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
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
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
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
late hath permuted a Benefice that he had in Northbeneflete in Essex for the said Benefice in Addington with oon Master John Ovyn late Parson there and as he saith ye doe now pretend that a Graunt was made unto yow by the said Master John Ovyn in his time of the Ferme of the said Parsonage of Addington for the space of a Yere which pretence I understand the said Master John Ovyn utterly denyeth saying that he never was agreable thereunto and how that ye have no writing thereof but onely that ye intend with strong hand to keep the said Ferme against the will of the Parson there and contrary to all good reason and conscience Wherefore I pray yow as hertely as I can that as well for my sake as in discharge of your owne conscience ye woll deal favorably with the said Parson and to suffer him to occupy and enjoy his Benefice according to Right without your interruption wherein yow shall give me cause to be good Lord unto yow in eny thing ye reasonably can desire me And if ye doe the contrary the matter will be ferther attempted against yow to your trouble and charge Written the third day of March. Franceys Lovell To my Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Squier TRusty and Welbeloved I grete yow welle and let yow wite that I am credibly informed how ye grevously and contrarie to all right vexe and trouble the Tennants and Inhabitants of the Towne of Addyngton in the County of Northampton belonging unto the Abbot of Crowland whereof I am Steward and had not I have been the said Abbot had ere this time shewed it unto the Kings Grace my Lady his Modre and alsoe unto my Lord of Oxford in as moche as he is Chappellaine unto them which as I suppose would have been to yow none ease gif he had so doon Wherefore I advise yow from hencesorth no more to vexe ne troble the said Tennants and Inhabitants but to leave such your wrongful dealing among them and suffre them to have their Comunes and Herdes as they have had in times past for drede of that may ensue thereof And that yow will surcease of any more troubling with them as I may say unto yow gramercy at our next metyng And if I understand that ye doe the contrary I shall provide a convenient remedy therefore And alsoe as for such mattris as been depending betwix yow and my Servant Richard Clerc I shall when we next speke togedyre see a remedy therein Moreover that you will give credence unto the Bringer hereof whych is a Servant of the Kinges and myne Yeven under my Signet at the Mannor of Shene the three and twentyeth day of May. John Viscount Welles A Letter from the King to Henry Vere To Our Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Squier By the King H.R. TRusty and Welbeloved we grete yow wel And wot ye wel grevouse Compleynt hath be made unto us on the behalf our trusty and welbeloved in God th'Abbot of our Monastery of Crowland how where he in the right of the said Monastery hath a Fermor and certeyn Tennants in the Towne of Addington ye without matter or cause sufficient of your pure malice not onely at divers times heretofore have by your sinister menes vexed and trobled the said Eermor and Tennants that they ne are of sufficient power defending their life to pay and content to him their Fermes due unto the said Monastery for their termes in the same but as well put them dayly in such feare of new trouble that he is like to be destitute of any sufficient Fermor and Tennants to occupy the Mannor and Tenements lying in the said Towne at any time hereafter to the utter impoverishing of our said Monastery as we be informed Wherefore we willing the said Abbot peasibly to enjoy the profits of our said Monastery as far as he ought of right to doe by reason of his Dignity there most specially in consideration of that it is of our foundation whom we are bound to defend in all the right of the same woll and straightly charge yow if it be as is surmised unto us in this parte that ye not onely dispose you lawfully to compound with the said Abbot for such injuryes and offences as ye have attempted in this partie contrarie our Lawes and good conscience but alsoe at all times hereafter to suffer the said Fermors and Tennants now being and hereafter for to be peceably to occupy their tenors in the same without eny vexation inquieting or trouble of you or other in your name or for you into the contrary so that the said Abbot have no cause of reason eftsoons to pursue unto us in the premisses as ye woll answer unto us at your uttermost perill Yeven under our Signet at our Towne of Stamford the fourteenth day of March. To his Right Worshipful and Welbeloved Brother Sir Henry Vere be this delivered RYght Worshipful Brodyr in the most herty wise I commend me unto yow and Brodyr I have sent unto yow your Aporne and Gussets of Mayse I trust not appaired and I thanke yow right hertely for them and if it like yow not to have them againe ye shall have for them what ye will think reasonable And Brodyr I have sent yow be this the Bringer hereof the Copye of the evidence of Barton and Sywell and I will be with you with the Grace of God on Tewesday or Wednesday next coming and bring to you all the dedys concerning the Mannor of Sywell with th' appurtenances And Brodyr I pray yow to lend to me be the Bringer hereof five Marcks that ye promissed I should have had at the first payment for ye promissed me twenty Marcks and I had but ten Pounds And I pray yow of all gentilnesse that I may have this five Marcks now or els that ye will send me forty Shillings for it would doe me great ease now and I have nede thereof and ye shall finde me in all behalfes as I have promissed yow with the Grace of Jhesu who preserve yow Written at little Okely in haste on Sainct Peters Eve And I pray yow that this Bill may recomend me to my Sister Your loveing Brodyr John Tresham To his Right Worshipful Brodyr Sir Henry Vere be this delivered RYght Worshipful Brodyr in the most loving wise I recomend me unto yow and unto my Sister your Wife And Brodyr whereas I sent yow word by your Servaunt to have been with yow as this day I pray yow to take it for noon unkindnesse that I come not for I have such a sorenesse in my Throat that hit grevys me to speake or to swallow any thing and the Wether is soe farvent colde that I dare not aventure forth And alsoe your Servaunt shewed me that ye should understand that I have sold more Londs in Northampton to Chauncey and for certein so have I done And though I help and ease my selfe with parte of myne inheritance that is fee-simple to bring me
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