divers others of the better sort of the Irish rebelled against the King of England Hoveden pag. 567. Joh. Bromton pag. 1128. The Princes of Ireland who submitted to the Rule of the King of England Henry the Second Anno 1172. Chartis subsignatis Romam transmissis Cambd. Britan. pag. 731. ROtheric O-Conor-Dun Fuscus Hiberniae Monarcha Dermot Mac-Carty King of Cork Donald O-Bren King of Limrick O-Carel King of Uriel Mac-Shaglin Rex Ophaliae O-Roric King of Meath O-Nele King of Ulster and the chief Noblemen of them all Now followeth a Catalogue of all the Lord Deputies of Ireland CHAP. III. A Catalogue of the Chief Governors of Ireland under the Sovereignty of the Kings of England since the Conquest thereof by Henry the Second to the Year 1670. Stiled sometimes Lord Justices sometimes Lord Lieutenants sometimes Lord Deputies of Ireland Ann. Dom. 1171 HEnry the Second King of England landed at Croch in Ireland eight Miles from Waterford the 17 of October 1171. and staid there till Easter following In which space the Princes of Ireland submit and swore Fealty to him Roderik King of Connaught being as it were the Chief Head and Monarch of Ireland Hoveden and Giraldus The Conquest of Ireland was before prepared for him Anno 1168. by Richard Strongbow who then entred Ireland with his Forces and very victoriously winning one Place after another Hoveden The King of Connaught agreeth to hold all his Lands under the King of England Ut Rodericus sit Rex sub Henrico paratus ad Servitium suum and to pay him Tribute as the words of the Deed run which you may see at large in Hoveden's History or Annals bearing date in the Octaves of St. Michael 1175. made at the Parliament at Windsor in England 1. Hugh Lacy Lord Justice of Ireland 2. Richard Strongbow Lord Justice Obiit 1176. Hoveden 3. William Fitz-Aldelme Justice of Ireland Hoveden But Giraldus Hiber Expug lib. 2. cap. 15. saith Reymund was elected Governor of Ireland while Messengers were sent to the King of England to certifie him of Strongbow's death who forthwith sent William Fitz-Aldelme Procuratorem in Hiberniam joyning with him John Curcy Robert Fitz-Stephen and Milo de Coggan in Commission 4. Hugh Lacy again made Generalis Hiberniae Procurator Robert le Poer the King's Marshal being joyned as an Assistant to him which Robert was then Governor both of Waterford and Weshford Giraldus 5. John Lacy Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton with Richard Peche Bishop of Chester were sent into Ireland about the Calends of May 1181. and made Governors of Dublin for the King had sent for Hugh Lacy as jealous of his Strength and Power in Ireland having now married the Daughter of Roderik King of Connaught without the King of England's Licence first obtained Hoveden 6. Hugh Lacy again in the Winter following eodem Anno Robert of Shrewsbury a Clergy-man being joyned with him 7. Philip of Worcester vir Dapsilis Militaris Hib. Expug lib. 2. cap. 24. called by Hoveden Philip de Breos sent Governor into Ireland about the Calends of September 8. John the King's Son afterwards King John went into Ireland but soon returned after he had appointed Justices and settled the Garrisons there Hoveden But who those Justices were he mentions not Hoveden saith That Anno 1176. the King of England gave Ireland to his Son John and then after at a Parliament at Oxford Anno 1177. the King did constitute him Regem in Hiberniâ Concessione Confirmatione Alexandri summi Pontificis And Anno 1185. 31 Hen. 2. the King Knighted him at Windsor the last day of March and sends him forthwith into Ireland where he staid not long indè eum Regem constituit Certain it is That this John after he became King of England assumed the Title of Dominus Hiberniae to his other Titles which also the succeeding Kings of England ever since retained until the Year 1542. 33 Hen. 8. at which time by a Parliament in Ireland King Henry the Eighth was declared King of Ireland as a Title of greater Majesty which Title of Rex Hiberniae the Kings of England have used ever since Probably when the King gave unto his Son John Dominium Hiberniae 1176 it was as much as King of Ireland in effect whereby the Supreme Power was implied and from thence we see he assumed the Title of Dominus Hiberniae afterwards But it is not probable that the King did create him Regem Hiberniae by Charter though possibly he might sometimes be so called for then he would have assumed the Title of Rex Hiberniae and not of Dominus Hiberniae which afterwards we find he assumed but never Rex Hiberniae Ann. Dom. 1211 9. John Grey Bishop of Norwich Lord Justice Matt. Paris King John went then into Ireland 10. Henry Londers Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice Annales Hiberniae Sub Henrico Tertio 1224. The same Archbishop of Dublin Fuller's Eccles Hist lib. 3. pag. 58. 1230. 11. Geffrey de Maurice Lord Justice Matt. Paris These following are Collected out of the Annals of Ireland apud Cambdenum in Britannia sua to the Year 1420. 1248. 12. Sir John Fitz-Geffrey Lord Justice 1255. 13. Alan de la Zouch Lord Justice 1259. 14. Stephen de Longspée Lord Justice See Vincent upon Brook pag. 447. 1259. 15. William Dene Lord Justice Obiit 1261. 1261. 16. Sir Richard de Capell Lord Justice 1267. 17. Sir David de Barry Lord Justice 1268. 18. Sir Robert de Ufford Lord Justice 1269. 19. Ricardus de Exoniis Lord Justice 1270. 20. Sir James Audley Lord Justice He was kill'd with a fall from his Horse in Toomond 1272. Sub Edwardo Primo 1272. 21. Maurice Fitz-Maurice Lord Justice 1273. 22. Sir Geffrey de Genevill Lord Justice 1276. 23. Sir Robert de Ufford Lord Justice But going to England Anno 1279. Robert de Fulborne Bishop of Waterford was put in his Place Ufford returns 1280. and is Lord Justice 1281. 24. Stephen de Fulborne Archiepiscopus Turonensis Lord Justice eodem Anno. Ufford goes into England and Fulborne dieth Anno 1287. 1287. 25. John Sampford Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice ad Tempus 1291. 26. William Vescy Lord Justice 1294. 27. William D'oodyngzele Lord Justice Obiit 1298. 1295. 28. Sir Thomas Fitz-Maurice Lord Justice Obiit 1298. 1295. 29. John Wogan Lord Justice Sir Thomas Fitz-Maurice surrendring the Place to him Sub Edwardo Secundo Ann. Dom. 1312. 30. Sir Edmund le Butler is made Deputy to Sir John Wogan Both died 1321. 1314. 31. Sir Theobald de Verdon Lord Justice He came into Ireland the 20 of June 1314. 32. Sir Edmund le Butler Lord Justice He received his Commission on Friday after St. Matthew's day 1317. 33. Sir Roger de Mortimer Lord Justice but going into England to the King makes William Archiepiscopum Cassiliensem Custodem Hiberniae who was Lord Justice Chancellor and Archbishop all at a time 1318. And in Anno 1319. Sir Roger returns and is Lord Justice
1320. 34. Thomas fitz-Fitz-John Earl of Kildare made Lord Justice This Year Dublin is made an University Alexander Bicknor then Archbishop of Dublin 1321. 35. John Bermingham Earl of Louth Lord Justice 1323. 36. John Darcy Lord Justice Sub Edwardo Tertio 1327. 37. Thomas Fitz-John Earl of Kildare again Lord Justice Obiit 1328. 1328. 38. Roger Outlaw Prior of Kilmaynan Lord Justice He was Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland and Chancellor of Ireland Nicolas Fastoll and Elias Ashburne Justiciarrii de Banco 1329. 39. John Darcy second time Lord Justice Darcy going into England 1330. Roger Outlaw is deputed Justice 1331. 40. Sir Anthony Lucy comes Chief Justice 3 die Junii 1333. 41. Sir John Darcy third time Justice 1337. 42. Sir John Charleton Miles Baro came Lord Chief Justice in Festo Calixti Papae Thomas Charleton Bishop of Hereford Brother to Sir John Chancellor of Ireland and John Rees Treasurer 1338. 43. Thomas Charleton Bishop of Hereford Lord Justice and Governor Anno 1340. The Bishop of Hereford called into England by the King Roger Outlaw again was made Lord Justice who died Lord Justice and Chancellor of Ireland 13 die Februarii 1341. 44. Sir John Darcy the fourth time now made Lord Justice for his Life Sir John Morrice comes into Ireland mense Maii 1341. Deputy to John Darcy 1343. 45. 13 die Julii Sir Rafe Ufford with his Consort the Countess of Ulster came into Ireland Lord Chief Justice He died on Palm-Sunday the 9 of April 1346. 1346. 46. Sir Roger Darcy Lord Justice ad tempus de assensu Ordinatione Regalium aliorum in Hiberniâ And Sir John Morris comes Lord Chief Justice May 15. 1346. who being put out by the King Sir Walter Bermingham was instituted mense Junii he came into Ireland 1348. 47. John Archprior of Kilmaynan Deputy to Sir Walter in his absence but Sir Walter returns out of England Lord Justice as before to whom the King gave the Barony of Kenlys in Ossery which belonged to Eustace le Poer who was attainted and hanged Obiit Bermingham quondà m Optimus Justiciarius Hiberniae in Vigiliâ Margaretae Virginis 1350. in Angliâ 1349. 48. Dominus de Carew Miles Baro Lord Justice 1350. 49. Sir Thomas Rokesby Lord Justice 1355. 50. Sir Thomas went out of his Justice-ship July 26. and Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earl of Desmond is made Lord Justice He continued as long as he lived which was not long for he died in Dublin-Castle die Conversionis Sancti Pauli following 1356. 51. 31 Edw. 3. Sir Thomas Rokesby again Lord Justice Obiit eodem Anno. 1357. 52. Sir Almaric de Sancto Amando Lord Justice 1359. 53. James Butler Earl of Ormond Lord Chief Justice 1360. 54. 35 Edw. 3. the Earl of Ormond coming into England Maurice Fitz-Thomas Earl of Kildare is made Chief Justice ut sequitur OMnibus ad quos hae Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd Commisimus dilecto fideli nostro Mauritio Comiti de Kildare Officium Justiciarii nostri Terrae nostrae Hiberniae Terram nostram Hiberniam cùm Castris omnibus pertinentiis suis Custodiendam Quamdiu nobis placuerit Recipiendo ad Scaccarium nostrum Dubliniae per Annum quamdiù in Officio illo sic steterit quingentas Libras Pro quibus Officium illud terram Custodiet erit vic◠simus de hominibus ad arma cùm tot equis Coopertis continuè durante Commissione nostrâ supradictâ In cujus rei Testimonium c. Datum per manus dilecti nostri in Christo Fratris Thomae de Burgey Prioris Hospitalis Sancti Johannis Hierusalem in Hibernia Cancellarii nostri Hiberniae apud Dubliniam 30 die Martii 35 Edw. 3. And after the Return of the Earl of Ormond into Ireland Ormond was Justice as before and the Earl of Kildare surceased 1361. 55. Lionel Duke of Clarence third Son of King Edward the Third and Earl of Ulster in Right of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of William de Burgo Earl of Ulster venit in Hiberniam Locumtenens Domini Regis in Octavis Nativitatis Beatae Mariae Here was the first Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Anno 1364. April 22. Lionel went into England leaving Ormond his Deputy of Ireland Lionel returned the eighth of December He was sent for again into England 1365. and then leaves Sir Thomas Dale his Servant Governor and Justice of Ireland Lionel died at Languvil in Italy 1368. Cambden apud Albam in Piemont 1367. 56. Gerald Fitz-Maurice Earl of Desmond Lord Justice 1369. 57. Sir William de Windsore came into Ireland the 12 of July Lord Lieutenant 1372. 58. Sir Robert alii Richard de Ashton Lord Justice of Ireland 59. Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster Lord Lieutenant He died at Cork 1381. 5 Rich. 2. Sub Richardo Secundo 1387. 60. Robert Vere Earl of Oxford created Marquis of Dublin 9 Rich. 2. and after made Duke of Ireland 10 Rich. 2. And after that the King granted him the Kingdom and Sovereignty of Ireland by Letters Patents saith Brook the York-Herald and to bear for his Arms Azure three Crowns Gold in a Border Argent to be quartered before his own Coat Obiit in Lovaniâ 1392. 1397. 61. Roger Mortimer Earl of March Lord Lieutenant of Ireland He was slain by the Irishmen 1399. 22 Rich. 2. Stow. Rex Anglia contrà Juramentum quod praestiterat revocavit de Hiberniâ Justiciarios quos olìm de Consensu suo Proceres propter defectus eorum notabiles Constituêrunt exulare So Walsingham sub Anno 1397. 20 Rich. 2. pag. 353. Sub Henrico Quarto 1400. 62. Sir John Stanley Lord Lieutenant 1401. 63. In May Sir John went into England leaving Sir William Stanley in his Place And on St. Bartholomew's Eve eodem Anno Stephen Scroope entred Ireland Deputy to Thomas of Lancaster the King's Son Lord Lieutenant who came into Ireland in die Sancti Bricii November 13. eodem Anno. Anno 1403. about the eleventh of November Thomas the King's Son going into England left Stephen Scroope his Deputy and Scroope going into England the first day of Lent the Noblemen of Ireland chuse the Earl of Ormond Lord Justice Anno 1405. Scroope the Deputy of Thomas of Lancaster returns into Ireland but going again into England the Earl of Ormond is Justice Anno 1406. Scroope returning after Michaelmas into Ireland is Deputy as before Anno 1407. Scroope going this Year also into England James Butler Earl of Ormond is elected Lord Justice Anno 1408. Thomas of Lancaster Lord Lieutenant lands at Carlingford in Ireland the second of August In this Year died Stephen Scroope at Tristel-Dermot 16 die Januarii And the third of the Ides of March following Sir Thomas de Lancaster Lord Lieutenant going for England leaves the Prior of Kilmaynan his Deputy in Ireland Thomas of Lancaster was slain at the Battel of Bangy by the Duke of Alanson 22 Martii being Easter Eve Anno Domini 1421. 9 Hen.
and one Month. 9. Edward I. Son of Henry III. subdued Wales and brought Scotland into subjection He died the seventh of July 1307. aged 68 Years He Reigned 34 Years 7 Months and 22 Days 10. Edward II. Son of Edward I. was Barbarously and Traiterously deposed through a strong Faction raised against him by his Queen and afterwards murthered in Barkley-Castle He was deposed the 25 of January 1326. and murthered September 21. 1327. He Reigned 19 Years 6 Months and 18 Days 11. Edward III. Son of Edward II. a Valorous Prince overthrew the French in two great Battels took Caliz and many other Places in that Kingdom and Quartered the Arms of France in his Coat which the succeeding Kings of England have ever since imitated and retained He died at Richmond the 21 day of June 1377. in the 56 Year of his Age. He Reigned 50 Years and almost 5 Months 12. Richard II. Son of Prince Edward called The Black Prince and Grandson of Edward III. was Traiterously deposed by his Cosin Henry Duke of Hereford and Lancaster the 29 of September 1399. and after murthered in Prison the 14 day of February following in Pomfret Castle He Reigned 22 Years 3 Months and 8 Days The Lancastrian Line 13. Henry IV. Duke of Lancaster Son of John of Gant fourth Son of King Edward the Third traiterously and villainously taking up Arms against his Prince caused Richard the Second to be deposed and made himself King He spent his whole Reign in suppressing of home-bred Rebellions He died the 20 of March 1412. in the 46 Year of his Age. He Reigned 13 Years and 6 Months wanting 10 Days 14. Henry V. Son of Henry IV. the Mirror of Magnificence and passing swift in running He was of New-College in Oxford under the Government of Henry de Beaufort his Uncle on the Fathers side then Chancellor of Oxford He Conquered France and died in the Castle of Boys de Vincennes not far from Paris the last day of August 1422. He Reigned 9 Years 5 Months and 10 Days 15. Henry VI. Son of Henry V. an Infant of 8 Months old a Pious but Unfortunate Prince He was Crowned King of France in Paris 7 Decembris 1431. which he held during the Life of his Uncle John Duke of Bedford Regent of France But afterwards he did not onely lose all France again but England also to the Duke of York's Faction who claimed the Crown of England in right of Anne Grandmother to Edward IV. and Daughter to Roger Mortimer Earl of March Son of Edmund Mortimer by Philippa Daughter and Heir of Lionel Duke of Clarence third Son of Edward III. and Elder Brother of John of Gant He Reigned 38 Years 6 Months and 4 Days Kings of the Duke of York's Line 16. Edward IV. Son of Richard Duke of York challenged the Crown as aforesaid and prevailing in several Battels against Henry VI. was Crowned King of England the fourth of March 1460. Yet Henry VI. was Crowned again 13 die Octobris 1470. But he enjoyed his Title of Redemption but a while for he died about six Months after to wit in Anno 1471. having lived 52 Years He Reigned 22 Years 1 Month and odd Days This Edward the Fourth died the ninth of April 1483. aged 41 Years He was the first of all the Norman Kings who married his own Subject Anno Chr. 1483. 17. Edward V. Son of Edward IV. was never Crowned but murthered by his Uncle Richard Duke of Glocester Protector in June 1483. in the thirteenth Year of his Age in the Tower of London He Reigned two Months 18. Richard III. youngest Brother of King Edward IV. being Protector to the late young King and dispatching him and his Brother out of the way usurpeth the Crown He was slain at Bosworth-field in Leycestershire the 22 day of August 1485. He Reigned 2 Years and 2 Months The Union of the Two Families Lancaster and York 19. Henry VII Earl of Richmond next Heir to the House of Lancaster as Son of Edmund a That Edmund was called Edmund of Haddam Son of Owen Tudor by Queen Katharine the Widow of Henry the Fifth Tudor by Margaret Daughter of John Duke of Somerset descended of John of Gant Duke of Lancaster after the Overthrow given by him unto Richard the Third at Bosworth married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to King Edward the Fourth and so United the Families He died at Richmond the 22 day of April 1509. after he had Reigned 23 Years and 8 Months 20. Henry VIII Son of Henry VII Heir to both Families He shaked off the Pope's Supremacy in this Nation suppressed the Monasteries and began the Reformation of Religion in England A Prince of great Vices and of great Vertues He wrote a Book against Luther for which Pope Leo X. gave him by Charter the Title of Defender of the Faith dated 1521. Herbert's Hist of Hen. 8. pag. 95. Which Title hath ever since been used by his Successors He died at Westminster the 28. of January 1546. having Reigned 37 Years 9 Months and 6 Days Trussel's History pag. 263. saith There perished in the Civil Wars between the the Houses of Lancaster and York Two Kings One Prince Ten Dukes Two Marquesses Twenty one Earls Twenty seven Lords Two Viscounts One Lord Prior of St. Johns of Jerusalem One Judge 139 Knights 441 Esquires 84998 Common Persons Dr. Heylyn in his Cosmography pag. 320. accounts thus Seventeen Pitched Fields Eight Kings and Princes slain Forty Dukes Marquesses and Earls 200000 Common People Besides Barons and Gentlemen 21. Edward VI. Son of Henry VIII by Jane Seymour a Child He died at Greenwich 6 die Julii 1553. about 15 Years old In his time Priests were allowed to Marry See Stat. 2 3 Edw. 6. cap. 21. He Reigned 6 Years 5 Months and 8 days 22. Queen Mary Daughter of Henry VIII by Katherine of Spain his Brother Arthur's Widow lost Caliz to the French 1557. A Bloody Queen She married Philip King of Spain 25 die Julii 1554. And she died at St. Jameses House in London the 17 of November 1558. She set up Popery and Reigned 5 Years 4 Months and 11 Days 23. Queen Elizabeth Daughter of Henry VIII by the Lady Anne of Bullein his second Wife A most Gracious Heroick Princess She perfected and refined the Reformation of Religion begun by her Father furnished the Royal Navy with all Warlike Ammunitions succoured the Scots against the French and the French Protestants against the Papists defended the Netherlands against the Attempts of the Spaniards commanded the Whole Ocean entred League with the Muscovite and was most Famous in the Prudent Government of her Kingdom assisted by most Wise and Able Statesmen and Privy-Counsellors about her as any Prince in Christendom had and which is most rare were all Faithful and Loyal to her She died the 24 day of March 1602. which is the last Day of the Year according to the Computation of the Church of England at Richmond in Surrey aged 70 Years She
William Earl Warren and Surrey 1139. Margaret married to Conan Earl of Little-Brettain after to Bohuis She died 1201. Hoveden p. 822. 1 Malcolme IV. Obiit sine prole 1165. 2 William King of Scotland died 1214. Ermengard Daughter of Richard Viscount Beaumont 1186. 2 Henry Patrick de Galightly one of the Competitors 1 Alexander II. King of Scotland Obiit 1249. Joan Sister to H 3. King of England 1221. Alexander III. King of Scotland killed by a fall from his Horse A. 1285. Margaret Daughter of Hen. 3. King of England 1251. David Son of Alexander III. died before his Father without Issue Alexander married the Daughter of the Earl of Flanders but he died before his Father leaving no Issue Margaret Wife of the King of Norwey Margaret a Daughter died young without Issue about 1291. Ericus King of Norwey became a Competitor for the Crown of Scotland on behalf of Margaret his Daughter now deceased as Administrator to her Anno 1292. Walsingham's Hist pag. 58. Isabel Wife of Roger le Bigot Earl Marshal no Issue But she married Robert Lord Roos first Hus. William L. Roos another Competitor Margaret Wife of Hubert de Burgo Earl of Kent 1221. M. Paris Margaret Wife of Richard de Clare No Issue Margerita Wife unto Eustace de Vescy William de Vescy 1 John sine prole 2 William Vescy another Competitor 1291. Ada Wife of Patrick de Dunbarre Patrick Patric E. of Dunbar another Competitor 1291. Austrio or Aufrica Wife of William de Say of Vlster A quo Roger de Mandevil another Competitor 3 David Earl of Huntington 1184. Maud eldest Sister to Randle Blundevil Earl of Chester and a Coheir 1 Margaret eldest daughter of David Earl of Huntington was Second wife to Alan de Galloway Constable of Scotland Dervergoile married to John Baliol of Bernards Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham the Founder of Baliol-College in Oxford He died Anno 1269. aut paulo ante 1 Hugh Baliol Son and Heir Obiit sine prole Balio-fergus pag. 2. 2 Alan second Son Obiit sine prole 3 Alexander third Son Obiit sine prole 4 John Baliol another Competitor who was adjudged King of Scotland by the Award of King Edward the First Anno 1292. Thomas died without Issue Christian eldest Daughter died without Issue 2 Isabel married Robert de Bruse Ro. de Bruse Lord of Anandale another Competitor 1291. 3 Maud died without Issue 4 Ada married Henry Hastings Knighton pag. 2431. John Hastings Lord of Berguenny another Competitor 1291. 1 Henry died young 2 David died young 3 John Scot Earl of Chester married Hellen Daughter of Lhewellyn Prince of North-Wales John died without Issue Anno 1237. Helen his Widow after married Robert Quency third Son of Saher de Quency Earl of Winchester Ada Wife of Florence Earl of Holland She died 1208. Hist of the Netherlands p. 16. Florence William Florence a Competitor to the Crown of Scotland An Do. 1291. Pryn's Hist p. 513. 1 Claricia 2 Hodierna Ordericus pa. 702. 5 6 Edmund and Ethelred banisht by their Uncle Donwald 1 Edith after called Maude uxor H. 1. Regis Angliae 2 Mary wife of Eustace Comitis Boloniae Quare Whether Margaret Wife of Hubert de Burgo were not the Widow of Eustace Vescy for Eustace died 1216. Mat Paris ⚜ See the Claims of the Competitors to the Crown of Scotland Anno Domini 1291. from the Record it self set down in Pryn's History of King John Hen. 3. and Edw. 1. pag. 513 514 c. ⚜ See the Record in Pryn's History of K. John H. 3. Edw. 1. Pa. 515 516. 28. John Balioll Son of John Balioll of Bernards-Castell in the Bishoprick of Durham after the Interregnum of six Years and nine Months was by Edward the First adjudged right Heir to the Crown of Scotland and was thereupon Crowned King at Scone on St. Andrew's Day being the last of November in the Year of Christ 1292. and presently after he came to Newcastle upon Tyne and did Homage to the King of England there and acknowledged King Edward to be his Liege Lord of all the Kingdom of Scotland to be held hereditarily of the Kings of England Walsingham's Hypodigma Neustriae pag. 480. For Edward the First King of England being appointed Judge of the Right to the Crown of Scotland by consent of all the Competitors of whom onely the Question was moved between John Balioll and Robert Bruse for all the rest of the Competitors were excluded as inferior Titles gave Sentence for John Balioll by the common Assent who was Descended from the eldest Daughter of David Earl of Huntington Brother of William King of Scotland and Bruse from the younger Daughter where by the way I must note Walsingham's Book misprinted which calleth David here mentioned King of Scotland for Brother of the King of Scotland Anno 1295. this John Balioll desired to Marry Edward Balioll his Son unto Joan Daughter of Charles Brother to the King of France promising his Aid against the King of England And in Anno 1296. the Scots Besiege Carlisle King Edward subdues the Scots and makes them swear Fealty to him takes John Balioll King of Scotland Prisoner and leaves John Warren Earl of Surrey Protector of Scotland and Hugh Cressingham Treasurer and William de Ormesby Justice and so returns to London Walsingham 29. Robert Bruse was Crowned King of Scotland at Scone in April 1306. He was Son of Robert Bruse Lord of Annansdale Competitor with John Balioll in Right of Isabell his Mother the second Daughter though a Degree nearer than Balioll to the deceased King and Son of the second Daughter whereas Balioll was Descended of the eldest Sister but of a Daughter of that Sister which Robert Bruse the Father released his Title to this Robert Bruse his Son then Earl of Carrick but now King of Scotland Dated at Barwick die Veneris in Crastino Sancti Leonardi the seventh of November Anno Gratiae 1292. Vincent upon Brook pag. 255. but it being adjudged to Balioll he seeks to get it by force and was Crown'd 1306. confirmed therein by the great Defeat given to Edward the Second's Forces at Banocksburn not far from Sterling ⚜ One Hamilton flying from the English Court to this King Robert who gave him Lands juxta Glottam Fluvium his Postetity afterward came to be ranked among the Nobility of Scotland and the House and Land which the King gave him was called Hamilton This was the original of the Hamiltons in Scotland Buchanan lib. 8. pag. 271 272. Anno 1318. Edward Bruse Brother to this King Robert was taken Prisoner and Beheaded at Dundalk He had infested Ireland three Years and caused himself to be Crowned King thereof Walsingham pag. 111. This King Robert Married to his first Wife Isabel Daughter of Donald of whom he begot Marjory Mother of Robert Stewart afterwards King of Scotland Cambden's Britannia pag. 713. Robert Bruse died the ninth of July 1329. Anno Regni 24. Buchanan
