the payment of a thousand marks towards his support in the Wars and was one of the principal persons left behind for the defence thereof whence he marched into Anjou and Normandy In both which they took divers places of strength And having setled all things well in those parts returned into England about the Kalends of August the year next following where he was no sooner arrived but that he hasted to the King then in Wales and at that time very busie in building of Maud Castle of whom he was very honorably received Not long after this sâ—il in 16 Hen. 3. the King summoned all his Nobles as well of the Layty as Prelates to meet him at Westminster on the Nones of March where representing his great want of Money occasioned by the Wars he had in France he required a Subâ—idy from them But this Earl then told the King that all the Earls Barons and Knights who held in capite were in person with him in his late expedition and had spent so much in supporting themselves that they returned very poor so that they ought not to contribute to that Subsidy then demanded By means of which answer they had liberty to depart To the Monks of Coventrey he ratified the Recognition and Confirmation made by Earl Ranulph his Grand-father of the Chappel of S. Michael and all the rest viz. Ansty Shulton Wykin Bilney Whitley Pyuley Stoke Stichall Eccleshall Folkeshull Karesley Whaberley Sponne and Bisseley within his Fee in all which he solemnly invested them on the Feast day of S. Abdon and Sennes in Iuly 3 Rich. 1. by his Gold Ring which with his Charter he offered upon the Altar To which Chappel of S. Michael he likewise conferred the Tithes of all his Lands and Possessions in Coventrey and that under the penalty of a Curse upon his Officers Servants and Heirs if they should not make due payment of them accordingly And besides this he gave to those Monks in exchange for one Cart of the two Carts which Earl Ranulph his Grand-father by his Charter granted them to have going to and fro in his Woods twice a day except on Festivals for necessary House-boot Fire-boot and Hey-boot as I have already shewed Cclxxx Acres of Land being part of his Wood and Waste in Eccleshair and Kersley according to xxv Foot to the Perch which Wood and Waste he gave them liberty to inclose reduce into Tillage or otherwise to use for their best commodity And to the Nuns of Polesworth he gave Ten marks per annum out of his Revenues in Coventrey to be paid at Michaelmass and Easter by even portions until he should assign them the like Annuity out of any other particular Lands Which Grant he expresses to be made for the health of his Soul and the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors and of the Soul of Robert Marmion the elder a great Baron of that time This Earl executed the office of Sheriff by his Deputies for the Counties of Salop and Stafford in the Second third fourth fifth seventh and part of the eighth year of King Henry the Third So also for the County of Lancaster in the Third fourth fifth sixth seventh and nineth of Henry the Third And towards the later end of the Sixteenth year of that Kings Reign viz. 50 Cal. Nov. he died at Wallingford after he had governed the County Palatine of Chester above fifty years It is reported â—aith Henry Huntendon of this Earl that when he died a great company in the likeness of Men with a certain potent person hastily passed by an Hermites Cell near Wallingford and that the Hermite asking one of them what they were and whether they went so fast he answered We are Devils and are making speed to the death of Earl Ranulph to the end we may accuse him of his sins Likewise that the Hermites thereupon adjuring the Devil that he should return the same way within thirty days and relate what was become of this Earl He came accordingly and told him That he was for his iniquities condemned to the torments of Hell but that the great Dogs of Deulacres and with them many other did bark so incessantly and fill their habitations with such a noise that their Prince being troubled with it commanded he should be expelled his Dominion who is now saith he become a great enemy to us because their suffrages together with others hath released many Souls from Purgatory His Body was buried at Chester but his Heart at the Abbey of Deulacres so by him Founded as hath been observed Of whose death so soon as news brought to Hubert de Burgh the Messenger telling him that one of his cheifest Enemies was deceased He fetched a great sigh and said God have mercy on his Soul and being then fasting called for his Psalter as he stood before the Cross and ceased not till he had sung it all over for the health thereof But this Earl left no issue which some then thought to be a judgment of God upon him for putting away his first Wife But Clemencia his second Wife survived him and in the same year that he died had Livery of the Mannors of Benington and Limberg in Lincolnshire which were given to her in marriage as also of all the Lands Rents and Services which Bertrice sometime Countess of Chester had in the Lordships of Wadington Normaâ—dy Bentford Dunynton and Hauteburgh in the same County with the Mannor of Reppandon vulgo Repton in Com. Derb. which were assigned to her by the King for her Dowry The names of his four Sisters and their Husbands I have already mentioned but now insomuch as all his Possessions which were very great came to them or their Descendants as his Heirs I must say something more as to the dividing thereof amongst them Of Maud the eldest Wife to David Earl of Huntendon Brother to William King of Scots descended Iohn sirnamed Scot Successor to this Ranulph in the Earldom of Chesteâ— who had for his part Maud his Mother being them dead the whole County of Chester and the Advowson of the Priory of Coventrey But Mabel the Second who married to William de Albany Earl of Arundel was dead before the Earl her Brother and so was William Earl of Arundel her eldest Son Whereupon Hugh de Albany her second Son then Earl of Arundel and in Minority came to share in that great Inheritance unto whom Coventrey was in Partition assigned for his Capital Seat as some Records do testifie But others that the Mannor of Barow was allotted to him for his cheif Mansion and that he had for the present the Mannors of Campden in Glocestershire Olney in Buckinghamshire as also Coventrey until such time as a more perfect and equal Partition should be made amongst them and the next year following an addition of
date the Friday next after Ascension-day An. 1369 43 E. 3 bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Church of Poynings near to the Grave of the said Michael Lord Poynings her Husband towards the North. She likewise gave to the new building of that Church one hundred Marks and to Thomas her son one hundred Marks until he should be of full age and then to be also given towards the building of the same Church To Elizabeth her Daughter a drinking cup of Silver with a cover enameled and gilt as also an Ewer of the same sute To Richard her other Son two Basyns and two Ewers of Silver and farther to the same Thomas and Richard as also to Agnes her Daughter four pieces of Silver of one sure and departed this life the sixteenth of May next following Which Thomas so succeeding his Father made proof of his age in 44. E. 3. and thereupon doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands But all that I have farther seen of him is that in 47 E. 3. he was in that Expedition then made into Flanders and that by his Testament bearing date at Slagham upon Simon and Iude's day the next ensuing year he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the midst of the Quire of the Abby at St. Radegunds in Kent of his own Patronage before the high Altar appointing that a fair Tombe should be placed over his Grave with the Image of a Knight thereon made of Alablaster and one hundred pounds to be given to that Abby part for the doing thereof and the remainder to be disposed â—f in Masses and Prayers for his Soul To Blanch de Moâ—broy his Wife he gave the third part of his Goods with all his Plate and Housholdstuff excepting a cup of Gold for the Lady Bardolf his Sister and another for the Lady Dacom his other Sister To Richard his Brother he bequeathed twelve Dishes and as many Saucers of Silver with all his Armor appointing that ten Annets and Trentals of Gregorie should be fung in the Churches of Poynings and Slagham within one year after his death and died in 49 E. 3. leaving the said Richard his Brother and Heir seventeen years of age having setled the Mannors of Poynings Pengeldene Perchyng magna Perchyng parva Hengelton Slagham Crowelle Twynem and Waldern with six Marks of of Rent in Ifeld in Com. Suss. as also of the Mannor of Horsmynden in Com. Cantii upon certain Feoffees to the use of Blaâ—ch his Wife during her life Which Blanch shortly after Married to Sir Iohn de Warthe Knight and in 10 R. 2. upon the prevalency of the great Lords amongst divers other eminent persons was expell'd the Court But I return to Richard This Richard making proof of his age in 4 R. 2. and doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands and in 9 R. 2. accompanyed Iohn of Gâ—nt Duke of Lancaster into Spaine By his Testament bearing date 10 Iunii An. 1387 10 R. 2 he also bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish Church at Poynings on the right hand the Tombe of Thomas Lord Poynings his Brother and gave ten Marks for the celebration of twenty Trentals for his Soul and all Christian Souls within the space of one year after his death To Ioane his Daughter for her Marriage two hundred Marks To the Infant wherewith his Wife was then with Child in case it should be a Daughter one hundred pounds appointing that if he should dye in such place as that his Body could not be buried at Poynings to the end that his friends afar off might take notice thereof there should be a Stone of Marble provided with an Escocheon of his Arms and an Helmet under his Head with an Inscription declaring his Name and the time of his death ordaining moreover that the Patronage of the Church at Eâ—â—yng should be sold and the Money raised thereby to be bestowed in Masses and Trentals for the Souls of his Father Mother Grandfather Brother Sisters and all his Allies as also for the Souls of Sir Thomas Heryngaunt Richard Poynings his Uncle Robert Boteler and Iohn de Lye and for his own and all Christian Souls Likewise that the Lady Isabel his Wife Daughter of Sir Robert de Grey then called Fitz-Payne should have the Mannor of Wrentham called Northalle in Com. Suff. during her life and that the Mannors of Preston juxta Ferlee and West-Dene in Com. Suff. the Mannors of Ifeld Peverell and Leveland in Com. Suff. and Surr. with the Rents of Staundene and Combesdene in the Isle of Shepeye should be reteined by his Executors for the space of twenty years for the payment of his Debts and Marriage of his younger Children But after this he went once more into Spaine with Iohn Duke of Lancaster where he died as it seems for the Probate of his Testament bears date 26 Sept. the same year leaving Issue by the said Lady Isabell his Wife Daughter and Heir to Robert Lord Fitz-Pain as also Heir to Elizabeth her Mother Daughter and Heir to Sir Guy de Briâ—n the younger Knight Robert his Son and Heir then in minority whose Wardship was granted to Richard Earl of Arundel Which Isabel upon the death of the said Robert Lord Fitz-Pain her Father in 17 R. 2. had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance her Homage being respited and departed this life upon the eleventh day of April the same year leaving the before-specified Robert de Poynings her Son and Heir fourteen years of age being then seised of the Mannors of Whisshese in Com. Surr. Stourton in Com Wilts Acford Fitz-Pain in Com. Dors. Stoke Cursy Radewey Carey Cherleton Staple Coden and Spekinton with the Hundred of Canyngton in Com. Somers Chynting Perchyng parva Ashcombe Wetsmeston Walerne Doddes Bedyngham with the third part of Mannors of Poynings Hangleton and Twynem in Com. Suss. as also of the third part of the Mannors of Westwode Totynton and Eccles with the Mannors of Rokesâ—e Terlingham and Newynton in Com. Cantii But I return to Robert her Son This Robert in 10 H. 4. upon the death of Blanch the Widdow of his Unkle Sir Thomas de Poynings Knight who died without Issue doing his Homage had Livery of all the Lands which she held in Dower and in 4 H. 5. was by Indenture reteined to serve the King in his Wars of France with thirty Men at Arms and sixty Archers In 8. H. 5. he was one of the persons assigned to conduct the Duke of Bourbon then in England to Diepe in Normandy and to that end to take so many Ships from the Port of Shorham in Com. Suss. as should be requisite for his passage thither And in 2 H. 6. being reteined to serve the King with sixty men at Arms and an hundred and eighty Archers for half a year he was with Iohn Duke of Bedford at
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
with those Lordships which he had formerly given to her for her maintenance whereupon she vowed Chastity taking the Veil and was after buried in the Churchyard at Durham ¶ Upon the murther of Earl Vchtred King Canute constituted one Eric or Hirc Earl of this Province but being not pleased long with him he forced him to flee and placed Eadulf sirnamed Cudel Earl in his stead ¶ This Earl Eadulf-Cudel being a sluggish and timerous Man stood much in fear that the Scots would revenge upon him the death of those their Countreymen who had been slain by Earl Vchtred as hath been said and therefore to pacifie them quitted Louâ—â—â—â— wholly unto them by which means that Territory came at first to be a Member of Scotland ¶ After a short time Eadulf departing this life Aldred Son to the before specified Earl Vchtred by Ecgfrid his first Wife came to be Earl and slew Thurebrand the Murtherer of his Father which occasioned no small contests betwixt Carl the Son of Thurebrand and Earl Aldred yet at length through great mediation of Friends Peace being made betwixt them they resolved to go together to Rome but were hindred by tempestuousness of the Sea whereupon returning back Carl received Earl Aldred into his House feasting him very honorably with all seeming affection but afterwards alluring him into a place called 〈◊〉 most barbarously murthered him there ¶ Unto which Aldred succeeded Eadulf his Brother who being much puffed up with pride made great and cruel devastations upon the Welsh But about three years after coming to King Hardi-Canutus for reconciliation he was murthered by Siward who succeeded him in the Earldom ¶ Of this Siward who was a Person famous in his time as shall be farther shewed anon and of a Giantlike stature I may not omit what is Recorded of him as to his Parentage by the Monk of Iervaulx There was in Denmark saith he a Noble Earl of the Blood Royal that had one only Daughter who to recreate her self walking with her Maids into a Wood not far from her Fathers house met with a Bear Which Bear having put the Maids into so great a fright as caused them to flee seised upon the Damsel and there ravished her by which Rape she brought forth a Son that had Ears like a Bear who was thereupon called Berne and succeeded in that Earldom in his Mothers right This stout Earl Berne had Issue a Son named Siward who after a time quitting his Paternal Inheritance in Denmark took shipping and with fifty of his Retinue arrived in the Islands called Orchades where meeting with a fierce Dragon he conquered him in single combate and forced him to flee the Land Having so done he put to Sea again and landed in Northumberland to seek another Dragon where walking in a Wood he met with a reverend old Man who told him that he sought that Dragon which he could not find But said he get you to your Ship again and sail Southwards to the Mouth of the River Thames which will bring you to the wealthy City of London And so parting with him gave him a Standard called Ravelandeys which signifieth The Raven of Earthly Terror Who thereupon coming safely to London was nobly received by King Edward the Confessor with promise of no small honor if he would stay with him Whereunto Siward consenting after thanks given to the King departed the Court but meeting with Tosti Earl of Huntingdon upon a certain Bridge was by him most unworthily affronted by soyling with dirt yet Siward though he took that usage very disdainfully did not then lift up his hand against him but upon his return meeting him in the same place he cut off Tosti's head and carried it to the King who hearing the truth of that passage gave unto Siward the Earldom of Huntingdon which Tosti had possessed Not long after this the Kingdom being much infested by the Danes the great Men of the Land consulting with the King did advise That the little Devil should be first exposed to the great Devil id est that this Earl Siward should be placed upon that part of England which was most like to be invaded by the Danes Whereupon the King committed to his charge the Counties of Westmerland Cumberland and Northumberland under which title of Northumberland he had the Administration of that Earldom from Humber to Twede All which he governed in Peace victoriously subduing the Kings-Enemies and afterwards sent his Son called Osberne-Bulax into Scotland there to get what he could by Conquest Who being there slain in Battle and the news thereof brought to this Earl Siward his Father he enquired upon what part of his Body he hapned to have his Deaths wound and being told that it was upon the forepart thereof he said I am glad that my Son was worthy of such an honorable Funeral Upon the Rebellion of Godwyne Earl of Kent he together with Leofric Earl of Mercia came with a great power to the King Edward the Confessor then at Gloucester It hapned likewise that Egelric Bishop of Durham after he had sate three years Bishop there being expelled by the Clergy because he was a stranger and not elected by their consent addressing himself to this Earl Siward and offering a large gift for his Protection and Favor obtained the same Whereupon he compelled them to receive him again But considering the loss of his Son as hath been said he marched with an Army into Scotland conquered King Macbeth in open Battle wasted the Kingdom and subjugating it to his own power constituted Malcolme Son to the King of Cumberland in his stead And lastly Apparently discerning his Death approaching by reason of a Flux he said How am I ashamed that I did not die in so many Battles but that I am reserved thus to exspire as a Beast Put on me therefore my Armor of Proof gird me with my Sword and reach me my Helmet Let me have also my Target in my Left-hand and my Gilt Ax in my Right that so as the most valiant of Soldiers I may die as a Soldier For in such sort it becomes a Soldier to die and not as a Beast lying down to depart All which being done he breathed his last at York in the year 1055. Anno 13 Regis Edw. Conf. and was there buried in the Cloyster of the Monastery of Galmanho which he had Founded This valiant Earl had to Wife Alfleda Daughter to Aldred late Earl of Northumberland by whom he left Issue Waltheof afterwards Earl of Northumberland as I shall shew anon And surviving her married a Widow called Godgive who for the health of her Soul by the consent of King Edward the Confessor had given to the Abbey of Peterborough
his Reign where the rebellious Barons with Lewes of France whom they had brought in with purpose to be made King were totally overthrown And afterwards had the Castle of Muleton in Com. Linc. and all the Lands and fees of Thomas de Muleton one of those Barons committed to his custody with Lands and Fees the King had seized on as an Escheat and shortly after in consideration of a Palfrey which he gave to the King then at Bâ—ithe in Com. Noting obtained the wardship and marriage of Hugh son and heir to Henry de Nevill a great man in that time then in minority This William for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Agatha then his Wife but especially for the Soul of Margery his sormer wife gave to the Monks of Belvoir one sheaf of every kind of Grain arising out of all his Lands belonging to his Lordships of Belvoir Wulstorp Botelesford Oskington and Stokes Moreover for the health of his own Soul and the Souls of these his Wives he founded and plentifully endowed the Hospital of our Lady called New-â—tede as Wassebridge betwixt Stanford and Offington in Com. Linc. The first of these his Wives viz. Margery was Daughter to Odenel de Vmfranvile a great Baron in Northumberlad The second Agatha Daughter and coheir of ... Trusbut an eminent Baron in Yorkshire and Widow of ... By the first of these his Wives he had issue William de Albini the fourth his son and heir Odonel taken prisoner with him at Rochester and carried to Corf who lieth buried at Belvoir as also Robert and Nicholas And being a stout and valiant Souldier most nobly qualified and full of dayes departed this life at Offintune the morrow preceding the Nones of May in the year 1236 20 Hen. 3. whereupon his body was buried in that his Hospital at Newstede and his Heart under the Wall opposite to the high Altar at Belvoir Shortly after whose death William his Son and Heir called William de Belvoir during his Fathers life and afterwards William de Albini the fourth paying an hundred pound for his Releif had livery of his Inheritance This William de Albini the fourth was with K. Henry the third in his Army in Herefordshire at such time as he advanced against Richard Marshall Earl of Pembroke who was the cheif of those that opposed the King for his taking Poictovins and other strangers into his Councel and bestowing the principal places of profit and trust upon them to the great prejudice of his native subjects as our Historians do shew And one of those whose Quarters were beaten up by the Enemy with the loss of all their Baggage when the King lay at Grosmund Castle In 26 Hen. 3. having summons amongst others to attend the King into Gascoigne he gave twenty Marks to be freed thereof But of him I have not seen any thing farther memorable than that he had two Wives Albreda Biseth and Isabel also that he dyed before the 32 of Hen. 3. Moreover that his Body was buried before the High Altar in the Priory of Belvoir and his Heart at Croxton Priory in Comitat. Leicest Lastly that he left issue Isabel his Daughter and Heir Wife to Robert de Ross an eminent Baron in Yorkshire Here being a period to the Male-line of that principal Branch of this noble Family ¶ I now come to Ralphe de Albini a younger Son to William de Albini the first as I have already shewed and progenitor to another noble race of Barons bearing the name of De Albini for some time and afterwards of D' aubini This Ralphe held fifteen Knights Fees of his Brother William the second in 12 Henr. 2. and in 28. of that Kings Reigne gave 200 Marks for Licence to marry the mother of Ebrard de Ross whose name was Sibilla de Valoines Moreover he was founder of the Nunnery at Urford in Com. Line as also a good Benefactor to the Nuns at Brodholme in Com. Notingham and died * at Acres in the Holy-land in ann 1190. 3. Ric. 1. To him succeeded Philip who in 8 Ioh. was made Governor of Ludâ—â—w Castle in Shropshire and in 14 Ioh. of the Isle of Ierley In 16 Ioh. he had the like Charge of the Castle at Bruges vulgo Bruggenorth in Shropshire and of the Isle of Serke In 17 Ioh. the King committed to him the Lands of Maurice de Gant in Ledes and elsewhere in the County of York As also the Lands and Fees which were held of the said Maurice by those who were the Kings Enemies He likewise bestowed on him all the Lands of the said Maurice lying in Com. Gloucest excepting the Lordships of Weston and Beverston and moreover all his Lands in Comitat. Oxford Somerset Nevertheless he joyned with the Barons in the same seventeenth year of that Kings Reign when they so boldly claimed their Liberties and was at Runnimede with them when they met the King there Howbeit he was one of those who being most moderate inclined to the King Yet after his confirmation of the Great Charter and Charter of the Forest he swore to adhere unto those Twenty five Barons that had engaged themselves by an Oath to the observance thereof and not only so but to compel the King so to do in case he should recede thereform But when the King flew off from what he had so solemnly granted he joyned himself to him in his Northern march at that time he so much wasted those parts Nor was he less obsequious to his Son and successor King Henry the third for he attended him at his Coronation at Gloucester and after was one of his Chief Commanders in the Battle of Lincoln against the rebellious Barons where he obtained a glorious Victory as in the life of William de Albini of Belvoir hath been declared Whereupon Lewes of France whom those Barons had brought in to be set up against King Iohn being constrained to flee and the English pursuing him at Sea this Philip de Albini whom the King had made of Councel to the famous William Marshal at that time Governor both of his Person and the whole Realm with his Band of Archers did great execution upon the French in that Naval Fight But besides his qualifications as a Souldier he was as it seems a Scholar for my Author calls him Regis Anglorum Magister eruditor fidelissimus a most faithfull Teacher and instructor of the King whose trust in him was such and so great that in the first year of his Reign he imployed him in demolishing the Castle of Chichester in Sussex And the next year ensuing having the Government of the Isles of Gernesey Iersey Aurenny and Serke received a
his Lands in Wrecheroâ—ch with his Wood called â—ravenhull as also certain Arable Ground called Coubregge and Pasturage for fifty Beasts at Erdintone And in An. 1236. 20 Hen. 3. with Richard Earl of Cornwal the Kings Brother and other Nobles having taken upon him the Cross for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land he went forward accordingly about four years after 〈◊〉 in An. 1240. 24 Hen. 3. and in An. 1242. in the Moneth of March returned safe After which viz. before the end of that year he was in that great Battle with divers other Nobles of this Realm at â—antoigne where the English obtained a glorious victory And in 27 Hen. 3. had a Grant of Sixty marks annuity out of the Exchequer until he should obtain judgment upon the Claim that he made to the Earldom of Wiltshiâ—e and Castle of Sarum Which judgment the King promised should be given upon his return into England Furthermore about this time being in France he was joyned in Commission with Hugh de Vivone to receive all those to favor and protection who having any Castles or Towns in the parts of Peregot would yield them up to the King And in An. 1247. 31 Hen. 3. having again according to the example of the King of France taken upon him the Cross in order to another Pilgrimage to the Holy Land he came to Rome and said thus to the Pope Sir you see that I am signed with the 〈◊〉 and am on my journey with the King of France to fight in this Pilgrimage My name is great and of note viz. William Longespe but my estate is slender For the King of England my Kinsman and Leige-Lord hath berest me of the title of Earl and of that Estate but this he did judicially and not in displeasure or by the impulse of his will Therefore I do not blame him for it Howbeit I am necessitated to have recourse to your Holiness for favor desiring your assistance in this distress We see here quoth he that Earl Richard of Cornwal who though he is not signed with the Cross yet through the especial Grace of your Holiness he hath got very much Money from those who are signed and therefore I who am signed and in want do intreat the like favor The Pope therefore taking into consideration the elegancy of his expressions as also the efficacy of his Reasons and comliness of his Person granted to him in part what he desired Whereupon he received above a thousand marks from those who had been so signed Therefore about two years after viz. in An. 1249. 33 Hen. 3. in the Moneth of Iuly with divers other English Nobles being no less in the company than Two hundred Horse of all which he was the Captain having received the the blessing of his noble Mother Ela then Abbess of Lacock he began his journey and being received with great respect by the King of France put himself into his Army After which scil in An. 1250. 34 Hen. 3. the King of France having put a Garison into Damieta thence marching Eastwards he attended him And in this expedition took a strong Tower not far from 〈◊〉 wherein were the Wives of sundry noble Saracens and after that surprisâ—d divers Merchants passing with Camels Mules and Asses laden with Gold Silver and Spices as also many Carriages with Victual which begot him much envy from the French from whom thereupon he received great abuses For which respect he resolved to stay at Acres with the Templers and Hospitalers until the rest of the English Nobles came thither unto whom he purposed to represent the pride and insolencies of the French But before the end of that year passing from 〈◊〉 towards 〈◊〉 the Saracens gave them Battle in which fighting most valianâ—ly he killed above one hundred of them with his own hands but having the hard sate to be overpowred with numbers was there himself slain It is reported that the night before the death of this William which thus hapned in An. 1250. 34 Hen. 3. in the Holy Land Ela his Mother then Abbess of Lacock saw in a Vision the Heavens open and her Son armed at all parts whose Shield she well knew received with joy by the Angels and that she then asking Who is this it was answered Do you not know your Son William and his Armor And she said Yes And it was replied It is he whom thou his Mother now beholdest Moreover that she keeping in mind the time about half a year after when it was told her held up her hands and with a chearful countenance said I thy Handmaid give thanks to thee O Lord that out of my sinful flesh thou hast caused such a Champion against thine Enemies to be born It is also reported that in Anno 1252. 36 Hen. 3. which was about two years after this famous William Longespe was thus slain the Soldan of Babylon when Messengers were sent to him for redemption of those who had been taken prisoners in that unhappy War said I much wonder at you Christians who reverence the Bones of the Dead why you inquire not for those of the Renowned and right Noble William Longespe because there be many things reported of them whether fabulous or not I cannot say viz. That in the dark of the night there have been appearances at his Tomb and that to some who called upon his God many things were bestowed from Heaven For which cause and in regard of his great worth and Nobility of Birth we have caused his Body to be here Intombed Whereupon the Messengers desiring it it was delivered to them by the Soldan and thence brought to Acres where they buried it in the Church of S. Cross. After the death of this last mentioned William Longespe William his Son and Heir by the before-specified Idonea doing his homage had Livery of all those Lands whereof his Father was seised in Fee when he was in that Pilgrimage to the Holy Land wherein he died Which William in 40 Hen. 3. being in the Tourneament then held at Buthe was there overthrown and lost his credit And having wedded Maud the Daughter of Walter Clifford with whom he had in marriage Twenty eight pounds eight shillings and two pence per annum Lands in Culmintone in Com. Salop by the gift of her Father departed this life in the flower of his youth viz. in An. 1257. 41 H. 3. Whereupon Maud his Widow according to the Custom of the Realm promising upon her Oath that she would not marry again without leave had her Dowry then assigned to her In this her Widowhood she gave to the Canons of Barlings in Com. Linc. for the health of her Soul and the Soul of William Longespe her Husband her
de Breause of the Castle and Town of Haverford part of the Lands Hereditarily descending to them from Walter Mareschal sometime Earl of Pembroke Brother of Eve their Mother By which Eleanor he left issue Humphrey de Bohun the Seventh who succeeded his Grandfather in these Earldoms of Hereford and Essex Another Wife he had called Ioan Daughter of Robert de Quency as is manifest by that Grant of King Henry the Third to Humphrey Earl of Hereford his Father in 50 Hen. 3. before recited but whether she was his first Wife or not I cannot determine This Humphrey the Grandson in 2 Edw. 1. had the Castle and Town of Haverford which were of his Inheritance then restored to him as also Livery of all his other Lands the next ensuing year doing his homage upon the death of his Grandfather And in 10 Edw. 1. being appointed to make his abode in the Parts of Brecknock deputed Iohn de Bohun his Uncle to attend the King for performance of the Office of Constable of England in his absence In 14 Edw. 1. he was with the Kings Army in Wales and had thereupon Scutage of his Tenants But in 20 Edw. 1. being convicted of some misdemeanor before the King and his Council his Royalties for his Lands in Brecknock were seised on and committed to Roger de Burghul In 25 Edw. 1. he was sent into Holland with Iohn Son to the Earl of Holland who had married the Daughter of King Edward when he went to challenge the Inheritance of his Father about that time slain In the same year it was that the King caling a Parliament at Salisbury required this Earl and some others to go into Gascoigne To whom they answered that if he did go himself in person they would attend him But the King threatning them with high words that he would compell them to goe without him they put themselves in Arms. Which being discerned that business was prosecuted no farther In that year likewise he was one of those who boldly prohibited the Lord Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to levy that Tax upon the People of the eighth peny then granted to the King in the Parliament held at S. Edmunds-bury and incited the Londoners to stand with them for recovery of their Liberties The same year command being given to this Earl and some others to provide themselves with Horse and Armes to attend the King into Flanders not obeying he was discharged from his Office of Constable of England Also the King being then beyond Sea Edward his Son left Custos Regni in his absence sending unto him and to the Earl-Marshal to repair to his Parliament at London on the tenth of October they came with five hundred Horse and a multitude of Foot-Souldiers but would not adventure within the City Walls unless their own men might keep the Gates Nor consent to any thing then proposed except the King did confirm the Great Charter with some Articles thereunto added as also the Charter of the Forest and grant that no Ayd should thenceforth be exacted from the Clergy or Laity but by consent of the Lords as also that they themselves and all theirs who had refused to go into Flanders with him should be pardoned All which was yeilded to and performance made accordingly Moreover in that year he was with the K. in Scotland when he obtained that great Victory near Roxborough but upon their return to Carlisle got leave to come home At or about this time it was that he passed the Mountains of Scotland with Thomas Earl of Lancaster and beseiged the Castle of Rindromi in Marre which they took This Earl married Maud Daughter of William de Fienles and endowed her at the same time by the consent of Humphrey E. of Hereford his Grandfather with the third part of all his Lands Moreover Queen Alianore in consideration of this marriage with that her Kinswoman obliged her self to pay unto him a thousand pounds of Silver And besides all this the King to manifest his kindness to her thereupon granted them the Castle and Mannor of Haye in the Marches of Wales He departed this life at Plessy in ann 1298. 26 Edw. 1. and lieth buried with his Wife in the Chapel of our Lady at Walden in Esser To whom succeeded Humphrey de Bohun the eighth his Son and Heir who in 27 Edw. 1. doing his Homage had livery of his Fathers Lands In 30 Edw. 1. this Earl by a formal conveyance gave and granted unto the King the inheritance of all his Lands and Lordships in this Realm as also of his Earldomes of Hereford and Essex and Constableship of England After which viz. in 32 Edward 1. he was in Scotland in his service And the same year attended Prince Edward beyond Sea having Livery out of the Kings Wardrobe for his expences But upon his marriage of Elizabeth the Kings Daughter about that time the King regranted to him all his Lands Castels Lordships c. wheresoever both in England or Wales as also the right of this his Earldom of Hereford with the Constableship of England which he thereupon entailed upon the issue of his Body lawfully begotten and for want of such issue from and after the death of himself and his said Wife covenanted that the Lordship of Plessets in Essex with the Hamlets of High-Estrey and Great-Waâ—tham with the appurtenances as also the Mannors of Walden Quendon Depedene and Shenfeld in Essex Stakes and Fobbing in Hertfordshire Enfeld in Middlesex Kynebauton in Huntendonshire and the Constableship of England should wholly remain to the King and his Heirs for ever Moreover that the Mannors of Agmondesham in Buckinghamshire Wolesey in Wiltshire Sutham and Whitenhurst in Gloucestershire the Castle and Mannor of Huntinton in Herefordshire the Castles of Brecknock Haye and Caldecote in Nether-Went within the Marches of Wales together with all his Lands in Newton within the same Marches should remain to his right Heirs In 34 E. 1. the K. granted to this Earl being then in Scotland in his service and to Elizabeth his Wife in tail the whole Territory of Anandale in Scotland but for want of issue betwixt them to remain to the King and his Heirs This Earl in 35 Edw. 1. being with the King in his Scotish Warrs departed thence without leave for which offence at the instance of Q. Margaret he obtained his pardon In 1 Edw. 2. he entred into a solemn agreement by Covenant under his Seal with Henry Earl of Lincoln Iohn Earl Warren and Surry Aymere de Valence Earl of Pembrokâ— Robert de Clifford and some other Barons to defend the Kings person and the rights of his Crown and to redress what was amiss as by a special Instrument bearing date at
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
