against whom John Smith sued several Writs of Entry to recover the Premisses accordingly Hanging this Writ of Entry Sir John Mordaunt sued a Subpoena against Sir Nicholas Sir John Turbervile and John Smith and disclosed his Bargain of Devilish and desired an Injunction in Chancery thereof that they should not proceed in the Recovery So he had an Injunction for two or three Terms and when Sir John Mordaunt had proved his Bargain by the great favour that my Lord Chancellor bore to Turbervile the Injunction was Released and Smith proceeded in the Recoveries and had Judgment against all Conscience and all Precedents like before that time as it was said And I think it appeared in Chancery that Turbervile and Smith had knowledge of the Bargains between Sir Nicholas and Hardyng and Mordaunt before the Bargain made between him and Sir Nicholas After these Recoveries Sir Nicholas sued a Subpoena against John Smith to Execute the State Tayl to Sir Nicholas according to the trust and express words of the Indenture which Estate he would never Execute nor Sir Nicholas could ever have Judgment thereof in the Chancery by the labour of Sir John Turbervile and the great favour that my Lord Chancellor bare to Turbervile which favour appeareth in as much as before the Recovery and after the Recovery all the time of that Suit hanging during the Life of the said Lord Chancellor it appeared of Record in the Chancery and was confessed by all Parties That that Estate should have been made to Sir Nicholas by express words in the Indenture When Sir John Mordaunt perceived that Sir Nicholas could not obtain his Estate then in the fifteenth year of Henry the Seventh he bought Hardyngs whole Title to Devilish of Nicholas Hardyng Heir to William Hardyng Then died my Lord Chancellor after that Bargain and then died the Wife of Sir Nicholas Latimer that was old and past Child-bearing but she was like to have over-liv'd Sir Nicholas And then in the end of Anno xv o Sir John Mordaunt was called into the Kings House and went thither wholly at Michaelmas Anno xvio. Then Married Sir Nicholas a young Gentlewoman of twenty years of Age by the which it was doubted as well by Sir John Turbervile as by Sir John Mordaunt That Sir Nicholas's Wife might have Issue Male and for that neither of them trusted so surely to come to the Inheritance according to the Title that either of them had as they did in the Life of the old Wife of Sir Nicholas And from the Death of the Lord Morton and of Sir Nicholas's Wife Sir John Turbervile feared that Sir Nicholas by help of Sir John Mordaunt should cause the State Tayl to be Executed to Sir Nicholas and that was one cause that he was glad to Bargain with John Smith that though such Judgment had been given John Smith should not Execute it but stand still seized to the use that he recovered it for And that for his so doing if Sir John Turbervile died without Issue of his Body begotten John Smith should have the Fee-Simple of all the same Mannors to the use of the same John Smith and his Heirs for ever Another Consideration why Sir John Turbervile should depart with the Fee-Simple to John Smith was for that John Smith should labour Sir Nicholas with more diligence for his own Interest in the Fee-Simple to have changed his Estate in Tayl to a State for Term of Life and for that he should have the Fee-Simple for lack of Issue of Sir John Turbervile At this time was not the Fee-Simple so greatly to be regarded for that it was openly known that Mr. Turbervile intended to Marry where he might have Issue And also Sir John Turbervile feared that my Lady Latimer should have had Issue Male and for that should John Smith labour to have the Estate of Sir Nicholas changed to a State for Term of Life Upon these Considerations and others and for other things here under-written It was Covenanted and Bargained between Sir John Turbervile and John Smith in Winter Anno xvii o of Henry the Seventh That for the Reversion of the Mannor of Snodland in Kent of the yearly value of twenty Marks as it is said which Sir John Turbervile had to him and to the Heirs of his Body and for lack of such Issue it should remain to John Smith in Fee which Reversion John Smith should Surrender and Release all his Right therein to such use as Sir John Turbervile would Assign And for that also that John Smith should Release an Annuity of ten Marks which he had for Term of Life out of the same Mannor It was Covenanted That John Smith should stand still seized of all the said Latimers Lands to the use of Sir John Turbervile and of the Heirs of his Body begotten and for lack of such Issue to the use of John Smith and his Heirs in Fee of which Bargain Sir John Mordaunt knew not till September Anno xviij o of Henry the Seventh But William Mordaunt Brother to Sir John Mordaunt which at the Commandment of the said Sir John had many times broken with John Smith that Sir John Mordaunt his Brother might redeem the Title of Sir John Turbervile in the Premisses by the means of the said John Smith without whom Sir John Turbervile would make no Bargain Agreed and Bargain'd with John Smith in Trinity Term or else Easter Term Anno xvii o Henrici vii mi That for the Mannor of Estpulham to be made sure to John Smith and his Heirs from Sir John Mordaunt and his Heirs discharged of the Title of one John Crokerne which Crokerne pretended Title to the Moity thereof whether Sir John Turbervile lived or died If Sir Nicholas died without Issue Male That for lack of Issue of Sir John Turbervile lawfully begotten John Mordaunt should have all the Residue of Latimers Lands to him and to his Heirs for ever This Bargain and Agreement John Smith rehearsed and agreed to at the Dutchy Chamber Door in the Life of Sir John Turbervile to Sir John Mordaunt in the presence of William Mordaunt on the Morrow after the Agreement between William and John Smith had And the said William at the first Agreement and on the Morrow the said John Mordaunt also desired to know of John Smith how he could make that sure if Sir John Turbervile died And thereto John Smith Answered That they should know that another time but not then and said Doubt ye not but live he or die he ye shall be sure of that I have said and thus they departed And before the next Term died Sir John Turbervile in the beginning of Anno xviii o of Henry the Seventh After the said Bargain Agreed between John Mordaunt and John Smith by the means of William Mordaunt the sixth day of September after Turberviles Death John Mordaunt sent word to Smith into the West Country of Turberviles death willed him to come to London as soon as he might and to
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis â—â—â—â—tisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur
in contrarium factis editis sive ordinatis non obstantibus In cujus rei testimonium c. Sub Sigillo Magno An Indenture septipartite between Edward Duke of Buckingham and the Coheirs of Greene and Vere THis Indenture septipartite made the second Day of September in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Between the Right Noble Prince Edward Duke of Buckingham Earl of Herford Stafford and Northampton on the one partie Margaret Countesse of Wiltes late Wife of Edward late Earl of Wiltes on the second partie Thomas Cheyne of Artlingburgh Knight and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Margery Hodleston Daughter and oon of the Heirs of John Greene and Sister and oon of the Heirs of Herry Greene late Lord of Drayton in the County of Northampton on the third partie Richard Gilford Knight Comptroller of the Kings most honourable Houshold Garden of Audre youngest Daughter of Henry Vere late of Great Addington in the County of Northampton Esquire Son and Heir of Isabell Daughter and another of the Heirs of the said John Greene and Sister and another of the Heirs of the said Herry Greene on the fourth part Alice Lady Fits Hugh late the Wife of William Fits Hugh Knight Lord Fits Hugh Garden of Constance the third Daughter of the said Harry Vere now married to John Parre on the fifth Partie John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford oon of the Kings Sergeants at Law Garden of Elizabeth first and eldest Daughter of the said Harry Vere and married to John Mordaunt Son and Heir Apparent of the same John Mordaunt of the sixth partie And the same John Mordaunt Garden alsoe of Amye second Daughter of the same Henry Vere now married to Robert Mordaunt second Son to the same John Mordaunt the Fader of the seventh partie Witnesseth That where upon Communication and Agreement of Marriage had and concluded between Edward late Earl of Wiltes and the said Margaret Countesse of Wiltes It was fully covenanted bargained and agreed That the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the same late Earl of suche yerely value as Sir Reynald Grey Knight would name And alsoe such other as the said Sir Reynald would name And after the said Sir Reynald by the assent and agreement of the said late Earl named that the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes to the yearly value of three hundred Marks above all Charges and after the same naming a Youes was made to the same Edward and Margaret and to other persons for terme of life of the same Margaret to the use and behoof of the same Margaret of the Mannors of Newton Blosmavile Clifton Watershall Brafeld and Policote in the County of Bucks Sutton Peggislond Botellis Tracies and Stamford-rivers in the County of Essex Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the Right Noble Prince Humphrey Duke of Bucks Aile to the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes and bene of the yearely value of one hundred twenty one Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And towards the recompence of the residue of the said Joynture the said Edward late Earl and Margaret and other had Estate of the Mannors of Wamiden Empton and Moche Wolston in the County of Bucks and Chalton in the County of Bedford Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the said Herry Greene and be of the yerely value of forty one Pounds ten Shillings eleven Pence All which Mannors Lands and Tenements as well such as were late of the sayd late Duke of Bucks as of the sayd Herry extend to the yerely value of one hundred sixty three Pounds fower Shillings and three Pence And soe the sayd Margaret now Countesse lacked of her Joynture to her belonging by reason of the same Covenant Bargain and Agreement thirty six Pounds fifteen Shillings nine Pence And whereas after that the sayd Earl in his life for the tender favour and love which he had to the sayd Edward now Duke of Buckingham was in very mind and fully agreed that the sayd Joynture Lands and Tenements that were of the Inheritance of the sayd Duke of Bucks should be changed and that the sayd Margaret now Countesse should have in recompence of them other Mannors Lands and Tenements that were of the same Herry Greene of like value And where Estate was made to Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires Robert Bayston Clerk Thomas Montague John Freman and one John Feld Clerk now dead of and in the Mannors of Raunds Ringstede Cotes Stawike Luffwike Sudburgh and Harringworth in the County of Northampton Emton and Mochewolston in the County of Bucks Chalton in the County of Bedford Warmester Westbury Grately Dichrich in the Countye of Wiltes and Southampton Buckworth in the County of Huntington and Combton in the County of Cambridge and of all other Lands and Tenements which sometime were of the sayd Constance late Wife of John late Earl of Wiltes and Moder to the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes in the sayd Countyes of Northampton Wiltes Southampton Bedford Bucks Huntington and Cambridge To have to them and to their Heirs for ever to the use of the said Edward late Earl and of his Heirs And where alsoe Estate was before that made of and in the said Mannors of Wamiden Emton Mochewolston and Chalton in the Countyes of Bedford and Bucks and of divers other Lands and Tenements in the same Countyes the which late were of the sayd Harry Greene to the sayd Edward and Margaret then his Wife Johane Vicountesse Lesle John Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire Thomas Kebell one of the Kings Sergeants at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Humphrey Connesby Thomas Frowike Sergeants at Law John Tichbourne John Smith John Gardiner Thomas Bayall and Thomas Haywode To have to them for terme of life of the sayd Margaret the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes And of the residue of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements whereof the sayd Robert Wittelbury and his Cofeffez were infeossed they were satisfied thereof at the time of the death of the sayd Edward late Earle and yet thereof be seised And where alsoe the sayd Edward Duke of Bucks hath before this time pretended Title to part of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other Mannors Lands and Tenements late of the sayd Edward late Earle of the Greenes Lands as Cosyne and next Heir to the sayd Edward late Earle of the Faders side of the sayd late Earle And where alsoe the same Countesse claymeth to have dower of parcel of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements over and beside her sayd Joynture And where alsoe the sayd Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader as moche as in them is for their interest for causes comprized in their Indentures have promissed to the sayd Sir
