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
Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife that the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife over and above the portion of the same Dame Elizabeth of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements and of all other Mannors Lands and Tenements called the Greene's Lands shall have the Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Conyngre and the Park of Drayton and the Pasture there called the Oxe Pasture dureing the life of the sayd Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife saveing the reversion thereof to the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Constance Parre and Audree and to their Heirs Provided alwayes that the same Sir Thomas nor Elizabeth shall do no waste in the same Mannor and Park nor cut down no Tymber in the sayd Mannor Park or Conyngre And where alsoe the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight and Dame Elizabeth his Wife never had Issue begotten between them nor any belike to have because of the Age of the same Dame Elizabeth so that the sayd Sir Thomas is not intitled to have any part of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements nor other premisses nor intitled to have any other Mannors Lands or Tenements Rents Reversions Services Woods Avowsons Franchises and Hereditaments which at any time were of the sayd Costance late Countesse of Wiltes nor of the sayd Herry Greene Fader of the same Constance in England Wales and Marches of the same nor any part of them but onely dureing the life of the same Dame Elizabeth his Wife in her Right Yet neverthelesse for that the same Sir Thomas and Elizabeth nor any of theirs shall not discontinue nor aliene put away nor depart fro the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions Avousons and other premisses within the Realm of England Wales and the Marches of the same nor fro any parte or parcel of them But that all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other the premisses immediately after the decease of the sayd Margaret Countesse and after the decease of the sayd Sir Thomas and Dame Elizabeth his Wife shall descend grow goe and come to the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Constance Parre and Audree Vere and their Heirs in like manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene was inheritable unto the same It is agreed therefore between all and every of the sayd partyes in manner and forme following That the sayd Margaret now Countesse shall have and enjoy for terme of her life the sayd Mannors of Stamford-Rivers and Sutton in the County of Essex and all other Lands and Tenements that late were of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes in Stamford-Rivers and Sutton in the same Countye And as moche of the sayd Lands and Tenements in the sayd Countye called Tracies Peggislonde and Botellis as with the sayd Mannors of Stamford-Rivers and Sutton shall be of the clere yerely value of fifty Pounds above all charges as well Stewards Fees Bayliffes Fees as other yerely charges which Mannors Lands and Tenements were of the inheritance of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes descended to him by the sayd John late Earle of Wiltes his Fader whose Heire to the same Mannors Lands and Tenements the sayd now Duke is And the same Duke covenanteth and granteth by these Presents That he shall make or cause to be made all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements of the yerely value of fifty Pounds before the sixteenth day of July next comeing as sure to the sayd Margaret or other to her use dureing her life as by the Counsel of the sayd Margaret shall be devised at her Costs and Charges And for and in recompence of the residue of the sayd Duke of Bucks Lands which the sayd Margaret had in Joynture and alsoe to make up her full Joynture of three hundred Marks the same Margaret now Countesse shall have the sayd Mannors of Wamiden Emton Wolston and Chalton according to the Estate of her old Joynture thereof made And alsoe the Mannors Lands and Tenements following That is to say the Mannor of Grately in the Countye of Southampton and all Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes in Grately in the sayd County The Mannor of Westbury in the Countye of Wiltes and all Lands and Tenements that were of the same late Earl in Westbury in the same Countye The Mannors of Ramides Ringstede Cotes Stanwike and Harringworth in the Countye of Northampton and all Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd late Earle in Ramides Ringstede Cotes Stanwike and Harringworth in the same Countye The Mannor of Buckworth in the Countye of Huntington and all Lands and Tenements that were of the same late Earle in Buckworth in the same Countye And the Mannor of Combton in the Countye of Cambrigge and all Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd late Earle in Combton in the sayd Countye All which Mannors Lands and Tenements in the sayd Countyes of Bedford Northampton Buckingham Huntington Cambrigge Southampton and Wiltes were of the Greene's Lands Except and alwayes reserveing unto the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Hizabeth his Wife Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere and to the Heirs of the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Constance and Audree All Wards Marriages and Avousons belonging to the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and to every parcel of them All which sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements with the sayd Mannors of Wamiden Emton Wolston and Chalton are delivered to the sayd Margaret Countesse for and instede of the yerely value of one hundred and fifty Pounds over Charges as well Stewards Fees Bayliffes Fees as other annual Charges And the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife Sir Richard Gilford Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader Covenantyn and grantyn by these Presents that the sayd Sir Thomas and the sayd Dame Elizabeth his Wife and alsoe the sayd John Mordaunt the younger and Elizabeth his Wife Robert Mordaunt and Amye his Wife John Parre and Constance his Wife and the sayd Audree Vere and such as shall be her Husband if she be then marryed and alsoe all such persons as were lately infeoffed by the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes or now be infeoffed or seised of and in all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements sometimes of the sayd Herry Greene afore the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall suffer the sayd Margaret Stafford Countesse of Wiltes Johan Lesle Vicountesse Lesle John Grey Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire John Bretteyne Clerk Thomas Frowyke Sergeant at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Thomas Marrow and John Gardiner to recover ayenst them the same Mannors Lands and Tenements in such forme and order and all other things doe and suffer to be done concerning the same recovere as by the Counsell learned of the sayd Countesse shall be avised at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Countesse The same recovere to be to the use of the sayd Countesse dureing her life and after her decease of the one moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements with
