there two days and and two nights naked and then buryed at the Gray-Friers in London but many years after translated to Wigmore Some particulars there are in this Story of his apprehension which do not directy agree with what is related by our common Chroniclers but this with them is not worthy observation viz. d that this Judgement and Sentence so passed upon him without ever being heard as had formerly been practised in the case of Thomas Earl of Lancaster at Pontfract and after him the Despensers and Edmund Earl of Kent wherein 't is well known he himself had a hand Being thus cut off the Castle Town and Honor of Dynebegh with the Cantreds of Ros Reywynok Kaermor and Commot of Dymnach all forfeited by this his attainder were upon the eighteenth of Ianuary following bestowed on the before specified Sir William de Montacute This great buâ unhappy Man left issue four Sons viz. Edmund his eldest Son who had not the title of Earl of March his Fathers attainder being not reversed in his time 2. Sir Roger 3. Sir Geffrey Lord of Cowyth and Iohn slain in a Tournament at Shrewsbury And seven Daughters viz. Katherine Wife of Thomas de Beaucamp Earl of Warwick Ioan married to Iames Lord Audley Agnes to Lawrence de Hastings Earl of Pembroke Margaret to Thomas Son and Heir of Maurice Lord Berkley Maude to Iohn the Son and Heir of Iohn de Cherleton Lord of Powys Blanche to Peter de Grandison and Beatrix first to Edward Son and Heir to Thomas of Brotherton Earl Marshall of England and afterwards to Sir Thomas de Braose Which Edmund with his two Brothers Roger and Geffrey was Knighted by King Edward the third at the solemnity of his Coronation and took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere commonly called the rich Lord Badlesmere of Ledes by whom he had issue two Sons Roger who succeeded him and Iohn who died in his Infancy This Edmund recovered divers lands setled at his Marriage which upon the death of his Father were witheld but died in the flower of his youth at Stanton-Lacy upon the 26 Kal. of Ian. anno 1331. 5 Edw. 3. leaving Elizabeth his Wife surviving who afterwards was married to William de Bohun Earl of Northampton Which Elizabeth in 6 E. 3. had an assignation of her dowry out of the Lands of her late Husband viz. the Castle of Kentles and Dominion of Melenyth with the Commot of Duder in the Marches of Wales and died in 30 E. 3. whereupon the third part of the Mannor of ârendone in Comit. Buck. the Castle and Mannor of Kentles and Cantred of Melenyth the Mannor of Arleys in Comit. Staff and Cleobury in Com. Salop. then came to Roger her Son and heir Which Roger though but three years of age at his Fathers death giving security for the paiment of two hundred and fifty pounds per annum during his minority had a Grant from the King in 15 Edw. 3. of the Castle of Radnor as also of the Territories of Warthremoun Prestemede Knyghton and Norton in Wales which were of his Inheritance But during his minority his Castles of Knoklas and Pulith in the Marches of Wales were committed to William de Bohun Earl of Northampton who had married his Mother And the year next ensuing though he was not yet of full age through the mediation of that Earl his Homage was accepted whereupon he had Livery of the Castle of Wigmore In 20 Edw. 3. he attended the King into France to rescue those in Aguâlon and being landed with him at Hoggs in Normandy did there receive the Honor of Knighthood together with Prince Edward and many other Honorable persons the more to encourage him to Fight for the rights of the English Crown And the same year though he had not made proof of his full age yet in respect of his laudable services the King was pleased to take his Homage and make Livery to him of all the rest of his Lands excepting those which Elizabeth his Mother then Wife of the before specified Earl of Northampton held in Dower In 26 Edw. 3. upon another Expedition into France he was charged with forty men out of his Territories of Warthrymion Radnor and Wigmore And in 28. Ed. 3. procured a Charter for a weekly Market every Munday at his Lordship of Hamalhowe in Comit. Southamp as also a Fair yearly on Midsumer-day In which year likewise in the Parliament held at Westminster he obtained a reversall of the Judgement given against his Grandfather Roger late Earl of Marche as erroneous and utterly void whereupon he thenceforth bore the title of Earl of Marche and moreover had restitution of the Castles and Lordships of Blenlâveny and Bulkedinas whereof his said Grandfather had been formerly seized as also of all his other Lands which by that forfeiture came to the Crown and had been bestowed on Sir William de Montacute afterwards created Earl of Salisbury And did the same year contract with Richard Earl of Arundell that Edmund his Son and Heir should espouse Alice one of the Daughters of that Earl her portion being three thousand marks Upon which restoration it was by inquisition found that the said Roger Earl of Marche so attainted as hath been shewed died upon Munday next after the Feast of S. Catherine the Virgin and that he was then seized of the Mannors of Stratfeââe-Mortimer and Woghfeld as parcel of the Mannor of Wigmore as also of the Mannor of Newbury and Moitie of that Town all in Com. Berks. Likewise of the Mannors of Clifton upon Temede and Odingley in Comit. Wigorn. of the Mannors of Noke Mawrdyn and Wynââeton with the Advowson of the Church of Wynfreton in Com. Hereford of the Castle and Mannor of Nerberth and the third part of the Town of S. Clier with the Advowson of the Church the third part of the Commots of Amgeyd and Pentunyok and the third part of the town of ãâã in Com. Heref. Of the Castles and Dominions of Blenseveny and Bulkedinas in the Marches of Wales as also of the Castle and Mannor of Montgomery with the Mannor and Hundred of Chirbury in Com. Salop. The next year following this Roger thus lately restored was made Constable of Dovor Castle and Warden of the Cinque ports and attended the King in his expedition then made into France In 30 Edw. 3 doing his Homage he had Livery of all the Lands of Ioane Countess of Marche his Grandmother who then departed this Life viz. of the Mannor of Stanton-Lacy juxta Ludlow the moity of the Mannor of Ludlow and Advowson of the moity of the Church as also the Castle of Ludlow which she had by Inheritance as Daughter and Heir to Peter de Genevill of the Castle of Dolvareyn and
his stead Unto which Instrument her Seal of Arms is affixed viz. Stafford and Basset quartered and that he dying in 2 Ed. 2. was buried in the Fryers Minors at Stafford leaving issue two Sons viz. Ralph his Son and Heir then nine years of age and Sir Richard Stafford Knight his younger Son who in 30 33 Ed. 3. was in the Wars of France So likewise in 34 Edw. 3. and in 35 Edw. 3. being made Seneschal of Gascoigne continued there the next ensuing year being then called Sir Richard Stafford of Clifton Knight which Lordship he then possessed by reason of his marriage with Maud the Daughter and Heir to Richard de Camvile of that place Which Sir Richard Stafford had issue Richard who in 36 Edw. 3. was in that expedition with his Father then made into Gascoigne and in 40 Edw. 3. went again to those Wars Moreover this Richard had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons from 44 Edw. 3. until 4 Rich. 2. inclusive and then viz. upon the Thirteenth of August departed this life being seised of the Mannors of Childecote in Com. Derb. Norton in Hales in Com. Salop. Clifton Camvile Pipe and Bruggeford in Com. Staff The moity of the Mannor of Campeden and the Mannors of Aston under Egge Charingworth and Winton in Com. Gloc. As also of the Mannor of Sibbertoft in Com. North. leaving Edmund his Son and Heir then a Priest Thirty six years of age Which Edmund being afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Sir Thomas Stafford Knight his Brother came to possess the Estate who having issue Thomas that died without issue the Inheritance thereof descended to Catherine his Sister married to Sir Iohn Ardern Knight But I return to Ralph Son and Heir of Edmund This Ralph coming of full age in 17 Ed. 2. and then doing his homage had Livery of his Fathers Lands and the next ensuing year being made a Knight by Bathing and other Sacred Ceremonies had Robes with all other accoutrements as a Banneret allowed him out of the Kings Wardrobe for that solemnity After which he soon grew an active person in the Wars of that heroick Prince King Edward the Third For it appears that in 1 Edw. 3. he was in that expedition then made into Scotland and in 4 Edw. 3. one of those Lords who stoutly pursued that then potent Man Roger de Mortimer Earl of March and took him in the Castle of Nottingham Moreover in 8 9 Edw. 3. he was again in the Scotish Wars as also in 10 Edw. 3. Margaret his Wife being then with him So likewise in 11 Edw. 3. and in 13 Edw. 3. in that expedition then made into Flanders Furthermore in 14 Edw. 3. King Edward having entred the North parts of France with a powerful Army in order to the recovery of that Realm as his Hereditary Right and discerning how he was illuded by Iohn Stratford then Archbishop of Canterbury whom he trusted in his absence in not helping him to that supply of Money from England whereon he depended for support of these Wars so that he was then necessitated to return from that hopeful adventure without success he sent this Ralph Lord Stafford then Steward of his Houshold unto that Archbishop to offer him safe conduct in coming to him to the end he might understand what defence he could make for that his neglect In 15 Edw. 3. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and the same year obtained the Kings Charter for a Market every week upon the Tuesday at his Mannor of Madley under Lyme in Com. Staff as also two Fairs yearly the one on the Eve and Day of S. George the Martyr and two days following and the other on the Eve and Day of S. Leonard and two days after And likewise a weekly Market at his Mannor of Tisho in Com. War on the Wednesday with a Fair every year upon the Eve and Day of S. Peter ad Vincula commonly called Lammas as also view of Frank-Pledge and divers other Priviledges viz. For Tryal and Execution of Malefactors c. In 16 Edw. 3. being sent into Britanny with divers other eminent persons he had of his Retinue fifty Men at Arms and fifty Archers all on Horsback whereof himself and two other were then Bannerets sixteen Knights and thirty one Esquires having for his and their support in that service fifty seven Sacks of the Kings Wools. Moreover being then in the City of Uannes at that time besieged by the French he escaped by a Postern but afterwards was taken prisoner before Nants then besieged by the English and exchanged for the Lord Clysson In 17 Edw. 3. he was joyned with the Earls of Lancaster Glocester Warwick Northampton and others in another expedition for Scotland to raise that Siege which the Scots had laid to the Castle of Lough Mabar whereof the Earl of Northampton viz. William de Bohun had then the custody And shortly after this was imployed again with Henry de Lancaster Earl of Deâby and some other grave persons to the Court of Rome there to treat with the Pope not as a Judge but as a private Person and Friend touching the right of King Edward to the Crown of France He was likewise the principal person then sent in Commission with Sir William Trussel Knight and some others to the Governors and Burger-Masters of divers good Towns in Flanders to treat touching the well regulating of that Countrey as to the Staple of Wools and Sheep Skins as also to treat and conclude touching the Coynage of good Money Gold and Silver to be current as well in England as in Flanders and by another Commission impowred to treat with the Princes and others of Almaine touching a League of Friendship betwixt King Edward and them and to obtain their assistance to him upon occasion Moreover in 18 Edw. 3. being sent into Gascoigne with Henry of Lancaster Earl of Derby upon the assault of Bergerath by that Earl on the Land part this Ralph commanded the Fleet to attack it by Sea and was with him likewise at the siege of Auberoche In 19 Edw. 3. he had that great office of Seneschal of Aquitane conferred upon him and continuing thereupon in those parts command was given to the Sheriff of Glocestershire to send thither to him One hundred Bows and six hundred Arrows for the Kings service there In 20 Edw. 3. he went again into Gascoigne and being then in Aguillon when Iohn Son and Heir to Philip King of France came to besiege it he placed empty Wine Hogsheads upon that part of the Town which was not Walled putting Stones into them and though he was besieged
of the Prior he had directed the particular place as also that two hundred marks should be employed by his Exetors for his Tomb and a hundred marks on his Funeral Moreover that forty marks should be distributed amongst poor Maids at their marriages as also a hundred pound in Masses Alms and other Works of Charity for his Soul He likewise ordained That on the day of his Funeral there should be offered two Coursers one of them compleatly harnessed with caparisons of his Arms as also Banners Standards and other accoutrements according as was accustomed for a person of his degree Furthermore that his Feoffees should stand seised of his Castle and Mannors of Sheriff-Hoton East Lilling West Lilling and Raskelf to the use of his Wife during her life Likewise that the Covenants of marriage of Thomas his Son with the Lady Willoughby his Wife should be fully performed according to the agreement made betwixt himself and Ralph Lord Cromwel as also the Marriage Covenants for Catherine his Daughter with the Son and Heir Apparent of the Lord Harington and William Lord Bonvile To his Son George he gave twelve Silver Dishes and a Cup with Cover gilt To Alice his Daughter a gilt Cup with Cover To his Daughter Eleanor a Silver Bowl with Cover To his Daughter Catherine the like To his Daughter Margaret a thousand marks to her marriage and a Gilt Cup with Cover and to his Daughter the Countess of Arundel a Cup of Gold Howbeit the next ensuing year viz. 38 H. 6. the tide being turned by reason that some of the old Soldiers deserted the Duke of York and came in to the King he was constrained to flee into Devonshire thence to Gernsey and so to Calais whereupon amongst others he was attained in the Parliament soon after held at Coventrey But from Calais adventuring with the Duke of York again into England he landed at Dover and within a short time giving Battle to the Lancastrians at Northampton there obtained a notable victory Whereupon the Yorkists bearing sway he was advanced to the dignity of Lord Great Chamberlain of England But see the mutability of Terrestrial things marching shortly after against the Lancastrians who had gotten head again in Yorkshire near Wakefield he was there taken prisoner in Battle in Christmass and his Son Sir Thomas Nevill slain Whereupon his head was cut off and conveyed to York and there set on a Pole over one of the Gates of that City After which viz. 15 Febr. 2 Edw. 4. I find that his Body together with the Corps of Alice his Wife and Thomas his Son were buried at Bisham Abby in Com. Berks. The issue which he had by the said Alice his Wife was as followeth viz. Richard Earl of Warwick and after his death Earl of Salisbury Iohn Marquess Mountague Sir Thomas who married ... Widow of the Lord Willoughby and was slain at Wakefield âeorge Bishop of Exeter and Lord Chancellor of England afterwards Archbishop of York And five Daughters viz. Ioane the Wife of William Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel Cicely married to Henry Beauchamp Duke of Warwick Alice to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh of Ravensâath Eleanor to Thomas Stanley the first Earl of Derby of that name Katherine to William Bonvile Son and Heir to William Lord Bonvile and Harrington and Margaret to Iohn de Vere Earl of Oxford but afterwards to William Lord Hastings Chamberlain to King Edward the fourth Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick eldest Son to Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury THis Richard having taken to Wife Anne the Daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Cousin and Heir to Anne sole Daughter and Heir to Henry Duke of Uarwick obtained by reason thereof as also in Respect of his special services about the Kings person and in the Warrs of Scotland as the Patent bearing date 23 Iulii next after the death of the same Lady Annâ which hapned 3 Ian Ann 1449 27. H. 6. doth import a confirmation and declaration to himself andâhis said Wife and to her Heirs of the dignity and title of Earl of Warwick with all preheminencies that any of their ancestors before the Creation of Henry Duke of Warwick used Shortly after which by Fine leavied Quind Trinit 28 Hen. 6. they entailed the Castle of Warwick with divers Lordships in that and sixteen other Counties upon the issue of their two bodies lawfully begotten and in default thereof upon the issue of her the said Anne with remainder to Margaret eldest Daughter to the same Richard Beauchamp late Earl of Warwick and her Heirs This is that Richard Nevill who was commonly called the stout Earl of Warwick and well he might be so termed in regard he bore such a great sway towards the latter end of King Henry the sixth and part of King Edward the fourths Reign having been an eminent actor in those tragick broiles betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York as our Historians do fully manifest for about the 30 of Hen. 6 he sided with Richard Duke of York who did at that time first put himself in Armes under pretence of reforming what was amiss in the Government The true cause of this taking his part being a variance betwixt himself and the Duke of Somerset which happened in the Court of King Henry the sixth and that the Queen adhered to the Duke of Somerset therein But the Duke of York being not then powerful enough to go through with his designe submitted himself making Oath thenceforth to become a true and faithful Subject Howbeit the next year after having a stronger foundation for his enterprise chiefly through the interest he had in this potent Earl and the Earl of Salisbury his Father he broke out again and in 33 Hen. 6. at S. Albans assailed the Kings Forces where this Earl entring through a Garden gave the first onset and slew many seized upon the King himself caused a Parliament to be summoned made himself Protector of the King and this our Earl of Warwick Captain of l Calais But by the power of some others who saw what was aimed at he was at that time hindred in his speed Whereupon the King coming to Coventrie in 35 of his Reign hoped there to have reconciled all and to that end sent for the Duke by Letters as also for this Earl and his Father who came accordingly Nevertheless being there and pretending some ill intentions towards them they got away York to Wigmore in the Marches of Wales Salisbury to his Castle at Middleham in the North and this Earl of Warwick to Calais Howbeit after some fair overtures they were content to come to London so as they might have store of followers Whereupon this Earl brought with him six hundred men in Red-Coats embroidered with white Ragged-Staves before and behind This was in 36 Hen. 6. where and at which time
summoned to Parliament in 3 4 Edw. 6. And in 5 Edw. 6. accompanied the Marquess of Northampton and some other Lords in a solemn Ambassie into France as also to present the Order of the Garter to that King and departing this life 20 Febr. An. 1586. 29 Eliz. was buried at Birling leaving issue by Frances his Wife Daughter of Thomas Mannours Earl of Rutland one sole Daughter and Heir called Mary who became the Wife of Sir Thomas Fane of ... Knight and thereupon challenged the title of Baroness Bergavenny against Edward Nevill Son of Edward a younger Brother to this last mentioned Henry by Eleanor his Wife Daughter of Andrew Lord Windsor next Heir-male of this Line unto whom the Castle of Bergavenny was setled both by Testament and Act of Parliament Which Dispute was not determined until 25 May 1 Iac. And then after great Arguments on each part the title of Lord Bergavenny was both by Judgment of the House of Peers and Order of the Lords Commissioners for the Office of Earl Marshal of England decreed for the Heir-male Whereupon to give some satisfaction to the Heir-female the King by his Letters Patents granted the Dignity or Barony of le Despenser to her and to her Heirs Which Edward thus enjoying the title of Lord Bergavenny was one of the Peers who sate in judgment upon the Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay in October next following and departed this life in 31 Eliz. leaving issue by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Brome of Hatton in Com. Oxon Knight Edward his Son and Successor in this Honor as also three other Sons viz. Francis George and Henry Which Edward took to Wife Rachel Daughter of Iohn Leonard of Knoll in Com. Kanc. Esquire by whom he had issue six Sons viz. Sir Henry Nevill Knight who succeeded him Edward who died unmarried Christopher who took to Wife Mary one of the Daughters and Coheirs of ... Darcy of Tolston Darcy in Com. Essex Esquire Iohn Thomas and Charles who died young and five Daughters viz. Elizabeth the Wife of Sir Iohn Grey Knight eldest Son to the Lord Grey of Groby and afterwards of Sir Iohn Bingley Knight Mary Wife of Sir George Goring of Denny in Com. Suss. Knight afterwards Lord Goring and Earl of Norwich Catherine Wife of Sir Stephen Lessieur of Cheswike in Comit. Middles Knight Frances and Margaret who died unmarried And departing this life 1 Dec. An. 1622. 20 Iac. was buried also at Birling To whom succeeded Henry his Son and Heir who first married Mary Daughter of Thomas Sackvile Earl of Dorset Lord Treasurer of England by whom he had issue Sir Thomas Nevill Knight Which Sir Thomas married Elizabeth Daughter to ... Lord Mordant and died in his Fathers life time leaving no issue surviving he had also issue by her four Daughters viz. Cicely Wife of Sir William Coninsby of Hampton-Court in Com. Heref. Knight Elizabeth who died unmarried Mary Abbess of Pontoise in France and Anne who died also unmarried To his second Wife he wedded Catherine k Daughter to Edward Lord Vaux of Harowden and had issue by her two Sons viz. Iohn and George and three Daughters viz. Catherine first married to Sir Robert Howard Knight a younger Son to Theophilus Earl of Suâfolk afterwards to Robert Berry of Ludlow in Com. Salop. Gent. Frances yet unmarried and Elizabeth Wife of Thomas Stonore of Stonore in Com. Oxon. Esquire Which Iohn succeeding Henry his Father in this Honor took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir of William Chamberlaine of Sherburne Castle in Com. Oxon. Esquire and died 12 Dec. An. 1660. without issue To whom succeeded George his Brother which George married Mary Daughter of Henry Giffard Doctor of Physick and had issue by her one Son called George now Lord Bergavenny and one Daughter called Mary And departed this life ... Iune An. 1666. Nevill Lord Latimer THe first of this Family that bore the title of Lord Latimer was Iohn Nevill Son to Ralph Lord Nevill of Raby by Elizabeth his second Wife Daughter and Heir to William Lord Latimer of Danby for so was he stiled in 1 Hen. 5. by those Covenants with Iohn Lord Lumley to sojourn with him in his House from Wednesday the sixth of December 1 Hen. 5. so long as they should both of them like thereof the Lord Latimer bringing with him as many Gentlemen Yeomen and Grooms as he thought fit paying for himself twenty shillings by the week for every Gentleman two shillings for every Yeoman sixteen pence and every Groom twelve pence And in 4 Hen. 6. was Knighted at Leicester on Whitsunday by the King himself who had then received that honor at the hands of his Uncle the Duke of Bedford This Iohn was summoned to Parliament by the title of Lord Latimer from 5 Hen. 4. till 9 Hen. 6. inclusive and having married Maud Daughter of Thomas Lord Clifford and Widow of Richard Earl of Cambridge departed this life upon Sunday next after the Feast of S. Lucy the Virgin 9 Hen. 6. without issue being then seised of the Mannors of Skampeston Sinâington and Marton super Sevene in Com. Ebor. Stiffoâd in Com. Nortumbr Corby in Com. Northampt. Dilwike Bromham Wotton and Ronhale in Com. Bedf. Helpringham Thorpe-Latimer and Skreedington in Com. Linc. leaving Sir Iohn Willougâby Knight Son of Elizabeth his Sister his next Heir then thirty years of age But divers of these Lordships whereof he so died seised being for want of issue of his Body Entailed upon Ralph his elder Brother Earl of Westmorland he the said Ralph setled them by Feoffment upon George Nevill one of his Sons by his second Wife Which George was thereupon summoned to Parliament as Lord Latimer the next ensuing year viz. 10 Hen. 6. And in 12 Hen. 6. with Richard Earl of Salisbury his elder Brother and others was made Commissioner to treat with such as the King of Scots should then intrust for redressing of certain injuries committed by the Subjects of each Realm contrary to the Articles of Truce formerly made betwixt both Kingdoms In 13 Hen. 6. this George upon intelligence given to the King that the Scots had raised Forces with purpose to besiege Barwick and other places of strength in the Marches towards Scotland was constituted one of the cheif Commanders of the Kings Forces then raised in the Northern parts for the defence of those places And the same year came to an accord with Maud Countess of Cambridge Widow of Iohn Lord Latimer to this effect viz. That if they should by Advice of their Council grant unto Sir Iohn Willoughby Knight any Lands for the increase of Amity betwixt them all three and avoiding of Sutes for those Lands which were formerly belonging to
So also in 45. E. 3. And likewise in 46 and 50 Edw. 3. In 47. E. 3. he was again in the Warrs of France with Iohn Duke of Lancaster And in 51 E. 3. was made Shiriff of Cumberland and Governor of the Castle of Carlisle So also in 1 Ric 2. being then also constituted one of the Wardens of the East and West Marches towards Scotland In 3 Ric. 2. he was again made one of the Wardens of the West-Marches So also in 4 R. 2. and 5 R. 2. and likewise of the East-Marches from the great Road leading to the Sea from Newcastle upon Tine excepting the Towns and Castles of Alnewike and Weâkeworâh as also Governor of the Castle aâ ãâã In 7 Ric. 2. he was again constituted one of the Wardens of the West-Marches And in 8 Ric. 2. being then a Baneret was reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Scottish Warrs for forty dayes as also again constituted one of the Wardens of the West-Marches Which Command he had likewise in 9 R. 2. Moreover he had summons to all the Parliaments from 31 E. 3. until 12 R. 2. inclusive and upon the thirteenth of Iuly 13 Ric. 2. departed this life being then seised of the Mannor of Brugge Solers in Comitat. Heref. of the Castle and Mannor of Skypton in âravene the Forest of Berden the Chase of Holden the Town of Sylesdon with the Hamlets of Swarthowe and Brontweyt the Town of Skybeden the Mannor of Malthy and the Advowson of Bolton-Priory in Com. Ebor. Likewise of the Mannors of Hert and Hertilpole with the Towns of Elwyke Stranton and Brerton in Com Northumb. of the third part of the Mannor of Skelton with Alanby parcel thereof in Comit. Cumbr. of the Castle and Mannor of Appelby the Castle of Burgh the Mannors of Langeton and Wynton the Castle of Pendragon and Mannor of Kyngs-Meburne the Castle of Burgham and Wood of Qwynfell the Mannors of Cabergh Herteleye Musgrave Magna Murtone Mulgrave Parva Crosseby Gerard Souleby Helbeck Ascome Warthe-Coope the moity of the Mannor of Wateby the Mannors of Overtone and Sandford Helton Bacon Askeby-Wyenderwayth Askeby Cotesford Askeby parva Crossby Rundewyth Naceby Smerdale Heppe Bampton Patrick Bampton Candale Helton Fletham Clifeton the third part of the Mannor of Burgham the Mannors of Duston Brampton Bolton Yanewithe ânokalsock Clibburne Talboys Colbye Hoffe Ormeshed New-Bigging Milneburne Kirkeby Thore Crakanthorpe Louther Meburne Clibburne Herny Burton Merton and Querton with the Office of Shriffalty of Westmorland leaving Thomas his Son and Heir then twenty six years of age And two Daughters viz. Mary married to Sir Philip Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse in Com. Ebor. Knight and Margaret to Sir Iohn Melton Knight Contemporary with this last mentioned Roger was Iohn de Clifford his Brother as I Ghess who in 33 Edw. 3. was in that Expedition then made into Gascoigne And in 44 Ed 3. again in the Warrs of France and of the retinue of Sir Robert Knolles Knight being then called Iohn de Clifford de Ewyas In 51 Edw. 3. upon testimony of divers of the English Peers in Parliament of the singular valor of this Iohn then a Knight and of his special services in the Warrs of France the King at the instance of those Peers and of the whole Commons of England then assembled in Parliament pardoned him the murther of Iohn de Coupland About this time there was likewise another Knight of this Family called Sir Thomas de Clifford a younger Brother as I think of this last mentioned Iohn which Sir Thomas in 43 E. 3. was of the retinue of William de Windsore in the Warrs of Ireland And in 3 R. 2. was in that Expedition then made into Britanny being of the retinue with Thomas de Percy In 7 Ric. 2. this Sir Thomas was reteined to serve the King in his Warrs in the Marches of Scotland having divers of the Kings Tenants at Peâreth in Cumberland under his Command in that service and did by Indenture covenant with Sir Iohn Lowther of Louther in Com. Westmorl Knight touching the Government of Thomas Clifford his Son and Heir and his men as well in Warr as Peace ¶ But I return to Thomas Son and Heir to the before-mentioned Roger. This Thomas was before his Fathers death much excercised in military affairs for in 8 R. 2. being then a Knight of the Kings Chamber he was constituted Governor of the Castle of Carlisle for life and in 9 Ric. 2. joyned with Ralph Son to the Lord Nevill in the custody of the same Castle and City In 10 Ric. 2 he obtained leave of the King to practise himself in all feats of Armes as well on foot as on Horseback in any place within the Marches of Scotland betwixt the twenty eighth of Ianuary and Easter following And having so done he challenged a famous Knight of France called Sire Bursigande the eldest Son of the Sire de Bursigande to try his skill in sundry feats of Armes particularly expressed in a Letter sent to him under his Seal Moreover having obtained leave to perform his devoir therein he procured the King to send an Herauld called Northampton into France for transacting of that affair and in May following went first to Calais and thence farther to manifest his skill and Valour in those Tournaments and other feats of Armes whereunto he had chalenged Sire Bursigande But this Thomas being in favor with King Richard was amongst others in 12 R. 2. through the prevalency of Thomas Duke of Gloucester and other great men expelled the Court. Howbeit in 13 Ric. 2. doing his Homage he had Livery of his Lands and in that year having received a Chalenge from the French to exercise certain feats of Armes was prohibited by the King to do ought therein without the special leave of Henry Earl of Northumberland This Gallant man had Summons to the several Parliaments held in 13 14 and 15 R. 2. but died in the flower of his youth viz. 18 Aug. 15 Ric. 2. leaving issue by Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas Lord Rosse of Hamlake Iohn his Son and Heir then scarce three years of age as also a Daughter called Maude who became the second Wife to Richard Earl of Cambridge and afterwards of Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer This last mentioned Thomas had two younger Brothers viz. Sir William Clifford Knight who in 5 Hen. 4. was Governor of the Town of Barwicke upon Twede and married Anne one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Thomas Lord Bardolfe in whose right he had the Mannor of Byrling in Suâsex and divers other Lands part of the possessions of the same Lord Bardolf Which Sir William died in 6 Hen. 5. without issue leaving Iohn Lord Clifford his Cousin
his Son and Heir Which Iohn taking to Wife Ida the eldest of the four Sisters and Coheirs to William de Odingsells Lord of Maxstoke and other Lands in Com. Warr. and having that Lordship of Maxstoke in her right seated himself there This Iohn before his Marriage with the said Ida resided at Aminton as his Father did being then called Iohn de Clinton junior his Uncle Iohn de Clinton of Coleââill being then alive And in 26 Edw. 1. was in that Expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 28 Edw. 1. Moreover in 29 Edw. 1. he served in the Parliament at Lincoln as one of the Knights for the County of Warwick And the same year had special command amongst divers other great men to attend the King at Barwick upon Twede upon the Feast day of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist to march into Scotland King Edward being at that time there with his Army-royal At which time as a particular badge of the King's favour by Letters Patent dated at Glascow 26 Aug. he obtained a Grant of certain Lands in that Kingdom to the value of forty pounds per Annum which were part of the Possessions of Malcolm Dromoâd then in Arms against King Edward Furthermore in 31 Edw. 1. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and in 34 Edw. 1. attended Prince Edward by the King's command into Ponâhieu After this scil in 1 Edw. 2. he had the Castle and Honour of Walingford committed to his charge but in 8 Edw. 2. departed this life leaving Issue by Ida his Wife Iohn his Son and Heir then in minority and William a younger Son who afterwards became a person of no little eminency as I shall shew by and by Which Iohn in 6 7 8 and 9 Edw. 3. was summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm and having married Margery the Daughter to Sir William Corbet of Chadsley in Com. Wigorn. Knight had Issue by her Sir Iohn de Clinton Knight his Son and Heir But the story of this Iohn and his Descendents I shall respite for a while and here take notice of William his Uncle whose great Actions and eminent Employments do sufficiently manifest that he may be very well reckoned amongst the chiefest Worthies of that age ¶ This William being a Knight in 17 Edw. 2. was sent in 1 Edw. 3. to conduct Iohn of Henault with his men at Arms into England who then landed at Dober to aid King Edward in his Scotish Wars And in 3 Edw. 3. took to Wife Iulian the Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas de Leyburnâ Knight Widow of Iohn Lord Hastings of Bergavenny which match was doubtless a great step to his farther honour For the next year following viz. 23. Oct. he was made Justice of Chester and within less than two months after Governour of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque-Ports Shortly after this being one of those who surprised the great Mortimer at Notingham Castle in 5 Edw. 3. he had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm which advancement did rather increase his Piety than elate his Mind For being theâ the King 's domestick servant and familiar having obtained his special Letters to the Pope he went to Rome to procure License from his Holiness to Found a perpetual Chantry in the Parish Church of Maxstoke for ten Priests to celebrate Divine Service there for the good estate of himself and for the health of the Souls of his Parents and all the faithful deceased Which being effected he got the like Lincense from King Edward for the amortizing certain Lands and Rents laying in Maxstoke of twenty pounds per Annum value together with the Advowson of the Church of Maxstoke for the maintenance of those Priests there to celebrate Divine Service daily for the Soul of King Edward the Third after his departure out of this life and for the Souls of his Ancestors as also for the health of his own Soul and the Soul of Iulian his Wife And about five months after setled the number of five Priests for the purposes before-mentioned In 6 Edw. 3. he obtained the King's Charter for a Fair yearly at his Mannor of Eltham in Kent on the Eve day and morrow after the Feast of S. Dionyse And in 7 Edw. 3. was constituted Lord Admiral of the Seas from the mouth of Thames Westwards Moreover the same year he was in the Scotish Wars so likewise in 9 and 10 Edw. 3. in which year he began the foundation of a goodly Monastery for Canons-regular of S. Augustine at Maxstoke before-specified which he amply endowed with fair Possessions And standing high in the King's favour was forthwith raised to the title of Earl of Huntendon as by his Charter of Creation bearing date 16 Martii 11 Edw. 3. doth appear having not only twenty pounds per Annum given him out of the issues of that County for his better support of that dignity pro tertio Donario Comitatus illius as are the words thereof given out of the issues of that Shire to be paid by the Sheriff at the Feast of Easter and Michaelmass yearly but in consideration of his former acceptable services the Grant of a thousand Marks per Annum Land to himself and the Heirs male of his body for ever As also a spâââal Precept directed to Richard de Feriby Master of the Wardrobe to account and make satisfaction to him for his Fee and Robes due from the time that he had been retained to serve the said King as a Banneret Soon after which being sent Embassador together with the Bishop of Lincoln and Earl of Salisbury to the King of France to treat of Peace he arrived at Boloin but having advertisement there that King Edward's mind was changed and that their journey might be dangerous they bent towards Henault and there made a League with Lewes Duke of Bavaria who at that time possessed the Kingdom of Almaine without the Popes consent as also with the Count of Solers and others much to the King's advantage and in their return surprised two Flemish Shops loaden with Scots whereof they took two hundred and fifty amongst whom was the Bishop of Glascow and some Noblemens Sons Upon which League so made with the Duke of Bavaria against the King of France they undertook to pay unto him at Dort two thousand seven hundred Florens of Florence or their equivalent value in Sterling money before their return into England This Agreement being made at Colein the fifth day after the Octaves of S. Peter and Paul the Apostles and upon the last day of Iune at Frankford upon a farther Agreement with that Duke whereby he undertook to serve King Edward against all persons excepting the
appropriated to his College of Astley to the intent that the Dean of that College and his Brethren should specially pray for the Souls of King Edward the Fourth Queen Elizabeth his Wife Mother to this Marquess as also for his Fathers his own his Wifes Soul and all Christian Souls He also Willed That his Son and Heir apparent should after his Decease have and enjoy his Mannors of Groby Bradgate Rotby Newton Ansty Cobentre Glenfeild with all the Members to them appertaining as also the Mannor of Higham in Com. Leic. with Winchester Fee and the Mannors of Graâton Hertwelle Ashehenne Rooâe Wyke Hâmund Wyke Dive Stoke upon Tearne Wuttân under Wyvor Broughton Astley the Lee ãâã and ãâã Lee Bancors and Levisham with all his ãâã in Calais And that Cecilie his Wife should have the Mannor of Astâââ with its Appurtenances Likewise for the performance of his Legacies and that every of his Daughters unmarried might have a thousand Pounds the Revenues and Profits of his Mannors of Lutterworth Creke Clay-Coton Willougâoâ Waterlesse Wedyngton Trelawne Tregewell Trewardreth Colrige West-Kington and Leysthorp should be received by his Executors And That if the Lord Ferrers who had then married Mary his Daughter should die before Carnal Copulation or disagree to the Marriage then that Thousand Pounds to return And lastly That all Covenants betwixt the Lord Dudley and him for the Marriage of his Son and Hâir to Cecilie his Daughter should be in all points perform'd By this Cecilie his Wife who was Daughter and Heir to William Lord Bonvile and afterwards married to Henry Earl of Wiltshire he had Issue seven Sons viz. Edward and Anthony who died young Thomas who succeeded him in his Honours Richard Iohn and Leonard and George a Clergy-man and eight Daughters Dorothy first married to Robert Willoughby Lord Broke and afterwards to William Blount Lord Montjoy Cecilie to Iohn Sutton Lord Dudley Eleanor to Iohn Arundell of Lanherne in Cornwall Esq Elizabeth to Gerald Fitz Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland Mary to Walter Devereux Lord Ferrers of Chartley afterwards created Viscount Hereford Margaret to Richard Wake of Blisworth in Com. Northampt. Esq Bridget died young and Anne to Richard Clement And departed this Life 20 Sept. 17 H 7. Shortly after which viz. 18 Nov. 18 H. 7. Thomas his Son and Heir had Livery of his Lands Which Thomas in 3 H. 8. was General of that Army sent about the beginning of May into Spaine consisting of Ten thousand Men whereof Five thousand were Archers who besides their Bows and Arrows carried Halberts which they pitched in the Ground till their Arrows were shot and then took up again to do Execution on the Enemy wherein were also his three Brothers with the Lord Thomas Howard Son and Heir to the Earl of Surrey the Lords Brooke Willoughby and Ferrers Which Army arriv'd at Passage a Port in Guipuscoa and though design'd to joyn with the Forces of Ferdinand the Emperor to invade Guyenne a Territory belonging to the King of France yet being landed and the Emperor proposing other Actings from it than were consonant to the Commission and Instructions which the King had given after many of the Soldiers by ill Diet lost and the General himself sick return'd for England about the end of November following without performing any thing of moment In 5 H. 8. this Thomas and four of his Brothers together with the Duke of Suffolk and some other gallant Englishmen upon Proclamation of a Justs at St. Dennis in France which Francis de Valois next Heir to the Crown of France having married Claude eldest Daughter to Lewes the Twelfth by Anne Inheritrix of Bretaigne to give some proof of his Valour had obtain'd leave of the King to be performed went thither and behaved himself so bravely therein that he return'd home with singular Honour In 12 H. 8. at that famous Meeting of King Henry and Francis the First of France between Ardres and Gisnes in Picardy he carried the Sword of Estate before the King of England naked as the Duke of Bourbon did before the King of France And after that was one of the Aiders in those renowned Justs and Tournaments which were held at that time there betwixt the English and French In 14 H. 8. he was sent to Calais to attend the Emperor Charles the Fifth into England which was the time that the Emperor was so magnificently entertain'd by King Henry being himself lodg'd in Black-Friers and his Train in the King's then new-beautified Palace at Bridewell And in 15 H. 8. was together with Sir Thomas Lovel Knight constituted Chief Justice-Itinerant of all the King's Forests and then had a Grant from that King to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body of the Mannors of Wawens-Wotton Sheldon and Lalleford in the County of Warwick part of the Possessions of Edward Duke of Buckingham lately attainted And in 19 H. 8. in exchange from the King the Mannors of Loughborough and Shepesheved in Com. Leic. with the Advousons of the Churches thereto belonging which came to the Crown by the Attainder of Francis Lord Lovell in consideration of the Lordships of Grafton and Hartwell in Com. Northampt. of his own Inheritance And moreover by another Grant obtain'd the Inheritance of Bardon-Park in Com. Leic. In 19 H. 8. Cecilie the Mother of this Marquess then Widow of Henry Earl of Wiltshire by her Testament bearing date the sixth of March bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Chappel at Astley in the Tomb where the late Lord Marquess her Husband lay And appointed That soon after her death a thousand Masses should be said for her Soul in as convenient haste as might be Moreover That a goodly Tomb should be made in the Chappel of Astley over the Lord Marquess her Husband and another over her self And that her Executors should provide two Priests daily to sing in the said Chappel of Astley by the space of Lxxx years to pray for the Soul of the said Lord Marquess and her own Soul and each of them to have viii l. yearly Stipend for their pains In 21 H. 8. this Marquess being one of the Witnesses produc'd in that Cause of Divorce betwixt King Henry and Queen Katherine his first Wife deposed to the Age of Prince Arthur and for his Abilities as to Carnal Copulation and the same year was one of the Lords who subscrib'd and presented to the King that sharp Complaint contain'd in Forty four Articles against the then Great and Potent Cardinal Wolsey In 22 H. 8. he was one of those English Lords that subscrib'd a Letter to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby they importun'd his allowance of the Divorce before-mentioned And upon the second of June Anno 1530. 22 H. 8. did by his Testament bequeath his Body to be buried in the same Chappel at Astley
Iaques whence he went to Bayone whereupon all that he had in Gallicia was again recovered by the French in fifteen days After this the King of Castâle sent to him to Treat of a Marriage betwixt his own Son and his Daughter And at the request of the Duke of Berry a Truce was made by him in the parts of Tholouse and âvergue In 11 R. 2. he had commission to Treat of Peace with the King of Spaine and the same year was constituted Lieutenant of the Dutchy of Aquitane In 12 R. 2. during his absence he obtained divers priviledges in his Dutchy of Lancaster viz. for a Chancery Court there and to have Writs for that Office under his own Seal as also Justices for Pleas of the Crown as well as other with all Royalties belonging to a County-Palatine in as ample manner as the Earls of Chester ever had Likewise for an Exchequer with Barons and other necessary Officers and power to make Justices-Itinerant for pleas of the Forest c. Besides Câistance his Wife there was Catherine his Daughter by her as also his two other Daughters by Blanch his first Wife viz. Philippa then unmarried and Elizabeth Countess of Pembroke who had left her young Husband behind in England by reason whereof he caused a Divorce betwixt himself and her and Married the Sister of the Earl of March which Elizabeth had been formerly Wedded to Sir Iohn Holand but his Daughter Philippa he Married to the King of Portugal and Catherine to the King of Spaine Whereupon that King making agreement with him he came back into England in November An. 1389. 13 R. 2. with much Treasure for it s said that he had forty seven Mules laden with Chests full of Gold for his second payment and divers great Men of Spaine as Pledges for the yearly payment of sixteen thousand Marks for his life and in case his Wife should survive him she to have twelve thousand Marks yearly In his return from those parts he releived Breât in Britanny then Besieged by the French Being thus come home by the consent of the Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament 2 Martii the same year he was Created Duke of Aquitane by putting a Cap upon his Head and giving him a Rod of Gold to hold it of the King as of the Realm of France In An. 1390 14 R. 2. he had a great and noble Hunting in Leicester-Forest and all the Parks thereabouts divers eminent persons then accompanying him And in 15 R. 2. being constituted Lieutenant of Picardy went thither for the defence of those parts In the same year also being the chief of the Commissioners appointed to Treat of Peace with the French he concluded the same for one whole year Moreover the next ensuing year he was sent again as one of the Ambassadors to Treat of Peace with them and coming to the King of France at Amiens agreed with him for a Truce by the space of two years Whereupon after seventeen days stay there he returned accompanied by the Bishop of Durham the Earl of Rutland Son to the Duke of Yorke with a thousand Horse bravely appointed In 17 R. 2. he was again sent into France to Treat of Peace with the Dukes of Berry and Burgundy Unkles to the King of France In the time of whose absence Constance his Wife died and was buried at Leicester with great Solemnity upon the Sunday next after the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul About this time he was again constituted the Kings Lieutenant of Picardy as also joyned in Commission with Edmund Duke of Yorke to ratifie the Truce betwixt England and France which was agreed on for four years the Scots being also included therein In 18 R. 2. he obtained a Charter for divers Priviledges in his Hundreds of Gallow and Brothercrosse in Com. Norff. viz. Fines Amerciaments and Redemptions of his own Tenants as also year day and Waste Felons goods Return of Writs c. And in Autumne the same year went into Aquitane with a great power for the subduing of that Country But in 19 R. 2. after he had spent a vast summe of Money to gain the affections of the Inhabitants of those parts having been made Duke of Aquitane as is before observed the people rejected him Whereupon being recalled he came back and repaired to the King then at Laâgle where he kept his Christmass But though in shew he had an honorable reception he did not find it cordial he therefore hasted to Lincolne where his old Friend Catherine Swinford lay and Married her on the Octaves of the Epiphany whereat there was no little admiration in regard of her low birth After which he attended the King into France being with him at Guynes upon the meeting then had with the King of that Realm In 20 R. 2. he was again made Lieutenant of Picardy and shortly after that went again into Gascoine In which year the Parliament then convening at London he procured an Act for the legitimation of those children which he had begot on Catherine Swineford the Widdow of Sir Hugh Swineford Knight and Daughter to Sir Paen Roet Knight alias Guyen King of Arms which Children were these viz. Iohn sirnamed Beaufort afterwards Earl of Somerset Henry Bishop of Winchester and Cardinal as also Lord Chancelor of England Thomas Earl of Dorseâ and afterwards Duke of Eâeter Ioane first married to Sir Robert Ferrers of Oversley and afterwards to Raphe Earl of Westmorland In 21 R. 2. he had a special Commission to raise three hundred Men at Arms and six hundred Archers and to bring them to the next Parliament to be held at Westminster for the Kings Guard And in 22 R. 2. was constituted Lieutenant in the Marches towards Scotland from the beginning of the Truce betwixt both Realms for twenty eight years Before the end of which year he departed this life some say at his Castle of Leicester others at Ely House in Holburne and was honorably buried on the Northside of the Quire of St. Pauls Cathedral in London with Constance his second Wife where they had a noble Monument which was utterly destroyed in the time of the late usurpation Shortly after which Raphe Earl of Westmorland and Thomas Earl of Worcester with other his Executors procured Licence to found a Chantry there of two Priests to celebrate Divine Service for the health of his Soul as also for the Soul of Constance his Wife and all the faithful deceased But Catherine Swinford his third Wife surviving him departed this life upon the tenth day of May in the year 1403. 4 H. 4. and lyeth buried under a fair Tombe of Marble in the Quire of the Cathedral