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
Covenanteth Agreeth and Assenteth by these Presents That the said Robert Whiteing William Mordaunt George Whiteing Humphrey Brown John Jenour William Sewster and Thomas Kirkeby and all other Persons That be Enfeoffed in any of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to the use of the said William if any such be shall be and stand Feoffes of all the said Maners of Langenhoo Rokewodhall Whiteroding and the said Lands and Tenements and other the premises in the County of Essex to the use of the said William and Elizabeth for term of their lives and of the longer liver reserving the said Ten Pounds to such use and intent as is specified in the said Indentures made the said Eleventh day of June and after their decease to be and stand Feoffed of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Premises to the use of John Brown Eldest Son of the said William and Elizabeth and of the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to be and stand Feoffed of all the same Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to the use of William Brown second Son of the said William and Elizabeth and of the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to be and stand Feoffes thereof to the use of the right Heirs of the Body of the said William lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to be and stand Feoffes thereof to such use and intent as is specified in the said Indentures bearing Date the said Eleventh day of June In Witness whereof to these Presents the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the said Twentieth day of September the said Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Thomae Prioris prioratus de Caldwell OMnibus Christi sidelibus ad quos hoc praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Thomas Prior prioratus sanctorum Johannis Baptistae Johannis Evangelistae de Caldwell ejusdem loci Conventus salutem in Domino sempiternam Noveritis nos praefatos Priorem Conventum unanimi consensu assensu nostris dedisse concessisse ac per praesentes damus concedimus Reginaldo Gray militi Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia uni servientium Domini Regis ad legem Advocationem Ecclesiae de Sondey unica vice tantum cum primo ex aliqua causa vacaverit per proximam nominationem Capellani ad eandem Ecclesiam cum Ecclesia illa primo vacare contigerit In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto Sigillum nostrum commune apposuimus Data in domo nostra capitularii decimo septimo die Aûgusti Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi quinto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother THIS Indenture made the Third day of February in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt on the oon Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other partie Witnesseth That where the said John late bought the Ward and Custody of the Body Lands and Tenements of Amey Vere late the Wife of Robert Mordaunt Son to the said John Mordaunt late deceased whereof as yet the same John hath no Patent but only a Bill assigned by the King It is Covenanted and Bargained between the said Parties by these Presents That the said Wistan and Humphrey shall have to their own use all such Right Title and Interest of and in all the Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Amey's as the said John now hath or hereafter by reason of the said Bill assigned shall have And also That the said Wistan and Humphrey shall have free liberty to resort to the said Amey to attain her good will for a Marriage to be had between the said Humphrey and the said Amey without Let Interruption or Impediment of the said John Mordaunt or his Assigns for which Premises the said Humphrey shall suffer the said John Mordaunt William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne to recover against the said Humphrey the Maner of Melbourne in the County of Cambridge called Browns-Maner and all the Lands and Tenements in Melbourne Melreth and Shepons in the same County which late were Robert Brown's and the which the said Humphrey or any other to his use may have in the same County of Cambridge by a Writ of Entry in the Post wherein the said Humphrey shall do and suffer to be done for making sure the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the said John Mordaunt William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne and to their Heirs to the use of the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs And also the said Wistan and Humphrey and either of them shall cause to be made and make such other Surety by Fine Warranty or otherwise to the said John Mordaunt William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne and to their Heirs and to the Use of the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs of the same Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances as shall be advised by the Learned Councel of the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs at all times when the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require And the said Wistan and Humphrey shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs when they be thereto required all the Evidences that they or any of them or any other person to the use of any of them have concerning the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the said County of Cambridge And if the said Amey dye before she come to the age of Three and Twenty Years having no Issue of her Body begotten alive or dead then the said Humphrey shall have for term of his Life out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the County of Cambridge Ten Marks by the Year yearly during his Life as sure as the said Humphrey shall advise And the said Wistan and Humphrey Covenant and Grant by these Presents That the said Humphrey and Amey or any of them shall not do or suffer to be done any thing hereafter whereby the Inheritance of any Lands or Tenements of the said Amey be put from the right Heirs of the said Amey but only Lands or Tenements to the yearly value of Forty Pounds which the said John does agree That the said Humphrey shall have during his life only if he can get it of the said Amey and that the Reversion of these Lands and Tenements to the value of Forty Pounds by the Year and the Reversion of any other Lands and Tenements of the said Amey's if it happen the said Humphrey thereof to be Tenant by the Court-Fee and all other Lands and Tenements of the said Amey's immediately after the death of the said Amey shall go to the right Heirs of the said Amey And the said Humphrey shall discharge the said John Mordaunt against William Merbury in all things that in the same Humphrey is or shall be becoming the said
metas seu perambulationem praedictae Forestae nostrae de Rockingham sicut praedictum est existunt aut aliquo statuto Actu Ordinatione Provisione aut aliqua alia causa re vel materia quacunque non obstante His testibus venerabilibus Patribus Johanne Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi totius Angliae Primate Cancellario nostro Magistro Karlial Thesaurario nostro Angliae A. Cicestrense Custode privati Sigilli nostri Episcopis charissimis Consanguineis nostris Humphrido Buckingham Willielmo Suffolk Camerario nostro Angliae Ducibus Richardo Sarum Thoma Devon Comitibus dilectis fidelibus nostris Richardo Boteler Domino de Sudley Senescallo Hospitii nostri Jacobi Fenys Domino Say Camerario Hospitii nostri Militibus aliis Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium primo die Aprilis Anno Regni nostri vicesimo septimo Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parlamenti Nos autem tenores irrotulamentorum separalium Literarum Patentium praedictarum ad requisitionem praedicti fidelis nostri Ludovici Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt duximus exemplificandum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium vicesimo nono die Novembris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quarto Examinatur per nos Law Huse Tho. Legg Clericis Vltima Voluntas Ludovici tertii Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Amen I Lewis Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Drayton in the County of Northampton being the First Day of October in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred ninety and three and in the Five and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. Whole of Body of good Mind and perfect Remembrance thanks be unto God certain to dye and uncertain when and where I shall depart this mortal and transitory Life willing in the disposition of my worldly Goods Lands and Possessions to prevent the suddain hour of Death so that at the time it shall please my Maker Redeemer and Saviour Jesus Christ to call me from this transitory Life when my Mind I hope shall be wholly in and towards him and the Joys of Heaven I shall not need then to be busied with any thing of this unstable World Do therefore now make ordain constitute and declare this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following renouncing and forsaking all former Wills by me heretofore made First and chiefly I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and to Jesus Christ his Son my only Saviour and Redeemer trusting and steadfastly believing to receive forgiveness of all my Sins and Offences according to his endless Mercy and Property and that he will be merciful to me a most wretched sinner and Creature of his handy-work and not impute my Sins and Offences to me neither burthen me with them according to my merits and deserts but according to the multitude of his great Mercies he will Pardon and Forgive me through the special Faith and Trust I have in him and in Jesus Christ his only Son my Saviour and Redeemer by the Merits of whose Passion I believe faithfully through this my Faith pure Submission and sorrowful Repentance to be delivered from the bondage of Sin and Hell and to receive full Remission and Forgiveness of all my Sins and to be made partaker of the Fruition of his Deity in his heavenly Kingdom amongst his Chosen and Elect of whom I humbly ask Forgiveness even from the beginning of my Life to the end of the same My Body I wish wheresoever I depart within this Realm of England may be Buried at the Parish Church of Luffwick where the Body of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt my late Wife doth lie if it may conveniently so be otherwise where it shall