Richard Earle of Arundell being returned out of exile with Henry of Bullingbruke Duke of Hereford and Lancaster and after King of England by the name of Henry the fourth was againe Chancellor and continued therein about two yeares being removed from that place about September in Anno 11 of Henry the fourth being in Anno dom 1410. Thomas Beauford Knight the sonne of John of Gaunt sonne to King Edward the third and brother to King Henry the fourth was made Lord Chancellor in Anno 11 of the said King being in Anno dom 1410 in which office hee remained not full three yeares but left the same office and was created Earle of Dorcet and lastly Duke of Exceter John Wakering Clerke Master of the Rolles was made keeper of the great Seale when Thomas Beauford left the office of Chancellor which Seale hee kept about the space of a Moneth for in January after that he had received the Seale there was a Chancellor created Thomas Fitzallen or Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury was the fourth time invested with the Chancellorship in Anno dom 1412. being in Anno 13. of Henry the fourth in which office he continued during the life of the said King who dyed in the fourteenth yeare of his Raigne and in Anno dom 1413. Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester and after Cardinall in the time of Henry the sixt being Vnckle to King Henry the fift then reigning was the second time made Chancellor in Anno dom 1413. being in Anno 5 of Henry the fift in which place he remained untill the fift yeare of the reigne of the said King being in the yeare of our Lord 1417. Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham was the second time made Lord Chancellor of England in the said yeare of our Lord 1417 being the 5 yeare of that worthy Conqueror King Henry the 5 Which office hee received at Southwicke and continued in that honor as farre as I can learne by the space of six yeares or more whereof five yeares were fully ended in the life and death of the said Henry the 5 and the sixt yeare ended in the last of the first or beginning of the second yeare of King Henry the 6. Henry Beauford Bishop of Winchester before named was the third time made Lord Chancellor of England in the second yeare of the raigne of King Henry the sixt being about Anno dom 1423 or 1424 for the second yeare of that King fell partly in the one and partly in the other of the said yeares of our Lord. In which office he continued about the space of foure yeares untill he was made Cardinall in Anno dom 1426. John Kemp Bishop of London was made Lord Chancellor of England in the fourth yeare of that King Henry who in his youngest yeares was crowned first King of England and then King of France in Paris in which office he remained as I suppose about six yeares John Stafford Deane of Saint Martin and of Wels Prebend of Milton in Lincolne Church Bishop of Bath and Wells Lord Chancellor and Treasurer of England and Bishop of Canterbury was made Lord Treasurer of England in the moneth of February in Anno dom 1431 falling in the tenth yeare of King Henry the sixt he remained in that office untill John Kempe was againe made Lord Chancellor which was about Anno 6 of Henry the sixt And here I thinke it not unmeet to remember that some have noted William Wanfleet that was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of Oxford to be Chancellor of England when he built Magdalen Colledge in Oxford in Anno 25 Henry the sixt which possibly cannot be sith this Iohn Stafford held that office from the tenth of Henry the sixt untill the eight and twentieth of the same King which was eighteene yeares during which time they place this Wanfleet to be Chancellor of England which error I suppose they have committed in that they finding him Chancellor at the time of the building of his Colledge in the said 25 yeare of King Henry the sixt have taken him to be Chancellor of England when he was then but Chancellor of Oxford although indeed afterward he was Chancellor of England in Anno 35 of the said King as after shall appeare John Kempe Bishop of Yorke and Cardinall was the second time made Lord Chancellor in the 28 yeare of King Henry the sixt being in Anno dom 1450 in which office he dyed being Bishop of Canterbury in Anno do as saith Matthew Parker 1453 being the 32 yeare of the raigne of King Henry the sixt This man was first Bishop of Rochester next of Chichester thirdly of London then of Yorke where he sate sate 28 yeares and lastly he was Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinall by the title of Saint Rufind which preferments are breifly expressed in this verse Bis primas ter praeses bis Cardine Functus Richard Nevill Earle of Salisbury the son to Raphe Nevill Earle of Westmerland and father to the