dictam Cantariam praestiti praestandi bene honestè pacificè mutuò se habeant atque gerant quòd neuter ipsorum Capellanorum cum altero Capellano socio suo verbosus sit vel contumeliosus neque rixas aut verba opprobriosa seu contumeliosa quoquomodo inter se seminaverit Volumus insuper statuimus ordinamus Nos Executores supranominati quòd praemissa omnia singula per Nos ut praefertur statuta ordinata caeteraque imposterum statuenda ordinanda quaecunque per dictos duos Capellanos eorúmque successores quoscunque praefatae Cantariae Capellanos perpetuis futuris temporibus plene fideliter inviolabiliter observentur quatenus facultates possessionum bonorum dictae Cantariae sufficere valeant in hac parte facultatem tamen potestatem praemissa omnia singula per Nos ut praemittitur statuta ordinata ac imposterum statuenda ordinanda interpretandi declarandi eisdémque addendi ac ea corrigendi emendandi reformandi Nobis Executoribus antedictis duobus nostrum reservamus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium Sigilla nostra praesentibus apposuimus Dat' primo die mensis Martii Anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo primo Anno Regni Regis dicti Domini nostri Henrici Septimi post Conquestum Angliae decimo septimo ET Nos Willielmus permissione divinâ Lincolniensis Episcopus dictae Cantariae erectionem fundationem ordinationem superiùs expressatas vidimus inspeximus Et quia Nobis evidenter constat hujusmodi Cantariae fundationem ordinationem tendere in divini cultûs augmentum ac salutem animarum omnium fidelium defunctorum praesertim nobilis Domini Edwardi Stafford nuper Comitis Wiltshyre aliarum Nobilium personarum in dicta fundatione specialiter expressarum Idcirco ejusdem Cantariae fundationem ordinationem erectionem supra specificatam ac omnia singula in eis statuta ordinata contenta auctoritate nostrâ ordinariâ pontificiali pro Nobis successoribus nostris quantum in Nobis est ad forum spectat Ecclesiasticum ex certa scientia ac ad omnem juris effectum qui inde sequi poterit quomodolibet seu debebit in futurum ratificamus approbamus confirmamus ac vires perpetuae firmitatis obtinere volumus In quorum testimonium praemissorum Sigillum nostrum praesentibus est appensum Dat' in Pallatio nostro Lincolniensi vicesimo octavo die mensis Martii Anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo secundo nostrae translationis anno septimo Depositions of Robert Merbury and others Facta fuit sequens examinatio secretè sigillatim testium subscriptorum octavo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi secundo in quadam alta Camera Domûs solite residentiae venerabilis viri Magistri Johannis Yong Magistri sive Custodis Rotulorum Cancellariae dicti Domini Regis per eundem Magistrum Johannem Guidonem Palmes servientem ad Legem Johannem Grueleye Attornatum dicti Domini Regis Johannem Port Solicitatorem causarum ejusdem Domini Regis Antonium Babyngton Generosum de super ultima voluntate Edwardi Stafford nuper Comitis Wiltshyre concernente Manerium suum de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae ac omnia alia terras tenementa sua in feodo simplici existentia RObert Merbury Esquyer of th'age of sixty one yeres or more sworne and examyned the day and yere aboveseid seith and deposeth on his othe that he was servaunt to Edward Stafford late Erle of Wiltshyre in the rome of Gentilman-usher of his Chamber by the space of twenty five yeres or more whyche was at the tyme of the decese of the seid Erle Also he seith that the seid Erle about suche tyme that he should ryde towerd Blackhethe Feld had caused a Dede to be made of his seid Manor of Drayton to the use of my Lady his Wyfe for terme of her lyfe forsomuche the seid Erle in the morning when he should departe towerd the seid Feld being in the Chapell Chamber this Deponent beyng present called his seid Lady to him deliveryng the seid Dede to her Whereupon she then looked and kest it from her unto the floor saying that she would not say gramercy therefore excepte she should have Warmester and then she as she seid would thank him therefore Whereupon this Deponent at the commandement of the seid Erle tooke up the seid Dede and delivered it to the seid Erle whyche Erle then broke the Seall from it and did cast it oute of the window into the Moote there saying to his seid Lady that suche a person shuld have it of his gyft whyche he trusted shuld yeve to him a better gramercy for it than she did whyche Erle then departed into the great Chamber and called this Deponent to him commaundyng and chargyng this Deponent as he shuld answer before God to testifye bere witnesse and openly declare if ought then good shuld come to the said Erle at the seid Feld that his full mind and last Wyll was and shuld be that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heirs for ever the seid Manor of Drayton and all his other Fee symple Landes after his detts were payd and his Wyll performed And so the said Erle departed then taking his horse towerd the seid Feld at whyche tyme this Deponent rode with him a certen space of the waye Whereupon at suche tyme that this Deponent should take his leave of the seid Erle he seid to this Deponent Robert forget not to bere witnesse of that thing whereof I spake to thee in the great Chamber concernyng my Manoir of Drayton and all my other Fee simple Landes to whome this Deponent answeryng seid that he would remember his Commaundement and soe departed from the seid Erle returnyng to Drayton foreseid to waite upon the foreseid Lady accordyng to the commaundement of the seid Erle And he seith that immediately after the comeynge of the seid Earle from Blackhethe Feld to Drayton foreseid and assoone as his Boots were drawen of he called to him this Deponent demaunding of this Deponent whether he remembred the words whyche the seid Erle spake to him before that tyme in the seid great Chamber when he was going toward Blackhethe Feld concerning Drayton and his other Fee simple Landes Whereunto this Deponent answeryng seid that he remembred them well desireyng the seid Erle to knowe wheder it were his plesure to contynewe still in the same mind or nay Whyche Erle then seid that he contynewed in that mind and so would doe while he lyved charging this Deponent to bere witnesse thereof whatsoever soden aventur or chaunce shold happen or come to the seid Erle Also this Deponent seith that after the seid words spoken he was contynewelly in howsehold with the seid Erle duringe his lyfe and never knewe him change his seid mind in that behalfe forsomoche this Deponent divers tymes would say to the