please God to appoint in such seemly sort as may stand with my Vocation according to the Discretion of mine Executors And I Will That within One Year after my Departure my Executors shall cause to be made for me and Dame Elizabeth my late Wife a meet and convenient Tomb or Monument of Alabafter with Two Pictures the one for my self the other for Dame Elizabeth my late Wife representing the State which God of his infinite Goodness hath called me unto the charges thereof will be I suppose about fourscore Pounds and so much I will shall be bestowed at the least Item I Will give and bequeath to be dealt in Alms the Day of my Burial Threescore and ten Pounds viz. to the Poor People in Luffwick Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Thrapton Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Sudburgh Six Pounds to the Poor People in Slipton Three Pounds to the Poor People in Turvey Ten Pounds to the Poor People of Stacheden Charleton and Lawenden Twenty Pounds to the Poor People of Grafton Eight Pounds I Will that every one of my Household Servants at the Day of my Funeral or at the least within Six Months after shall have truly paid unto them one whole Years Wages and shall be found and allowed by some in my House at Drayton Meat Drink and Lodging for Two Months after my decease if they will come for the same in which time they may provide for themselves Now touching and concerning my worldly Goods I will and bequeath them in manner and form following First I give and bequeath to my Son Henry Mordaunt my Funeral discharged my Debts paid and Legacies performed all my Furniture and Household-Stuff in my House at Drayton requiring him in special trust not willing to spoil or wast them but that he will by his Last Will and Testament leave and bequeath them after his Death to his Son and Heir of his Body lawfully begotten And if it fortune him to depart this world without Heir Male of his Body which God forbid Then I likewise require him to give and bequeath the One Moiety or half thereof the Seilings and Iron-looms excepted to my loving Daughter Mrs. Margaret Mordaunt his now Wife and the other half to the next Heir Male to whom my House of Drayton ought to descend And to that intent and purpose my Will is My Son Henry shall within Forty Days after my decease enter into Bond and become bound by Obligation unto my loving Friends John Wake and Edward Watson Esouires in the Summ of Three hundred Pounds with Condition That he shall well and truly perform this my Last Will and Testament to all intents constructions and purposes in manner and form aforesaid which if he do not or refuse to do then I Will my former Bequests to him shall be meerly void and of none effect And now having a special care of my Two Daughters Katherine Mordaunt and Elizabeth Mordaunt yet un-married and willing that they and each of them shall be yearly provided for and allowed
finish in Writing the said Bargain And Smith by his Letter dated the fourteenth day of September sent Answer to John Mordaunt and disclosed upon what ground he had made such Agreement and Bargain to John Mordaunt and William and then disclosed his Bargain made to him by Sir John Turbervile which he had under his Sign Manual and his Seal and upon that in Michaelmas Term following Anno xviij o John Mordaunt and Smith ingrossed their Indenture and accomplished their Bargain and their Bargain was known and spoken of both in Court and other places also And the Kings Grace nothing said nor did nor shewed any thing to John Mordaunt till Hilary Term then next In Hilary Term Anno xviij o the King took displeasure with Mordaunt that he would intermeddle with the Lands and make not him privy thinking that John Smith at the Death of Turbervile had stood seized of the Lands to the use of Turbervile in Fee for lack of Issue Male of Latimer then living and said That Turbervile ought him great Money and that he would have the Reversion in recompence of his Money and willed John Mordaunt to forsake his Bargain which he would not do Wherefore the King was sore displeased with him and caused Smith to come by Privy Seal to make a Feoffment to the Kings use of the Lands which he would not but disclosed to the King all the Premisses that be here in Writing as he hath said and reported And the same Smith sometime threaten'd and sometime entreated gave Attendance upon the King till he agreed to make a Feoffment as the King would desire Whereupon a Deed was devised in Paper by which John Smith should Enfeoffe Lord Daubeny Master Lovell Master Bray and Master Seymore in Fee and Sir William Seymore would have had it to the Kings use whereto John Smith would not agree then it was drawn and no use expressed and at the desire of John Mordaunt the Copy was sent to William Mordaunt to see and he entertained To the same use that John Smith then was seized And with great difficulty the Deed was so made by Smith and sealed in Trinity Term Anno decimo octavo About Michaelmas Anno decimo nono Lord Aubeny and Master Lovell took a State by that Deed at that time Master Bray and Master Seymore being dead And thus it continued all the Life of John Mordaunt who died in September Anno vicesimo and all the Life of Sir Nicholas Latimer who died without Issue Male at Lent Anno vicesimo From the Death of Sir Nicholas by Colour of the said Feoffment and by Colour that the Kings Grace said Sir John Turbervile should owe him much Mony at his Decease without any Title and against Law and Conscience of his Royal Power the Kings Grace took the Profits of these Lands till Summer Anno vicesimo primo in Trinity Term. And because the Heir and William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne Executors to John Mordaunt were so far in Debt to the King and sued and on Exigent for the same were so troubled with the King and about the Testament of John Mordaunt that they minded not Latimers Lands to trouble the King nor them by Suit till they had somewhat pacified their other troubles And in Trinity Term Anno vicesimo primo the Lord Aubeny and others sued several Writs of Subpoena against the said Executors and Heir and against John Smith to have compelled them to deliver the Evidences upon Livery of which Writs upon Sute made to the King by the Executors the King Commanded them to sue to Dudley and though the Executors shewed the King that they had as good leave the Land for the hard dealing they knew of Dudley the King compelled them to sue to Dudley who Ordered them to pay the Kings Majesty and to pay two hundred pounds yearly or else they must have delivered the Evidences and abidden the Kings Displeasure as Dudley said and also must have Released and for Surety of Payment thereof there was Land recovered by my Lord of Winchester and Sir Robert Throgmorton and others named for the Heir of Mordaunt Of which Money the Executors paid to the King four hundred pounds whereby the Will of John Mordaunt is yet not performed whereof they are now to have Restitution and to be discharged of two hundred pounds more residue And that my Lord of Winchester and others may Release to the persons named in the Recoveries to the use of the Heir of Mordaunt according to Right and good Conscience And Dudley said expresly the Deed was to the Kings Use and the Executors fearing whether Smith had made any new Deed or not and also not knowing whether the Estate had been delivered by the Deed in which the use was express'd or not desired to see the Deed and he shewed it and thereby it appeared the use was to the same use as Smith was Enfeoffed and that notwithstanding by the Menaces and Craft of Dudley they were compelled to agree and indent to give the King c. The Report of Richard Eliott the Kings Serjeant at Law John Erneley the Kings Attorney and of John Porte the Kings Sollicitor upon the sight of the Evidence of Sir John Mordaunt for all such Mannors Lands and Tenements as were late Sir Nicholas Latimer's Knight FIrst It appears that Sir Nicholas Latimer Knight by his Deed Enfeoffed William Hardyng of the same Mannor above-written in Fee Dated decimo sexto die Januarii Anno Edwardi quarti decimo quarto Item After that by his Indenture bearing date the same Year and the seventeenth day of January rehearsing the said Feoffment The said William Harding granted that if the said Sir Nicholas within twelve Years then next following paid to the said William Hardyng one hundred and twenty pounds that then the said Sir Nicholas should have again the said Mannor to him and to his Heirs Item the Premisses notwithstanding The said Sir Nicholas by Indenture bargained and sold the said Mannor to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Edith his Wife Daughter of the said Sir Nicholas and to the Heirs of their Body begotten for lack of Issue Male of the Body of the said Sir Nicholas lawfully begotten c. Dated the second of Richard the Third Memorandum That Sir John Mordaunt after bargained with the same William Hardyng and Nicholas his Son for their Interest and Title that they had in the said Mannor of Devilish as by Indenture thereof made plainly may appear For the Mannors of Devilish For the Mannors of Duntish For the Mannors of Estpullham For the Mannors of Estoket First It appeareth that the said Sir Nicholas Latimer bargained and sold all these said Mannors above-written to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs for the sum of a thousand Marks upon Condition That if the said Sir Nicholas died without Heir Male of his Body lawfully begotten And upon the same Bargain it was Covenanted That John Smith should recover the said Mannors and Execute the Estates
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
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
to Sir Edward Stafford of Grafton Knight Secondly Mary first to Edward Lord Dudley afterwards to Richard Montpession Esquire Thirdly Frances to Edward Earl of Hertford Fourthly Martha to Sir George Bourchier Knight Third Son to John Earl of Bath And Fifthly Katharine who died young And departing this Life at Hampton-Court 11. Jan. 15. Eliz. was honourably Buried at Rygate in Surrey upon the 29th of the same Month. A Patent whereby Queen Mary does create William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor Archiepiscopis Episcopis Ducibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciarils Vicecomitibus Praepositis Ministris omnibus Ballivis Fidelibus suis salutem Cum enim praeteritorum Magnifica gesta Principum saltem qui sua Industria atque Virtute famam nobis reliquere Immortalem ad mentem revocemus nil Prudentius nil laude Dignius pro prospero atque Felici ipsorum Statu Salute securoque Successu eos fecisse arbitramur qui quando Fideles Diligentes strenuosque suos servientes Facultatibus Regimine Honore condigne remunerari caeterisque praeferre decreverint sicque sua iis Beneficia juxta eorum Virtutes atque Merita benignè conferre curarunt Nos eorum mores imitantes non solum Nobilitatem atque Constantiam imo probitatem ac in Armis strenuitatem caeterasque virtutes Domini Willielmi Howard militis nostri intime dilecti non modica cum deliberatione maturè considerantes ipsum Willielmum Howard in Baronum Parliamenti Regni nostri Angliae ex mero motu gratiaque nostris ordinavimus deputavimus creavimus constituimus prout per praesentes ordinamus deputamus creamus constituimus atque titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham locumque in singulis Parliamentis infra idem Regnum nostrum Angliae posthac celebrandis caeteraque jura Privilegiaque nostra ipsius Regni Baronibus ejusdem ex Lege consuetudine aliove quovis pacto pertinentia eidem Willielmo damus concedimus eisque ipsum adeo liberè amplè uti gaudere sicut unquam aliquis Baro hujus Regni nostri usus fuit aut debuit volumus habendum hujusmodi statum titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham praedicta atque locum in Parliamentis praedictis ac caetera praemissa praefato Willielmo haeredibus suis masculis de corpore suo excuntibus in perpetuum eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore animi aut de certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Willielmo ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime factum existit Aliquo statuto actu ordinatione provisione sive restrictione inde in contrarium ante haec editis factis seu ordinatis seu provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quaqunque in aliquo non obstante his testibus Reverend ' in Christo Patre ac praedilecto fideli Conciliario nostro Stephano Wintoniensi Episcopo summo nostro Angliae Cancellario charissimis consanguineis Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Marchione Winton praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Thesaurario nostro Angliae Henrico Comite Arundel praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Domino senescallo Hospitii nostri Johanne Comite Bedford praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Custode privati sigilli nostri Henrico Comite Sussex Willielmo Comite Pembroke praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite praedilectis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Domino Paget de Bewdesert praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Reverendo in Christo Patre Cutberto Dunelmens Episcopo Johanne Gage praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Domino Camerario nostro Roberto Rotchester Milite contrarotulatore Hospitii nostri Henrico Jernynham Milite Vicecamerario nostro Willielmo Petre Milite uno Primariorum Secretariorum nostorum Johanne Bourne Milite altero Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium undecimo die Martii Anno Regni nostri primo per ipsam Reginam Sigillum Eden Herbert's History of Henry the Eighth pag. 535. BUT it rested not here for the Lord William Howard the Queen's Uncle newly returned from an Embassage in France and his Wife and the old Dutchess of Norfolk and divers of the Queen's and the said Dutchess's Kindred and Servants and a Butter-Wife were Indicted of Misprision of Treason as concealing this Fact and condemned to perpetual Prison though yet by the King's Favour some of them were at length Released Commission of Queen Mary To be High Admiral of England MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina omnibus ad quos c. Salutem Sciatis quod nos ob certas causas considerationes nos specialiter moventes ac in consideratione boni veri fidelis Servitii per dilectum Conciliarium nostrum Willielmum Howard Militem Dominum Howard de Effingham ante haec tempora facti impensi de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard officium magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem Villae nostrae in Cales ac Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum ac ipsum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum nostrarum eorundem Villae nostrae Cales Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum necnon praefectum generalem Classis Marium dictorum Regnorum nostrorum Angliae Hiberniae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem fecimus constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes facimus constituimus ordinamus Et ulterius sciatis quod nos de Gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae praefecto Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum omnia omnimodas jurisdictiones autoritates libertates officia feoda proficua vadia emolumenta wrecum maris maris ejectum regardia advantagia commoditates praeminentia quaecunque eidem officio magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae ac aliorum locorum Dominiorum praedictorum qualitercunque spectantia pertinentia sive incumbentia vel aliquo modo ab antiquo perantea debita sive consueta necnon tam bona catalla quorumcunque praedictorum piratorum homicidarum felonum qualitercunque infra nostram jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae Angliae inferius limitatam delinquentium quam bona debita catalla omnium singulorum eorum manutenentium accessariorum consulentium auxiliantium vel assistentium quorumcunque
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
King and from which Elizabeth descended to the Mordaunts the Noble Lordships of Drayton Thrapston Addington Sudburgh Islip Luffwick Slipton and many other great Possessions Many disputes notwithstanding arose about the pretences of these Heirs even with the greatest Lords in England as the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury but the Credit of Sir John Mordaunt and his interest with the King joyn'd to his Wisdom and great Knowledge in the Laws had ever influence upon them But after his decease they set up great pretences to Drayton and the Green 's Lands and the Young Mordaunt soon found how much his Fathers Life had conduc'd to the settlement of that Estate In the Agitations of the Establishment whereof and the Agreements made with those great Lords he spent the remainder of King Henry the Seventh's Reign and was by that time become a person greatly accomplish'd After this King's Death he apply'd himself wholly to the farther designs of the Honor and Advantage of his House and made his Court to the Young Successor follow'd him in his First Wars and got so successfully into his Favour and Opinion as upon his return he received the gratification of a Patent containing the grant of several Noble Privileges and Immunities Among the rest to be Pilo Copertus in the presence of the King or of any of his Judges Ministers or Magistrates The Consideration he was at this time in appears by several Letters directed to him when he was yet but a private Gentleman He was Knighted by him after this and made a Privy Councellor wherein his Wisdom Fidelity and Zeal to his Majesty's Service were very Exemplary He was at one time Surveyor General of the King's Woods and Wood-sails and the Chief in another Commission for providing Necessaries for the Fortifications of Calice and the other Ports and Castles within the English Pale in the Country of Picardy and in many other matters he was Employ'd of great Importance wherein he so behaved and discharg'd himself as his generous Master thought fit for a reward of his many Services to take him into the Illustrious Dignity of the Peerage calling him by Writ a Baron into the Parliament in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign After this upon the Revolutions which happned by the change of the Church Government whereunto he was not able to shew that compliance which others of more supple tempers did condescend to do his Favour did decline and his Master's Kindness to him So as being retired to his own House and Country he did not remain without several mortifications which his Enemies of the prevailing Faction that Govern'd in the Court did endeavour to put upon him several hard Letters he received from the King about matters which they imputed to him concerning his backwardness in suppressing the Interest of the Old Religion and as the last endeavor of their Revenge they strove to make the King oblige him to an Exchange of the Noble Lordship of Drayton and the other Towns lying about it of his Wives Antient Inheritance and that he had in his Old Age settled against all Competitors at great Labour and Charges with certain of the Abby Lands newly acquired unto the Crown with which his Conscience as well as his Interest were altogether incompatible From this oppression he had not been able to have defended himself notwithstanding all his great Friends and Antient Services if the King's Death had not succeeded which in this point set him at liberty The Reign of King Edward he spent in peace But at the beginning of Queen Mary he labor'd a little under an imputation of his Enemies who would alledge he favoured the Dudleys and the claim of the Lady Jane but it was blown off with the improbability of an Inclination so contrary to his Principles and Profession and he lived out her time too and to the Second Year of her Successor Queen Elizabeth when he being very Old departed this Life in great Honor and Happiness Leaving Issue by his Wife the Lady Elizabeth Vere Sir John Mordaunt his Son and Heir Edmund Mordaunt William Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of Oakely and that Married Agnes Booth George Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of the Hill Married to Cecilia Harding Edith Mordaunt Married to John Elms. Anne Mordaunt Married to John Fisher Margaret Mordaunt Married to Edmond Fettyplace Dorothy Mordaunt Married to Thomas Moore Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Silvester Danvers Winifreid Mordaunt Married to John Cheyney of Chesham Boys Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII JOHN MORDAVNT was the early fruits of his Father's Marriage with the Lady Elizabeth Vere and the Lord Mordaunt being but young himself when his Son was born this John grew up to early Manhood while his Father was yet in the vigor of his own years and so they had the happiness to live long together in the same Generation The Lord Mordaunt in the time of his favor had the opportunity to purchase of the King at an easie rate the Marriage of Elly Fitz-Lewis who had become Heir of that Antient Family by the untimely Death of her Brother as has been expressed in the relation appertaining thereunto She was a very rich and considerable Fortune bringing with her the noble Lordship of Westhorndon and many other fair possessions And unto this Lady he Married John Mordaunt his Eldest Son who with his Wife lived long in his Father's life time upon her Estate in great Plenty and Reputation He had for several Years participated with the Lord Mordaunt much of King Henry's Favour and in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign and in the same wherein his Father was made a Baron he was summoned to come and receive at his Majesty's hands the Honourable Order of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne of Bollen which he did at that time in fellowship of the Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Waters the Lord Hastings and the Lord Mounteagle But with his Father being entirely addicted to the old Religion the change that succeeded in the one produc'd the same in both their Fortunes which was to retire to their Houses from all further applications in that Reign and at home Sir John Mordaunt continued likewise during that of the young Successor But at the Death of King Edward and the early difficulties of Queen Mary he was of the first that put themselves into the Field at the head of the Essex Men where his interest and reputation was very great offering unto her his and their Services in defence of her Person and Government at the Castle of Framingham in Suffolk where she was then retired in expectation of being assaulted by the Troops raised in behalf of the Faction of the Lady Jane and her Husband upon whom the Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland intended to settle the Crown of England The considerableness of
pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis contra omnes homines warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus in perpetuum per praesentes Noveritis insuper me praefatum Johannem Mordaunt attornâsse constituisse in loco meo posuisse dilectos mihi in Christo Henricum Handson Richardum Stevynson conjunctim divisim meos veros legitimos attornatos ad intrandum in omnia singula manerium terras tenementa praedicta cum suis pertinentiis seisinam nomine meo in iisdem capiendum post hujusmodi seisinam sic inde captam habitam seisinam de iisdem nomine meo praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis deliberandum secundum vim formam effectum hujus praesentis Chartae meae ratum gratum habendum totum quicquid iidem Attornati mei fecerint seu eorum alter fecerit nomine meo in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Chartae meae sigillum meum apposui Data ultimo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi post Conquestum decimo Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Regis Henrici Septimi Ad constituendum Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium ad legem HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quòd nos ex mero motu scientia nostra constituimus Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium nostrorum ad legem nec non cessimus eidem Johanni officium unius servientium nostrorum ad legem habendum occupandum exercendum dictum officium nec non ad essendum unum servientium nostrorum ad legem quamdiu nobis placuerit capiendum accipiendum annuatim pro officio illo exercendo ab eodem Johanne vadia feoda vesturam regarda dicto officio debita seu pertinentia prout alii servientes ad legem pro hujusmodi officio exercendo percipient seu habere vel percipere debent In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Novembris Anno Regni Regis nostri undecimo Charta Edwardi Ducis Buckinghamiae EDwardus Dux Buckinghamiae Comes Herfordiae Northamptoniae Omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Salutem Sciatis nos praefatum ducem remisisse relaxâsse omnimodo pro nobis haeredibus nostris in perpetuum quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae uni servientium Domini regis ad legem haeredibus assignatis suis totum jus nostrum statum titulum seu clameum quae unquam habuimus habemus vel in futurum habere poterimus de in quinquaginta acris terrae duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis separali piscaria in aqua de Ose cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta de in duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis de separali piscaria in aqua de Ose in Brafeld juxta Lauenden alias vocata Coldbrafeld in Comitatu Buckinghamiae quae omnia singula idem Johannes Mordaunt habuit ex dono feoffamento Edwardi Comitis Wilts consanguinei nostri quibus omnibus fingulis praemissis idem Johannes Mordaunt seisitus existit Ità quòd nec nos praefatus Dux nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus titulum seu clameum de in praedictis terris tenementis aquis separalibus piscariis caeteris praemissis de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris statûs tituli vel clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus in perpetuum exclusi per praesentes Et nos verò praefatus Dux haeredes nostri omnia praedicta terras tenementa aquam separales piscarias cum pertinentiis caetera praemissa praefato Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus assignatis suis contra Abbatem Sancti Petri Monasterii successores suos warrantizabimus acquietabimus in perpetuum defendemus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro duplicato sigillum nostrum apponi fecimus Data undecimo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi quarto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt of Turvey and John Tresham of Rushton THIS Indenture made the Twenty first day of March in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey one of the King's Serjeants at the Law on the oon partie and John Tresham of Rushton in the County of Northampton Esquire on the other partie Witnesseth That it is agreed covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Mordaunt shall endeavour him to get the Marriage of Elizabeth Vere to Marry with John Mordaunt the younger Son and Heir apparent of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant and Amey Vere to Marry with Robert Mordaunt the Second Son of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant which Elizabeth and Amey being Daughters to my Sister Isabel and to give Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the said Elizabeth Vere for term of her Life to the yearly Value of Twenty Pound and to give to the said Amey Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the yearly Value of Ten Pounds for term of her Life for the which Marriage and Jointure and other Considerations the said John Tresham granteth That in case he be disposed to sell any of his Maners Lands and Tenements within the County of Northampton or elsewhere within the Realm of England That then the same John Mordaunt shall have it and all Maners Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services that he shall be disposed for to sell after the rate of Fifteen Years purchace of the clear yearly Value of the same Lands and Tenements to be sold It is also agreed and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Tresham at his pleasure shall give to Isabel Daughter of Sir James Haryngton now his Wife all his Lands Tenements Pastures and Hereditaments in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them for the term of her Life and to give unto Isabel Tresham and Clemens Tresham Daughters begotten between the said John Tresham and Isabel Daughter of the said Sir James all the said Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them to have to them and to the Heirs of their Bodies begotten And for default of Issue of both their Bodies begotten the same Maners Lands and Tenements to remain to the said Isabel Sister of the said John Tresham for term of her Life the remainder thereof for default of such Issue or if there be no such Gift made of the same to remain to the said
and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the Life of the said Elizabeth and after the Death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the said John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with the remainder over like in every thing as is above expressed of the said Fifty Pounds Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and all time and times within the said Eight Years after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Elmes his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons above named and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate in the Law by Feoffment Fine Recovery Releases with Warranty Confirmations or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be avised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Woods Rents Reversions and Services the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes hath within the Realm of England the said Persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the foresaid Fifty Pounds Provided always That it shall be lawful to the said John Elmes to Appoint and Assign Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds parcel of Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except always Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances before expressed and named to the said yearly Value of Threescore Pounds to be Appointed and Assigned for the Jointure of the said Edith the said Twenty Pounds to be and go to and for the Exhibition Marriage Advancement of his Children and to pay his Debts and to the performance of the last Will of the said John Elmes so it extend no further but for term of Life or Lives or for the term of Twenty Years next ensuing the Death of the said John Elmes And also provided That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him so to Marry for the term of her Life of Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the Premises under the yearly Value of Forty Pounds at the pleasure of the said John Elmes Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage no do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer to be done any manner of Act or Acts whereby any manuer of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which did come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof as is before expressed of the said Fifty Pounds And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffered any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by and after the decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue-Male the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the Old Inheritation thereof For the which Premises on the party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Five hundred Marks of lawful Money that is to say At the Feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming after the date hereof One hundred Marks And at the Feast of Saint Peter the Advincula commonly called Lammas day Fifty Marks and so yearly at every of the said Feasts Fifty Marks until the said Summ of Five hundred Marks be counted and paid And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall purchase with the same Five hundred Marks which the said John Elmes hath of the said John Mordaunt for the same Marriage and with the Summ of Two hundred Marks which the said John Elmes shall have delivered to him by the said Thomas Pygott the day of the said Marriage solemnized Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly Value of Forty Marks And that the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns after the said Lands so purchased shall Enfeoffee the said Persons of the same to have to them and to their Heirs in Fee the same persons to stand and be seized of the same to the use of the said John Elmes and of his Heirs for ever And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if the said Elibeth his Mother do Alien Sell Discontinue Release or put away by any manner of means any Maners Lands Tenements or any other Hereditaments of the Inheritance of the said Elizabeth from the said John Elmes or from the Heirs of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten except certain Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances lying in Littlecote in the County of Buckingham to the yearly Value of Four Pounds or thereabouts That then the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall have Ten Marks parcel of the said Forty Marks so to be purchased to the said John Mordaunt and his Heirs for ever And the said persons so being seized of the said Forty Marks incontinent after the said Alienation and Sale or Discontinuance or any other matter of Act by the said Elizabeth so made
Estate in the Law in Fee-simple and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds by the Year over all charges whereof the Maners Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said John Elmes or any other to his use hath in Lilford Wiggesthorp in the County of Northampton shall be parcel to the use and behoof hereafter ensuing And also shall further do suffer and cause to be done at the costs and charges of the said John Mordaunt as well before the foresaid Feast as at all times after within the space of Four Years next after the said Feast when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt by his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their costs and charges a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple to the foresaid Robert Brudenell and the said Co-feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them and to their Heirs to the use ensuing by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of and in the foresaid Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments And that the said Persons their Heirs and Assigns beside of and in Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Fifty parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the yearly Value of Sixty shall stand and be seized to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith immediately after the said Marriage had and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said William according to the old Inheritance thereof Ten Pound residue of the said Hundred Pound that the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Elmes and his Heirs during the life of the said Elizabeth his Mother and after the death of the said Elizabeth and Marriage had between the same John Elmes and Edith to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith for term of her life and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten with like remainder in any thing as is above expressed of the said Hundred Pounds And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the said Feast of All-Saints and at all time and times within the space of Four Years next after the Feast of All-Saints when the