vel per ipsum solum qualitercunque in hac parte factorum sive perpetratorum Et de eo quòd ipse fuit de assensu consilio favore abbettamento Comitiva vi retinentia seu adhaesione praedictorum Ducis Comitum in materiis praedictis vel earum aliqua seu aliqua parcella aut aliquibus dependentiis earundem ac pro omnibus aliis proditionibus seditionibus insurrectionibus feloniis murdris raptibus mulierum roberiis depraedationibus latrociniis homicidiis incendiis transgressionibus inobedientiis rebellionibus forstallariis confoederationibus conspirationibus cambipartiis ambidextriis falsitatibus negligentiis deceptionibus quibuscunque Nobis seu alicui de regno nostro actis vel illatis unde idem Henricus judicatus impetitus rectatus accusatus vel appellatus existit vel esse poterit quoquo modo in futuo Et etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis actionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei indè concedimus Nolentes quòd praefatus Henricus aut haeredes vel executores sui aut terrarum suarum Tenentes ratione aliquorum praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem coram Nobis haeredibus nostris in Parliamentis nostris vel haeredum nostrorum vel in quibuscunque aliis locis vel placeis nostris coram quibuscunque Judicibus Justiciariis Ministris vel Officiariis Nostris vel haeredum nostrorum quibuscunque inde futuris temporibus impetantur occasionentur inquietentur molestentur in aliquo seu graventur sed ab omnibus praemissis penitus sint quieti absoluti exonerati imperpetuum aliquo statuto seu ordinatione in contrarium praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem quovis modo factis non obstantibus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilecto fideli Militi nostro Henrico Greene Maneria de Cosgrave Preston Capes in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum pertinentiis ac reversionem Manerii de Kibworth in Comitatu Leicestriae cum pertinentiis cum feodis Militum advocationibus Ecclesiarum omnibus aliis franchesiis libertatibus ad Maneria illa pertinentibus sive spectantibus quae quidem Maneria Thomae nuper Comitis Warwici extiterunt Nobis ratione judicii contra ipsum in Parliamento nostro redditi forisfacta existunt Habendum tenendum praefato Henrico haeredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus praedicta Maneria cum pertinentiis cum feodis advocationibus franchesiis libertatibus praedictis de Nobis haeredibus nostris aliis Dominis feodorum per servitia indè debita consueta adeò liberè integrè sicut praedictus Thomas ante haec tempora habuit ac tenuit Maneria supradicta In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per Breve de privato Sigillo Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilectis fidelibus Militibus nostris Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene placeam vel Hospitium quae vel quod fuit Johannis Domini de Cobham infra Civitatem nostram Londini ad Nos pertinet per forisfacturam ejusdem Johannis Domini de Cobham Habendum dictis Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene pro termino vitae eorum alterius eorum diutiùs viventis dictam placeam sive Hospitium unà cum omnibus Schoppis sellariis solariis eisdem Hospitio sive placeae adjacentibus ac cum omni redditu ad dictam Placeam sive Hospitium aliquo modo pertinente Et cum stuffura in eadem placea sive Hospitio existente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Salopiam tricesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Hollinshead in Chronicle of England Page 498. WHen the Lord Governour Edmund Duke of York was advertised that the Duke of Lancaster kept still the Sea and was ready to arrive but where he meant first to set foot on land there was not any that understood the certainty he sent for the Lord Chancellor Edmund Stafford Bishop of Exeter and for the Lord Treasurer William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and other of the King 's Privy Council as John Bushie William Bagot Henry Greene and John Russell Knights Of these he required to know what they thought good to be done in this matter concerning the Duke of Lancaster being in the Seas Their advice was To depart from London to St. Albans and there to gather an Army to resist the Duke in his landing But to how small purpose their Counsel served the conclusion thereof plainly declared for the most part that were called when they came protested that they would not fight against the Duke of Lancaster whom they knew to be evil dealt withal The Lord Treasurer Bagot Bushie and Greene perceiving that the Commons would cleave unto and take part with the Duke slipped away leaving the Lord Governour of the Realm and the Lord Chancellor to make what shift they could for themselves Bagot got him to Chester and so escaped into Ireland the other fled to the Castle of Bristol in hopes there to be in safety Again out of the same Chronicle and the same Page AT the same present there was arrested and committed to safe custody the Bishop of Norwich Sir William Elman and Sir Walter Burley Knights Lawrence Drew and John Golofer Esquires On the morrow after the foresaid Dukes with their power went toward Bristol where at their coming they shewed themselves before the Town and Castle being a huge multitude of people There were enclosed within the Castle the Lord William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and Treasurer of England Sir Henry Greene and Sir John Bushie Knights who prepared to make resistance but when it would not prevail they were taken and brought forth bound as Prisoners into the Camp before the Duke of Lancaster On the morrow next ensuing they were arraigned before the Constable and Marshal and found guilty of Treason for misgoverning the King and Realm and forthwith had their heads smit off Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England pag. 49. treating of Coats of Arms and of the different Bearing of them by persons of the same
and their Heirs and Assigns shall be and stand seized of all the Maners Lands Tenements Royalties and Hereditaments whatsoever in the said Fine or Fines mentioned and expressed to be comprized in the same and to those uses intents and purposes and upon the same Limitations and Payments as the said Recovery and Recoveries are in and by these Presents meant mentioned and expressed and as the true intent meaning and purpose of these Presents be and are intended mentioned or meant to be limited and appointed and that to all intents and purposes whatsoever In Witness whereof to the first part of these Presents with the said Thomas Lock John Row Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Henry Lord Mordaunt hath put to his Hand and Seal And to the second part of these Presents with the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Thomas Lock and John Row have put their Hands and Seals And to the third part with them the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Thomas Lock and John Row remaining the said Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley have put their Hands and Seals the Day and Year above-written Annoque Domini 1608. Vltima Voluntas Henrici quarti Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God Amen The Sixth Day of February in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. videlicet of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth Annoque Domini 1608. I Henry Lord Mordaunt knowing the Days of Mans Life to be few and my self to be now Summoned by languishing Sickness the messenger of Death and God knows how soon I shall yeild up my Soul unto the Hands of my God and Saviour do therefore while I am praised be God in perfect Memory make publish and divulge this my last Will and Testament Wherein and whereby I commit and commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Body to be Buried at Turvey amongst my Ancestors there lying Buried and for the clearing of my Conscience before God and Man and to give a publick satisfaction to the World concerning such and those Imputations which lately have been laid upon me and for which I have in a high degree been censured I mean the late Gunpowder Treason which fact for the Heinousness thereof in the Offenders therein I do loath to remember and now sorrow to repeat therefore at this time when all hope or desire of long Life hath forsaken and now Almighty God into whose Hands I am instantly yeilding up my Soul is my immediate Judge to witness with me that I lie not I do solemnly Protest before God and his Angels and that without all Equivocation or Duplicity whatsoever that I am innocent of that Fact and guiltless of all Foreknowledge thereof and although I know that this Protestation of mine cannot without the gracious Mercy of my Prince and Sovereign the King's Majesty extenuate or mitigate the greatness of my past Censure Yet herein I comfort my self that I live and that in the time of my dying Innocence to publish and express the truth and grief of my trouble which I hope will suffice to cleanse the stain thereof from my Name and House and so to leave the Reputation of my Name and House as I found it spotless from being defamed or disreputed with the Knowledge Acting or Assenting unto any dishonourable disloyal or dishonest Action whatsoever And whereas I have lately by Fine or other Conveyance in Law settled my Estate and Living amongst my Children and Family according to my own mind and good liking as by an Indenture Tripartite dated the Fourth day of January last made between me on the first part Thomas Lock and John Row on the second part and the Right Honourable the Earls of Worcester and Rutland and some others on the third part I do heartily intreat my said Honourable Friends and all others in the said Indentures mentioned and to be trusted that they would carefully according to my Trust in them severally reposed and as the case shall fall out execute and see performed my said Plot and Project for the benefit of my said Children and Family and for the performance of my other Intentions therein expressed And I do right heartily intreat my Righ Honourable and welbeloved Brother-in-law the Lord Compton whom for that purpose I have left out of the said Indenture that he would be pleased to have a care and regard unto the executing and performing of my said Project that the Issues and Profits of my Maners Lands and Revenues in the said Indentures mentioned may be truly disposed according as the same by me in my said Indenture be appointed And I do give to the said Lord Compton for his pains Item I do Will and bequeath unto my Son John Mordaunt all my necessary Household and Implements of Household which and wherewith my several Houses of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of Drayton in the County of Northampton be now furnished withal which said necessary Household and Implements of Household I Will shall go and remain with my said Houses from Heir to Heir Item I do further Will and Bequeath all other the Legacies and Portions in a Schedule to this my present Will filed mentioned devised and bequeathed and I do make Sole Executor of this my Will the Right Honourable the Lord Compton In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written SIGILLVM HENRICI DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Fourth of that Name Fifth Lord MORDAVNT Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI A Pardon and Release Granted to John Lord Mordaunt of a Fine in the Star-Chamber set upon Henry Lord Mordaunt his Father JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Commissioners of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to all other the Officers Ministers and Subjects of us our Heirs and Successors to whom it shall or may appertain Greeting Whereas in our Court of Star-Chamber before our Counsel there the Third Day of June in the Fourth Year of our Reign of England France and Ireland there were brought to the Bar as Prisoners from our Tower of London Henry Lord Mordaunt late deceased and Edward Lord Sturton against whom Sir Edward Coke
tandem circa Festum Apostolorum Simonis Judae applicuerunt in Vasconia apud Castellam quae situatur in littore fluminis de Gerunde dedÃtque se eis Regi Angliae Dominus Urbis illius eos cum laetitiâ magnâ suscepit benignè tractavit In eodem Pag. 2498. ET tunc primò Angli extraxerunt equos è navibus cum in mari mansissent decem septem Hebdomadas aliquos dies tandem verò refocillatis hominibus equis demiserunt etiam se Angli quasi in duas partes remanserúntque in eodem loco ut populum Terrae sibi attraherent Dominus Johannes de Britanniâ Dominus Willielmus le Latimer cum trecentis equestribus septem millibus Electorum Hollinshead Page 310. IN the nine and twentieth of King Edward the First the Barons of England wrote a Letter to Pope Boniface about certain Liberties of the Crown which among the rest was signed by William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Monasticon Anglicanum Pars prima Folio 678. RObertus de Braybrooke quondam Vicecomes Northamptoniae emit de vetere Eustachio de Watford pratum quod vocatur Sandford reddendo inde annuatim duos solidos Iste Robertus genuit Henricum de Braybrooke qui Henricus dedit dictum pratum Domui de Daventree ad firmam perpetuam pro sex marcis dimidia annuatim sibi haeredibus suis solvendis centum annis elapsis ultra Dictus Henricus genuit Wiscardum Ledet qui sumpsit cognomen ex matre suâ Christianâ Ledet Domina de Warden Iste Wiscardus genuit Walterum Ledet iste Walterus genuit de Ermendrua de Insula duas filias videlicet Aliciam Christianam sorores Alicia desponsata fuit Domino Willielmo le Latimer qui genuit ex eâ quatuor filios videlicet Dominum Willielmum Dominum Johannem Dominum Thomam Dominum Nicolaum Milites Cui Nicolao Domina mater sua Alicia post mortem mariti sui Domini Willielmi dedit omnes Terras suas Tenementa quae habuit in Comitatibus Northamptoniae Leicestriae Sir JOHN LATIMER second Son of WILLIAM Lord LATIMER The Baronage of England Page 413. mentioning Aluered of Lincoln TO this last mentioned succeeded another Aluered who in the first of King John was one that held the Castle of Winchester for the King and to him another Aluered his Son and Heir Which Aluered in the twenty fourth of Henry the Third paid a hundred pounds for his relief and in the forty second of Henry the Third had Summons to attend the King at Chester well furnished with Horse and Arms to restrain the Incursions of the Welsh but died in the forty eighth of that King being seized of the Mannors of Winterborne and Langton in the County of Dorset with the Advowson of the Church of Ackford Duntish and the Chappel of Duntish as also of the Mannor of Celles which was given in frank-Marriage with Maud his Mother Likewise the Mannor of Norton also given in frank-Marriage with Albreda his Grandmother and two Knights Fees in Bardolston and Pinford leaving Robert Fitzpaine Son of Margery his Eldest Sister Beatrice the Wife of William de Govis his second Sister and Albreda de Lincoln his third Sister his Heirs all of full Age and Joan his Wife surviving who had the Mannors of Ackford and Duntish with the Advowsons of the Churches of those Lordships assigned for her Dower which Robert Fitzpain and William de Govis for their good Service on the Kings behalf in the Battel of Lewes were in the forty eighth of Henry the Third acquitted from the payment of the relief due upon the Death of the before-specified Aluered of Lincoln their Uncle An ancient Letter to Sir John Latimer from Gervaise de Cingal his Steward AMon treschier Seigneur Jean le Latimer Gervaise de Cingal son Seneshal salutz Je vous fais a scavoir que le Baillif de Caen rapella vostre cause qu'estoit en l'Assise de Cornue la mist en l'Assise de Fallaise qui fust le Jeudy avant la Sainte Croix en Septembre il nous la renvoya de Jeudy en Jeudy ensuivant encontre ma volonte Et le Baillif ne fust pas a la dite journe si y fust Monseigneur de la Miafle Monseigneur Eustace de Piron Monseigneur Robert des Monstiers le jeune l'Attorney Madame sa Feme qui requirent le Viconte qui estoit au lieu du Baillif que Monseigneur Jean le Latimer Madame sa Feme leur fussent appelle Et vostre Attorney si apparut pour vous dit ledit Attorney qu'il ne tenoit point le Viconte pour Juge en la cause de son Maistre Et que le Baillif en est Juge comme connoisses sur ce le Viconte nous renvoya par devant son Maistre le Baillif de son office a Baieux au Mardy devant le Saint Michel a laquelle journe je fus moy vostre Attorney nous nous compleimismes du Viconte de Fallaise qu'on avoit remise vostre cause hors du Siege de Fallaise ou elle se devoit determiner de son droit plusieurs raisons proposa devant le Baillif dont nous mismes en conseil a la presence de Monsieur Robert des Monstiers le jeune de l'Attorney sa feme de Monsieur Piere de la Miafle de Monsieur Eustace de Piron fut jugé par Conseil que nous ne disions chose par quoy les Chevaliers ne deusent ..................................... ......................... lesquelles leur fist jurer sur les Saincts Evangiles qu'il diroit bien loyaument sur ce qu'en estoit contenu en un memoire d'Eschequier Et si c'estoit leur entente que le Contract qu'avoit este faict entre vous Monsieur des Monstiers Et si c'estoit leur entente que le payement se fist en la foible monoye ou en la forte si eux reconnoissoyent que se fussent leurs Sceaux qui estoit a une lettre qu'eux avoyent envoyé a Laurens la Reuide eux dirent que ouy leur de mandat ' on si eux avoyent dit en la maniere qui estoit contenue en la dite lettre eux dirent que ouy si euxvouloyent perseverer vous condamnerent en la somme de mille livres en la forte monoye sur ce eux requistrent que vostre Attorney fist emmende du desbat que vous metties que la forte monoye ne fut paye en l'Eschequier sur ce l'Attorney ammanda contre ma volonte apres que l'ammande fust faict eux redirent que vostre desbat fust chest ............ cella comme elle avoit este faite ............ nos raisons Et il fut regarde par conseil qu'eux auroyent la saisine de la juré leur
Third obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the days of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year Antiquities of Warwickshire fol. 305 306. Of Waleran the Earl of Warwick HE had two Wives Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice Daughter of John de Harcourt but Widow of John de Limesie before mentioned and departing this life in the sixth of King John left divers Children of which Henry his eldest Son succeeded in the Earldom Waleran another Son had the Mannors of Gretham and Cottesmore in the County of Rutland with certain Lands in Worcestershire but dyed without Issue Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife wedded William Mauduit of Hanslape in the County of Bucks and had by her Fathers appointment the Mannor of Wanton now called Walton Mauduit in this County for her Marriage Portion as is evident by King John's confirmation thereof to him bearing Date the thirtieth of November in the tenth year of his Reign WILLIAM MAVDVIT Earl of Warwick Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lordships Baronage of England Page 399. BUT in the one and fortieth of Henry the Third he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in the County of Bucks as also of the Mannor of Bergedon and Hundred of Wrangedike with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham in the County of Rutland as likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartleigh in the County of Southampton leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of Age. Which William in the forty first year of Henry the Third had so much favour from the King in payment of a Debt of two hundred Marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serjeanty he held videlicet a hundred Pounds for his Relief of his Barony and fifty Marks for his Serjeanty as that it was accepted of fifty Marks per annum The next year following this William had Summons to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the Incursions of the Welsh and in the forty seventh of Henry the Third doing his Homage and paying a hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him videlicet the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Lands and Mannors thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility Mille 's Catalogue of Honor page 798. William Maledoctus commonly called Mauduit Lord and Baron of Hanslape Cousin and Heir to Margery Countess of Warwick videlicet the Son of Alice the Sister of Henry the Father of the said Margery became Earl of Warwick after the Death of the foresaid Margery in the Reign of Henry the Third who long before had honour'd him with the Sword of Knighthood in the year 1233. and in the eighteenth of his Reign He dyed without Issue the fourth day of the Ides of January in the year 1268. and of Henry the Third the fifty second leaving his Sister Isabell his Heir Alice the Daughter of Gilbert Lord Segrave was Wife to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit that was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Carta Domini Roberti Mauduit RObertus Mauduit Domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Roberto Mauduit filio meo juniori Manerium totam terram meam de Werminster quae Rex Henricus Dominus meus mihi concessit tenendum sibi haeredibus suis in perpetuum liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè ab omni servitio salvo quod domino Regi pertinet in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Isti sunt Testes Dominus Johannes de Knovill Dominus Ricardus de Verdun Robertus de Sancto Laudo Alexander Pipard Thomas filius Johannis Henricus Transard Stephanus Camerarius Herveius Dapifer SIGILLVM DNI ROBERTI MAUDUIT Carta Domini Willielmi Mauduit Camerarii Regis WIllielmus Mauduit domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hac carta mea praesenti confirmâsse Fratri meo Roberto Mauduit pro servitio suo Manerium de Scaudedene cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè in bosco in campis in pratis in pascuis in viis in semitis in omnibus ad Manerium illud pertinentibus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius Militis Testibus Ranulpho de Glanvilla Gilberto Pipard Bertram de Verdun Willielmo de Bend Radulpho filio Stephani Eustachio filio Stephani Johanne Mauduit Beberto filio Richardi Gaufrido de Insula Roberto Burell Roberto Mauncell Roberto Mauduit filio meo Willielmo filio Walteri Willielmo Nepote aliis multis SIGILLVM DNI WILLI MAUDUIT CAMERARII REGIS Monasticon Anglicanum Pars Secunda pag. 409. 36. 43. inter concessiones de Mayden Bradley EX dono Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum pertinentiis in Bushopstree Ex dono Agnetis de la Mare quae fuit Uxor Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum messuagio Curtelagio in Tarrenta WILLIAM MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Placita de Banco Term. Pasch Anno 14 H. III. in pella Scaccarii Regis remanent Rot. 15. RObertus de Passleu per Attornatum suum petit versus Willielmum Mauduit Eugeniam Uxorem ejus quòd reddant ei Henricum filium haeredem Henrici Cromwell cujus custodia ad eum pertinet ratione commissionis Domini Regis quod inde fecit dicit c. Sed quia dictus Robertus non ostendit dictam commissionem dicta custodia remansit penes dictos Willielmum Eugeniam Charta Regis Henrici Tertii HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae
Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted
JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon Camden's Britannia page 205 treating of the County of Essex THorndon quondam Habitatio Clarae Familiae Fitz-Lewis quorum ultimus si qua fides vulgò incensis fortuitò Aedibus Nuptiali Festivitate misero incendio periit ELY FITZ-LEWIS and JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Lord and Lady of Westhornedon A Will or Testament of John Lord Mordaunt THIS is the last Will of John Mordaunt Knight Son and Heir apparent of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt confirming the order disposition and demise as well of my Goods and Chattels as of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances that I have and am seised of Estate of Fee-simple in the Counties of Essex Northampton and Somerset or elsewhere within the Realm of England First I will and demise that all my parts portion and demand Right Title Possession and Interest that I have of and in the Mannors of Granham otherwise called Bishop Wokenton in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhal to Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed within the County of Essex with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or hath been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Grangeham otherwise called Bishop Wokengton Greice Brumford in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhall unto Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed in the County of Essex together with the Advowsons of the said Mannors to Dame Joan my Wife To have and to hold and enjoy the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the said Dame Joan and her Assigns for term of her natural life Also I will and demise That all my Right Title Possession Interest that I have of and in the Mannor of Westhornedon and Gingeraps and also Cranham in the said County of Essex the reversion of the said Mannor of Cranham after the decease of Dame Joan my Wife with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods and Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or haye been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps with the Advowsons belonging to the said Mannors To have hold and enjoy the Premisses with all Rights Revenues Profits Uses Commodities Emoluments and Arrearages of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements Ways Meadows Pastures and other Hereditaments and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father and to Edmond Mordaunt my Executors and to the Surviver of them and to the Executors of the Surviver for term of thirty Years next ensuing after my death without impeachment of Waste to the intent that they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses and every part thereof coming and growing from time to time during the said Term shall find and provide to my Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt Margaret Mordaunt Anne Mordaunt Ursula Mordaunt and every of them sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging Apparel Learning and other Necessaries for them until they be married and also give and deliver to every of them towards their several Marriages the Summ of four hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be paid to every of them at the day of their several Marriages If that my said Executors have loned or at any time or times hereafter the said Marriages as it may be loned of the Issues and Profits of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps And if it shall so chance that one or two of my said Daughters to dye and depart out of this transitory life unmarried I will that her or their Parts Portions and Summs of Money that to her or to them by this my last Will and Testament did belong shall remain grow come and be deemed amongst the other of my Daughters which shall so fortune to overlive And if it shall so chance that more of my said Daughters than two to dye and depart out of this transitory life I will that their Parts and Portions shall remain still in the hands of my Executors to be delivered to my Son and Heir when he cometh to two and twenty Years of Age. And if I chance to depart to God without Issue Male then I will that the moyety of the said money equally to be divided amongst my said Daughters which at that time shall chance to be alive and the residue to be distributed in deeds of Charity according to the discretion of my Executors my said Lord and Father and my Brother Edmond Mordaunt Furthermore I will that if any of my said Daughters happen to marry her self against the will and appointment of my Executors the said Lord Edmond Mordaunt or the Survivors or the Survivor of them within the Age of twenty one Years or if any of the said Daughters doe refuse any lawful marriage tendered or offered by my Executors the said Lord and Edmond Mordaunt my Brother or by the Survivors or Survivor of them within the said Age of one and twenty Years to the intent to marry themselves at their own pleasure That then I will That she or they shall tarry for her or their part until the time that all my Daughters be set forth and married and then to be delivered to my said Daughter or Daughters so marrying themselves or to the Children of her or them according to the discretion of my Executors the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them And further I will and demise that my said Executors with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses during the said term shall find a Priest to sing Mass in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid to pray for my Soul and Dame Ely my late Wife deceased and all Christian Souls And also shall distribute every Year during the said term to the help and sustentation of the poor and needy people in Westhornedon Gingeraps Cranham and Nevendon according to the discretion of my Executors And also give and distribute unto the maintaining of High-ways and Bridges wheresoever my Executors shall think most meet and convenient any where within the County of Essex Also I do demise unto the said Edmond Mordaunt my Brother the reversion of certain Lands and Tenements Pasture Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments in Coume and Sturmest in the County of Somerset with the appurtenances which I the said Sir John did purchase of one Richard Matthew one of the Sons of Robert Matthew deceased which Joan Matthew Widow doth now claim for to hold for term of her life as parcel of her Joynture To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs in as large and ample manner as ever Robert Matthew did hold or occupy the premisses upon this Condition following that is to say that the said Edmond or his Heirs shall make or cause to be made within two years after the death of the said Joan Matthew in the Church of Westhornedon of the North
