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
Father had his Wardship purchased by his Mother the Lady Elizabeth Vere of Edward the black Prince for the summe of twenty pounds who by his Charter which is extant did grant the custody of his Lands with his Marriage to his dear and well beloved Elizabeth that was the Wife of Robert de Vere those are the words of the Deed on condition it might be without disparagement There are remaining Covenants hereupon agreed unto between the said Robert and his Mother as also a Petition from the said Lady to Queen Isabel for her protection against Sir Henry Greene a man of great power by whom the Minor and her self were oppressed in some circumstances of the rights that did belong unto them When this Robert had attained to mans estate he confirmed to his Uncle's Wife the Lady Alice de Vere the agreement had been made with her by his Father He became afterwards much considered from his Vertue and noble qualities and in the eighteenth year of Richard the Second he served his Country in the Office of High Sheriff and did much adhere to the King in those difficulties which happened in his Reign Yet there fell out about this time a quarrel between him and a Knight of great Authority called Sir Edmund Noone on whom having made an assault wherein the said Edmund was wounded it caused him trouble for a time and an Imprisonment in the Fleet upon pretence of the Riot but the matter being composed by Friends he afterward recovered the King's grace and his liberty He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John de Tay of a noble Family and descended from antient Barons of that Name by whom having had but one Daughter called Margaret he gave her for Wife to Thomas Ashby Lord of Lovesby in the County of Leicester with his Lordships of Thrapston and Addington to them and the heirs of their bodies but it falling out that she dyed without Issue His Lands he had setled upon them returned to his Brother Baldwin and his heirs as being his lawful successors SIR BALDWIN de VERE being for many years a younger Brother appli'd himself to the Wars and a dependence upon great Princes for the support of his fortune We find him in the fourth year of King Henry the Fourth to have been Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey under that noble Prince Edward Earl of Rutland and of Corke and who was afterwards Duke of York He followed this illustrious Hero in all the succeeding Wars of that Age and fought by his side at the time he fell with so much glory in the famous Battel of Agencourt after whose death he had confirm'd unto him by King Henry the Fifth an annuity of twenty marks by the year that had been granted to him by that Duke for his life out of his inheritance in the Customs of Linnen Leather and Skins in the Port of Kingston upon Hull to be received at the hands of the Collectors thereof during the Minority of Richard the Son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge After this his fortune or rather his setled affection to the relations and interests of the House of York carried him into the Kingdom of Ireland where in the second year of King Henry the Sixth he was constituted Treasurer of his Liberties by the Lord Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster and at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which by his Letters Patents that are extant and other testimonies does appear After the death of the Earl of March and the return of Sir Baldwin Vere into England the fortunes of Love as well as those of Armes did contribute to the advantage and establishment of this worthy and industrious Knight for he fell into the favour of a young Lady the Daughter and heir of Sir John Kingston alias Mohun who brought him the Mannors of Barkloe Overhall and Hoakenhanger that were of her inheritance And in conclusion his Brothers Death without Issue male made him possession of the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and the other Lands belonging to that Family So as having no more to desire at the hands of fortune he departed this life full of years and happiness leaving Issue Sir Richard Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston Elizabeth Vere Amy Vere AFTER the decease of Sir Baldwin de Vere RICHARD his Son came to inherit the Estate and interests of that Family He met with some trouble in the beginning about this accession which came to his Father for want of Issue male from his Uncle Sir Robert de Vere who notwithstanding had made over the Lordships of Addington and Thrapston to certain Trustees for the security of the Portion promised to his Daughter Margaret that had been married to a Gentleman of consideration one Thomas Ashby of the County of Leicester And these Trustees happening to be men of the highest rank and of most power in the Kingdom as the Earls of Hereford and Stafford the Lord Beaumont the Lord Cromwel and the Lord Zouch and not a little partial to Thomas Ashby and his Wife Margaret it was no easy matter to procure a resignation of their interest But his Cousin Margaret coming to dye without Issue and having given testimony of her desire to have justice done unto her lawful successor those noble Lords were induced upon some fair agreement with Thomas Ashby to redemise to Richard de Vere the Mannor of Aldington and the other Lands wherein they had been formerly enfeoffed Soon after this Richard de Vere was setled in his fortune he contracted an alliance in the Family of Greene the most considerable among the Gentlemen of that tract by marrying Isabella one of the Daughters of John Greene who stiled himself Lord of Herdwick in the days of his Brother Ralph that was Lord of Drayton and from whose death without Issue male his descendants came to be possest of a great and noble Patrimony The great Lords of the Church being no easie neighbours in that age from their exceeding interest and authority and this Sir Richard de Vere being a man of a great spirit and of a Family unaccustomed to unreasonable submissions there arose a contest between him and the Lord Abbot of Croyland which made much noise about certain bordering pretences How it was ended does not appear but soon after this Sir Richard de Vere departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella Greene Sir Henry de Vere Baldwin Vere Constance Married to John Butler Lord of Woodhall Elizabeth Vere Married to William Dounhalle Margaret Vere Married to John Verners of Essex Amy Vere Married to John Ward of Irtlingborow Elena Vere Married to Thomas Isham of Pitchtsley HENRY the eldest Son of Sir Richard Vere with the Estate of his Father inherited the Suit and Difference with the Lord Abbot of Croyland and by his endeavours to defend his interests in that affair he incurr'd the displeasure of King Richard III. which was particularly testified in a Letter to himself and in some
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
finish in Writing the said Bargain And Smith by his Letter dated the fourteenth day of September sent Answer to John Mordaunt and disclosed upon what ground he had made such Agreement and Bargain to John Mordaunt and William and then disclosed his Bargain made to him by Sir John Turbervile which he had under his Sign Manual and his Seal and upon that in Michaelmas Term following Anno xviij o John Mordaunt and Smith ingrossed their Indenture and accomplished their Bargain and their Bargain was known and spoken of both in Court and other places also And the Kings Grace nothing said nor did nor shewed any thing to John Mordaunt till Hilary Term then next In Hilary Term Anno xviij o the King took displeasure with Mordaunt that he would intermeddle with the Lands and make not him privy thinking that John Smith at the Death of Turbervile had stood seized of the Lands to the use of Turbervile in Fee for lack of Issue Male of Latimer then living and said That Turbervile ought him great Money and that he would have the Reversion in recompence of his Money and willed John Mordaunt to forsake his Bargain which he would not do Wherefore the King was sore displeased with him and caused Smith to come by Privy Seal to make a Feoffment to the Kings use of the Lands which he would not but disclosed to the King all the Premisses that be here in Writing as he hath said and reported And the same Smith sometime threaten'd and sometime entreated gave Attendance upon the King till he agreed to make a Feoffment as the King would desire Whereupon a Deed was devised in Paper by which John Smith should Enfeoffe Lord Daubeny Master Lovell Master Bray and Master Seymore in Fee and Sir William Seymore would have had it to the Kings use whereto John Smith would not agree then it was drawn and no use expressed and at the desire of John Mordaunt the Copy was sent to William Mordaunt to see and he entertained To the same use that John Smith then was seized And with great difficulty the Deed was so made by Smith and sealed in Trinity Term Anno decimo octavo About Michaelmas Anno decimo nono Lord Aubeny and Master Lovell took a State by that Deed at that time Master Bray and Master Seymore being dead And thus it continued all the Life of John Mordaunt who died in September Anno vicesimo and all the Life of Sir Nicholas Latimer who died without Issue Male at Lent Anno vicesimo From the Death of Sir Nicholas by Colour of the said Feoffment and by Colour that the Kings Grace said Sir John Turbervile should owe him much Mony at his Decease without any Title and against Law and Conscience of his Royal Power the Kings Grace took the Profits of these Lands till Summer Anno vicesimo primo in Trinity Term. And because the Heir and William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne Executors to John Mordaunt were so far in Debt to the King and sued and on Exigent for the same were so troubled with the King and about the Testament of John Mordaunt that they minded not Latimers Lands to trouble the King nor them by Suit till they had somewhat pacified their other troubles And in Trinity Term Anno vicesimo primo the Lord Aubeny and others sued several Writs of Subpoena against the said Executors and Heir and against John Smith to have compelled them to deliver the Evidences upon Livery of which Writs upon Sute made to the King by the Executors the King Commanded them to sue to Dudley and though the Executors shewed the King that they had as good leave the Land for the hard dealing they knew of Dudley the King compelled them to sue to Dudley who Ordered them to pay the Kings Majesty and to pay two hundred pounds yearly or else they must have delivered the Evidences and abidden the Kings Displeasure as Dudley said and also must have Released and for Surety of Payment thereof there was Land recovered by my Lord of Winchester and Sir Robert Throgmorton and others named for the Heir of Mordaunt Of which Money the Executors paid to the King four hundred pounds whereby the Will of John Mordaunt is yet not performed whereof they are now to have Restitution and to be discharged of two hundred pounds more residue And that my Lord of Winchester and others may Release to the persons named in the Recoveries to the use of the Heir of Mordaunt according to Right and good Conscience And Dudley said expresly the Deed was to the Kings Use and the Executors fearing whether Smith had made any new Deed or not and also not knowing whether the Estate had been delivered by the Deed in which the use was express'd or not desired to see the Deed and he shewed it and thereby it appeared the use was to the same use as Smith was Enfeoffed and that notwithstanding by the Menaces and Craft of Dudley they were compelled to agree and indent to give the King c. The Report of Richard Eliott the Kings Serjeant at Law John Erneley the Kings Attorney and of John Porte the Kings Sollicitor upon the sight of the Evidence of Sir John Mordaunt for all such Mannors Lands and Tenements as were late Sir Nicholas Latimer's Knight FIrst It appears that Sir Nicholas Latimer Knight by his Deed Enfeoffed William Hardyng of the same Mannor above-written in Fee Dated decimo sexto die Januarii Anno Edwardi quarti decimo quarto Item After that by his Indenture bearing date the same Year and the seventeenth day of January rehearsing the said Feoffment The said William Harding granted that if the said Sir Nicholas within twelve Years then next following paid to the said William Hardyng one hundred and twenty pounds that then the said Sir Nicholas should have again the said Mannor to him and to his Heirs Item the Premisses notwithstanding The said Sir Nicholas by Indenture bargained and sold the said Mannor to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Edith his Wife Daughter of the said Sir Nicholas and to the Heirs of their Body begotten for lack of Issue Male of the Body of the said Sir Nicholas lawfully begotten c. Dated the second of Richard the Third Memorandum That Sir John Mordaunt after bargained with the same William Hardyng and Nicholas his Son for their Interest and Title that they had in the said Mannor of Devilish as by Indenture thereof made plainly may appear For the Mannors of Devilish For the Mannors of Duntish For the Mannors of Estpullham For the Mannors of Estoket First It appeareth that the said Sir Nicholas Latimer bargained and sold all these said Mannors above-written to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs for the sum of a thousand Marks upon Condition That if the said Sir Nicholas died without Heir Male of his Body lawfully begotten And upon the same Bargain it was Covenanted That John Smith should recover the said Mannors and Execute the Estates
according to the same Covenants to Sir Nicholas Latimer and to the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten with the remainder as is abovesaid Data Indentura Anno septimo Henrici Septimi Item It appeareth by Writing in Paper Sealed and Subscribed with the hand of Sir John Turbervile That he granted a Bargain with John Smith for certain Lands in the County of Kent That if the said Sir John Turbervile died without Issue of his Body lawfully begotten That then the said John Smith should have all the said Mannors to him and to his Heirs Dated decimo quarto die Octobris Anno decimo septimo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain so made between John Turbervile and John Smith the said John Smith bargained and sold all the said Mannors to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and his Heirs except the Mannor of Estpullham with divers Covenants as it appeareth by the said Indenture Data Anno decimo octavo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain the Kings Grace that dead is without Cause or Colour would have caused John Smith to have Enfeoffed the Lord Daubeny and other of the said Mannors to the use of the Kings Grace and his Heirs which he refused so to do because he had made the former Bargain and by Advice of the Councel of the said King And to satisfie the same Kings Appetite for the time the said John Smith Enfeoffed Giles Lord Daubeny and others to them and their Heirs and Assigns to the use following That was Ad eosdem hujusmodi usus intentiones prout ego praefatus Johannes Smith die Confectionis praesentium in eisdem seisitus existo in praesens habeo in praemissis vel in aliquo praemissorum Which uses and intents upon the true Examination of the Premisses appear plainly to be to the use of Sir John Mordaunt Knight and of his Heirs for ever Memorandum That we the said Richard Eliott John Ernley and John Porte having seen and examined all and every of the Premisses and by the tenor and sight of all the Premisses it appeareth evidently That the King had no Title nor at any time had to any of the said Mannors nor to any part of them And all that is here under-written is to shew the truth as appeareth after by the shewing of John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight ITem All the Premisses notwithstanding the Kings Grace after the Decease of the said Sir John Mordaunt and of Sir Nicholas Latimer caused the said Lord Daubeny and others to sue several Writs of Subpoena as well against John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John and William Mordaunt one of the Executors of the said Sir John as against the said John Smith The said Lord Daubeny and other surmizing by their Bill in the Chancery That they had bought all such Right as one Walter Turbervile should have to the said Mannors as Cozen and next Heir to the said Sir John Turbervile Whereas the said Lord Daubeny and others had never any such Bargain of the said Walter And though he had made such Bargain with the said Lord it had been clearly void because the said Sir John Turbervile before his death sold all the said Mannors as above is expressed Item The Subpoena was sued to the intent That the said John Mordaunt the Son William Mordaunt and John Smith should have been compelled to deliver all such Evidences as they or any of them had concerning the same Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs And also that the said John Mordaunt the Son and John Smith should release to the said Lord Daubeny and others all such Right as they or any of them had in the said Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs except that they would compound with the King to give him such Monies as he would desire Item The said William perceiving the Premisses and that the Kings Grace against all good Right and Conscience desired and would have the Premisses performed sued to the Kings Grace to have him good Lord to the said John Mordaunt the Son and that he should not be compelled against all Right and good Conscience to release his said Right nor to deliver any such Evidences And by that Suit he was commanded to sue to Edward Dudley to know farther the Kings Pleasure by the which Edward it was shewed to the said John Mordaunt and William That the Kings Grace would have Twelve Hundred Pounds or else the Lands and the Evidences And for fear of the loss of the Lands and that they should have been compelled to deliver the Evidences the said John Mordaunt the Son was agreeable to indent with the Kings Grace to give him a Thousand Pounds and Master Dudley said that he would pay the Two Hundred Pounds residue in hand And to have therefore the said John Mordaunt the Sons Interest in Estpullham whereto the said John Mordaunt had no Title Item Upon this Master Dudley caused the Indenture to be made up by the which Indenture John Mordaunt should have had a years Rent and a half then remaining in the Kings hands which he never had And also the Thousand Pounds should not have been paid till certain Covenants contained in the same Indenture had been performed on the Kings part which to this day was never performed and no penny ought to have been paid by the Indenture And yet that notwithstanding they were called upon and were compelled to pay Four Hundred Pounds thereof at several times for the which Money they have sued to have restitution and to be discharged of the residue and to have the Indenture delivered because it appeareth That there is no cause that the Kings Grace should have had any penny which Restitution and Indenture with a Release of the Right of the Persons named for the King in the same Indenture she said John Mordaunt yet desireth for Charity and in discharging of the Kings Soul that dead is A Letter from Sir Giles Strangewayes To my Right Worshipful Brother Mordaunt RIght Worshipful Brother I heartily recommend me unto you Sir As touching the Releases of John Latimer I have them ready Sealed by him and all the names of them that were present at his release and delivery of the same Sir I would ere this time have sent it you but I durst trust no Messenger but my self For with Gods good Grace I trust this Term to be at London and then to bring it to you my self Also as touching the Land that ye have lately bought of one Narborow within Devilish according to your desire and writing I my self have taken possession thereof for your behoof and also retained the Tenants to you by a penny in the presence of Sir Thomas Trenchard Knight Robert Sturges Esquire and others Also as for the Pedigree of William Juell and Thomas Lond I have done the best that in me lies to have known it howbeit I can
