Templarius whom some will have Treasurer but this man is more spoken of amongst the Chancellors William Haverhull a Cannon of Pauls Church in London was made Treasurer to King Henry the third in An. Dom. 1240. being the 24. yeare of the raigne of the said King Henry in which place he continued in the 28. yeare of the raigne of King Henry the third being in An. Do. 1244 he dyed at London in An. 1252. being the 36. yeare of the raigne of King Henry the third as saith the addition to Matthew Paris fol. 1128. After which the said Author fol. 1226. laied his death in the yeare 1256. being the 39. yeare of King Henry the third such error is crept into Histories by the negligence of the transcriber but I suppose the first note of his death to bee the truer because the same is confirmed by Matthew West speaking in the said yeare 1252. of the death of this man for whose Epitaph these following verses were made Hic jacet Haverhulle jaces protothesaurarie Regis Hinc Haverhulle gemis non Paritura talem Fercula culta dabas empyrea vina pluebas A modo sit Christus cibus esca tibi I have also read a note of one William Haverhull which might be this man which saith that William Haverhull the sonne of Brithmarus de Haverhull gave houses in Cheapeside to the Abby of Westminster and that one Thomas de Haverhull was the sonne and heire of William Haverhull Richard de Barking Abbat of Westminster as witnesseth the lives of the Abbats was one speciall Counceller to Henry the third Chiefe Baron of the Exchequer and Treasurer of England who I suppose did follow William Haverhull for his death which happened on the 23. day of November in the 30. yeare of King Henry the third in An. Dom. 1246. after that he had beene Abbat 24. yeares must needes prove him to be Treasurer before Phillip Lovell yea and peradventure which is most likely before Hugh Pateshall yet Matthew Paris speaking of the death of Haverhulla wil needs have Phillip Lovel to succeed William Haverhul as after shall appeare This Richard de Barking was buried in Westminster Church before the middle of the Altar in our Ladies Chappell in a tombe of Marble which after in the time of William Colechester Abbat of that place was pulled downe by Fryer Combe a sacrist of that house of Westminster who laid a faire plaine Marble stone over him with this present Epitaph thus inscribed Richardus Barking prior postinclitus Abbas Henrici Regis prudens fuit ille minister Hujus erat prima laus insula rebus opima Altera laus eque Thorp census Ocham decimaeque Tertia Mortone castrum simili ratione Et regis quarta de multis commoda charta Clementis festo mundo migravit ab isto M. Domini C. bis xl sextoque sub anno Cui detur venia parte pia vergo Maria. Philip Luvell or Lovell was in this order advanced to the office of Treasurer as appeareth by the words of Matthew Paris upon the death of William Haverhull Et cum crederetur quod Dominus Rex Iohannem Franciscum officio Wilhelmi which was Haverhull subrogaret fabricatis rumoribus quod idem Iohannes in partibus remotis Angliae Borealibus ut contra quosdam religiosos plantaverat obiisset constituit Dominus Rex Philippum Lovell clericum virum prudentem foecundum generosum in loco memorati Wilielmi suum thesaurarium quod factum est apud sanctum Albanum procurante ut dicitur Iohanne Mansell amico Philippi speciali This man was Treasurer in the 35. and so untill the 42. yeare of Henry the third and was in the same yeare deposed by the Barons Hee dyed at Hamesley in An. Dom. 1259. whose executors were Philip Lovell and Robert de Mercenton But his goods after his death the King commanded to be confiscate Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster mention who were the Queenes Treasurers about that time thus obijt Walterus de Brudellejusdem Reginae thesaurarius which hee placeth in An. Dom. 1255. being the 39. yeare of King Henry the third Of the second person Chacepore thus writeth Matthew West in An. Dom. 1254. Veniens autem Rex ad mare nec ventum habens prosperum apud Boloniam moratus est invitus vbi obijt Petrus Chaceporc natione Pictavensis Reginae thesaurarius Regis clericus consiliarius specialis These two Treasurers of the Queenes are supposed by some but not rightly to have beene the Kings Treasurers Iohn Crackhall Archdeacon of Bedford was Treasurer in 42 43 44. yeares of Henry the third to whom the King in the 44. of his raigne being in An. Dom. 1260. gave a Prebendary wherein being invested he was from thence removed by a former collatiō therof made to one Iohn Le Gras. The same Crackhall after died the same yeare at London Iohn Abbot of Peterborough was by the Barons in the 44. yeare of Henry the third made Treasurer as the other Officers of the King also were Nicholas of Ely was then made Chanceller and Hugh de Spencer chiefe Iustice which Office of Treasurership this Iohn continued in the 46. yeare of Henry the third 1262. Nicholas de Elic so called because he was Archdeacon of Elie was Treasurer to the King in the 47. of Henry the third being the yeare of our Lord 1263. whereof I have seene this note of Record Memorandum quod in Crastino Paschae Anno 47. Hen. Regis 3. in praesentia Rogeri le Bigot Comite Norfolke Mareschalli Angliae Hugo le Bigot Arnoldi de Berkeley Baronis de scaccario magistri Iohannis de Chisull Cancellar regis c. recepit Magister Nicholaus archidiaconus Eliensis Thesaurarius subscripta in Thesauraria domini regis c. This man as before appeareth had beene Chanceller of whom is mention made in the catalogue of the Chancellers Thomas Wimundham This man being chiefe Chanter of Lichfield was by the Barons in An. Dom. 1258. in the 41. yeare of King Henry the third made Treasurer at the Exchequer at the Seale or place where the Writts be sealed with greene waxe after which hee was Treasurer to the King in the 50 51 and 52. yeares of King Henry the third Iohn Chisull sometime Chanceller was Treasurer in the 54. yeare of Henry the third being about An. Dom. 1269. He was Deane of Pauls chosen Bishop of London in An. Dom. 1273. and consecrate to that place in the yeare of Christ 1274. in which place he continued about five yeares and died in An. Dom. 1279. being in the seventh yeare of the raigne of the victorious Prince King Edward the first of that name See more of this Chisull in the Chancellors Phillip de Elie was treasurer as appeareth by the Records of the Exchequer in the 56. yeare of King Henry the third and in the first yeare of King Edward the first partly falling in the yeare 1272. and 1273. Ioseph de Chancy whom