descended to him and it so clog'd with Debts that for the disengaging thereof he Married the said Frances his Grand-Daughter and Heir to Humble Ward the only Son of William Ward a Wealthy Goldsmith in London Jeweller to the late Queen of which Humble I shall speak farther in due place And departing this Life 23 Iunii an 1643. was buried in St. Edmund's Church at Dudley since pull'd down in the time of the late troubles by reason of its nearness to the Castle ¶ Having now done with this Line of the Barons of Dudley I come to Iohn the second Son to Iohn Lord Dudley This Iohn by Elizabeth his Wife one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Iohn Bramshot Esq Lord of the Mannors of Eatton Calbourne and Whitwell in the Isle of Wiht as also of the Mannor of Brâmshot in Com. Suth had Issue Edmund his Son and Heir which Edmund upon her Death 12 Oct. 14 H. 7. was found to be thirty six years of Age. And having been trained up to the Study of the Laws in Grays-Inne as it seems by his Arms then set up and still remaining in a Window of the Chappel there became so great a proficient therein as that though then but young in 1 Henr. 7. he was made choice of to be one of the Privy Council to that prudent Prince proper prudentiam singularem fidem gravitatem saith Polyd. Virg. In 19 H. 7. being then Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament he should have been made Sergeant at Law upon the 13th of November But for what reason appears not he did Petition that he might be discharg'd from assuming that Dâgree Whereupon the King directed his Precept to William Bishop of London then Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Commanding his forbearance to make out any Writ for his Call and in 22 H. 7. he obtain'd the Stewardship of the Rape of Hastitings in Com. Suss. This Edmund wrote a Book called Arbor Reipublicae Whether he with Richard Empson another Lawyer Son to a Sive-maker in Touceter as our Historians affirm discerning King Henry to be of a frugal disposition did first project the taking advantage against such as had transgressed the penal Laws by exacting from them the forfeitures according to those Statutes Or whether the King perceiving so fair a gap open to rake vast sums of money from his subjects finding those persons to be fit Instruments for his purpose did put them upon such courses for filling his Coffers 't is hard to say But certain it is that these were they whom he constituted his Iudices fiscales Dudley being an eminent man and one that could put hateful business into good Language as the Lord Verulam saith And merited so well in that imployment as that he obtain'd a grant of the Wardship and Marriage of Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Edward Grey Viscount L'isle whom he made his Wife and by her had issue divers Children But after King Henry had long made use of the services of him and Empson to that end he exposed them to such advantages as the discontented people had any colour to take against them for their manifold Extortions For their course was to proceed secretly to the Outlary against men and then seize their Estates Besides this having also packt-Jurors upon all occasions who were sure to them in any Verdict which serv'd for their purpose they at length had their just reward for those oppressions For King Henry the Eighth in the first year of his Reign being desirous of popularity did by his Proclamation divulge that whosoever had received Injury by the Injustice of any should upon complaint to him have redress Which liberty did so incourage the vulgar who were sufficiently imbittered against them that nothing would then satisfie but their lives so that the King to appease the multitude gave way that they might be legally proceeded against which accordingly was done Whereupon this Edmund being arraign'd at Guild-Hall in London upon Munday next after the xv m e of St. Iohn Bapt. 1 H. 8. before Edward Duke of Buck. Henry Earl of Northumb. Thomas Earl of Surrey George Earl of Shrewsbury Thomas Earl of Derby Thomas Prior of St. Iohns of Hierusalem in England Sir Charles Somerset Knight Lord Herbert Stephen Iennings then Mayor of the City of London Sir Iohn Fineaux Knight Sir Robert Rede Knight Sir William Hodie Knight Robert Brudnell Humphrey Coningesby Sir Iohn Fisher Knight Iohn Boteler William Grevil Sir Thomas Lovel Knight Sir Edward Poynings Kt. Sir Henry Marney Knight Sir Thomas Englefeild Knight and Sir Thomas Drury Knight Justices to inquire c. upon an Indictment of divers high Treasons and thereupon convicted he was on Wednesday next preceeding the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin attainted in Parliament and had his Head smitten off on Tower Hill with Empson who had been-tryed at Northampton for the Peoples satisfaction upon the 28th of Aug. 2 H. 8. by virtue of the Kings Special Precept to that purpose leaving Issue three Sons Iohn Andrew and Ierome and a Daughter Married to William Lord Stourton Which Andrew being afterwards a Knight and in that Conspiracy upon the Death of King Edward the Sixth for raising the Lady Iane Gray to the Royal Throne had with others sentence of Death in 1 Mariae for the same Of these Iohn the Elder scarce of eight years of Age at his Fathers Death had to his Guardian Edward Guilford Esq of the Body to the King Who by his Petition exhibited in Parliament 3 H. 8. obtained a special Act for the Repeal of the said Edmunds Attainder and restitution of this Iohn in name blood and degree so that he might enjoy all his Fathers Lands Being therefore thus young many years passed before he appeared in any publick Employment so that till 15 H. 8. I have not seen any farther mention of him but then it appears that he was Knighted by Charles Brandon Duke of Suff. General of those forces sent into France against the Duke of Bourbon Also that in 19 H. 8. he accompanied Cardinal Woolsey into France who then went Ambassador thither and that in 26 H. 8 being the Kings Servant he was made Master of the Armory in the Tower of London for life with the Wages of xiid. per diem for his Groom in that Office Moreover that in 31 H. 8. he was Master of the Horse to the Lady Anne of Cleve then landed in this Realm in order to her Marriage with King Henry And in 32 H. 8. in those triumphal Justs held at Westm. upon the first of May and several days after was the first and principal of the Challenges against all Comers his Horse being trapt with white Velvet After which about two years by reason of his Descent on
after that called a Parliament wherein he attainted this Earl with all other persons who were fled out of the Realm for fear or otherwise as Enemies to him and to their Native Country Likewise foreseeing his future danger he did not only make peace with the Scots but sent over new Embassadors to the Duke of Britanny with ample rewards for the getting this Earl within the limits of his own power if possible or at least to prevail that the Duke would keep him and those of his friends which then were within his Territories in perpetual prison promising that in consideration thereof he should receive the yearly revenue of all their lands in this Realm But the Duke at that time being much out of order by reason of some infirmity Landoise his Treasurer managed all business of State and thereupon for his own private lucre accepted the offer Which being discovered by the Bishop of Ely at that time sojourning in Flanders he imploy'd Vrswyke into Brittanny to hasten this Earl out of those parts Whereupon being then at Uannes he sent immediately to King Charles the 8. desiring his leave to come into France which being granted he hasted his Nobles before to the Duke of Britanny who then lay for change of air near the borders of France under colour of a friendly visit privately giving charge to his Uncle the Earl of Pembroke the Conductor of his company that when they approacht the skirts of Britanny they should presently get into the adjacent parts of France as they accordingly did and so into Anjou where they staid this Earls coming who departed not from Uannes till two dayes after with only five servants in his company as though he had gone to make a private visit to a friend in some small Village no man suspecting that he had absolutely left the Country in regard so many Gentlemen of his followers were still in that City But after he was ridden five miles on his way turning into a solitary wood he put on the Apparel of one of his servants and as a Page rode on so till he came to Angiers By which means he escaped out of the hands of Landose who the fourth day after not knowing of his departure had provided a certain number of Souldiers under colour of serving him to have laid him fast Of which design when the Duke of Britanny heard being not a little displeased he sent for those English Gentlemen which were so left behind at Uannes and gave them money to defray the charge of their journey from thence to Angiers Being therefore thus supplied with his own Retinâe he took his journey to King Charles then at Langes upon the River Loyre of whom he had an Honourable reception with promise of aid And thence removed with him to Montargis Where long he had not been but that Iohn Earl of Oxford a trusty friend to the House of Lancaster who had been kept prisoner in the Castle of Hammes in Picardy getting thence by the favour of Sir Iames Blount the Governour repaired to him After this following the King of France to Paris divers English Gentlemen fled thither for fear or being there to study good literature came also and offered their service to him amongst which was Richard Fox afterwards Bishop of Winchester the Castle of Hammes being likewise delivered up to him by Blount Whereupon King Richard caused the Garrison of Calais to be sent to besiege it Which proved of no inconvenience to this Earl the Souldiers within it making their conditions to march out with Bag and Baggage which somewhat increased his Field-forces Having also obtained some few men and certain money for the payment whereof he left Thomas Marquess Dorset and Sir Iohn Vaughan in pledge he went to Roan making preparation at Harâlew an Haven at the mouth of Seine for his adventure into England And having soon after received intelligence out of Wales that Sir Ries ap Thomas a person of great interest in those parts and Sir Iohn Savage an expert Commander would engage themselves in his quarrel Also that Reginald Bray had gotten large sums of money for the payment of his Souldiers wishing him to make all possible speed and to land in some part of that Country Accompanied with two thousand Men he set sail from Harflew in the month of August and on the seventh day ensuing arriv'd at Milford-Haven in Pembroke-shire Whence he marcht to Dalle and so to Haverford-West where he had a joyful reception And before he went thence having News that the Town of Pembroke would assist him he marcht to Cardigan where some Welch Gentlemen came to him with all the power they could make Hereupon he sent messengers to the Lady Margaret his Mother as also to the Lord Stanley her Husband to Sir William Stanley his Brother Sir Gilbert Talbot and other his trusty friends signifying to them his intention to pass the Seâerue at Shrewsbury and thence directly to advance for London desiring that they would meet him by the way with all their strength In which passage to Shrewsbury Sir Ries ap Thomas whom he had promised to make Governour in chief of all Wales coming in to him with considerable Forces they marcht from Shrewsbury to Newport Where encamping his Men on an Hill near hand Sir Gilbert Talbot brought to him all the Men and Arms that the young Earl of Shrewsburies interest could make which were about two thousand Thence to Stafford where Sir William Stanley fell in with his Men. Next to Litchfield whence the Lord Stanley hearing of his approach had diâlodged about two days before and remov'd to Atherston being somewhat fearful to join with him too soon in regard that King Richard being then at Notingham had his Son the Lord Strange in Hostage and hearing of this Earls advance removed to Leicester Passing from Litchfield to Tamworth there came to him Sir Walter Hungerford and Sir Thomas Bourchier Knights with divers other Men of note who forsook their Captain Sir Robert Brakenbury near Stony-Stratford then on his march towards Notingham Being thus at Tamworth to make sure of the Lord Stanley he rode privately from his Army to Atherston and there meeting in a little close consulted with him in what manner to give Battel to King Richard The same day also came to him Sir Iohn Savage with divers other persons of quality King Richard therefore having intelligence of his motions marcht forthwith from Leicester to Bosworth and about two miles South of that Town marshall'd his whole Army for Battel whereof Iohn Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Earl of Surrey his Son led the Van. This Earl therefore hasting up with his Forces and placing
1524. 16 H. 8. had burial in the Priory of Thetford accordingly He Married two Wives First Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widdow of Humphrey Bourchier Lord Berners Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing date 6 Nov. an 1506. 22 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be Interred in the Nuns Quire of the Minoresses without Aldgate in London nigh unto the place where Anne Montgomerie lay buried Appointing that no more than xx Torches should be used at her Burial and Month's minde Also that no Dole or money should be given at either of those solemnities but instead thereof C. marks to be distributed to poor Folks viz. to every poor man and woman in the Parishes of White-Chapell and Hackney vii d. By this Elizabeth he had Issue eight Sons 1. Thomas Created Earl of Surrey in his life time 2. Sir Edward Howard Knight of the Garter 3. Edmund the other five viz. Henry Iohn Charles Henry and Richard all dying young And three Daughters 1. Elizabeth Married to Thomas Vicount Rochford afterwards Earl of Wiltshire and Ormund 2. Muriel first to Iohn Grey Vicount L'isle afterwards to Sir Thomas Knevet of Buckenham in Com. Norff. Knight and Mary to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmund and Somers natural Son to King Henry the Eighth To his second Wife he Wedded Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had Issue William afterwards Created Baron Howard of Efstngham of whom and his Descendents I shall say more anon 2. Thomas who taking to Wife the Lady Margaret Douglas Daughter to Margaret Queen of Scots by her Husband the Earl of Angus Niece to King Henry was attainted of Treason upon some suspicion of his intents for aspiring to the Crown and departing this life in the Tower of London 1 Nov. an 1537. 29 Eliz. was buried at Thetford 3. Richard who died in an 1517. 9 H. 8. and was buried at Lambeth And four Daughters Anne Married to Iohn Earl of Oxford Dorothy to Edward Earl of Derby Elizabeth to Henry Earl of Sussex and Catherine first to Sir Rhese ap Thomas Knight but afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater This is in substance what I have dispersedly found to be most memorable of this great Duke But forasmuch as the Tablet fixed to his Monument at Thetford mentioneth divers other particulars well worthy of note before I farther proceed with my discourse of his Descendents I shall here exhibite a true Copy thereof Forasmoche as it is wryttyn in the Epitaphe about the Tombe here present of the high and myghty Prynce Thomas late Duke of Norffolk after his discent from his noble antecessours declared in the same in wrytyng whyche is also set out in Armes about the same Tombe that who will se farther of the maner of his lyvyng and servyce doon by hym to hys Pryncis and of hys honourable depertyng out of this world schall resorte and loke in thys Table Fyrst you schall know the seid Duke was in his yong age after he had been a sufficent season at the Gramer Schole Hencheman to King Edward the ivth and was than called Thomas Howard Son and Heire to Sir John Howard Knight after Lord Howard and after that Duke of Norffolk of right enheritance And the seid Thomas Howard whan he was at mannes age was wyth divers other Gentlemen of Englond sent to Charles Duke of Burgon in the begynnyng of the Wars betwixt Kyng Lewis of Fraunce and the seid Duke Charles and ther contynued unto th' ende of the seid Warres to hys great prayse and thankys as well of Kyng Edward hys own Soverayn Lord as of the seid Duke Charles And after the Warres doon betwyxt the seid Kyng Lewes and the seid Duke Charles than the seid Thomas Howard returned into Englond unto Kynge Edward hys Soverayn Lord and he made hym immedyately Esquyer for hys Body and he was aboute hym at hys makynge redy both Evenyng and Mornyng And afterward be made hym Knyghte at the Maryage of the Duke of York Kynge Edward hys seconde Son and so he was with the seid Kynge Edward in all hys busynes aswel at Lyncolneshire-feld and at the tyme of Banbury-felde as at all other hys busynes and also at suche tyme as the same Kynge was takyn by the Erle of Warwyke at Warwyke befor hys escape and departynge into Flaunders And after the Kyngys depertynge into Flaunders for that the coostis of England were so sett for depertynge of any other hys servantis and frendis the seid Thomas Howard was dryvin of force to take Sayntwary of Seynt Joannes in Colchester for the true service he bare unto Kânge Edward And at the seid Kyngys retourne out of Flaunders the seid Sir Thomas Howard resortyd unto hym and went wyth hym to Barnet-feld and there was sore hurte And after when Kyng Edward went into Fraunce wyth hys Army-Ryall he sent thether before divers Gentylmen and for that the seid Sir Thomas Howard had good experyence aswell in hys beynge wyth Charles Duke of Burgon as in divers Feldys and busynesses wit the seid Kynge Edwarde he had therfor commandment to go over wyth them and for hys advyse and counsell tyll the seyd Kynge came over And when King Edward and Kynge Lewes mette at the Barriars upon the River of Som the seid Sir Thomas Howard was wyth Kynge Edward at the Barriars by the Kyngis Commandement and no men save only the Chaunceller of Englonde the Chanceller of France and Sir John Cheney And after the Kyngis comyng home into Englonde the seyd Sir Thomas Howard obteyned lycens of the Kyng to lye in Norfolke at an Howsse which he had in the ryght of my Lady his Wyffe called Ashewolthorpe and ther he laye and kepte an honourable Howsse in the favour of the whole Shire duryng the lyffe of the seyd Kyng Edward and at that tyme and long after hys Father was alyve And after Kyng Edwââd was ded and Kyng Edward the fyfte his Son than Kyng Richard was Kynge and then the forseid Sir Thomas Howard was hys subgette And forthat the yong Dutchesse of Norffolk whiche was very Heir thereunto was dede withoute yssuâ and the Lord Howard father to the seid Sir Thomas Howard was rightefull Heire to the same off former discent was creatt Duke of Norfolk and he creatt Earl of Surrey and so they both served the seid Kyng Rychard truly as hys Subgettis duryng hys lyff lying at home in their own Countries and kepyng honorable Howsses and they went with hym to Bosworthe felde where the seid Kynge Rychard was slayne and also the seid Duke of Norfolk and th'afforseid Erle hurte and takyn upon the Felde and put in the Tower of London by Kyng Henry the seventh and ther contynued three yeerys and an halfe In whiche tyme of his being in the Tower the same Kyng Henry had a Felde wyth the Erle of Lyncolne in Notynghamshire besydes Newark
amplum obsequii amoris ergo Patriverâ pio verè Catholico Thomas mâstissimus filius haeres multis cum lachrymis scripsit posuit Beati qui in Domino moriuntur Leaving Issue one only Son viz. Thomas and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Dixey Hickman of Kew in Com. Surr. Esq and another Elizabeth to Andrew Windsor Esq her Kinsman Which Thomas succeeding him in his Honours Married Katherine the Daughter to Edward Earl of Worcester but dying Issueless 6 Dec. an 1642. was buried at Tarbick with his Ancestors Whereupon the Title of Lord Windsor being in the King's disposal so that he might confer it on the Issue of either of these Sisters before-mention'd or retain it His Royal Majesty King Charles the Second considering that this last Thomas Lord Windsor had setled the greatest part of his antient Inheritance upon his Nephew Thomas Windsor Hickman Son of Dixey Hickman by Elizabeth his elder Sister was pleased to dispose and confirm to him and his Heirs the said Title of Lord Windsor with such place in Parliament as his Predecessors had formerly enjoy'd as by his Letters Patent bearing date 16 Iunii in the twelfth year of his Reign appeareth Which Thomas thus hearing the Title of Lord Windsor Married two Wives Anne Daughter to Sir William Savile of Thornhill in Com. Ebor. Baronet Sister of George now Vicount Halifax by whom he hath Issue one Son called Other and Mary a Daughter Married to Sir Thomas Cokesey of Bentley in Com. Wigorn. Baronet Secondly Vrsula Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Widdrington of ... in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he hath Issue two Sons Thomas and Dixy and a Daughter called Vrsula Iohn Lord Hussey 21 H. 8. WHat relation in blood this Iohn Lord Hussey of whom I am now to speak had to that Family of Hussey whereof I have already made mention in the first Volume of this work I have not seen nor can I discover more of him than that he was Son to Sir William Hussey Knight who being a learned Lawyer was first constituted Attorney General to King Edward the 4 th in 11. of his reign next Serjeant at Law in 17 E. 4. and lastly Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench 7 Maii 21 E. 4. In 2 H. 7. this Iohn was in Arms for the King at the Battel of Stobe against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents and in 13 H. 8. being then a Knight was made chief Butler of England In 21 H 8. he was one of the Knights for the Kings Body and being summoned to that Parliament begun at Westminster 3 Nov. the same year was admitted into the House upon the first of December following In 22 H. 8. bearing then the title of Lord Hussey he had a grant of the custody of the Mannour of Harewode in Com Ebor. and was one of the Lords who subscribed that Declaration then sent to the Pope whereby they intimated to his Holiness that unless he did comply with King Henry in that cause of his divorce his Supremacy would not much longer be owned in this Realm And in 24 H. 8. being then one of the Lords of the Council had a grant of the wardship and marriage of Thomas the Son and Heir of Christopher Wymbushe deceased But in 28 H. 8. being in that commotion in Lincolnshire occasioned by the assessment of a Subsidy he suffered death for it at Lincoln in Iune the next ensuing year Whereupon his lands were confiscate and his Mannour of Sleford in Com. Linc. where he had his chief residence was granted by Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury to Richard Goodrick of London Esq and Mary his Wife in Fee This Iohn Lord Hussey married two Wives and by them had many Children First Anne Daughter to George Earl of Kent by whom he had Issue two Sons Giles and Thomas and five Daughters Bridget first married to Sir Richard Morison Knight afterwards to Henry Earl of Rutland and lastly to Francis Earl of Bedford Elizabeth to ... Hungerford Anne to Sir Humphrey Browne Knight one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas Anne to ... Dimock and Dorothy to ... Doâwray Secondly Margaret Daughter and Heir to Simon Blount by whom he had Issue Sir William Hussey Knight Giles Hussey of Carthorpe in Com. Linc. Sir Gilbert Hussey Knight and Reginald and one Daughter called Elizabeth All which Sons and Daughters were restored in blood only in the Parliament held at Westminster 5 Eliz. Wentworth 21 H. 8. OF this Family though of great antiquity in Yorkshire the first that became advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm was Thomas Wentworth Son of Sir Richard Wentworth of Nettlesâed in Com. Suff. Knight who after the sitting of that Parliament which met at Westminster 3 Nov. 21 H. 8. and continuing by Prorogation till 27 of that Kings reign gave the first fatal stroke to the Monasteries of England was admitted as a Peer upon the second of December in the same 21 th year by virtue of a Writ of Summons This Thomas having married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue Knight and by Anne her Mother Heir to Sir William Stonore Knight had a special livery of all the lands which by the death of the said Anne descended to her And upon that Insurrection of the Norfolk Men led by Captain Ket in 2 E. 6. accompanied William Marquess of Northampton then sent against them Being afterwards Lord Chamberlain of that Kings houshold he died 3 Martii 5 E. 6. and was buried in the Abby Church at Westminster leaving Issue eight Sons viz. Thomas Henry Richard Philip Iohn Edward Iames and Roger and nine Daughters scil Anne married to Iohn the Son of Edmund Poley Cecelie Mary Elizabeth Margaret Margery to Iohn Lord Williams of Tame afterwards to Sir William Darcie Knight and lastly to Sir Iohn Crofts Knight Iane Catherine and Dorothy To whom succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir who had summons to Parliament in 6 E. 6. and being about that time made Deputy of Calais was shortly after removed from that trust by reason of his youth and want of experience Upon the death of King Edward the sixth he was one of the first that appeared for Queen Mary And in the first year of her reign being one of her Privy-Council was again made Deputy of Calais and the Marches thereof and so continued till the fatal Siege of that Garrison by the Duke of Guise in 5 Mariae whose Army was so great and the assaults made by it so irresistable that seeing no hopes of defending it he craved a parly whereupon it was yielded upon condition that the Inhabitants should depart without carrying any thing away and that the Governour with fifty other such as
England and lastly to Conyers Darcie son and heir to Conyers Lord Darcie and Conyers Mary to Heneage Earl of Winchelsey and Iane to Charles Lord Clifford of Lansborough son and heir to Richard Earl of Burlington Which Henry the third son so deceasing in his father's life time had issue by the said Mary his wife one son called William and three daughters viz. Frances and Mary who died in their Infancies and Elizabeth So that William his son surviving his Grandfather succeeded him in his Honors but died 12 Dec. An. 1671. unmarried and was buried at Bedwind Whereupon the Lord Iohn his Uncle succeeded him Which Iohn married Saraâ daughter of Sir Edward Alston Knight and departing this life ... Aprilis An. 1675. without issue was buried in the Cathedral at Salisbury ¶ Having thus deduced the Line of this noble Family down to this present I come lastly to Sir Francis Seymour Knight the third son to Edward Lord Beauchamp son and heir to Edward Earl of Hertford This Sir Francis Seamour upon the 19 th of February 16 Car. 1. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realme by the name of Lord Seamour of Troâbridge in Com. Wilts And having married twice first Frances the daughter and heir to Sir Gilbert Prinne of Allington in Com. Wilts Knight by whom he had issue one son called Charles and Frances a daughter married to Sir William Ducie of Tortworth a Knight of the Bath and Baronet and secondly Catherine daughter to Sir Robert Lee of Bilsley in Com. War Knight by whom he had no issue departed this life 12 Iulii An. 1664. and was buried at Bedwind Which Charles succeeding him married two wives first Mary daughter and sole heir to Thomas Smith of Soley in the Parish of Chilton in Com. Wilts by whom he had issue one son called Edward who died in his Infancy and two daughters Catherine who died unmarried and Frances now wife of Sir George Hungerford of Cadenham in Com. Wilts Baronet He secondly married Elizabeth daughter to William L. Allington of Horshet in Com. Cantab. by whom he had issue five sons Francis William and William who died in their Infancies and Francis and Charles now living As also two daughters Elizabeth who died young and Honora still surviving This Charles Lord Seamour died in August An. 1665. To whom succeeded Francis his eldest surviving son who was born 17 Ianuary Anno 1657. and by the death of the before specified Iohn Duke of Somerset without issue doth now enjoy that Title Monumental Inscriptions in the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Grat Bedwynd in Wiltshire where the chief of this Noble Family do lie interred Here lyeth Entombed the worthy Sir John Seymour of Wolphall Knight who by Margery his wife daughter to Sir Henry Wentworth Knight from whom the now Lord Wentworth is descended had six sons and four daughters to wit John who died unmarried Edward Duke of Somerset Earl of Hertford Vicount Beauchamp and Baron Seymour Vncle to King Edward the Sixth Governor of his Royal Person Protector of all his Dominions and Subjects Lord Treasurer and Earl Marshall of England Which Duke married Anne daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope Knight by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Sir Fouke Bourchier Lord Fitz-warren from whom the modern Earls of Bath are descended Sir Henry Seymour Knight who married Barbara daughter of Thomas Morgan Esquire Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudley High Admiral of England who married Katherine Queen of England and widow of King Henry the Eighth one other John and Anthony who died in their infancy Jane Q. of England wife to King Henry the Eighth and Mother of King Edward the Sixth Elizabeth first married to Sir Henry Ughtred Knight after to Gregory Lord Cromwell and lastly to John Lord St. John of Basing afterwards Marquess of Winchester Margery who died in her infancy and Dorothy married to Sir Clement Smith Knight This Knight departed this life at Sixty years of age the 21 day of December An. 1536. and was first buried at Easton Priory-Church amongst ãâã of his Ancestors both Seymours and Sturmyes Howbeit that Church being ruined and thereby all their Monuments either wholly spoiled or very much defaced during the Minority of Edward Earl of Hertford son to the said Duke the said Earl after as well for the dutiful love he beareth to his said Grandfather as for the better continuance of his memory did cause his Body to be removed and here to be entombed at his own cost and charge the last day of September 1590. in the 32 d year of the most happy Reign of our Gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth Upon a Brass plate on a Grave-stone in the same Chancel Here lieth the body of John Seymour son and heir of Sir John Seymour Knight and of Margery one of the daughters of Sir Henry Wentworth Knight Which deceased the 15 th day of July in the year of our Lord 1510. On whose Soul Jesu have mercy and of your Charity say a Pater Noster and an Ave. Upon another Gravestone there under which Edward Lord Beauchamp Father of William late Duke of Somerset lieth buried Bellocamp eram Graia genitrice Semerus Tres habui natos est quibus una soror Cromwell 28 Hen. 8. TOuching an eminent Family of this appellation and its antient advancement to Honor having in order of time elsewhere already spoke I now come to another of that name of which was Thomas Cromwell a person of great parts and much note in his days who being no other by birth than a Blacksmith's son in Putney about four miles distant from London found meanes to travel into divers Countryes to learn their Languages and to see the Wars being a soldier under the Duke of Burbon at the sacking of Rome Whence returning he was receiv'd into the service of Cardinal Wolsey as his Sollicitor unto whom he so approved himself by his fidelity and diligence as that the King after the fall of that Cardinal deeming him a proper Agent for himself in more weighty Affaires voluntarily entertain'd him for his servant and received such content from his dexterous management of what he had in trust that in short time he rais'd him to sundry great and eminent Titles of dignity Certain it is that in this his service with the Cardinal he had the chief hand both in the endowment and foundation of those two famous Colledges in Oxford and Ipswich begun by that magnificent Prelate and in 23 H. 8. which was soon after the Cardinal's fall was made a Privy Councellor and Master of the Jewel-House having the fee of Fifty pound per annum granted to him for his good service in that office The next year following he was also made Clerk of the Hanaper an Office in Chancery of good profit and repute But before the end of that year Chancellor of the Exchequer which was much greater And
by promise of money to some of the Scots got the Earl of Northumberland into his hands he sent him to Yorke where he was shortly after beheaded In An. 1582. 25 Eliz. upon the return of the Duke of Anâou who had stayed here three Months as a Suitor to Queen Elizabeth with some other of the Nobility he attended him to Antwerp by her Majesties command And in 29 Eliz. was made General Warden of the Marches towards Scotland as also about that time Lord Chamberlain of the Queens Houshold In 30 Eliz. upon puting the Queen of Scots to death in England continuing still at Barwick he was imployed unto King Iames her son to pacifiâ him therein and in An. 1592. 35 Eliz. upon the charge laid to Sir Thomas Perrot Deputy of Ireland was one of the Commissioners assigned to consider thereof He was also Captain of the Pensioners and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and having married Anne daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan Knight by her had issue four sons and three daughters first George secondly Iohn thirdly Sir Edmund Carye Knight and fourthly Robert afterwards Earl of Monmouth The daughters were these Catherine married to Charles Earl of Nottingham Philadelphia to Thomas Lord Scrope and Margaret to Sir Edward Hoby Knight And departing this life upon the twenty third of Iuly An. 1596. 38 Eliz. being then seventy one years of age was buried in the Chapel of St. Iohn Baptist within the Collegiate Church of St. Peter at UUestminster where there is a noble Monument erected to his memory with this Epitaph In domino hic obdormit Henricus Carey Baro de Hunsdon villae Berwici limitisque tam orientalis quà m medââ versus Scotiam olim praefectus pentionariorum generosorum Capitaneus Forestarum cis Trentam Iusticiarius summus Garteriani ordinis eques auratus Dominae Reginae Camerarius à sacris Consiliis eidemque consobrinus Vna cum illo conditur uxor charissima filia Thomae Morgan equitis aurati quae plures illi liberos peperit è quibus sunt superstites Georgius Iohannes Edmundus Robertus equites aurati Catherina Comitissa Nottinghamiae Philadelphia Baronissa Scrope Margereta domina Hoby Obiit 23 Iulii 1596. Aetatis Lxxi Patri optimo Georgius Carey filius Baro de Hunsdon ordinis Garterii socius Vectae Insulae prafectus Reginae Elizabethae Camerarius à sacris Consilâs Maritoque charissimo Anna uxor Honoris Memoriae ergo sibique suis mortalitatis memores posuerunt To whom succeeded George his eldest son who being also Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Governor of the Isle of UUight Lord Chamberlain of the Queens Houshold and one of her Privy Council departed this life 9 Sept. An. 1603. 1 Iac. leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter to Sir Iohn Spenser of Althorpe in Com. North. Knight one sole daughter and heir called Elizabeth who became the wife of Sir Thomas Berkley Knight son and heir to Henry Lord Berkley Whereupon Iohn his next Brother and heir male succeeded him in the honor Which Iohn during his Brothers life scil in 43 Eliz. was constituted Warden of the East-Marches toward Scotland being then a Knight and departing this life ... Apr. 1617 15 Iac. left issue by Mary his wife daughter to Leonard Hyde of Throgkyn in Com. Hertf. Esquire two sons Henry and Charles and two daughters Anne married to Sir Francis Lovell of East-Harâyng in Com. Norf. Knight and ãâã to Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Kymberley in the same County Knight Which Henry succeeding as Lord Hunsdon was advanced to the dignity of Vicount Rochford 6 Iulii 19 Iac. Likewise to the Title of Earl of Dovor 8 Martii 3 Car. 1. And having married Iudith the daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham of Lofton in Com. Suss. Baronet by whom he had issue three sons Iohn made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles the first Pelham who died without issue and George and three daughters Mary married to Sir Thomas Wharton Knight of the Bath Brother to the Lord Wharton Iudith died unmarried and Philadelphia departed this life An. 1668. To whom succeeded Iohn his son and heir who first married Dorothy daughter to Oliver Earl of Bolinbroke but by her had no issue and secondly Abigal daughter of Sir William Cokain Knight Alderman of the City of London by whom he hath issue one only daughter called Mary married to William Heveningham of ... in com ... Esquire ¶ Having finished with this elder branch I lastly come to Robert third son to the first Henry Lord Hunsdon In 40 Eliz. this Robert being then a Knight was made Warden of the Marshes towards Scotland and in 19 Iac. 6 Feb. created Lord Carey of Lepington in com Ebor. Also Earl of Monmouth 5 Feb. 1 Car. 1. And departing this life at Moore-Park in com Hertf. 12 Apr. An. 1639 15 Car. 1. left issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Sir Hugh Trevanion of Corriheigh in Com. Cornub. Knight two sons viz. Henry Carey made Knight of the Bath in An. 1616. at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales and Thomas and one daughter called Philadelphia married to Sir Thomas Wharton Knight son and heir to the Lord Wharton Which Sir Henry succeeding him in his honors marryed Martha eldest daughter to Leonel Earl of Middlesex by whom he had issue two sons Leonel and Henry who both died in their Fathers life time without issue And eight daughters Anne married to Iames Hamilton Vicount Claneboy and Earl of Clanbrazell Philadelphia died unmarried Elizabeth Mary wedded to William Earl of Desmond Trevaniana died unmarried Martha to Iohn Earl of Middleton in Scotland Theophila and Magdalen both died unmarried He died 13 Iunii An. 1661. and was buryed at Rickmansworth in Com. Hertf. Lord St. Iohn of Bletsho Earl of Bolinbroke 1 Eliz. THese being a branch of the antient Family of St. Iohn of Stanton St. Iohn in Com. Oxon as I guess came first to possess this Lordship of Bletsho about the time of King Henry the Sixths Reign Sir Oliver St. Iohn Knight then taking to wife Margaret the sister and sole heir to Iohn de Beauchamp of Bletsho Knight as in my discourse of those Beauchamps is already shewn From which Sir Oliver did Oliver St. Iohn Esquire lineally descend who by Letters Patent bearing date 13 Ian. 1 Eliz. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord St. Iohn of Bletsho and in 15 Eliz. was one of the Peers which sate and gave Judgment upon Thomas Duke of Norffolk then attained This Oliver by his Testament bearing date 20 Apr. An 1582. 24 Eliz. bequeathing no certain place for his
same consideration the like Grant of the Forestership of Thornwoods on the Southern part of Shirewoââ in that County with the Fee of four pence a day for executing that Office Nevertheless no sooner did the Earl of Richmund land in this Realm though but with a very slender strength that that he with his six valiant Brothers viz. another Sir Everard then also of Tilton Iohn Digby of âetilby Rouland Digby of Welby both in Leicestershire Lybeus Digby of Luffâam in com Rotel Thomas and Benjamin not forgetting the old Lancastrian Interest came in freely unto him and fought stoutly on his part at Bosworth-Field against King Richard where the Victory falling to that Earl being thenceforth King by the name of Henry the Seventh he advanced Iohn and Thomas to the dignity of Knighthood making the former also Knight-Marshal of His Houshold and the other one of the Gentlemen Huishers of His Chamber conferring on him the Bailywick of ââney in com Buck. and Keepership of the Park there where he thenceforth made his residence But none of them had better advantages for their faithful services to that King than Simon for in the first year of his Râign he obtained the Stewardship of certain Lordships in com Rutl. viz. Uppingham Preston Barouâhdon Esenden and Greteham and of all the Lands formerly belonging to George Duke of Clarence to hold for life as also the like Office and Receivership for the Mannor of Bâdale in com Ebor. And having in the second year of his Reign been a Commander in His Army at the Battel of Stoke had in consideration of his acceptable services a Grant of the Mannor of âavysbâry in the parish of Micham in com Surr. and to the heirs male of his body and the next ensuing year a Grant of the Office of Comptroller of the Petty-Customes in the Port of London as also of the Forestership of Thornwoods in Shirewood formerly conferred upon him by King Edward the 4 th and in 11 H. 7. of the Lordship of Coâeshill before-specified in special Tail being at that time Deputy to Iohn Earl of Oxford Constable of the Tower of London Which Lordship came to the Crown by the attainder of Sir Simon Montfort Knight for his adherence to Perkân Warbeck After this in 12 H. 7. he had a Commission to exercise Marshal-Law in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall against divers Malefactors and having been Sheriff of the Counties of Warwick and Leicester in the first and ninth years of King Henry the Eighth by his Testament bearing date 22 Aug. 9 H 8. bequeathed his body to be buried in the Chancel of the parish Church of Coleshill under a fair Toâb there erected in his life time and departed this life 24 Febr. 12 H. 8. leaving issue by Alice his wife daughter and heir to Iohn Waleys of Est Raddon in com Devon Esquire Reginald Digby his son and heir as also a younger son called Thomas from whom the Digby's of Mansfeild Woodhouse in com Nott. are descended Which Reginald by Ann his wife daughter and coheir to Iohn Danvers of Cothorpe in com Oxon. Esquire had issue Iohn who took to wife Ann the daughter of Sir George Throkmorton of Coughton in com Warr. K t And he George who being at the siege of âutphen in 28 Eliz. had there the honor of Knighthood conferred on him and by Abigail his wife daughter to Sir Arthur Heveningham of ... in com Norff. Knight left issue l three sons Robert Philip and this Iohn Which Robert being afterwards a Knight and taking to wife Lettice the Grandchild and heir female to Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland left issue Robert his son and heir created Lord Digby of Geashill in that Realm by K. Iames whose descendents do still enjoy that honor As to the advancement of this Iohâ it was his own meer merits which brought it to pass For having first been a Fellow-Commoner in Magdalen-Colledge Oxon. and afterwards travelled into France and Italy whereby he became singularly qualified upon that designed Insurrection on Dunsmore Health in Warwickshire by those Unparallel'd Gunpowder-Conspirators about the beginning of November 3 Iac. in order to the surprisal of the Princess Elizabeth the King's daughter then residing at Combe in that County whereof the Lord Harington her Guardian had private intimation he was by that Lord dispatcht to the Court to acquaint His Majesty therewith Where his abilities and fidelity being amply discern'd by that prudent King he was admitted Gentlâman of the privy-chamber and one of His Majesties Carvers Also upon the sixteenth of March 4 Iac. Knighted at Whitehall And in the moneth of April An. 1611. 9 Iac. imployed Embassador into Spaine so likewise in October An. 1614. 12 Iac. Moreover 3 April An. 1616. 14 Iac. made Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and one of his Privy Council And the next ensuing year 15 Iac. being sent again into Spaine upon his return was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 25 Nov. 16. Iac. by the title of Lord Digby of Shireburne in com Dors. After which scil An. 1620. 18 Iac. he was sent Embassador to the Arch Duke Albert and the next year following to Ferdinand the Emperor as also to the Duke of Bavaria Whence returning in October An. 1621. he was again scil in An. 1622. 20 Iac. employed Embassador extraordinary to the Spaniard touching a Marriage betwixt Prince Charles and the Lady Maria daughter to Philip the Third then King of that Realm and created Earl of Bristol 15 Sept. the same year He married Beatrice daughter to Charles Walcot of Walcot in com Salop. Esq widdow of Sir Iohn Dive of Bromham in com Bedf. Knight by whom he had issue two sons George born at Madrid in Spaine in the month of October An. 1612. and Iohn born in England in March An. 1617. who dyed in France unmarried As also two daughters Mary married to Sir Arthur Chichester now Lord Dunegal in Ireland and Abigal to George Freake âldest son of Iohn Freake of Shroughton in âom Dors. Esquire And departing this life at Paris in France 16 Ian. An. 1653. was there buried in the common burial place of the Hugâenots in that City To whom succeed George his son and heir installed Knight of the Garter An. Apr. 1661 which George married Anne daughter to Francis late Earl of Bedford and by her had issue two sons viz. Iohn his son and heir who first married Alice the only child of Robert Bourne of Blake-Hall in the Parish of Bovenger in com Essex Esquire by whom he had no issue secondly Rachel daughter of Sir Hugh Windham Knight one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas the name of his second son was Francis slain in that sharp Fight at Sea
a famous Standard to be erected and thereon the Banners of S. Peter S. Iohn of Beverley and S. Wilfrid of Rippon adding thereto the Sacred Host to the end that all who came to it might receive the more encouragement were so admirably excited by that pithy Oration which Geffrey Bishop of Durham sent by Archbishop Thurstan at that time faln sick then made that falling upon the Scots with incomparable valor they soon obtained a most compleat and glorious Victory Whereupon this our Earl William in reward of his Prowess was forthwith advanced to the Earldom of Yorkshire by King Stephen as Robert de Ferrers was to that of Derbishire In memory of which Battle the Ground whereon it was fought lying about two miles distant from North Alverton on the right hand the Road leading thence towards Durham is to this day called Sâandard Hill having in it divers hollow places still known by the name of the Scots Pits But after this about three years he was with the same King Stephen with worse success at that fatal Battle of Lincoln of which I have spoke at large under the title of âhester the King himself being there taken prisoner and all his Forces utterly vanquished being then stiled Earl of York and as it is said by some fled away from the fight exposing the King to that loss which he then underwent Moreover in An. 1144. 9 Steph. being much afflicted by the enmity of Ranulph Earl of Chester and Gilbert de Gant he betook himself to the Priory of Bridlington and there stood upon his guard Thus much for his Military Actions which those of his Piety did ãâã exceed for he was the devout Founder of these several Religious Houses viz. Meaux in Holderness not far from his Castle of Skipsey in An. 1136. Thornton upon Humber in An. 1139. and Bytham in Lincolnshire in An. 1147. afterwards translated to Uaudey all which he then endowed with large Revenues And because the occasion of his Founding that of Meaux is somewhat remarkable I shall here take the boldness to give a short account thereof Being a person very famous in his time and owner of the greatest part of Yorkshire and having made a Vow to go unto Ierusalem he could not by reason of his age and corpulency well perform the same Wherefore there being then a Monk of Fountains called Adam who was a person of singular Prudence and great Fame and at that time busied in the structure of the Abbey of Woburne in Bedfordshire as also of âirkstede and Uaudey in Lincolnshire of which last this Earl William was Founder as hath been said this Monk thereupon became in some measure acquainted with our Earl and discerning that he was in no small trouble of mind touching that his Vow advised him for satisfaction thereof to found some Monastery of the Cistercian Order adding that if he should please so to do he would obtain if for him from the Pope an Absolution from the Vow The Earl thereupon consenting Adam forthwith resorted unto Eugenius the Third at that time in France and having acquainted him with his errand as also obtained his desire returned and took view of all the Lands of this Earl to the end he might find the most proper and commodious Seat for the same In which view seeing this Territory now called Meaux to be well adorned with Woods and Groves and environed with Lakes and Waters as also the Soil thereof very fruitful he concluded that it would be the most fit and proper place for that purpose and ascending that part thereof then called Our Ladies Hill he went to the top of it and fixed his Staff in the Ground saying This place shall be called the Kings Court the Vineyard of Heaven and Gate of Life Here shall be ordainâd a People worshipping Christ And then turning himself to the standers by said There shall be in the last days a Mount Prepared for the House of God on the top of an Hill Which words said he I know not how it comes to pass but I have all this day had in my Mouth and now I see that Providence hath occasioned the same and willed that on this little ascent his Temple should be made in us But when the Earl saw that this Monk had made choice of that place he was not a little troubled in mind in regard he had an extraordinary love to it by reason of its situation having not long before obtained it in exchange from one Sir Iohn de Meaux a Knight whose Inheritance it was for the Mannor of Bewick near Aldburgh with purpose to have inclosed it for a Park having begun a Ditch on the West side thereof afterwards called Park-Ditch which exchange was confirmed by King Henry the Second Nevertheless yellding to the Monk therein the Abbey of Meaux was there Founded accordingly And lastly over and besides these great Foundations of those three Religious Houses before remembred he gave to the Canons of Bridlington the third part of a Carucate of Land in Otringham four Bovates in Sprotelay six Bovates in Attinâwic one Carucate in Schirlington four Bovates in Biford and four Bovates in Bovinton which gift was in recompence of some wrongs he had done to them And this he did by the title of Earl of York as his Charter it self doth manifest The name of his Wife was Cicily Daughter to William Fitz-Duncan Earl of Murraff Nephew to Malcolme King of Scots by Alice the Daughter of Robert de Romely Lord of the Honor of Skipton in Craven c. By which Marriage he enjoyed as her Inheritance all that part of Yorkshire called Craven and left issue by her only these two Daughters viz. Hawise and Cicily as some call her but perhaps it should be Amicia for it appears that such a Daughter he had and that she was the Wise of ... Eston which ... Eston had issue by her a Son called Ranulph and he Iohn Father of another Iohn de Eston or Aston who as right Heir after Aveline de Fortibus of whom I shall make mention anon claimed this Earldom of Albemarle in 6 Edw. 1. And had certain Lands in Thornton to the value of One hundred pound per annum assigned to him to release his Right therein Which he did accordingly and not only so but to all the Lands and Tenements in England which did sometime belong to Alice de Fortibus Iohn de Fortibus Thomas de Fortibus William de Forribus and William le Grosse sometime Earl of Albemarle and Hawise his Daughter together with all the Right of Avice Constance and Ranulph his Ancestors and of all other his Ancestors as well in England as in Normandy This Earl William le Grosse died in An. 1179. 25 Hen. 2. and was buried in that Abbey of Thornton upon Humber which himself had Founded ¶
