudged worthy of death and that all his Estate should be forfeited Whereupon Sentence was given that all his Lands so puâ—â—hased should be seised into the Kings hands Nevertheless upon dissolving of that Parliament divers wealthy Men obliging themselves for him in great sums of Money the King received him into his protection but to quit his Office of Chancellor It is said that the King by the consent of Parliament having promised Ayde to the Inhabitants of Gant in Flanders then besieged by the French and to send them Men at Arms and Archers to the charge of six thousand Marks they were defrauded thereof by this Michael Also that Baldwin de Radinton having taken two Ships from the French for a great summe of Money he gave a Warrant under the great Seal to let them go Likewise that being accused and convicted of divers transgressions frauds and abuses to the great damage of the King and his people he was sent Prisonor to Windsore-Castle and that his Lands and Possessions then valued at a thousand pounds per annum were by judgment of Parliament confiscated to the King besides that he was condemned in the summe of twelve thousand pounds more for satisfaction of the Commons Whereupon and fearing danger from the Duke of Gloucester and other of the great Lords then powerful he attended the King into Wales at such time as he accompanied the Duke of Ireland towards the Sea Coast. But soon after this the King discerning the potency of those Lords in order to the regaining of his own power endeavored to raise what Forces he could Whereof the Duke of Gloucester having notice to quality his wrath made Oath that he never had thought of evil towards him but had used all the means he could to promote his Honor and Profit in every thing yet ingeniously confessed that he loved not the Duke of Ireland and that he neither looked nor could look with a cheerful countenance upon him in regard he had abused his and the Kings Kinswoman by repudiating her and that he resolved to be revenged on him Of all which the Bishop of London making relation to the King and expressing what credit he gave to that which the Duke of Gloucester had sworn this Michael being present and fearing that in case the King and the Duke of Glocester should well accord it might tend much to his detriment he thereupon spoke certain words against the Duke with purpose to irritate the King against him Which occasion'd the Bishop of London to say Hold thy peace Michael it doth not become thee to speak thus Whereunto replying Why say'st thou so The Bishop return'd Because thou wast condemn'd in the last Parliament and 't is meerly through the King's grace and favour that thou livest But the King being not well pleased with the Bishop for saying thus bad him be gone to his Church Discontents therefore daily increasing the Great Lords put themselves in Armes and met at Haringey-Parke near High-gate Whence coming to Westminster-Hall they laid Treason to the charge of this Michael and many others Hereupon seeing himself in such danger he fled privily to â—alais and being got thither Shaved his Beard and changed his Habit carrying meat upon his shoulders as if it had been to sell until he came to the Gates of the Castle the Captain thereof being at that time Edmund de la Pole his Brother to whom he was hardly known by reason of that disguise But at length discerning the cause of his coming in such a sort with desire to be there concealed he said Brother you must know that I dare not be false to the King of England for the sake of any Kindred whatsoever nor admit you in without the privity of William de Beauchamp Governor of this Town And accordingly sent to acquaint him therewith desiring his leave to shelter him for a time Which he thereupon obtaining had liberty to go at large wheresoever he pleased Others say that he did not only shave his Beard but his Head and feigning himself to be a Flemish Poulterer carried Capons in a Panyer to the Gates of the Castle to sell to the end he might by this Disguise come to this Brother then Captain of that Castle without suspicion but that being discovered he was taken and brought before William de Beauchamp then Governor of the Town and that he carried him to London to the King Also that the King being highly displeased with Beauchamp for so doing discharged him of his Governorship of Caâ—ais and gave leave to this Michael to go to Hull Moreover that after this being summon'd to the Parliament and appearing not to make answer to such Articles as were then exhibited against him he was Cut-lawed Which of these Relations is truest I cannot say but that he fled out of England is out of doubt and never return'd For certain it is that he died at Paris upon the fifth of September 12 Rich. 2. And that at the time of his forfeiture
Iames now Earl of Northampton first married the Lady Isabella one of the two daughters and coheirs to Richard late Earl of Dorset by the Lady Anne his wife sole daughter and heir to George Earl of Cumberland by whom he had issue two sons William and Iames who both died in their childhood and three daughters Anne and Isabella who also died young and Alathea yet living To his second wife he married Mary daughter to Baptist Vicount Campden and by her hath issue two sons George and Spenser and two daughters Inliâ—nâ— and Mary Lord Norris 14 Eliz. THough none of this Family did arrive to the dignity of Peerage until Q. Elizabeths Reign yet was it of great note and honour'd with divers Matches from sundry Noble Houses many ages past For it appears that they were of Speke in Com. Lanc. long before King Edward the Third's time and most of them Knights And that in 35 E. 3. Iohn a second son to Sir Henry Norris of Sâ—eke lived at Bray in Com. Berks. as did also his son and grandson Likewise that in the time of King Henry the Sixth Iohn his great grandson was first Usner of the Chamber next Squyer of the Body and afterwards Master of the Wardrobe to that King Lastly Sheriff of the Counties of Oxon. and Berks. in 36 of his Reign As also Squyer of the Body to King Edward the Fourth And residing at Yatenden in Com. Berks. departed this life 1 Sept. 6 E 4. whereupon he was buried at Bray in an Isle of that Church built at his own cost To whom succeeded Sir William Norris of Yatenden Knight his son and heir one of the Knights for the Body to King Edward the Fourth And in 2 H. 7. a Commander in the King's Army at the Battel of Stoke juxta Newark against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents This Sir William was a person learned in the Laws as it seems for in that second year of H. 7. he had an Annuity of Twenty Marks out of the Mannor of Swarford in Com. Oxon granted to him by Iohn Duke of Suffolk pro bono consilio impenso impendendo And in 19 H. 7. 5 Maii for the like consideration of his Counsel obtain'd a grant from that King of the custody of the Mannor of Langley which Mannor was then in the Crown by reason of the minority of Edward son and heir to Isabel late wife of George Duke of Clarence as also of the Stewardship of the Mannors of Boreford Shipton Spillesbirie and Hundred of Cadlyngton all in Com. Oxon. which Mannors were then also in the Crown by reason of the minoritie of the said Edward He first Married Isabel the daughter and heir of Edmund Ingaldesthorp widow of Iohn Nevill Marquess Mountagu and by her had issue three sons William Leonel and Richard all which died young and three daughters ... married to Sir Iohn Langford of Bradfeild Knight Ioane to Iohn Cheney of Wodhey in Com. Berk Esquire and Elizabeth to William Farmer of Somerton in Com. Oxon. Esq. He afterwards married Iane daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford and by her had issue Sir Edward Norris Knight who married Fridiswide the daughter and coheir of Francis Vicount Lovel and by her had issue z two sons Iohn and Henry Which Iohn was Squyer of the Body to King Henry the Eighth and having married Elizabeth the sister of Edmund Lord Bray died without any legitimate issue 21 Oct. 6 Eliz. â—o that Henry became heir to the Estate Which Henry upon the surrendring of Sir William Compton Knight was made Usher of the Black Rod 23 Oct. 18 H. 8. to bear the same before the King or his Lieutenant at St. Georges Feast in the Castle of Windsore He was also Squyer of the Body to that King and in 20 H. 8. one of the Gentlemen of his Privy-Chamber Likewise in 27 H. 8. 29 Nov. made Constable of Walingford Castle But upon the first of May following there being a solemn Just held at Grenewich wherein George Bullen Vicount Rochford was chief challenger and this Henry principal defendent the King suddenly departed thence no cause for it being at all known which much discomposed the whole Company especially the Queen Some say that she let fall her Handkerchief wherewith one supposed her Favourite did wipe his face and that it was perceived by the King But whatever it was the next morning this Henry with the Lord Rochford were committed to the Tower So likewise the Queen Who when she came thither fell upon her knees beseeching God so to help her as she was not guilty of what she was accused Others were also committed at that time upon the same account It is reported that she seem'd to exclaim against this Henry as if he had accused her yet said they should both die together But so they did not nor on the same day she being Tryed before the Duke of Norfolk High Steward for that occasion and found guilty by her Peers He also with the rest soon after and beheaded on the Fourteenth of that Moneth It is likewise reported that the King greatly favoured this Henry and that he much grieved that he was to die with the rest Also that thereupon he offer'd pardon to him conditionally that he would confess that whereof he stood accused but he answered resolutely That in his conscience he thought the Queen guiltless of the objected crime but whether she were or not he could not accuse her of any thing and that he had rather undergo a thousand deaths than betray the Iâ—nocent upon relation whereof to the King he cryed out Hang him up then Hang him up then Hereupon he was Attainted in Parliament â— Iunii the same year viz. 28 H. 8. leaving issue by Mary his wife daughter to Thomas Lord Daâ—res of the South Henry his son and heir and Mary a daughter first married to Sir George Carew Knight and afterwards to Sir Arthur Champernon Knight Which Henry liv'd at Wytham in Com. Berks. being Thirty years of age in 7 Eliz. In An. 1566. 8 Eliz. he was Knighted at his own House at Rycot And in 14 Eliz. sent Embassador into France Where he managed his business with such prudence and honor as that by reason thereof and his fathers sufferings for her Mother's sake he was advanced to the dignity of a Peer of this Realme by Summons to Parliament and took his place in the House of Lords upon the Eighth of May the same year By his Testament bearing date 24 Sept. An. 1589. 31 Eliz. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Chapel of Rycot and by Margerie his wife the younger of the two daughters and coheirs to Iohn Lord Williams of â—ame with whom he had that Lordship
said Philippa two Sons viz. Roger his Son and Heir and Sir Edmund Mortimer Knight taken Prisoner in a Skirmish by Owen Glendowâ— upon the Mountain called Brynglase near Knighton in Melenyth upon the Feast day of S. Alban the Martyr 4 H. 4. He had also issue by her two Daughters viz. Elizabeth the Wife of Henry Percy Son and Heir to the Earl of Northumberland and Philippa first married to ... de Hastings Earl of Pembroke secondly to Richard Earl of Arundell and lastly to Iohn Lord St. Iohn Which Roger was born at Usk 3 Id. Apr. being the Feast day of S. Guthlake the Confessor anno 1384. 48 Edw. 3. and was there baptized upon the Sunday following by William Bishop of Hereford having to his Godfathers Roger Bishop of Landaff and Thomas Horton Abbot of Gloucester and the Prioress of Uske to his Godmother At his Fathers death being but eleven years of age his Wardship was sold by the King unto Richard Earl of Arundel with purpose that he should marry his Daughter And when he came of age by the care of those who had the government of his estate found all his Castles and Houses well in repair and amply stored with rich furniture So likewise his demesnes fully stocked and stored with Cattle and in his Treasury no less than forty thousand marks But afterwards King Richard the second at the instance of his Mother the Princess of Wales gave his Wardship from the Earl of Arundell unto Thomas Holland Earl of Kent to the intent that he should marry Alianore the Daughter of the said Thomas neice unto the K. which he accordingly did This Roger being a hopeful youth and every way accomplished was shortly after his Fathers death viz. 14 Ian. 5 R. 2. made Lieutenant of Ireland and in the Parliament held 9 R. 2. by reason of his descent from Leonell Duke of Clarence was declared heir apparent to the Crown of this Realm In 17 R. 2. doing his Homage had livery of all his Lands and was then reteined to serve the King during his life and the same year with the Duke of Gloucester and Earls of Northampton and Rotland followed the King into Ireland having then of his retinue an hundred men at Armes whereof two were Banarets eight Knights two hundred Archers on Horseback and four hundred Archers on Foot In 19 R. 2. he had a special Commission of Lieutenancy for the Provinces of Ulster Connaght and Methe in Ireland and went thither accordingly And the next year following was again constituted Lord Lieutenant of that whole Realm So likewise in 21 R. 2. and went again thither But the year next following too much relying on his own valour he adventured himself before his Army in an Irish habit and was unhappily Slain at Kenles upon the Feast day S. Margaret the Virgin Whence being brought to Wigmore he was there buried with his ancestors leaving issue two Sons viz. Edmund his Son and Heir then six years of age and Roger born at Nethewode 9 Kal. Apr. 16 R. 2. who died without issue and was buried in the Priory at Stoke As also two Daughters viz. Anne and Alianore Alianore his Wife also surviving him who afterwards became the Wife of the Lord Powys and in 5 Hen. 4. representing to the King the charge she was at in maintenance of her two Daughters and likewise the devastation of all her Dowry in Wales as also the spoyl done upon her then Husbands Lands by the Welch obtained a grant of all Annuities Forfeitures and Reversions of Annuities which the before-specified Earl her husband had assigned to several persons to the value of an hundred and five pounds per annum Which Alianore departed this Life 23 Dec. 7 Hen. 4. whereupon the Castle of Bruggewalter the Mannors of Hargrove and Otcombe Newton-Placy the Hundred of Mulverton and custody of the Forest of Mendepe which she held in Dower divolved to Edmund Mortimer Son and Heir of the said Elianore After which the King taking care of the before specified Anne and Alianore her Daughters granted them an Annuity of an hundred pounds per annum out of her Lands Which Anne was born on the Feast day of S. Iohn the Evangelist 12 R. 2. and afterwards became the Wife of Richard de Conningsburgh Earl of Cambridge brother of Edward Duke of Yorke And Alianore was married to Edward Courtney Son to Edward Earl of Devon but died without issue I now come to Edmund the last Earl of March of this family Son and Heir to the last mentioned Roger Earl of March. This Edmund was born at the New-Forest 8 Id. Novemb. being the day of S. Leonard the Abbot 15 R. 2. so that he was but six years of age at his Fathers death and by King Henry the fourth delivered in ward to Henry Prince of Wales his Son Out of whose custody he was shortly after stolen away by the Lady Despencer but being found out again in Chiltham Woods they kept him afterwards under stricter guard for he was the rightfull heir to the Crown of England by just descent from Leonel Duke of Clarence third Son to King Edward the third Upon the death of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent in 10 Henr. 4. he was by inquisitions then taken found to be one of his Coheirs viz. Son of Alianore one of the Daughters of Thomas late Earl of Kent and Sister to the said Edmund And in 2 Hen. 4. was also found to be Cosin and next Heir to Philippa Wife of Iohn the Son of Iohn de Hastings late Earl of Pembroke which Philippa was Sister to Roger Earl of March Father of him the said Edmund Upon the Rebellion of Owen Glendowr in 3 Henr. 4. being then but ten years of age he headed the Herefordshire-men in opposition to him but those being routed by Owen he became his Prisoner Soon after which by allurement or terror he contracted marriage with the Daughter of Owen and being thus in the hands of that great Rebell was with him in the Battle of Shrewsbury where the King obtained a happy Victory though Owen escaped yet was this Earl then released as I ghuess for in 6 Hen. 4. it is evident that he and his Brother Roger had a Grant from the King bearing date 14 Martii of certain Annuities for their better support viz. of an hundred marks per annum out of the Revenues of the Mannors of Crenbourne and Mersh wodevale in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset during their minorities and two hundred pounds per annum more out of the Revenues of the Lordship of Clare But after this viz. upon S. Valentines day in 7 Hen. 4. by the means of a
with Margaret his Wife Whereupon this his whole inheritance descended to Humphrey his next Brother then twenty four years of age Which Humphrey in 11 Edwar. 3. had an assignation l of an hundred and forty six pounds fourteen shillings and eight pence for Wages of thirty Men at Armes which were of his retinue in the Garison of Perth in Scotland from the fourteenth of November in the tenth year of that Kings Reigne untill the twentieth of April next following And in 14 Ed. 3. was in that great Naval fight against the French near Sluyce In 15 Edw. 3. he was one of those eminent Lords who were at that great Feast and Justs which the King held at London for love of the Countess of Salisbury And in 16 Edw. 3. amongst others received command from the King to provide forty Men at Arms and sixty Archers for his service in that expedition then made into Britanny appointing him to be at London on the Octaves of S. Hillary there to treat and conclude with his Council touching the Wages for those his Soldiers in that Service In 20 Edw. 3. he attended the King into France for relieving Aguâ—â—â—on then befieged by the French And in 21 Edw. 3. obtained License to fortifie and embattail these his Mannor Houses viz. Writtele Brymshoo Apechilde Deepden and Walden in Essex Enfield in Middesex Wocksey Uphaven and Send in Wiltshire and Whitenhurst in Glocestershire In 26 Edw. 3. the King apprehending some danger of an invasion by the French commanded him forthwith to repair to some one of his Lodships in Essex there to give his best assistance for prevention thereof And upon the Arraying of Soldiers the same year for his service charged him with sixty Men for his Honor of Brecknoc in Wales In 33 Edw. 3. he again attended the King into France But after that time I have not found any thing memorable of him than that he died unmarried 15 Octob. An. 1361. 35 Edw. 3. and was buried in the Church of the Friers-Augustines in the City of London which he re-edified in An. 1354. Whereupon all his Lands and Honors descended to Humphrey de Bohun his Nephew Son of William de Bohun Earl of Northampton his Brother Which Humphrey was thenceforth Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and likewise Constable of England But before I proceed to speak of him I must take leave to say something of William his Father ¶ This William before he arrived to the Title of Earl was one of those great Lords that prosecuted Roger de Mortimer who afterwards suffered death as I shall shew in due place And in the Parliament held at London 11 Edw. 3. amongst other eminent persons who were raised to the like Dignity upon the advancing of Edward the Black Prince to the Dukedom of Cornwal was created Earl of Northampton March 17. Shortly after which he had a Grant of the Castle Mannor and Town of Stanford with the Lordship of Grantham in Lincolnshire which Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey held for life Likewise of the Castle and Mannor of Fodringhey in Northamptonshire which Mary Countess of S. Paul then also held for life and the Castle and Mannor of Okeham in Rutland with the Sheriffalty of the County of Rutland to hold to Himself and the Heirs-males of his Body under certain conditions in the said Grant expressed The extent of all which may be seen in the Record In that year also he was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Lincoln the Earl of Suffolk and others to treat with Philip King of France touching the Right of King Edward to that Realm with power to make Declaration of the same And at that time was likewise constituted one of the Kings Commissioners to treat of Peace with David de Bruys King of Scotland In 12 Edw. 3. having married Elizabeth the third of the Sisters and Coheirs of Sir Giles de Badlesmere an eminent Baron then Twenty eight years of age he had an Assignation of her Purparty of those Lands which by Inheritance descended to her upon the death of her said Brother viz. The Mannor of â—onge in Kent as also divers Lands in Snodhurst and Greenwich in that County the Mannors of Lachlegh in Essex of Hameldon in Rutland and of Ideshale in Shropshire In which year he went with Henry Earl of Lancaster and others into Flanders the King also being at that time there with a great Army in order to his claim of the Crown of France And was one of the Marshals in the third Battalia of King Edwards Army drawn up at Utronfosse against the French Moreover in 14 Edw. 3. he was in that famous Naval fight before Siuyse in Flanders betwixt the King of England and the French And the same year obtained a Grant of the Mannors of â—â—â—wood and Reylegh with the Honor of Reylegh and Hundred of 〈◊〉 in Essex to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body And being before the end of that year again beyond Sea had an Assignation of Four thousand five hundred forty six pounds seventeen shillings six pence half penny farthing part of a larger sum due to him for his service in the Wars of France Likewise in regard of more Money still owing to him by the King for those his services for want whereof he could not pay those debts to his Creditors which he had contracted by reason of the Wars he obtained License the next year following to transport eighty Sacks of his own Wooll into Flanders And the same year had a farther Assignation of such Lands as were of the Inheritance of Elizabeth his Wife viz. The Mannors of Erithe Langport and Rumney in Kent Drayton in Sussex two parts of the Mannor of Finmere in Oxfordshire a House near Algatâ— in the City of London and the fourth part of the Mannor of Tharsted in Esseâ— In this year also he was one of the great Lords present at that famous Feast and Justing which King Edward then made for love of the Countess of Salisbury as it was reported so likewise in the Scotch expedition then made And had a Grant of the Castle and Mannor of Okeham in Rutland to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body lawfully begotten wherein he had only but term of life before In 16 Edw. 3. he was made the Kings Lieutenant and Captain General in Britanny with power to receive fealty and homage from the people there on the behalf of King Edward as King of France Where he obtained a great victory near Morlays and after won the Town of Roch-Dirien by assault In this year he had another License to transport two hundred Sacks of Wooll thither each Sack containing twenty six Stone and each Stone fourteen pound And was at the making of that
28 Iulii Anno 1562. 4 Eliz. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of â—arles-Colne departing this life the same year To whom succeeded Edward his Son and Heir who in 29 Eliz. was one of the Peers by special Commission appointed to try Mary Queen of Scots then Prisoner in England for her life And in Anno 1588. 31 Eliz. one of the chief persons in the Queens Fleet imployed against the great Navy of Spaniards then threatning an Invasion which thereupon was dissipated and destroyed by the English Forces Which Earl Edward had two Wives viz. Anne Daughter to William Cecil Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer of England on whom he begat three Daughters viz. Elizabeth married to William Earl of Derby Bridget to Francis Lord Norris of Ricot afterwards created Earl of Berkshire and Susan to Philip Herbert Earl of Montgomery And to his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Trentham of Rouceter in Com. Staff Esq one of the Maids of Honor to Q. Eliz. by whom he had issue one Son called Henâ—y This Edward being an intire friend to Thomas Duke of Norfolk when he discerned his Life in danger upon what was laid to his charge touching the Q. of Scots whereof our Historians of that time do give some account earnestly interceded with the Lord Treasurer Burghley his Wives Father and one of the chiefest States-men of that time for the preserving him from destruction but prevailing not grew so highly incensed against Burghley knowing it was in his power to save him that in great indignation he said he would do all he could to ruin his Daughter and accordingly not only forsook her Bed but sold and consumed that great Inheritance descended to him from his Ancestors leaving very little for Henry his Son and Successor And died 24 Iunii An. 1604. 2 Iac. Which Henry married Diana the second Daughter to William Cecill Earl of Exeter and died at the Seige of Breda in the Netherlands in ann 1625. without issue Whereupon Robert Vere Son and Heir of Hugh Son and Heir of Aubery by Margaret the Daughter of Iohn Spring of Lanham in Com. Suff. who was the second Son to Iohn the fifth of that name Earl of Oxfoâ—d after the death of this E. Henry was in the Parliament held at Westminster Ann. 2 Car. 1. restored to this title of Earl of Oxford Much dispute there was in that Parliament between this Robert and Robert then Lord Willoughby of Eresby touching this title of Earl as also touching the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sanford and Badlesmere and Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England this Robert making claim to them all as Heir male of the Family and Robert Lord Willoughby as Son and Heir to Mary the sole Heir female But at length after Councel on each part divers times heard and the Authority of Records and antient Evidences produced first the Title of Earl was Clearly adjudged to this Robert de Vere and the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sanford and Badlesmere descending to the Heirs female to be in the Kings disposal by reason that Iohn the fourth E. of Oxfoâ—d having three Sisters his Heirs the Honor could not be divided But as to the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain it was referred to the Judges then attending in Parliament to consider thereof and make report upon these two points first whether that Robert E. of Oxford who made the entail thereof temp R. 2. upon the Heir male were at that time seised of it or not Secondly admitting that he was then whether such an Office might be conveyed by way of limiting of uses Upon which Reference there being only five Judges then attending in Parliament and the rest in their Circuits 3 of them viz. Justice Doderidge Yelverton and Baron Trevor declared their opinions for the Heir General and gave their Reasons for the same but the other two viz. the Lord cheif Justice Crew and Sir John Walter Lord Cheif Baron for the Heir male The major part therefore thus declaring the Lords voted accordingly whereupon Robert Lord Willoughby was admitted into the House 13 Apr. 2 Car. 1. with his Staff of that Office and took his place above all the Barons according to the Act of Parliament of 31 Hen. S. cap. 10. And Robert de Vere having received his Writ of Summons dated 14 April the same year came into the Parliament the day next following and had his place next to the Earl of Arundell This Robert took to Wife Beatrix van Hemmema of Freezland and was slain at the Seige of Maestricht ann ... By which Hemmema he had issue three Sons viz. Aubrey who succeeded him in his Honors as also Horace and Francis who died young And likewise three Daughters Mary Magdalen and Susan who all died young This last mentioned Aubrey took to Wife Anne one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Paul Viscount Banning which Anne died without issue And shortly after the Restauration of our present Sovereign King Charles the second being elected one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter was made Lord Lieutenant of the County of Essex and one of his Majesties most honorable Privy-Councel After which he married Diana Daughter to George Kirke one of the Grooms of the Bed-Chamber to King Charles the first of blessed memory Mandevill UPon the first arrival here of Duke William the Norman amongst other his Companions in that signal Expedition there was a famous Souldier called Geffrey de Magnavil assuming that surname from the Town of Magnavill which he then possessed This Geffrey fighting courageously in that Battle against King Harold where Duke William was victorious hewed down his Adversaries on every side for which great service he was aptly rewarded with divers fair Lordships by the Conquerors Gift as may appear from what he enjoyed at the time of the general Survey viz. in Berkshire four in Suffolk twenty six in Middlesex seven in Surrey one in Oxfordshire three in Cambridgshire nine in Hertfordshire nineteen in Northamptonshirâ— seven in Warwickshire two and in Essex forty whereof Waldene was one which afterwards became the cheif seat of his Descendants This Geffrey was by King William made Constable of the Tower of London which trust he held during all his time And for the Souls health of Athelaise his first Wife by whom he had his Children and good estate of himself and Leceline his second Wife with the consent of that King founded a Monastery for Benedictine Monks at Hurley in Berkshire whereunto he gave the whole Lordship of Hurley and the Woods adjoyning thereto as also the Church of Waltham and divers other Lands Osmund then Bishop of Salisbury dedicating the same Which House became a Cell to that great Abby of S. Peter at Westminster To this Geffrey succeeded
Sons and for the health of his Soul Which Testament was proved the second of Iune next ensuing and departed this life May 18. the same year leaving Elizbath the Wife of Sir Edward Gray Knight his Cosin and next Heir viz. Daughter of Henry Son to the said William then twenty six years of age Thomas Ferrers Esquire his second Son the same year doing his homage and having Livery of all those Lands which were entailed on the Heir-Male Which Thomas taking to Wife Elizabeth the eldest of the three Sisters and Coheirs to Sir Baldwin Frevil of Tamworth Castle in Com. War Knight had in her Right the Castle of Tamworth and other Lands From whom the Family of Ferrers now of Tamworth Castle is lineally descended The first that bore this title was Sir Robert Ferrers Knight a younger Son to Robert Lord Ferrers of Charâ—ley This Robert in 47 Edw. 3. was in that expedition then made into Flanders in the Retinue of Iohn Duke of Lancaster and in 49 Edw. 3. doing his homage had Livery of all those Lands which by the death of Ioane his Mother whose Heir he was descended to him at that time Moreover having taken to Wife Elizabeth the sole Daughter and Heir to William Boteler of Wemme in Com. Salop he had Summons to Parliament in 49 Edw. 3. and afterwards by the title of Robert Ferrers de Wemme Chivalier Which Lordship of Wemme together with that of Overâ—ley in Com. War with other of her Inheritance were after that marriage viz. in 44 Edw. 3. entailed upon the Heirs of the Body of them the said Robert and Elizabeth with Remainder to her right Heirs But in 4 Rich. 2. this Robert died leaving issue by the said Elizabeth Robert his Son and Heir four years of age Which Robert married Ioane Daughter to Iohn of Gaâ—nt Duke of Lancaster and by her having issue two Daughters and Heirs viz. Elizabeth the Wife of Iohn the Son of Ralph Lord Greystoke and Mary of Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmorland died in his Mothers life time So that she the said Elizabeth his Mother surviving the before specified Robert her first Husband became afterwards the Wife of Sir Thomas Molington Knight and by her Testament bearing date the sixth of Ianuary An. 1410. 12 Hen. 4. wherein she stiles her self Elizabeth Ferrers Baroness of Wemme retaining the name of that Husband who was of greatest Dignity a custom which Women have long used and not yet left off bequeathed her Body to Sepulture in the Church of the Crouched Friers near the Tower of Londâ—n and gave to the building of a Cloyster there six pound sterling Appointing that all her Silver Vessels except what she had particularly disposed of should be employed where it might best be for the health of her Soul and the Soul of Robert Ferrers her first Husband and of Sir Thomas Molington her second Husband After which scil on Friday next ensuing the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist 12 Hen. 4. she departed this life leaving the before specified Elizabeth and Mary viz. Daughters of Robert her Son her Cosins and next Heirs Elizabeth being eighteen and Mary seventeen years of age Percy THis antient and right Noble Family do derive their descent from Mainfred de Perci Which Mainfred came out of Denmark into Normandy before the adventure of the famous Rollo thither and had issue Geffrey who accompanied Rollo into those parts From which Geffrey sprung successively these four Generations viz. William Geffrey William and Geffrey all born in Normandy and from the last Geffrey two sons William and Serlo who came into England with William the Conqueror Which William de Percy being much beloved by that King and one of his Baâ—ons enjoyed through his bounty vast Possessions in this Realm For it appears by the General Survey that he then had Ambledune in Hantshire as also thirty two Lordships in Lincolnshire and in Yorkshire eighty six whereof Topclive in the North Riding was one and Spofford in the West Riding another which became their cheif Seats in those parts for divers ages afterwards Moreover this William de Percy sirnamed Gernon or Algernon obtained from Hugh Earl of Chester the first of that name the Lordship of Whitby with that large Territory adjacent belonging thereto and lying in the East Riding of that County where he Founded an Abby for Benedictine Monks to the honor of God S. Peter and S. Hilda in the time of King William Rufus in the place where the Monastery of Strenshaie antiently stood which had been destroyed by Inguar and Hubba the Danes which Abby he endowed with ample Possessions lying in that part of the Countrey But after he had thus Founded that Abby of Whitby and amongst other Lands had given thereto the Towns of Seaxby and Everley he reassumed them again and bestowed them on Ralph de Everley his Esquire who was his Servant many years Whereupon Serlo his Brother then then Abbot made his complaint of that injury of King William Rufus with whom he had been very familiar in the days of King William his Father who thereupon caused restitution to be made But Serlo notwithstanding being little pleased with his Brothers humor had no mind to continue at Whitby and therefore affecting to reside within the Kings immediate Fee out of his Brothers power begged of the King six Carucates of Land viz. Two in Hakenas and four in Northfield and translated part of the Covent at Whithy thither This William de Percy took to Wife Emma de Port by whom he had issue three Sons viz. Alan Walter and William and taking a journey to Ierusalem departed this life at Montâ—oy in the Holy Land whereupon his Corps being brought into England had Sepulture in the Chapter-house at Whitby Which Emma surviving him gave to those Monks an house situate in the Street called Usegate at York as also two Carucates of Land one in Mysâ—eham and the other in Smeâ—leswell likewise two more in Hylaham and was buried in the Chapter-house at Whitby near to the Grave of her Husband I now come to Alan de Percy eldest Son and Successor to the last mentioned William This Alan was one of the Witnesses to the Charter of King Henry the First whereby he confirmed the Foundation of Bardney Abby in Com. Linc. by Walter de Gant Moreover having ratified all those Donations made by William his Father to the Monks of Whitby he added thereto of his own gift two Carucates of Land in Hylaham as also two in Hedon and Oxneham And leaving issue by Emma de Gant his Wife five Sons viz. William Geffrey Henry Walter and Alan was buried
