Draytonorum terras possidet Ad istorum Draytonorum caput sub marmore plano jacet vir quidam generosus Gilbertus Segrave A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT THAT WERE LORDS of WERMINSTER Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Mauduit were Chequy Or and Azure a Bordure Gules Of the Original Descent Greatness Possessions Honours Alliances and Arms of the House of Mauduit that were Lords of Werminster THIS House was originally of the Dukedom of Normandy where it flourished before the Conquest under the name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith as much as to say Evil taught and upon occait was written in the Latine tongue Maledoctus a sobriquet of which the grounds do not remain in story A Lord of this name came over with King William the First under the appearance of much reputation and interest He is recorded to have been in immediate service at the Battel where King Harold was slain and to have been one of those Lords to whom the Conquerour gave Lands for their notable services The Actions performed by those of this House have been famous their successes various the remembrance of their Lords illustrating story with the variety of their fortunes There had been in this Family great marks of the love and confidence of their Princes They were promoted to Dignities and trusted in employments of most importance There were of them had been Lords of much power that had been Governours of Provinces that had been Chamberlains and held the highest Offices in the Houses of their Kings that had been great Earls and all of them allyed to Families of most Power and Nobleness After the introduction of the hereditary use of Arms in this House they were differently born for William Lord Mauduit who was Earl of Warwick bore in a Field Argent two Barre Gules in the time of King Henry the Third But William Lord Mauduit his Cousin and contemporary from whom the Lords of Werminster did descend gave in a Bordure Gules Chequy Or and Azure This House notwithstanding and all its greatness took an end about the beginning of King Richard the Second leaving only to inherit their Name Armes and Possessions Matilda de Mauduit that was married to Sir Henry Greene of Drayton from whom to the Veres that were Lords of Adington descended all their pretensions and from them to the Mordaunts that by the marriage of Elizabeth Vere came to inherit the Arms and Lands of those two Noble Families WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and other Great Lands and Lordships AMong those Heroes that did accompany King William the First unto the Conquest of England was a Lord of the Name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith in the Latine termed Maledoctus Whether it was the William here mentioned or his Father it matters not but sure we are that at the time of the general Surveigh iâ— the Raign of that King this William Lord Mauduit is found to have possessed seven faâ—â— Lordships in Hampshire And coming afterwards by the merit of many great Serviceâ— and the favour of King Henry the First to be his Chamberlain he obtained from hiâ— a Grant of all the Lands whereof Micael de Hanslape dyed seized with Maude thâ— Daughter of the said Micael in Marriage Their Issue Robert Mauduit William Mauduit ROBERT MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Lordships as also in the Office of Chamberlain but the near trust wherein he lived with King Henry the First having caused him to be one of those Lords that were appointed to accompany his Children in their return out of France he was drowned in that unhappy passage from Harflew into England with those unfortunate and much lamented Princes FOR want of Issue male of the Lord Robert Mauduit WILLIAM his younger Brother came to inherit the Estate that he had left and the Office of Chamberlain was likewise bestowed upon him by Henry Duke of Normandy afterward King by the name of Henry the Second with all the Lands belonging thereunto as well in Normandy as in England This William had likewise by Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury that is of his Exchequer with livery and all other its appurtenances He had moreover in consideration of his good services divers other great Lordships bestowed upon him and also the Constablery of Richege in Fee And after Henry by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William all the premisses When he dyed I find not but he left Issue Robert Lord Mauduit AFter the Death of William Lord Mauduit the second of that name ROBERT his Son came to inherit all his great Possessions as likewise the Office of Chamberlain with what ever did belong thereunto And as an addition to his Fortunes King Henry the Second bestowed upon him by his Charter the noble Mannor of Werminster a Lordship at that time of much value and greatly priviledged which by another Charter was after confirmed by King Richard the First eldest Son and successor to King Henry After the Death of which King Richard upon what motives we do not find this Robert Lord Mauduit became involved in Confederacy with many of the great Barons who were at that time in Rebellion against King John And in the first year of King Henry the Third the Honor of Hanslape with its appurtenances which was the head of his Barony appears to have been granted away to Robert de Braboef for support in the Kings service during his pleasure But before the sixth year of that King this Robert Mauduit died leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella the Daughter of the Lord Thurstan Bassett William Lord Mauduit Robert Mauduit to whom his Father gave the noble Lordship of Werminster WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the third of that name after the death of his Father was Lord of the Honor of Hanslape and divers other fair Lands and Lordships as also hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Having been bred under his Father and in the rebellion of those Lords that made War in the time of King John he continued the same course after that Lords decease fortifying his Castles and his Houses in favour of the associated Barons particularly that of Hanslape which was taken and demolished by Falcatius de Breant a renouned Souldier of that Age and a bold asserter of the Kings Authority For which and other contumacies he was with other of the Lords Excommunicated by the Pope But all this allayed not his turbulent spirit but he still persisting in his Rebellion was actually at the Battle of Lincoln where the power of the Lords being totally vanquished he was taken Prisoner But after this he returned to his obedience and enjoyed his Estate by the Kings Grace and in the seventeenth Year of Henry the Third he obliged himself by a special writing to serve the King faithfully all his life and never more
between the power of the Queen and her Kindred and the Ambition of his Brothers as it was not strange that Wise Men should desire to withdraw from the difficulties of keeping well with both or the danger of disobliging either In this condition remained the House of Howard at the death of Edward the Fourth and for some time after till the Ambition of King Richard with the Arts and Practices subservient thereunto had through Blood and Violence made way unto the Crown and that the Young King was destroyed with his Brother and as many of the great Lords as were like to have taken part with the unhappy Prince The new King after this being one of the most Politick as well as the most daring Princes in the World was not ignorant of the ill Actions he had committed nor of the consequences they were like to have he knew all the Friends he could make would be little enough to sustain him against the potent Enemies he had created And therefore he made it now his business to gain among the Nobles and among the People every Man that had Parts or Interests suitable to his occasions To this end knowing the Lord Howard and his Son had from the latter Years of King Edward been retired from the Court not oversatisfied and in no good Correspondence with the Queens Kindred which he had been forced to suppress He thought from the great interest they had and their exceeding reputation for Wisdom and Valour they were the sittest persons to be gained and the likeliest to adhere to him of any other He therefore invited them to Court and as an earnest of his Favour and dependance he created the Father Duke of Norfolk with the restitution of the Lands of his Mother's Inheritance and makes the Son at the same time Earl of Surrey They were also from thenceforth the chief in all his Councils and with this proceeding he captivates their grateful Hearts and makes them resolve to stand by him in every Fortune After King Richard had Reigned two years in all the endeavours that could be practised by a Wise Ruler to get his faults to be forgotten and to oblige his People by doing Justice and making good Laws and favouring particulars as far as was in his power he found notwithstanding from every part Clouds a-gathering in order to a Storm Abroad the Earl of Richmond sought for Aid at Home the Duke of Buckingham and other great Lords prepared to assist him In fine towards the end of the Second Year of his Reign that Earl Landed in England and at last the King was forced to see his Crown set at Com-promise in the Fortune of a Bloody Battel at Bosworth was the Fatal Field whereat this Criminal King was as prodigal of his own Blood as he had been of other Mens All that could be performed by the conduct of a Captain or the Valour of a Souldier he put in practice to save that Crown which had cost so many Crimes And when by the overthrow of some Troops and desertion of others he found it could not be as one that scorned to out-live his Power and his Fortune he threw himself into the Arms of Death as the only refuge against humane miseries John Duke of Norfolk his faithful Friend and Subject with his Son the Earl of Surrey Fought both this day in behalf of their Benefactor and the Duke who led on the Archers and had his post at the head of the Foot was there slain upon the place in performing that duty to which he was called by his Honor and his Gratitude The Earl toward the end of the day overcome by his own Valour which had spent his strength and spirits in continual exercise of Heroick Actions but that disdained to save his Life by flying from the Fortune of his Friends was taken by his Enemies and brought a Prisoner to the Victorious King The Earl of Surrey was at this time in the vigor of his youth Tall Strong and Graceful of a flourishing Health and Constitution and esteemed one of the best Men of Arms of that Age He was of a high Spirit but had a sober Aspect and was nothing dejected by his ill Fortune King Henry was surprized though not undelighted with the sight of a Man so extraordinary and after having said some thing to the other Prisoners of Quality he called for the Earl and ask'd him How he durst engage in the Service of so Vnjust and Cruel a Tyrant To whom the Earl Replied That King Richard was in the Throne before he came into his Interest and if he had found the Crown of England upon a Bush he would have Fought for it The King did not seem exasperated with so bold an Answer and with the rest he did dismiss him to the charge of those in whose custody he was to be conveyed to the Tower Within these fatal Walls which seemed built for the restraint of Hero's the Earl of Surrey was detained Three Years During which Imprisonment he often with gratitude acknowledged the Goodness and Care of the Duke his Father who had given him such a share of Learning as did enable him during that solitude to divert himself with the Records and Notions of Philosophy and other useful and esteemable Studies He had acquiesced in the determination of Heaven and the destruction of his Master who leaving no Heir to pretend a right to his farther Services this Earl did believe he might well submit to his Authority whom God had made a Conqueror who was now Crown'd and whose Royal Virtues did deserve that he should Reign He therefore refused all the invitations were made him by the King's Enemies and the Malecontents of that time of which there were many and those very potent to enter into the intriegues of their Faction He would not hear of the Dutchess of Burgundy nor of the Earl of Lincoln And when a great Consternation arose upon that Prince's Invasion and the Armies approach towards Stoake in Lincoln-shire in order to Fight with the King and his Forces the Lieutenant of the Tower offer'd the Earl his Liberty to have gone where he pleased but he generously refused it and said He would never leave to be a Prisoner but by his consent that had thought him worthy of such a punishment And so he continued till the King's return from the Battel of Stoake who having been informed of his submissive and modest behaviour during so long an Imprisonment and of the other great Capacities of the Earl which would render him very useful to any Prince that should imploy him he took him out of the Tower and made him one of his Privy-Council being as Polidore the Historian says Vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa In the Fourth Year of this King he was restored by Act of Parliament to the Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands that were of his Wife's Inheritance But after this he began to be set at the head of