determination of the twenty five Barons who were elected to take care that the tenor of those Charters should be observed and to compell the King in case he should recede therefrom And the next ensuing year when Lewes King of France was called in by the rebellious Barons presuming he would prevail he adhered to him which put the King into such a rage that he presently raised a mighty Army and in one months space ran over the Lands of those adverse persons plundred and burnt their Houses with their Corn and in in particular exercised the like severity in Norfolk upon the Houses and Lands of this Earl But the death of King Iohn which hapned that year quite altered the Scene for what with the terror from Rome of an Excommunication which was like to be thundred out against Lewes by Walo the Popes Legate unless he would forthwith be gone out of England and the hearts of many who stood not right to King Iohn now inclining to young King Henry certain it is that this our Earl was one of the first that came in unto him And seeing now such hopes of quiet and peaceable times so great was his zeal as of divers other the most eminent Noblemen for recovery of the Holy land from the hands of the Infidels that the very next year following viz. Ann. 1218. 2. Hen. 3. he took a journey thither accompanied by Ranulph Earl of Chesteâ and others and was at that famous Seige of Damieta but in his return thence he died ann scil 1222. Whereupon his Body being brought into England by Thomas a Monk of S. Albans was interred in the Abby of Wymundham whereof he was Patron By Maude Daughter to Iames de Sancto Sidonio with whom he had all her Fathers Lands in England and Widow to Roger Earl of Clare he lest issue William his Son and successor in this Earldome who in the same year his Father died gave an hundred pound for his relief and doing his Homage had livery or ãâ¦ã This William took to Wife Mabel the second of the four sisters and coheirs to Ranulph Earl of Chester with whom he had five hundred pounds Land per annum But that which I farther find most memorable of him is that he confirmed the grants made by his ancestors to the Abby of the Holy Trinity at Essay in Normandy viz. the Church of Filgers with the Tithes belonging thereto part of the Church of Ginoxfosse as also certain Lands in Kerkavill and Francavill with whatsoever the Sons of Ralph Espec held of the Honor of Albini in Alne and Astell Likewise the whole Tithes of the Fair at St. Christophers and of the Toll of Albinei and moreover all that Amicia Wife of Roger de Albinei Mother of William de Albini Pincerna with the consent of her Sons William and Nigel did give to that Abby in Montfamelose and Mesnill-Ogis This Earl William died without issue in 18 H. 3. as it seems for in that year Hugh de Albini Brother and Heir gave two thousand and five hundred Marks Fine to the King to have possession of all the Lands and Castles descended to him by the death of Earl William his Brother as also of all those Lands that did by right of inheritance descend to him from Ranulph Earl of Chester his Uncle which Hugh was then in minority So also at the Solemn Nuptials of King Henry the third for certain it is that the Earl Warren did at that time serve the King of his Royal Cup Loco Comitis Arundeliae eo quod Adolecens fuerat idem Comes Arundeliae nec adhuc gladio cinctus militari in the place of this Earl by reason he was then but a youth and not Knighted But all that I have farther observed of him is that in 26 H. 3. upon that Expedition then made by the King into France to vindicate the injuries which he had received from the King of that Realm this Earl Hugh amongst-others had summons â to prepare himself with Horse and Armes and to attend him thither Likewise that he took to Wife Isabel daughter of William Earl Warren and Surrey but departed this Life in the prime of his youth Non. Maii Ann. 1243. 27. Hen. 3. without issue and was buried in the Abby of Wimundham with his ancestors leaving his great inheritance to be divided amongst his four Sisters viz. to Robert the Son of Robert de Tatshall and Mabell his Wife the eldest of them the Castle and Mannor of Buckenham with the appurtenances for their Capital Seat To Iohn the Son of Iohn Fitz-Alan and Isabel his Wife another of the Sisters and Coheirs the Castle and Mannor of Arundell c. To Roger de Somery who married Nichola the third Sister and Coheir the Mannor of Barwe in Com. Leic. for the cheif seat c. And to Roger de Montall who wedded Cecilie the second Sister and fourth of the said Coheirs the Castle of Rising in Norfolk for their principal seat Another Sister he had named Colet to whom her Uncle Ranulph Earl of Chester gave thirty pound towards her marriage which gift of this King Henry the third confirmed to her in 17 of his Reign All that I shall now Farther observe is that Isabell the Widow of this Earl Hugh had assigned to her for her maintenance untill her Dowry was set forth the Mannors of Wymundham and Keninghall in Norfolk and soon after for her Dowry the Lordships of Burne and Stansted with the Hundred of Burne in Com. Sussex Likewise the Mannor of Olney in Com. Buck. and moreover the Mannors of Snetsham Wymundham Pleââet and Kenninghall with the Hundred of Gilderos in Norfolk And that she was foundress of the Nunery of Marham near Lenne in Norfolk which Lordship of Marham she had by the gift of her Father in Frank-marriage And likewise that in an 1252. 36 H. 3. she moving the King concerning the Wardship of a certain Person which she challenged as her right and not speeding in her suite boldly told him That he was by God Almighty constituted to govern but that he did neither govern himself nor his subjects as he ought to do Adding that he did wrong the Church and vex the Nobles Whereunto the King returned What is this you say Have the Peers framed a Charter and made you their Advocate to speak for them by reasons of your Eloquence No quoth she they have made none at all but you have violated that Charter of Liberties which your Father did grant and which you by Oath obliged your self to observe and notwithstanding you have often extorted money from your liege people for the ratifying thereof yet have you broke it so that you are a manifest infringer of your Faith and Oath What are become of those Liberties of England so often solemnly
took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Iohn le Strange of Blackmere which Elizabeth died 23 Aug. 7 Ric. 2. without issue And in 7 Ric. 2. together with the Earl of Northumberland and some of the Northern Barons he entred Scotland with a thousand Spears and six thousand Archers In 8 R. 2. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars And in 9 R. 2. constituted Earl Marshal of England by reason of his descent from Thomas of Brotherton Earl of Norfolk and Marshall as hath been observed to hold the same Office for term of his Life In 10 R. 2. he went to Sea with Richard Earl of Arundell then constituted Admiral to oppose the incursion of the Kings publique Enemies and shared in the glory of that Victory then obtained in that Naval adventure against the French Flemings Normans and Spaniards as also of that valiant attempt upon the Castle of Brest in Britanny which was then taken by the English but such was the prevalency of the Duke of Ireland at that time and of those other parasites who had the Kings eare as that upon his return instead of an honorable reception for his good service he was not looked on with any fair countenance being one of those whose death was designed by that Duke and his complices This Thomas did not make proof of his age untill 12 Ric. 2. but then so doing and performing his Homage he had livery of all his Lands and thereupon constituted Governor of Barwick upon âweed as also sent with a military power against the Scots who had invaded Northumberland and made great spoil in those parts but having not strength sufficient to give them Battle he retreated back without any attempt upon them After this scil in 14 R. 2. he wasmade Governor of the Castle of Merke in France as also Captain of Calais for the term of five years The next year following scil 15 R. 2. at the instance of this Earl it was that the King vouchsafed such favor to the Town of Calais that for the honor thereof the Mayor and his successors should thenceforth have a Sword born before them with the point upwards except at such time as the King himself or any of his Uncles or the Captain of Calais or his Lieutenant should be present and then to carry the point thereof downwards In 16 R. 2. he was constituted the Kings Liââtenant in Calais as also in the parts of Picardy Flanders and Artoys and likewise Governor of Calais and of the new Tower there And for his many good services done and to be done had a grant of two hundred Marks per annum for life to be paid out of the Exchequer untill such time as the King should better provide for him Moreover he stood in such favor that the King acknowledging his just and hereditary title to bear for his Crest a golden Leopard with a white Label which of right did belong to the Kings eldest Son in case he had any did by his Letters patents grant unto him and his heirs authority to bear the Golden Leopard for his Crest with a Coronet of Silver about his neck instead of the Labell And in the same year constituted him Justice of Chester and Flintshire for term of life with power to hold Pleas and Sessions there by himself or his sufficient Lieutenant as also Justice of North-Wales In 18 R. 2. he attended the King into Ireland Moreover in 19 R. 2. he was joyned in Commission with Edward Earl of Roteland Son of Edmund de Langley Duke of York and others to contract Marriage with Isabel eldest Daughter to Charles the sixth King of France and King Richard and again constituted Governor of the Castle of Calais Moreover the next ensuing year he obtained the Kings licence for founding that Monastry of Carthusian Monks at his Mannor of Eppe-Worth in the Isle of Axholm which he he thereupon established and most amply endowed As also the Kings Charter of confirmation of the Office of Earl Marshal of England to the Heirs Male of his body with an union of the Office of Marshal in the Courts of Kings Bench and Exchequer thereunto Likewise of the Office of Marshals-cryer before the Steward and Marshal of the Kings household And that he and his Heirs male by reason of this their Office of Earl Marshal should bear a Golden Truncheon enameled with black at each end having at the upper end of it the Kings Arms graven thereon and at the lower end his own Arms. How beit notwithstanding those his many services before remembred such was the prevalency of his old Enemies those Parasites by whom the King was governed that the year following viz. 21 R. 2. with divers other he was arrested and indicted of High Treason at Notingham and Witnesses suborned to accuse him in the ensuing Parliament But here the Scene soon changed for whether with the apprehension of his own danger or allured by those voluptuaries who bore such sway with the King he forthwith adhered to them in the destruction of that honorable person Richard Earl of Arundell whose Daughter he had Married and was one of the chief that guarded him to his Execution Nay it is said by some that he bound up his Eyes and beheaded him himself And soon after that had a principle hand in that execrable Murther of Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Gloucester the Kings Uncle causing him to be smothered with a Feather-bed at Calais Whereupon he became in such high favour at Court that the King bestowed upon him and the Heires Male of his Body the Castle Town and Lordship of Lewes the Mannors of Cokefield Clayton Dycheninge Methynge Peâcham Brightelmeston Rottingdene Houndedene Northese Rademeld Kymere Middilton Alington Worth Pycombe Sefford Iford Pedingho Kingston and Littleworth the Hundreds of Poninges Buttringhull Strete Beâcome Swanbergh Holmestrowe Yonesmere Whalesbone the half Hundred of Fishergate the half Hundred of Wyndham and three hundred acres of marish called Wayfeldmerch with all other the Lands of Richard Earl of Arundel which by reason of the said Earles forfeiture came to the King together with all Knights Fees and advowsons of Churches in the Counties of Surry and Sussex the Castle and Town of Reygate with the Park Warren and Chases only excepted And besides all this the Castle and Town of Castleacre with its members and appurtenances in Norfolk which by the forfaiture of the said Earl came to the Crown Moreover the Castle and Mannor of Hanslape the Mannors of Olney Querndon and Shenley Mansel in the County of Buckingham the Mannors of Berghdon Greatham Preston and Uppingham in the County of Roteland the Mannors of Molton and Potters-pirie in the County of Northampton the Mannors of Brayles Toneworth Berkswill Lighthurne Morton and Mereshull
King Henry the fifth at the siege of Harfleu 3 Hen. 5. became distempered by eating of Fruit with the Flux as divers other great persons then were and was therefore necessitated to return into England before that famous Battle of Agincourt which soon after ensued where King Henry obtained so glorious a victory And in the next ensuing year was by Indenture retained to serve the King in his Warrs of France with an hundred Men at Arms and three hundred Archers whereof himself to be one five Knights and the rest Esquires wherof the third part to be Foot-men and the rest to serve on Horseback In 5 Hen. 5. he was in Normandy in K. Henry's service and commanded part of his Army at the Seige of Cane continuing in those parts till the death of that victorious King And in 1 Hen. 6. was again reteined to serve the King in those Warrs with one Baneret four Knights an hundred and fourteen Men at Arms and three hundred and sixty Archers Moreover in 3 Hen 6. in the Parliament then held at Westminster he was restored to the title and dignity of Duke of Norfolk using no other than E. Marshal and Notingham before And in 4 Hen. 6. being of full age and doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands In 8 Hen. 6. he was again reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Warrs And by his last Will and Testament bearing date 20 Maii 7 Hen. 6. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Charter-house within the Isle of Axholme ordaining that the Bones of his Father which lay buryed at Ulenice should be translated thither To Katherine his Wife Daughter to Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmerland afterwards married to Thomas Strangwayes Esq and after that to Iohn Viscount Beaumont and lastly to Sir Iohn Widvile Knight Brother to Anthony Earl Rivers he bequeathed all his Plate of Gold and Silver or Silver and gilt and appointed that she should hold during her life the Castle and Honor of Brembre in Sussex with the appurtenances as also the Castle of Gââher in Wales and departed this life 19 Oct. 11 H. 6. leaving issue Iohn his Son and Heir then seventeen years of age But over and above what she had by this his bequest there was âssigned to her for her Dowry the Lordships of Forueseat Lopham Southfield Eresham Haneworth Framingham Parva with the Hundreds of Laundiche and Soâth-Greenhow with two parts of the Mannor of Loche in Norfolk likewise the third part of two parts of Forty shillings of the custom of the Market at Guildford in Surrey the Castle Mannor and Borough of Strogoâl in the Marches of Wales the Mannor of Tudeham in Com. Gloc. The Mannors of Silby Mountsorel the Park of Overton and Hundred of Goscote in Com. Leic. The Mannors of Great Chesterford Dâvercourt Rumford the Borough of Harwich the third part of two parts of the Mannors of High Rothing and Onesham Hall and the thrid part of the Mannor of Langetous in Canefield Parva in Essex the Castle of Bedford with the Mannors or Hames Willington and Stotfold in Com. Bedf. And the Mannor of Pen with six Messuages one Carucate and one Virgate of Land in Morton and Smethâere as also the Mannor of Wenge and the third part of two parts of the Mannor of Medmenham in Com. Buck. Which Iohn Son to the last mentioned Iohn came of full age in 14 Hen. 6. and in the seventeenth of that Kings Reign was sent Ambassador into Piccardy to treat of Peace betwixt the Kings of England and France After which viz. in 23 Hen. 6. upon confirmation of the title of Duke of Norfolk to him which was first conferred on Thomas his Grandfather he had a grant of place and seat in Parliament and elswhere next to the Duke of Exeter In 25 Hen. 6. this Iohn went on Pilgrimage to Rome And in 35 Hen. 6. making his vow to go likewise on Pilgrimage to divers holy places in Ireland Scotland Britanny Piccardy and Cologne and to the Blood of our Saviour at Windesnake as also to Rome and Ierusalem for recovery of the Kings health he had License to that purpose In 1 Edw. 4. he was constituted Justice Itinerant of all the Forests on the South of Trent but departed this life the same year and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford in Norfolk leaving issue by Eleanor his Wife Daughter to William Lord Bourchier Iohn his Son and Heir Which Iohn in 29 Hen. 6. 24 Martii his Father then living was created Earl Waâren and Surrey an in 11 Edw. 4. was one of those Lords who subscribed their names to that recognition then made in Parliament to Prince Edward the Kings eldest Son Moreover in 14 Edw. 4. he was retained to serve the King in his Wars of France for one whole year with forty Spears himself accounted two Knights and three hundred Archers But of him I find no more than that he departed this life at his Castle of Framingham in Norfolk upon Tuesday next after the Feast of the Epiphany 15 Edw. 4. and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford leaving issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Iohn Talbot the first Earl of Shrewsbury of that name Anne his sole Daughter and Heir four years old in 17 Edw. 4. Afterwards Wedded to Richard Duke of York second Son to King Edward the Fourth but died without issue by means whereof the Inheritance of this great House resorted to the Families of Berkley and Howard in respect that Isabel and Margaret the two Daughters to Thomas Moubray first Duke of Norfolk beforementioned were so married as I have already expressed Which Anne lieth buried in the Chappel of S. Erasmus in the Abbey Church of Westminster Albini of Cainho THe first of this Line of whom I have found mention is Henry de Albini a younger Son of Nigel de Albini without doubt Which Henry with the Lady Cicily his Wife in the time of King Henry the First gave two Hides of Land lying in their Mannor of Coâes unto that little Cell of Nuns called Sopwel situate near S. Albans in Hartfordshire To whom succeeded Robert de Albini his Son and Heir which Robert added the gift of a Yard Land lying also in Cotes unto that Cell at such time as he placed Cicily his Sister to be a Votress there and confirmed what Henry his Father had formerly given thereto with Amicia his Sister This Robert was Founder of the Priory of Beaulieu in Hartfordshire a Cell also to that great Abbey of S. Albans and gave to the Monks of that House Pasturage for ten Oxen to graze with his own Oxen in Clophell alias Cainho So also Pasturage for One hundred Sheep and likewise Fifteen Acres of Land for
of divers Noblemen that difference was thus finally accorded viz. That there should be three Priests maintained to celebrate Divine Service for ever for the health of the Soul of this murthered Ralph at some certain place near to his Grave Which Priests were thereupon setled accordingly at Langley in that County The next ensuing year viz. 9 Rich. 2. having obtained License to travel he undertook a Pilgrimage to the holy Sepulcher of our Lord at Ierâalem and in order thereto upon the sixth of April declared his Testament whereby he bequcathed his Body to be buried in the Priory of Stone near to the Grave of his Wife in case he should die in England appointing six large Tapers to be placed about his Herse and four Morters of Wax but that no Horse or Arms should be offered at his Funeral nor that any Prayers should be thereat except by Ecclesiastical Persons with his Allies and Friends Also that one hundred poor Men should be cloathed in White with a Cross behind and before on their Garments each of them carrying a Torch as well on the Vespers as on the Funeral day Likewise That Five hundred Masses should be celebrated for the Souls of his Father and Mother his Wife Himself and all his good doers as also of all Christians within one year after his deccase Moreover that within the compass of the year after his decease there should be celebrated for the Souls before mentioned Fifty Masses Trentals of S. Gregory by the most fitting persons that could be found Of which Testament he constituted Overseers his Cosin the Archbishop of Canterbury viz. William Courtney his Brother the Earl of Warwick the Lord Nevil the Earl of Suffolk and Sir William Beauchamp Knight to each of whom he gave a Cup with the Cover gilt And by his last Will bearing date at Iernemuth upon the fifteenth day of the same Moneth of April appointed that his Daughter Ioane should be well and fitly married and that out of the profits of his Lands in the hands of his Feoffce his three Sons William Edmund and Hugh should have each of them One hundred pound per annum during their respective lives Also that Thomas his Son should have his Coat of Male d'Astere of Naples and his Helmet made at Bourdeaux with a Camail d'Astere as also his Sword made at Turenne which Sir Raufe Ferrers gave him And that there should be three Priests ordained to celebrate Divine Service for the health of his Soul near to the place of his Burial for the term of three years next after his decease And after this upon the Twenty first of September next ensuing being then at Rhodes upon his return from Ierusalem by a Codicil there made he bequeathed to his Sister Roos a Gold Ring with a little Diamond to Margaret de Nevil his Daughter a large Gold Ring with a great Diamond set therein to Katherine de Pole his Daughter a Fermail of Knots to Ioane his Daughter a Golden Fermail with an Heart and to his Sister Cherleton a large Gold Ring with a Karrect Unto which Codicil Sir William Arundel and Sir Richard Ludlow Knights were witnesses And upon the Twenty fifth day of the same Moneth of September being still at Rhodes making a farther Declaration of his Testament gave to Iohn Hinkley his Esquire Twenty pounds and to Robert Corbert his Chamberlain Ten pounds unto which his usual Seal viz. his Helm was affixed After which viz. the next day following being the Twenty sixth of September he died there whereupon his Corps was brought over into England by the same Iohn Hinkley his Esquire and buried with his Ancestors before the High Altar at Stone leaving issue by the Lady Philippa his Wife Daughter of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Thomas his Son and Heir at that time Eighteen years of age as also four other Sons viz. Thomas William Edmund and Hugh Which Hugh afterwards bore the title of Lord Bourchier in right of his Wife as I shall farther shew anon and three Daughters viz. Margaret married to Ralph Lord Nevill the first Earl of Westmerland Catherine to Michael the Son of Michael de lâ Pole To which Katherine in respect of the low estate of him the said Michael King Richard the Second gave Fifty pounds per annum out of the Fee-Farm of Kingston upon Hull to make up One hundred pound per annum which was Covenanted by her Husbands Father to be setled upon her Ioane to Thomas Holland Earl of Kent and ... to Iohn Lord Ferrers of Chartley. This last mentioned Earl Hugh was at the time of his death seised of the Borough of Petersfield with the Hamlets thereunto belonging viz. Mapel-Derham Westone Nutstead and Sheet in Com. Southampt Of the Mannors of Cornhampton and Burbach the Hamlet of Up-Clatford the Borough of Bedewind the Mannor of Wexcomb the Hundred of Kinewardeston and the Mannors of Orcham and Knowle in Com. Wilts Of the Mannors of Blechingle Ocham and Burgham in Com. Surr. Of the Castle and Mannor of Aungre with the Mannor of Horsham in Com. Essex Of two parts of the Mannor of Calilond in Com. Cornub. Of the Mannor of Thornbury with its Members viz. Oldely Kington Morton Falefeld and Mars with the Mannors of Rendcumbe and Estington all in Com. Glocest. Of the Castle and Town of Newport with its Members as also of the Mannor and Lordship of Maghun with the Forest in the Marches of Wales Of the Mannor and Hundred of Rothwel Whiston Glapthorne with the Villages of Southwike Piriho Tansover Glapthorne and Cotherstoke in Com. Northampt. Of the Castle and Mannor of Tunbridge with its Members viz. The Mannors of Dacheherst Hado and Bradstead as also of the Mannor of Eaâding all in Com. Cantii Of the Mannors of Little Brickhil and Easington with the Advowsons of the Abbey of Nutley and Priory of Newenton-Longevile in Com. Buck. Of the Mannors of Wawens-Wotton and Tiesho in Com. Warr. Of the Advowsons of the Priories of Huntingdon and S. Neots in Com. Hunt Of the Castle of Caus and three parts of the Mannor of Caus in Com. Salop. And of the Castle of Stafford with its Members in Com. Staff I now come to Thomas his Son and Successor in his Honors This Thomas the same year his Father died and a little before his decease by reason of an Invasion then threatned from the French was by Indenture retained to serve the King for the present defence of the Realm And afterwards viz. in 13 Rich. 2. again retained for term of life taking in time of War so much Wages as by the Kings Council and his own should be reasonably thought fit So likewise in times of Peace the King thereupon pardoning him the Sum of Three thousand marks wherein he was indebted to him for his Marriage The next year following viz. in 14 Rich. 2.
end that Masses should be there celebrated as heretofore by one or two Priests Likewise to Maude his Wife all the utensils of his House as well Silver as other and to Maude his Daughter for her Marriage a thousand Marks and thereupon went over into France the King himself being gone thither before but departed this life upon the 24 th of Ianuary the same year being then seized of the Castle at Leonhals in Com. Heref. Langle and Bradele in Comit. Bedf. of the Mannors of Wykingston in Comit. Leicest Great-Bentley Fratynge Great-Kemfeld and Fingre in Com. Essex as also of the Mannors of Colne the Castle and Mannor of Hengham the Mannors of Hengham Sihill Gelham Le-Uaââ in Beauchamp-Otes Dodinghurst and Stansted Montfichet in the same County and Whitchuâch in Comit. Buck. Moreover of the Inheritance of Maude his Wife he died seized of the Mannors of Marketes-Overton in Com. Rotel Welles in Com. Hertf. Laghton with the Hundred of Scheplake in Com. Suss. âalton and Milton in Com. Northamp And for term of the life of Maude his Wife of the Mannors of Wroxhale and Worth in Com. Dorset Also joyntly with her by the endowment of Robert Son of Robert Fitz-Payn her first Husband the Mannors of Stoctone Pole and Hurdecote in Comit. Wilts And likewise joyntly with her of the Mannors of Abyton and Caupes in Com. Cantabr Flete Rydelyngwold Bokynfeld Badlesmere and Whitstable in Com. Kanc. Kensyngton in Com. Midd. Great-Hormede in Com. Hertf. of the Mannors of Lavenham called Over-Hale and Nether-Hale Aldham and Cokeseld in Com. Suff. and Brumstede in Comit. Essex leaving issue by her the said Maude who was one of the Sisters and Coheirs to Giles de Badlesmere a great Baron in ãâã and Widow of Robert the Son of Robert Fitz-Pain Sir Thomas de Vere Knight his Son and Heir at that time twenty three years of age as also Aubrey another Son and two Daughters viz. Margaret married to Henry Lord Beaumont and after to Sir Iohn Devereux Knight and Isabel first married to Sir Iohn Courtney Grandfather to Hugh the fifth Earl of Devon of that Family and after to Sir Oliver Dinham Knight Which Maude their Mother then surviving had for her purparty of the Inheritance descended to her by the death of the said Giles de Badlesmere the Mannors of Badleâmere and Bokynfeild in Com. Kanc. with fifty Acres of Wood to the said Mannor of Bokynfeild belonging also the Mannors of Ryglyngweld in Comitat. Kanc. Laghto excepting Waldern-Wood and West-Dene in Com. Suss. Welles in Comit. Hertf. and the fourth part of the Mannor of Chaxsted in Comitat. Essex and died the next ensuing year But I return to Thomas This Earl Thomas in 34 Ed. 3. being in the Kings service beyond-Sea had Livery of his Lands his Homage being then respited but in 40 Edw. 3. he personally performed it In 43 Ed. 3. this Thomas was in the Warrs of France And having in his Fathers lifetime married Maud the Daughter of Ralph de Vfford at which time he had the Mannor of Chesham in Com. Buck. setled upon him and her and the Heirs Males of their two Bodies by his Testament bearing date at Bentley upon Friday the first of August ann 1371. 45 Edward 3. bequeathed his Body to be buried within the Priory of Colne on the North side in the Chapell of S. Peter appointing for the charge of his Funeral an hundred and thirty three pounds six shillings and eight pence And to her the said Maude gave all his Reliques then in his proper custody with a certain Cross made of the very wood of Christs-Cross as also all the furniture of his Chapel To Robert his Son he gave two Basons of Silver and to Sir Alberic de Vere his Brother a Coat of Male which Sir William de Wingfeld bestowed on him likewise a new Helmet and a pair of Gauntlets Of which Testament he constituted the famous Iohn de Hawkwood one of his Executors and departed this life the same year being then seized of the Mannors of Bumsted Helium Bumsted ad Turrim Fingrithe Bentley Ramesey Wrabenesse Castle-Hengâân Geâham parva Hengham-Sibille Bourâhale Sranstâede Montfichet Canefeld magna Dodingherst Dounham with the Marsh called Tympanesse within the Township of Bures Gilfard in Comit. Essex Likewise of the Mannors of Great-Hormede ãâã called Gorehams Westwyke Hamlet in the Town of âingesley and Mannor of ãâã within the Town of Offeley in Com. Hertf. of the Mannor of Leonhals in Com. Heref. Abâton magna in Com. Cantabr Chesham with the Leet parcel of the Barony of Bulbeâk in Com. Buck. Bradele in Com. Berks. âensyngton in Comit. Midd. Laughton in Com. Suss. with the hundred of Shiplake of the Mannors of Lavenham called Over-Halâ and Nether-Hall Aldeam and Cokefeld in Com. Suff. Paston in Comitat. Northamp and Market-Overton in Comitat. Rotel leaving Robert his Son and Heir and Maude his Wife then surviving who had for her Dowry and assignation of the Mannors of Over-Hall in Lavenham and Aldham with certain Tenements called Holland in Com. Suff. the Mannors of Great-Hormede in Com. Hertf. Earles-Colne and Bentley in Com. Essex Abyton in Comit. Cantabr Rydlyngwold with certain Tenements in Cherleton and the fourth part of two parts of the Mannor of Kingston in Com. Kanc. Of which Alberic his Brother I find that in 51 Edward 3. he was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of St. Davids then Lord Chancelour and others to treat of Peace with Charles King of France and in 4 R. 2. conââituted one of the Embassadors sent to make a League with Wenceslaus King of the Romans and Bohemia and the King of England Moreover that in 8 R. 2. he was reteined to serve the King in his Warrs of Scotland for forty days But I return to Robert Son and Heir to the last Earl Thomas This Robert making proof of his age in 6 R. 2. and then doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands whose marriage he being in his minority at his Fathers death was thereupon granted by King Edward the third to Iâgelram then Earl of ãâã to the intent he might take to Wife the Lady Philippa Daughter of that Earl Which being accordingly effected King Richard the second in the second year of his Reigne this Robert being still in Ward granted unto William then Bishop of London and Roger de Beauchamp an hundred pound per annum for his better support untill he should arrive at full age as he did shortly after viz. in 6 R. 2. but wanting Lands of sufficient worth to maintain her the said Philippa then his Wife he obtained from the King in consideration of his good service done and to be done that during her life they should enjoy all those Lands which were bestowed by King Edward the third in remainder after
the death of Ioane the Wife of Iohn de Coupland upon them the said Ingelram and Isabel and the Heirs of their two Bodies Moreover in 8 R. 2. he procured from the King a grant of âuensborough Castle in Kent to ââld for terme of the Kings life and his own and in âase he should be the surviver then to himself and the heirs male of his body for ever and the same year was reteined to serve the King in his Scottish Warrs for forty daies Besides all this in 9 R. 2. the K. having reteined him into his imployment did in consideration of the great Costs and expences he was at in his service give him the Castle and Lordship of Okeham in Rutland with all the Forest of Rutland to hold for terme of his life and then to the Heirs Male of his Body And purposing to exalt him to much higher dignity viz. to confer on him the title of Marquess of Dublin that he might the better support that Honor assigned unto him in reversion after the death of Iames de Audeleigh the Castle Mannor and Burrough of Barnestaple the Mannors of Fremington Ilferecombe Combe-Martyn South-Molton Holdesworthy Nemet-Bowe Uppeye Body-Tracy Holne Dertyngton Kyngeston Blackdon and Lang-aâre with all other the Lands of the said Iames de Audeleigh lying in the Counties of Devon Cornwall and Somerseâ which after the death of him the said Iames were to descend to the King And upon this his creation of Marquess which was done in Parliament the same year granted him the Land and Dominion of Ireland with all profits c. as amply as the King himself ought to have the same excepting to the King the Homages Resort and Superiority of that Countrey Which title of Marquess had never till then been heard of in Enâland and therefore was much distasted by others of the Nobility in regard that thereby he was set higher than themselves not being superior to them in Wisdom or Valor as my Author saith And moreover bestowed upon him all the benefit and advantage which might be had by Iohn the Son of Charles de Bloys then Prisoner in Gloucester Castle to the intent he might be the better enabled to maintain five hundred men at Arms and a thousand Archers at the accustomed Wages of Warr by the space of two years after he should arrive in Ireland which he intended about Candlemass the same year in order to the Conquest of that Realm And in another Parliament held at London about Michaelmas after esteeming that Honor so lately conferred upon this his cheif favorite too low for his merits advanced him to the title of Duke of Ireland upon the Feast day of S. Edward the Confessor and having so done ordained that the Heir of Charles de Bloys who challenged the Dukedom of Britanny and whose ransom he had obtained should sell it to the French for thirty thousand Marks to the intent that this new Duke with that money might by force get the Dominion of Ireland which the King had so given him and Land there before Easter ensuing Whereunto the Lords and Commons readily assented being rather content to want the money there than be troubled any longer with his Company Soon after which the King gave him liberty to reâide at Berhamstede-Castle one of his own Royal Palaces affording him fuel to burn out of his Woods and Park there Being therefore thus pufft up with Wealth and Honor he grew libidinous and insolent and put away the fair Lady Isabel his Wife kinswoman to the King with purpose to take another of mean extraction who came out of Bohemâa with Queen Anne which gave great distast to the Nobility though the King favored him in every thing especially to the Duke of Gloucester the Kings Uncle who though he could not at present vindicate his neice so repudiated reserved himself for an opportune time to do it But soon after this Easter being passed and the expectation of his going for Ireland still continuing the King to prevent any tumult by the Nobles accompanied him into Wales where continuing retired for a while they laid their heads together how they might murther the Duke of Gloucester and likewise the Earles of Arundell Warwââk Derby and Nottingham And having staid in those remote parts till the people had forgotten this so much talked of voiage into Ireland returned with the King to Notingham Castle there to consider farther how they might best act the designed murther of those great men before mentioned The Nobles therefore discerning what was like to befall them raised all the power they could and met together at Haringhay Park near Higate in Com. Midd. in an hostile manner which so startled the King and those then about him who were the cause of those high discontents that all of them then began to desire an accommodation and to that end sent to the Lords so met at Haringhay to come to Westminster that there upon a calme debate together the business might be quietly composed Who meeting there accordingly after a short speech made to them by the Bishop of Ely then Lord Chancellor in the closure whereof he told them that the King desired to know the Cause of this their Insurrection they answered that it was for his advantage viz. to rid him of those Traitors which he then had about him amongst whom the first they nominated was this Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland But the King giving them fair words and taking them into his Chamber where he made them drink together told them they should all meet together in Parliament and equal justice should be done to each Matters at present being therefore thus qualified the Duke of Ireland by the Kings connivance hasts forthwith into Wales there to raise what power he could but discerning his danger privily got away being disguised as it was reported in the habit of a Servant with a Bow and a Quiver of Arrows on his Back and so with five others in his company alike accoutered came to Chester and soon after that fled beyond-Sea with Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk But long it was not e're he landed in England again with about four or five thousand men and being got into Oâfordshire came to Radcote Bridge upon the River Isis on the Feast day of S. Thomas the Apostle which Bridge Henry Earl of Derby had broken in three places and fixed Souldiers there to stop his farther passage The Duke therefore seeing himself in this desperate condition and that the E. of Derby with his power was not far distant displaid the Kings Banner and animated his men to fight advancing before them to the Bridge which being not passable he allighted from his Horse and
28 Iulii Anno 1562. 4 Eliz. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of âarles-Colne departing this life the same year To whom succeeded Edward his Son and Heir who in 29 Eliz. was one of the Peers by special Commission appointed to try Mary Queen of Scots then Prisoner in England for her life And in Anno 1588. 31 Eliz. one of the chief persons in the Queens Fleet imployed against the great Navy of Spaniards then threatning an Invasion which thereupon was dissipated and destroyed by the English Forces Which Earl Edward had two Wives viz. Anne Daughter to William Cecil Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer of England on whom he begat three Daughters viz. Elizabeth married to William Earl of Derby Bridget to Francis Lord Norris of Ricot afterwards created Earl of Berkshire and Susan to Philip Herbert Earl of Montgomery And to his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Trentham of Rouceter in Com. Staff Esq one of the Maids of Honor to Q. Eliz. by whom he had issue one Son called Henây This Edward being an intire friend to Thomas Duke of Norfolk when he discerned his Life in danger upon what was laid to his charge touching the Q. of Scots whereof our Historians of that time do give some account earnestly interceded with the Lord Treasurer Burghley his Wives Father and one of the chiefest States-men of that time for the preserving him from destruction but prevailing not grew so highly incensed against Burghley knowing it was in his power to save him that in great indignation he said he would do all he could to ruin his Daughter and accordingly not only forsook her Bed but sold and consumed that great Inheritance descended to him from his Ancestors leaving very little for Henry his Son and Successor And died 24 Iunii An. 1604. 2 Iac. Which Henry married Diana the second Daughter to William Cecill Earl of Exeter and died at the Seige of Breda in the Netherlands in ann 1625. without issue Whereupon Robert Vere Son and Heir of Hugh Son and Heir of Aubery by Margaret the Daughter of Iohn Spring of Lanham in Com. Suff. who was the second Son to Iohn the fifth of that name Earl of Oxfoâd after the death of this E. Henry was in the Parliament held at Westminster Ann. 2 Car. 1. restored to this title of Earl of Oxford Much dispute there was in that Parliament between this Robert and Robert then Lord Willoughby of Eresby touching this title of Earl as also touching the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sanford and Badlesmere and Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England this Robert making claim to them all as Heir male of the Family and Robert Lord Willoughby as Son and Heir to Mary the sole Heir female But at length after Councel on each part divers times heard and the Authority of Records and antient Evidences produced first the Title of Earl was Clearly adjudged to this Robert de Vere and the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sanford and Badlesmere descending to the Heirs female to be in the Kings disposal by reason that Iohn the fourth E. of Oxfoâd having three Sisters his Heirs the Honor could not be divided But as to the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain it was referred to the Judges then attending in Parliament to consider thereof and make report upon these two points first whether that Robert E. of Oxford who made the entail thereof temp R. 2. upon the Heir male were at that time seised of it or not Secondly admitting that he was then whether such an Office might be conveyed by way of limiting of uses Upon which Reference there being only five Judges then attending in Parliament and the rest in their Circuits 3 of them viz. Justice Doderidge Yelverton and Baron Trevor declared their opinions for the Heir General and gave their Reasons for the same but the other two viz. the Lord cheif Justice Crew and Sir John Walter Lord Cheif Baron for the Heir male The major part therefore thus declaring the Lords voted accordingly whereupon Robert Lord Willoughby was admitted into the House 13 Apr. 2 Car. 1. with his Staff of that Office and took his place above all the Barons according to the Act of Parliament of 31 Hen. S. cap. 10. And Robert de Vere having received his Writ of Summons dated 14 April the same year came into the Parliament the day next following and had his place next to the Earl of Arundell This Robert took to Wife Beatrix van Hemmema of Freezland and was slain at the Seige of Maestricht ann ... By which Hemmema he had issue three Sons viz. Aubrey who succeeded him in his Honors as also Horace and Francis who died young And likewise three Daughters Mary Magdalen and Susan who all died young This last mentioned Aubrey took to Wife Anne one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Paul Viscount Banning which Anne died without issue And shortly after the Restauration of our present Sovereign King Charles the second being elected one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter was made Lord Lieutenant of the County of Essex and one of his Majesties most honorable Privy-Councel After which he married Diana Daughter to George Kirke one of the Grooms of the Bed-Chamber to King Charles the first of blessed memory Mandevill UPon the first arrival here of Duke William the Norman amongst other his Companions in that signal Expedition there was a famous Souldier called Geffrey de Magnavil assuming that surname from the Town of Magnavill which he then possessed This Geffrey fighting courageously in that Battle against King Harold where Duke William was victorious hewed down his Adversaries on every side for which great service he was aptly rewarded with divers fair Lordships by the Conquerors Gift as may appear from what he enjoyed at the time of the general Survey viz. in Berkshire four in Suffolk twenty six in Middlesex seven in Surrey one in Oxfordshire three in Cambridgshire nine in Hertfordshire nineteen in Northamptonshirâ seven in Warwickshire two and in Essex forty whereof Waldene was one which afterwards became the cheif seat of his Descendants This Geffrey was by King William made Constable of the Tower of London which trust he held during all his time And for the Souls health of Athelaise his first Wife by whom he had his Children and good estate of himself and Leceline his second Wife with the consent of that King founded a Monastery for Benedictine Monks at Hurley in Berkshire whereunto he gave the whole Lordship of Hurley and the Woods adjoyning thereto as also the Church of Waltham and divers other Lands Osmund then Bishop of Salisbury dedicating the same Which House became a Cell to that great Abby of S. Peter at Westminster To this Geffrey succeeded
Liberties in âorgannon should be forfeited but because he had married Ioane the Kings Daughter by whom he had issue and that by vertue of an Entail c. he had estate but for Term of Life therein it was resolved That they should be forfeited to the King only for Term of this Earls life and that he should be remanded to prison paying to the E. of Hereford One hundred pounds damage And on the other side it was concluded That the Liberties of the Earl of Hereford should for his offence remain in the Kings hands as forfeited for ever and the said Earl of Hereford be remanded to prison But by reason the King and his Council did not deem the Earl of Herefords offence so great as was that of this Earl and because he had married the Queens Kinswoman the King was pleased at the Queens instance that the forfeiture should only extend to his life and that his Heirs might not be disherited Howbeit after this being both of them committed to prison this Earl paid to the King a fine of One thousand marks for an attonement and the Earl of Hereford as much From which time I have not seen more of him till his death which hapned in the Castle of Monmouth 7 Id. Dec. An. 1295. 24 Ed. 1. And that he was buried in the Church of Tewksbury on the left hand of his Father leaving issue by Ioane of Acres his Wife Gilbert his Son and Heir then five years of age and three Daughters Which Ioane surviving and being in Frank-Marriage Enfeoffed of all the Lands belonging to both his Earldoms soon matched her self to a plain Esquire called Ralph de Monthermer clandestinely without the King her Fathers knowleâge whom afterwards she sent to her Father to receive the honor of Knighthood But when the King understood that she had much debased her self in marrying so meanly being highly incensed he caused all her Castles and Lands to be seised on and sent her Husband Monthermer to strait imprisonment in the Castle of Bristol Nevertheless at length through the mediation of that great Prelate Anthony Beke then Bishop of Durham a reconciliation was made After which she resided at Marlborough for a time and the year following in the Parliament begun at London in the Moneth of Iuly all her Lands c. were restored to her so likewise was her Husband being afterwards beloved of the King as his own Son and had Livery of all the Lands belonging to this great Earldom to hold by the service of fifty Knights Fees in the War of Flanders Whereupon also he had the title of Earl of Glocester This Ioane of Acres gave to the Canons in the Chapel of our Lady at Caversham in Com. Oxon. for the health of her Soul and the Soul of Gilbert de Clare sometime Earl of Gloucester and Hertford her Husband a certain piece of Land within the inclosures of that Lordship for enlarging the grounds which the King her Father had given them near the same Chapel and departing this life in Ann. 1307. 1 Ed. 2. was buried in the Church of the Friers-Augustines at Clare the King her Brother and most of the Nobility of England being at her Funeral And now before I proceed with my Story of these Earles I must take leave to say something of Thomas de Clare before mentioned Brother to this last Earl Gilbert This Thomas was in such esteem with that great Rebel Montfort and those other of the Barons who had thus vanquished King Henry the third in the Battle of Lewes that in April following they made him Governor of S. Briavell's Castle in Com. Glouc. But having done such good service in order to the Kings deliverance as hath been observed he was in 50 Henr. 3. made Constable of the Castle of Colchester In 51 Hen. 3. being signed with the Cross he went into the Holy Land and in Anno 1271 55 Hen. 3. brought four Saracens into England whom he had taken Prisoners in those Holy-Wars In 1 Edward 1. he was constituted Governor of the City of London In 14 Edward 1. he joined with Richard de Burgh Earl of Ulster in that solemn compact made betwixt them two on the one part and Patric Earl of Dunbar together with his three Sons Patric Iohn and Alexander Walter Stuard Earl of Menteth Alexander and Iohn his Sons Robert Brus Lords of Anandale together with Robert Brus Earl of Carryk and Bernard de Brus his Sons Iames Stuard of Scotland and Iohn his Brother Enegusius Son of Donewald and Alexander his Son that they would thenceforth adhere to and take part with one another upon all occasions against all persons whatsoever saving their allegiance to the King of England and their fidelity to him who should gain the Kingdom of Scotland by right of Blood from King Alexander then lately deceased Which Agreement bears date at âurnebyrâe in Carryk on the Eve oâ S. Matthew the Apostle Anno 1286. 14 Edw. 1. But the year next following he died 4 Non. Septemb. Anno 1287. 15 Ed. 1. and was buried at the Gray-Friers in Liâeric Leaving issue a Son called Gilbert who with many other received the sacred ceremonies of Knighthood in 34 Edw. â when Edward the Kings Son was honored with that dignity I now come to Gilbert Son to the last Earl Gilbert and Ioane of Acres Though this Gilbert was in minority at the time of his Fathers death and in Ward to the King yet he made his address to the Lords in Parliament the next ensuing year for the possession of all his Lands Rents and Franchises lying in London according to the Custom of that City alledging them to be held in Socage Whereupon it being required that the Mayor and Aldermen should come before them and certifie the truth thereof they accordingly did so and affirmed it to be the custom in case the Heir were of such age as that he knew how to manage his Estate And it being likewise found that then he was about eighteen years of age and had discretion to govern himself and what he had it was resolved by that great Councel that he should have Livery of them as also of all Advowsons of Churches within the Precincts of of that City which had been seised into the Kings hands by reason of the death of Ioane Mother of him the said Gilbert wherein she had estate for term of life So likewise of all his Socage-Lands lying in the Towns of Gloucester Sandwich and St. Edmundsbury and wheresoever else in England And as to the Mannor of Wexcombe the Town of Bodwinde and Hundred of Kinardeston in Com. Wilts the Hundred of Chadelington in Com. Oxon. the Hundreds of Rishmore Haâelore Craneburne and Pymperne in Com. Dorset and the Mannor of Claret in Comitat. Essex which he also
44 Edw. 3. was in that expedition then made into Gascoigne being at that time accounted one of the most expert Soldiers in this Realm But being taken prisoner in those Wars he was constrained to Mortgage his Castle and Lordship of Egremond for the sum of a thousand pounds for certain years towards raising of the Fine which he paid for his Redemption After this viz. in 47 Edw. 3. he was in that expedition made into France Iohn Duke of Lancaster being then General of the English Forces but with ill success So also in 1 Rich. 2. Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham being Commander in cheif of the English against the Spanish Navy then at Sluyse for revenge of that assistance which the Spaniard gave unto the French the preceding year And the same year there being an Invasion feared from the French having raised what power he could out of all his Lordships in England for defence of the County of Essex he received command to repair into Norfolk for the safeguard of those parts In 2 Rich. 2. he was again imployed in another Naval expedition against the Spaniard under the command of Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham at which time his Marriners not doing their duties as they ought he was constrained to flee to the Earl of Kent in a Cock-Boat by whose speedy aid they took eight Spanish Ships near Brest in Britanny In this year also upon special business of his own he obtained License to travel beyond Sea with six Men and six Horses and had a Letter of Exchange for one hundred pound to bear his charges In 3 Rich. 2. he procured the Kings Charter for a weekly Market every Friday at his Lordship of Hemenhale in Norfolk and a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and morrow after the Feast of S. Andrew the Apostle In which year he was in another expedition then made into France And in 4 Rich. 1. being with the same Earl of Buckingham at the siege of Nantz in Britanny sate down with those Forces then under his command at the Gate of S. Nicholas by the River side And after that attending him to the City of Uannes was lodged near the Town of Hannibout In 5 Rich. 2. against the Rebels under Iack Straw he did very great service in Essex by suppressing those who endeavored to make head there In 7 Rich. 2. he was constituted one of the Wardens of the West Marches towards Scotland In 9 Rich. 2. being with Iohn Duke of Lancaster in his expedition into Spain when he went to receive possession of the Kingdom of Castile he manifested his valor very signally against the Besiegers of the Castle of Brest in Britanny by storming the Forts raised against it and relieving the Besieged This Walter had Summons to Parliament from 43 Edw. 3. to the ninth of Richard the Second inclusive But the year next ensuing viz. 10 Rich. 2. he departed this life viz. Upon Wednesday preceding the Feast of S. Michael Philippa his Wife Daughter and Coheir to Iohn de Mohun Lord of âunster and Widdow of Edward Duke of York surviving who thereupon had the Lordships of Wimbish and Shering also the Mannor of Fitz-Walters in Shenefield all in Essex and the Mannor of Shimpling in Com. Suff. assigned for her Dower leaving Walter his Son and Heir then eighteen years of age A former Wife he had called Eleanor for the health of whose Soul and his there was a Chantrey of two Priests to celebrate Divine Service in the Priory of Dunmow Founded in 12 Hen. 4. For whose maintenance the Advowson of the Church of Great Tey was amortised This last mentioned Walter Son of the last mentioned Walter making proof of his age and doing his homage in 13 Rich. 2. had Livery of his Lands and took to Wife Ioane the Daughter of Sir Iohn Devereux Knight Sister and Heir to Iohn her Brother who died in his minority In 21 Rich. 2. he was in that expedition then made into France and in 22 Rich. 2. upon the death of Maud Wife to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland was found to be one of her Cosins and next Heirs viz. Son of Walter Son of Iohn Son of Ioane one of the Sisters of Margaret de-Lucy Mother of Anthony de Lucy Brother of the said Maud he being then thirty years of age In 3 Henr. 4. this Walter was together with Richard then Bishop of Worcester and Iohn Earl of Somerset sent Ambassadors to treat with Reginald Duke of Guelders concerning an amicable League and homage to be done by that Duke to King Henry for his Lands and Dominions In 5 Hen. 4. he was again beyond Sea so also in 6 7 Hen. 4. And having had Summons to Parliament from 14 Rich. 2. to 5 Hen. 4. inclusive upon the twentieth of Iuly An. 1408. 9 H. 4. made his Testament being then at York whereby he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of Henham in which year he died leaving issue two Sons Humphrey and Walter and Eleanor a Daughter Ioane his Wife then surviving who soon after married to Hugh Burnell Which Humphrey departing this life in his minority Walter his Brother became Heir to the Estate who was so active a Man in the Wars of France in the time of the Victorious Henry the Fifth that in the Eighth of His Reign in consideration thereof and of his future services the King gave unto him and to the Heirs-male of his Body all the Lands and Lordships which Sir Iohn Cheney Knight deceased held within the Dutchy of Normandy which for default of Heir-male of him the said Sir Iohn Cheney returned to the Crown and were of the value of Five thousand Scutes But in 9 Hen. 5. being in that unhappy adventure with Thomas Duke of Clarence the Kings Brother who unadvisedly passing with part of his Army over a River and a Marsh near the Castle of Beaufort in France falling into the hands of the Enemy was made prisoner the Duke himself and many other brave Men being there slain It seems he was but a young Man when he so served in those Wars for until the Feast day of S. Alban the Martyr 1 Hen. 6. he attained not to his full age but then making proof thereof had Livery of his Lands and in 7 9 Hen. 6. had Summons to Parliament He was likewise in the same ninth year in that expedition made into France Thomas Earl of Petch and Edmund Earl of Moâtain being then Generals of the English Army And by his Testament bearing date the tenth of April within the compass of that year bequeathing his Body to be Buried in the