Parliament at Barwick where he received the Homages and Fealty of the Nobility of Scotland Stow. 1298. 26 Ed. 1. At Flowkirk in Scotland July 22. 1298. where were slain more than 20000 Scots Stow. 1313. 7 Edw. 2. At Sterling in Scotland June 24. 1313. where the English were beaten Walsingham and Stow. Buchanan pag. 264 265 saith there fell 200 of the Nobility of England or thereabout and near as many more of the Nobility taken Prisoners and 50000 common Soldiers were slain as some Scots relate and on the part of the Scots were slain about 4000. and onely two Knights James Duglas then General of the Scotch Forces At a Place by Barwick called Bothul near Halydown 1332. 6 Edw. 3. where were slain on the part of the Scots 8 Earls 1300 Horse and 35000 common Soldiers and Turnebull the Scotch Champion was overcome in Combat by Sir Robert Nenale a Norfolk Gentleman Stow. This is called The Battel of Halydown Hill At Durham the 27. of October 1346. 1346. 20 Ed. 3. whiles King Edward the Third Besieged Calice in France David Bruse King of Scotland by the procurement of Philip King of France entered Northumberland with an Army of 60000 Men and pitched near Durham in a Park called Beverpeir where the Archbishop of York the Lord Zouch Percy Mowbray and other Lords and Sir Robert Bertram Sheriff of Northumberland with an Army of 30000 Men met the Scots at Durham and did beat them In which Battel John Coupeland took David the King of Scotland Prisoner with three Scotch Earls So Walsingham This John Coupeland of Northumberland had 500 l. per annum given him during his Life for this Service and was made a Banneret At Otterborn in Northumberland the Scots under the Command of James Duglas 1388. 12 Rich. 2. took Henry Percy the younger and Rafe his Brother Prisoners slew 1100 English put to flight 30000 more Stow. This was Fought about the 12. of the Calends of August 1388. Buchanan saith the two Generals Henry Percy of the English and James Duglas of the Scots singled themselves out from the Army and Fought apart and Percy was unhorsed but the English relieved him and tells us that there fell on the English side 1840 and about 1000 wounded and 1040 taken Prisoners pag. 319. At Hallydown near the Town of Wollar Sept. 14. 1402. where the English 1402. 3 Hen. 4. conducted by Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland and Henry his Son took Earl Duglas the Scotch General Prisoner with divers others of the Flower of the Scotch Chivalry Stow. At Flodden-Field in Northumberland September 9. 1513. wherein James IV. 1513. 5. Hen. 8. King of Scotland was slain at Bramston on Piperd-Hill Stow. Wherefore by some this is called Bramston Field by others Flodden Field and though the Day fell to the English yet there was taken and slain of the English 1500. Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey being then General of the English At Solomosse beyond Carlisle November 24. 1542. where 15000 Scots 1542. 34 Hen. 8. under the Command of the Lord Maxwell were overthrown Muscleborough Field in Scotland Fought September 10. 1547. where Edward Seymour 1547. 1 Edw. 6. Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector was General of the English Forces 14000 Scots slain and 1500 taken Prisoners and not above 60 English slain Stow. OF IRELAND CHAP. I. Of the Name Situation and ancient Inhabitants of Ireland I. IRELAND is called by Orpheus Aristotle and Claudian IERNE by Juvenal and Mela IWERNA by Diodorus Siculus IRIS by Martianus of Heracleota 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Eustathius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and BEP'NIA by the Natives ERIN by the Brettans YUERDON and by the English IRELAND and Cambden most probably concludes that Hibernia and Iwerna and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flow from Aristotle's and Orpheus's Ierne and that Ierna Iuerhdon Iris and Ireland do all spring from Erin as the Inhabitants themselves do call it which Cambden conjectureth to come from the Irish word Hier which in that Language signifies The West Point so that Erin denotes as much as The West Countrey or Western Land The Irish Bards in their Songs called it Tirvolac Toridanan and Banno as by much the most ancient Names of that Island but why saith Cambden I cannot tell unless Banno be that Bannomanna which Pliny mentions out of Timaeus whiles he relates the utmost Parts of Europe and the Shore of the North Ocean on the left Hand from Scythia even to the Gades What that Bannomanna was is not yet known to Geographers But Biaun in Irish is Holy in English and Festus Avienus calleth this of Ireland The Holy Island If that Ogygia which Plutarch placeth at the West of our Brettaine be no Dream but a true Vision he may seem to point out Ireland by that Name howbeit the things which he speaks of are meer Poetical Fictions and Milesian Fables nor can any tell why they named it Ogygia unless perhaps from the Antiquity for the Grecians call nothing Ogygia but what is very ancient II. It containeth 300 Miles in length and scarce 120 in breadth and hath England on the East from whence it is severed by a boisterous Sea called The Channel of St. George or The Irish Sea On the West part it is environed with the vast Ocean called The Western Ocean on the North with the Deucalidonian Ocean and on the South with the Vergivian Ocean situate under the eighth and tenth Climates the longest Day being 16 Hours and a half in the Southern Parts and 17 Hours and 3 quarters in the Northern III. It is observed among other things that in this Island there is neither Snake nor Toad nor any venomous Creature neither will any such live in that Soil if brought from other Places And all living Creatures in Ireland are of a lesser size in their Kind than those in England except Women and Greyhounds and those are bigger than with us in England It abounds with Sheep and Cattel but much infested with Wolves The Kernes or wild Irish are extremely barbarous IV. To omit the many Fables devised by the ancient Irish Historians as that Caesarea the Neece of Noah should inhabit here before the Flood with many other of the like stamp It seems to be Peopled very anciently by the Brettans for that many ancient words in the Irish Language do savour of the British Original and that the Irish and the Brettans were not much different in their Dispositions and Manners as Tacitus saith and that by all ancient Writers as Diodorus Siculus Ptolemy and Strabo it is reckoned among the British Islands And there is no Nation by reason of the nearness whence they may pass more commodiously to Ireland than out of our Brettain from whence they may be as soon wafted into Ireland as out of France into Brettain We read not that ever the Romans subdued Ireland but in the declining State of the Roman Empire the Nation of the Scots or
5. Stow. Sub Henrico Quinto Ann. Dom. 1413. The Prior of Kilmaynan continued Justice to 1413. 64. 7 die Octobris Sir John Stanley lands at Cloncarfe in Ireland the second time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and died the sixth of January following 1413. 65. The eleventh of February Thomas Cranley Archbishop of Dublin is elected Lord Justice of Ireland 1414. 66. Sir John Talbot Lord Furnival lands at Dalkey in Ireland the tenth of November Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Anno 1419. July 22. Sir John Talbot went into England much in debt and left the Archbishop of Dublin his Deputy This was the Famous John Talbot Marshal of France under Hen. 6. who was Earl of Shrewsbury and also created Earl of Waterford in Ireland 1446. 24 Hen. 6. and also Seneschal or High Steward of Ireland to him and his Heirs after the manner of the High Stewards of England in their Office He was killed at the Battel of Burdeaux in France 1453. Vincent upon Brooke Title Shrewsbury 1420. 67. James Butler Earl of Ormond lands at Waterford the fourth of April Lord Lieutenant of Ireland So far out of the Annals of Ireland Sub Henrico Sexto Leiutenants of Ireland to H. 6. Stow. 68. Edmund Mortimer Earl of March. James Earl of Ormond his Deputy 69. John Sutton Lord Dudley Sir Thomas Strange his Deputy 70. Sir Thomas Stanley Sir Christopher Plunket his Deputy 71. Lion Lord Wells The Earl of Ormond his Deputy 72. James Earl of Ormond by himself 73. John Earl of Shrewsbury The Archbishop of Dublin his Deputy 1433. 74. Richard Plantagenet Duke of York Father to King Edw. 4. made Lieutenant by Patent for 10 Years whose Deputies at sundry times as appears by the Statutes of Ireland were The Baron of Delvin Sir Richard Fitz-Eustace James Earl of Ormond Tho. Fitz-Maurice Earl of Kildare 75. Thomas Fitz-Maurice Earl of Kildare Lord Justice to 3 Edw. 4. Sub Edwardo Quarto Ann. Dom. 1463. 76. George Duke of Clarence the Kings Brother made Lieutenant for his Life His Deputies at sundry times were The Earl of Desmond John Tiptoft Earl of Worcester Thomas Earl of Kildare But falling afterwards to discord with his Brother the King made another Lieutenant This George is said to be drowned in a But of Malmsey 1478. 18 Edw. 4. So Stow. 1470. 77. Henry Lord Grey of Ruthin Lord Lieutenant Sir Rowland Eustace his Deputy 1481. 78. Richard Duke of York younger Son of King Edw. 4. Lord Lieutenant Sub Ricardo Tertio 1483. 79. Edward Son of King Rich. 3. Lord Lieutenant Gerald Earl of Kildare his Deputy This Edward died 1484. 2 Rich. 3. Buck's Hist of Rich. 3. pag. 43. 1484. 80. John Earl of Lincoln Lieutenant The Earl of Kildare his Deputy Sub Henrico Septimo 1491. 81. Jaspar Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke Lord Lieutenant Walter Archbishop of Dublin his Deputy Anno 1494. Sir Edward Poynings Deputy Jaspar died the 21 of December 1495. 11 Hen. 7. 1501. 82. Henry Duke of York afterwards King Henry 8. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Gerald Earl of Kildare his Deputy Sub Henrico Octavo 83. Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey Lieutenant 1520. 84. Piers Butler after Earl of Ossery Lord Deputy 1522. 85. Gerald Earl of Kildare again Lord Deputy 86. Nugent Baron of Delvin Lord Deputy 87. Piers Butler Earl of Ossery again Lord Deputy 1529. 88. Sir William Skeffington Lord Deputy 1530. 89. Gerald Earl of Kildare Lord Deputy 1532. 90. Sir William Skeffington again October 4. 1534. 91. Leonard Lord Grey 1 Januarii Lord Deputy 1534. 92. Sir William Brereton Lord Deputy 1540. 93. Sir Anthony Seintleger 25 July Lord Deputy 1541. 94. Sir William Brabazon 1 Aprilis Lord Deputy 1546. 95. Sir Anthony Seintleger August 4. again Lord Deputy 1546. Sub Edwardo Sexto 96. Sir Edward Bellingham in May Lord Deputy 1548. 97. Francis Bryan December 27. Lord Justice 1549. 98. Sir William Brabazon February 2. Lord Justice 1549. 99. Sir Anthony Seintleger August 4. again Lord Deputy 1550. 101. Sir Thomas Cosake Sir Gerald Attlemore Decemb. 6. Lord Justices 1552. Sub Maria Regina 102. Sir Anthony Seintleger September 1. fourth time Lord Deputy 1554. 103. Thomas Lord Fitz-Walter May 26. Lord Deputy 1555. 104. Hugh Curren Lord Arcbishop Lord Chancellor Sir Henry Sidney Treasurer Decemb. 4. Lord Justices 1557. 105. Sir Henry Sidney alone February 6. Lord Justice 1557. Sub Elizabetha Regina 106. Thomas Earl of Sussex April 27. Lord Deputy He went into Scotland and left Sir Henry Sidney Septemb. 24. Lord Justice The Earl came out of Scotland and went into England leaving Sir Henry Sidney December 13. Lord Justice 1558. 107. Thomas Earl of Sussex August 27. Lord Deputy 1559. 108. Sir William Fitz-Williams February 15. Lord Justice 1559. 109. Thomas Earl of Sussex June 24. Lord Lieutenant 1560. 110. Sir William Fitz-Williams February 2. Lord Justice 1560. 111. Thomas Earl of Sussex June 1. Lord Lieutenant 1561. 112. Sir William Fitz-Williams January 22. Lord Justice 1561. 113. Thomas Earl of Sussex July 24. Lord Lieutenant 1562. 114. Sir Nicolas Arnold May 25. Lord Justice 1564. 115. Sir Henry Sidney January 20. Lord Deputy 1565. 116. Dr. Weston Lord Chancellor Sir William Fitz-Williams October 14. Lord Justices 1567. 117. Sir Henry Sidney October 20. Lord Deputy 1568. 118. Sir William Fitz-Williams March 26. Lord Justice Idem January 13. 1570. Lord Deputy 1570. 119. Sir Henry Sidney September 18. Lord Deputy 1575. 120. Sir William Drury September 14. Lord Deputy 1578. 121. Sir William Pellam October 11. Lord Justice 1579. 122. Arthur Lord Grey arrived in Ireland August 12. Lord Deputy 1580. 123. Adam Lofties Lord Archbishop Lord Chancellor Sir Henry Wallop Treasurer Septemb. Lord Justices 1582. 124. Sir John Parrot June 21. Lord Deputy 1584. 125. Sir William Fitz-Williams June 30. Lord Deputy 1588. 126. Sir William Russel August 11. Lord Deputy 1594. 127. Thomas Lord Burrough May 22. Lord Deputy 1597. 128. Sir Thomas Norreys October 30. Lord Justice 1597. 129. Adam Lofties Archbishop and Chancellor Sir Robert Gardiner November 27. Lord Justices 1597. 130. Robert Earl of Essex April 15. Lord Lieutenant 1598. 131. Adam Lofties Archbishop Lord Chancellor Sir George Carew Treasurer Lord Justices 1599. 132. Sir Charles Blunt Lord Mountjoy October 24. Lord Lieutenant 1599. Sub Jacobo Rege 133. Sir George Carew June 1. Lord Deputy 1603. 134. Sir Arthur Chichester February 3. Lord Deputy 1604. 135. Thomas Jones Archbishop Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Wingfield March 14. Lord Justices 1613. 136. Sir Arthur Chichester Lord Belfast July 27. Lord Deputy 1614. 137. Thomas Jones Archbishop Lord Chancellor Sir John Denham February 11. Lord Justices 1615. 138. Sir Oliver Saint John August 30. Lord Deputy 1616. 139. Sir Adam Lofties Viscount Ely Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Wingfield Viscount Powerscourt May 4. Lord Justices 1622. 140. Henry Viscount Falkland September 8. Lord Deputy 1622. Sub Carolo Primo 141. Sir Adam Lofties Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Boyle Earl of Cork Lord Treasurer Lord
same Office after the death of John Tatton to Randle Brereton per nomen Officii Clerici Scaccarii Cestriae vulgaritèr nuncupati Baronis Scaccarii Cestriae This Randle Brereton Baron of the Exchequer I take it was Bastard Brother to the Chamberlain 23 H. 8. 1331. William Brereton Esqire made Chamberlain 23 Hen. 8. He continued to 28 Hen. 8. about five Years He was of the King 's Privy Chamber and Beheaded May 17. 1536. 28 Hen. 8. for matters touching Queen Anne Stow. 28 H. 8. 1536. Rees Manxell 28 Hen. 8. He continued to 1 Eliz. about twenty three Years 1 Eliz. 1559. Edward Stanley Earl of Derby Chamberlain of Chester 1 Eliz. William Glazier Vice-Chamberlain eodem anno Earl Edward Chamberlain six Years 7 Eliz. 1565. Robert Dudley Earl of Leycester 7 Eliz. He continued to 30 Eliz. about twenty three Years William Glazier Vice-Chamberlain 17 22 Eliz. 30 Eliz. 1588. Henry Stanley Earl of Derby 30 Eliz. He continued Chamberlain to 35 Eliz. about five Years 35 Eliz. 1593. Sir Thomas Egerton after Lord-Keeper was Chamberlain 35 Eliz. He continued to the first Year of King James about ten Years 1 Jacobi 1603. William Stanley Earl of Derby made Chamberlain of Chester for his Life October 30. 1603. 1 Jacobi He makes Henry Townesend Esq his Vice-Chamberlain durante beneplacito as freely as ever Sir Peter Warburton one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas or any other Vice-Chamberlain held the same Office before Dated 13 Januarii 1 Jacobi After this there was another Patent joyning James Lord Strange with William his Father for both their Lives and to the Survivor To Townesend succeeded Sir Thomas Ireland of Beausy in Lancashire Vice-Chamberlain To Ireland Roger Downs of Wardley in Lancashire To Downs Orlando Bridgeman Son of John Lord Bishop of Chester Vice-Chamberlain 1640. William Earl of Derby died 1642. and James his Son continued Chamberlain till the Parliament put in their Speakers 23 C. 1. 1647. Edward Earl of Manchester Speaker of the House of Lords and William Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons were made Chamberlains of Chester by the Parliament 23 Car. 1. 1647. Homfrey Macworth of Shropshire Vice-Chamberlan 1654. John Glinne made Chamberlain 1654 Philip Younge of Shropshire his Vice-Chamberlain This Glinne purchased Harden Castle from Charles Earl of Derby about 1654. 12 C. 2. 1660. Charles Earl of Derby made Chamberlain of Chester by the King for the Lives of himself and William his Son 12 Car. 2. 1660. Edward Rigby of Preston in Lancashire sat Vice-Chamberlain 1662. CHAP. V. A Catalogue of the Judges of Chester collected out of the old Deeds and Charters to the Reign of Edward the First and from thence downwards out of the Fines at Chester and out of the Recognizances in the Exchequer Johannes Adams Justiciarius Comitis Witness to a Deed of William Constable of Cheshire the younger made to the Abbey of St. Werburge in Chester of Raby in Wirrall about the beginning of King Stephen 's Reign Raufe Manwaring Judge of Chester towards the end of Henry the Second and Richard the First Philip Orreby Judge of Chester in the time of Roger Lacy Constable of Cheshire about the tenth Year of King John 's Reign Anno 1209 for Roger Lacy died 1211. 12 Johannis saith Matthew Paris He was Judge to 13 Hen. 3. 1228. above twenty Years 14 H. 3. 1230. William Vernon Judge of Chester 14 15 16 Hen. 3. 18 H. 3. 1234. Richard Phitton 17 18 19 20 21 Hen. 3. 22 H. 3. 1238. Richard Dracot 25 H. 3. 1241. John Lexington 28 H. 3. 1244. Johannes Extraneus id est John Strange 28 29 Hen. 3. 30 H. 3. 1246. John Grey 31 H. 3. 1247. Sir Roger de Monte-alto Steward of Cheshire 32 H. 3. 1248. Henry Torboc locum tenens Johannis Grey 33 H. 3. 1249. Richard Vernon locum tenens Johannis Grey 34 H. 3. 1250. Alan de Zouch 34 35 36 37 Hen. 3. Walkelinus de Arderne 42 H. 3. 1258. Roger de Monte-alto etià m 43 Hen. 3. 45 H. 3. 1261. Fulco de Orreby proved by the original Charter of Maxfield 46 H. 3. 1262. Thomas de Orreby Knight 49 H. 3. 1265. Lucas de Tanai made Judge by Simon de Montfort 50 H. 3. 1266. James de Audeley 50 51 52 Hen. 3. 53 H. 3. 1269. Thomas Bolton etià m 54 Hen. 3. 54 H. 3. 1270. Reginald Grey part of the 54 Hen. 3. as appears by the Charter of Dernhale 2 die Augusti 54 Hen. 3. Idem Reginaldus 55 56 Hen. 3. Robertus de Huxley ejus locum tenens Anno 1271. Sub Edwardo Primo 1 Ed. 1. 1273. Idem Reginaldus de Grey 1 2 Edw. 1. 3 Ed. 1. 1275. Guncelinus de Badelesmere to 10 Edw. 1. 10 E. 1. 1282. Reginald Grey to 28 Edw. 1. Radulphum Hegham sibi associavit 13 Edw. 1. Ricardus Massy locum tenens in absentiâ Reginaldi 20 Edw. 1. Idem Ricardus locum tenens pro Reginaldo 25 Edw. 1. 28 E. 1. 1300 Richard Massy Judge of Chester 29 E. 1. 1301. William Trussell to 35 Edw. 1. 35 E. 1. 1307. William Ormesby in ultimis Assisis 35 Edw. 1. Sub Edwardo Secundo Robertus de Holland to the 4. of Edward the Second 1 Ed. 2. 1308. Paganus Tibotot etià m 5 Edw. 2. 4 Ed. 2. 1311. Robert Holland part of 5. etià m 6 Edw. 2. 5 Ed. 2. 1312. Hugh de Audley to 12 Edw. 2. 7 Ed. 2. 1314. John Sapy 12 E. 2. 1319. Robert Holland etià m 14 Edw. 2. 13 E. 2. 1320. Oliver Ingham to 19 Edw. 2. John Hegham his Deputy-Judge 18 Edw. 2. 15 E. 2. 1322. Richard de Eumary to 2 Edw. 3. 19 E. 2. 1326. Sub Edwardo Tertio Oliver Ingham to 5 Edw. 3. 2 E. 3. 1328. William Clinton to 10 Edw. 3. 5 E. 3. 1331. Sir Hugh Frenes 10 E. 3. 1336. Henry Ferrers including part of the 10. to 15 Edw. 3. 11 E. 3. 1337. Raufe Stafford 15 E. 3. 1341. Oliver Ingham 16 E. 3. 1342. Henry Ferrars 17 E. 3. 1343. Oliver Ingham 18 E. 3. 1344. Thomas de Ferrars to 27 Edw. 3. 19 E. 3. 1345. Roger Hillary Judge ad Comitatum die Martis proximè post Festum Assumptionis Beatae Mariae 27 Edw. 3. Bartholomew Bughurst to 42 Edw. 3. Johannes Delves locum tenens Justiciarii Cestriae 33 Edw. 3. Johannes de la Pool locum tenens 40 Edw. 3. 27 E. 3. 1353. Thomas Felton 42 E. 3. 1368. Bartholomew Burghersth part of this Year 43 E. 3. 1369. Thomas Abbot of Vale-Royal part of 43. etià m 44 Edw. 3. 44 E. 3. 1370. Thomas Felton part of 44. to 50 Edw. 3. 45 E. 3. 1371. John de la Pool sub Fine 50 Edw. 3. etià m 51 Edw. 3. 50 E. 3. 1376. Sub Ricardo Secundo Thomas Felton Miles Johannes de la Pool etià m 2 Rich. 2. 1 Ric. 2. 1377. Thomas de Felton 3 Ric. 2. 1379. Thomas Felton John de la Pool 4 Ric. 2. 1380. John Holland made Judge of
Creation of Duke Anno 1353. pag. 520. above two Years too late This Henry Repaired the Savoy House in the Strand in London which cost him 52000 Marks which Money he got at the Town of Bryggerak Knighton pag. 2627. He was the first of all the Nobility of England of a Subject who was Invested with the Title of Duke since the Norman Conquest For the Black Prince who was made Duke of Cornwal fourteen Years before though in truth he be a Subject yet is he King Hereditarily if he survive and therefore I look upon the Prince as a Higher Pitch than the other Nobility So the Earldom of Lancaster became a Dutchy Anno Domini 1354. 28 Edw. 3. this Henry Duke of Lancaster went Beyond-sea in great State to have sought a Duel at Paris with the Duke of Brunswick who had taken and spoiled his Goods as he returned from the Court of Rome whither he was sent for the Confirmation of a Peace between the King of England and the King of France But by Mediation of Friends it was taken up Hypodigma Neustriae pag. 520. See also Stow's Annals Anno 1345. in which Year his Father died this Henry Sailed into Gascoyn with six hundred Armed Men and so many Archers who at the first Assault took the strong Town of Brigerak and won fifty Towns and Cities to the King of England He defeated the Army of the King of France which came against him took twenty three Persons of Quality besides a great number of Common Soldiers The rest either ran away or were killed His Munificence was such that when he took any Town he gave all the Booty to his Soldiers kept little or nothing to hiself Walsingham He married Isabel Daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont by whom he had Issue two Daughters and Co-heirs Maud married William Duke of Zeland and Earl of Henault eldest Son of Lewis Duke of Bavarre Anno Domini 1352. 26 Edw. 3. Blanch the other Daughter married John of Gaunt Earl of Richmond fourth Son to King Edward the Third 19 die Maii 1359. 33 Edw. 3. at Rading having a Dispensation of the Court because she was his Cosin Walsingham and Stow. How the Lands were divided between the two Sisters take here these two following Chartes enrolled in one of the Couchir-Books in the Dutchy-Office at Grays-Inn Tom. 2. Comitatus Norfolciae num 3. Honor sive Soca de Bolingbroke pag. 4. num 4. Lib. C. fol. 77. dd a. SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd nos Johannes Episcopus Lincolniae Robertus de la Mare Johannes de Bukland Johannes Charnells Walterus Poer Simon Simeon Johannes Neumarche Concessimus Willielmo Comiti de Henaud de Leycestriâ Matildae Uxori ejus Filiae Domini Henrici nupèr Ducis Lancastriae Maneria de Gymingham Thesford Mathe Wolde Tunstede Hundreda de Galhowe Brothercors cùm pertinentiis triginta novem Feoda quartam partem unius Feodi Militum cùm pertinentiis in Canefeld Eysten Attemount Horton Berewyk Creke Waterdene Snyterle Barsham Sidesterne Wyneton Salthus Gresham Aylemerton Clopton Fyncheam Northwald Feltewell Roukelound Middleton East-Rudham West-Rudham Sal Haydon Kerdeston Wodedalling Repam Bergh Hegheton Rongham Fransham Weting Toftes Croxton Gresynghale Lexam Elsyng Wesenham Tanerham Drayton Swynington Alderford Lyneford Grimeston Congham Bykeston in Goldestthorp Stanfeld Briselye Bilneye Titeleshale West-Lexam Skernynge Ho Advocationes Abbathiae Marham Prioratus Canonicorum de Thesford Hospitalium Domus Dei de Thesford Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae de Thesford Sancti Johannis de Thesford ac Ecclesiarum de Suthreppes Northreppes Trymingham Manesele Eykesthorpe Bradefelde Swathefeld Beston medietatis Ecclesiae de Aylmerton à c etià m duo Feoda Militum cùm pertinentiis in Westfeld Brantham Habenda tenenda praedictis Willielmo Comiti de Henaud de Leycestriâ Matildae Uxori ejus Haeredibus de Corpore ejusdem Matildae exeuntibus de Domino Rege Angliae aliis Capitalibus Dominis Feodi Et si contingat quòd praedicta Matilda obîerit sinè Haerede de Corpore suo exeunte quod absit ex tùnc omnia praedicta Maneria Hundreda Feoda Militum Advocationes cùm pertinentiis suis plenariè integrè remaneant rectis Haeredibus Domini Henrici nupèr Ducis Lancastriae in perpetuùm c. Datum apud Londoniam 22 die Octobris 35 Edw. 3. SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd nos Johannes Dei Gratiâ Episcopus Lincolniae Ricardus Comes Arundelliae Robertus de la Mare Johannes de Bukland Johannes Charnells Walterus Poer Simon Simeon Johannes Newmarche Concessimus nobili viro Johanni Comiti Lancastriae Richmondiae Blanchiae Uxori ejus Haeredibus suis de Corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis Castrum de Bolingbroke Parcum eidem Castro pertinentem eùm omnibus Advocationibus Ecclesiarum Abbathiarum Prioratuum Hospitalium aliarum Domorum Religiosarum Feodis Militum praedicto Castro Sokae de Bolingbroke pertinentibus quae habuimus ex dono redditione Nobilis Viri Henrici Ducis Lancastriae pèr Finem in Curiâ Domini Regis indè leuatum adeò plenè integrè sicùt Henricus de Lacy quondà m Comes Lincolniae ea tenuit habuit Retentis nobis Manerio Villâ Socâ de Bolingbroke ac Maneriis de Sutton Thoresby Wathe Ingoldsmeles cùm pertinentiis in Comitatu Lincolniae Concessimus etià m Castrum Villam Mannerium Honorem de Tutbury ac Villas de Strepton Merchington Chalangewood Uttexhater Adgarest Newburgh cùm pertinentiis in Comitatu Staffordiae Hundredum de Higham-Ferrers ac Maneria de Hegham-Ferrers Raundes Rissheden cùm pertinentiis in Comitatu Northamptoniae ità quòd si idem Comes Blanchia obierint sinè Haerede de Corporibus suis exeunte quòd tùnc post decessum ipsorum Comitis Blanchiae omnia praedicta Castra Maneria c. remaneant rectis Haeredibus ipsius Henrici Ducis Lancastriae Tenenda de Domino Rege Haeredibus suis per Servitia indè debita consueta in perpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Chartae Sigilla nostra apposuimus Hiis Testibus Edwardo Principe Walliae Illustris Regis Angliae Filio Primogenito Willielmo Episcopo Wintoniae Cancellario Angliae Simone Abbate Westmonasterii Angliae Thesaurario Johanne de Bukyngham Northamptoniae Archidiacono Henrico Greene Roberto de Thorpe Justiciariis Domini Regis Angliae aliis Datum Londini die Dominicâ proximè post Festum Sancti Martini 35 Edw. 3. So that William Earl of Henault had the Earldom of Leycester and John of Gaunt had the Earldom of Lancaster And after the death of Maud Countess of Leycester who died without Issue Anno Domini 1381. the Earldom of Leycester and all Maud's Part of the Lands belonging to Henry Duke of Lancaster her Father reverted unto John of Gaunt in Right of Blanch his Wife the other Sister Obiit 1360 Henry Duke of Lancaster died on