and the residue were highly preferred the Beauchamps afterwards kept the name of Earl of UUarwick to King Edw. the fourths time Now that the substance of this is true viz. that for the service done in that Battle he had by special favor the title of Earl is likely enough but that he or his Father did marry the immediate Heir of Bellâ—â—nont or that the 〈◊〉 kept the name of Earl till Edward the â—â—urths time cannot be proved To return to his Story This William upon the ninth of February 52 Hen. 3. did his Homage as Nephew and Heir to William Mauduit the last Earl for all the lands descended to him by his Fathers death At which time the K. was pleased in consideration of his laudable services to accept of him for those which were due from his said Father unto the Exchequer twenty pounds per annum untill they should be run up and in farther remuneration of his services remitted ninty five pounds of the same As to his military actions In 2 Edw. 1. he was sent with Roger de Clifford a great Baron and others unto the Ford of Montgomery to examine hear and redress the wrongs and trespasses done in those parts contrary to that form of peace which was concluded betwixt King Henry the third and Leweline Prince of UUales and to rectifie all things according to the tenor of that agreement at which meeting the Prince of UUales was to be or send Commissioners on his part to manage that business In 4 Edw. 1. he was made Captain general of all the Kings forces in Cheshire and Lancashire for the defence of those Counties against the excursions of the Welch and the next ensuing year attended the King in that notable Expedition into UUales whereby he became victorious there This Earl had great suits with William de Breause for the Lordship of Gowher commonly called Gowher-Land in UUales wrongfully given by King Iohn 4 Ioh. to William Great-Grandfather of William de Breause whilest Henry Earl of Warwick Ancestor to this William de Beauchamp now Earl was in his minority but could not recover it In 10 Edw. 1. he was in that expedition then made into Wales In 15. E. 1. he was again sent into Wales at which time he besieged the Castle of Droslelan and had two hundred and forty pounds delivered to him by the Bishop of Ely then Lord Treasurer for defraying his charges in that service At that time the King being in France constituted Edmund Earl of Cornwall his Lieutenant here in England during his absence who taking special care to keep all in quiet directed his precept to this our Earl and other great men striclty requiring them that they should not ride with armed power in any part of the Realm for any respect whatsoever to the terror of the Kings leige people and disturbance of the peace but if any difference did arise betwixt them and others they should make it known to the Earl of Cornwall who would apply a timely remedy thereto In 20 Edw. 1. he obtained the Kings Licence to raise an embattled Wall about part of his Mannor House at Hanslap in Com Buck. In 23 Edward 1. being again in Wales with the King he performed a notable exploit viz. Hearing that a great body of the Welch were got together in a plain betwixt two Woods and to secure themselves had fastned their Pikes to the ground sloping towards their assailants he marched thither with a choice company of Cross-bow-men and Archers and in the night time encompassing them about put betwixt every two Horse-men one Cross-bow-man which Cross-bow-men killing many of them that held the Pikes the Horse charged in suddenly and made a very great slaughter This was done near Montgomery In 24 Edw. 1. he received command to be at New-Castle upon Tine upon the first of March well furnished with Horse and Arms for an expedition into Scotland and afterwards was sent with Iohn Earl of Surrey to recover the Castle of Dunbar treacherously gained by the Scots in which action they were constrained to cope with the whole Army of the Scots that came to raise the siege but at length after a sharp dispute obtained a glorious victory the number slain being supposed ten thousand Which great success caused the suddain render of that Castle In 25 Edw. 1. he received command to be at London upon Sunday next after the Octaves of St. Iohn Baptist well accoutred with Horse and Arms to attend the King into Flanders but upon farther consideration he was appointed to stay behinde and made one of the Governors of Prince Edward then in minority during the Kings absence whom the King had constituted his Lieutenant for that time In the same year he was in that expedition made into Gascoigns in which service the English raised the siege of St. Catherines He also had the Custody of the Castle and Forest of Rokingham about that time committed to his trust and before the end of the same year was appointed to be at New-Castle upon Tine viz. upon S. Nicholas day to march against the Scots with Prince Edward but that proved an unhappy adventure the English Army being for the most part destroyed in attempting to pass the Bridge at Sterling It was likewise this year and on Holy-Rood day being in perfect health that he made his Testament whereby he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Quire of the Friers-minors commonly called the Gray-Friers at Worcester in case he should depart this life within the compass of the four English Seas If otherwise then in the next House of Friers-Minors to that place where his death might happen and his Heart wheresoever the Countess his dear Consort should resolve herself to be interred To which place of his burial he bequeathed two great Horses viz. those which at his Funeral should carry his Armor for the solemnizing of which Funeral he gave two hundred pounds Moreover he gave to the maintenance of two Souldiers in the Holy-Land one hundred pound To Maude his Wife all his silver Vessel with the Cross wherein was contained part of the Wood of the very Cross whereon our Saviour died Likewise the vestments of his Chapel to make use of during her life but afterwards the best suit to Guy his eldest Son the second suit to his Chapel of Haâ—slape and the third to his Chapel of Anneley To Guy his Son a Gold Ring with a Ruby in it together with his Blessing To his said Wife a Cup which the Bishop of Worcester gave him All his other Cups with his lesser sort of Jewels and Rings he likewise gave unto her to distribute for the health of his Soul where she should think best To his two Daughters then Nunns at Shouldham in Comit. Norf. a Monastry of their Great-Grandfathers foundation by the Mothers side he gave fifty marks As to his farther
Castile as the right of Constance his Wife In 10 R. 2. he was made Captain of the Castles of Pembroke and Kâ—â—garan in Wales And in 11 R. 2. being still Captain of Calais was constituted one of the K. Commissioners to treat of Peace with the E. of Flanders So likewise in 13 R. 2. And the same year made a notable salley out of Calais towards Boâ—oâ—â—ne in which he slâ—w and took many of the French After this he took fourteen French Vessels bound for Sciule whereof one was for the most part laden with Horse-shooes another with Torches Wax-lights and other necessaries in order to an attempt upon England then intended by the French About this time there being no small discontent by many of the great Lords by reason of the ill Government the King looking upon this William de Beauchamp as a favorer of those haughty spirited men sent his Letters to him to render up his Government at Calais and by the same messenger sent other Letters to the King of France But he refused to render his Commission saying that he received that charge and trust publickly from the King in the presence of his Nobles and therefore would not quit it in a private manner seising upon those Letters so sent to the King of France which he conveyed into England unto the Duke of Gloucester And when Iohn de la Pole Brother to Michael Earl of Suffolk a great favorite whom the King had made Captain of Calais came thither to enter upon that charge this William laid hold on him and brought him over into England whereat the King took such offence that he committed this our William to custody but upon second thoughts soon enlarged him After this scil in 1 Henr. 4. he was made Justice of South-Wales for life and Governor of the Castle and County of Pembroke and Lordship of Tineby of the Castle and Lordship of Kilgaran and County of â—sterlowe also for life paying to the Exchequer seventy marks per annum To the Collegiate Church of Warwick of his Ancestors foundation he gave for the good estate of King Richard the second and of Queen Anne his consort likewise for the good estate of himself and Ione his Wife during their lives and for the health of all their Souls afterwards the Advowsons of the Churches of Spellesbury and Chadsley-Corbet in Worcestershire And having been made Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter as also summoned to Parliament from 16 Ric. 2. until 8 H. 4. inclusive by the name of William Beauchamp de Bergavenny Chivalier being then possessed of the Castle of Bergaveâ—â—y and other Lands which Iohn de Hastings Earl of Pembroke had intailed upon him as in my discourse of that Earl is shewed he made his Testament 25 April Ann. 1408 9 H. 4. and thereby bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of the Friers-Preachers commonly called the Black-Friers at Hereford next and beneath the Tomb of the same Iohn de Hastings Earl of Pembroke appointing that five Tapers should be hung about his Body as soon as might be after his death Moreover that twenty four poor men should be cloathed in black and each of them to hold a Torch in his hand receiving two pence a piece for that service To which place of his Burial he bequeathed twenty marks or more as his Executors should think fit as also an hundred pounds for the charge of his Funeral directing that ten thousand Masses should be sung for his Soul in all the hast that might be after his death by the most honest Priests that could be got and that four good Priests should be found by the space of ten years to sing for his Soul and for the Soul of his Lord Sir Iohn Hastings Earl of Pembroke and for all the Souls for whom he had obligation He likewise gave to his poor Tenants within his Lordships an hundred pound To Ioane his Wife a pair of Basons covered and over-gilt having the Armes of Warwick and Arundell empaled on them To Richard his Son his best Sword and Harness for the Justs of Peace which belonged to Warr. To Ioane and Elizabeth his Daughters a thousand marks a peice to their marriage And constituting Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas then Earl of Arundell Ioane his own Wife with others his Executors departed this life upon Friday the 8 of May. 12 H. 4. being then seised of the Sâ—ke of Oswaâ—dâ—eâ— in Com. Nott. the Mannor of Suâ—terfeid and Aston Cantlow in Com. Warw. the Mannors of Padyngtone in Com. Surr. Wridlington in Com. Suff. Worsfield in Com. Salop. Fordham Eaâ—-Hanyngfeld West-Hanyngfeld Choriton Redswell and South-Hanyngfeld in Com. Essex Speâ—lesbury in Com. Oxon. Keâ—emarton in Com. Glouc. Chadsley Corbet Pyriton Power Neshington Beauchamp Herington Purwil Dunclent Rushoâ— and Feâ—enham with the custody of the Forest as also of the Mannors of Shireevestench and Kiderminster all in Com. Wigorn. and of the Castles of Bergevenny and Grosmund in the Marches of Wales leaving issue by Ioane his Wife one of the Daughters to Richard Earl of Arundell Richard Beauchamp his Son and Heir then fourteen years of age Which Richard shortly after his Fathers death viz. upon the day of the seven Sleepers Anno 1411. took to wife Isabel Sister and Heir to Richard son and heir to Thomas late Lord Despencer Cousin and Heir of Elizabeth Wife of Edward Lord le Despencer Mother of the said Thomas But before I proceed with my discourse of this Richard I shall take leave to transcribe part of the Testament of Ioane his Mother who was Daughter to Richard Earl of Arundell and one of the Sisters and Coheirs to Thomas Earl of Arundell as also Widow of Humphrey de Boâ—un Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton in regard that by it the greatness and state wherein the Nobility of England in those dayes lived may in some sort be discerned IN the name of the blessed Trynyte Fader Sonn and Holy Ghoast the tenth day of Ianyver in the yeer of our Lord 1434. I Johanne Beauchamp Lady of Bergavenny as a meke Daughter of Holi Chirche full in the Christen Fayth and belive hool in minde and body blessed be God considering that the freel condition of this wrechid and unstable lief ys ful of perels and the yend and conclusion thereof is not elies but Deth fro the which no persone of none astate schall escape and therfore purposing with the leve of God to dyspose such goods as of his grace he hath lent me in such use as might be most to hys plesauns and profit of my Soule and alle theirs that I am bounden to I have ordeyned and make my Testament and last Will in this forme First I Bequethe my Soule to the mercy of my blessed Saviour and maker Ihesu Chryst through the beseechyng of his blessed Moder
Chancellor affirming That he did thenceforth continue a prisoner until the King caused his enlargment as abovesaid offering to stand or fall by the Kings Testimony therein And he farther alleaged That his acknowledgment of that Deed ought not to have the force of a Record and consequently to oblige him in regard it was not made in open Court but in the presence of the Chancellor only who was then at a great distance from the Court and had neither Roll nor Clerk there to record the same for that he came to him in his Chamber where he was a prisoner and not as the Kings Chancellor but as a private person Whereunto Edmund again answered That there was no necessity of any tryal thereof by the Countrey nor the testimony of the Chancellor or the Kings judgment theâ—ein for as much as he acknowledged that he did it in the presence of the then Chancellor and that it was thereupon enrolled c. as abovesaid But notwithstanding all these Arguments the Court dismissed his Suit so that he could have no remedy for the regaining of those his Lands Whereupon he lost Tuâ—bury Castle and other vast Possessions which Edmund then Earl of Leicester and Lancaster and his Descendants thereupon enjoyed But this was not all for he lost his Earldom likewise All that I have farther seen of this Robert is That by his Letters Patents bearing date at Yoxhall on Tuesday next after the Feast day of S. Fabian and Sebastian in 46 Hen. 3. he gave liberty unto Sir Walter de Raleg and his Heirs inhabiting at Uttoxater in Com. Staff to hunt and course the Fox and Hare within the Precincts of his Forest of Needwood in that County with eight Braches and four Greyhounds To which Branch his Seal of Arms is affixed wherein it appears that upon his Sheild and the Caparisons of his Horse waving the Border of Horsshooes given by his Father he bore only Varrâ— Or and Gules which Armes were afterwards continued by his posterity Likewise that he gave to the Canons of St. Thomas juxta Stafford for the health of the Souls of Mary and Alianore his Wives and to the end his body might be there enterred when he should happen to dye two messuages in Chartâ—ey in Comit. Staff with 17 Acres of Land and the Advowson of the Church of Stow juxta Chartley This Mary was Daughter to Hugh le Brun Earl of Angoleâ—ne Niece to King Henry the third but married very young he being but nine and she no more than eight years of age Howbeit by her he had no issue The other viz. Alianore was Daughter as some say to Ralph Lord Basset by whom he had Issue Iohn his Son and Heir Which Alianore surviving him commenced her Suit against Edmund Earl of Lancaster the Kings Brother in 7 Edw. 1. for her Dowry of her Husbands Lands viz. Tutbury Scroptone Roâ—â—estone Meercintone Calling-wood Uttockeshather Adgarsley and Newborough in Com. Staff Duffield Machiney Certeley Winburne Southwood Heâ—leg Beaurepaire Holand Edreskay New-Bigginge Alrewasâ—ege Spondone and Chatesdene in Com. Derb. And Leverpole West-Derby Crosby Waverton Magna Hale Burgeon Salford and Hardaisell in Com Lanc. Whereunto Edmund answered that he claimed nothing in Spondone and Chatesdene and for all the rest he said that Robert de Ferrers her late Husband did in Chancery acknowledge all those Lordships to be the right of his Sureties who undertook for the payment of fifty thousand pounds for his Redemption by reason of his Transgressions committed in the time of King Henry Father of the then King And that because he failed in payment of that Money those his Sureties past the Lordships above mentioned to him the said Edmund She therefore discerning that nothing could be got in strictness Released unto him the said Edmund all her Right of Dower in those Lands And soon after viz. in 9 E. 1. obtained from him the Lordship of Gumecestre commonly called Godmanchester in Com. Hunt to hold during her life I come now to Iohn Son to this last mentioned Robert This Iohn was in minority in 9 Ed. 1. And in 22 E. 1. upon the death of Margaret his Grandmother Daughter and Coheir to Roger de Quinci E. of Winchester as hath been observed doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance which as Nephew and Heir to her descended to him But he was somewhat of his Fathers Spirit as it seems for in 25 Ed. 1. when the Earl of Hereford the Earl Marshal and others being discontented at the Government prohibited the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to gather that Subsidy granted to the King in the Parliament then held at St. Edmundsbury being the eighth part of their movable goods having allured the Londoners to stand with them for the recovery of their Liberties as they termed it he joined with them in that disloyal Act but by the special care of Prince Edward then Lieutenant here in his Fathers stead who was at that time victorious in Scotland the heat of these turbulent Spirits was allayed by the Kings condescension to confirme Magna Châ—rta and the Charter of the Forests as also that no Tax should thenceforth be imposed upon the Subject but by consent in Parliament and that the Offences of those Earles and their adherents should be pardoned in which Pardon this Iohn de Ferrers is particularly named the King also remitting all that displeasure which he bore towards him for not attending him in his expedition into Flanders when Commanded Soon after which this Iohn addressing himself by an humble Petition to Pope Nicholas the third represented to his Holiness that Robert de Ferrers his Father late Earl of Derby in that Warr betwixt King Henry the third and his Barons adhering to them was taken Prisoner by the Kings Forces and used so severely that he could obtain no liberty unless he would pass all his Lands then extending to the value of three thousand pounds per annum to Edmund the Kings Son and his Heirs to hold and enjoy untill he the said Robert or his Heirs should pay unto the same Edmund fifty thousand pounds upon one day And that the said Robert more affecting his Liberty than his Lands had granted them on those conditions so that they had been enjoyed by the said Edmund and Thomas his Sons Earls of Lancaster for more than thirty years wherefore he humbly besought His Holiness that for as much as he could not possibly raise so great a summe of Money unless he might reposses those Lands and that whereas divers Prelates and other Spiritual Persons being really sensible of this his hard condition were willing to furnish him with so much money for the present payment of that summe in case they might be permitted so to do that considering the penalty of a certain Constitution then lately set forth by his Holiness to the contrary he
and two Daughters at that time not preferred did of his special Grace and Favor and by the advice of his Council grant That whereas the Mannors of Erlestoke in Com. Wilts Sweinstone in the Isle of Wight Ringwood Warblington and Hunton as also the Castle of Christ-Church-Twineham and the Borough with the Mannor of Westover and Hundred of Christ-Church in Com. Southampt which he then held in right of the same Alice his Wife viz. the Mannors of Erlestoke Warblington and Hunton by vertue of a certain Grant made by King Edward the Second to Ralph de Mouthemer and Thomas and Edward his Sons Nephews to the King and to the Heirs of the said Thomas Son of Ralph Ancestor of the said Alice and whose heir she the said Alice was viz. Daughter of Thomas Son of Iohn Son of Iohn Son of Margaret Daughter of Thomas Son of Ralph that if the said Thomas Son of Ralph should depart this life without issue of his Body those Mannors after the death of Ralph and Thomas and Edward Son of the said Ralph should remain to the Heirs of the Body of Edward and in default thereof to King Edward his Heirs and Successors And that the Mannors of Sweinston and Ringwood and the said Castle and Borough with the Mannor of Westover and Hundred aforesaid by vertue of a Grant of King Edward the Third should remain to William de Montacute Ancestor of her the said Alice and to Catherine Wife of the same William and to the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten which William was Brother to Alice and in default of issue by him to return to King Edward the Third as also that Iohn Archbishop of York and certain other persons in that Grant named should hold all those Lordships and Mannors to them and their Heirs so long as any Heir of the said Thomas Monthermer should remain In 11 Hen. 6. this Earl Richard was again constituted Warden of all the West Marches towards Scotland and the next year following Warden of both East and West Marches In 14 Hen. 6. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France and Normandy with three Bannerets seven Knights two hundred forty nine Men at Arms and a thousand and forty Archers Whereupon the King considering the great affection which he had to serve him in those Wars and that certain Moneys were due to him for his service as Warden of the East and West Marches towards Scotland granted to him the sum of seven hundred pounds part of the Moneys so due which sum he was by Contract to have paid unto the King for the marriage of his Children on the days of their Espousals And the same year ratified that Grant formerly made to him by Iohn Duke of Bedford the Kings Uncle of fifty pounds annuity out of the Lordship of Kendale together with the Stewardship of that Mannor to enjoy for term of his life he being at that time to serve the King in his Wars of France and joyned in Commission with Richard Duke of York and others to treat with the French concerning a firm Peace betwixt both Realms In 19 Hen. 6. upon the death of Ioane Countess of Westmorland his Mother he had Livery of certain Lands which she held for term of her life his homage being respited And in 21 Hen. 6. in right of Alice his Wife as she was Daughter and Heir to Eleanor third Sister and one of the Coheirs to Edmund Earl of Kent had Livery of the Mannor of Chesterfield in Com. Derb. The Mannors of Houton North Kelsey and Fulneâ—by ten pounds yearly Rent in Skeldingthorp thirty four Acres of Wood lying within the Mannor of Brun in Com. Linc. Sixteen pound and eighteen pence Feefarm Rent out of the Abbey of Kirkstall in Com. Ebor. And three pound six shillings eight pence Feefarm Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Blisworth in Com. Northampt. as her Purparty of that Inheritance In 26 Hen. 6. being then again Warden of the West Marches as also Governor of Carlisle together with his Son Richard Earl of Warwick he obtained a Grant of Nine thousand eighty three pounds six shillings eight pence per annum out of the Customs for thirty years And in 29 Hen. 6. was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat of Peace with the Ambassadors of Iames King of Scotland So likewise in 30 Hen. 6. to treat with Iames de Douglas upon those Articles by him signed Moreover in 32 Hen. 6. with the Earls of Oxford Shrewsbury and five other of the Nobility he undertook the Guard of the Seas for three year being allowed the Kings Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage for the support of that charge and was again made one of the Wardens of the West Marches as also Lord Chancellor of England But about this time Richard Duke of York thirsting after the Crown whereunto he had so fair a title though King Henry the Sixth then Reigning was the third of the Lancastrian Family who had till then enjoyed it pretending miscarriages in the Government and ascribing the cheif cause thereof to Edmund Beaufort Duke of Somerset who then bore much sway amongst other powerful Men of those days associated to himself this Richard Earl of Salisbury and his Son Richard then Earl of Warwick and having got these two on his side put himself in Arms as in my Discourse of that Duke I shall more fully shew Pursuing therefore my story of this Earl I am to take notice that in 33 Hen. 6. he raised all the power he could in aid of the Duke of York upon pretence of removing the Duke of Somerset from the King Whereupon marching towards London they encountred the Kings Forces at S. Albans and there slew many of them this being the first Battle at that place And in 36 Hen. 6. upon that overture made by the King unto the Duke of York for a fair and peaceable reconciliation betwixt them this Earl accompanied that Duke to London with a great power fearing otherwise they might he ensnared Moreover in 37 Hen. 6. continuing still a stout Champion for the House of York he underwent a sharp encounter against Sir Iames Aâ—dley Commander of the Kings Forces at Blore Heath near Dranton in Shropshire wherein Audley himself was slain and all the cheif of his Army killed or taken prisoners Soon after which Sir Thomas Nevill and Sir Iohn younger Sons to this Earl being both of them hurt in the Battle travelling towards the North were apprehended by some of the Lancastrian party but ere long got their liberty This Earl by his Testament bearing date 10 Maii in the year last above specified bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Priory of Busâ—leshham alias Bisham in Com. Berks. Where with the advice
of the Prior he had directed the particular place as also that two hundred marks should be employed by his Exetors for his Tomb and a hundred marks on his Funeral Moreover that forty marks should be distributed amongst poor Maids at their marriages as also a hundred pound in Masses Alms and other Works of Charity for his Soul He likewise ordained That on the day of his Funeral there should be offered two Coursers one of them compleatly harnessed with caparisons of his Arms as also Banners Standards and other accoutrements according as was accustomed for a person of his degree Furthermore that his Feoffees should stand seised of his Castle and Mannors of Sheriff-Hoton East Lilling West Lilling and Raskelf to the use of his Wife during her life Likewise that the Covenants of marriage of Thomas his Son with the Lady Willoughby his Wife should be fully performed according to the agreement made betwixt himself and Ralph Lord Cromwel as also the Marriage Covenants for Catherine his Daughter with the Son and Heir Apparent of the Lord Harington and William Lord Bonvile To his Son George he gave twelve Silver Dishes and a Cup with Cover gilt To Alice his Daughter a gilt Cup with Cover To his Daughter Eleanor a Silver Bowl with Cover To his Daughter Catherine the like To his Daughter Margaret a thousand marks to her marriage and a Gilt Cup with Cover and to his Daughter the Countess of Arundel a Cup of Gold Howbeit the next ensuing year viz. 38 H. 6. the tide being turned by reason that some of the old Soldiers deserted the Duke of York and came in to the King he was constrained to flee into Devonshire thence to Gernsey and so to Calais whereupon amongst others he was attained in the Parliament soon after held at Coventrey But from Calais adventuring with the Duke of York again into England he landed at Dover and within a short time giving Battle to the Lancastrians at Northampton there obtained a notable victory Whereupon the Yorkists bearing sway he was advanced to the dignity of Lord Great Chamberlain of England But see the mutability of Terrestrial things marching shortly after against the Lancastrians who had gotten head again in Yorkshire near Wakefield he was there taken prisoner in Battle in Christmass and his Son Sir Thomas Nevill slain Whereupon his head was cut off and conveyed to York and there set on a Pole over one of the Gates of that City After which viz. 15 Febr. 2 Edw. 4. I find that his Body together with the Corps of Alice his Wife and Thomas his Son were buried at Bisham Abby in Com. Berks. The issue which he had by the said Alice his Wife was as followeth viz. Richard Earl of Warwick and after his death Earl of Salisbury Iohn Marquess Mountague Sir Thomas who married ... Widow of the Lord Willoughby and was slain at Wakefield â—eorge Bishop of Exeter and Lord Chancellor of England afterwards Archbishop of York And five Daughters viz. Ioane the Wife of William Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel Cicely married to Henry Beauchamp Duke of Warwick Alice to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh of Ravensâ—ath Eleanor to Thomas Stanley the first Earl of Derby of that name Katherine to William Bonvile Son and Heir to William Lord Bonvile and Harrington and Margaret to Iohn de Vere Earl of Oxford but afterwards to William Lord Hastings Chamberlain to King Edward the fourth Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick eldest Son to Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury THis Richard having taken to Wife Anne the Daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Cousin and Heir to Anne sole Daughter and Heir to Henry Duke of Uarwick obtained by reason thereof as also in Respect of his special services about the Kings person and in the Warrs of Scotland as the Patent bearing date 23 Iulii next after the death of the same Lady Annâ— which hapned 3 Ian Ann 1449 27. H. 6. doth import a confirmation and declaration to himself andâ—his said Wife and to her Heirs of the dignity and title of Earl of Warwick with all preheminencies that any of their ancestors before the Creation of Henry Duke of Warwick used Shortly after which by Fine leavied Quind Trinit 28 Hen. 6. they entailed the Castle of Warwick with divers Lordships in that and sixteen other Counties upon the issue of their two bodies lawfully begotten and in default thereof upon the issue of her the said Anne with remainder to Margaret eldest Daughter to the same Richard Beauchamp late Earl of Warwick and her Heirs This is that Richard Nevill who was commonly called the stout Earl of Warwick and well he might be so termed in regard he bore such a great sway towards the latter end of King Henry the sixth and part of King Edward the fourths Reign having been an eminent actor in those tragick broiles betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York as our Historians do fully manifest for about the 30 of Hen. 6 he sided with Richard Duke of York who did at that time first put himself in Armes under pretence of reforming what was amiss in the Government The true cause of this taking his part being a variance betwixt himself and the Duke of Somerset which happened in the Court of King Henry the sixth and that the Queen adhered to the Duke of Somerset therein But the Duke of York being not then powerful enough to go through with his designe submitted himself making Oath thenceforth to become a true and faithful Subject Howbeit the next year after having a stronger foundation for his enterprise chiefly through the interest he had in this potent Earl and the Earl of Salisbury his Father he broke out again and in 33 Hen. 6. at S. Albans assailed the Kings Forces where this Earl entring through a Garden gave the first onset and slew many seized upon the King himself caused a Parliament to be summoned made himself Protector of the King and this our Earl of Warwick Captain of l Calais But by the power of some others who saw what was aimed at he was at that time hindred in his speed Whereupon the King coming to Coventrie in 35 of his Reign hoped there to have reconciled all and to that end sent for the Duke by Letters as also for this Earl and his Father who came accordingly Nevertheless being there and pretending some ill intentions towards them they got away York to Wigmore in the Marches of Wales Salisbury to his Castle at Middleham in the North and this Earl of Warwick to Calais Howbeit after some fair overtures they were content to come to London so as they might have store of followers Whereupon this Earl brought with him six hundred men in Red-Coats embroidered with white Ragged-Staves before and behind This was in 36 Hen. 6. where and at which time
Hull-Deverell Somerford Matravers with the moity of the Mannors of Eleston and Stapleford in Com. Dors. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir fifteen years of age Which Iohn in 7 Ric. 2. was in the Scotish Warrs and in 12 R. 2. in the Kings Fleet at Sea with Richard Earl of Arundell then Admiral of England In 6 Hen. 4. upon the death of Alianor Matravers his Mother who had married Reginald Lord Cobham he was found to be her next Heir and twenty years of age In 3 Hen. 5. he was in the Warrs of France and in 4 Hen. 5. as Cousin and next Heir male to the before specified Thomas Earl of Arundel then deceaâ—ed having respite for performing his Homage had Livery of the Castle of Arundell as also of the Town and Mannor of Arundell the Mannors of Eastdene Sangelton Stanstede Bourne Palyngham Dunhurst Leghe Wolâ—ayngton Alveredesham Cocking Levemynstre Poling Wepham Oâ—ham Stortetone Prestone East-Hamptonet West-Hamptonet Wolbedyng Pynkhurst Foer and Overfold with the appurtenances and of the Hundreds of Westbourne Syngelton Esebourne Boxe Stokebrugge Anesfourd Bury Rutherbrugge Westesewrith and Polyng with the appurtenances As also Return of Writts within thos Hundreds And likewise of the Forest and Chaces of Arundell in Comitat. Suss. the Castles Towns and Mannors of Clone and Oswaldestre with their appurtenances in Com. Salop. with the Mannors of Ruton Bokenhull Clombury Doditon Hythe Stretton Lydele Conede Acton round Wroxcestre Upton and Hyntes in the same County but the title of Earl was not then attributed to him as by the Record it self is evident In 6 H. 5. he was again in the Warrs of France And having married Alianore the Daughter of Sir Iohn Berkley of Beverston in Com. Glouc. Knight departed this life 29 Apr. 9 Hen. 5. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir thirteen years of age and William a younger Son Which last mentioned Iohn was summoned to Parliament in 7 Hen. 6. and in 8 Hen. 6. was by the Title of Iohn Earl of Arundell reteined * to serve the King in his Warrs of France with two Knights fifty seven men at Armes an hundred and eighty Archers but before he set forwards on that expedition he declared his Testament viz. upon the eighth of April whereby he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Collegiate Church of the Holy-Trinity at Arundell in the Wall betwixt the Quire and the Altar of our Lady Chappel but his death in France prevented his Sepulture there as he intended it and gave to Maude his Wife a Bed of green Worsted and to Humphrey his Son a Bed of Cloth of Gold wrought with Hares red and black And for the better confirmation of his title to this Honor in 11 Henr. 6. being then in France upon the Kings service he exhibited his Petition in Parliament that he might be accepted to his proper place there as also in all publick Councels as Earl of Arundell by reason that his Ancestors Earls of Arundell Lords of the Castle Honor and Seigniory of Arundell had used to enjoy their place and seat in all Parliaments and Councils of the King and his most noble progenitors time out of mind as Lords of the Castle Honor and Seigniory before-expressed whereunto the Title of Earl was united and annexed and which were then in his possession Upon the reading of which Petition Iohn Duke of Norfolk making claim to the same Castle Honor and Seigniory exhibited also his Petition claiming them as his right But after divers arguments on each part and the Entail of the Castle and Honor produced which Richard Earl of Arundell did formerly make by a Fine leavied in the Octaves of the Holy-Trinity before the Justices of the Kings Court of Common-Pleas in 21 Edw. 3. whereby he established it upon the issue Male of his own Body And it appearing that Thomas Earl of Arundell Grandson and lineal Heir-male to the same Richard was then dead without issue as also that by virtue of that Entail the Castle and Seignory of Arundell were by right of descent come to Iohn Lord Maltrevers for so the Record calls him as Cousin and Heir Male to the before specified Thomas viz. Son of Iohn Son of Iohn Son of the said Earl Richard And moreover it being farther considered that Richard Fitz-Alan Cousin and one of the Coheirs to Hugh de Albini sometime Earl of Arundell was seized of the same Castle Honor and Seignory in his Demesn as of Fee and that by reason thereof without any creation he was thereupon Earl of Arundell and peaceably enjoyed the Name State and Honor of Earl of Arundell as also the place and seat of Earl of Arundell in all Parliaments and Councils as long as he lived without any interruption or restraint The King therefore well weighing the premisses and likewise considering the many services done by this Iohn in his Realm of France and Dutchy of Normandy desiring to do him all right therein did by the advice p of the Prelates Dukes Earls and Barons then assembled in that Parliament admit him to the same place and seat in Parliament as his Ancestors heretofore had Shortly after which viz. in 12 Hen. 6. this Earl being still in the Warrs of France with the famous Iohn Lord Talbot besieged the Castle of St. Selerine and after three months took it by force and thence marched toâ— Sellis a Town of great strength which he likewise took Thence advancing towards â—aen in Normandy he took the Castles of Mellaie and St. Laurence and being interrupted in his passage by an Insurrection of the Country-people made great slaughter amongst them Then hearing that the French began to repair and fortify the Castle of Gerbeâ—oie near to Beauvois which might much â—â—ejudice the English he marched thither but too boldly skirmishing with a party which issued out of the Castle was stricken with a Culverine-shot that broke his Legg whereupon falling from his Horse he was taken Prisoner and carried to Beauvois and there departing this life had burial in the House of the Friers-Minors By the Inquisition taken after his death it appears that he died upon the twelfth of May 13 Hen. 6. being then seised of the Mannors of Great Grantesdene and Croxton in Com. Cantabr of the Castle Town and Mannor of Shewardyn as also of two parts of the Castles of Clone and Oswaldestre and Mannors of Clone and Oswaldestre Wroxcestâ—e Acton round Dalyleâ— Stretton and Lyddele in Comit. Salop. of the Mannor of Sâ—apleford Matravers and third part of the Mannor of Kynele in Comitat. Wilts and Mannors of Stonehouse Shurdington Achards Kyngs-Stanlegh and Wodechestre in Comitat. Glonc. of the Mannors of Kyngesdowne Somerton Erle Stoke Tristre Coklington Spertegroffe and Hyneford in Com. Somers of the Mannors of Pompeknoâ—â—e â—olre Kentecomâ—e Wotton Fitz-Pain Phelpestone Welcombe Matravers â—ychet
