that unfortunate Fight where the Christians did receive so great a defeat under the Command and Conduct of Robert Earl of Artois the French Kings Brother Particular honours were done to the memory of Sir Robert de Vere by the greatest Men of that Age and there was ever after retain'd for the Arms of his Successors Lords of Addington and Thrapston in a Shield Argent a Cross Gules which in order to that War he had assumed and in memory of the occasion wherein this their Ancestor had faln with so much glory His Issue Sir Baldwin de Vere Sir John de Vere THE Lady Ellen being then the Widow of Sir Robert de Vere applied her whole thoughts to the good and advantage of her Children the dear remainders of so noble a Husband to which end she contriv'd to establish BALDWIN the eldest of them in an Alliance with the Lord Gilbert de Seagrave at that time the Chief Subject in England by reason of his Office which was great Justiciar and a man besides in extraordinary favour with the King Which Gilbert contracted with her for the Marriage of the said Baldwin with his Daughter Margaret obliging himself to give her a hundred Marks for her consent thereunto and as a Portion to her Son his Lands in Aleby and Melton in the County of Leicester With the years of the young Baldwin de Vere there grew up in his mind all those inclinations for Arms and Piety to which the Knights of his House had been so accustomed and the Fields of Palestine were the scenes whereon these vertues were usually presented In the company then of other Heroick Pilgrims he went thither to pay his first vows and to win his Spurs where after several generous adventures the effects of two years spent in that hazardous warfare he returned to his own House to enjoy the esteem and honour he had acquired After which he received from the grant of Ralph the great Earl of Chester the Lordship of Tywa and seventeen Virgates of Land in that Town with all the men holding the same and their sequels Which gift was after confirmed by particular Charter from King Henry the Third He had likewise from the Lord Robert Fitz Walter the Land of Bishopscote to hold by the service of half a Knights Fee Besides other testimonies of the love and value of diverse great Lords of that time There is likewise extant an Agreement between him and the Lord Abbot of Peterborow about the liberties of Thrapston concerning which there had been a difference And as the last testimony of him there is extant a Charter from Henry the Lord Abbot of Croyland granting him liberty to erect a Chapel in his Court at Addington upon certain conditions His Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin Vere SIR ROBERT de VERE was a Minor at the death of his Father thereby becoming a Ward for his Mannor of Addington to his Cousin Sir Baldwin of Drayton under whose conduct having passed those years which were to bring him to lawful age it appears he was much bound to him for his Education which produced such generous qualities as made him very considerable He applied himself much to the War which we find by the appearance of his name in several Lists of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First in his Expeditions into Wales and Scotland He exercised the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the thirtieth year of that King and he dyed seised of the Lordships of Thrapston of Addington of Sudburgh of Melton of Tywa of Twyvell of Bishopscote and other Lands and Lordships He had Married Anne the Daughter of Sir Roger of Watervill by whom he had Issue Randal de Vere RANDAL or RANULPH de VERE after the death of Sir Robert his Father became possessed of all his Lands and Lordships And in the third year of King Edward the Third we find him to have been summoned by the Kings Justices to answer by what Warrant he held and exercised certain Customs and Liberties in his Lordship of Thrapston Which upon his appearance and production of the Charter were reserved and he dismissed In the ninth year of the same King an Inquisition passed upon the value of his Lands in Thrapston and Addington and in the twelfth by his Charter dated on the Friday being the Feast of Saint Edmund he granted and gave to the Lord Henry then Bishop of Lincoln and to Agnesse that was the Wife of Sir Richard de Waldgrave the custody of the Lands and Tenements which the said Richard had held of him in the Town of Twyvell that did belong to him by reason of the minority of Thomas the Son of the said Richard and Agnesse as likewise the Marriage of the said Thomas for a certain summe of Money paid to him by the forementioned Lord Henry and Agnesse The Wife of Sir Randall de Vere was ...... Their Issue Sir John de Vere Sir Robert de Vere Randal de Vere Idonea de Vere JOHN de VERE in the life time of his Father Sir Ranulph being as then but young was married to a Lady whose name was Alice Clifford and for his subsistance setled in possession of the Lordship of Twyvell and other Lands of his Fathers Inheritance But the spirit and inclinations of this House being predominant in his nature and disposition they would not suffer him to remain at home but postposing to the love of Honour and the War all considerations of ease and interest he followed the noble King Edward into his first Wars with France where for his service he acquired the honour of Knighthood and after having given extraordinary proofs of his valour in divers occasions it was his fortune to be slain in the famous Battel of Crecy among other Heroes who fought in that place for the honour of their King and Country and leaving no Issue behind him he was succeeded by his Brother Sir Robert de Vere BY the death without Issue of Sir John de Vere we find that his Brother ROBERT came to inherit the Lordships of Addington Thrapston Sudburgh Melton Aleby Kemington Hokenhanger with the rest of the Lands and possessions belonging to that House There were several transactions that passed between the Lady Alice de Vere that was the Widow of his Brother and him about agreements for setling of her Thirds in the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and other places which were performed with much mutual respect and Justice on either side and at last ended in a fair accord and composition for the whole Several other marks there do remain of the Justice Oeconomy and Prudence of this Robert de Vere whom we find to have married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Robert de Northburgh and to have deceased in the three and fortieth year of King Edward the Third leaving Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin de Vere ROBERT the Son of Robert de Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston being a minor at the death of his
more plainly shall appear Which recoveries of the said Mannors and other the premisses were had for the only surety of payment of one thousand pounds to the use of the late noble King of Memory Henry the Seventh our most dear Father by the said John Mordaunt Son and Heir of John Mordaunt Knight Deceased to be paid And after the said thousand pounds were fully content and paid then ye and your joint Recoverers should be Recoverers or Feoffees to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son and his Heirs for ever as by certain and divers Covenants in certain Indentures specified between Giles Dawbeny late Lord Dawbeny for the part of our said dearest Father of the one party and the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son of the other party made the xxth day of January the year of the Reign of our said Father the twenty second more plainly may appear Of the which sum of a thousand pounds four hundred pounds were paid to the use of our said Father to John Heyron Knight late Treasurer of the Chamber of our said Father by the said John Mordaunt the Son And we for certain Causes and Considerations us moving have remised and pardoned two hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds to the same Sir John Mordaunt the Son And one hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son hath paid to Sir Harry Wyat Knight Treasurer of our Chamber to our use And for three hundred pounds residue of the said thousand pounds the same John Mordaunt the Son by the name of John Mordaunt Knight is bounden by several Obligations to certain persons to our use for the sure payment of the same three hundred pounds to be paid to our use as by the same several Obligations thereof made and remaining with the same Sir Harry Wyat to our use it may appear Wherefore we signifie unto you that our Pleasure is and we will and Command you that ye without any delay do seal the said two Releases and deliver them as your Deeds to the bringer of them to the use of the said Sir John the Son And these our Letters Signed with our Hand and Sealed with our Seal shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the _____ A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Justified by Ancient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Drayton were Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules Of the Name Original Descent Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Drayton THE Mannor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble of the Country wherein it lies both for its Commodities Situation and the Royalties belonging thereunto was in the dayes of those Kings that did precede the Conquest among the Possessions of one Oswinus a famous Saxon. But upon the distribution of the Lands acquired by King William it became part of the Estate of Aubrey de Vere who first Entred England with that Prince From this Earl Aubrey the Elder for so he was termed the Lordship of Drayton did descend to Earl Aubrey the Second who was Father to the first Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it was given in Partage as a Foundation of his Fortune to Robert his second Son with the Lordships of Adington the greater and the less as likewise the Lands he held in Twyvell of the Abbey of Thorney and other fair possessions This Mannor and Lordship consisted at that time of a fair ancient Castle encompassed with four large high Walls Embattailed round with such Fortifications as were necessary both for resistance and offence It had as parcels thereof very useful Demesnes a Park a Warren and flourishing Woods besides the Villages of Luffwick Islip Slipton and certain Lands in the Parishes of Aldwinkle and Tichmarsh in each of which the Lords had Courts of their own the Advowsons of the three Churches belonging thereunto with free Warren upon all those Lands and free Fishing for a long Tract upon the River of Avon To this Robert de Vere Lord of Drayton did succeed Sir Henry de Vere who left his Inheritance to Sir Walter de Vere his Son who from the Excellency of the place and his great love thereunto did assume the Name thereof to remain to him and his Posterity ever after A thing in those days very usual as may be instanced in several Examples too long for this Occasion This Sir Walter de Vere having among other Heroes of that time design'd his Application to the Holy War took for his Arms as a mark of his Intention Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules which was afterwards constantly born by the Successors of this Family and under that same Name and Ensign did flourish a fair Posterity of several Noble Knights which upon this Lordship of Drayton did long live in much honour and opulency in possession of that Noble Mannor with other Lands in Sudborow in Brigstock and in Irtlingborow in the County of Northampton of fair possessions in Luton and Flamstead in Bedfordshire of the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Stoke-Goldington in the County of Huntingdon and of the Lordship of Southnewenton in Oxfordshire Their Alliances were not less Illustrious than their Original they having been contracted with the Houses of Bassett and de la Zouch of the great and ancient Baronage and other Families famous for high Actions and the faithful Service of their Princes This Lordship notwithstanding with its Name and Arms came afterwards to be incorporate into the House of Greene and by them as to what is most remarkable through a fatal revolution of humane things after near four hundred years unto the Original Veres again by Isabella Greene who being Married to Sir Richard Vere that was Lord of Thrapston and Adington and descended from Robert Brother of that Walter we first mentioned by the Issue which she brought Created such a Title as for default of Posterity from Constance Countess of Wiltshire the Daughter of the last Sir Henry Green the Lordship of Drayton came to Elizabeth Grandchild of this Richard Vere and by her to the Mordaunts that were descended from her Sir WALTER of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton Luffwick Islip Addington Twyvell and other Lands and Lordships WAlter de Vere the eldest Son of Henry the Son of Robert that was second Son of Aubrey Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of England being then very young and in the Life-time of Sir Henry his Father did attend King Richard the First into the Holy Land and on that Occasion assum'd for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrail'd Gules After he had there won his Spurs by divers generous Actions and received the Honour of Knighthood at the hand of that victorious King he returned home with several Companions of that
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