King and from which Elizabeth descended to the Mordaunts the Noble Lordships of Drayton Thrapston Addington Sudburgh Islip Luffwick Slipton and many other great Possessions Many disputes notwithstanding arose about the pretences of these Heirs even with the greatest Lords in England as the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury but the Credit of Sir John Mordaunt and his interest with the King joyn'd to his Wisdom and great Knowledge in the Laws had ever influence upon them But after his decease they set up great pretences to Drayton and the Green 's Lands and the Young Mordaunt soon found how much his Fathers Life had conduc'd to the settlement of that Estate In the Agitations of the Establishment whereof and the Agreements made with those great Lords he spent the remainder of King Henry the Seventh's Reign and was by that time become a person greatly accomplish'd After this King's Death he apply'd himself wholly to the farther designs of the Honor and Advantage of his House and made his Court to the Young Successor follow'd him in his First Wars and got so successfully into his Favour and Opinion as upon his return he received the gratification of a Patent containing the grant of several Noble Privileges and Immunities Among the rest to be Pilo Copertus in the presence of the King or of any of his Judges Ministers or Magistrates The Consideration he was at this time in appears by several Letters directed to him when he was yet but a private Gentleman He was Knighted by him after this and made a Privy Councellor wherein his Wisdom Fidelity and Zeal to his Majesty's Service were very Exemplary He was at one time Surveyor General of the King's Woods and Wood-sails and the Chief in another Commission for providing Necessaries for the Fortifications of Calice and the other Ports and Castles within the English Pale in the Country of Picardy and in many other matters he was Employ'd of great Importance wherein he so behaved and discharg'd himself as his generous Master thought fit for a reward of his many Services to take him into the Illustrious Dignity of the Peerage calling him by Writ a Baron into the Parliament in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign After this upon the Revolutions which happned by the change of the Church Government whereunto he was not able to shew that compliance which others of more supple tempers did condescend to do his Favour did decline and his Master's Kindness to him So as being retired to his own House and Country he did not remain without several mortifications which his Enemies of the prevailing Faction that Govern'd in the Court did endeavour to put upon him several hard Letters he received from the King about matters which they imputed to him concerning his backwardness in suppressing the Interest of the Old Religion and as the last endeavor of their Revenge they strove to make the King oblige him to an Exchange of the Noble Lordship of Drayton and the other Towns lying about it of his Wives Antient Inheritance and that he had in his Old Age settled against all Competitors at great Labour and Charges with certain of the Abby Lands newly acquired unto the Crown with which his Conscience as well as his Interest were altogether incompatible From this oppression he had not been able to have defended himself notwithstanding all his great Friends and Antient Services if the King's Death had not succeeded which in this point set him at liberty The Reign of King Edward he spent in peace But at the beginning of Queen Mary he labor'd a little under an imputation of his Enemies who would alledge he favoured the Dudleys and the claim of the Lady Jane but it was blown off with the improbability of an Inclination so contrary to his Principles and Profession and he lived out her time too and to the Second Year of her Successor Queen Elizabeth when he being very Old departed this Life in great Honor and Happiness Leaving Issue by his Wife the Lady Elizabeth Vere Sir John Mordaunt his Son and Heir Edmund Mordaunt William Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of Oakely and that Married Agnes Booth George Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of the Hill Married to Cecilia Harding Edith Mordaunt Married to John Elms. Anne Mordaunt Married to John Fisher Margaret Mordaunt Married to Edmond Fettyplace Dorothy Mordaunt Married to Thomas Moore Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Silvester Danvers Winifreid Mordaunt Married to John Cheyney of Chesham Boys Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII JOHN MORDAVNT was the early fruits of his Father's Marriage with the Lady Elizabeth Vere and the Lord Mordaunt being but young himself when his Son was born this John grew up to early Manhood while his Father was yet in the vigor of his own years and so they had the happiness to live long together in the same Generation The Lord Mordaunt in the time of his favor had the opportunity to purchase of the King at an easie rate the Marriage of Elly Fitz-Lewis who had become Heir of that Antient Family by the untimely Death of her Brother as has been expressed in the relation appertaining thereunto She was a very rich and considerable Fortune bringing with her the noble Lordship of Westhorndon and many other fair possessions And unto this Lady he Married John Mordaunt his Eldest Son who with his Wife lived long in his Father's life time upon her Estate in great Plenty and Reputation He had for several Years participated with the Lord Mordaunt much of King Henry's Favour and in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign and in the same wherein his Father was made a Baron he was summoned to come and receive at his Majesty's hands the Honourable Order of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne of Bollen which he did at that time in fellowship of the Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Waters the Lord Hastings and the Lord Mounteagle But with his Father being entirely addicted to the old Religion the change that succeeded in the one produc'd the same in both their Fortunes which was to retire to their Houses from all further applications in that Reign and at home Sir John Mordaunt continued likewise during that of the young Successor But at the Death of King Edward and the early difficulties of Queen Mary he was of the first that put themselves into the Field at the head of the Essex Men where his interest and reputation was very great offering unto her his and their Services in defence of her Person and Government at the Castle of Framingham in Suffolk where she was then retired in expectation of being assaulted by the Troops raised in behalf of the Faction of the Lady Jane and her Husband upon whom the Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland intended to settle the Crown of England The considerableness of
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
Montegue Willielmo Pemberton haeredibus assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae uxoris ejus Humfridi Browne Georgii Browne Johannis Browne Etheldredae uxoris ejus haeredum ipsarum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum Jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton ac de in omnibus aliis maneriis terris tenementis reditibus reversionibus Boscis pratis pascuis pasturis aliis haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum aut alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae aut in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts nobis factis sive habitis salvis omnino reservatis nobis haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habemus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per Jus haereditarium per aliquem antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wilts facta sive habita ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis pro alius nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod Jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum eorum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi in perpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Marcii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury In the first South Window of the Chancell in St Peters Church of Luffwick In the Second South Window In the first Window on the North side of the Chancell In the second Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window on the South side of the said Chancell In the East Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window of the Chappell at Drayton In the first Window on the South side of the Chappell In the Second Window on the South Side of the Chappell In the lesser Window of Drayton Hall In the greater Window of Drayton Hall A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of that HOUSE of VERE Of which were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the Veres of Addington were of Vere Charged upon the Center with an Escucheon bearing Argent a Cross Gules Of the Original Descent Possessions Alliances Actions and Arms of the House of Vere which were Lords of Addington and Thrapston THE VERES that were Lords of Addington and Thrapston had their Original from Sir Robert de Vere who was second Son to Aubrey Earl of Guisnes Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England Which granted it will not after be denied but their extraction was as great as any thing from whence an English Subject could derive I shall not enter upon exaggeration of the Greatness and advantages of the House of Oxford they having been such as with which I think few other can be comparable but leave them to some fortunate Author who by faithfully exposing their truths unto the world may do himself honour and the Nation too I shall only pursue what may concern those Veres of which I treat and with whom I came to be acquainted by perusing the Evidences in the House of Drayton and unto this Family I am obliged to tell the Reader that I think there does belong an attribution of as much Honour and Esteem as any of their Quality could pretend unto They have always produced Knights famous for their prowess for their fidelities and for their prudence They appear in many considerable expeditions abroad in France in Palestine in Scotland in Wales in the most notable Offices at home Governing under their Princes the Countries where they lived They enter into the most eminent Alliances with the Houses of Wake Bassett Seagrave Clifford and De la Souche and they have always possessed many great Mannors and noble Lordships Besides which in the whole space of their durance here there remains not on their memories the least spot of reproach or prejudice but as all things are ordained to have an end it was the fortune of this House to terminate in the Lady Elizabeth Vere Daughter and Heir to the last Sir Henry Vere who being marryed to John the first Lord Mordaunt brought into his Family the Honor the Blood the Lands and the Arms of this House which were of Vere charged on the Center with a Shield bearing Argent a Cross Gules always born by the Lords of this Family in memory of their Ancestor Sir Robert de Vere who was slain with his General in a fight in Palestine being at that time Standard-bearer to William Longespé the famous Earl of Salisbury that was Grandson to King Henry the Second and the fair Lady Rosamond AVBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes Chief Justiciar and Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First AUBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes was Chief Justiciar of England under King Henry the First which in that time was the greatest Office of the Crown whoever was invested in it did exceed all the Noblemen in dignity and in power all the Magistrates And he was also Chamberlain to King Henry the First after the death of Robert Mallet Besides the other great possessions which his Father Earl Aubrey the elder and himself had acquired at the Conquest he held the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Addington and Twyvell in the County of Northampton This Aubrey was among the great men of his time in the highest esteem for wisdom and experience and always lived of nearest use and Counsel to those Princes with whom he was Contemporary He was sent in the fourth year of King Stephen to that memorable Council of Winchester unto which the King himself had been cited by his own Brother then Bishop of that See where with great force and eloquence he
