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
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
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
more plainly shall appear Which recoveries of the said Mannors and other the premisses were had for the only surety of payment of one thousand pounds to the use of the late noble King of Memory Henry the Seventh our most dear Father by the said John Mordaunt Son and Heir of John Mordaunt Knight Deceased to be paid And after the said thousand pounds were fully content and paid then ye and your joint Recoverers should be Recoverers or Feoffees to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son and his Heirs for ever as by certain and divers Covenants in certain Indentures specified between Giles Dawbeny late Lord Dawbeny for the part of our said dearest Father of the one party and the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son of the other party made the xxth day of January the year of the Reign of our said Father the twenty second more plainly may appear Of the which sum of a thousand pounds four hundred pounds were paid to the use of our said Father to John Heyron Knight late Treasurer of the Chamber of our said Father by the said John Mordaunt the Son And we for certain Causes and Considerations us moving have remised and pardoned two hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds to the same Sir John Mordaunt the Son And one hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son hath paid to Sir Harry Wyat Knight Treasurer of our Chamber to our use And for three hundred pounds residue of the said thousand pounds the same John Mordaunt the Son by the name of John Mordaunt Knight is bounden by several Obligations to certain persons to our use for the sure payment of the same three hundred pounds to be paid to our use as by the same several Obligations thereof made and remaining with the same Sir Harry Wyat to our use it may appear Wherefore we signifie unto you that our Pleasure is and we will and Command you that ye without any delay do seal the said two Releases and deliver them as your Deeds to the bringer of them to the use of the said Sir John the Son And these our Letters Signed with our Hand and Sealed with our Seal shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the _____ A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Justified by Ancient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Drayton were Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules Of the Name Original Descent Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Drayton THE Mannor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble of the Country wherein it lies both for its Commodities Situation and the Royalties belonging thereunto was in the dayes of those Kings that did precede the Conquest among the Possessions of one Oswinus a famous Saxon. But upon the distribution of the Lands acquired by King William it became part of the Estate of Aubrey de Vere who first Entred England with that Prince From this Earl Aubrey the Elder for so he was termed the Lordship of Drayton did descend to Earl Aubrey the Second who was Father to the first Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it was given in Partage as a Foundation of his Fortune to Robert his second Son with the Lordships of Adington the greater and the less as likewise the Lands he held in Twyvell of the Abbey of Thorney and other fair possessions This Mannor and Lordship consisted at that time of a fair ancient Castle encompassed with four large high Walls Embattailed round with such Fortifications as were necessary both for resistance and offence It had as parcels thereof very useful Demesnes a Park a Warren and flourishing Woods besides the Villages of Luffwick Islip Slipton and certain Lands in the Parishes of Aldwinkle and Tichmarsh in each of which the Lords had Courts of their own the Advowsons of the three Churches belonging thereunto with free Warren upon all those Lands and free Fishing for a long Tract upon the River of Avon To this Robert de Vere Lord of Drayton did succeed Sir Henry de Vere who left his Inheritance to Sir Walter de Vere his Son who from the Excellency of the place and his great love thereunto did assume the Name thereof to remain to him and his Posterity ever after A thing in those days very usual as may be instanced in several Examples too long for this Occasion This Sir Walter de Vere having among other Heroes of that time design'd his Application to the Holy War took for his Arms as a mark of his Intention Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules which was afterwards constantly born by the Successors of this Family and under that same Name and Ensign did flourish a fair Posterity of several Noble Knights which upon this Lordship of Drayton did long live in much honour and opulency in possession of that Noble Mannor with other Lands in Sudborow in Brigstock and in Irtlingborow in the County of Northampton of fair possessions in Luton and Flamstead in Bedfordshire of the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Stoke-Goldington in the County of Huntingdon and of the Lordship of Southnewenton in Oxfordshire Their