8. John Bentley of the Hole in Mere. 9. George Bentley of Mere-Heys 10. William Grantham of Mere a small Parcel 11. Edward Allen of Rosthorne one small Tenement in Mere. 12 John Barker of Little-Legh one small Tenement in Mere. Middleton-Grange THis is but one Farm so called lying in Aston juxtà Sutton Vide suprà in Aston juxtà Sutton Millington IN the Time of William the Conqueror William Son of Nigell Baron of Halton held Millington in Bucklow-Hundred So we read in Doomsday-book John Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton in the Reign of Henry the Second gave to Wrono of Stretton half of Millington to wit that which he had in his Demain Rendring yearly a little Irish Nag called A Hobby at Midsommer Whereunto Hugh Dutton and Adam his Son with several others were Witnesses Lib. C. fol. 154. c. out of Vernon's Notes Whereby it should seem he had then but half of Millington in his Fee if these Words Quam habuit in Dominico suo be understood of his Fee Unless Dominico here be understood of his Demain or in his own Hands not given away from him as the other Moiety was which very probably is so meant here For Hugh de Millington being seised of Lands here before the Grant made by John Constable to Wrono de Strettonâ gives unto Wrono Punterling called also Wrono de Stretton duas Bovatas Terrae in Millington Faciendo Servitium Forense quantum pertinet aliis duabus Bovatis undè octo Bovatae faciunt octavam partem Militis in eâdem Villâ Hiis Testibus Hugone de Duttonâ Adâ Filio suo Ranulfo Filio Gilberti Gilberto Filio suo Tobaldo Avunculo Comitis Hereberto de Punterling Liulfo de Twamlow Ranulfo de Davenham omni Hundredo Haltonae Which John Constable also confirmed Lib. C. fol. 273. num 1 2. The Originals Penès Millington of Millington 1666. So the Office of John Millington of Millington 37 Elizabethae finds he held one half of Millington of the Honour of Halton by the eighth part of a Knights Fee and the other half of Millington he held of the Honour of Halton in Soccage by the yearly Rent of two Shillings Possibly the yearly Rent in tract of time might be continued in lieu of the Irish Hobby aforesaid But to return Certain it is That Aytrop de Millington whom I take to be the Son of Hugh married Christian Daughter and Heir of Wrono de Stretton aforesaid about the Reign of Henry the Second Lib. B. pag. 200. num 6. and so he came to be possessed of all Millington This Town gave Sir-name to the Family of the Millingtons Seated here near to the Time of the Conqueror A very ancient Family of Gentlemen and continuing at this day William Millington of Millington Gentleman being now Owner thereof 1664. He died in June 1666. Aytrop de Millington Son of the first Aytrop as I take it gave unto Robert Blund of Bexton pro finali Concordiâ intèr nos factâ de fine Duelli unam dimidiam Bovatam Terrae in Villâ de Mulinton Rendring three Pence at Martlemas yearly Philip Orreby being then Judge of Chester c. sub initio Hen. 3. Lib. C. fol. 274. num 6. The Original in possession of Millington of Millington Charterers in Millington 1666. 1. The Lord Delamere of Dunham-Massy Two Tenements bought from Millington 2. Venables of Agden one Tenement in possession of Hugh Gandy but part of Gandy's Tenement lieth in Agden That Parcel lying in Millington was given by Aytrop de Millington to the Priory of Norton about King John's Time Lib. B. pag. 200. num 6. Afterwards scilicèt 1329. Robert de Millington bought it of Agnes Daughter of William de la Booths and sold it to William de Aketon or Agden from whom it descended to Venables of Agden 3. Geffrey Cartwright Gentleman hath lately bought the Shaw-house in Millington from Millington of Millington Mobberley MObberley-Church was Dedicated to St. Wilfrid a Holy Archbishop of York who died Anno Domini 708.4 Idus Octobris Bede de Hist Angliae lib. 5. cap. 20. ad finem And Mobberley-Wakes were formerly Celebrated on the twelfth day of October though at this day those Dedication-Feasts are not so strictly observed Mr. Mallory of Mobberley is now Patron hereof and this Rectory is conceived to be fully worth 120 l. per Annum This Parish onely comprehendeth the Township of Mobberley which is 1 l. 18 s. 00 d. in the Mize-book I find in Monasticon the second Volume pag. 320. That one Patrick de Mobberley Founded here a small Priory of Regular Canons of the Order of St. Augustine in Honour of God the Virgin Mary and St. Wilfrid to abide and dwell for ever in the Church of Mobberley whereunto he gave all that half of the Church of Mobberley with its Appurtenances which belonged to his Grant so as the Parsons of the other half of the Church of Mobberley which was not of his Grant might challenge no Right in the said Tenements And he Constituted one Walter a Canon the first Prior thereof This was in the beginning of King John's Reign about Anno Domini 1206. By the half of the Church of Mobberley seems to be included here the half of the Mannor of Mobberley for in the end of the Grant is Liberty given to keep Courts there as freely as ever the said Patrick kept the same But not long after Patrick was Convented before Randle Blundevill Earl of Chester as appears by this Inrolment following a Copy whereof I received from old John Booth of Twamlow PAtricius de Mobberley Conventus à Johanne Filio Augustini de Brethmete Fratris sui Primogeniti in pleno Comitatu Cestriae corà m Domino Comite Ranulpho Philippo de Orreby tùnc Justiciario Cestriae Cognovit se nihil Juris Haereditarii habuisse in illâ medietate de Mobberley quam tenebat nisi tantùm in vitâ suâ ex permissione Fratris sui Augustini Primogeniti sicùt pleniùs continetur in Cheirographo intèr memorato Augustinum Patricium Fratres habito Et cùm saepè dictus Augustinus tùnc viam Universitatis ingressus fuit memoratus Johannes ejus Filius Haeres seizinam praefatae Terrae recuperavit Homagium suum fecit indè Domino Ricardo de Aldford qui ei fecit Chartam suam Confirmationis quam tamèn Terram praefatus Patricius tenebat in vitâ suâ de ipso Johanne ex permissione ipsius Johannis Nepotis sui Et sicut praemonstratum est à Domino Ranulpho dicto Johanni per Chartam suam confirmata est irrotulatur in testimonium veritatis There was a Doomsday-book in our Exchequer at Chester formerly wherein many Deeds and Records were Enrolled but this Book of Record is now lost I suppose this Priory continued not long the said Patrick having no further Estate in the half of Mobberley than onely for his Life The Advowson of the whole Church was Invested in the Heirs of
which he gave to his Brother Patrick during his Life which Moiety was confirmed to John Son and Heir of Augustine by Sir Richard Aldford and also by Randle Earl of Chester sirnamed Blundevill about the Reign of King John as appears by the Enrollment aforesaid whose Posterity enjoyed the said Moyety until Sir Raufe Mobberley having no Lawful Issue of his Body Estated all his Lands by Chaplains entrusted according to the manner of those Times on John Leycester of Tabley his Nephew with the Advowson of the Church of Mobberley also 1359. 34 Edw. 3. For Sir Raufe had often protested That he would not have his Lands mangled among his Sisters but that his Nephew John Leycester should have them wholly as appears by the Certificate of Sir John Winkfield Dated at London the eleventh day of June 35 Edw. 3. 1361. Lib. A. fol. 129. ff gg hh Afterwards upon some Composition John Leycester releaseth all his Right in Mobberley's Lands and in the Advowson of the said Church unto John Dumbill of Mobberley and to Cicely his Wife 1 Rich. 2. 1378. yet so as John Dumbill and Cicely should settle 15 Messuages 316 Acres of Land 16 Acres of Wood 8 Acres of Moss the third part of a Watermill and the third part of all the Wastes in Mobberley unmeasured to be understood of Mobberley's Moiety after the death of John Dumbill and Cicely to descend to Raufe Leycester younger Brother of the said John Leycester and to his Heirs for ever which by Chaplains entrusted was settled accordingly 30 die Maii 2 Rich. 2. 1397. Lib. A. fol. 130. mm. which was either Conditioned in the Agreement of John Leycester or the Reversion thereof bought by the said Raufe Leycester from which Raufe are descended the Leycesters of Toft who do now enjoy these Lands Anno Domini 1666. about one third part of the Moiety of Mobberley The other two Parts of this Moiety of Mobberley which John Dumbill had descended to Sir Hugh Hulse in Marriage with Margery Daughter and Heir of the said John Dumbill and Cicely And afterwards Margery Daughter and Heir of Thomas Hulse married John Troutback Esquire which Margery died 35 Hen. 6. and had Issue William Troutback whose Son Sir William dying without Issue Adam Troutback Brother of Sir William had Issue Margaret Daughter and Heir married to John Talbot Lord of Albrighton in Shropshire from whom the Talbots of Grafton in Worcestershire whose Posterity afterwards came to be Earls of Shrewsbury The other Moiety of Mobberley Sir John Arderne of Aldford granted to John Legh of Booths with Wardships and Freedom from Appearance at his Court of Nether-Alderley Rendring eight Pounds yearly for his Life And after the death of John Legh then to remain to John Legh Son and Heir of the other John Legh aforesaid and to Maud Daughter of the said Sir John Arderne and to their Heirs for ever Rendring a Rose at Midsommer for all Service And if John Legh Son of John died before he married Maud then William Brother to John Legh Son of John was to marry her Witnesses of this Deed were Sir John Orreby and Sir Richard Massy Knights Robert de Pulford Philip de Egerton Richard de Fowleshurst Thomas de Legh William de Mobberley Roger de Leycester William de Mere Adam de Tabley William Danyers Master Roger of Alderley Hugh Clerke and others Lib. A. fol. 122. a. The Original remaining among the Evidences of Mr. Robinson of Mobberley 1664. This Deed was made about 1303. 31 Edw. 1. Richard Ratcliffe of Urdeshall in Lancashire married Maud Daughter and Heir of John Legh Son and Heir of Sir John Legh by Maud Arderne and had these Lands of her Grandmothers to wit the Moiety of Mobberley whose Heirs enjoyed the same till they sold out certain of their Tenements in Mobberley to their Tenants there And what remained together with the Services of such Tenants as were formerly sold out of this Moiety Sir John Ratcliffe of Urdeshall sold unto Mr. Robert Robinson of Mobberley about the beginning of King James's Reign over England Lib. A. fol. 122. b. c. Now followeth the Descent of Mobberley of Mobberley Argent two Cheverons Gules in a Canton of the second a Cross Croslet Fitchée Or. John Son and Heir of Augustine Lord of the Moiety of Mobberley lived in the Reign of King John Lib. A. fol. 124. a. Raufe Mobberley of Mobberley Lord of the Moiety of Mobberley lived in the Reign of Henry the Third but I cannot prove him Son of John William Mobberley of Mobberley Son of Raufe was Lord of the Moiety of Mobberley and Patron of Mobberley-Church He bought the Moiety of Nether-Pever from Richard Bonstable Anno Domini 1281. G. num 21. The Original in my possession This William had Issue William Mobberley John Mobberley to whom his Father gave all his Lands in Nether-Pever and Tatton 31 Edw. 1. 1303. G. num 65. But John dying without Issue those Lands reverted to William his Brother Richard Mobberley another Son made Parson of Mobberley by his Father 1306. slain by Richard Son of Richard de Mobberley 1320. 14 Edw. 2. Lib. A. fol. 124. w. 131. Alice a Daughter married William de Tabley Lord of Over-Tabley and Knotsford She was Widow 27 Edw. 1. 1300. This William died about the beginning of Edw. 2. William Mobberley of Mobberley Son and Heir of William married Maud Daughter and Heir of Robert Downes of Chorley juxtà Werford unto which Robert Edmund Fitton gave all his Lands in Chorley in Free Marriage with Margery his Sister Lib. A. fol. 127. t. v. This William was Sheriff of Cheshire 13 Edw. 2. 1319. and had Issue Raufe Mobberley Cicely married John Dumbill of Mobberley Son and Heir of John Dumbill of Oxton in Wirrall Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton Margery married Richard Bold of Bold in Lancashire Emme married Robert Grosvenour of Houlme in Allostock who purchased the Moiety of Nether-Pever from this William de Mobberley Mary another Daughter married Nicolas Leycester Son and Heir of Roger Leycester of Tabley Joan married William Athurton of Athurton in Lancashire Ellen married Richard Bromhale of Bromhale in Cheshire and Agnes never married Lib. A. fol. 127. w. x. y. z. a. fol. 128. cc. fol. 129. kk This William Sealed usually with his Coat of Arms to wit Two Cheverons and in a Canton a Cross-Croslet Fitchée Lib. A. fol. 124. y. z. as is before expressed in the beginning of this Descent He died 1 Edw. 3. 1327. Lib. C. fol. 103. num 9. Maud his Widow afterwards married John Dumbill senior Lib. A. fol. 128. ff Sir Raufe Mobberley of Mobberley Knight Son and Heir of William was Ward to Sir John Arderne of Aldford 3 Edw. 3. Lib. A. fol. 128. cc. who gave the Marriage of this Raufe unto John Pulford of Pulford Son of Sir Robert Pulford sinè disparagatione 1329. This Sir Raufe married Vincentia Daughter of John Pulford Lib. A. fol. 128. bb and
all the old Rents reserved to Radcliff amounting in the whole to 23 l. 00 s. 00 d. yearly or thereabout by Deed dated the 19 of April 4 Jacobi 1606. for which he paid 1530 l. Purchase-Money Randle Blackshaw This was bought from Sir John Radcliff of Ordsall by Deed dated the eighth day of August 1611. and is said to be the Ancient Demain-House of Mobberley which did belong to Radcliff Peter Legh of Booths Es Esq hath three Tenements in Radcliff's Part now in Tenure of George Leycester Cookson and the Fox-house John Gleave of High-Legh Owner of Holden-Cliff-House in Mobberley Roger Symcock lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands Homfrey Cherry lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands William Coppock lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands Rafe Shaw lately Purchased from Mrs. Martha Hurleston formerly Oldfield's Lands Richard Parker for Mere-House sold away by Mr. Robinson Richard Yarwood for Bowers John Anson sold by Mr. Robinson Richard Seddall of Wood-end Richard Bruch formerly Duncalf's Thomas Hield of the Broad-Oak in Mobberley John Strethull late Bateson's House Roger Hewet of Pavement-Lane Henry Hasselhurst Richard Rowlinson of Roanes pro Fox-house VVilliam Hobson George Stubs John Symcock of the Dub'd-Hedge Daniel Yarwood formerly Oldrinshaw's Homfrey Lea. John Baggiley of the Mosse-side Widow Strethull of the Town-Lane John Holland of Dam-head hath certain Parcels of Land in Ratcliff's Part sold away by Mr. Robinson 1639. Urmeston's Lands in Mobberley bought for Pious Uses Thomas Whitchcot late John Radford's Peter Bradbury of Brook-bank a Cottage Robert Ridgeway a Cottage More THis Town of More is of the Fee of Halton Roger Lacy Constable of Cheshire and Baron of Halton had a Brother called Richard to whom he gave the Town of More and afterwards the said Richard became Leprous and was buried in the Chapter-house of the Canons of Norton Monasticon Vol. 1. pag. 860. This was about the Reign of King Richard the First The Name More signifieth a more barren Ground than Marshes be a Miry and Moorish Soil yet serveth not to get Turfs thereon Coke upon Littleton fol. 5. a. The Inhabitants of More and Runcorn were formerly Copy-holders to the Barons of Halton but have lately bought out their own Land to hold in Fee-farm in Free and Common Soccage of the Mannor of Enfield in the County of Middlesex the Kings Grant bearing date the ninth day of September 4 Car. 1. 1628. save onely these Persons following who now are and their Ancestors anciently before them were Free-holders in the Mannor of More and not Fee-farmers as followeth Free-holders or Charterers in More 1666. 1. Henry Porter of More This hath continued in the Name of Porter since Edward the Fourth This Free-hold before belonged to one Peter Arderne in the Reign of Edward the First as by the Deed now in Possession of this Henry Porter appeareth 2. Sir Richard Brooks of Norton Baronet hath now about twenty Cheshire Acres of Free-Land in More as late belonging to the Priory of Norton and also about six Acres more of Free-hold Land adjoyning lately bought from Crosby of Over-Whitley 3. These were all purchased from Brook of Norton and Brook bought them of Harper of Newton Robert Pickering of Thelwall Esquire Counsellor at Law hath one Janion's House Richard Rutter hath also other Free-hold Land Richard Dutton of Mosse-end other Free-hold Land 4. Widow Harper hath now also certain Free-hold Land in More Newton juxta Daresbury THis Town according to its Name is not of so great Antiquity For I find it granted by Parcels and Enclosures and Closes some in Henry the Third's Time some under Edward the First and some in the Reign of Edward the Second by the Ancestors of VVarburton of Arley before they had relinquished their proper Sir-name of Dutton who were Lords thereof from King John's Time unto this present 1666. The Charterers now in Newton 1666. Sable a Cross engrailed Ermine And in 11 Edw. 4. 1471. Thomas Chickford and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Robert de Hallum Son and Heir of William de Hallum sold the Mannor of Hallum to Sir John Nedham sometime Judge of Chester who setled the same upon Robert Nedham his younger Brother whose Line failing at last for want of Heirs Males it descended to Robert Nedham of Shenton Esquire 21 Eliz. from whom the Lord Kilmorie now Owner of Hallum 1666. I speak here out of the Lord Kilmorie's Evidences 2. Rafe Starky of Morthwait in Newton Lawyer whose Ancestor Thomas Starky married Agnes Sister and Heir of Thomas Harper and Daughter of Richard Harper of Newton 32 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 205. g. 3. Grimsdich of Grimsdich in Nether-Whitley hath also Lands in Newton which Thomas Grimsdich then of Hallum by Lease bought of John Daniell of Daresbury 12 Hen. 8. Lib. C. fol. 194. num 44 46 47. And which Lands John Daniell Ancestor of the said John had in Marriage with Jonet Daughter and Heir of Thomas Hallum of Newton 1 Hen. 6. Lib. C. fol. 193. num 36 37. 4. Robert Venables of Anterbus in the Lordship of Over-Whitley hath Lands in Newton 5. John Starky of Newton Norton THis Township of Norton was given by William Constable of Cheshire the younger Son of William Fitz-Nigell unto the Canons of Runcorne in exchange for Lands in Runcorne and so he removed the Canons of Runcorne to Norton about the Reign of King Stephen Anno 1135. Monasterium de Norton in Comitatu Cestriae Fundatur à Willielmo Filio Nigelli Constabulario Cestriae Historia Aurea Johannis Tynemytensis lib. 19. cap. 41. A Manuscript in the Publick Library at Oxford inter Libros Juris v. 4. num 4. Wherewith also agreeth Polychronicon lib. 7. cap. 17. Monasticon Vol. 2. pag. 187. tells us William Fitz-Nigell Founded a Religious House of Canons Regular at Runcorne Anno Domini 1133. And afterwards William Constable of Cheshire the younger removed them from Runcorne to Norton Which agrees with the Deed Lib. B. pag. 199. num 1. After the Dissolution of Abbies in England by Henry the Eighth Richard Brooks Esquire Purchased from the King the Mannor of Norton with its Members and Appurtenances to wit Norton Stockham Acton-Grange and Aston-Grange in Cheshire and Cuerdly in Lancashire with other Lands The Charter is dated decimo die Decembris 37 Hen. 8. 1545. whose Heir now enjoyeth these Lands 1666. There is a certain Hamlet or Place called Endley now belonging to the Township of Norton and enjoyed as Part and Parcel of the same which William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton held as a distinct thing by it self in the Conqueror's Time as appears by Doomsday-book This afterwards came to Aston of Aston For Richard Aston of Aston Son of Gilbert gave to God and St. Mary and to Randle Prior of Norton all his Land of Hendeley with all its Appurtenances about King John's Reign Lib. B. pag. 200. num 8. Here was anciently a Church belonging to
after the death of Sir Robert de Monte alto his Uncle except the Rents formerly given unto Queen Isabel Dated 24 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 230. y. The Original of this Deed remained among the Evidences of the late Lord Cholmondley and the Copy of the Fine Levied hereon in the same Year is Enrolled in the Leiger-Book of the Abby of Vale-Royal fol. 30. b. which Book was in possession of Thomas Merbury of Merbury nigh Comberbach Esquire 1666. Vide Tom. 2. of my own Evidences in principio In the Year of Christ 1364. die Veneris in Festo Sanctae Luciae Virginis John Pool came before Thomas then Abbot of Vale-Royal in the said Abby and did Fealty to the said Abbot for this Moiety of the Mannor of Nether-Pever which he acknowledged to hold of the said Abbot by the yearly Rent of Twelve Pence to be paid at the Feast of St. Michael onely and by paying to the said Abbot two Shillings for Relief as appears by the same Book Lib. C. fol. 230. z. From Pool of Hartington this Moiety was granted to George Holford of Holford about the Time of Henry the Seventh In which Family of the Holfords of Holford it continued till Mary Daughter and Heir of Christopher Holford Esquire brought the Inheritance of all Holford-Lands unto Sir Hugh Cholmondley of Cholmondley the younger in Marriage in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Concerning which Inheritance great Suits fell between the said Lady Mary Cholmondley and George Holford of Newborough in Dutton uncle to the said Mary and next Heir-male of the Holfords These Suits lasted above forty Years At last towards the end of King James's Reign the matter was compos'd by Friends The Lady Mary had Holford-Demain and George Holford had the Demain of Iscoit in Flintshire near to Whitchurch in Shropshire The Lands in Nether-Pever Plumley and Lostock-Gralam belonging to the Holfords were promiscuously allotted Part to the one and Part to the other as at this day they be enjoyed So that in the Year 1659. Robert Cholmondley Earl of Leimster in Ireland Son and Heir of the said Lady Mary and James Holford of Newborough Esquire Son of Peter Son of George Holford abovesaid did enjoy this other Moiety of Nether-Pever between them In which Year the said Lord Cholmondley died without any Lawful Issue of his Body Concerning the Chappel of Nether-Pever see above in Budworth Picmere This Township of Picmere is not in Doomsday-book whereby it seemeth to be Waste at that time It was anciently of two Fees in the Reign of King John One Moiety Raufe Manwaring sometime Judge of Chester gave unto Henry de Aldithley or Audley in Free-Marriage with Bertrey his Daughter together with the Towns of Smallwood and Snelston and a Mark of Annual Rent in the City of Chester of the Land which belonged to one Fagun Unto which Deed Philip Orreby then Judge of Chester was a Witness The Original is in Cotton's Library at Westminster Lib. B. pag. 1. a. Henry of Audley by the consent of Bertrey his Wife gave to Thomas Son of Randle de Longsdon libero homini suo half of his Land in Picmere and half of his Wood there Rendring yearly 3 s. 4 d. as I find the Deed extracted in Vernon's Notes This Moiety of Picmere is now enjoyed by these Persons following 1666. 1. Thomas Merbury of Merbury Esquire hath one half of this Moiety which formerly belonged to the Cockers of Picmere ever since the Reign of Henry the Third until Hugh Cocker of Pickmere sold the Reversion hereof after his Life unto Thomas Merbury Father of Thomas aforesaid Anno Domini 1604. Probably this was that Part which Henry Audley gave to Thomas Longsdon 2. Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire hath four Tenements here in Lease These were formerly held by William Wiche and called Wiche's Lands which upon the Attainder of Sir William Stanley of Holt-Castle Anno Domini 1495. Lord Chamberlain to Henry the Seventh Escheated to the King and were afterwards given to George Sutton one of the Grooms of the Chamber 14 H. 8. Sutton sold them to Richard Sneyd 7 Novembris 14 Hen. 8. and William Sneyd sold them to Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire 36 Hen. 8. 3. Sir Peter Leycester of Nether-Tabley Baronet hath one Tenement here now in Possession of John Perceivall which was Part of Wiche's Lands and was sold by William Sneyd to Gawen Legh of Northwood in High-Legh 35 Hen. 8. 1543. before he sold the rest to Daniell And this Tenement afterwards Richard Legh of Northwood Gentleman sold among other Lands to Peter Leycester of Tabley Esquire 1633. whose Son now enjoyeth the same 4. John Swinton of Nether-Knotsford hath one good Tenement here But part of this lieth in Winsham formerly Crocket's Land of Nantwich 5. John Key of the Yate in Picmere Part of Crocket's Land formerly 6. Peter Deane of Over-Tabley hath Land in Picmere lately bought from Key of the Yate 7. Philip Anterbus of Over-Pever one Close belonging to his Free-hold Land in Aston juxtà Picmere 8. Sir George Warburton of Arley Baronet hath about one Acre and a half in Possession of Robert Deusbery and Thomas Starky of Feldy The other Moiety of Picmere together with the Mannor of Winsham William Venables gave to Maud his Sister in Free-Marriage to be held by the Service of half a Knights Fee whereunto Roger Lacy Constable of Cheshire is a Witness Which Roger died Anno Domini 1211. 13 Johannis Regis saith Matthew Paris in his History Lib. B. pag. 50. a. This Maud had two Husbands The first was Raufe Son of Roger the second was Hugh de Bixis or Brixis This Hugh and his Wife grant to Hugh Venables all the Land which William de Offley held of them in Picmere and the Wardship of the Children of Hugh Son of the said William de Offley till they come to such Age as to govern the said Land Lib. B. pag. 50. e. Ex Chartulis Glover de Picmere Hugh Venables grants to Hugh de Picmere and his Heirs the whole Moiety of the Village of Picmere for the same Service contained in the Deed of William Venables his Father the Donor of the same Lands This was tempore Henrici Tertii Lib. B. pag. 51. num 1. Afterwards William Son of Guy of Winsham grants to Henry Son of Hugh de Picmere all his Rent in the Township of Picmere to wit 3 s. 1 d. ob which he yearly received from Hugh de Picmere Rendring a Pair of White Gloves yearly Lib. B. pag. 54. num 19. And Pagan Son of Raufe de Wastneys Lord of Winsham releaseth to the said Henry all his Right in 3 s. 1 d. ob Rent which he received of the said Henry So that now he was onely to pay 3 s. 1 d. ob yearly from henceforward and a Pair of Gloves for all Services And this was in the Reign of Edward the First Lib. B. pag. 51. num 2. Hugh Picmere Son of Henry was