sayd Earle in his foresayd Cause All Actions of Trespass Debates and Demands personal had or done before the Date of these Presents at the Costs and Charges of the Earle of Shrewsbury And the sayd Earle and all the foresayd persons which hath done spoken or laboured any for the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury in or for his Tytyl or possession of the premisses or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humfrey Brown George Brown John Brown and Audree his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have ayenst the sayd Earle or the foresayd other persons for any cause had or done touching the premisses afore the Date of these Presents In witnesse whereof the foresayd Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put their Seals this twentieth Day of March in the sixth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth A Release from the Earl 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 Wiltes ex parte Matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet Filii Constanciae Filiae Haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Brown Georgio Brown Filio Haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Filio Haeredi Amiae alterius Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Brown Etheldredae Uxori ejus tertiae Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae Montague Willielmo Pemberton Haeredibus Assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxoris ejus Humfridi Brown Georgii Brown Etheldredae Uxoris ejus Haeredum ipsorum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton Ac de in omnibus aliis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis Reversionibus Boscis Pratis Pascuis Pasturis aliis Haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum vel alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae seu in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel Haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes nobis factis sive habitis Salvis omnino reservatis nobis Haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habuimus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per jus haereditarium per aliquem Antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum Haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wiltes nobis facta sive habita Ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec Haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione Juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Martii Anno Regni Regis Henrici octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Justified by Antient and Authentick Testimonies By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Fitz-Lewis were Argent a Cheveron Sable between three Trefoils of the same Of the Original Descent Noble Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Fitz-Lewis ALthough the House of Fitz-Lewis has been possessed of Advantages in its Original Alliances noble Possessions and continuance that might do honour to the pretences of any Successor whatsoever Yet I was doubtful whether I should insert it among the other Genealogies they being all so strong in extant and apparent Proofs and to this there remaining only Fragments in my power by reason that with Westhornedon and the other of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands there were delivered to the Lord Peters a prudent and wary Purchaser all the Records Deeds and Papers which did belong to that Family there having and by chance only continued among the Evidences of the Lord Lewis Mordaunt who did sell that Estate an ancient though very authentick Pedigree Yet with the help thereof and some other Pieces that have been gathered by accident there being so great a conviction of the value of this splendid Family I have thought it a due to its Memory and Descendants to establish the remembrance of it The Family of Fitz-Lewis through the power of Nature if not under the Laws of Marriage does derive from Royal Bloud being descended of Charles the VIII King of France who was a great King in his time through the person of a Lady that was of high Nobility in this Nation though her Name shall be unmentioned out of respect to other great Families which by her after-marriages to a noble Husband are descended from her It was endowed with many fair Possessions Lands and Lordships It was allied by Marriages to the greatest of all the English Lords and deserv'd to be honour'd by the famous Camden in his Provincial Description thereof with the Epithet of Clara Familia Fitz-Lewis so as I doubt not but my endeavours herein will be acceptable to such as are curious in things of this nature and particularly to the noble Persons concerned in the Bloud and Succession of the Family LEWIS Prince of France who came afterwards to be King LEWIS VIII LEwis Prince of France commonly at that time called Monsieur Lovis de France and in Latine Instruments Dominus Ludovicus de Francia having in the Year 1251. been called into England by several of the greatest Lords of the Kingdom in opposition to their natural
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
And Roger could not deny but that he was a Native of the said Edmond's Therefore it was concluded That Roger should receive no advantage by his Bill but remain at the mercy of Edmond Mordaunt Pro falso clamore suo Helena de Broc was the Wife of Edmond Mordaunt unto whom she was Married the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third She was the Daughter and one of the Heirs of Sir Ralph de Broc who was a Knight of a most Antient Descent and Lord of very fair and large Possessions All his Lands were upon his Decease divided between Helena Mordaunt and Agnes another of his Daughters the wife of Sir Henry de Brussels There did accrue to Edmond Mordaunt for the part of Helena his Wife in Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborne in Buckinghamshire diverse Lands in Elsburgh Bridsthorne Hardwick and Wedon Chesham and Aumundsham with sundry other in Hertfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephaell She was a Noble Inheritrix and besides her Lands brought into the House of Mordaunt both the Blood and Arms of the Pirots and the Argentines two successions which fell unto her Family by the Heirs of those Names the first being Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot who was Wife to Laurence de Broc her Grandfather the other the Mother of the same Elizabeth named Cassandra the sole Heir of Sir Giles of Argentine Their Issue Robert Mordaunt their only Son ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chicheley Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VIII ROBERT MORDAVNT after the Death of his Father had not only the Fortune of possessing a large and plentiful Inheritance but of enjoying it betimes he being hardly of full age when he came in succession thereunto He inherited in Bedfordshire the Lordship of Turvey that of Clifton and Chicheley with Lands in Elsburgh Wedon Hardwick Chesham Welpool and Aumundsham in the County of Bucks In Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots besides Lands in Treversham and Julborne And in Northamptonshire the Lordship of Yerdley besides the entire