or any other before or after him held the same and with such Liveries and Lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office Being also one of the Kings Justices Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Page 248. Charta Alberici Regis Camerarii EGO Albericus Regis Camerarius Terram de Twivell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Guntero Monachis de Thorneya per talem conventionem teneo ad firmam ut per unumquemque annum eis sex libras pro ea reddam ante Nativitatem quadraginta solidos ante Pascham quadraginta solidos ad Vincula Sancti Petri extremos quadraginta solidos Insuper pro remissione peccatorum meorum illis de una mea Decima scilicet de Islip unoquoque anno ad Festivitatem Sancti Michaelis decem solidos reddam Totum verò surplus quod miserim in eadem Villa ultra quà m recepi in extremo die vitae meae pro salvatione animae meae Sanctae Mariae Patribúsque meis simul cum terra eorum concedo solidum quietum ab omni Calumniâ De alia Terra quam pro servitio dimidii Militis in eadem Villa de Willielmo de Blosvilla teneo in feudo de dimidio unius Hidae quam certè emi pretio Sanctam Mariam meósque Fratres post me concedo esse Haeredes in quantum id eis concedere possum Hujus Conventionis sunt Testes Hardewin de Escatere Radulphus Dapifer Willielmus de Whitlesege Simo imo omnes Fratres illius loci alii quamplures Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penès Comitem de Peterborow ALbericus de Twivell Camerarius Regis dedit Ecclesiae de Thorney duas Garbas Decimae trium Villarum de Islip Adington Drayton de Dominico suo The Baronage of England Page 190. HE in the Fifth of King Stephen with Richard Basset then Justice of England executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Surrey Cambridge Huntingdon Essex Hartford Northampton Leicester Norfolk Suffolk Buckingham and Beadford and gave to the Monks of Thorney in Com. Canter certain Lands in Islip But before the end of this year he was killed in London His Wife was Adeliza de Clare leaving Issue by Adeliza his Wife Daughter of Gilbert of Clare three Sons Alberic his Son and Heir ........ a Cannon of Saint Osiths in Chieche and Robert which Robert in the twelfth of Henry the Second upon levying the aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified that he then held half a Knights Fee He also held the Lordship of Twivell in the County of Northampton of the Monks of Thorney in Fee-Farm as his Father did ROBERT de VERE Second Son of Alberic de Vere Great Chamberlain and Chief Justice of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 417. ANNO Millesimo Centesimo Tricesimo Quinto Rex Henricus primus obiit apud Castrum Leonis sepultus fuit apud Radingas ubi Coenobium Ducentorum Monachorum condiderat in Honorem Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Robertus de Vere alii Milites de Angliâ Satellites Ministri Regis apud Pontem Audomari atque bonam Villam Feretrum Regis apud Caddomum adduxerunt Baronage of England pag. 190. Second Column Speaking of Maud the Empress SHE likewise gave to Robert de Vere the other brother of this Earl Alberic a Barony to the value of that so given to Jeffrey and other Lands of equal worth to possess within a Year after she should enjoy the Realm of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 248. Charta Roberti Filii Alberici Camerarii Regis EGO Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Regis Terram de Twivell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Roberto Monachis de Thorneia per eandem Conventionem in feodi firmam teneo per quam conventionem pater meus ante me tenuit Decimas de quinque Carucis quas pater meus Deo Sanctae Mariae Thorneyae concessit scilicet Drayton Islip Edington Deo atque Sanctae Mariae atque Monachis Thorneiae concedo Hujus conventionis sunt Testes Robertus de Jakesley Ertnoldus Willielmus de Cesterton Ogerus Terri de hominibus ipsius Roberti Hugo Waze Adam imo omnes fratres ipsius loci Ex antiquo Pergameno penes Comitem de Peterborow RObertus filius Alberici Anno primo Imperii Henrici Regis Junioris feria quinta in Hebdomada Pentecostes tempore Galterii Abbatis qui successit Gilbertum Abbatem ejusdem loci anno Domini Millesimo Centesimo Quinquagesimo quarto in praesentia Henrici filii sui quietum clamavit Manerium de Twivel Monasterio de Thorney Alexander tertius Papa Donationem confirmavit Abbati de Twivel videlicet de duabus garbis Decimarum trium villarum Islip Drayton Edington In libro rubro Feodorum de Scaccario inter Chartas Dominorum irrotulatas de annis septimo octavo decimo quarto decimo octavo Henrici Secundi à secundo octavo Richardi Primi DOmino suo Charissimo Henrico Regi Angliae Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Salutem Sciatis Domine quod Ego teneo de vobis feodum dimidium Militis Valeat In Anno octavo in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici dimidium Militis In Anno decimo quarto in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii dimidium Militis In Anno decimo octavo in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici decem solidos In Anno secundo Regis Richardi fecit Scutagium Walliae assessum ad decem solidos In Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici quinque solidos dimidii Militis In Anno octavo Regis Richardi Scutagium Normanniae ad viginti solidos Rotulo duodecimo adhuc communi de Termino Pasch de Anno tricesimo octavo Henrici Tertii Consideratio contra Monachos de Hortune HEnricus Avus Domini Regis concessit Chartâ suâ confirmavit Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae de Hortune Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus Tintonam Hortunam cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum cum omnibus Libertatibus liberis Consuetudinibus in quibus Robertus de Vere Adelina uxor ejus meliùs liberiùs tenuerunt iisdem Monachis per Chartam suam confirmaverunt Et ideo consideratum est quòd praedicti Monachi facient Domino Regi pro praedictis Maneriis illud idem servitium quod praedictus Robertus Adelina facere consueverint Sir HENRY de VERE the Son of Robert the second Son of Alberic Great Chamberlain of England Hollinsheads Chronicle Pag. 110. BUT in the mean time it chanced that Sir Richard de Walles a Knight of the Realm of France went about to fortifie a Castle in a Village that belong'd to him called Walles scituate between Trie and Gisors whereupon Henry de Vere Constable of Gisors under William Earl of Albemarle was nothing content therewith and therefore got a Company together and went forth to disturb the work Upon this occasion the
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis â—â—â—â—tisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur
per Arenas Corpora verò pereuntium nulla Perierunt etiam cum Filio Regis Frater suus Ricardus Nothus Comes cum Filia Regis quae fuerat Uxor Rotronis Ricardus Comes Cestrensis cum Uxore sua Nepte Regis Sorore Theobaldi Comitis Nepotis Regis Periit Othoel Magister filii Regis Galfridus Ridel Robertus Malduit Willielmus Bigot multÃque alii principales Viri Nobiles quoque foeminae quamplures cum Regiis pueris non paucis Militaris numeri C. XL. Nautarum L. cum tribus Gubernatoribus Navis Solus quidem Macellarius tabulâ Naufragii pendens evasit WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. WHat became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Portchester with all the Lands of Micael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the First had given them to his Father as also Bergedon now called Berwedon in the County of Rutland with the whole Soake which Queen Maude gave to the afore-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the said William Furthermore this William had by the Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of the Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Portchester and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them And after Henry by the Death of King Stephen had obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony of which his Father dyed seized as well in England as in Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its appurtenances Bergedon with the Hundred in Com. Rut. and Maneton in Com ...... with all others the Lands which he had formerly given his Father at Nottingham as also Scaldene and Herleby with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy When he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert ROBERT MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Secundi HEnricus Rex Anglorum omnibus fidelibus suis Francis Anglis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse praesenti Carta confirmasse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum quidquid ibi habebam de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum manerium illud habeant teneant de me Haeredibus meis sicut illud tenebam bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in aquis Molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis aliis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus T. Eliensi J. Norwicensi B. Exoniensi Episcopis Convenit cum Recordo Gulielmis Prinne Carta Regis Ricardi Primi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris omnibus fidelibus totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me concessisse hac praesenti Carta confirmâsse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster quod Dominus Rex pater meus ei dedit tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum Manerium illud habeant teneant de nobis haeredibus nostris sicut illud dominus Rex pater noster tenebat bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus H. Dunelmensi H. Sarisburiensi J. Norwicensi Episcopis Galfrido filio Petri Waltero filio Roberti The Baronage of England Page 398. WHen he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the Rebellious Barons in King Johns time as it seems for it appears that in the first of Henry the Third the King Granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances to Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the Third this Robert dyed whereupon Isabella his Widow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty Marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of the year giving security for payment of his Relief viz. a hundred Pounds had Livery of his Lands WILLIAM MAVDVIT Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. THis William in the seventeenth of King John was constituted Governour of Rokingham Castle But the same year taking part with the Rebellious Barons he made a Garison of his House of Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcatius de Breant who was then a bold Soldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolish'd it upon the fourth of the Calends of December Which hardning him in his Rebellious Actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King John which happened the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Arms against King Henry the Third in the Battle of Lincoln in the first of Henry the Third the whole power of that Rebellious party being utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his Estate and in the seventh of Henry the Third making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings Gift five Does for storing of the same In the tenth of Henry the Third doing his Homage for those Lands that descended to him by the Death of Isabella Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in the seventeenth of Henry the
Duc remayning the foresaid Henry Greene hath sett his Seall and to that othir parte of the same Endentures with the said Henry remayning the said Duc hath sett his Seall Yeven the day and yere abovesaid Ultima Voluntas Henrici Greene. THIS is the Will of me Henry Greene Squyer made the third day of September the seaventh yere of the Reigne of King Edward the Fourth upon the Maner of Sudburgh and all the Londs and Tenements with theire appurtenances that byn of my purchase in Sudburgh aforesaid in the Counte of Northampton Thorpe beside Petirburgh Marham Wittelsey Southorp and Luffwyck and of the woodes called Langhyll and Ferthyngshaw in the same Counte and of all othir woodes whâ—che I bought of William Aldwyncle and in the handes of divers persones by Testemenâ— made to theyme for myne use as it appereth in severall dedes to performe my will Whereupon first I will that my Feoffes of and in my Londs and Tenements in Thorpe beside Petirburgh after my decesse make estate of theyme to Margaret my wyfe for terme of her lyve the remaindre thereof to Constance my Doughter to have to her and to the heirs of her body begotyn and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heires Item I will that my Feoffes of the Londs and Tenements in Wittelsey Southorp and Marham of my purchase after my decesse make estate of them to Margaret my wyfe for terme of her lyfe the remaindre thereof to Robert Wittelbury and to the heirs of his body begotyn and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heirs And I will that my Feoffes of the Londs and Tenements in Luffwyk of my purchase called Coles Thynge and Befviles Thynge after my decesse make estate to my Lord John of Buckingham and to my Lady his wyfe and to the heires comyng betwix theyme and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heires for ever if my said Lord nor Lady nor theyr heires nor any othir by theyme procuryng assentyng or commandement in any part hereof lett not my will to be performyd and if they or any of theyme lett my said will to be performyd then I will that theire estate thereyn be void and that the same Londs and Tenements be sold and disposed by mine Executours in dedes of Charite Item I will that two Priestes shall be made sure ether of them to have fourtene marks yerely on the charges of my purchased Londs or Rentes perpetually to syng in the Parysh Chirche of Luffwyk and to doe othir devyne service there and pray for the sowles of me and of Sir Henry Greene Justice and othir of myne Auncestres and Benefactors and all Crystyn sowles And if hit shall happyn no suche xxiiij marks yerely to be purchesid hereafter be me then I will they shall have sewerly to theyme and they re successours for evermore xxiiij marks yerely perpetuelly of my Maner of Sudburgh Item I will that Thomas Haldenby shall have a sufficiant graunte of one annuite of xiiij marks to have to hym for terme of his lyfe to be taken of the revenue of my Maner of Houghton in the Counte of Northampton if he make his Lettres Patents that he hath of like graunte by me made to hym to be taken of the Maners of Hardewyk and Grateley to be surrendid and cancellid and he to doe lyke service as is contenyd in his said first Lettres Patentes Item I will that Margaret my wyfe after my decesse have the Maneres of Buckworth in the Counte of Huntyngton and Herdewyk in the Counte of Northampton with othir Londs and Tenements before expressed for terme of hir lyve the remayndre of theyme to my right heires Item I will that my Feoffees of my Woods and Assartes called Langhill and Farthingshaw and Tolkithorpewoode after my decesse make a state of my said Lord John and Dame Constance his wyfe my Doughter and to the heires of the body of the same Dame Constance comyng and for defaute of suche issue the remayndre of theyme to the right heires of me the said Henry Greene. In witnesse whereof to these Presents I set the Seal of myne Armes Yeven the daie and yere abovesaid SIGILLVM HENRICI GRENE ARMIGIRI Carta Margaretae Relictae Henrici Greene. NOverint Universi per Praesentes me Margaretam quae sui uxor Henrici Greene Armigeri defuncti fecisse ordinâsse loco meo posuisse Dilectos mihi in Christo Robertum Wittelbury Armigerum Jacobum Barlowe meos veros legitimos Attornatos conjunctim divisim ad recipiendum pro me nomine meo de Thoma Lenton Katherina filia Roberti Long consanguinea haerede Willielmi Aldwyncle Armigeri defuncti vel