the fourths Reign I find nothing more of this Duke Henry but soon after it is said that he speedily dispatched one Pershal his trusty Servant in all hast unto Richard Duke of Gloucester then in the North and that Pershall being privatly admitted to speak with him in the dead of the night told him that his Master had sent him to offer him his service and that he would wait on him with a thousand good Fellows if need were Likewise that thanks being returned and some secret Instructions from Richard the Messenger went back and within few daies met with him again at Notingham Moreover that when Richard came to Northampton this our Duke himself with three hundred Horse received him there and that having long conference with him it was beleived that the designe for effecting what soon after followed was there privily laid for after that time it was observed that he stood up vigorously for Richard and as one of his cheif confidents was with some others sent to the Queen who fearing the destruction of her Sons by the Duke of Gloucester their Uncle had taken Sancttuary with them at Westminster by fair pretences and promises to gain them out of her hands Which being done and Hastings late Lord Chamberlain to King Edward the fourth whose furtherance in his wicked purposes he despaired to obtain cut shorter by the Head lest Morton Bishop of Ely a person of singular prudence and Gravity might stand in his way he committed him to the custody of this Duke who thereupon fent him to his Castle of Brecknock in Wales And having so done to secure this Duke the more firmly to his ends he made him Cheif Justice of all South-Wales and North-Wales as also Constable of the Castles of Caermardyn Cardigan and divers other in those parts his Patent bearing date 18 Maii Richard being then Protector and King Edward the fifth alive Nay an Author of that time reports that he gave him all his riches so that he then made his boast that he had as many Liveries of Staffords Knotts as Richard Nevill the late great Earle of Warwick had of Ragged Staves with large promifes of far greater Matters as I shall shew anon Wherewith being corrupted he stuck at nothing that might carry on that Tragical designe which both of them had so closely layd for our Historians tell us that in the time of Dr. Shaa's Sermon at Pauls Cross where that Doctor endeavored to make the people beleive that the Children of K. E. 4. were not lâgitimate and upon the coming in of the Protector said This is the Fathers own Figure his own Countenance c. it was observed that this Duke accompanied him And two days following came to Guild-Hall where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Commons of the City were assembled and in a long Oration depraving the Government of King Edward the fourth by sundry instances represented to them the illegitimacy of his Children much magnifying that Sermon preached by Dr. Shaa on the Sunday before and withall insinuating that K. Edward the fourth himself was not lawfully begotten but that Richard Duke of Gloucester the then Protector was the really begotten Son of Richard Duke of York telling them that all those things well considered together with the Knightly prowess and manifold virtues of the Protector that the Nobles and Commons of England especially of the North were determined to make their humble Petition unto him to take upon him the Government of the Realm Moreover the next day after having procured another meeting of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Chief Commoners of the City at Baynards-Castle the Protector likewise meeting them there as the Mouth of them all he humbly desired him to take upon him the Rule Which when the Protector seemed modestly to deny he answered that it was finally determined by the Realm that King Edwards Line should no longer Reign And so it happned for that very day or the night ensuing was that horrid Murther of the young King and his Brother committed secretly in the Tower of London Furthermore soon after this viz. upon the fifth of Iuly he rode with him in State from the Tower to Westminster through the City of London And the day following in that solemn Proceeding from Westminster Hall unto the Abby in order to his Coronation bore his Train with a white Staff in his hand signifying the Office of Lord High Steward of England for that day Having thus been the principal Agent in advancing Richard to the Throne and thereupon pressing his performance of what had been privately promised this new King signed a Bill for Livery of all those Lands unto him whereunto he pretended a right by descent from Humphrey de Bohun sometime Earl of Hereford and Constable of England An abstract whereof I have here inserted together with a Schedule of the Castles and Mannors affixed thereto R. R. RIchard by the grace of God King of England c. To all c. Know ye that We not only considering that our right trusty and right enryrely beloved Cosyn Henry Duke of Buckinhgam is Cosyn and Heir of Blood to Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and rightfull Inheritor of such Inheritances as were of the same late Earl but also the true feythfull and laudable service the which our seid Cosyn hath in many sundry wisez done unto us to our right singular wele and plesure Considering also and understanding that the Mannors Lordships and Lands specified in the Schedule hereunto annexed the which were parcel of the Inheritance of the said Earl and were chosen and accepted in purpartie by Herry the fifth late King of England Son of Mary one of the Daughters and Heirs of the said late Earle of a partition betwene the same late King and Anne Daughter of Alianore another of the Daughters and Heires of the sayd late Earle made by authority of Parliament the second year of his Reigne in allowance of other Mannours Lordships Lands c. of the like value allotted and assured in purpartie to the same Anne come unto the hands of Edward the fourth late King of England our Brother by virtue of certain Act or Acts of Parliament made against Herry the sixth deceased without issue so that our said Cosyn as true Inheritor to the sayd Inheritance in forme abovesayd should by his death have had and inherited the said Mannors Lordships c. specifyed in the sayd Schedule if the sayd Act or Acts of Parliament had never been made And also for certain other considerations us especially moving wille and grant to our sayd Cosyn that in our next Parliament to be holden he shall be surely and lawfully by Act of Parliament restored frothe Feste of Easter last past to all the foresayd Mannours c. specifyed in the sayd Schedule and the same have hold and enjoy to him and to his Heires according to such
Castle at Plimpton and to have the Lordships of Moreâs and Ridleston which were the Inheritance of the Countess of Mellent which she had granted to him as also for the Lordship of Cruke which was the Dowry of the Countess of Berry and of his Fee for which he had paid fourscore pounds per annum which payment was upon this Fine to be quitted Moreover to have a Tryal by the great Assize for decision of the right betwixt the King and himself touching Rumbrug and Langele viz. eight pound Land near Southampton likewise for enjoying that twenty pound Land which was of the Normans and that he might govern his Tenants by Military service and others in the Isle of Wight according to the Law of the Land and Judgment of his Court so that they might do with their Lands as they rightfully ought In 8 Ioh. he gave to the King one hundred pound and a Palfrey for Livery of the Lordships of Reynton and Feltham which were the marriage Portion of Alice his Grand-mother And in 13 Ioh. paid one hundred seventy and eight marks for eighty nine Knights Fees in Devonshire and four pounds and one mark for three and an half in Berkshire upon levying the Scutage of Wales In 15 Ioh. he went into Poictou In 18 Ioh. the King taking notice of his great age and by reason thereof his disability to defend his Lands against Lewes of France whom the Rebellious Barons had then called in did grant that he might retain his said Lands in his own hand upon condition that Baldwin his Son should constantly remain with the King in his service Which Baldwin having wedded Margaret Daughter and Heir to Warine Fitz-Gerald and dying in the life time of his Father King Iohn gave her in marriage unto his great favorite Falk de Breant in 15 Ioh. This Earl William took to Wife Mabel Daughter to Robert Earl of Mellent and had by the gift of her Father the Lordships of Esturmenistre Moreis and ââdlestune to hold to her and her heirs By which Mabel besides Baldwin his Son who died in his life time as hath been observed he had issue two Daughters viz. Mary the Wife of Robert de Curtenay who had in marriage the Head of his Barony in Devonshire with the Castle of Plimpton And Ioane first married to William the Son of William Briwere and after to Hubert de Burgh Chamberlain to the King who had also in marriage with her the whole Isle of Wight as also Christ Church Which Ioane died without issue This William died in 1 Hen. 3. whereupon his Castles of Caresbrock and Plimpton were committed to the trust of the Sheriff of Hantshire and others and the custody of his Lands in Hantshire Dorsetshire and Somersetshire unto Ralph de Wiliton But the Wardship of the Son and Heir of Baldwin his Son was given to Falk de Breant above mentioned who had married his Mother and held as her Dowry inter alia the Castle of Plimpton which was accounted Caput Honoris Comitatus Devon upon whose death which hapned in 9 Hen. 3. she the said Margaret had Livery of her Dowry by her first Husband Baldwin before mentioned she thereupon undertaking to pay the Debts of her last Husband Falk de Breant by three hundred marks per annum till they should be fully satisfied This Margaret by some called Margery in her pure Widowhood for the health of the Soul of Warine Fitz-Gerald her Father and the Souls of Alice de Curcy her Mother gave to the Canons of Bolton in Yorkshire her Mills at Hareâode in that County And in 36 Hen. 3. An. 1252. departed this life upon the sixth Nones of October Matthew Paris affirms that she was by King Iohn the Tyrant as he calls him who stuck at no wicked act constrained to marry that impious ignoble and base conditioned man Falk de Breant against her Will of which marriage he says one wrote these following lines at that time Lex connectit eos amor concordia Lecti Sed Lex qualis Amor qualis Concordia qualis Lex exlex Amor exosus concordia discors And goeth on thus That on a time being in Bed with him he dreamed that a Stone of an extraordinary bigness like a Thunderbolt burst out of the Tower of the Church at S. Albans and falling upon him crusht him to pieces Whereupon starting out of his sleep and with great amazement trembling she asked him what the matter was and how he did To whom he answered I have in my time undergone many perils but never was so much terrified as in this Dream And having told her all particulars she replied That he had grievously offended S. Alban by polluting that Church with blood and plundering the Abby and therefore advised him for preventing a more grievous revenge to reconcile himself to that holy Martyr Wherefore lodging then at Luyton he forthwith arose and went to S. Albans and having sent for the Abbot fell upon his knees with tears and holding up his hands said Lord have mercy upon me for I have grievously offended God and his Blessed Martyr S. Alban but to a sinner there is mercy Let me therefore by your leave speak to your Covent in Chapter to ask pardon of them in your presence for what I have done Whereunto the Abbot consented admiring to see such Lamb-like humility in a Woolf Therefore putting off his apparel he entred the Chapter-house bearing a Rod in his hand and confessing his fault which he said he did in time of War received a lash by every one of the Monks upon his naked Body And when he had put on his cloaths again he went and sate by the Abbot and said This my Wife hath caused me to do for a Dream but if you require restitution for what I then took I will not hearken to you And so he departed the Abbot and Monks being glad that they were so rid of him without doing them any more mischeif This Margaret held the Lordships of Pishoo Niweham South-Lamheth Wrokeshale and Christechirche in Dower from Baldwine sometime Earl of Devonshire her Husband and came at last to be the Wife of Robert Aguillon but died not till 20 Edw. 1. by which it is evident that she lived to a very great age I now come to Baldwin Son of Baldwin who died in his Fathers life time In 11 Hen. 3. Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester and Hertford gave a Fine of two thousand marks to the King for leave to marry his eldest Daughter to this young Earl Whereupon all his Demesn Lands which were then esteemed at two hundred pound per annum value were committed to the Guardianship of the same Earl of Glocester the rest being in the hands of Savaric de Male-leone till he
of the Prior he had directed the particular place as also that two hundred marks should be employed by his Exetors for his Tomb and a hundred marks on his Funeral Moreover that forty marks should be distributed amongst poor Maids at their marriages as also a hundred pound in Masses Alms and other Works of Charity for his Soul He likewise ordained That on the day of his Funeral there should be offered two Coursers one of them compleatly harnessed with caparisons of his Arms as also Banners Standards and other accoutrements according as was accustomed for a person of his degree Furthermore that his Feoffees should stand seised of his Castle and Mannors of Sheriff-Hoton East Lilling West Lilling and Raskelf to the use of his Wife during her life Likewise that the Covenants of marriage of Thomas his Son with the Lady Willoughby his Wife should be fully performed according to the agreement made betwixt himself and Ralph Lord Cromwel as also the Marriage Covenants for Catherine his Daughter with the Son and Heir Apparent of the Lord Harington and William Lord Bonvile To his Son George he gave twelve Silver Dishes and a Cup with Cover gilt To Alice his Daughter a gilt Cup with Cover To his Daughter Eleanor a Silver Bowl with Cover To his Daughter Catherine the like To his Daughter Margaret a thousand marks to her marriage and a Gilt Cup with Cover and to his Daughter the Countess of Arundel a Cup of Gold Howbeit the next ensuing year viz. 38 H. 6. the tide being turned by reason that some of the old Soldiers deserted the Duke of York and came in to the King he was constrained to flee into Devonshire thence to Gernsey and so to Calais whereupon amongst others he was attained in the Parliament soon after held at Coventrey But from Calais adventuring with the Duke of York again into England he landed at Dover and within a short time giving Battle to the Lancastrians at Northampton there obtained a notable victory Whereupon the Yorkists bearing sway he was advanced to the dignity of Lord Great Chamberlain of England But see the mutability of Terrestrial things marching shortly after against the Lancastrians who had gotten head again in Yorkshire near Wakefield he was there taken prisoner in Battle in Christmass and his Son Sir Thomas Nevill slain Whereupon his head was cut off and conveyed to York and there set on a Pole over one of the Gates of that City After which viz. 15 Febr. 2 Edw. 4. I find that his Body together with the Corps of Alice his Wife and Thomas his Son were buried at Bisham Abby in Com. Berks. The issue which he had by the said Alice his Wife was as followeth viz. Richard Earl of Warwick and after his death Earl of Salisbury Iohn Marquess Mountague Sir Thomas who married ... Widow of the Lord Willoughby and was slain at Wakefield âeorge Bishop of Exeter and Lord Chancellor of England afterwards Archbishop of York And five Daughters viz. Ioane the Wife of William Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel Cicely married to Henry Beauchamp Duke of Warwick Alice to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh of Ravensâath Eleanor to Thomas Stanley the first Earl of Derby of that name Katherine to William Bonvile Son and Heir to William Lord Bonvile and Harrington and Margaret to Iohn de Vere Earl of Oxford but afterwards to William Lord Hastings Chamberlain to King Edward the fourth Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick eldest Son to Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury THis Richard having taken to Wife Anne the Daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Cousin and Heir to Anne sole Daughter and Heir to Henry Duke of Uarwick obtained by reason thereof as also in Respect of his special services about the Kings person and in the Warrs of Scotland as the Patent bearing date 23 Iulii next after the death of the same Lady Annâ which hapned 3 Ian Ann 1449 27. H. 6. doth import a confirmation and declaration to himself andâhis said Wife and to her Heirs of the dignity and title of Earl of Warwick with all preheminencies that any of their ancestors before the Creation of Henry Duke of Warwick used Shortly after which by Fine leavied Quind Trinit 28 Hen. 6. they entailed the Castle of Warwick with divers Lordships in that and sixteen other Counties upon the issue of their two bodies lawfully begotten and in default thereof upon the issue of her the said Anne with remainder to Margaret eldest Daughter to the same Richard Beauchamp late Earl of Warwick and her Heirs This is that Richard Nevill who was commonly called the stout Earl of Warwick and well he might be so termed in regard he bore such a great sway towards the latter end of King Henry the sixth and part of King Edward the fourths Reign having been an eminent actor in those tragick broiles betwixt the Houses of Lancaster and York as our Historians do fully manifest for about the 30 of Hen. 6 he sided with Richard Duke of York who did at that time first put himself in Armes under pretence of reforming what was amiss in the Government The true cause of this taking his part being a variance betwixt himself and the Duke of Somerset which happened in the Court of King Henry the sixth and that the Queen adhered to the Duke of Somerset therein But the Duke of York being not then powerful enough to go through with his designe submitted himself making Oath thenceforth to become a true and faithful Subject Howbeit the next year after having a stronger foundation for his enterprise chiefly through the interest he had in this potent Earl and the Earl of Salisbury his Father he broke out again and in 33 Hen. 6. at S. Albans assailed the Kings Forces where this Earl entring through a Garden gave the first onset and slew many seized upon the King himself caused a Parliament to be summoned made himself Protector of the King and this our Earl of Warwick Captain of l Calais But by the power of some others who saw what was aimed at he was at that time hindred in his speed Whereupon the King coming to Coventrie in 35 of his Reign hoped there to have reconciled all and to that end sent for the Duke by Letters as also for this Earl and his Father who came accordingly Nevertheless being there and pretending some ill intentions towards them they got away York to Wigmore in the Marches of Wales Salisbury to his Castle at Middleham in the North and this Earl of Warwick to Calais Howbeit after some fair overtures they were content to come to London so as they might have store of followers Whereupon this Earl brought with him six hundred men in Red-Coats embroidered with white Ragged-Staves before and behind This was in 36 Hen. 6. where and at which time
Tanfield for the celebration of Divine Service there for the health of his own Soul as also for the Souls of his Father and Mother and all his Ancestors Upon the Coronation of King Henry the Fifth he was advanced to the Office of Constable of England for that solemnity And in 2 H. 5. in consideration of his good services done and to be done had an Annuity of one hundred pounds per annum given him by that King for the term of his life to be received out of the issues and revenues of the County of Lincoln Also upon the Seige of Harfleu the same year he was sent by the Duke of Clarence to treat with those within the Town and being then Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold was imployed to the General Council of Constance in Germany at that time held For which and other his eminent services upon the Attainder of Henry Lord Scrope of Masham he obtained a Grant of all the Lands of the same Lord Scrope lying in Richmondshire to hold during the term they should continue in the Kings hands rendring therefore an accompt according to a reasonable extent and upon the Surrender of that Grant the same year obtained another of the Mannors of Masham Clifton Watlows Thirne Nostrefield Burton Constable Norton Garstone Bellerby Coverham Ainderby with the Stepyll Berningham and Newsom All which did belong to the same Lord Scrope and divolved to the Crown by reason of that forfeiture to hold for term of life And the next ensuing year was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France with forty Men at Arms whereof himself with three Knights to be part of the number and eighty Archers In 5 Hen. 5. he was again retained to serve the King in his Wars of France with eighty eight Men at Arms whereof two to be Knights besides himself and two hundred and forty Archers And before the end of that year was joyned in Commission with Iohn de Nevill to assault and take any Castles Towns c. in the Dutchy of Normandy and to reduce them to the Kings obedience In 6 H. 5. he was with the Duke of Exeter at the Siege of Roan and in 9 Hen. 5. being still Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold attended the King again into France It is farther reported of this Henry that he travelled more then once to Ierusalem and likewise beyond it to Grand Cairâ where the Souldan had his residence and that in his return he fought with the Saracens and Turks as also that by the help of the Knights of Rhodes he built a Castle there called S. Peters Castle By his Testament bearing date upon the Feast day of S. Iohn the Evangelist An. 1424. 3 Hen. 6. this Henry bequeathed his Body to be buried in our Lady Kirk within the Abby of Iorevaulx appointing that in all haste possible after his death it should be carried thither and buried by day light if it came not too late And in case it did then the same night Moreover willing that a thousand Masses should be said for his Soul with all speed constituting Sir William Sir Geffrey and Mr. Robert Fitz-Hugh his Sons with Elizabeth his Wife his Executors Soon after which viz. upon the eleventh of Ianuary next following he departed this life being then seised of the Mannor of Carleton in Lindrik and Kingston in the said Town of Carleton in Com. Nottingh As also of the Mannors of Thringarth Dent Sedbergh Stavel Thorp under-Stane Fremington West Apelgarth Little Leming Lirtlington East Apelgarth the Castle and Mannor of Ravenswath the Mannors of Ayreton in Craven Cleseby Clawelbek Estanfield Mikelton and Cotherston with the Advowson of the Abby of Iorevaulx all in Com. Ebor. Leaving issue by the before mentioned Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Robert Grey Knight Son of Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield Knight and Brother and Heir of Iohn Grey called Lord Marmion one of the Sons of Iohn Lord Grey of Roâherfield by Lora his Wife the second Daughter and Coheir to Herbert de S. Quintin eight Sons viz. Sir William Fitz-Hugh Knight his Son and Heir then twenty six years of age Sir Iohn Fitz-Hugh Knight Robert Bishop of London Iohn who died young Henry drowned in the River of Humber Raufe who died in France Herbert and Richard who also died young And five Daughters viz. Elizabeth who died in her infancy Ioane the Wife of Sir Robert de Willoughby Knight Eleanor the Wife of Philip Lord d'Arcy afterwards of Thomas Tunstall Maud the Wife of Sir William de Evre Elizabeth the Wife of Sir Rauf Grey Knight and Lora the Wife of Sir Maurice Berkley of Beverstan Knight Which Sir William in his Fathers life time viz. in 9 Hen 5. attended that King in his expedition then made into France being then retained by Indenture to serve him with ten Men at Arms himself accounted and thirty Archers And upon his Fathers death being of full age doing his Fealty had the same year Livery of his Lands This Sir William in 11 Hen. 6. was joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to treat with the Commissioners of Iames the First King of Scotland at Hamden-stank or some other place touching satisfaction for such injuries as had been done to the English by the Subjects of that Nation And in 13 Hen. 6. upon information that the Scots were preparing to besiege Barwick and the Castles in the Marches was again commissioned with the Earls of Northumberland Westmorland the Lord Clifford Dacres Greistoke and Latimer to raise the power of the Northern Counties for their defence Moreover in 27 Hen. 6. 18 Decemb. he entred into Covenants with Sir Iohn Constable of Halsham Knight that Lora his Daughter should take to Husband Iohn the Son and Heir of the said Iohn upon Munday before Candlemass day next ensuing And having married Margery the Daughter to William Lord Willoughby of Eresâp departed this life upon the 22 of October 31 Hen. 6. being then seised of the Mannor of Staunton Quintin in Com. Wiltes Frome Quintin Evershete and Bell in Com. Dorset the moity of the Mannor of Luddington in Comit. Northampt. the Mannor of Berwike in Com. Suss. Wintringham in Com. Linc. Beghton in Com. Derb. Charlton Kingston and Bothumsall in Com. Nottingh Bradley in Com. Berks. Brandes-Burton Westanfield Estanfield Cairethorpe Wathe Leming Magna Mikelton in âesdaie Cutherston Lertington Clisseby Clowbeke Berewike Leming Parva West Appelgarth Fremington Dent Wodhall Eâwardây Thurkelby Maâelton and the Castle of Ravenswath in Com. Ebor. As also of the Mannors of Benton Parva and Aldmore in Com. Northumbr Leaving Henry his Son and Heir twenty three years of age and six Daughters viz. Margery the Wife of Sir Iohn Milton Knight Ioane marâiâd to Iohn Lord Scrope
for that the first Earl Palatine viz. Hugh commonly called Lupus of whom I have already spoke had the County of Chester given him by the Conqueror Tenere ita liberè ad Gladium sicut ipse Willielmus Rex tenebat Angliam per Coronam Being in the Holy Land he was at that famous siege of Damieta Vbi Dux Chistianae Cohortis praestitit gloriosa saith Henry Archdeacon of Huntendon Where being General of the Christian Army he did glorious things Upon his return thence when he was at Sea there hapning a dreadful storm as the same Author affirmeth he asked the Marriners How long it was then to midnight and they told him It was almost two hours Said he then Labor till that time and I trust to God the tempest will cease But when midnight approached the tempest increased so much that the Master of the Ship bad him commend himself to God for they were all like to perish Whereupon he went out of his Cabin and stoutly assisting them the tempest soon asswaged The day following therefore when the Seas were calm and the danger clearly over the Master asked him Why he would not stir to assist them till midnight telling him That his help was then more than all the Marriners in the Ship Quoth he Because my Monks and other devoât people who are of mine and my Ancestors Foundation did then rise to sing Divine Service For that reason therefore did I put confidence in their Prayers and therefore my hope is that God Almighty for their Prayers and Suffrages would give me such strength as I had not before and asâwage the tempest as I foretold So soon as he returned from this journey which was about the Calends of April An. 1220. 4 Hen. 3. he began the structure of Chartley Castle in Staffordshire and Beeston Castle in Cheshire and likewise the Abbey of Deulaâres for White Monks near Leek in Staffordshire which Monastery he had been incited so to found as saith my Author by the ghost of Earl Ranulph his Grand-Father which appeared to him one night when he was in Bed and bad him go to a place called Cholpesdale within the Territory of Leek and there he should find a certain Chappel antiently built in honor of the Blessed Virgin and found an Abbey of White Monks and endow it adding There shall be joy to thee and many others who shall be saved thereby For there quoth he shall be a Ladder erected by which the Prayers of Angels shall ascend and descend and vows of Men shall be offered to God and they shall give thanks and the name of our Lord shall be called upon in that place by daily Prayers and the sign of this shall be when the Pope doth interdict England But do thou in the mean time go to the Monks of Pulton where Robert Butler hath in my name built an Abbey and thou shalt there be partaker of the Sacrament of the Lord for such Priviledges belong to the servants of the Founders And in the Seventh year of that Interdict thou shalt translate those Monks to the place I have foretold Which Relation being made unto the Lady Clemencia his Wife she said in French Dieu encres id est God increase Whereupon the Earl congratulating her expression said The name of the place shall be Deulaâres In which year also he had the custody of the Honor of Leicester conferred upon him The former Testimonies of this Earls loyalty to the King gave great hopes that his obedience would still have continued unshaken Howbeit within four years after it proved otherwise for discontents being raised by divers of the Barons about the Kings not confirming the Charter of Liberties which had been exacted by the predominant power of the Nobility from his Father as also for that he was too much governed by the advise of Hubert de Burgh He with his adherents keeping their Christmass at Leicester sent an insolent and minatory Message to the King then at Northampton viz. That except he would forbear to require his Castles and to hearken unto the Counsels of Hubert de Burgh they would all unanimously rise against him and compel him to be guided by them But to this they received such an answer from the Archbishop of Canterbuây that made them all to startle which was That unless they would on the morrow render the King all his Castles himself and other of the Bishops would excommunicate them every man by name So that understanding also how well the King was provided with Military Forces to deal with them they prudently came to Northampton and submitted themselves unto him Yet were not their hearts so humbled as that they would be quiet in case it lay in their power to stir For in 11 Hen. 3. this haughty spirited Earl with many others taking advantage of the diâcontent that Richard Earl of Cornwal had conceived towards the King touching the Mannor of Berkhaâfied which belonged to the Earldom of Cornwal and was given by King Iohn his Father to another put themselves in Arms under colour of assisting that Earl in recovery of his own and sent a peremptory Message to the King requiring That he should do him right and to seal unto them a new Charter of the Forest Liberties instâad of that which he had lately cancelled at Oxford Whereupon the King discerning what mischeif might grow through his withstanding them caused a Convention of the Peers at Northampton 3 Nones of August and made a peaceable Accord with them And having so done to oblige this potent Earl the more granted to him all that part of the Honor of Richmund with the Appurtenances which he formerly had by the gift of King Iohn to hold during his life upon condition That he should not make any Agreement with the Earl of Britanny to whom that part of the Honor did belong so as to yield it up unto him unless he could obtain so much Justice from the King of France as to recover those Lands of his own in Normandy which he lost in the service of King Iohn In 13 Hen. 3. he had a Confirmation from the King of all his Lands betwixt the Rivers of ãâã and Merse in Lancashire viz. The Town of West Deâby with the Wapentake the Borough of Lâverpool the Town and Wapentake of Salforâ and Wapentake of ãâã in the same County with all Forests Hays Homages and other the Appurtenances Of this stout Earl I farther find that in 14 Hen. 3. he opposed one Stephen a Commissary from the Pope who was sent to gather the Tenths from the Bishops and all Religious Orders prohibiting any person whatsoever within the compass of his Jurisdiction from payment of any thing notwithstanding that all England besides with Ireland and Wales submitted thereto Moreover the same year attending the King in his expedition into Britanny he had his Bond for
Richmund and Derby by Reginald Bray her trusty instrument for bringing in of Henry Earl of Richmund afterwards King by the name of Henry the seventh who seeing Henry Duke of Buckingham one of the chief in that designe he so unhappily surprized before it could take effect got with other wellwishers to it into Britanny And after that succesful day at Bosworth where King Richard being slain the Crown was set on that victorious Henries Head he was made one of his chief Councellors Constable of the Castle at Bristol Master of the Mint and upon the twelfth day of March the same year advanced to the dignity of a Baron Moreover in 2 Hen. 7. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea with three hundred and fifty Souldiers in four Ships for the space of six weeks from the twentieth day of February And in 3 Henr. 7. constituted one of the Chamberlains of the Kings Exchequer In 4 Henric. 7. being then Governor of Calais he was sent into Flanders with three thousand Souldiers to the aid of Maximilian the Emperour there being a Rebellion then raised in those parts where he had a notable Skirmish with the Enemy near Dixmew in which he slew many took divers prisoners and returned with much Booty And in 7 Hen. 7. was imployed as Embassador with Richard Fox then Bishop of Exeter for reconciling all matters betwixt King Henry and the French In 9 H. 7. he was made Justice-Itinerant of all the Kings Forests on the south of Trent Sir Reginald Bray being his associate And upon the fall of Sir William Stanley in 10 H. 7. constituted Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold In 12 Hen. 7. being prepared to march as General with an Army into Scotland to vindicate those injuries which King Henry had received thence having of his own retinue five Lances fifteen Demi-lances two hundred fifty four Archers and Bills for two hundred and fifty Souldiers six Lances twelve Demi-lances seventy one Archers and Bills for three hundred Souldiers and seven Lances four Demi-lances five hundred forty four Archers and Bills for three hundred and sixteen Souldiers he was prevented from that expedition by the Rebellion of the Cornish-men who were headed by Iames Lord Audley and had his share in the honor of that victory over them at Black-Heaâh in Kent which was then through the happy conduct of the Kings forces under the command of Thomas Earl of Surrey so successfully obtained And the next year following was in the head of that Army against those forces near Tanton in Com. Somers which were newly landed in Cornwall on the behalf of Perkin Warbeck where they were utterly vanquished In 19 Hen. 7. he was made Constable of the Castle of Bridgwater And by his Testament bearing date the 19 Maii 23 H. 7. bequeathing his Body to be buried in the Abby of S. Peter at Westminster appointed that his Feoffees would stand seised of and in his mannors of Wynderstow in Comit. Willts and Grychell-Gover in Com. Dorset of the yearly value of twenty six pound thirteen shillings and four pence to the intent that with the issues of the same there should be three Priests suâained perpetually to sing for his Soul and the Souls of his Father and Mother viz. two in the Church where he was to be buried and the third in the Parish Church of South-Pederton in Com. Somerset where divers of his ancestors lay interred every of them to have for his Salary ten Marks Sterling And to Elizabeth his wife Daughter to Sir Iohn Arundel of Lanhern in Cornwall Knight he gave an hundred Marks worth of Plate He died at London 28 Maii 23 H. 7. and lieth buried in the Chapel of S. Paid within the Abby Church of Westminster as by the Epitaph on his Monument there appeareth Leaving issue Henry his only son and one daughter called Cecelie married to Iohn Bouchier Lord Fitz-Warren afterwards Earl of Bathe Which Henry in 6 Hen. 8. had a special livery of all the Lands whereof his said Father died seised And was created Earl of Bridgewater upon the nineteenth day of Iuly 30 H. 8. at the Kings Mannor house of Ocking being the second who had the title of some eminent City or Town But this Henry though wedded to Catherine daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk died without issue William de Albini Pincerna THis William de Albini son of Roger de Albini by Amicia his wife and elder brother to that famous Nigel de Albini whose posterity assumed the sirname of Moubray as I have elsewhere shewed coming first hither with William Duke of Normandy at his Conquest of England and being much aiding to him in that service had divers Lands in Norfolk and other place conferred upon him whereupon he ejected several persons out of their possessions amongst which one Edwyne a Dane who first came hither with King Knute was by him dispossessed of the Lordships of Snetsham Sharneburne and Stanho in that County Edwyne therefore with some others who suffered in like sort went to King William and told him that neither before his entrance nor since his Conquest they had ever acted or conspired against him but lived inoffensively as they were ready to prove Upon which complaint the King forthwith caused enquiry to be made through the whole Realm and commanded that those who had lived peacably should have restitution of their Lands so seized on to enjoy as freely as they had done before and thenceforth to be called Drenges And in pursuance of that his Command appointed that this William de Albini then his Butler and William de Warren his Forester should restore unto Edwyne all those Lands which they had thus taken from him But notwithstanding this Mandate all he could get at present was only three hundred Acres of Land and three Folds in Snetesham and after that four hundred Acres of Land and four Folds in Stanho to be held of him by certain services As also four hundred Acres of Land and as many Folds in Sharneburne from William de Warren Howbeit ere long the King having sent Edwyne into Normandy for his Bastard Daughter there begotten before the Conquest of England gave her in marriage to Asceur his Son from which time the said Edwyne had protection so long as he lived To this William de Albini and his heirs was the Lordship of Bokenham also given by King William the first to hold by the service of being Butler to the Kings of England on the day of their Coronation For which respect he was afterwards stiled in divers Charters Pincerna Henrici Regis Anglorum This William de Albini founded the Abby of Wymundham in Norfolk and gave to the Monks of Rochester the Tithes of
King Henry the fifth at the siege of Harfleu 3 Hen. 5. became distempered by eating of Fruit with the Flux as divers other great persons then were and was therefore necessitated to return into England before that famous Battle of Agincourt which soon after ensued where King Henry obtained so glorious a victory And in the next ensuing year was by Indenture retained to serve the King in his Warrs of France with an hundred Men at Arms and three hundred Archers whereof himself to be one five Knights and the rest Esquires wherof the third part to be Foot-men and the rest to serve on Horseback In 5 Hen. 5. he was in Normandy in K. Henry's service and commanded part of his Army at the Seige of Cane continuing in those parts till the death of that victorious King And in 1 Hen. 6. was again reteined to serve the King in those Warrs with one Baneret four Knights an hundred and fourteen Men at Arms and three hundred and sixty Archers Moreover in 3 Hen 6. in the Parliament then held at Westminster he was restored to the title and dignity of Duke of Norfolk using no other than E. Marshal and Notingham before And in 4 Hen. 6. being of full age and doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands In 8 Hen. 6. he was again reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Warrs And by his last Will and Testament bearing date 20 Maii 7 Hen. 6. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Charter-house within the Isle of Axholme ordaining that the Bones of his Father which lay buryed at Ulenice should be translated thither To Katherine his Wife Daughter to Ralph Nevil Earl of Westmerland afterwards married to Thomas Strangwayes Esq and after that to Iohn Viscount Beaumont and lastly to Sir Iohn Widvile Knight Brother to Anthony Earl Rivers he bequeathed all his Plate of Gold and Silver or Silver and gilt and appointed that she should hold during her life the Castle and Honor of Brembre in Sussex with the appurtenances as also the Castle of Gââher in Wales and departed this life 19 Oct. 11 H. 6. leaving issue Iohn his Son and Heir then seventeen years of age But over and above what she had by this his bequest there was âssigned to her for her Dowry the Lordships of Forueseat Lopham Southfield Eresham Haneworth Framingham Parva with the Hundreds of Laundiche and Soâth-Greenhow with two parts of the Mannor of Loche in Norfolk likewise the third part of two parts of Forty shillings of the custom of the Market at Guildford in Surrey the Castle Mannor and Borough of Strogoâl in the Marches of Wales the Mannor of Tudeham in Com. Gloc. The Mannors of Silby Mountsorel the Park of Overton and Hundred of Goscote in Com. Leic. The Mannors of Great Chesterford Dâvercourt Rumford the Borough of Harwich the third part of two parts of the Mannors of High Rothing and Onesham Hall and the thrid part of the Mannor of Langetous in Canefield Parva in Essex the Castle of Bedford with the Mannors or Hames Willington and Stotfold in Com. Bedf. And the Mannor of Pen with six Messuages one Carucate and one Virgate of Land in Morton and Smethâere as also the Mannor of Wenge and the third part of two parts of the Mannor of Medmenham in Com. Buck. Which Iohn Son to the last mentioned Iohn came of full age in 14 Hen. 6. and in the seventeenth of that Kings Reign was sent Ambassador into Piccardy to treat of Peace betwixt the Kings of England and France After which viz. in 23 Hen. 6. upon confirmation of the title of Duke of Norfolk to him which was first conferred on Thomas his Grandfather he had a grant of place and seat in Parliament and elswhere next to the Duke of Exeter In 25 Hen. 6. this Iohn went on Pilgrimage to Rome And in 35 Hen. 6. making his vow to go likewise on Pilgrimage to divers holy places in Ireland Scotland Britanny Piccardy and Cologne and to the Blood of our Saviour at Windesnake as also to Rome and Ierusalem for recovery of the Kings health he had License to that purpose In 1 Edw. 4. he was constituted Justice Itinerant of all the Forests on the South of Trent but departed this life the same year and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford in Norfolk leaving issue by Eleanor his Wife Daughter to William Lord Bourchier Iohn his Son and Heir Which Iohn in 29 Hen. 6. 24 Martii his Father then living was created Earl Waâren and Surrey an in 11 Edw. 4. was one of those Lords who subscribed their names to that recognition then made in Parliament to Prince Edward the Kings eldest Son Moreover in 14 Edw. 4. he was retained to serve the King in his Wars of France for one whole year with forty Spears himself accounted two Knights and three hundred Archers But of him I find no more than that he departed this life at his Castle of Framingham in Norfolk upon Tuesday next after the Feast of the Epiphany 15 Edw. 4. and was buried in the Abbey of Thetford leaving issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Iohn Talbot the first Earl of Shrewsbury of that name Anne his sole Daughter and Heir four years old in 17 Edw. 4. Afterwards Wedded to Richard Duke of York second Son to King Edward the Fourth but died without issue by means whereof the Inheritance of this great House resorted to the Families of Berkley and Howard in respect that Isabel and Margaret the two Daughters to Thomas Moubray first Duke of Norfolk beforementioned were so married as I have already expressed Which Anne lieth buried in the Chappel of S. Erasmus in the Abbey Church of Westminster Albini of Cainho THe first of this Line of whom I have found mention is Henry de Albini a younger Son of Nigel de Albini without doubt Which Henry with the Lady Cicily his Wife in the time of King Henry the First gave two Hides of Land lying in their Mannor of Coâes unto that little Cell of Nuns called Sopwel situate near S. Albans in Hartfordshire To whom succeeded Robert de Albini his Son and Heir which Robert added the gift of a Yard Land lying also in Cotes unto that Cell at such time as he placed Cicily his Sister to be a Votress there and confirmed what Henry his Father had formerly given thereto with Amicia his Sister This Robert was Founder of the Priory of Beaulieu in Hartfordshire a Cell also to that great Abbey of S. Albans and gave to the Monks of that House Pasturage for ten Oxen to graze with his own Oxen in Clophell alias Cainho So also Pasturage for One hundred Sheep and likewise Fifteen Acres of Land for
for Livery of the Mannor of Okham By this Isabel he had issue also three Sons viz. Ralph Robert and Philip. But of her I have seen no more than that she Founded a Nunnery at Lechelade and was there buried This Roger died 8 Kal. Iuly An. 1215. 17 Ioh. to whom succeeded Hugh Which Hugh in the time of those Wars betwixt King Iohn and the Barons though much sollicited otherwise by Lewelin Prince of Wales and Giles de Braose then Bishop of Hereford adhered stoutly to the King Whereupon Lewelin with Wenwyn-Wen Prince of Powys and Maylgon another potent Welshman together with the Bishop of Hereford entred his Castle of Kamaran and utterly demolished it for which he had afterwards recompence For about that time Gualo the Popes Legate coming into England with authority from Rome pronounced Sentence of Excommunication against all those who had taken away ought from the King or from any of his adherents unless they made timely satisfaction Whereupon there was a Conference held at Wigmore unto which Lewelin coming he did without any constraint acknowledge all the Territory of Melenith to be the Right and Inheritance of this Hugh and commanded all his Tenants there to yield obedience to him Moreover for the damage which he and his Tenants had suffered from the Welsh which were at that meeting estimated at Five hundred marks it was there ordered by Stephen Archbishop of Canterbury and the other Lords then present that Lewelyn should pay one third part thereof Maylgon another and Wenhoven as much In 16 Ioh. this Hugh amongst the Barons Marchers had Summons to attend the King at Cirencester upon Munday next after the Vtas of the Clause of Easter well accoutred with Horse and Arms for himself and all the power he could make And having had the custody of the Castle of Stratton-Oale in 17 Ioh. he received command to deliver it up to Hugh de Nevil but standing still firm to the King he had the Castle of Holgot given him in 18 Ioh. which was part of the Possessions of Thomas Manduit then in Rebellion with the Barons And in 7 Hen. 3. was in that expedition made into Wales He took to Wife Annora Daughter of William de Braose and had One hundred shillings Land in Cherleton and Chiriton with her in marriage which she afterwards held during her Widowhood and having been much wounded in a Tourneament departed this life 4 Id. Nov. An. 1227. 11 Hen. 3. without issue and was buried in the Abbey at Wigmore To whom succeeded Ralph his Brother by the Father Of which Ralph it is memorable That in the life time of his Brother Hugh King Iohn losing Normandy in regard he refused to do homage for it to the King of France being then there for the defence of that Countrey he was taken prisoner by the French and that the Welsh hearing thereof came to Wigmore and having plundered the Abbey burnt it all to the ground except the Church Succeeding his Brother to that great Inheritance in 12 Hen. 3. he paid One hundred pound for his Releif and thereupon had Livery of all his Lands lying in the Counties of Glocester Southampton Becks Salop and Hereford In 17 Hen. 3. the King requiring Hostages of the Barons Marchers for their Fidelity the times being then troublesome this Ralph delivered unto him Henry the Son and Heir to Sir Brian de Brompton who was thereupon committed to the custody of William de Stutevil And in 22 Hen. 3. the King fearing some disturbances from Lewelin Prince of Aberfraw by reason that he exacted homage from all the cheif Men of North Wales and Powys amongst other of the Barons Marchers required this Ralph to attend him at Oxford upon Tuesday next after the Quinzime of Easter there to advise concerning that and other important business And in 24 Hen. 3. according to the Decree made by Gualo the Popes Legate concerning the Territory of Melenith in the time of his Brother Hugh the King sent his Precept to the Sheriff of Herefordshire to deliver possession thereof unto this Ralph After this viz. in 26 Hen. 3. upon that expedition then made into Gascoigne he received command to provide himself with Horse and Arms for that service Being a person of a Military Disposition he built two more Castles in Melenith viz. Kevencles and Knoclas whereby he exceedingly enlarged his Possessions upon the Welsh and much restrained their bold incursions So that Prince Lewelin seeing that he could not cope with him gave him his Daughter Gladuse Duy in marriage with all his Lands of Kery and Kedewyn as also all the Castles and Forts in both of them But more I have not seen of him till his death which hapned 8 Id. Aug. An. 1246. 30 Hen. 3. Whereupon he was buried with his Ancestors in the Abbey at Wigmore leaving issue four Sons viz. Roger the eldest then in minority Peter Iohn a Gray Frier at Shrewsbury and Hugh Lord of Chelmersh Which Gladuse soon after obtained Livery of all the Lands wherewith she had been endowed by Reginald de Braose her former Husband But after this she was necessitated to a suit with William de Braose Son of that Reginald for the same I come now to Roger his Son and Heir This Roger in 31 Hen. 3. paying Two thousand marks to the King had Livery of all his Lands excepting those whereof Gladuse his Mother then surviving was endowed And in the same year an assignation in right of Maud his Wife of her Purparty of all those Lands in England and the next year following of those in Ireland which descended to her from Walter Mareschal late Earl of Pembroke So also of the Knights Fees Likewise of her Purparty of the Castle and Town of Haverford with Eve the Wife of William de Cantilupe and Eleanor the Wife of Humphrey de Bohun the other participants In 37 Hen. 3. he attended the King in his expedition into Gascoigne And in 41 Hen. 3. when Lewelin Prince of Wales began again to make incursions upon the Marches received command to assist Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford in the defence of those parts betwixt Montgomery and the Lands of the Earl of Glocester In 42 Hen. 3. he had also Summons to attend the King at Chester on Monday next after the Feast of S. Iohn Baptist well furnished with Horse and Arms to withstand the like hostile Incursions of the Welsh and being in that service had a special discharge of his Scutage for those Twenty six Knights Fees and a sixth part which he held in right of Maud his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs to William de Braose of Brecknock In 44 H. 3. the
said Philippa two Sons viz. Roger his Son and Heir and Sir Edmund Mortimer Knight taken Prisoner in a Skirmish by Owen Glendowâ upon the Mountain called Brynglase near Knighton in Melenyth upon the Feast day of S. Alban the Martyr 4 H. 4. He had also issue by her two Daughters viz. Elizabeth the Wife of Henry Percy Son and Heir to the Earl of Northumberland and Philippa first married to ... de Hastings Earl of Pembroke secondly to Richard Earl of Arundell and lastly to Iohn Lord St. Iohn Which Roger was born at Usk 3 Id. Apr. being the Feast day of S. Guthlake the Confessor anno 1384. 48 Edw. 3. and was there baptized upon the Sunday following by William Bishop of Hereford having to his Godfathers Roger Bishop of Landaff and Thomas Horton Abbot of Gloucester and the Prioress of Uske to his Godmother At his Fathers death being but eleven years of age his Wardship was sold by the King unto Richard Earl of Arundel with purpose that he should marry his Daughter And when he came of age by the care of those who had the government of his estate found all his Castles and Houses well in repair and amply stored with rich furniture So likewise his demesnes fully stocked and stored with Cattle and in his Treasury no less than forty thousand marks But afterwards King Richard the second at the instance of his Mother the Princess of Wales gave his Wardship from the Earl of Arundell unto Thomas Holland Earl of Kent to the intent that he should marry Alianore the Daughter of the said Thomas neice unto the K. which he accordingly did This Roger being a hopeful youth and every way accomplished was shortly after his Fathers death viz. 14 Ian. 5 R. 2. made Lieutenant of Ireland and in the Parliament held 9 R. 2. by reason of his descent from Leonell Duke of Clarence was declared heir apparent to the Crown of this Realm In 17 R. 2. doing his Homage had livery of all his Lands and was then reteined to serve the King during his life and the same year with the Duke of Gloucester and Earls of Northampton and Rotland followed the King into Ireland having then of his retinue an hundred men at Armes whereof two were Banarets eight Knights two hundred Archers on Horseback and four hundred Archers on Foot In 19 R. 2. he had a special Commission of Lieutenancy for the Provinces of Ulster Connaght and Methe in Ireland and went thither accordingly And the next year following was again constituted Lord Lieutenant of that whole Realm So likewise in 21 R. 2. and went again thither But the year next following too much relying on his own valour he adventured himself before his Army in an Irish habit and was unhappily Slain at Kenles upon the Feast day S. Margaret the Virgin Whence being brought to Wigmore he was there buried with his ancestors leaving issue two Sons viz. Edmund his Son and Heir then six years of age and Roger born at Nethewode 9 Kal. Apr. 16 R. 2. who died without issue and was buried in the Priory at Stoke As also two Daughters viz. Anne and Alianore Alianore his Wife also surviving him who afterwards became the Wife of the Lord Powys and in 5 Hen. 4. representing to the King the charge she was at in maintenance of her two Daughters and likewise the devastation of all her Dowry in Wales as also the spoyl done upon her then Husbands Lands by the Welch obtained a grant of all Annuities Forfeitures and Reversions of Annuities which the before-specified Earl her husband had assigned to several persons to the value of an hundred and five pounds per annum Which Alianore departed this Life 23 Dec. 7 Hen. 4. whereupon the Castle of Bruggewalter the Mannors of Hargrove and Otcombe Newton-Placy the Hundred of Mulverton and custody of the Forest of Mendepe which she held in Dower divolved to Edmund Mortimer Son and Heir of the said Elianore After which the King taking care of the before specified Anne and Alianore her Daughters granted them an Annuity of an hundred pounds per annum out of her Lands Which Anne was born on the Feast day of S. Iohn the Evangelist 12 R. 2. and afterwards became the Wife of Richard de Conningsburgh Earl of Cambridge brother of Edward Duke of Yorke And Alianore was married to Edward Courtney Son to Edward Earl of Devon but died without issue I now come to Edmund the last Earl of March of this family Son and Heir to the last mentioned Roger Earl of March. This Edmund was born at the New-Forest 8 Id. Novemb. being the day of S. Leonard the Abbot 15 R. 2. so that he was but six years of age at his Fathers death and by King Henry the fourth delivered in ward to Henry Prince of Wales his Son Out of whose custody he was shortly after stolen away by the Lady Despencer but being found out again in Chiltham Woods they kept him afterwards under stricter guard for he was the rightfull heir to the Crown of England by just descent from Leonel Duke of Clarence third Son to King Edward the third Upon the death of Edmund Holland Earl of Kent in 10 Henr. 4. he was by inquisitions then taken found to be one of his Coheirs viz. Son of Alianore one of the Daughters of Thomas late Earl of Kent and Sister to the said Edmund And in 2 Hen. 4. was also found to be Cosin and next Heir to Philippa Wife of Iohn the Son of Iohn de Hastings late Earl of Pembroke which Philippa was Sister to Roger Earl of March Father of him the said Edmund Upon the Rebellion of Owen Glendowr in 3 Henr. 4. being then but ten years of age he headed the Herefordshire-men in opposition to him but those being routed by Owen he became his Prisoner Soon after which by allurement or terror he contracted marriage with the Daughter of Owen and being thus in the hands of that great Rebell was with him in the Battle of Shrewsbury where the King obtained a happy Victory though Owen escaped yet was this Earl then released as I ghuess for in 6 Hen. 4. it is evident that he and his Brother Roger had a Grant from the King bearing date 14 Martii of certain Annuities for their better support viz. of an hundred marks per annum out of the Revenues of the Mannors of Crenbourne and Mersh wodevale in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset during their minorities and two hundred pounds per annum more out of the Revenues of the Lordship of Clare But after this viz. upon S. Valentines day in 7 Hen. 4. by the means of a
viz. The Borough of Worthin and Hamlets of Minsterley Fordon Over-Garther Nether-Garther Baghaltrey Walhope the Chase of Hoxstow called the Hey and the Brethyn with the Hamlets of Hope and Adeston in Com. Salop and Marches of Wales the Mannor and Hundred of Rothewell the Mannors of Glapthorne Thorpe-Lobenham Wodeford juxta Ryfield and Whiston in Com. Northampt. Also the Castle of Stafford and Mannor of Bradley with its Members two parts of the Mannor of Hide the Mannor of Madeley Under Lime the Hamlets of Rudewood Dodington and Staibroke the Mannor of Norton on the Mores with the Hamlet of Grotton and Mannor of Packinton all in Com. Staff Leaving issue Humphrey his Son and Heir then very young for he was found to be but twenty years of age in 1 Hen. 6. and two Daughters viz. Philippa who died in her Childhood and Anne who became the Wife of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and afterwards of Iohn Holland Earl of Huntingdon Which Anne lieth buried in the Hospital of S. Katherines near the Tower of London But Anne his Wife Daughter of Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester as hath been already observed survived him long and by her Testament bearing date 16 Octob. 17 Hen. 6. bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Abbey-Church of Lanthony near Glocester where she ordained a Tomb to be made in her life time To which Church she bequeathed One hundred marks and gave Twenty pound per annum for the term of twenty years to find three Priests to celebrate Divine Service for her during that time in the Colledge of Plecy Of which Testament she constituted Thomas Bourchier Bishop of Worcester Henry Bourchier Earl of Ewe William Bourchier and Iohn Bourchier her Sons by William Bourchier Earl of Ewe in Normandy her second Husband and Sir Nicholas Wimbush Clerk her Executors and died in 17 Hen. 6. Humphrey Earl of Stafford her Son being then Six and twenty years of age Moreover designing a competent maintenance for two Cannons to celebrate Divine Service in the same Abbey of Lanthany where her Body with the Body of Sir William Bourchier Knight her second Husband were buried for the good estate of King Henry the Sixth Humphrey Duke of Buckingham Thomas Bourchier Bishop of Ely Henry Viscount Bourchier William Bourchier Lord Fitz-Warine and Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners her Sons during their respective lives in this World as also for the health of their Souls after their departure hence and for to keep the Obits of her and her Husband Sir William Bourchier there for ever and not performing that her purpose in her life time These her Sons above mentioned in 32 Hen. 6. obtaining then License from the King did to that end purchase Lands and Rents to the value of Twenty pound per annum and setled the same for the future compleating thereof But I return This Humphrey so succeeding his Father was retained to serve the King in his Wars beyond Sea in 9 Hen. 5. being then about Nineteen years of age by Indenture bearing date May the first for the one half of that year with ten Men at Arms himself accounted one and thirty Archers mounted armed and arrayed according to their qualities taking for himself Six shillings eight pence per diem Wages for the rest of his Men at Arms twelve pence and for his Archers six pence as also all prisoners if he and his men should have fortune to take any during the time before-limited excepting Kings and Kings Sons and more especially Charles called the Dauphin of Viennois and other great Commanders of the Blood Royal and likewise excepting those who âlew Iohn late Duke of Burgoigne or that were knowing and consenting thereto And in 2 Hen. 6. making proof of his age and doing his homage had Livery of his Lands as also of all those Lands which descended to him by the death of Sir Hugh Stafford Knight his Uncle without issue In 6 Hen. 6. this Earl obtained License from the King to be absent from the Realm of Ireland for ten years nevertheless to receive the Revenue of all his Castles Lordships and Lands there And in 8 Hen. 6. was again retained by Indenture to serve the King for one whole year in his Wars of France with two Knights ninety seven Men at Arms and two hundred and forty Archers In 9 Hen. 6. he personally attended the King into France and there continued the next year following scil 10 Hen. 6. King Henry being then Crowned in Paris In 14 Hen. 6. he was again retained to serve the King in his Wars of France for one Moneth for the releif of Calais with fourscore Knights and five hundred twenty and three Archers In 16 Hen. 6. he obtained the Castle of Marstoke in Com. Warr. by exchange with Sir Iohn Clinton Knight for certain Lands in Northamptonshire after which he resided much there as by divers of his Grants bearing date at that Castle may appear And in 19 Hen. 6. was made Captain of the Town of Calais and Towor of Risbanke as also of the Marches of Calais being retained by Indenture for that service by the space of ten years bearing then the stile and title of Earl of Buckingham Stafford Northampton and Perch and having with him two hundred and sixty Men at Arms himself accounted In 21 Hen. 6. upon the death of Ioan Countess of Kent Widow of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent he was found to be her Heir viz. Son of Edmund Earl of Stafford Brother to the same Ioan. And in 22 Hen. 6. by an Indenture bearing date at London 13 Febr. wherein he is stiled The Right Mighty Prince Humphrey Earl of Buckingham Hereford Stafford Northampton and Perch Lord of Brecknock and of Holderness then Captain of the Town of Calais he retained Sir Philip Chetwind Knight as his Lieutenant of the Castle of Calais for one whole year with twenty nine Men at Arms on Foot and twenty Archers whereof two Men at Arms on Foot and four Archers to be of the said Sir Philips own Retinue Which Sir Philip was for that service to have sixteen pence per diem for himself for each of his Men at Arms eight pence and for his Archers six pence And for himself his Lady and a Gentlewoman with her and a Gentleman and two Yeomen of his own Retinue Bouch of Court and twenty pounds per annum of special reward or else allowance for their Bouch of Court according as other Soldiers of their degree used to have as also for their Skippeson and Reskippeson Moreover in 23 Hen. 6. 14 Sept. by reason of his near Alliance in Blood as also for his eminent services as well in the time of King Henry the Fifth as since both in France and England and likewise in the defence of the Town of Calais and Marches adjacent he was
