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
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
xiii iv 0 0 De les tenants de Berkhamstede 0 xxxvi 0 0 0 De la dame Portrer 0 viii 0 0 0 De Johanne Pedifat 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo Cohesdele 0 ii vii 0 0 De Johanne Redbourn 0 ii 0 0 0 De Johanne Cokevyle 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo de Asheld 0 xiv 0 0 0 De Roberto at Shore 0 xvi x 0 0 Ove lour homages services custumez forpris Grenelands iii. measons devant nomes Pars Edmundi Mordaunt Elene sa femme ET les avanditz Edmunde Elyn averont del ' heritage Elene le Maner de Shephale ove les appartenantz les terres de Rigmerfeld Blakelond avant nomes jades parcel de Stevenach de la rent du Mannor de Maudelyn vii l. xiv s. 1 d. ob quadrans Cest assavoir  l. s. d. ob q. De Waltero Powell 0 0 x 0 0 De Johanne Sokereseyn 0 iii x 0 0 De John 0 ii 0 0 0 De Nicolao Oysell 0 vi i 0 0 De Johanne Mollyns Chevalier 0 viii viii 0 0 De Roberto Gravely 0 ii 0 0 0 De Johanne Carrier 0 0 iii 0 0 De Johanne 0 0 xviii 0 0 De Johanne Godele 0 iv iv 0 0 De Waltero Garnhon 0 0 xviii 0 0 De Stevenne Marten 0 0 iii 0 0 De Johanne Gardiner 0 0 xvii 0 0 De Johanne Drake 0 ii viii 0 0 Del molen lable de Mussenden 0 xv 0 0 0 De Waltero Blakwell 0 vi vi i 0 De Thoma Shepherd 0 0 xvii 0 0 De Johanne Blakwell 0 xi i 0 0 De Juliana Blakwell 0 0 xv 0 0 De Rauff Glarnik 0 0 xxii 0 0 De Elizabetha Blakwell 0 0 xx 0 0 De Raff Coke 0 viii v i 0 De Johanne White 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo May. 0 0 ix 0 0 De Johanne Cole 0 0 ix 0 0 Et de les tenantz de Esylbirghe iii ix viii 0 0 Ove lour homages services lour Custumes ET aussy si les advantdits Thomas Johan Edmunde Elyne ou aucun d'eux sont distourbes par les fermiers de Stevenach de Shephale de mesme les Mannors à la fyne de v. ans apres la fesance de cestes en deinz le terme de leur ferme de xviii Marcz par an donque voet ladite Agneyse que soit à volonte les avantdits Thomas Johan Edmunde Elyne de reentre les Tenements advantdits aller à novell departisment nient contredisants Et touts les reversions de quelle partie que eux sont sont purparties entre les parties avantdits quant eus escherront ou null d'eux escherra quant iiii s. de rente issant de la terre de William le Shepherd xx s. rente issant de la terre que Thomas Trayerr tient demeureront en commun entre les parteners avantdits à departir quant il leur plaira En Tesmoignage de quelle chose les parteners susdits entrechangeablement ont mis leur seaulx Date à Maudelyn le lundy prochain devant la feste de la Conversion de St. Paul L'an du Reigne Edward troisieme apres la Conqueste vintisme Out of an Ancient Pedigree among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow IN tempore Regis Henrici secundi Vir erat praepotens maximae Authoritatis Nomine Ranulphus de Broc qui Castellanus erat Castri de Agenet Constabularius Castri Honoris de Saltwood Iste Ranulphus habuit exitum Robertum de Broc qui suo tempore Marescallus fuit Angliae floruit regnantibus Ricardo primo Johanne Regibus Robertus habuit exitum Laurentium de Broc qui fuit tempore Henrici tertii qui habuit exitum Hugonem qui fuit plenae aetatis anno tertio Edwardi primi postea Hugo habuit exitum Laurentium qui fuit decimo quinto Edwardi Secundi ante qui quidem Laurentius habuit exitum Ranulphum qui duxit in uxorem Elizabetham Hussey qui peperit Elenam quae fuit uxor Edmundi Mordaunt Agnetem uxorem Domini Henrici de Bruxells Johannam praedicta Johanna obiit sine prole A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Latimer were Gules a Cross Fleure Or. Of the Name Antiquity Descent Greatness Succession Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Latimer that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham THE Name of Latimer had ever of old in all Histories Charters and other Occasions of being mentioned the Addition of le preceding to it as Willielmus le Latimer and the English of that word which is in its proper Language Latimer is by Antiquaries rendred to be Interpreter Also by all the Histories Records and Catalogues that mention the Lords and Knights who enter'd England with the Conquerour it is testified that a Nobleman bearing this Name whether from his Office or otherwise was a Companion in that Glorious Enterprize From which time they flourished upon the Lands and Lordships acquired in that Occasion so as about the Reign of King Richard the First they became rank'd among the greatest and most Eminent of the Nobility of England and for several Generations there were not any had a greater share in the Commands Employments and Counsels of the Crown it producing Famous and Victorious Generals Wise and Happy Counsellors and Officers that prov'd of great Honour and Advantage to all the Affairs wherein they were imployed From William Lord Latimer who was Chief of this House and a great Baron in the Reign of King Edward the First did descend those Latimers of which I treat by Sir John Latimer his second Son who were Lords of Govis a Noble Signiory in the Dutchy of Normandy under the Jurisdiction of the Balliage of Caen of the Mannors and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Winterborne Till Rivell Bocland and Whitchurch in the County of Dorset Cravestock with Lands in Estshene Mortlack and Wimbledon in the County of Surrey They had Possessions in Bisbey and Hartsned in Hertfordshire they had the Lordship of Wolwich in Kent and of the free passage over the River of Thames in that place In possession of most whereof they long liv'd with great Honour often performing with much Reputation the principal Offices of those Countries when they were call'd unto them for the Service of their Kings and the Kingdom and unto these at last became Heir and Successor John the first Lord Mordaunt by his Mother the Lady Edith sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer the last of this Branch who for their Arms bare ever Gules a Crosse Fleure Or being the same with that was given by the Ancient and Illustrious House of which they were Descended WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY THE Original and History of the Ancient Lords of the Name of Latimer having been the
more plainly shall appear Which recoveries of the said Mannors and other the premisses were had for the only surety of payment of one thousand pounds to the use of the late noble King of Memory Henry the Seventh our most dear Father by the said John Mordaunt Son and Heir of John Mordaunt Knight Deceased to be paid And after the said thousand pounds were fully content and paid then ye and your joint Recoverers should be Recoverers or Feoffees to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son and his Heirs for ever as by certain and divers Covenants in certain Indentures specified between Giles Dawbeny late Lord Dawbeny for the part of our said dearest Father of the one party and the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son of the other party made the xxth day of January the year of the Reign of our said Father the twenty second more plainly may appear Of the which sum of a thousand pounds four hundred pounds were paid to the use of our said Father to John Heyron Knight late Treasurer of the Chamber of our said Father by the said John Mordaunt the Son And we for certain Causes and Considerations us moving have remised and pardoned two hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds to the same Sir John Mordaunt the Son And one hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son hath paid to Sir Harry Wyat Knight Treasurer of our Chamber to our use And for three hundred pounds residue of the said thousand pounds the same John Mordaunt the Son by the name of John Mordaunt Knight is bounden by several Obligations to certain persons to our use for the sure payment of the same three hundred pounds to be paid to our use as by the same several Obligations thereof made and remaining with the same Sir Harry Wyat to our use it may appear Wherefore we signifie unto you that our Pleasure is and we will and Command you that ye without any delay do seal the said two Releases and deliver them as your Deeds to the bringer of them to the use of the said Sir John the Son And these our Letters Signed with our Hand and Sealed with our Seal shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the _____ A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Justified by Ancient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Drayton were Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules Of the Name Original Descent Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Drayton THE Mannor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble of the Country wherein it lies both for its Commodities Situation and the Royalties belonging thereunto was in the dayes of those Kings that did precede the Conquest among the Possessions of one Oswinus a famous Saxon. But upon the distribution of the Lands acquired by King William it became part of the Estate of Aubrey de Vere who first Entred England with that Prince From this Earl Aubrey the Elder for so he was termed the Lordship of Drayton did descend to Earl Aubrey the Second who was Father to the first Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it was given in Partage as a Foundation of his Fortune to Robert his second Son with the Lordships of Adington the greater and the less as likewise the Lands he held in Twyvell of the Abbey of Thorney and other fair possessions This Mannor and Lordship consisted at that time of a fair ancient Castle encompassed with four large high Walls Embattailed round with such Fortifications as were necessary both for resistance and offence It had as parcels thereof very useful Demesnes a Park a Warren and flourishing Woods besides the Villages of Luffwick Islip Slipton and certain Lands in the Parishes of Aldwinkle and Tichmarsh in each of which the Lords had Courts of their own the Advowsons of the three Churches belonging thereunto with free Warren upon all those Lands and free Fishing for a long Tract upon the River of Avon To this Robert de Vere Lord of Drayton did succeed Sir Henry de Vere who left his Inheritance to Sir Walter de Vere his Son who from the Excellency of the place and his great love thereunto did assume the Name thereof to remain to him and his Posterity ever after A thing in those days very usual as may be instanced in several Examples too long for this Occasion This Sir Walter de Vere having among other Heroes of that time design'd his Application to the Holy War took for his Arms as a mark of his Intention Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules which was afterwards constantly born by the Successors of this Family and under that same Name and Ensign did flourish a fair Posterity of several Noble Knights which upon this Lordship of Drayton did long live in much honour and opulency in possession of that Noble Mannor with other Lands in Sudborow in Brigstock and in Irtlingborow in the County of Northampton of fair possessions in Luton and Flamstead in Bedfordshire of the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Stoke-Goldington in the County of Huntingdon and of the Lordship of Southnewenton in Oxfordshire Their Alliances were not less Illustrious than their Original they having been contracted with the Houses of Bassett and de la Zouch of the great and ancient Baronage and other Families famous for high Actions and the faithful Service of their Princes This Lordship notwithstanding with its Name and Arms came afterwards to be incorporate into the House of Greene and by them as to what is most remarkable through a fatal revolution of humane things after near four hundred years unto the Original Veres again by Isabella Greene who being Married to Sir Richard Vere that was Lord of Thrapston and Adington and descended from Robert Brother of that Walter we first mentioned by the Issue which she brought Created such a Title as for default of Posterity from Constance Countess of Wiltshire the Daughter of the last Sir Henry Green the Lordship of Drayton came to Elizabeth Grandchild of this Richard Vere and by her to the Mordaunts that were descended from her Sir WALTER of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton Luffwick Islip Addington Twyvell and other Lands and Lordships WAlter de Vere the eldest Son of Henry the Son of Robert that was second Son of Aubrey Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of England being then very young and in the Life-time of Sir Henry his Father did attend King Richard the First into the Holy Land and on that Occasion assum'd for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrail'd Gules After he had there won his Spurs by divers generous Actions and received the Honour of Knighthood at the hand of that victorious King he returned home with several Companions of that
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