Prince King John the disorderly rigours of whose Government was become unsufferable to the greatest part of the Nation He was at first received with all the applause which sometimes follows Novelties of this nature He was crown'd at London He had Homage done him and Allegiance sworn as to a lawful King He proceeded with their assistance in divers warlike Undertakings wherein he had admirable success and acted in all the other Parts of the Government as one who expected to be soon establish'd During this time among the great Lords of his Party there happened to be one who to all his Concerns was most useful and to his Person most officious This Lord whose Name is omitted out of respect to the Descendants of his Family had no Issue of his own and only for his Heirs three beautiful Sisters The youngest whereof whose Name was Philippe by her admirable Qualities had so engaged the Prince's love as it made the Conquest of her heart to share his cares with that of the Kingdom But against a King that was young and seemed happy it was not strange that a Lady did not long resist She yielded at last and the Prince enjoyed the effects and her misfortune began to appear together She found her self with Child and by the fatal loss of the Battel of Lincoln that her Lover was like to be abandoned by his Friends and by his fortune He was obliged to retire to London whence from the Tower where he had refug'd himself he made Conditions to depart home in safety by relinquishing to the young King Henry his farther pretences The poor Lady left in this condition owned her disaster to her Brother who pitying her state from the greatness and merit of the Author gave her a comfortable assurance of his kindness and protection She was after secretly delivered and the Child named Lewis Which Fruit of her Loves being nourished under this Great Lords Care and Education he having no Children of his own afore his death bestowed upon the Youth the noble Lordship of Westhornedon with divers other Lands in the County of Essex obliging him to bear himself and transmit to his Descendants the Name of Fitz-Lewis for ever after Among his three Sisters this Lord coming to dye did leave his vast Inheritance with whom the Lady Philippe hath her share and her misfortune either conceal'd or else gilded over with the advantages of her Riches did not hinder her from being afterwards married to an Husband of great Quality in whom she was happy for her time and brought him a Posterity whence are descended some of the greatest Lords that flourish in this Age. Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis having been bred under his Uncle in the Notion of a more distant relation than in the truth of the matter he did indeed stand towards him at the time of that Lord's death found himself possessed by his favour and affection with such an Estate as was capable to support the generous inclinations of his heart which did altogether incline him to the love and practice of Armes the only application of Gentlemen in that Age and therefore he made himself very considerable especially toward the end of that Kings Reign where he attained the Honour of Knighthood and having allied himself to a very notable Family by his Marriage with Margaret of Essex he left Issue Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis flourished in the days of King Edward the First and followed him in several of his Expeditions He won his Spurs in the first Scotch War and became after very considerable in his Country when he married Elizabeth de Harpden an Inheritrix whose Lands did plentifully add to his former Patrimony but after the death of this great King we find he was unfortunately drawn into the adherence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and that he did unhappily perish in the War caused by that Rebellion leaving to succeed him his Son Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships RIchard Fitz-Lewis being with divers others through the Grace and favour of King Edward the Third restored to his Rights and Lands that had been seised upon pretence of his Father's trespass in the former Reign he became much considered from his own merit and the opulency of his fortune notably encreased by the accession of his Mothers Inheritance He was very useful to the Government of his Country during the King's absence in his long Wars and always contributed his best cares towards the service and supplies of the King's occasions from the Parts where he had interest being always zealous for the honour of his Prince and Country He married Elizabeth de Baude a Lady of a Family very antient and considerable both from their Riches and good same whose true Name was de Baden but corruptly otherwise called and by her he left his Son Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THE great consideration wherein this Family was in these days held may be judged by the alliance contracted by Sir John Fitz-Lewis who to his first Wife took Alice the Daughter of Aubery the tenth Earl of Oxford and to his second Anne Mountague Daughter of John the third Earl of Salisbury of that House and that was after his death Dutchess of Exeter Issue by his first Wife Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis married to Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk Sir HENRY FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry Fitz-Lewis that had signalized himself in an adherence to the House of Lancaster was so esteemed by the chief Supporters of that Faction as he had given him in Marriage by Edmund the noble Duke of Somerset the Lady Eleanor his youngest Daughter by whom he had Issue Mary the second Wife of Anthony Woodville Earl of Rivers But for want of Issue Male his intailed Lands descended to his Brother Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis with the other Interests of that Family Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis liv'd in his Brother's time in Marriage with a Lady called Margaret Stonore of whose life and actions we are ignorant but it is recorded He left Issue his Son and Heir Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THis Richard Fitz-Lewis appears to have had some Controversie with his Cousen Mary Countess of Rivers about his Inheritance by a Judgment recorded in his behalf whereby he was declared Heir of all the entailed Lands of that Family she to inherit only such as had been her Father 's by Gift or acquired by proper Purchace Richard Fitz-Lewis was a busie man in his time much imployed in the interest of King Henry the Seventh against the Usurper with whom he was in immediate action at the
present Writing shall come John Mordaunt of Turvey of the County of Bedford Gentilman sendeth greeting in our Lord God Whereas Margaret Mordaunt my Moder holdeth the Maners called Mordaunts-maner and Dardres-maner and divers Lands and Tenements called Maunsellis Blatherwykes and divers other Lands and Tenements with the appurteneces in the Parish of Turvey aforesaid from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth after the Conquest the nineteenth unto the end and term of fourty Years then next following the reversion thereof to me the said John belonging Know ye me the said John to have given and by this my present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey aforesaid the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances the Rent unto the said Lessee reserved To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore And Whereas the said Margaret holdeth the Mills of Turvey with divers Holmes and Waters from Year to Year yielding to me therefore yearly ten Pounds of Lawful Money and ... Son William Ball holdeth divers Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances called Wellynz for the Term of six Years Know ye me the said John Mordaunt to have given and granted to the said Thomas Vynter John Vynter John Poley and Richard the reversion of the said Mills Holmes Waters Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And I the said John Mordaunt and my Heirs all the said Maners Mills Waters Holmes Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas and John Vynter John Poley and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for ever In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the six and twentieth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth SIGILLVM IOHANNIS MORDAVNT Charta Johannis Mordaunt TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing shall come John Mordaunt greeting in God Whereas one Hugh Jacob holdeth the Maner of Botelers in the Parish of Walden within the County of Essex with the appurtenances except three Acres and a half of arable Land half an Acre of Meede a Close called Horsecroft and eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the eleventh unto the end and Term of sixteen Years then next following of the demise of William Mordaunt Fader to me the said John which after the Death of the said William to me the said John as Son and Heir to the said William ought to descend Know ye me the said John to have given and granted and by this present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey the reversion of the said Maner with the appurtenances except before excepted to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And also I give and grant and by this present Deed confirm unto the said Thomas King John Vynter John Poley and to Richard Stevynson the said three Acres and a half of Land half an Acre of Meede the Close called Horsecroft eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent with the appurtenances To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore of the chief Lords of the Fee by the services due and accustomed And I the said John and my Heirs the said Maner with the appurtenances to the said Thomas John John and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for evermore In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the twenty sixth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentilman By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forsomuch as Wee with God's Grace intend to bring into our obeysance our Castles kept by our Traytors and Rebels in the North Parts of our Land and therefore will in our Person remove to Morrow towards these said Parties to stablish the means that may best serve thereunto We pray you heartily that you being accompanied with as many Persons defensibly arrayed as may goodly accord with your ease meet with us at Leicestre the tenth day of May next coming furnished with good for yours and their expences to attend upon us from thence for the space of two Months for the said cause And that natheless ye be ready with the said Persons in the said array upon the warning of a day next after the fourth day of May to attend upon us as the case shall require for the said intent Not failing hereof as our trust is in you and as ye tender the assured rest of our said Land Given under our Signet at our Tower of London the Twenty fifth of April A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt and William Salisbury To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt and William Salisbury and to every of them By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forasmuch as by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this our Land late assembled at our Palace of Westminster we be fully determined by God's Grace to address us in Person with Host Royal toward the parties of our Enemies and Rebels of Scotland at the beginning of this next Sommer to subdue and do them the annoyance possible both by Sea and Land in saving as well this our Land from such inconveniencies as else were like to ensue as the Honour of Us and of our Blood and true Liegemen inhabited and inherited within this our Land Wee having perfect and certain Trust of your Good-will Aid and Assistance to this our great Voyage and knowing how useful and necessary your presence shall be to us in the same will and desire you right effectually and natheless charge you in the straitest wise that incontinent upon the sight of this our Writing ye dispose you to serve Us personally in Our said Voyage accompanied and apparelled for the War according to your degree so and in such wise that by the first day of May next coming ye be ready and readily pass forward with Us in the said Journey so accompanied as aforesaid and that in giving credence to the Bearers hereof ye send Us by them your Intent and Mind and what assistance we shall be sure to have of you in this behalf as Our very trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Tower of London the eighteenth day of February And howbeit
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
