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
pleaded the King's Cause in defence of his imprisoning certain Bishops which was there laid to his Charge But it fell out that in the succeeding year he was slain in London in a tumult raised by the Seditious Citizens He married Adeliza the Daughter of Gilbert of Clare by whom he had Issue Aubrey de Vere the first Earl of Oxford Sir Robert de Vere Roetia Vere the Wife of Jeffery de Magnavilla Earl of Essex MY business being to deduce the Descent of the Veres that were Lords of Drayton and Addington and not of the Earls of Oxford I am obliged to return to ROBERT de VERE the second Son of the forementioned Aubrey to whom his Father left for his provision and Inheritance the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Slipton Islip both the Addingtons and the Land of Twyvell which latter they had held of the Abby of Thorney We find this Robert in a Charter of his under the stile of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Kings Chamberlain did acknowledge to hold the Land of Twyvell for so long as he should live from Robert the Lord Abbot of Thorney and the Monks of that House by the same Covenants under which his Father before him held the same and that for the Tenths of the five Carucates which his Father had given to Saint Mary of Thorney to wit of Drayton Islip and Addington that were of his dominion he did grant the same to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Thorney There is extant of his another Charter wherein by the name of Robert the Son of Aubrey in the first year of the Reign of King Henry the younger in the presence of his own Son Henry he did quit-claim the Mannor of Twyvell to the Monastery of Thorney which gift was after confirm'd by Pope Alexander the third He was one of the most faithful and vigorous assertors of the interest and pretences of Matilda the Empress and the Prince her Son against King Stephen during the heats of all the differences appertaining to that contest and of such esteem were the effects of his Valour and generous endeavours as obliged that Princess to promise him a Barony valuable with that given to Jeffery de Vere and other Lands of equal consideration within a year after she should come to enjoy the Realm of England He Married Matilda the Daughter of the Lord Robert de Furnell with whom her Father gave in free Marriage divers Lands in Cranford by whom he had Issue Sir Henry de Vere And William de Vere HENRY the Son of Robert de Vere that was Lord of Drayton Addington and other Lordships was bred up under the care and conduct of his Cousin the great William de Magnavilla Earl of Essex and Albemarle who was the Son of Roesia de Vere Countess of Essex his Fathers Sister Henry de Vere did give himself to a dependance upon this Earl who was a man of great military fame in that time and from his example and precept became a Knight of much renown and valour For his first essay in Arms he slew with his own hand Ralph de Vaux in an encounter near the City of Gysors who was the Son of a great Lord that would have fortified a strong House of his too near the Borders and had besides injured his Cousin the Earl of Albemarle the King 's Chief Governor in those parts the words are verbis dehonestavit amaris He was made Constable of the Castle and City of Gysors where he commanded with much reputation till that after the death of his Father he was called home to the care of a considerable fortune of his own where we find him afterwards to have been one of those that sided with King John being then but Earl of Moriton against the proud Bishop of Ely whom King Richard had left behind him to govern the Land in his absence being by the same Bishop amongst diverse others of the great Lords of that time excommunicated He had in Marriage with one of the Daughters of a great Lady whose name was Hildeburga ....... the Mannor of Mutford and thirty pounds Land in Ampton which she held of the Barony of Bouden that did belong to her Father Baldwin of Boxo a great Lord of that time Their Issue Sir Walter de Vere Lord of Drayton Sir Robert de Vere Lord of Addington WE find not any Lands were left by his Father unto ROBERT the second Son of Sir Henry de Vere but it is to be esteemed that he inherited no small part of his Vertue and his Valour since his own merits acquired him such a fortune as was sufficient to maintain his descendants in much splendor and reputation for many Ages He was bred up to that renowned calling wherein every well born man aspired to an excellence in that heroick Age Fame in Arms being an Ornament without which no great man could appear with any advantage but it was the subsistance and only hopes of their younger Brothers And herein this Robert did succeed so well as he became the Favorite to the great Warriers of that time from several of which he received great gifts of Lands whose values were in that Age very considerable to engage him in their interests and dependance as those in Dalentune from the Lord Jeffery de Lucy the Lordships of Addington and Twyvell from his Uncle William de Vere and the noble Lordship and Market Town of Thrapston from the Lord Baldwin de Wake in Marriage with his Aunt the Lady Margaret to which King Henry the Third did after in his favour and in the twenty ninth of his Reign grant by his Charter divers liberties and priviledges After the death of his first Wife he contracted a new Marriage with a Lady whose name was Elena that is conjectured to have been of the highest quality from her Seals her stile the complements used towards her in the applications of Ranulph Earl of Chester Jeffery of Lucy and other of the greatest Lords by whom in their deeds she was ever treated with the stile of Nobilis Domina Elena de Vere and it is believed she was that Elena the Daughter of Roger de Quincy the last Earl of Winchester and Widow to Alan de la Zouch a great Lord in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton by the interest she had in several Lands of those shires belonging to that Family as also by other probabilities collected from a Letter that is extant and a rare Antiquity of her Sisters the Lady Margaret Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke to this Sir Robert her Husband being on his Voyage to the Holy Land The friendship he had contracted with the Famous William Longespé Earl of Salisbury natural Grandson to King Henry the Second who had been chosen Captain of those English that were sent unto that enterprise could not suffer so illustrious an undertaking to be unaccompanied with his Sword He attended that Prince in quality of his Standard-bearer and was slain together with his Captain in
that unfortunate Fight where the Christians did receive so great a defeat under the Command and Conduct of Robert Earl of Artois the French Kings Brother Particular honours were done to the memory of Sir Robert de Vere by the greatest Men of that Age and there was ever after retain'd for the Arms of his Successors Lords of Addington and Thrapston in a Shield Argent a Cross Gules which in order to that War he had assumed and in memory of the occasion wherein this their Ancestor had faln with so much glory His Issue Sir Baldwin de Vere Sir John de Vere THE Lady Ellen being then the Widow of Sir Robert de Vere applied her whole thoughts to the good and advantage of her Children the dear remainders of so noble a Husband to which end she contriv'd to establish BALDWIN the eldest of them in an Alliance with the Lord Gilbert de Seagrave at that time the Chief Subject in England by reason of his Office which was great Justiciar and a man besides in extraordinary favour with the King Which Gilbert contracted with her for the Marriage of the said Baldwin with his Daughter Margaret obliging himself to give her a hundred Marks for her consent thereunto and as a Portion to her Son his Lands in Aleby and Melton in the County of Leicester With the years of the young Baldwin de Vere there grew up in his mind all those inclinations for Arms and Piety to which the Knights of his House had been so accustomed and the Fields of Palestine were the scenes whereon these vertues were usually presented In the company then of other Heroick Pilgrims he went thither to pay his first vows and to win his Spurs where after several generous adventures the effects of two years spent in that hazardous warfare he returned to his own House to enjoy the esteem and honour he had acquired After which he received from the grant of Ralph the great Earl of Chester the Lordship of Tywa and seventeen Virgates of Land in that Town with all the men holding the same and their sequels Which gift was after confirmed by particular Charter from King Henry the Third He had likewise from the Lord Robert Fitz Walter the Land of Bishopscote to hold by the service of half a Knights Fee Besides other testimonies of the love and value of diverse great Lords of that time There is likewise extant an Agreement between him and the Lord Abbot of Peterborow about the liberties of Thrapston concerning which there had been a difference And as the last testimony of him there is extant a Charter from Henry the Lord Abbot of Croyland granting him liberty to erect a Chapel in his Court at Addington upon certain conditions His Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin Vere SIR ROBERT de VERE was a Minor at the death of his Father thereby becoming a Ward for his Mannor of Addington to his Cousin Sir Baldwin of Drayton under whose conduct having passed those years which were to bring him to lawful age it appears he was much bound to him for his Education which produced such generous qualities as made him very considerable He applied himself much to the War which we find by the appearance of his name in several Lists of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First in his Expeditions into Wales and Scotland He exercised the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the thirtieth year of that King and he dyed seised of the Lordships of Thrapston of Addington of Sudburgh of Melton of Tywa of Twyvell of Bishopscote and other Lands and Lordships He had Married Anne the Daughter of Sir Roger of Watervill by whom he had Issue Randal de Vere RANDAL or RANULPH de VERE after the death of Sir Robert his Father became possessed of all his Lands and Lordships And in the third year of King Edward the Third we find him to have been summoned by the Kings Justices to answer by what Warrant he held and exercised certain Customs and Liberties in his Lordship of Thrapston Which upon his appearance and production of the Charter were reserved and he dismissed In the ninth year of the same King an Inquisition passed upon the value of his Lands in Thrapston and Addington and in the twelfth by his Charter dated on the Friday being the Feast of Saint Edmund he granted and gave to the Lord Henry then Bishop of Lincoln and to Agnesse that was the Wife of Sir Richard de Waldgrave the custody of the Lands and Tenements which the said Richard had held of him in the Town of Twyvell that did belong to him by reason of the minority of Thomas the Son of the said Richard and Agnesse as likewise the Marriage of the said Thomas for a certain summe of Money paid to him by the forementioned Lord Henry and Agnesse The Wife of Sir Randall de Vere was ...... Their Issue Sir John de Vere Sir Robert de Vere Randal de Vere Idonea de Vere JOHN de VERE in the life time of his Father Sir Ranulph being as then but young was married to a Lady whose name was Alice Clifford and for his subsistance setled in possession of the Lordship of Twyvell and other Lands of his Fathers Inheritance But the spirit and inclinations of this House being predominant in his nature and disposition they would not suffer him to remain at home but postposing to the love of Honour and the War all considerations of ease and interest he followed the noble King Edward into his first Wars with France where for his service he acquired the honour of Knighthood and after having given extraordinary proofs of his valour in divers occasions it was his fortune to be slain in the famous Battel of Crecy among other Heroes who fought in that place for the honour of their King and Country and leaving no Issue behind him he was succeeded by his Brother Sir Robert de Vere BY the death without Issue of Sir John de Vere we find that his Brother ROBERT came to inherit the Lordships of Addington Thrapston Sudburgh Melton Aleby Kemington Hokenhanger with the rest of the Lands and possessions belonging to that House There were several transactions that passed between the Lady Alice de Vere that was the Widow of his Brother and him about agreements for setling of her Thirds in the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and other places which were performed with much mutual respect and Justice on either side and at last ended in a fair accord and composition for the whole Several other marks there do remain of the Justice Oeconomy and Prudence of this Robert de Vere whom we find to have married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Robert de Northburgh and to have deceased in the three and fortieth year of King Edward the Third leaving Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin de Vere ROBERT the Son of Robert de Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston being a minor at the death of his
was provided by the same Book that if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of five hundred Marks per annum within six Months after the Feast of Saint Andrew next ensuing the Date of the same Book to Sir Robert Throckmorton and other the Recoverers and their Heirs of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands that is to say parcel thereof to the value of three hundred Marks or under to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt and my Lady now his Wife for the term of their lives disponishable of waste during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt and after their deceases to the use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the Fitz-Lewis And the remanent part thereof to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste And after his decease to the use of his Will for the term of ten years and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of all such and so much of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now Lord Mordaunt by that Book should be unto the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste And after the said several uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's shall be ended and determined as is abovesaid and as the same shall severally end and determine the uses thereof be further appointed as followeth that is to say Unto the first Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt in lawful marriage begotten and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten And after to the second Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt on lawful marriage begotten and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten with divers remainders over the last remainder thereof being appointed to the right Heirs of the said Lewis Mordaunt for ever And to the intent that my Lady Mordaunt now Wife to the now Lord Mordaunt should have goodwill that the Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as aforesaid the late Lord Mordaunt did grant unto her for the augmentation of her Joynture to make it up four hundred Marks a year an yearly Rent of an hundred Marks by the year during her life with a Clause of distress in his own Land for the not payment thereof upon Condition that the Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as is aforesaid Shortly after this Book thus agreed upon and sealed one part thereof was sent to the now Lord Mordaunt that he might thereby perfectly understand what his Father had done and the premisses notwithstanding he would not assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he ought to have done within the said six Months by reason whereof the uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands appointed to the now Lord Mordaunt did cease through the wilful default of the now Lord Mordaunt and the same came to the said Lewis Mordaunt Memorandum That the Conveyances of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as is aforesaid was of the mere motion circumspection and providence of the late Lord Mordaunt for the causes aforesaid without any seeking of the said Lewis Mordaunt who neither would nor durst move the said late Lord Mordaunt his Grandfather being a wise man in such a matter Now the premisses considered it may appear that the said Lewis hath not done any thing whereby to offend his Father except it be in refusing to marry his Mother-in-Laws Daughter which his Father offered him in marriage which he liked not or else in receiving the benevolence of his Grandfather unprocured of his part The Causes of the late Lord Mordaunt's doings and the doings of the now Lord Mordaunt towards the late Lord Mordaunt his Father and towards the Fitz-Lewis's Lands may plainly appear in the Articles abovesaid The Book was delivered to the now Lord Mordaunt within twelve days after the beginning of the six Months so as he had all the six Months saving twelve days to consider thereupon and to have made assurance of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands accordingly Another Will of Sir John Mordaunt of Westhornedon IN the Name of God Amen The twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred forty and nine and in the third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and Ireland the supreme Head I Sir John Mordaunt of Westhornedon in the County of Essex Knight being of whole mind and perfect remembrance thanks be to God do make my Testament and last Will in manner and form following First I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and my Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid by Dame Ely Mordaunt my late Wife trusting through the merits of Christ's Passion to be saved And the doings and ordering of my Funeral-expences I commit to the order and disposition of Dame Joan now my Wife whom I make and ordain by this my present Testament my sole Executrix And first as concerning the devise and bequest of my Lands and Tenements I give and bequeath to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father the said Joan my Wife and to Edmond Mordaunt my Brother all that my Mannor of Westhornedon and all my Right Title and Possession that I have in the said Mannor with the appurtenances with all those my Lands and Tenements called Fieldhouse and Maundes now in the manurance occupation and tenure of John Wright of Keldon in the said County of Essex The reversion of the Mannor of Wantons in Bumpsted ad Turr ' with Purbysher and Whytley set lying and being in thé Town of Bumpsted ad Turr ' and Burdbroke which Dame Joan my Wife doth hold for the time of her life as Parcel of her Joynture with all and singular Rights Members Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements and Advowsons Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or have been in times past reputed taken or known as Part or Parcel of the said Mannor of Westhornedon and Wantons in the said County of Essex And all other my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Town of Westhornedon Easthornedon Tholderdyche Warley magna Bumpsted Sturmer and Burdbroke in the said County of Essex To have hold and enjoy all the Premisses with their Members and Appurtenances and every Part and Parcel thereof to the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt and to their Heirs and Assigns upon the Conditions following that is to wit That they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses shall find and provide or cause to be
