Earle of Arundell and Surrey was advanced to the office of the Lord Treasurership of England in An. Do. 1413. being the 1. yeare of the raigne of the most victorious Prince King Henry the fifth in which office it seemeth that hee continued the 1 2 and 3. of Henry the fifth He in the yeare 140â— being the seventh yeare of Henry the fourth on the next day of the feast of Saint Katherine married Beatrice the naturall daughter of the King of Portugall by whom hee had no Issue but left his sisters his heires and dyed in An. Dom. 1416. being in the third yeare of Henry the fift and was buried in the Colledge at Arundell Sir Roger Leche whom some call but not rightly as I suppose Sir Philip Lech being brother unto the said Sir Roger was Treasurer of England in Michaelmas and Easter tearme in the fourth yeare of Henry the fift being An. Dom. 1416. He was at the seidge of Rone with this King Henry in the sixt yeare of his raigne being also Treasurer for the warres in that voyage Henry Lord Fitzhugh was advanced to the office of the Lord Treasurership of England in the fift yeare of Henry the fift being in An. Dom. 1417. in which office hee continued as I gather untill the death of the said King Henry the fift which happened in August in An. Dom. 1422 Iohn Stafford Clerke was made Lord Treasurer of England in the first yeare of King Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1422. in which office hee continued in Michelmas tearme in the fourth yeare of Henry the sixt falling in An. Dom. 1425. hee was chosen Bishop of Bath in the third yeare of Henry the sixt in An. Dom. 1424. he was Chanceller of England and removed to the Archbishoprick of Canterbury of whom is mention made in my discourse of the Chancellers of England and touching whom I will for this time onely set down here what Matthew Paris writeth of him in the life of Henry Chichely an Archbishop of Canterbury Archiepiscopus saith he in An. Dom. 1424. Cantuariensis 12. Octob. clerum in ecclesia Paulina convocavit in ea Henricus Beauford Winton episcopus regni Cancellarius Iohannes Stafford Bathoniensis electus episcopus regni thesaurarius ad bellum Gallicum opem a clero petivit interposita paucorum dierum deliberatione Wilhelmus Linwood officialis curiae Cantuariensis de arcubus hoc responsum ab inferiori clero Synodo acceptum episcopis declaravit non posse penes cleri procuratores potestatem subsidium concedendi Nam cum in dicta Synodo in singulis diocaesibus constituti essent clerus de solutionibus consentiendi licentiam expresse ademit quia tantis tributis diu pendendis ad magnam inopiam egestatem devenit Itaque Cancellarius a superiori Synodo ad inferiorem transiens longa diserta oratione ac regis jam minoris necessitate ac de instanti in Gallia bello egit ac ne quicquam suasit Walter Lord Hungerford Knight of the garter the sonne of Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight was made Lord Treasurer of England in the fourth yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1425. in which office hee contynued about sixe yeares untill some part of Michaelmas terme in the tenth of Henry the sixt falling in An. Dom. 1431. Hee was also one of the Counsell to the said King of whom is Mention made by Matthew Parker in the life of Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Canterbury in these words Proximo anno which was about An. Dom. 1425 synodus sub eodem archiepiscopo 15. Aprilis inchoata est Qua Iohanne Kempo Eboracensi archiepiscopo Waltero Hungerfordo Milite Regijs consiliarijs ille cancellario hoc thesaurario regni regis nomine postulantibus regi decimam concessit Ac eisdem his petentibus triennio post in recenti Synodo media decima regi a clero data est This Lord Treasurer married Katherine the daughter and heire of Thomas Peverell Knight by whom he had issue Walter Lord Hungerford of Hatchberry Knight of the garter that dyed without issue Sir Robert Lord Hungerford of Hatchberry Edmund Hungerford Knight that died without issue Margaret married to Sir Walter Rodney Knight and Elizabeth married to Phillip Courtney Knight which Robert Lord Hungerford and Margaret his wife Iohn Cheiney of Pim Esquire Iohn Mervin Esquire and others did by the Kings licence granted unto them in the 11. yeare of King Edward the fourth build the hospitall of Hatchberry in Wiltshire Iohn Lord Scroope of Vpsall and Masham made Lord Treasurer in the tenth yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1431. in which office hee continued untill some part of the 12. yeare of the said King as I for this time doe gather Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canterbury touching a Synod holden in An. Dom. 1430. at what time of the Clergie hee saith that Iohannes Stafford episcopus Bathoniensis Cancellarius c. D. Scroope Thesaurarius regni nec non Wilhelmus Lindwood custos privati sigilli pro rege subsidium postularunt mediam decimam tandem aegre impetrarunt Raphe Lord Cromwell the sonne of Raph Cromwell Lord of Tatershall possessed the place of Lord Treasurer of England in Easter tearme of the 12. yeare of the after deposed King Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1434. and so continued in that office about tenne yeares following as I suppose in An. Do. 1444. This man being knight was created Lord Cromwell by the said Henry the sixt and was lineally descended of one of the heires of Robert Lord Tatershall that married one of the daughters and heires of William Dalbeny Earle of Arundell This Raph Lord Treasurer died without issue and made his Testament in An. Dom. 1454. being in the 33. yeare of Henry the sixt after whose decease the Inheritance came to the Three Auntes being his heires wherof the first was maried to the Lord Bardoffe staine at Braunch ammore in Northumberland the second was married to Sir William Fitz-Williams Knight of the Sepulcher the third Elizabeth to Sir Iohn Cliston Knight and after his death to Sir Edmund Benested Knight of one Lord Cromwell I finde this note set downe by Leland Dominus Radulphus Cromwell Matilda vxor ejus fundatores Collegij sanctae Trinitatis de Tatershall quumque Roberti ordine domini erant de Tatershall hos sequutus est Radulphus Comwell Sir Ralphe Butler Knight of the garter Lord Sudley descended from Iohn Lord Sudley and William Butler Baron of Wem which married Ioane daughter and heire to Iohn Sudley Baron Sudley did possesse the honorable place of the Lord Treasurership of England the seventh of Iuly in the 22. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1444. which office he kept about three yeares for in 25. of the said King was the Bishop of Carlile Lord Treasurer This Raphe Lord Sudley builded the Castle of Sudley in the time of King Henry