because I know not his surname Philip Chancellor to King Stephen about the fourth yeare of his raigne being in Anno dom 1139. witnesse to many Deeds which King Stephen made to the Monkes of Elie and to Nigellus the Bishop of that See Reinold Abbat of Walden whom I have seene in one anonymall briefe Chronicle M S to be termed Chancellor but in what time he lived or what other name he had I doe not yet know but by the course of the history much about this time John Chancellor of England in the time of King Henry the second Thomas Becket made Chancellor as some write in the first yeare of the raigne of King Henry the second others say in the fourth yeare but the best authours agree that he gave over the Seale in Anno dom 1162 being in the eight yeare of the victorious Prince King Henry the second against the will of the Prince he dyed in Anno dom 1170. Ralphe Warnevile Archdeacon of Roane and Treasurer of the Church of Yorke was made Chancellor about the yeare 1173 being in Anno 8 Henry the second Of this man speaketh Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster Walterus de Constantijs Archdeacon of Oxford Bishop of Lincolne in Anno dom 1182 from whence he was advanced in Anno dom 1184 being in Anno 31 Henry the second unto the Arch-bishopricke of Rome Geofry the bastard sonne to King Henry the second after he had surrendred the Bishopricke of Lincolne whereof he was never consecrate Bishop but kept the place and received the revenues was made Chancellor much about Anno 26 Henry the second in Anno dom 1181. William Longchampe the proud Bishop of Elie Legat of England for the Bishop of Rome cheife Iustice of the South and West parts of England Deputy of that part of the Realm when Richard the first went to the warres of the holy Land was made Chancellor in Anno 1 Richard the first being in Anno Dom. 1191 of the sumptuous feast of whose inthronization thus writeth Ferthulphus or Ferculphus by the way of comparison Praevisis alijs Eliensia festa videre Est quasi praevisa noste videre diem He dyed in the yeare of Christ 1197 going to Rome in the Abbey of Pimie being of the Charterhouse order about which time in Anno 6 Richard the first there was a Vice-chancellor called Malus Catulus Eustachius Deane of Salisbury was Chancellor of England being elected Bishop of Ely in the third Ides of August in Anno dom 11â—6 being in Anno 9 Richard 1 Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury contrary to that which others affirme writing that Eustachius succeeded William Longchampe in the Office of Chancellor and in the Bishopricke of Ely The words of Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert be these Hubertus deposito magistratu civili ecclesiae curae totus vacabat consecravitque postea Robertum de Solopesbi episcopum Banchorensem Eustachium qui in cancellarij munere ei successit Eliensem episcopum VVestmonasterij debita accepta ab utroquesubjectionis professione Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert for such a transmutation of the name is used by authors being first Bishop of Salisbury and then Archbishop of Canterbury was made Chancellor shortly after the Coronation of King John which was in Anno dom 1199 at what time a certaine Nobleman saide unto him in scorne I have often seene of a Chancellor made a Bishop but I never before saw an Archbishop made a Chancellor Simon or rather Hugh of which is more hereafter Arch-deacon of Wels in the first yeare of King John after as I suppose that Hubert had left the Office being so disgraced and abased as he thought was witnesse to a Deed in which King John granted to the Cittizens of Yorke a guildhall hanse and other liberties as I have seene noted in the Copy of the same Charter for which cause I have set it downe as another man although in truth I am fully resolved that this Simon and the Hugh following were all one person leaving it yet for every mans Iudgement Hugh de Wels Archdeacon of Wels witnesse to the Deed in which King John in the sixt yeare of his raigne confirmed to the Monastery of Westminster Gistslep or Islep in Oxfordshire in which house Edward the Confessor was borne he was made Bishop of Lincolne about Anno 10 of the raigne of King John in Anno dom 1209 and dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1235. Walter Gray chosen Bishop of Chester in anno dom 1210 was Bishop of Worcester and after Bishop of York a man of extream age was made Chancellor in the seaventh yeare of King Iohn as one anonymal Chronicle saith to hold that Office during his life Others say that he was made Chancellor in anno dom 1209 being the tenth yeare of King John after Hugh de Wels. But I suppose hee surrendred that Patent to hold it during his life when he came to be Bishop of Yorke Richard de Marischo whom Mathew Paris termeth Tholenarius as it were Toll-gatherer or Treasurer if you list being Archdeacon of Northumberland was Chancellor in the fourth yeare of