them were used in no Nation anciently but among the Romans and were taken up in France and England only about the Conquest or a little before under King Edward the Confessor and in Scotland not before that time unto which the Learned of that Nation do refer the Antiquity of their Sirnames although Buchanan doth suppose they were not in use in that Kingdom many years after likewise he saith That the better sort even from the Conquest by little and little took Sirnames so as they were not setled among the common people fully till about the time of Edward the Second but still varied according to the Father's Name as Richardson if the Father were Richard Hodgson if the Father were Roger or in some other respect And from thenceforth began to be established upon their Posterity This he says will seem strange to some of the English and of the Scotish Nations who like the Arcadians think their Sirnames as Ancient as the Moon or at least to reach many an Age before the Conquest But they that think it most strange he says will hardly find any Sirnames that descended to their Posterity before that time neither have they seen he fears any Deed or Donation before the Conquest but subsigned with Crosses and single Names in this manner ✚ Ego Eadredus confirmavi ✚ Ego Edmundus consolidavi likewise for Scotland in an old Book of Duresm in the Charter whereby Edgar Son of King Malcome gave Lands near Coldingham to that Church in the Year One thousand ninety seven the Scotish Nobility witnesses thereunto had no other Sirnames than the Christian Names of their Fathers for they Signed ✚ Gulphi filii Memani ✚ Culverti filii Donecani ✚ Olavi filii Oghe As for himself he says he never found any Hereditary Names before the Conquest neither any that he knew and yet both he and divers of his acquaintance had pored and pusled over many an old Record and Evidence to satisfy themselves therein But he says about the time of the Conquest he observed the very Beginning as it were of many Sirnames which are thought very Ancient whereas it may be proved That their lineal Progenitors bore other Names within these Six Hundred Years Warren and Mortimer he says are accounted Names of Great Antiquity yet the Father of them for they were Brethren which first bore those Names was Walter de Sancto Martino He that first bore the Name of Clifford from his Habitation was the Son of Richard the Son of Puntz a Noble Norman who had no other Name and so having instanced in many he concludes he could exemplify in sundry more which shortly after the Conquest took these Sirnames when their Fathers had none at all or else most different whatsoever their Posterity do overwene of the Antiquity of their Names as if in the continual Mutability of the World Conversion of States and fatal Periods of Families Five Hundred Years were not a sufficient continuance for a Name when but very few have reached thereunto These are the words of the Famous Cambden that Oracle of Antiquity in his Treatise of Sirnames amongst others of his Remains which I have thought fit to set down that the peruser of these my ensuing Genealogies being prepossessed with a of what length of time can by Proof be afforded to any such pretence there having been assuredly no Sirnames before the Conquest may upon comparison be fit to make a Difference between what shall be here exposed without other Ornaments than the unquestionable Truths their extant Evidences shall impose upon them and those other specious Fables which Fast and Flattery have produc'd to the Prejudice of ancient Probity undervaluing of true Nobleness and Scandal of the Heroick Science So there remains to speak but of the Etymologies or Derivations of these Names which their great Age and Continuance has left very uncertain having been taken up as will be proved among the first of Sirnames I shall only offer as grounds of a probable conjecture thereupon That as Names were usually taken from Places from Offices from Actions from Conditions of the Mind Complexions of the Body and sundry other means as you will find in this rare Antiquary's Treatise thereof and as Noble of the one as of the other So the marks between them seem to have been but the words of De and Le preceding the first intimating the Derivation from a place either of the persons Possession or of his Birth the latter of an Office or occasional Sobriquet upon some incidence or action which was in that beginning of Names amongst the greatest very usual as for Example whereas Jeffrey de Mandeville Bertran de Verdun William de Warren and Roger de Mortimer were so named from Places William Le Marshall Walter Le Steward William Le Latimer and Robert Le Despencer with other great Families were of Offices Hugh Le Bigot Robert Le Manduit Hamon Le Strange and Robert Le Blond upon incidents of the Mind the Manners of the fortune and of the Person received livewise the Appellations which afterward remained to their Posterity And thus although a positive Derivation I shall not undertake to give unto the words it may be supposed upon some like occasion to these latter the Names of which we treat did first arise since they had in the Assumers of them the Additions of Le or De and all of them we find under these Appellations to have received from their Princes their Parents or their Relations the Lands and Lordships of which they were first possessed as shall with the Succession of their Posterities and their Inherited Houses be herein demonstrated and from them an uninterrupted Succession by which their Arms and Lands were engrafted into the House of Mordaunt There shall be set forth the Arms that are ascribed to them and which were born by their Descendants the Actions they atchieved the Dignities with which they were honoured and the Lands and Lordships they did acquire with divers of their Seals Tombs and Images I shall begin with the first Alliance from whose Heir General there descended Arms and Land the Description whereof I shall set forth to the Conjunction with the Paternal House after which shall be expos'd in a Genealogical Line the Arms of the Descent and its Alliances whereunto shall succeed all the Proofs of the first House and in the same Method what concerns the rest of the Inherited Houses in their Order In the Ornaments of Arms and Distinctions in Heraldry there may be in this Treatise a difference from what in some kinds is generally practised in this Country But they being according to the use of those Nations that at present in things of this Nature are very curious and refined and altogether concordant with reason and the proportion of things and qualities I hope that difference will give occasion for no exception After all in this Method I suppose that Men may find a certain way to perserve the Memory and Esteem of
tertia parte dictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cùm acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae de Dominis Capitalibus feodorum liberè quietè bene in pace Jure haereditario imperpetuum per servitia inde debita consueta Et Ego praedictus Robertus haeredes mei omnia praedicta terras tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis unà cum tertia parte supradictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cum acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus imperpetuum defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio concessio praesentis Cartae meae Confirmatio ratae stabiles imperpetuum permaneant istam praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Willielmo de Mandeville Johanne Hussege Roberto Plagenet Waltero Setwale Rogero Marnion Roberto Swotyng Johanne Bernard aliis Data apud Westbury die Veneris proximo ante Festum beatae Margaretae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi Nono Hollinshed his Chronicle of England Page 329. THere were Letters intercepted about the same time which a Messenger brought out of Scotland three closed and three open for there were six in all The King sent them to the Archbishop of Canterbury who by his commandment published them in open Audience at London The first was closed with the Seal of the Lord Thomas Randulfe Earl of Murrey Lord of Annandale and of Man Lieutenant to Robert le Bruce King of Scotland which contained a Sase-conduct for Sir Thomas Topclive Chaplain and one to be Associate with him to come into Scotland and to return from thence in safety The second was sealed with the Seal of Sir James Dowglas for a like Safe-conduct for the same persons The third was closed with the Seal of the said Earl of Murrey for the Safe-conduct of the Lord John de Mowbray and the Lord John de Clifford and forty Horses with their Pages for their safe coming unto the said Earl into Scotland for their abiding there and returning back The fourth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed to King Arthur The fifth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed unto the Lord Ralph Nevill The sixth had no direction but the tenour thereof was this as followeth You shall understand my Lord that the communication beforehand had is now brought to effect for the Earl of Hereford the Lords Roger Damoriae Hugh de Audelie the younger Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford John Gifford Henry Teis Thomas Mauduit John de Willington and all others are come to Pomfret and are ready to make you good assurance