valiant Richard Nevill Earle of Warwicke was after the death of Iohn Kempe by Parliament made Lord Chancellor in the 32 yeare of King Henry the sixt though others make it to be in the 33 yeare of the same King In which place hee continued not long for in the yeare following another was substituted and he remooved Thomas Bourchier brother to Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex Bishop of Elie and Bishop of Canterbury was made Chancellor in Anno 33 Henry 6 in which he remained much about 2 yeares in whose time as saith Matthew Parker about Anno dom 1461 was the Art of Printing invented at the Citty of Argentorat in Germany About which matter and especially for the exact and certaine time thereof many writers although their count about one time doe disagree yet at the inventing of that worthy thing were these verses composed in commendation of the same most excellent Art O faelix nostris memoranda impressio tectis Inventore nitet utraque lingua tuo Desierat quasi totum quod fundis in orbe Nunc parvo doctus quilibet esse potest Omnes Nunc homines igitur te laudibus ornent Te duce quando ars haec mira reperta fuit William Patan or Paten borne of a Gentlemanly Family being commonly called William Wanfleet of the place of his birth and being provost of Eaton and Bishop of Winchester was Lord Chancellor in Annis 35 36 37 of the unfortunate King Henry the sixt as have the Records of the Exchequor By which appeareth the error of those as I have before noted that mistaking the 25. of King Henry the sixt in which time hee was but Chancellor of Oxford for the 35. of the said King in which hee was Chancellor of England George Nevill the sonne of Richard Nevill Earle of Salisbury and brother to Richard Nevill Earle of Warwicke being made Bishop of Excester came to that See in Anno dom 1455. in which See he continued tenne yeares and was removed to Yorke in Anno dom 1465 hee was
made Lord Chancellor in the 38. yeare of the raigne of the deposed King Henry the sixt in which office hee remained about 8. yeares and then was remooved in the seventh yeare of King Edward the fourth being in Anno dom 1467 He was a great friend to S. Albons and procured Edward the fourth in the fourth yeare of his raigne to give and confirme to John Whethamstead Abbat of Saint Albons the Priory of Pembrooke This Bishop Nevill did after in the 13 yeare of King Edward the fourth grow in such disgrace with the King that he was spoyled at one time of twenty thousand Pounds Robert Kirkham Master of the Rolles was made Lord Keeper of the great Seale upon the removing of George Nevill in the month of July in the yeare of Christ 1467 being the seventh yeare of King Edward the fourth Robert Stillington Doctour of the Lawes Keeper of the privy Seale in Anno 3 Edward the fourth Bishop of Bath and Wels being made Chancellor in the seaventh yeare of King Edward the fourth did still so continue untill Anno 13 of the said King Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex and first advanced to that title of honour by King Edward the fourth came in place of the last Chancellor about the 13 yeare of Edward the 4 in which place he remained not much more then one Trinity tearme for in the said 13 yeare about the Moneth of August was Bishop Booth Lord Chancellor of England Lawrence Booth sometime Master of Pembrooke Hall Bishop of Durham and after of Yorke was made Lord Chancellor about August or rather before betweene that and Trinity tearme after Henry Bourchier in the said 13 yeare of King Edward the 4 after his redemption of the Kingdome of England This Bishop being brother to William Booth sometime Bishop of Yorke did build the Bishop of Yorke his house at Battersey which Mannor he before bought of Nicholas Stanley whom Leland the minser and refiner of all English names doth most curiously in Latine call Nicholaum Stenelegium Hee continued in the See of Yorke three yeares and nine moneths and died at Sowthwell in Anno dom 1480 being in Anno 20 Edward 4. Thomas Scot surnamed Rotheram because of the Towne of Rotheram in Yorkeshire where he was borne and bred up was Bishop of Rochester and then of Lincolne where he sat nine yeares and after that was Bishop of Yorke whereunto he was installed first at Yorke then at Ripon being Provost of Beverley he was made Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1474 being in Anno 14 Edward 4. This Bishop in Anno 15 of the said King went over the Sea with the said Edward 4 when he went to have an interveiw with the French King of which meeting Monsieue de Argentine by name Philip Comineus besides our English Chronicles doth make mention as a person that bare a part in that Solemnity John Alcot Bishop of Rochester was made Chancellor during the absence of King