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
existunt seu seisitus existat ad usum earundum Margaretae Katharinae seu earum alicujus ad terminum vitae earum seu earum alicujus reversione inde in re nomine facto vel in usu praefatae Johannae Sayntmaur haeredibus suis spectante habendum tenendum dicta dominia maneria terras tenementa advocationes caetera praemissa cum suis pertinentiis ad custodiam eorundem ac reversionem omnium ac singulorum praemissorum cum acciderint vel acciderit praefato Johanni Mordaunt executoribus assignatis suis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi Sayntmaur quousque dicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Ac omnes singulas reversiones praedictas omnium praedictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis immediate post mortem dictarum Margaretae Katharinae earum cujuslibet cum acciderit quousque praedicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit Et si dicta Johanna obierit antequam ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit haerede suo infra aetatem existente tunc volumus concedimus per praesentes eidem Johanni Mordaunt quòd idem Johannes Mordaunt executores assignati sui habeant custodiam maritagium hujusmodi haeredis custodiam tam omnium singulorum dictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis cum acciderint ut praedictum est custodiam reversionum praedictarum cum pertinentiis suis usque ad plenam legitimam aetatem hujusmodi haeredis sic infra aetatem existentis sic de haerede in haeredem quousque aliquis haeres hujusmodi haeredum ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Concedimus etiam dicto Johanni Mordaunt omnia exitus proficua omnium singulorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum suis pertinentiis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi huc usque provenientia sive crescentia absque aliquo compoto sive aliquo alio nobis aut haeredibus nostris pro praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum reddendo faciendo seu solvendo Eo quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut aliquo alio valore ceu certitudine praemissorum vel alicujus eorum parcellae aut de vero valore dictorum maritagiorum eorum cujuslibet aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus praefato Johanni ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime facta existit aut aliquo alio statuto actu sive ordinatione ceu restrictione in contrarium factis editis sive provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium c. An Indenture between Sir John Mordaunt and Wistan Brown about the Wardship of Thomas Leventhorp THIS Indenture made the Twelfth day of September the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey on the one Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas Thomas Leventhorp late of Whethamsted in the County of Hertford held certain Lands and Tenements in the said County of our Sovereign Lord the King by grant Serjeanty and had Issue John Leventhorp and divers other Children and dyed the said John being his Son and Heir within Age by the death of the which Thomas the King our Sovereign Lord ought to have the custody of the said John and of all the Lands and Tenements of the said Thomas whereof he dyed seized and of all the other Lands of the same Thomas of which he made no Will nor otherwise disposed And howbeit that at the making of these Presents there is no Office found in any Shire after the death of the said Thomas whereby the Kings Highness may be lawfully intitled to the said John Leventhorp Yet that notwithstanding our said Sovereign Lord by his Bill Assigned hath Given and Granted to the said John Mordaunt the Custody of the said John Leventhorp and of all his Lands and Tenements with the Issues and Profits of the same Lands and Tenements from the Death of the said Thomas to the said John Mordaunt To have to him and to his Assigns till the said John Leventhorp come to his full Age and further as long as the said Lands and Tenements shall happen to be in the Kings Hands And so from Heir to Heir till one of the Heirs of the said Thomas shall come to his full Age. The said John Mordaunt hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents Bargaineth Giveth and Selleth to the said Wistan all such Right Title Possessions and Interest as he hath or hereafter shall have in the Wardship of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp and the Marriage of the same be it Son or Daughter or Daughters To have to the said Wistan from the Date of these Presents as long as the Interest of the said John Mordaunt should endure by reason of the Kings Grant Provided That the same Heirs shall not be Married by the said Wistan to any other Person but to be Married with one of the Children begotten between the same Wistan and Elizabeth his Wife Sister to the said John Mordaunt And for lack of such Issue or such Marriage the same John Mordaunt to have again the Marriage of the same Heirs of the said Thomas to his own Use if it be Male immediately after he be fully of the Age of Twentie Years and if it be Female or Females after they be of the Age of Fourteen Years without any thing paying therefore this Indenture notwithstanding for as much as the said Wistan shall take the Issues and Profits of the said Lands all the mean time without any thing paying for the same And the said John Granteth by these Presents That he shall assent what in him is at the Costs and Charges of the same Wistan to cause the Offices to be found after the Death of the said Thomas according to the truth of the Testaments And after these Offices so found to get Grant by the Kings Letters Patents to the same John Mordaunt of the Ward and Custody abovesaid according to his said Bill Assigned And after that Patent made then the same John shall Grant the said Ward and Marriage of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp with the Custody of his Lands to the said Wistan and his Assigns to be Married as is above limited For the which Premises well and truly to be performed the said Wistan shall pay to the said John Mordaunt and his Assigns a Hundred Pound of lawful Money to be payed and delivered in form following That is to say whereas the said Humphrey is indebted to the said Wistan in One Hundred Pound for divers Considerations and Covenants made between the said Wistan and Humphrey upon the advancement of the same Humphrey to the Marriage of Amey Mordaunt
at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions and Summs to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to their Assigns for term of Life of the said Dame Anne with a clause of distress for the Non-payment of the said Annuity or Annual Rent to be contained in the said Deed or Deeds as shall be devised and advised by the said Lord Mordaunt or by his Heirs or Executors or by his or their Learned Counsel at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Executors The said Annuity to begin first to be paid the said Silvester and Elizabeth or to the over-liver of them at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred and forty one which shall be the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next after that the said Silvester doth or might have attained or come to his full Age of One and twenty Years And it is also further Agreed between the said Parties That all such Leases and Grants before the date of these Presents by the said Dame Anne or any of her Ancestors made or hereafter to be made by the said Dame Anne of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances or of any part or parcel of the same to any person or persons for term of Life or Lives or for Years or by Copy of Court-Roll not minishing the Rents such Customs or Services before this time used to be paid shall be stand remain and continue in their force and effect according to the said Leases and Grants without denying or altering of the same to be made by the said Silvester and Elizabeth or their Heirs or any of them but that the said Leases and Grants when the Remainder shall be Executed in them or in any of them shall not only be ratified and confirmed by them and either of them to the said Lessees and Grantees if the Lessees and Grantees of the same will the same of the said Silvester and Elizabeth and their Heirs require and demand but also the said Lessees and Grantees and every of them shall peaceably occupy hold and continue according to their said Leases and Grants without interruption of the said Silvester and Elizabeth or of any of them or of their Heirs And the said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth for her her Heirs and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors by these Presents That then the said Dame Anne shall suffer all and singular her Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances which be of her own Inheritance now being in her Possession or Occupation or in Tenure Possession or Occupation of any other Person or Persons to her Use in Possession Remainder Reversion or in Use immediately after the death of the said Dame Anne to descend return remain or come to the said Silvester and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs the remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne for ever discharged of all Incumbrances Titles and Demands done and made by the said Dame Anne or by any other person or persons for her in her name or by her commandment all Leases and Grants already made or hereafter to be made by the said Dame Anne of any of the Premises being of her own Inheritance reserving the Rents accustomed only excepted and reserving the Maner of Willeford with the Appurtenances in the foresaid County of Wiltshire and the Tenements now called Butler's Farm now being in the Tenure of Richard Amour another Tenement called Conyes now being in the Tenure of Henry Moxham and the third Tenement called Watrobins now being in the Tenure of Robert Whitebread and one Close or Pasture called Hickperse now being in the Tenure of John Hampshire with all other Lands Meadows and Pastures with all other the Appurtenances to the said three Tenements belonging or appertaining and the Rents of the same parcel of the Maners of Marden in the foresaid County of Wiltshire during the Life of one John Danvers Son of the said Dame Anne and Thirty Years next and immediately ensuing after the death of the said John Danvers only excepted and reserved and also excepted and reserved the whole residue of the said Maner of Marden with the Appurtenances and the Chief Rents of the said Maner to the said Dame Anne her Executors and Assigns for term of Life of the said Dame Anne and the remainder thereof for term of Twelve years next and immediately ensuing after the death of the said Dame Anne to the Executors and Assigns of the said Dame Anne and after to remain revert descend and come to the said Silvester and his Heirs for ever discharged in the maner and form before expressed and also an Annuity or yearly Rent of Forty Pounds going out of a Close or Pasture called the Oxe-less parcel of the said Maner of Dauntesey in the County aforesaid for term of life of one James Vause excepted and reserved and also the Maner of Smythcote in the Parish of Dauntesey in the aforesaid County of Wiltshire and seven Messuages with the Appurtenances lying in Smythcote aforesaid in the Parish of Dauntesey aforesaid and a Close or Pasture called Great Hideow and a Close or Pasture called The new Lease parcels of the Maner of Dauntesey aforesaid excepted and reserved to William Danvers Son of the said Dame Anne and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten If the said William or his Heirs Male be vexed troubled or otherwise interrupted of the Possession of the Maners of Culmoth Moundfield Culmouth-Pinkney and Soulgrove-Pinkney in the County of Northampton with their Appurtenances or any parcel thereof or in taking the profits of the same by the said Silvester his Heirs or Assigns or the Heirs or Assigns of any of them and one Annuity or yearly Rent of Twenty Pounds to Mistress Margaret Danvers Mother of the said Silvester for term of her Life also excepted and reserved For the which Marriage so held and executed and for the assurance of all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be made and had to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the said Silvester as before is expressed the said Lord Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he his Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall continually find and keep the said Silvester and Elizabeth and their Children from the Date of these Presents until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next after the said Silvester shall attain and come to his full Age of One and twenty years and to have the bringing up and ordering of the said Silvester until the said Feast if the said Silvester will be so long ruled or ordered by the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns or else the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or