Alliances were not less Illustrious than their Original they having been contracted with the Houses of Bassett and de la Zouch of the great and ancient Baronage and other Families famous for high Actions and the faithful Service of their Princes This Lordship notwithstanding with its Name and Arms came afterwards to be incorporate into the House of Greene and by them as to what is most remarkable through a fatal revolution of humane things after near four hundred years unto the Original Veres again by Isabella Greene who being Married to Sir Richard Vere that was Lord of Thrapston and Adington and descended from Robert Brother of that Walter we first mentioned by the Issue which she brought Created such a Title as for default of Posterity from Constance Countess of Wiltshire the Daughter of the last Sir Henry Green the Lordship of Drayton came to Elizabeth Grandchild of this Richard Vere and by her to the Mordaunts that were descended from her Sir WALTER of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton Luffwick Islip Addington Twyvell and other Lands and Lordships WAlter de Vere the eldest Son of Henry the Son of Robert that was second Son of Aubrey Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of England being then very young and in the Life-time of Sir Henry his Father did attend King Richard the First into the Holy Land and on that Occasion assum'd for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrail'd Gules After he had there won his Spurs by divers generous Actions and received the Honour of Knighthood at the hand of that victorious King he returned home with several Companions of that
to oppose him or his Heirs For securing of which promise he delivered up his Son William in Hostage who was after returned as an assurance of the Kings trust He departed this life in the One and fortieth year of Henry the Third leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran de Newburgh Earl of Warwick William Lord Mauduit afterwards Earl of Warwick AT the Death of his Father WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the fourth of that name was thirty six years old upon the possession of the Estate and Dignity of his Ancestors he received early testimonies of the Kings trust and favour by the acceptance of a moderate relief for his Barony and his Sergeantry and reasonable time for the payment The Lords of his Family had ever the reputation of being Martial and himself was esteemed active and vigorous so as he was usually summoned to attend the King in most of his Expeditions with his power and followers In the forty seventh Year of King Henry the Third doing his homage and paying an hundred pounds for his relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick he had livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him that is to say the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had summons that year to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility But soon after the King was necessitated to leave of his Welsh Expedition to provide against the power and insolence of his Barons who were then gathering together against him at Northampton He sent therefore this Earl to make sure of his Castle of Warwick a place at that time very considerable but such was his unhappiness as wanting diligent Guards they issued out of Kenilworth under the Command of John Giffard Governour of that Castle and surprising this at Warwick slew divers of the Earls men and carried him and his Lady Prisoners to Kenilworth out of which place before he could be delivered they forced him to pay nineteen hundred Marks for his Ransome and threw down the Walls of Warwick-Castle After this unhappy accident I find no more of him than that he married Alice the Daughter of Gilbert de Segrave and dyed without Issue the Eighth of Jan. Anno 1267. 52 Hen. III. ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit Chamberlain to King Henry the Second THE direct line of those Mauduits who were Lords of Hanslape and hereditary Chamberlains of the Exchequer ending in William Lord Mauduit who came to be also Earl of Warwick and that dyed without Issue I must return to Robert the second Son of Robert Lord Mauduit who was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second to carry on the Genealogical description of that branch of these Mauduits who were Lords of Werminster from whom the Greene's of Drayton did Descend and that did flourish for many Ages in this Nation under great reputation and Authority Unto Robert Lord Mauduit who was Lord of Hanslape in the days of Henry the Second King Richard and King John there were born of the Lady Isabella Bassett two Sons William and Robert the latter of which was a Youth so esteemed for his Valour and Martial inclinations and particularly by his Father as for a foundation of a greater fortune he bestowed upon him the noble Lordship of Werminster which he had received from the Gift of his old Master King Henry the Second and his Elder Brother the Lord William Mauduit was so far from repining at the Gift as he added to his Estate of his own Grant the Mannor of Shaudedene now called Scaldene And he had moreover from the kindness of Robert de la Mare a great