thereof King Edward the Third granted him a Patent to that effect in the first year of his Reign He had been Seneschal to Queen Isabel the Kings Mother in all her Forests between Stamford and Oxford as appears by a Brieve directed to him by the King for the tenth of all the Venison that should be taken in the County of Northampton to be delivered to the Abbot of Peterborow according as had been granted by his Ancestors He was pardoned by that same King with his Son John William the Son of Thomas Seymar Richard Molesworth Simon his Squire and other of his friends for his breach of the Kings peace and the death of John of Overton Longville whom he had slain in a Quarrel with other circumstances that certifie the particular favour was born him by that Prince He was afterward with one Sr William Nocton as being one of the most eminent Knights in the Bishoprick of Ely joined with Sir William Shareshull Sir Henry Greene and Sir William Thorpe in the Kings Commission to hear and determine of the felony and misdemeanour of Thomas Lild Bishop of that Diocess who was not only esteemed accessary to the death of William Holmes Servant to the Lady Wake of Lydell that was killed by his Officer Ralph Carcless She being a Princess of that time eminent for great birth as well as Beauty and rare Qualities and the Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster but that moreover stood in great and exemplary Contempt against the King himself For the demeanor of Sir Simon in which matter in his duty and compliance to the Kings Commands and Interest he incurred with the rest of the Commissioners the several censures and indignation of the Pope which proceeded even to Excommunication and other great Penalties from which his merit towards the King by his Conduct in that Affair nor the Power of so great a Prince was able to protect him He did finally give and grant in the eighteenth year of King Edward the Third unto Robert the Prior of the Church of Saint Maries of Pavenston and to the Covent of that place two parts of his Mannor of Stoke-Goldington with the Advowson of the Church of that Town out of Devotion to God and the Blessed Virgin and for the good of his Soul to be there prayed for and for the Souls of his Ancestors and Benefactors His Wife was Margaret Daughter to Sir John and Sister to Sir Gilbert of Lindsey Their Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships UNto Sir Simon of Drayton did succeed Sir John of Drayton his Son in the sole Lordship of that place as also in his other Possessions in the Counties of Northampton Huntingdon and Oxford Moved by what inducement it does not appear but this Sir John of Drayton did in the eighth year of King Edward the Third purchase a Licence of Alienation for enabling him to settle upon Sir Henry Greene then Chief Justice of England and that had Married his Fathers Sister his antient Mannor and Lordship of Drayton with those Lands in the Towns adjoining that did belong unto it In consequence whereof it was conveyed unto him with the Reversion to Henry the second Son of the said Sir Henry Greene whom he calls his Cousin and for default of Issue in him to the right Heirs of Sir Henry the Father But it is found notwithstanding by a Deed of this Sir John that in the Life-time of Sir Henry Greene the Chief Justice he did render the Possession of the Chief Seat and the Mannor of Drayton with all the Demesnes the Lands Meadows Pastures and the Park thereunto belonging unto Sir Henry Greene his Cousin the Son of the Chief Justice on Condition that he should ever after bear his Name and his Armes in performance of that Agreement that had before been made between the Father of the said Sir Henry and himself which was the reason why the Greenes of Drayton instead of Azure three Bucks Or which was the Armes of their Family and those born by the Greenes of Norton descended from Sir Thomas Green the Elder Brother did bear ever after for their Coat Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules being that of Drayton which by this Agreement they were obliged to assume The Wife of Sir John of Drayton was Christian the Daughter of Sir Gilbert of Lindsey his Mothers Niece Their Issue Baldwin of Drayton whose Posterity for divers Ages did flourish afterwards Possessors of the Lordships of Stoke-Goldington Bottlebrigg Molesworth and Overton Longville in the County of Huntingdon and South-Newington in Oxfordshire where they had a fair Patrimony and lived in great Estimation WALTER de VERE The Eldest sonne of Henry ye. sonne of Robert that was ye. second sonne of AUBERY de Vere Great Chamberlaine and Lord Cheife Iustice of England who from his Cheife Seat Assumed that Name to him and his decendants Lucie Bassett Sr. HENRY of Drayton Iuetta de Bourdon Sr. Baldwin of Drayton Idonia de Gimeges Sr. Iohn of Drayton Philipa of Arderne Sr. Simon of Drayton Margaret of Lindsey Catharine of Drayton Sr. Henry Greene. Sr John of Drayton Cristian of Lindsey Sr Henry Greene Matilda de Mandnir Sr Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Baldwin of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 488. inter Confirmationes Regis Witlafii ITem Domum Oswini Militis in Draytonâ videlicet octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Quinque lineae infrá ET Donum Wulnoti Dapiferi mei in Adingtonâ videlicet duas Hidas terrae Piscariam cum Advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Villae in alia Adingtona ex dono ejusdem unam Virgatam terrae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 492. inter Confirmationes Beoredi Regis SImiliter confirmo praedicto Monasterio de Croilandiâ de dono Oswini Militis in Draytona octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 498. inter Confirmationes Abbatis Turketuli Abbatiae Croilandiae IN Draytona unam Carucatam terrae sex Acras Prati quatuor Salinas AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND The Baronage of England Page 190. THis last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Fater to the Monks of Abington and being in high Esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his Heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honour of Eye in Suffolk
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
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
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
that unfortunate Fight where the Christians did receive so great a defeat under the Command and Conduct of Robert Earl of Artois the French Kings Brother Particular honours were done to the memory of Sir Robert de Vere by the greatest Men of that Age and there was ever after retain'd for the Arms of his Successors Lords of Addington and Thrapston in a Shield Argent a Cross Gules which in order to that War he had assumed and in memory of the occasion wherein this their Ancestor had faln with so much glory His Issue Sir Baldwin de Vere Sir John de Vere THE Lady Ellen being then the Widow of Sir Robert de Vere applied her whole thoughts to the good and advantage of her Children the dear remainders of so noble a Husband to which end she contriv'd to establish BALDWIN the eldest of them in an Alliance with the Lord Gilbert de Seagrave at that time the Chief Subject in England by reason of his Office which was great Justiciar and a man besides in extraordinary favour with the King Which Gilbert contracted with her for the Marriage of the said Baldwin with his Daughter Margaret obliging himself to give her a hundred Marks for her consent thereunto and as a Portion to her Son his Lands in Aleby and Melton in the County of Leicester With the years of the young Baldwin de Vere there grew up in his mind all those inclinations for Arms and Piety to which the Knights of his House had been so accustomed and the Fields of Palestine were the scenes whereon these vertues were usually presented In the company then of other Heroick Pilgrims he went thither to pay his first vows and to win his Spurs where after several generous adventures the effects of two years spent in that hazardous warfare he returned to his own House to enjoy the esteem and honour he had acquired After which he received from the grant of Ralph the great Earl of Chester the Lordship of Tywa and seventeen Virgates of Land in that Town with all the men holding the same and their sequels Which gift was after confirmed by particular Charter from King Henry the Third He had likewise from the Lord Robert Fitz Walter the Land of Bishopscote to hold by the service of half a Knights Fee Besides other testimonies of the love and value of diverse great Lords of that time There is likewise extant an Agreement between him and the Lord Abbot of Peterborow about the liberties of Thrapston concerning which there had been a difference And as the last testimony of him there is extant a Charter from Henry the Lord Abbot of Croyland granting him liberty to erect a Chapel in his Court at Addington upon certain conditions His Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin Vere SIR ROBERT de VERE was a Minor at the death of his Father thereby becoming a Ward for his Mannor of Addington to his Cousin Sir Baldwin of Drayton under whose conduct having passed those years which were to bring him to lawful age it appears he was much bound to him for his Education which produced such generous qualities as made him very considerable He applied himself much to the War which we find by the appearance of his name in several Lists of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First in his Expeditions into Wales and Scotland He exercised the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the thirtieth year of that King and he dyed seised of the Lordships of Thrapston of Addington of Sudburgh of Melton of Tywa of Twyvell of Bishopscote and other Lands and Lordships He had Married Anne the Daughter of Sir Roger of Watervill by whom he had Issue Randal de Vere RANDAL or RANULPH de VERE after the death of Sir Robert his Father became possessed of all his Lands and Lordships And in the third year of King Edward the Third we find him to have been summoned by the Kings Justices to answer by what Warrant he held and exercised certain Customs and Liberties in his Lordship of Thrapston Which upon his appearance and production of the Charter were reserved and he dismissed In the ninth year of the same King an Inquisition passed upon the value of his Lands in Thrapston and Addington and in the twelfth by his Charter dated on the Friday being the Feast of Saint Edmund he granted and gave to the Lord Henry then Bishop of Lincoln and to Agnesse that was the Wife of Sir Richard de Waldgrave the custody of the Lands and Tenements which the said Richard had held of him in the Town of Twyvell that did belong to him by reason of the minority of Thomas the Son of the said Richard and Agnesse as likewise the Marriage of the said Thomas for a certain summe of Money paid to him by the forementioned Lord Henry and Agnesse The Wife of Sir Randall de Vere was ...... Their Issue Sir John de Vere Sir Robert de Vere Randal de Vere Idonea de Vere JOHN de VERE in the life time of his Father Sir Ranulph being as then but young was married to a Lady whose name was Alice Clifford and for his subsistance setled in possession of the Lordship of Twyvell and other Lands of his Fathers Inheritance But the spirit and inclinations of this House being predominant in his nature and disposition they would not suffer him to remain at home but postposing to the love of Honour and the War all considerations of ease and interest he followed the noble King Edward into his first Wars with France where for his service he acquired the honour of Knighthood and after having given extraordinary proofs of his valour in divers occasions it was his fortune to be slain in the famous Battel of Crecy among other Heroes who fought in that place for the honour of their King and Country and leaving no Issue behind him he was succeeded by his Brother Sir Robert de Vere BY the death without Issue of Sir John de Vere we find that his Brother ROBERT came to inherit the Lordships of Addington Thrapston Sudburgh Melton Aleby Kemington Hokenhanger with the rest of the Lands and possessions belonging to that House There were several transactions that passed between the Lady Alice de Vere that was the Widow of his Brother and him about agreements for setling of her Thirds in the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and other places which were performed with much mutual respect and Justice on either side and at last ended in a fair accord and composition for the whole Several other marks there do remain of the Justice Oeconomy and Prudence of this Robert de Vere whom we find to have married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Robert de Northburgh and to have deceased in the three and fortieth year of King Edward the Third leaving Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin de Vere ROBERT the Son of Robert de Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston being a minor at the death of his
others from certain Lords of his Council Several rigours he suffered from this King joyn'd to the indignation of Mankind that had been drawn upon him by his injustice and cruelty incited Sir Henry Vere to be particularly active in the introducing of King Henry the Seventh to whose service he brought a resolute Band of his Tenants and Country-men at whose Head he fought himself in that decisive Day where at Bosworth the unhappy Richard lost both his Kingdom and his Life He thereupon received the Honour of Knighthood at the hands of the victorious King and because of his fidelity and interest was made High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in that first year of his Reign He married Isabella Tresham the Daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham who was Lord of Rushton and of a Family at that time very considerable in the Country where they lived for their Riches and Authority by whom he left only five Daughters Elizabeth Lady Mordaunt Amy married to Robert Mordaunt and after to Humphrey Browne Son of Sir Wistan Browne of Abess Roading Constance to John Parr Lord of Horton Etheldred Married to John Brown that was a Judge Audrey who dyed unmarried ELIZABETH the first of the Daughters and heirs of Sir Henry de Vere was about the eleventh year of King Henry the Seventh Married to John the eldest Son of that Sir John Mordaunt who was Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to that King There came unto her by composition with some of the partners and want of Issue in other the greatest part of the interest of these Sisters and indeed it was a large Inheritance compos'd of the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Sudburgh Thrapston both the Addingtons Grafton Hardwick Werminster and sundry other Lands She also brought into her Husbands House the Blood and the Arms of the Noble and Ancient Families of these Veres of the Greenes of Drayton and of the Mauduits that were Lords of Werminster She was a fortunate Lady left a numerous Posterity and from her is lineally descended and is heir and Successor the present Earl of Peterborow AUBERY DE VERE Earle of Guisnes Cheife Iusticiar of England great Chamberlaine to King Henry ye. first Adeliza de Clare Aubery de Vere 1st E. of Oxford Eufemia de Cantelup Sr. Robert de Vere Matilda de Furnel Rossia de Vere Jeffery de Magnaville Earle of Essex Sr. Henry de Vere Hildeburga Sr. Robert de Vere Margaret de Wake Walter de Vere Ld. of Drayton Lucia Basset Sr. Baldwin de Vere Margaret de Seagrave Sr. Iohn de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Anne de Waterville Sr. Baldwin de Vere Sr. Randall de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Northburgh Randol de Vere Idonea de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Tay. St. Baldwin de Vere Elena de Mohun alius Kingston Margaret de Vere Thomas Ashby S. P. Sr. Richard de Vere Isabella Greene. Elizabeth de Vere Amy de Vere Elena de Vere Thomas â—sham L d of Pichfley Ann de Vere Iohn Ward L d of Irtlingborow Margaret de Vere Iohn Berners Elizabeth de Vere William Dounhall Sr. Henry de Vere Isabella Tresham Baldwin de Vere Constance de Vere Iohn Boteler Ld. of Woodhall Constance de Vere Iohn Par. Elizabeth de Vere Iohn I st Ld. Mordaunt