works of Piety he was a Benefactor to the Canons of Thelesford in Com. War and ratified the Grant of Warmington made by Henry de Newburgh sometime Earl of Warwick to the Monks of Preaux in Normandy He bore for his arms Gules seme of Cross-Crosselets with a Fesse Or. Which Cross-Crosselets were added to his Coat for his Father used them not but whether in testimony of any Pilgrimage by him made into the Holy-Land or vow so to do I cannot determine He wedded Maude eldest of the four Sisters and Heirs to Richard Fitz-Iohn Son of Iohn Fitz-Geffrey Justice of Ireland and Widow of Gerard de Furnival which Maud had for her purparty of her Fathers Lands in England the Mannors of Chiriel in Com. Wilts Potters-Pirie in Com. Northamp and Querndon in Com. Buck. and in Ireland six Villages an half and fourth part in that Cantred called the Cantred of the Isles of Thomond And departed this life either in May or the beginning of Iune Anno 1298. 26 Edw. 1. leaving Guy his Son and Heir twenty six years of age who doing his Homage 25 September following had Livery of is Fathers Lands and upon the second of Iune next after that performed the like Homage for the Lands descended to him by the death of Maud his Mother who died the same year ¶ This Guy had his name out of doubt in memory of that Famous Guy Earl of Warwick so renowned for his Valor in the Saxons times The same year that his Father died he had summonds amongst others to be a Carleol on the Eve of Pentecost well furnished with Horse and Armes to march into Scotland that being the time the King made his Expedition in person thither and obtained a great Victory at Faukirk in which Battle he behaved himself so bravely that he had as a reward of his Valor all the Castles and lands of Geffrey de Moubray lying in that Kingdom excepting the Lordship of Okeford near Roâborough Likewise all the Lands of Iohn de Strivelin Also the Castle of Amesfeld with the Land of Drungrey belonging to Andrew de Charteres whereof they the said Geffrey Iohn and Andrew were Seized upon S. Mary Magdalens day the year that Battle was fought In 27 Edw. 1. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and the same year imployed beyond-Sea in the Kings service In 31 Edw. 1. he again attended the King into Scotland and was in person with him at that memorable Seige of Caeâlaverock In 32 Edward 1. he continued in those Warrs of Scotland In 34 E. 1. he was again in Scotland The same year he had Summons amongst other of the Nobles to be at Westminster the morrow after Trinity-Sunday there to advise with the King concerning an Aid for the making his eldest Son Knight And in 35 Edw. 1. in consideration of his many and great services obtained a Grant to himself and his Heirs of Bernard-Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham together with that whole Town and Lordship Likewise of the Mannor of Middleton with the Chases thereto belonging and Mannor of Gainsford all which Agnes the Wife of Hugh de Baillol held for life and moreover all those Lands in that Bishoprick which Alianore the Wife of Alexander de Baillol held for life all which Castles Lordships Mannors and Lands were part of the possessions of Iohn de Baillol then the Kings Enemy and Rebell In this 35 year K. Edward lying on his death-bed at Burgâ upon the Sands in Cumberland calling divers of his Nobility to him and amongst them this Earl Guy desired them to be good to his Son and not to suffer Piers Gavestoâ to return again into England I come now to King Edward the seconds Reign In 5 Edw. 2. this Guy took part with Thomas Earl of Lancaster and those other Nobles who being discontented that Picrs Gaveston had such power with the King as tended to the ruine of many others put themselves in Arms and took him at Scardeburgâ Whereof the King having notice he desired to speak with him and that his life might be saved promising that in all things he would satisfie their requests Which motion and assurance so wrought upon the Earl of Pembroke who was one of those that acted in this Tragedy that he undertook upon forfeiture of all he had in case they would assent to the Kings proposals he would take care that Piers should not escape but after conference with the King stand to the judgement of the Barons Which was yeilded unto and a day and place assigned when he should be delivered back to them Whereupon the Earl of Pembroke resolved to carry him to Wallingford But being on his journey at Dedington in ââfordshire where he had left a guard of his own servants to attend him himself and his Lady lodging at the next town this Guy Earl of Warwick came in the night with a number of Armed Men and took him back to Warwick-Castle where consulting with those about him what then to do they presently determined to cut off his head and accordingly did so upon a ãâã ground called ãâã Hill about a mile Northwards from Warwick Which being done the Friers preachers took care of his body and conveyed it to Oxford whence after two years the King removed it to ãâã in Herefordsrhire causing it to be interred in the Church of the Friers-Preachers there which he founded to pray for the Soul of Piers and his Progenitors It seems that this Piers had much irritated the Earl in calling him th black Dog of Arden because he was of a swarthy complexion but what sway the great men then bore having possessed the people that all they did was for the honor of God and good of the Realm is not hard to discern for though the King did sufficiently take this murther to heart for it was no better he knew not how to punish one actor in it nay so glad he was to please them that within two years after he he granted to each of them a Pardon by particular name But however this Earl thus obtained pardon I do not find that he was heartily reconciled for upon the Kings advance that very ãâã toward Scotland expecting at ãâã the Assistance of all those who held of ãâ¦ã military service he declined then to do ãâã nay there was faith Walsingham latens odium a secret hatred betwixt the King and the Nobles especially the Earls of Lancaster and Waââwick with their adherents And now after all these turmoils drawing near the end of this transitory life in the prime of his days being about forty-four years of age he bestowed on the Monks of Bââdsley for the good estate of himself and for the health of his Father and Mothers Souls as also for the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors the
issue Iohn afterwards Lord Latimer who died without issue whereupon his Lands came to Ralph Earl of Westmorland his Brother by a special Feoffment the Inheritance whereof were given by that Earl to his Son George This is all that I have seen of him till his death which hapned at Newcastle upon Tine 17 Octob. 12 Rich. 2. being the Feast day of S. Luke the Evangelist and that he was buried on the Southside the Body of the Church at Durham Being then seised of the Mannor and half Hundred of Clavering in Com. Essex the Mannors of Isenhamstead Lacimer Crowley and Broughton in Com. Buck. Dylewike Wotton Kerkington Ronhale Bromham Sutton and Stratton juxta Biecleswade and Potton juxta Sutton in Com. Bedf. Wiâlby and Carlton juxta Rockingham in Com. Northampt. Of the Mannor of Carbroke called Woodhal in Com. Norf. Helpringham and Skekington in Com. Linc. Bolton Gamelesby and Unthank in Com. Cumbr. Bywel Styford and the Castle of Bamburgh in Com. Northumbr Danby with the Hamlets of Cromecliff Glassdale and Leâom the Mannors of Thornton in Pickering-Lithe Scamston Sinelington Tiverington Leverton Sheriff-Hoton Duenby two parts of the Mannor of Walton the Mannors of Risebergh Stokesley Hemelington Sutton in Galtres Well with the Advowson of the Hospital Snape Crakehall Middleham Carleton Coverdale and Thoraldby all in Com. Ebor. Twenty Knights Fees in Sharnebroke Pabenham Hinewike Thorncote Carlton Turbey Stachesden Wotton Bromham Bidenham Houghton Conquest Horcliff Chalgrave Eversholt Potsgrave Chikesand Stotfold Stondon Helew South Yevel Stanford Wardon Rerdinton Conpoll Wiliton Harewedon Wrastlingworth Caddelow Wiâolâston Bereford Ronhale Ravensden Goldington Rish Belnhurst Eaisho Aspel and Astwike as also of divers Lands in Bââdaâe and Scotton and four pound Rent issuing out of ten Ox-gangs in Rillington in Com. Ebor. Leaving Sir Ralph de Nevil Knight his Son and Heir then twenty four years of age Which Elizabeth second Wife to the deceased Ralph being afterwards married to Sir Robert de Willoughby Knight departed this life 5 Nov. 19 Rich. 2. leaving Iohn de Latimer her next heir then thirteen years of age At the Funeral of Mand his first Wife there were offered in the Church of Durham six Cloaths of Gold whereof several Vestments were made viz. Two for the High Altar as also one Chesible and two Tunicles But I return to Ralph In 7 Rich. 2. this Ralph was joyned in Commission with Henry Earl of Northumberland and the Lord Nevil of Raby his Father with others for receiving that twenty four thousand marks formerly mentioned in full satisfaction of the Ransome of David de Brus King of Scotland In 9 Rich. 2. he was together with Thomas Son to the Lord Clifford made Governor of the Castle and City of Carlisle and likewise a Commissioner for the Guardianship of the West Marches all this being in his Fathers life time And in 12 Rich. 2. doing his homage had Livery of his Lands Moreover the same year after his Fathers death he was joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others in the Government of the City of Carlisle and custody of the West Marches About which time he also obtained the Kings Charter for a weekly Market every Munday at his Lordship of Middleham in Com. Ebor. As also an yearly Fair on the Feast day of S. Alkeld the Virgin and likewise leave to inclose his Woods at Raskelff adjoyning to the Forest of Galtres and to make a Park there with three Deer-leaps being then constituted Warden of all the Kings Forests beyond Trent for life In 14 Rich. 2. he was made one of the Commissioners to treat with those from the Kings of France and Scotland touching the observation of the Truce made betwixt the King of England and them And in 18 Rich. 2. was joyned in the like Commission to treat of Peace with the Scots In this year he obtained License from the King to enfeoff Iohn de Nevill his Son and Heir and Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent in all his Lands at Sutton in Galtres to hold to them and the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And in 20 Rich. 2. obtained the Castle of Warke upon Twede from Sir Iohn Mountague Knight in exchange for certain other Lands In 21 Rich. 2. 21 Dec. he was made Constable of the Tower of London Shortly after which viz. in the Parliament begun after Christmas the King advanced him to the Title of Earl of Westmorland Being of the Privy Council to that King he obtained from him the Honor of Penreth with its Appurtenances as also all those Royalties in the County of Westmorland which justly belonged to the Crown and which had been unduly withheld by the Heirs of Robert de Vipount to enjoy during his life And from Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster had a Grant of Fiendeleze in Richmondshire but upon the landing of Henry Duke of Lancaster at Ravenspur who had been banished in 21 Rich. 2. this Earl with other of the Nobles who feared the Kings tyranny met him and was one or those who attended him at Westminster upon the morrow after Michaelmas-day where and at which time King Richard made a formal resignation of the Government desiring that the same Henry Duke of Lancaster might succeed him therein Which Henry thereupon King by the name of Henry the Fourth in the first year of His Reign gave unto this Earl the County and Honor of Richmond for term of life constituting him likewise Earl Marshal of England Soon after which adhering firmly to that King he stoutly reâisted the Earl of Northumberland in his Rebellious attempts and forced him with his Army which was advanced almost as far as Durham back to Proudhoâ whereupon Henry Hotspur Son to that Earl was routed and slain in the Battle of Shrewsbury In 2 Hen. 4. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with Rupert King of Romans touching a marriage betwixt Lewes the eldest Son of Rupert and Blanch eldest Daughter to King Henry the Fourth and the same year made Governor of the Town and Castle of Carlisle as also Warden of the West Marches toward Scotland And in 3 Hen. 4. Governor of Roxborough Castle in Scotland for ten years Moreover in 6 Hen. 4. one of the Commissioners to treat with the King of Scots or such persons as he should appoint upon the twenty fourth of March at Hanâen-stank upon a Truce betwixt both Kingdoms In which year he obtained a Charter for Free Warren in his Lordship of Kettâewel in Craven with liberty to Impark three hundred Acres of Land there And the same year upon that Insurrection of Richard Scrope Archbishop of York and Thomas Moubray Earl Marshal at Schupton-Moor near York making a seeming compliance with that Bishop he took him
Chancellor of England and four Daughters viz. Alice married to Thomas Holland afterwards Earl of Kent to whom and the Heirs of their two Bodies in 38 Edw. 3. the King granted the Mannors of Kirkby Moresheved Buttercramp and Cropton She is likewise said to have been the Wife of Henry de Beaufort who was afterwards the rich Cardinal before he took orders Eleanor died young Ioane Wife of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Mary wedded to Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere Which Iohn his second Son was afterwards a Banneret and in 1 Rich. 2. retained to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea for a quarter of an year with two hundred Men at Arms and two hundred Archers whereof twenty nine Knights and one hundred seventy Esquires he being then also Marshal of England and of the Retinue unto Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham Uncle to the King This Iohn took to Wife Eleanor the Daughter of Iohn Lord Maltravers Sister and Heir to Henry Lord Maltravers and was summoned to Parliament in 1 2 3 Rich. 2. in the last of which years being sent with divers Knights and others in aid of the Duke of Britanny he perished by Shipwrack about the Feast day of S. Nicholas It is reported that before he hoised Sail he plundered the Countrey people and being utterly cursed by them for so doing this miserable fate soon overtook him By the said Eleanor his Wife he left issue a Son called Iohn Which Iohn had likewise issue Iohn Son and Heir who upon the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel without issue being his next Heir-male possessed the Castle of Arundel and divers other Lordships by vertue of an Entail made by Richard Earl of Arundel in 21 Edw. 3. as I shall more fully shew anon and by reason thereof had the title of Earl of Arundel But I return to Richard Son and Heir to the last Earl Richard This Earl Richard being constituted Admiral of the Kings Fleet to the Westwards in 1 Rich. 2. and soon after that to the Southwards was retained by Indenture to serve the King at Sea for one quarter of an year in the Company of Iohn Duke of Lancaster King of Caâââle And in 7 Rich. 2. was in that expedition then made into Scotland About which time he procured License of the King to imploy what Agents he should please to the Abbess and Covent of Almenesches Alien to treat and conclude with them for the purchase of certain Lands part of the Possessions of the Priory of Leveminster in Sussex belonging to those Nuns As also a Charter for a weekly Market at his Mannor of Estangmering in Sussex upon the Saturday and a Fair yearly upon the Eve and Day of the Apostles Peter and Paul He also obtained the Kings farther License to travel into Forein parts and there to continue as long as he should think fit But if he did then travel he staid not long abroad for in 8 R. 2. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of Scotland And in 9 R. 2. joyned in Commission with Thomas D. of Lancaster for the tryal of Michael de la Pole and some other of the Kings Favorites whom the Commons in Parliament had then charged with divers high crimes Whereupon De la Pole was adjudged to suffer death and his estate to be confiscate In 10 Rich. 2. being made Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet to the West and Northward he received the moity of that Tenth then given to the King in Parliament by the Clergy as also the moity of that Fifteen given by the Laity for the Publick service of the Realm in a Naval expedition And putting to Sea upon Sunday the Eve of our Ladies Ascension encountred with a great Fleet of Flemings French and Spaniards and after a sharp fight got the victory wherein he took of Ships great and small no less then an hundred all laden with Wines containing Nineteen thousand Tuns which he brought into the Port of Orwell and other Havens And after this having new rigged his Navy arrived at Brest in Britanny where he soon took one of those Forts which the French had newly raised against the Castle there and burnt the other And having then victualled that Castle for a year and recruited the Garrison with all necessaries returned into England with great honor though much envied by the Duke of Ireland and others that bore great sway at Court who did all they could to deprave him by speaking sleightly of these his noble exploits And not only so but growing more insolent the King being totally guided by them they conspired the death of divers great persons of which this Earl was one So that now there being no other help but that either those haughty spirited men must be supprest or many of the most eminent Noblemen ruined This Earl with the Earls of Warwick and Derby resolved to put themselves in Arms. The King therefore discerning their purpose forthwith deliberated how he might destroy them before they had united their distinct Forces and to that end sent the Earl of Northumberland and others with him to Rigate Castle where this Earl then was with resolution there to surprise him But when Northumberland got thither and saw what strength he had he returned without any attempt upon him After which some were sent to take him by night and bring him to the King or at least to murther him The Lords therefore being in this strait having raised a great power soon met at Haringay Park near Highgate in Com. Middl. wherewith the King being alarmd and mediation made for a peaceable composure of these discontents they came to Westminster and upon expostulation with them by the King touching this their Insurrection told him it was for his and the Kingdoms advantage and to take from him those Trayterous persons viz. The Duke of Ireland and other his favorites who were enemies to the Commonwealth the issue whereof for the present terminated in the ruine of divers who had so mis-guided the King as in due place I shall shew The tide therefore then running with these Lords this Earl was by general consent in the Parliament of 11 Rich. 2. made Governor of the Castle and Town of Brest in Britanny as also the Kings Lieutenant in those parts And shortly after being Admiral made Lieutenant as also Captain-General of his Fleet at Sea with Commission to treat of Peace with Iohn de Montâort then Duke of Britanny and hoising sail after Whitsontide soon met with the Enemy of whose Ships he sunkâ and took fourscore entred the Isle of Bâas which he burnt and spoiled and likewise the Islands
and Heir Anne his Widdow surviving who became the Wife of Sir Reginald Cobham Knight The other was Sir Lewes Clifford Knight whose memory is not a little famous in two respects First for that he was one of the Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter and secondly that having been seduced by those hot-headed Zealots of that time called Lollards amongst which he was d one of the chief and being at length sensible of his error he discovered their Schismatical Tenets to the Archbishop of Canterbury to the end it might appear that he had sided with them not out of Malice but Ignorance and the simplicity of his Heart Of which he did cordially repent as may seem by those remarkable expressions which he used in his last Will and Testament a transcript whereof I have thought fit here to Exhibit IN Nomine Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Amen The sevententhe day of September the yere of our Lord Iesu Christ a thousand foure hundred and foure I Lowys Clyfforth fals and Traytor to my Lord God and to all the blessed company of Heuene and unworthi to be clepyd a Cristen man make and ordeyne my Testament and my last Will in this manere At the begynning I most unworthi and Goodis Traytor recommaunde my wrechid and synfule Soule hooly to the Grace and to the grete mercy of the blessed Trynytie and my wrechid Careyne to be beryed in the ferthest corner of the Chirchezerd in which Pariche my wrechid Soule departeth froâ my Body And I prey and charge my Survivors and myne Executors as they wollen answere tofore God and as all myne hoole trust in this matere is in hem that on my stinkiâg Careyne be neyther leyd Clothe of Gold ne of Silke but a black Clothe and a Caper at myne hed and another at my fete ue Stone ne other thinge whereby any man may witt where my stinkyng Careyne liggeth And to that Chirche do myne Executors all thingis whiâh owen duly in such caas to be don without eny more cost saaf to pore men And also I prey my Survivors and myne Executors that eny dette that eny man kan axe me by true title that hit be payd And yf eny man kan trewly sey that I have do hym eny harme in body or in good that ye make largely his gree whyles the goodys wole strecche And I wole also that none of myne Executors meddle or mynystre eny thinge of my goodys withoutyn avyse and consent of my Survivors or sum of hem Now first I bequethe to Sire Phylype la Vache Knight my Masse-booke and my Porhoos and my Book of Tribulacion to my Daugter hys Wyf Et quicquid residuum fuerit omnium singulorum bonorum catalorum superius seu inferius legatorum do integrè lego Philippo la Vache Johanni Cheynee Thomae Clanvow militibus libere sibi possidendum ac pro libito voluntatis suae tanquam de bonis catallis suis propriis inde disponendum faciendum Absque contradictione calumpnia seu perturbationâ cujuscunque pro me vel nomine meo aliqualiter inde faciendum Hujus autem Testamenti ultimae Voluntatis meae facio ordino constituo Executores bonorum meorum Administratores Johannem Andrew Johannem Carleton Walterum Gaytone Thomam Barbowe ipsi Deum prae oculis habentes omnia singula praemissa faciant fideliter perimpleant exequantur ad honorem Dei utilitatem populi sui secundum dispositionem concilium atque assensum Supervisorum meorum viz. Philippi la Vache Johannis Cheyne Thomae Clanvow militum vel alicujus eorum In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Testamento ultimae Voluntati meae Sigillum meum apposui Dat. c. die anno supradictis Probat 5 Dec. 1404. 6 H. 4. From which Sir Lewes Clifford the Cliffords of Kent Wilteshire and Devonshire are lineally descended And amongst those of Devon as the Descent sheweth Sir Thomas Clifford Knight who for his singular merits having been first Comptroller then Treasurer of the Houshould to his Majesty King Charles the second was next advanced to the title and dignity of Lord Clifford of Chudley and soon after to the Office of Lord high Treasurer of England But I return to Iohn Son and Heir to Thomas Lord Clifford by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Thomas Lord Râss of Hamlake This Iohn making proof of his age in 12 Hen. 4. had then livery of his Lands and in 3 H. 5. was in that expedition then made into France In 4 Hen. 5. he was by indenture retained to serve the King in his Navy at Sea towards the North for the safeguard of those parts with two hundred men at Armes himself with four Knights accounted part of the number and four hundred Archers and to have four shillings per diem for himself and two shillings a piece for his Knights About this time Ralph Nevill the first Earl of Westmorland holding a great Tournament at Carlisle this Lord Clifford and six other English justed with as many Scots viz. himself with Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrike Knight Sir William Harington with Sir David Mynges Knight Sir Ralph Greystoke with William Edmundson Esquireâ Sir Christopher Curwen of Workington with ... Halyburton whom he hurt in the Neck and Sir Iohn Lancaster of Holgell Castle and Ridale one of whose Daughters and Coheirs was married to Sir Thomas le Flemming of Coningstone in Com. Lanc. Knight of whom the Flemings of Ridale are descended with Sir Iohn Singeler Knight in which Exercise the English had the prize In 6 Hen. 5. he was again employed in the Warrs of France and in 9 Hen. 5. attended the King in person thither And was summoned to the several Parliaments from 13 Hen. 4. till 8. Hen. 5. inclusive In 9 H. 5. 3 Maii he was instituted Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter But upon the 13 of March 10 Hen. 5. he departed this life being slain at the Siege of Meaux in France leaving issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to Henry Percy commonly called Hotspur Son and Heir to Henry Earl of Northumberland Thomas his Son and Heir born on Munday next after the feast of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin in 2 Hen. 5. being at the time of his Fathers death seven years of age and forty three weeks Which Thomas in 13 H. 6. there being then great apprehensions that the Scots would lay siege to Barwick and other strong holds in the Marches of Scotland was joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to arme and array all Knights Esquires and Yeomen in the Counties of York Notingham Derby Northumberland Cumberland and Westmorland as also to march with them for the safeguard of those parts And in 14 Hen. 6. making proof of his age had
Berkley Camme Cowley Hinton and Alkington which he held by three Knights Fees likewise of Ratcliff-street without Bristoll belonging to the Mannor of Bedminster in Com. Somers as also of the Mannor of Slimbrigge with divers other Lordships leaving Thomas his Son and Heir then thirty years of age who doing his homage had Livery of his Lands the same year This Thomas his Father then living was with the King at the Siege of Keneâworth Castle in 51 Hen. 3. having thirty marks allowed him in recompence of a Horse which he lost in that service And in 5 Edw. 1. had Summons to be at Worcester on Midsummer day to march against the Welsh In 10 Edw. 1. he had the like Summons so also to repair to Montgomery in the Quind of Easter 11 Edw. 1. and soon after to be at Shrewsbury to advise about restraining the incursion of the Welch For his services in which Warrs he had a special Grant of liberty to Hunt the Fox Hare Badger and Wild-Cat with his own Doggs within tâe Kings Forests of Mendip and Chace of Kingswood and was accquitted of an hundred marks the then relief of his Barony In 14 Edw. 1 he had another summons to be at Gloucester upon Midsummer day thence with Edmund Earl of Cornwâll the Kings Uncle to march against the Welch In 17 E. 1 he was in the Warrs of France and of the retinue of Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk Marshal of England In 23 Ed. 1. he was in that expedition then made into Wales with the same Earl and William de Valence Earl of Pembroke Maurice and Thomas his two Sons as also Thomas his Uncle being there likewise with him at that time In 24 Edw. 1. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat of Peace betwixt King Edward and the King of France and the same year was at the Siege of Barwick with his said Sons and Uncle In 25 Edw. 1. the King passing into Flandârs with a very great Army he was made Constable thereof In 26 Edw. 1. he was in that expedition then made into Scotland and of the retinue unto Audomare de Valence this being the time of the Battle of Faukirk where twenty thousand Scots were âlain The same year in recompence of his good service in Flanders he had a pardon for five hundred marks at which he had been amerced for Trâspasses in the Kings Chace near Bristoll In 27 Edw. 1. he had summons to attend the King at Carâeol in Whitson-week well appointed with Horse and Armes to march against the Scots Which meeting was first prorogued until the second of August ensuing and afterwards prohibited till a new summons Shortly after this he had the like summons to be at York upon the twelfth of November following and in consideration of his good services was pardoned a debt of sixty five pounds which he owed to the King In 28 Edw. 1. he had again command to be at Carâeol upon Midsummer day thence to march into Scotland this being the time of that famous Siege of the Castle of âaerlaverok In 29 Edw. 1. he had the like summons to fit himself with Horse and Armes to go against the Scots And the same year being in the Parliament held at Lincoâne was one of those who subscribed that Letter to the Pope whereby all the chief of the English Nobility asserted King Edward's right for the superiority in dominion of the Realm of Scotland In 30 Edw. 1. he was again in the Warrs of Scotland Maurice and Iohn his two Sons then attending him So also in 31 Edw. 1. and in 34 Edw. 1. In 35 Edw. 1. he was employed as an Ambassador from King Edward together with William de Gaynesborough Bishop of Worcester unto the Court of Rome touching certain matters betwixt the king of France and King Edward Maurice his Son then likewise attending him In 1 Edw. 2. he had another summons to be at Carleol upon the twenty second of August to march against Robert de Brus then assuming the title of King of Scotland And the same year together with his two Sons Maurice and Iohn attended the King into France In 2. Edw. 2. he again had summons to be at Stamford well furnished with Horse and Armes to march against the Scots In 3 Ed. 2. he had the like Summons together with his said Son to be at Newcastle upon Tine upon Michaelmas day thence to march into Scotland The like summons he had to be at Barwick upon the eighth of September 4 Edw. 2. And in 7 Edw. 2. was in that fatal Battle at Baânocksburne in Scotland upon Midsummer day where the English received a great defeat in which Battle being taken Prisoner he was constrained to pay a large Fine for his Redemption In 8 Edw. 2. he had again summons to be at Newcastle upon âine upon the Feast day of the Assumption of our Lady well provided with Horse and Armes to march against the Scots And the next year following to be there again in like sort accoutered upon the tenth of August So also upon the Feast day of All-Saints the same year The like in 10 Edw. 2. upon the Quind of St. Iohn Baptist. Which meeting was afterwards adjourned to the eleventh of August In 11 Edw. 2. he had also summons to be at York accordingly furnished with Horse and Armes upon the Feast day of St. Iames the Apostle as also to send a thousand Foot-Souldiers thither out of his Lands in West-Wales for that service he being Justice of West-Wales at that time In 12 Edw. 2. he received farther Command to be again at York a like accoutred with Horse and Armes on Bartholomew-day And had summons to Parliament from 23 Edw. 1. till the 14 of Edw. 2. inclusive This Thomas was also a benefactor to the Canons of St. Augustines near Bristoll by the gift of Plate Copes and other Ornaments to the value of thirty two pounds three shillings and four pence To the Monks of Kingswode he gave four Acres of Land in Wotton and likewise a Quarry of Stone at Combe for the use of that House Moreover to St. Bartholomews Hospital in Gloucester he gave certain Lands in Cowley to the intent that the Anniversary of Maurice his Father and Isabel his Mother should be kept in their full Quire And to the Friers Minors and Friers Preachers in Gloucester Bristoll and other places he gave divers Quarters of Wheat out of his several Granaries In 15 Ed. 2. he was one of those that adhered to Thomas Earl of Lancaster in his rebellious acting but departing this life the twenty third of Iuly the same year was buried in the Abby
of his good services a Grant of the Mannors of âawerden and Winferton in Com. Heref. which were the Lord Mortimers of Chirke as also of the Mannors of Penrith in Com. Cumbr. He had likewise a Grant for life of the Mannors of Fulbroke and West-Hall and of divers Lands in Upton Coinetone and Swynebroke in Com. Oxon. Which were part of the possessions of Hugh le Despencer the elder In 8 Edw. 3. he had a Grant of the Custody of all the Lands in England and Wales which Iohn Maltravers lately held being of the inheritance of Iohn Giffard of Brimsfield deceased and which by the forfeiture of the said Iohn de Matravers came to the Crown In the same year he received Command to march in the Kings Army into Scotland In 9 Edw. 3. he was again in Scotland in the company of Thomas Lord Berkley his Brother And in 11 Edw. 3. had another Grant of the Inheritance of the Mannors of Kings-Stanley Roc-hampton Stonehouse Stoke-Giffard and Walls in Com. Glouc. Asherton Corton Sharnton Codeford and Stapleford in Com. Wilts which likewise came to the Crown by the Rebellion of the said Iohn Giffard In this eleventh year of Edward the third he was joyned in Commission with Iames de Audeley being then Lords of Cantabagham in South-Wales to array five hundred men for the Kings Warrs in Scotland and five hundred more for his Warrs in Gascoigne In 12 Edw. 3. he attended the King in his expedition then made into France And in 13 Edw. 3. for his special merits and serviââs had a Grant of the inheritance of the Castle and Mannor of Bimsfield in Comit. Glonâ forfeited to the Crown for the Rebellion of Iohn de Matravers In 14 Edw. 3. he attended the King into Flanders and in 15 Edw. 3. was for his farther eminent services advanced to the dignity of a Banârât together with the valiant Thomas de Bradâtan his inseparable Companion In 16 Edw. 3. he was amongst others summoned to the Kings great Council held at Westminister on the morrow after the Clause of Easter And the same year was in that Expedition then made into Britanny receiving Wages for himself and twenty Men at Armes ãâã for himself four shillings per diem for his four Knights two shillings per diem for his Esquires twelve pence per dieââ and for each Archer six pence per diem In 17 Edw. 3. he was joyned in Commission with Henry de Percy and Thomas de Lucy to treat and conclude with William Earl Douglâs and to receive him into the Kings favor As also with some others to treat of Peace betwixt King Edward and the Kings of France and Scotland The same year he again attended the King into France and was joyned in Commission with the Earles of Lancaster and Derây to treat with Commissioners from the King of France touching the Crown of that Realm In 19 Edw. 3. he attended the King again into France and in 20 E. 3. was with him in Flanders having in his retinue six Knighs thirty two Esquires thirty Archers on Horseback and two hundred Archers on Foot but died at Calais upon the twelfth of February the next enâuing year Whereupon Thomas his Son and Heir in consideration of the laudable service of his Father done at the Siege at that Town had the third day after a grant of the profits of his own wardship viz. of his Lands and Marriage Having now done with this Maurice the second Son to Maurice the third I come to Thomas Lord Berkley the eldest Son to the said Maurice the third This Thomas taking part with his Father and those other of the Nobles who stoutly opposed the power of the Spencers shared in the like fate with most of them being first imprisoned in the Tower of London whence he made escape next in the Castle of Berkhamsted and lastly in the of Pevensey the Queen her self then in France being likewise through the instigation of those ruling Favorites proclaimed an Enemy to the Kingdom Which harsh practises moved the generality of the people to very high discontents Whereof the Queen took such advantage that having the Prince also with her she soon landed in England with all the Force she could make whereunto the Londoners joyning their strength a powerful Army was in a short time formed and all Prisoners released amongst which this Thomas being then set at liberty had his Castle of Berkley and all that belonged thereto whereof Hugh le Despenser the younger had through his interest with the King possessed himself restored unto him in the march which the Queens Army made from Gloucester that way Nay the Scene soon after became so changed that the King himself being made prisoner by that potent and discontented party thus gotten into Armes was sent to this Thomas to be kept in that his Castle at Berkley who received him by Indenture from Henry Earl of Lancaster with an allowance of five pounds per diem for his expences but with special command by Letters to use no familiarity with him In whose hands he did not long continue for exceptions being taken that he treated him too civilly he was commanded to deliver him together with the custody of the Castle to Iohn Lord Maltâavers and Thomas Gârâey Whereupon he retired to Bradley one of his own Mannor-Houses After which ere long the King was there most barbarously murthered as our Historians do at large declare As an accessory to which bloody fact this Thomas being afterwards tried was acquitted by the Jury and also by Parliament though some circumstances there were which make it very suspitious that he was a favourer thereof as his conniving at Gurney therein and sheltering him privately after As to his other Actions Certain it is that upon the Commitment of his Father to Wallingford Castle he did much spoil upon the Lands and Houses of the two Spencers which occasioned his imprisonment in those several places before mentioned In 11 12 and 13 Edw. 2. he was an active man in the Scottish Warrs being at that time of the retinue of Roger Lord Mortimer and William Lord Zouche In 1 Edw. 3. doing his Homage he had livery of all his Lands excepting what were assigned for the Dowry of Isabell his Mother The same year he received Command to be at Newcastle upon Tine on Ascension-day to march against the Scots as also to bring Armes and Amunition from the Castle of Bristoll unto the King then in the North and was joyned in Commission with Iohn Maltravers the younger as principall Guardians of the Peace throughout all the Counties of Glouc. Wiltes Oxon. Berks. Southampt Somers Dors. Heref. In 2 Edw. 3. he was again sent to restrain the incursions of the
that took part with them in the Battle at Evesham where they were totally overthrown By Elizabeth Sister of Edmund de Colvill he left issue Simon Basset who amongst divers other great Men of that time in Iune 22 Ed. 1. had Summons to attend the King wheresoever he should be to advise touching the weighty affairs of the Realm and shortly afterwards was commanded to come to Portsmouth upon the first day of September following well furnished with Horse and Arms thence to accompany him into Gascoigne To which Simon succeeded another Ralph who in 4 Edw. 2. was in that expedition then made into Scotland And in 8 Edw. 2. received command to come to Newcastle upon Tine well provided with Horse and Arms to march against the Scots In 13 Edw. 3. he was with the King in his Army at Uironfosse then drawn out for Battle against the French And in 14 Edw. 3. was in the Kings service in Flanders being then of the Retinue of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick In 20 Edw. 3. he attended King Edward again into France to raise the Siege of Aguilton And the same year was in that famous Battle of Cressey where the English obtained a glorious Victory After which upon the Siege of Calais the Captain of that Garrison making overture of render he was sent with Sir Walter Manny to hear his Proposals And in 33 Edw. 3. was in another expedition then made by King Edward himself into France In 43 Edw. 3. he was again in France and of the Retinue with the same Earl of Warwick At which time it being found by Inquisition that Robert the Son of Walter Colvill died seised of the Castle and Mannor of Beningfield in Com. Northampt. without issue of his Body and that the Inheritance thereof did thereby divolve to this Ralph Basset of Sapcote Son of Simon Son of Elizabeth Sister of Edmund Father of the same Robert Colvill and to Iohn Gernoun Son of Alice the other Sister of the said Edmund Cosins and Heirs of the before specified Robert Colvill the King in regard that this Ralph Basset was then beyond Sea in his Wars respited his homage and commanded that Livery should be forthwith made to him of his Purparty in that Castle and Mannor In 46 Edw. 3. he was again in France in that expedition then made thither under the command of the Duke of Lancaster wherein the English had great loss near Douchy and Rabymont Whence returning before the Duke he was much reproved by the King After all which his Military employments he Founded a Chantry in the Church of Sapcote for three Priests to celebrate Divine Service daily for the health of his Soul c. Which he endowed with Lands of good value And afterwards ere long departed this life viz. upon Sunday next preceding the Feast of S. Margaret 2 Rich. 2. being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Caâtle-Bitham as also of the Mannors of East Bitham Cownthorpe Corby South-Witham Cheyle in Holand and the moity of the Mannor of Eareby in Com. Linc. Likewise of the Castle and Mannor of Beningfield with the Advowson of the Church in Com. Northampt. Of the Mannors of Sapcote Stanton and Bredon in Com. Leicest And of the Mannor of Chedle in Com. Staff leaving Alice the Wife of Sir Laurence Dutton Knight then thirty years of age and Elizabeth the Wife of Richard Son of Henry Son of Iohn de Grey of Codnovre seven years of age his Daughters and next Heirs But of this Family I do not find ãâ¦ã ninth of Henry the Third that any had Summons to Parliament ãâã this ãâã mentioned Ralph nor he at any other times then in the forty fourth and forty sixth of Edward the Third Basset of Hedendon THe first of this Branch was Gilbert Basset who about the beginning of King Henry the Firsts Reign gave two parts of his Tithes of Stratton to the Monks of Eyusham in Oxfordshire as also the Tithes of Wooll and Cheese throughout all his Lands Which Gilbert as I ghess was a younger Son to Ralph Basset Justice of England for some part of King Henry the Firsts time and in 12 Hen. 2. held seven Knights ãâã of the Honor of Walingford To this Gilbert succeeded Thomââ Basset Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 10 Hen. 2. and in 21 H. 2. one of the Kings Justices in his Court of Judicature as also a Justice Itinerant for Hantshire Wiltshire Glocestershire Dorsetshire Sommersetshire Devonshire Cornwall Berkshire and Oxfordshire in 25 Hen. 2. Which Thomas for his special Services to King Henry the Second in divers Wars had the Lordship of Hedendon in Oxfordshire with the Hundred of Botendon and likewise that Hundred lying without the North Gate of Oxford given him in Fee-farm for the Rent of twenty pound per annum to the Kings Exchequer This Thomas married Alice the Daughter of ... Dunstanvill and by her left issue three Sons viz. Gilbert Thomas and Alan and also a Daughter Wife of Albert de Grelle Of these Gilbert the eldest became Founder of the Priory at Burcester ãâã Bisseter in Oxfordshire of S. Augustines Order An. 1182. 29 Hen. 2. And in 1 Rich. 1. was one of the Barons who attended at that Kings Coronation In 2 Rich. 1. he was one of those that undertook on the behalf of Iohn Earl of Moreton for performance of that Agreement made between him and William de Longcamp Bishop of Ely then Chancellor of England and Governor of the Realm in King Richards absence and stickled so much for him that he was thereupon excommunicated by the Pope In 6 Rich. 1. this Gilbert gave an hundred pounds fine to the King that his Daughter might be married to Thomas de Verdon In 2 Ioh. he was Sheriff of Oxfordshire and present with many other of the Barons at Lincoln when William King of Scotland did homage to King Iohn for that Realm Lastly he was a Benefactor to the Knights Templars by the gift of divers Lands and Rents at Charing to that fraternity and having married Egeline Daughter of ... Courtney who lieth buried in the Priory of Burcester died in 7 Ioh. leaving issue one only Daughter his Heir Wife of Richard de Comvill Which Richard gave two thousand ãâã and ten Palfreys to the King for Livery of her whole Inheritance excepting the Mannor of Stoke whereunto the King himself laid claim ¶ I now come to Thomas the next Brother of this last mentioned Gilbert This Thomas had the Mannors of Colinton and Witeford given him by King Richard the First Also in 1 Ioh. a Grant of Colinton from that King And in 5 Ioh. another Grant of the Mannor of Hedendon in Com. Oxon. in
that Grant made to his Ancestor by King Iohn of Gowher-Land before-mentioned but granted that he and they should thenceforth enjoy all Regal Jurisdiction Liberties and Priviledges there in as ample manner as Gilbert de Clare Son to Richard de Clare sometime Earl of Glocester had in all his Land of Glamorgan In 34 Edw. 1. he was again in the Scotish Wars And in 4 Edw. 2. in that expedition then made into Scotland having Summons to be at Roxborough within a Moneth after the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist at the Parliament then to be there held and thence to march with Horse and Arms against the Scots In 8 Edw. 2. he had the like Summons to be at Newcastle upon Tine well accoutred with Horse and Arms upon the Feast of the Blessed Virgin to march against the Scots And in 11 Edw. 2. was charged with an hundred Foot Soldiers to the Wars of Scotland for his Lands in Gowher which Soldiers were to be at Newcastle upon the morrow after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In 14 Edw. 2. this William of whom Thomas of Walsingham gives this Character viz. That he was Perdives à parentelá sed dissipator substantia sibi relictae a Person who had a large patrimony but a great unthrift did set on sale that Noble Territory of his called Gowher-Land Whereupon the Earl of Hereford in regard of its vicinity to his other Lands contracted with him for it and having obtained the Kings License intended to take possession thereof likewise the two Mortimers viz. Roger the Uncle and Roger the Nephew in regard it lay convenient for them went to him and made a bargain with him for it Notwithstanding which Iohn de Moâbray who had married Aliva the sole Daughter and Heir Apparent to this William accounted himself secure enough thereon by vertue of a special Grant thereof formerly made by this William de Braose unto him the said Iohn and Aliva and to the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten with Remainder to Humphrey de Boâun Earl of Hereford and Essex and his Heirs But Hugh de Spenser the younger having fixed his eye upon it in regard it adjoyned to his estate in those parts being then the Kings Chamberlain and a great favorite at Court possessed himself thereof which occasioned so great a discontent from those other Noblemen who had dealt for it that they addressed themselves unto Thomas Earl of Lancaster with no small complaints of the injury Which in short occasioned that unhappy Insurrection that at length terminated in the loss of the Lives and Estates of many brave Men and in particular of that Noble Earl of Lancaster as in my story of him shall be more fully shewn After which this Hugh de Spenser purchased from the same Aliva Coheir-Female to the last mentioned William the Inheritance of all those Lordships wherein Mary her Grand-mother had an estate for life viz. Findon Wassington Bedinges West Greenstead and Kingesbernes parcel of the Barony of Brembre Which Mary died in 19 Edw. 2. Of this William all that I have seen else is That he was summoned to the several Parliaments from 25 Edw. 1. until the sixteenth of Edward the Second inclusive and that he took to Wife Aliva the Daughter of Thomas de Moulton by whom he had issue Aliva the Wife of Iohn de Moubray and Ioane the Wife of Iohn de Bohun of ââdherst So that Peter being his next Brother and Heir-male and dying without issue Thomas his third Brother became heir to what was left Which Thomas was in that Rebellion with Thomas Earl of Lancaster and thereupon prisoner at York but bailed by Ralph de Cohham And in 18 Edw 2. was in that expedition then made into Gascoigne being of the retinue of Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey Moreover in 1 Edw. 3. he went again into Scotland being also of the retinue to the same Earl of Surrey Likewise in 16 Edw. 3. he was of the retinue of Richard Earl of Arundel in another expedition into Scotland And in 19 Edw. 3. went into France in that expedition then made thither So likewise in 21 Edw. 3. And in 26 Edw. 3. was in Commission with Richard Earl of Arundel and Michael Poynings for defence of the Maritime parts in Sussex But of him I have seen no more then that he was summoned to the several Parliaments of 16 22 23 26 27 Edw. 3. And that he departed this life upon Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Barnabas the Apostle An. 35 Edw. 3. leaving issue by Beatrix his Wife Daughter of Roger de Mortimer Widow of Edward Son to Thomas of Brotherton Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England Iohn his Son and Heir then twenty two years of age and Thomas a younger Son Which Iohn wedded Elizabeth Daughter of Edward de Mountague but died without issue so that Thomas came at length to be Heir and a Knight Which Thomas dying in his minority left Ioane his Sister heir to the estate who dying also issueless Elizabeth the Wife of Sir William Heron Knight came to be her Heir being Daughter of Beatrix Sister of Sir Thomas Bâaose Knight Father of Thomas Brother of the said Ioane Lancaster Barons of Kendal THat the old Barons of Kendal did derive their descent from Ivo Tailboys is evident from the Register of Cockersand Abby whereunto some of them were Benefactors Which Ivo gave to the Monks of S. Maries Abby at York three Carucates of Land in Clartune Likewise the Church of Kirkby Stephen with three Carucates and the Tithes there in Winton two Oxgangs of Land and the Tithes also the Church of Kirkby in Kendal with the Lands thereunto belonging the Church of Hoton-Roff the Church of Bathum and Land called Haverbeck the Church of Button and one Carucate of Land and the Church of Clapham with one Carucate He is said to be the Father of one Ethred and he of Ketell and he of Gilbert and he of William Which William probably as Governor of Lancaster Castle did first assume the surname of Lancaster This William gave to the Monks of S. Bees in Cumberland a certain place called Smartâhef And in K. Henry the Seconds time coming to an Accord with the Abbot of Furnes for an exact Boundary of his Barony of Kendal from the Teritorry of that Abby which was then set forth by certain Metes and Limits he had out of that part allotted to the Monks both Venison and Hawks assigned to him and his heirs He was also a great Benefactor to divers other Religious Houses For to the Hospital of Comngshed in Com Lanc. he gave certain Lands in Uliverstan of a