Livery of his Lands Shortly after which viz. in 40 Edw. 3. he was the principal person employed in that Embassie unto Galachius Duke of Milan to treat with him for a Marriage betwixt Leonel Duke of Clarence and Violanta Daughter of that Duke And in 43 Edw. 3. was in that expedition then made into France so also in 46 Edw. 3. But these great Honors were not long by him enjoyed for he departed this life the 16 Cal. of February the same year 46 Edw. 3. and was buried at the Feât of his Father on the Northside of the Presbytery in the Abbey of âalden leaving issue by Iohn his Wife Daughter of Richard Earl of Arundel his late Guardian only two Daughters his Heirs viz. Eleanor who became the Wife to Thomas of Wodstoke sixth Son to King Edward the Third and Mary to Henry Earl of Derby Son to Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster afterwards King of England by the name of King Henry the Fourth Which Iohn in her Widowhood was a special Benefactoress to the Abbey of Walden by adorning the Nave of the Church with divers curious Sculptures in Stone covering the Roof thereof with Lead and building the Steeple a new Besides this she gave divers costly Vestments thereto and inriched all the Altar with goodly Ornaments She gave likewise to that Abbey a fair Cross of Gold whereon were pieced several pieces of that Wood of that Cross whereon our Saviour was crucihed Moreover continuing a Widow she spent a great part of her time there in the Church exercising her self in devout Prayers and Meditations And departing this life 7 Id. Apr. An. 1419. 7 Hen. 5. was buried near her Husband in the same Abbey of Walden Bohun of Midherst Moreover it appeareth that Savaric de Bohun held three Knights Fees in Foâd and Midherst Temp. Hen. 3. and had to Wife the Sister of Iohn Fitz-Geffrey who was Iusticiarius Hiberniae and that Franco Son to the same Savaric married Sibil one of the Daughters of William de Ferrers Earl of Derby by Sibil his Wife Daughter to William Marshal Earl of Pembroke Sister and Coheir to Anselme Earl of Pembroke Which Franco had issue Iohn who was Serjeant of the Kings Chappel Temp. Edw. 1. and held the Office of Spigurnel id est Sealer of Writs under that King And he Iames who by Ioane his Wife one of the two Daughters and Coheirs to William de Brewose of Bremore a great Baron in Sussex had issue Iohn de Bohun Which Iohn making proof of his age and doing his homage in 16 Edw. 2. had then Livery of his Lands This is he who for his great Services in Flanders and elswhere beyond Sea in 14 Edw. 3. when that King first laid claim to the Crown of France as also in that famous expedition into France in 19 Eâw 3. shortly after which the King obtained that glorious Victory at Cressey whereof our Historians make ample mention became afterwards one of the Barons of this Realm being summoned to âit in Parliament in 37 38 39 of that Kings Reign and departed this life in 41 Edw. 3. then seised of the Lordships of Weston-Corbet in Hantshire Cranley in Buckinghamshire Nitimbre Midherst Ford and Climping in Sussex Little Badew and Rellenedon in Essex and Waltham in Com. ãâã leaving issue by Isabel his first Wife two Daughters Ioane the elder Wife of Iohn de âlsle of Gatâcumbe and Eve the younger And by Cââely his second Wife Daughter and Heir of Iohn Filâol of ... in Essex Iohn his Son and Heir who in 7 Rich. 2. coming of full age and doing his homage had Livery of his Lands But I cannot rank this Iohn amongst the Barons he being never Summoned to Parliament and therefore shall say no more of his Descendants than that Iohn the Grandson of this last âântioned Iohn left issue two Daughters and Heirs viz. Mary married to Sir David Owen Knight and Vrsula to ... Southwel of ... in Suffolk Vere THe first mention I find of this Noble and Antient Family is in the General Survey of England made by King William the Conqueror where it appears that Alberic de Vere then held âhenesiton now Kensington in Com. Middles Geling and Emingford in Com. Hunt Likewise nine Lordships in Suffolk and fourteen in Essex whereof Colne Heingheham id est Heningham and Benetley were part which till of late continued to his posterity Of this name viz. Alberic there was also an Earl in that age for by that title he is Recorded in the same Survey though of what place it appears not Which Earl possessed divers fair Lordships in those days viz. In Warwickshire six in âeicesrershire fourteen in Northampronshâre six in Oxfordshââe two and in Wââtshire ten some of which viz. those in Com. Wiltâs he likewise held in King Edward the Confessors time which shews that he was an Englishman It is said by some that this first mentioned Alberic was Earl of Ghisnes in France but for that I see no authority though he married Beatrix Neece and Heir to Manasses Count of âhisnes viz. Daughter to Henry Chastellan of Bourbourg by Sibille de Ghisnes Daughter of Manasses All therefore that I can farther say of the fore-specified Alberic de Vere is That having by the Conquerors gift the whole Inheritance of a great Man in the Saxons days called Wulfwine he did not only possess himself thereof but took from the Monks of Ramsey what the same Wulfwine had before the Norman Conquest given to them and left it to his own posterity Moreover that bearing a great respect to the Monks of Abingdou in Com. Berks. He gave unto them the Church of S. Andrew at âolne in Essex with certain Lands in that Lordship as also the Churches of Dovercourt Camps Bentley Belcamp and Colne-Miblanc with divers Lands and Tithes in Haingham Laureham Aldeham Roinges and other parts of that County Whereupon this place of Colne being made a Cell to that great Abbey of Abingdon he was afterwards shorn a Monk therein This last mentioned Alberic called Alberic Iunior confirmed all those Grants made by his Father to the Monks of Abingdon and being in high esteem with King Henry the first was by him made Lord Great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in fee to himself and his Heirs with all dignities and liberties thereto belonging as honorably as Robert Malet Lord of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk or any other before or after him held the same and with such liveries and lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office being also one of the Kings Justices tempore Henr. 1. In 4 Steph. the King having surprized divers great persons and forced
the death of Ioane the Wife of Iohn de Coupland upon them the said Ingelram and Isabel and the Heirs of their two Bodies Moreover in 8 R. 2. he procured from the King a grant of âuensborough Castle in Kent to ââld for terme of the Kings life and his own and in âase he should be the surviver then to himself and the heirs male of his body for ever and the same year was reteined to serve the King in his Scottish Warrs for forty daies Besides all this in 9 R. 2. the K. having reteined him into his imployment did in consideration of the great Costs and expences he was at in his service give him the Castle and Lordship of Okeham in Rutland with all the Forest of Rutland to hold for terme of his life and then to the Heirs Male of his Body And purposing to exalt him to much higher dignity viz. to confer on him the title of Marquess of Dublin that he might the better support that Honor assigned unto him in reversion after the death of Iames de Audeleigh the Castle Mannor and Burrough of Barnestaple the Mannors of Fremington Ilferecombe Combe-Martyn South-Molton Holdesworthy Nemet-Bowe Uppeye Body-Tracy Holne Dertyngton Kyngeston Blackdon and Lang-aâre with all other the Lands of the said Iames de Audeleigh lying in the Counties of Devon Cornwall and Somerseâ which after the death of him the said Iames were to descend to the King And upon this his creation of Marquess which was done in Parliament the same year granted him the Land and Dominion of Ireland with all profits c. as amply as the King himself ought to have the same excepting to the King the Homages Resort and Superiority of that Countrey Which title of Marquess had never till then been heard of in Enâland and therefore was much distasted by others of the Nobility in regard that thereby he was set higher than themselves not being superior to them in Wisdom or Valor as my Author saith And moreover bestowed upon him all the benefit and advantage which might be had by Iohn the Son of Charles de Bloys then Prisoner in Gloucester Castle to the intent he might be the better enabled to maintain five hundred men at Arms and a thousand Archers at the accustomed Wages of Warr by the space of two years after he should arrive in Ireland which he intended about Candlemass the same year in order to the Conquest of that Realm And in another Parliament held at London about Michaelmas after esteeming that Honor so lately conferred upon this his cheif favorite too low for his merits advanced him to the title of Duke of Ireland upon the Feast day of S. Edward the Confessor and having so done ordained that the Heir of Charles de Bloys who challenged the Dukedom of Britanny and whose ransom he had obtained should sell it to the French for thirty thousand Marks to the intent that this new Duke with that money might by force get the Dominion of Ireland which the King had so given him and Land there before Easter ensuing Whereunto the Lords and Commons readily assented being rather content to want the money there than be troubled any longer with his Company Soon after which the King gave him liberty to reâide at Berhamstede-Castle one of his own Royal Palaces affording him fuel to burn out of his Woods and Park there Being therefore thus pufft up with Wealth and Honor he grew libidinous and insolent and put away the fair Lady Isabel his Wife kinswoman to the King with purpose to take another of mean extraction who came out of Bohemâa with Queen Anne which gave great distast to the Nobility though the King favored him in every thing especially to the Duke of Gloucester the Kings Uncle who though he could not at present vindicate his neice so repudiated reserved himself for an opportune time to do it But soon after this Easter being passed and the expectation of his going for Ireland still continuing the King to prevent any tumult by the Nobles accompanied him into Wales where continuing retired for a while they laid their heads together how they might murther the Duke of Gloucester and likewise the Earles of Arundell Warwââk Derby and Nottingham And having staid in those remote parts till the people had forgotten this so much talked of voiage into Ireland returned with the King to Notingham Castle there to consider farther how they might best act the designed murther of those great men before mentioned The Nobles therefore discerning what was like to befall them raised all the power they could and met together at Haringhay Park near Higate in Com. Midd. in an hostile manner which so startled the King and those then about him who were the cause of those high discontents that all of them then began to desire an accommodation and to that end sent to the Lords so met at Haringhay to come to Westminster that there upon a calme debate together the business might be quietly composed Who meeting there accordingly after a short speech made to them by the Bishop of Ely then Lord Chancellor in the closure whereof he told them that the King desired to know the Cause of this their Insurrection they answered that it was for his advantage viz. to rid him of those Traitors which he then had about him amongst whom the first they nominated was this Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland But the King giving them fair words and taking them into his Chamber where he made them drink together told them they should all meet together in Parliament and equal justice should be done to each Matters at present being therefore thus qualified the Duke of Ireland by the Kings connivance hasts forthwith into Wales there to raise what power he could but discerning his danger privily got away being disguised as it was reported in the habit of a Servant with a Bow and a Quiver of Arrows on his Back and so with five others in his company alike accoutered came to Chester and soon after that fled beyond-Sea with Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk But long it was not e're he landed in England again with about four or five thousand men and being got into Oâfordshire came to Radcote Bridge upon the River Isis on the Feast day of S. Thomas the Apostle which Bridge Henry Earl of Derby had broken in three places and fixed Souldiers there to stop his farther passage The Duke therefore seeing himself in this desperate condition and that the E. of Derby with his power was not far distant displaid the Kings Banner and animated his men to fight advancing before them to the Bridge which being not passable he allighted from his Horse and
to be paid out of the Exchequer till there should be other provision made for his support in 36 E. 3. went into Britanny being of the retinue to Iohn Duke of Britanny in his Warrs there this being in his Fathers life time Being 24 years of age at his Fathers death scil 43 Edw. 3. he had livery of his lands performing his homage very shortly after And in 46 was reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Warrs beyond Sea for one whole year with an hundred men at Armes and an hundred and forty Archers of which number himself to be one as also with two Bannerets thirty Knights and seventy seven Esquires for which service to receive for himselfe and his men at Armes double pay but for the rest according to the ordinary rate the year to begin from the time they should take shipping and to have half in hand for himself with his men at Armes but for the rest only a fourth part Which expedition was chiefly intended for raising the Siege of Rocheâ But as the Earl of Pembroke sent over for that purpose was worsted by the Spaniards who then came with a great Navy to ayd the French so King Edward himself and that power he had raised were hindred from getting over by contrary Winds to the loss of nine hundred thousand pounds for no less a charge had the King been at in order to this voyage That designe thus failing he was the next ensuing year again retained to serve the King in his Wars of France for one whole year with two hundred men at Armes and two hundred Archers well mounted armed and arrayed under the conduct of Iohn of Ghant Duke of Lancaster Of which men at Armes besides himself there were to be fifty nine Knights and an hundred and forty Esquires And in 49 Edw. 3. was sent by Commission from King Edward into Scotland with whom were Sir Guy de Bryenne and Sir Henry le Scroop Bannerets to treat with William Earl of Douglas and others appointed by the King of Scots touching restitution of those Lands which by the truce formerly made did belong to the English The same year also he accompanied Edmund Earl of Cambridge the Kings Son into Britanny on the behalf of Iohn de Mountfort Duke of Britanny where they had great success in taking several Castles untill they were recalled upon a Truce concluded with the French In 50 Edw. 3. he was made Governor of the Isles of Gernesey Serk and Aureney And in 1 R. 2. was by Indenture retained to serve the King with two hundred men at Armes and two hundred Archers in his Warrs beyond Sea for one quarter and half of that year having of his retinue one Banneret four Knights and an hundred and sixty four Esquires well and sufficiently Mounted Armed and Arraied for that voyage In 3. R. 2. he was by the Commons in Parliament chosen Governor of the King then young as being a man most just and prudent and for that service to have a fit allowance cut of the publick treasury And in 4 Ric. 2. was joyned in commission with the Duke of Lancaster and others to rectify such abuses as had been committed by the subjects of either Realm contrary to the Truce made betwixt King Edward the third and David de Bruys of Scotland and for ratifying that league In 5. R. 2. upon that Barbarous Insurrection of the Commons under the conduct of Iack Straw whereof our Historians do make an ample relation he was sent to protect the Abby of St. Albans then much in danger by that rebellious Rout and to do justice upon the Villains But as he was marching thitherward with a thousand stout men well armed and the Lord Thomas Percy in his company news came to him that the like Commotion was broke out where his own estate lay which occasioning him to divert his course and to send but part of his Souldiers to the aide of the Abbot did much animate that bold rout which had thus gotten head at St. Albans In 8 R. 2. he was retained to serve the King in his Scottish Warrs How long the King continued under his tutelage I find not but certain it is that before he arrived to mans estate he took the reins of Government into his own hands or suffered them to be guided by those favorites of whose miscarriages he himself had at length most woful experience the chief whereof was Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford advanced to the title of Marquess of Dublin and afterwards Duke of Ireâand upon whom divers of the Nobility had for those reasons cast very envious eyes But so much did the King affect this Marquess that discerning who they were that so maligned him he layd trayns to murther them of which number were Thomas Duke of Gloucester the K. own Uncle and this Thomas Earl of Warwick who being men of haughty Spirits apprehending some danger towards associated more to their company and put themselves in Armes at Harringhay Park whereupon they constrained the King to call a Parliament the next ensuing year in which divers exorbitant things were done through their potency as our Annals of that time will sufficiently shew But about a twelve-month after the King assembling his Nobles told them he was now of age to govern himself and the Kingdom and thereupon changed some of his great Officers and Councellors whereof this Tho. E. of Warwick was one who thenceforth retiring himself Built that strong and stately Tower standing at the North-East corner of Warwick Castle the cost whereof amounted to three hundred ninety five pounds five shillings and two pence As also the whole body of the Collegiate Church of our Lady in Warwick both which were finished in 17 R. 2. But from that time forwards he could never regain the Kings favor So that Thomas de Moubray Earl Marshal and Notingham taking advantage of the Kings displeasure against him and of the countenance that he himself then had at Court brought his Writt of Error to reverse the Judgement given in 26 Edw. 3. on the behalf of Thomas then E. of Warwick for the Dominion of Gowher in Wales alledging that the Process whereupon the Suit in King Edward the thirds time had been commenced was directed to the Sheriff of Herefordshire whereas the Land of Gowher in question lay in Wales yet so fell out the issue of this business though this Error if it were one did nothing relate to the just title that in 20 R. 2. Moubray recovered it Nay this was not all for jealousies and secret grudges harbored by divers great men towards those who were the Kings chief favorites and doubtless advisers in what he had done and likewise by the King towards them began now to shew their effects so that the King having wedded Isabel Daughter to the King of France a
by Act of Parliament in the Three and twentieth of His Reign which was the next year ensuing that Creation of the Duke of Warwick qualified it much inconvenience had risen upon it Therefore For appeasing the contention and strife moved betwixt them for that preheminence those are the words of the Act it was established That from the second of December then next following they should take place of each other by turn viz. One that year and the other next and so as long as they lived together the Duke of Warwick to have the first years precedency and he who should survive to have place of the others Heir-male as long as he lived And from that time that the Heir-male of each should take place of other according as it might happen he had Livery of his Lands before him After which he had a Grant in Reversion from the death of Humphrey Duke of Glocester of the Isles of Gernsey Iersey Serke Erm and Aureney for the yearly Rent of a Rose to be paid at the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist as also of the Mannor and Hundred of Bristol in Com. Gloc. for the yearly Rent of Sixty pounds and likewise of all the Kings Castles and Mannors within the Forest of Deane for the Rent of One hundred pound per annum To all which Honors he had this farther added viz. to be Crowned King of the Isle of Wight by the Kings own hand But this hopeful Branch the sole Heir-male to this great Earldom was cropt in the flower of his youth before the fruits of his heroick disposition could be fully manifested to the World For upon S. Barnabas-day scil 11 Iunii An. 1445. 23 Hen. 6. being but Twenty two years of age he died at Hanley the place of his birth and was buried in the Abby of Tewksbury about the midst of the Quire at the head of Prince Edward Son and Heir to King Henry the Sixth In his Fathers life time when he was scarce ten years of age being then called by the name of the Lord Despenser he wedded Cecily Daughter to Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury whose Portion was Four thousand seven hundred marks which Cecily afterwards scil 27 Hen. 6. married to Iohn Lord Tiptoft by whom he left issue one only Daughter called Annâ born at Kaerdiff in the Moneth of February An. 1439. Which Anne being about two years old at his death was committed to the tutelage first of Queen Margaret and afterwards of William de la Pole Duke of Suffolk and had the title of Countess of Warwick but did not long survive for I find that 3 Ian. An. 1449. 27 Hen. 6. she departed this life at Newelme in Oxfordshire a Mannor of that Duke of Suffolk and was buried in the Abby of Reading next to the Grave of Constance Lady Despenser her Great Grandmother Daughter to Edmund of Langley Duke of York Whereupon Anne her Aunt born at Caversham in Oxfordshire 3 Id. Iuly An. 1429. 7 Hen. 6. Sister of the whole Blood to the late Duke of Warwick became Heir to this Earldom being at that time the Wife of Richard Nevil Earl of Sailsbury before-mentioned having been wedded to him the same year that Henry her Brother married Cecily his Sister Which Richard by reason of that Marriage and in respect of his special Services about the Kings peron and likewise in the Wars of Scotland for so doth the Patent import had upon the three and twentieth of Iuly next following the death of the before mentioned Anne his Wives Neice the Dignity and Title of Earl of Warwick confirmed and declared to him and his said Wife and to her Heirs with all preheminencies that any of their Ancestors before the Creation of Henry Duke of Warwick used Beauchamp of Alcester and Powyk I Now come to Walter de Beauchamp a younger Son to William de Beauchamp of Eâmley by Isabel his Wife Sister and Heir to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick Which Walter having purchased the moity of the Mannor of Alcester in Com. War from Peter Fitz-Herbert in 56 Hen. 3. made that place one of his principal Seats the other being at Powyke in Worcestershire This Walter was an eminent Man in his time In 53 Hen. 3. being signed with the Cross for a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land he had a Legacy of two hundred marks bequeathed to him by his Father for his better performance of that voyage And in 21 Edw. 1. obtained a Charter from the King for a Fair to be kept yearly at this his Mannor of Alcester for eight days beginning on the Eve of S. Giles and for seven days after In 24 Edw. 1. he was Steward of the Houshold to that King and in 25 Edw. 1. attended him into Flanders In 26 Edw. 1. he had Summons amongst other great Men to be at Carlisle upon Whitson Eve well furnished with Horse and Arms to march against the Scots and was the same year with the King in that famous Battle at Faukirk In 27 Edw. 1. he was again in Scotland and in 28 Edw. 1. had a Charter for Free Warren in all his Demesn Lands at Alcester and Powyke granted unto him as also in divers other places in Worcestershire In 29 Edw. 1. he was one of those Lords in the Parliament at Lincoln who then signified to the Pope under their respective Seals the superiority of King Edward over the Realm of Scotland being there stiled Dominus de Alcester In 30 Edw. 1. he obtained another Charter to alter the yearly Fair at Aâcester from the Eve of S. Giles the Abbot unto the Eve of S. Faith the Virgin and to continue for seven days after In 31 Edw. 1. he attended the King again into Scotland and was at that famous Siege of Caerlaverok This Walter had to Wife Alice the Daughter of ... Tony which marriage in regard they were within the fourth degree of consanguinity was after ratified by Godfrey Bishop of Worcester and the children begot between them decreed legitimate by him who had authority so to do from the Pope in regard they knew nothing of that impediment at the time of the Contract made and departing this life 14 Cal. Martii 31 Edw. 1. was buried in the Gray Friers near Smithfield in the Suburbs of London To him succeeded Walter his Son and Heir who in 32 Edw. 1. was in that expedition then made into Scotland and in 34 Edw. 1. being again in Scotland he departed thence before the War was at an end for which respect his Lands Goods and Chattels were seised by the King But the next year after he obtained pardon for that transgression In 4 Edw. 2. this Walter went again to the Wars of Scotland so likewise in 7 Edw. 2. In 10 Edw. 2. upon the
as Heir to his Brother Iohn whose Wardship was granted to Edmund the Kings Brother This Henry being under age in 15 Edw. 1. at such time as the King made his expedition into Wales was acquitted of one hundred and twenty pound required from him for the Scutage then levied upon that occasion And in 22 Edw. 1. being then of age had thereupon Livery of them as also Summons to be at Portsmouth upon the first of September well fitted with Horse and Arms to attend the King into Gascoigne In 24 Edw. 1. being constituted Governor of all Galloway in Scotland he was in the Battle of Dunbar where the English then obtained a memorable Victory And the same year had a Charter of Free-Warren in all his Demesn Lands within the Lordship of Tadcaster in Com. Ebor. In 25 Edw. 1. the Earl Warren then General of all the Rings Forces beyond Trent having raised a great power in Yorkshire sent this Henry his Nephew with the Forces of Carlisle into Scotland who coming to Are endeavored to dispose the Inhabitants of Galloway to Peace But hearing that the Scots were advanced near Irwine about four miles distant he marched towards them Whereupon discerning themselves too weak they submitted In this year upon the Kings confirmation of the Great Charter and Charter of the Forests with the Articles thereupon he was one of the Peers that undertook for the Safe-guard of the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk and other of the Nobility who had stickled hard for the obtaining thereof But in 26 Edw. 1. he marched again into Scotland and the next year following being sent to York there to meet with the Bishop of Durham and Earl of Lincoln as also with some of the Nobles of Scotland to consult about the fortifying and manning of the Castles in Scotland he obtained in consideration of his great and faithful services a Grant of all the Lands as well in England as in Scotland which were the Inheritance of Ingelram de Baillol deceased and which did by Inheritance belong to Ingelram de Vmfranvill then in Rebellion In 28 Edw. 1. he was again in the Wars of Scotland So also in 31 Edw. 1. And then obtained a Charter for a Market upon the Saturday every week at his Mannor of Pokelington in Com. Ebor. And two Fairs one on the Eve and Feast-day of All-Saints and the other on the Eve and Feast-day of S. Margaret the Virgin Likewise in 32 Edw. 1. at Primchale near Spoford a Market on the Tuesday every week and a Fair yearly on the Eve and Feast-day of S. Michael as also a Market upon the Thursday at Wandesford in the same County and a Fair yearly on the Eve and Day of S. Mary Magdalen In 34 Edw. 1. being again sent into Scotland to oppose Robert de Brus then newly Crowned King there he was besieged at Kenâyr but shortly after relieved by those Forces which the King himself sent from Lanercost in Cumberland This Henry purchased the Mannor of âuerindon upon ãâã from Anthony Beke Bishop of Durham And in 2 Edw. 2. obtained License to fortifie his Houses at Spoford and Lekingfield in Com. Ebor. As also that at Petworth in Com. Sussex He likewise in 3 Edw. 2. purchased from the same Bishop the Honor of Alnwike wherewith William de Vesci Lord thereof had intrusted that Bishop for the behoof of Iohn de Vesci his illegitimate Son the Bishop not performing the trust by reason of some scandalous words exprest towards him by that Iohn which Grant the King confirmed In 4 Edw. 2. he was again in Scotland and the same year procured the Kings Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesn Lands within his Lordships of Settle Gigleswick Routhweii Maââum Arnecliff Buckden and Tadcaster in Com. Ebor. In 5 Ed. 2. he was made Governor of the Castle of Baumburgh in Com. Northumbr As also of the Castle of Scardebourgh in Com. Ebor. And in 7 Edw. 2. marched again into Scotland So likewise in 8 Edw. 2. In which year also upon the death of Robert Lord Clifford he was constituted one of the Commissioners together with Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Bartholmew de Badlesmere in the custody of the Castles of Skipton in Craven Appeâây Bruham and Pendragon and likewise of two parts of the profits of the County of Westmorland by reason of the minority of Roger de Clifford Son and Heir to the said Robert Moreover having thus acquired the Honor of Alnwike he repaired the Castle there and the better to secure his title therein obtained a Release from Sir Gilbert de Aton Knight Coâin and Heir to William de Vesci of all his Right thereto He likewise purchased the Lordship of Corbrigge in Com. Northumbr And did so well deserve of King Edward that he obtained the Earldom of Carryk at his hands with all the Castles Mannors and Lands whereof Robert de Brus was possessed at the time when he was slain by Iohn Comyn He purchased also from Henry de Fishburne Son and Heir to Constance Daughter and Heir of Henry de Baillol the Mannor of Uere in Galoway as also Red-Castle in Anegos As to his Works of Piety he Founded a Chantry for two Priests in the Chappel of Semar for the health of the Soul of Eleanor his Mother and all his Ancestors To the Monks of Fountains he gave certain Lands in Malgum Moore and to the Monks of Salley the Advowson of the Church of Gairgrave And by Eleanor his Wife Daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel had issue two Sons viz. Henry and William and departing this life in 8 Edw. 2. was buried in the Abby of Fountains before the High Altar leaving Henry his Son and Heir at that time sixteen years of age Which Eleanor the same year he died laid claim to certain Lands in Wresill and Ergom in Com. Ebor. As also in Claxby and Slotheby in Com. Linc. Against William de Percy who then held them Which William vouched a Grant from the said Henry her Husband and challenged Warranty thereupon from Henry her Son and Heir at that time under age And had for her Dower the Mannors of Clecop Gigleswike Lekinfield Naâerton the third part of the Mannor of Wâtherby certain Lands in Bukeden as also the Mannor of Thurstanby with the Perquisites of the Court of Gisburne and Chase there Twenty nine shillings eight pence half-penny Rent in Westby Pathenale Swinden and Stainford-Scotain in Com. Ebor. And Six shillings eight pence yearly Rent in Louthford and Leggesby in Com. Linc. assigned unto her I now come to Henry Son and Heir to the last mentioned Henry and Eleanor In 9 Edw. 2. he obtained a
constituted General-Warden of the East Marches and one of the Commissioners to treat with Iames the First King of Scotland touching a final Peace betwixt both Realms as also to conduct that King from the City of Durham into Scotland Moreover in 11 Hen. 6. he was one of the Commissioners assigned to meet with others from the King of Scotland touching satisfaction for the wrongs done by the Subjects of either Kingdom contrary to the Articles of Truce And in 12 Hen. 6. considering the Town of Alnwike situate upon the Marches of Scotland to be an open place and not at all defensible by reason whereof much mischeif had been frequently done to it upon several Incursions of the Scots he obtained License of the King to environ it with an Imbattelled Wall of Stone and to erect such defensible Turrets thereon as should be most expedient Likewise in 14 Hen. 6. upon information given to the King that the Scots intended to besiege Barwick he had special Summons to prepare himself for the defence of that place And in 16 Hen. 6. by reason of his good service done and to be done had a Grant of one hundred pounds per annum during his life to be paid out of the Lordship of Bradwel in Essex In 21 Hen. 6. this Earl gave the Advowson of the Church of Harncliffe and three Acres of Land lying within the Precincts of that Mannor to the Masters and Scholars of Vniversity Colledge in Oxford and their Successors for ever And in 28 Hen. 6. was constituted Constable of England to exercise that Office by himself or his sufficient Deputy Moreover in 30 Hen. 6. he was again assigned one of the Commissioners to treat with others from Scotland upon the Articles signed by Iames the First King of that Realm But in 33 Hen. 6. as a stout Assertor of the Lancastrian Interest lost his life in the first Battle at S. Albans and was buried in the Abby-Church there being then seised of the Castle and Lordship of Alnwike with its appurtenances viz. The Borough of Alnwike and Alnmouth with the Towns of Alnwike Cesbury Houghton Chatton Alnham c. in Com. Northumbr As also of the Castle and Mannor of Prudhow and Birkley with their Members Moreover of the Castle of Werkworth and Mannors of Werkworth Corbrigge and Newburne in the same County Likewise of a certain House called Percy 's Inne situate in the Parish of S. Dyonise within the City of York Furthermore of the Mannors of Topcliffe and Spofford with the Advowson of the Church of Donâângton the Mannors of Lethlay Shothorpe Gâgleâwike Scarnboton aliâs Langstrother Cadâaster Catton with the Advowson of the Church Pocklington Nafferton Humandby Semar and Kirk-Levington in Com. Ebor. The Mannor of Dagenham and Cokerell in Com. Essex Of the Mannors of Swaby Brinkell Laughten Saucethorp Haghe Ulseby Fulneâby Horsington Herningby Dxcumbe Farforth Witherne Gayton Haveringham Lasseby Claythorp Malbârthorp Fedelthorp Crusthorp Sutten Hotoff Anderby Asserby Louthford Cobbenham Thorpe juxta Louthe Imingham Wickerby Toââe Neuton Snellesland Reresby Dykering Carleton Preston Legbuene Welton juxta Thwayte Urby Athenby Hotby Hamore Loughoworsby Saxelby Sumerby Thornton Rathorpe Staineâon Thorpe juxta Lathford Garnethorpe Louthney Horkelaw Riggesby Willingham West âangby Fanthorpe Kenermond Covenham and Worldby in Com. Line Of the Mannor of Foââon in Com. Leic. Of the Castle and Honor of Cokermouth the Mannors of Papcastre Aspatrike Wighton Brathwait Cameswater Dene Caldbeck Ulmedale and moity of the Mannor of Kiâkbrigge the Advowsons of the Churches of Dene and Kiâkbrigge Ulmedaâe and Chappel of S. Leonard at Wighton in Com. Cumbr. Likewise of the fourth part of the Barony of Egremond with its Appurtenances in the same County and the Advowson of the Church of Wadwinch Moreover of Four thousand Acres of Pasture and Heath and Four thousand Acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in the Westward and Allerdale parcel of the Mannor of Wighton in the same County leaving issue by Eleanor his Wife Daughter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland and Widow of Richard Lord Spenser nine Sons viz. Henry who succeeded him in his Honors being thirty years of age at that time Iohn who died in his Childhood Sir Thomas Percy Knight afterwards advanced to the Title of Lord Egremond Sir Ralph Percy Knight Iohn Henry William Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and afterwards Bishop of Carliââe Sir Richard Percy Knight and George a Prebend in the Collegiate Church at Beverley As also two Daughters Katherine Wife of Edmund Gray Earl of Kent and Anne first married to Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight afterward to Sir Laurence Rainsford Knight and lastly to Sir Hugh Vaughan Knight Which Henry his eldest Son and Successor was in 20 Hen. 6. by Indenture bearing date 6 Martii retained to serve the King as Governor of the Town and Castle of Barwick as also of the whole East Marches of Scotland for the term of ten years the next ensuing taking in the time of War Fivâ thousand pounds per annum and in times ãâã Peace Two thousand five hundred And so the custody of the Castle Five hundred pound per annum in time of War and in time of Peaââ or Truce an hundred marks Moreover ãâã 24 Hen. 6. by another Indenture dated 15 Deâ he was again retained for seven years longer for the like wages But in 31 Hen. 6. the King came to an Agreement with him thenceforth to take Two thousand five hundred sixty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence sterling per annum as well inââimes of War as Peace And having married Eleanor Daughter and Heir to Richard Son and Heir to Robert Lord Poynings had Livery of all the Lands of her Inheritance in 25 Hen. 6. Furthermore in 27 Hen. 6. in consideration of his good services performed in the Marches of Scotland had a Grant of part of the Goods and Chattels of Sir Robert Ogle Knight then outlawed and was during his Fathers life time viz. from 27 till 33 Hen. 6. inclusive summoned to Parliament as Lord Poynings the Writ running thus Henrico Percy de Poynings Chivaler And in 29 Hen. 6. by the title of Sir Henry Percy Knight Lord Poynings was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with the Ambassadors of Iames the second King of Scotland touching Peace betwixt both Realms So likewise in 30 Hen. 6. to treat with Iames Douglas upon those Articles by him signed and in 31 Hen. 6. constituted Governor of the Town and Castle of Barwick and Warden of the East Marches For which service he had an allowance of One thousand twenty six pound nine shillings half penny farthing per annum All this being in his Fathers life time In consideration therefore of his many good services viz. In the custody of the Town of
likewise died seized of the Mannors of Raskelf and Sherif-Hoton in Com. Ebor. as also of the Mannors of Burreth and Randeby in Com. Linc. and of divers Lands in the Bishoprick of Durham whereof the Jury knew neither the extent nor Tenuâe leaving Ranulph the Son of Robert de Nevill the younger his next heir and then twenty years of age But before I proceed with what I have to say of this Ranulph I may not omit to take notice that Robert his Father who died in the lifetime of Robert his Grandfather as is observed having married Mary the eldest Daughter and Coheir to Ralph Fitz-Randulph Lord of Middleham had in 54 Hen. 3. Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance doing his Homage of which that Mannor of Middleham was part And likewise a the Mannor of Carleton with the Forest of Coverdale It is said That this Robert frequenting the company of a certain Lady in Craven in an adulterous manner was surprised by some of her Husbands friends and by them so gelded that he died of the wound 6 Iunii An. 1271. 55 Hen. 3. and was buried in the Chapter House at Coverham in Com. Ebor. near to the Tomb of Helewise de Glanvil his Father then living After which scil in 4â Edw. 1. Mary his Widow upon the death of Anastasia her third sister one of the Coheirs to the same Ralph Fitz-Ranulph shared with Robert de Tatshall and Ioane his Wife in her purparty Which Mary lived a Widow upon her own Inheritance no less then forty nine years and in 17 Edw. 1. gave an yearly Rent of twelve marks issuing out of her Lordship of South Pikenham to find two Priests to celebrate Divine Service in the Church of Houton And having held for term of life the Mannors of Middleham Thoraldby Well Snape Carleton Fagherwald Nosterfield Burton and Crakhall with one Messuage in Dikestard as also the Advowson of the Church departed this life in An. 1320. 14 Edw. 2. and was buried in the Quire at Coverham ¶ I now come to Ranulph de Nevill Grand-Son and Heir to Robert the elder This Ranulph being in minority at his Grand-Fathers death obtained liberty of the King that his friends might Plough and manage his Lands and in 13 Edw. 1. had Livery of the Mannors of Kaskelf Sutton and Hoton part of his Inheritance About this time there hapning much variance betwixt the Inhabitants of the Bishoprick and Anthony Beke that great Prelate then Bishop of Durham by reason he had compelled them to go twice into Scotland with Horse and Arms which they alleaged to be contrary to right in regard they held their Lands to defend the Body of S. Cuthbert and that they ought not neither for King or Bishop to go beyond the Rivers of Tine and Tese This Ranulph de Nevill and Iohn de Marne were the cheif countenancers of those who thus opposed the Bishop And not long after that fell out another difference betwixt this Ranulph and the Prior of Durham about the offering of a Stag every year upon S. Cuthberts day in September which in truth was rather a Rent then an Oblation in regard he held Raby with the eight adjoyning Townships by the yearly Rent of four pound and a Stag. For contrary to the custom of his Ancestors he not only required that the Prior of Durham at the offering of that Stag ought to feast him and all the company he should bring But that the Priors own menial servants should for that time be set aside and his peculiar servants and officers put in their stead Whereupon amongst other of his guests he invited Iohn de Baillol of Barnard Castle who refused to go with him alleaging That he never knew the Nevills to have such a priviledge there Sir William de Brompton the Bishops cheif Justice likewise acknowledging That he himself was the first who began that extravagant practise For being a young Man and delighting in Hunting he came with the Lord Nevill at the offering of the Stag and said to his Companions Come let us go into the Abby and Wind our Horns and so they did The Prior farther adding That before the time of this Ranulph none of his Predecessors ever made any such claim but when they brought the Stag into the Hall they had only a Breakfast Nor did the Lord himself ever stay Dinner except he was invited In 22 Edw. 1. this Ranulph received command to attend the King at Portlmouth upon the first of September well furnished with Horse and Arms and thence into France In 4 Edw. 2. having command to be at Newcastle upon Tine on the morrow after All Souls day with ten Men at Arms he thence marched into Scotland It is reported of this Ranulph that he little minded Secular business but for the most part betook himself to conversation with the Canons of Merton and Coverham as also that he committed Incest with his own Daughter and that Richard de Kellaw Bishop of Durham did for that crime compel him to do publick pennance But certain it is that he gave to the Canons of Coverham sixty two Acres of his Demesn Lands in Trakehallâ of nine pound six shillings per annum value and twenty two Acres and an half of Meadow as also certain Rents of his Tenants in Villenage with four Ox-gangs of Land and Meadow of the value of sixty three shillings four pence per annum All which with some Cottiers c. were of the value of twenty pound and an half penny per annum He married two Wives viz. Eufemia the Daughter of Sir Iohn de Clavering and Margery Daughter of Iohn the Son of Marmaââke de Thweng and by the first of them had issue Robert commonly called The Peacock of the North unto whom Mary his Grand-Mother gave the Castle and Lordship of Middleham By the later he had none and departing this life 18 April An. 1331. 5 Edw. 3. was buried in the Quire at Coverham near the High Altar on the South side Which Robert called The Peacock of the North died without issue in his Fathers life time as it seems for Ralph the second Son was found Heir to his Father and at that time forty years of age and upwards who had Livery of his Lands the same year being then Steward of the Kings Houshold In 4 Edw. 3. this Ralph obtained a Charter to himself and the Heir-male of his Body for a Market every week on the Munday at Bliburg in Com. Suff. And two Fairs one upon the Eve and Day of the Annunciation of our Lady and the other on the Eve and Day of her Nativity As also for a Market weekly on the Tuesday at Aynho in Com. Northampt. And a Fair upon the Eve and Day of S. Michael
prisoner without any fight and delivered him to the King In 10 Hen. 4. he procured the Kings Charter for Free-chase in all his Demesn-Lands at Kettâewel beforementioned And in 12 Hen. 4. was again constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with those from Scotland upon a General Truce In 3 Hen. 5. he obtained a Charter from the King for Free-chase in all his Lands of Burton in Bishop dale Walden West Witton and Penhil In 6 Hen. 5. he was with the King at the Siege of âame in Normandy And in 1 Hen. 6. again constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with Iames King of Scotland for a firm Peace betwixt both Realms This Earl Ralph âounded the Collegiate Church at Staindrope in the Bishoprick of Durham for one Master six Priests six Clerks six Esquires six Grooms and six poor people amply endowing it with Lands and Revenues And having wedded two Wivâs viz. Margaret Daughter of Hugh Earl Staâford for which Marriage a special Dispensation from Pope Vrban the Fifth was obtained in regard they were within the third and fourth degrees of Consanguinity who dying â Iunii An. 1370. 44 Edw. 3. was buried in the Quire at Brancepath and Ioane the Daughter of Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster Widow of Sir Robert Ferrers of ãâã Knight who died 13 Nov. 19 Hen. 6. and was buried at Lincoln departed this life 21 Ocâols 4 Hen. 6. and lieth buried in the midst of the Quire at Staindrâpe undeâââ stately Tomb whereon are the Figures of himself and both his wives being then seised of the Mannor of Stiford in Com. Northumbr As also of the Mannor of Bostou called Burtââall on the East part of the River the Seke of Muniby the Mannors of Wikes Frompton Ledenham Fiââeck and Wasâingâââgh in Com. Linc. The Mannor of Chesthunt in Com. Hertf. Clavering and Calmore in Com. Essex the Castle and Mannor of Sheriff-Hoton the Mannors of Elinington Sklepembeck Yaresthorp Raskel Howke Soreby Wiberfosse Stanfordbrigge Haunt-Burton Kâayton Rise Sutton super Daâwent Shithorne in Herford-Lithe Apelton in Ridale the Castle Mannor and Lordship of Middelham the Mannors of Carlton Coverdale West Witon Woodhal Kettlewel in Craven Thoraldby New-Biggââg with Bishopdale Bainbrigge Esiâgwold and Hoby Gilling Aldeburgh âowes Forset Danby Catrike Arkelgarthdale and New forest also of the Castle of Richmond with its Members the Mannors of Snape Well Crakhal Rand Newton East Hawkeswel Ruskby Faceby Earlton in Eleveland Hllderwel Caldingston South Couton Fergherby Leybourne Sutton in Galtres with the Bailiwick of Longbergh all in the County of York Likewise of the Mannor of Balingbourne in Cambridgeshire Penreth Soureby the Hamleâs of Langwathby Scoutby Carleton Lidell Gamelesby Blenerâasset Wigton in Allerdase and Bolton in Allerdale all in Com. Cumbr. Leaving Ralph Nevill his Grandson viz. Son of Iohn his eldest Son who deceased in his life time his next heir then Nineteen years of age Which Ioane the second Wise of this Earl Ralph Founded a Chantry at the Altar where Katherine Swinford her Mother lay buried in the Cathedral Church of Lincolne for two Priests to celebrate Divine Service daily thereat for the good estate of King Henry the Sixth Henry Cardinal of England and of her self during this life and for their Souls after their departure hence As also for the Souls of K. Henry the Fourth Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster Katherine Swinford his wife Ralph Earl of Westmorland her late Husband and all their Ancestors and Benefactors and departed this life 13 Nov. 19. Hen. 6. leaving Richard Nevill then Earl of Salisbury her Son and Heir forty years of age But I return to Iohn eldest Son to this last mentioned Ralph This Iohn in 12 Hen. 4. was made Governor of the Castle of Roxborough in Scotland for ten years And in 2 Hen. 5. constituted Warden of the West Marches toward Scotland Moreover in 3 Hen. 5. joyned in Commission with the Lord Grey of Codnore to receive Henry the Son of Sir Henry Percy Knight at the hands of the Duke of Albany Governor of Scotland and to bring him to the King In 5 Hen. 5. being still Warden of the West Marches and the Kings Lieutenant there he had a special Commission to conclude a Truce with the Scots from two Moneths to two Moneths In which year he was made Governor of the Town and Castle of Ueruoil in France and soon after had another Commission to receive all and all manner of Castles Lordships Forts Cities Towns and other places in France and Normandy into his hands for the Kings behoof as also to assault and subdue those which yielded not and to place Garrisons in them Lastly having married Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Holland Earl of Kent he departed this life in An. 1423. 2 Hen. 6. his Father then living and lieth buried in the Gray Friers Church in London Which Elizabeth being the fifth Sister and Coheir to Edmund Earl of Kent upon Partition of the Lands of Edmund her Brother had for her Purparty an Assignation of the Mannors of Hornlington and Aton as also a certain Pasture called Colpighil Youland Northaverflat on the North Raulinflat Senederningham Westhel Langlands Twelfhendes Northaverflat on the South the Leys near Thurstanslat a certain Pasture called Benerclolt extending to Hulgot in Com. Ebor. The Mannor of Athford in the Peke in Com. Derb. And Allerton in Shirewood in Com. Nottingh As also the Mannor and Hundred of Liston the Mannors of Kenton Shaftbery Chatescumb A Fee-farm of eighteen pound four shillings four pence Rent from the Abbot of Clive for the Mannor of Brompton in Com. Dorset And twenty six pound twenty pence Fee-farm of the Mannor and Town of Balingstoke with the Hundred and departed this life upon Friday next before the Feast of the Epiphany 1 Hen. 6. ¶ The other Children of this Earl Ralph were these viz. By Margaret his first Wife Ralph who wedded Mary the Daughter and Coheir to Sir Robert Perrers of Oversky in Com. War Knight Maud married to Peter Lord Mauley Alice to Sir Thomas Gray of Heton and after to Sir Gilbert de Lancaster Philippa to Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillefland Margaret to Richard Lord Scrope of Bolton Anne to Sir Gilbert de Humfranvile Knight Margery Abbess of Berking and Elizabeth a Nun at the Minoresses in London And by Ioane his second Wife eight Sons viz. Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury William Lord Fauconberge George Lord Latimer Edward Lord Bergavenny Robert Bishop of Durham of all which I shall speak farther by and by Cuthbert Henry and Thomas who died without issue And five Daughters viz. Catherine first married to Iohn Monbray Duke of Norfolk and afterwards to Sir Iohn Widvile Knight Son of Richard Earl Rivers Eleanor elswhere called Elizabeth first to Richard Lord Spenser and
afterwards to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland Anne first to Humphrey Duke of Bucikngham and afterwards to Walter Blount Lord Montjoy Iane a Nun and Cioely to Richard Plantagenet Duke of York ¶ I now come to Ralph Earl of Westmorland Son of this last mentioned Iohn This Ralph after the death of Elizabeth his Mother had forty pound per annum allowed him by the King for his maintenance being then in minority And in 4 Hen. 6. an Augmentation thereof to the sum of fifty pound sixteen shillings eight pence to be paid out of the Fee-farm of the Town of Newcastle upon Tine After which within the compass of the same year the King granted the benefit of his marriage to Sir Iohn Ratcliff Seneschal of Aquitane But more I have not seen of him than that in 21 Hen. 6. he had in right of Elizaâeth his Mother the fourth Sister and Coheir to Edmund Earl of Kent and Cosin and Heir to Thomas Holland Earl of Kent for her Purparty and Assignation of the Mannor of Beseây in Com. Linc. and ten pound Renâ in Skeldingthorp threescore and four Acres of Wood in the Mannor of Brunne with a certain parcel of Wood there called the New Park as also twenty three pound ten shillings yearly Rent issuing out of the Abby of Kirkstall and four pound six shillings six pence Rent out of the Mannor of Blisworth in Com. Northampt. And that he married to his first Wife Elizabeth the Daughter of Henry Lord Percy sirnamed Hotspur Son and Heir to Henry Earl of Northumberland Widow of Iohn Lord Clifford by whom he had issue Iohn his Son and Heir and to his second Margaret the Daughter and Heir of Sir Reginald Cobbam Knight but by her had no issue As also that he died in 2 Rich. 3. Which Iohn by his Testament bearing date 1 Dec. An. 1449 27 Hen. 6. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the midst of the Quire of the Abby of Haut-Emprice in Com. Ebor. and gave thereunto for his Cors praesenté a Courser called Lidiard Nevill appointing that an honest and cunning Priest should sing there for his Soul by the space of a Twelvemoneth after his death and to have for his salary ten marks Moreover he bequeathed to that Abby his Gown of Cloth of Gold blew to make a Vestment as also his Doublet of the same moreover a Gown of Black Velvet and all his Doublets of Velvet Likewise a standing Silver Cup thereof to make a Chalice And having married Anne Daughter of Iohn Holland Duke of Exeter departed this life 20 Martii 29 Hen. 6. without issue leaving Sir Iohn Nevill Knight his Fathers Brother his next Heir then thirty years of age This Sir Iohn Nevill took to Wife Anne the Widow of his Nephew Daughter to Iohn Holland Duke of Exeter and being slain at Towtââ Field upon Palm Sunday 1 Edw. 4. there stoutly fighting for the Lancastrian Interest his Brother the Earl being then alive left issue by her a Son called Ralph who upon the death of the Earl his Uncle which hapned 3 Nov. 2 Rich. 3. was found to be his next Kinsman and Heir being then twenty eight years of age and succeeded him in this Honor was one of the cheif in that Army commanded by Thomas Earl of Surrey in 9 Hen. 7. when Iames King of Scotland invaded this Realm and besieged Norham Castle upon advance whereof the Scots retreated whereupon the English wasted the Borders But this is all that I have seen of him other then that he took to Wife Margaâât the Daughter of Sir Roger Booth of Barton in Com. Lanc. Knight Brother to Laurence Archbishop of York Which Margaret lieth buried on the South side of the Quire at Branspatâ by whom he had issue Ralph who married Editha Daughter of Sir William Sands of ... in Com. Southampt and died in the life time of his Father He had likewise a Daughter called Anne wedded to Sir William Conyers Knight It is said that this Earl died at Hornby Castle in Richmondâhire for grief of the loss of his eldest Son who lieth buried at Branspath in a Chappel on the South side of the Quire and that he himself was buried in the Parish Church of Hornây but the time of his death I find not So that to him succeeded Ralph his Grandson and Heir who in 22 Hen. 8. having Livery of his Lands was one of those that subscribed the Letter to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby they gave him to understand That unless he did comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce from Queen Catherine they would shake off his Supremacy This Ralph married Catherine Daughter of Edward Stafford Duke of Buckingham and by her had issue seven Sons viz. Henry his Son and Heir Sir Thomas Nevill Knight Edward Christopher Ralph George and Cuthbert and nine Daughters viz. Eleanor who died without issue Dorothy Wife of Iohâ Earl of Oxford for which marriage there was a special Act of Parliament in 18 Hen. 8. Mary to Sir Thomas Danby Knight Ioane Margaret to Henry Mannors Earl of Rutland Elizabeth to Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillesland Eleanor to Sir Bryan Stapleton Knight Anne to Sir Fouke Grevill of Beauchamps Court in Com. War Knight and Vrsula and departed this life 24 April 3 Edw. 6. To him succeeded Henry his Son and Heir who first took to Wife Iane the Daughter of Thomas Mannours Earl of Rutland and by her had issue Charles his Son and Heir and four Daughters viz. Eleanor Wife of Sir William Pelpham Knight Master of the Ordnance Katherine married to Sir Iohn Constable of Kirkby Knowle in Com. Ebor. Also Mary and Adeline who died unmarried He secondly wedded Margaret Daughter of Sir Richard Cholmley Knight Widow of Sir Henry Gascoigne Knight by whom he had issue Margaret and Elizabeth This Henry by his Testament bearing date 18 Aug. An. 1563. 5 Eliz. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Staindroâe in the Bishoprick of Durham under the Tomb that last was made nigh to the Lady Iane his Wife and departed this life the the same Moneth as it seems for the Probate of his Will bears date upon the twelfth of September next ensuing To whom succeeded Charles his Son and Heir Which Charles in An. 1569. 11 Eliz. being privy to the intended marriage of Mary Queen of Scotland then prisoner in England and sensible of the danger submitted himself to the Earl of Sussex at that time President of the North desiring his intercession to Queen Elizabeth on his behalf But after this there being a rumor that multitudes of people resorted to him and to the Earl of Northumberland the Lord President sent for them But representing to them