said John Elmes thereunto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the Persons abovenamed and to their Heirs or to the survivors of them and their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate by Feoffment or otherwise as by the said John Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns shall be advised of all his other Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances and all other his Hereditaments with the Appurtenances within the Realm of England which the said John Elmes or any other Person or Persons to the use of the said John Elmes now hath And the said Persons to be and stand seized of the same other Maners to the use of the said John Elmes and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain in like manner and form as is aforesaid written of the said Hundred Pounds Provided alway That if it fortune the said Edith to decease and the said John Elmes to Marry and take another Wife or Wives that then it shall be lawful for the same John Elmes to make a Jointure or Jointures to his said Wife or Wives that it shall fortune him to Marry for the time of his Life of Maners Lands Tenements parcel of the Premises to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds or under at the pleasure of the said John Elmes And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give nor lay to Mortgate nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any manner of Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances which be come grow or descend to the said John Elmes by the Death of the said William his Father should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said John Elmes before expressed but that he shall suffer all such Maners Lands Tenements and other the Premises except before excepted to come grow and descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the said John Elmes according to the Old Inheritance thereof And also the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall not Alien Sell Give or lay to Mortgage nor do nor suffer nor cause to be done nor suffer any Act or Acts whereby any Maners Lands or any other Hereditaments which do come or may come or shall come grow or descend in power or in use to the said John Elmes as Son and Heir of the same Elizabeth by and after the Decease of the said Elizabeth his Mother should be Alienate or put away from the Heirs of the said Elizabeth but that the said John Elmes shall suffer the said Maners and all other the Premises which shall so descend or in any other manner of wise come or grow to him by the said Elizabeth his Mother to come grow or descend in Possession Reversion or in Use to the Heirs of the Body of the said Elizabeth lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue the remainder thereof to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth according to the old Inheritance thereof For the which Premises on the Party of the said John Elmes to be truly performed and kept the said John Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents To pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money for the which summ of a Hundred Marks the said John Mordaunt hath made to the said John Elmes Ten several Obligations for the sure payment of the same Six hundred Marks by the same Obligations Sealed with the Seal of the said John Mordaunt and remaining with the said John Elmes more plainly it doth appear And the said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edith within the time and space of Four Years next after the said Marriage solemnized do dye having no Issue by the said John Elmes that then the said John Elmes his Executors or Assigns shall repay or cause to be repaid to the said John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns Two hundred Marks parcel of the said Six hundred Marks within the space of Four Years next and immediately
said John More to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said John More and of his Heirs for ever And of all other the said Lands and Tenements residue of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before expressed to the use of the said John More for the term of his Life without Impeachment of wast The Remainder after his decease to the said Thomas More and his Heirs for ever discharged of all former Rights Titles Claims Uses Dowers Demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these Presents That he the said John More his Heirs and Assigns shall from time to time during the space of Three Years make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied such further Assurances and Surety to the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns or to any other Person or Persons by the said Lord his Heirs Executors or Assigns to be limitted and named of and in the Maners Lands Tenements and other the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the uses and intents before expressed and declared as shall be devised by the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by his or their learned Council in the law at the costs and charges in the law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That he the said John More before the said Feast of Pentecost shall make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied to the said Sir Thomas Audely Sir Gyles Strangeways and other his said Co-feoffees before named their Heirs and Assigns a good sure sufficient and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple of and in all his said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and all other his Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Oxford That is to say Of the Maner of More with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton of the Maner of Haddon with their Appurtenances in Bampton of the Maner of Esthall otherwise called Asthall and Astally and of all other his Maners Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton Staunton Harecourt Bampton Clanfield Norton Asthall Esthall and Astally in the said County of Oxford or elsewhere within the said County of Oxford except certain Lands and Tenements in Handborough to such uses and intents as hereafter followeth That is to say Of and in the said Maner of More in More and Moreton to the use of the said John More and of Jane now Wife to the said John More for term of their lives and of the longest liver of them without Impeachment of wast during the Life of the said John More And after the Death of the said John More and of Jane his Wife then the said Feoffees their Heirs or Assigns or the over-liver of them his Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof as at the date of these present Indentures made And of and in the Maner of Haddon in Bampton the Maner of Esthall Asthall and Astally and of all the said Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments and other the Premises before rehearsed in Bampton Esthall Asthall and Astally the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the longest liver of them and his Heirs to be continue and stand Feoffees thereof to the use of the said John More for term of his Life without Impeachment of wast the Remainder after his Death to the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Assigns by these presents That he shall suffer all other his Maners Lands Tenements and all other his Hereditaments with all and singular their Appurtenances whatsoever they be whereof he or any other be seized of in Right Title Possession or in Use other then before expressed and declared except one yearly Rent of Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings which the said John More hath out of the Maner of Newbolt in the County of Northampton now in the Tenure of Sir William Newenham Knight which Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings is parcel of the Jointure of the said Jane Wife of the said John More to come grow and descend in Demeasn Possession Reversion Remainder or in Use immediately after the Death of the said John More and of the said Jane his Wife to the said Thomas More and to his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made discharged of all former Rights Titles Uses and demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of that Fee or Fees hereafter to be due only except Provided always That if the said Jane now Wife to the said John More fortune to decease that then it shall be lawful to the said John More to make a Jointure of and in the Maner of More and Moreton to any Wife or Wives that hereafter the said John More shall fortune to Marry during the Life or Lives of the said Wife or Wives any Covenant Grant Use or Article before expressed to the contrary notwithstanding For all which Covenants Grants and Agreements on the part of the said John More his Heirs Executors and Assigns for to be truly observed performed fulfilled and kept the said John Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents To pay or cause to be paid to the said John More his Executors or Assigns Four hundred and fifty Marks of lawful Money of England That is to say at the day of Marriage had and solemnized one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England And at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady then next coming One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England And so yearly at the said Feast of the Purification of our Lady One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England unto the time the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be to the said John More his Executors or Assigns truly contented and paid In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid interchangeably have put to their Seals and Sign Manual to these present Indentures the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and
welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Signifying unto you that for certain weighty causes and considerations touching us our mind and pleasure is That all excuses laid apart ye be and personally appear at our City of London on Tuesday the Seventh day of July next coming there to tarry and demeur until ye shall know farther of our pleasure which shall be declared unto you on our behalf by the Mouth of our Chancellor Fail ye not hereof as we specially trust in you Given under our Signet at our Maner of Hampton-Court the last day of June A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght welbeloved we greet you well And whereas it hath pleased the Goodness of Almighty God of his Infinite Mercy and Grace to send unto us at this time good speed in the deliverance and bringing forth of a Princess to the great Joy Rejoyce and inward Comfort of my Lord Us and of all his good and loving Subjects of this his Realm for the which his inestimable Benevolence so shewed unto us we have no little cause to give high Thanks Laud and Praising unto our said Maker like as we do most lowly humbly and with all the inward desire of our Heart And inasmuch as we undoubtedly trust that this our good speed is to your great Pleasure Comfort and Consolation we therefore by these our Letters advertise you thereof desiring and heartily praying you to give with us unto Almighty God high Thanks Glory Laud and Praising and to Pray for the good Health Prosperity and continual preservation of the said Princess accordingly Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Greenwich the Seventh day of September in the Five and twentieth Year of my Lord's Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers ARticles of Agreement made devised and concluded between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey and the Right Honourable Lord Mordaunt for a Marriage to be had between Silvester Danvers and Mistress Elizabeth Daughter to the said Lord Mordaunt the Twelfth day of April in the Twenty eighth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth First It is agreed between the said Parties That the said Silvester Danvers shall Marry and take to his Wife the said Elizabeth if she will thereto