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
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
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
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
and upon those grounds with a respect to the avoiding of all dangers that by the contrary part may ensue you will apply your self to be so vigilant as the points contained in the said Proclamation and all others meet to be remembred for the Maintenance and Conservation of Justice may be put in use and duely observed according to your Allegiance and to the Commandment of the same By the doing hereof ye shall satisfie a good duty towards God you shall preserve your Estimation towards us you shall honestly serve your Country and you shall save your own to your self and to your posterity By the other part you shall offend God you shall displease us put out your Estimation with all the rest in danger Wherefore eftsoons we require you to remember your self touching these things in such wise as we may have cause both to remember you again with Favour and to think you a Man worthy the same and to have Authority with others in our Common-Wealth accordingly Willing you for your better instruction to get a Copy of our said Proclamation and in such wise to note the special points of the same as you may the better put it in due Execution without failing as we trust in you Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the Ninth Day of March the Twentieth and nine Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as by the inestimable Goodness and Grace of Almighty God we be delivered and brought in Child-bed of a Prince conceived in most lawful Matrimony between my Lord the King's Majesty and Us Doubting not but for the Love and Affection which ye bear unto us and to the Common-Wealth of this Realm the knowledge thereof should be Joyous and glad Tidings unto you We have thought good to certifie you of the same to the intent ye might not only render unto God condign Thanks and Praise for so great a Benefit but also continually Pray for the long Continuance and Preservation of the same here in this Life to the Honour of God Joy and Pleasure of my Lord the King and Us and the Universal Well Quiet and Tranquillity of this whole Realm Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Hampton-Court the Twelfth Day of October Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Nine 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 and Lord of Ireland and in Truth Supream Head of the Church of England Between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey in the County of Wiltshire on the one Party and the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford on the other Party Witnesseth That it is fully Covenanted Condescended Bargained Concluded and Agreed between the said Parties and either of them Covenanteth Bargaineth Granteth and Agreeth for them their Heirs and Executors to and with the others in manner and form following That is to say Where the said Dame Anne for a Marriage already had done and solemnized between one Silvester Danvers Son and Heir of Thomas Danvers Esquire Deceased Son and Heir of the said Dame Anne hath received of the said Lord Mordaunt Four hundred Marks Sterling whereof the said Dame Anne knowledgeth her self to be fully satisfied contented and paid and the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors thereof to be acquitted and discharged and also the said Dame Anne by these presents knowledgeth her self to have received of the said Lord Mordaunt several Obligations for the payment of Two hundred Marks For the which Summ and payments already paid and to be paid The said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That where she the said Dame Anne is seized of and in certain Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall of the clear yearly value of Fifty Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Expences that the said Dame Anne shall before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next coming after the date hereof make or cause to be made to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and Edmond Fettyplace Esquire and to their Heirs for ever a good sufficient sure and Lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in all and singular the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and all and singular other the Premises with the Appurtenances to the said Sir Anthony Hungerford and Edmond Pettyplace and to their Heirs for ever discharged of all former Bargains Uses Sales Jointures Dowers Titles Statutes Statutes of the Staple Uses Wills Arrearages of Rents Judgments Alienations without License Intrusions not suing of Livery out of the King's Hands Entries Fines Forfeits and that the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments be at the making thereof to the clear yearly value of Forty Pounds over and above all charges going out of the same Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of the Fee from thence forth to be due only excepted to the intent and upon condition That the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace or the Survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns shall immediately and incontinently after such Estate made to them by the said Dame Anne within Ten days next after the same Feast make or cause to be made to the same Dame Anne a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate of all the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises with the Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments with the Appurtenances to the said Dame Anne and her Assigns for term of Life of the said Dame Anne without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof after the said Dame Anne to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the said Silvester for ever discharged in manner and form before rehearsed And the said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That the said Dame Anne within Fifteen Days after she hath the Estate of the Premises made to her by the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace and by the survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns with the remainder as before is expressed that the said Dame Anne by her sufficient Deed or Deeds in the Law shall Grant an Annuity or Annual Rent of Forty Pounds by the Year going out of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances yearly to be paid
Joan my Wife and the longer Liver of us And after the same Ten years being ended and determined then to the Use and Behoof of the said Sir Lewis Mordaunt and of his Heirs for ever as by the same Indenture and Conveyance aforesaid more at large appeareth And whereas after the same Conveyance so made the same Sir Lewis Mordaunt by another Indenture dated the First Day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is and other Conveyances did grant convey and assure unto the said Lord Mordaunt and to his Heirs for ever all his Reversion Remainder Estate and Interest of and in the said Maner of Tiptofts in the County of Essex and of the said Farms Lands and Tenements and other the Premises called Pinkneys and Wareleys in the said County of Essex as by the same Indenture and other Assurances last mentioned more at large also it appeareth I Will and my full Intent and meaning is That my Executors hereafter named the said Conveyance or Assurance of the said Reversion or Remainder notwithstanding shall have hold and enjoy for and towards the Performance of this my Last Will and Testament all the said Maner of Tiptofts and all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Pinkneys and Wareleys in the said County of Essex And all other Lands Tenements Remainders Reversions and Hereditaments contained in the said Indenture dated the First Day of May and assured and conveyed unto me and mine Heirs And all Lands and Tenements contained in an Indenture dated the Tenth Day of February last made by me to the Lord Windsor and others together with the said Maners of Cranham Gingeraff and Amies and all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called and known by the name or names of Amies or Nokehall And all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Bromford-magna in the said County of Essex sometime being in the Occupation of one Rowland Walehead or his Assigns from the time of my Decease and the Decease of the said Lady Joan my Wife unto the full end and term of Ten Years the next following fully to be compleat and ended And after the said term of Ten Years being fully ended and determined I then Will That the said Maners Lands Farms Tenements and Hereditaments called Tiptofts Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances in such sort manners and forms and to such uses intents and purposes as heretofore I have limited and appointed the same shall be conveyed and assured by the right Honourable Edward Lord Winsor before recited and other his Co-bargainers or Co-feoffees unto whom I have assured the same in hope they will duly perform and accomplish my full Intent and Meaning therein to the Principal of the King's Hall and Colledge of Brasen-nose in Oxford and to the Scholars of the same and to their Successors for ever And for the better having and enjoying of the said Maners Farms Lands Tenements and other the Premises according to this my present Testament My Will Intent and Meaning is That the said Edward Lord Windsor and other to whom I have assured the said Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises called Tiptofts Pinkneys and Wareleys and every of them as much as in them is or conveniently may be at the Costs and Charges of my Executors hereafter named shall do cause and procure to be done such reasonable Acts and things for the assurance hereof according to the true Intent and Meaning of this my present Will and Testament as by my said Executors hereafter named and by the said Principal and Scholars or their Successors or any of them or by their or any of their Council Learned in the Laws shall be reasonably devised and required And with part of the Issues of the same I will Scholars to be named from time to time by mine Executors or by the Survivors of them during their Lives and after by mine Heirs shall be continually found and other Deeds of Charity shall be done as I have limited to mine Executors Item I will and bequeath to the Lady Joan my Wife all that my Mansion-House and all other my Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments scituate lying and being in or near the Hospital of Little Saint Bartholomews in Smithfield within the Suburbs of the City of London To have the same to the said Lady Joan for and during the full term of Fifty Years if the said Lady Joan my Wife shall happen so long to live And the residue of all the Estates Interests and Terms of Years that shall be to come of and in my said Mansion-House and other the Premises in or near the Hospital of Little Saint Bartholomews for all the Years that then shall be to come in the same shall be sold by my Executors hereafter named or the Survivor of them and all Sums of Money as shall be had and received for the same to employ towards the Payment of my Debts and towards the Performance of this my Last Will. Item I make and ordain the Lady Joan my welbeloved Wife my Brother-in-Law Thomas Farmer Edward Plowden Esquires and William Goodfellow my Servant mine Executors of this my Last Will and Testament And moreover I do refer to the discretion of mine Executors this my Last Will and Testament And thus revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made or declared I ordain and establish this to be my very true Last Will and Testament And moreover I do refer to the discretion of my Executors which of my Legacies shall be first paid and which after and likewise the Time of the payment thereof I refer to their Choice and Discretions And I will mine Executors shall bestow Sixteen Pounds of lawful Money of England as I have declared to my Wife Item I Will That my Executors shall have towards the payment of my Debts the Two hundred Pounds decreed to be paid to me in the Chancery by Clement Tanfield and all other Debts due to me Item I Will That my House shall be kept at the Charges of mine Executors for Two Months next after my Decease The residue of all my Goods and Chartels Real and Personal and of the Debts due to me and all the Residue Profit and Commodity of the Premises appointed to mine Executors for the said Ten Years remaining after my Funeral Debts and Legacies paid I give and bequeath to my said Wife Saving Twenty Pounds of lawful Money of England which I will and bequeath to the foresaid Edward Plowden Esquire and saving Ten Pounds which I will unto the aforesaid Thomas Farmer Esquire and also saving Ten Pounds which I will unto the aforesaid William Goodfellow In Witness whereof to this my Last Will and Testament I have put my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written These being Witnesses whose Names be hereafter subcribed John Mordaunt Anne Ratcliff John Farmer John Cams per William Colshill Henry Witney Robert Nicholsmark John Bickerton Emanuel
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
into Possession of the Lordships of Estpullham Westpullham Childeckford Divelish Duntish Winterborn Whitechurch and Newton in the County of Dorset and of Estoket in Somersetshire His Wife was Margaret de Peche the Daughter of Sir William de Peche Knight who was Descended from that Gilbert de Peche that was a great * Look the Barons Letter to the Pope Baron in the time of King Edward the First Their Issue Sir John Latimer SIR JOHN LATIMER who is stiled in his Charters Lord of Estpullham had a Contest with his own Father about certain Lands which by Articles Sir Robert Latimer had bound himself to establish upon his Heirs at the time of his Marriage with Margaret the Mother of this Sir John who was the Daughter of Sir William Peche Knight by reason Sir Robert had burnt the Writings whereupon the Interest of these Lands did depend to make them appear free for an Advantage he intended to himself in a second Marriage which he did at that time design There is Extant a Bill Exhibited by Sir John Latimer complaining thereof to Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham and High Chancellor of England in the sixth year of King Henry the Fifth This Sir John Latimer Married Catharine the Daughter of Sir John Pypard by whom he left Issue Sir Nicholas Latimer SIR Nicholas Latimer we find to have been High Sheriff of the County of Dorset once in the thirty second of Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth and in those turbulent and difficult times this Office might have been indeed properly called Onus cum honore for the men so imployed were at that time sought out among the richest the most popular and the most powerful that the Country would not only obey at home but follow abroad and men then depending upon the Bounty and Hospitality of the Great their Inclinations and Example were of more force than all the Cases of Law and Conscience The Prudence notwithstanding and good Fortune of Sir Nicholas Latimer did happily conduct him through the violent Reigns of three very active Princes King Henry King Edward and King Richard the Third and brought him peacefully to rest with his Fathers in the Twentieth year of King Henry the Seventh at a very great Age although with that Circumstance of leaving no Heir Male to Inherit his Lands and Family and for only Issue of the Lady Joan his Wife the Daughter of Sir John Hoddy Edith Latimer Lady Mordaunt EDITH LATIMER Lady MORDAVNT Lady of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Estoket and other Lands and Lordships EDITH LATIMER was by the Consent and Direction of her Father Married to Sir John Mordaunt in the fourteenth year of King Edward the Fourth between whom and Sir Nicholas Latimer several Agreements were made concerning his Inheritance But the hope of Male Issue and his Engagement in a second Marriage caused him so to protract the Settlement as being surpriz'd with Death he left his Estate under several great Incumbrances which notwithstanding the Kings Interest in the same upon pretence of some