Grant from the King of all those Fees in Northumberland which did belong to Patrick de Dunbar Earl of March then in Rebellion against King Edward And in 13 Ed. 2. by reason of the spoil done to his Lands in the North upon several incursions of the Scots whereof Eleanor his Mother had the custody during his minority and which she could not well defend he obtained a Surrender thereof from her to the King and thereupon a Grant of them to himself paying Four hundred marks per annum to the Exchequer But in 15 Edw. 2. he procured an absolute Livery of them though he had not then made proof of his age And the same year was constituted Governor of the Castle of Pickering in Yorkshire by the forfeiture of Thomas Earl of Lancaster then in the Crown as also of Scarborough Town and Castle Not long after this viz. in 18 Edw. 2. he obtained the Kings Charter for two more Fairs yearly at Pokelington in Com. Ebor. And in 19 Edw. 2. upon the landing of Queen Isabel and Prince Edward in England being one of the Nobles that joyned with them for reforming those abuses in the Government occasioned through the power of the Spensers by the access of those Forces he brought to Glocester where she then was much increased her Army Being therefore thus instrumental in this great change in 1 Edw. 3. he obtained the custody of the Castle of Skipton in Craven as also a Charter for a Market and Fair at his Mannor of Topclive in Com. Ebor. And was one of the twelve Lords by whom it was decreed that young King Edward should be guided Moreover in the first year of Edward the Third he was the principal person in Commission for the Treaty of Peace betwixt the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and constituted Warden of the Marches But upon conclusion of the Peace betwixt the English and Scots in the Parliament at York he could not assent that the English should quit those Lands as they had in Scotland by Inheritance In 2 Edw. 3. upon the death of Eleanor his Mother he was made Constable of Scarborough Castle the custody whereof was committed to her charge in 19 Edw. 2. and in 1 Edw. 3. In 2 Edw. 3. this Henry being retained by Indenture to serve the King with a certain number of Men at Arms as well in times of Peace as War during the term of his life and to receive Five hundred marks per annum sallary did in consideration of that Annuity obtain a Grant of the Inheritance of the Castle of Werkworth in Com. Northumbr which after the death of Sir Iohn de Clavering without Issue-male of his Body was to divolve to the King and his Heirs with condition That when the Possession of the said Castle should so come to his hands then the payment of those Five hundred marks to cease And was a person of such note that Sir Ralph Nevill the same year did by Indenture bearing date at Clifton near York upon the fifth of August Covenant to serve him both in Peace and War as long as they both should live with twenty Men at Arms whereof five to be Knights upon such wages and other terms as in my discourse of that Family is more fully expressed In 3 Edw. 3. he Founded a Chantry for two Priests in the Chappel at Semar to celebrate Divine Service for his own soul as also for the soul of his Mother and all their Ancestors endowing it with one Messuage twenty Ox-gangs of Land and six Acres of Meadow in Wike within the Lordship of Semar And in 5 Edw. 2. the King taking notice in what sort he had retained him as well in time of Peace as War as above is expressed and that by Act of Parliament after that Agreement so made all Retainers in time of Peace were to be void did Grant That the Castle and Mannor of Werkworth and Mannor of Roubâ—â—y which after the death of Sir Iohn de Clavering without Issue-male were to divolve to the Crown As also the Mannors of Corbrigge and 〈◊〉 and all other the Lands of the said Iohn de Clavering so Intailed as abovesaid should after his death without Issue-male come to this Henry and his Heirs excepting only the Dowry of Hawise then the Wife of him the said Iohn de Clavering In 6 Edw. 3. he was again constituted Warden of the Marches of Scotâ—â—â—â— and in 7 Edw. 3. being then Governor of the Castle of Barwick was one of the Commissioners sent to the Parliament of Scotland to approve and ratifie those Agreements as had been made betwixt King Edward and Edward de Baillol King of Scotland In this year also he had a Grant from Edward de Baillol King of Scotland of the Inheritance of the Pele of Loughmaban as also of Anandale and Moâ—â—etdale with all the Knights Fees and Advowsons of Churches within those Valleys in as full and ample manner as Thomas Randulph sometime Earl of Murrey ever had them and moreover of divers Lands in that Realm which belonged to other men All which Castle Lands c. then valued at a thousand mark per annum he did the year following surrender to King Edward the Third and his Heirs in exchange for the Castle and Constablery of Ieddeworth and Towns of Ieddeworth Bendâ—eddeworth Hassinden and the Forest of Ieddeworth together with five hundred marks per annum to be received out of the Customs of Barwick as also the custody of the Castle at Barwick with the Fee of one hundred marks for that service in time of Peace and two hundred pound per annum in time of War And the same year was joyned in Commission with Ralph de Nevill in the guarding of the Marches throughout the Counties of Northumberland Cumberland and Westmorland In this year likewise he Intailed a multitude of his Lordships and Lands upon the Heirs-male of his Body as by a special Feoâ—â—ment bearing date 24 Sept. appeareth viz. The Castles of Alnwike and Werkworth the Mannors of Alnwike â—ughal Swinhow â—eâ—wike and Alnham in Comit. Northumbr Spoford Topcliff Semer Naffertan Lekingfield Catton and Câ—etop with the Hamlets of Letheley Arlethorp Gristiwoit Aystiby Wanesford and Aâ—gham in Com. Ebor. Two part of the Mannors of Warkworth Corbrigge Aklington and Roubiâ—y with the Hamlets of Snitir Bitling Thorpeton and Newton with their appurtenances in Com. Northumbr As also the Advowsons of the Churches of Spoford Lekingfield Scorburgh Arncliff Catton and Dâ—nygton in the said County of York Likewise the moity of the Village of Trastreston which Robert de Ogle then held for term of life the Borough of Alnmouth with the Mannors of Hoghton and Lescebiâ—y in Com. Northumbr Which Isabel de Vesci held for term of life as also the Mannor of
what he had heard they utterly denied themselves to be guilty of any conspiracy assuring him That they would both of them adventure their lives against all Traytors whatsoever Nevertheless contrary to these their asseverations this Earl got together all the power he could the Earl of Northumberland coming by night to him at his Castle of Branspath and there both of them suggesting to their followers First That they were thus met together for the defence of Queen Elizabeth and next That all the English Nobles were resolved to restore the Romish Religion But to others That they did thus put themselves in Arms to prevent upstarts from trampling upon the old Nobility and so appeared in open Rebellion Whereupon the Lord President raising Forces and marching towards them they fled into Scotland this Earl first lurking there with Carr of Fernihurst and thence into the Netherlands where he was received by the Spaniard and continued till his great age and death being attainted here in the Parliament of 13 Eliz. and all his Possessions confiscate He married Anne Daughter of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey Sister of Thomas Duke of Norfolk by whom he had issue these only Daughters viz. Catherine Wife of Sir Thomas Gray of Thillingham in Com. Northumbr Knight Eleanor never married Margaret Wife of Nicholas Pudsey of ... And Anne the Wife of David Engleby Brother of Sir William Engleby of Ripley in Com. Ebor. Knight Thomas Nevill Lord Furnival THis Thomas was Brother to Ralph Lord Nevill the first Earl of Weltmorland and having married Ioane the Daughter and Heir of William Lord Furnival in 7 Rich. 2. making proof of her age and doing his Fealty had Livery of the Lands whereof her Father died seised viz. The Mannor of Dagworth in the Parish of Elmdon in Essex as also of the Mannor of Crawâ—ery in Elmdon and Cristhall Cogshall in Elmdon and Arkisden with the Mannors of Lerbery and Piccots all in Com. Essex Likewise of the Mannor of Dagworth in Com. Suff. Stoke-Uerdon and Winelsford in Com. Wilts Wirkson in Com. Nottingh Eyum in Com. Derb. And of the Castle and Mannor of Sheffield In Com. Ebor. And being thereupon summoned to Parliament the same year had thenceforth the stile and title of Lord Furnival In 18 Rich. 2. he was joyned in Commission with Iohn Bishop of S. Davids and others to treat of Peace with the Scots Moreover in 19 Rich. 2. upon the death of Ioane the Widow of Thomas Lord Furnival elder Brother to William her Father he likewise had Livery in right of the before-specified Ioane his Wife of the Mannor of Alveron in Com. Staff As also of the Mannors of Treton and Hoton-Painell in Com. Ebor. which that Widow held during her life in Dower And in 1 Hen. 4. was constituted Warden of all Anandale as also Constable of the Castle of Loughmaban in the West Marches of Scotland In 2 Hen. 4. surviving her he married Ankaret the Widow of Sir Richard Talbot Knight Sister of Iohn Son to Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere Cosin and Heir of Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to the said Iohn In 5 Hen. 4. upon the Grant in Parliament of two Fifteens to the King the Commons took care that this Thomas Lord Furnival should receive all the Money and lay it out in the Kings Wars In which year he was also intrusted to receive the Castles of Barwick upon Twede Alnwick and Werkworth in Com. Northumbr From those who then had the custody of them and to be Governor of them all until farther order And by his Testament bearing date 12 Martii An. 1406. 8 Hen. 4. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of the Priory of Wirksop but without any great pomp He thereby gave to the King his best Cup of Gold with a Cover to the Fabrick of the Steeple at Wirksop forty pounds to the Lady Aliâ—e Deincourt his Sister two hundred pounds to Iohn Talbot and Maud his Wife his own Daughter his best Bed with all the Furniture thereto appointing that his Feoffees of certain Lands in Wirksop should cause his Obit to be solemnly kept every year in the Priory Church of Wirksop with Placebo and Dirige and Mass of Requiem by Note on the morrow And departed this life in 8 Hen. 4. being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Sheffield and Mannors of Treton and Whiston in Com. Ebor. As also of the Castle and Mannor of Alveton in Com. Staff Likewise of the Mannor of Farnhom in Com. Buck. Sutton Madock Corsham and Wrockwardine in Com. Salop. And in right of Ankeret his Wife of the Mannor of Eccleswell the Lordship of Godrich Castle the Hundred of Irchenfield with the Mannors of Wormlow and Penyard in Com. Heref. And divers Lordships in other Counties leaving issue by the before-specified Ioane his first Wife two only Daughters viz. Maud and Ioane his next Heirs and was buried in the Priory of Wirksop above the Quire where stood a fair Tomb erected to his memory Which Maud was married to the famous Iohn Talbot afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury whereupon the Lands of her Inheritance came to that Noble Family Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury THis Richard being the eldest Son to Ralph Nevill Earl of Westmorland by Ioane his second Wife was Warden of the West Marches toward Scotland in 1 2 Hen. 6. As also together with the Earl of Northumberland and some others appointed one of the Commissioners to treat with Iames the First then King of Scotland or his Ambassadors for a firm Peace betwixt both Kingdoms And taking to Wife Alice the sole Daughter and Heir to Thomas de Montacute Earl of Salisbury had in her right upon his death the title of Earl of Salisbury attributed to him For so not only the Inquisition then taken doth import but the Letters Patents of King Henry the Sixth bearing date 4 Maii in the twentieth year of His Reign which do manifest that by reason Alice his Wife was Daughter and Heir to the before specified Thomas de Mantacute Earl of Salisbury and that he had issue by her at the time of his death she also then living he ought to enjoy that Title for term of his life Whereupon in 7 Hen. 6. doing his homage he had Livery of her Lands she being then twenty two years of age After which viz. in 9 Hen. 6. the King considering the chargable preparation made by this Earl to attend him in his then designed expedition for 〈◊〉 and that he was obliged in a very large sum to fulfil the Testament of Thomas Earl of Salisbury deceased Father of Alice his Wife as also to give Alms for the health of his Soul and to reward his Servants And moreover considering that this Earl had then two Sons
called Mary and died in 3 Hen. 7. Which Thomas succeeding him in his Lands and Honors in 5 Hen. 7. was sent over into Flanders amongst divers other of the English Nobles in aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French He had also Summons to Parliament by the name of Thomas Arundel de Matravers Chivalier in 22 Edw. 4. And 1 Hen. 7. his Father being then alive And having married Margaret the Daughter of Richard Widvile Earl Rivers had issue by her two sons viz. William and Edward and two Daughters Margaret the Wife of Iohn de la Pole Earl of Lincoln and Ioane married to George Nevill Lord Bergavenny This Earl Thomas by his Testament bearing date 12 Octob. An. 1524. 16 Hen. 8. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of his Collegiate Church at Arundel where the Corps of his Lady lay interred constituting William Lord Matravers his Son one of his Executors and departing this life in his Park at Dauley 25 Octob. An. 1524. 16 Hen. 8. was buried in the same Collegiate Church at Arundel Which William in 2 Hen. 8. his Father living and then called Sir William Arundel Knight Lord Matravers having Wedded Anne the Sister to Henry Earl of Northumberland obtained a Grant to himself and Heirs of his Body from the King of the Mannors of Warbâ—â—ton Duriate and Dunpole in Com. Somers and Hunton in Com. Southampt To hold by the service of a Red Rose yearly And in 16 Hen. 8. upon the death of his Father had a special Livery of all his Castles Lordships and Lands In 22 Hen. 8. this Earl William was one of the Lords in Parliament who subscribed that Letter sent to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby he might easily discern that In case he did not comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce from Queen Catherine his Supremacy here would be shaken off And in 33 Hen. 8. when the King by Cromwels Policy obtruded much of the Monastery Lands upon his Nobles and others in exchange for Lands of their own he had in lieu of the Mannors of Shillingley Hâ—â—ernhoo Palingham Wollavington Alversham Codham Bignore Stopeham â— and Eartham with four Woods in Sussex the Inheritance of the site of the Priory of Micheâ—ham with all the Buildings thereto belonging as also all the Lands in Michelham Arungton Hailesham Hellingley Chedingley Pewensey Westham Willingdon Sharnford Fockington and Ievington in the same County all which were esteemed at the time of the dissolution of that Priory the Demesn Lands thereof As also the Mannors of Michelham Parkgate Sharnford and Down-Ashe Cawdeane and Holiwich in the same County and in Kent with the Water-Mill of Michelham Parkgate And moreover all the Lands called Sextery-Lands lying in the Towns of Hellingley Willingdon Ievington and Hailesham in that County of Sussex with the Advowson of the Rectory of Ripe lately pertaining to the Monastery of Lewes And likewise all those Mannors and Lordships of Swanborough and Horsted in Com. Suss. Imberhorne in the County of Sussex and Surrey and the Parks called Horsted Park in Com. Suss. belonging also to the said Monastery of Lewes This Earl William by his Testament bearing date 23 Ian. An. 1543. 35 Hen. 8. gave to direction thereby for his Burial but making the Lady Anne his Wife and Henry Lord Matravers his Son his Executors departed this life at Downley in the Parish of Singleton in Com. Suss. upon the twenty third of the same Moneth of Ianuary and was buried at Arundel By his first Wife Anne Daughter to Henry Earl of Northumberland he had issue Henry his Son and Heir and likewise two Daughters Anne and Catherine who died unmarried And by Elizabeth his second Wife Daughter to Robert Willoughby Lord Brook two Daughters Margaret and Elizabeth who died also unmarried Which Henry who succeeded him having been in 36 Hen. 8 Field-Marshal of the Kings Army at the Siege of Boâ—â—â—gne was in 38 Hen. 8. constituted one of the Assistants to that Kings Executors And in 4 Ed. 6. upon a Peace concluded by the King with the Scots and French wherein also the Emperor was comprehended was one of the Hostages for Ratification of the Articles About this time after the Duke of Somerset Uncle to the King and Protector was brought to the Block by Dudley Earl of Warwick the chief contriver in his Tragedy he endeavored to draw this Earl to his party who at that time was discountenanced and therefore by Warwick singled out as the most fit person for his purpose But after many secret Conferences which were often held betwixt them in the night seeing that he could not prevail he found means to discharge him from the Council and to confine him to his house objections being framed against him that he had taken away Bolts and Locks at Westminster and given away the Kings Stuff being Lord Chamberlain for which he was fined at twelve thousand pounds to be paid by a thousand pounds yearly and the next year following committed to the Tower upon pretence that he had been one of those who did conspire to draw in some of the Lords unto the Lord Pagets house under colour of a Banquet there to take off their heads This Earl Henry after the death of King Edward the Sixth cordially inclined to the Right of Mary the eldest Daughter of King Henry and when that Dudley then Duke of Northumberland was gone out towards Cambridge with what power could at present be had on the behalf of the Lady Iane Grey whom through his influence the Lords of the Council had proclaimed Queen upon a meeting of divers Lords at Baynards Castle in that despeâ—ate juncture of time he bitterly inveighed against him laying open his injustice and cruelty in the time of King Edward and declaimed boldly against that treacherous act of his touching the disherison of the Daughters of King Henry Which stout Speech put such a courage into the rest of the Lords then present that they forthwith resolved to maintain the Right of Mary against all opposers and accordingly proclaimed her Queen in Cheapside Moreover he was again made Constable of England for the day immediately preceding the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Likewise High Steward of England for the fifteenth of Ianuary on which day she was solemnly Crowned and soon after that one of her Privy Council But in 3 Eliz. having fed himself with some hopes of obtaining Queen Elizabeth for his Wife and failing therein after he had spent much upon these vain imaginations his Friends in Court failing him he grew troubled in mind and thereupon to wear off the grief got leave to travel In 11 Eliz. being constituted one of the Commissioners to
of Hugh le Despenser who marrying her without the King's License was Fined at two thousand Marks ¶ Of this Family was also William de Chaworth viz. Son of Robert Brother of the first Patric Which William in 2 Ioh. gave five pounds Fine to the King that he might not go beyound Sea To whom succeeded Robert his son and heir which Robert in 6 Ioh. paid a Fine of one hundred Marks and one Palfrey for his Relief and that he might have the King's Charter for those Lands he then held by military service whereof he had no Grant But died without Issue whereupon William his Brother became his heir Which William by Alice his Wife daughter of Robert and sister and coheir to Thomas de Alfreton had Issue Thomas de Chaworth whose Wardship and Marriage in 26 Hen. 3. he being then in minority Robert de Lathom and Ioane his Wife one of the coheirs to the said Thomas de Alfreton giving one hundred and fifteen Marks obtained In 31 Hen. 3. this Thomas de Chaworth arriving to his full age doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands so descended to him by the death of Thomas de Aufreton and in 25 E. 1. had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm Moreover in 29 Edw. 1. he obtained License to grant unto the Canons of Beauchief in Com. Derb. ten Tofts eleven Oxe-gangs fifty eight Acres of Land sixteen Acres of Wood and ij l. xviij s. per Annum Rent in Alfreton Norton Grenehull Bradeway and Wodesets for the maintenance of one Priest to celebrate Divine Service daily in the Abbey of Beauchief for the health of his own Soul as also for the Soul of Ioane his Wife and their Ancestors whereupon he gave unto them the whole Hamlet of Grenehull lying within the Soke of Norton with certain Rents in Aufreton and Norton But in regard that neither he nor any of his Posterity which have ever since flourished in the Counties of Notingham and Derby have after that time been farther summoned to Parliament I shall here put a period to my discourse of this antient Family Burun OF this name there were two that lived in the time of King William the Conqueror viz. Raphe who held eight Lordships in Notinghamshire and five in Derbishire whereof Horsâ—ei was one and Erâ—isius who had in Yorkshire thirty two Lordships whereof Binghelei was one whereunto belonged six Hamlets and twenty eight in Lincolnshire From which Raphe de Burun descended Hugh who gave to the Monks of Lenton in Com. Nott. all his Lands in Cottesgrave in that County which Grant King Stephen confirmed as also the Church of Osâ—ynton and moity of the Church of Cotgrave in the same County and likewise the Church of Hoyley in Com. Derb. To whom succeeded Roger de Burun who in 2 Hen. 2. paid to the King forty Marks for his Relief and in 12 Hen. 2. upon the Assessment of that Aid then levyed for marrying of the King's daughter certified his Knights Fees to be in number ten his residence being then in Notinghamshire for which in 14 Hen. 2. he paid ten Marks In 22 Hen. 2. this Roger was amerced at ten Marks for trespassing in the King's Forests and in 33 Hen. 2. paid ten pounds in regard he was not in that Expedition of Galwey Likewise in 6 Ric. 1. as much upon the Assessment of the Scutage for the King's Redemption But all that I can farther say of him is that he bestowed the Town of Osâ—ynton on the Knights Hospitallers and that his Barony was given by King Iohn to William de Briwer for the Record expresly saith that William de Briwer held ten Knights Fees in the Counties of Nott. and Derb. granted to him by King Iohn which were of the Barony of Burun Nevertheless of this antient Family there hath continued in those Counties of Nott. and Derby an eminent Branch till this day though not Barons till by a late Creation in the time of King Charles the First as in due place I shall shew Blount AT the time of the general Survey made by King William the Conqueror Robert le Blund was possessed of the Lordships of Gisworth Walsham Gascefield Wice Sapestune Hepworde Wicam Lesewrde Watefelle West-Ledestune Westorp Wiverthestune and Giselinche in Com. Suff. There was also contemporary with him William le Blund probably his Brother who then likewise held the Lordships of Croâ—sby Cateby Widcale Torgroby Salfleteby and Schitebroâ— in Com. Linc. To which Robert succeeded Gilbert le Blund his son and heir which Gilbert Founded a Religious House at that his Mannor of Gisworth vulgarly called Ixworth for Canons-regular of S. Augustine's Order and took to Wife Alice de Colkirke by whom he had Issue William his son and heir Which William by Sarah de Montchensi his Wife had Issue another Gilbert but by mistake sometimes written Hubert who in 12 Hen. 2. upon the Assessment of that Aid then levyed for marrying the King's daughter certified his Knights Fees to be in number twelve This last mentioned Gilbert having wedded Agnes de Lisle begot on her William his son and heir who being in minority at his Fathers death became Ward to the Bishop of Ely but in 32 Hen. 2. was thirty two years of age the Lands whereof he was possessed being the Lordships of Yxeworth his chief Seat Esteldei and Walcham in Com. Suff. and Edulfesberg in Com. Buck. This William by Cecelie de Vere his Wife had Issue another William and two daughters viz. Agnes and Rohese which last mentioned William in 47 Hen. 3. taking part with Montfort Earl of Leicester and other the Rebellious Barons of that time became a Party to the Reference then made by them unto Lewes King of France touching the Ordinances of Oxford but the next year following being Standard-bearer to that Earl in the Battel of Lewes was there slain leaving his two Sisters his heirs viz. Agnes the Wife of Sir William de Criketâ—t Knight and Rohese of Robert de Valoines who thereupon shared his Lands which were held by Barony The male Line of these antient Barons thus coming to an end it was long ere any younger Branch of this Family had advancement to that dignity In the interim therefore what I have seen memorable touching any of them I shall here represent in order of time In 35 Hen. 3. Iohn le Blund having married one of the sisters and coheirs to Richard de Wrotham doing his Homage had Livery of her Purparty of those Lands in Com. Somerst and Dorset as were of her Inheritance In 39 Hen. 3. Peter le Blund was made Constable of the Tower
Robert Lord Ross of Hamlake Iohn his Son and Heir twenty two years of age He likewise died seised of certain Lands in Docking in Com. Norff. whereof Iohn his Father did enfeoffe him and Isabell his first Wife Sister and Heir to William de Bois joyntly and the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten in the time of King Henry the Third By which Isabell he had Issue one only Daughter called Maude then the Wife of William la Zouche and at the time of his death thirty years of age I now come to Iohn Son and Heir to the last Iohn This Iohn was in the Scotish Wars in 7 Edw. 2. and having been summoned to Parliament in 6 7 and 8 Edw. 2. died in the same eighth year leaving Issue by Maude his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Philip Burnell Knight Ioane his Daughter and Heir then two years of age Which Maude taking to her second Husband Iohn de Handlo without License in 9 Edw. 2. paid an hundred pound Fine for that transgression In 8 Edw. 3. this last mentioned Iohn Lovell was in that Expedition then made into Scotland likewise in 10 Edw. 3. and in 18 Edw. 3. in the Wars of France Moreover in 19 20 and 21 Edw. 3. he still continued in those Wars being the Retinue with Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick but died in the same twenty first year upon Saturday next after the Feast of All-Saints being seised of two parts of the Mannor of Southere in Com. Norff. and jointly with Isabell his Wife then surviving of the Mannor of Mynster in Com. Oxon. Tichemerse in Com. Northt Spekesford in Com. Somerst and two parts of the Mannor of Chiriton in the same County leaving Iohn his Son and Heir at that time six years of age and an half Which Iohn departing this life upon Monday next after the Feast of the Translation of S. Thomas the Martyr in 35 Edw. 3. within age left his Brother called also Iohn his next Heir but of what age the Jury did not find which Iohn being of full age in 37 Edward 3. had Livery of his Lands his Homage being respited This last mentioned Iohn in 42 Edw. 3. being then a Knight was in the Wars of France and of the Retinue with Lionel Duke of Clarence So likewise in 45 Edw. 3. and in 47 Edw. 3. having married Maude the Daughter of Robert de Holand Son of Robert de Holand Knight deceased Cousin and Heir to the said Sir Robert doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance In 48 Edw. 3. this Iohn having been again in the Wars of France and of the Retinue of Edmund Mortimer Earl of Marche was the next year viz. 49 Edw. 3. summoned to Parliament And in 50 Edw. 3. constituted Governour of the Castle of Banelyngham in France also in 3 Ric. 2. imployed into Ireland upon the King 's special service But some years after this much discontent arising amongst divers of the Nobility by reason that the King was wholly swayed by Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland and some others to the great scandal of the Government the Duke of Gloucester viz. Thomas of Wodstoke and his party raising what Forces they could appeared in Arms near London at Bishops-wood Waltham Hackney and other places whence they sent this Iohn Lord Lovell with the Archbishop of York and others to the King requiring that he should deliver up those by whose evil Counsel he had been thus seduced Howbeit at length it so hapned that this Lord Lovell fell off from them to the King being one of those whom they expelled the Court whilst they were thus predominant And in 18 Ric. 2. attending him into Ireland so far insinuated himself into his esteem as that in 22 Ric. 2. he was again imployed into that Realm in his service But after this I have not seen any thing farther memorable of him than that he gave to the Canons of Marlebergh in Com. Wilts certain Lands in Monton Burbach and West-Graston and that upon the morrow next ensuing the Feast of S. Iames the Apostle Anno 1408. 9 Hen. 4. by the title of Iohn Lord Lovell and Holand he made his Testament at Wardour-Castle in Com. Wilts whereby he bequeathed his Body to Burial in the Church of the Hospital of Saint Iohn at Brackley in Com. North ton and gave thereunto a Vestment of Black adorned with Stars of Gold as also certain Copes and other things thereunto appertaining of the same sute and colour appointing Maude his Wife to dispose of part of his Goods for the health of his Soul whom together with Iohn his Son then a Knight Sir Humphrey Stafford Knight and some others he constituted his Executors The day of his death I cannot certainly tell but it was not long after for the Probate of that his Testament bears date the twelfth of September following the Lands whereof he died seised being these viz. the Mannors of Sutton-Walrond in Com. Dorst Spâ—rkford North-Câ—iriton and Upton-Noble in Com. Somerst Tichmerse and Othecote in Com. North â—â—â— Mynster-Lovell in Com. Oxon. Mighenden Bridesierd Erdescote Knoll Hywishe Wamberghe Ubeton Wâ—rdor Knoweke Knighton Salthorpe Wikelescote Areforde Stutescombe and Elcombe in Com. Wilts And as Tenant by the courtesie in right of Maude his Wife Daughter and Heir to Robert de Holand of the Mannor of Hameldon in Com. Rotel Southmere in Com. Norff. Broughton juxta Aylesbury in Com. Buck. Yoxâ—ale in Com. Staff Baggeworth and Shepesheved in Com. Leic. Dokelynton Norton-Bruyn and Cheldeston in Com. Oxom Denford in Com. Berks. As also of the Mannors of Brackley and Hulls with the Hundred of Sutton commonly called Kings-Sutton in Com. Northt Maude his Wife surviving who in 1 Hen. 5. by a formal Release under her Seal of Arms bearing date at Bristoll 4 Iulii did quit-claim to King Henry the Fifth all her right to divers Lordships and Lands whereunto that King did then make claim by virtue of a certain Grant made of them by King Henry the Third unto Edmund his Son and the Heirs of his body And having given her Mannors of Bagworth and Thornton in Com. Leic. to the Hospital of Brackley in 8 Hen. 5. procured License for converting it to an House of Fryers-Preachers I come now to Iohn his Son and Heir then a Knight who had Livery of his Lands the next ensuing year after his Father's decease his Homage being respited This Iohn lived not long for upon the nineteenth of October 2 Hen. 5. he departed this life being then seised of the Mannors of Mighenden Elcombe Erdescote and Wardor-Castle in Com. Wilts Cheleston Minster-Lovell Norten-Bruyn and Dokelington-Brethon in Com. Oxon.