tandem circa Festum Apostolorum Simonis Judae applicuerunt in Vasconia apud Castellam quae situatur in littore fluminis de Gerunde dedÃtque se eis Regi Angliae Dominus Urbis illius eos cum laetitiâ magnâ suscepit benignè tractavit In eodem Pag. 2498. ET tunc primò Angli extraxerunt equos è navibus cum in mari mansissent decem septem Hebdomadas aliquos dies tandem verò refocillatis hominibus equis demiserunt etiam se Angli quasi in duas partes remanserúntque in eodem loco ut populum Terrae sibi attraherent Dominus Johannes de Britanniâ Dominus Willielmus le Latimer cum trecentis equestribus septem millibus Electorum Hollinshead Page 310. IN the nine and twentieth of King Edward the First the Barons of England wrote a Letter to Pope Boniface about certain Liberties of the Crown which among the rest was signed by William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Monasticon Anglicanum Pars prima Folio 678. RObertus de Braybrooke quondam Vicecomes Northamptoniae emit de vetere Eustachio de Watford pratum quod vocatur Sandford reddendo inde annuatim duos solidos Iste Robertus genuit Henricum de Braybrooke qui Henricus dedit dictum pratum Domui de Daventree ad firmam perpetuam pro sex marcis dimidia annuatim sibi haeredibus suis solvendis centum annis elapsis ultra Dictus Henricus genuit Wiscardum Ledet qui sumpsit cognomen ex matre suâ Christianâ Ledet Domina de Warden Iste Wiscardus genuit Walterum Ledet iste Walterus genuit de Ermendrua de Insula duas filias videlicet Aliciam Christianam sorores Alicia desponsata fuit Domino Willielmo le Latimer qui genuit ex eâ quatuor filios videlicet Dominum Willielmum Dominum Johannem Dominum Thomam Dominum Nicolaum Milites Cui Nicolao Domina mater sua Alicia post mortem mariti sui Domini Willielmi dedit omnes Terras suas Tenementa quae habuit in Comitatibus Northamptoniae Leicestriae Sir JOHN LATIMER second Son of WILLIAM Lord LATIMER The Baronage of England Page 413. mentioning Aluered of Lincoln TO this last mentioned succeeded another Aluered who in the first of King John was one that held the Castle of Winchester for the King and to him another Aluered his Son and Heir Which Aluered in the twenty fourth of Henry the Third paid a hundred pounds for his relief and in the forty second of Henry the Third had Summons to attend the King at Chester well furnished with Horse and Arms to restrain the Incursions of the Welsh but died in the forty eighth of that King being seized of the Mannors of Winterborne and Langton in the County of Dorset with the Advowson of the Church of Ackford Duntish and the Chappel of Duntish as also of the Mannor of Celles which was given in frank-Marriage with Maud his Mother Likewise the Mannor of Norton also given in frank-Marriage with Albreda his Grandmother and two Knights Fees in Bardolston and Pinford leaving Robert Fitzpaine Son of Margery his Eldest Sister Beatrice the Wife of William de Govis his second Sister and Albreda de Lincoln his third Sister his Heirs all of full Age and Joan his Wife surviving who had the Mannors of Ackford and Duntish with the Advowsons of the Churches of those Lordships assigned for her Dower which Robert Fitzpain and William de Govis for their good Service on the Kings behalf in the Battel of Lewes were in the forty eighth of Henry the Third acquitted from the payment of the relief due upon the Death of the before-specified Aluered of Lincoln their Uncle An ancient Letter to Sir John Latimer from Gervaise de Cingal his Steward AMon treschier Seigneur Jean le Latimer Gervaise de Cingal son Seneshal salutz Je vous fais a scavoir que le Baillif de Caen rapella vostre cause qu'estoit en l'Assise de Cornue la mist en l'Assise de Fallaise qui fust le Jeudy avant la Sainte Croix en Septembre il nous la renvoya de Jeudy en Jeudy ensuivant encontre ma volonte Et le Baillif ne fust pas a la dite journe si y fust Monseigneur de la Miafle Monseigneur Eustace de Piron Monseigneur Robert des Monstiers le jeune l'Attorney Madame sa Feme qui requirent le Viconte qui estoit au lieu du Baillif que Monseigneur Jean le Latimer Madame sa Feme leur fussent appelle Et vostre Attorney si apparut pour vous dit ledit Attorney qu'il ne tenoit point le Viconte pour Juge en la cause de son Maistre Et que le Baillif en est Juge comme connoisses sur ce le Viconte nous renvoya par devant son Maistre le Baillif de son office a Baieux au Mardy devant le Saint Michel a laquelle journe je fus moy vostre Attorney nous nous compleimismes du Viconte de Fallaise qu'on avoit remise vostre cause hors du Siege de Fallaise ou elle se devoit determiner de son droit plusieurs raisons proposa devant le Baillif dont nous mismes en conseil a la presence de Monsieur Robert des Monstiers le jeune de l'Attorney sa feme de Monsieur Piere de la Miafle de Monsieur Eustace de Piron fut jugé par Conseil que nous ne disions chose par quoy les Chevaliers ne deusent ..................................... ......................... lesquelles leur fist jurer sur les Saincts Evangiles qu'il diroit bien loyaument sur ce qu'en estoit contenu en un memoire d'Eschequier Et si c'estoit leur entente que le Contract qu'avoit este faict entre vous Monsieur des Monstiers Et si c'estoit leur entente que le payement se fist en la foible monoye ou en la forte si eux reconnoissoyent que se fussent leurs Sceaux qui estoit a une lettre qu'eux avoyent envoyé a Laurens la Reuide eux dirent que ouy leur de mandat ' on si eux avoyent dit en la maniere qui estoit contenue en la dite lettre eux dirent que ouy si euxvouloyent perseverer vous condamnerent en la somme de mille livres en la forte monoye sur ce eux requistrent que vostre Attorney fist emmende du desbat que vous metties que la forte monoye ne fut paye en l'Eschequier sur ce l'Attorney ammanda contre ma volonte apres que l'ammande fust faict eux redirent que vostre desbat fust chest ............ cella comme elle avoit este faite ............ nos raisons Et il fut regarde par conseil qu'eux auroyent la saisine de la juré leur
according to the same Covenants to Sir Nicholas Latimer and to the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten with the remainder as is abovesaid Data Indentura Anno septimo Henrici Septimi Item It appeareth by Writing in Paper Sealed and Subscribed with the hand of Sir John Turbervile That he granted a Bargain with John Smith for certain Lands in the County of Kent That if the said Sir John Turbervile died without Issue of his Body lawfully begotten That then the said John Smith should have all the said Mannors to him and to his Heirs Dated decimo quarto die Octobris Anno decimo septimo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain so made between John Turbervile and John Smith the said John Smith bargained and sold all the said Mannors to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and his Heirs except the Mannor of Estpullham with divers Covenants as it appeareth by the said Indenture Data Anno decimo octavo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain the Kings Grace that dead is without Cause or Colour would have caused John Smith to have Enfeoffed the Lord Daubeny and other of the said Mannors to the use of the Kings Grace and his Heirs which he refused so to do because he had made the former Bargain and by Advice of the Councel of the said King And to satisfie the same Kings Appetite for the time the said John Smith Enfeoffed Giles Lord Daubeny and others to them and their Heirs and Assigns to the use following That was Ad eosdem hujusmodi usus intentiones prout ego praefatus Johannes Smith die Confectionis praesentium in eisdem seisitus existo in praesens habeo in praemissis vel in aliquo praemissorum Which uses and intents upon the true Examination of the Premisses appear plainly to be to the use of Sir John Mordaunt Knight and of his Heirs for ever Memorandum That we the said Richard Eliott John Ernley and John Porte having seen and examined all and every of the Premisses and by the tenor and sight of all the Premisses it appeareth evidently That the King had no Title nor at any time had to any of the said Mannors nor to any part of them And all that is here under-written is to shew the truth as appeareth after by the shewing of John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight ITem All the Premisses notwithstanding the Kings Grace after the Decease of the said Sir John Mordaunt and of Sir Nicholas Latimer caused the said Lord Daubeny and others to sue several Writs of Subpoena as well against John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John and William Mordaunt one of the Executors of the said Sir John as against the said John Smith The said Lord Daubeny and other surmizing by their Bill in the Chancery That they had bought all such Right as one Walter Turbervile should have to the said Mannors as Cozen and next Heir to the said Sir John Turbervile Whereas the said Lord Daubeny and others had never any such Bargain of the said Walter And though he had made such Bargain with the said Lord it had been clearly void because the said Sir John Turbervile before his death sold all the said Mannors as above is expressed Item The Subpoena was sued to the intent That the said John Mordaunt the Son William Mordaunt and John Smith should have been compelled to deliver all such Evidences as they or any of them had concerning the same Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs And also that the said John Mordaunt the Son and John Smith should release to the said Lord Daubeny and others all such Right as they or any of them had in the said Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs except that they would compound with the King to give him such Monies as he would desire Item The said William perceiving the Premisses and that the Kings Grace against all good Right and Conscience desired and would have the Premisses performed sued to the Kings Grace to have him good Lord to the said John Mordaunt the Son and that he should not be compelled against all Right and good Conscience to release his said Right nor to deliver any such Evidences And by that Suit he was commanded to sue to Edward Dudley to know farther the Kings Pleasure by the which Edward it was shewed to the said John Mordaunt and William That the Kings Grace would have Twelve Hundred Pounds or else the Lands and the Evidences And for fear of the loss of the Lands and that they should have been compelled to deliver the Evidences the said John Mordaunt the Son was agreeable to indent with the Kings Grace to give him a Thousand Pounds and Master Dudley said that he would pay the Two Hundred Pounds residue in hand And to have therefore the said John Mordaunt the Sons Interest in Estpullham whereto the said John Mordaunt had no Title Item Upon this Master Dudley caused the Indenture to be made up by the which Indenture John Mordaunt should have had a years Rent and a half then remaining in the Kings hands which he never had And also the Thousand Pounds should not have been paid till certain Covenants contained in the same Indenture had been performed on the Kings part which to this day was never performed and no penny ought to have been paid by the Indenture And yet that notwithstanding they were called upon and were compelled to pay Four Hundred Pounds thereof at several times for the which Money they have sued to have restitution and to be discharged of the residue and to have the Indenture delivered because it appeareth That there is no cause that the Kings Grace should have had any penny which Restitution and Indenture with a Release of the Right of the Persons named for the King in the same Indenture she said John Mordaunt yet desireth for Charity and in discharging of the Kings Soul that dead is A Letter from Sir Giles Strangewayes To my Right Worshipful Brother Mordaunt RIght Worshipful Brother I heartily recommend me unto you Sir As touching the Releases of John Latimer I have them ready Sealed by him and all the names of them that were present at his release and delivery of the same Sir I would ere this time have sent it you but I durst trust no Messenger but my self For with Gods good Grace I trust this Term to be at London and then to bring it to you my self Also as touching the Land that ye have lately bought of one Narborow within Devilish according to your desire and writing I my self have taken possession thereof for your behoof and also retained the Tenants to you by a penny in the presence of Sir Thomas Trenchard Knight Robert Sturges Esquire and others Also as for the Pedigree of William Juell and Thomas Lond I have done the best that in me lies to have known it howbeit I can
Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted
side of the Altar a Tomb of Marble meet and convenient to serve for the Sepulcher at the Feast of Easter and also that the said Edmond shall pay or cause to be paid during the space of twelve years next and immediately after the decease and death of the said Joan Matthew Widow every year six Pounds eight Shillings four Pence to my Executors toward the performance of this my last Will. Also I will That the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond shall receive my Aunt Petre's Pension and during the said term shall find her Meat Drink and Cloathing and other Necessaries meet for her Degree during her life as long as she shall be content to be at my Executors appointment And if it chance that she will refuse to be ruled after the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond or the Survivor of them then I will that my Executors shall suffer her to receive her own Pension and to deliver her thirty three Shillings four Pence yearly and to go whither she will And if it chance that she happen to over-live the said term that I do demise unto her yearly four Pounds Rent to be perceiv'd and taken out of my Mannor of Westhornedon aforesaid at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions And if it chance the said Rent of three Pound to be behind unpaid by the space of a Month after any of the said days of Payment that then I will and grant that the said Petres or her Assigns shall enter into the said Mannor of Westhornedon and there to distrain and the distress so taken to carry away and to retain until she be fully satisfied and paid of the Rent and the Arrearages of the said Rent if any shall appear to be behind Furthermore I will that the said Lord and the said Edmond shall suffer my Heir when he comes to the Age of two and twenty years to have occupy and enjoy all the premisses so that the said Heir will be bound by such ways and means as shall be demised or thought most convenient by the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors of the Survivor to perform the execution of this my last Will the residue of this my last Will which shall chance to be at that time unperformed allowing unto my Executors all their Costs and Charges had or sustained in executing of this my last Will and that hath not been taken and lowed of the Issues and Profits of the foresaid Lands and Tenements any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Occasions of Disagreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis Mordaunt THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Ely Fitz-Lewis Daughter and sole Heir unto Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid thirteen hundred Marks Her Lands which she had by Descent were five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir apparent for the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the last Lord Mordaunt might then have had divers great Summs of money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Ely then his Wife to levy a Fine of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Ely then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Ely then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Ely Mordaunt dyed after whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Johan Mordaunt now his Wife after which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a recovery of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to trust of himself for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after his decease to trust of such as at pleasure himself to appoint for the term of ninety two Years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore to the intent that not only he but also my Lady his Wife may declare their wills thereof during the same ninety two Years whereof the late Lord Mordaunt had certain intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed or appointed Whereupon the late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estate of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such recovery thereof to the disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being right Heir of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and the bringing of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the right course of Inheritance again did suffer recoveries of his own Lands to the uses and upon condition following To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt and of his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was married and after to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of his Executors until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the death of the said late Lord Mordaunt and further to the same Executors for twelve Years towards the performance of his Will And after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life to the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queens Majesty as much money as shall amount to one Years value of the full third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier season thereof and twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it
Wokingdon Episcopi with all and singular their Appurtenances sett lying and being in the Parishes of Kinton Bulvan Easthornedon Westhornedon and Cranham otherwise called Bishops Wokingdon in the County of Essex aforesaid which the said Dame Joan doth hold for term of her life as Parcel of her Joynture and all and all manner of Lands Tenements Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons Woods Underwoods and all other Hereditaments to the said Mannors appertaining or belonging to my Son Edmond Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten upon Condition that if my said Son Edmond his Heirs or Assigns do aliene grant with Warranty discontinuance suffer any recovery or suffer to be done any Act or Acts thing or things to the intent to barr his or their Heir or Heirs or him or them in the reversion of the said Mannors of Amys Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi with their appurtenances or of any Part or Parcel thereof or of any other Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments devised to the said Edmond by this my last Will and Testament That then it shall be lawful to my Heirs to enter into the said Mannors Lands Tenements and all other Hereditaments alienated discontinued or recovered in manner and form abovesaid and into every part and parcel thereof and the same to retain and keep in manner and form as though no such devise had been made And the said Edmond and his Heirs thereof to expel and put out for ever Provided always that if any alienation discontinuance or recovery be had and made in manner and form abovesaid without fraud covyn or deceit to make his Wife or Wives Joynture for term of her and their life or lives to the preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons for the marrying of his or their Daughter or Daughters and for the Payment of his or their Debts so that the said Edmond and his Heirs of his Body make or cause the Fee-simple of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments recovered and discontinued to such use to be made sure to my Heirs to remain come and grow to them immediately after the death of my said Son Edmond or of the Heirs of his Body or immediately after the death of his said Wife or Wives the Money levied for the marrying of his or their said Daughter or Daughters for the Payment of his or their Debt or Debts or the Preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons Then I will that mine Heirs shall take no benefit or advantage of any such discontinuance recovery act or acts thing or things assurance or assurances had or made for the aforesaid intents or purposes without fraud or covyn by way of Entry or otherwise any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Furthermore if my said Son Lewis or his Heirs of his Body being of the Age of one and twenty years or more shall lawfully offer and tender to give grant and assure within two years after the death of the said Dame Joan or after the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall accomplish the Age of one and twenty years the Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys in the County of Essex and the Mannor of Belhalf in the County of Norfolk with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Wymbyshe Walden Thaxsted and Radwynter in the County of Essex and Belhalf Billinford or elsewhere in the County of Norfolk which hath or shall descend remain or come to my said Son Lewis from my late Wife Dame Ely Mordaunt to my said Son Edmond or if he chance to dye to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten To have and to hold the said Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and the Premisses to my Son Edmond and to the Heirs of his Body in like Estate Degree and with like Condition as I have devised unto the said Edmond the Mannors of Cranham otherwise Wokingdon Episcopi Amys and other the Premisses above mentioned That then if the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall refuse to receive and take the said Mannors of Typtosts Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and other the Premisses being lawfully tendered and offered to him or them by the said Lewis or the Heirs of his Body in manner and form abovesaid Then I will that immediately after the said assurance made or the said denial that the devise of my Mannors of Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi and Amys aforesaid and all other my devises made to my said Son Edmond by this my last Will to be void and of none effect any thing in this my last Will or Testament to the contrary notwithstanding And further I will that if my said Son Lewis Mordaunt or the Heirs of his Body do not tender and be contented to make unto my said Son Edmond Mordaunt or to the Heirs of his Body within the time above-mentioned a good sure and sufficient Estate in manner and form above-mentioned at the Costs and Charges of the said Lewis or his Heirs of or in the Mannors of Typtosts and Pinkneys and other the Premisses Then I give and devise to my said Son Edmond Mordaunt the said Mannors of Cranham and Amys and all other the Premisses before devised to him To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever Also I will that after this my last Will and Testament performed concerning the Premisses all manner of Costs and Charges had and sustained by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns about the defence and execution of the same Will and Testament payed and discharged That then the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns shall infeosse or otherwise assure the Premisses above-mentioned and every part and parcel thereof to the only use of his Heirs and their Heirs for ever the said assurance to be had and made at the only Costs and Charges in the Law of my said Heirs A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Justified by Publick Records Charters Deeds Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the House of Howard were Quarterly Howard Brotherton Warren and Mowbray Of the Original Greatness Actions Honors Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Howard of Effingham I Would have the Reader know That I presume not here to declare the Honors and Advantages which belong to the Illustrious House of Howard it would be too great a task for one much abler that could have access unto those lights which might direct him in such an undertaking but much more for a stranger who does only pretend to trace out those Genealogies among the proofs of which he has been conversant and that particularly appertain to the House of Mordaunt It is therefore of the Howards of Effingham of which I am to Treat from whence the Earl of Peterborow is not only Descended but of which he is