what he had heard they utterly denied themselves to be guilty of any conspiracy assuring him That they would both of them adventure their lives against all Traytors whatsoever Nevertheless contrary to these their asseverations this Earl got together all the power he could the Earl of Northumberland coming by night to him at his Castle of Branspath and there both of them suggesting to their followers First That they were thus met together for the defence of Queen Elizabeth and next That all the English Nobles were resolved to restore the Romish Religion But to others That they did thus put themselves in Arms to prevent upstarts from trampling upon the old Nobility and so appeared in open Rebellion Whereupon the Lord President raising Forces and marching towards them they fled into Scotland this Earl first lurking there with Carr of Fernihurst and thence into the Netherlands where he was received by the Spaniard and continued till his great age and death being attainted here in the Parliament of 13 Eliz. and all his Possessions confiscate He married Anne Daughter of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey Sister of Thomas Duke of Norfolk by whom he had issue these only Daughters viz. Catherine Wife of Sir Thomas Gray of Thillingham in Com. Northumbr Knight Eleanor never married Margaret Wife of Nicholas Pudsey of ... And Anne the Wife of David Engleby Brother of Sir William Engleby of Ripley in Com. Ebor. Knight Thomas Nevill Lord Furnival THis Thomas was Brother to Ralph Lord Nevill the first Earl of Weltmorland and having married Ioane the Daughter and Heir of William Lord Furnival in 7 Rich. 2. making proof of her age and doing his Fealty had Livery of the Lands whereof her Father died seised viz. The Mannor of Dagworth in the Parish of Elmdon in Essex as also of the Mannor of Crawâery in Elmdon and Cristhall Cogshall in Elmdon and Arkisden with the Mannors of Lerbery and Piccots all in Com. Essex Likewise of the Mannor of Dagworth in Com. Suff. Stoke-Uerdon and Winelsford in Com. Wilts Wirkson in Com. Nottingh Eyum in Com. Derb. And of the Castle and Mannor of Sheffield In Com. Ebor. And being thereupon summoned to Parliament the same year had thenceforth the stile and title of Lord Furnival In 18 Rich. 2. he was joyned in Commission with Iohn Bishop of S. Davids and others to treat of Peace with the Scots Moreover in 19 Rich. 2. upon the death of Ioane the Widow of Thomas Lord Furnival elder Brother to William her Father he likewise had Livery in right of the before-specified Ioane his Wife of the Mannor of Alveron in Com. Staff As also of the Mannors of Treton and Hoton-Painell in Com. Ebor. which that Widow held during her life in Dower And in 1 Hen. 4. was constituted Warden of all Anandale as also Constable of the Castle of Loughmaban in the West Marches of Scotland In 2 Hen. 4. surviving her he married Ankaret the Widow of Sir Richard Talbot Knight Sister of Iohn Son to Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere Cosin and Heir of Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to the said Iohn In 5 Hen. 4. upon the Grant in Parliament of two Fifteens to the King the Commons took care that this Thomas Lord Furnival should receive all the Money and lay it out in the Kings Wars In which year he was also intrusted to receive the Castles of Barwick upon Twede Alnwick and Werkworth in Com. Northumbr From those who then had the custody of them and to be Governor of them all until farther order And by his Testament bearing date 12 Martii An. 1406. 8 Hen. 4. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of the Priory of Wirksop but without any great pomp He thereby gave to the King his best Cup of Gold with a Cover to the Fabrick of the Steeple at Wirksop forty pounds to the Lady Aliâe Deincourt his Sister two hundred pounds to Iohn Talbot and Maud his Wife his own Daughter his best Bed with all the Furniture thereto appointing that his Feoffees of certain Lands in Wirksop should cause his Obit to be solemnly kept every year in the Priory Church of Wirksop with Placebo and Dirige and Mass of Requiem by Note on the morrow And departed this life in 8 Hen. 4. being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Sheffield and Mannors of Treton and Whiston in Com. Ebor. As also of the Castle and Mannor of Alveton in Com. Staff Likewise of the Mannor of Farnhom in Com. Buck. Sutton Madock Corsham and Wrockwardine in Com. Salop. And in right of Ankeret his Wife of the Mannor of Eccleswell the Lordship of Godrich Castle the Hundred of Irchenfield with the Mannors of Wormlow and Penyard in Com. Heref. And divers Lordships in other Counties leaving issue by the before-specified Ioane his first Wife two only Daughters viz. Maud and Ioane his next Heirs and was buried in the Priory of Wirksop above the Quire where stood a fair Tomb erected to his memory Which Maud was married to the famous Iohn Talbot afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury whereupon the Lands of her Inheritance came to that Noble Family Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury THis Richard being the eldest Son to Ralph Nevill Earl of Westmorland by Ioane his second Wife was Warden of the West Marches toward Scotland in 1 2 Hen. 6. As also together with the Earl of Northumberland and some others appointed one of the Commissioners to treat with Iames the First then King of Scotland or his Ambassadors for a firm Peace betwixt both Kingdoms And taking to Wife Alice the sole Daughter and Heir to Thomas de Montacute Earl of Salisbury had in her right upon his death the title of Earl of Salisbury attributed to him For so not only the Inquisition then taken doth import but the Letters Patents of King Henry the Sixth bearing date 4 Maii in the twentieth year of His Reign which do manifest that by reason Alice his Wife was Daughter and Heir to the before specified Thomas de Mantacute Earl of Salisbury and that he had issue by her at the time of his death she also then living he ought to enjoy that Title for term of his life Whereupon in 7 Hen. 6. doing his homage he had Livery of her Lands she being then twenty two years of age After which viz. in 9 Hen. 6. the King considering the chargable preparation made by this Earl to attend him in his then designed expedition for ãâã and that he was obliged in a very large sum to fulfil the Testament of Thomas Earl of Salisbury deceased Father of Alice his Wife as also to give Alms for the health of his Soul and to reward his Servants And moreover considering that this Earl had then two Sons
affinity The same year also he was constituted Admiral of the Kings Fleet to the Westwards and in 20 Edw. 3. did again attend the King in his Wars of France being one of the cheif Commanders under Edward the Black Prince in that famous Battle of Cressie where the English obtained lasting honor In 22 Edw. 3. he was constituted one of the Kings Commissioners to treat with certain Flemings and likewise with the Earl of Flanders touching certain differences then betwixt them As also one of the Ambassadors sent to confer with the Ambassadors of Philip de Valois in the Popes presence concerning thâ form of that Truce which had been made betwixt King Edward and the same Philip. And in 26 Edw. 3. was charged with eighty Lanciers out of his Territories of Oswaldstry Clun and Chirke well armed and arrayed for service in France He was likewise constituted one of the Commissioners for guarding the Sea Coasts in Surrey and Sussex as also for the arraying of Men in the Counties of Saloy and Stafford And the next year upon the Twenty fourth of October did his homage to the King in the Palace at Westminster for his Barony of Bromfield and Yale In 28 Edw. 3. by Indenture made betwixt this Earl and Roger de Mortimer Earl of March it was agreed that Edmond his Son and Heir should take to Wife Alice the Daughter of the âame Roger and that she should have three thousands marks for her portion viz. one thousand at the Sealing of that Agreement upon their Marriage at seven years of age one thousand marks more and at their accomplishing the age of thirteen years the remaining thousand marks And the same year was again sent to Rome to see that Agreement ratified by the Pope which had been made betwixt the Kings of England and France wherein was contained That the King of England should enjoy all his Lands in the Dutchy of Aquitane which the French had unjustly detained in case he did totally quit his claim to that Realm Moreover in the Parliament held this year it being adjudged that Edmund Earl of ârundel his Father was unjustly put to death in 1 Edw. 3. He was thereupon fully restored as Heir unto him And in 34 Edw. 3. in consideration of the great expence he had been at in guarding the Sea Coasts of Sussex when the French threatned an Invasion there was exempted from the charge at which his Mannor of Medmenham had been then taxed for arraying of Men at Arms and Archers for the Kings service at Sea In 46 Edw. 3. with the Prince the Duke of Lancaster and divers other of the Nobility he again attended the King into France for the relief of Thouars but being crossed by contrary Winds after nine weeks stay at Sea returned And in 47 Edw. 3. was retained by Indenture together with Iohn his Brother to serve the King in his Fleet with forty Men at Armes and forty Archers for one whole year Of which Men at Arms four to be Knights and thirty four Esquires In 49 Edw. 3. this Earl procured License from the King to Found a Chantry in his Chappel at Arundel for a certain number of Priests and Clerks and to endow it with Rent of one hundred and seven marks per annum out of his Lordships of Augemering Wepham and Warncamp in Com. Suss. And by his Testament bearing date 5 Dec. the same year bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chapter-House of the Priory at Lewes near to the Tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster his Wife appointing that his Funeral should be solemnised without any Men at Arms Horses Herse or other Pomp likewise to have but five Torches with their Mortersâ as was about the Corps of his Wife and no more then five hundred marks to be expended thereon Moreover he bequeathed two hundred pound to purchase Lands and Rents for the Monks of Lewes or else one or two Churches to be appropriated to that Monastery for the maintenance of two Monks to celebrate two Masses perpetually every day for the Souls of his Father and Mother his Wife with their Children and Successors and all Christian People in the Chappel of S. Thomas the Martyr in that House or else in the Chappel of our Lady on the North of the great Church the one Mass of our Lady the other of the Holy Ghost And that every Prior of that House at the first entrance upon his Government should swear to see the same punctually performed Likewise a thousand marks to purchase Lands of one hundred and seven marks per annum value for the maintenance of six Priests and three Choristers to celebrate Divine Service every day by Note in the Chappel of his Castle at Arundel and pray for the Souls of his Father and Mother his Wife and Children their Successors and all Christians And to rise every day in Summer at the Sun-rising and in Winter at break of the day to their Mattins by Note as also to perform their Masses high and low and other Divine Services according to the direction of his Executors By this Testament he gave to his Son Thomas then Bishop of Ely two thousand marks To his Son Iohn five thousand marks with all the stock upon his Lands at his decease To Ioane his Daughter two thousand marks To Alice his other Daughter three thousand marks To Iohn the Son of his Son Iohn five hundred marks To Wilâiam likewise another Son of his Son Iohn five hundred marks To the eldest Daughter of his said Son Iohn a thousand marks To Henry and Edward younger Sons of his Son Iohn each five hundred marks To his Nephews and Neices the Sons and Daughters of Sir Roger le Strange and to his Sister Aleyne la Strange Wife of the said Roger a thousand and a hundred marks over and above a thousand marks more paid to them already To Richard his Son and Heir his best Coronet charging him on his Blessing to keep it during his life and then to leave it to his Heir and so to remain from Heir to Heir Lords of Arundel in remembrance of him To Ioan his Daughter his second Coronet with the like charge to keep it all her life and then that it continue to her Heir and so from Heir to Heir as abovesaid And to Alice his Daughter his third Coronet upon the like conditions And departed this life 9 Kal. Febr. An. 1375. 49 Ed. 3. By Isabel his first Wife whom he repudiated as hath been observed he had issue a Daughter called Philippa married to Sir Richard Sergeaux of ... in Com. Cornub. Knight And by Eleanor his second Daughter to Henry Earl of Lancaster Widow of Iohn Lord Beaumont three Sons viz. Richard who succeeded him in his Lands and Honors Iohn of whom I shall speak further by and by and Thomas Bishop of Ely but afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury and
other Lands called Bradpen as also Pasture for one hundred Sheep at Wortley and much more to the fabrick of their Church likewise four Yard Land at Erâingham with divers fishings there half a Yard Land at Ryham his new Mill at Berkley and one Yard Land near unto it one Yard Land in Hulmancorâ one at Swanhunger and all those Lands within and without the Walls of Bristoll which had formerly belonged to his Brother Maurice To the Canons of Hereford he gave two Yard Land in Arlingham and besides all this he Founded the Hospital of S. Catherines near Bristoll within his Lordship of Bedminster as also a Chantry in his Mannor-house there and likewise another Chantry in his Chappel at Portbury And having wedded two Wives viz. Iulian Daughter of William de Pontearch Niece to William Marshall Earl of Pembroke and Lucy Daughter of ... who surviving him became the Wife of Hugh de Gurney departed this life 13 May 4 Hen. 3. without issue being then about fifty five years of age and was buried in the North Isle of S. Augustines Abby near Bristoll over against the High Altar in a Monks Cowl on the Vigil of whose Obiit the Abbot had a Cake of two pence price and two Casts of Bread of there half-pence as also four pence for Wine Every Canon a Cake of a penny and every Fryer of the four Orders in Bristoll a Loaf Which Lucia in 4 Hen. 3. had in Assignation of the Mannors of Beminster Wulton and Slimbrugg for her support untill the Heir the said Robert her late Husband should have Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance and she her self reasonable Dowry Whereupon Thomas de Berkley his Brother and Heir giving a hundred pounds for his Relief had Livery of his Lands and in 8 Hen. 3. which was about four years after giving his two Sisters Sons as Pledges for his faithful custody thereof had restitution of his Castle at Berkley About this time there having been some difference betwixt this Thomas Lord Berkley and the Abbot of S. Peters in Glocester touching the Church of Slimbrugg the Abbot in consideration of a certain place called Lorling given by him the said Thomas to the Priory of Stanley which was a Cell to S. Peters quitted his interest in the Church of Slimbrugge In 26. Hen. 3. this Thomas offered a Fine to the King of sixty marks to be freed from attending him into Gascoigne Whereupon the King being then at Xantome dispatched Letters to him importing That he would acquit him thereof in case he would send Maurice his Son with two other Knights which he accordingly did Touching his Works of Piety it appears That he gave to the Abby of S. Augustines near Bristoll divers Lands and Rents in Cowley Berkley and Hintoâ with Common of Pasture for twenty four Oxen between Longbrigge and Egeton near Berkley As also to the Abby of Kingswood divers Messuages and Lands in Hamme near Simondsal appointing That part of the Rents thereof should be distributed to poor people on the day of his Anniversary Likewise certain Lands in Slimbrigge for the maintenance of certain Lights to burn before the Images of our Lady and S. Catherine in the Chantry there and to the Canons of Bradenstoke all his Lands in Uleigh And departing this life 29 Nov. An. 1243. 28 Hen. 3. was buried in the South Isle of S. Augustines Abby near Bristoll in that Arch next to the Rood Altar leaving issue by Ioane the Daughter of Ralph de Somey Lord of Campden in Com. Gloc. and Niece to William Marshal Earl of Pembroke six Sons viz. Maurice Thomas Robert Henry William and Richard and Margaret a Daughter Wife of Sir Anselme Basset Knight Which Ioane surviving him had in lieu of her Dowry an Assignation for life by her Son Maurice of the Mannor of Wotton with the third of those Lands which Thomas her younger Son then newly dead without issue held in Egge as also of the Mannors of Came Cowley Hurst Alkington and Hinton Which Maurice paying one hundred pound for his Relief and doing his homage had the same year Livery of his Inheritance This Maurice besides the accompanying of his Father in the Wars of France in 41 H. 3. was in that expedition with Prince Edward against the Welsh In 42 43 44 Hen. 3. he had Summons to attend the King well accoutred with Horse and Arms into Wales Lewelin ap Griffin being then in Arms. In 45 Hen. 3. he obtained a Grant of forty marks yearly pension out of the Exchequer until the King should better provide for him And the same year the Barons being in Arms against the king received the Kings Precept to be at London on the morrow after Simon and Iudes day well appointed with Horse and Arms for his assistance In 46 Hen. 3. he procured a Charter for Free-Warren in his Lordship of Wenden in Essex as also a Market there every Tuesday and a Fair yearly on S. Peters day that Mannor being part of the Marriage portion of Isabel his Wife In 47 Hen. 3. he had Summons to be at Hereford with Horse and Arms to march against Lewelin Prince of Wales But soon after this the Barons putting themselves again in Arms he adhered to them for which his Lands were seised by the King as it seems For in 48 Hen. 3. which was the next ensuing year the King having a respect to Isabel his Wife whom he calls his beloved Neice assigned the Mannors of Herâetsham and Torteâclive for her maintenance But for that transgression he obtained pardon in 55 Hen. 3. This Maurice gave to the Abby of S. Augustines near Bristoll divers Lands in Berkley Bevington Walgaston and Erlingham and Common of Pasture for their young Cattle and Swine with his own Herds in divers of his Lordships within the Hundred of Berkley as also in Portbury Likewise Common of Pasture for twenty four Oxen seven Sows and one Boar in Wuâmergaston and Hamme Moreover for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Mary his Wife he gave to the Monastery of Bâanchland a Water-Mill with certain Lands in Bedminster and to the Monks of Kingswood one Messuage and certain Lands in Hamme and Berkley And having married Isabel the Daughter of Maurice de Creoun a great Baron in Lincolnshire by Isabel his Wife Sister to William de Valence Earl of Pembroke by whom he had issue Maurice killed in Tourneament in his own life time Thomas who succeeded him and Robert he departed this life 4 Apr. An. 1281. 9 Edw. 1. and was buried in the North Isle of S. Austins Abby beforementioned being then seised of the Mannors of
of St. Austines beforementioned with his Ancestors leaving issue by Iane his Wife Daughter of William de Ferrers the younger Earl of Derby and of Margaret his second Wife Daughter and Coheir to Roger de Quinci Earl of Winchester four Sons and two Daughters Which Iane had for her marriage portion the Mannor of Coston in Com. Leicest and Eynesbury in Com. Hunt but died before him viz. 19 Martii Anno 1309 3 E. 2. and was buried in the Abby of St. Austines before-specified in the Arch betwixt the Vestry and the South Isle for whose Soul he gave ten Quarters of Wheat and Beans in Dole to his poorest Tenants in every of his Mannors His Sons were these viz. Maurice who succeeded him Iohn Lord of Wymundham in Com. Leic Iames a Doctor in Divinity and Rector of Slymbridge but afterwards Bishop of Exeter His Daughters Isabell and Margaret who both died unmarried Which Maurice being of a milittary disposition in his very youth was in the several Tournaments held at Worcester Dunstaple Stanford Blithe and Winchester And in 23 Edw. 1. in that expedition then made into Wales with his Father In 24 at the Siege of Barwick In 25 with his Father in Flanders In 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 and 34 Ed. 1. again in the Warrs of Scotland In 35 Edw. 1. he accompanied his Father to the Court of Rome in that Embassy wherein he was then employed with the Bishop of Worcester as I have already observed In 1 Edw. 2. he attended the King into France with his Father In 2 Edw. 2. he was summoned to the Parliament held at Westminster his Father then living In 3 Edw. 2. he had summons with his Father to be at Newcastle upon Cine upon Michaelmas-day to march against the Scots In 6 Edw. 2. he was made Governor of Gloucester In 7 Edw. 3. he marched again into Scotland being of the retinue to Adomare de Valence In 8 Edw. 2. he was constituted Captain and Governor of the Town and Castle of Barwick upon Cwede In 9 E. 2. he was made Justice of South-Wales having all the Castles therein committed to his Custody In 10 Edw. 2. he raised a thousand Foot in those parts two hundred more out of the Forest of Deane and an hundred besides out of Gowherland in Wales All which were by the Kings special Precept directed to come to North-Allerton in Yorkshire upon the Munday next after St. Matthew's day in 11 Edw. 2. In which service also were Thomas and Maurice his two Sons all of the retinue of Roger de Mortimer with whom they then marched into Scotland In 13 Edw. 2. being stiled dileciÌus consanguineus Regis he was made Steward of the Dutchy of Aquitane and had for his wages an assignation of two thousand pounds Tournois In 15 Edw. 2. adhering to Thomas Earl of Lancaster and others who put themselves in Armes upon pretence of reforming what was amiss in the Government he joyned with the Lord Audley and both with Mortimer to whom they were Brothers by affinity viz. by marriage of their Children and harrassed the Lands Houses and Castles of the two Spencers Plundring their Goods and driving away their Stock and Chattel which at that time was exceeding great the particulars of which outrages aâe expressed in the Parliament Roll of 21 R. 2. But declining to submit to the Kings obedience upon special summons his Castles and Lands were seized and committed to the custody of others whom the King better trusted And after this having Letters of safe conduct together with Mortimer and three other to come to the King and confer amicably with him he was sent prisoner to the Castle of Wallingford but Mortimer and the rest to the Tower of London Whereupon Thomas and Maurice his two Sons made great devastation and spoils upon the Spencers Lands And the year following Sir Iohn de Goldington and others attempted his rescue but without success so that continuing still a prisoner there he departed this life upon the 31 of May Anno 1326. 19 Ed. 2. and being thence carried to the Abby of St. Austines near Bââstoll was buried in the South Isle of that Conventual Church under the Arch before the dore of the Quire This is all I shall say of him other then that he built a Friery in a place called the Dolmes an Island in Severne not far from his Mannor of Portbury and that having two Wives viz. Eve Daughter of Eudo la Zouch and Milisent his Wife Daughter and Coheir to William de Cantilupe who died upon St. Nicholas day scil 5 Decemb. Ann. 1314. 8 Edw. 2. and was buried in the Parish Church of Portbury and secondly Isabell Daughter to Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who died without any Children he left issue five Sons viz. Thomas the eldest who succeeded him 2. Maurice from whom the Berkleys of Stoke-Giffard in Com. Glouc. Bruton in Com. Somers and Boycourt in Kent are descended 3. Iohn who was with his Father and two elder Brothers in Scotland in 28 Ed. 1. So likewise in 29 31 and 32 Edw. 1. and in France with them 1 Edw. 2. from whom the Berkleys of Shropshire are descended 4. Eudo Rector of Lamprudevaur in the Diocese of St Davids in Wales And 5. Peter a Prebend of the Cathedral Church at Wâlls He had also one only Daughter called Isabell who became the Wife of Robert Lord Clifford ¶ I should now go on with what I have tâ say of Thomas son and Heir to the last Lord Maurice de Berkley But considering that Maurice the second Son from whom are descended the Berkleys of Stoke-Gifford Bruton and Boycourt was a person of such great note in his time I shall take leave to observe some particulars of him This Maurice in 1 Edw. 3. had restitution of his Lands which were seized on for his activeness in that Rebellion of Thomas Earl of Lancaster whereof I have already given some touch and was constituted Governor of Proudhou-Castle in Northumberland In 2 Edw. 3. he was made Constable of the Tower of Lonâon and Governor of the Castle at Gloucester And was in those days in such high esteem for Martial Feats that amongst other the accoutrements prepared for certain Justs and Tournaments in 3 Edw. 3. divers surcotes were depicted with his Armes In 4 Edw. 3. he was reteined to serve the King during life in his Warrs with fourteen men at Armes and in time of Peace with his own person only for which he had a Grant of ninety pounds per annum out of the Exchequer and likewise of the Ferme of Andover And in 5 Edw. 3. had in confideration
the interposition of Philip Morgan then Bishop of Worcester before specified and divers Gentlemen of the Countrey he was constrained to leave hiâ siege This Iames therefore well discerning the potency of that Earl saw no way to right himself but by the power of some greater Man and accordingly applied himself to Humphrey Duke of Glocester the Kings Brother to whom he promised a thousand marks to be paid within one year and an half after and so by his means obtained his Livery Which being effected he paid his Relief as a Baron and had Summons to Parliament thereupon But here it will not be impertinent to observe That part of the Award made by Philip Morgan Bishop of Worcester and Iohn Iuyn afterward Lord Cheif Justice of the Kings Bench for composing some of the differences upon a Reference and Mutual Bonds by the said Earl and this Iames was made 24 Nov. 3 Hen. 6. The other whereby the Mannors of Wotton Simondsall and Cowley with certain Lands in Frampton upon Severne Cromall Acton Kingscote and Mochelhampton in Com. Gloc. The Hundreds of Harclive and Portbury the Mannors of Portbury Limeridge-Wood Weston and Gordan and certain Lands in Uphill and Criâton in Com. Somerset which were Awarded to the said Earl for life as also the Mannors of Came Hinton and Slimbridge with all Lands therein being in Com. Gloc. to the said Iames and the Heirs-male of his Body was made 6 Octob. 4 Hen. 6. And that this Peace held for thirteen years ensuing viz. So long as that Earl did live But after his death notwithstanding that Arbitrement it was by several Inquisitions found that he died seised of all those Lordships and Lands before mentioned as Tenant by the Courtesie of England and that Margaret Eleanor and Elizabeth were his three Daughters and Heirs Which Inquisitions were so found through the means and interest of the Husbands of those Daughters all very powerful Men in that time Nevertheless this Iames kept the possession of Cowley Wotton and Simondsall as he did of Came and Hinton for full three years but not without great Sutes Contentions Quarrels and some Bloodshed Howbeit after all this viz. From the seventeenth to the six and twentieth of Henry the Sixth another Award was made at Cirencester betwixt this Iames and those three Coheirs with their respective Husbands by the Lords Ferrers and Beauchamp Sir Iohn Fortescue and William Yelverton Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and others wherein reciting the former Award so made by the Bishop of Worcester and Judge Iuyn they again Awarded to those three Coheirs the Mannors of Wotton Simondsall and Cowley in Fee as also all other the Lands in 4 Hen. 6. Awarded to the Earl of Warwick except twenty two marks Rent in Frampton and ten pound Rent in Slimbridge and to Iames and the Heirs-male of his Body the Mannors of Came Hinton Slimbridge Hurst Portbury and all other the Lands then in controversie in those places But that Award did not satisfie this Iames insomuch as all violent means being used to compel his assent thereto he kept home and manned his Castle with what strength he had for his own preservation his Lady in the mean time soliciting his business at London Hereupon Margaret the eldest of those three Coheirs then Countess of Shrewsbury being thus seised of Wotton Simondsall Cowley c. by practise with one Rice Tewe a servant to this Lord Iames and his Porter of Berkley Castle got the Lord l'Isle her Son with a number of armed Men into it and there surprising the Lord Iames and his four Sons kept them in prison by the space of eleven weeks by which hard usage he was forced to seal unto certain unreasonable Covenants And shortly after carried them with strong Guards unto the Grey-Fryars at Bristoll and there compelled them to be bound in divers Recognisances of the Statute Staple in twelve thousand two hundred and eighty pounds to the Earl of Shrewsbury and the said Margaret his Countess whereunto for fear of being murthered they did submit During which time of such their durance they were also forced to seal unto divers Deeds of Assurance of those three Lordships to the said Coparceners whereof one was a Lease for two years unto them and their Husbands of the very Castle of Berkley excepting Habitation and House-room for himself his four sons and six servants As also Releases and Bonds to perform all that they had been thus forcibly constrained unto and moreover to acknowledge divers Statutes before the Major of Bristoll in great sums to ratifie all Feoffments and Grants so injuriously from them extorted And after all this hurried them back to Berkley and thence to Cirencester where upon a Commission then sate this Iames pleaded his title as Heir-male by vertue of that Fine levied in 23 Edw. 3. But coming to the Bar after Replication Rejoynder and Sur-Rejoynder Issue being joyned and a Jury returned from the most remote parts of the Countrey the Jury found that Entail made in King Henry the Thirds time to Maurice Lord Berkley the second of that name and unto Isabel his Wife and the Heirs of their two Bodies according at it was laid down in the Inquisition taken after the death of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick before mentioned in 18 ãâã 6. and assessed Damages to an hundred ãâã and costs of Sute to twenty pounds Howbeit though Judge Bingham who lived twenty years after taking notice of those irregular actings would never certifie that Record yet it was after certified by his Widow upon a Writ of Certiorari in 4 Hen. 7. But notwithstanding all this the Lord Iames was not freed For his Lady being at Glocester following his business the Earl of Shrewsbury and his Son the Lord l'Isle being then also there to inquire upon the Oyer and Terminer imprisoned her in that Castle and there kept her till she died Nay such was the violence and cruelty of this Countess Margaret that she caused Iames and Thomas two younger Sons of this Lord Iames to be carried beyond Sea ãâã Iames was slain in the same Battle with Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury her Husband and Thomas being there taken prisoner was put to ransome She likewise kept this Lord Iames for full two years out of his Castle at Berkley and out of all the Lands and Lordships thereto belonging in the mean time making great spoil and waste upon them ¶ Having thus carried this worthy person through these many and not ordinary troubles and disturbances which attended that ãâã ânheritance so divolved to him by vertue of the Entail of his Great Grandfather I shall now briefly take notice of what is most memorable of him otherwise In 7 Hen. 5. upon that notable Rebellion of Owen Glendowr and the Welsh when the French
Porter of the Castle to betray it into his hands one Robert Veel the Viscount's Engineer being likewise an active person in that design giving Bond to Maurice King in the summe of an hundred pounds that so soon as the work should be accomplished he should be made keeper of Wotton Park with the Fee of five Marks per annum during his life But this Plot being discovered by Maurict King so much perplexed the Viscount L'isle that he forthwith sent this Lord Berkley a Challenge requiring him of Knighthood and Manhood to appoint a day and to meet him half way to try their quarrel and title to eschew the shedding of Christian Blood or to bring the same day the utmost of his power This Letter of Challenge under the hand of that Viscount was sent 19 Martii 10 Ed. 4. he being then not fully twenty two years of age having sued out his Livery upon the fourteenth of Iuly before and his Wife then with Child of her first-born Unto which the Lord Berkley returned this answer in Writing viz. that he would not bring the tenth man he could make and bid him to meet on the morrow at Nybley-Green by eight or nine of the Clock which standeth saith he on the Borders of the Livelode that thou keepest untruly from me Whereupon they accordingly met and the Viscount L'isle's Vizor being up he was slain by an Arrow shot through his head After which the very same day the Lord Berkley advanced to Wotton and rifling the House took thence many Writings and Evidences of the said Viscounts own Lands with a sute of Arras Hangings wherein his Armes and the Armes of the Lady Ioane his Mother Daughter and Coheir to Thomas Chedder were wrought and brought them to Berkley Castle To this Skirmish came divers from Bristoll Thornbury the Forest of Deane and other places to the number of about a thousand which exceeded what the Viscount brought But the business did not so end for the Widdow of the Viscount L'isle brought her appeal against this William Lord Berkley and against Maurice and Thomas his two Brethren for thus killing her Husband with an Arrow through his Head and a Dagger in his left Side as she alleadged Whereupon in the Parliament of 12 Ed. 4. upon Petitions on all parts it was enacted that for the appeasing of these variances c. thus moved and of long time continued the said Lord Berkley should quietly enjoy the Mannor and Borrough of Wotton under Edge with the Mannors of Simondshall and Arlingham paying to the said Margaret the Viscountess an hundred pounds yearly at St. Peters Church in Gloucester at four usual Feasts in the year After which she the said Viscountess married Henry Bodrugan of Bodrugan in Cornwall Nor did this yet determine the Controversie for Sir Edward Grey Knight second Son to Elizabeth Lady Ferrers Daughter to the Lady Isabel this Lord William's Mother who by marriage with Elizabeth eldest Sister and Coheir of the said Thomas Talbot Viscount L'isle was in her right created Baron L'isle 14 Martii 15 Edw. 4. and afterwards Viscount L'isle by King Richard the third Margaret her other Sister and Coheir being dead without issue began new sutes for those Lands which at length through the mediation of Thomas Marquess Dorset elder Brothers Son to the said Lord Grey as also friend and kinsman to this Lord William were determined by agreement 25 Feb. 21 Edw 4. in manner following viz. that the Lands so claimed should remain to this Lord William then Viscount Berkley and to the Heirs male of his Body with remainder to the said Lord L'isle and Elizabeth his Wife and to the Heirs of her the said Elizabeth for ever And that the said Viscount Berkley should grant an Annuity of twenty pounds per annum to them and to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth issuing out of those Lands but to cease upon the death of Margaret Vicountess L'isle and then to be an hundred pounds per annum But from this Agreement they afterwards fell off And in 1 Hen. 7. he had a Grant of the Office of Marshall of England to himself and the Heirs male of his Body in as ample manner as Iohn Duke of Norfolk held it This Lord William at length Marquess Berkley as hath been already shewed gave certain Lands to the Nunns of Walling-Wells in Com. Nott. in respect whereof they granted to accept of him and his Heirs for ever as one of their Founders He was also a benefactor to the Monks of Worcester for which cause they made him partaker of all their Prayers and Almes To the Friers Austines in London he gave an hundred pounds in money in consideration whereof they were to say two Masses presently and for ever at the Altar of our Lady and St. Iames where the Body of Iane Countess of Notingham his former Wife lay buried between those Altars He had three Wives first Elizabeth Daughter of Reginald West Lord La Warre from whom he was divorsed by Iohn Carpenter Bishop of Worcester before he had any issue by her Secondly Iane Widdow of Sir William Willoughby Knight Daughter of Sir Thomas Strangways Knight by whom he had issue Thomas and Katherine who both died young and were buried in the Chappel of Berkley-Church with their Grandfather the Lord Iames. Which Iane e died on St. Matthias day 1 R. 3. and was buried in the Friers-Austines in London betwixt the Altars of our Lady and St. Iames. Thirdly Anne Daughter of Iohn Fienes Lord Dacres of the South who surviving him after married to Sir Thomas Brandon Knight and died 10 Sept. 13 Hen. 7. without any issue But long before her death doubting that he should have no Children and taking occasion to except against his Brother Maurice for not marrying with a person of honorable parentage by an Indenture bearing date 10 Dec. 3 Hen. 7. he covenanted to assure the Castle and mannor of Berkley together with the Mannors of Hamme Appuârugge Hurst Slymbridge and Cowley for want of issue of his own Body unto King Henry the seventh and the Heirs male of his Body and for default of such issue to his own right Heirs Likewise the Mannors of Came Alkington Hinton and Portbury to the use of himself and Anne his then Wife and the Heirs of his Body and for want of such to the King ut supra in lieu whereof the King gave him leave to convey twenty five of his other Lordships to whom he pleased By this assurance he setled for want of issue of his own Body upon that King and the Heirs Male of his Body his Castle of Berkley twelve Mannors and three Advousons all in the County of Gloucester two Mannors in the County of Somerset four in the County of Warwick eight in the County of Leicester six
the fourth then King of that Realm was slain and for his special service there received the honor of Knighthood at the hands of Thomas Earl of Surrey the then General In 14 Hen. 8. he executed the Sheriffs Office for the County of Glocester And in 22 Hen. 8. was one of those Lords who subscribed a Letter to Pope Clement the seventh importuning him to give his definitive sentence in that cause of Matrimony concerning the King and Queen Katherine which not only to the two Universities of this Realm but divers other in forrein parts as also many learned men had deemed unlawful being there placed next after the Lord Dacre and next before the Lord Morley And in 24 Hen. 8. was made Constable of Berkley-Castle in which year by his Testament bearing date 11 Ian. he ordained that his Body should be buried without great pomp or pride in the Parish Church of Mangotts-field in Com. Glouc. near to the place where he used to kneel under the partition between the Quire and his own Chappel and afterwards viz. within one quarter of a year be brought to the Abby of St. Augustines near Bristoll and there buried near unto his first Wife Willing that the Executors of Maurice Lord Berkley his Brother should pay to the Abbot and Covent of that House all Legacies by him the said Maurice given He likewise bequeathed to the Lady Cecilie then his Wife his Chain with the Cross And appointed his Executors to find a Priest to sing where his Body should be buried for the space of ten years as also that they should bestow forty pounds upon a Tombe to be raised over his Grave This Lord Thomas married two Wives first Elianore Daughter of Sir Marmaduke Constable of ... in Com. Ebor. Knight Widow of Iohn Iâgelby Esq Son and Heir to Sir William Ingelby Knight Secondly Cecilie Widow of Richââd Rowdon of ... in Comâ Glouc. Esq And departing this life 22 Ianââr Ann. 1532. 24 Hen. 8. was first buried at Mangoâs-field but afterwards removed to that new Tombe which he had set up in the Abby Church of St. Augustines near Bristoll leaving issue two Sons and two Daughters viz. Thomas his Son and Heir who succeeded him and Maurice who taking to Wiâe Frances the Daughter and Coheir of Richard Rowdon Brother and Heir of Walter Son of Iohn left issue by her Sons and Daughters The Daughters were these Mary married to Sir Robert Throgmorton of Coughton in Com. Warw. Knight and Iane to Sir Nicholas Poinz of Acton Knight Which Thomas being of full age had Livery of his Lands the same year and had also two Wives first Mary the Daughter of George Lord Hastings by whom he had no issue and secondly Anne Daughter to Sir Iohn Savage of Frodsham in Com. Cester Knight and departing this life at Stone in his journey from his House at Yale in Gloucestershire towards London 19 Sept. An. 1534 26 H. 8. was there buried leaving issue Elizabeth a Daughter then scarce three quarters of a year old afterwards married to Thomas Boteler Earl of Ormund and Henry a Son born nine weeks and four days after his death Which Henry by the death of King Edward the sixth the last heir male to King Henry the seventh came to ãâã Berkley-Castle and all those other Lordâhips so given to that King by William Marquess Berkley as hath been observed and by the special Grace and Favor of of Queen Mary had Livery of them in 1 2 Phil. Mar. before he arrived to his full age Which Castle and Lordships had rested in the Crown by the space of sixty one years four months and twenty days and were then of the value of six hundred eighty seven pounds and five shillings per annum in old Rent not accounting the Parks and Chases in them contained This Henry thus repossessing the old Barony of his Ancestors being summoned by Writ to Parliament in 4 5 Phil. Mar. was there placed 25 Ian. He first took to Wife Katherine third Daughter to Henry Howard Earl of Surrey by Frances his Wife Daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford Which Katherine died at Calaudon 7 Apr. Ann. 1596. 38 Eliz. and was buried in the North Isle of S. Michaels Church in Coventre Secondly Iane Daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope Knight Widow of Sir Roger Tounsend Knight who survived him and died 3 Ian. Ann. 1617. 15 Iae. without issue By Katherine his first Wife he had issue two Sons viz. Thomas born at Caloudon 11 Iulii Ann. 1575. 17 Eliz. and Ferdinand who dying at âale in Gloucestershire was there buried And four Daughters viz. Mary Wife of Iohn Zouch Son and Heir to Sir Iohn Zouch of Codnore in Com. Derb. Knight and Frances Wife of George Shirley of Aââwell in Com. Northamp Esquire afterwards a Baroner Which Thomas married Elizabeth only Child of Sir George Carey Knight then Knight Marshal and Governor of the Isle of Wight Son to Henry Lord Hunsdon and after his Fathers death Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain of the Queens Houshold and Knight of the Garter But all that I have seen farther memorable of this Thomas is that upon the death of Queen Elizabeth he rode into Scotland to carry the News thereof to King Iames and being made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of that King died at Caloudon 22 Novemb. 9 Iac. and was buried in St. Michaels Church in Coventre near to the Grave of his Mother in his Fathers lifetime leaving issue George his Son and Heir and Theophila a Daughter married to Sir Robert Coke Knight Son and Heir to Sir Edward Coke Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. This Henry Lord Berkley lived to a very great age for his death hapâed not till the 26 Nov. An. 1613. 11 Iac. at Caloudon before-mentioned Whence his Body was honorably conveyed to Berkley and buried in the Chancel there over which a Fair Tombe hath since been erected to his Memory To whom succeeded George his Grandson and next Heir who took to Wife Elizabeth the second Daughter and Coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudburne in Comit. Suff. Kt. 13 Apr. 12 Iac. he being then of the age of thirteen years and she nine Which George departed this life ... Ann. 1658. leaving issue two Sons viz. Charles drowned at Sea in his passage towards Diepe in France ... Ian. Ann. 1640. unmarried and George now Lord Berkley As also Elizabeth a Daughter married to Edward Coke Son and Heir to Iohn Coke of Holkham in Com. Norf. Esquire Son of Sir Edward Coke Knight sometimes Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. This George now Lord Berkley took to Wife Elizabeth the eldest Daughter and Coheir to Iohn Maââingberd Merchant of London of the East-India Company and hath issue by her two Sons viz. Sir Charles Berkley made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of
his service and come back to store himself with victual and other necessaries for his return again thither had in consideration thereof License to transport thirty three Sacks of his own Wooll towards the defray of his charges and expences in that expedition In 16 Edw. 3. he was again in France and of the Retinue with Iohn d' Arcie le Cosyn In 19 Ed. 3. he received the Kings precept amongst other to prepare himself with Horse and Armes to attend the King in his expedition into that Realm In 20 Edw. 3. he was in that Army with the Archbishop of York and others which gave Battle to the Scots near Durham King Edward being then in France and obtained a glorious Victory David their King being then taken Prisoner In 21 Edw. 3. he was again in the Warrs of France and in 26 Edw. 3. was imployed in defence of the Sea-coasts in Lincolnshire by reason of an Invasion then threatned from the French Moreover the same year he was joyned in Commission with the Lord Grey of Codnore for arraying all the Knights Esquires and other persons of ability within the Counties of Notingham and Derby for resistance of that so feared Invasion In 33 E. 3. he was constituted one of the Commissioners for removing the King of France then prisoner in the Castle of Hertford unto the Castle of Somerton in Somersetshire But after that time I have seen no more of him till his death which hapned in 3 R. 2. or before for in that year William his Grandson viz. Son to William his Son and Heir who died in his lifetime being found his next Heir had Livery of his Lands proving his age and doing âis Homage excepting the Mannor of Graneby which Milisent his Widow then held in dower He had also a Daughter called Margaret married to Robert de Tibetot This last mentioned William so found Heir to his Grandfather as hath been observed first took to Wife Margaret the Daughter of Adam de Welle but had no issue by her as it seems and departed this life 15 Octob. 5. Ric. 2. being then seized of the Mannors of Wouburne in Com. Buck. Graneby in Comit. Nott. Hidmescot and Elmeton in Comit. Derb. and Blankeney and Braunceton in Com. Linc. leaving Ralph his Son and heir but one year old and Alice his Widow Which Alice in 9 R. 2. had Livery of the Mannors of Blankeney and Braunceton before-mentioned as also of a Rent of thirty six shillings and eight pence issuing out of the Mannor of Holmesfield in Com. Derb. and of thirty six shillings out of the Mannor of Elmeton in the same County This Ralph died without issue in 3 Hen. 4. leaving Iohn d'Eincourt his Brother his next Heir and then above twenty years of age Who was born at Medelham in Yorkshire ult Febr. 5 R. 2. Which Iohn having made proof of his age had Livery of his Lands doing his Homage in 7 Hen. 4. And having married Ioane the Daughter and Heir to Sir Robert de Grey of Rotherfield Knight had a pardon for the summe of thirty three pounds eleven shillings and eight pence due to the King for the relief of Bartholomew de Grey Son and Heir to the said Robert But this Iohn died upon the eleventh day of May the same year being then seized of the Mannor of Duston in Com Northampt. the third part of the Town of Rothmershe in Com. Ebor. the Mannor of Graneby in Com. Nott. the Mannors of Holmesfield Elmeton and Cressewell in Com. Derb. also of a certain Lordship in Bryton juxta Corby in Com. Linc. and of the Mannor of Woburne in Com. Buck. leaving William his Son and Heir then three years of age Which William in 9 Hen. 5. was by Indenture reteined to serve the King in his Warrs beyond Sea with ten men at Armes himself accounted and thirty Archers all on Horseback And having married Elizabeth the Sister of Iohn Vicount Beaumont died in 1 H. 6. without issue being at that time not full twenty one years of age and seized of the Mannors of Holmesfield and Elmeton Com. in Derb. Graneby and Blankney in Com. Linc. and Duston in Com. Northamp leaving Alice and Margaret his Sisters and Heirs who doing their Homage had Livery of that Inheritance Which Margaret was soon after married to Ralph Lord Cromwel and Alice to William Lord Lovell Having thus done with the principal branch of this antient and noble Family I have thought fit to add that Iohn Lord d'Eincourt Father of the last mentioned William had a Brother called Robert who died in 21 Hen 6. seized of a certain Mannor called D'eyncourt-Hall in Com. Linc. which he gave unto William Bishop of Lincoln and his Heirs and that Margaret the Wife of Ralph Lord Cromwell and Alice the Wife of William Lord Lovell were his Cousins and next Heirs Despenser IN â8 Will. Conq. Robert Despenser id est Steward to that King was amongst other of the Barons of that time a Witness to the Charter of that King for removing the secular Canons out of the Cathedral of Durham and placing Monks in their stead This Robert was Brother to Vrso de Abetot then Sheriff of Worcestershire Being a powerfull man in those days he took the Lordship of Elmelegh from the Monks of Worcester which they could never afterwards regain and at the time of the general Survey had four Lordships in Warwickshire one in Gloucestershire fifteen in Lincolnshire and seventeen in Leicestershire After him there is mention of William Despenser to King Henry the first and then possessed of the Mannor of Elington Then of Thurstan who had issue Almaric Which Almaric was Sheriff of Rutland in 34 Hen. 2. So likewise in 1 Ric. 1. being also Steward to that King from whom he obtained a confirmation in Fee of the Lordships of Wurdie and Stanley in the Vale of Gloucester Which Lordship of Wurdie King Henry the second formerly gave to Walter the Usher of his Chamber Son of Thurstan and Uncle to this Almaric for his Homage and service reserving a pair of gilt Spurrs or twelve pence to be yearly paid for the same into his Exchequer at the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and to hold by the service of half a Knights fee. This Almaric in 8 Ric. 1. was acquitted of the third Scutage of Normandy and in 6 Ioh. gave a fine of an hundred and twenty marks and one Palfrey to be exempted from attending on that King in his purposed Expedition beyond-Sea To this Almaric whom the Record terms Son of Thurstan Brother of Walter Son of Thurstan who was Heir to the same Walter King Iohn in the fifth year of his
Britanny and Richmond should translate that Abby of Eharity into the Fields of East Witton and to place it upon the Verge of the River Ioââ whereupon thenceforth it took the name of Iorevaulx and caused the Bones of Akaris his Father to be brought thither and there entombed himself and his heirs being reputed the Founders of that Monastery After which viz in An. 1182. 28 Hen. 2. he departed this life leaving issue three Sons viz. Henry Hugh and William Which Henry took to Wife Alice the Daughter of Randolf Fitz-Walter Aâcestor to the Barons of Greistoke with whom âe had the Lordship of Mikelton and service of Guy de Bovencourt for certain Lands there and in Northumberland as also the services of Lonton and Thirngarth with the Forest of Loun and free Chase and departed this life in An. 1201. 3 Ioh. leaving issue Randolf his Son and Heir who wedded Alice the Daughter and Heir to Adam de Staveley Lord of Staveley Dent and Sadbergh and departing this life in An. 1262. 49 Hen. 3. was buried in the Abby of Iorevaulx leaving issue two Sons Henry and Adam Which Henry had also issue two Sons Randolf who died issueless and Hugh who succeeding his Brother Randolf in the Inheritance died at Berewyk upon Teise upon the fourth Ides of March An. 1304. 32 E. 1. and was buried at Rumaldkirk But Albreda his Wife departing this life at Hurworth upon Teise had sepulture at Iorevaulx near to the Grave of Henry Fitz-Randolf her Husbands Father To this Hugh succeeded Henry who being called Henry Fitz-Hugh gave the first occasion for all his Descedants to assume that sirname and in 3 Edw. 2. was in that expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 4 Edw. 2. and in 8 Edw 2. In consideration of which services and great expences therein the King gave him the sum of four hundred marks to be received at the hands of Eleanor the Widow of Henry Lord Percy she being indebted to the Exchequer in the like sum Moreover in 9 Edw. 2. he was constituted Governor of Bernard Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham by reason of the Earl of Warwicks minority it being of his Inheritance and in 10 11 Edw. 2. having again been imployed in the Scottish Wars was in 14 Edw. 2. first summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm In 20 Edw. 2. having a Debt of five hundred marks due to him from Sir Henry Vavasor Knight he did by a special Instrument under his Seal acquit the same Henry thereof upon condition that Hen. le Vavasor Son to the same Henry should take to Wife Annabil his Daughter In 7 Edw. 3. he was again in the Scotish Wars so likewise in 8 9 Edw. 3. And having married Eve the Daughter of Sir Iohn Bulmer Knight left issue by her Henry his Son and Heir Which Henry took to Wife Ioane the Daughter of Sir Richard Fourneys Knight Sister and Heir of William with whom he had the Lordships of Carleton Kingstone Beghton and Bothomsall and left issue by her two Sons viz. Hugh and Henry which Hugh having wedded Isabel the Daughter of Ralph Lord Nevill died without issue But I return to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh Father to Henry who so died in his life time as hath been already observed This Henry departed the World in An. 1356. 30 Edw. 3. leaving Henry his Grandson viz. Son of Henry who so died before him his next heir Which Henry in 33 Edw. 3. was in the Wars of France so likewise in 41 Edw. 3. as also in 43 Edw. 3. being then of the Retinue with Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and having married Ioane the Daughter to Henry Lord Scrope of Masham had issue by her two Sons viz. Iohn slain at Otterbourne in that fatal skirmish betwixt Sir Henry Percy Knight Son and Heir to the Earl of Northumberland with Sir Ralph Percy his Brother and William Earl Douglas then General of the Scottish Forces wherein the English had much loss and Henry his second Son Which Henry the Father died upon Wednesday the Feast of the Decollation of S. Iohn Baptist 10 Rich. 2. and was buried before the High Altar at Iorevaulx upon the 8 Kal. of October next ensuing being then seised of the Castle of Raveniwath with its Appurtenances viz. Ravenswath Qualsington and Clintes Also of the Mannors of Cutherston with the Towns of Mikelton in Tesedale Fremington Scortone Applegarthe and Leming likewise of the Mannors of Clesby Cloubeck Dent Sedbergh Stavely Berewyk super Tese and Ayrton in Craven in Com. Ebor. Furthermore he died seised of the Mannor of Carleton in Lindrik Kingston within the same Town and of the moity of the Mannor of Bothumsal in Com. Nottingh leaving Henry his Grandson viz. Son of Henry his Son deceased in his life time his next heir who had Livery of his Lands the same year Which Henry in 1 Hen. 4. being retained to serve the King for the term of his whole life had an hundred marks per annum then granted to him during that time And in 6 Hen. 4. was joyned in Commission with Henry Lord Bishop of Bathe and Wells Ralph Earl of Westmorland and some others to treat with the like Commissioners from Scotland concerning a Truce betwixt both Realms Moreover the next ensuing year he was again put in Commission with Richard Duke of York and others to treat with Isabel Queen of Denmark and Erick King of Denmark or their Ambassadors touching the Dowry of Philippa second Daughter to King Henry then Wife of the said King Erick as also concerning a League of Amity betwixt both Crowns and in 8 Hen. 4. was again imployed into Denmark upon the Kings service Furthermore in 13 H. 4. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with others from Scotland touching a Peace betwixt both Realms And having merited so well for his services in Scotland upon sundry occasions as also in Denmark concerning that business of the marriage before specified and likewise for his services to Iohn the Kings Son afterwards Duke of Bedford and not received any thing towards his charges in those imployments more then the Fee of an hundred marks per annum formerly granted unto him as hath been observed in 14 Hen. 4. he obtained a Grant of an hundred pounds per annum out of the Issues and Profits of the Castles Mannors and Lands of Philip the Son and Heir to Iohn Lord d'Arcy then in minority until he should accomplish his full age Moreover before the end of that year he obtained License from the King to amortise one Messuage four Acres of Land and five Acres of Meadow in West
into Scotland with her Sons William and Reginald and all her own Family and with her Hugh de Lacy But when the King came to Karrickfergus he received advertisement from Duncan de Carriâ of Galwey that he had taken her and her Daughter Wife of Roger de Mortimers Son together with William de Braose her Son and his Wife with their two Sons but that Hugh de Lacy and Reginald de Braose her younger Son were escaped Whereupon the King sent two Ships for them under the conduct of Iohn de Curcy and Godfrey de Crancumb Being thus brought to the King she made offer of that Fine of forty thousand marks whereof the King accepted but within three days after repenting her bargain she said she could not make it good The King therefore departing from Karrickfergus for England and taking her with her family along with him she again offered him the forty thousand marks with a penalty of ten thousand marks more in case she paid it not Whereupon the accord was put in writing and sealed on each part both their Oaths being likewise given for performance thereof and not only so but the Seals of those Earls and Barons who were then present for attestation thereto days of payment being appointed accordingly And because the Sheriff of Herefordshire had proceeded against her Husband as a Malefactor in regard of the mischeif he had done in that Countrey and should have Out-lawed him thereupon the King by reason of this Composition commanded the Sheriff to respite the same till his return into England Moreover upon his return having her and her company at Bristoll under Guard she there petitioned that her Husband might have leave to come to her Which being granted he was admitted to the presence of the King and freely expressed his consent to make payment of the Fine In order therefore unto it the King sent a servant of Geffrey Fitz-Piers then Justice of England to go along with him that he might have no impediment in his passage in regard he had been noted for so great a Malefactor But after all this when the first day of payment came the King sending his said Justice of England Geffrey Fitz-Piers and likewise the Earls of Salisbury and Winchester with divers other great Men unto Maud the Wife of this William for the Money she plainly told them they must expect nothing she having no more Money in her Purse then twenty four marks of Silver twenty four shillings of Besants and fifteen ounces of Gold so that neither then nor ever after any thing could be expected from her or from her Husband Which being made known to the King he presently commanded that Proclamation should be made from one County to another for this great Malefactor and in case he came not in according to the Laws of the Realm then to be Outlawed Thus far the Kings Narrative From these various Relations therefore it is no easie matter to discover what his demerits were but what usage he had at last take here from the credit of these two Historians who lived near that time This year viz. An. 1210. 12 Ioh. quoth Matthew of Westminster the Noble Lady Maud Wife of William de Braose with William their Son and Heir were miserably famished at Windsore by the command of King Iohn and William her Husband escaping from Scorham put himself into the habit of a Beggar and privately getting beyond Sea died soon after at Paris where he had burial in the Abby of S. Victor on the Eve of S. Lawrence And Matth. Paris putting his death in An. 1212. which differs a little in time says That he fled from Ireland into France and dying at Ebula his Body was carried to Paris and there honorably buried in the Abby of S. Victor But after these great troubles in his later days I shall now say something of his pious Works To the Monks of Lira in Normandy he gave the Church of Orsesleve And being by Inheritance from his Mother Lord of Bergavenny he gave to the Monks of that Priory all the Tithes of his Castle there viz. of Bread Wine Bear Cider all manner of Flesh Fish Salt Honey Wax Tallow and in general of whatsoever should be brought thither and spent there And moreover two marks of Silver out of his Lordship of Espines and two marks of Silver yearly out of his Lands in England so soon as God should enlarge them to forty pound per annum As also the Toll on the Market day within the Gates of that his Castle Which gift he so made to those Monks of Bergavenny upon condition that the Abbot and Covent of S. Vincenti in Maine to which this Priory of Bergavenny was a Cell should daily pray for the Soul of King Henry the First as also for the soul of him the said William and the Soul of Maud his Wife And it is observed of him that in his usual Communication he would reverendly use the Name of God viz. In Gods name let this be done or If it please God or By Gods grace so likewise in all his Letters he wrote Moreover that in his journeys whensoever he came into a Church or beheld a Cross though he were then discoursing with another he would leave off and betake himself to this devotions and having said his Prayers return to his former discourse Likewise when he met any Children in the way he would salute them courteously to the end he might have a return with the benediction of Innocents By Maud his Wife called Maud de S. Waleric he had issue William who was famished with her at Windsore Giles Bishop of Hereford and Reginald as before hath been observed and four Daughters viz. Ioane who was the Wife of Richard Lord Percy a great Baron in the North Loretta wedded to Robert Fitz-Parnell Earl of Leicester who had with her in Marriage the Lordship of Tavestoke in Com. Devon with thirteen Knights Fees Margaret the Wife of Walter de Lacy and Maud Wife of Griffith Prince of South Wales Of Philip his Brother all that I have met with is That after the Conquest of Ireland upon the return of King Henry the Second thence amongst other persons of note which he left behind him there he was one and under him twenty Soldiers As to the Lands of this great but unhappy Man it appears That in 11 Ioh. the Sheriff of Devon accounted for Toteneys Cornwrthy Barstople and Lappeford and that the stock of Cattle upon some other was sold for the Kings use For in 12 Ioh. William de Nevill accounted for eighty four pounds and five shillings for three hundred thirty seven Kine part of the number of seven hundred and four which came from his Lands each Cow then rated at five shillings Moreover as to his Barony of Brembry it was then in the hands of Richard Earl of Cornwal by reason of this his forfeiture
