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
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
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
Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted
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
Wokingdon Episcopi with all and singular their Appurtenances sett lying and being in the Parishes of Kinton Bulvan Easthornedon Westhornedon and Cranham otherwise called Bishops Wokingdon in the County of Essex aforesaid which the said Dame Joan doth hold for term of her life as Parcel of her Joynture and all and all manner of Lands Tenements Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons Woods Underwoods and all other Hereditaments to the said Mannors appertaining or belonging to my Son Edmond Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten upon Condition that if my said Son Edmond his Heirs or Assigns do aliene grant with Warranty discontinuance suffer any recovery or suffer to be done any Act or Acts thing or things to the intent to barr his or their Heir or Heirs or him or them in the reversion of the said Mannors of Amys Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi with their appurtenances or of any Part or Parcel thereof or of any other Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments devised to the said Edmond by this my last Will and Testament That then it shall be lawful to my Heirs to enter into the said Mannors Lands Tenements and all other Hereditaments alienated discontinued or recovered in manner and form abovesaid and into every part and parcel thereof and the same to retain and keep in manner and form as though no such devise had been made And the said Edmond and his Heirs thereof to expel and put out for ever Provided always that if any alienation discontinuance or recovery be had and made in manner and form abovesaid without fraud covyn or deceit to make his Wife or Wives Joynture for term of her and their life or lives to the preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons for the marrying of his or their Daughter or Daughters and for the Payment of his or their Debts so that the said Edmond and his Heirs of his Body make or cause the Fee-simple of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments recovered and discontinued to such use to be made sure to my Heirs to remain come and grow to them immediately after the death of my said Son Edmond or of the Heirs of his Body or immediately after the death of his said Wife or Wives the Money levied for the marrying of his or their said Daughter or Daughters for the Payment of his or their Debt or Debts or the Preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons Then I will that mine Heirs shall take no benefit or advantage of any such discontinuance recovery act or acts thing or things assurance or assurances had or made for the aforesaid intents or purposes without fraud or covyn by way of Entry or otherwise any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Furthermore if my said Son Lewis or his Heirs of his Body being of the Age of one and twenty years or more shall lawfully offer and tender to give grant and assure within two years after the death of the said Dame Joan or after the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall accomplish the Age of one and twenty years the Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys in the County of Essex and the Mannor of Belhalf in the County of Norfolk with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Wymbyshe Walden Thaxsted and Radwynter in the County of Essex and Belhalf Billinford or elsewhere in the County of Norfolk which hath or shall descend remain or come to my said Son Lewis from my late Wife Dame Ely Mordaunt to my said Son Edmond or if he chance to dye to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten To have and to hold the said Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and the Premisses to my Son Edmond and to the Heirs of his Body in like Estate Degree and with like Condition as I have devised unto the said Edmond the Mannors of Cranham otherwise Wokingdon Episcopi Amys and other the Premisses above mentioned That then if the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall refuse to receive and take the said Mannors of Typtosts Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and other the Premisses being lawfully tendered and offered to him or them by the said Lewis or the Heirs of his Body in manner and form abovesaid Then I will that immediately after the said assurance made or the said denial that the devise of my Mannors of Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi and Amys aforesaid and all other my devises made to my said Son Edmond by this my last Will to be void and of none effect any thing in this my last Will or Testament to the contrary notwithstanding And further I will that if my said Son Lewis Mordaunt or the Heirs of his Body do not tender and be contented to make unto my said Son Edmond Mordaunt or to the Heirs of his Body within the time above-mentioned a good sure and sufficient Estate in manner and form above-mentioned at the Costs and Charges of the said Lewis or his Heirs of or in the Mannors of Typtosts and Pinkneys and other the Premisses Then I give and devise to my said Son Edmond Mordaunt the said Mannors of Cranham and Amys and all other the Premisses before devised to him To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever Also I will that after this my last Will and Testament performed concerning the Premisses all manner of Costs and Charges had and sustained by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns about the defence and execution of the same Will and Testament payed and discharged That then the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns shall infeosse or otherwise assure the Premisses above-mentioned and every part and parcel thereof to the only use of his Heirs and their Heirs for ever the said assurance to be had and made at the only Costs and Charges in the Law of my said Heirs A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Justified by Publick Records Charters Deeds Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the House of Howard were Quarterly Howard Brotherton Warren and Mowbray Of the Original Greatness Actions Honors Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Howard of Effingham I Would have the Reader know That I presume not here to declare the Honors and Advantages which belong to the Illustrious House of Howard it would be too great a task for one much abler that could have access unto those lights which might direct him in such an undertaking but much more for a stranger who does only pretend to trace out those Genealogies among the proofs of which he has been conversant and that particularly appertain to the House of Mordaunt It is therefore of the Howards of Effingham of which I am to Treat from whence the Earl of Peterborow is not only Descended but of which he is
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
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
Lives of them to whom it shall be so granted It is also agreed that the said Thomas Huntington by the assent and agreement of the said Robert Parys and John Parys his Son and John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt his Brother that at the pleasure of the said Thomas Huntington they shallcause all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to be divided into two equal Parts and that Division of equally done and made the said John Parys and William Mordaunt shall thereof make choice as by the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and Robert Parys and other Friends shall be devised and agreed and after that Division and choice so made and had the said William Fyndern William Cheyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke Robert Tyrall Richard Higham Robert Bradbury John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances alted to the said William and Anne and by them so chosen to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Decease to the use and behoof there I the said William Mordaunt and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the useand behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And in like wise after division in form aforesaid made and had the said William Fyndern William Thyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of the said Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances so allotted to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and by them so chosen to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington for term of Life without any Impeachment of Waste And after his Decease to the use and behoof there of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And if no Partition be made and agreed to of the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the Life of the said Thomas Huntington that then it is agreed between the said Parties that after his Decease the said William Mordaunt and Anne or oon of them or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten shall make equal Partition of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances and after that Partition so made the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife or the said Margaret or the Heirs of the same Margaret lawfully begotten shall chuse at their pleasure oon of the Part so divided to hold it in severalty and the said William Mordaunt and Anne or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten to have the other Part thereof so divided and to hold it in severalty according and in like Form and Estates with the remainder of every of the said Parties over as is limited above and as they should have holden it if they had had choice of the same after Partition made by the said Thomas Huntington Also it is agreed and covenanted That the said Thomas Huntington at the Costs and Charges of the said William Mordaunt and John Parys shall cause all the Charters Escripts Muniments and Writings concerning the Premises These Indentures only excepted to be indifferently seen and divided and the Evidences belonging to every of the said parties after division and choice thereof in Form aforesaid made to be laid in the Abbey of Walden by themselves if the Abbot and Covent of the same place will thereto agree to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life and after his Decease to be delivered to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and William Mordaunt and Anne and the Heirs of the said Mordaunt and Anne according to the choice of such Estates as is aforesaid And if the Abbot and Covent of Walden aforesaid will not thereto agree then the same Evidences to be laid in some other place in safeguard as shall be divised by the said Thomas Huntington John Parys and William Mordaunt to the said use and intent For the which premises well and truly to be performed the said William Mordaunt shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington three hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in form following that is to say at the Sealing of these Indentures one hundred Marks of lawful Money of England and over that for payment of the residue of the said Money the said William Mordaunt before the said day of Marriage shall cause the said John Mordaunt his Brother and John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne Gentilmen to be bound jointly and severally in three several Obligations every of them containing the summ of forty Pounds whereof the day of payment of the first Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety five and the day of payment of the second Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety six and the day of payment of the third Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred and ninety seven And over that the said William Mordaunt shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne before the said day of
Marriage for payment of thirteen Pound six shillings eight pence residue of the said three hundred Marks to be bound jointly and severally to the said Thomas Huntington in a fourth Obligation payable the first day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety eight It is also covenanted and agreed between the said Parties and the said Thomas Huntington granteth by these Presents That if the said William Mordaunt die before any of the said days of payment specified in any of the said Obligations then having none Issue begotten of the Body of the said Anne That thence all the said Obligations whereof the days of payment shall come after his Death shall be void and the payments of them to cease except always That if the said Anne be with child at the time of the decease of the said William Mordaunt that then as long as that Child lives the payment to hold and the Obligations to be good and in strength and if that Child happen to die then all the Obligations whereof the days of payment shall be to come at the time of the death of the said Child shall be void and the payment of them shall cease And the said John Mordaunt and William grant by these presents That they shall make or cause to be made before the said day of Marriage to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the body of the said William lawfully begotten and to the use and behoof of the said William and Anne and of their Heirs aforesaid as sure sufficient and lawful estate of the Maner of Wodend otherwise called Rokesden Wodend with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth and Collesden in the same County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements in Chichmersh and Clopton in the County of Northampton whereof the said John Mordaunt or any other to the use of the said John or of his Heirs at the making of these Presents being sealed as shall be devised by the Learned Councel of the said Thomas Huntington at the costs and charges of the said William Mordaunt And moreover the said William shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne to be bound to the said Thomas Huntington in an Obligation of a hundred pounds to make or cause to be made before the First day of April that shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety eight an Enfeoffment and lawful Estate of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of an hundred and six Shillings and eight pence over all Charges to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said William Mordaunt lawfully begotten and wherefore afore this time certain Covenants were made and had between the said Thomas Huntington and Robert Parys upon Marriage had between the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and thereupon the said Robert Parys payed to the said Thomas Huntington an hundred and forty Pounds of lawful Money of England and also promised a Jointure of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of twenty Marks then immediately to be paid to the said Margaret and after his Decease to have a further Jointure of Ten Marks for Term of her Life which Jointure in all should be of the Yearly Value of twenty Pounds which is well and truly executed and performed and for that the said Thomas Huntington should leave to his Heirs Lands and Tenements to the Yearly Value of an Hundred Marks as in an Old pair of Indentures made between the said Robert Parys on the one Partie and the said Thomas Huntington on the other Partie among other more plainly appeareth which Covenants the said Robert Parys hath renounced and released and by these Presents now renounceth and releaseth unto the said Thomas Huntington It is now assented and agreed between the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and William Mordaunt for the Premises to be performed to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife as is abovesaid That all the Covenants comprised in the Old Indentures of the part of the said Robert Parys to be performed and the Indenture of the same for the part of the said Robert shall be and stand in their force And moreover that William Fyndern Knight and others that be now enfeoffed in the Maner of Hildersham and of other Lands and Tenements in Hildersham in the said County of Cantebrig shall be and stand seoffed thereof to the use of the said Margaret for a Jointure for Term of her Life of Lands and Rents in Hildersham aforesaid and to the Yearly Value of ten Marks over and beside the Jointure of twenty Pounds to be had after the Death of the said Robert Parys and the said Robert Parys shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington ten Pounds of lawful Money of England in Form following That is to say Yearly five Marks at the Feast of Hallowmesse till the said ten Pounds be payed In Witness whereof to the part of these Indentures remaining with the said Thomas Huntington the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt and Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals To the second part of these Indentures remaining with the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals And to the third part of these Indentures remaining with the said Robert Parys and John Parys the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt have set to their Seals the said Fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh John Mordaunt William Mordaunt John Parys Junctura Annae uxoris Willielmi Mordaunt SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes Mordaunt de Turveia Armiger dedi concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo juniori Annae Huntington filiae Thomae Huntington de Hempsted Armigeri Manerium meum de Wodend cum pertinentiis nec non omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia mea cum suis pertinentiis in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth Collesden in Comitatu Bedfordiae quae nuper fuerunt Johannis Carlile Dedi etiam concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae omnia terras tenementa mea cum suis pertinentiis in Tychmerch Clopton in Comitatu Northamptoniae quae nuper fuerunt Thomae Hunt Habendum tenendum omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis Et ego praedictus Johannes Mordaunt haeredes mei omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis
pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis contra omnes homines warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus in perpetuum per praesentes Noveritis insuper me praefatum Johannem Mordaunt attornâsse constituisse in loco meo posuisse dilectos mihi in Christo Henricum Handson Richardum Stevynson conjunctim divisim meos veros legitimos attornatos ad intrandum in omnia singula manerium terras tenementa praedicta cum suis pertinentiis seisinam nomine meo in iisdem capiendum post hujusmodi seisinam sic inde captam habitam seisinam de iisdem nomine meo praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis deliberandum secundum vim formam effectum hujus praesentis Chartae meae ratum gratum habendum totum quicquid iidem Attornati mei fecerint seu eorum alter fecerit nomine meo in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Chartae meae sigillum meum apposui Data ultimo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi post Conquestum decimo Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Regis Henrici Septimi Ad constituendum Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium ad legem HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quòd nos ex mero motu scientia nostra constituimus Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium nostrorum ad legem nec non cessimus eidem Johanni officium unius servientium nostrorum ad legem habendum occupandum exercendum dictum officium nec non ad essendum unum servientium nostrorum ad legem quamdiu nobis placuerit capiendum accipiendum annuatim pro officio illo exercendo ab eodem Johanne vadia feoda vesturam regarda dicto officio debita seu pertinentia prout alii servientes ad legem pro hujusmodi officio exercendo percipient seu habere vel percipere debent In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Novembris Anno Regni Regis nostri undecimo Charta Edwardi Ducis Buckinghamiae EDwardus Dux Buckinghamiae Comes Herfordiae Northamptoniae Omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Salutem Sciatis nos praefatum ducem remisisse relaxâsse omnimodo pro nobis haeredibus nostris in perpetuum quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae uni servientium Domini regis ad legem haeredibus assignatis suis totum jus nostrum statum titulum seu clameum quae unquam habuimus habemus vel in futurum habere poterimus de in quinquaginta acris terrae duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis separali piscaria in aqua de Ose cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta de in duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis de separali piscaria in aqua de Ose in Brafeld juxta Lauenden alias vocata Coldbrafeld in Comitatu Buckinghamiae quae omnia singula idem Johannes Mordaunt habuit ex dono feoffamento Edwardi Comitis Wilts consanguinei nostri quibus omnibus fingulis praemissis idem Johannes Mordaunt seisitus existit Ità quòd nec nos praefatus Dux nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus titulum seu clameum de in praedictis terris tenementis aquis separalibus piscariis caeteris praemissis de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris statûs tituli vel clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus in perpetuum exclusi per praesentes Et nos verò praefatus Dux haeredes nostri omnia praedicta terras tenementa aquam separales piscarias cum pertinentiis caetera praemissa praefato Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus assignatis suis contra Abbatem Sancti Petri Monasterii successores suos warrantizabimus acquietabimus in perpetuum defendemus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro duplicato sigillum nostrum apponi fecimus Data undecimo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi quarto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt of Turvey and John Tresham of Rushton THIS Indenture made the Twenty first day of March in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey one of the King's Serjeants at the Law on the oon partie and John Tresham of Rushton in the County of Northampton Esquire on the other partie Witnesseth That it is agreed covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Mordaunt shall endeavour him to get the Marriage of Elizabeth Vere to Marry with John Mordaunt the younger Son and Heir apparent of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant and Amey Vere to Marry with Robert Mordaunt the Second Son of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant which Elizabeth and Amey being Daughters to my Sister Isabel and to give Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the said Elizabeth Vere for term of her Life to the yearly Value of Twenty Pound and to give to the said Amey Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the yearly Value of Ten Pounds for term of her Life for the which Marriage and Jointure and other Considerations the said John Tresham granteth That in case he be disposed to sell any of his Maners Lands and Tenements within the County of Northampton or elsewhere within the Realm of England That then the same John Mordaunt shall have it and all Maners Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services that he shall be disposed for to sell after the rate of Fifteen Years purchace of the clear yearly Value of the same Lands and Tenements to be sold It is also agreed and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Tresham at his pleasure shall give to Isabel Daughter of Sir James Haryngton now his Wife all his Lands Tenements Pastures and Hereditaments in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them for the term of her Life and to give unto Isabel Tresham and Clemens Tresham Daughters begotten between the said John Tresham and Isabel Daughter of the said Sir James all the said Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them to have to them and to the Heirs of their Bodies begotten And for default of Issue of both their Bodies begotten the same Maners Lands and Tenements to remain to the said Isabel Sister of the said John Tresham for term of her Life the remainder thereof for default of such Issue or if there be no such Gift made of the same to remain to the said
Covenanteth Agreeth and Assenteth by these Presents That the said Robert Whiteing William Mordaunt George Whiteing Humphrey Brown John Jenour William Sewster and Thomas Kirkeby and all other Persons That be Enfeoffed in any of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to the use of the said William if any such be shall be and stand Feoffes of all the said Maners of Langenhoo Rokewodhall Whiteroding and the said Lands and Tenements and other the premises in the County of Essex to the use of the said William and Elizabeth for term of their lives and of the longer liver reserving the said Ten Pounds to such use and intent as is specified in the said Indentures made the said Eleventh day of June and after their decease to be and stand Feoffed of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Premises to the use of John Brown Eldest Son of the said William and Elizabeth and of the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to be and stand Feoffed of all the same Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to the use of William Brown second Son of the said William and Elizabeth and of the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to be and stand Feoffes thereof to the use of the right Heirs of the Body of the said William lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to be and stand Feoffes thereof to such use and intent as is specified in the said Indentures bearing Date the said Eleventh day of June In Witness whereof to these Presents the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the said Twentieth day of September the said Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Thomae Prioris prioratus de Caldwell OMnibus Christi sidelibus ad quos hoc praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Thomas Prior prioratus sanctorum Johannis Baptistae Johannis Evangelistae de Caldwell ejusdem loci Conventus salutem in Domino sempiternam Noveritis nos praefatos Priorem Conventum unanimi consensu assensu nostris dedisse concessisse ac per praesentes damus concedimus Reginaldo Gray militi Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia uni servientium Domini Regis ad legem Advocationem Ecclesiae de Sondey unica vice tantum cum primo ex aliqua causa vacaverit per proximam nominationem Capellani ad eandem Ecclesiam cum Ecclesia illa primo vacare contigerit In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto Sigillum nostrum commune apposuimus Data in domo nostra capitularii decimo septimo die Aûgusti Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi quinto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother THIS Indenture made the Third day of February in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt on the oon Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other partie Witnesseth That where the said John late bought the Ward and Custody of the Body Lands and Tenements of Amey Vere late the Wife of Robert Mordaunt Son to the said John Mordaunt late deceased whereof as yet the same John hath no Patent but only a Bill assigned by the King It is Covenanted and Bargained between the said Parties by these Presents That the said Wistan and Humphrey shall have to their own use all such Right Title and Interest of and in all the Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Amey's as the said John now hath or hereafter by reason of the said Bill assigned shall have And also That the said Wistan and Humphrey shall have free liberty to resort to the said Amey to attain her good will for a Marriage to be had between the said Humphrey and the said Amey without Let Interruption or Impediment of the said John Mordaunt or his Assigns for which Premises the said Humphrey shall suffer the said John Mordaunt William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne to recover against the said Humphrey the Maner of Melbourne in the County of Cambridge called Browns-Maner and all the Lands and Tenements in Melbourne Melreth and Shepons in the same County which late were Robert Brown's and the which the said Humphrey or any other to his use may have in the same County of Cambridge by a Writ of Entry in the Post wherein the said Humphrey shall do and suffer to be done for making sure the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the said John Mordaunt William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne and to their Heirs to the use of the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs And also the said Wistan and Humphrey and either of them shall cause to be made and make such other Surety by Fine Warranty or otherwise to the said John Mordaunt William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne and to their Heirs and to the Use of the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs of the same Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances as shall be advised by the Learned Councel of the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs at all times when the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require And the said Wistan and Humphrey shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs when they be thereto required all the Evidences that they or any of them or any other person to the use of any of them have concerning the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the said County of Cambridge And if the said Amey dye before she come to the age of Three and Twenty Years having no Issue of her Body begotten alive or dead then the said Humphrey shall have for term of his Life out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the County of Cambridge Ten Marks by the Year yearly during his Life as sure as the said Humphrey shall advise And the said Wistan and Humphrey Covenant and Grant by these Presents That the said Humphrey and Amey or any of them shall not do or suffer to be done any thing hereafter whereby the Inheritance of any Lands or Tenements of the said Amey be put from the right Heirs of the said Amey but only Lands or Tenements to the yearly value of Forty Pounds which the said John does agree That the said Humphrey shall have during his life only if he can get it of the said Amey and that the Reversion of these Lands and Tenements to the value of Forty Pounds by the Year and the Reversion of any other Lands and Tenements of the said Amey's if it happen the said Humphrey thereof to be Tenant by the Court-Fee and all other Lands and Tenements of the said Amey's immediately after the death of the said Amey shall go to the right Heirs of the said Amey And the said Humphrey shall discharge the said John Mordaunt against William Merbury in all things that in the same Humphrey is or shall be becoming the said
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