King John as appeareth by a Deed that I have seene and further he was made Chancellor in Anno 15 of King John in which Office he continued to the 17 yeare of the said King and as some do write during King John his life and died about the kalends of May in Anno dom 1226 in Anno 10 of the long raigne of King Henry the third as some have but the Booke of Durham saith that he was made Bishop of that See by Gwado the Legat and consecrated by Walter Gray Bishop of Yorke in Anno dom 1214. being about Anno 16 of King John and dyed sodainely at Peterborough the first day of May in Anno dom 1226 being the t nth yeare of King Henry the third after that he had beene Bishop of Durham nine yeares For whom this formall Epitaph was made Culmina qui cupi tis laudes pompasque sui tis Et sedata si t is si me pensare veli tis Qui populos regi tis memores super omnia si tis Quod mors immi tis non parcit honore poti tis Vobis praeposi tis similis fueram bene sci tis Quod sum vos eri tis ad me currendo veni tis Ralphe Nevill was confirmed Chancellor as it seemeth by the whole consent of the Nobility in Anno dom 1226 being about Anno 10 Henry 3 after which he was made Bishop of Chichester in Anno 11 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1227 or as hath Mathew VVestminster he was made Bishop of Chichester in Anno dom 1223 being before Chancellor after which the King in Anno 22 of his raigne offended with Nevill tooke from him the great Seale and delivered it to Geofry of the Temple as hath Mathew Paris and Iohn de Lexington although that the said Nevill remained still Chancellor
anno 4 Edward 3 who being sent in the sixt yeare of his raigne in anno dom 1332 Ambassador beyond the Seas about the affaires of the King and Kingdome did not like Cardinall Woolsey the Chancellor in the dayes of King Henry the 8 presumptuously carry the great Seale with him beyond the seas but left the same in his absence with others who both could and would answere the well or evill using thereof whiles he was in France This man continued in the Office untill the Eight yeare of Edward the third Richard de Bury otherwise called Richard de Angervile being borne in a little village besides S Edmundsbury commonly cald the Bury Abbey was so surnamed Bury of that place had to his Father Sr. Richard Angervile Knight This man being first kept at schoole by his Vncle Sr. Iohn VVillobie Priest was afterward Treasurer of England Chancellor and Bishop of Durham to which place of Chancellor-ship hee was advanced in the yeare 1334 being in anno 8 Edward 3 which office he received by the Kings gift at VVestminster in which yeare he was inthronized being first consecrated Bishop in anno do 1333 in the Bishoprick of Durham by William Cowton Prior of Durham He kept the See 11 yeares two moneths and twelve dayes and died in the yeare 1345 and was buryed in the South angle of the Church at Durham John Stratford the second time Lord Chancellor being now Archbishop of Canterbury was installed therein at York in anno dom 1335 being the ninth yeare of the Raigne of King Edward the third Robert de Stratford or Strafford as some have written but as I thinke corruptly being Archdeacon of Canterbury which Office was first ordeined by Anselme Archbishop of the said Citty was made Chancellor of England on the 24 day of March anno dom 1336 being in anno 11 Edward 3 He was after made Bishop of Chichester desiring to be remooved from that office of Chancellorship which was granted unto him Whereupon he surrendred up the Seale unto the said King Edward 3 in the 12 yeare of his Raigne being in anno dom 1338. Richard de Bintworth chosen Bishop of London and confirmed by John Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury at Oxford the tenth kalends of Iune 1338 was at Waltham advanced to the honour of Lord Chancellor in the moneth of July in the said yeare 1338 being the 12 yeare of King Edward the third John Stratford the third time Lord Chancellor of England in which Office he did not long continue Robert Bishop of Chichester being the foresaid Robert Stratford was againe made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1340 being anno 14 of the raigne of Edward the third who was put out of that Office and should with the Treasurer of England have beene sent into France for a pledge for the payment of certaine sommes of money Robert de Bourchier borne of the honourable house of the Lord Bourchiers was in the Towre of London made Lord Chancellor of England in December in anno 14 Edward 3 being in anno dom 1340 though some say hee was made Chancellor in anno 15 of the saide King Robert Perning Pernicke or Pernwicke also Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1341 bing in anno 15 Edward 3 he dyed in the yeare 1343 being in anno 17 of the said King This man was a Serjant in the third yeare of Edward the third when he began to plead as a Serjant in which he continued untill anno 11 Edward 3 and was after that Iustice Treasurer and Chancellor and dyed in the common plees being Chancellor sitting and arguing amongest the Iustices as appeares in the Law books of those yeares of Edward the third of whom is last mention made in the 17 yeare of Edward the third where hee is named Chancellor Robert de Saddington Knight was invested with the dignity of Lord Chancellor after the death of Perning in anno dom 1343 and in anno 17 Edward 3 He was elected to be Bishop of Canterbury and so was installed but never received the Pall. There was also one Richard Saddington Knight Treasurer of England of whom I have spoken in my discourse of the Lord Treasurers John Offord or Vfford Deane of Lincolne was made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1345. being anno 19 Edward 3 Hee