having intelligence That the Scots had Intrench'd themselves on a Hill called Floden on the edge of the Mountain Cheviot and finding the Country so Forraged that he could not long continue there he sent Rouge-Cross Herald on Sunday the Fourth of September conducted by a Trumpet with instructions to tell that King That having violated his Faith and League and Hostily entred England he resolved on the Friday next following to bid him Battle if he would accept it Whereupon King James accepting the Challenge he March'd within Three Miles of Floden and discerning that the Scots still kept the Hill he sent Rouge-Cross again with a Letter subscribed by himself and his Son the Lord Admiral with divers others moving them to come down into the Plain Unto which no satisfactory Answer being given he March'd on with his Army to cut off their Victuals in case they would not draw down The Scots therefore being aware of that danger fired their Huts and dislodged covertly by the advantage of the Smoak but kept still on the higher Ground This Earl therefore traversing some Bogs and Marshes till he came to the bottom of the ascent and finding it not very steep encouraged his Men to Fight marching speedily on his Two Sons Thomas and Edmond leading the Van of the Battle himself and Sir Edward Stanly the Rear The Lord Dacres with the Horse being appointed as a reserve Whereupon the Fight began which was stoutly maintained on both sides for Three hours till at length the Scots for the better avoiding the storm of Arrows opening their Ranks the Lord Dacres came in with his Horse and put them so to it that they were constrain'd to cast themselves into a ring doing all that Valiant Men could do and no Man more than the King himself yet he lost the day himself being slain upon the place by a mortal Wound with an Arrow and another with a Bill For which memorable Service this Earl had thereupon a special Grant from King Henry to himself and the Heirs Male of his Body of an honourable augmentation to his Arms to bear on the Bend thereof the upper half of a Red Lion Depicted as the Arms of Scotland are pierced through the Mouth with an Arrow And by Letters Patent bearing date the First of February next ensuing was advanced to the Dignity of Duke of Norfolk which Title John his Father deriving his Descent through the Heirs Female of Mowbray and Seagrave from Thomas of Brotherton Son to King Edward the First did enjoy the Ceremony of his Creation being performed at Lambeth the Day following which was the Festival of Our Ladies Purification And by other Letters Patent bearing date the same First of February obtained a Grant in Special Tail of the Mannors of Acton-Burnel Holgat Abeton Millenchop Langdon Chatwall Smithecote Wolstanton Vppington and Rushbury in Comitatu Salopiae Solihull in Com. Warr. Wolverhampton in Com. Staff Birehust and Vptonlovel in Com. Wilts Erdescote in Com. Berks Honnesdon Estwike Barley and Hide in Com. Hertf. Kentcote and Kerdwike in Com. Oxon. Eastwickham in Com. Kanc. of the Castles of Balesover and Horeston and Mannor of Horsley in Com. Derb. and of the Mannors of Clipston Limby Mauncefield Wood-house and Sutton in Ashfield in Com. Nott. to be held by the Service of one Knight's Fee Upon the Second of March next following he had a new Patent by the Title of Duke of Norfolk for the Office of Lord Treasurer of England And in the Sixth Year of Henry the Eighth upon the Contract of Marriage betwixt Lewis de Longueville on the behalf of Lewis the Twelfth of France and the Lady Mary Sister to King Henry the Eighth the King himself conducting her to the Sea side recommended her to the care of this Duke who Landing with her at Boloigne brought her to Abbeville where upon the Ninth of October King Lewis himself solemnly Consummated the Marriage But in the Seventh of Henry the Eighth observing that the Kings Coffers were much exhausted by his Wars and Triumphs and not finding it easie to supply these vast Expences which in Pageants and other devices increased daily he wisely withdrew himself In the Thirteenth of Henry the Eighth 13 Maii he performed the Office of Lord High Steward upon the Tryal of Edward Duke of Buckingham and gave Sentence of Death upon him but not without Tears And in the Fourteenth of Henry the Eighth obtained a Grant in Special Tail and to his Son Thomas Earl of Surrey of the Mannors of Welles Shyringham Stafford Barningham Warham and Waveton in Com. Suff. with the Advousons of the Churches part of the Possessions of the before specified Edward Duke of Buckingham attainted By his Testament bearing date ult Maii Anno. 1520. 12. H. VIII he bequeathed his Body to be Buried in the Church of the Priory of Thetford in Com. Norf. before the High-Altar appointing that his Executors should cause a Tomb to be made and set up there with the Images of himself and Agnes his Wife thereon allowing for the charge thereof CXXXIII l VI s VIII d He also bequeathed to his Son and Heir Apparent who should be living at his Decease his great hanged Bed paled with Cloth of Gold white Damask and black Velvet broidered with these Two Letters T and A as also one suit of Hangings of the story of Hercules made for the great Chamber at Framingham in Norfolk And departing this Life at his said Castle of Framingham 21 Maii Anno 1524. 16. H. VIII had Burial in the Priory of Thetford accordingly He Married two Wives first Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Bourchier Lord Berners Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing Date Nov. 6. Anno 1506. 22. H. VII bequeathed her Body to be Interr'd in the Nuns Quire of the Minoresses without Aldgate in London nigh unto the place where Anne Montgomery lay Buried appointing that no more than Twenty Torches should be used at her Burial and Months-mind also that no Dole or Money should be given at either of these Solemnities but instead thereof a Hundred Marks to be distributed to the poor folks viz. to every poor Man and Woman in the Parishes of White-Chappel and Hackney vij d. By this Elizabeth he had Issue Eight Sons 1. Thomas created Earl of Surrey in his life time 2. Sir Edward Howard Knight of the Garter 3. Edmond The other Five viz. Henry John Charles Henry and Richard all dying young And Three Daughters 1. Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford afterwards Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond 2. Muriell first Married to John Grey Viscount Lisle afterwards to Sir Thomas Knevet of Buckingham in Com. Norf. Knight And 3. Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Natural Son to King Henry the Eighth To his Second Wife he Wedded Agnes Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had Issue William afterwards created Baron Howard of Effingham of whom and his Descendants I shall
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was Five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir Apparent For the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the late Lord Mordaunt might have had divers great Summs of Money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers Remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan Mordaunt now his Wife After which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not Marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a Recovery of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into the right course of Inheritance again did suffer Recoveries of his own Lands to the Uses and upon Condition following To the Use of the said late Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was Married and after to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married unto at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of Twelve years towards the performance of his Will and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life To the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
Mary will thereunto condescend and agree and the Laws of the Holy Church the same permit and suffer In consideration of which Marriage so to be had and solemnized the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth by these Presents Covenant Promise and Agree to give with his said Daughter Mary for her advancement in Marriage with the said Thomas Maunsell the Summ of Two thousand Pounds of currant Money of England to be paid to the said Edward his Executors Administrators and Assigns in manner and form following That is to say At or before the Twentieth and Five and twentieth Day of July next ensuing the Date of these Presents at the usual place of payments in the Royal Exchange within the City of London between the hours of Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon and Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same Day the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Two thousand Pounds and at or upon the Four and twentieth Day of February then next following at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Two thousand Pounds and at or upon the Twenty and Four and twentieth Day of August then next ensuing at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Two thousand Pounds and also at or upon the Twentieth and Four and twentieth Day of February which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fourscore and three at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds the residue of the said Two thousand Pounds in full discharge and payment thereof In consideration whereof and of the said Marriage so to be had and solemnized and for the better Maintenance of the House and Name and of the Establishment of the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Edward in his Blood And to the end his Lands and Possessions may continue in his Blood and to set down and express what part and parcel of his Inheritance shall remain after his death to Dame Jane Wife of the said Edward for her Jointure for term of her Life and likewise what Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall be limited and appointed for the Jointure of the said Mary Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt in possession presently and in Reversion after the death of the said Edward and after his Wife's death and what Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall remain to the performance of his Will for the Education and Preferment of his younger Children and payment and discharge of his Legacies and Debts and what Lands shall descend after his death and after the decease of the said Dame Jane his Wife to his said Son for the better Maintenance of his House and Blood It is meant and intended by the said Edward Maunsell hereby to be expressed and declared and now these Indentures do witness That whereas in and by one Indenture bearing Date the Eighteenth Day of September in the Three and Twentieth Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady made between the said Edward Maunsell Knight and Dame Jane his Wife of the one party and Leyson Price of Briton-Ferry in the said County of Glamorgan Esquire and Thomas Powell of Longonoyd in the said County Gentleman of the other party it is Covenanted Granted Condescended and finally Agreed between the said Parties to the said former Indentures And the said Edward for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns and for the said Dame Jane his Wife in and by the same hath Covenanted Granted and Agreed to and with the said Leyson Price and Thomas Powell their Heirs and Assigns That he the said Edward and Dame Jane his Wife should and would before the First Day of September then next ensuing the Date of the former Indentures Acknowledge and Levy one Fine or Fines with Proclamation according to the Course of the Common-Laws of this Realm before the Queen's Majesty's Justices of he County of Glamorgan or some such like other person as should be sufficiently authorized of all and singular his Maners Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever with all and singular their Rights Members and Appurtenances c. And so being a very long Indenture it proceeds in mentioning all the Maners of which this Estate was composed and ends in form accustomed Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations The Queen's Majesty having very great and urgent Cause to communicate unto the Principals of her Nobility for the Advice of them and her Council concerning the present State of the Realm hath commanded us to signifie unto your Lordship that of the said number she hath made choice of your Lordship to be one And therefore her pleasure is That your Lordship do not fail but to come to London or to Westminster to be there the Six and twentieth of this Month at which Day your Lordship shall understand by me the Lord Chancellor where your Lordship and the rest shall Assemble about the Service of her Majesty and the Realm So we bid your Lordship right heartily farewel From Windsor-Castle the Fifteenth Day of September One thousand five hundred eighty six Your assured loving Friends T. Brumley Canc. W. Brughley W. Howard J. Hunsdon F. Cobham Chr. Hutton Anether Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas her Majesty hath made special choice of your Lordship to assist at the Funeral of the late Scottish Queen in company of divers other Noblemen which is to be performed the First of August next ensuing at the City of Peterburgh These are therefore to signifie unto your Lordship that her Majesty's Pleasure is You fail not to be there the last of this Month. We are also to let you further understand That there is Order given to the Master of her Majesty's Wardrobe Mr. John Fortescue to deliver unto you or to such as you shall appoint to receive the same a certain proportion of Black as well for your self as also for certain Gentlemen and Yeomen to attend upon you and so we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court the Tenth Day of July One thousand five hundred eighty and seven Your very loving Friends Chr. Hutton Canc. W. Burghley J. Hunsdon Fr. Cobham Fr. Knollys Fr. Walsyngham A Letter from the Lord Chancellor Hutton to the Lord Lewis Mordaunt My good Lord WHereas divers Informations and sundry grievous Complaints have come unto her Majesty of outragious Huntings within her Highness's Park of Brikestock since the Decease of the Lady Anne Throgmorton and now very lately new Reports pursued with Cryes and heavy Suggestions of strange Riots Routs Bloodsheds Felonies Disorders and other like Misdemeanors done against the same