and the Rape of Brembry in the Kings possession Which Barony as it was then certified had been held from the Conquest by the said William and his Ancestors by the service of ten Knights Fees Berdestaple likewise with fifteen Knights Fees which also were part of his possessions was given by King Iohn to Peter Fitz-Herbert And the Castle and Town of Toteneys with the Lordships of Cornworth and Lodeswell were assigned by the same King unto Henry the Natural Son of Reginald Earl of Cornwall commonly called Henricus filius Comitis It is said that Giles Bishop of Hereford Son to the last mentioned William de Braose being an adherer to the Rebellious Barons against King Iohn sent his Brother Reginald to Brecknock and that the people there receiving him as their Lord he got possession of all his Castles viz. Bergavenny Penkelhy Castell-Gwyn or White Castle Grosmunt and the Isle of Cynuric and that when the Bishop came thither himself they delivered unto him the Castles of Aberhodny Hay Buelth and Blaynlhysny and that he to strengthen himself in that Country promised Castell-Payn Clune with all Elvell to Walter Vachan the Son of Eneon Clyd But after some time the wrath of King Iohn was well asswaged for being at Bremâry in Sussex in the last year of His Reign he gave way that Reginald de Braose third Son to this William the Elder should have safe conduct to come to his presence to do his homage and fealty and granted a great part of his Fathers Lands unto him upon the same Fine and Agreement as Giles Bishop of Hereford his elder Brother had made with him for the same And King Henry the Third in the first of His Reign intimating to this Reginald by a friendly Message That in case he would be an obedient Subject he should repossess all his Lands upon the same Fine and Agreement as Giles Bishop of Hereford his Brother had made with King Iohn he thereunto complying had accordingly Livery of the Castle and Honor of Toteneys and likewise of the Honor of Barstaple Of the Honors of Cnappe and Brembry he had possession before as it seems for in 2 Hen. 3. which was about one year after he passed over his title to them both unto William his Son and Heir in the presence of the King at Wallingford In which year he manifested his loyalty to King Henry being with him in his Army at Newark All which being done without the privity of Leweline Prince of Wales who had confederated with the Rebellious Barons against the King young Rees and Owen Sons to Maud Sister of this Reginald rose in Arms against him and won all his Territory of Buelth except the Castle And so soon as Leweline himself knew thereof he grew so highly incensed that he entred the parts of Brecknock with an Army and laid Siege to Aberhody the cheif Town of that Countrey but the Burgeffes making composition with him he marched over the Black Mountains to Llangrue unto which place this Reginald soon came with six Knights and deâiring his pardon not only obtained it but also the Castle of ãâã as a pledge of his special savor the custody whereof he committed to Rees Vâchan Upon lovying the first Scutage of King Henry this Reginald paid forty five marks six shillings six pence for twenty two Knights Fees an half sixth and tenth part for the Barony of Adam de Port. And in 5 Hen. 3. the Welsh having again besieged his Castle at Buâlt he obtained Aid from the King to preserve it from destruction But of him I find no more then that he took to Wife Gracia by some called Grifild Daughter and Coheir to William de Bruerâ and died in 6 Hen. 3. whereof the King being advertised he presently sent his Steward viz. William de Cantilupe to make Livery of his Castles unto William his Son But it seems he had not all of them until some years after For in 12 Hen. 3. the Sheriff of Herefordshire had command to give him possession of the Castles of Radnoâ and Huntington which did belong to Reginald his Father In this year the King raised the siege of Montgomery Castle at that time made by the Welsh wherein Hubert de Burgh then Justice of England on whom he had bestowed it was Which Hubert having cut down a vast Wood thereabouts by reason it was a receptacle to those rude people began to build another Castle there in a place called Cridie by its natural situation impregnable and named by himself Huberts Folly wherein he had assistance from this ouâ William de Braose but William then foraging too far amongst the Welsh had the ill hap to be taken prisoner by them and for his redemption was forced to pay two hundred marks which he borrowed of William de Briwere his Uncle passing unto him all his right in Snodyntâne for the same This William de Braose being suspected of overmuch familiarity with the Wife of Leweline Prince of Wales Sister of King Henry was by him subtilly invited to an Easter Feast but after the entertainment was over was charged therewith by Leweline and cast into Prison where he suffered death by a barbarous murther Some say he was hanged and the Wife of Leweline with him Upon news whereof the King granted the custody of all his Lands to William Marshal Earl of Pembroke This last mentioned William de Broase so fatally murthered had to Wife Eve the Daughter of Walter Mareschal Sister to Richard Mareschall Earl of Pembroke Which Eve in 14 Hen. 3. had assigned for her Dowry all her said Husbands Lands in Brecknock Went Kinton Radenor Kingston Erleston S. Elere and âoteneis the Castles excepted which the King retained in his own hands by whom he left issue four Daughters his Heirs viz. Isabel who became the Wife of David Son of Leweline Prince of Wales Maud the Wife of Roger Lord Mortimer of Wigmore Eve the Wife of William de Cantilupe and Eleanor of Humphrey de Bohun To Isabel afterwards married to Peter Fitz-Herbert came the Lands of Blaynleveny and Talegard To Maud the Lands of Radnor S. Clere Ampoyt Pelâneeg ãâ¦ã To Eve the Honor and Lands of Bergavenny and to Eleanor the Honors of Brecknock and Haâ But Eve the Mother stood in the Kings displeasure for a time by reason of the War which he had with Richard Marshall sometime Earl of Pembroke her Brother as it seems Howbeit in 18 H. 3. she was again received into favor and had Livery of the Castle of Hay as also of the Castle of Toteneis which was of her Dowry In 21 Hen. 3. the King gave her License to receive Aid of all vendible
Itinerant then sent into the Counties of Notingham Derby York Northumberland Westmorland Cumberland and Lancaster and the next ensuing year advanced to that great Office of Justice of England In 28 Hen. 2 he was present with the King at Waltham and one of the Witnesses to his Testament there declared And in 34 H. 2. the King having great disturbances in his Territories beyond the Seas he was thence sent into England to raise what power he could to his aid Moreover from 10 Hen. 2. to 16 Hen. 2. and half that year and from 22 H. 2. till the end of that Kings reign scil 34 H. 2. he executed the Sheriffalty of Yorkshire by his Substitutes Also for Lancashire in 21 Hen. 2. And for Westmorland in the 23 24 and 25 of Hen. 2. But in 1 Ric. 1. he was displaced from his Office of Justice of England and Hugh de Pudsey Bishop of Durham put in his stead Whereupon he accompanied King Richard together with Baldwin Archbishop of Canterbury and Hubert Bishop of Salisbury in his journey towards the Holy-Land and at Marsieles taking Ship thitherwards arrived at Acon being at the Siege of that City but departed this life the same year during that Leaguer As to his works of Piety he founded the Priory of Buttele in Com. Suff. in An. 1171. 17 Hen. 2. for Canons-Regular of St. Augustines Order and plentifully endowed it As also the Abby Leystone in Comit. Suff. for Canons of the same Order And having married Berta the Daughter of Theobald de Valoines senior Lord of Perham with whom he had the whole Lordship of Brochous in which the Priory of Buttele was founded had issue by her three Daughters viz. Maud Amabil and Helewise unto whom he gave all his Lands before he went toward Ieruâalem Which Maud had the whole Lordship of Benhall with the Advouson of the Church there and took to Husband Sir William de Aubervill Knight To Amabil the second he gave the moity of the Lordships of Baudeley and Finbergh Which Amabil married to Ralph de Arderne And to Helewise the third Daughter the moity of those Lordships of Baudesey and Finbergh who became the Wife of Robert Fitz-Ralph Lord of Midleham in Com. Ebor. Cormeiles AT the time of the Conquerors Survey Ainsfrid de Coâmeiles was possessed of seven Lordships in Herefordshire as also of sixteen in Gloucestershire which he had by the Grant of Walter de Laci with ... his Neice whom he took to Wife To Ainsfrid succeeded Richard de Cormeiles who in King Henry the first 's time gave the Church and Tithes of Weston to the Priory of Monmouth and having his residence in Herefordshire upon assessment of the Aid for marrying of Maud the Kings Daughter in 12 H. 2. certified his Knights Fees de Veteri Feoffamento to be in number six and that he then had one Knights Fee and an half de Novo Feoffamento for all which in 14 H. 2 he accounted nine marks This Richard being dead in 23 Hen. 2. his Widdow Beatrix then gave a Fine of forty marks to have Livery of her Lands and in 26 Hen. 2. sixty marks for assignation of her Dower To him Succeeded Walter de Cormeiles who in 33 Hen. 2. accounted six pounds upon levying the Scutage of Galweie in Ireland in regard he was not there in person nor sent his Souldiers In 6 Ric. 1. he paid nine pounds to the Scutage levied for the Kings redemption In 1 Ioh. he gave ten pounds that he might not attend the King into Normandy And died in 2 Hen. 3. at which time his Heirs viz. Giffard Pober and le Brun accounted twenty marks for ten Knights fees upon paiment of the first Scutage assessed in that Kings reign Grentemaisnill AMongst many other brave men that accompanied Duke William in his expedition for England Hugh de Grantmesâill was one and fought stoutly on his behalf in that memorable Battle whereby this Realm became thenceforth subject to the Normans absolute dominion And within two years after being a valiant Souldier was constituted one of the assistants to Odo Bishop of Bayeuâ and William Fitz-Osbern in the Administration of Justice throughout the whole Kingdom In the third year of that Kings Reign he was likewise made Governor of Hantshire and upon the settling of such Garrisons as were thought fit to keep the subdued English in awe had Leicester committed to his Charge being also made Sheriff of that Shire And besides these great trusts he had by the bounty of the Conqueror many Lordships lying in sundry Counties bestowed on him viz. in Northamptonshire twenty in Bedfordshire four in Gloucestershire five in Hertfordshire one in Suffolk one in Nottinghamshire one in Warwickshire five and in Leicestershire sixty seven besides those which Adelidis his Wife did then possess viz. Brokesburne in Com. Hertf. and three other Lordships in Warwickshire In 14 Will. Conq. he was one of those Nobles who by earnest sute endeavored a reconciliation from the King to his Son Robert Curthose But in 1 Will. Rufi favouring not that King he put himself in Armes against him Howbeit not long after he was one of the chief that opposed Curthose As to his pious works certain it is that he was a principle restorer of the Abby of St. Ebrulf at Utica in Normandy and endowed it with ample possessions as well in England as in those parts And bestowed one Yard Land lying in Wenge on the Monks of Thorney in Cambridgeshire After which viz. in Anno 1094. 7 Will. Rufi being grown aged and infirm he took upon him the habit of a Monk and within six days after viz. 8 Kal. Martii departed this life whereupon Bernard and David two Monks of St. Ebrulfes having seasoned his Corps with Salt and wrapped it in an Hide and conveyed it into Normandy where it was honorably buried on the South side of their Chapter-house with this Epitaph Ecce sub hoc Tumulo requiescit strenuus Hugo Qui viguit multos multa probitate per annos Mansio Grentonis munitio dicitur ejus Vnde fuit Cognomen ei multis bene notum Guillelmi fortis Anglorum tempore Regis Inter praecipuos magnates is claruit heros Militiâ fortis fuit virtute fidelis Hostibus horribilis Amicis tutor herilis Sumtibus Officiis angens pinguibus Armis Canobium Sancti multum provexit Ebrulfi Dum Cathedram Sancti celebrabat plebs pia Petri Occidit emeritus habitu Monachi trabeatus Ecclesiae Cultor largus dator revelator Blandus egenorum letetur in arce polorum Amen Leaving issue five Sons and six Daughters viz. Robert who survived him 28 years but died without issue
power he could make though he loved that King very well and joyning with the rest of the Northern Barons marched to North-Alverton where the Kings Standard being erected they all Rendevoused upon notice and exhortation from the venerable Thurstan Archbishop of York who had likewise caused all the Clergy of his Diocess to repair personally thither with their Crosses Banners and Relicks of Saints carried before them to defend the Church of Christ against the rage of that barbarous people And beholding the English Army formally drawn up for Battle as also the Priests in their sacred Vestments with their Crosses and Relicks walking about and encouraging the Soldiers being then a very aged person exceeding wealthy likewise of grave deportment and singular elocution he made a Speech to them with great majesty and weight Wherein representing to them that though he was rightfully a Subject to the King of England nevertheless that from his youth he had been a Friend and Familiar to the King of Scots And therefore being an old Soldier and sufficiently skilled in Military Affairs as also not ignorant of the danger impending considering likewise the ancient Friendship betwixt himself and that King and that he stood obliged to him not only by the Band of Friendship but by a kind of necessary fidelity desired leave of his fellow Soldiers to go to him with purpose either to disswade him from fighting or friendly to leave him And accordingly coming into his presence told him That what he had to advise should be honorable to himself and profitable to his Realm adding That the English had been his best Friends and that they had so approved themselves to Duncan and Edgar his Brothers in their greatest exigents instancing in sundry particulars wherein they had obliged him when he stood most in need of their aid demonstrating likewise to him the unavoidable consequences of War viz. Rapine Spoil and Destruction And that though his Army was more numerous yet the English were more valiant and strong and resolved to conquer or loose their lives Which expressions so wrought upon that King that he forthwith brake out into tears and had condescended to a peaceable accord but that William his Nephew a person of extraordinary courage and the cheif instigator of this invasision came in and in great sury charging this Robert de Brus with treachery disswaded the King from hearkning unto him Whereupon returning with sorrow to the English Host preparation was suddenly made for Battle which forthwith ensuing the English obtained a glorious victory To conclude This Robert being a very devout Man gave to the Monks of Whitby in Yorkshire the Church of Midlesburgh with two Carucates and two Bovates of Land in Nehuham upon condition that they should place certain of their Covent there which they accordingly did making it a Cell to that Abby He also gave to the Abby of S. Maries at York his Lordship of Appilton likewise that of Hornby and all the Lands lying betwixt the same and the great Road-way leading from York to Durham which was parcel of his Lordship of Middilton In Sunderland-Wick he moreover gave them two Carucates of Land and a Mill as also the Town of Karkarevill which by the Monks of that House was assigned to their Cell at Wederhal in Cumberland And departing this life 5 Id. Maii Anno 1141. 6 Steph. was buried in the Abby of Giseburne leaving issue by Agnes his Wife Daughter of Fouke Paynell with whom he had the Mannor of Carleton two Sons viz. Adam and Robert and a Daughter called Agatha the Wife of Ralph the Son of Ribald Lord of Middleham in Yorkshire who had in Frank-marriage the Lordship of Ailewick in Hertnes Unto which Robert he gave Anandale to hold of the King of Scotland By reason whereof being Liegeman to that King in a War afterwards hapning betwixt the English and Scots it was his fortune to be taken by his Father fighting courgeously on the behalf of that Nation and sent prisoner to the King of England Whose courtesie was such when he had him so in his power as that he delivered him back into the hands of his own Mother Being thus again with his Parents and telling his Father they had no Wheat Bread in Anandale he gave him the Lordship of Heât and Territory of Hertnes in the Bishoprick of Durham to hold of himself and his heirs Lords of Skelton But this being the younger Brother I shall leave what I have farther to say of him and his Descendants for a while and come to Adam the elder who being a courageous young Man was with his Father in that famous Battle called Bellum de Standardo near North Alverton against the King of Scotland where the English had the glory of the day as hath been already observed From this Adam King Henry the Second took the Castle of Daneby with the Lordship and Forest thereto appertaining and gave him instead thereof the Grange of Micklethwait with the whole Fee of Colingham and Berdesey whereof by violence he had bereft the Monks of Kirkshall in Yorkshire out of displeasure to Roger de Moubray as it is said But all that I have farther seen of him is That having founded the Priory of Hoton in Yorkshire and given to the Knights Templers one toât in Engieby and three at Yarum he died upon the thirteenth Kalend. of April 8 H. 2. and was buried at Giseburne leaving issue by Ivetta the Daughter of William de Arches Widow of R. de Flamvill Adam his Son and Heir commonly called Adam the second Which Adam notwithstanding he did not certifie his Knights Fees in 12 Hen. 2. as other of the Barons did in order to an equal Assessment of the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter was rated as it seems for two which he then held of the Earl of Chester and for twenty which he held of the King And in 14 Hen. 2. paid so many marks accordingly for them In 18 Hen. 2. he paid fifteen pounds upon levying the Scutage of Ireland and dying 1 Kal. Apr. An. 1185. 21 Hen. 2. was also buried at Giseburne leaving issue Peter his Son and Heir and Isabel a Daughter married to Henry de Percy Which Peter in 10 Rich. 1. paid five hundred marks for his Fathers Lands And most earnestly desiring to repossess the Lordship and Forest of Daneby of his antient Inheritance formerly taken from Adam his Father by King Henry the Second as hath been observed rendred and quit-claimed to King Iohn in the second of His Reign all his interest in the Lordships of Berdesey Colingham and Rington and moreover giving unto him a thousand pounds sterling obtained them accordingly In
Peace was settled he enjoyed it again It is said that in 10 Hen. 2. upon intelligence given to the King that Thomas Becket then Archbishop of Canterbury was privily fled into France this Reginald was one of those then sent by King Henry the second with Letters to the King of that Realm to desire that he might not have any reception there I come now to his works of Piety To the Monks of St. Fridiswides in Oxford he gave the Lordship of Knieton in Com. Berks. To the Nunns at Godstow a Mill at Wolvercote as also a Weere called Kinleswere likewise certain Meadows called Heringesham Boteham and Licheâeie with an Island lying betwixt the two Bridges and half the Meadow called Lambeie To the Monks of Einsham in Com. Oxon. for the health of the Souls of King Henry the second and of Queen Alianore as also for the good estate of himself and of Bernard his Son he gave the Churches of Tettebiri and Legis To the Monks of St. Ebrald in Normandy the Lordship of Eylmudestre in Comitat. Glouc. To the Knights Templars certain Lands at Lugge And to the Abby of Kingswode in Comitat. Glouc. his Park at Tetbury To this Reginald succeeded Bernard his Son and Heir to whom King Henry the second gave the Lordship of Erdington in Comit. Oxon. This Bernard by consent of Annora his Wife and his three Sons viz. Reginald Bernard and Thomas granted to King Henry the second the Site of the Abby of Godstow near Oxford with all his title in the Advouson thereof giving Livery and Seisin by a cloath of Silk whereof a Vestment called a Chesible was made Moreover he founded a certain Abby upon the River Bresâau which divides Normandy and Picardy calling it also Godstow And having been founder of the Abby of Tettibirie in Com. Glouc. by reason that the Monks placed there had not sufficient conveniencies he accepted of forty Acres of Land at Mireford near âingswood from Roger Lord Berkley the founder of Kingswode and remove those Monks from Tettebirie thither To the Monks of Stodley in Comit. Oxon. he gave half an Hide of Land in Norton for the health of the Souls of Maud and Annora his Wives to the Canons of Osney he gave a Weere adjoyning to the River of Thames with the Stream running to their Mill. And departed this life at the Siege of Acon in the Holy-Land in Anno 1190. 2 Ric. 1. To whom succeeded Thomas then his Son and Heir Which Thomas in 5 Ric. 1. paid an hundred and seventy Marks for his Relief and in 6 Ric. 1 upon Collection of the Scutage for the Kings Redemption answered twenty shillings in Hantshire his Capital Barony being not in that County What Offence he did give to King Richard I find not but certain it is that his Lands were seised by that King the Sheriff of Buckinghamshire accounting for those within his liberty But in 11 Ioh. giving to the King a thousand marks to make his peace he had livery of them again Moreover in 15 Ioh. he had livery of the Mannors of Sucton Norton in Com. Suthamp which did belong to Henry his Brother who took part with the rebellious Barons of that time as it seems and in 1 Hen. 3. had livery of all the rest which had been seised into the Kings Hands in the time of that War But shortly after this Henry having Letters of safe Conduct from the King to treat for restitution of them he made his peace and having so done was with the King at that great Rendezvouz of his Army at Newarke in 2 Hen. 3. in Order to the total defeat of all their rebellious Forces to Lincoln which soon ensued But I return to Thomas This Thomas dying soon after in 3 Hen. 3. Robert de Dreux by some called Earl of Dreux having married Annora his sole Daughter and Heir had livery of all the Lands in England of her inheritance which by his forfeiture were afterwards given to Richard Earl of Cornwall Brother to King Henry Which Annora afterwards married to Henry Lord of Suiliy but was buried with her first Husband in the Abby of Brenne Buisli ROger de Busli being possessed of divers Lordships in the Conquerors time viz. one in âevonshire eight in Derbyshire five in Leicestershire forty nine in Yorkshire and fourscore and six in Notinghamshire had his principal residence at Tikhill Castle in Yorkshire And at Blythe near Tikhill on the confiâes of Notinghamshire where he also had another Castle in 2 Will. Rufi founded a Priory for Benedictine Monks which he annexed as a Cell to the Abby of St. Catherines on the Mount near Roan in Normandy This Roger gave also to the Monks of St. Peters at Gloucester his Lordship of Clifford and surviving King Henry the first stood firm to his Daughter Maud the Empress for which respect King Stephen seized upon his Castle of Tickhill and the whole Honor of Blithe and gave them to Ranulph then Earl of Chester To Roger succeeded Richard de Builli Son to Roger I presume who in Anno 1147. 12 Steph. founded Roche Abby in Yorkshire and with the consent of Emme his Wife gave to the Monks of Kirkestede in Lincolnshire a certain place lying within the territory of Kymberworth for the making of two Furnaces to melt Iron and two Forges for making it into Bars as also all his dead Wood in the Woods of Rymberworth to make Charcoal for those Furnasses and Forges And left issue three Sons William Richard and Iohn Which Richard in 11 Hen. 2. answered for six Knights Fees upon paiment of his relief for Tickhill and left issue Iohn his Son who took to Wife ... one of the two Daughters and Heirs to Roesia Daughter of Ralph Fitz-Gilbert Widow of William de Bussei and confirmed to the Monks of Roche-Abby whatsoever his Father had formerly given them but dying without issue male left Idonea his Daughter Heir to his whole estate which Idonea became the Wife of Robert de Vipount a great Baron in the North who had levery of her Lands in 15 Ioh. Stutevill IN Anno 1800 13 Will. Conq. Robert de Stotevill called Grundeboef or rather Fronteboef by some of our Historians was witness to a certain Grant made to the Abby of St. Ebrulfs in Normandy But of him I have seen no more till 7 Hen. 1. that fighting stoutly on the behalf of Robert Curthose in the Battle of Tenerchbray against King Henry he was there taken and sent into England to perpetual Imprisonment Whereupon all his Lands were given to Nigell de Albini Progenitor to the noble Family of Moubray To this Robert
upon the first day of September well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to attend the King in his expedition for France And shortly after viz. in 23 E. 1. was summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm but not by the Title of Earl of Angus till 25 Edw. 1. At which time it is said our Lawyers of England were somewhat startled and refused in their Breves and Instruments to acknowledge him Earl by reason that Angus was not within the Kingdom of England until he had openly produced the King's Writ and Warrant in the face of the Court whereby he was summoned by that Title And in 27 E. 1. was constituted one of the King's Commissioners for manning and fortifying the Castles and strong Holds within the Realm of Scotland and to appoint Wardens of the Marches But he had an elder Son called Gilbert who died before him Which Gilbert in 24 E. 1. was questioned in the Parliament held at Barwick upon the Octaves of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin for striking of Hugh de Lowther an Officer to the King there and died in 31 E. 1. without Issue He had also another Son called Thomas who was a servant in Court to King Edward First to whom he gave certain Lands in Redesdale I come now to Robert Son and Successor to the before-specified Gilbert This Robert in the life-time of his Father scil 31 E. 1. was in the Wars of Scotland and the same year obtained a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn Lands at Faldingworth in Com. Linc. In 33 E. 1. he had License for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at Barewesfourd in Com. Northumb. As also for a Fair yearly upon the Feast-day of S. Martin in Winter with Free-warren in that Lordship and likewise in all his Lands at Ingon and Floteweyton in the same County And in 1 E. 2. upon the death of his Father as before is observed doing his Homage had Livery of all the Lands whereof he died seised Soon after which viz. before the end of that year he was joyned in Commission with William Lord Ros of Hamlake and Henry Lord Beaumont in the Lieutenancy of Scotland bearing the title of Earl of Angus his Father being then dead But this power continuing to him not much above one year he was afterwards constituted joynt Governour with the same Lords of that part of Scotland lying betwixt Barwick upon Twede and the River of Forthe as also of the Marches of Anandale Carrik and Galwey And in 4 E. 2. had summons to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to be at Rokesburgh upon the Feast day of S. Peter ad Vincula thence to march with the King against the Scots After this in 11 E. 2. he was appointed one of the Commissioners to Treat with Robert de Brus and his Complices for a Truce betwixt both Realms And had summons to Parliament from 2 E. 2. till 18 E. 2. This Robert marryed two Wives viz. Lucie the Daughter of Philip de Kyme and at length Heir to her Brother William by whom he had issue Gilbert his Son and Heir and Elizabeth a Daughter married to Gilbert de Burdon with which Lucie he had in marriage the Mannor of Faldyngworth in Com. Linc. The name of his second Wife was Alianore but whose Daughter I have not seen by whom he had issue Sir Robert de Vnfranvill and Thomas as also a Daughter called Annore Wife of Stephen Son and Heir to Sir Richard Waleys Which Gilbert his Son and Heir in 5 E. 3. favouring the title of Edward de Baillol as divers other noble Persons did attended him to King Edward when he made his claim to the Crown of Scotland But King Edward having given his Sister in marriage to David the Son of Robert de Brus did not at all incline to Baillol Whereupon Baillol entring Scotland near Dumfermelyn this Gilbert with many other of the English accompanied him and obtained a great Victory over Brus his party near Gleddismore In 9 E. 3. this Gilbert was again in the Wars of Scotland and in 11 E. 3. had an allowance of cclxxiv l. i s. viij d. for wages due to himself and his men in those Wars In 12 E. 3. upon the death of William de Kyme without issue doing his Homage he had Livery of the Mannors of Sâtby Stalyngburgh Hesyll and Paddokthorp in Com. Ebor. Kyme Asewardby Meâhringham Baumburgh Calseby Elkyngton and Ivyngham Likewise of one Messuage one Carucate of Land sixty Acres of Meadow as also of seven pounds yearly Rent in Somercotes Saltfieâby and Skydbroke in Com. Linc. which thereby descended to him as next Heir to the said William by Lucie his Sister All which were by a Fine levyed in 8 E. 3. so setled for want of issue of the said William de Kyme And the same year had an Assignation of liij l. iv s. in arrear to him and his men at Arms for their service in Scotland under the command of the Earl of Warwick then General of the King's Army in those Wars In 13 E. 3. upon the marriage of Robert his eldest Son with Margaret the Daughter of Henry Lord Percy he granted to them and to the Heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten the Mannor of Stalingburgh in Com. Linc. In 14 E. 3. he was joyned in Commission with Henry Lord Percy and Raph Lord Nevill to treat and conclude of a Truce with the Scots and in 16 E. 3. was again in the Wars of Scotland Furthermore in 17 E. 3. he was in Commission with the Bishop of Durham and others to see the Truce then made to be well observed in all parts where the King's Interest lay And being thus possessed of this great Inheritance in Lincolnshire by descent from his Mother as hath been observed obtained a grant from the King of two Fairs yearly at his Mannor of South Kyme in Com. Linc. one on the Eve and morrow after the Feast of S. George the other on the Eve day and morrow after the Feast of S. Peter ad vincula In 19 Edw. 3. he was in another Expedition then made into France and the same year again joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Carlisle and others to see the Truce with the Scots firmly kept in the Marches In 20 Edw. 3. he was one of the chief Commanders of the English Army in the Battel of Durham where the Scots had a great overthrow David de Brus their King being there taken Prisoner And in 25 Edw. 3. by his Petition exhibited to the King and his Council in Parliament setting forth that he and his Ancestors time out of mind used to have the custody of all Prisoners taken within his liberty of Redesdale to be kept in
his Prison of Herbotill Castle and that the said Castle of Herbotill was so much ruined by those Wars with the Scots that it could not sufficiently retain them desired that he might have leave to keep all such Prisoners in his Castle at Prudhou until he could repair that at Hervotill Whereupon the King receiving certain information that the decays and ruine at Hervotill were not through his neglect but through the causes before-mentioned did grant him leave to keep them at Prudhou-Castle for the space of ten years then next following In 26 Edw. 3. upon some apprehension of an Invasion by the French he was put in Commission with the Lords Percy and Nevill for the arming and arraying of all Knights Esquires and others in the County of Northumberland for the defence of those parts And the same year was joyned with those Lords in guarding the Marches of Scotland on the borders of Northumberland In 30 E. 3. he was Commissioned with the then Bishop of Durham and some others to Treat with the Prelates and Nobles of Scotland touching the redemption of David de Brus their King still Prisoner in England as also touching a final peace betwixt both Realms and in 36 E. 3. doing his Homage had Livery of the Mannor of Burwell in Com. Linc. by the death of Ioane the Widow of William de Kyme who till then held it in Dower In 41 Edw. 3. he was again constituted one of the Commissioners to survey the Marches of Scotland and to Treat with David de Brus and those of that Nation touching satisfaction for such injuries as had been done by the Subjects of either Realm to each other contrary to the Articles and Truce concluded on at Barwick 3 Oct. An. 1357. And in 43 Edw. 3. was again joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Durham and others for guarding of the East Marches About this time in right of Maud his Wife Sister of Anthony de Lucy and Cousin and Heir to Ioane Daughter and Heir to him the said Anthony deceased by whom he had issue he obtained Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited And in 44 Edw. 3. was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Carlisle and others for guarding of the Westâ Marches So likewise the next ensuing year again with the Bishop of Durham and others for the East-Marches Which Commission was renewed to them in 46 Edw. 3. as was that to the Bishop of Carlisâe and others for the West-Marches In 3 R. 2. he obtained a Charter to himself and Maud de Lucy his Wife and to the Heirs of her the said Maud for Free-warren in all her Demesn Lands of Allerdale in Com. Cumbr. And having given twenty pounds to the Monks of Newminster and twenty nine Messuages and forty two Ox-gangs of Land lying in Immyngham in Com. Linc. unto the Canons of Kyme in that County for their better support and performance of certain Works of Piety according to his special appointment as also been summoned to Parliament from 6 E. 3. till 4 R. 2. departed this life without issue surviving 7 Ian. 4 Ric. 2. being then seised of the Mannor of Newton-Kyme and Puddocthorpe in Com. Ebor. Thorstanton in Hankedon in Com. Suff. of the Castle and Mannor of Prudhou of the Mannor of Ovyngham of the Castle of Herbotill with the Mannors of Oterbourne Fletwayton and Faudon in Com. Northumb. Of the Castle and Honour of Cokermouth with the Mannors of Wygtone and Papcastre in Com. Cumbr. and of the Mannors of Skeldingthorp Solthaugh Kyme Alwardby Thorpe Croste Burwell Calceby Skyrbek Brausolace Kirketon Multon Flethergate Immingham Stalyngburgh Sotteby Faldingworth Skeldinghope and Gosthagh in Com. Linc. leaving Alianore the Wife of Henry Talboys Daughter of Elizabeth sometime Wife of Gilbert Burdon his Sister his Niece and next Heir at that time forty years of age Which Alianore doing her Homage the same year had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance Maud the Widow of this deceased Earl Gilbert surviving Which Maud afterwards became the Wife of Henry Lord Percy the first Earl of Northumberland of that name and in An. 1383. 7 Ric. 2. gave twenty Marks to the Canons of Drax in Com. Ebor. to solemnize the Obit of this Gilbert Earl of Angos her former Husband on the day of the Epiphany every year with Placebo and Dirige and on the morrow after with Mass of Requiem for his Soul This last Earl Gilbert had two Brothers of the half blood as I have already observed viz. Sir Robert de Vmfravill Knight and Thomas which Sir Robert died in his life-time without issue Whereupon the said Thomas as his next Heir male in 4 Ric. 2. doing his Homage had Livery of the Castle of Herbotill and Mannor of Otterburne which by the death of the said Gilbert without issue by vertue of especial entail descended to him This Thomas by Ioane the Daughter of Adam de Rodom had issue two Sons both Knights viz. Sir Thomas de Vmfravill and Sir Robert Which Sir Thomas de Vmfravill had issue Gilbert during whose minority King Ric. 2. granted unto Raph Earl of Westmorland the Governourship of the Castle of Herbotill Which Gilbert in 11 Hen. 4. though he had not then accomplished his full age obtained Livery of that Castle by the King's consent In 14 Hen. 4. this Gilbert called Earl of Kyme by some Historians went with the Earl of Arundell and others to assist the Duke of Burgundy against the Duke of Orleance And in 5 Henry 5. was at the Siege of Caen In 6 Hen. 5. having still the title of Earl of Kyme he was also at the Siege of Roan and the same year shortly after Easter was sent by the King to lay Siege to the Castle of Nully le Uesque but in 9 Hen. 5. accompanying Thomas Duke of Claâence in that rash adventure of passing a River and Marish in disorder out of too eager a desire to give Battel to the Duke of Orleance was there slain leaving his four Sisters his Heirs viz. Elizabeth then unmarried Ioane the Wife of Sir Thomas Lambert Knight Margaret the Wife of William Lodington and Agnes the Wife of Thomas Hagerston ¶ I now come to Sir Robert de Vmfravill the younger Son of Thomas by Ioane the Daughter of Adam de Rodom This Sir Robert de Vmfravill being a Knight of the Garter temp Hen. 4. with Sir Robert de Ogle Knight in 1 Hen. 5. were imployed as Commissioners to Treat and conclude with the Commissioners of Robert Duke of Albani then Regent of Scotland touching the Peace of both Realms In 11 Hen. 6. he was possessed of Redesdale and Kyme but departed this life 6 Cal. Ian. An. 1436. 15 Hen. 6. and was buried before the Altar
And if in Northamptonshire then in the Colledge at Fotheringhay if at Standon within the Chapel there and if in London then in the Gray-Friers where his Grand-father Grand-mother his Father the Lady Alice his Wife and other of his Kin and Friends do lie and to have a convenient Tomb by reason that the King had called him to the Order of the Garter Moreover he willed that if he should depart this life in London there should be a Stone laid over his Grave the Lady Dorothy and the Lady Alice his Wives being there buried which Dorothy was daughter of Henry Keble And that a Tomb of Alabastar or Marble should be made on the South-side of the Chapel within the Gray-Friers in London for Iohn Lord Montjoy his Father and likewise another for his Mother who lyeth interred with Sir Thomas Montgomery her late Husband at the new Abbey This William Lord Montjoy married to his first Wife Elizabeth daughter of Sir Will. Say Knight over whose Grave in the Parish-Church of Esenden in Com. Hertf. he ordained that a large Stone with an Inscription thereon should be laid and departed this life in An. 1535. 27 Hen. 8. To whom succeeded Charles Lord Montjoy his son and heir who in 31 Hen. 8. had special Livery of all his Father's Lands and in 36 Hen. 8. served in the Rear-ward of the King's Army then sent into France and by his Testament made at that time ordained a Stone to be laid over his Grave in case he should there be slain with this following Epitaph thereon for a Monument to his Children to continue and keep themselves worthy of so much Honour as to be called hereafter to dye for their Master and Country Willingly have I sought And willing have I found The fatal end that wrought Me hither as duty bound Discharg'd I am of that I ought To my Country by honest ownde My Soul departed Christ hath bought The end of Man is ground Farther directing that if he dyed out of the Wars that then his Body without any Curiosity or costly Ceremonies should be brought to the Church most of resort thereabouts and a Tomb there to be erected for him according to his degree Also that for the space of two years after his decease a godly and discreet man should be chosen out to edifie the Youth of the Parish of Westbury under the Plain in Com. Wilts with two Lectures whereof the first Lecture to be every day in the morning ordained for the Catechiâing of Children that thereby they might be perfectly instructâd to know what they profess in their Baptism in their Pater Noster how to Pray in their Ave Maria to know how our Lord ought to be Honoured and in the Ten Commandments And that he who should be Reader should not only read unto them but also appose them as they do in matters of Grammar The second Lecture to be within the same Parish at Afternoon four times in the week that is to say on Mândây Wednesday Friday and Sunday to them that come wherein chiefly to be declared the duty of Subjects to their King and Magistrates for maintenance of good order and obeysance not only for fear but for conscience with Scriptures divine and prophane policies consonant thereunto as also Increpation of vice with their Texts of Scripture and for performance thereof the Reader to have twenty Marks by the year This Charles Lord Montjoy died in An. 1545. 37 Hen. 8. as may seem from the probate of that Testament leaving Issue by ... his Wife Daughter of ... Willughby Lord Brooke-Iames Lord Montjoy his Son and Heir as also Francis and William two younger Sons Which Iames in 15 Eliz. sate in judgment with other of the Peers upon the Tryal of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk To whom succeeded William who departed this life in 36 Eliz. leaving Charles his Brother and Heir who being a person of a Military disposition in Anno 1588. 30 Eliz. with the Earls of Oxford Northumberland and others commanded in the Fleet at that time for forth to encounter that great Armado of the Spaniards then threatning an Invasion And in 36 Eliz. upon the death of Henry Earl of Sussex was made Governour of Portsmouth all this being in his Brother's life-time Moreover in Anno 1597. 40 Eliz. the Spaniard making new preparations against Ireland he was constituted Lieutenant to those Forces then commanded by the Earl of Essex for the defence of that Realm And in 41 Eliz. being designed Lieutenant of Ireland was opposed by some but the next ensuing year had that high Trust conferred upon him Whereupon coming thither in February he repulsed the Spaniard with great honour at Kynsale and Governing prosperously there was in a short time after viz. 25 Apr. 1 Iac. conâââtuted Lieutenant of Ireland and advanced to the title of Earl of Devonshire by Letters Patents bearing date 21 Iuly next ensuing and made Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter but departed this life about three years after viz. 3 Apr. An. 1606. 4 Iac. at the Savoy in the Strand without lawful Issue and was buried in Westminster Abbey in S. Paul's Chapel leaving all his Lands to Montjoy-Blount his natural Son who by the special favour of King Iames having been advanced to the title of Lord Montjoy of Montjoy-Fort in the North of Ireland and by King Charles the First in 3 of his Reign Lord Montjoy of Thurveston in Com. Derb. was the next ensuing year by Letters Patents bearing date the third of August created Earl of Newport in the Isle of Wight He took to Wife Anne Daughter to Iohn Lord Butler of Woodhall in Com. Hartf and departed this life leaving Issue two Sons George and Charles as also two Daughters Isabella and Anne Novant UPon the death of King William the Conqueror King William Rufus having expelled Iubell de Totneis out of this Realm gave his Inheritance to Roger de Novant To which Roger succeeded Hugh de Novant who having large Possessions in Normandy was miserably oppressed by Robert de Belesme Son to Roger de Montgomery Earl of Shrewsbury resisting his tyranny more than any other In 5 Hen. 1. this Hugh was Governour of the Castle at Roan in Normandy but about two years after upon the command of Duke Robert Curthose delivered it up to King Henry by whose help recovering his Lands which that cruel Robert de Belesme had by force taken from him he afterwards possessed them in peace all the days of his life To this Hugh succeeded another Roger who in 6 Steph. was with David King of Scotland Robert Earl of Gloucester and the rest of those who adhered to Maud the Empress at the Siege of Winchester Castle where they were all miserably routed
S. Mary Magdalen's day and three days following As also Free-warren within his Liberty of Cocâermouth Papcastre Broughton Bretteby Crossby Ulbedâle Aspatrik Caldebek and Lusewater in Com. Cumbr. Langley Heyden Four-stones Allerwasââ and Wardene in Com. Northumb. In 17 and 18 Edw. 2. being again made Governour of the Castle of Carlisle he had in consideration of his good services a Grant from the King of the Mannor of Meburne-Regis in Com. Westm. as also of the Mannor of Grendon in Com. Northumb. forfeited to the Crown by the Rebellion of Roger Lord Clifford and formerly bestowed on Andrew de Harâla but forfeited likewise by him to hold during his life Which Andrew notwithstanding that by the great favour of King Edward he had been advanced n to the Earldom of Carlisle yet afterwards taking part o most traiterously with the Scots he was surprised by this Anthony Lord Lucie and sent up to London where being degraded of his Honour he had sentence of death Moreover in 1 Edw. 3. this Anthony was again made Governour of the Castle and Town of Carlisle So likewise in 2 Edw. 3. Furthermore in 5 Edw. 3. there being divers Hostile Iâcursions made by the Scots upon the Marches to retaliate those injuries he entred Scotland and by fire and plunder did much mischief there About this time he was also constituted Justice of Ireland and in 8 Edw. 3. made Governour of the Town and Castle of Barwick upon Iwede as also Justice of all the King's Lands in Scotland having with him thirty men at Arms in that service where he continued till the twelfth of Edw. the Third and then was constituted Sheriff of Cumberland as also Governour of the Castle of Carlisle He was summoned to Parliament from 14 Edw. 2. until 17 Edw. 3. inclusive and in 17 Edw. 3. leaving Issue Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas having married Margaret the 3 Sister and one of the Coheirs to Iohn de Multon of Egremund in 8 Edw. 3. made Partition with them of the Lands of their Inheritance and in 11 Edward 3. had Livery of them accordingly By which Partition he had certain Lands in Distington in Com. Cumbr. parcel of the Mannor of Egremând as also the third part of the residue of the Mannor of Egremund the third part of all the Lands in Ullayk and Scalgill in Derewentâell with the third part of the Mannors of Beusolaz and Flete in Com. Linc. In 12 Edw. 3. this Thomas being in the King's service in Flanders had an Assignation of forty Sacks of Wooll for his better support therein and in 13 Edw. 3. a confirmation of an Annuity of fifty pounds per Annum granted to his Father in 9 Edw. 3. to be received out of the Exchequer until he should have Lands or Rents of Inheritance to that value In 17 Edw. 3. he was one of those by whose Martial conduct and special Valour the Siege of Lough-maban-Castle which the Scots had made was happily raised being the same year joyned in Commission with Henry Lord Percy and Maurice Lord Berkley to treat with William Douglas and to receive him to the King's obedience And upon that Truce then made with the French wherein the Scots were likewise included was constituted one of the Commissioners to see the same firmly observed throughout all the Marches of Scotland Thus far during his Father's life After which in 17 Edw. 3. having done his Homage and had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance in 19 Edw. 3. upon that Invasion of the Scots near Carliââe he joyned his strength with the Bishop of Carliââe and so allarm'd them in the night time by frequent entring into their Quarters that at length they fled into their own Country Whereupon a Truce shortly after ensuing he was joyned in Commission with that Bishop and others to see the same duly observed and likewise constituted Sheriff of Cumberland as also Governour of the Castle at Carlisle Moreover in 20 Edw. 3. he went into France with King Edward for raising the Siege of Agâyllon and upon his return hither joyned with the Bishop of Carlisle and others in the Wardenship of the West-marches Furthermore the next ensuing year the Scots being not quiet he was associated with the Lord Dacre to treat of Peace with them In all which services he behaved himself so well and especially in that signal Battel of Durham in which the King of Scots was taken prisoner that he obtained from the King a joynt Grant together with Raphe Lord Nevill who had likewise been an eminent Commander in that Battel of Durham to settle his Mannors of Caldebek Ulbedale and Alpatrik in Com. Cumbr. upon Reginald de Lucie his Son and Euphemiâ his Wife daughter of him the said Raphe and the Heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten for ever After which viz. in 25 Edw. 3. he was again in Commission with the Lord Percie and others to see the Peace kept betwixt the Scots and us in the Marches and the next ensuing year constituted one of the Commissioners for the arraying of men in the Counties of Cumberland and Westmerland for the defence of those parts the French then threaâning an Invasion In 27 Edw. 3. he was associated with the Bishop of Durham and Carlisle and some other persons of note to treat with certain Embassadors from Scotland about the enlargement of David de Bruys their King then prisoner in England So likewise with Raphe Lord Nevill and others for guarding the Marches towards Cumberland and Westmerland In 28 Edw. 3. he was again associated with the same Bishop of Durham and others to see all things performed according to the Articles concluded on for the delivery of the before â specified David de Bruys from his Imprisonment And in 30 E. 3. again constituted a Commissioner for the defence of the Marches as also Governour of the Casâle of Carliââe So likewise in 39 E. 3. for the custody of the Marches and the same year in contemplation of his former merits retained to serve the King during his whole life He was summoned to Parliament from 15 until 38 Edw. 3. inclusive But before the Revolution of that 39 th year viz. on the Eve of S. Nicholas the Bishop he dyed leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife before-mentioned Anthony his Son and Heir then 24 years of age being at that time seised in his Demesn as of Fee of the Mannor of Rodeston in Com. North ton as also of the Castle of Langley in Com. Northumb. Likewise of the Castle and Honour of Câkermouth the Mannor of Eglesfield the Hamlets of âhornethwayt Ullaike and Emelton the Mannor of Papcastre the Hamlet of
he do it being now under Age it would be of no validitie Perhaps there had been some former Entail to settle them upon the Heir-male of the Family But whatever it was Hastings apprehended the Injury thereby done to him to be so great that with extreme anguish of mind at his latter end he left God's Curse and his own upon his Descendents if they did not attempt the Vindication thereof This Edward assum'd the Title of Lord Hastings and Stotevile as by a Deed under his Seal of Arms bearing date 4 Nov. 8 H. 4. appeareth but by what Right I discern not for there is no Testimony that ever he was so created or had any Summons to Parliament Hastings A Younger Son of this Ancient and Noble Family was Hugh de Hastings who married Helen the Daughter and Heir of Alan de Alvestan Son of Theophine de Alvestan of Alvestan vulg Allerstan in Pickering-lithe in Com. Ebor. This Hugh for the health of his Soul and the Soul of Helene his Wife confirm'd to the Hospital of St. Peter at York all those Lands which Theophine de Alvastan and Alan his Son had given thereto and died in 9 Ioh. leaving Issue Thomas his Son and Heir Which Thomas ratified to the Canons of Egleston in the Bishoprick of Durham the Patronage of the Church of Stratford bestow'd on them by Helene his Mother As also to the Monks of Whiâby all those Grants which had been made unto them by Theophine de Alvestan and Alan de Alvastan his Grandfather Son to the same Theophine And left Issue Nicholas his Son and Heir who being a Knight in 5 E. 2. was by Indenture retain'd with Sir Raufe the Son of William Lord Greistoke to serve him during his Life as well in the times of Peace as War viz. in the time of War with two Yeomen well mounted and arrayed and in time of Peace with two Yeomen and four Grooms In consideration of which Service he was to have all Accoutrements for his own Body as also two Robes yearly and one Saddle according to the Dignity of a Knight and in case he should lose any Great Horse in the War to have Recompence therefore according to the Estimation of two Men. Moreover That at what place soever he the said Raphe should reside in the County of York this Nicholas should repair to him upon notice with allowance of his reasonable Charges and Wages for his Servants both in War and Peace Which Indenture bears date at Hilderskelf upon Saturday next ensuing the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady in the year before-specified But all that I have farther to observe of this Sir Nicholas is That he obtain'd a Grant from the same Raphe Lord Greistoke of the Mannor of Thorpe Basset paying viii l. per Annum Rent and That having married Emeline the Daughter of Walter de Heron he left Issue Raphe de Hastings his Son and Heir Which Raphe in 3 E. 3. obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-Lands at Allerstan in Com. Ebor. and Wâstow in Com. Leic. as also at Gissing in Com. Norff. And in 11 E. 3. was constituted Sheriff of York-shire and Governour of the Castle at York So likewise in 14 E. 3. And in 18 E. 3. had Licence to make a Castle of his House at Slingesby in Com. Ebor. and to Impark his Woods of Slingesbyfrith Colton and Surkilwode with his other Lands there But being in the second Bataglia of that Northern Army which vanquished the Scots near Durham in 20 E. 3. was there mortally wounded and died of his Hurts Whereupon he had Burial in the Abby of Sulby in Com. Northampt. as by his Testament he had directed By which he disposed of that Prisoner he took in War unto his Nephew Edmund Hastings of Rouceby and Iohn de Kirkeby to be shared betwixt them Leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife Daughter to William de Herle one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas Sister and Heir to Robert her Brother Raphe his Son and Heir Which Raphe being afterwards a Knight was retained by Henry Duke of Lancaster to serve him as well in Peace as War for the Wages of Forty Marks per Annum to be paid at the Feast of S. Michael th' Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by equal Portions out of the Revenues of his Mannor of Pickering in Com. Ebor. by his Bayliffs there Which Annuity after the death of that Duke was confirm'd to them by Iohn of Gant Earl of Lancaster Richmond Derby and Lincoln who had married one of the Daughters and Heirs of that Duke at his Castle of Hertford ult Mariii 36 E. 3. After which viz. 14 Iulii next ensuing this Sir Raphe Hastings did by Indenture retain Iohn de Kirkby of Wigginthorp a Gentleman of an ancient Family to be his Servant for term of Life and not to be displaced without good cause whereof Sir Brian Stapelton Knight Richard de Aske and some other Persons of Quality in that Country whose Names are therein mentioned were to be Judges And in 45 E. 3. was joyn'd in Commission with Thomas Lord Bishop of Durham Gilbert de Vmfraville Earl of Anegos and some others for defending the Marches of Northumberland toward Scotland Also in 49 E. 3. with Thomas Earl of Warwick and others to rectifie all Abuses contrary to the Truce made betwixt King Edward and those of that Nation Moreover in 1 R. 2. he was constituted Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governour of the Castle at York So likewise in 4 R. 2. He married two Wives first Isabell the Daughter and Coheir of Sir Robert de Sadington Knight and afterwards Maud Daughter and Coheir to Thomas de Sutton of Sutton in Holderness And having by his Testament bearing date in Anno 1397. 21 R. 2. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the before-specified Abby of Sulby departed this Life leaving Issue three Sons viz. Raphe Richard and Leonard Which Raphe being by Judgement in Parliament 28 Iulii 11 H. 4. attainted of Treason and beheaded having taken part with Owen Glendour as 't is like Richard his Brother obtain'd a Restoration to his Lands and in 4 H. 6. being a Knight was made Sheriff of Yorkshire So likewise in 12 H. 6. He was also Sheriff of the Counties of Warwick and Leicester in 2 H. 5. 1 5 11 H. 6. and died on Monday next after the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in 15 H. 6. without Issue leaving Leonard Hastings of Kirby in Com. Leic. his Brother and Heir This Leonard being a Servant in great esteem with Richard Duke of Yorke in 20 H. 6. obtain'd from him a Grant of the Office of Chief-Ranger of his Forest of Uere in Com. Salop. bearing date at Roan