Edward Thomas Rotheram being before Lord Keeper of the Privy Seale was after his returne out of France the second time made Lord Chancellor about the time in which the said King had gotten Berwicke from the Scots about Anno 20 Edward 4 For the free gaining of the Towne was not so much before his death In which Office this Rotheram continued all the life of King Edward the 4 and in the time of the Reigne of the guiltlesse murthered young Prince King Edward the 5 untill it was ascribed to him for over much lightnesse that he had delivered in the beginning of the rebellious government of the protectorship of the bloody and unnaturall Richard Duke of Gloucester the Seale to the Queene to whom it did not appertaine and from whom he received it not Hee founded a Colledge at Rotheram dedicated it to the name of Iesus and endowed it with great possessions and ornaments and annexed thereto the Churches of Langhton and Almanbury John Russell Bishop of Lincolne a grave and learned man had the Seale delivered to him by the saide Protectour of England during the time of the short Raigne of the yong King Edward when the same Seale was taken from Rotheram and so this Russell was made Chancellor in the moneth of June in Anno dom 1483 being the first yeare of King Richard the third This Russell is buryed in the Church of Lincolne in a Chapell cast out of the upper wall of the South part of the Church Thomas Barow Master of the Rolls was made Keeper of the great Seale which I suppose was in the third and last yeare of the said King Richard the third for in that yeare he was Master of the Rolles Thomas Rotheram made againe Lord Chancellor in the first entrance of King Henry the seaventh into the governement but very shortly after he was displaced and the Bishop of Worcester placed in that roome he was Archbishop of Yorke 19 yeares and ten moneths he was very beneficiall to all his kindred and advanced some with marriages some with possessions and some with spirituall livings He dyed the 29 day of December in Anno dom 1500 being the 16 yeare of King Henry the eight at Cawood in Yorkeshire the morrow after the Ascension being of the age of threescore and sixteene yeares or more He was buried in Yorke Minster on the North side in our Lady Chapell in a tombe of Marble which hee caused to be made whilest he was living John Alcot Bishop of Worcester made in Anno dom 1476 was Lord Chancellor of England in Anno 1 Henry 7 being in Anno dom 1485 shortly after the entrance of the said Henry into the governement of England for though Rotheram were Chancellor when he got the victory for that he had beene so before and for that the King was neither provided nor minded sodainely to have a man not meet for that place to execute the same yet this Bishop Rotheram kept not that roome many months but that Bishop Alcot came in place because the King found Bishop Alcot a meeter person to execute the same office answerable to the disposition of the Kings humour All which notwithstanding whether for malice of others or for his owne deserts or both or for the more speciall trust that the King put in Doctour Moorton Bishop of Elie who had beene the meanes to bring him to the Crowne this Bishop Alcot fell shortly in the Kings disgrace was displaced of his Office and Doctour Moorton came in his roome So that in this first yeare of King Henry the seaventh there seemed to be three Chancellors in succession one after another All which before Moorton in this first yeare of King Henry the seaventh may perhaps more properly be termed Keepers of the great Seale then Chancellors Iohn Moorton Doctor of the Civill Law an Advocate in the Civill Courts and of the Counsell of Henry the sixt and to Edward the fourth to whom also he was Master of the Rolles was made Bishop of Elie in Anno Dom. 1478 and
Lord Chancellor of England at his returne from beyond the Seas in the first yeare of King Henry the seventh being in Anno Dom. 1485 after which he was advanced to the Arch-bishopricke of Canterbury he dyed in Anno Dom. 1499 in Anno 15 of Henry the seaventh as hath Matthew Parker William Warham Advocate in the Arches Master of the Rolles Bishop of London and then Archbishop of Canterbury was before his advancement to the See of Canterbury made Chancellor of England in the time of Henry the seaventh in which office he continued until about the latter end of the seaventh yeare of King Henry the Eight At what time surrendring the Seale by reason of his age and weakenesse the same was delivered to Thomas Woolsey Thomas Woolsey sometimes Chapleine to Henry Deane Archbishop of Canterbury after the Kings Almoner and Abbat of S. Austins who possessing many other Abbies and Bishoprickes was advanced to the government of the great Seale about the