Ancient Families as also that for any Advantage or Prerogative the House of Mordaunt is oblig'd but only to Vertue to Antiquity and to Truth A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY OF THE House of Alno or Alneto Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD To the House of Alno or Alneto is ascribed for Arms Argent a Lion Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing Or three Martlets Azure Of the Name Antiquity Greatness Alliances Posssesions and Arms of the House of Alno or de Alneto THE Lords of this House received their Appellation from Alnetum a Town in France of which at the time of the Conquest or a little before they had the Dominion In those elder and little curious times they were often indifferently called of Alno Alnoto and Alneto and the Antiquity of this Name hereby appears to be so great as there are few that by just proofs can be traced to a higher Degree The Quality Prerogative and Greatness of this House was such as besides the Liberties they had upon their own Lands of peculiar Courts and particular Justice the Chief thereof had the Priviledge of Banner-bearing Ferendi Banneriam which was the same as is called in high Dutch a Banner heer and was at that time the greatest that could be in the Fortune of any Man who was not an immediate Sovereign and as much as to say a Power of obliging his Kindred his Relations and his Vassals to follow him to those Wars whereunto he should be pleased to engage There did belong unto it in Propriety within the Dutchy of Normandy a Town and Castle called at that time Alnetum they had great Lands in the Territory of Pont-Audomare and large Possessions in the Vicounty of Contonville In the Stile used by this Family in their Deeds and Transactions after they came into England whereof I have seen divers that are extant and well preserved are all the circumstances of Dignity as omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quam Anglicis and in their Seals were engraven their Images like Knights at Arms in Military Postures as was then in peculiar use with the great men of that time Their Alliances did also answer all the other parts of their Greatness for of four they contracted after their Arrival in this Country one was with a very Famous House and the other three with Families of the greatest and most eminent Nobility Vide Cam. Re. p. 276. But I am so far from undertaking to ascertain the Arms they bore as I am obliged to say I believe there were very few if any in Hereditary use at that time of their Conjunction with the House of Mordaunt which was about the end of the Reign of Henry the Second or in the beginning of King Richard the First Yet I shall not forbear to apply those that have been ascribed to them from very many Ages as may appear by several Pedegrees with other pieces of Sculpture and Painting remaining at this day in divers Churches and Noble Houses of this Kingdom which were Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing in a Field Or three Martlets Azure PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of Turvey Maydford and other Lands and Lordships PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO was one of those Illustrious Adventurers which came over with William Duke of Normandy to the Conquest of England in whose Service the Valour of our Hero prov'd so considerable as in the Partition this Prince did after make to his Followers he had allotted to him for his share several fair Lands and large Possessions and among the rest the Noble Lordship of Turvey in the County of Bedford with the Royalties and Priviledges belonging thereunto As the Advowson of the Church the Jurisdiction of many Families that held thereof in Villanage the particular Courts Leet and Baron the right of Free-Warren and Free-Fishing for a long and great Tract with those of Waifs Strays and Felons Goods It containing in the whole Four Thousand Five Hundred Fifty five Aeres of rich and fertile Land with a Treasure of fair Woods growing upon the same After that to the disorder of the War there had succeeded a Settlement in the Kingdom Paine of Alno did receive in Marriage as the Crown of all his Virtue Emelina de Burdet from the hands of her Father Sir Hugh de Burdet another great Companion of this Conquest and as her Portion the Town and Lordship of Maydford in the County of Northampton being part of those Lands which the said Sir Hugh had received for his Service from the Bounty and Acknowledgment of King William the First This Family of Burdet was of great Antiquity having possessed a very Honourable Rank in the Dutchy of Normandy before the Conquest For we find Sir William de Burdet Father or Ancestor to this Sir Hugh de Burdet to be mentioned in that antient Roll which contains the Names of all the Lords that owed Knights-Service to the Dukes of that Country and it had the Fortune for many Ages to produce men Famous and Renowned for Military Valour and Virtue Their Issue Henry of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Herbert of Alneto that was a Witness to a Charter whereby King Henry the First gave Lands to St. Peters and St. Maries in Exeter HENRY de ALNETO Succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships for we find by a Charter which is extant how be did confirm several Grants of Lands in Turvey that had been given to the Church of St. James in Northampton and to the Canons of that place by Robert the Son of Durand and his Heirs by his Brother Herbert and by others It appears that he gave to the Priory of our Blessed Lady of Luffield within the County of Northampton in the Forest of Whittlewood one Messuage with the Appurtenances in the Town of Maydford He married into the House of Lisors Lizures or de Lusoris as is seen by a Deed wherein Ralph de Caines does Witness that he was present when the Lord William de Lizures did give to Sir Henry of Alneto his Lands in Lichborow and Everton to him and to his Heirs to be begotten on the Body of his Daughter Agnes on Condition That if it did so fall out as he should die without Issue of the said Agnes they should then revert to him and his lawful Successors This William de Lizures was a great Baron at that time Chief Forester of the County of Northampton and of so great Authority in that Country as it occasioned a Letter to be written to him from Queen Elianor the Wife of King Henry the First wherein she prays him for the Love of her to protect one Malgerius a Monk and his Followers at that time retired within his Jurisdiction He was the Son of the Lord Foulke de Lizures that in the time of Henry the First had the Custody of the Forests of Rokingham
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
Scriptores antiqui Pag. 1031. Inter nomina Militum ferentium Bannerias in Normanniâ Fulco de Alneto In the same Book Pag. 1040. under the Title of Feoda Normanniae Ballia Pontis-Audomari Hugo de Alneto tertium Militem In the same Book under the same Title Pag. 1041. Milites de Honore Pontis-Audomari in Feodo Comitis de Mellent Johan de Alneto tertium Militem Rex habet In the same Book under the Title of Scriptum de Servitiis Militum quae debentur Duci Normanniae Pag. 1046. in Feodo Moritonii Simon de Alneto ii Milites ad suum Servitium 4. Milit. PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of TVRVEY and of MAYDFORD Charta Pagani de Alneto EGO Paganus de Alneto notum facio omnibus hominibus meis de Turveiâ Quod dilecto meo Richardo Mansell dedi concessi in feodo omnia Tenementa Adami le Croile sicut ipse Adam eadem dum viveret tenebat quod ut firmum habeatur praedicto Richardo tradidi praesentem Chartulam Sigilli mei Charactere munitam His Testibus Stephano de Bidun Galfrido Filio Rogeri Willielmo fratre ejus Thomâ Kaun Richardo filio Stephani Herveyo de Sancto Georgio Stephano de Bosco Richardo Camerario Charta Pagani de Alneto PAganus de Alneto omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis salutem Sciatis quod Ego assentiente Henrico filio meo concessi dilecto meo fideli Gerino de Sayfeild Scutifero omnia Tenementa quae Nicolaus Gerin Baldewinus Ribell tenuerunt in Turveiâ sibi Haeredibus suis tenenda de me haeredibus meis per Servitium duodecim sagittas reddendi annuatim ad Natalis Festum pro omni Servitio His Testibus Johanne de Escalers Reginaldo de Papiâ Roberto de Norho Thomâ filio ejus Stephano de Pixhull Rogero Moly Andreo Selvage Roberto filio Thomae Ricardo filio Roberti Johanne Clerico Inter Fines de Rege Ricardo Primo Pagano de Alneto Hugo de Burdet dedit villam de Maydford Charta Hugonis de Burdet HUgo de Burdet omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis salutem Sciatis me dedisse Pagano de Alneto cum Emelinâ filiâ meâ villam meam de Maydford tam liberam quà m illam recepi ex Donatione Domini mei Willielmi Regis honorificè haereditariè ab omni servitio salvo quod ad Dominum Regem pertinet sibi Haeredibus suis de dictâ Emelina exeuntibus in perpetuum His Testibus Domino Stephano de Valoniis Domino Ricardo de Lusoris Ricardo de Alno Thomâ filio Johannis Ernulpho de Eggelfeld Henrico de Bradden Herveyo filio Ricardi Stephano filio Thomae Ricardo Camerario Hugone filio Ernulphi Johanne filio Pagani Thoma Camerario Willielmo Clerico Charta Pagani de Alneto PAganus de Alneto Omnibus hominibus suis amicis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Notum sit vobis me dedisse concessisse assentiente Uxore meâ Emelinâ Henrico filio meo primogenito Herberto filio meo pro homagio suo Terram meam in Lavendenâ per Servitium tertiae partis Militis liberè quietè honorificè pro omnibus Servitiis quare volo firmiter praecipio Quòd praedictus Herbertus habeat praedictam Terram de me haeredibus meis cum omnibus pertinentiis praedictae Terrae pertinentibus in omnibus rebus per praenominatum Servitium hanc Terram Ego Paganus de Alneto haeredes mei warrantizabimus praenominato Herberto filio meo haeredibus suis His Testibus Philippo de Clunes Thomâ de Lichebury Roberto de Cameris Rogero filio Roberti Willielmo fratre ejus Philippo filio Rogeri Radulpho parvo Nicolao Beco Thomâ de Bosumer Monasticon Anglicanum Pars secunda Folio 231. To a Charter of King Henry the First giving Lands to St. Peter and St. Maries in Exeter is a Witness Herbertus de Alneto Historiae Normannorum Scriptores antiqui pag. 1033. in the Catalogue of their Names that came over with the Conqueror Hugo de Burdet In eodem Libro William Burdet held Lands in Normandy in Ballia de Bleville Burtons Description of Leicestershire Folio 196. Sir William Burdet undertakes a Voyage to the Holy Land about the End of Henry the Second In eodem Libro Folio 32. Sir William and Sir Robert Burdet Served in the long Wars of King Edward the First In eodem Libro Folio 197. Sir Nicholas Burdet Governour of Eureux and Chief Butler of Normandy was Slain at the Battel of Pontoize In eodem Libro in eodem Folio Thomas Burdet was Beheaded by King Edward the Fourth for his faithful Friendship to George Duke of Clarence under pretence of the words spoken concerning the Horns of the white Buck of Arrow HENRY of ALNETO Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Henrici de Alneto NOtum sit omnibus hominibus meis amicis Quòd Ego Henricus de Alneto concedo Sigilli mei munimine confirmo Donationem quam Robertus filius Durandi Gilbertus Haeres suus secerunt Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi de Northampton Canonicis ejusdem loci in perpetuam Eleemosynam scilicet quatuor acras Terrae ad Pirum propter quam Donationem Canonici praedicti dederunt quatuordecem Solidos sicuti Charta sua testatur Praeterea confirmo praedictae Ecclesiae octo acras Terrae unam de Bosco quas Herbertus Frater meus dedit praedictae Ecclesiae in perpetuam Eleemosynam propter quam Donationem Canonici dederunt ei Uxori ejus de cujus dote fuit illa Terra viginti duos Solidos sicuti Charta Herberti Domini sui testatur Confirmo etiam dictae Ecclesiae unam acram Terrae quam Ricardus de Papiâ dedit Canonicis ejusdem Ecclesiae in Eleemosynam perpetuam quae jacet in Pixhullâ juxta octo acras quas Herbertus dedit eis propter quam dederunt eidem Ricardo duos solidos Hujus Confirmationis sunt Testes Willielmus Sacerdos de Brumham Ricardus Sacerdos de Turveiâ Willielmus Sacerdos de Stevinton Willielmus de Blosvillâ Alexander Dalnod Radulphus Mansell Nicolaus de Staggesden Charta Radulphi de Kaines OMnibus Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Filiis hoc Scriptum praesens visuris vel audituris Radulphus de Kaines Salutem Sciatis quòd obligatus ad respondendum non possum dediscere quin praesens fui quando bonae memoriae Dominus Willielmus de Lusoris Chartâ quadam Authenticâ Sigilli sui Munimine roboratâ Dedit concessit Domino Henrico de Alneto Terras suas in Lichborough Everton sibi haeredibus suis ex corpore Agnetae filiae ipsius Willielmi procreandis Eâ Conditione Quòd si pervenisset ut dictus Dominus Henricus obiret sine haerede de corpore praedictae Agnetae procreatae tunc Terrae istae redirent sibi Domino Willielmo rectis haeredibus suis In cujus rei Testimonium Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Widone filio Walerani
France This Gilo had Issue Ralph his Son and Heir who in the fifth of King Stephen gave a Fine to the King for Livery of his Fathers Lands To this Ralph Succeeded Gilbert de Pinkney his Son and Heir who in the third fifth and sixth of Henry the Second was Sheriff of Barkshire and in the twelfth of Henry the Second upon the Assessment of that Aid levied for marrying the Kings Daughter Certified his Knight-Fees to be ex vetere Feoffamento eleven in Number and in those de novo three and a half To this Gilbert Succeeded Henry to that Henry Robert and to him divers others until the time of that Henry de Pinkney who made King Edward the first his Heir and enfeoffed him with all his Lands and Lordships Atlas novus Pars Quarta or Britannia Cambdeni Folio 236. ET inde Wedon Napiham vidimus quos Familia de Pinkney per Baroniam tenuêrunt donec Henricus de Pinkney Regem Edwardum primum haeredem scripsisset quem optimum Principem multi mali haeredem scripserunt Willielmus de Alnoto or Alneto Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Willielmi de Alneto SCIANT praesentes futuri Quòd Ego Willielmus filius Halenaldi de Alnoto Concessi hac meâ Chartâ Confirmavi in perpetuam liberam Eleemosynam Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti Monachis de Becoi in eâ Deo servientibus pro Salute mei meorum Donationem patris mei quam ipse fecit eidem Ecclesiae de Terris illius hidae in villâ de Turveiâ quae vocantur Muclepit scilicet Tredecim acras quae vocantur Gores de Dominio illam dimidiam virgatam Terrae quam tenuit Robertus filius Ailmari in quadrantes Terrae unam quam tenuit Radulphus Dulcere unam quam tenuit Gilbertus filius Gaufridi unam quam tenuit Radulphus Coquus sic Charta Patris mei testatur Quare volo praedicti Monachi praedictas Terras habeant teneant in perpetuum liberè quietè pacificè honorificè cum omnibus illarum Terrarum pertinentiis Hi sunt Testes Hugo filius Willielmi Robertus de sancto Georgio Robertus Persona de Hacley Eustachius Capellanus Ricardus Francis Willielmus Harell Elias de Alnotho Willielmus Igellry Hugo de Alnotho Johannes de Wimbis Bertramus de Gebrug Marcinus SIGILLVM WILLI FILII HALENALDI DANO The Baronage of England Pag. 38. In the Articles made between Ranulph Earl of Chester and Robert Earl of Leicester MOreover that Rauston-Castle should be demolished unless Earl Ranulph should be otherwise content and if any person should hold that Castle against the Earl of Leicester Earl Ranulph to give his real Assistance for the destroying it That if Earl Ranulph should have cause of Action against William of Alneto the Earl of Leicester should bring him to Trial in his Court so long as he should hold any Lands of him and in case the said William should recede from his Fidelity unto the Earl of Leicester for demolishing that Castle or for bringing him to such Trial in his Court Earl Ranulph not to give William de Alneto any Protection Charta Willielmi de Alnotho EGO Willielmus de Alnotho Dominus de Turveiâ Notum omnibus fieri volo Quòd dum arriperem iter Jerusalem in Capitulo sancti Neoti constitutus pro salute animae meae Antecessorum meorum Concessi hac Chartâ meâ Confirmavi in perpetuam liberam Eleemosynam omnes Donationes quas Pater meus Avus vel aliquis Parentum meorum aliquo tempore dederunt concesserunt Deo Ecclesiae sancti Neoti Monachis de Becoi in eâ Deo servientibus Concessi etiam iisdem Monachis Decimas omnium Boscorum meorum Nemorum consistentium in Turveiâ Concessi etiam iisdem Monachis summarium unum habere in Nemore quod dicitur Hudwike ad mortuum Nemus in meis aliis Nemoribus Ut autem haec Concessio rata inconcussa permaneat praesentem cartulam sigilli mei munimine roboravi Data anno Gratiae M.C.XC. His Testibus Willielmo Ruffo Vice-Comite de Bedford Fulcone de Trailly Thomâ de Lega Stephano de Oreby Gervasio de Hobrigg Thomâ de Papiâ Johanne de Elnesto Ogero filio Stephani Ernulpho Presbytero Ricardo Dapifero Charta Hugonis de Alno IN Nomine sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Ego Hugo de Alneto notum facio praesentibus futuris Fratrem meum Willielmum de Alneto in Uxorem accepisse Dominam Jocosam de Engannio secundum Ecclesiae morem ei Dotem assignasse Maydford videlicèt cum principali situ totum Manerium cum omnibus Appenditiis quam Dotem ipse in praesentiâ meâ illi recognovit Prece igitur Domini Ricardi fratris ejus pro honestate Dominae Honestatis ipsius Testimonio praesentibus sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Domino Stephano de Bellocampo Domino Thomâ de Kaines Gervasio Le Fitz Nigell Hugone de Deringhall Ricardo de Bedford Henrico de Billing Stephano Forrestario multis aliis Charta Jocosae Dominae de Maydford JOcosa Domina de Maydford Uxor quondam Domini Willielmi de Alno Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem Noveritis quod cùm querela verteretur inter Me ex unâ parte Monachos de sanctâ Mariâ de Luffield ex alterâ parte super quaedam nemora quae sunt in Dominio de Maydford quorum videlicet Nemorum unum vocatur Hartsgrove alterum vocatur Maydenwood tandem bonis viris intervenientibus compositum est in hunc modum Praedictum Nemus de Maydenwood remaneat in Forrestâ vendetur de Septimo anno in Septimum annum accipiemus Ego haeredes mei post decessum meum medietatem denariorum istius Venditionis Prior dicti Monachi alteram medietatem Actum apud Maydford Anno Gratiae MCXCIV Hugo de Alnoto Lord of TVRVEY and of MAYDFORD OMnibus Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae filiis Hugo de Alnoto filius Willielmi de Alnoto Salutem Noverit Universitas vestra me concessisse praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmâsse Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti Monachis in eâ Deo Servientibus illam virgatam Terrae quam tenuit Willielmus Faber in villa de Turveia Messuagium cum Crosto quod est juxta illud Messuagium quod fuit Aliciae Camerariae illam quarteram terrae quam tenuit Johannes filius Roberti filii Baldewini quatuor acras ad implementum praedictae quarterae pro prato Messuagio quod ei deerant scilicet duas acras ad Kokesfort quas Alicia Cameraria tenuit integras sicut jacent duas acras in Langfurlong juxta Culturam quae vocatur Hangre ex parte Aquilonis Has Terras Concessi confirmavi praedictis Monachis tenendas liberè quietè salvo Servitio Domini Regis Insuper Concessi Confirmavi jam dictis Monachis illam dimidiam virgatam Terrae quam tenuit