this William then held a third part in the name of her Dowry leaving William his Son and Heir at that time xxxvi years of age Which William then doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands and in 14 E. 3. was in that Expedition then made into Flanders being of the Retinue of Reginald de Cobham And in 18 E. 3. through the sollicitation of William de Clinton then Earl of Huntendon obtain'd from the King a special Immunity that he should not be compell'd to bear Arms in respect of his Impotency nor to take upon him the Order of Knighthood against his own good will And in 20 E. 3. upon that notable Expedition into France being Assessed for his Lands in the Counties of Salop. Staff and Warr. to find ten Men at Arms and ten Arches representing to the King and his Council That all the Estate whereof he was then possess'd amounted to little more than CC Marks per Annum had a Remission for six of those Men at Arms and that whole number of Archers And afterwards through the mediation of the before-specified William de Clinton Earl of Huntendon obtain'd a Discharge for three of those six Men at Arms. This William took to Wife Margaret the Daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell and died on Saturday next preceding Christmass-day in 35 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Oversley in Com. Warr. Noâ—thborough in Com. Leic. Tyrleye in Com. Staff and Hynestâ—ke and Wemme in Com. Salop. leaving William his Son and Heir xxx years of age who doing his Homage the next year following had Livery of his Lands In 41 E. 3. this last mention'd William having married Ioane the eldest of the two Sisters and Heirs to Iohn Lord Sudley by whom he had Issue a Son called Thomas obtain'd a Grant from the King of the Custody of the Lands which by his own death should by Inheritance devolve to the said Thomas his Son to hold till he should come of full age being then but ten years old And was summon'd to Parliament in 42 and 43 E. 3. ¶ But here before I proceed further I am to observe That William le Botiller Father to this last-specified William who married the said Ioane had Issue another Son called William also by a former Wife as it seems for certain it is that William the Grandson to William and Ankaret departed this Life upon Tuesday being the Eve of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in 43 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Northborough in Com. Leic. Oversley and Merston Boteler in Com. Warr. Tyrley in Com. Staff Wemme Hynstoke Lepinton with the Hamlet of Drayton parva in Com. Salop. leaving one sole Daughter and Heir call'd Elizabeth at that time xxiv years of age Which Elizabeth had thereupon Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance her Homage being respited And taking to Husband Robert de Ferrers a younger Son to the Lord Ferrers of Chartley brought that great Lordship of Wemme in Com. Salop. with other Lands of a large extent to that Family Which Robert was thereupon summon'd to Parliament by the name of Robert de Ferrers de Wemme Chivalier And in 44 E. 3. entail'd that Lordship as also that of Oversley in Com. Warr. with some other lying in the Counties of Salop Leicester and Warwick upon the Heirs of his Body by her the said Elizabeth and for lack of such Issue on his Right Heirs Which Elizabeth surviving her Husband Ferrers married secondly to Iohn de Say and thirdly to Thomas Molinton who thereupon wrote himself Baron of Wemme and by her Testament bearing date 6 Ian. Anno 1410. 12 H. 4. whereby she bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Church of the Crouched Friers near the Tower of London stiles her self Elizabetha Ferrers Baronissa de Wemme retaining the Name of that Husband who was of the chiefest Dignity a Custom which Women have long used and not yet left and departed this Life the same year leaving Elizabeth the Wife of Iohn Son to Iohn Lord Greistoke and Mary the Wife of Raphe Nevill a younger Son to Raphe Earl of Westmerland her Cousins and Heirs viz. Daughters of Robert Son to the said Elizabeth as saith the Inquisition but mistaken I think for by two other Records she is called one of the Daughters and Heirs of her the said Elizabeth which is most like to be true for Robert the Son of Robert Ferrers by her was but four years of age in 4 R. 2. so that had he been then living he could have been but xxxiv years of age ¶ I now come to Thomas Boteler Son and Heir to William Boteler of Wemme by Ioane the Daughter of Iohn Lord Sudley before mentioned This Thomas making proof of his age and doing his Homage in 4 R. 2. had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance and in 13 R. 2. being then a Knight had Licence to travel into France but departed this Life upon Saturday 20 Sept. 22. R. 2. being at that time seised of the Mannor of Suâ—lâ—y in Com. Glâ—uc as also of the Mannors of Derset and Gryve in Com. Warr. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir xiv years of age Which Iohn dying without Issue Raphe his Brother succeeded him in the Inheritance Who being a Knight in 6 H. 5. was then in the Wars of France and of the Retinue to Humphry Duke of Gloucester and in 9 H. 5. retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France with xx Men at Arms and Lx Archers on Horseback In 2 H. 6. this Raphe had Licence to travel beyond-Sea and in 6 H. 6. was again in the Wars of France and of the Retinue to Iohn Duke of Bedford Moreover in 8 H. 6. he was once more retained to serve the King in those Wars of France with xx Men at Arms and Lx Archers on Horseback And having stood firm to the Lancastrian Interest in all those sharp Contests betwixt that and the House of Yorke being in 20 H. 6. Lord Chamberlain of the King's Houshold was by Letters Patents bearing date upon the tenth day of September the same year advanced to the Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Name of Lord Sudley of Sudley in Com. Glouc. to hold to himself and the Heirs Males of his Body with the Fee of CC Marks for the better support of that Dignity to be Annually received out of the Farme of the County of Lincoln Moreover upon the seventh of Iuly the next ensuing year he was constituted Treasurer of the King's Exchequer and sent â—mbassador with Richard Duke of York and some others to treat of Peace with the French And in
gave by this his Testament a Jewel with a Bone of St. Margaret and Forty shillings for ringing their Bells at his Funeral To Elizabeth his Wife he bequeath'd all the Furniture in his Mansion-House at Yorke and constituted her together with Iohn his Son and Heir Master William le Scrope his Brother and Thomas his younger Son his Executors Moreover by a certain Codicil annexed to this his Testament dated 18 Martii Anno 1453. he bequeath'd to Alianore his Daughter during his own Life Twenty Marks and after his Decease Forty Marks to be paid out of his Mannor of Driffeild To Iohn the Son and Heir of Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton he bequeath'd one great Brouch of Gold of two Angels fashioned like a Man's Heart And whereas Iohn his Son nominated one of his Executors was then departed this Life he did in stead of him appoint Sir Iohn Bermingham Treasurer of Yorke-Minster and Mr. Iohn Marshall one of the Residentiaries there to be joyned with his other Executors Farther declaring That if before his death Thomas his Son should marry the Daughter of the Lord Greystoke that then his Exequies should be performed in all points with as much Solemnity as his Testament expresseth To which Thomas he also bequeath'd his Parliament-Robe giving Collin his Servant Ten pounds for his part and Robert Cowrtby his Servant Five pounds for his part thereof After which he departed this Life 15 Nov. 34 H. 6. being then seised of the Mannors of Qualton and Newham in Com. Northumbr Paulins-Cray in Com. Cantii Bernoldby and Carlton in Com. Linc. Neyland in Com. Suff. Boudon magna and Haverbergh in Com. Leic. Boxstede in Com. Essex South-Muskham and Carlton in Com. Nott. Ecclesale Driffeld with its Members Upsale with its Members Over Silton Watlowes Clifton Burton-Constable and Garston in Com. Ebor. leaving Thomas his Son and Heir xxvi years of age Which Thomas doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands and in 37 H. 6. obtain'd Licence to found a Chantry for two Priests at the Altar of St. Stephen in the Cathedral Church of Yorke but without mention for whom specially to pray and upon the death of his Mother in 6 E. 4. had Livery of the Lands which she held in Dower his Homage being respited And having been summon'd to Parliament from 38 H. 6. until 12 E. 4. departed this Life in 15 E. 4. leaving Thomas his Son and Heir xv years of age and three other Sons Henry Raphe and Geffrey as also three Daughters viz. Alice married to Thomas Strangways Esq Mary to Sir Christopher Danby Knight and Elizabeth to ... Fitz-Raâ—dol Which Thomas having also been summon'd to Parliament from 22 E. 4. until 7 H. 7. inclusive died shortly after leaving Issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Iohn Nevill Marquess Mountagu and one of the Cousins and Heirs to Ioane Lady Ingoldesthorp one sole Daughter his Heir called Alice married to Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton Which Elizabeth surviving him afterward became the Wife of Sir Henry Wentworth Knight and by her Testament bearing date 7 Martii 9 H. 8. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Black-Friers in London by her said Husband Thomas Lord Scroope of Upsale and Massham Appointing That five Trentals of Masses should be sung and said for her Soul at the place of her Burial and for her Husband's Soul as also for the Soul of Alice their Daughter Likewise for the Soul of Henry Wentworth and for the Soul of Iohn Marquess Mounâ—agu her Father the Lady Isabell his Wife her Mother and for all Christian Souls Father directing That her Executors should lay a Stone over her Grave with three Images the one of her Lord and Husband another of her self and the third of her said Daughter with their Arms thereon and an Inscription making mention whom they were and this to the value of Ten pounds Likewise That they should make a Tomb over Sir Henry Wentworth Knight her late Husband lying buried in Newsom-Abby in Com. Linc. to the value of Twenty pound Sterling Also That they should cause another Tomb to be made at Bisham-Abby in Com. Berks. to the value of Twenty Pounds for the Marquess Mountagu her Father and his Lady her Mother who lay there Interred And bequeath'd unto Mary a base Daughter to Thomas Grey Marquess Dorset her Bed wherein the said Lord Marquess had wont to lie She also gave to the Lady Lucie her Sister a Primer and a Psalter which she had of the Gift of King Henry the Seventh's Mother Of the three Brothers of this last-mentioned Thomas Lord Scroope it appears That Henry was summon'd to Parliament in 3 H. 8. And that Raphe who by the death of his Brother Henry without Issue enjoying the Honour had Summons to Parliament in 6 H. 8. Likewise That by his Testament bearing date 6 Aug. Anno 1515. 7 H. 8. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried before our Lady of Pitty in the Abby of Riebaulx in Com. Ebor. and that he gave unto the Monks of that Covent Twenty Pounds As also that he departed this Life soon after without Issue for the Probate thereof bears date upon the eighteenth of March then next ensuing leaving Geffrey his Brother and Heir at that time a Clerk Which Geffrey enjoying also the Title of Lord Scrope of Upsall died without Issue in 9 H. 8. Whereupon his three Sisters Alice Mary and Elizabeth before-mentioned became his next Heirs Scroope Earl of Wiltshire I Come now to William a younger Son to Henry Lord Scrope of Mashaâ— and Brother of Stephen In 6 R. 2. this William being then a Knight was made Seneschal of the Dutchy of Aquitane and in 7 R. 2. had a special Assignation for certain Moneys payable out of the Ports of London Kingston super Hull Iernemuth Ipswich Newcastle upon Tine and Suthampton for the Support of himself his Men of Arms and Archers with other of his Retinue in those Parts In 9 R. 2. he was constituted Governour of the Town and Castle of Chirburgh and in 12 R. 2. of Quenesburgh-Castle Shortly after which having done some great Injury to the Bishop of Durham and his Servants within that County Palatine as an Attonement for the same he offered a Jewel of Five hundred Pounds price at St. Cuthbert's Shrine It is said That this William was a Person of a very malevolent and wicked disposition but so far had he gained upon the Affections of King Richard that in 16 of his Reign he made him Vice-Chamberlain of his Houshod about which time he purchased the Isle of Man from William de Mouâ—acute Earl of Salisbury with the Crown it being a Right belonging to the Lord of that Island to be called King and to be Crowned with a Regal Crown And in 17 R. 2. being retain'd
find That whereas this Henry was in the King's Service in the Wars of Gascoigne from the Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula in Anno 17 Edw. 2. until the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen then next following within which time his Father died viz. on the Feast-day of the Apostles Simon and Iude so that he could not come to take possession of his Inheritance fallen to him thereby so soon as accustomably he should have done King Edward the Third therefore in the first year of his Reign taking consideration of that his Service remitted to him a Debt of Clii l. owing to the Exchequer he being also the same year in his Wars of Scotland In 16 E. 3. the King intending a Voyage-Royal into France and to take Shipping with his Army at Portsmonth upon the first of March sent his Precept to this Henry to attend him there accordingly with Twenty Men at Arms and Twenty Archers Whether he was in that Expedition or not I am uncertain for it is evident that he died the same year being then seised of one Messuage and forty Acres of Land in Braddon in Com. Northampt. of the Mannors of Eton and Waterhall in Com. Buck. Purle in Com. Essex Kemple in Com. Glouc. Gylling in Com. Hunt which was given to Iohn de Grey Justice of Chester and Emme his Wife and to Râ—ginald their Son and his Heirs whereby it descended to Iohn the Son of the said Reginald and from that Iohn to this Henry his Son and Heir Aston Grey in Com. Wiltes and Wilton upon Weye with the Advowson of the Church of Peterstowe in the Marches of Wales leaving Reginald his Son and Heir thirty years of age Which Reginald in 19 E. 3. being a Baneret upon that Expedition which the King then made into France had command to prepare himself and all his Retinue so that he might be in readiness to set Sail with him thither upon the Feast-day of St. Laurence the same year But of this Reginald I have not seen any thing farther memorable till his death other than that he was summon'd to the several Parliaments from 17 until 34 E. 3. inclusive and that he departed this Life upon Tuesday in Whitson-week in 44 E. 3. being then seised of a certain Mannor in Hemingby in Com. Linc. as also of the Mannors of Stretton and Shirland in Com. Derb. Mundene in Com. Hertf. Porth-pole juxta Holburne in Com. Midd. Purle with the Hamlet of Giberake in Com. Essex Wilton super Waye in the Marches of Wales Hertfordingbury in Com. Hertf. Towsland in Com. Hunt Eyton and Waterball in Com. Buck. and Eston Grey in Com. Wiltes leaving Henry his Son and Heir xxviii years of age and Maude his Widow who had for her Dowrie assign'd to her out of his Estate the Mannor of Shirland in Com. Derb. Towsland in Com. Hunt and Hemyngby in Com. Linc. Which Henry then doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands This Henry in 40 E. 3. his Father then living was of the Retinue of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster in that Expedition then by him made into Gascoigne and in 50 E. 3. was summon'd to Parliament by the Name of Henry de Grey de Shirland Chivalier And departed this Life upon Saturday next before the Feast of St. George in 19 R. 2. leaving Richard his Son and Heir by Elizabeth his Wife then three years of age which Elizabeth had the Mannor of Purle with divers Lands in Great Legâ—es in Com. Essex as also the fourth part of the Mannor of Olney in Com. Buck. assign'd to her for her Dowrie And Margaret a Daughter Wife to Iohn Lord Darcy This last-mention'd Richard being so young at his Fathers death came not into action of a long time for till 3 H. 5. I find no mention oâ— him but then he was of the Retinue with Thomas Earl of Dorset Uncle to the King and Lieutenant of Normandy in his Expedition thither Nor from that time until the twentieth of Henry the Sixth that he made his Testament at Blechelee the twelfth of August Anno 1442. whereby he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church of our Lady at Blechelee and gave his Mannor of Baryll-Hall in Com. Essex to Margaret his Wife to hold during her Life and died upon the Munday next preceding the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the same year being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Wilton in Com. Hereâ— of the Mannor of Port-pole called Grays-Inn in Com. Midd. of the Mannors of Shirland and Stretton in Com. Derb. Hemmyngby in Com. Linc. Aston Grey in Com. Wiltes Shenley Aston Clintâ—n Morton Sherington Water-Eaton and Water-Hall in Com. Buck. Purle Seires South-house le Hyde Snorham Weldebernes Lathingden-bernes and Aâ—resflote in Com. Essex Berton in Com. Cantabr with Towestond and Gilling in Com. Hunt leaving Reginald his Son then twenty one years of age Margaret his second Wife surviving him Which Reginald the next ensuing year had Livery of his Lands doing his Homage And in 30 H. 6. the said Margaret died viz. 16 Ian. leaving William de Grey her Son and Heir then nineteen years of age To the last-mentioned Richard succeeded Reginald his Son and Heir before-mentioned But of him I find nothing more than that he had Issue Iohn who was retain'd by Indenture in 14 E. 4. to serve the King in his Dutchy of Normandy and Realm of France for one whole year beginning upon the one and twentieth of November with six Spears and fifty Archers In 1 R. 3. this Iohn obtain'd a Grant from the King of the Mannor of Wilsamstede in Bedfordshire and to the Heirs-male of his Body And in 11 H. 7. fought stoutly at Black-Heath against the Cornish-men then in Rebellion under the leading of Iames Lord Audley In 12 H. 7. he was again retain'd to serve the King in his Wars of Scotland under the Command of Giles Lord D'aubeny Captain-General of the King's Army for that Expedition with one Lance four Demi-lances and fifty Bows and Bills for CCxc Miles with one Lance four Demi-lances and fifty Bows and Bills for CClxvi Miles and with two Lances eight Demi-lances and two hundred Bows and Bills for CC Miles And departing this Life 2 Martii Anno ... was buried in the White-Fryers at London To this Iohn succeeded Edmund his Son and Heir who in 22 H. 7. had a special Livery of his Lands This Edmund by his Testament bearing date 5 Maii 3 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Blecheley and died the same year leaving Issue four Sons George Thomas Richard and William Which William in regard the rest of his Brothers died successively without Issue became Heir to the Estate and Honour and in 20
pursuance of that advice went with him into Gascoigne the King of France having then invaded those territories Moreover in 23 Edw. 1. he had Summoms to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm So likewise afterward to all the succeeding Parliaments of his time And in 25 Edw. 1. was again in the Wars of Gascoigne being then of the retinue unto that great Prelate Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Hierusalem In 28 and 29 E. 1. he was in the Wars of Scotland And having setled his Mannor and Barony of Graystoke with the Advowson of the Church as also of the Mannors of Duston Ulgham Crosthwait in Tesedale Conesclive with all his purparty of the Mannor of Morpeth upon Ralph the Son of William Fitz-Ralph Lord of Grimethorpe in Com. Ebor. Son of Ioane Aunt to him the said Iohn his Brothers and Uncles being then all dead without issue male departed this life without issue in 34 Edw. 1. Which Ralph in 10 Edw. 1. paid a Fine to the King of an hundred Marks for Licence to marry Margery the Widdow of Nicholas Corbet Daughter and Coheir to Hugh de Bolebec and in 24 Edw. 1. was Brother and Heir to Geffrey Fitz-William of Yorkshire doing his Homage had livery of his Lands After which the next ensuing year he was in that expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 26 E. 1. and 27 E. 1. At which time also being made Lieutenant of Yorkshire and Warden of the Marches he was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Durham and others to take care of fortifying the castles in Scotland And in 28 Edw. 1. was in the Wars there So also in 31 Edw 1. and 34 Edw. 1. being then in the retinue with Adomare de Valence Likewise in 4 Edw. 2 In which year he obtained a Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesne Lands at Brunnum Butterwyke Thorp Basset Scakelthorp Thorneton-More Morton super Swale and Welbery in Comit. Ebor. as also in Benton Killingworth Hepiscotes Tranwell Stannington and Horsle in Com. Northumb. In 7 Edw. 2. he was made Governor of Barwick upon Twede and joyned in Commission with Iohn Lord Moubray and others in the Wardenship of the Marches as also Governor of Carlisle in 8 E. 2. Moreover he founded a Chantery at Tinemouth for the Soul of the before-specified Iohn Lord Greystoke his Kinsman and all his Ancestors And having been summoned to Parliament by the name of Ralph Fitz-William from 23 Edw. 1. till 9 E. 2. inclusive died an aged Man about the Feast of All-Saints in Ann. 1316. 9 Edw. 2. and was buried i at Nesham in the County Palatine of Durham being then seized of the Mannors of Morpeth and Ulgham in Com. Northumberl Wiboldeston in Comitat. Bedf. Brunham Grimethorp and Hynderskelf in Com. Ebor. Greystoke in Com. Cumberl as also of divers Lands in other Counties And in right of Margery his Wife Widdow of Nicholas Corbet one of the Coheirs of the Barony of Bulbeck of the fourth part of the Mannors of Styford Hedoun on the Wall Angerton and Dodington in Com. Northum with the Hamlets belonging to them To whom succeeded Robert his second Son for William the eldest died without issue Which Robert was with him in that expedition made into Scotland in 4 Edw. 2. but died in 10 Edw. 2. being then seised of the moity of the Barony of Merley in Com. Northumb viz. Morpeth c. Likewise of the the moity of the Mannors of Stifford and Heddon on the Wall Angreton Dodington c. as also of the Barony of Bolebeâ— Likewise of the Mannor of Grymthorpe in Com. Ebor. Crossthwayt and Thorpe-Basset in Com. Northumb. and Neesham in the County Palatine of Durham leaving Ralph his Son and Heir eighteen years of age and was buryed at Botyrwick Whereupon Elizabeth his Widdow had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Mannors of Butterwyk Marton super Swale Osmunderley the third part of the Mannors of Thorpe Basset Brunnum and Nidde in Com. Ebor. Graystoke in Com. Cumbr. Duston in Com. Westmorl Morpeth and Ulougham in Com. Northumb. as also the Town of Heppescotes the moity of the Mannor of Tranwell the moity of the Towns of Stanyngton and Benton with part of the Town of Horsley in the same County the third part of the Mannors of Consclyff and Nesham the third part of an annual Rent of fifty pounds per annum issuing out of the Mannor of Brareton in the Bishoprick of Durham as also of seventy five shillings and six pence yearly Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Thornton in Com. Ebor. Which last mentioned Ralph by vertue of a special Dispensation from the Pope took to Wife Alice de Audely Daughter to Hugh Lord Audeley they being within the third and fourth degrees of Consanguinity And in 13 Edw. 2. was with Hugh de Audley the younger in that Expedition then made into Scotland This Ralph assumed the sirname of Greystoke and in 14 Edw. 2. making proof of his Age had livery of all the Knights Fees belonging to him by inheritance which the King had reserved in his hands after the death of Ralph the Son of William his Grandfather till that time And in 14 15 and 16 Edw. 2. was summoned to the Parliaments then held But all that I have else seen of him is that he besieged Gilbert de Middleton and divers other with him in the Castle of Mitford for certain traytorous actions done by them in Northumberland and that not long after being in Gatesheved at Breakfast he was through the contrivance of the same Gilbert and his party there poysoned 3 Id. Iulii An. 1323. 17 E. 2. and buried in the Abby of Newminster near the High Altarâ— leaving issue by Alice his Wife Daughter to Ralph Lord Nevill William his Son and Heir three years of age Which Alice surviving had an Assignation of the Mannor of Grymethorpe in Com. Ebor. as also of divers lands in other Counties for her Dowry Whereupon the Wardship of William his Son thus in minority together with his Lands was shortly after scil in 2 Edw. 3. in consideration of five hundred Marks committed to Hugh de Audley But in 16 E. 3. this William making proof of his age and doing his Homage had livery of them all and the same year was in that expedition then made into Brittany being of the retinue of William de Bohun Earl of Northampton And in 19 Edw. 3. in the Wars of France but then of the retinue with Ralph Earl of Stafford Moreover the next year following upon the death of Elizabeth his Grandmother he had also Livery of those Lands which she held in Dower his Homage
being respited And the same year went again into France the Black Prince being also in that Expedition So likewise in 23 Edw. 3. And in 27 E. 3. was joyned in Commission with Tho. Bishop of Durham and others to treat and agree with David de Bruys together with the Prelats Earls and other Nobles of Scotland at Newcastle upon Tine touching the enlargement of him the said David who had been taken Prisoner in the Battle of Durham in 20 Edw. 3. as our Historians do shew In this 27 of Edward the third he obtained License from the King to make a Castle of his Mannor-House at Greystoke And in 28 E. 3. was constituted one of the Commissioners to see the performance of what had been treated on in order to the discharge of David de Bruis from his imprisonment Furthermore in 29 Edw. 3. he was constituted Governor of Barwick upon Twede during the time of which trust being commanded by the King to attend him personally into France in the interim that Town was taken by the Scots whereupon the King was much offended But it being clearly proved that his absence was not upon any other occasion at the request of Queen Philippa he obtained his Pardon And in 32 Edw. 3. for the health of his Soul c. gave to the Collegâ—at Church of Graystoke one Meâ—â—â—age and seven Acres of Land in New-Bigging as also the Advowson of the Parish Church of Graystoke This William had Summons to Parliament from 22 to 31 Edw. 3. inclusive And having built the Castle of Graystoke and Tower at Morpeth departed this life upon the Feast day of St. Margaret 20 Iulii 32 Edw. 3. and was buried at Graystoke being then seized of the Mannor of Wyboldeston in Comitat. Redford Brunne with its members scil Belby Seton Littlethorpe Spaldington Ulram Eston Driâ—ghou Milington and Welberie Butterwyk with its members Sherburne Boythorpe Flixton Falketon Flitmanby the Mannors of Hynderskelf Gainethorpe Thorpe Basset Skakelthorp le Holme in Osmundery Moreton upon Swale Thirnetofte Crossethwayt Thornton upon the Moor and Nidde in Comitat. Ebor. The Castle and Mannor of Morpeth with its members viz. Heppescotes Tranewell Stanyngton Horsley Bentone Kyllingworth Angerton and Hedone in Comitat. Northumb. the Mannors of Duston Aykescoghe Flasecogh Bramton Mill Halestede and Hindring in Comit. Westmorl two parts of the Mannor of Graystoke the Mannors of Dacre Mousedaleâ— Boâ—stale Thakethwayte Soulby New-biggen Blinton Threlkeld Haytone Iohan Iconby Craystoke Mutherby Berier Dalman Anleby Staneton parva Hoton Roff and Ayragh in Com. Cumberl He had two wives first Lucie Daughter to ... Lord Lucie whom he deservedly repudiated and dying before him buried her at Nesham And afterwards by the advice of Alice de Nevill his Mother married Ioane the Daughter of Henry Fitz-Hugh Lord of Ravenswath by whom he had issue three Sons viz. Ralph William and Robert and Alice a Daughter Wife of Sir Robert de Harington Knight Which Ralph being then but six years of age was committed to the tuition of Roger de Mortimer Earl of March Ioane his Mother being then alive who had for her Dowrie an Assignation of the Castle and Mannor of Morpeth and divers Tenements in Tranewell Horsley Denton and Kyllingworth in Com. Northumb. Webery with its members in Shirburne Boythorpe Flixton and Floteby in Com. Ebor. and Crossthwaâ—t in in Com. Cumbr. Which Ioane afterwards married to Anthony de Lucy and when he died to Sir Matthew Râ—dman Knight It is said by the Inquisition taken after the death of this last mentioned William that he dyed beyond-Sea and that Ralph his Son and Heir was twenty one years of age in 48 Ed. 3. which is most like to be true for in that year upon the death of his Mother making proof of his age and doing his Homage he had livery of those Lands which she held in Dower In 50 Edw. 3. this Ralph was constituted Governor of Lâ—â—ghmaban Castle in Scotland and one of the Commissioners for guarding the West-Maâ—ches Moreover in 1 Ric. 2. he was joyned in Commission with Henry Earl of Northumberland and others for guarding also of both the East and West-Marches And in 2 Ric. 2. assisted that Earl in taking the Castle of Warwick which the Scots had got by surprize In 3 Ric. 2. he was again joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Carlisle and Hugh de Dacre for the Wardenship of the West Marches as also with the Earl of Northumberland and others for the North-Marches in Northumberland And upon Friday next ensuing the Feast of the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist 4 Ric. 2. was taken Prisoner with many other stout men at Horsryg in Glendale by George Earl of Dunbar but soon after released for his Brother William who being an Hostage for him dyed at Dunbar of the pestilence After which enlargement he was again constituted one of the Commissioners for guarding the the West-Marches And in 5 Hen. 4. upon the death of Ioane his Mother had livery of those Lands which she held in Dowry This Ralph gave Twenty pounds to the Monks of Newminster for the adorning their Church and having been summon'd to Parliament from 49 E. 3 to 5 H. 5. inclusive departed this life upon the Sixth of April 5 H. 5. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir then Twenty eight years of age Which Iohn doing his Homage had soon after Livery of his Lands and in 9 H. 5. was constituted Governour of Roxborough Castle in Scotland for the space of Four years next ensuing the Feast of Easter with an allowance of a Thousand pounds per annum in times of peace and two thousand in time of War In 1 H. 6. this Iohn was joyn'd with thâ— Bishop of London and others in Commission to treat with Iames King of Scotland or his Ambassadors for a firm Peace betwixt both Realms And in 11 H. 6. in the like Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to treat with the Commissioners of Scotland at Hadenstanck and make satisfaction for certain injuries done to the Subjects of that Realm against the form of the Truce concluded on betwixt both Crowns In 12 H. 6. he was again joyned with Richard Earl of Salisbury and others to treat with those from Scotland on the like occasion And in 13 H. 6. was one of the chief Commanders of those Forces which were sent to the relief of Barwick upon Tweed then besieged by the Scots Moreover from 7 H. 5. till 12 H. 6. inclusive he had summons to Parliament And by his Testament bearing date 10 Iuly 1346. 14. H. 6. bequeathing his Body to be buried in the Collegiate Church at Greystoke gave thereunto his best Horse for his Mortuary as also all his