seised of this Moiety whose Son Hugh had three Daughters Isabel Alice and Margaret 1343. Lib. B. pag. 52. num 6. And in Anno 1356. he settles his Mannor of Picmere for want of Heirs-Males of his Body on Hugh Bruyn of Stapleford and Margaret his Wife Daughter of the said Hugh Picmere Lib. B. pag. 53. num 12. Margaret the Widow of Hugh Bruyn of Picmere grants to Hugh Hulse of Picmere all her Lands of Picmere 42 Edw. 3. Lib. B. pag. 52. num 10. This Hugh Hulse was Lieutenant-Justice of Chester 20 Rich. 2. to Thomas Earl of Nottingham and married Ellen Daughter and Heir of Hugh Bruyn and Margaret 36 Edw. 3. The Marriage and Wardship of Ellen was granted by Margaret her Mother to David Hulse Vicar of Great-Budworth to marry Hugh Son of Sybill Daughter of William Son of Hugh de Norbery 36 Edw. 3. Lib. B. pag. 52. num 11. pag. 54. num 21. This Sir Hugh Hulse dying 3 Hen. 5. or thereabout it was found by Inquisition That he died seised of seven Messuages in Picmere 200 Acres of Land and 20 Acres of Wood ibidem quae tenentur de Willielmo Leycester ut de Manerio suo de Wethale sed per quod Servitium ignoratur Inter Recognitiones Scaccarii Cestriae Bundle 3 Hen. 5. Afterwards John Troutback Esquire married Margery Daughter and Heir of Thomas Hulse in the Reign of Henry the Sixth Lib. B. pag. 53. num 17. And Margaret Daughter and Heir of Adam Troutback married John Talbot of Albrighton in Shropshire from whom the Talbots of Grafton in Worcestershire descended whose Posterity at last came to be Earls of Shrewsbury And George Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury sells all his Lands in Picmere to wit the Moiety of Picmere unto his Tenants there Anno 1620. every Tenant buying his own and so are become particular Free-holders at this day Thomas Starkey's Lands now in Picmere were Purchased from Raufe Bostock of Moulton by John Starkey his Father 14 Aprilis 7 Jacobi 1609. and was originally given by Henry de Picmere unto Richard his younger Son 1192. A Parcel thereof was given to the said Richard by Hugh Picmere his Elder Brother 1308. Lib. B. pag. 58. a. b. c. Plumley ROger Manwaring gave Plumley to the Abby of St. Werburge in Chester when he made his Son Wido a Monk there William and Randle his Sons being Witnesses Which Grant with many others Richard Earl of Chester confirmed 1119. 19 Hen. 1. In the Feodary of Halton about Edw. 2. we read Thomas de Vernon tenet Villam de Lostock cùm Parvâ-Lostock medietatem de Plumley pro medietate unius Feodi Militis This Thomas de Vernon was second Husband of Joan de Lostock in whose Right he held these Lands Her former Husband was William de Toft younger Son of Roger Toft of Toft The Posterity of which William assumed the Sir-name of Holford from the Place of their Residence at Holford according to the Custom of those Ages This Place or Hamlet called Holford lieth Part in Plumley and Part in Lostock-Gralam and hath its Name from the Ford which runneth under the Mannor-Hall which because it is situate in a Derne Hole was therefore called Holford as if you should say A Ford in a Hole Or else from the old Word Hale which we now call Hall and so denotes as much as A Ford under the Hall Or possibly from the old Word Holt A Wood quasi Holt-Ford for that the Ford anciently was environed with a Wood round about All the Tenants of Plumley at this day do Suit of Court to the Mannor of Barnshaw which formerly belonged to the Abby of St. Werburge in Chester but was bought by Manwaring of Carincham since the Dissolution of Abbies in England Agnes the Daughter of Walthef de Plumley by Henry her Son Attornatum positum ad lucrandum perdendum by Fine at Chester 2 Edw. 1. 1274. passeth the eighth Part of Plumley unto Thomas the Smith of Plumley and to William his Son This William in his Seal calls himself Willielmus Filius Ceciliae de Plumley And by another Fine 2 Edw. 1. the same Agnes passeth over one other eighth Part of Plumley unto Richard Sladehurst of Plumley and Lettice his-Wife which Lettice in her Seal calls her self the Daughter of William de Plumley Lib. A. fol. 157. h. k. The Originals Penès Manwaring of Carincham 1666. I find also that William Mobberley of Mobberley had certain Lands in Plumley about Edward the Second Lib. A. fol. 124. y. which were held of the Baron of Halton by the yearly Rent of a Pair of White Spurs or Six Pence See suprà in Halton And Sir Raufe Mobberley of Mobberley gave his Mannor in Plumley unto Thomas Toft and Margaret his Wife and their Heirs 1357. 32 Edw. 3. Lib. A. fol. 129. II. One half of these Lands now belong to Leycester of Tabley and the other half to Bradshaw of Marple as you may see more at large in Mobberley So that now Anno Domini 1666. the whole Township of Plumley is enjoyed by these Persons following âšœ Thomas Cholmondley of Holford Esquire and James Holford of Newborough in Dutton have one Moiety of Plumley between them The other Moiety is enjoyed by these Persons following 1. Sir Peter Leycester of Nether-Tabley Baronet hath five Tenements here now in Possession of Robert Massy Geffrey Wright William Ridgeway Thomas Wright and Thomas Hough 2. Mr. Bradshaw of Marple a good Farm in Possession of Thomas Buckley 3. The Land late Litler's of Wallers-cote nigh Northwich three Tenements in Possession of Hugh Yanes Homfrey Mere and Widow Bebington 4. George Leycester of Toft Esquire one Tenement in Possession of William Highfield 5. Robert Venables of Anterbus in Over-Whitley hath three Closes in Plumley in Possession of Raufe Henshaw 6. Reynolds of Middlewich late belonging to Bostock of Moulton one Tenement in Possession of Raufe Newhall at the end of Plumley-Moore 7. John Hall of Norley one Tenement in Plumley in Possession of John Kirkman 8. Manwaring of Pever's Land sold to Holford of Holford one Tenement at the side of Plumley-Moore in Possession of Richard Eaton 9. Earl of Bridgewater a small Parcel about four Cheshire Acres Now followeth the Descent of Holford of Holford Argent a Greyhound Passant Sable Hugh de Runchamp Lord of Lostock Lib. C. fol. 126. ll Ricardus de Runchamp Gralanus Filius Ricardi de Runchamp in memory of whom the Town was called Lostock-Gralam for distinction He gave the Town of Lees unto Lidulf of Twamlow about the Reign of King John Lib. C. fol. 227. z. This Gralam also sold Houlme juxtà Nether-Pever to Richard Son of Randle * Ranulfi con Radulfi Grosvenour 1234. Lib. C. fol. 120. a. Gralam de Lostock Letitia Uxor ejus Tempore Hen. 3. Galfridus de Lostock â—ui Frater dedit medietatem de Rode Gralam de Morton Robert de Lostock Lib. C. fol. 182. b. Richard Son of Gralam de Lostock married
all one Name by the Court of the King's Bench Cambden in his Remains on the Name Jane pag. 98. This Sir William Stanley of Holt was Lord Chamberlain to Hen. 7. and Brother to Thomas Stanley the first Earl of Darby of that Family which Sir William was Beheaded 1495. as supposed to encline to the Part of Perkin Warbeck See Crokes Reports 4 Car. 1. pag. 123 124. whose Lands and Goods were all Confiscated to the King He had in ready Money and Plate in his Castle of Holt forty thousand Marks besides Jewels Houshold-stuff and Stock of Cattel in his Grounds He had in Lands 3000 l. per Annum of an old Rent as my Lord Bacon saith in his History of Henry the Seventh He aspired to Petition the King for the Earldom of Chester which ended both in a denial and a distaste He had by Joyce his Wife Daughter of Edward Lord Powys and Widow of John Tiptoft William Stanley before-mentioned and Jane married to Sir John Warburton of Arley in Cheshire one of the Knights of the Body to Henry the Seventh William Stanley of Tatton died about 14 Hen. 7. 1498. Joan his Widow afterwards married Sir Edward Pickering 16 Hen. 7. 1500. And lastly she married Sir John Brereton to her third Husband living 24 Hen. 7. And Joan died 3 Hen. 8. 1511. XII Joan sole Daughter and Heir of William Stanley by Joan Massy his Wife had two Husbands First she married John Ashton Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Ashton of Ashton super Mersey in Cheshire 16 Hen. 7. She was then but eight Years old This John Ashton died young without any Issue by her 5 Hen. 8. 1513. Afterwards she married Sir Richard Brereton younger Son of Sir Randle Brereton of Malpas in Cheshire by whom she had Issue Richard Brereton eldest Son who married Dorothy Daughter of Thurstan de Tildesley in Lancashire Esquire 35 Hen. 8. 1543. But he died without Issue about 4 Edw. 6. Geffrey Brereton second Son succeeded Heir Anne Brereton a Daughter married John Booth of Barton in Lancashire Esq 32 Hen. 8. 1540. X. num 26. This Lady Jane Brereton died the sixth of April 12 Eliz. 1570. aged 77 Years Sir Richard Brereton her Husband died at Islington in Middlesex 3 4 Phil. Mar. 1557. Geffrey his Son and Heir being then of full Age. XIII Geffrey Brereton of Tatton Esquire Son and Heir of Sir Richard Brereton and Jane Stanley married Alice Daughter of Piers Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esq 5. Edw. 6. 1551. A. num 35. and had Issue Richard Brereton Son and Heir and Anne a Daughter living 8 Eliz. who died without Issue This Geffrey died in June 1565. 7 Eliz. about the age of thirty Years Alice his Widow afterwards married Robert Charnocke Gentleman and she died the second of April 1572. 14 Eliz. XIV Richard Brereton of Tatton Esquire Son and Heir of Geffrey and Alice married Dorothy Daughter of Sir Richard Egerton of Ridley in Cheshire 14 Eliz. 1572. but died without Issue December 18. 41 Eliz. 1598. Dorothy his Widow afterwards married Sir Peter Legh of Lime in Cheshire but had no Issue by him She was second Wife to Sir Peter and survived both her Husbands and she died the fourth of April 1639. This Richard Setled all his Estate on Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor of England from whom the Earls of Bridgewater are descended who are now Owners of these Lands 1667. Thelwall IN the Year of Christ 920. King Edward sirnamed The Elder built a Town here at Thelwall though now an obscure Village so called Teste Forilego from the Stakes and Stumps cut from the Trees wherewith they had environed it about as a Wall for the Saxons called such Stakes Thell and the word Wall is a word yet used for a high Fence that encompasseth any Place about with Stone or other thing or Building So Cambden's Britannia Cheshire Polychronicon lib. 6. cap. 5. ad finem and that King Edward made it a Garrison and placed Soldiers therein wherewith also agrees Florentius Wigorniensis But it seems to lie waste in the time of the Conqueror for I find no mention of it in Dooms-day Book Roger of Poictou Son of Rogerde Montgomery the first Earl of Shrewsbury was Lord of all the Land in Lancashire between the Rivers of Ribble and Mersey and gave half of the Fishing of Thelwall to the Abbot of Shrewsbury under Henry the First Monasticon vol. 1. pag. 383. This was the Fishing on the Lancashire side The Prior of Norton had the other half of the Fishing of Thelwall on the Cheshire side granted by William Constable of Cheshire the younger Baron of Halton about the Reign of King Stephen Monasticon vol. 2. pag. 186. In our Mize-book of Cheshire anciently the Abbot of Salop stood charged with three Shillings in the Mize for Fishing in Thelwall but this Mize is now totally lost no Man now living being able to inform us who ought to pay the same I conceive after the dissolution of Abbeys in England by Henry the Eighth that Fishing coming to the King's hands the Mize thereof ceased being not at all paid of late Times the Fishing being then but of little value This Township of Thelwall is of the Fee of the Honor of Halton one third part whereof William Constable of Cheshire gave to the Abbey of Salop cum pertinentiis in bosco in plano in aquâ Monasticon vol. 1. pag. 383. In the Reign of Henry the Third Edmund Lacy Baron of Halton and Constable of Cheshire gave Domino Galfrido de Dutton Ancestour to Warburton of Arley totam terram suam de Thelwall cum Wera Piscaria Stallagiis suis and also all the Land which he had of the Abbot and Convent of Evesham in Thelwall Reddendo inde annuatim unam Par Cheirothecarum Cervi Furratarum ad Festum Sancti Michaelis pro omni Servitio Lib. C. in ipso initio Ex Chartulis Roberti Pickering de Thelwall fol. 1. f. This could be but two third parts of Thelwall The Original of this Deed is now in possession of Mr. Pickering of Thelwall 1666. This Geffrey Dutton gave these Lands to Thomas his younger Son Ibidem g. Afterwards it was possessed by Clayton in the Reign of Edward the Third and continued in the possession of the Claytons till John Clayton of Thelwall sold it to Richard Brooks of Norton Esquire about 4 Eliz. 1561. whose Son Thomas Brooks of Norton Esquire sold the same to John Moores Doctor of Physick in London Anno Christi 1621. and John Moores of Kirtlington in Nottinghamshire Nephew of Doctor Moores aforesaid sold them to Robert Pickering Councellor at Law 1662. who is now possessed of the Mannor of Thelwall 1666. In this Township of Thelwall are now 1666. certain Freeholds of Inheritance possessed by these Persons following 1. Sir Peter Brookes of Mere hath four Tenements which were given him by his Father Thomas Brookes of Norton Esquire before he sold away the other
reigned 44 Years 4 Months and 7 Days The Scotch Line Kings and Monarchs of all Great-Brettaine and Ireland 24. James VI. King of Scotland Son of Mary Queen of Scots Anno Chr. 1602. Daughter and Heir of James V. Son of James IV. and of the Lady Margaret eldest Daughter of Henry the Seventh King of England was Proclaimed King of England in London March 24. 1602. as the next undoubted Heir to the Crown of England A Learned and Religious Prince of whom the Lord Bacon saith in his Advancement of Learning pa. 2. It is no Amplification but a positive and measured Truth That there was not so Learned a Temporal Monarch since Christ 's time in all Literature Divine and Humane as this King James Of whom see more in Scotland He died at Theobalds the 27 of March 1625. aged 60 Years He was the first Monarch of all Great-Brettaine He Reigned 22 Years and 3 Days 25. Charles I. Son of James VI. of Scotland was overpowred by the Puritanical Faction in England confederate with the Covenanters of Scotland who began their Rebellion in England Anno 1642. which continued by the Assistance of the Rebellious Parliament of England until the Year 1660. miserably ruinating both our Church and State And these Rebels murthered this Good King the 30 day of January 1648. in the 49 Year of his Age and banished his Children He Reigned 23 Years 10 Months and 3 Days 26. Charles II. Son of Charles I. was kept out of his Kingdoms till after the death of Oliver Cromwel the Traytor stiled the Protector but was after Restored and Returned to his Kingdoms the 29 day of May Anno Domini 1660. chiefly next under God who disposeth and ordereth the Hearts of all Men by the Assistance of Colonel George Monk who then had the Command of all the Forces in Scotland and England Principally and was afterwards made Duke of Albemarle by this King as well he deserved Of the Dukes of Normandy before William the Conqueror II. THe Dukes of Normandy from whence our Norman Kings of England aforesaid are descended are the Progeny of Rollo the Dane who invaded the Province of Neustria in France with a great Army which because they consisted of Men brought out of the North part of the World they were called Normans and that Province of France was called Normannia in Latin For in the Saxon Language of our Ancestors Normans denotes as much as Populi Septentrionales in the Latine And were a People as Cambden saith commixt of Norwegians Swedes and Danes 1. This Rollo took Baieux in Normandy by Storm and slew Berengarius Earl thereof and after married Popa Daughter of the said Berengarius on whom he begot William afterwards Duke of Normandy sirnamed Longespée because of the long Sword he used to wear And Rollo much perplexed the French by his daily Rapines over-running almost all France to Burgundy At last for the Mediation of a Peace Charles the Simple King of France gave unto him all the Land of Normandy from the River Epta to the Sea to be held by Homage from the Kings of France with Gista his Daughter in Marriage Popa his former Wife being now either dead or divorced Whereupon Rollo was Baptised by Franco Archbishop of Roan Anno Chr. 917. Anno Domini 912. And he was the first Duke of Normandy and died Anno Christi nati 917. Ordericus Vitalis lib. 3. ad initium Will. Gemeticensis lib. 2. cap. 12 17. 2. William sirnamed Longespée Duke of Normandy was Son of Rollo Slain Anno Christi 942. 3. Richard I. Duke of Normandy Son of William was but 10 Years old when his Father was slain He was Duke 54 Years 4. Anno 996. Richard II. Son of Richard I. by Gunnor first his Concubine and after his Wife Gemeticensis lib. 8. cap. 36. succeeded Duke of Normandy and was Duke 30 Years He had two Sons who succeeded Dukes one after another Richard and Robert besides other Children 5. Anno 1026. Richard III. Son of Richard II. succeeded Duke of Normandy and was Duke scarce a Year and a half 6. Anno 1028. Robert Brother to Richard III. succeeded Duke and after he had been Duke seven Years and a half he died at the City of Nice in Bithynia Anno 1035. 7. William Bastard Son of Robert by Arlet or Herlue as some write her a Skinners Daughter of Faloys in Normandy Chronicon Joh. Bromton pag. 910. a Child of eight Years of Age succeeded Duke of Normandy and was Duke 53 Years Ordericus lib. 3. in initio In the 32 Year of his Dukedom to wit Anno 1066. he Conquered England and is commonly called William the Conqueror Robert Curthose eldest Son of the Conqueror was after his Father also Duke of Normandy See the rest above pag. 32. among the Norman Kings of England ⚜ Normandy was lost to the French in the Reign of King John Anno 1204. Mat. Paris pag. 212. Normandy won again from the French by Henry V. Anno 1416. Normandy lost again by Henry VI. Anno 1449. And so much of England OF VVALES CHAP. I. Of the Name of Wales and Description of the Countrey I. THe Name of Wales was imposed from our Saxon Ancestors For the Ancient Brettans being beaten out of England by the Saxons fled into the West Parts of Brettaine being naturally fortified with great Mountains and Overflowings of the Sea to wit into that Part now called Wales and into Cornwal But the Brettans of Cornwal though they stoutly endeavoured to defend their Country yet were they soon forced to leave it to the Saxons Cambden and Verstegan tell us That the Saxons termed all Aliens and Strangers Walsh And hence they called these Inhabitants because Strangers unto them by the name of Walsh-men and their Countrey Wales But more probable it is that forasmuch as they be descended from the ancient Gaules their Neighbors in Latin termed Galli by the French Galles which the Saxons pronounce Walles and from whence Walles-man and now corruptly Welsh-man it seems to me to be thence called Wales as one should say The Countrey of the Waules or Walles And in ancient Latin Authors it is many times stiled Guallia and the Inhabitants thereof Gualli and every Man knows how the Saxons in most Words do use W for G as War for Guerre Ward for Guard and the like And at this day the French stile the eldest Son of the King of England Le Prince de Galles The ancient Galli were called Cimbri or Kimbri undè Cambro-Britannia is used for Wales and Cambro-Britannus for a Welshman And ask these Cambro-Brittans or Welsh-Brittans how they call themselves they will presently tell you Kimeri or Kumeri which sounds as much as Kimbri or Kymbry now in Latin molded into Cambri Howsoever the Name came the Inhabitants of Wales at this day are the Remnant of the Ancient Brettans but not without great commixture of the English their Neighbors which must needs follow in so long a Tract
1108. King Henry the Frst with sundry Expeditions brought under the VVelshmen and sent all the Flemmings who came over into England when a great part of Flanders was drowned to inhabite in Ross in VVales where Penbrooke Tenby and Haverford are now built where they remain to this day as may appear by their Speech and Conditions far different from the rest of the Countrey VVelsh Hist pag. 163. Anno 1132. died Meredyth ap Blethyn Chief Ruler of Powys Anno 1137. died Griffith ap Rees ap Theodor Prince of South-VVales who had by his Wife Gwenlhiam Daughter of Griffith ap Conan Rees commonly called Lord Rees and others Anno 1137. towards the end of the Year died Griffith ap Conan Prince of North-VVales 20. Owen sirnamed Gwineth Son of Griffith ap Conan is made Prince of North-VVales and the Name of King is no further used in the British Book VVelsh Hist pag. 139. a With Powel's Notes Also pag. 6. Owen died Anno Domini 1169. after he had Reigned 32 Years 21. David ap Owen Prince of North-VVales assumed the Government because the eldest Son of Owen called Jorwerth Drwyndwn that is Edward with the Broken Nose was counted unmeet for Government Anno 1190. died Griffith Maylor Lord of Bromfield a Nobleman and a Wise man VVelsh History pag. 242. He was Lord of Bromfield Yale Hope-Dale Nanhewdwy Mochnant is Rhayard Chirke Cynlhayth and Glindoverdwy Ibidem pag. 211. This was part of Powys Vadoc Powys before Offa's time reached Eastward to the Rivers of Dee and Severn and had to Wife Angharat Daughter of Owen Guyneth Prince of North-VVales by whom he had a Son called Madoc who died 1236. leaving a Son called Griffith Pag. 293. Anno Chr. 1194. 22. Lhewelyn ap Jorwerth peaceably received all North-Wales to his Subjection He Married Joan base Daughter of John King of England by Agatha Daughter of William Ferrars Earl of Derby Anno 1206. Vincent upon Brooke pag. 204. Speed's History pag. 518. calls her Daughter of Robert Ferrers and had Issue two Sons Griffith and David and for Daughters he had Marret married to John de Bruse 1219. Welsh Hist pag. 279. and Gladys another Daughter married to Sir Rafe Mortimer Ibid. pag. 298. And it is certain he had another Daughter called Hellen married to John the Scot Earl of Huntington and afterwards Earl of Chester She was married about 1222. and this was for a Final Agreement and Peace between Randle Earl of Chester sirnamed Blundevill and this Lhewelyn Prince of North-Wales who before-time had many Conflicts and Wars one against the other Knighton pag. 2430. Matt. Paris pag. 380. See also my Antiquities touching Cheshire in this Book But Helen had no Issue by John Scot who saith Matt. Paris was consenting to the Poysoning of her Husband After she married Robert de Quency third Son of Saher de Quency Earl of Winchester Vincent upon Brooke's Catalogue of Nobility pag. 260. About the Reign of Henry the Second Crogen when he made a Voyage against the Welsh to the Mountains of Berwin as he lay at Oswestrey a number of his Men who were sent to try the Passages to have passed Offa's Ditch at the Castle of Crogen were met withal and slain The Englishmen afterwards used to cry Crogen to the Welsh as much as to say Remember Crogen that they should expect no favour from the English But this Word in process of time grew to be an opprobrious Word when the English would in disgrace call the Welsh Crogens Welsh Hist pag. 257 258. This Lhewelyn was a valiant Prince and brought all Wales to subjection He died tertio Idûs Aprilis scilicèt die Sancti Guthlaci Anno Christi 1240. Matt. Paris pag. 525. And having tamed Griffith his Son who rebelled against him he left the Principality of Wales unto David his younger Son He died in the 46 Year of his Reign and was buried at Conwey Welsh Hist pag. 298. 23. David younger Son of Lhewelyn Prince of North-Wales with all the Barons of Wales did Homage to King Henry the Third for all the Lands which they had in Wales Hist of Wales pag. 299. This David imprisoned Griffith his elder Brother alledging also that he was a Bastard Senana the Wife of Griffith Petitions the King of England for the Release of Griffith her Husband and Owen his Son who was imprisoned with his Father Henry the Third makes an Agreement with Senana dated 25 Hen. 3. 1241. and Roger de Monte alto High-Steward of Cheshire was a Surety or Pledge for Senana to observe the Agreement David consents to deliver Griffith and Owen his Son and to stand to the Judgment of King Henry's Court about Griffith's part of the Land and to restore to Roger de Monte alto all his Land of Moald in Flintshire And David acknowledgeth to hold his Lands of Wales of King Henry in Capite Matt. Paris pag. 624 625. Griffith is sent by David unto King Henry who imprisoned him in the Tower of London but Griffith endeavouring to make an Escape fell down and broke his Neck 1 die Martii 1244. Matt. Paris pag. 617. David Prince of Wales took the Castle of Mould by Storm 1245. Matt. Paris pag. 655. And after it was taken and razed to the Ground by Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn 1268. Welsh Hist pag. 326. Anno Chr. 1246. David died without Issue 1246. Matt. Paris pag. 695. 24. Lhewelyn ap Griffith ap Lhewelyn was the last Prince of Wales of the British Blood who with his Brother Owen Gogh divided the Principality between them Lhewelyn ap Griffith married Elianour Daughter of Simon de Montfort Earl of Leycester Anno 1279. 6 Edw. 1. the Marriage being Solemnized at Worcester at the Charge of the King of England Walsingham pag. 48. Welsh Hist pag. 336. Matthew of Westminster placeth it Anno 1278. I find mention of a Daughter he had for whom the King of England promiseth to provide honourably and to give Lhewelyn 1000 l. Sterling and some Honourable County in England if Lhewelyn would upon his Submission put the King in possession of Snowdon This was Anno 1281. upon a Treaty to be had Welsh History with Powel's Notes pag. 365. But what became of this Daughter I find not but her Mother Elianour was now dead This Treaty took no effect Obiit 1282 Concerning the Death of this Lhewelyn it is variously reported by our Historians Matt. of Westminster saith He was slain in the Battel betwixt the English and the Welsh Anno 1282. when Edmund de Mortuo mari rushing with others into the Army of Lhewelyn he was slain among other Welshmen and his Head cut off which was carried to London and set upon the top of the Tower of London With whom agreeth Walsingham who placeth the time one Year later The Welsh History pag. 374. saith That Lhewelyn retiring to a Grove near Buhelt or Buelht whiles some of the Welsh were sent to defend the Bridge called Pont Orewyn suddenly there