Mannor of Shephaell and other Lands in Hertfordshire It was the Fortune of this Robert Mordaunt to unite the Antient Lordship of Turvey which for the space of One Hundred and ninety five Years had till then been divided into Two Mannors and Jurisdictions by the Names of Mordaunt's Mannor and Ardres's Mannor ever since the Reign of King Richard the First when it was parted with the rest of the Alno's Lands between Alice and Sarah de Alno the Two Heirs of that House For in the Forty ninth of Edward the Third an exchange was made by Deed of Indenture between Thomas de Ardres and Robert Mordaunt in which the said Thomas gave and granted all his Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Turvey to the said Robert in Fee and Exchange for all the Lands which Robert had in Shephaell which were of the inheritance of her Mother Helena de Broc This Robert Mordaunt had Married Agnes L'Estrange the Daughter and one of the Heirs of John L' Estrange that was Lord of Ampton Timworth and Brokeley and of Elizabeth who was Sister and Heir of William Botteler of Walden The other Daughter of John L' Estrange was Elizabeth that Married John Warren and by whose death without Issue the Lordships of Ampton Timworth Brokeley with that of Walden which was of those Bottelers Lands devolved entirely to Agnes Mordaunt and to the Heirs of her body Agnes Mordaunt after the Death of Robert her Husband Married again to Thomas de Fodringay as appears by a Deed bearing Date the Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle in the twentieth Year of Richard the Second wherein Thomas of Ardres granted to Thomas de Fodringay and Agnes his Wife a certain Annuity for term of the Life of the said Agnes in Exchange for her Dower in Shephaell The Issue of Robert Mordaunt and Agnes his Wife Robert Mordaunt Cassandra Mordaunt a Nun in the Monastery of Elueston ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chellington Brayfield Ampton Timworth Brokeley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER IX ROBERT MORDAVNT the Third of his Name giving way to that Spirit which led him to the generous but uncertain applications of this life and being enclined to the War which flourished in that Martial Age he became a Favourite dependant upon that Famous Prince Edward Duke of York who was after slain at the Battel of Agincourt as appears by an Extant Deed where by Covenant he was with one William Mirefield retain'd to serve him in the Wars of France with a certain number of Archers and Lances He out-liv'd those Services and continued during the Civil Broils of his own Country an asserter of the Claim and Interest of the House of York Whether it were by the Expences incident to such undertakings or otherwise he proved a great Alienator of many noble Lordships and Possessions that descended to him by his Ancestors In the Sixth Year of King Henry the Sixth Agnes de Fodringay and Robert Mordaunt her Son released with Warranty all their right to the Mannor of Timworth in the County of Suffolk Dated the Tenth of February In the Eleventh of the said King he made away all his Lands in Elsburgh to Thomas Chaucer Esq Peter Fettyplace and Thomas Ramsey And in the seventeenth by a Deed bearing Date the Fourth of June he Alienated to one John Austin the Moiety of the Mannor of Mallots in Hinton in the County of Cambridge with its appurtenances and all the rest of those Lands which the said Robert held in the Towns and in the Fields of Hinton Cambridge Treversham and Julborne in the said County And lastly he sold in the same Year to Thomas Cheyney Esq all his Lands and Tenements in Chesham and Aumundsham Yet this King's Reign abounding in occasions of Expence and Troubles since it was never free from exhausting Wars abroad till it became the scene of more destructive Civil ones at home excuses may be render'd for what was unavoidable Notwithstanding he left a competent Estate to his Successor And Deceased in in the Twenty seventh Year of this King He had Married Elizabeth of Holdenby the Daughter of Robert Holdenby of Holdenby which Family was of an Antient standing in the County of Northampton and flourished at this time in very Noble Possessions for we find that Robert Holdenby the Brother of Elizabeth Mordaunt held the Mannors of Burton Brimmington and Ramston with Lands in Would and in Clipston in Guilden Morton Kilmersh and West-Haddon in Northampton Oxhampton Wepsmade in Dunstable and in Holdenby And this Elizabeth surviving Robert Mordaunt took to her Second Husband Robert Tanfield of Gayton in the County of Northampton Esquire The Issue of Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Maud Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chellington Clifton Brayfield Bottellers and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER X. WILLIAM MORDAVNT after those wastes
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
pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis contra omnes homines warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus in perpetuum per praesentes Noveritis insuper me praefatum Johannem Mordaunt attornâsse constituisse in loco meo posuisse dilectos mihi in Christo Henricum Handson Richardum Stevynson conjunctim divisim meos veros legitimos attornatos ad intrandum in omnia singula manerium terras tenementa praedicta cum suis pertinentiis seisinam nomine meo in iisdem capiendum post hujusmodi seisinam sic inde captam habitam seisinam de iisdem nomine meo praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis deliberandum secundum vim formam effectum hujus praesentis Chartae meae ratum gratum habendum totum quicquid iidem Attornati mei fecerint seu eorum alter fecerit nomine meo in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Chartae meae sigillum meum apposui Data ultimo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi post Conquestum decimo Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Regis Henrici Septimi Ad constituendum Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium ad legem HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quòd nos ex mero motu scientia nostra constituimus Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium nostrorum ad legem nec non cessimus eidem Johanni officium unius servientium nostrorum ad legem habendum occupandum exercendum dictum officium nec non ad essendum unum servientium nostrorum ad legem quamdiu nobis placuerit capiendum accipiendum annuatim pro officio illo exercendo ab eodem Johanne vadia feoda vesturam regarda dicto officio debita seu pertinentia prout alii servientes ad legem pro hujusmodi officio exercendo percipient seu habere vel percipere debent In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Novembris Anno Regni Regis nostri undecimo Charta Edwardi Ducis Buckinghamiae EDwardus Dux Buckinghamiae Comes Herfordiae Northamptoniae Omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Salutem Sciatis nos praefatum ducem remisisse relaxâsse omnimodo pro nobis haeredibus nostris in perpetuum quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae uni servientium Domini regis ad legem haeredibus assignatis suis totum jus nostrum statum titulum seu clameum quae unquam habuimus habemus vel in futurum habere poterimus de in quinquaginta acris terrae duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis separali piscaria in aqua de Ose cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta de in duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis de separali piscaria in aqua de Ose in Brafeld juxta Lauenden alias vocata Coldbrafeld in Comitatu Buckinghamiae quae omnia singula idem Johannes Mordaunt habuit ex dono feoffamento Edwardi Comitis Wilts consanguinei nostri quibus omnibus fingulis praemissis idem Johannes Mordaunt seisitus existit Ità quòd nec nos praefatus Dux nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus titulum seu clameum de in praedictis terris tenementis aquis separalibus piscariis caeteris praemissis de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris statûs tituli vel clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus in perpetuum exclusi per praesentes Et nos verò praefatus Dux haeredes nostri omnia praedicta terras tenementa aquam separales piscarias cum pertinentiis caetera praemissa praefato Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus assignatis suis contra Abbatem Sancti Petri Monasterii successores suos warrantizabimus acquietabimus in perpetuum defendemus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro duplicato sigillum nostrum apponi fecimus Data undecimo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi quarto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt of Turvey and John Tresham of Rushton THIS Indenture made the Twenty first day of March in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey one of the King's Serjeants at the Law on the oon partie and John Tresham of Rushton in the County of Northampton Esquire on the other partie Witnesseth That it is agreed covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Mordaunt shall endeavour him to get the Marriage of Elizabeth Vere to Marry with John Mordaunt the younger Son and Heir apparent of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant and Amey Vere to Marry with Robert Mordaunt the Second Son of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant which Elizabeth and Amey being Daughters to my Sister Isabel and to give Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the said Elizabeth Vere for term of her Life to the yearly Value of Twenty Pound and to give to the said Amey Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the yearly Value of Ten Pounds for term of her Life for the which Marriage and Jointure and other Considerations the said John Tresham granteth That in case he be disposed to sell any of his Maners Lands and Tenements within the County of Northampton or elsewhere within the Realm of England That then the same John Mordaunt shall have it and all Maners Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services that he shall be disposed for to sell after the rate of Fifteen Years purchace of the clear yearly Value of the same Lands and Tenements to be sold It is also agreed and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Tresham at his pleasure shall give to Isabel Daughter of Sir James Haryngton now his Wife all his Lands Tenements Pastures and Hereditaments in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them for the term of her Life and to give unto Isabel Tresham and Clemens Tresham Daughters begotten between the said John Tresham and Isabel Daughter of the said Sir James all the said Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them to have to them and to the Heirs of their Bodies begotten And for default of Issue of both their Bodies begotten the same Maners Lands and Tenements to remain to the said Isabel Sister of the said John Tresham for term of her Life the remainder thereof for default of such Issue or if there be no such Gift made of the same to remain to the said
Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere their Sisters and to their Heirs for ever And in case the said John Tresham make no sale of his Maners Lands and Tenements as is aforesaid That then immediately after his decease and the decease of Isabel his Sister all his Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Realm of England not sold to the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant as is abovesaid shall remain go and grow to the said Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere and to their Heirs for ever And the said John Mordaunt shall pay for reversion of the Premises sold or to be sold by the said John Tresham to the same John Mordaunt Serjeant after the rate of half Fifteen Years Purchace as is abovesaid In witness whereof to these present Indentures the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the same Twenty fifth Day and Year abovesaid And in case the said John Tresham hereafter have any Issue Male of the Body of the said Isabel by him begotten That then the said Issue Male shall have all the same Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig Church-Brampton or part of them if it shall please the same John Tresham to make any such Gift Entail Extracta per me Nicolaum Hardyng verbatim xxv die Januarii decimo nono Henrici Septimi A Letter from the Prince to John Mordaunt his Attorney By the Prince TRusty and right wele beloved we greet you wele And understand by your late Letters directed unto our Councel that ye have endeavoured you diligently to perform such matters and businesses concerning our profit according to our desires in our Letters directed to you for the which we give unto you our great thanks praying you to persevere and continue And whereas in your said Letters among other matters is contained That Richard Empson hath found that Ingleton held certain Hamlets and Parcels of Lands of my most dread Lord and Fader the King by Knights Service whereby he intendeth to defeat us as it seemeth of the Ward of the said Ingleton to our Prejudice with whom we charge you severely in our Name to travers for divers considerations and specially for that our Councel have had of late more perfit knowledge That the said Ward rightfully appertaineth unto us than they knew or had understanding for the which and other great matters whereof we shall be ascertained we intend within brief time to send some of our Councel unto my most dread Lord and Fader instructed to the intent we may know his pleasure concerning the same We will also That in our Name ye take Actions against Ward Waste and Sefnian for such Wards as they detaining have by craft concealedly hid and kept from us wherewith we be nothing pleased nor content And as for the hundred and three score Pounds resting in the hands of Nicholas Nynes due unto us we pray you on our behalf to charge the said Nicholas to send the same surely to us in all convenient hast and to give credence to our trusty servant Thomas Canceller chief Clerk of our Kitchin in such things as he on our behalf shall shew unto you whereby ye shall greatly please us Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaudley the Twenty third day of May. Articles of Marriage between Sir Wistan Brown and Elizabeth Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Twentieth day of September in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey oon of the Kings Serjeants at the Law on the oon Partie and William Brown of Abbesroding in the County