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
the interposition of Philip Morgan then Bishop of Worcester before specified and divers Gentlemen of the Countrey he was constrained to leave hiâ— siege This Iames therefore well discerning the potency of that Earl saw no way to right himself but by the power of some greater Man and accordingly applied himself to Humphrey Duke of Glocester the Kings Brother to whom he promised a thousand marks to be paid within one year and an half after and so by his means obtained his Livery Which being effected he paid his Relief as a Baron and had Summons to Parliament thereupon But here it will not be impertinent to observe That part of the Award made by Philip Morgan Bishop of Worcester and Iohn Iuyn afterward Lord Cheif Justice of the Kings Bench for composing some of the differences upon a Reference and Mutual Bonds by the said Earl and this Iames was made 24 Nov. 3 Hen. 6. The other whereby the Mannors of Wotton Simondsall and Cowley with certain Lands in Frampton upon Severne Cromall Acton Kingscote and Mochelhampton in Com. Gloc. The Hundreds of Harclive and Portbury the Mannors of Portbury Limeridge-Wood Weston and Gordan and certain Lands in Uphill and Criâ—ton in Com. Somerset which were Awarded to the said Earl for life as also the Mannors of Came Hinton and Slimbridge with all Lands therein being in Com. Gloc. to the said Iames and the Heirs-male of his Body was made 6 Octob. 4 Hen. 6. And that this Peace held for thirteen years ensuing viz. So long as that Earl did live But after his death notwithstanding that Arbitrement it was by several Inquisitions found that he died seised of all those Lordships and Lands before mentioned as Tenant by the Courtesie of England and that Margaret Eleanor and Elizabeth were his three Daughters and Heirs Which Inquisitions were so found through the means and interest of the Husbands of those Daughters all very powerful Men in that time Nevertheless this Iames kept the possession of Cowley Wotton and Simondsall as he did of Came and Hinton for full three years but not without great Sutes Contentions Quarrels and some Bloodshed Howbeit after all this viz. From the seventeenth to the six and twentieth of Henry the Sixth another Award was made at Cirencester betwixt this Iames and those three Coheirs with their respective Husbands by the Lords Ferrers and Beauchamp Sir Iohn Fortescue and William Yelverton Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and others wherein reciting the former Award so made by the Bishop of Worcester and Judge Iuyn they again Awarded to those three Coheirs the Mannors of Wotton Simondsall and Cowley in Fee as also all other the Lands in 4 Hen. 6. Awarded to the Earl of Warwick except twenty two marks Rent in Frampton and ten pound Rent in Slimbridge and to Iames and the Heirs-male of his Body the Mannors of Came Hinton Slimbridge Hurst Portbury and all other the Lands then in controversie in those places But that Award did not satisfie this Iames insomuch as all violent means being used to compel his assent thereto he kept home and manned his Castle with what strength he had for his own preservation his Lady in the mean time soliciting his business at London Hereupon Margaret the eldest of those three Coheirs then Countess of Shrewsbury being thus seised of Wotton Simondsall Cowley c. by practise with one Rice Tewe a servant to this Lord Iames and his Porter of Berkley Castle got the Lord l'Isle her Son with a number of armed Men into it and there surprising the Lord Iames and his four Sons kept them in prison by the space of eleven weeks by which hard usage he was forced to seal unto certain unreasonable Covenants And shortly after carried them with strong Guards unto the Grey-Fryars at Bristoll and there compelled them to be bound in divers Recognisances of the Statute Staple in twelve thousand two hundred and eighty pounds to the Earl of Shrewsbury and the said Margaret his Countess whereunto for fear of being murthered they did submit During which time of such their durance they were also forced to seal unto divers Deeds of Assurance of those three Lordships to the said Coparceners whereof one was a Lease for two years unto them and their Husbands of the very Castle of Berkley excepting Habitation and House-room for himself his four sons and six servants As also Releases and Bonds to perform all that they had been thus forcibly constrained unto and moreover to acknowledge divers Statutes before the Major of Bristoll in great sums to ratifie all Feoffments and Grants so injuriously from them extorted And after all this hurried them back to Berkley and thence to Cirencester where upon a Commission then sate this Iames pleaded his title as Heir-male by vertue of that Fine levied in 23 Edw. 3. But coming to the Bar after Replication Rejoynder and Sur-Rejoynder Issue being joyned and a Jury returned from the most remote parts of the Countrey the Jury found that Entail made in King Henry the Thirds time to Maurice Lord Berkley the second of that name and unto Isabel his Wife and the Heirs of their two Bodies according at it was laid down in the Inquisition taken after the death of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick before mentioned in 18 〈◊〉 6. and assessed Damages to an hundred 〈◊〉 and costs of Sute to twenty pounds Howbeit though Judge Bingham who lived twenty years after taking notice of those irregular actings would never certifie that Record yet it was after certified by his Widow upon a Writ of Certiorari in 4 Hen. 7. But notwithstanding all this the Lord Iames was not freed For his Lady being at Glocester following his business the Earl of Shrewsbury and his Son the Lord l'Isle being then also there to inquire upon the Oyer and Terminer imprisoned her in that Castle and there kept her till she died Nay such was the violence and cruelty of this Countess Margaret that she caused Iames and Thomas two younger Sons of this Lord Iames to be carried beyond Sea 〈◊〉 Iames was slain in the same Battle with Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury her Husband and Thomas being there taken prisoner was put to ransome She likewise kept this Lord Iames for full two years out of his Castle at Berkley and out of all the Lands and Lordships thereto belonging in the mean time making great spoil and waste upon them ¶ Having thus carried this worthy person through these many and not ordinary troubles and disturbances which attended that 〈◊〉 â—nheritance so divolved to him by vertue of the Entail of his Great Grandfather I shall now briefly take notice of what is most memorable of him otherwise In 7 Hen. 5. upon that notable Rebellion of Owen Glendowr and the Welsh when the French
Botolph without Algate This Thomas Lord d'Arcy had Summons to the Parliaments of 1 6 21 Hen. 8. Of his Descendants all that I shall observe is That George his eldest Son being restored in Blood with the title of Lord d'Arcy to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body in 2 Edw. 6. by his Testament bequeathed his Body to be buried iâ— the Quire at Bempton near to his Wife appointing that a convenient Tomb should be made and set over them both according to his estate and degree Also that to Agnes Fairfax his Daughter he gave a hundred marks as also his best wrought Silk Carpet bordered with Crimson Velvet which she made To Mary his Daughter a hundred marks to his Daughter Dawney his best Cup and to Elizabeth Clare and Mary his other Daughters certain Anâ—â—al Rents out of part of his Lands for divers years And that he died 28 August 4 5 Phil. Ma. Moreover that from him descended Iohn Lord d'Arcy of Aston in the West Riding of Yorkshire who departed this life without Issue-male ... Iuly An. 1635. 11 Car. 1. as the Descent hereunto annexed doth shew Furthermore that Sir Arthur d'Arcy Knight second Son to the said Lord Thomas in 25 Hen. 8. upon Information given to the King that the Emperor Charles the Fifth had threatned War against England and treated secretly with Iames the Fourth King of Scotland for his aid therein was upon expiration of the then five years Truce permitted to enter the Borders and to forage that Countrey which he did burning divers Towns and carrying away much booty as also that the same year in September following he was made Captain of the Isle of Iersey and in 5 Edw. 6. Lieutenant of the Tower of London And that having married Mary Daughter and Coheir to Sir Nicholas Carew of Bedington in Com. Surr. Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter he died ... April 3 Eliz. and was buried in the Church of S. Botolph without Algate before mentioned And lastly That his Grandson Sir Conyers d'Arâ—y of Hornby Castle in Com. Ebor. Knight being the principal Male-branch then remaining of this ancient and noble Family Henry the eldest Son leaving issue one only Daughter setting forth by his Petition to King Charles the First in that Parliament begun at Westminster 3 Novemb. An. 1640. That after the Attainder of Thomas Lord d'Arcy his Great Grand-father in 29 Hen. 8. Sir George d'Arcy Knight eldest Son to the said Thomas being restored in Blood by King Edward the Sixth obtained a Grant of the title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy to himself and the heirs-male of his Body and that by the death of Iohn Lord d'Arcy late of Aston in Com. Ebor. without Issue-male in the eleventh of His Reign the title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy was utterly extinct did humbly desire That being Grandchild and Heir-male to the before specified Sir Arthur d'Arcy Knight and likewise Son and Heir of Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Lord Conyers Lineal-heir to Margery Daughter and Coheir to Philip Lord d'Arcy Son of Iohn Lord d'Arcy one of the Barons of this Realm in the time of King Henry the Fourth His Majesty would be pleased to declare restore and confirm to him the said Sir Conyers d'Arcy and to the Heirs-male of his Body the stile title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy with such place preeminence and precedency as the said Iohn Lord d'Arcy had and by right from his Ancestors then enjoyed Whereunto His said Majesty graciously condiscending He did by His Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 10 August in the Seventeenth year of His Reign declare restore and confirm unto him the said Sir Conyers d'Arcy Knight and to the Heirs-male of his Body lawfully begotten the stile title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy so enjoyed by his Ancestor Iohn Lord d'Arcy as aforesaid whereupon he had Summons to Parliament accordingly Marmion IN the time of the Norman Conqueror Robert Marmion having by the gift of that King the Castle of Tamwort◠〈◊〉 Com. Warr. with the Territory adjacent thence expelled those Nuns he found there unto a place called Oldbury about four miles distant After which within the compass of a Twelvemoneth as it is said making a costly entertainment at Tamworth Castle for some of his Friends amongst which was Sir Walter de Somervile Lord of Whichover in Com. Staff his sworn Brother it hapned That as he lay in his Bed S. Edith appeared to him in the habit of a veiled Nun with a Crosier in her hand and advertised him That if he did not restore the Abby of Polesworth which lay within the Territories belonging to his Castle of Tamworth unto her Successors he should have an evil death and go to Hell And that he might be the more sensible of this her admonition she smote him on the side with the point of her Crosier and so vanished away Moreover that by this stroke being much wounded he cryed out so loud that his Friends in the House arose and finding him extreamly tormented with the pain of his wound advised him to confess himself to a Priest and vow to restore them to their former possession Furthermore that having so done his pain ceased and that in accomplishment of his vow accompanied with Sir Walter de Somervile and the rest he forthwith rode to Oldbury and craving pardon of the Nuns for the injury done brought them back to Polesworth desiring That himself and his friend Sir Walter de Somervile might be reputed their Patrons and have burial for themselves and their heirs in the Abby viz. The Marmions in the Chapter-house and the Somerviles in the Cloyster However some circumstances in this story may seem fabulous the substance of it is certainly true for it expresly appeareth by the very words of his Charter that he gave to Osanna the Prioress Ad Religionem instaurandam Sanctimonialium ibi Ecclesiam S. Edithae de Polesworth cum pertinentiis ita quod Conventus de Aldeberia ibi sit manens For the establishing of the Religion of those Nuns there the Church of S. Edith of Polesworth with its appurtenances so that the Covent of Oldbury should remain in that place And likewise bestowed on them the whole Lordship of Polesworth with its Demesns in Waverton which Grant King Stephen afterwards confirmed Moreover with Milisent his Wife he gave to the Monks of Bardney in Com. Linc. for the health of the Soul of his Father and Mother his own his wifes Soul and the Souls of their heirs the Town of Butegate near Bardney To this Robert succeeded Robert his Son and Heir to whom King Hâ—nry the First by his Charter bearing date at Eanoc in Com. Staff granted Free-Warren in all his Lands within the County of Warwick as Robert his Father had and particularly at Tamworth This last mentioned Robert possessed
of the cheif of those Peers who formally acted in the deposition of that unfortunate Prince King Richard the Second yet was he soon after degraded from his Honor by that Parliament held in the first year of King Henry the Fourth which was the very next ensuing year as all those other were who were the prosecutors of that worthy person Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester after he had been so barbarously murthered at Calais as in due place shall be shewed and sentenced to lose all such Castles Lordships and Lands as he had of those whom he accused upon the day that the Duke of Glocester was arrested or afterwards And that all his other Castles Mannors and Lands which he then or since held of the King should be at the Kings mercy Moreover that all Letters Patents of those Lordships c. should be surrendred and cancelled and that he should thenceforth give no Liveries or Cognizances nor have any Retainers excepting his domestick servants As also that if ever he should go about to give assistance to the deposed King to be then prosecuted as a Traytor Of what he was afterwards guilty doth not directly appear but it seems to have been an adherent with the Earls of Kent Salisbury and Huntington who designed the surprisal of King Henry the Fourth at Windsore For before the end of the first year of that Kings Reign being conscious of his danger he resolved to flee but was taken at Bristoll before he could effect his purpose and by the Vote of the Commons being condemned to die was carried into the Market-place and there beheaded by the rabble upon the third day after S. Hillary ten years before his Mothers death After which viz. the next ensuing year by the name of Thomas late Lord Spenser in regard before his death he had been degraded from the title of Earl of Glocester he was together with Thomas Holland late Earl of Kent Iohn Holland late Earl of Huntington and Iohn Mountague late Earl of Salisbury all formerly beheaded adjudged a Traytor and to forfeit all the Lands which he had in Fee upon the fifth day of Ianuary 1 Hen. 4. as also all his Goods and Chattles Being thus put to death at Bristoll his Body was buried in the midst of the Quire at Tewksbury under â— Lamp which burned before the Host. Upon the death of this Thomas in 1 Hen. 4. a Commission was issued to Sir William Beauchamp Knight Sir Iohn Chandos Knight and Iohn ap Herry to inquire what Castles Lordships Lands c. within the Territories of Glamorgan and Morganoc he was possessed of which by reason of his forfeiture came to the Crown Whereupon Constance his Widow obtained a Grant from the King for life of the Mannors of Caversham Burford and Shipton in Com. Oxon. Sobbury and the Borough of Cheping-Sobbury in Com. Gloc. Great Marlow in Com. Buck. Peverelthorpe in Com. Nottingh Bautry in Com. Ebor. Winterton in Com. Warr. The Castle and Town of Lantrussan with the Lordships of Meskin Glincotheny Câ—onne with the Hamlets of Combrehenok Pentiegh and Rathur the Castle and Town of Kenfegg with the Lordship of Tiriarth the Mannor of Bonyarton with the Appurtenances and certain Lands and Tenements in Griffithesmore All which being afterwards seised again into the Kings hands were restored to her in 7 Hen. 4. and enjoyed till her death Which hapned on Saturday next before the Feast of S. Andrew 4 Hen. 5. By this Constance he left issue one Son called Richard and two Daughters Elizabeth and Isabel the Wardship and Marriage of which Richard was granted to Edward Duke of York in 4 Hen. 4. This Richard married Elizabeth the eldest Daughter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland but died at Merton within seven miles of London upon the seventh day of October An. 1414. being then but fourteen years of age without issue and was buried at Tewksbury on the left side of his Father After which Elizabeth his Widow became the Wife of Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland Of these Daughters Elizabeth died in her childhood at Kaerdiff and was buried in the Church of our Lady there But Isabel who was born at Kaerdiff upon the day of S. Anne An. 1400. 1 Hen. 4. in the seventh Moneth after her Fathers death was first married to â—ichard Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny and afterwards Earl of Worcester Which Richard doing his fealty in 2 Hen. 5. had Livery of all those Lordships and Lands as upon the death of her Brother descended to her and in 4 Hen. 5. upon the death of Constance her Mother had the like Livery of what she held in Dower But this Richard Earl of Worcester departing this life before her she afterwards by a special Dispensation from the Pope took to Husband Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick as I have elswhere more fully observed ¶ Of this Family was also as I ghess that Philip Despenser who in 1 Rich 2. accompanied Iohn Duke of Lancaster in his expedition into Britanny And in 4 Rich. 2. attended d Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham into France being then Constable of the Host. In 14 Rich. 2. he had License to travel into Prussia with fifty persons of his retinue and their necessaries This Philip marryed Elizabeth the youngest of the three Daughters and Heirs of Sir Robert Tibetot Knight and having been summoned to Parliament from 11 Ric. 2. to 2 Hen. 4. inclusive departed this life in 2 Hen. 6. leaving issue Margerie his Daughter and Heir Wife of Roger Wentworth Esquire Mauduit AT the time of the Conquerors General Survey of this Realm William Malduith had seven Lordships in Hantshire and being afterwards Chamberlain to King Henry the first obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Michael de Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Michael had in his lifetime yielded to that King with Maud his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William Which William had issue by her two Sons viz. Robert and William Of these Robert succeeding in the inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain but died about the beginning of King Stephens time leaving issue a Daughter for whose Wardship and exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hantshire in 5 Steph. accounted a thousand marks unto the Exchequer What became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the name of Henry the second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Porcestre with all the Lands
taken at Kenilworth and gave no less then three thousand marks Fine for the redemption of his Lands Whereupon in 52 Hen. 3. the King received him into favor again But not long after this he died at Folkingham on the Nones of Ianuary Ann. 1274. 2 Edw. 1. and was buried in the Priory at Bridlington leaving issue Gilbert for Robert died in his lifetime and three Daughters viz. Margaret Wife of William de Kerdeston Nichola Wife of Peter de Mauley and Iulian who died unmarried By the Inquisition taken upon his death it was found that he held the Lordship of Hundemanby in Yorkshire by Barony Likewise that upon the marriage of Gilbert his Son with Lora de Balyol he settled it upon her for her Dowry And that he died seized of the Mannor of Helagh in Swaledalc So likewise of the Lordship of Folkingham the head of his Barony and of Hekyngton Hedenham Skendelby and Barton upon Humber in Com. Linc. and of the Ferry there To him succeeded Gilbert his Son and Heir then twenty four years of age who doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands This Gilbert commonly called Gilbert the fifth was in that Expedition made into Wales 10 Edw. 1. And in 22 Edw. 1. had Summons personally to attend the King with all speed for advising of the weighty affairs of this Realm Soon after which he received another Summons to repair unto Portsmouth upon the first of September well accountered with Horse and Armes thence to go with him into Gascoigne In 25 Edw. 1. he attended that King into Flanders And in 24 26 Edw. 1. had Summons to Parliament amongst other of the Barons He married Lora the Sister to Alexander de Baillol but having no issue by her constituted King Edward the first his Heir to the Lands of his Barony viz. Folkyngham Barton Hekyngton and Edenham retaining nothing but Swaledale and his portion of Skendelby And in 26 Edw. 1. departed this life Whereupon Roger the Son of William de Kerdeston then twenty four years of age Peter the Son of Peter de Mauley eighteen years of age and Iuliande Gant Sister to the said Gilbert at that time forty years of age were found to be his next Heirs Which Roger and Iulian doing their Homage had Livery of those Lands whereof he died seized the Lordships of Barton upon Humber Folkingham Hekington and Edenham being in the Kings hands by vertue of the Gift before-specified But Lora his Widow out of these had assigned for her Dower the Lordship of Hekyngton and nine pounds three shillings four pence farthing as a yearly Seck-Rent out of Edenham for her life which Lora died in 2 Edw. 2. leaving Iulian her Sister in Law surviving who dying unmarried gave all her Inheritance viz. certain Lands in Skendelby to the Nunns at Nun-Cotum in pure Almes Of this Line also was Maurice de Gant viz. Son of Robert the Son of Robert Fitz-Harding Progenitor to that Noble Family of Berkley as the Descent here drawn doth shew Which Maurice in 13 Ioh. upon levying the Scutage of Scotland answered for twelve Knights Fees and an half And in 15 Ioh. covenanted to serve the King at his own charge with twenty Knights himself accounted one in consideration that he might marry the Daughter of Henry de Oilli But taking part with the rebellious Barons in 17 Ioh. his Lands were seised on and given to Philip de Albini excepting Weston and Beverston in Gloucestershire whereupon he addressed himself to the King to make his peace In 7 Hen. 3. upon levying the Scutage for the Welsh Expedition commonly called Scutagium Montgomeri it appeareth that this Maurice de Gant had Lands in the Counties of York Beeks Lincoln Somerset Oxford Surrey Gloucester and Leicester In 9 Hen. 3. he was sent into Wales with William Marshal Earl of Pembroke for the building a Castle there And in 11 H. 3. fortified his Castle at Beverston without licence whereupon he went to the King to make his Apologie for so doing and obtained a confirmation thereof But in 14 Hen. 3. having no issue of his Body by his Deed bearing date at Portsmouth he gave unto the King then passing into Bitanny his Lordships of Weston Beverston and Albricton and the same year departed this life Upon whose death Andrew Luterell came to the King and claimed as his Inheritance divers Lordships whereof this Maurice died seised viz. the Mannors of Cantokesheved Stockeland â—ywys Poelet and Wyre in the County of Somerset as also Irneham in Lincolnshire and offered him an hundred marks to have Inquisition made of his Title thereto and that he might have Livery of them in case they should appear to be his right What success he had therein will appear in my discourse of the Family of Lâ—tterell who was one of the Heirs to this Maurice de Gant But for the present certain it is that the Lordships of Cantokesheved and Hywis were assigned for the maintenance of Margaret de Sumeri Widdow of the said Maurice till such time as her Dowery was set forth And afterwards scil in 15 Hen. 3. that Robert de Gurnai doing his homage had Livery of the Mannor of Poelet above mentioned as also divers other Lands part of the possessions of the same Maurice de Gant his Uncle whose Heir he was And likewise of all his Lands in Gloucestershire excepting Beverstone Weston Radewic Ovre and Ailbrinton Fitz-Hugh THough the sirname of Fitz-Hugh was not appropriated to this Family till King Edward the Third's Reign yet in regard that some of the Ancestors thereof were persons of eminency in their time I have thought fit to take notice of them and shall therefore begin with Bardulf who possessed Ravenswath with divers other fair Lordships in Richmondshire in the time of King William the Conqueror but desiring in his age to end his days in the devout service of God forsook the World and with his Brother Bodin took upon him the habit of a Monk in the Abby of S. Maries at York whereunto at the especial instance of Bodin he gave the Churches of Patrick-Brompton and Radenswath in pure Almes To this Bardulf succeeded Akaris his Son and Heir who in 5 Steph. Founded an Abby at Fo rs in Wenâ—â—tay-dale in Com. Ebor. then called The Abby of Charity whereunto he gave three Carucates of Land in Worton and one Carucate and an half in Fo rs and departing this life in An. 1161. 7 Hen. 2. was there buried leaving issue two Sons viz. Hervey and Walter Which Hervey being a Noble and good Knight and highly esteemed in his Countrey gave his assent that Conon then Earl of
Tanfield for the celebration of Divine Service there for the health of his own Soul as also for the Souls of his Father and Mother and all his Ancestors Upon the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth he was advanced to the Office of Constable of England for that solemnity And in 2 H. 5. in consideration of his good services done and to be done had an Annuity of one hundred pounds per annum given him by that King for the term of his life to be received out of the issues and revenues of the County of Lincoln Also upon the Seige of Harfleu the same year he was sent by the Duke of Clarence to treat with those within the Town and being then Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold was imployed to the General Council of Constance in Germany at that time held For which and other his eminent services upon the Attainder of Henry Lord Scrope of Masham he obtained a Grant of all the Lands of the same Lord Scrope lying in Richmondshire to hold during the term they should continue in the Kings hands rendring therefore an accompt according to a reasonable extent and upon the Surrender of that Grant the same year obtained another of the Mannors of Masham Clifton Watlows Thirne Nostrefield Burton Constable Norton Garstone Bellerby Coverham Ainderby with the Stepyll Berningham and Newsom All which did belong to the same Lord Scrope and divolved to the Crown by reason of that forfeiture to hold for term of life And the next ensuing year was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France with forty Men at Arms whereof himself with three Knights to be part of the number and eighty Archers In 5 Hen. 5. he was again retained to serve the King in his Wars of France with eighty eight Men at Arms whereof two to be Knights besides himself and two hundred and forty Archers And before the end of that year was joyned in Commission with Iohn de Nevill to assault and take any Castles Towns c. in the Dutchy of Normandy and to reduce them to the Kings obedience In 6 H. 5. he was with the Duke of Exeter at the Siege of Roan and in 9 Hen. 5. being still Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold attended the King again into France It is farther reported of this Henry that he travelled more then once to Ierusalem and likewise beyond it to Grand Cairâ— where the Souldan had his residence and that in his return he fought with the Saracens and Turks as also that by the help of the Knights of Rhodes he built a Castle there called S. Peters Castle By his Testament bearing date upon the Feast day of S. Iohn the Evangelist An. 1424. 3 Hen. 6. this Henry bequeathed his Body to be buried in our Lady Kirk within the Abby of Iorevaulx appointing that in all haste possible after his death it should be carried thither and buried by day light if it came not too late And in case it did then the same night Moreover willing that a thousand Masses should be said for his Soul with all speed constituting Sir William Sir Geffrey and Mr. Robert Fitz-Hugh his Sons with Elizabeth his Wife his Executors Soon after which viz. upon the eleventh of Ianuary next following he departed this life being then seised of the Mannor of Carleton in Lindrik and Kingston in the said Town of Carleton in Com. Nottingh As also of the Mannors of Thringarth Dent Sedbergh Stavel Thorp under-Stane Fremington West Apelgarth Little Leming Lirtlington East Apelgarth the Castle and Mannor of Ravenswath the Mannors of Ayreton in Craven Cleseby Clawelbek Estanfield Mikelton and Cotherston with the Advowson of the Abby of Iorevaulx all in Com. Ebor. Leaving issue by the before mentioned Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Robert Grey Knight Son of Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield Knight and Brother and Heir of Iohn Grey called Lord Marmion one of the Sons of Iohn Lord Grey of Roâ—herfield by Lora his Wife the second Daughter and Coheir to Herbert de S. Quintin eight Sons viz. Sir William Fitz-Hugh Knight his Son and Heir then twenty six years of age Sir Iohn Fitz-Hugh Knight Robert Bishop of London Iohn who died young Henry drowned in the River of Humber Raufe who died in France Herbert and Richard who also died young And five Daughters viz. Elizabeth who died in her infancy Ioane the Wife of Sir Robert de Willoughby Knight Eleanor the Wife of Philip Lord d'Arcy afterwards of Thomas Tunstall Maud the Wife of Sir William de Evre Elizabeth the Wife of Sir Rauf Grey Knight and Lora the Wife of Sir Maurice Berkley of Beverstan Knight Which Sir William in his Fathers life time viz. in 9 Hen 5. attended that King in his expedition then made into France being then retained by Indenture to serve him with ten Men at Arms himself accounted and thirty Archers And upon his Fathers death being of full age doing his Fealty had the same year Livery of his Lands This Sir William in 11 Hen. 6. was joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to treat with the Commissioners of Iames the First King of Scotland at Hamden-stank or some other place touching satisfaction for such injuries as had been done to the English by the Subjects of that Nation And in 13 Hen. 6. upon information that the Scots were preparing to besiege Barwick and the Castles in the Marches was again commissioned with the Earls of Northumberland Westmorland the Lord Clifford Dacres Greistoke and Latimer to raise the power of the Northern Counties for their defence Moreover in 27 Hen. 6. 18 Decemb. he entred into Covenants with Sir Iohn Constable of Halsham Knight that Lora his Daughter should take to Husband Iohn the Son and Heir of the said Iohn upon Munday before Candlemass day next ensuing And having married Margery the Daughter to William Lord Willoughby of Eresâ—p departed this life upon the 22 of October 31 Hen. 6. being then seised of the Mannor of Staunton Quintin in Com. Wiltes Frome Quintin Evershete and Bell in Com. Dorset the moity of the Mannor of Luddington in Comit. Northampt. the Mannor of Berwike in Com. Suss. Wintringham in Com. Linc. Beghton in Com. Derb. Charlton Kingston and Bothumsall in Com. Nottingh Bradley in Com. Berks. Brandes-Burton Westanfield Estanfield Cairethorpe Wathe Leming Magna Mikelton in â—esdaie Cutherston Lertington Clisseby Clowbeke Berewike Leming Parva West Appelgarth Fremington Dent Wodhall Eâ—wardâ—y Thurkelby Maâ—elton and the Castle of Ravenswath in Com. Ebor. As also of the Mannors of Benton Parva and Aldmore in Com. Northumbr Leaving Henry his Son and Heir twenty three years of age and six Daughters viz. Margery the Wife of Sir Iohn Milton Knight Ioane marâ—iâ—d to Iohn Lord Scrope
in 12 Ioh. gave eleven hundred marks for the same Wardship The name of this Heir was also Richard who arriving to his full age towards the later end of that Kings Reign confederated with the Rebellious Barons of that time and became so active in those troubles that having got power into their hands they constituted him one of those twenty five of whom they made choice to govern the Realm And in An. 1216. 18 Ioh. with Robert Fitz-Walter went over into France for more aid Nor returned he to his due obedience upon the death of King Iohn as many other did but continuing still in Arms with the fiercest was taken prisoner in the Battle of Lincoln 14 Cal. Iulii 1. Hen. 3. Moreover after this being a person of an haughty spirit he was in the Tourneament at 〈◊〉 in 7 Hen. 3. contrary to the Kings prohibition for which his Lands were seised But afterwards he became of a better temper For in 21 Hen. 3. he was constituted Justice of the Kings Forests in Northumbr Rotel Cantabr Hunt Buck. Oxon. Essex Surr. Berks. Southampt Wilts Somers Dors. Devon Gloc. Heref. Staff Salop. Wigorn. And in 26 Hen. 3. made Sheriff of the County of Essex and Governor of the Castle of Hertford for the last half of that year in which Office he continued so until the end of the first half of the thirtieth year And in 42 Hen. 3. had Summons to attend the King at Chester on Munday preceding the Feast of S. Iohn Baptist to oppose the hostilities of the Welsh Of this Richard it appears That he held the Lordships of Langele and Wardsbury in capite of the King as appertaining to his Barony of Stanstead in Essex and that he died without issue shortly after So that his Lands came to be shared amongst the issue of his three Sisters as his next Heirs Of which Sisters Margery the eldest was married to Hugh de Bolebeck Aveline the second to William de Forz Earl of Albemarle and Philippa the third to Hugh de Playz Tatshall AT the time of the Norman Conquest Eudo who together with one Pinco his sworn Brother in War though otherwise not allied came into England with Duke William merited so well from him in that service as that for recompence thereof they obtained of his gift the Lordship of Catshall with the Hamlet of Thorpe and Town of Kirkeby in Com. Linc. to be equally shared betwixt them Eudo to hold his proportion immediately of the King and Pinco his of Saint Cuthbert of Durham Being thus possessed of these Lands Eudo seated himself at Tatshall and left issue Hugh his Son and Heir called Hugh Fitz-Eudo who was born in Britanny and being a very devout Man Founded the Abby of Kirkstead in Com. Linc. for Cistertian Monks in An. 1139. 4 Steph. This Hugh had issue Robert his Son and Heir and two others viz. William sirnamed Fitz-Hugh and William de Dentune Which Robert in 12 Hen. 2. upon Assessment of the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified his Knights Fees to be twenty five in number whereof all except one and an half were De Veteri Feoffamento and for which in 14 Hen. 2. he answered sixteen pounds thirteen shillings four pence to the Kings Exchequer And by a formal Charter whereby he calls himself Robertus filius Hugonis filii Eudonis de Tatshall gave License to the Monks of Kirkstea◠to translate the Seat of their Abby to another place more convenient for habitation and granted them Common of Pasture throughout all the Lands in Tatshall Thorpe and Kirkby of his Fee for all manner of Cattle To which Charter whereunto his Seal with Arms viz. Chequy and a cheif Ermine is affixed are Witnesses William Fitz-Hugh and William de Dentune his Brothers This Robert took to Wife ... the Neice of Gilbert de Gant Earl of Lincoln and left issue Philip commonly called Philip Fitz-Robert Fitz-Hugh Which Philip in 1 R. 1. paid twenty five pounds for the Scutage of those Knights Fees he then held in regard he was not with the King in his expedition of Galwey but in 6 Rich. 1. he attended him into Normandy In 7 Rich. 1. this Philip was Sheriff of Berkshire so also in 8 9 Ric. 1. and in 10 R. 1. executed the same office for Lincolnshire But in 1 Ioh. he was dead for then did Robert de Tatshall his Son pay an hundred pounds sterling for his releif and Livery of his Lands in Raddun and ten marks more for Livery of Lands of seven pounds per annum value which he had of the gift of Roger his Uncle if it were found that Robert de Gant did sue for those Lands together with other which Earl Simon had given him of the Inheritance of Alice de Gant unto whom this Robert was Heir In 3 Ioh. he gave the King a fair and well-manned Goshawk to have a Market every week upon the Thursday at Tatshall And in 4 Ioh. a Goshawk of Norway for License to come into England In 7 Ioh. he executed the Office of Sheriff for the Counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon and gave the King an hundred pounds for the custody of the Lands of Iohn de Ingeham and the Wardship and Marriage of his Heir they being of his Fee In 13 Ioh. upon collecting the Scutage of Scotland he had a special discharge for the twenty five Knights Fees he held and gave to the Canons of Bukenham in Norfolk half an Acre of Land lying in Gunneby called Munkwell for to find them an yearly pittance together with the Advowson of the Church but died about the fifteenth year of King Iohn leaving issue by Isold Pantulf his Wife Robert his Son and Heir whose Wardship with the custody of his Lands William Earl of Arundel for a Fine of seven hundred marks obtained paying his Debts due to the King Which Robert commonly called Robert the third gave to the Canons of Bukenham before mentioned Faldage for two hundred Sheep in Atheburgh with free Pasturage c. As also fifty three Acres of errable Land in Bukenham and in 7 Hen. 3. was in the Kings service with Horse and Arms for which respect he had Livery of those Lands of Isold Pantulf his Mother which had been seised into the Kings hands for certain debts due to the Crown In 8 Hen. 3. the King remitted to him six marks of the debt which he owed for the Scutage of Montgomery In 10 Hen. 3. he had the custody of Bolesover Castle so likewise of Lincoln Castle in 11 Hen. 3. committed to his trust And in 15 Hen. 3. had License to build a Castle at his own
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.