was provided by the same Book that if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of five hundred Marks per annum within six Months after the Feast of Saint Andrew next ensuing the Date of the same Book to Sir Robert Throckmorton and other the Recoverers and their Heirs of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands that is to say parcel thereof to the value of three hundred Marks or under to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt and my Lady now his Wife for the term of their lives disponishable of waste during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt and after their deceases to the use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the Fitz-Lewis And the remanent part thereof to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste And after his decease to the use of his Will for the term of ten years and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of all such and so much of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now Lord Mordaunt by that Book should be unto the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste And after the said several uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's shall be ended and determined as is abovesaid and as the same shall severally end and determine the uses thereof be further appointed as followeth that is to say Unto the first Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt in lawful marriage begotten and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten And after to the second Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt on lawful marriage begotten and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten with divers remainders over the last remainder thereof being appointed to the right Heirs of the said Lewis Mordaunt for ever And to the intent that my Lady Mordaunt now Wife to the now Lord Mordaunt should have goodwill that the Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as aforesaid the late Lord Mordaunt did grant unto her for the augmentation of her Joynture to make it up four hundred Marks a year an yearly Rent of an hundred Marks by the year during her life with a Clause of distress in his own Land for the not payment thereof upon Condition that the Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as is aforesaid Shortly after this Book thus agreed upon and sealed one part thereof was sent to the now Lord Mordaunt that he might thereby perfectly understand what his Father had done and the premisses notwithstanding he would not assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he ought to have done within the said six Months by reason whereof the uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands appointed to the now Lord Mordaunt did cease through the wilful default of the now Lord Mordaunt and the same came to the said Lewis Mordaunt Memorandum That the Conveyances of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as is aforesaid was of the mere motion circumspection and providence of the late Lord Mordaunt for the causes aforesaid without any seeking of the said Lewis Mordaunt who neither would nor durst move the said late Lord Mordaunt his Grandfather being a wise man in such a matter Now the premisses considered it may appear that the said Lewis hath not done any thing whereby to offend his Father except it be in refusing to marry his Mother-in-Laws Daughter which his Father offered him in marriage which he liked not or else in receiving the benevolence of his Grandfather unprocured of his part The Causes of the late Lord Mordaunt's doings and the doings of the now Lord Mordaunt towards the late Lord Mordaunt his Father and towards the Fitz-Lewis's Lands may plainly appear in the Articles abovesaid The Book was delivered to the now Lord Mordaunt within twelve days after the beginning of the six Months so as he had all the six Months saving twelve days to consider thereupon and to have made assurance of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands accordingly Another Will of Sir John Mordaunt of Westhornedon IN the Name of God Amen The twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred forty and nine and in the third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and Ireland the supreme Head I Sir John Mordaunt of Westhornedon in the County of Essex Knight being of whole mind and perfect remembrance thanks be to God do make my Testament and last Will in manner and form following First I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and my Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid by Dame Ely Mordaunt my late Wife trusting through the merits of Christ's Passion to be saved And the doings and ordering of my Funeral-expences I commit to the order and disposition of Dame Joan now my Wife whom I make and ordain by this my present Testament my sole Executrix And first as concerning the devise and bequest of my Lands and Tenements I give and bequeath to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father the said Joan my Wife and to Edmond Mordaunt my Brother all that my Mannor of Westhornedon and all my Right Title and Possession that I have in the said Mannor with the appurtenances with all those my Lands and Tenements called Fieldhouse and Maundes now in the manurance occupation and tenure of John Wright of Keldon in the said County of Essex The reversion of the Mannor of Wantons in Bumpsted ad Turr ' with Purbysher and Whytley set lying and being in thé Town of Bumpsted ad Turr ' and Burdbroke which Dame Joan my Wife doth hold for the time of her life as Parcel of her Joynture with all and singular Rights Members Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements and Advowsons Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or have been in times past reputed taken or known as Part or Parcel of the said Mannor of Westhornedon and Wantons in the said County of Essex And all other my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Town of Westhornedon Easthornedon Tholderdyche Warley magna Bumpsted Sturmer and Burdbroke in the said County of Essex To have hold and enjoy all the Premisses with their Members and Appurtenances and every Part and Parcel thereof to the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt and to their Heirs and Assigns upon the Conditions following that is to wit That they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses shall find and provide or cause to be
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
Willielmo Domino Compton ac etiam dilictis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Knolles Milite Contrarotulatore hospitii nostri Roberto Cecilio Milite principali Secretario nostro aliis In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo secundo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo Examinatum per me S. Killingworth The History of Queen Elizabeth by Cambden Pag. 610. HE was very much offended that the Council were let loose several Papers he cast into the Fire lest as he said they should tell tales and prepared himself for defence And being now reduced to his last hope of expecting Aid from the Londoners he Fortified his House on all sides The Lord Admiral presently Besieged the House to Land-ward He assigned the Earls of Cumberland and Lincoln the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Grey the Lord Burghly the Lord Compton and others with Forces of Horse and Foot every Man his Post He himself with the Lord Effingham his Son the Lord Cobham Sir John Stanhop Sir Robert Sidney Sir Fulk Grevill seized upon the Garden by the Thames side Being now ready to assault the House he summoned him by Sidney to yield Southampton asked him to whom they should yield To their Adversaries That were to run themselves headlong to ruine Or to the Queen That were to confess themselves guilty But yet said he if the Lord Admiral will give us Hostages for our security we will appear before the Queen If not we are every one of us fully resolved to lose our lives fighting The Lord Admiral returning word by Sidney That neither were Conditions to be propounded by Rebels nor Hostages to be delivered to them signified to Essex That for the sparing the weaker sex he would permit the Countess his Wife the Lady Rich his Sister and their Waiting-Gentlewomen who filled all places with their womanish Shrieks and Lamentations to come forth Which Essex took as a favour only he desired that an hour or two's time might be granted him to fortifie the place by which they should go forth which was also granted Before the hour was expired Essex holding all things now for desparate and lost resolved to make his way out And the Lord Sands who was more aged than the rest earnestly urged him so to do often repeating that saying That the resolutest Councels are the safest That it is more honourable for Noble Persons to die fighting than by the hand of the Executioner But Essex wavering in his resolution began presently to think of yielding and gave notice that upon certain Conditions he would yield But when the Lord Admiral would admit of no conditions he said he would not give conditions but rather take them Yet Three things he requested First That they might be civilly dealt withal This the Lord Admiral promised Secondly That their cause might be justly and duly heard He answered That there was no reason to doubt thereof And Lastly That Ashton a Minister of God's Word might be with him in Prison for his Soul's comfort The Lord Admiral answered That for these things he would make intercession to the Queen When presently all the Noblemen falling upon their Knees and delivering their Swords up to the Lord Admiral yielded themselves at Ten of the Clock at Night There were no more slain but Owen Salisbury and one or two who were killed in the House by shot and as many of the Besiegers And again out of the same Pag. 659. UPON which day whether thinking on her Death or presaging what would ensue she happned to say to the Lord Admiral whom she always dearly affected My Throne hath been the Throne of Kings neither ought any other than he that is my next Heir to succeed me And the Courtiers observed That she never before more frequented Prayers and the Service of God than now WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham that was Lord High Admiral of England CHAPTER IV. HE is recorded in several Writers of the Heralds Books to have bore a part in most of the Tilts Fights at Barriers and other Marshal Games and Triumphs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Cambden's History of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Channel could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Fight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son Ibidem Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl of Essex Count Lodowick of Nassau Don Christophero a Portuguese Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Lord Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill c. Milles's Catalogue of Honour Pag. 894 895. CHARLES Howard Son of William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth one of her Privy Council and by her made Knight of the Garter who was younger Son of Thomas Howard second Duke of Norfolk one of the Lords of the Honourable Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Admiral of England was for his most right honourable Service at the Sacking of Cales with Robert Devereux Earl of Essex by Queen Elizabeth created Earl of Nottingham in right of his descent from the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Nottingham The First Wife Katharine Daughter of Henry Cary Lord Hundsdon who being Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to Queen Elizabeth one of her Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Garter was Son of William Cary by his Wife Mary Bollen Sister to Queen Anne Bollen Mother of Queen Elizabeth was first Wife unto Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham The Second Wife Margaret the Daughter of James Stuart Earl of Murray was the second Wife to Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham now living 1610. Children by his First Wife William Howard was by King James created Lord Howard of Effingham a Baron of the Parliament House who Married Anne Daughter and Heir of John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe by his Wife Katharine Daughter of Sir Robert Dormer of Eythorp in Buckingham-shire Charles Howard Knight Keeper of the Castle at Windsor Elizabeth Wife of Sir Robert Southwell of Riseing in Norfolk Knight Frances Wife of ..... Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare Margaret Wife of Sir Richard Leuson Children by his Second Wife James died lately young 1610. ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. The Second Part of the Baronage of England by Dugdale Pag. 279. THIS Noble Earl took to Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hundsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who wedded Anne Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe who died in his Father's Life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his Sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles
one Estate for One and twenty Years of the said Mannor and Premises granted to Francis late Earl of Bedford Oliver late Earl of Bullingbrooke Sir Henry Compton and Sir Rowland Saint John to Commence immediately from and after the Decease of the said Countess Dowager for the raising of Four thousand Pounds for the Portion of the Lady Elizabeth Howard Daughter of the said Countess according to the Purport and true Meaning of One Indenture bearing Date the First Day of November in the Fourteenth Year of His now Majesty's Reign as by the said Indenture may appear And that the Uses Estates and Limitations herein before mentioned shall be Subject to and Charged with the said Rent-Charge of Three hundred Pounds per Annum and term of One and twenty years any thing in these Presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding In witness whereof the parties above named have to these present Indentures Interchangably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written E. PETERBOROW Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Tho. Farrer Will. Preston Sam. Holland A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MORDAUNT Justified by Antient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the House of Mordaunt were Argent a Cheveron Sable between Three Stars Waved of the same Of the Name Antiquity Descent Alliance Possessions Greatness Actions and Arms of the House of Mordaunt IN the Preface to these Genealogies there has been exposed to the Reader the Nature and Antiquity of Sur-names and the grounds causes and occasions upon which they were assum'd in general To ascribe why the Lords of this House took to themselves the Name of Mordaunt is not in my power but that they did so near Six hundred Years ago and have continued it to their descendants unto this very day will be as easie as to read the unquestioned Proofs shall be exposed upon that matter The obvious and natural conjecture will be the quality of the occasion where they first appeared an occasion of War Chivalry and Conquest a Souldier a younger Brother and a brave fellow set out to make a Fortune by adventures of Arms it was proper to such a one dare mortem to Wound Kill and Destroy his Enemy whence le Mordaunt which was the first Epithet assum'd by Osbert the beginner of that House might appear no unproper sobriquit for him that did deserve it The descent of this Osbert is not affirm'd to be certain neither by one of who detestes to advantage his undertaking by any thing he cannot prove but it is evident his Father Robert was a great deserver in the Conquest and that by the assistance he brought Duke William and the share he acquired as the reward of his labour He bore the illustrious appellation of de Sancto Aegidio or of Saint Giles which at that time was the Name of the Soveraign Earls and Princes of Tholouse of which House he was in all probability a Son a Brother or a near Relation and from his Brother Eustace the eldest Son of this Robert our Osbert did receive several noble provisions as the Lordship of Radwell that of Brayfield with Lands in Wahull in Lavendon and in other parts and for the Blood of the Gentlemen who were his descendants it has been so fortunately pure as never to have been mis-allyed since the first knowledge of the Family but the chiefs thereof have always Married into Names of great Authority and Nobleness as that of Fortis Alno Olney who were of the first Conquerors those of Wake L'Estrange Latimer Vere Darcy and Howard all of the prime Nobility And as they have taken Wives out of the greatest Families so they have given them to the chiefest Gentlemen and prime Houses of England to Strangeways to Fettyplace to Browns to Henningham to Mansell to Danvers to Radney to Nevill and to Howard To these circumstances has been added their felicity that by the Prudent Conduct of their Affairs and successful undertakings they have ever flourished in an eminent degree of Riches and opulency They had been before the time of the first Sir John Mordaunt Lords of great Mannors Lands and Lordships but from his time to which was design'd the exaltation of this Family and his Alliance with the House of Latimer his Sons with the Heir of Vere and his Grandsons with the Inheritrix of Fitz-Lewis The Riches and Patrimony of this House was such as there was scarce a Gentleman in England whose Estate was comparable to it After this as the occasion of their coming into this Kingdom was the Military Service of a victorious Prince so the Lords of this House have continued to serve divers of their Kings in their Wars they have served them likewise in their Councils they have deserved to be called into the supreme Dignity of the Peerage and thereby made hereditary Grandees Judges and Councellors in which they have remain'd for divers Ages There have been of them Privy Councellors to several of the greatest Kings Ministers of State Captains Ambassadors and Governours of Provinces And in all these qualities they have served without reproach So as if Antiquity of Original Illustrious Derivance Descent from noblest Blood great Alliances high Dignities and Employments worthy Actions and large Possessions be of Virtue to make a Family considerable there will be little cause for Envy to bark at my endeavouring to establish the Honour and Memory thereof according to what is due to the merit of a Name so Illustrious For the Arms of this House from the time they have been in use and born hereditarily in Families were Argent a Cheveron Sable between Three Stars Waved of the same OSBERT le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER I. IN the Year 1066. against which Providence had prepared so great a change for the People and Government of England as did ensue by their subjection to the total Conquest of a Victorious Prince At that time among the other Hero's who joyn'd their hopes and assistance to the Fortunes of the famous William Duke of Normandy there was a Noble Knight called Robert of Saint Giles in the Latin Tongue Robertus de Sancto Aegidio who brought to his Service Fourscore Knights Milites out of the South parts of France and joyn'd himself to the Duke 's other Troops at the Imbarcation for this great undertaking Of this Robert of Saint Giles no more is extant of what he was than the assurance that the Soveraign Earls and Princes of Tholouse did all at that time use the Name and Appellation of Saint Giles or De Sancto Aegidio That the Attendance of Fourscore Kinghts was an Equipage suitable to a Prince Adventurer and that after his labors in this War he was rewarded by the generous Conqueror with great Lands and noble Possessions How long this Robert of Saint Giles lived or remain'd in this Kingdom we cannot tell but we find his Son Eustace of Saint
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
King and from which Elizabeth descended to the Mordaunts the Noble Lordships of Drayton Thrapston Addington Sudburgh Islip Luffwick Slipton and many other great Possessions Many disputes notwithstanding arose about the pretences of these Heirs even with the greatest Lords in England as the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury but the Credit of Sir John Mordaunt and his interest with the King joyn'd to his Wisdom and great Knowledge in the Laws had ever influence upon them But after his decease they set up great pretences to Drayton and the Green 's Lands and the Young Mordaunt soon found how much his Fathers Life had conduc'd to the settlement of that Estate In the Agitations of the Establishment whereof and the Agreements made with those great Lords he spent the remainder of King Henry the Seventh's Reign and was by that time become a person greatly accomplish'd After this King's Death he apply'd himself wholly to the farther designs of the Honor and Advantage of his House and made his Court to the Young Successor follow'd him in his First Wars and got so successfully into his Favour and Opinion as upon his return he received the gratification of a Patent containing the grant of several Noble Privileges and Immunities Among the rest to be Pilo Copertus in the presence of the King or of any of his Judges Ministers or Magistrates The Consideration he was at this time in appears by several Letters directed to him when he was yet but a private Gentleman He was Knighted by him after this and made a Privy Councellor wherein his Wisdom Fidelity and Zeal to his Majesty's Service were very Exemplary He was at one time Surveyor General of the King's Woods and Wood-sails and the Chief in another Commission for providing Necessaries for the Fortifications of Calice and the other Ports and Castles within the English Pale in the Country of Picardy and in many other matters he was Employ'd of great Importance wherein he so behaved and discharg'd himself as his generous Master thought fit for a reward of his many Services to take him into the Illustrious Dignity of the Peerage calling him by Writ a Baron into the Parliament in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign After this upon the Revolutions which happned by the change of the Church Government whereunto he was not able to shew that compliance which others of more supple tempers did condescend to do his Favour did decline and his Master's Kindness to him So as being retired to his own House and Country he did not remain without several mortifications which his Enemies of the prevailing Faction that Govern'd in the Court did endeavour to put upon him several hard Letters he received from the King about matters which they imputed to him concerning his backwardness in suppressing the Interest of the Old Religion and as the last endeavor of their Revenge they strove to make the King oblige him to an Exchange of the Noble Lordship of Drayton and the other Towns lying about it of his Wives Antient Inheritance and that he had in his Old Age settled against all Competitors at great Labour and Charges with certain of the Abby Lands newly acquired unto the Crown with which his Conscience as well as his Interest were altogether incompatible From this oppression he had not been able to have defended himself notwithstanding all his great Friends and Antient Services if the King's Death had not succeeded which in this point set him at liberty The Reign of King Edward he spent in peace But at the beginning of Queen Mary he labor'd a little under an imputation of his Enemies who would alledge he favoured the Dudleys and the claim of the Lady Jane but it was blown off with the improbability of an Inclination so contrary to his Principles and Profession and he lived out her time too and to the Second Year of her Successor Queen Elizabeth when he being very Old departed this Life in great Honor and Happiness Leaving Issue by his Wife the Lady Elizabeth Vere Sir John Mordaunt his Son and Heir Edmund Mordaunt William Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of Oakely and that Married Agnes Booth George Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of the Hill Married to Cecilia Harding Edith Mordaunt Married to John Elms. Anne Mordaunt Married to John Fisher Margaret Mordaunt Married to Edmond Fettyplace Dorothy Mordaunt Married to Thomas Moore Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Silvester Danvers Winifreid Mordaunt Married to John Cheyney of Chesham Boys Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII JOHN MORDAVNT was the early fruits of his Father's Marriage with the Lady Elizabeth Vere and the Lord Mordaunt being but young himself when his Son was born this John grew up to early Manhood while his Father was yet in the vigor of his own years and so they had the happiness to live long together in the same Generation The Lord Mordaunt in the time of his favor had the opportunity to purchase of the King at an easie rate the Marriage of Elly Fitz-Lewis who had become Heir of that Antient Family by the untimely Death of her Brother as has been expressed in the relation appertaining thereunto She was a very rich and considerable Fortune bringing with her the noble Lordship of Westhorndon and many other fair possessions And unto this Lady he Married John Mordaunt his Eldest Son who with his Wife lived long in his Father's life time upon her Estate in great Plenty and Reputation He had for several Years participated with the Lord Mordaunt much of King Henry's Favour and in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign and in the same wherein his Father was made a Baron he was summoned to come and receive at his Majesty's hands the Honourable Order of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne of Bollen which he did at that time in fellowship of the Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Waters the Lord Hastings and the Lord Mounteagle But with his Father being entirely addicted to the old Religion the change that succeeded in the one produc'd the same in both their Fortunes which was to retire to their Houses from all further applications in that Reign and at home Sir John Mordaunt continued likewise during that of the young Successor But at the Death of King Edward and the early difficulties of Queen Mary he was of the first that put themselves into the Field at the head of the Essex Men where his interest and reputation was very great offering unto her his and their Services in defence of her Person and Government at the Castle of Framingham in Suffolk where she was then retired in expectation of being assaulted by the Troops raised in behalf of the Faction of the Lady Jane and her Husband upon whom the Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland intended to settle the Crown of England The considerableness of