of Essex Esquire on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas it was promised concluded and agreed between the Friends of the said William and the said John Mordaunt and other Friends of Elizabeth Sister of the said John Mordaunt That the said William should take to Wife the said Elizabeth and upon the same Marriage concluded and was promised as well by the Friends of the said William as by the said William he then being of the Age of sixteen Years or thereabout and of good and sad discretion That the said Elizabeth should have a Jointure of Maners Lands and Tenements late Robert Brown's Father to the said William to the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and that of the same Maners Lands and Tenements so of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and also of other Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins which before that time were laid to Mortgage by the said Robert to William Capell Knight for a Debt and Forfeit to the said Sir William and afterward redeemed by the said John at his labor and Instance for the summ of Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the which Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the said John Mordaunt payed to the said Sir William and the said John Mordaunt should have and take the Profits into his own hand from the time of the said agreement and concluding of Marriage unto the time the said William come to his full Age of One and Twenty Years which Lands in the whole were promised to be of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds over all Charges to the said John And also it was farther agreed That the said Elizabeth over and besides Maners Lands and Tenements to the said yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings should have a Jointure in the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins if the said William when he came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years would agree That she should have the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins term of her Life and after that the said William came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years he oftentimes assented and agreed That the same Elizabeth should have the said Lands in the Saint Martins in Jointure and by these Presents confesseth and granteth That he agreed and granted and at the time of concluding the said Marriage the Maners of Rokewodhall and Stokhall and all Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding Bauchamproding High-Laffare Little-Laffare and Maehing in the County of Essex except Hobberlerkey which were the said Robert Brown's were promised to be of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings over all Charges were assigned to be the said Jointure of the said Elizabeth and after were given in Jointure by Sir Thomas Boughchier Knight John Bardefeld and other Enfeoffes to the said William and Elizabeth his Wife for term of Life of the said Elizabeth And the said William took Seizing and Possession for him and the said Elizabeth at Abbesroding aforesaid The same Elizabeth her Friends verily believing the same Maners Lands and Tenements had then been of the yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings according to the said Promise and also as it was agreed upon between the same Parties upon the said Marriage concluded That the reversion of the said Manners of Rokewodhall Stokhall and all Lands and
Tenements aforenamed and the said Lands called Hobberlerkeys after the death of Edmund Brown Uncle to the said William and also the Maners of Langenthorp Whiteroding and all other Lands and Tenements which were the said Robert Brown's or any other to his Use at the time of his decease after certain Debts of the same Robert payed and after the decease of the said William and Elizabeth should go to the Heirs begotten of the Body of the said William And thereupon the said Elizabeth took to Husband the same William For which Marriage and other Premises and Promises well and truly to have been performed the said John Mordaunt should have payed Three hundred Mark and Four Shillings whereof he the said William hath payed Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence to Sir William Capell for redeeming the said Lands in the Saint Martins hath payed to divers persons for the contentation of divers of the Debts of the said Robert Brown Six Pounds and because the said Lands that the said John Mordaunt should have had during the Non-age of the said William were not of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds according to the said Agreement and Promise by much Money therefore it was agreed by the said William and his Friends That the said John Mordaunt should rebate and keep still in his own hands and in full recompence of the said yearly Value of ...... the other ...... the residue of the said Three hundred Marks whereunto the said William before the Date of these Presents and also now agreeth by these Presents and confesseth fully to be satisfied of all such Money as should be due to him by reason of the said Marriage and by reason of the Money payed by the said John Mordaunt the Debts of the said Robert were the sooner payed and the said William sooner attained and had the Possession of the said Lands Moreover the said William contrary to his said Agreement hath sold the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins to the said John Bardefeld for Twenty Pounds whereof the said William hath received Four Pounds and the same William hath ........... the said Bardefeld the Ten Pounds and also upon ........ hath ........ and given to John Wro and Sybill his Wife by Fine the said Maner of Stokhall with the appurtenances to have to them and their Heirs of the Body of the said Sybill begotten for all the said considerations and many other causes in recompence of the Premises and in recompence of the full Jointure and Dowre of the said Elizabeth upon agreement had between the said John Mordaunt and William the said William by his Deed bearing Date the Tenth day of June the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Enfeoffed the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne John Mestot and Thomas Heron of the said Maners of Langenhoo Rokewodhall Whiteroding Brown's Manner and of all his Lands and Tenements in the County of Essex of the Avowson of the Church of Langenhoo to have to them and to their Heirs and the same John Mordaunt William Gascoigne John Mestot and Thomas Heron according to the same Agreement at the desire and request of the said William have by Deed bearing Date the Eleventh day of June the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh made estate of all the said Maners of Langenhoo Rokewodhall Whiteroding and Brown's Maners and all other Lands Tenements and Avowsons in the said County of Essex to Robert Whiteing William Mordaunt George Whiteing Humphrey Brown John Jenour William Sewster and Thomas Kirkeby to have to them and their Heirs for ever to the use of the said William and Elizabeth for Term of their Life and of the longer liver of them yeilding to the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne John Mestot and Thomas Heron and to their Heirs Ten Pounds Four Shillings out of the said Maners of Langenhoo to