Castle obliged himself by Oath in the Kings presence that he would faithfully perform his trust in the safe Custody thereof so that it should not be given up to any person whatsoever excepting the King himself or Hubert de Burgh then Lord Chamberlain and for farther security therein delivered his Son and Daughter as Hostages his Son to remain in the hands of the Earl of Arundell and his Daughter with the Earl Ferrers In 8 Ioh. this William paid a Fine of two hundred marks and two Palfreys for the Wardship of the Land and Heir of Osbert Fitz-Hervei and marriage of him And in 9 Ioh obtained a Grant of all the possessions of Roger de Huntingfeild his Brother which had been seized into the Kings hands by reason of the Interdict In 10 Ioh he was one of the Justices-Itinerant at Lincoln and in 11 Ioh. executed the Office of Sheriff for the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk for the fourth part of that year and afterwards till the end of the fifteenth year In which 15 year he gave to the King six fair Norway Goshawkes for license to marry Alice his Daughter then a Widdow and to have an assignation of her Dowry out of the Lands of Richard de Solers her late Husband in Sacumb and Taggeleg as also out of his Lands in Bondebi in Com. Linc In 17 Ioh. he was made Governor of Sauvey Castle in Com. Leic. But taking part with the Rebellious Barons of that time with whom he had such esteem that he was one of the 25 whom they made choice of to be the chief persons in governing the Realm and thereupon underwent the Sentence of Excommunication by the Pope his Lands in Lincolnshire were seized on and given to Nichola de Haya to hold during the Kings pleasure Nevertheless before the end of that year he made some shew of returning to his obedience for it appears that the King sent his Precept to the Sheriff of Hantshire to make restitution to him of the Mannor of Claford in that County whereof he had been dispossessed by reason of those troubles But notwithstanding this he fell off again for plain it is that in 1 Hen. 3. all his Lands lying in Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgshire and elsewhere were given by the King to Iohn Mareschall excepting those in Lincolnshire whereof Nichola de Haya had a former Grant How he reconciled himself I find not but in 3 Hen. 3. he obtained license to go to the Holy-Land constituting his Brother Thomas his Attorney to transact all Business in his absence This William gave to the Monks of Herâ—â— for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Alice de St. Liz his wife a certain Pasture adjoyning to their Alder-grove and left issue Roger de Huntingfeld his Son and Heir who in 26 Hen. 3. gave two hundred marks Fine to the King to be exempted from that expedition then made into Gascoine And died in 41 H. 3. leaving Ioane his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs to William de Hobrugg surviving and William his Son and Heir in minority for whose wardship she the said Ioane gave an hundred marks to the King But he was at that time very near his full age as it seems for in 42 Hen. 3. he received command to fit himself with Horse and Armes and to attend the King at Chester on Munday preceding the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist to restrain the Hostilities of the Welsh But in 49 Hen. 3. he took part with the Rebellious Barons being with them in the Battle of Evesham And in 7 E. 1. covenanted that Roger his Son and Heir should marry Ioyce the Daughter of Iohn de Engaine but departed this life in 11 Edw. 1. To whom succeeded Roger his Son and Heir who in 22 Edw. 1. 8 Iunii amongst divers other eminent persons had Summons to attend the King with all speed to advise about the great affairs of the Realm and soon after that received command to be at Portsmouth upon the first of September then next ensuing well fitted with Horse and Armes to sail into Gascoine Upon the death of Ioane his Mother in 25 Edw. 1. he was thirty years of age and the same year had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm but not after and departed this life in 30 Ed. 1. being then seized of the Mannor of Bekesworth in Com. Cantab. Bradenham in Com. Norff. Sculthorp Tost and Frampton in Com. Linc. Mokelinton in Com. Essex and Huntingfeld in Comit. Suff. leaving William his Son and Heir twenty one years of age who doing his Homage in 31 Edw. 1. had livery of his Lands and in 34 E. 1. was in the Wars of Scotland so likewise in 4 E. 2. And departed this life in 7 E. 2. being thâ—n seized of the Mannor of Bekesworth in Com. Cantabr with the Advowson of the Church and of the Mannors of Mendham and Huntingfeld in Com. Suff. as also of divers Lordships and Lands in other Counties leaving Roger his Son and Heir seven years of age and Sibill his Wife then surviving who shortly afterwards married to William le Latimer Which Roger died in 11 Edw. 3. leaving issue by Cecilie his Wife Daughter of Sir Walter de Norwich Knight William his Son and Heir seven years of age and an half being then seized of the Mannor of Est. Bradenham in Com. Norf. Bekesworth in Comit. Cantabr Mokelington in Comit. Essex Huntâ—feld Benges and Horham in Com. Suff. Toft Frampton Byker and Suthorp in Com. Linc. Which William making proof of his age in 25 Edw 3. and doing his Fealty had livery of his Lands and in 33 Edw. 3. was in the Wars of France being then a Knight So likewise in 34 Edw. 3. being then of the Retinue with Henry Duke of Lancaster And having been Summoned to Parliament from 25 Edw. 3. until 49 Edw. 3. inclusive departed this life upon the Sunday next after the Feast of St. Martin in 50 Edw. 3 being then seized of the Mannor of Bekesworth in Comitat. Cantabr Mukelyngton in Com. Essex Ess-Bradenham in Comitat. Norf. Huntingfeld Mendham and Benges in Com. Suff. Tofte juxta Freston Frampton Biker Hiptoft Halle in Tofte and Pinchebeâ— called Russells Mannor in Com. Linc. leaving Alice the Widdow of Sir Iohn Norwich Knight his Kinswoman and next Heir thirty years of age ¶ There was also of this Family Iohn de Huntingfeild Summoned to Parliament from 36 to 43 Edw. 3. inclusive but other mention I find not of him In the time of King Henry the eighth there was taken up in the Black-Friers at Boston in Com. Linc. the Body of one of this Family with a Leaden Bull of Pope Innocent about his Neck Pipard 25 Edw. 1.
River Geround about the Feast day of Simon and Iude. And during his stay in those parts obtained liberty for his Wife and Family to reside in Skypron-Castle in Com. Ebor. with allowance of Fewel out of the Woods there for her necessary use Moreover the next ensuing year upon that great Expedition made by King Edward thither he received Command to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to be at Portsmouth upon the first of Sept. thence to sayl with him into those parts And in 25 E. 1. was again in those Wars of Gascoigne at which time he obtained a Grant of the Marriage of Isabell the Daughter and Heir of Simon de Sherstede to be a Wife for Iohn de Latimer his Son and Heir In 26 E. 1. he attended the King in that Expedition then made by him into Scotland at which time he was victorious at Faukirke and in 27 E. 1. was appointed one of his Commissioners for fortifying the Castles of that Realm In 28 E. 1. he Marcht again with him into Scotland and in 29 E. â— was in the Garrison of Berwick To this William King Edward Granted the Mannor of Danby in Com. Ebor. for life with free chase there the remainder to William his Son and Lucia his Wife and to the right Heirs of Lucia In 30 E. 1. he obtained the Kings Charter for a Market every week upon the Thursday at Asse in Kent As also for a Fair on the Eve Day and Morrow of the Apostles Peter and Paul and for a Fair every year upon the Eve Day and Morrow of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin at his Mannor of Wodinton in Com. Sur. Likewise for a Fair every year upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin at his Mannor of Iiverington in Com. Ebor. with Free-Warren in all his Demesn-Lands there In 31 E. 1. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and having been summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 28 till 33 E. 1. inclusive departed this Life in the same thirty third year being jointly seised with Alice his Wife one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Walter Ledet of the one half of the Barony of Warden in Com Northampt. as also of the Moytie of the Town and whole hundred of Corby in that County of her Inheritance To whom succeeded William then his Son and Heir Iohn the elder Brother being dead in his life time as it seems Which William in 51 H 3. accounted to the Exchequer for divers Debts amounting to the Sum of 1951 l. 14 d. ob whereupon he had an allowance of two hundred pounds for that loss and damage which William his Father had sustain'd in the Kings service And being personally in that Court upon Saturday next after the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord in 54 H. 3. did there remit and quit-claym whatsoever he could demand by reason of his disbursements in sundry Marches to Scotland staying there and returning thence And likewise all his costs in Victualling the Castle at York and that at Scardeburgh Wages to the Souldiers and Officers or otherwise in those Wars In which 54 th year he executed the Sheriffs Office for York-shire on the behalf of his Father This William took to Wife Lucie the Daughter and Heir of Richard de Thwenge Cosin and Heir of Marmaduke de Thwenge and in 25 E. 1. was in that Expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 31 and 32 E. 1. In which 32 year during his abode in Scotland Lucie his Wife residing at his Mannor-house of Brunne in Com. Ebor. was taken away with divers goods there by certain unknown persons Whereupon the King sent his Precept to the Sheriff of York-shire to make strict search for her throughout all that County commanding him that in case he did find her out he should if need were raise the power of the County and carry her back to Brunne Before the end of this year he obtained the Kings Licence for a Market every week upon the Munday at Syvelington in Com. Ebor. and for a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow of St. Martin in Winter and in 34 E. 1. attended the King again into Scotland In which Wars he merited so well as that upon the disposal of the Lands of Christopher de Seton who was guilty of the Murther of Iohn Comyn he obtained a Grant of all those in Northumberland In 1 E. 2. he was made Governor of Rokyngham-Castle in Com. North. and Steward of that Forest. And in 2 E. 2. having occasions to Rome had the Kings Letters to one of the Cardinals on his behalf In this year being sent with an hundred Horse to fetch up Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln to the Court he lost his labour the Earl keeping himself in his Castle and soon after marcht again into Scotland So likewise in 4 E. 2. And in 6 E. 2. being divorced from Lucie his Wife Daughter and Heir to Richard de Thweng Married Sibill the Widdow of William de Huntingfield whereupon she the said Lucie took to Husband Robert de Everingham and afterwards Bartholemew de Fanecurt In this year marching again into Scotland upon the loss of the day at Bannoksburne he had the ill hap there to be taken Prisoner And in 10 E. 2. upon the Death of Alice his Mother doing his Fealty he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance viz. of the Moiety of the Mannor of Corby in Com. Northampt. as also of the Mannor of Sutton with the Hamlets of Potton Holme and Stratton in Com. Bedf. In 12 E. 2. being one of the adherents to Thomas Earl of Lancaster submitting himself he obtained pardon after which in 15 E. 2. upon that grand Insurrection of the same Earl he became one of the principal Leaders of those Forces which vanquished him and his whole Party at Butrough-â—rigg in Com. Ebor. whereof the chief of them that were not slain there but taken Prisoners suffered death shortly after Whereupon the next year following he was made Governor of the City of York and having been summoned to Parliament from 28 E. 1. until 1 E. 3. departed this life the same year being then seised of the Mannor of Aâ—he in Com. Cantii Sutton in Com. Bedf. Wodeâ—on in Com. Sur. Sâ—ameston with the Village of Bredale Sivelyngton and Thornton in Pykering-Lithe in Com. Ebor. having enfeoffed William de Latimer his Son of the Mannors of Gamelesby and Unthanke in Com. Cumbr. who then held them which William was at that time twenty six years of age And doing his Homage had Livery of the Mannor of Danby and all other the Lands of his Inheritance In 2 E. 3. this William
Lyngeâ—eid at the head of his Fathers Tombe and given Two hundred Marks for the Marriage of Margaret his Daughter in case she should be willing to take an Husband died about three years following viz 6 Iulii 4 H 4. being then seised of the Mannor of Aynho in Com. Northampt. Lâ—â—gley Burell Shorneton Cudeford the Moiety of the Mannors of Eleston and Stapelford of the Mannors of Boyton Corton Winterborne Stoke Cotes Hull Deverell and Somerford Matravers in Com. Wiltes Old Shorham Codelave and Changeton in Com. Suss. Coklington Stoke Tristre Hyneford and the Forest of Selwode in Com. Somers East Mordon Wichampton Lichet Matravers Phelpeston Up-Wimbnrne Langton in Purbeck Worthe Frome Whitefeld Lodres and Wodeton in Mersh-Wodenal in Com. Dors. Stonehouse in Com. Glouc. Aldington juxta Maâ—deston Haltesbury Est-Shelnebourdfeld Orkesden Chidingston Bokeshell Sharendon Brokland West-Elyve juxta Dovor and Postlyng in Kent Okstede Steresburgh called Pringeham and the third part of the Mannors of Bockland West Bechesworth Wauton and Colle in Com. Sur. leaving Reginauld his Son and Heir twenty one years of age and Alianore his Wife surviving who had the Mannor of Postlyng in Kent for life by the Grant of Sir Iohn Arundell Knight her former Husband and for her Dower of the Lands of this Reginald the Mannors of Bokeshell Eschelne Bourdefeld Aldyngton juxta Maydeston Orkesden and Haltesbury with a certain Tenement called Westwell in Westwell in Com. Cantii as also of the Mannor of Langele Burell in Com. Wiltes I now come to Reginald Son and Heir to the last mentioned Reginald This Reginald in 6 H. 4. had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance his Homage being respited and in 10 H. 4. obtained a special Licence to travail beyond sea He Married two Wives first Eleanore the Daughter of Thomas Culpeper and secondly Anne the Daughter and Co-heir of Thomas Lord Bardolf Widdow of Sir William Clifford Knight and by his Testament bearing date 12 Aug. 24 H. 6. bequethed his Body to be Buried in the Collegiate Church of Lingfeld before the High Altar appointing that a Tombe of Alablaster should be placed there for his Monument also that forty pounds should be allowed for his Funeral Expences and for his Trental and Almes to poor people at those Solemnities To Anne his Wife he thereby disposed all his Houshold-goods within his Castle at Sâ—erborough at the time of his decease appointing that during his life she should have the use of all the Furniture of his Chapel in that Castle and after her death to remain to the Master of the Collegiate-Church of St. Peter at Lingefeld then newly by him founded and to the Priests therein and their successors for ever constituting his Son Sir Thomas Cobham Knight one of his Executors His other Children were these viz. Reginald his eldest Son who died in his life time leaving Issue one sole Daughter his Heir called Margaret afterwards Married to Rapâ—e Nevill the second Earl of Westmorland of that name and four Daughters viz. Elizabeth Married to Richard Lord Strange of Knocking Margaret to Reginald Curteys Alianore to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester and Anne a Nun at Berking ¶ I come now to Stephen de Cobâ—am Son of Henry de Cobham by Ioane Daughter and Coheir to Stephen de Pencestre This Stephen being of Rundell in Kent in 34 E. 1. at that famous Solemnity when Prince Edward was Knighted with Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies received the like Honour with him and many others Upon the death of Iâ—â—ne his Mother in 18 E. 2. performing his fealty he shared in the Lands of her Inheritance And having been summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 20 E. 2 till 6 E. 3. died the same year being then seised of the Mannors of Rounoaâ—â— and Alyngton in Com. Cantii leaving Iohn his Son and Heir thirteen years of age and Avice his Wife surviving Who held for her life the Castle and Mannor of Alyngton and Mannor of Roundale and died in 14 E. 3. Which Iohn in 16 E. 3. was of the Retinue with Reginald de Cobham his Uncle in that Expedition then made into France and departed this life upon the 14 of Sept. 36 E. 3. being then seised of the Castle of Aungton and Mannors of Roundale and Heure in Kent leaving Thomas his Son and Heir nineteen years of age Of whom and his Descendents I have no more to say in regard they were not Peers of this Realm ¶ There was also Raphe de Cobham Brother of the first mentioned Stephen Which Raphe being in the Wars of France of the Retinue with Iohn Earl of Warren and Surrey in 18 E. 2. had Summons to Parliament the same year amongst the Barons This Raphe took to Wife Mary Countess of Norfolke Widdow of Thomas of Brotherton Earl of Norfolke Which Mary was Daughter to William Lord Ros and first Married to William Lord Braose of Brembre and by her had Issue Iohn who in 20 E. 3. making proof of his age and doing his Fealty had Livery of his Lands Which Iohn in 34 E. 3. was in the Wars of France And in 1 R. 2. by petition in Parliament representing to the King and his Councel that he had made King Edward the Third Heir to all his Lands after his own decease viz. to the Mannors of Wedenhall Paydenor Chelwoldesbury Haukshard Holt Wedon in the Vale Drayton Beauchamp Messeworth Sandresdon Helpesthorpe Rolvesham in Com. Buck. Colstune in Com. Norff. Ardington in Com. Bedf. and Roleston in Com. Leic. And that this he had done for the great affection which he bore to Prince Edward eldest Son to that King to the intent that he should be the more ayding to him by the Livery of a Ring of Gold at Thorne near Sandwich upon the Kings passage into France he desired that they would ordain that his mind might be fulfilled in discharge of the Soul of the same King Edward Stapleton 6 Edw. 2 OF this Family which without doubt assumed their Sirname from the Lordship of Stapleton lying upon the River of Tese in the Bishoprick of Durham was Nicholas de Stapleton in 17 Ioh. constituted Governor of Middleham-Castle in Com. Ebor. From whom descended Miles de Stapleton Which Miles in 23 E. 1. was in that Expedition then made into Gascoigne and in 26 E. 1. in the Wars of Scotland So likewise in 28 E. 1. and 32 E. 1. As also in 34. and 35 E. 1. being then in the Retinue of Edward Prince of Wales In 4 E. 2. he received command to be at Rokesburgh in Scotland well fitted with Horse and Arms upon the Feast day of St. Peter ad vincula and in 7 E. 2. was again in those Scotish Wars This Miles took
to Wife Sibill one of the Daughters and Co-heirs of Iohn de Bella aqua or Beleu and having been summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm in 6 and 7 E. 2. departed this life in 8 E. 2. leaving Nicholas his Son and Heir who doing his fealty had Livery of his Lands excepting those which were of the Dowrie of Ioane the Wife of him the said Miles then surviveing Which Nicholas taking part with Thomas Earl of Lancaster in 15 E. 2. in that unhappy Insurrection so fatal to himself and many other eminent Persons his Adherents was fined at two thousand Marks to the King for the saving his life which Fine was remitted in the Parliament of 1 Edward 3. and haveing been summoned to Parliament in 16 E. 3. and no more died in 17 E. 3. leaving Miles his Son and Heir of full age who became a person of great note in his time For in 16 E. 3. he was in that Expedition then made into Britanny And in 20 E. 3. attending the King into France was at the Siege of Calais In 23 E. 3. he was again in those Wars of France So likewise in 29 E. 3. residing then at Bedale in Com. Ebor. And in 30 E. 3. when Philip Brother to the King of Navarre came into England to obtain help for the recovery of his Lands in Normandy being an expert Souldier he was sent with him Whereupon they passed through that Country with two thousand Men took and burnt several Towns and strong-holds till they came within nine Leagues of Paris and returned not till they had compelled the French unto a Truce for one whole year And having served in those Wars with great Fidelity and Courage in 34 E. 3. obtained a Grant for an Annuitie of one hundred pounds to be paid out of the Kings Exchequer at Michaelmass and Easter by even portions as also License to found a perpetual Chantrey consisting of one Warden and two Priests in Honor of the Holy Trinity in the Parochial Church of Ingham to celebrate Divine Service there for the good estate of himself and Ioane his Wife Daughter and Heir to Oliver de Ingham and Widdow of Roger le Straunge during this life and afterwards for the health of their Souls and the Souls of all the faithful deceased Unto which Chantry he gave the Advouson of the Church of Ingham and the fifth part of the Mannoâ— of Stalhamhaâ—le After which the next ensuing year he was again in those Wars of France So likewise in 38 E. 3. and having been one of the Knights Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter elected at the foundation thereof but never summoned to Parliament departed this life in 47 E. 3. and was buried in the Church of Ingham whereupon Thomas his Son and Heir doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands Which Thomas died the same year without Issue leaving Elizabeth his Sister his next Heir then Married to Thomas Metham Which Thomas having at that time Issue by her and doing his Homage obtained Livery s of the Lands of her Inheritance Northwode 6 Edw. 2. IN 42 H. 3. upon the death of Reginald de Cobham at that time Sheriff of Kent Roger de Northwode one of his Executors accounted to the Exchequer for what he received whilst he lived and departed this life in 14 E. 1. whereupon Iohn his Son and Heir doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands Which Iohn in 22 E. 1. having Summons in the Month of Iune amongst divers other eminent persons of that time to attend the King and to give him his advice in certain important affairs relating to his Honor and the publick welfare of his people soon after that received command to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to be at Portsmouth upon the first of September following thence to sayl with him into France In 25 E. 1. he served in that Expedition then made into Flanders And in 28 Edw. 1. was Sheriff of Kent In 4 Edw. 2. he was in the Wars of Scotland So likewise in 11 E. 2. being at that time of the Retinue of Bartholomew de Badlesmere This Iohn Married Ioan de Badlesmere and having had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 6 E. 2. till 12 E. 2. inclusive departed this life shortly after leaving Roger his Grandson Son of Iohn his eldest Son who died in his life time his next Heir who doing his Homage had at that time Livery of his Lands Of which Iohn who so died in his life time all I have seen is that in 31 E. 1. he was in the Scotish Wars and that by Agnes his Wife Daughter of William de Grandison he had Issue this last mentioned Roger who in 14 E. 3. was in that Expedition made into Flanders and of the Retinue with William de Clinton Earl of Huntington and in 16 E. 3. in that into France of the Retinue with Robert de Vfford Earl of Suffolke This Roger being in minority at the time of his Grandfathers death whereupon Idonea the Widdow of Sir Geffrey de Say obtained his Wardship afterwards took to Wife Iulâ—an one of the Daughters and Heirs of the same Sir Geffrey and having been summoned to Parliament in 34 E. 3. but no more died 5. Nov. 35 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Schorne Herietesham juxta Ledes Thornham Bingebury juxta Maydston Yoke in Fernstede Wicheling juxta Lenham Northwode-shep and Horton all in Com. Cantii leaving Sir Iohn Northwode Knight his Son and Heir thirty years of age Which Sir Iohn in 29 E. 3. his Father then living was in the Wars of France So likewise in 33 E. 3 being then of the Retinue with Iohn de Cobham Son to the Countess Mareschal And having been summoned to Parliament from 37 E. 3. until the 49 th of that Kings Reign inclusive departed this life 27 Feb. 2 R. 2. leaving Issue by Ioane his Wife Daughter of Robert Hert of Feversham in Kent Roger his Son and Heir twenty three years of age which Roger soon after doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands But of him nor his Descendents I shall not take any farther notice by reason that none of them had Summons to Parliament and consequently stood not in the Rank of Barons of this Realm Cherlton Lord Powys 7 Edw. 2. IN 1 E. 2. Iohn de Cherlton obtained a Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesn-Lands at Cherlton and Pontesbury in Com. Salop. And in 2 E. 2. had a confirmation of that Mannor of Pontesbury sometime belonging to Rhese ap Howell to hold in general tail by the services antiently
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