41 E. 3. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Church of the Minoresses without Algate in the Suburbs of London within two days after her Death without any other Coâ—t than a Blue Cloth and two Tapers of ten pound weight To which Covent she gave a Pair of Silver Candlesticks and xx Marks Moreover she gave to the Cathedral of St. Davids one entire Sute of Vestments of Velvet checquer'd Also to the Priory of Bergavenny where her Husband lay Interred a Sute of Vestments of Green Cloth of Gold To Iohn de Hastings her Son a whole Sute of Vestments red of Cloth of Gold To Ioane her Daughter the benefit of the Wardship of Raph de Greistoke as also a Bed with the Furniture of her Fathers Arms. And for her Executors constituting amongst others Iohn de Hastings her Son and Catherine Countess of Warwick her Sister died 25 Iuly 42 E. 3. Which Iohn the succeeding Earl of Pembroke in 42 E. 3. contracting Matrimony with Anne the Daughter of Sir Walter Manney Knight and at length Heir was necessitated to obtain a special Dispensation from the Pope for the same by reason that he had formerly married Margaret the Daughter of King Edward unto whom she the said Anne stood allied in the third and fourth Degrees of Consanguinity for which Dispensation he gave a thousand Florens of Gold to the Repair of the Church of the Monastery of St. Paul at Urbine and the same year attended Prince Edward in that Expedition then made into Aquitane Where after the Conquest of Burdeyll he marcht with the Earl of Cambridge to the Castle of Roche sur-Yone Then passing through Poictou was besieg'd in an House by S r Loyes of Sanxiere but after this he went into Anjou and there fell to wasting that Country In 43 E. 3. he continued still in those Parts being of the Retinue with Prince Edward So likewise in 44 E. 3. And in 46 E. 3. the Gascoins and Poictovins having had large experience of his Valour and Goodness caused S r Guischard de Angolesme to move the King that he might be sent thither Whereunto the King assenting he was forthwith made Lieutenant of Aquitane and came to the Port of Rochel the day preceding the Eve of St. Iohn Baptist being then about xxv years of age and that Place then Beleaguer'd by the French but was attended with very unhappy success for no sooner was he got with his Ships into that Haven but the Spanish Fleet fell suddenly upon him before he could put his Men in Order to fight so that few of them escaped Death Wounds or Imprisonment and yet without any considerable loss to the Enemy who forthwith set fire on all the English Ships carrying away this Earl with many other gallant Men with no less than twenty thousand Marks in Money sent over by King Edward to maintain the War Which unhappy Accident falling out upon the Festival of St. Aetâ—elred the Virgin which was the Eve of St. Iohn Baptist's Nativity occasion'd many to censure That God's Judgment so followed him for the injury he had done to the Church of that holy Virgin sc. Ely in a Cause betwixt the Church of S. Edmundsbury and it before his last departure out of England and that the Money so lost had no better luck forasmuch as it had been got from the Religious Houses and Clergy But others attributed it to his living an Adulterous life being a Married Man also that he had in Parliament attempted an Infringement of the Churches Liberties and that he had perswaded the King to lay greater Taxes upon the Clergy than Laiety for support of his Wars Which practice of pilling and poling the Church however the Temporal Lords saith my Author were pleased yet what success they had not onely England but the whole World hath sufficiently found I now come to speak of his Death the Circumstances whereof were as followeth viz. That shaving undergone four years Imprisonment in Spaine with most inhumane Usage he sent to Bertrand Clekyn Constable of France desiring that he would use some means for his Enlargement who thereupon interceding for him to the Bastard of Spaine then calling himself King obtain'd his Liberty in consideration of part of that Money due to himself which being agreed on he was brought to Paris But after his coming thither it was not long ere he fell mortally sick of Poyson as some thought given him by the Spaniards who were reputed to have such a special Faculty in that Art as that the Potion should kill at what distance of time they pleased The French therefore seeing his death approaching being eager to get his Ransom before he died made haste to remove him to Calais but on his Journey thither-ward he departed this Life upon the xvi th of April Iohn his Son and Heir being at that time but two years old and an half and was buried in the Quire of the Friers-Preachers at Hereford but afterwards for the Sum of C l. translated to the Grey-Friers near Newgate in London being then seised of the Mannors of Brampton and Lymmings in Com. Hunt Benham in Com. Berks. Shelford magna in Com. Cantabr Blounham and Kempeston in Com. Beds Berewyke Stoforde Odecombe Mulverton and Littel Mershton in Com. Somerset Yerdele Hastings Touceter and Wutton in Com. Northampt. Wigginton in Com. Staff Worâ—eild in Com. Salop. Oteley Reyden Badmunsfeld Lidgate and Wridlington in Com. Suff. Sutton Fornesete Winferthing and Ayshele in Com. Norff. Sutton Valence Est-Sutton Claydon Saurers Godewiston and Lucy in Com. Kanc. Totenham in Com. Midd. Padington and Westcote in Com. Surr. Nayleston Barwell and Burbache in Com. Leic. Aston Cantlow Fulbroke Burthingbury Allesley Filongley and Pilardington in Com. Warr. and Intebergh in Com. Wigorn. As also of the Castle of Striguil with the Town of Chepstow and Mannor of Todenham in Com. Glouc. and Marches of Wales and likewise of the Castle and Lordship of Bergavenny the Castle and Lordship of Pembroke the Castles of Tinby and Kilgaran with the Commot of Oysterlow in the County of Hereford and Precinct of those Marches and moreover of certain Tenements in the Town of Calais likewise of the Dominion of Wâ—ysford and divers other Lordships and Lands within the Realm of Ireland But here before I proceed farther I shall observe That this Iohn Earl of Pembroke in 43 E. 3. obtaining Licence for that purpose from the King made a Feoffment unto Walter Amyas and others of all his Castles Lordships Mannors c. in England and Wales to certain Uses Which Feoffment being left sealed up in the Hands of his Feoffees to be kept till his Return from beyond Sea was upon his death delivered to the King's Counsel at Westminster who then opening it found That in case
all would be well presuming wholly upon Catesby a Lawyer of his Councel and chief Confident of Gloucester's that were there any danger he would discover it For the Duke of Gloucester made all shew of kindness to him yet did privately set on Catesby to sound him and to win him to his Party but having so done and discerning that he could not be wrought on it was resolv'd by Gloucester that he must be dispatch'd out of the way Upon Fryday therefore the thirteenth of Iune about nine of the Clock in the Morning many of the Lords being met at the Tower to consult about the young King's Coronation the Protector came to them for so was the Duke of Gloucester then call'd but after some little stay desired them to spare him a while And upon his return about an hour after with an angry Countenance and biting his Lips after a little pause demanded What did those deserve who had conspir'd his destruction considering his near Alliance to the King and that â—e was Protector of the Realm Whereat the Lords being much astonish'd and musing what this should mean this Lord Hastings by reason of the great intimacy formerly had between them stood up and said That they were worthy to be punished as heinous Traytors whoever they were Whereat the Protector replying That he meant his Brothers Wife viz. the Queen that Sorceress for so he call'd her and others with her Wherewith Hastings seemed well enough content yet was not satisfied that he knew nothing of this Matter before as he did in that touching Rivers and Grey being privy to the intended Murther of them that very day at Pontfract Castle Then quoth the Protector you shall all see how this Sorceress and that Witch of her Counsel Shore's Wife with their Affinity have by their Sorcery and Witchcraft wasted my Body And thereupon pulling up his Sleeve shew'd his withered Arm which in truth had been so from his Infancy Whereunto Hastings reply'd Certainly my Lord if they have so done they deserve hainous Punishment What quoth the Protector thou servest me I ween with If 's and And 's I tell thee they have so done and that I will make good on thy Body thou Traytor giving a great knock on the Table with his Fist. At which one without crying Treason there rushed in divers Men in Harness Whereupon the Protector said to this Hastings I arrest thee Traytor and added Make speed and shrive him quickly for by St. Paul I will not go to Dinner till I see thy Head off And so taking a Priest at adventure caused him immediately to be brought out upon the Green before the Chappel within the Tower and his Head cut off upon a Log of Timber lying there Which being done his Corps was carried to Windsore and buried in St. George's Chappel near to King Edward the Fourth's Grave Being thus barbarously destroy'd there are two things which I find were then observed The one is That shortly after Midnight preceding that fatal Day the Lord Stanley sent a trusty Messenger to this Lord Hasting's House to advertise him of a Dream he had that very Night viz. That a Boar with his Tusks so razed both their Heads that the Blood ran about their Shoulders which made so great an Impression upon himself considering the Protector gave the Boar for his Cognizance that he caus'd his Horse to be made ready resolving to have rid away that Night if Hastings would have gone with him But this the Lord Hastings slighted as a vain Conceit though the next day it was wofully fulfill'd upon himself and likewise on Stanley though not so severely For when the Soldiers rush'd in and took away Hastings they smote the Lord Stanley on the Head so that the Blood ran about his Ears and had he not stoop'd under the Table might have beaten out his Brains The other Observation is That this Lord Hastings coming that day towards the Tower and meeting with one Hastings a Pursivant on the Tower-wharf he put him in mind that when he met him last in that place he was in some danger of the King's displeasure viz. King Edward the Fourth having had some ill Office done him by the Lord Rivers the Queens Brother saying When I met thee here before it was with an heavy heart Yea quoth the Pursivant but thanked be God they got no good nor you no harm Thou wouldst say so quoth the Lord Hastings if thou knewest what I know which few else know yet and more shall shortly Meaning That those Lords of the Queens Kindred viz. Rivers her Brother and Grey her Son should that very day be Beheaded at Pontfract Little dreamingof God Almighty's Justice at that time so signally to fall upon himself For as they without any Tryal lost their Lives upon that Day and as some think the same Hour by his Privity and Counsel his own was taken away by the Tyranny of the same Person with whom he had so unworthily complied in that foul Contrivance By the Testament of this murthered Lord bearing date 21 Iunii 21 E. 4. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the College or Chappel of St. George at Windsore in the place where the King did assign near to that where he himself did ordain his Burial appointing C Marks to be bestow'd on his Tomb there and gave to the Dean and Canons of that College a Jewel of Gold or Silver of xx l. value there to remain perpetually to the Honour of God as a Memorial for him Moreover he ordained That his Feoffees should amortize Lands to the yearly value of xx l. to the Dean and Canons aforesaid to the end that they should perpetually find a Priest to say daily Mass and Divine Service at the Auler next to the place where his Body should be buried in the said Chappel or College and there to pray daily for the King 's prosperous Estate during his Life and after his Death for his Soul as also for the Souls of him the said Lord Hastings and his Wife and all Christen-Souls and that the same Priest for the time being should have viii l. yearly of the said xx l. which was accordingly performed Likewise That his Executors should give unto the Abbot and Covent of Sulby in Com. Northampt. xl l. of Lawful Money to the Relief and Increase of the said House and Abby as also Lands and Tenements to the value of Five Marks with the two Churches of Wystow and Lubenham to be lawfully appropriated for ever to the same Abbot and Covent and their Successors for the which the same Abbot and Covent were to appoint Placebo and Dirige to be solemnly done with Note and the Morrow Mass of Requiem with Note in the Quire of the same Abby for the Souls of him and his Wife his Ancestors there lying especially with all other his Ancestors and all Christen-Souls and at his Obit to give in Alms amongst Poor People xx s. in
preceding the Feast of All Saints reserving to himself two of his Castles in Kales viz. Kaermerden and Cardigan To go on therefore with my Story of him This Walter having taken part with his Brother Richard in that Insurrection whereof I have already made mention after his death in 18 H. 3. had pardon for that Transgression and was accepted to Favour having Restitution of his Lands which were seised on for the same viz. Goderich Castle c. And at length viz. in 26 H. 3. his Brother Gilbert being thus dead without Issue had special Livery of his Office of Marshal with all the Liberties thereto belonging in as ample manner as William his Brother sometime Earl of Pembroke formerly enjoy'd it with a Grant of the Castles of Cardigan and Caermerdin which the before-specified Gilbert his Brother formerly had of King Henry the Third's Gift Moreover the same year he had Livery of all those Lands which were of the Dowrie of Margaret his Wife Daughter of Robert Quincy Widow of Iohn Earl of Lincolne and Constable of Chester her late Husband And in 27 H. 3. paid a Relief to the King for those Lands which Hawyse de Quincy Mother of the said Margaret held in Capite About this time also he gave up unto the King the Castle of Bolingbroc in Com. Linc. and all the Lands in Lincolâ—sh which were of the Inheritance of Hawyse de Quincie his Wifes Mother And in Anno 1244. 28 H. 3. the King calling together all the Great Men of England and desiring a Pecuniary Aid from them alledging the great Expence he had been at in Gascoigne the preceding year certain of the Bishops being then made choice of as a Committee for the Clergy this Earl was one of those appointed for the Laytie to consider thereof But in Anno 1246. 30 H. 3. 8 Cal. Dec. he died at Castle Goderich And soon after him Anselme his Brother and Heir departed this Life at Strigull viz. upon the Nones of December a Youth of singular comeliness and hopes being the last of the five Sons of the Renowned William Mareschall late Earl of Pembroke of whom I have already spoke at large their Mother as 't is said Prophetically foretelling their Deaths in this sort and were both of them buried at Tinterne not far from Strigul amongst divers of their Noble Ancestors Which deplorable loss of them all successively without Issue was then much taken notice of Wherefore some did attribute it to God's especial Judgment by reason that when William the first Earl was a great Commander in Ireland and according to the Practice of Souldiers exercised such Cruelties of Fire and Sword as usually accompany that Course of Life he took away by violence two fair Mannors from a Reverend Bishop there and possess'd himself of them as the Acquisition of War and that the Bishop after frequent and earnest Entreaties for their Restitution without any effect did thereupon pronounce the Sentence of Excommunication against him for that Fact which he contemn'd Moreover it is said That after this the same Bishop of Fernes who had been a Monk of the Cistertian Order and an Irish-man by Birth made a Journey to the King then at London and grievously complaining of the Injury done affirm'd That he had not Excommunicated him without desert and therefore besought the King That by his Authority and Command and for the health of the Soul of that Earl he might have restitution of those Lordships so taken from him as is before expressed whereby that Earl though thus dead might have the benefit of Absolution Whereupon the King then very pensive desired the Bishop that he would go to his Grave and absolve him and that then he would satisfie his desire Whereupon the Bishop went and the King himself with him and spoke as followeth Oh William who liest here buried and shackled with the Fetters of Excommunication if those Lands which thou most injuriously didst take from my Church be restored with full satisfaction either by the King or any of thy Kindred or Friends I then absolve thee otherwise I ratifie that Sentence to the end that being wrapt up with thy Sins thou maist remain condemn'd in Hell And that the King being much displeased at these his Expressions blaming him for his Rigour he answered Sir I pray you marvel not that I am moved he hath despoiled my Church of her chiefest Revenue The King therefore privately advertised the eldest Son of the Earl and Heir to all his Lands whereof he was then possess'd as also some of his Brothers That by restoring them they should in mercy release his Soul But thereunto William return'd this Answer I do not believe that my Father took them injuriously in regard that what he did being done in the time of War was a Lawful Acquisition and therefore if the old doting Bishop hath pronounced his Sentence unjustly his Curse will fall upon himself For my part quoth he I will not lessen my Patrimony descended to me by Inheritance my Father died seised thereof and I have justly entred upon it Whereunto all his Brothers concurred Furthermore That the King taking notice of their obstinacy being then young and under Tutelage forbore to displease them But the Bishop hearing thereof was much grieved taking more offence at their Contumacy than of the Injury first done by their Father and going to the King said Sir What I have spoke I have spoke and what I have written is not to be reversed The Sentence therefore must stand The Punishment of Evil-doers is from God and therefore the Curse which the Psalmist hath written shall come upon this Earl of whom I do thus complain viz. His Name shall be rooted out in one Generation and his Sons shall be deprived of the Blessing Increase and Multiply Some of them shall die a miserable death and their Inheritance shall be scattered And this thou O King shalt behold in thy own Life-time yea in thy flourishing Youth Having spoken thus much in the bitterness of his spirit he departed thence leaving him enthrall'd with that Curse Whereupon it hapned that in few years after all his Sons died without Issue ¶ Of this Family also was Iohn Mareschall who took to Wife Margery the Sister and Heir to Thomas Earl of Warwick which is all that is memorable of him but not Brother to William Mareschall Earl of Pembroke as some say for that Earl was Brother and Heir of another Iohn as is already manifested and of an elder time I therefore suppose that he was his Nephew How long he had been Husband to that great Heir before the death of Thomas Earl of Warwick her Brother I cannot say but certain I am That he lived but a short while after for he was dead 9 Ian. next following as appears by the King's Mandate then dated and directed to the Archbishop of Yorke and others
William being unhappily slain in a Tilting at Windsore 6 Aug. 6 R. 2. by this Earl his Father left no Issue In 3 R. 2. this Earl return'd from Calais Sir Iohn Devereux Knight being made Captain of that Garrison in his stead And in 5 R. 2. upon the approach of the Daughter of the King of Romans whom King Richard had married he received her at Graveline with five hundred Spears and as many Archers and so brought her to Calais In 7 R. 2. the Scots having entred Northumberland he was one of those who attended the King in his Army thither And the next ensuing year had Summons to be at Newcastle upon Tine upon the fourteenth day of July well fitted with Horse and Arms to march against the Scots In 9 R. 2. he obtain'd from the King for term of Life a Grant of the Isle of Wiht and Castle of Caresbroke with the whole Royalty to each of them belonging without any Rent for the same But soon after this it is said that he took part with the King's Uncles and others of the Chief Nobility against the King and his Council saying That the Duke of Ireland did rule the King as he listed resolving to fight with that Duke and all his Forces then at Oxford In 13 R. 2. he was again employ'd in the Kings Service in the Marches of Calais And in 15 R. 2. constituted one of his Commissioners to treat of Peace with the French It is also reported that in 16 R. 2. he sold the Isle of Man with the Crown thereof to William le Scrope Nevertheless certain it is that he bore the Title of Lord thereof some years afterwards as I shall shew by and by That he contracted Marriage with Ioane commonly called The Fair Maid of Kent Daughter to Edmund Plantaginet third Son of King Edward the First Earl of Kent at length Heir to Edmund and Iohn her Brothers who died without Issue is not to be doubted And notwithstanding that Sir Thomas Holand by his Petition to Pope Clement the sixth vouch'd a Pre-contract and Carnal Copulation yet being beyond-Sea he renew'd his Contract with her again and withheld her from him Whereupon the Pope gave Judgment for Holand against him After which he married Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Heirs of Ioane the Wife of Iohn de Mohun of Dunster By his Testament bearing date at Christ-Church-Twynham xx Apr. Anno 1397. 20 R. 2. where he calls himself Earl of Salisbury and Lord of the Isles of Man and Wiht he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Conventual Church at Bustlesham founded by his Father Appointing That every day until his Corps should be brought thither there should be distribution made of xxv s. to CCC poor People Likewise That xxiv poor People should bear Torches on the day of his Funeral each Torch of eight pound weight and each of them wearing a Gown of Black Cloth with a Red Hood Also That there should be nine Wax Lights and three Morters of Wax about his Corps And that upon every Pillar in the Church there should be fixed Banners of his Arms. Moreover That xxx l. should be given to the Religious to sing Trentals and pray for his Soul Lastly That his Executors should bestow Five hundred Marks in finishing the Structure at Bustlesham and to make a Tombe there for his Father and Mother as also another for himself and his Son After which viz. upon the third day of Iune then next ensuing he departed this Life without Issue being seised of the Mannor of Hyde in Com. Hertf. Croukham in Com. Berks. with the Advowson of the Priory of Bustlesham and Hundred of Assherugge in the same County of the Mannor of Aston Clinton in Com. Buck. of the Castle and Town of Mohaut the Castle and Mannor of Hawardyn with the Mannors of Lee Bosâ—eye and Neston in the County of Salop and Marches of Wales of the Castle Borough and Hundred of Christ-Church-Twynham the Castle and Lordship of the Isle of Wiht the Mannor of Kingewode with the Mannor and Hundred of Sweyneston in the same Isle of the Mannor of 〈◊〉 and Mannor of Efforde juxta Milford the Mannor of 〈◊〉 and Hundred of Ambresburg in Com. Wiltes the Hundreds of Abbedyk and Bulsfoâ— the Mannors of 〈◊〉 Ryvel Langport 〈◊〉 Shipton Montacute Ierlyngton Cothulle la More Henxstrugge Charleton Camvile Donzate with the Advowson of the Prioriâ—s of Moutacute and Donpole in Com. Somerset of the Mannor of Cauefourd Borough of Pole the Hundred of Coheden and Mannor of 〈◊〉 called Newelond in Com. Dorset leaving Sir Iohn de Montacute Knight his Cousin and next Heir viz. Son of Sir Iohn de Montacute Knight deceased Brother of him the said Earl at that time xl years of age Whereupon Elizabeth his Widow surviving him had for her Dowrie an Assignation of the Mannors of Donzate Donpole Chedesey Henxstrugge Charlton Camvile Cothulle Ierlyngton and Shipton Montacute and the third part of the Lands which did belong to William Berevile in Com. Somerset of the yearly Rent of xx l. out of the Mannor and Hundred of Pudelton in Com. Dorset of xxxix l. v s. yearly issuing out of the Cunage of Tin in Com. Cornub. of the third part of two Inns two Shops vvith Chambers above in the Parish of St. Benedict Pauls Wharf vvithin the City of London of the third part of CCC Acres of Wood in the Parish of Hurst and Prosits of the Hundred of Asherugge vvith the Appurtenances in Com. Berks. of the third part of the Mannor of Aston Clinton and Lands in Dunrig and Mâ—njoye in Com. Buck. vvith the third part of the Mannor of Hide in Com. Hertf. This Elizabeth by her Testament bearing date at Donzate upon the Eve of St. Catherine Anno 1414. 2 H. 5. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Conventual Church of Bust esham Montacute Appointing That upon the day of her death Dirige should be sung at Vespers and Mass of Requiem on the Morrow at the same place and that every Priest performing that Service should have xii d. Likewise that at every Place vvhere her Body vvas to rest in its carriage to Bustâ—esham her Exequies should be perform'd vvith Dirige in the Evening and on the Morrovv before its removal vvith Mass of Requiem And that in this Journey to Bustâ—esham there should be expended in Masses Alms and other Charges the Sum of xx l. or thereabouts according to the Discretion of her Executors Also That being brought to Bustlesham xxiv poor Men cloath'd in Govvns and Hoods of Ruâ—set should carry each of them a Torch of Wax at the Dirige and Mass of Requiem upon her Burial and each of them to have xx d. in Money Moreover That her Hearse should be covered vvith Black Cloth and that five great Tapers of Wax should be placed
Moreover he built the Castle and made the Haven at Brugge-walter and began the Structure of that fair Stone-Bridge there consisting of three great Arches which was afterwards finish'd by one Triveth a Gentleman of Devonshire And having married Beatrix de Valle a Concubine as 't is said to Reginald Earl of Cornwall which is probable for in a Grant made by Henry Son to the same Reginald unto this William of the Mannor of Karswell and Land of Hakford he calls him his Brother he had Issue by her two Sons viz. Richard who died in his Life-time as it seems and William as also five Daughters viz. Graecia married to Reginald de Braose Margaret to William de Ferte Isabell first to ... Dovre and afterwards to Baldwin Wake Alice to Reginald de Mohun and Ioane to William de Percy and departing this Life in 11 H. 3. was buried before the High-Altar in the Abby of Dunkeswell before-mention'd Of which Richard all I have father seen is That in 13 Ioh. upon the Collection of the Scutage of Wales he answered for xv Knights Fees of the Honour of Moreton which were formerly belonging to Walter Briton and in 15 Ioh. that doing his Homage he had Possession of the Mannor of Cestrefeld in Com. Derb. which his Father held I now come to William called William Briwere junior whilst his Father lived In 17 Ioh. this William obtain'd a Grant from the King of the Lands of Hugh Peverell of Erminton to hold during pleasure and in 7 H. 3. was constituted Sheriff for the County of Northumberland So likewise for Devonshire in 8 H. 3. And upon the death of his Father in 11 H. 3. gave a Fine to the King of Six hundred Marks for Livery of the Mannor of Cestrefeld with the Wapentake of 〈◊〉 in Com. Derb. Likewise of the Town of Sâ—ointon in Com. Nott. and Fishing of Kingswere in Com. Somerset as also of the Town of Axeminster with the Hundred in Com. Devon and the Lordship of Stoke in Com. Northampt. all which William his Father then deceased held and that he might be discharg'd of his Relief for all his Lands But all that I have seen otherwise of him is That he gave to the Canons of Torre his Lands at Ylsham and Coleton as also all his Meadow lying on the West-side of the Causey which goeth from the Abby of Torre towards the Sea and betwixt that Causey and Cokyngton-Meadow And having married Ioane the Daughter of William de Vernon Earl of Devon with whom he had Fifty Pounds per annum Lands at Crust in the Mannor of Cruk with the Advowson of the Church he departed this Life in Anno 1232. 16 H. 3. without Issue Ioane his Wife surviving who had for her Dowrie an Assignation out of all the Lands whereof he died seised excepting the Mannor of Bruges which was to remain in the King's Hands Whereupon those of his five Sisters who were living and the Heirs of those who were dead succeeded in the Inheritance and had for their Purparties these Lordships and Lands shared amongst them viz. Alice de Mohun the Mannors of Thorre Waggeburgh Kadele Hulborotoâ— Acford Braworthy and Axeminster in Com. Devon as also the Mannor of I le and iv s. vii d. ob Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Trente in Com. Somerset William de Percy on the behalf of his Daughters Ioane his Wife being then dead the Mannor of Langestoke and Rissel in Com. Sutht Blithesworth in Com. Northampt. Foston in Com. Leic. xxv s. vii d. ob Rent in Snainton in Com. Nott. the Mannor of Raddon in Com. Devon and xxxix s. ii d. ob Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Trente in Com. Somerset And Margaret de la Ferte the Mannors of Sumburne and Stokbrigg in Com. Suthampt. the Mannor of Stoke in Com. Northampt. and xx l. iv s. ob Rent in Snainton in Com. Nott. What I have else seen of this Family which is memorable being this viz. That Alice the Wife of Reginald de Mohun gave towards the New Fabrick of the Cathedral at Salisbury all the Marble for twelve years And That William Briwer Bishop of Exeter Cousin to the before-mentioned William Briwer the elder lieth buried under a flat Marble in the Cathedral Church at Exeter with this Epitaph Hic jacet Willielmus Bruer Episc. Exon. primus fundator quatuor dignitatum hujus Ecclesiae Fitz-Piers THE first of this Name of whom I find mention is Geffrey This Geffrey in 30 H. 2. in Right of Beatrix his Wife Daughter and Coheir to William de Say shared with William de Bocland and Maud his Wife the other Daughter and Coheir in the whole Inheritance of the same William de Say By which Partition made in the King's Court at Melkesham upon the Feast-day of the Conversion of St. Paul in the presence of Ranulph de Glanvil Robert Marmion Raphe Fitz-Stephen Hugh de Morewic Hugh Bardulf Robert de Whitefeld Rannulfe de Geddinges and William Fitz-Rein fride then the King's Justices and other Barons there also present they the said William de Bocland and Maud had the Mannor of Brunnington to them and their Heirs with the Services of William de Reigni and Raphe Fitz-Bernard and likewise of the first Eschaet or Perquisite of them the said Geffrey and Beatrix x l. per annum Lands Whereupon they did totally remit to them the said Geffrey and Beatrix and to the Issue of the Body of her the said Beatrix all the Remainder of that Inheritance of William de Say After this upon the death of William de Mandevile Earl of Essex in 2 R. 1. without Issue much Controversie arose touching his Barony and Lands Beatrix de Say his Aunt and Heir in the first place laying claim thereto and being at that time very aged and decrepit sent Geffrey de Say her younger Son to the King then at Canterbury to transact the Business for Livery of that great Inheritance this Geffrey Fitz-Piers then also insisting upon the Right of Beatrix his Wife eldest Daughter to William de Say elder Brother to the said Geffrey Howbeit Geffrey de Say who then had great Friends in Court in consideration of Seven thousand Marks promis'd to be paid at certain days obtain'd an Instrument in Right of his Mother under the King's Seal for that whole Barony But Geffrey de Say not paying the Money accordingly and finding that his Sureties were liable to make it good deliver'd it up unto William de Longchamp Bishop of Ely then Vicegerent in England King Richard being gone towards the Holy-Land as a Pledge till the Money were accordingly brought into the Treasury Whereupon this Geffrey Fitz-Piers being a Man of great wealth came
his eldest Son with some other Persons as Hostages for the Remainder the King at the humble Suit of Reginald seeing no other means for his Enlargement gave way thereto authorising Sire William de Roos Sire Richard de Grey Sire William de Willughby Sire William le Zouche and Sire Hugh Huls as also Iohn Harvey William Vaus Iohn Lee Iohn Langeford Thomas Payne and Iohn Elnestow and every of them to treat with Owen and his Council and to conclude with him in what they should conceive most expedient to be done for his Redemption Whereupon they consenting to give that Sâ—m for his deliverance the King gave Licence to Robert Braybroke Bishop of London as also to Sire Gerard Braybroke the Father and Sire Gerard the Son then Feoffees of divers Lordships for this Reginald to sell the Mannor of Hertelegh in Kent towards the raising of that Sum. And for the better enabling him to pay so great a Fine was pleased to grant That whereas it was enacted That all such Persons who were Owners of Lands in Ireland and did not there reside should for such their neglect forfeit two parts of the Profits of them to the King that notwithstanding this Act he should forfeit nothing for his Non-residence there during the term of six years then next ensuing This is the same Reginald who had the great Contest in the Court of Chivalry with Sire Edward de Hastings touching the Title of Lord Hastings and bearing the entire Arms of Iohn de Hastings late Earl of Pembroke unto whom he was Heir as hath been observed Which Cause coming to a definitive Sentence in 11 H. 4. the Right and Title to the said Name and Arms was adjudged to him and his Heirs as Lord Hastings and Sir Edward de Hastings thenceforth prohibited to bear them was sentenc'd to pay such Costs of Suit as should be appointed by the Court. After this viz. in 4 H. 5. he was retain'd by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France And the same year serv'd him in his Fleet at Sea In 9 H. 5. he was again retain'd to serve him in his Wars beyond-Sea for half a year with six Men at Arms himself accounted one and eighteen Archers mounted according to their respective Conditions taking per diem for himself two Shillings and for each of his Men at Arms Twelve Pence with the accustomed Reward and Six Pence apiece for his Archers As also to have the benefit of all Prisoners they should take excepting Kings Princes or any of the Royal Blood and especially Charles the Dâ—â—phin of Viennois or any one that murthered Iohn Duke of Burgeyne or were consenting thereto And in 3 H. 6. was in like sort retain'd to serve the King in his Wars of France under the Command of Iohn Duke of Bedford the King's Uncle then Regent of France with twenty Men at Arms and sixty Archers on Horseback for the like Wages This Reginald had two Wives viz. Margaret the Daughter of William Lord Ros and Ioane Daughter and Heir to William Lord Astley By the first of them he had Issue Sir Iohn Grâ—y Knight who in 13 R. 2. serv'd the King in his French Wars Which Iohn departing this Life whilst his Father lived left Issue Edmund and Thomas Which Thomas being a Knight in 28 H. 6. was advanc'd to the Dignity of Baron of Rugemont-Grey in Com. ... And having in 38 H. 6. obtain'd the Stewardship of the Lordships of Wendover and Whaddon in Com. Buck. forfeited to the King had in farther consideration of his special Services in those Wars which King Henry underwent with his Adversariâ—s of the House of Yorke a Grant of Forty Pounds per annum out of those Lordships above-mentioned But for this his Fidelity to the House of Lancaster he paid dear for in 1 E. 4. he was with many others of that Party attainted in Parliament being then seised of the Mannor of Langton in Com. Ebor. and Merton in Com. Westmerl leaving no Issue for ought I have seen By his second Wife the said Reginald had Issue three Sons viz. Edward who married Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Henry Lord Ferrers of Groby of whom and his Descendents I shall speak by and by Iohn Grey of Barwell in Com. Leic. and Robert Grey of Enfeild in Com. Stâ—ff And died in 19 H. 6. leaving Edmund his Grandson viz. Son of Iohn his eldest Son who died in his Life-time his next Heir Which Edmund the same year in consideration of his special Services to that King perform'd in Aquitane and other Parts beyond Sea as also in the Realm of England by attendance on his Person to his very great expence and for a Fine of Three hundred Pounds paid into the Exchequer as well in satisfaction of the Profits of his Lands which belong'd to the King from the death of the said Reginald as the Relief thereupon had a special Licence to enter upon all his Castles Lordships and Lands not onely in England Wales and the Marches of Wales but those in Ireland and the Town of Calais without any Inquisition to be taken after the death of his said Grandfather or other Livery of them This Edmund having a fair Estate in Bedfordshire did not a little augment it by the addition of Anthill and certain other Lands of the Lord Fanhope But how he came by them let us hear In the time of the Civil War betwixt King Henry the Sixth and King Edward the Fourth there was a Battel fought saith Leland without the South-Suburbs of Northampton The Lord Fanhope took totally King Henry's part The Lord Grey of Ruthyn did the same in countenance but a little afore the Field he practised with King Edward Other saying that he had a Title to the Lord Fanâ—ope's Lands at Antehill and thereabout or depraving him with false Accusations so wrought with King Edward that he with all his strong Band of Walschemen fell to King Edward's part upon promise that if Edward wan the Field he should have Antehille and such Lands as Fanhope had there Edward wan the Field and Gray obtained Antehille cum pertinentiis c. So far my Author That he had great esteem from King Edward is plain enough for upon the twenty fourth of June in 3 E. 4. he made him Lord Treasurer of England and within two years following viz. 3 Maii 5 E. 4. using then the Titles of Lord and Baron of Hastings Weysford and Ruthyn created him Earl of Kent and to the Heirs-male of his Body After which viz. in 11 E. 4. he was one of those Pâ—ers who upon the third of July King Edward having again recovered the Crown subscrib'd and gave their Oaths of Fealty to Prince Edward the King's Son And after the death of King Edward obtain'd from King Richard the Third a