agree and the said Elizabeth shall take to her Husband the said Silvester if he thereto will agree and the said Marriage to be solemnized between them before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof where it shall please the said Lord Mordaunt and the Costs of Meat and Drink at the Marriage and even of their Apparel after they are Married to be provided at the Charges of the said Lord Mordaunt Item Where the said Dame Anne is seized of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall all of the yearly value of Fifty Pounds she is contented to make a sufficient and sure Estate in Fee-simple of the foresaid Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances to the said value to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and to ............. discharged of all manner of Charges and Incumbrances made or done by the said Dame Anne on condition as hereafter followeth That is to say That the said Feoffees within Ten Days after they have their Estate shall make a sure and sufficient Estate to the said Dame Anne of the foresaid Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances for term of her Life without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for lack of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne Item Further the said Dame Anne after she hath received her Estate for term of her Life of the Premises granteth to make a grant of an Annuity of Forty Pounds by the Year for the term of her said own Life to the said Silvester and Elizabeth to be had and received out of the said Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances as the said Lord will devise with a Clause of Distress to distrein in the said Lands and Tenements for lack of payment or at Three Months after any of the said Feasts limited or appointed for payment thereof as hereafter followeth And the said Forty Pounds to be paid yearly at the Feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions and the first payment of the said Annuity to begin at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next after the said Silvester shall come to his full Age of One and twenty Years and the Writings to be made for the assurance of the Premises and all further Devises as shall be devised by the said Lord and the same to be done at the Costs and Charges of the same Lord Mordaunt Item All such Leases as shall be made by the said Dame Anne of any parcel of the Premises for term of her Life or Lives or Years or by Copy of Court-Roll not minishing the Rents such Services nor Customs to stand in effect according to the Grant and the same not to be altered nor devised by the said Silvester nor Elizabeth but the same to be confirmed by them when the Remainder shall be Executed if the Tenants or any of them for their own part will so require it Item The said Dame Anne shall suffer all her Maners Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services of her own Inheritance with their Appurtenances that she is in possession of or any other to her use immediately after her decease to descend and remain to the said Silvester and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for lack of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne Danvers discharged of all Incumbrances by her done her Maners of Marden and Wyfford in the County of Wiltshire with their Appurtenances only except whereof one John Danvers Son of the said Dame Anne to have the value of Twenty Pounds yearly thereof for term of his Life and Thirty Years over without Impeachment of wast yeilding to her Heirs yearly One Red Rose at the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist if it be asked and the Profits of the residue of the said Maners of Marden and Wyfford with their Appurtenances to be at the liberty of the same Dame Anne for Twelve Years after her decease to go to the performance of the last Will of the said Dame Anne Danvers for the space of the said Twelve Years next after her decease and likewise except Forty Shillings yearly for an Annuity for the term of Life of one James Vause to be paid forth of a Close or a Pasture called the Oxe-less
and upon those grounds with a respect to the avoiding of all dangers that by the contrary part may ensue you will apply your self to be so vigilant as the points contained in the said Proclamation and all others meet to be remembred for the Maintenance and Conservation of Justice may be put in use and duely observed according to your Allegiance and to the Commandment of the same By the doing hereof ye shall satisfie a good duty towards God you shall preserve your Estimation towards us you shall honestly serve your Country and you shall save your own to your self and to your posterity By the other part you shall offend God you shall displease us put out your Estimation with all the rest in danger Wherefore eftsoons we require you to remember your self touching these things in such wise as we may have cause both to remember you again with Favour and to think you a Man worthy the same and to have Authority with others in our Common-Wealth accordingly Willing you for your better instruction to get a Copy of our said Proclamation and in such wise to note the special points of the same as you may the better put it in due Execution without failing as we trust in you Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the Ninth Day of March the Twentieth and nine Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as by the inestimable Goodness and Grace of Almighty God we be delivered and brought in Child-bed of a Prince conceived in most lawful Matrimony between my Lord the King's Majesty and Us Doubting not but for the Love and Affection which ye bear unto us and to the Common-Wealth of this Realm the knowledge thereof should be Joyous and glad Tidings unto you We have thought good to certifie you of the same to the intent ye might not only render unto God condign Thanks and Praise for so great a Benefit but also continually Pray for the long Continuance and Preservation of the same here in this Life to the Honour of God Joy and Pleasure of my Lord the King and Us and the Universal Well Quiet and Tranquillity of this whole Realm Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Hampton-Court the Twelfth Day of October Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Nine and Twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland and in Truth Supream Head of the Church of England Between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey in the County of Wiltshire on the one Party and the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford on the other Party Witnesseth That it is fully Covenanted Condescended Bargained Concluded and Agreed between the said Parties and either of them Covenanteth Bargaineth Granteth and Agreeth for them their Heirs and Executors to and with the others in manner and form following That is to say Where the said Dame Anne for a Marriage already had done and solemnized between one Silvester Danvers Son and Heir of Thomas Danvers Esquire Deceased Son and Heir of the said Dame Anne hath received of the said Lord Mordaunt Four hundred Marks Sterling whereof the said Dame Anne knowledgeth her self to be fully satisfied contented and paid and the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors thereof to be acquitted and discharged and also the said Dame Anne by these presents knowledgeth her self to have received of the said Lord Mordaunt several Obligations for the payment of Two hundred Marks For the which Summ and payments already paid and to be paid The said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That where she the said Dame Anne is seized of and in certain Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall of the clear yearly value of Fifty Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Expences that the said Dame Anne shall before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next coming after the date hereof make or cause to be made to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and Edmond Fettyplace Esquire and to their Heirs for ever a good sufficient sure and Lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in all and singular the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and all and singular other the Premises with the Appurtenances to the said Sir Anthony Hungerford and Edmond Pettyplace and to their Heirs for ever discharged of all former Bargains Uses Sales Jointures Dowers Titles Statutes Statutes of the Staple Uses Wills Arrearages of Rents Judgments Alienations without License Intrusions not suing of Livery out of the King's Hands Entries Fines Forfeits and that the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments be at the making thereof to the clear yearly value of Forty Pounds over and above all charges going out of the same Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of the Fee from thence forth to be due only excepted to the intent and upon condition That the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace or the Survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns shall immediately and incontinently after such Estate made to them by the said Dame Anne within Ten days next after the same Feast make or cause to be made to the same Dame Anne a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate of all the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises with the Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments with the Appurtenances to the said Dame Anne and her Assigns for term of Life of the said Dame Anne without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof after the said Dame Anne to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the said Silvester for ever discharged in manner and form before rehearsed And the said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That the said Dame Anne within Fifteen Days after she hath the Estate of the Premises made to her by the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace and by the survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns with the remainder as before is expressed that the said Dame Anne by her sufficient Deed or Deeds in the Law shall Grant an Annuity or Annual Rent of Forty Pounds by the Year going out of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances yearly to be paid
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