dyed in the moneth of May in anno dom 1349 being the 23 yeare of the Raigne of that victorious King Edward the third John Thorsby Bishop of Worcester Archbishop of Yorke and Cardinall was installed in the seat of the Lord Chancellor in anno dom 1349 being anno 23 Edward 3 who at his great suit was discharged of the Office of Chancellor by delivery of the great Seale in November in anno 30 of the said King being in anno dom 1356 after hee had kept that place almost by the space of 7 yeares He in the 10 yeare of his Bishopricke on the third kalends of August beganne the frame of the Quire in S Peters Church in Yorke and laid the first stone thereof to which he gave an Hundred poundes He dyed at Thorpe and was buryed at Yorke in anno dom 1363 or as others have 1373 after that he had beene Archbishop one and twenty yeares and one and twenty dayes William de Edington Bishop of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of England in November in anno dom 1356 in anno 30 of King Edward the third Simon Langham Abbat of Westminster Bishop of Elie Archbishop of Canterbury and Treasurer of England was made Lord Chancellor in February in anno dom 1363 being the seaven and thirthieth yeare of the governement of King Edward the third Of this Simon were these verses made when he was removed from Elie to the Bishopricke of Canterbury Exultent caeli quia Simon transit ab Eli Cujus in adventum flent in kent millia centum Of whom also because he richly endowed the Abbey of Westminster with great gifts of singular cost and value a certaine Monke compiled these verses Res es de Langham tua Simon sunt data quondam Octingentena librarum millia dena Of this man is more spoken in the following discourse of the Lord Treasurers of England William de Wickeham so called of the place of his Birth whom Leland maketh Treasurer of England which by any possible meanes cannot be so for any thing that I can yet learne This man being Bishop of Winchester and advanced to that place in anno dom 1367 in anno 41 Edward 3 in which place he sate seaven and thirty yeares was sometime keeper of the privie seale and made also Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1367 being the 41 yeare of Edward the third in which Office he remained about foure yeares and in March in the yeare 1371 being the 45 of King Edward the third did deliver up the great Seale to the King at Westminster Hee was buried in the body of Winchester Church which he new built
Michael de Worth Ianuary 20. 11. Ed. 3. Iohn de Saint Paul Aprill 28. 14. Ed. 3. Thomas de Evesham Tuesday after the feast of Circumcision 36. Ed. 3. David de Wollere 45. Ed. 3. William Burstall Iuly 22. ◠Rich. 2. Iohn de Waltham Clerke after Bishop of Salisbury 8. Ri. 2. Iohannes de Burton Clerke Octo. 24 1. Ri. 2. Thomas Stanley Clerke 3. Ri. 2. Iohn Scarle or Serle after keeper of the great Seale ◠Hen. 4. Nicholas Bubwith Septem 24. 6. Hen. 4. Iohannes Wakering Clerke after keeper of the great Seale 3. Hen. 5 Simon Garnastead Clerke Iune 3. 2. Hen. 6 Iohannes Franke Clerke October 18 17. Hen. 6 Iohannes Stopinden Clerke Nov. 13 25. Hen. 6 Thomas Kirkby had the Reversion March 29 he was in 28 and 33 H. 6. 1. Ed. 4. Robert de Kirkham Clerk December 23 after Lord Chancellor 49. Hen. 6 William Morland Clerke Februa 22. 1. Ed. 14 Iohn Alcocke Deane of the free Chappell at S. Stevens in Westminster Aprill 29 after Lord Chancellor 12. Ed. 4. Iohn Morton Clerke Doctor of Law March 16 made Bishop of Ely 18 of Edward 4 Ianuary 4 after Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury 18. Ed. 4 Robert Morton Clerke 7. Hen. 7 William Kliot Iohn Blithe Clerke Thomas Barow Doctor of Law after keeper of the great Seale as some have it 9 Hen. 7 William Warham Clerke after Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury 17 Hen. 7 William Barow Doctor of Law mentioned in the Glasse window in the Chappell of the Rolles 1503. 20 Hen. 7 Christopher Beinbrig Clerke No 15 1 Hen. 8. Iohn young Clerke Ianuary 12. 8 Hen. 8. Cuthbert Tunstall Clerke after Bishop of Duresme March 12 14 Hen. 8 Iohn Clerke Clerke October 20 15 Hen. 8 Thomas Hanniball Clerke Octo. 19 19 Hen. 8 Iohn Taylor Clerke October 19. 26 Hen. 8 Thomas Cromwell Esquire after created Earle of Essex c. October 6 28 Hen. 8 Christopher Hales Esquire after Knighted Iune 10 33 Hen. 8 Robert Suthwell Esquire Iuly 1 4 Edw. 6 Iohn Beaumont Esquire Decem. 13. 6. Edw. 6 Robert Bowes Knight Iune 16. 1 M. Q. Nicholas Hare Knight September 18 keeper of the great Seale 4 5 Phi. M. 23 Eli. Q. William Cordell Knight Novem. 5 Gilbert Gerard Knight Thomas Egerton Knight after keeper of the great Seale and Lord Chancellor Edward Bruce Lord Kinlosse Thomas Phillips Knight Serjant at Law Iulius Caesar Knight Chancellor of the Kings Exchecker which place he left when he was Master of the Rolles Dudley Digges of Chilham Castle in the County of Kent Knight 1636. FINIS Honoratissimo Reverendissimo Dom. in Christo Patri Dr. Guilielmo Iuxon Speciali Dietatis providentia Praesuli Londinensi Totius Angliae Archithesaurario Et è Secretioribus regiis Arcanis Conciliario Pientissimo virtutis Assertori strenuo politioris literaturae vindici Religionis syncerae propugnatori Acerrimo Ioh. Philipot Fecialis Regius a Provincia Sommerset tensi Denominatus Dignitatis vestrae cultor humilimus Hanc Thesurariorum Seriem DICIT DEDICAT CONSECRAT A CATALOGVE OF THE LORD TREASVRERS OF ENGLAND DVnstane Archbishop of Canterbury was Treasurer to Eadred or Eldred King of England who began his raigne in the yeare nine hundred forty and sixe of whom thus writeth Matt. Parker in his booke of the Archbishops of Canterbury in the life of Odo Severus the two and twentieth Bishop of that see Edmundo the King of England