ancient word for a Hill and that upon the Sea between Ireland and Scotland the Shore of Scotland seems to rise up into Mountains and so gained the Name of Albin Hist Scot. lib. 1. pag. 12 13. But when the Scots came unto the Picts in Brettaine though they ever and anon did make War and Excursions upon the Brettans yet did they not advance very soon but lived in that Angle where they first arrived They continually warred against the Kings of Northumberland for the space of 127 Years till Edan King of the Scots and his Army were totally routed by Ethelfrid King of Northumberland Anno Domini 603. Bede de Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 34. And when the Picts were almost rooted out and the Kingdom of the Northumbrians through Civil Discords and Incursions of the Danes About the Year 800. fell to decay then was all the North part of Brettaine called Scotland from Cluyd and Edenborough-Frith And on this side Cluyd and Edenborough-Frith was part of the Kingdom of Northumberland and possessed by the Saxons as every man knows But at this day Scotland is divided from England by the Rivers Tweed and Solway And hence it is that all those who possess the East part of Scotland and are called Lowland-men are descended of the English Saxons and speak the English Tongue and those that inhabit the Western Coast of Scotland called Highlanders be descended from the Scots and speak Irish and are maliciously bent towards the Lowland-men who speak English II. The People of the Scots have been noted of their best Writers for some barbarous Customs one whereof was If any two were displeased they expected no Law but banged it out bravely one and his Kindred against the other and his Kindred This Fighting they called their Feids These deadly Feids King James the Sixth in his Basilicon Doron adviseth his Son to redress with all care possible But it pleased God to give this King so long a Life as to see it remedied in his own days An Act indeed truly Royal and worthy himself Dr. Heylyn's Cosmography pag. 331. Another Custom they had of a strange nature never was the like heard of among the Heathens That the Kings of Scotland should have the Maidenhead or first Nights Lodging with every Woman who was to be married to a Husband that held Land immediately from the Crown and the Lords and Gentlemen should have the like of all those whose Husbands were their Tenants or Homagers And this was by a Law made by Eugenius a lascivious Prince of Scotland But this Custom in the time of Malcolme the Third sirnamed Cammoir was made redeemable for half a Mark of Silver about the Year 1070. which Pension the Scots at this day call The Marchet of the Women Buchanan lib. 7. pag. 214. The reason of the Name Skene in his Interpretation of Old Words thinks to come from March which in the Ancient Scotch Language signifies A Horse and so metaphorically denotes a Pension for the Leaping of a Woman ascendere Mulierem Spelman in his Glossary saith That Merch in the ancient Language of the Brettans signifies a Daughter or Woman-Sex and so denotes a Pension for a Woman's Marriage to the Lord or King CHAP. III. Of the Picts in Scotland THe Name of Pict was first introduced by the Romans saith Buchanan in his History of Scotland lib. 2. pag. 54. because these People painted their Bodies with the Pictures of all manner of Living Creatures It was not their ancient Native Name Herodian saith Neque vestis usum cognôrunt sed ventrem cervicem ferro cingunt Ornamentum id esse ac divitiarum argumentum existimârunt perindè ut aurum caeteri Barbari They put Iron Plates about their Bellies and Necks which they reputed an Ornament and an Argument of Riches as other Foreign Nations esteemed Gold and painted their Bodies with the Forms of all manner of Living Creatures Wherefore they put on no Clothes that they might not hide their Bodies so carved and painted Buchanan supposeth them to be originally Scythians or Getes pag. 55. Hergust their King dying about the time of Victorinus Lord Deputy of Brettaine under Honorius the Emperor who reduced the Picts to the Roman Province about the Year of Christ 412. forbad them to make any new King but what should be given them by the Romans and that it was prophesied of old That the Picts should be rooted out by the Scots Buchanan ibid. pag. 129. And at last Brudus King of the Picts not able to compose the Differences already begun between the Picts and the Scots died for grief and Drusken his Brother who was the last King of the Picts was overthrown in Battel Buchanan li. 5. p. â—65 166. about the Year of Christ 838. by Kenneth the Second King of the Scots and the Picts utterly subdued Since which time the Kings of the Scots have been Lords of all Scotland who before had onely a Part of Scotland It is said That the Nation of the Picts came first out of Scythia into Ireland and from thence into the North Parts of our Brettaine So Bede de Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 1. And this as many will have it about Anno Christi 78. Judicious Cambden thinks they were very Brettans who before the coming of the Romans were seated in the North part of our Island with such other Brettans who fled unto them as unwilling to submit to the Roman Servitude In his Britannia pag. 82. For my part I think the Brettans and the Picts do signifie the same thing one being a Greek Name and the other Latin This of Latin being given by the Romans in later Times in distinction from our Brettans of England who submitted to the Roman Government and were stiled as formerly and perhaps more civilized by the Romans Those other more rude and flying into Scotland and continually opposing the Romans were by them called Picti which Name continued afterwards I find not the Name of Picti in any Author mentioned till 300 Years after Christ and more And that as well the Brettans as the Picts were Peopled from the ancient Galles and those originally descended from the Scythians and Getes as Sheringham de Anglorum Gentis Origine doth probably demonstrate There were also two other sorts of People among the Picts in Scotland in the time of the Romans the Maiatae and the Attacotti as they were stiled by the Romans Of whom see Buchanan lib. 2. pag. 57. and also Cambden's Britannia pag. 655. pag. 91. These inhabited the Borders of Scotland CHAP. IV. Of the Kings of Scotland âšœ THe Kingdom of Scotland was never totally Conquered either by the Romans or Saxons for which they may thank their great Barren Mountains whether they fled from the Enemy as a Shelter It consisted as you have already heard of two sorts of People Picts and Scots It remains that I set down the Catalogue of their Kings as far as truth of History will bear For the
28. aetatis 35. Buchanan lib. 12. the last words pag. 440. 37. James IV. Son of James the Third Married Margaret Daughter of Henry the Seventh King of England Anno 1501. Buchanan pag. 454. But Stow saith she was Betrothed 1502. and Married at Edenborough the eighth of August Anno 1503. and had Issue James Arthur Alexander and a Daughter which last three died all young Speed's Hist pag. 763. James the Fourth was slain at the Battel of Floden-Field fought between the English and the Scotch on the ninth of September 1513. Anno Regni 25. aetatis 40. in the flower of his Youth Thomas Howard Earl of Surrey being then General of the English Forces Queen Margaret afterwards Married Archibald Duglas Earl of Angus Anno 1514. unto whom she bore Margaret a Daughter afterwards Married to Matthew Stewart Earl of Lennox In this King's Reign about Anno 1490. was born in Scotland a Man-child from the Navel downward and two Men upward he lived 28 Years and learned Musick and Languages he had two distinct Wills one part oftentimes falling out with the other Buchanan Hist Scot. lib. 13. pag. 444. 38. James V. Son of James the Fourth Married Mary Daughter of the Duke of Guise and Dutchess of Longevil then Widow to the Duke of Longevil Married at St. Andrews in July 1538. by whom he had Issue two Sons who died Infants and Mary a Daughter sole Heir to the Crown of Scotland He had a former Wife named Magdalene Daughter to the King of France but she had no Issue for she was Married on New-years-day 1536. and died the seventh of July 1537. James the Fifth died the thirteenth of December 1542. aged 33 Years and in the thirtieth of his Reign He had a base Son called James commonly styled Prior of St. Andrews who was first made Earl of Marre and after of Murray Cambden's Annals of Eliz. in Latine pag. 112. 39. Mary Queen of Scots Daughter and sole Heir of James the Fifth was but eight days old when her Father died James Hamilton Earl of Arran being made Protector She was desired in Marriage for Edward the Sixth King of England but the Faction of Lennox supported by the French King prevailed so that the Queen Mother sent her at six Years of Age to the French King and to the Duke of Guise for Breeding In the end she was Married to Francis the Dolphin of France whose Nuptials were celebrated at Paris with great Pomp the 28. of April Anno 1558. Godwin's Annals But the Dolphin died Anno 1560. not fully 18 Years old leaving no Issue by her Cambden's Annals Afterwards Queen Mary Married Henry Stewart Lord Darley Son of Matthew Stewart Earl of Lennox in Anno 1565. and by him had Issue her onely Son born in June 1566. called James But this Henry Lord Darley about a Month or two after the Christening of the young Prince of Scotland was Strangled in his Bed in the dead time of the Night and thrown out into an Orchard the House being blown up with Gunpowder Anno 1566. in the one and twentieth Year of his Age. The common Report was that this detestable Fact was caused by Morton and Murray So Cambden in his Annals Afterwards the Queen Married the Earl Bothwel now made Duke of Orkney Anno 1567. whereunto the Lords implored the Queen The Scots rebell Bothwel and the Queen were worsted Bothwel flies and the Queen is taken Prisoner Queen Mary is forced to resign her Crown to her young Son scarce 13 Months old Anno 1567. The Earl of Murray is made Regent the twentieth of August The Queen escapes out of Prison and flies into England and after 18 Years Imprisonment in England she is accused of High-Treason against Queen Elizabeth for conspiring her Death and inviting foreign Forces to Invade England of which she was Arraigned Convicted and Sentenced to die and afterwards Beheaded at Fotheringay Castle in Northamptonshire on Wednesday the eighth of February Anno 1586. aged 46 Years or rather in the 45. Year of her Age. Sanderson in the Life of Queen Mary Bothwel wandring up and down at last came to Naples where he lived and died very poor about the Year 1624. 40. James VI. Son of Henry Stewart Lord Darley and Queen Mary was Crowned King of Scotland quarto Calendas Augusti 1567. Buchanan pag. 669. and Cambden's Annals He Married Anne Daughter of Frederick the Second King of Denmark Anno 1589. by whom he had Issue Prince Henry born at Sterling in Scotland the nineteenth of February 1593. who died at St. Jame's House in London the sixth of November 1612. Charles the second Son born at Dunferne in Scotland the nineteenth of November Anno 1600. he was King of Great Britain after his Father The Lady Elizabeth born the sixteenth of August 1596. She Married Frederick Prince Elector Palatine of Germany in February 1612. afterwards King of Bohemia 1619. and also two other Daughters by Queen Anne born in England the Lady Mary and the Lady Sophia but these both died young This James the Sixth upon the death of Queen Elizabeth was Proclaimed the next undoubted Heir to the Crown of England in London March 24. being Thursday which was the last Day of the Year 1602. according to the Computation of the Church of England as lineally Descended from Margaret eldest Daughter of Henry the Seventh King of England so that in the thirty sixth Year of his Reign over Scotland and the thirty seventh of his Age he was now Proclaimed King of Great Britain and Ireland Thus were the Crowns of England and Scotland united in this King James whose continual Jars had spilt formerly an infinite deal of Blood both of the Scotch and English ⚜ He was the first Monarch of all Great Britain and first used the Title of King of Great Britain and Ireland in all Instruments of State and Writings which his Successors have ever since retained sometimes in Records mentioning them in particular thus King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Two great Deliverances had this King by the assistance of the King of Kings One from the treasonable Conspiracy of Earl Gowry before he was King of England the principal Actors were John Ruthen Earl of Gowry in Scotland and Alexander Ruthen his Brother Andrew Henderson and John Cranston Plotted in revenge of the Death of William Ruthen Earl Gowry Father of the said John which William for his Rebellion at Dundee suffered deservedly at Sterling Anno 1584. The manner of the Conspiracy was thus John Earl Gowry sends Alexander his Brother from his House at St. Johnstons in Scotland August the fourth Anno 1600. to the King then at Falkland to entice the King thither as privately as might be he tells the King there was a Man taken with much Gold Coin and suspicious Letters now at his Brothers House at St. Johnstons desiring the King to come thither to Examine the Man with all speed and privacy The King promiseth
to be there the next day at Noon and to do it whiles his Noblemen and Train should be at Dinner Alexander sends Henderson to his Brother John Earl Gowry with all speed to advertise him of the King 's coming The next day being the fifth of August the King came and towards the end of his Dinner Alexander desires the King to dispatch the Business The King arising from the Table Alexander leads him through four or five Rooms locking each Door after him till he came into the round Chamber where Henderson stood Armed Alexander plucking out Henderson's Dagger points it to the King's Breast saying You must die for my Father's Blood calls for vengeance The King deals gently with his Fury and worked so upon him with words that Alexander left him and went to his Brother leaving Henderson with the King who trembled at the Reverence of his Soveraign The King asked Henderson whether he would kill him to whom Henderson replied Not for a World By and by Alexander comes again with a Garter in his Hand swearing that the King should die and then endeavoring to bind the King the King and Alexander strugling together the King dragged him to the Window holding him fast as he could not stir the King cried out Treason into a back Court they hasten up and John Ramsey formerly the King's Page forced the Door at a back Way and finding the King and Alexander panting for the King having closed with him never let loose his hold the King bid Ramsey strike low whereupon Ramsey wounds Alexander mortally in the Belly with his Faucheon then came others into the Room They cast the King's Coat upon the dead Body advising the King to withdraw into another Room Presently enters John Earl Gowry with a Case of Rapiers ready drawn with seven Servants then seeing the King's Coat on the dead Body supposed the King was slain and let fall the Points of his Weapons and suddenly Herres assails him with his rusty Sword and Ramsey stepping in strikes the Earl to the Heart Thus was the King delivered by the Providence of God August the fifth 1600 and Ramsey was Knighted for his Service and had an addition given him to his Coat of Arms to wit of a Hand holding forth a Dagger mounted proper and piercing a bloody Heart with this Motto Haec Dextra vindex Principis Patriae and after had other Honors conferred upon him The other miraculous Deliverance was from the most bloody Plot of the Papists commonly called The Gunpowder Treason which should have been executed the fifth day of November Anno 1605. in the third Year after he was King of England in memory of which Deliverance we have now a Form of Thanksgiving in our Common-Prayer-Book to be used yearly on the fifth of November and a Statute made 3 Jacobi cap. 1. for keeping that Day Holy-day to be set apart yearly for a Thanksgiving to God for this great Deliverance which ought never to be forgotten but to be Recorded to all Posterity and the manner was thus A little before the beginning of that Parliament at Westminster some Welwiller to William Parker Lord Monteagle sends him a Letter to advise him to shift off his Attendance this Parliament as he tendred his Life For though there be no appearance of any Stir yet they shall receive a terrible Blow this Parliament and yet shall not see who hurts them c. This Letter was given by an unknown Fellow to a Footman of the Lord Monteagles with a charge to give it to his Lord 's own Hands which having neither Date nor Subscription the Lord Monteagle not knowing what to make of it brings it to the Earl of Salisbury then Secretary of State But the King not being then in Town the Secretary shews it to the Earl of Suffolk and others and upon the King 's coming back on the Thursday following Salisbury shews it to the King who as it were by Divine Instinct conceived the Letter ought not to be contemned and judged the words of the Letter to be meant of Gunpowder But upon the meeting of the Council order was given for the searching of all Rooms about the Parliament-House by the Lord Chamberlain where a Vault was found under the Lords House stuffed with Wood and Coals which Room was hired by Mr. Thomas Percy a violent Papist Kinsman to the Earl of Northumberland But the care of a farther Search being committed to Sir Thomas Knevet a Justice of Peace for Westminster who the Night before the Parliament was to sit about twelve of the Clock in the Night with competent Assistance with him seized one Guido Faux calling himself John Johnson and Percy 's Man at the Door of the Lodgings ready Booted and Dressed so late and searching the Vault by removing some Billets they found 36 Barrels of Powder and in Faux's Pockets three Matches a dark Lantern and other Implements nay a Watch wherewith to tell the Minutes for Execution All which he confessed upon his Examination There were other Contrivers of the Plot Thomas Winter Robert Catesby Thomas Percy John Wright Christopher Wright and Robert Winter Concerning which Plot and the Confessions of the Parties in their Examinations before the Privy Council King James himself took pains to note it which you may find amongst his Works in Print Anno Chr. 1625. This King James as my Lord Bacon observes in his Advancement of Learning pag. 2. was the most Learned Temporal Monarch since Christ's time in all Literature Divine and Humane He died at Theobalds on Sunday Morning the 27. of March 1625. in the 59. Year of his Age and in the 58. of his Reign over Scotland and having Reigned 22 Years compleat over England whose Son Charles I. ascended his Father's Throne and was the second Monarch of all Great Britain and Ireland whose Subjects as well of England as Scotland are the most rebellious People in the World ever Factious and perfidious towards their Prince See the rest in England So much of Scotland the Revenues of which Kingdom Boterus estimateth at 100000 Crowns or 30000 l. Sterling Dr. Heylin's Cosmography pag. 338. A Table of the chief Battels between the English and the Scots since the Norman Conquest Ann. Dom. 1139. 4 Steph. AT Conton or Couton in Yorkshire about four Miles from Alverton August 22. 1139. where were slain above 10000 Scots by Thurstan Archbishop of York Stow. This is commonly called Standard-Field Mat. Paris puts it Anno 1138. and onely among the Horsemen of the English of any note the Brother of Gilbert Lacy was found slain 1174. 20 Hen. 2. At Alnwick in Northumberland July 7. 1174. where William King of Scotland was taken Prisoner by Robert de Stotevil Rafe Mandevil Bernard Baliol and William Vescy 1296. 24 Ed. 1. At Barwick the English slew 25000 Scots and did win Barwick and Dunbar and conquered Edenborough where Edward the first found the Regal Ensigns of Scotland In his Return he called a
Justices 1629. 142. Thomas Viscount Wentworth July 25. Lord Deputy 1633. 143. Sir Adam Lofties Lord Chancellor Christopher Wansford Master of the Rolls June 2. Lord Justices 1636. 144. Thomas Viscount VVentworth November 23. Lord Deputy 1636. 145. Robert Lord Dillon of Kilkenny-VVest Christopher VVansford Master of the Rolls September 12. Lord Justices 1639. 146. Thomas VVentworth Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant He was Beheaded May 12. 1641. very unjustly by the Parliament of England's Faction 1640. Christopher VVansford was Deputy to Strafford 147. Robert Lord Dillon Sir VVilliam Parsons Master of the Court of Wards Decem. 30. Lord Justices 1640. 148. Sir VVilliam Parsons Sir John Borlace Master of the Ordnance February 9. Lord Justices 1640. 149. Sir John Borlace Sir Henry Tichborn May 1. Lord Justices 1643. 150. James Butler Marquess of Ormond February 21. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland The Rebellion of the Parliament of England was now broken out by raising Arms and Forces against the King and great Troubles arose both in England and Ireland 1643. Anno 1649. Oliver Cromwel Voted General of all the Forces sent against Ireland by the Parliament of England March 30. On the 20 of June following Dublin was Besieged by the Marquess of Ormond and on August 2. he was defeated before Dublin by Colonel Jones and his Party who issued out of the Town and Ireland reduced by Cromwel soon after Sub Carolo Secundo 151. King Charles the Second being restored to his Kingdoms 1660. makes James Butler now Duke of Ormond Lord Liutenant of Ireland 1662. who landed in Ireland 28 die Julii eodem Anno. 1662. 152. The Duke of Ormond is desired by the King to surrender his Commission and the Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seal is made Lieutenant of Ireland in February 1668. 153. Roberts is recalled and John Lord Barkley came Lord Lieutenant 1670. Finis Totius Operis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 SOME ANTIQUITIES TOUCHING CHESHIRE Faithfully Collected out of Authentique Histories Old Deeds Records and Evidences BY Sir PETER LEYCESTER Baronet A Member of the same County Nescio qua Natale Solum dulcedine cunctos ducit immemores non sinit esse sui LONDON Printed Anno Domini M.DC.LXXII THE CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK THe first Part treateth of the Governors and Earls of Mercia from the time of King Alfred to the time of the Norman Conquest The second Part comprehendeth the History of the Earls of Chester from the Norman Conquest till that Earldom was Invested in the Crown of England under King Henry the Third with a short Catalogue of all such Princes of England as have been created Princes of Wales and Earls of Chester ever since to this day The third Part treateth of the ancient Barons to the Earls of Chester with several Catalogues of all the Bishops Deans Chamberlains Judges Sheriffs and Escheatours of Cheshire and also of the Recorders of the City of Chester The fourth and last Part comprehendeth the Antiquities of Bucklow Hundred in Cheshire SOME ANTIQUITIES TOUCHING CHESHIRE PART I. CHAP. I. I. OUr Island of Great Brettaine was altogether unknown both to the ancient Grecians and Romans until the Days of Caius Julius Caesar Bede de Historiâ Gentis Anglorum lib. 1. cap. 2. Learned Cambden in his Britannia Printed 1607. pag. 24 25. Also Sheringham de Gentis Anglorum Origine pag. 99. For the Name of Brettaine is not to be found in any Author Greek or Latine before that time as far forth as I have ever seen or heard of Diodorus Siculus being the first among the Greek Authors and Lucretius among the Latines who made mention thereof and both these lived about the same Age with Caesar or a little sooner Wherefore we have no certain History of this Island but from Caesar downwards The ancient Brettans were a barbarous People and left no Writing or History of their Countrey to Posterity Gildas called Sapiens is the first among the Brettans who hath left us any mention in Writing hereof and those very short and imperfect Now Gildas writ about the Year of Christ 540. and what he writ as he confesseth in his Prologue was by Relation from beyond Sea more than out of ancient Records and Writings of his own Countrey for those if any such were at all were either burned by the Enemy's rage or carried away by the banished Natives so that in his time there was no such extant II. Now Julius Caesar upon his second Expedition into Brettaine Anno antè Christum natum 54. or thereabout subdued part of Brettain and many Cities submitted and yielded up themselves to the Romans Caesar de Bello Gallico lib. 5. in ipso initio And the Rule of the Romans in Brettaine ceased upon the declination of the Roman Empire after that Alaric King of the Gothes had taken Rome which hapned in the Year of Christ 410. according to our vulgar Computation So Helvicus in his Chronology also Bede de Hist Ang. lib. 1. cap. 11. So that the Rule or Soveraignty of the Romans over Brettaine continued almost 470 Years as Bede computeth in the same Chapter But Cambden in his Britannia pag. 60. computing to Valentinian the Third saith 476 Years III. But now the poor Brettans upon the Romans withdrawing of their Forces out of Brettaine to defend themselves were miserably devoured by the Scots and Picts And therefore they called in and invited the Saxons to aid them who came first into Brettaine Anno Christi 449. saith Bede and Malmesbury But the Brettans to use Gildas's own words perceiving the Saxons Quasi pro patriâ pugnaturos sed eam certiùs impugnaturos defended themselves as well as they could But the Saxons after they had expelled the Scots and Picts did also by degrees root out the Brettans also and the Saxons at last solely possessed themselves of all the South part of Brettaine which we now call England but disagreeing among themselves and contending for Superiority each Party would set up themselves as it commonly falls out in such Cases and so had a Heptarchy or seven distinct Kingdoms in England till at last they were all swallowed up into one by that of the West-Saxons the poor Brettans being driven into Wales and Cornwall IV. Egbert King of the West-Saxons being now sole Monarch of all England for so Hoveden calls him pag. 414. and having routed Wilaf King of Mercia and made him Tributary which Kingdom of Mercia was the largest in compass of all the seven and the last of the six unsubdued ordained That this part of Brettaine whereof he had now the Soveraignty should be called England since which time it hath gained the Name of England Verstegan's Saxon Antiquities p. 123. And this Edict saith Trevisa in his Translation of Polychronicon was when Egbert was Crowned King of all England at Winchester after the Battel of Ellindon Fol. 275. Now the Battel of Ellindon is placed in Anno Christi 823. by Florentius Wigorniensis and Stowe This Egbert also is said to have new
Dux was slain in Battel against the Danes with many other Noblemen of England Florentius pag. 388. IV. Edric sirnamed Streon a most perfidious Man was made Duke or Governor of Mercia by King Ethelred Anno 1007. in which Year the King of England agreed to pay thirty six thousand Pounds Tribute-money to the Danes so as they would desist from their Rapines Florentius pag. 373. with whom also agrees Huntington Hoveden and Polychronicon Onely Westminster saith he was made Duke of Mercia Anno 1003. He was the Son of Egelricus of low Kindred and to whom nevertheless his eloquent Tongue and crafty Wit procured great Riches and Honor and for Envy Florentius pag. 373. Falshood Pride and Cruelty exceeded all Men at that time He had to his Brothers Brihtric Alfric Goda Agelwin Agelward and Agelmer See Hoveden pag. 450. Father of Wulnoth Father of Godwin Earl of the West-Saxons He married Edgitha Daughter of King Ethelred Hoveden pag. 430. Stow calls her Edina pag. 90. b. and had Issue Wulfege and Wegete two Sons His unworthy Acts Historians Record thus Anno 1006. he murthered Duke Alfhelme whom VVestminster calls Ethelstane by a Wile for having invited him to a Banquet at Shrewsbury about the third or fourth day of his Entertainment he took him along with him on Hunting and led him into a Wood where he had laid in ambush a Butcher of Shrewsbury called Godwin Porthund whom he had hired to kill Alfhelme This Godwin spying his opportunity when all the rest of the Company were busied in Hunting fell upon Alfhelme and murthered him And shortly after King Ethelred caused the Eyes of Edric's two Sons VVulfeage and VVegate to be put out at Cocham or Cosham where the King then lived Florentius pag. 372. Anno 1015. he guilefully got Sigeferth and Morcar Sons of Earngrime into his Chamber where he caused them to be killed secretly and also endeavored secretly to have slain Edmund Prince of England And not long after having gotten forty Ships well Manned with Danish Soldiers he revolted to Canutus King of the Danes Florentius pag. 382. Hoveden pag. 433. Sigeferth and Morcar are stiled Earls of Northumberland by VVestminster whose Lands the King seised as forfeited by their Treason To omit many other of his Treacheries Anno 1016. Edric most perfidiously caused King Edmund sirnamed Ironside to be murthered for he caused his Son to thrust a sharp Knife into the King's Fundament as he was at the House of Office exonerating himself And this was done when the King lodged at Oxford on the last day of November Matt. VVestminster pag. 401. But Malmesbury pag. 72. saith Edric corrupted two of the King's Bed-chamber to thrust an Iron Hook into his Fundament as he was exonerating himself so was the common Fame saith he Howbeit Florentius and Hoveden both tell us That King Edmund died at London about the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle At last this Edric had a just Reward for all his Villanies for Anno 1017. Cnut the Danish King caused him to be Beheaded after he had told him what he had done to King Edmund and set his Head upon the Tower of London for he said he would make him higher than all the Noblemen of England Others say That for fear of Tumult he was privately strangled and his Body thrown into Thames So VVestminster pag. 402. Vide Ingulphum pag. 892. By Edric's Counsel Cnut banished Edwine Brother to Edmund Ironside and also Edward and Edmund Sons to King Edmund Ironside V. Leofric is the next Governor of Mercia I meet with He is the first that I find stiled Earl of Chester in express words Henry Huntington lib. 6. pag. 366. Leofricus Consul Nobilissimus Cestriae He is also stiled Earl of Leycester by Ingulphus pag. 891. Howbeit in truth he was now Earl of all Mercia whereof those Counties were Members or Branches and was one of the Primest Counsellors among all the Nobles of England and very gracious with his Prince He lived in the several Reigns of King Cnut Harald sirnamed Harefoot Hardy-Cnut and Edward sirnamed The Confessor But give me leave here by way of Digression to explain the Title of Earl which we give unto them for hitherto before this Leofric they have most usually by ancient Authors been stiled Duces Merciae But from Leofric downwards they are usually stiled Comites Merciae Wherefore it is to be observed That under the Saxons the subordinate Titles of Temporal Honour were those of Ethelinge Ealdorman and Thane or Theigne The Thanes were answerable to our Barons The Ealdormen usually stiled Aldermanni in the old Latin Translations of the Saxon Laws were such as had Provinces or Counties under their Government and signifies as much as Senior or Senator in Latin expressed sometimes by Subregulus Regulus Patricius Princeps Dux and in Saxon by Heretoga sometimes by Comes and Consul Selden's Tit. Hon. pag. 605. Ethelinge was a Title attributed to those of the Blood-Royal Sons and Brothers to the King and signifies as much as Nobly Born which in the times of the Saxons was in Latin expressed Clyto from the Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Famous Noble or Eminent About King Ethelstan's Reign the Word Earl was received in England as a Syncnima to Etheling and so denoted the Sons or Brothers of the King and not an Earl as at this day it is used for a Special Dignity Selden Tit. Hon. pag. 604. The word Earl coming into England with the Danes in whose Language Erlig at this day signifies as much as Noble or Honourable And after the Danish Power encreased in England under King Cnut the Name of Earl was fixed on those who before were by the Saxons called Ealdormen and the Saxon Title Ethelinge no more expressed by the word Earl The Title of Ealdorman continued until about the Year 1020. expressed by these words in Latin Duces Principes Comites c. Selden Tit. Hon. pag. 609. But from the Norman Conquest Earl and Comes most usually have translated each other And therefore because these Governors of Mercia first stiled Duces were also afterwards stiled Comites and Consules I give them the Title of Earls Howbeit in truth the Titles of Dux and Comes used by the ancient Historians of our Nation and also frequently found in old Latin Charters under our Saxon Kings about 800 Years after Christ did then signifie with us no other than Chief Governors of Provinces and Counties under the King and promiscuously used in that Age for the same Title So were also Consul and Subregulus But though Dux and Comes were promiscuously used by Florentius Huntington Hoveden and other old Authors yet I find in Latin Chartes of those Ages many stiled Duces and others Comites in the same Charters as we find in Ingulphus Nay you may observe in the Subscriptions of those Ages this Order First Bishops then Abbots then Duces then Comites then Minister which in those Chartes denotes a Thane or Lord