Debts due to him from the said Sir Nicholas were at last overcome and mastered by the Industry and Prudence of Sir John Mordaunt and the Lands and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford and Estoket left by him to the Lords Mordaunts that were his Successors She outliv'd her first Husband and was again Married to Sir Thomas Carew of Devonshire who was slain in a Sea-Fight on the Coast of Britain in the fourth year of King Henry the Eighth being at that time Captain of the Noble Ship called the Regent which was burnt in the same Occasion Issue by her first Husband John the first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joan Mordaunt Married to Sir Giles Strangeways of Dorsetshire WILLIAM Lord Latimer Surnamed le Riche ALICIA de Ledet William Ld. Latimer Sibill de Huntingfeild Sr. Iohn Latimer Second Sonne Ioane de Govis Sr. Nicolas Latimer William Ld. Latimer Elizabeth de Botetort Sr. Robert Latimer Catherine Hull William Latimer William Ld. Latimer Chamberlaine to E. 3 Elizabeth Fitz Allan Sr. Robert Latimer Margeret Peche Margeret Latimer Elizabeth Latimer Daughter and Heire Iohn Lord Nevill Sr. Iohn Latimer Catherine Pipard Sr Nicolas Latimer Ioane Hoddy Edith Latimer Sr. Iohn Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY Hollinshead Page ON the Kings part these persons are named to stand with him against the Barons First Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Hugh Bigod Lord Chief Justice Philip Basset William de Valence Jeffrey de Lusignian Peter de Savoy Robert Wallerand John Mancell Jeffrey Langley John Gray William Latimer Henry Percy Doctor Powel's History of Wales Page 371. WHen the Archbishop could not conclude a Peace he denounced the Prince and his Complices Accursed Then the King sent his Army by Sea to the Isle of Man or Anglesey which they won and slew such as resisted them for the chiefest men served the King as their Oath was So they came over against Bangor where the Arm of the Sea called Menay which divideth the Isle from the main Land is narrowest at the place called Moely-donn and there made a Bridge of Boats and Planks over the Water where before Julius Agricola did the like when he subdued the Isle to the Romans and not between Man and Britain as Polydore Virgil ignorantly affirms This Bridge accomplished so that well threescore men might pass over in a Front William Latimer with a great number of the best Souldiers and Lucas de Thany Steward of Gascony with his Gascoins and Spaniards whereof a great number was come to serve the King passed over the Bridge and there saw no stir of Enemies but as soon as the Sea began to flow down came the Welshmen from the Hills and set upon them fiercely and either slew or chased them to the Sea to drown themselves for the Water was so high they could not attain the Bridge saving William Latimer alone whose Horse carried him to the Bridge and so he escaped Henricus Knighton Canonicus Leicestriensis de Eventibus Angliae Pag. 2497. HIS auditis mox Rex Edwardus quingentos armatos viginti mille peditum misit in Vasconium cum Domino Johanne de Sancto Johanne qui ejusdem Terrae olim Senescallus extiterat cum Domino Johanne de Britanniâ illo Milite strenuissimo Willielmo le Latimer qui apud Portsmouth omnibus ad Expeditionem tantam necessariis paratis posuerunt se in mare circa Festum beati Petri ad vincula irruente vento contrario dispersae sunt naves per partes Cornubiae iterúmque collectae apud Plumeneye circa Festum beati Dionysii ventis vela iterum relaxabant post multa variáque Tempestatum discrimina
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
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
Draytonorum terras possidet Ad istorum Draytonorum caput sub marmore plano jacet vir quidam generosus Gilbertus Segrave A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT THAT WERE LORDS of WERMINSTER Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Mauduit were Chequy Or and Azure a Bordure Gules Of the Original Descent Greatness Possessions Honours Alliances and Arms of the House of Mauduit that were Lords of Werminster THIS House was originally of the Dukedom of Normandy where it flourished before the Conquest under the name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith as much as to say Evil taught and upon occait was written in the Latine tongue Maledoctus a sobriquet of which the grounds do not remain in story A Lord of this name came over with King William the First under the appearance of much reputation and interest He is recorded to have been in immediate service at the Battel where King Harold was slain and to have been one of those Lords to whom the Conquerour gave Lands for their notable services The Actions performed by those of this House have been famous their successes various the remembrance of their Lords illustrating story with the variety of their fortunes There had been in this Family great marks of the love and confidence of their Princes They were promoted to Dignities and trusted in employments of most importance There were of them had been Lords of much power that had been Governours of Provinces that had been Chamberlains and held the highest Offices in the Houses of their Kings that had been great Earls and all of them allyed to Families of most Power and Nobleness After the introduction of the hereditary use of Arms in this House they were differently born for William Lord Mauduit who was Earl of Warwick bore in a Field Argent two Barre Gules in the time of King Henry the Third But William Lord Mauduit his Cousin and contemporary from whom the Lords of Werminster did descend gave in a Bordure Gules Chequy Or and Azure This House notwithstanding and all its greatness took an end about the beginning of King Richard the Second leaving only to inherit their Name Armes and Possessions Matilda de Mauduit that was married to Sir Henry Greene of Drayton from whom to the Veres that were Lords of Adington descended all their pretensions and from them to the Mordaunts that by the marriage of Elizabeth Vere came to inherit the Arms and Lands of those two Noble Families WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and other Great Lands and Lordships AMong those Heroes that did accompany King William the First unto the Conquest of England was a Lord of the Name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith in the Latine termed Maledoctus Whether it was the William here mentioned or his Father it matters not but sure we are that at the time of the general Surveigh iâ— the Raign of that King this William Lord Mauduit is found to have possessed seven faâ—â— Lordships in Hampshire And coming afterwards by the merit of many great Serviceâ— and the favour of King Henry the First to be his Chamberlain he obtained from hiâ— a Grant of all the Lands whereof Micael de Hanslape dyed seized with Maude thâ— Daughter of the said Micael in Marriage Their Issue Robert Mauduit William Mauduit ROBERT MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Lordships as also in the Office of Chamberlain but the near trust wherein he lived with King Henry the First having caused him to be one of those Lords that were appointed to accompany his Children in their return out of France he was drowned in that unhappy passage from Harflew into England with those unfortunate and much lamented Princes FOR want of Issue male of the Lord Robert Mauduit WILLIAM his younger Brother came to inherit the Estate that he had left and the Office of Chamberlain was likewise bestowed upon him by Henry Duke of Normandy afterward King by the name of Henry the Second with all the Lands belonging thereunto as well in Normandy as in England This William had likewise by Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury that is of his Exchequer with livery and all other its appurtenances He had moreover in consideration of his good services divers other great Lordships bestowed upon him and also the Constablery of Richege in Fee And after Henry by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William all the premisses When he dyed I find not but he left Issue Robert Lord Mauduit AFter the Death of William Lord Mauduit the second of that name ROBERT his Son came to inherit all his great Possessions as likewise the Office of Chamberlain with what ever did belong thereunto And as an addition to his Fortunes King Henry the Second bestowed upon him by his Charter the noble Mannor of Werminster a Lordship at that time of much value and greatly priviledged which by another Charter was after confirmed by King Richard the First eldest Son and successor to King Henry After the Death of which King Richard upon what motives we do not find this Robert Lord Mauduit became involved in Confederacy with many of the great Barons who were at that time in Rebellion against King John And in the first year of King Henry the Third the Honor of Hanslape with its appurtenances which was the head of his Barony appears to have been granted away to Robert de Braboef for support in the Kings service during his pleasure But before the sixth year of that King this Robert Mauduit died leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella the Daughter of the Lord Thurstan Bassett William Lord Mauduit Robert Mauduit to whom his Father gave the noble Lordship of Werminster WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the third of that name after the death of his Father was Lord of the Honor of Hanslape and divers other fair Lands and Lordships as also hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Having been bred under his Father and in the rebellion of those Lords that made War in the time of King John he continued the same course after that Lords decease fortifying his Castles and his Houses in favour of the associated Barons particularly that of Hanslape which was taken and demolished by Falcatius de Breant a renouned Souldier of that Age and a bold asserter of the Kings Authority For which and other contumacies he was with other of the Lords Excommunicated by the Pope But all this allayed not his turbulent spirit but he still persisting in his Rebellion was actually at the Battle of Lincoln where the power of the Lords being totally vanquished he was taken Prisoner But after this he returned to his obedience and enjoyed his Estate by the Kings Grace and in the seventeenth Year of Henry the Third he obliged himself by a special writing to serve the King faithfully all his life and never more
to oppose him or his Heirs For securing of which promise he delivered up his Son William in Hostage who was after returned as an assurance of the Kings trust He departed this life in the One and fortieth year of Henry the Third leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran de Newburgh Earl of Warwick William Lord Mauduit afterwards Earl of Warwick AT the Death of his Father WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the fourth of that name was thirty six years old upon the possession of the Estate and Dignity of his Ancestors he received early testimonies of the Kings trust and favour by the acceptance of a moderate relief for his Barony and his Sergeantry and reasonable time for the payment The Lords of his Family had ever the reputation of being Martial and himself was esteemed active and vigorous so as he was usually summoned to attend the King in most of his Expeditions with his power and followers In the forty seventh Year of King Henry the Third doing his homage and paying an hundred pounds for his relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick he had livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him that is to say the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had summons that year to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility But soon after the King was necessitated to leave of his Welsh Expedition to provide against the power and insolence of his Barons who were then gathering together against him at Northampton He sent therefore this Earl to make sure of his Castle of Warwick a place at that time very considerable but such was his unhappiness as wanting diligent Guards they issued out of Kenilworth under the Command of John Giffard Governour of that Castle and surprising this at Warwick slew divers of the Earls men and carried him and his Lady Prisoners to Kenilworth out of which place before he could be delivered they forced him to pay nineteen hundred Marks for his Ransome and threw down the Walls of Warwick-Castle After this unhappy accident I find no more of him than that he married Alice the Daughter of Gilbert de Segrave and dyed without Issue the Eighth of Jan. Anno 1267. 52 Hen. III. ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit Chamberlain to King Henry the Second THE direct line of those Mauduits who were Lords of Hanslape and hereditary Chamberlains of the Exchequer ending in William Lord Mauduit who came to be also Earl of Warwick and that dyed without Issue I must return to Robert the second Son of Robert Lord Mauduit who was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second to carry on the Genealogical description of that branch of these Mauduits who were Lords of Werminster from whom the Greene's of Drayton did Descend and that did flourish for many Ages in this Nation under great reputation and Authority Unto Robert Lord Mauduit who was Lord of Hanslape in the days of Henry the Second King Richard and King John there were born of the Lady Isabella Bassett two Sons William and Robert the latter of which was a Youth so esteemed for his Valour and Martial inclinations and particularly by his Father as for a foundation of a greater fortune he bestowed upon him the noble Lordship of Werminster which he had received from the Gift of his old Master King Henry the Second and his Elder Brother the Lord William Mauduit was so far from repining at the Gift as he added to his Estate of his own Grant the Mannor of Shaudedene now called Scaldene And he had moreover from the kindness of Robert de la Mare a great Lord of that Age divers Lands in Bushopstre and Tarenta in Marriage with his Daughter Agnes by whom he left Issue William Mauduit Lord of Werminster WILLIAM MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster became possessed by Inheritance from his Father his Marriage and his own acquests of the Lordships of Werminster Scaldene Samborne and Grately in the County of Wilts as also of Lands in Bushopstre Tarenta and Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop which last were of his Mothers Inheritance In the Fourteenth of King Henry the Third he was sued with Eugenia his Wife by Robert de Passlieu for detaining one Henry the Son of Henry de Cromwell whose custody he pretended to belong to him by reason of the Kings Commission but because the said Robert did not produce the same it was order'd in Court That Henry de Cromwell should remain in the Keeping of William Mauduit and his Wife Eugenia This William gave Lands in Samborne to Thomas the Son of Simon of Deene and he demised the Mannor of Grately to Galfred of Winelford There is extant a Grant unto him of a Faire yearly to be held for three days at his Lordship of Werminster that is to say on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Lawrence and of a Market to be held every Thursday at his Mannor of Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop. He married Eugenia Daughter to that Foulke Lord Fitz-Warren who was a Lord of much fame in the days of King John and of his Son Henry and left Issue Warren Mauduit Lord of Werminster Sir John Mauduit WARREN MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster received his Christian Name as has been very usual from that Noble Family of which his Mother was descended and much deference and respect was due from him thereunto as from one whence he did derive a great part of his Inheritance as the Mannors of Westbury Lye and other Lordships He was one of those Lords that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land when he was yet but Prince and we find him to have lived much in his esteem and favour as one by whom he was accompanied in most of his War-like Expeditions He was summoned to many of those Parliaments that were called in his Raign towards the latter end whereof he departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas Mauduit Lord of Werminster THOMAS Lord MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in the Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Scalden Samborne West-Hacley Lye Castle-Helgot and other great Possessions so as at that time he was accounted one of the most powerful Lords of his rank He received in the Eleventh year of King Edward the Second a Charter from that King of Free Warren for him and his Heirs to have as well upon all his Lands in Westbury Lye and Chaldcoate in the County of Wilts as upon those of Deene and Grately in the County of Southampton These are the words of the Patent He was a Lord of such fame in those days