of the Hospital of St. Leonard situate near the Abby of Leicester by reason that this Lord Hastings had obtain'd that Hospital from the King and given it unto that College for ever And lastly That according to the appointment of his Testament he was buried in the North-Isle of the Royal Chappel of St. George within the Castle of Windsore near to the Tomb of King Edward the Fourth where his Monument is still to be seen I come now to Edward his Son and Heir In 15 E. 4. this Edward was made a Knight of the Bathe with Edward then Prince of Wales And when King Henry the Seventh obtain'd the Crown had such respect from him considering the Sufferings of his Noble Father that he forthwith restored unto him all his Lands as by his Letters Patents bearing date 22 Nov. 1 H. 7. appeareth as also all the Lands of Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight his Wifes Father reversing his Attainder which was at Salisbury on Munday next after the Feast of St. Hillary 8 E. 4. This Edward Lord Hastings therefore to manifest his Gratitude for so high a Favour upon that Insurrection of Iohn Earl of Lincoln in 2 H. 7. fought stoutly against him and his Fellow-Rebels in the Battel of Stoke near Newarke upon Trent and worthily shared in the Honour of that Victory there obtained Shortly after which he was sent into Flanders by King Henry in Aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French In 3 H. 7. being then of full Age he had Livery of all the Lands whereof William his Father died seised bearing then the Title of Lord Hastings and Hungerford In 7 H. 7. he was by Indenture retain'd to serve the King in his Wars beyond the Seas for one whole year with five Men at Arms each of them having his Custrel and Page fifteen Demilances sixteen Archers on Horseback forty Arches on Foot and two hundred Bills In 11 H. 7. I find him stiled Edward Lord Hastings Hungerford Botreaux Molins Moels and de Homet His first Summons to Parliament was in 22 E. 4. the Writ being thus directed viz. Edwardo Hastings de Hungerford Chivalier So likewise in the time of King Richard the Third and King Henry the Seventh By his Testament bearing date 4 Nov. 22 H. 7. he bequeath his Body to be buried in the College of Windosore near to his Father's Tomb appointing That an honest Priest should be provided to pray for his Soul and for the Souls of his Father and Mother in the Chappel or Church where his Body should be Interred by the space of seven years next after his Decease and that his Feoffees should make sale of his Mannors of Welford in Com. Northampt. Lubbesthorpe Wistow and Braunston in Com. Leic. Bewyk Alacborough and Slingsy in Com. Ebor. to pay his Debts and to perform his Will And departing this Life upon the eighth day of the same Month of November was buried in the Church of the Friers-Preachers commonly called the Black-Friers in the City of London leaving Issue by Mary his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Son of Robert Son of Walter Lord Hungerford George his Son and Heir and Anne a Daughter married to Thomas Earl of Derby Which Mary surviving him afterwards became the Wife of Sir Richard Sacheverell Knight This George the next ensuing year viz. 23 H. 7. had a special Livery of all the Lands of his Inheritance and in 5 H. 8. was in that Expedition made by King Henry into France at which time Therouene and Tâurnay were won In 19 H. 8. by the Favour of that King he obtain'd a Grant to himself and the Heirs male of his Body of the Mannor of Evington in Com. Leic. which came to the Crown by the Forfeiture of Sir William Stanley Knight And upon the eighth of December in 21 H. 8. at York Place now White-Hall was advanced to the Title of Earl of Huntington Moreover in 22 H. 8. he was one of the Peers who subscribed that Letter to Pope Clement the Seventh intimating to him That in case he did not comply with King Henry in that Business of the Divorce betwixt him and Katherine of Spain then his Queen he must expect that they would shake off his Supremacy And in 28 H. 8. upon that Insurrection in the North call'd the Pilgrimage of Grace occasion'd by the Dissolution of the Monasteries he offered his Service to the King against those Rebels By his Testament bearing date 13 Iunii 26 H. 8. which was many years before his death wherein he stiles himself Earl of Huntington Lord Hastings Hungerford Botreaux and Molines he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish Church of St. Elyne in Ashby de la Zouche in Com. Leic. and gave to that Church his best Pair of Altar-Clothes of Crimson-Velvet which were Embroydered with the Blessed Name of IESVS as also the Copes and whole Sute of Vestments belonging thereto Likewise one Pair of Candlesticks of Silver gilt a Pair of Basins Silver gilt a Pair of Censers of Silver a Cross of Silver and gilt with a Flower-de-Luce on the top and a Flower-de-Luce on either side Also one flat Ship of Silver and gilt and his best Chalice of Silver gilt Likewise his Water-stock of Silver gilt with the Sprinkle belonging thereto His best Pax of Silver and gilt with a Crucifix whereon were Mary and Iohn a Pair of Cruets of Silver gilt and a Sepulchre-Cloth of Crimson-Velvet Embroyder'd with Drops of Gold Likewise another Sute of Vestments of White Tinsell with two Copes of the same as also a Sute of Vestments of Crimson-Velvet which had the Cross thereof Embroyder'd with Acorns To the Abbot and Covent of Repyndon in Com. Derb. he bequeath'd the Vestment with the Tunicles and Stuff thereto belonging of Black Tinsell And to the Chappel of St. Bartholomew at Kirby in Com. Leic. he gave another Vestment To every Gentlewoman unmarried that had done Service in the Houshold to his Wife within the space of six years before his Decease he bequeath'd six Pounds Sterling and ordain'd That his Executors should cause a thousand Masses to be said or sung in as short a time as might be after his Decease by Secular Priests and others in Com. Leic. and other Places adjoyning To Francis his eldest Son he bequeathed all his Furrs of Sables And appointed That all the outsides of his Gowns and Apparel fit for that purpose should be made in Vestments and deliver'd to poor Churches within his Lordships To his Daughter Dorothy he bequeath'd a thousand Pounds to her Marriage To his Daughter Catherine the like Sum. And ordained That his Executors out of the Revenues of his Lands in Wodcote and Burton Hastings in Com. Warr. should provide two Priests to sing in the Parish-Church of Ashby for the space of xx years
He was also Custos Rotulorum for the same County of Leicester and Steward of the Dutchy of Lancaster Moreover he was one of the Peers upon the Trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset 15 Maii 1616. 14 Iac. for poysoning Sir Thomas Overbury He married Elizabeth third Daughter and Coheir to Ferdinandâ Earl of Derby and departing this Life at Ashby de la Zouch 14 Nov. Anno 1643. 19 Car. 1. lieth buried there with his Ancestors leaving Issue two Sons Ferdinands and Henry and two Daughters viz. Alice married to Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton in Com. Nott. Baronet and Elizabeth to Sir Hugh Calveley of Lea in Com. Cestr. Knight Which Henry the younger Son to Earl Henry being a Person of great Valour and Military Conduct as also the first that appeared in Arms on the behalf of King Charles the First of Blessed Memory in the time of the late Rebellion having conducted the Queen with safety out of the North where she Landed unto Oxford notwithstanding the Power of the Enemy at that time in sundry Places and planted divers Garrisons with his own Forces especially at Ashby de la Zouch the Noble Seat of his Ancestors since much demolished by those unhappy Troubles was by Letters Patents bearing date 23 Oct. 19 Car. 1. worthily advanced to the dignity of a Baron by the Title of Lord Loughborough And departing this Life at London ... was buried in the Collegiate Chappel-Royal of St. George within the Castle at Windsore in the Isle on the North-side the Quire not far from the Tomb of William Lord Hastings his Ancestor But I return to Ferdinand his elder Brother and Successor to the last Earl Henry his Father in his Honours This Ferdinand was born ãâã Ashby de la Zouch 18 Ian. Anno 1608. In 14 Car. 1. he was joyn'd in the Lieutenancy of the Counties of Leic. and Rutl. with his Father and 13 Nov. 16 Car. 1. summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm during the Life of his Father by the Title of Lord Hastings Having married Lucie Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Iohn Davies of Englefeild in Com. Berks Knight Primier Serjeant at Law to King Iames and King Charles the First as also Sollicitor and afterwards Attorney-General in Ireland by the Lady Elianore his Wife youngest Daughter to George Lord Audley Earl of Castle-Haven had Issue by her four Sons viz. Henry Ihon Ferdinand who all died unmarried and Theophilus Likewise six Daughters viz. Alice and Alianore who died young Elizabeth married to Sir Iames Langham of Coresbrâke in Com. Northampt. Knight and Baronet Lucie died unmarried Mary and Christian now living He died 13 Febr. Anno 1655. and was buried with his Ancestors at Ashby de la Zouch leaving the said Theophilus his Successor in his Honours Who being born at âenington-Park in Com. Leic. 10 Dec. Anno 1650. marriâd Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir to Sir Iohn Lewes of Lâdsâon in Com. Ebor. Knight 19 Febr. Anno 1671. Hastings Lord Welles ¶ OF this Family also was Richard Hastings ... who in 10 E. 4. by the Name of Richard Hastings Esq with Ioane his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Richard Welles Knight Lord Welles and Willughby Sister and Heir to Sir Robert Welles Knight Son of the said Sir Richard Welles had a special Livery of the âastles Lordships Lands c. of the same Robert Lord Willughby and Ioane the Daughter of the same Robert Lord Willughby which by the death of the said Richard and Robert Lord Welles descended to her And in 15 E. 4. by the Name of Sir Richard Hastings of Welles Knight was made Surveyor of the Constable's Office of Notingham-Castle and Wardenship of all the Forests and Chases within the Counties of Notingham Derb. Leic. and Staff William Lord Hastings then Constable of that Castle and Warden of those Forests and Chases going at that time into France Moreover in 22 E. 4. and 1 R. 3. he was summon'd to Parliament by the Title of Lord Welles and by his Testament bearing date 18 Martii 18 H. 7. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Gray-Friers in London and died without any Issue then alive Ioane his Wife surviving by her Testament bearing date ... 20 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Church of the Gray-Fryers within Newgate London in the Vault made for her Husband and her self By which Testament she gave to the four Orders of Fryers four Pounds to pray for her Soul as also to sing Placebo and Dirige and Mass of Requiem with a Trentall of Masses for her Soul and the Soul of her Lord and Husband and the Soul of Richard Pigot her other Husband Fitz-Swaine IN the time of King Henry the First Swein the Son of Aluric gave to the Monks of Pontfract in Com. Ebor. the Church of Silkeston and six Ox-gangs of Land He likewise gave to the Canons of Nostell one Caâucate of Land in Crofton with the whole Mannor of Winterset Also the Churches of Felkeric and Adewic and moitie of the Church of Machesburg To him succeeded Adam his Son and Heir commonly called Adam Fitz-Swain who ratified his Father's Grants In 3 H. 2. this Adam gave C Marks of Silver for Livery of his Lands in Cumberland To the Abby of St. Maries at Yorke he gave the Hermitage of St. Andrew and to the Knights-Templars eight Ox-gangs of Land in Kelintone Moreover he founded the Priory of Monk-Bretton in Com. Ebor. and amply Endow'd it Leaving Issue two Daughters his Heirs viz. Maud the Wife of ... Montbegon and Annabil Espec IN the time of King Henry the First Walter Espec a Person of great Note as is evident by that memorable Character which Ailred then Abbot of Riebaulx gives of him viz. Quick-witted prudent in Counsel serious in Peace discrect in War a trusty Friend a loyal Subject of Stature more than ordinary large yet comely his Hair black his Beard long Forehead high great Eyes big Face but beautiful hrill Voyce in Speech elegant and of Nâble Extraction wanting Issue âf his Body gave the greatest part of his Estate to Pious Uses Founding and Endowing no less than three goodly Abbies the first of Canons Regular of St. Augustine's Order at Kirkham in Yorkshire the second at Riebaulx in the same County and the third at Wardon in Bedfordshire both of Cistertian Monks This Walter was Lord of Helmestey heretofore called Hamlake in Yorkshire but it should seem that Kirkham was one of his chief Mansions for there saith my Author Palacia sua thalamos suos cellaria sua in servorum Christi habitacula commutavit He converted that his pleasant Seat to a Religious House Of these his Devout Works I thought sit first to
should have it again within fifteen days and further signified to him That whatsoever was amiss in the Realm should forthwith be rectified assigning a certain day before which all should be so done viz the Sunday after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel Trusting therefore to the King's performance of that Promise he delivered the Castle into his Hands Howbeit when those fifteen days were past and nothing therein done he grew so enraged that he laid Siege to it again and got it with little ado Whereof the King having Advertisement he forthwith caused his Bishops to excommunicate those who were in that Castle and sent his Precepts to all Parts of the Realm commanding every Man who held Lands of him by Military Service to repair to Gloucester on the Morrow ensuing the Feast of All Saints well accoutred with Horse and Arms to go against it as also to waste the Lands of this Earl both in Wales and all the Parts adjacent But he foreseeing this Storm like an expert Souldier caused all the Cattel and Provision of Victual to be taken thence Which being discern'd by the King he diverted his intended course and march'd to the Castle of Grosmunt Whereof the Earl having notice by his Scouts he presently sent out a strong Party of Horse in the Night which surprising all who lay abroad in Tents brought away above five hundred Horses with divers Waggons wherein the King's Money and Provision of Victual was carried and returned back with safety After which Success he came to Monmouth and took a special View of the Castle there on all parts purposing to gain it by Assault But Sir Baldwyn de Gysnes a Flemish Knight being Governour thereof expecting to gain some Honour issued out with a Party of Horse and assayed to take him Whereupon hapned a sharp Skirmish in which Sir Baldwin with twelve of his stoutest Men bent themselves fiercely towards the Earl but he so valiantly defended himself that none of them could touch him though they kill'd his Horse In this Exigent therefore he unhorst one of those his Assailants and leapt into his Saddle Which Sir Baldwin discerning he furiously made at him again and pull'd off his Helmet and then taking his Horse by the Bridle led him towards the Castle In this desperate condition laying about him courageously with his Sword and killing two of the Soldiers who guarded him one of his own Men discerning his Danger let fly at Sir Baldwin with an Arrow from a Cross-bow which pierc'd his Body through his Armour so that Sir Baldwin falling to the Ground the rest running to take him up he was there rescued by some of his own Men who came in at that instant After this lodging at the Abby of Margan a Frier-Minor of great Credit with the King came to him with intimation That if he would submit himself to Mercy he should have a large proportion of Herefordshire for to support him honourably Others also represented to him the like But after much Discourse and many Arguments on either side instancing the many Grievances for which he took up Arms he concluded That without the joynt Consent of those who stood engaged with him in that Quarrel he could make no Accord Continuing therefore thus in Hostility Iohn de Monemuth a great Baron in those Parts raised all the Power he could against him Whereof having notice he lodg'd himself with ceriain Forces in a Wood through which the Enemy was to pass so that when they came making a great Rout amongst them he slew and took many Iohn himself escaping with much difficulty And thereupon joyning with Leoline Prince of Wales march'd as far as Shrewsbury making great Devastation by Fire and Sword and entring that Town burnt a great part of it The Bishop of Winchester therefore who then bore the chief Sway at Court apprehending that many of the Poictovins had been slain in Wales and the difficulty of suppressing this Earl by force fram'd a Letter to Maurice Fitz-Gerald at that time Justice of Ireland Walter de Lacy and other Great Men there who were his seeming Friends whereby representing to them That this Earl Richard was for manifest Treason banished the Realm of England his Houses and Lands wasted and he for ever disherited as also that being in this condition he still stood out most rebelliously against the King promising That if they would take him living or dead in case he should come over into Ireland the King would bestow all his Land in that Realm to be shared amongst them Which fair Assurance so encouraged those Irish Lords that they soon resolv'd to effect his desires Whereupon the Bishop of Winchester getting into his Hands the King 's Great Seal from the Bishop of Chichester then Chancellor framed a Patent importing as much and sent it to them Which was no sooner received but that to intice the Earl over thither they entred upon his Lands and Castles in that Realm with a Military Power Of which having intelligence he forthwith hasted thither with no more than fifteen Men in his Train Where being landed Richard de Marisco a Person of much Gravity and his Leige-man repaired to him but under-hand confederated with Fitz-Gerald and the rest of those to whom such large Promises had been made and treacherously advised him to raise all the Power he could and to subjugate that whole Realm to his Obedience engaging himself to be his Assistant therein At which the Earl somewhat pausing he said What do you fear Will you degenerate from your valiant Ancestors who never turn'd thier Backs to an Enemy Who then will believe that you are the Son of the Victorious William Mareschall See Conquest attends at your door Behold your Ancient Rights by Lineal Descent which your most Puissant Ancestors who tosk the Name of Strongbow most valiantly acquired Being therefore animated with these Expressions he rais'd what Power he could throughout all his Territories and having so done laid Siege to Lymeric which at the end of four days was yielded to him Moreover proceeding on he took divers Castles as well the King 's as other none daring to make head against him Those Great Men therefore perceiving they could not encounter him with any Strength they had fled to more remote Parts where finding some considerable Forces of Horse and Foot viz. Clx Horse and MM Foot well Armed they bestow'd large Gifts upon them with promise of greater Rewards if they could destroy this Earl And having thus done sent certain Knights-Templars to him to let him know That they could not suffer him thus to go on without being branded with the ignominy of Traytors to the King and therefore desir'd a Truce with him
his Son and Heir xxx years of age and a younger Son called Robert who had the Mannor of Cherleton Grey in Com. Somerset as also divers other Lordships and Lands lying in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset by vertue of an Entail formerly made by Fine whereby for want of Issue-male of Robert Fitz-Payn they were setled on this Robert Grey and Elizabeth then his Wife and the Issue-male of their two Bodies lawfully begotten Which Iohn in 7 E. 3. his Father then living was in Scotland in the King's Service where he behaved himself so bravely that in 9 E. 3. the King acknowledging his great Travel and Expences in those his Scottish Wars did in part of Recompence acquit him of all such Debts as he then owed unto the Exchequer and the same year gave hiâh Livery of his Lands upon performance of his Homage saving to Ioane his Mother her reasonable Dowrie Before the end of that year he went again to the Wars of Scotland being of the Retinue of Hugh de Andley So likewise in 11 E. 3. in that Expedition then made thither In 12 E. 3. he was in Flanders in the King's Service And in 13 E. 3. there being a general Command to all others to give Aid to the King in the defence of the Sea-coasts he was specially exempted from that Charge and likewise from any Imposition on his Lands by reason he was then beyond-Sea in the King's Service In 14 E. 3. he was again in Flanders and in 15 E. 3. in the Scottish-Wars So also in 19 E. 3. And in 20 E. 3. attending the King in that Expedition then made into France continued there the next ensuing year being of the Retinue with Henry Earl of Lancaster This Iohn being so active a Person had such great esteem with the King that about this time he receiv'd at his Hands a Hood of White Cloth embroidered with Blue Men dancing button'd before with great Pearls And being to perform divers Military Exercises in a Tournââent at Canterbury had certain Accoutrements of Indian-Silk whereon the Arms of Sir Stephen Cosyngton Knight were painted bestow'd on him by the King In 22 E. 3. he went again into France being still of the Retinue with Henry Earl of Lancaster and in 26 E. 3. was joyn'd in Commission with the Lord D'eincourt to array all the Knights Esquires and other able Persons residing in the Counties of Notingham and Derby and to conduct them to such Places as should be needful for the defence of the Realm there being an Invasion at that time threatned by the French In 29 E. 3. he was again in the Wars of France and likewise of the Retinue with Henry Duke of Lancaster So also in 33 E. 3. And the same year was constituted Governour of the Town and Castle of âochester for Life But after all these his Military Employments he obtain'd Licence in 39 E. 3. to go on Pilgrimage and in 45 E. 3. being grown very aged and not able to endure Travel as formerly had a special Dispensation from the King wherein his great and manifold Services with much fidelity and valour are gratefully acknowledg'd to exempt him from coming to Parliament and Councils and likewise from being charg'd with setting forth any Soldiers whatsoever in the Wars of that King his Heirs or Successors When he diect I have not seen but certain it is that he had two Sons Henry and Iohn who being both of them in that Expedition made into France in 43 E. 3. were of the Retinue with Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Likewise Alice a Daughter Wife of William Son of Sir Adam de Everingham of Laxton in Com. Nott. Which Henry died in his Father's Life-time and left Issue Richard who took to Wife Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Raphe Lord Basset of Sapcote she being then within age Which Richard in 16 R. 2. doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands and the next ensuing year went into France upon that King's Service in his Wars there So also in 21 R. 2. And in 2 H. 4. was first made Admiral of the King's Fleet from the Mouth of Thames to the Northwards and afterwards constituted joyntly Governour of the Castle of âoâesburgh in Scotland with Sir Stephen le Scrope for the term of three years covenanting to maintain the Garrison therein for Four hundred Marks per annum And went accordingly In 3 H. 4. he was again sent into France upon the King's Service And in 5 H. 4. constituted Justice of South-Wales In 8 H. 4. he was made Constable of the Castle of Notingham as also Chief-Ranger of the Forest of Shirewood for term of Life And in 14 H. 4. was constituted Governour of the Castle of Frounsak in the Dutchy of Aquirane as also of the whole Country of Frounsaââys The same year being Lord Chamberlain to the King he was joyn'd in Commission with Thomas Bishop of Durbam and others to treat with the Embassadors of Iohn Duke of Burgundy for a Marriage betwixt Henry Prince of Wales eldest Son to the King and the Lady Anne Daughter of that Duke touching the Lands both of the Prince and Duke and of the Earl of Charolois his Son In 2 H. 5. he was again in Commission with the same Bishop of Durham and some others to treat with the Embassadors of the King of France about a Marriage betwixt King Henry himself and Ratherine Daughter to the King of France In the same year also he was constituted one of the King's Commissioners to treat with such other as the King of Scots should appoint upon a Truce betwixt King Henry and him both by Sea and Land And the next year following was made Warden of the East-Marches toward Scotland being then also commanded with Iohn Lord Nevill to receive Henry the Son of Sir Henry Percy Knight at the Hands of the Duke of Albany then Governour of the Realm of Scotland and cause him to be safe-conducted to the King In 5 H. 5. he was made Governour of the Castle of Argentoin in the Dutchy of Normandy and went thither accordingly But the next year following upon the first day of August he departed this Life and was buried at Aylesford in Kent being then seised in his Demesn as of Fee of the Castle and Mannor of Codenoure in Com. Derb. of the moytie of the Castle and Mannor of Castle Bytham and the moytie of the Mannors of East Bytham Counthorpe and Wytham with the Mannors of Cheley and Metheringham in Com. Linc. And in the Right of Elizabeth his Wife then surviving of the moytie of the Mannors of Stanton and Sapcote in Com. Leic. of the Mannor of
Scutage of Wales as Heir to Ralph de Wigornia answered two marks for one Fee About that time also there was another Baron of this name viz. William Herun who held the Lordships of Hadstone Chirton Little-Benton Colewell Swineburne and Flatford in the same County by the service of one Knights Fee of antient Feoffment In 32 Hen. 3. this William was made Governor of Bamburgh Castle in the County of Northumberland so likewise in 39 Hen. 3. As also of the Castle of Pikering in Com. Ebor. and constituted Warden of all the Forests North of Trent In 40 Hen. 3. he was made Sheriff of Northumberland and Governor of Scarborough Castle In 41 Hen. 3. he again executed the Office of Sheriff of Northumberland by William his Son as his substitute And departed this life the next year following leaving issue by ... his Wife p Daughter and Heir to Odonel de Forth William his Son and Heir who paying an hundred marks to the King though then in minority had Livery of his Lands Of which William all I have farther seen is That he died at Newcastle upon Tine in 25 Edw. 1. and that by Christian his Wife Daughter and Heir to Roger de Notton he had issue Walter Which Walter departing this life before his Father left Emeline his Daughter and Heir who became the Wife of Iohn Lord d'Arcy Steward of the Houshold to King Edward the Third ¶ A younger Son of this Family out of doubt was Roger Hairun Governor of the Castle at Bamburgh in 10 Edw. 2. and of the Castle at Dunstanburgh in 16 Edw. 2. To whom succeeded William which William in 12 Edw. 3. obtained License to make a Castle of his House at Ford in Com. Northumbr And in 14 Edw. 3. obtained a Charter for Free Warren in all his Lordships of Ford Croutun Kinmerston Hethpole Hespley Fenrother Bokenfield and Heron in Com. Northumbr As also for a weekly Market and a Fair once every year at his said Mannor of Ford with divers other Liberties and Priviledges To this William succeeded another William who in 43 Edw. 3. was joyned in Commission with Gilbert de Vmfranvill Earl of Augus and others for guarding of the East Marches toward Scotland And in 44 Edw. 3. summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm To whom succeeded another William who was summoned to Parliament in 17 Rich. 2. and till 5 Hen. 4. inclusive This last mentioned William married Elizabeth Cosin and Heir to Ioane Sister and Heir to Thomas de Brewose one of the Daughters and Coheirs of William Lord Say by reason whereof having the title of Lord Say in 1 Hen. 4. he was joyned in Commission with Walter Bishop of Durham and others to treat with the Ambassadors of the King of France concerning restitution of the Goods and Jewels of Queen Isabell late Wife to King Richard the Second The same year he was also constituted one of the Ambassadors sent to Treat with the King of France touching the Truce agreed on betwixt King Richard and him And in 2 Hen. 4. once more joyned Ambassador with the same Bishop of Durham and others to Treat farther concerning that Truce Moreover in 4 Hen. 4. being then Steward of the Kings Houshold he was appointed by himself or his Deputies to Survey all the Lordships and Mannors of Henry Earl of Northumberland lying in the Counties of Northumberland York Cumberland and Westmorland the Town of Newcastle upon Tine and Liberty of the Bishop of Durham and to pay the Rents and Profits of them into the Kings Exchequer In 5 Hen. 4. he was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Bathe and Wells and some others to make demand of such Moneys of the Ransome of Iohn King of France as were then unpaid and to yield allowance for any debts upon payment of the same And by his Testament bearing date 30 Oct. An. 1404. 6 Hen. 4. bequeathing his Body to be buried in the Church of that Parish wheresoever he should depart this life appointed that Sir Robert Pebelow Parson of Westburne Sir Piers Vicar of Bourne Feoffees of the Brewose his Lands which fell to Elizabeth Lady Say his Wife by Inheritance should deliver all those Lands unto her next Heir on the Brewose his side charging them as they would answer at the day of Doom to compleat an Hospital which was begun at the Church of Buckstead of six or four poor men at least and a Chantry Priest to govern them the Priest to have for his support ten marks and every poor man five marks per annum He likewise desired his Executors that in regard he had been a Soldier and taken wages of King Richard and the Realm as well by Land as by Water and peradventure received more then his desert that they would pay sicore marks to the most needful men unto whom King Richard was Debtor in discharge of his Soul Also that having been a Soldier with the Earl of Arundel and peradventure received more then he was worthy of he further desired his Executors to pay ten pounds to the Executors of that Earl or to the poorest men to whom they knew any debt to be owing by the same Earl And having been likewise a Soldier with the Earl of Northumberland and received more then he deserved he appointed his said Executors to pay to the said Earl twenty pounds And departed this life soon after for the probate of his Testament bears date the twelfth of December following Cantilupe THe first of this Family whose name in our Publick Records hath occurred to my view is William de Cantilupe Which William in 1 Ioh. was by the Kings special Writ discharged from his Scutage then due and executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Warwick and Leicester in 3 4 5 6 Ioh. Likewise from 11 Ioh. to the end of that Kings Reign And so from 3 Ioh. till 18 Ioh. for Worcestershire In 6 Ioh. he was made Governor of the Castles of Hereford and Wilton in Herefordshire and Pulrebach in Shropshire And in 7 Ioh. Sheriff of Herefordshire In 11 Ioh being then the Kings Steward he gave forty marks for the Wardship of the Body and Lands of Egidia Lady of Kilpeck Widow of William Fitz-Warin And in 14 Ioh. when the King was Excommunicated by Pope Innocent the Third for contemning the advice of his Nunâio and his Subjects absolved from their obedience by his Holiness This William stood from to him as one of his cheif Counsellors In 15 Ioh. he gave two hundred marks for the Wardship of the Daughter and Heir of Hugh de PIsle together with the custody of her Lands and benefit of her marriage purposing her
pursuance of that advice went with him into Gascoigne the King of France having then invaded those territories Moreover in 23 Edw. 1. he had Summoms to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm So likewise afterward to all the succeeding Parliaments of his time And in 25 Edw. 1. was again in the Wars of Gascoigne being then of the retinue unto that great Prelate Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham and Patriarch of Hierusalem In 28 and 29 E. 1. he was in the Wars of Scotland And having setled his Mannor and Barony of Graystoke with the Advowson of the Church as also of the Mannors of Duston Ulgham Crosthwait in Tesedale Conesclive with all his purparty of the Mannor of Morpeth upon Ralph the Son of William Fitz-Ralph Lord of Grimethorpe in Com. Ebor. Son of Ioane Aunt to him the said Iohn his Brothers and Uncles being then all dead without issue male departed this life without issue in 34 Edw. 1. Which Ralph in 10 Edw. 1. paid a Fine to the King of an hundred Marks for Licence to marry Margery the Widdow of Nicholas Corbet Daughter and Coheir to Hugh de Bolebec and in 24 Edw. 1. was Brother and Heir to Geffrey Fitz-William of Yorkshire doing his Homage had livery of his Lands After which the next ensuing year he was in that expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 26 E. 1. and 27 E. 1. At which time also being made Lieutenant of Yorkshire and Warden of the Marches he was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Durham and others to take care of fortifying the castles in Scotland And in 28 Edw. 1. was in the Wars there So also in 31 Edw 1. and 34 Edw. 1. being then in the retinue with Adomare de Valence Likewise in 4 Edw. 2 In which year he obtained a Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesne Lands at Brunnum Butterwyke Thorp Basset Scakelthorp Thorneton-More Morton super Swale and Welbery in Comit. Ebor. as also in Benton Killingworth Hepiscotes Tranwell Stannington and Horsle in Com. Northumb. In 7 Edw. 2. he was made Governor of Barwick upon Twede and joyned in Commission with Iohn Lord Moubray and others in the Wardenship of the Marches as also Governor of Carlisle in 8 E. 2. Moreover he founded a Chantery at Tinemouth for the Soul of the before-specified Iohn Lord Greystoke his Kinsman and all his Ancestors And having been summoned to Parliament by the name of Ralph Fitz-William from 23 Edw. 1. till 9 E. 2. inclusive died an aged Man about the Feast of All-Saints in Ann. 1316. 9 Edw. 2. and was buried i at Nesham in the County Palatine of Durham being then seized of the Mannors of Morpeth and Ulgham in Com. Northumberl Wiboldeston in Comitat. Bedf. Brunham Grimethorp and Hynderskelf in Com. Ebor. Greystoke in Com. Cumberl as also of divers Lands in other Counties And in right of Margery his Wife Widdow of Nicholas Corbet one of the Coheirs of the Barony of Bulbeck of the fourth part of the Mannors of Styford Hedoun on the Wall Angerton and Dodington in Com. Northum with the Hamlets belonging to them To whom succeeded Robert his second Son for William the eldest died without issue Which Robert was with him in that expedition made into Scotland in 4 Edw. 2. but died in 10 Edw. 2. being then seised of the moity of the Barony of Merley in Com. Northumb viz. Morpeth c. Likewise of the the moity of the Mannors of Stifford and Heddon on the Wall Angreton Dodington c. as also of the Barony of Bolebeâ Likewise of the Mannor of Grymthorpe in Com. Ebor. Crossthwayt and Thorpe-Basset in Com. Northumb. and Neesham in the County Palatine of Durham leaving Ralph his Son and Heir eighteen years of age and was buryed at Botyrwick Whereupon Elizabeth his Widdow had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Mannors of Butterwyk Marton super Swale Osmunderley the third part of the Mannors of Thorpe Basset Brunnum and Nidde in Com. Ebor. Graystoke in Com. Cumbr. Duston in Com. Westmorl Morpeth and Ulougham in Com. Northumb. as also the Town of Heppescotes the moity of the Mannor of Tranwell the moity of the Towns of Stanyngton and Benton with part of the Town of Horsley in the same County the third part of the Mannors of Consclyff and Nesham the third part of an annual Rent of fifty pounds per annum issuing out of the Mannor of Brareton in the Bishoprick of Durham as also of seventy five shillings and six pence yearly Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Thornton in Com. Ebor. Which last mentioned Ralph by vertue of a special Dispensation from the Pope took to Wife Alice de Audely Daughter to Hugh Lord Audeley they being within the third and fourth degrees of Consanguinity And in 13 Edw. 2. was with Hugh de Audley the younger in that Expedition then made into Scotland This Ralph assumed the sirname of Greystoke and in 14 Edw. 2. making proof of his Age had livery of all the Knights Fees belonging to him by inheritance which the King had reserved in his hands after the death of Ralph the Son of William his Grandfather till that time And in 14 15 and 16 Edw. 2. was summoned to the Parliaments then held But all that I have else seen of him is that he besieged Gilbert de Middleton and divers other with him in the Castle of Mitford for certain traytorous actions done by them in Northumberland and that not long after being in Gatesheved at Breakfast he was through the contrivance of the same Gilbert and his party there poysoned 3 Id. Iulii An. 1323. 17 E. 2. and buried in the Abby of Newminster near the High Altarâ leaving issue by Alice his Wife Daughter to Ralph Lord Nevill William his Son and Heir three years of age Which Alice surviving had an Assignation of the Mannor of Grymethorpe in Com. Ebor. as also of divers lands in other Counties for her Dowry Whereupon the Wardship of William his Son thus in minority together with his Lands was shortly after scil in 2 Edw. 3. in consideration of five hundred Marks committed to Hugh de Audley But in 16 E. 3. this William making proof of his age and doing his Homage had livery of them all and the same year was in that expedition then made into Brittany being of the retinue of William de Bohun Earl of Northampton And in 19 Edw. 3. in the Wars of France but then of the retinue with Ralph Earl of Stafford Moreover the next year following upon the death of Elizabeth his Grandmother he had also Livery of those Lands which she held in Dower his Homage
body by her he would pay unto that Queen five hundred and fifty pounds of silver In 25 Edw. 1. this Isabel calling her self Daughter to Agnes de Bellomont did Homage to the King at Ipswiche for the Barony of Caral in the County of Fife in Scotland whereof she was possess'd by virtue of a Release from the said Anne her Mother And in 33 Edw. 1. Iohn de Vesci her husband being then dead she granted to the King and his heires for ever her Mannor of Caral with the Haven of Can. Whereupon he again granted it to her for life the remainder to Henry de Beaâmont her Brother and his heirs Moreover he farther granted to her for life and to the said Henry her Brother in Fee all the Lands of her the said Isabell in Welleburne in Com. Linc. By reason whereof she obtain'd the said King's Charter for a Market every Week upon the Wednesday at her said Mannor of Caral and a Fair yearly on Monday in Easter-week and fourteen dayes following In 1 E. 2. she was made Governess of the Castle of Bamburgh in Com. Northumb. paying the antient serme thereof to the Kings Exchequer But in 3 Edw. 2. at the request of Henry de Laci Earl of Lincolne the King acquitted her of One hundred and twelve pounds which was due to his Exchequer for that Castle of Bamburgh and Rent of the Town of Wernemuthe by reason of the great expence she had undergone in attending upon Queen Isabell. After which ere long quitting her right in that Castle at the King's request she had a Grant of the Mannors of Thoresway Styveton Lyndewode and Ketlesthorpe in Com. Linc. with the King 's free Court in the City of Lincolne as also of the Mannors of Weye and Pyddcle in Com. Dorset for life And departing this life in 8 Edw. 3. without issue the said Henry de Beaumont her Brother was found to be her next heir I now returne to Iohn Lord Beaumont son and heir to the before-specified Henry This Iohn in 12 Edw. 3. was in that Expedition then made into Flanders and of the retinue with William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury And upon his Father's death in 14 Edw. 3. doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands but never used the Title of Earl of Boghan In which year he was again in the Wars of Flanders and obtain'd the King's Precept to the Collectors of the Subsidy in Com. Devon for the receipt of Sixty six pounds sixteen shillings six pence in part of the Wages then due to him for his service beyond-Sea In this year attending Queen Philippa during her residence in Brabant the Lady Alianore de Lancaster the fifth daughter to Henry Earl of Lancaster his Wife being there delivered of a Son called Henry he obtain'd the King's special Letters Pattents declaring that notwithstanding the said Henry was begotten and born in forrein parts nevertheless in regard it was by reason of his and his Ladies attendance on the Queen he should be reputed a lawful heir and inherit his Lands in England as if he had been born there In 15 Edw. 3. he was retein'd to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea with Sixty one Men at Armes whereof one Baneret Twenty four Knights Forty men at Armes and Forty Archers for forty dayes In which year also he was in the Wars of Scotland And having been summon'd to Parliament in 16 Edw. 3 and not before departed this life the same year leaving Henry his son and heir two yeares of age Whereupon in order to his Funeral the King sent his Precept to William Shireburne a Burgess of Yorke to make payment of Two hundred pounds of those Moneys which he did then owe for One hundred thirty Sacks and twenty Clays of Wooll by him received out of the North and East-Riding of that County unto Sir William de Burton Knight to the use of Alianore the Widow of the Defunct towards the charge of that great Solemnity Which Alianore so surviving him in 17 E. 3. procur'd the King's Charter for Free-warren in all her Demesn-lands at Tackley in Com. Oxon. and Seukworth in Com. Berks. But I return to Henry his son and heir whose Legitimacy in regard of his birth beyond-Sea was afterwards ratified in the Parliament held 25 Edw. 3. In 34 E. 3. this Henry doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands the King being well satisfied that he was of full age though he did not make any formal proof thereof and obtained his Precept to the Lord Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the acquitting him of one hundred pounds due for the ferm of his Lands at the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist whilst he was in his Minority towards the charges he had been at in attending him in his last Expedition beyond Sea Moreover in 40 E. 3. he was in the Wars of Gascoigne And having been summoned to Parliament from 36 E. 3. until 42 E. 3. inclusive departed this life upon Wednesday next after the Feast of St. Margaret the Virgin 43 E. 3. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir eight years of age and Margaret his Wife Daughter to Iohn de Vere Earl of Oxford surviving him who had for her Dowrie an assignation of the Mannors of Hekynton and Stiveton in Com. Linc. with two Messuages in the City of Lincolne and afterwards Married to Nicholas de Louvain In 47 E. 3. the Wardship of this Iohn Son and Heir to the before-specified Henry Lord Beaumont with the custody of his Lands during his Minority was committed to William Lord Latimer But in 6 R. 2. making proof of his age and doing his Homage he had Livery of them and the same year was with Henry de Spencer then Bishop of Norwich in the English Army sent to make War against those that held with Pope Clement the Seventh Moreover in 7 R. 2. he was at Burbroke when the King of France with his whole Host besieged it and with one hundred men at Arms and three hundred Archers kept one Ward there In 10 R. 2. he accompanied Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster then called King of Castile and Leon into Spaine Howbeit before the end of this year such was the prevalency of the great Lords which then met at Haringey-Park that they expelled him the Court as an Evil-Councellor to the King But those discontents somewhat abating he obtained Licence to pass unto Calais there to exercise himself in Feats of Arms with the French four Knights of that Country having challenged as many English to Just with them there at which time he Tilted with the Lord Chamberlain to the King of France And in 12 R. 2. was made Admiral of the Kings Fleet to the Northwards as
also one of the Wardens of the Marches towards Scotland whereupon he entred that Country forty miles spoyled the Market at Fowyke and brought many Prisoners back In 13 R. 2. he had the Castle of Chirburgh in France committed to his charge from the Feast of St. Peter ad vincula until the end of five years and about that time received a special prohibition that he should not exercise any feats of Arms with the French without the leave of Henry de Perci Earl of Northumberland In 14 R. 2. he went again into France and in 16 R. 2. being reteined to serve the King during his whole life he had in consideration thereof a Grant of one hundred pounds per annum out of the Issues of Lincolnshire In this year likewise he was made Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports and in 19 R. 2. constituted one of the Kings Commissioners to contract Marriage for him with the Lady Isabell eldest Daughter to the King of France As also Warden of the West-Marches towards Scotland And having been summoned to Parliament from 7. until 18 R. 2. inclusive departed this life upon Saturday the Morrow after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady in 20 R. 2. being then seised of the Mannor of Whytewyke and two parts of the Mannor of Shepeshed in Com. Leic. Of the Mannors of Dicheburne Cartyngton Rill North-Charleton and third part of the Mannor of Toggesden in Northumb. of the Mannor of Bruscombe in Com Cantii Edmunton called Wylby-Mannor in Com. Midd. Thoreswaye Lyndewode Welburne the Castle of Folkyngham the Mannors of Edenham Barton Buckminster Hall in Billingburgh Lopingthorpe Hekinton Stenton and Uessci Hall in the City of Lincolne leaving Henry his Son and Heir sixteen years of age Katherine his Wife Daughter to Thomas de Everingham of Laxton in Com. Bott surviving Which Henry in 1 H. 4. received the Honor of Knighthood at the Coronation of that King with many other persons of note by Bathing c. having allowance of Robes for that Solemnity And in 11 H. 4. was constituted one of the Commissioners to Treat with others sent from France upon a firm and lasting Peace betwixt both Realms And having been summoned to Parliament from 5 H. 4. till 1 H. 5. inclusive departed this life on Thursday next after the Feast of St. Barnabas the Apostle being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Folkyngham and Mannors of Hekynton and Barton upon Humber with the Ferry there as also of the Mannors of Thoresway and Steneton all in Com. Linc. Likewise of the Mannors of Loughborough and Whytewyke with their respective Members in Com. Leic. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir three years of age and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to William Lord Willoughby of Eresvy surviving Who representing to the King that Iohn her Son and Heir was within age but without any thing for his support obtained an assignation of forty pounds per annum for him during his Minority Which Iohn in 8 H. 6. being reteined to serve the King in his Wars of France with twenty Men at Arms and sixty Archers then atttended q him in his Army to Calais And in 9 H. 6. making proof of his age and performing his Homage had Livery as well of those Lands which Elizabeth his Mother held as of those which Catherine the Wife of Iohn Father to him the said Henry possessed during her life In 14 H. 6. he obtained a Grant to himself and the Heirs Male of his Body of the Earldome of Boloine by Letters Patents dated at Canterbury 27 Iulii being at that time on his journey for the Relief of Calais and reteined by Indenture to serve the King with twenty Men at Arms and eighty eighty Archers In which service he merited so well as for that very respect the King gave him License to grant his Mannors of Barton upon Humber and Steneton in Com. Linc. unto Sir William Phelip Knight and others and to their Heirs for ever And in 18 H. 6. in consideration of his farther Merits and the special Services of his Ancestors advanced him to the Honor and Dignity of a Vicount a Title not till then used in England by the Name of Vicount Beaumont with precedency above all Barons of this Realm and twenty Marks yearly fee out of the Revenues of the County of Lincolne as by Charter bearing date at Readyng 12 Feb. appeareth In 19 H. 6. considering the great loss he had sustained by the death of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to William Phelip Lord Bardolf and by reason of his continued Services he obtained a Grant of the custody of all the Castles Mannors and Lands which by the death of her the said Elizabeth came to Henry his Son and Heir and in case of his death to William his younger Son with remainder to Ioane his Daughter Moreover in 23 H. 6. he had a farther grant to himself and the Heirs Male of his Body of Place and Precedence above all Vicounts thenceforth to be created as also above the Heirs of all Earles and to take place next and immediately unto Earls in all Parliaments and publick Meetings Furthermore in 24 H. 6. he was made Constable of England and in 25 H. 6. with Sir Raphe Boteler Lord Sudley had the custody of the Isles of Ieresey and Garnesey Serk and Erme during the Minority of Anne the Daughter and Heir to Henry Duke of Warwick In this year he was found to be Brother and Heir to Elizabeth Lady Deincurt Wife to Sir Thomas Nevill Knight being at that time thirty years of age And in 27 H. 6. procured to himself and William then called Lord Bardolf his Son a Charter of divers Priviledges in sundry of his Lordships viz. at Folkynham in Com. Linc. Whytewyk in Com. Leic. and Wyrmgay in Com. Norff. Return of Writs and all Precepts Assise of Bread and Ale Soc Sac Weyf Estrey Felons-goods Treasure-trove Felo's de se Escape Gallows Pillory Wreck of Sea c. In which year Walter Lord Hungerford in consideration of the descent of this Iohn from the Noble Dukes of Lancaster by his last Will and Testament bequeathed unto him a Cup of Silver with a cover as also a Bordure and knop of Gold in which Cup Iohn Duke of Lancaster was often served and used to drink as long as he lived The next ensuing year he was constituted Lord High Chamberlain of England And in 29 H. 6. joyned in Commission with the Bishops of Durham Carlisle and some other eminent persons for Treating with the Ambassadors of Scotland in order to a Peace betwixt both Realms Also in 35 H. 6. in farther consideration of his great and eminent Services he obtained a Grant of the chief Stewardship
Lincolne then held for life the reversion through the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser the younger being then in the Crown In 3 E. 3. he had Livery of the Dowrie of Margaret his Wife Widdow of Iohn Comyn of Badenagh lying in Tindale Which Margaret was Daughter of Iohn and Sister and Heir to Thomas Lord Wake As to the occasion of this Earls death there are sundry Relations yet all agreeing that it was for desire that King Edward the Second his Brother should have been restored though varying in circumstances being informed he had escaped that cruel Murther in Berkley-Castle which was generally believed to have been acted upon him and which indeed was too true One saith that he first practised therein with certain Friers Preachers next with Sir Thomas Gurney and afterwards with Sir Iohn Daverill Constable of Corf and that Sir Iohn Daverill discovered a Letter which he wrote to King Edward the Second supposing him to be living Also that thereupon being questioned in the Parliament then sitting at Winchester through the suggestion of Queen Isabell and his own Letter produced by the Lord Mortimer he had judgment of death Likewise that the next Morning by Mortimers means Queen Isabell sent to the Bayliffs of Winchester to do execution upon him And that the young King hearing thereof being very sorry caused his Body to be interred in the Friers Preachers at Winchester Another saith that there came one of the Earl of March his Retinue to him saying that if he would assist him King Edward the Second might be again restored to his Kingly dignity and that promising to do his best therein he was accused of Treason and by the means of Queen Isabell and Mortimer beheaded at Winchester But it is farther said by a credible Historian that this Earl upon his Examination by Robert de Hovel Coroner of the Kings Houshold and afterwards scil 16 Martii 4 E. 3. before the Lords assembled in Parliament confessed that a certain Frier-Preacher of London upon discourse with him at Kensington told him that he had conjured up a Spirit which assured him that Edward his Brother late King of England was still alive Also that Sir Ingeram Berenger brought him a Message to London from William Lord Zouch with desire that he would give his assistance for his Restauration Likewise that Sir Robert de Taunton came to him from the Archbishop of Yorke to encourage him thereto assuring him that he had in readiness five thousand Men to carry on the work and that he the said Robert with two other Friers-Preachers were Agents therein Also that Sir Fouke Fitz Warine came to him at Westminster and told him that it would be the greatest honour that ever could happen to him in case he would appear in that attempt promising his best assistance Furthermore that Sir Ingeram Berenger again came to him from Sir Iohn Peche signifying that he should have his help And that Henry Lord Beaumont and Sir Thomas Rosselyn at Paris in the Duke of Brabants Bedchamber instigated him thereto saying that they were ready to come into England to his ayd Lastly that Sir Ingeram Berenger came to him another time at Arundell into his Bedchamber over the Chapel and assured him of the Bishop of Londons help Whereupon having made this confession he submitted to mercy These are the most material particulars that I have observed therein Now as to that eager prosecution of him to death it is agreed on all hands that the Lord Mortimer carried it on with all the Interest he had in Queen Isabell Mother to the Young King which was not small maligning that he should bear any sway in the Government But being thus condemned they could not easily get any one to be his Executioner in so much as being brought out he staid till Evening that a Ribauld out of the Marshalsey to save his own Life beheaded him upon the Munday the Eve of St. Cuthbert 4 E. 3. whereupon Proclamations were Issued out into all the Counties of England to let all the people know that he was put to death and the true cause thereof The Lands and Rents whereof he died seised were these viz. the Mannor of Ryhall in Com. Rotel the yearly Rent of sixty pounds issuing out of the Town of Aylesbury in Com. Buck. Buck. the Mannor of Kenton in Com. Devon Byâsey in Com. Hertf. Leyham and Kersey in Com. Suff. Swanescampe and UUykham with the Advousons of the Churches the Hundred of UUacheleston and Lutlesfeld with the Farm of the Royalty of the Market at Derteford valued at thirty pounds per annum all in com Cantii likewise of the Mannors of Brocelby Gretham with the Hamlet of Thorley and other its appurtenances in UUaynflet in Com. Linc. of the Mannors of Torpel and Eston in Com. North. Taleworth with its Members viz. UUyke and Turbervile and UUocking with its Members viz. Sutton Hoke and Piribrâht in Com. Surr. of the Castle and Mannor of Donyngton with its Members in Com. Leic. of the Mannor of Allerton under Shirewode and Wapentake of Allerton in Com. Nott. and of the Mannor of Ashefourd in the Peke in Com. Derb. of the Mannors of Andevere Bedehampton and Aulton with the Hundred in Com. South of the Mannors of Lammersh and Northwelde in Com. Essex of the Town of UUyche in Com. Wigorn. of the Mannor of Caldecote and Farm of fifty pounds per annum payable by the Abbot of Ramsey for the Fairs at St. Ives in Com. Hunt of the annual Farm of ninety pounds payable by the Abbot and Covent of Kirkshall for the Mannor of Colingham in Com. Ebor. of the Farm of thirty pound per annum payable by the Abbot and Covent of Cirencester for the Town of Cirencester and the seven Hundreds in Com. Glouc. of the Farm of thirty six pounds per annum payable by the Citizens of Cicestre in Com. Suss. and the Rent of fifty five shillings and a penny qu. yearly due from the Tenants of the Town and Soke of Castre in Com. Liâc Divers of which Lordships and Rent were assigned to Margaret his Widdow very shortly after for her Dowrie The Issue which this Edmund had by the said Margaret his Wife was two Sons viz. Edmund and Pain and two Daughters viz. Margaret who was Married to Amaneus the eldest Son to Bernard Lord de la Brette but died without Issue as it seems and Ioane first Married to Sir Thomas Holland Knight next to William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury and lastly to Edward Prince of UUales commonly called the Black-Prince Which Ioane by her Testament bearing date 7 Aug. An. 1385. 9 R. 2. at her Castle of UUalingford bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Chapel at Stanford near to the Grave of this Earl of Kent her first Husband and gave to her Son King Richard the Second her new Bed of Red Velvet embroidered with Ostrich-Feathers of Silver
protect Spenser that he could not have his will against him out of high indignation he betook himself to the Scots at that time the King 's open Enemies though he formerly had been the greatest scourge to them of any in regard of his residence near the borders in robbing their Towns firing their Dwellings and doing them all the mischief he could and confederated with them Whereupon to gratifie him and oblige him the more they resolv'd that he should Marry the Sister of their King And suspecting not at all that any discovery of this his defection was made after a few dayes return'd to Carlisle But so it hapned that Anthony de Luci a person of great note in those parts being ambitious to do somewhat whereby he might merit the Kings esteem having private intimation thereof came with a strong party to Carlisle and there surprised him Whereupon by vertue of a Commission bearing date at Knaresburgh 27 Febr. 16 E. 2. directed to Edmund Earl of Kent Iohn Lord Hastings Sir Raphe Basset Sir Iohn Peche and Sir Iohn Wisham Knights and Geffrey le Scrope Esquire or to any two of them he was brought to his Trial Pat Carlisle upon Friday preceding the Feast of St. Chad the same year before Basset Peche Wisham and Scrope Where it being laid to his Charge that he had conspired with Iames Douglas a Scot and that thereby the King himself for lack of his assistance was vanquisht in Battel near to the Abby of Bâland in Yorkshire so that he became necessitated to flee to York for the safeguard of his person Sentence was then and there pronounced against him viz. That his Sword should be taken from him and hâs gilt Spurs hackt off from his heels Then that he should be drawn and hang'd by the neck his Heart and Bowels taken out of his Body burnt to Ashes and Winnowed his Body cut into four Quarters the one to be set upon the principal Tower of Carlislâ Castle the other upon the Tower at Newcastle upon Tine the third upon the Bridge at York and the fourth at Shrewsbury And his head upon London-Bridge for an example to others who should ever dare to commit so foul a Treason Which Judgment was executed upon him accordingly on the morrow after St. Chad's day He had a Brother called Iohn de Harcla who in 16 E. 2. died seised of the Mannor of Whithalle in Com. Cumbr. leaving Andrew his son and heir three yeares of age Aton 17 Edw. 2. THe first mention of this Name and Family wherewith I have met is in the time of King Henry the First Gilbert the son of Lagi being then possess'd of the Lordship of Aton in Pickertâg-lithe in Com. Ebor. and thereupon assuming his Sirname from thence Which Gilbert had issue William of whom I find mention in 20 H. 2. and he Gilbert who took to wife Margerie the daughter and heir of Warine de Vesci a younger son to William de Vesci Lord of Alâwick in Com. Northumb. and departed this life in 19 H. 3. leaving issue William his son and heir she the said Margerie surviving him whereupon command was given to the Sheriff of Yorkshire to make Livery unto her of the Lands of her Inheritance Gilbert lying in that County Which William gave to the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist at Aton one Toft with a Croft near to that Chappel as also four Acres of arable Land lying in that Lordship with Pasturage for eight Oxen eight Kine with their breed of two yeares old six Horses and an hundred Sheep in his Lands and Woods there and likewise thirty Cart-loads of Turfe in his Marish of Hoton Buscell for the maintenance of a Chantry therein for ever To this William succeeded Gilbert his son and heir who in 34 E. I. at that great solemnity in making Prince Edward Knight with many more by Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies was one of that number but died without issue Whereupon William his brother became his heir Which William left issue Gilbert who in 2 E 2. obtain'd a Charter of Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Bardeby Hoââe juxta Seleby Wellom and Kâapton in Com. Ebor. In 8 E. 2. this Gilbert receiv'd command to fit himself with Horse and Armes and to be at Newcastle upon Tine on the Feast-day of the blessed Virgin to restrain the Hostilities of the Scots and in 9 E. 2. was found heir to William de Vesci the elder viz. son of William brother of Gilbert who died without issue son of William son of Margery daughter and heir to Warine de Vesci brother of Eustace father of William father of John and William called William de Vesci of Kildare who died without lawful issue And thereupon in 11 E. 2. doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands thereby descended to him of which the Mannor of Malton in Com. Ebor. was part Furthermore in 13 E. 2. he was in that expedition then made into Scotland and in 17 E. 2. as Cosin and heir to the before-specified William de Vesci confirm'd to Henry Lord Percie that Grant which Anthony Beck Bishop of Durham had made to him of the Barony Mannor and Castle of Alnwike with the Towns and Hamlets thereto belonging of which Grant with the occasion thereof I have fully taken notice in my discourse of the Family of Vesci In consideration whereof he received from Henry son and heir to the same Henry Lord Perci the sum of Seven hundred Marks sterling Moreover in 7 E. 3. he was again in the Scotish wars And having been summon'd to Parliament from 17 Edw. 2. till 16 Edw. 3. inclusive died the same year as it seemes To whom succeeded William his son and heir William Which William in 17 E. 3. was in the wars of France and in 42 E. 3. constituted Sheriff of Yorkshâre as also Governor of the Castle at York So likewise in 43 Edw. 3. and 46 Edw. 3. This William in 7 R. 2. founded a Chantry in the Chappel of St. Iohn Baptist within his Mannor of Aton in Pickering-lithe for one Priest to celebrate Divine Service therein for the good Estate of himself during this life and the health of his Soul after his departure hence as also for the Soules of his Parents and Friends and all the Faithful deceased for whose support he gave Thirteen Messuages and eight Ox-gangs of Land in Hoton Bussel and Aton But all that I have farther seen of him is that he was summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm in 44 E. 3. and no more and that by Isabel his Wife daughter to Henry Lord Percie he had issue a son called William who died in his life time Also three daughters who became his heires viz.