defuncto Eadredus corona regia ab Odone redimitus rem publicam administrans Dunstanum ut in ejus vita patebit tam singulari amore prosequutus est ut omnes regni thesauros illius custodiae commendaret This man was canonized a Saint and the Goldsmiths of London are incorporated into the Society and fellwoship of Saint Dunstan Hugolme was Treasurer and Chamberlaine to Edward the Confessor hee gave Deane and South-bright to Westminster which Edward the Confessor did afterward confirme to that house Odo halfe brother to William the Conqueror Earle of Kent Bishop of Baieux and chiefe Iustice of England was Treasurer in the time of the Conqueror who had at his death as saith Anonymus M. S. Sixtie Thousand Pounds Excepto auro gemmis vasis Palijs Geofry Clinton Treasurer and Chamberline to Henry the first Hee about the thirteenth yeare of Henry the first in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand one Hundred and Twelve did found the Priory of Kenelworth and was after accused of treason in the one and thirtieth yeare of the raigne of the said Henry the first but as it seemed restored in short time after to the Kings favour Ranulph Bishop of Durham was Treasurer to the King whom Florensius Wygorniensis calleth Praecipuum Regis placitatorem Regni exactorem whose last word Exactor some men doe english Treasurer Of this man is more said in the Chancellors of England Roger Bishop of Sarisbury Treasurer and Chanceller of England as appeareth by Leland writing in this sort Roger Bishop of Sarum Treasurer and Chanceller to Henry the first made the Castle of Vies such a costly and so strong a fort as was never before nor since set up by any Bishop of England The Keepe or Dungeon of it set upon a hill cast by hand is a peece of worke of incredible cost Besides which to prove the same Roger Treasurer at the later end of the Raigne of Henry the first together with William de Pontlearch at the entring of King Stephen into England Thus writeth one Anonymall chronicle M. S. Stephanus cum intravit Angliam Rogerum Sarisburiensem Willielmum de Pontlearijs Custodes Thesaurorum ad se traduxit Which William de Pontlearch was a witnesse with William Stigill to a certaine Charter which Ranulph Bishop of Durham made to the Monkes of Durham commonly called S. Cuthberts Monkes wherein he confirmed to them Blakestone Standropp and Sandropshire with the wood of Henworth on the East part of Mareburne as farre as it goeth to the Sea This Roger Bishop of Salisbury died in the yeere of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirtie and Nine being about the fourth yeare of King Stephen of whom mention is made in the Chancellers of England Nigellus the second Bishop of Elye Nephew to Roger Bishop of Sarum and Treasurer to Henry the first was advanced unto that Bishoppricke of Elie in the yeere of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirtie and Three the first Calends of Iune being the Three and Thirtieth yeere of the raigne of Henry the first at whose going downe to be installed in the said Bishopricke hee was received with such joy that all the whole street of Ely through which hee should passe was hanged with curtaines and carpets with seates set on each side and the Monkes Cannons and Clerkes meeting him with procession with
on anomynall author calleth Iohn Chancy but not rightly as I suppose was Treasurer in the second yeare of King Edward the first being in An. Dom. 1274. William Gifford Bishop of Bathe and Welles was Treasurer to Edward the first hee was removed to Yorke in An. Dom. 1275. This man is by many Chronicles and that perhaps most truely called Walter Gifford He dyed in the 7. yeare of King Edward the first being An. Dom. 1279. as hath Nicholas Trivet Of this man see more in the Chancellers of England Robert Burnell Bishop of Bathe and Welles Chanceller of England and Treasurer to King Edward the first is by the Welsh-history pag. 328. called chiefe Iustice of England Leland reporteth that an Abbat told him how that a Bishop Burnell built the Castle of Acton Burnell Of this man more is spoken in the Chancellors of England Ioseph de Chancy the second time Treasurer to King Edward the first in the sixth yeare of the said King in An. Dom. 1278. was also Prior of Saint Iohns of Ierusalem in Anglia as I take it and by another name called the Lord of Saint Iohns or of the Knights of the Rhodes in England Thomas Becke Archdeacon of Dorcester was Treasurer in the seventh yeare of Edward the first in An. Dom. 1278. as some have but 1279. as other have by the witnesse of Leland out of a Moonke of Glastenbury in his booke De assertione Arthuri reciting the words of the said Moonke in this sort An. Dom. 1267. Edvardus Rex Henrici Tertij filius venit cum Regina sua Glasconiam Die vero Martis proxima sequenti fuit Rex tota Curia accepta sumptibus Monasterij Quo die in crepusculo fecit apperiri sepulcrum inclyti Arthuri ubi in duabus cïstis imaginibus armis eoruÌ„ depictis ossa dicti Regis mirae grossitudinis separata invenit Imago quidem Reginae coronata imaginis regiae corona fuit prostrata cum abscissione sinistrae auriculae vestigijs plagae unde moriebatur Inventa est scriptura superhis singulis manifesta In crastino viz. Die Mercurij Rex ossa regis Regina ossa reginae pallijs pretioâ—is revoluta in suis cistis recludentes sigilla sua apponentes praeceperunt idem sepulchrum ante majus altare celeriter collocari retentis externis capitibus propter populi devotionem apposita hujusmodi scriptura Haec sunt ossa nobilissimi Regis Arthuri quae Anno Dominicae incarnationis 1278. decimo tertio Calendas Maij per Dominum Edvardum Regem Angliae illustrem hic fuerunt sic collocatae praesentibus Leonora serenissima ejuseum Regis consorte filia Domini Ferandi Regis Hispaniae Magistro VVilliam de Middleton nunc Norwicensi electo Magistro Thoma de Becke Archidiacono Dorsitensi predicti regis Thesaurario Domino Henrico Lasciae Comite Lincolniae Domino Amideo comite Subaudiae multis magnatibus Angliae Thus farre the Moonke of Glastenbury Richard Warren or de Ware Abbat of Westminster was made Abbat about An. Do. 1260. being about the 44. yeare of Henry the third who was made Treasurer as hath Iohn de Eversden An. Dom. 1280. being the 8. yeare of Edward the first which yeare 1280. some doe falsely make to fall in 10. some in 11. of Edward the first which contrariety hath onely risen by the default of the transcriber But most certaine it is that he was Treasurer in the 9. 