his Brother and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Henry for ever And that all such Persons as be now feoffes seized or possessed by Recovery Feoffment or otherwise of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before named shall from henceforth be and stand Feoffes to the uses and intents abovesaid Provided always that it shall be lawful to the said Henry of the Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of Two hundred Pounds parcel of the Premises other than the said Two hundred Mark Lands before named to make Lease for term of Twenty Years or under to perform his Will or to make Jointure to the said Catharine or to his Wife or Wives if any he shall hap to have after the decease of the said Catharine now his Wife for term of their Life or Lives so as alway the said Maners Lands and Tenements of the yearly Value of Two hundred Pounds after the term of Twenty Years expired or the said Will performed or after the decease of the said Wife or Wives shall grow and remain to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to go and remain to the said John his Brother and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to go and remain to the right Heirs of the said Henry for ever And if it fortune as God forbid that the said Gyles decease before the said Marriage had and solemnized that then the said John Brother to the said Gyles shall inter-marry if they can so agree and like Jointure and Dower to be to the said Jane and all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and Advowsons to be left to the said John and all other Covenants then to be kept of every of the said Parties respectively as be now comprised in these Indentures For which Premises well and truly to be performed on the part of the said Henry the said John Mordaunt shall pay unto the said Henry or to his Assigns Five hundred Mark of lawful Money in form following that is to say at the day of the Solemnization of the Matrimony one hundred Mark of lawful Money and yearly after the said Jointure made one hundred Mark of lawful Money till the said Summ of Five hundred Marks be fully contented and payed And if the said Jane dye before she come to the Age of Seventeen Years having no Issue then the said Henry shall repay to the said John Mordaunt all such Summs of Money as he hath received of the same John before the Death of the said Jane at such days yearly and in such Summs as he received it In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these Presents interchangeably have set their Seals the Day and Year abovesaid Charta Johannis Mordaunt HAEC Indentura facta inter praenobilem principem Edwardum Ducem Buckinghamiae ex una parte Johannem Mordaunt de Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae Gentilman Willielmum Mordaunt fratrem ejus ex alia parte Testatur Quod praefatus Dux dedit concessit hac praesenti Indentura confirmavit praefatis Johanni Willielmo visum suum franciplegii cum pertinentiis in Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae qui quidem visus est parcella de Glocester fee aliàs vocatus Glocester fee assisiam panis cerevisiae bona catalla straiata waiviata bona catalla felonum fugitivorum utlagatorum deodandorum thesaurum inventum cum omnibus aliis rebus libertatibus franchesiis juribus pertinentiis eidem visui pertinentibus sive parcellis ac visum franciplegii letum omnium tenentium sive residentium qui nunc sunt sive in posterum erunt in feodo suo in Turveia praedicta ac quemlibet visum quem habemus in Turveia praedicta salvis nobis haeredibus nostris feodis militum wardis maritagiis releviis eschaetis cum acciderint in Turveia praedicta Habendum tenendum omnia praedicta visum franciplegii letum assisiam panis cerevisiae caetera praemissa cum pertinentiis exceptis praeexceptis praefatis Johanni Mordaunt Willielmo Mordaunt haeredibus assignatis suis in perpetuum ad usum ipsius Johannis Mordaunt haeredum suorum in perpetuum reddendo indè annuatim praefato Duci haeredibus assignatis suis quendam annualem redditum trium solidorum in perpetuum ad Festa Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Paschae aequis portionibus solvendum Et praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Willielmus Mordaunt concedunt pro se haeredibus suis quòd si contingat dictum annualem redditum trium solidorum à retro fore in parte vel in toto ad aliquod dictorum Festorum quo solvi debeat non solutum quòd tunc benè licebit praefato Duci haeredibus assignatis suis in omnia terras tenementa ipsorum Johannis Mordaunt Willielmi Mordaunt seu eorum alterius in Turveia praedicta intrare distringere districtiones sic captas abducere asportare effugare penes se retinere quousque de praedicto redditu arrearagiis ejusdem plenariè fuerit satisfactum sibi persolutum Et praedictus Dux haeredes sui omnia praedicta visum franciplegii letum caetera praemissa cum pertinentiis praefatis Johanni Willielmo haeredibus assignatis suis ad usum praedictum contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt acquietabunt ac defendent in perpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium uni parti istius Indenturae penes praefatum ducem remanenti praefatus Johannes Willielmus Sigilla sua apposuerunt Alteri vero parti ejusdem Indenturae penes praefatos Johannem Willielmum remanenti praefatus Dux Sigillum suum apposuit His testibus Roberto Broughton milite Johanne Fisher uno justiciariorum Domini Regis de Communi Banco Johanne Saint John milite Thoma Rotheram aliis Data vicesimo die Maii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi decimo septimo Finis facta inter Edwardum Ducem Buckinghamiae Johannem Mordaunt de visu franciplegii aliis libertatibus in Turveia HAEC est finalis concordia facta in Curia Domini Regis apud Westmonasterium in crastino Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno regnorum Henrici Regis Angliae Franciae septimi à Conquestu decimo septimo coram Thoma Wode Willielmo Danvers Johanne Vavasour Johanne Fisher justiciariis Et postea in octavis Sancti Hillarii Anno regnorum ejusdem Regis Henrici decimo nono ibidem concessa recordata coram Thoma Frowyke ac praefatis Willielmo Johanne Johanne justiciariis aliis Domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem praesentibus inter Johannem Mordaunt Willielmum Mordaunt querentes Edwardum Ducem Buckinghamiae Alienoram uxorem ejus deforcientes de visu Franciplegii assisia panis cerevisiae catallis waiviatis straiatis felonum fugitivorum utlagatorum deodandorum thesauro
or the Bishop of Duresme our Secretary before the Feast of Saint John Baptist next coming at the farthest like as we have semblably written to all Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of every Shire within this our Realm and therefore fail ye not to accomplish the premises as ye tender our honour and the surety of us and of our Realm and Subjects so and in such wise that by our preparation of a good number of able Men we may understand your towardly mind to do unto us service which shall be remembred according to your deserts and these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf 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 ye well So it is upon the even of Philip and Jacob last passed a great number of insolent Apprentices and malicious Journey-men of their sensual Appetites and rancorous Dispositions against Aliens and Strangers Artificers and others Inhabited within our City of London suddainly assembled themselves within our said City in the night time under colour of Maying breaking up entring and robbing the houses of sundry French and Dutch men making also great Comminations to other Strangers to the marvellous Inquietation and Commotion of our said City and Disturbances of our Peace within the same And albeit the same Commotion and Rebellious Assembly by the Mayor Sheriffs and other substantial and well disposed Citizens with and by the Policies Powers and Assistance of the Noble Men and others of our Council was not only forthwith repressed and pacified but also a great Number of the Malefactors and Offenders taken and according to our Laws and their Demerits openly convicted and put to execution so that it is now throughly pacified and put in Quietness our Lord be thanked Yet we thought right expedient to advertise you thereof as well for the Declaration of the Truth in putting all Sinister and Seditious Bruits to silence if any such shall be made by indisposed Persons as also that ye by your Wisdom should not only foresee and have good espial in the place and Countries near adjoyning to you to know the disposition of our Subjects if upon untrue reports they should be stirred to any semblable Commotions by perverse Councel against Merchants Strangers or upon any other ground or cause But also by your wisdom and power with the assistance of other faithful Servants and Subjects in these parts forthwith to repress the same by taking as well the principal mover and stirrers thereof as also the offenders accompanying them for such unlawful intent and purpose committing them to Ward And also advertising us thereof with all speedy diligence as our special Trust is in you and as ye intend to do unto us acceptable service and pleasure to be remembred hereafter accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Third day of May. An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Maner of Drayton TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing Indented shall come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers Variances and Debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earl of Shrewsbury on the one Partie and John Mordaunt Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cousins and Heirs to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Earl and Daughter and Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Esquire and Humphrey Brown Esquire late Husband to Amey and George Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Son and Heir to the same Amey another Cousin and another of the Heirs of the said Earl of Wiltshire after the form aforesaid and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cousin and Heir to the same Earl after the manner abovesaid on the other Partie of and upon the Right Title Reversion and Possession as well of the foresaid Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances as of all other Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were the said Constance's or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or the other of them Which Maners Lands and Tenements the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury claimed by a Will supposed to be made by the said Earl of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Earl of Wiltshire should will to the said Earl of Shrewsbury all his Fee simple Land Whereupon the foresaid Parties have compromitted themselves to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named by and between the foresaid Parties to Award Ordain and Deem as well of and upon the Premises as for and upon all manner of Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Amuniments concerning the Premises or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid Parties or their Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the Premises And we the foresaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises calling before us the Counsels of the foresaid Parties hearing and seeing their Titles Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegiances concerning their foresaid Titles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said Parties Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises in manner and form following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earl of Wiltshire and Sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will. And in that Will there is no clause whereby the same Earl of Shrewsbury should have any of his Maners Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the aforesaid Maner of Drayton and other the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be given in Tayle to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire who had and enjoyed the same by reason of the said Tayles and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Brown and Audrey be Cousins and next Heir to the same Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire and to the same Earl on his Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Maners and other the Premises by reason of the said Tayles Wherefore we Award
and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the Life of the said Elizabeth and after the Death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the said John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with the remainder over like in every thing as is above expressed of the said Fifty Pounds Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and all time and times within the said Eight Years after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons above named and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate in the Law by Feoffment Fine Recovery Releases with Warranty Confirmations or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be avised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Woods Rents Reversions and Services the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes hath within the Realm of England the said Persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the foresaid Fifty Pounds Provided always That it shall be lawful to the said John Elmes to Appoint and Assign Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds parcel of Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except always Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances before expressed and named to the said yearly Value of Threescore Pounds to be Appointed and Assigned for the Jointure of the said Edith the said Twenty Pounds to be and go to and for the Exhibition Marriage Advancement of his Children and to pay his Debts and to the performance of the last Will of the said John Elmes so it extend no further but for term of Life or Lives or for the term of Twenty Years next ensuing the Death of the said John Elmes And also provided That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him so to Marry for the term of her Life of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the Premises under the yearly Value of Forty Pounds at the pleasure of the said John Elmes Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage no do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer to be done any manner of Act or Acts whereby any manuer of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which did come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof as is before expressed of the said Fifty Pounds And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffered any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by and after the decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue-Male the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the Old Inheritation thereof For the which Premises on the party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Five hundred Marks of lawful Money that is to say At the Feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming after the date hereof One hundred Marks And at the Feast of Saint Peter the Advincula commonly called Lammas day Fifty Marks and so yearly at every of the said Feasts Fifty Marks until the said Summ of Five hundred Marks be counted and paid And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall purchase with the same Five hundred Marks which the said John Elmes hath of the said John Mordaunt for the same Marriage and with the Summ of Two hundred Marks which the said John Elmes shall have delivered to him by the said Thomas Pygott the day of the said Marriage solemnized Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly Value of Forty Marks And that the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns after the said Lands so purchased shall Enfeoffee the said Persons of the same to have to them and to their Heirs in Fee the same persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of his Heirs for ever And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Elibeth his Mother do Alien Sell Discontinue Release or put away by any manner of means any Maners Lands Tenements or any other Hereditaments of the Inheritance of the said Elizabeth from the said John Elmes or from the Heirs of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten except certain Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances lying in Littlecote in the County of Buckingham to the yearly Value of Four Pounds or thereabouts That then the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall have Ten Marks parcel of the said Forty Marks so to be purchased to the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs for ever And the said persons so being seized of the said Forty Marks incontinent after the said Alienation and Sale or Discontinuance or any other matter of Act by the said Elizabeth so made