premisses whansoever it pleas the Kings Highnes and your Lordship to comande me And Almighty God ever preserve your good Lordship to your most hertes pleasure Written at Haroweden the fower and twentyeth Day of October By your own Servant Nicholas Vaus The Answer of Henry Vere Esquire to the Bill of Complaint of Thomas Watts THE said Henry saith by protestation That the said Bill of Complaint is insufficient and compriseth matter slaunderous For the declaration of the trouth of the premisses the said Henry saith That the said Thomas Watts before the said twentye sixthe day of August specified in the said Bill that the said Compleynent in the dayes of King Richard late in dede and not in right King of England took from the said Henry riotously with thirty persons defensibly arrayed certeyn Timber Hey-Rekes Peese-Rekes with much other Stuff of Howshold to the value of eleven Marks and more And alsoe the said Thomas in lyke riotous wise resevyd of the Rents of the said Henry ten Mark in Ekton Barton and Wouleston within the Counte of Northampton for the whyche the said Henry compleyned to the Kings Grace imediately after his first feld And it pleased the Kings Grace among other of his Highnes Comandemenâ—s to comand the said Henry to bring the same Thomas to him to answer to the premisses And the said Henry by reason of the same Comandement with two persons harnessed came from his first Feld unto the House of the said Thomas to the entent to execute the Kings said Comandements then and there being John Tresham Esquier the Viccar of the said Town of Rothewell John Dove and one Cowper and many others and they knowing the premisses and knowing for trouth that the said Thomas of and in the premisses and many other had offended the said Henry desired the said Henry to take some reasonable weye and end with the said Thomas in eschewing further expences and troubles At the whych time the said Viccar and John Dove by the special desire of the said Thomas brought unto the said Henry ten Mark And the said Thomas by his Servant sent the same Black Horse specified in his said Bill to the said Henry in full recompence of such injuries as been afore rehersed All which matters and every eche one of them the said Henry is ready to prove as this Court will award and prayeth to be dismissEd out of this Court with his reasonable Costs and expence for his wrongful vexation Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 296. HEnry Vere was High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the first Year of Henry the Seventh To the Right Worshipful Maister Vere Shrese of Northamptonshire be this Letter delivered c. MAister Shrefe After due recommendation with my service in my most herty manner I pray yow that for as mikyl as the Ferme of all th' assarts within the Forest of Rokyngham was granted to my Brother Sir William Stoke and Richard Burton yontly and to other of them longer lyffing and my sayd Brother whom God hath called from this World nothyng medled with the gadryng up of the deutes of the same but onely Richard Burton like as he said unto yow at Stamford but lately that he would charge himself with them and discharge my Brother in that behalfe It may please yow in that manner-wise and after that Forme to make returne of your Writte And as for my Brothers Lyvelode within the Shyre it is but littyl he purchased and bought two Cottages in Rokyngham of lityl value and a Meese in Kyrtby also two Closes one beside Pipwell and one at Brigstock and here is all the livelode that he had in the Shyre for that livelode that was my Moders in Warmington and elsewhere she gaf hit to me twenty Yere ago and my Broder had never ado the with but by myn assignement and for myn behofe In this and in other thinges concerning me and myn I pray yow shew your kindly favor and I shall so dele with yow at our next meetyng in Northamptonshyre that ye shall hold yow ryght well content From Lincoln the twentyeth Day of March. And as for Newys with us This day my Lady of Northumbyrland came to the King to Lincoln and brought to the Kings Grace with hyr hyr eldest Sonne a goodly yong Lord. On Munday cum sevenyght the Kyng is preposed toward Nottingham there to tary six or seaven dayes and from thence to take his journay toward York c. Yours to his power Thomas Stoke To his Worshipful Brother Henry Vere be this Bill delivered at Addington RYght Worshipful Brodyr I recommend me unto yow and to my Sister your Wife hertily desiring to here of your welfares the which Almightie God preserve to his plesure and yowr hertes desire Sure I have spokyn with Maister Catesby and he hath promissed me to be as frendly to yow in yowr matter as he can He is ryding with my Lord Chamberlyn this Morning toward the Kyng Watts calleth for the processe and therefore I went to Maister Catesby this morning when he took his Horse and fete a Tokyn from him to Watts that he shuld cale noe more on the processe till he come to Towne ayene and that shall be when the King come and that shall be within fourteen dayes and if ye come up then he will see an end betwix you and the other Gentilman the Jewe and so I think best yow doe for anoder man cannot labour your mattir soe well to yowr intent as yowr self sure As for your Suite against Beke they have yeven yow none Answere as yet There is an Exigent out against Parson Edward Davy sure I pray yow remember my Brother Barners for I sent him word That ye would send him ten Pounds within fourteen dayes after Alhallow-Day Brother whereas yow wrote unto me that ye were not in hertes ese ye have made me very hevye of that tydings but I trust to God in the next Bill ye shall send me better comforte And sure at the reverence of God whatsoever adverfityes befall yow take them lytely and set them not to yowr herte and then remedye them as ye think best for if ye set them to yowr herte ye shall hurt your selfe and that shall plese syche as be the causes thereof and all syche as love yow not and shall discomforte all syche as be yowr frendes and Lovers Wherefore I will avise yow to take that way that may comforte yowr frendes and lovers and displese yowr foes No more to yow at this tyme but I shall be at yowr comandement both here and elswhere be God's Grace who have yow in his kepeing At London on Symond Jude is Evyn Be your Brother and Servant Baldwyn Vere To my Right Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Gentilman RYght Trusty and Welbeloved I commend me unto yow And whereas I have perceived by my Right Welbeloved Sir Thomas Thornton Parson of Addington in the County of Northampton how that he of
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
we purpose by God's help to set forward upon our Journey the said first day of May next coming yet natheless We be content that ye be with Us at Our Town of Newcastle the last day of the said Month of May. A Letter from King Henry the Seventh to John Mordaunt Gentleman To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentleman of our County of Bedford By the King TRusty and welbeloved We greete you wele And whereas we have directed Our Commission and certain Instructions in Writting to Our trusty and welbeloved Maister Walter Felde Clerk Thomas Fouler Squier and others to do and exercise in Our Name and the usual wele of this Our Realm such things as be comprised in the said Commissions and Instructions We for the great trust we have in you desire and heartily pray you that at such season as Our said Commissioners shall repair unto these parties to execute the said Commandment Ye upon the sight of the said Commission and Instructions which our said Commissioners shall shew unto you be unto them in all things concerning the same Counseling Aiding and Assisting Exhorting and by your discretion and wisdom moving and inducting all such Persons as Our said Commissioners shall name unto you to the good accomplishment of Our other Letters at this same time sent unto them and to Our said Commissioners by Us delivered not failing hereof in any wise as Our special trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Castle of Windsor the three and twentieth day of January The Indenture of Marriage between William Mordaunt and Anne Huntington THis Indenture tripartited made the fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the seventh between Thomas Huntington of Hempsteed next beside Radwinter in the County of Essex Esquire oon that oon John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire and William Mordaunt his Younger Broder oon that second Partie and Robert Parys of Little Lynton in the County of Cantebrig Esquire and John Parys Son and Heir apparent of the said Robert oon that third Partie Witnesseth That the said William by the Grace of God shall take to his Wife Anne one of the Daughters and Heirs apparent of the said Thomas Huntington and Margaret his Wife and likewise the same Anne by the Grace of God shall take to her Husband the said William The Solemnization of the said Matrimony to be had and done by the fifth day of June next coming at the Cost and Charges of the said William as well in Apparel as in Meat and Drink and other Charges It is also assented covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said Thomas Huntington shall have to him for Term of his Life without Impeachment of wast all the Maners of Crochemans in the County of Cantebrig and all other Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Mochesampford little Sampford Mocheradwinter little Radwinter Fynchingfeld Ashdon Barklowe Stevyngton Bimsted Helionbimsted next beside Mocheradwinter in the County of Essex and Trumpyngton Cambridge Newnham next besides Cambridge Saweston Baburgham Wittelff Trippolo and Cleyhithe in the said County of Cantebrig and elsewhere in the said Counties of Essex and Cantebrig whereof the said Thomas Huntington or any other Person or Persons to his use at this time stand or be seized And after his Decease all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and Appurtenances shall be go and remain to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife the Elder Daughter and oon of the Heirs apparent of the said Thomas Huntington and of Margaret his Wife and to the said William and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret now Wife to the said John Parys and Anne lawfully and generally begotten And for default of Issue of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten all her part of the premises shall be go and remain to the said Anne and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And likewise in default of Issue of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten all her part of the premises shall be go and remain to the said Margaret now Wife of the said John Parys and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of Issue of the Bodies of the said Margaret and of the said Anne lawfully begotten all the said Maners Tenements and other Premises with the Apputenances shall be go and remain to the said Thomas Huntington and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of Issue all the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances shall be go and remain to the right Heirs of the Body of Robert Huntington Son of Walter Huntington lawfully begotten and to the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain to Catherine now Wife of John Wetham and Sister to the said Walter Huntington and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Thomas Huntington for ever And for the further accomplishment of the same the said Thomas Huntington before the Feast of the Assension of our Lord God next coming shall make or cause to be made to George Nicolls John Jenour and Thomas Thorpe and to their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their appurtenances to the said use and intent as by the Councel of the said John Mordaunt and Robert Parys shall be devised And the same Thomas Huntington before the Feast of Saint Martin in Winter next coming shall suffer all such Recoveries to be had by William Fyndern Knight William Thyne Esquire John Mordaunt Esquire Thomas Frowyke Esquire Robert Tyrall Esquire Richard Higham Esquire Robert Bradbury Gentilman John Vynter Gentilman and William Gascoigne Gentilman or by and against such of them as then shall be in Life to make sure all the said Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents abovesaid And the said Thomas shall do and suffer to be done in the same Recoveries at such time as reasonably shall be devised by the said William Mordaunt and John Parys their Heirs and Assigns at the Cost and Charges of the said William and John It is also assented and agreed between the said Parties that the said William Fyndern and the other Demandents before rehearsed shall at the assignment desire or according to the last Will of the said Thomas Huntington make a Grant or Grants of forty Shillings by Year yearly going out of the said Maners of Crochemans with the Appurtenances in the County of Essex and of other forty Shillings by Year yearly going out of the said Maner of Trumpyngton with the Appurtenances in the County of Cantebrig to oon two three or four Persons severally or jointly at the Pleasure of the said Thomas Huntington to be named during the
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
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