confidence of your Valour and the King's Injustice I doubt not to dissipate his Forces and with my Sword to make way through the midst of my Enemies Methinks I see them run already Then Robert Earl of Glocester who Commanded in Chief encouraged his Soldiers and told the Bassians and others who were Disinherited That now they should have one Bout for the recovery of their Right and Inheritance King Stephen on the other part alights from his Horse and Fought on foot very stoutly both for his Life and Kingdom but having no audible Voice commanded Baldwin de Clare a Man of great Honour and Prowess to make known his mind to the Army Henry Huntington li. 8. who made an Oration to encourage the Soldiers Impeaching the Earl of Chester as a Man audacious but without Judgment heady to plot a Treason but still wavering in the pursuit of it ready to run into Battel but uncircumspect of any danger aiming beyond his reach and conceiting things meerly impossible and therefore hath but few with him that know him leading onely a Rout of vagrant and tumultuous Pesants So there is nothing in him to be feared for whatsoever he begins like a Man he ends like a Woman unfortunate in all his Undertakings In his Encounters he hath either been vanquished or if by chance he rarely a obtain Victory it is with greater loss on his part then the Conquered But as soon as he had ended his Oration the Fight began which was very fierce and terrible many slain on both parts In the Head of the King's Army were very stout Soldiers but his Enemies outvying him in number prevailed William de Ipro with the Flemmings and Alan with the Britons first turn their Backs * Huntington and Hoveden say they beat the Welsh but the Earl of Chester coming up with his Forces quite routed them which much discouraged the King's Friends but encouraged the Enemy The King was ill betrayed for some of his Nobles accompanied him in Person whiles they sent whole Troops to the other side Waleran Earl of Mellent and William de Warren his Brother Gilbert de Clare and other famous Knights both of England and Normandy ran away as soon as they saw their own side shrink But Baldwin de Clare and Richard Son of Ursi Engelram de Say and Ildebert Lacy stuck stoutly to the King and Fought it to the last Man Stephen himself like a noble Branch of an heroick Family Fought so gallantly that when his Sword was broken taking a Battel-Axe from a young Gentleman which stood near him he ceased not to Encounter with his over-powerful Enemies but at last was constrained to yield himself Prisoner to Robert Earl of Glocester his Cosin who sent him to Maude the Empress at Bristow where he was imprisoned Baldwine de Clare likewise and other excellent Champions on the King's part were taken Prisoners Thus by the voluble Wheel of Fortune was King Stephen taken Prisoner at the Battel of Lincoln on Candlemas-day Anno Domini 1141. according to Ordericus who lived in that very Age which was principally occasioned by the Valour and Assistance of Randle Earl of Chester III. Alan Earl of Brettaine a treacherous and cruel Man Gesta Steph. pag. 953. lying in Ambush for the Earl of Chester to revenge the Dishonor of taking his Lord and King Prisoner was himself taken and imprisoned till he did Homage to Randle Earl of Chester and had delivered up his Castles unto him Others say Alan Earl of Richmond and Little-Britain was sent for by Randle to speak with him and so was Apprehended by him Anno 1141. John Hagustaldensis pag. 269. Not long after this Robert Earl of Glocester was taken Prisoner in another Battel by some others of Stephen's Party and so immediately King Stephen and Earl Robert were exchanged each for other Anno 1143. Stephen being released out of Prison Besieged Lincoln and would have built a Fort over against the Castle which Randle Earl of Chester kept but the Earl killed almost eighty of his Workmen and so he was forced to give it off Mat. Paris and Hen. Huntington But Hoveden placeth this 1144. 9 Stephani Anno Domini 1145. King Stephen gathering a great Army built a strong Castle over against Wallingford whither Randle Earl of Chester accompanied him with great Forces and was restored unto his Favour But afterwards the Earl coming to the King's Court at Northampton was surprized little dreaming of any such matter and cast into Prison untill he restored the Castle of Lincoln which he had fraudulently taken and all other Castles which he injuriously had taken from the King Chronica Normanniae put out by Du Chesne with other Histories pag. 982. Also Polychronicon addeth That the Welshmen then wasted Cheshire but were intercepted at Nantwich ⚜ lib. 7. cap. 19. Monasticon vol. 1. pag. 890. But for the Reconcilement of Stephen and Randle it is more fully set down in Gesta Stephani pag 968. thus The Earl of Chester who had got almost a third part of the Kingdom by his Sword comes to the King and desires Pardon for his Rebellion at Lincoln and for the seizing of his Soveraign's Possessions and thereupon was received into Favour And in farther testimony of his Obedience he helped the King's Forces and gallantly Assaulted the Town of Bedford which had much weakned and shattered the King's Army and having taken it delivers it into Stephen's Hands After this he accompanied King Stephen to Wallingford attended with three hundred gallant Horse till the King had erected a stately Castle in prospect thereof to stop the Incursions of the Enemy which were wont to issue out of Wallingford and prey upon the Countrey But for all this Friendship Randle was suspected of Stephen because he surrendred not the Castles and Rents which he had violently taken from him and because of the Earls wavering and unstable Mind not having put in Pledges of his Fidelity so that neither the King nor his prime Councellors durst rely upon him unless he would surrender all the King's Possessions and if he refused this then the King ought to clap him up at his best opportunity Ibidem pag. 970 971. Randle Earl of Chester seeing he was thus suspected turns himself to his wonted course of Treason plotting how he might more easily without Infamy deliver the King into the Hands of his Enemies and coming to the Court with some Attendance whereby he might be the freer from suspicion he complained how he was beset with a barbarous multitude of Welsh who made great spoil and waste of his Lands so that he and all his Tenants bordering on the Confines of his County would be quite extirpated unless the King gave him speedy Assistance telling him that his Presence would do more by the very Name of a King than many thousands of Soldiers without him The King cheerfully promiseth his Assistance but the Councel about his Royal Person would not suffer it for they wished
County which was his ancient Inheritance and also the Castle of Belvoir with all the Barony and all the Land of William de Albiney then Lord of Belvoir and Graham vulgo Grantham with Sok And if the Heirs of Graham should Compound with the King yet the Barony to remain till the King gave other Lands for it By the same Charter the King gave him New-Castle in Staffordshire Socam de Roeley Torksey Derby Mansfield Stoneley the Wapentack of Orwardebek and all the Lands of Roger de Busley with all the Honour of Blithe nigh Tickhill and all the Lands of Roger de Poictu from Northampton to Scotland except what belongs to Roger de Montbegon in Lincolnshire also all the Lands between Ribbell and Mersey and the Land which the King had in Demaine in Grimsby in Lincolnshire and all the Land which the Earl of Glocester had in Demaine in that Mannor of Grimsby And also he restored for Randle's sake unto Adelize de Condy all her Lands viz. Horncastle in Lincolnshire when the Castle was demolished And all his own other Lands the King restored unto him Ex Charta Originali nuper in Castro de Pomfret Which Note I had from Mr. Dugdale ei dedi Et Nottingham Castle Burgum quicquid habui in Nottingham in feodo haereditate sibi haeredibus suis Dedi totum feodum Willielmi Peverelli ubicunque sit nisi poterit se dirationare in meâ Curiâ de scelere Proditione exceptâ Hecham Et si Engelramus de Albemarle non voluerit se capere mecum neque Comes Simon illud vi capere potero praedictam Hecham reddo Comiti Ranulfo si eam habere voluerit Et Torcheseiam Oswardebek Wapentack Derbeiam cùm omnibus Pertinentiis Et Maunsfield cùm Soca Roelay cùm Soca Stanleiam juxtà Coventreiam cùm Soca de Belvario tenebo ei rectum quà m citiùs potero sicut de suâ haereditate Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terrae dabo de his quae mihi ex hostibus meis adquisita acciderint de me tenendas Et omnibus Parentibus suis suam reddo haereditatem undè potens sum de hoc undè ad praesens potens non sum rectum Plenarium tenebo ex quo potens ero Testibus Willielmo Cancellario Reginaldo Comite Cornubiae Rogero Comite Herdia Patricio Comite Salisburiae Umfrido de Bohun Dapifero J. Filio Gilberti R. de Hum. Constabulario Guarino Filio Ger. Roberto de Curcy Dapifero Manassero Bysset Dapifero Philippo de Columbe Ex parte Comitis Ranulfi Willielmo Comite Lincolniae Hugone Wac G. Castell de Fines Simone Filio Willielmi Thurstano de Monteforti Gaufrido de Costentyn Willielmo de Verdon Ricardo de Pincerna Rogero Wac Simone Filio Osberti Apud Divisas And here I cannot pass by Vincent's Error in the Review of the second Edition of Brooks's Catalogue of Nobility pag. 662. where he saith thus That the Barons of the Earls of Chester were chosen in the time of Hugh Lupus I doubt for what should move Henry the Second when he was but yet Duke of Normandy and Earl of Anjou among divers Grants that he made to Randle de Gernouns Earl of Chester to say in his Charter Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terrae dabo That he would give to the six Barons quos elegerit which he shall chuse not quos eligerit which he hath already chosen a hundred pound Land apiece c. if they had been chose in Hugh Lupus's time Thus Vincent But to pass by his gross Distinction of Elegerit and Eligerit for it is Elegerit in both Tenses Future and Preterperfect Tense nor is Eligerit any true Latin word at all Methinks he reads not the English to a proper and genuine Sence for I conceive the meaning to be plainly thus Et sex Baronibus suis quos elegerit cuique centum libratas terrae c. that is To six of his Barons whom he shall chuse or appoint out he will give to every one of them a hundred Pounds-worth of Land apiece So that there might be many more Barons at that time for all this And indeed the Charter of Hugh Lupus of the Foundation of the Monastery of St. Werburge in Chester Anno 1093. mentions Barons at that time which you may see at large suprà pag. 109 110 111. In the Subscription whereof it is said Ego Comes Hugo Barones mei confirmavimus And I pray you how comes the Duke here to know Randle's mind to elect Barons if they were yet to be chosen But where he renders it And to the six Barons which he shall chuse I should render it And to six of his Barons whom he shall chuse or cull out For the Grant being made to Earl Randle there was so much to be given to six of his Barons but left to the appointment and nomination of Earl Randle which six Barons he would have to be the Men to enjoy those Lands for if we should render it And to his six Barons c. implying onely that set number and no more the following words quos elegerit would be superfluous for being given to six Barons equally there is no choice left at all to the Earl where there be no more Barons unless we suppose six Barons to be made and that there were none before which evidently appears to the contrary Therefore indeed these words rightly understood do imply there were more Barons at that time out of which Randle had the nomination of the six here intended left unto him But of these Barons I shall speak more particularly in the third Part of this Book Take here a Deed or two of this Randles which are in one of the great Couchir-Books in the Dutchy-Office at Grays-Inn The first being of certain waste Lands in Leycestershire which this Randle gave to Henry the Second and the King gave them to Robert Bossue Earl of Leycester Ibidem Tom. 2. Comitatus Leycestriae Num. 66. HENRICUS Dei Gratiâ Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Archiepiscopis Episcopis c. Salutem Sciatis Quia Ranulfus Comes de Cestria dimisit concessit mihi habere in Dominio Cernelegam Cernewodam Aldremanchagam in Defenso sicut aliquod defensum chariùs habeo omnia nemora quae fuerunt de Feodo Comitis de Cestra quae attingunt Forestam Legrecestriae praetèr Parcum suum habere in Defenso de Wasto de Bestiâ Salvagiâ Sicut autèm praedictus Comes Ranulfus mihi haec dimisit concessit ità Ego concedo Roberto Comiti Legrecestrae habere haereditabilitèr cùm alio Feodo suo Et volo firmitèr praecipio ut benè quietè honorificè teneat cùm omnibus consuetudinibus suis Testibus Theobaldo Comite Blesense Gualeranno Comite de Mellent Willielmo de Tano Nigello de Albiun
Court by having a Steward present I do also grant That the Wife upon the Death of her Husband shall remain peaceably in her House forty Days And the Heir if he be at Age shall have his Heritage for reasonable Relief to wit Five Pounds for a Knights Fee Nor shall the VVidow nor the Heir be Married where they may be disparaged but shall be Married by the free assent of their Kindred None of them shall lose his Villane by reason of his coming into the City of Chester unless the same hath remained there a Year and a Day without claim And in regard of the great Service which my Barons do me in Cheshire none of them shall do me Service beyond the Lime * * That is out of the Limits of the County as I conceive Lima being an old word for Limes but at their own free will and at my Cost And if my Knights from England shall be Summoned which ought to VVard at Chester and are come to keep their VVard and that there be no Army of my Enemies at present from some other Place and that there be no need then my Barons may in the mean time return unto their own Houses and take their ease And if an Army of my Enemies be ready to come into my Land in Cheshire or if the Castle be Besieged the aforesaid Barons upon my Summons shall immediately come with all their Army to remove the Enemy according to their Power And when that Army of the Enemy shall retreat out of my Land the said Barons may return to their own Homes and Rest while my Knights from England keep the Guard and that there shall be no need of my Barons saving unto me the Services which the Barons ought to do I do also grant unto them that in time of Peace they may have onely twelve Sergeants itinerant in my Land with one Horse of the Master Sergeant which shall have no Provend from Easter to Michaelmas but by curtesie And that the Sergeants eat such Meat as they shall find in Mens Houses without buying any other Provision for their use Nor shall they eat in any Mannor-Houses of the Barons And in the time of War shall be appointed Sergeants sufficient for the keeping of my Land by my Advice and by the Advice of my Judge and Barons as need shall require And you are to know that my Barons aforesaid have for them and their Heirs released to me and my Heirs the Petitions under written which they desired from me so that they can challenge nothing hereafter of them but by my free Favour and Mercy To wit my Steward hath released his Petition of Wrec and of Fish cast upon his Land by the Sea and liberty of shooting Deer in my Forrest for three Shoots * * The Deed runs thus Et de Bershare in Foresta mea ad tres Arcus Birsare i. e. Telo configere a Germ. Birsen So Spelman To shoot an Arrow or Dart and for the running of his Dogs Others their Petition for Lay of their Swine in my Forrest and shooting at Deer for three Shoots and for running their Greyhounds in the Forrest going to Chester upon Summons or in returning and also the Petition of the Amercement of the Judgers of the Wich of thirty Walms of Salt But the Amercements and Laws of the Wich shall be such as they were before I do therefore grant and by this present Deed confirm from me and my Heirs to all my common Knights and Gentlemen of Cheshire and their Heirs all the aforesaid Liberties to have and to hold of my Barons and of other their Lords whosoever they be as the same Barons and Knights and other Gentlemen hold the same of me These being Witnesses Hugh Abbot of St. Werburge of Chester Philip Orreby then Judge of Chester c. Prince Edward Son of King Henry the Third confirmed the aforesaid Liberties in these words EDWARDUS Illustris Regis Angliae Primogenitus Omnibus Salutem Sciatis quod concessum est pro nobis haeredibus nostris Baronibus Militibus liberè Tenentibus aliis ac toti Communitati Cestershiriae quòd ipsi in perpetuùm habeant gaudeant omnibus Libertatibus Consuetudinibus eisdem Progenitoribus suis dudùm concessis à Domino Ranulpho quondà m Comite Cestriae per Chartam suam prout in eâdem Chartâ pleniùs continetur Concessimus autèm eisdem quòd si aliquis tenens Terram in Comitatu Cestriae de quâcunque Feloniâ convictus fuerit ubicunquè locorum fuerit Dominus Feodi Feodum suum habeat recipiat post Annum Diem sinè contradictione alicujus Volumus etià m quòd Servitia quae praedicti haeredes Cestershiriae nobis ad opus rogatum nostrum extrà Comitatum praedictum fecerunt in posterùm non trahentur in Consuetudinem Et ut omnia haec rata firma in perpetuum remaneant praesentibus Literis Sigillum nostrum duximus apponi Datum Cestriae 27 die Augusti Anno Regni Domini Regis Patris nostri 49. 49 Hen. 3. Which afterwards he confirmed also when he was King Dated March 30. 28 Ed. 1. as appears by the Exemplifications of all these Charters in Rotulo Recognitionum 3 Edw. 4. CHAP. II. Of the Bishops of Chester I Find no mention of a Bishop at Chester before the Norman Conquest onely we read that Dwina a Scotchman was made Bishop of Mercia by King Oswy whereof Cheshire was a small Parcel and that he had his Seat at Lichfield Anno Christi 656. from which time there remained a Succession of Bishops in that See until by doom of Canon Law all Bishops were to remove to the greatest Cities in their Diocese Polychronicon lib. 1. cap. 52. And thereupon Peter Bishop of Lichfield Anno Domini 1075. removed his Seat from Lichfield to Chester and was then commonly stiled Bishop of Chester But Robert de Limsey next Successor to Peter leaving Chester fixed his Seat at Coventrey Anno 1095. which was brought back to Lichfield by Roger Clinton in the Reign of Henry the First but so as his Title was Bishop of Lichfield and Coventrey From which time downwards the Bishops here were sometimes stiled of Chester sometimes of Lichfield and sometimes of Coventrey from the Place where they fixed their Residence having then three Sees one at Lichfield another at Coventrey and a third at Chester yet all one and the same Bishoprick At last King Henry the Eighth made Chester an entire Episcopal Dignity Anno Regni sui 33. turning the Monastery of St. VVerburge in Chester into the Bishop's Palace unto which Jurisdiction was allotted Cheshire Lancashire Richmondshire and part of Cumberland and was appointed to be within the Province of York See Stat. 33 Hen. 8. cap. 31. A Catalogue of the Bishops of Chester since 33 Hen. 8. 1541. which Bishoprick was erected upon the dissolution of the Abbeys I. JOhn Bird Doctor of Divinity of the University of Oxford having been formerly
a Fryer of the Order of the Carmelites was the first Bishop of this new Foundation He was born in Coventrey and made Bishop of Bangor Anno 1539. thence translated to Chester 1541. 33 Hen. 8. He was preferred for some Sermons Preached before the King against the Pope's Supremacy Anno Christi 1537. He was deprived of his Bishoprick of Chester by Queen Mary Anno 1554. because he was Married and died at Chester Anno 1556. II. George Cotes one of the Prebends of Chester sometime of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford and afterwards Master of Baliol Colledge made Bishop of Chester 1 Mariae 1554. He survived his Consecration not two Years Some mistake this Bishop's Name calling him John for George It plainly appears by the Register Book of the Consistory Court at Chester that his Name was George Cotes III. Cutbert Scot Doctor of Divinity and Master of Christchurch Colledge in Cambridge made Bishop of Chester by Queen Mary 1556. He was after put out by Queen Elizabeth a froward Person who being put into the Prison of the Fleet in London made an escape and fled to Lovain where he died IV. VVilliam Downeham Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth before she came to the Crown Doctor of Divinity and sometime of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford was consecrated Bishop of Chester May 4. 1561. 3 Elizabethae He died in November 1577. and was buried in the Quire of the Cathedral Church at Chester having sat Bishop there sixteen years and a half He had two famous Sons George Bishop of London-Derry in Ireland and John Batchelour of Divinity a Learned and painful Writer V. William Chaderton Doctor of Divinity Fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge and after President of Queens Colledge in Cambridge and sometime the King's Professor of Divinity in that University was consecrated Bishop of Chester 9 Novembris 1579. thence translated to Lincoln 1595. He was Bishop of Chester sixteen years and had onely one Daughter and Heir called Jone the first Wife of Sir Richard Brooke of Norton in Cheshire but these after parted and lived asunder This Bishop was a Learned and witty Man and died in April 1608. VI. Hugh Bellot Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Bangor brought up in St. John's Colledge in Cambridge was translated to Chester 1557. 37 Elizabethae He lived scarce one year after his Translation and died about Whitsuntide 1596. buried at Wrixham in Denbighshire His Funeral was solemnized at Chester 22 Junii VII Richard Vaughan Doctor of Divinity the Queens Chaplain and Bishop of Bangor brought up in St. John's Colledge in Cambridge succeeded Bellot both in the Bishoprick of Bangor and Chester He was translated to Chester in June 1597. Lee saith he was translated May 16. 1596. and Enstalled November 10. 1597. and continued there six years and more and was translated hence to London about the end of December 1604. and died March 30. 1607. He was a Man of a prompt and ready Utterance the beginning of whose Advancement was under the Lord-Keeper Puckering who designed him to Examine such as sued to him for Benefices in his Gift So Lee pag. 45. of the Vale-Royal of England VIII George Lloyd Doctor of Divinity Bishop of the Isle of Mann sometime Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of Chester 14 die Januarii 1604. He died the first of August 1615. in the 55. year of his Age at his Parsonage of Thornton and was buried in the Quire of the Cathedral Church at Chester near to Bishop Downeham and was Bishop of Chester ten years IX Thomas Moreton Son of Richard Moreton of York City Mercer Doctor of Divinity brought up in St. John's Colledge in Cambridge and sometime Dean of Winchester was consecrated Bishop of Chester 7 die Julii 1616. translated hence to Lichfield and Coventrey 6 Martii 1618. and thence to Durham 1632. He died 22 die Septembris 1659. anno aetatis 95. after he had written many Learned Tractates and was never Maried See this Bishop's Life and Death in Daniel Lloyd's Memoires Printed 1668. X. John Bridgeman Son of Thomas Bridgeman of Greenway in Devonshire Doctor of Divinity brought up in Cambridge the King's Chaplain and Parson of Wiggan in Lancashire was consecrated Bishop of Chester 1619. He lived till the Parliament pulled down all Bishops in a Puritannical Frenzy of Rebellion and had Beheaded King Charles the First and after died at Morton not far from Oswaldestrey in Shropshire He Married Elizabeth Daughter of Doctor Helyar Canon of Excester and Arcdeacon of Barstable and had Issue Sir Orlando Bridgeman made Lord-Keeper 1667. Dove Henry now Dean of Chester Sir James Bridgeman and Richard XI Brian Walton born at Cleaveland in Yorkshire Doctor of Divinity brought up in Peterhouse in Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of Chester 2 die Decembris 1660. upon the Restoration of King Charles the Second He died November 29. in Vigiliis Sancti Andreae 1661. anno aetatis 62. buried in the Cathedral of St. Paul at London He had a principal Hand in setting out the Great Bible of many Languages and Married Jane Daughter of Doctor William Fuller Dean of Durham XII Henry Ferne Doctor of Divinity Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge was consecrated Bishop of Chester 9 die Februarii 1661. He died very soon after and never lived to come to Chester and was buried at Westminster He writ clear Resolutions of certain Cases of Conscience relating to the Differences between the late King and his rebellious Parliament XIII George Hall one of the Sons of Doctor Joseph Hall Bishop of Excester was sometime of Excester Colledge in Oxford and Doctor of Divinity and consecrated Bishop of Chester Anno Christi 1662. He was also Parson of Wiggan in Lancashire by the Gift of Sir Orlando Bridgeman then Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas This Bishop Married Gartred Sister to Sir Amos Meredith now of Ashley in Cheshire He died at Wiggan August 23. 1668. without any Issue of his Body and Gartrede his Lady also died at Wiggan in March following XIV John Wilkins Doctor of Divinity Son of Walter Wilkins a Goldsmith in the City of Oxford was first Student of Christchurch in Oxford and after made Warden of Wadham Colledge in the same University about the Year of our Lord 1651. He Married Robina Sister to Oliver Cromwel the late Lord Protector but hath no Issue as yet He was made Master of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge about the Year 1659. and after the Restoration of King Charles the Second he was made Dean of Rippon in Yorkshire and was consecrated Bishop of Chester Anno Domini 1668. He was also Parson of Wiggan by the Gift of Sir Orlando Bridgeman Baronet now Lord-Keeper of England CHAP. III. A Catalogue of the Deans of Chester I. THomas Clerke who before had been the last Abbot of St. Werburge in Chester was made the first Dean of Chester after the erection of the new Bishoprick here 1541. 33 Hen. 8. II. Henry Mann Doctor of Divinity afterwards Bishop of the