so that you will perform Covenant with them to wit for your coming to aid us and to go with us into England and Wales to live and dye with us in our quarrel We therefore beseech you to assign us day and place where we may meet and we will be ready to accomplish fully our business and we beseech you to make us a Safe-conduct for thirty Horses that we may with safety come to your parts Again in the same Chronicle Page 330. IN this Fight was slain the Earl of Hereford the Lord William de Sullye with Sir Roger de Bunghfeild and divers others and there were taken Thomas Earl of Lancaster the Lord Roger Clifford Son to that Roger which dyed in the Battel of Bannocksborne in Scotland the Lord Gilbert Talbot the Lord John Mowbray the Lord Hugh de Willington the Lord Thomas Mauduit the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Philip Darey the Lord Thomas Wither the Lord Henry de Willington the Lord Hugh de Knovill the Lord Philip de Beche the Lord Henry de Leiburne the Lord Henry de Bradburne the Lord John de Beckes the Lord Thomas Lovell the Lord William Fitz-William Robert de Waterville John de Strickland Odnell Heron Walter Pavely of Stretton and a great number of other Esquires and Gentlemen This Battel was fought on the fifteenth day of March in the year 1322. after the accompt of them that begin the year at the Circumcision which was in the said fifteenth year of this Kings Reign And again Page 331. of the same Chronicle ON the same day the Lord William Tuchet the Lord William Fitz-William the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Henry Bradborne and the Lord William Chenie Barons with John Page an Esquire were drawn and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortly after Roger Lord Clifford John Lord Mowbray and Sir Gosein de Eevill Barons were drawn and hanged at York At Bristol were executed in like manner Sir Henry de Willington and Sir Henry Mountfort Baronets And at Gloucester the Lord John Gifford and Sir William Elmebrige Knight And at London the Lord Henry Teies Baron At Winchelsey Sir Thomas Culpepper Knight At Windsor the Lord Francis de Aldham Baron And at Canterbury the Lord Bartholomew de Badelismere and the Lord Bartholomew de Ashborneham Barons Also at Cardif in Wales Sir William Fleminge Knight was executed Divers were executed in their Countries as Sir Thomas Mauduit and others Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem Pag. 2547. Ex Henrici Knighton Canonici Leicestrensis Chronico de Eventibus Angliae Part of the Charge against Hugh le Despenser at his Arraignment ET Faitez prendre mon tres honourable Seignour le bon Count de Lancastre Thomas que estoit cousin Germain à nostre Seigneur le Roy de ses freres Uncle à tres honourable de France de sa soere Madame Isabelle Royne d' Angleterre si lui faitez faussement emprisoner despoilier touz lez sons en sa sale proprement deins sa Castele de Pomfrete par vostre reall povare que vous avez purpris nostre Seigneur le Roy luy faitez juger par une faulse recorde encontre leye resone la grant Chartre Ensi faites mordrer martirizer moirir de dure morte piteouse Et cest malvys cruelté tirantie faistez al si digne persone ne vous poez sauler del sanck dez cristenez espandier Ency faitez en mesme tiele journeye pour mon dit Seigneur plus tormentyr sez Baronz sez chivaleuz se enaux vennancez trayner pendre puis juger al mort par cel fausse recorde encontre leye resone pendre dispituosement sans mercy come Monsieur Wareyne del Lyle Monsieur William Tocher Monsieur Thomas Maydut Monsieur Henry de Bradburne Monsieur William Chornel Monsieur Bartholomew de Ashburne à Londres Monsieur Henry Teies à Windesore Monsieur Francis de Aldham à Gloucester le Seignour Gifforde Monsieur Roger de Elmesbrigge à Bristoll Monsieur Henry de Willington Monsieur
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
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
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
Three and fiftieth Young Pye Per breve de privato Sigillo In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno xviij Regis nunc Jacobi videliâ—et inter Recorda de termino Paschae rotulo ex parte Remem Thesauri reman intratum A Deed of Jointure made for the Countess of Peterburgh before Marriage THis Indenture Tripartite made the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith that is to say of England France and Ireland the Nineteenth and of Scotland the Four and fiftieth Between the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Baron of Turvey on the first part the Right Honourable Lady Anne Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Fane of Apethorp in the County of Northampton Knight and Sir Oliver Luke of Woodend in the County of Bedford Knight on the second part and Henry Lovell of Blechmichleigh in the County of Surrey Esquire and Henry Stanley of the Inner-Temple London Esquire of the third part Witnesseth That whereas there is a Marriage intended and agreed by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Lord Mordaunt and Elizabeth Howard Sole Daughter and Heir of William Lord Howard of Effingham deceased and Heir apparent of the said Lady Anne Howard in consideration whereof and for the love and affection which he the said Lord Mordaunt doth bear unto the said Elizabeth Howard in case she survive and over-live the said Lord Mordaunt and for the making and providing a competent Jointure and Livelihood to the said Elizabeth Howard in case she survive and over-live the said Lord Mordaunt fit for her Honour and Degree and for setling and continuing of the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments hereafter in these Presents expressed to continue in the Issues Name and Blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it please God as hereafter in these Presents is mentioned He the said John Lord Mordaunt for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Grant Promise and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns and every of them by these Presents That he the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs at their or some of their own proper Costs and Charges in the Law in this side or before the Feast of Pentecost commonly called Whitsontide next ensuing the date hereof shall and will acknowledge and levy one or more Fine or Fines with Proclamations according to the Statute in that Case provided before the King's Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster in due form of Law according to the common course of Fines in such Cases used unto the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and the Heirs of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley of all those his Maners of Drayton Islip Ringsted Furnels in Raundes Addington Slipton and Luffwick in the County of Northampton with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances and of the Capital Messuage or Mansion-House of Drayton aforesaid with the Appurtenances and of the Rectories or Parsonages of Slipton Denford and Ringsted and of the Rectory of Luffwick in the said County of Northampton with their and every of their Appurtenances and of all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt lying and being in the several Towns Parishes and Hamlets of Drayton Ringsted Islip Raundes Addington Slipton Luffwick and Denford in the County of Northampton and of all the Rights Members Royalties and Appurtenances to the said Maners Parsonages Lands or Tenements or any of them in any wise appertaining or belonging and of all that his Maner or Farm of Kemston-burn in the County of Bedford with all the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereto appertaining and of all those his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments being Freehold in Cranfield in the said County of Bedford By which Fine or Fines with Proclamations he the said Lord Mordaunt shall acknowledge the said Maners Parsonages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances by such name or names and by such quantity and number of Acres as shall be meet and convenient to be the Right of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley as those which the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley have of the gift of the said Lord Mordaunt and shall remise and quit claim to the same from him and his Heirs to the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and the Heirs of them the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley with Warranty against him the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs and all claiming from by or under them or any of them Which Fine or Fines in form aforesaid or in any other manner to be levied and all other Fine or Fines which shall be of the Premises or any part thereof levied by the said Lord Mordaunt to the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley or either of them on this side the said Feast of Pentecost shall be and enure and shall be deemed and taken to be and enure and the said Cognizees therein their Heirs and Assigns shall from and immediately after the levying and engrossing of the said Fine or Fines stand and be seized of all the said Maners Parsonages and Premises and of every part and parcel thereof to the use of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and of their Heirs for ever To the only intent and purpose That