joyned him in Commission with Robert Bishop of Lincoln and others to determine the business concerning the Liberties and Priviledges of the Church of Rippon granted thereto by King Athelstan which Osbert the then Sheriff of Yorkshire had infringed To him succeeded Roger his Son and Heir who obtained from Maud the Empress a Confirmation of the Grant of King Henry the First of the Mannors of Esendene and Begeford and the Mills at Hertford with all those other Lands and Fees whereof his Father died seised and had issue Peter de Valoines who took to Wife Gundred de Warren but died without issue as it seems for Robert his Brother succeeded in the Inheritance Which Robert in 12 Hen. 2. upon the Assessment of that Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified his Knights Fees to be in number thirty and a third part De Veteri Feoffamento and four De Novo And in 14 Hen 2. upon the collection of that Aid paid thirty marks and four shillings for those Fees Moreover for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Hawise his Wife he gave to the Canons of Waltham in Essex the Church of All-Saints at Herttford and died in 30 Hen. 2. leaving issue one sole Daughter his Heir called Gunnora married to Robert Fitz-Walter a great Baron in that time Which Gunnora in 9 Ioh. had Livery of certain Lands in Burton in Com. Ebor. till then held in Dower by Emme de Humet after the death of Geffrey de Valoines her Husband which Lands did Hereditarily descend to her the said Gunnora as his Heir viz. the Mannors of Farleâon Cancefield and Sâeing in Comitat. Lanc. Newham in Com. Northumbr Burton in Com. Eor and Partenay in Com. Linc. And in 13 Ioh. upon collection of the Scutage of Scotland answered for thirty Fees and a third part belonging to the Barony of Robert de Valoines her late Father But all that I have farther seen of her is That she gave the Church of Wuelow and Town of Luiton to the Nuns of Haliwell in Com. Middl. Of this Family was also Alan de Valoines who in 32 33 34 Hen. 2. was Sheriff of âent So likewise in 1 Rich. 1. In which year he obtained a Grant from that King of all the Lands of Torphin of Alenestrue id est all Alnestââ and Adârichesâon with Helen the Heir of him the said Torphin As also all the Lands of the same Torphin lying in Westmorland likewise the Land of Crosby and Nateby with liberty to keep Greyhounds and Braches to hunt and take the Hare and Fox in any of the Kings Forests But departing this life without issue before the sixth of Richard the First Hugh de Hastings then gave a Fine of two hundredâ and twenty marks for liberty to marry his Widow with her Inheritance And in 12 Ioh. Robert de Valoines Brother of this Alan gave a Fine of one hundred marks and two Palfreys for Livery of the Mannor of Soâinton descended to him by this his death without issue This Robert married Roâse one of the Sisters and Heirs to that William le Blund who was slain in the Battle of Lewes in 48 Hen. 3. and had issue Robert who took to Wife Eve de Criketot by whom he had issue two Daughters his Heirs viz. Roese the Wife of Sir Edmund Pakenham Knight and Cicely of Robert de Vfford After this last Robert ere long I meet with another Robert de Valoines who in 10 Edw. 1. died seised of divers Lands in Walsham in Com. Suff. Likewise of the moity of the Mannor of TXworth which he held in capite by Barony as also of the Mannors of Wrabbenasse Tollesfont and Blontshull I now come to Theobald de Valoines another Branch of this Stock This Theobald gave to the Canons of Hikeling in Com. Norf. his Lordship of Arlum with the Churches of hikeling Perham and Haketon and bestowed on Ioane and Anne his Sisters then professed Nuns all his Land of Campesse to found a Monastery there Another Daughter he had called Berta married to Ranulph de Glanvill Justice of England for some years of King Henry the Seconds Reign and departed this life in 11 Ioh. Whereupon Thomas his Son and Heir gave three hundred marks and three Palfreys for Livery of his Lands Which Thomas in 17 Ioh. adhered to the Rebellious Barons then in Arms by reason whereof his Lands lying in Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire were given to Walter de Evermus But in 1 Hen. 3. returning to obedience he had restitution of them again Another Branch of this Family was Philip de Valoines who in 2 Rich. 1. gave an hundred pounds for Livery of the Lands of Geffrey his Brother being his Heir To which Philip succeeded Sybilla his Daughter and Heir as I ghess who in 6 Rich. 1. gave forty marks to be exempted from that expedition then made into Normandy and in 10 Rich. 1. paid a Fine of fifty marks for liberty to marry Whereupon she became the Wife of ... Stutevill For certain it is That Eustace de Stutevill was her Son and Heir from whom descended Robert de Stutevill whose ancestor the before specified Philip de Valoines is said to be This Sybill gave to the Nuns of Rossedale in Com. Ebor. the Church of âhoRpenhold in the Diocess of CarlisLe She likewise bestowed on the Knights Hospitalers the Mannor of the Holy Trinity of Reverley in Com. Ebor. with divers Lands in that Town as also the Mannor of âorth Burton with certain Lands there and in North Dalton Monmouth IN the time of King William the Conqueror William the Son of Baderon possessed twelve Lordships in Glocestershire and ten in Hereâordshire and at that time had likewise the custody of those four Carucates of Land within the Castle of Monmouth which were the Kings Demesn To this William succeeded Withenock sirnamed de Monmouth his Son and Heir who having by the instinct of Almighty God and advice of his fellow Soldiers and Friends as the words of his Charter import built a Church within the same Castle dedicated to the honor of the Blessed Virgin and S. Florence gave it in pure Alms to the Monks of S. Florence at Sâlmure vulgarly called Sâmeâs in France whereupon it became a Cell to that Foreign Monastery To him succeeded Baderon his Son which Baderon with the consent of his two Sons Gilbert and Iames granted to the Monks at Monmouth in exchange for Hodonock three Forges situate upon the River Wey free from any Toll Passage Forestage or any other Custom for the Iron made therein This Baderon in 12 Hen. 2. upon Assessment of the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified his Knights Fees De
his solemn Oath promising that upon the death of King Stephen he would faithfully deliver them to Henry and for his more effectual performance of that Trust gave up his own Son for an Hostage All which being afterwards accomplished he was in 2 Hen. 2. constituted Sheriff of Essex and Hartfordshires and in 7 Hen. 2. the King being then in Normandy and hearing of the death of Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury was sent thence into England to procure the election of Thomas Becket then Lord Chancellour in his room Moreover such was the esteem he then had with King Henry that in the eighth of his Reign he was advanced to that great office of Justice of England And shortly after viz. in 10 Hen. 2. upon that Recognition x made by King Henry of the antient Laws of this Realm was one of those who undertook y for his observance of them In 12 Hen. 2. upon the Aid then assessed for marrying the King's Daughter he certified his Knights Fees lying in the Counties of Kent Suffolk and Norfolk de veteri Feoffamento to be in number seven and that his Ancestors performed the service of Castle-guard at Dovor for the same as also that he held one Knights Fee more de novo Feoffamento in Com. Devon But the same year upon those great Differences which hapned betwixt the King and Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury Becket fleeing into Normandy and coming to Uiceliac to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord the King being theâ also in those parts discerning divers persons who then repaired to that Festival and amongst them this Richard de Lucie he stept into the Pulpit and there with lighted Candles pronounced the sentence of Excommunication against them all as publick Inceâdiaries betwixt the King and him but being neither Convicted nor called to answer with the rest he Appealed and enâred the Church Soon after which viz. in 13 Hen. 2. the King being still beyond Sea he was made Lieutenant here during his absence And when the King perceived that Alexander the Third then Pope gave countenance to Becket he with some others were sent to the Archbishop of Colein to complain to him against his Holiness for so doing Moreover in Anno 1173. 19 Henry 2. he marched with Humphrey de Bohun Constable of England into Scotland to waste that Country at which time they burned Barwick In this year also the Government of the Realm being again committed to him by reason of the King's absence the Earl of Leicester and others then breaking out in Rebellion on the behalf of young Henry the King's Son as our Historians do shew he joyned with Reginald Earl of Cornwall the King's Uncle in the Siege of Leicester and having taken it burned the whole Town demolishing also the Walls thereof The same year likewise he laid Siege to Huntington and took it This Richard had by the gift of King Henry the Second the Hundred of Angre in Essex as also an hundred Acres of Affart-lands in the Forest of Stantord Grenestede and Angre I now come to his Works of Piety To the Canons of the Holy Trinity without Aldgate in the Suburbs of London he gave twenty shillings Rent in Nâwâon for the health of the Soul of Rohais his Wife whose Body lay there interred and to the Monks of Feversham the Lordship of Cherham Moreover in Anno 1178. 21 Hen. 2. he founded the Priory of Westwode in the Diocess of Rochester in honour of S. Thomas of Canterbury the Martyr And about the same time also began the foundation of the Priory of Lesnes in Kent which he plentifully endowed But the year next ensuing viz. in the month of Iuly he took upon him the habit of a Canon-Regular there and departing this life soon after was buried in the Chapter-house of that Monastery By the before-specified Rohais his Wife he had Issue two Sons viz. Geffrey de Lucie and Herbert de Lucie and two Daughters Maude married to Walter Fitz-Robert Progenitor to the noble Family of Fitz-Walter to whom she brought the Lordship of Disce before-mentioned and Rohais to Fulbert de Dovor Lord of Chilham in Kent Which Geffrey died in his Father's life-time leaving Richard his Son and Heir who departing this life without Issue the Inheritance resorted to Rohais his Aunt so married to Fulbert de Dovor as hath been observed Touching Herbert de Lucie his younger Son I find that he was fourteen years of age in 32 Hen. 2. and then in the tuition of Godfrey de Lucie having the Lordship of Stanford in Essex and Hundred of Angre for his livelihood but that he likewise died Issueless and that in 9 Ioh. Rohais his Sister paying a Fine to the King had Livery of the whole Barony whereunto she then had an Hereditary right by descent from Richard de Lucie and Herbert de Lucie her Brothers as the Record expresseth Command being likewise given to all the Freeholders and Tenants of those Lands in Cornwall whereof Richard de Lucie her Grandfather was possessed and whereof the said Richard de Lucit and Herbert de Lucie her Brothers were seised to do their services for them to William de Briwer unto whom she the said Rohais had granted them Of Maude de Lucie whom I presume to be the same Maude who was so married to Walter Fitz-Robert I find that she being Lady of Angre was afterwards married to Richard de Ripariis and that she died in 27 Hen. 3. being then seised of the Mannor of Stanford as also of the Mannor and Hundred of Angre leaving Richard de Ripariis her youngest Son surviving Richard her Grandson being then four years of age whose Wardship was for the sum of a thousand Marks committed to Philip Basset I come now to Reginald de Lucie though I cannot as yet discover his Parentage In 20 Hen. 2. this Reginald upon that Rebellion of the Earl of Leicester and others on the behalf of young Henry the King's Son was Governour of Notingham for the King And in 1 Ric. 1. at the solemn Coronation of that King gave his attendance with the rest of the Barons He took to Wife Annabell the second of the three Daughters and Coheirs of William Fitz-Duncan Earl of Murray in Sco land by Alice the Daughter and Heir to Robert de Rumeli Lord of Skypton in Cravene with whom he had the Honour of Egremond in Com. Cumbr. by descent from Alice the Daughter of William de Meschines Lord of that whole Mountanous Territory called Coupland as elsewhere I have more fully shewed And had Issue by the said Annabell a Son called Richard who in 1 Ioh. gave
âhropland the Mannor of Castelrige the Town of Ribton the Mannor of Irbye-bose Bolton Wigton Alpatrik Braythwaiâ Caldebek Ulbedale Hayton Boâhell the Town of Uâmandy the Hamlet of Donanby the Mannors of Seton and Lowise-water the third part of the Barony of Egremond and the Advowson of the Abbey of Caldra Which Anthony doing his Homage soon after had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance and Forest and to enjoy all those Liberties which his Ancestors had used in that Office excepting the pleas of Uert And the next ensuing year obtained to himself and Maude his Wife daughter and Heir to Hubert de Vaux of Gillesland a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn Lands lying in the Counties of Cumbr. Ebor. Norff. and Sâff and that they and their Heirs after the decease of Maud de Vaux her mother then the Wife of William Everard should have Free-warren in all the Demesn-lands they held in the Counties of Somerst and Devon being of the Dowry of her the said Mâude and of the Inheritance of Maude his Wife In 42 Hen. 3. he received summons to prepare himself with Horse and Arms and to march with the rest of the Northern Barons into Scotland for rescuing the King then in minority and restraint by his own Subjects he having married the Daughter of King Henry and being in his protection So likewise to be at Chester on Monday next before the Feast of S. Iohn Baptist to restrain the Incursions of the Welch and died in 55 Heâ 3. being then seised of the moity of the Lordship of Burgh upon Sands with the moity of the Mannor of Kirk-Oswald and moity of the Advowsons of the Churches of Kirk-Oswald and Ayketon all in Com. Cumbr. leaving Thomas his Son and Heir who doing his Homage had Livery of his lands Which Thomas in 56 Hen. 3. upon the death of Helewise de Levinton Widow of Eustace de Baillol was found her Heir as to the whole Mannor of Ayketon and the other moity of Burgh upon Sands Kirk-Oswald and Laysingby all which Eustace de Baillol having Issue by her which lived for some time held of her Inheritence as Tenant by the courtesie of England till his death which hapned in 2 Edw. 1. at which time this Thomas had Livery of that moity of the Barony of Burgh upon Sands so held by him as part of her Inheritance And died in 21 Edw. 1. Thomas his Son and Heir being then twenty six years of age who doing his Homage the same year had Livery of his Lands but died in 23 Edw. 1. being then seised of the Mannor of Douham in Com. Norff. as also of the Mannor of Burgh upon Sands and Mannor of Kirk-Oswald likewise of the Barony of Gillesland and divers Lands in Santon Irton Bolâon and Goseford all in Com. Cumbr. leaving Thomas his Son and Heir thirteen years of age and Isâbell his Wife surviving who had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Mannor of Donham in Com. Suff. Which last mântioned Thomas paying an hundred pounds âor his Relief was in 31 Edw. 1. in the Scotish-wars So likewise in 34 Edw. 1. And in 1 Edw. 2. received command to fit himsâlf with Horse and Arms together with Iohn de Lancaster and Ingelram de Gysnes for resisting the Incursions of Robert de Brus of Scotland and his Complices In 3 E. 2. he was again in those Wars of Scotland So likewise in 4 E. 2. And in 10 E. 2. obtain'd for himself and Margaret his Wife a special Charter from the King for a Market on the Wednesday every Week and two Fairs yearly viz. one on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Fâstival of our Lady the other on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of Simon and Iude at Aââhull in Com. Somerset As also Freewarrân in all his Demens-lands at Sâben-Hampton in Com. Sâmârset and Pynâo in Com. Dâvân Moreover he was summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 25 E. 1. till 7 E. 2. inclusive and died soon after leaving Issue Margaret his Daughter and Heir married to Ranulph de Dacre which Ranulph performing his Fealty to the King in 11 E. 2. she the said Margaret then making proof of her age had Livery of her Lands But this Thomas had a Brother called William who being his Heir male held the Mannour of Leyâângby in Com. Cumbr. during his life Which William died in 15 E. 3. leaving the said Margaret then Wife of Ranulph de Dacre his next Heir xxxvj years of age Multon of Egremont HAving thus done with the Line of Multon of Gillesland I come to Lambert de Multon and Alan de Multon Sons of Thomas de Multon the second by his first Wife And first of Lambert This Lambert de Multon married Annabel the eldest of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Richard de Luci of Egremont as before hath been intimated And in Anno 1246. 30 H. 3. obtain'd by large Gifts an extraordinary Privilege from the Pope viz. That no one should have power to Excommunicate him but by a special Mandate from his Holiness But he who had this liberty to sin without punishment âaith my Author and to do injury to others riding with rich Trappings very proudly from a Trial at Law no sooner alighted from his Horse but meriting God's judgment was suddenly smitten with a grievous Disease of which falling to the ground he died before his Spurs could be taken off being then at his House of Multon situate in that part of Lincolnshire called Holland leaving Ida his second Wife who had been the Widow of Geffrey de Oilli surviving and Thomas his Son and Heir then of age which Thomas praying his Relief had the same year Livery of his Lands lying in the Counties of Cumberland Linc. Suff. and Essex But in 49 H. 3. this Thomas called Thomas de Multon of Egremont was in Arms against the King with the rebellious Barons of that Age and in 18 E. 1. obtain'd the Kings Charter for a Market every Week upon the Tuesday at his Mannour of âhurstaneston in Com. Suff. with a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen As also a Market on the Wednesday at his Mannour of Multon in Com. Linc. and a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of All Saints with Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at âhurstaneston aforesaid Morover in 22 E. 1. he had Free-warren granted unto him in all his Demesn-lands at Egremont in Com. Cumbr. And departed this Life the same year leaving Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas in 25 E. 1. was in that Expedition then made into Scotland So likewise
obtain'd a Charter for a Mercate every Saturday at his Mannor of Mâreâon in Com. Devon and two Fairs one on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle and the other on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Margaret In 16 E. 3. being then Earl of Devon he was in that Expedition then made into Bâitanây with one Banâret twelve Knights thirty six Esquires and sixty Archers on Horseback of his Retinue And in 19 E. 3. the War continuing still there receiv'd command to prepare himself and all his Retinue well fitted with Horse and Arms to attend the King thither In 21 E. 3. being so infirm as that he was not able to go Personally in that Expedition then made beyond-Sea William de Boâun Earl of Northampton joyn'd with Hugh de Courtney his Son in moving the King that he might be excused from coming to Parliament or any Councils and had their Request granted After which recovering he obtain'd leave in 24 E. 3. to travel for one whole year And about this time was elected into that Honourable Society of the most Noble Order of the Garter then newly instituted In 26 E. 3. he together with Thomas de Courtney his Brother were assigned by the King to Arm and Array all Persons both Knights Esquires and others within the Counties of Devon and Cornwall and to conduct them to the Sea-Coasts in opposition of an Invasion then feared from the French And in 30 E. 3. was sent into Britanny with other English Lords upon the King 's special Service Whilst his Father lived he resided at Colcumbe and had the Lordships of Wellesdene and Coker for his Support And having married Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford had by her Issue six Sââs viz. Hugh born xi Cal. Apr. Aâno MCCCXXVII 1 E. 3. Thomas Edward William Philip and Peter and five Daughters scil Ioan Margaret Elizabeth Catherine and Anne And departing this Life upon Saturday nâxâ preceding the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross in 51 E. 3. was buried in the Cathedral Church at Exeter Of which Sons Hugh being called Hugo de Courtney junior whilst he lived went in thââ Expedition made into France in 20 â 3. In 21 â 3. being in the Tournament at Eâtham he had a Hood of White Cloth embroider'd with ãâã and button'd with large Pearls then given him by the King And enjoy'd the Mannor of Woddesden in Com. Buck. with the Advowson of the Church in Right of Maude his Wife Daughter of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent Which Maude in her Widowhood afterwards married to Waleraâ Earl of St. Paul But this Hugh died in 48 E. 3. his Father then living Thomas the second Son died also before his Father So likewise did Edward the third Son who married Emeline the Daughter of Sir Iohn D'aâney Knight and left Issue two Sons viz. Edward who in 51 E. 3. was found Nephew and Heir to Earl Hugh his Grandfather and at his death xxi years of age and Sir Hugh Courtney of Baunton Knight who married Philippâ one of the three Daughters and Coheirs of Warine Arcedekene and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir to Iohn Talbot of Ricards Castle William the fourth Son was Archbishop of Canterbury Philip the fifth was of Pouderham from whom the Courtneys of that House are descended Which Sir Philip for he was a Knight being in that Fight at Sea in 1 R. 2. against the Spaniard was sore wounded and fled After which viz. in 7 R. 2. he was constituted Lieutenant of Ireland for ten years Sir Piers de Courtney Knight the sixth Son was unmarried This Sir Piers being also in that Sea-fight against the Spaniard in 1 R. 2. was there sore wounded and taken Prisoner but for his Enlargement had a Grant from the King of the Benefit of the Marriage of Richard the Brother and Heir of Thomas de Poynings In 7 R. 2. he had Licence to send into France by Northampton Herald and Anlet Pursuivant eight Cloths of Scarlet of Black and Russet to give to certain Noblemen of that Realm as also two Horses six Saddles six little Bows one Sheaf of large Arrows and another Sheaf of Crossbow-Arrows for the King of Franâe's Keeper Likewise a Greyhound and other Dogs All which were for Presents to the French in respect of the great Honour the King of France had done unto him at such time as he combated there with a Knight of that Realm In 11 R. 2. this Sir Piers Courtney was made Chief Chamberlain to the King And the same year had Licence again to go to Calais with Iohn Hoboldâd Esq to challenge the French for the Performance of certain Feats oâ Arms and behaved himself bravely there But in 13 R. 2. being at Calais he receiv'd a Message from the King of England that he should forbear to exercise any Feats of Arms with the French without the special leave of Henry de Percy Earl of Northumberland which it seems he had for he did then notably manifest his Military Skill and Valour in a Tournament held there to his high Renown In 14 R. 2. he was made Constable of Windsore-Castle And after this viz. in 16 R. 2. when divers Knights came out of Scotland to challenge the English to certain Feats of Arms one ... Darell challenging him they ran with sharp Spears This Sir Piers died in 10 H. 4. ¶ As to the Daughters of the before-mentioned Eââ Hugh Margaret was the Wife of Iohn Lord Cobham Elizabeth ãâã married to ... Vere and afterwards to Andrew Lutterell and Catherine first to William Lord Harrington and next to Sir Thomas Engaine Knight But I return to Margaret their Mother This Margaret continued a Widow till her death and by her Testament bearing date 28 Ian. 14 R. 2. bequâath'd her Body to be buried in the Cathedral Church at Exeter near to her Lord and Husband appointing that there should be no other Herse for her than plain Bars to keep off the Preass of People and onely two Tapers of five pounds apiece the one at her Head and the other at her Feet without any Torches or other Lights Likewise That upon the day of her Funeral xx l. in Money should be given amongst poor People viz. to every one a Groat And that for the Soul of her Husband and her own Soul CC l. should be distributed amongst the Daughters of Knights and Gentlemen towards that Marriage-Portions and to poor Scholars at School To Margaret the Daughter of her Son Philip she bequeath'd C Marks in augmentation of her Portion To William Archbishop of Canterbury her Son a gilt Chalice and
time he was employ'd in his Service to Holland Zealand and Almaine As also Recompence for his Horses lost in that Service and for the Wages of CC Mariners in four Ships of his own for the War Likewise for the Wages of Cii Welchmen whereof two were Men at Arms and twenty were Hobelars on Horseback chosen out of his Territory of Denbygh And having paid to certain Persons in those Parts by the King 's Appointment the Sum of five thousand Marks he had special Orders directed to Prince Edward to see the same repaid to him out of the Mint Moreover in this year he was in that Expedition then made into Scotland and soon after attending the King into Brabant in consideration of his eminent Services as well in Peace as in War obtain'd a Grant bearing date at Anwerpe 15 Sept. of the Office of Marshal of England then void by the death of Thomas Earl of Norfolk And had likewise an Assignation out of the Exchequer of what he had expended whilst he was Joynt-Governour of the Isles of Garnesey Ieresey Serke and Aureneye with Henry de Ferrers In 13 E. 3. he was with the King at Uironfosse when his Army was drawn up for Battel with the French In this year upon account with him for his Expences in the Siege of the Casâle at Dunbar in Scotland and in Provisions for his Attendance on the King into Flanders which amounted to a thousand Pounds he obtain'd the King's Precept for Reception thereof out of his Treasury But continuing in Flanders after the King's return expecting by the Aid of the Flemings to perform great matters he march'd with Robert de Vfford Earl of Suffolk to the Town of L'âsâe to âree it from the Oppressions of the French Where being over-power'd by the Enemy he was taken and sent Prisoner to Paris It is said That assaulâing that Place with a small number and chasing the French too far within the Gates the Portcullis being let fall these Earls were taken and put in Fetters and then drawn in a Cart to Paris the People shouting at them in every Village through which they passed Moreover that being brought thither the French King would have put them to death had not the King of Bohemia prevented it But not long after King Edward laying Siege to Tournay Philip of France treated of Peace with him Upon conclusion whereof these Earls were delivered up in exchange for the Count of Murref a Scotch-man and Three thousand Pound Sterling to boot Whereupon with many other Knights of England they took their Journey into Spain unto the Frontiers of Granado to the Siege of Algesters a great Town of the Sarazens upon the Straits of Marok which the good King Alfonsus had Beleaguer'd and won it by Famine After which ere long he return'd into England and obtain'd a Grant in Fee from the King of the Mannor of Mertok in Com. Somerset as also a Grant of the perpetual Advowson of the Priory of Montacute in the same County being a Priory-Alien of Cluniac-Monks with all the Cells thereto belonging And in 15 E. 3. towards the Charge of his Redemption from the late Imprisonment which he suffered obtain'd Licence to transport CCxl Sacks of Wooll into Flanders In this year being again in Flanders he obtain'd a Confirmation of that Grant he formerly had from the King of Timbrie Eagle with the Mannors of Wodeton Frome Whiteâeââe Mârshewode Worthe and Pole and in 16 E. 3. was again in the Wars of France In which year having conquer'd the Isle of Man the King having given him the Inheritance of it Crown'd him King thereof In this year also being in that Expedition made into France with Lxxx Men at Arms viz. one other Earl one Banneret xxiv Knights Liii Esquires xx Hobelers and xl Archers on Horseback xx Archers and L Welch on Foot he had an Assignation of Cxxviii Sacks of the King's Wooll for the Wages of himself and those of his Retinue viz. xvi s. per diem apiece for himself and the other Earl iv s. per diem for the Banneret ii s. apiece per diem for each Knight xii d. for each Hobeler vi d. apiece for each Archer and iii d. apiece for each Footman In 17 E. 3. he was again in the Wars of France And in 18 E. 3. was sent into the North together with the Earl of Uâster a hundred Men at Arms and six hundred Archers against the Scots then in Hostility This Earl William founded the Priory of Bustlesham alias Bisham in Com. Berks. and gave the Mannor and Hundred of Dulverton to the Monks of Taunton in Com. Somerset bearing then the Title of Earl of Salisbury Lord of Man and Dynbyghe but departed this Life before the Feast-day of the Purification of the blessed Virgin in 17 E. 3. being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Werke in Com. Northumb. for term of Life the Remainder to Iohn his Son and the Heirs of his Body He likewise died seised of the Mannor of Christ-Church-Twynham with the Borough and Hundred of Christ-Church as also of the Mannor of Kyngewode in Com. Suthampt. Moreover of the Mannor of Croukham in Com. Berks. of the Castle and Town of Denbeygh with the Lordships of ãâã Koweynck and Keymergh in North-Wales of the Castle of Shireburne in Com. Dorset with the Custom of Beer there as also of the Mannors of Worth Swere and Pole in that County Ichenton Stoke-Tristre with its Members of Cokelyngton and Boyfore and of the Hamlet of Blakmore parcel of the Mannor of Shupton Montacute all in Com. Somerset Likewise of the Mannor of Sweynston with its Members in the Isle of Wiht and of one Messuage and one Carucate of Land in Wonford in Com. Devon with the Advowson of the Priory of Bustlesham leaving William his Son and Heir at that time xv years of age It is said that he died by some Bruises which he received in Tilting at Windsore and that he was buried in the White-Friers at London Whereupon Katherine his Wife Daughter to William de Grandison and Sibylla his Wife Daughter and Heir of Iohn Tregoz and Sister and Heir to Otto de Grandison her Brother surviving him had for her Dowrie an Assignation of the Mannors of Knolle and Cheddesey in Com. Somerset Swere in Com. Dorset the Hamlet of Blakmore in that County Pudelton with the Hundred Six pounds and seven pence yearly Rent from the Abbot of Bynedon for the Mannor of West-Lulleworth all in the same County of Dorset as also of one Messuage and one Carucate of Land in Wonford in Com. Devon and one Toft and one Carucate of Land in Watyngwell in the Isle of Wiht Besides these two Sons already mentioned he had Issue four Daughters viz. Sibyll Wife of Edmund
exchange his Castle of Werke unto Raphe de Nevill for other Lands was imploy'd in the Parts Beyond-Sea in the King's Service In 21 R. 2. doing his Homage 6 Febr. he had Livery of all the Lands descended to him from William de Montacute late Earl of Salisbury then deceased whose Heir he was viz. Son of Sir Iohn de Montacute Knight Brother to that Earl and being a great Favourite to King Richard the Second was one of those whom he suborn'd to impeach Thomas of Wodâtoke Duke of Glouc. as also the Earls of Warwick and Arundell in the ensuing Parliament And then bearing the Title of Earl of Salisbury obtain'd from that King a Grant to himself and the HeirsâMale of his Body of the Mannors of Cheddeworth and Ledeney in Com. Glouc. Haddesore Shzabeley Koke and Kibbesford in Com. Wigorn. with xx l. yearly Rent in Worcester As also of the Mannors of Saham and Paneworthall in Com. Norff. with the Hundreds and Advowsons of the Churches belonging to those Mannors then seised into the King's Hands by the Attainder of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Moreover in 22 R. 2. he was constituted Marshal of England in the absence of Thomas Holand Duke of Surrey then imploy'd into Ireland Furthermore in the Parliament then held at Westminster he obtain'd a Scire facias against the Earl of March for the Lordship of Denbigh Shortly after which he had Licence to go into France and soon after that was joyn'd in Commission with the Bishop of St. Asaph and others to treat of Peace with the Scots Likewise before the end of that year he attended the King into Ireland But upon the News of the Duke of Hereford's arrival in England he was dispatch'd thence with a great Power whilst King Richard going to Waterford might get his Fleet together and Landed at Conway in North-Wales Where being advertised that the D. of Hereford had obtain'd the greatest part of the Realm all the Lords being gotten to him he summon'd in the Welch and likewise the Cheshire-Men to the number of Forty thousand who seeing nothing of the King whom they supposed to have been at Conway they dispersed themselves leaving this Earl almost alone Whereupon the Duke of Hereford advancing towards him he withdrew to Conway to which Place the King was by that time come and advised him to go to Beaumares It is reported of this Earl That though upon the deposal of King Richard the Second to whom he had been most obsequious he had such fair respect from King Henry the Fourth that his Life was not brought in question nevertheless he confederated with the Earls of Huntendon and Kent in designing his destruction and accordingly came with them to Windsore-Castle upon the Sunday next after the Feast of the Circumcision of our Lord under the disguise of Christmass-Players with purpose to murther him and his Sons and to restore King Richard But finding that their Plot was discovered they fled by Night to Cirencester in Com. Glouc. Whereupon the Towns-men being much affrighted at their coming thither with such numbers at that unseasonable time stopping up all the Avenues to prevent their passage out there grew a sharp Fight betwixt them which held from Midnight until three of the Clock the next morning so that being tired out they yielded themselves desiring that they might not suffer death till they could speak with the King which was granted But that a Priest of their Party setting Fire on the Town to give them opportunity for escape so irritated the Inhabitants that neglecting to quench the Fire they brought them out of the Abby in great sury and Beheaded them about break of the day Being thus put to death his Body was buried in the Abby at Cirencester and there rested till 8 H. 5. that the King upon the humble Petition of Maude his Widow gave her leave to translate it to the Abby of Bustlesham in Com. Berks. of his Ancestor's Foundation This Earl married Maude the Daughter to Sir Adam Francis of London Knight Widow of Iohn Aubrey Son of Andrew Aubrey Citizen of London Widow also of Sir Alan Buxhull Knight and had Issue by her two Sons viz. Thomas at the time of his death xii years of age and Richard who died issueless as also three Daughters viz. Anne first married to Sir Richard Hankford Knight secondly to Sir Iohn Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to Iohn Holand Earl of Huntendon and Duke of Exeter Margaret to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth to Robert Lord Willoughby of Eresby This is that Iohn de Montacute who was one of the Chief of that Sect called Lollards in his time and the greatest Phanatick of them all saith my Author being so transported with Zeal that he caused all the Images which were in the Chappel at Schenele there set up by Iohn Aubrey and Sir Alan Buxhull his Wives former Husbands or any of their Predecessors to be taken down and thrown in obscure places onely the Image of St. Katherine in regard that many did affect it he gave leave that it should stand in his Bakehouse His death as is above-expressed hapned upon the fifth day of January viz. the Eve of the Epiphany 1 H. 4. being then seised in Fee-tail of the Mannor of Stokenham with the Borough of Chydelington the Hundred of Colrigge the Mannor of Yolhampton with the Borough of la Nasse the Mannors of Okeford and Pyworthy the Mannors of Woneford Clift â St. Mary with the Advowson of the Church the Mannor of Lantyan all in Com. Devon and Cornwall with two Parts of CC Marks yearly Rent issuing out of the Cunage of Tin in Com. Cornub. Likewise of the Mannors of Huniton and Warblyngton of the Castle of Christ-Church-Twynham with the Borough the Mannor of Westoure and Hundred of Christ-Church the Mannors of Kyngewode and Ebbelorde with the Advowson of the Churches of Kyngwode and Shaldeflut of the Mannor of Erlestoke and xx l. Rent of the Farm of the County of Wiltes of the Honour of Sherneton and divers Knights Fees thereto belonging with the view of Frank-pledge and Hundred of Sherneton as also of the Advowsons of the Churches of Wynterborne and Todeworth Meles with three Knights Fees in Upton Skydemore c. all in Com. Suthampt. and Wiltes Also of the Mannors of Knolle Thurlebere la More one Knights Fee in Pontyngton one Knights Fee in East Chelleworth of the Advowson of the Priory of Montacute with the Cells of Careswell St. Carric and Malpas Likewise of Cxx l. yearly Rent to be received of the Farms of those Priories and Cells of the Mannor of Swere with the Advowson of the Church xx l. Rent in Hilleworth x s. Rent in Blakemore with the Wood of Blakemore and Mannor of Blakemore called Neuland
the Priory-Church of the Holy Trinity without Algate in the Suburbs of London making Henry Earl of Northumberland with her Son Thomas Lord Bardolfe Supervisors thereof and departed this Life on Tuesday next after the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle the same year her Son Thomas being then xxx years of age This Thomas in 6 H. 4. taking part with Henry Earl of Northumberland Thomas Earl Marshal and Notingham and Richard Scrope Archbishop of Yorke in that Insurrection then by them made for which the Archbishop and Earl-Marshal were beheaded at Yorke was together with the Earl of Northumberland pursued by the King with a powerful Army Whereupon he fled with that Earl first into Scotland and afterwards into Wales But about three years after returning into England and so to Threske in Yorkshire they made Proclamation for Liberty to all that would put themselves in Arms and joyn with them insomuch as many flock'd in to their Assistance But the Sheriff of Yorkshire having raised the Power of the County met with them about Haselwood and in a sharp Skirmish âlew the Earl and wounded this Thomas so much that he soon died of those Hurts leaving Anne and Ioane his Daughters and Heirs the one then xix the other xviii years of age After which being attainted in Parliament Anno 7 H. 4. his Honour of Wyrmegay with divers other fair Mannors in Norfolk were given by the King to Thomas Beaufort his Brother other great Lordships to Sir George Dunbar Knight and the Mannors of Shelâord and Stoke Bardolf in Com. Nott. with Hallughton in Leicestershire to the Queen But the next year following Sir William Clifford Knight in right of Anne his Wife and William Phelip in right of Ioane his Wife Daughters to the said Thomas humbly representing to the King That Henry the Second long since King of England his Royal Progenitor having by his Letters Patents given to Thomas Bardolf Ancestor to this Thomas and to the Heirs of his Body begotten on Rose the Daughter of Raphe Hanselyn the Lordships of Shelford and Stoke Bardolfe in Com. Nott. and likewise the Mannor of Halughton in Com. Leic. as the whole Inheritance of Raphe Hanselyn her Grandfather and that the said Thomas Bardolf their Father lately attainted being the Lineal Heir to the before-specified Thomas Bardulfe and Rose the Inheritance of those Lordships did of right belong unto them the said Anne and Ioane The King thereupon having a conscientious regard to this their Right and Title granted to the said Sir William Clifford and Anne his Wife and to William Phelip and Maude his Wife the Reversion of those Lordships as also of the Mannor of Birlyng in Sussex after the death of his Royal Consort the Queen to hold and enjoy to them and the Heirs of their Bodies Which William Phelip and Ioane his Wife in 9 H. 5. had Livery of their Purparty of certain Lands in Suffolk of the Inheritance of Avicia late Wife of the same Thomas Bardolf attainted and Mother to her the said Ioane Daughter to Raphe Lord Cromwell of Tatshall and died in 9 H. 5. It seems that though this Thomas Lord Bardolfe did die of his Wounds as hath been already observed yet his Body was Quartered and the Quarters dispos'd of to be let upon the Gates of these several Cities and Town viz. London Yorke Lenne and Shrewsbury and his Head upon one of the Gates of Lincolne for it appeareth That afterwards upon the Petition of Avicia his Widow the King was pleas'd to give her leave to take them down and bury them Whether Anne the eldest Daughter of this Thomas had any Issue by Sir William Clifford her Husband I find not but certain it is that she buried him and was afterwards the Wife of Sir Reginald Cobham ¶ Of this Family there was also Hugh Bardulf a younger Son as I guess to the first William who in 22 H. 2. was amerc'd at five Marks for trespassing in the King's Forests and was Sheriff of Cornwall in 31 H. 2. In 33 H. 2. the King being in Normandy he was constituted one of his Lieutenants here in England for conservation of the Peace in his absence This Hugh continued Sheriff of Cornwall in 33 H. 2. and executed the same Office for Wiltshire for half that year and likewise in 34 H. 2. So also for the Counties of Somerset and Dorset in 1 R. 1. In which year he had the Custody of the Lands of Fulke Paynel by reason that he fled and paid not his Fine to the King for the Honour of Baenton And the same year upon the going of that King into the Holy Land was constituted with William Briwere an Associate to the Bishops of Durbam and Ely during his absence for administring Justice to every Man according to the Laws and Customs of the Realm Moreover in Anno 1190. 2 R. 1. he was at Messana in Sicilie with King Richard and one of those who on the behalf of that King undertook that the Articles of Peace and Friendship which were there agreed on betwixt King Richard and Tancred King of Sicilie should be firmly kept Upon his Return he was also one of that number whom the Pope had then Excommunicated as Enemies to the Church but chiefly for adhering to Iohn Earl of Moreton the King's Brother and those who with him opposed William de Longcamp Bishop of Ely then Chancellor of England in his oppressive way of Governing the King being absent but was particularly excepted by that Bishop upon denouncing the Sentence in regard he was not personally with those that ejected and laid hold on the same Bishop upon condition he would upon demand resign unto William de Stutevill the Castle of Scardeburgh and all other in Yorkshire and Westmerland which he then had in Custody Moreover in 2 R. 1. he executed the Office of Sheriff for Warwick and Leicester-shires for the out half of that year So also for the whole year in 3 R. 1. And in 4 and 5 R. 1. for Yorkshire being in such high esteem with King Richard that in the third year of his Reign when he was in the Holy Land and suspected his Chancellor here to whom he had chiefly committed the Charge of Governing in his absence he wrote his Letter to this Hugh Bardulf and three others requiring them in case the Chancellor did not do as he ought that they should take upon them the Rule in all things From which time it is evident from divers Fines levied before him that he was one of the King's Justices for some years as also a Justice-Itinerant In those great Contests which were betwixt the Bishop of Ely Governour of the Kingdom in King Richard's absence and Iohn Earl of
together against him Discerning therefore what might be the consequence of this rupture he carried the King with him to Bergavenny but being sore assaulted and followed thither by Prince Edwards Friends he left that Town and came to Hereford During whose stay there it so happened that on the Eve of the Holy Trinity Prince Edward whom he had there with the K. in safe custody being sometimes permittted to take the Air having wearied out some of those Horses on which they gave him leave to ride at lenght got upon a choice Courser and setting Spurs to him passed the River Wye with two persons only attending him and four Esquires who were privy to his design And making towards Wigmore soon espied the Banner of Roger de Clifford with some Troops ready to receive him So that those who pursued him discerning how it was returned to Hereford with the News Prince Edward therefore being thus at liberty soon raised a powerful Army multitudes of people coming in to him out of the Counties of Hereford Worcester Salop and Câester and took the City of Worcester as also the Castle after fifteen days Whereupon the Castle of Monmouth was delivered up to him which he demolished And hearing that young Simon de Montfort second Son to this Earl had brought up all the Northern-Barons of that party to the number of almost twenty Banners unto the Castle of Kenilworth in Warwickshire in order to their conjunction he took with him the Earl of Gloucester and a considerable party of Horse and setting out of Worcester late in the evening got to Kenilworth in the night time where finding the Enemy dispersed in the Town and Abby he surprized no less then thirteen of the chief of them but Simon himself with some others got into the Castle In the Interim whilst this was done this Earl having stil the King with him marched out of South-Wales and upon the Feast day of S. Peter ad Vincula commonly called Lammas coming to Kemesey a Mannor House belonging to the Bishop about three miles from Worcester staied there on the morrow Where having intelligence that the Prince was at Worcester and hearing nothing of that disaster at Kenilworth he marched towards Evesham about break of day with purpose to meet with those Barons which his Son Simon had brought out of the North. The Prince therefore beign advertised of his motion advanced speedily after him and got betwixt him and Kenilworth Mortimer and the Earl of Gloucester so disposing those forces which they commanded as that he was almost invironed Seeing himself therefore in this straight he forthwith drew out his men and prepared for Battle it being then the Nones of August and ascending the Hill soon discerned Prince Edward with his Army on the top thereof which was divided into three parts the one led by himself another by Clare Earl of Gloucester and the third by Mortimer the business being so ordered that no other colours appeared then the Banner of young Simon and the rest taken at Kenilworth which caused this Earl to suppose that they had been all of his own party But upon farther view he found it quite otherwise for the Prince at length took down those colours and instead of them erected his own with the Earl of Gloucester's Banner on the one side and Mortimers towards the West Which unexpected sight caused such a consternation in the Army of the Barons as that the Welsh betook themselves to flight and the rest being over-powered were utterly routed so that few escaped the present Slaughter who were not then taken Prisoners the principal persons then stain being these viz. Simon Earl of Leicester himself Henry de Montfort his eldest Son Hugh Despenser then Justice of England Ralph Basset of Drayton Thomas de Asteley Peter de Montfort William de Mandevile Iohn de Beauchamp of Bedford Guy de Baillol Roger de Rowele William de Eboraco Richard Trussell William de Bermingham Walter de Creppings Roger de St. Iohn and Robert Tregoz Divers other persons of quality with a multitude of the common sort then and there also losing their lives Of those who were wounded and taken Prisoners these were the chief viz. Guy de Montfort a younger Son to this Earl Iohn Fitz-Iohn Humphrey de Bohun the younger Iohn de Vesci Peter de Montfort junior and Nicholas de Segrave It is said that when this Earl discerned the form of his Adversaries Bataglia he swore by the Arm of St. James which was his usual Oath They have done discreetly but this they learned of me Let us therefore commend our Souls to God because our bodies are theirs Nevertheless encouraging his men he told them It was for the Laws of the Land yea the Cause of God and Iustice that they were to fight It is also said that he advised Hugh le Despenser Ralph Basset and some others to flee and reserve themselves for better times and that they refused so to do resolving to live and die with him And that being thus slain his Head Hands and Feet were cut off and the Head sent to the Lady Mortimer then at Wigmore Castle As to his works of Piety all I have seen is that he gave a large quantity of Land and a Wood called Rothelay Wood near Leicester to the Knights Templars with a certain Meadow called Beleholme Being thus slain some of his Friends came into the Field and carried away his dismembered Body upon a Weak old Ladder covered with a poor torn Cloath to the Abby Church of Evesham and there wrapping it in a Sheet commited it to the Earth But within a short time afterwards some of the Monks alleadging that in regard he was a person Excommunicate and attainted of treason he did not deserve Christian Burial whereupon they took up his Carcass and buried it in a remote place known to few After this victory thus obtained at Evesham where the King was happily rescued out of the hands of these great Rebels a Parliament being called at Winchester those who had thus been in Armes were by Judgement there given disherited The Scene being thus changed many places of strength were rendered up to the K. But Simon de Montfort his Son continuing still in that strong Castle of Kenilworth and receiving in divers of those who fled from the Battle with other the Friends and followers of those who were slain grew to be so powerful as that he sent out his Bailiffs and Officers into the Countrey like a King as also strong parties of Souldiers which burnt and plundred divers Houses Towns and Lordships of his Adversaries driving away their Cattle aâd imprisoning many forcing them to what Fines he pleased for