de eorum in hac parte Attornatis plenam pacificam possessionem seisinam de in Manerio de Comberton cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatu Cantabrigiae secundùm vim formam effectum cujusdam Cartae indentatae per praefatum Thomam Katherinam mihi prefatae Margaretae ad terminum vitae meae inde confectae Ratum gratum habens habitura totum quicquid praedicti Attornati mei nomine meo fecerint aut alter eorum fecerit in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium Praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Datum vicesimo sexto die mensis Maii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti post Conquestum nono The Tombe of Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Extant in St. Peters Church in Luffwick CONSTANCE GREENE Countess of Wiltshire Lady of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Antiquities of Warwickshire Page 729. Writing of Maxton Castle WITHIN the body thereof is a little Chapel in which by special dispensation of Reynold Boaters then Bishop of this Diocess was solemnized the Marriages of John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and Katharine Stafford one of the Daughters of the said Duke in the thirty sixth year of King Henry the Sixth and of John Stafford one of his younger Sons after created Earl of Wiltshire and Constance the Daughter of Henry Green Esquire Baronage of England Page 174. Stafford Earl of Wiltshire IN the ninth of Edward the Fourth the fifth of January John Stafford a younger Son to Humphrey Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Wiltshire and in the twelfth of Edward the Fourth joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to treat with the Ambassadors of James the third King of Scotland upon certain complaints of grievances from each Realm And having married Constance the Daughter and heir of Sir Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Knight departed this life the eight of May the thirteenth of Edward the Fourth leaving Edward his Son three years of age being then seized joyntly with the said Constance of the Manors of Southo in Com. Hunt of Newinton-Blosmaville Clifton and Pollicote in Comitatu Bucks of the Manors of Stamford Rivers Tracies Suttons Piggesland Bottelles and Briggs in Comitatu
Osiths in Chieche and Robert which Robert in the twelfth of Henry the Second upon levying the aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified that he then held half a Knights Fee He also held the Lordship of Twyvell in the County of Northampton of the Monks of Thorney in Fee-Farm as his Father did ROBERT de VERE Second Son of Alberic de Vere Great Chamberlain and Chief Justice of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 417. ANNO Millesimo Centesimo Tricesimo quinto Rex Henricus Primus obiit apud Castrum Leonis sepultus fuit apud Radingas ubi Coenobium ducentorum Monachorum condiderat in honorem Sanctae individuae Trinitatis Robertus de Vere alii Milites de Angliâ Statellites Ministri Regis apud Pontem Audomari atque bonam Villam Feretrum Regis apud Caddomum adduxerunt Baronage of England Pag. 190. Second Column Speaking of Maud the Empress SHE likewise gave to Robert de Vere the other Brother of this Earl Alberic a Barony to the value of that so given to Jeffrey and other Lands of equal worth to possess within a year after she should enjoy the Realm of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 248. Charta Roberti Filii Alberici Camerarii Regis EGO Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Regis terram de Twyvell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Roberto Monachis de Thorneya per eandem Conventionem in feodi firmam teneo per quam conventionem pater meus ante me tenuit decimas de quinque Carrucis quas pater meus Deo Sanctae Mariae Thorneyae concessit scilicet Drayton Islip Edington Deo atque Sanctae Mariae atque Monachis Thorneyae concedo Hujus Conventionis sunt testes Robertus de Jakesly Ertnoldus Willielmus de Cesterton Ogerus Terri de hominibus ipsius Roberti Hugo Ware Adam imo omnes fratres ipsius loci Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penes Comitem de Peterborow RObertus filius Albrici Anno primo Imperii Henrici Regis Junioris feria quinta in Hebdomada Pentecostes tempore Galterii Abbatis qui successit Gilbertum Abbatem ejusdem loci Anno Domini Millesimo Centesimo Quinquagesimo quarto in praesentia Henrici filii sui quietum clamavit Manerium de Twyvell Monasterio de Thorney Alexander tertius Papa donationem confirmavit Abbati de Twyvell videdelicet de duabus garbis decimarum trium Villarum Islip Drayton Addington In libro rubro Feodorum de Scaccario inter Cartas Dominorum irrotulatas de annis septimo octavo decimo quarto decimo octavo Henrici Secundi à secundo octavo Richardi Primi DOmino suo Charissimo Henrico Regi Angliae Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Salutem Sciatis Domine quod Ego teneo de vobis feodum dimidium Militis In Anno octavo in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Albrici dimidium Militis In Anno decimo quarto in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Albrici Camerarii dimidium Militis In Anno decimo octavo in Northamptonshire Robertius filius Albrici decem solidos In Anno secundo Regis Richardi fecit Scutagium Walliae assessum ad decem solidos In Northamptonshire Robertus filius Albrici quinque solidos dimidii Militis In Anno octavo Regis Richardi Scutagium Normanniae ad viginti solidos Rotulo duodecimo adhuc communi de Termino Pasch Anno tricessuno octavo Henrici Tertii Consideratio contra Monachos de Hortune HEnricus Avus Domini Regis concessit Cartâ suâ confirmavit Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae de Hortune Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus Tintonam Hortunam cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus in quibus Roberus de Vere Adelina uxor ejus meliùs liberiùs tenuerunt eisdem Monachis per Cartam suam confirmaverunt Et ideo consideratum est quòd praedicti Monachi facient Domino Regi pro praedictis Maneriis illud idem servitium quod praedictus Robertus Adelina facere consueverunt Carta Roberti Furnell RObertus de Furnell omnibus hominibus Francicis Anglicis tam praesentibus quà m futuris Salutem Sciatis me dedisse hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmâsse Roberto filio Albrici de Twyvell cum Matilda filia mea in franco marriagio quatuor acras terrae in Campis de Craneford scilicet apud Wudeforddale tres rodas dimidiam rodam ad Bricluste unam rodam dimidiam ad sorte Brokilhill unam rodam super Langfurlong tres rodas juxta Havedlond Gilberti filii Brikestoni unam rodam super Hepehill juxta terram quam Hosse tenuit duas rodas apud Caldewell in parte Orientali unam rodam in Sortlundale unam rodam super Barlifurlong unam rodam super Nonishill juxta Gilberti filii Brikestoni unam rodam Tenendas de me haeredibus meis illi haeredibus suis liberè quietè honorificè in plano in pasturis in Campis in pratis in viis in semitis in omnibus libertatibus in omnibus locis Reddendo inde mihi annuatim haeredibus meis ad Festum omnium Sanctorum dimidiam libram piperis pro omnibus serviciis consuetudinibus pro omnibus rebus salvo forinseco servicio Domini Regis spectante ad cantam tenuriam Et Ego haeredes mei illas supradictas quatuor acras terrae illi haeredibus suis contra omnes homines debemus warrantizare Hiis testibus Willielmo de Hanred Radulfo de Lingevere Radulfo de Andeli Henrico filio ejus Willielmo filio Radulfi Galfrido fratre ejus Simone filio Remfrei Rogero fratre ejus Galfrido Champiun Waltero Poeir Simone de Loholm Adae Clerico Domini Abbatis de Thorneya Magistro Rogero de Glamesford Mattheo filio Hugonis sacerdotis de Twyvell Richardo filio Baldewini Hugone Halecrist Willielmo filio ejus Radulfo Malherbe de Livdenea pluribus aliis Carta Johannis Furnell SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Johannes filius Matildae filiae 〈◊〉 Furnell dedi concessi hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto 〈◊〉 pro servitio suo viginti solidis Argenti quos mihi dedit prae manibus quatuor acras terrae in Campis de Craneford scilicet illas quatuor acras quas Robertus de Furnell dedit Matri meae in libero marriagio scilicet apud Wudefordedale tres rodas dimidiam apud Bricluste unam rodam dimidiam apud sorte Brockilhill unam rodam super Langefurlong tres rodas unam rodam juxta capucium Gilberti filii Bricstan duas rodas super Hepehill unam rodam apud Kaldewelle in parte orientali unam rodam in sorte Lundale unam rodam super Barlifurlong unam rodam super Honishill juxta terram Gilberti filii Bricstan tenendas habendas sibi haeredibus suis liberè quietè bene in
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
their Chambers and that Night were Bathed and Shriven according to the Old Usage of England and the next Day in the Morning the King Dubbed them according to the Ceremonies thereto belonging Whose Names ensue The Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Water the Lord Hastings the Lord Mounteagle Sir John Mordaunt the Lord Vaux Sir Henry Parker Sir William Windsor Sir Francis Weston Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Hulston Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Savill Sir George Fitz-Williams Sir John Tindal Sir Thomas Jermine Stow 's Chronicle page 610. 40. THE same Twelfth of July word was brought to the Council being then in the Tower with the Lady Jane That the Lady Mary Eldest Daughter to King Henry the Eighth was at Kenhinghall-Castle in Norfolk and with her the Earl of Bath Sir Thomas Wharton Son to the Lord Wharton Sir John Mordaunt Son to the Lord Mordaunt Sir William Drury Sir John Shelton Sir Henry Beddingfield Mr. Henry Jermingham Mr. John Sutierd Mr. Richard Treston Mr. Serjeant Morgan and Mr. Glement Higham A Letter from Queen Mary to Sir John Mordaunt and to the Lady his Wife To our Trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to the Lady his Wife Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and right welbeloved we greet you well And whereas we have received certain Advertisements That our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain was Embarqued at the Groyne Six Days past Forasmuch as we considering that the Wind serving as it doth it cannot be but that he is near the Coast of this our Realm We have therefore thought good both to signifie unto you the Premises and also to require you to put your self in Order withal Diligence to repair hither towards our Court to the intent ye may give your Attendance upon us at the Solemnity of this our Marriage as shall appertain whereof we require you not to fail Given under our Signet at our Maner of Bishopswaltham the Fifteenth Day of July the Second Year of our Reign Vltima voluntas Johannis Secundi Domini Mordaunt probata IN the Name of God Amen The Sixteenth Day of April in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith I Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt calling to Remembrance the uncertain State of these our Transitory Lives and minding to reduce and set in order such Goods Chattels and other things as God hath endued me withal being somewhat weak in Body yet thanks be to God of perfect Remembrance do make my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I do bequeath my Soul to Almighty God my only Maker and Redeemer my Body to be Buried within the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford in such decent Order and Sort and with such Funeral Charges and Expences as by mine Executors shall be thought meet and convenient for my Estate and Degree Item I will chiefly and above all things That mine Executors shall pay or cause to be paid unto all and every Person and Persons unto whom I shall at the Day of my Decease be indebted and all and every such Summ and Summs of Money as I shall owe unto them or any of them Item I give and bequeath unto Vrsula my Daughter Four hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid her by my Executors at such time as they conveniently may And in the mean time I Will That mine Executors shall find unto the said Vrsula sufficient and convenient Meat Drink Apparel and Clothing necessary for her Degree Item I give unto George Monox and to Humphrey his Son Forty Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be bestowed upon a Bason and Ewre of Silver Guilt parcel Guilt Item I give and bequeath unto Anne Actem one of the Daughters of Margaret Actem my Daughter Two hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England at the Day of her Marriage or at her Age of Eighteen years which of them shall happen and if it happen the said Anne Actem to dye before her Marriage or before she shall accomplish the Age of Eighteen years then the Gift to her to be void And then my Will is That the said Two hundred Marks bequeathed unto the said Anne Actem shall be imployed and bestowed among the rest of the Sons and Daughters of my said Daughter Margaret Actent as shall be then living Item I give and bequeath unto the rest of the Sons and Daughters of the foresaid Margaret Actem my Daughter Six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence a piece to every of them at their several Ages of Eighteen years Item I will and bequeath to every one of my Servants being no Officers One years Wages over and besides the Wages as shall be unto them due at the time of my Decease Item I will to Anne Witney my Wife's Daughter Forty Pounds Item I will to Mary Price Fifty Marks towards her Marriage Item I will to the Three Children of Henry Witney Five Marks a piece Item I will That my Executors shall bestow Two hundred and fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England upon an I le to be builded and made upon the South-side of the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford aforesaid and for a Tomb for me to be erected and set up within the said I le Item Whereas I the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife and Sir Lewis Mordaunt Knight by the name of Lewis Mordaunt Esquire by one Indenture Tripartite bearing date the Third Day of November the Fifth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is did amongst other things Infeoff Sir William Peter and Sir Henry Tervel Knights John Talbot Thomas Lucas Edward Tirrel George White Thomas Brownly and Thomas Nichols Esquires and their Heirs of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of me the said John Lord Mordaunt within the County of Essex late the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight Deceased to certain Uses as by the same Indenture Tripartite bearing date as is aforesaid more at large it doth and may appear Amongst which the Maners of Cranham Gingeraff Tiptofts and Amies in the County of Essex and all Lands and Tenements known by the name or names of Amies and Nokehall and the Farms called Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances and all those Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Brownfordmagna in the County of Essex then late in the occupation of one Rowland Walhead or of his Assigns or appointed after the decease of me John Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife unto the use and behoof of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of me the said John Lord Mordaunt for the term of Ten years next ensuing the decease of me the said John Lord Mordaunt and the Lady