beginning of the 8 yeare of King Henry the eight being in Anno Dom. 1516 to hold the same during his life as I gather in which office yet he continued not above thirteene yeares untill Anno 21 of King Henry the 8 being in Anno Dom. 1529. During which time of his Chancellorship in Anno 19 of King Henry the eight being Anno Dom. 1527. he went into France representing the King of Englands Person to set order for the delivery of Pope Clement the seaventh and Francis the French King at what time he carried the great Seale over the Seas to Calis Which Seale hee left with Doctor Taylor Master of the Rolles to keepe the same at Calis untill the Cardinalls returne out of the French Dominions He died in Leicester Abbey not without suspicion of poison as was thought which he had prepared for himselfe and given to his Apothecary to deliver when hee called for it the two and twentieth of King Henry the eight in Anno Dom. 1530. Thomas More Knight Chancellor of the Dutchie of Lancaster was advanced to the honour of Chancellorship of England in Anno Dom. 1529 being in Anno 21 of King Henry the eight In which office this rare witted Knight to use Erasmus his epitheton and learned Chancellor continued not ful three yeares but in Anno 24 of the said King with much labour and earnest suit he left his office Touching which it will not be impertinent to set downe the words of Matthew Parker in the lives of the Bishops of Canterbury in the life of Thomas Cranmer writing after this manner Interearex dum Papae meditabatur excidium singulorum de papali authoritate sensus iudiciis haud obscuris collegit Inter quos Thomas Morus quia regis conatus pontificiis valde suspectus fuit Cancellarii munere venia regis aegre impetrata sese abdicavit Thomas Audeley Atturney of the Dutchie of Lancaster Serjant at the law as most affirme and speaker of the Parliament was made Knight and Keeper of the great Seale the fourth of June in Anno 24 of the raigne of King Henry the eight in Anno dom 1â—32 not long after which he was made Lord Chancellor of England This man in the tenth yeare of his Chancellorship being in Anno dom 1542 and Anno 35 Henry 8 changing the name of Buckingham Colledge in Cambridge did name it the Colledge of S. Mary Magdalen and endowed it with some possessions He dyed on May Eeve in Anno dom 1544 being in Anno 35 Henry 8. Thomas Wriothesly Knight of the Garter Sonne to William Wriothesly Yorke Herald and Grand-childe to John Wriothesly Garter King of Armes being created Baron at Hampton Court on the first day of Ianuary in the 35 yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the eight in Anno dom 1543. was after advanced to the honour of the great seale and Chancellorship of England about the beginning of May in Anno 36 Henry 8 being in Anno dom 1544 in which office hee did continue untill the death of the said King Henry the eight And in the beginning of the raigne of King Edward the sixt he was the sixt of March remooved and the seale was delivered to William Paulet Lord S. John of Basing This Thomas Lord Wriothesly being created Earle of Southampton by King Edward the sixt died at his house of Lincolne place in Holborne the 30 of Iuly in the 4 yeare of the said King Edward in the yeare 1550 and was buried at S. Andrewes in Holborne William Paulet Knight being first Steward of the lands of the Bishopricke of Winchester then Treasurer of the houshold Lord Sent-John of Basing Lord great Master of the Kings house afterwards Earle of Wiltshire Marquesse of Winchester and Treasurer of England being of the Privie Councell to King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt Queen Mary and Queene Elizabeth had the keeping of the great seale committed unto him the seaventh day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1547 being the first yeare of the raigne of the young King Edward the sixt which seale he had in Custody about seaven moneths untill the 23 or 24 of October following at what time Sr. Richard Rich was made Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Rich Knight A Gentleman well descended and alyed in Hampshire created Lord Rich was advanced to the dignity of Lord Chancellor of England about the 23 of October in Anno dom 1547 being the first yeare of the raigne of the noble King Edward the sixt in which place he remained about five yeares Thomas Goodericke or Godericke being Bishop of Elie had the great Seale delivered unto him and was made Lord Chancellor of England the 20 of December as John Stow hath noted in his Chronicle in Anno dom 1551 being Anno 5 Edward 6 in which office he continued all the life of the said King Edward who died in Iuly Anno dom 1553 being the seaventh yeare of his raigne and about one moneth after untill the 13 or 14 day of August in