Sir John or his Deputy thereto be required by the said Rector and Scholars or by their Successors according as it hath been there used in times past in all the foresaid Maners in the said County of Buckingham requiring for him or his Deputies only the Fee rehearsed This Patent by William Shyrby and Henry Brown which William and Henry had it at the Hands of Sir Richard Lyster Gentleman William Shyrby Per me Henricum Brown Alliance between Mordaunt and Fettyplace THIS Indenture made the First day of July in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth Between John Fettyplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Knight on the other Party Witnesseth That the said John Fettyplace hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth Bargain and Sell to the said Sir John the Marriage of Edmond Fettyplace And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said Edmond before the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady next coming after the date of these presents shall Marry and take to Wife Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Margaret thereto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents that the said Margaret shall Marry and take to Husband before the foresaid Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the said Edmond if the said Edmond thereto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast at the Costs and Charges of the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John Fettyplace Covenaneth and Granteth by these presents That his Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Edmond for the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Margaret for the day of the said Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Margaret And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Gyles Strangeways Sir William Gascoign Knights Thomas Englefield one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law Edward Eynes John Elmes Edward Purfray Philip Fettyplace and William Fettyplace of Maydencote Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Gentlemen Thomas Nethercote and John Duke and to them their Heirs and Assigns and to the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns such a sufficient sure and lawful Estate of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the County of Kent to the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds discharged of all former Bargais Sales Jointures Dowers Uses Judgments Executions Recognisances Statutes-Merchants Statutes of the Staple and of all other Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by their Learned Counsel at the costs and charges in the Law of the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns be it by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise The same Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to such Uses and Intents as hereafter follow That is to say Of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Twenty Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof immediately upon the Marriage had and solemnized to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof from the date of these present Indentures to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father unto the time that the said Edmond his Son and Heir apparent come to the full Age of One and twenty Years And after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the said Age of One and twenty Years and after the Death of Dame Alice Besellys Widow that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Twenty Pounds residue of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father for term of Life of the same John Fettyplace the Father without Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said John Fettyplace the Father And immediately after the Death of the said John Fettyplace the Father and after the said Edmond shall come and be of the Age of One and twenty Years that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And the said John Fettyplace the Father Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall leave Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly value of Three hundred and twenty five Marks over and beside the said fifty Pounds before appointed for the Jointure in the County of Berks Oxfordshire or elsewhere within the Realm of England immediately after the decease of the said John Fettyplace and of Dorothy his Wife and after the decease of Dame Alice Besellys Widow and after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and
the said Margaret to the only use of the said Edmond according to the Covenants comprized and specified in these Indentures In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these present Indentures interchangably have put to their Seals and Sign Manuals the Day and Year above-written John Fettyplace Alliance between Mordaunt and Fisher THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth between Michael Fisher of Clyfton in the County of Bedford Esquire on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey of the said County of Bedford Knight on the other Partie Witnesseth That the said Michael hath Covenanted and Granted and by these Presents Covenanteth and Granteth to the said Sir John That John Fisher Son and Heir apparent of the said Michael and of Margaret his Wife shall by the Grace of God before the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Six Marry and take to Wife Anne Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Anne thereunto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That the said Anne shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Fisher if the said John Fisher thereunto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast of Saint Michael at the costs and charges of both the said Parties truly to be borne And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to the said Sir John That he his Executors or Assigns shall Apparel the said John Fisher his Son at the said day of Marriage in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said John Fisher And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents to the said Michael That he his Executors or Assigns shall Apparel the said Anne at the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Anne And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Sir John by these presents That the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns shall before the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming after the date hereof make cause or do to be made to John Spelman Serjeant at the Law John Elmes Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh Gentlemen and Sir William Rymer Clerk to them their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law at the costs and charges of the said Michael and of the said Sir John by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs or Assigns or by their learned Counsel of and in these his Maners of Westlyngworth Clifton and Felinshin with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and of and in all Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth and Felinshin in the said County of Bedford And also the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Sir John by these presents That the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns shall before the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming after the date hereof make cause or do to be made to the said John Spelman John Elmes Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh and Sir William Rymer to leave them their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law at the whole costs and charges of the said Michael and of the said Sir John by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs or Assigns or by their learned Counsel of and in certain Pastures Lands and Tenements being in Clopton in the County of Kent to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds over all charges discharged of all former Bargains Sales Statutes and of all other Incumbrances and Charges made by the said Michael only To have and to hold to the said John Spelman John Elmes Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh and Sir William Rymer Clerk their Heirs and Assigns to such uses and intents as hereafter ensueth That is to say Immediately after the solemnization of the said Marriage had to stand and be seized of the said Maner of Westlyngworth and of and in all Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth aforesaid to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the said John Fisher hath accomplished the age of Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in the said Maners of Clifton and of and in all Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Clifton to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after that the said John Fisher hath accomplished the age of Twenty and three Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Felinshin aforesaid to the clear yearly value of Four Pound six Shillings and eight Pence parcel of the said Lands and Tenements in Felinshin of the value of Eleven Pounds to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the said John Fisher shall come to his age of One and Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid to the yearly value of Four Pound six Shillings and eight Pence to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the death of the said Michael the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in all other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid residue of the said Lands and Tenements in Felinshin of the value of Ten Pounds and above of and in all the said Closes Lands and Tenements in Clopton aforesaid parcel of the Maner of Clopton to the use of the said John Fisher and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if it happen the said John Fisher after the said Marriage had and solemnized to
decease as God forbid before the said John hath accomplished the said age as before specified that then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand seized of all the said parcels of Lands and Tenements above limited to the said John Fisher and Anne from the Death of the said John Fisher to the use of the said Anne for term of Life of the said Anne in such manner and form as they should be if the said John Fisher should have lived to his said lawful age That is to say Immediately after the Death of the said John Fisher the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the one living of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners of Westlyngworth and also of and in the said Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth to the use of the said Anne for term of Life of the said Anne And immediately after the said John Fisher should have accomplished his age of Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of the said Lands and Tenements in Clifton aforesaid to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And immediately after that the said John Fisher should have been of the age of Twenty three Years the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of the said Lands and Tenements of the yearly value of Four Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And after that the said John Fisher should have accomplished the age of Six and twenty Years then all the said other Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Four Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence in Felinshin shall be to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And immediately after the Death of the said Michael Fisher the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of the said other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid and also of all the other Lands and Tenements and Pastures in Clopton to the use of the said Anne for term of her Life And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall suffer Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the Counties of Bedford Oxenford Northampton Sussex and Middlesex to the clear yearly value of a Hundred and forty Pound over and beside the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances above expressed for the Jointure of the same Anne to come grow and descend immediately after the death of the said Michael the Jointures of Juliana Clopton and of Margaret now his Wife and the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except to the said John Fisher and to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Michael Fisher for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said Michael to make a Jointure to the said Margaret now his Wife of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Hundred and forty Pounds to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds for term of life of the said Margaret Provided also That if the said Margaret do die before the said Michael and that the said Michael do fortune to Marry any other Wife or Wives That then it shall be lawful to the said Michael for to make a Jointure to the said such Wife of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances parcel of the said Hundred and forty Pounds to the yearly value of Threescore for term of the life of the said second Wife or Wives Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said Michael to declare his last Will during the space of Six Years of all the residue of the said Hundred and forty Pounds over and besides such Jointures as any of his said Wife or Wives shall have after the death of the said Michael And after the said Six Years expired and determined then the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to be to the use of the said John Fisher and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Michael for ever Provided alway as it is agreed between the said parties That if the said John Fisher shall happen to die his Heir or Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten then being within Age that then it shall be at the liberty and pleasure of the said Michael Fisher for to make and declare his last Will of all the said Lands and Tenements of the value of a Hundred and forty Pounds during the Non-age of the said Issue and no longer For the which Premises on the part of the said Michael to be performed and kept the said Sir John Mordaunt shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns Six Hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following That is to say at the sealing and delivering of these Presents One Hundred Pounds of the which Hundred Pounds the said Michael acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and paid and the said Sir John his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged And for the Three hundred Pounds residue of the said Six hundred Marks the said Sir John Mordaunt John Elmes Esquire Nicholas Hardyng stand and be bound jointly and severally to the said Michael his Executors or Assigns by several obligations bearing date the day of the date of these present Indentures to be paid at certain days contained and specified in the said Obligations as by the same Obligations it more plainly doth appear In Witness whereof to the either part of these present Indentures the Parties abovesaid interchangably have put to their Seals the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And albeit that we by our other Letters to our Right trusty and right intirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Marquess of Dorset directed willed him to take Five Hundred quick Deer within our Chace of Leicester and within Leicester Fryth and within the Honor of Leicester for the enstoring of his Park yet nevertheless we will that in no wise our said Cousin shall take the said Deer himself but that ye shall deliver the said Five Hundred Deer unto him your self like as we will and command you so to do accordingly To be taken to him of our Gift our said other Letters in any wise notwithstanding And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Sevententh Year of
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