Blood issued out of it Touching Alice his Wife who survived him I shall observe That upon his marriage with her she was endowed at the Church door with the Castle and Borough of Newcastle under Lime the Towns of Penkhill Sheprugg Walstatton and Clayton in Com. Staff And all other Hamlets belonging to the same Castle and Borough as also with divers Mannors and Lordships lying in other Counties Of which she had Livery in Iuly 16 Edw. 2. And immediately thereupon viz. 9 Iulii 16 Edw. 2. quitted unto King Edward all her right to the Lordships of Winterbourne Ambresbury and Troubrigge in Com. Wiltes Kaneford in Com. Dorset Hengstrigge and Charleton in Com. Somers with all the Hamlets and Advowsons of Churches to them belonging in which Iohn Earl Warren had an estate for life they being of her Inheritance Moreover soon after this taking to Husband Ebulo le Strange a younger Son to the Lord Strange of Knokin she had farther Livery as Daughter and Heir to Henry-de Lacy Earl of Lincoln of the Court of the Fee of De la Hay and the Gaol standing before the Gate of Lincoln Castle as also of an Annuity of twenty pounds as the third penny of the County of Lincoln All which by reason of the forfeiture of her late Husband had been seised into the Kings hands It is said That divers years before the death of Thomas Earl of Lancaster her Husband she was by him repudiated and that she had been familiar with this Ebulo le Strange whom she so married afterwards Also that taking him to Husband without the Kings License all the Lands of her Inheritance and otherwise which were held of the King in Capite were seised and detained till she delivered up those of her Inheritance which lay in the Counties of Lanc. Cestr. and Ebor. And gave the Castle and Lordship of Denbigh in Wales as also the Castle of Bolinbroke in Com. Linc. with its Appurtenances and all other her Lands in that County and many in other parts of the Realm unto Hugh le Despenser the great favorite of that time And that the Lands which she had left after all those were so extorted from her amounted to no less in value then three thousand marks per annum It is farther said That she departed this life without issue in An. 1348. 22 Edw. 3. about the Feast of S. Matthew the Apostle being then Sixty seven years of age Also that she was buried in the Conventual Church of Berling near to the Grave of Ebulo her Husband And that thereupon all the Lands of that great Inheritance which descended to her from Henry de Lacy late Earl of Lincoin her Father by vertue of the Render and Grant made by the said Henry and by the Grant of King Edward the First came to Henry Earl of Lancaster Son of Henry afterwards Duke of Lancaster which Lands lay in Blackburnshire Rachdale Totington and Penwortham in Com. Lanc. Halton in Com. Cestr. Bouland and Snaithe in Com. Ebor. and in divers other parts of England ¶ I come now to Henry Brother and Heir of Thomas This Henry upon the death of Edmund Earl of Lancaster his Father in 24 Edw. 1. doing his homage had Livery of the Castle Town and Honor of Monmouth as also of the Castles of Skenefrith and Blanch-Castell with the Mannors of Radley and Menstreworth and all other his Fathers Lands beyond Severne and in 25 Ed. 1. was in that expedition then made into Flanders In 27 Edw. 1. having taken to Wife Mary the Daughter and Heir of Sir Patrick Chaworth he had respite for payment of his Releif In 28 32 Edw. 1. he was in those expeditions then made into Scotland And in consideration of his eminent service in that War obtained a discharge of so much debt as was due from him to the Kings Exchequer for his Releis viz. Upon on the death of Hawise de London Grand-Mother and Pain de Chaworth Uncle to Maud his Wife by reason of the Lands which descended to her by their respective deaths Which discharge bears date at Dumfermelin 28 Ian. the same year In 34 Edw. 1. being again in the Wars of Scotland he had in consideration thereof Livery of the Mannor of Hertley in Com. Southampt without performing his homage Which Mannor by the death of Isabel the Wife of Hugh le Despenser descended to Maud his Wife as her next Heir In 8 Edw. 2. he received command to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to be at Newcastle upon Tine on the Feast of the Blessed Virgin thence to march against the Scots And in 10 Edw. 2. obtained a Charter for Free-Warren to himself and the said Maud his Wife and to her Heirs in all his Demesn Lands within his Lordships of Swinburne Langstoke Stokebrigge and Weston Patrick in Com. Southampt In 11 Edw. 2. he was charged with providing one hundred Foot Soldiers out of his Lands in Ridwelly and Radewaâhan in Wales and to bring them to Newcastle upon Tine within three weeks after the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist to march into Scotland And in consideration of his eminent services had so great an esteem from the King as that notwithstanding his Brothers Attainder having had Livery of his Lands upon the twenty nineth of March 17 E. 2. he obtained such farther favor That he should thenceforth enjoy the title name and honor of Earl of Leicester and be thenceforth so written in the Kings Courts But after this Roger Lord Mortimer and Queen Isabel bearing such a sway that the people grew much discontented he confederated with Thomas de Brotherton then Marshal and Edmund of Woodstock the Kings Uncles to amend what was amiss if they could Also in 19 Edw. 2. upon the putting to death of Hugh le Despenser the elder by the Authority of the great Lords then powerful Prince Edward being by them constituted Governor of the Realm the Chancellor and Treasurer being likewise appointed by them he was sent into Wales and by the assistance of the Welsh took the King with Hugh le Despensers the younger and other of the Kings Fathers Familiars near the Castle of Lantrussan And having thereupon the person of the King committed to his custody forthwith carried him by Monmouth Ledbury and other places to his Castle of Kenilworth where he staid the whole Winter following Moreover in 20 Edw. 2. the King being still in his custody through his interest with the Lords then ruling he obtained a Grant of the custody of the Castles and Honors of Lancaster Tutbury and ãâã But shortly after this by a Command from King Edward the Third he delivered up Edward the Second unto Thomas Lord Berkley who conveyed him to Berkley Castle And upon the proclaiming of the Prince by
place of custody the King had been committed there to receive his formal Resignation of the Crown and Government And in 3 H. 4. stood in such esteem that he was constituted Governor of the Castles of Montgomerie Dolvoreyn and Lordship of Kedewyn belonging to the same Castle of Dolvoreyn likewise of the Castle of Kenles and Lordship of Melenyth thereto appertaining with authority to receive all such to grace and favor as had been in Rebellion in those parts of Wales In 4 H. 5. Edward his only Son being then dead he entred into Articles of agreement with Sir Walter Hungerford Knight through the Kings Mediation by Letters for the Marriage of Margerie one of the Daughters and Heirs of his Son Edward then one of the Heirs apparent to him the said Sir Hugh unto Edmund Hungerford Son to the same Walter Which Marriage took effect accordingly And by his Testament bearing date 2 Oct. An. 1417. 5 H. 5. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Quire of the Abby at Hales in Com. Salop. under a fair Tomb of Alablaster there prepared by himself near to the Body of Ioyce his Wife appointing that his Funeral should be honorably solemnifed and that his Debts being first paid his Servants according to the time of their Services should be rewarded giving the remainder of his Goods to Ioane de Beaâchamp Lady of Bergavenny And having been summoned to Parliament from 7 R. â until 8 H. 5. inclusive departed this life 27 Nov. 8 H. 5 being then seised of the Mannors of Swaveseye Fulborne called Zouches-fee and Maneres-fee in Com. Cantabr of the Mannors of Est Hamme Borham Holand-magna Stansted-Monfichet Waltham called Powers Walkefare and Lachendon in Com. Essex Roulandright in Com. Oxon. Resyndon Basset in Com. Glouc. Compton Daune in Com. Somers Cheverell magna in Com. Wilts Bordesley and Heybarnes in Com. Warw. Ashby la Zouche in Com. Leic. Wolverhampton with the third part of the Mannors of Mere Hondesworth and Câent in Com. Staff Haselbeche in Com. Northt Newport paynell and Lynford parva in Com. Buck. Onebury Wotton Walton Sutton Parva Corfton Abeton Eudon Burnell Belleswardyne Benthall Holgot Brolchampton Clee St. Margaret Thongland Millinghope Rushbury Astwall Hope-Bowdler Chatewall Wolstanton Rameshurst Pulliley Longfeld-Cheyne Longedon Smethecote Condover Acton-Reigner Uppington Tasshoe Routon and Ambaston of certain Lands in Bâugenorth of the Mannor of Acton Burnell Acton Pigot Streford Sutton of the Moiety of the Mannor of Cantelthorpe and of the Mannors of Prest Weston Picheford and Eton juxta Picheford in the County of Salop and Marches of Wales Moreover he then held for term of life the third part of the Castle of Weolegh in Com. Wigorn. as also of the Mannors of Northfeld Cradeley and Old Swinford the Mannor of Sucley in Com. Wigorn. and Mannors of Retherhethe and Hachesam in Com. Sur. leaving Ioyce the Wife of Thomas Erdinton junior 3 Margerie the Wife of Edmund Hungerford and Catherine afterwards Married to Sir Iohn Ratcliffe Knight his Cousins and next Heirs viz. Daughters of Edward Burnell his Son by Alice the Daughter of ... Lord Strange Which Ioyce was then twenty four years of age Catherine fourteen and Margerie eleven Hastang 5 Edw. 2. OF this Family whose chief Seat was at Lemington in Com. War commonly called Lemington Hastang was Atrop Hastang who gave to the Canons of Nostell in Com. Ebor. the Churches of Lemington and Newbold and likewise that of Chebsey in Com Staff which Grant Atrop his Son confirmed and bestowed on the Canons of Kenilworth the Church of Whitnash Likewise on the Canons âof Osney half an hyde of Land in UUhitnash and on the Nuns of UUrorhall certain Lands in Hasedey To this last mentioned Atrop succceded Humphrey his Son and Heir which Humphrey took part with the Rebellious Barons against King Iohn by reason whereof his Lands were seised but in 1. H. 3. returning to obedience they were restored to him again And to him Robert who Married Ioane the Daughter and Co-heir to William de Curli This Robert in 41 H. 3. gave a Mark in Gold for respiting his Knighthood but afterwards taking part with Montfort Earl of Leicester he was one of those which held out Kenilworth-Castle during the whole six Months Siege thereof in 49 and 50 H. 3. for which his Lands were seised and given to Sir Iames de Alditbley and Sir Hugh de Turbervill for the redemption whereof he compounded according to the rule prescribed by that memorable Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth To whom succeeded another Robert who in 4 E. 2. received Summons to be at Carlisle on the Morrow after All Souls day well fitted with Horse and Arms to march into Scotland with ten Men at Arms of his Retinue and in 10 E. 2. was constituted one of the Commissioners to Treat with Robert de Brus and his Party in Scotland upon a Truce betwixt both Realms In 11 E. 2. he was again in the Scotish Wars So likewise in 13 E. 2. And had Summons to Parliament in 5 E. 2. but no more After this viz. in 1 E. 3 I find mention of Thomas de Hastang and that he was the same year in the Wars of Scotland as also that in 5 E. 3. he had Summons to Parliament but never after Likewise that he had Issue Sir Iohn de Hasting Knight who left two Daughters his Heirs viz. Maud married to Raphe de Stafford from whom the Staffords of Grafton in Com. Wigorn. did descend and Ioane to Sir Iohn Salisbury Knight Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk 6 Edw. 2. THis Thomas fifth Son to King Edward the First but second by Queen Margaret his second Wife being born at Brotherton in Yorkshire in An. 1031. 28 E. 1. had thenceforth that Surname attributed to him and by reason that his Mother in her extremity of pain in Child-birth invocating St. Thomas of Canterbury for the mitigation thereof found speedy ease she caused his Name given him at the Font to be called Thomas It is observed that the Nurse designed for him was a French Woman and that his Stomach could not endure her Milk but that an English Woman being brought to him he liked well of hers Likewise that when King Edward lay upon his death bed amongst other his Commands to Prince Edward his eldest Son one was that he should love this Thomas and Edmund his other Son by Queen Margaret Signifying also that he had given or rather designed to give the Title of Marshal of England unto Thomas For the fulfilling whereof therefore this Thomas obtained a special Charter in tail general bearing date at Westminster 16 Dec. 6. E. 2. though he had then hardly accomplisht the age of thirteen years of all the
Demesn-lands of Dalburye and Dalbury-lies in Com. Derb. and in 10 Edw. â was again in the Wars of Scotland So likewise in 12 Edw. 2. In which year he obtained License to make a Castle of his Mannor-house at Bagworth in Com. Leic. And had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realme from 8 Edw. 2. until 14 Edw. 2. inclusive But in 15 Edw. 2. upon that Insurrection made by Thomas Earl of Lancaster having promised to bring all the power he could raise to his assistance ând failing him that Earl being then at his Castle of âutbury in Com. Staff fled Northwards and was taken at Burrough-brigg in Com. Ebor as I have elsewhere more fully shewed Of which tidings when this Robert had advertisement he rendered himself to the King at Derbâ and was sent Prisoner to Dovor-Castle Whereupon he incurred such hatred from the People for dealing thus unfaithfully with his Lord who out of his great affection had raised him from nothing as that in An. 1328. 2 Edw. 3. being taken in a Wood near Henâey Park towards Windsore he was beheaded on the Nones of October and his head sent to Henry Earl of Lancaster then at Waltham Cross in Com. Essex by one Sir Thomas Wyther a Knight and some other private friends This Robert was a great Benefactor to the Gray-Friers at Preston in Com. Lanc. and founded the Priorie of Black Monkes at Holand in the same County He had issue by the said Maud his Wife three sons viz. Robert sixteen yeares of age at his Fathers death Thomas who became a great Man of whom I shall speak at large ãâã Alan who had the Mannors of Dalbury and Weeksworth in âom Derb. and Otho Which Othâ being a person not a little famous for his valour was elected into the Society of the most noble Order of the Garter by King Edward the Third at the time of its Foundation 24 Edw. 3. But soon after having the Earl of Ewe a prisoner of War committed to his trust and taking him to Calais where he permitted him to go at liberty Arm'd he was question'd for the same in the presence of the Lord Chancellor with divers other Nobles and Justices of the King's Bench. Where acknowledging the Fact and submittinghimself he was committed to the Marshalsey But after this viz. in 29 Edw. 3. he accompanied his Brother Thomas into Britanny and having been taken Prisoner e near Graunsours in France died in those parts about the Festival of the blessed Virgin 's Nativity 33 Edw. 3. being then seized in Fee of the Mannors of Yoxhale in Com. Staff Kerseye in Com. Suff. Taleworth in Com. Surr. As also of the Mannors of Chesterfeld and Ashfourd in Com. Derb. for life leaving Sir Robert de Holand Knight his elder brother his next heir Forty years of age Which Sir Robert in 9 E. 3. doing his Homage had Livery of all those Lands whereof his Father died seised in 2 Edw. 3. And in 16 Edw. 3. was in that Expedition then made into France So likewise in 19 20 E. 3. And in 22 E. 3. being then of the Retinue with Thomas de Beuchamp Earl of Warwick So likewise in 29 Edw. 3. being of the retinue with Thomas de Holand his Brother This Robert having been summon'd to Parliament from 16 Edw. 3. until 46 of that King's Reign died 16 Martii 47 Edw. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Braââe Hals Kings-Sutton Thorpe Watervile Achirche Aldwincle and Chelvaston in Com. North. Yokeshale in Com. Staff ãâã in Com. Derb. Bageworth and the third part of the Mannor of Shepeshed in Com. Leic. Holand Hale Drâl Samlesoucy Dalton of the Moietie of the Mannors of Haidok Goldeburne and Bright the sixth part of the Mannor of Harewode and fourth part of the Mannor of Over Derwend in Com. Lanc. leaving issue one sole daughter and heir called Maud Married to Sir Iohn Lovel Knight seventeen yeares of age Which Sir Iohn Lovel thereupon doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance I now come to Thomas Holand younger brother to this last mention'd Robert In 14 Edw. 3. this Thomas was in that Expedition then made into Flanders So likewise in 15 Edw. 3. And in 16 Edw. 3. was sent with Sir I. d'Arvel to âayon with Two hundred Men at Armes and Four hundred Archers to defend the Frontiers In 17 Edw. 3. he was again in the Wars of France and in 19 Edw. 3. obtain'd a Grant from the King of Forty pounds per annum payable out of the Ferme of the Priory of Hayling during the Wars with France until provision of Lands of that value should be made for him In 20 Edw. 3. being at the Siege and taking of Caen in Normandy where the Earl of Ewe then Constable of France âelivered up himself and those under his command as Prisoners he had soon after a Chief Command in the Van of Prince Edward's Army in that famous Battel of Cressâ which hapned before the end of that year And in 21 Edw. 3. in consideration of Four thousand Florens sold his said Prisoner the Earl of Ewe unto King Edward In that year being again in France he was at the Siege of Calais And having an high esteem for his âignal valor and Military skill in 24 E. 3. was elected into the Society of the most Noble Order of the Garter at that time Founded by the renowned Edward the Third then King of England It is said by some that this Thomas being Steward of the Houshold to William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury Married his Mistress viz. Ioane Wife to that Earl daughter of Edmund and sister and heir to Iohn Earl of Kent But herein there is a mistake for by his Petition to Pope Clement the Sixth representing that the said Earl of Salisbury had a purpose to have Wedded her had not a pre-contract with her by him been formerly made and carnal knowledge ensued Also that nevertheless the same Earl taking advantage of his absence in forrein parts made a second Contract with her and unjustly withheld her His Holiness upon full hearing of the Cause gave Sentence for him whereupon he accordingly enjoy'd her the Earl of Salisbury acquiescing therein as it seemes by his after Marriage with another VVoman In 26 Edw. 3. this Thomas obtain'd a Grant of One hundred Marks per annum out of the ferme of the City of Exeteâ for the better support of her the said Ioane his Wife during her life By whom having issue in 27 Edw. 3. and doing his Homage he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance excepting the Dowry of Elizabeth Widow to that Earl Shortly after which he obtain'd License
with its Members viz. Hesill and Weton Bentleye Hundeslaye Wolfreton Newton Ettone Rippelingham and Brantingham in Com. Ebor. the Castle and Town of Castel Donyngton in Com. Leic. the Mannors of Rillaton Tewyngton Helleston in Kerier Moreske Tywarnail Penmayn Tyntagell the Town of Lestwithiel the Burrough of Rossyny the Mannors of Pentyn and Tybeste the Fee-Ferme of Laneston the Burrough of Helleston in Kerier the third part of the Mannors of âremeton Calstoke and Ayshburgh all in Com. Cornub. the Hundred of Watheleston in Com. Cantii the Mannor of Stenyngton in Com. Berks. the Mannors of Watlington Bensington Netelbedde and UUhitecherche in Com. Oxon. the Mannor of Allerton under Shirewode in Com. Nott. All which with those in Com. Cornub she held in Dower She also died seised of the Mannor of Chesterfeild with the Hospital of St. Leonard in that Town and of the Mannor of Ascheford in Com. Derb. She likewise died seised in her Demesn as of Fee of the Mannors of Kereâeye and Leyham in Com. Suff. Ealdecote in Com. Hunt and third part of the Mannor of Fordyngton in Com. Dorset Also of the Mannor of Hertone in Com. Westmorl and Lordship of Kirklaundres in Com. Northumb. Of the Mannors of Torpell Upton and Estoâ in Com. North. âyale and UUyssendene in Com. Rut. Of the Mannor and Honor of Gretham with its Members the Mannors of Thorâaye Brocesby Beseby Kesby of the Castles of Caste and Brunne with their Members and of the Mannor of Est Depyng with the Advousons of the Priories of Camringham Myntings Deping UUilbesforth and of the Abbies of Baââings and Brunne in Com. Linc. this Thomas de Holand Earl of Kent being found her son and heir and at that time thirty yeares of age and upwards But before the end of that year being discharged of his Office of Marshall of England it was conferr'd on Thomas Earl of Nottingham In 20 R. 2. he was constituted Governor of the Castle of Caresbroke for life And having upon Easter-day the same year declâred his Testament by the Title of Earl of Kent and Lord UUake whereby he appointed his Body to be buried in the Abby of Brune he bequeath'd to Alice his Wife and Thomas his son all his Goods and Cattel and departed this life the Twenty fifth of Aprill next ensuing being then seised of the Mannors of Stenyngton in Com. Bedf. Keresey and Leyham in Com. Suff. UUykham Brews in Com. Cantii Allerton under Shirewode in Com. Nott. Asheford in Com. Derb. UUokkâng Talworthe and Perfright in the Parish of UUokking in Com. Surr. Stebenhithe in Com. Midd. Kenton Sheftbere and Lyston with the Hundred in Com. Devon Of the Town and Castle of Castle Donyngton in Com. Leic. of the Lordship of Kirk-Laundres in Com. Northumbr Of the Mannors of Cotingham with its Members viz. Hesill and UUelton and Mannors of Kirkeby Moresheved Buttercram Cropton and Colyngham in Com. Ebor. of the Mannor of Ryale in Com. Rotel Torpel juxta Castre and Eston juxta Colyweston in Com. North. Laumershe Colne Wake Northwelde and the Hundred of Berdstaple in Com. Essex Of the Mannors of Waxe and Busheye in Com. Hertf. Of the Honor of Gretham the Mannors of Chorleye and Brocelby the Castle of Castre with its Members viz. Castre Grysseby North Kelsey South Kelsey Henton and Fulnethy as also of the Mannors of Beseby Kelby Deping Hagham and Cameryngham in Com. Linc. and of the Castle of Corff in Com. Dorset leaving Thomas his son and heir Twenty three yeares of age He had also another son called Edmund and five Daughters viz. Alianore Ioane Margaret another Alianore and Elizabeth of all which I shall say more anon But I return to Thomas his son and heir This Thomas shortly after doing his Homage had ãâã of his Lands and upon the attainder of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of UUarwick in 21 R. 2. had a Grant in special tail of the Castle Mannor and Lordship of UUarwick with the Park of Wedgnack and Mannors of Câaverdon Hasele Hatton Sutton in Colfeild and Athern in Com. Warr. Pachyngham Salemarâ Wadbergh Scelton Beâley Haselore and a certain Rent in Wyche in Com. Wigorne And upon the Twenty ninth of Sept. 21 R. 2. had the Title and Dignity of Duke of Surrey conferred upon him the King then âitting in Parliament Crown'd It is observed that in the Ceremony of his Creation and others at that time the virga aurea was first used in the Investiture In 21 R. 2. he was again constituted Marshal of England 30 Ian. and obtain'd a Grant from the King of those pieces of Arras-Hangings at UUarwick-Castle which did concern the Story of Guy of UUarwick by the forfeiture of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of UUarwick then in the Crown About this time it was that he Founded the Priory of Carthusians at Montgrace within his Lordship of Bradelby near Cleveland in Com. Ebor. ordaining that the Prior and Monks of that House should alwayes in their Orisons recommend to God the good estate of King Richard the Second Queen Iâabell himself and his Wife Ioane and their heires Also the good Estates of Iohn Holand Duke of Exeter and Iohn de Ingelby and Ellen his Wife during their lives in this World as also their Souls after their departure hence and the Soul of Queen Anne first Wife to King Richard the Second Likewise the Souls of Edmund of UUodiroke sometime Earl of Kent Margaret his Wife Ioane Princess of UUales his Grandmother Thomas de Holand late Earl of Kent his Grandfather Thomas his Father and Alice his Mother and lastly the Souls of Thomas de Ingelby and Catherine his Wife William and Margaret de Aldeburgh c. In 22 R. 2. he was made Lieutenant of Ireland for three years 26 Iuly And obtain'd a Grant of the Barony of Norraghe in that Realm which by the forfeiture of Arthur Macmurghe came to the Crown to hold during the life of the said Arthur being about that time also made Governor of the Castles of Leverpole and Cletherow And in 23 R. 2 being in Ireland with King Richard when that dreadful News came to him of Henry Duke of Lancaster's arrival in England he return'd back with him whose Resignation and Deposal soon after ensued And thereupon a Parliament viz. on the Feast-day of St. Faith the Virgin 1 H. 4. wherein this Duke was doom'd to lose that his great Title in regard he had been one of the prosecutors of Thomas of Wodstokâ Duke of Glocester But to this grand alteration neither he nor some others who had born the greatest sway during King Richard's Reign could be content to submit And therefore plotted to come into Windsore-Castle where King Henry then kept his Christmass under the disguise of Mummers so to Murther him with his sons and to restore King Richard But King Henry having notice thereof got privily to
and Heads of Leopards of Gold with boughs and leaves proceeding from their Mouths Also to her Son Thomass Earl of Kent her Bed of red Camak paled with red and rays of Gold and to Iohn Holland her other Son one Bed of red Camac I now come to Edmund the elder of those Sons This Edmund was restored the Parliament the same year but died in his Minority soon after Whereupon Iohan succeeding was committed to the tuition of Margaret his Mother until he should accomplish his full age having the Mannor of Cheteicumbe in Com. Devon assigned for his maintenance This Iohn making proof of his age in 25 E. 3. had Livery of all his Lands his Mother being then also dead and granted to King Edward the Third and his Heirs the Castle and whole Lordship of Lydel as well within the Precincts of England as Scotland after the decease of Blanch the wife of Thomas Lord Wake at that time living But farther I cannot say of him then that haveing Married Elizabeth the Daughter to the Marquess of Iuliers he departed this life upon the night next ensuing the Feast of St. Stephen in 26 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannor of UUyckham Brewes with the Hundreds of UUechelstone and Lutlesfeld and Farm of the Royaltie and Market of Derteford in com Cantii of the Mannor of Caldecote in com Hunt Lechelade Barndesley Over-Sedyngton and Musardere in com Glouc. Kentone Shestebeare and Chetescombe in com Devon Allertone under Shirewode in com Nott. of the Town of Chesterfeld and Mannors of great Langeldone Shelandone UUardelowe Hulme and Ashfourd with it Hamlets in com Derb. Bretiâby Beseby and Gretham with Thorley a Member thereof in com Linc. UUissenden in com Rotel Somerton Kingesbury and Estham in com Somers Northeweld in com Essex of the Mannor of Laumershe and Hundred of Berdestapel with the reversion of the Mannor of Coln Wake after the death of Blanch the Widdow of Thomas Lord Wake of the Mannor of Bisheye and the Reversion of the Mannor of UUarre after the death of the said Blanch in com Hertf. of the Castle of Donyngton in com Leic. of the Mannor of Bedehampton with the Advouson of the Church in com South of the Mannor of Leyham and Kersey in com Suff. of the Mannors of Thorpel Upton and Eston in com North. of the Mannors of Purifriche Daleworth with its Member and UUocking with Sutton and Hoke Members thereof in com Surr. and of the Mannors of Cotyngham UUynetone Buttercrambe with Scrayngham a Member thereof Kyrkby-Moresheved with its Members in Farnedale Gillingmore Drauncedale and Fademere and the Mannors of Croppton Middleton and Hemelyngtone all in com Ebor. Whereupon Ioane his Sister then the Wife of Sir Thomas Holand Knight being at that time twenty four years of age was found to be his next Heir Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to the Marquess of Iuliers surviving who in 27 E. 3. had for her Dowrie an assignation of the Mannors of UUocking Purifright and Bagshot in com Surr. Bedehampton and Aulton with the Farm of the Mannors of Andevere and Basyngstoke in com South also of four pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence of the Farm of Iden in com Suss. of the Mannors of Kentone Listone Chetescombe and Shaftebere in com Devon and of the Farm due from the Abbot of Clyve Likewise of the Mannors of Somerton Cammel and Kyngsbury with the Farm of Melbury Port in com Somers and of the Mannors of Muserdere Sodyngton Bardesley and Lechelade with the Farm from the Abbot of Cirencester in com Glo. Which Elizabeth shortly after vowing Chastity was solemnly veiled a Nun by William de Edendon then Bishop of UUinchester at UUaverle in that Diocess But afterwards quitting her profession was clandestinely Married to Sir Eustace Dabrischescourt Knight in a certain Chapel of the Mansion House of Robert de Brome a Canon in the Collegiate Church of Wyngham in com Cantii without any License from the Archbishop of Canterbury by one Sir Iohn Ireland a Priest before the Sun-rising upon Michelmass-day An. 1360. 34 E. 3. For which transgression both she and her said Husband being personally convented before the same Archbishop at his Mannor House of Maghfeld upon the seventh Ides of April the Archbishop for their Pennance enjoyned that they should find a Priest to celebrate Divine Service daily in the Chapel of our Lady within the Church of Wyngham by reason that the Marriage was thus unlawfully solemnised in that Parish for them the said Sir Eustace and Elizabeth and him the said Archbishop And that the Priest should every day say over the seven Penitential Psalms with the Littany for them and all faithful Christians as also Placebo and Dirige for all the faithfull deceased Likewise that every Morning being risen from his Bed that he should say five Pater nosters and Aves Kneeling looking upon the Wounds of the Image on the Crucifix and as many every night in like sort Moreover that they the said Sir Eustace and Elizabeth should find another Priest continually residing with one of them to celebrate Divine Service for them in the same manner as the Priest at Wyngham was to do and to say the seven Penitential Psalmes Litany Placebo and Dirige as abovesaid He likewise enjoyned the said Elizabeth that every day during her whole life she should say the seven Penitential Psalmes and the fifteen gradual Psalmes with the Littany Placebo and Dirige and commendation of Souls for the quick and the dead And also appointed him the said Sir Eustace and her that the next day after any carnal Copulation had betwixt them they should competently relieve six poor people both of them that day to abstain from some dish of flesh or fish whereof they did most desire to eat And lastly that she the said Elizabeth should once every year go on foot to visit that glorious Martyr St. Thomas of Canterbury and once every week during her life take no other Food but Bread and Drink and a Mess of Pottage wearing no Smocke and specially in the absence of her Husband This Elizabeth by her Testament bearing date at Bedhampton 20 Apr. An. 1411 12 H. 4. bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Church of the Friers Minors at Winchester in the Tombe of the before specified Iohn Earl of Kent her late Husband without any wordly solemnity appointing that five Tapers each of them of five pounds weight should burn about her Corps upon her Funeral day and departed this life upon the 6 th day of Iune next ensuing Strabolgi 15. Edw 2. OF this Family the first touching whom I find mention is David de Strabolgy Earl of Athol in Scotland who by Isabell one of the Co-heirs to Richard de Chilham of Chilham Castle in Kent and Roâsâ de Dovor his Wife had Issue Iohn de Strabolgie Earl of Athol Which
then told him of the rumor which had been spread amongst the People throughout England that he was not son to the Prince of Wales but rather to a Priest or Chanon For said he I have heard of certain Knights who were in the Princes House mine Vncle how that he knew well that his Wife had not truly kept her Marriage Your Mother quoth he was Cosin-german to King Edward and the King began to hate her because she could have no Generation Also she was the Kings Gossip of two Children at the Font and she that could well keep the Prince in her bandon by craft and subtilty she made the Prince to he her Husband And because she could have no childe and doubting that the Prince should be divorced from her she did so much that she was with childe with you and with another before you As of the first I cannot tell what to judge but as for you your conditions have been seen contrary from all Nobleness and Prowess of the Prince therefore it is said that ye be rather son to a Priest or Chanon for when you were gotten and borne at Burdeaux there were many young men Priests in the Princes house This is the bruit in this Country and your workes have well followed the same for ye be alwayes inclined to the Pleasures of the French-men and to take with them Peace to the confusion and dishonor of the Realm of England And because mine Vncle of Glocester and the Earl of Arundel did counsail you truly and faithfully to keep the honor of the Realme and to follow the steps of your Ancestors ye have Traytrously caused them to die As for me I have taken upon me to defend your life so long as I may for pitty and I shall pray the Londoners and the heritors of them that you have slain and banished to do the same Cousin I thank you quoth the King I trust more in you than in any other It is but right that you should do so quoth this Duke for if I had not been ye had been taken by the People and deposed with great confusion and slain by reason of your evil deeds ¶ I come now to the other Sons of Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster by Catherine Swinford his third and last Wife Which Sons were surnamed Beaufort from the Castle of Beaufort in France that came to the House of Lancaster by Blanch of Artois Wife to Edmund Crouchback the first Earl of Lancaster Of these sons so Legitimated as before hath been observed the eldest is Iohn who in 15 R. 2. by the name of Sir Iohn Beaufort Knight had License to travel beyond the Seas and in 18 R. 2. accompanied his Father into Gascoine In 20 R. 2. the Lord Chancellor declaring in Parliament that the King had created this Iohn Earl of Somerset he was brought in betwixt two Earles the Earl of Huntington and the Earl Marshall in a Vesture of Honor his Sword with the pomel Gilt carried before him Where the Charter of his Creation being openly read he was girt with the same Sword and doing his Homage placed between the Earl Marshall and the Earl of Warwick Moreover upon Saturday the Festival of St. Michael th' Arch-Angel the next ensuing year he was also in Parliament Created Marquess Dorset by girding with a Sword and a Circle put upon his head according to usage But his Charter of Creation to that Honor was soon vacated having in lieu thereof another bearing date the same day whereby he was Created Marquess of Somerset Nevertheless though that was the last and the other Cancelled he ever after bore the Title of Marquess Dorset and by that appellation was made Constable of Walingford-Castle and Steward of the Honor of Walingford and St. Waleries upon the 22 th of November following as also Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports 5 Febr. In the same year likewise he was constituted the King's Lieutenant of Aquitane and obtained a Grant to himself and Margaret his Wife and to the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten of the Mannors of Drayton Basset Waâeshale Pyrie Hamstede and Barre in Com. Staff Bukby in Com Northampt Chyriel and Hinton in Com. Wilts and Neketon and Cressyngham in Com. Norff. part of the possessions of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick then attainted In this year also 2 Febr. he was made Admiral of all the Kings Fleet both to the North and West-wards But in I H. 4. the Scene being then chang'd having been one of the Accusers of Thomas de Woodstoke Duke of Glocester his right to the Title of Marquess Dorset was made void by the Authority of that Parliament then held so that then he had no other than that of Earl of Somerset by which appellation he was the same year 7 Nov. advancâd to the Office of Lord Chamberlain of England and in 2 H. 4. retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in the Governourship of the Town of Kaermeâdyn As also fully admitted to his favour and his former estate notwithstanding the Judgment so given against him the preceding year Likewise made Captain of Calais and the Marches thereof extending into Picardy Flanders and Arâoys And in 3 H. 4. imployed with the Bishop of Worcester and some others to treat and accord with the Duke of Gueldres upon a League of amity betwixt the King of England and him whereupon that Duke was to do the King Homage for all his Dominions and Lands But in 4 H. 4. the Commons in Parliament petitioning for his Restitution he seemed unwilling to it in regard the name of Marquess was an Honor of such a late erection yet at length accepted it and by that Title in 8 H. 4. was constituted Admiral of the King 's whole Fleet as well for the North as West And in 5 H. 4. had an Assignation of the Isle of Thanââ in Kent for the support of himself and his soldiers then abiding in the Garrison of Calais as also constituted Ambassador to Treat of Peace with the French In this year likewise he was appointed one of the Commissioners to receive all such sums of Money as were then unpaid for the Ransome of Iohn King of France taken Prisoner in the time of King Edward the Third And in 10 H. 4. the Seneschal of Henault then coming into England to seek adventures in Armes he answered him This Iohn took to Wife Margaret daughter of Thomas and one of the sisters and coheirs to Thomas Holand Earl of Kent and had for her purpartie of the Lands which by Inheritance descended to her and the other coheires an Assignation of the Mannor of Deping in Com. Linc. excepting certain Lands in Berham and Stowe Also of a certain Pasture called Cranemore three Water-mills in East Deping and West Deping Fourscore
New Bigging to become bound in Ten thousand Marks for the rendring himself prisoner at a certain day in case he did not pay the Ransome then agreed on Of which payment making not performance the King upon complaint commanded Henry de Perci Earl of Northumberland Roger Lord Clifford and Raphe Lord Greystoke to bring him personally to his Presence and to find sufficient security for the indempnifying of those his sureties Nevertheless he neglected so to do by reason whereof the said Iohn de Nevill of Baby was constrain'd to pay the Ransome which was a Thousand Marks Whereupon making complaint to the King in 5 R. 2. he sent his Precept to the Sheriff of Westmorland to levy that sum upon the Goods and Lands of this Thomas as also to Arrest him and keep him in prison untill he should make full repayment thereof the Money having been paid by Nevill to the Earl of March whose Prisoner he was This is all that I have to say of him other than that his summons to Parliament was from 24 E. 3. until 47 E. 3. inclusive and that his Descendents being persons of great note in those parts do continue there to this day Benhale 34. Edw. 3. IN 10 E. 3. Robert de Benhale was in that Expedition then made into France Likewise in 12 E. 3. in that into Flanders And in 34 E. 3. had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm but never after Edmund de Langele Earl of Cambridge 36 Edw. 3. EDmund the Fifth son of King Edward the Third born Edmund at the King's Mannor-house of Langele in Com. Hertf. An. 1341. 15 E. 3. and baptized by Michael then Abbot of St. Albans took thereupon his Surname from that place And in 21 E. 3. being then but six years of age had a Grant from the King his Father in special tail of all the Castles Mannors and Lands beyond Tâent formerly belonging to Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey but in regard of his Minority Quen Philippa his Mother received the Profits of them for the maintenance and education of him and other her younger children From which time till 36 E. 3. I have not seen any farther mention of him but then the Parliament sitting though he was at that time in Treland he was created Earl of Cambridge his Patent bearing date 13 Nov. And in 37 E. 3. obtain'd a Grant in Fee of the Castle Mannor and Town of Stanford as also of the Mannor of Grantham both in Com. Linc. In 38 E. 3. it appeares that he should have married Margaret heir to the Earl of Flanders but for neerness of blood the Pope being sent to for his Dispensation therein and Charles the Fifth then King of France craftily hindring it she became the wife to Philip Duke of Burgundy Brother to that King Notwithstanding which it appeares that in 39 E. 3. which was the next ensuing year Sir Nicholas de Tamworth Knight and Iohn Wyn Esquire were sent by King Edward to all the Nobles and other his Friends beyond the Seas to sollicit their help for the expelling those Strangers who had invaded the Counties of Burgundy Nevere and Reth of right belonging to the Countess of Flanders and her son which were to return unto this Edmund and to the Dutchess of Burgundy daughter to the same Earl of Flanders in regard of that Matrimonial Contract made betwixt them as the Record apparently doth manifest In 42 E. 3. Peace being then made with France this Edmund was one of those who on the behalf of the King his Father made Oath for the performance of the Articles then agreed on Also in 43 E. 3. being sent with the Earl of Pembroke and others in aid of the Black Prince then in Normandy he was at the siege of Bourdelf and having taken it Marcht to the Castle of Roche sur yone Moreover after this upon winning the Garrison of Bell-Perch he led away the Duke of Bourbon's Mother and all that were therein And then joyn'd with the Duke of Lancaster his Brother at Bergerath to keep the Frontiers against the French In 44 E. 3. he still continued in those Wars and in 46 E. 3. upon the taking of Lymoges by the Black Prince with the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Guischard de Angle he entred and did much slaughter there After which he attended the King in that Expedition design'd for the rescuing of Thouars but therein being crossed by contrary Windes nothing was attempted Before the end of that year therefore he returned with Iohn Duke of Lancaster his Brother at which time they brought with them the two daughters of Don Pedro King of Castile viz. Constance and Isabell which Isallell shortly became his wife In 47 E. 3. he was retein'd by Indenture to serve the King for one whole year in his fleet at Sea with Two hundred and fifty Men at Armes Two hundred and fifty Archers thirty Knights and Two hundred and twenty Esquires and in 48 E. 3. was joyn'd in Commission by the King his Father with Iohn Duke of Britanny in the Lieutenancy of France and all other Forreign parts Whereupon he âailed into Britanny and had the Town of St. Mathews on the Sea-coast with the Castles of Brest and Orrey rendred to him After which they besieg'd Kemperle wherein most of the chief Men of Britanny at that time were and had taken it but that a certain Knight brought them Newes of a Truce betwixt England and France with command from King Edward that they should leave the siege and return home speedily In 50 E. 3. he was made Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports And in 1 R. 2. in which year he was again retein'd to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea for a quarter of that year with One hundred Men at Armes and One hundred Archers whereof himself and one Banneret to be part of the number twelve Knights and the rest Esquires Froisard saith that upon the appearance of the French near to the Coast of England about that time this Edmund and Thomas of Wodstoke his Brother were at Dovor in the head of an hundred thousand men with Banners display'd In 2 R. 2. he was again in the King's Fleet at Sea And in 4 R. 2. was one of the Principal Commanders in that great Army then sent into Portugall Whereupon he obtain'd a Grant from the King that whereas by reason of his former services and in that voyage to Portugall he had contracted divers Debts his Executors should therefore reteine the profits of all his Lands for one whole year after his death as also receive that sum of Five hundred Marks which had been granted by King Edward the Third to be paid yearly unto him
within four Leagues he sent command to his soldiers dispers'd in sundry parts to follow him with all speed and with a small number marcht himself before In which march passing a Marish not without much difficulty and loss his men being in disorder he fell into his Enemies hands and was there unhappily slain upon Saturday Easter-Eve 9 H. 5. leaving King Henry the Fifth his Brother his next heir Thirty four years of age And Margaret his wife surviving Which Margaret in 1 H. 6. had for her Dowrie an assignation of the third part of the Castle Mannor and Lordshid of Somerton in Somersetshire as also a third part of the Castle Town and Lordship of Montalt and Mohautesdale with its Members in North-Wales She had also in 12 H. 6. upon the death of Ioane late Dutchess of York her sister without issue an assiguation of divers Lordships Lands and Rents for her purparty of what her said Sister died seised and died 30 Dec. 18 H. 6. leaving Iohn Earl of Somerset her son and heir Thirty years of age This Thomas Duke of Clarence died without any lawful issue leaving an illegitimate son called Iohn the Bastard of Clarence Who notwithstanding his youth being a person of an high courage and present with his Father in that unhappy skirmish wherein he lost his life recovered his dead body from the Enemy and brought it to Canterbury where it was interred according to the direction of his Testament In consideration whereof King Henry the Sixth in the Seventh year of his Reign granted to him the Mannors of Eskyr Newcastle of Lyouns Cromelyn and Teââagard in the Realm of Ireland But all that I have farther seen of that Iohn is that in 8 H. 6. he was retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France with Forty nine men at Armes and Nine hundred Archers and that in 9 H. 6. in consideration of his good services he was made Constable of the Castle of Dublin in Ireland Humphrey Duke of Glocester 1 H. 5. THis Humphrey the Fourth and youngest son to King Henry the Fourth by Mary his Wife daughter and coheir to Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Essex and Herthampton and Constable of England being made Knight of the Bath at his Father's Coronation had allowance of the like Robes and other accoutrements for that solemnity out of the King 's great Wardrobe as were then assign'd to his two Brothers Thomas afterward D. of Clarence and Iohn D. of Bedford which at that time receiv'd the same honor And in 1 H. 5. obtain'd a grant in general tail of the Castle and Lordship of Pembroke the Castle and Lordship of Tembergh the Castle and Lordship of Kilgaran and Commots of Ostrelaw Treyn and Seynclere in Wales then in the Crown Likewise of an Annuity of Five hundred Marks to himself and the heirs male of his Body issuing out of the Castles Lordships Mannors and Lands belonging to the Principallity of Wales and Dutchy of Cornwall payable out of the Exchequer at Easter and Michaelmas by even Portions until provision of Lands equivalent should be assign'd unto him Shortly after which being made Duke of Glocester in the Parliament held at Leicester the same year he had summons by that Title as also by the Title of Earl of Pembroke to the Parliament held at Westminster the next ensuing year And in 3 H. 5. being with the King at the siege of Harflew had there the charge of the Field and soon after that in the Battel of Agencourt receiv'd a dangerous wound by a Sword upon his Ham in consideration whereof he had thereupon a grant from the King in general tail of the Castle and Lordship of Lanstephan in Wales then in the Crown by the forfeiture of William Gwyn and Henry his son slain in that Battel In 4 H. 5. being retein'd to serve the King in his Wars beyond-Sea upon the League then made betwixt the Emperor and King Henry in order whereunto they both met at ãâã upon the Emperors departure thence he attended him with many of the Kings servants to Doâ In 5 H. 5. being again in the wars of France with One hundred Speares and Three hundred Archers he besieg'd the Castle of Tonque and at the siege of Alenzon pitched his Tent before the Castle there The same year also after the Feast of Easter he was sent to besiege the Castle of Damfront and had special Commission to Treat with the Inhabitants of âayeur for the render of that Town and Castle Also upon the calling of Iohn Duke of Bedford into Normandy he was in his stead constituted the King's Lieutenant here in England And in 6 H. 5. being sent to the Isle of Constantine upon his march thither he took the strong Castle of Caââdey Thence went to Uire where the Inhabitants soon yielded that Town and Castle to him And so to Torney Lew St. Saviour le Uicount Ualeiges and Breekcoâirt which also submitted to the King's obedience And notwithstanding the great resistance he had at Chirburgh made by divers of the Nobility for the defence thereof took it Being likewise at the siege of Roan he lay nearer to the Town by Forty Rods than any other and in 7 H. 5. took the Town and Castle of Ivory by force Moreover after divers Battels and Skirmishes he got the strong Town of St. Germans by surrender About this time there being a Treaty held at Evreux for a Marriage betwixt him and Blanch Queen of Sicilie daughter and sole heir to Charles King of Navarre it took no effect In 10 H. 5. he was again made Lieutenant of this Realme the King being in France And in 1 H. 6. in the absence of Iohn Duke of Bedford had the like trust confirmed on him being then also constituted Governor of the Castle at Guisnes for the terme of Fourteen years In this year it was that upon some variance which had hapned betwixt Iohn Duke of Brabant and Iaqueline his wife Dutchess of Hainault daughter to William Duke of Hainault which William was Uncle to Philip Duke of Burgundy Sir ... Robsart Knight bringing Iaqueline into England this Duke Humphrey married her notwithstanding that the Duke of Brabant her husband was then alive Whereupon within a moneth after raising Twelve hundred fighting men he took her with him to Calais thence to Lens in Artois and so to Hainault where some places submitted to their obedience but others not the Nobles being divided The Duke of Burgundy therefore hearing of this to vindicate the injury done to the Duke of Brabant raised Twelve hundred Picards Of which Forces though Philip Earl of St. Paul a stout soldier and brother to the Duke of Brabant was appointed General
also betwixt him and the daughter and heir to Frederick Burgrave of Nurenburgh but none of them succeeded About this time also it was that Ioane Queen of Apulââ obtain'd leave of King Henry to adopt this Duke for her son and that the Scots laying siege to the Castle of Roxboroâgh he raised an Army and Marcht Northward but they hearing of his approach fled In this year likewise being sent for by the King her sailed with a great power into Normandy and in 7. H. 5. was again retein'd by Indenture to serve him in his wars of France with six Knights One hundred and thirteen men at Armes and Three hundred and sixty Archers In 8 H. 5. being at that time in France he was with the King at the siege of Melon that strong City which endured fourteen weeks and four dayes viz. from the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen until Alâhallown-tide ere it rendred and in 9 H. 5. was once more made Lieutenant and Governor of this Realme during the King's abode in France In that year also upon the birth of Prince Henry at Windsore-Castle on the festival of St. Nicholas the Bishop he was one of his Godfathers at the Font and in the Moneth of April next following attended the Queen into Normandy In 10 H. 5. being still in France he was sent to raise the siege of a Walled City belonging to the Duke of Burgundy which the Dolphin with the Earl of Armanack and the Scots had laid thereto who hearing of his approach fled And upon the death of King Henry the Fifth which hapned soon after was left Governor and Lieutenant of Normandy as that King did in his life-time direct In 1 H. 6. the King being then but an Infant he was constituted his chief Counsellor and Protector as also Regent of France where continuing for the Government of that Realm he besieged Crotoy both by Water and Land for four moneths till it rendred About this time the Parisians to divert him whilst in his absence they might bring in Charles the Dolphin who call'd himself King of France advertised him that divers Castles and Fortresses lying near their Territories were replenisht with Enemies who stopt their passage and rob'd their Merchants which would be to their utter ruine if by his help they were not releived But this their Plot being discovered he entred Paris with a great Power before they lookt for him and apprehending the Conspirators put then to Execution and not only so but caused the Castles and Forts adjoyning to that City to be furnished with Englishmen And to avoid all Night-watchers about Parâs and the confines thereof took into his possession by assault or composition the Towns of ârainelle and Braâe upon Seine And because two Castles the one called Pacâe and the other Couâsaâe were ill Neighbours he sent Sir Iohn Fastolfe great Master of his Houshold with considerable forces to win them In 2 H. 6. besieging the Castle of Yvrie it was given up into his hands And having married Anne daughter to Iohn Duke of Burgundy obtain'd a special Act of Parliament for the making her a free-denizen her Homage being respited until she arrived in England In this year upon the taking of Uernoâl by Iohn Duke of Alenzon he marcht thither and giving him Battel obtain'd a signal Victory in which that Duke being taken prisoner Five thousand of the French lost their lives Whereupon he put another garrison into it and return'd to Paris In 4 H. 6. he was constituted Admiral of all England Ireland and Aquitane for the life of Thomas Duke of Exeter but afterwards so long as the King should please And in 5 H. 6. continued still in France In 7 H. 6. he was made Captain of the Town and Castle of Calais and the Marches of Picardy adjacent In 8 H. 6. he call'd a Parliament at Roan in Normandy of the three Estates of that Dutchy wherein he represented to them the happiness which they might enjoy by continuing under the English obeysance And soon after recovered the Town of St. Dennis from the French In 11 H. 6. Anne his wife departing the world whereupon the friendship betwixt him and the Duke of Burgundy began to slacken he buried her at the Celestine's in Paris within the Chapel of Orleans where a noble Tombe of black Marble with her Effigies as a Princess placed thereon was erected for her with this Epitaph Cy gist Noble Dame Madame Anne de Bourgongne Espouse de tres Noble Prince Monseigneur Jean Duo de Bethfort Regent de France fille de tres-noble Prince Jean Duc de Burgongne la quelle trespass a Paris le XIV de Novembre lâ an MCCCCXXXII And before the end of that year married Iaquette daughter to Peter de Luxemburgh Earl of St. Paul In 12 H. 6. he was again constituted the King's Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches extending into Picardy Flanders and Attois and by his Testament bearing date in the Castle of Roan 10 Sept. An. 1435. 14 H. 6. bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Church of the blessed Virgin at Roan in case he should depart this life in Normandy If in Picardy then in the Church of Nostre Dame at Morivele and if in England in Waltham-Abby in Com. Essex Appointing that such Service Lights and other Ordinances should be performed at his Funeral as for a person of his degree according to the direction of his Executors Bequeathing to Iaquetta his wife all his Lands whereof he was then possessed as well in England as in France excepting the Castle and Lordship of Harapute which he gave to Richard his illegitimate son commonly called The Bastard of Bedford to enjoy during his life only And being a person highly famed for his prudent Government in times of Peace and singular prowess in Warr departed this life in the Castle at Roan upon the Festival of the Exaltation of the Holy-Cross in the year above-mentioned without any lawful issue being then seised of the Castle Mannor and Lordship of St. Briavells with the Forest of Dene in Com. Gloc. of the Mannors of Hoo and Preston in Com. Suss. Totyngbek in Com. Surr. Saldene and Bledlowe in Com. Buck. Bradwell Dangehall and Dangebregge in Com. Essex of the Castle and Honor of Richmund with the Mannors of Gilling Aldeburgh Bowes Forset Danby Multon Thornton Middelton Kneton also of the Castle of Wresel with the Mannors of Helaugh juxta Wighall and Kirk-levyngton in Cleveland all in Com. Ebor. of the Mannor of Bassingburne with the Hundreds of Papworth Flemdiche Haringford Chilford Stane and Padefeld in Com. Cantabr of the Mannor of Fulbroke in Com. Warr. Combe Quarles and Monkeston in Com. South two parts of the Mannors of Ambresbury and Winterburne with the Town of Wilton of the Mannor of