for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And as for and concerning all other the Maners Lordships Rents Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the foresaid Counties of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton and in every of them whereof no use after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt is before in and by these Presents limited and appointed The Recovery and Recoveries aforesaid shall be and enure and the Recoverers therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof after the death and decease of the said Lord Mordaunt to the use of them the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators and Assigns to the end and until that they shall and may have gathered levied and received of the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and of the other Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Lord Mordaunt before in these Presents to the said Recoverers limited and appointed so much Money as shall and will satisfy to pay such Debts Portions and Summs of Money as are hereafter in these Presents mentioned and expressed And as concerning what Debts and Summs of Money and Portions are meant by the said Lord Mordaunt to be raised and paid as well with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before mentioned as also with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before limited for the life of the said Lady Mordaunt after her decease and of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises limited to the said James Henry and Lewis until they shall or should respectively come to their Age of One and twenty Years The said Lord Mordaunt doth by these Presents express the same to be such as followeth that is to say All such Debts as the said Lord Mordaunt shall justly owe at the time of his decease together with all the necessary Costs Charges and Expences which they the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley shall necessarily expend disburse pay or lay out in about or concerning the same and such other Summ and Summs of Money as the said Lord Mordaunt by a note in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Lord Mordaunt shall limit and appoint to be paid and disbursed And also the several Summs and Portions hereafter following videlicet The Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of lawful English Money for and unto the use of Elizabeth Mordaunt Eldest Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And the Summ of Two thousand Pounds lawful English Money for and to the use of Frances Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which shall first happen And also the Summ and Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful Money of England for and unto the use of Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And moreover the like Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful English Money for and unto the use of Anne Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And also the several Summ and Summs of Two thousand Pounds a piece to each and every of the Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters which hereafter shall happen to be Born to the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid at his her or their several Ages of One and twenty Years or Days of their Marriages which of them shall first happen But it is nevertheless meant and intended That if any of the said Children so appointed to have take and receive Portions as aforesaid shall happen to dye before the several time and times limited and appointed for the payment thereof That then his her or their Portions so deceasing shall not be paid at all to the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of the Children so dying but the same shall go to the benefit of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And also the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Executors and Administrators shall after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt yearly allow and pay unto the said James Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt and Lewis Mordaunt Sons of the said Lord Mordaunt for and towards their maintenance from the time of the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt until every of them severally shall attain and come to their several Ages of One and twenty Years aforesaid or Days of Marriages aforesaid the several yearly Summs following videlicet Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feasts of All-Saints called Hallowmas-Day to the said James Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feast aforesaid to the said Henry Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the aforesaid Feast to Lewis Mordaunt during his minority and also Fifty Pounds a piece yearly and at the Feast aforesaid to every Son and Sons hereafter to be Born unto the said Lord Mordaunt during the minority of such Son and Sons respectively And if it shall happen the said Lady Margaret do dye before the foresaid Daughters of the foresaid Lord Mordaunt or any of them shall attain to her or their several Ages or Times aforesaid on or at which her or their several Portions aforesaid be or ought to be paid Then the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall yearly pay at the Feast of All-Saints aforesaid unto such of the Daughter and Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt then not attained to the Age and Time of her having or wherein she ought to have and to be paid her foresaid Portion according to the appointment of these Presents the yearly Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece for and towards her and their Maintenance respectively to and unto the time when by the appointment and limitation of these Presents her or their said Portions ought to be paid as aforesaid And also the like Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece at the Feast aforesaid and in manner and sort aforesaid unto all and every the Daughters and Issue Females of the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter happening to be born unto the said Lord Mordaunt either in the life time of the said Lord Mordaunt or after his death And it is further the absolute Meaning and Intent of
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
he renewed old Claims much to the displeasure and discontent of the King Among the rest he revived an ancient pretence of the See of Canterbury to the Castle and Honour of Saltwood which Sir Ralph de Broc for his own as well as the Kings Interest did peremptorily oppose From hence great and personal Enmities did arise between the Archbishop and himself to that Degree as the King in the subsequent variances that fell out afterward between Becket and him could reasonably find no man so proper to oppose unto his insolent Arrogance as Sir Ralph de Broc who had a Reputation and Interest in that County Superiour to most of his time and the Conscience of a Souldier not apt to be puzl'd or obstructed with Scruples incident to men of milder Callings hence it was that he was made the man of Terrour of Seizure and Chastisement to the Archbishop and all his Adherents when their Endeavours were in Opposition to the King and his Authority and this was the reason of all the reprobate Characters he did receive from several Monkish Authors of that time which may be perused amongst the proofs He died notwithstanding happy and safe from all their Censures in the favour and service of his Prince and in Marriage of a Lady called Damata the Daughter of one William de Gorom who by the Stile of his Charter appears to have been a man of much Dignity and Power in those days from whom he received in free Gift to him his Wife and their Heirs the Land of Staplehurst Their Issue Robert de Broc Edelina de Broc Married to Stephen of Turnam a great Baron and in much Authority in the Reign of King John being at that time Seneschall of Poictou in the Kingdom of France ROBERT the Son of Ralph de Broc at the Arrival of the Insolent Archbishop out of banishment received early marks of his Revenge and Indignation For upon Christmas day in the Seventeenth Year of King Henry the Second we find he was Excommunicated by his own mouth together with Nigell de Sackville for some Offences pretended to have been done to that Prelate during the late Contests whose Death soon after Executed by certain Knights of the Court set himself and his Family out of the reach of his farther displeasure This Sir Robert de Broc became a famous Knight and in much Employment under King Richard the First in whose Reign we find he was stiled Marshal of England He Married to his first Wife Margaret of Beauchamp or de bello Campo one of the Daughters of Richard de Beauchamp who gave in free Marriage besides other things certain Lands and Rents in the Town of Chestersham His Second Wife was Margery de Crec who becoming the Heir of Walter her Father by occasion that her Brother William happened to suffer under the Laws brought unto him the Forrestership of Cannoc and the Lordship of Misterton in the County of Warwick which preferment was procured unto him by the particular favour of the King Issue by his first Wife Laurence de Broc Issue by his second Wife Margery Married to Hugh de Loges to whom descended Misterton and all the Lands of their Mothers Inheritance SIR Laurence de Broc flourished in the Reign of King John and King Henry the Third to whose Interests he did constantly adhere The Reputation and Authority which he had in the Counties of Suffolk Cambridge Huntington and Buckingham were of no small use to the Affairs of the Crown during the various Troubles of that long Reign He augmented notwithstanding the Fortune left him by his Predecessors having purchased the Mannors of Bridsthorn Herdwick and Wedon from the Prior of Saint Saviours of Bermundsey and received from Robert Mallet a Lord of that Age in Marriage with his Daughter Milicent certain Lands in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge on condition That if they did not prove to the value they were asserted to be worth their Deficiency was then to be made good out of the Lands that were held by the said Robert Mallet in Quenton in the County of Buckingham Their Issue Hugh de Broc SIR Hugh de Broc succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships and we find he followed the famous King Edward the First in divers of his Wars his Name being upon the Lists of several Expeditions which were made in that Reign into Wales Gascony and Scotland He Married Agnes de Montepiconis a Lady descended from one of the most ancient and Noble Families that was among the Normans as whose Predecessors had been Lords of the Honour which bare that name in the Dutchy of Normandy and whose immediate Ancestor came over with King William the First in quality of his Dapifer or Sewer an Office of Eminent Dignity at that time in the Kings House Their Issue Laurence de Broc SIR Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale after the decease of his first Wife whose Christian Name was Ellen Married another Lady of the same appellation that was the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot and of Cassandra one of the Heirs of the Famous Knight Sir Giles of Argentine who gave him the Mannor of Maudlins and other Lands as a Portion to which end a Fine was suffer'd in the Thirtieth Year of Edward the First In the third Year of King Edward the Second a Patent pass'd unto this Sir Laurence de Broc to have Free-Warren and all the Rights thereof upon his Lands in Chessham Aumondsham Bridsthorn Hardwick and Wedon in the County of Buckingham and in the seventh of the same Reign he Levied a Fine to his Son Ralph and Elizabeth his Wife He lived unto the Reign of King Edward the Third and left to Inherit his Lands and Lordships Sir Ralph de Broc Lord of Shephale OF this Ralph de Broc or the Transactions of his Life there remains little Testimony So whether he died early or that the Evidences of them cannot appear by reason of the length of time since the Alienation of these Lands it is uncertain but true it is That in him did terminate this Name and Family who having Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Hussey left no Male-Issue and only three Daughters Joanne Married to Thomas Rokesby that died without Issue Elena Married to Edmund Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Agnes Married to Sir Henry of Brussels ELena de Broc was in the Seven and twentieth Year of King Edward the Third Married to Edmund Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of divers other Lordships She brought into his House the Moity of all her Fathers Lands there accruing to her Husband for her Share in Cambridgshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborn in Buckinghamshire divers Lands in Elsburg Bridsthorn Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham with sundry other Lands in Hartfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephale Their Issue Robert Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Sr. RANULPH de BROC Governor of the Castle of Agenet
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