appropriated to his College of Astley to the intent that the Dean of that College and his Brethren should specially pray for the Souls of King Edward the Fourth Queen Elizabeth his Wife Mother to this Marquess as also for his Fathers his own his Wifes Soul and all Christian Souls He also Willed That his Son and Heir apparent should after his Decease have and enjoy his Mannors of Groby Bradgate Rotby Newton Ansty Cobentre Glenfeild with all the Members to them appertaining as also the Mannor of Higham in Com. Leic. with Winchester Fee and the Mannors of Graâ—ton Hertwelle Ashehenne Rooâ—e Wyke Hâ—mund Wyke Dive Stoke upon Tearne Wuttâ—n under Wyvor Broughton Astley the Lee 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Lee Bancors and Levisham with all his 〈◊〉 in Calais And that Cecilie his Wife should have the Mannor of Astâ—â—â— with its Appurtenances Likewise for the performance of his Legacies and that every of his Daughters unmarried might have a thousand Pounds the Revenues and Profits of his Mannors of Lutterworth Creke Clay-Coton Willougâ—oâ— Waterlesse Wedyngton Trelawne Tregewell Trewardreth Colrige West-Kington and Leysthorp should be received by his Executors And That if the Lord Ferrers who had then married Mary his Daughter should die before Carnal Copulation or disagree to the Marriage then that Thousand Pounds to return And lastly That all Covenants betwixt the Lord Dudley and him for the Marriage of his Son and Hâ—ir to Cecilie his Daughter should be in all points perform'd By this Cecilie his Wife who was Daughter and Heir to William Lord Bonvile and afterwards married to Henry Earl of Wiltshire he had Issue seven Sons viz. Edward and Anthony who died young Thomas who succeeded him in his Honours Richard Iohn and Leonard and George a Clergy-man and eight Daughters Dorothy first married to Robert Willoughby Lord Broke and afterwards to William Blount Lord Montjoy Cecilie to Iohn Sutton Lord Dudley Eleanor to Iohn Arundell of Lanherne in Cornwall Esq Elizabeth to Gerald Fitz Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland Mary to Walter Devereux Lord Ferrers of Chartley afterwards created Viscount Hereford Margaret to Richard Wake of Blisworth in Com. Northampt. Esq Bridget died young and Anne to Richard Clement And departed this Life 20 Sept. 17 H 7. Shortly after which viz. 18 Nov. 18 H. 7. Thomas his Son and Heir had Livery of his Lands Which Thomas in 3 H. 8. was General of that Army sent about the beginning of May into Spaine consisting of Ten thousand Men whereof Five thousand were Archers who besides their Bows and Arrows carried Halberts which they pitched in the Ground till their Arrows were shot and then took up again to do Execution on the Enemy wherein were also his three Brothers with the Lord Thomas Howard Son and Heir to the Earl of Surrey the Lords Brooke Willoughby and Ferrers Which Army arriv'd at Passage a Port in Guipuscoa and though design'd to joyn with the Forces of Ferdinand the Emperor to invade Guyenne a Territory belonging to the King of France yet being landed and the Emperor proposing other Actings from it than were consonant to the Commission and Instructions which the King had given after many of the Soldiers by ill Diet lost and the General himself sick return'd for England about the end of November following without performing any thing of moment In 5 H. 8. this Thomas and four of his Brothers together with the Duke of Suffolk and some other gallant Englishmen upon Proclamation of a Justs at St. Dennis in France which Francis de Valois next Heir to the Crown of France having married Claude eldest Daughter to Lewes the Twelfth by Anne Inheritrix of Bretaigne to give some proof of his Valour had obtain'd leave of the King to be performed went thither and behaved himself so bravely therein that he return'd home with singular Honour In 12 H. 8. at that famous Meeting of King Henry and Francis the First of France between Ardres and Gisnes in Picardy he carried the Sword of Estate before the King of England naked as the Duke of Bourbon did before the King of France And after that was one of the Aiders in those renowned Justs and Tournaments which were held at that time there betwixt the English and French In 14 H. 8. he was sent to Calais to attend the Emperor Charles the Fifth into England which was the time that the Emperor was so magnificently entertain'd by King Henry being himself lodg'd in Black-Friers and his Train in the King's then new-beautified Palace at Bridewell And in 15 H. 8. was together with Sir Thomas Lovel Knight constituted Chief Justice-Itinerant of all the King's Forests and then had a Grant from that King to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body of the Mannors of Wawens-Wotton Sheldon and Lalleford in the County of Warwick part of the Possessions of Edward Duke of Buckingham lately attainted And in 19 H. 8. in exchange from the King the Mannors of Loughborough and Shepesheved in Com. Leic. with the Advousons of the Churches thereto belonging which came to the Crown by the Attainder of Francis Lord Lovell in consideration of the Lordships of Grafton and Hartwell in Com. Northampt. of his own Inheritance And moreover by another Grant obtain'd the Inheritance of Bardon-Park in Com. Leic. In 19 H. 8. Cecilie the Mother of this Marquess then Widow of Henry Earl of Wiltshire by her Testament bearing date the sixth of March bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Chappel at Astley in the Tomb where the late Lord Marquess her Husband lay And appointed That soon after her death a thousand Masses should be said for her Soul in as convenient haste as might be Moreover That a goodly Tomb should be made in the Chappel of Astley over the Lord Marquess her Husband and another over her self And that her Executors should provide two Priests daily to sing in the said Chappel of Astley by the space of Lxxx years to pray for the Soul of the said Lord Marquess and her own Soul and each of them to have viii l. yearly Stipend for their pains In 21 H. 8. this Marquess being one of the Witnesses produc'd in that Cause of Divorce betwixt King Henry and Queen Katherine his first Wife deposed to the Age of Prince Arthur and for his Abilities as to Carnal Copulation and the same year was one of the Lords who subscrib'd and presented to the King that sharp Complaint contain'd in Forty four Articles against the then Great and Potent Cardinal Wolsey In 22 H. 8. he was one of those English Lords that subscrib'd a Letter to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby they importun'd his allowance of the Divorce before-mentioned And upon the second of June Anno 1530. 22 H. 8. did by his Testament bequeath his Body to be buried in the same Chappel at Astley
besiege his Castle of Pontfract and take it commanding the assistance to them therein of all his Subjects to their utmost power It is said that in this his flight consulting with those Barons then with him at the Black-Fryers in Pontfract they advised him to march to Dunstanburgh a Castle of his own in Northumberland and that refuâ—ing so to do lest it should be thought he held intelligence with the Scots he expressed that he did resolve to stay still at Pontfract And that thereupon Sir Roger de Clifford drawing out his Dagger swore that he would kill him unless he would go with them whereupon he went having seven hundred Men of his company And before the Kings Forces could overtake him got to Burroughbrigge in Yorkshire where finding the Countrey people in Arms and William Lord Latimer then Governor of the City of York and Sir Andrew de Harcla of Carlisle ready to give him Battle after a short skirmish Humphrey de Boâ—un Earl of Hereford attempting to pass the Bridge was â—lain by one who lay under an Arch and he himself over-powâ—red with numbers taken by the same Sir Andrew So likewise were Roger de Clifford Iohn de Moâ—brâ—y Warreâ—de â—Isle and many others and thence carried to Pontfract where the King and both the Speâ—sers at that time were Where being brought into the Town he was scorned and by the people in derision called King Arthur Which being observed many did deem it a just judgment upon him in regard he had in such sort abused the King when coming out of thâ— North not long before he lay at Pontfrâ—â—t For at that time issuing out of the Castle with his Men they used him very contemptibly exclaiming vilely against him in a most tumâ—ltuous manner And being thus fetcht thither he was on the third day afterwards brought before the King the Earl of Kent the Earl of Winchester Iohn Earl â—arren and Surrey David Earl of Athol and Robert Earl of Angos being all present who gave sentence upon him to be drawn hangâ—d and beheaded But in regard of his great Birth somewhat qualified it and appointed That he should only lose his Head In pursuance whereof he was upon the morrow after the Fâ—ast of S. Benedict brought to a Plain without the Town and there beheaded On which a beautiful Church was afterwards erected to the honor of his memory The rest being sentenced to be drawn and hanged at York and several other places Others relate the story thus viz. That being come to Burroughbrigge he there found Sir Andrew de Harcla Warâ—len of Carlisle and the Marches and Sir Simon Ward Sheriff of Yorkshire ready to encounter him Where relating to Harcla his just quarrel to the Spensers he promised him if he would favor his Cause to give him one of those five Earldoms which he had in possession and that Harcla refusing he told him That he would soon repent it and that he should die â— shameful death as it aftewards hapned Also that Harcla then causing his Archers to shoot the fight bâ—gan in which many of this Earls party being slain he betook himself to a Chappel refusing to yield to Harcla and looking on the Crucifix said Good Lord I render my self to thee and put my self into thy mercy Also that they then took off his Coat-Armor and putâ—ing upon him one of his Mens Liveries carried him by Water to York where they threw Balls of Dirt at him Moreover that from thence they brought him back to the King at Ponfract Castle and there put him in a Tower towards the Abby which he had newly made Likewise that soon after being brought into the Hall he had Sentence of Death by these Justices viz. Aymer Earl of Pembroke Edmund Earl of Kent Iohn de Bretaigne and Sir Robert Malmethorpe who pronounced the Judgment Whereupon saying Shall I die without Answer A certain Gascoignâ— took him away and put a pill'd broken Hood on his Head and set him on a lean white Jade without a Bridle and that then he added King of Heaven have mercy on me for the King of Earth â—ous ad gâ—erthi And that thus he was carried some throwing Pellots of Dirt at him having a Fryer-Preacher for his Confessor to an Hill without the Town where he kneeled down towards the East until one Hugin de Muston caused him to turn his Face toward Scotland and then a Villain of London cut off his Head After which the Prior and Monks obtaining his Body from the King buried it on the right hand of the High Altar The day of his death was certainly upon the Munday next preceding the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin But of this his death the King soon after repented as it is said Touching his Merits there hapned afterwards very great disputes Some thinking it fit that he should be accounted a Saint because he was so charitable and so much an honorer of the Religious as also that he died in a just Cause But cheifly for that his persecutors came to untimely ends in a short time On the other side many there were who taxed him for Adultery in keeping of sundry Women notwithstanding he had a Wife Aspersing him likewise for cruelty in putting to death some persons for small offences and protecting some from punishment who were transgressors of the Laws alleaging also that he was cheifly swayed by one of his Secretaries and that he did not fight stoutly for Justice but fled and was taken unarmed Nevertheless many Miracles were reported to have been afterwards wrought in the place where his Corps was buried much confluence of people coming thereto in honor thereof till the King through the incitation of the Spensers set Guards to restrain them Whereupon they flocked to the place where he suffered death and so much the more eagerly by how much endeavors were used to restrain them until a Church was erected on the place where he suffered Most certain it is that the vulgar sort of people had so great a veneration to him that they worshipped his Picture which with other was drawn on a Tablet in Saint Pauls Cathedral at London till the King by his special Letters to the Bishop of London bearing date at York 28 Iunii 16 Edw. 2. inhibited them so to do Nor was it long after the stream turning another way by the unhappy deposal and lamentable murther of King Edward the Second but that all proceedings concerning the Attainder of him and his adherents being annulled and vacated in the Parliament begun at Westminster on the morrow after the Feast of the Epiphany 1 Edw. 3. there still continued the like veneration for his memory so that in 33 Edw. 3. it was generally believed that Miracles were done at his Tomb and that
French with condition that if he should then be worsted he would never make further challenge to the Crown of France But the next ensuing year there was a Peace concluded betwixt both Realms After which finding nothing more of his military employments I shall next take notice of his works of piety Of these the chief and principal was his foundation of the Collegiate-Church of our Lady at Leicester consisting of Twelve Prebends besides the Dean and Choristers as also of the Hospital there which Iohn of Gant afterward Duke of Lancaster in fulfilling of that his devout design perfected The next being the gift of a certain Livery to the two Recluses in the House of S. Helen at Pontfract called the Blanch Liveries which did appertain to his Donation as Lord of the Honour of Pontfract to be paid every day out of the Hospital of S Nicholas there for the finding of a Priest to celebrate Divine Service in the Chappel of S. Elene for ever Moreover by his Deed bearing date Ian. 2. in the Tenth year after he was Duke which was in 35 E. 3. he gave to the Monks of Whalley in Com. Lanc. and to their successors two Cottages seven acres of Land an hundred eighty three acres of Pasture two hundred acres of Wood called Rommesgreve all lying in the Chase of Blakburn Likewise two Messuages a hundred twentyâ— six acres of Land twenty six acres of Meadow an hundred and thirty acres of Pasture called Standen Holcroft and Grenelache lying within the Towns of Penhulton and Cliderhou with the Fold and Foldage of Standen to support and maintain two Recluses in a certain place within the Church-yard of the Parochial Church of Whalley and their successors Recluses there as also for two Women-servants to attend them there to pray for the Soul of him the said Duke his Ancestors and Heirs That is to say to find them every week throughout the year seventeen Loaves of Bread such as usually were made in their Covent each of them weighing fifty shillings Sterling and seven Loaves of the second sort of the same weight as also eight gallons of their better sort of Beer and three pence for their food Moreover every year at the Feast of All-Saints to provide for them ten large Fishes called Stock-fish and one Bushel of Oat-meal for Pottage one Bushel of Rye two gallons of Oyl for their Lamps one pound of Tallow for Candle six load of Turfe and one load of Faggots for their fewel Likewise to repair their Habitations And to find a Chaplain with a Clerk to sing Mass in the Chappel belonging to those Recluses every day as also all Vestments and other Utensils and Ornaments for the same Chappel Upon the death of which Recluses he the said Duke and his Heirs to nominate their Successors Besides this he built that stately Palace in the Suburbs of London called the Savoy whereon he expended fifty two thousand marks which he got at the taking of Brigerak After all which by his Testament bearing date at his Castle of Leicester the 15 th day of March next ensuing viz. Anno 1360. 35 E. 3. wherein he styles himself Duke of Lancaster Earl of Derby Lincoln and Leicester Steward of England as also Lord of Bragerak and Beaufort he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Collegiate Church of our Lady at Leicester on that side the High Altar where the Corps of his Father lay interred appointing that it should be buried within three weeks after his death And in case he should die at Leicester to be first carried to the Parish Church the third day before his Funeral and that Divine Service should there be performed in due manner with twenty four Torches whereof twelve with two Cloths of Gold to remain to that Church Moreover that the Curate of that Church should have his best Horse or the Price in name of a Principal And that from thence his Corps should be carried to the before-specified Collegiate-Church of our Lady and there buried but without pomp viz. of armed men or Horses covered or other vanities onely an Herse withâ—five Tapers every one being an hundred pound weight four great Morters fifty Torches about his Body fifty poor people whereof twenty five clothed in white raiment and twenty five in blew bearing those fifty Torches After which there hapning a great Pestilence in England which destroyed many amongst other he died thereof at Leicester upon the Eve of the Annunciation of our Lady and was buried on the South-side the High Altar in the Collegiateâ—Church at Leicester so by him founded as hath been observed leaving issue by Isabel his Wife Daughter to Henry Lord Beaumont two Daughters his Heirs viz. Maud first married to Raphe Son and Heir to Raphe Lord Stafford and after to William Duke of Zeland And Blanch by virtue of a special Dispensation from the Pope in regard of their near alliance to Iohn of Gant Earl of Richmund Fourth Son to King Edward the Third afterwards Duke of Lancaster Betwixt which two Daughters partition of the Lordships and Lands of their Inheritance being made 16 Iuly 35 E. 3. Maud the Elder had for her purparty an assignation of the Mannors of Tyverton Rodâ—eye and Mynâ—treworth in Com. Gloâ—c the Castles and Lordships of Monmouth Hodenak Blanch-Castle Skenefrith Grossemont Ettelowe Eggemor Kedewelly the Provostship of Kedewelly the Office of Messore the quarter Cadugan the quarter Peynryn Rarwathlan Iskoyt and quarter Mory Leirwith de Karn and Kedewelly Iskenny and Maherdyf with the Appurtenances in the Marches of Wales the Mannors of Somburne and Briggestoke in Com. Southampt Est-Gartone Standone Poghele Sandone and Hungerford with the Meadows of Kentebury and Hungerford in Com. Berks. the Mannors of Lavynton Colingbourne and Everle in Com Wilts the Mannors of Shapwyk Kingston Chauton Lecchelade and Eton-Meysy as also a certain parcel of Wood in the Forrest of Braddene in Com. Dors. the Mannor of Nrittesgrave in Com. Sur. the Castle and Mannor of Newcastle under Line with its Members in Com. Staff the Mannors of Shulton and Dersford in Com. Leicest the Bayliwick of the Honour of Leicester in Com. War the Bayliwicks of Carleton and Glenfield the Bayliwicks of Sylby and Hetheley the Castle and Mannor of Leicester with its Members the Gaol and Mills of Leicester the Bayliwick of the Fees of the Honour of Leicester in Com. Northamp and Roteland the yearly Ferme of Sixty four pound four shillings out of the Town of Huntendon the annual Ferme of an hundred and twenty pounds out of the Town of Gurmecestre in Com. Hunt as also the Lordships of Beuford and Nogent in France And to Iohn Earl of Richmund and Blanch his Wife the other Daughter and Coheir whose Homage was then taken by reason of issue betwixt them the Castle and Town of Pontfract the Mannors of Bradeford Almanbury Altofts Warnfeld Rothewel Ledes Roundehay Scoles Berewyk
with the Mannors of Dymmock and Dxenhale in Com. Glouc. as also the Mannors of Eton. Asperton and Stretton in Com. Heref. And in right of Sibill his VVife the Mannor of Norton Scudamore in Com. Wilts and Lydeard Tregeoz By this Sibill he had issue three sons viz. Peter de Grandison his son and heir Iohn de Grandison Bishop of Exeter and Otto also a Daughter called Agnes Marryed to Iohn de Northwode VVhich Peter Married Blanch one of the daughters to Roger de Mortimer Earl of March and taking part with Thomas Earl of Lancaster in that Insurrection by him made in 15 Edw 2. was constrain'd to pay Three hundred Marks fine for his Pardon In 9 Edw. 3. this Peter was found to be Forty years of age and in 19 Edw. 3. being then a Banneret and residing in Herefordshire received Summons to fit himself with Horse and Armes and to attend the King upon the Feast-day of St. Laurence into France In 20 Edw. 3. he was again in those Wars of France and having been summon'd to Parliament in 22 and 23 Ed. 3. departed this life 10th August 32 Edw. 3. being then seized of the Mannors of Dymmok and Oxenhale in Com. Glouc. Etone Aspertone and Strettone in Com. Heref. Burnham and Breene in Com. Somerset and Chepyng Lamburne in Com. Berks leaving Iohn de Grandison Bishop of Exeter his Brother and Heir sixty years of age ¶ I now come to Otto the Brother of this Peter In 1 Edw. 2. this Otto was sent Ambassador to the Pope And in 12 Edw. 2. was in the Wars of Scotland Also in those of Gascoine in 18 Edw. 2. Moreover in 12 Edw. 3. he was in that Expedition then made into Flander And in 16 Edw. 3. in that into France with Bartholomew de Burghersh Also in 19 Edw 3. again in the Wars of France By his Testament bearing date on Monday next ensuing the Festival of the blessed Virgins Nativity An. 1358. 32 Edw. 3. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Collegiate-Church of St. Mary de Otâ—ry in the Diocess of Exeter in case his death should happen to be there But if at Chellesfeild then in the Chappel of St. Iohn at Chellesfeild desiring and beseeching all his Friends and his Executors that they would not permit any Armed Man or Horse to proceed before his Corps to his Funeral nor any cover over it of Cloth of Gold or Flourisht work or his Armes thereupon but only a white cloth with a Red Cross. And for the charges thereof allowed Twenty pounds Sterling and ten Quarters of Wheat To a Priest to Celebrate Divine Service in the Church at Chelâ—esfeld for the space of three years after his decease he bequeath'd Fifteen pounds To Thomas his Son all his Armour Four Horses Twelve Oxen and Two hundred Ewe Sheep And to Elizabeth his Daughter Six Dishes Six Saucers and four Cups of Silver constituting Beatrice his Wife and Theobald de Mountney his Executors And having Marryed Beatrix the Daughter and co-heir to Nicholas Malmains departed this life in 33 Edw. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Kemesyn la Sele and Chellesfeld as also of certain Lands in Dertford in Com. Cantii of Forty six pounds six shillings yearly value leaving Thomas his Son and Heir of full age who doing his Fealty had Livery of his Lands and in 43 Edw. 3. accompanied the Earles of Salisbury and Warwick with those Forces which the King at that time sent to Calais In 49 Edw. 3. this Thomas was a Knight but died without issue in 50 Edw. 3. Hacche 27 Edw. 1. IN 7 Edw. 1. Eustace de Hacche being a menial servant to the King shortly after obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Hacche in Com. Wilts as also at Morton Merhull and Cestreton in Com. War And in 22 Edw. 1. was made Governour of Portsmouth in which year he accompanied Edmund Earl of Lancaster in that Expedition then by him made into Gascoine where he continued the next ensuing year And in 24 Edw. 1. received command to attend the King at Carlisle on the Quind of St. Iohn Baptist's Nativity thence to March into Scotland against Robert Brus at that time assuming the Title of King of that Realm where he continued till 25 Edw. 1. Moreover in 26 Edw. 1. he was in that memorable Battel at Fawkirk in Scotland And in 28 and 29 and 31 Edw. 1. served again in those Wars In 27 Edw. 1 he was first summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm and so continued till 33 Edw. 1. but departed this Life in 34 Edw. 1. leaving Iulian his Daughter and heir married to Iohn Hansard After which the next ensuing year his Executors by their humble Petition to the King craving allowance of those Debts which were owing for his Robes Wages and Horses lost in the Wars of Scotland and Gascoine Signifying therewithal that the said Eustace had bequeath'd much in Legacies to the Holy-Land and to his Servants obtain'd a special Precept to the Keeper of the Great VVardrobe for satisfaction to be made unto them of what should appear to be so due Vavasour 28 Edw. 1. OF this Family which hath flourisht for many Ages in Yorkshire was Robert le Vavasour who in 9 Ioh. pay'd a Fine to the King of a Thousand and two hundred Marks and two Palferys that Maud his Daughter Widow of Theobald Walter might be Married to Fulke Fitz-Warine an eminent Baron in those dayes And in 11 Ioh. gave Three hundred Marks and three Coursers for the Marriage of Iulian Daughter of Thomas de Multon In 31 Hen. 3. this Robert le Vavasour was Sheriff of the Counties of Nottingham and Derby and so continued till 39 Hen. 3. having in 33 Hen. 3. had the custody of the Honour of Peverell committed to his charge To this Robert succeeded William le Vavasour which William in 18 Edw. 1. obtain'd License to make a Castle of his Mannor-House at Heselwode in Com. Ebor. and in 22 Edw. 1. was in that Expedition then made into Gascoigne Also in 27 Edw. 1. in that into Scotland So likewise in 29 Edw. 1. and 32 Edw. 1. But all that I can farther say of him is that in 4 Ed. 2. he was again in Scotland and that he gave his Mill at â—unsflete to the Monks of Sallay in Com. Ebor. Mauger his Son ratifying the Grant and lastly that he had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 28 Edw. 1. till 6 Edw. 2. inclusive Contemporary with him was also Walter le Vavasour who in 34 Edw. 1. was in the Scotish-VVars and in 8 Edw. 2. receiv'd command to
to the three Sons of the same Duke viz. Anne to Philip Earl of Arundel Mary to Thomas Lord Howard of Walden afterwards Earl of Suffolk and Elizabeth to the Lord William Howard a younger son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk amongst whom that great Inheritance was shared Which gave such discontent to Leonard Dacres the next heir-male of this Family viz. second son to the last mention'd William Lord Dacres that seeing he could not by course of Law make out any good Title thereto he privily confederated with the Earles of Northumberland and Westmorland then ready to break out into open Rebellion using his endeavour to rescue the Queen of Scots at that time in the custody of George Earl of Shrewsbury But when he unexpectedly heard that those Earles then in Armes were Proclaimed enemies to their Country being at Court he came to the Queen and offering to use all his power to suppress them was forthwith sent into the North for that purpose Nevertheless as it was afterwards found he held intelligence with them by secret Messengers in his journey with promise of Assistance from the Embassadors of some Forrein Princes And having in the Queeens name raised a power of Soldiers did design to murther the Bishop of Carlisle and the Lord Scrope then Warden of the West-Marches Which when he saw he could not effect he possest himself of the Castles of Greistoke and 〈◊〉 with other Houses of Dacres inheritance and fortified them in his own right having got together no less than three thousand of the Border-Robbers to his aide with many others who were Friends to his Family But finding himself too weak for those Forces which were coming towards him he fled into Scotland and in a short time after was attainted in Parliament with those two great Earles with whom he had thus conspired De la Warde 28 Edw. 1. IN 31 Edw. 1. Robert de la Ward was in the Wars of Scotland So likewise in 34 E. 1. being then Steward of the King's Houshold And had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons from 28 until 34 Edw. 1. inclusive To whom succeeded Simon Who in 15 E. 2. being Governonr of York upon that Insurrection of Thomas Earl of Lancaster brought considerable Forces to Burrough-brigg in ayde of the King's Party who pursued him and his adherents thither out of Staffordshire At which place after a sharp Skirmish some were slain and the Earl himself taken prisoner whence being carried to Pontfract he there lost his head In 19 Edw. 2. he was made Governor of Pontfract-Castle and had Summons to Parliament from 18 E. 2. till 8 Edw. 3. but not afterwards nor any of his posterity Rythre 28 Edw. 1. IN 25 Edw. 1. William de Rythre was in that Expedition then made into Gascoine and in 26 Edw. 1. in the Scotish-Wars So likewise in 29 31 and 32 Edw. 1. And summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 28 Edw. 1. till 1 Edw. 2. To whom succeeded Iohn de Rythre Governor of Skypton-Castle in 11 Edw. 2. Which Iohn in 17 Edw. 2. obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Haselwode and Adington in Com. Ebor. but never had summons to Parliament nor any of his Descendents Grendon 28 Edw. 1. OF this Family taking its appellation from a fair Lordship of that name in Warwickshire where they had anciently their chief residence and whereof there were several Knights before was Sir Rapâ—e de Grendon Knight who in 26 Edw. 1. receiv'd Command to be at Carlisle amongst divers other great men of that time upon Whitson-Eve well fitted with Horse and Armes to March against the Scots And in 29 Ed. 1. the like command to attend the King at Barwick upon Twede thence to advance into Scotland This Sir Raphe had Summons to Parliament in 28 32 and 33 Edw. 1. but never afterwards and departed this life in 5 Edw. 3. leaving Robert his son and heir and a daughter call'd Ioane Marryed to Iohn Rochford Which Robert being a Man of weak understanding Sir Roger and Sir Philip de Chetwind Knights with Iohn de Freford who had Marryed his Aunts alledging that A. de Clinton second Wife to old Sir Raph de Grendon Grandfather to this Robert and Mother to those three daughters had a joynt Estate with that her Husband in all his Lands thereupon challeng'd the whole Inheritance of them she being dead from this Robert in right of their Wives by virtue of an Entail made in 27 Ed. 1. and accordingly entred upon them Whereupon discerning that he was like to be overborn by the subtilty of his Adversaries he resorted to Henry Duke of Lancaster for refuge yielding unto him the whole Mannor of Shenston near Lichfeild in Com. Staff to hold for term of his life or the longer liver of them conditionally that he would protect him in the possession of Grendon and certain Lands in other places Whereupon Sir Roger de Chetwynd and Ioane his Wife Iohn de Freford and Margaret his Wife as also Alice the Widow of Sir Philip Chetwynd quitted their interest in the same But afterwards about the 22th of Edw. 〈◊〉 this Robert dying without issue the Inheritance of these Lands descended to his Nephew Sir Raphe Rochford Knight Son of Ioane so Marryed to Iohn Rochford as hath been observed Whereupon Sir Raphe Rochford entail'd them upon the issue of his own body by Ioane his Wife daughter of Sir Hugh Meinill Knight with Remainder to his three Sisters successively and then to Sir Richard Stafford Knight and his heires According to which Settlement the Possession continued for divers yeares until Sir Raphe Rochford's death that Ioane his VVife Marrying again to Hugh de Asheby made an accord with Sir William Chetwynd Knight son and heir to Sir Philip. VVhich Sir William having in 39 Edw. 3. compounded with Isabell the Widow of Iohn de Rochford for her Dower formerly granted to Sir Raphe Rochford her Son in Law became totally possess'd thereof From which Sir William Chetwynd Walter Chetwynd Esquire now owner of that Lordship of Grendon is lincally descended Morle 28 Edw. 1. IN 25 Edw. 1. William de Morle was in that Expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 26 Edw. 1. And had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 28 Edw. 1. to 34 Edw. 1. inclusive To this William succeeded Robert de Morle who having Marryed Hawise the daughter of William de Mareschall 〈◊〉 and heir to Iohn le Mareschall of Hengham in Com. Norff. had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance in 10 Edw. 2. VVhich Hawyse held the Office of Marshall of Ireland by descent In 1 Edw. 3.