apart you shall bend your self to the advancement of Common Justice between party and party both that our good Subjects may have the benefit of our Laws sincerely ministred to them and that all evil doers may be punished as the same Act doth prescribe and limit To which Points if you shall upon this monition and advertisement give such diligent Regard as you may satisfie your duty in the same leaving and exchanging from henceforth all disguised Corruptions we shall be content the more easily to put in oblivion all your former Remissions and Negligences But on the other part if we shall perceive That this kind of gentle Proceeding can work no good effect in you nor any of you whom we put in Trust under us assure your self that the next Advice shall be of so sharp a sort as shall bring with it a just Punishment of those that shall be found Offenders in this behalf Requiring you therefore not only for your own part to wax a new man if you shall in your own Conscience perceive that ye have not done your duty as appertained but also to exhort others of your sort and condition in this Administration whom you shall perceive to digress from the true Execution of their Offices rather to reconcile and conform themselves to satisfie with gentle Monition then upon any Affection Respect or Displeasure to do any such thing as shall hereafter minister unto them such Repentance as will not percase when it should light in their Neck be redoubled Finally Our pleasure is That you shall have special regard that no Man use any unlawful Games but that every Man apply himself to use the Long-Bow as the Law in that behalf requireth wherein you shall shew your self a Man of good Inclination and deserve our right hearty Thanks accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Oaking the One and Twentieth of July the Thirtieth Year of our Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Denton A Letter from the Lord Mordaunt to his Daughter Fettyplace DAughter Fettyplace After all hearty Commendations these shall be to advertise you That this present Second Day of November Mr. Denton delivered me a Bill of Articles and a Paper ready drawn concerning the Declaration of the said Articles setting forth more at large whereby it appeareth That ye and he be very forward towards Marriage and hath desired my good Will for the same and hath shewed me that he hath caused the King's Graces Letters to be directed to you in his Favour of the same The Articles be made between Thomas Denton on the one part the Lord Mordaunt Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight Edward Fettyplace and Alexander Fettyplace Esquires In the which Articles nor in the Indenture of Paper any mention is made of any Jointure that ye shall have by Mr. Denton nor yet what Goods he shall leave you if God call him to his Mercy before you Also there is no mention made that he shall leave you in Goods of your own as good as he finds you so that upon Marriage had and determined all your Goods and Chattels shall be his and at his distribution and pleasure Many other things are to be remembred by the advice of Wiser Men than I am which can give you better Counsel and better Advertisement than I can do or write to you Albeit I would ye should do well and so I pray God send you Grace to do I pray you with all speed send me your mind in the premises And that I may have Mr. Hungerford's advice by his Letter for the same that yet I may know something of your mind at the latter end of the Feast although that I be not made privy to the first beginning and to the first Communication but ye do like a wise Woman Conclude and Agree and then ask Counsel of your Friends Mr. Hungerford knoweth all and I think verily he would ye should do well albeit I do not know whether be be privy to it by you or by Mr. Denton or by both Thus fare ye and all yours as well as I would do my self to God's pleasure who grant you of his goodness his Blessing and his Grace to do well And I do give you my Blessing with all my heart Written the Third Day of November A Letter from Margaret Fettyplace to her Father the Lord Mordaunt To the Right Honourable and my singular good Lord and Father my Lord Mordaunt at Turvey RIght Honourable and my singular good Lord and Father Very glad to hear of your good Amendment and Welfare which I pray God daily increase It may please your Lordship to be advertised that I have received your Lordships Letters whereby I perceive that Mr. Denton hath delivered to your Lordship both a Book of certain Articles and a Paper ready drawn concerning the Declaration thereof which Book I have received from your Lordship wherein is wholly contained such Requests as I made unto him For my Lord this is the very Truth That about Saint Bartholomew-day last past it was his chance to be at Ratcote at which time he first made motion to me herein And for his furtherance therein not only delivered unto me the King's Majesties Letter most favourably made in his behalf but also other like Letters from my Lord Saint-Johns whom as your Lordship knoweth I have found of late my very great and earnest Friend Whereupon I as I thought my duty was not minding to make to the King 's said Letters an unadvised and suddain Answer desired a time to make a further answer thereunto intending at that time to repair unto your Lordship for your Advice therein but being immediately after taken with Sickness I was thereby constrained to tarry at home and for that time to take advice of other of my Friends in these parts who both considering the King 's said Letters and also his Honesty and Towardness counselled me not to refuse his suit but upon certain Requests which they advised me to make unto him to enter further into Communication Whereupon I made these Articles and about Michaelmas last past at his repair unto me I delivered him the same shewing him at that time that if he would be thereunto bound as by my Friends should be thought meet and further repair unto your Lordship and therein obtain your Favour without whom as I then shewed him I would be loth to bestow my self I could be content to accept his suit which he promised to do This my Lord is all that I have done and as I trust he will claim no further promise of me so that I shall desire your Lordship not to esteem me of such lightness that I will unadvisedly bestow my self and then ask Counsel I hope your Lordship hath at all times found me conformable to your pleasure which I have been glad and will be glad at all times to follow defiring your Lordship to conceive none other opinion of me And if in this matter your Lordship perceiveth or knoweth any just
that time had Interest in the Moiety of the Premises as in the right of his Wife agreed with the Executors of the said Earl for the Premises And so after that the same Sir Thomas had the said Drayton-Park in which Sir Thomas's days none of the said Keepers did fell or take any such Wood at that time growing of and upon the said Ditches And also the Keepers of the said Sir Thomas walked their Ring-walk within the said Little Park of Brikestock all the said Sir Thomas Cheyne's time And after that Sir Thomas Cheyne deceased then came the premises into the Hands of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners who entred into the premises and also into the Maner of Drayton then being in the Tenure of Robert Marburn Gentleman and the said Lord would have occupied the said Maner of Drayton and put out the said Robert Marburn wherewith the said Robert took displeasure with the said Lord Mordaunt And the said Robert Marburn to the intent he would occupy the said Maners still in his Hands Entitled George late Earl of Salop to the premises by a false Will nuncupative which the same Robert Surmised that the said Edward Earl of Wilts should make Whereupon the said Maner of Drayton-Park and other Premises were in contention divers Years And after that the said Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners agreed with the said Earl of Salop and so had the said Maner Park and other the Premises quietly without any Interruption Claim Challenge or Demand to the Premises or any part or parcel thereof made thereunto by any of the King's Keepers or Officers of the said Little Park of Brikestock and walked the Ring-Walk within the said Park of Brikestock and made the Hedges Pale Ring unto the time that one John Allen Keeper of the King's Park of Brikestock by the commandment of the Lord Parre that now is caused certain Wood to be felled whereof some of the said Wood did grow within the bottom of the Ditch and some otherwise which Wood was carried by the Lord Mordaunt's Servants to Drayton-Maner And after that one Richard Slade otherwise called Richard Smith Brother to one Rowland Slade did fell a Tree in the bottom of Drayton-Park-Ditch by the commandment of the said Rowland at that time being Keeper of the said Nether-Park of Brikestock Whereupon the said Lord Mordaunt shewed the said Lord Parre and the said Lord Parre said That Rowland did it by his commandment and that he the said Lord Parre might lawfully command the said Rowland so to do for two parts which he assured belonged to the Browns parts as well as the Lord Mordaunt did command his Servants to meddle for his Two parts and so the Lord Parre from time to time did permit and suffer the said Keepers for to do all the displeasures to the said Lord Mordaunt and his Servants that might be devised or imagined for that intent and purpose that the said Lord Parre would have had the rule of Drayton-Park himself And James Stevenson saith That at another time which was about the time of the Insurrection in Lincolnshire that the said Rowland did fell certain Wood growing in the bottom of Drayton-Park-Ditch Whereupon the said James went to the Lord Parre for to know his pleasure who made answer to the said James as followeth videlicet What have you to do therewith Then said James Sir I come to know your pleasure and whether it be your pleasure that your Servants shall so enterprize upon my Master's Ground or not No said the Lord Parre I shall make your Master and you answer also So the said James departed from the Lord Parre at that time And where the said Drayton-kark since the first making of the said Park hath been always Ditched and Hedged and so did continue all the days and time of Sir Simon de Drayton and Sir Henry Greene Knight Henry Greene Son of the said Sir Henry Greene Sir Ralph Greene Knight John Greene and Henry Greene Esquires and also in the days of John Stafford and Edward Stafford late Earls of Wilts and in the days of Robert Wittlebury William Marbury and Thomas Mountague Esquires Executors of the Testament and Last Will of the said Edward Stafford and always used to be Hedged and the Ditches scowred by the Owners of the said Drayton-Park and in all their days and time no default found in the said Freebord Hedges and Ditches by any of the Keepers of the said little Park of Brikestock but that the owners of Drayton-Park did scowre the Ditches and Hedges of the same used their Freebord took profits of all manner of Wood and Thorn growing in and upon the said Ditches and Freeborde unto the time that the said Drayton-Park came to the Possession of one Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight who had the said Drayton-Park as in the right of his Wife And in the days and time of the said Sir Thomas Cheyne the Keeper of the said little Park found default in the said Sir Thomas Cheyne for not scowring of the said Ditches and for not well repairing of the Hedges of the same Drayton-Park forasmuch as the Hedges of Drayton-Park at that time were thinly made and very low And also the said Keeper of the little Park surmised That the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and his Keeper of Drayton-Park did stand between both the Hedges of Drayton-Park and Killed the King's Deer which were accustomably used for to Feed in the said little Park and did train the King 's Deer out of the said little Park into Drayton-Park and surmised and laid to the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and his Servants charge divers Misdemeanours as Breaking into the said little Park of Brikestock with their Bows Arrows Hounds and Grey-hounds over and beside that the said Keepers of the said little Park of Brikestock complained in the King's Court of Swanymote upon the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and upon his Servants as well for Killing of Deer as also for to mend the said Ditches and Hedges by a day prefixed and said to the said Sir Thomas Cheyne that If the said Ditches and Hedges were not amended that then they would inform the King's Grace King Henry the Seventh of their misdemeanours Whereupon the said Sir Thomas Cheyne considered to himself and among his Friends That he would not have the King's displeasure in that behalf by the advice of his Friends caused a Pale to be set upon the top of Drayton-Park Ditch which was the first Pale that ever was set there after the making of the said Park for before that pale so set there the said Drayton-park was ever Ditched Quickset and Hedged which Pale so set by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne continued all the life of the said Sir Thomas and long time after without any default found thereat or at any of the Freeborde Ditches and Hedges of the said Drayton-Park unto the Tenth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth at which time
the said Drayton-Park came into the Hands and Possession of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners And the said Drayton-Park being in their hands the said Lord Parre and the King's Officers and Keepers of Brikestock-Park complained and said That the said Pale made by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne was no sufficient Pale for the Pale was so low that the Keepers of Drayton-Park might stand and did stand upon the top of the Dike of Drayton-Park and Shoot over the said Pale unto the said little Park and Killed the King's Deer being feeding within the said little Park And divers times the Lord Parre laid to the charges of the Keepers of Drayton-Park for Killing of divers and many such Deer and the Lord Parre not contented with the said Pale complained to Sir Thomas Lovel Knight at that time being Justice of the Forests for not maintaining and making a sufficient Pale or Hedge between both the said Parks And that complaint notwithstanding divers Pains were laid in the King's Grace's Court of Swanymote upon the said Lord and his Co-partners for to amend the said Pale and Hedge sufficiently Whereupon the Lord Mordaunt caused certain number of Oakes to be felled in Grafton and Grafton-Park and in other places within the bounds of Grafton for the new amending of the same Pale and Hedges and thereupon took down the old Pale and made a new Pale of a greater length and did certain costs of the Ditches of the said Park and did fell certain Thorns and other Wood for Ports Rails and Stumps for the good amending of the same new Pale which Pale so newly made continued divers Years and no default found at the same by the said Lord Parre or any of his Officers or Keepers And after this the Lord Parre's Keepers of Brikestock would in the Winter time being Frost and Snow break up the said Pale to the intent that the King 's Deer of the little Park might come into Drayton for to have their feeding there or else the said Deer would have Perished and Starved for hunger And yet the said Favour notwithstanding a new Complaint was made a new pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote That the Lord Mordaunt should amend his Pale and Hedge and scower his Ditches by a day upon pain of Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And after that within certain Years another like pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote for to make the said Hedges and Ditches between Drayton-Park and Brikestock-Park sufficient And the said Lord Parre at this time being Friendly with the Lord Mordaunt shewed Robert Catbyn Gentleman thereof to the intent that the Lord Mordaunt might have knowledge thereof for to make the Hedges and Ditches sufficient whereby the Lord Mordaunt might avoid the Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And forasmuch as such pains were so laid in the King's Graces Courts of Swanymote as well in King Henry the Seventh's days as also in the days of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth for that the said Sir Thomas Cheyne as also the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners should amend and repair the said Pale Hedges and Ditches of Drayton-park of that side that is between the said Drayton-park and the said Little Park of Brikestock by certain several days to them prefixed as by the Books of the said Courts of Swanymote it will more at large appear That if the Lords of Drayton-park had made any Encrochment upon the Little Park of Brikestock or of and upon any of the King's Ground that then their Encrochments should have been as well found and presented as for the amending and repairing of Drayton-park-pale and of the Hedges and Ditches of the said Wood in the said Courts of Swanymote remembred and presented A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD After my hearty Commendations where by virtue of a Commission ye procure a Freeborde to be had within the King's Majesties Little Park of Brikestock there is upon the same past a Quest and Verdit by them given which Quest and Verdit as it is taken rather serveth for your purpose than for the Conservation of the King's Majesties Right The said Commission being never Executed in my Uncle the Lord Parre's life whose Office in the said Park I now have And that neither the King's Solicitor being then in those parts nor any other his Learned Council for the Soliciting and defending of his Grace's Right was called or Privy thereunto I thought hereby notwithstanding your Proceedings in the premises to require your Lordship to forbear to meddle or intromit with any thing within the said Park until it may appear unto my Lords of the King 's most Honourable Privy Council or otherwise by the Law what you have to shew for your Claim Thus I bid your Lordship heartily well to fare from Hampton-Court the Seventeenth day of October Your Lordships Loving Friend W. North. A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD AFter my hearty Commendations perceiving by your Letter that according to such Commission as you have already proceeded in ye be desirous to enjoy the Freeborde within the Park of Brikestock to the which Commission notwithstanding my Uncle was Privy thereby to know your Claim and Title of the said Freeborde yet if God had continued his life till it had been sitten on he would have found and caused matter to be alledged for the King as would have been for the conservation of his Majesties Inheritance By the death of whom and for lack of the King 's Learned Council to speak in his cause it is thought the thing hath not past in his Highness's behalf in such ways as it might have done And as I have heard say The King's Solicitor hath before time advised you that ye should not take upon you to Encroach upon any part of the King 's old Inheritance this being parcel of the oldest his Grace hath in those parts To the proceeding of which Commission the said Solicitor being in that Country me seemed that he should have had warning and been privy to the Execution thereof to have spoken for the King 's Right Nevertheless because it may appear that as little as I can shall be by my time done in the said Parks to the derogation of the King's Inheritance Therefore I will procure another Commission either to the foresaid Commissioners or to other Gentlemen of good Estimation at the Execution whereof some of the King 's Learned Council shall be there for the defence of his Cause and I doubt not but you against the same time will provide as shall be best for your Claim And if upon the Tryal thereof you shall have Right to the said Borde I shall be well content ye enjoy it accordingly And in the mean time I require you not to intermeddle with any thing within the said Park by virtue of