Newton-Blosmaville and Brafeld are Contributors Twenty six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence I Will That according to my Father's Will the Seven Pounds be disposed in good Deeds in the Church and Town of Turvey for the Soul of Dame Agnes Peck Widow deceased and towards the Reparation and Amendment of the said Church of Turvey or else to buy a new Bell to Ring Day-Bell in the Morning and Curfre at Night to the Church-wardens and Inhabitants of the Town of Turvey to pray for the Souls of William Rogers late of Hills in Turvey deceased otherwise called Roger Stevenson otherwise called William Stevenson of Turvey-Hills Thirty Shillings to the said Church-Wardens and Inhabitants as is aforesaid Thirty Shillings for to pray for the Soul of Master John Cross Clerk sometime Parson of Turvey for and in full recompenee of certain Tyths and Rents due to him for certain Lands late belonging to Parnel Biddlyn and John Biddlyn her Son and Heir To the Heirs of William Bird late of Hills in Turvey aforelaid for and in full recompence of Lands purchased of William Bird his Grandfather living in Hills aforesaid Forty Shillings To the said Church-Wardens of Turvey and other Inhabitants Ten Shillings Stagden Ten Shillings and Mulsho Church Ten Shillings according to the Last Will of my Father And I Will That Six Pound thirteen Shillings four Pence be delivered to the Church-Wardens and other Inhabitants of Mulsho to the Use and Profit of the Church and of the Town and for and towards the Reparations of the said Church I give and bequeath unto the Heirs of Bateman of Turvey deceased for divers Respects which Bateman of old time was Owner of the House next the Mill in Turvey and after that it was one Whites Five Marks I give and bequeath to the next Kinsfolks of Thomas Kerby late of Heviningham-Castle in the County of Essex and of old time Clerk and Servant to my Father Twenty Shillings I give and bequeath unto John Page of Arlesey my Cousin One Ring of Gold price Ten Shillings which I owed to his Mother Cicely Page Item I give and bequeath among the Daughters of Thomas More Esquire my Son in Law begotten between the said Thomas More and Dorothy his Wife late my Daughter Forty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England Albeit the said Thomas doth Claim Fifty Marks thereof by promise of Mouth besides Writing which promise I do not remember And yet notwithstanding I will the said Forty Pounds to be paid as before without delay and to be bestowed by the said Thomas and by the advice of my Executors Item I Will That my Servant John Ashecomb for his long good and faithful Service done unto me shall have the Farm of the Maner of Lyford where he now dwelleth and doth inhabit during the space and term of One and twenty Years next after my Decease in as ample and large a manner as the said John doth now occupy the same paying yearly the accustomed Rent as he doth now pay for the same and generally keeping all Reparations of all manner of Houses belonging and occupied in the said Maner Item I Will That all such Leases as I have made promised to be made or agreed with any manner of Person or Persons whatsoever for Years and yet the said Leases not put in Writing shall be Good Stable and Effectual and stand in strength against me and my Heirs And that my Heir shall with as much Speed convenient as may be assure unto them their Leases in Writing according to my former Promise Grants and Agreements made unto them or any of them the said Leases paying such Fines as be agreed between the said Leasees and me That is to say A Lease made to Simon de Brown for term of Years of the Maner of Halfhyde for the Fine of Twenty Pounds and as yet received Ten Pounds A Lease made to John Perse of Newport-Pannel for One and twenty Years for the Fine of Six Pounds thirteen Shillings four Pence and received no part thereof A Lease of One and twenty Years made unto Robert Edwards of Turvey of the Priory Farm for the Fine of Ten Pounds the said Robert Edwards to pay yearly for his Rent Six Pound thirteen Shillings four Pence Also I will and bequeath to every of my Servants One whole Years Wages and also sufficient Meat and Drink for one whole Year to be allowed to all and every of my Servants to be spent at and within my Mansion-House of Turvey Also I will and bequeath That of all the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which late were of the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis late of Westhornedon in the County of Essex Knight otherwise Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight deceased which from him or any of his Ancestors descended remained or came to Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt deceased late Wife of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Cousin and Heir to the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight deceased wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Dame Joan now his Wife or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or for term of Life or Lives or severally in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last day of August in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight shall be within One half Year next after my decease lawfully sufficiently and assuredly conveyed and Assured unto Sir Robert Throgmorton Knight John Cheyne Esquire and Thomas Nichols Gentleman or to the Survivor or Survivors of them and to his and their Heirs discharged of all former Rights Tyths Uses Interests Charges Incumbrances and Demands had or made since the Death of the said Dame Elizabeth Leases for term of Years whereupon the old Rents and Services or more are reserved and the chief Rents and Services from thenceforth to be due to the chief Lords only excepted to the only Use hereafter following That is to say So many or so much of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which late were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis as shall amount to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Marks or under and not above and shall be named appointed and declared by the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son by a Bill Tripartite Indented Sealed and Subscribed by the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Inrolled in any of the Queen's Majesties Courts of Records at Westminster Whereof One of the parts so Sealed and Subscribed to be delivered to the said Lewis Mordaunt and the other of the said Parts so Sealed and Subscribed to be delivered to the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols or to the Survivor or Survivors of them to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and of the same Dame Joan now his Wife for the term of their Lives and for the term of the Life of the longest Liver of them without
terms so much Rent or more as now is reserved paid or satisfied for the same and so as no such Lease be made or Use limited dispunishable of Wast and also so as every such Lease or Use be appointed to cease and determine upon default of non-payment of the said Rent so to be reserved for the space of Eight and twenty days next after every such Lease or day of payment whereat the same Rent shall be reserved or appointed to be paid And the said Fine or Fines Recovery or Recoveries shall be and enure and the said Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke and their Heirs and Assigns and every of them and all and every other Person and Persons then standing and being seized of or in the premises so to be demised letted limited or any part or parcel thereof shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part thereof as for and concerning only all and every the same Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises for to be demised letten or limited as is aforesaid to the use of all and every such Person and Persons their Executors Administrators or Assigns to whom any such Lease or Leases or limitation of Uses shall be so thereof made or limited and during such time and term only as the said Lease or Leases or other limitation of Uses according to the purport thereof and the meaning of these Presents are to endure and continue and according to the true intent and meaning of all and every the said Lease and Leases or limitation of Uses and of these Presents And after the Expiration of the said Lease or Leases or limitation of Uses and of every of them as they shall severally end and determine and as the same shall severally end and determine and of the Reversions thereupon except of the said Fine or Fines Recovery and Recoveries shall be and enure and the said Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke and their Heirs and all and every other Person or Persons then standing or being seized of or in the Premises so to be demised letten or limited or any parcel thereof shall at all times from thenceforth stand and be seized of and in the same and every part thereof to such uses purposes and intents as be before in these Presents expressed and declared and as by the true intent and meaning of these Presents they should or ought to have done if no such Lease or Leases or limitations had been at any time hereof made or had And it is likewise agreed That if the Recovery or Recoveries in these Presents mentioned and expressed to be had and suffered shall not happen to be had suffered perfected and executed in the Life of the said Lord Mordaunt so as the Use and Uses shall not thereupon be effectually raised according to the true meaning hereof Then all the parties to these Presents and every of them be contented and agreed and the said Lord Mordaunt and the Cognizees aforesaid do by these Presents limit appoint and declare That the foresaid Fine and Fines in these Presents mentioned and intended to be acknowledged and levyed and the Cognizees in the said Fine and Fines and their Heirs and Assigns shall be and stand seized of all the Maners Rectories Tenements and Hereditaments and other the Premises in the said Fine or Fines mentioned to be expressed and comprised to the same and to those uses intents and purposes as the said Recovery and Recoveries are in and by these Presents meant mentioned and expressed to be and as the true intent and purpose of these Presents are intended or meant to be limited and appointed and that to all intents and purposes whatsoever And further whereas there is a certain Lease of the Priory of Rygate in the County of Surrey made by the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Nottingham to the Right Noble Lodowick Duke of Lenox and others and is intended for the Provision and Jointure of the Right Honourable the now Countess of Nottingham Wife unto the foresaid Earl and the said Lady Anne Howard with certain Sureties are bound in the Summ of Four thousand Pounds that the said Countess shall enjoy the same Priory with the Appurtenances during the term in the said Lease limited as by the Indenture of the said Lease and the said Bond may appear Now the said Lord Mordaunt for him his Executors and Assigns doth Covenant Promise and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Executors and Assigns by these Presents That the said Countess of Nottingham shall peaceably and quietly during her Life have hold and enjoy the said Priory and every part thereof according to the purport and meaning of the said Lease so thereof made without the Interruption or Disturbance of him the said Lord Mordaunt And notwithstanding any Act or Thing to be made done or suffered by him or any claiming by from or under him And that the said Lord Mordaunt will upon reasonable request to him made seal and deliver to the said Lady Anne Howard or other whom she shall appoint a Bond of the penal Summ of Four thousand Pounds condescended to that or the like end and purpose And the said Lady Anne Howard for her self her Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and for every of them doth Covenant Promise Grant and Agree to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them by these Presents That she the said Lady Anne Howard is seized of the Maner of Donnington in the County of Berks in her own Demeasne as of Free-hold of a good and sufficient Estate for the term of her own life the remainder to the said Elizabeth Howard and the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten or some other Estate of Inheritance to the said Elizabeth immediately after the decease of the said Lady Anne expectant and that she the said Lady Anne Howard before or immediately upon the Solemnization of the said Marriage and upon reasonable request made will Surrender Grant or Convey all her Estate Right and Title in the said Maner of Donnington and every part thereof to the said Elizabeth Howard or the said Lord Mordaunt or both of them at the election or appointment of the said Lord Mordaunt and in such manner and form and by such assurance as by the said Lord Mordaunt or his Council learned in the Law shall be reasonably demised advised and required at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said Lord Mordaunt And that he the said Lord Mordaunt and Elizabeth Howard or either of them to whom the said Conveyance shall be so made as aforesaid their Heirs and Assigns shall and may peaceably and quiety hold possess and enjoy the said Maner of Donnington and every part and parcel thereof during the natural Life of the said Lady Anne Howard without the Disturbance and Interruption of the said Lady Anne Howard or any claiming by from or under her and freed or discharged or
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