he renewed old Claims much to the displeasure and discontent of the King Among the rest he revived an ancient pretence of the See of Canterbury to the Castle and Honour of Saltwood which Sir Ralph de Broc for his own as well as the Kings Interest did peremptorily oppose From hence great and personal Enmities did arise between the Archbishop and himself to that Degree as the King in the subsequent variances that fell out afterward between Becket and him could reasonably find no man so proper to oppose unto his insolent Arrogance as Sir Ralph de Broc who had a Reputation and Interest in that County Superiour to most of his time and the Conscience of a Souldier not apt to be puzl'd or obstructed with Scruples incident to men of milder Callings hence it was that he was made the man of Terrour of Seizure and Chastisement to the Archbishop and all his Adherents when their Endeavours were in Opposition to the King and his Authority and this was the reason of all the reprobate Characters he did receive from several Monkish Authors of that time which may be perused amongst the proofs He died notwithstanding happy and safe from all their Censures in the favour and service of his Prince and in Marriage of a Lady called Damata the Daughter of one William de Gorom who by the Stile of his Charter appears to have been a man of much Dignity and Power in those days from whom he received in free Gift to him his Wife and their Heirs the Land of Staplehurst Their Issue Robert de Broc Edelina de Broc Married to Stephen of Turnam a great Baron and in much Authority in the Reign of King John being at that time Seneschall of Poictou in the Kingdom of France ROBERT the Son of Ralph de Broc at the Arrival of the Insolent Archbishop out of banishment received early marks of his Revenge and Indignation For upon Christmas day in the Seventeenth Year of King Henry the Second we find he was Excommunicated by his own mouth together with Nigell de Sackville for some Offences pretended to have been done to that Prelate during the late Contests whose Death soon after Executed by certain Knights of the Court set himself and his Family out of the reach of his farther displeasure This Sir Robert de Broc became a famous Knight and in much Employment under King Richard the First in whose Reign we find he was stiled Marshal of England He Married to his first Wife Margaret of Beauchamp or de bello Campo one of the Daughters of Richard de Beauchamp who gave in free Marriage besides other things certain Lands and Rents in the Town of Chestersham His Second Wife was Margery de Crec who becoming the Heir of Walter her Father by occasion that her Brother William happened to suffer under the Laws brought unto him the Forrestership of Cannoc and the Lordship of Misterton in the County of Warwick which preferment was procured unto him by the particular favour of the King Issue by his first Wife Laurence de Broc Issue by his second Wife Margery Married to Hugh de Loges to whom descended Misterton and all the Lands of their Mothers Inheritance SIR Laurence de Broc flourished in the Reign of King John and King Henry the Third to whose Interests he did constantly adhere The Reputation and Authority which he had in the Counties of Suffolk Cambridge Huntington and Buckingham were of no small use to the Affairs of the Crown during the various Troubles of that long Reign He augmented notwithstanding the Fortune left him by his Predecessors having purchased the Mannors of Bridsthorn Herdwick and Wedon from the Prior of Saint Saviours of Bermundsey and received from Robert Mallet a Lord of that Age in Marriage with his Daughter Milicent certain Lands in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge on condition That if they did not prove to the value they were asserted to be worth their Deficiency was then to be made good out of the Lands that were held by the said Robert Mallet in Quenton in the County of Buckingham Their Issue Hugh de Broc SIR Hugh de Broc succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships and we find he followed the famous King Edward the First in divers of his Wars his Name being upon the Lists of several Expeditions which were made in that Reign into Wales Gascony and Scotland He Married Agnes de Montepiconis a Lady descended from one of the most ancient and Noble Families that was among the Normans as whose Predecessors had been Lords of the Honour which bare that name in the Dutchy of Normandy and whose immediate Ancestor came over with King William the First in quality of his Dapifer or Sewer an Office of Eminent Dignity at that time in the Kings House Their Issue Laurence de Broc SIR Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale after the decease of his first Wife whose Christian Name was Ellen Married another Lady of the same appellation that was the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot and of Cassandra one of the Heirs of the Famous Knight Sir Giles of Argentine who gave him the Mannor of Maudlins and other Lands as a Portion to which end a Fine was suffer'd in the Thirtieth Year of Edward the First In the third Year of King Edward the Second a Patent pass'd unto this Sir Laurence de Broc to have Free-Warren and all the Rights thereof upon his Lands in Chessham Aumondsham Bridsthorn Hardwick and Wedon in the County of Buckingham and in the seventh of the same Reign he Levied a Fine to his Son Ralph and Elizabeth his Wife He lived unto the Reign of King Edward the Third and left to Inherit his Lands and Lordships Sir Ralph de Broc Lord of Shephale OF this Ralph de Broc or the Transactions of his Life there remains little Testimony So whether he died early or that the Evidences of them cannot appear by reason of the length of time since the Alienation of these Lands it is uncertain but true it is That in him did terminate this Name and Family who having Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Hussey left no Male-Issue and only three Daughters Joanne Married to Thomas Rokesby that died without Issue Elena Married to Edmund Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Agnes Married to Sir Henry of Brussels ELena de Broc was in the Seven and twentieth Year of King Edward the Third Married to Edmund Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of divers other Lordships She brought into his House the Moity of all her Fathers Lands there accruing to her Husband for her Share in Cambridgshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborn in Buckinghamshire divers Lands in Elsburg Bridsthorn Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham with sundry other Lands in Hartfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephale Their Issue Robert Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Sr. RANULPH de BROC Governor of the Castle of Agenet
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
said Master Walter and other Feffees of the said William by the desire and agreement of the same William have made a state of the said two Assartes to William Lord Lovell Knight and other to the use of Henry Greene Esquire to have and to hold to them and to their heirs for evermore Also that where before this time that the same Henry hath enfeffed the said William Aldwyncle in his Manner of Luffwick with all his other Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Luffwyck to have and to hold them to him for term of his life the remainder of them to William Lucy Knight and others to them and to their heirs for evermore to the use of the said Henry And afterward the said William Aldwyncle at the desire of the said Henry surrendered all his Estate and released all right and claim that he had in the same Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances to the said William Lucy and other Feffees to the said Henry Nevertheless I the said Henry grant to the said William Aldwyncle the said two Assartes for term of his life without impeachment of any waste and the said Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances for term of his life and over that I pray and require as well my said Feffees that now be in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes and over each of them as any other that shall be hereafter to the use of me or my heirs to make a state to the said William Aldwyncle in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes with their appurtenance for the term of his life in the form abovesaid at such time reasonable as he shall desire of them so to do In witness hereof I the same Henry set to the Seal of my Arms. Given the tenth day of October the year of King Henry the VI. after the Conquest the three and thirtieth Carta Regis Henrici Sexti HEnricus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia Nostra speciali ex certa scientia mero motu nostris pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus Henrico Greene Armigero aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero filio haeredi Johannis Greene aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero Consanguineo haeredi Radulphi Greene alias dicto Henrico Greene nuper Vicecomiti Northamptoniae seu quocunque alio nomine censeatur omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante nonum diem Julii ultimo praeteritum contra formam statutorum de libertatibus pannorum capitiorum factos sive perpetratos unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu imprisonamenta statutis praedictis non obstantibus Et insuper ex motu scientia nostris praedictis pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico sectam pacis nostrae quae ad Nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus murdris raptibus mulierum rebellionibus insurrectionibus feloniis conspirationibus Cambipartiis manutenentiis imbraciariis ac aliis transgressionibus negligentiis offensis extortionibus misprisionibus ignorantiis contemptibus concelamentis forisfacturis deceptionibus per ipsum Henricum ante dictum nonum diem Julii qualitercunque factis sive perpetratis ac etiam Utlagarias si quae in ipsum Henricum hiis occasionibus seu earum aliqua fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum Et ulterius pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimoda Escapia felonum Catalla felonum fugitivorum Catalla Utlagatorum felonum de se deodanda vasta impetitiones ac omnimodos articulos itineris destructiones transgressiones de viridi vel venatione venditiones boscorum infra forestas extra aliarum rerum quarumcunque ante dictum nonum diem Julii infra Regnum nostrum Angliae Marchias Walliae eventa evenientia Unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu in forisfacturas bonorum catallorum aut imprisonamenta seu amerciamenta Comitatuum villarum vel singularium personarum vel in onerationem liberi tenementi eorum qui nunquam transgressi fuerunt ut haeredum executorum vel terrae tenentium Escaetorum Vicecomitum Coronatorum aliorum hujusmodi omne id quod ad Nos versus ipsum Henricum pertinet seu pertinere poterit ex causis supradictis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas donationes alienationes perquisitiones per ipsum de terris tenementis de Nobis vel progenitoribus nostris quondam Regibus Angliae in Capite tentis ac etiam omnimodas donationes perquisitiones ad manum mortuam factas habitas absque licentia Regia Necnon omnimodas inquisitiones ingressus in haereditatem suam in parte vel in toto post mortem Antecessorum suorum absque debita prosecutione ejusdem extra manum regiam ante eundem nonum diem Julii factos unà cum exitibus proficuis inde medio tempore perceptis Et insuper pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas poenas ante dictum nonum diem Julii forisfactas coram Nobis seu Concilio nostro Cancellario Thesaurario seu aliquo Judicum nostrorum pro aliqua causa omnes alias poenas tam Nobis quà m carissimo nostro Patri defuncto per ipsum Henricum pro aliqua causa ante eundum nonum diem Julii forisfactas ad opus nostrum levandas ac omnimodas securitates pacis ante eundem nonum diem Julii similiter forisfactas ac etiam tertias tertiarum tertias omnimodorum prisonariorum in guerra captorum Nobis dicto nono die Julii qualitercunque debitas pertinentes seu spectantes per eundem Henricum Necnon omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante eundem nonum diem Julii contra formam tam quorumcunque statutorum ordinationum provisionum ante dictum nonum diem Julii factorum seu editorum de perquisitionibus acceptationibus lectionibus publicationibus notificationibus executionibus quibuscunque quarumcunque literarum bullarum Apostolicarum ante dictum nonum diem Julii omnium aliorum statutorum ordinationum provisionum praetextu quorum aliqua secta versus eundem Henricum per billam vel per breve de praemunire facta seu alio modo quocunque pro aliqua materia ante eundem nonum diem Julii fieri valeat quà m quorumcunque aliorum statutorum fact ' sive perpetrat ' statutis ordinationibus provisionibus illis non obstantibus literis
th' appurtenances for the considerations in these Indentures to th' use of the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife for terme of their lifes onely and either of them longer living onely without impeachment of waste dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife and after their decease to th' use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Daughter of the sayd John Greene in like manner and forme and of like Estate as the Heirs of the sayd Herry Greene Fader of the sayd Constance late Countesse was inheritable to the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements after the decease of the same Countesse to the use of the right Heirs of the same Isabel Vere Daughter of the same John Greene in manner and forme and of like tenure and Estates as is aforesayd of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements And the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife John Mordaunt the younger and Elizabeth his Wife Robert Mordaunt and Amye his Wife John Parre and Constance his Wife and Audre Vere and every of them before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall further do and suffer and cause to be done to make the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements afore appoynted to the sayd Countesse sure to the sayd Margaret Stafford Countesse of Wiltes Johan Vicountesse Lesle John Grey Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire John Bretteyn Clerk Thomas Frowyke Sergeant at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Thomas Marrow and John Gardiner and to their Heirs to the uses aforesayd as by the Counsel learned of the sayd Countesse before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall be advised at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Countesse And over that is covenanted bargained and agreed between the sayd Parties that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife dureing their lives shall have the Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park of Drayton the Conyngre and the Oxe-Pasture Provided that they shall therein doe no waste And over that that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife shall have for terme of their lives onely and of every of them longest living without impeachment of wast dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife the Moyte of all other Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches or Libertyes of the same the which late were of the same Herry Greene and after their decease the sayd Mannor of Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture and all the same Moyety of all other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to goo and grow to the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Moder to the sayd Herry Vere and to their Heirs for ever in manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was heretable to the same And that the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere shall have the other Moyte of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales and the Marches of the same to them and to their Heirs in the manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was inheritable thereunto And that all such persons as were late inseoffed by the sayd late Earle or be now seised or hereafter shall be seised of and in the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales or the Marches of the same and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with their appurtenances shall be and stand feoffed and seised of the same to the same intents and uses aforesaid And over that that before the sixteenth day of December next comeing shall not lett John Fisher one of the Kings Sergeants at Law William Mordaunt William Gascoyne Wistan Broun John Mulso and William Lane to recover all the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements and the same Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with th' appurtenances ayenst the sayd Elizabeth Cheyne Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere and ayenst all such persons as be or then shall be their Husbands and ayenst all Feoffez thereof to their use in such manner and forme as shall be a vised by the learned Counsell of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fitz Hugh and John Mordaunt the Father at the Costs and Charges of the same Sir Thomas the sayd Recoverez to be of the Moyete of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture for the Considerations comprised in this Indenture to the use of the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth for the terme of their lives and either of them longest living onely And after their decease to the use and behoof of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabell Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd And of the other Moyete of the residue of the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements to the use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd for ever Provided alway that the sayd Margaret Countesse of Wiltes shall have for terme of her life the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements to her appoynted by these Indentures and alsoe her Title and Interesse of Dower of the Lands late of Thomas Tresham any thing conteyned in these Indentures notwithstanding and notwithstanding the sayd Recovere And where the sayd now Duke hath before this time pretended right and title to such Mannors Lands and Tenements as late were of the same Henry Greene as Cosyn and right Heir of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes of the Faders side of the same Earle The sayd Duke now covenanteth by these Presents that he in consideration of all the premisses ymediately upon the sealing of theis Indentures by his Fyne and several Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled on record at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt Sergeant shall release all his right and title in all the Mannors Lands and Tenements with th' appurtenances late of the sayd Herry Greene within this Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to such persons and to their Heirs and in such wise and with warranty ayenst the Abbot of Chester and his Successors as the same Thomas Richard Alice and John shall name at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Thomas Richard Alice and John three two or one of them And the sayd Countesse and all other persons haveing any thing to the use of the sayd Countesse of and in the sayd Mannors of Newton Blosmevile Clifton Wathall Brafield and Policote and in all other Mannors Lands and Tenements which late were of the sayd Humphrey late Duke of Buckingham and afterwards of the sayd
JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon Camden's Britannia page 205 treating of the County of Essex THorndon quondam Habitatio Clarae Familiae Fitz-Lewis quorum ultimus si qua fides vulgò incensis fortuitò Aedibus Nuptiali Festivitate misero incendio periit ELY FITZ-LEWIS and JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Lord and Lady of Westhornedon A Will or Testament of John Lord Mordaunt THIS is the last Will of John Mordaunt Knight Son and Heir apparent of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt confirming the order disposition and demise as well of my Goods and Chattels as of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances that I have and am seised of Estate of Fee-simple in the Counties of Essex Northampton and Somerset or elsewhere within the Realm of England First I will and demise that all my parts portion and demand Right Title Possession and Interest that I have of and in the Mannors of Granham otherwise called Bishop Wokenton in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhal to Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed within the County of Essex with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or hath been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Grangeham otherwise called Bishop Wokengton Greice Brumford in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhall unto Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed in the County of Essex together with the Advowsons of the said Mannors to Dame Joan my Wife To have and to hold and enjoy the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the said Dame Joan and her Assigns for term of her natural life Also I will and demise That all my Right Title Possession Interest that I have of and in the Mannor of Westhornedon and Gingeraps and also Cranham in the said County of Essex the reversion of the said Mannor of Cranham after the decease of Dame Joan my Wife with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods and Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or haye been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps with the Advowsons belonging to the said Mannors To have hold and enjoy the Premisses with all Rights Revenues Profits Uses Commodities Emoluments and Arrearages of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements Ways Meadows Pastures and other Hereditaments and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father and to Edmond Mordaunt my Executors and to the Surviver of them and to the Executors of the Surviver for term of thirty Years next ensuing after my death without impeachment of Waste to the intent that they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses and every part thereof coming and growing from time to time during the said Term shall find and provide to my Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt Margaret Mordaunt Anne Mordaunt Ursula Mordaunt and every of them sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging Apparel Learning and other Necessaries for them until they be married and also give and deliver to every of them towards their several Marriages the Summ of four hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be paid to every of them at the day of their several Marriages If that my said Executors have loned or at any time or times hereafter the said Marriages as it may be loned of the Issues and Profits of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps And if it shall so chance that one or two of my said Daughters to dye and depart out of this transitory life unmarried I will that her or their Parts Portions and Summs of Money that to her or to them by this my last Will and Testament did belong shall remain grow come and be deemed amongst the other of my Daughters which shall so fortune to overlive And if it shall so chance that more of my said Daughters than two to dye and depart out of this transitory life I will that their Parts and Portions shall remain still in the hands of my Executors to be delivered to my Son and Heir when he cometh to two and twenty Years of Age. And if I chance to depart to God without Issue Male then I will that the moyety of the said money equally to be divided amongst my said Daughters which at that time shall chance to be alive and the residue to be distributed in deeds of Charity according to the discretion of my Executors my said Lord and Father and my Brother Edmond Mordaunt Furthermore I will that if any of my said Daughters happen to marry her self against the will and appointment of my Executors the said Lord Edmond Mordaunt or the Survivors or the Survivor of them within the Age of twenty one Years or if any of the said Daughters doe refuse any lawful marriage tendered or offered by my Executors the said Lord and Edmond Mordaunt my Brother or by the Survivors or Survivor of them within the said Age of one and twenty Years to the intent to marry themselves at their own pleasure That then I will That she or they shall tarry for her or their part until the time that all my Daughters be set forth and married and then to be delivered to my said Daughter or Daughters so marrying themselves or to the Children of her or them according to the discretion of my Executors the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them And further I will and demise that my said Executors with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses during the said term shall find a Priest to sing Mass in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid to pray for my Soul and Dame Ely my late Wife deceased and all Christian Souls And also shall distribute every Year during the said term to the help and sustentation of the poor and needy people in Westhornedon Gingeraps Cranham and Nevendon according to the discretion of my Executors And also give and distribute unto the maintaining of High-ways and Bridges wheresoever my Executors shall think most meet and convenient any where within the County of Essex Also I do demise unto the said Edmond Mordaunt my Brother the reversion of certain Lands and Tenements Pasture Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments in Coume and Sturmest in the County of Somerset with the appurtenances which I the said Sir John did purchase of one Richard Matthew one of the Sons of Robert Matthew deceased which Joan Matthew Widow doth now claim for to hold for term of her life as parcel of her Joynture To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs in as large and ample manner as ever Robert Matthew did hold or occupy the premisses upon this Condition following that is to say that the said Edmond or his Heirs shall make or cause to be made within two years after the death of the said Joan Matthew in the Church of Westhornedon of the North
Wokingdon Episcopi with all and singular their Appurtenances sett lying and being in the Parishes of Kinton Bulvan Easthornedon Westhornedon and Cranham otherwise called Bishops Wokingdon in the County of Essex aforesaid which the said Dame Joan doth hold for term of her life as Parcel of her Joynture and all and all manner of Lands Tenements Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons Woods Underwoods and all other Hereditaments to the said Mannors appertaining or belonging to my Son Edmond Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten upon Condition that if my said Son Edmond his Heirs or Assigns do aliene grant with Warranty discontinuance suffer any recovery or suffer to be done any Act or Acts thing or things to the intent to barr his or their Heir or Heirs or him or them in the reversion of the said Mannors of Amys Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi with their appurtenances or of any Part or Parcel thereof or of any other Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments devised to the said Edmond by this my last Will and Testament That then it shall be lawful to my Heirs to enter into the said Mannors Lands Tenements and all other Hereditaments alienated discontinued or recovered in manner and form abovesaid and into every part and parcel thereof and the same to retain and keep in manner and form as though no such devise had been made And the said Edmond and his Heirs thereof to expel and put out for ever Provided always that if any alienation discontinuance or recovery be had and made in manner and form abovesaid without fraud covyn or deceit to make his Wife or Wives Joynture for term of her and their life or lives to the preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons for the marrying of his or their Daughter or Daughters and for the Payment of his or their Debts so that the said Edmond and his Heirs of his Body make or cause the Fee-simple of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments recovered and discontinued to such use to be made sure to my Heirs to remain come and grow to them immediately after the death of my said Son Edmond or of the Heirs of his Body or immediately after the death of his said Wife or Wives the Money levied for the marrying of his or their said Daughter or Daughters for the Payment of his or their Debt or Debts or the Preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons Then I will that mine Heirs shall take no benefit or advantage of any such discontinuance recovery act or acts thing or things assurance or assurances had or made for the aforesaid intents or purposes without fraud or covyn by way of Entry or otherwise any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Furthermore if my said Son Lewis or his Heirs of his Body being of the Age of one and twenty years or more shall lawfully offer and tender to give grant and assure within two years after the death of the said Dame Joan or after the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall accomplish the Age of one and twenty years the Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys in the County of Essex and the Mannor of Belhalf in the County of Norfolk with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Wymbyshe Walden Thaxsted and Radwynter in the County of Essex and Belhalf Billinford or elsewhere in the County of Norfolk which hath or shall descend remain or come to my said Son Lewis from my late Wife Dame Ely Mordaunt to my said Son Edmond or if he chance to dye to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten To have and to hold the said Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and the Premisses to my Son Edmond and to the Heirs of his Body in like Estate Degree and with like Condition as I have devised unto the said Edmond the Mannors of Cranham otherwise Wokingdon Episcopi Amys and other the Premisses above mentioned That then if the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall refuse to receive and take the said Mannors of Typtosts Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and other the Premisses being lawfully tendered and offered to him or them by the said Lewis or the Heirs of his Body in manner and form abovesaid Then I will that immediately after the said assurance made or the said denial that the devise of my Mannors of Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi and Amys aforesaid and all other my devises made to my said Son Edmond by this my last Will to be void and of none effect any thing in this my last Will or Testament to the contrary notwithstanding And further I will that if my said Son Lewis Mordaunt or the Heirs of his Body do not tender and be contented to make unto my said Son Edmond Mordaunt or to the Heirs of his Body within the time above-mentioned a good sure and sufficient Estate in manner and form above-mentioned at the Costs and Charges of the said Lewis or his Heirs of or in the Mannors of Typtosts and Pinkneys and other the Premisses Then I give and devise to my said Son Edmond Mordaunt the said Mannors of Cranham and Amys and all other the Premisses before devised to him To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever Also I will that after this my last Will and Testament performed concerning the Premisses all manner of Costs and Charges had and sustained by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns about the defence and execution of the same Will and Testament payed and discharged That then the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns shall infeosse or otherwise assure the Premisses above-mentioned and every part and parcel thereof to the only use of his Heirs and their Heirs for ever the said assurance to be had and made at the only Costs and Charges in the Law of my said Heirs A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Justified by Publick Records Charters Deeds Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the House of Howard were Quarterly Howard Brotherton Warren and Mowbray Of the Original Greatness Actions Honors Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Howard of Effingham I Would have the Reader know That I presume not here to declare the Honors and Advantages which belong to the Illustrious House of Howard it would be too great a task for one much abler that could have access unto those lights which might direct him in such an undertaking but much more for a stranger who does only pretend to trace out those Genealogies among the proofs of which he has been conversant and that particularly appertain to the House of Mordaunt It is therefore of the Howards of Effingham of which I am to Treat from whence the Earl of Peterborow is not only Descended but of which he is
Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. between the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath Sir Oliver Luke of Hawnes in the County of BEdford Knight and Sir Samuel Luke of Woodend in the said County of Bedford Knight of the other part Witnesseth That the said Countess Dowager for the settling of the Mannor and Lands hereafter mentioned in the Name and Blood of her the said Countess And in consideration of the summ of Five shillings of lawful Money of England to her in hand paid by the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke whereof she acknowledgeth the receipt and for divers other good causes and considerations her the said Countess hereunto especially moving hath Granted Bargained Aliened Sold Enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Alien Sell Enfeoffe and Confirm unto the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke all that the Mannor of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh in the County of Surrey with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and all Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Commons Wasts Warrens Courts Court-Leet view of Frankpledge Privileges Goods of Felons Deodands Franchises Profits Emoluments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Mannor belonging or appertaining or as part parcel or member thereof commonly accepted reputed taken or known and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of her the said Countess Dowager scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh aforesaid Godstone Cateram and Horne or any of them in the said County of Surrey To Have and to Hold the said Mannor Lands and Premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke their Heirs and Assigns for ever to the use behoof intents and purposes and with upon and under such limitations as are hereafter in and by these presents limited expressed and declared and to and for no other use intent meaning or purpose whatsoever That is to say To the Use of the said Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow for and during the Term of her Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after her Decease then to the Use and Behoof of Henry Earl of Peterborow Son and Heir Apparent of the said Countess for and during the Term of Fourscore and nineteen Years if the said Earl of Peterborow shall so long live without Impeachment of Wast And afterwards to the Use of the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke for the Life of the said Earl of Peterborow upon Trust and to the intent that the Contingent Remainders herein after limited may not be prevented defeated or destroyed without the Consent of the said Countess And nevertheless That the said Earl of Peterborow may have and receive the Rents and Profits of the said Mannor and Premises for the term of his Life And after the Decease of the said Earl of Peterborow to the Use of the Daughter or Daughters and Younger Son or Sons of the Body of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten And of and for such Estate and Estates either in Fee Simple Fee Tail for Life or Lives or Years or otherwise of the said Mannor and Premises and every or any Part or Parcel thereof And to the intent that such Son or Sons Daughter or Daughters may have and receive such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money out of the Premises or any Part thereof as the said Earl of Peterborow at any time during his Life by any Writing or Writings under his Hand and Seal testified by Two or more Witnesses shall limit and appoint And for Default of such Limitation and Appointment or as the Estates so limited shall respectively end and determine and charged or chargeable with such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money as shall be so limited Then to the Use and Behoof of the First Son of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Second Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Second Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Third Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Third Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of the Fourth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fourth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Fifth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fifth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of all and every such other Son or Sons of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten as they shall be in Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs of their several and respective Bodies lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of the Daughter or Daughters of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of such Daughter or Daughters lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Esq Second Son of the said Countess for and during the term of his Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after his Decease then to the use and behoof of the First Son of the said John Mordaunt lawfully to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully to be begotten And for default