Verdon he had in right of the before-specified Elizabeth his Wife an assignation of the Mannor of Brandon with the Hamlet of Bretford in Com. Warr. as also of the Mannor of Crakemersh in Com. Staff And being the same year again in the Wars of France obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Hendene in Kent Kersalton in Com. Surr. and in those of Gransete Cotes and Berton in Com. Cantabr In 19 Edw. 3. he went again into France So likewise in 20 Edw. 3. that being the time when the famous Battel of Cressi was fought where the English had so great a Victory And for his good service done in those Wars obtain'd the next year following a Grant from the King of the Marriage of Isabell one of the sisters and heires of Edward de St. Iohn son and heir to Hugh de St. Iohn deceased In 22 E. 3. he was again in the Wars of France and was once more sent with Henry Earl of Lancaster and others unto Rome there to treat in the presence of the Pope for a firm and final Peace with the French As also with the Earl of Flanders touching certain differences betwixt the English and Flemings In 23 Edw. 3. being then Lord Chamberlain of the King's Houshold he accompanied the Earl of Lancaster in that Expedition then made into Gascoine for suppressing those Insurrections then made in those parts In 26 E. 3. having the custody of the Lands of Hugh le Despenser upon that Expedition then made into France he was charged with Sixty men well Armed for his Territories of Glamorgan and Morganock and in 27 Edw. 3. was sent with the Duke of Lancaster and others to Calais to treat of Peace with the French Whereupon Truce was for a while concluded In 29 Edw. 3. he was again made Constable of the Tower of London And having been summon'd to Parliament from 1 Edw. 3. till 28 inclusive departed this life before the end of that 29th year upon Sunday next after the Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula being seised of the Mannors of Clopham in Com. Bedf. Stivecle in Com. Buck. two parts of the Town of Botenhall and moyetie of Kenton Kelvert in Com. Staff of the Mannor of Heydor in Com. Linc. Shoford Chydingston Heandenne Foxgrove and Plumstede in Com. Cantii Bertone and Grantesete in Com. Cantabr Ryhale in Com. Rotel Westcourt in Heghtredebury with the Hundred of Heghtredebury Estcourt in Heghtredebury Steorte-Myldenhale Colerne and Hurdecote in Com. Wiltes Welewe and Herleye in Com. Somerset with certain Lands in the Parishes of Horne Hurle and Kersalton in Com. Surr. leaving Bartholomew his son and heir Twenty six years of age and Henry a younger son as also a daughter called Ioane unto whom in consideration of the good services of the before-specified Bartholomew her Father the King granted the custody of the Mannor of Eweâ—me in Com. Oxon. during the Minoritie of the heir of Iohn de Burghersh then deceased So likewise for the same consideration did his Administrators obtain a special Pardon for all those Debts which at the time of his death were by him due to the King's Exchequer A younger Brother as I guess of this first mention'd Bartholomew was Henry de Burghersh made Bishop of Lincoln in 14 Edw. 2. but for his adherence to Thomas Earl of Lancaster and the rest who then put themselves in Armes under colour of reforming what was amiss in the Government was outed of that Bishoprick for a time Afterwards scilicet in 1 Edw. 3. he was made Lord Treasurer of England and the next ensuing year Lord Chancelour After his death which hapned at Gant in Flanders An. 1343 17 Edw. 3. It was reported that having made a new Park at Tynghurst wherein he inclosed much ground that belong'd to divers of his poor Tenants and for which he had many a bitter Curse he appeared unto a certain person who had been one of his Esquires in the habit of a Keeper with his Bow Quiver of Arrows and a Horn by his side likewise cloath'd with a short Green Coat and said to him thus Thou knowest how I have offended God and injured the Poor by my Inclosure of this Park for this cause therefore am I enjoyned Pennance to be the Keeper of it till it be laid open again Go therefore to the Canons of Lincolne my Brethren and intreat them from me to make restitution to the Poor of what I thus wrongfully took from them Whereupon having delivered his Message to the Canons they sent one of their Company called William Batcheler to see it performed who caused the Banks and Pales to be forthwith thrown down and the Ditches filled up again and having so done returned by St. Albans where he made relation thereof to the Abbot I come now to Bartholomew de Burghersh his son and heir In 9 Edw. 3. this Bartholomew having Married Cecilie the daughter and heir of Richard de Weyland making proof of her age had Livery of her Lands and in 13 Edw. 3. was in that Expedition then made into Flanders In 16 E. 3. he attended the King into Britany And in 20 E. 3. was of the Black-Prince his Retinue in the Wars of France Where he continued also the next ensuing year and was at the siege of Calais having in recompence of his Expences in that service a Grant of the Lands of Iohn de Lovein deceased till his heir should be of full age In 23 Edw. 3. he was in the Wars of Gascoine And the same year obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren to himself and Cecilie his Wife and their heirs in all their Demesn-lands of Henlee Witnesham Swinlond Cokefeld Clopton Blakesale Tunstall Ashe-Bigod Watesdene Glenham Middleton Carleton Colvile Whelnetham Onhouse and Buxhale in Com. Norf. Suff. In 24 Edw. 3. upon the Institution of the most Noble Order of the Garter he had such an high esteem for his valour and Military skill that he was made choise of by that Martial King viz. Edw. 3. to be one of the Knights Companions thereof And in 28 Edw. 3. took a journey to the Holy Land In 29 Edw. 3. being with Prince Edward in the Wars of Gascoine where he had an eminent command in the Body of his Army and was at the taking of all those Towns and Places whereof our Annals make mention to have been then won he obtained Livery of his Lands upon his Father's death at that time his Homage being respited by reason of his imployment there It is said that at that time he made an Excursion from the Army with Sir Iohn Chandos and Sir Iames de Audley with Twenty four Horse and falling upon the rear of the French took thirty two Knights and Gentlemen prisoners
In 30 Edw. 3. he was again in those Wars of Gaâ—come at which time the English obtained that signal Victory at Poytiers And being with Prince Edward upon his retreat from foraging of â—erry was set upon by an Ambuscado near unto 〈◊〉 but behaved himself so courageously in skirmishing with the Enemy that he kept them off till the Prince drew near upon the sight of whose Forces they fled In 33 Edw. 3. he attended the King again into 〈◊〉 At which time making another Excursion to Sourmussy which was fortified by a double Ditch he took it by assault and soon after by undermining the Castle obtain'd it by render In 34 Edw 3. Elizabeth his Mother then departing this life he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited by reason of his absence in the Wars of France And for that respect had also a special respite for all his Debts In 37 Edw. 3. he was sent to Dover with divers other eminent persons to attend King Iohn of France upon his landing there thence to Canterbury and so to Etham where King Edward at that time was Shortly after which he obtain'd from the King a Grant of Two hundred pounds of that Debt which was due to him for the Count of Vendedour his prisoner In 39 Edw. 3. he was in another Expedition made into Flanders So likewise in 40 Edw. 3. And in 42 Edw. 3. upon the Peace made betwixt King Eward and the French was one of those Lords who Swore to the Articles on the King's part for the performance of them By his last Will and Testament bearing date at London 4 th April An 1369. 43 Edw. 3. he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Chappel of 〈◊〉 before the Image of the blessed Virgin Appointing that soon after his death his Corps should be to that purpose carried thither having one Taper at the head and another at the fect where it was to rest the first night Likewise that a Dirige should be there said and in the morning a Mass whereat a Noble to be offered for his Soul Moreover that two Torches should be carried along with no Corps one on the one side and the other on the other side kindled at the passing through every Town and then given to that Church wherein it should rest at night Likewise that the Charriot in which it was to be carried should be covered with red Cendall with the Lyon of his Arms thereon and his Helmet at the head and that to every Church wherein it was to rest all night the like Cloth of Condall with his Armes thereon to be left Also that every morning there should be given to the Poor of that place so much Dole as his Executors should think fit And that upon the day of his Funeral no other cover should be on his Body than that of red Cendall with the Lyon for his Armes and his Helmet as also a Taper at the Head and another at the Feet and on each side a Torch To Sir Walter Pavely he bequeath'd astanding Cup gilt with an L. upon the Cover as also his whole Sute of Armes for the Justs with his Coat of Male and Sword And departed this life 5 th April 43 Edw. 3. being then seised of the Mannor of Bekeswell in Com. Essex of the Castle and hundred of Ewyas Lacie in the Marches of Wales Of the Mannors of Heyhtredesbury Steâ—te and Colerne in Com. Wilts Of the Mannors of Welwetham Carleton Middelton Blaxole Asshe Clopton Swinlond Cokefeld and Witnesham in Com. Suff. and of the Mannor of Fenhale in the same County which he held by the Curtesie of England in right of the before-specified Cecilie his Wife Leaving Margaret his second Wife Sister to Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere surviving whom with the before-specified Walter Pavely he constituted his Executors and Elizabeth his daughter and heir Married to Edward le Despenser being then Twenty seven years of age After which viz. in 20 Rich. 2. Sir Roger de Swillington Knight obtain'd License from the King to found a Chantry consisting of five Priests one Clerk six Children in the Chappel of St. Catherine within the Cathedral Church of Lincolne for the health of the Soul of King Edward the Third and of this last mention'd Bartholonew Lord Burghersh and all his Ancestors ¶ I come now to Henry de Burghersh brother of this Bartholomew This Henry being a Knight in 21 Edw. 3. and having Married Isabell one of the sisters and coheirs to Edmund de St. Iohn had for her purpartie of the Lands of that Inheritance an Assignation of the Mannors of Bernham Halfnâ—ked and Middâ—ton in Com. Suss. as also of Forty pounds yearly Rent out of the Mannor of 〈◊〉 juxta Dertford in Com Cantii with one acre of Land in West-field within the Mannor of Baâ—yng in Com. South and departed this life in 23 E. 3. leaving Bartholomew his brother and heir Twenty six years of age and Isabel his Wife surviving afterwards Married to Lucas de Poynings ¶ Of this Family was Iohn de Burghersh who took to Wife Maud one of the daughters and heirs of Edmund Bacon of ... in Com. Essex but died before the 31 th of Edw 3. leaving issue by her a son called Iohn then within age Which Iohn as Cousin and heir to William de Kerdeston his Grandfather making proof of his age in 40 Edw. 3. had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance lying in the Counties of Norff. and Suff. But this Livery was afterwards controverted by William de Kerdeston who laying claime to those Lands as son and heir to the before-specified William prevail'd therein In 47 Edw. 3. this Iohn de Burghershe being then a Knight was in that Expedition then made into Flanders but died in 19 Rich. 2. or before leaving issue by Ismania his Wife daughter of ... Hanham of ... in Com. Gloc. and Widow of Sir Iohn Ralegh of Nettlecombe Knight two daughters his heirs Margaret first Married to Sir Iohn Grenevil Knight and afterwards to Iohn Arundel of ... in Com. Cornub Esq. And Maude the Wife of Thomas Chaucer Which Margaret upon partition of the Lands of that Inheritance had for her purpartie an assignation of the Mannor of Ravensbury in Com. Oxon. Likewise a certain parcel of Land called Allemansland lying in Micham in Com. Surr. certain Lands in Skendelby in Com. Linc. Emelme and Tythorpe in Com. Oxon. with divers VVoods and Underwoods in Ryngefey and Tourley in Com. Buck. Thweng 35 Edw. 1. OF this Family antiently Lords of Kilton Castle in Cleveland and other large possessions in that Northern Tract of Yorâ—shiâ—e the first touching whom I find mention is Sir Robert de Thweng Knight who in 22 H. 3. upon
Iohn in 32 E. 1. upon the death of Ioane the Widdow of Richard de Davor had Livery of the Mannor of Lesnes in Kent which descended to him from Isabell his Mother Sister and Heir to him the said Richard It is reported by an Author of that time that in An. 1306. 34 E. 1. King Edward being Victorious in Scotland taking much to heart the slaughter of Iohn Comin and Crowning Robert de Brus King of that Realm exercised a sharp revenge upon all whom he could discover to have had an hand therein and that thereupon this Iohn de Asceles for so he is called fled the Countrey but being driven back from Sea by contrary winds was taken and carried to London Also that for his Treacheries in England Scotland and Flanders he was sentenced to death upon the seventh of November in UUestminster Hall Likewise that in respect of his descent from Royal Blood he was not drawn as Traytors usually are but set on Horseback and hanged on a Gibbet fifty foot high his Head fixt on London Bridge and his Body burnt to Ashes Being thus put to death the Earldome of Athol with the Lands of Straboigy and Strathern and all the possessions of those Rebles in Scotland who held of him were given by King Edward unto Raphe de Monthermer Earl of Gloucester But soon after upon a composition made with Monthermer by David de Strabolgi Son to the same Iohn of five thousand Marks for the payment whereof he entred a Recognifance and with him Adomare de Valence Iohn de Moubray of Scotland and Alexander de Abernethey Mouthermer quitted his Title to them Whereupon David obtained the Kings confirmation of them unto himself and his Heirs Moreover in 7 E. 2. he procured Licence that Alexander de Moubray Son to Roger de Moubray a great Baron in the North of England might march into Scotland to his ayd against Edward de Brus there being at that time no small feud betwixt them Furthermore in 10 E. 2. he obtained leave to take into his protection upon submission all those his Tenants in that Realm who had been partakers with the Kings Enemies And in 15 E. 2. in regard of his eminent Services had a Grant from the King of the Mannor and Honor of Chiâ—ham before-specified part of the possessions of Isabel de Dovor his Grandmother which came to the Crown in the time of King Edward the First as an Eschaâ—t as also a special discharge of all such Debts as were due unto the Exchequer by Roese de Dovor Alexander de Baillol Isabel his wife and Bartholemew de Bedlesmere who had held the same Castle and Mannor until that time In 18 E. 2. this David was in that Expedition then made into Gascoâ—gne for which he had afterwards one hundred Marks allowance in recompence of his charges there And having Married Ioane the eldest Sister and Coheir to Iohn Comyn of Badenagâ— in Tindaâ—â— Cousin and one of the Heirs to Adomare Earl of â—embroke upon partition of the Lands of the said Audomare had for her purpartie an assignation of the Castle at Castleâ—Acre with the Mannors of Styvekeye Possewike West-Lexham and Holkham in Com. Norff. Kenâ—well West-Lee and certain Houses in St. Edmundsbury in Com. Suff. the Mannor of Bishops Hatfeild with certain Lands in Hokewell in Com. Hertf. the Mannor of Gaynesbrough in Com. Linc. divers Lands in Dakenham in Com. Essex also the Castel of Mitford and Mannor of Pont Eland with other Lands in Little Elaâ—d in Com. Northumb. This David had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of England from 15 E. 2. till 20 E. 2. and departed this life the same year being then seised in right of his Wife of the before-specified Mannor of Gaynelbrough in Com. Linc. as also of the Mannor of Hethyngsaâ—gh with the Forest of Roddeston in South-Tindale and divers Scalings in Huntland in North Tindale in Com. Northumb. Likewise of many Lordships in other Counties leaving David his Son and Heir nineteen years of age the benefit of whose Wardship and Marriage was granted to Henry de Beaumont for a thousand Marks But notwithstanding this Grant unto Beaumont of his Wardship he stood in such fair esteem with the King as that in 1 E. 3. in consideration of the many and great Services done by his Ancestors to the Kings Progenitors and in contemplation of the Services which he himself might afterwards perform though he had not then accomplished his full age he obtained Livery of his Lands doing his Homage And in 4 E. 3. upon the death of Iohn Comyn of Badenâ—gh in Tindale whose elder Sister Ioane was his Mother upon proof of his age had Livery of the Site of the Mannor of Cirsete with divers parcels of Land there and in those parts for his purparty of the Lands of that Inheritance Also the same year to the intent he might the better support himself in the Kings Service he had Livery of all the Lands which descended to him as one of the Co-heiâ—s to Adomare de Valence Earl of Pembroke And in An. 1331. 5 E 3. upon the coming of Edward 〈◊〉 into England to challenge his right to the Crown of Scotland he armed himself as did also many other of the English Nobility by reason of the Title they had to certain Lands in Scotland in right of their Wives and accompanied him thither where encountring a great Army of the Scots near Gledesmore they obtained a signal Victory Howbeit shortly after this fleeing to those Scots then called Rebels command was given to the Sheriff of Kent to seise all his Lands But the next ensuing year King Edward entring Scotland with a Royal Army this David with divers of those who had taken part with him came in and submitted himself and being thereupon received to favor had restitution of his Lands alleadging that what he had done was not out of any evil intentions towards the King but for his Honor and to save his own life And farther to manifest his Reality to the English marcht out with a Party of Horse against the Scots but in that adventure he had the ill fortune to be slain with thirteen of his Men having been summoned to Parliament from 20 E. 2. till 9 E. 3. inclusive which was the year of his death being then seised of the Mannor of Gaynesbrough in com Linc. Bulindon in com Buck. Posewyke West-Lexham Stybeley and Holkeham in com Norff. as also of the Castle of Mitford with two parts of the Mannors of Pont-Eland and Calverdon and certain Lands in Mollesdown in com Northumb. leaving David his Son and Heir three years of age and Catherine Beaumont his Wife surviving who by reason of the many Services performed by the said Earl her
to one whom it might please God to deliver up into his hands Whereupon that Earl lying near Harflew and marching furiously upon him the Fight began which was stoutly maintained on each part but at length the honor of the day fell to the English though their numbers were but fifteen hundred and the French as many thousands And in 5. H. 5. was reteyned to serve the King in his Wars of France with three Knights three hundred sixty one men at Arms and seven hundred sixty six Archers for one whole year As also after that for another Quarter with five Bannerets besides himself eighteen Knights two hundred thirty six men at Arms and seven hundred and fourscore Archers In 6 H. 5. he went again into Normandy about the Festival of the Holy Trinity with fifteen thousand Men where being at the Siege of Roan he had his Post on the Northside And in 7 H. 5. being commanded to march with all his Forces to the Castle of Gaillard and to reduce it by force he continued the Siege there from the last of March until the latter end of September about which time he obtained a Grant in Special tail of the Castle of Croysie in France In 8 H. 5. he was at the Siege of that strong Town of Melon which held fourteen weeks and the same year sent Embassador to the French King then at Trois in Champaine but in 9 H. 5. being with the Duke of Clarence in that unhappy Encounter with the French in passing a Marish near the Castle of Beaufort where that Duke lost his life was there taken prisoner And in 10 H. 5. accompanied the Duke of Bedford to the raising of that Siege which the Dolphin and the Earl of Armanak had laid to a walled City belonging to the Duke of Burgundy In which years he was one of the Mourners at the solemn Funeral of the Victorious Henry the Fifth Moreover in 1 H. 6. he was reteyned to serve that young King in his Wars of France with three Bannerets three Knights one hundred fourscore and two Men at Arms and six hundred Archers and the same year obtained the Office of Justice of North Wales In 5 H. 6. having been again in those Wars of France he declared his Testament at-his Mannor of Grenewich upon the 29 th of December whereby he bequeathed his Body to be buried with the Lady Margaret his Wife in the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin annexed to the Church of St. Edmundsbury in the Dioces of Norwich ordaining that soon after his death viz. the first day if possible or the second or third at utmost a thousand Masses should be solemnly sung for his Soul as also for the Souls of his Father and Mother with all his Benefactors and all the faithful deceased of which number two hundred to be of the Holy Trinity two hundred of the Holy-ghost two hundred of the Blessed Virgin two hundred of All Saints one hundred of the Angels and one hundred of Requiem aeternam appointing that for every Mass the sum of four pence should be given to the Priest so celebrating it Withal directing that no sumptuous nor over much costs should be made at his Funeral and but only five Tapers standing upon five Candlesticks about his Corps Also that as many Torches should be placed about it at the Placebo and Dirige and Morrow-Mass Likewise that as many poor Men as he should be years of age at the time of his death should carry a Torch at his Funeral each of them having a Gown and Hood of White cloth and as many pence as he himself had lived years Moreover that there should be the like number of poor Women carrying Torches each of them having a Gown and Hood of White cloth and as many pence as the Men all of them both Men and Women devoutly praying for his Soul as also for the Soul of Margaret his Wife and the Souls of all his Progenitors Furthermore he bequeathed to each poor body coming to his Funeral a penny And appointed that at every Anniversary of himself and Margaret his Wife that the Abbot of St. Edmundsbury if present should have six shillings and eight pence the Prior if present three shillings and four pence and every Monk there at that time twenty pence giving to that Monastrey for support of these Anniversaries four hundred Marks To Ioane his Sister Countess of Westmorland he gave a Book called Tristram to Thomas Swineford his Brother a cup of Silver gilt with a cover To the use of poor Scholars in Queens-Colledge Dron he bequeathed one hundred pounds to be deposited in a Chest to the end that they might have some relief thereby in Loane desiring that the Borrowers thereof should in charity pray for his Soul and the Soul of Margaret his Wife as also for the Souls of his Parents and Ancestors and all the faithful deceased Upon the like terms also he bequeathed one hundred pounds more to be put into a Chest in Trinity-Hall within the University of Cambridge He likewise appointed that his Executors should for the space of two years immediately following his death find five secular Priests to celebrate Divine Service for his Soul also for the Soul of his Wife and for the Souls of all for whom he was obliged to pray in the Abby of St. Edmundsbury where his Body was to be buried viz. one of them the Mass of the Trinity the other of the Holy-ghost the third of the Blessed Virgin the fourth of the Day and the fifth of Requiem aeternam After which he departed this life at his Mannor of Grenewich upon the 27 th day of December the same year and was buried at St. Edmondsbury as he had directed being then seised of the Mannors of Maydecroste and Tydeboyste in Com. Hertf. Tydeherste in Com. Midd. Scottou Farnele magna parva Okenshawe Clake-heton Stoles Collyng Conyngley Gairgrabe Poterton Brymston Kyrkeby super Wharse North-Milford and Hoton Longvillers in Com. Ebor. all which he held of the Inheritance of Margaret his Wife before-specified Likewise of the Castle of Newland in Com. Heref. of the Mannor of Westlingworth called Westbery in Com. Berks. As also of the Mannor and Honor of Wermegay with the Advouson of the Priory and of the Mannors of Stow Bardolf North-Rungeton and Fareswell in Fyncham in Com. Norff leaving Iohn Earl of Somerset his Nephew viz. Son of Iohn late Earl of Somerset his Brother his next Heir at that time twenty four years of age Hausted 6 Edw. 3. IN 1. E. 2. Iohn de Hausted obtained a Grant to himself and the Heirs of his Body of the Mannor of Deushangre in Com. North. with certain Lands in Whitlewode as also of divers Lands in Wyke Dive Wyke Hamond Passenham Stony-Stratford Fortho Pokesâ—e and Whitfeld in the same County And in 11 E. 2. was in the
bearing date 1 Apr. Ann. 1475. 15 E. 4. bequeath'd his body to be buried in case he should depart this life beyond the Seas near to the place of his death And if in England then in the Chappel of our Lady adjoyning to the Church-yard at Baunton near to the Grave of the Lady Thomasine his Mother Appointing that a fair stone of Marble with an Inscription thereon should be with all speed laid upon the Grave of William Lord Fitz-warine his Father Another upon the Lady Thomasine his Mother and a third upon his own Grave And to the Priest celebrating in that Chapel to pray for his Soul and the Soules of his Parents and Ancestors for the space of Twenty yeares forty shillings per annum And died 12 Sept. 19 E. 4. being then seised of the Mannors of Nether-Havene Croston and Staunton Fitz-warine in Com. Wiltes Of the moiety of the Mannor of â—eyleuke in Com. Cornub. Of the Mannors of Combyutinehede Sutton Hersford UUesdowne Clifford Dowish-Combishleghe Towystoke Uffeculue Baunton-Holme Nymet Tracy Totues magna Totnes parva UUarkyle St. Mary-Church Kyngeton Spekewell Upper Illercombe Mereworth and UUolryngton in Com. Devon and of the Mannors of Norton Taunton Nonyngton Hunspill Pulle Honystete and UUsgbeare in Com. Somerset leaving Iohn his son and heir nine years of age and two daughters viz. Ioane married to Iames Lord Audley and Elizabeth first married to Sir Edward Stanhope Knight and afterwards to Sir Richard Page Knight Which Iohn in 6 H. 7. being of full age had a special livery of his Lands and in 8 H. 8. upon the death of Elizabeth his Mother sister and heir to Iohn Lord Dynham had the like Livery of all the Castles Honors Lordships and Lands which by her death descended to him Moreover in 22 H. 8. with the rest of the Lords he subscribed that Letter to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby they signified to him what was like to become of his Supremacy in this Realm in case he did not comply with King Henry the Eighth in that business of his Divorce from Q. Catherine And by his Testament bearing date 20 Octob. An. 1535. 27 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church of Baunton in Com. Devon or in the Chapel there where his Father lieth interred Appointing that an Herse should be placed over his Grave with Tapers upon the same burning at all times of Divine Service and Prayers there to be said and done for his soul at the time of his Exequies And that a Trentall of Masses should be said at his Months Minde as also another Trental on the day of his Anniversary with Placebo and Dirige and other Orisons Likewise that a Tombe-stone of Marble should be set over his Grave with his Portraiture in Brass and his Armes with the day and year of his death graven thereon Also that an honest secular Priest should sing Mass in that Chappel for the health of his Soul by the space of Twenty yeares next after his decease And to his son and heir Sir Iohn Bourchier he thereby bequeath'd all his Bedding Hangings and Houshold-stuffe at Towestoke in Com. Devon But after this viz. the next ensuing year he was by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 9 Iulii 28 H. 8. advanced to the dignity of Earl of Bathe And having wedded Cecilie the daughter of Giles Lord Daubney sister and heir to Henry Earl of Bridgwater departed this life 30 Apr. 31 H. 8. leaving issue Iohn his son and heir Forty yeares of age as also two other sons Amias and Giles and five daughters viz. Elizabeth married to Edward Chicester Esquire Dorothy to Sir Iohn Fulford Knight Margaret Anne and Alianore Which Iohn succeeding him in his Honors had a special Livery of all his Lands in 32 H. 8. And upon the death of King Edward the Sixth being one of the first who appeared for Queen Mary was thereupon constituted one of the Commissioners for receiving the Claimes of those who in respect of their Tenure were to performe service upon the day of her Coronation But all that I have farther to say of him is that he married three Wives first Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford Knight by whom he had issue Elizabeth a daughter Secondly Eleanor daughter of George Mannours commonly called Lord Ros sister of Thomas the first Earl of Rutland of that name by whom he had issue 1. Iohn called Lord Fitz-warine who died in his life-time 2. Henry 3. Sir George Bourchier Knight General of the English Army sent into the Province of Munster in Ireland in An. 1580. 23 Eliz. for suppressing of the Rebels there And 4. Fulke And five daughters viz. Mary the Wife of Hugh Wyot of Exeter Cecilie of Thomas Peyton Customer of Plymouth Elizabeth Margaret and Frances To his third Wife he married Margaret daughter and heir of Iohn Donington Esquire Widow of Sir Richard Long Knight by whom he had issue two daughters Susanna and Bridget which Bridget became the Wife of Arthur Price of Uaynor in Com. Montgom Esq This last mention'd Earl died in 3 Eliz. An. scilicet 1560. leaving Margaret his Wife surviving To whom succeeded William his Grandson viz. son of Iohn Lord Fitzwarine who died in his Father's life-time as is already observed by Frances his Wife daughter of Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave in Com. Suff. Knight Which William in 28 Eliz. amongst other eminent persons accompanied Robert Earl of Leiceâ—ter at that time General of the English Auxiliaries into the Netherlands for the assistance of the Dutch And having married Elizabeth daughter of Francis Earl of Bedford had issue by her three Sons viz. Robert and Iohn who died Infants and Edward made Knight of the Bathe at the Creation of Henry Prince of Wales in An. 1610. as also Frances a daughter who died unmarried This Earl William died at Tawestoke in Com. Devon his Mannor-House 12 Iulii An. 1623. 21 Iac. and was buried in the Parish-Church there To him succeeded Edward his only son then living who marrying two Wives first Dorothy Daughter of Oliver Lord St. Iohn of Bletso sister to Oliver Earl of Bolinbroke and secondly Anne daughter of Sir Robert Lovet of Liscombe in Com. Buck. Knight had issue by the first of them one son called Iohn who died an Infant and three daughters Elizabeth married to Bazill Earl of Denâ—â—gn Dorothy to Thomas Lord Grey of Groby eldest son to Henry Earl of Stanford and Anne to Iames Earl of Middlâ—â—er But by the second having no issue he died at his Mannor of Taweâ—â—oke 2 Martii An. 1636. 12 Car. 2. and was there buried The Male-line thus failing Sir Henry Bourchier Knight son to Sir George Bourchier Knight third son to Iohn the second of that name Earl of â—athe by Martha his Wife
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
Four thousand and five hundred Masses for his Soul to be fulfilled within half a year after his decease Likewise to his daughter Ioane a Thousand pounds and departed m this life upon Easter-Day the same year being seised of the Mannors of Berton Peverell Okehangre UUinkton Newton Valence Terstwode and Hale in Com. Southampt Hempston Cantelo in Com. Devon Blachinton in Com. Suss. and Wolweton Bere and Newton Peverell in Com. Dorset leaving Thomas his son and heir Fourteen yeaes of age By another Inquisition teken in 14 H. 4. it appeares that he also died seided of the Mannors of Bâ—oxham in Com. Linc. Burstall and Herdeby in Com. Leic. and Snytenfeld in Com. Warr. In 7 H. 4. this Thomas having Married Ida one of the daughters and coheirs of Almaric de St. Amand making proof of her age had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance and in 3 H. 5. was in the Wars of France with that victorious King In which year upon the Festival of St. Peter ad vinâ—ula being on his journey into those parts he declared his Testament whereby he bequeathed his body to Ecclesiastick Sepulture appointing that no more than Forty pounds should be spent in Meat Drink and Tapers upon the day of his Funeral and Twenty four pounds given to two Priests to celebrate Divine Service for the space of two yeares after his death for the health of his Soul as also for the Souls of his Progenitors and all the Faithful dâ—ceased Not long after which viz. upon the last day of September next ensuing he departed this life being then seised of the Mannor of Bloxham in Resteven in Com. Linc. Hempston Cantelo in Com. Devon Suytenfeld in Com. Warr. Burstall and Herdeby in Com. Leic. Compton Valence Hynton Martell Bere Newton juxta Sturmyster Marshall and Mapoudre in com Dors. Missomers-Norton in Com. Somers Berton Peverell Okehangre Neuton Valence Terstwode and Winketon in Com. Southampt Stratford Tony and Neweton Tony in Com. Wilts as also the Mannors of â—wherst Sunting Peverel Offington Blechington and Rype in Com. Suss. leaving Reginald his brother and heir Twenty one yeares of age Which Reginald doing his Homage soon after had Livery of his Lands and before the end of that year scilicet 4 H. 5 being then a Knight was in the Wars of France and made Governor of St. Lo upon the taking thereof So likewise in 7 H. 5. at which time he was made Captain of the Castle of de la Mote in Normandy And in 9 H. 5. serv'd again in those French Wars In 5 H. 6. upon the death of Thomas Lord la Warre he had Livery of the Lands of his Mothers Inheritance she being sister and heir to the said Thomas as in my discourse of that Family is shewed In 8 H. 6. he was also retein'd to serve the King again in those Wars of France for one whole year with Thirty Men at Armes and Seventy Archers at which time he went thither accordingly And in 19 H. 6. being beyond Sea intended a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land In 25 H. 6. purposing to go to Rome and thence to the Holy Land he had the King's Letters directed to Theodore Archbishop of â—cleme and to all Governors and Commanders within his Territories requesting them that he might have free passage throughout those parts without payment of any Tribute opening of his Letters or search of what he carried And having been summon'd to Parliament as Lord la Warre from 5 H. 6. to 28. of that King's Reign inclusive departed this life upon the 27 th of August 29 H. 6. being then seised of the Mannors of Burstall and Herdeby in Com. Leic. Bristelington Shipton Mulet and North Perot in Com. Somerset Wolweton Mapowdre Hynton-Martell Mayne-Martell and Compton Valence in Com. Dorset Bourne-Hall and Hertesbourne in Com. Hertf. Offington Sunting Iehurst juxta Henfeild Portesâ—ade Aldryngton Blechington Flecchyng Rype Exceter Fokynton and Sapurton in Com. Suss Okehangre Barton Peverill Newton Valence Thirstewode and Wynketon in Com. Suss. Alington Newton Tony Swalecliffe East-Hacche Eston Brodmere Lucies Charleton and Fountell in Com. Wilts Wyke Warre in Com. Gloc. Hempston Cantelow in Com. Devon Fakenham Aspes in Com. Suff. Swynesheved Syxhill and Bloxham in Com. Linc. with the Patronage of the Abby of Swynesheved as also of the Parish-Church of Swineshed and Free-Chappel of Barthorp and Advouson of the Church of Bloxham in Com. Linc. leaving Richard his son and heir Nineteen yeares of age Which Richard being a stout assertor of the Lancastrian Interest in consideration of his special services in the Wars of that time with the House of Yorke in 38 H. 6. obtain'd a Grant of Forty pounds per annum during his life to be receiv'd out of the issues and profits of the Mannor of Old Wutton in Com. Wilts part of the possessions of Richard Duke of York then attainted But the Scene soon after changing taking no pleasure in living under the power of those unto whom he had been formerly an active adversary in 3 E. 4. he got License to go beyond Sea and to take with him Twelve servants and as many Horses not exceeding the value of Forty shillings a peice and there to continue And having been summon'd to Parliament from 38 H. 6. until 12 E. 4. inclusive departed this life upon the 10 th of March 16 E. 4. being then seised of the Mannor of Hempston Cantlo in Com. Devon Mapaudre Wolverton Cherleton Compton Valence Hynton Martel Mayn Martel and Newton Peverel in Com. Dors. Burnhall and Hertesborne in Com. Hertf. Newton Valence Wynketon Barton Peverel Okenhanger and Thirstewed in Com. Soutâ—ampt Midsomer-Norton Brustlyngton Shipton Malet Eston Lucies Swalclyffe Est-Hacche Alyngton Bredmere Wyke with the Parke of Rounde Sutton Mandevile Stratford Tony Hasildon and Upton in Com. Wilts leaving Thomas his son and heir Nineteen yeares of age Which Thomas obtain'd a special Livery of his Lands upon the first of September next following though he then wanted of his full age and stood in such favour with King Henry the Seventh that in the first year of his Reign he obtained a Grant in special tail of the Castle Barony Honor Lordship Town and Burrough of Brembre in Com. Suss. as also of the Mannor of King's Bernes West-Grâ—nsted Knapp and Washington Likewise of the Towns and Burrough of Shorham and Horsham of the Forest of St. Leonard with the Parks of Beanbush and Knap Of the Hundreds of Braford Stenynge Grenestede Burbeche and Werdham with the Half-Hundred of Esteworthe and Half-Hundred of Fishergate all which Mannors came to the Crown by the attainder of Iohn Duke of Norffolk then newly slain at Bosworth-Field Moreover in 7 H. 7. he was one of the Chief Commanders in that Army then sent into Flanders in aide of Maximilian