Lord of that Age divers Lands in Bushopstre and Tarenta in Marriage with his Daughter Agnes by whom he left Issue William Mauduit Lord of Werminster WILLIAM MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster became possessed by Inheritance from his Father his Marriage and his own acquests of the Lordships of Werminster Scaldene Samborne and Grately in the County of Wilts as also of Lands in Bushopstre Tarenta and Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop which last were of his Mothers Inheritance In the Fourteenth of King Henry the Third he was sued with Eugenia his Wife by Robert de Passlieu for detaining one Henry the Son of Henry de Cromwell whose custody he pretended to belong to him by reason of the Kings Commission but because the said Robert did not produce the same it was order'd in Court That Henry de Cromwell should remain in the Keeping of William Mauduit and his Wife Eugenia This William gave Lands in Samborne to Thomas the Son of Simon of Deene and he demised the Mannor of Grately to Galfred of Winelford There is extant a Grant unto him of a Faire yearly to be held for three days at his Lordship of Werminster that is to say on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Lawrence and of a Market to be held every Thursday at his Mannor of Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop. He married Eugenia Daughter to that Foulke Lord Fitz-Warren who was a Lord of much fame in the days of King John and of his Son Henry and left Issue Warren Mauduit Lord of Werminster Sir John Mauduit WARREN MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster received his Christian Name as has been very usual from that Noble Family of which his Mother was descended and much deference and respect was due from him thereunto as from one whence he did derive a great part of his Inheritance as the Mannors of Westbury Lye and other Lordships He was one of those Lords that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land when he was yet but Prince and we find him to have lived much in his esteem and favour as one by whom he was accompanied in most of his War-like Expeditions He was summoned to many of those Parliaments that were called in his Raign towards the latter end whereof he departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas Mauduit Lord of Werminster THOMAS Lord MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in the Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Scalden Samborne West-Hacley Lye Castle-Helgot and other great Possessions so as at that time he was accounted one of the most powerful Lords of his rank He received in the Eleventh year of King Edward the Second a Charter from that King of Free Warren for him and his Heirs to have as well upon all his Lands in Westbury Lye and Chaldcoate in the County of Wilts as upon those of Deene and Grately in the County of Southampton These are the words of the Patent He was a Lord of such fame in those days
totam terram illam tenementum quae habuimus in Villa de Gravenshull quam quidem terram septem villani nostri tenere consueverint liberè quietè integrè sine aliquo retenemento cum omnibus suis pertinentiis faciendo inde nobis haeredibus nostris servitium vicesimae partis feodi unius Militis pro omni servitio exactione seculari in perpetuum ut praedictum est His Testibus Domino Thoma de Clare Johanne de Muscegros Roberto de Turberville Hugone de Turberville Hugone filio Otonis Roberto de Turberville filio Rogero de Reymes aliis Datum per manum nostram apud Bristol nono die Decembris Anno Regni Domini Regis patris nostri quinquagesimo secundo Carta Dominae Margeriae de Insula SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Margeria de Insula dedi concessi hac praesenti Carta mea confirmavi Elizabethae de Mauduit filiae meae totam illam terram tenementum quae habui in Villa de Kildewate quam quidem terram pater meus Johannes de Verdon quondam emit de Domino Roberto de Muscegros mihi dedit in liberum Maritagium tenenda habenda sibi haeredibus suis de me haeredibus meis liberè quietè bene in pace in perpetuum reddendo inde annuatim ipsa haeredes sui mihi haeredibus meis unum obulum ad festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae pro omnibus servitiis Sectis Curiarum wardis releviis omnibus aliis secularibus exactionibus quae contingere possunt Et ego verò dicta Margeria haeredes mei dictam terram tenementum cum pertinentiis dictae Elizabethae haeredibus suis contra omnes mortales per praedictum servitium in perpetuum warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio praesentis Cartae meae confirmatio perpetuae firmitatis robur obtineant praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Domino Warino de Bassingburne Hugone Lovel Waltero Simenhede Johanne Russell Militibus Johanne de la Grane Petro de Stane Johanne de Stane Galfrido de Bolyntom Willielmo de Sandhurst aliis Declaratio Domini Warini Mauduit de homagio Petri de Langford PAteat universis per praesentes quòd ego Warinus Mauduit Capitalus Dominus de parva Tenton die Mercurii proxima post Festum Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo in aula mea De Werminster recepi Homagium Petri de Langford Tenentis mei pro