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
excambium pro quodam clauso in Turveia nuper Broughtons quae sunt omnia tenementa quae Broughton habuit in Turveia praedicta Habendum omnia praedicta terras boscos tenementa cum pertinentiis in Northcrawley praedicta excepto praeexcepto praefatae Katharinae haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus remanere inde mihi dicto Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus de corpore meo exeuntibus remanere inde Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus remanere inde praefatae Elizabethae Brown haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus remanere inde rectis haeredibus Dominae Agnetis Pekke nuper uxoris Johannis Pekke de Coupull filiae Johannis Vynter de Creke in Comitatu Northamptoniae in recompensationem medietatis manerii de Creke tenementorum in Northamptonia in eodem Comitatu Northamptoniae per me dictum Johannem Mordaunt venditae Item volo quòd nullus dictorum Johannis Mordaunt Willielmi filiorum meorum habeat statum in praedictis maneriis terris tenementis durantibus vitis suis nec eorum alicujus diutius viventis nisi tantum pro junctura uxorum suarum sed quòd iidem Johannes Willielmus tantum inde capiant exitus proficua post dictos decem annos elapsos durantibus vitis suis Item volo quòd executores faciant juncturas uxoribus eorundem Johannis Willielmi de in praedictis terris tenementis sibi separaliter in ista mea ultima voluntate assignatis aut in parcellis eorundem si quando de tanta portione inde prout per meos executores avisabitur prout teneor Elizabethae uxori praedicti Johannis Mordaunt junioris Item volo quòd dictus Willielmus Mordaunt frater meus habeat regimen dictorum filiorum meorum durante vita sua quousque filii mei pervenerint ad aetatem viginti quatuor annorum post ejus decessum alii executores mei habeant regimen eorum usque ad eandem aetatem Et volo quod si aliquid in fine dictorum decem annorum ista ultima voluntate mea perimpleta remaneat de bonis meis mobilibus aut de exitibus terrarum tenementorum meorum praedictorum aut de venditione boscorum meorum quòd tum volo quòd illud residuum remaneat ad usum dicti Johannis Mordaunt filii si tunc sit superstes aut dicto Willielmo filio meo tunc superstite ut ipsi exorent pro me animabus antecessorum meorum Item lego Johannae filiae meae uxori Aegidii Strangeways viginti libras argenti non in pecuniis sed in una pelve Ewre de argento in uno cipho cum coopertario deaurato ad valentiam viginti librarum Item volo quòd septem animae disponantur pro anima Agnetis Pekke cujus executor ego sum tenementum quinque acras terrae in Elnestowe quae valent ad majus sex libras duodecim solidos quatuor denarios assignavi Katharinae Ardres haeredibus suis in perpetuum Item lego Richardo Stevynson quatuor libras annuatim durante vita sua Thomae Kirkeby quatuor libras annuatim durante vita sua Thomae Heron quamdiu haeredi mei manerii de Turveia deservire valet annuatim quatuor libras Johanni Deyster Johannae uxori ejus victum vestitum apud Turveiam vel viginti sex solidos octo denarios per annum durante vita sua Jacobo Harris victum vestitum durante vita sua Item lego cuilibet alio servienti meo non sumenti annuali stipendio quadraginta solidos cuilibet alio servienti meo annuali sumenti stipendio integrum stipendium unius anni Et hujus praesentis Testamenti ultimae voluntatis meae executores facio ordino constituo Willielmum Mordaunt fratrem meum Johannem Vynter Willielmum Gascoign cuilibet eorum do lego viginti libras ultra expensas necessarias circa implementum istius meae ultimae voluntatis quas similiter volo quòd habeant expendent de bonis meis His Testibus praedictis Willielmo Mordaunt Willielmo Gascoign Johanne Vynter Johanne Mordaunt filio meo Wistano Brown aliis Data dicto die Jovis anno vicesimo supradicto Tenore praesentium nos Willielmus permissione divina Cantuariensis Episcopus totius Angliae primas apostolicae sedis legatus Notum facimus universis quòd sexto die mensis Decembris Anno Domini milesimo quingentesimo quarto apud Lambeth probatum fuit coram nobis ac per nos approbatum insinuatum Testamentum Johannis Mordaunt Militis defuncti praesentibus annexum habentis dum vixit mortis suae tempore bona in diversis Diocesibus nostrae Cantuariensis provinciae cujus praetextu ipsius Testamenti approbatio insinuatio ad administrationis bonorum debitorum suorum commissio nec non compoti calculi sive ratiocinii administrationis hujusmodi auditio finalisque liberatio sive demissio ab eadem ad nos solum insolidum non ad alium nobis inferiorem judicem de jure praerogativa consuetudine nostris ac Ecclesiae nostrae Christi Cantuariae quietè pacificè inconcussè in hac parte usitatis observatis legitimeque praescriptis dignoscuntur notoriè pertinere Commissaque fuit administratio omnium singulorum bonorum debitorum dicti defuncti Willielmo Mordaunt Willielmo Gascoign executoribus in hujusmodi Testamento nominatis de bene fideliter administrando eadem ac de pleno fideli inventorio omnium singulorum bonorum debitorum hujusmodi conficiendo Et nobis citra festum Natalis Domini proximo futuro exhibendo Nec non de pleno vero compoto calculo sive ratiocinio nobis aut successoribus nostris in ea parte reddendis ad sancta Dei Evangelia juratis Reservata potestate similem Commissionem faciendi Johanni Vynter etiam executori in hujusmodi Testamento nominato cum eam venerit in debita juris forma Admissurus Data die mensis Anno Domini loco praedicto nostrae translationis anno primo Sub Sigillo Officii Hic jacet Dominus Johannes Mordaunt Miles Dominus hujus villae cum Domina Editha uxore ejus filia haerede Domini Nicolai Latimer Militis qui quidem Johannes Cancellarius fuit Ducatus Lancastriae regnante Rege Henrico Septimo à Secretioribus suis Conciliis Multa meruit habuit plurima pro longa fideli servitute Obiit tandem satur dierum clarus virtute posteritate faelix in expectatione beatissimae Aeternitatis _____ die _____ Anno Domini _____ JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Second of that Name Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII Charta Regis Henrici Septimi facta Willielmo Mordaunt Willielmo Gascoign Executoribus Johannis Mordaunt Militis pro Custodia Johannis Leventhorp HEnricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae
said John More to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said John More and of his Heirs for ever And of all other the said Lands and Tenements residue of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before expressed to the use of the said John More for the term of his Life without Impeachment of wast The Remainder after his decease to the said Thomas More and his Heirs for ever discharged of all former Rights Titles Claims Uses Dowers Demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these Presents That he the said John More his Heirs and Assigns shall from time to time during the space of Three Years make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied such further Assurances and Surety to the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns or to any other Person or Persons by the said Lord his Heirs Executors or Assigns to be limitted and named of and in the Maners Lands Tenements and other the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the uses and intents before expressed and declared as shall be devised by the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by his or their learned Council in the law at the costs and charges in the law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That he the said John More before the said Feast of Pentecost shall make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied to the said Sir Thomas Audely Sir Gyles Strangeways and other his said Co-feoffees before named their Heirs and Assigns a good sure sufficient and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple of and in all his said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and all other his Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Oxford That is to say Of the Maner of More with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton of the Maner of Haddon with their Appurtenances in Bampton of the Maner of Esthall otherwise called Asthall and Astally and of all other his Maners Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton Staunton Harecourt Bampton Clanfield Norton Asthall Esthall and Astally in the said County of Oxford or elsewhere within the said County of Oxford except certain Lands and Tenements in Handborough to such uses and intents as hereafter followeth That is to say Of and in the said Maner of More in More and Moreton to the use of the said John More and of Jane now Wife to the said John More for term of their lives and of the longest liver of them without Impeachment of wast during the Life of the said John More And after the Death of the said John More and of Jane his Wife then the said Feoffees their Heirs or Assigns or the over-liver of them his Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof as at the date of these present Indentures made And of and in the Maner of Haddon in Bampton the Maner of Esthall Asthall and Astally and of all the said Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments and other the Premises before rehearsed in Bampton Esthall Asthall and Astally the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the longest liver of them and his Heirs to be continue and stand Feoffees thereof to the use of the said John More for term of his Life without Impeachment of wast the Remainder after his Death to the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Assigns by these presents That he shall suffer all other his Maners Lands Tenements and all other his Hereditaments with all and singular their Appurtenances whatsoever they be whereof he or any other be seized of in Right Title Possession or in Use other then before expressed and declared except one yearly Rent of Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings which the said John More hath out of the Maner of Newbolt in the County of Northampton now in the Tenure of Sir William Newenham Knight which Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings is parcel of the Jointure of the said Jane Wife of the said John More to come grow and descend in Demeasn Possession Reversion Remainder or in Use immediately after the Death of the said John More and of the said Jane his Wife to the said Thomas More and to his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made discharged of all former Rights Titles Uses and demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of that Fee or Fees hereafter to be due only except Provided always That if the said Jane now Wife to the said John More fortune to decease that then it shall be lawful to the said John More to make a Jointure of and in the Maner of More and Moreton to any Wife or Wives that hereafter the said John More shall fortune to Marry during the Life or Lives of the said Wife or Wives any Covenant Grant Use or Article before expressed to the contrary notwithstanding For all which Covenants Grants and Agreements on the part of the said John More his Heirs Executors and Assigns for to be truly observed performed fulfilled and kept the said John Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents To pay or cause to be paid to the said John More his Executors or Assigns Four hundred and fifty Marks of lawful Money of England That is to say at the day of Marriage had and solemnized one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England And at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady then next coming One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England And so yearly at the said Feast of the Purification of our Lady One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England unto the time the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be to the said John More his Executors or Assigns truly contented and paid In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid interchangeably have put to their Seals and Sign Manual to these present Indentures the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and
Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Ducis Et illa remiserunt quietum clamaverunt de ipsis Johanne Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus ipsius Ducis in perpetuum Et pro hac Recognitione Remissione quieta Clamatione Fine Concordia iidem Dux Elianora concesserunt praedictis Johanni Willielmo praedicta Visum franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis Et illa iis reddiderunt in eadem Curia Habendum tenendum eisdem Johanni Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi in perpetuum Reddendo inde praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus ipsius Ducis annuatim tres solidos ad duos anni terminos videlicet ad festa Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Paschae equis portionibus solvendos Et praedicti Johannes Willielmus concedunt pro se haeredibus suis quòd si contingat praedictum redditum trium solidorum à retro fore ad aliquod dictorum festorum quo solvi debeat non solutum tunc bene licebit praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus assignatis ipsius Ducis in omnia terras tenementa ipsorum Johannis Willielmi eorum alterius in Turveia praedicta intrare distringere districtiones sic captas abducere asportare effugare penes se retinere quousque de redditu praedicto arreragiis ejusdem sibi fuerit plenariè satisfactum persolutum Et praeterea iidem Dux Elianora concesserunt pro se haeredibus ipsius Elianorae quòd ipsi warrantizabunt acquietabunt defendent praedicta Visum franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta praefatis Johanni Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi contra omnes homines in perpetuum Quae omnia ad requisitionem Johannis Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt tenore praesentium duximus exemplificanda In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum nostrum ad Brevia in Banco praedicto sigillandum deputatum praesentibus apponi fecimus Teste E. Montague apud Westmonasterium duodecimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri tricesimo septimo Wellisborn An Acquittance or Bill from Robert Cheyne to the Lord Mordaunt for Four hundred and fifty Marks THIS Bill made the Twelfth day of April the Thirty seventh Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Witnesseth That I Robert Cheyne Esquire have received the day and Year above-written of John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford One hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England in full Satisfaction Contentation and Payment of Four hundred pounds to be due to me the said Robert at the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof And also in full Contentation Satisfaction and payment of Four hundred and fifty Marks due to me the said Robert for Marriage had and solemnized between John Cheyne my Son and Heir apparent and Winefred one of the Daughters of the said Lord as by certain Indentures of Covenants of Marriage bearing date the Seventeenth Day of November the Six and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord made between the said John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and me the said Robert Cheyne on the other Party amongst other things more plainly may appear Of the which Summ of One hundred Marks in full Contentation Satisfaction and Payment of the said Hundred pounds and of all the said Four hundred and fifty Marks I the said Robert do knowledge and confess my self by these presents to be well and truly Satisfied Contented and Paid by the said Lord And thereof and of every part thereof do Acquit Discharge and Release the said John Mordaunt Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors and every of them by these presents In Witness whereof to this present Bill I the said Robert have put my Seal and Subscribed my Name the said Twelfth Day of April above-specified Robert Cheyne A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And whereas it is come unto our knowledge That sundry Persons as well Religious as Secular Priests and Curates in their Parishes and other places of this our Realm do daily asmuch as in them is set forth and extol the Jurisdiction and Authority of the Bishop of Rome otherwise called the Pope sowing their Seditious Pestilent and false Doctrine praying for him in the Pulpit and making of him a God to the great Deceit Illuding and Seducing of our People and Subjects bringing them thereby into Error Sedition and evil Opinions more preferring the said Laws Jurisdiction and Authority of the said Bishop of Rome than the most Holy Laws and precepts of Almighty God We therefore minding not only to provide an Unity and Quietness to be had and continued amongst our People and Subjects but also greatly coveting and desiring them to be brought to a Perfection and knowledge of the meer Verity and Truth and no longer to be seduced nor blinded with any such superstitious and falle Doctrine of an Earthly Usurper of God's Law We will therefore and command you That where and whensoever ye shall find apperceive know or hear tell of any such Seditious Persons that in such wise do Spread Teach Preach and set forth any such pernitious Doctrine to the Exaltation of the power of the said Bishop of Rome bringing thereby our People and Subjects into Error Grudge and Murmuration that ye without delay do Apprehend and take them or cause them to be Apprehended and taken and so committed to Ward there to remain without Bail or Mainprise until upon your Advertisement thereof to us or our Council ye shall receive answer of our further Pleasure in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of reenwich the Tenth Day of April An Act of John Lord Mordaunt by which he does constitute his Proxies to the Parliament the Duke of Somerset the Lord Paulet and the Lord Russel PAteat universis per praesentes quod quidem Ego Johannes Mordaunt miles Dominus Mordaunt virtute Brevis cujusdam à regia Majestate mihi directi ad apparendum personalitèr interessendum in Parlamento suo inchoato apud Westmonasterium quarto die Mensis Novembris Anno Regni ejusdem Domini Regis primo summonitus fuerim justis legitimis causis in praesentiarum impeditus Regiae etiam Majestati ex parte mea declaratis à sua Regia Majestate vicissim
approbatis quo minus in dicto Parlamento apparere personalitèr interesse valeam Nobilem principem Edwardum Ducem Somerset totius Angliae Protectorem simulque personae Regiae Majistatis Gubernatorem nobiles viros Willielmum Paulet militem Dominum Southamptoniae Magnum Magistrum Hospitii Domini Regis Dominum Russell privati Sigilli Domini Regis Custodem meos veros legitimos Actores Factores Procuratores nomino facio constituo Dans concedens eisdem conjunctim divisim plenam authoritatem potestatem tractandi assentiendi seu dissentiendi ac omnia alia generalitèr faciendi Rempublicam concernentia prout eisdem vel alteri eorum videbitur melius expediri nomine meo vice meâ prout ego ipse facere possum aut deberem si personaliter interessem Promittoque me gratum ratum habiturum totum quicquid dicti Procuratores mei statuerint seu fecerint vel alter eorum statuerit seu fecerit in hac parte In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus apposui Datum apud Articles of Agreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son William Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Ninteenth day of May the Second Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Churches of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Between the Right Honourable John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and William Mordaunt the third Son of the said John Lord Mordaunt of the other party Witnesseth That where the said John Lord Mordaunt for the great entire and natural Love that he hath and beareth to the said William is contented to do what in him is to buy get and obtain the Custody Ward and Marriage of the Body and Lands of one Agnes Booth Cousin and next Heir of John Booth Clerk That is to say Daughter and Heir of Charles Booth Brother of the said John Booth Clerk that in consideration of the Premises and for such costs and charges that the said John Lord Mordaunt shall sustain and bear and be at for obtaining and getting of the said premises The said William Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns That he the said William after the same William shall by the Grace of Almighty God Marry and take to Wife the said Agnes Booth the same William shall suffer the said John Lord Mordaunt to take and perceive all the Issues and profits which shall yearly come grow and arise of the Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said William as in the right of the said Agnes may have or hereafter shall have within the Realm of England during the Espousals between the same William and Agnes without Let Impeachment Suit Vexation Interruption or in any other manner of wise to be Expulsed Sued Vexed Inquieted or Disturbed by the same William to the time that the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath and shall plenarily and fully wholly and entirely have received perceived and taken of the Issues and profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes all such Summs of Money which the same John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath ar hereafter shall pay for the obtaining and getting of the Ward and Marriage of the said Agnes and all manner of Costs Charges and Expences concerning the same or any part or parcel thereof Provided always and the said John Lord Mordaunt is so pleased That the said William shall have yearly Forty Marks of the Issues and Profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes towards the living and finding of the said William and Agnes to be paid to the said William and Agnes at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also where the said William standeth bound to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns in the Summ of One thousand Pound Sterling by his Obligation bearing date the day of these Presents The said John Lord Mordaunt Granteth unto the said William That if the said William doth well and truly observe perform fulfil and keep all and singular Covenants Grants and Agreements specified and comprised in these present Indentures which of the part and behalf of the said William are to be performed fulfilled kept and done And also if the said William from time to time do make cause or do to be made such other further good sufficient Surety to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns for the sooner Payment Contentation and Satisfaction of the said Summs of Money so said further expended and paid by the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns without Trouble Suit Vexation of the said William or of any other by his procurement assent or agreement And also if the said William Mordaunt during the natural Life of the same John Lord Mordaunt be Governed Ruled Ordered and Demained in all Causes by the same John Lord Mordaunt That then the said Obligation of the said Summ of One thousand Pounds to be utterly void and of none effect or else to stand in its full Strength and Vertue In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid have enterchangably set their Seals and Signs-Manual the Day and Year above-written John Mordaunt A Division of Lands and Tenements between the Lord Mordaunt Sir Humphrey Brown and others THIS is the Agreement for a Partition to be had between Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Elizabeth his Wife on the one party and Sir Humphrey Brown Serjeant at the Law and George Brown his Son on the other party of all the Maners Lands and Tenements hereafter following The said Sir John Mordaunt is agreed to take in allowance of his part a third part of the Maners hereafter mentioned and allowed to the said Humphrey and George the third part of the Maners hereafter next following and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same Inprimis The third part of the Maners of Drayton and Luffwick Islip and Slipton with all the Members and Appurtenances with the Advowsons of the Churches of Luffwick and Islip The third part of the Maner of Sudburgh in Reversion The third part of the Maner of Thrapston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Emberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Woolston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Wavendon cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Thalton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maners of Rawnes Ringsted and Cotton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Buckworth cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Buckworth and Woolston The third part of the Woods following and the
your First Commission but to forbear the same until the new Commission be had and put in Execution as shall appertain Thus I bid your Lordship well to fare from Westminster the Tenth of December Your Lordships Loving Friend W. North. An Exemplification of Depositions concerning the Freeborde of Drayton-Park EDwardus Sextus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae Supremum Caput Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Inspeximus quandam Petitionem coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra per Johannem Mordaunt militem ad Testes perpetuam rei memoriam examinandum nuper exhibitam in filaciis Cancellariae nostrae praedictae residentem in haec verba To the Right Honourable Sir William Paulet Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter Lord saint-Saint-John Lord Grand-master of the King 's most honourable Household Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and High-Justice of all the King's Forests Chaces and Parks on this side the Trent In right humble wise sheweth unto your good Lordship your daily suppliant John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt That whereas it pleased King Edward the First sometime King of the Noble Realm of England upon the humble Suit of Simon Drayton Knight Ancestor unto your said Suppliant to grant unto the said Simon License for to Empark certain parcels of Ground then parcel of the Maner of Drayton within the County of Northampton whereof some of the said parcels were then before that time within the bounds of the Forest of Rokingham and some of them were without the Forest and that according unto the said License the said Simon made a Park now called Drayton-park for the safeguard of the Game wherein the said Simon made a Ditch double Ditch'd and Quick-set on both sides round about the said Park as well on that side which boundeth and adjoineth now on the said Forest side as on the other parts and quarters thereof as upon the sight thereof more plainly it may appear And the said Simon did leave also within the said Forest one Freeborde without the outer-side of the Ditch of the said Park to the intent to lay upon the said Freeborde all such Wood and Bushes as should be at any time thereafter requisite for the amendment of the said Hedge After the which Park of Drayton so made a Park now called the Little-Park of Brikestock was made of that parcel of the said Forest of Rokingham which bounded along against the West-side of the said Park of your said Suppliant called Drayton-park After the which said Park called Brikestock Little Park so made the Keepers of your said Suppliant's Park called Drayton-park continually and daily at their pleasure without interruption or disturbance accustomed for to go out of Drayton-park into Brikestock-park at a Stile called Snapes-Stile and so keep their walk within Brikestock-park upon the said Freeborde of Drayton-park unto a Gate within Brikestock-park called Plumwell-gate for to view and oversee the decay of the Mounds and Hedges between the said Two Parks And since the said Park of Brikestock thus made the Ancestors of your said Suppliant for the better mending of the said Park of Drayton and for the avoiding of such Contention as might arise by the occasion of a slender Fence between the said Two Parks have caused a Pale to be set upon the top of the Ditch of the said Park of Drayton in such place where before time one of the Quick-hedges did grow and by the occasion of a Pale so made the Ancestors of your said Suppliant have not so much esteemed but have suffered the Quick-hedges which were set on the outer-side of the said Ditch towards the said Park of Brikestock for lack of a pashing and cutting thereof at times convenient to grow to great Wood and Thorn And for because that Timber requisite for the making of Pale is in a manner decayed and waxeth very scant and chargeable in these parts And because your said Suppliant would also renew the double Quick-set and the double Dikes as well which do border between the said Two Parks as betwixt such other Grounds and Woods as your said Suppliant hath adjoining and bordering upon the other quarters of the said Park of Brikestock with new Ditches and Hedges Quick-set for the more sure and better fencing of the same And because also that your said Suppliant would be very sorry to be noted or reputed to contend with his Prince or to encroach or offend upon any parcel of the King's Majesty his Inheritance or to minister any occasion of Unkindness to such as be or should be Keepers unto the King's Majesty of the said Little Park of Brikestock for taking away any of their lawful Commodities or Profits Your said Suppliant doth therefore most humbly desire your good Lordship for the quiet Determination of the matter that it may please your good Lordship to award the King 's Gracious Commission unto such persons as your Lordship shall think meet and convenient for that purpose Authorising and Commanding them thereby to enquire the truth by all such ways means and manner as to their good discretion shall be thought most convenient How far the Freeborde and Ground of your said Suppliant extendeth and lyeth without the said Park of Drayton towards or within the said Little-Park of Brikestock And whether such Wood and Thorn as now groweth upon the side or brink of the Ditch of Drayton-park which lieth and bordereth next unto the said Little Park of Brikestock doth grow upon the Ground and Freeborde of your said Suppliant or upon the King's Majesties Ground And whether the King's Majesty and his Predecessors have used or ought to have any Wood that groweth on the out-side the Pale of the said Park of Brikestock towards and against the Woods and Grounds of your said Suppliant by any Prerogative or any other lawful Custom And in what place the Keepers of your said Suppliant's Park of Drayton have in times past used and may lawfully enter and pass over out of Drayton-park into the said Little-Park of Brikestock And where to depart and go to go out of the said Brikestock-park And here far from the said Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park the said Keepers of Drayton-park have used in times past and may lawfully walk for their Walk within the said Little-Park of Brikestock and to testisie under their Seals the same Inquisition or Depositions into the King's honourable Court of Chancery there to remain of Record for a perpetual memory or Remembrance and for a quiet and full Determination of the said matter And your said Suppliant shall daily pray to God for the Preservation of your Lordship in Honour long to continue Inspeximus etiam quandam Commissionem una cum Returna ejusdem dilectis Fidelibus suis Edwardo Mountague militi Capitali Justiciario de Communi Banco Johanni Saint-John Thomae Tresham militibus Ac dilecto sibi Richardo Humphrey
Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after their deceases to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt for ever And of all the residue of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which lately were the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or Freehold jointly or severally or otherwise in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last Day of August in the said Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to such Person and Persons and to such use and uses as by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son shall be declared in Writing for and during the space of Ten Years or under and not above so that the same to be declared first for and to the Payment of his Debts And after his Debts paid then to and for the Advancement of his Children Unmarried and after his Debts paid and his Children Unmarried advanced then for the Performance of the Legacies of the same Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after the same Ten Years ended and expired then to the proper use and behoof of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the same Dame Eilzabeth Mordaunt for ever And also That if the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son doth convey and assure unto the said Lewis Mordaunt to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt all the Estate Right Title Interest which the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son hath in and to the Maner of Snelson in the County of Buckingham and in and to all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Snelson aforesaid and in Turvey Harold Lavenden and Brafeld or elsewhere to the said Maner of Snelson belonging which were sometime George the Earl of Kents in the County of Buckingham and Bedford And also do permit and suffer the said Lewis Mordaunt quietly to have hold occupy and enjoy all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which be conveyed or assured unto the said Lewis according to the true intent and meaning as well of certain Indentures Quadripartite made between me the said John Lord Mordaunt on the one Party and the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols on the other Party bearing date the last Day of August in the Second Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is as also of other Conveyances and Assurances made by me unto the said Lewis Mordaunt And also do permit and suffer my Executors to execute and perform my Will without any Impeachment or Disturbance That then my Executors shall well and truly content and pay or cause to be contented and paid unto the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son within One whole Year next after such lawful and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis the Summ of Three thousand Marks of Lawful Money of England towards the payment of his Debts and Advancement of his Children Unmarried And further That then the said Lewis Mordaunt shall assure or cause to be assured unto the said Dame Joan now Wife to my Son Sir John Mordaunt one yearly Rent of One hundred Marks during her Life with a sufficient clause of Distress in Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the yearly value of One hundred Pounds for the not payment thereof at Two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also my Will is That all my Funeral Debts Legacies and Charges of this my Last Will and Testament paid and discharged that the said Lewis Mordaunt shall have all the residue of my Goods Plate and Chattels whatsoever they be Executores Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Johannis Mordaunt Militis Domini Mordaunt tertio decimo die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo anno regni Reginae Elizabethae quarto Robertus Tirewhite miles Henricus Darcy Armiger Thomas Nichols Generosus Ludovicus Mordaunt Armiger Georgius Mordaunt Armiger Johannes Ashecomb Generosus Thomas Darcy Armiger Quilibet Executorum praedictorum assumens super se onus Testamenti mei habebit viginti libras Also I make Sir Robert Catlin Knight and my loving Cousin Justice Anthony Brown Supervisors of this my Last Will and Testament and I give to either of them Ten Pounds for their pains taken herein these being Witness John Hatcher Thomas Larkin Robert Pemberton John Moreton Edward Knight Robert Bennet and John Richardson SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT In the Parish Church of Turvey Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Third of that Name Second Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt the Younger Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we are determined upon the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and do to be Celebrated at Westminster with all due Circumstances of Honor the Coronation of our most dear and welbeloved Wife the Lady Anne our Queen as to her Estate and Dignity doth appertain at which time it hath been accustomed to advance to the Honor of Knighthood to be made and ordered with the Ceremonies of the Bath such of the Nobility as was at that time by the Sovereign thought convenient for the same And therefore minding to pretermit nothing that might set forth the Honor of the said Coronation and thinking you right able and worthy to receive that Degree have appointed you to be one of those whom we intend to advance to such Honor. And therefore our Pleasure is That ye being advertised hereof do make such Preparation against the time aforesaid and put your self in such a Readiness as shall be requisite for you in the acceptation of the said Order and as for the Honor thereof hath been used and accustomed Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and twentieth Day of April Hollinshead 's Chronicle page 931. No. 50. ON Fryday at Dinner served the King all such as were appointed by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath which after Dinner were brought to
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was Five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir Apparent For the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the late Lord Mordaunt might have had divers great Summs of Money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers Remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan Mordaunt now his Wife After which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not Marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a Recovery of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into the right course of Inheritance again did suffer Recoveries of his own Lands to the Uses and upon Condition following To the Use of the said late Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was Married and after to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married unto at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of Twelve years towards the performance of his Will and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life To the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
command all and singular our Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects meet and apt for the Wars within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without to whom it shall appertain that they and every of them with their Power and Servants from time time shall be attending and assisting counselling helping and at the commandment as well of you our said Lieutenant as of your said Deputies or any two or more of them as abovesaid in the execution hereof as they and every of them tender our pleasure and will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of our Reign Willis A Commission for Constituting Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Northampton JOHN Earl of Peterborow Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton to all to whom these presents shall come sendeth Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Whereas the King 's most Excellent Majesty by his Highness's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign hath made constituted and ordained me the said Earl of Peterborow to be his Majesty's Lieutenant of his Highness's County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without And because there may be just cause for me to be attendant upon his Majesty's Person or to be otherwise imployed in his Service whereby the said Service of Lieutenancy to me committed cannot be by me in Person executed in such sort as his Majesty hath appointed Therefore his Majesty hath given unto me for my better Aid and Assistance and for the better performance and execution of this Service full power and authority to appoint assign and constitute by my Writing under my Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as I in my discretion shall from time to time think fit to be my Deputies in the said Service in the said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without giving unto my said Deputy Lieutenants or to any two or more of them full power and authority in my absence to do and execute in his Majesty's said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid all and every thing and things mentioned in his Majesty's said Commission by me to be done and executed Know ye therefore That I the said John Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Northampton according to the tenor and purport of the said Commission have assigned constituted and appointed and by these Presents do assign constitute and appoint Sir Rowland Saint-John Knight of the Bath Sir Rowland Egerton Knight and Baronet Sir Lewis Watson Knight and Baronet Sir Hatton Farmer Knight Sir Thomas Cave Knight Sir Robert Hatton Knight William Elmes Esquire and Charles Cokeyne Esquire to be my Deputies in the said Service within the said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And whatsoever the said Sir Rowland Saint-John Sir Rowland Egerton Sir Lewis Watson Sir Hatton Farmer Sir Thomas Cave Sir Robert Hatton William Elmes and Charles Cokeyne together or any two or more of them shall execute or do by force of the said Commission within the said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid I the said Earl of Peterborow do by authority of his Majesty's said Commission allow and approve the same in all points and every thing as if I my self were there present in Person And the better to enable my said Deputies according to his Majesty's will and pleasure in that behalf I do by commandment of his Majesty deliver unto them and every of them a true Transcript of the said Commission subscribed with my Hand In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal at Arms the One and twentieth day of July in the said Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign that now is Annoque Domini 1640. J. Peterborow SIGILLVM IOHANNIS COMITIS DE PETRIBVRGO DNÌ„I BARONIS DE TVRVEY A Commission of Array to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow CArolus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Johanni Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Sciatis quod cum quidam Rebelles regni nostri Scotiae regnum nostrum Angliae cum posse non modico hostiliter ingressi fuerunt Nos malitiae hujusmodi Rebellionis gratia nobis favente divina resistere ac pro salvatione defensione nostri regni praedicti ligeorum nostrorum ejusdem disponere ordinare volentes ut tenemur Assignavimus vos ad arraiandum triandum omnes singulos homines ad arma ac homines armatos sagittarios in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae commorantes infra libertates extra Et ad armari faciendum omnes illos qui de suo corpore sunt potentes habiles ad armandum qui de suo proprio habent unde seipsos armare possint videlicet quilibet eorum juxta status facultates suas Et ad assidendum apportionandum juxta avisamentum discretiones vestras ac etiam ad distringendum omnes illos qui in terris bonis sunt potentes pro debilitate corporum ad laborandum impotentes ad inveniendum juxta quantitatem terrarum bonorum suorum prout rationabiliter portare poterint salvo statu suo armaturas hominibus ad arma ac hominibus armatis ac arcus sagittas Ita quod illi qui morabuntur seu morari poterunt ad domum suam propriam in patria sua super defensionem ejusdem regni contra rebelles praedictos si periculum eveniat non capiant vadia nec expensas pro mora sua apud domus suas praedictas Et ad hoc dictos homines ad arma homines armatos sagittarios fic arraiatos injunctos continue in arraiatione ut in millenis centenis vintenis alias prout conveniens fuerit necesse teneri poni faciendum Et eos tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi quotiens necesse fuerit ad dictos rebelles expellendum debellandum destruendum de tempore in tempus cum aliquod periculum immineat mandandum injungendum ad monstrum sive monstrationem eorundem hominum ad arma ac hominum armatorum sagittariorum de tempore in tempus quotiens indiguerit diligenter faciendum
and Constable of the Castle Honor of Saltwood Damata de Gorum Edelina de Broc Stephen of Turnam Sr. ROBERT de BROC Marshall of England and Forrester of Cannock Margaret of Beauchamp Sr. Laurence de Broc L d of Shephale Milicent de Mallet Sr. Hugh de Broc Ld. of Shephale Agnes de Montepiconis Sr. Laurence de Broc Ld. of Shephale Elena de Pirot Sr. Rauf de Broc Ld. of Shephale Elizabeth Hussey Johanna de Broc Thomas Rokeshy Ellena de Broc Edmond Mordaunt L d of Turvey Agnes de Broc Henry de Brussels GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE House of BROC Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE House of BROC RANULPH de BROC Lord of the Castle of Agenet and Constable of the Castle and Honour of Saltwood Hollinshead Page 89 60. THE Earl of Leicester therefore Landing at Walton the 21. of September passed thorough the County at Fremmingham where he was received of Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk and after that another Fleet of Flemmings were arrived for their Aid they went to Ipswich where when they had remained a few days and augmented their Forces by certain Bands of Men of War that belonged to Earl Bigod they went to the Castle of Agenet that belonged to Ralph de Broc which they took spoiled and burned and then returned to Fremmingham Doctor Powells History of Wales Page 207. IN this first Voyage of King Henry against the Welshmen he was put in great danger of his Life in a Streight at Counsilth not far from Flint where Henry of Essex whose Office by Inheritance was to bear the Standard of England cast down the same and fled which thing encouraged the Welshmen in such sort that the King being sore distressed had much ado to save himself and as the French Chronicle saith was fain to Flee of whose part Eustace fitz John and Robert de Courcey Two Worthy Knights with divers other Noblemen and Gentlemen were Slain Hollinshead History of England Page 67. THose which escaped in returning back not knowing that the King passed through the Streights without danger declared to their Fellows that followed and were approaching to the said Streights that the King and all the residue was lost These News so discomforted the Companies that Henry of Essex that bore the King's Standard by right of Inheritance threw down the same and fled which dishonourable Deed was afterwards laid to his Charge by one Robert de Montford with whom by Order of the King he fought a Combat in Tryal of the Quarrel and was overcome but yet the King qualifying the rigour of the Judgment by mercy pardoned his Life and appointed him to be Shorn a Monk and put into the Abby at Reading taking his Lands and Possessions into his hands as forfeited Villare Cantianum Folio 298. Concerning the Castle and Honour of Saltwood THere was here formerly a Magnificent Castle which time hath much demolished and a Park well stored with Deer now vanished and gone Many Mannors in this Tract are held thereof by Knights Service which justly made it accounted and called an Honour In the time of King Henry the Second Henry of Essex Baron of Raleigh Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports pro tempore and the King's Standard-Bearer by Right of Inheritance held this Castle of the Arch-bishop Who having in a light Skirmish against the Welsh in Flintshire not only cast away his Courage but his Standard also was appealed of High Treason and in a Legal Duell vanquished by his Challenger and being possessed with Regret and Shame contracted from his Defeat shrowded himself in a Cloister and put on a Monk's Coul forfeiting a goodly Patrimony and Livelihood which was Escheated to King Henry the Second Charta Regis Henrici Secundi HENRICUS Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris Fidelibus suis totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me Dedisse Concessisse Ranulpho de Broc Officium Constabularii in Castro Honore de Saltwood cum omnibus Libertatibus Proficuis eidem Officio pertinentibus Tenendum sibi pro toto tempore vitae suae Quare volo firmitèr praecipio quòd ipse hoc praedictum habeat teneat bene in pace honorificè liberè sicut illud unquà m Henricus de Essex meliùs liberiùs tenuit Testibus Ricardo de Humet Constabulario Roberto Marmion Widone de Sancto Walerico Willielmo de Porth Gerardo de Camvillo Manasero Bisset Dapifero Historiae Anglicanae decem Scriptores Page 1314. QUAe etiam tunc temporis Ecclesia habuit cum tempore exilii Sancti Thomae Tyrannus ille Radulphus de Broc ex praecepto Regis custodiret Episcopatum Historiae Anglicanae decem Scriptores in Chronica Gervasii Page 1398. REX autem Angliae Henricus admodum supra modum iratus eo quòd ipse in Nuntiis suis Petitionibus tà m à Rege Franciae quà m à Domino Papâ esset repulsus jussit furore plenus res reditus Archiepiscopi omnium suorum confiscari totámque Cognationem suam omnes qui cum quovis Titulo contingebant exilio damnari nulli igitur Statui Fortunae vel Ordini ista crudelitas pepercit Nam Mulieres in puerperio decumbentes pueri quoque jacentes in Cunis acti sunt in Exilium Senes cum Junioribus propulsi sunt domibus eorum rebus in exterminium datis adulti quoque coacti sunt jurare quòd absque diversione vel diverticulo Pontiniacum peterent Archiepiscopo suo Regis autem proditori se praesentarent ut ipse solus tot angustias Cordis sustineret quot causa sui coexules egentes viderit Processit ulterior furor immanis nam publicè terrore Laicae prohibitum est ne quis eum non dico Donis vel Scriptis visitaret sed ne quis pro eo in Anglicanâ Ecclesiâ oraret Exercebantur istae hujusmodi Enormitates per quendam filium Perditionis Ranulphum de Broc quem Rex ad custodiendum imò ad destruendum commendaverat Archiepiscopatum Hac itaque acceptâ potestate associatis sibi nequioribus se circumquaque grassabantur Oderat enim Archiepiscopum ex antiquo ideóque crudelitate non poterat satiari In eadem Chronica Gervasii Page 1414. ERant autem hi quatuor Generis Nobilitate conspicui militiâ praeclari Regi admodum familiares ut Socii quorum Nomina sunt haec Reginaldus filius Ursi Willielmus de Tracy Ricardus Brito Hugo de Morvillâ cum festinatione nimiâ descenderunt praedicti quatuor milites ad Mare sine impedimento aliquo vel morâ transpositi applicuerunt juxta Dovariam in loco qui portus Canum appellatur gloriabantur admodum de tam facili transitu ut si Deo malignitatis suae placeret conspiratio adeóque liberum eis praeparasset introitum noctem illam in Castro de Saltwood quod
into Possession of the Lordships of Estpullham Westpullham Childeckford Divelish Duntish Winterborn Whitechurch and Newton in the County of Dorset and of Estoket in Somersetshire His Wife was Margaret de Peche the Daughter of Sir William de Peche Knight who was Descended from that Gilbert de Peche that was a great * Look the Barons Letter to the Pope Baron in the time of King Edward the First Their Issue Sir John Latimer SIR JOHN LATIMER who is stiled in his Charters Lord of Estpullham had a Contest with his own Father about certain Lands which by Articles Sir Robert Latimer had bound himself to establish upon his Heirs at the time of his Marriage with Margaret the Mother of this Sir John who was the Daughter of Sir William Peche Knight by reason Sir Robert had burnt the Writings whereupon the Interest of these Lands did depend to make them appear free for an Advantage he intended to himself in a second Marriage which he did at that time design There is Extant a Bill Exhibited by Sir John Latimer complaining thereof to Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham and High Chancellor of England in the sixth year of King Henry the Fifth This Sir John Latimer Married Catharine the Daughter of Sir John Pypard by whom he left Issue Sir Nicholas Latimer SIR Nicholas Latimer we find to have been High Sheriff of the County of Dorset once in the thirty second of Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth and in those turbulent and difficult times this Office might have been indeed properly called Onus cum honore for the men so imployed were at that time sought out among the richest the most popular and the most powerful that the Country would not only obey at home but follow abroad and men then depending upon the Bounty and Hospitality of the Great their Inclinations and Example were of more force than all the Cases of Law and Conscience The Prudence notwithstanding and good Fortune of Sir Nicholas Latimer did happily conduct him through the violent Reigns of three very active Princes King Henry King Edward and King Richard the Third and brought him peacefully to rest with his Fathers in the Twentieth year of King Henry the Seventh at a very great Age although with that Circumstance of leaving no Heir Male to Inherit his Lands and Family and for only Issue of the Lady Joan his Wife the Daughter of Sir John Hoddy Edith Latimer Lady Mordaunt EDITH LATIMER Lady MORDAVNT Lady of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Estoket and other Lands and Lordships EDITH LATIMER was by the Consent and Direction of her Father Married to Sir John Mordaunt in the fourteenth year of King Edward the Fourth between whom and Sir Nicholas Latimer several Agreements were made concerning his Inheritance But the hope of Male Issue and his Engagement in a second Marriage caused him so to protract the Settlement as being surpriz'd with Death he left his Estate under several great Incumbrances which notwithstanding the Kings Interest in the same upon pretence of some Debts due to him from the said Sir Nicholas were at last overcome and mastered by the Industry and Prudence of Sir John Mordaunt and the Lands and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford and Estoket left by him to the Lords Mordaunts that were his Successors She outliv'd her first Husband and was again Married to Sir Thomas Carew of Devonshire who was slain in a Sea-Fight on the Coast of Britain in the fourth year of King Henry the Eighth being at that time Captain of the Noble Ship called the Regent which was burnt in the same Occasion Issue by her first Husband John the first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joan Mordaunt Married to Sir Giles Strangeways of Dorsetshire WILLIAM Lord Latimer Surnamed le Riche ALICIA de Ledet William Ld. Latimer Sibill de Huntingfeild Sr. Iohn Latimer Second Sonne Ioane de Govis Sr. Nicolas Latimer William Ld. Latimer Elizabeth de Botetort Sr. Robert Latimer Catherine Hull William Latimer William Ld. Latimer Chamberlaine to E. 3 Elizabeth Fitz Allan Sr. Robert Latimer Margeret Peche Margeret Latimer Elizabeth Latimer Daughter and Heire Iohn Lord Nevill Sr. Iohn Latimer Catherine Pipard Sr Nicolas Latimer Ioane Hoddy Edith Latimer Sr. Iohn Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY Hollinshead Page ON the Kings part these persons are named to stand with him against the Barons First Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Hugh Bigod Lord Chief Justice Philip Basset William de Valence Jeffrey de Lusignian Peter de Savoy Robert Wallerand John Mancell Jeffrey Langley John Gray William Latimer Henry Percy Doctor Powel's History of Wales Page 371. WHen the Archbishop could not conclude a Peace he denounced the Prince and his Complices Accursed Then the King sent his Army by Sea to the Isle of Man or Anglesey which they won and slew such as resisted them for the chiefest men served the King as their Oath was So they came over against Bangor where the Arm of the Sea called Menay which divideth the Isle from the main Land is narrowest at the place called Moely-donn and there made a Bridge of Boats and Planks over the Water where before Julius Agricola did the like when he subdued the Isle to the Romans and not between Man and Britain as Polydore Virgil ignorantly affirms This Bridge accomplished so that well threescore men might pass over in a Front William Latimer with a great number of the best Souldiers and Lucas de Thany Steward of Gascony with his Gascoins and Spaniards whereof a great number was come to serve the King passed over the Bridge and there saw no stir of Enemies but as soon as the Sea began to flow down came the Welshmen from the Hills and set upon them fiercely and either slew or chased them to the Sea to drown themselves for the Water was so high they could not attain the Bridge saving William Latimer alone whose Horse carried him to the Bridge and so he escaped Henricus Knighton Canonicus Leicestriensis de Eventibus Angliae Pag. 2497. HIS auditis mox Rex Edwardus quingentos armatos viginti mille peditum misit in Vasconium cum Domino Johanne de Sancto Johanne qui ejusdem Terrae olim Senescallus extiterat cum Domino Johanne de Britanniâ illo Milite strenuissimo Willielmo le Latimer qui apud Portsmouth omnibus ad Expeditionem tantam necessariis paratis posuerunt se in mare circa Festum beati Petri ad vincula irruente vento contrario dispersae sunt naves per partes Cornubiae iterúmque collectae apud Plumeneye circa Festum beati Dionysii ventis vela iterum relaxabant post multa variáque Tempestatum discrimina