11. and part of 12. of the said Edward the first This man going to Rome for his consecration brought from thence certaine workemen and rich purphury stones whereof and by whom hee made that rare pavement containing a discourse of the whole world which is at this day most beautifull and to be seene at Westminster before the communion table a thing of that singularity curiousnesse and rarenesse that England hath not the like againe in which pavement are circularly written in letters of brasse these Ten verses following Si lector posita prudenter cuncta revolvat Hinc finem primi mobilis inveniet Sepes trina canes equos homines super addas Cervos corvos aquilas immania cete Mundum quodque sequens praeeuntis triplicat annos Sphericus archetypum globum hic monstrat microcosmum Christi milleno bis centeno duodeno Cum sexageno subductis quatuor anno Tertius Henricus Rex urbs Odoricus abbas Hos compegere purphyreos lapides Which Abbot with those workemen and those stones did also frame the shrine of Edward the Confessor with these verses carved out of stone and also guilded set about the same Shrine or Monument Anno milleno Domini cum Septuageno Et bis centeno cum completo quasi deno Hoc opus est factum quod Petrus duxit in actum Romanus civis Homo causam noscere si vis Rex fuit Henricus sancti praesentis amicus This Abbat died the second day of December in An. Dom. 1283. being the 12. of Edward the first after that hee had governed the Monastery 23. yeares and more and was buried there at Westminster in the aforesaid plaine pavement of Purphury on the North side neere unto the Tombe as is yet well to be seene of Odomer or Aimer de Valence Earle of Pembrooke on which grave is ingraven this briefe Epitaph here insuing Abbas Richardus de Wara qui requiescit Hic portat lapides quos hic portavit ab urbe Walter Wenlocke Abbat of Westm. whom Matthew Westm calleth William de Wenlock was made Abbath of Westminster after the death of Richard de Ware and was Treasurer to King Edward the first as hath the Register of the lives of the Abbat of Westminster and other records that I have seene Which office it seemeth hee had meane time betweene the 12. and 14. yeares of Edward the first as I suppose This man after that he had beene Abbat 26. yeares lacking sixe dayes died the 25. day of December on the Christmas day at night in his mannor of Piriford in Gloucestershire in the first yeare of Edward the son of Edward which was Edward the second in An. Do. 1307. and was buried in the Church of Westminster besides the high Altar then standing without the South dore of Saint Edwards Shrine before the Presbiterie there under a plaine pavement a Marble stone decently adorned with this Epitaph to his high commendation Abbas Walterus jacet hic sub marmore tectus Non fuit Austerus sed mitis famine rectus A Bishop of Coventrie and Lichfield was Treasurer of England in the 14. yeare of Edward the first being An. Dom. 1286. in whose place the same yeare came Iohn Kerkbie Iohn Kerkbie Deane of Winburne and Archdeacon of Coventrie and Treasurer to King Edward the first was on the seventh Kalends of August in An. Do. 1286. being the 14. yeare of the said Edward then at Paris made Bishop of Elye whom Leland the Refiner of all names doth in his Comment vpon his song
second yeare of Richard the second whereof part fell in Anno Dom. 1378. and part in 1379. continued about One yeare in the same and then gave place to him which possessed the same place last before him he married Elizabeth daughter of VVilliam de Bohune Earle of Northampton and Hereford by whom hee had issue Thomas Earle of Arundell Ioane maried to VVilliam Beuchampe Lord Aburgavennie Elizabeth married to Thomas Lord Mowbray Margaret married to Sir Rowland Lenthall and Alice married to Iohn Charleton Lord Powes He dyed in the 21. yeare of Richard the second Thomas Brantington Bishop of Excester was the third time made Lord Treasurer of England in the third yeare of the after deposed King Richard the second and was removed from his office in the 4. yeare of Richard the second in An. Dom. 1380. after the account of such as begin the yeare on the 25. of March Robert Hales chiefe Prior of the Knights of the Rhodes intituled by the name of the Knights of St. Iohns Ierusalem in England was Lord Treasurer of England in the fourth yeare of Richard the 2. in which office he continued during his life for shortly after hee came into that place which I suppose he held in Easter tearme and some monethes after in the said yeare of Richard the second in An. Do. 1381. the Rebels having spoyled the hospitall or famous colledge of those Knights of Saint Iohns by Smithfield neere unto London amongst other did fetch this Robert Hales out of the Tower of London where the King then lay and beheaded him on the Tower hill Hugh Segrave Knight whom Walsingham calleth Regis seneschallum the Kings Steward was made Lord Treasurer of England in the fifth yeare of Richard the second who continued in the said office