terra de parva Tenton praedicta praesentibus Domino Johanne de Muscegros Thoma Mauduit filio meo Henrico Pennistone Waltero Setwale Simone de Harwell Waltero Leffry Johanne Berenford Thoma de Redland aliis In cujus rei Memoriam praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Werminster die Anno supradictis OUT of a very Antient Manuscript and a List therein of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land is Dominus Warinus Mauduit THOMAS MAVDVIT Lord Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Domini Thomae Mauduit SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Thomas Mauduit filius Domini Warini Mauduit dedi concessi hac praesenti Carta confirmavi Waltero Stoner libero homini meo unam virgatam terrae in Scaldene cum omnibus pertinentiis suis pro Homagio servitio suo illam scilicet dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Radulphus Junnens quondam tenuit cum Messuagio Curtelagio cum una Crofta cum omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis illam dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Robertus Made tenuit cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sine Messuagio Curtelagio Habendum tenendum de me haeredibus meis vel meis assignatis sibi haeredibus suis vel suis assignatis liberè quietè pacificè in Bosco in plano in viis in semitis in pasturis in omnibus aliis locis exceptis à Curia mea segetibus meis Habebunt etiam dictus Walterus Beatricia Uxor sua haeredes sui vel assignati centum oves unum Multonem quieto de Herbagio seu cujusmodi animalia voluerint in pasturis ejusdem villae decem Boves vel Vaccas sive aliqua animalia cujusmodi voluerint quietos de Herbagio decem porcos quietos de Panagio ubicumque porci Liberorum Hominum pascent duos equos vel equas quietos de Herbagio Habendum tenendum liberè quietè pacificè sicut praenominatum est pro omni servitio exactione demanda ad me vel ad haeredes meos pertinentibus reddendo inde annuatim mihi haeredibus meis vel meis assignatis ipsi haeredes sui vel sui assignati unum Par albarum Chirothecarum vel unum denarium ad Pascha vel infra octavas Paschae sine Calumnia Volo etiam concedo quòd dictus Walterus haeredes sui vel assignati habeant liberum introitum exitum ad omnes terras sine Calumnia Et si ita fortè contigerit quòd dictus Walterus sine Haerede de Beatrice Uxore sua decesserit supradicta Beatricia totam praedictam terram cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sicut praenominatum est habeat cuicumque voluerit superstite concessum est legat ' vel Assignat ' exceptâ Domo Religiosa Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio Cartae meae Confirmatio firma stabilis in perpetuum permaneat praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui his Testibus Radulpho de Rale Willielmo de Grimsted Symone de Melbourne Willielmo filio Gervasii Ada de la Hyde Thoma Spencer Andreo Camerario aliis multis Datum apud Scaldene die Annuntiationis beatae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici SIGILLVM DNI THOMAE MAUDUIT Carta Roberti Mauduit SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus Mauduit concessi quietam clamavi de me haeredibus meis Domino Thomae Mauduit fratri meo haeredibus suis totam terram meam de Westhastie cum toto adquestu meo sine ullo retinemento in excambiis terrae suae de Knovenhill quam ipse Thomas Mauduit dominus meus frater haeredes sui mihi haeredibus meis de Uxore mea progenitis concesserunt quietam clamaverunt Carta sua confirmaverunt Itaque nolo quod praedictus Thomas Mauduit Dominus meus frater vel haeredes sui per me vel per aliqâ—â—â—â— haeredum meorum in aliquo vexentur Hanc concessionem quietam Clamation â—â— praesenti Scripto Sigilli mei munimine confirmavi his Testibus Willielmo de Warblintune Nicholao de Haveresham Willielmo de la Mare Nicholao de la Mare Waltero de la Mare Willielmo Parsona de Gratele Richardo filio Alveredi Hugone de Ho ... Richardo de Aulvine Petro de Warblintune multis aliis Carta
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
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
de Clare Comite Gloucestriae Herefordiae Petro de Sebaudia Simone de Monteforti Comite Leicestriae W. de fortibus Comite Albemarliae R. Quenci Comite de Wintonia H. de Vere Comite Oxoniae Hugone de Vivon Johanne de Plessetis Paulino Peyre Johanne de Lexynton aliis Datum per manum nostram in Castris apud Gannok quarto die Octobris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo nono Carta Domini Galfridi de Lucy SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Gaufridus de Lucy dedi concessi praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto de Vere pro homagio servitio suo centum solidos Esterlingorum in Molendino meo de Daylenton quod scilicet quondam fuit Roberti de Pruer percipiendos per annum per manum Molendinarii ejusuem Molendini ad tres terminos anni scilicet ad Pascha duas marcas dimidiam ad Natale Domini duas marcas dimidiam Habendos tenendos sibi haeredibus suis de me haeredibus meis liberè quietè haereditariè quousque ei perfecero centum solidatos terrae in loco competenti hoc erit citra Festum Purificationis beatae Mariae Anno Regni Regis Henrici vicesimo primo quà m citiùs ei perfecero