find no man who can speak in it to your profit But as touching the Pedigree of John Camell and Richard Garnsay I have Examined as followeth that is to say Richard Garnsay Son and Heir of the aforesaid Richard sayes that he once had certain Evidence concerning the Land that Moleyns laid claim unto which Evidence with a Release made by him he delivered to Sir Nicholas Latimer promising him thirty three shillings four pence which money he never had notwithstanding at my desire if you think his Title may do you good or profit he is contented to do for you as much as in him lies and farther I cannot know of either of your Pedigrees but as I have afore written to you Also as touching John Reade that you writ to me which gave Moleyns the Land in Fee Tayl I can in no wise hear of the same Reade but the Country sayes that one Moleyns was in possession a while there but he was Disseised by Sir Nicholas Latimer again but farther I cannot know Also my Lady your Mother hath given Giles Peny the Buck that you wrote to her for Sir Also I have moved my Lady many times that you might have Latimers Lands to Farm which in no wise she will agree unto yet I have done therein as much as I can for she sayes that she will be Mistress of her own Lands during her Life Farther I pray you to have me recommended to my Sister your Wife and to my Uncle William Mordaunt And I yours to my little power as knoweth Jesus who always preserve you From Dorchester the third day of October Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi quinto By me Yours Giles Strangeways The Petition of the Lady Edith Carewe To the King our Soveraign Lord. IN most humble wise beseecheth Your Highness and most Noble Grace your poor Oratrice Dame Edith Carewe Widow sometime the wife of Sir John Mordaunt Knight That whereas the same Sir John Mordaunt at the time of his Death left and gave to your said Oratrice then his Wife in Plate Jewels ready Money and Stuff to the value of a Thousand Marks and above to have to her own proper Use and Behove By force whereof she was thereof possessed accordingly and afterward she being possessed thereof took to Husband your late Servant Sir John Carewe Knight which Sir John Carewe afterwards by Chance of War was perished and lost on the Sea in the Service of Your Grace At which time he lost not only his Personage on the Sea but also lost his substance of such Goods as to your said Oratrice was left by her former Husband which the said Sir John Carewe then had with him to Sea both Plate Money and also his Apparel as well necessary Apparel to his Body as other Apparel that he had bought with the said Goods for the defence of his Body in your said Wars By means whereof your said Oratrice is left little or nothing worth in substance of Goods And the aforesaid Sir John Carewe in his life borrowed and had of your Grace by way of Prest Two Hundred Pounds for the repayment whereof he was and stood bound by his Writing Obligatory to the Use of your Grace And so it is Gracious Sovereign Lord that the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury as Ordinary hath sequestred and made Seizure of all the Goods that belonged to the said Sir John Carewe within this your Realm at the time of his death which Goods by a true Inventory taken have been extended and valued to the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And forasmuch as your said Oratrice is now left a poor Widow by reason of the Premisses and never had nor hath any Preferment nor other Benefit by the said Sir John Carewe neither in Possessions nor in Goods in consideration whereof That it would please your Highness of your abundant grace and benign pity to direct your gracious Letters missive to the said Archbishop of Canterbury reciting by the same Letters That the mind and pleasure of your Grace is to accept and take the aforesaid Hundred and Fourscore Pounds in full recompence and satisfaction as well of the said Two Hundred Pounds as of all other Debts which the said Sir John Carewe ought unto your Grace at the time of his Death which Debts ought to have first preferment in payment by the Order of your Laws before any payment of any Debts that the said Sir John Carewe ought at the time of his death to any persons And further by the same your Gracious Letters to command the aforesaid Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver or cause to be delivered the aforesaid Goods attaining the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds to your said Oratrix to have to her own proper use of the gift of you And farther that it may please your Gracious Highness to direct your Warrant to be signed with your most victorious hand unto your Servant John Heyron commanding him by the same to deliver or cause to be delivered the foresaid Writings Obligatory of Two Hundred Pounds to your said Oratrix to the intent that she may deliver them to the said Archbishop of Canterbury for his discharge as Ordinary of and for the payment and delivery of the said Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And this at the Reverence of God and in the way of Charity And your said Oratrix shall pray to God for the prosperous continuance of your Royal Estate and for the preservation of the same The Kings Warrant signed with his hand to Thomas Lucas to release unto Sir John Mordaunt the Latimers Lands that had stood ingaged to King Henry the Seventh for a thousand pounds HENRY the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To Thomas Lucas Esquire Greeting Where ye and the Right Reverend Father in God our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councellor Richard Bishop of Winchester with Sir William Gascoigne Knight and others now Deceased by divers Writs of Entry in the post recovered the Mannors of Devilish Estpullham and Duntish with the Appurtenances in the County of Dorset and certain other Lands and Tenements in Devilish Estpullham and Duntish aforesaid Bokeland Helton and Milborn Saint Andrew in the said County of Dorset And also the Mannor of Estoket with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset the Mannor of Turvey with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and also certain other Lands and Tenements in Turvey aforesaid And also the Mannor of Burnton and Newton per mare with the Appurtenances in the County of Northumberland and certain other Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the said County of Northumberland against Sir John Mordaunt by the name of John Mordaunt Esquire John Jenor and others as by the Records thereof exemplified under the Seal of our Common-Bench and also by two Releases which Releases the said John Mordaunt shall shew unto you signed with our hand
thereof King Edward the Third granted him a Patent to that effect in the first year of his Reign He had been Seneschal to Queen Isabel the Kings Mother in all her Forests between Stamford and Oxford as appears by a Brieve directed to him by the King for the tenth of all the Venison that should be taken in the County of Northampton to be delivered to the Abbot of Peterborow according as had been granted by his Ancestors He was pardoned by that same King with his Son John William the Son of Thomas Seymar Richard Molesworth Simon his Squire and other of his friends for his breach of the Kings peace and the death of John of Overton Longville whom he had slain in a Quarrel with other circumstances that certifie the particular favour was born him by that Prince He was afterward with one Sr William Nocton as being one of the most eminent Knights in the Bishoprick of Ely joined with Sir William Shareshull Sir Henry Greene and Sir William Thorpe in the Kings Commission to hear and determine of the felony and misdemeanour of Thomas Lild Bishop of that Diocess who was not only esteemed accessary to the death of William Holmes Servant to the Lady Wake of Lydell that was killed by his Officer Ralph Carcless She being a Princess of that time eminent for great birth as well as Beauty and rare Qualities and the Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster but that moreover stood in great and exemplary Contempt against the King himself For the demeanor of Sir Simon in which matter in his duty and compliance to the Kings Commands and Interest he incurred with the rest of the Commissioners the several censures and indignation of the Pope which proceeded even to Excommunication and other great Penalties from which his merit towards the King by his Conduct in that Affair nor the Power of so great a Prince was able to protect him He did finally give and grant in the eighteenth year of King Edward the Third unto Robert the Prior of the Church of Saint Maries of Pavenston and to the Covent of that place two parts of his Mannor of Stoke-Goldington with the Advowson of the Church of that Town out of Devotion to God and the Blessed Virgin and for the good of his Soul to be there prayed for and for the Souls of his Ancestors and Benefactors His Wife was Margaret Daughter to Sir John and Sister to Sir Gilbert of Lindsey Their Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships UNto Sir Simon of Drayton did succeed Sir John of Drayton his Son in the sole Lordship of that place as also in his other Possessions in the Counties of Northampton Huntingdon and Oxford Moved by what inducement it does not appear but this Sir John of Drayton did in the eighth year of King Edward the Third purchase a Licence of Alienation for enabling him to settle upon Sir Henry Greene then Chief Justice of England and that had Married his Fathers Sister his antient Mannor and Lordship of Drayton with those Lands in the Towns adjoining that did belong unto it In consequence whereof it was conveyed unto him with the Reversion to Henry the second Son of the said Sir Henry Greene whom he calls his Cousin and for default of Issue in him to the right Heirs of Sir Henry the Father But it is found notwithstanding by a Deed of this Sir John that in the Life-time of Sir Henry Greene the Chief Justice he did render the Possession of the Chief Seat and the Mannor of Drayton with all the Demesnes the Lands Meadows Pastures and the Park thereunto belonging unto Sir Henry Greene his Cousin the Son of the Chief Justice on Condition that he should ever after bear his Name and his Armes in performance of that Agreement that had before been made between the Father of the said Sir Henry and himself which was the reason why the Greenes of Drayton instead of Azure three Bucks Or which was the Armes of their Family and those born by the Greenes of Norton descended from Sir Thomas Green the Elder Brother did bear ever after for their Coat Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules being that of Drayton which by this Agreement they were obliged to assume The Wife of Sir John of Drayton was Christian the Daughter of Sir Gilbert of Lindsey his Mothers Niece Their Issue Baldwin of Drayton whose Posterity for divers Ages did flourish afterwards Possessors of the Lordships of Stoke-Goldington Bottlebrigg Molesworth and Overton Longville in the County of Huntingdon and South-Newington in Oxfordshire where they had a fair Patrimony and lived in great Estimation WALTER de VERE The Eldest sonne of Henry ye. sonne of Robert that was ye. second sonne of AUBERY de Vere Great Chamberlaine and Lord Cheife Iustice of England who from his Cheife Seat Assumed that Name to him and his decendants Lucie Bassett Sr. HENRY of Drayton Iuetta de Bourdon Sr. Baldwin of Drayton Idonia de Gimeges Sr. Iohn of Drayton Philipa of Arderne Sr. Simon of Drayton Margaret of Lindsey Catharine of Drayton Sr. Henry Greene. Sr John of Drayton Cristian of Lindsey Sr Henry Greene Matilda de Mandnir Sr Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Baldwin of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 488. inter Confirmationes Regis Witlafii ITem Domum Oswini Militis in Draytonâ videlicet octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Quinque lineae infrá ET Donum Wulnoti Dapiferi mei in Adingtonâ videlicet duas Hidas terrae Piscariam cum Advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Villae in alia Adingtona ex dono ejusdem unam Virgatam terrae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 492. inter Confirmationes Beoredi Regis SImiliter confirmo praedicto Monasterio de Croilandiâ de dono Oswini Militis in Draytona octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 498. inter Confirmationes Abbatis Turketuli Abbatiae Croilandiae IN Draytona unam Carucatam terrae sex Acras Prati quatuor Salinas AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND The Baronage of England Page 190. THis last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Fater to the Monks of Abington and being in high Esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his Heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honour of Eye in Suffolk
tertia parte dictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cùm acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae de Dominis Capitalibus feodorum liberè quietè bene in pace Jure haereditario imperpetuum per servitia inde debita consueta Et Ego praedictus Robertus haeredes mei omnia praedicta terras tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis unà cum tertia parte supradictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cum acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus imperpetuum defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio concessio praesentis Cartae meae Confirmatio ratae stabiles imperpetuum permaneant istam praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Willielmo de Mandeville Johanne Hussege Roberto Plagenet Waltero Setwale Rogero Marnion Roberto Swotyng Johanne Bernard aliis Data apud Westbury die Veneris proximo ante Festum beatae Margaretae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi Nono Hollinshed his Chronicle of England Page 329. THere were Letters intercepted about the same time which a Messenger brought out of Scotland three closed and three open for there were six in all The King sent them to the Archbishop of Canterbury who by his commandment published them in open Audience at London The first was closed with the Seal of the Lord Thomas Randulfe Earl of Murrey Lord of Annandale and of Man Lieutenant to Robert le Bruce King of Scotland which contained a Sase-conduct for Sir Thomas Topclive Chaplain and one to be Associate with him to come into Scotland and to return from thence in safety The second was sealed with the Seal of Sir James Dowglas for a like Safe-conduct for the same persons The third was closed with the Seal of the said Earl of Murrey for the Safe-conduct of the Lord John de Mowbray and the Lord John de Clifford and forty Horses with their Pages for their safe coming unto the said Earl into Scotland for their abiding there and returning back The fourth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed to King Arthur The fifth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed unto the Lord Ralph Nevill The sixth had no direction but the tenour thereof was this as followeth You shall understand my Lord that the communication beforehand had is now brought to effect for the Earl of Hereford the Lords Roger Damoriae Hugh de Audelie the younger Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford John Gifford Henry Teis Thomas Mauduit John de Willington and all others are come to Pomfret and are ready to make you good assurance so that you will perform Covenant with them to wit for your coming to aid us and to go with us into England and Wales to live and dye with us in our quarrel We therefore beseech you to assign us day and place where we may meet and we will be ready to accomplish fully our business and we beseech you to make us a Safe-conduct for thirty Horses that we may with safety come to your parts Again in the same Chronicle Page 330. IN this Fight was slain the Earl of Hereford the Lord William de Sullye with Sir Roger de Bunghfeild and divers others and there were taken Thomas Earl of Lancaster the Lord Roger Clifford Son to that Roger which dyed in the Battel of Bannocksborne in Scotland the Lord Gilbert Talbot the Lord John Mowbray the Lord Hugh de Willington the Lord Thomas Mauduit the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Philip Darey the Lord Thomas Wither the Lord Henry de Willington the Lord Hugh de Knovill the Lord Philip de Beche the Lord Henry de Leiburne the Lord Henry de Bradburne the Lord John de Beckes the Lord Thomas Lovell the Lord William Fitz-William Robert de Waterville John de Strickland Odnell Heron Walter Pavely of Stretton and a great number of other Esquires and Gentlemen This Battel was fought on the fifteenth day of March in the year 1322. after the accompt of them that begin the year at the Circumcision which was in the said fifteenth year of this Kings Reign And again Page 331. of the same Chronicle ON the same day the Lord William Tuchet the Lord William Fitz-William the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Henry Bradborne and the Lord William Chenie Barons with John Page an Esquire were drawn and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortly after Roger Lord Clifford John Lord Mowbray and Sir Gosein de Eevill Barons were drawn and hanged at York At Bristol were executed in like manner Sir Henry de Willington and Sir Henry Mountfort Baronets And at Gloucester the Lord John Gifford and Sir William Elmebrige Knight And at London the Lord Henry Teies Baron At Winchelsey Sir Thomas Culpepper Knight At Windsor the Lord Francis de Aldham Baron And at Canterbury the Lord Bartholomew de Badelismere and the Lord Bartholomew de Ashborneham Barons Also at Cardif in Wales Sir William Fleminge Knight was executed Divers were executed in their Countries as Sir Thomas Mauduit and others Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem Pag. 2547. Ex Henrici Knighton Canonici Leicestrensis Chronico de Eventibus Angliae Part of the Charge against Hugh le Despenser at his Arraignment ET Faitez prendre mon tres honourable Seignour le bon Count de Lancastre Thomas que estoit cousin Germain à nostre Seigneur le Roy de ses freres Uncle à tres honourable de France de sa soere Madame Isabelle Royne d' Angleterre si lui faitez faussement emprisoner despoilier touz lez sons en sa sale proprement deins sa Castele de Pomfrete par vostre reall povare que vous avez purpris nostre Seigneur le Roy luy faitez juger par une faulse recorde encontre leye resone la grant Chartre Ensi faites mordrer martirizer moirir de dure morte piteouse Et cest malvys cruelté tirantie faistez al si digne persone ne vous poez sauler del sanck dez cristenez espandier Ency faitez en mesme tiele journeye pour mon dit Seigneur plus tormentyr sez Baronz sez chivaleuz se enaux vennancez trayner pendre puis juger al mort par cel fausse recorde encontre leye resone pendre dispituosement sans mercy come Monsieur Wareyne del Lyle Monsieur William Tocher Monsieur Thomas Maydut Monsieur Henry de Bradburne Monsieur William Chornel Monsieur Bartholomew de Ashburne à Londres Monsieur Henry Teies à Windesore Monsieur Francis de Aldham à Gloucester le Seignour Gifforde Monsieur Roger de Elmesbrigge à Bristoll Monsieur Henry de Willington Monsieur
Duc remayning the foresaid Henry Greene hath sett his Seall and to that othir parte of the same Endentures with the said Henry remayning the said Duc hath sett his Seall Yeven the day and yere abovesaid Ultima Voluntas Henrici Greene. THIS is the Will of me Henry Greene Squyer made the third day of September the seaventh yere of the Reigne of King Edward the Fourth upon the Maner of Sudburgh and all the Londs and Tenements with theire appurtenances that byn of my purchase in Sudburgh aforesaid in the Counte of Northampton Thorpe beside Petirburgh Marham Wittelsey Southorp and Luffwyck and of the woodes called Langhyll and Ferthyngshaw in the same Counte and of all othir woodes whâ—che I bought of William Aldwyncle and in the handes of divers persones by Testemenâ— made to theyme for myne use as it appereth in severall dedes to performe my will Whereupon first I will that my Feoffes of and in my Londs and Tenements in Thorpe beside Petirburgh after my decesse make estate of theyme to Margaret my wyfe for terme of her lyve the remaindre thereof to Constance my Doughter to have to her and to the heirs of her body begotyn and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heires Item I will that my Feoffes of the Londs and Tenements in Wittelsey Southorp and Marham of my purchase after my decesse make estate of them to Margaret my wyfe for terme of her lyfe the remaindre thereof to Robert Wittelbury and to the heirs of his body begotyn and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heirs And I will that my Feoffes of the Londs and Tenements in Luffwyk of my purchase called Coles Thynge and Befviles Thynge after my decesse make estate to my Lord John of Buckingham and to my Lady his wyfe and to the heires comyng betwix theyme and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heires for ever if my said Lord nor Lady nor theyr heires nor any othir by theyme procuryng assentyng or commandement in any part hereof lett not my will to be performyd and if they or any of theyme lett my said will to be performyd then I will that theire estate thereyn be void and that the same Londs and Tenements be sold and disposed by mine Executours in dedes of Charite Item I will that two Priestes shall be made sure ether of them to have fourtene marks yerely on the charges of my purchased Londs or Rentes perpetually to syng in the Parysh Chirche of Luffwyk and to doe othir devyne service there and pray for the sowles of me and of Sir Henry Greene Justice and othir of myne Auncestres and Benefactors and all Crystyn sowles And if hit shall happyn no suche xxiiij marks yerely to be purchesid hereafter be me then I will they shall have sewerly to theyme and they re successours for evermore xxiiij marks yerely perpetuelly of my Maner of Sudburgh Item I will that Thomas Haldenby shall have a sufficiant graunte of one annuite of xiiij marks to have to hym for terme of his lyfe to be taken of the revenue of my Maner of Houghton in the Counte of Northampton if he make his Lettres Patents that he hath of like graunte by me made to hym to be taken of the Maners of Hardewyk and Grateley to be surrendid and cancellid and he to doe lyke service as is contenyd in his said first Lettres Patentes Item I will that Margaret my wyfe after my decesse have the Maneres of Buckworth in the Counte of Huntyngton and Herdewyk in the Counte of Northampton with othir Londs and Tenements before expressed for terme of hir lyve the remayndre of theyme to my right heires Item I will that my Feoffees of my Woods and Assartes called Langhill and Farthingshaw and Tolkithorpewoode after my decesse make a state of my said Lord John and Dame Constance his wyfe my Doughter and to the heires of the body of the same Dame Constance comyng and for defaute of suche issue the remayndre of theyme to the right heires of me the said Henry Greene. In witnesse whereof to these Presents I set the Seal of myne Armes Yeven the daie and yere abovesaid SIGILLVM HENRICI GRENE ARMIGIRI Carta Margaretae Relictae Henrici Greene. NOverint Universi per Praesentes me Margaretam quae sui uxor Henrici Greene Armigeri defuncti fecisse ordinâsse loco meo posuisse Dilectos mihi in Christo Robertum Wittelbury Armigerum Jacobum Barlowe meos veros legitimos Attornatos conjunctim divisim ad recipiendum pro me nomine meo de Thoma Lenton Katherina filia Roberti Long consanguinea haerede Willielmi Aldwyncle Armigeri defuncti vel de eorum in hac parte Attornatis plenam pacificam possessionem seisinam de in Manerio de Comberton cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatu Cantabrigiae secundùm vim formam effectum cujusdam Cartae indentatae per praefatum Thomam Katherinam mihi prefatae Margaretae ad terminum vitae meae inde confectae Ratum gratum habens habitura totum quicquid praedicti Attornati mei nomine meo fecerint aut alter eorum fecerit in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium Praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Datum vicesimo sexto die mensis Maii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti post Conquestum nono The Tombe of Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Extant in St. Peters Church in Luffwick CONSTANCE GREENE Countess of Wiltshire Lady of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Antiquities of Warwickshire Page 729. Writing of Maxton Castle WITHIN the body thereof is a little Chapel in which by special dispensation of Reynold Boaters then Bishop of this Diocess was solemnized the Marriages of John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and Katharine Stafford one of the Daughters of the said Duke in the thirty sixth year of King Henry the Sixth and of John Stafford one of his younger Sons after created Earl of Wiltshire and Constance the Daughter of Henry Green Esquire Baronage of England Page 174. Stafford Earl of Wiltshire IN the ninth of Edward the Fourth the fifth of January John Stafford a younger Son to Humphrey Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Wiltshire and in the twelfth of Edward the Fourth joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to treat with the Ambassadors of James the third King of Scotland upon certain complaints of grievances from each Realm And having married Constance the Daughter and heir of Sir Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Knight departed this life the eight of May the thirteenth of Edward the Fourth leaving Edward his Son three years of age being then seized joyntly with the said Constance of the Manors of Southo in Com. Hunt of Newinton-Blosmaville Clifton and Pollicote in Comitatu Bucks of the Manors of Stamford Rivers Tracies Suttons Piggesland Bottelles and Briggs in Comitatu