was slain at Barnet-Field An. 1471. 11 E. 4. but left no issue 4. Sir Iohn Bourchier Knight who married Elizabeth Neice and heir to William Lord Ferrers of Groby Widow of Edward Lord Grâ—y of Groby 5. Sir Thomas Bourchier Knight who married Isabel daughter and heir of Sir Iohn Barre Knight Widow of Humphrey Stafford Earl of Devon 6 Sir Edward Bourchier Knight slain in the battel of Wakefeild and 7. Fulke who died young As also a daughter called Isabel who lived but a few dayes And now before I proceed to speak of Henry the succeeding Earl it will be fit to take notice that William his father so deceased as before is observed married Anne one of the daughters of Richard Widvile the first Earl Rivers of that Family sister and coheir to Richard Widvile the last Earl Rivers and that he had issue by her one son called Henry of whom I am in the next place to speak and two daughters viz. Cecilie who became the Wife of Iohn Devereux Lord Ferrers of Chartley and Isabell As also that King Edward the Fourth taking into consideration that she the said Anne was sister to Elizabeth his Queen did for her better support grant unto her and the heirs male of her body the Mannor of Over-hall as also the mannor of Nether-hall otherwise called Sylvester's-hall in St. Mary Buris in Com. Suff. and Essex Likewise the Mannor of Downham with the Advouson of the Church and One hundred Acres of Land Two hundred Acres of Marish and One hundred Acres of Pasture called Erlesfee in Bures-Giffard in the said County of Essex which came to the Crown by the attainder of Iohn Earl of Oxford in the Parliament begun at Westminster 6 Oct. 12 E. 4. Moreover one capital Messuage in North Lynne One hundred Acres of Pasture in Clenchwarton the Mannor of Botleys in Hardwyke and South Lynne in Com. Norff. as also the Mannor of North Fambrige in Com. Essex But I return to Henry the succeeding Earl This Henry being a person of singular endowments as saith my Author was in 1 H. 7. made choice of by that prudent Prince for one of his Privy-Council and in 8 H. 7 attending him in his Army into France was at the Siege of Boloin In 9 H. 7. he had a special Livery of all the Lands which by the death of Henry late Earl of Essex his Grandfather William his Father Isabell his Grandmother Anne his Mother and Sir Thomas Bourchier Knight his Uncle to whom he was heir of right descended to him And in 12 H. 7. was one of the chief Commanders in the King's Army at Black-Heath whereby the Insurrection of the Cornish-men at that time made was happily suppress'd In 15 H. 7. he attended the King and Queen to Calais where they met with the Duke of Burgundy And in 1 H. 8. was made Captain of the King's Horse-guard then newly constituted for attending on his person which consisted of Fifty Horse trapp'd with Cloth of Gold or Goldsmith's work whereof every one had his Archer a Demi-lance and Coustrill In 5 H. 8. he attended the King again into France in that memorable Expedition to Theâ—ouene and Tournay being then Lieutenant-General of all the Speares And in 8 H. 8. at that famous Just which the King held upon the Nineteenth and Twentieth of May for the Honor of Margaret his Sister Queen of Scotland who after the death of K. Iames the Fourth her Husband married Archibald Douglas Earl of Angus fled into England he with the King himself the Duke of Suffolk and Nicholas Carew Esquire answered all comers In 12 H. 8. he once more attended K. Henry into France and was at that magnificent enterview betwixt him and Francis the First betwixt Arbres and Guisnes And in 13 H. 8. upon the Attainder of Edward Duke of Buckingham obtain'd a Grant to himself and the heires-male of his body of the Mannor of Bedminster in Com. Somerset Moreover in 22 H. 8 he was one of the Peeres which signed that Letter to Pope Clement the Seventh intimating that in case he did not comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce which had been agitated concerning Q. Catherine his Supremacy here would not long be owned But in 31 H. 8. adventuring to ride a young unruly Horse at his Mannor of Basse in Com. Hertf he had the hard hap to be overthrown and by the fall to break his neck upon the thirteenth of March whereupon he was buryed at his Mannor of Estanes in Com. Essex leaving issue by Mary his Wife the elder of the two daughters and heires of Sir William Say Knight one sole daughter and heir called Anne Wife d of Sir William Parre Knight Lord Parre of Kendall afterwards Earl of Essex and Marquess of Northampton but that Marriage was in 5 E. 6. disannull'd by Act of Parliament Bourchier Lord Fitz-VVarine I Now come to William Bourchier third son to William Bourchier Earl of Ewe and Anne his Wife Daughter and heir to Thomas of Wodstoke Duke of Glocester This William having married Thomasine the daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hankford Knight by Elizabeth his Wife sister and heir to Fulke Lord Fitz-warine as also sister and heir to Elizabeth the other daughter of the said Richard was summon'd to Parliament in 27 H. 6. and afterwards till his death by the Title of Lord Fitz-warine And in 1 E. 4. in consideration of his acceptable services obtain'd a Grant of the Office of Master-Forester of the Forest of Ermore in Com. Devon as also of the Forest of Racche in Com. Somerset for life Moreover in 6 E. 4. in consideration of certain verball promises which the King had made unto him he procured License by himself or his Agents to transport a Thousand Woollen-clothes of his own proper Goods without paying of any Custome Afterwards he married a second Wife viz. Catherine the Widow of ... Stukeley Which Catherine with his License and consent by her Testament bearing date at Bamptone 13 Febr. An. 1466. 6 E. 4. bequeath'd her body to be buried in the Parish-Church of West Wolryngton in Com. Devon and gave to Elizabeth her Daughter a Girdle of Red Tissue After which viz. 26 Martii 7 E. 4. she died being joyntly seised with her said Husband of the Mannors of Affreton Eswellington Thellebrige Mewshawe Bradford Tracy North-Stodlegh and Brygernell in Com. Devon The certain time of his death I find not but that he had summons to Parliament from 27 H. 6. till 12 E. 4. inclusive and was buried in the Augustine-Friers at London To him succeeded Fulke his son and heir called also Lord Fitz-Warine who having been summon'd to Parliament in 12 E. 4. and not after by his Testament
Isabell his Wife nine Knights Feesâ— an half and fourth part in Kyngesdone Tonge Hamme Pysinge Botreshangre Merstone and Bykenore and to the Heirs of their two Bodies and in 33 E. 3. was in the Wars of France Moreover in 36 E. 3. upon the death of Margaret de St. Iohn Mother to Isabell his Wife he had an assignation of the Mannors of Basing and Shireburne as also of the Advouson of the Priory of Shireburne and Chapel of Basing with the Bayliwick of the Forest of Pambere which she the said Margaret held in Dower And in 43 E. 3. was again in the Wars of France Of his death I have not seen any thing but that he had Summons to Parliament from 42 E. 3. till 9 R. 2. inclusive Likewise that Isabell his wife surviving him died on Saturday 16 Oct. 17 R. 2. being then seised of the Mannor of Shirebune and Advouson of the Priory there also of the Mannors of Basing Bromiegh UUarneford Abboteston and Lhudeshuâ—e in Com. Southampt and of the Mannors of Bernham Middelton and Wodecote in Com. Suss. leaving Sir Thomas de Poynings Knight her son and heir Thirty six years of age Which Sir Thomas soon after doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance And in 2 H. 4. by the Title of Thomas Lord St. Iohn obtained License to go on Pilgrimage to Hierusalem having nine persons of his retinue viz. four Esquires four Ycomen one Groom with twelve Horses and their Furniture and to be absent for three years This Thomas in 1 H. 6. was with the Earl of Salisbury at the siege of Pont-Meulan And in 2 H. 6. associated with Robert de Wilughby to conduct and command Four hundred Men at Armes and Twelve hundred Archers into France for the King's service unto Iohn Duke of Bedford then Regent there And by his Testament bearing date at his said Mannor of Halâ—â—aked upon the Eve of St. Thomas the Apostle An. 1428. 7 H. 6. bequeath'd his body to be buried within the Quire of the Priory of Borgrade in Susser on the North-part of the Tombe of the Lady Philippa sometime Countess of Arundel and Pembroke his wife daughter to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March appointing that a Marble stone should be laid over his Grave and twelve Torches price six shillings eight pence to burn at the Mass upon his Funeral day and after Mass ended at his Burial Likewise that five Tapers weighing Forty pound of Wax should burn about his Body at his said Funeral and twelve poor people bearing the before-specified Torches each of them to have a Gown of black cloth and twelve pence in money To Isabell his daughter he bequeathed one dozen of silver Vessels garnished and constituted Maud his wife with Sir Iohn de Bohun Kâ—â—ght his Executors After which upon the seventh of March he departed this life being then seised of the Mannors of Basing Bromley Warneford Ludshuttr Likewise of the Advouson of the Priorie of Shâ—reburne and Bayliwick of the Forest of Pambere with the Mannors of Abboteston and Chaunton in Com. Southampt leaving Constance the wife of Iohn Paulet Alice the wise of Iohn Orrell and Iohn Bonevile his Cosins and next heirs viz. the said Constance and Alice the daughters of Hugh his son who died in his life-time and Iohn Bonevile son of Ioane the third daughter the said Constance being at that time Twenty years of age Alice Nineteen and Iohn Bonevile Sixteen Which Iohn and Constance with Iohn Orrel and Alice his wife and Thomas Bonevile Esquire Guardian of Iohn Bonevile son of the before-specified Iohn then under age doing their Homage had Livery of the Lands of their Inheritance Maud the Widow of the before-specified Thomas Poynings Lord St. Iohn having also an Assignation of her Dower Which Maud died in 31 H. 6. Bradestan 16 Edw. 3. THe first and chief person of this Family of whom I have seen any thing much memorable is Thomas de Bradestan of Bradestan within the Parish of Berkley in Com. Gloc. the antient seat of his Predecessors all of them Homagers to the Castle of Berkley for their Mannors of Bradestan and Stinchcombe holden by Knight's service This Thomas in 10 E. 2. was in the Scotish wars So likewise in 13 E. 2. But in 15 â— 2. adhering to Thomas Lord Berkley against the two Spensers those great Mynious to that King his Lands were seised Howbeit the next ensuing year in consideration of One hundred Marks Fine and giving Oath for his future good abearing he obtain'd his pardon the Judgment against him and the rest of those who flood up at that time being annull'd in Parliament After which in 19 E. 2. he obtain'd a Grant of the custody of Kingswood-Chase near Bristoll with other advantages And being a person in whom that unhappy King reposed much confidence the next year following received a special Commission to raise so many men at Armes with Archers and other Soldiers as he could get together for the defence and safe custody of Berkley-Castle as also to conduct them if need should be to March against those his Enemies and Strangers who had at that time entred the Realme And by another Commission dated 15 Octob. was made Governor of that Castle But so it hapned that at the very same time when these Commissions were coming towards him at Bradestan about two Miles from Berkley the Scene so changed that the King was almost totally forsaken so that those Soldiers thus raised by him serv'd in part to defend that Castle on the behalf of the Lord Berkley and the rest to go along with this Thomas to pursue the King In recompence therefore of this service upon the Deposal of King Edward the Second which soon after ensued and advancing young Edward his son to the Royal Throne he was made one of the Gentlemen of the King's Privy-Chamber Moreover through the favour of Queen Isabell he obtained a Grant of no less than three considerable Wardships And in 4 E. 3. was honoured with the dignity of Knighthood by Bathing c. having Robes and all other things appertaining to that Solemnity allow'd him out of the King's Wardrobe as for a Banneret Being therefore thus acceptable to that King and diligently attending on his Person in 5 E. 3. he was constituted Provost of that part of Aquitame which lieth betwixt the two Seas And the same year obtain'd the King's Confirmation of that Grant which Queen Isabell had made to him the preceding year of the Castle Berton and Tyne of Glocester for terme of his life paying One hundred and ten pounds yearly to the Exchequer In 7 E 3. being in that Expedition then made into Scotland in consideration of his good services he had by the consent of the Lords in Parliament a Grant
Pisa then in London and those of St. Luca with their goods to be arrested till he was delivered twelve of them being thereupon committed to the Tower of London who undertaking for his enlargement were Bailed But I return to Thomas his grandson whose Wardship was granted to Queen Philippa Wife to King Edward the Third This Thomas in 43 E. 3. upon the death of Agnes his grandmother obtain'd for his maintenance until he should arrive at his full age a grant of the third part of the Mannors of Uedeleye in Com. Essex and third part of the moiety of the Mannor of Shaldeford in Com. Surr. as also of the Mannor of Wynterbourne in Com. Gloc. which she held in Dower and the same year was in that Expedition then made into France But departed this life upon Tuesday next after the Feast of St. Dunstan 48 E. 3. being at that time seised of the Mannor of Shaldeford within the Town of Lollingham in Com. Surr. Of the Mannor of Multon in Com. Wigorn. Of the Mannors of Bradestan and Stinchescombe with the Hundred of Berkley and Mannor of Wynterbourne all in Com. Gloc. Of the Mannor of Alvithley in Com. Essex and Eversley in Com. Southampt leaving Elizabeth his sole daughter and heir then of the age of eight moneths Which Elizabeth in 13 R. 2. making proof of her age being then Married to Walter de la Pole had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance VVest 16 Edw. 3. THe first mention I have seen of this Family is in 17 E. 2. where Thomas de West having Married Alianore the daughter and heir to Sir Iohn de Cantilupe of Sniterfeld in Com. Warr. Knight obtain'd the King's Charter for a Market every week there upon the Tuesday as also for a Faire yearly upon the Eve and Day of St. Kenelme and six dayes after Likewise for Free-warren to them and the heires of their two Bodies in all their Demesn-lands there In which year he serv'd in the Parliament then held at Westminster as one of the Knights for that County In 19 E. 2. this Thomas receiv'd the honor of Knighthood by Bathing c. his Robes and all Accoutrements for that Solemnity being then allow'd out of the King 's great Wardrobe and in 1 E. 3. obtain'd License to make a Castle of his Mannor-house at Rughcombe in Wiltshire In 4 E. 3. he was made Governor of the Castle of Christ-Church in Com. Southampt and in 7 E. 3. serv'd in that Expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 9 E. 3. And in 12 E. in that of Flanders with William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury As also in 13 E. 3. And the same year in consideration of those his services obtain'd a Grant in Fee for Return of all Writs and Summons of the Exchequer within his Lordships of Swalclyff and Sutton in Com. Wilis In 16 E. 3. he accompanied Laurence de Hastings Earl of Pembroke in that memorable Expedition then made into France In which and other his great imployment he merited so well that he then had summons to Parliament amongst the Peeres of this Realme In 19 E. 3. he was again in the Wars of France with Richard Earl of Arundel After which time I find no more mention of him To him succeeded another Thomas his son and heir Which Thomas in 20 E. 3. being a Knight was in the Wars of France the English at that time being victorious at Cressi and in 29 E. 3. in the Scotish Wars In 33 E. 3. he accompanied Thomas de Cherleton then Lord Chamberlain to the King into Galcoine and in 44 E. 3. serv'd again in those Wars of Gascoine In I R. 2. he was in the Fleet with Iohn de Arundel the King s Marshal on the Seas And in 3 R. 2. in the Wars of France with Thomas of Wodstoke Earl of Buckingham In 8. R. 2. he was retein'd to serve in the Scotish Wars for Forty dayes the King himself being in person there And in 9 R. 2 for one quarter of that year in fortifying of Calais In 10 R. 2. he was again in the wars of France but died 3 Sept. the same year being then seised of the Mannor of Compton Valence in Com. Dorset and of the third part of the Mannor of Trente in Com. Somerset Of the Mannors of Snyterfelde in Com. Warr. Welneford Wesâ—one and Willerseye in Com. Gloc. Hempston Cantelo in Com. Devon Okehangre Newton Valence and Terstwode in Com. Southampt Wyke Haseldene Est-Hacche Napprede Roughcombe Swalâ—â—yve Eston juxta Berewyk Uptone Bradinore Sutton Mandevile Stratford Tony and Neuton Tony in Com. Wilts leaving Thomas his son and heir Twenty one yeares of age which Thomas was born at UUyke juxta Tissebury in Com. Wilts Alice his Wife then surviving Who by her Testament bearing date at Hynton Martel 15 Iulii Ann. 1395. bequeath'd her body to be buried in the Priory of Christ-Church in Com. Southampt where her Ancestors lay interred and gave to Thomas her son a Bed of Tapiters Work as also a pair of Matyn-Books a pair of Bedes and a Ring wherewith she was espoused to God which were the Lord her Fathers To Ioane her Sons Wife a Bed paled black and white To Sir Nicholas Clyfton Knight and Eleanore his Wife her daughter and Thomas clyfton her son One hundred and twenty pounds To her Sister Dame Lucie Fizherbert Prioress of Shaftsbury Forty pounds To her sister Thomase Blount a Nun at Romeseye Forty Marks And bequeathed Eighteen pounds ten shillings for Four thousand and four hundred Masses to be sung and said for the Soul of Sir Thomas West her Lord and Husband her own Soul and all Christian-Souls in the most haste that might be within fourteen nights next after her decease I now return to Thomas her son This Thomas succeeding his Father in that fair inheritance whereof he died seised as before is observed was in the Wars of France in 11 R. 2. And in 19 R. 2. upon the death of the before-specified Alice his Mother doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands which she held in Dower In 22 R. 2. he accompanied Edmund Duke of Albemarle into Ireland for the defence of that Realme and having been summoned to Parliament in 2 5 H. 4. by his Testament bearing date 8 Apr. An. 1405. 6 H. 4. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the new Chapel in the Mynster of Christ-Church-â—wyneham and to the work of that Church One hundred pounds Also to the Treasury there One hundred pounds upon condition that once in the year the Canons of that Monastery should keep solemnly the Minde id est the Obit of Thomas his Father Alice his Mother his own and Ioane his Wifes Minde He also bequeathed Eighteen pounds eighteen shillings four pence for
the Emperor against the French So likewise in 12 H. 7. of those Forces at that time raised for suppressing the Cornish-Mens Insurrection And in 5 H. 8. attended King Henry in that Voyage-Royal to Therouene and Tournay In 6 H. 8. he waited on the Lady Mary the Kings sister into France in order to her Marriage with King Lewes the Twelfth which was solemnized at Abbevile And in 14 H. 8. upon the second coming of the Emperor Charles the Fifth into England amongst other of the English Nobility he attended him from Gravelin to Calais and so to Dovor c. By his Testament bearing date 8 Oct. 17 H. 8. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Tombe of Freestone within the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Broadwater appointing that his Executors should bury him according to his honor and give two pence a piece in Almes to every poor Man and Woman who would come and receive it at the same Church of Broadwater Towards the charges whereof he willed that his Collar of Gold of Garters and Chaine which he usually wore should be sold. He likewise bequeathed to the said Church of Broadwater his Mantle of Blew Velvet of the Garter and his Gown of Crimson Velvet belonging thereto therewith to make two Altar-Clothes To Sir Thomas West his son nd heir he gave all his Hangings and Bedding within his great Chamber at Oâ—fyngton and died shortly after for the probate thereof beareth date 12 Febr. next ensuing Alianore his wife surviving him Which Alianore by her Testament bearing date 10 th Maii An. 1536. 28 H. 8. bequeath'd her body to be buried in the Tombe with the said Thomas Lord la Warre her late Bedfellow viz. in the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Broadwater in Com. Suss. appointing that a Priest should sing for her at Broadwater for the space of one year and that her Executors should give him for his wages Ten Marks This Thomas late Lord La Warre had issue four Sons viz. Thomas his son and heir Owen George and Leonard and three Daughters viz. ... Wife of Sir Anthony St. Amand Knight Catherine and Barbara Which Thomas his son and heir in 22 H. 8. with the rest of the Peeres in Parliament subscribed that Declaration sent to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby they gave him advertisement that his Supremacie here would be in danger to be cast off in case he did not comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce from Queen Catherine And in 31 H. 8. upon the dissolution of the greater Monasteries obtain'd a Grant of the sâ—ite and circuit of the Abby of Wherwell in Com. Southampt with the Lordships of Wherwell Weston Mâ—ddleton Totington Bolington Good alias Goodworth Clateford and Anne parva thereto belonging unto himself and Elizabeth his Wife and his heires in exchange for the Mannors of Halfnaked and UUaâ—â—erton in Com. Suss. with their Appurtenances in Mendham Byrdham UUestychenor Hunstoll Ivernoll Woodcote Westerton Strethampton Boxgraue Compton Dissham and Yapton in the same County Which Mannors the King through the incitation of Cromwell and other the chief contrivers in the dissolution of the Religious Houses gained from him to prevent the future restitution of those Lands to such uses whereunto they were originally intended This Thomas Lord la Warr having no issue of his Body took William his Brother's son who stood his next heir and bred him up in his own house But he being not content to stay till his Uncle's natural death prepared poyson to dispatch him quickly Which being discovered so highly incensed the good old man that in 2 E. 6. upon complaint thereof in Parliament he procured a special Act to attaint him so that he might not be capable of succeeding him in his Lands or Honor. After which departing this life at Offyngton on Tuesday 9 Oct. An. 1554. 1 2 Pb. M he was buried at Bridgwater To whom notwithstanding succeeded William his said Nephew and next heir Which William bearing the Title of Lord la Warre served in the English Army at the siege of St. Quintins in Picardy in 4 Mariae And in 5 Eliz. in the Parliament then held procuring a Restoration in blood he obtained a new Creation to the Title of Lord la Warre And having Married Elizabeth daughter to Thomas Strange of Chesterton departed this life in An. 1595. 38 Eliz. leaving issue Thomas his son and heir Which Thomas in 39 Eliz. exhibiting his Petition to the Queen in the Parliament then held to be restored to the place and precedencie of his Ancestors obtained his desire being thereupon set betwixt the Lord Willoughby of Cresby and the Lord Berkley This Thomas took to Wife Anne daughter to Sir Francis Knolles Knight of the Garter and Treasurer of the Houshold to Queen Elizabeth and by her had issue two sons Robert who married ... daughter of Sir Henry Cooke Knight but died without issue and Thomas As also six daughters Lucie married to Henry Ludlow Esquire Catherine who died unmarried Eleanor wedded to William Savage Anne to Iohn son and heir of Sir Brian Pellet Knight Penelope and Elizabeth Which Thomas in An. 1609. 7 Iac. being made Captain-General of all the Colonies then planted or to be planted in Uirginia went thither with three Ships and an Hundred and fifty men most Artificers but died in that Voyage leaving issue by Cecilie his Wife daughter of Sir Thomas Shirley Knight Henry his son and heir and six daughters Iane Elizabeth Anne Cecilie Lucie and Catherine Which Henry took to Wife Isabell the daughter of Sir Thomas Edmunds Knight Treasurer of the Houshold to King Charles the First and had issue by her Charles his son and heir who married Anne the daughter of Iohn Wilde of Dortwiche in Com. Wigorn. Esquire and Serjeant at Law and two daughters Elizabeth wedded to Francis Binlos Esquire and Mary to ... Orme Citizen of London Which Charles hath issue two sons Charles and Iohn and Cecilie a daughter Montgomerie 16 Edw. 3. IN 20 E. 3. Iohn de Montgomeri was in that great Expedition then made into France and in 21 E. 3. was made Captain of Calais as also Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet from the Mouth of Thames to the Westwards He had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm in 10 E. 3. but never after nor any of his Descendents Wilinton 16 Edw. 3. THough but one of this Family and no more than once had ever any summons to Parliament whereby he could be intitled to the honor of a Peer of this Realm yet have I thought fit to take notice of his Ancestors before I descend to speak of him In 8 H. 3. Raphe de Wilinton being made Governor of Bristoll Castle had also the Wardenship of the
Title no longer then his Father's life having therewithal a grant of the Castle Town and Lordship of Okham in Com. Rutl. with the Shirevalty of that County sometime belonging to William de Bohun Earl of Northampton in part of satisfaction of Eight hundred Marks per annum intended to him And in 14 R. 2. was constituted Lord Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet to the Northwards So likewise in 15 R. 2. being the same year in the Wars of France As also in Commission with Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster and others to Treat of Peace with the French In this year likewise he was made Justice of all the Forests South of Trent and Constable of the Tower of London for life after the death of Thomas Earl of Kent And was with Iohn Duke of Lancaster at the Treaty for Peace then held at Amiens in France In 17 R. 2. he had a Grant of all the Lands which Alianore the Wife of Raphe Lord Basset of Weldon held in Dower until Richard the son and heir of the said Raphe should accomplish his full age And the same year about the Festival of our Ladies Nativity attended the King into Ireland So likewise in 19 R. 2. into France at which time both King 's having an enterview near Ghisnes a Peace was concluded betwixt them and in memory thereof a Chappel at both their costs appointed to be built in the place and called our Lady of Peace In 18 R. 2. he was retein'd to serve the King in another Expedition for Ireland for the one half of that year with Fifty Men at Armes whereof ten to be Knights and an Hundred and fifty Archers on Horseback And in 19 R. 2. was one of the Commissioners appointed as proxie to espouse Isabel the eldest daughter to Charles the Sixth King of France on the behalf of King Richard In 20 R. 2. he was constituted Governor of the Isles of Garnesey and Iercesey for life and obtain'd the like Grant of the Isle of Wiht with the Castle of Caresbroke as also of the whole dominion belonging to that Castle Moreover about that time he was constituted Warden of New-Forest in Com. Southampt and of all the Forests South of Trent Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-Ports And in 21 R. 2. Constable of England 12 Iulii By which great Trusts and Benefits it was discernable enough that he was one of the principal persons then in power with that King and stuck at nothing that might satisfie his licentious humour for plain it is that he was not only privy and consenting to that Foul Design for Murthering his Uncle the Duke of Glocester at Calais but sent one of his servants viz. Cock of the Chamber to assist therein Which Barbarous Act was done upon Saturday next after the Feast of St. Bartholmew in 21 R. 2. Wherefore it may very well be thought that for his plotting and furtherance thereof he esteem'd his own Merit very great For immediately thereupon he had a grant bearing date 28 Sept. in tail special of the Mannor of Brustwyke in Holdernesse with the Castle of Skypse and Patronage of the Abby of Meaux in Com. Ebor. As also of the Mannor of Barwe and Patronage of Thornton-Abby in Com. Linc. Likewise of all the Mannors Lands c. in Preston Burton Pidse Bond Brustwyke Esyngton Kylnesee Wythornesee and Cleton late Thomas Duke of Glocesters attainted in the Parliament at Westminster on Monday next after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross the same year Also of the Town of Clone in Com. Salop. with the whole Territory of Clone in the Marches of Wales and of the Hundred of Posselow thereunto annexed late Richard Earl of Arundel's likewise attainted The like Grant he then had of the Mannor of Flamstede in Com. Hertf. with the Chase thereto appertaining late Thomas Earl of Warwick's attainted And before the end of that Moneth viz. 29 Sept. was advanced to the dignity of Duke of Albemarle By which Title he was within five dayes ensuing again made Constable of the Tower of London And in 22 R. 2. constituted General Warden of the West-Marches toward Scotland Likewise joyn'd in Commission with the Bishop of St. Asaph and others to Treat of Peace with the Scots as also retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in Ireland for one whole year with One hundred forty men at Armes that is to say Knights and Esquires Two hundred Archers on Horseback every twenty of the Archers having one Carpenter and one Mason But of that shameful Murther of the Duke of Gloceâ—ter neither the King nor he had much joy For the whole Realm soon after being in no little disturbance the King retired into Ireland this Duke attending him Whence hearing that Henry Duke of Lancaster was landed at Ravenspur he return'd and was with him at Flynt-Castle when that Duke took him thence After which upon King Richard's Deposal in the Parliament held I H. 4. his Title of Duke was taken from him with command that he should never afterwards adhere unto him upon penalty of Treason Nevertheless he was soon after in that Conspiracy with the Dukes of Surrey and Exeter to have kill'd King Henry at Windsor-Castle upon Twelfth-night in Christmass but discovering the Plot had Pardon and shortly after restitution of his Estate Whereupon he became so obsequious to that King as that upon the 28 th of August in the second year of his Reign he was constituted his Lieutenant in the Dutchy of Aquitane bearing then the Title of Earl of Rutland and Corke And in 4 H. 4. which was soon after his Father's death being in Gascoine had Livery of all his Lands with respite for his Homage This Edward married Philippa one of the daughters and heirs to Iohn Lord Mohun and in 7 H. 4. in the Parliament then held was restored to his hereditary Dignity of Duke of Yorke In 13 H. 4. he joyned with Thomas Duke of Clarence and others in ayd of the Duke of Orleans against the Duke of Burgundy and the next ensuing year was imployed in the Wars of France In 2 H. 5. he was constituted Justice of South-UUales and the same year made general Warden of all the East Marches towards Scotland In 3 H. 5. he attended the King in that great Expedition then made into France and in consideration of his vast expences in building and endowing the Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay and in fitting himself to serve the King in that present adventure whereby he had contracted many Debts so that without the Kings assistance he despaired the perfecting that pious work he obtained Licence to enfeoffe Henry de Beaufort Bishop of UUinchester and others of the Mannors of Fasterne Old-UUotton Tokenham Chelworth UUynterborne