de Drayton directam ad Testes praedictos examinandum in filaciis ejusdem Cancellariae nostrae residentem in haec verba Edwardus Sextus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae supremum Caput Dilectis fidelibus suis Edwardo Montague Militi Capitali Justiciario de Communi Banco Johanni Saint-John Thomae Tresham militibus dilecto sibi Richardo Humphrey de Drayton falutem Sciatis quod nos de Fidelitatibus providis Circumspectionibus vestris pleniùs confidentes Assignavimus vos tenore praesentium damus vobis vel tribus vestrum potestatem autoritatem ad inquirendum per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de Comitatu Northamptoniae tam infra libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit nec non ad audiendum examinandum quandam materiam in quâdam Petitione his praesentibus annexa inter Nos Johannem Mordaunt Militem Dominum Mordaunt contentam specificatam Et ideò vobis vel tribus vestrum mandamus quòd ad certos dies loca quos ad hoc provideritis Testes quoscunque quos maxime pro testificatione ejusdem materiae fore videritis evocandum coram vobis aut tribus vestrum evocandum ac ipsos Testes eorum quemlibet de super eisdem materiis circumstantiis ejusdem super eorum Sacramentis coram vobis corporalitèr praesentandis diligenter examinetis Depositionesque suas recipiatis in scriptis redigatis Et super hoc auditis inde Rationibus ac aliis viis modis quibus melius sciveritis aut poteritis eandem materiam juxta sanas discretiones vestras in forma praedicta diligenter examinandum Ac insuper vobis vel tribus vestrum mandamus quod diligentèr super praemissis facitis Inquisitionem Et eam sic factam distinctè apertè Nobis in Cancellariam nostram in Octavis Sancti Michaelis proximè futuris ubicunque tunc fuerit sub Sigillis vestris vel trium vestrum Sigillis eorum per quos factum fuit mittatis has Literas nostras Patentes unà cum Petitione praedictâ Mandamus etiam tenore praesentium Vicecomiti nostro Comitatus praedicti quòd ad certos Dies Loca quos vos vel tres vestrum ei scire facitis venire faciat coram vobis vel tribus vestrum tot tales probos homines legales de Balliva sua tam infra Libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas in praemissis melius sciri poterit inquiri In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipfo apud Westmonasterium vicesimo septimo die Junii Anno Regni nostri primo Southwell Inspeximus ulterius Certificationem praefatorum Commissariorum unà cùm Depositionibus quorundam Testium virtute Commissionis praedictae coram praefatis Commissariis captis examinatis in eâdem Cancellariâ nostrâ returnatis ac in Filaciis ejusdem Cancellariae nostrae residentibus in haec verba Depositions taken the Two and twentieth day of September in the First Year of our Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth the Supream Head Before Sir Edward Mountague Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Tresham Knight and Richard Humphrey Esquire by virtue of the King's Commission to them directed and to these Presents annexed exhibited on the part of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt Robert Latimer of North-Crawley in the County of Buckingham Gentleman examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he this Examinant about thirty Years past was Keeper of a Park called Drayton-park under Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt then and yet Owner of this said Park and then Master to this Examinant and at his entry into the same Office one William Boyse then of Luffwick who had been Keeper of the said Park of Drayton came to this Examinant and shewed him the Walk of the said Park of Drayton wherein he declared That he being Keeper of the said Park of Drayton walked without the Pale of Drayton-park and within the Park of Brikestock called the Little-Park from a certain place in the said Park of Brikestock called Plumwell-Gate unto a place called Snapes where he entred always again into the said Park of Drayton including always as parcel of Drayton-park and as a Freeborde to the same a certain parcel of Ground or Wood without the Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park towards the said Little-park of Brikestock And according to the same this Examinant and his Deputies Keepers there did always walk the same way during all such time as he was Keeper without any Contradiction of any Person or Persons And he saith further That the said Boyse then also declared to this Examinant That the same Boyse hath seen divers and many times the Keepers of Drayton-park fell Wood for the mending of the Pale of the same Drayton-park and for other causes upon the same Freeborde or Ground without the said park of Drayton towards and within the Little-park of Brikestock and never denied nor Impeached for the same by the Keeper of Brikestock-park nor by any other Person or Persons And more he knoweth not Thomas Jefforne of Luffwick in the County of Northampton Clerk Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he hath divers times heard one William Boyse late of Luffwick say That he the same Boyse was Keeper of a certain Park called Drayton-park in the County of Northampton under one Edward Earl of Wiltshire then Owner of the said Park And that by such time as he was Keeper there he always walked as parcel of his Walk of Drayton-park within the Park of Brikestock called the Little-park there from a certain place called Plumwell-Gate unto a place there called Snapes where alway he entred again into Drayton-park including within his Walk a parcel of Wood-Ground within the Little-park of Brikestock and adjoining to the Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park as parcel of the said Park of Drayton and then called the Freeborde of Drayton-park And the said Boyse told also the said Examinant That he was after the death of the said Earl Keeper of the said Little-Park of Brikestock under one Sir John Carr Knight at which time one John Allen was Keeper of Drayton-park and walked the same way within the Little-park of Brikestock from the said Plumwell-Gate to Snapes and including the said parcel of Wood-Ground as parcel of Drayton-park in like manner as the said Boyse and others had done before And saith further That he never knew any thing said or done to any of the said Keepers of Drayton-park for the walking of the same And more he knoweth not James Stevenson of Sudborough in the County of Northampton Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon
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
est haeres ejus propinquior aetatis triginta annorum amplius In cujus rei testimonium c. Indentura inter Katherinam uxorem Radulphi Greene Thomam Prentys Robertum Sutton de Chelaston Kervers CEste Endentre faite perentres Katherine que fuist la feme Rauf Greene Esquier William Aldwyncle William Marchall Clerk d'un parte Thomas Prentys Robert Sutton de Chelaston en Counté de Derbie Kervers d'autre parte testmoigne que les ditz Kervers ount covenantez empris pur fair entailler bien honestement profitablement une tombe de piere appelle alabastre bon fyn pure contenent en longure ix pees d'assise en largure iiij pees deux d'assise sur quele tombe seront faitz deux images d'alabastre l'un counterfait à un Esquier en Armes en toutz pointz contenent en lo ngure vij pees d'assise avec un helm de soubs son chief un ours à ses pees l'autre image serra countrefait à une dame gisant en sa surcote overte avec deux Anges tenants un pilow de soubz sa teste deux petitz chiens à ses pees l'un des ditz images tenant l'autre per la main avec deux tabernacles appellés gablettes à lour testes quele tombe conteindra per les costés avec le leggement trois pees d'assife sur queux costes seront images d'Anges ove tabernacles portantz escutz selont la devise des ditz Katherine William William Et auxi ferront les ditz Kervers un arche d'alabastre amounte tout la dite tombe en longure largure avec pendantz knottes une crest de foytes autre ourages appertinent au tiele tombe les queux image tombe arche serront proportionez endorres peintes arraies ove coulours bien sufficientment en le pure honeste profitable manere come appertient à tiel overage Et seront toutz les ditz overages prestment faitz perfourmez en toutz poyntz en manere suisdite surmis enhauté per les ditz Thomas Robert en l'esglise parochiel de Luffwick en Counte de Northamton as costages perill des ditz Thomas Robert en toutz maneres choses perentre cy le fest de Pasque serra l'en de grace Mccccxx. Pur quelles overages en manere avantdit affaire performers les ditz Katherine William William paieront ou feront paier as ditz Thomas Robert ou l'autre deulx quarant liures desterlings dont seront paiez al fesance di cestes dys marcs al fest de Pasque ore prochein avener dix marcs al fest del Nativité de Seint John Baptiftre adonque prochein ensuant dys marcs at fest de Saint Michell adonque prochein ensuant dys marcs les dix marcs remanantz seront paiez quant toutz les ditz overages seront faitz surmys en manere avantdit pur toutz quelles convenantz avantditz chescun deulx de part les ditz Thomas Robert faites à performer mesmes Thomas Robert eux obligent chescun deulx per soy en lentier lour heirs executors as ditz Katherine William William en cessant livres per y cestes En tesmoignance de quele chose les parties avantditz a y cestes Endentres enterchangeablement ount myslours Sealx Donne le xiiij jour le Feverer l'an du Regne du Roy Henry Quint puis le Conquest sisme The Tombe of Rauf Greene Lord of Drayton Extant in the Church of St. Peter in Luffwick in the County of Nerthampton JOHN GREENE Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Carta Willielmi Seymour NOverint Universi per Praesentes me Willielmum Seymour de Halton juxta Spillesby remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro me haeredibus meis imperpetuum quietum clamâsse Johanni Greene quondam filio Henrici Greene de Drayton Militis totum jus meum clameum quae unquam habui habeo seu quovis modo habere potero in omnibus terris tenementis redditibus servitiis pratis pascuis pasturis cum omnibus singulis suis pertinentiis infra Comitatum Northamptoniae Ita videlicet quòd nec Ego praedictus Willielmus nec haeredes mei nec aliquis alius nomine nostro aliquod jus seu clameum in praedictis terris tenementis redditibus servitiis pratis pascuis pasturis cum omnibus singulis suis pertinentiis de caetero exigere seu vendicare poterimus in suturum sed ab omni actione juris Clamei inde maneamus exclusi per Praesentes Et ego praedictus Willielmus Seymour haeredes mei omnia praedicta terras tenementa redditus servitia prata pascua pasturas cum omnibus singulis suis pertinentiis praefato Johanni Greene haeredibus assignatis suis in forma praedicta contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus defendemus imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui Dat' apud Halton die Lunae in Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Quarti post Conquestum septimo Carta Regis Henrici Sexti HEnricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali pardonavimus Johanni Greene de Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigero sectam pacis nostrae quae ad nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus insurrectionibus rebellionibus feloniis per ipsum ante nonum diem Aprilis ultimo praeteritum qualitercunque factis sive perpetratis murdris raptu mulierum exceptis unde indictatus rectatus vel appellatus existit ac etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis occasionibus fuerint promulgatae Et firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Ita tamen quòd idem Johannes dicto nono die Aprilis in prisona absque manucaptione seu traditione in Ballivum pro causis praedictis vel aliqua earundem detentus non fuerit nec probatus aut dampnatus quod stet rectus in curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum forisfacturis tamen terrarum tenementorum ac Bonorum Catallorum Nobis in hac parte incursis si quae fuerint nobis semper salvis Et ulteriùs de uberiori gratia pardonavimus remisimus praefato Johanni sectam nostram quae ad nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnibus catallis felonum fugitivorum minimè de recordo ac omnimodis transgressionibus negligentiis misprisionibus contemptibus ac omnimoda venditione boscorum infra bundas forestarum nostrarum omnimodisque transgressionibus de viridi venatione infra forestas nostras porellias earundem ac omnimodis finibus pro transgressionibus
bullis de exemptionibus duntaxat exceptis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodos fines adjudicatos amerciamenta exitus forisfactos relevia scutagia ac omnimoda debita compota praestita arreragia firmarum compotorum Nobis ante octavum diem Julii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo sexto qualitercunque debita pertinentia Necnon omnimodas actiones demandas quas Nos solus vel Nos conjunctim cum aliis personis vel alia persona habemus seu habere poterimus versus ipsum Henricum pro aliquibus hujusmodi finibus amerciamentis exitibus releviis scutagiis debitis compotis praestitis arreragiis ante eundem octavum diem Julii Nobis debitis ac etiam Utlagariis in ipsum Henricum promulgatis pro aliqua causarum supradictarum omnimodis debitis compotis Nobis debitis pertinentibus quae vigore literarum nostrarum Patentium seu brevium nostrorum de magno vel privato Sigillo aut per estallamenta sive assignationes respectuata existunt omnino exceptis Et quòd praesens pardonatio nostra quoad praemissa seu aliquod praemissorum non cedat in dampnum praejudicium vel derogationem alicujus alterius personae quà m personae nostrae duntaxat nec quòd praesens pardonatio nostra nec aliqua hujusmodi pardonatio nostra ad aliquos magnos computantes nostros qui nunc sunt vel qui nuper fuerunt videlicet ad Thesaurarium Cales Hospitii nostri Vitellarios Cales Camerarios Cestriae North Walliae South Walliae Custodes Gardrobae Hospitii nostri aut Custodes magnae Gardrobae nostrae aut Custodes sive Clericos operationum nostrarum Constabularios Burdegales Thesaurarium terrae nostrae Hiberniae receptores Ducatus nostri Lancastriae Ducatus nostri Cornubiae tam generales quà m particulares quo ad aliqua hujusmodi officia sua seu hujusmodi occupationes suas aut alicujus earundem tangentia ullo modo se extendat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quarto Kirkeham Per ipsum Regem Indentura inter Ducem Buckinghamiae Henricum Greene pro maritagia Constanciae filiae praedicti Henrici THIS Indenture made the nineteenth day of January in the yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Sixth after the Conquest the six and thirtieth between the high and myghty Prynce Humfrey Duc of Buks on that oon partie and Henry Greene Squyer on that othir partie Witnesseth That it is accorded and agreed between the said parties in the fourme that followeth that is to wite That John oon of the Sonnes of the said Duc shall by the grace of God wedde and take to wyfe Constance Doughter and heire apparant to the said Henry Greene before the fest of Lammasse next comyng and the said Constance shall take to Husband the said John byfore the same fest and the said Duc shall bere all the costes of the same Mariage And the said Duc graunteth by these presents for the said mariage to be had in the fourme aforesaid that he shall make or doo to be made before the fest of the Nativite of Seynt John Baptiste next comyng to William Katesby Knyght Henry Greene Squyer Thomas Littilton Thomas Bylling Serjaunts of Law Thomas Wake Squyer Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford a sufficient and lawful Estate in and of Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the yearly value of four hundred marks over all maner charges and repryses the ordinarie charges of ordinarie officers onely except to have to theyme and to theire heirs for evermore And the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe shall before the said fest of Seynt John by Fine to be rered in the Kyngs Courte at the costes of the said Duc between theyme and the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford beying seised of the same Manoirs Londs and Tenements before the said feoffament made to theyme knowlage the same Monoirs Londs and Tenements to be the right of the said William Catesby as tho that the same William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William have of the yeft of the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe And the same Duc and my Lady and the heirs of my said Lady shall warant the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William and to the heirs of the said Willam Catesby for evermore Item The said Duc shall doo and cause Humfrey his sonne and heire apparaunt by his dede sufficient in Law enrolled in the Kyngs Courte of Record to ratefye and confirme the state of the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford and to the heirs of oon of theyme accordyng to the said fyne of and in the Londs and Tenements comprised in the same fyne with a clause of Warantie according to the same Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements shall graunte sufficiently by theire dede to suche persones as the said Henry Greene shall name an annuyte of three hundred markes goying oute of all the said Londs and Tenements to be perceyved for terme of the lyfes of Margaret wyfe to the said Henry John and Constance and everyche of theyme longest lyvyng the same annuyte to begynne to be levable at suche tymes as the same John and Constance or outher of theyme or any outher by the sturringe excitation or commandemente of theyme or of outher of theyme durynge the lyfe of the said John or elles the said Constance after the decesse of the said John beyng not relyvered to her said Fader as is hereafter writen disturbe or interrupte in any wise after the deth of the said Henry the Estates made or to be made by the said Henry or by other at his desire to the said Margaret his wyfe or to other his servants for terme of theire lyfes of three hundred markes worth land by yere beneth excepted or any part thereof or elles disturbe or interrupte the last will of the said Henry to be made by hyme of Londs by hyme purchased or to be purchased or of his movable goodes and if noe suche disturbance or interruption be the said graunte to be voide Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements after the said graunte of Annuyte and within three monethes after the said mariage had shall make Estate by dede endented of all the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said Duc to have to him for terme of his lyfe withoute impechment of waste the remayndre thereof after his decesse to the