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
Adington and Guldene with the Patronage of the Abby of Burnham And in the Month of September the same year was sent with all the Men at Armes and Archers which he could well raise to Sandwich in Kent for the defence of that Port against the power of the French Besides all these ample concessions in farther testimony of that Kings favour he had summons to Parliament in 21 E. 3. amongst the Barons of this Realme but never after In which year also he procured another Charter for a Faire every year on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle at his Mannor of Wendovere in Com. Buck. And the like at Brehull on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Thomas the Martyr In 24 E. 3. he obtain'd a Confirmation from Q. Philippa of that Grant which he had from King Edward the Third to cut and carry away what Woods he might have occasion for in the Forests of Bernwood Witlewood and Windsore And in 26 E. 3. had such esteem with that Queen Wife to King Edward the Third that she made him Steward of all her Lands and Lordships with power to supervise her Castles and to repaire them in case of need In 29 E. 3. this William was in that Expedition then made into France So likewise in 33 E. 3. being then a Knight As to his works of piety besides what have been already mention'd he bestow'd on the before-mention'd Canous of Burnham his Mannor of Silveston in Com. Northampt. as also Twenty Acres of Wood Twenty Acres of Pasture and Five Marks seven shillings farthing yearly Rent in fulmere and the City of London for the support of three Chaplains to celebrate Divine Service one in the same Abby at the Altar of St. Catherine another in the Church of Stoke pogeys at the Altar of St. Thomas the Martyr and the third in the Chappel at Ditton annext to the same Church of Stoke pogeys to pray for the good estate of himself and Egidia his Wife during this mortal life for the said Iohn de Molins and Egidia his wife during their lives on earth and for the Souls of Vincenâ— de Molin his father and Isabell his Mother as also to distribute unto poor people at their respective Anniversaries one Marke in Money and upon the several festivals of St. Blase St. George and St. Mary Magdalen the like sum Also upon the deceases of the same Iohn de Molins and Egidia his wife Twenty shillings And that the said festivals of St. Blase the Bishop St. Mary Magdalen and St. George might be celebrated in that Monastery as double festivals Likewise that the Anniversarie of the said Vincent and Isabell should be celebrated yearly on the Fifteenth of October with mention of the Father and Mother of Egidia Wife of the said Iohn de Molins And that four Tapers should be provided to burn on that day during the time of Divine Service at those Anniversaries The time of his death I have not certainly found but that Egidia his Wife surviv'd him and died in 41 E. 3. being then seised in Fee-taile of the Mannors of Aâ—â—on Bernard and 〈◊〉 in Com Buck. held of the King by the service of Falconrie and formerly granted to her and her said husband and the heis of their two bodies from Iohn the son and heir of Sir Iohn Blukâ—â— Knight To this Iohn Lord Mâ—lins succeeded William his son and heir who married Margery the daughter and heir of Edmund Bacoun And in 41 E. 3. upon the death of Egidia his Mother doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance As also License to travel beyond the Seas In 46 E. 3. this Sir William Molins was by Indenture retein'd to serve the King in Britanny under the command of Iohn of Gant the Kings son then Duke of Britanny with seven men at Armes and twelve Archeâ—s But departed this life in 4 R. 2. as it seemes for then had Richard his son and heir Livery of his Lands his Homage being respited by reason of his being at that time beyond-Sea in the Kings service Which Richard died Richard shortly after viz. in 8 R. 2. leaving William his son and heir seven years of age Who being afterwards a Knight departed this life 8 Iulii 3 H. 6. being then seised of the Mannors of Hente Aâ—ton Bampton Broughton and a fourth part of the Mannor of Stanlake in Com. Oxon. Stoke puges Ditton Foulniere Ilmere Ludgaâ—sale UUeston Turvile Cherdesle Chipenham and Dachet in Com. Buck. UUhittelee Box Tissebury Funtell Trowe farnhull Somerford Gore and la Lee in Com. Wiltes leaving William his son and heir Nineteen yeares of age Which William being also a Knight died 8 Maii 7 H. 6. slain at the siege of Orleans in France as it seems being then seised of the Mannors of Somerford Lee UUhittelee Box Trow Farnhill and Gore in Com. Wiltes Broughton Henley upon Thames Aston Bampton and a fourth part of the Mannor of Stanlake in Com. Oxon Stoke pugeis Ilmere Aston Barnard alias Aston Molins Foulmere Ditton Ludgarsale Cherdesley Chippenham Daâ—her and UUeston Turvile in Com. Buck. Also of the Mannors of Plengeâ—â—y Polruen Molins and Trengef in Com. Cornub. leaving Alianore his daughter and heir three yeares of age Which Alianore in 19 H. 6. was Wife to Robert Hungerford Esquire who making proof of her age at that time and performing his Fealâ—y had Livery of the Lands of Inheritance Dagworth 21 Edw. 3. IN 19 E. 2. upon the death of Lora the Widow of William Peyforer which Lora died seised of the third part of the Office of Huisher in the Exchequer Court and Crier in the King's Bench Iohn de Dagworth being found her Grandson and next heir doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance To this Iohn succeeded Thomas de Dagworth who in 19 E. 3. was in the Wars of France and in 20 E. 3. being then a Knight and Commander of the Kings Forces in Britanny like another Macchabaeus saith my Author in two several fights both in one day conquered Charles de Rloys who then usurped the Title of Duke in right of his Wife notwithstanding his Army consisted of Fifteen hundred Horse Eight thousand Balistars and Thirty thousand Foot And the next ensuing year viz. 21 E. 3. with no more than Three hundred Men at Armes and Four hundred Archers upon Wednesday preceding the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist coming to the reliefe of Roche-dirlan besieged by the same Charles who had with him Twelve hundred Knights and Esquires near Six hundred Horse besides Two thousand Balistars and a numerous body of Foot gave Battel to him and by the help of the Inhabitants who then sallied out routed his whole Army took Thirty
and the heirs-male of his Body And the next year following return'd In 7 R. 2. upon an Invasion made by the Scots he attended the King in his Expedition then by him made Northwards And in 8 R. 2. was again retein'd to serve him in his Scotish Wars And having for these and many other his great services merited highly in 9 R. 2. he was advanced to the dignity and title of Duke of York the Parliament then sitting his Charter bearing date 6 Aug. whereby he had also One hundred pounds yearly granted to him out of the issues of the County of York and Forty pounds per annum out of the Customes of Wools Skins and Pelts in Kingston super Hull as also Five hundred pounds per annum out of the Port of London until a Thousand pounds yearly in Lands and Rents should be setled upon him the Ceremony of his Creation by cincture with the Sword and putting a Cap on his head with a Circle of Gold being perform'd at Hoselow Lodge in Tiâ—idale where the King then lay with his Army But soon after this he adhered to the Duke of Glocester as also to those other who opposed the Duke of Ireland And in that Parliament of 10 R. 2. wherein the great Lords were so powerful was one of them that had License and Authority to enquire into all abuses in Government and Grievances whatsoever from the death of King Edward the Third till that very time In 14 R. 2. in part of satisfaction for the sum of a Thousand pounds per annum promised to him upon his advancement to the Dukedome of York he obtained a Grant of the Mannor of Hychen in Com. Buck. then valued at One hundred pounds per annum As also of the Mannor of Somerford Keyns of Forty Marks per annum and of the Mannor of Wendover of Eighty four pounds both in that County In 15 R. 2. he was at that Treaty for Peace then held at Amiens in France in Mid-Lent and in 17 R. 2. had a Grant of the Castle of Mouretagne upon the River Gyronne in Aquitane for life In 18 R. 2. being constituted Lieutenant here the King being then in Ireland he called a Parliament at London And in 20 R. 2. was again made Lieutenant for this Realm in his absence In 21 R. 2. he obtain'd a Grant in special tail of the Mannor of Sevenhampton with the Hundreds of Heyworth and Kirkelade in Com. Wilts which Lordships and Hundreds Iohn Duke of Britanny and Ioane his wife held so long as the Castle of Brest should be in the possession of the King or his heirs and the same year had License to raise One hundred men at Armes and Two hundred Archers to attend the King at his next Parliament In 22 R. 2. he was constituted Steward of England to hold the same office until Henry of Lancaster Earl of Hereford or his heir should sue for it By all which instances the King 's great trust and bounty towards him is sufficiently manifested But drawing now near his death by his Testament bearing date 25 Nov. An. 1400. 2 H. 4. wherein he calls himself Duke of York Earl of Cambridge and Lord of Tividale he bequeath'd his body to be buried at Langele near to the Grave of Isabell his first wife appointing that two Priests should be ordained by his Executors to performe Divine Service there every day for his Soul and the Souls of all his Kindred and departing this life 1 Aug. 3 H. 4. was there buried accordingly being then seised of the Mannor of UUendovre in Com. Buck. of the Castle of Fodringheye with its Members viz. Yarewell Southwike and â—assington in Com. Northampt. Of the Mannors of Fasterne UUotton Winterborne Tokkenham Compton Basset Somerford Keyns Cheleworth with the custody of the Forest of Bradene and Sevenhampton as also of the Hundreds of Heyworth and Crikelade in Com. Wiltes of the Mannors and Towns of Staunford and Grantham in Com. Linc. of the Castle of Rysing in Com. Norff. of the Castle and Mannor of Aâ—sty and Mannor of Hechen in Com. Hertf. of the Honor and Mannor of Reilegh the Mannors of Thunderle Estwode with the Castle and Lordship of Hadlee in Com. Essex of the Mannors of Coningsburgh Sandhale Haitefeld Thorne Fishlake Holme-frithe and Soureby Likewise of the Mannor and Lordship of Wakefeld all in Com. Ebor. as also of the Dominion of Tyndale in Com. Northumber leaving Edward Earl of Rutland his son and heir Twenty six years of age Of which Isabell his Wife I find that in his life-time by his authority and special License she declared her Testament 6 Dec. An. 1342. 6 R. 2. and thereby bequeath'd her Body to be buried wheresoever he her said Husband and the King should appoint ordaining that upon the day of her death an Hundred Trentals and an Hundred Sauters should be said for her Soul Likewise that four Priests or one at least should sing for her by the space of four years Moreover that upon the day of her burial her best Horse should be delivered for her Mortuary She also bequeath'd to the King her Heart of Pearls To the Duke of Lancaster a Tablet of Jaspar which the King of Armonie gave her To Edward Earl of Rutland her son her Crown to remain to his heirs to Constance le Despenser her daughter a Fret of Pearls and to the Dutchess of Glocester her Tablet of Gold with Images as also her Sauter with the Armes of Northampton And to King Richard after her other Legacies paid all the remainder of her Goods with trust that he should allow unto Richard her younger son his Godson Five hundred Marks per annum for his life Whereupon out of the great respect he bore to her over and above that Hundred pounds per annum which young Richard did receive out of the Issues of the County of York he gave him Two hundred thirty three pounds six shillings eight pence for his life to be received out of the Exchequer until he should settle upon him Lands or Rents of Five hundred Marks per annum value It is said that this great Lady having been somewhat wanton in her younger years at length became an hearty penitent and departing this life in An. 1394. 17 R. 2. was buried in the Friers Preachers at Langele His second wife was Ioane daughter of Thomas and sister and coheir to Edmund Holand Earl of Kent Who surviving him married to William Lord Willâ—ughby of Eâ—esby next to Henry Lord Scrope and lastly to Henry Bromslet Lord Vesci His younger children were these viz. Richard Earl of Cambridge and Constance married to Thomas Spenser Earl of Glocester I now come to Edward the eldest son of this Edmund of Langley This Edward was created Earl of Rutland 25 Febr. 13 R. 2. but to enjoy that
he was seised of the Mannors of Langham and Peldon in Com. Essex Bucle parva in Com. Northampt. Colthorp Solbergh parva Smythton Myton super Humber Rymeswell and Beghom in Com. Ebor. and Westwode in the Isle of Axholme in Com. Linc. And in right of Catherine his Wife daughter and heir to Sir Iohn de Wingefeld Knight of the Mannor of Nether-hall in Saxlingham and the Advouson of the Church of Saxlingham-Thorpe as also of two Messuages Four hundred Acres of Land Ten Acres of Meadow Twenty Acres of Pasture and Forty two shillings Rent in Saxlynham Floteman-Neuâ—on Brokedysh and Herleston in Com. Norff. And of the Mannors of Wyngefeld Stradbroke Silham Fresyngfeld Sternefeld and Saxmundham Likewise of the Mannor of Wingefeld called Old-Halle and the Advousons of the Churches of Stradbâ—ok and Saxmundham Also of the Chantry of Wingefeld and of Seven hundred Acres of Land Twenty Acres of Meadow One hundred Acres of Pasture Twenty Acres of Wood One hundred Acres of Heath One hundred Acres of Marish and One hundred shillings Rent in Wingefeld Silham c. leaving Michael his son and heir Twenty one years of age and six moneths and a daughter called Anne married to Gerard de L'isle son of Warine Lord L'isle It is reported of this Michael that he built a goodly House of Brick like a Palace opposite to the West-end of St. Maries Church in Kingston upon Hull with faire Orchards and Gardens and inclosed them with Brick-walls Likewise that he there built three other Houses each whereof had a Tower of Brick viz. two in the midst of the Town and the third upon the Bank of the River Hull I now come to Michael son to the before-speciied Michael This Michael in 15 R. 2. being a Knight having Married Catherine the daughter of Hugh Earl of Stafford and possessing â—o more than the Mannors of Blyburgh and Herpeswell in Com. Linc. and Gresthorpe in Com. Nott. which were setled upon him and her in Marriage in the life time of his Father for their better support procured a grant from the King of Fifty pouâ—ds per annum to be paid out of the Ferme of â—ingston upon Hull for an addition thereto And having so done obtain'd License to travel into Prusia Moreover in 1 H 4. by his humble Petition representing that whereas the Castle Town and Mannor of Eye in Com. Suff. with its members and all the Lordships and Lands thereunto belonging had been given to Michael Earl of Suffolk his father for the better support of his dignity and that by virtue of a Judgment in the Parliament held at Westminster in the 10 th and 11 th of the said King's Reign the same Castle and Lands were seized into the Kings hands As also whereas by an Act of that Parliament held in 21 R. 2. that Judgment being totally annulled restitution ought to have been made of the same Castle and of all other the Lands and Possessions whereof he was then seised And that for as much as in the Parliament held that very year all the Acts in that Parliament of 21 R. 2. were made void He therefore desired Restitution of the said Castle and Lands Unto which Petition due consideration being had and the rather in regard of his acceptable services to the then King upon his first landing in England by the assent of all the Nobles at that time in Parliament assembled he obtained a special grant of them accordingly As also that he and his heirs should be capable of inheriting all other the Lands and Lordships late belonging to the same Earl Michael or of any other his Ancestors And in particular that he and the heirs male of his body should enjoy the same Title of Earl of Suffolk and have the Castle Town and Honor of Eye with its Members and Appurtenances for the better support of his Estate and Honor. And in case he should depart this life without heir male of his body that then the said Town Castle and Honor c. should resort to the next heir male of the body of Michael his Father And in 5 H. 4. upon the death of Richard de lâ—â— Pole his brother without issue was found to be his heir and doing his Homage had Livery of all the Lands whereof he then died seised Moreover in 9 H. 4. he was imployed beyond the Seas in the Kings service So likewise in 11 H. 4. And in 3 H. 5. being by Indenture reteined to serve the King in his Wars of France he declared his Testament 1 Iulii An. 1415. the same year Whereby he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of the Carthusians at Kingston upon Hull betwixt the Tombe of his Father and Mother and the Altar Appointing that no Tombe should be placed over him but a flat Stone in case he should die in those Northern parts And if in any other part of England then to be buried in the Collegiate-Church of Wyngefeld in Com. Suff. on the North-side the Altar of the blessed Virgin To Catherine his Wife he thereby bequeathed a little Book with Tablets of Silver and Gilt as also the Coronet which was the Earl of Stafford's her Father To his son a little Primer which did belong to Iohn de la Pole his Brother constituting the said Catherine his Wife and Edmund his Uncle his Executors And being at the siege of â—arâ—lew soon after died there of a Flux upon Wednesday 14 Sept. next ensuing the Feast of the Holy Cross the same year being then seised of the Mannors of Rymesweâ—â— in Com. Ebor. Causton and Burgh in Com. Norff. as also of the Honor of Eye with the Hundreds of Lodingland Hertâ—smere and Stow and of the Mannors of Westwode Blyburgh Lowystoke Combes Benhale and Ueyses-Mannor in Stratford in Com. Suff. leaving Michael his son and heir Twenty three years of age Who survived him but a while for within a moneth after he was slain in France in that great battel of Agincourt where the English had the Victory upon Friday being the Festival of St. Crisprin and Crispinian and buried at Ewelme in Com. Oxon. being then seised of the Mannor of Rymeswell in Com. Ebor. Causton and Burgh in Com. Norff. As also of the Castle and Mannor of Eye the Hundreds of Lodinglond Hertesmere and Stow Likewise of the Mannors of Combes Benhale Ueyses Mannor in Stratford Westwode and Blyburgh all in Com. Suff. leaving William his Brother and heir-male Nineteen years of age But though he thus died without issue-male he had three daughters who were his heirs-general viz. Catherine Elizabeth and Isabel The benefit of whose Marriages in 4 H. 5. was granted to William Earl of Suffolk their Uncle Of these Catherine being designed for a Nun at Bruâ—iard and accordingly received into that Monastery before she came of age the King
Moneth after set at liberty and restored to the King's Favor Which so incensed the vulgar sort of people in sundry parts of the Realm as that there was no small danger of a General Insurrection And though that heat did somewhat abate so that the Parliament was again Adjourn'd to Leicester the Commons there fell upon him fiercely for the giving up of Anjon and Maine The King therefore seeing him so generally hated to appease their wrath Banished him the Realm but with design â—â—â—call him when their fury should be allay'd he being a person so highly beloved of the Queen Whereupon putting to Sea at Ipswich in Com. Suff. upon the third of May with purpose to sayl into France he was boarded by the Captain of a Ship of War belonging to the Duke of Exeter then Constable of the Tower of London called the Nicholas of the Tower and being brought into Dovor-Road had his Head cut off on the side of the Cock-Boat After which his Body and Head being found by one of his own Captains was conveyed to the Collegiate Church of Wingfeld in Com. Suff. and there buried It is recorded b of this William that he served in the Wars of France full Twenty four years and for Seventeen years together never returned thence Likewise that being once taken Prisoner when he was but a Knight he paid for his Ransome twenty thousand pounds of English money Also that he was of the Kings Privy-Councel fifteen years and a Knight of the Garter thirty years Having taken to Wife Alice the Daughter and sole Heir of Thomas Chaucer of Eweâ—me in Com. Oxon. for the love of her and benefit of her Lands residing much there he augmented the Mannor House with Building as also his Seat at Dunnington-Castle in Com. Berks. which was of her Inheritance And founded an Hospital at Dunnington as he had done at Ewelme every poor Man in each of them having forteen pence a week Likewise that he built the new Fabrick of the Parish Church of Ewelme By his Testament bearing date 17 Ian. An. 1448. 27 H. 6. he bequeathed his body to be buried in the Charter-House at Hull appointing an Image for himself and another for his Wife to be made in Stone and desiring that the Masses which he had founded there for himself and her might be daily sung over his Grave The time of his death viz. his Murther in the Cock-boat was 2 Maii 28 H. 6. he being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Donâ—ington and of the Mannors of Pessemere Stretteleye Phelberdes and Hanteford in Com. Berks. of the Mannors of Thorpe and Carsyngton in Com. Oxon. Greâ—â—horpe and Normanton in Com. Nott. of the Castle Town and Mannor of Eye with the Mannors of Haughle and Thorndone the Hundreds of Hertesmere and Stow the Mannors of Sylhom Fresyngfelde Stratbrooke Swannes Hurtes Maundeviles Huntingfeld Beuhale Bokling Cantelee juxta Suape Ueyses Mannor in Stratford Walsham Westhorpe Hall Menshall Wyverston Watlesfeld Cotton Frestenden Dagworth Cretyng St. Olave the Mannor and Hundred of Mutford the Mannors of Honell Neddyng Kettelberston Bulcam pe Henham Stratford juxta Benghale Lovistok and the Hundred of Lodynglond with the Castle and Mannor of Wyngefelo in Com. Suff. of the Mannors of Causton Burgh Costesey Saâ—lyngham called Nether-Hall and Stocton with the Soke in Com. Norff. of the Mannors of Gestyngthorp Langham Hatfeld Peverell and Hatfeid Iermynes in Com. Essex of the Mannor of Wâ—â— Grenewiche in Com. Cantii Norton subtus Hamedou in Com. Somers and of the Mannors of Myton and Faxflete in Com. Eber. as also of the Mannors of Blyburgh Appulby Weâ—â—wode and Frisby called Potesse in Spridlington in Com. Line Iohn his Son and Heir being at that time seven years of age It is said that this William first Married the Countess of Henault privately and begot on her a Daughter who became the Wite of ... Barentine But that afterwards solemnly taking to Wise the before-specified Alice the Daughter and Heir of Chaucer by whom he had vast possessions she proved that Daughter Married to Barentine to be a Bastard This last mentioned William Duke of Suffolk had a younger Brother called Iohn who being Captain of Aurunches in Normandy got together the strength of the Garisons in the base Marches of Anjou and wasted the Suburbs of Angiers with the Country adjacent but being overladen with plunder was set upon by the French and taken Prisoner After which being enlarged he assisted this his Brother in the affault of Montargis and in 7 H. 6. was again taken Prisoner by the French upon their storming of Ieargeur I now come to Iohn Son and Heir to this William by her the said Alice In 3 E. 4. the King taking into consideration that the before-specified William Earl of Suffolk Father of this Iohn was advanced to the Title of Duke of Suffolk and to the Heirs Male of his Body as also that his Creation to that Dignity was by reason of his Attaynder afterwards utterly void being desirous to do this Iohn all honor befitting his condition in regard he had Married Elizabeth his Sister did then renew the same title unto him and the Heirs Male of his Body by Letters Patents bearing date 23 Martii the same year giving him forty pounds yearly payable out of the Issues of the Counties of Norff. and Suff. and to the Heirs Male of his Body for his better support After which in 11 E. 4. amongst other the Lords then assembled in Parliament he did recognise u the title of Prince Edward eldest Son to that King and made Oath of Fidelity to him In 15 E. 4. the old Dutchess Alice Widdow of Duke William departed this life upon the ninth of Iune and was buried in the Parish Church of Ewelme on the South side of the high Altar under a rich Tombe of Alablaster with her Image thereon in the Habit of a Vowess crowned and this Epitaph Orate pro anima serenissimae Principissae Aliciae Ducissae Suffolciae bujus Ecclesiae fundatoris primae fundatricis hujus Elemosynariae quae obiit xx die mensis Maii An. MCCCCLXXV But I return to Iohn In 1 H. 7. he was made Constable of the Castle of Walingford and by the before-specified Elizabeth his Wife Sister to King Edward the Fourth had Issue five Sons viz. Iohn Earl of Lincolne Edmund who had the Title of Earl of Suffolk after the death of Iohn his Brother as a Dukes Son and Heir Humphrey a Clerk Edward Arch-Deacon of Richmund and Richard slain in Battle at Pavia in Italy An. 1525. As also four Daughters viz. Catherine the Wife of William Lord Sturton Anne a Nun at Sion and Dorothy and Elizabeth who Married Henry Lovel Lord Morley And departing this life in An. 1491. 7 H. 7. was buried in the Collegiate Church
Hang'd never remembring to crave the benefit of his Clergy which is by some observed to be a just judgment of God upon him for having so much wrong'd the Church and all Learning and had his Head smitten off upon a Scaffold at Tower-Hill After which it was not long ere Infirmities seized upon the King from whom this Duke was little absent and so ordering the matter that whilst he languisht Gilford Dudley his fourth Son did marry with the Lady Iane Grey Eldest Daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolk by Frances Daughter to Mary second Sister to King Henry the Eighth and that a Patent was sealed for the same Lady Iane's Succession to the Crown for drawing whereof and excluding his two Sisters with fair pretences the assistance of the Lord Chief Justice Mountagu and Secretary Cecil were used Which Letters Patents were subscribed by all the Privy-Council as also by the greatest part both for number and power of the Nobility the King 's learned Council and all the Judges at the Common Law excepting Sir Iames Hales one of the Justices of the Common Pleas Some being guided by particular Interest for that they were possess'd of so much Monastery and Chantry-land which if Religion should have been altered through Queen Maries coming to the Crown they might have been in danger to lose and others by fear of or obligation to this Duke then so potent and almost absolute in Government of the State that 't was supposed he could make any title good either by his Authority or his Sword And having thus design'd unto himself the power of a King for no less he would have had in Cafe the Lady Iane had been Queen he contrived to get the Princess Mary into his hands causing the King to write his Letters for her coming to him in his sickness But she being made sensible of the Plot when she was within half a days journey of London diverted her course another way After which the King immediately dying he caused the Lady Iane to be Proclaimed Queen But the Tide of the peoples affections flowing towards Mary the Kings Eldest Sister she was likewise Proclaimed first by the Citizens of Norwich and afterwards in the Counties of Buck. and North. neither was there want of numbers in sundry parts of the Realm that began to put themselves in Arms on her behalf It being therefore now no sitting still as Champion for Queen Iane with a Commission under the great Seal of England He marcht out of London with six hundred Horse to suppress any power which should appear for Queen Mary having a promise from the Lords of more Forces to be sent after him But before he came to encounter the opposite party such a change he discern'd in the affections of his own Souldiers whereof many forsook him that to daub up the matter he return'd to Cambridge and there without either Herald or Trumpet accompanied with the Mayor and Marquess of Northampton he Proclaim'd Queen Mary himself in the Market-place and in token of joy threw up his Cap. But all this would no whit secure him for the very next day the Earl of Arundel coming thither from Queen Mary arrested him of Treason Whence he was with three of his Sons Iohn Ambrose and Henry convey'd to the Tower of London and from that place ere long to his Arraignment Where being condemn'd for a Traytor he suffered Death on Tower Hill 22 Aug. and was buried in the Tower-Church by Iohn Cock then Lancaster-Herald who having been his old Servant was willing to shew some respect to him dead from whom whilst living he had received many favours and therefore beg'd his Head only from the Queen that he might bury it in the Tower upon which Suit he had also his whole Body given him Some who write of his Death do affirm that at his end he professed the Romish Religion and it is said that for a witness of his Faith he voucht Dr. Heath Archbishop of Yorke afterwards Lord Chancellor Yet that being much blinded by ambition and apprehending that the alteration of Religion might be a chief means for the accomplishing of his Worldly ends he told Sir Anthony Brown afterwards Vicount Mountagu when he moved him for restoring the Romiâ—â— Religion that albeit he knew the same Religion to be truâ— yet seeing a new Religion was begun Run dog run Devil he would go forward It is also said that having two days before received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper upon the xxii of August he was brought to the place of Execution Where by the perswasion of the before-specified Nicholas Heath soon afterwards Archbishop of York making his own Funeral Oration to the people he acknowledged himself guilty and craving pardon for his unseasonable ambition admonished the standers by that they should embrace the Religion of their fore-fathers rejecting that of later date which had occasioned all the miseries of the forepassed thirty years And for prevention for the â—uture if they desired to present their Souls unspotted to God and were truly affâ—cted to their countrey they should expel those Trumpets of Sedition the preachers of the reformed Religion As for himself he professed that whatsoever he might pretend his conscience was fraught with the Religion of his Fathers and for testimony thereof he appealed to his good friend the Bishop of Winchester But being blinded with Ambition he had been contented to make wrack of his conscience by temporizing for which he professed himself sincerely repentant and acknowledged the desert of his death By what artifice he gain'd the Castle of Dudley in Com. Staff with divers fair Lordships thereto belonging I have briefly toucht in my discourse of that Lord Dudley who was his contemporary Which place he much affected by reason of his descent from the antient Lords thereof and beautified it with those Buildings on the North side called the New-work He likewise adorned the Gate-house Tower with the Arms of Malpas Someri and the Lion Rampant assumed by him for the Coat of Sutton curiously cut in large Shields of Stone and fixed in the wall over the Port-cullice By Iane his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Edward Guilford Knight Warden of the Cinque-Ports who had his wardship as hath been observ'd he had issue eight Sons and five Daughters viz. Henry who died at the siege of Boloin Iohn who had the title of Earl of Warwick in his Fathers life-time Ambrose afterwards created Earl of Warwick and Robert Earl of Leicester as I shall shew by and by Guilford who suffered death in 1 Mariae as his Father did another Henry slain at St. Quintins in 4 M. and Charles who died a child His Daughters were these Mary Wife of Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord President of 〈◊〉 from whom the now Earl of Leicester is descâ—nded Katherine Wife to Henry Hastings Earl of Huntington Margaret Temperance and