I return to Edward who bore the title of Earl of Warwick only This Edward soon after the death of King Edward the Fourth being then about eight years of age was sent from York to the Castle of Shiriff-Hoton in that County by Richard Duke of Clocester his Uncle there to be secured that Duke then designing to Murther his two Nephews sons to King Edward the fourth and to make himself King Where he continued till Henry Earl of Richmund having slain King Richard in Battel at Bosworth-Field attain'd the Crown And then King Henry being jealous that some time or other being the last and only remaining Male-branch of the House of Yorke he might disturb his quiet caused him to be removed to the Tower of London where he was kept up in a more close and strait Imprisonment During which restraint an Insurrection being raised in Ireland under colour of setting him up as the only Male Plantaginet then alive one Lambert Simnell was instructed to personate him Whereupon to manifest that Lambert was a Counterfeit this Edward was brought forth and exposed to view in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul at London being then about fifteen years of age But afterwards viz. in 13 H. 7. upon that other endeavor by the Dutchess of Burgundy and some others who were Adversaries to the Lancastrian Family to set up Perkyn Warbeâ— another counterfeit instead of Richard the younger Son of King Edward the Fourth under colour that the said Richard had escaped that cruel Murther with his elder Brother King Edward the Fifth which t was generally believed he then suffered and got beyond Sea King Henry the Seventh to prevent any farther danger by this Edward pretended that he knew something of an Escape which Perkyn intended to have made out of the Tower whence strange Inferences were at that time raised took advantage thereby to cut off his Head Whereas in truth the real cause was that King Henry being upon a Treaty with Ferdinand King of Spaine for a Marriage on the behalf of Prince Arthur his eldest Son and the Lady Catherine Daughter to the same Ferdinand and finding that the Spaniard thought King Henry's Title to have no sure Foundation whilst this Branch of a Plantaginet was extant had a mind to dispatch him out of the World for the fairer effecting whereof a Commission was granted to Iohn Earl of Oxford then High Steward of England to Arraign him for that pretended offence Which was accordingly done 21 Nov. 15 H. 7. care being taken to instruct him that by confessing himself guilty he should be sure to find mercy from the King With which fair promises being caught he pleaded as they directed him and so betraying his life into the hands of those that so eagerly sought it had Judgment of death passed upon him and accordingly was Beheaded on Tower Hill upon the 28 th day of the same Month of November After which viz. 25 Ian. 19 H. 7. the better to countenance what was done he was attained in the Parliament then held So that all the favor he had was that being thus put to death his Body should be sent to the Abby of Bisham in Com. Berks. and there buryed with his Ancestors Which cruel dealing we may well fear to have been some cause of Gods Judgments upon K. Hen. the Seaventh's postesity as well as upon that noble Lady Katherine who became so sensible thereof when King Henry the Eighth her Second Husband prosecuted the Divorce betwixt them that she expressed as some have observed that it was the hand of God for that to clear the way to her Marriage the innocent Earl of Warwick was put to unworthy death And if it be seriously considered what befel that Earl of Oxford who gave Sentence of death upon him we may have cause enough to think that he did not well therein For having within a short time after lost the Kings favor and been fined at thirty thousand pounds for a very small offence he spent the rest of his life in discontent and departed this World without any lawful Issue ¶ I now come to Richard the other Son to the before-specified Richard Duke of Yorke and younger Brother to George Duke of Clarence This Richard being advanced to the Title of Duke of Gloucester in the Parliament held in 1 E. 4. shortly after the Coronation of that King was thereupon constituted Lord Admiral of England and for the better support of his dignity obtained a grant of the Fee Farm of Gloucester as also of the Office of Constable of Corf-Castle with the Lordship of Kyngeston Lacy in Com. Dors. Likewise of the Honor and Lordship of Richmund in Com. Ebor. Also of the Town of Chepyng-Norton in Com. Oxon. and of the Mannors of Saxton great-Campes Abiton magna and Swasham in Com. Cantab. of the Mannors of Polenethorn Penhal Tremokret Crevelyn Argalles Trewynyan and Droungolan in Com. Cornub. of the Mannors of Over-Hall and Nether-Hall in Levenham and Mannors of Aldham Preston Mendham and Cokefeld called Erles-Holl in Com. Suff. of the Castles and Mannors of Henham and Gelham parva with the Mannors of Uaux Bumstede called Countes-Medwe in Bumstede Nelion Canfeld magna Stansted Moâ—stchet Bumstede ad Turrim called Gebons Earles-Colne Creppyng Bentlegh magna Crustwiche Fyngrythe Dodynghurst Preyers Boure-Hall in Hyngham Creyes Eston-Hall Tileby Beamond Dounham and the Office of Forester in Com. Essex of the Mannors of Kensyngton and Watehurst in Com. Midd. Calverton in Com. Bedf. Milton and Paston in Com. Northampt. Market-Oâ—erton in Com. Rut. Flete and Batelesmere in Com. Cantii all which were part of the possessions of Iohn Earl of Oxford attainted And the next ensuing year another Grant of all the Castles Lordships Mannors and Lands both in England and UUales which did belong to Henry de Beaufort late Duke of Somerâ—et likewise attainted Moreover in 8 E. 4. he obtained a Grant of the Mannor of Fareley with its Members in Com. Somers Haightesbury and Tefont in Com. Wilts and of divers othe Mannors and Lordships part of the possessions of Robert Lord Hungerford attainted Likewise of the Town of Bedmynster with its Members in Com. Glouc. with all other the Lands in that County and in the Realm of England late belonging to Alianore Dutchess of Somerset and which by the attainder of Henry late Duke of Somerset and Edmund his Brother escheated to the Crown In 9 E. 4. he was made Constable of England as also Justice of North-Wales and South-Wales In 10 E. 4. Warden of the West-Marches towards Scotland Also the same year when King Edward his Brother being in such danger through the power of Nevill Earl of Warwick as I have elsewhere where shewed that he saw himself necessitated to get into Flanders he accompanied him thither in that his distress And upon his
the Dores should be shut upon them saying Have patience a while I will go into the City and acquaint the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs with the cause thereof and then return And accordingly leaving special Guards in the House rode with his Sword the rest accompanying him and taking with them as they passed the Earl of Bedford and Lord Cromwell cryed out For the Queen for the Queen saying also that his Life was sought not making any stay till he came to the House of Sheriff Smith in Fanchurch-street intreating the Citizens to Arm themselves But all in vain for instead of aid the Sheriff on whose assistance he much depended would not be seen getting out by a back door to the Lord Mayor The Lord Burghley with Garter King of Arms following and proclaiming him with all his Adherents Traytors The like did the Earl of Cumberland and Sir Thomas Gerard Knight-Marshal in other parts of the City Finding himself therefore in this forlorne condition he returned to Ludgate but being there stopt made back to Queen-Hithe and so got to Essex-House by Boats Where discerning that the Lord Keeper and the other Privy-Councellors whom he had shut up were set at liberty and returned to White-Hall in great perplexity he endeavored to fortifie the House But the Lord Admiral with considerable Forces suddainly besetting it after several Overtures whereby he would have made his conditions which would not be admitted he with the rest of his Adherents yielded themselves Whereupon it being about ten of the clock at night he was first carried to Lambeth-House and afterwards to the Tower of London And upon the nineteenth of the same Month of February brought to Westminster Hall where before the Lord Buckâ—urst then Lord High Treasurer of England constituted High Steward for that occasion being tryed by his Peers and found guilty of the Treason laid to his charge he had Sentence of death pronounced against him and accordingly lost his Head within the Tower of London upon the 25 th day of the same Month being at that time about thirty four years of age This hapned to be the end of this popular Man unto whose Story it will not be improper to add what is farther said of him by a person of great observation in his time viz. That the Queen being then grown old and the King of Scots not much regarded by the English nor well obeyed by his natural Subjects he began to look up towards the Crown unto which a Title was drawn for him as the direct Heir to Thomas of Woodstoke Duke of Gloucester one of the younger Sons to King Edward the Third This Man the Puritans cry up with most infinite praises both in their Pulpits and Pamphlets telling him that he was not only great in Honor and the Love of the people but temporis expectatione major far greater in the Expectation which his friends had of him And he accordingly applies himself to those of the Puritan Faction admits them to places of most Trust and Credit about his person keeps open House for Men of those opinions to resort unto under pretence of hearing Sermons and hearing no Sermons with more zeal and edification than those which seemed to attribute a power to Inferiour Magistrates for curbing and controling their undoubted Sovereign Which questionless must needs have ended in great disturbance to the Church and State if he had not been outwitted by Sir Robert Cecil Sir Walter Raleigh and the rest of their Party in the Court by whom he was first shifted over into Ireland and at last brought upon the Scaffold not to receive a Crown but to lose his Head which hapned very oportunely for King Iames of Scotland whose entrance might have been opposed and his Title questioned if this ambitious Man had prospered in his undertakings which he conducted generally with more heat than Judgment By Frances his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Francis Walâ—ingham one of the Queens Principal Secretaries of State and Widdow of Sir Philip Sydney he left Issue one Son called Robert and two Daughters viz. Frances who became the Wife of William Earl of Hertford afterwards Marquess of Hertford and Duke of Somerset and Dorothy first Married to Sir Henry Shirley of Stanton Harold in Com. Leic. Baronet but after to William Stafford of Blatherwick in Com. North. Esquire Which Robert with his said Sisters Frances and Dorothy were by Act of Parliament in 1 Iac. restored in Blood and Honor. After which this last mentioned Robert took to Wife the Lady Frances Second Daughter to Thomas Howard Earl of Suff. but that Marriage being nullified in 11 Iac. she soon Wedded Sir Robert Carr Knight of the Garter and Earl of Somerset whereupon though long after viz. in An. 1631. 7 Car. 1. he espoused Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir William Paâ—let of Eddington in Com. Wilts Knight one of the natural Sons of William the third Marquess of Winchester of that Family by whom he had Issue Robert a Son who died an Infant That the discontent which this Earl took upon his first Wifes behaviour towards him which produced that Nullity occasioned him to retire and then viz. in Iuly An. 1621. to go into the Palatinate there to exercise himself in the discipline of War is not unknown to many and that being there he became tainted with some Calvinistical principles there are few I suppose but do believe Nevertheless so great a confidence had the late King Charles the first of blessed Memory in his loyalty as that upon the first Insurrection of the Scots in An. 1639. he made him Lieutenant General of his Army in that Northern Expedition and afterwards Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold How it came to pass therefore that he was drawn off from his due Allegiance to that pious King in An. 1642 and accepted of a Commission to be General of those Forces then raised by Authority of the unhappy Long Parliament at that time fitting under the specious pretence of Safety to the Kings Royal Person preservation of the Religion here by Law established defence of the Laws and Liberty of the Subject How likewise and for what time he acted for them in that capacity how also he fell off and how he dyed which was not without suspition of poyson I leave to the relation of such faithful pens as may more properly represent it to the World in the next Age than now concluding my story of him that his death hapned at Essex House in London 14 Sept. An. 1646. and that he had thereupon a most magnificent Funeral at the charge of that Parliament upon the 22 day of October then next ensuing the proceeding being performed in great State unto the Abby Church of Westminster where he lyeth buried in St. Pauls Chapel Northward of the Capella Regum but without any Issue By reason whereof the Dignity of
of KING RICHARD the SECOND UNTIL This Present Year 1676. DEDUCED From Publick Records Antient Historians and other Authorities BY WILLIAM DUGDALE NORROY King of Arms. TOME the Third LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Abel Roper Iohn Martin and Henry Herringman at the Sun in Fleetstreet the Bell in S. Pauls Churchyard and at the Anchor in the Lower-walk of the New Exchange 1676. THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND The Third TOME Beauchamp of Kederminster 11 Rich. 2. TO this Third Tome of the present Work consisting chiefly of Barons by Patent I shall not need to prefix any Preface at all Of these the first on whom that dignity hath been conferred was Sir Iohn de Beauchamp of Holt in Com. Wigorn. Knight Grandson to Iohn de Beauchamp of Holt a younger son to William de Beauchamp of Elmely by Isabell his wife daughter and heir to William de Mauduit E. of Warwick as in my discourse of that great Family I have in due place already shewed Of which Iohn and what is most memorable of him under the Title of Beauchamp of Holt I have also given a full account Where inter alia it is observ'd that he was not only Steward of the Houshold to King Richard the Second but in such high favour otherwise as that he had a Grant from him of all the Mannors and Lands belonging to the Priory of Deorhurst in Com. Glo◠then seised into the King's hands by reason of the Wars with France as all other the possessions of the Priories-Alien at that time were which Grant bears date 5 Oct. 11 R. 2. and by other Letters Patent bearing date at 〈◊〉 upon the tenth day of the same moneth in consideration of his many services and by reason of the place he held at that King's Coronation as also which he might thereafter hold in the said King's Councils and Parliaments Likewise in consideration of his noble descent great judgment and circumspection was advanced to be one of the Peers and Barons of this Realm so that he and the heirs male of his Body should enjoy the state and dignity of Barons and be stiled Lords Beauchamp and Barons of Rederminster But of this Honor he had no long enjoyment for through the Potencie of the great Lords then Predominant the King being forc'd to call a Parliament shortly after the Feast of the blessed Virgin 's Purification then next ensuing he had for the reasons which in my former discourse of him are inferred sentence to be drawn and hang'd but by special favour had his Head smitten off on Tower-Hill That the solemn Investiture of this Iohn and all other the Barons who were thenceforth created by Patent was perform'd by the King himself by putting on a Robe of Scarlet as also a Mantle with two Gards on the left shoulder and a Hood all furr'd with Minever there is no doubt Which forme of Creation continued until the Thirteenth year of King Iames that Sir Iames Hay a Scothman was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by Letters Patent bearing date 29 Iunii by the Title of Lord Hay of Sauley in Com. Ebor. the Lawyers then declaring that the delivery of the Letters Patent was sufficient without any ceremony But now besides this honorable Robe through the special favour of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second there hath been granted to the Barons a Coronet of Gold with six Pearls placed upon the circle thereof as by a special Instrument under his Majesties Royal Signet bearing date upon the sixth day of Iuly 1661. in the Thirteenth year of his Reign appeareth The forme of which is by divers Painters and Carvers already so much mistaken as that they commonly advance the Pearls thereon in such sort as those are wherewith the Earls Coronets be regularly adorn'd though not as yet to the full heighth Whereas they being devised in imitation of the Vicounts Coronets the Pearls ought to stand as theirs do without any advancing at all Berners ... Hen. 4. OF this Family because very antient though not then Noble I shall take notice of what I have seen from our publick Records notwithstanding it is but little In the time of King William the Conqueror Hugh de Berners possessed Evresdone in Com. Cantabr And in 6 R. 1. Robert de Berners gave a Fine of Two hundred Marks for obtaining the King's favour and restitution of his Lands In 8 H. 3. the King sent his Precept to the Sheriff of Sussex to make Livery unto Iohn Bishop of Ely of all the Goods and Chattels of Raphe de Berners then being in his Mannors of Bromfeild Black-Nuttelegh and Newenton to distribute for the health of his Soul After that there was another Raphe de Berners who in 49 H. 3. took part with the rebellious Barons of that age Which Raphe for I take it to be the same in 13 Edw. 1. was Sheriff of Berkshire for the last quarter of that year as also for half the fourteenth year and departed this life in 25 E. 1. being then seised of the Mannor of Yseldon vulgo Islington in Com. Midd. West-Horslegh in Com. Surr. of the inheritance of Christian his Wife Ikelingham in Com. Suff. and of the Mannors of Bernestoue Rothings and Berwyke in Com. Essex leaving Edmund his son and heir twenty six years of age then in Gascoigne From whom descended as I ghess Sir Iames de Berners Knight a great Favorite to King Richard the Second Who in that Kings Reign when the great Lords were prevalent amongst others then accounted Enemies to the publick was Arrested of Treason and committed to Prison Whence being brought to judgment in the ensuing Parliament he underwent the sentence of death as a Traitor and suffered accordingly To whom succeeded Richard his son and heir Which Richard residing at West Horsley in Com. Surr. had the reputation of a Baron of this Realm though nothing of his Creation or summons to Parliament that I could ever see doth appear thereof And Married Philippa the daughter of Edmund Dalingrig but departed this life in 9 H. 5. leaving issue Margery his daughter and heir first married to Iohn Feriby Esquire and afterwards to Iohn Bourchier fourth son to William Bourchier Earl of Ewe Which Iohn bore the Title of Lord Berners as is shewed where I speak of that Family Thomas Duke of Clarence 13 Hen. 4. THis Thomas being second son to King Henry the Fourth by Mary his wife daughter and coheir to Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton and Constable of England was Knighted upon the Eve of his Father's Coronation by Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies having the like Accoutrements for that Solemnity allow'd out of the great Wardrobe as were for his Brother Iohn Duke of Bedford And being shortly after made Steward of England in the
made into Aquitane under the Conduct of Iohn Talbat Earl of Shrewsbury with a certain number of men at Arms and Archers viz. himself and one Banneret two Knights fifty six men at Arms and six hundred Archers on Foot Where endeavouring the relief of Chastillon then besieg'd by the French that renowned Earl had the hard fate to be slain and he taken Prisoner Whereupon Alianore Countess of Arundel Lady Matravers and Hungerford sometime Wife of Sir Walter Hungerford Knight his Grandfather by her Testament bearing date 20 Julii on 1455. 33 H. 6. gave unto him all her Wooll then being in her Mannor of Haytesbury valued at C marks towards the payment of his ransome upon condition that he came alive out of Prison By which help and other supplies from Margaret Lady Hungerford and Botreaux his Mother as hath been already obâ—â—â—ved after seven years and four months durance he was enlarged Whereupon in 38 H. 6. in consideration of his manifold services and adventures in the Civil Wars of that time against the King's Enemies as also his Services in France with five hundred men at Arms at his own expences for the space of one whole month over and above the time he had been retained where he reduced divers places and Castles to the Kings obedience And likewife considering his misfortune in being there wounded taken Prisoner and detained for a long time and lastly put to ransome himself for twelve thousand marks and upwards for these are the words of the Grant he obtain'd Licence to transport fifteen hundred Sacks of Wooll into any Foreign parts without payment of Custom for the same As also to travel beyond Sea and to take as many with him in his Company with gold silver and other necessaries as should be sutable to his degree Whereupon he went to Florence Whence ere long returning and siding with the Lancastrians at Towton-field upon the loss of that day he fled to York where King Henry then was and thence with him into Scotland by reason whereof he was attainted in the Parliament begun 4 o Nov. 1 E. 4. Notwithstanding which King Edward took such compassion on Alianore his Wife as also on his two younger Sons and one Daughter that having granted all his Lordships Mannors and Lands to Iohn Lord Wenlok he committed her and them to the Custody of that noble Lord for a fitting support so long as he the said Robert should live the Lands whereof he was then seised and at that time in the Crown by reason of his attainder being the moity of the Mannor of Stoke Moyles in Com. Oxon. ... the Mannors of South Cadbury Helbroke Mapurton Clopton Halton and Hatherley in Com. Somers the Mannors of South Pole Harliston Plimtre Sutton Lucie Colewyke Wolmyston and the third part of the Mannor of Weke Cobeham in Com. Devon the Mannors of Somerford Manduit and Funtell Giffard Heightesbury ... in Hornyngesham Fenny-Sulton and Codford with the Hundred of Heightesbury in Com. Wilts And in right of Alianore his Wife Daughter and Heir to William Lord Molyns of the Mannors of Ludgarsale Adyngton Weston Turvile Ilmere Aston Molyns Chadisley Molyns Stoke Pogeys and Dytton in Com. Buck-Henley upon Thames Broughton Bampton Aston Bampton Stanlake and Swereford in Com. Oxon. Pengelly Polruen Molyns and Trengef in Com. Cornub But in 3 E. 4. the Lancastrians making head in the North and possessing themselves of divers Castles he flew out again being the chief of those who were in the Castle of Alnwike with five or six hundred Frâ—nch-men and soon after that at Hexham where being taken Prisoner in Battel he was convey'd to New-Castle and there beheaded but was buried in the North Isle of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury By the before-specified Lady Alianore his Wife he had issue three Sons Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Walter and Leonard Which Alianore surviving him afterwards married to Sir Oliver Manningham Knight and lieth buried at Stoke Pogeys with this Epitaph Hîc hoc sub lapide sepelitur corpus venerabilis Dominae Alianorae Molins Baronissae Quam priùs desponsavit dominus Robertus Hungerford miles Baro. Et hanc postea nupsit honorabilis Deminus Oliverus Maningham miles quorum animabus c. To this last mention'd Robert succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas sided with Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick for a while who then took part with King Edward the Fourth But afterwards falling off and endeavouring the restauration of King Henry the Sixth was seized on and tried for his life at Salisburg on Munday preceeding the Feast of St. Hilary 8 E. 4. before Richard Duke of Glouc. William Earl of Arundell Anthony Lord Scales Iohn Lord Audley Humphrey Lord Stafford of Suthwite William Lord Sturton and others Where he had judgment of Death as a Traytor and suffered accordingly the next day But in 1 H. 7. his Attainder as also that of Robert his Father being reversed in Parliament his Heir had restitution of his Lands and Honours This Thomas had to Wife Anne Daughter to Henry Earl of Northumb. who surviving him married to Sir Laurence Raynesford Knight and afterwards to Sir Hugh Vaughan Knight and departing this life 5 Iulii an 1522. 14 H. 8. was buried in the midst of St. Michaels Chappel in St. Margarets Church at Westm. By which Anne he had Issue one Sole Daughter his Heir called Mary whose Wardship upon the death of Margaret her great Grandmother which hapned 7 Febr. 7 E. 4. she being at that time eleven years of age was granted to William Lord Hastings Lord Chamberlain to King Edward the Fourth who thereupon gave her in marriage to Edward his Son and Heir Which Mary from whom the present Earl of Huntington is descended used the title of Lady Hungerford Homet Botreaux Moules Molins and Peverell as by the circumference of her Seal appearth and brought a large Estate to her Husband as by this following Schedule will appear   l. s. d. In Com. Buck Brechill cum pertin 25 01 11. Addington 12 00 00. Aston-Molins 11 17 00. In Com. Oxon. Aston-Bampton 27 06 00. Gollyfers in Bampton 08 16 06. Stanlacke 13 10 03. Broughton and Nether Silkin 12 16 11. Stoke-Mules 13 13 06. In Com. Wiltes Lea Brinckworth and Claverton 28 00 01 ob Whitleigh 13 06 08. Rowdon and Chippenham 19 15 10. Orston George 05 00 00. Russhall 47 05 09. Orwell in Trowe 04 00 00. Bampton Fisherton and Winterbornstocke 05 02 08. Box 12 00 00. Warmyster 10 13 06. Honybrudge Bradford and Tirling 22 03 04. Hempford Milln Wroxall and Tesfont-Ewyas 00 05 00. quia in lite inter D. Hunt haeredes Walt. Hungerford    In Com. Somers Newton St. Loe 29 13 04. Publow and Pensford 43 02 06. In Com.