of Hungerford and Esgarston in Com. Berks. the Mannors of Colingborne Everle and Lavinton in Com. Wilts the Mannor of Kings Somborne in Com. South the Mannors of Langstoke Weston juxta Odyham and Hertele in Com. Somerset the Mannor of Newcastle under-Lyme in Com. Staff with the Mannors of Penkhâl Clayton Sheprâg Wolstanton and Shelton Members thereof the Mannor of Minsterworth and Castle of Monmouth with the Berton and Little Monmouth the Castles of Grossemont and Oken with the Berton as also Blan Castle in the Marches of Wales the Castle Town and Lordship of Kidwelly the Lordship of Carnewathâan with the Castle of Kaer-Kennyn the Commot of Iskennyng the Castle of Ogemore and Mannor of Ebbothe also in the Marches of Wales and the Mannor of Kingston Laci the Burrough of Wimburne-Minster the Chase of Winburne-Holt the Hundreds of Gadbury and Mayden Newâon with the Mannor of Shapwike in Com. Dorset Whereupon he was advanc'd to the title of Duke of Lancaster in Parliament upon the thirteenth day of November next ensuing by girding with a Sword a Cap of Furr on his head with a Circlet of Gold and Perles In 40 E. 3. he came to his Brother Prince Edward at Burdeaur on the behalf of Don Pedro King of Castile who by reason of an Insurrection of his Subjects fled into Gascoine for aid and thence passed with him into Spain under the Mountaines between St. Iohn de Pie du Port and the City of Pampylone which was strait and perillous And leading the Vantguard of his Army made Twelve Knights viz. Sir Raphe Camoys Sir Thomas Damory c. And upon the Third of Aprill leading the Van in that Battel against Henry the Bastard-brother of Don Pedro rais'd to the Kingdom by the power of the Pope he said to Sir William de Beauchamp Sir William behold your Enemies This day you shall seeme a good Knight or die in the Quarrel In 42 E. 3. the League betwixt the French and King Edward being broke he was sent with a powerful Army into France and at that time bearing the Title of Duke of Britanny he pawn'd the Castle of Becherell in those parts to King Edward his Father for a sum of Money In 43 E. 3. upon breach of the Truce he was sent with considerable Forces to give Battel to the French being retein'd to serve the King for half a year with Three hundred Men at Armes Five hundred Archers three Bannerets fourscore Knights and Two hundred sixteen Esquires but by reason of great sickness amongst his Soldiers durst not adventure to attack them In which âear Blanch his Wife died of the Great Pestilence and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul at London on the North-side the Quire In 44 E. 3. he was in that Expedition then made into Gascoine and in 46 E. 3. upon his return thence brought with him Constance the daughter and heir of Don Pedro King of Castile whom he thereupon took to his second Wife in whose right he thenceforth bore the Title of King of Castile and surrendred his Earldome of Richmond with all the Castles Mannors Lands c. to the same belonging in lieu whereof he had a Grant in general tail bearing date 25 Iunii of the Castle Mannor and Honor of âykhull of the Mannor of High âeke with the Knights-Fees thereto belonging of the Advousons of the Churches of Steyndrope and Brauncepath in the Bishoprick of Durham of the Free-Chappels of âykhull and High âeke of the Church of Marsfeld and Free-Chappel there of the Free-Chappel within the Castle of Pevensâ Likewise of the Advousons of the Priorie of UUilmingdon which was a Cell to the Abby of St. Mary of Grestene in Normandy of the Priorie of UUithiham being a Cell to St. Martins at Marmonstire and of the House of St. Robert at Knaresburgh Also of the Castle Mannor and Honor of Knaresburgh of the Wapentak of Steyncâiff in Com. Ebor. Of the Mannors of Grynglay and UUhetelay in Com. Nott. Of the Mannors of UUighton Aâlesham Fakenhamdam and Snetesham with the Hundreds of North Grenhowe North Erpyngham South Erpyngham and Smetheton in the Counties of Norffolk and Suffolk Of the Mannors of Clatton and Holme in Com. Hunt Of the Mannor of Saham in Com. Cantabr Of the Castle and Leucate of Pevenese with the Mannors of UUylindon and Marsfeild and Bayliwick of Endelenewyk in Com. Suff. Of the Free-Chase of High Peke and Free-Chase of Asshedon and of the yearly Ferme of Two hundred Marks which the Abbot and Covent of St. Maries at York ought to pay for the Mannor of Whitgist Shortly after which he took Shipping at Southampton and sailed towards Rochell for the Relief of Thouars with Three thousand Men at Armes and Ten thousand Archers but after nine Moneths being at Sea crossed with contrary windes he returned In 47 E. 3. he was made the King's Lieutenant in France Aquitane and all other parts beyond Sea and passed through France without opposition but in the Dasarts and Mountains of Alverne many of his Men died for lack of Victual Froisard sayes that his greatest losses were near Douchy and Rabymont And about Christmass in 48 E. 3. coming to Burdeaux lay there with the Duke of Britanny all that Winter But upon his return for England shortly after the people of those parts almost totally revolted In this 48 th year of E. 3. he was one of the Embassadors sent to Brâges to Treat of Peace with the French Which Treaty continued little less than two yeares and ended with a Truce which hardly lasted one year In 50 E. 3. thâ King being grown aged took in this Duke as an Assistant in the Government and bestow'd on him in spâcial tail the Town and Castle of Bragerâââ in the Diocess of Perigort to hold in as ample manner as Henry Duke of Lancaster did ever enjoy the same In 51 E. 3. he obtained License to give his Lordships of Gryngeleye and Wheâeleye to Catherine Swinford his Concubine for life and procured from the King the Grant of a Chancerie in his Dukedome of Lancaster with all other Royalties pertaining to a Countie-Palatime to hold in as ample a manner as the Earl of Chester ever enjoy'd that Earldome As also License to Coyne Money for the space of two yeares from the 12 th of Iune in the City of Bayone or the Castle of Guyssen or any other place within the Seneschalsy of Lândeâe of Gold Silver or any other Mettal whatsoever In this year it was that Iohn Wycliff the most eminent of all the Lollards of that time being convented before the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of London this Iohn Duke of Lancaster and the Lord Percie at the Black-Friers in London in Favour of Wycliff he spoke some reproachful words against the Bishop
and one Acres of Demesn-lands in the Parish of St. Guthlake at East Deping Twenty Acres of Demesn-meadow in North Mede and Fourteen Acres in Fletegate-wang all which were part of the Dowrie of Lucia Widow of Edmund Earl of Kent then deceased Which Margaret Surviving him Married to Thomas Duke of Clarence This last mention'd Iohn Marquess Dorset by his Testament nuncupative bearing date 16 Martii An. 1409. 11 H. 4. being still Lord Chamberlain of England and Captain of Calais bequeathed all his Goods his Debts discharged to Henry his Brother Bishop of Winchester directing no place for his Burial and departed this life upon Palm-Sunday next ensuing being then seised of the Mannor of Enderby in Com. Leic. Of the Mannor of Glindourdy in Edernyon and Saworth in Kintelleghe in the Marches of Wales Of the Mannors of Orwell in Com. Cantabr Deping in Com. Linc. Oneston Eydon Makeseye Buckby Torpell and Moiety of the Mannor of Brampton Parva in Com. Northampt Sampford Peverel Aller Peverell with the Hundred of Halberton in Com. Devon And of the Mannors of Cory Rivel and Mertok with the Burrough of Langport and Hundreds of Abbedyk and Bulston in Com. Somerset leaving Henry his son and heir nine years of age and two other sons Iohn and Edmund of whom I shall speak particularly by and by As also two daughters Ioane Married to Iames the First King of Scotland and Margaret to Thomas Courtney Earl of Devonshire Which Henry being Christened 26 Octob. 3 H. 4. had a Grant from the King who then was his Godfather and to the heires-male of his Body of a Thousand Marks per annum payable out of the Exchequer until he should otherwise provide for him in Lands of the like yearly value And departing this life in his Minority upon the Festival of St. Catherine 6 H. 5. being then seised of the Mannor of Enderby in Com. Leic. Orwell in Com. Cantabr Oneston with the Moiety of the Mannor of Little Brampton in Com. Northampt. Mertok two parts of the Mannor of Corry Rivel with the Burrough of Langport and Hundreds of Abbedyk and Bulston in Com. Somerset and of the Castle and Lordship of Corff in Com. Dorset left Iohn his brother and heir Which Iohn was taken prisoner in 9 H. 5. in that unhappy adventure of passing a Marish near the Castle of Beaufort in France wherein Thomas Duke of Clarence lost his life and in 3 H. 6. arrived to his full age In 9 10 H. 6. this Iohn was again in the Wars of France So likewise in 12 H. 6. And in 15 H. 6. accompanied by divers Noble persons besieg'd Harflew both by Sea and Land which at length yielded In 18 H. 6. he was by Indenture retein'd to serve the King in those Wars with four Knights ninety five Men at Armes and Two thousand Archers And in 21 H. 6. was created Duke of Somerset and Earl of Rendale as also by that Title of Duke made Lieutenant and Captain-General of Aquitane Likewise of the whole Realme of France and Dutchy of Normandy and retein'd by Indenture as Lieutenant of Aquitane for one whole year to serve the King in those parts with four Barons eight Bannerets thirty Knights Seven hundred fifty eight Men at Armes and Fourteen hundred Archers And having Married Margaret the daughter of Sir Iohn Beauchamp of Bletâo Knight sister and heir to Iohn her Brother who surviving him became the Wife of Sir Leo de Welles Knight departed this life 27 Maii 22 H. 6. and was buried at Wimborne Minster in Com. Dorset being then seised of the Mannors of Byllingburgh in Com. Linc. Bedhampton in Com. Southampt Burton and Wyresdale in Com. Somerset two parts of the Towns of Gresmere Logaryg Langeden Casterton Kirkby in Kendale Hamelset Troutbeck with the reversion of two parts of the Mannors of Helsyngton Crosthwayte Horon Frothwayt and Syhkland Ketel in Com. Westmorl as also of the Mannor and Lordship of Bowes in Com. Ebor. leaving Margaret his sole daughter and heir three yeares of age Which Margaret afterwards became the Wife of Edmund of Hadham created Earl of Richmond by King Henry the Sixth as in due place I shall farther shew ¶ I now come to Edmund a younger brother to this last mention'd Iohn This Edmund in 7 H. 6. had License to travel beyond Sea And in 9 H. 6. by the Title of Earl of Mortein was constituted joynt Commander of those Forces then sent into France In 10 H. 6. the success of the English in France then declining it was thought requisite at least to preserve Normandy the Duke of Bedford therefore then Regent disposing of his Forces into three parts committed the one to this Edmund for the defence of the City of Roan Shortly after which upon the death of that Duke the French taking new courage a great alteration hapned in the state of Affaires there Neâertheless the English not despairing made choice of this Edmund and Richard Duke of York for their Generals In 11 H. 6. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to Treat with the Scots at Handenstank or any other place for the composing of all differences touching such injuries as had been mutually done by the subjects of either Realme And in 12 H. 6. sent Embassador from the King to the General Council at Basill In 13 H. 6. he was retein'd to serve the King in his Wars of France for two yeares with three Knights three hundred ninety six Men at Armes and Fifteen hundred eighty two Archers And in 14 H. 6. in consideration of his special services was made Constable of the Castle of Aberustwith in Wales In 15 H. 6. he besieged ãâã and won it and in 17 H. 6. marcht over the Some toward Pickardy with Two thousand Men through Montrevil and besieg'd the Fort of Fullevill which after some assaults yeilded and then joyn'd with the Lord Talbot In 20 H. 6. for his good service in the relief of Calais besieg'd by the Duke of ãâã he was created Earl of Dorset 28 th Aug. And the same year accompanied the Duke of York in his enterprise upon Anjou and Maââe where they did much spoil taking also many prisoners Soon after which entring into the Marches of Britanny he took the Town of âerch by assault then belonging to the Duke of Alanâon and burnt it Thence marcht to Pontroy where staying two Moneths he sent his men daily in Parties to destroy Aââou and the Territories adjacent And when the Marshall of France came with Four thousand Men to resist his Incursions he slew an Hundred of them and took Seventy seven prisoners After this he took the Town of Beaumonâ le viscont and mann'd the Forts on the Frontiers towards his Enemies
Lordships of Halstrede Stanstede Manhale Chesterfourd Brenning Little-Fordham Markesale Messings Revenhale Tholeshunt Guynes Tholeshunt Tregos Tholeshunt Chr. Langfourd Meandayces Little-Maldon Great-Maldon Retingdon Lachindon Asshelham Ledetes Râiplâ Pachinhall Wodhalle Grenstede Morton Little-Lanfare Wyfenho Ouesey Totham and Meresey In 8 R. 2. the Dominions of Flanders by the death of Lewes then Earl of that Territory being divolved to the King of England as its superior Lord in respect of his Title to the Realm of France and that the Heir thereof had not tendred his Homage as he ought to have done the King for the better safeguard of the Countrey constituted this Iohn Lord Bourchier chief Governor and Guardian thereof particularly of the Town of Gaunt at the special request of the Flemings and sent considerable Forces to that purpose thither Moreover in 9 R. 2. having been by Indenture reteined to serve the King in fortifying the Town of Calais he was then imployed thither for the safeguard thereof and in 13 R. 2. had farther commands for the Kings Service in France He had also Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 5 R 2. till 1 H. 4. inclusive but being by that time grown aged and infirm he obtained a special exemption from that Service as also for comeing to Councils during the Remainder of his life and died the same year Whereupon Sir Bartholmew de Bourchier Knights his Son and Heir had Livery of his Lands Which Sir Bartholmew had Summons to Parliament from 1 H. 4. until 10 of that Kings Reign inclusive After which it was not long ere that growing infirm and unfit for Action he obtained the like exemption from all attendance at Parliaments or other Councels and from any Military Service in Scotland or beyond the Seas and upon Wednesday 18 Maii 10 H. 4. departing this life was buried at Haulââeâ being then seised of the Mannors of Little Bentley Bradefelde Stanstede Langeford Asheldam Onestye Fordham Knypesho in Mayland Lachenden Castle-acre Bourchiers Mannors in Retingdon Tolleshunt Maidon parva Wodhalle Lanfare parva and Grynsted in Com. Essex leaving Elizabeth his Daughter and Heir ten years of age and Idâea his Wife surviving Which Idâea died soon after viz. 12 Sept. 11 H. 4. Elizabeth her Daughter being then Married to Sir Hugh Staffârd Knight who thereupon affirmed the Title of Lord Bourchier having Summons to Parliament by that appellation But this Elizabeth afterwards taking to Husband Sir Lewes Rossbeart Standard-bearer to King H. 5. Knight of the Garter whom she also survived died 1 Iulii 11 H. 6. without Issue and was buried with him in the Chapel of St. Paul within the Abby Church of Westminster being then seised of the Mannors of Ashildam Maldon parva Langford Onesaye Totham magna Toleshunt Fordham parva Stanstede Wodhall Pachinghall Morton Grynstede and Manhale in com Essex Bentley parva and Stanford Rivers with the Advouson of the Priory of Bilegh and Hospital of St Giles of Maldon leaving Henry Bourchier then bearing the Title of Earl of Ewe and Lord Bourchier her next Heir viz. Son of Sir William Bourchier Knight Son of William Brother of Bartholmew Father of her the said Elizabeth her next Heir twenty four years of age But I return Shortly after the death of Bartholmew Lord Bourchier viz. in 12 H. 4. Richard Giffard then Bishop of London with Iohn de Boys and some others obtained License from the King to found a perpetual Chantry for five Priests to celebrate Divine Service in the said Parish Church of Halstede for the Souls of Robert Lord Bourchier and Margaret his Wife Iohn Lord Bourchier and Maud his Wife Bartholmew Lord Bourchier and Margaret and Idonea his Wives their Parents Benefactors and all the faithful deceased Which Chantry was thereupon endowed with six Messuages seven hundred and two Acres of Land twenty nine Acres of Meadow seventy one Acres of Pasture fifty seven Acres of Wood and five pounds thirteen shillings and six pence Rent in Halstede Hengham Sibill Pebemershe Twynsted and Middilton and with the Advouson of the Church of Hengham Sibill. To this Bartholmew thus dying without Issue Male succeeded Sir William Bourchier Knight Son of William younger Brother to the said Bartholmew Which William upon the death of Alianore his Mother Daughter and Heir to Iohn de Louvain had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited And having obtained from King Henry the Fourth the Grant of an Annuitie of fifty Marks per annum payable out of the Exchequer in 1. H. 5. surrendring that Patent in consideration of his good Services performed and to be performed had a Grant of the like Pension of fifty Marks payable also out of the Exchequer for his life in case the Wars betwixt France and England should continue so long After which viz. in 3 H. 5. he was made Constable of the Tower of London for life being the same year reteyned by Indenture to serve in that Expedition which the King in person them made into Guyen with thirty Men at Arms himself accounted and eighty Archers on Horseback In 4 H. 5. he was again reteyned to serve the King in his Wars of France with forty Men at Arms himself accounted and eighty Archers and to be at Southampton on Munday 22 Iunii there to take Shipping Moreover in 5 H. 5. in consideration of his eminent Services he obtained the custody of the Mannor of Hermanville in Normandy part of the possessions of William de Harmanville Esquire deceased to hold during the minority of Charles the son and heir of the said William being at that time in the French wars as he was also in 7 H. 5. In which year upon the render of Diepe in Normandy he was constituted Governor there and by reason of his farther services in this Realm and in forrein parts had a Grant in special tail bearing date at Mante 10 Iunii of the whole County of Ewe in Normandy paying to the King and his heires at his Castle of Roan in that Dukedome one Gardebrache at the Feast of St. George every year and covenanting that he and his heires should find Ten Men at Armes and Twenty Archers thenceforth to ride with the King and his heires or his Lieutenant in those his present Wars of France This William married Anne the daughter of Thomas of UUodstoke Duke of Glocester sixth son to King Edward the Third Widow of Edmund Earl of Stafford and departed this life in 8 H. 5. being then seised of the Mannor of Estanes at the Tower in Com. Essex and divers other Lands leaving Henry his son and heir as also three other sons viz. Thomas Bishop of Ely afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury William Lord Fitz-warine and Iohn
daughter to William Lord Honard of Essingham succeeded in this Earldome and all other the Honors belonging thereto Which Henry married Rachel daughter of Franâs Earl of Westmorland and departing this life without issue 15 Aug. An. 1654. lieth buried at Tawestoke with his Ancestors where he hath a noble Monument ârected to his Memory with this Epâtaph engraven thereon Hic situs est Dom. Henricus Bourchier Comes Bathoniensis Qui longâ propagine numeroso stemmate à vetustissimis juxta ac nobilissimis familiis de Bourchier Fitzwarine effluxit jure haereditario ac titulo cognationis ascita sibi Insignia de Woodstoke Bohun Say Mandeville Bruse Badlesmer Clare Montchenscy Cornehill Windsor Peverell Clifford Gifford Martin Mohun Tracy Cogan Dinham Courtney Rivers Stourton Hangford reliquarum celebris notae Familiarum Arma natalitia cum propriis Insignibus intertexta ac circumfusa Scuto suo gentilitio complectitur posteris Marmore hoc insculpto exhibet Satis est Lector habes jam tandem compendiosam suorum Natalium seriem ubi generis splendorem prosapiae suae sublimitatem spectes Si verò virtutes Animi supellectilem lustraveris Nomen sâum aere perennius Marmore diuturnius aut quovis Eulogio vel Epitaphio conspectius tandem aliquando consulas Bourchier Lord Berners I come next to Sir Iohn Bourchier Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter fourth son to William Earl of Ewe Which Sir Iohn having married Margery the daughter and heir to Richard Lord Berners had summons to Parliament in 33 H. 6. and afterwards by the Title of Lord Berners In this 33 th year of King Henry the Sixth he was on the King's part in the first Battel of St. Albans But notwithstanding he then stood up for the House of Lancaster in 1 E. 4. he had such fair esteem from the other side that he was by that King made Constable of Windsore-Castle as also Warden of the Forest and Parks thereto belonging for life And in 2 E. 4. attended him into the North at which time he laid siege to the Castle of Bamburgh and the rest in Northumberland then held out by the Lancastrians In 12 E. 4. he was again made Constable of Windsore-Castle that King having then recovered himself after his expulsion Shortly after which viz. in An. 1473. 13 E. 4. by his Testament bearing date 21 Martii he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Chapel of the Holy-Rood within the Abby of St. Peter at Cherâsey and gave to the Monks of that House a Cross of Silver gilt having a foot whereon were the Images of Mary and Iohn as also other Jewels and Ornaments to the value of Forty pounds to the intent that they should pray for his Soul and the Soul of Margery his Wife and all their childrens Souls And departed this life 16 Maii 14 E. 4. being then seifed of the Mannor of Sende in Com Wilts leaving Iohn his Grandson viz. Son of Humphrey his eldest son by Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Sir Thomas Howard Knight which Humphrey was slain at Barnet-Feild on King Edward the Fourth's part and buried in UUestminster Abby his next Heir at that time seven years of age and Margerie his Wife surviving who died on Munday next after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord the ensuing year viz. 15 E. 4. being then seised of the Mannor of West ãâã in Com. Surr. Berners-Bury in Iseldon in Com. Midd. Berners in Ikelingham in Com. Suff. Estle Chigenhale Tany Chigenhale Zoyne Norton Southorpe Northorpe Berner-Mershe Pole-mershe Berners-Roding Beamont-Crippinge Berners-Berwyke and Springfelde in Com. Essex He had also another Son called Thomas who came in to Henry Earl of Richmund afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Seventh upon his March towards Bosworth-Field and took part with him in that happy adventure And after that in 12 H. 7. joyned with his Forces in that Fight at Black-heath against the Cornish-men then in Rebellion But I return to Iohn Grandson and Heir to the before-specified Iohn Lord Berners In 5 H. 8. he was Captain of the Pioneers at the Siege of Theronvene In 6 H. 8. being made Chancellor of the Kings Exchequer for life he attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France to her Marriage with King Lewes the Twelfth and in 19 H. 8. obtained a Grant from the King of the Inheritance of the Mannors of Okam Effingham UUaldingham Titâey and divers other Lands in Com. Surr. Stratron-Audley in Com. Oxon. Knoke in Com. Wilts Up-Clatford in Com. South with all the Knights Fees and advousons of Churches to those Mannors belonging And by his Testament bearing date 3 Martii An. 1532. 24 H. 8. being then Lieutenant of Calais and the Marches bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of our Lady within the Town of Calais appointing that an honest Priest should sing Mass there for his Soul by the space of three years He likewise bequeathed to Humphrey Bourchier his Son his Gown of Damask-Tawney furred with Jennets and certain Legacies to Iames and George his other Sons but all these were Illegitimate as it seemeth for upon his death which hapned 16 Martii An. 1532. 24 H. 8. Ioane his Daughter and Heir by Catherine his Wife Daughter of Iohn Duke of Norf. then Married to Edmund Knyvet of Ashwelthorpe in Com. Norf. Esquire had Livery of his Lands It is farther observable of this Iohn Lord Berners that he was a person not a little eminent for his Learning and that thereupon by the command of King Henry the Eighth he translated the Chronicle of Sir Iohn Froissart Canon and Treasurer of Chinay Clerk and Servant to King Edward the Third as also to Queen Philippa out of French into English He likewise translated out of French Spanish and Italian several other Works viz. the Life of Sir Arthur an Armorican Knight the famous Exploits of Hugh of Bourdeaur Marcus-Aurelius and the Castle of Love He also composed a Book of the Duties of the Inhabitants at Calais and a Comedy intituled Ite in Vineam Touching Humphrey his Son it is reported that he bestowed much cost in translating the House of Nunns at Mergate in Com. Bedf. to a Mannor place that is to say in pulling down the whole Structure of the dissolved Monastery there and converting it to a Mansion House for himself but did not finish it Humphrey Bourchier Lord Cromwell THis Humphrey was third Son to Henry the first Earl of Essex of that Family and having married Ioane the Daughter of Richard Stanhope Neice and Co-heir to Raphe Lord Cromwell of Tatshall had Summons to Parliament in 1 2 6 and 9 E. 4. by the Title of Lord Cromwell Moreover in
in the Wars of France So likewise at Sea in 2 R. 2. And in 3 R. 2. was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with Iohn Duke of Brittanny and the Earl of Montfort for a League of Friendship with King Richard being the same year in that Expedition made into Ireland with Edmund Mortimer Earl of March Thus far as to his Military Actings all that I have now farther to say of him is That he founded a Chantry for four Priests to sing divine Service every day in the Chappel of our Lady within his Mannor of Slapton in Com. Devon and that he endowed it with Lands of Ten pounds per annum value as also with the Advouson of the Church of Slapton Likewise that he was summon'd to Parliament from 24 E. 3 till 13 R. 2. inclusive And lastly that having married Elizabeth daughter to William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury Widow of Hugh de Despenser the third he departed this life on Wednesday next after the Feast of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin in 14 R. 2. being then seised d of the Mannor of Northam in Com. Devon as also of the Mannors of Slapton and Torre Brien in reversion after the death of Philippa wife of Iohn chaundos leaving Philippa wife of Iohn Devereux son of Sir Iohn Devereux son of Sir Iohn Devereux Knight and Elizabeth then the wife of Robert son of Sir Iohn Lovell Knight his Cosins and next heirs viz. daughters of Guy his son who died in his life time the said Philippa then being Twelve years of age and Elizabeth Nine Which Philippa making Proof of her age in 20 R. 2. and doing her Homage had Livery of her Lands He had also another son called William who was a Knight and Captain of the Castle of Merk in the Marches of Calais but died in 21 R. 2. without issue being then seised of the Mannors of Donheâd Batheneston and Shokewyke in Com. Somerset leaving the before-specified Philippa the wife of Iohn Devereux and Elizabeth the wife of Robert Lovel his next heires Which Philippa afterwards married to Sir Henry le Scrope Knight Of the Lands of this Sir Guy and Sir William his son thus deceased Philippa the wife of Sir Henry le Scrope Knight had for her Furparty an Assignation of the Mannor of Bathneston and Shokerwyke in Com. Somerset Pompknolle in Com. Dorset Northam in Com. Devon with the alternate presentation to the Church of Pompknolle And Elizabeth the wife of Robert the son of Iohn Lovell the Mannor of Donhed in Com. Somerset with the like presentation to the Church of Pompknolle as also the Isle of Louday with the Lordships of Dertemouth Clifton and Hardeness in Com. Devon Musgrave 24 Edw. 3. OF this antient Family whose seat now is at Harkâa-Castle in Com. Westmorl and Edenhale in Cumberland there hath only been one that was summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realme viz. Sir Thomas Musgrave Knight son I presume to that Thomas who in 6 E. I. with Ranulph de Dacre obtain'd the King's Charter for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at Overton in Com. Westmorl as also for a Faire yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow of Simon and Iude And in 4 E. 2. was in the Scotish Wars Which Thomas the son upon that Invasion of the North made by David de Brus King of Scotland putting himself in Armes with the Barons of those parts was one of the Commanders in the Van of that Army which gave him Battel near Durham upon St. Lukes day in 20 E. 3. where his whole Army being utterly routed that King with divers of his Nobles were taken Prisoners In this year likewise he was associated with the Bishop of Carlisle and others in guarding the West-Marches towards Scotland And in 21 E. 3. made Governor of Barwick upon Twede as also sole Justiciar throughout all the Lands in Scotland whereof King Edward the Third had then possession After this viz. in 26 E. 3. upon the danger of an Invasion by the French he was joyn'd in Commission with Thomas Lord Lucie to Array and Arme all the Knights Esquires and others in Com. Cumbr. and Westmorl for the defence of the adjacent Sea-Coasts And in 27 E. 3. associated with Raphe Lord Nevill and the same Thomas Lord Lucie in the Wardenship of the West-Marches In 28 E. 3. he was constituted a Commissioner with the Bishop of Durham and others to see all things perform'd which had been agreed on touching the delivery of David de Brus king of Scotland still prisoner in England and in 29 E. 3. accompanied Raphe Lord Nevill in the Scotish wars In 30 E. 3. he received Command to reside upon his Lands in the Marches toward Scotland for the defence of the Country against any Incursions And in 32 E. 3. obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-Lands at Mulgrave and Souleby in Com. Westmorl with power to imparke his Woods called Hevenings in Mâlgrave containing Two hundred Acres In 33 E. 3. he was made Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governor of the Castle at York So likewise in 37 38 E. 3. And in 39 E. 3. upon some danger of an Incursion by the Scots receiv'd command to repaire to his Lands in the Marches for the better safeguard of those parts In 42 E. 3. he was constituted Eschaetor for the Counties of Yorke Northumberland Cumberland Westmorland and in 44 E. 3. having married Isabel the Widow of Robert the son of Robert Lord Clifford obtaind not only a Remission of all the Profits of two parts of the Castle and Mannor of Skypton in Craven for the time they held the same during the Minority of the heirs but for his good services had a Great of One hundred Marks per annum to be received out of the Exchequer Moreover in 46 E. 3. he was associated with the Bishop of Carlisle and others in the Office of Warden of the West-Marches And in 47 E. 3. again made Governor of Barwick upon Twede So likewise in 49 E. 3. for one year and in 50. E. 3. for three years more In 2. R. a this Sir Thomas Musgrave being still Governor of Barwick and desirous to find out the Scots Marcht with his son then a Knight also from Mauros towards Morlane leaving the River of Twede on their left hand Whereupon the Earl Douglas being near seeing he must fight Knighted his son Iames and caused him to raise his Banner The like therefore did this Thomas to his son and divers of his House but a sore Battel ensuing he was taken prisoner with his son and One hundred twenty men at Armes whereupon the procured Iohn de Nevill Sir Iohn Heron Knight Alan de Shottre Robert de Haggerston and Robert de Grey of
Tenants in the Counties of Glouc. and Heref. who held of him by Military Service And gave to the Canons of St. Leonard at Pyon now called Wormeley in Com. Heref. his Mills at Lenhale with the sutes thereto appertaining for the maintainance of three Chantry-Priests to celebrate Divine Service for ever for the health of his Soul as also for the Soul of Isabell his Wife and all his Ancestors and Successors Souls He likewise gave unto them an Island lying Eastward from those Mills with three yard Land within his Mannor of Lenhale and a certain Grove called Bircncombe with divers other Lands and Woods in Lenhale Hope Stoke and other places To which Stephen succeeded William his Son and Heir who in 42 H. 3. had Summons to attend the King at Chester on Munday preceding the Feast of St. Iohn Baptist sufficiently furnished with Horse and Arms to restrain the Incursions of the Welch And in 44 H. 3. considering the frequent Hostilities of those ill Neighbors being then one of the Barons-Marchers received command with the rest to repair without delay to the Marches with all the power he could make for prevention of more mischief by them Moreover in 47 H. 3. he had another Summons to be at Hereford upon the third day after the Epiphany well fitted with Horse and Arms to withstand Prince Leoline who had broke the Truce concluded on betwixt King Henry and him as also to be at Ludlow to the same purpose on Munday next after the Feast of the Purification of the blessed Virgin in like sort accoutred Howbeit after this viz in 48 H. 3. being with the King in that fatal Battle of Lewes he forsook him and siding with the Rebellious Barons was slain in the Battle of Evesham in 49 H. 3. Whereupon Maud his Widdow Sister to Walter Giffard Bishop of Bathe and Welles making her address to the King for certain Jewels and Harness which had been deposited in the Church of Hereford by him the said William before that Battle obtained his Precept a to the Treasurer of that Cathedral for the delivery of them unto her But his Lands being seised for that rebellious Action continued in the Kings hands until 51 H. 3. that William his Son and Heir making his composition at three years value according to the Decree called Dictum de Kenilworth had Livery of them In 22 E. 1. this last mentioned William upon that great Expedition then made by the King himself into Gascoine received command to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to be at Portsmouth upon the first of September thence to attend him thither and in 23 Edw. 1. was again in those Wars of Gascoine To this William succeeded Sir Iohn D'Evereux Knight who in 42 E. 3. attended Prince Edward commonly called the Black Prince into Galcoine and in 43 E. 3. was Seneschal and Governor of Lymosin Moreover in 44 E. 3. he again served him in his Wars of France and in 46 E. 3. was made Seneschal of Rochell as also Governor of St. Severe in Lymosin In 51 E. 3. the black Prince then dead he was reteined to serve Prince Richard Grandson and Heir apparent to King E. 3. in all his Wars during his whole life and attended him into Spaine and Gascoine having thereupon a Grant of two hundred Marks per annum And when that Prince attained the Crown in the first year of his Reign procured an assignation of the same Annuitie to be paid out of the Fee-ferms due from the Earl of March for Moutgomerie and Buelt in South-Wales In this first year of King R. 2. he also served him in his Fleet at Sea and was constituted Governor of Ledes-Castle in Kent at that time also he joyned with Sir Aubrei de Vere in certain Covenants to serve the King for one quarter of the year with one hundred men at Arms whereof five to be Knights besides himself and an hundred Archers And in 3 R. 2. being an experienced Souldier was made Captain of Calais Shortly after which in consideration of his acceptable services he obtained from Iohn Duke of Britanny a Grant of one hundred Marks per annum for life to be received yearly out of the Mannors of Crawhurst Buleham and Burghesse in the Rape of Hastings in Com. Suss. And in 5 R. 2. being still Captain of Calais was joyned in Commission with the Lord Cobham and others to Treat of Peace with the French In 6 R. 2. he still continued Captain of Calais and in 7 R. 2. was again constituted a Commissioner with Iohn Duke of Lancaster and others to Treat with the Earl of Flanders for the appeasing of those discords which then were betwixt the Subjects of England and the Flemings In 8 R. 2. being then a Banneret he was reteined to serve the King in his Wars for forty days and in 9 R. 2. appointed one of the Commissioners to Treat with others authorised from the King of France touching Peace betwixt both Realms And having obtained a Lease for his life as also for the lives of Margaret his Wife Iohn his Son and Ioane his Daughter of the Priories-Alien of Frompton and Newent in Com. Glouc. then seised into the Kings hands by reason of his Wars with France in regard they were Cells to certain Monasteries in those parts for which he was to pay three hundred and ten Marks yearly into the Kings Exchequer the King in consideration that he had assumed the title and dignity of a Banneret and for that respect was placed at his Royal Standard to the end he might the more honourably support the same degree totally acquitted him of that Annuity In 11 R. 2. he was made Constable of Dovor â Castle and Warden of the Cinque-Ports but this was through the influence of the great Lords then predominant And in 13 R. 2. joyned in Commission with Walter Skyrlaw Bishop of Durham and others to Treat with such as the King of France should appoint touching a Peace betwixt both Realms he being at that time Steward of the Kings Houshold So likewise to Treat with the Flemmings upon certain important affairs Upon the attainder of Sir Simon Burley Knight the Castle and Mannor of Leonhales in Com. Heref. divolving to the King which Castle and Mannor had been formerly purchased from Robert Earl of Oxford by the said Simon and to the Heirs Male of his body the remainder to this Sir Iohn d'Evereux and his Heirs In 13 R. 2. he obtained a special Grant thereof in see and in 16 R. 2. being possessed of the Lordship of Penshurst in Com. Cantii he obtained Licence to make a Castle of his Mannor-House there By his Testament bearing date on Tuesday ... Iunii An. 1385.