another Katherine who all died young Which Iane departing this life 22 Ian. an 1555. 2 Mariae was buried in the North Isle of the Parish-church at Chelsey in Com. Midd. All that I have farther to say of him is that in the Parliament held 1 Mariae his attainder was confirmed as were the attainders of Iohn his eldest Son called Earl of Warwick and of these other of his Sons viz. Sir Ambrose and Sir Guilford both Knights and Henry Dudly Esq Which Iohn married Anne Daughter to Edward Duke of Somerset and in 6 E. 6. was made Master of the Horse with the see of C Marks per an and Knight of the Garter but died in prison without issue soon after ¶ I therefore come to Ambrose the eldest of those that survived In 3 E. 6. he served under the command of his Father then General of those Forces sent to suppress the Rebels in Norfolk and in 3 4 Ph. M. through the special favour of that Queen not suffering death as his Father and Brother did being restored in bloud was shortly after at the siege of St. Quintins in Picardy and in 1 Eliz. obtained a grant of the Mannour of Kibworth Beauchamp in Com. Leic. to be held by the service of Pantler to the Kings and Queens of this Realm at their Coronations Which office and Mannour his Father and other of his Ancestors Earls of Warwick formerly enjoyed And in 2 Eliz. being then a Knight was advanced to that great office of Master of the Ordinance for life Also in 4 Eliz. upon Christmas-day to the title of Baron L'isle and the next day ensuing to the dignity of Earl of Warwick Whereupon he had a grant 6 Apr. of the Castle Mannour and Burrough of Warwick with divers other Lordships in Com. War which came to the Crown by the attainder of his Father Before the end of that year he was likewise made Captain-general of all the Queens subjects in Normandy 1 Oct Shortly after which though twice repulsed by contrary winds he landed at Newhaven with certain Forces where he had some slight skirmishes with the French Continuing there till 6 Eliz. he discerned that the Inhabitants of that Port had a design to betray the Town and therefore not only expelled them but seized upon their Ships Whereupon the French prepared for a siege which the English not willing to undergo by reason that the Pestilence begun to rage amongst the Souldiers they condescended to yield it up on honourable terms During his continuance in those parts he was elected Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And in 12 Eliz. upon that Insurrection in the North by the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland the Earl of Sussex being first sent with seven hundred men for the suppressing thereof this Earl with Clinton then Lord Admiral followed with thirteen thousand more being made Lieutenant-general of her Majesties forces in those parts In 13 Eliz. he was constituted chief Butler of England and in 15 Eliz. sworn of her Privy-Council being the same year one of the Peers who sate in Westminster Hall upon Tryal and judgement of Thomas Duke of Norfolk As also in 29 Eliz. at Fotheringhay for tryal of the Queen of Scots And having married three Wives viz. Anne Daughter and coheir to William Whorwood Esq Atturney-general to King Henry the eight Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Gilbert Tailboys Knight Sister and sole Heir of George Lord Tailboys and Anne Daughter to Francis Earl of Bedford departed this life without issue 21 Febr-an 1589. 32 Eliz. at Bedford-house in the suburbs of London and was buried in that âeautiful Chapel at Warwick adjoyning to the Collegiate Church where his Monument is still to be seen ¶ The next of the surviving Sons to this great Duke was Robert who in 5 E. 6. his Father then living was sworn one of the six Gentlemen in ordinary to that King viz. of his Privy Chamber as Sir Iohn Hayward expresseth adding that he was the true Heir both of his hate against persons of Nobility and cunning to dissemble the same and afterwards for lust and cruelty a Monster of the Court. And as apt to hate so a true executioner of his Hate yet rather by practice than by open dealing as wanting rather courage than wit And that after his entertainment into a place of so near service the King enjoyed his health not long But in 1 Mariae though upon the taking of his Father he was also with him sent to the Tower and attainted yet was he soon after restored by that Queen and in 4 5 of her Reign made Master of the Ordinance at the Siege of St. Quintins And from Queen Elizabeth whether for that he had shared with her in that common fate of Imprisonment in the reign of her Sister or that by reason of their Births in one and the same auspicious hour is not easy to determine saith my Author received extraordinary favours and benefits For having in the first year of her reign 11 Ian. that eminent office of Master of the Horse with the Fee of C Marks per annum conferred upon him and being made Knight of the most Noble Oâder of the Garter Also in 3 Eliz. Constable of Windsor-Castle for life Increasing yet farther into her esteem in 6 Eliz. she recommended him for an Husband to Mary Queen of Scotland promising if that Queen would assent thereto that she would by authority of Parliament declare her to be her Sister or Daughter and Heir to the Crown of England in case she her self should die without issue But the French esteeming it dishonourable for Her to Marry with him offered great advantages to the Subjects of the Scottish Nation in case they would refuse it and suggested to them that Queen Elizabeth did not at all purpose what she made shew of As to her real intentions therein I shall not take upon me to say any thing though plain it is that having given him large possessions before the end of that year viz. upon the 28. of Sept. she advanced him to the dignity of Baron of Denbigh and the next day following to that of Earl of Leicester to the end as some thought that he might seem the better qualifyed for that marriage though others suspected that this shew made by Queen Elizabeth was meerly to try if the motion would be accepted and then to marry with him her self with less dishonour In an 1566. 8 Eliz. he had the dignity of Knight of the order of S. Michael conferred upon him by Charles the ninth King of France And in an 1572. 15 Eliz. was one of the Peers appointed to sit upon Tryal of the Duke
of Age Ioane his Wife surviving who by her Testament bearing date 3 Dec. an 1485. 1 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of All-Hallows at Herst Monceaux near to the grave of Sir Richard Fenys Kt her Husband And to Elizabeth Lady Clinton her Daughter Wife of Iohn Lord Clinton and Thomas Fenys her Son gave all her Chattels and Jewells to be divided betwixt them Which Thomas accomplishing his full age in 7 H. 7. had Livery of his Lands Shortly after which viz. in 10 H. 7. he was made Knight of the Bath upon the Creation of Henry the Kings second Son Duke of Yorke And in 8 H. 7. appeared in Arms against the Cornish-men who had then made a great Insurrection So likewise shortly after when the Scots had laid Siege to Norham-Castle he marcht with the Earl of Surrey to the raising thereof This Thomas having been summon'd to Parliament from 11 H. 7. to 21 H. 8. by his Testament bearing date 1 Sept. an 1531. 23 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Herst Monceaux on the North-side of the high Altar Appointing that a Tomb should be there made for placing the Sepulcher of our Lord with all fitting Furniture thereto in honour of the most blessed Sacrament Also that towards the Lights about the same Sepulcher C l. in Wax should be imploy'd in Tapers of ten pound weight a piece for to burn about it Likewise that his Funeral should be solemnized according to the degree of a Baron and a Tomb set over his Grave to the end it might be known where his Body resteth Moreover that an honest Priest should sing there for his Soul by the space of seven years taking annually for his Salary and to find Bread Wine and Wax xii marks sterling And died in an 1534. 26 H. 8. as it seems for then doth the Probate of this his Testament bear date leaving Thomas his Cousin and Heir Apparent to succeed him Which Thomas in an 1541. 33 H. 8. being seduced by some extravagant persons to course in the night time in Laughton-Park in Com. Suss. belonging to Nicholas Pelham Esq by the way at a place called Pikehay met with three persons betwixt whom and those of his Company there hapned a fray wherein one of them was mortally wounded and died soon after Whereupon he was indicted of murther for the same and being found guilty thereof upon Tryal by his Peers upon the xxix th of Iune being St. Peters day was carried from the Tower of London to Tiburn and there hang'd After which his Body was buryed in St. Sepulchers Church near Newgate he being then not above xxiv years of Age. Whose death was much lamented in regard of his youth noble disposition and the King 's inexorable rigour It is said that this Manslaughter for it was no other was committed by those who were of his Company at that time he not being present And that being call'd in question he was through the subtilty of some Courtiers who gaped for his Estate perswaded to acknowledge the Murther for that the Indictment charg'd him with and to submit himself to the King's mercy Unto which advice imprudently hearkning he had Sentence of death and suffered accordingly leaving Issue Gregory his Son and Heir and a Daughter called Margaret Which Gregory with his Sister being restored by Act of Parliament in 1 Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Lincoln in 14 Eliz. then sent Embassador to the King of France at Paris Where the League not long before concluded on at Bloys was fully ratified This Gregory Lord Dacres dying without Issue 26 Sept. an 1549. 36 Eliz. was buried at Chelsey leaving Margaret his Sister his sole Heir Which Margaret being Married to Sampson Lennard Esq and making claim to the Honour it was declared and adjudg'd by the Lords Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England in the second year of King Iames with the privity and assent of the King that she the said Margaret ought to have and enjoy the name state degree stile honour place and precedency of the Barons Dacre to have and to hold to her and to the Issue of her Body in as full and ample manner as any of her Ancestors did enjoy the same As also that her Children might and should take and enjoy their place and precedence respectively as the Childern of her Ancestors Barons Dacre formerly had and enjoyed This Sampson also by the special favour of the King in 10 Iac. obtaining a grant to himself during his Life for to take place and precedence as the eldest Son to the Lord Dacres of the South had Issue by her the said Margaret Henry his Son and Heir to whom the Title of Lord Dacres was afterwards confirm'd Which Henry died 10 Aug. an 1616. 14 Iac. and by Chrysogona his Wife Daughter of Sir Henry Baker of Sissinhurst in Com. Cantii Knight left Issue three Sons Richard Edward and Fienes And two Daughters Margaret Married to Sir ... Wildgoose Knights and Philadelphia to Sir Thomas Parker of Willington in Com. Suss. Knight Which Richard Lord Dacre departed this Life at Herst-Monceaux 18 Aug. an 1630. 6 Car. 1. leaving Issue by Elizabeth his first Wife Daughter and Coheir to Sir Arthur Throkmorton of Paulere Perie in Com. Northt Knight four Sons viz. Francis Richard Thomas and Henry of which Sons Richard and Henry died young And by Dorothy his second Wife Daughter of Dudley Lord North one Son called Richard and Catherine a Daughter To whom succeeded Francis his Eldest Son who Married Elizabeth Daughter of Paul Vicount Banning and died in an 1662. leaving Issue by her two Sons Thomas advanced to the dignity of Earl of Sussex by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 5 Octobris 26 Car. 2. and Henry Fienes Lord Say 25 H. 6. ¶ I Now come to Iames the second Son of the before-specified Sir William de Fienes Kt. This Iames being a valiant Souldier in 6 H. 5. obtain'd a grant from that Victorious King of the Lordship of De la Court le Comte within the Bayliwick of Cauâ in Normandy part of the possessions of the Lord of Lymers and likewise of all those Lands lying within the Bailiwick of âoben and Cauâ which did belong to Roger Bloset and his Wife The next year following upon the render of Arqueâ he was constituted Governour there And in 8 H. 6. attended the King into the France for the better defence of those parts In 15 H. 6. he was made Sheriff of Kent So likewise in 17 H. 6. of Surrey and Sussex And in 18 H. 6. being Esquire for the Body to that King had a grant of Câ yearly Pension to
of Richmund at his landing Which was really his intent though he durst not shew it till he came near Bosworth but had Conference with him at Atherston about six Miles short of that place coming thither with great privacy to him the day before the Fight Approaching therefore near the Field he openly appeared notwithstanding the King's Message to him letting him know that unless he did forthwith repair to his presence he would put his Son the Lord Strange to Death and marcht with him in the Rear of all his Forces with one Troop of Horse and some few Foot until the whole Army was fully marshall'd Whereupon the Battel soon after ensued in which King Richard being slain and his Crown he that day wore found amongst the spoils he set it upon the Earl of Richmund's Head and Proclaim'd him King by the name of Henry the Seventh After which upon the 27th of October he was advanced to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Derby and Constituted one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Lord High Steward of England upon the thirtieth day of that month which was the day of his more solemn Coronation as also soon after that made one of his Privy Council And in 3 H. 7. one of the Commissioners to exercise the Office of High Steward of England upon the day of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Wife to that prudent King He Married two Wives First Eleanore the fourth Daughter to Richard Nâvil Earl of Salisbury by whom he had issue six Sons and four Daughters viz. Thomas and Richard who died young George called Lord Strange of whom I shall speak farther by and by William died young Edward afterwards Lord Mont-Egle and Iames elected Bishop of Ely in 22 H. 7. Which Iames being also Warden of the Collegiate-Church at Manchester in Com. Lanc. lyeth buried in the Chapell of St. Iohn Baptist on the North side of that Church by him built with this Inscription on his Tomb Of your Charity pray for the soul of James Stanley sometimes Bishop of Ely and Warden of Manchester who deceased this transitory world the xxii of March in the year of our Lord God 1525. upon whose soul and all Christian souls Iesu have mercy His four Daughters were these Ioan Catherine and Anne who died young and Margaret married to Sir Iohn Osbaldeston of ... in Com. Lanc. Knight His second Wife was Margaret Daughter and Heir to Iohn Duke of Somerset Widdow of Edmund Earl of Richmund before mentioned the happy Mother to King Henry the seventh but by her he had no issue By his Testament bearing date 28 Iulii an 1504 19 H. 7. bearing then the title of E. of Derby Lord Stanley Lord of Man and great Constable of England he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the midst of the Chapell in the North Isle of the Church of the Priory of Bourâcough near Lathom in Com. Lanc. of his Ancestors foundation where the Bodies of his Father Mother and other of his Ancestours lay buried having provided a Tomb to be there placed with the personage of himself and both his Wives for a perpetual remembrance to be pray'd for and likewise appointing that the personages which he had caused to be made for his Father and Mother his Grandfather and Great-grandfather should be set in the Arches of the Chancell within that Priory in the places provided for the same And though he had formerly given to the Prior and Covent of that House large gifts in money Jewels and Ornaments and likewise made great reparations there he farther bequeath'd unto them xx l. to the intent that they should be obliged by their Deed under their Covent Seal to cause one of the Canons of that house duly to say Mass in the before-specified Chapel for his Soul as also for the Soul of his Lady then living after her decease Likewise for the Soul of Alianore his former Wife and for the Souls of his Father Mother Ancestors Children Brethren and Sisters Also for the Soul of William late Marquess Berkley and for the Souls of them who died in his or his Fathers service or that should die in his service And at every Mass before the Lavatorie audibly to say for the said Souls appointed by name and all other in general De profundis clamavi and such Oriâons and Collects as are used to be said therewith Furthermore he willed that his Son Sir Edward Stanley should have and enjoy the Castle of Hornby so long as he lived And departed this life within the space of three months after as may seem by the Probate thereof which bears date 9 Nov. next ensuing To whom succeeded Thomas his Grandson and Heir by George his eldest Son who died in his life time Of which George before I proceed it is proper to take notice that having married Ioan the Daughter and Heir to Iohn Lord Strange of Knokin he had summons to Parliament by the title of Lord Strange in 22 E. 4. and afterwards until the twelfth of H. 7. inclusive Also that before his said marriage he was one of those noble persons which receiv'd the Honour of Knighthood by Bathing c. with Prince Edward the Kings eldest Son 18 Apr. 15 E. 4. and that in 1 H. 7. he was made one of the Lords of the Privy-Council Likewise that in 2 H. 7. being one of the principal Commanders in the Kings Army at the battel of Stoke juxta Newark he shared in the honour of that Victory which was then obtained against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents and was made one of the Knights Companions of the most noble order of the Garter Furthermore that in 9 H. 7. upon the siege of Norham-Castle by the Scots he advanced with Thomas Earl of Surrey and many other of the Nobility against those bold Invaders but performed nothing of consequence at that time the enemy retreating before they wrought thither And departing this life 5 Dec. 3 H. 7. his Father then living was buried in the Parish Church of St. Iames Garlik-hythe in the City of London leaving issue by the said Ioan his Wife two Sons viz. Thomas and Iames and two Daughters Iane married to Robert Sheffeild Esq and Elizabeth Which Thomas had livery of those lands whereof his Father died seised 9 Iulii 19 H. 7. And in 5. H. 8. his Grandfather being dead attended King Henry in that great expedition by him then made into France at which time he won Therouene and Tournay By Anne his Wife Daughter of Edward Lord Hastings Sister to George the first Earl of Huntington of that name and with whom he had four thousand Marks he had issue three Sons Iohn who died in his life time Edward his Successor in his honours and Henry as also one Daughter
called Margaret married to Robert Earl of Sussex Which Anne surviving him afterwards became the Wife of Iohn Ratcliffe Lord Fitzwalter By his Testament he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Priory of Bourscough in Com. Lanc. in case he should die within that County otherwise in the Monastery of Syon in Com. Midd. or in the Colledge of Asherugge in Com. Buck. And departing this life at Collam in Com. Midd. 24 Maii An. 1521. 13 H. 8 was buried at Syon accordingly To whom succeeded Edward his eldest surviving Son which Edward in 19 H. 8. was one of the principal persons that accompanied Cardinal Wolsey in that notable Embassy to King Francis of France then at Amiens touching the making a War in Italy to set Pope Clement the seventh at liberty at that time prisoner to the Duke of Burbon upon his sacking of Rome And in 22 H. 8. having there Livery of his Lands amongst other of the Peers subscribed that Declaration sent to the same Pope whereby they gave him intimation that unless he did comply with King Henry in that business of his divorce from Queen Catherine his Wife which he then eagerly desired the farther acknowledgment of his Supremacy here would be in much danger In 28 H. 8. upon that Insurrection of the Northern-men called the Pilgrimage of Grace the King directed his Letters to this Earl exciting him to raise what Forces he could with promise to repay his charges And in 34 H. 8. King Iames the fourth of Scotland having entertained divers of the chief Northern Rebels he was one of the Lords which for that and some other reasons entred Scotland upon the 21 of October under the conduct of the Duke of Norff. then Lieutenant-General of the English Army but staid not long there About the beginning of King Edward the sixth's Reign he was made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter And in 4 E. 6. was one of the Peers of this Realm then party to the Articles of peace made by King Edward with the Scots and French in which the Emperour was also comprehended Also in 1 Mariae constituted Lord High Steward of England for the Coronation-day of that Queen who was solemnly crowned upon the fifth of October Likewise in 2 Eliz. one of her Privy-Council This Earl married three Wives 1 Dorothy Daughter to Thomas Howard Duke of Norff. by whom he had issue three Sons and four Daughters viz. Henry who succeeded him in his Honours 2 Sir Thomas Stanley Knight who married Margaret one of the Daughters and coheirs to Sir George Vernon of Haddon in Com. Derb. Knight and Sir Edward Stanley of Eynsham in Com. Oxon. Knight His Daughters were these Anne first married to Charles Lord Stourton and after to Sir Iohn Arundel of Lanherne in Com. Cornub. Knight Elizabeth to Henry Lord Morley Mary to Edward Lord Stafford and Iane to Edward Lord Dudley To his second Wife he married Margaret Daughter of Ellis Barlow of ... in Com. Lanc. Esq by whom he had issue one Son called George who died young and two Daughters Margaret married to Iohn Iermyn of Rushbroke in Com. Suff. Esq after to Sir Nicholas Poyntz Knight and Catherine to Sir Thomas Knyvet Knight And to his third Wife Mary Daughter to George Cotten of Cumbermere in Com. Cestr. Esq by whom he had no issue Which Mary surviving him afterwards became the Wife of Henry Earl of Kent By his Testament bearing date 24 Aug. An. 1572. 14 Eliz. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Ormeskirk appointing that a Chapell and Tomb should be there erected for that purpose correspondent to his Dignity and Honour And departing this life at Lathem on Friday 24 Oct. next following was Honourably buried there on the fourth of December next following the Monastery of Bourscough where his Ancestors lay Entombed being totally demolished in that general destruction of all other the Religious Houses made in the time of King Henry the 8. To whom succeeded Henry his Son and Heir Which Henry being summon'd to Parliament in 18 Eliz. took his place there upon the 8 of February the same year and in An. 1525. 28 Eliz. was sent to carry the Ensigns of the most noble order of the Garter to the King of France In 29 Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at Fotâeringhay upon tryal of the Queen of Scots and in 31 Eliz. being then Knight of the Garter sent into Flanders with other Commissioners there to treat of Peace with the Prince of Parma General of the King of Spâins Forces in those parts In 32 Eliz. he was constituted Lord High Steward of England upon the Tryal of Philip Earl of Arundell And having married Margaret Daughter to Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland and of Alianore his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Charles Brandon Duke of Suff. by Mary the Queen Dowager of France one of King Henry the seventh's Daughters he begot on her three Sons Edward who dyed young as also Ferdinando and William successively Earls of Derby By his Testament bearing date 21 Sept. An. 1594. 35 Eliz. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in his Chapell at Ormeskirk and departing this life upon the 25 of Sept. ensuing was there interred To whom succeeded Ferdinand his surviving Son and Heir who overlived him but a short time For having by his Testament bearing date 12 Apr. 36 Eliz. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in his said Chapell at Ormeskirk he departed this life in the flower of his youth soon after not without suspicion of poyson whereupon he was there interred upon the sixth of May next ensuing leaving issue by Alice his Wife Daughter to Sir Iohn Spencer of Althorpe in Com. Northt Knight three Daughters his Heirs Anne married to Grey Bruges Lord Chandos Frances to Sir Iohn Egerton Knight afterwards Earl of Bridgwater and Elizabeth to Henry Lord Hastings afterwards Earl of Huntington Whereupon William his Brother and Heir Male succeeding him in his Honours a dispute arose betwixt those Heirs Female and him touching the title to the Isle of Man The Queen therefore being not ignorant that not only divers Runagates of the English but Spaniards her Enemies might resort thither committed the charge thereof to Sir Thomas Gerard Knight afterwards Lord Gerard till that controversy should be judicially determined The decision of which point being brought before her learned Council they declared that the right thereof did solely appertain to her Majesty and that the Stanleys and Earls of Derby had no good title thereto by reason that King Henry the fourth shortly after he attain'd the Crown of this Realm upon the Outlary of William Scrope then Lord thereof bestowed it on Henry Earl of
Suff. as also of the Mannours of Dolyngham and Michell-Hall otherwise called Earles Swasham in Com. Cantabr then in the Crown by the attainder of Iohn Earl of Oxford And in 17 E. 4. was joined in Commission with the Earl of Arundel and others to treat with the French for prolongation of the Truce betwixt both Realms In 18 E. 4. he obtained a grant of the Office of Constable of the Tower of London in reversion after the death of Iohn Lord Dudley and in 19 E. 4. was by Indenture again retein'd to serve the King as Captain General of his Fleet against the Scots with three thousand Men at Arms. He was likewise installed Knight of the Garter in the time of that King And having been thus faithful to the House of York during the whole time of King Edward the fourths reign he continued no less stedfast to King Richard the third after he had got the Crown though I do not find that he had any hand in those evil contrivances and barbarous actions which were exercised by Richard in order thereto So that to oblige him the more he was upon the 28 of Iune in the first year of that Kings Reign made Earl Marshal of England and upon the same day advanced to the dignity of Duke of Norfolk Thomas his Son being about that time also created Earl of Surry and in order to the solemnity of King Richard's Coronation upon the thirtieth of that month was constituted high Steward of England for that day as also Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Aquitane for life upon the 25 of Iuly ensuing upon which day he likewise obtained a grant in special tail of the Mannours and Lordships of Lavenham in Com. Suff. Canfeild Stansted-Montfichet Crepping Langdon Crustwiche Eston Hall Vauce Fyngreton Dodynghurst Bumsted-Melyon Beamond and Bentley in Com. Essex Badlesmere in Com. Canc. Hinkeston in Com. Cantabr Rosteneythe Helston Deby Predannok Poledewe Etheron Dawneth Ratleton Tresaveron Hilleton Heyvenis Newland Harnatethy Park Trewigo Wycoteham Penhall Nausergh with the Hundreds of Trelyghen and Shrobhender in Com. Cornub. Bretford Wellelewe Rustishall Chepenham Teffount Bremilshawe Upton Skydmore Weston Park Wermynster and Winterborne-Stoke in Com. Wiltes Hungerford in Com. Berks. as also of the Castle Lordship and Mannour of Farlegh in Com. Somerset and Wilts And shortly after that obtained another grant in special tail of the Mannours and Lordships of Middelton Hillington Tilney Istelington Clenchwarton Raynham Shakleshewe Skales Hekelyng Wilton Hokkewod Berton Bendish Wigenhale with the Fishing there and Toll in Bishops Lenne also of the Hundred of Frebrigge with its appurtenances in Com. Norfolk Likewise of the Mannours and Lordships of Lavenham and Warde Huton in Com. Suff. Canfeild Stansted-Montfichet Bentley and Wodham Ferrers in Com. Essex Berkeway Rokeley and Newselles in Com. Hertf. Haselingfeild in Com. Cantabr Langham alias Langnam in Com. Dors. Keres and Retire in Com. Cornub. Exton South-Brent Chillington Stratton Yebelton and Spekington in Com. Somers Ber Lortye in Com. Dors. Foxhunt in Com. Suss. Frid in Boderesden in Com. Cantabr Petersfeldâ and Vp Clatford in Com Southt and Knoke Bedwyn and Orcheston in Com. Wilts to hold by the same services as they had been held before they came to the Crown But long he enjoy'd not this great Honour nor these vast possessions For the next ensuing year being placed in the Front of the King's Army at Bosworth-field where he commanded the Archers he was with that King slain 22 Aug. an 1485. 3 R. 3. and buried in the Abby of Therâord in Com. Norff. As also soon after attainted in the Parliament begun at Westminster 7 Nov. 1 H. 7. He Married two Wives First Katherine Daughter to William Lord Molins by whom he had Issue Thomas his Son and Heir and four Daughters Anne Married to Sir Edmund Gorge Knight Isabell to Sir Robert Mortimer of ... in Com. Essex Knight Iane to Iohn Timperley Esq and Margaret to Sir Iohn Windham of Crowherst in Com. Norff. Knight Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Iohn Chedworth Kt. by whom he had Issue Catherine Married to Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners Which Margaret surviving him by her Testament bearing date 13 Maii an 1490. 5 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Quire of the Church of our Lady in Stoke before her Image on the side of the high Altar Appointing that immediately after her Decease besides the day of her Burying her Executors should find three hundred Priests secular and Religious to say CCC Masses and Diriges for her Soul within eight or ten days after her decease evry Priest having for his labour iv d. Likewise that her Executors with as much speed as might be should find two virtuous Priests to sing in the Church of Stoke by the space of three years for her Soul as also for the Souls of her Husband Iohn Noreys Esq and all other unto whom she was beholden And bequeathed to her Daughter the Lady Berners and to her then Husband all her Houshould stuff except plate and to her Daughter Marney a Chain of Water-Flowers Ordaining her Son in Law Thomas Earl of Surrey Suervisor of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the foot silver and gilt The Probate of which Testament bears date 3 Dec. an 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retain'd to serve him is his Wars in 15 E. 4. with six men at Arms and CC. Archers and the next ensuing year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norff. and Suff. He was also Created Earl of Surrey at such time as Iohn 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 vir prudentiâ gravitate constantiâ summâ a person of great prudence gravity and constancy saith Polydore whom he ferv'd faithfully during the whole time of his reign In 4 H. 7. he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wives Inheritance And the same year upon that Insurrection in the North occasion'd by the Assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murthered through the fury of the multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in 8 H. 7. was again imploy'd into the North to restrain the Incursions of the Scots In 13 H. 7. upon the Siege of Norham-Castle by those bold Invaders being then in Yorkeshire he marcht towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quitted their ground and retired
whom he had Issue three Sons Henry who died young Sir George Knighted in Scotland 1 E. 6. by Edward Duke of Somerset and Sir Charles slain in France all without Issue And five Daughters Margaret married to Sir Thomas Arundel Knight Grandfather to Thomas the first Lord Arundel of Wardour Catherine Queen of England fifth Wife to King Henry the 8th Mary married to Edmund Trafford of Trafford in Com. Lanc. Esq Ioyce to Iohn Stanney of ... in Com. Hunt Esq and Isabel to ... Baynton To his second Wife he married Dorothy Daughter of Thomas Troys Esq but had no Issue by her ¶ Having done with these younger branches I now proceed with Thomas the eldest Son to this last mentioned Duke In 3 H. 8. he commanded in one of those Ships which chased fought with and took that famous Pirate Sir Andrew Barton Knight his younger Brother the Lord Edward being then Lord Admiral And accompanied Thomas Marquess Dorset into Spain in order to the joining with the King of that Realm against the French and to invade Guyen And being there the Marquess falling sick had the command of the English Army In 5 H. 8. upon the death of the Lord Edward his Brother in ãâã attempt at Brest being then Knight of the most noble order of the Garter he was constituted Lord Admiral in his stead Whereupon bringing the Fleet out of Harbour he so scoured the Seas as not a Fisher-boat of the French durst adventure forth At last landing in Witsand-Bay he ransackt all the Country thereabouts and without resistance return'd safe to his Ships Upon that Invasion of King Iames the fourth of Scotland he landed a veterane Troop of five thousand Men of tried valour and haughty Spirits in regard of their former naval victories obtain'd under his command And having met the Earl of Surrey his Father then General of the English Army at Alnwick when his Father sent an Herauld to bid Battel to the Scots He also in particular desired the Herauld to let the King know that in regard he could not meet with any of the Scottish-ships at Sea he thought fit to land to the end he might justify Sir Andrew Barton's death Adding that as he lookt for no mercy from his Enemies so he would spare none but the King only if he came in his hands And to make all this good would be in the Vantguard of the Battel Also when the English Army was put in order to Fight at Flodden-Field himself with his Brother Sir Edmund commanded the Vantguard And when he saw his said Brother in some distress having with Sir Edward Stanley foiled their opposites he came in to his succour In consideration of which great services upon the first of February following which was the day of his Fathers advancement to the title of Duke of Norff. he was created Earl of Surrey After which the next ensuing year viz. 6 H. 8. upon some dispute in Parliament concerning his place there it was declared that he should sit according to his creation and not as a Dukes eldest Son saving to him out of Parliament his Precedence according to his dignity and Honour as also that if upon search of Records it should thereafter be found that an higher place in Parliament did of right belong to him it should be allowed In 12 H. 8. Gerald Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare being displaced from his office of Lord Deputy of Ireland he was constituted Deputy in his stead and went thither in April the same year Whence he return'd in Ianuary the following year being recall'd by the King after he had amongst other services repressed those irruptions of the Oneales and O Carrols and govern'd so acceptably that he gained the love of all the civil people of that Country leaving after a Parliament by him held there from Iune An. 1521 to the end of March 1522. Piers Butler Deputy in his stead In 14 H. 8. having fitted the Fleet he landed near Morleys in Brittanny forced the Town and burnt it and having wasted the Country thereabouts went into Picardy to join with the Imperialists Then layd Siege to Hesding but the Winter approaching he quitted it again And having burnt Marquise and some other places near the English-pale return'd In this 14 year of King H. 8. 4 Dec. he was constituted Lord Treasurer as his Father Thomas Duke of Norf. had formerly been and upon the sixth of Febr. next ensuing was made General of the Kings whole Army then design'd to march against the Scots all this being in his Fathers life time In 16 H. 8. upon his Father's death he had a special livery of his Lands 16 Iulii and upon the 20 th of the same month was again made General of the Army at that time raised to advance into Scotland in order to the setting of the young King free whom the Duke of Albani Regent in his minority had kept at Sterling Whence he was brought to Edenborough and took upon him the government In 17 H. 8. he obtein'd a grant in reversion of the Castle Honour and Mannour of Folkingham as also of the Mannours of Cathorpe Westburgh Supton Dodyngton Ryskington Aslakby Welborn Saperton Winterton Burthorpe Lynwode Beaumont and Bâyons in Com. Linc. Likewise of the reversion of the Mannours and Tenements of Huntgate and Beaumont called Beaumonts Tenements in the City of Lincoln with the advousons of Churches thereunto belonging And in August the same year was constituted one of the Commissioners for making peace with the French In 21 H. 8. upon the fall of Cardinal Wolsey it being thought sit by most of the great Lords that he should be removed to some large distance from the King this Dake bad Cromwell tell him that it was fit he should go to his charge at York being Archbishop of that Province And after he saw that he made no haste thither commanded Cromwell to tell him farther that if he got not away he would tear him with his teeth Upon the first of December the same year he was one of the Lords who subscribed the Articles against that great Cardinal And upon the dissolution of the Monastery of Feliâto alias Filchesto in Com. Suff. in 22 H. 8. by the Authority of Pope Clement the Sevenths Bull in order to the Foundation of those two Famous Colledges in Oxford and Ipswich which Cardinal Wolsey first purposed that design failing by the Cardnal's fall this Duke obtain'd a grant in Fee of that Religious House at Filchesto with all that belong'd thereto as by the Patent bearing date 7 Apr. 22 H. 8. appeareth About this time also he was one of the Peers who subscribed that Declaration then sent to the Pope whereby they gave him a modest intimation
1614. 12 Iac. whereupon he had Burial in the Church of Dovor-Castle under a goodly Monument of white Marble with this Epitaph which briefly pointeth at what is farther memorable of him Henricus Howards Henriei Comitis Surriae filius Thomae secundi Ducis Norfolciae nâpos Baro Howard de Marnhill Privati Sigilli Custos Castri Doverensis Constabularius Quinque Portuum Custos Cancellarius Admirallus Iacobe magnae Britanniae Regi ab intimis Conciliis Ordinis Periscelidis Eques auratus Academiae Cantabrigiensis Cancellarius inter Nobiles literatissimus Inspem resurgendi in Christo hic conditur Obiit xv die Iunii MDC xiv Inclytus hic Comes tria Hospitalis fundavit latefundiis dotavit Vnâm Grenewici in Cantio in quo viginti Egeni Praefectus Alterum Cluni in Comitatu Salopiae in quo xii Egeni cum Praefecto Tertium ad Castrum Rising in comitatu Norfolciae in quo xii Paâperculae cum Gubernatrice imperpetuum alantur Iohanne Griffitho huic Comiti ab Epistolis curante positum ¶ Having done with this collateral branch I come to Thomas the eldest Son to Henry Earl of Surrey so cut off in 38 H. 8. as hath been observed which Thomas upon the death of his Grandfather Thomas Duke of Norfolk in 1 Mariae became his next and hereditary Successor being the same year fully restored in blood the Act for his Grandfathers attainder being then made void And in 2 Mariae upon that Insurrection of the Kentish-men in opposition to the Queen's marriage with King Philip of Spain headed by Sir Thomas Wyat was sent with some small Forces of the Queens Guards and other of the Londoners to suppress them In 1 Eliz. he was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter and in 3 Eliz. constituted Lieutenant-General for the Northern-parts of this Realm Whereupon he went to Berwick and made a League with the Scots But they flying out again he had some sleight skirmishes with them In An. 1566. 9 Eliz. he was by the French honoured with Knighthood of the Order of St. Michael But in 11 Eliz. the Queen of England suspected him for too great a favourer of the Queen of Scots So that shortly after 't was rumour'd that he would marry her having been sollicited thereto by Sir Nicholas Throkmorton and encouraged through the assistance of Robert Earl of Leicester to obtain Queen Eliz. assent many of the Nobility liking well thereof in case the Queen were content But she being utterly averse thereto rebuk'd him much for his attempts in that kind Whereupon he quitted the Court and retired into Norfolk Nevertheless resolved to make her his Wife Which being discovered he was cast into prison in 14 Eliz. And the next ensuing year sc. an 1572. upon the sixteenth of Ianuary brought to his Trial in Westminster-Hall before George Earl of Shrewsbury made Lord high Steward of England for that occasion The charge laid against him being that he conspired the dethroning of Queen Eliz. and bringing in Foreign-forces Likewise whereas he knew that the Queen of Scots had quartered the Arms of England and aspired at the Crown he had without consulting Queen Eliz. gone about to marry her and lent her great sums of Money contrary to his promise and his own Hand-writing Moreover that he had supplied the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland with moneys who having broke out into open Rebellion were fled into Scotland Also that he had sought for Auxiliary forces from the Pope the Spaniard and the Duke of Albany for setting that Queen at liberty and restoring the Romish Religion in this Realm and had been aiding to Heriz and other the enemies to Queen Eliz. in Scotland Putting himself therefore upon the Trial of his Peers they pronounced him guilty whereupon he had Judgment of Death and accordingly was beheaded on Tower-Hill upon the second of Iune 15 Eliz. to the great grief of many This last mentioned Duke married three Wives First Mary Daughter and one of the Heirs to Henry Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel Which Mary died at Arundel House in the Strand 25 Aug. 1557. 4 5 Ph. M. and was buried in St. Clements-Church near Temple-Bar by whom he had Issue Philip his Son and Heir He secondly married Margaret Daughter and sole Heir to Thomas Lord Aâdley of Walden and Chancellour of England Widdow of the Lord Henry Dudley a younger Son to Iohn Duke of Northumberland slain at St. Quintins in Picardy An. 1557. by whom he had Issue two Sons Thomas afterwards made Earl of Suffolk and William and two Daughters Elizabeth who died in her Infancy and Margaret married to Robert Sackvile Earl of Dorset He lastly married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Francis Leiburne Knight Widow of Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillesland but by her had no Issue The title of Duke of Norfolk being by the attainder of this Thomas thus taken away Philip his eldest Son was called Earl of Arundel as owner of Arundel-Castle by descent from his Mother it having antiently been adjudged in Parliament to be a local dignity so that the possessors thereof should enjoy that title of Honour Whereupon he had by that appellation summons to the next ensuing Parliament begun at Westminster 16 Ian. 23 Eliz. and after that in the same Parliament was by a special Act restored in blood But not long after this by the Artifices of Robert Earl of Leicester and Secretary Walsingham for the entrapping of those eminent persons who were of the Romish Religion counterfeit Letters being disperst this Earl Philip was confin'd to his own House as was also Henry Earl of Northumberland By reason whereof and because he was shortly after much terrified with the severity of certain Laws then made against Jesuits and Priests and in regard he stood much devoted to the Religion of the Church of Rome he resolved to betake himself unto an austere and retired life beyond the Seas but in the first place to represent his grief to the Queen by a Letter which he determined should be delivered unto her after his departure wherein he complained of the malice of his powerful adversaries which he could not withstand and their triumphing over his Innocencie putting her also in mind of the unhappy fate of his Ancestors his Great-Grandfather suffering in like manner his Grandfather also losing his Head upon a slender occasion and his Father who never bore any evil thought to his Prince yet being circumvented by his adversaries came to the same end And therefore that he might not so perish but live retired for his Souls-health he left his Countrey but not his Loyalty to Her his Sovereign But before this Letter could be delivered being gone into Sussex there to take shipping in
Catherine Married to Iohn Digby of Gothurst in Com. Northt Esq Son and Heir to Sir Kenelm Digby Knight and the Lady Elizabeth to Alexander Mac-Donald Grandson to the Earl of Antrim by a younger Son and departing this life at Arundell-House in the Strand in Com. Midd. 17 Apr. 1652. was buried at Arundell in Sussex Which Thomas Eldest Son to the said Henry succeeding him in his Honours and Titles of Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk through the special grace and favour of his Majesty that now is at the humble Petition of Iames Earl of Suffolk Thomas Earl of Berkshire William Vicount Stafford Charles Lord Howard of Charlton Edward Lord Howard of Escrick Henry second Son to the said Henry late Earl of Arundell Surrey and Norfolk and Charles Howard of Naworth all Lineally descended from Thomas the last Duke of Norfolk who was attainted in 15 Eliz. and other of the English Nobility in all to the number of ninety one obtain'd a special Act in the Parliament begun at Westminster 8 Maii 13 Car. 2. for his Restoration unto the Title of Duke of Norfolk and to the Heirs Male of his Body with limitation thereof to the Heirs Male of the said Henry late Earl of Arundel Surrey and Norfolk and divers other Remainders with all Priviledges Precedencies and Preheminencies thereunto belonging as fully amply and honourably as the said Thomas Duke of Norfolk did or might at any time before the said Attainder hold and enjoy the same Henry the second Son to the before-specified Henry Earl of Arundel and Surrey in consideration of the eminent services perform'd by his noble Father and Grandfather to King Charles the First of blessed Memory and to the Crown of England both here and abroad to their great peril and costs as also of his own personal services to our present Sovereign King Charles the Second in the times of the late Usurpation when he was necessitated to be in Foreign parts in a banish't condition being also by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster 27 Martii 21 Car. 2. advanc'd to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Howard of Castle-Rysing in Com. Norff. And by other Letters Patent bearing date 29 Oct. 24 Car. 2. Created Earl of Norwich and Earl Marshal of England with limitation of that great Office to the Heirs Male of his Body with several remainders This Henry Married the Lady Anne Daughter to Edward Marquess of Worcester and by her hath Issue two Sons Henry and Thomas and three Daughters Anne-Aâathea who departed this Life in her Infancy Elizabeth and Frances Howard of Effingham ¶ HAving thus finisht with the principal stem of this most noble Family I come to those collateral Branches as are not yet spoke of and first to William Son to Thomas the second Duke of Norfolk of this House by Agnes his second Wife Daughter of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Com. Linc. Knight This William in 24 H. 8. was one of the Attendants of that King to Calais and so to Boloine at such time as he was magnificently received there by Francis the first King of France and in 26. H. 8. sent into Scotland to present King Iames the Fifth with the Order of the Garter Also to acquaint him with the intended Enterview betwixt King Henry and King Francis of France And intreating his presence thereat to desire his coming through England to accompany King Henry to Calais In 27 H. 8. he was sent with Dr. William Barlow Bishop of St. Asaph to the same King of Scots to perswade him to an Enterview with King Henry as also to make certain advantageous Propositions to him And in 33 H. 8. upon that unhappy deportment of Katherine Howard his Niece fifth Wife of King Henry for which she lost her Head being newly returned from an Embassy into France he was Indicted as was also his Wife and the old Dutchess of Norfolk for Misprision of Treason in concealing what they knew of that Queen's behaviour therein and condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment but at length through the King's favour enlarged and in 6 E. 6. made Deputy of Calais Being a very valiant person and perfectly loyal to both those Kings he had such esteem from Queen Mary as that by Letters Patents bearing date 11 Martii in the first year of her Reign he was advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Howard of Effingham as also the xxth of the same Month made Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and upon the second of April next ensuing took his place in Parliament amongst the rest of the Peers Also upon the 8th of that Month Constituted Lord Admiral and Lieutenant-General of all her Forces at Sea He was likewise Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold And in 1 Eliz. had the same honourable Office conferr'd on him by that Queen After this he was sent Embassador with the Lord Cobham to the Spaniard into the Netherlands And in 12 Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Sussex General of those Forces then sent against the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland at that time in Rebellion In 15 Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk And by his Testament bearing date 6 Maii 11 Eliz. being then Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Reygate in Com. Surr. appointing a Tomb to be there made for him And to Charles his Son and Heir bequeath'd his Collar of Gold and all his Robes belonging to the Order of the Garter He Married two Wives First Catherine Daughter and Coheir to Sir Iohn Broughton of Tuddington in Com. Bedf. Knight by whom he had Issue only one Daughter called Agnes Married to William Paulet the third Marquess of Winchester Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Thomas Gamage Knight Which Margaret departed this Life ... Maii an 1581. 23 Eliz by whom he had Issue four Sons viz. Charles who succeeded him in his Honour William Howard of Lingfeild in Com. Surr. Edward and Henry who died young Also five Daughters 1. Douglass Married to Iohn Lord Sheffeild afterwards to Robert Earl of Leicester as hath been pretended and thirdly to Sir Edward Stafford of Grafton Knight 2. Mary First to Edward Lord Dudley afterwards to Richard Montpesson Esq 3. Frances to Edward Earl of Hertford 4. Martha to Sir George Bourchier Knight third Son to Iohn Earl of Bath and 5. Katherine who died young And departing this life at Hampton-Court 11 Ian. 15 Eliz. was honourably buried at Ryegate in Surrey upon the 29th of the same Month. Which Charles so succeeding him in 13 Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the Command