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis â—â—â—â—tisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur
per Arenas Corpora verò pereuntium nulla Perierunt etiam cum Filio Regis Frater suus Ricardus Nothus Comes cum Filia Regis quae fuerat Uxor Rotronis Ricardus Comes Cestrensis cum Uxore sua Nepte Regis Sorore Theobaldi Comitis Nepotis Regis Periit Othoel Magister filii Regis Galfridus Ridel Robertus Malduit Willielmus Bigot multÃque alii principales Viri Nobiles quoque foeminae quamplures cum Regiis pueris non paucis Militaris numeri C. XL. Nautarum L. cum tribus Gubernatoribus Navis Solus quidem Macellarius tabulâ Naufragii pendens evasit WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. WHat became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Portchester with all the Lands of Micael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the First had given them to his Father as also Bergedon now called Berwedon in the County of Rutland with the whole Soake which Queen Maude gave to the afore-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the said William Furthermore this William had by the Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of the Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Portchester and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them And after Henry by the Death of King Stephen had obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony of which his Father dyed seized as well in England as in Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its appurtenances Bergedon with the Hundred in Com. Rut. and Maneton in Com ...... with all others the Lands which he had formerly given his Father at Nottingham as also Scaldene and Herleby with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy When he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert ROBERT MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Secundi HEnricus Rex Anglorum omnibus fidelibus suis Francis Anglis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse praesenti Carta confirmasse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum quidquid ibi habebam de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum manerium illud habeant teneant de me Haeredibus meis sicut illud tenebam bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in aquis Molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis aliis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus T. Eliensi J. Norwicensi B. Exoniensi Episcopis Convenit cum Recordo Gulielmis Prinne Carta Regis Ricardi Primi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris omnibus fidelibus totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me concessisse hac praesenti Carta confirmâsse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster quod Dominus Rex pater meus ei dedit tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum Manerium illud habeant teneant de nobis haeredibus nostris sicut illud dominus Rex pater noster tenebat bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus H. Dunelmensi H. Sarisburiensi J. Norwicensi Episcopis Galfrido filio Petri Waltero filio Roberti The Baronage of England Page 398. WHen he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the Rebellious Barons in King Johns time as it seems for it appears that in the first of Henry the Third the King Granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances to Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the Third this Robert dyed whereupon Isabella his Widow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty Marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of the year giving security for payment of his Relief viz. a hundred Pounds had Livery of his Lands WILLIAM MAVDVIT Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. THis William in the seventeenth of King John was constituted Governour of Rokingham Castle But the same year taking part with the Rebellious Barons he made a Garison of his House of Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcatius de Breant who was then a bold Soldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolish'd it upon the fourth of the Calends of December Which hardning him in his Rebellious Actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King John which happened the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Arms against King Henry the Third in the Battle of Lincoln in the first of Henry the Third the whole power of that Rebellious party being utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his Estate and in the seventh of Henry the Third making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings Gift five Does for storing of the same In the tenth of Henry the Third doing his Homage for those Lands that descended to him by the Death of Isabella Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in the seventeenth of Henry the
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
minime adjudicatis Necnon omnimodis concelamentis per ipsum ante primum diem ultimi Parliamenti nostri videlicet quintum decimum diem Maii ultimo praeteritum factis perpetratis Concelamentis illis si quae per ipsum dum Officiarius noster vel carissimi Domini patris nostri defuncti computabilis extitit facta fuerint exceptis Unde indictatus vel rectatus existit Ac etiam Utlagarias si quae in ipsum hiis occasionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Pardonavimus etiam remisimus eidem Johanni omnimodas donationes alienationes perquisitiones per inpsum de terris tenementis de Nobis in Capite tentis sine licentia regia ante praedictum quintum decimum diem Maii factas Necnon omnimodos ingressus si qui in haereditatem suam post mortem Antecessorum suorum absque prosecutione ejusdem per debitum processum extra manus Regias ante eundem quintum decimum diem Maii facti existant exceptis illis terris tenementis quae ad manum mortuam absque licentia regia alienantur Ita tamen quòd idem Johannes unus de illis Officiariis vel Ministris misterae monetae cunagii vel excambii in Turri Civitate nostris London in Villa Cales qui ad standum recto super hiis quae sibi objicientur securitatem Nobis in Cancellaria nostra non invenerint quos propter certos defectus impetitiones communem utilitatem populi nostri manifestè concernent ' gaudere nolumus non existat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo die Decembris Anno Regni nostri primo Manpus Per ipsum Regem Carta Johannis Greene. SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Johannes Greene Armiger dedi concessi hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Philippo Morgon Episcopo Eliensi Thomae Sydenill Willielmo Tresham Waltero Greene Thomae Cotton Roberto Isham Willielmo Aldwyncle Johanni Warner totum Manerium meum de Grafton in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus servitiis wardis maritagiis releviis herietis Escaetis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis aquis piscariis unà cum advocatione Ecclesiae de Grafton praedicta cum omnibus aliis pertinentiis dicto Manerio spectantibus Habendum tenendum praedictum Manerium cum omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus servitiis wardis maritagiis releviis herietis Escaetis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis aquis piscariis unà cum advocatione Ecclesiae praedictae omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis ut praedictum est praefatis Philippo Thomae Willielmo Waltero Thomae Roberto Willielmo Johanni Warner haeredibus assignatis eorum imperpetuum de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita de jure consueta Et Ego verò praedictus Johannes Greene haeredes mei praedictum Manerium cum omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus servitiis wardis maritagiis releviis herietis escaetis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis aquis piscariis unà cum advocatione Ecclesiae praedictae omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis praefatis Philippo Thomae Willielmo Waltero Thomae Roberto Willielmo Johanni Warner haeredibus assignatis eorum contra omnes gentes Warrantizabimus imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Cartae meae Sigillum meum apposui Dat' apud Grafton praedictam vicesimo septimo die mensis Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum undecimo Hiis Testibus Johanne Bever Johanne Greene de Sudburgh Johanne Duffyn Roberto Fisher Petro Andrewe multis aliis SIGILLVM IOHANNIS GRENE Carta Johannis Greene. NOverint Universi per Praesentes me Johannem Greene Armigerum ordinâsse fecisse loco meo posuisse Dilectum mihi in Christo Johannem Traylé Clericum Attornatum meum specialem ad liberandum nomine meo Philippo Morgon Episcopo Eliensi Thomae Wydevyll Willielmo Tresham Waltero Greene Thomae Cotton Roberto Isham Willielmo Aldwyncle Johanni Warner plenam pacificam seisinam in de Manerio de Graston in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus servitiis wardis maritagiis releviis herietis escaetis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis aquis piscariis unà cum advocatione Ecclesiae de Grafton praedicta omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis secundum vim formam effectum cujusdam Cartae meae simplicis feodi inde eis confectae Ratum habiturus gratum id quod dictus Attornatus meus nomine meo fecerit in praemissis per Praesentes Sigillo meo Signatas Dat' vicesimo septimo die mensis Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum undecimo Ultima Voluntas Johannis Greene. IN Dei nomine Amen This is the Will of me John Greene of Herdwyk Esquire made the twenty eight day of January the eleventh year of King Herry VI. First I will that Margaret my Wife have the term of her life my Manners of Herdwyk and Grafton with the avowson of the Chirche of Grafton and all the appurtenances and with all my Londs Tenements and Rents with the appurtenances in Irtlyngburgh in Northhamptonshire and the Manner of Grateley with the avowson of the Chirche and the appurtenances in Hampshire with the Manner of Matherne in Wales with the appurtenances And I will that my Feoffes anon after my Decease maken sufficient and sure estate to the said Margaret my Wife of the Manners Lands Tenements and Rents abovesaid with avowsons and all the appurtenances during her life without empeachment of any waste what time my said Feoffes or any of them by the said Margaret or by her Councel bene required Also I will that anon after the decease of the said Margaret my Wife that the foresaid Manners of Herdwyk and Grafton with the avowson of the Chirche of Grafton with all the appurtenances and with all the said Londs and Tenements with the Rents and appurtenances in Irtlingburgh remain to Rauf Greene my Son and to his Heirs of his body coming be sufficient and sure Estate to him by my said Feoffes to be made and for default of issue of the body of the said Rauf the remainder to my right heirs in tail Also I will that anon after the decease of the said Margaret that the foresaid Manners of Grateley and Matherne with the avowson and appurtenances remain to Herry Greene my Son and to the heirs of his body begotten and for default of issue of the body of the said Herry the remainder to my right heirs in tail And in case that anon after the decease of the said Margaret if the said Herry my Son desire rather to have the said Manner of Herdwyk than the said Manner of Grateley I will that then the said Herry have the said Manner of Herdwyk to him and to his heirs of his body
said Master Walter and other Feffees of the said William by the desire and agreement of the same William have made a state of the said two Assartes to William Lord Lovell Knight and other to the use of Henry Greene Esquire to have and to hold to them and to their heirs for evermore Also that where before this time that the same Henry hath enfeffed the said William Aldwyncle in his Manner of Luffwick with all his other Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Luffwyck to have and to hold them to him for term of his life the remainder of them to William Lucy Knight and others to them and to their heirs for evermore to the use of the said Henry And afterward the said William Aldwyncle at the desire of the said Henry surrendered all his Estate and released all right and claim that he had in the same Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances to the said William Lucy and other Feffees to the said Henry Nevertheless I the said Henry grant to the said William Aldwyncle the said two Assartes for term of his life without impeachment of any waste and the said Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances for term of his life and over that I pray and require as well my said Feffees that now be in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes and over each of them as any other that shall be hereafter to the use of me or my heirs to make a state to the said William Aldwyncle in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes with their appurtenance for the term of his life in the form abovesaid at such time reasonable as he shall desire of them so to do In witness hereof I the same Henry set to the Seal of my Arms. Given the tenth day of October the year of King Henry the VI. after the Conquest the three and thirtieth Carta Regis Henrici Sexti HEnricus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia Nostra speciali ex certa scientia mero motu nostris pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus Henrico Greene Armigero aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero filio haeredi Johannis Greene aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero Consanguineo haeredi Radulphi Greene alias dicto Henrico Greene nuper Vicecomiti Northamptoniae seu quocunque alio nomine censeatur omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante nonum diem Julii ultimo praeteritum contra formam statutorum de libertatibus pannorum capitiorum factos sive perpetratos unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu imprisonamenta statutis praedictis non obstantibus Et insuper ex motu scientia nostris praedictis pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico sectam pacis nostrae quae ad Nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus murdris raptibus mulierum rebellionibus insurrectionibus feloniis conspirationibus Cambipartiis manutenentiis imbraciariis ac aliis transgressionibus negligentiis offensis extortionibus misprisionibus ignorantiis contemptibus concelamentis forisfacturis deceptionibus per ipsum Henricum ante dictum nonum diem Julii qualitercunque factis sive perpetratis ac etiam Utlagarias si quae in ipsum Henricum hiis occasionibus seu earum aliqua fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum Et ulterius pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimoda Escapia felonum Catalla felonum fugitivorum Catalla Utlagatorum felonum de se deodanda vasta impetitiones ac omnimodos articulos itineris destructiones transgressiones de viridi vel venatione venditiones boscorum infra forestas extra aliarum rerum quarumcunque ante dictum nonum diem Julii infra Regnum nostrum Angliae Marchias Walliae eventa evenientia Unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu in forisfacturas bonorum catallorum aut imprisonamenta seu amerciamenta Comitatuum villarum vel singularium personarum vel in onerationem liberi tenementi eorum qui nunquam transgressi fuerunt ut haeredum executorum vel terrae tenentium Escaetorum Vicecomitum Coronatorum aliorum hujusmodi omne id quod ad Nos versus ipsum Henricum pertinet seu pertinere poterit ex causis supradictis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas donationes alienationes perquisitiones per ipsum de terris tenementis de Nobis vel progenitoribus nostris quondam Regibus Angliae in Capite tentis ac etiam omnimodas donationes perquisitiones ad manum mortuam factas habitas absque licentia Regia Necnon omnimodas inquisitiones ingressus in haereditatem suam in parte vel in toto post mortem Antecessorum suorum absque debita prosecutione ejusdem extra manum regiam ante eundem nonum diem Julii factos unà cum exitibus proficuis inde medio tempore perceptis Et insuper pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas poenas ante dictum nonum diem Julii forisfactas coram Nobis seu Concilio nostro Cancellario Thesaurario seu aliquo Judicum nostrorum pro aliqua causa omnes alias poenas tam Nobis quà m carissimo nostro Patri defuncto per ipsum Henricum pro aliqua causa ante eundum nonum diem Julii forisfactas ad opus nostrum levandas ac omnimodas securitates pacis ante eundem nonum diem Julii similiter forisfactas ac etiam tertias tertiarum tertias omnimodorum prisonariorum in guerra captorum Nobis dicto nono die Julii qualitercunque debitas pertinentes seu spectantes per eundem Henricum Necnon omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante eundem nonum diem Julii contra formam tam quorumcunque statutorum ordinationum provisionum ante dictum nonum diem Julii factorum seu editorum de perquisitionibus acceptationibus lectionibus publicationibus notificationibus executionibus quibuscunque quarumcunque literarum bullarum Apostolicarum ante dictum nonum diem Julii omnium aliorum statutorum ordinationum provisionum praetextu quorum aliqua secta versus eundem Henricum per billam vel per breve de praemunire facta seu alio modo quocunque pro aliqua materia ante eundem nonum diem Julii fieri valeat quà m quorumcunque aliorum statutorum fact ' sive perpetrat ' statutis ordinationibus provisionibus illis non obstantibus literis