Amie de Vere HumphryBrowne Etheldred de Vere Iohn Browne Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of that HOUSE of VERE Whence were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of VERE AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND Spelmanni Glossarium Page 337 338. ALbericus de Vere Comes de Guisnes Camerarius Angliae Portgravius ut perhibetur Londini pater Abrici primi Comitis Oxonii Angliae ponitur Justiciarius Spelmanni Glossarium de Capitali Angliae Justiciario qualis olim quantus fuit JUstitia totius Angliae alià s Capitalis Angliae Justiciarius quantus hic olim fuit usquequaque non liquet Dignitate omnes Regni proceres potestate omnes superabat Magistratus The Baronage of England Page 190. THIS last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Father to the Monks of Abingdon and being in high esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord Great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk or any other before or after him held the same and with such Liveries and Lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office Being also one of the Kings Justices Tempore Henrici Primi Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Page 248. Carta Alberici Regis Camerarii EGO Albericus Regis Camerarius terram de Twyvell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Guntero Monachis de Thorneya per talem conventionem teneo ad firmam ut per unumquemque annum eis sex libras pro ea reddam ante Nativitatem quatuordecem solidos ante Pascham quatuordecem solidos ad Vincula Sancti Petri extremos quatuordecem solidos Insuper pro remissione peccatorum meorum illis de una mea decima scilicet de Islip unoquoque anno ad Festivitatem Sancti Michaelis decem solidos reddam Totum verò surplus quod miserim in eadem Villa ultrà quà m recepi in extremo die vitae meae pro salvatione animae meae Sanctae Mariae Patribúsque meis simul cum terra eorum concedo solidum quietum ab omni Calumnia De alia terra quam pro servitio dimidii Militis in eadem Villa de Willielmo de Blosvilla teneo in feodo de dimidio unius Hidae quam certè emi pretio Sanctam Mariam meósque fratres post me concedo esse Haeredes in quantum id eis concedere possum Hujus Conventionis sunt testes Hardewin de Escaetere Radulphus Dapiser Willielmus de Whitlesege Simonio fratres illius loci alii quamplures Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penès Comitem de Peterborow ALbericus de Twyvell Camerarius Regis dedit Ecclesiae de Thorney duas Garbas decimae trium Villarum de Islip Addington Drayton de Dominico suo The Baronage of England Page 190. Writing of Earl Aubrey HE in the Fifth of Stephen with Richard Basset then Justice of England executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Surrey Cambridge Huntington Essex Hartford Northampton Leicester Norfolk Suffolk Buckingham and Bedford and gave to the Monks of Thorney in Comitatu Canter certain Lands in Islip But before the end of this year he was killed in London leaving Issue by Adeliza his Wife Daughter of Gilbert of Clare three Sons Alberic his Son and Heir ....... a Cannon of Saint
sayd Earle in his foresayd Cause All Actions of Trespass Debates and Demands personal had or done before the Date of these Presents at the Costs and Charges of the Earle of Shrewsbury And the sayd Earle and all the foresayd persons which hath done spoken or laboured any for the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury in or for his Tytyl or possession of the premisses or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humfrey Brown George Brown John Brown and Audree his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have ayenst the sayd Earle or the foresayd other persons for any cause had or done touching the premisses afore the Date of these Presents In witnesse whereof the foresayd Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put their Seals this twentieth Day of March in the sixth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth A Release from the Earl of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Mannor of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Nos Georgius Comes Salopiae salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxori ejus uni Consanguinearum Haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes ex parte Matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet Filii Constanciae Filiae Haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Brown Georgio Brown Filio Haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Filio Haeredi Amiae alterius Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Brown Etheldredae Uxori ejus tertiae Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae Montague Willielmo Pemberton Haeredibus Assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxoris ejus Humfridi Brown Georgii Brown Etheldredae Uxoris ejus Haeredum ipsorum 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 Redditibus Servitiis 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 vel alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae seu 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 Wiltes nobis factis sive habitis Salvis omnino reservatis nobis Haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habuimus 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 Wiltes nobis facta sive habita Ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec Haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum 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 imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Martii Anno Regni Regis Henrici octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Justified by Antient and Authentick Testimonies By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Fitz-Lewis were Argent a Cheveron Sable between three Trefoils of the same Of the Original Descent Noble Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Fitz-Lewis ALthough the House of Fitz-Lewis has been possessed of Advantages in its Original Alliances noble Possessions and continuance that might do honour to the pretences of any Successor whatsoever Yet I was doubtful whether I should insert it among the other Genealogies they being all so strong in extant and apparent Proofs and to this there remaining only Fragments in my power by reason that with Westhornedon and the other of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands there were delivered to the Lord Peters a prudent and wary Purchaser all the Records Deeds and Papers which did belong to that Family there having and by chance only continued among the Evidences of the Lord Lewis Mordaunt who did sell that Estate an ancient though very authentick Pedigree Yet with the help thereof and some other Pieces that have been gathered by accident there being so great a conviction of the value of this splendid Family I have thought it a due to its Memory and Descendants to establish the remembrance of it The Family of Fitz-Lewis through the power of Nature if not under the Laws of Marriage does derive from Royal Bloud being descended of Charles the VIII King of France who was a great King in his time through the person of a Lady that was of high Nobility in this Nation though her Name shall be unmentioned out of respect to other great Families which by her after-marriages to a noble Husband are descended from her It was endowed with many fair Possessions Lands and Lordships It was allied by Marriages to the greatest of all the English Lords and deserv'd to be honour'd by the famous Camden in his Provincial Description thereof with the Epithet of Clara Familia Fitz-Lewis so as I doubt not but my endeavours herein will be acceptable to such as are curious in things of this nature and particularly to the noble Persons concerned in the Bloud and Succession of the Family LEWIS Prince of France who came afterwards to be King LEWIS VIII LEwis Prince of France commonly at that time called Monsieur Lovis de France and in Latine Instruments Dominus Ludovicus de Francia having in the Year 1251. been called into England by several of the greatest Lords of the Kingdom in opposition to their natural
indeed the very Heir and of this Family it was which is so very admirable where Fortune and Virtue that are so oft at odds about the Creatures they intend to raise did both concur to make the Lords thereof so very Great with so little Envy Great they were as all the greatest Dignities could make them they had been Generals in the Field Admirals at the Sea Counsellors at the Board Ambassadors abroad Commissioners in the most important Treaties and borne the greatest Offices in the Houses of their Kings but greater far in that their Noble Qualities and Virtuous Actions did deserve them so as they seemed made to adorn those Honours which might well at first have been designed to illustrate other Men. For their Descent it was several ways derived from the Beds of Kings they took Marriages from the Crown and gave Wives into the Arms of Princes Their Estates were suitable to their other Greatness and the Rewards of their Services such as became the acknowledgment of generous Princes After all which I know not what could obstruct the Lustre of this House unless it were the Malignity of Oblivion or want of Friends within the House of Fame to obviate which these short Memorials are thought fit to be Recorded by a Servant and honourer of their Descendants THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Surrey Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter CHAPTER I. THOMAS HOWARD who was afterward the Second Duke of Norfolk from whom more immediately the Howards of Effingham do Descend being the greatest and most happy Subject of his time it were not amiss for example sake to shew by what Education and Practices he became fit for such a Fortune for he was certainly the Son of Virtue and Chance or Favour had little share in his Prosperity He was by a prudent Father as soon as he was fit for Study committed to the severity of the Schools to the end a great Spirit under discipline might be acquainted with the moderations that are to be used in the course of Humane Life as that he should apply himself to obtain the Favour of the Muses whose Graces if he could acquire they would certainly be to him of use or comfort in every Fortune After he had such a tincture of Letters as was necessary for a Man that was neither design'd for the Pulpit nor the Bar the Lord Howard his Father sent him out of the Country where there was little improvement to be made besides enabling himself in the conduct of mean Sports or meaner Inclinations He addressed him to the Court where he was soon received in the quality of Page or Henchman to King Edward the Fourth continuing there till he came to Mans estate in perpetual practice of those Exercises that are necessary to fit a Man for the Knowledge and use of Arms of all which when he was become a Master he was ambitious to shew his Learning upon a proper Stage And hearing that the Duke of Burgundy one of the nearest and most considerable Allies of the Crown of England was undertaking a War against Lewis the Eleventh at that time King of France He begged leave of the King his Master to go into that Service in Company of other considerable Gentlemen of his own Country who desired to gain Knowledge and Experience in that great Art to be the better able afterward when there should be occasion to serve their own Prince and Country They were received with all the courtesie they could expect from that War-like Prince and had every Encouragement young Adventurers could pretend to in such an undertaking The young Howard did particularly advance into the Favour of the Duke by his extraordinary application to what he came for being the first in every occasion that could possibly gain him either Honor or Experience And thus he continued in this Service till the end of that War at which time he returned home to his own King loaden with the Rewards and Praises of the Duke of Burgundy King Edward as well for the desert of the Young Gentleman as to give Example and Encouragement to other of his Subjects for enabling themselves by such generous untertakings upon his Arrival did distinguish him by several Graces and took him into an Office at that time very considerable to be the Esquire of his Body whose duty it was to attend the King at his making ready both Morning and Evening and afterward he made him Knight He continued from thenceforth to follow King Edward in all his Fortunes he Fought by his side at the Field in Lincoln-shire at Banbury Field and was with him at Warwick when he was taken Prisoner by the Earl of that place And after the Kings escape into Flanders and that all the ways were so be-set as it was over hard for any of his Servants to get after him Sir Thomas Howard was fain to take sanctuary at Saint Johns in Colchester for the true love that he bore King Edward where he remained till the Kings Return upon which he immediately resorted to him and went with him to Barnet Field at which he was sore hurt The King after this being settled in the Throne and designing to go over into France with an Army Royal he sent thither before divers Gentlemen and having great opinion of the Conduct and Experience of Sir Thomas Howard from the Service he had seen under the Duke of Burgundy as because he had been with himself in so many Fields and Businesses he commanded him to go over with them that nothing might be done without his Advice till the Kings own Arrival And when King Edward and King Lewis met at the Barriers upon the River of Somme the said Sir Thomas Howard was with King Edward by the King's Commandment in that Occasion and no Man else save only the Chancellor of England the Chancellor of France and Sir Thomas Cheyny Sir John Howard the Father of Sir Thomas had before this been made Lord Howard and lived always exercised in the greatest Employments having just pretentions to the Honors and Lands of the Great and Antient House of Mowbray as Son and Heir to Margaret the Eldest Daughter to Thomas Mowbray the last Duke of Norfolk But Sir Thomas Howard his Son of whom we Treat having acquired noble Possessions of his own by his Services and his Wife's Inheritance who was Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney did about this time desire the King's leave to retire from Court which having obtained he came into Norfolk and dwelt during the rest of King Edward's days at a House of his Wife 's called Ashwoldsthorpe where he kept an honourable House in favour of the whole Shire The Lord Howard his Father being yet alive and so continuing many Years after What was the inducement to this retreat is still uncertain but it is constant that the last Years of King Edward were so full of Faction