said John More to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said John More and of his Heirs for ever And of all other the said Lands and Tenements residue of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before expressed to the use of the said John More for the term of his Life without Impeachment of wast The Remainder after his decease to the said Thomas More and his Heirs for ever discharged of all former Rights Titles Claims Uses Dowers Demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these Presents That he the said John More his Heirs and Assigns shall from time to time during the space of Three Years make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied such further Assurances and Surety to the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns or to any other Person or Persons by the said Lord his Heirs Executors or Assigns to be limitted and named of and in the Maners Lands Tenements and other the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the uses and intents before expressed and declared as shall be devised by the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by his or their learned Council in the law at the costs and charges in the law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That he the said John More before the said Feast of Pentecost shall make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied to the said Sir Thomas Audely Sir Gyles Strangeways and other his said Co-feoffees before named their Heirs and Assigns a good sure sufficient and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple of and in all his said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and all other his Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Oxford That is to say Of the Maner of More with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton of the Maner of Haddon with their Appurtenances in Bampton of the Maner of Esthall otherwise called Asthall and Astally and of all other his Maners Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton Staunton Harecourt Bampton Clanfield Norton Asthall Esthall and Astally in the said County of Oxford or elsewhere within the said County of Oxford except certain Lands and Tenements in Handborough to such uses and intents as hereafter followeth That is to say Of and in the said Maner of More in More and Moreton to the use of the said John More and of Jane now Wife to the said John More for term of their lives and of the longest liver of them without Impeachment of wast during the Life of the said John More And after the Death of the said John More and of Jane his Wife then the said Feoffees their Heirs or Assigns or the over-liver of them his Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof as at the date of these present Indentures made And of and in the Maner of Haddon in Bampton the Maner of Esthall Asthall and Astally and of all the said Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments and other the Premises before rehearsed in Bampton Esthall Asthall and Astally the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the longest liver of them and his Heirs to be continue and stand Feoffees thereof to the use of the said John More for term of his Life without Impeachment of wast the Remainder after his Death to the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Assigns by these presents That he shall suffer all other his Maners Lands Tenements and all other his Hereditaments with all and singular their Appurtenances whatsoever they be whereof he or any other be seized of in Right Title Possession or in Use other then before expressed and declared except one yearly Rent of Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings which the said John More hath out of the Maner of Newbolt in the County of Northampton now in the Tenure of Sir William Newenham Knight which Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings is parcel of the Jointure of the said Jane Wife of the said John More to come grow and descend in Demeasn Possession Reversion Remainder or in Use immediately after the Death of the said John More and of the said Jane his Wife to the said Thomas More and to his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made discharged of all former Rights Titles Uses and demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of that Fee or Fees hereafter to be due only except Provided always That if the said Jane now Wife to the said John More fortune to decease that then it shall be lawful to the said John More to make a Jointure of and in the Maner of More and Moreton to any Wife or Wives that hereafter the said John More shall fortune to Marry during the Life or Lives of the said Wife or Wives any Covenant Grant Use or Article before expressed to the contrary notwithstanding For all which Covenants Grants and Agreements on the part of the said John More his Heirs Executors and Assigns for to be truly observed performed fulfilled and kept the said John Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents To pay or cause to be paid to the said John More his Executors or Assigns Four hundred and fifty Marks of lawful Money of England That is to say at the day of Marriage had and solemnized one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England And at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady then next coming One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England And so yearly at the said Feast of the Purification of our Lady One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England unto the time the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be to the said John More his Executors or Assigns truly contented and paid In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid interchangeably have put to their Seals and Sign Manual to these present Indentures the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and
Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after their deceases to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt for ever And of all the residue of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which lately were the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or Freehold jointly or severally or otherwise in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last Day of August in the said Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to such Person and Persons and to such use and uses as by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son shall be declared in Writing for and during the space of Ten Years or under and not above so that the same to be declared first for and to the Payment of his Debts And after his Debts paid then to and for the Advancement of his Children Unmarried and after his Debts paid and his Children Unmarried advanced then for the Performance of the Legacies of the same Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after the same Ten Years ended and expired then to the proper use and behoof of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the same Dame Eilzabeth Mordaunt for ever And also That if the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son doth convey and assure unto the said Lewis Mordaunt to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt all the Estate Right Title Interest which the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son hath in and to the Maner of Snelson in the County of Buckingham and in and to all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Snelson aforesaid and in Turvey Harold Lavenden and Brafeld or elsewhere to the said Maner of Snelson belonging which were sometime George the Earl of Kents in the County of Buckingham and Bedford And also do permit and suffer the said Lewis Mordaunt quietly to have hold occupy and enjoy all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which be conveyed or assured unto the said Lewis according to the true intent and meaning as well of certain Indentures Quadripartite made between me the said John Lord Mordaunt on the one Party and the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols on the other Party bearing date the last Day of August in the Second Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is as also of other Conveyances and Assurances made by me unto the said Lewis Mordaunt And also do permit and suffer my Executors to execute and perform my Will without any Impeachment or Disturbance That then my Executors shall well and truly content and pay or cause to be contented and paid unto the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son within One whole Year next after such lawful and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis the Summ of Three thousand Marks of Lawful Money of England towards the payment of his Debts and Advancement of his Children Unmarried And further That then the said Lewis Mordaunt shall assure or cause to be assured unto the said Dame Joan now Wife to my Son Sir John Mordaunt one yearly Rent of One hundred Marks during her Life with a sufficient clause of Distress in Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the yearly value of One hundred Pounds for the not payment thereof at Two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also my Will is That all my Funeral Debts Legacies and Charges of this my Last Will and Testament paid and discharged that the said Lewis Mordaunt shall have all the residue of my Goods Plate and Chattels whatsoever they be Executores Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Johannis Mordaunt Militis Domini Mordaunt tertio decimo die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo anno regni Reginae Elizabethae quarto Robertus Tirewhite miles Henricus Darcy Armiger Thomas Nichols Generosus Ludovicus Mordaunt Armiger Georgius Mordaunt Armiger Johannes Ashecomb Generosus Thomas Darcy Armiger Quilibet Executorum praedictorum assumens super se onus Testamenti mei habebit viginti libras Also I make Sir Robert Catlin Knight and my loving Cousin Justice Anthony Brown Supervisors of this my Last Will and Testament and I give to either of them Ten Pounds for their pains taken herein these being Witness John Hatcher Thomas Larkin Robert Pemberton John Moreton Edward Knight Robert Bennet and John Richardson SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT In the Parish Church of Turvey Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Third of that Name Second Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt the Younger Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we are determined upon the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and do to be Celebrated at Westminster with all due Circumstances of Honor the Coronation of our most dear and welbeloved Wife the Lady Anne our Queen as to her Estate and Dignity doth appertain at which time it hath been accustomed to advance to the Honor of Knighthood to be made and ordered with the Ceremonies of the Bath such of the Nobility as was at that time by the Sovereign thought convenient for the same And therefore minding to pretermit nothing that might set forth the Honor of the said Coronation and thinking you right able and worthy to receive that Degree have appointed you to be one of those whom we intend to advance to such Honor. And therefore our Pleasure is That ye being advertised hereof do make such Preparation against the time aforesaid and put your self in such a Readiness as shall be requisite for you in the acceptation of the said Order and as for the Honor thereof hath been used and accustomed Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and twentieth Day of April Hollinshead 's Chronicle page 931. No. 50. ON Fryday at Dinner served the King all such as were appointed by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath which after Dinner were brought to
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was Five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir Apparent For the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the late Lord Mordaunt might have had divers great Summs of Money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers Remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan Mordaunt now his Wife After which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not Marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a Recovery of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into the right course of Inheritance again did suffer Recoveries of his own Lands to the Uses and upon Condition following To the Use of the said late Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was Married and after to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married unto at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of Twelve years towards the performance of his Will and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life To the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
Lord Mordaunt by that Book should be unto the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after the several Uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands 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 of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And after to the Second Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt in lawful Marriage begotten and the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten with divers Remainders over the last Remainder thereof being appointed to the right Heirs of Mordaunt for ever And to the intent that my Lady Mordaunt now Wife to the now Lord Mordaunt should have good will that the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as is aforesaid The late Lord Mordaunt did grant unto her for the Augmentation of her Jointure to make it up Four hundred Marks a Year a yearly Rent of One hundred Marks by the Year during her life with a clause of Distress in his own Land for not payment thereof upon Condition that the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as aforesaid Shortly after this Book was 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 Premises notwithstanding he would not assure the said 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 Conveyance of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as is aforesaid was of the meer 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 Premises 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-law's Daughter which his Father offered him which Marriage he liked not or else in not refusing the Benevolence of his Grandfather unprocured on 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 said 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 said Fitz-Lewis's Lands accordingly Articles which Mr. Henry Darcy requireth to be performed for Mr. Lewis Mordaunt concerning the Marriage of his Sister FIrst That the Lord Mordaunt shall make his Sister a Jointure of One Hundred Marks Lands in Possession and One hundred Marks more after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Item That the said Lord Mordaunt do leave unto the said Lewis Mordaunt Eight hundred Marks a year to descend unto the said Lewis immediately after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt and One thousand Pounds a Year more after the decease of Sir John Mordaunt Father to the said Lewis Item For the Marriage Apparel the Lord Mordaunt to find Mr. Lewis Mordaunt and Mr. Henry Darcy his Sister Item For the Charges of the Dinner at the Marriage the Lord Mordaunt to bear the one half thereof and Mr. Henry Darcy the other Item Mr. Henry Darcy is contented in consideration of the Premises to pay unto my Lord Mordaunt One thousand Marks the one half to be paid at the Day of Marriage the other half before the last Day of August next ensuing if they be Married before the said Day or else to be paid at one entire Payment at the Day of the said Marriage Item Mr. Henry Darcy will give unto the said Lewis Mordaunt and his Sister in Jewels or other like to the value of Two hundred Marks A Commission for Musters within the County of Northampton to the Lord Mordaunt and others directed ELizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto fideli Conciliario suo Willielmo Domino Burghley Domino Thesaurario Angliae charissimoque Consanguineo Consiliario suo Roberto Comiti Licestriae Magistro equorum suorum ac praedilecto fideli suo Ludovico Domino Mordaunt etiam dilecto fideli Conciliario suo Walter Mildmay militi Cancellario Scacarii sui necnon dilectis fidelibus suis Thomae Cecil militi Willielmo Fitz-Williams militi Edmundo Brudewell militi Richardo Knightly militi Edwardo Mountague militi Edwardo Onsey armigero ac Vicecomiti Comitatus Northamptoniae pro tempore existente Salutem Sciatis quod nos de approbatis fidelitatibus prudentibus circumspectionibus vestris plurimum confidentes assignavimus constituimus vos Commissionarios Deputatos nostros Dante 's concedentes vobis decem novem octo septem sex quinque quatuor tribus duobus vestrum tenore praesentium plenam absolutam Potentiam Facultatem Autoritatem omnes fingulos homines ad arma ac homines habiles ad arma ferendum tà m Equites quà m Pedites Sagittarios Sclopetarios supra aetatem sexdecem annorum ac infra aetatem sexaginta in dicto Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae tà m infra libertates quà m extra arraiandum inspiciendum ac traiandum ae armari muniri faciendum nec non assignandum equos arma caetera bellica instrumenta congruentia habilitati personae uniuscuiusque secundum formam effectum statutorum ordinationum ante-haec tempora inde editorum provisorum Ac omnibus illis tironibus hominibusque imbellibus rei militaris ignaris erudiendum instruendum excercendum ad usum praedictorum Equorum Armorum Bellicorum apparatuum secundum artem militarem ac omnia singula alia diligenter faciendum gerendum expediendum fieri causandum quae ad delectum monstrationem inspectationem ac etiam ad eruditionem instructionem exercitionem subjectorum nostrorum in re militari pro meliori servitio nostro defensione hujus Regni nostri maxime consentanea opportuna fore putaveritis Ita quod iidem homines ad arma homines habiles ad arma ferendum Equites Pedites Sagitarii Sclopetarii ac alii praedicti homines defensibiles sic arraiati inspecti muniti prompti sint parati ad serviendum nobis quotiens quando necesse fuerit Assignavimus insuper quoscunque tres aut duos vestrum