seid Erle my Lord for Gods love remember that ye put not your soule in charge in yevynge your Landes from the heires Whereunto the seid Erle at all tymes answered and said to this Deponent Robert I may as well yeve these Landes where I will as I may yeve the Gowne of my back For as for the heirs of Veere they shall never inherit them Also this Deponent seith that at suche tyme that the seid Erle was sick this Deponent contynewelly abode with him by whyche seasson this Deponent never knew the seid Erle chaunge his mind in this behalfe And this Deponent also seith that on Pahne-Sunday eve whyche was the eve of our Lady-daye of the Annuntiation and also whyche was the daye next before the decesse of the seid Erle this Deponent asked of the seid Erle whether he had made his Wyll or nay whyche Erle then seid that he had made noon as yet but that he would doe And that this Deponent asked how his Lordship was minded with Drayton and with all his Fee simple Lands whereof he commaunded this Deponent before that tyme to bere witnesse whyche Erle then seid that it was oon of the greatest causes why he would chaunge his Wyll for as his mind had been to his Cossen Erle of Shrewsbury soe should it contynewe for ever commaunding this Deponent and other there present to testifye that his last Wyll was and should be that his Cossen George Erle of Shrewsbury should have his Manoir of Drayton and all other his Fee simple Landes to him and to his heires for ever after the detts payd and the Wyll of the seid Erle performed Then present at the speaking of the seid wordes William Pemberton yet lyving and divers others decessed Whereupon the seid Erle went to other cogitations at what tyme noe man thought that the seid Erle should have decessed so shortly as he did but trusted that the seid Erle shuld have lyved muche longer than he did albeit on the morrow about ten of the clock what tyme the Preist was at Masse and reding of the Passion the sed Erle departed to Gods mercy without any chaungyng of his Wyll or mind concernyng the premisses as far as this Deponent knewe or understood But this Deponent seith that about seven of the Clock in the mornyng of the seid Palme-Sunday John Mordaunt Serjeaunt at Law came to the seid Erle and asked him how he did whyche Erle then seid well as it pleaseth God and then the seid Mordaunt departed againe from thence And about ten of the Clock then next followyng the seid Mordaunt came againe to the seid Erle with a Wyll made in the name of the seid Erle whyche Wyll the seid Mordaunt then red to the seid Erle when he was anoyled and in extreme peynes of deth soe that the seid Erle neither herde nor understode what the said Mordaunt red wherein as by the seid redyng it appeared to this Deponent that nether the Manoir of Drayton nether any parte of the Fee simple Landes of the seid Erle were expressed in the seid Wyll And after the seid redyng of the seid Wyll the seid Erle was deed or a man perfetly might seye a Pater Noster and Ave Maria and oon Crede And more he knoweth not Deposition of William Pemberton WIlliam Pemberton Gentilman of the age of forty yeares or more sworne and examined seith that he was brought up of a chyeld with Edward Stafford late Erle of Wiltshyre and in his servyse as sume tyme his kerver and sume tymes lay in bed with the seid Erle when it pleased him by the space of twenty yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also he seith that many and divers tymes the seid Erle shewed and reported to this Deponent that noon of the chylderen or heires of Vere shuld inheret his Manoir of Drayton or eny parte of his other Fee simple Landes but that his Cossen the Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heires for ever the seid Manoir with all his other Fee simple Lands all his detts payd and his Wyll performed Also this Deponent seith that the day next before the decesse of the seid Erle the seid Erle rehersed the seid wordes before this Deponent Robert Merbury and others now decessed wyllinge and charging them to bere witnesse whensoever ever they shuld be called that his full myend and last Wyll was and shuld be that his Cossyn George Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Fee simple Landes to him and to his heires for ever after his detts paid and his Wyll performed And he seith in vertue of his othe and as he shall answere before God he was continewelly present with the seid Erle from the seid tyme of the foreseid speking of the seid wordes by the seid Erle unto that the seid Erle was deed about ten of the Clock before noon on Palm-Sondaye and whyche was our Lady day Annuntiation aboute whyche tyme the Preist beyng at Masse was redyng of the Passion by all whyche seasson this Deponent never knewe herd or understoode that the seid Erle changed his wyll or myend ether in word or dede in that behalfe And more he knoweth not Deposition of Henry Caine. HEnry Caine Yoman of the age of eight and forty yeres and more sworne and examyned seith that he was Grome of the Chamber to the seid Erle by the space of seven yeres and after that this Deponent was Yoman of the Chamber with the seid Erle by the space of other seven yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of the decesse of the seid Erle by whyche seasson after Blackhethe Feld as well at Drayton as at Palenall and divers other places this Deponent divers and meny tymes hath herd the seid Erle openly declare for his wyll before this Deponent and divers others of his fellowes bothe Yomen and Gromes of the Chamber that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heires for ever the Manoir of Drayton and other his Fee simple Landes after his Detts payd and his Wyll performed commaundnig this Deponent and other his fellowes to record and testifye the premysses Also this Deponent seith that the seid Erle aboute a moneth before his decesse gave lycense to this Deponent to goe to Newark upon Trent for suche besinesses as this Deponent there had to doe about whyche seasson this Deponent came to the Erle of Shrewsbury lyeing at Wynfeld at whose coming the seid Erle demaunded of this Deponent how his Cossyn Erle of Wiltshyre did Whereunto this Deponent aunswering seid that at his departing from the seid Erle of Wiltshyre he was metely in goode helthe whyche Erle of Shrewsbury then seid that the understode that the seid Erle of Wiltshyre shuld be decessed And then this Deponent seid that he would ryde streyht to his seid Lordes place to knowe the certente and to bryng redy word againe to the seid Erle of Shrewsbury
Whereupon at the coming of this Deponent to Drayton his seid Lord was deed and buryed and diverse of his fellowes both Yomen and Gromes of the Chamber now decessed without asking of eny question by this Deponent seid to him that their Lord and Master had yeven and bequethed to the Erle of Shrewsbury and to his heires for ever his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Fee simple Landes after his Detts paid and his Wyll performed And that the seid Erle of Wiltshyre had requyred the seid Erle of Shrewesbury to be good Lord and Master to them as he trusted verelye he would be Whereupon this Deponent tooke his Horse and returned to Wynfeld foresaid where this Deponent shewed to the seid Erle of Shrewsbury how the seid Erle of Wilteshyre had bequeathed and wylled to him Drayton with other his Fee simple Landes in manner and forme as he hath above deposed And more he cannot depose Deposition of William Boyes WIlliam Boyes Yoman of the age of eight and forty yeares and more sworne and examyned seith that he was Servant to the seid Erle of Wilteshyre as beyng Usher of his Hall and keeper of his Parke at Drayton by the space of twenty yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also this Deponent seith that the seid Erle aboute two dayes before he leyd him downe of the sycknesse whereof he dyed walked into his Parke of Drayton and seid to this Deponent that his mynde and last Wyll was and shuld bee that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Landes in Fee simple to have to hyme and to his Heyres for ever after his Detts payde and his Wylle performyd whyche words this