Brereton duodecim Denarios ad Festum Sancti Oswaldi pro omni Servitio Testibus Radulfo Capellano Petro Chanuto Waltero Parsonâ de Rodeston Willielmo de Brereton Osberto de Erclid c. 1669. Nantwich Hundred Parish Churches 1. WIbenbury 2. Aulym 3. Bartumley 4. Coppenhale 5. Baddiley 6. Aghton 7. Church-minshul 8. Wistarston The present Patrons V. Bishop of Lichfield V. Smith of Hatherton R. Crew of Crew R. Bishop of Lichfield R. Manwaring of Baddiley V. Wilbraham of Woodhey V. Cholmeley of Vale-Royal R. Walthall of Wistarston and Delves of Dodington alternis vicibus Parochial Chappels 1. Merebury within Whitchurch Parish 2. Wrenbury within Aghton Parish 3. Nantwich within Aghton Parish Chappels of Ease 1. Burley-Dam Chappel in Dodcot cùm Wilkesley in Aulym Parish 2. Haslington Chappel in Bartumley Parish Domestick Chappels 1. At the sumptuous House of Crew lately built by Sir Randle Crew in the Reign of King Charles the First 2. Another old one at Woodhey Hall 1669. Broxton Hundred Parish Churches 1. ALdford 2. Christleton 3. Coddinton 4. Dodleston 5. Eccleston 6. Farndon 7. Hanley The present Patrons R. The Lord of Aldford R. Mostyn of Mostyn in Wales R. Dean of Chester R. Dean of Chester R. Venables Baron of Kinderton R. Bishop of Lichfield R. Dean of Chester Parish Churches 8. Harthill a Donative 9. Malpas two Rectories 10. Plemston 11. Pulford 12. Shoklach 13. Sutton-Gelders 14. Tilstan 15. Totenhale 16. Warton The present Patrons Brereton of Brereton Idem Brereton of both ferè excepting the eighth Course of the one V. Bishop of Chester R. Warburton of Arley V. Pilston of Emrads V. Stanley of Alderley R. Lord Brereton two Turns Corbet of Stoke third Turn R. Bishop of Chester R. Bishop of Chester Parochial Chappels 1. Pulton now in decay within Pulford Parish 2. Churchen-Heath Chappel within St. Werburge of Chester's Parish Chappels of Ease 1. Chad Chappel in Malpas Parish 2. Cholmeley Chappel in Malpas Parish sumptuously repaired by Robert Lord Cholmeley Earl of Leinster Anno Domini 1652. 3. Boughton Chappel in St. Oswald's Parish it is now demolished and was within the Liberties of the City of Chester 4. Hargreve Chappel in Tarvin Parish 5. Wyrvin Chappel Domestick Chappels 1. At Eaton Hall the Seat of Grosvenour 2. At Lea Hall the Seat of the now Lady Calveley 1669. Edesbery Hundred Parish Churches 1. TArvin 2. Barrow 3. Thorneton 4. Iuce 5. Frodsham 6. Weverham 7. Torperley 8. Over 9. White-gate See Stat. of 33 H. 8. c. 32. 10. Bunbury See Web's Collections put out by Dan. King in his Vale-Royal of England pag. 104 105. The present Patrons V. A Prebendary of Lichfield R. Savage Earl Rivers R. Booth of Dunham-Massy V. Cholmeley of Vale-Royal V. Christchurch Colledge in Oxford V. Bishop of Chester R. Crew of Utkinton V. Bishop of Chester R. Cholmeley of Vale-Royal V. The Company of Huber dushers in London Parochial Chappels 1. Little Budworth within Over Parish Chappels of Ease 1. Watenhall Chappel in Over Parish 2. Alvandeley Chappel in Frodsham Parish Domestick Chappels 1. At Stapleford Hall 2. At Darley Hall 1669. Wirehall Hundred Parish Churches 1. BAckford 2. Bebington 3. Bidston 4. Brunborough 5. Burton 6. Estham 7. Haswell 8. Neston 9. Shotwyke 10. Stoke a Donative 11. Thurstraston 12. Walleysey 13. West-Kirkby 14. Woodchurch 15. Overchurch in Upton The present Patrons V. Bishop of Chester R. Stanley of Hooton Bishop of Chester R. Cholmeley of Vale-Royal R. Bishop of Lichfield V. In Dispute between the Dean of Chester and Stanley of Hooton R. Clegge of Gayton and Brown of Upton alternis vicibus V. Dean of Chester Dean of Chester The Lord of Dutton R. Dean of Chester R. Bishop of Chester R. Dean of Chester R. Birch of Chester Stanley of Hooton Chappels of Ease 1. Moreton Chappel in Bidston Parish 2. Birkenhead Chappel now in decay in Bidston Parish Domestick Chappels 1. At Hooton Hall Sum total according to this Catalogue in the whole County of Chester besides the City of Chester Of Parish Curches 75 Of Parochial Chappels 18 Of Chappels of Ease 34 Of Domestick Chappels 17  In toto of all sorts 144 1669. Churches in the City of Chester 1. SAint Werburge or the Cathedral Church with a square Steeple in the middle having the Parish Church of St. Oswald in the South Isle thereof because St. Oswald's Church which was wont to be the Parish Church is now the common Hall of the City 2. St. Peters with a Spire Steeple by the High Cross 3. Trinity Curch with a Spire Steeple also in the Water-gate Street 4. St. Martin's of the Ash 5. St. Maries by the Castle 6. St. Toola's that is St. Olaves near to the Bridge 7. St. Michaels in the middle of the Bridge Street formerly a Monastery See Monasticon Pars 2. pag. 185. 8. St. Brigits over against St. Michaels on the other side of the Street 9. St. John's Church by the River side without the Walls 10. Little St. Johns without the North Gate it was demolished in the time of the late War about 1645. Concerning the Churches and Chappels of Bucklow Hundred I shall speak more particularly in their due place and order as within the compass of my intended Task onely we may take notice here that Parishes were first distinguished in England under Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury about the Year of Christ 636. Cambden's Britannia Printed 1607. pag. 116. Parker's Historia Cantuariensis pag. 52. Ridley in his View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Law tells us pa. 176 177. that Fonts in the Primitive Times were not in the Churches but the Custom of those elder Ages was to Baptize in Rivers and Fountains and that Custom being discontinued through Persecution Fonts were erected in private Houses and in more peaceable Ages they made bold to build their Fonts a little distance from the Church afterwards they obtained to set them in the Church Porch at last they got them into the Church But they were not at first placed in every Church immediately for at the first they were found onely in the Cathedral Church where the Bishop resided and though Service might be said in the lesser Minsters and Rural Churches yet the Right of Sepulture and Baptism belonged to the Cathedral Church unless it were in case of necessity and it was therefore called The Mother-Church because as People in their Mothers Womb were born Men so in the Fonts of Baptism as in the Churches Womb they were born Christians In succeeding Ages when it was found that the Mother-Church was too far distant from some Villages and so situated that in the Winter the People could not repair thither consideration was had of this Inconvenience and the Bishop took occasion hence to transfer the Rite of Baptism and Sepulture to the Rural Churches and this together with the Rite of Tythes made it a Parish Church of that kind which we now have But because also in many Parishes some Families lived so remote from the Church
Margaret and another Elizabeth But none of these Daughters had any Issue Obiit 1634 This Henry was Buried at Bowdon March 20. 1634. XI Richard Legh of Baggiley Esquire Son and Heir of Henry married Brigit Daughter of Sir Edward Harrington of Fidlington in Rutlandshire Baronet but had no Issue This Richard Legh died without Issue and was Buried at Bowdon August 10. 1642. Obiit 1642 leaving his Brother Edward to succeed Brigit his Widow afterwards married Sir John Gore of Gilston in Hartfordshire and now she hath married Sir Thomas Tirrell of Castle-Thorp in Buckinghamshire XII Edward Legh of Baggiley Esquire Brother and Heir to the last Richard married Elinour Daughter of William Tatton of Witthensu Esquire nigh Baggiley and by her had Issue Edward Henry Anne Christian and Rebecca but onely Christian is now surviving 1666. who married Raufe Wilbraham younger Brother to Sir Thomas Wilbraham of Woodhey in Cheshire Baronet Anno Domini 1667. This Edward Legh the Father is yet surviving and married to his second Wife Mary Daughter of William Jones of Sanford in Shropshire late Counsellor at Law Anno Domini 1665. and hath Issue Mary born 1666. Sophia another Daughter born 1667. Barnton IN the Conqueror's Time one Mundret held Bertintune of the Earl of Chester which one Dunninge held before and also one Ulviet held Bertintune which one Levenot held formerly so we read in Doomesday-Book By which I understand Mundret held one Moiety of Barnton and Ulviet the other half unless the one of these should be meant for Barterton William Son of Henry Son of Serlo grants to Hugh Dutton of Dutton in this Hundred half the Town of Berthinton which Robert de Meisnilwarin or Manwaringe held of the said William rendring yearly a Pair of White Gloves on the day of the Nativity of St. John Baptist For which Grant Hugh Dutton gave unto him three Marks of Silver in pleno Comitatu Cestriae And this was in the Reign of King John Philip Orreby being then Judge of Chester Lib. C. fol. 155. I. The Original among the Evidences of Dutton of Dutton 1666. But Dutton of Dutton was Lord of all Barnton in the time of King Edward the First for in the Office of Sir Hugh Dutton taken at Frodsham 22 Edw. 1. he is found to die seised of two Shillings Chief-Rent yearly from Randle de Berthinton for the one Moiety of Barnton and also of other two Shillings yearly Rent from Geffrey Starkey for the other Moiety of Barnton Lib. C. fol. 156. bb Which Office is enrolled in the Leiger-Book of Vale-Royal Abby fol. 45. b. now in possession of Thomas Merbury of Merbury nigh Great-Budworth Esquire 1666. a Copy whereof also remains among the Evidences of Dutton of Dutton At this day 1666. this small Village is mangled into several Parcels now in possession of these Persons following 1. Stanley of Alderley hath one Tenement here in Lease to John Basnet 2. Thomas Merbury of Merbury hath another Parcel 3. John Starkey of Huntrode in Lancashire hath three Tenements here in Lease and half of Christopher Basnets Tenement 4. Christopher Basnet and Joseph his Son have the one moiety of their Tenement in Fee-farm 5. Sir Edward Moseley of Howes-end in Lancashire Baronet lately deceased one Tenement Leased to Robert Litler 6. Sir Thomas Smith of Hatherton in Cheshire a Parcel sold lately to Joseph Basnet 7. Hugh Lownds of Odrode hath another Parcel 8. Thomas Frith of Barnton a good Farm 9. Pawnall of Barnton a good Farm 10. Thomas Vernon of Barnton another small Parcel 11. Legh of Swineyard in High-Legh Gentleman a good Farm This was part of Starkey's moiety 12. Randle Wrench and John his Son a small Parcel Fee-farm Land Barterton Ex Chartulis Vice-Comitissae Kilmorey de Dutton THis small Town of Barterton lieth between Dutton and Little-Legh It is in Old Deeds written Bertrinton Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton bought half of Barterton from John Son of Richard de Cursun in the Reign of Edward the First Lib. C. fol. 155. k. In the Roll of the Ancient Chartes called Doomesday anciently remaining among the Records at Chester but now lost and taken away it was found Leuca quae fuit Uxor Ranulfi de Kingsley veniens in pleno Comitatu Cestriae corà m Radulfo de Manwaringe tùnc Justiciario Cestriae Baronibus c. quietum clamavit Ricardo de Kingsley totam Villam de Bertherton undè dotata fuit So that in the Reign of Richard the First it seems Kingsley of Kingsley was possessed of all the Village of Barterton One fourth part of the Township Margery one of the Daughters and Heirs of Richard de Kingsley gave unto Richard her Son in her Widowhood whom she had by Hugh de Cholmondley her Husband which descended unto her out of her Fathers Inheritance Lib. C. fol. 155. kk This was in the Reign of Henry the Third And this fourth part Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton bought of Hugh Lord of Cholmondley about 13 Edw. 1. 1285. these being Witnesses Domino Rogero Priore de Norton Domino Vriano de Sancto-Petro Domino Willielmo de Venables Domino Ricardo de Massy Nicolao de Leycester tùnc Ballivo de Halton Roberto Grosso-venatore tunc Vice-comite Cestershiriae Alexandro de Baumvyle Ranulpho Starkey Lib. C. fol. 155. l. Twenty Marks he gave for the Purchase William Lancelyn being Lord of one other fourth part as descended from another Co-heir of Kingsley of Kingsley sells the Royalty thereof to the said Sir Hugh Dutton in the Reign of Edward the First in these words Scilicet totum Dominium suum quartae partis Villae de Berterton videlicèt partem Willielmi filii Willielmi de Berterton cùm Homagiis Wardis c. Pro hâc Donatione dedit dictus Hugo tresdecem Marcas Argenti prae manibus Lib. C. fol. 155. ll And after Sir Hugh and his Heirs bought out several Parcels as they lay scattered in several hands and so made this Town entirely their own One Tenement in Barterton late in possession of one Bradburne was purchased not long since from Crosby of Over-Whitley by John Dutton of Dutton Esquire in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth It formerly belonged to one Judson 18 Edw. 4. Richard Judson gave it to Robert Coltstansock of Cogshull 1 Rich. 3. and Peter Colstan soke sold it to Hugh Crosby of Great Budworth 8 die Augusti 3 4 Phil. Mar. whereunto Sir Thomas Venables of Kinderton released all his Right 7 Elizabethae as appears by the Deeds now in possession of Robert Pickering of Thelwall Lawyer 1666. And Crosby sold it unto Dutton And so this Town of Barterton is now wholly belonging to the Heir of Dutton of Dutton not having any Charterer therein Anno Domini 1666. Bexton THis Town of Bexton lieth between Sudlowe and Toft It is a very small Hamlet but 2 s. 9 d. in the Mize-Book in the very Corner-point whereof towards Plumley four Townships do all meet in an Angle to wit Bexton Toft Plumley
Dutton to the said John And all the rest of Hatton Lands he continued and gave to Raufe Dutton Lib. C. fol. 168. b. John Dutton of Dutton died the thirtieth day of January 6 Jacobi 1608. at Dutton Obiit 1608 aged seventy Years See the Office taken 7 Jacobi XX. Thomas Dutton of Dutton Esquire Son and Heir of John married Thomasin Daughter of Roger Anderton younger Brother of Anderton of Anderton in Lancashire and Widow to John Singleton of Stany in Lancashire by whom he had Issue John Dutton who married Elizabeth eldest Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Egerton late Son of Sir Thomas Egerton Lord Chancellor of England 3 Jacobi 1605. Lib. C. fol. 163. bb But this John died without Issue the ninth day of February 6 Jacobi 1608. at Tarvin in the Life-time of Thomas his Father Also Elinour a Daughter who became sole Heir to her Father This Thomas Dutton of Dutton was Sheriff of Cheshire 1611. 9 Jacobi and died 1614. 12 Jacobi aged forty six Years Lib. C. fol. 163. dd ee Elinour his Daughter and Heir being then aged eighteen Years Thomasin his Widow afterwards married Sir Anthony St. John younger Brother to the Earl of Bolingbroke but had no Issue by him She was second Wife to Sir Anthony and he was third Husband to her XXI Elinour sole Daughter and Heir of Thomas Dutton married Gilbert Gerard Son and Heir of Thomas Gerard Lord Gerard of Gerards-Bromley in Staffordshire 7 Jacobi 1609. she being then but thirteen Years old Lib. C. fol. 163. cc. Gilbert was afterwards Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight of the Bath 30 Maii 1610. at the Creation of Henry eldest Son of King James into the Title of Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester And after the death of Thomas Lord Gerard his Father he was then Gilbert Lord Gerard 1618. and had Issue Dutton Lord Gerard and Thomas who died in his Infancy Also Alice eldest Daughter born in Chester 12 Junii and Baptized 18 Junii 1615. She married Roger Owen Son and Heir of Sir William Owen of Cundor in Shropshire who died 1660. and Alice his Wife after married Henry Heylyn of Oxfordshire 1663. Nephew to Dr. Peter Heylyn Frances second Daughter married Robert Nedham Son and Heir of Robert Viscount Kilmorcy by whom he had onely one Child called Elinour which died young 1643. Frances was Buried at Great Budworth 25 Maii 1636. she died in Child-bed And Elizabeth third Daughter born at Gerards-Bromley in Staffordshire Anno Christi 1620. married Peter Leycester of Nether-Tabley in Cheshire Esquire 6 Novembris 1642. afterwards Sir Peter Leycester Baronet 1660. the Author of this Book After the Death of Gilbert Lord Gerard who died 1622. Elinour his Lady married Robert Nedham of Shenton in Shropshire Viscount Kilmorey in Ireland She was second Wife of Robert and had Issue by him Charles Nedham afterwards Lord Kilmorey who died at London 1660. George second Son died at Chester without Issue 1644. Thomas Nedham third Son now living 1669. Arthur another Son died an Infant over-laid by his Nurse Anne died in her Infancy Elinour first married Peter Warburton Heir to Arley Estate 1638. she was then but eleven Years old But Peter dying without Issue and under Age of the Small Pox at Oxford Anno 1641. she married afterwards John Lord Byron of Newstede in Nottinghamshire Anno 1644. then Governor of Chester who died in France without any Issue by her Anno 1652. This Elinour a Person of such comely Carriage and Presence Handsomness sweet Disposition Honour and general Repute in the World that she hath scarce left her Equal behind died at Chester the twenty sixth day of January 1663. about the Age of thirty six Years and was Buried in Trinity Church in that City Susan third Daughter married Richard scriven of Frodsley in Shropshire Esquire 1652. She died in August 1667. at Frodsley Katharine the fourth Daughter died unmarried at Dutton 11 Martii being Sunday 1665. Mary fifth Daughter now living and unmarried 1669. Penelope sixth Daughter married Randle Egerton of Betley in Staffordshire Esquire 1653. Dorothy seventh Daughter died unmarried at London in June 1669. And Elizabeth youngest Daughter now living and unmarried 1669. Robert Viscount Kilmorey died at Dutton 12 Septembris 1653. So that the Lady Elinour Kilmorey survived both her Husbands in whose Custody Hudard's Sword as Tradition hath it now remains whereof I made mention in the beginning This Lady Elinour died at Dutton the twelfth day of March 1665. aged sixty nine Years and her Daughter Katharine also dying at Dutton the day before were both Interred at Great Budworth together on the Fryday following being the sixteenth day of March 1665. So ended the Family of Dutton of Dutton Gropenhale THis Town of Gropenhale in the Conqueror's Time belonged to Osbern Son of Tezzon Ancestor to the Boydells of Dodleston in this County Afterwards it seems to be given to William Son of Samson who released the same to Hugh Boydell about the Reign of Richard the First in these words Ex Chartulis Thomae Merbury de Merbury de Merbury juxta Great Budworth Armigeri 1666. Notum sit Ego Willielmus Filius Samsonis dedi omnino relaxavi Domino meo Hugoni de Boydell pro defectu Servitii sui quod retrò est Gropenhale cùm omnibus pertinentiis suis in Bosco Plano c. Salvo forinseco scilicèt dimidiâ Parte trium Partium de Feodo unius Militis Et pro hâc Donatione meâ Dictus Hugo de Boydele Dominus meus valentiam trium Marcarum mihi donavit Testibus Radulpho de Manwaringe tùnc Justiciarto Cestriae Hamone de Massy c. Lib. C. fol. 280. bb After this Sir John Boydell in the Reign of Edward the First gives Caterich a certain Place in Gropenhale unto Robert his younger Son who granted the same to Thomas Son of Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton but Thomas Dutton releaseth it unto William Son of Sir William Boydell of Dodleston 16 Edw. 3. 1342. Lib. C. fol. 280. cc. 6 Edw. 2. the King granted to William Boydele liberam Warrennam in Dominicis Terris suis de Dodleston Gropenhale Lachford Lib. C. fol. 282. r. This William Boydell married Maud Daughter of Raufe Vernon and had Issue Raufe Boydell who died without Issue and so the Inheritance of Boydell was shared by the two Sisters and Co-heirs of William Boydell aforesaid to wit Margaret Wife of Owen Voil a Welshman and Joan Wife of Sir John Danyell of Gropenhale younger Son of Thomas Danyers of Bradley in Appleton senior and afterwards Heir to his Father Howel ap Owen Voil released to Sir John and Joan all his Purparty of Gropenhale-Wood 25 Edw. 3. Lib. C. fol. 291. f. The Original hereof is now among the Evidences of Legh of Lime 1666. 42 Edw. 3. Sir John and Joan Levied a Fine of the Mannor of Gropenhale To remain to the Heirs Males of the said John and Joan and if Sir John had no Heir by Joan then
and Apuly with a Ring sent from the Pope by the Bishop of Romania 1255. 39 Hen. 3. Mat. Paris But it was a meer delusion for he never had it He had the Castle of Kenilworth given him 16 Decembris 51 Hen. 3. Lib. C. fol. 71. f. And the Savoy-House in London by the Gift of Queen Elinor his Mother 24 die Februarii 12 Edw. 1. 1283. Lib. C. fol. 72. n. And the Castle of Chartley he had by the Grant of his Brother King Edward the First 26 die Julii 4 Edw. 1. 1276. Lib. C. fol. 72. k. Anno Domini 1271. 55 Hen. 3. in the Month of May Prince Edward Son of King Henry with Edmund his Brother and four Earls and so many Barons and many other Gentlemen took a Voyage into the Holy Land So Mat. Paris Edmund Earl of Lancaster married to his first Wife Aveline Daughter and Heir to William de Fortibus Earl of Albemarle and Holderness and Widow to Ingram de Percy Aveline and all her Issue died before her Parents but left no Issue by her Vincent upon Broke pag. 293. He married her the eighth day of April 1270. Mat. Paris pag. 1006. of the Edition by Wats sed cùm totâ prole illa mortem Parentum praevenit Walsingham in his Hypodigma Neustriae placeth her Marriage with Edmund Anno 1269. His second Wife was Blanch Queen of Navarre the Widow of Henry de Champaigne King of Navarre and Daughter of Robert Earl of Artois Brother of St. Lewis King of France in whose Right Edmund was Earl of Champaigne 7 Edw. 1. So as he was now Earl of Lancaster Leycester Derby and Champaigne and High Steward of England Vincent on Broke Tit. Lancaster pag. 293. By Blanch the King of Navarre had Issue Joan married to Philip the Fair King of France Vincent pag. 293. Blanch married Edmund Earl of Lancaster Anno Domini 1276. and by him had Issue three Sons Thomas Earl of Lancaster the eleventh Baron of Halton in Right of his Wife of whom I have spoken before who Rebelled against his Prince and died without Issue Henry de Lancaster Lord of Monmouth second Son afterwards Earl of Lancaster and Heir to his Brother Thomas And John third Son who lived with the Queen of France his Half-Sister and died there without Issue Hypodigma Neustriae pag. 473. Lib. C. pag. 73. a. b. Vincent pag. 293. will have the Queen of Navarr's Name here to be Elinour and not Blanch from a Record which he there voucheth Quaere if that Record be not mistaken for I find her called Blanch in sundry Deeds in the Register-Books of the Duke of Lancasters Evidences in the Dutchy-Office called The two Couchir-Books Anno Domini 1296. 24 Edw. 1. this Edmund the King's Brother and Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln went into Gascoyn with a strong Army where many Castles were delivered unto them but when they came within two Miles of Burdeaux the French Army coming out of Burdeaux as it were unawares upon them after a sore Conflict retreated to the City and the Earls burned a great part of the Suburbs And shortly after Edmund died Hypodigma Neustriae pag. 483. Ob. 1296 XII Henry of Lancaster Lord of Monmouth sir-named Grismond second Son of Edmund Crook-back and Brother and Heir to Thomas Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster was restored to all his Brothers Lands and Honors 1 Edw. 3. Anno Domini 1326. and then his Titles were thus Henricus Comes Lancastriae Leycestriae Seneschallus Angliae Lib. C. fol. 74. k. 13 Edw. 3. And he was the twelfth Baron of Halton He married Maud Daughter and sole Heir of Sir Patrick de Chaworth or de Gadurcis Lord of Kidwelly in Caermarthenshire and of Ogmore Castle in Glamorganshire Cambden's Britannia Printed 1607. pag. 619. sub Titulo Lancastriae Lib. C. fol. 73. d. This Maud was formerly given to Edmund Son of Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln by Edward the First Anno 1282. being then a Girl but five Years old which Edmund died very young before he came to Maturity without Issue as you may see above in Henry Lacy. Henry Earl of Lancaster had Issue by this Maud onely one Son Henry made Earl of Derby in his Fathers Life-time to wit 1336. 11 Edw. 3. Hypodigma Neustriae and Vincent pag. 297. And six Daughters Blanch married Thomas Lord Wake of Lidell Maud married William Lord Burgh Earl of Ulster in Ireland and after to Sir Rafe Ufford Joan married John Lord Mowbray of Axholme Isabel was Abbess of Ambersbury Elinour first married to John Son of Henry Lord Beaumont and Earl of Bughan in Scotland after to Richard Earl of Arundel And Mary sixth Daughter married Henry Lord Percy of Alnwick So Broke in his Catalogue of Nobility This Henry of Lancaster with others was sent by the Queen into Wales where the King then sculked to take King Edward the Second her Husband whom they took with Hugh Spenser the Son Robert de Baldock and Simon de Reading The King was committed to the Custody of this Henry of Lancaster This was in Anno 1326. Soon after this was the King deposed and Edward his young Son made King by the Name of Edward the Third Which young King was Knighted by this Henry Earl of Lancaster Walsingham Hist Ang. Edw. 2. pag. 125 126 127. But this Henry was in nothing more infamous than in betraying his Lawful Sovereign Obiit 1345 Anno Domini 1345. obiit Henricus Grismond Frater Thomae Comitis Lancastriae Jacet apud Leycestriam X Calendas Octobris which is the twenty second of our September 19 Edw. 3. A Manuscript in the University Library at Oxford among the Books given by Archbishop Laud of an ancient Character noted G. 9. fol. 125. And Walsingham's Hist Ang. Edw. 3. pag. 165. thus Anno 1345. 19 Edw. 3. obiit Henricus Comes Lancastriae Pater Henrici Comitis de Derby Sepultus est Leycestriae in Monasterio Canonicorum Praesentibus Rege Reginâ tà m antiquâ quà m novâ Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Baronibus quasi totius Regni Filius ejus eo tempore in Wasconiâ ut praefertur actus bellicosos strenuos exercebat quamobrèm interesse non potuit exequiis Patris sui XIII Henry of Monmouth sir-named Tort-Coll or Wry-neck onely Son of Henry Grismond succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Honors and was the thirteenth Baron of Halton He was Earl of Derby in his Fathers Life-time Created 16 Martii 11 Edw. 3. After his Fathers death his Title was thus 21 Edw. 3. 1346. Henricus Comes Lancastriae Derbiae Leycestriae Seneschallus Angeliae Lib. C. fol. 75. o. He was Created Earl of Lincoln 23 Edw. 3. and then his Stile was 1349. Henricus Comes Lancastriae Derbiae Leycestriae Lincolniae Seneschallus Angliae Lib. C. fol. 75. P. Lastly He was Created Duke of Lancaster 6 Martii 25 Edw. 3. 1350. Vincent pag. 297. Selden's Titles of Honour pag. 754. But Walsingham placeth his