thereof King Edward the Third granted him a Patent to that effect in the first year of his Reign He had been Seneschal to Queen Isabel the Kings Mother in all her Forests between Stamford and Oxford as appears by a Brieve directed to him by the King for the tenth of all the Venison that should be taken in the County of Northampton to be delivered to the Abbot of Peterborow according as had been granted by his Ancestors He was pardoned by that same King with his Son John William the Son of Thomas Seymar Richard Molesworth Simon his Squire and other of his friends for his breach of the Kings peace and the death of John of Overton Longville whom he had slain in a Quarrel with other circumstances that certifie the particular favour was born him by that Prince He was afterward with one Sr William Nocton as being one of the most eminent Knights in the Bishoprick of Ely joined with Sir William Shareshull Sir Henry Greene and Sir William Thorpe in the Kings Commission to hear and determine of the felony and misdemeanour of Thomas Lild Bishop of that Diocess who was not only esteemed accessary to the death of William Holmes Servant to the Lady Wake of Lydell that was killed by his Officer Ralph Carcless She being a Princess of that time eminent for great birth as well as Beauty and rare Qualities and the Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster but that moreover stood in great and exemplary Contempt against the King himself For the demeanor of Sir Simon in which matter in his duty and compliance to the Kings Commands and Interest he incurred with the rest of the Commissioners the several censures and indignation of the Pope which proceeded even to Excommunication and other great Penalties from which his merit towards the King by his Conduct in that Affair nor the Power of so great a Prince was able to protect him He did finally give and grant in the eighteenth year of King Edward the Third unto Robert the Prior of the Church of Saint Maries of Pavenston and to the Covent of that place two parts of his Mannor of Stoke-Goldington with the Advowson of the Church of that Town out of Devotion to God and the Blessed Virgin and for the good of his Soul to be there prayed for and for the Souls of his Ancestors and Benefactors His Wife was Margaret Daughter to Sir John and Sister to Sir Gilbert of Lindsey Their Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships UNto Sir Simon of Drayton did succeed Sir John of Drayton his Son in the sole Lordship of that place as also in his other Possessions in the Counties of Northampton Huntingdon and Oxford Moved by what inducement it does not appear but this Sir John of Drayton did in the eighth year of King Edward the Third purchase a Licence of Alienation for enabling him to settle upon Sir Henry Greene then Chief Justice of England and that had Married his Fathers Sister his antient Mannor and Lordship of Drayton with those Lands in the Towns adjoining that did belong unto it In consequence whereof it was conveyed unto him with the Reversion to Henry the second Son of the said Sir Henry Greene whom he calls his Cousin and for default of Issue in him to the right Heirs of Sir Henry the Father But it is found notwithstanding by a Deed of this Sir John that in the Life-time of Sir Henry Greene the Chief Justice he did render the Possession of the Chief Seat and the Mannor of Drayton with all the Demesnes the Lands Meadows Pastures and the Park thereunto belonging unto Sir Henry Greene his Cousin the Son of the Chief Justice on Condition that he should ever after bear his Name and his Armes in performance of that Agreement that had before been made between the Father of the said Sir Henry and himself which was the reason why the Greenes of Drayton instead of Azure three Bucks Or which was the Armes of their Family and those born by the Greenes of Norton descended from Sir Thomas Green the Elder Brother did bear ever after for their Coat Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules being that of Drayton which by this Agreement they were obliged to assume The Wife of Sir John of Drayton was Christian the Daughter of Sir Gilbert of Lindsey his Mothers Niece Their Issue Baldwin of Drayton whose Posterity for divers Ages did flourish afterwards Possessors of the Lordships of Stoke-Goldington Bottlebrigg Molesworth and Overton Longville in the County of Huntingdon and South-Newington in Oxfordshire where they had a fair Patrimony and lived in great Estimation WALTER de VERE The Eldest sonne of Henry ye. sonne of Robert that was ye. second sonne of AUBERY de Vere Great Chamberlaine and Lord Cheife Iustice of England who from his Cheife Seat Assumed that Name to him and his decendants Lucie Bassett Sr. HENRY of Drayton Iuetta de Bourdon Sr. Baldwin of Drayton Idonia de Gimeges Sr. Iohn of Drayton Philipa of Arderne Sr. Simon of Drayton Margaret of Lindsey Catharine of Drayton Sr. Henry Greene. Sr John of Drayton Cristian of Lindsey Sr Henry Greene Matilda de Mandnir Sr Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Baldwin of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 488. inter Confirmationes Regis Witlafii ITem Domum Oswini Militis in Draytonâ videlicet octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Quinque lineae infrá ET Donum Wulnoti Dapiferi mei in Adingtonâ videlicet duas Hidas terrae Piscariam cum Advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Villae in alia Adingtona ex dono ejusdem unam Virgatam terrae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 492. inter Confirmationes Beoredi Regis SImiliter confirmo praedicto Monasterio de Croilandiâ de dono Oswini Militis in Draytona octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 498. inter Confirmationes Abbatis Turketuli Abbatiae Croilandiae IN Draytona unam Carucatam terrae sex Acras Prati quatuor Salinas AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND The Baronage of England Page 190. THis last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Fater to the Monks of Abington and being in high Esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his Heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honour of Eye in Suffolk
Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife that the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife over and above the portion of the same Dame Elizabeth of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements and of all other Mannors Lands and Tenements called the Greene's Lands shall have the Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Conyngre and the Park of Drayton and the Pasture there called the Oxe Pasture dureing the life of the sayd Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife saveing the reversion thereof to the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Constance Parre and Audree and to their Heirs Provided alwayes that the same Sir Thomas nor Elizabeth shall do no waste in the same Mannor and Park nor cut down no Tymber in the sayd Mannor Park or Conyngre And where alsoe the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight and Dame Elizabeth his Wife never had Issue begotten between them nor any belike to have because of the Age of the same Dame Elizabeth so that the sayd Sir Thomas is not intitled to have any part of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements nor other premisses nor intitled to have any other Mannors Lands or Tenements Rents Reversions Services Woods Avowsons Franchises and Hereditaments which at any time were of the sayd Costance late Countesse of Wiltes nor of the sayd Herry Greene Fader of the same Constance in England Wales and Marches of the same nor any part of them but onely dureing the life of the same Dame Elizabeth his Wife in her Right Yet neverthelesse for that the same Sir Thomas and Elizabeth nor any of theirs shall not discontinue nor aliene put away nor depart fro the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions Avousons and other premisses within the Realm of England Wales and the Marches of the same nor fro any parte or parcel of them But that all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other the premisses immediately after the decease of the sayd Margaret Countesse and after the decease of the sayd Sir Thomas and Dame Elizabeth his Wife shall descend grow goe and come to the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Constance Parre and Audree Vere and their Heirs in like manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene was inheritable unto the same It is agreed therefore between all and every of the sayd partyes in manner and forme following That the sayd Margaret now Countesse shall have and enjoy for terme of her life the sayd Mannors of Stamford-Rivers and Sutton in the County of Essex and all other Lands and Tenements that late were of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes in Stamford-Rivers and Sutton in the same Countye And as moche of the sayd Lands and Tenements in the sayd Countye called Tracies Peggislonde and Botellis as with the sayd Mannors of Stamford-Rivers and Sutton shall be of the clere yerely value of fifty Pounds above all charges as well Stewards Fees Bayliffes Fees as other yerely charges which Mannors Lands and Tenements were of the inheritance of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes descended to him by the sayd John late Earle of Wiltes his Fader whose Heire to the same Mannors Lands and Tenements the sayd now Duke is And the same Duke covenanteth and granteth by these Presents That he shall make or cause to be made all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements of the yerely value of fifty Pounds before the sixteenth day of July next comeing as sure to the sayd Margaret or other to her use dureing her life as by the Counsel of the sayd Margaret shall be devised at her Costs and Charges And for and in recompence of the residue of the sayd Duke of Bucks Lands which the sayd Margaret had in Joynture and alsoe to make up her full Joynture of three hundred Marks the same Margaret now Countesse shall have the sayd Mannors of Wamiden Emton Wolston and Chalton according to the Estate of her old Joynture thereof made And alsoe the Mannors Lands and Tenements following That is to say the Mannor of Grately in the Countye of Southampton and all Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes in Grately in the sayd County The Mannor of Westbury in the Countye of Wiltes and all Lands and Tenements that were of the same late Earl in Westbury in the same Countye The Mannors of Ramides Ringstede Cotes Stanwike and Harringworth in the Countye of Northampton and all Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd late Earle in Ramides Ringstede Cotes Stanwike and Harringworth in the same Countye The Mannor of Buckworth in the Countye of Huntington and all Lands and Tenements that were of the same late Earle in Buckworth in the same Countye And the Mannor of Combton in the Countye of Cambrigge and all Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd late Earle in Combton in the sayd Countye All which Mannors Lands and Tenements in the sayd Countyes of Bedford Northampton Buckingham Huntington Cambrigge Southampton and Wiltes were of the Greene's Lands Except and alwayes reserveing unto the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Hizabeth his Wife Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere and to the Heirs of the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Constance and Audree All Wards Marriages and Avousons belonging to the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and to every parcel of them All which sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements with the sayd Mannors of Wamiden Emton Wolston and Chalton are delivered to the sayd Margaret Countesse for and instede of the yerely value of one hundred and fifty Pounds over Charges as well Stewards Fees Bayliffes Fees as other annual Charges And the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife Sir Richard Gilford Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader Covenantyn and grantyn by these Presents that the sayd Sir Thomas and the sayd Dame Elizabeth his Wife and alsoe the sayd John Mordaunt the younger and Elizabeth his Wife Robert Mordaunt and Amye his Wife John Parre and Constance his Wife and the sayd Audree Vere and such as shall be her Husband if she be then marryed and alsoe all such persons as were lately infeoffed by the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes or now be infeoffed or seised of and in all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements sometimes of the sayd Herry Greene afore the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall suffer the sayd Margaret Stafford Countesse of Wiltes Johan Lesle Vicountesse Lesle John Grey Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire John Bretteyne Clerk Thomas Frowyke Sergeant at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Thomas Marrow and John Gardiner to recover ayenst them the same Mannors Lands and Tenements in such forme and order and all other things doe and suffer to be done concerning the same recovere as by the Counsell learned of the sayd Countesse shall be avised at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Countesse The same recovere to be to the use of the sayd Countesse dureing her life and after her decease of the one moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements with
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
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
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