praedictos centum solidatos terrae ipse Robertus reddet mihi praesentem Cartam Molendinum praedictum mihi quietum remanebit à praedicto Roberto haeredibus suis Ego Gaufridus haeredes mei warrantizabimus praefato Roberto haeredibus suis praedictos centum solidatos Esterlingorum contra omnes gentes imperpetuum Et si eis warrantizare non poterimus dabimus eis excambium ad valenciam in loco competenti alibi in terris nostris Hiis testibus Williemo de Cantelupo Willielmo Barduffe Gilberto de Breante Bartholomeo de Thorp Richero le Mansell Gilberto Clerico multis aliis Carta Margartae Comitissae Lincolniae Pembrochiae MArgarete de Lascy Countesse de Nicole de Pembroc à son cher amy Sire Roberd de Vere salut amistés Je vous prie requer ke vous si vous plest me voillez par le porteur de cestes lettres envaier le cutel ad la Manche de Jaspe ke mun Seigneur vous presta al Moes nostre Seigneur nostre Pere kar je la voudrei envaier à mun Seigneur outre mer ensemblement ad autres choses ke je luy envaierai en ki tesmoigne je vous envei mes lettres overtes saluz Hollinshead his History of England Page 241. No. 40. ABout the same time William de Longespee Earl of Salisbury and Robert de Vere with other English-men to the number of two hundred Knights having taken on them the Cross went into the Holy Land the said Earl being their chief Captain and had so prosperous speed in their Journey that they arrived safe and sound in the Christian Army where the French King being chief thereof they were received joyfully Matthaeus Parisiensis Page 766.57 TEmpore quoque sub eodem multi Nobiles de Regno Anglorum videlicet Willielmus de Longaspata Robertus de Vere signifer ejus multi alii Nobiles ita ut ad ducentorum Equitum numerum congregati recensiti sunt ut ad iter Hierosolymitanum pararentur Hollinshead his History of England Page 433. No. 10. MOreover in the East parts that valiant Earl of Salisbury William de Longespee with Robert de Vere and others were slain in that unfortunate Battel in which the Saracens vanquished the Christians Army and took Lewis the French King Prisoner Matthaeus Parisiensis Fol. 791.42 W. Longaespatae altercatio cum R. Comite Atrebatensi TAlia igitur audiens Willielmus Longaspata schisma in exercitu jam suscitatum vehementer formidans impetuosum motum animi Comitis Atrebatensis sedare cupiens Magistri Templi iram mitigare respondit dicens Talem scissuram divisionem secundum verbum Dominicum sequitur desolatio Credamus igitur huic viro Sancto autenico ô Comes serenissime Incola hujus terrae existit diuturnus nôritque vires versutias Saracenorum experimento edoctus multiplici Nos novi Juvenes advenae quid mirum si Orientalium simus nescii periculorum Quantum distat Oriens ab Occidente tantum discrepant Occidentales ab Orientalibus Et versâ facie ad Magistrum Templi cum serenitate verbis blandis ipsum allocutus conabatur motum animi ejus mitigare cùm ecce Comes Atrebatensis rapiens verbum ab ore ejus more Gallico reboans indecenter jurans audientibus multis os in haec convitia resolvit dicens O timidorum caudatorum formidolositas quà m beatus quà m mundus praesens foret exercitus si à caudis purgaretur caudatis Quod audiens W. verecundatus de verbi offendiculo lacessitus commotus respondit O Comes Roberte certè procedam imperterritus ad quaeque imminentia mortis pericula Erimus credo hodie ubi non audebis caudam equi mei attingere Et apponentes galeas explicatis signis progressum contra hostes qui spaciosam planiciem montes valles undique cooperuerunt continuabant Sic igitur volens Comes Robertus omnia sibi si Christianos contingeret triumphare ascribere dedignabatur fratri suo Domino Francorum Regi haec praesumpta pericula nunciare Soldanus igitur per expeditissimos exploratores super hujusmodi omnibus certificatus omnem suam numerosam quae sub temporis inopinata brevitate fuerat congregata multitudinem ad certamen alacriter animavit dicens Eja eja hoc est quod diu praeoptavi Divisi sunt Christiani nec frater fratri jam adhaeret Imo isti qui non nisi vix tertiam partem conficiunt ad invicem sunt discordes Dati sunt nobis in praedam direptioneâ— Imo hodie sese corrodentes turpiter sunt objurgati Quid hi faciunt vel facturi sunt Rex Francorum remotus penitus ignorat Conterendi sunt primitus isti fame macerati bello cum itineris labore fatigati lapidibus quos apud Mansor susceperunt conquassati pauci admodum omnino debilitati ut faciliùs consequenter alios penituâ— occupemus quos ab omni victualium genere coarctamus Hoc igitur consilium cùm ab omnibus Saracenis audiretur ab universis est approbatum Irruit igitur impetuoâ—â—â— nimis ipse Soldanus cum innumerabilibus turmis suis in exercitum Christianorum committitur bellum cruentissimum infra parvae morae spatium Christianorum exercitus multitudine Saracenorum sicut Insula mari coepit circumcingi interponunrse Saraceni ipsis Christianis flumini quod transierant ne unus quidem eorum posseâ— evadere Quod videns Comes Atrebatensis poenituit eum consiliis seniorum ac sanâ— orum non adquievisse Sed galeatum serò duelli poenitet Cùm igitur videret Loâ— gamspatam hostibus undique denso agmine circumvallatum pondus totius beâ—â—
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