the 6 7 8. and some part of Michaelmas tearme in the 9. yeare of Richard the second being in An. Do. 1385. Iohn Fortham Canon being Secretary to the King was made Bishop of Durham the 29. day of May in An. Dom. 1381. being in the fourth yeare of Richard the second and was inthronized in September in An. Dom 1382. being in the sixt yeare of Richard the second This man was made Lord Treasurer in Michaelmas tearme in the ninth yeare of Richard the second being in An. Dom. 1385. and so continued part of the 10. yeare of Richard the second until he was by parliament discharged He was translated from the Bishoppricke of Durham to Elie by Boniface the Pope the first Calends of October as hath the booke of Durham 1389. being in the 12. yeare of Richard the second but as saith the booke of Elie 1388. being in the 13 yeare of Richard the second which both may bee true because the one may have relation to the yeare of his translation and the other to the yeare of his inthronization both which many times happened in severall yeares of many other Bishops He was Bishop of Elie 37. yeares three moneths and foure dayes and dyed a very old man the 13. of December in his Mannor of Durham in An. Dom. 1425. falling in the fourth yeare of Henry the sixt Iohn Gilbert Bishop of Hereford was by Parliament made Lord Treasurer in the 10. yeare of Richard the second being in An. Dom. 1386. in which office hee continued the eleventh and all Michaelmas Tearme in the 12. yeare of Richard the second and the 21. day of March following after which he was againe removed and then hee with twelve more were appointed by commission to the governement of the whole Realme under the King of whom thus writeth on Anonymall Chronicle M. S. Is fuit in ordine praedicatorum vir qui plus lingua quam fide regebat Which Bishop as I suppose was removed to Saint Davids after that hee had beene thirteene yeares Bishop of Hereford Thomas Brantington Bishop of Excester I have read that the Bishop of Excester was made Treasurer in the twelfth yeare of Richard the second upon the removing of Iohn Gilbert which Bishop of Excester could not be Edmond Gifford as some falsly name him for there is no such man as I can find in the catalogue of all the Bishops of Excester neither was it Edmund Stafford for hee was not made Bishop of Excester untill the 20. of Iune 1395. being the day before King Richard began the twenty one yeare of his raigne which is eight yeares after the time whereof we now intreate Wherefore it must needs bee Thomas Brantington for hee being consecrated Bishop of Excester the tenth day of March in An. Dom. 1370. being in the 44. yeare of Edward the third governing that See 24. yeares till An. Dom. 1395. in which came Edmund Stafford Keeper of the Privie Seale it must be that the Bishop of Excester being Treasurer in the twelfth yeare of Richard the second falling in An. Dom. 1388. it was this man Brantington and that he was the fourth time made Lord Treasurer of England about the 18. yeare after that he was made Bishop of Excester who died in the yeare 1395. as hath Ypodigma Iohn Gilbert Bishop of Saint Davids in Wales was Lord Treasurer in the 13. and 14. yeare of Richard the second Of whom there is somewhat spoken before Iohn Waltham of whom there is large mention in the discourse of the Archbishops of Canterbury in the life of Will. Courtney was Bishop of Salisbury Master of the Rolls in the sixt yeare of Richard the second and keeper of the Privie seale after which he was Treasurer of England in the 15 16 17 and part of the 18. yeare of Richard the second for hee died in Michaelmas Tearme in the 18. yeare of Richard the second in An. Dom. 1395. others say 1394. Of whom thus writeth Walsingham Hoc Anno which was 1395 obijt Iohannes de Waltham Episcopus Sarum regni thesaurarius qui tantum Regi complacuerit ut etiam multis licet murmurantibus apud monasterium inter reges meruit sepulturam Roger Walden sometimes Secretary to the King and Treasurer of the Towne of Calis in the twelfth yeare of Richard the second was made Lord Treasurer in the eighteenth yeare of the said King about An. Dom. 1365. in which office he continued in the 22. yeare of Richard the second Hee was elected and made Bishop of Canterbury but after rejected and deposed and thereupon was by Pope Innocent the seventh made Bishop of London in the tenth yeare of December in An. Dom. 1404. being in the sixt yeare of Henry the fourth in the which Bishopricke hee continued one yeare and died in An. Dom. 1406. being buried at S. Bartholomewes Priory in Smithfield who of a poore man as saith Walsingham was made Lord Treasurer of England G. Bishop of Saint Davids in Wales was Lord Treasurer of England in the twentie two yeare of Richard the second which Bishop I suppose to bee Guy de Moone whom the booke Ypodigma Thomas Walsingham call Bishop of Saint Davids and say that hee died in An.