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
all his Expeditions at Sea becoming thereby very expert in Navigation He was in all the Land Services of his time and followed his Father in every Embassy where he was imployed These practices made him fit for great Imployments as indeed such Imployments were fit for him because the truth was that his Father's perpetual custom of keeping his hands clean in all the great Trusts had been committed to him being ever fonder of Fame and Faithfulness than of Money or Estate he had not left his Son so superfluous a Fortune as it might have been easie for him to have suitably subsisted to his desert and great Spirit without the Favour and Assistance of his Princes But the times wherein he lived were very Active and in them usefulness made Men considered more than phancy And the discerning Queen Elizabeth thought she had a jewel in this Youth whose hopefulness and merit shone in the Eyes of every Man The first Imployment we find he had was to be one of those noble persons chose by the Queen to conduct the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain Afterward we find him a Commander of some Forces under his Father that were sent for the suppression of the Earls Rebellion And in the Registers of that Order it appears That he was chosen a Knight of the Garter in the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth In the Twenty eighth of that Queen upon the Death of the Earl of Lincoln he was made Lord High Admiral of England being at that time Lord Chamberlain as his Father had formerly been And in the Year 1588. when the King of Spain sent his greatest Fleet under the Conduct of his greatest Subject the Duke of Medina Sidonia with a design to take the Kingdom with the very sight of so formidable a power the Queen then and her admirable Council pitch'd upon this Lord Howard to be the Buckler of England making him with an extraordinary Power Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Forces on the Sea from the estimation they had of his excellent Virtues as being a Man of great Moderation much knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary throughly Valiant Industrious in Action and a Person whom the Mariners entirely loved The success gave the approbation to this choice the Spaniards appeared the Admiral gave them Battel and they were overthrown England was delivered and the Noble Lord received the Applauses his Valour and his Conduct did deserve But after this there remaining still great jealousies of future dangers from the Enmity of Spain who did design much by the Assistance of the Irish who were at that time Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for defence of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land He was also in this Year on the Fifteenth of June constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And in the Two and twentieth of October following in consideration of his Eminent Services in Anno. 1588. in defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado as afterwards of the Sacking of Cadiz in Spain and for destroying the Spanish Fleet then in the Port there he was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Mowbrays whereof some had before been Earls of that Country In the One and Fortieth Year of the same Queen this Admiral continuing still in great Reputation and there remaining some supition of the Spaniard's ill intentions he was made Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Field Forces and one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England And in these great Trusts he imploy'd his time during the Reign of this Happy and Victorious Queen And the wife Successor upon his Arrival thought it a material testimony of his kindness to the Kingdom he did Inherit to give all marks of his Esteem and Favor to those who had contributed so many Cares and Labours to the Glory and Safety thereof Therefore at his Royal Coronation he made this Earl Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in the Second Year of his Reign at the renewing the Commissions unto several Great Lords for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England he was likewise constituted one of that number But by this time the Noble Earl was grown very Antient and his Body being less able than before to support the Labours and Cares of War or of the Court he by the advice of his Friends resolved of a retreat he resigned the great Office of Admiral into the King's Hands for which he was notwithstanding allowed great Pensions for his Life and other very considerable advantages After which he was engaged in going Extraordinary Ambassador on a most splendid occasion into Spain to Make and Sign that Peace which was so agreeable to King James the First as he thence did design such an Alliance as by Marriage of his Son should make lasting Friendship between the two Crowns This was the last great occasion wherein the Earl of Nottingham did appear the rest of his Life was Peace and Prayer His Lordship departing this World at Hayling in Kent at the Age of Eighty eight Years having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two This Noble Earl had Married Two Wives His First was Katharine Cary Daughter to the Lord Hundsdon His Second was Margaret Stuart Daughter to James Earl of Murray in Scotland Issue by his First Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham who Married Katharine Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Blefso Charles Howard who by reason of his Brothers Decease without Male Issue did succeed him in his Honors and Married Mary Cockain Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell Frances Countess of Kildar Margaret Married to Sir Richard Leusson Issue by his Second Wife James Howard who died young Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham but dyed without Issue WILLIAM Lord Howard Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord Baron of Effingham CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM Lord Howard was a Youth of extraordinary expectation and had given early proof of many rare Virtues he was Active he was Ingenious he was applicable to every thing that was for the Honor of the Court or the Use of the Kingdom In the days of Queen Elizabeth the Pastimes and Triumphs of the State were very Martial Courses at the Tilt were much in fashion and Fights at the Barriers no Man had greater applause at these Exercises than this Young Lord And when Monsieur was here with his great Followers who are held Masters at these Exercises he got the esteem of all the French-Men He was with his Father at the Encounter with the Spanish Fleet though but Young at that time he was with him at the Sacking of Calis and also in most of his Embassies He was Grave of his Nature and entring into the favour of the Ministers as Man likely to be fit for Business when unhappily he fell
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
Elizabeth in English Pag. 516. NOT many days passed before a far greater and more choice Army was raised in England into which many Noblemen and Gentlemen voluntarily listed themselves For a constant rumor grew every day stronger and stronger That the Spaniard with all his might and main prepared for War against England and Ireland encouraged the rather because he was now in possession of Calice from whence it was but a short cut over into England Hawkin's and Drake's voyage had had ill success and the Irish Rebels earnestly urged the succours out of Spain The queen to scatter this Storm that was gathering supposed it the best course to set upon the Enemy in his own Ports and to that end rigged a Fleet of 150 Ships whereof 17 were of her Navy-Royal 22 Low-Country Ships which the Confederate Estates joyned with hers the rest Pinnaces and Victualers In these were 6360 Souldiers under pay Volunteer Gentlemen 1000 Seamen 6772 besides Low-Country-men Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Howard Lord Admiral of England who were at great Charges towards this expidition out of their own Estates were made Commanders in chief with equal Authority under the title of Generals yet so as the Lord Admiral should have the principal Authority and Dignity at Sea the Earl of Essex at Land To these were joyned for a Council of War the Lord Thomas Howard Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Vere Sir George Carew and Sir Coniers Clifford The whole Fleet was divided into four Squadrons the first the Lord Admiral commanded the Earl of Essex the second the Lord Thomas Howard the third and Sir Walter Raleigh the fourth The Officers of the Army were Sir Francis Vere Lieutenant-General or Marshal Sir John Wingfield Quarter-master-general Sir George Carew Master of the Ordnance Sir Coniers Clifford Serjant-major The Colonels were Robert Earl of Sussex Sir Christopher Blunt Sir Thomas Gerrard Sir Richard Wingfield Sir Edward Wingfield Captain of the Volunteers and Anthony Astley Secretary of the Council of War who was to register the Councels with every Man's Reasons and to record all their Actions and Enterprises Again out of the same Pag. 518. UPON Sunday the 20th of June betimes in the Morning they cast Anchor near Saint Sebastian's Chappel on the West side of the Island Essex full of courage and youthful heat was of opinion That the Forces were presently to be Landed Raleigh and especially the Lord Admiral were of a contrary mind which Lord never approved of rash and heady Councels yet upon much intreaty he consented that some should make trial Whether they could conveniently Land there but all in vain the Sea beating violently with vast Waves upon the Shoar Again out of the same Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Chanal could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Eight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son In the Miranora they Fought smartly from break of day till noon when the Spaniards their Galleons being shot through and through and miserably torn and many Men slain in them resolved to fire their Ships or run them a ground Many of the Seamen for fear cast themselves over-board some whereof got to the shoar some were taken some drowned others as they swam cried for Quarter and the Admiral pitying them many of them were saved Again out of the same Pag. 520. AT the same instant almost the Lord Admiral with the Lord Thomas Howard Sir William Paget Raleigh Sir Robert Southwell Richard Levison Philip Woodhouse Robert Mansfield and the Sea-men Sir Edward Hobby bearing the Flag before them following hastily entred the Town Now did the Spaniards give over Fighting and retired into the Castle and Town-house The Town-house was presently yielded the other the next day after upon these conditions That the Citizens should depart in safety with the Garments they wore and the rest should go to the Souldiers for pillage That 520000 Ducats should be paid for their ransom and for the payment thereof Forty of the principal Citizens should be sent as hostages into England Shortly after Proclamation was made That no Man should offer violence to the Spaniards The Women Church-men and Citizens were conveyed to Porta Santa Maria. Again out of the same Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl Sussex Count Lodowick of Nassan Don Christophero a Portuguese King Antonio's Son Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill Edwin Rich Richard Levison Anthony Astley Henry Lennard Horace Vere Arthur Throgmorton Miles Corbet Edward Conway Oliver Lambert Anthony Cook John Townsend Christopher Heydon Francis Popham Philip Woodhouse Alexander Clifford Morrice Barkley Charles Blunt George Gifford Robert Cross James Scudamore Vrian Leigh John Lea Richard Weston Richard Wainman James Wotton Richard Rudal Robert Mansell William Mounson John Bowles Edward Bowes Humphrey Druell Amias Preston Robert Remington Alexander Ratcliffe John Buck John Morgan John Aldrige William Ashinden Matthew Brown Thomas Acton Thomas Gates John Stafford Gillie Merrick Thomas Smith William Pooly Thomas Palmer John Lovell John Gilbert William Harvey John Grey John Vanduvenvord Melchior Lebben Peter Regemort Nicholas Medkirk A Patent constituting Charles Lord Howard of Effingham Earl of Nottingham ELizabetha Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina c. Universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vice-comitibus Episcopis Baronibus ac omnibus aliis ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Cum hi quos divina providentia in Monarchia Regali solio constituit collocavit ut in terris quasi Vicarii coelestis illius Majestatis benè justè piè decent salutariter praesint regno atque quaecunque suae custodiae gubernationi regimini divinitùs mandatae commissae sunt Ipsique monarchae in monarchia sua idem repraesentant quod oculi in corpore quorum officium est dirigere omnia corporis membra ita summi monarchae principes tanquam oculi reipublicae intentivè circumspicere perlustare debeant omnes status ordines imperii sui sine quibus haud dubiè nullam civilem administrationem nullam politiae gubernationem institui aut fieri posse fatendum est Atque usque necessaria est ordinum in magnis imperiis conservatio postquam viderint statum ordinem nobilitatis temporis diuturnitate antiquitate vel aliter convulsum immunitum conquassatum aut ut multa humaniter accidunt morte afflictum debilitatum maturè resarcire instaurare augere amplificare ita quòd aliis quos cum virtutis suae tum generis majorum suorum gloria nobilitavit ad nobilitatem honorem accitis ordinem statum in nitore splendore suo perpetuatim conservent Jam idcirco videntes illustrem ordinem
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
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
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