which Queene Mary made Stephen Gardiner her Chancellor Sir Nicholas Hare Master of the Rolles had at the comming of Queene Mary to the Crowne the great Seale after the death of King Edward as Lord Keeper by the space of a fortnight and shortly after was Stephen Gardiner made Chancellor Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester was in August in Anno dom 1553 being the first yeare of the raigne of Queene Mary made Chancellor of England This man going in ambassage unto Calis left the great seale in the custody of William Paulet Marquesse of Winchester which Bishop after his returne into England continued in that office all the time of his life which he ended the 19 of November in Anno dom 1555 being the third yeare of Queene Mary After which the great seale lying in her Majesties custody shee on the New-yeares day following made a new Chancellor Nicholas Heath Bishop of Rochester Almoner to the King Ambassador into Germany Bishop of Worcester President of Wales and Archbishop of
Michael de Worth Ianuary 20. 11. Ed. 3. Iohn de Saint Paul Aprill 28. 14. Ed. 3. Thomas de Evesham Tuesday after the feast of Circumcision 36. Ed. 3. David de Wollere 45. Ed. 3. William Burstall Iuly 22. ◠Rich. 2. Iohn de Waltham Clerke after Bishop of Salisbury 8. Ri. 2. Iohannes de Burton Clerke Octo. 24 1. Ri. 2. Thomas Stanley Clerke 3. Ri. 2. Iohn Scarle or Serle after keeper of the great Seale ◠Hen. 4. Nicholas Bubwith Septem 24. 6. Hen. 4. Iohannes Wakering Clerke after keeper of the great Seale 3. Hen. 5 Simon Garnastead Clerke Iune 3. 2. Hen. 6 Iohannes Franke Clerke October 18 17. Hen. 6 Iohannes Stopinden Clerke Nov. 13 25. Hen. 6 Thomas Kirkby had the Reversion March 29 he was in 28 and 33 H. 6. 1. Ed. 4. Robert de Kirkham Clerk December 23 after Lord Chancellor 49. Hen. 6 William Morland Clerke Februa 22. 1. Ed. 14 Iohn Alcocke Deane of the free Chappell at S. Stevens in Westminster Aprill 29 after Lord Chancellor 12. Ed. 4. Iohn Morton Clerke Doctor of Law March 16 made Bishop of Ely 18 of Edward 4 Ianuary 4 after Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury 18. Ed. 4 Robert Morton Clerke 7. Hen. 7 William Kliot Iohn Blithe Clerke Thomas Barow Doctor of Law after keeper of the great Seale as some have it 9 Hen. 7 William Warham Clerke after Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury 17 Hen. 7 William Barow Doctor of Law mentioned in the Glasse window in the Chappell of the Rolles 1503. 20 Hen. 7 Christopher Beinbrig Clerke No 15 1 Hen. 8. Iohn young Clerke Ianuary 12. 8 Hen. 8. Cuthbert Tunstall Clerke after Bishop of Duresme March 12 14 Hen. 8 Iohn Clerke Clerke October 20 15 Hen. 8 Thomas Hanniball Clerke Octo. 19 19 Hen. 8 Iohn Taylor Clerke October 19. 26 Hen. 8 Thomas Cromwell Esquire after created Earle of Essex c. October 6 28 Hen. 8 Christopher Hales Esquire after Knighted Iune 10 33 Hen. 8 Robert Suthwell Esquire Iuly 1 4 Edw. 6 Iohn Beaumont Esquire Decem. 13. 6. Edw. 6 Robert Bowes Knight Iune 16. 1 M. Q. Nicholas Hare Knight September 18 keeper of the great Seale 4 5 Phi. M. 23 Eli. Q. William Cordell Knight Novem. 5 Gilbert Gerard Knight Thomas Egerton Knight after keeper of the great Seale and Lord Chancellor Edward Bruce Lord Kinlosse Thomas Phillips Knight Serjant at Law Iulius Caesar Knight Chancellor of the Kings Exchecker which place he left when he was Master of the Rolles Dudley Digges of Chilham Castle in the County of Kent Knight 1636. FINIS Honoratissimo Reverendissimo Dom. in Christo Patri Dr. Guilielmo Iuxon Speciali Dietatis providentia Praesuli Londinensi Totius Angliae Archithesaurario Et è Secretioribus regiis Arcanis Conciliario Pientissimo virtutis Assertori strenuo politioris literaturae vindici Religionis syncerae propugnatori Acerrimo Ioh. Philipot Fecialis Regius a Provincia Sommerset tensi Denominatus Dignitatis vestrae cultor humilimus Hanc Thesurariorum Seriem DICIT DEDICAT CONSECRAT A CATALOGVE OF THE LORD TREASVRERS OF ENGLAND DVnstane Archbishop of Canterbury was Treasurer to Eadred or Eldred King of England who began his raigne in the yeare nine hundred forty and sixe of whom thus writeth Matt. Parker in his booke of the Archbishops of Canterbury in the life of Odo Severus the two and twentieth Bishop of that see Edmundo the King of England defuncto Eadredus corona regia ab Odone redimitus rem publicam administrans Dunstanum ut in ejus vita patebit tam singulari amore prosequutus est ut omnes regni thesauros illius custodiae commendaret This man was canonized a Saint and the Goldsmiths of London are incorporated into the Society and fellwoship of Saint Dunstan Hugolme was Treasurer and Chamberlaine to Edward the Confessor hee gave Deane and South-bright to Westminster which Edward the Confessor did afterward