prevail did undertake it The Princess then at last gave her self up to the will of her Friends a day was set for the Solemnity and his Excellency had liberty to visit her Highness in he own appartment The Earl of Peterborow instead of making a publick Entry which the little preparation he had made by reason of his being incognito would not well admit was notwithstanding in the noblest manner that place was capable of brought to his audience of the Dutchess Regent and the Duke her Son who was but Twelve years old by the Prince Renaldo of Esté the young Duke's Uncle and all that were great or considerable in that Court and indeed the Ceremony Attendance State Guards and other Appurtenances were in that Order and Magnificence as might have become a Prince of far greater Revenue and Territories and herein all the marks of Soveraignty did appear which are usual with Princes who are independant but of God He delivered the King his Master's Letter to their Highnesses in the usual form and after having made a Speech suitable to the occasion retired as he came only instead of being conducted to his Coach he was led into a very noble apartment which was design'd now to entertain his Excellency in quality of Extraordinary Embassador all the time he would have occasion to stay in Modena and therein indeed with great Plenty and Magnificence he was served in all necessary kinds at the Expence of that Generous Princess But now other things being concluded and the Earl pressing his departure the Day for the Marriage was assign'd being the _____ of September Against which the Earl had betimes prepared himself in habit and Equipage suitable to the occasion and about Eleven of the Clock he was fetch'd at his Lodging by the Duke accompanied by his Uncle the Prince Renaldo and all the considerable Cavaliers of the Court and conducted to a Chamber near the Chapel where he reposed himself till so much of the Service was done as seem'd obnoxious to the Religion he did profess after which he was led to the Chapel where the Princes expected him and there between them was perform'd the Ceremony design'd for a perpetual Marriage between this admirable Princess and the Duke of York his Master After which he led her by the Hand to her Apartment and there taking his leave he went to repose himself till he was fetch'd to accompany these Princes at the Dinner That did succeed about One of the Clock and as to the Ceremony of it it was perform'd at a long Table over the upper end whereof was a rich Cloth of State under which in representation of a Bridegroom the Earl of Peterborow sate with the Princess the Duke Dutchess and other Princes of that House sitting on either side according to their degrees This Dinner was served with all the care and curiosity that was possible for any thing of that nature to be contriv'd What the Sea could afford though it was not near and what the Rivers and the Lakes was there what the Land could produce or the Air of Italy was not wanting and all this was made more excellent by the Courtesie and good Humor of the Princes But it ended at last and all arose in order to a greater liberty for Conversation That had also a conclusion for that time too and the company for their repose retired every one to their Apartment and to his Excellency's he was conducted after the same ceremony as he was brought to Dinner To the honor of the Night was dedicated Dancing and a Ball whereunto all the Beauties of that Court did resort It was perform'd with the Order and Ornaments suitable to the other parts of the Entertainment being much to the satisfaction and esteem of all the Strangers that did see it The next Day in a very formal Cavelcade the Duke and his Excellency rode to the Cathedral where a solemn Service and Te Deum was sung in honor of the accomplishing of this Marriage And two or three other days more were spent in triumphal Shows and other testimonies of Publick Rejoycing After all which the time of undertaking the departure being come the Dutchess Mother would by all means accompany her Daughter into England and it could not be diverted by any means although it proved chargeable to her and of ill Consequence to her concerns in that Government Passes were obtained from the Kings of France and Spain and the Italian Princes through whose Territories her Royal Highness was to pass to travel incognito but with orders to provide any accomodations should be necessary for her service She began then this happy voyage the _____ of September in the Year 1673. accompanied by the Dutchess Regent the Duke her Brother his Excellency and the Prince Renaldo of Esté with whatever was Noble and considerable among their own Subjects as many other Men of Quality who made their Court to those Princes upon different obligations and a very Princely Corteggio it was that went with them out of Modena Monsieur d' Angeao and his Brother had gone some days before to Milan and did not rejoyn the Princess till they came into Piedmont After two days the young Duke was perswaded to take his leave of his Sister and return but he did it with all that repugnancy of which an excellent nature could be capable having been ever bred together with that reciprocal kindness which nearness and merit could beget But the Princess was near being dissolv'd in tears she left her loving and hopeful Brother her happy and delicious Country with the kind companions of her youth among whom she had been bred and all these perhaps for ever her Youth and Innocence permitted her not to know whither it was she was to go to what kind of part nor among whom So compassion was to be allow'd to her Fears as well as her Enclinations and it was enough we could procure her to proceed and to be comforted Having passed then through her own Country through the Parmesan and part of the Milanese she came at last into Piedmont where the Princes were almost as it had been by Spirits for several days invisibly lodg'd and provided for after a most magnificent manner but ever at the expence of that Generous Duke till they came out of his Territories where they were met by Officers of the King of France who did accompany and defray them unto the City of Paris bringing them to lodge at the Arsenall where his Excellency was likewise provided for and had a noble Table kept for his own particular at the same Kings expence all the time of his residence there The necessity of our repair into England now drew near but her Royal Highness here fell sick and her Disease for all the power and diligence of Medicines hung so upon her as for some weeks they were not able to think of their remove And when her strength was again return'd the King of France for all her desire of
Marriage for payment of thirteen Pound six shillings eight pence residue of the said three hundred Marks to be bound jointly and severally to the said Thomas Huntington in a fourth Obligation payable the first day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety eight It is also covenanted and agreed between the said Parties and the said Thomas Huntington granteth by these Presents That if the said William Mordaunt die before any of the said days of payment specified in any of the said Obligations then having none Issue begotten of the Body of the said Anne That thence all the said Obligations whereof the days of payment shall come after his Death shall be void and the payments of them to cease except always That if the said Anne be with child at the time of the decease of the said William Mordaunt that then as long as that Child lives the payment to hold and the Obligations to be good and in strength and if that Child happen to die then all the Obligations whereof the days of payment shall be to come at the time of the death of the said Child shall be void and the payment of them shall cease And the said John Mordaunt and William grant by these presents That they shall make or cause to be made before the said day of Marriage to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the body of the said William lawfully begotten and to the use and behoof of the said William and Anne and of their Heirs aforesaid as sure sufficient and lawful estate of the Maner of Wodend otherwise called Rokesden Wodend with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth and Collesden in the same County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements in Chichmersh and Clopton in the County of Northampton whereof the said John Mordaunt or any other to the use of the said John or of his Heirs at the making of these Presents being sealed as shall be devised by the Learned Councel of the said Thomas Huntington at the costs and charges of the said William Mordaunt And moreover the said William shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne to be bound to the said Thomas Huntington in an Obligation of a hundred pounds to make or cause to be made before the First day of April that shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety eight an Enfeoffment and lawful Estate of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of an hundred and six Shillings and eight pence over all Charges to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said William Mordaunt lawfully begotten and wherefore afore this time certain Covenants were made and had between the said Thomas Huntington and Robert Parys upon Marriage had between the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and thereupon the said Robert Parys payed to the said Thomas Huntington an hundred and forty Pounds of lawful Money of England and also promised a Jointure of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of twenty Marks then immediately to be paid to the said Margaret and after his Decease to have a further Jointure of Ten Marks for Term of her Life which Jointure in all should be of the Yearly Value of twenty Pounds which is well and truly executed and performed and for that the said Thomas Huntington should leave to his Heirs Lands and Tenements to the Yearly Value of an Hundred Marks as in an Old pair of Indentures made between the said Robert Parys on the one Partie and the said Thomas Huntington on the other Partie among other more plainly appeareth which Covenants the said Robert Parys hath renounced and released and by these Presents now renounceth and releaseth unto the said Thomas Huntington It is now assented and agreed between the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and William Mordaunt for the Premises to be performed to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife as is abovesaid That all the Covenants comprised in the Old Indentures of the part of the said Robert Parys to be performed and the Indenture of the same for the part of the said Robert shall be and stand in their force And moreover that William Fyndern Knight and others that be now enfeoffed in the Maner of Hildersham and of other Lands and Tenements in Hildersham in the said County of Cantebrig shall be and stand seoffed thereof to the use of the said Margaret for a Jointure for Term of her Life of Lands and Rents in Hildersham aforesaid and to the Yearly Value of ten Marks over and beside the Jointure of twenty Pounds to be had after the Death of the said Robert Parys and the said Robert Parys shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington ten Pounds of lawful Money of England in Form following That is to say Yearly five Marks at the Feast of Hallowmesse till the said ten Pounds be payed In Witness whereof to the part of these Indentures remaining with the said Thomas Huntington the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt and Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals To the second part of these Indentures remaining with the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals And to the third part of these Indentures remaining with the said Robert Parys and John Parys the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt have set to their Seals the said Fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh John Mordaunt William Mordaunt John Parys Junctura Annae uxoris Willielmi Mordaunt SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes Mordaunt de Turveia Armiger dedi concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo juniori Annae Huntington filiae Thomae Huntington de Hempsted Armigeri Manerium meum de Wodend cum pertinentiis nec non omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia mea cum suis pertinentiis in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth Collesden in Comitatu Bedfordiae quae nuper fuerunt Johannis Carlile Dedi etiam concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae omnia terras tenementa mea cum suis pertinentiis in Tychmerch Clopton in Comitatu Northamptoniae quae nuper fuerunt Thomae Hunt Habendum tenendum omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis Et ego praedictus Johannes Mordaunt haeredes mei omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis
twenty Years to come grow descend in possession Reversion or in Use to the said Edmond and to his Heirs for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace at his liberty to make a Jointure to any other Woman that he shall fortune hereafter to Marry if the said Dorothy now his Wife fortune to decease of and in Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks to the yearly value of Forty Pounds for term of Life of the same Woman only Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace for to declare his Will of the said Maners Lands and Tenements of the value of Three hundred twenty five Marks during the Non-age of the said Edmond and during the Non-age of the next Heir of the said Edmond if the said Edmond fortune to decease before he shall accomplish the Age of twenty one Years And also for to declare his last Will of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Forty Marks parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks for the term of Ten Years after the decease of the said John Fettyplace And after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and twenty Years for the preferment of the Younger Sons and Daughters of the said John Fettyplace and for the contentation and payment of his Debts Provided also That it shall be lawful for the said John Fettyplace for to give to every of his Younger Sons which shall fortune to be in Life at the time of the Death of the said John Fettyplace severally by himself Ten Marks parcel of the said Three hundred twenty five Marks during their lives only And if any of them happen to decease that then after the Death of every of them that Ten Marks of him that is so Dead to come go and return to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever For the which Premises and also for other Covenants Grants and Agreements on the Party of the said John Fettyplace his Executors and Assigns for to be performed and kept the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors and Assigns shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Fettyplace his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following that is to say One hundred pounds of lawful Money of England at the sealing of these present Indentures of the which Hundred Pounds the said John Fettyplace acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and payed And the said Sir John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged by these presents And at the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle next coming after the date of these presents Fifty Marks of lawful Money of England at the Feast of Pentecost which shall be in the Year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundred and twenty five or within twelve days next following the same Feast One hundred Marks of lawful money of England and so yearly at the Feast of Pentecost or within Twelve days next following after the same Feast One hundred Marks until the time that the said Six hundred Marks be truly contented and paid And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edmond during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye before the said Marriage had between them and before carnal copulation that then Thomas second Son of the said John Fettyplace or he which at that time shall be Heir apparent to the said John Fettyplace shall Marry and take to Wife the said Margaret if the said Margaret will thereto agree and the Law of the Church will so suffer and permit the same and to have like Covenants Grants and Agreements for to be made between