his enemies wish'd that he should be and objections were not wanting from many of them that were in place to speak and in right to be heard in Occasions and Councels of that nature against any seem'd proper to his Friends for his Alliance Some of them 't was said wanted Fortune others were not of Quality enough and there were those that were not bred in the Religion of the Country which in certain Men was not easie to digest At last the good King who it were to have been wish'd had in more things follow'd his own good nature and judgment accepted the proposition made from Spain by Sir Mark Ogniaty at that time Agent here out of Flanders of a Marriage and Treaty to that purpose with the Young Archduchess of Inspruk which was believed would have answered all the objections of Honor Fortune and Fruitfulness more than any Princess that had been propos'd This could not apparently be refused by the Ministers who found the King did himself desire his Brother's Marriage and that the Duke was resolv'd to have a Wife at any rate Therefore the expedient for its hindrance was to propose a Creature of their own one that follow'd the Court and the favor of it by birth a Stranger not concern'd what became of the Succession of England to be sent over in quality of Negotiator of this business This Man was engaged in the affair whom they did manage as they pleased they made him advance it one day and retard it another and at last he did contribute by his skill to so long delays as it became apparent by divers signs of the Empress's ill health that she was not like long to live From that time the Emperor who thought it just he should provide for his own happiness in the first place began to cast his thoughts upon this Princess and his Council for his satisfaction as well as the interest of his House by reuniting the concerns of Inspruk that had been the Appennage of those Archdukes did wholly give their approbation of that conditional intention in case of the Empress's death So that when the Court of England was in expectation of a final conclusion of this Treaty the cunning Negotiator did procure the appearance of it to stop the Mouths of dissatisfied Men and the clamors would have been upon a rupture after a years suspence and chargeable Treaty so as the Duke being then upon the Sea immediately after his Engagement of Sole Bay in the last Dutch War the Envoy at Vienna sent word The Treaty was now ended and there wanted only an Extraordinary Embassador from the King to come to demand and Marry the Archduchess according to the forms towards bringing her into England contenting the King in that affair and making the Duke happy Hereupon his Royal Highness who had long in his mind pitch'd upon the Earl of Peterborow to undertake and manage this great trust not only as the first person about him for his Birth and Quality but as a Man whom he knew could never be corrupted to act or omit any thing might prove contrary to his intention or his service did now declare he should with the King's leave be alone employ'd and trusted as Extraordinary Embassador in perfecting this matter which so nearly did concern him The Earl did at that time attend the Duke in his own Ship He had been with him the whole Expedition and was particularly participant of all the Honors and Hazards of that bloody Battel wherein the Noble Earl of Sandwich lost his life and so many brave Gentlemen in either Party And from off this Fleet it was he commanded the Earl to repair to the King and entreat his orders to the Ministers for preparing Monies Instructions and Instruments that might enable him to proceed upon his journey in order to bring home the Princess had been so much desired At his arrival and first Audience of the King upon this affair he found His Majesty not so warm as he did expect he would not trust the Earl entirely with his indifference but let fall some doubtful words as it were to sound Whether he would comply with more delays But when he found by the steddiness of his Lordship's Answers That he did expect an ingenuous proceeding for his Master's satisfaction His Majesty a little abruptly broke off the Discourse and bid him repair to the Ministers who should have orders to dispatch him with as much speed as the preparations would admit He address'd himself in the first place to the Lord Treasurer who for all his concurrence with the Duke to other ends and enterests by which he had gain'd a most particular share in his Credit and Favour yet he was certainly no friend to this nor wish'd success to any other Foreign proceeding and did comply with if not foment the King's inclination to a farther delay in the affair Whether it was that he would not appear to the approaching Parliament author of a Match of which he thought they were not like to approve or that he hoped the over-long delays would weary the Duke and make him at last content to take up with some Lady for whom this Lord had a favor in the Court at home Certain it is That he receiv'd the Earl's pressing desires for a dispatch with a colder kind of moroseness than he could have imagin'd and in a way as did seem to expect from the Earl an understanding of some thing he was not willing plainly to express The Duke seem'd to believe the obstructions did proceed from the insinuations of another Minister with whom he had long been out upon many other accounts but he being in most things competitor with the Lord Treasurer was glad to have occasion to justifie himself in a thing so tender to the Duke at the reasonable cost of the other and to set the Saddle on the right Horse The account the Earl of Peterborow gave to his Highness of these Affairs brought him with as much hast as matters would admit from the Fleet to the Town And when he arrived the business was so pressed on his side as the Ministers were driven to break or comply with his desires But it is most true That in all the matters expected from the Treasurer he was more dry more stiff and more scarce than was agreeable to the good opinion it was necessary for him to preserve in the Duke's Mind and the Earl of Peterborow was fain to make use of his competitor who had a desire at that time to justifie himself to the Duke and had also much interest with the King to procure from his Majesty upon reasons of publick honor more large allowances than the Treasurer would otherwise have made who thought to have pinch'd the Earl and made his business uneasie on that part for not complying with him in an indirect sufferance of those delays to take place which might have obstructed the Duke's Marriage in any Foreign part whatsoever However those difficulties were
overcome allowances were made for the Earl's Equipage and provision of Money design'd for the maintenance of the Embassie Orders were given for Commissions and Instructions And after the Earl had served His Majesty in Raising for him a Regiment of Foot whereof he was to be Colonel design'd for carrying on the Dutch War his affairs being all in a readiness for proceeding on his Embassie he did on the _____ of March in the Year _____ under the Character of Embassador Extraordinary to the Emperor depart from London on that employment having in his custody Jewels of his Royal Highness's particular Cabinet to the value of Twenty Thousand Pound intended for a present to the young Archduchess of Inspruk The Earl arrived at Dover the next day and under a very fair passage came the day following to Calles where having stay'd too Nights in providing for his farther proceeding to Paris on the Third day in the Morning an Express came to him from the Court bringing Letters of assurance from thence and from Germany too That the Empress was dead and the long Treaty of Inspruk broken off by reason the Emperor was now resolv'd to have that Princess for himself The Earl had notwithstanding Letters from his Royal Highness and from the Earl of Arlington by the King's Command That notwithstanding this he should proceed to Paris remaining quiet there under his own particular character attending their farther Commands whereby he was like to be employ'd to procure a Princess that might be a fit Wife for the Duke out of some other Family His Lordship obey'd and after being settled at Paris he had advice from his Royal Highness That there had been proposed to him Four Wives with whom since it was impossible for him to be acquainted he did command his Lordship to endeavor by all the diligence he could use to get sight and knowledge of them or at least their Pictures with the most impartial relations of their Manners and Dispositions The First of these was the Dutchess of Guise whom France most particularly wish'd to favor into this Alliance the next the young Princess of Modena only Sister to the present Duke of that City and Country the Third a Lady called Madmoiselle de Rais and the Fourth Mary Anne Princess of Wirtenbergue This was a great trust to the performance whereof was requisite both Honesty and Discretion the first To render unconsider'd all the advantages might be propos'd to make partial the person trusted against the interest and satisfaction of his Master and the latter To find out and judge what might be most expedient and agreeable to his true humor and circumstances The first and the latter of these did recide at Paris the Dutchess of Guise at her own House and the Princess of Wirtenbergue as a Pensioner in the Monastery of ....... but the Princess of Modena was with her Mother in Italy and Madmoiselle de Rais at her Relations some Hundred Miles distant from Paris The Dutchess of Guise he saw at Court she was the youngest Daughter of Gaston of Bourbon Duke of Orleans the King of France his Uncle but a Princess for whom he knew the Duke had no inclination she not being only low and ill shap'd but under the appearance of a feeble Complection so as though she had much reputation for Innocence and Vertue her Constitution did not promise a likelihood of either many or strong Children and that end appearing to the Earl the chief business of the Duke and of England too all the favor of France a share whereof he might have tasted from the merit of a recommendator to this Alliance could not induce him to promote a matter contrary to the ends of his Trust and the Duke's Service The Princess of Modena Mary of Esté his Lordship could not see but by the means of a Scotch Gentleman that had been conversant in the House of Conty one Mr. Conn he was introduced into the Palace of that Prince whose Wife had been one of the young Princess of Modena's nearest Relations and there he saw her Picture that had been lately sent thither from that Court It bore the appearance of a young Creature about Fourteen years of Age but such a light of Beauty such Characters of Ingenuity and Goodness as it surprized the Earl and fixt upon his Phancy That he had found his Mistress and the Fortune of England An ill Picture he saw of Madmoiselle de Rais but being at such distance as he could not know her self or have any perfect relation of her circumstances he sought no farther encouragement in that matter His whole thoughts were turned upon the young Princess of Modena with whose Character that he might be the better acquainted by the means of the forementioned Mr. Conn he got a meeting such as might seem accidental with a Gentleman called the Abbot Richini a Man that was employ'd at Paris in Negotiating the interests of the House of Esté and it was in a private but commodious place for such an interview in the Cloysters of the Great Charter-House in Paris After usual Complements they fell upon divers indifferent Discourses and by degrees that made it casual coming to matters of England and the Duke's being a Widower with the necessity of another Marriage we talk'd of Divers Princesses that the World named as proper for a Match so Illustrious The Earl had occasion hereupon to enquire of him What Children there were in the House of Esté he told him only too A Son that was the present Duke as yet a Minor and a Daughter of about Fourteen Years of Age to whom although he attributed many excellences yet he endeavour'd to make them useless to us by saying The Dutchess her Mother but more strongly her own Enclinations did design her to a Religious life and that she did seem resolv'd not to Marry This affirmation was an extream blow to the hopes and desires of the Earl of Peterborow and of which he was forced to give an account together with the esteem and great value he had for the Character that from all hands he had received of this young Princess But after this he was induc'd by the Duke 's particular direction to make his access to the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue that had likewise as has been said been recommended to his consideration This Lady whose Father had been slain in the War and her Mother retired at that time into Flanders of which Country she was did remain in a Monastery of Ladies in company of several others of great Quality And the Earl was introduc'd to a fight of her by Father Gilbert Talbot at that time newly entred into Orders of Priesthood and an acquaintance of her Confessor She was perswaded to receive his Lordship by way of a Visit in the manner as is usual at the Grate of a Parlor design'd to give the Ladies opportunities of speech at seasonable times with their Friends and Relations This Princess who was Daughter of