confirme to that house Odo halfe brother to William the Conqueror Earle of Kent Bishop of Baieux and chiefe Iustice of England was Treasurer in the time of the Conqueror who had at his death as saith Anonymus M. S. Sixtie Thousand Pounds Excepto auro gemmis vasis Palijs Geofry Clinton Treasurer and Chamberline to Henry the first Hee about the thirteenth yeare of Henry the first in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand one Hundred and Twelve did found the Priory of Kenelworth and was after accused of treason in the one and thirtieth yeare of the raigne of the said Henry the first but as it seemed restored in short time after to the Kings favour Ranulph Bishop of Durham was Treasurer to the King whom Florensius Wygorniensis calleth Praecipuum Regis placitatorem Regni exactorem whose last word Exactor some men doe english Treasurer Of this man is more said in the Chancellors of England Roger Bishop of Sarisbury Treasurer and Chanceller of England as appeareth by Leland writing in this sort Roger Bishop of Sarum Treasurer and Chanceller to Henry the first made the Castle of Vies such a costly and so strong a fort as was never before nor since set up by any Bishop of England The Keepe or Dungeon of it set upon a hill cast by hand is a peece of worke of incredible cost Besides which to prove the same Roger Treasurer at the later end of the Raigne of Henry the first together with William de Pontlearch at the entring of King Stephen into England Thus writeth one Anonymall chronicle M. S. Stephanus cum intravit Angliam Rogerum Sarisburiensem Willielmum de Pontlearijs Custodes Thesaurorum ad se traduxit Which William de Pontlearch was a witnesse with William Stigill to a certaine Charter which Ranulph Bishop of Durham made to the Monkes of Durham commonly called S. Cuthberts Monkes wherein he confirmed to them Blakestone Standropp and Sandropshire with the wood of Henworth on the East part of Mareburne as farre as it goeth to the Sea This Roger Bishop of Salisbury died in the yeere of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirtie and Nine being about the fourth yeare of King Stephen of whom mention is made in the Chancellers of England Nigellus the second Bishop of Elye Nephew to Roger Bishop of Sarum and Treasurer to Henry the first was advanced unto that Bishoppricke of Elie in the yeere of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirtie and Three the first Calends of Iune being the Three and Thirtieth yeere of the raigne of Henry the first at whose going downe to be installed in the said Bishopricke hee was received with such joy that all the whole street of Ely through which hee should passe was hanged with curtaines and carpets with seates set on each side and the Monkes Cannons and Clerkes meeting him with procession with
of Elie. William Grey Bishop of Elie was after the translation of Thomas Bourchier from Elie to Canterbury advanced to that See by Nicholas the fifth then Bishop of Rome who gave it to the said Bishop being then procurator too for King Henry the 6. at Rome in the yeare of our redemption 1454. This man was Lord Treasurer in the ninth yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1469. in which office he continued untill the 11. yeare of Edward the fourth or thereabouts This Greie was borne of the noble house of the Lord Greyes of Codnor as saith Bale and travelled into Italie to attaine great learning where he heard the noble Clerke Guarinus Veronensis reade in Ferraria Hee continued Bishop of Elie 24. yeares 11. Moneths and two daies departing this life at Durham the fourth of August in An. Dom. 1478. as I have read and was buried at Elie betweene two Marble pillars having bestowed great sommes of money upon the reparations of that famous Belfrie of the Church of Elie and upon other ornaments of the same Church Henry Bourchier Earle of Essxe did the third time possesse the honorable place of the Lord Treasurership of England in the 11. yeare of Edward the fourth in which office hee continued as I gather 12. yeares being all the residue of the life of Edward the fourth who departed this world about the ninth day of Aprill in An. Dom. 1483. which Bourchier being made Earle of Essex in the first yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1461. married Elizabeth daughter of Richard de Conisburge Earle of Cambridge the sister of Richard Duke of Yorke by whom hee had yssue William Lord Bourchier Thomas Iohn Henry and Humphery Knights Sir Richard Wood Knight whom some call Sir Iohn Wood being before under Treasurer in the 23. yeare of Edward the fourth was in the same yeare made Knight about a Moneth before the death of the said King Edward the fourth This man did possesse the place of the Lord Treasurer of England