it seems For to Pontâ—ract-Castle they hurried him where Sir Richard Ratecliffe Knight one of the Duke of Gloucester's chief Confidents brought him out to a Scaffold telling the people he was a Traytor and not suffering him to speak any thing in Vindication of himself caused his Head to be cut off Another Wife he had called Mary Daughter and Heir to Henry Fitz Lewes but no issue saving one illegitimate Daughter called Margaret Married to Sir Robert Poynes Knight ¶ To this Earl succeeded in his Honours Richard his Brother Which Richard in 5 H. 7. was by Indenture retain'd to serve the King in that Army then sent into Britanny And by his Testament bearing date 20 Febr. an 1490. 6 H. 7. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Abby of St. Iames at Northampton in a place made ready for the same And to the Parish-Church of Grafton all such Cattel as he then had at Grafton viz. two Oxen five Kine and two Bullocks to the intent that they should yearly keep an Obiit for his Soul viz. Dirige and Masse of Requiem with the Curate iv Priests and iv Clerks as also an Herse and four Tapers every Priest taking for his Wages vd. and every Clerk iiid. Appointing that the Lord Thomas Marquess Dorfet should be his Heir to whom he thereby gave all his Lands wheresoever desiring him that there might be as much underwood sold in the woods at Grafton as would buy a Bell to be a Tenor at Grafton to the Bells then there for a Remembrance of the last of the blood And died upon the sixth of March next following without Issue whereupon his Sisters before-mention'd became his Heirs Lord Hoo and Hasting 26 H. 6. OF this Family whose chief Seat was at Hoo in Com. Bedf. were divers persons of eminent note before any of them were rankt amongst the Peers of this Realm For in 20 E 1. it appears that Robert de Hoo obtain'd that King's Charter for a Market every Week upon the Friday at his Mannor of Kâ—ebbeworth in Com. Hertf. and a Fair there yearly on the Eve day and Morrow of the Decollation of St. Iohn Bapt. As also for Free-Warren in all his Demesn-Lands within his respective Lordships of Knebbeworth before-menâ—ion'd and Harpeden in the same County Likewise in those of Hoo Stoppesley and Maldon in Com. Bedf. Clopton in Com. Cantabr and Sibâ—thoâ—pe in Com. Oxon. And that in 11 E. 3. Sir Thomas Hoo Knight had the like grant for a Market every Week upon the Tuesday at his mannor of Wourâ—ling in Com. Suss. and a Fair there yearly on the Eve day and morrow of St. Mary Magdalen As also for a Fair yearly at his Mannor of Bocksteppe on the Eve day and morrow of the Nativity of St. Iohn Baptist and another at his Mannor of Dalinton all in the same County upon the Eve day and Morrow of the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin with Free-Warren in all his Lordships of Hoo Stopesley and Whethampsted in Com. Bedf. To which Sir Thomas Succeeded Sir William Hoo Knight his Son and Heir who in 10 R. 2. upon the flight of Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk for avoiding the danger at that time approaching him helpt him away to Calais and afterwards in 8 H. 4. served in that Garrison under Iohn Earl of Somerset then Captain there This Sir William by Alice his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas St. Maur by Iane his Wife Daughter and Heir to Nicholas Malmains had issue Thomas who in 14 H. 6. upon a new Rebellion of the Normans about Caux was sent to suppress them where he slew many and made great wast in the Country And in 20 H. 6. being then a Knight in consideration of his special services and large expences in the Wars of that King obtain'd a grant of xl l. per annum to be received during his life out of the Revenues of the County of Norâ—olk In 24 H. 6. he was again imploy'd in the Wars of France In which he merited so well as that in 26 H. 6. by Letters Patents bearing date 2 Junii in consideration of his eminent services perform'd in France and Normandy aswel in the times of the King's Progenitors as in his own days he was advanc'd to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hoo and Hâ—sting which Lordship of Hoo is in the County of Bedford and that of Hastings in Com. Suss. as the words of that Patent do import and to the Heirs Male of his Body Moreover he was elected into that Honourable Society of Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter in the time of that King And by his last Will and Testament bearing date 12 Febr. 33 H. 6. appointed that Lands of xx markâ— per annum value should be setled upon the Abbot and Covent of Baâ—tail in Com. Suss. and their Sâ—ccessors to find two Monks perpetually singing at St. Benygni's Altar in that Abby for his Soul and the Souls of his Ancestors as also for the Souls of such others as his Executors should ordain The certain time of his Death I have not found but that he had Summons to Parliament from 27. till 31 H. 6. inclusive and that he Married three Wives first Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas Felton Knight bâ— whom he had issue one Son called Thomas who died in his lâ—fe time without Issue Secondly Elizabâ—th Daughter and Heir to Sir Nicholas Wichinghum Knight by whom he had issue one only Daughâ—â—r called Anne Married to Sir Geffrey Bâ—llâ—n Knight sometime Lord Mayor of London Thirdly Elâ—anâ—re Daâ—ghter to Leo Lord Welles Sistâ—r and Coheir to Richard Lord Welles her Brother and that by her he had Issue three Daughters who also bâ—came his Coheirs viz. Eleanore Marriâ—d to Sir Iames Câ—rew of Bedingtâ—n in Com. Sur. Knight Iane to Sir Roger Copley Knight and Elizabeth to Sir Iohn Devenish Knight Bromflete 27 H. 6. IN 11 R. 2. Thomas de Bramflâ—te obtain'd a 〈◊〉 for Free-Warrâ—n in all his Dâ—mâ—sn-Lâ—â—ds at 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 in Com. Ebâ—r And in 13 2. 2. having Weâ—ded Margâ—râ—t the Daughter and Heir of Sir Iohn St. Iohn Knight by Anastasia his wife Daughter 〈◊〉 Cohâ—ir to William de Aton Lord 〈◊〉 had 〈◊〉 of the Lands of her Inheritencâ— In 19 R. ◠〈◊〉 Thâ—mas was constituted the King 's Chiâ—◠〈◊〉 And in 9 H. 4. being then a Knight 〈◊〉 Iohn de Ellerker and othâ—rs 〈◊〉 his Mannors of 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 with condition that they should pâ—â—â— them unto Thâ—mas Brâ—mâ—let Esquire his Son and Heir so soon as he should arrive to his full Age and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten and in Case he should die without issue in his Father's life time then the
of xx l. To the said Preacher and his Successors x l. And to the Chantry Priest of Winburne x l. Likewise where King Henry the Sixth of blessed memory did purpose to have ordained in a place in Cambridge then called God's-House Scholars to the number of threescore there to learn and study in all liberal Science in which place was formerly never above the number of four for lack of exhibition She obtained farther Licence and did found in the same place a Colledge called Christ-Colledge consisting of a Master twelve Scholars-Fellows and forty seven Scholars-Disciples there to be perpetually maintained She also appointed that her Executors should cause to be made in the Chappel where her Body was to be Interred a convenient Tomb and one Altar or two in the same Chappel for those two Chantry-Masses there perpetually to be said Likewise that the Hospital of St. Iohns in Cambridge should be dissolved thereof to found a Colledge of secular persons viz. a Master and fifty Scholars with divers Servants and that the said Colledge should be new built and sufficiently endow'd with Lands For the performance of all which things she willed that her Executors should take the Issues and profits of her Lands put in Feoffment in the Counties of Devon Somerset and Northt And having liv'd to see the Coronation of her Grandson King Henry the Eighth departed this life upon the 29 th of Iune in the first year of his Reign Whereupon she had Burial on the South side of that Royal Chappel according to her appointment with this Epitaph upon her Tomb Margaretae Richmondiae septimi Henrici Matri Octâ—vi Aviae quae stipendia constituit tribus hoc Coenobio Monachis Doctori Grammatices apud Wimborne perque Angliam totam divini verbi Praeconi duobus item Interpretibus literarum sacrarum alteri Oxoniae alteri Cantabrigiae ubi Collegia duo Christo Iohanni ejus discipulo struxit Moritur an Domini 1509. tertio Calend. Iulii Having thus brought this great Lady to her Grave I pass on to Henry Earl of Richmund her Son the happy uniter of the long divided Houses of Yorke and Lancaster who was but fifteen Weeks old at his Father's Death in 35 H. 6. as before is observ'd Of this Earl that which I first find memorable is that upon the readeption of the Throne by King Henry the Sixth in an 1470. 10 E. 4. which he enjoy'd not many Months his Uncle Iasper Earl of Pembroke coming into Wales took him from the Wife of William Herbert whom King Edward gaining the Crown had made Earl of Pembroke with which Lady he had been well educated and brought him to London being then scarce ten years of Age unto King Henry and that he looking stedfastly upon him beheld such a Soveraignty in his Countenance that he prophetically said This is he unto whom we and our Adversaries must give place meaning that he should afterwards enjoy the Crown of this Realm But the Tide soon turning the other way through the restoration of King Edward by those Victories which he obtain'd against the Lancastrians first at Barneâ—-field the same year and soon after at Tewksbury Iasper being closely pursued thought it neither saâ—e for himself nor for this Earl his Nephew to stay longer in England and therefore set Sail with him and some other of his Friends from the Port of Tynby in Pembrokeshire with purpose to get into France but by accident landed in Britanny Whereupon he address'd himself to Francis then Duke of that Province and making known the cause of their coming thither humbly besought his Protection which he most readily granted giving them both very honourable entertainment and promising them full freedom to go and return at their pleasure Of all which King Edward having notice and fearing that in time he might again receive some disturbance from thofe of that party he employ'd Dr. Stillington and two other private Messengers to that Duke with offer of large gifts for the delivery of either of these Earls into his Hands But to this he answered that though he could not assent thereto by reason that he had given them Protection he would be sure to take care that King Edward should not receive any damage thence And finding that his detinue of them there would be of such high consequence remov'd their own Servants placing of his own about them to be in the nature of a Guard Notwithstanding all which King Edward was not yet satisfied and therefore once more by his Embassadors attempted that Duke with fresh offers of most ample Rewards in Case he would deliver him up and to the end that those his desires might seem plauâ—ible instructed them to assure him that there was nothing but good intended therein and that he would match him unto some one of his near relations in blood by which means all discords and animosities betwixt those long divided Families of York and Lancaster might be the better reconciled and all antient feuds be utterly extinguished By which smooth Arguments and earnest Importunities with large Gifts to boot the Duke being at length thoroughly wrought upon delivered him up to them but with Letters of Recommendation to King Edward where in he told him he was sure that he had not given up the Sheep to the Wolf but the Son to the Father so great a confidence had he in his sincerity and that he would Marry Elizabeth his eldest Daughter to him Having therefore thus got this young Gentleman into their Clutches away they hasted to the Port of St. Malos thence to hoise Sale for England the sense whereof so afflicted him that he suddenly fell into an high Feaver But it so hapned that an eminent person of that Country called Iohn Chenlet who had much interest with the Duke being in the Country near at hand and hearing of this business became so apprehensive of the unworthiness of the act as that he posted to the Court with all the speed he could and according to his former usage went immediately to the Duke Yet when he came into his presence stood silent with excessive grief Whereat the Duke much wondring asked him the reason of this his dejected condition Whereunto he answered that his sad Countenance was the Messenger of Death Which quoth he would have been much more tolerable had it hapned before this day that I am reserved for such a weight of sorrow as now by your late scarce credible act doth so heavily oppress me and which will certainly bring me to my death and make me live till then most miserably You have had quoth he the reputation of a worthy and virtuous Prince by reason of your former good Deeds but now alas by your favour you seem to have had the least regard thereof that may be in this
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
Hundred of Colridge 144 19 07 ob q. Telhamptone 05 11 05 ob q. In Com. Somers Shipton-Mountagu 16 12 08. Chedsey with Cantlous 110 12 02. Dounpole 10 11 06 q. Dunyate 27 19 06. Somertone 72 03 09 ob q. The Fee-ferm of Congresbury payable by the Bishop of Bathe 54 00 00. In Com. Dors. Sooyre 07 07 03. Newton-Mountagu 13 10 01. A Fee ferm payable by the late Abbot of Byndone 20 00 00. In Com. Sutht The Mannor Castle Burgh and Hundred of Christ-Church 100 14 03 q. Ringwode 68 08 02 q. Swaynsone 85 17 00. Warblingtone 33 18 00. Chaltone 18 13 04. Huntone 14 01 06. In Com. Wilts Erle-Stoke 54 11 07 ob In Com. Buck. The Fee ferm of Aylesbury 60 00 00. Aston-Clynton 42 04 10. Aston-Chevery 27 10 09 ob In Com. Hertf. Ware 107 03 01 ob In Com. Essex Clavering 63 03 06. In reversion in the Counties of Essex 28 00 00. Monmouth 41 06 08. Wilts A Rent called the Cr. money of the Earl of Sarum 20 00 00. In Com. Berks. Crokeham 25 12 06. A Fee ferm in Lamborne 05 06 08. In Com. Hertf. Bushe 25 12 10. In Com. Essex North-West Basset 55 05 07. London The Miese called the Herbre with certain Tenements thereunto belonging 12 11 08. In Com. Suff. Newton-Hall 17 00 00. In Com. Northt Estone 23 01 08. In Com. Ebor. A Fee Ferm paid by the Abbot of Kirkshall 13 06 08. In Com. Monmouh Walsh Becknore 07 15 00. Llanvere and Llangyve 20 17 10. In Com. Somers Stapull-Fitz pain 42 08 11 ob In Com. Buck. Elleseburgh 18 07 00. Medmenbam 33 07 09. Â The total 2046 03 11. dim q. Of these her Sons Henry being the eldest had a special Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance in 5 H. 8. so that 't is like his Father died at that time or not long before and in 13 H. 8. by the title of Lord Mountague was restored to the Kings favour After which in 15 H. 8. he attended the Duke of Suffolk then General of the English-Army sent into France But as to any Creation by Patent or other advancement to that dignity I cannot speak until 21 H. 8. that he had summons to Parliament and took his place there amongst the rest of the Peers upon the first of December the same year by the title of Lord Mountague Which was doubtless in respect of his descent from that noble Family by his Mother Howbeit shortly after in 22 H. 8. I find him rankt the first in number of all the Barons who did in full Parliament subscribe that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the seventh whereby they gave him a modest intimation that in case he did not comply with King Henry in that business of his intended Divorce from Queen Katherine the farther acknowledgment of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger In 24 H. 8. upon that Royal journey made by King Henry into France at which time he had such honourable reception at Boloine by King Francis the first he was one of his attendants thither and the same year with divers other persons of note made one of the Knights of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen But in 30 H. 8. upon the fifth of November being one of those who with the Marquess of Exeter stood charged by his own Brother Sir Geffrey Pole Knight with devising to advance Reginald Pole his other Brother Dean of Exeter then beyond Sea to the Royal Throne of this Realm and to depose the King he was sent to the Tower and with that Marquess and others arraigned of High Treason at Westminster before the Lord Audley Lord Chancellour the High Steward of England for that occasion upon the third of Ianuary and being found guilty suffcred death on Tower Hill upon the ninth of the same month Leaving Issue by Iane his Wife Daughter to George NevillLord Bergavenny two Daughters his Heirs Katherine married to Francis Earl of Huntington and Winifride to Sir Thomas Hastings Knight second Son to George Earl of Huntington afterwards to Sir Thomas Barington Knight which Daughters upon their Petition in Parliament 1 Mariae were restored in Blood and Honour Touching the younger Brethren of this Henry all I have seen is that Geffry the second though he did accuse this Henry of what in substance was laid to his charge he had also Sentence of death passed upon him but suffered not And that Arthur the third Son in an 1562. 5 Eliz. being charged with purposing to go to the Duke of Guise into France and to return with a power into Wales whereby the Queen of Scots might attain the Crown of this Realm and himself be declared Duke of Clarence had judgment of death but by reason of his near alliance to Queen Eliz. no execution ensued And as to Reginald the 4th and youngest his Education being first at Magdalen-Colledge and afterwards at Corpus Christi-Colledge in Oxford he obtained the Deanery of Exeter by the gift of King Henry the 8th Then travelled into Italy and other parts for seven years making his chief abode at Padua At which time King Henry having abolished the Popes Supremacy here sent for him home and for his neglect to come proclaimed him Traytor and disposed of his Deanery to another Also being thought a fit instrument for the English affairs as occasion should serve for he was a person of excellent parts and for his integrity of life and modest behaviour much beloved and reverenced he was made Cardinal 22 Maii an 1536. 28 H. 8. and one of the three that presided in the Council of Trent when Queen Mary began her reign being sent for into England he came as Legate from Pope Iulius the third and obtained a Repeal of his Attainder by a special Act of Parliament Likewise he was then made Archbishop of Canterbury 22 Maii an 1555. 1 2 Ph. M. and so continued till his death which hapned 17 Nov. an 1558. being the very day on which Queen Mary departed this life the tidings whereof as 't is said being much weakned by a Quartan-Ague broke his Heart Whereupon he had Burial on the North side of that little Chapell in the Cathedral at Canterbury which is at the end of St. Thomas Becket's Oratory Somerset Earl and Marquess of Worcester 1 H. 8. HAving in my discourse of Henry Duke of Somerset who lost his life in 3 E. 4. sufficiently manifested that he left no other Issue than one natural Son called Charles begotten on Ioan Hill his Paramour I shall now take notice of what I have seen memorable of the same Charles and his descendents This Charles being a person of great parts arrived to very high advancements in those times wherein he lived aswell in Honour as Estate
willingly did either actually endeavor or seriously intend any thing against the person of the King or the State Thus far Godwin ¶ I now come to Edward the eldest Son to Edward Duke of Somerset by Anne his second Wife upon whom his chiefest honors as also divers Lands of great extent were entailed This Edward being dispossessed of all by the Attainder of his Father in that Parliament of 5 6 E. 6. so continued until the first year of Queen Eliz. But then through the especial grace and favor of that Queen being a Knight he was by Letters Patent bearing date 13 Ian. in the first year of her Raign advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Beauchamp as also to the Dignity of Earl of Hertford That which I farther find most memorable of him is that he Married the Lady Catherine Grey Daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolk who was of near alliance in blood to the Queen and had been formerly Wedded to Henry the eldest Son to William Earl of Pembroke but lawfully repudiated And that she being discerned to be great with child was in 5 Eliz. committed Prisoner to the Tower of London though she acknowledged her self to be his lawful Wife Likewise that he being then recalled out of France having thither gone with the Queen leave and owning his Marriage with her was also there imprisoned And that the Archbishop of Canterbury and others being made choyce of to examine the business and to determine therein no witnesses of the Marriage being produced within the limited time gave Sentence that it was unlawful and the carnal copulation betwixt them unjustifiable as also that both of them for their transgression therein should endure due punishment Moreover that shortly afterwards being delivered of her first begotten Son in prison and after that of another having corrupted her keeper Edward Warner Lieutenant of the Tower was put out of his place and imprisoned and he himself censured in the Star Chamber upon these three points First for that he had vitiated a Maid of the Royal Blood Next that he had broke Prison And lastly that he had lain with her again Also that to this he answered that having lawfully married her and the Prison-doores being open he came to her in her sadness to comfort her and pay his Conjugal Debt Nevertheless he was fined at Five thousand pounds and kept prisoner for the space of nine years Nor was she set at liberty but there continued till her death Hereupon I shall add what I have heard related from persons of great credit which is that the validity of this marriage was afterwards brought to a Tryal at the Common-Law where the Minister who married them being present and other circumstances agreeing the Jury whereof Iohn Digby of Coleshill in Com. Warr. Esquire was the Fore-man found it a good Marriage This Earl lived to be an aged man and in An. 1605. 3 Iac. was sent Embassador to the Arch-Duke for confirming a Peace By the before-specified Lady Catherine his wife he had issue three sons Edward called Lord Beauchamp Thomas who took to wife Isabell the daughter of Edward Onley of Catesby in Com. Northampton Esquire and died without issue and another Edward As also Catherine a daughter who died young He had likewise two other wives first Frances sister to Charles Earl of Notingham and lastly Frances daughter to Thomas Vicount Howard of Bindon but by neither of them any issue And departing this life ... April An. 1621. 19 Iâ—c was buried in the Cathedral Church at Salisbury Which Edward Lord Beauchamp his eldest son in 6 Iac. obtained Letters Patents granting that he and the heirs-male of his body immediately after the death of Edward Earl of Hertford his father should be Barons of Parliament and have place and voice there As also other Letters Patent bearing date 14 Maii the same year for the enjoyment of the Title of Earl of Hertford in reversion after his the said Edward Earl of Hertford's death And having married Honora daughter to Sir Richard Rogers of Brianston in Com. Dors. Knight had issue by her three sons viz. 1. Edward who married Anne daughter to Robert Earl of Dorset and had issue by her Edward a son and Anne a daughter who died young 2. Sir William Seamour Knight and Sir Francis Seimour Knight And one daughter called Honora married to Sir Ferdinando Dudley Knight of the Bath son and heir apparent of Edward Lord Dudley But this Edward Lord Beauchamp died in his Father's life time viz ... Aug. An. 1618. 16 Iac And so did Edward his eldest son In so much as upon the death of Edward Earl of Hertford his Father Sir William Seimour Knight the second son succeeded him in his Honors and married two wives first the Lady Arabella daughter to Charles son to Mathew Earl of Lenox by whom he had no issue And afterwards the Lady Frances daughter of Robert Earl of Essex sister and coheir to Robert 〈◊〉 brother In An. 1640. 16 Car. 1. this William in consideration of his eminent merits being advanced to an higher pitch of Honor by the Title of Marquess of Hertford as by His Majestiâ—s Letters Patents bearing date 3 Iunii appeareth was thereupon constituted Governor to the Prince and faithfully adhering to that King of blessed memory at such time as through the influence of a prevalent Party in the late Long Parliament divers Armies were raised against him in most parts of this Realm under certain plausible pretence was made Lieutenant-General of all his Forces in the Counties of Wilts South Dorset Somerset Devon and Cornwall Moreover upon the third of Iune An. 1643. he was elected Chancellor of the famous University of Oxford and the same year made Groom of the Stole And living to see the happy Restoration of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second was by a special Act in that Parliament begun at Westminster 25 April in the 12 th year of his Reign restored to the Title of Duke of Somerset by a Repeal of that Act of 5 6 Edw. 6 th for the Attainder of Edward Duke of Somerset his Great-Grandfather After which upon the 24 th of October the same year he departed this life and was buried at Great Bedwind in Com. Wilts By the Lady Frances his wife he had issue five sons William and Robert who lived till the age of Twenty years and then died unmarried Henry who took to wife Mary the daughter to Arthur Lord Capell and died at the age of Twenty eight years in his father's life time Edward who died in his infancy and lastly Iohn Also four daughters Arabella who died unmarried Frances first married to Richard Vicount Molineux secondly to Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of
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
of Rycot as also divers other Mannors and Lands left issue six sons William his son and heir Iohn that valiant and expert Soldier of whom I shall say more by and by Edward Governor of Ostend Henry who died of a wound Thomas President of Munster some time Justice of Ireland who died likewise of a wound and Maximilian slain in Britanny Which William was Marshal of Barwick and having married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Richard Morison of Caysho-bury in Com. Hertf. Knight died in his fathers life time 25 Dec. 22 Eliz. leaving issue Francis his son and heir of the age of one year two moneths and sixteen days upon the 20 th of September following at which time the Inquisition after his death was taken This Francis thus succeeding his Father had Summons to Parliament in 43 Eliz. And in 1 Iac. upon the death of Sir Edward Norris K t his Uncle without issue was found his next heir whereby he inherited the Mannors of Sulhamsted Abbots Sheffeild Uphton Greyshall Arbor Arbor Court Uphton Nermits South-Hinxey and Shiningfeild in Com. Berks. being at that time 29 years of age yet had not possession of the Lands which descended to him by the death of his Father till 4 Iac. nor then of all for it appears that in 9 Iac. he sued out his general Livery At the Creation of Charles Duke of York he was made Knight of the Bath and some years after viz. 18 Iac. 28 Ian. advanc'd to the Titles of Vicount Thame and Earl of Berkshire and to the heirs male of his body But all that I have seen farther memorable of him is that upon the 16 th of February next ensuing the Parliament then sitting standing in the entrance to the Lords House in discourse with some of his servants the passage being narrow the Lord Scroope going by jostled him a little which so moved him that he rudely thrust before him the House being set and the Prince there whereupon he was committed to the Fleet. And that not long after for it was 28 Ian. 20 Iac. being a person of so great a spirit that he could neither bear some Injuries which had made a deep impression upon him nor find out a proper way of remedy he mortally wounded himself in the face and neck with a Cross-Bow in his House at Rycot and died on the Wednesday following leaving issue by Bridget his wife daughter to Edward Earl of Oxford one sole daughter his heir named Elizabeth who became the wife of Edward Wray second son to Sir William Wray of Glentworth in Com. Linc. Knight one of the Groomes of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First Which Edward had issue by her one sole daughter and heir called Bridget first married to Edward second son to Edward Earl of Dorset and afterwards to Mountagu Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Which Earl had issue by her three sons viz. Iames now Lord Norris born 10 Maii An. 1653. Edward who died young and Henry and the Lady Mary a daughter ¶ Having now done with the chief branch of this noble Family I may not omit to take notice that Sir Iohn Norris Knight the second son to Henry the first Lord Norris so famous in his time for his valor and military knowledge was first trayned up in those Exercises in the Civil Wars of France under Admiral Coligni next in Ireland under Walter Earl of Essex then served in the Netherlands under Mathias Arch-Duke of Austria as by his Commission bearing date 17 Iulii An. 1579. 21 Eliz. appeareth after that under Iohn Duke of Lorreine as by his Commission dated 17 Apr. An. 1582. 24 Eliz. is to be seen next under Count William of Nassau whose Commission bears date in May next ensuing and another in November And in 27 Eliz. 12 Aug. was by Queen Elizabeth constituted Colonel-General of all the Horse and Foot then to pass out of England for the Relief of Antwerp then Besieged by the Spaniard before the end of which Month he had another Commission from Count Maurice of Nassau And the same year was empowered to Treat with the States-General of the United Provinces for the entertaining of such Bands of English Foot as by the Queens Instructions were appointed to serve in those parts Several Commissions he likewise had from Robert Earl of Leicester after he was constituted General of the English Auxiliaries in those Provinces viz. two in 28 Eliz. and one in 29 Eliz. In 30 Eliz. being then President of the Council in the Province of Munster in Ireland he had a Commission bearing date 11 Oct. giving him authority to constitute such principal Officers as well by Sea as Land as he should thing fit for the withstanding all hostile attempts and for the defence and protection of that Realm In 33 Eliz. 30 Martii he was constituted Captain-General of those English-Auxiliaries which were sent in ayd of King Henry the fourth of France against his Rebellious Subjects in Britanny And having deported himself with great prudence and courage in all those eminent imployments to the no little honor of the English Nation as well as his own name expected that upon the recalling of Sir William Russell Knight afterwards Lord Russel of Thornhaw he should have been Deputy of Ireland but discerning that Thomas Lord Borough was preferred to that command and himself required to continue still in Munster he grew so highly discontented that he thereupon fell sick and died Cecill L. Burleigh E. of Exeter 13 Eliz. OF this Family which derive their descent from Robert Sitsilt an assistant to Robert Fitz-Hamon in the Conquest of Glamorganshire tempore Will. Ruâ—i was Richard Sitfilt alias Cecill of â—tereâ—â—is in that part of Herefordshire called Ewyas Land which Richard had two Sons Phillip from whom those of Altereâ—â—s are sprung and David from whom the present â—arls of Exeter and Salisbury be descended Of this David who seared himself at Stanford in Com. Linc. it appears that in 22 H. 7. he founded a Chantry in one of the Churches of that Town and that in 3 H. 8. he was constituted Water-Baylif of Wittâ—esy-Merr in com Hunt as also keeper of the Swans there and throughout all the Waters and Fens in Hunrington Cambridge Lincolne and Northhampton shires for the term of thirty years Also that in 5 H. 8. he was made one of the Kings Sergeants at Arms and having this imployment at Court obtained for Richard his son and heir the Office of a Page of the Crown which I take to be the same which is now called a Page of the back-stairs Likewise in 8 H. 8. a Grant to them both of the Keepership of Clyff-Park in com North. And lastly that in 15