Deponent as he seith hath herd the seid Erle speke above forty tymes commandynge this Deponent to beer wytnesse thereof sayeing also that he would have his seid Cossyn Shrewsbury to socor and help this Deponent and other his feloes if theye shuld nede of Mastershyp or Lordshyp and so he woold require his seid Cossyn soo to doo Alsoe he seith that he never knewe or herd that the seid Erle any tyme changed his seid mynde and Wylle in eny poyent thereof but that he ever contynewed in the same mynde duryng his lyfe And more he knoweth not Deposition of Chrystopher Myddylton CHrystopher Myddylton of the age of forty five yeres and above sworne and examyned seith in vertue of his othe that he was Grome of the styrop to the Erle of Wilteshyre by the space of six yeres or more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also he seith thet he herd the seid Erle as well in takeing his journeye towerd Blackhethe feeld as after his returnynge from thence at Drayton Bakenall and in other places dyvers times reporte and seye that noone of the heyres of Veer shuld inherit his Manoir of Drayton or any other his Fee-simple Landes though he shuld be drawen in Hell But that his last Wylle was and ever shuld be that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have the seid Manoir and all his Fee simple Landes to him and to his heyres for ever after his Detts payd and his Wylle performed whyche he woold yeve to his seid Cossyn for a remembrance trustyng he woold be good Lord to his Servauntes whyche Erle to the knowlege or understandyng of this Deponent never changed his seid Wylle or myend in that behalfe Also he seith that aboute a wyke or more after the burying of the seid Erle Thomas Mountegue one of the Feoffees and Executors of the seid Erle came to this Deponent at a place in Drayton called the Bareheed demaunding of this Deponent how he woold doo whereunto this Deponent aunswering seid that he knew not howe to doo nether whether to goo as yeat whyche Mountegue then seid that he thought that William Merbury his old Master woold have this Deponent this Deponent seid that Master Mordaunt Serjaunt had desired his Servys and had offered to him good wages but he had not agreyed to take them nor knewe not whether he so woold And whyche Mountegue then seid to this Deponent thou knowest that I am oon of the Feoffees in my Lordes Landes and alsoe oon of his Executors and knew as moche of his myend as summe other did and yeat I am not callyd to Councell for there is now in the towre here in the place at Drayton Master Mordaunt Serjaunt Sir Thomas Cheneye William Merbury and other suche as plesyth them which wyll not let me bee pryveye what they doo there But what they doo or intend to doo I cannot tell or whether they wyll change my Lordes Wylle in any thing But this I know of troth that oure Lord and Master's myend was at the tyme of his deth that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have this Manoir here of Drayton and all other his Fee simple Landes after his Detts payde and his Wylle performyd And then this Deponent seid to the seid Mountegue that he dyverse tymes hath herd his seid Lord sey and reporte the same And more he knoweth not Deposition of Thomas Cade THomas Cade Clarke Parson of Buckworth in the Diocesse of Lincolne of th'age of forty eight yeres and more sworne and examyned the first day of the Moneth of Marche in the fifth yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Eight upon the testament and last wyll of Edward late Erle of Wiltes seith and deposeth that he knew well and perfetly the seid Erle insomoche this Deponent was his household Chaplayne by the space of seven yeres and more And as concernyng the makyng of the Testament and last Wyll of the seid Erle this Deponent seith that he can nothing depose of the contents thereof but affirmeth the twenty fourth day of Marche then being Palm-Sonday in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety and eight this Deponent was present at the Manoir of Drayton the day and yere aboveseid in a high Chamber in whyche Chamber the seid Erle lay sick and there in the presence of this Deponent the seid Testament and last Wyll was engrosed in Parchment by one Philip Foster and presented and delyvered unto the Handes of the seid Erle and then and there in presence of this Deponent the seid Testament and last Wyll was soe sealed with his accustomed square Signet graved with a ramping Bere upon a Berewerdes Staffe then being present at the sealing of the seid Testament and last Wyll John Mordaunt Serjeaunt at the Law Robert Wittelbury William Marbury Philip Foster James Walbef Master William Hylde then Master of the College of Foderinghay this Deponent and others more whose names he perfetly remembreth not Also this Deponent affirmeth that the seid Testament and last Wyll of the seid Erle soe Sealed was his last Wyll and Testament and that he never made after that tyme any other Testament neither solempne in wryting nor nuncupative by word and that he renounced all other Wylls and
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
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
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
In cujus donationis concessionis testimonium Sigillum meum apposui his testibus Domino Johanne de Ashton Thomâ de Buckton Richardo de Willoughby Hugone de Pavi Eustachio de Walle Andrea de Capello Stephano Baynell Hugone Forrestario Andrea Clerico Ex bundello Escaetorum de Anno vicesimo Edwardi Primi num 19. EDwardus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Aquitaniae dilecto Clerico suo Malculino de Harledg Escaetori suo citra Trentam Salutem Quia Johannes de Drayton qui de nobis tenuit in Capite diem clausit extremum ut accepimus Vobis mandamus quòd omnes terras tenementa de quibus praedictus Johannes fuit seisitus in Dominico suo ut de feodo in Balliva vestra die quo obiit fine dilatione capiatis in manum nostram ea salvò custodiri faciatis donec aliud inde praeceperimus per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de Balliva vestra per quos rei veritas meliùs sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis quantum terrae idem Johannes tenuit de nobis in Capite in Balliva vestra die quo obiit quantum de aliis per quod servitium quantum terrae illae valent per annum in omnibus Exitibus quis propinquior haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis inquisitionem inde distinctè apertè factam nobis sub Sigillo vestro Sigillis eorum per quos facta fuerit sine dilatione mittatis hoc Breve Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo Inquisitio post mortem Johannis de Drayton INquisitio facta apud Northampton die Lunae proximo post Festum Sancti Valentini Anno Regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo de Terris Tenementis quae fuerunt Johannis de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae per Sacramentum Roberti filii Roberti de Roffwick Johannis de Lyndesey de eadem Willielmi de la Zouch de eadem Willielmi filii Gervasii de Drayton Henrici filii Henrici de eadem Petri de Twyvell Roberti le Panner de eadem Roberti Franceis de Ruliburg Willielmi Noreis de Islip Eliae in Angulo de eadem Radulphi le Peyntor de eadem Willielmi Jossell de eadem qui dicunt super Sacramentum suum quòd dictus Johannes tenuit Manerium de Drayton cum pertinentiis de Domino Rege in Capite per servitium dimidii feodi Militis etiam reddendo Domino Regi in Manerio de Getinton xiij s iv d etiam saciendo sectam Curiae de Getinton à tribus septimanis in tres septimanas Item dicunt quòd Capitale Messuagium cum Columbario Gardino Vivario valet per annum xxs. Item dicunt quòd idem tenuit in Islip quoddam Messuagium cum Gardino Columbario pertinens ad dictum Manerium valet per annum vi s viiid. Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem ducentae viginti acrae terrae arabilis quatuor acrae valent per annum vii l ix s iv d pretium acrae viiid. Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem xvii acrae prati falcabilis valent per annum li s pretium acrae iiis. Item sunt ibidem decem acrae pasturae valent per annum xx s pretium acrae iis. Item dicunt quòd sunt in dicto Manerio de redditu Assisae liberorum tenentium vii l ii s ix d viz. ad Festum Sanctae Andreae xxxix s vi d ob Ad Festum Paschae xlii s iv d ob Ad Pentecosten x s vii d ob Ad Festum Sanctorum Petri Pauli xxxix s viiid. Et ad Festum Sancti Michaelis x s viii d ob Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem duo homines qui reddunt ad Natale decem Capones qui valent x d pretium Caponis 1d unam libram Cumini pretium 1d ad eundem terminum Item sunt ibi tres homines qui falcabunt in prato Domini per unum diem valet opus xiid. Et metent in Blado Domini per unum diem valet opus iiid. Dicunt etiam quòd Simon filius dicti Johannis de Drayton est ejus propinquior Haeres est de aetate novem annorum ampliùs à Festo Commemorationis Sanctorum Petri Pauli usque adhuc In cujus rei testimonium omnes praejurati Sigilla sua apposuerunt Summa summarum xix l xii s ix d de quibus solvuntur Domino Regi in Manerio de Getinton annuatim xiii s ivd. Summa de Claro xviii l xix s vd. Convenit cum Recordo Guilielmus Ryley Sir SIMON of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Part of the Articles of Remembrance of the Mannor of Drayton in the County of Northampton FIRST This Mannor in the time of King Edward the Second belonged unto one Symond Drayton as appeareth by Fine of the 15th year of the same King by which the said Symond knowledged the Right to be in one Robert Peyntor Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Symond and Margaret his Wife To hold of our Lord the King by the service due during their lives and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Symond and the Heirs of his body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the body of the said Symond and Margaret begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Symond And upon forty years after this Fine appeareth that one John Drayton the thirty fifth year of King Edward the Third by Fine knowledged the Mannor of Drayton except a Mese a Toft a Mill seven Cotages and two Carews of Land two Acres of Meadow one Knights Fee and x l Rent to be the right of Henry Green Richard Bolleshowre Parson of the Church of Pysseforth John Keteryng Parson of the Church of Boketon William of Assheley Parson of the Church of Morton Nicholas Green and Nicholas Thenford And over that granted the said Knights Fee and Rents with the Homage and Services of Robert Vere and Millisent of Yselipe and their Heirs of all the Tenements which they afore held of the said John in the said Mannor to have to them in Fee And over this the foresaid Mese Tost Cotages Lands and Meadow before except which the said Millisent holdeth for term of forty years And the foresaid Mill that the said Millisent and Robert Etebred hold for term of sive years of the Lesse of the said John Drayton and which after the said Lesse to him and his Heirs shall revert wholly to remain to the said Henry Richard John Keteryng William Nicholas and Nicholas and their Heirs to hold together with the aforesaid Mannor Fee and Rents of our Soveraign Lord the King c. with Warranty of the said Drayton for two hundred Marks of Silver c. Then Anno xxxviij Edwardi Tertii
Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid parties or other Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the premisses And we the aforesaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsels of the said parties hearing and seeing their Tytels Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegances concerning their aforesaid Tytles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said parties Award Ordain and Deme of and upon the premises in manner and form following that is to say forasmuch as the aforesaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Browne George and John Browne have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Erle of Wiltshire and seal'd with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and will'd that same Will to stand in his full strength and vertue and for his last Will and in that Will there is no clause whereby the said Erle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shew'd unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the foresaid Mannor of Drayton and other the said Mannors Lands Tenements and hereditaments to be yeven in tail to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Erle of Wiltshire and that the same Erle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same tails and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Browne and Audrey be Cosens and next heires to the said Constance Mother to the said Erle of Wiltshire and to the said Erle on his said Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Mannors and other premises by reason of the same tayles Wherefore we Award Ordain and Deme that the foresaid Elizabeth George Browne and Audrey shall have and enjoy all the foresaid Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premises to them and to their heirs according to the foresaid Titles of Inheritance and that the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury shall by his several Deeds sufficient in the Law to be enroll'd release to the said John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humphrey Browne George Browne and John Browne and Audrey his Wife and to such person or persons as they shall name to the use of the said Elizabeth George and Audrey and their heirs all such Right Title Claim Interest and Demands as the said Erle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresaid Mannors Lands and Tenements and other the premises by reason of any Gift or Will in the premises or any part of them made by the foresaid Erle of Wiltshire to the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt John and George Browne in all things And furthermore the said Erle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said John Mordaunt Humphrey Browne John and George Browne or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premises as soon as it may be conveniently done for the which Releases and other things above specified and for other Costs and Charges which the aforesaid Erle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premises We the said Arbitrators Award Ordain and Deme that the said Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humphrey Browne and John Browne shall content and pay to the said Erle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns two hundred Marks of lawful Money in forme following that is to say the said John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assigns in the day of the