dishonour of the King's Person which the Duke of Norfolk denied Whereupon they had a Combat granted by the King to have been fought at Coventry on the seventeenth day of September both of them entring the Lists courageously But the King took up the Matter causing it to be Proclaimed That the Duke of Hereford had honourably performed his Part and presently after Banished the Duke of Hereford for ten Years and the Duke of Norfolk for ever So Stow and Walsingham But this Duke of Hereford returning into England Deposed Richard the Second causing the King to read his own Resignation of the Crown to this Henry publickly in the Tower before the Nobles of England Walsingham's Hist pag. 359. Cursed Traytors And so by force of Arms made himself King by the Name of Henry the Fourth So was the Dutchy of Lancaster and the Barony of Halton united to the Crown of England John of Gaunt had also Issue by Blanch two Daughters Elizabeth married John Holland Duke of Exeter and after to Sir John Cornwall Knight of the Garter and Baron of Fanhope Philippa the other Daughter married John King of Portugal After the death of Blanch he married Constantia Daughter and Co-heir to Petro late King of Spain and Edmund Earl of Cambridge his Brother married Isabella the other Daughter Anno Domini 1372. 46 Edw. 3. Stow and Walsingham Lib. C. fol. 78. f. And from this time he writ himself King of Castile and Leons By this Constance he had Issue Katharine married to Henry Son of John King of Spain 1389. Upon the Marriage of Katharine a Peace was concluded between John of Gaunt and the King of Spain John of Gaunt was to have ten thousand Pounds yearly for his own Life and the Life of Constance his Wife Walsingham Who before in the Year 1367. had routed the Spaniards in a great Battel between him and Henry the Bastard who had ejected Peter King of Spain Constance died Anno Domini 1394. Walsingham John of Gaunt relinquishing his Title of King of Castile and Leons was Created Duke of Aquitain by Consent of Parliament 2 die Martii 13 Rich. 2. 1389. And then his Title Anno 1394. 18 Rich. 2. did run thus Johannes Filius Regis Angliae Dux Aquitaniae Lancastriae Comes-Leycestriae Lincolniae Derbiae Seneschallus Angliae Couchir-Book in the Dutchy-Office Tom. 2. Comitatus Southampton num 36. For he had Honorem de Tickhil 46 Ed. 3. while he was stiled King of Castile and Leons and Duke of Lancaster Castrum Leucatam de Pevenese inter alià in exchange for the Earldom of Richmond 46 Edw. 3. And by his Brother the Black Prince Earl of Chester he had 100 Marks yearly given him out of the Exchequer at Chester during his Life by the Name of John by the Grace of God King of Castile and Leons and Duke of Lancaster 47 Edw. 3. 1373. Lib. C. fol. 78. e. After the death of Constance his second Wife the Duke went into Aquitain scilicet Anno 1396. 19 Rich. 2. to have obtained the Good-will of the Inhabitants having the Title of Duke of Aquitain conferred upon him before by his Father but was suddenly called back into England by the King And as soon as he returned into England he married Katharine Swynford his old Concubine to the wonder of all Men which Katharine formerly waited on Blanch his first Wife Stow and Walsingham This Katharine was the Daughter of Payn Roet alias Guyen King at Arms and Widow of Sir Otes Swynford by whom John of Gaunt had Issue before he married her Sir John Beaufort the eldest was Earl of Somerset and Marquis Dorset which Marquis-ship was taken away by Parliament 1 Hen. 4. Henry de Beaufort was after Bishop of Winchester Cardinal of St. Eusby sive Euscbii and Chancellor of England Thomas Created Earl of Dorset 21 Rich. 2. Joan de Beaufort was second Wife of Raufe Nevill the first Earl of Westmorland after she married Robert Ferrers Lord of Owseley They were all sir-named de Beaufort because they were born at Beaufort in France All which were Legitimated by Parliament 1397. 20 Rich. 2. to all Purposes Honors State and Dignities exceptâ Dignitate Regale as you may see in the Record transcribed by the Lord Cook in his Jurisdiction of Courts pag. 37. Lib. C. fol. 82. P. Walsingham put out by Mr. Cambden calls Thomas Beaufort Comitem de Somerset all along pag. 354. 550. for Dorset unless the Title of Somerset and Dorset were promiscuous See Vincent on Brooke pag. 169. Katharine Synford died in May 4 Hen. 4. 1403. Stow. This John procured the County of Lancaster to be made a County Palatine to whom his Father King Edward the Third by his Charter granted Jura Regalia And when he hath reckoned up the Good Service which the said John of Gaunt his Son had done for his Countrey at home and abroad he addeth Concessimus pro nobis Haeredibus nostris praefato Filio nostro quod ipse ad totam vitam suam habeat infra Comitatum Lancastriae Cancellariam suam ac Brevia sua sub Sigillo suo pro Officio Cancellarii deputando consignanda Justiciarios suos tam ad Placita Coronae quam ad quaecunque alia Placita Communem legem tangentia tenenda Cognitiones eorundem quascunque Executiones per Brevia sua Ministros suos ibidem faciendas Et quascunque alias libertates Jura Regalia ad Comitatum Palatinum pertinentia adeo libere integre sicut Comes Cestriae infra eundem Comitatum Cestriae dignoscitur obtinere c. 28 die Februarii Anno Edw. 3. Angliae 51 Franciae 38. Couchir-Book of the Dutchy-Office Tom 1. fol. 430. num 16. Confirmed to him and his Heirs by Consent of Parliament 16 die Febrùarii 13 Rich. 2. Ibidem Tom. 1. fol. 52. Many are the Acts of this John of Gaunt Recorded in our Annals and Histories I will reckon up some of the most memorable Anno Domini 1373. 47 Edw. 3. John Duke of Lancaster went with a Puissant Army into France He passed by Paris to Burgundy and so through all France no Man daring to oppose him but at last leaving France he came into the Desart Mountains of Avernia where there was neither Meat for Horse nor Man and so lost most part of his Army through Famine and Pestilence whence he came to Burdeaux scarce with forty Horse whereas he entred France with thirty thousand Horse attending him Walsingham Anno 1377. he was threatned to be killed by the Londoners for some high Word spoken against their Bishop of London they had burned his House called The Savoy but that the Bishop interceded Whereupon the Duke fled to Kensington and hating the Londoners caused the Mayor and other Officers to be put out and new ones chosen Shortly after Richard the Second before his Magnificent Coronation at Westminster reconciled the Citizens and the Duke of Lancaster Anno 1376. the King sent again for
of Arley gives this Town being of the Fee of the Barony of Halton unto William Son of Hothy of Hatton in these Words SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd ego Galfridus de Dutton Filius Adae de Dutton dedi Willielmo Filio Huthi de Hatton totam Villam de Hatton c. Reddendo indè annuatìm unum Nisum vel sex Denarios ad Festum Sancti Jacobi Apostoli pro omnibus Servitiis Salvo tamèn forinseco Servitio Domini Regis Sectâ Curiae de Halton c. Testibus Domino Hamone de Mascy Domino Hugone de Dutton Thomâ de Orreby Gilberto de Limme c. The Original of this Deed remained in possession of William Merbury of Merbury nigh Great Budworth Esquire Anno Domini 1572. And an ancient Copy thereof in Parchment remains now 1666. among the Evidences of Robert Pickering of Thelwall Counsellor at Law In the Feodary of Halton under Edw. 2. Dominus Petrus de Warburton tenet Villam de Hatton pro decimâ parte unius Feodi Militis SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd ego Adam de Hatton dedi Alano Filio Ricardi de Hellesby in libero Maritagio cùm Beatrice Filiâ meâ quandam Terram quae vocatur Quisty cùm omnibus pertinentiis ac quintam partem Dominii Villae de Hatton cùm quinta parte totius Bosci Wasti ejusdem villae Reddendo indè annuatìm mihi Haeredibus meis de se Haeredibus suis de dicta Beatrice Genitis in Domo Capitali de Hatton manentibus unam Sagittam ad Nativitatem Sancti Johannis Baptistae Testibus Hugone de Dutton Petro de Thorneton c. The Orignal penès Grimsdich of Grimsdich in Nether-Whitley 1572. but taken by me out of Bostock's Book of Collections fol. 62. n. belonging to Sir Simon Dewes Baronet 1649. This Town gave Name to the Family of the Hattons residing here The Hattons of Quisty-Birches continuing until Peter Hatton Gentleman with his two Sons Richard and Thomas sold unto Robert Pickering Counsellor at Law for the Sum of 1230 l. the Capital Messuage of Quisty-Birches and five Messuages in Hatton Dated 1 die Maii 13 Car. 2. 1661. Mr. Pickering bought also six Messuages more in Hatton from Mr. Moores 1653. and which Mr. Moores bought formerly part from Merbury of Merbury nigh Comberbach and part from Starkey of Stretton One other Messuage in Hatton Mr. Pickering bought from Merbury of Walton I find the Town of Hatton nigh Daresbury scattered into several Parcels among the Daughters and Heirs of Adam Hatton Son of William de Hatton For Anno Gratiae 1290. 18 Edw. 1. Simon de Aston Agnes Uxor ejus John Merbury and Cicely his Wife Randle Newton and Isabel his Wife do Covenant for them and their Heirs to pay unto Thomas de Walton and his Heirs two Shillings yearly for which Thomas and his Heirs are to do Suit of Court to Halton to wit that which Adam de Hatton formerly did for the Town of Hatton Lib. C. fol. 4. a. At this day 1666. Robert Pickering of Thelwall aforesaid Esquire is Lord of the greatest Part of Hatton The Remainder is now enjoyed by these Persons following who have Free-hold Lands here 1. Thomas Penkith 2. Thomas Dunbabbin 3. Richard Wood. 4. The Heirs of one Southerne 5. John Dunbabbin 6. Thomas Hatton 7. Robert Webster a little Parcel 8. Grimsdich of Grimsdich 9. Rafe Starkey of Newton Lawyer 10. Richard Rutter of Moore two Tenements bought of Merbury of Walton 11. Coppocke 12. Another Hatton 13. Peter Lightfoot Hull vide Appulton Kekwick THis small Village of Kekwick is of the Ancient Fee of the Barons of Halton but not mentioned in Doomsday-Book It belonged to the Duttons of Dutton very anciently even from the Time of Henry the First whose Heirs ever since enjoyed the same until by the Award of Henry the Eighth it was allotted among other Lands to the Daughters and Co-heirs of Sir Thomas Dutton of Dutton 26 Hen. 8. 1534. and came to the Part of Margaret one of the Daughters of Sir Thomas Dutton aforesaid who married Thomas Aston of Aston nigh Sutton Esquire and whose Heirs have ever since enjoyed the same Sir Willoughby Aston Baronet being now possessed thereof entirely 1666. Nether-Knotsford WIlliam Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton held Cunetesford under Hugh Lupus Earl of Chester as we read in Doomsday-Book and one Erchbrand then held it of William But whether that Knotsford so held by this William comprehended any more than that which is now a distinct Township of it self called * Or Over-Knotsford Knotsford-Booths and is at this day in Halton-Fee is some Quaere Certain it is William de Tabley Lord of Over-Tabley was also Lord of both Knotsfords Nether-Knotsford and Over-Knotsford in the Reign of King Edward the First as may appear by this following Charter wherein he Institutes Burgesses in both Knotsfords the Original whereof is in my Possession Q. num 11. SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd ego Willielmus Dominus de Tabley that is Over-Tabley dedi concessi hâc praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmavi omnibus singulis Burgensibus meis de Knotsford Burgagia libera unumquodquè infrà se continens duas Seliones dimidium Terrae Habendum Tenendum de me Haeredibus meis vel Assignatis sibi Haeredibus suis vel Assignatis eorum liberè quietè benè in pace jure Haereditario in perpetuùm cùm Housbold Haybold Burgensibus de Knotsford in nemore de Knotsford in Turbarià Et cùm Housbold Haybold Burgensibus de Boys id est Knotsford-Booths sive Over-Knotsford in nemore de Boys Turbariam Communem Pasturam utrique eorum de Boys Knotsford omnibus animalibus suis infrà metas de Knotsford metas de Boys quantum praefata Terra poterit sustinere in Hyeme liberam Communam in Morâ de Cressewalleclef sicut medietas aquae praecucurrit ad metendum ad falcandum salvâ venditione ejusdem Herbagii Reddendo indè annuatìm mihi Haeredibus meis vel Assignatis de quolibet Burgagio XII Denarios ad duos Anni terminos videlicèt sex Denarios ad Festum Sancti Johannis Baptistae sex Denarios ad Festum Sancti Martini in Hyeme Et unusquisque eorum tertium meliorem Porcum nomine Pannagii pro Porcis suis nutritis infrà metas Willielmi qui pingues sunt de Pesonâ ejusdem Willielmi Et quòd dicti Burgenses molant blada sua ad molendinum meum de Knotsford pro XX grano Et si contigerit quòd molendinarius aliquod damnum Sutoribus ad molendinum fecerit per Vicinos suos secundùm quantitatem delicti in Curiâ emendabit Et quicunque dictorum Burgensium panem desiderat obtinere in Furno pistum infrà quatuor portas Villae pro quoquo Bushell unum Obolum Furnario meo praestabit quòd nullus eorum infrà quatuor portas Villae nullum Furnum elevabit Et
Rosthorne to wit quartam partem Villae quam Petrus Chanu Avunculus meus tenuit For which was a Suit per Breve de morte Antecessoris between the said William Chanu Demandant and William de Massy and Margery his Wife Tenants Testibus Philippo de Orreby tunc Justiciario Cestriae Willielmo Venables Hamone de Massy c. Sub initio Hen. 3. Ego Ricardus de Rotherston Filius Ricardi Clerici de Rothesthorne dedi Margeriae Filiae Homfridi de Rothesthorne Clerici unam Bovatam Terrae in Rothesthorne quam Petrus Chanu tenuit scilicet quartam partem Villae Pro qua Margeria dedit quatuor Marcas Argenti And so released to Richard all Covenants which had been between Richard and his Father and Wimar his Sister on the one Part and the said Margery and William her Son and Amabilia her Daughter on the other Part Testibus Philippo de Orreby tunc Justiciario Cestriae c. SCiant praesentes futuri Quod ego Rogerus de Hale Carpentarius dedi Thomae de Massy Filio Domini Willielmi de Massy totam Terram meam Tenementum meum tam in Molendinis quam in Terris quod habui in Villa de Rosthorne Faciendo inde Servitium Dominis illius Villae quod continetur in Charta Originali quam sibi deliberavi quando istam Chartam sibi feci c. Testibus Ricardo de Wilbraham tunc Vicecomite Cestershiriae Ricardo de Vernon Willielmo de Massy Willielmo de Carrington tunc Ballivo de Doneham c. This Deed was made 1270. OMnibus Christi fidelibus Willielmus Filius Willielmi Filii Gilberti de Tabley salutem Noveritis me remisisse Roberto de Massy Domino de Tatton totum jus meum in omnibus Terris quae fuerunt Margeriae Proaviae meae in Villa de Rosthorne c. Sub. Edw. 2. Richard Bruncroft gives to Richard Massy Son of Sir William Massy Knight certain Lands in Rosthorne in exchange for Lands in Quiter-hall towards the Bounds of Norshagh in Tatton Testibus Willielmo de Venables c. The Prior and Convent of Norton give to Sir Richard Massy Knight the Homage and the Service of the Lands of Henry the Hunter in Rosthorne Testibus Hamone de Massy Roberto le Grosvenour tunc Vicecomite Cestershiriae c. This was made in Anno 1286. or thereabout Robert Massy Lord of Tatton and John Legh of Booths make an Agreement and Partition to each a Moiety of Rosthorne-Mill and to each the Mulcture of their own Tenants They exchange Land and release Rent to each other and Legh is to hold a fourth Part of Rosthorne of Robert Massy in Fee by the yearly Rent of Twelve pence Testibus Hugh de Heelegh Chief-Justice of Chester * This was Hugh de Audley of Heeley-Castle in Staffordshire c. 1315. So far out of Mr. Halsey's Notes Inter les Fines Cestriae 18 Edw. 3. Finalis Concordia coram Henrice de Ferrars Justiciario Cestriae Johanne de Arderne Radulfo de Vernon Petro de Thorneton Willielmo Boydell Militibus Johanne de Wetenhale Willielmo de Praers Thoma Danyers Inter Ricardum Filium Hugonis Massy de Tatton Aliciam Uxorem ejus quaerentes Hugonem Filium Willielmi Massy de Tatton deforciantem de Mannerio de Rosthorne cum pertinentiis c. So that Massy of Tatton was Lord of the other Moity of Rosthorne ever since the Reign of Edward the First if not the Royalty of the whole How these Lands descended to the Earl of Bridgewater see the Pedegree in Tatton Charterers in Rosthorne 1666. 1. George Massy of Denfield whose Ancestors descended out of the Massies of Tatton under Edward the Third 2. Edward Allen of Rosthorne Runcorn Superior Inferior THese two Townships now distinguish'd into Over-Runcorn and Nether-Runcorn are Mized together in our Common Mize-book and are very hard Mized Here at Runcorn that Magnanimous Virago Elflede Countess of Mercia and Widow to Ethelred the Chief Governor of Mercia and Sister to King Edward the Elder did build a Town Anno Domini 916. as Florentius Huntington and other our Historians do affirm A Town and Castle saith Stow pag. 81. Probably it was then in a more flourishing condition than now it is For now it is a very poor Village and seems to be Waste in the Conqueror's Time for it is not mentioned in Doomsday-book Both these Townships comprehend not fully 300 Cheshire Acres upon a Survey of the Assessors made by estimation in the Time of our late War These little Villages are both of the Fee of the ancient Barony of Halton and were formerly Copy-hold Land to the Manor of Halton until the several Owners bought out their Lands in Fee-farm to hold in Free and Common Soccage of the Mannor of Enfield in Middlesex the King 's Grant bearing date the ninth day of September 4 Car. 1. 1628. as you may see also above in Moore Some Lands in these Townships are ancient Free-hold Land For Sir Hugh Dutton of Dutton by Office taken at Frodsham 22 Edw. 1. 1294. was found to hold seven Bovates of Land in Runcorn with other Lands of the Honor of Halton which are termed The third Part of Over-Runcorn in the Feodary of Halton Vide supra at the end of Halton But these Lands were sold lately by Gilbert Lord Gerard unto Savage of Rock-Savage in the Reign of King James Here is seated on the Bank by the Riverside an ancient Parish-Church Alhallowes of Nether-Runcorn Dedicated to All-Saints William Son of Nigell Baron of Halton founded here a House of Canons Regular Anno Domini 1133. And afterwards William Constable of Cheshire the younger Son of William Son of Nigell removed their Habitation unto Norton about the Reign of King Stephen All which Donations of William Constable of Cheshire the younger and of the Churches of Runcorn and Great-Budworth and many other things Henry the Second confirms to the Canons of Runcorn as you may see the Charter in Monasticon Vol. 2. pag. 186. Ratified also by the Charter of Edward the Third wherein he Confirms Donationem quam Hugo de Duttona Filius Hugonis de Duttona fecit per Chartam suam praedictis Canonicis de duobus Solidis octo Denariis de redditu de Pulseya ac de Terra de Frodsham cum pertinentiis de Terra de Pulles-eya cum Capella tota Terra Assartata Pastura ad sexaginta animalia ibidem ante Publicationem Statuti praedicti de Terris ad manum mortuam non ponendis editi Datum apud Glocester 30 die Augusti 3 Edw. 3. See more of the Priory of Norton of the Order of St. Augustine supra in Norton The Church of Runcorn seems to be before the Norman Conquest For we read in the ancient Roll That Nigell Baron of Halton gave the Church of Runcorn to Wolfaith a Priest his Brother in the Reign of the Conqueror This Church hath now for its Patron Christ-Church College in Oxford For after the Statute of Dissolution
Elizabeth second Daughter born at Nether-Tabley on Wednesday the sixteenth day of June 1647. married Samuel Birch younger Son of John Birch of Whitborn in Herefordshire 1666. She miscarried of a Female-Child in November 1667. and soon after died of the Small-Pox on Saturday the last of November at Whitborn aforesaid Anno Domini 1667. and was buried at Whitborn-Church Byron Leycester third Daughter born at Nether-Tabley on Saturday the sixth day of October 1655. and is yet living 1669. Sir Peter Leycester and Elizabeth his Lady are both yet living 1669. He was Created Baronet the tenth day of August 1660. 12 Car. 2. XV. Robert Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esquire eldest Son of Sir Peter and Elizabeth married Meriel Daughter and Heir of Francis Watson late of Church-Aston nigh Newport in Shropshire Esquire 6 die Junii 1667. and hath Issue Robert a Son born at Marcham in Berkshire on Friday the sixteenth day of April Anno Domini 1669. Over-Tabley THe Township of Over-Tabley was held by William Fitz-Nigell Baron of Halton in the Time of William the Conqueror We read in Doomsday-book thus Isdem Willielmus tenet Stabelei Lewinus tenuit liber Homo fuit ibi tertia pars unius Hidae Geldabilis Terra est una Caruca Wasta fuit est Silva ibi dimidia Leuva longa XL Perticis lata valuit X solidos Isdem Willielmus tenet in ipsa Villa unam Bovatam Terrae tertiam partem unius Hidae Geldabilem Segrid Ulsi tenuerunt pro duobus Maneriis liberi fuerunt Terra est una Caruca Wasta fuit est Tempore Regis Edwardi valebat septem solidos But not long after certain it is that this Township was of three distinct Fees One third Part of Over-Tabley Roger de Manwaring gave to the Monastery of Saint Werburge in Chester in the Reign of Henry the Second Lib. B. in principio This third Part came afterwards to William de Tabley * This William de Tabley writ himself Dominus de Tabley that is de Over-Tabley sometimes Dominus de Knotsford tempore Edw. 1. who gave the same to Sir John Grey Son of Sir Reginald Grey and Sir John granted it to Roger Leycester Lord of Nether-Tabley Anno Domini 1296. F. num 1. Which in all the Offices of Leycester of Tabley is found to be held of the Abby of St. Werburge And Leycester of Tabley is now possessed of this third Part at this day 1666. One other third Part was possessed by Adam de Tabley in the Reign of Edward the Third Sir William Boydell being Chief Lord thereof For William Son of John Boydell of Dodleston releaseth unto Adam de Tabley all Services due for his third Part of Over-Tabley for one Penny onely to be paid at the Nativity of St. John Baptist yearly for all Service Dated at Dodleston 17 Edw. 3. 1342. F. num 3. This Adam de Tabley I conceive was originally a Massy for he Sealed with Massy's Coat of Arms. This third Part came afterwards to Thomas Daniell younger Son of Thomas Daniell of Bradley in Appleton the Elder by Joan Norreys a second Wife in Marriage with Katharine Daughter and Heir of William Son of Adam de Tabley 27 Edw. 3. 1353. Lib. C. fol. 241. l. for which Marriage Thomas Daniell the Father gave to Adam de Tabley 46 l. 13 s. 4 d. By Katharine came also the Moiety of Bexton to Thomas Daniell the Son her Husband who was afterwards Sir Thomas Daniell of Over-Tabley 6 Rich. 2. 1382. whose Heirs are possessed of this third Part at this present 1666. One other third part remaining was possessed anciently by another Family of the Tableys called The Hall of the Wood in Over-Tabley until Matthew de Tabley was Attainted of Felony 22 Edw. 4. 1483. whose Lands by the Office taken 1 Hen. 7. were found to be held of the Honour of Halton and so were seized into the King's Hands And I find John Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esq excepting against that Office of 1 Hen. 7. and complaining to the Judges and Chamberlain of Chester and alledging That these Lands were held of him by Homage and Fealty and Twelve Pence * This 12 d. Rent is at this day paid to Leycester by Th Warburton of Tabley-Hill which Tenement is Parcel of the Hall of Wood lands yearly Rent and praying that he may be restored to these Lands as Chief Lord of the Fee C. num 31. But he had too Potent a Person to deal with And King Henry the Seventh granted these Lands to Sir William Stanley of Holt-Castle Lord Chamberlain But he being beheaded for Treason 1495. these Lands Escheated again to the King And Henry the Eighth Leased them to Randle Brereton for his Life 2 Hen. 8. And after Roger Brereton his Son had them for his Life Afterwards these Lands continuing in the King's Hands Robert Chornock and Roger Chornock of London purchased the same and sold them to Piers Leycester of Nether-Tabley Esquire for 240 l. whereof one Moiety was paid in Hand and the other he gave Bond for But Peter Daniell of Over-Tabley Esquire purchasing these Lands at 9 l. per Annum in the King's Books the Chornocks purchased them after the Rate of 18 d. in the King's Books and cheated the said Piers Leycester by a fraudulent Conveyance so that he could not enjoy these Lands It was Decreed in the Court of Requests 4 Maii 1 Eliz. 1559. That the Chornocks should restore the Money which they had received and deliver up the Bond Obligatory to be Cancelled And so Daniell had the Lands which his Posterity now enjoyeth 1666. C. num 13. Charterers in Over-Tabley 1666. 1. Edward Hewet of Mobberley hath one Tenement in Over-Tabley now in Possession of his Tenant John Kell which is within Mr. Daniell's Part. 2. There is also one other in Leycester's third Part to wit the Tenement in Possession late of Richard Duncalfe of Tabley-Hill whereunto formerly Coithurst-Meadows now part of Mr. Daniell's Demain did belong This payeth 12 d. of Chief-rent yearly to Leycester now paid by William Legh of Tabley-Hill This Free-hold was Purchased by George le Criour from Thomas Monkys 5 Ed. 4. Afterwards this Land was purchased by John Duncalfe of Mere 30 Hen. 8. After it came to Peter Hulse of Over-Tabley Hulse sells it to Whitmore of Sudlow 1604. Whitmore sold it to Peter Daniell Esquire 1611. In this Township there is an Ancient Chappel called Over-Tabley-Chappel or more generally known by the name of The Chappel in the Street for it is situate in the High-street An old pitiful Structure ill seated and now in decay This Chappel of Ease being within the Parish of Rosthorn was built about the Reign of Henry the Sixth by the Ancestors of Leycester of Nether-Tabley and Daniell of Over-Tabley for the Ease and Convenience of these two Families and of all their Tenants in Over-Tabley and Nether-Tabley Probably after the Match of Thomas Daniell and Maud Leycester which