which Catherine he bequeathed seven Messuages in Kingston to hold during her life To this Sir William succeeded Michael de la Pole his Son and Heir who doing his Homage in 40 E. 3. had Livery of his Lands and became a person of great note in his time In 13 E. 3. though he was then but young in consideration of his Fathers merits whom the King calls his beloved Merchant he had a Grant in reversion to himself and his Heirs of an Annuity of seventy pounds per annum Which Annuity William his Father and Richard his Unkle had formerly obtained for the term of their respective lives and in 27 E. 3. got a confirmation thereof wherein the King again acknowledged the great and seasonable supply which he had received from the before-specified William his Father in 13 E. 3. when he lay at Antwââp in Brabââ with his Army In 28 E. 3. this Michael had a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-Lands within his Lordships of Bliburgh in Com. Linc. Gressethorpe in Com. Nott. and Grafton in Com. North. and in 29 E. 3. was in that Expedition then made into France and in the Retinue with Henry Duke of Lancaster So likewise in 33 and 36 E. 3. About which time upon the death of Catherine his Neice Daughter and Heir to Thomas his Brother being found her next Heir he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited In 43 E. 3. he was sent into the Wars of France with the Earls of Salisbury Warwick and divers other persons of note and in 44 E. 3. served under Prince Edward commonly called the Black Prince in those parts In that year likewise he marcht with the Duke of Lancaster to the Siege of Mountpaon which soon rendred And in 46 E. 3. was in another Expedition then made by that Duke into France In 51 E. 3. taking into consideration the pious design of William his Father of founding a Religious House for Nuns at Kingston upon Hull as before is observed which he did not live to accomplish he procured Licence from the King instead thereof to erect a Monastery in the same place for thirteen Carthusian Monks whereof one to be the Prior. As also an Hospital of thirteen poor Men and thirteen poor Women and to give thereunto twenty Acres of Land and twenty pound per annum Rent in Kingston and Myton with other Lands and Advousons of Churches to the value of two hundred Marks per annum and instead of the Advouson of the Church of Medburne Lands of twenty pounds per annum value In 1 R. 2. he accompanied Iohn Duke of Lancaster then called King of Castile in his Voyage to Sea and the same year had the chief command of all the Kings Fleet to the Northwards In which of his own Retinue were one hundred and forty men at Arms one hundred and forty Archers one Banneret eight Knights and a hundred and thirty Esquires And the next year following was imployed in the Kings Service to the Court of Rome as also constituted one of the Ambassadors to Treat of a Marriage for King Richard with Catherine the Daughter of Barnabo Lord of Millaine In that year also again recounting the devout intention of Sir William de la Pole his late Father first in founding an Hospital and afterwards a Nunnery at Kingston upon Hull as is before observed as also that by reason he lived not to effect what he did so piously design that he had given special charge to him the said Michaell to go on therein and to perfect the same and having a great veneration for that strict order of Monks called Carthusians he then founded a Monastery of that Rule at Kingston aforesaid without the North-Gate And endowing it with Lands of a very great value appointed that those Monks should at all times in their Divine Offices recommend to Almighty God the good estate of King Richard the Second then King of England Likewise the prosperity of himself and Catherine his Mother Catherine his Wife Edmund his Brother and Michael his own Son and Heir And after this life to pray for the health of all their Souls with the Souls of his Ancestors as also for the Soul of Blanch his Sister late Wife of Richard Lord Scrope In 5 R. 2. upon the death of Catherine his Mother Daughter of Sir Iohn Norwich Knight doing his Fealty he had Livery of those Lands which she held during her life and the same year obtained Licence to hold a Market every week upon the Munday at Meâsingham in Com. Linc. as also a Fair there yearly at the Feast of the Holy Trinity Likewise for free-warren in all his Demesn Lands there and at Appelby Bliburgh Harpiswell and Frisby in Com. Linc. And being grown in high esteem with the King was in 6 R. 2. 13 Martii constituted Chancellor and Keeper of his Great Seal Moreover in 7 R. 2. he procured a special Charter to hold a Court-Leet in his Lordships of Stratford and Heigham in Com. Suff. Likewise for a Market upon the Thursday every week at Stratford aforesaid and a Fair on the Eve Day and Morrow of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr with free-warren in all his Demesn-Lands of Stratford and those at Dedham in Com. Essex Also for a Court-Leet in his Lordships of Appelby Riceby and Staundon in Com. Linc. And in 8 R. 2. procured Licence to make Castles of his Mannor Houses of Wyngefeld Skernefeld and Huntingfeld in Com. Suff. and to inclose and make Parks of all his Woods and Lands in Wyngefeld Stradebroke and Skernefeld before mentioned which lay without the bounds of the Forest. And having sate in Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 39 E. 3. until that time still holding that great place of Lord Chancellor he was by Letters Patents bearing date 6 Aug. 9 R. 2. advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Suffolk and therewith obtained a Grant of a thousand Marks per annum to be received out of the Kings Exchequer It is said that in the Parliament held this year at the earnest sollicitation of Thomas Arundel Bishop of Ely the King restored the Temporalties to the Bishop of Norwich which had been witheld from him for many years notwithstanding that this Michael then Lord Chancellor opposed it saying to the Bishop when he so moved therein What is this my Lord that you desire Is it a small matter to part with thâse Temporalties which yield the King mâre then a thousand pounds per annum The King hath no need of such Advisers to his Loss And that thereupon the Bishop roundly replied What is that you say Michael I desire nothing of the King which is his ownâ but that which belongs to another and which he unjustly
Margaret the Daughter and Heir of Edward Burnell as also two Daughters Elizabeth Wife of Sir Philip Courtney Knight and Margaret of Sir Walter Rodenay Knight Of which Sir Robert there is honorable mention whilst his Father lived for in 3 H. 6. he was reteined by Indenture to serve the King under the conduct of Iohn Duke of Bedford then Regent of France in the Wars of that Countrey with twenty nine men at Arms and eighty Archers and the next ensuing year with thirty men at arms and ninety Archers Moreover in 17 H. 6. upon the death of Alianore Talbot the other Daughter and Co-heir to the before mentioned Thomas Peverel and Sister to Catherine his Mother being found to be her Cosin and next Heir he had a special Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited But farther I have not seen of him then that in 31 H. 6. he arrived at Blay with Iohn Talbot Vicount Lisle also that he had Summons to Parliament from 29 H. 6. till 33 H. 6. inclusive and that by his Testament bearing date 22 Apr. An. 1459. 37 H. 6. he bequeathed his Body to be buried before the Altar of St. Osmund the Bishop and Confessor in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury Likewise that he bequeathed to the Canons-Resident Vicars Choristers Chantry-Priests and other Officers belonging to that Cathedralâ to celebrate his Exequies and to perform all other Divine Solemnities upon the day of his burial the summe of ten pounds to be distributed amongst them in such sort as had been accustomed Also to a thousand Priests saying the Exequies for the dead commendations the seven Penetential Psalms with the wonted Litanies to each of them twelve pence To the Chantry-Priests celebrating Divine Service in the Chapel which his Father founded in that Cathedral to each of them to pray for his Soul forty shillings To Sir Robert Hungerford Knight called Lord Moleyns his Son and Heir two basins of Silver gilt To his Brother Sir Edmund Hungerford Knight two Flagons of Silver gilt with his Arms thereon To the Lady Margaret Rodeney his Sister an Image of our Lady in silver gilt with his Arms under the foot thereof To the repair of the high-way called the Causway in Stawyk Mersh which Walter Lord Hungerford his Father first caused to be made for the health of the Soul of the Lady Cathârine his Wife twenty five Marks To Thomas Hungerford Son and Heir to Robert Hungerford Lord Moleyns a Bed of white Velvet embroidered upon condition that at his death he left it to his next Heir Male. To Arnold Hungerford another Son one hundred Marks and to Mary Hângerford his Daughter one hundred Marks And departed this life upon the fourteenth day of May next ensuing leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to William Lord Botreaux Sir Robert Hungerford Knight commonly called Lord Moleyns by reason of his Marriage with Alianâre Daughter and Heir to William Lord Moleyns his Son and Heir thirty years of age and was buried in the Cathedral at âalisbury Of which Margaret besides her being so great an Heir and that she lived to be very aged I find much that is memorable For upon the twelfth of Ianuary 49 H. 6. which falls out to be in An. 1470. 10 E. 4. by the name of Margaret Lady Hungerford and Botreaux she declared her Will whereby she ordained that whereas by several Deeds of Feoffment she had enfeoffed divers persons of all her Mannors Castles Hundreds Lands c. in the Shires of Cornwal Devon Somerset Wiltshire c. as well of those that came to her by the death of William late Lord Botreaux her Father as of the Mannors of Haylesbury Tudryngton Hornyngesham Fenny-Sutton and Codford with the appurtenances in Wiltshire that her Feoffees should discharge and save harmless every person which at her request or at the request of her Lord and Husband had been bound for the Ransome of Robârt Lord Hungerford and Moleyns her Son who was then prisoner in Guyen Furthermore that if it should please Almighty God not to suffer her so long to live as that hâr Chapel and Chantry of two Priests within the Cathedral at Salisbury and her Alms-House of one Priest twelve poor Men and one Woman at âaytesbury were fully perfected and established that then such Moneys as should be of necessity taken up upon credit by her Executors for the accomplishing of those works to be paid and satisfied by her said Feoffees Furthermore that those her Feoffees should âake a Chapel of Lime and Stone covered with Lead for her Lord and Husband adjoining to our Lady Chapel within the said Cathedral at Saââsbury and likewise found a Chantry of two Priests to say and pray Divine Service for evermore within the said Chapel for the Soul of her said Lord and Husband and her own Soul And lastly that within the term of ten years they should found an Almes house in the Town of Haytesbury of a Schoolmaster or any other honest Priest with twelve poor Men and a Woman to pray for the Souls of Walter lâte Lord Hungerford and others in such manner and form as in an Ordinance thereupon to be made should be more plainly expressed And within little more than a twelve month following obtained License to found a perpetual Chantry of two Priests to celebrate Divine Service every day in a certain Chapel then newly by her built to the honor of Iesus and the Blessed Virgin his Mother within the before-specified Cathedral Church of Salisbury contiguous to the Chapel of the Holy Trinity there wherein Robert Lord Hungerford her Husband lay buried for the good estate of King Edward the Fourth Elizabeth his Queen Richard Beauchamp at that time Bishop of Salisbury during their lives in this World and afterwards for the health of their Souls as also for the good estate of her the said Margaret Ioha Cheyne of Pynne Esquire Iohn Mervyn Esquire Mr. Iames Goldwell the Popes prothonotary then Dean of Salisbury Likewise for the Souls of the said Robert Hungerford and her the said Margaret Also for the Souls of Walter late Lord Hungerford and Catherine his Wife parents of him the said Robert and for the Souls of William Lord Botreaux and Elizabeth his Wife parents of her the said Margaret Likewise for the Souls of George Westby Esquire Iohn Cheyne Iohn Mervyn and Iames Goldwell after this life and for the Souls of all the faithful deceased Which Chantry she endowed with the Mannor of Immere in Com. Wiltes and the Advouson of the free Chapel there as also with three Messuages two hundred Acres of Land three hundred Acres of Pasture eight Acres of Meadow and thirty shillings Rent in Winterborne and Hornington in the said County and Moytie of the Mannor of Folke with the Advouson of the Church of Folke in Com. Dors. And having thus done she gave thereunto these
of black bord Alisander to kneel upon Also a long Cushion and a short Cushion of Motley Cloth of gold Item Two Curtains of Linnen Cloth to cover the Images with in the Lent of elle-broad Cloth two leves of bredth and three yards of length Item An Hanging of Linnen-Cloth to cover the Pictures of the Chappel in Lent time round about from the one Arch to the other At the same time also the obtain'd the like Licence to found that Hospital at Heighresbury before-mentioned for one Chaplain twelve poor men and one Woman the Chaplain to be Warden to celebrate divine service every day in the Parish Church of Heigtesbury for the good estate of the persons above-mentioned and for the health of the Souls of all before-specified which she endowed with the Mannors of Cheverell Burnell and Cheverell Hales otherwise called Cheverell magna in the same County of Wiltes and gave thereunto xx Loads of Wood yearly out of her Wood of Southlegh in that County After which 8 Aug. an 1476. 16 E. 4. she declared her Will at Heytesbury Whence I have thought fit to take notice of the vast charge she was at in the redemption of Robert Lord Hungerford and Molyns her Son taken Prisoner in Guyen as hath been already observed as also of other her disbursements and losses which were  l. s. d. In sending Chester-Herald into France sundry times by the space of seven years and sixteen Weeks to procure his enlargement 140 00 00. In gifts and rewards to those who had part in him 733 06 08. In Apparel sent to him with an Ambling Horse to please his Friends and for healing his wounds 176 00 00. For meat and drink by the space of seven years and sixteen Weeks for himself and his Servants at xl s. a week before he was put to his finance 760 00 00. For the like board for himself and his servants by the space of LXXX weeks after he was put to his finance viz. vi s. viii d. a day 186 13 04. For his Finaunce over and above all other expences and costs 6000 00 00. For Exchange of money viii d. by the Noble for payment of his Ransome being 7690 l. paid 769 00 00. In Giâts to divers Noblemen which were sureties for her upon borrowing of money to pay this Ransom and to quit those Lords harmless 945 06 00. Lost in the sale of Plate which she sold towards that payment 160 00 00. Item Paid for her Sons Expences from the time he landed in England until the time he went to Florence with Gifts and rewards to great Lords and other after he escaped out of the Tower of London and for his Licence to go to Florence 768 13 04. Paid for his Shipping and Expences 255 00 00. Paid in Expences of his Wife Children and Servants by the space of seven years and xvi weeks with the Expences of Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Son and Heir of her said Son waiting upon the Earl of Warwick in the King's Service after the departing of King Henry arrayed and accompanied for the War 800 00 00. Paid to her said Sons Creditors to whom he was indebted before he went out of England 400 00 00. Paid and spent for the Composition of the Lands of her late Husband Robert Lord Hungerford which had been divers times seized and given to several great Lords 2160 00 00. In the charge of being under the Arrest of the Earl of Wiltshire by the Kings Command and to be restored to her Lands and Goods 400 00 00. In the loss which she sustained when she was put into the Abby of Ambresbury by the Lord Chancellor of England at the Kings Command her movable Goods of great value being there burnt viz. Beds of Cloth of gold Arras and silk Hangings for Halls and Chambers Plate money and other stuff to the value of 1000 l. more besides repairing the Lodgings so burnt 200 00 00. Item When the Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick went out of England against the Kings Will She being then put in Ward to the young Dutchess of Norfolk In making means to the King to be at Syon cost her 200 00 00. Item Whereas Robert late Lord Hungerford her Husband ordained by his last will to have a Chappel for his Sepulâure builded adjoining to our Lady Chappel in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury and two Priests there to be founded and livelyhood amortized therefore and his and her Obit to be kept solemnly in the said Church Which Chappel she did make accordingly and removed his Body thither into a Vault of Marble and made another Tomb for her self all this cost 497 00 00. Item In Ornaments for the said Chappel viz. three pair of Candlesticks of Silver whereof one pair gilt Three pair of Cruets whereof one pair gilt Three Pax-bredes one Bell of Silver Nine pair of Altar-Cloths Nine pair of Vestments Mass-Books Leigers and other necessaries to the Chappel 200 00 00. Item For Licence to amortize the Mannors of Immer and Homyngton in Com. Wiltes and the Mannor of Folke in Com. Dors. to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury for maintenance of those two Priests and keeping the said Obit for ever 176 13 04. Item Whereas Walter late Lord Hungerford built an Almeshouse for xii poor men and one woman and an House for a Schoolmaster being a Priest as well to teach Grammar as to have the rule and oversight of those poor men and woman at Haytesbury in Com. Wiltes and ordained that the Mannors of Chyverell Burnell and Chyverell Halys alias Chyverell magna should be amortised to the said Schoolmaster poor men c. and their Successors This being not perform'd in his days she paid for the effecting thereof 200 00 00. Item In other sums upon other occasions which she paid all which computed amounted to 26180 marks 06s 08d But the next year following the departed this Life and was buried in the Cathedral at Salisburg I now come to Robert Son and Heir to the last Robert by this Margaret Lady Botreaux above-mentioned This Robert in 19 H. 6. which was in his Father's life time by the name of Robert Hungerford Esq having married Alianore the Daughter and Heir of Sir William Molins Knight Lord Molyns Son and Heir to Sir William Molins Knight and Margery his Wife deceased and Cousin and Heir to them the said Sir William and Margery making proof of the Age of her the said Alianore and doing his Fealty had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance And in 14 H. 6. by the name of Sir Robert Hungerford Knight Lord Molyns obtain'd a Grant of C l per annum to himself and the said Alianore his Wife and the Heirs of her the said Alianore to be paid out of the Exchequer until such times as Lands of the like value should be assigned unto them In 31 H. 6. he was amongst others retain'd to serve the King in that Expedition then
was in that Expedition then made into Gascoine and in 28 E. 1. in the Scottish-Wars Then that Iohn his Son who married Margaret the elder Daughter of Roger de Somerie Baron of Dudley Sister and Coheir to Iohn de Someri by his Deed bearing date at Westm. 12 Oct. 19 E. 2. passed away all his right and title to the Castle and Mannor of Dudley as also to the Mannors of Seggeley and new Swynford in Com. Staff The Township of Dudley in Com. Wigorn. The Mannors of Bradfeild Soleham and Bastenden in Com. Berks. and to all his Lands and Tenements lying in Rowley Someri and Prestwode within the Precincts of the Forest of Kinfare in the same County of Staff unto Hugh le Despenser Son to Hugh Earl of Winchester But this grant thus made being extorted from him through the power of that Hugh under colour that he had forfeited all he had for his adherence to Thomas Earl of Lancaster as that of the Mannor of Eykering in Com. Nott. by Hugh his Father they putting him into Prison and threatning him with death in 1 E. 3. he obtained restitution of them all To which Iohn de Sutton succeeded Iohn his Son and Heir who in 12 E. 3. by his Deed bearing date as before is expressed stiles himself Iohn the Son of Iohn de Sutton upon Trent Lord of Dudley c. And having been summon'd to Parliament in 16 E. 3. but no more departed this Life upon Friday the Feast of St. Clement in 33 E. 3. being then seised of the Town of Dudley in Com. Wigorn. as parcel and member of the Castle of Dudleye held by Barony Likewise of the Castle of Dudley and Mannors of Seggessey Kings-Swynford Rowley Someri Humely and Penne in Com. Staff as also of the Mannor of Aston in Com. North. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir of full Age and Isabel his Wife Daughter of Iohn de Cherleton Lord of Powys surviving Which last mention'd Iohn had Issue another Iohn whose Wardship and Marriage being granted to Richard Earl of Arundel was sold in 5 R. 2. for CCCL Marks unto Sir Philip le Despenser Knight Lord of Carlyngton But of that Iohn all I have seen is that in 12 R. 2. he was in the Wars of France and in 2 H. 4. upon the Death of Isabel his Grandmother being found to be xxi years of Age doing his Homage had Livery of those Lands which she held in Dower and departed this Life upon Friday next after the Feast of the Decollation of St. Iohn Baptist 8 H. 4. being seised of the Burrough of Dudley in Com. Wigorn. as also of the Castle of Dudlep with the Mannors of Seggeste Kings-Swynford Rowley Someri Hymtey and Over Penne in Com. Staff leaving Iohn his Son and Heir five years of Age which Iohn carried the Standard at the solemn Funeral of that Victorious Prince King Henry the Fifth and being a Knight in 2 H. 6. bore the Title of Baron of Dudley at which time he was of the retinue with Humphrey Duke of Gloucester Governour of the Castle of Ghisnes where he continued for the defence of that Fort and in 6 H. 6. was constituted Lieutenant of Ireland from the last day of Aprill for the space of two years In which imployment and other his Services he merited so well that in 18 H. 6. he had Summons to that Parliament then held at Reading and the same year was appointed one of the Commissioners to treat with the Duke of Burgundy or his Embassadors upon a Truâe Shortly after which viz. in 22 H. 6. in consideration of his merits in the Wars of France and Normandy as also in Ireland and other his Services as well in the time of King Henry the Fifth as that King he obtain'd a grant of Cl. per annum to be received out of the Petty-Customs in the Port of London And in 25 H. 6. being then one of the Lords of that King's Council was imploy'd as an Ambassador with the Bishop of Chichester unto the Duke of Britanny to treat and conclude a Truce betwixt King Henry and him So likewise in 27 H. 6. with others to the Duke of Burgundy to treat with him and certain Commissioners from the Flemings touching a freedom of Trade betwixt the English and them And in 29 H. 6. as a firm adherer to the Lancastrian Interest being surprized at Gloucester by Richard Duke of Yorke upon his return at that time out of Ireeland was sent Prisoner to the Castle of Ludlow Moreover in 38 H. 6. having been wounded at Blore Heath-field he obtain'd a grant of the Stewardship of the Lordships of Montgomeri the Hundred of Chirbury Halcestre Terretreve Kerre Kedever and Newtone to be executed by himself or his sufficient Deputy for life As also another grant of xl l. per annum during his life out of the Mannors of Tyknill Beaudley and Ernewode in Com. Salop. and Marches of Wales with xxx l. per annum out of the Mannors of Bromesgrove and Noroton in Com. Wigorn. And by reason of his faithful and constant endeavours and large expences in the Kings Service xl l. per annum more during his Life to be received out of the issues and profits of those Lordships And though he was thus faithful to King Henry the sixth of whose Houshold he had also been Treasurer yet did he so comply with King Edward the Fourth when he obtain'd the Crown that in the first year of his Reign he obtained pardon for all such Debts upon Accompt as were due from him by reason of his exercise of that Office And afterwards in consideration of his integrity to him as also for his diligence and great expences in his service had a further grant of C. Marks per annum more to be received out of the Revenues of the Dutchy of Cornwall Likewise in 5 E. 4. another of C l. sterling per annum for Life out of the great and petty Customs in the Port of Southampton This Iohn was one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter elected towards the later end of King Henry the Sixths Reign He was also imploy'd as a Commissioner with William Earl of Arundel and others in 17 E. 4. to treat touching a Prorogation of the Truce betwixt King Edward and the King of France and had Summons to Parliament from 18 H. 6. until 22 E. 4. inclusive By Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Berkley of Beverstan in Com. Glouc. Knight and Widdow of Sir Edward Charleton Knight Lord Powys he had issue three Sons Edmund who died in his life time Iohn from whom the Earls of Warwick and Leicester did derive their Descent and William Bishop of Durham He had also a Daughter
the Mothers side he was advanced to the Title of Vicount L'isle 12 Martii 34 H. 8. and the same year made Lord Admiral of England for life being a person very comely and of a Spirit highly aspiring neither wanting skill industry or resolution to attempt great matters as my Author saith For in 36 H. 8. he Landed the King's Army at Leith in Scotland with a Fleet of CC Sail on which place having wasted Edenburgh they also set fire And the same year having scoured the Seas towards Scotland after the King had taken Boloin in France he was left Lieutenant there which he defended against the Daâlfin and his Army consisting of fifty two thousand men though the Walls were then much shattered And when the Daulsin had entred the base Town not without slaughter of divers English by a brave Salley he beat out the French again with the loss of above eight hundred of their men then esteemed the best Souldiers in that Realm In 37 H. 8. being Lord Admiral of England Wales and Ireland he was made General of all the King's Forces at Sea against the French where he offered Battail to them which they refused returning with the loss of all their cost Hereupon he landed five thousand men upon their Coast fired Treport and divers Villages thereabouts with the loss of but one man And being one of the Commissioners on the King of England's part by which the Articles of Truce were concluded in the Camp betwixt Ardres and Guisnes 7 Iunii 38 H. 8. he was afterwards sent Ambassador into France for the confirmation of them To say truth quoth Sir Iohn Howard he was the Minion of that time so as few things he attempted but he atchieved with Honour which made him the more proud and ambitious Generally he always increased both in estimation with the King and authority amongst the Nobility but doubtful whether by fatal destiny to the State or whether by his virtues or appearance of virtues as saith the same Author So that King Henry constituted him one of his Sixteen Executors Whereupon finding the Duke of Somerset Protector to the young King Edward the Sixth to be neither a person of great Wisdom or Courage he ambitiously aimed to have the full sway of all himself and therefore insinuating into his Friendship made him a shadow for accomplishing his own ends To which purpose he first obtain'd an increase of Honour being presently Created Earl of Warwick by reason of his descent through his Mother from Margaret the Eldest Daughter and Coheir to Richard Beauchamp sometime Earl of Warwick as also made Lord High Chamberlain of England and soon after a grant of Warwick-Castle with the Mannour and divers other great Lordships and Lands in that County In this first year of E. 6. being made Lieutenant General of that Army then sent into Scotland at which time the Scots were vanquisht at Hucleborough he there dub'd many Knights and was indeed the principal person for military skill and prowess upon whom the management of that War rested In 3 E. 6. he commanded all those Forces sent against Ket and his fellow-Rebells in Norfolk of which having slain about five thousand he took Ket himself and setled all in quiet there In that year also he was again made Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and in 4 E. 6. Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold And being thus elated with these Successes Commands and Trusts his ambitious mind had no bound for he mattered not whom he ruin'd so it tended to the ends he aimed at First therefore he raised discontents betwixt the Protector and the Lord Thomas Seymour his Brother so that soon after that Lord became attainted in Parliament upon pretence that he had conspired his Brother's Death and thereupon lost his Head Then put the Protector on in making such alteration both in State and Religion as that some of the Bishops opposing it were committed to Prison What vast sums did he make a shift to Pocket by despoiling the Church of her Chalices Crosses and an infinite number of consecrated Utensils with the like both of Gold and Silver as also by rich Copes and other Vestments under colour of bringing them into the King's Wardrobe For it was he who led the Protector on to those courses as 't is well known as also by Lands given to maintain Lamps and Lights and for other pious uses Which doings with the ruine of the Cloyster and Charnel at Pauls the Church in the Strand and two Bishops Houses there besides that goodly Church of St. Iohns near Smithfeild all pull'd down to build Somerset-House brought upon the Protector no little hatred and so hastned his ruine That being it which he chiefly aimed at and therefore espying so fair an opportunity wrought upon no less than eighteen of the Privy Council to join with him therein Yet such was his subtility that he accomplisht the work by others being least seen in it himself And because he could not win the Earls of Arundel and Southampton to be fit Instruments for his purpose he found means to discharge them from the Council and confine them to their Houses as also to fine the Earl of Arundel twelve thousand pounds upon suggestion that he had taken away Bolts and Locks at Westm. and given away the King's stuffe when he was Lord Chamberlain Having also been a prime Actor in the Peace made with France he was by way of reward for that service made general Warden of the North with a thousand marks per annum Lands granted unto him and C Horsemen at the King's Charge And in 5 E. 6 accompanied William Marquess of Northampton in his Embassy to the French King Yet all this seeming not enough within a while after viz. in 5 E. 6. he was constituted Earl Marshal of England 20 Apr. and 11 Oct. following Duke of Northumb. As also Warden of all the Marches towards Scotland Being therefore inferior to none of the Nobility in Titles of Honour and superior to all others in Authority and Power he could not restrain his haughty hopes from aspiring to an absolute Command But before he directly discovered his aim it was thought fit that the Duke of Somerset then Protector should be taken away whole credit with the common people though it sufficed not to bear out any bad attempt of his own as my Author observeth yet it was of force to thwart the evil practices of others and therefore Speeches were cast out that he caused himself to be proclaimed King in divers Counties and much more laid to his charge by this Dukes contrivance who when he came to his Tryal was one of his Peers Upon which though they acquitted him of Treason yet they found him guilty of Felony whereupon he had judgment to be
your most perfidiously betraying this innocent young Gentleman into the hands of bloody Butchers to be destroy'd and murthered therefore all that love you whereof I am one cannot but infinitely grieve to see that your sometime great reputation should now be stained with such a perfidious blot Whereunto the Duke replied Hold thy peace my dear John there is no such danger at all for King Edward resolves to make him his Son in Law But to this he suddenly returned Believe me Most Illustrious Duke he is already very near death and if you permit him to be carryed one step out of your Dominion no Mortal Man can preserve him from it At which pathetical expressions the Duke being not a little troubled not at all suspecting that King Edward would deal thus forthwith dispatcht Peter Landose his chief Treasurer to St. Malos to bring this Earl back Who hasting thither detained the Embassadours with a long speech until his Servants had convey'd him to a Sanctuary in that City which could not be violated and thence conducted him with safety back again After which he continued secure in those parts during the whole time of King Edward's Reign But when King Richard had attain'd the Crown the like danger as before in short space befell him for Thomas Hutton being then sent Embassador into Britanny with money and good oratory obtain'd a promise from the Dâke that he should be strictly restrain'd as King Edward had formerly desired High time indeed it was that King Richard should look to his own station for besides the general odium which that cruel murther acted upon his Brothers Sons had brought upon him from all good Men the Duke of Buckingham the chiefest instrument for raising him to that height growing not a little discontented so far disclosed himself to Iohn Morton Bishop of Ely then in the nature of a Prisoner with him at Brecknocke-castle in Wales as that they there projected the pulling him down by the bringing in of this Earlâ and linking him in Marriage with Elizabeth the eldest Daughter to King Edward by which means those long divided interests of York and Lancaster which had been the occasion of such bloudshed and misery to this Realm might be knit together and all animosities betwixt the favourers of either side be happily quieted Which being thus auspiciously design'd Reginald Bray a trusty servant to the Lady Margaret Mother to this Earl then the Wife of Thomas Lord Stanley was sent for thither by the Bishop and thence imploy'd back to acquaint her therewith Whereupon by the help of one Lewis a Welchman who as a Physitian had recourse to them both unsuspected she imparted it to Queen Elizabeth the Widdow of King Edward Both of them therefore concurring therein they privately by the same Reginald communicated the business to such of the Nobility and others as were deemed well-wishers thereto resolving to imploy Christopher Vrswike the Lady Margarets Priest into Britanny there to impart the same to her Son But before Vrswike began his journey altering her mind she dispatch Hugh Conway thither upon that errand with a large sum of money Who declaring to him what was intended advised him to land in Wales where he should find ready aid on his behalf Whereupon discovering the whole to the Duke of Britanny notwithstanding all the sollicitation of King Richard by Hutton he promised him his aid Thus far from Polydore But our other Historians do somewhat vary from him herein and tell us that when King Richard first understood from his Embassador Hutton that the Duke of Britanny did not only refuse to keep this Earl as a prisoner but promised to supply him with Men Money and all necessaries for his landing here he rigg'd and sent out divers men of war to scoure the Seas betwixt this and that Coast. Nevertheless that this Earl having got together five thousand stout Briâons and forty Ships well fitted set âail for England upon the 12 of October which by a violent Tempest happening that night were all dispersed and that about Noon the next day the Tempest ceasing that Ship wherein this Earl himself was approached the Haven of Poole in Dorsetshire where he found the Shore full of Souldiers to oppose his arrival Also that upon his putting forth a Boat to enquire the cause of their appearance in that warlike posture they answered as they were instructed with purpose to entrap him that they were thither sent by the Duke of Buckingham to receive him and to conduct him to his Camp he being with a mighty Army not far off so that joining their Forces they might fall upon King Richard Whereas in truth Buckingham was but a little before beheaded at Salisbury But that this Earl suspecting the fraud seeing none of his own Ships in view hoised fail and diverting his course landed in Normandy whence he sent Embassadors to Charles the 8. King of France with desire of safe-conduct back into Britanny through his Territories Which he readily granted and not only so but furnish'd him with a large sum of money to defray the expence of so long a journey Whereupon he âarcht by land thither sânding his Ships to meet him there Into which parts he was no sooner comâ but he had tidings that the Duke of Buckingham had lost his Head and that the Marquiss Dorset with other of the English Nobles who were his friends having been there to look him were return'd to Uannes Notwithstanding which iâl news of Buckingham's death despairing not at all in his purposed adventure he went to Rhemes and sent some of his servants to the Marquiss Dorset and those his friends then there to conduct them to him Being therefore thus happily met together again where they staid the Festival of our Saviours Nativity he went to the chief Church of that City and there taking a solemn Oath that soon after his attaining the Crown of this Realm he would marry the Lady Elizabeth Daughter to King Edward the 4. they all did Homage to him and swore Fealty as if he had been already Crowned King Vowing to adventure both Life and Fortune with him against King Richard All which he communicated to the Duke of Britanny desiring his aid with more Forces and to land him in his own Countrey whereunto most of the English Nobles were desirous he should come assuring him that what sums of money he had already borrowed of him or might do should be faithfully repaid whereupon the Duke promised to supply him King Richard therefore hearing of these preparations seised upon divers who were friends to this Earl and put them to death some at London and some at Exeter causing also a Sessions to be kept at Exeter wherein many others were indicted of High Treason and soon
one of the chief of his Privy-Council and upon the Royal Coronation of that King constituted one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of High Steward of England during that days Solemnity The same year likewise being constituted Justice of South-Wales and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for the space of two years for his better support as also in reward of his many services he obtain'd a grant in special Tail of all the Castles Mannors and Lands of Glamorgan Morganok and Abergabenny in Wales and the Marches Of the Lordships and Mannors of Minster Lovel Norton Bruyn Coggs Hardwike âoderfeild Grey Somerton and Banbury in Com. Oxon. Wedesord and ãâã in Com. Glouc. Acton Burnell Holgaâ Lângdon Wolstanton Smithcote Abeton ãâã and Uppington in Com. Salep late Francis Vicount Lovel's attainted Also of Wely-Castle with the Lordships of Wely and Northfeld in Com. Wigorn. Stoke King's-Weston Uly Aylberton âââhhampton Bradeây and Sheperdike in Com. Glouc. Brightmerston in Com. Wilts and Kingesey-more in Com. Somers part of the possessions of Sir William Berkley Knight then likewise attainted And of the Mannor of Sudely in Com. Glouc. Shortly after this the King being advertised that the said Francis Lord Lovel with Humphrey Stafford who had been firm adherers to King Richard and taken Sanctuary at Colchester were got thence Fearing new commotions he sent this Iasper with three thousand men to prevent any Insurrection that might be thereupon raised And upon the appearance of Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his Complices on the behalf of Lambert Simnell whom they pretended to be the Son to George Duke of Clarence constituted him Joint-General with Iohn Earl of Oxford of those Forces then raised to suppress all such as were in Arms upon that account In 3 H. 7. he was also constituted one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of High Steward of England upon the day of the Queen's Coronation and in 4 H. 7. had his Commission for the Lieutenancy of Ireland renewed In 5 H. 7. he was again made General with Iohn Earl of Oxford of that Army then sent into Flanders in aid of the Emperour Maximilian against the French But after this I have no more to say of him until 11 H. 7. in which year by his Testament bearing date at his Mannor of Thornbury in Com. Glouc. 15 Dec. he bequeath'd his Body to be buryed in the Monastery of our Lady at Keynsham in the same County in a place convenient where he willed that a Tomb should be honourably made for him after the estate whereunto it had pleased God to call him and thereupon to be imployed C. marks Farther appointing that certain of his Lordships and Lands lying in the Counties of Notingham Derby and Warwick of the yearly value of xl l. should be amortised for the finding of four Priests to sing perpetually in the said Monastery of Keynsham for the we le of his Soul and for the Soul of his Father as also for the Souls of Katherine sometime Queen of England his Mother Edmund late Earl of Richmund his Brother and the Souls of all other his Predecessors And that upon the day of his Interment there should be distributed to every poor Man and Woman that would take it two pence a piece So likewise at his Month's minde To the House of Gray-Friers at Harford East where his Father lay Interred he bequeath'd his second Gown of Cloth of Gold to make a Cope or Vestment there Also to every Parish-Church into which his Body should be carried betwixt that place and Keynsham xx s. and two Torches And having Married Catherine the sixth and youngest Daughter of Richard Widvile Earl Rivers Widdow of Henry Duke of Buckingham who surviving him took to Husband Sir Richard Wingfeild Knight of the Garter he departed this Life upon the xxi th day of the same Month of December and was buried at Keynsham before-specified leaving no other Issue than one Illegitimate Daughter called Ellen who became the Wife of William Gardner Citizen of London Fienes 37 H. 6. THE first of this antient Family of whom I find mention is Ingelram de Fienles whose posterity for the most part wrote Fenes and Fienes Which Ingelram took to Wife Sibyll de Tyngrie Daughter and Heir to Faramus âe Boloin Son of William Son of Geffrey Son of Eustace sometime Earl of Boloin Which Faramus being Nephew to Maud Queen of England Wife of King Stephen together with William de Ipre a Flemming afterwards Earl of Kent ruled that Kings Household and gave to the Monks of Bec in Normandy one hide of land in Belgeham belonging to his Mannour of Clopham in Com. Surr. Sibyll his Daughter confirming the grant This Ingelram de Fienles had issue William de Fienles his Son and Heir who in 8 Iohn obtained that Kings Mandate to the Sheriff of Somerset-shire to make livery unto him of the Mannour of Mertoc whereunto Sibyll his Mother had quitted her claim in open Court Which Mannour as part of the Honour of Eustace sometime Earl of Boloin William Earl of Boloin Grandson to Eustace gave to the said Faramuse in âee And in 2 H. 3. paid a Fine to the King of CC Marks for Livery of the Mannour of Wendovre in Com. Buck. Which Mannour was likewise given to the before specified Faramus his Grandfather by King Henry the Second This William having given to the Canons of Missenden certain lands in Wendovre died in 25 H. 3. for then had his Son and Heir called Ingelram Livery of his Lands his Relief with all other the debts of William his Father being afterwards pardoned in respect of his special services In 32 H. 3. this Ingelram de Fienles being to receive the honour of Knighthood at the Festival of our Saviours Nativity by Bathing c. had an allowance of his Robes and all other accoutrements for that solemnity at the Kings charge and in 33 H. 3. doing his Homage had also Livery of his Lands in Northampton-shire Before the end of which year in consideration of the sum of seven hundred Marks xiii s. iv d. Sterling he purchased from Robert de Gysnes Uncle to Arnulph Earl of Gysnes the Mannour of Gayton in Com. Sutht with the advouson of the Church and likewise his whole right and title to all other the possessions of him the said Robert in England Which Mannour of Gayton sometime belonged to Robert Advocate of Arras Lord of Bethun it being of the fee of Baldwin antiently Earl of Gynes Whereupon he obtained Licence to inclose his Woods there they being within the bounds of the Forest of Silcester and to make a Park of them Upon which purchase Fulke Basset then Bishop of London receiv'd a Precept from the King whereby he was
of Richmund at his landing Which was really his intent though he durst not shew it till he came near Bosworth but had Conference with him at Atherston about six Miles short of that place coming thither with great privacy to him the day before the Fight Approaching therefore near the Field he openly appeared notwithstanding the King's Message to him letting him know that unless he did forthwith repair to his presence he would put his Son the Lord Strange to Death and marcht with him in the Rear of all his Forces with one Troop of Horse and some few Foot until the whole Army was fully marshall'd Whereupon the Battel soon after ensued in which King Richard being slain and his Crown he that day wore found amongst the spoils he set it upon the Earl of Richmund's Head and Proclaim'd him King by the name of Henry the Seventh After which upon the 27th of October he was advanced to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Derby and Constituted one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Lord High Steward of England upon the thirtieth day of that month which was the day of his more solemn Coronation as also soon after that made one of his Privy Council And in 3 H. 7. one of the Commissioners to exercise the Office of High Steward of England upon the day of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Wife to that prudent King He Married two Wives First Eleanore the fourth Daughter to Richard Nâvil Earl of Salisbury by whom he had issue six Sons and four Daughters viz. Thomas and Richard who died young George called Lord Strange of whom I shall speak farther by and by William died young Edward afterwards Lord Mont-Egle and Iames elected Bishop of Ely in 22 H. 7. Which Iames being also Warden of the Collegiate-Church at Manchester in Com. Lanc. lyeth buried in the Chapell of St. Iohn Baptist on the North side of that Church by him built with this Inscription on his Tomb Of your Charity pray for the soul of James Stanley sometimes Bishop of Ely and Warden of Manchester who deceased this transitory world the xxii of March in the year of our Lord God 1525. upon whose soul and all Christian souls Iesu have mercy His four Daughters were these Ioan Catherine and Anne who died young and Margaret married to Sir Iohn Osbaldeston of ... in Com. Lanc. Knight His second Wife was Margaret Daughter and Heir to Iohn Duke of Somerset Widdow of Edmund Earl of Richmund before mentioned the happy Mother to King Henry the seventh but by her he had no issue By his Testament bearing date 28 Iulii an 1504 19 H. 7. bearing then the title of E. of Derby Lord Stanley Lord of Man and great Constable of England he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the midst of the Chapell in the North Isle of the Church of the Priory of Bourâcough near Lathom in Com. Lanc. of his Ancestors foundation where the Bodies of his Father Mother and other of his Ancestours lay buried having provided a Tomb to be there placed with the personage of himself and both his Wives for a perpetual remembrance to be pray'd for and likewise appointing that the personages which he had caused to be made for his Father and Mother his Grandfather and Great-grandfather should be set in the Arches of the Chancell within that Priory in the places provided for the same And though he had formerly given to the Prior and Covent of that House large gifts in money Jewels and Ornaments and likewise made great reparations there he farther bequeath'd unto them xx l. to the intent that they should be obliged by their Deed under their Covent Seal to cause one of the Canons of that house duly to say Mass in the before-specified Chapel for his Soul as also for the Soul of his Lady then living after her decease Likewise for the Soul of Alianore his former Wife and for the Souls of his Father Mother Ancestors Children Brethren and Sisters Also for the Soul of William late Marquess Berkley and for the Souls of them who died in his or his Fathers service or that should die in his service And at every Mass before the Lavatorie audibly to say for the said Souls appointed by name and all other in general De profundis clamavi and such Oriâons and Collects as are used to be said therewith Furthermore he willed that his Son Sir Edward Stanley should have and enjoy the Castle of Hornby so long as he lived And departed this life within the space of three months after as may seem by the Probate thereof which bears date 9 Nov. next ensuing To whom succeeded Thomas his Grandson and Heir by George his eldest Son who died in his life time Of which George before I proceed it is proper to take notice that having married Ioan the Daughter and Heir to Iohn Lord Strange of Knokin he had summons to Parliament by the title of Lord Strange in 22 E. 4. and afterwards until the twelfth of H. 7. inclusive Also that before his said marriage he was one of those noble persons which receiv'd the Honour of Knighthood by Bathing c. with Prince Edward the Kings eldest Son 18 Apr. 15 E. 4. and that in 1 H. 7. he was made one of the Lords of the Privy-Council Likewise that in 2 H. 7. being one of the principal Commanders in the Kings Army at the battel of Stoke juxta Newark he shared in the honour of that Victory which was then obtained against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents and was made one of the Knights Companions of the most noble order of the Garter Furthermore that in 9 H. 7. upon the siege of Norham-Castle by the Scots he advanced with Thomas Earl of Surrey and many other of the Nobility against those bold Invaders but performed nothing of consequence at that time the enemy retreating before they wrought thither And departing this life 5 Dec. 3 H. 7. his Father then living was buried in the Parish Church of St. Iames Garlik-hythe in the City of London leaving issue by the said Ioan his Wife two Sons viz. Thomas and Iames and two Daughters Iane married to Robert Sheffeild Esq and Elizabeth Which Thomas had livery of those lands whereof his Father died seised 9 Iulii 19 H. 7. And in 5. H. 8. his Grandfather being dead attended King Henry in that great expedition by him then made into France at which time he won Therouene and Tournay By Anne his Wife Daughter of Edward Lord Hastings Sister to George the first Earl of Huntington of that name and with whom he had four thousand Marks he had issue three Sons Iohn who died in his life time Edward his Successor in his honours and Henry as also one Daughter
Suff. as also of the Mannours of Dolyngham and Michell-Hall otherwise called Earles Swasham in Com. Cantabr then in the Crown by the attainder of Iohn Earl of Oxford And in 17 E. 4. was joined in Commission with the Earl of Arundel and others to treat with the French for prolongation of the Truce betwixt both Realms In 18 E. 4. he obtained a grant of the Office of Constable of the Tower of London in reversion after the death of Iohn Lord Dudley and in 19 E. 4. was by Indenture again retein'd to serve the King as Captain General of his Fleet against the Scots with three thousand Men at Arms. He was likewise installed Knight of the Garter in the time of that King And having been thus faithful to the House of York during the whole time of King Edward the fourths reign he continued no less stedfast to King Richard the third after he had got the Crown though I do not find that he had any hand in those evil contrivances and barbarous actions which were exercised by Richard in order thereto So that to oblige him the more he was upon the 28 of Iune in the first year of that Kings Reign made Earl Marshal of England and upon the same day advanced to the dignity of Duke of Norfolk Thomas his Son being about that time also created Earl of Surry and in order to the solemnity of King Richard's Coronation upon the thirtieth of that month was constituted high Steward of England for that day as also Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Aquitane for life upon the 25 of Iuly ensuing upon which day he likewise obtained a grant in special tail of the Mannours and Lordships of Lavenham in Com. Suff. Canfeild Stansted-Montfichet Crepping Langdon Crustwiche Eston Hall Vauce Fyngreton Dodynghurst Bumsted-Melyon Beamond and Bentley in Com. Essex Badlesmere in Com. Canc. Hinkeston in Com. Cantabr Rosteneythe Helston Deby Predannok Poledewe Etheron Dawneth Ratleton Tresaveron Hilleton Heyvenis Newland Harnatethy Park Trewigo Wycoteham Penhall Nausergh with the Hundreds of Trelyghen and Shrobhender in Com. Cornub. Bretford Wellelewe Rustishall Chepenham Teffount Bremilshawe Upton Skydmore Weston Park Wermynster and Winterborne-Stoke in Com. Wiltes Hungerford in Com. Berks. as also of the Castle Lordship and Mannour of Farlegh in Com. Somerset and Wilts And shortly after that obtained another grant in special tail of the Mannours and Lordships of Middelton Hillington Tilney Istelington Clenchwarton Raynham Shakleshewe Skales Hekelyng Wilton Hokkewod Berton Bendish Wigenhale with the Fishing there and Toll in Bishops Lenne also of the Hundred of Frebrigge with its appurtenances in Com. Norfolk Likewise of the Mannours and Lordships of Lavenham and Warde Huton in Com. Suff. Canfeild Stansted-Montfichet Bentley and Wodham Ferrers in Com. Essex Berkeway Rokeley and Newselles in Com. Hertf. Haselingfeild in Com. Cantabr Langham alias Langnam in Com. Dors. Keres and Retire in Com. Cornub. Exton South-Brent Chillington Stratton Yebelton and Spekington in Com. Somers Ber Lortye in Com. Dors. Foxhunt in Com. Suss. Frid in Boderesden in Com. Cantabr Petersfeldâ and Vp Clatford in Com Southt and Knoke Bedwyn and Orcheston in Com. Wilts to hold by the same services as they had been held before they came to the Crown But long he enjoy'd not this great Honour nor these vast possessions For the next ensuing year being placed in the Front of the King's Army at Bosworth-field where he commanded the Archers he was with that King slain 22 Aug. an 1485. 3 R. 3. and buried in the Abby of Therâord in Com. Norff. As also soon after attainted in the Parliament begun at Westminster 7 Nov. 1 H. 7. He Married two Wives First Katherine Daughter to William Lord Molins by whom he had Issue Thomas his Son and Heir and four Daughters Anne Married to Sir Edmund Gorge Knight Isabell to Sir Robert Mortimer of ... in Com. Essex Knight Iane to Iohn Timperley Esq and Margaret to Sir Iohn Windham of Crowherst in Com. Norff. Knight Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Iohn Chedworth Kt. by whom he had Issue Catherine Married to Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners Which Margaret surviving him by her Testament bearing date 13 Maii an 1490. 5 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Quire of the Church of our Lady in Stoke before her Image on the side of the high Altar Appointing that immediately after her Decease besides the day of her Burying her Executors should find three hundred Priests secular and Religious to say CCC Masses and Diriges for her Soul within eight or ten days after her decease evry Priest having for his labour iv d. Likewise that her Executors with as much speed as might be should find two virtuous Priests to sing in the Church of Stoke by the space of three years for her Soul as also for the Souls of her Husband Iohn Noreys Esq and all other unto whom she was beholden And bequeathed to her Daughter the Lady Berners and to her then Husband all her Houshould stuff except plate and to her Daughter Marney a Chain of Water-Flowers Ordaining her Son in Law Thomas Earl of Surrey Suervisor of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the foot silver and gilt The Probate of which Testament bears date 3 Dec. an 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retain'd to serve him is his Wars in 15 E. 4. with six men at Arms and CC. Archers and the next ensuing year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norff. and Suff. He was also Created Earl of Surrey at such time as Iohn 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 vir prudentiâ gravitate constantiâ summâ a person of great prudence gravity and constancy saith Polydore whom he ferv'd faithfully during the whole time of his reign In 4 H. 7. he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wives Inheritance And the same year upon that Insurrection in the North occasion'd by the Assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murthered through the fury of the multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in 8 H. 7. was again imploy'd into the North to restrain the Incursions of the Scots In 13 H. 7. upon the Siege of Norham-Castle by those bold Invaders being then in Yorkeshire he marcht towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quitted their ground and retired
Howard Knight of the Bath He had also Issue four Daughters 1 Elizabeth first married to William Earl of Banbury and afterwards to Edward Lord Vaux 2 Frances to Robert Earl of Essex from whom being divorced she became the Wife of Robert Earl of Somerset 3 Katherine to William Earl of Salisbury 4 and Margaret who deceased in her Childhood And departing this life at his House near Charing-Cross 28. Maii An. 1626. 2 Car. 1. was buried at Walden To whom succeeded Theophilus his Son and Heir who in his Fathers life time bore the title of Lord Howard of Walden and in 8 Iac. 26 Martii was made Governour of the Isle of Geresey and Castle of Cornet for life This Theophilus was installed Knight of the Garter shortly after the beginning of King Charles the firsts reign and married Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir to George Lord Hume of Barwick Earl of Duâbar in Scotland by whom he had Issue four Sons Iames made Knight of the Bath in An. 1625. at the Coronation of King Charles the first Thomas George and Henry And five Daughters Catherine married to George Lord Aubigny Elizabeth to Algernon Earl of Northumberland Margaret to Roger Earl of Orrory in Ireland Anne to Thomas Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Walsingham of Scadbury in Com. Cantii Knight and Frances to Edward Villers a younger Son to Sir Edward Villers Knight who was Brother of the half blood to George late Duke of Buckingham And departing this life 3 Iunii in An. 1640. was buried at Walden Which Iames succeeding him in his Honours married two Wives 1 Susanna Daughter to Henry Earl of Holand by whom he had Issue one only Daughter surviving named Essex married to Edward Griffyn Son and Heir to Sir Edward Gryffin of Dingley in Com. Northt Knight He secondly married Barbara Daughter to Sir Edward Villers before mentioned and Widow of ... Son and Heir to the Lord Wenman by whom he hath only one Daughter named Elizabeth married to ... Felton one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to our present Soveraign King Charles the Second Howard Earl of Berk-shire ¶ HAving now done with the chief branch of this House of Suffolk I come to Thomas second Son to the before-specified Thomas Earl of Suffolk and of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Henry Knevet of Charlton in Com. Wilts Knight This Thomas upon the 23 of Ianuary 19 Iac. being advanced to the titles of Lord Howard of Charlton and Vicount Andover was before the end of that Kings reign installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter also 1 Febr. 5 Car. 1. created Earl of Berkshire And having married Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs to William Lord Burghley Son and Heir to Thomas Earl of Exeter by her had Issue eight Sons viz. Sir Charles Howard Knight of the Bath commonly called Lord Andover 2 Thomas 3 Henry 4 William 5 Edward 6 Sir Robert Howard Knight 7 Philip 8 Iames and 9 Algernon And four Daughters Elizabeth married to Iohn Dreyden Esq Diana ... Frances to Conyers Darcy Son and Heir to Conyers Lord Darcie and Coniers and Mary And departing this life upon the sixteenth day of Iuly An. 1669. was buried in the Abby Church at Westminster To whom succeeded Charles his Son and Heir who in his Fathers life time had summons to divers Parliaments by the title of Lord Howard of Charlton and married Dorothy second Daughter of Thomas Vicount Savage by whom he hath had Iââue three Sons Thomas Henry and Iohn who died in their youth as also two Daughters Anne married to Sir Henry Bedingfield Son and Heir to Sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxborough in Com. Norf. and Elizabeth who died young Lord Howard of Escrick ¶ THE next is Sir Edward Howard Knight another Son of the before specified Thomas Earl of Suffolk This Sir Edward upon the 29 of April 4 Car. 1. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Howard of Escrick in Com. Ebor. by reason he did possess that Lordship which came to Thomas Earl of Suffolk his Father by the marriage of Elizabeth the eldest Daughter and Coheir to Sir Henry Knevit of Charlton in Com. Wiltes Knight as heir to Thomas Lord Knevit of Escrick her Uncle who died without Issue as I shall shew in due place and Married Mary one of the Daughters of Iohn Lord Butler of Bramfeild in Com. Hertf. by whom he had Issue three Sons viz. Thomas William and Sir Cecill Howard Knight As also Anne a Daughter Married to Charles now Earl of Carlisle And departing this life 24 Apr. an 1675. was buried at the Savoy in the Suburbs of London To whom succeeded Thomas his eldest Son who Married Elizabeth Daughter to Iohn late Earl of Peterborough Howard Earl of Carlisle ¶ I Lastly come to the Lord William Howard third Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk by Margaret his second Wife Daughter and Heir to Thomas Lord Audley of Walden This William taking to Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas and Sister and Coheir to George Lord Dacres of Gillesland in her right became possess'd of Naworth-Castle in Com. Cumbr. the chief and antient seat of the Lord Dacres in that Northern Tract which still continues to his descendents and being restored in blood by Act of Parliament 1 Iac. had Issue by the same Elizabeth 1. Sir Philip Howard Knight his Son and Heir 2. Sir William Howard of Brafferton in Com. Ebor. Knight 3. Sir Francis Howard Knight and divers other who died young As also three Daughters Mary Married to Sir Iohn Winter Son and Heir to Sir Edward Winter of Lydney in Com. Glouc. Knight Elizabeth to Sir Henry Bedingfeild of Oxborough in Com. Norf. Baronet and Margaret to Sir Thomas Cotton of Conington in Com. Hunt Baronet And departing this life ... Augusti an 1640. was buried at Ereistocke in Cumâerland Which Sir Philip dying in his Father's life time left Issue by Mary his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Cârrell of Harting in Com. Suss. Knight three Sons 1. Sir William Howard Knight 2. Iohn and 3. Philip slain at Rowton-Heath in the service of King Charles the First As also two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Bartholmew Fromund of Cheme in Com. Surr. Esq and Alathea to Thomas Lord Fairfax of Emeley in Ireland Which Sir William took to Wife Maây the eldest Daughter of William Lord Evre by whom he had Issue five Sons William who died in his life time Charles Philip Thomas and Iohn And five Daughters Mary Married to Sir Ionathan Atkyns Knight Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Gower of Stittenham in Com. Ebor. Knight Catherine to Sir Iohn Lawson of Broughton in Com. Ebor. Knight Frances to Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Com. Contâbr Knight and Baronet and Margaret to the Earl of Leven in Scotland Which Charles having been highly instrumental for the happy restoration
in case he should die without any Issue of his own body lawfully begotten that then Edward Grey his Illegitimate Son by the same Iane Orwell should have and enjoy his said Barony and Mannor of Powys his Castle and Mannor of Poole and all other his Lordships in the County of Montgomery and the reversion and inheritance of the Castle and Mannors of Charleton and Pontysbury to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten and for lack of such Issue to remain to that Child in case it should be a Son wherewith the same Iane Orwell was then great by him and to the Heirs of his body lawfully begotten but if it should not be a Son or if a Son die without Issue then that the whole Barony of Powys and all the premisses before-mention'd should come to Iane Grey his Daughter and to the Heirs of her body lawfully begotten and for lack of such Issue to Anne Grey his other Daughter and the Heirs of her body lawfully begotten and for default of such Issue to such Woman Child as should be born of the Body of the said Iane Orwell This Edward Married Anne one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk for so by her Testament she calls her self but by her had no Issue Which Anne surviving him became the Wife of Randle Hauworth Esq and by her said Testament bearing date 29 Oct. an 1557. 5 4 Ph. M. bequeath'd her body to be buried in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in the City of London upon the right hand above the steps going up to the Altar or else in the Abby of Westminster Ratcliffe Lord Fitzwalter 1 H. 7. OF this Family that which I have first observ'd to be most memorable is that in 7 H. 5. Sir Iohn Ratcliffe Knight being Constable of the Castle of Frounsak in Aquitane had a thousand marks per annum allow'd to him for the guard thereof and in 1 H. 6. being retain'd to serve the King as Seneschal of that Dutchy had an assignation of four shillings by the day for his own Salary and xx Marks a piece per annum for CC. Archers Also that in 4 H. 6. in consideration of two thousand Marks then due to him by the King for his Wages in that Service he had a grant of the Wardship of Raphe Earl of Westmorland then in Minority Moreover that in 7 H. 6. he was by Indenture retain'd to serve in the Wars of France with C. Men at Arms of which number himself to be one four other Knights the rest Esquires and CC. Archers And that in 11 H. 6. upon his humble Remonstrance that there was by computation then in arrear and due unto him for those his services upon the last of Iune 9 H. 6. no less than the sum of seven thousand twenty nine pounds thirteen shillings and a penny he obtain'd an assignation of all the Kings Revenues issuing out of the Counties of Caernervon and Merionyth in North-Wales as also out of the Lordships of Chirk and Chirk-land to hold until the arrear of what was then so due unto him should be fully satisfied In 13 H. 6. being sent to Arras there to treat with the Dolphin of France he had Licence to carry with him Gold and Silver in Coin with Plate to the value of five hundred Marks for his necessary uses in that imployment And in 14 H. 6. being Lieutenant of Calais the Duke of Burgundy laid Siege to that Garrison for three Weeks But he lived not long after For in 19 H. 6. upon a farther computation of the Debts due for his Services as Seneschal of Aquitane and Constable of the Castle of Frounsak until the sixth of November 15 H. 6. which amounted to seven thousand and fifteen pounds two Shillings half penny farthing besides Lxviii due to him for his charges in that Embassy to Arras being then a Banneret Thomas Ratcliff and Robert Lâthum his Executors obtain'd a grant from the King for the reception of all the Revenues arising by the Subsidies and Customs in the Ports of Poole Welcombe Exmouth Dertmouth Plymmouth Fowey and Bridgwater until those sums should be clearly discharged This deceased Sir Iohn Ratcliff being Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Married Elizabeth the Daughter and Coheir of Walter Lord Fitz-walter and by her had Issue Iohn his Son and Heir who in 39 H. 6. obtain'd a Pardon of Intrusion for entring upon the Lands of his Inheritance without Livery And in 1 H. 7. being summon'd to Parliament by the Title of Lord Fitzwalter was joyn'd in Commission with Sir Reginald Bray Knight for exercising the Office of Chief Justice of all the Forests beyond Trent being at that time Steward of the King's Houshold In 3 H. 7. he was associated with Iasper Duke of Bedford and others for exercising the Office of High Steward of England upon the Coronation-day of Queen Elizabeth Wife of that King But in 11 H. 7. being attainted in Parliament for divers Rebellions and Treason as the Record in general telleth us whereof the chief was his attempt to set up Perkân Warbek who personated Richard Duke of York the younger Son to King Edward the Fourth and being carried Prisoner to Calais whence he endeavoured to make his escape by corrupting his Keepers he there lost his Head Nevertheless Robert his Son and Heir found much favour being in 21 H. 7. by Letters Patent bearing date 3 Nov. fully restored to his Honour And in 1 H. 8. obtain'd an Act of Parliament for Revocation of that attainder After which in 4 H. 8. he attended the King in that great Expedition then by him made to Therovene and Tournay And in 14 H. 8. lâd the Van of that Army then sent into France under the Command of the Earl of Surrey In which and other his imployments he merited âo well as that he was by Letters Patent bearing date 18 Iulii 17 H 8. advanced to the dignity of a Vicount by the Title of Vicount Fitzwalter And in 21 H. 8. was one of the Peers who subscribed those Articles which were then presented to the King against Cardinal Wolsey Moreover upon the 28th of December the same year being then Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter he was Created Earl of Sussex And in 22 H. 8. join'd with the rest of the Peers in Parliament in subscribing that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby they represented to his Holiness that unless he did comply with King Henry in that business of his so much desired Divorce from Queen Catherine his Supremacy here would not long be acknowledged Also in 24 H. 8. he was one of the Nobles which then attended the King into France In 25 H. 8. this Earl