In respect that I have left and by the Grace of God means to leave to descend and come successively from Heir Male to Heir Male divers other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying more necessary sit and convenient for my self and them of as good or better value my Daughters Portions and other Legacies deducted as aforesaid notwithstanding yet for the better corroboration and strengthning assurance and sure making of all such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as I have Bargained and Sold or hereafter shall Bargain or Sell to any Person or Persons whatsoever I will and devise by these Presents That from and after my decease Edward Watson and John Wake my Executors as aforesaid and their Heirs shall stand and be seized of two parts of my Maners Lands and Tenements or whereof I am seized in Fee dividable in three parts to be divided my Daughters Portions paid or Lands sold by my Executors for the payment thereof as aforesaid to the use of Henry my Son and Heir and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs Males of John Lord Mordaunt my late Grandfather and so from Heir Male to Heir Male so long as they and every one of their Heirs Males and their Assign or Assigns shall quietly permit and suffer all and every such Person and Persons to whom I have Bargained or Sold any Maners Lands or Tenements as aforesaid quietly and peaceably to have hold and enjoy the same according to my true intent and meaning without any Entry Claim Suit in Law Eviction or Interruption And lawful Request made to my Heir or Heirs or any of them by the party grieved and by Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors or some of them the Heir or Heirs of them or any of them in the presence of Ten sufficient Witnesses whereof Five to be Hundreders inhabiting within the County where mine Heir as aforesaid shall be then resident If my said Heir and Heirs doth not surcease his and their Suit and Suits Claim and Demand against any such parties grieved and make such further Assurance to the party or parties grieved as shall be reasonably required and devised at the Costs and Charges of such party grieved Then my Will full intent and meaning is That Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors and their Heirs and the Survivor and Survivors of them and his and their Heirs shall from time to time absolutely stand and be seized of two parts of my said Maners Lands and Tenements divisible in three parts to be divided of a good and perfect Estate of Inheritance in Fee-simple to the use of them their Heirs and Assigns for ever and shall have full Power and lawful Authority by vertue of these Presents to Bargain and Sell all or so much of all or any of my said Maners Lands or Tenements as my said Executors or their Heirs or the Survivors of them shall think convenient to any Person and his and their Heirs for ever and with the Money received for the same my Daughters Legacies and Portions deducted make such reasonable Satisfaction to all and every party grieved as aforesaid as by the Judgment of the Lord Chancellor of England or the Master of the Rolls for the time being shall be thought meet and convenient apportioning the Money paid with the profits they have received allowing to themselves their Costs and Charges to be expended in and about the same any thing in these Presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding Lewis Mordaunt And my Will is That my Daughters and others in this my Will mentioned being paid their Portions as aforesaid by my Executors by the sale of so much of two parts of my Fee-simple Lands as will suffice as aforesaid that then the rest of my Fee-simple Lands remaining shall rest and be in my Executors and their Heirs as aforesaid for the Assurance and sure making of the Lands I have sold which I perswade my self will suffice And my Will full Intent and Meaning is That if my Son Henry pay his Sisters parts or any part thereof and die without Heirs Males of his Body then I will my Executors and their Heirs shall stand seized of all my Fee-simple Lands until such time as the Issue Female of the said Henry or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of the said Henry be satisfied and paid all and so much of the said Summ and Summs of Money unto my Daughters and others devised as my said Son Henry his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall have paid any thing in these Presents to the contrary of this always notwithstanding And so I make an end In Witness whereof I have Subcribed my Hand and set my Seal the Day and Year aforesaid Lewis Mordaunt SIGILLVM LODOVICI MORDAVNT MILITIS DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Sealed and delivered as the Will of the aforenamed Lord Mordaunt in the presence of and allowed with the Interlinings as they be Edward Watson John Wake John Gyll Thomas Arthur Sig. Thomas Goodman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ion on the North 〈◊〉 â—he Tombe PIISSIMAE MEMORIAE LUDOVICI DNÌ„I MORDAVNT SACRUM DEPOSITIUM LUDOVICI DNÌ„I MORDAVNT SUB AVITA FIDE ET CERTA FILICES RESURRECTIONIS SPE GLORIOSAM IESU CHRISTI EPIPHANIAÌ„ HIC EXPECTAT VXOREÌ„ HABUIT ELIZABETHA ARTHURIS DARCEL AEQUITIS AURATI FILIAM EX QUA SUSCEPIT HENRICUM FILIUM VNICUM ET HAEREDÌ„ MARIAM ET ELIZABETHAM ET POST VITAÌ„ FAELICITER ET SINE QUERELA PERACTAM SUIS CHARUS ET ALIENIS ANNORUM SATUR ET HONORUM AETATIS SUAE ANNO 66o. 13o. IUNII ANNO DNIÌ„ 1601. PIE OBDORIVIT IN DNÌ„O HENRY Lord MORDAVNT First of that Name Fourth Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. A special Livery granted unto the Honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt ELizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae prevenerint Salutem Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris concessimus Licentiam dedimus ac per praesentes concedimus Licentiam damus pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris quantum in nobis est praedilecto sideli Subdito nostro Henrico Mordaunt modo Domino Mordaunt filio proximo Heredi Ludovici Mordaunt Militis nuper Domini Mordaunt defuncti qui quidem Ludovicus nuper Dominus Mordaunt de nobis tenuit in Capite die quo obiit per Servitium militare quocunque nomine cognomine sive additione nominis idem Henricus modo Dominus Mordaunt nominatus sit sive nuncupatus quod idem Henricus modo Dominus Mordaunt incontinenter absque aliqua Probatione aetatis suae absque aliqua Liberatione seu Prosecutione haereditatis suae vel alicujus inde parcellae extra manus nostras haeredum vel successorum nostrorum secundum cursum Cancellariae nostrae vel secundum Legem cursum Curiae
As for and concerning all and singular the said Maners Lordships Lands Tenements Rectories Advowsons Rents and Hereditaments whatsoever in the said Fine or Fines Recovery or Recoveries or in any of them to be mentioned and expressed to the use of the said Henry Lord Mordaunt for and during the term of his natural Life without impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt as concerning the Maners of Turvey Staggesden Carleton Chillington Snelston Lavenden aliàs the Castle-Maner of Lavenden Delwike Bosomes and Westcotton with their and every of their Appurtenances aforesaid after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt the said Recovery and Recoveries shall be and enure and the Recoverers and their Heirs and the Survivors of them shall stand seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof to the use of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley and their Assigns for and during the Life of the Lady Margaret now Wife to the said Lord Mordaunt and from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt and Lady Margaret then to the use of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley and of their Executors Administrators and Assigns for and during the term of One and twenty Years from the Day of the decease of the Survivor of them the said Lord Mordaunt and Lady Mordaunt if no Heir of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt shall before the end of the said One and twenty Years accomplish such Age as that the same Heir by the laws of this Realm may have and sue Livery out of the Hands of our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty that now is his Heirs and Successors of and for such of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as is before in these Presents limited and appointed to descend And from and after the exspiration of the said term of One and twenty Years or in the time wherein such Heir shall come to such Age which of them soever shall first happen then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Son and Heir apparent of the now Lord Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten and to be begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said John Mordaunt for ever And as for and concerning the Maner of Hardwike with the Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton and the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in Hardwike aforesaid from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt then the said Recovery and Recoveries and the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of the said Maner of Hardwike and of every part thereof and of all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in Hardwike aforesaid to the use of themselves the said Recoverers and of their Executors and Administrators until such time as James Mordaunt Esquire second Son of the said Lord Mordaunt shall or should accomplish his full Age of One and twenty Years and afterwards to the use of the said James Mordaunt for and during the natural life of the said James Mordaunt and then to the use of that and such Wife of the said James Mordaunt as the said James Mordaunt shall happen to leave behind him at the time of the death of the said James Mordaunt for and during the natural life of that and such Wife of the said James Mordaunt And afterwards to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Mordaunt for ever And as for and concerning the Maner of Furnells in Ramides and Ringsted with the Appurtenances and the Parsonages of Denford and Ringsted in the County of Northampton from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt the said Recovery shall be and the said Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part thereof to the use of themselves the said Recoverers and of their Executors and Administrators for during and until such time as Henry Mordaunt Esquire third Son of the said Lord Mordaunt shall or should attain to his Age of One and twenty Years and then to the use of him the said Henry Mordaunt and after the decease of the said Henry Mordaunt to the use of that and such Wife of the said Henry Mordaunt as the said Henry Mordaunt shall happen to leave behind him at the time of the decease of the said Henry Mordaunt for and during the natural Life of that and such Wife And afterwards to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt for ever And as for and concerning the foresaid Maner of Woughton upon the Green aliàs Woughington upon the Green and Willen and the Advowson of the Rectory or Parsonage of Woughton with the Appurtenances in the said County of Buckingham from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Then the said Recovery shall be and enure and the said Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part thereof to the use of themselves the said Recoverers and of their Executors and Administrators for and during and until such time as Lewis Mordaunt Esquire Fourth Son of the said Lord Mordaunt shall or should attain to his full Age of One and twenty Years and then to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for term of the natural Life of the said Lewis Mordaunt and after the decease of the said Lewis Mordaunt then to the use of that and such Wife of the said Lewis as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall happen to leave behind him at the time of the death of the said Lewis for and during the natural Life of that and such Wife and after to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And
for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And as for and concerning all other the Maners Lordships Rents Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the foresaid Counties of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton and in every of them whereof no use after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt is before in and by these Presents limited and appointed The Recovery and Recoveries aforesaid shall be and enure and the Recoverers therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof after the death and decease of the said Lord Mordaunt to the use of them the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators and Assigns to the end and until that they shall and may have gathered levied and received of the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and of the other Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Lord Mordaunt before in these Presents to the said Recoverers limited and appointed so much Money as shall and will satisfy to pay such Debts Portions and Summs of Money as are hereafter in these Presents mentioned and expressed And as concerning what Debts and Summs of Money and Portions are meant by the said Lord Mordaunt to be raised and paid as well with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before mentioned as also with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before limited for the life of the said Lady Mordaunt after her decease and of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises limited to the said James Henry and Lewis until they shall or should respectively come to their Age of One and twenty Years The said Lord Mordaunt doth by these Presents express the same to be such as followeth that is to say All such Debts as the said Lord Mordaunt shall justly owe at the time of his decease together with all the necessary Costs Charges and Expences which they the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley shall necessarily expend disburse pay or lay out in about or concerning the same and such other Summ and Summs of Money as the said Lord Mordaunt by a note in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Lord Mordaunt shall limit and appoint to be paid and disbursed And also the several Summs and Portions hereafter following videlicet The Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of lawful English Money for and unto the use of Elizabeth Mordaunt Eldest Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And the Summ of Two thousand Pounds lawful English Money for and to the use of Frances Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which shall first happen And also the Summ and Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful Money of England for and unto the use of Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And moreover the like Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful English Money for and unto the use of Anne Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And also the several Summ and Summs of Two thousand Pounds a piece to each and every of the Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters which hereafter shall happen to be Born to the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid at his her or their several Ages of One and twenty Years or Days of their Marriages which of them shall first happen But it is nevertheless meant and intended That if any of the said Children so appointed to have take and receive Portions as aforesaid shall happen to dye before the several time and times limited and appointed for the payment thereof That then his her or their Portions so deceasing shall not be paid at all to the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of the Children so dying but the same shall go to the benefit of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And also the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Executors and Administrators shall after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt yearly allow and pay unto the said James Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt and Lewis Mordaunt Sons of the said Lord Mordaunt for and towards their maintenance from the time of the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt until every of them severally shall attain and come to their several Ages of One and twenty Years aforesaid or Days of Marriages aforesaid the several yearly Summs following videlicet Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feasts of All-Saints called Hallowmas-Day to the said James Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feast aforesaid to the said Henry Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the aforesaid Feast to Lewis Mordaunt during his minority and also Fifty Pounds a piece yearly and at the Feast aforesaid to every Son and Sons hereafter to be Born unto the said Lord Mordaunt during the minority of such Son and Sons respectively And if it shall happen the said Lady Margaret do dye before the foresaid Daughters of the foresaid Lord Mordaunt or any of them shall attain to her or their several Ages or Times aforesaid on or at which her or their several Portions aforesaid be or ought to be paid Then the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall yearly pay at the Feast of All-Saints aforesaid unto such of the Daughter and Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt then not attained to the Age and Time of her having or wherein she ought to have and to be paid her foresaid Portion according to the appointment of these Presents the yearly Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece for and towards her and their Maintenance respectively to and unto the time when by the appointment and limitation of these Presents her or their said Portions ought to be paid as aforesaid And also the like Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece at the Feast aforesaid and in manner and sort aforesaid unto all and every the Daughters and Issue Females of the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter happening to be born unto the said Lord Mordaunt either in the life time of the said Lord Mordaunt or after his death And it is further the absolute Meaning and Intent of