Feast of St. George the Martyr next coming after the date above written at the Rode of the North dore in the Cathedral Church of Pauls in the City of London between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the Clock of the same day a hundred marks and the foresaid Sir Wistan Humphrey Browne and John Browne shall content and pay to the foresaid Erle his Executors or Assigns in the day of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the said Rode in the said Church between the hours of Nine and Eleven of the same day a hundred marks residue of the foresaid two hundred marks Also we Award Ordain and Deme that the said John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Browne Humphrey and John Browne by their Deed and Deeds as sufficient as the said Erle of Shrewsbury by his Councell shall advise shall release to the said Erle of Shrewsbury and as many persons as the said Erle shall name and appoint in writing before the Feast of St. Michaell th' Archangel next coming after the date hereof which hath done labour'd or spoken for the said Erle in his foresaid cause all actions of Trespasses Debates and Demands personal had or done before the date of these presents at the Costs and Charges of the said Erle of Shrewsbury and the said Erle and all the foresaid persons which have done spoken or labour'd any thing for the said Erle of Shrewsbury in or for his tryal or possession of the premises or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the same Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humphrey Browne George Browne John Browne and Audrey his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have against the same Erle or the foresaid other persons for any cause had or done touching the premises afore the date of these presents In witness whereof the foresaid Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put to their Seals this twentieth day of March the sixth yere of the Reign of King Henry the Eight A Release from the Erle of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Mannor of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit nos Georgius Comes Salopiae salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae uxori ejus uni consanguinearum haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts ex parte matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet filii Constanciae filiae haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Browne Georgio Browne filio haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Browne filio haeredi Amiae alterius consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Browne Etheldredae uxori ejus tertiae consanguinearum haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae
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
Edward late Earle except such as be appoynted to the sayd Countesse by these Indentures and except such Lands and Tenements as late were of Sir Thomas Tresham shall after the premisses duly and truely performed by their several Deedes sufficient in the Law release all their Title of and in the same except before excepted to the sayd now Duke and his Heirs and to such other as be now seised to his use and to their Heirs and alsoe do and suffer to be done for the Surety of the same now Duke as shall be devised by the Counsell learned of the sayd Duke and his Heirs at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Duke and his Heirs And the same Countesse granteth by these Presents that after the premisses truly performed and in consideration of all other things herein comprised that she shall by her five several Deedes sufficient in Law and to be enrolled of record release to the sayd Elizabeth Cheyne Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance and Audree and to all Feoffez to their use and to their Heirs all the Right and Title which she hath in all the residue of all Mannors Lands and Tenements that late were of the sayd Herry Greene other than is appoynted to her by these Indentures and except the Lands and Tenements late of the sayd Sir Thomas Tresham Knight as shall be avised by the Counsell of the same Dame Elizabeth Cheyne Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Constance and Audree one three or two of them at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne Sir Richard Alice and John Mordaunt the Fader And the sayd Countesse alsoe covenanteth and graunteth by theise Presents that if the Graunt of Annuity yerely Rent or Fee of one hundred Shillings goeing out of certein Lands and Tenements in the Countye of Northampton graunted to one William Pemberton be now voyd or fro henceforth dureing the life of the sayd Countesse by insufficiency of Patent Surrender or otherwise happ to be voyd or determined that then ymediately after such avoydance or determination the sayd Sir Thomas and Dame Elizabeth his Wife Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Mordaunt Constance and Audree dureing the life of the sayd Countesse shall have one hundred Shillings of Rent goeing out of the sayd Lands and Tenements and that the same Countesse and her Assignes by Deede or Deedes sufficient in Law shall upon a reasonable request to her made make sufficient Graunt of an hundred Shillings of Rent to the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Dame Elizabeth his Wife Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Constance and Audree at their Costs and Charges payable at the Feasts of Saint Michael and Easter by equall portions dureing the life of the sayd Countesse with a sufficient Clause of distresse in the same Deede for non-payment of the same hundred Shillings Rent With Proviso in the same Deede or Deedes that the same Graunt or Graunts shall not charge the person of the sayd Countesse Of which Rent of one hundred Shillings the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Dame Elizabeth his Wife shall have fifty Shillings dureing the life of the sayd Countesse And the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth his Wife grauntyn by theise Presents that for consideration of all the premisses they shall not discontinue aliene or put away the Right Title or Possession of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife of and in the premisses nor discontinue or put away any parcel of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements that late were of the sayd Constance late Countesse of Wiltes nor of the sayd Herry Greene nor any of them nor of any part of the Greene's Lands within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same Nor doe cause nor suffer to be done any thing to the disinheritance of the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Constance Parre and Audree nor of any of them nor doe cause nor suffer to be done any thing but that all the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and all the Lands and Tenements that were of the sayd Herry Greene Constance late Countesse and every part of the sayd Greene's Lands ymediately after the decease of the sayd Margaret Countesse Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife shall descend and come revert and grow to the same Elizabeth Mordaunt Amye Constance and Audree and to their Heirs for ever in use or in possession in like manner and forme and of like Estates as the same Constance late Countesse or Herry Greene was seised of or was heritable