bullis de exemptionibus duntaxat exceptis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodos fines adjudicatos amerciamenta exitus forisfactos relevia scutagia ac omnimoda debita compota praestita arreragia firmarum compotorum Nobis ante octavum diem Julii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo sexto qualitercunque debita pertinentia Necnon omnimodas actiones demandas quas Nos solus vel Nos conjunctim cum aliis personis vel alia persona habemus seu habere poterimus versus ipsum Henricum pro aliquibus hujusmodi finibus amerciamentis exitibus releviis scutagiis debitis compotis praestitis arreragiis ante eundem octavum diem Julii Nobis debitis ac etiam Utlagariis in ipsum Henricum promulgatis pro aliqua causarum supradictarum omnimodis debitis compotis Nobis debitis pertinentibus quae vigore literarum nostrarum Patentium seu brevium nostrorum de magno vel privato Sigillo aut per estallamenta sive assignationes respectuata existunt omnino exceptis Et quòd praesens pardonatio nostra quoad praemissa seu aliquod praemissorum non cedat in dampnum praejudicium vel derogationem alicujus alterius personae quà m personae nostrae duntaxat nec quòd praesens pardonatio nostra nec aliqua hujusmodi pardonatio nostra ad aliquos magnos computantes nostros qui nunc sunt vel qui nuper fuerunt videlicet ad Thesaurarium Cales Hospitii nostri Vitellarios Cales Camerarios Cestriae North Walliae South Walliae Custodes Gardrobae Hospitii nostri aut Custodes magnae Gardrobae nostrae aut Custodes sive Clericos operationum nostrarum Constabularios Burdegales Thesaurarium terrae nostrae Hiberniae receptores Ducatus nostri Lancastriae Ducatus nostri Cornubiae tam generales quà m particulares quo ad aliqua hujusmodi officia sua seu hujusmodi occupationes suas aut alicujus earundem tangentia ullo modo se extendat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quarto Kirkeham Per ipsum Regem Indentura inter Ducem Buckinghamiae Henricum Greene pro maritagia Constanciae filiae praedicti Henrici THIS Indenture made the nineteenth day of January in the yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Sixth after the Conquest the six and thirtieth between the high and myghty Prynce Humfrey Duc of Buks on that oon partie and Henry Greene Squyer on that othir partie Witnesseth That it is accorded and agreed between the said parties in the fourme that followeth that is to wite That John oon of the Sonnes of the said Duc shall by the grace of God wedde and take to wyfe Constance Doughter and heire apparant to the said Henry Greene before the fest of Lammasse next comyng and the said Constance shall take to Husband the said John byfore the same fest and the said Duc shall bere all the costes of the same Mariage And the said Duc graunteth by these presents for the said mariage to be had in the fourme aforesaid that he shall make or doo to be made before the fest of the Nativite of Seynt John Baptiste next comyng to William Katesby Knyght Henry Greene Squyer Thomas Littilton Thomas Bylling Serjaunts of Law Thomas Wake Squyer Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford a sufficient and lawful Estate in and of Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the yearly value of four hundred marks over all maner charges and repryses the ordinarie charges of ordinarie officers onely except to have to theyme and to theire heirs for evermore And the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe shall before the said fest of Seynt John by Fine to be rered in the Kyngs Courte at the costes of the said Duc between theyme and the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford beying seised of the same Manoirs Londs and Tenements before the said feoffament made to theyme knowlage the same Monoirs Londs and Tenements to be the right of the said William Catesby as tho that the same William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William have of the yeft of the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe And the same Duc and my Lady and the heirs of my said Lady shall warant the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William and to the heirs of the said Willam Catesby for evermore Item The said Duc shall doo and cause Humfrey his sonne and heire apparaunt by his dede sufficient in Law enrolled in the Kyngs Courte of Record to ratefye and confirme the state of the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford and to the heirs of oon of theyme accordyng to the said fyne of and in the Londs and Tenements comprised in the same fyne with a clause of Warantie according to the same Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements shall graunte sufficiently by theire dede to suche persones as the said Henry Greene shall name an annuyte of three hundred markes goying oute of all the said Londs and Tenements to be perceyved for terme of the lyfes of Margaret wyfe to the said Henry John and Constance and everyche of theyme longest lyvyng the same annuyte to begynne to be levable at suche tymes as the same John and Constance or outher of theyme or any outher by the sturringe excitation or commandemente of theyme or of outher of theyme durynge the lyfe of the said John or elles the said Constance after the decesse of the said John beyng not relyvered to her said Fader as is hereafter writen disturbe or interrupte in any wise after the deth of the said Henry the Estates made or to be made by the said Henry or by other at his desire to the said Margaret his wyfe or to other his servants for terme of theire lyfes of three hundred markes worth land by yere beneth excepted or any part thereof or elles disturbe or interrupte the last will of the said Henry to be made by hyme of Londs by hyme purchased or to be purchased or of his movable goodes and if noe suche disturbance or interruption be the said graunte to be voide Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements after the said graunte of Annuyte and within three monethes after the said mariage had shall make Estate by dede endented of all the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said Duc to have to him for terme of his lyfe withoute impechment of waste the remayndre thereof after his decesse to the
appurtenancas be lefte in the rule of myne Executors to suche time as my detts be payed And that soe doon I wyll that the revenues and profites of the said Manoir with the appurtenaunces yerely remayne to the rule of my said Executors to the use and profite of my sonne and heire durynge the tyme and space of his nonage And than the said Manoir with the appurtenaunces be delivered to my sonne and heire and to the ryght heires of his body lawfully comynge And for lak of suche issue to my Nevue Thomas Talbot and to the heirs of his body lawfully comyng And for lak of such issue the remayner to my Lord my Nevue of Buckingham and to the ryght heires of him And whereas eny maner of dett or dute is owyng to me by obligation or otherwise with all such arrerages as be behynde due to me of all my Lyflode or possessions with all such issues and profites and revenues as is grown of lyvelode of this Ester Terme laste paste I wyll it be gadered and levyed by myne Executors to the performyng of my Wyll and it for to be disposid for me as theyme think it best And the residue all my Goods and Catalles moveable wheresoever they be after my Fynurell expences and all costes and charges performed and doon and all my bequstes within written well and trewly done and fulfyllyd I give then to the discretion of myne Executors to be doon for me as theyme seemes best and most helth of my sowle And of this my present Testament I make and ordeyne myne Executors that is to say the most Reverent Fader in God my Lord Cardenall and my most interest beloved Lady and Moder my cheff Executors my Fader Walter my Lord Mountjoy the Master of the Colage of Foderingham Master John Geoffrey Oliver Sutton William Merbury and Rauf Tykhull Indentura facta inter Constanciam Comitissam de Wilts Thomam Billing Capitalem Justiciar Dom. Regis ad Placita c. alios facta HAEC Indentura facta inter Constanciam Comitissam Wilts ex parte una Thomam Billing Capitalem Justiciarium Domini Regis ad Placita coram ipso Rege tenenda Richardum Tunstall Militem Willielmum Catesby Militem Johannem Catesby Servientem Domini Regis ad legem Nicolaum Griffen Armigerum Robertum Wittelbury Armigerum Willielmum Catesby Armigerum Thomam Merys Armigerum Richardum Welby Thomam Babyngton Oliverum Sutton Simonem Burton ex parte altera testatur Quòd praefata Comitissa tradidit ad firmam dimisit praefatis Thomae Richardo Willielmo Johanni Nicolao Roberto Willielmo Thomae Richardo Thomae Olivero Simoni Manerium suum de Alba Rothynge cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae una cum advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Manerium de Grafton juxta Warton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Northamptoniae una cum advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Maneria de Warminster Westbury Dycherigge cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Wilts Habenda tenenda praedicta Maneria cum omnibus singulis eorum pertinentiis una cum advocationibus Ecclesiarum praedictarum praedictis Thomae Richardo Willielmo Johanni Nicolao Roberto Willielmo Thomae Richardo Thomae Olivero Simoni assignatis suis à festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimò praeterito ante datum praesentium usque ad finem terminum septem annorum extunc proximè sequentium plenariè completorum Reddendo inde praefatae Comitissae vel Assignatis suis centum viginti libras legalis monetae Angliae annuatim durante termino praedicto ad duos anni terminos videlicet ad festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones Et si contingat dictam annuam firmam centum viginti librarum aretro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum quo solvi debeat per sex septimanas tunc bene liceat licebit praedictae Comitissae assignatis suis in omnibus praedictis Maneriis cum omnibus singulis eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem distringere districtiones sic captas licitè abducere effugare asportare penes se retinere quousque de praedicto annuali redditu una cum arreragiis si quae fuerint plenariè sibi fuerit satisfactum persolutum In cujus rei Testimonium tam praefata Comitissa quà m praefati Thomas Richardus Willielmus Johannes Nicolaus Robertus Willielmus Thomas Richardus Thomas Oliverus Simon praesentibus Indenturis Sigilla sua alternatim apponi fecerunt Dat' vicesimo die Martii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti post Conquestum quarto decimo EDWARD STAFFORD Earl of Wiltshire Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow MEmorandum That in the sixt yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King Henry the Seaventh the Tennants and Inhabitants of Luffwycke and Sudburgh were in variance strife and debate for the occupation of Luffwyke Leyse perteynyng to Luffwycke and for the occupation of Brigsyleyes perteyning to Sudburgh insomuch that the Tennants and Inhabitants of Luffwycke did impounde a flock of Shepe of Sudburgh sayeing that they had noe Common of their Leyse And in like wise the Tennants and Inhabitants of Sudburgh did impounde a flock of Shepe of Luffwycke sayeing that they had noe Common of their sayd Brigsyleyes And for as much as the Earle of Wiltes was chiefe Lorde of both the Lordships the Inhabitants of both Townes sued to him and his Councell for reformation and pacefyeing of the said variance strife and debate And when he had heard their request he sayd to them that he would by the advise of his Councell take a good and an indifferent direction and order betwixt the said parties And then he commanded his Councell to goe to the said Leyes in variance and call before them the Inhabitants of both Townes and view the ground and set such directions betwixt the said Inhabitants of both Townes that there should be noe more variance for Common of the said Leyes after that tyme. The which Councellers tooke a direction that the Tennants of Luffwycke should have and occupy their owne Leyes in peace without disturbance or clayme of Common of the Tennants of Sudburgh And in like wise the Tennants of Sudburgh should have and occupy the sayd Brigsyleyes in peace without disturbance or clayme of Common of the Tennants of Luffwycke And over that they said Yee been all my Lordes Tennants and it is his pleasure that yee shall live in rest as good neighbours should doe And after the sayd order and direction it have been used and kepte from the sayd sixt yeare till Midsommer now last past Carta Edwardi Comitis Wilts SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Edwardus Comes Wilts dedi concessi hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto Wittelbury Armigero Willielmo Marbury Armigero Willielmo Felde Clerico Roberto Bayston Clerico Thomae Montegu Johanni Freeman Maneria