vel haeredes ipsius Constanciae aut praefata Margareta per Nos vel haeredes nostros Justiciarios Escaetores Vicecomites Coronatores aut alios Ballivos seu Ministros nostros quoscunque ratione praemissorum occasionentur molestentur impetantur in aliquo seu graventur aut eorum aliquis occasionetur molestetur impetatur in aliquo seu gravetur In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri nono Iver Per breve de privato Sigillo de data praedicta auctoritate Parliamenti Carta Thomae Lenton Katherinae filiae Roberti Long. SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Nos Thomas Lenton Katherina filia Roberti Long Consanguinea haeres Willielmi Aldwyncle Armigeri defuncti de licentia Domini nostri Regis Edwardi Quarti per Literas suas Patentes concessa tradidimus dimisimus hac praesenti Carta nostra confirmavimus Johanni Stafford Militi filio Humfridi nuper Ducis Buckinghamiae Constanciae uxori ejusdem Johannis filiae haeredis Henrici Greene Armigeri defuncti Manerium de Alba Rothynge cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae ac advocationem Ecclesiae de Alba Rothynge praedicta Habendum tenendum eisdem Johanni Stafford Constanciae haeredibus ipsius Constanciae de dicto Domino Rege haeredibus suis per servitia inde debita de jure consuera imperpetuum Fecimus etiam constituimus dilectos Nobis in Christo Willielmum Warner Johannem Gissynge nostros veros legitimos Attornatos conjunctim divisim ad deliberandum pro Nobis nominibus nostris praefatis Johanni Stafford Constanciae vel eorum in hac parte Attornato plenam pacificam possessionem seisinam de in Manerio ac advocatione praedictis cum suis pertinentiis secundum vim formam effectum istius Cartae nostrae Ratum gratum habentes habituri totum quicquid praedicti Attornati nostri fecerint aut eorum alter fecerit in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Cartae nostrae Sigilla nostra apposuimus Hiis Testibus Thoma Tyrell Willielmo Tyrell seniore Willielmo Tyrell juniore Militibus Waltero Writell Armigero multis aliis Dat' vicesimo sexto die mensis Maii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti supradicti post Conquestum nono Ultima Voluntas Johannis Comitis Wilts IN the name of God Amen The one and twentyeth day of the moneth of April the year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred seaventy and three I John Earl of Wyltshyre of holle minde and in goode memorie bequeth my soule to Allmithi Gode my Creatur and Savior to our Lady Saynt Mary and to all the Holy Sayntes in Heven and my body to be beried in the Colage of Plassy in the midell Arch. And I wyll that myne Executors cause a convenient Tombe there to be made for me of marble playne with an ymage gilte like a Knight of the Garter thereupon with such Armes as I bere by myne Auncestres Also I wyll that twelve markes of the Manoir of Grimmisbry in the Counte of Bedford be disposed unto a Prest perpetually to sing for my soule within the said Colage of Plassy chargyng on Godes behalfe the Master there now beyng or eny other that hereafter shall be that they and ever ich of them chese allway a goode and able Prest to be bounden to the service and customes of the same Colage as largely in all thinges as eny Felow of the same been Also I wyll that my servant Edward Mandeby have forty shillings yerely during his lyfe of the said Manoir of Grimmesbry And I wyll that my said Manoir the residue hereof yerely be disposed to a pore man to pray for me within the said Parish of Plassy And with the residue over that if eny be I wyll yerely to be disposed for myne obite And also I wyll that the land I purchased of William Heton the which joyneth unto my Lordship of Newenton remayne unto my Sonne and heire that it be not put from the Lordship of Newenton in recompence of the Lordship of Gretwell in Lyncolnshire and I have put in exchaunging for this Lislode and other Also I wyll that all such plate as I had by wyfe remayne still agen to the use of her and my Sonne and hers And as for the two gilte potis six new bollis gylte two gylte basynnes that I bought and a gylte cup being in the kepeing of Oliver Sutton with all other plate that is myne undisposed be sold to the most avayle and with the money thereof coming my depts to be payed And I bequeth to my Sister of Shrewsbury two gilte Saltes that I bought For all such stuff as I bought my self beding or any other thing be at the disposition of my Executors soe all that comen by my Fader-in-Law and my wyfe remaine styll to the use of my said wyfe terme of her lyfe and after to my Sonne and heire And I bequeth unto Berushaw my manne and servant my long black Gowne furryed with blake lambe and three pounds six shillings eight pence in money and I beseech my Lady my Moder to be his goode Lady and that it will please her to take him to service Also I bequeth unto the Parish Church of Luffwyk an hole Gowne of blake velvet And I bequeth the Gownes of silke unto the Colage of Plassy Also bequeth my grey Coarser and Alisaunder my henchman unto my Lord my Nevue And as for my blake coarser I bequeath him unto my Lady my Moder And if it please the Kinges goode grace for all the trew service that ever I did him I desire that my Lady my Moder may have the keeping of my said Sonne and I beseche the Kinges goode grace that my said Sonne be never maryed under the estate of a Baron Also I bequeth unto Thomas Cheney the next bay coarser after my Lady my Moder have chosen Also I will pray William Merbury to be attendaunt unto my Sonne and he to have rule aboute him Also I bequeth unto my Mother-in-law the cope that I had of my Sister Veere Also I bequeth unto Anne Wittelbury the cheyne of Golde that Cornish hath in pleage Also I bequeth unto every Gentylman and Gentylwoman whit in my howsehold five markes of money and to every Yoman twenty shillings to every Groome thirteene shillinges four pence and to every Page three shillings four pence Also I bequeth unto Bertelmew Chesnale my bay Geldynge And I wyll that all my detts which I owe to eny persone of ryght be duly and truly payd of the which I have putte a greate parte to my knowlage in a bill hereunto annexid And if my detts may be payd of myne owne goodes by the meane of myne Executors without the sale of my Manoir of Babenho Then I wyll that the revenues and profites of the said Manoir with the
vel habere poterimus versus ipsum Richardum pro aliquibus hujusmodi finibus amerciamentis exitibus releviis scutagiis debitis compotis praestitis arreragiis ante dictum vicesimum nonum diem Septembris Anno Regni nostri nono nobis vel Progenitoribus praedictis aut aliis nuper ut praemittitur Regibus seu eorum alicui debitis Ac etiam Utlegariis in ipsum Richardum promulgatis pro aliqua causarum supradictarum Proviso semper quòd praesens Pardonatio nostra se non extendat ad praedictum Richardum quoad captionem asportationem abductionem seu detentionem aliquorum Bonorum seu Catallorum nostrorum quorumcunque per ipsum Richardum habit ' sive detent ' dummodo Bona Catalla illa nostra citra quartum diem Martii Anno Regni nostri undecimo capta asportata seu abducta fuerint nec ad ipsum Richardum quoad captionem asportationem abductionem seu detentionem aliquorum Bonorum seu Catallorum aliquorum praedictorum Rebellium Inimicorum nostrorum qui guerram contra nos aliquo modo levaverunt citra quartum diem Martii supradictum per ipsum Richardum habit ' detent ' nec ad ipsum Richardum quoad aliquas transgressiones negligentias misprisiones contemptus concelamenta forisfacturas aut deceptiones in stapula nostra ad Cales aut in aliquibus Merchandizis ad stapulam illam pertinentibus per ipsum Richardum facta sive perpetrata in deceptionem seu laesionem nostram aliquo modo citra dictum vicesimum nonum diem Septembris nec ad aliquam personam seu aliquas personas virtute vel authoritate alicujus Parliamenti nostri de alta proditione attinctam vel attinctas post hujusmodi attinctionem ad beneficium Legis nostrae per nullam authoritatem alicujus Parliamenti nec per aliquas Literas nostras Patentes habilitatas nec restitutas Nec ad aliquos magnos computantes nostros qui nunc sunt aut nuper fuerunt videlicet ad Majorem Societatem stapulae nostrae praedictae aut Majorem Constabularem Societatem stapulae nostrae praedictae Thesaurarii Cales Hospitii nostri vel Progenitorum dictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum seu eorum alicujus Vitellarios Cales Camerarios nostros Cestriae Northwalliae Southwalliae Custodes Garderobae Hospitii nostri vel Progenitorum praedictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum seu eorum alicujus aut Custodes sive Clericos magnae Garderobae nostrae vel Progenitorum praedictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum seu eorum alicujus Clericos sive Custodes Hanaperii Cancellariae nostrae qui nunc sunt aut nuper fuerunt vel Executores aut Administratores Bonorum Catallorum eorundem Clericorum sive Custodum vel eorum alicujus Clericos operationum nostrarum vel Progenitorum praedictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum vel eorum alicujus Thesaurarios Terrae nostrae Hiberniae Receptores Ducatûs nostri Lancastriae Ducatûs nostrae Cornubiae tam generales quà m particulares quoad aliqua hujusmodi Officia seu hujusmodi Occupationes suos seu alicujus eorundem tangentia ullo modo se extendat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quinto die Maii Anno Regni nostri duodecimo Irrotulatur in memorandis Scaccarii de Anno duodecimo Regis Edwardi Quarti videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis Rotulo quinquagesimo tertio ex parte Rememoratoris Thesaurarii HENRY de VERE second of that Name Lord of Addington Thrapston and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Septimi HEnricus Deigratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quod per manucaptionem Johannis Boteler de Wotton in Comitatu Hertfordiae Gentilman Willielmi Coteler de Billing in Comitatu Northamptoniae Gentilman confirmavimus Henrico Vere Armigero Custodiam Manerii sive Dominii de Gedyngton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Northamptoniae Habendum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli proximo futuro usque ad finem termini septem Annorum ex tunc proximè sequentium plenariè completorum Reddendo inde nobis per Annum pro custodia praedicta viginti tres Libras novem Denarios unum Obolum prout nobis responsum est octo Denarios ultra de incremento per Annum ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones Proviso semper quod si aliquis aliis plus dare voluerit de incremento per Annum pro Custodia praedicta fine fraude vel malo ingenio quòd ex tunc dictus Henricus tantum pro eadem solvere teneatur si custodiam voluerit habere supradictam In cujus rei testimoninm has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri primo Curteis Per Billam Thesaur ' de dato praedicto authoritate Parliamenti To the Right Honourable and my singular good Lord my Lord Chancellor of England RIght honourable and my most singular good Lord I recommend me to your good Lordship in as humble manner as I can Please it your good Lordship to understand That where one Thomas Watts hath compleyned afore your Lordship and other of the Kings Councel ayenst Harry Vere Squyer of divers injuries and wrongs supposed that he shuld doe to him in the coming of the Kings Grace into this Lond for the whyche injuries and wronges the said Thomas had at that tyme a Privy Seal and of his own offer and desire prayed me to sett him and the said Harry at accord And the said Harry Vere to appear And the said Thomas kept still his Privy Seal And for soe much as he was my Servaunt att the tyme I att a Sessions in the second Yere of our said Soveraigne Lord at Northampton afore Sir Thomas Greene John Throgmorton Richard Knightly and other Gentilmen there present made a their own agreement and accorde of matters desires and greves depending betwix the said partyes from the beginning of the World unto that day of accord as well of the part of the said Harry as of the said Thomas And alsoe whereas the said Thomas shuld late surmiis unto your Lordship that the said Henry should desire me to goe to the house of the said Thomas in Rothewell att my goeing toward the King att his last Journay Northwarde to slee or destroye the said Thomas It was never soe desired by the said Henry nor noon of his of me nor of noon of myne nor I never thought no suche entent to him nor to noon other but according to the Kings comandement and his Lawes and thereto I shall be ready to answer as well for my declaration as for the declaration of the said Henry in all the
present Writing shall come John Mordaunt of Turvey of the County of Bedford Gentilman sendeth greeting in our Lord God Whereas Margaret Mordaunt my Moder holdeth the Maners called Mordaunts-maner and Dardres-maner and divers Lands and Tenements called Maunsellis Blatherwykes and divers other Lands and Tenements with the appurteneces in the Parish of Turvey aforesaid from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth after the Conquest the nineteenth unto the end and term of fourty Years then next following the reversion thereof to me the said John belonging Know ye me the said John to have given and by this my present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey aforesaid the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances the Rent unto the said Lessee reserved To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore And Whereas the said Margaret holdeth the Mills of Turvey with divers Holmes and Waters from Year to Year yielding to me therefore yearly ten Pounds of Lawful Money and ... Son William Ball holdeth divers Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances called Wellynz for the Term of six Years Know ye me the said John Mordaunt to have given and granted to the said Thomas Vynter John Vynter John Poley and Richard the reversion of the said Mills Holmes Waters Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And I the said John Mordaunt and my Heirs all the said Maners Mills Waters Holmes Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas and John Vynter John Poley and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for ever In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the six and twentieth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth SIGILLVM IOHANNIS MORDAVNT Charta Johannis Mordaunt TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing shall come John Mordaunt greeting in God Whereas one Hugh Jacob holdeth the Maner of Botelers in the Parish of Walden within the County of Essex with the appurtenances except three Acres and a half of arable Land half an Acre of Meede a Close called Horsecroft and eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the eleventh unto the end and Term of sixteen Years then next following of the demise of William Mordaunt Fader to me the said John which after the Death of the said William to me the said John as Son and Heir to the said William ought to descend Know ye me the said John to have given and granted and by this present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey the reversion of the said Maner with the appurtenances except before excepted to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And also I give and grant and by this present Deed confirm unto the said Thomas King John Vynter John Poley and to Richard Stevynson the said three Acres and a half of Land half an Acre of Meede the Close called Horsecroft eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent with the appurtenances To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore of the chief Lords of the Fee by the services due and accustomed