of Peterborow to see the Lady and to send him his opinion thereof And to this if it had been any way adviseable His Royal Highness himself would not have been averse from the partiality he ever had to the House of Boullion and principally to Monsieur de Turene whose Niece the Lady was But in truth she was so very young not having fully attain'd Thirteen Years and so little a Woman of that Age too as when it was really represented it was found wholly unproper for the Duke's circumstances and the business of England But to favor it she and her creatures had in the mean time done what they could to detract from the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue to whom notwithstanding from the first impressions he had receiv'd he stood so well enclined as by the return of the next Express after the account of the Princess of Newburgh he commanded the Earl to go back in diligence to Paris where he assured him he should meet all the orders necessary to bring away that Lady The Earl obey'd with much satisfaction esteeming this next to the Italian Alliance the most suitable of any that had ever been proposed So with all the haste he could he came to his first station and not doubting of the performance of what had been so earnestly assured him he lighted at the Monastery where the Princess Mary Anne lived as soon as he came to Paris and acquainted her with the orders he had reason to believe did attend him at his House after the receipt of which he should have but to call her as he said his Mistress and pay her the respects due to the Quality that did attend it He could not but confess the moderation which in other things did appear in her temper was not great enough to conceal her joy in this occasion and she was not to be blamed considering the provision it would have been for an Orphan Maid to Marry a Prince so great both in the circumstances of Fortune and Merit but after he had taken his leave and was return'd home with what a reverse of Fortune did he meet The Agent that did at that time Negotiate in absence of the Embassador had order to watch the Earls approach to Paris that he might deliver his Letters with new orders to him before he arrived thereby to obviate his communication to the Peincess of the last he received at Cullen before he could be forewarned of it or forbiden but by neglect or taking a wrong way to meet him the Earl had seen her and made her complements upon the orders he had so great reason to expect before he could receive his new directions So as coming home and being there saluted by this unwary Minister he received from his Hands such Letters as quite changed all his methods by the total forbidding to proceed any farther in Treaty or Demand of the Princess of Wirtenbergue and directing him to expect instruments and instructions by the following Post to proceed with all haste to Italy to demand according to the forms the young Princess of Modena This last order Reducing the Earl to his first Opinion and Enclination did comfort him against the dissatisfaction of so uncertain and changeable a proceeding He found a way to acquaint the Princess Mary Anne with the unexpected change in the Fortune was design'd her and turn'd the event upon the resolutions of State Ministers from the Duke's changeableness or any dissatisfaction taken from her character Much a do there was to appease a mind disappointed to that degree and there were of those to whom she had seem'd a rival that forbore not to recoyce if not to insult upon this reverse of Fortune But at last she was forc'd to appease her discontents and though the Earl durst see her no more yet he wish'd her much happiness as she did deserve in any other proceeding His Lordship was after this employ'd in preparation for his Voyage to Modena expecting in a Post or two the necessaries should enable him to proceed in that Negotiation In ten days they arrived to his Hands with particular recommendation from the Duke his Master to use that Expedition and diligence which was done capable to establish his Marriage beyond the contradiction or dissolution of a Parliament which it being now the Month of July was like to fit in November and if it were not before that past obstruction would leave no Stone unturn'd that might contradict or hinder any Catholick Alliance He dispatch'd then away his Train and his Equipage under the conduct of his Officers and himself took Post with intention of giving a sudden end to this affair It had been hinted to him That he would find no difficulty in his undertaking all things having been prepar'd by the power and offices of the King of France in whose interests the Princess of this House had of a long time been and that Monarch finding the Match with his Cousin not like to take nor the other of the Princess of Newburgh did not think it adviseable to let His Royal Highness escape into the Alliance of any Family unfavourable to France and therefore he used all the force of his Councels and perswasions to make this Marriage succeed The Earl then receiv'd wings from the Interest and Commands of his Master and came to Lyons in three days but he was no sooner entred into his Inn and began to repose himself believing from the care he had taken to be concealed and his little Equipage that he was there wholly unknown when a Servant of the Inn brought him word There were Two Gentlemen below that desired admittance to speak with him on the part of the Dutchess of Modena He could not refuse to see them not knowing upon what account they came and upon their approach they delivered his Lordship a Letter Signed by one Nardi that stiled himself a Secretary wherein he wrote to acquaint his Excellency That they had heard of his intentions to come into those parts in order to treat of a Marriage with the young Princess of Modena But the Dutchess knowing her Daughters intentions to be entirely against any obligation of that kind and that she was perfectly settled in the resolution of taking upon her a Religious life she thought it reasonable to give him timely advertisement thereof that the King his Master not being unacquainted therewith might desist from exposing himself or his Lordship by pursuing a design which though it was very honourable and advantageous to her her Daughter and the House of Esté yet was unpracticable and by no ways to be brought about The Earl's surprise was infinite in this occasion but he thought it most prudent to seem amaz'd at the cause of such a Letter and to disown to these persons any concern of that nature or orders to proceed in the business they did surmise he told them he was a private Traveller that came upon his own account only to satisfie his curiosity and the
being incognito would not be perswaded from personally paying her his Complements and those respects which a General Reputation did declare were due to her Royal Qualities He made her then a visit in the Forms under all the state to himself and with all the consideration to her that could be possible This drew on a necessity of a Visit from her Highness to the Queen and indeed she was receiv'd at Versailles by their Majesties with all imaginable circumstances of Honor and Consideration and there entertain'd with that Royal profusion and magnificence accustomed from that great Monarch towards such Guests and on such occasions The Queen of France return'd the visit of her Royal Highness And this afterwards drew on the consideration of receiving and giving visits to the other great Princesses of the Royal. House wherein was much circumspection to be had about Punctilio's and Formalities But being in the King of France's House the Marriage made upon his account and his Favours continually employ'd upon all concern'd in this Affair it was thought but a just and necessary return to give unto those of his Royal Blood what respects could be paid without lessening the Dutchess of York or practising any undue condescentions Mediums were then found and expedients for all pretences visits were made by Madmoiselle Madmoiselle de Montpensier and Madame de Guise and repay'd to them again after which and the receipt of very Royal Presents from the King her Royal Highness began her Journey from Paris on the _____ of October was defray'd by the King's Officers till she came on board the King of England's Yachts which attended her at Calice and in all the Provinces and Towns she passed she was met and received by the Governours and Magistrates as if she had been the Queen of France To Calice she came at last and there in company of her Mother her Uncle and all that came with her out of Italy Embark'd in the Katherine Yacht whence in few hours they arrived at Dover upon the Sands whereof the Duke her Husband did attend her and upon her landing she took possession of his Heart as well as of his Arms and was thence conducted by him to her lodging After she had reposed her self his Royal Highness that had provided so to confirm this matter as the malice of any Age to come should have no pretence to call it into Question led out his Dutchess into the great Room before his Bed-chamber and there in presence of all the Lords who had attended him from London of all the Country Gentlemen who were come to see him and what it could contain of the Citizens of Dover he Married again his Wife after the forms of the Church of England by the hands of Dr. Nathanael Crew at this time Bishop of Durham After which and that they had Supp'd together they were lawfully put to Bed for the final consummation of this undertaking And here the Earl of Peterborow ended this great service which through so many difficulties brought to the Duke the fairest Lady in the World and to England a Princess of the greatest Example and Vertue This little Court the second day after the Marriage began their journey to London where by the King the Queen and the Loyal party of the Court they were receiv'd with the countenance and satisfaction honest Men could expect But clouds hung upon the brows of many others who had a mind to punish what they could not hinder and great device there was how to mortifie the Earl of Peterborow that had prov'd the instrument of bringing a Popish Princess into England Great wait was set upon it by some Eminent persons But his Lordship having had the King's Commission for all he did they found there was nothing to be wrought upon it without attacking the King's Prerogative in that part and so though the Parliament began to sit within two days the greatest effect of all the noise came to end but in a Libel What passed in this Parliament is the business of another story and how it came to be dissolv'd but when it was so here did soon appear that great conjuncture where on a sudden his Royal Highness took a resolution to leave the practice and profession of the Church of England Upon what grounds this was resolv'd and with whose concurrence is yet a secret and a mystery But from hence his open enemies took occasion to act against him with greater assurance and his private ones to declare themselves more freely than they had done before He did not at first proclaim he was a Roman Catholick but by little and little not denying he was such and having left the exercise of all his charges to avoid the Oaths it became an uncontested conclusion he was of that perswasion The succeeding Spring and Summer proved full of domestick contrivances great effects of Faction did appear The Envy of the Duke of Monmouth play'd by many little resorts of clandestine Creatures to all the secret prejudice it could against the Duke who on the contrary misled by his desire to please the King or insinuation of ambodexters about himself gave all the testimonies of love and value for that young Viper and besides the publick countenance he gave to him contributed in all he could to his greatness and advantage The Earl of Peterborow constantly declared his Opinion of this proceeding how prejudicial any encrease of Power or Reputation in this young Man would in time prove to his Royal Highness and always foretold he would some time or other become his rival even to the Crown it self From hence and his faithful adherence to his Master's interests he became the most particular object of that Duke's hatred which upon all occasions he shew'd to him and his near Relations and indeed he so managed his advantages in this dislike as during the last Raign kept his Lordship from all the rewards and acknowledgments his long and faithful services to the King and the Crown might justly have pretended to Several Parliaments were assembled after this in each of which the Faction improved that especially which design'd the ruine of the Crown and establishment of a Common-wealth against the prevalency whereof there was but the Duke's fidelity to the King his Brother his valor and vigilancy that did oppose It was he that stood up in every Parliament for the King 's just Power and Prerogative against popular invasion it was he encouraged the King's faithful Friends and his fainting Ministers and it was in him alone the Enemies of the Crown found resistance He made them desperate at last and to accomplish their designs they saw it was impossible without his ruine This did seem a great undertaking to destroy a Prince such as he such in his Birth such in his Merit and Vertues and such in the esteem of all just and reasonable Men. But the zeal of these Common-wealth-Men made them find nothing impossible their resolution was great in this particular their
their meeting the Earl comply'd It was desired by Sir Robert that he might see the Duke make his submission and be forgiven by him and through his means by the King His Lordship brought him to an audience his Highness assur'd him he was above private injuries That he was a Friend or an Enemy to none but as they were so to the King and the Government That he could forgive any body that would be dutiful to his Brother and love Him and His service If he would return to do so he would never think of what was past and he would undertake to make his peace with the King if he intended to deserve it by his future actions Upon which assurance Sir Robert took his leave in all appearance a good Subject After this being upon intentions to go to work with more considerable Men in the next meeting at the Countesses House those endeavours were diverted by an intervening Information Mrs. Cellier had told her Ladiship how she was come acquainted with an ingenuous young Man who by several accidents had attain'd the knowledge of such important things as if he could be brought to the King or Duke might become occasions of discovering one of the most dangerous Conspiracies against them both and the Government of England that had been at any time undertaken and she desired to know if his Lordship would be a means to introduce him The Earl said he would not engage to bring in any Man upon such an account unless he saw the person and heard some probable reasons to encline him to believe what he said but appointed an hour for her to bring him to his Chamber in the Court they did not fail and at the time a young Man appear'd under a decent figure a serious behavior and with words that did not seem to proceed from a common understanding He own'd his Name to be Thomas Willoughby and he introduced his business with a probable discourse of his Life He told That the Wars being ended in Flanders where in several capacities he got his living he returned to England and being here idle to pass his time and look out for opportunities he frequented the Coffee-Houses There by the general discourses wherein at that time most were very free he discover'd the temper of Men to be infinitely enclined to Sedition to a dissatisfaction of the Government and a great desire of change Malice appear'd in most of what was spoken or proposed in those places against the Ministers the Princes themselves and all their Friends and the compliance and sufferance of the good King had brought the esteem of his Power and Authority to so low a rate as Treason was spoke with that liberty as if their had been no Laws made against it In these places he said appear'd to be most busie a certain Man who was call'd a Major and reported to have been an Officer of the old Rebellion He spoke well with Art and Authority knew the Arguments that touch'd Men's Opinions and was not unprovided with those that concern'd their interests and this Man was not only willingly heard but always much applauded Coming thus to a knowledge of what was the humor of the times and the intentions of the principal persons he saw there he said he thought he could no way serve the King better nor the Government than by seeming to give