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
present Writing shall come John Mordaunt of Turvey of the County of Bedford Gentilman sendeth greeting in our Lord God Whereas Margaret Mordaunt my Moder holdeth the Maners called Mordaunts-maner and Dardres-maner and divers Lands and Tenements called Maunsellis Blatherwykes and divers other Lands and Tenements with the appurteneces in the Parish of Turvey aforesaid from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth after the Conquest the nineteenth unto the end and term of fourty Years then next following the reversion thereof to me the said John belonging Know ye me the said John to have given and by this my present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey aforesaid the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances the Rent unto the said Lessee reserved To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore And Whereas the said Margaret holdeth the Mills of Turvey with divers Holmes and Waters from Year to Year yielding to me therefore yearly ten Pounds of Lawful Money and ... Son William Ball holdeth divers Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances called Wellynz for the Term of six Years Know ye me the said John Mordaunt to have given and granted to the said Thomas Vynter John Vynter John Poley and Richard the reversion of the said Mills Holmes Waters Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And I the said John Mordaunt and my Heirs all the said Maners Mills Waters Holmes Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas and John Vynter John Poley and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for ever In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the six and twentieth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth SIGILLVM IOHANNIS MORDAVNT Charta Johannis Mordaunt TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing shall come John Mordaunt greeting in God Whereas one Hugh Jacob holdeth the Maner of Botelers in the Parish of Walden within the County of Essex with the appurtenances except three Acres and a half of arable Land half an Acre of Meede a Close called Horsecroft and eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the eleventh unto the end and Term of sixteen Years then next following of the demise of William Mordaunt Fader to me the said John which after the Death of the said William to me the said John as Son and Heir to the said William ought to descend Know ye me the said John to have given and granted and by this present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey the reversion of the said Maner with the appurtenances except before excepted to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And also I give and grant and by this present Deed confirm unto the said Thomas King John Vynter John Poley and to Richard Stevynson the said three Acres and a half of Land half an Acre of Meede the Close called Horsecroft eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent with the appurtenances To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore of the chief Lords of the Fee by the services due and accustomed And I the said John and my Heirs the said Maner with the appurtenances to the said Thomas John John and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for evermore In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the twenty sixth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentilman By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forsomuch as Wee with God's Grace intend to bring into our obeysance our Castles kept by our Traytors and Rebels in the North Parts of our Land and therefore will in our Person remove to Morrow towards these said Parties to stablish the means that may best serve thereunto We pray you heartily that you being accompanied with as many Persons defensibly arrayed as may goodly accord with your ease meet with us at Leicestre the tenth day of May next coming furnished with good for yours and their expences to attend upon us from thence for the space of two Months for the said cause And that natheless ye be ready with the said Persons in the said array upon the warning of a day next after the fourth day of May to attend upon us as the case shall require for the said intent Not failing hereof as our trust is in you and as ye tender the assured rest of our said Land Given under our Signet at our Tower of London the Twenty fifth of April A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt and William Salisbury To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt and William Salisbury and to every of them By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forasmuch as by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this our Land late assembled at our Palace of Westminster we be fully determined by God's Grace to address us in Person with Host Royal toward the parties of our Enemies and Rebels of Scotland at the beginning of this next Sommer to subdue and do them the annoyance possible both by Sea and Land in saving as well this our Land from such inconveniencies as else were like to ensue as the Honour of Us and of our Blood and true Liegemen inhabited and inherited within this our Land Wee having perfect and certain Trust of your Good-will Aid and Assistance to this our great Voyage and knowing how useful and necessary your presence shall be to us in the same will and desire you right effectually and natheless charge you in the straitest wise that incontinent upon the sight of this our Writing ye dispose you to serve Us personally in Our said Voyage accompanied and apparelled for the War according to your degree so and in such wise that by the first day of May next coming ye be ready and readily pass forward with Us in the said Journey so accompanied as aforesaid and that in giving credence to the Bearers hereof ye send Us by them your Intent and Mind and what assistance we shall be sure to have of you in this behalf as Our very trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Tower of London the eighteenth day of February And howbeit
Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere their Sisters and to their Heirs for ever And in case the said John Tresham make no sale of his Maners Lands and Tenements as is aforesaid That then immediately after his decease and the decease of Isabel his Sister all his Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Realm of England not sold to the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant as is abovesaid shall remain go and grow to the said Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere and to their Heirs for ever And the said John Mordaunt shall pay for reversion of the Premises sold or to be sold by the said John Tresham to the same John Mordaunt Serjeant after the rate of half Fifteen Years Purchace as is abovesaid In witness whereof to these present Indentures the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the same Twenty fifth Day and Year abovesaid And in case the said John Tresham hereafter have any Issue Male of the Body of the said Isabel by him begotten That then the said Issue Male shall have all the same Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig Church-Brampton or part of them if it shall please the same John Tresham to make any such Gift Entail Extracta per me Nicolaum Hardyng verbatim xxv die Januarii decimo nono Henrici Septimi A Letter from the Prince to John Mordaunt his Attorney By the Prince TRusty and right wele beloved we greet you wele And understand by your late Letters directed unto our Councel that ye have endeavoured you diligently to perform such matters and businesses concerning our profit according to our desires in our Letters directed to you for the which we give unto you our great thanks praying you to persevere and continue And whereas in your said Letters among other matters is contained That Richard Empson hath found that Ingleton held certain Hamlets and Parcels of Lands of my most dread Lord and Fader the King by Knights Service whereby he intendeth to defeat us as it seemeth of the Ward of the said Ingleton to our Prejudice with whom we charge you severely in our Name to travers for divers considerations and specially for that our Councel have had of late more perfit knowledge That the said Ward rightfully appertaineth unto us than they knew or had understanding for the which and other great matters whereof we shall be ascertained we intend within brief time to send some of our Councel unto my most dread Lord and Fader instructed to the intent we may know his pleasure concerning the same We will also That in our Name ye take Actions against Ward Waste and Sefnian for such Wards as they detaining have by craft concealedly hid and kept from us wherewith we be nothing pleased nor content And as for the hundred and three score Pounds resting in the hands of Nicholas Nynes due unto us we pray you on our behalf to charge the said Nicholas to send the same surely to us in all convenient hast and to give credence to our trusty servant Thomas Canceller chief Clerk of our Kitchin in such things as he on our behalf shall shew unto you whereby ye shall greatly please us Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaudley the Twenty third day of May. Articles of Marriage between Sir Wistan Brown and Elizabeth Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Twentieth day of September in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey oon of the Kings Serjeants at the Law on the oon Partie and William Brown of Abbesroding in the County of Essex Esquire on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas it was promised concluded and agreed between the Friends of the said William and the said John Mordaunt and other Friends of Elizabeth Sister of the said John Mordaunt That the said William should take to Wife the said Elizabeth and upon the same Marriage concluded and was promised as well by the Friends of the said William as by the said William he then being of the Age of sixteen Years or thereabout and of good and sad discretion That the said Elizabeth should have a Jointure of Maners Lands and Tenements late Robert Brown's Father to the said William to the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and that of the same Maners Lands and Tenements so of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and also of other Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins which before that time were laid to Mortgage by the said Robert to William Capell Knight for a Debt and Forfeit to the said Sir William and afterward redeemed by the said John at his labor and Instance for the summ of Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the which Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the said John Mordaunt payed to the said Sir William and the said John Mordaunt should have and take the Profits into his own hand from the time of the said agreement and concluding of Marriage unto the time the said William come to his full Age of One and Twenty Years which Lands in the whole were promised to be of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds over all Charges to the said John And also it was farther agreed That the said Elizabeth over and besides Maners Lands and Tenements to the said yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings should have a Jointure in the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins if the said William when he came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years would agree That she should have the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins term of her Life and after that the said William came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years he oftentimes assented and agreed That the same Elizabeth should have the said Lands in the Saint Martins in Jointure and by these Presents confesseth and granteth That he agreed and granted and at the time of concluding the said Marriage the Maners of Rokewodhall and Stokhall and all Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding Bauchamproding High-Laffare Little-Laffare and Maehing in the County of Essex except Hobberlerkey which were the said Robert Brown's were promised to be of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings over all Charges were assigned to be the said Jointure of the said Elizabeth and after were given in Jointure by Sir Thomas Boughchier Knight John Bardefeld and other Enfeoffes to the said William and Elizabeth his Wife for term of Life of the said Elizabeth And the said William took Seizing and Possession for him and the said Elizabeth at Abbesroding aforesaid The same Elizabeth her Friends verily believing the same Maners Lands and Tenements had then been of the yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings according to the said Promise and also as it was agreed upon between the same Parties upon the said Marriage concluded That the reversion of the said Manners of Rokewodhall Stokhall and all Lands and
Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and Twentieth Day of April Alliance between Mordaunt and More THIS Indenture made the Two and twentieth day of January in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland Between John More of Haddon in the Parish of Bampton in the County of Oxford Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the other Party Witnesseth That the said Parties being agreed in manner and form as hereafter followeth That is to say The said John More doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That Thomas More his Son and Heir apparent shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt if the said Dorothy thereto will agree and consent And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That the said Dorothy by the like Grace shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Thomas More if the said Thomas More thereto will consent and agree The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy Mordaunt before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof at the indifferent Costs and Charges of the said John More and Lord Mordaunt And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Thomas More in all things as shall be meet and convenient for the Degree of the said Thomas More the day of the said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Dorothy in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Dorothy the said day of Marriage so to be solemnized and had And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That the same John More his Heirs or Assigns before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date of these Presents or within Fifteen days next ensuing the said Feast of Easter shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Thomas Audely Knight Lord Chancellor of England Sir Henry Parker Gyles Strangesways John Mordaunt the Younger William Gascoign Thomas Bernardyston Knights Edmond Fettyplace Roger More John Elmes Esquires William More Clerk John Gostwyke Robert More second Son of the said John More Thomas Spilman Robert Latimer Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Downhall Gentlemen Thomas Lewes and George Caldwell their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in the Maner of Whaddon otherwise called Charles's Maner in Whaddon in the County of Cantebrigge and of and in the Maner of Ladybury in Whaddon aforesaid and of and in all other his Maners Lands and Tenements Hereditaments Woods Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in Whaddon aforesaid Knesworth Melreth Melburn Basingburn Moredon Abyngdon Crawdon Wympole and Crewell in the said County of Cantebrigge All which Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents To be of the clear yearly value of Forty eight Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Reprizes going out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances before expressed The said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand Feoffees and seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the said Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents hereafter following That is to say To the use of the said John More and his Heirs until such time as Marriage be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And after such Marriage had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy then immediately the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and to be seized of and in the Site of the Maner and Maner place of the said Maner of Whaddon called Charles's Maner with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the same Maner belonging or appertaining with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Fourteen Pounds And of and in certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now in the Tenure of one William Fox to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances called Lady-place to the clear yearly value of Fifty three Shillings four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Payne to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Pounds and ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Richard Crepyn to the clear yearly value of Ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Twenty six Shillings eight Pence All which Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances parcel of the Premises amount to the clear yearly value of Forty Marks to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John More for ever And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Newman to the clear yearly value of Twenty four Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Borolman to the clear yearly value of Forty Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenences now in the Tenure of John Astemore to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds three Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Dickons to the clear yearly value of Three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence And of and in divers Lands and Tenements now in the Tenure of John Alleyn to the clear value of Thirteen Shillings four pence also parcel of the Premises amounting in the whole to the Summ of Twenty Marks to the use of the said John More during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after the Death of the
and upon those grounds with a respect to the avoiding of all dangers that by the contrary part may ensue you will apply your self to be so vigilant as the points contained in the said Proclamation and all others meet to be remembred for the Maintenance and Conservation of Justice may be put in use and duely observed according to your Allegiance and to the Commandment of the same By the doing hereof ye shall satisfie a good duty towards God you shall preserve your Estimation towards us you shall honestly serve your Country and you shall save your own to your self and to your posterity By the other part you shall offend God you shall displease us put out your Estimation with all the rest in danger Wherefore eftsoons we require you to remember your self touching these things in such wise as we may have cause both to remember you again with Favour and to think you a Man worthy the same and to have Authority with others in our Common-Wealth accordingly Willing you for your better instruction to get a Copy of our said Proclamation and in such wise to note the special points of the same as you may the better put it in due Execution without failing as we trust in you Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the Ninth Day of March the Twentieth and nine Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as by the inestimable Goodness and Grace of Almighty God we be delivered and brought in Child-bed of a Prince conceived in most lawful Matrimony between my Lord the King's Majesty and Us Doubting not but for the Love and Affection which ye bear unto us and to the Common-Wealth of this Realm the knowledge thereof should be Joyous and glad Tidings unto you We have thought good to certifie you of the same to the intent ye might not only render unto God condign Thanks and Praise for so great a Benefit but also continually Pray for the long Continuance and Preservation of the same here in this Life to the Honour of God Joy and Pleasure of my Lord the King and Us and the Universal Well Quiet and Tranquillity of this whole Realm Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Hampton-Court the Twelfth Day of October Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Nine and Twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland and in Truth Supream Head of the Church of England Between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey in the County of Wiltshire on the one Party and the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford on the other Party Witnesseth That it is fully Covenanted Condescended Bargained Concluded and Agreed between the said Parties and either of them Covenanteth Bargaineth Granteth and Agreeth for them their Heirs and Executors to and with the others in manner and form following That is to say Where the said Dame Anne for a Marriage already had done and solemnized between one Silvester Danvers Son and Heir of Thomas Danvers Esquire Deceased Son and Heir of the said Dame Anne hath received of the said Lord Mordaunt Four hundred Marks Sterling whereof the said Dame Anne knowledgeth her self to be fully satisfied contented and paid and the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors thereof to be acquitted and discharged and also the said Dame Anne by these presents knowledgeth her self to have received of the said Lord Mordaunt several Obligations for the payment of Two hundred Marks For the which Summ and payments already paid and to be paid The said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That where she the said Dame Anne is seized of and in certain Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall of the clear yearly value of Fifty Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Expences that the said Dame Anne shall before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next coming after the date hereof make or cause to be made to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and Edmond Fettyplace Esquire and to their Heirs for ever a good sufficient sure and Lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in all and singular the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and all and singular other the Premises with the Appurtenances to the said Sir Anthony Hungerford and Edmond Pettyplace and to their Heirs for ever discharged of all former Bargains Uses Sales Jointures Dowers Titles Statutes Statutes of the Staple Uses Wills Arrearages of Rents Judgments Alienations without License Intrusions not suing of Livery out of the King's Hands Entries Fines Forfeits and that the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments be at the making thereof to the clear yearly value of Forty Pounds over and above all charges going out of the same Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of the Fee from thence forth to be due only excepted to the intent and upon condition That the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace or the Survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns shall immediately and incontinently after such Estate made to them by the said Dame Anne within Ten days next after the same Feast make or cause to be made to the same Dame Anne a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate of all the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises with the Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments with the Appurtenances to the said Dame Anne and her Assigns for term of Life of the said Dame Anne without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof after the said Dame Anne to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the said Silvester for ever discharged in manner and form before rehearsed And the said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That the said Dame Anne within Fifteen Days after she hath the Estate of the Premises made to her by the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace and by the survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns with the remainder as before is expressed that the said Dame Anne by her sufficient Deed or Deeds in the Law shall Grant an Annuity or Annual Rent of Forty Pounds by the Year going out of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances yearly to be paid
Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after their deceases to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt for ever And of all the residue of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which lately were the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or Freehold jointly or severally or otherwise in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last Day of August in the said Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to such Person and Persons and to such use and uses as by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son shall be declared in Writing for and during the space of Ten Years or under and not above so that the same to be declared first for and to the Payment of his Debts And after his Debts paid then to and for the Advancement of his Children Unmarried and after his Debts paid and his Children Unmarried advanced then for the Performance of the Legacies of the same Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after the same Ten Years ended and expired then to the proper use and behoof of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the same Dame Eilzabeth Mordaunt for ever And also That if the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son doth convey and assure unto the said Lewis Mordaunt to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt all the Estate Right Title Interest which the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son hath in and to the Maner of Snelson in the County of Buckingham and in and to all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Snelson aforesaid and in Turvey Harold Lavenden and Brafeld or elsewhere to the said Maner of Snelson belonging which were sometime George the Earl of Kents in the County of Buckingham and Bedford And also do permit and suffer the said Lewis Mordaunt quietly to have hold occupy and enjoy all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which be conveyed or assured unto the said Lewis according to the true intent and meaning as well of certain Indentures Quadripartite made between me the said John Lord Mordaunt on the one Party and the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols on the other Party bearing date the last Day of August in the Second Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is as also of other Conveyances and Assurances made by me unto the said Lewis Mordaunt And also do permit and suffer my Executors to execute and perform my Will without any Impeachment or Disturbance That then my Executors shall well and truly content and pay or cause to be contented and paid unto the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son within One whole Year next after such lawful and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis the Summ of Three thousand Marks of Lawful Money of England towards the payment of his Debts and Advancement of his Children Unmarried And further That then the said Lewis Mordaunt shall assure or cause to be assured unto the said Dame Joan now Wife to my Son Sir John Mordaunt one yearly Rent of One hundred Marks during her Life with a sufficient clause of Distress in Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the yearly value of One hundred Pounds for the not payment thereof at Two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also my Will is That all my Funeral Debts Legacies and Charges of this my Last Will and Testament paid and discharged that the said Lewis Mordaunt shall have all the residue of my Goods Plate and Chattels whatsoever they be Executores Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Johannis Mordaunt Militis Domini Mordaunt tertio decimo die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo anno regni Reginae Elizabethae quarto Robertus Tirewhite miles Henricus Darcy Armiger Thomas Nichols Generosus Ludovicus Mordaunt Armiger Georgius Mordaunt Armiger Johannes Ashecomb Generosus Thomas Darcy Armiger Quilibet Executorum praedictorum assumens super se onus Testamenti mei habebit viginti libras Also I make Sir Robert Catlin Knight and my loving Cousin Justice Anthony Brown Supervisors of this my Last Will and Testament and I give to either of them Ten Pounds for their pains taken herein these being Witness John Hatcher Thomas Larkin Robert Pemberton John Moreton Edward Knight Robert Bennet and John Richardson SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT In the Parish Church of Turvey Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Third of that Name Second Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt the Younger Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we are determined upon the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and do to be Celebrated at Westminster with all due Circumstances of Honor the Coronation of our most dear and welbeloved Wife the Lady Anne our Queen as to her Estate and Dignity doth appertain at which time it hath been accustomed to advance to the Honor of Knighthood to be made and ordered with the Ceremonies of the Bath such of the Nobility as was at that time by the Sovereign thought convenient for the same And therefore minding to pretermit nothing that might set forth the Honor of the said Coronation and thinking you right able and worthy to receive that Degree have appointed you to be one of those whom we intend to advance to such Honor. And therefore our Pleasure is That ye being advertised hereof do make such Preparation against the time aforesaid and put your self in such a Readiness as shall be requisite for you in the acceptation of the said Order and as for the Honor thereof hath been used and accustomed Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and twentieth Day of April Hollinshead 's Chronicle page 931. No. 50. ON Fryday at Dinner served the King all such as were appointed by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath which after Dinner were brought to