obtain'd a special Patent to himself and his Heirs to exercise the Office of Sewer at the time of Dinner upon the Coronation-day of any of the future Kings and Queens of this Realm with the Fee of xx â per annum for that service payable out of the Exchequer And in 32 H. 8. was made Lord High Chamberlain of England for life Which Office Thomas Cromwell Earl of Essex then newly attainted had enjoyed In 33 H. 8. he obtain'd a grant in special Tail of the scite of the Abby of Cleve in Com. Somers with divers Lands thereto belonging And by his Testament bearing date 17 Oct. an 1542. 34 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in Christian-Burial Shortly after which upon Munday 27 Nov. departing this life at Chelsey he was Interred in the Church of St. Laurence Poultney in the City of London with this Epitaph Robertus Radcliffe Miles Dominus Fitzwater Egremond Burnell Vicecomes Fitzwater Magnus Camerarius Angliae Camerarius Hospicii Regis Henrici octavi ac âidem à Consiliis Praeliis in Galliâ commissiâ aliquoties inter primos ductores honoratus In aliis Belli Pacisque consultationibus non inter postremâââabitus Aequitatis Iusticiae Constantââ Magnum aetatis suae monumentum Obiit xxvii die Novembris An. Dom. MCCCCCxlii This Earl Wedded three Wives First Elizabeth Daughter to Henry Duke of Buckingham by whom he had Issue three Sons 1 Henry who succeeded him in his Honours 2 George and 3 Sir Humphrey Ratcliffe of Elnestow in Com. Bedf. Knight Secondly Margaret Daughter of Thomas Earl of Derby by whom he had issue two Daughters Anne married to Thomas Lord Wharton and Iane to Anthony Vicount Montagu And thirdly Mary Daughter to Sir Iohn Arundel of Lanherne in Com. Cornub. Knight by whom he had Issue Sâr Iohn Ratcliffe Knight who died without Issue and lieth buried in the Church of St. Olive in Hart-street in the City of London To this Robert succeeded Henry his Son and Heir who in 25 H. 8. his Father then living upon the Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen was one of the Knights of the Bath then made And in 1 E. 6. upon that expedition then made into Scotland had the command of sixteen hundred Demi-lances in which service being unhorst he escaped with life very narrowly Upon the death of King Edward the sixth he was one of the first that appeared on the behalf of Queen Mary by reason whereof in the first year of her reign he was constituted Warden and Chief Justice-Itinerant of all the Forests South of Trent Bâing also one of the Knights Companions of the most noble order of the Garter by his Testament bearing date 27 Iulii An. 1555. 2 3 Ph. M. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Attiborough in Com. Norf. appointing a Tomb to be there erected over his Grave And married two Wives First Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norf. by whom he had Issue three Sons Thomas Henry and Francis Secondly Anne Daughter to Sir Philip Calthorp Knight by whom he had Issue Egremond Ratcliff who having been a principal Actor in the Northern Rebellion and thereupon attainted of Treason ãâã out of England was afterwards put to ãâã at Namurs by Don Iohn of Austria for purposing to Murther him being for that end ãâã of his imprisonment in the Tower of Londân by Secretary Walsingham and thither sent He had also Issue by the same Anne one Daughter called Frances ãâã to Sir Thomas Mildmay of ãâã in Com. Essex Knight But from this last Wife being divorced he obtained a special Act of Parliament in 2 3 âh M. to debar her both from Jointure and Doweâ and departing this life at Sir Henry Sydney's house in Chamââ-Row within the Liberties of Westminster on Wednâsday 17 Febr. An. 1556. 3 4 Ph. M. was buried in the North Isle of the said Church of St. Laurence Pultney near to his Father and Mother To whom succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas in his Fathers life time was sent Embassador into Germany by Queen Mary unto the Emperour Charles the fifth to treat of a marriage betwixt that Queen and Prince Philip the eldest Son to the Emperour And afterwards into Spain unto Philip himself for âatââying thereof In 2 3. Ph. M. being then a Knight he was constituted Lord Deputy of Ireland And in 3 4 Ph. M. which was shortly after his Fathers death was made Chief Justice of all the Forests South of Trent In 4 5 Ph. M. being then Knight of the Garter and Captain of the Pensioners his Commission for Deputy of Ireland was again renewed and he once more constituted Warden and Chief Justice of all the Forests South of Trent Also upon the death of that Queen he was again made Deputy of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth in the first year of her reign having special Instructions for preventing any insurrection of the Natives in that Realm as also for building of Forts in Offalie and to grant the inheritance of divers lands to the old Souldiers Likewise to reduce the Revenues of Ireland to the example of England In 3 Eliz. he was constituted Lieutenant of Ireland In 9 Eliz. sent to Uienna unto Maximilian the Emperour with the order of the Garter and in 10 Eliz. again imploy'd to the same Emperour to treat concerning a marriage betwixt Queen Elizabeth and Charles Archduke of Austria Which he endeavoured to effect with all his power though the Earl of Leicester opposed it In 12 Eliz. he was Lord President of the North And in 13 Eliz. upon an Incursion of certain Scors assisted by the disaffected English received command to raise certain Forces in those parts whereupon he entred Scotland by Tivydale burnt several Towns belonging to the Lord Buchlu and Carr of Ferniâerst who had been the chief Ring-leaders of those bold invaders demolishing the Castles of Ferniberst and Craling which belong'd to Carr. After which he marcht to Edenbourgh and returning thence so battered the Castle of Hamilton with his great Guns that it yielded to him making also much spoil in the Hamilton's lands Before the end of that year entring Scotland again he burnt divers Towns in Anandale and demolished the Castles of Anand and Caerlaveroc by reason that Heriz and Maxwell the owners of them had thence committed divers Robberies in England And upon his return was sworn one of the Queens Privy Council In 15 Eliz. he was made choice of for one of the Peers wâich fate upon the Duke of Norfolk's Tryal And by a certain Feoffment bearing date 20
departed this life 10 Apr. an 1593. 36 Eliz. Whereupon he had Burial at Boreham accordingly upon the 8th of May next following leaving Issue Robert his only child who succeeding him in his Honours in 37 Eliz. was sent into Scotland from Queen Eliz. to stand in her stead as a Godfather at the Christening of Prince Henry In 39 Eliz. this Robert was in that voyage with Robert Earl of Essex to Cadez and install'd Knight of the Garter in an 1621. 19 Iac. He first married Brigeâ Daughter to Sir Charles Morison of Caysho-bury in Com. Hertf. Knight and had Issue by her two Sons Henry who Married Iane Daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope Knight and Thomas and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Iohn Ramsey Knight Vicount Hadington afterwards Earl of Holdernes and Honora All dying in his life time Issueless To his second Wife he Married Frances Daughter to Hercules Meutas of Hame in Com. Essex Esq one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth but had no Issue by her And departing this life at his House in Clerkenwell in the Suburbs of London 22 Sept. an 1629. 5 Car. 1. was buryed in the Church of Boreham with his Ancestors Whereupon the Title of Earl of Sussex descending to Sir Edward Ratclyffe Knight Son and Heir to Sir Humphrey Ratcliffe of Elnestow before-specified as Grandson and Heir Male to Robert the first Earl of Sussex of this Family Sir Henry Mildmay of Mulsho in Com. Essex Knight Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Mildmay Knight by the Lady Frances his Wife Daughter to Henry Earl of Sussex by Anne his second Wife Daughter of Sir Philip Calthorp Knight Cousin and Heir of the half blood to the before-specified Robert Earl of Sussex who died in an 1629. without Issue laid claim to the Title of Lord Fitzwalter shortly after the sitting of that unhappy Long Parliament which began at Westminster 3 Nov. an 1640. 16 Car. 1. by reason of his Descent in blood from Elizabeth the Daughter and sole Heir to Walter Lord Fitzwalter who died without Issue Male in 10 H. 6. as hath been already observed But the Troubles shortly coming on which begot a flame of War as is very well known nothing was done therein till after the happy restoration of our present Sovereign King Charles the Second that Henry Mildmay Esq Grandson and next Heir to the said Sir Henry Mildmay Knight by Petition to his Majesty laid claim to this Title of Lord Fitzwalter and since that Benjamin his Brother and Heir the said Henry dying soon after Which Petition being referr'd to the consideration of the House of Peers in Parliament after much opposition thereto by Robert Cheeke Esq Son of Henry Cheeke by Frances his Wife one of the Sisters and Heirs of the whole blood to Edward Earl of Sussex who deceased without Issue One of his Objections being that of the half blood in Mildmay and the other that the Barony or Title of Lord Fitzwalter was merg'd and extinct with the Earldom It was upon full debate and mature consideration had therein resolv'd upon the Question that the Half blood could not be any impediment in the case of a dignity And that though a Baron in Fee simple be made an Earl the Barony shall descend to the Heir general whether the Earldom do continue or be extinct This Benjamin now Lord Fitzwalter hath Married Catherine Daughter and Coheir to Thomas eldest Son to Thomas Vicount Fairfax of Emmeley in Ireland and by her hath Issue three Sons Charles Benjamin and Walter Philibert de Shaunde Earl of Bath 1 H. 7. AMongst others who were raised to great Titles of Honour by Henry Earl of Richmund after his happy Victory at Bosworth-field whereupon he obtain'd the Crown of this Realm by the name of King Henry the Seventh this Philibert de Shaunde by Birth a Frenchman and of the Province of Britanny having approved himself a faithful Friend to him when being sought after by King Richard he became necessitated for safety to flee to the Duke of Britanny was by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster upon the sixth day of January 1 H. 7. advanced to the degree of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Bath with an C. Marks per annum Fee payable out of the Issues and profits of the Counties of Somerset and Dorset for his better support of that dignity But of his Death Wife or Issue I have not seen any thing Borough 3 H. 7. THis Family of Burgh alias Borough of Gaynesborough in Com. Linc. did derive their Descent from Hubert de Burgh a younger Son to the famous Hubert de Burgh sometime Justice of England and Earl of Kent but the first of them touching whom I have seen any thing memorable is Thomas who being a Knight in 10 E. 4. at which time the King was taken by Nevill Earl of Warwick and kept Prisoner at Middleham-Castle in the North but with leave to ride out and hunt for his Recreation join'd with Sir William Stanley in the rescue of him from his Guards And upon his return from beyond Sea being constrain'd at that time to quit the Realm as is very well known met him at Northampton with what assistance he could raise and accompanied him to Barnet-field where he became Victorious This Sir Thomas Borough by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and one of the Coheirs to Sir Henry Perci of Athol Knight left Issue Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas was elected into the Society of Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter in King Richard the Thirds time and advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm 29 Sept. 3 H. 7. Whereupon he had Summons to Parliament the same year and afterwards And by his Testament bearing date 18 Febr. an 1495. 11 H. 7 bequeath'd his Body to be buried in his new Chapel within the Parish-Church of All-Saints at Gaynesburgh in Com. Linc. Appointing that a Tomb should be erected at the North end of the Altar in the same Chapel with two Images thereon viz. of himself in Armour and of his Wife with their Arms and the days of their respective Deaths Also upon that for himself to have his Mantle of the Garter with a Garter about his Leg. Likewise that in the same Chapel there should be Founded a perpetual Chantry of one Priest whom he willed to be honest discreet able and cunning in Reading and Singing to help to serve God and to keep the Quire daily in the said Church and to sing and pray in the same Chapel for his Soul and for the Soul of Dame Margaret his Wife as also for the Souls of his Father and Mother and all his Ancestors and to have an annual Rent of ten pounds for evermore Moreover he willed that upon his Mother lying Interred in St. Iames Abby near
her one Son called Henry and two Daughters Anne Married to Henry now Earl of Norwich Earl Marshal of England And Elizabeth to William Earl of Powys He secondly Married the Lady Margaret O Bryen Daughter to Henry Earl of Thomond by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Mary which died in her Infancy And departing this life 3 Aprilis an 1667. was buried at Ragland To him succeeded Henry his Son and Heir now Lord President of Wales and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter who Married Mary the Daughter of Arthur Lord Capell Widdow of Henry Lord Beauchamp by whom he hath had Issue four Sons 1. Henry who died young 2. Charles called Lord Herbert of Ragland 3. Edward and 4. Another Henry who died young Likewise two Daughters Elizabeth who died in her Childhood and Mary Maners Earl of Rutland 5 H. 8. THough none of this Family arrived to the dignity of Peerage until the Reign of King Henry the Eighth yet were they persons of great note in Northumberland for many Ages before for in 25 H. 2. Henry de Maners paid Lxxx. Marks for Livery of his Father's Lands in that County From which Henry descended Robert de Maners of Ethale in that Shire who in 15 E. 3. obtained Licence of the King to fortify his Mannor-House there with an embatailled Wall of Lime and Stone And from him Iohn de Maners who in 1 H. 5. was Constituted Sheriff of the same County Which Iohn with Iohn his Son being guilty of the Death of William Heron Esq and Robert Atkynson at Etall as it seems though how is not expressed and prosecuted for the same by Sir Robert de Vmfravile Knight and Isabel then the Widdow of William Heron at length upon a Reference made by the persons on each part concern'd unto Iohn then Prior of Durham and Thomas Prior of Tinmouth there was an Award made bearing date 28 Sept. 9 H. 6. That the same Iohn Maners and Iohn his Son should cause five hundred Masses to be sung for the health of the Soul of the said William Heron within one year then next ensuing and pay unto Sir Robert de Vmfravile and Isabel to the use of her the said Isabel and the Children of the same William Heron CC. Marks in money This Iohn de Maners died seised of that Lordship of Erall in 17 H. 6. leaving Robert his Son and Heir Which Robert in consideration of his special services perform'd in the Marches toward Scotland had in 27 H. 6. a joint grant with Sir Henry de Percie Knight of all the goods and Chatals of Sir Robert de Ogle Knight who was then Outlaw'd In 33 H. 6. this Robert was made Sheriff of Northumberland so likewise in 3 E. 4. being at that time a Knight In which year Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick and Salisbury in consideration of his services done and to be done granted him an Annuity of xx Marks out of the Revenues of his Lordship of Barnard-Castle to be enjoy'd during his life And the next year following was Constituted Deputy to Richard Dâke of Gloucester then Admiral of England Ireland and Aquitane for all the Sea-Coasts in the Bishoprick of Durâam from the Mouth of Tese to the Mouth of Twede And by Dame Alianore his Wife Daughter of Thomas and Sister and Coheir to Edmund Lord Roos had Issue George who had thereupon the Title of Lord Roos Which George took to Wife Anne the sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas St. Leger Knight and Anne Dutchess of Exeter his Wife Sister to King Edward the Fourth And by his Testament bearing date 26 Oct. an 1513. 5 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church next unto the place where he should happen to die To the Abby of Rievaulx he thereby gave fifty Marks To the Abby of Kirkham fifty Marks and to the Abby of Wartre all in Yorkeshire fifty Marks to the intent that every of those Abbies should find an honest Priest to say Mass daily for his Soul by the space of seven years next after his decease and once every year perform his Obit in every of their Churches for his Soul and his Friends Souls Before the end of which year being with King Henry the Eighth at the Sieges of Therouene and Tournay he there fell sick and died and was buried near the high Altar in the Priory of Haliwell within the Suburbs of London leaving Issue by the said Anne his Wife Thomas Maners Lord Roos who in 14 H. 8. was Constituted Warden of the East-Marches toward Scotland and in 16 H. 8. had a special Livery of all the Mannors Castles and Lands descended to him from the Lady Alianore his Grandmother Sister and Coheir to Edmund Lord Roos as also from Isabel the other Sister and Coheir to the said Edmund Which Thomas was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Rutland upon the 28 th of Iune 17 H. 8. at the King 's Royal Palace of Bâidewell in the City of London and had thereupon an Augmentation to his antient Arms by reason of his Descent from the Sister of King Edward the Fourth viz. in chief querterly Azure and Gules on the first two Flower de Luces Or and on the second a Lyoâ passant-gardant of the first The third as the second the fourth as the first In 22 H. 8. being one of the Peers then sitting in Parliament he subscribed that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the Seventh Whereby he had intimation that unless he did comply with King Henry in that business of his Divorce from Queen Katherine the loss of his Supremacy in England would be much endangered Upon the Insurrection in Lincolâshire in 28 H. 8. occasion'd by the dissolution of the lesser Monasteries and certain Injunctions in matters of Religion he received Command together with the Earls of Shrewsbury and Huntington to require them by Proclamation upon peril of their lives to return to their due obedience And soon after that upon the like in Yorkeshire called The Pilgrimage of Grace offered his service in order to the suppreââing thereof In 32 H. 8. he was Constituted Chief Justice in Eyre of all the King's Forests beyond Trent And in 33 H. 8. obtain'd a grant of the Mannor of Muston in Com. Leic. part of the possessions of the late dissolved Priory of Osulveston in that County Likewise of the âannors of Waltham and Croxton in the samâ County as also of the Mannors of Upwell Outwell Elme and Emnithe in the Counties of Norff. and Suff. part of the possessions of the late dissolved Monastery of Nun-Earon in Com. War Also of the Mannour of Braunston in Com. Northt part of the possessions of the Abby of Lilshull in Com. Salop. and of the Mannours of Billesdale and Helmesley with
and Heir to Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Elizabeth to Iames Lord Annesley Son and Heir to Arthur Earl of Anglesey Margaret to Iames Earl of Salisbury Anne to Sir Scroope How Knight Son and Heir to Iohn How of Langar in Com. Nott. Esq and Mary who died young Brandon Duke of Suffolk 5 H. 8. THE first mention of this Family that I have seen is in 1 R. 3. at which time William Brandon with Thomas his Brother Sons of Sir William Brandon Knight by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sir Kobert Wingfeild Knight adhering to Henry Duke of Buckingham in his design against that King and for advancing Henry Earl of Richmund to the Royal Throne upon the miscarriage of Buckingham fled into Britanny unto that Earl Being thus with him in those parts upon delivery of the Castle of Hammes in Picardy to his use this Thomas with thirty stout men entring by a Marish strengthen'd it against those Forces which King Richard caused to be sent from Calais for the recovery thereof Shortly after which both of them arriving with him in England William became his Standard-Bearer at Besworth-field where he had the hard fate upon a desperate assault by King Richard himself to be slain 11 Cal. Sept. an 1486. But Thomas living to see that Earl Victorious and Crowned King by the name of Henry the Seventh was made one of the Squires of his Body and in the second year of his Reign carried his Buckler at the Battel of Stoke being the same year also retain'd by Indenture to serve him in his Fleet at Sea for the space of eight months with eight hundred men In remuneration of which and other his Services in 6 H. 7. he obtain'd the Wardship of Richard Fenys Son and Heir to William Fenys Lord Say with the benefit of his Marriage And before the end of that Kings Reign was Install'd Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Moreover in 1 H. 8. being one of the Knights for the King's Body he was made Marshal in the Court of Common-Pleas and departing this life the same year without Issue had Burial in the Black-Friers near Ludgate in the City of London leaving Issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Sir Henry Bruyn Knight Charles his Son and Heir Which Charles being a person comely of Stature high of âourage and conformity of disposition to King Henry the Eight became so acceptable to him especially in all his youthful exercises and pastimes as that he soon attained great advancement both in Titles of Honour and otherwise For in 1 H. 8. he was made one of the Squires of his Body and Chamberlain of the Principality of North-Wales and having been in that sharp Fight at Sea with the French near Brest in Britanny in 4 H. 8. the next ensuing year upon that Expedition of Therâuene and Tournay applying himself to Cardinal Wolsey attended the King in that notable adventure in order whereunto for his greater Honour he was advanced to the Title of Vicount L'isle 15 Maii 5 H. 8. and had the Command of the Vantguard of the whole Army in that honourable Service In which he merited so highly as that upon the first of February following he was raised to the dignity of Duke of Suffolk And shortly after viz. in 6 H. 8. being at St. Dennis in France at the Coronation of the Lady Mary Sister to King Henry then Married to Lewes the XII King of France he atchieved much honour by his prowess manifested in a Princely Tournament where he overthrew the person with whom he tilted Horse and Arms and gained so much upon the affections of that Queen as that upon the Death of King Lewes hapning soon after she engaged her self to marry him and intreated King Francis Successor to Lewes to mediate with King Henry her Brother for his approbâtion thereof which being obtain'd he procur'd a grant in general Tail of all the Lordships Mannors Lands and Tenements formerly belonging to Edmund de la Pole late Earl of Suffolk Furthermore at that magnificent Enterview of King Henry and Francis the First in 12 H. 8. betwixt Guisnes and Ardres in Picardy where those two Kings exercised themselves in a Royal Tournament there held he was one of the Aiders on the English side And in 15 H. 8. landing at Caâais with six hundred Demilances two hundred Archers on Horse-back three thousand Archers on Foot five thousand Bill-men besides two thousand six hundred Pioners adding seventeen hundred more stout Souldiers taken out of the Garrisons thereabouts he marcht into the Enemies Country and joining with Florence de Egmond Count de Bure the Emperours General took Roye Mondidier Bray and Chasteaubeau Whereupon approaching within twenty Leagues of Paris he put that City into a terrible fright but towards the end of December was recalled In 21 H. 8. he was one of the Peers who subscribed to the Articles exhibited to the King in Parliament against Cardinal Wolsey So likewise in 22 H. 8. to that declaration by the Peers in the same Parliament sent to Pope Clement the seventh whereby they represented to his Holiness that except he did comply with King Henry in that business of his Divorce from Queen Katherine his Supremacy here would be in danger to be cast off Shortly after this being made Knight of the order of St. Michael he was constituted Chief Justice in Eyre of all the Kings Forests And in 28 H. 8. upon that Insurrection in Lincolnshire occasioned by the dissolution of the lesser Monasteries and the setting forth of certain Ecclesiastical Injunctions derogatory to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome he had Commission to raise Forces against them Also upon the like Insurrection in Yorkshire called the Pilgrimage of Grace he was sent with the Duke of Norfolk and others for the suppressing thereof In 30 H. 8. upon the dissolution of the greater Monasteries he obtain'd a vast proportion of those Abby-Lands together with the scites and circuits of their demolish't Houses and Churches And in 32 H. 8. having lastly married Katherine the sole Daughter and Heir to William Lord Willoughby of Eresby had livery of all the Castles Lordships Mannours and Lands of her Inheritance In 36 H. 8. he was constituted General of the Army then sent over into France Whereupon he laid siege to Boloine Which being in a short time taken he was the first that entred it Upon this his going to Boloine being then great Master id est Steward of the King's Houshold he declared his Testament 20 Iunii An. 1544. 36 H. 8. whereby he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Collegiate Church of Tatshall in Com. Linc. if it might conveniently be but without any pomp
Eliz. took his place there upon the second of April In 15 Eliz. he was one of the Peers upon the Tryal of Thomas Duke of Norff. And the same year upon the League made by Queen Elizabeth with the States of the United Provinces was one of the Lords then sent into France with Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord Admiral for ratifying thereof In 29 Eliz. he was also one of the Peers which sate at Fotheringhay upon Tryal of the Queen of Scots Likewise in 43 Eliz. upon that Insurrection made in London by Robert Earl of Essex he was one of those Lords which appear'd with him therein and thereupon suffered Imprisonment This William Married two Wives First Christian Daughter of ... Anslow Esq by whom he had Issue one Son called William And to his second Wife Catherine Daughter of Edmund Lord Chandos by whom he had Issue one Daughter named Elizabeth Married to Sir Edwyne Sands Knight Son and Heir of Miles Sandys of Latimers in Com. Buck. Esq Master of the Kings Bench Office and departed this life 29 Sept. an 1623. 21 Iac. To whom succeeded William his said Son and Heir Which William took to Wife Alathea eldest Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Panton of Brinneskiâ in the Parish of Hanthlan in Com. Denb Esq and died 12 Nov. an 1629. 5 Car. 1. without Issue Whereupon William the Son of Colonel Henry Sands Son of the said Edwyn and Elizabeth which Colonel being mortally wounded on the Kings part in the Fight at Bramdene near Alâford in Com. Sutht 29 Martii 1644. died 6 Apr. next ensuing becoming Heir to this Honour had Summons to Parliament accordingly And having Married Mary the youngest Daughter to William late Earl of Salisbury died in an 1668. without Issue This last mention'd William had three other Brothers viz. Henry Miles and Edwyn and six Sisters Hesther Married to Humphrey Noy Son to William Noy sometime Attorney General to King Charles the First Alathea to Francis Gofton of Alderidge in Com. Sutht Esq Mary to Dr. Henry Savage Principal of Baliol-Coll in Oxford Iane to Iohn Harris of Old-Wodstoke in Com. Oxon. Esq Margaret to Sir Iohn Mill of Tachbury in Com. Sutht Baronet and Margery to Sir Edmund Fortescue of Fallowpitt in Com. Devon Baronet Which Henry now Lord Sandys Brother and Heir of William is yet Unmarried Vaux of Harwedon 15 H. 8. THis Family whose Seat hath been at Harwedon in Com. Northt for more than two hundred and fifty years do derive their Descent from Robert de Vaux a great man in the North of this Realm in the days of King Stephen and Henry the Second being then Founder of the Priory of Laâercost in Cumberland as I have elsewhere shewed Being thus fix'd there William Vaux in the time of those great and sharp contests betwixt the Houses of Yorke and Lancaster lost all for his adherence to King Henry the Sixth but at length Henry Earl of Richmund obtaining the Crown Nicholas his Son and Heir had restitution thereof Whereupon he fought stoutly for that King in the Battel of Stoke near Newark in 2 H. 7. against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his Adherents then in Arms on the behalf of Lambert Simnel set up as a Counterfeit Son to George Duke of Clarence for which good service King Henry being there Victorious he receiv'd the honour of Knighthood And in 17 of the same Kings Reign at that great Solemnity of Prince Arthur's Marriage wore a Gown of Purple Velvet adorn'd with pieces of gold so thick and massy that beside the Silk and Furs it was valued at a thousand pounds as also a Collar of SS weighing eight hundred pound in Nobles In 1 H. 8. this Nicholas being made Lieutenant of the Castle at Guisnes in Picardy in 5 H. 8. was at the Siege of Therouene In 10 H. 8. he was one of the Embassadors then sent into France for confirming the Articles of Peace betwixt King Henry and the French And in 11 H. 8. in order to that famous Enterview near Guisnes between King Henry and the King of France was one of the Commissioners at that time sent thither to make preparation for the same After which he grew in such high esteem at Court as that in 15 H. 8. 27 Apr. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm the solemnity of his Creation with some others then being at the King 's Royal Palace of Bridewell in the Suburbs of London But he lived not long to enjoy that Honour For having by his Testament bearing date the same year by the Title of Lord Harowden bequeath'd his Body to be buried at Harowdon in case he should depart this life in Northamptonshire if in London then in the Black-Fryers and if at Guisnes in the Church there appointing that C l. should be bestow'd upon Priests Clerks and poor People at his Funeral and ordained a Chantry for one Priest to sing Mass in the Parish-Church of Harowden for the Souls of his Grandfather Father and Mother as also for the Souls of his two Wives his Children and other his Ancestors Souls And having likewise bequeath'd to his Daughters Margaret Bridget and Maud five hundred pounds a piece for their respective Marriages and to his Sons Thomas and William all his wearing gere except Cloth of Gold Cloth of Silver and Tissue he departed this life soon after as by the Probate of that his Testament which beareth date 3 Iulii next ensuing appeareth This Nicholas had two Wives First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Henry Lord Fitz Hugh Widow of Sir William Parr Knight by whom he left Issue three Daughters viz. Catherine Married to Sir George Throkmorton of Coughton in Com. Warr. Knight Anne to Sir Thomas Strange of Hunston in Com. Norff. Knight and Alice to Sir Edward Sapcote of Elton in Com. Hunt Knight Secondly Anne Daughter of Thomas Greene of Green's-Norton in Com. Northt Esq by whom he had Issue two Sons Thomas and William and three Daughters Margaret Wife of Francis Pultney of Misterton in Com. Leic. Esq Maud of Sir Iohn Farmer of Eston juxta Touceter in Com. Northt Knight and Bridget of Maurice Welsh of Sudbury in Com. Glouc. Esq Which Thomas his Son and Heir in 19 H. 8. was one of those who attended Cardinal Wolsey when he went Embassador in such great state beyond-Sea to make Peace betwixt the Emperour King Henry of England and King Francis of France In 22 H. 8. being summon'd to Parliament he took his place there 19 Ian. And in 24 H. 8. waited on the King to Calais and thence to Boloine In 25 H. 8. upon the Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen this Thomas was one of the Knights of the Bath then made for the honour of that Solemnity He was also Captain
of the said Edward And the next day following was created Duke of Somerset and to the heirs male of his body by the before-specified Anne As also upon the seventeenth of February Earl Marshal of England for life Moreover upon the 12 th of March following he had a Patent for that great Office of Protector and Governor of the King and Realmes And upon the third of November next ensuing a special grant that he should sit alone and be placed at all times as well in the King's presence in Parliament as in his absence upon the midst of the Bench or stool standing next on the right hand the King 's Seat-royal in his Parliament Chamber Shortly after which he was sent into Scotland with Ten thousand foot and Six thousand horse besides Thirteen hundred Pioneers and Artificers and fifteen Brass pieces of Ordnance and on the third of September made an hostile entrance into that Realme the design thereof being to procure a Marriage betwixt King Edward and the young Queen But the Scots refusing the offer gave Battel to the English at Muscâeborough where they receiv'd a mighty overthrow In 2 E. 6. by another Patent bearing date 24 Dec. he was again constituted Protector both of the King's person and the whole Realme during his minority Thus have we beheld his Rise Now follows the story of his fall but before I proceed to speak of that I shall take notice of the Character which an eminent Historian gives of him He was a man saith he little esteemed either for Wisdome Personage or Courage in Armes but being in favour with King Henry and by him much imployed was alwayes observed to be both Faithful and Fortunate as well in giving advise as in managing a charge About five years before being Warden of the Marches against Scotland the Invasion of James the Fifth was by his direction encountered and broken at Selome-Mosse where divers of the Scotish Nobility were taken prisoners The next year after he and the Earl of Warwick with an handful of men to speak of fired Lieth and Edenborough and returnâd by a leisurely march forty four miles through the body of Scotland The year next ensuing he invaded the Scotish borders wasted Tividale and the Marches and deformed the Country with ãâã and spoile The year then next following being appointed to view the Fortifications upon the ãâã of Calais he not only did that but with the hardy approach of Seven thousand Englishmen raised an Army of One and twenty thouââââ French encamped over the River before Boâome ãâã their Ordnance Carriage Treasure and Tents with the loss only of one man and returning from thence by Land to Guisnes won in his way within ãâã and rescue of Arde the Castle of Outing commonly called the Red-pile The year next ensuing this he invaded and spoiled Picardy began the Forts of Newhaven ãâã and Buââângberge and so well applyed his endeavors that in a few weeks and ãâã his departure they were made tenable Vpon thâse and other the like successes his succeeding ãâã ãâã esteemed alwayes rather new ãâ¦ã his only presence was reputed a a sufficient surety for an Army And yet did he never rise hereby either in haughtiness in himself or contempt of others but remained courteous and affable choosing a course least subject to envy betwixt stiff stubborness and filthy flattery never aspiring higher than to be the second person in State But after all this Honor Greatness and prosperous success in those his high imployments comes now the Tragick part of his life which was short and woful to be spoke of his absolute ruine being both projected and perfected as all our Historians do agree by the subtile artifices of Iohn Vicount L'isle afterwards Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland to make way for his own ambitious and aspiring designs Which when he had so far accomplisht as in all humane probability he fully expected to have reapt the benefit whereat he aimed the like fatal destruction and no less sudden fell deservedly on himself as in its proper place is already sheââd And now to the matter in the words of my Author This Duke had a Brother called Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudley Lord High Admiral of England of whom I shall more particularly speak by and by Which Thomas was a person of great courage Courtly in fashion in Personage stately in voice magnificent but somewhat empty of Matter Both of them being so well affected to the King that the one might well be term'd his Sword the other his Target The Duke greatest in favour with the People the Lord Sudly most respected by the Nobility both highly esteemed by the King both fortunate alike in their advancements both ruin'd alike by their own vanity and folly Whilst these two Brethren held in amity they were like two Armes the one defending the other and both of them the King But many things did move together to dissolve their love and bring them to ruine first their contrary dispositions the one being tractable and milde the other stiff and impatient of a Superior whereby they lived but in cunning concord as Brothers glued together but not united in grain Much secret envy was borne against them for that their new lustre did dim the light of men honoured with antient Nobility They were openly minded as hasty and soon moved so uncircumspect and easie to be ruin'd By these the knot not only of Love but of Nature between them was dissolv'd so much the more pity for that the first cause proceeded from the pride the haughty hate the unquiet vanity of a Mannish or rather of a Develish woman For the Lord Sudley had taken to wife Katherine Parre Queen Dowager to King Henry the Eighth a woman adorn'd with many excellent virtues especially humility the beauty of all other The Duke had taken to wife Anne Stanhope a woman for many imperfections intolerable but for pride monstrous She was exceeding both subtile and violent in accomplishing her ends for which she spurned over all respects both of Conscience and Shame This woman did bear such invincible hate first against the Queen Dowager for light causes and womens quarrels especially for that she had precedency of place before her being wife to the greatest Peer in the Land next to the Lord Sudley for her sake that albeit the Q. Dowager dyed by Child-birth yet would not her malice either die or decrease but continually she rub'd into the Duke's dull capacity That the Lord Sudley dissenting from him in opinion of Religion sought nothing more than to take away his life as well in regard of the common cause of Religion as thereby haply to attain his place Many other things she boldly feigned being assured of easie belief in her heedless hearers alwayes fearful and suspicious as of feeble spirit but then more than ever by reason of some late opposition against him Her perswasions she cunningly
Ancestors Which William his son and heir succeeding him in his honor married the Lady Frances one of the daughters of Henry late Earl of Holand by whom he hath had issue three sons viz. VVilliam his son and heir who married Frances the daughter to Francis Pierpoint late of Notâingham Esquire a younger son to Robert Earl of Kingston super Hull And seven daughters 1. Isabell who died unmarried 2. Lettice wedded to Sir Richard Hampden of Great-Hampden in Com. Buck. âsquire 3. Elizabeth yet unmarried 4. Frances married to Rouland Hunt of Boreatton in Com. Salop. Esquire 5. Penelope to Philip Foley of Prestwood in Com. Staff Esquire 6. Diana to Henry Asââurst Citizen of London and 7. Anne who died unmarried Lord Darcie of Chich. 5 Edw. 6. THat this Family is a branch of that which hath long florisht in the Counties of âincoln and York whereof I have in the first Volume of this Work already discourst there is no doubt at all to be made though I never could yet find when it first came thence Nor seen any thing memorable thereof till 8 H. 5. that Robert Darcie was Eschaetor for the County of Essex Who having been first a Clerk to a Lawyer afterwards married a rich Mârchants Widow of Maâdon that had a parâ in three or four ships at Sea and purchased Lands in those parts Which widdow called Aliâe being daughter and coheir to ... Fââz-Langlây died in 26 H. 6. and was buriâd in the Chapel of the Hâly Trinity within the Church of All Hallows in Maldon with this Robert her Husband who left issue two sons viz. Sir Robert Darcie of Danberie Knight and Iohn Darcie of Tolshunt Which Sir Robert departing this life in 9 E. 4. left issue Thomas Squyer for the Body to King Henry 6 th and King Edward 4 th who died in 1 H. 7. And he Roger Squyer of the Body to K. Henry the 7 th who by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Sir Henry VVentworth K t had issue another Thomas who in 36 H. 8. being then a Knight was constituted Master of the King's Artillery now called Master of the Ordinance within the Tower of London as also Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber in 37 H. 8. And in 5 E. 6. being then Vice-chamberlain of the King's Houshold Captain of the Guard and one of the four principal Knights of his Privy-Chamber upon the fifth of April was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the name of Lord Darcie of Chiche whereupon he had summons to the Parliament then sitting and took his place upon the 23 d of Ianuary accordingly But in An. 1558. 5 4 Ph. M. being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and residing at Wivenhoâ in Com. Essex he declared his Testament whereby as to his Interrment and Funeral he committed it wholly to the Order of Holy Church and dying within less than two years after ãâã for the Probate thereof bears date 14 Martii ââ60 was buried at St. Osythes leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford Iohn his son and heir as also two other sons Alberic who died at Newâaven and Robert And two daughters ãâã married to Richard Suthwell of Wood-Rysing in Com. Norff. Esq and Constance to Edmund Pyrton of Bentley in Com. Essex Which Iohn being summon'd to Parliament in 1 Eliz. took his place there 25 Ian. the same year and in 16 Eliz. accompanied VValter Earl of Essex into Ireland This Iohn having married Frances daughter of Richard Lord Rich Lord Chancellor of England departed this life in 23 Eliz. leaving issue Thomas his son and heir and Iohn a younger son who died unmarried as also Mary a daughter wife of Robert Lord Lumley Which last mention'd Thomas upon the fifth of Iuly An. 1621. 19 Iac. was created Vicount Colchester for life with remainder to Sir Thomas Savage of Rock-Savage in Com. Cestr. Knight and Baronet and to the heir male of his body by Elizabeth his wife eldest daughter to him the said Thomas Moreover upon the fourth of Nov. 2 Car. 1. he was advanc'd to the dignity of an Earl by the title of Earl Rivers with remainder to the said Sir Thomas Savage for lack of issue male of his own body And having wedded Mary the daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Kitson Kt. had issue by her one only son called Thomas and four daughters Which Thomas married the daughter and heir to Sir Iohn Fitz of South âavistoke in Com. Devon Knight widow of Sir Alan Perci Knight and died in his life-time without issue His four daughters were these Elizabeth married to the before-specified Sir Thomas Savage Mary to Roger Manwood Esquire son to Sir Peter Manwood Knight of the Bath Penelope first to Sir George Trenchard son and heir to Sir George Trenchard of UUolveton in Com. Dors. Knight after to Sir Iohn Gage of Fixley in Com. Suss. Baronet and Susan who died unmarried This Earl Rivers died at London 21 Feb. An. 1639. 15 Car. 1. and was buried in the Church of St. Osythes at Chich before-mentioned Iohn Lord Williams of Tame 1 Mariae BEfore I come to the advancement of this Iohn unto the degree and dignity of a Baron it will not be improper to take notice by what steps he ascended to that honour As to his Parentage he was of the same Family with Sir Richard Williams Knight who assumed the surname of Cromwell in the time of King Henry the Eighth viz. second Son to Sir Iohn Williams of Burfeild in Com. Berks. Knight by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Co-heir to Richard More of Burfeild Esquire the name of his elder Brother being Reginald Williams The first mention I find of him in reference to his preferment is in 18 H. 8. he being then a servant to that King having also ten pounds per annum granted to him by Patent for the keeping of a Greyhound And in 27 H. 8. was Clerk of the Kings Jewel-house By which means geting interest at Court he obtained a Patent for the office of Master or Treasurer of the same Jewel-house But Thomas Cromwell then Secretary of State being too strong for him forced him to surrender it and to accept of another jointly with himself so as to share the profits thereof betwixt them and the survivor to enjoy it wholly By which and other means geting wealth in 30 H. 8. he purchased the Mannors of great Ricott and little Ricott in Com. Oxon. from Giles Heron of Shakelwell in Com. Mid. Esquire Son of Iohn Heron sometime Treasurer of the Chamber to King H. 8. to whom Sir Richard Fowler Knight Son to Richard Chancelor of the Dutchy of Lancaster had formerly
To them that knew him deere For whom his Lady and loving Wife This Tomb hath builded here Obiit 17 Nov. 1571. Leaving Issue three Sons Rouland Thomas and William Which Rouland was well provided for at Longborow in Gloucester-shire and thereabouts by Sir Rouland Hill his Godfather But Thomas and William were both seaâed in Warwickâshire the one at Stoneley upon the ruines of a large Monastery of the Cistercian Order and the other at Newnham Regis a fair Lordship belonging to the Canons of Keniâworth before the fatal dissolution of that Religious House Which William being afterwards a Knight had Issue Francis his Son and Heir made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames who married Mary the Daughter of Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellour of England and by her had Issue Francis his Son and Heir created Baronet 24 December 16 Iac. and having afterwards married Audrey the eldest Daughter of Iohn Lord Butler of Bramfeild in Com. Herâf by Elizabeth his Wife Sâster to George Duke of Buckingham Widow of Sir Francis Anderson Knight second Son of Sir Edmund Anderson Knight sometime Lord Chief Jââtice of the Court of Common-Pleas was raised to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Dunsmore 31 Iulii in the fourth year of King Charles the Firââs ââign After which manifesting his Loâaây to that King in the time of the laââ grand dâfection when his Majesty became expâââd to excessive distresses he was made Captain of the Band of Pensioners in An. 1643. and by Letters Patânts bearing date at Oxford 3 Iunii in the âwenâieth year of his reign in conâideration of his especiâl merits in those troublesome and perillous times advanced to the degree and title of Earl of Chichester with lâmitation of that honour to the Heirs Male of his Body and for default of such Issue to Thomas then Earl of Southampton and to the Heirs Male of his Body begotten on Elizabeth his Wife eldest Daughter of him the said Franâiââ By the before specified Audrey his ãâã he had only Issue two Daughters his Heirs viz. the said Elizabeth Wife of the befoâe specified Thomas Earl of Southampâon and Mary married to George Villers Vicount Grandâson an Irish Honour and departing this life upon the xxi day of December being St. Thomas-day an 1653. was buried at Newnham before mentioned Lord Leigh of Stoneley OF this Family also was Sir Thomas Leigh of Stoneley Knight viz. second Son to Sir Thomas Leigh Knight Lord Mayor of Lândon in 1 Eliz. as hath been already observed Which Sir Thomas upon the 29 th of Iune 9 Iac. was honoured with the title of Baronet then being the time of the erection of that Order And having married Katherine the Daughter of Sir Iohn Spenser of Wormleightân in the same County Knight had Isâue by her Sir Iohn Leigh Knight whom he survived and departing this life ... Febr. 1 Car. 1. left Thomas his Grandson viz. Son of Sir Iohn Leigh his Son formerly deceased his next Heir Which Thomas having been dignified with Knighthood by King Iames married Mary one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Thomas Egerton Knight eldest Son to Thomas Lord Ellesmere Lord Chancellor of England and firmly adhering to the late King Charles the First of blessed memory in the late rebellious times was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm upon the first of Iuly in the nineteenth year of his reign by the title of Lord Leigh of Stoneley This Thomas had Issue by her the said Mary his Wife four Sons Thomas Charles Ferdinand who died unmarried and Christopher and three Daughters which survived him Elizabeth married to Iohn Vicount Tracie of Rathcule in Ireland Vere to Sir Iustinian Isham of Lamport in Com. Northt Baronet and Vrsula to Sir William Bromely of Baginton in Com. Warw. Knight of the Bath And departing this life upon the twenty second day of February an 1671. 23 Car. 2. was buried in a certain Vault made on the South Side of the Chancel of the Parochial Church at Stonely before mentioned his eldest Son Sir Thomas who was Knighted by King Charles the First at Stoneley 22 Aug. an 1642. being deceased in his life time Which Sir Thomas married twice First Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Richard Brigham of Lambeth in Com. Surr. Esq by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Anne who died young Afterwards Iane Daughter of Patrick Fitz. Maurice Baron of Kerrey in Ireland by whom he had Issue Thomas his only Son now Lord Leigh and three Daughters Honora married to Sir William Egerton Knight second Son to Iohn Earl of Bridgwater Mary and Iane. Lord Butler of Bramfeild 4 Car. 1. IN an 1619. 17 Iac. Sir Iohn Butler of Hatâeild Woodhall in Com. Hertf. Knight being the chief Branch of an antient Family of that name in those parts was by Letters Patent bearing date 12. Apr. created a Baronet And by other Letters Patent dated 20 Sept. 4 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Buâler of Bramfeild in Com. Hertf. This Iohn took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter to Sir George Villers of Blokesby in Com. Leic. Knight Sister to George Dâke of Buckinghâm and by her had Issue six Sons Iohn Henry Philip Francis and another Iohn who died all of them unmarried and William As also six Daughters Audrây first married to Sir Francis Anderson Knight and secondly to Sir Francis Leigh of Newâham Regis in the County of Warwick Baronet afterwards created Lord Dunsmore and Earl of Chichester Ellen to Sir Iohn Drake of Aââe in Com. Devon Knight Iane to Iames Earl of Marlborough Lord Treasurer of England Olive to Eâdymiân Porter one of the Grooms of the Bâdchamber to King Charles the First Mary to Edward Lord Hâward of Escrick and Anne first to Mâuntjoy Blount Earl of Newport but since of Thomas Earl of Portland And departing this life at his Lodgings in the Parish of St. Martins in the Field within the Liberties of Wâstminster 27 Maii an 1637. 13 Car. 1. was buried at Higâam Gobyon in Com. Bedf. To whom succeeded William his only surviving Son who died unmarried Edward Lord Littleton 16 Car. 1. THis Edward Son and Heir to Sir Edward Littleton of Henley in Com. Salop Knight being a sedulous Student of the Laws in the Inner Temple London became so great a Proficient therein as that in an 1632. 8 Car. 1. he was made choice of for the Autumn-Reader in that Honourable Society and in the tenth year of that Kings Reign 17 October constituted the Kings Solliciâor-General After which upon the sixth of Iune next ensuing he received the honour of Knighthood at White-Hall Growing likewise more and more in esteem for his Knowledge upon the 27 th of Ianuary 15 Car. 1. he had the Office of Lord Chief Justice of the Court of