And I the said John and my Heirs the said Maner with the appurtenances to the said Thomas John John and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for evermore In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the twenty sixth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentilman By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forsomuch as Wee with God's Grace intend to bring into our obeysance our Castles kept by our Traytors and Rebels in the North Parts of our Land and therefore will in our Person remove to Morrow towards these said Parties to stablish the means that may best serve thereunto We pray you heartily that you being accompanied with as many Persons defensibly arrayed as may goodly accord with your ease meet with us at Leicestre the tenth day of May next coming furnished with good for yours and their expences to attend upon us from thence for the space of two Months for the said cause And that natheless ye be ready with the said Persons in the said array upon the warning of a day next after the fourth day of May to attend upon us as the case shall require for the said intent Not failing hereof as our trust is in you and as ye tender the assured rest of our said Land Given under our Signet at our Tower of London the Twenty fifth of April A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt and William Salisbury To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt and William Salisbury and to every of them By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forasmuch as by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this our Land late assembled at our Palace of Westminster we be fully determined by God's Grace to address us in Person with Host Royal toward the parties of our Enemies and Rebels of Scotland at the beginning of this next Sommer to subdue and do them the annoyance possible both by Sea and Land in saving as well this our Land from such inconveniencies as else were like to ensue as the Honour of Us and of our Blood and true Liegemen inhabited and inherited within this our Land Wee having perfect and certain Trust of your Good-will Aid and Assistance to this our great Voyage and knowing how useful and necessary your presence shall be to us in the same will and desire you right effectually and natheless charge you in the straitest wise that incontinent upon the sight of this our Writing ye dispose you to serve Us personally in Our said Voyage accompanied and apparelled for the War according to your degree so and in such wise that by the first day of May next coming ye be ready and readily pass forward with Us in the said Journey so accompanied as aforesaid and that in giving credence to the Bearers hereof ye send Us by them your Intent and Mind and what assistance we shall be sure to have of you in this behalf as Our very trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Tower of London the eighteenth day of February And howbeit
Marriage and the Lands and Tenements of the said Amey or any of them And that the said John Mordaunt shall have the whole Interesse of the said Humphrey that he shall have of all Advowsons belonging to the said Amey till she come to the Age of Three and twenty Years full and the said Humphrey giveth and bindeth himself by these Presents That he shall be of Councel to his power and cunning with the said John Mordaunt and John Mordaunt the Son during the Life of the said Humphrey without any Money Fee or other Reward taking for his labour In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these Indentures interchangeably have set their Seals the Day and Year abovesaid and that the said Humphrey shall continue at his Book Per me Humphredum Brown Per me Wistanum Brown Extracta decimo quarto Maii Henrici octavi vicesimo quarto coram Doctore Olyver An Indenture between Henry Strangeways and John Mordaunt for a Marriage between Gyles Strangeways his Son and Jane the Daughter of the said John THIS Indenture made the Eighth Day of February in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between Henry Strangeways Esquire on the oon Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey Gentleman on the other Partie Witnesseth That it is Bargained Accorded and Agreed between the said Parties in form following that is to say The said Henry Granteth and Covenanteth by these Presents That Gyles Son and Heir apparent of the said Henry and of Dorothy late his Wife Daughter of john Arundell of Chideok Knight shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to Wife Jane Daughter to the said John and Edith his Wife Daughter and one of the Heirs of Nicholas Latimer of Duntish Knight if the same Jane thereto will agree And in like wise the said John Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents that the said Jane by the Grace of God shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Gyles if the same Gyles thereto shall agree The Solemnization of the said Matrimony to be done at such time as the said Henry and John Mordaunt shall agree at the Costs and Charges of the same Henry and John indifferently except the said John Moudaunt shall find Meat and Drink and the said Henry and his Heirs shall cause as sure and lawful Estate to be made to the said John Mordaunt and Jane William Carant of Tomer Esquire William Mordaunt Brother to the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan Brown and Reynold Holdy for term of Life of the same Jane within two Months next after the decease of Elianor ...... Mother of the said Henry or at any time after when the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require of Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset or the one of them to the yearly Value of an hundred Marks over all Charges to have to them for Term of Life of the same Jane as shall be advised by the learned Councel of the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs And it is Covenanted between the said Parties during the Life of the said Elianor That the said Henry shall find the said Gyles to School Court and in all other Places in all manner of things convenient for his Degree And the said John shall find the said Jane according to her Degree Furthermore it is Covenanted and Granted between the said Parties that immediately after the said Estate made of the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold in form aforesaid That the said Henry shall take the Issues and Profits of Fifty Mark Land parcel of the said hundred Mark Land to their own uses six Years after the said Estate made to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold the said Henry finding the said Gyles and the said John Mordaunt finding the said Jane as is aforesaid And the said Henry Granteth further That he shall cause to be made within three months next after the Death of the said Elianor or at any time after when the same John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold a sufficient and lawful Estate of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark over and beside the said other Maners Lands and Tenements before specified to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark to have to them and to their Heirs to the use of the said Henry during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after his Decease to the use of the said Jane for Term of Life in full recompence of all her Dower of all the Maners Lands and Tenements to which the said Jane should be entituled by the Law of the Inheritance of the said Gyles And the said Henry shall cause and suffer as well the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the Value of the said two hundred Marks severally demised to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold in Deed or in Use As all other Maners Lands and Tenements whereof the said Elianor or any other person to her use is now seized of Estate of Inheritance and also the Maner of Todrington which is of the yearly Value of Twenty eight Pounds immediately after the Decease of the said Elianor and Henry in Deed or in Use to come grow or descend immediately after the Decease of the said Elianor and Henry to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to John Brother of the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Henry for ever Which Lands and Tenements the said Henry promises in the whole to be of the yearly Value of Eight hundred Marks over all Charges And so the said John Mordaunt accepts them to be of the same yearly Value It is also Covenanted Bargained and Agreed between the said Parties That whereas the said Henry late purchased the Maners of Melbury Samford and Melbury Osmond and all the Lands Tenements and Advowsons in Melbury Samford and Melbury Osmond in the County of Dorset late Browning's to him and to his Heirs for ever if Catharine now Wife of the said Henry Decease without Issue Male of her Body by the said Henry begotten that then all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Advowsons late Browning's with the appurtenances after the decease of the said Henry and Catharine now his Wife and of William Browning and after the Issue Male of the said Catharine by the said Henry begotten if any such shall be spent and determined shall go and grow to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to the said John
fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Oxford secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sexto Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parliamenti Toung Irrotulatur in Memorandis Scaccarii de Anno nono Regis Henrici octavi videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sanctae Trinitatis rotulo ..... Ex parte Remem Thesaurum A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we intend that our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots shall now shortly repair unto our City of London at whose coming our mind is That she be honourably accompanied and conveyed from Shire to Shire by such Noble-men and other Gentlemen as be Inhabitants of those paris amongst whom we have appointed you to accompany and attend upon our said Sister from the Town of Stony-stratford to Saint Albans We therefore will and desire you to put your self in a readiness so that against the Fourteenth day of April ye be at our said Town of Stonystratford there to meet with our said dearest Sister and from thence to attend upon her till her coming to the said Town of Saint Albans Not failing hereof as ye intend to do unto us honour and pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Two and twentieth day of March. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we understand that at the time of the late repair hither of our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots ye according to our Letters to you then Addressed right thankfully acquitted your self in giving your Attendance for Her conducting and honourable conveyance We therefore give unto you our special thanks And where it is appointed that our said dearest Sister shall now return unto the Realm of Scotland we will and desire you to put your self in a readiness likewise to accompany and conduct her at this her said return from our Castle of Windsor where she intendeth to be the Sixteenth day of this Moneth so to attend upon her to Stony-stratford whereby ye shall deserve a further thanks to be remembred accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Eight day of May. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well Forasmuch as a right-great and Honourable Ambassaor shall within short time repair unto our Presence out of France at which season it is requisite and right expedient that our Court be Honourably furnished with Lords and other Nobles for the receiving and entertaining of the said Ambassador We therefore have appointed you among others to give your Attendance in our said Court at their coming Wherefore we will that forthwith upon the sight of these our Letters ye put your self in such a readiness in your best aray that ye may be here with us by the Twentieth day of this instant Month at the farthest without failing thus to do as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Tenth day of August Alliance of Mordaunt and Elmes THese be the Articles and Agreements had made and concluded the Twelfth day of February the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir apparent of Elizabeth now Wife to Thomas Pygott Esquire one of the Kings Serjeants at Law and late the Wife of the said William and one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Iwardely Esquire Deceased on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Partie for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Elmes and Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt First it is agreed That the said John Elmes shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Wife the said Edith if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in the like manner the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes if the said John Elmes will agree and assent thereto The said Marriage to be had and solemnized before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these present Agreements Item It is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the Costs of the same John Mordaunt Item It is also agreed by these Presents That the said John Elmes shall Apparel himself at his pleasure and at his own Costs and Charges And in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall Apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the Feast-day of All-Saints shall at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the said John Mordaunt Robert Brudenell Knight one of the Justices of our Sovereign Lord the King at the Pleas before him to be holden Thomas Pygott one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law and to William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Gardiner John Spencer Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs and at all time and times after the said Feast of All-Saints within the space of Eight Years when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt or by by his Heirs or by his Executors or by his Assigns a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly Value of Threescore Pounds over all yearly Charges and of such Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances of the Inheritance of the said John Elmes as by the said John Mordaunt shall be named and appointed the said Persons to be and stand seized of Fifty Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Threescore Pounds to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith Mordaunt after their said Marriage had 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 right Heirs of the said William according to the Old Interest thereof And of Ten Pounds residue of the said Threescore Pounds that the said Feoffees shall stand
or done shall be seized of the same Ten Marks to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of his Heirs for ever Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Edith within the time and space of Six Years after the Marriage solemnized do dye having no Issue by the said John Elmes alive 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 Five hundred Marks within the space of Two Years next and immediately after the Decease of the said Edith To all which Covenants Bargains Promises and Grants on the part of the said John Elmes to be performed and kept the said John Elmes bindeth him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns in a Thousand Marks And to all the payments well and truly to be performed and kept on the Party of the said John the said John Mordaunt bindeth him his Heirs Executors or Assigns to the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors and Assigns in Six hundred Marks In Witness whereof c. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Servant John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And whereas this Year last passed after the conclusion taken between us and our dear Brother Cousin Confederate and Allie the French King as well for firm Peace Love and Amity as of Alliance by way of Marriage God willing to be had and made between our dearest Daughter the Princess and the Dolphin of France a personal meeting and Interview was also to them concluded to be had betwixt us and the said French King which upon urgent considerations and great respects was by mutual consent for that year put over and deferred So it is now that the said French King being much desirous to see and personally to speak with us hath sundry times by his Ambassadors and writings instantly desired us to condescend to this said interview offering to meet with us within our Dominion Pale and Marches of Caleys whereas heretofore semblable honour of preeminence hath not been given by any of the French Kings to any of our Progenitors or Ancestors we therefore remembring the manifold good effects that be in appearance like to ensue of this personal meeting as well for Corroboration and assured Establishment of Peace and Alliance concluded between us as for the universal well tranquility and restfulness of all Christendom taking also to consideration the great honour offered to us by the French King for the said meeting within our Dominion have condescended thereunto accordingly the same to be God willing in the Month of May next coming And in as much as to our Honour and Dignity Royal it appertaineth to be furnished with honourable Personages as well Spiritual as Temporal to give their Attendance upon us at so solemn an Act as this shall be for the Honour of us and our Realm we therefore have appointed you among others to attend upon our dearest Wife the Queen in this Voyage willing therefore and desiring you not only to put your self in a readiness with the number of Ten tall Personages well and conveniently apparelled for this purpose to pass with you over the Sea But also in such wise to appoint your self in Apparel as to your degree the Honour of us and this our Realm appertaineth So that ye repairing to our said dearest Wife the Queen by the First day of May next coming may there give your Attendance in her transporting over the Sea accordingly ascertaining you that albeit ye be appointed to the number of Ten Servants to pass with you as is abovesaid yet nevertheless in as much as that at her arrival at Caleys you shall have no great Journey requisite to occupy many Horses ye shall therefore convey with you over the Sea for your own Riding and otherwise not above the number of Four Horses Howbeit our mind is not to Coact or Restrain you to the said Precise number of Four Horses for your coming up to our said dearest Wife and accompanying you to the Sea side which thing we remit to your Arbitrament but only to ascertain you what number of Servants and Horses be appointed unto you to pass over the Sea like as we have ordered all other Lords and Nobles as shall attend upon our said dearest Wife the Queen according to their Degrees Fail ye not therefore to accomplish the premises as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Eltham the Six and twentieth day of March. An Indenture between John Elmes and John Mordaunto. THIS Indenture made the Ninth day of May the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir Apparent of Elizabeth Pygott Widow one of the Danghters and Heirs of John Iwardeby Esquire deceased and late Wife to the said William Elmes on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Party Witnesseth That it is Promised Covenanted and Agreed between the said Parties in the manner and form following that is to say The said John Elmes granteth and promiseth by the Grace of God to espouse and take to his Wife Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these Presents if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in like manner the said John Mordaunt granteth and promiseth That the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes before the foresaid Feast if the said John Elmes thereunto shall agree and assent And it is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the costs of the said John Mordaunt And that the said John Elmes shall apparel himself at his Pleasure at his own cost and charges and in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at his proper cost and charges And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Agreeth by these Presents That he before the Feast of All-Saints next coming at the cost and charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall make cause or do to be made to Robert Brudenell Knight the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and to the said John Mordaunt John Thyney of Drayton in the County of Buckingham Esquire Robert Thyney Thomas Tyrynghin the Elder Thomas Brudenell the Elder William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Hardyng John Spencer and Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs a sure and lawful
after the decease of the said Edith and thereupon immediately after the payment of the said Two hundred Marks all and singular the Promises Covenants and Agreements on the Party of the said John Elmes to be performed to be utterly void and of none effect In Witness whereof c. John Mordaunt John Elmes A Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Sir John Mordaunt To my welbeloved Friends Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet the King's Counsellors AFter my hearty commendations these shall be to advertise you That the King hath appointed this present bearer Roger Ratclif to be Keeper of the Maner and Park of Birdsnest and Overseer of the Forest of Leicester with such Wages Pasturage and Commodity as is appointed and contained in your Memorial over and besides this the King's pleasure is That he shall be Steward of the Five Hundreds and other Lordships belonging to the Honour of Leicester within the same County with the Fee of Three Pound Six Shillings and Eight Pence by the Year The King's pleasure also is That he shall be Keeper and Porter of the Castle of Leicester with such Fee as shall be accorded now ye be ascertained of the premises the King's mind is That ye shall see this said trusty Servant Roger Ratclif to be put in possession of the foresaid Rooms accordingly giving unto him credence in such things as on the King 's and my behalf he shall declare unto you And thus heartily fare ye well At the King's Maner of Richmond the Twenty Fourth of May. Your Loving Friend THOMAS Cardinalis Eboracensis A Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Sir John Mordaunt To my trusty and welbeloved Friends Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet the King's Counsellors RIght welbeloved I commend me unto you in my hearty manner and have received your Letters dated at Leicester the Twelfth day of this Instant Moneth the continue whereof I have shewed unto the King's Highness who for your good endeavour discreetly and substantially used in the affairs to you committed there giveth unto you great thanks praying you so to persevere and continue to the final perfection of the same And whereas amongst other things ye writ That by reason that the Lady Hungersord compelled by sickness is yet removed no further out of the Castle of Leicester than into the Colledge of Newark the Lord John Gray remaineth still in Birdsnest affirming that he will in no wise depart from thence till such time as the Lady Hungerford doth also remove from Leicester the King's Highness doth much marvel hereof for considering that the said Lady and her Husband be departed out of the Castle and that without danger of her Life she cannot so soon pass out of the Town as she would do the said Lord John and the Lady his Wife ought not to make such refusal ye shall therefore shew unto him that the King's pleasure is he and the Lady his Wife without further contradiction do depart from Birdsnest as he tendereth the King's pleasure and as soon as the Lady Hungerford shall move without danger of Life ye shall also cause her and her Husband to do the semblable out of Leicester wherein the King's trust is he will use no colourable excuse or fained delay and therewith the said Lord John must be contented as reason is I refer you therefore to see this accomplished accordingly proceeding also to the residue of your business with diligence and effect as appertaineth And fare ye heartily well At my place of the More the Sixteenth day of June Your Loving Friend THOMAS Cardinalis Eboracensis Charta Johannis Cottisford Rectoris Collegii de Lincolne in Vniversitate Oxoniensi OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Johannis Cottisford Custos sive Rector Collegii beatae Mariae omnium Sanctorum Lincolniae in Universitate Oxoniensi Scolares ejusdem Collegii salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Custodem sive Rectorem Scolares unanimi assensu consensu nostris deputasse ordinasse per praesentes constituisse Johannem Mordaunt de Turvey in Comitatu Bedfordiae militem capitalem Senefcallum nostrum maneriorum nostrorum de Skeney Petesthoo in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac omnium aliorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum nostrorum cum eorum pertinentiis in eodem Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac eidem Johanni officium Senescalliae omnium maneriorum praedictorum damus concedimus per praesentes Habendum exercendum occupandum officium illud per praefatum Johannem Mordaunt aut per suum sufficientem Deputatum durante vita ipsius Johannis Percipiendum annuatim praefato Johanni Mordaunt pro termino vitae suae pro officio praedicto exercendo viginti solidos nomine feodi sui de exitibus proficuis praedictorum maneriorum cum pertinentiis per manus Receptorum Ballivorum Firmariorum sive Occupatorum maneriorum praedictorum vel eorum alicujus pro tempore existentis de festo Annunciationis beatae Mariae Virginis Sancti Michaelis Archangeli aequis portionibus solvendum primo termino solutionis inde incipiente de festo Annunciationis beatae Mariae praefixi futuri post datum praesentium Volumus concedimus per praesentes quod si ac quotiens contingat praedictum annualem redditum viginti solidorum à retro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum Solutionis quo ut proefertur solvi debeat per unum mensem insolutum quod tunc bene liceat licebit praefato Johanni Mordaunt Assignatis suis in omnibus praedictis maneriis terris tenementis cum eorum pertinentiis intrare distringere districtionesque sic captas licitè asportare abducere effugare penes se retinere quousque eundem Johannem assignati sui de annuali redditu sive feodo praedicto sic à retro existente insoluto de omnibus inde arreragiis plenariè fuerit satisfactum persolutum Deinsuper omnibus singulis Ballivis Firmariis Tenentibus nostris mandamus quod praefato Johanni Mordaunt aut suo in hac parte Deputato in executione praedicti officii sint intendentes obedientes assistentes auxiliantes in omnibus prout decet in ad utilitatem dicti Rectoris successoris aut successorum suorum Ratum gratum habentes habituri totum quicquid idem Johannes Mordaunt aut in hac parte suus Deputatus in debito officio Senescalliae debitè fecerit aut duxerit faciendum dummodo nihil fecerit contra voluntatem ejusdem Rectoris successoris vel successorum suorum In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro Sigillum nostrum commune apponi fecimus Data Oxoniae in Collegio nostro ante-dicto Tricesimo die mensis Decembris Henrici octavi post Conquestum duodecimo Memorandum That Sir John Mordaunt Promiseth and Granteth That he himself or his Deputy shall keep yearly Courts upon the said Maners Lands and Tenements if the said
or good Cause of Breach herein I have not gone so far but as yet I may return by your Lordships better Advice I have sent you again the Book of Articles and somewhat added by Cousin John Yate unto them if your Lordship thinketh not these sufficient I shall desire your Lordship to add more unto them which being but reasonable I trust Mr. Denton will assent thereto And what your further pleasure is herein I shall defire your Lordship to certifie by your Letters by this bearer my Servant And further to disclose your whole mind herein to Mr. Denton at his next repair unto your Lordship whereby ye shall bind me to pray for you I would have seen your Lordship before this if I had not been letted by Sickness But I intend by God's Grace shortly to wait upon you In the mean time I shall desire your Lordship and my good Lady my Mother of your Blessings Thus our Lord send you both long Life From Besellesly the Tenth day of November by your Obedient and Loving Daughter Margaret Fettyplace A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That where upon the special Zeal and Affection which we bear to the Common-Wealth of this our Realm and Furniture of the same with some more Store if it shall please God of our lawful Posterity we did lately at the Suit and Contemplation of some of our Nobles and Counsel resolve eftsoons to Marry and have thereupon concluded by God's Grace a Marriage between Us and the most Excellent Princess the Lady Anne of Cleves-Juliers Forasmuch as we suppose that the same Dame Anne shall shortly arrive at our Town of Calice to be Transported unto this our Realm for the consummation of the said Marriage Considering that it shall be requisite and necessary both for our Honour and for the Honour of our said Realm That she shall be Honourably received and met at sundry places at the said arrival We have named and appointed you to be one of these Noble Personages whom we have thought meet in this affair to attend upon Us or to accompany such others of our Nobles and Counsel as shall meet her before she shall come to our Presence Wherefore we shall desire and pray you to put your self in such order as you may be at our City of London the Eighth Day of December there to know our further pleasure concerning the place of your Attendance bringing with you honestly furnished Twenty Servants wherein you shall do unto us acceptable service Given under our Signet at Westminster the Four and twentieth day of November A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That minding earnestly to have a Marriage concluded between our Trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Humphrey Ratclif Knight Son to our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Sussex Great Chamberlain of England and Mistress Rich Neice and Heir to our trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Michael Fisher Knight Albeit we doubt not of the conformity of the said Sir Michael having written our mind and pleasure to him in that behalf yet knowing that the same taking you for his assured Friend will be much advised by you in this and other his private affairs We have thought meet not only to signifie this our purpose and pleasure unto you but also to desire and pray you at this our especial Contemplation to extend your Favour and good Advice to the same in such sort as we may perceive that you tender our Pleasure according to the good Expectation we have of you accordingly Given under our Signet at our House of Hampton-Court the Second day of March the Two and thirtieth Year of our Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Cheyne ARticles of Agreement made the Twenty third day of October the Three and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth between John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the one Party and Robert Cheyne Esquire on the other Party of and for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had between Winefred Mordaunt Daughter of the said Lord and John Cheyne Son and Heir apparent to the said Robert First The said Lord to apparel his said Daughter the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The said Robert to apparel his said Son the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The costs and charges of the said Marriage and for two days after to be be at the costs and charges of the said Lord the said Robert to find Dishes of Fowl at his pleasure Item The said Robert shall make Estate of certain Closes parcel of a Pasture called Hellesthorp in the Parish of Drayton and Wyning in the County of Buckingham to the value of Twenty Pounds by the Year to the said John and Winefred to have to them during the Life of Margaret Cheyne Widow Mother to the said Robert Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of certain Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Six Pounds fourteen Shillings parcel of the Maner of Grove in the County of Buckingham to have to them during the life of the said Margaret Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of his Maners of Drayton Beauchamp and all his Lands and Tenements in Drayton Beauchamp in the County of Buckingham which Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances the said Robert promiseth to be of the clear yearly value of Forty Pound over all yearly Reprises and Charges and of the Maner of Cuggenho in the County of Northampton Which Maners Lands and Tenements together shall be to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds to have to them and to their Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten by the said John And for lack of such Issue to remain to the Heirs Males of the said Robert That is to say The said Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances of the yearly value of Sixty Pounds immediatly after the Death of the said Margaret Mother to the said Robert and Twenty Pounds in Cuggenho after the Death of the said Robert Also it is agreed That the said John shall pay yearly to the said Robert his Father as much Money of the Issues of the Fruits of the said Maner of Drayton as the said Maner shall amount above the clear yearly value of Fifty Marks during the life of the said Robert Item The said Robert shall leave to the said John in Possession Reversion and Use after the decease of the said Margaret his Mother Mary his Neice and John Cheyne Esquire his Brother and Robert Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Buckingham
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
consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti Pembrochiae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon charissimo consanguineo nostro Roberto Comiti Leicestriae Magistro Equorum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti Lincolniae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam charissimo consanguineo nostro Antonio Vicecomiti Montague alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Carolo Domino Howard Magno Admirallo nostro Angliae alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Camerario nostro alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Abergavenniae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Zouche alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Morley alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Willielmo Cobham Domino Guardiano quinque Portuum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Stafford alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Arthuro Domino Grey de Wilton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Johanni Domino Lumley alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Johanni Domino Sturton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac praedilecto fideli nostro Willielmo Domino Sandes alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Domino Wentworth alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilecto fideli Ludovico nostro Mordaunt alteri Dominorum Parliamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Johanni Domino Saint-John de Bletso alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon praedilecto fideli nestro Thomae Domino Buckhurst alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac praedilecto fideli nostro Hen. Domino Compton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Francisco Knolles Militi Thesaurario Hospitii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon dilecto fideli nostro Jacobo Crosts Militi Contrarotulatori dicti Hospitii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Christophero Hatton Militi Vicecamerario nostro alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Francisco Walsingham Militi uni primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Willielmo Davison Armigero alteri Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Radulpho Sadleir Militi Cancellario Ducatus nostri Lancastriae alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon dilecto fideli nostro Waltero Myldmay Militi Cancellario Scaccarii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Amicio Pawlett Militi Capitaneo Insulae nostrae de Jersey alteri de Privato Consilio nostro dilectoque fideli nostro Johanni Wolley Armigero Secretario nostro pro lingua Latina alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Christophero Wraie Militi Capitali Justitiario ad Placita coram nobis tenenda assignato dilectisque fidelibus nostris Edmundo Anderson Militi Capitali Justitiario nostro de Banco Rogero Manwood Militi Capitali Baroni Scaccarii nostri Thomae Gawdy Militi uni Justitiariorum nostrorum ad placita eorum nobis tenenda assignato Willielmo Periam uni Justitiariorum nostrorum de Banco Salutem c. A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Lewis Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations to your Lordship We are given to understand that by occasion of an unlawful Hunting attempted by some of your Servants within Her Majesties Park of Brikestock being under the Charge and keeping of Mr. Adrian Stokes it hath so happened That two of your said Servants have been Slain or in very great danger of Death Forasmuch as it is thought that unless some speedy Order be taken therein it may so fall out that other Inconveniencies will ensue which we would be sorry to understand We have thought good to require your Lordship for preservation of Her Majesties Peace to take order That neither your self nor any of your Friends or Servants offer any further occasion of Quarrel unto the said Mr. Stokes or any of his Friends or Servants either serving in the said Park or elsewhere And further because we could be glad to understand what your Lordship is able to say in excuse of the said Fact pretended to be done by your Servants We pray you forthwith upon Receipt hereof as soon as you conveniently may all unnecessary Excuses and Delays set apart to make your Repair hither where you shall understand our further Pleasure and so desiring your Lordship hereof not to fail bid you right heartily farewel From Greenwich the Eleventh Day of July One thousand five hundred seventy and seven Your loving Friends W. Burghley E. Lincoln T. Sussex A. Warwick F. Knollys James Swtt Fra. Walsingham Alliance of Mordaunt and Maunsell THIS Indenture made the Eleventh Day of July in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Between Edward Maunsell of Morgan in the County of Glamorgan Knight of the one part and the Right honourable Lewis Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the other part Witnesseth That in consideration of a Marriage to be by God's Grace had and solemniz'd between Thomas Maunsell Esquire Son and Heir Apparent of the said Edward on the one part and Mary one of the Daughters of the said Lewis Mordaunt on the other part and for certain other good Considerations hereafter by these Presents expressed it is Covenanted Granted Condefcended and Agreed between the said Edward Maunsell and Lewis Lord Mordaunt in Manner and Form following That is to say First the said Edward Maunsell Knight for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and for every of them Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt his Executors Administrators and Assigns by these Presents That the said thomas Maunsell shall before the Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Date hereof Espouse Marry and take to Wife the said Mary Mordaunt if the said Mary and Thomas will thereunto condescend and agree and the Laws of Holy Church the same permit and suffer And the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Exeutors and Administrators and for every of them Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Edward Maunsell Knight his Executors Administrators and Assigns That the said Mary Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt shall before the said Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming Espouse Marry and take to Husband the said Thomas Maunsell if the said Thomas and
Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo quinto Per billam Curiae Wardorum Liberationum de data praedicta authoritate Parlamenti Egerton Norr d Coram Auditoribus Curiae Wardorum Liberationum dominae Reginae termino Michaelis Anno Regni ejusdem dominae Reginae quadragesimo quinto 1602. Examinatur per Walterium Took Auditores Examinatur per Will. Curles Auditores In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno quadragesimo quarto Reginae nunc Elizabethae videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis rotulo ex parte Remembratorum Thesaurarii Charta Caroli Comitis de Nottingham Magni Admiralli Angliae Capitalis Justiciarii ac Justiciarii itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham CArolus Comes Nottingham Baro Howard de Effingham magnus Admirallus Angliae c. Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. Rich. Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHĀ CA LIS IVSTICI VS OMNIVM FORES VM ET MARCA VM TRENTAM An Indenture Tripartite for the Settlement of the Estate of Henry Lord Mordaunt THIS Indenture Tripartite made the Fourth Day of January in the Year of our Soveraign Lord James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith that is to say Of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth between the Right honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt on the the First Part and Thomas Lock of Grays-Inn in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and John Rowe of London Gentleman on the Second Part and the Right honourable Edward Earl of Worcester of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Master of the King's Majesty's Horse and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Knight Sir Edward Ratcliff Knight Sir Thomas Compton Knight and George Sherley Esquire on the Third Part Witnesseth That the said Lord Mordaunt as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he beareth to his Children hereafter in these Presents named and for the continuance of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned in the name and blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it shall please God And for the better supportation of the Honour and Dignity of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the Heirs of his Body as also for the better Maintenance and Provision in living and Portions to be had made and raised for the Younger Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters and for the payment of the Debts which the said Lord Mordaunt shall owe or any others shall stand chargeable for the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of his Death and for other causes and considerations him thereunto specially moving Doth for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner and form following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will leave and suffer to descend unto such person and persons as shall happen to be Heir or Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of the Death of the said Lord Mordaunt all these his Lordships and Maners of Netherbery Collesden Carlills and Throgmorton in Roxton and the Maner of Woodend and the Maner or Farm of Kempstonborn and his other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Roxton Cranfield and Bereford in the County of Bedford with their and every their Appurtenances Rights and Members to the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to either of them belonging and to the Advowson of the Church of Meppersall in the said County of Bedford and the Maners of Thrapston Gale Ringsted and Raundes and of Much-Addington Luffwick Islip and Slipton in the County of Northampton with their and every and either of their Appurtenances Royalties and Commodities to the same Maners and to every of them belonging and appertaining and the Chauntries of Much-Addington aforesaid and Luffwick-Mills and the Maner of Drayton and all the demeasne Lands to the said Maner belonging or appertaining in the said County of Northampton The Capital or Mansion-House of the said Lord Mordaunt in Drayton aforesaid and the Parks called Drayton and Sudburgh-Parks and one Close called the Great Pasture and another Close called the Mile-close one Close called the Lymekill-Close another called Clay-Close another called the Warren-Close and another called the Horse-Close leading from Drayton-house to Luffwick only excepted And one Free Rent of Thirty three Shillings two Pence half penny or thereabouts issuing out of certain Lands in Barton and another Free Rent of Thirty eight Shillings and eight Pence issuing out of certain Lands in Stanwick in the aforesaid County of Northampton and also the Maner of Clifton Reynes with the Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham to the end That the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the same Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments before mentioned shall and may have and receive the full benefit of Wardship primer Seisure and Livery as the case shall require happening or to happen by or upon the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Which said Maners Lands Tenements amounting to the full third part of the aforesaid Lord Mordaunt's Maners Lands Tenements and Revenues the said Lord Mordaunt doth for that
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
Knight then our Attorney General did inform for divers great Contempts and Misprisions by them committed and done against us whereupon our said Court weighing and considering the quality of their said Offences did order and adjudge The said Henry Lord Mordaunt for his Offence therein should pay to our use for a Fine the Summ of Ten thousand Marks as by the Records of the said Court of Star-Chamber it doth and may appear And whereas the said Fine of Ten thousand Marks hath not been to us yet answered and paid so as the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of our Right Trusty and Welbeloved John Lord Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Henry Lord Mordaunt deceased are chargeable subject and liable to and with the payment of the same Know ye nevertheless That we being graciously pleased to free and acquit the said John Lord Mordaunt and his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of and from the said Fine and every part thereof of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion have Pardoned Remised and Released and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Pardon Remit and Release unto the said John Lord Mordaunt by whatsoever Name or Names Sirname or Sirnames or addition of Names or Sirnames Dignity Place or Places the said John Lord Mordaunt is or lately was called or known the foresaid Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and every part and parcel of the said Ten thousand Marks And further for the more full and absolute freeing and discharging of the said John Lord Mordaunt of and from the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and of every part and parcel thereof We of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion for Us our Heirs and Successors do by these Presents Pardon Remit and Release unto the said John Lord Mordaunt all and all manner of Actions Suits Informations Seisures Extents Writs Processes Judgments Executions Impetitions Claims and Demands which we now have or which We our Heirs or Successors at any time hereafter can may or might have against the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns or his or their or any of their Lordships Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts or Credits whatsoever for or in respect of the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks against or upon the said Henry Lord Mordaunt his said Father adjudged given set and imposed as aforesaid and him the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators Terrtenants and Assigns and his and their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts and Credits of for from and concerning the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and every part and parcel thereof We do for Us our Heirs and Successors clearly and absolutely Acquit Exonerat Free and Discharge for ever by these Presents Willing and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors straitly charging and requiring our said Commissioners for our Treasury and the Treasurer Chancellor and Under-Treasurer Chamberlains Barons and Remembrancers of the Exchequer of Us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court for the time being whom it may concern and all other the Officers and Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whomsoever That he the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators Terrtenants or Assigns or any his or their Lordships Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Leases Debts Rights or Credits or any of them or any part or parcel thereof for or by reason of the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks or any part thereof be not hereafter by any of the Sheriff Under-Sheriff Bayliff or other Officers or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors in any wise Sued Vexed Extended Seized Troubled Molested Impeached Questioned or Inquieted but shall thereof be fully freely clearly and absolutely from henceforth by virtue and upon shewing forth of these Presents or the Inrolment Constat or Exemplification thereof acquitted exonerated and discharged against Us our Heirs and Successors the said Order Decree Sentence Fine and Judgment of our said Court of Star-Chamber herein before mentioned or any matter or thing therein contained or any Estreat Process Seisure or Extent heretofore awarded had or made touching the Premises or any Act Statute Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restraint whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And further We do for Us our Heirs and Successors of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion Will and Grant to the said John Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That these our Letters Patents of Pardon or the Inrolment thereof and every Clause Grant Article Matter or Thing therein contained shall be good sufficient and effectual in the Law and shall be taken construed and adjudged most strongly against Us our Heirs and Successors and most favourably benignly and beneficially to and for the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for the full clear and absolute Pardoning Releasing Freeing and Discharging him them and every of them and his and their Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts and Credits of for from and concerning the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks so ordered decreed and adjudged as aforesaid and every part and parcel thereof And of and from all and every Writ Process Extents Seisures Executions Claims Benefits and Demands whatsoever which we now have or which we our Heirs or Successors at any time hereafter shall might or may have for touching or concerning the Premises Notwithstanding the not true or not certain or not reciting naming or mentioning the said Information wherein or upon which the said Fine was set or assessed upon the said Henry Lord Mordaunt or of the Offences or Misdemeanors or other Cause for which the same was set or assessed or of the natures or qualities of any of them And notwithstanding the not mentioning not reciting or not true and certain meaning or reciting of the just Day or time of the said Sentence or Judgment therein given as aforesaid or any Act Statute Ordinance Provision Commandment Order or Restraint or any other Incertainty Defect or Imperfection Cause Matter or Thing whatsoever to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Although express mention of the Certainty of the Premises or of any of them or of any other Gift or Grant by us or any of our Progenitors or Predecessors to the said John Lord Mordaunt before this time made in these Presents is not made Any Statute Act Ordinance Provision or Restraint heretofore had meaned ordained or provided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Eleventh Day of March in the seventeenth Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the
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
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