erat in Custodiâ Ranulphi de Broc duxerunt insomnem Charta Willielmi de Goram OMnibus hominibus suis amicis tà m Francis quà m Anglicis tà m futuris quà m praesentibus Willielmus de Goram Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Terram meam de Staplehurst Terram illam quam teneo de Willielmo Comite Ranulpho de Broc Damatae filiae meae haeredibus eorum tenendum tam liberè quietè quà m illam Ego teneo de praedicto Willielmo Comite scilicèt Servitium faciendo dimidiae partis unius militis His Testibus Gervasio filio Bernardi Henrico filio Thomae Willielmo de Harlec Alano de Criol Stephano de Poisoter Henrico de Bertsted Roberto Selvage cum multis aliis Charta Damatae de Broc SCiant tà m futuri quà m praesentes Quòd Ego Damata Uxor quondam Domini Ranulphi de Broc Robertus de Broc filius meus fuimus in illo loco in quo dictus Ranulphus vir meus Dominus dedit Fulconi de Bollard Terram suam in Combdenâ in feodo haereditate cum omnibus pertinentiis tenendum ab eo haeredibus suis homagium suum cepit accipitrem quandam in recognitionem ei dedit Servitio quartae partis militis Ego vero Damata Robertus filius meus hanc Donationem per istam Chartam confirmamus concedimus petitionem Fulconis de Bollard Testibus Willielmo de Sanctâ Mardaliâ Roberto de Bethrinden Thomâ de Harlebec Ricardo de Auberville Henrico de la Hyde Roberto de Ham Andreo filio Thomae Stephano Tore Johanne Clerico Inter Placita coram Concilio Regis die Sancti Johannis Baptistae in tres Septimanas anno vigesimo Septimo Henrici Tertii Rotul 20. EDelina de Broc opponit versus Sibyllam de Broc quòd tenebat Finem factum apud Winton Tempore Regis Johannis inter ipsam Sibyllam Stephanum de Turnham ipsam Edelinam de rationabili parte quae clamat versus ipsos Stephanum Edelinam de haereditate Ranulphi de Broc Patris Edelinae Sibyllae de rationabili parte Sibyllae quam ipsa clamat versus eosdem Stephanum Edelinam de totâ haereditate Damatae de Goram matris ipsorum Edelinae Sibyllae Sibylla non venit Baronage of England Page 663. I Come now to Stephen of Turnham Brother of the forementioned Robert This Stephen ratified his Fathers Grants to the Canons of Combwell for the health of the Souls of King Henry the Second King Richard the First his own Soul and the Soul of his Wife In the three and thirtieth of Henry the Second this Stephen being Seneschal of Poictou observing that the King of France had won Four Castles belonging to the King of England and thereupon marched to Maine with purpose to gain it by assault set fire upon the Suburbs by which means the Flames getting over the Walls almost consumed the whole City In the Sixth of King John with Edelina his Wife he had Livery of the Mannor of Fealburgh in the County of Southampton which was the inheritance of Damieta her Mother then Deceased but departed this Life in the Sixteenth of that Kings Reign for then did the same Edelina his Widow give Sixty Marks and one Palfrey for liberty to Marry with whom she should like best Robert de Broc That was Stiled Marshal of England and Forrester of Cannoc Rogerus de Hoveden parte posteriori Pag. 299. BEatus verò Thomas Archiepiscopus eo die Cantuariae residens post Sermonem ad populum factum excommunicavit Robertum de Broc qui die praecedente amputaverat caudam Sommerii sui Imagines Historiarum Authore Radulpho de Diceto Page 555. DIE Natalis Domini Thomas Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus Sermonem habiturus ad populum ascendit in Pulpitum Sermone completo orationibus consuetis scilicèt pro Domino Papâ pro Rege populique salute fusis ad Dominum Nigellum de Sackville Robertum quoque de Broc qui Equam quandam ipsius Archiepiscopi ad dedecus ignominiam ejus decurtaverant accensis candelis solemniter excommunicavit Charta Roberti de Broc NOtum sit omnibus Sanctae Ecclesiae Fidelibus tà m praesentibus quà m futuris Quòd Ego Robertus de Broc pro salute meâ Margaritae Uxoris meae Domini Ranulphi de Broc patris mei Laurentii filii mei pro animâ Domini Ricardi de Bellocampo patris Margaritae Uxoris meae Dedi Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli de Newnham Canonicis regularibus ibidem Deo servientibus Ecclesiam meam de Ravensden cum omnibus pertinentiis suis praecipio quòd de me haeredibus meis aeternè in pace teneant His Testibus Domino Stephano de Turnham Domino Roberto de Lega Domino Thomâ Basset Eliâ filio Ricardi Johanne filio Stephani Gervasio de Ambly Thomâ de Stowbridge Willielmo filio Willielmi Nicolao filio Rogeri Andreo Clerico Antiquities of Warwickshire Page 347. Speaking of Walter de Broc Lord of Chesterton TO this Walter succeeded William his Son and Heir who gave to the Monks of Radmore in the same Forrest of Cannoc afterwards translated to Stonly all his Lands in Werly in the County of Stafford In Consideration whereof he was made partaker of the whole benefit of the Cestertian Order and promis'd that his Body should have Sepulture in their Monastery On the Canons of Killingworth he confer'd the Church of Chesterton and granted to the Knights Templars a Yard Land in this Lordship but ill fate attended him for he suffer'd under the hand of Justice though for what appears not Whereupon the Lands were Seized into the Kings hands who gave them in Marriage to one Robert de Broc being a man of note in his days For he is stiled Marescallus Angliae Forrestarius de Cannoc who gave to the Monastery of Stonly a Messuage and half a Yard Land lying in Radway in this County and died in the Fifth Year of Richard the First leaving Issue Margery his Daughter and Heir Married to Hugh de Loges who in the Seventh of that King paid sixty Marks Fine towards raising that great Sum of Money for the Kings Redemption for which he had the Custody of the Forrest of Cannoc with his House of Grimbaldsdon Sir Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale Charta Domini Roberti Mallet ROBERTUS MALLET omnibus hominibus amicis suis Salutem Sciatis me memetipsum haeredes meos obligâsse perfacere Laurentio de Broc in libero maritagio cum Milicentâ filiâ meâ ducentos solidatos Terrae in loco competenti ex illis quos teneo in Comitatibus Cantabrigiae Huntingdoniae sibi haeredibus suis de dictâ Milicentâ filiâ meâ exeuntibus hoc erit circa Festum beatae Mariae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Vigesimo Septimo Et si Ego Robertus Mallet vel haeredes mei praedictos ducentos Solidatos Terrae in iisdem Comitatibus praedicto Laurentio de Broc
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
Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid parties or other Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the premisses And we the aforesaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsels of the said parties hearing and seeing their Tytels Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegances concerning their aforesaid Tytles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said parties Award Ordain and Deme of and upon the premises in manner and form following that is to say forasmuch as the aforesaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Browne George and John Browne have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Erle of Wiltshire and seal'd with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and will'd that same Will to stand in his full strength and vertue and for his last Will and in that Will there is no clause whereby the said Erle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shew'd unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the foresaid Mannor of Drayton and other the said Mannors Lands Tenements and hereditaments to be yeven in tail to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Erle of Wiltshire and that the same Erle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same tails and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Browne and Audrey be Cosens and next heires to the said Constance Mother to the said Erle of Wiltshire and to the said Erle on his said Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Mannors and other premises by reason of the same tayles Wherefore we Award Ordain and Deme that the foresaid Elizabeth George Browne and Audrey shall have and enjoy all the foresaid Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premises to them and to their heirs according to the foresaid Titles of Inheritance and that the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury shall by his several Deeds sufficient in the Law to be enroll'd release to the said John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humphrey Browne George Browne and John Browne and Audrey his Wife and to such person or persons as they shall name to the use of the said Elizabeth George and Audrey and their heirs all such Right Title Claim Interest and Demands as the said Erle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresaid Mannors Lands and Tenements and other the premises by reason of any Gift or Will in the premises or any part of them made by the foresaid Erle of Wiltshire to the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt John and George Browne in all things And furthermore the said Erle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said John Mordaunt Humphrey Browne John and George Browne or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premises as soon as it may be conveniently done for the which Releases and other things above specified and for other Costs and Charges which the aforesaid Erle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premises We the said Arbitrators Award Ordain and Deme that the said Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humphrey Browne and John Browne shall content and pay to the said Erle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns two hundred Marks of lawful Money in forme following that is to say the said John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns in the day of the Feast of St. George the Martyr next coming after the date above written at the Rode of the North dore in the Cathedral Church of Pauls in the City of London between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the Clock of the same day a hundred marks and the foresaid Sir Wistan Humphrey Browne and John Browne shall content and pay to the foresaid Erle his Executors or Assigns in the day of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the said Rode in the said Church between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the same day a hundred marks residue of the foresaid two hundred marks Also we Award Ordain and Deme that the said John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Browne Humphrey and John Browne by their Deed and Deeds as sufficient as the said Erle of Shrewsbury by his Councell shall advise shall release to the said Erle of Shrewsbury and as many persons as the said Erle shall name and appoint in writing before the Feast of St. Michaell th' Archangel next coming after the date hereof which hath done labour'd or spoken for the said Erle in his foresaid cause all actions of Trespasses Debates and Demands personal had or done before the date of these presents at the Costs and Charges of the said Erle of Shrewsbury and the said Erle and all the foresaid persons which have done spoken or labour'd any thing for the said Erle of Shrewsbury in or for his tryal or possession of the premises or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the same Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humphrey Browne George Browne John Browne and Audrey his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have against the same Erle or the foresaid other persons for any cause had or done touching the premises afore the date of these presents In witness whereof the foresaid Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put to their Seals this twentieth day of March the sixth yere of the Reign of King Henry the Eight A Release from the Erle of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Mannor of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit nos Georgius Comes Salopiae salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae uxori ejus uni consanguinearum haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts ex parte matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet filii Constanciae filiae haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Browne Georgio Browne filio haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Browne filio haeredi Amiae alterius consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Browne Etheldredae uxori ejus tertiae consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae
come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot two of the Kings Justices send gretyng in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers variances and debates moved and had betwyne the Right Honourable Lord George Earle of Shrewsbury on th' one party and John Mordaunt Esquyer and Elizabeth his Wife oon of the Cosynes and Heires of the Right Honourable Edward late Earle of Wiltshire oon his Moders side that is to say by Constance Moder of the sayd Earle and Daughter and Heire of Henry Greene of Drayton in the Countye of Northampton Esquier and Humfrey Brown Esquier late Husband to Amye and George Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Sonne and Heire to the same Amye another Cosyne and another of the Heires of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire after the forme aforesayd and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Audree his Wife the third Cosyne and Heire to the fame Earle after the manner abovesayd on the other party of and upon the Right Title Reversion Inheritance and Possession as well of the foresayd Mannor of Drayton with th' appurtenances as of all other Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances in the sayd Countye of Northampton or elsewhere which late were to the sayd Constance or to the sayd Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or th' other of them which Mannors Lands and Tenements the aforesayd Earle of Shrewsbury claymeth by a Will supposed to be made by the sayd Earle of Wiltshire by which Will the foresayd Earle of Wiltshire should will to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury all his Fee-simple Lond Whereupon the foresayd Partyes have compromitted themselfe to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the sayd Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliott Arbitrators indifferently named and chosen by and betwyne the foresayd Partyes To award ordein and deme as well of and upon the premisses as for and upon all manner Evidences Charter Escripts Writeings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suites Quarrels and Demands had or moved betwyne the foresayd Partyes or other Servaunts or Frynds before the Date of these Presents concerning the premisses And we the sayd Arbitrators takeing upon us th' auctority and power to award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsells of the foresayd Partyes hereing and seeing their Tytyls Answers Replications Evidences Proffes and all other their Alleadgeances concerning their foresayd Tytyls and Interesse by good deliberation and by consent of the sayd Partyes award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses in manner and forme following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humfrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earle of Wiltshire and sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will And in that Will there is no Clause whereby the same Earle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more playnly appeareth And alsoe they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deedes and other Writings proveing the aforesayd Mannor of Drayton and other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and Hereditaments to be yeven in tayle to the Auncestors of the sayd Constance Moder of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire And the sayd Earle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same Tayles And that the sayd Elizabeth and George Brown and Audree be Cousyns and next Heyres to the same Constance Moder to the sayd Earle of Wiltshire and to the same Earle on his Moders side and heritable to the foresayd Mannors and other the premisses by reason of the same Tayles Wherefore we award ordein and deme that the aforesayd Elizabeth George Brown and Audree shall have and enjoy all the foresayd Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premisses to them and to their Heires according to their foresayd Tytylls of Inheritance And that the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall by his severall Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled release unto the sayd John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humfrey Brown George Brown and John Brown Audree his Wife and to such persons or person as they shall name to the use of the sayd Elizabeth George and Audree and their Heires and all such Right Tytyl Clayme Interest and Demand as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresayd Mannors Lands and Tenements or other the premisses by reason of any guift or Will in the premisses or any part of them made by the aforesayd Earle of Wiltshire to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the sayd John Mordaunt John and George Brown in all things And furthermore the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the sayd John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown John and George Brown or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writeings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premisses as soon as it may be conveniently done For the which Releases and other things above-specified and for other Costs and Charges which the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premisses We the sayd Arbitrators award ordein and deme That the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes two hundred Marks of lawful money in forme following that is to say The sayd John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct George the Martyr next comeing after the Date above-written at the Rode of the North-Door in the Cathedrall-Church of Pauls in the Citty of London betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the Clock of the same Day a hundred Marks And the foresayd Wistan Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the sayd Rode in the same Church betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the same day a hundred Marks residue of the foresayd two hundred Marks Alsoe we award ordein and deme that the sayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Brown Humfrey and John Brown by their Deede and Deedes as sufficient as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or his Counsell shall advise shall release to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury and to as many persons as the sayd Earle shall name and appoynt in Writeing before the Feast of Sainct Michael th' Arch-Angel next comeing after the Date hereof which hath done laboured or spoken for the
Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere their Sisters and to their Heirs for ever And in case the said John Tresham make no sale of his Maners Lands and Tenements as is aforesaid That then immediately after his decease and the decease of Isabel his Sister all his Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Realm of England not sold to the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant as is abovesaid shall remain go and grow to the said Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere and to their Heirs for ever And the said John Mordaunt shall pay for reversion of the Premises sold or to be sold by the said John Tresham to the same John Mordaunt Serjeant after the rate of half Fifteen Years Purchace as is abovesaid In witness whereof to these present Indentures the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the same Twenty fifth Day and Year abovesaid And in case the said John Tresham hereafter have any Issue Male of the Body of the said Isabel by him begotten That then the said Issue Male shall have all the same Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig Church-Brampton or part of them if it shall please the same John Tresham to make any such Gift Entail Extracta per me Nicolaum Hardyng verbatim xxv die Januarii decimo nono Henrici Septimi A Letter from the Prince to John Mordaunt his Attorney By the Prince TRusty and right wele beloved we greet you wele And understand by your late Letters directed unto our Councel that ye have endeavoured you diligently to perform such matters and businesses concerning our profit according to our desires in our Letters directed to you for the which we give unto you our great thanks praying you to persevere and continue And whereas in your said Letters among other matters is contained That Richard Empson hath found that Ingleton held certain Hamlets and Parcels of Lands of my most dread Lord and Fader the King by Knights Service whereby he intendeth to defeat us as it seemeth of the Ward of the said Ingleton to our Prejudice with whom we charge you severely in our Name to travers for divers considerations and specially for that our Councel have had of late more perfit knowledge That the said Ward rightfully appertaineth unto us than they knew or had understanding for the which and other great matters whereof we shall be ascertained we intend within brief time to send some of our Councel unto my most dread Lord and Fader instructed to the intent we may know his pleasure concerning the same We will also That in our Name ye take Actions against Ward Waste and Sefnian for such Wards as they detaining have by craft concealedly hid and kept from us wherewith we be nothing pleased nor content And as for the hundred and three score Pounds resting in the hands of Nicholas Nynes due unto us we pray you on our behalf to charge the said Nicholas to send the same surely to us in all convenient hast and to give credence to our trusty servant Thomas Canceller chief Clerk of our Kitchin in such things as he on our behalf shall shew unto you whereby ye shall greatly please us Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaudley the Twenty third day of May. Articles of Marriage between Sir Wistan Brown and Elizabeth Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Twentieth day of September in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey oon of the Kings Serjeants at the Law on the oon Partie and William Brown of Abbesroding in the County of Essex Esquire on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas it was promised concluded and agreed between the Friends of the said William and the said John Mordaunt and other Friends of Elizabeth Sister of the said John Mordaunt That the said William should take to Wife the said Elizabeth and upon the same Marriage concluded and was promised as well by the Friends of the said William as by the said William he then being of the Age of sixteen Years or thereabout and of good and sad discretion That the said Elizabeth should have a Jointure of Maners Lands and Tenements late Robert Brown's Father to the said William to the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and that of the same Maners Lands and Tenements so of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and also of other Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins which before that time were laid to Mortgage by the said Robert to William Capell Knight for a Debt and Forfeit to the said Sir William and afterward redeemed by the said John at his labor and Instance for the summ of Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the which Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the said John Mordaunt payed to the said Sir William and the said John Mordaunt should have and take the Profits into his own hand from the time of the said agreement and concluding of Marriage unto the time the said William come to his full Age of One and Twenty Years which Lands in the whole were promised to be of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds over all Charges to the said John And also it was farther agreed That the said Elizabeth over and besides Maners Lands and Tenements to the said yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings should have a Jointure in the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins if the said William when he came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years would agree That she should have the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins term of her Life and after that the said William came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years he oftentimes assented and agreed That the same Elizabeth should have the said Lands in the Saint Martins in Jointure and by these Presents confesseth and granteth That he agreed and granted and at the time of concluding the said Marriage the Maners of Rokewodhall and Stokhall and all Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding Bauchamproding High-Laffare Little-Laffare and Maehing in the County of Essex except Hobberlerkey which were the said Robert Brown's were promised to be of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings over all Charges were assigned to be the said Jointure of the said Elizabeth and after were given in Jointure by Sir Thomas Boughchier Knight John Bardefeld and other Enfeoffes to the said William and Elizabeth his Wife for term of Life of the said Elizabeth And the said William took Seizing and Possession for him and the said Elizabeth at Abbesroding aforesaid The same Elizabeth her Friends verily believing the same Maners Lands and Tenements had then been of the yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings according to the said Promise and also as it was agreed upon between the same Parties upon the said Marriage concluded That the reversion of the said Manners of Rokewodhall Stokhall and all Lands and
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
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Legg Clericis Vltima Voluntas Ludovici tertii Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Amen I Lewis Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Drayton in the County of Northampton being the First Day of October in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred ninety and three and in the Five and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. Whole of Body of good Mind and perfect Remembrance thanks be unto God certain to dye and uncertain when and where I shall depart this mortal and transitory Life willing in the disposition of my worldly Goods Lands and Possessions to prevent the suddain hour of Death so that at the time it shall please my Maker Redeemer and Saviour Jesus Christ to call me from this transitory Life when my Mind I hope shall be wholly in and towards him and the Joys of Heaven I shall not need then to be busied with any thing of this unstable World Do therefore now make ordain constitute and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following renouncing and forsaking all former Wills by me heretofore made First and chiefly I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and to Jesus Christ his Son my only Saviour and Redeemer trusting and steadfastly believing to receive forgiveness of all my Sins and Offences according to his endless Mercy and Property and that he will be merciful to me a most wretched sinner and Creature of his handy-work and not impute my Sins and Offences to me neither burthen me with them according to my merits and deserts but according to the multitude of his great Mercies he will Pardon and Forgive me through the special Faith and Trust I have in him and in Jesus Christ his only Son my Saviour and Redeemer by the Merits of whose Passion I believe faithfully through this my Faith pure Submission and sorrowful Repentance to be delivered from the bondage of Sin and Hell and to receive full Remission and Forgiveness of all my Sins and to be made partaker of the Fruition of his Deity in his heavenly Kingdom amongst his Chosen and Elect of whom I humbly ask Forgiveness even from the beginning of my Life to the end of the same My Body I wish wheresoever I depart within this Realm of England may be Buried at the Parish Church of Luffwick where the Body of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt my late Wife doth lie if it may conveniently so be otherwise where it shall please God to appoint in such seemly sort as may stand with my Vocation according to the Discretion of mine Executors And I Will That within One Year after my Departure my Executors shall cause to be made for me and Dame Elizabeth my late Wife a meet and convenient Tomb or Monument of Alabafter with Two Pictures the one for my self the other for Dame Elizabeth my late Wife representing the State which God of his infinite Goodness hath called me unto the charges thereof will be I suppose about fourscore Pounds and so much I will shall be bestowed at the least Item I Will give and bequeath to be dealt in Alms the Day of my Burial Threescore and ten Pounds viz. to the Poor People in Luffwick Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Thrapton Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Sudburgh Six Pounds to the Poor People in Slipton Three Pounds to the Poor People in Turvey Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Stacheden Charleton and Lawenden Twenty Pounds to the Poor People of Grafton Eight Pounds I Will that every one of my Household Servants at the Day of my Funeral or at the least within Six Months after shall have truly paid unto them one whole Years Wages and shall be found and allowed by some in my House at Drayton Meat Drink and Lodging for Two Months after my decease if they will come for the same in which time they may provide for themselves Now touching and concerning my worldly Goods I will and bequeath them in manner and form following First I give and bequeath to my Son Henry Mordaunt my Funeral discharged my Debts paid and Legacies performed all my Furniture and Household-Stuff in my House at Drayton requiring him in special trust not willing to spoil or wast them but that he will by his Last Will and Testament leave and bequeath them after his Death to his Son and Heir of his Body lawfully begotten And if it fortune him to depart this world without Heir Male of his Body which God forbid Then I likewise require him to give and bequeath the One Moiety or half thereof the Seilings and Iron-looms excepted to my loving Daughter Mrs. Margaret Mordaunt his now Wife and the other half to the next Heir Male to whom my House of Drayton ought to descend And to that intent and purpose my Will is My Son Henry shall within Forty Days after my decease enter into Bond and become bound by Obligation unto my loving Friends John Wake and Edward Watson Esouires in the Summ of Three hundred Pounds with Condition That he shall well and truly perform this my Last Will and Testament to all intents constructions and purposes in manner and form aforesaid which if he do not or refuse to do then I Will my former Bequests to him shall be meerly void and of none effect And now having a special care of my Two Daughters Katherine Mordaunt and Elizabeth Mordaunt yet un-married and willing that they and each of them shall be yearly provided for and allowed