into the Opinions and Inclinations of those Men that thereby he might become knowing of their intentions and Master of some secrets the discovery whereof might after perhaps be of more service than he could foresee He applied himself then to consider their Arguments and make himself able to improve them to their advantage he affected to show a zeal for Liberty and a cunning aversion to the constraint of a single Government He learn'd to make use of the word Popery when there was occasion and to talk high of Slavery and Power Arbitrary This proceeding he said won the heart of the Major and induc'd him to believe he had found an Instrument fit for the Cause and all the Party He could no more live without him he gave him a domestick freedom in his House and Family and at last opened his heart to him and left him no longer a stranger to any of his secrets He told him then that the time now approach'd wherein was designed the overthrow of the present Government against which had conspired the greatest Men in the Court in the Parliament and in the Conutries It was he said made easie by the weakness of the present King by his remissness and want of vigor to assert his own right and by the ill posture whereunto he had suffer'd his Brother to be brought that was the only hopes of sustaining the declining interest All Irons he said were now in the fire to this effect Assosiations were framing in every Country Contributions were making and Money raising from all the Party Men were Listing and Officers named to assert and carry on the Rebellion and he did assure him for his own part he should soon have himself a Commission to be Captain of a Foot Company He told him there was once a Week a Committee of the chief managers did meet to receive accounts from their Friends proceedings in the Countries and to disperse by Expresses they did send their Orders upon any emergencies that did arise He named most of the great ones that favoured the Party and said the Duke of Monmouth was maintained by the Contribution of their Churches And Mr. Willoughby concluded this Information with saying he no way questioned That being privy by this Man's means to the times when their Expresses were sent away that if he could be furnished with a good Horse and Arms he should be easily able to intercept such a one of them as would well discover the dangerous practices upon which they were engaged After having heard all this his Lordship thought it not safe even for himself to conceal or stifle what had been said if it were not of use to the Princes it might be perhaps a Trap for him to see how he would be concern'd for them in things of that nature and consequence He acquainted then the Duke upon the first occasion with what had passed with intent he should make it known to the King but he told the Earl he would first see the Man himself and hear if what he said was of importance enough to trouble the King with it but order'd That what he had to say should be put in writing for the King to see His Lordship had direction then to bring him in the Evening into his Highness's Closet but to be by and so close as he might be a witness to every thing he said Willoughby afterwards called Dangerfield came accordingly and to his Highness justified all he had said to the Earl with more besides and left it written in a Paper under his own hand He after complained of want of Money and the Duke for his
approbatis quo minus in dicto Parlamento apparere personalitèr interesse valeam Nobilem principem Edwardum Ducem Somerset totius Angliae Protectorem simulque personae Regiae Majistatis Gubernatorem nobiles viros Willielmum Paulet militem Dominum Southamptoniae Magnum Magistrum Hospitii Domini Regis Dominum Russell privati Sigilli Domini Regis Custodem meos veros legitimos Actores Factores Procuratores nomino facio constituo Dans concedens eisdem conjunctim divisim plenam authoritatem potestatem tractandi assentiendi seu dissentiendi ac omnia alia generalitèr faciendi Rempublicam concernentia prout eisdem vel alteri eorum videbitur melius expediri nomine meo vice meâ prout ego ipse facere possum aut deberem si personaliter interessem Promittoque me gratum ratum habiturum totum quicquid dicti Procuratores mei statuerint seu fecerint vel alter eorum statuerit seu fecerit in hac parte In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus apposui Datum apud Articles of Agreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son William Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Ninteenth day of May the Second Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Churches of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Between the Right Honourable John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and William Mordaunt the third Son of the said John Lord Mordaunt of the other party Witnesseth That where the said John Lord Mordaunt for the great entire and natural Love that he hath and beareth to the said William is contented to do what in him is to buy get and obtain the Custody Ward and Marriage of the Body and Lands of one Agnes Booth Cousin and next Heir of John Booth Clerk That is to say Daughter and Heir of Charles Booth Brother of the said John Booth Clerk that in consideration of the Premises and for such costs and charges that the said John Lord Mordaunt shall sustain and bear and be at for obtaining and getting of the said premises The said William Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns That he the said William after the same William shall by the Grace of Almighty God Marry and take to Wife the said Agnes Booth the same William shall suffer the said John Lord Mordaunt to take and perceive all the Issues and profits which shall yearly come grow and arise of the Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said William as in the right of the said Agnes may have or hereafter shall have within the Realm of England during the Espousals between the same William and Agnes without Let Impeachment Suit Vexation Interruption or in any other manner of wise to be Expulsed Sued Vexed Inquieted or Disturbed by the same William to the time that the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath and shall plenarily and fully wholly and entirely have received perceived and taken of the Issues and profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes all such Summs of Money which the same John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath ar hereafter shall pay for the obtaining and getting of the Ward and Marriage of the said Agnes and all manner of Costs Charges and Expences concerning the same or any part or parcel thereof Provided always and the said John Lord Mordaunt is so pleased That the said William shall have yearly Forty Marks of the Issues and Profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes towards the living and finding of the said William and Agnes to be paid to the said William and Agnes at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also where the said William standeth bound to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns in the Summ of One thousand Pound Sterling by his Obligation bearing date the day of these Presents The said John Lord Mordaunt Granteth unto the said William That if the said William doth well and truly observe perform fulfil and keep all and singular Covenants Grants and Agreements specified and comprised in these present Indentures which of the part and behalf of the said William are to be performed fulfilled kept and done And also if the said William from time to time do make cause or do to be made such other further good sufficient Surety to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns for the sooner Payment Contentation and Satisfaction of the said Summs of Money so said further expended and paid by the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns without Trouble Suit Vexation of the said William or of any other by his procurement assent or agreement And also if the said William Mordaunt during the natural Life of the same John Lord Mordaunt be Governed Ruled Ordered and Demained in all Causes by the same John Lord Mordaunt That then the said Obligation of the said Summ of One thousand Pounds to be utterly void and of none effect or else to stand in its full Strength and Vertue In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid have enterchangably set their Seals and Signs-Manual the Day and Year above-written John Mordaunt A Division of Lands and Tenements between the Lord Mordaunt Sir Humphrey Brown and others THIS is the Agreement for a Partition to be had between Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Elizabeth his Wife on the one party and Sir Humphrey Brown Serjeant at the Law and George Brown his Son on the other party of all the Maners Lands and Tenements hereafter following The said Sir John Mordaunt is agreed to take in allowance of his part a third part of the Maners hereafter mentioned and allowed to the said Humphrey and George the third part of the Maners hereafter next following and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same Inprimis The third part of the Maners of Drayton and Luffwick Islip and Slipton with all the Members and Appurtenances with the Advowsons of the Churches of Luffwick and Islip The third part of the Maner of Sudburgh in Reversion The third part of the Maner of Thrapston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Emberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Woolston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Wavendon cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Thalton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maners of Rawnes Ringsted and Cotton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Buckworth cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Buckworth and Woolston The third part of the Woods following and the
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
of Peterborow CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow greeting Know ye that we for the great and singular Trust and Confidence we have in your approved Wisdom Fidelity and Circumspection have assigned made constituted and ordained and by these Presents do constitute assign make and ordain you to be our Lieutenant within our County of Northampton and in all Corporate and Priviledged places within the Precinct and Limits of the same County as well within the Liberties as without And do by these Presents give full Power and Authority unto you that you from time to time may levy gather and call together all and singular our Subjects of whatsoever State and Degree or Dignity they or any of them be dwelling or inhabiting within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits or precincts of the same County or any of them as well within Liberties as without meet and apt for the Wars and them and every of them to try array and put in Readiness and them also and every of them after their Abilities Degrees and Faculties well and sufficiently to cause to be armed and weaponed and to take the Musters of them in places most meet for that purpose after your good discretion And also the same our Subjects so arrayed tryed and armed as well Men of Armes as other Horsemen Archers and Footmen of all kinds and degrees meet and apt for the Wars to conduct and lead as well against all and singular our Enemies as also against all and singular Rebels Traytors and other like Offenders and every of them their and every of their Adherents against us our Crown and Dignity within our said County and all corporated and priviledged places within the Limits or Precincts of the said County and every of them as well within Liberties as without from time to time as often as need shall require by your discretion And with the said Enemies Traytors and Rebels to fight and them to invade resist repress subdue slay kill and put to execution of death by all ways and means by your said good discretion And to do fulfil and execute all and singular other things which shall be requisite for the Levying and Government of our said Subjects for the Conservation of our Person and Peace so by you in form aforesaid levyed and to be levyed and to do execute and use against the said Enemies and Rebels Traytors and such other like Offenders and their Adherents as necessity shall require by your discretion the Law called the Martial Law according to the Law Martial and of such Offenders apprehended or being brought into subjection to save whom you shall think good to be saved and to slay destroy and to put to Execution of Death such and so many of them as you shall think meet by your good discretion to be put to Death And further our will and pleasure is and by these Presents we do give unto you full power and lawful authority that in case any Invasion of Enemies Insurrection Rebellion Riots Routs unlawful Assemblies or any like offences shall happen to be moved in any place of this our Realm out of the limits of this our Commission that then as often as need shall require by your good Discretion or as you shall be directed from us by any special Commandment you with such power to be levyed within the limits of your Lieutenancy as you shall think requisite or as shall be directed from us as is aforesaid shall with all diligence repair to the place where any such Invasion unlawful Assembly or Insurrection shall happen to be made to subdue repress and reform the same as well by Battel and other kind of force as otherwise by the Laws of our Realm and the Law Martial according to your discretion And further we give unto you full power and authority for the Execution of this our Commission to appoint and assign in this our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places aforesaid as well within Liberties as without Muster-masters and one Provost Martial which Provost Martial shall execute and use the Martial Law in case of any Invasion Insurrection or Rebellion in conducting any number of Men of War against the said Invaders Traytors or Rebels during the continuance of such Invasion Insurrection or Rebellion Wherefore we will and command you our said Lieutenant That with all diligence you do execute the Premises with effect And for a smuch as it may be there shall be just cause for you to be attendant on our Person or to be otherwise imployed in our Service whereby this our Service of Lieutenancy committed to your Fidelity cannot be by you in person executed in such sort as we have appointed the same Therefore we give unto you for your better aid and assistance and for the better performance and execution of this same our Service full power and authority from time to time to appoint assign and constitute by writing under your Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as you in your discretion shall from time to time think fit to be your Deputies in this our said Service in our said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And by this our present Commission We give unto such Deputies so to be by you assigned and appointed as aforesaid or to any two or more of them full power and authority in your absence to do and execute in our said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without all and every thing and things before in this our Commission assigned and appointed by you to be done and executed And our will pleasure and commandment is That your said Deputies so by you from time to time to be appointed shall immediately after your Letters of Deputation to them made as is aforesaid take care and charge to see every point of this our Commission as fully and perfectly executed in your absence as you your self ought to have done if you had been personally present And the better to enable them so to do our will and pleasure is That immediately after such Deputation to them made as aforesaid you shall deliver to them a Duplicate or true Transcript of this our Commission subscribed with your Hand And whatsoever you being present or in your absence your said Deputies or any two or more of them shall do by vertue of this our Commisson and according to the Tenor and Effect of the same touching the execution of the Premises or any part thereof the same shall be by these Presents discharged in that behalf against us our Heirs and Successors And further we will and