in contrarium factis editis sive ordinatis non obstantibus In cujus rei testimonium c. Sub Sigillo Magno An Indenture septipartite between Edward Duke of Buckingham and the Coheirs of Greene and Vere THis Indenture septipartite made the second Day of September in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Between the Right Noble Prince Edward Duke of Buckingham Earl of Herford Stafford and Northampton on the one partie Margaret Countesse of Wiltes late Wife of Edward late Earl of Wiltes on the second partie Thomas Cheyne of Artlingburgh Knight and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Margery Hodleston Daughter and oon of the Heirs of John Greene and Sister and oon of the Heirs of Herry Greene late Lord of Drayton in the County of Northampton on the third partie Richard Gilford Knight Comptroller of the Kings most honourable Houshold Garden of Audre youngest Daughter of Henry Vere late of Great Addington in the County of Northampton Esquire Son and Heir of Isabell Daughter and another of the Heirs of the said John Greene and Sister and another of the Heirs of the said Herry Greene on the fourth part Alice Lady Fits Hugh late the Wife of William Fits Hugh Knight Lord Fits Hugh Garden of Constance the third Daughter of the said Harry Vere now married to John Parre on the fifth Partie John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford oon of the Kings Sergeants at Law Garden of Elizabeth first and eldest Daughter of the said Harry Vere and married to John Mordaunt Son and Heir Apparent of the same John Mordaunt of the sixth partie And the same John Mordaunt Garden alsoe of Amye second Daughter of the same Henry Vere now married to Robert Mordaunt second Son to the same John Mordaunt the Fader of the seventh partie Witnesseth That where upon Communication and Agreement of Marriage had and concluded between Edward late Earl of Wiltes and the said Margaret Countesse of Wiltes It was fully covenanted bargained and agreed That the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the same late Earl of suche yerely value as Sir Reynald Grey Knight would name And alsoe such other as the said Sir Reynald would name And after the said Sir Reynald by the assent and agreement of the said late Earl named that the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes to the yearly value of three hundred Marks above all Charges and after the same naming a Youes was made to the same Edward and Margaret and to other persons for terme of life of the same Margaret to the use and behoof of the same Margaret of the Mannors of Newton Blosmavile Clifton Watershall Brafeld and Policote in the County of Bucks Sutton Peggislond Botellis Tracies and Stamford-rivers in the County of Essex Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the Right Noble Prince Humphrey Duke of Bucks Aile to the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes and bene of the yearely value of one hundred twenty one Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And towards the recompence of the residue of the said Joynture the said Edward late Earl and Margaret and other had Estate of the Mannors of Wamiden Empton and Moche Wolston in the County of Bucks and Chalton in the County of Bedford Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the said Herry Greene and be of the yerely value of forty one Pounds ten Shillings eleven Pence All which Mannors Lands and Tenements as well such as were late of the sayd late Duke of Bucks as of the sayd Herry extend to the yerely value of one hundred sixty three Pounds fower Shillings and three Pence And soe the sayd Margaret now Countesse lacked of her Joynture to her belonging by reason of the same Covenant Bargain and Agreement thirty six Pounds fifteen Shillings nine Pence And whereas after that the sayd Earl in his life for the tender favour and love which he had to the sayd Edward now Duke of Buckingham was in very mind and fully agreed that the sayd Joynture Lands and Tenements that were of the Inheritance of the sayd Duke of Bucks should be changed and that the sayd Margaret now Countesse should have in recompence of them other Mannors Lands and Tenements that were of the same Herry Greene of like value And where Estate was made to Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires Robert Bayston Clerk Thomas Montague John Freman and one John Feld Clerk now dead of and in the Mannors of Raunds Ringstede Cotes Stawike Luffwike Sudburgh and Harringworth in the County of Northampton Emton and Mochewolston in the County of Bucks Chalton in the County of Bedford Warmester Westbury Grately Dichrich in the Countye of Wiltes and Southampton Buckworth in the County of Huntington and Combton in the County of Cambridge and of all other Lands and Tenements which sometime were of the sayd Constance late Wife of John late Earl of Wiltes and Moder to the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes in the sayd Countyes of Northampton Wiltes Southampton Bedford Bucks Huntington and Cambridge To have to them and to their Heirs for ever to the use of the said Edward late Earl and of his Heirs And where alsoe Estate was before that made of and in the said Mannors of Wamiden Emton Mochewolston and Chalton in the Countyes of Bedford and Bucks and of divers other Lands and Tenements in the same Countyes the which late were of the sayd Harry Greene to the sayd Edward and Margaret then his Wife Johane Vicountesse Lesle John Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire Thomas Kebell one of the Kings Sergeants at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Humphrey Connesby Thomas Frowike Sergeants at Law John Tichbourne John Smith John Gardiner Thomas Bayall and Thomas Haywode To have to them for terme of life of the sayd Margaret the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes And of the residue of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements whereof the sayd Robert Wittelbury and his Cofeffez were infeossed they were satisfied thereof at the time of the death of the sayd Edward late Earle and yet thereof be seised And where alsoe the sayd Edward Duke of Bucks hath before this time pretended Title to part of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other Mannors Lands and Tenements late of the sayd Edward late Earle of the Greenes Lands as Cosyne and next Heir to the sayd Edward late Earle of the Faders side of the sayd late Earle And where alsoe the same Countesse claymeth to have dower of parcel of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements over and beside her sayd Joynture And where alsoe the sayd Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader as moche as in them is for their interest for causes comprized in their Indentures have promissed to the sayd Sir
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
th' appurtenances for the considerations in these Indentures to th' use of the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife for terme of their lifes onely and either of them longer living onely without impeachment of waste dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife and after their decease to th' use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Daughter of the sayd John Greene in like manner and forme and of like Estate as the Heirs of the sayd Herry Greene Fader of the sayd Constance late Countesse was inheritable to the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements after the decease of the same Countesse to the use of the right Heirs of the same Isabel Vere Daughter of the same John Greene in manner and forme and of like tenure and Estates as is aforesayd of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements And the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife John Mordaunt the younger and Elizabeth his Wife Robert Mordaunt and Amye his Wife John Parre and Constance his Wife and Audre Vere and every of them before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall further do and suffer and cause to be done to make the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements afore appoynted to the sayd Countesse sure to the sayd Margaret Stafford Countesse of Wiltes Johan Vicountesse Lesle John Grey Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire John Bretteyn Clerk Thomas Frowyke Sergeant at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Thomas Marrow and John Gardiner and to their Heirs to the uses aforesayd as by the Counsel learned of the sayd Countesse before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall be advised at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Countesse And over that is covenanted bargained and agreed between the sayd Parties that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife dureing their lives shall have the Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park of Drayton the Conyngre and the Oxe-Pasture Provided that they shall therein doe no waste And over that that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife shall have for terme of their lives onely and of every of them longest living without impeachment of wast dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife the Moyte of all other Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches or Libertyes of the same the which late were of the same Herry Greene and after their decease the sayd Mannor of Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture and all the same Moyety of all other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to goo and grow to the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Moder to the sayd Herry Vere and to their Heirs for ever in manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was heretable to the same And that the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere shall have the other Moyte of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales and the Marches of the same to them and to their Heirs in the manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was inheritable thereunto And that all such persons as were late inseoffed by the sayd late Earle or be now seised or hereafter shall be seised of and in the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales or the Marches of the same and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with their appurtenances shall be and stand feoffed and seised of the same to the same intents and uses aforesaid And over that that before the sixteenth day of December next comeing shall not lett John Fisher one of the Kings Sergeants at Law William Mordaunt William Gascoyne Wistan Broun John Mulso and William Lane to recover all the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements and the same Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with th' appurtenances ayenst the sayd Elizabeth Cheyne Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere and ayenst all such persons as be or then shall be their Husbands and ayenst all Feoffez thereof to their use in such manner and forme as shall be a vised by the learned Counsell of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fitz Hugh and John Mordaunt the Father at the Costs and Charges of the same Sir Thomas the sayd Recoverez to be of the Moyete of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture for the Considerations comprised in this Indenture to the use of the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth for the terme of their lives and either of them longest living onely And after their decease to the use and behoof of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabell Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd And of the other Moyete of the residue of the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements to the use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd for ever Provided alway that the sayd Margaret Countesse of Wiltes shall have for terme of her life the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements to her appoynted by these Indentures and alsoe her Title and Interesse of Dower of the Lands late of Thomas Tresham any thing conteyned in these Indentures notwithstanding and notwithstanding the sayd Recovere And where the sayd now Duke hath before this time pretended right and title to such Mannors Lands and Tenements as late were of the same Henry Greene as Cosyn and right Heir of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes of the Faders side of the same Earle The sayd Duke now covenanteth by these Presents that he in consideration of all the premisses ymediately upon the sealing of theis Indentures by his Fyne and several Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled on record at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt Sergeant shall release all his right and title in all the Mannors Lands and Tenements with th' appurtenances late of the sayd Herry Greene within this Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to such persons and to their Heirs and in such wise and with warranty ayenst the Abbot of Chester and his Successors as the same Thomas Richard Alice and John shall name at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Thomas Richard Alice and John three two or one of them And the sayd Countesse and all other persons haveing any thing to the use of the sayd Countesse of and in the sayd Mannors of Newton Blosmevile Clifton Wathall Brafield and Policote and in all other Mannors Lands and Tenements which late were of the sayd Humphrey late Duke of Buckingham and afterwards of the sayd
Battel of Bosworth and upon the success of that Field knighted for his service He bare afterward much rule in his Country during that King's Reign being High Sheriff of Essex in the ninth Year thereof not long after which he departed this life leaving Issue by Mary the Daughter of Sir John Hurleston John Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis being a Youth of singular expectation and coming by a course of Years to a fitness for such a Marriage as might continue his Family in a probability both of a fair succession and a plentiful Fortune a Match was to those ends contrived by the advice of his Friends wherein all useful purposes did concur in the person of Anne Lovell a beautiful Virgin the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Lovell Knight but in the accomplishment thereof even on the fatal Wedding-Night by what miserable accident it is not said the house wherein the celebration was performed was set on fire the suddenness and fury whereof was such with the time of the Night and the effects of the preceding jollities as rendred it impossible to be extinguished till it had destroyed the Lovers the Guests and the Edifice wherein they did repose so as John perishing so unhappily without an Heir his Estate descended to his Sister Ely Fitz-Lewis ELY FITZ-LEWIS Lady of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships ELY Fitz-Lewis being left the fortunate Heir of an unhappy Brother who perished on his Wedding-Night became intitled thereby to a free and fair Estate in the County of Essex upon whom were suddenly cast the eyes of many Pretenders but Sir John Mordaunt afterwards Lord Mordaunt having at that time much interest in Court for divers services rendred by his Father and himself obtained her Wardship of King Henry the Seventh and gave her afterwards in Marriage to Sir John Mordaunt his eldest Son from whom the present Earl of Peterborow is descended LEWES Prince of France After King Lewis the Eight By a Noble English Virgin Sr. Lewis Fitzlewes Margaret of Essex Sr. Iohn Fitzlewes Eliz de Harpden Aubury de Vere the tenth Earle of Oxford Alice Filzwater Sr. Richard Fitzlewes Eliz de Baude Iohn Mountacute the 3d. Earle of Salisbury Maud Francoys Alice de Vereo Sr. John Fitzlewes Anne de Mountacute Sr. Henry Fitzlewes Eleonor de Beaufort Sr. Lewes Fitzlewes Margaret Stoner Eliz Fitzlewes Sr. Iohn Wingfeild Mary Fitzlewes Second Wife to Anthony Woddvill Earle of Rivers Sir Richard Fitzlewes Mary Hurlestone John Fitzlewes Anne Lovell Elly Fitzlewes Iohn 2d. Lord. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS OF WESTHORNEDON Lewis Prince of France Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Sir John Fitz-Lewis and Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis An antient Latine Pedigree found among the Evidences of Fitz-Lewis DOminus Ludovicus de Francia dum in Anglia moram fecit coronatus fuit habuit ex Philippa Filia cujusdam nobilis pulcherrima de qua erat perditissimus Dominum Ludovicum Fitz-Lewis cui Pater Matris qui praeter tres Sorores nullos habuit Heredes post recessum dicti Principis Francorum quòd spem Juvenis de virtute sua dederat reliquit ad sustentationem Manerium de Westhornedon in Comitatu Essexiae Iste Ludovicus floruit in tempore Henrici tertii ex Uxore sua Margareta de Essexia reliquit Haeredem Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui cum Baronibus militavit contra Edvardum secundum Bello peribat in Comitiva Comitis Lancastriae Filium tamen genuit ex Maria de Harpden Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui clementiâ Successoris ad Haereditatem praetentiones restitutus evasit ditissimus Maternis opibus colendissimus vixit linquendo Haeredem ex Uxore Agnete de Baude Dominum Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui virtute opibus ita erat spectabilis ut ab Alberico decimo Comite Oxoniae in Uxorem accepisse meruit Aliciam Filiam suam post obitum dictae Aliciae in alteram Uxorem Annam Filiam Johannis de Montacuto tertio istius nominis Comite Sarum quae fuit postea Ducissa de Exon ex quarum prima genuit Henricum Fitz-Lewis Johannem ex altera Elizabetham nuptam Johanni Wingfield de Comitatu Suffolciae Militi Dominus Henricus Fitz-Lewis Miles erat strenuissimus ita addictus Principibus Domûs Lancastriae ut Ducibus istius partialitatis charissimus semper existit cum eiisdem militavit eorum Fortunae fuit particeps tandem pro virtute bene meritis sibi data erat in Uxorem Eleanora Filia Edmundi de Beaufort Ducis de Somerset ex qua genuit Mariam Uxorem Anthonii de Woodville primi Comitis de Ripariis sed obiit sine Haerede Masculo unde sibi successit Dominus Ludovicus Fitz-Lewis Frater ejus qui fuit Haeres omnium Terrarum quas tenebat in feudo de qua non extant altera sed quòd duxit in Uxorem Margaretam Stonore ex qua genuit Dominum Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui Manerium de Westhornedon ac alias Terras nobiles tenuit Jure Haereditario post mortem Patris ad consanguineam ejus Mariam Comitissam de Ripariis tantummodo descenderunt Terrae illae quae Henrico Patris sui datae essent aut industriâ ejus vel propriis pecuniis partae Miles insignis fuit iste Richardus in suo tempore multósque labores pericula pro Rege suo Patria subivit tandem annorum satur quievit in Domino linquendo exitum ex Maria de Hurleston Johannem Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis Johannes Fitz-Lewis cui Natura formam dedit egregiam educatio indolem cùm perventus fuit ad aetatem quam idoneam Amici aestimârunt ad subeundum Matrimonii Jugum ut iis spes non deesset propagandi Familiam tam claram in Provincia tanti nominis oculos affines conjecerunt super Virginem omnimodo spectabilem formâ stirpe virtutibus quam elegerunt sicut materiam hujus Familiae futurae felicitatis Tractaverunt cum Patre Domino Roberto de Lovell Milite conclusis pactibus in Domo Patris infelicissimum celebrârunt Matrimonium quia post mediam Noctem omnibus somno immersis miserrimum erupit Incendium quod tam vorax fuit subitum violentum ut parvo tempore Domum Hospites cum Sponso miserrima Conjuge consumpsit sic ut Domina Ely Fitz-Lewis Soror unica hujus Johannis alibi tunc infirmitate detenta hujus causâ infortunii Haeres ditissima devenit nominis Armorum Haereditatis Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis ratione minoris aetatis Warda ob obitum Patris devenit Domini Regis qui ejus Custodiâ Johannem Dominum Mordaunt gratificavit qui in illo tempore spectabilem in Aula fuit ob egregia merita Patris sui versus Regem Coronam qui quidem Johannes eam in
side of the Altar a Tomb of Marble meet and convenient to serve for the Sepulcher at the Feast of Easter and also that the said Edmond shall pay or cause to be paid during the space of twelve years next and immediately after the decease and death of the said Joan Matthew Widow every year six Pounds eight Shillings four Pence to my Executors toward the performance of this my last Will. Also I will That the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond shall receive my Aunt Petre's Pension and during the said term shall find her Meat Drink and Cloathing and other Necessaries meet for her Degree during her life as long as she shall be content to be at my Executors appointment And if it chance that she will refuse to be ruled after the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond or the Survivor of them then I will that my Executors shall suffer her to receive her own Pension and to deliver her thirty three Shillings four Pence yearly and to go whither she will And if it chance that she happen to over-live the said term that I do demise unto her yearly four Pounds Rent to be perceiv'd and taken out of my Mannor of Westhornedon aforesaid at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions And if it chance the said Rent of three Pound to be behind unpaid by the space of a Month after any of the said days of Payment that then I will and grant that the said Petres or her Assigns shall enter into the said Mannor of Westhornedon and there to distrain and the distress so taken to carry away and to retain until she be fully satisfied and paid of the Rent and the Arrearages of the said Rent if any shall appear to be behind Furthermore I will that the said Lord and the said Edmond shall suffer my Heir when he comes to the Age of two and twenty years to have occupy and enjoy all the premisses so that the said Heir will be bound by such ways and means as shall be demised or thought most convenient by the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors of the Survivor to perform the execution of this my last Will the residue of this my last Will which shall chance to be at that time unperformed allowing unto my Executors all their Costs and Charges had or sustained in executing of this my last Will and that hath not been taken and lowed of the Issues and Profits of the foresaid Lands and Tenements any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Occasions of Disagreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis Mordaunt THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Ely Fitz-Lewis Daughter and sole Heir unto Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid thirteen hundred Marks Her Lands which she had by Descent were 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 last Lord Mordaunt might then 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 Ely then his Wife to levy a Fine of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Ely then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten and for default 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 Ely then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Ely Mordaunt dyed after whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Johan 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 Fitz-Lewis's Lands to trust of himself for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after his decease to trust of such as at pleasure himself to appoint for the term of ninety two Years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore to the intent that not only he but also my Lady his Wife may declare their wills thereof during the same ninety two Years whereof the late Lord Mordaunt had certain intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed or appointed Whereupon the late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estate of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such recovery thereof to the disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being right Heir of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and the bringing of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to 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 late Lord Mordaunt and of 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 waste 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 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 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 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 To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of his Executors until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the death of the said late Lord Mordaunt and further to the same Executors for 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 Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste 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 Queens Majesty as much money as shall amount to one Years value of the full third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier season thereof and twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it
Elizabeth in English Pag. 516. NOT many days passed before a far greater and more choice Army was raised in England into which many Noblemen and Gentlemen voluntarily listed themselves For a constant rumor grew every day stronger and stronger That the Spaniard with all his might and main prepared for War against England and Ireland encouraged the rather because he was now in possession of Calice from whence it was but a short cut over into England Hawkin's and Drake's voyage had had ill success and the Irish Rebels earnestly urged the succours out of Spain The queen to scatter this Storm that was gathering supposed it the best course to set upon the Enemy in his own Ports and to that end rigged a Fleet of 150 Ships whereof 17 were of her Navy-Royal 22 Low-Country Ships which the Confederate Estates joyned with hers the rest Pinnaces and Victualers In these were 6360 Souldiers under pay Volunteer Gentlemen 1000 Seamen 6772 besides Low-Country-men Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Howard Lord Admiral of England who were at great Charges towards this expidition out of their own Estates were made Commanders in chief with equal Authority under the title of Generals yet so as the Lord Admiral should have the principal Authority and Dignity at Sea the Earl of Essex at Land To these were joyned for a Council of War the Lord Thomas Howard Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Vere Sir George Carew and Sir Coniers Clifford The whole Fleet was divided into four Squadrons the first the Lord Admiral commanded the Earl of Essex the second the Lord Thomas Howard the third and Sir Walter Raleigh the fourth The Officers of the Army were Sir Francis Vere Lieutenant-General or Marshal Sir John Wingfield Quarter-master-general Sir George Carew Master of the Ordnance Sir Coniers Clifford Serjant-major The Colonels were Robert Earl of Sussex Sir Christopher Blunt Sir Thomas Gerrard Sir Richard Wingfield Sir Edward Wingfield Captain of the Volunteers and Anthony Astley Secretary of the Council of War who was to register the Councels with every Man's Reasons and to record all their Actions and Enterprises Again out of the same Pag. 518. UPON Sunday the 20th of June betimes in the Morning they cast Anchor near Saint Sebastian's Chappel on the West side of the Island Essex full of courage and youthful heat was of opinion That the Forces were presently to be Landed Raleigh and especially the Lord Admiral were of a contrary mind which Lord never approved of rash and heady Councels yet upon much intreaty he consented that some should make trial Whether they could conveniently Land there but all in vain the Sea beating violently with vast Waves upon the Shoar Again out of the same Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Chanal could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Eight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son In the Miranora they Fought smartly from break of day till noon when the Spaniards their Galleons being shot through and through and miserably torn and many Men slain in them resolved to fire their Ships or run them a ground Many of the Seamen for fear cast themselves over-board some whereof got to the shoar some were taken some drowned others as they swam cried for Quarter and the Admiral pitying them many of them were saved Again out of the same Pag. 520. AT the same instant almost the Lord Admiral with the Lord Thomas Howard Sir William Paget Raleigh Sir Robert Southwell Richard Levison Philip Woodhouse Robert Mansfield and the Sea-men Sir Edward Hobby bearing the Flag before them following hastily entred the Town Now did the Spaniards give over Fighting and retired into the Castle and Town-house The Town-house was presently yielded the other the next day after upon these conditions That the Citizens should depart in safety with the Garments they wore and the rest should go to the Souldiers for pillage That 520000 Ducats should be paid for their ransom and for the payment thereof Forty of the principal Citizens should be sent as hostages into England Shortly after Proclamation was made That no Man should offer violence to the Spaniards The Women Church-men and Citizens were conveyed to Porta Santa Maria. Again out of the same Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl Sussex Count Lodowick of Nassan Don Christophero a Portuguese King Antonio's Son Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill Edwin Rich Richard Levison Anthony Astley Henry Lennard Horace Vere Arthur Throgmorton Miles Corbet Edward Conway Oliver Lambert Anthony Cook John Townsend Christopher Heydon Francis Popham Philip Woodhouse Alexander Clifford Morrice Barkley Charles Blunt George Gifford Robert Cross James Scudamore Vrian Leigh John Lea Richard Weston Richard Wainman James Wotton Richard Rudal Robert Mansell William Mounson John Bowles Edward Bowes Humphrey Druell Amias Preston Robert Remington Alexander Ratcliffe John Buck John Morgan John Aldrige William Ashinden Matthew Brown Thomas Acton Thomas Gates John Stafford Gillie Merrick Thomas Smith William Pooly Thomas Palmer John Lovell John Gilbert William Harvey John Grey John Vanduvenvord Melchior Lebben Peter Regemort Nicholas Medkirk A Patent constituting Charles Lord Howard of Effingham Earl of Nottingham ELizabetha Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina c. Universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vice-comitibus Episcopis Baronibus ac omnibus aliis ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Cum hi quos divina providentia in Monarchia Regali solio constituit collocavit ut in terris quasi Vicarii coelestis illius Majestatis benè justè piè decent salutariter praesint regno atque quaecunque suae custodiae gubernationi regimini divinitùs mandatae commissae sunt Ipsique monarchae in monarchia sua idem repraesentant quod oculi in corpore quorum officium est dirigere omnia corporis membra ita summi monarchae principes tanquam oculi reipublicae intentivè circumspicere perlustare debeant omnes status ordines imperii sui sine quibus haud dubiè nullam civilem administrationem nullam politiae gubernationem institui aut fieri posse fatendum est Atque usque necessaria est ordinum in magnis imperiis conservatio postquam viderint statum ordinem nobilitatis temporis diuturnitate antiquitate vel aliter convulsum immunitum conquassatum aut ut multa humaniter accidunt morte afflictum debilitatum maturè resarcire instaurare augere amplificare ita quòd aliis quos cum virtutis suae tum generis majorum suorum gloria nobilitavit ad nobilitatem honorem accitis ordinem statum in nitore splendore suo perpetuatim conservent Jam idcirco videntes illustrem ordinem
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
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
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