him with Letters of Thanks to the Palatine and some Jewels for a Present to sollicite the King of Pole that under his Seale they might enjoy what favours he had by his Letters so honourably offered Which being granted they set forth from Winheim in April An. 1557 3 4 Ph. M. towards Frankford but in their travel underwent divers great hardships with no little danger of their lives by the Lantgrave's Soldiers who by reason of a quarrel for a Spaniel which they had along with them thrust Boare-speares into the Waggon where the Dutchess with her Child and the other Women were and upon the pursuit of this Richard into a Village had murthered him but that he forsook his Horse and ran up a Ladder set to a Garret-window near the top of an house By which meanes escaping their sudden fury one of the Burgh masters came to him and brought another person who could speak Latine to whom submitting himself he presently dispatcht Letters to the Lantgrave and Earl of Erbagh dwelling within eight miles who thereupon repairing thither shew'd them such respect as properly belong'd to persons of their quality so that they passed on quietly towards Poland where they receiv'd curteous entertainment from the King and were honorably placed in the Earldome of Crozan in Sanogelia In which place having the absolute power of Governning they continued in great quietness and honor till the death of Queen Mary which shortly after hapned and then return'd into England In the time of those their Travels this most noble Lady brought him a Son whom by reason of his forrein birth he named Peregrinde His daughter whom he carried with him being called Susanna afterwards married to Reginald Earl of Kent and next to Sir Iohn Wingfeild Knight Which Peregrine was made a free Denizen in the Parliament of 1 Eliz. And upon the death of Catherine his mother hapning 19 Sept. An. 1580. 22 Eliz. having summons to that Parliament begun at Westminster by Prorogation upon the Sixteenth of Ianuary next ensuing as Lord Willoughby of Eresby took his place in the Horse according to the seniority of that Honor. Being thus possess'd of that great Inheritance and Dignity and having married Mary the daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford by Margaret his second wife sister and heir of the whole blood to Earl Edward in An. 158â— 25 〈◊〉 to gether with the Earl of Leicester and divers other honourable persons he attended the Duke of Anâ—ou to Antwerp by the Queen's command which Duke had stay do 〈◊〉 England three Moneths in hopes of gaâ—â—ing her in marriage And before the end of that year was sent to Frederick the second King of Denmarkâ— with the Ensigns of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 29 Eliz. at the siege of Zutphen in the Netherlands upon a sharp encounter with the Forces of that Garrison in a Salley he overthrew George Cressiat at that time Commander in chief of the Horse and took him prisoner and in 30 Eliz. upon the â—â—ecess of Robert Earl of Leicester then General of the English Auxiliaries in those Provinces had the chief command of them in his stead After which in 31 Eliz. he most valiantly defended Bergen ap Zoam whereunto the Prince of Parma laid siege and for a farther encouragement to valour at that time conferr'd the honor of Knighthood upon Sir Francis Vere Sir Thomas Knolls and some others Sir Robert Naunton in his Fragmenta Kegalia says that he was one of the Queen's first Sword-men and a great Master of the Art Military In 32 Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate upon Tryal of Philip Earl of Arundel and the same year sent General of Four thousand Auxiliaries into France in aide of the King of Navarr By his Testament bearing date at Barwick 17 Aug. An. 1599. 41 Eliz. he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Spillesby in Com. Linc. He also gave to Peregrine one of his younger sons afterwards Knight of the Bath that Ring with a Diamond which he had from the King of France when he served him there with a charge upon his blessing to transmit it to his heirs And departed this life in An. 1601. as seemeth by the Probate of that Testament leaving issue Robert his son and heir and three other besides Peregrine viz. Henry Vere and Roger as also Catherine a daughter married to Sir Lewes Watson of Rokingham-Castle in Com. North. Knight Which Robert in 1 Iac. having then summons to Parliament as Lord Willoughby of Eresâ—y upon the seventh of May took his place accordingly And thereupon making his claime to the Earldome of Oxford as also to the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sandford and Badlesmere and to the Office of Lord High Chamberlain of England as son and heir to Mary the sole heir female of that great Family After much dispute had judgement on his behalf for that Office of Lord High Chamberlain as in my discourse of the Family of Vere Earl of Oxford is more fully shewed And being admitted into the House with his Staff upon the thirteenth of April the same year was seated above all the other Barons After which viz. 22 Nov. in the second year of King Charles the First he was advanc'd to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Lindsey And in April 6 Car. 1. elected into the Society of the most Noble Order of the Garter Also in 7 Car. 1. made Constable of England 24 Nov. in order to the Tryal of the Lord Rea and David Ramsey in the Court Military Which Patent was revoked 20 Maii next ensuing And in 11 Car. 1. constituted Lord Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet. Also in 18 Car. 1. General of the Kings Royal Army for suppressing that unparallel'd Insurrection then raised by the practises of certain Members of that unhappy Long Parliament begun at Westminster 3 d Nov. An. 1640. under pretence of defending the Religion by Law establisht the Laws of the Land Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament Whereupon being in the Head of his Command in the Battel of Kineton fought upon the 23 d of October An. 1642. and there receiving a mortal wound he was taken prisoner and brought to Warwick-Castle where he departed this life the same night After which his Corps was carried to Edenham in Com. Linc. and there buried Leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife the only child of Edward Lord Mountagu of Boughton by Elizabeth his first wife daughter of Sir Iohn Geffrey Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer eight sons viz. Sir Mountagu and Sir Roger Knights of the Bath Peregrine Francis Robert Henry Vere and Edward and five daughters Catherine Elizabeth Anne Sophia and Mary Which Sir Mountagu bearing the
for all Christen-Souls having vi l. xiii s. iv d. per Annum Salary This George Earl of Huntington took to Wife Anne Daughter to Henry Duke of Buckingham Widow of Sir Walter Herbert Knight and departing this Life 24 Martii 35 H. 8. was buried in the Chancel at Stoke Pogeys in Com. Buck. leaving Issue five Sons viz. Francis who succeeded him in his Honours Edward Thomas Henry and William and three Daughters viz. Dorothy Wife of Sir Richard Deverenx Knight Son and Heir to Walter Viscount Hereford Mary and Catherine Of which Francis before I proceed to speak I shall take leave to say something of his two Brothers Thomas and Edward This Thomas in 1 2 Ph. M. being a Knight was one of the Knights for the County of Lâ—icester in the Parliament then held and married Winifride one of the Daughters and Heirs of Henry Pole Lord Montacute Moreover by his Testament bearing date 28 Martii Anno 1558. 4 5 Ph. M he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church of Stoke Pogeys in Com. Buck. or in the Chappel adjoyning built by his Brother Edward Which Edward in 36 H. 8. by the Name of Edward Hastings Esq obtain'd a Grant from the King of the Alnage of Wiltshire for xxi years from the Feast of Easter and after that for the term of xl years paying Lxxvi l. xix s. Rent per Annum and i s. for increase In 4 E. 6. he was made Sheriff for the Counties of Warw. and Leic. And the same year sent with Francis Earl of Huntington his elder Brother with considerable Forces to dislodge the French then planted betwixt Boloin and Calais both which Places were then in the Hands of the English And in 1 Mariae was constituted Receiver of the Honour of Leicester Parcel of the Dutchy of Lancaster in the Counties of Leicester Warw. Northampt. and Nott. And being the same year made a Privy Counsellor to that Queen and Master of her Horse was constituted Collector-General of all her Revenues within the City of London Midd. Essex and Hertfordsh being accountable for the Arrearages in the Court of Augmentation and likewise obtain'd from her the Mannor of Boswerth in Com. Leic. and Michelcrech in Com. Somerset to himself and his Heirs He was also elected one of the Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter In Anno 1556. 2 3 Ph. M. 10 Maii being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Master of the Horse to that Queen he declared his Testament and thereby appointed That his Body should be buried in the Parish-Church of Stoke Pogeys To the Poor at his Burial he bequeath'd xx l. To a Preacher to preach three Sundays after his Funeral xl s. To the Parish-Church of Stoke Pogeys a Pair of Altar-clothes a Cope and a Vestment with his Arms wrought upon each of them He likewise ordained That upon every Good Friday for the space of three years after his death four Marks should be distributed amongst Poor People of the Parish of Stoke Pogeys To the Poor of the Parish of Harfeild within which he then dwelt he bequeath'd x l. xx l. to be bestow'd upon the High-ways in the same Parish To poor Scholars in Cambridge xx l. To poor Scholars in Oxford xx l. To the New Hospital in London xx l. To the Observant Fryers at Grenewich xx l. To every Prison in London Westminster and Southwark viz. Newgate Ludgate Bethlem the Fleeâ— the Marshalspe the King's Bench both the Counters and the Gate-house five Pounds to be bestow'd on such as liv'd of Alms. Moreover he appointed That his Executors should build a Chappel of Stone with an Altar therein adjoyning to the Church or Chancel of Stoke Pogeys where the late Earl of Huntington and the Lady his Wife his Father and Mother lay Buriâ—d and that they should cause a Tomb to be made in the said Chappel with with the Images of his said Father and Mother of Stone as also their Arms placed thereon and a Vault under it for their Bodies and for the Body of his Brother William Hastings in which Vault he purposed that his own Body should lie Appointing That a Plate of Copper double gilt should be made to represent his Image in Harness with the Garter and a Memorial in Writing of him with his Arms to be placed upright on the Wall of that Chappel without any other Tomb for him Also That his Executors should cause to be built at Stoke aforesaid five convenient Chambers with Chimneys in each of them for one Chantry-Priest and â—our poor Bead-men And bequeathed his Mannor of Bosworth in Com. Leic. unto his Nephew Henry Lord Hastings and his Heirs to maintain a Priest at Stoke aforesaid in the Lodging before appointed to sing and say Mass c. for the Souls of his Father and Mother his own and his Ancestors Souls in the same Chappel and to help the Curate there in time of necessity which Priest to have an yearly Stipend of x l. as also five Loads of good Fire-wood Likewise to the four poor Men xx l. yearly and every of them four Loads of Fire-wood with a Blue Gown of Broad-cloth of four Yards and a Bull-head on the Sleeve once in two Years which poor Men to be chosen by his Executors out of the Parish of Stoke aforesaid but afterwards by the Vicar of Stoke and the Chantry-Priest for the time being with five of the most substantial Men of that Parish and to repair daily to the same Church to hear God's Service as also to pray for the Souls aforesaid and all Christen-Souls Furthermore That the said Lord Hastings should pay five Pounds per Annum to some Learned Man or Men for ten Sermons every year in perpetuity in the same Church of Stoke viz. for every Sermon ten Shillings Lastly he bequeath'd the Profits of all his Mannor of Michelâ—reche in Com. Somerset unto his Executors till Edward his Base Son should come to the age of xviii years for his Education the Reversion to him the said Edward and the Heirs male of his Body and for want of such Issue to his Nephew George Hastings and the Heirs male of his Body After this viz. in 4 5 Ph. M. he was constituted Deputy-General to Thomas Earl of Sussex for the Office of Justice in Eyre throughout all the Forests North of â—rent And the same year being also Lord Chamberlain of that Queens Houshold upon the nineteenth day of Ianuary was advanced to the Degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hastings of Loughborough But after the death of that Queen having founded an Hospital at Stocke Pogeys for a Master viz a Priest and four poor Men and two poor Women by the Title of The Hospital of Stoke-Pogeys of the Foundation of the Lord Hastings of Loughbâ—rough Which by Act of
Parliament in Ann. 4 5 Ph. M. was endowed with a Rent of Liii l. ix s. issuing out of the Mannor of Michelcrech in Com. Somerset he retired thither and there betaking himself to his Devotions ended his days without Issue Whereupon he had Burial in the Chappel belonging thereto as may seem by his-Atchievements which till of late hung up there at the upper end thereof But I return to Francis the next succeeding Earl This Francis in his Father's Life-time viz. in 25 H. 8. two days before the Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen was one of the Knights of the Bath then made and in 3 E. 6. elected Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 4 E. 6. he obtain'd Licence to retain a hundred Servants Gentlemen and Yeomen over and above those of his Family or in any Office or Employment under him And was the same year sent into France with considerable Forces to dislodge the French then planted betwixt Boloin and Calais which Places were in the Possession of the English In 5 E. 6. he was one of the Peers upon the Trial of Edward Duke of Somerset And one of the Privy-Council to that King as may seem by certain Letters sent by the Lords to Queen Mary In 1 Mariae being Lieutenant of Leicestershire upon the Insurrection of Henry Duke of Suffolk he raised Forces against him and afterwards brought him Prisoner from Coventre to the Tower of London By his Testament bearing date 20 Apr. 2 Eliz. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church of Asâ—by de la Zouche in Com. Leic. in the Chappel on the South-side of the Chancel appointing a convenient Tomb to be made there over his Grave And having married Catherine one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Henry Pole Lord Montaâ—â—te Son of Sir Richard Pole Knight of the Garter and Margaret Countess of Salisbury Daughter to George Duke of Clarence departed this Life 20 Iunii in the same second year of Queen Eliz. and was buried at Ashby de la Zouche under a fair Tomb there Erected to his Memory with this Epitaph Here lieth the Corps of Francis Earl of Huntington Lord Hastings Hungerford Botreaux Molins and Moels Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter who Deceased 20 Iunii Anno 1561. By the said Catherine his Wife he had Issue six Sons viz. first Henry his eldest Son and Successor in his Honours 2. Sir George Hastings Knight 3. William who died Issueless 4. Edward Knighted by the Earl of Sussex for his Service in Scotland upon that Expedition made thither in 13 Eliz. which Sir Edward married Barbara the Daughter of Sir William Devereux Knight Widow of ... Cave 5. Francis who married Maud Daughter of Sir Raphe Longford Knight Widow of Sir George Vernon of Haddon in Com. Derb. Knight and died without Issue and 6 Walter who married Ioyce Daughter to William Roper of ... in Com. Cantii He had also Issue five Daughters viz. Catherine Wife of Henry Earl of Lincoln Frances of Henry Lord Compton Anne who died unmarried Elizabeth Wife of Edward Earl of Worcester and Mary who likewise died unmarried I come now to Henry the eldest Son and Successor to Earl Francis This Henry in 3 Eliz. being then twenty three years of age had a special Livery of his Lands and soon after that was made Master of the King's Hart-Hounds In 12 Eliz. he was Install'd Knight of the Garter and constituted Lieutenant of the Counties of Leic. and Rutl. And the same year with George Earl of Shrewsâ—ury and Walter Viscount Hereford had the Charge of Mary Queen of Scotland then Prisoner in England In 15 Eliz. he was one of the Peers who sate upon the Trial of the Duke of Norff. and in 17 Eliz. was made Lord President of the North and again constituted Lieutenant of the Counties of Leic. and Rutl. as also of the Counties of York Northumb. Cumbr Westmorl and the Bishoprick of Durham He was also one of the Lords of the Council to that Queen But being a Person of a gentle Disposition was so wrought upon by the Puritan-party as that he did not a little diminish his Estate in cherishing that sort of People This Earl married Catherine Daughter to Iohn Duke of Northumberland but had no Issue by her And departing this Life at York 14 Dec. Anno 1595. 38 Eliz. was Interred at Ashby de la Zouch 28 Apr. next ensuing the Charges of whose Funeral which was solemnized by the Queens command amounted to 1342 l. 19 s. oo d. To whom succeeded George his second Brother who was constituted Lieutenant for the Counties of Leic. and Rutl. 2 Oct. 38 Eliz. So likewise 19 Apr. 1 Iac. This George married Dorothy one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Sir Iohn Port of Etwall in Com. Derb. Knight by whom he had Issue three Sons viz. Francis who died in his Life-time Henry who married Dorothy one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton in Com. Nott. Knight thirdly Sir Edward Hastings Knight who died at Uienna in Austria and two Daughters viz. Catherine Wife of Sir Edward Vnton of Wadley in Com. Berks. Knight and afterwards of Sir Walter Chetwind of Engeskey in Com. Staff Knight and Dorothy first married to Sir Iames Steward Knight a Scotch-man and afterwards to Robert Earl of Roscomon in Ireland He died 31 Dec. Anno 1604. and was buried at Alhby de la Zouch upon the twenty fifth of March ensuing But I return to Francis Lord Hastings the eldest Son to this last Earl George who so died in his Father's Life-time as hath been observed This Francis married Sarah Daughter of Sir Iames Harington Knight Sister to Iohn Lord Harington of Exton and by her had Issue four Sons viz. Henry who succeeded his Grandfather George in his Honours Sir George Hastings Knight who married Seamour Daughter and Coheir to Sir Gilbert Prynne of Chippenham in Com. Wilts Knight Edward a Captain in Sir Walter Raleigh's Voyage to Guina in which he died and Francis who died in his Infancy He had also two Daughters viz. Catherine Wife to Philip Earl of Chesterfield and Theodosia married to Sir Francis Bodenham of Kyale in Com. Rutl. Knight and departed this Life at London ... Dec. Anno 1595. 37 Eliz. and was buried at Ashby de la Zouch 28 Apr. ensuing with his Uncle Earl Henry I come now to Henry eldest Son to this Francis Grandson and Successor to Earl George This Henry was made Lieutenant of Leicestersh 16 Maii 5 Iac. and 18 Iulii 12 Iac. of the Counties of Leicester and â—utland So likewise by King Charles the First 1 Apr. 1 Car. 1.
your most perfidiously betraying this innocent young Gentleman into the hands of bloody Butchers to be destroy'd and murthered therefore all that love you whereof I am one cannot but infinitely grieve to see that your sometime great reputation should now be stained with such a perfidious blot Whereunto the Duke replied Hold thy peace my dear John there is no such danger at all for King Edward resolves to make him his Son in Law But to this he suddenly returned Believe me Most Illustrious Duke he is already very near death and if you permit him to be carryed one step out of your Dominion no Mortal Man can preserve him from it At which pathetical expressions the Duke being not a little troubled not at all suspecting that King Edward would deal thus forthwith dispatcht Peter Landose his chief Treasurer to St. Malos to bring this Earl back Who hasting thither detained the Embassadours with a long speech until his Servants had convey'd him to a Sanctuary in that City which could not be violated and thence conducted him with safety back again After which he continued secure in those parts during the whole time of King Edward's Reign But when King Richard had attain'd the Crown the like danger as before in short space befell him for Thomas Hutton being then sent Embassador into Britanny with money and good oratory obtain'd a promise from the Dâ—ke that he should be strictly restrain'd as King Edward had formerly desired High time indeed it was that King Richard should look to his own station for besides the general odium which that cruel murther acted upon his Brothers Sons had brought upon him from all good Men the Duke of Buckingham the chiefest instrument for raising him to that height growing not a little discontented so far disclosed himself to Iohn Morton Bishop of Ely then in the nature of a Prisoner with him at Brecknocke-castle in Wales as that they there projected the pulling him down by the bringing in of this Earlâ— and linking him in Marriage with Elizabeth the eldest Daughter to King Edward by which means those long divided interests of York and Lancaster which had been the occasion of such bloudshed and misery to this Realm might be knit together and all animosities betwixt the favourers of either side be happily quieted Which being thus auspiciously design'd Reginald Bray a trusty servant to the Lady Margaret Mother to this Earl then the Wife of Thomas Lord Stanley was sent for thither by the Bishop and thence imploy'd back to acquaint her therewith Whereupon by the help of one Lewis a Welchman who as a Physitian had recourse to them both unsuspected she imparted it to Queen Elizabeth the Widdow of King Edward Both of them therefore concurring therein they privately by the same Reginald communicated the business to such of the Nobility and others as were deemed well-wishers thereto resolving to imploy Christopher Vrswike the Lady Margarets Priest into Britanny there to impart the same to her Son But before Vrswike began his journey altering her mind she dispatch Hugh Conway thither upon that errand with a large sum of money Who declaring to him what was intended advised him to land in Wales where he should find ready aid on his behalf Whereupon discovering the whole to the Duke of Britanny notwithstanding all the sollicitation of King Richard by Hutton he promised him his aid Thus far from Polydore But our other Historians do somewhat vary from him herein and tell us that when King Richard first understood from his Embassador Hutton that the Duke of Britanny did not only refuse to keep this Earl as a prisoner but promised to supply him with Men Money and all necessaries for his landing here he rigg'd and sent out divers men of war to scoure the Seas betwixt this and that Coast. Nevertheless that this Earl having got together five thousand stout Briâ—ons and forty Ships well fitted set â—ail for England upon the 12 of October which by a violent Tempest happening that night were all dispersed and that about Noon the next day the Tempest ceasing that Ship wherein this Earl himself was approached the Haven of Poole in Dorsetshire where he found the Shore full of Souldiers to oppose his arrival Also that upon his putting forth a Boat to enquire the cause of their appearance in that warlike posture they answered as they were instructed with purpose to entrap him that they were thither sent by the Duke of Buckingham to receive him and to conduct him to his Camp he being with a mighty Army not far off so that joining their Forces they might fall upon King Richard Whereas in truth Buckingham was but a little before beheaded at Salisbury But that this Earl suspecting the fraud seeing none of his own Ships in view hoised fail and diverting his course landed in Normandy whence he sent Embassadors to Charles the 8. King of France with desire of safe-conduct back into Britanny through his Territories Which he readily granted and not only so but furnish'd him with a large sum of money to defray the expence of so long a journey Whereupon he â—archt by land thither sâ—nding his Ships to meet him there Into which parts he was no sooner comâ— but he had tidings that the Duke of Buckingham had lost his Head and that the Marquiss Dorset with other of the English Nobles who were his friends having been there to look him were return'd to Uannes Notwithstanding which iâ—l news of Buckingham's death despairing not at all in his purposed adventure he went to Rhemes and sent some of his servants to the Marquiss Dorset and those his friends then there to conduct them to him Being therefore thus happily met together again where they staid the Festival of our Saviours Nativity he went to the chief Church of that City and there taking a solemn Oath that soon after his attaining the Crown of this Realm he would marry the Lady Elizabeth Daughter to King Edward the 4. they all did Homage to him and swore Fealty as if he had been already Crowned King Vowing to adventure both Life and Fortune with him against King Richard All which he communicated to the Duke of Britanny desiring his aid with more Forces and to land him in his own Countrey whereunto most of the English Nobles were desirous he should come assuring him that what sums of money he had already borrowed of him or might do should be faithfully repaid whereupon the Duke promised to supply him King Richard therefore hearing of these preparations seised upon divers who were friends to this Earl and put them to death some at London and some at Exeter causing also a Sessions to be kept at Exeter wherein many others were indicted of High Treason and soon
after that called a Parliament wherein he attainted this Earl with all other persons who were fled out of the Realm for fear or otherwise as Enemies to him and to their Native Country Likewise foreseeing his future danger he did not only make peace with the Scots but sent over new Embassadors to the Duke of Britanny with ample rewards for the getting this Earl within the limits of his own power if possible or at least to prevail that the Duke would keep him and those of his friends which then were within his Territories in perpetual prison promising that in consideration thereof he should receive the yearly revenue of all their lands in this Realm But the Duke at that time being much out of order by reason of some infirmity Landoise his Treasurer managed all business of State and thereupon for his own private lucre accepted the offer Which being discovered by the Bishop of Ely at that time sojourning in Flanders he imploy'd Vrswyke into Brittanny to hasten this Earl out of those parts Whereupon being then at Uannes he sent immediately to King Charles the 8. desiring his leave to come into France which being granted he hasted his Nobles before to the Duke of Britanny who then lay for change of air near the borders of France under colour of a friendly visit privately giving charge to his Uncle the Earl of Pembroke the Conductor of his company that when they approacht the skirts of Britanny they should presently get into the adjacent parts of France as they accordingly did and so into Anjou where they staid this Earls coming who departed not from Uannes till two dayes after with only five servants in his company as though he had gone to make a private visit to a friend in some small Village no man suspecting that he had absolutely left the Country in regard so many Gentlemen of his followers were still in that City But after he was ridden five miles on his way turning into a solitary wood he put on the Apparel of one of his servants and as a Page rode on so till he came to Angiers By which means he escaped out of the hands of Landose who the fourth day after not knowing of his departure had provided a certain number of Souldiers under colour of serving him to have laid him fast Of which design when the Duke of Britanny heard being not a little displeased he sent for those English Gentlemen which were so left behind at Uannes and gave them money to defray the charge of their journey from thence to Angiers Being therefore thus supplied with his own Retinâ—e he took his journey to King Charles then at Langes upon the River Loyre of whom he had an Honourable reception with promise of aid And thence removed with him to Montargis Where long he had not been but that Iohn Earl of Oxford a trusty friend to the House of Lancaster who had been kept prisoner in the Castle of Hammes in Picardy getting thence by the favour of Sir Iames Blount the Governour repaired to him After this following the King of France to Paris divers English Gentlemen fled thither for fear or being there to study good literature came also and offered their service to him amongst which was Richard Fox afterwards Bishop of Winchester the Castle of Hammes being likewise delivered up to him by Blount Whereupon King Richard caused the Garrison of Calais to be sent to besiege it Which proved of no inconvenience to this Earl the Souldiers within it making their conditions to march out with Bag and Baggage which somewhat increased his Field-forces Having also obtained some few men and certain money for the payment whereof he left Thomas Marquess Dorset and Sir Iohn Vaughan in pledge he went to Roan making preparation at Harâ—lew an Haven at the mouth of Seine for his adventure into England And having soon after received intelligence out of Wales that Sir Ries ap Thomas a person of great interest in those parts and Sir Iohn Savage an expert Commander would engage themselves in his quarrel Also that Reginald Bray had gotten large sums of money for the payment of his Souldiers wishing him to make all possible speed and to land in some part of that Country Accompanied with two thousand Men he set sail from Harflew in the month of August and on the seventh day ensuing arriv'd at Milford-Haven in Pembroke-shire Whence he marcht to Dalle and so to Haverford-West where he had a joyful reception And before he went thence having News that the Town of Pembroke would assist him he marcht to Cardigan where some Welch Gentlemen came to him with all the power they could make Hereupon he sent messengers to the Lady Margaret his Mother as also to the Lord Stanley her Husband to Sir William Stanley his Brother Sir Gilbert Talbot and other his trusty friends signifying to them his intention to pass the Seâ—erue at Shrewsbury and thence directly to advance for London desiring that they would meet him by the way with all their strength In which passage to Shrewsbury Sir Ries ap Thomas whom he had promised to make Governour in chief of all Wales coming in to him with considerable Forces they marcht from Shrewsbury to Newport Where encamping his Men on an Hill near hand Sir Gilbert Talbot brought to him all the Men and Arms that the young Earl of Shrewsburies interest could make which were about two thousand Thence to Stafford where Sir William Stanley fell in with his Men. Next to Litchfield whence the Lord Stanley hearing of his approach had diâ—lodged about two days before and remov'd to Atherston being somewhat fearful to join with him too soon in regard that King Richard being then at Notingham had his Son the Lord Strange in Hostage and hearing of this Earls advance removed to Leicester Passing from Litchfield to Tamworth there came to him Sir Walter Hungerford and Sir Thomas Bourchier Knights with divers other Men of note who forsook their Captain Sir Robert Brakenbury near Stony-Stratford then on his march towards Notingham Being thus at Tamworth to make sure of the Lord Stanley he rode privately from his Army to Atherston and there meeting in a little close consulted with him in what manner to give Battel to King Richard The same day also came to him Sir Iohn Savage with divers other persons of quality King Richard therefore having intelligence of his motions marcht forthwith from Leicester to Bosworth and about two miles South of that Town marshall'd his whole Army for Battel whereof Iohn Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Earl of Surrey his Son led the Van. This Earl therefore hasting up with his Forces and placing