and their Heirs and Assigns shall be and stand seized of all the Maners Lands Tenements Royalties and Hereditaments whatsoever in the said Fine or Fines mentioned and expressed to be comprized in the same and to those uses intents and purposes and upon the same Limitations and Payments as the said Recovery and Recoveries are in and by these Presents meant mentioned and expressed and as the true intent meaning and purpose of these Presents be and are intended mentioned or meant to be limited and appointed and that to all intents and purposes whatsoever In Witness whereof to the first part of these Presents with the said Thomas Lock John Row Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Henry Lord Mordaunt hath put to his Hand and Seal And to the second part of these Presents with the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Thomas Lock and John Row have put their Hands and Seals And to the third part with them the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Thomas Lock and John Row remaining the said Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley have put their Hands and Seals the Day and Year above-written Annoque Domini 1608. Vltima Voluntas Henrici quarti Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God Amen The Sixth Day of February in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. videlicet of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth Annoque Domini 1608. I Henry Lord Mordaunt knowing the Days of Mans Life to be few and my self to be now Summoned by languishing Sickness the messenger of Death and God knows how soon I shall yeild up my Soul unto the Hands of my God and Saviour do therefore while I am praised be God in perfect Memory make publish and divulge this my last Will and Testament Wherein and whereby I commit and commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Body to be Buried at Turvey amongst my Ancestors there lying Buried and for the clearing of my Conscience before God and Man and to give a publick satisfaction to the World concerning such and those Imputations which lately have been laid upon me and for which I have in a high degree been censured I mean the late Gunpowder Treason which fact for the Heinousness thereof in the Offenders therein I do loath to remember and now sorrow to repeat therefore at this time when all hope or desire of long Life hath forsaken and now Almighty God into whose Hands I am instantly yeilding up my Soul is my immediate Judge to witness with me that I lie not I do solemnly Protest before God and his Angels and that without all Equivocation or Duplicity whatsoever that I am innocent of that Fact and guiltless of all Foreknowledge thereof and although I know that this Protestation of mine cannot without the gracious Mercy of my Prince and Sovereign the King's Majesty extenuate or mitigate the greatness of my past Censure Yet herein I comfort my self that I live and that in the time of my dying Innocence to publish and express the truth and grief of my trouble which I hope will suffice to cleanse the stain thereof from my Name and House and so to leave the Reputation of my Name and House as I found it spotless from being defamed or disreputed with the Knowledge Acting or Assenting unto any dishonourable disloyal or dishonest Action whatsoever And whereas I have lately by Fine or other Conveyance in Law settled my Estate and Living amongst my Children and Family according to my own mind and good liking as by an Indenture Tripartite dated the Fourth day of January last made between me on the first part Thomas Lock and John Row on the second part and the Right Honourable the Earls of Worcester and Rutland and some others on the third part I do heartily intreat my said Honourable Friends and all others in the said Indentures mentioned and to be trusted that they would carefully according to my Trust in them severally reposed and as the case shall fall out execute and see performed my said Plot and Project for the benefit of my said Children and Family and for the performance of my other Intentions therein expressed And I do right heartily intreat my Righ Honourable and welbeloved Brother-in-law the Lord Compton whom for that purpose I have left out of the said Indenture that he would be pleased to have a care and regard unto the executing and performing of my said Project that the Issues and Profits of my Maners Lands and Revenues in the said Indentures mentioned may be truly disposed according as the same by me in my said Indenture be appointed And I do give to the said Lord Compton for his pains Item I do Will and bequeath unto my Son John Mordaunt all my necessary Household and Implements of Household which and wherewith my several Houses of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of Drayton in the County of Northampton be now furnished withal which said necessary Household and Implements of Household I Will shall go and remain with my said Houses from Heir to Heir Item I do further Will and Bequeath all other the Legacies and Portions in a Schedule to this my present Will filed mentioned devised and bequeathed and I do make Sole Executor of this my Will the Right Honourable the Lord Compton In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written SIGILLVM HENRICI DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Fourth of that Name Fifth Lord MORDAVNT Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI A Pardon and Release Granted to John Lord Mordaunt of a Fine in the Star-Chamber set upon Henry Lord Mordaunt his Father JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Commissioners of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to all other the Officers Ministers and Subjects of us our Heirs and Successors to whom it shall or may appertain Greeting Whereas in our Court of Star-Chamber before our Counsel there the Third Day of June in the Fourth Year of our Reign of England France and Ireland there were brought to the Bar as Prisoners from our Tower of London Henry Lord Mordaunt late deceased and Edward Lord Sturton against whom Sir Edward Coke
Knight then our Attorney General did inform for divers great Contempts and Misprisions by them committed and done against us whereupon our said Court weighing and considering the quality of their said Offences did order and adjudge The said Henry Lord Mordaunt for his Offence therein should pay to our use for a Fine the Summ of Ten thousand Marks as by the Records of the said Court of Star-Chamber it doth and may appear And whereas the said Fine of Ten thousand Marks hath not been to us yet answered and paid so as the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of our Right Trusty and Welbeloved John Lord Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Henry Lord Mordaunt deceased are chargeable subject and liable to and with the payment of the same Know ye nevertheless That we being graciously pleased to free and acquit the said John Lord Mordaunt and his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of and from the said Fine and every part thereof of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion have Pardoned Remised and Released and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Pardon Remit and Release unto the said John Lord Mordaunt by whatsoever Name or Names Sirname or Sirnames or addition of Names or Sirnames Dignity Place or Places the said John Lord Mordaunt is or lately was called or known the foresaid Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and every part and parcel of the said Ten thousand Marks And further for the more full and absolute freeing and discharging of the said John Lord Mordaunt of and from the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and of every part and parcel thereof We of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion for Us our Heirs and Successors do by these Presents Pardon Remit and Release unto the said John Lord Mordaunt all and all manner of Actions Suits Informations Seisures Extents Writs Processes Judgments Executions Impetitions Claims and Demands which we now have or which We our Heirs or Successors at any time hereafter can may or might have against the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns or his or their or any of their Lordships Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts or Credits whatsoever for or in respect of the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks against or upon the said Henry Lord Mordaunt his said Father adjudged given set and imposed as aforesaid and him the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators Terrtenants and Assigns and his and their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts and Credits of for from and concerning the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and every part and parcel thereof We do for Us our Heirs and Successors clearly and absolutely Acquit Exonerat Free and Discharge for ever by these Presents Willing and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors straitly charging and requiring our said Commissioners for our Treasury and the Treasurer Chancellor and Under-Treasurer Chamberlains Barons and Remembrancers of the Exchequer of Us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court for the time being whom it may concern and all other the Officers and Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whomsoever That he the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators Terrtenants or Assigns or any his or their Lordships Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Leases Debts Rights or Credits or any of them or any part or parcel thereof for or by reason of the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks or any part thereof be not hereafter by any of the Sheriff Under-Sheriff Bayliff or other Officers or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors in any wise Sued Vexed Extended Seized Troubled Molested Impeached Questioned or Inquieted but shall thereof be fully freely clearly and absolutely from henceforth by virtue and upon shewing forth of these Presents or the Inrolment Constat or Exemplification thereof acquitted exonerated and discharged against Us our Heirs and Successors the said Order Decree Sentence Fine and Judgment of our said Court of Star-Chamber herein before mentioned or any matter or thing therein contained or any Estreat Process Seisure or Extent heretofore awarded had or made touching the Premises or any Act Statute Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restraint whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And further We do for Us our Heirs and Successors of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion Will and Grant to the said John Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That these our Letters Patents of Pardon or the Inrolment thereof and every Clause Grant Article Matter or Thing therein contained shall be good sufficient and effectual in the Law and shall be taken construed and adjudged most strongly against Us our Heirs and Successors and most favourably benignly and beneficially to and for the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for the full clear and absolute Pardoning Releasing Freeing and Discharging him them and every of them and his and their Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts and Credits of for from and concerning the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks so ordered decreed and adjudged as aforesaid and every part and parcel thereof And of and from all and every Writ Process Extents Seisures Executions Claims Benefits and Demands whatsoever which we now have or which we our Heirs or Successors at any time hereafter shall might or may have for touching or concerning the Premises Notwithstanding the not true or not certain or not reciting naming or mentioning the said Information wherein or upon which the said Fine was set or assessed upon the said Henry Lord Mordaunt or of the Offences or Misdemeanors or other Cause for which the same was set or assessed or of the natures or qualities of any of them And notwithstanding the not mentioning not reciting or not true and certain meaning or reciting of the just Day or time of the said Sentence or Judgment therein given as aforesaid or any Act Statute Ordinance Provision Commandment Order or Restraint or any other Incertainty Defect or Imperfection Cause Matter or Thing whatsoever to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Although express mention of the Certainty of the Premises or of any of them or of any other Gift or Grant by us or any of our Progenitors or Predecessors to the said John Lord Mordaunt before this time made in these Presents is not made Any Statute Act Ordinance Provision or Restraint heretofore had meaned ordained or provided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Eleventh Day of March in the seventeenth Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the