note of An. Do. 1463. in the margent are in this order Edwardus Rex duobus jam annis faeliciter gesto regno parliamentuÌ„ West monasterij tenuit quo etiam tempore Archiepiscopus which was Thomas Bourchier the brother of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex Clerus in synodo convenerunt In hac synodo Iohannes Comes Wigorniae Henricus Comes Essexiae D. Edmundus Grey Thesaurarius Angliae D. Humfridus Cromwell D. Wenlocke D. Iohannes Prior sancti Iohannis Robertus Stillington Legum doctor custos privati sigilli regis consiliarij allatis literis regijs petierunt a clero decerni regi ad Scotos repellendos subsidium Quod quidem gratissimis omnium animis tam munifico regi concessum est qui superiori anno ecclesiae immunitates atque jura iniquis judiciorum calumnijs uti in Iohanne Stafford antea diximus convulsa labefactata diplomate regio restauravit Besides which thus writeth Iohn Whethamstead that learned Abbat of Saint Albons of this Lord Grey declaring in what authority he was at first in the daies of Henry the sixt and then in the raigne of Edward the fourth His words be these In the 36. yeare of Henry the sixt Venerunt tres viri monachi de caenobio Cluniacensi quibus ad audiendum eorum nuntium missi sunt episcopus Dunelmensis custos privati sigilli Dominus Edmondus Grey de Ruthine Secretarius regis quibus isti viri dixerunt eorum adventum esse ob tria Primo ad aperiendum quomodo reges Angliae praecipue Henricus secundus fuerunt tam magni benefactores ad eorum ecclesiam ut potius pro nunc dicatur earum patronus praecipuus fundator Secundo venerunt ad petendum possessionem confirmationem bonorum illorum quae dicti progenitores eis contulerant per tempus non paucum jamdudum a manibus eorum detenta distracta erant Tertio ad impetrandum liberam licentiam ad ingrediendum singula loca religiosa ob eorum caenobio dependentia quae per nobiles progenitores reges posita fuerunt sub eorum regimime Sed nihil hic eis gratum fuit actum itu at tristes discederunt Out of which words of Whethamsted may other things bee gathered besides the doings of the Lord Grey as that the Kings of England and specially Henry the second have been great benefactors and founders of the Charterhouse Monkes with many moe matters contained in the same which I referre to the wise learned reader which made me the willinger to set down his words so largely Moreover the same Whethamsted continuing the Historie of Henry the sixt writeth of the battle of Northampton wherein was this Lord Gray in this sort In praelio Northamptonensi Edmundus Grey dominus Ruthine corpore licet praesens even as the Lord Stanly was in the battell fought betwixt Richard the third and Henry Earle of Richmond after King by the name of Henry the seventh in campi domini regis Henrici Sexti steterat cor tamen ejus non erat rectum in eo neque omnino fidelis habitus aut inventus fuit Nam venientibus turmis dictis ad fossam circumvallationis ipsam non multum prompte propter elevationem ver ticis in parte ulteriore ascendere valentibus occurrit ipsis dominus cum suis copijs obvians porrigendoque ipsis dextran traxit eos per manus in campum Martium juxta votum suum Thus much Whethamsted of Edmond Grey Lord Ruthine who was made Earle of Kent in the fifth yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1464. This Edmond Grey being Lord Hastings Weisford and Ruthine before he had the honour of this Earledome did by his Deed of Indenture dated the eighteenth of November in the 25. yeare of Henry the sixt in An. Do. 1446. give to Iohn Pinchbecke Prior of Duffefield in Northamptonshire in Almes during the life of the said Prior his Feild called Challocke to keepe the obits of Sir Iohn Grey father to the said Sir Edmond and of Dame Constance the widow of the Earle Marshall and daughter of Iohn Holland Duke of Excester and Earle of Huntington mother to the said Sir Edmund with masse c. as such other Collects as the said Edmond should deliver unto the said Prior. Sir Walter Blunt Knight who was the first Lord Montjoy possessed the place of Lord Treasurership of England in the fifth yeare of Edward the fourth which fell in Anno Dom. 1465. Of this man is mention made in the Booke of the Law called Long Quinto of Edward the fourth Hee married the daughter of Sir Iohn Biron and had yssue William Iohn and Iames. Sir Richard Woodvile Knight Chamberlaine to the King and Constable of England was made Barron on the ninth of May in the second yeare of Henry the sixt in An. Dom. 1424. and was after created Earle of Rivers in the fift yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1465. who thus advanced was after Lord Treasurer in the 6. 7. and 8. of Edward the fourth In which 8. yeare of Edward the fourth Thomas Cooke late Major of London was accused of Treason and arraigned for the same who after he had beene many times purged theref was yet at last found guilty and by this Lord Rivers then Lord Treasurer so handled as that hee could not be delivered untill hee had paid 8000. pound to the king and 800. pound to the Queene This Lord Treasurer married Iaquet the widow of Iohn Duke of Bedford daughter to Peter of Lucenburgh Earle of Saint Paule by whom hee had yssue Richard Earle Rivers Anthony Lord Scales in the right of his wife Edward Woodvile Knight slaine at the battell of Saint Albine in Britaine in â—he third yeare of Henry the seventh Lionell Bishop of Salisbury Margaret married to Thomas Earle of Arundale Margaret married to William Herbert Earle of Huntington Anna first married to William Bourchier Earle of Essex and after to George Gray Earle of Kent Iaquet married to Iohn Lord Strange Elizabeth married to Sir Iohn Greie younger son to the Lord Greie of Ruthine and after the death of the said Sir Iohn Greie to King Edward the fourth and Katherine married to Henry Duke of Buckingham Besides all which I have read of one Iohn which was sonne to this Earle Rivers which Iohn married the old Dutchesse of Norfolke and was beheaded with his father the truth wherof I leave to further triall This Richard Earle Rivers Lord Treasurer in the ninth yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1469. was by Robert Hiltard who named himselfe Robert of Kidesdale taken in the forrest of Deane as some have others say at Grafton and from thence brought to Northhampton and there was beheaded Iohn Longstrother Prior of Saint Iohns Ierusalem in England possessed the place of Lord Treasurer of the Realme in the ninth yeare of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1469. for in the same yeare hee gave place to the Bishop