the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley shall stand and be adjudged perfect Tenants of the Freehold of the said Maners and other the Premises and of every part thereof until a perfect Recovery may be lawfully had and executed of the Maners and Premises against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley And the said Lord Mordaunt for himself his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors and Assigns That the above-named Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke shall and may before the said Feast of Pentecost at the proper Costs and Charges in the Law of him the said Lord Mordaunt Commence and Prosecute one or more Writs of Entry Sur disseisin in le post against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley retornable before the King's Majesty's Justices of his Highness's Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster according to the usual course of common Recoveries whereby they shall demand against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley the said Maners Parsonages Lands and other the Premises by such name and names number and quantity of Acres as shall be thought meet and requisite Unto which Writ or Writs the said Henry Lovel and Henry Stanley shall appear in proper person or by their Attorney or Attornies lawfully authorised and shall Vouch to Warranty the said Lord Mordaunt And the said Lord Mordaunt agreeth That he shall appear in proper person upon the same Voucher or by
Garrison and Interests you may find it necessary to resort in person to our Royal Presence either to inform us of the Grounds and Probabilities of further Designs to the good and advancement of our Dominions there and to take our Commands and Directions thereupon or to solicit and procure such other supplies and necessaries as the occasion and subsistence of our said City and Garrison shall require We do enable you by our license which by these presents we do grant unto you to repair unto us when you shall see convenient leaving behind you to govern in your absence a Deputy fit for that place or such a one as before your departure from hence or hereafter we shall signifie and direct unto you IX If which we cannot expect any accident should intervene whereby he City of Tangier should fail to be delivered to you you are then to return home with the Forces under your command if by joint advice after meeting with the Earl of Sandwich you shall not agree upon some further design for our service Charta Regis Caroli Secundi Potestatem Concedendi Bellum faciendi vel Pacem cum Regibus vel Principibus Africae CArolus Secundus Dei gratia magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus singulis ad quos hae litterae pervenerint salutem Cum indole naturae atque instituto regiminis omnes homines prae caeteris Principes ad pacem concordiam inter dissitas nationes conciliandam ac fovendam animos studiaque sua applicare debeant non solum quia talis humani generis consensus ad univerlam incolumitatem Commercii incrementum navigandi securitatem quam maxime facit sed etiam quia Dei Optimi Maximi gloria ex hujusmodi mediis mirifice crescit dilatatur Nos satis conscii regiam Celsitudinem ad tales curas praecipue destinatam ac constitutam esse nec minus pro nostra statione commode ut putamus ad illiusmodi fines promovendos id unice operam dare atque eo contendere decrevimus ut longinquae terrae atque adeo universus orbis si fieri possit cum nostra Britannia manus animos sinceros amplexus conjungat Sciatis igitur quod nos probitate ac fide nobilissimi Viri perquam fidelis praedilecti consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Civitatis nostrae Tingitanae in Africa omniumque circumcirca regionum portuum littorum pagorum Capitanei-Generalis Praefecti nec non in iisdem oris ac littoribus Vice-admirali nostri confidentes eundem Henricum Comitem de Peterborow nostrum verum indubitatum Plenipotentiarium constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes constituimus ordinamus Dante 's eidem virtute praesentium facultatem authoritatem mandatum generale ac speciale per se per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos cum quolibet Rege Principe Dynasta Civitate vel Statu in Regnis de Sus Fez Morocco vel qualibet alia per Africam ditione supremam aut sufficientem potestatem habente pacem vel inducias prout quandocunque quotiescunque ipse dictus Comes è re nostra esse judicaverit faciendi amicitiamque vel antiquam renovandi vel novam ineundi pro nostrorum Regnorum Subditorum Mercatorum bono commercio commodo atque de super quibuscunque articulis capitulis causis conditionibus pacis amicitiae faederis commerciorum restauratione aut stabilimento cum dictis Regibus Principibus Dynastis Civitatibus aut Statibus vel quibuslibet eorum respective sub modis formis provisionibus cautionibus securitatibus quas ad formam stabilem Conventorum observationem necessarias aut idoneas putaverit atque de aliis ad veram sinceram pacificationem amicitiam mercutaraeque exercitationem spectantibus hinc inde conciliandi tractandi concordandi paciscendi conveniendi finaliter concludendi Denique omnia alia nostro nomine gerendi exercendi firmandi quae ad servitium nostrum spectant opportuna salubria videbuntur Promittentes bona fide in Verbo Regio quicquid per dictum nostrum Capitaneum Generalem Plenipotentiarium Henricum Comitem de Peterborow vel per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos legittime constitutos actum gestum conventum conclusum fuerit nos ratum gratum ac acceptum habituros neque contra ipsorum aliquae vel aliquid contraventuros imo ipsa defensuros inviolabiliter observaturos atque observari curaturos facturos In quorum Testimonium literas hasce scribi manu nostra propria signatas regni nostri Angliae sigilli majoris additione communiri volumus Quae dabantur in Palatio nostro Westmonasteriensi vicesimo primo die Novembris Anno Domini milesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo primo Signat CAROLUS R. His Majesty's Warrant for Two thousand Pounds as a free Gift to the Earl of Peterborow CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer now and for the time being greeting Whereas by our Letters of Privy Seal bearing date the Thirteenth of September last past we gave order for payment of Three thousand eight hundred Pounds Sterling unto our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin the Earl of Peterborow our Govenor of Tangier by way of Inprest as his own pay and for raising of One hundred Horses and Fifteen hundred Foot for our Service in Tangier aforesaid Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby require and authorize you to allow Two thousand Pounds of the said Three thousand eight hundred Pounds as a free Gift from us unto the said Earl of Peterborow in consideration of the great expence he was at in Preparatives and personal Provisions for our Service in that expedition to be passed to him without accompt and his own pay to continue and go on notwithstanding our said Privy Seal of the Thirteenth of September last and to be accompted and allowed unto him from the term and according to the tenor of the Establishment for our said Garrison of Tangier and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace at Westminster the Fifteenth Day of February in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow THE Wind coming contrary you will have prevented that Perplexity which otherwise I judge ye would have been in by the mistake of Secretary Maurice his Letter the King's Direction to him was To send to you to Sail to Tangier when you had a Thousand Men which he by mistake wrote Lisbon The King hath ordered Secretary Nicholas to write to you and to certifie that mistake to which I refer you Order was given on Saturday last to quicken down the rest of the Merchant-Ships which I
concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Actum Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentem per nos vigore Actus illius nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia facias exequaris cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Per breve de privato Sigillo Barker A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 31. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo septimo die Octobris proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo quarto die Julii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo primo Grimston Pengry A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 32. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Oxoniam vicesimo primo die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo secundo Grimston Pengry The Jointure of the Countess of Peterborow in Turvey THIS Indenture made the Sixth Day of August in the _____ Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred _____ Between the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey the Honourable William Mountague Esquire Brother to the Lord Mountague of Boughton Sir William Farmer of Easton in the County of Northampton Baronet and Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath of the other part Whereas the Maner of Turvey and certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Turvey in the County of Bedford except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs were settled or intended to be settled upon Penelope Countess of Peterborow for her natural Life for her Jointure and in lieu of her Dower and Thirds of the Estate of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and a certain Decree hath been made in the High Court of Chancery for the Establishing the same for her Jointure accordingly and it is the intent and purpose of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow that the same shall be enjoyed accordingly Now witness these Presents That the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and in consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of Lawful Money of England by the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents well and truly unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors and Administrators for ever by these Presents and for divers other good Causes and Considerations him thereunto moving hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Admininistrators and Assigns all the Maner or reputed Maner of Turvey in the County of Bedford and all Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow situate lying and being in Turvey aforesaid or accepted reputed taken demised or known as part or parcel of the said Maner of Turvey aforesaid except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs To have and to hold the said Maner of Turvey and all the Premises in Turvey aforesaid except as before is excepted unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns from and after the death of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and during and unto the full end and term of Ninety nine Years from thence ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended if she the said Penelope Countess of Peterborow shall so long live Nevertheless upon this special Trust and Confidence That the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall permit and suffer the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to be received and taken in pursuance of and according to the said Decree and according
as was intended by the said Settlement for a Jointure In Witness whereof the Parties above-named have to these Present Indentures Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above-written An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy-Counsellor At the Court at Whitehall the Twenty eighth Day of February 1682. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Albemarle Duke of Beaufort Lord Chamberlain Earl of Oxford Earl of Chesterfield Earl of Sunderland Earl of Clarenden Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Ailesbury Earl of Conway Earl of Nottingham Earl of Rochester Lord Dartmouth Mr. Secretary Jenkins Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Godolphin THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board and signed accordingly John Nicholas A Copy of the Oath taken by the Earl of Peterborow as Groom of the Stole YOU shall Swear by the Holy Evangelists and by the Contents of this Book and by the Faith that you bear unto Almighty God To be a true Servant unto Our Sovereign Lord JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. You shall know nothing that shall be any ways hurtful or prejudicial to the King's Majesty's Royal Person State Crown or Dignity but you shall hinder it what in you lyeth or else reveal the same with all convenient speed to the King's Majesty or some of his Most Honourable Privy Council You shall serve the King truly and faithfully in the place whereunto you are called as Groom of the Stole to His Majesty and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber So help you God and the Contents of this Book A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 1 mo Jacobi Secundi JAcobus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo nono die Maii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum Vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi vestrumque Consilium impensuri Et hoc ficut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo quarto die Februarii Anno Regni nostri primo Churchill Pengry A Letter from King James the Second to the Earl of Peterborow Commanding his Attendance at the Coronation To Our Right trusty Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Iames R. RIght Trusty and Welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Whereas We have appointed the 23d day of April next for the Solemnity of Our Coronation These are therefore to Will and Command you all Excuses set apart That you make your Personal Attendance on Us at the time above-mentioned furnished and appointed as to your Rank and Quality appertaineth there to do and perform such Services as shall be required and belong to you And whereas We have also resolved That the Coronation of Our Royal Consort the Queen shall be Solemnized on the same Day We do further hereby require the Countess your Wife to make her Personal Attendance on Our said Royal Consort at the time and in the manner aforesaid Whereof you and she are not to fail And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 23d Day of March 1684 5. in First Year of Our Reign A Letter from the Duke of Norfolk to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he should bear St. Edward's Scepter at the Coronation For the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow MY LORD HIS Majesty having appointed your Lordship to bear St. Edward's Scepter in the Proceeding at his Majesty's Coronation This is to desire your Lordship to meet in the House of Lords at His Majesty's Palace of Westminster on Thursday the Three and twentieth of April Instant by Eight of the Clock in the Morning in your Robes and with your Coronet in order to the performance of His Majesty's Pleasure I am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant NORFOLK and MARSHAL An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for Raising the Militia of the County of Northampton To Our Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow our Lieutenant of our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby require you to give order and take care That the Militia Troops of Horse in your Lieutenancy be forthwith raised And as to the Foot We think it requisite they should be in such a readiness that they may be immediately called together to March or obey such other Orders as they shall receive for Our Service And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for the seizing of suspected Persons To Our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Our Lieutenant for Our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Authorise and Direct you to give Order forthwith for the seizing and apprehending all disaffected and suspicious Persons and particularly all Non-Conformist Ministers and such Persons as have served against Our Royal Father and late Royal Brother of Blessed Memory and for sending them in safe Custody to the Prison at Oxford to be secured there till further Order And for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June in the First Year of Our Reign 1685. By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND Our Will and Pleasure also is That you give order for securing all the Horses belonging to any Persons which shall be so seized The Earl of Peterborow's
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
Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. between the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath Sir Oliver Luke of Hawnes in the County of BEdford Knight and Sir Samuel Luke of Woodend in the said County of Bedford Knight of the other part Witnesseth That the said Countess Dowager for the settling of the Mannor and Lands hereafter mentioned in the Name and Blood of her the said Countess And in consideration of the summ of Five shillings of lawful Money of England to her in hand paid by the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke whereof she acknowledgeth the receipt and for divers other good causes and considerations her the said Countess hereunto especially moving hath Granted Bargained Aliened Sold Enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Alien Sell Enfeoffe and Confirm unto the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke all that the Mannor of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh in the County of Surrey with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and all Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Commons Wasts Warrens Courts Court-Leet view of Frankpledge Privileges Goods of Felons Deodands Franchises Profits Emoluments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Mannor belonging or appertaining or as part parcel or member thereof commonly accepted reputed taken or known and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of her the said Countess Dowager scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh aforesaid Godstone Cateram and Horne or any of them in the said County of Surrey To Have and to Hold the said Mannor Lands and Premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke their Heirs and Assigns for ever to the use behoof intents and purposes and with upon and under such limitations as are hereafter in and by these presents limited expressed and declared and to and for no other use intent meaning or purpose whatsoever That is to say To the Use of the said Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow for and during the Term of her Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after her Decease then to the Use and Behoof of Henry Earl of Peterborow Son and Heir Apparent of the said Countess for and during the Term of Fourscore and nineteen Years if the said Earl of Peterborow shall so long live without Impeachment of Wast And afterwards to the Use of the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke for the Life of the said Earl of Peterborow upon Trust and to the intent that the Contingent Remainders herein after limited may not be prevented defeated or destroyed without the Consent of the said Countess And nevertheless That the said Earl of Peterborow may have and receive the Rents and Profits of the said Mannor and Premises for the term of his Life And after the Decease of the said Earl of Peterborow to the Use of the Daughter or Daughters and Younger Son or Sons of the Body of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten And of and for such Estate and Estates either in Fee Simple Fee Tail for Life or Lives or Years or otherwise of the said Mannor and Premises and every or any Part or Parcel thereof And to the intent that such Son or Sons Daughter or Daughters may have and receive such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money out of the Premises or any Part thereof as the said Earl of Peterborow at any time during his Life by any Writing or Writings under his Hand and Seal testified by Two or more Witnesses shall limit and appoint And for Default of such Limitation and Appointment or as the Estates so limited shall respectively end and determine and charged or chargeable with such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money as shall be so limited Then to the Use and Behoof of the First Son of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Second Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Second Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Third Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Third Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of the Fourth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fourth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Fifth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fifth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of all and every such other Son or Sons of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten as they shall be in Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs of their several and respective Bodies lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of the Daughter or Daughters of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of such Daughter or Daughters lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Esq Second Son of the said Countess for and during the term of his Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after his Decease then to the use and behoof of the First Son of the said John Mordaunt lawfully to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully to be begotten And for default
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
not well to be discern'd by reason of the Hoods were over her Face But passing after into the body of the Church the Earl had a farther view into a Gallery above where the Duke sate to hear the Service The Office and Musick at an end the Court retir'd in the order it had come and all went out to be spectators of the Shooting but his Lordship retired to his Inn not being in a condition or desiring to be seen publickly abroad Near six of the Clock that divertisement had an end and our Guide having acquainted some under Officer of the Court that Two Gentlemen of the English Embassadors Train that were at Cullen and had come to see that Town were desirous to have a sight of the Court and do Reverence to the Prince he was told That he might bring them They came then to the Palace under his conduct and being met by a Gentleman in the Inner-Court he took them out of the Hands of the Townsman and carried them up into a large Room where after some attendance they were led into another whereinto the Prince came unto them The Duke of Newburgh seem'd to be at that time near Forty Years of Age of competent Stature well shap'd well dress'd and of a most obliging behavior He had a Suit after the French fashion of a Grey Stuff with Diamond Buttons a Diamond Hatband and a Diamond Sword and about his Neck in a Black Ribbon hung the Order of the Golden Fleece He did receive their Complements with much Courtesie which they paid with all Respect and of himself began to entertain them with divers Questions about their Journey the Embassadors and proceeding of the Treaty at Cullen and afterwards insensibly fell upon England the Court thereof the Princes and its other concerns He enquir'd concerning the Duke of York and his Marriage where was Monsieur de Peterborow and if he continued at Paris after the disappointment of the Treaty of Inspruk to all which questions having been answered he said afterward He heard the Duke was like to be Married to an English Lady they assur'd him they heard of no such thing At last he took his leave of them with much civility and when he was departed they ask'd the Gentleman if they might have the farther favor of seeing the Dutchess and the young Princess who having told them he would enquire he left them and after some stay return'd to let them know they should be admitted Towards which they were carried and introduc'd into an upper Room where seem'd to expect them the Dutchess of Newburgh accompanied with the young Princess her eldest Daughter The Earl made her his complements with the greatest respect of which he was capable whereunto her Highness as he was told in her own Tongue made all suitable returns but said That being not vers'd in the French Tongue she defired her Daughter the Princess might interpret between them at which the Princess did approach and help'd to carry on the conversation and with intention as he thought to shew her capacity in that Language They all by that time as he had reason afterward to believe suspecting the Earl of being some other person and having more design in his little Voyage than was pretended The Dutchess of Newburgh was a Princess in his Opinion of about five or six and thirty years of a middle stature light brown Hair enclining to be Fat great characters of goodness in her countenance and was such a one as might be proper for a good Wife without qualities over subtile or Courtly as might be found in the spirits of Ladies bred in France or Italy The Princess her Daughter was suppos'd to be about Eighteen years of Age of middle stature she had likewise very light Hair and was of an exceeding Fair Complexion her Eyes were of a light blueish gray the turn of her Face more round than oval that part of her Neck he saw was white as Snow but upon the whole at those Years she was enclining to be Fat In discourse she render'd to his Lordship readily her Mother's sence and spoke her own aptly enough She had the appearance of one that might be proper enough for a good Wife and that possibly was fit for Generation But the great genius did not appear of Business or Conversation for which she has been praised since she came to sit upon the greatest Throne of Europe After a due time the Earl of Peterborow did from hence too take his leave with all the circumstances of respect were due to persons of that Quality But at his departure he found himself much more attended by Gentlemen and with greater respect than at his arrival And he was pressed to stay Supper by the Chief Officers of the House even to a degree of being like to have it imposed upon him But his Resolution of not receiving any farther Engagement made him in the civillest manner he could break thorow all that and got him liberty to retire to his Inn where after he had made a very ill Supper there came to enquire for him under pretence of a Visit from a Countryman a young Gentleman one Hamilton that wore a Gold Key by his side and was said to be much in the Duke's favor and of his Bed-Chamber This Mr. Hamilton seem'd every way to try what he could get out of the Earl and by his discourse his Lordship perceiv'd his proceedings had puzled the Court But withal That they were suspicious of his satisfactions by reason his Lordship declined to receive greater favors from them than was just necessary however he departed civilly and his Lordship to his rest The Earl was impatient to be gone in the Morning and having a Waggon ready the ordinary way of Travelling in that Country he came by Land to Cullen whence his Lordship immediately dispatch'd an Express for England with the success and account of his Journey In answer whereunto his Lordship had immediate Orders to return with all speed to Paris with an assurance That at his arrival there he should meet directions to demand to marry and to bring home the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue As has been said there were a great party in the Court of England engaged to promote the Marriage of Newburgh but there was another that moved strongly to promote Madmoiselle D' Alboeuf Daughter to the Duke of that Name who was a Cadet Prince of the House of Lorain which was the Dutchess of Portsmouth who was then and continued to his end the favorite Mistress of King Charles II. and she who wanted neither cunning nor Counsel considering the transitoriness of humane condition and particularly of humane affections and not knowing how soon her retreat might be necessary into her own Country did wisely endeavor to oblige therein and make all the Friends she could So to engage the House of Lorain and Boullion she had wrought with the King not only to consent to the Marriage but to order the Earl
Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo quinto Per billam Curiae Wardorum Liberationum de data praedicta authoritate Parlamenti Egerton Norr d Coram Auditoribus Curiae Wardorum Liberationum dominae Reginae termino Michaelis Anno Regni ejusdem dominae Reginae quadragesimo quinto 1602. Examinatur per Walterium Took Auditores Examinatur per Will. Curles Auditores In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno quadragesimo quarto Reginae nunc Elizabethae videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis rotulo ex parte Remembratorum Thesaurarii Charta Caroli Comitis de Nottingham Magni Admiralli Angliae Capitalis Justiciarii ac Justiciarii itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham CArolus Comes Nottingham Baro Howard de Effingham magnus Admirallus Angliae c. Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. Rich. Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHĀ CA LIS IVSTICI VS OMNIVM FORES VM ET MARCA VM TRENTAM An Indenture Tripartite for the Settlement of the Estate of Henry Lord Mordaunt THIS Indenture Tripartite made the Fourth Day of January in the Year of our Soveraign Lord James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith that is to say Of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth between the Right honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt on the the First Part and Thomas Lock of Grays-Inn in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and John Rowe of London Gentleman on the Second Part and the Right honourable Edward Earl of Worcester of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Master of the King's Majesty's Horse and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Knight Sir Edward Ratcliff Knight Sir Thomas Compton Knight and George Sherley Esquire on the Third Part Witnesseth That the said Lord Mordaunt as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he beareth to his Children hereafter in these Presents named and for the continuance of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned in the name and blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it shall please God And for the better supportation of the Honour and Dignity of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the Heirs of his Body as also for the better Maintenance and Provision in living and Portions to be had made and raised for the Younger Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters and for the payment of the Debts which the said Lord Mordaunt shall owe or any others shall stand chargeable for the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of his Death and for other causes and considerations him thereunto specially moving Doth for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner and form following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will leave and suffer to descend unto such person and persons as shall happen to be Heir or Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of the Death of the said Lord Mordaunt all these his Lordships and Maners of Netherbery Collesden Carlills and Throgmorton in Roxton and the Maner of Woodend and the Maner or Farm of Kempstonborn and his other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Roxton Cranfield and Bereford in the County of Bedford with their and every their Appurtenances Rights and Members to the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to either of them belonging and to the Advowson of the Church of Meppersall in the said County of Bedford and the Maners of Thrapston Gale Ringsted and Raundes and of Much-Addington Luffwick Islip and Slipton in the County of Northampton with their and every and either of their Appurtenances Royalties and Commodities to the same Maners and to every of them belonging and appertaining and the Chauntries of Much-Addington aforesaid and Luffwick-Mills and the Maner of Drayton and all the demeasne Lands to the said Maner belonging or appertaining in the said County of Northampton The Capital or Mansion-House of the said Lord Mordaunt in Drayton aforesaid and the Parks called Drayton and Sudburgh-Parks and one Close called the Great Pasture and another Close called the Mile-close one Close called the Lymekill-Close another called Clay-Close another called the Warren-Close and another called the Horse-Close leading from Drayton-house to Luffwick only excepted And one Free Rent of Thirty three Shillings two Pence half penny or thereabouts issuing out of certain Lands in Barton and another Free Rent of Thirty eight Shillings and eight Pence issuing out of certain Lands in Stanwick in the aforesaid County of Northampton and also the Maner of Clifton Reynes with the Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham to the end That the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the same Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments before mentioned shall and may have and receive the full benefit of Wardship primer Seisure and Livery as the case shall require happening or to happen by or upon the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Which said Maners Lands Tenements amounting to the full third part of the aforesaid Lord Mordaunt's Maners Lands Tenements and Revenues the said Lord Mordaunt doth for that
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
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
Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendum mandavimus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatum utrinque concilium impensurum Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negociorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo tertio A Letter from the Duke of Albemarle To the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow or to the Officer in chief with his Regiment My LORD UNderstanding there are some dissatisfied Officers lately disbanded who are endeavouring to bring the Souldiers into mischief if special care be not taken to prevent the same and so the Souldiers will loose their Arrears besides the dishonour that will fall upon the Officers in whose Regiment it happens I desire you will be careful to keep the Officers of your Regiment with their Commands And if they hear any Officers or Souldiers speak discontented words to take away their Arms and secure them and you are to acquaint the Officers and Souldiers that though they be shortly to be reduced yet they will receive Arrears before disbanding And there is an Act of Parliament that they may set up their Trades in any City or Town corporate I desire you to acquaint the Captains of each Company under your command herewith and that they may be careful to observe the same I remain Cockpit 11 September 1660. Your Lordship 's very humble Servant ALBEMARLE If your Lordships occasions will not give you leave you need not repair to your Regiment A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General and Governor of Tangier CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting Whereas we intend forthwith to settle and secure our City of Tangier and the Territories and Dominions adjacent in or near the Coasts of Barbary or the Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco some or one of them in the continent of Africa and for that purpose have resolved by and with the advice of our Privy Council forthwith to raise draw forth and transport thither such Forces of Horses and Foot as we shall judge necessary for our service in defence of the said City of Tangier and our Dominions and Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco Know ye therefore That we reposing an especial trust and confidence in your Honour's Courage Wisdom and Fidelity have constituted and ordained and by these our Letters Patents do make constitute ordain and appoint you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General of all Forces both Horse and Foot raised or to be raised and now sent or which hereafter shall be sent by our Royal Authority or Commissions and of all other Forces whatsoever which are or shall remain or be drawn into our City of Tangier or any other of our Dominions or Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco and of all Forts Castles Cities or other parts or places whatsoever which by your good conduct and success shall be reduced to our obedience and subjection And we do hereby give and grant unto you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow our Captain-General full power and authority by beat of Drum Proclamation or otherwise in our Name to raise lift arm array and put under Command such or so many Voluntiers both of Horse and Foot within this our Kingdom of England or any other our Kingdoms or Dominions as shall make up and compleat the number defigned by us in the establishment for that Service and to give Commission to Officers and Commanders to be set over them and conduct lead and imbark the said Officers and Souldiers to be transported to our said City