th' appurtenances for the considerations in these Indentures to th' use of the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife for terme of their lifes onely and either of them longer living onely without impeachment of waste dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife and after their decease to th' use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Daughter of the sayd John Greene in like manner and forme and of like Estate as the Heirs of the sayd Herry Greene Fader of the sayd Constance late Countesse was inheritable to the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements after the decease of the same Countesse to the use of the right Heirs of the same Isabel Vere Daughter of the same John Greene in manner and forme and of like tenure and Estates as is aforesayd of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements And the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife John Mordaunt the younger and Elizabeth his Wife Robert Mordaunt and Amye his Wife John Parre and Constance his Wife and Audre Vere and every of them before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall further do and suffer and cause to be done to make the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements afore appoynted to the sayd Countesse sure to the sayd Margaret Stafford Countesse of Wiltes Johan Vicountesse Lesle John Grey Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire John Bretteyn Clerk Thomas Frowyke Sergeant at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Thomas Marrow and John Gardiner and to their Heirs to the uses aforesayd as by the Counsel learned of the sayd Countesse before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall be advised at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Countesse And over that is covenanted bargained and agreed between the sayd Parties that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife dureing their lives shall have the Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park of Drayton the Conyngre and the Oxe-Pasture Provided that they shall therein doe no waste And over that that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife shall have for terme of their lives onely and of every of them longest living without impeachment of wast dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife the Moyte of all other Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches or Libertyes of the same the which late were of the same Herry Greene and after their decease the sayd Mannor of Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture and all the same Moyety of all other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to goo and grow to the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Moder to the sayd Herry Vere and to their Heirs for ever in manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was heretable to the same And that the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere shall have the other Moyte of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales and the Marches of the same to them and to their Heirs in the manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was inheritable thereunto And that all such persons as were late inseoffed by the sayd late Earle or be now seised or hereafter shall be seised of and in the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales or the Marches of the same and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with their appurtenances shall be and stand feoffed and seised of the same to the same intents and uses aforesaid And over that that before the sixteenth day of December next comeing shall not lett John Fisher one of the Kings Sergeants at Law William Mordaunt William Gascoyne Wistan Broun John Mulso and William Lane to recover all the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements and the same Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with th' appurtenances ayenst the sayd Elizabeth Cheyne Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere and ayenst all such persons as be or then shall be their Husbands and ayenst all Feoffez thereof to their use in such manner and forme as shall be a vised by the learned Counsell of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fitz Hugh and John Mordaunt the Father at the Costs and Charges of the same Sir Thomas the sayd Recoverez to be of the Moyete of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture for the Considerations comprised in this Indenture to the use of the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth for the terme of their lives and either of them longest living onely And after their decease to the use and behoof of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabell Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd And of the other Moyete of the residue of the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements to the use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd for ever Provided alway that the sayd Margaret Countesse of Wiltes shall have for terme of her life the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements to her appoynted by these Indentures and alsoe her Title and Interesse of Dower of the Lands late of Thomas Tresham any thing conteyned in these Indentures notwithstanding and notwithstanding the sayd Recovere And where the sayd now Duke hath before this time pretended right and title to such Mannors Lands and Tenements as late were of the same Henry Greene as Cosyn and right Heir of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes of the Faders side of the same Earle The sayd Duke now covenanteth by these Presents that he in consideration of all the premisses ymediately upon the sealing of theis Indentures by his Fyne and several Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled on record at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt Sergeant shall release all his right and title in all the Mannors Lands and Tenements with th' appurtenances late of the sayd Herry Greene within this Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to such persons and to their Heirs and in such wise and with warranty ayenst the Abbot of Chester and his Successors as the same Thomas Richard Alice and John shall name at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Thomas Richard Alice and John three two or one of them And the sayd Countesse and all other persons haveing any thing to the use of the sayd Countesse of and in the sayd Mannors of Newton Blosmevile Clifton Wathall Brafield and Policote and in all other Mannors Lands and Tenements which late were of the sayd Humphrey late Duke of Buckingham and afterwards of the sayd
Lives of them to whom it shall be so granted It is also agreed that the said Thomas Huntington by the assent and agreement of the said Robert Parys and John Parys his Son and John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt his Brother that at the pleasure of the said Thomas Huntington they shallcause all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to be divided into two equal Parts and that Division of equally done and made the said John Parys and William Mordaunt shall thereof make choice as by the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and Robert Parys and other Friends shall be devised and agreed and after that Division and choice so made and had the said William Fyndern William Cheyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke Robert Tyrall Richard Higham Robert Bradbury John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances alted to the said William and Anne and by them so chosen to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Decease to the use and behoof there I the said William Mordaunt and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the useand behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And in like wise after division in form aforesaid made and had the said William Fyndern William Thyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of the said Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances so allotted to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and by them so chosen to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington for term of Life without any Impeachment of Waste And after his Decease to the use and behoof there of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And if no Partition be made and agreed to of the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the Life of the said Thomas Huntington that then it is agreed between the said Parties that after his Decease the said William Mordaunt and Anne or oon of them or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten shall make equal Partition of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances and after that Partition so made the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife or the said Margaret or the Heirs of the same Margaret lawfully begotten shall chuse at their pleasure oon of the Part so divided to hold it in severalty and the said William Mordaunt and Anne or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten to have the other Part thereof so divided and to hold it in severalty according and in like Form and Estates with the remainder of every of the said Parties over as is limited above and as they should have holden it if they had had choice of the same after Partition made by the said Thomas Huntington Also it is agreed and covenanted That the said Thomas Huntington at the Costs and Charges of the said William Mordaunt and John Parys shall cause all the Charters Escripts Muniments and Writings concerning the Premises These Indentures only excepted to be indifferently seen and divided and the Evidences belonging to every of the said parties after division and choice thereof in Form aforesaid made to be laid in the Abbey of Walden by themselves if the Abbot and Covent of the same place will thereto agree to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life and after his Decease to be delivered to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and William Mordaunt and Anne and the Heirs of the said Mordaunt and Anne according to the choice of such Estates as is aforesaid And if the Abbot and Covent of Walden aforesaid will not thereto agree then the same Evidences to be laid in some other place in safeguard as shall be divised by the said Thomas Huntington John Parys and William Mordaunt to the said use and intent For the which premises well and truly to be performed the said William Mordaunt shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington three hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in form following that is to say at the Sealing of these Indentures one hundred Marks of lawful Money of England and over that for payment of the residue of the said Money the said William Mordaunt before the said day of Marriage shall cause the said John Mordaunt his Brother and John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne Gentilmen to be bound jointly and severally in three several Obligations every of them containing the summ of forty Pounds whereof the day of payment of the first Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety five and the day of payment of the second Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety six and the day of payment of the third Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred and ninety seven And over that the said William Mordaunt shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne before the said day of
Marriage for payment of thirteen Pound six shillings eight pence residue of the said three hundred Marks to be bound jointly and severally to the said Thomas Huntington in a fourth Obligation payable the first day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety eight It is also covenanted and agreed between the said Parties and the said Thomas Huntington granteth by these Presents That if the said William Mordaunt die before any of the said days of payment specified in any of the said Obligations then having none Issue begotten of the Body of the said Anne That thence all the said Obligations whereof the days of payment shall come after his Death shall be void and the payments of them to cease except always That if the said Anne be with child at the time of the decease of the said William Mordaunt that then as long as that Child lives the payment to hold and the Obligations to be good and in strength and if that Child happen to die then all the Obligations whereof the days of payment shall be to come at the time of the death of the said Child shall be void and the payment of them shall cease And the said John Mordaunt and William grant by these presents That they shall make or cause to be made before the said day of Marriage to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the body of the said William lawfully begotten and to the use and behoof of the said William and Anne and of their Heirs aforesaid as sure sufficient and lawful estate of the Maner of Wodend otherwise called Rokesden Wodend with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth and Collesden in the same County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements in Chichmersh and Clopton in the County of Northampton whereof the said John Mordaunt or any other to the use of the said John or of his Heirs at the making of these Presents being sealed as shall be devised by the Learned Councel of the said Thomas Huntington at the costs and charges of the said William Mordaunt And moreover the said William shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne to be bound to the said Thomas Huntington in an Obligation of a hundred pounds to make or cause to be made before the First day of April that shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety eight an Enfeoffment and lawful Estate of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of an hundred and six Shillings and eight pence over all Charges to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said William Mordaunt lawfully begotten and wherefore afore this time certain Covenants were made and had between the said Thomas Huntington and Robert Parys upon Marriage had between the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and thereupon the said Robert Parys payed to the said Thomas Huntington an hundred and forty Pounds of lawful Money of England and also promised a Jointure of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of twenty Marks then immediately to be paid to the said Margaret and after his Decease to have a further Jointure of Ten Marks for Term of her Life which Jointure in all should be of the Yearly Value of twenty Pounds which is well and truly executed and performed and for that the said Thomas Huntington should leave to his Heirs Lands and Tenements to the Yearly Value of an Hundred Marks as in an Old pair of Indentures made between the said Robert Parys on the one Partie and the said Thomas Huntington on the other Partie among other more plainly appeareth which Covenants the said Robert Parys hath renounced and released and by these Presents now renounceth and releaseth unto the said Thomas Huntington It is now assented and agreed between the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and William Mordaunt for the Premises to be performed to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife as is abovesaid That all the Covenants comprised in the Old Indentures of the part of the said Robert Parys to be performed and the Indenture of the same for the part of the said Robert shall be and stand in their force And moreover that William Fyndern Knight and others that be now enfeoffed in the Maner of Hildersham and of other Lands and Tenements in Hildersham in the said County of Cantebrig shall be and stand seoffed thereof to the use of the said Margaret for a Jointure for Term of her Life of Lands and Rents in Hildersham aforesaid and to the Yearly Value of ten Marks over and beside the Jointure of twenty Pounds to be had after the Death of the said Robert Parys and the said Robert Parys shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington ten Pounds of lawful Money of England in Form following That is to say Yearly five Marks at the Feast of Hallowmesse till the said ten Pounds be payed In Witness whereof to the part of these Indentures remaining with the said Thomas Huntington the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt and Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals To the second part of these Indentures remaining with the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals And to the third part of these Indentures remaining with the said Robert Parys and John Parys the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt have set to their Seals the said Fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh John Mordaunt William Mordaunt John Parys Junctura Annae uxoris Willielmi Mordaunt SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes Mordaunt de Turveia Armiger dedi concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo juniori Annae Huntington filiae Thomae Huntington de Hempsted Armigeri Manerium meum de Wodend cum pertinentiis nec non omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia mea cum suis pertinentiis in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth Collesden in Comitatu Bedfordiae quae nuper fuerunt Johannis Carlile Dedi etiam concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae omnia terras tenementa mea cum suis pertinentiis in Tychmerch Clopton in Comitatu Northamptoniae quae nuper fuerunt Thomae Hunt Habendum tenendum omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis Et ego praedictus Johannes Mordaunt haeredes mei omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis
pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis contra omnes homines warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus in perpetuum per praesentes Noveritis insuper me praefatum Johannem Mordaunt attornâsse constituisse in loco meo posuisse dilectos mihi in Christo Henricum Handson Richardum Stevynson conjunctim divisim meos veros legitimos attornatos ad intrandum in omnia singula manerium terras tenementa praedicta cum suis pertinentiis seisinam nomine meo in iisdem capiendum post hujusmodi seisinam sic inde captam habitam seisinam de iisdem nomine meo praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis deliberandum secundum vim formam effectum hujus praesentis Chartae meae ratum gratum habendum totum quicquid iidem Attornati mei fecerint seu eorum alter fecerit nomine meo in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Chartae meae sigillum meum apposui Data ultimo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi post Conquestum decimo Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Regis Henrici Septimi Ad constituendum Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium ad legem HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quòd nos ex mero motu scientia nostra constituimus Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium nostrorum ad legem nec non cessimus eidem Johanni officium unius servientium nostrorum ad legem habendum occupandum exercendum dictum officium nec non ad essendum unum servientium nostrorum ad legem quamdiu nobis placuerit capiendum accipiendum annuatim pro officio illo exercendo ab eodem Johanne vadia feoda vesturam regarda dicto officio debita seu pertinentia prout alii servientes ad legem pro hujusmodi officio exercendo percipient seu habere vel percipere debent In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Novembris Anno Regni Regis nostri undecimo Charta Edwardi Ducis Buckinghamiae EDwardus Dux Buckinghamiae Comes Herfordiae Northamptoniae Omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Salutem Sciatis nos praefatum ducem remisisse relaxâsse omnimodo pro nobis haeredibus nostris in perpetuum quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae uni servientium Domini regis ad legem haeredibus assignatis suis totum jus nostrum statum titulum seu clameum quae unquam habuimus habemus vel in futurum habere poterimus de in quinquaginta acris terrae duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis separali piscaria in aqua de Ose cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta de in duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis de separali piscaria in aqua de Ose in Brafeld juxta Lauenden alias vocata Coldbrafeld in Comitatu Buckinghamiae quae omnia singula idem Johannes Mordaunt habuit ex dono feoffamento Edwardi Comitis Wilts consanguinei nostri quibus omnibus fingulis praemissis idem Johannes Mordaunt seisitus existit Ità quòd nec nos praefatus Dux nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus titulum seu clameum de in praedictis terris tenementis aquis separalibus piscariis caeteris praemissis de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris statûs tituli vel clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus in perpetuum exclusi per praesentes Et nos verò praefatus Dux haeredes nostri omnia praedicta terras tenementa aquam separales piscarias cum pertinentiis caetera praemissa praefato Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus assignatis suis contra Abbatem Sancti Petri Monasterii successores suos warrantizabimus acquietabimus in perpetuum defendemus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro duplicato sigillum nostrum apponi fecimus Data undecimo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi quarto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt of Turvey and John Tresham of Rushton THIS Indenture made the Twenty first day of March in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey one of the King's Serjeants at the Law on the oon partie and John Tresham of Rushton in the County of Northampton Esquire on the other partie Witnesseth That it is agreed covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Mordaunt shall endeavour him to get the Marriage of Elizabeth Vere to Marry with John Mordaunt the younger Son and Heir apparent of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant and Amey Vere to Marry with Robert Mordaunt the Second Son of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant which Elizabeth and Amey being Daughters to my Sister Isabel and to give Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the said Elizabeth Vere for term of her Life to the yearly Value of Twenty Pound and to give to the said Amey Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the yearly Value of Ten Pounds for term of her Life for the which Marriage and Jointure and other Considerations the said John Tresham granteth That in case he be disposed to sell any of his Maners Lands and Tenements within the County of Northampton or elsewhere within the Realm of England That then the same John Mordaunt shall have it and all Maners Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services that he shall be disposed for to sell after the rate of Fifteen Years purchace of the clear yearly Value of the same Lands and Tenements to be sold It is also agreed and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Tresham at his pleasure shall give to Isabel Daughter of Sir James Haryngton now his Wife all his Lands Tenements Pastures and Hereditaments in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them for the term of her Life and to give unto Isabel Tresham and Clemens Tresham Daughters begotten between the said John Tresham and Isabel Daughter of the said Sir James all the said Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them to have to them and to the Heirs of their Bodies begotten And for default of Issue of both their Bodies begotten the same Maners Lands and Tenements to remain to the said Isabel Sister of the said John Tresham for term of her Life the remainder thereof for default of such Issue or if there be no such Gift made of the same to remain to the said
Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere their Sisters and to their Heirs for ever And in case the said John Tresham make no sale of his Maners Lands and Tenements as is aforesaid That then immediately after his decease and the decease of Isabel his Sister all his Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Realm of England not sold to the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant as is abovesaid shall remain go and grow to the said Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere and to their Heirs for ever And the said John Mordaunt shall pay for reversion of the Premises sold or to be sold by the said John Tresham to the same John Mordaunt Serjeant after the rate of half Fifteen Years Purchace as is abovesaid In witness whereof to these present Indentures the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the same Twenty fifth Day and Year abovesaid And in case the said John Tresham hereafter have any Issue Male of the Body of the said Isabel by him begotten That then the said Issue Male shall have all the same Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig Church-Brampton or part of them if it shall please the same John Tresham to make any such Gift Entail Extracta per me Nicolaum Hardyng verbatim xxv die Januarii decimo nono Henrici Septimi A Letter from the Prince to John Mordaunt his Attorney By the Prince TRusty and right wele beloved we greet you wele And understand by your late Letters directed unto our Councel that ye have endeavoured you diligently to perform such matters and businesses concerning our profit according to our desires in our Letters directed to you for the which we give unto you our great thanks praying you to persevere and continue And whereas in your said Letters among other matters is contained That Richard Empson hath found that Ingleton held certain Hamlets and Parcels of Lands of my most dread Lord and Fader the King by Knights Service whereby he intendeth to defeat us as it seemeth of the Ward of the said Ingleton to our Prejudice with whom we charge you severely in our Name to travers for divers considerations and specially for that our Councel have had of late more perfit knowledge That the said Ward rightfully appertaineth unto us than they knew or had understanding for the which and other great matters whereof we shall be ascertained we intend within brief time to send some of our Councel unto my most dread Lord and Fader instructed to the intent we may know his pleasure concerning the same We will also That in our Name ye take Actions against Ward Waste and Sefnian for such Wards as they detaining have by craft concealedly hid and kept from us wherewith we be nothing pleased nor content And as for the hundred and three score Pounds resting in the hands of Nicholas Nynes due unto us we pray you on our behalf to charge the said Nicholas to send the same surely to us in all convenient hast and to give credence to our trusty servant Thomas Canceller chief Clerk of our Kitchin in such things as he on our behalf shall shew unto you whereby ye shall greatly please us Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaudley the Twenty third day of May. Articles of Marriage between Sir Wistan Brown and Elizabeth Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Twentieth day of September in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey oon of the Kings Serjeants at the Law on the oon Partie and William Brown of Abbesroding in the County of Essex Esquire on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas it was promised concluded and agreed between the Friends of the said William and the said John Mordaunt and other Friends of Elizabeth Sister of the said John Mordaunt That the said William should take to Wife the said Elizabeth and upon the same Marriage concluded and was promised as well by the Friends of the said William as by the said William he then being of the Age of sixteen Years or thereabout and of good and sad discretion That the said Elizabeth should have a Jointure of Maners Lands and Tenements late Robert Brown's Father to the said William to the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and that of the same Maners Lands and Tenements so of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and also of other Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins which before that time were laid to Mortgage by the said Robert to William Capell Knight for a Debt and Forfeit to the said Sir William and afterward redeemed by the said John at his labor and Instance for the summ of Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the which Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the said John Mordaunt payed to the said Sir William and the said John Mordaunt should have and take the Profits into his own hand from the time of the said agreement and concluding of Marriage unto the time the said William come to his full Age of One and Twenty Years which Lands in the whole were promised to be of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds over all Charges to the said John And also it was farther agreed That the said Elizabeth over and besides Maners Lands and Tenements to the said yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings should have a Jointure in the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins if the said William when he came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years would agree That she should have the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins term of her Life and after that the said William came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years he oftentimes assented and agreed That the same Elizabeth should have the said Lands in the Saint Martins in Jointure and by these Presents confesseth and granteth That he agreed and granted and at the time of concluding the said Marriage the Maners of Rokewodhall and Stokhall and all Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding Bauchamproding High-Laffare Little-Laffare and Maehing in the County of Essex except Hobberlerkey which were the said Robert Brown's were promised to be of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings over all Charges were assigned to be the said Jointure of the said Elizabeth and after were given in Jointure by Sir Thomas Boughchier Knight John Bardefeld and other Enfeoffes to the said William and Elizabeth his Wife for term of Life of the said Elizabeth And the said William took Seizing and Possession for him and the said Elizabeth at Abbesroding aforesaid The same Elizabeth her Friends verily believing the same Maners Lands and Tenements had then been of the yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings according to the said Promise and also as it was agreed upon between the same Parties upon the said Marriage concluded That the reversion of the said Manners of Rokewodhall Stokhall and all Lands and