next ensuing whereupon he had burial accordingly To whom succeeded Edward his Brother and Heir who married Frances Daughter to Sir Thomas Treshan of Liveden in Com. Northt Knight and by her had issue four Sons and two Daughters viz. William Stourton made Knight of the Bath at the Creation of Charles Prince of Wales in An. 1616. Thomas Francis and Edward His two Daughters were these Margaret married to Sir Thomas Sulyar of Wetherden in Com. Suff. Knight and Mary to Walter Norton of ... in the same County Esq And departing this life at Clerkenwell in the Suburbs of London 7 Maii 1632. 8 Car. 1. was buried at Stourton with his Ancestors Which Sir William so succeeding him married Frances Daughter to Sir Edward More of Odypham in Com. Sutht Knight and had issue r by her three Sons Edward William and Thomas a Monk as also two Daughters Mary married to Iohn Weld of Lulworth-Castle in Com. Dors. and Frances a Nun at Cambray Which Edward faithfully adhering to the late King Charles the first of Blessed Memory in those woful times of his late unhappy troubles departed this life in the Garrison of Bristol in Ianuary An. 1644. his Father then living leaving issue by Mary his Wife Daughter to Robert Lord Petre William his Son and Heir now living whom by Mary his Wife Daughter of Iohn Preston of Furnesse-Abby in Com. Lanc. Esq hath issue Widvile 26 H. 6. THE First mention I find of this Family is in 37 E. 3 Richard de Wydvill being then constituted Sheriff of Northampton-shire and Governour of the Castle there After which in 39 E. 3. he had the like trust and in 43 E. 3. was made Eschaetor for that County and Rutland Again in 44 E. 3. Sheriff of Northampton-shire as also Governour of the Castle at Northampton To this Richard succeeded Iohn de Wydevill Sheriff of the same Shire and Governour of the Castle in 4 R. 2. Likewise in 6 R. 2. Eschaetor for those Counties of Northampton and Rutland and in 9 R. 2. again Sheriff of Northampton-shire To whom succeeded another Richard which Richard in 7 H. 4. had the Shrivalty of the same County and Governourship of the Castle conferred upon him and in 8 H. 5. being then one of the Esquires for the Body to that Heroick King was constituted Seneschall of the Dutchy of Normandy and other the parts of France within that Kings obedience to superintend all the Captains and Lieutenants of the Cities fortifyed Towns and Castles within those Precincts In 3 H. 6. he was made Constable of the Tower of London and in 4 H. 6. Knighted by the King at Leicester upon Whitsunday the King himself having then received that Honour at the hands of his Uncle the Duke of Bedford In 5 H. 6. being Lieutenant of Calais to the Duke of Bedford governour of that Garrison he continued there for the better defence thereof In 7 H. 6. he was reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France and Normandy for half a year with C Men at Arms and CCC Archers and in 14 H. 6. having then his residence for the most part in Northampton-shire and sometimes at Maydston in Kent was again in the Wars of France being of the Retinue with William Earl of Suffolk In 15 H. 6. having without licence married Iaquet de Luxembourgh Daughter to Peter Earl of St. Paul widow of Iohn Duke of Bedford he gave a thousand pounds fine for that transgression and for livery of those Castles Mannours and Lands which were of her Dowry and in 17 H. 6. was sent into Normandy with a thousand stout men for the better defence of those parts In 19 H. 6. being challenged by a Knight of Spain to perform certain feats of Arms in Smithfield they there met accordingly upon the xxvi of November but after the third stroke the King prohibited them to go on Before the end of which year he accompanied Richard Duke of York then Lieutenant-General and Governour of the Realm of France and Dutchy of Normandy into those parts and in 26 H. 6. in respect of his valour in Arms great integrity and acceptable services was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Rivers as by the Kings Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 29 Maii appeareth it being no name of any place but of an antient Family ☜ sometimes Earls of Devon And for his better support of that Honour had thereby granted to him and to the Heirs male of his Body in reversion after the death of William Burton one of the Grooms of the Kings Chamber the annual rent of xiv s. iv d. due to the Keeper of the Castle of Northampton As also all the Knightsâ—ees and services whatsoever belonging to the Honour of Chokes and likewise those of Bryans-fee Iohn de Bayeux fee Maundevill fee Lexington-fee or of the Baronies of Rivers and Ledet's fee with all Advowsons Eschaets Forfeitures and Liberties by reason of the Tenure of those Honours Baronies and Fees In 27 H. 6. in further consideration of his services in the wars of France and Dutchy of Normandy he obtained a grant in special tail of the Mannour of West â—â—urrek called West-Hall in Com. Essex in reversion after the death of Iaquet Dutchess of Bedford his Wife And about that time had a Charter for Free-Warren in all his demesn-lands within his Lordships of Grafton Patshull and Wyken in Com. Northt though they were within the precincts of the Forest In 28 H. 6. he was installed Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and in 29 H. 6. constituted Seneschal of Aquitaine with power to receive into the Kings obedience all Cities Towns and Forts therein which were then willing to yield thereto In 38 H. 6. being sent to Sandwich for the defence of that Port and those great Ships which lay at Anchor there against the power of Nevil Earl of Warwick who had raised new forces on the behalf of the Duke of York he was in the night time surprized in his Bed with Anthony his Son by certain persons sent from that Earl who carried him with those Ships to Calais But though he stood firm to King Henry the sixth against the house of York yet after King Edward the fourth had obtained the Crown and been captivated with the beauty of Elizabeth his Daughter Widow of Sir Iohn Grey so that he made her his Queen all his precedent Actings for the Lâ—ncastrian interest were forgot great Honours and Trusts being then conferred upon him by that King First viz. 4 Martii 6 E. 4. the office of Treasurer of his Exchequer and upon the 24 of May next ensuing the title of Earl Rivers Also the
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
thereof and upon what grounds it failed 't is more proper for our publick Historians than my self if I could to give an account He Married two Wives First Anne the Daughter of Sir Thomas Middleton of Chirk-Castle in Com. Denbigh Knight and secondly Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs of George late Lord Chandos but by neither of them hath any Issue Ogle 1 E. 4. OF this Family which hath been of great Antiquity in Northumberland taking its Surname from the Lordship of Oggil their principal Seat there was Iohn de Oggil whose Lands were extended in 49 H. 3. for his adherence to the rebellious Barons of that Age. But the next of whom I have seen any thing memorable is Robert de Oggle in 15 E. 3. upon a very honourable account he then obtaining Licence to make a Castle of his Mannor-House at Oggle and to have Free-Warren in all Demesn-Lands within his Lordships of Oggle Aldensheles Rouley Shilington Heselrig Folberye Thrasteâ—ton and Hurchemouthe in Com. Nor. thumb In 19 E. 3. upon that great Incursion by the Scots under the Command of William Douglas at which time they burnt Carlisle Penrith and divers other places he accompanied Iohn de Kirkeby then Biship of Carlisle in a charge which he made upon a strong party of those bold invaders and encountring with Alexander Strâ—gâ—n their chief Commander spurring on his Horse ran him into the side with his Lance but was â—oâ—e wounded himself also the Biship being likewise unhorst but valiantly recovering his Saddle escaped the danger This Robert had Issue Robert who Married Helene the Daughter and Heir to Sir Robert Bertram Knight Baron of Botball and by her had Issue Robert who died in his Father's life time Whereupon Robert his Son upon the Death of Robert his Grandfather in 36 E. 3. being found to be his Heir became Ward to Iohn Philipot This last mention'd Robert being a Knight in 12 R. 2. had Liverry of that parparty of those Lands as were of the Inheritance of Ioan his Wife one of the three Daughters and Coheirs to Sir Alexander de Heton Knight And having been taken Prisoner by the Scots in 2 H. 4. obtain'd a grant from the King of C. marks towards the payment of his Ransom out of the Customs of Woolls in the Port of Newcastle upon Tine After which in 6 H. 4. he serv'd in the Garrison of Barwick upon Twede under Iohn the King's Son afterwards Duke of Bedford at that time Governour there And in 7 H. 4. upon the Death of David de Holgrave the last Husband to Helene his Mother doing his Homage had Livery of the Castle and Mannor of Bothall which being of her Inheritance were held of the King by Knights Service in Barony paying yearly for the Guard of the Castle at Newcastle upon Tine for Cornage Cxv s. iv d. Being thus possess'd of that Castle and Mannor within two days after that Livery he enfeofft William de Themilby Clerk and others therein as also of the Mannor of Heppale and Town of Lour-bottil to the use of himself during his natural life and after his decease the Mannor and Town of Heppale to remain to his Son Sir Robert Ogle the younger Knight and to the Heirs Male of his Body and for want of such Issue to his younger Son Iohn surnamed Bertram from his Mother and to the Heirs Male of his Body and for lack fo such Issue to the Heirs Male of his own Body upon condition that every such Heir Male should bear the name of Ogle with the Arms of Ogle and Bothall quartered And that after the Death of him the said Robert Ogle the Elder the said Castle and Mannor of Bothall should remain to the said Iohn Bertram and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever and for want of such Issue to the said Sir Robert Ogle the younger and the Heirs Male of his Body and for lack of such Issue to him the said Sir Robert Ogle the Elder and the Heirs Male of his Body and for lack of such Issue to his own right Heirs In 8 H. 4. upon the Death of Helene his Mother he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited And departing this life upon All-hallow Eve an 1409. 11 H. 4. was buried in the Abby-Church of Hexham being then seised of the moity of the Mannor of Heppall which he held of the King in Capite by the service of the moity of a Barony He also held jointly with Ioan his Wife the other moity by the like service leaving Robert his Son and Heir and Ioan his Wife surviving who thereupon had for her Dowry an assignation of the moity of the Mannor of Heppall and Town of Lourbottill as also one Burgage in Newcastle upon Tine near the White-cross with certain Lands in North Middylton belonging to Iohn de Farmelawe Which Robert his Son had thereupon Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance his Homage being respited By colour whereof he forcibly with CC. men possessed himself of the Castle and Mannor of Bothall which by the Feoâ—â—ment before mention'd were setled upon Iohn his Brother who bore the sirname of Bertram Whereupon complaint being made in Parliament it was ordered that a Wâ—it should be sent to the Sheriff of Northumberland to require all those who then held that Castle to depart thence and to command the said Robert to appear at Westminster by a certain day to make answer to the King for this his misdemeanor In 12 H. 4. he was again with Iohn the Kings Son then Constable of England in the Garrison of Barwick And in 1. H. 5. associated with Sir Robert de Vmâ—ravill Knight to treat with the Commissioners of Robert Duke of Albani Governour of Scotland and to conclude of such differences as then were betwixt King Henry and those of that Nation So likewise in 2 H. 5. with Richard Lord Grey and others to treat of a general or particular Truce as well by Sea as by Land betwixt both Realms Upon the death of Ioan his Mother in 4 H. 5. he had Livery of the Lands which she held in dower In 5 H. 5. constituted Sheriff of Northumberland In 2 H. 6. associated with Henry Earl of Northumberland and divers other great Men in those parts to conduct Iames King of Scotland from Durham into his own Realm with all due honour he being upon pledges then given enlarged of his imprisonment wherein he bad been restrained from 8 H. 4. And in 3 H. 6. was made Governour of the Town of Roxborough for the term of three years In 8 H. 6. he obtain'd a Charter for Free-Warren in all his demesn-lands at Heple in Com. Northumbr and departed this life in 15 H. 6. leaving Issue Robert
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
â—endal Knight Coâ—in and heir to the said Sir Thomas doing his Hâ—â—age had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance And stood in such favour with Henry Duke of Lancaster as that upon the Deposal of King Richard he was sent with the Bishop of St. Asaph into Spain to manifest by what Right and Title that Duke assum'd the Crown of this Realme by the name of King Henry the Fourth others being then imploy'd to Rome and the rest of the Neighbouring King 's for the like purpose but died 3 Oct. 6 H. 4. being at that time seised of the fourth part of the Mannor of Kirkby in Kendal in right of her the said Elizabeth leaving Iohn his son and heir 22 years of age Which Iohn departed this life in 9 H. 4. leaving Thomas his son and heir Who being afterwards a Knight and taking part with Richard Duke of York was with many others attainted in the Parliament held at Coventre in 38 H. 6. and died in 4 E 4. being seised of the whole Mannor of Kirkby in Kendal with the Castle leaving William his son and heir Thirty years of age Which William being also a Knight was in 10 E. 4. associated with Laurence Bishop of Durham and others to treat with certain Commissioners from Iames the Third King of Scotland upon those Complaints which had been made toâ—ching divers Injuries done by the Subjects of each Kingdom contrary to the forme of the Truce made betwixt both Realms Also upon the arrival of King Edward after he had through the potency of Nevill Earl of Warwick been constrain'd to quit the Realm he met him at Northampton with a considerable strength and thence accompanied him to Barnet-Field where he became Victorious And in 11 E. 4. was by Indenture retein'd to serve him in defence of the City of Câ—rlisle In 13 E. 4 he was also constituted one of the Commissioners to meet with others from Scotland at Alnwike upon the 20 th of September there to treat again of certain grievances from the Subjects of each Kingdom And in 14 E. 4. being then a Banneret was retein'd to serve the King in his wars of France with sixteen Men at Armes and one hundred and three Archers About which time he was install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And in 22 E. 4. assign'd one of the Commissioners and the chief for exercising the Office of Constable of England In which year he serv'd in the Left wing of that Army then sent into Scotland under the Command of Richard Duke of Glocester This Sir William Parr wedded Elizabeth one of the two daughters of Richard Lord Fitz Hugh and by her had issue two sons Sir Thomas Parr Knight and William of which William I shall speak farther anon Which Sir Thomas having been first Squire of the Body to King Henry the Eighth was in 2 H. 8. Knight for the Body of that King and by the death of George Lord Fitz Hugh son and heir to Richard without issue became Cosin and coheir to him the said George viz. Second son and heir to Elizabeth sister to the said George Whereupon in 4 H. 8. he obtain'd a special Livery of that purparty of the Lands whereof the said George died seised which did by Inheritance belong to him And by Maud his wife daughter and coheir to Sir Thomas Green Knight had issue William his son and heir the two daughters Anne married to William Herbert Earl of Pembroke and Catherine first married to Edward Borough secondly to Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer thirdly to King Henry the Eighth and fourthly to Thomas Lord Seamour of Sudley Which William Parr was made Squire of the Body to King Henry the Eighth in the second of his Reign with the Fee of fifty Marks per annum and in 3 H. 8. Ranger of the Baliwicks of Cliff Brigstok and Rokyngham Upon that famous Enterview betwixt King Henrie and Francis the First of France betwixt Ardres and Guisnes in 12 H. 8. where Justing and other Feats of Armes were then used he was also one of the challengers on the part of the English And in 30 H. 8. advanc'd to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Parr but upon what day or moneth the Enrollment of his Patent doth not make mention Whereupon having Summons to Parliament the next ensuing year he took his place amongst the rest of the Peers upon the 28 th of Aprill And in 33 H. 8. having married Anne the daughter and heir to Henrie Bourchier Earl of â—sseâ— and Ewe and of Marie his wife one of the daughters and heirs of Sir William Say K t had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance Shortly after which he obtained License to grant the Mannors of Walden Stansted Woodhall Eyston ad Turrim Chychney Little-Fordham Totham Manhall and Netherhall in Norton with the Advousons of the Churches of Eyston ad Turrim and Chigney As also the Mannors of Asheldam-Hall Little-Hillingbury Orersâ—y Tolleshunt Great-Wakcryng and Little Wakeryng all in Com. Essex Likewise the Mannor of Biddleston with the Advouson of the Church in Com. Suff. and the Mannors of Bennington and Sabridgworth in Com. Hertf. unto VVilliam Earl of Southamoton and other his Feoffees to be regranted unto him and to the heirs of his body begotten on Anne his wife But in 34 H. 8. the children of this Lady Anne were Bastardized by Act of Parliament 17 Apr. Notwithstanding which in 35 H. 8. being then Knight of the Garter the King having married Catherine his Sister upon the 12 th of Iuly he was created Earl of 〈◊〉 the Honor of her Father by Letters Patent bearing date 23 Dec. the same year with the same place and voice in Parliament as the said Henry Bourchier Earl of Essâ—â— had And in 38 H. 8. was one of those whom that King then lying on his death-bed associated to his Executors for their assistance in matters of most consequence Whereupon in 1 E. 6. he was advanced to the Title of Marquess of Noâ—thampton by Letters-patent bearing date 16 Febr. And upon that Insurrection the year following by the Commons of Norffolk headed by Captain Robert Ket a Tanner was sent for the suppressing thereof with Fifteen hundred Horse and a small Band of Italians In 4 E. 6. he was constituted Lord Great Chamberlain of England for life Iohn Earl of Warwick then surrendring that Office And upon the delivery of â—usâ—oine to the French upon Articles had the Horse of that Garrison put under his command Having about this time married Elizabeth daughter to George Lord Cobham in 5 E. 6. he obtain'd a special Act of Parliament for the disanulling his Marriage with the Lady Anne Bourchier
Leighton Bromswould married to Henry Lord Obrien son and heir to Henry Earl of Thomond in Ireland The Lord Iohn sixth son bearing Armes for the King upon the same account received divers wounds in the Fight at Bramdene near Alford in Com. Southampt 29 Martii Anno 1644. whereof he died and was buried in Christ-Church also near to his brother And lastly the Lord Bernard being Captain of His late Majesties Horse-guards fighting valiantly in the Battel of Kineton Also at Lestithiel in Cornwall And afterwards at Newherie in Com. Berks. and Navesby in Comâ—â—orthampt was for these eminent services defign'd to the dignities and titles of Baron of Newberie and Earl of Lichfeild but before this could be accomplisht being in another Fight against the Forces so raised by those members of Parliament which hapned near the City of Chester in Febr. An. 1645. was there slain and buried in the Quire at Christchurch in Oxford upon the eleventh of March next ensuing In consideration whereof and of the singular merits of George Lord d'Aubignie his Father Charles his said son and heir was by Letters-patent bearing date at Oxford 10 Dec. 21 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of Lord Stuart of Newberie and Earl of Litchfeild And by reason that the Title of Duke of Richmund was intailed upon the beforâ—-specified Iames and the heirs-male of his body with remainder to the issue-male of his younger Brothers successively did upon the death of Iames Duke of Richmund his Uncle without issue assume that Title This Charles wedded three wives first Elizabeth daughter of Richard Rogers of Brianston in Com. Dors. Esq Secondly Margaret daughter of Laurence Banaster son and heir to Sir Robert Banaster of Passenham in Com. Buck. Knight widow of William Lewes of the Uann in Com. Glamorgan Esq and lastly Frances daughter of Walter Stuart Esquire Being also Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter he was sent Embassador into Denmark in An. 1672. 24 Car. 2. and departed this life near Elsenoure in that Kingdom upon the 12 th of December that same year without issue Whereupon his body was brought over into England and buried in the Royal Chapel of King Henry the Seventh at Westminster Hay Earl of Carlisle 13 Iac. AMongst other the Natives of Scotland who were servants to King Iamesâ— and upon his attaining the Crown of this Realm attended him hither Sir Iames Hay K t was one and therefore in An 1607. 4 Iac. having through the favour and countenance of His Majesty obtain'd Honora the sole daughter and heir to Edward Lord Denny in marriage as also a grant of the name and title of Lord Hay with precedence next to the Barons of England but no place or voice in Parliament upon the 29 th of Iune in 13 Iac. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hay of Sauley in com Ebor. without any solemn Investiture being the first that ever was so created the Lawyers then declaring that the delivery of the Letters patent was sufficient without any ceremony And afterwards upon the 12 th of Iuly 14 Iac. was sent Embassador into France In March An. 1617. 15 Iac. he was made one of the Privy-Council and in November following married to his second wife Lucie the second daughter to Henry Earl of Northum-berland After which the next ensuing year scilicet 5 â—â—lii 16 Iac. he was farther honoured with the â—â—egree of Vicount by the name of Vico 〈…〉 and in May 17 Iac. sent Emb 〈◊〉 into Germany Whence he returâ—â—â— in Ianuary An. 1620. 18 Iac. at which time he made report that Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine was Elected king of Bohemia as also how the state of affairs then stood in those parts And in April An. 1622. 20 Iac. was again sent Embassador into France In consideration therefore of these his eminent services upon the 13 th of September following he was created Earl of Carliâ—e Besides all this he likewise was Master of the great Wardrobe Gentleman of the Robes to King Iames and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Likewise first Gentleman of the Royal Bedchamber to King Charles the First of blessed memory And departing this life at his Lodgings in Whitehall 25 Apr. An. 1636. 12 Car. 1. was buried above the Quire in St. Pauls Cathedral leaving issue one onely son called Iames surviving who succeeded him in his honors This Iames married Margaret the third daughter to Francis Earl of Bedford and died ... Octobris An 1660 without issue leaving the said Margaret surviving afterwards married to Robert Earl of Warwick and lastly to Edward Earl of Manchester Dormer Earl of Carnarvon 13 Iac. UPon that vast distribution made by King Henry the Eighth of those Lands which came to the Crown by that grand dissolution of the Monasteries in his time Sir Robert Dormer Knight in 35 of his Reign obtain'd a Grant to himself and Iane his wife in Fee of the Mannor of Wenge in Com. Buck. part of the possessions belonging to the Abby of St. Albans To which Sir Robert succeeded William made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Q. Mary who first married Mary daughter of Sir William Sidney Knight by whom he had issue one onely daughter called Ioane married to the Duke of Feria in Spain Secondly Dorothie daughter of Anthony Catesby of Whiâ—iâ—on in Com. Northampt. Esq by whom he had issue Robert his son and heir and three daughters Cathâ—rine married to Iohn Lord St. Iohn of Bletsho Mary to Anthony Vicount Mountagu and Margaret to Sir Henry Constable Knight Which Robert being a Knight in 13 Iac. was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet 10 Iunii the same year and upon the 30 th day of that moneth created a Baron of this Realm with ceremony by the Title of Lord Dormer of Wenge before-mentioned And having married Elizabeth daughter of Anthony Vicount Mountagu had issue by her three sons William his son and heir Anthony Dormer of Grovepacke in Com. Warr. Esquire and Robert Dormer of Peterley in Com. Buck. Esq As also three daughters Elizabeth married to Henry Huddleston Esq Magdalen to Sir â—â—hn Curson Knight and Catheriâ—e to Sir Iohn Carâ—â—ll Kâ—â—ght Which William took to wise the 〈◊〉 of Sir Richard Molineux of Sefton in Coâ—â— â—anc Knight and died in his life-time leaving issue Robert and one daughter called Elizabeth married to Edward Lord Herbert of Ragland afterwards Marquess of Worcester To the said Robert Lord Dormer thus surviving who departed this life ... Nov. An. 1616. 14 Iac. succeeded Robert his Grandson Which Robert by Letters-patents bearing date 2 Aug. 4 Car. 1. was advanced to the title and dignity of Vicount Ascot and Earl of Carnarvon and being a person absolutely valiant and Loyal in the
Elizabeth first married to Sir Lewes Mansel of Margon in com Glamorgan Knight afterwards to Sir Edward Seâ—bright of Preshwode in â—om Stâ—ff Baronet And Lucie to Henry Lord Colraine His second wife was Anne daughter and heir to William Wincoot of Langham in â—om Suff. Esquire Widow of Sir Leonard Holyday Knight Alderman of London but by her he had no issue His third Margaret daughter of Iohn Crouch of Cornbury in com Hertf. Esquire Widow of Iohn Hare of Totteridge in the same County Esquire by whom he had issue two sons George Mountagu now of Horton in com Northampt and Sidney who died without issue Also one daughter named Susanna married to George Lord Chandos This Earl died ... Nov. An. 1642. and was buried at Kymbolton before-mentioned Which Edward so succeeding him having been much instrumental for the Happy Restoration of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second in remuneration of his fidelity obtained thereupon the Office of Lord Chamberlain of His Houshold He married five wives first Susanna daughter to Iohn Hill of Honiley in com Warr. and of Dorothy his wife daughter of Anthony Beaumont Esquire sister to Mary Countess of Buckingham but by her had no issue Secondly Anne daughter to Robert Earl of Warwick by whom he had issue Robert his son and heir and two daughters the Lady Frances married to Henry son to Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincolne and Anne married to Robert Earl of Holand His third Wife was Essex daughter of Sir Thomas Cheeke of Pirgo in com Essex Knight Widow of Sir Robert Bevill Knight by whom he had issue six sons Edward Henry Charles Thomas Sidney and George and two daughters viz. Essex married to ... Vicount Erwyn and Lucie His fourth wife was Eleanor daughter of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley in com Ebor. Knight and Baronet Widow of Sir Henry Lee of Querndon in com Buck. Knight and Baronet by whom he had no issue His fifth Margaret daughter to Francis Earl of Bedford who had formerly been married to Iames Earl of Carlisle and afterwards to Robert Earl of Warwick but by her also he had on issue And departing this life 5 Maii An. 1671. being then Sixty nine yeares of age was buried at Kimbolton in com Huntington To whom succeeded Robert his son and heir who wedded Anne the daughter of Sir Christopher Yelverton of Easton Maudâ—it in com Northampt. Knight of the Bath and hath had issue by her four sons Edward and Henry which died young as also Charles and Robert and four daughters Anne Elizabeth Catherine and Eleanore ¶ To Sir Sidney Mountague youngest Brother to Edward the first Lord Mountagu succeeded Edward his son and heir of Hinchinbrooke in com Hunt Esquire Which Edward being singularly skilled in Mathematical Learning whereby he arrived to very great knowledge in Maritime affairs having by his prudent deportment in the time of the late usurpation obtained the sole command of the English Navy till then divided and disposed of under sundry petty Officers made such use of his power and interest with the Mariners in that happy juncture of time when the tyranny of those Usurpers who then ruled had caused most men to be weary of their dominion and inclined the hearts of the people generally to an obedient submission unto their lawful Soveraign as that without bloodshed or any hazardous contests he so wrought upon them that they peacefully delivered up the whole Fleet unto his Majesty King Charles the Second For which happy service and exemplary fidelity he was first made choice of for one of the Knights Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter and shortly afterwards viz. 12 Iulii 12 Car. 2. advanced to the dignity of a baron of this Realm by the title of Lord. Mountague of St. Neots in com Hunt as also to the honour of Vicount by the name of Vicount Hinchinbrooke and likewise created Earl of Sandwich This Earl married Iemima daughter to Iohn Lord Crew of Stene in com North. by whom he had issue six sons Edward who succeeded him in his Honors Sidney Oliver Iohn Charles and Iames and four daughters Iemima married to Sir Philip Carteret Knight eldest son to Sir George Carteret Knight and Baronet Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold Pâ—ulina who died unmarried Anne wedded to Sir Richard Edgecombe of Mount-Edgecombe in com Cornub. Knight of the Bath and Catherine And serving his Majesty as Vice-Admiral with great courage and loyalty in that dangerous Fight at Sea betwixt the English Fleet and Dutch on Tuesday 28 Maii An. 1672. being at that time forty seven years of age had the unhappy â—ate then to lose his life Whereupon his Corps being brought by water to Westminster in great state was honorably interred in a fair Vault on the North side of that Collegiate Church Which Edward so succeeding him married the Lady Anne daughter to Richard Earl of Burlington by whom he hath issue two sons Edward and Richard and Elizabeth a daughter Savage Earl Riverâ— 19 Iac. OF this antient Family whole chief seat for many ages hath been partly at the Castle of Frodshom in Cheshire and partly at another noble House built of later time at Clifton on the opposite side the River and now called Rock-Savage were divers Knights bearing the name of Iohn one of which being a faithful friend to Henry Earl of Richmund contributed not a little as well in point of action as advice in order to his acquiring the Crown of this Realm commanding the left wing of his Army at Bosworth Field where that Earl obtaining the Victory was immediately Crowned King by the name of Henry the seventh but in the seventh of his Reign accompanied the Earls of Derby Shrewsbury Arundel and divers other of the English Nobility into Flanders with those Forces which were then sent in aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French was encompassed with the Enemy at the Siege of Boloine and refusing quarter there lost his life To whom succeeded Sir Iohn Savage Knight his son and heir which Sir Iohn married Elizabeth daughter of Charles Somerset the first Earl of Worcester of that noble Family And to him another Sir Iohn Savage who took to wife Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Maners the first Earl of Rutland of that name and by her had issue Iohn and he Thomas Which Thomas being likewise a Knight and the nineteenth in number of those who were the first created Baronets in 9 Iac. having marriâ—d Elizabeth the eldest daughter and at length coheir to Thomas Lord Darcie of Chicâ— in Essex upon the advancement of the same Thomas Lord Darcie to the dignity of Vicount Colchester 5 Iulii 19 Iac. obtained likewise that title of Honor to himself and the heirs make of his body in reversion after the death of him the said Thomas Lord Darcie without issue male of his As also in 2 Car. 1.
Halifax He first Married Dorothy Daughter to Henry Lord Spenser Earl of Sunderland by whom he hath Issue three Sons Henry William and George and one Daughter called Anne Secondly Gertrude Daughter to William Pierpont of â—horesby in Com. Nott. Esq second Son to Robert late Earl of Kingston upon Hull Wentworth Earl of Strafford 4 Car. 1. ABout the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First Sir Thomas Wentworth Baronet Son and Heir to Sir William Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse in Com. Ebor. Baronet the chief branch of that antient Family being a person of a fair Estate and one of the Knights for that spacious Shire in divers Parliaments did by his management of sundry Conferences with the House of Lords in those great Conventions and otherwise make his abilities so conspicuous as that the King having notice thereof soon chose him into the number of his Privy Council and in short time discerning his parts to be such as did worthily merit some special mark of Honour by his Letters Paâ—ents bearing date 22 Iulii in the fourth year of his Reign first advanced him to the Title of Baron Wentworth of Wenâ—worth Woodhouse Next viz. upon the tenth day of December following to that of Vicount-Wentworth After this constituted him Lieutenant of Ireland and upon the 12 th of Ianuary in the xv th year of his Reign to the farther dignities of Baron of Raâ—y by reason of his Descent from that great Family of Nevill sometime Lords of that place and Earl of Strafford and lastly elected him into that honourable Society of Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter Which great Trust of that Lieutenancy he underwent with such gravity and prudence administring Justice impartially to every one as gave no little satisfaction to his Majesty and all good people And upon that Insurrection of the Scots in an 1639. being call'd back from that charge after he had form'd an Army there of eight thousand men which might have been useful to that Kingdom had not those who design'd his destruction prevented it was constituted Lieutenant-General of those Forces then raised for the repâ—lling of those Invaders who had at that time possess'd themselves of some of the Northern Counties But the good King considering that it was not a Foreign Enemy who had thus entred this Realm and therefore deeming it safest to call a Parliament here by the advice whereof he might receive best direction how to get them out found the leading Members in that unhappy Convention secretly confederated with that rebellious people whose Principles being Anti-Monarchical nothing but the absolute extirpation of the Religion establisht and the total ruine of this peaceful Government whereby they might share the Revenues both of Church and King would serve their turn To which end the removal of every impediment in their way being design'd they first began with this incomparable person exhibiting a Charge of High-Treason against him Whereupon he was brought to Tryal before his Peers but when they came to the particulars of proof though they searcht into all the actions of his life from the first time that he ever had any publick imployment of Trust and found nothing that amounted to a considerable misdemeanour Nevertheless by diveâ—â— unjustifiable devices they at length passed a special Bill for his Attainder but with this particular clause that the like should never be drawn into practice again And having so done by sundry other indirect practises extorted from that good King his Royal assent thereto and then cut off his Head at Tower-Hill upon the 12 th of May ensuing an 1641. An Act in truth of such Injustice and Cruelty as that not only some of those who had been seduced to concur with them therein when they themselves afterwards came to be destroy'd by the hands of the Common Executioner infinitely bewailed and repented of but which lay heavy upon the Conscience of that most pious and devout Martyr the King himself when he suffered Death by that barbarous Generation in whose destruction they had design'd the utter ruine and extirpation of this formerly long-flourishing and famous Monarchy But the particulars of the unhappy sufferingâ— of this worthy person and the steps by which his and those Enemies to Monarchy did tread in order to the accomplishing their pâ—â—nicious purposes I leave to the relation of some more able Pen which may transmit them to future ages in due time it being not yet so needful to bring them upon the Stage of this World considering that there are many yet alive who cannot forget what themselves have seen so lately acted and whom it will highly concern to impart what they know thereof to their immediate descendents This most noble Earl married three Wives First Margaret Daughter to Francis Earl of Cumberland by whom he had no Issue Secondly Arabella Daughter to Iohn Earl of Clare by whom he had Issue one Son called William and two Daughters the Lady Anne married to Edward Lord Rockingham and the Lady Arabella to Iustin Macarti Son to Donâ—gh Earl of Clancarti And lastly Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Godfrey Rodes of Great Houghton in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Margaret Being thus barbarously cut off his Body was carried to Wentworth Woodhouse and there buried To whom succeeded William his Son and Heir who married the Lady Anne the eldest of the three Daughters of that most Heroick and truly Loyal Iames Earl of Derby who suffered death also by the hands of those Antimonarchists and since the restoration of our present Sovereign hath by him been honoured with an election and Investiâ—ure into the Society of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Privy Council Francis Lord Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 4 Car. 1. AMongst the many whose ample Fortunes did much conduce to those advancements which their Posterity afterwards obtained to several eminent Titles of Honour Sir Thomas Lâ—igh Knight was not the least who being Son to Roger Leigh of Wellington in Com. Salop. dâ—scended by a younger Branch from that antient Family of the Leigâ—s of High-Leigh in Cheshire and bred up under Sir Rouland Hill an opulent Merchant of London became at length his Factor beyond Sea and underwent that trust so well that Sir Rouland having no Issue matcht Alice his Niece Daughter to ... Barker of Hâ—ghmon in Shropshire unâ—o him and bestowed upon his Children the substance of his estate Which Sir Thomas being â—ord Mayer of London in the first year of 〈◊〉 Elizâ—beths reign departed this life in that Câ—ty 17 November 14 Eliz. and was buried in Merâ—ers-Chapell with this Epitaph upon his Tomb Sir Thomas Lâ—igh bi civil life All offices did bâ—are Which in this City worshipfull Or honourable were Whâ—m as God blessed with great wealth So losses did be feâ—le Yet nâ—ver châ—ng'd he constant minde Tho' Fortune turn'd her wheele Learning he lov'd and helpâ— the poore