metas seu perambulationem praedictae Forestae nostrae de Rockingham sicut praedictum est existunt aut aliquo statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione aut aliqua alia causa re vel materia quacunque non obstante His testibus venerabilibus Patribus Johanne Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi totius Angliae Primate Cancellario nostro Magistro Karlial Thesaurario nostro Angliae A. Cicestrense Custode privati Sigilli nostri Episcopis charissimis Consanguineis nostris Humphrido Buckingham Willielmo Suffolk Camerario nostro Angliae Ducibus Richardo Sarum Thoma Devon Comitibus dilectis fidelibus nostris Richardo Boteler Domino de Sudley Senescallo Hospitii nostri Jacobi Fenys Domino Say Camerario Hospitii nostri Militibus aliis Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium primo die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri vicesimo septimo Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parlamenti Nos autem tenores irrotulamentorum separalium Literarum Patentium praedictarum ad requisitionem praedicti fidelis nostri Ludovici Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt duximus exemplificandum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo nono die Novembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quarto Examinatur per nos Law Huse Tho. Legg Clericis Vltima Voluntas Ludovici tertii Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Amen I Lewis Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Drayton in the County of Northampton being the First Day of October in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred ninety and three and in the Five and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. Whole of Body of good Mind and perfect Remembrance thanks be unto God certain to dye and uncertain when and where I shall depart this mortal and transitory Life willing in the disposition of my worldly Goods Lands and Possessions to prevent the suddain hour of Death so that at the time it shall please my Maker Redeemer and Saviour Jesus Christ to call me from this transitory Life when my Mind I hope shall be wholly in and towards him and the Joys of Heaven I shall not need then to be busied with any thing of this unstable World Do therefore now make ordain constitute and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following renouncing and forsaking all former Wills by me heretofore made First and chiefly I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and to Jesus Christ his Son my only Saviour and Redeemer trusting and steadfastly believing to receive forgiveness of all my Sins and Offences according to his endless Mercy and Property and that he will be merciful to me a most wretched sinner and Creature of his handy-work and not impute my Sins and Offences to me neither burthen me with them according to my merits and deserts but according to the multitude of his great Mercies he will Pardon and Forgive me through the special Faith and Trust I have in him and in Jesus Christ his only Son my Saviour and Redeemer by the Merits of whose Passion I believe faithfully through this my Faith pure Submission and sorrowful Repentance to be delivered from the bondage of Sin and Hell and to receive full Remission and Forgiveness of all my Sins and to be made partaker of the Fruition of his Deity in his heavenly Kingdom amongst his Chosen and Elect of whom I humbly ask Forgiveness even from the beginning of my Life to the end of the same My Body I wish wheresoever I depart within this Realm of England may be Buried at the Parish Church of Luffwick where the Body of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt my late Wife doth lie if it may conveniently so be otherwise where it shall please God to appoint in such seemly sort as may stand with my Vocation according to the Discretion of mine Executors And I Will That within One Year after my Departure my Executors shall cause to be made for me and Dame Elizabeth my late Wife a meet and convenient Tomb or Monument of Alabafter with Two Pictures the one for my self the other for Dame Elizabeth my late Wife representing the State which God of his infinite Goodness hath called me unto the charges thereof will be I suppose about fourscore Pounds and so much I will shall be bestowed at the least Item I Will give and bequeath to be dealt in Alms the Day of my Burial Threescore and ten Pounds viz. to the Poor People in Luffwick Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Thrapton Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Sudburgh Six Pounds to the Poor People in Slipton Three Pounds to the Poor People in Turvey Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Stacheden Charleton and Lawenden Twenty Pounds to the Poor People of Grafton Eight Pounds I Will that every one of my Household Servants at the Day of my Funeral or at the least within Six Months after shall have truly paid unto them one whole Years Wages and shall be found and allowed by some in my House at Drayton Meat Drink and Lodging for Two Months after my decease if they will come for the same in which time they may provide for themselves Now touching and concerning my worldly Goods I will and bequeath them in manner and form following First I give and bequeath to my Son Henry Mordaunt my Funeral discharged my Debts paid and Legacies performed all my Furniture and Household-Stuff in my House at Drayton requiring him in special trust not willing to spoil or wast them but that he will by his Last Will and Testament leave and bequeath them after his Death to his Son and Heir of his Body lawfully begotten And if it fortune him to depart this world without Heir Male of his Body which God forbid Then I likewise require him to give and bequeath the One Moiety or half thereof the Seilings and Iron-looms excepted to my loving Daughter Mrs. Margaret Mordaunt his now Wife and the other half to the next Heir Male to whom my House of Drayton ought to descend And to that intent and purpose my Will is My Son Henry shall within Forty Days after my decease enter into Bond and become bound by Obligation unto my loving Friends John Wake and Edward Watson Esouires in the Summ of Three hundred Pounds with Condition That he shall well and truly perform this my Last Will and Testament to all intents constructions and purposes in manner and form aforesaid which if he do not or refuse to do then I Will my former Bequests to him shall be meerly void and of none effect And now having a special care of my Two Daughters Katherine Mordaunt and Elizabeth Mordaunt yet un-married and willing that they and each of them shall be yearly provided for and allowed
several maintenances until their several Marriages I do Will Give Bequeath and Devise by this my Last Will and Testament unto my loving Friends Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires and to their Heirs for ever Two parts of my Maners of Carleton and Chillington in the County of Bedford in Three parts to be divided which I lately purchased of the Lord Vaux the Land Meadow and Common thereto belonging lying in the Fields of Turvey only excepted Also I will give and bequeath unto the said Edward Watson and John Wake and to their Heirs for ever Two parts of my Maner of Stacheden otherwise called Delwike in the County of Bedford in three parts to be divided lately by me purchased of Master William Cornwallis Esquire and Lucy his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of Sir John Nevill Knight Lord Latimer deceased and also two parts of my Maner and Closes of Snelson in the Parish of Lawenden in the County of Buckingham commonly called Snelson-Pastures in three parts to be divided or as much of my said Maners of Carleton and Chillington Stacheden called Delwike and Snelson-Pastures as shall amount unto two full parts of all the said Maners Closes and Pastures in three parts to be divided To the intent and purpose and upon special Trust and Confidence That if my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs do not yearly pay to each of my Daughters for their several maintenances until their several Marriages the foresaid Summs of Fifty Pounds a piece with their several Meat Drink and Lodging or One hundred Marks a Year a piece without Meat and Drink so that each of them may quietly have and receive Fifty Pounds a Year and Meat and Drink or a Hundred Marks a piece without Meat and Drink according to my true meaning as aforesaid Then I will That the said Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors for this purpose and their Heirs shall yearly after my death levy and receive the Rents Issues Profits of the Premises and pay unto my said two Daughters yearly as aforesaid to each of them the Summ of One hundred Marks for their several maintenance until the several days of their several Marriages and the rest remaining to deliver unto my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs And to the intent and purpose and upon special Trust and Confidence That if my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Exccutors or Assigns shall not pay the said several Summs and every part and parcel of them before by me in this my Will to my Daughters and others bequeathed at such days and times as in this my Last Will is devised mentioned declared or intended according to my true meaning as I trust and assuredly hope he will Or shall resuse make denial or use detraction or delays Then I will That the said Edward Watson and John Wake or the Survivor of them and their Heirs shall bargain and sell to any person or persons their Heirs or Assigns for ever the said two parts of my said Maners Closes and Pastures with all and singular their Appurtenances in Carleton Chillington Stacheden called Delwike and Snelson aliàs Snelson-Pastures in three parts to be divided or as much thereof and of every part and parcel thereof as shall amount or fully extend unto the just value of two parts in three parts to be divided the Land in the Field of Turvey belonging to Carleton and Chillington only excepted for and towards the payment of their said several Portions before bequeathed And my intent is That if any Summ of Money shall be remaining over and besides the Legacies aforesaid which I will first to be satisfied then within convenient time after my Executors shall have received the same my said Executors and their Heirs shall deducting their reasonable Charges pay the same over unto my Son or to such other as shall be at that time my Heir Male of my House of Drayton And for that purpose only I mean for the maintenance of my Daughters and for the sale of my said Land as aforesaid if need so require I will that Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires and I will that _____ shall be my Supervisors for whose care in that behalf I give _____ And if my Son Henry depart this World without Heir Male my Daughters or any of them then surviving then my will is That my Daughter Katherine shall have in Augmentation of her Portion Five hundred Pounds more over and above her former Legacies And my Daughter Elizabeth also shall have Five hundred Pounds more beside her former Legacies And Arthur Maunsell if he be then alive shall have the like Summ of Five hundred Pounds otherwise I will the same to be divided between my Daughter Mary's two Sons Arthur and Henry Maunsell and that Edward Watson and John Wake and their Heirs my Executors also for this purpose shall stand seized of two parts of my Fee-simple Lands until such time as my Daughters be paid their Legacies by the next Heirs to whom my Son shall leave the same if my Son die without a Son But if my Son Henry have a Son that shall survive him then these three last Legacies bequeathed unto my Daughters Katherine and Elizabeth and the Children of my Daughter Mary touching their last bequests of Five hundred Pounds a piece shall be meerly void Nevertheless my Will is That though he have a Son my Daughters shall have their former Legacies and Portions according to my true meaning as aforesaid And my full Meaning and Will is That the Charges of my several Daughters Marriages in Meat Drink and Apparel according to their degrees shall be defrayed and born at the Costs and Charges of my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs or such other to whom my Lands by vertue hereof shall descend Which if he or they shall refuse or not do Then I Will That Edward Watson and John Wake my Executors or the Survivor of them or their Heirs shall see performed out of such Lands as before and hereafter I have willed and devised to them and their Heirs as occasion shall serve And thus having disposed of my worldly Goods and taken order for my Daughters Portions and Debts which I wish to be first paid having a special care that all and every Person or Persons to whom I have sold any manner of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall quietly and peaceably enjoy the same according to my true intent and meaning Although my trust and hope is my Son and Heir and his and their Heirs and all those that are or shall be Heir or Heirs Males to John Lord Mordaunt my late Grandfather to John Lord Mordaunt my Father deceased to my self or to my Son Henry Mordaunt shall and will quietly and peaceably permit and suffer all those Person and Persons and their Heirs to whom I have sold any Maners Lands or Tenements as aforesaid to have hold and enjoy the same and every part and parcel of them to them and their Heirs for ever