the uses and intents specified in the said Indenture and after the Decease of the said William and Elizabeth the said Robert Whiteing William Mordaunt George Whiteing Humphrey Brown John Jenour William Sewster and Thomas Kirkeby to be and stand feoffed of and in all the said Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to be and stand Feoffes of the Premises to the uses and intents specified in the same Indenture as by the same it more plainly appeareth It is now Covenanted Assented and Agreed between the said John Mordaunt and William at the departing of the said William from Turvey by these Presents in form following That is to say That where the said William hath received of Glasyer late Farmer of Stokhall One and Twenty Pound Four Shillings and Eight Pence which was due to the said John Mordaunt by reason of the same Farm and also whereas Bogdich late Farmer to the said John Mordaunt of Rokewodhall had all the Maners Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding to Farm with divers Goods and Cattels of the said John Mordaunt That is to say Two and Thirty Kyne a Bull Eight Horses a Cart and Cartgeer and Plough and Ploughgeer for term of years and departed from the said Farm being then in debt to the said John for the said Farm in Ten Pounds over and besides the said Cattel and of which arrearages of Ten Pounds and of the said Goods and Cattels the said William hath received a good substance and also whereas the said John Mordaunt hath found the said William and Elizabeth their Children their Servants as well Men as Women and Horses meat and drink continually from the time of the said Marriage unto the time of making of these Preserts one Year and a half only excepted and at divers times in the mean season hath found the said William to School and to Accompt at London to the great cost and charge of the said John Mordaunt the said John Mordaunt giveth to the said William the keeping and finding of him his Wife his Children and Servants as is aforesaid freely unto the date of the making of these Presents and also releaseth to the said William all Actions for the said Goods Debts Money and Cattels received by and of the said Glasyer and Bogdich Farmers of Stokhall and Abbesroding and also whereas the said William hath borrowed of the said John Mordaunt Fourteen Pound ready Money and is bound for the same by his Obligation to the said John and also whereas the said William hath certain and divers Stuffs of Houshold which were late William Mordaunt's Father of the said John Mordaunt and Elizabeth to make the said William clearly discharged at his departing against the said John Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors the same John releaseth by these Presents to the said William all Actions and Demands as well in Conscience as otherwise For the which Premises and all other benefices that the said John hath done to the said William the said William
existunt seu seisitus existat ad usum earundum Margaretae Katharinae seu earum alicujus ad terminum vitae earum seu earum alicujus reversione inde in re nomine facto vel in usu praefatae Johannae Sayntmaur haeredibus suis spectante habendum tenendum dicta dominia maneria terras tenementa advocationes caetera praemissa cum suis pertinentiis ad custodiam eorundem ac reversionem omnium ac singulorum praemissorum cum acciderint vel acciderit praefato Johanni Mordaunt executoribus assignatis suis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi Sayntmaur quousque dicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Ac omnes singulas reversiones praedictas omnium praedictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis immediate post mortem dictarum Margaretae Katharinae earum cujuslibet cum acciderit quousque praedicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit Et si dicta Johanna obierit antequam ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit haerede suo infra aetatem existente tunc volumus concedimus per praesentes eidem Johanni Mordaunt quòd idem Johannes Mordaunt executores assignati sui habeant custodiam maritagium hujusmodi haeredis custodiam tam omnium singulorum dictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis cum acciderint ut praedictum est custodiam reversionum praedictarum cum pertinentiis suis usque ad plenam legitimam aetatem hujusmodi haeredis sic infra aetatem existentis sic de haerede in haeredem quousque aliquis haeres hujusmodi haeredum ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Concedimus etiam dicto Johanni Mordaunt omnia exitus proficua omnium singulorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum suis pertinentiis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi huc usque provenientia sive crescentia absque aliquo compoto sive aliquo alio nobis aut haeredibus nostris pro praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum reddendo faciendo seu solvendo Eo quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut aliquo alio valore ceu certitudine praemissorum vel alicujus eorum parcellae aut de vero valore dictorum maritagiorum eorum cujuslibet aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus praefato Johanni ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime facta existit aut aliquo alio statuto actu sive ordinatione ceu restrictione in contrarium factis editis sive provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium c. An Indenture between Sir John Mordaunt and Wistan Brown about the Wardship of Thomas Leventhorp THIS Indenture made the Twelfth day of September the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey on the one Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas Thomas Leventhorp late of Whethamsted in the County of Hertford held certain Lands and Tenements in the said County of our Sovereign Lord the King by grant Serjeanty and had Issue John Leventhorp and divers other Children and dyed the said John being his Son and Heir within Age by the death of the which Thomas the King our Sovereign Lord ought to have the custody of the said John and of all the Lands and Tenements of the said Thomas whereof he dyed seized and of all the other Lands of the same Thomas of which he made no Will nor otherwise disposed And howbeit that at the making of these Presents there is no Office found in any Shire after the death of the said Thomas whereby the Kings Highness may be lawfully intitled to the said John Leventhorp Yet that notwithstanding our said Sovereign Lord by his Bill Assigned hath Given and Granted to the said John Mordaunt the Custody of the said John Leventhorp and of all his Lands and Tenements with the Issues and Profits of the same Lands and Tenements from the Death of the said Thomas to the said John Mordaunt To have to him and to his Assigns till the said John Leventhorp come to his full Age and further as long as the said Lands and Tenements shall happen to be in the Kings Hands And so from Heir to Heir till one of the Heirs of the said Thomas shall come to his full Age. The said John Mordaunt hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents Bargaineth Giveth and Selleth to the said Wistan all such Right Title Possessions and Interest as he hath or hereafter shall have in the Wardship of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp and the Marriage of the same be it Son or Daughter or Daughters To have to the said Wistan from the Date of these Presents as long as the Interest of the said John Mordaunt should endure by reason of the Kings Grant Provided That the same Heirs shall not be Married by the said Wistan to any other Person but to be Married with one of the Children begotten between the same Wistan and Elizabeth his Wife Sister to the said John Mordaunt And for lack of such Issue or such Marriage the same John Mordaunt to have again the Marriage of the same Heirs of the said Thomas to his own Use if it be Male immediately after he be fully of the Age of Twentie Years and if it be Female or Females after they be of the Age of Fourteen Years without any thing paying therefore this Indenture notwithstanding for as much as the said Wistan shall take the Issues and Profits of the said Lands all the mean time without any thing paying for the same And the said John Granteth by these Presents That he shall assent what in him is at the Costs and Charges of the same Wistan to cause the Offices to be found after the Death of the said Thomas according to the truth of the Testaments And after these Offices so found to get Grant by the Kings Letters Patents to the same John Mordaunt of the Ward and Custody abovesaid according to his said Bill Assigned And after that Patent made then the same John shall Grant the said Ward and Marriage of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp with the Custody of his Lands to the said Wistan and his Assigns to be Married as is above limited For the which Premises well and truly to be performed the said Wistan shall pay to the said John Mordaunt and his Assigns a Hundred Pound of lawful Money to be payed and delivered in form following That is to say whereas the said Humphrey is indebted to the said Wistan in One Hundred Pound for divers Considerations and Covenants made between the said Wistan and Humphrey upon the advancement of the same Humphrey to the Marriage of Amey Mordaunt
and by Land for reasonable Wages and Payments to be taken and had in that behalf not only within Franchises and places priviledged but also without and in other places Wherefore we will and command you and every of you to do your diligence in the executing of this our pleasure and commandment And also we will and command all and singular Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects to be Aiding Helping Counseling and Assisting you in the executing hereof as they will answer to us at their utmost peril In Witness whereof we have caused these Presents to be Sealed with our great Seal at Westminster the Three and twentieth Day of December the twentieth Year of our Reign Pexfatt A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt Knight Surveyor and Master of our Wood-sales within our Forests Parks and Chaces as well on this side Trent as beyond Henry R. By the King TRusty and welboved we greet you well And whereas our great Lodge in our New Park within our New Forest is decayed and ruinous which Lodge we intend to have repaired conveniently against our resort to the same and because we be credibly informed that it should be very necessary for the preservation of our Game in Southbally within our said Forest to make a Trench in our Wood there next adjoining to the Abbot of Bewleys Park We will that ye upon the sight hereof do cause a Trench to be felled in our Woods befide the said Park and that ye make sale of all the said Woods in the said Trench to our most profit and with the Money thereof growing to cause to be bestowed upon the reparation of our said great Lodge in as convenient hast as ye can and that ye cause such Brick as standeth in a Kyln ready made within our Ballywyke of Burley within our said Forest to be kept to our use and to bestow part thereof upon the said reparations of our said Lodge and these our Letters shall be your Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Castle of Windsor the Thirteenth day of April the One and twentieth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Surveyor General of our Woods Henry R. By the King WE will and command you forthwith upon the sight of these our Letters to direct your writing unto our Officers of our Forest of Sawsey and of our Park of Moulton commanding them by the same to deliver or do to be delivered unto our Trusty and welbeloved Servant John Hartwell Esquire and to Richard Wale Gentleman such and as many Oaks convenable for Posts and Rayls with the Lops Tops and Bark of the same as shall be sufficient for the enlarging of our Park of Hartwell and making of a new Lodge there they imploying the said Lops Tops and Bark towards the payment of the Workmanship of the said enlargement of our said Park The said Oak to be taken within our said Forest and Park and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in this behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Ampthill the Thirteenth day of September the Three and twentieth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Henry R. By the King TRusty and Right welbeloved we greet you well And whereas we singularly tendring as well the defence of this our Realm against the malignity of our Ancient Enemies the French-men and Scots and to suppress their Temerities which contrary to their Oaths and Promises have commenced the Wars against us and our said Realm as also specially minding to be in such a readiness as we may be not only able to resist the malice of our said Ememies but also aid and assist our faithful Friends Confederates and Allies with our Power according to such Treaties as be passed and concluded betwixt us and them have now of late of special trust addressed our Commission with Instructions to you and others of that our Shire of Bedford as well for the Viewing Mustering and putting our said Subjects in a readiness with Heaumes and other Abiliments fit for the Wars according to the Port and Continue of our said Commission and Instructions thereunto annexed as also to make due Certificate to us in Writing of and upon all and singular the Points and Articles contained in our said Instructions We therefore truly regarding providing and considering the great Costs and Charges that we of likelihood shall be enforced to sustain and bear for maintenance and continuance of our Armies and Navy both by Land and Sea and over that by the advice of our Council devising the ways and means how the said Charges might the more easily be born and supported by the loving Aid of our faithful and benevolent Subjects have thought right expedient to have certain knowledge as well of the Extents and yearly Revenues of such Lands as be within the precinct and Circuit of that Shire and to whom the said Lands particularly appertain as also in the value and estimation of the Goods and Substances of all and singular our Subjects as well spiritual as Temporal resident and inhabiting within the same And for that cause remembring you to be our true and Faithful Servant thought right expedient to authorise you for that purpose willing and commanding you not only to give firm credence to our Trusty and right welbeloved Servants Sir John Saint-John Sir William Gascoign and Sir John Mordaunt Knights whom we have right amply instructed of our mind and pleasure to you by them to be declared but also towards your self after such form and manner for the more assured knowledge of the premises as they shall instruct you Fail ye not thus to do as we fingularly trust you and as ye tender the advancement of our Honor and surety to be remembred hereafter according to our laudable acquital and good deserts Given under our Signet at our Castle of Windsor the Twenty sixth Day of July A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we be determined in the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and celebrate 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 We therefore desire and pray you to put your self in such order and readiness against the said Feast as ye may here attend and be present at the said Coronation in such wise furnished as to your degree and that solemnity shall be convenient and agreeable wherein ye shall do unto us very acceptable pleasure
welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Signifying unto you that for certain weighty causes and considerations touching us our mind and pleasure is That all excuses laid apart ye be and personally appear at our City of London on Tuesday the Seventh day of July next coming there to tarry and demeur until ye shall know farther of our pleasure which shall be declared unto you on our behalf by the Mouth of our Chancellor Fail ye not hereof as we specially trust in you Given under our Signet at our Maner of Hampton-Court the last day of June A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght welbeloved we greet you well And whereas it hath pleased the Goodness of Almighty God of his Infinite Mercy and Grace to send unto us at this time good speed in the deliverance and bringing forth of a Princess to the great Joy Rejoyce and inward Comfort of my Lord Us and of all his good and loving Subjects of this his Realm for the which his inestimable Benevolence so shewed unto us we have no little cause to give high Thanks Laud and Praising unto our said Maker like as we do most lowly humbly and with all the inward desire of our Heart And inasmuch as we undoubtedly trust that this our good speed is to your great Pleasure Comfort and Consolation we therefore by these our Letters advertise you thereof desiring and heartily praying you to give with us unto Almighty God high Thanks Glory Laud and Praising and to Pray for the good Health Prosperity and continual preservation of the said Princess accordingly Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Greenwich the Seventh day of September in the Five and twentieth Year of my Lord's Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers ARticles of Agreement made devised and concluded between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey and the Right Honourable Lord Mordaunt for a Marriage to be had between Silvester Danvers and Mistress Elizabeth Daughter to the said Lord Mordaunt the Twelfth day of April in the Twenty eighth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth First It is agreed between the said Parties That the said Silvester Danvers shall Marry and take to his Wife the said Elizabeth if she will thereto agree and the said Elizabeth shall take to her Husband the said Silvester if he thereto will agree and the said Marriage to be solemnized between them before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof where it shall please the said Lord Mordaunt and the Costs of Meat and Drink at the Marriage and even of their Apparel after they are Married to be provided at the Charges of the said Lord Mordaunt Item Where the said Dame Anne is seized of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall all of the yearly value of Fifty Pounds she is contented to make a sufficient and sure Estate in Fee-simple of the foresaid Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances to the said value to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and to ............. discharged of all manner of Charges and Incumbrances made or done by the said Dame Anne on condition as hereafter followeth That is to say That the said Feoffees within Ten Days after they have their Estate shall make a sure and sufficient Estate to the said Dame Anne of the foresaid Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances for term of her Life without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for lack of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne Item Further the said Dame Anne after she hath received her Estate for term of her Life of the Premises granteth to make a grant of an Annuity of Forty Pounds by the Year for the term of her said own Life to the said Silvester and Elizabeth to be had and received out of the said Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances as the said Lord will devise with a Clause of Distress to distrein in the said Lands and Tenements for lack of payment or at Three Months after any of the said Feasts limited or appointed for payment thereof as hereafter followeth And the said Forty Pounds to be paid yearly at the Feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions and the first payment of the said Annuity to begin at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next after the said Silvester shall come to his full Age of One and twenty Years and the Writings to be made for the assurance of the Premises and all further Devises as shall be devised by the said Lord and the same to be done at the Costs and Charges of the same Lord Mordaunt Item All such Leases as shall be made by the said Dame Anne of any parcel of the Premises for term of her Life or Lives or Years or by Copy of Court-Roll not minishing the Rents such Services nor Customs to stand in effect according to the Grant and the same not to be altered nor devised by the said Silvester nor Elizabeth but the same to be confirmed by them when the Remainder shall be Executed if the Tenants or any of them for their own part will so require it Item The said Dame Anne shall suffer all her Maners Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services of her own Inheritance with their Appurtenances that she is in possession of or any other to her use immediately after her decease to descend and remain to the said Silvester and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for lack of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne Danvers discharged of all Incumbrances by her done her Maners of Marden and Wyfford in the County of Wiltshire with their Appurtenances only except whereof one John Danvers Son of the said Dame Anne to have the value of Twenty Pounds yearly thereof for term of his Life and Thirty Years over without Impeachment of wast yeilding to her Heirs yearly One Red Rose at the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist if it be asked and the Profits of the residue of the said Maners of Marden and Wyfford with their Appurtenances to be at the liberty of the same Dame Anne for Twelve Years after her decease to go to the performance of the last Will of the said Dame Anne Danvers for the space of the said Twelve Years next after her decease and likewise except Forty Shillings yearly for an Annuity for the term of Life of one James Vause to be paid forth of a Close or a Pasture called the Oxe-less