Marriage and the Lands and Tenements of the said Amey or any of them And that the said John Mordaunt shall have the whole Interesse of the said Humphrey that he shall have of all Advowsons belonging to the said Amey till she come to the Age of Three and twenty Years full and the said Humphrey giveth and bindeth himself by these Presents That he shall be of Councel to his power and cunning with the said John Mordaunt and John Mordaunt the Son during the Life of the said Humphrey without any Money Fee or other Reward taking for his labour In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these Indentures interchangeably have set their Seals the Day and Year abovesaid and that the said Humphrey shall continue at his Book Per me Humphredum Brown Per me Wistanum Brown Extracta decimo quarto Maii Henrici octavi vicesimo quarto coram Doctore Olyver An Indenture between Henry Strangeways and John Mordaunt for a Marriage between Gyles Strangeways his Son and Jane the Daughter of the said John THIS Indenture made the Eighth Day of February in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between Henry Strangeways Esquire on the oon Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey Gentleman on the other Partie Witnesseth That it is Bargained Accorded and Agreed between the said Parties in form following that is to say The said Henry Granteth and Covenanteth by these Presents That Gyles Son and Heir apparent of the said Henry and of Dorothy late his Wife Daughter of john Arundell of Chideok Knight shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to Wife Jane Daughter to the said John and Edith his Wife Daughter and one of the Heirs of Nicholas Latimer of Duntish Knight if the same Jane thereto will agree And in like wise the said John Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents that the said Jane by the Grace of God shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Gyles if the same Gyles thereto shall agree The Solemnization of the said Matrimony to be done at such time as the said Henry and John Mordaunt shall agree at the Costs and Charges of the same Henry and John indifferently except the said John Moudaunt shall find Meat and Drink and the said Henry and his Heirs shall cause as sure and lawful Estate to be made to the said John Mordaunt and Jane William Carant of Tomer Esquire William Mordaunt Brother to the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan Brown and Reynold Holdy for term of Life of the same Jane within two Months next after the decease of Elianor ...... Mother of the said Henry or at any time after when the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require of Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset or the one of them to the yearly Value of an hundred Marks over all Charges to have to them for Term of Life of the same Jane as shall be advised by the learned Councel of the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs And it is Covenanted between the said Parties during the Life of the said Elianor That the said Henry shall find the said Gyles to School Court and in all other Places in all manner of things convenient for his Degree And the said John shall find the said Jane according to her Degree Furthermore it is Covenanted and Granted between the said Parties that immediately after the said Estate made of the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold in form aforesaid That the said Henry shall take the Issues and Profits of Fifty Mark Land parcel of the said hundred Mark Land to their own uses six Years after the said Estate made to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold the said Henry finding the said Gyles and the said John Mordaunt finding the said Jane as is aforesaid And the said Henry Granteth further That he shall cause to be made within three months next after the Death of the said Elianor or at any time after when the same John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold a sufficient and lawful Estate of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark over and beside the said other Maners Lands and Tenements before specified to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark to have to them and to their Heirs to the use of the said Henry during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after his Decease to the use of the said Jane for Term of Life in full recompence of all her Dower of all the Maners Lands and Tenements to which the said Jane should be entituled by the Law of the Inheritance of the said Gyles And the said Henry shall cause and suffer as well the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the Value of the said two hundred Marks severally demised to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold in Deed or in Use As all other Maners Lands and Tenements whereof the said Elianor or any other person to her use is now seized of Estate of Inheritance and also the Maner of Todrington which is of the yearly Value of Twenty eight Pounds immediately after the Decease of the said Elianor and Henry in Deed or in Use to come grow or descend immediately after the Decease of the said Elianor and Henry to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to John Brother of the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Henry for ever Which Lands and Tenements the said Henry promises in the whole to be of the yearly Value of Eight hundred Marks over all Charges And so the said John Mordaunt accepts them to be of the same yearly Value It is also Covenanted Bargained and Agreed between the said Parties That whereas the said Henry late purchased the Maners of Melbury Samford and Melbury Osmond and all the Lands Tenements and Advowsons in Melbury Samford and Melbury Osmond in the County of Dorset late Browning's to him and to his Heirs for ever if Catharine now Wife of the said Henry Decease without Issue Male of her Body by the said Henry begotten that then all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Advowsons late Browning's with the appurtenances after the decease of the said Henry and Catharine now his Wife and of William Browning and after the Issue Male of the said Catharine by the said Henry begotten if any such shall be spent and determined shall go and grow to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to the said John
fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Oxford secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sexto Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parliamenti Toung Irrotulatur in Memorandis Scaccarii de Anno nono Regis Henrici octavi videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sanctae Trinitatis rotulo ..... Ex parte Remem Thesaurum A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we intend that our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots shall now shortly repair unto our City of London at whose coming our mind is That she be honourably accompanied and conveyed from Shire to Shire by such Noble-men and other Gentlemen as be Inhabitants of those paris amongst whom we have appointed you to accompany and attend upon our said Sister from the Town of Stony-stratford to Saint Albans We therefore will and desire you to put your self in a readiness so that against the Fourteenth day of April ye be at our said Town of Stonystratford there to meet with our said dearest Sister and from thence to attend upon her till her coming to the said Town of Saint Albans Not failing hereof as ye intend to do unto us honour and pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Two and twentieth day of March. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we understand that at the time of the late repair hither of our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots ye according to our Letters to you then Addressed right thankfully acquitted your self in giving your Attendance for Her conducting and honourable conveyance We therefore give unto you our special thanks And where it is appointed that our said dearest Sister shall now return unto the Realm of Scotland we will and desire you to put your self in a readiness likewise to accompany and conduct her at this her said return from our Castle of Windsor where she intendeth to be the Sixteenth day of this Moneth so to attend upon her to Stony-stratford whereby ye shall deserve a further thanks to be remembred accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Eight day of May. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well Forasmuch as a right-great and Honourable Ambassaor shall within short time repair unto our Presence out of France at which season it is requisite and right expedient that our Court be Honourably furnished with Lords and other Nobles for the receiving and entertaining of the said Ambassador We therefore have appointed you among others to give your Attendance in our said Court at their coming Wherefore we will that forthwith upon the sight of these our Letters ye put your self in such a readiness in your best aray that ye may be here with us by the Twentieth day of this instant Month at the farthest without failing thus to do as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Tenth day of August Alliance of Mordaunt and Elmes THese be the Articles and Agreements had made and concluded the Twelfth day of February the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir apparent of Elizabeth now Wife to Thomas Pygott Esquire one of the Kings Serjeants at Law and late the Wife of the said William and one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Iwardely Esquire Deceased on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Partie for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Elmes and Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt First it is agreed That the said John Elmes shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Wife the said Edith if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in the like manner the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes if the said John Elmes will agree and assent thereto The said Marriage to be had and solemnized before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these present Agreements Item It is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the Costs of the same John Mordaunt Item It is also agreed by these Presents That the said John Elmes shall Apparel himself at his pleasure and at his own Costs and Charges And in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall Apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the Feast-day of All-Saints shall at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the said John Mordaunt Robert Brudenell Knight one of the Justices of our Sovereign Lord the King at the Pleas before him to be holden Thomas Pygott one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law and to William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Gardiner John Spencer Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs and at all time and times after the said Feast of All-Saints within the space of Eight Years when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt or by by his Heirs or by his Executors or by his Assigns a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly Value of Threescore Pounds over all yearly Charges and of such Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances of the Inheritance of the said John Elmes as by the said John Mordaunt shall be named and appointed the said Persons to be and stand seized of Fifty Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Threescore Pounds to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith Mordaunt after their said Marriage had of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said William according to the Old Interest thereof And of Ten Pounds residue of the said Threescore Pounds that the said Feoffees shall stand
and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the Life of the said Elizabeth and after the Death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the said John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with the remainder over like in every thing as is above expressed of the said Fifty Pounds Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and all time and times within the said Eight Years after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons above named and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate in the Law by Feoffment Fine Recovery Releases with Warranty Confirmations or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be avised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Woods Rents Reversions and Services the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes hath within the Realm of England the said Persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the foresaid Fifty Pounds Provided always That it shall be lawful to the said John Elmes to Appoint and Assign Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds parcel of Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except always Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances before expressed and named to the said yearly Value of Threescore Pounds to be Appointed and Assigned for the Jointure of the said Edith the said Twenty Pounds to be and go to and for the Exhibition Marriage Advancement of his Children and to pay his Debts and to the performance of the last Will of the said John Elmes so it extend no further but for term of Life or Lives or for the term of Twenty Years next ensuing the Death of the said John Elmes And also provided That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him so to Marry for the term of her Life of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the Premises under the yearly Value of Forty Pounds at the pleasure of the said John Elmes Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage no do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer to be done any manner of Act or Acts whereby any manuer of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which did come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof as is before expressed of the said Fifty Pounds And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffered any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by and after the decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue-Male the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the Old Inheritation thereof For the which Premises on the party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Five hundred Marks of lawful Money that is to say At the Feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming after the date hereof One hundred Marks And at the Feast of Saint Peter the Advincula commonly called Lammas day Fifty Marks and so yearly at every of the said Feasts Fifty Marks until the said Summ of Five hundred Marks be counted and paid And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall purchase with the same Five hundred Marks which the said John Elmes hath of the said John Mordaunt for the same Marriage and with the Summ of Two hundred Marks which the said John Elmes shall have delivered to him by the said Thomas Pygott the day of the said Marriage solemnized Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly Value of Forty Marks And that the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns after the said Lands so purchased shall Enfeoffee the said Persons of the same to have to them and to their Heirs in Fee the same persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of his Heirs for ever And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Elibeth his Mother do Alien Sell Discontinue Release or put away by any manner of means any Maners Lands Tenements or any other Hereditaments of the Inheritance of the said Elizabeth from the said John Elmes or from the Heirs of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten except certain Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances lying in Littlecote in the County of Buckingham to the yearly Value of Four Pounds or thereabouts That then the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall have Ten Marks parcel of the said Forty Marks so to be purchased to the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs for ever And the said persons so being seized of the said Forty Marks incontinent after the said Alienation and Sale or Discontinuance or any other matter of Act by the said Elizabeth so made