the said John Fettyplace and Sir John Mordaunt as well for the payments to be made as for the Marriage of the said second Son or the next Heir apparent of the said John Fettyplace at that time being as the said Sir John should have had if the said Edmond had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Margaret during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye after Marriage had between the said Edmond and the said Margaret and before carnal copulation that then the said Edmond shall marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Sir John Mordaunt if the said Dorothy will thereto agree and the Laws of the Church the same will suffer with like Covenants Grants and Agreements and also payments of the same summ of Six hundred Marks as then is and shall be paid for the Marriage of the said Dorothy as should have been if the said Margaret had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth That the said Sir John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall have the keeping and custody of the said Edmond until the time that the said Edmond come to his age of One and twenty Years and that the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall have the said Twenty pounds to the use of the said Sir John his Executors and Assigns any Covenant or Grant in these present Indentures to the contrary made notwithstanding to and for the finding of the said Edmond and Margaret And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Edmond Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond unto the time that the said Edmond come to the age of One and twenty Years And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said John Fettyplace shall have the keeping custody and rule of the said Margaret as long as it shall please the said John Fettyplace to have her for which the said Sir John shall content and pay to the said John Fettyplace for the finding of the said Margaret as long as the said Margaret shall be in the House or at the finding of the said John Fettyplace Ten Marks of lawful Money of England And if the said John Fettyplace be not disposed to have the said Margaret and to find her himself that then the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Margaret Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the said Margaret unto the time that the said Edmond come to the full age of One and twenty Years And it is further agreed between the said Parties That after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the full age of One and twenty Years that then the said Edmond shall receive and take the Profits of the said Twenty Pounds And also all other parcels as be appointed by these Indentures for the Jointure of
Newton-Blosmaville and Brafeld are Contributors Twenty six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence I Will That according to my Father's Will the Seven Pounds be disposed in good Deeds in the Church and Town of Turvey for the Soul of Dame Agnes Peck Widow deceased and towards the Reparation and Amendment of the said Church of Turvey or else to buy a new Bell to Ring Day-Bell in the Morning and Curfre at Night to the Church-wardens and Inhabitants of the Town of Turvey to pray for the Souls of William Rogers late of Hills in Turvey deceased otherwise called Roger Stevenson otherwise called William Stevenson of Turvey-Hills Thirty Shillings to the said Church-Wardens and Inhabitants as is aforesaid Thirty Shillings for to pray for the Soul of Master John Cross Clerk sometime Parson of Turvey for and in full recompenee of certain Tyths and Rents due to him for certain Lands late belonging to Parnel Biddlyn and John Biddlyn her Son and Heir To the Heirs of William Bird late of Hills in Turvey aforelaid for and in full recompence of Lands purchased of William Bird his Grandfather living in Hills aforesaid Forty Shillings To the said Church-Wardens of Turvey and other Inhabitants Ten Shillings Stagden Ten Shillings and Mulsho Church Ten Shillings according to the Last Will of my Father And I Will That Six Pound thirteen Shillings four Pence be delivered to the Church-Wardens and other Inhabitants of Mulsho to the Use and Profit of the Church and of the Town and for and towards the Reparations of the said Church I give and bequeath unto the Heirs of Bateman of Turvey deceased for divers Respects which Bateman of old time was Owner of the House next the Mill in Turvey and after that it was one Whites Five Marks I give and bequeath to the next Kinsfolks of Thomas Kerby late of Heviningham-Castle in the County of Essex and of old time Clerk and Servant to my Father Twenty Shillings I give and bequeath unto John Page of Arlesey my Cousin One Ring of Gold price Ten Shillings which I owed to his Mother Cicely Page Item I give and bequeath among the Daughters of Thomas More Esquire my Son in Law begotten between the said Thomas More and Dorothy his Wife late my Daughter Forty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England Albeit the said Thomas doth Claim Fifty Marks thereof by promise of Mouth besides Writing which promise I do not remember And yet notwithstanding I will the said Forty Pounds to be paid as before without delay and to be bestowed by the said Thomas and by the advice of my Executors Item I Will That my Servant John Ashecomb for his long good and faithful Service done unto me shall have the Farm of the Maner of Lyford where he now dwelleth and doth inhabit during the space and term of One and twenty Years next after my Decease in as ample and large a manner as the said John doth now occupy the same paying yearly the accustomed Rent as he doth now pay for the same and generally keeping all Reparations of all manner of Houses belonging and occupied in the said Maner Item I Will That all such Leases as I have made promised to be made or agreed with any manner of Person or Persons whatsoever for Years and yet the said Leases not put in Writing shall be Good Stable and Effectual and stand in strength against me and my Heirs And that my Heir shall with as much Speed convenient as may be assure unto them their Leases in Writing according to my former Promise Grants and Agreements made unto them or any of them the said Leases paying such Fines as be agreed between the said Leasees and me That is to say A Lease made to Simon de Brown for term of Years of the Maner of Halfhyde for the Fine of Twenty Pounds and as yet received Ten Pounds A Lease made to John Perse of Newport-Pannel for One and twenty Years for the Fine of Six Pounds thirteen Shillings four Pence and received no part thereof A Lease of One and twenty Years made unto Robert Edwards of Turvey of the Priory Farm for the Fine of Ten Pounds the said Robert Edwards to pay yearly for his Rent Six Pound thirteen Shillings four Pence Also I will and bequeath to every of my Servants One whole Years Wages and also sufficient Meat and Drink for one whole Year to be allowed to all and every of my Servants to be spent at and within my Mansion-House of Turvey Also I will and bequeath That of all the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which late were of the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis late of Westhornedon in the County of Essex Knight otherwise Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight deceased which from him or any of his Ancestors descended remained or came to Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt deceased late Wife of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Cousin and Heir to the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight deceased wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Dame Joan now his Wife or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or for term of Life or Lives or severally in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last day of August in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight shall be within One half Year next after my decease lawfully sufficiently and assuredly conveyed and Assured unto Sir Robert Throgmorton Knight John Cheyne Esquire and Thomas Nichols Gentleman or to the Survivor or Survivors of them and to his and their Heirs discharged of all former Rights Tyths Uses Interests Charges Incumbrances and Demands had or made since the Death of the said Dame Elizabeth Leases for term of Years whereupon the old Rents and Services or more are reserved and the chief Rents and Services from thenceforth to be due to the chief Lords only excepted to the only Use hereafter following That is to say So many or so much of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which late were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis as shall amount to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Marks or under and not above and shall be named appointed and declared by the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son by a Bill Tripartite Indented Sealed and Subscribed by the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Inrolled in any of the Queen's Majesties Courts of Records at Westminster Whereof One of the parts so Sealed and Subscribed to be delivered to the said Lewis Mordaunt and the other of the said Parts so Sealed and Subscribed to be delivered to the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols or to the Survivor or Survivors of them to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and of the same Dame Joan now his Wife for the term of their Lives and for the term of the Life of the longest Liver of them without
Mary will thereunto condescend and agree and the Laws of the Holy Church the same permit and suffer In consideration of which Marriage so to be had and solemnized the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth by these Presents Covenant Promise and Agree to give with his said Daughter Mary for her advancement in Marriage with the said Thomas Maunsell the Summ of Two thousand Pounds of currant Money of England to be paid to the said Edward his Executors Administrators and Assigns in manner and form following That is to say At or before the Twentieth and Five and twentieth Day of July next ensuing the Date of these Presents at the usual place of payments in the Royal Exchange within the City of London between the hours of Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon and Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same Day the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Two thousand Pounds and at or upon the Four and twentieth Day of February then next following at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Two thousand Pounds and at or upon the Twenty and Four and twentieth Day of August then next ensuing at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Two thousand Pounds and also at or upon the Twentieth and Four and twentieth Day of February which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fourscore and three at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds the residue of the said Two thousand Pounds in full discharge and payment thereof In consideration whereof and of the said Marriage so to be had and solemnized and for the better Maintenance of the House and Name and of the Establishment of the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Edward in his Blood And to the end his Lands and Possessions may continue in his Blood and to set down and express what part and parcel of his Inheritance shall remain after his death to Dame Jane Wife of the said Edward for her Jointure for term of her Life and likewise what Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall be limited and appointed for the Jointure of the said Mary Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt in possession presently and in Reversion after the death of the said Edward and after his Wife's death and what Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall remain to the performance of his Will for the Education and Preferment of his younger Children and payment and discharge of his Legacies and Debts and what Lands shall descend after his death and after the decease of the said Dame Jane his Wife to his said Son for the better Maintenance of his House and Blood It is meant and intended by the said Edward Maunsell hereby to be expressed and declared and now these Indentures do witness That whereas in and by one Indenture bearing Date the Eighteenth Day of September in the Three and Twentieth Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady made between the said Edward Maunsell Knight and Dame Jane his Wife of the one party and Leyson Price of Briton-Ferry in the said County of Glamorgan Esquire and Thomas Powell of Longonoyd in the said County Gentleman of the other party it is Covenanted Granted Condescended and finally Agreed between the said Parties to the said former Indentures And the said Edward for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns and for the said Dame Jane his Wife in and by the same hath Covenanted Granted and Agreed to and with the said Leyson Price and Thomas Powell their Heirs and Assigns That he the said Edward and Dame Jane his Wife should and would before the First Day of September then next ensuing the Date of the former Indentures Acknowledge and Levy one Fine or Fines with Proclamation according to the Course of the Common-Laws of this Realm before the Queen's Majesty's Justices of he County of Glamorgan or some such like other person as should be sufficiently authorized of all and singular his Maners Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever with all and singular their Rights Members and Appurtenances c. And so being a very long Indenture it proceeds in mentioning all the Maners of which this Estate was composed and ends in form accustomed Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations The Queen's Majesty having very great and urgent Cause to communicate unto the Principals of her Nobility for the Advice of them and her Council concerning the present State of the Realm hath commanded us to signifie unto your Lordship that of the said number she hath made choice of your Lordship to be one And therefore her pleasure is That your Lordship do not fail but to come to London or to Westminster to be there the Six and twentieth of this Month at which Day your Lordship shall understand by me the Lord Chancellor where your Lordship and the rest shall Assemble about the Service of her Majesty and the Realm So we bid your Lordship right heartily farewel From Windsor-Castle the Fifteenth Day of September One thousand five hundred eighty six Your assured loving Friends T. Brumley Canc. W. Brughley W. Howard J. Hunsdon F. Cobham Chr. Hutton Anether Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas her Majesty hath made special choice of your Lordship to assist at the Funeral of the late Scottish Queen in company of divers other Noblemen which is to be performed the First of August next ensuing at the City of Peterburgh These are therefore to signifie unto your Lordship that her Majesty's Pleasure is You fail not to be there the last of this Month. We are also to let you further understand That there is Order given to the Master of her Majesty's Wardrobe Mr. John Fortescue to deliver unto you or to such as you shall appoint to receive the same a certain proportion of Black as well for your self as also for certain Gentlemen and Yeomen to attend upon you and so we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court the Tenth Day of July One thousand five hundred eighty and seven Your very loving Friends Chr. Hutton Canc. W. Burghley J. Hunsdon Fr. Cobham Fr. Knollys Fr. Walsyngham A Letter from the Lord Chancellor Hutton to the Lord Lewis Mordaunt My good Lord WHereas divers Informations and sundry grievous Complaints have come unto her Majesty of outragious Huntings within her Highness's Park of Brikestock since the Decease of the Lady Anne Throgmorton and now very lately new Reports pursued with Cryes and heavy Suggestions of strange Riots Routs Bloodsheds Felonies Disorders and other like Misdemeanors done against the same