unto In witnesse whereof to these present Indentures septipartite the Partyes aforesayd interchangeably have put to their Seals the sayd second day of December and fifteenth yere above-sayd Carta Edwardi Ducis Buckinghamiae EDwardus Dux Buckinghamiae Comes Staffordiae Herfordiae Northamptoniae Omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit salutem Sciatis nos praefatum Edwardum Ducem remifisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis Haeredibus nostris imperpetuum quietum clamâsse Thomae Cheyne Militi Elizabethae Uxori ejus Johanni Mordaunt Juniori Elizabethae Uxori ejus Roberto Mordaunt Amiae Uxori ejus Johanni Parre Constanciae Uxori ejus Etheldredae Vere Roberto Wittelbury Willielmo Merbury Armigeris Roberto Bayston Clerico Thomae Montague Johanni Freman Haeredibus Assignatis suis ad usum ipsorum Thomae Cheyne Elizabethae Uxoris ejus Elizabethae Mordaunt Amiae Mordaunt Constanciae Parre Etheldredae Vere Haeredum ipsarum Elizabethae Mordaunt Amiae Mordaunt Constanciae Parre Etheldredae Vere totum jus nostrum statum titulum clameum demandam interesse nostra quae unquam habuimus habemus seu quovis modo in futuro habere poterimus de in Maneriis de Chalton in Comitatu Bedfordiae Drayton Slipton Haughton magna Grafton Herdwike Irtlingburgh Luffwike Islip Sudburgh Ramides Ringstede Cotes Stanwike Malwades Chilneston Harringworth in Comitatu Northamptoniae Wamiden Wolston magna Emburton in Comitatu Buckinghamiae Buckworth in Comitatu Huntingdoniae Combton in Comitatu Kantiae Rodingalba in Comitatu Essexiae Grately in Comitatu South ' Wermestre Westbury Eyeshed Verdon Dichrub in Comitatu Wiltes de in omnibus aliis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Reversionibus Servitiis Haereditamentis quibuscunque infra Regnum Angliae Walliae Marchias earundem quae nuper fuerunt Constanciae Matris Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes ac Henrici Greene Patris ejusdem Constanciae sive alterius eorundem Henrici Constanciae ratione alicujus Feoffamenti per ipsum Edwardum in vita sua factum Ità quòd nec nos praefatus Dux nec Haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquid de in praedictis Maneriis Terris Tenementis caeteris praemissis cum suis pertinentiis de caetero exigere clamare seu vindicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris clamei seu aliquid inde petendi penitus simus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes Et nos verò praefatus Dux Haeredes nostri omnia praedicta
come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot two of the Kings Justices send gretyng in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers variances and debates moved and had betwyne the Right Honourable Lord George Earle of Shrewsbury on th' one party and John Mordaunt Esquyer and Elizabeth his Wife oon of the Cosynes and Heires of the Right Honourable Edward late Earle of Wiltshire oon his Moders side that is to say by Constance Moder of the sayd Earle and Daughter and Heire of Henry Greene of Drayton in the Countye of Northampton Esquier and Humfrey Brown Esquier late Husband to Amye and George Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Sonne and Heire to the same Amye another Cosyne and another of the Heires of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire after the forme aforesayd and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Audree his Wife the third Cosyne and Heire to the fame Earle after the manner abovesayd on the other party of and upon the Right Title Reversion Inheritance and Possession as well of the foresayd Mannor of Drayton with th' appurtenances as of all other Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances in the sayd Countye of Northampton or elsewhere which late were to the sayd Constance or to the sayd Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or th' other of them which Mannors Lands and Tenements the aforesayd Earle of Shrewsbury claymeth by a Will supposed to be made by the sayd Earle of Wiltshire by which Will the foresayd Earle of Wiltshire should will to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury all his Fee-simple Lond Whereupon the foresayd Partyes have compromitted themselfe to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the sayd Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliott Arbitrators indifferently named and chosen by and betwyne the foresayd Partyes To award ordein and deme as well of and upon the premisses as for and upon all manner Evidences Charter Escripts Writeings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suites Quarrels and Demands had or moved betwyne the foresayd Partyes or other Servaunts or Frynds before the Date of these Presents concerning the premisses And we the sayd Arbitrators takeing upon us th' auctority and power to award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsells of the foresayd Partyes hereing and seeing their Tytyls Answers Replications Evidences Proffes and all other their Alleadgeances concerning their foresayd Tytyls and Interesse by good deliberation and by consent of the sayd Partyes award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses in manner and forme following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humfrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earle of Wiltshire and sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will And in that Will there is no Clause whereby the same Earle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more playnly appeareth And alsoe they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deedes and other Writings proveing the aforesayd Mannor of Drayton and other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and Hereditaments to be yeven in tayle to the Auncestors of the sayd Constance Moder of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire And the sayd Earle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same Tayles And that the sayd Elizabeth and George Brown and Audree be Cousyns and next Heyres to the same Constance Moder to the sayd Earle of Wiltshire and to the same Earle on his Moders side and heritable to the foresayd Mannors and other the premisses by reason of the same Tayles Wherefore we award ordein and deme that the aforesayd Elizabeth George Brown and Audree shall have and enjoy all the foresayd Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premisses to them and to their Heires according to their foresayd Tytylls of Inheritance And that the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall by his severall Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled release unto the sayd John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humfrey Brown George Brown and John Brown Audree his Wife and to such persons or person as they shall name to the use of the sayd Elizabeth George and Audree and their Heires and all such Right Tytyl Clayme Interest and Demand as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresayd Mannors Lands and Tenements or other the premisses by reason of any guift or Will in the premisses or any part of them made by the aforesayd Earle of Wiltshire to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the sayd John Mordaunt John and George Brown in all things And furthermore the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the sayd John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown John and George Brown or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writeings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premisses as soon as it may be conveniently done For the which Releases and other things above-specified and for other Costs and Charges which the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premisses We the sayd Arbitrators award ordein and deme That the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes two hundred Marks of lawful money in forme following that is to say The sayd John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct George the Martyr next comeing after the Date above-written at the Rode of the North-Door in the Cathedrall-Church of Pauls in the Citty of London betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the Clock of the same Day a hundred Marks And the foresayd Wistan Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the sayd Rode in the same Church betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the same day a hundred Marks residue of the foresayd two hundred Marks Alsoe we award ordein and deme that the sayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Brown Humfrey and John Brown by their Deede and Deedes as sufficient as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or his Counsell shall advise shall release to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury and to as many persons as the sayd Earle shall name and appoynt in Writeing before the Feast of Sainct Michael th' Arch-Angel next comeing after the Date hereof which hath done laboured or spoken for the
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
And Roger could not deny but that he was a Native of the said Edmond's Therefore it was concluded That Roger should receive no advantage by his Bill but remain at the mercy of Edmond Mordaunt Pro falso clamore suo Helena de Broc was the Wife of Edmond Mordaunt unto whom she was Married the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third She was the Daughter and one of the Heirs of Sir Ralph de Broc who was a Knight of a most Antient Descent and Lord of very fair and large Possessions All his Lands were upon his Decease divided between Helena Mordaunt and Agnes another of his Daughters the wife of Sir Henry de Brussels There did accrue to Edmond Mordaunt for the part of Helena his Wife in Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborne in Buckinghamshire diverse Lands in Elsburgh Bridsthorne Hardwick and Wedon Chesham and Aumundsham with sundry other in Hertfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephaell She was a Noble Inheritrix and besides her Lands brought into the House of Mordaunt both the Blood and Arms of the Pirots and the Argentines two successions which fell unto her Family by the Heirs of those Names the first being Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot who was Wife to Laurence de Broc her Grandfather the other the Mother of the same Elizabeth named Cassandra the sole Heir of Sir Giles of Argentine Their Issue Robert Mordaunt their only Son ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chicheley Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VIII ROBERT MORDAVNT after the Death of his Father had not only the Fortune of possessing a large and plentiful Inheritance but of enjoying it betimes he being hardly of full age when he came in succession thereunto He inherited in Bedfordshire the Lordship of Turvey that of Clifton and Chicheley with Lands in Elsburgh Wedon Hardwick Chesham Welpool and Aumundsham in the County of Bucks In Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots besides Lands in Treversham and Julborne And in Northamptonshire the Lordship of Yerdley besides the entire Mannor of Shephaell and other Lands in Hertfordshire It was the Fortune of this Robert Mordaunt to unite the Antient Lordship of Turvey which for the space of One Hundred and ninety five Years had till then been divided into Two Mannors and Jurisdictions by the Names of Mordaunt's Mannor and Ardres's Mannor ever since the Reign of King Richard the First when it was parted with the rest of the Alno's Lands between Alice and Sarah de Alno the Two Heirs of that House For in the Forty ninth of Edward the Third an exchange was made by Deed of Indenture between Thomas de Ardres and Robert Mordaunt in which the said Thomas gave and granted all his Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Turvey to the said Robert in Fee and Exchange for all the Lands which Robert had in Shephaell which were of the inheritance of her Mother Helena de Broc This Robert Mordaunt had Married Agnes L'Estrange the Daughter and one of the Heirs of John L' Estrange that was Lord of Ampton Timworth and Brokeley and of Elizabeth who was Sister and Heir of William Botteler of Walden The other Daughter of John L' Estrange was Elizabeth that Married John Warren and by whose death without Issue the Lordships of Ampton Timworth Brokeley with that of Walden which was of those Bottelers Lands devolved entirely to Agnes Mordaunt and to the Heirs of her body Agnes Mordaunt after the Death of Robert her Husband Married again to Thomas de Fodringay as appears by a Deed bearing Date the Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle in the twentieth Year of Richard the Second wherein Thomas of Ardres granted to Thomas de Fodringay and Agnes his Wife a certain Annuity for term of the Life of the said Agnes in Exchange for her Dower in Shephaell The Issue of Robert Mordaunt and Agnes his Wife Robert Mordaunt Cassandra Mordaunt a Nun in the Monastery of Elueston ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chellington Brayfield Ampton Timworth Brokeley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER IX ROBERT MORDAVNT the Third of his Name giving way to that Spirit which led him to the generous but uncertain applications of this life and being enclined to the War which flourished in that Martial Age he became a Favourite dependant upon that Famous Prince Edward Duke of York who was after slain at the Battel of Agincourt as appears by an Extant Deed where by Covenant he was with one William Mirefield retain'd to serve him in the Wars of France with a certain number of Archers and Lances He out-liv'd those Services and continued during the Civil Broils of his own Country an asserter of the Claim and Interest of the House of York Whether it were by the Expences incident to such undertakings or otherwise he proved a great Alienator of many noble Lordships and Possessions that descended to him by his Ancestors In the Sixth Year of King Henry the Sixth Agnes de Fodringay and Robert Mordaunt her Son released with Warranty all their right to the Mannor of Timworth in the County of Suffolk Dated the Tenth of February In the Eleventh of the said King he made away all his Lands in Elsburgh to Thomas Chaucer Esq Peter Fettyplace and Thomas Ramsey And in the seventeenth by a Deed bearing Date the Fourth of June he Alienated to one John Austin the Moiety of the Mannor of Mallots in Hinton in the County of Cambridge with its appurtenances and all the rest of those Lands which the said Robert held in the Towns and in the Fields of Hinton Cambridge Treversham and Julborne in the said County And lastly he sold in the same Year to Thomas Cheyney Esq all his Lands and Tenements