or outward pride of the World appointing that certain Masses and Diriges should be done for him there by all the Priests of that Colledge and other his Chaplains according to the antient custom of the Church of England As also that no black Gowns or Coats should be given at his Funeral except to his own Servants and Torch-bearers Likewise that C l. should be distributed to the poorest Housholders of his Tenants and others dwelling next to his Houses of Tatshall Eresham Eâââow and Grymesthorpe in Com. Linc. to pray for his Soul And that a Cup of Gold should be made of his Collar of the Garter and given to the King After which viz. the next ensuing year he departed this life upon Saturday 24 Ang. An. 1545. 37 H. 8. and was not buried at Tatshall as he directed but in the Royal Chapell of St. George in Windsore-Castle at the Kings charge by the Door of the Quire on the South side of that Church near unto the place where King Henry the sixth is interred and in the same Grave with his Aunt ... Daughter to the Lord Dacres of the South Wife of Sir Thomas Brandon his uncle as by the Certificate taken at his Funeral appeareth This great Duke had four Wives First Margaret one of the Daughters to Iohn Nevil Marquess Mountagu Widow of Sir Iohn Mortimer Knight but by her had no Issue Secondly Anne Daughter of Sir Anthony Browne Knight Governour of Calais by whom he had Issue before marriage as some say a Daughter called Anne Wife of Sir Edward Grey Lord Powys and another after marriage named Mary Wedded to Thomas Stanley Lord Mont-Egle Thirdly Mary the second Daughter to King Henry the seventh Widdow of Lewes the xii th King of France by whom he had Issue one Son called Henry created Earl of Lincoln at Bridewell in 17 H. 8. but died in his life time unmarried and two Daughters Frances first married to Henry Grey Duke of Suff. but afterwards to Adrian Stokes and Elâanore to Henry Earl of Cumberland Fourthly Catherine Daughter and Heir of William Lord Willoughby of Eresbp by whom he had Issue two Sons Henry and Charles who died both of them upon the 14th of Iuly An. 1551 5 E. 6. in the Bishop of Lincolns House at Bugden in Com. Hunt of the sweating sickness Marny 19 H. 7. THe first mention I find of this Family is in 9 E. 3. William de Marny about that time obtaining a Charter for Free-Warren in all his demesn-Lands at Leyre-Marny in Com. Essex To this William succeeded another William who in 3 H. 4. was constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Essex and Hartford and died in 2 H. 5. being then seised of the Mannour of Leyre-Marny with the advouson of the Church as also of the Mannours of Arderne-Hall in Horndon Gippecroke in great Totham and Hebregge in the same County And to him Sir Thomas Marny Knight Which Sir Thomas left Issue Margaret his Daughter and Heir who died in her minority so that Iohn her Uncle became her next Heir Which Iohn had Issue Henry who being a person of great Wisdom Gravity and of singular Fidelity to that prudent Prince King Henry the 7th was made choice of for one of his Privy-Council in the first year of his reign and in 2 H. 7. fought stoutly for him against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents in the Battel of Stoke near Newark He was also in the Battel at Black-Hethe in 12 H. 7. against the Lord Audley and the Cornish-men then in Rebellion And upon the death of King Henry the seventh being likewise chosen one of the Privy-Council to King Henry the 8th was shortly after install'd Knight of the most noble order of the Garter From which King he had such high esteem as that he was made Captain of his Guard and in 13 H. 8 upon the attainder of Edward Duke of Buckingham procured a grant in special tail of the Mannours of Little-Brickhill Burton and Esington in Com. Buck. with the advousons of the Churches as also of the Burrough of Buckingham then in the Crown by reason of that Dukes forfeiture And in 14 H. 8. 4 Febr. was made Keeper of the Privy-Seal as also upon the ninth of April following advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the name of Lord Marny After which the next ensuing year he accompanied Charls Brandon Duke of Suffolk then General of the English Forces sent into France landing with him at Calais And by his Testament bearing date 22 Maii the same year bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Church at Leyre-Marny where divers of his Ancestors lay interred in case he should depart this life in or near London Appointing that his Body should be conveyed out of London with the four orders of Friers in that City and every one of those Orders to have xx s. Item to every Church meeting his Corps by the way iii s. iv d. And to every Church where his Body should rest by the way vi s. viii d. Also that there should be xxiv Poor men to hold xxiv Torches at his Burying and Mass and every of them to have a Black Gown and a Hood and xii d. in money Item that his Executors should cause to be said for his Soul and for the Souls of Sir William Marny his Grandfather and Dame Katherine his Wife Sir Robert Marny his Great-Grandfather Sir Iohn Marny his Father and Dame Iane his Wife and for the Souls of his own two Wives Thomasine and Elizabeth as also for the Soul of Thomas Marny and his other Children First at Scala Cââli in Westminster a Trentall of Masses at the Friers-observants at Greenwich a Trental at every of the four orders of Friers in London a Trentall at the Black-friers in Chelmsford a Trentall at the Cross-friers and Gray-friers in Colchester a Trentall and at the Friers at Mâldon a Trentall He also willed that with the profits of his Lands the Chapell which he had begun adjoining to the Chancel of the Parish-Church of Leyre-Marny should be new made with a substantial roof of timber covered with Lead and the Windows glased with Imagery accordingly Likewise that a Tomb of Marble should be set in the wall betwixt the Chancel and the same Chapell vaulted over with Marble and his Image of black Marble or touch thereon with every thing convenient and appertaining to the same Also that two Images of Laton should be made with the Pictures of his two Wives with their Cote-Armours upon them Thomasine on his right hand and Elizabeth on his left on the said Tomb. He likewise willed that a new Almeshouse should be made and set up with five partitions for five Poor Men and one common Kitchin for them all the walls to be
amplum obsequii amoris ergo Patriverâ pio verè Catholico Thomas mâstissimus filius haeres multis cum lachrymis scripsit posuit Beati qui in Domino moriuntur Leaving Issue one only Son viz. Thomas and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Dixey Hickman of Kew in Com. Surr. Esq and another Elizabeth to Andrew Windsor Esq her Kinsman Which Thomas succeeding him in his Honours Married Katherine the Daughter to Edward Earl of Worcester but dying Issueless 6 Dec. an 1642. was buried at Tarbick with his Ancestors Whereupon the Title of Lord Windsor being in the King's disposal so that he might confer it on the Issue of either of these Sisters before-mention'd or retain it His Royal Majesty King Charles the Second considering that this last Thomas Lord Windsor had setled the greatest part of his antient Inheritance upon his Nephew Thomas Windsor Hickman Son of Dixey Hickman by Elizabeth his elder Sister was pleased to dispose and confirm to him and his Heirs the said Title of Lord Windsor with such place in Parliament as his Predecessors had formerly enjoy'd as by his Letters Patent bearing date 16 Iunii in the twelfth year of his Reign appeareth Which Thomas thus hearing the Title of Lord Windsor Married two Wives Anne Daughter to Sir William Savile of Thornhill in Com. Ebor. Baronet Sister of George now Vicount Halifax by whom he hath Issue one Son called Other and Mary a Daughter Married to Sir Thomas Cokesey of Bentley in Com. Wigorn. Baronet Secondly Vrsula Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Widdrington of ... in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he hath Issue two Sons Thomas and Dixy and a Daughter called Vrsula Iohn Lord Hussey 21 H. 8. WHat relation in blood this Iohn Lord Hussey of whom I am now to speak had to that Family of Hussey whereof I have already made mention in the first Volume of this work I have not seen nor can I discover more of him than that he was Son to Sir William Hussey Knight who being a learned Lawyer was first constituted Attorney General to King Edward the 4 th in 11. of his reign next Serjeant at Law in 17 E. 4. and lastly Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench 7 Maii 21 E. 4. In 2 H. 7. this Iohn was in Arms for the King at the Battel of Stobe against Iohn Earl of Lincoln and his adherents and in 13 H. 8. being then a Knight was made chief Butler of England In 21 H 8. he was one of the Knights for the Kings Body and being summoned to that Parliament begun at Westminster 3 Nov. the same year was admitted into the House upon the first of December following In 22 H. 8. bearing then the title of Lord Hussey he had a grant of the custody of the Mannour of Harewode in Com Ebor. and was one of the Lords who subscribed that Declaration then sent to the Pope whereby they intimated to his Holiness that unless he did comply with King Henry in that cause of his divorce his Supremacy would not much longer be owned in this Realm And in 24 H. 8. being then one of the Lords of the Council had a grant of the wardship and marriage of Thomas the Son and Heir of Christopher Wymbushe deceased But in 28 H. 8. being in that commotion in Lincolnshire occasioned by the assessment of a Subsidy he suffered death for it at Lincoln in Iune the next ensuing year Whereupon his lands were confiscate and his Mannour of Sleford in Com. Linc. where he had his chief residence was granted by Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury to Richard Goodrick of London Esq and Mary his Wife in Fee This Iohn Lord Hussey married two Wives and by them had many Children First Anne Daughter to George Earl of Kent by whom he had Issue two Sons Giles and Thomas and five Daughters Bridget first married to Sir Richard Morison Knight afterwards to Henry Earl of Rutland and lastly to Francis Earl of Bedford Elizabeth to ... Hungerford Anne to Sir Humphrey Browne Knight one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas Anne to ... Dimock and Dorothy to ... Doâwray Secondly Margaret Daughter and Heir to Simon Blount by whom he had Issue Sir William Hussey Knight Giles Hussey of Carthorpe in Com. Linc. Sir Gilbert Hussey Knight and Reginald and one Daughter called Elizabeth All which Sons and Daughters were restored in blood only in the Parliament held at Westminster 5 Eliz. Wentworth 21 H. 8. OF this Family though of great antiquity in Yorkshire the first that became advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm was Thomas Wentworth Son of Sir Richard Wentworth of Nettlesâed in Com. Suff. Knight who after the sitting of that Parliament which met at Westminster 3 Nov. 21 H. 8. and continuing by Prorogation till 27 of that Kings reign gave the first fatal stroke to the Monasteries of England was admitted as a Peer upon the second of December in the same 21 th year by virtue of a Writ of Summons This Thomas having married Margaret the Daughter of Sir Adrian Fortescue Knight and by Anne her Mother Heir to Sir William Stonore Knight had a special livery of all the lands which by the death of the said Anne descended to her And upon that Insurrection of the Norfolk Men led by Captain Ket in 2 E. 6. accompanied William Marquess of Northampton then sent against them Being afterwards Lord Chamberlain of that Kings houshold he died 3 Martii 5 E. 6. and was buried in the Abby Church at Westminster leaving Issue eight Sons viz. Thomas Henry Richard Philip Iohn Edward Iames and Roger and nine Daughters scil Anne married to Iohn the Son of Edmund Poley Cecelie Mary Elizabeth Margaret Margery to Iohn Lord Williams of Tame afterwards to Sir William Darcie Knight and lastly to Sir Iohn Crofts Knight Iane Catherine and Dorothy To whom succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir who had summons to Parliament in 6 E. 6. and being about that time made Deputy of Calais was shortly after removed from that trust by reason of his youth and want of experience Upon the death of King Edward the sixth he was one of the first that appeared for Queen Mary And in the first year of her reign being one of her Privy-Council was again made Deputy of Calais and the Marches thereof and so continued till the fatal Siege of that Garrison by the Duke of Guise in 5 Mariae whose Army was so great and the assaults made by it so irresistable that seeing no hopes of defending it he craved a parly whereupon it was yielded upon condition that the Inhabitants should depart without carrying any thing away and that the Governour with fifty other such as
the Regent of Flanders to that Duke bearing date 21 Oct. for his free passage And in 16 H. 8. was at the Battel of ãâã where King Francis of France had the fate to be overthrown and taken prisoner by the Duke of ãâã In 24 H. 8. he attended the King to Calaiâ and so to Bâloine where King Francis gave great Entertainment to King Henry and he to him at Calais and Sandingfeild After this for divers years I have not seen any farther mention of him so that I presume during that time he was much employ'd beyond the Seas for so it seemes by divers Letters out of Italy and other parts being without any date as was the use in those dayes But in 29 H. 8. being made Comptroller of the Kings Houshold he was sworn of the Privy-Council 8 Nov. and upon the 29 of March following advanced to the title and dignity of a Baron of this Realm Standing therefore thus highly in the favour of that King in 31 H. 8. upon that wonderful dissolution of the greater Monasteries he obtain'd a Grant bearing date 4 Iulii to himself and Anne his wife and to the heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten of the whole Site and Circuit of the rich Abby of our Lady and St. Rumon of Tavestoke in Com. Devon As also of the Burrough and Town of Tavestoke and of the Mannors of Hundewyke Morwell and Morwell-Ham Mylton Abbot alias Mylton Legh Lamerton Hole Bren-âorr UUyke Dabernon Peter-Stavye Ottrew alias Otterye UUhitchurch and Newton with the Hundred of Hurdewyke otherwise called the Hundred of Tavestoke As Also of the Rectory and Vicaridge of Tavestoke Likewise of the Mannor of Antony in Com. Cornub. And of the Burrough of Denbury with the Mannors of Denbury Plymstoke UUorington Cowyke Exwyke Barleigh Olderige Cave-Linch UUhymple Wood-Marston Christenstowe Borington and Cornewode all in Com. Devon and pertaining to the same dissolved Monastery of Tavestoke Also of the Mannor of Hawkewell in Com. Somerset with all the Mines of Tin and Lead in Denbury and Plymstoke the Advousons of the Rectories-Appropriate and not Appropriate and divers other Lands parcel of the dissolved Monastery of Donkiswell in Com. Devon Likewise of the House of the Friers-Preachers in Exeter with the Church c. paying Thirty six pounds per annum to the Court of Augmentation and Two hundred forty eight pounds more for all services And upon the fifteenth of October next ensuing of the Mannor of Cory Fitzpain with the moiety of the Advouson of the Church of Charlton Makerel in Com. Somerset in Fee Also of the Mannor of Abbots Aston in Com. Buck belonging to the dissolved Abby of St. Albans in Com. Hertf. About this time likewise he was made Warden of the Stannaries in Com. Devon and Cornwall And in 32 H. 8. being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter was constituted Lord Admiral of England and Ireland 28 Iulii Furthermore upon the establishing a Council in the Western parts of the Realm he was made President of the Counties of Devon Cornwall Dorset and Somerset And in the same thirty second year upon differences betwixt King Henry and King Francis of France was sent over into those parts accompanied with William E. of Southampton and a few Troopes of Northern Horse Monsieur de Vendosââ having then command to raise Forces in Picardy Likewise not long after viz. in 34 H. 8. 3 Dec. he was made Lord Keeper of the King's privy-Seal and in 36 H. 8. Captain-General of the Vant-guard of his Army for that Expedition into France Boloin being then won But some say though by mistake I presume that he led the Reare-ward at that time Which Army was appariled in Blew-Coates guarded with Red with Caps and Hose party-coloured their Caps being fitted to their Head-pieces In 38 H. 8. he was by that King then lying on his Death-Bed appointed one of the Sixteen Councellors to his Son Prince Edward and in 1 E. 6. 17 Febr. constituted Lord High-Steward of England for the 20 th of February being the day of his Coronation Upon that Insurrection in 2 E. 6. occâsion'd by the pulling down of Images he was sent with Forces into Devonshire Where attempting to releive the City of Exeter then besieg'd by the Country people he had a sharp skirmish with them at Fennynton-Bridge in which with little loss he slew six hundred releiv'd that City and took to the number of Four thousand prisoners And meriting so highly for his many great services was advanc'd to the dignity of Earl of Bedford upon the nineteenth of Ianuary 3 E. 6. After which the next ensuing year he was one of the four Embassadors sent to Guisnes in France there to meet with the like number from the French to treat of Peace betwixt both Realms And in 5 E. 6. there ãâã a discovery of some Intentions to transport the Lady Mary the King's Sister from England to Antwerp divers persons being sent with Forces to the Sea-coasts for prevention thereof and some into Essex where she then lay amongst those he had the command of Two hundred men After this upon the death of that King and Coronation of Queen Mary he obtain'd a new Patent bearing date 3 Nov. for that great Office of Lord Privie-Seale and in 2 Mariae was sent into Spain to attend King Philip in order to his Nuptials with her By his Testament he assigned no particular place for his Sepulture appointing only that his Body should be interred in Christian-Burial and gave to the Lord Francis his eldest son his Collar and Robes of the Garter with his Parliament-Robes and departing this life 14 Martii the same year at his House situate betwixt the Hospital call'd the Savoy and Ivy-bridge in the Strand London sometime the Bishop of Carlisles Inne but since re-built by Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary of State to Q. Elizabeth and was buried at Cheneys in Com. Buck which Lordship he had in right of Anne his wife daughter and sole heir to Sir Guy Sapcotes Knight leaving issue Francis his son and heir Which Anne surviving him by her Testament bearing date 19 Aug. 5 6 Ph. M. bequeathed to the Lord Edward Russel her Grandson her Mannor of Thornhawe and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten I now come to Francis his son and successor in his Honors At the Coronation of King Edward the Sixth he was one of the Knight of the Bath then made and in 1 Mariae his Father then living with Sir Maurice Berkley Sir William Fitz Williams and Sir Henry Nevill Knight Proclaimed Q. Mary putting themselves in Arms on her behalf as appeareth by Letters from the Lords of the Council then at London who promised to joyn with them if opposition should be made she
daughter to Henry Earl of ãâã as also for ratifying his Marriage with the said Elizabeth and Legitimating the children which should be begotten betwixt them but the Earl of Derby with the Bishops of ãâã and Norwich as also the Lord Stourton dissented to the Bill Shortly after this he was sent Embassador to the King of France to Present him with the Order of the Garter and to Treat with him touching certain private Affairs being accompanyed with the Bishop of Ely and certain other persons of Note And before the end of that year sate with other of the Peers upon Tryal of the Duke of Somerset But upon the death of King Edward and Proclaiming of the Lady Iane Gray he accompanyed the Duke of Northumberland at his going out of London with Horse and Foot for the suppressing of those who were risen in Suffolk on the behalf of Q. Mary For which being first committed to the Tower of London 26 Iulii in the first year of that Queen he was Arraigned before the Duke of Norfolk then sitting as High Steward upon the eighteenth of ãâã following and had Judgment of death passed upon him Howbeit notwithstanding this sharp Sentence Execution was forborn and before the end of that year was restored in blood by Act of Parliament but not to his Honors so that he had no other Title than William Parr Esquire late Marquess of Northampton and stood in no higher a degree until Queen Elizabeth began to Reign But she graciously considering that through the Potency of his Adversaries he had been bereaved of those Titles by her Letters Patent bearing date at the Tower of London 13 Ian. 1 Eliz. advanced him again to the dignity of Marquess of Northampton restored him to his Lands and made him one of the Lords of her Privy-Council She likewise joyn'd him in Commission with some of the Bishops and other learned Divines for Reforming that Liturgie set forth by her Brother King Edward the Sixth and made him Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Overliving Elizabeth Cobham his second wife he lastly married Helen daughter of Wolfangus Suavenburgh born in Sweden but had no issue by any of them and departing this life in An. 1571. 14 Eliz. was buried at the upper end of the Quire of the Collegiate Church at Warwick on the North-side where the Atchievements hung up at his Funeral did remain till of late years And where his Body about Fifty years since being dig'd up to make room for the Burial of an ordinary Gentlewoman was found perfect the skin intire dryed to the bones Rosemary and Bayes lying in the Coffin fresh and green All which were so preserv'd by the dryness of the ground wherein they lay it being above the Arches of that fair Vault which is under the Quire and of a sandy condition mixt with rubbish of Lime as hath been related to me by those who were eye-witnesses thereof Dying thus without issue Henry Earl of Pembroke his Nephew by one of his Sisters became his next heir Helen his last wife surviving him who married afterwards to Sir Thomas Gorge of Longford in Com. Wilts Knight and having many children by him dyed in April An. 1635. 11 Car. 1. Lord Parr of Horton I Now come to William Parre Uncle both to this VVilliam Marquess of Northampton and to Queen Catherine the sixth and last Wife of King Henry the Eighth This VVilliam residing at Horton in Com. Northampt. being Chamberlain to that Queen his Neice was shortly after her marriage with King Henry viz. 23 Decem. 35 H. 8. created Lord Parr of Horton And in 36 H. 8. the King designing a Royal Expedition into France and thereupon constituting his then Queen Catherine Parr General Regent of this Realme during his absence amongst other her Assistants as to matter of Council he appointed this VVilliam Lord Parr of Horton to be called upon some occasions By his Testament bearing date 20 Iunii An. 1546. 38 H. 8. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Horton Shortly after which he died as may seem by the Probate thereof leaving issue by Mary his wife the daughter of Sir VVilliam Salisbury Knight four daughters his heirs 1. Maud married k to Sir Raphe Lance Knight 2. Anne to Sir Iohn Digby of Ketilby in Com. Leic. Knight 3. Elizabeth to Sir Nicholas VVoodhall Knight 4. And Mary to Sir Thomas Tresham Knight Thomas Lord Audley of Walden 30 Hen. 8. OF what Extraction this Thomas was I have not seen for of the Family of the old Lords Audley I suppose he was not the Armes which he bore being totally different from theirs Nor have I observed any thing of him till 18 H. 8. that he became the Autumne-Reader in the Inner-Temple Whereby it appeares that having been a diligent Student of the Laws he arrived to a great proficiency in that commendable Learning in which within a short time after he grew so famous that in 21 H. 8. he was made choice of for Speaker in the House of Commons in that Long-Parliament which began upon the third of November the same year and continuing by Prorogation till 27 H. 8. proved fatal to the Religious Houses by the Dissolution of all those whose Revenues were not certified to exceed the value of Two hundred pounds per annum In which his service was so acceptable to the King as that the next ensuing year viz. 22 H. 8. he was constituted his Atturney for the Dutchy of Lancaster Also in Mich. Terme Graft Mart. advanced to the state and degree of a Serjeant at Law and upon the fourteenth of November following made the King's Serjeant Nor was any farther Promotion thought too great for him for in 24 H. 8. upon the Resignation of that worthy Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas Moore he was Knighted and made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and before the end of that year Lord Chancellor of England Being therefore thus raised to that high place discerning the Pope's Supremacy newly abolish'd whereupon the Title of Supreme Head on Earth of the Church of England was vested in the King who consequently took upon him by his own absolute power to suppress the Priory of Canons of the Holy Trinity commonly called Christ-church near Algate in the City of London he obtain'd the Scite and Precinct of that Religious House and converted it to a fit Mansion for his own residence having likewise all the Plate and Lands thereto belonging bestowed on him And in 30 H. 8. sate High-Steward upon the Arraignment of Henry Courtney Marquess of Exeter then accused for Conspiring the advancement of Reginald Pole afterwards Cardinal to the Crown That this Thomas had been not a little instrumental in carrying on that great design for dissolving the lesser
Monasteries in that Parliament wherein at first he was Speaker none can doubt his activeness for obtaining the Surrenders of the rest being so conspicuous for I find that he imploy'd a special Agent to treat with the Abbot of Atheâny in Com. Somers and to offer him an hundred Marks per annum pension in case he would surrender which the Abbot refused insisting on a greater sum Also that he personally dealt with the Abbot of St. Osithes in Essex to the like purpose as by his Letter to the Visitor-general appeareth Wherein he expressed that he had by great sollicitation prevail'd with him but withal insinuated his desire That his place of Lord Chancellor being very chargeable the King might be moved for addition of some more profitable Offices unto him Nay it is evident that hunting eagerly after that great Abby of Walden in Essex which at length he obtain'd as an argument the sooner to get it besides his extenuation of its worth he alleadg'd That he had in this world sustain'd great damage and infamy in serving the King which the grant of that should recompence and that being thus possess'd thereof he was by Letters Patents bearing date 29 th Nov. 30 H. 8. created Lord Audley of the same Walden and to the heirs-male of his Body as also installed Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter But long he did not enjoy this vast Wealth and Honor for having by his Testament bearing date 19 Apr. An. 1544. 35 H. 8. bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Tombe of his new Chappel at Walden and appointed that his Executors should upon the next New-Years day after his decease deliver a Legacie of One hundred pounds to the King from whom as his expression is he had received all his Reputations and Benefits he departed this life upon the last day of the same moneth at his place of Christchurch before-mention'd and was buried at Walden with this Epitaph upon his Monument The stroke of Death's inevitable Dart Hath now Alass of life berest the Hart Of Sir Thomas Audley of the Garter Knight Late Chancellor of England under our Prince of might Henry the Eighth worthy of high renown And made by him Lord Audley of this Town Obiit ultimo Aprilis A. Dom. 1544. Henrici 36. Cancellariatus sui 13 Aetatis 56. Leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter of Thomas Grey Marquess Dorset two daughters Margaret and Mary Which Mary died unmarried as it seems for Margaret became his sole heir who first married to the Lord Henry Dudley a younger son to Iohn Duke of Northumberland slain at St. Quintins in Picardy in An 1557 4 5 Ph. M. And afterwards to Thomas Duke of Norfolk being his second wife whose son by her viz. Thomas Earl of Suffolk Lord Treasurer of England for almost six years in the time of King Iames built upon the ruines of that Abby that stately Fabrick at Walden now known by the name of Audley-end in memory of this Lord Audley not to be equall'd excepting Hampton-âourt by any in this Realm Wriothsley Earl of Southampton 35 Hen. 8. OF this Family the first touching whom I find mention is Iohn Wryothsley commonly called Wrythe who being an Herauld at Armes by the Title of Faucon temp Edw. 4. was in 16 of that Kings Reign constituted King of Armes of the North parts of this Realm by the name of Norroy and in 18 E. 4. made Principal Herauld of the most noble Order of the Garter and King of English Armes in which Office of Garter he was confirm'd by Letters patents bearing date 30 Nov. 1 R. 3. as also in 1 H. 7. and left issue two sons Thomas and William Which Thomas being also train'd up in the like studies was first an Herauld by the Title of Walingford and in 20 H. 7. constituted Garter principal King of Armes as his father had been wherein he was confirm'd i in 1 H. 8. Nor did William his Brother betake himself to any other profession being likewise an Herauld by the Title of York This William had issue a son call'd Thomas who is the person that in process of time received high Advancements as well in point of honor as otherwise For in 27 H. 8. being at that time one of the Clerks of the Signet he was made Coroner and Attorney in the Court of Common-Pleas And in 30 H. 8. being then one of the Principal Secretaries of State was sent Embassador to the Lady Regent for the Spaniard in the Nâtherlands to treat of a Marriage betwixt King Henry and Christiana Dutchess of Millaine second daughter to the King of Denmark a beautiful Lady and then in those parts In 32 H. 8. being then a Knight he was made Constable of the Castle of Southampton and in 34 H. 8. had the like command for the Castle at Porchester being also constituted one of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer upon the vacancy of that Office by the death of Robert Earl of Sussex In 35 H. 8. upon that League made by King Henry and the Emperor Charles the Fifth he was appointed one of the Commissioners for mannaging the Treaty conducing thereto and upon the first of Ianuary the same year advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Wriothesley of Tichfeild in Com. Southampt which Tichfeild being one of the Monasteries newly dissolv'd in that General Ruine of the Religious Houses he had then obtain'd Also in 36 H. 8. the Lord Audley being dead he was made Lord Chancelor of England having the Great Seal likewise committed to his trust upon the third of May and soon after one of the Commissionââ for managing that Treaty then concluded betwixt Mathew Earl of Lenox and King Henry for the peace of this Realm and that of Scotland About the end of this year he was also install'd Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Likewise in 38 H. 8. the king lying on his death bed constituted one of his Executors and appointed to be of Council to Prince Edward his only son and Successor Three dayes before the Coronation of which King he had the Title of Earl of Southampton conferr'd upon him as by his Patent bearing date 16 Febr. 1 E. 6. appeareth But not many days after being over-opinionative and obstinately opposite to the rest of the Lords he was devested of his Office of Chancellor and put from his place in Council the Great Seal being thereupon delivered to William Lord St. Iohn of Basing And in 4 E. 6. when Dudley Earl of Warwick the grand Agent in the ruine of Edward Duke of Somerseâ taking advantage of that discontent which this Earl had harboured for the loss of his Office and being otherwise
18 Iac. advanced to the dignity of Vicount St. Alban his solemn Investiture being then performed at Theobalds his Robe carried before him by the Lord Carew and his Coronet by the Lord Wentworth Whereupon he gave the King seavenfold thanks first for making him his Sollicitor secondly his Attorney thirdly one of his Privy Council fourthly Lord Keeper of the Great Seal fifthly Lord Chancellor sixthly Baron Verulam and lastly Vicount St. Alban But long he enjoyed not that great Office of Lord Chancellor for in Lent 18 Iac. Corruption in the exercise thereof being objected against him of which 't is believed his servants were most guilty and he himself not much accessory the Great Seal was taken from him and committed to the custody of Henry Vicount Mandevill at that time President of the Council and certain other Lords Commissioners and upon the tenth of Iuly after to Doctor Iohn Williams Dean of UUestminster afterwards Bishop of Lincolne Towards his rising years he married Alice one of the daughters and coheirs to Benedict Barnham Alderman of London with whom he had an ample portion but by her had no Children to perpetuate his memory which his learned Works being for the most part composed in the five last years of his life will amply supply being then totally retired from all civil affairs and applying himself daily to contemplation and studie the particulars were these viz. ¶ The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seaventh Abcedarium Naturae or a Metaphisical piece now lost Historia Ventorum Historia vitae mortis Historia Densi Rari not yet Printed Historia Gravis levis which is also lost A Discourse of a War with Spaine A Dialogue touching an Holy War The Fable of the New Atlantis A Preface to a digest of the Laws of England The beginning of the History of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth ¶ De Augmentis Scientiarum or the advancement to Learning put into Latin with several enrichments and Enlargements ¶ Councils Civil and Moral Or his Books of Essays likewise enriched and enlarged ¶ The Conversion of certain Psalmes into English Verse The Translaion of the History of King Henry the Seventh into Latine as also of the Councils Civil and Moral and Dialogue of the Holy War ¶ His-Book de Sapientiâ veterum revised ¶ Inquisitio de Magnete ¶ Topica Inquisitionis de Luce Lumine Not Printed ¶ Silva Silvarum or his Natural History He departed this life upon the ninth day of April 1626. being Easter day in the sixty sixth year of his age at the Earl of Arundel's House in Higngate near London to which place he casually repaired about a week before and was buried in the North side of the Chancel in St. Michaels Church at St. Albans according to the appointment by his last Will and Testament because the Body of his Mother lay there interred it being the only Church remaining within the precinct of old Verulam where he hath a Monument of white Marble representing his full body in a contemplative posture siting in a chair erected by Sir Thomas Meautys Knight formerly his Secretary but afterwards Clerk of the Council to King Iames and King Charles the first On which is this following Epitaph composed by the learned Sir Henry Wotton Knight Franciscus Bacon Baro de Verulam S. Albani vicecomes seu noâioribus titulis Scientiarum lumen facundiae lex âic sedebat Qui postquam omnia Naturalis sapientiae Civilis Arcana evolvisset Naturae decretum explevit composita solvantur An. Dom. MDCXXVI Aetatis Lxvi Tanti viri memoriae Thomas Meautus superstitis câltor defuncti Admirator H. P. Hamilton Earl of Cambridge 17 Iac. THe first of this Family that enjoyed this Honor was Iames Marquess of Hamilton in Scotland son to Iohn Earl of Arran Which Iohn being the first in that Realm who bore the Title of Marquess was son to Iames Earl of Arran Regent of Scotland upon the death of King Iames the fifth and made Duke of Chasâall-Herauld in Poictou by Henry the second King of France and he Grandson to Sir Iames Hamilton Knight created Earl of Arran by King Iames the third whose sister Mariana he had married In the year 1619. 17 Iac. this Iames Marquess of Hamilton was by Letters Patents bearing date 16 Iunii advanced to the dignity of Baron of Ennerdale in Cumberland and Earl of Cambridge also made Gentleman of the Kings Royal Bedchamber 4 Martii An. 1620 18 Iac. and Lord Steward of his Houshold likewise Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter towards the latter end of that Kings Reign And having married Anâe Cunningham daughter to Iames Earl of Glencaâne by her had issue two sons Iames and William as also three daughters Anne married to ... Lindsey Earl of Craford in Scotland Margaret and Mary and dying at UUhitehall 2 Martii An. 1624. 22 Iac. towards the end of which year King Iameâ himself departed this life was buried at Hamilton in Scotland with his Ancestors Whereupon Iames his eldest son succeeding him as well in these his English as other his Scotish honours grew in such favor with King Charles the first then newly arrived to the Crown as that he was shortly after made one of the Gentlemen of his Bedchamber Knight of the Garter and Master of the Horse And in An. 1638. 14 Car. 1. upon those Tumults raised in Scotland under colour of asserting the Religion there established was about the end of May imployed thither in order to the appeasing thereof whence he returned in November following Moreover upon that great Insurrection oâ the Scots in An. 1639. 15 Car. 1. which occasioned his Majesty to raise considerable Forces by Sea and Land himself also marching in person thither this Marquess had the whole Fleet prepared for that service committed to his trust and conduct And after that upon a farther Insurrection theâe being sent again into that Realm in order to his Majesties Service for the better countenancing him therein had the Title of a Duke conferred upon him Where he continued until the year 1643. At which time the Scots having levyed another Army consisting of eighteen thousand Foot and two thousand Horse in ayd of the English Rebels whose power at that time began much to decline by reason of the many Victories which the king had obtained in sundry parts of the Realm against them He hasted to the King then at Oxford accompanied with his Brother Lanerick giving out to all the Governors of such Towns and Castles as lay in his road that being banished their Country for their Loyalty to his Majesty and plundered of their Estates by the Covenanters they were at that time thus constrained to âlee for the safety of their lives What cause of suspition the King then had of his Fidelity is unknown to me
Titles had the âignity of Earl of Ulvester in the Realm of Iâââand conferred upon him the tenth day of Mââ in the Eleventh year of the Reign of our preâânt Soveraign K. Charles the Second He first married the Lady Anne eldest daughâter to Edward late Earl of Clarendon and by her had issue four sons Charles Duke of Cambridge who died in his Infancy Iames Duke of Cambridge Henry Duke of Kendal and Edgar Duke of Cambridge all which died likewise in their childhood And three Daughters the Lady Mary and Lady Henriettaâ yet living and the Lady Catherine who died in her Infâncy He afterwards married the Lady Maria Beatrice daughter to the Duke of Modina in Italy by whom he hath had issue one daughter named Catherine-Laura which died in her Infancy Henry Duke of Glocester 11 Car. 2. THe next is Henry the Third Son to the same King Charles the First by the like Letters-patent bearing date 13 Maiâ the ensuing year created Duke of Glocester and Earl of Cambridge Who having been partaker with our present Soveraign in his greatest Diââesses during the long continuance oââhe ââte Unparrallel'd Usurpation had at lengââ the happiness to see him Peacefully restored to the Royal Throne of these his Realmes accompanying him into England before the end of May the following year but departed this life unmarried upon the Thirteenth day of September next ensuing and was buried in the Royal Chapel of King Henry the Seventh at Westminster under the Tombe of Mary Q of Scotland his Great-Grandmother Monke Duke of Albemarle 12 Car. 2. HAving now done with all such Creations which were made by our present Soveraign King Charles the Second before his Joyful Return into England I now come to those which ensued afterwards and first to that of George Monke of Potheridge in Com. Devon Esq who having sedulously exercised a Military course of life both by Sea and Land in Forrein parts for the chief time of his youth and afterwards applying himself to his late Majesties Service at the beginning of the late unhappy Rebellion in which he had the fate to be taken prisoner at length obtaining his liberty he took up Armes with the Adverse-Party in expectation of a fitter season to manifest his great affections to his King and Country Of which after much devastation and spoile the Cruel Murther of His Majesty and extirpation of this formerly long-flourishing Monarchique Government when he discern'd some view he ceased not to improve all opportunities whereby he might accomplish those blessed ends which his Right-Loyal Heart had always though with great Reservation most earnestly designed And accordingly through God's assistance became the Chief and most happy Instrument of Restoring the King to His Just Rights and all these Realmes to their long desired Peace and Tranquillity the pârticulars whereof as they are not unknown to this present Age so are they made publick to the World by divers persons which have given an Historical Account thereof for the better satisfacton of future times In contemplation therefore of these his most Laudable Adventures and as a Lasting Testimony of the real sence which His Majesty had of these his transcendent merits considering also that by the Lady Frances daughter and coheir to Arthur Plantaginet Natural son to King Edward the Fourth wife of Thomas Monke Esq his Lineal Ancestor he was descended from Edward Grey Vicount L'isle and by Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir to Iohn Talbot Vicount L'isle son to the renowned Iohn Talbot sometime Earl of Shrewsbury and with him slain in the Battel of Chastiâlion by Margaret wife of that valiant Earl from the famous Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Aumarle Regent of France whose eldest daughter and coheir she was he had by Letters-patent bearing date the seventh day of Iuly in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign these several Dignities and Titles of Honor conferred upon him and the heirs male of his Body that is to say Baron Monke of Potheridge Beauchamp and Tyes Earl of Torington and Duke of Albemarle And shortly after was installed K t of the most noble Order of the Garter He married Anne Sister of Sir Thomas Clarges Knight and departing this life upon the fourth day of Ianuary An. 1669. was honorably buried upon the last day of April next ensuing on the North-side of King Henry the Seventh's Chappel adjoyning to the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster leaving Christopher his only Son and successor in his Honors now Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter who married the Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to Henry Earl of Ogle son and heir apparent to William Ouke of Newcastle but by her as yet hath no issue Lord Butler of Lanthony and Earl of Brecknock 12 Car. 2. THe next on whom our present Soveraign after his happy Restauration conferred any Title of Honor was Iames Marquess of Ormond and Earl of Ossory in Ireland of His Majesties Privy-Council both in England and that Realm Lord Steward of His Houshold one of the Gentlemen of his Royal Bedchamber and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter Paternally descended from Hervey Walter a great Baron of this Realm in the time of King Henry the Second of whom I have spoke in the First Volume of this Work whose posterity afterwards became Earls of Ormond whereof another Iames surnamed Butler who married Elizabeth the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Lord of Brecknock and Constable of England by Elizabeth his wife one of the daughters of King Edward the First was the first so created by King Edward the Third Which first mention'd Iames having been Lieutenant of Ireland in the time of King Charles the First of blessed memory where he performed great things and afterwards constantly adhered to His Majesty that now is throughout that tedious time of His Calamitous expulsion meriting much for his most Loyal Actings and Sufferings was by Letters-patent bearing date at Westminster upon the Twentieth day of Iuly in the same Twelfth year of His Reign advanced to the state and degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Butler of Lanthony in the County of Glocester his noble Ancestor Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex having divers ages past been the Pious Founder of a great Abby there as also Earl of Brecknock and to the heirs make of his body And the next ensuing year by other Letters-patent dated at Westminster upon the Thirteenth day of March created Duke of Ormond in the Realm of Ireland and shortly after that again Lord Lieutenant of that Realm This Duke married the Lady Elizabeth Preston the daughter of Richard Lord Dingwell who was honoured with the Title of Earl of Desmond by King Iames and by her hath issue three sons first Thomas who beareth the Title of Earl of Ossory Secondly Richard Earl of Arran who first married the Lady Mary daughter toâ Iames
this his laudable service was by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster âthe twentieth day of April in the thirteenth year of his Reign advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Crew of Stene and to the heirs male of his body He married Iemima daughter and coheir of Edward Walgrave of Lawford in com Essex Esquire By whom he hath had issue four sons the rest dying young viz. first Sir Thomas Crew Knight secondly Iohn thirdly Nathaniel Bishop of Durham and fourthly Walgrave as also two daughters Iemima married to Edward late Earl of Sandwich and Anne to Sir Henry Wright of Dagenham in com Essex Barronet Which Sir Thomas by Mary his wife daughter of Sir George Touneshend late of East Raynham in com Norff. Barronet hath had issue Iohn who died in his youth and two daughters Anne yet unmarried and Temperance the wife of Rouland Alston son and heir to Sir Thomas Alston of Odell in com Bedf. Barronet And by Anne his second wife daughter and coheir to Sir William Airmin of Osgodby in com Linc. Barronet widdow of Sir Thomas Woodhouse of Wilberhall in com Norff. Barronet one daughter named Iemima Iames Fitz-Roy Duke of Monmouth 15 Car. 2. THe next in order of time advanced to any Title of Honour was Iames Fitz-Roy one of His Majesties Natural Sons whom by reason of his virtuous inclinations and pregnant evidences of an heroick spirit as a proper furtherance to his after great atchievements was created Baron of âinedale in the County of Northumberland Vicount Doncaster and Duke of Monmouth by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster upon the fourteenth day of February in the fifteenth year of his Majesties Reign having since been installed Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and constituted Master of the Horse He marryed the Lady Anne daughter and sole heir to Francis Earl of Buckleugh in Scotland by whom he hath had issue two sons Charles born 24 Aug. 1672. and died 9 Febr. 1673. and Iames born 23 Maii 1674. as also one daughter named Anne born 17 Febr. 1675. Lord Frescheville 16 Car. 2. HAving in the second Tome of this Work already pointed at the antient luster of this worthy Family aswell in its eminent matches as otherwise I now come to Iohn Frescheville of Staveley in com Derb. Esquire great Grandson to Peter Frescheville which Peter for his exemplary Valor at the Battle of Muscleborough in Scotland in the time of King Edward the Sixth had the honour of Knighthood then conferred on him This Iohn having served King Charles the First of blessed memory with great fidelity not only in the times of Peace but as an expert Commander in his Armies throughout the whole course of those unhappy Wars which were occasioned through the predominancy of divers Antimonarchical spirits in the late Long Parliament and stedfastly persevering in his Loyalty to our present Soveraign was by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster upon the sixth day of March in the sixteenth year of his Reign advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Frescheville of Staveley and to the heirs male of his body He first married Saraâ daughter of Sir Iohn Harington Knight by whom he had issue three daughters Christian wedded to Charles then Lord St. Iohn eldest son to Iohn Marquess of Winchester Elizabeth to Philip son and heir of Sir Philip Warwick Knight and Frances secondly Anna Charlotta daughter and heir to Sir Henry de Vick Knight late Chancellor of the Garter but by her as yet hath no issue Benet Earl of Arlington 16 Car. 2. THat nothing more encourageth to honorable atchievement than the gracious aspects from such as are in high places towards virtuous endeavors is not to be doubted Hence was it that Sir Henry Benet Knight his Majesties Principal Secretary of State and one of his Privy Council being descended from worthy Ancestors and in his youth trayned up in all general learning taking notice of the late flames of War where with this flourishing Realm was most unhappily imbroiled laid aside his Books and most loyally betook himself to the Camp in the service of the late King Charles of blessed memory in which the testimonies of his courage and valor are yet evidently visible by the wounds he then received Nor was his prudence and dexterity in the transacting of such great affairs wherewith he was entrusted less conspicuous as is apparent from that special imployment which he had to the Catholick King in consideration therefore of these his eminent deservings he was by Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of March in the sixteenth year of his said Majesties Reign advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Aââââgton of Arlington in the County of Midd and to the heirs male of his body and after this viz. the twenty second day of April in the twenty fourth year of his Reign to the Titles of Vicount Thetford and Earl of Arlington with limitation of all these Honors viz. Baron Vicount and Earl for lack of issue male of his body lawfully begotten unto Sir Iohn Benet Knight his Brother and the heirs male of his body Since which time he hath been made Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and constituted Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold He married the Lady Isabella of Nassau daughter to Lewes of Nassau Lord Beverwaert son to the late Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau by whom he hath issue one onely daughter named Isabella married to Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewston and Duke of Grafton one of his Majesties Natural Sons Berkley Earl of Falmouth 16 Car. 2. HAving in the first Tome of this work spoke at large of the most Noble and antient Family of Berkley of Berkley-Castle in com Glouc. and in this of Iohn Lord Berkley of Stratton a special branch thereof I come to Charles Lord Berkley of Rathdown and Vicount Fitz-Harding in the Realm of Ireland Nephew to the same Iohn viz. second son to Sir Charles Berkley of Bruton in the County of Somerset Knight deceased late Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold This Charles having faithfully served our present Soveraign throughout the whole time of his greatest distresses in forreign parts both by his personal attendance on him and otherwise As also his Royal Highness the Duke of Yorke in the Wars of France and in the Netherlands by reason thereof and his descent in blood from the antient Lords Botetort was by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster the seventeenth day of March in the sixteenth year of his Majesties Reign advanced to the state and degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Botetort of Langport in the County of Somerset as also to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Falmouth and to
the heirs male of his body He married Elizabeth daughter to Colonel Hervey Bagot second son to Sir Hervey Bagot late of Blythfield in com Staff Baronet and having issue by her one only daughter named Mary was slain in that blooody sea-fight against the Dutch upon the third of Iune 1665. whereupon his Corps were conveyed to the Abby Church at Westminster and there honourably buried Lord Arundell of Treryse 16 Car. 2. OF this antient and worthy Family whose Ancestor came a into England at the Norman Conquest and which hath been seated b at Treryse in Cornwall from the time of King Edward the third was c Sir Iohn Arundel Knight Vice-Admiral to King Henry the Seventh and King Henry the Eighth which Sir Iohn in a sharp fight at sea encountring d with Duncan Camel that great Scottish Pirate took e him Prisoner Whose lineal heir male was f another Iohn which Iohn having been g one of the Knights for that shire in divers Parliaments some in the time of Queen Elizabeth others of King Iames and lastly of King Charles the First of blessed memory upon the first begining of the late unparralleld Rebellion raised by an Antimonarchical Party in the late Long-Parliament which âerminated in the horrid Murther of that excellent King most loyally put himself with four of his sons in Arms on his Majesties behalf whereof two lost their lives in his service and most valiantly held out the Castle of Pendennis which was long besieged both by Sea and Land unto the very end of those unhappy Wars Of which Sons Richard the eldest personnally attending that King in his Army was one of his Commanders in the first Battle he had with those Rebels near Kineton in Warwickshire where he made most ample manifestations of his courage and valour Likewise in that at Lansdowne in Somersetshire as also in divers other bloody fights and tedious Sieges wherein he received many wounds And though through the prevalency of those Rebels at length he lost his whole Estate nevertheless he did not at all desert his Majesties just interest for which he had so long most loyally thus hazarded himself In consideration therefore of these his great Actings and Sufferings he was by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster upon the twenty third day of March in the sixteenth year of Majesties Reign worthily advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Arundell of Treryse and to the heirs male of his body He married Gertrude daughter of Sir Iames Bagg of Saltham in the County of Devon Knight widdow of Sir Nicholas Slaning Kt. by whom he hath had issue two sons Iohn who died in his Childhood and another Iohn who married Margaret the daughter and sole heir to Sir Iohn Ackland of ãâã Iohn in the same County of Devon Knight Barbara Dutchess of Cleveland 22 Car. 2. AS in former times the raising of eminent Women to great Titles of Honor hath not been unusual in this Realm in pursuance therefore of those so laudable Examples the like hath been done by our present Soveraign Barbara the sole daughter and heir of William Viscount Grandison who in the times of the late Rebellion being in Arms for the King lost his life in open battel being the first Which Barbara by reason of her noble descent from divers worthy Ancestors and her Fathers death in his Majesties Army as also in respect of her own personal Vertues was by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster upon the third day of August in the twenty second year of his Reign advanced to the state and degree of a Baroness of this Realm by the Title of Baronesse of Nonsuch in the County of Surrey as also to the dignities of Countess of Southampton and Dutchess of Cleveland to enjoy during her natural life the remainder to Charles Fitz-Roy his said Majesties Natural Son by her and to the heirs male of his body and for lack of such issue to George Fitz-Roy another of his natural sons by her and younger Brother to him the said Charles Which Charles being since installed Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter manifesting his great inclination to honorable and virtuous endeavors was for his future encouragement to all heroick atchievements by other Letters Patent bearing date also at Westminster upon the tenth day of September in the twenty seventh year of his said Majesties Reign advanced to the state and degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Baron of Newberie as also to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Chichester and of a Duke by the Title of Duke of Southampton Henry Fitz-Roy Earl of Ewston and Duke of Grafton 24 Car. 2. THis Henry being one of the natural sons of our present Soveraign by Barbara Dutchess of Cleveland in respect of his Maâesties dear affection to him and observance of his vertuous disposition for his farther encouragement to great and honorable atchievement was by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster upon the sixteenth day of August in the twenty fourth year of his Reign advanced to the state and degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Baron of Sudbury in the County of Suffolk as also to the dignity of a Vicount by the Title of Vicount of ãâã and of an Earl by the Title of Earl of ãâã all in that County and the heirs male of his body with remainder to George Fitz-Roy his younger Brother and the heirs male of his body And by other Letters ãâã bearing date at Westminster upon the eleventh day of September in the twenty seventh year of his Reign to the Title of Duke of ãâã in the County of Northamâton He married the Lady Isabella the only child of Henry now Earl of Arlington Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold by the Lady Isabella of Nassau his wife one of the daughters of Lewes de Nassaw Lord Beverwaert son to the Illustrious Maurice late Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau Lord Duras of Holdenby 24 Car. 2. AS His Majesty in testimony of the High esteem he had of those who had faithfully served His Royal Father and Himself in the late unhappy Wars or otherwise and for their farther encouragement to all ãâã Endeavours did advance many of his own Native Subjects to great Titles of Honor as hath been already shewed so hath he not been slack in the remuneration of such Forreiners which had cordially done the like as is evident in that of the most valiant and truly Noble Lewes Duras Marquess of Blanquefort brother to the Duke of Duras in France lineally descended from the famous Galliard Dureford Lord of Duras whom King Edward the Fourth for his especial Services in those times not only made Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter conferring on him an yearly Pension of an Hundred pounds during his life but granted that his Executors for the better performance
Body begotten they ought to descend to Iames de Berkley then living as Cosin and next Heir-male to Thomas the Son of Maurice And that the said Iames Cosin and Heir-male to Thomas as above is expressed being then of full age had Livery of the Premisses c. his homage being respited By what therefore hath been already observed it is apparent that to Elizabeth the only Daughter of the said Thomas the Fourth all the Lands which came by her Mother as also all those whereof her Father died seised in Fee-simple or Fee-tail General which were about thirty Lordships in the Counties of Glocester Somerset Bucks Wilts Northampton Devon Cornwal Oxon Berks the City of London Bristoll and other places besides Advowsons of Churches c. descended As also that the said Iames his Cosin and next Heir-male was by vertue of the before specified Entail to enjoy the Castle and Barony with all those other Lordships contained in the said Fine But before I come to speak of this Iames I think it expedient to take some notice of Iames his Father who so died in the life time of his elder Brother in regard that by him the Male-line of this Noble and Antient Family became thus preserved This Iames the Father was a Knight and married Elizabeth sometimes written Isabel the Daughter and Heir of Sir Iohn Bloet Knight and of the Lady Catherine Wogan his Wife by whom he had the Mannors of Raglan Talgarth Tore Edishall Straddewy and others as also the Mannor of Daglingworth in Com. Gloc. To this Sir Iames and Elizabeth King Henry the Fourth in the first year of His Reign confirmed the Town and Castle of Raglan in Com. Monmouth which Earl Richard Son to Earl Gilbert had given to Walter Bloet his Ancestor and his Heirs temp H 2. In 4 Hen. 4. he was made Governor of the Castle of Tretour in Wales and required to fortifie it against the great Rebel Owen Glendowr By his Testament bearing date at Bristoll on the morrow after the Feast of S. Dunstan An. 1404. 5 Hen. 4. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Abby of S. Augustines near Bristoll in his Fathers Tomb and gave six marks to find â Priest to celebrate Divine Service there for the health of his Soul To Iames his Son he gave all his Habiliments pertaining to War constituting Isabel his Wife and him the said Iames his Son his Executors and departed this life 13 Iunii 6 Hen. 4. leaving issue Iames his said Son his Heir and Maurice a younger Son who died without issue ¶ Which Iames then aged twenty three years and upwards had likewise from his Father and Mother divers other Lordships and Lands than what descended to him by the Entail beforementioned viz. The Mannors of Ragland Talgarth Tore Edishall Stradway with some other in Wales and Dalingworth in Com. Gloc. As also by other means the Mannors of Sages Little Marshfield and Arlingham in that County But the Earl of Warwick and his Wife being at Wotton or Berkley Castle at the time of the death of Thomas the fourth and having thereby advantage to take away what of the Evidences they pleased possessed themselves of Berkley Castle and all other the Lands and Lordships so Intailed on the Heir-male as hath been observed And having so done procured a Grant from the King of the custody of all those Lands as long as they should remain in the Crown under such a value as they should be rated at in the Offices to be thereupon found And not only so but the next ensuing year obtained as absolute discharge of that Rent Whereupon he kept Courts in the name of himself and his Wife without any respect at all had to the Kings Grant she pretending a clear right to them all as also to the Barony And notwithstanding that this Iames upon a Writ of Diem clusit extremum by him sued out after much opposition by the Earl of Warwick was found Heir and Rightful Inheritor to the Castle of Berkley and all those twelve Lordships mentioned in that Fine of the Three and twentieth of Edward the third and had Livery accordingly Awarded Yet did that Earl and his Wife retain the said Castle Lordship and Mannors until upon a Remonstrance of his Right King Henry the Fifth commanded possession to be given unto him But after the death of that King the Earl of Warwick entred again upon the Mannor of Wotton and other Lordships and laid siege to the Castle of Berkley in which siege many were hurt and slain Whereupon by mediation of Friends there being a Reference to Philip Morgan then Bishop of Worcester and Sir Iohn Iuyn afterward Lord Cheif Justice of the Court of Kings Bench they Awarded that the said Earl should during his natural life retain the Mannors of Wotton Cowley and Simondshale and that the rest comprised in the before specified Fine should be to the said Iames and the Heirs-male of his Body But notwithstanding all this through the potency of that Earl this Iames could not according to the course of Law obtain Livery of those Lands out of the Kings hands Nor could it be any wonder considering how powerful a Man the Earl of Warwick was in those days and that many of the Servants to the late Lord Thomas were so obsequious to him exercising all their skill to give him countenance in this business One of them viz. Lionel Sea-brooke sometime Steward of the House to the said Lord Thomas in 6 Hen. 5. deposing before the Major of Southampton that his Lord and Master deceased the year before his death shewed him an old Deed of Entail of the Castle and Lordship of Berkley made by Robert Fitz-Harding which he then read and that his Lord snatched it from him saying He knew the Contents thereof And another about the same viz. Iohn Bone Vicar of Berkley and one of the Executors of the same Lord Thomas made Oath before the Major of Bristoll that the said Lord Thomas about the time of his passage into Britanny to conduct the Queen into England Enfeoffed him and others of the Castle Lordship and Hundred of Berkley and all his Lands in Glocestershire as also of the Hundred of Portbury the third part of the Mannor of Portesheved the Mannors of Walton and Bedminster with the Hundreds of Bedminster and Harclive to hold in Fee without any condition likewise that Livery and Seism was executed thereupon and Courts hâld by those Feoffees accordingly By means of which Affidavits the Earl of Warwick took such encouragement and confidence that in 6 Hen. 5. he procured a Confirmation of those antient Charters made by King Iohn touching the Mannor and Barony of Berkley and all Berkley-Hernesse and thereupon with the assistance of divers servants of the said deceased Lord Thomas besieged Berkley Castle But by