and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the Life of the said Elizabeth and after the Death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the said John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with the remainder over like in every thing as is above expressed of the said Fifty Pounds Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and all time and times within the said Eight Years after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons above named and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate in the Law by Feoffment Fine Recovery Releases with Warranty Confirmations or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be avised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Woods Rents Reversions and Services the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes hath within the Realm of England the said Persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the foresaid Fifty Pounds Provided always That it shall be lawful to the said John Elmes to Appoint and Assign Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds parcel of Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except always Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances before expressed and named to the said yearly Value of Threescore Pounds to be Appointed and Assigned for the Jointure of the said Edith the said Twenty Pounds to be and go to and for the Exhibition Marriage Advancement of his Children and to pay his Debts and to the performance of the last Will of the said John Elmes so it extend no further but for term of Life or Lives or for the term of Twenty Years next ensuing the Death of the said John Elmes And also provided That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him so to Marry for the term of her Life of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the Premises under the yearly Value of Forty Pounds at the pleasure of the said John Elmes Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage no do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer to be done any manner of Act or Acts whereby any manuer of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which did come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof as is before expressed of the said Fifty Pounds And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffered any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by and after the decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue-Male the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the Old Inheritation thereof For the which Premises on the party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Five hundred Marks of lawful Money that is to say At the Feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming after the date hereof One hundred Marks And at the Feast of Saint Peter the Advincula commonly called Lammas day Fifty Marks and so yearly at every of the said Feasts Fifty Marks until the said Summ of Five hundred Marks be counted and paid And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall purchase with the same Five hundred Marks which the said John Elmes hath of the said John Mordaunt for the same Marriage and with the Summ of Two hundred Marks which the said John Elmes shall have delivered to him by the said Thomas Pygott the day of the said Marriage solemnized Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly Value of Forty Marks And that the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns after the said Lands so purchased shall Enfeoffee the said Persons of the same to have to them and to their Heirs in Fee the same persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of his Heirs for ever And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Elibeth his Mother do Alien Sell Discontinue Release or put away by any manner of means any Maners Lands Tenements or any other Hereditaments of the Inheritance of the said Elizabeth from the said John Elmes or from the Heirs of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten except certain Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances lying in Littlecote in the County of Buckingham to the yearly Value of Four Pounds or thereabouts That then the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall have Ten Marks parcel of the said Forty Marks so to be purchased to the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs for ever And the said persons so being seized of the said Forty Marks incontinent after the said Alienation and Sale or Discontinuance or any other matter of Act by the said Elizabeth so made
Estate in the Law in Fee-simple and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds by the Year over all charges whereof the Maners Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said John Elmes or any other to his use hath in Lilford Wiggesthorp in the County of Northampton shall be parcel to the use and behoof hereafter ensuing And also shall further do suffer and cause to be done at the costs and charges of the said John Mordaunt as well before the foresaid Feast as at all times after within the space of Four Years next after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt by his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their costs and charges a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple to the foresaid Robert Brudenell and the said Co-feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them and to their Heirs to the use ensuing by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of and in the foresaid Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments And that the said Persons their Heirs and Assigns beside of and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Fifty parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Sixty shall stand and be seized to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith immediately after the said Marriage had and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said William according to the old Inheritance thereof Ten Pound residue of the said Hundred Pound that the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the life of the said Elizabeth his Mother and after the death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the same John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith for term of her life and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with like remainder in any thing as is above expressed of the said Hundred Pounds And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and at all time and times within the space of Four Years next after the Feast of All-Saints when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons abovenamed and to their Heirs or to the survivors of them and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate by Feoffment or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be advised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances and all other his Hereditaments with the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes now hath And the said Persons to be and stand seized of the same other Maners to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the said Hundred Pounds Provided alway That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him to Marry for the time of his Life of Maners Lands Tenements parcel of the Premises to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds or under at the pleasure of the said John Elmes And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgate nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any manner of Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which be come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except before excepted to come grow and descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the said John Elmes according to the Old Inheritance thereof And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give or lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend in power or in use to the said John Elmes as Son and Heir of the same Elizabeth by and after the Decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the old Inheritance thereof For the which Premises on the Party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money for the which summ of a Hundred Marks the said John Mordaunt hath made to the said John Elmes Ten several Obligations for the sure payment of the same Six hundred Marks by the same Obligations Sealed with the Seal of the said John Mordaunt and remaining with the said John Elmes more plainly it doth appear And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edith within the time and space of Four Years next after the said Marriage solemnized do dye having no Issue by the said John Elmes that then the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns shall repay or cause to be repaid to the said John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns Two hundred Marks parcel of the said Six hundred Marks within the space of Four Years next and immediately
twenty Years to come grow descend in possession Reversion or in Use to the said Edmond and to his Heirs for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace at his liberty to make a Jointure to any other Woman that he shall fortune hereafter to Marry if the said Dorothy now his Wife fortune to decease of and in Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks to the yearly value of Forty Pounds for term of Life of the same Woman only Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace for to declare his Will of the said Maners Lands and Tenements of the value of Three hundred twenty five Marks during the Non-age of the said Edmond and during the Non-age of the next Heir of the said Edmond if the said Edmond fortune to decease before he shall accomplish the Age of twenty one Years And also for to declare his last Will of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Forty Marks parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks for the term of Ten Years after the decease of the said John Fettyplace And after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and twenty Years for the preferment of the Younger Sons and Daughters of the said John Fettyplace and for the contentation and payment of his Debts Provided also That it shall be lawful for the said John Fettyplace for to give to every of his Younger Sons which shall fortune to be in Life at the time of the Death of the said John Fettyplace severally by himself Ten Marks parcel of the said Three hundred twenty five Marks during their lives only And if any of them happen to decease that then after the Death of every of them that Ten Marks of him that is so Dead to come go and return to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever For the which Premises and also for other Covenants Grants and Agreements on the Party of the said John Fettyplace his Executors and Assigns for to be performed and kept the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors and Assigns shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Fettyplace his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following that is to say One hundred pounds of lawful Money of England at the sealing of these present Indentures of the which Hundred Pounds the said John Fettyplace acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and payed And the said Sir John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged by these presents And at the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle next coming after the date of these presents Fifty Marks of lawful Money of England at the Feast of Pentecost which shall be in the Year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundred and twenty five or within twelve days next following the same Feast One hundred Marks of lawful money of England and so yearly at the Feast of Pentecost or within Twelve days next following after the same Feast One hundred Marks until the time that the said Six hundred Marks be truly contented and paid And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edmond during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye before the said Marriage had between them and before carnal copulation that then Thomas second Son of the said John Fettyplace or he which at that time shall be Heir apparent to the said John Fettyplace shall Marry and take to Wife the said Margaret if the said Margaret will thereto agree and the Law of the Church will so suffer and permit the same and to have like Covenants Grants and Agreements for to be made between the said John Fettyplace and Sir John Mordaunt as well for the payments to be made as for the Marriage of the said second Son or the next Heir apparent of the said John Fettyplace at that time being as the said Sir John should have had if the said Edmond had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Margaret during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye after Marriage had between the said Edmond and the said Margaret and before carnal copulation that then the said Edmond shall marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Sir John Mordaunt if the said Dorothy will thereto agree and the Laws of the Church the same will suffer with like Covenants Grants and Agreements and also payments of the same summ of Six hundred Marks as then is and shall be paid for the Marriage of the said Dorothy as should have been if the said Margaret had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth That the said Sir John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall have the keeping and custody of the said Edmond until the time that the said Edmond come to his age of One and twenty Years and that the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall have the said Twenty pounds to the use of the said Sir John his Executors and Assigns any Covenant or Grant in these present Indentures to the contrary made notwithstanding to and for the finding of the said Edmond and Margaret And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Edmond Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond unto the time that the said Edmond come to the age of One and twenty Years And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said John Fettyplace shall have the keeping custody and rule of the said Margaret as long as it shall please the said John Fettyplace to have her for which the said Sir John shall content and pay to the said John Fettyplace for the finding of the said Margaret as long as the said Margaret shall be in the House or at the finding of the said John Fettyplace Ten Marks of lawful Money of England And if the said John Fettyplace be not disposed to have the said Margaret and to find her himself that then the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Margaret Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the said Margaret unto the time that the said Edmond come to the full age of One and twenty Years And it is further agreed between the said Parties That after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the full age of One and twenty Years that then the said Edmond shall receive and take the Profits of the said Twenty Pounds And also all other parcels as be appointed by these Indentures for the Jointure of
the said Margaret to the only use of the said Edmond according to the Covenants comprized and specified in these Indentures In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these present Indentures interchangably have put to their Seals and Sign Manuals the Day and Year above-written John Fettyplace Alliance between Mordaunt and Fisher THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth between Michael Fisher of Clyfton in the County of Bedford Esquire on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey of the said County of Bedford Knight on the other Partie Witnesseth That the said Michael hath Covenanted and Granted and by these Presents Covenanteth and Granteth to the said Sir John That John Fisher Son and Heir apparent of the said Michael and of Margaret his Wife shall by the Grace of God before the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Six Marry and take to Wife Anne Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Anne thereunto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That the said Anne shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Fisher if the said John Fisher thereunto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast of Saint Michael at the costs and charges of both the said Parties truly to be borne And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to the said Sir John That he his Executors or Assigns shall Apparel the said John Fisher his Son at the said day of Marriage in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said John Fisher And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents to the said Michael That he his Executors or Assigns shall Apparel the said Anne at the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Anne And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Sir John by these presents That the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns shall before the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming after the date hereof make cause or do to be made to John Spelman Serjeant at the Law John Elmes Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh Gentlemen and Sir William Rymer Clerk to them their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law at the costs and charges of the said Michael and of the said Sir John by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs or Assigns or by their learned Counsel of and in these his Maners of Westlyngworth Clifton and Felinshin with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and of and in all Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth and Felinshin in the said County of Bedford And also the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Sir John by these presents That the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns shall before the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming after the date hereof make cause or do to be made to the said John Spelman John Elmes Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh and Sir William Rymer to leave them their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law at the whole costs and charges of the said Michael and of the said Sir John by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs or Assigns or by their learned Counsel of and in certain Pastures Lands and Tenements being in Clopton in the County of Kent to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds over all charges discharged of all former Bargains Sales Statutes and of all other Incumbrances and Charges made by the said Michael only To have and to hold to the said John Spelman John Elmes Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh and Sir William Rymer Clerk their Heirs and Assigns to such uses and intents as hereafter ensueth That is to say Immediately after the solemnization of the said Marriage had to stand and be seized of the said Maner of Westlyngworth and of and in all Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth aforesaid to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the said John Fisher hath accomplished the age of Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in the said Maners of Clifton and of and in all Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Clifton to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after that the said John Fisher hath accomplished the age of Twenty and three Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Felinshin aforesaid to the clear yearly value of Four Pound six Shillings and eight Pence parcel of the said Lands and Tenements in Felinshin of the value of Eleven Pounds to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the said John Fisher shall come to his age of One and Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid to the yearly value of Four Pound six Shillings and eight Pence to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the death of the said Michael the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in all other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid residue of the said Lands and Tenements in Felinshin of the value of Ten Pounds and above of and in all the said Closes Lands and Tenements in Clopton aforesaid parcel of the Maner of Clopton to the use of the said John Fisher and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if it happen the said John Fisher after the said Marriage had and solemnized to
decease as God forbid before the said John hath accomplished the said age as before specified that then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand seized of all the said parcels of Lands and Tenements above limited to the said John Fisher and Anne from the Death of the said John Fisher to the use of the said Anne for term of Life of the said Anne in such manner and form as they should be if the said John Fisher should have lived to his said lawful age That is to say Immediately after the Death of the said John Fisher the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the one living of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners of Westlyngworth and also of and in the said Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth to the use of the said Anne for term of Life of the said Anne And immediately after the said John Fisher should have accomplished his age of Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of the said Lands and Tenements in Clifton aforesaid to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And immediately after that the said John Fisher should have been of the age of Twenty three Years the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of the said Lands and Tenements of the yearly value of Four Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And after that the said John Fisher should have accomplished the age of Six and twenty Years then all the said other Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Four Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence in Felinshin shall be to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And immediately after the Death of the said Michael Fisher the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of the said other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid and also of all the other Lands and Tenements and Pastures in Clopton to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall suffer Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the Counties of Bedford Oxenford Northampton Sussex and Middlesex to the clear yearly value of a Hundred and forty Pound over and beside the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances above expressed for the Jointure of the same Anne to come grow and descend immediately after the death of the said Michael the Jointures of Juliana Clopton and of Margaret now his Wife and the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except to the said John Fisher and to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Michael Fisher for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said Michael to make a Jointure to the said Margaret now his Wife of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Hundred and forty Pounds to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds for term of life of the said Margaret Provided also That if the said Margaret do die before the said Michael and that the said Michael do fortune to Marry any other Wife or Wives That then it shall be lawful to the said Michael for to make a Jointure to the said such Wife of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances parcel of the said Hundred and forty Pounds to the yearly value of Threescore for term of the life of the said second Wife or Wives Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said Michael to declare his last Will during the space of Six Years of all the residue of the said Hundred and forty Pounds over and besides such Jointures as any of his said Wife or Wives shall have after the death of the said Michael And after the said Six Years expired and determined then the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to be to the use of the said John Fisher and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Michael for ever Provided alway as it is agreed between the said parties That if the said John Fisher shall happen to die his Heir or Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten then being within Age that then it shall be at the liberty and pleasure of the said Michael Fisher for to make and declare his last Will of all the said Lands and Tenements of the value of a Hundred and forty Pounds during the Non-age of the said Issue and no longer For the which Premises on the part of the said Michael to be performed and kept the said Sir John Mordaunt shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns Six Hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following That is to say at the sealing and delivering of these Presents One Hundred Pounds of the which Hundred Pounds the said Michael acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and paid and the said Sir John his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged And for the Three hundred Pounds residue of the said Six hundred Marks the said Sir John Mordaunt John Elmes Esquire Nicholas Hardyng stand and be bound jointly and severally to the said Michael his Executors or Assigns by several obligations bearing date the day of the date of these present Indentures to be paid at certain days contained and specified in the said Obligations as by the same Obligations it more plainly doth appear In Witness whereof to the either part of these present Indentures the Parties abovesaid interchangably have put to their Seals the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And albeit that we by our other Letters to our Right trusty and right intirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Marquess of Dorset directed willed him to take Five Hundred quick Deer within our Chace of Leicester and within Leicester Fryth and within the Honor of Leicester for the enstoring of his Park yet nevertheless we will that in no wise our said Cousin shall take the said Deer himself but that ye shall deliver the said Five Hundred Deer unto him your self like as we will and command you so to do accordingly To be taken to him of our Gift our said other Letters in any wise notwithstanding And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Sevententh Year of