in Chesham and Aumundsham Yet this King's Reign abounding in occasions of Expence and Troubles since it was never free from exhausting Wars abroad till it became the scene of more destructive Civil ones at home excuses may be render'd for what was unavoidable Notwithstanding he left a competent Estate to his Successor And Deceased in in the Twenty seventh Year of this King He had Married Elizabeth of Holdenby the Daughter of Robert Holdenby of Holdenby which Family was of an Antient standing in the County of Northampton and flourished at this time in very Noble Possessions for we find that Robert Holdenby the Brother of Elizabeth Mordaunt held the Mannors of Burton Brimmington and Ramston with Lands in Would and in Clipston in Guilden Morton Kilmersh and West-Haddon in Northampton Oxhampton Wepsmade in Dunstable and in Holdenby And this Elizabeth surviving Robert Mordaunt took to her Second Husband Robert Tanfield of Gayton in the County of Northampton Esquire The Issue of Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Maud Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chellington Clifton Brayfield Bottellers and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER X. WILLIAM MORDAVNT after those wastes
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-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
or the Bishop of Duresme our Secretary before the Feast of Saint John Baptist next coming at the farthest like as we have semblably written to all Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of every Shire within this our Realm and therefore fail ye not to accomplish the premises as ye tender our honour and the surety of us and of our Realm and Subjects so and in such wise that by our preparation of a good number of able Men we may understand your towardly mind to do unto us service which shall be remembred according to your deserts and these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet ye well So it is upon the even of Philip and Jacob last passed a great number of insolent Apprentices and malicious Journey-men of their sensual Appetites and rancorous Dispositions against Aliens and Strangers Artificers and others Inhabited within our City of London suddainly assembled themselves within our said City in the night time under colour of Maying breaking up entring and robbing the houses of sundry French and Dutch men making also great Comminations to other Strangers to the marvellous Inquietation and Commotion of our said City and Disturbances of our Peace within the same And albeit the same Commotion and Rebellious Assembly by the Mayor Sheriffs and other substantial and well disposed Citizens with and by the Policies Powers and Assistance of the Noble Men and others of our Council was not only forthwith repressed and pacified but also a great Number of the Malefactors and Offenders taken and according to our Laws and their Demerits openly convicted and put to execution so that it is now throughly pacified and put in Quietness our Lord be thanked Yet we thought right expedient to advertise you thereof as well for the Declaration of the Truth in putting all Sinister and Seditious Bruits to silence if any such shall be made by indisposed Persons as also that ye by your Wisdom should not only foresee and have good espial in the place and Countries near adjoyning to you to know the disposition of our Subjects if upon untrue reports they should be stirred to any semblable Commotions by perverse Councel against Merchants Strangers or upon any other ground or cause But also by your wisdom and power with the assistance of other faithful Servants and Subjects in these parts forthwith to repress the same by taking as well the principal mover and stirrers thereof as also the offenders accompanying them for such unlawful intent and purpose committing them to Ward And also advertising us thereof with all speedy diligence as our special Trust is in you and as ye intend to do unto us acceptable service and pleasure to be remembred hereafter accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Third day of May. An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Maner of Drayton TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing Indented shall come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers Variances and Debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earl of Shrewsbury on the one Partie and John Mordaunt Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cousins and Heirs to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Earl and Daughter and Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Esquire and Humphrey Brown Esquire late Husband to Amey and George Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Son and Heir to the same Amey another Cousin and another of the Heirs of the said Earl of Wiltshire after the form aforesaid and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cousin and Heir to the same Earl after the manner abovesaid on the other Partie of and upon the Right Title Reversion and Possession as well of the foresaid Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances as of all other Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were the said Constance's or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or the other of them Which Maners Lands and Tenements the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury claimed by a Will supposed to be made by the said Earl of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Earl of Wiltshire should will to the said Earl of Shrewsbury all his Fee simple Land Whereupon the foresaid Parties have compromitted themselves to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named by and between the foresaid Parties to Award Ordain and Deem as well of and upon the Premises as for and upon all manner of Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Amuniments concerning the Premises or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid Parties or their Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the Premises And we the foresaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises calling before us the Counsels of the foresaid Parties hearing and seeing their Titles Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegiances concerning their foresaid Titles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said Parties Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises in manner and form following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earl of Wiltshire and Sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will. And in that Will there is no clause whereby the same Earl of Shrewsbury should have any of his Maners Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the aforesaid Maner of Drayton and other the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be given in Tayle to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire who had and enjoyed the same by reason of the said Tayles and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Brown and Audrey be Cousins and next Heir to the same Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire and to the same Earl on his Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Maners and other the Premises by reason of the said Tayles Wherefore we Award
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