Estate in the Law in Fee-simple and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds by the Year over all charges whereof the Maners Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said John Elmes or any other to his use hath in Lilford Wiggesthorp in the County of Northampton shall be parcel to the use and behoof hereafter ensuing And also shall further do suffer and cause to be done at the costs and charges of the said John Mordaunt as well before the foresaid Feast as at all times after within the space of Four Years next after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt by his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their costs and charges a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple to the foresaid Robert Brudenell and the said Co-feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them and to their Heirs to the use ensuing by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of and in the foresaid Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments And that the said Persons their Heirs and Assigns beside of and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Fifty parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Sixty shall stand and be seized to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith immediately after the said Marriage had and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said William according to the old Inheritance thereof Ten Pound residue of the said Hundred Pound that the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the life of the said Elizabeth his Mother and after the death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the same John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith for term of her life and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with like remainder in any thing as is above expressed of the said Hundred Pounds And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and at all time and times within the space of Four Years next after the Feast of All-Saints when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons abovenamed and to their Heirs or to the survivors of them and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate by Feoffment or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be advised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances and all other his Hereditaments with the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes now hath And the said Persons to be and stand seized of the same other Maners to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the said Hundred Pounds Provided alway That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him to Marry for the time of his Life of Maners Lands Tenements parcel of the Premises to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds or under at the pleasure of the said John Elmes And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgate nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any manner of Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which be come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except before excepted to come grow and descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the said John Elmes according to the Old Inheritance thereof And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give or lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend in power or in use to the said John Elmes as Son and Heir of the same Elizabeth by and after the Decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the old Inheritance thereof For the which Premises on the Party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money for the which summ of a Hundred Marks the said John Mordaunt hath made to the said John Elmes Ten several Obligations for the sure payment of the same Six hundred Marks by the same Obligations Sealed with the Seal of the said John Mordaunt and remaining with the said John Elmes more plainly it doth appear And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edith within the time and space of Four Years next after the said Marriage solemnized do dye having no Issue by the said John Elmes that then the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns shall repay or cause to be repaid to the said John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns Two hundred Marks parcel of the said Six hundred Marks within the space of Four Years next and immediately
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
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
or good Cause of Breach herein I have not gone so far but as yet I may return by your Lordships better Advice I have sent you again the Book of Articles and somewhat added by Cousin John Yate unto them if your Lordship thinketh not these sufficient I shall desire your Lordship to add more unto them which being but reasonable I trust Mr. Denton will assent thereto And what your further pleasure is herein I shall defire your Lordship to certifie by your Letters by this bearer my Servant And further to disclose your whole mind herein to Mr. Denton at his next repair unto your Lordship whereby ye shall bind me to pray for you I would have seen your Lordship before this if I had not been letted by Sickness But I intend by God's Grace shortly to wait upon you In the mean time I shall desire your Lordship and my good Lady my Mother of your Blessings Thus our Lord send you both long Life From Besellesly the Tenth day of November by your Obedient and Loving Daughter Margaret Fettyplace A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That where upon the special Zeal and Affection which we bear to the Common-Wealth of this our Realm and Furniture of the same with some more Store if it shall please God of our lawful Posterity we did lately at the Suit and Contemplation of some of our Nobles and Counsel resolve eftsoons to Marry and have thereupon concluded by God's Grace a Marriage between Us and the most Excellent Princess the Lady Anne of Cleves-Juliers Forasmuch as we suppose that the same Dame Anne shall shortly arrive at our Town of Calice to be Transported unto this our Realm for the consummation of the said Marriage Considering that it shall be requisite and necessary both for our Honour and for the Honour of our said Realm That she shall be Honourably received and met at sundry places at the said arrival We have named and appointed you to be one of these Noble Personages whom we have thought meet in this affair to attend upon Us or to accompany such others of our Nobles and Counsel as shall meet her before she shall come to our Presence Wherefore we shall desire and pray you to put your self in such order as you may be at our City of London the Eighth Day of December there to know our further pleasure concerning the place of your Attendance bringing with you honestly furnished Twenty Servants wherein you shall do unto us acceptable service Given under our Signet at Westminster the Four and twentieth day of November A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That minding earnestly to have a Marriage concluded between our Trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Humphrey Ratclif Knight Son to our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Sussex Great Chamberlain of England and Mistress Rich Neice and Heir to our trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Michael Fisher Knight Albeit we doubt not of the conformity of the said Sir Michael having written our mind and pleasure to him in that behalf yet knowing that the same taking you for his assured Friend will be much advised by you in this and other his private affairs We have thought meet not only to signifie this our purpose and pleasure unto you but also to desire and pray you at this our especial Contemplation to extend your Favour and good Advice to the same in such sort as we may perceive that you tender our Pleasure according to the good Expectation we have of you accordingly Given under our Signet at our House of Hampton-Court the Second day of March the Two and thirtieth Year of our Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Cheyne ARticles of Agreement made the Twenty third day of October the Three and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth between John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the one Party and Robert Cheyne Esquire on the other Party of and for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had between Winefred Mordaunt Daughter of the said Lord and John Cheyne Son and Heir apparent to the said Robert First The said Lord to apparel his said Daughter the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The said Robert to apparel his said Son the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The costs and charges of the said Marriage and for two days after to be be at the costs and charges of the said Lord the said Robert to find Dishes of Fowl at his pleasure Item The said Robert shall make Estate of certain Closes parcel of a Pasture called Hellesthorp in the Parish of Drayton and Wyning in the County of Buckingham to the value of Twenty Pounds by the Year to the said John and Winefred to have to them during the Life of Margaret Cheyne Widow Mother to the said Robert Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of certain Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Six Pounds fourteen Shillings parcel of the Maner of Grove in the County of Buckingham to have to them during the life of the said Margaret Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of his Maners of Drayton Beauchamp and all his Lands and Tenements in Drayton Beauchamp in the County of Buckingham which Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances the said Robert promiseth to be of the clear yearly value of Forty Pound over all yearly Reprises and Charges and of the Maner of Cuggenho in the County of Northampton Which Maners Lands and Tenements together shall be to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds to have to them and to their Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten by the said John And for lack of such Issue to remain to the Heirs Males of the said Robert That is to say The said Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances of the yearly value of Sixty Pounds immediatly after the Death of the said Margaret Mother to the said Robert and Twenty Pounds in Cuggenho after the Death of the said Robert Also it is agreed That the said John shall pay yearly to the said Robert his Father as much Money of the Issues of the Fruits of the said Maner of Drayton as the said Maner shall amount above the clear yearly value of Fifty Marks during the life of the said Robert Item The said Robert shall leave to the said John in Possession Reversion and Use after the decease of the said Margaret his Mother Mary his Neice and John Cheyne Esquire his Brother and Robert Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Buckingham
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
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
purpose limit assign and set forth by these Presents And the said Lord Mordaunt doth further by these Presents for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and for every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will on this side and before the Feast day of Saint Andrew the Apostle now next ensuing the day of the date hereof at the costs and charges of the said Lord Mordaunt by Fine or Fines in due form of law to be levied before the King's Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common-pleas at Westminster whereupon Proclamations shall and may be had according to the Statutes in that case made and provided recognized and acknowledged all those other Maners Lordships Messuages Mills Lands Tenements Rents Fee-Farms Royalties Courtleets Franchizes Fairs Liberties Advowsons and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned expressed and declared that is to say The Maners of Turvey Carleton Chillington Delwike Staggesden Duckford Jempses Bosomes Stasmore Wilchamsted and Westcotton with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances and the Parks of Turvey and Delwike and the Free Warren in Turvey and Staggesden and all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Towns Parishes Villages and Hamlets of Turvey Wilchamsted alias Wilshamsteed Carleton Chillington Delwike Duckford Staggesden Stanford alias Jempses Bosomes Steventon and Westcotton in the foresaid County of Bedford with all the Rights Members and Appurtenances to the same Maners Lands or Tenements or any of them appertaining or belonging And the Maner of Snelston with the Appurtenances in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham or in both or in one of them and all those Pastures and Meadow Grounds and Closes called Snelston in the said Counties or in one of them and all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Parishes of Lavenden Brayfield alias Coldbrayfield and Harrold in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham and all those the Maners and Farms of Walterhall Oldlayton Brayfield Coldbrayfield Willen Wolston Parva Woughton upon the Green aliàs Woughkington upon the Green Lavenden and the Castle Maner in Lavenden with their and every of their Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham And all that the Free Warren with the Appurtenances in Lavenden and Brayfield otherwise called Brafeld next Lavenden Olney and Warrington in the said County of Buckingham And all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt the Maner of Clifton Raynes aliàs Week's Fee with the Appurtenances excepted in the foresaid County of Buckingham And all those the Maners of Hardwike Grafton and Sudburgh with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances in the County of Northampton and the Parks called Drayton-Park and Sudborow-Park aforesaid and the Capital Messuage or Mansion-house of Drayton aforesaid and the Closes aforesaid to the said Mansion-house adjoining or lying near unto the same And the Parsonages of Denford and Ringsteed And all those Lands called the Assart-Lands in the County of Northampton And all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents and Services of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Parishes of Hard-wike Grafton Alwinkle Sudburgh Tychmarch and Denford in the foresaid County of Northampton to be the Right of the said Thomas Lock and John Row as those which the said Thomas Lock and John Row shall have of the gift of the said Lord Mordaunt with general Warranties for the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs against all Men Which Fine so or in any other sort to be levied and all other Fine or Fines which shall be levied of the Premises or of any part thereof by the said Lord Mordaunt to the said Thomas Lock and John Row abovenamed or to either of them on this side the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle aforesaid shall be and enure and shall be taken to be and enure and the Parties Cognizees therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized for ever of all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Fine or Fines to be comprised to the use of them the said Thomas Lock and John Row and of their Heirs for ever and to no other use Yet withal upon this Trust and Confidence That they the said Thomas and John shall and will permit and suffer them the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley upon one or more Writ or Writs of Entry Sur dessein in le post to be brought or prosecuted out of his Majesty's Court of Chancery by and in the names of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley against the said Thomas and John retornable before the King's Majesties Justices of his Highness's Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster to recover from and against them the said Thomas and John according to the usual course of common Recoveries used for Assurance of Lands all and singular or any part or parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised or contained by such name or names and quantities as in the said Writ or Writs of Entry shall be contained In which Recoveries the said Thomas and John shall appear as Tenants and vouch over to Warranty the said Lord Mordaunt and the said Lord Mordaunt shall appear and vouch over the common Vouchee who shall appear gratis and after inparlance depart in despite of the Court according to the form and course of common Recoveries in such cases used And all the said Parties are agreed by these Presents to demeane themselves either in the course aforesaid or in some other course that a perfect common Recovery with such Vouchees as is aforesaid may and shall be had and suffered of the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised in all points and to all intents and purposes according to the usual order and form of common Recoveries for assurance of Land Which said Recovery or Recoveries so or in any other manner to be Sued Prosecuted or Executed of the Maners Lands Rents Tenements and Hereditaments or of any part thereof and the Execution of them or every of them and all and every other Recovery or Recoveries to be had sued and prosecuted of the Premises or of any part thereof against the said Thomas and John as Tenants and the said Lord Mordaunt as Vouchee on this side the Feast of St. Andrew and the full force and Execution of them and either of them shall be judged esteemed deemed and taken to be and ever remain to the use hereafter expressed and declared and to no other intents or purposes that is to say