our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And will and command you That for the enstoring the Park of our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Hastings ye deliver or cause to be delivered unto him or his Assigns in that behalf Three hundred of quick Deer to be taken of our Gift in our Chace of Leicester and within our Park there called Leicester Fryth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf or at all times hereafter any restraint or commandment heretofore made or had the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Seventeenth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales Henry R. By the King HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales within our County of Hertford and in his absence to his Deputy or Deputies there Greeting Forasmuch as we have not only commanded our welbeloved Servant Hector Asheley Master and Controuler of our Works at our Maner of Hunesdone in our said County of Hertford to fell and cut down or to cause to be felled and cut down with all diligence in either of our said Parks there such and as many Oaks as he from time to time shall think needful and expedient as well for Pale for the inclosing of a Paddok within our old Park of Hunesdone for a Winter pasture there as also for the empaling of the Parsons ground within our new Park at Hunesdone but also we by these presents for certain causes and considerations us specially moving have freely given and granted unto our said Servant all the Lops and Tops of the said Oaks and of every of them without any thing therefore paying or accompt yeilding unto us or our use at any time hereafter We will therefore and command you and every of you to permit and suffer the said Hector Asheley to have use and enjoy the whole effect of this our commandment and gift without any your challenge lett or interruption to the contrary as ye tender our pleasure And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaulieu the Twelfth day of August the Nineteenth Year of our Reign Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnricus Octavus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Rex Fidei Defensor Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus dilectis fidelibus suis Majori Civitatis suae Londini Johanni Mordaunt militi Conciliario nostro Christophero Hales Solicitori nostro Rogero Wygston Armigeris Salutem Quia accepimus quod Johannes Gysours filius Johannis Gysours Armigeri Fatuus Idiota in vita sua fuit quod regimen sui ipsius terrarum tenementorum suorum non sufficit quod ipse in fatuitate sua magnam partem terrarum tenementorum suorum alienavit in exheredationem suam nostri prejudicium manifestum nos indemnitati nostrae perspicere volentes vobis mandamus quod ad loca ubi terrae tenementa illa infra civitatem Londinum existunt in propriis personis vestris accedatis de statu suo qualis ille erat dum in humanis agebat viis modis quibus poteritis informari omnes affines cognatos vicinos suos circumspectè examinetis Et nihilominus per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de civitate praedicta per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis utrum idem Johannes Gysours junior fatuus idiota in vita sua fuisset nec ne si sic utrum à nativitate sua seu ab alio tempore si ab alio tempore à quo tempore qualiter quomodo si lucidis gaudebat intellectualibus si idem Johannes in eodem statu existens terras tenementa aliqua vendiderit seu alienaverit nec ne quid pro eisdem recepit si sic vendiderit tunc quae terrae tenementa ubi vel in vel quibus in quorum vel cujus manibus terrae tenementa sic alienata existunt qualiter quo modo quae terrae quae tenementa haeredibus suis adhuc remanent de quo vel de quibus tam terrae tenementa sic alienata quam terrae tenementa sibi retenta teneant per quod servicium qualiter quomodo quantum valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus quis propinquior haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis inquisitionem inde distinctè apertè factam nobis in Cancelaria nostra sub sigillis vestris sigillis eorum per quos fuerit sine dilatione mittatis hoc breve c. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto die Maii Anno Regni vicesimo Newman Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our Right welbeloved Counsellors Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Roger Wigston Esquire and to our welbeloved Robert Harward Thomas Borett and John Duke greeting Know ye that we having Trust and Confidence in your Wisdoms Fidelities and Circumspections have appointed deputed and authorised you and by these presents give unto you and two of you and to such Persons bringers hereof as ye shall substitute name and assign in your place and absence full Power and Authority to take and provide to and for the use of our Fortifications Munitions Buildings and Reparations of our Ordnances and other things concerning as well the Safeguard Defence and Tuition of our Town and Marches of Caleys the Castles of Guysnes Hammes and Newnambrigge as also other necessaries and requisites of and for the same purpose to be taken and had not only within our Lordships Maners Woods and Parks and other Grounds within our Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex but also to be taken and had within any Lordships Maners Lands and Tenements of any other Person or Persons within the said Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex at convenient and reasonable prices and by this we give unto you and two of you full Power and Authority in manner and form above-specified to take Carpenters Workmen Artificers and Labourers apt and convenient for Felling and Squaring of the said Timber and Trees to the use aforesaid and also all manner of Carriages as well by Sea and Salt-Waters as also by Fresh-Waters
Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and Twentieth Day of April Alliance between Mordaunt and More THIS Indenture made the Two and twentieth day of January in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland Between John More of Haddon in the Parish of Bampton in the County of Oxford Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the other Party Witnesseth That the said Parties being agreed in manner and form as hereafter followeth That is to say The said John More doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That Thomas More his Son and Heir apparent shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt if the said Dorothy thereto will agree and consent And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That the said Dorothy by the like Grace shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Thomas More if the said Thomas More thereto will consent and agree The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy Mordaunt before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof at the indifferent Costs and Charges of the said John More and Lord Mordaunt And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Thomas More in all things as shall be meet and convenient for the Degree of the said Thomas More the day of the said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Dorothy in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Dorothy the said day of Marriage so to be solemnized and had And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That the same John More his Heirs or Assigns before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date of these Presents or within Fifteen days next ensuing the said Feast of Easter shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Thomas Audely Knight Lord Chancellor of England Sir Henry Parker Gyles Strangesways John Mordaunt the Younger William Gascoign Thomas Bernardyston Knights Edmond Fettyplace Roger More John Elmes Esquires William More Clerk John Gostwyke Robert More second Son of the said John More Thomas Spilman Robert Latimer Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Downhall Gentlemen Thomas Lewes and George Caldwell their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in the Maner of Whaddon otherwise called Charles's Maner in Whaddon in the County of Cantebrigge and of and in the Maner of Ladybury in Whaddon aforesaid and of and in all other his Maners Lands and Tenements Hereditaments Woods Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in Whaddon aforesaid Knesworth Melreth Melburn Basingburn Moredon Abyngdon Crawdon Wympole and Crewell in the said County of Cantebrigge All which Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents To be of the clear yearly value of Forty eight Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Reprizes going out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances before expressed The said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand Feoffees and seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the said Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents hereafter following That is to say To the use of the said John More and his Heirs until such time as Marriage be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And after such Marriage had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy then immediately the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and to be seized of and in the Site of the Maner and Maner place of the said Maner of Whaddon called Charles's Maner with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the same Maner belonging or appertaining with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Fourteen Pounds And of and in certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now in the Tenure of one William Fox to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances called Lady-place to the clear yearly value of Fifty three Shillings four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Payne to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Pounds and ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Richard Crepyn to the clear yearly value of Ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Twenty six Shillings eight Pence All which Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances parcel of the Premises amount to the clear yearly value of Forty Marks to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John More for ever And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Newman to the clear yearly value of Twenty four Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Borolman to the clear yearly value of Forty Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenences now in the Tenure of John Astemore to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds three Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Dickons to the clear yearly value of Three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence And of and in divers Lands and Tenements now in the Tenure of John Alleyn to the clear value of Thirteen Shillings four pence also parcel of the Premises amounting in the whole to the Summ of Twenty Marks to the use of the said John More during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after the Death of the
sive omissi vel in posterum perpetrandi committendi vel omittendi in tam amplis modo forma ac si eadem omnia singula in his praesentibus particulariter expressa mentionata fuissent Et ulterius volumus concedimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris praedicto Johanni Comiti de Peterborow haeredibus assignatis suis damus potestatem facultatem authoritatem omnia singula Forisfacturas Penalitates pecuniarum Summas praedicta in aliquibus Curiis nostris haeredum vel successorum nostrorum recuperare praecipimus mandamus Thesaurariis Justiciariis Itinerantibus ac Justiciariis Capitali Justiciario Forestae praedictae Cancellario Thesaurario Baronibus Curiae Scaccarii omnibus aliis Judicibus Justiciariis Officiariis Ministris nostris qui nunc sunt vel in posterum erunt Vicecomitibus Ballivis omnibus aliis Officiariis Ministris Subditis nostris haeredum successorum nostrorum ad quos pertinere poterit nunc aut pro tempore existentibus processus de tempore in tempus ad requisitionem praedicti Johannis Comitis de Peterborow haeredum vel assignatorum suorum facere emittere contra aliquam personam vel personas pro praemissis praedictis eosdem processus executioni debitae demandare pro levatione recuperatione earum Forisfacturarum Penalitatum Pecuniarum Summarum vel alicujus inde parcellae Et hae Literae nostrae Patentes vel Irrotulamentum eorundem erunt tampraedicto Johanni Comiti de Peterborow haeredibus assignatis suis quam praedicto Thesaurario caeteris Officiariis personis praedictis sufficiens Warrantum Authoritas in hac parte Et ulterius volumus per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris convenimus concedimus ad cum praefato Johanne Comite de Peterborow haeredibus assignatis suis quod nec nos haeredes vel successores nostri ad aliquam personam sive personas quascunque de vel concernente Privilegiis Exemptionibus Forisfacturis Penalitatibus vel pecuniarum summis vel eorum aliquo in his praesentibus expressis mentionatis praedicto Johanni Comiti de Peterborow haeredibus assignatis suis per praesentes concessis confirmatis aliquam Concessionem Pardonationem Compositionem Relaxationem Exonerationem vel Licentiam in futuro faciemus vel fieri causabimus sed omnia singula praemissa praedicta praedicto Johanni Comiti de Peterborow haeredibus assignatis suis per praesentes concessa concedi mentionata sint erunt de tempore in tempus ad solum proprium opus usum ipsius Johannis Comitis de Peterborow haeredum assignatorum suorum Et ulterius volumus per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris concedimus praefato Johannis Comiti de Peterborow haeredibus assignatis suis quod hae Literae Patentes nostrae vel Irrotulamentum earundem erunt in omnibus per omnia firmae validae bonae sufficientes in lege erga contra nos haeredes successores nostros tam in omnibus Curiis nostris quam alibi infra hoc regnum nostrum Angliae absque aliquibus Confirmationibus Licentiis vel Tolerationibus de nobis haeredibus vel successoribus nostris procurandis vel obtinendis Non obstante male nominando vel non nominando male recitando vel non recte recitando praedictorum separalium Maneriorum vel eorum aliquorum Villarum Messuagiorum Terrarum Pratorum Boscorum Pasturarum caeterorum praemissorum praedictornm aut aliquam inde partem vel parcellam Et non obstante quod aliquod Breve vel aliqua Brevia de ad quod damnum non emanaverit vel emanaverunt aut quod nulla Inquisitio sive Inquisitiones superinde captae sive habitae fuit vel fuerunt ante confectionem harum Literarum nostrarum Patentium Et non obstante quod metae limites bundae praemissorum praedictorum vere certe non describuntur vel aliqua incertitudine in eisdem vel in eorum aliquo Et non obstante quod Maleficentia Transgressiones Forisfacturae Usurpationes Intrusiones Arborum Boscorum vel Subboscorum succisiones spoliationes prosternationes vel eradicationes contemptus negligentiae aliae offensae omissiones praedictae nec partes eadem perpetrantes nec fines Amerciamenti Penae Penalitates Punitiones pecuniarum summae aliae Forisfacturae pro eisdem incursae impositae adjudicatae leviabiles debitae sive solubiles nec Praesentamenta Indictamenta Convictiones Judicia aliae res eadem concernentes particulariter in praesentibus non mentionantur Et non obstante aliquo defectu vel aliquibus defectibus in male nominando vel non nominando Tenentium Firmariorum vel Occupatorum praemissorum vel alicujus inde parcellae Et non obstante male nominando vel non nominando aliquarum Villarum Parochiarum Hamlettorum Locorum vel Comitatuum in quo vel in quibus praedicta separalia Maneria Villae Messuagia Terrae Prata Bosci Pasturae caetera praemissa praedicta aut aliqua inde pars vel parcella existunt vel existit Et non obstante statuto in Parlamento Domini Henrici nuper regis Angliae Sexti anno Regni sui decimo octavo facto edito Et non obstante Statuto in Parlamento Henrici nuper Regis Angliae quarti Antecessoris nostri Anno Regni sui primo facto edito Et non obstante aliquibus aliis Defectis in non nominando aut non recte nominando naturae speciei quantitatis numeri acrarum anni valoris aut qualitatis praemissorum aut alicujus inde parcellae aut quod praemissa praedicta vel eorum aliquod sive aliquae continent sive continet majorem numerum acrarum vel sint vel sit majoris annui valoris quam in his praesentibus vel alio scripto sive particulari inde mentionatur aut aliquo alio statuto ordinatione provisione aut restrictione in contrarium inde in aliquo non obstante Eò quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine praemissorum vel eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos sive aliquem progenitorum sive praedecessorum nostrorum praefato Johanni Comiti de Peterborow ante haec tempora facta in praesentibus minime factis existit aut in aliquo Statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione Proclamatione sive Restrictione in contrarium inde antehac habitis factis ordinatis sive provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quinto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri quintodecimo Per Breve de privato sigillo Wolesley The Patent of Lord Lieutenant of Northampton-shire to John Earl
Garrison and Interests you may find it necessary to resort in person to our Royal Presence either to inform us of the Grounds and Probabilities of further Designs to the good and advancement of our Dominions there and to take our Commands and Directions thereupon or to solicit and procure such other supplies and necessaries as the occasion and subsistence of our said City and Garrison shall require We do enable you by our license which by these presents we do grant unto you to repair unto us when you shall see convenient leaving behind you to govern in your absence a Deputy fit for that place or such a one as before your departure from hence or hereafter we shall signifie and direct unto you IX If which we cannot expect any accident should intervene whereby he City of Tangier should fail to be delivered to you you are then to return home with the Forces under your command if by joint advice after meeting with the Earl of Sandwich you shall not agree upon some further design for our service Charta Regis Caroli Secundi Potestatem Concedendi Bellum faciendi vel Pacem cum Regibus vel Principibus Africae CArolus Secundus Dei gratia magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus singulis ad quos hae litterae pervenerint salutem Cum indole naturae atque instituto regiminis omnes homines prae caeteris Principes ad pacem concordiam inter dissitas nationes conciliandam ac fovendam animos studiaque sua applicare debeant non solum quia talis humani generis consensus ad univerlam incolumitatem Commercii incrementum navigandi securitatem quam maxime facit sed etiam quia Dei Optimi Maximi gloria ex hujusmodi mediis mirifice crescit dilatatur Nos satis conscii regiam Celsitudinem ad tales curas praecipue destinatam ac constitutam esse nec minus pro nostra statione commode ut putamus ad illiusmodi fines promovendos id unice operam dare atque eo contendere decrevimus ut longinquae terrae atque adeo universus orbis si fieri possit cum nostra Britannia manus animos sinceros amplexus conjungat Sciatis igitur quod nos probitate ac fide nobilissimi Viri perquam fidelis praedilecti consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Civitatis nostrae Tingitanae in Africa omniumque circumcirca regionum portuum littorum pagorum Capitanei-Generalis Praefecti nec non in iisdem oris ac littoribus Vice-admirali nostri confidentes eundem Henricum Comitem de Peterborow nostrum verum indubitatum Plenipotentiarium constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes constituimus ordinamus Dante 's eidem virtute praesentium facultatem authoritatem mandatum generale ac speciale per se per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos cum quolibet Rege Principe Dynasta Civitate vel Statu in Regnis de Sus Fez Morocco vel qualibet alia per Africam ditione supremam aut sufficientem potestatem habente pacem vel inducias prout quandocunque quotiescunque ipse dictus Comes è re nostra esse judicaverit faciendi amicitiamque vel antiquam renovandi vel novam ineundi pro nostrorum Regnorum Subditorum Mercatorum bono commercio commodo atque de super quibuscunque articulis capitulis causis conditionibus pacis amicitiae faederis commerciorum restauratione aut stabilimento cum dictis Regibus Principibus Dynastis Civitatibus aut Statibus vel quibuslibet eorum respective sub modis formis provisionibus cautionibus securitatibus quas ad formam stabilem Conventorum observationem necessarias aut idoneas putaverit atque de aliis ad veram sinceram pacificationem amicitiam mercutaraeque exercitationem spectantibus hinc inde conciliandi tractandi concordandi paciscendi conveniendi finaliter concludendi Denique omnia alia nostro nomine gerendi exercendi firmandi quae ad servitium nostrum spectant opportuna salubria videbuntur Promittentes bona fide in Verbo Regio quicquid per dictum nostrum Capitaneum Generalem Plenipotentiarium Henricum Comitem de Peterborow vel per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos legittime constitutos actum gestum conventum conclusum fuerit nos ratum gratum ac acceptum habituros neque contra ipsorum aliquae vel aliquid contraventuros imo ipsa defensuros inviolabiliter observaturos atque observari curaturos facturos In quorum Testimonium literas hasce scribi manu nostra propria signatas regni nostri Angliae sigilli majoris additione communiri volumus Quae dabantur in Palatio nostro Westmonasteriensi vicesimo primo die Novembris Anno Domini milesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo primo Signat CAROLUS R. His Majesty's Warrant for Two thousand Pounds as a free Gift to the Earl of Peterborow CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer now and for the time being greeting Whereas by our Letters of Privy Seal bearing date the Thirteenth of September last past we gave order for payment of Three thousand eight hundred Pounds Sterling unto our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin the Earl of Peterborow our Govenor of Tangier by way of Inprest as his own pay and for raising of One hundred Horses and Fifteen hundred Foot for our Service in Tangier aforesaid Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby require and authorize you to allow Two thousand Pounds of the said Three thousand eight hundred Pounds as a free Gift from us unto the said Earl of Peterborow in consideration of the great expence he was at in Preparatives and personal Provisions for our Service in that expedition to be passed to him without accompt and his own pay to continue and go on notwithstanding our said Privy Seal of the Thirteenth of September last and to be accompted and allowed unto him from the term and according to the tenor of the Establishment for our said Garrison of Tangier and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace at Westminster the Fifteenth Day of February in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow THE Wind coming contrary you will have prevented that Perplexity which otherwise I judge ye would have been in by the mistake of Secretary Maurice his Letter the King's Direction to him was To send to you to Sail to Tangier when you had a Thousand Men which he by mistake wrote Lisbon The King hath ordered Secretary Nicholas to write to you and to certifie that mistake to which I refer you Order was given on Saturday last to quicken down the rest of the Merchant-Ships which I
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms
of Peterborow CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow greeting Know ye that we for the great and singular Trust and Confidence we have in your approved Wisdom Fidelity and Circumspection have assigned made constituted and ordained and by these Presents do constitute assign make and ordain you to be our Lieutenant within our County of Northampton and in all Corporate and Priviledged places within the Precinct and Limits of the same County as well within the Liberties as without And do by these Presents give full Power and Authority unto you that you from time to time may levy gather and call together all and singular our Subjects of whatsoever State and Degree or Dignity they or any of them be dwelling or inhabiting within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits or precincts of the same County or any of them as well within Liberties as without meet and apt for the Wars and them and every of them to try array and put in Readiness and them also and every of them after their Abilities Degrees and Faculties well and sufficiently to cause to be armed and weaponed and to take the Musters of them in places most meet for that purpose after your good discretion And also the same our Subjects so arrayed tryed and armed as well Men of Armes as other Horsemen Archers and Footmen of all kinds and degrees meet and apt for the Wars to conduct and lead as well against all and singular our Enemies as also against all and singular Rebels Traytors and other like Offenders and every of them their and every of their Adherents against us our Crown and Dignity within our said County and all corporated and priviledged places within the Limits or Precincts of the said County and every of them as well within Liberties as without from time to time as often as need shall require by your discretion And with the said Enemies Traytors and Rebels to fight and them to invade resist repress subdue slay kill and put to execution of death by all ways and means by your said good discretion And to do fulfil and execute all and singular other things which shall be requisite for the Levying and Government of our said Subjects for the Conservation of our Person and Peace so by you in form aforesaid levyed and to be levyed and to do execute and use against the said Enemies and Rebels Traytors and such other like Offenders and their Adherents as necessity shall require by your discretion the Law called the Martial Law according to the Law Martial and of such Offenders apprehended or being brought into subjection to save whom you shall think good to be saved and to slay destroy and to put to Execution of Death such and so many of them as you shall think meet by your good discretion to be put to Death And further our will and pleasure is and by these Presents we do give unto you full power and lawful authority that in case any Invasion of Enemies Insurrection Rebellion Riots Routs unlawful Assemblies or any like offences shall happen to be moved in any place of this our Realm out of the limits of this our Commission that then as often as need shall require by your good Discretion or as you shall be directed from us by any special Commandment you with such power to be levyed within the limits of your Lieutenancy as you shall think requisite or as shall be directed from us as is aforesaid shall with all diligence repair to the place where any such Invasion unlawful Assembly or Insurrection shall happen to be made to subdue repress and reform the same as well by Battel and other kind of force as otherwise by the Laws of our Realm and the Law Martial according to your discretion And further we give unto you full power and authority for the Execution of this our Commission to appoint and assign in this our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places aforesaid as well within Liberties as without Muster-masters and one Provost Martial which Provost Martial shall execute and use the Martial Law in case of any Invasion Insurrection or Rebellion in conducting any number of Men of War against the said Invaders Traytors or Rebels during the continuance of such Invasion Insurrection or Rebellion Wherefore we will and command you our said Lieutenant That with all diligence you do execute the Premises with effect And for a smuch as it may be there shall be just cause for you to be attendant on our Person or to be otherwise imployed in our Service whereby this our Service of Lieutenancy committed to your Fidelity cannot be by you in person executed in such sort as we have appointed the same Therefore we give unto you for your better aid and assistance and for the better performance and execution of this same our Service full power and authority from time to time to appoint assign and constitute by writing under your Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as you in your discretion shall from time to time think fit to be your Deputies in this our said Service in our said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And by this our present Commission We give unto such Deputies so to be by you assigned and appointed as aforesaid or to any two or more of them full power and authority in your absence to do and execute in our said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without all and every thing and things before in this our Commission assigned and appointed by you to be done and executed And our will pleasure and commandment is That your said Deputies so by you from time to time to be appointed shall immediately after your Letters of Deputation to them made as is aforesaid take care and charge to see every point of this our Commission as fully and perfectly executed in your absence as you your self ought to have done if you had been personally present And the better to enable them so to do our will and pleasure is That immediately after such Deputation to them made as aforesaid you shall deliver to them a Duplicate or true Transcript of this our Commission subscribed with your Hand And whatsoever you being present or in your absence your said Deputies or any two or more of them shall do by vertue of this our Commisson and according to the Tenor and Effect of the same touching the execution of the Premises or any part thereof the same shall be by these Presents discharged in that behalf against us our Heirs and Successors And further we will and