of Tangier and to remove and cashier any such Officers or Souldiers as to you shall seem convenient And we do further by these Presents give full Power and Authority to you our said Captain-General from time to time to muster exercise and train our said Forces and all other our Armies and Forces which you shall there raise or entertain into our service or which shall be sent to you from hence or any other place and to drive train conduct and lead out or otherwise imploy the Natives or other Inhabitants if need shall require and with them to defend our said City of Tangier and any other our Dominions which already are or hereafter shall be in our Power or Possession and to lead them forth against any Enemies Rebels and Traytors and them to fight kill and slay and subdue to our Obedience and to invade surprise and reduce such Towns Forts Castles or Countries as shall declare or maintain any Hostility against us or that may endanger the Peace or Security of our City or Territories aforesaid and to possess and strenghten them with Forts or Garrisons or otherwise raze dismantle or disable them as to you shall seem expedient and to arm discipline and entertain into your Service all such as you shall think fit to receive under your Command out of any the Kingdoms Dominions or Territories aforesaid And we do further by these Presents ordain and appoint you one of our Vice-Admirals with power to give ordain and command to all our Naval Forces and Commanders at Sea that shall be appointed by us or our Authority to attend the service of our said City of Tangier and upon the Coast of Africa and likewise to require them by your Orders or Instructions to prosecute any design which you shall judge to be for our service and also when and where ye shall think meet to appoint constitute and keep a Court of Admiralty and appoint Judges and Officers for the same for the hearing and determining all Maritime Causes belonging to the Jurisdiction of a Court-Admiral as it is exercised in England And for the better discipline of the Forces under your Command both by Land and Sea We do hereby give you full Power and Authority to ordain publish and execute Laws and Ordinances-Martial according to the Constitutions and Practices of a Court-Martial and to punish by death or otherwise or to pardon Offences as in your discretion you shall judge meet And we do hereby give unto you all such further Powers Preheminences and Authorities as to a Captain-General or to one of our Vice-Admirals do any ways appertain or belong And we do by these our Letters Patents make ordain and constitute you our chief Governor of our said City of Tangier and Subburbs thereof and of all other Cities Towns Villages Forts Castles
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms
expedition And your Lordship being pleased to certifie me what place you will appoint for their Rendezvous his Majesty will forthwith send a Commission to Muster them when they shall amount to the number of Thirty and accordingly receive them into pay with their Officers of which I beseech your Lordship to let me be informed with all speed I am with all truth Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON Your Lordship signifying to me the Names of such Persons as you shall chuse for Officers care shall be taken for Commissions to be forthwith dispatched for them A Commission from King Charles the Second to raise a Company consisting of Fourscore Horse to be an independent Troop Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing a special trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop of Horse consisting of Eighty Common Troopers besides Officers which you are hereby authorized to raise arm and diligently exercise keeping your Souldiers in good Order and Discipline Commanding them hereby to obey you as their Captain and your self to observe such Order and Directions as you shall receive from time to time from us or our General according to the discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Thirtieth Day of June in the Eighteenth Year of our Reign 1666. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Henry Earl of Peterborow AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas the present State of affairs may require the speedy Calling together of the Forces of the several Counties in order to the securing the Kingdom from Foreign Invasion the Enemy already appearing with a Fleet of Ships upon the Coast we have thought fit to give you notice thereof to the end speedy Warning may be given for all the Horse and Foot of that County to be in a readiness to march at a short notice to such place as your Lordship shall find most convenient or shall be ordered from hence for opposing the Enemy if he shall make any attempt to Land and for defence of the County And for their Encouragement and such as shall supply them for their March his Majesty hath declared his Royal pleasure and required us to signifie to your Lordship that during the said Forces continuing in Service after their Rendezvousing and marching upon the occasion aforesaid they shall be in his Majesty's pay as the rest of his Forces We are by his Majesty's directions farther to acquaint you That upon serious consideration had of the Act Intituled An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties in this Kingdom it doth appear That any of the said Forces have been formerly in actual service for a month or more and were provided with a Months pay yet nevertheless they in their Persons are to appear and serve whensoever they shall be thereto Summoned as by the said Act doth appear under penalty therein mentioned And for the easing of his Majesty's Charge we pray and require your punctual Care and Diligence in the constant Raising the Monies designed for furnishing Ammunition and other Necessaries and the Fines due from Defaulters upon the said Act and to have the same in readiness to answer Emergences and not doubting of your Lordships Compliance with these his Majesty's Commands we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court at Whitehall the Eleventh Day of June 1667. Your Lordship 's very loving Friends Bath Craven Dorchester Fitz-Harding Ashley J. Bridgwater Anglesey Lawderdale T. Clifford Arlington Will. Maurice W. Coventry R. Brown Since the writing hereof finding that your Lordship amongst some others the Lords Lieutenants of this Kingdom have failed to return to this Board a List of the several Troops and Companies of Militia in the County under your care with the numbers of them severally as you were required We do pray and require your Lordship the next Post after the receipt hereof as you tender the Safety of his Majesty's Kingdoms to send the same unto us and therein also express as many of the Commissioned Officers Names as your Lordship can by that time ascertain Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall 1667. My LORD HIS Majesty commands me to signifie his Pleasure to you that forthwith your Lordship repair to your Lieutenancy there with all diligence to put your Militia and other Troops into such a posture as may best secure the Quiet and Peace of the Country and render them capable to comply with such Orders and Directions as your Lordship shall from time to time receive from his Majesty of which as of all things else that may relate to his Majesty's Service his Majesty desires to receive frequent and particular Advice on all occasions from your Lordship I am with much Truth and Affection My LORD Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Foot Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct have thought fit to constitute and appoint as by these Presents we do constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Foot to be raised for our Service the same to consist of Ten Companies and each Company of Sixty Men besides Officers You are carefully to discharge the Duty of a Collonel by exercising the said Regiment in Arms both Officers and Souldiers and keeping them in good Order and Discipline and we do hereby command them to obey you as their Collonel And we do further constitute and appoint you to be Captain of one of the Companies of the said Regiment and you are from time to time to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from us according to the Rule and Discipline of War pursuant to the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall this Twenty third Day of January in the Twenty fourth Year of our Reign 1672 3. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Commission for the Earl of Peterborow to be Extraordinary Embassador to the Emperor for the Marriage of the Archdutchess with the Duke of York CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Quandoquidem nobis visum fuerit pro singulari illo animi affectu quo prosequimur semperque sumus prosecuti Augustam