their reasonable Maintenances until their several Marriages and that they and each of them may have sufficient Portions for their and each of their Advancements in Marriage I Will Give and Bequeath unto them and each of them such several Parts and Portions and in such manner as hereafter followeth viz. I Will Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Katherine Mordaunt the Summ of Two thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England to be paid unto her by my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns in manner and form following viz. Five hundred Pounds at the Day of her Marriage Five hundred Pounds within Six Months after the First Payment and Five hundred Pounds within Six Months after the Second Payment and the other Five hundred Pounds being the rest and residue of Two thousand Pounds in the Eighteenth Month after her Marriage Item I will give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Mordaunt the like Summ of Two thousand Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid unto her by my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns in manner and form following videlicet The Summ of Five hundred Pounds at the Day of her Marriage Five hundred Pounds more within six Months after Five hundred Pounds more within Six Months after the second payment and the other Five hundred Pounds being the rest and residue of the said Summ of Two thousand Pounds in the Eighteenth Month after her Marriage So that my meaning is They shall not have any part of the Summ of Two thousand Pounds to each of them before their several Marriages but as they shall be Married they shall be paid in form aforesaid And hereby I Advise and Charge them and each of them to make deliberate Choice of each their Husbands not rashly to match themselves without the Assent of their Brother my Son Henry Mordaunt and other their good Friends who I hope will have good care of them And if it happen my said Daughter Katherine Mordaunt to depart this Life before Marriage which God forbid then my Will and Intent is That her part and Portion to her before bequeathed shall be divided in manner and form following videlicet Five hundred Pounds to her said Sister Elizabeth Mordaunt then surviving in Augmentation of her part Two hundred Pounds to Arthur Maunsell second Son of my Daughter Mary and the residue of the foresaid Two thousand Pounds to my Son Henry Mordaunt And if it fortune my Daughter Elizabeth Mordaunt to depart this Life before Marriage which God forbid then my Will and Intent is That her part and Portion to her before bequeathed shall be divided in manner and form following To her Sister Katherine Mordaunt then surviving in Augmentation of her part the Summ of Five hundred Pounds and to Arthur Maunsell the second Son of my Daughter Mary the Summ of Two hundred Pounds and the rest and residue to my Son Henry Mordaunt Further my Will is That my said Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs shall yearly pay unto my Daughter Katherine Mordaunt for and towards her maintenance unto the day of her Marriage and that the same be solemnized the Summ of Fifty Pounds of lawful English Money at two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin by even Portions Further my Will and earnest Desire is That my said Daughter Katherine shall and may be in House and remain with my said Son Henry and be found and allowed by him sufficient Meat Drink Fire and Lodging according to her vocation for her self a Man and a Maid at the only Charges of my Son and his Heirs until the day of her Marriage and that the same be solemnized But if he and she shall not like so to do as I hope they will Then I will my Son Henry after such disliking shall yearly allow her for her Board and in lieu thereof Sixteen Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence over and besides the said yearly Summ of Fifty Pounds so that she may have a hundred Marks a year for yearly maintenance and finding until she be Married Likewise my Will is That my said Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs shall yearly pay unto my Daughter Elizabeth Mordaunt for and towards her maintenance until the day of Marriage the Summ of Fifty Pounds of lawful English Money at two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin by even Portions And further my Will is That my said Daughter Elizabeth shall and may be and remain in House with my Son Henry Mordaunt and at his Charges be found and allowed sufficient Meat Drink Fire and Lodging according to her vocation for her self a Man and a Maid until the day of her Marriage and that the same be solemnized which I will shall be performed at the Costs and Charges of my Son and his Heirs But if he and she shall not like to agree or continue together as I hope they will then I Will my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs after such disliking shall yearly allow my said Daughter Elizabeth for and in lieu of her Board the Summ of Sixteen Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence over and besides the Summ of Fifty Pounds before bequeathed unto her so that she may yearly have and receive One hundred Marks for her yearly maintenance and finding until she be Married Also I give and bequeath all my other Goods Chattels Jewels and Plate unbequeathed my Funeral discharged Debts paid and Legacies performed unto my loving Son Henry Mordaunt whom I Will shall be mine Executor for this purpose Upon condition that he take the Executorship upon him and enter into Obligation of the Summ of Three hundred Pounds unto my loving Friends Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires for the true performance of this my Will as aforesaid which if he shall not do within Forty Days after my decease Then I will That Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires shall be mine Executors and of my Goods to see my Funeral discharged Debts and Legacies paid and the rest of my Goods to leave unto my Son Henry Mordaunt according to my true meaning Now for the yearly maintenance of my Two Daughters Katherine and Elizabeth and each of them until their several Marriages as aforesaid and for the better Assurance and sure making of their several Portions to them before bequeathed And in respect I have disbursed the Money which I kept for my Daughters Portions in purchasing of Land building of my House lying fit and necessary for my Son and lest that my Son his Heirs Executors or Assigns should not or would not perform this my Last Will and Testament as I verily think he will and so by that means my Daughters be lest unprovided as well of their several Portions as of Allowance for their
In respect that I have left and by the Grace of God means to leave to descend and come successively from Heir Male to Heir Male divers other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying more necessary sit and convenient for my self and them of as good or better value my Daughters Portions and other Legacies deducted as aforesaid notwithstanding yet for the better corroboration and strengthning assurance and sure making of all such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as I have Bargained and Sold or hereafter shall Bargain or Sell to any Person or Persons whatsoever I will and devise by these Presents That from and after my decease Edward Watson and John Wake my Executors as aforesaid and their Heirs shall stand and be seized of two parts of my Maners Lands and Tenements or whereof I am seized in Fee dividable in three parts to be divided my Daughters Portions paid or Lands sold by my Executors for the payment thereof as aforesaid to the use of Henry my Son and Heir and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs Males of John Lord Mordaunt my late Grandfather and so from Heir Male to Heir Male so long as they and every one of their Heirs Males and their Assign or Assigns shall quietly permit and suffer all and every such Person and Persons to whom I have Bargained or Sold any Maners Lands or Tenements as aforesaid quietly and peaceably to have hold and enjoy the same according to my true intent and meaning without any Entry Claim Suit in Law Eviction or Interruption And lawful Request made to my Heir or Heirs or any of them by the party grieved and by Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors or some of them the Heir or Heirs of them or any of them in the presence of Ten sufficient Witnesses whereof Five to be Hundreders inhabiting within the County where mine Heir as aforesaid shall be then resident If my said Heir and Heirs doth not surcease his and their Suit and Suits Claim and Demand against any such parties grieved and make such further Assurance to the party or parties grieved as shall be reasonably required and devised at the Costs and Charges of such party grieved Then my Will full intent and meaning is That Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors and their Heirs and the Survivor and Survivors of them and his and their Heirs shall from time to time absolutely stand and be seized of two parts of my said Maners Lands and Tenements divisible in three parts to be divided of a good and perfect Estate of Inheritance in Fee-simple to the use of them their Heirs and Assigns for ever and shall have full Power and lawful Authority by vertue of these Presents to Bargain and Sell all or so much of all or any of my said Maners Lands or Tenements as my said Executors or their Heirs or the Survivors of them shall think convenient to any Person and his and their Heirs for ever and with the Money received for the same my Daughters Legacies and Portions deducted make such reasonable Satisfaction to all and every party grieved as aforesaid as by the Judgment of the Lord Chancellor of England or the Master of the Rolls for the time being shall be thought meet and convenient apportioning the Money paid with the profits they have received allowing to themselves their Costs and Charges to be expended in and about the same any thing in these Presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding Lewis Mordaunt And my Will is That my Daughters and others in this my Will mentioned being paid their Portions as aforesaid by my Executors by the sale of so much of two parts of my Fee-simple Lands as will suffice as aforesaid that then the rest of my Fee-simple Lands remaining shall rest and be in my Executors and their Heirs as aforesaid for the Assurance and sure making of the Lands I have sold which I perswade my self will suffice And my Will full Intent and Meaning is That if my Son Henry pay his Sisters parts or any part thereof and die without Heirs Males of his Body then I will my Executors and their Heirs shall stand seized of all my Fee-simple Lands until such time as the Issue Female of the said Henry or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of the said Henry be satisfied and paid all and so much of the said Summ and Summs of Money unto my Daughters and others devised as my said Son Henry his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall have paid any thing in these Presents to the contrary of this always notwithstanding And so I make an end In Witness whereof I have Subcribed my Hand and set my Seal the Day and Year aforesaid Lewis Mordaunt SIGILLVM LODOVICI MORDAVNT MILITIS DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Sealed and delivered as the Will of the aforenamed Lord Mordaunt in the presence of and allowed with the Interlinings as they be Edward Watson John Wake John Gyll Thomas Arthur Sig. Thomas Goodman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ion on the North 〈◊〉 â—he Tombe PIISSIMAE MEMORIAE LUDOVICI DNÌ„I MORDAVNT SACRUM DEPOSITIUM LUDOVICI DNÌ„I MORDAVNT SUB AVITA FIDE ET CERTA FILICES RESURRECTIONIS SPE GLORIOSAM IESU CHRISTI EPIPHANIAÌ„ HIC EXPECTAT VXOREÌ„ HABUIT ELIZABETHA ARTHURIS DARCEL AEQUITIS AURATI FILIAM EX QUA SUSCEPIT HENRICUM FILIUM VNICUM ET HAEREDÌ„ MARIAM ET ELIZABETHAM ET POST VITAÌ„ FAELICITER ET SINE QUERELA PERACTAM SUIS CHARUS ET ALIENIS ANNORUM SATUR ET HONORUM AETATIS SUAE ANNO 66o. 13o. IUNII ANNO DNIÌ„ 1601. PIE OBDORIVIT IN DNÌ„O HENRY Lord MORDAVNT First of that Name Fourth Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. A special Livery granted unto the Honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt ELizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae prevenerint Salutem Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris concessimus Licentiam dedimus ac per praesentes concedimus Licentiam damus pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris quantum in nobis est praedilecto sideli Subdito nostro Henrico Mordaunt modo Domino Mordaunt filio proximo Heredi Ludovici Mordaunt Militis nuper Domini Mordaunt defuncti qui quidem Ludovicus nuper Dominus Mordaunt de nobis tenuit in Capite die quo obiit per Servitium militare quocunque nomine cognomine sive additione nominis idem Henricus modo Dominus Mordaunt nominatus sit sive nuncupatus quod idem Henricus modo Dominus Mordaunt incontinenter absque aliqua Probatione aetatis suae absque aliqua Liberatione seu Prosecutione haereditatis suae vel alicujus inde parcellae extra manus nostras haeredum vel successorum nostrorum secundum cursum Cancellariae nostrae vel secundum Legem cursum Curiae