for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And as for and concerning all other the Maners Lordships Rents Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the foresaid Counties of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton and in every of them whereof no use after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt is before in and by these Presents limited and appointed The Recovery and Recoveries aforesaid shall be and enure and the Recoverers therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof after the death and decease of the said Lord Mordaunt to the use of them the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators and Assigns to the end and until that they shall and may have gathered levied and received of the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and of the other Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Lord Mordaunt before in these Presents to the said Recoverers limited and appointed so much Money as shall and will satisfy to pay such Debts Portions and Summs of Money as are hereafter in these Presents mentioned and expressed And as concerning what Debts and Summs of Money and Portions are meant by the said Lord Mordaunt to be raised and paid as well with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before mentioned as also with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before limited for the life of the said Lady Mordaunt after her decease and of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises limited to the said James Henry and Lewis until they shall or should respectively come to their Age of One and twenty Years The said Lord Mordaunt doth by these Presents express the same to be such as followeth that is to say All such Debts as the said Lord Mordaunt shall justly owe at the time of his decease together with all the necessary Costs Charges and Expences which they the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley shall necessarily expend disburse pay or lay out in about or concerning the same and such other Summ and Summs of Money as the said Lord Mordaunt by a note in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Lord Mordaunt shall limit and appoint to be paid and disbursed And also the several Summs and Portions hereafter following videlicet The Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of lawful English Money for and unto the use of Elizabeth Mordaunt Eldest Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And the Summ of Two thousand Pounds lawful English Money for and to the use of Frances Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which shall first happen And also the Summ and Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful Money of England for and unto the use of Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And moreover the like Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful English Money for and unto the use of Anne Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And also the several Summ and Summs of Two thousand Pounds a piece to each and every of the Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters which hereafter shall happen to be Born to the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid at his her or their several Ages of One and twenty Years or Days of their Marriages which of them shall first happen But it is nevertheless meant and intended That if any of the said Children so appointed to have take and receive Portions as aforesaid shall happen to dye before the several time and times limited and appointed for the payment thereof That then his her or their Portions so deceasing shall not be paid at all to the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of the Children so dying but the same shall go to the benefit of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And also the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Executors and Administrators shall after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt yearly allow and pay unto the said James Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt and Lewis Mordaunt Sons of the said Lord Mordaunt for and towards their maintenance from the time of the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt until every of them severally shall attain and come to their several Ages of One and twenty Years aforesaid or Days of Marriages aforesaid the several yearly Summs following videlicet Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feasts of All-Saints called Hallowmas-Day to the said James Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feast aforesaid to the said Henry Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the aforesaid Feast to Lewis Mordaunt during his minority and also Fifty Pounds a piece yearly and at the Feast aforesaid to every Son and Sons hereafter to be Born unto the said Lord Mordaunt during the minority of such Son and Sons respectively And if it shall happen the said Lady Margaret do dye before the foresaid Daughters of the foresaid Lord Mordaunt or any of them shall attain to her or their several Ages or Times aforesaid on or at which her or their several Portions aforesaid be or ought to be paid Then the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall yearly pay at the Feast of All-Saints aforesaid unto such of the Daughter and Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt then not attained to the Age and Time of her having or wherein she ought to have and to be paid her foresaid Portion according to the appointment of these Presents the yearly Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece for and towards her and their Maintenance respectively to and unto the time when by the appointment and limitation of these Presents her or their said Portions ought to be paid as aforesaid And also the like Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece at the Feast aforesaid and in manner and sort aforesaid unto all and every the Daughters and Issue Females of the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter happening to be born unto the said Lord Mordaunt either in the life time of the said Lord Mordaunt or after his death And it is further the absolute Meaning and Intent of
supervidendum Ac etiam ad proclamandum ordinandum diligenter examinandum quod omnes finguli hujusmodi homines ad arma ac homines armati sagittarii in monstris hujusmodi armaturis propriis non alienis armentur sub pena amissionis eorundem exceptis duntaxat illis qui ad expensas aliorum armari debent ut praedictum est ad omnes singulos quos in hac parte inveneritis contrarios sea rebelles arrestandum capiendum ac eos in prisonis nostris committendum in iisdem moraturos quousque de eorum punitione aliter duxerimus ordinandum Et ideo vobis districtius quo possumus super fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemim injungimus mandamus quod statim visis praesentibus vos ipsos melius securius quo poteritis arraiari parari coram nobis ad ipsos dies loca quo videritis magis competentes expedientes pro populo nostro minus damnosas Et omnes homines in patria commorantes per quos arraiatio hujusmodi melius fieri compleri poterit venire vocari facias arraiari armari muniri eos sic armatos munitos in arraiatione hujusmodi teneri facias Et insuper figna vocata Bekins poni facias in locis consuetis per quae gentes patriae de adventu rebellium praedictorum poterunt congruis temporibus praemuniri Ac eosdem homines sic arraiatos munitos cum periculum imminuerit in defensione regni patriae praedictae de tempore in tempus tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi magis necesse fuerit duci facies Ita quod pro defectu defensionis arraiationis sive ductionis dictorum hominum vel per negligentiam vestram damna patriae praedictae per rebelles praedictos a modo non eveniat ullo modo pro posse vestro Damus autem universis singulis Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Justiciariis Pacis Majoribus Ballivis Constabulariis Ministris aliis Fidelibus ligeis nostris Comitatus praedicti tam infra libertates quam extra tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatum quod nobis in omnibus singulis praemissis faciendum explendum intendentes sint consulentes auxiliantes Et Vicecomiti Comitatus praedicti quod ad aptos dies loca quos ad hoc ordinaveritis venire faciat coram vobis omnes illos in Comitatu praedicto per quos arraiatio assessio ordinatio melius poterint fieri compleri Si illos quos pro rebellione sua capi arrestari contigerit in prisona nostra custodiat sicut praedictum est In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium tertio die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sextodecimo Per Dominum Custodem magni Sigilli Angliae virtute Warrantii regii Willis A Letter from King Charles the First to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow To our Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow Charles R. RIght Trusty and welbeloved Cousin we greet you well Whereas we are desirous to speak with you concerning some affairs much importing the Peace and good of this our Kingdom which being of more than ordinary consequence will admit of no delay we therefore will and command you upon your Allegiance that setting aside all other occasions whatsoever you fail not forthwith to repair hither to us when we shall acquaint you with the particular cause of our sending for you which is of that importance as is neither fit to be imparted to you by Letter nor will bear any delay or excuse And for the ready observance of this our command these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at our Court at York the Twentieth of May. 1642. My Lord I pray you fail not to make haste C. R. HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord MORDAVNT Lord Baron of Turvey Grome of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord High-Steward to the Queen Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton One of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER CHAPTER XVII A Declaration of King Charles the First against the Alienating of the Lordship and Priory of Rygate from Henry Earl of Peterborow Charles R. WHereas our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow by his Humble Petition hath represented to us That his Mother the Countess of Peterborow is seized of certain Lands whereto he is Inheritable by vertue of an Entail of the gift of the Crown and that the Reversion expectant thereof is in us And that his said Mother upon displeasure conceived against him prevailed with his Father the late Earl of Peterborow about the time of his Death to leave much of his Estate to her who now endeavours to have power to cut off the Entail of the Crown 's gift tending to his the said now Earl of Peterborow's Disinherison therein which without our consent she cannot accomplish And therefore the said Henry now Earl of Peterborow humbly prays the with-holding of our Consent therein Forasmuch as we have special cause to tender the good and advantage of the said now Earl of Peterborow and that by act of Parliament provision is made That such Entails shall not be cut off to bar the Posterity whose Advancement was thereby intended We therefore hereby declare to all and every whom it may concern our Unwillingness That the said Earl should be prejudiced in the benefit of the said Entail contrary to the intent of the Giver and of the said Parliament And we will and require our Council at Law the Clerks of our Signet and other Seals and all others whom it may concern to take knowledge of the Premises and if by any means or ways endeavours shall be used by the said Countess or others for a Reversion of the said Entail Lands that they or any of them fail not to mind us of the same whereby no Grant thereof may pass without the said Earl's notice and our more full consideration and express orders upon the same first had and obtained Given at Hampton-Court the One and twentieth Day of September 1647. A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament in the Twelfth Year of King Charles the Second CArolus secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Peterborow salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem octavo die Maii proxime futurum teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus dicti