as I gather out of the record of Pellis exitus of that yeare in the second yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the third being the yeare of our redemption 1484. which office I suppose that hee kept untill the said Richard the third was slayne by Henry Earle of Richmond afterward King of England by the name of Henry the Seventh Sir Reignold Brey Knight the sonne of Richard Brey Physician as some have noted to King Henry the sixt being servant to Margret Countesse of Richmond mother to Henry the seventh was for the fidelity of his Lady and good service in furthering King Henry the 7. to the Crowne received into great favour with the said King and made Lord Treasurer of England as appeareth by the record of Pellis exitus made under his name in the first yeare of Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1485. besides which Office hee had many other offices and honours part whereof were that he was Treasurer of the Kinges warres that he was one of the executors to King Henry the seventh that hee was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of the King and created a Banneret at Blacke-heath field Hee died in the 18. yeare of the prudent Prince King Henry the seventh being in An. Dom. 1503. and was honorably buried at Windsor Sir Iohn Dinham Kinght the son of Sir Dinham Knight a faithfull servant to the house of Yorke aswell in ayding the Duke of Yorke to whom Edward the fourth sonne to the said Duke of Yorke in the second yeare of his raigne had given one Annuity of 30. pound per Annum did after the death of the said Edward the fourth in the second yeare of Henry the seventh possesse the place of Lord Treasurer of England in An. Dom. 1486. and so continued vntill in An. 16. Henry the seventh and then gave place to Thomas Earle of Surrey Of which Lord Dinham thus writeth Leland Dominus Dinham primus fuit fundator sancti Nicholas alias Hortland He was created Lord Dinham in the first yeare of Edward the 4. shortly after the Coronation of the said King in An. Dom. 1461. He dyed in Anno 16. of the same King Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1500. and the 30. day of Ianuary was brought to the Gray Fryers in London and there buried He married Elizabeth daughter of the Lord Fitzwater by whom he had yssue George and Phillip and Sir Thomas Dinham his base sonne that married one of the daughters and heires of Sir Iohn Ormond Which Thomas was buried at Ashring Three miles from Berkhamsted besides which children this Lord Dinham or Denham for so I finde both written in Chronicles had by his legitimate wife divers daughters which were Margaret married to Nicholas Baron of Carew Ioane married to the Lord Zouch Elizabeth married to the Lord Fitz Warren and Katherine married to Sir Thomas Arundell of Cornewall Knight Here I thinke it not amisse to say somewhat of a note which I have seene that maketh Iohn Touchet Lord Audley Treasurer of England which note is this Iohn Touchet Lord Audley Treasurer of England dyed the 26. day of December in An. Do. 1490. falling in the sixt yeare of Henry the seventh and had issue Iames Lord Audley beheaded the 28. of Iune in An. Dom. 1497. being the 12. yeare of Henry the seventh Thomas Howard the sonne of Iohn Lord Howard created the first Duke of Norfolke of that name in the time of Richard the Third was at the same time also created Earle of Surrey This man after the slaughter of his father at Bosworth field when the Tyrant Richard the third was slaine by Henry the seventh was after received into such favour with the said King Henry the seventh that hee was advanced to be Lord Treasurer of England in the 16. yeare of Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1500. Which place hee continued all the life of the said King Henry the seventh who died in the 24. yeare of his raigne being in An. Do. 1509. After which for the good service hee used in the time of King Henry the seventh King Henry the 8. permitted him to keepe that Office which he possessed untill the 15. yeare of King Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1523. This man was created Duke of Norfolke on Candlemas day in the fift yeare of Henry the 8. being in An. Dom. 1513. at what time also his sonne Thomas Howard was made Earle of Surrey This Duke was advanced to that honour in recompence of the death of the King of Scots and for the good service that hee did against that Nation in the said 5. yeare of Henry the 8. with an augmentation of his armes the Armes of Scotland in medio benda Armorum proprij Nominis of Howard Touching which victory of the death of the King of Scots Buchanan Lib. 13. writeth to this effect That the said Thomas Howard as a note of the conquest gave to his servants to weare on their left arme being