locorum firmiter injungimus velint dicto Legato nostro Extraordinario liberam eundi transeundi redeundi commorandique prout occasio postulaverit copiam facere unà cum Comitatu Famulitio Equis Sarcinis Rebusque omnibus eidemque simul omnibus humanitatis officiis adesse favere id quod nos pari vel alio Officiorum genere occasione quacunque universis fingulis grati referemus Dabantur è Palatio nostro de Whitehall Secundi die Augusti Anno Domini 1673. Regnique nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Regis ARLINGTON An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy Councellor At the Court at Hampton-Court the Tenth Day of July 1674. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Highness Prince RVPERT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Ogle Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Arlington Lord Maynard Lord Berkeley Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Mountague Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. of the Ordnance Mr. Speaker THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board accordingly Robert Southwell The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regimet of Horse Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and to be called the Regiment of our dear Brother JAMES Duke of York consisting of Eight Troops and each Troop of Threescore Men besides Officers And we do also constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment as Collonel and the said Troop as Captain into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well Officers as Souldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively And you are from time to time to observe such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from our General of our Forces or other Superior Officer according to the Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of February 1677 8. in the Thirtieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command H. Coventry Entred with the Comissioner-General of Musters A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 30. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia ex advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem sexto die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod confideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus super dictis negociis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quinto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Grimston Pengry A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto perquam fideli Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam actum in Parliamento nostro inchoato tento apud Westmonasterium Octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo tertio ibidem continuato usque ad decimum nonum diem Maii proxime sequentem abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii proxime sequentem Intitulatum An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum inactitatum existit inter alia quod nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus Locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Bervici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes habebunt plenam authoritatem potestatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem Actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam infra aliquem alium Comitatum Locos praedictos ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerint secundum Directiones de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentis specificatis plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parliamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate ac authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentem nostrum pro Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae in omnibus locis corporatis privilegiatis aliis locis quibuscunque infra dictum Comitatum nostrum Northamptoniae Et tenore praesentium ac virtute ejusdem Actus plenam potestatem authoritatem tibi damus
Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Horse Iames R. JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and likewise to be Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment and Troop into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well the Officers as Soldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively and you to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from time to time as you shall receive from Us or any your Superior Officer according to the Rules and Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND A Letter from the Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Peterborow about Marching his Three Troops to Colebrook Whitehall 30th June 1685. MY LORD HIS Majesty Commands me to acquaint your Lordship That He thinks it convenient you should be near His Person and therefore would have you repair hither so soon as you can conveniently As to the Three Troops of Horse which your Lordship so well approves of He would have them forthwith ordered to march to Colebrook to be in Quarters there and doubts not but you will leave such directions with the rest of the Militia as may be most requisite for His Majesty's Service I wish your Lordship a good Journey and am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Faithful humble Servant SVNDERLAND The King's Warrant to Discharge the Prisoners at Oxford To Our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Our Lieutenant for Our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Whereas We did by our former Letters authorize and require you to give Order for seizing and apprehending all disaffected and suspicious Persons and particularly all Non-conformist Ministers and such Persons as have served against Our Royal Father and late Royal Brother of blessed Memory and for securing them and their Horses And it having pleased God to Bless Our Arms with Success against the Rebels so that they are entirely defeated and the Chiefs taken Our Will and Pleasure is That you forthwith give Order for discharging all such Persons so secured who where taken up upon Suspicion only and for restoring their Horses to them But as to those who stand particularly accused of having any way corresponded with or otherwise abetted the Rebels You are to direct that they be continued Prisoners that they may be Tryed at the Assizes or elsewhere as shall be thought fit and for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily Farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 16th Day of July 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND A Letter from the Bishop of Sarum to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he attend at a Chapter of the Order of the Garter May it please your Lordship HIS Majesty Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter having Commanded me to signifie to your Lordship That a Chapter shall be held at Whitehall on Friday next being the One and thirtieth Day of July at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon These are humbly to give Notice thereof to your Lordship to appear there in your Mantle only Your Lordships In all Obedience Seth Sarum Praenob Ord. Gart. Canc. July 29. 1685. A Patent of High Steward and Chief Bayliff to the Queen's Majesty Granted to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow Mary R. MAria Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quod nos magnam Fidelitatem Integritatem praedilecti perquam fidelis Cognati Consiliarii nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Custodis Stolae charissimi Domini Mariti nostri considerantes Nec non pro diversis Causis Considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus De gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus eidem Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Officium Capitalis Seneschalli vel Seneschalliae omnium singulorum quae nunc sunt vel imposterum fuerint Honorum Maneriorum Dominiorum nostrorum infra hoc Regnum Angliae ac Custodiam sive Officium tenendi Curias Leetiae Visifranciplegii Leetiae Honorum Maneriorum Dominiorum praedictorum eorum cujuslibet Ac ipsum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Capitalem Generalem Seneschallum nostrum in Curiis nostris Visifranciplegii Leetiae infra Honores Dominia Maneria Hereditamenta nostra praedicta facimus constituimus ordinamus per praesentes Et ulterius de liberiori gratia nostra dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus praefato Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Officium Generalis Capitalis Ballivi omnium singulorum praemissorum cujuslibet eorum Habendum tenendum gaudendum exercendum Officia praedicta quodlibet eorum per se vel per sufficientem Deputatum suum five sufficientes Deputatos suos quamdiu Nobis placuerit Percipiendum annuatim in pro exercitio Officii praedicti Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Viginti Libras bonae legalis Monetae Angliae Solvendum per manus Thesaurarii sive Receptoris nostri Generalis ad Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Annunciationis Beatae Mariae Virginis per aequales portiones Nec non percipiendum annuatim pro exercitio Officiorum praedictorum Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Generalis Capitalis Ballivi omnia Vada Feoda Proficua Advantagia Emolumenta quaecunque eisdem Officiis vel alicui eorum aliquo modo spectantia aut pertinentia adeò liberè tam amplis modo forma prout Henricus Comes de Arlington nuper Capitalis Generalis Seneschallus Ballivus Excellentissimae Principis Catharinae Reginae vel aliquis alius seu aliqui alii antehaec locum tenens vel locum tenentes Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Generalis Capitalis Ballivi alicujus Reginae Consortis Regis Angliae pro tempore existentis Officia praedicta habens seu habentes habuit percepit vel gavisus fuit habuerunt perceperunt vel gavisi fuerunt aut de jure habere percipere vel gaudere debuit