Joan my Wife and the longer Liver of us And after the same Ten years being ended and determined then to the Use and Behoof of the said Sir Lewis Mordaunt and of his Heirs for ever as by the same Indenture and Conveyance aforesaid more at large appeareth And whereas after the same Conveyance so made the same Sir Lewis Mordaunt by another Indenture dated the First Day of May in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is and other Conveyances did grant convey and assure unto the said Lord Mordaunt and to his Heirs for ever all his Reversion Remainder Estate and Interest of and in the said Maner of Tiptofts in the County of Essex and of the said Farms Lands and Tenements and other the Premises called Pinkneys and Wareleys in the said County of Essex as by the same Indenture and other Assurances last mentioned more at large also it appeareth I Will and my full Intent and meaning is That my Executors hereafter named the said Conveyance or Assurance of the said Reversion or Remainder notwithstanding shall have hold and enjoy for and towards the Performance of this my Last Will and Testament all the said Maner of Tiptofts and all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Pinkneys and Wareleys in the said County of Essex And all other Lands Tenements Remainders Reversions and Hereditaments contained in the said Indenture dated the First Day of May and assured and conveyed unto me and mine Heirs And all Lands and Tenements contained in an Indenture dated the Tenth Day of February last made by me to the Lord Windsor and others together with the said Maners of Cranham Gingeraff and Amies and all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called and known by the name or names of Amies or Nokehall And all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Bromford-magna in the said County of Essex sometime being in the Occupation of one Rowland Walehead or his Assigns from the time of my Decease and the Decease of the said Lady Joan my Wife unto the full end and term of Ten Years the next following fully to be compleat and ended And after the said term of Ten Years being fully ended and determined I then Will That the said Maners Lands Farms Tenements and Hereditaments called Tiptofts Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances in such sort manners and forms and to such uses intents and purposes as heretofore I have limited and appointed the same shall be conveyed and assured by the right Honourable Edward Lord Winsor before recited and other his Co-bargainers or Co-feoffees unto whom I have assured the same in hope they will duly perform and accomplish my full Intent and Meaning therein to the Principal of the King's Hall and Colledge of Brasen-nose in Oxford and to the Scholars of the same and to their Successors for ever And for the better having and enjoying of the said Maners Farms Lands Tenements and other the Premises according to this my present Testament My Will Intent and Meaning is That the said Edward Lord Windsor and other to whom I have assured the said Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises called Tiptofts Pinkneys and Wareleys and every of them as much as in them is or conveniently may be at the Costs and Charges of my Executors hereafter named shall do cause and procure to be done such reasonable Acts and things for the assurance hereof according to the true Intent and Meaning of this my present Will and Testament as by my said Executors hereafter named and by the said Principal and Scholars or their Successors or any of them or by their or any of their Council Learned in the Laws shall be reasonably devised and required And with part of the Issues of the same I will Scholars to be named from time to time by mine Executors or by the Survivors of them during their Lives and after by mine Heirs shall be continually found and other Deeds of Charity shall be done as I have limited to mine Executors Item I will and bequeath to the Lady Joan my Wife all that my Mansion-House and all other my Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments scituate lying and being in or near the Hospital of Little Saint Bartholomews in Smithfield within the Suburbs of the City of London To have the same to the said Lady Joan for and during the full term of Fifty Years if the said Lady Joan my Wife shall happen so long to live And the residue of all the Estates Interests and Terms of Years that shall be to come of and in my said Mansion-House and other the Premises in or near the Hospital of Little Saint Bartholomews for all the Years that then shall be to come in the same shall be sold by my Executors hereafter named or the Survivor of them and all Sums of Money as shall be had and received for the same to employ towards the Payment of my Debts and towards the Performance of this my Last Will. Item I make and ordain the Lady Joan my welbeloved Wife my Brother-in-Law Thomas Farmer Edward Plowden Esquires and William Goodfellow my Servant mine Executors of this my Last Will and Testament And moreover I do refer to the discretion of mine Executors this my Last Will and Testament And thus revoking all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made or declared I ordain and establish this to be my very true Last Will and Testament And moreover I do refer to the discretion of my Executors which of my Legacies shall be first paid and which after and likewise the Time of the payment thereof I refer to their Choice and Discretions And I will mine Executors shall bestow Sixteen Pounds of lawful Money of England as I have declared to my Wife Item I Will That my Executors shall have towards the payment of my Debts the Two hundred Pounds decreed to be paid to me in the Chancery by Clement Tanfield and all other Debts due to me Item I Will That my House shall be kept at the Charges of mine Executors for Two Months next after my Decease The residue of all my Goods and Chartels Real and Personal and of the Debts due to me and all the Residue Profit and Commodity of the Premises appointed to mine Executors for the said Ten Years remaining after my Funeral Debts and Legacies paid I give and bequeath to my said Wife Saving Twenty Pounds of lawful Money of England which I will and bequeath to the foresaid Edward Plowden Esquire and saving Ten Pounds which I will unto the aforesaid Thomas Farmer Esquire and also saving Ten Pounds which I will unto the aforesaid William Goodfellow In Witness whereof to this my Last Will and Testament I have put my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written These being Witnesses whose Names be hereafter subcribed John Mordaunt Anne Ratcliff John Farmer John Cams per William Colshill Henry Witney Robert Nicholsmark John Bickerton Emanuel
Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones si ipsa Elizabetha tamdiu vixerit Quam quidem annuam summam viginti quatuor librarum quatuor denariorum iidem Willielmus Margareta concedunt pro se haeredibus suis praefatis Roberto Elizabethae per praesentes quòd ipsi haeredes sui eidem Roberto Elizabethae annuatim ad festa praedicta in eadem Ecclesia solvent aut eorum aliquis solvet Et si contingat dictum annualem redditum viginti quatuor librarum quatuor denariorum aut aliquem parcellam indè à retro fore non solutam in Ecclesia praedicta post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum per quarterium unius anni aut contingat quòd aliquod vastum in aliquo praemissorum durante termino praedicto fieri quòd tunc benè liceat praefatis Roberto Elizabethae in omnia eadem terras tenementa prata pascua pasturas molendinas stagna piscaria boscos redditus servitia cum omnibus suis pertinentiis intrare ea in pristino statu suo tenere possidere his indenturis in aliquo non obstantibus Et iidem Willielmus Mordaunt Margareta etiam concedunt pro se haeredibus suis praefatis Roberto Elizabethae per praesentes quòd ipsi haeredes sui omnia terras tenementa caetera praemissa sufficienter reparabunt sustentabunt sumptibus suis propriis expensis Ac omnia alia onera redditus servitia tam Domino rege quam capitalibus dominis feodi illius annuatim solvent supportabunt durante termino praedicto Etiam iidem Willielmus Margareta concedunt pro se haeredibus suis per praesentes praefatis Roberto Elizabethae quòd ipsi non allegabunt nec aliquis eorum allegabit aliquam aquietantiam sive aliquod scriptum exonerationis aut aliquam solutionem redditus praedicti sive alicujus indè parcellae allegatum sit alibi fore triable quam per visum praedictum quòd tunc illa aquietantia scriptum solutionis exonerationis nullius sint vigoris nec effectus in lege sed omni suo robore careant virtute Proviso semper quòd si quandocunque contigerit ipsam Elizabetham infra terminum praedictum obire extunc praedicta traditio dimissio vacuae sint nullius valoris nec effectus quòd solutio redditus praedicti extunc solubilis non existat his indenturis non obstantibus In cujus rei Testimonium partes praedictae his indenturis sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt Data die anno praedicto Charta Johannis Bainton NOverint universi per praesentes me Johannem Bainton de Turveia remisisse relaxâsse omnimodo pro me haeredibus meis in perpetuum quietum clamâsse Willielmo Mordaunt de eadem Gentilman Johanni Mordaunt Johanni Tawe clerico Johanni Faux clerico Willielmo Geliott clerico haeredibus assignatis suis totum jus meum clameum quae habeo habui vel quovis modo in futurum habere potero de in omnibus illis maneriis cum omnibus juribus commoditatibus pertinentiis suis quibuscunque ac aliis omnibus illis terris tenementis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis redditibus servitiis cum suis pertinentiis omnibus quae nuper habui conjunctim cum Johanne Holdenby de Holdenby Armigero Willielmo Holdenby de Isham Johanne Fisher alias dicto Johanne Turvey de Turveia jam defunctis ex dono feoffamento Roberti Mordaunt nuper de Turveia praedicta Armigeri in villa campis de Turveia praedicta alibi in Comitatibus Bedfordiae Buckinghamiae ut in quadam Charta ipsius Roberti Mordaunt nobis indè confecta plenariè liquet Ita quòd nec ego praedictus Johannes Bainton nec haeredes mei nec aliquis alius nomine nostro aliquod juris vel clamei in dictis maneriis cum pertinentiis suis neque in aliis dictis terris tenementis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis redditibus servitiis praedictis cum suis pertinentiis nec in aliqua parcella indè de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus Sed ab omni actione juris vel clamei indè sumus exclusi in perpetuum per praesentes sigillo meo sigillatas His testibus Johanne Richardson de Hardmeade Richardo Schabury de Newinton Humfrido Sherley de Harwold Rogero Bonham de Carleton Thoma Walcote de Turveia multis aliis Datas apud Turveiam praedictam vicesimo sexto die mensis Januarii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi quarti undecimo Charta Johannis Bainton HAEC indentura facta vicesimo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi quarti undecimo testatur quòd Johannes Bainton de Turveia tradidit concessit ad firmum dimisit Willielmo Mordaunt de eadem Johanni Mordaunt Johanni Tawe clerico Johanni Faux clerico Willielmo Geliott clerico omnia illa maneria sua cum omnibus singulis suis pertinentiis juribus commoditatibus quibuscunque omnia alia illa terras tenementa prata pascua pasturas boscos redditus servitia cum suis pertinentiis universis quae nuper habuit conjunctim cum Johanne Holdenby Armigero Willielmo Holdenby Johanne Fisher alias dicto Johanne Turvey jam defunctis ex dono feoffamento Roberti Mordaunt nuper de Turveia praedicta Armigeri situata jacentia in vila campis de Turveia praedicta alibi in Comitatibus Bedfordiae Buckinghamiae Habendum tenendum omnia illa praedicta maneria cum omnibus singulis suis pertinentibus quibuscunque absque aliquo retinemento ac omnia alia praedicta terras tenementa prata pascua pasturas boscos redditus servitia cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Johanni Mordaunt Johanni Tawe Johanni Faux Willielmo Geliott clericis assignatis suis à festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito usque ad finem terminum decem annorum tunc proximum sequentium plenarie completorum reddendo indè annuatim praefato Johanni Bainton assignatis suis durante termino praedicto ad festum natalis Domini duos capones solvendo omnia servitia de dictis maneriis cum pertinentiis terris tenementis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis redditibus servitiis exeuntia durante termino praedicto In cujus rei testimonium huic parti istius indenturae penès praefatum Johannem Bainton remanenti praedicti Willielmus Mordaunt Johannes Mordaunt Johannes Tawe Johannes Faux Willielmus Geliott clerici sigilla sua apposuerint alterae parti penès eos remanenti praedictus Johannes Bainton sigillum suum apposuit Data apud Turveiam praedictam die anno supradictis Sigillo fracto Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Counsellor of State to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI Charta Johannis Mordaunt TO all Christian People to whom this
several maintenances until their several Marriages I do Will Give Bequeath and Devise by this my Last Will and Testament unto my loving Friends Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires and to their Heirs for ever Two parts of my Maners of Carleton and Chillington in the County of Bedford in Three parts to be divided which I lately purchased of the Lord Vaux the Land Meadow and Common thereto belonging lying in the Fields of Turvey only excepted Also I will give and bequeath unto the said Edward Watson and John Wake and to their Heirs for ever Two parts of my Maner of Stacheden otherwise called Delwike in the County of Bedford in three parts to be divided lately by me purchased of Master William Cornwallis Esquire and Lucy his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of Sir John Nevill Knight Lord Latimer deceased and also two parts of my Maner and Closes of Snelson in the Parish of Lawenden in the County of Buckingham commonly called Snelson-Pastures in three parts to be divided or as much of my said Maners of Carleton and Chillington Stacheden called Delwike and Snelson-Pastures as shall amount unto two full parts of all the said Maners Closes and Pastures in three parts to be divided To the intent and purpose and upon special Trust and Confidence That if my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs do not yearly pay to each of my Daughters for their several maintenances until their several Marriages the foresaid Summs of Fifty Pounds a piece with their several Meat Drink and Lodging or One hundred Marks a Year a piece without Meat and Drink so that each of them may quietly have and receive Fifty Pounds a Year and Meat and Drink or a Hundred Marks a piece without Meat and Drink according to my true meaning as aforesaid Then I will That the said Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors for this purpose and their Heirs shall yearly after my death levy and receive the Rents Issues Profits of the Premises and pay unto my said two Daughters yearly as aforesaid to each of them the Summ of One hundred Marks for their several maintenance until the several days of their several Marriages and the rest remaining to deliver unto my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs And to the intent and purpose and upon special Trust and Confidence That if my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Exccutors or Assigns shall not pay the said several Summs and every part and parcel of them before by me in this my Will to my Daughters and others bequeathed at such days and times as in this my Last Will is devised mentioned declared or intended according to my true meaning as I trust and assuredly hope he will Or shall resuse make denial or use detraction or delays Then I will That the said Edward Watson and John Wake or the Survivor of them and their Heirs shall bargain and sell to any person or persons their Heirs or Assigns for ever the said two parts of my said Maners Closes and Pastures with all and singular their Appurtenances in Carleton Chillington Stacheden called Delwike and Snelson aliàs Snelson-Pastures in three parts to be divided or as much thereof and of every part and parcel thereof as shall amount or fully extend unto the just value of two parts in three parts to be divided the Land in the Field of Turvey belonging to Carleton and Chillington only excepted for and towards the payment of their said several Portions before bequeathed And my intent is That if any Summ of Money shall be remaining over and besides the Legacies aforesaid which I will first to be satisfied then within convenient time after my Executors shall have received the same my said Executors and their Heirs shall deducting their reasonable Charges pay the same over unto my Son or to such other as shall be at that time my Heir Male of my House of Drayton And for that purpose only I mean for the maintenance of my Daughters and for the sale of my said Land as aforesaid if need so require I will that Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires and I will that _____ shall be my Supervisors for whose care in that behalf I give _____ And if my Son Henry depart this World without Heir Male my Daughters or any of them then surviving then my will is That my Daughter Katherine shall have in Augmentation of her Portion Five hundred Pounds more over and above her former Legacies And my Daughter Elizabeth also shall have Five hundred Pounds more beside her former Legacies And Arthur Maunsell if he be then alive shall have the like Summ of Five hundred Pounds otherwise I will the same to be divided between my Daughter Mary's two Sons Arthur and Henry Maunsell and that Edward Watson and John Wake and their Heirs my Executors also for this purpose shall stand seized of two parts of my Fee-simple Lands until such time as my Daughters be paid their Legacies by the next Heirs to whom my Son shall leave the same if my Son die without a Son But if my Son Henry have a Son that shall survive him then these three last Legacies bequeathed unto my Daughters Katherine and Elizabeth and the Children of my Daughter Mary touching their last bequests of Five hundred Pounds a piece shall be meerly void Nevertheless my Will is That though he have a Son my Daughters shall have their former Legacies and Portions according to my true meaning as aforesaid And my full Meaning and Will is That the Charges of my several Daughters Marriages in Meat Drink and Apparel according to their degrees shall be defrayed and born at the Costs and Charges of my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs or such other to whom my Lands by vertue hereof shall descend Which if he or they shall refuse or not do Then I Will That Edward Watson and John Wake my Executors or the Survivor of them or their Heirs shall see performed out of such Lands as before and hereafter I have willed and devised to them and their Heirs as occasion shall serve And thus having disposed of my worldly Goods and taken order for my Daughters Portions and Debts which I wish to be first paid having a special care that all and every Person or Persons to whom I have sold any manner of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall quietly and peaceably enjoy the same according to my true intent and meaning Although my trust and hope is my Son and Heir and his and their Heirs and all those that are or shall be Heir or Heirs Males to John Lord Mordaunt my late Grandfather to John Lord Mordaunt my Father deceased to my self or to my Son Henry Mordaunt shall and will quietly and peaceably permit and suffer all those Person and Persons and their Heirs to whom I have sold any Maners Lands or Tenements as aforesaid to have hold and enjoy the same and every part and parcel of them to them and their Heirs for ever
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. 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