the sixt and of Edward the fourth was committed to prison by the King first sending for him to come to his presence Whereupon hee going to the King and resting on an hill from whence he did behold Sudley Castle said It is thou it is thou Sudley Castle and not I which am the traitor After which comming to the King hee resigned the said Sudley Castle into his handes Which Castle came after to Iasper Duke of Bedford is now 1635. in the possession of Giles Bridges Lord Shandois This Ralph being made Baron in the 20. yeare of Henry the sixt married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Iohn Northberry by whom he had issue Thomas his son that died without issue leaving his Two Sisters to bee his heires whereof the Eldest daughter was married to Sir Iohn Northberry whose heire generall was maried to John Halwell of Devonshire who had issue Ioane his daughter and heire married to Edmund Lord Bray of whose heires generall are descended the Lord Cobham Lord Chandos Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshall Sir Percivall Hart of Kent The other Sister married to Sir Hamond Bellknap of whom is descended the Lord Wootton of Bocton Maleherbe in Kent The which Ralph Lord Butler of Sudley was vexilifer and high butler of England and steward in house to Henry the sixt Marmaduke Bishop of Carlile was made Lord Treasurer of England in the 25. yeare of Henry the sixt in which office hee continued about two yeares in the 27. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1448. or as some have 1449. Iames Fynes created at Bury Baron and of Say of Seale on the 3. of March in the 25. yeare of King Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1446. was Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Treasurer of England in the 28. yeare of Henry the sixt and was from thence removed as some have in An. 29. of the said King And was by the Rebells of Kent Iacke Cade and his fellowes taken of out the Tower to the Guildhall where hee was arraigned before the Major and other the Kings Iustices who desiring to be tried by his Peeres was by the Rebells forceably taken from the Officers and beheaded at the standard in Cheape Which his beheading some doe attribute to the 28. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1450. He had issue Sir William Fines Knight and one daughter married to Sir William Cromer Knight Sheriffe of Kent beheaded at that time also with his father in law Of which Cromer Sir Iames Cromer of Kent Knight descended Iohn Lord Beuchamp a person of great worthinesse possessed the place of the Treasurership of England in the 29. and 30. yeare of Henry the sixt Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester possessed the place of the Lord Treasurer in the 31. and 32 yeare of Henry the sixt Of whom is more mention made hereafter Iames Butler the sonne of Iames Earle of Ormond being Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond possessed the office of the Lord Treasurer of England in the 33. of Henry the sixt falling in An. Dom. 1455. Henry Vicount Bourchier borne of the noble house of the Bourchiers the sonne of William Bourchier Earle of Ewe in Normandy was Lord Treasurer of England in the 33. yeare of Henry the sixt in which office he did not long remaine Iohn Talbot Earle of Sherwsbury the sonne of Iohn Talbot the first Earle of Shrewesbury of that name possessed the place of the Treasurership of England in the 35. and 36. yeare of Henry the sixt and then gave place to the Earle of Wiltshire This Earle was slaine at the battle of Northampton in the 38. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1460. He married Elizabeth the daughter of Iames Butler Earle of Ormond and had issue Iohn Earle of Shrewesbury Iames Gilbert Christopher and George Anne married to Sir Henry Vernon and Margaret This man was buried in the Priory of Worksop Iames Butler sonne to Iames the fourth of that name Earle of Ormond was the second time made Lord Treasurer of England about the 37. yeare of Henry the sixt in which office he continued as I suppose in the 38. yeare of the said King In which yeare hee conveyed himselfe out of England into Duchland for feare of the Nobility as the Duke of Yorke and others that rebelled against the King sending backe his souldiers into England which he had before assembled upon the Sea but after he returned into England and was againe put to flight at Mortimers Crosse by Edward Earle of March after King by the name of King Edward the fourth He was made Earle of Ormond in the 39. of Henry the sixt being his last yeare Hee married Elinor the daughter of Edmund Duke of Somerset diep without yssue being beheaded at Newcastle in An. Do. 1461. in the first yeare of Edward the fourth Henry Viscount Bourchier was Lord Treasurer of England the second time in the 39. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1460. who upon the deposition of the said King by Edward the fourth was also removed from the said office Thrmas Bourchier made Lord Treasurer of England in the first yeare of Edward the fourth in An-Dom 1461. continued not long in that office but gave place to Iohn Earle of Worcester Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester the second tyme possessed the place of the Lord Treasurership of England in the second and third yeare of Edward the fourth Edmund Lord Grey of Ruthine the sonne of Iohn Lord Grey of Ruthine did enjoy the office of Lord Treasurership of England in the fourth yeare of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1464. This man secretly in heart forsaking the part of King Henry the sixt for injuries received at his hands ayded the said Edward the fourth and was the chiefe meanes whereby hee attained the Crowne in Michaelmas Tearme in the said fourth yeare of this King there was a Sergeants feast held in Holbourne in the Bishop of Ely his House to which the Maior and Aldermen repaired being bidden thither But when the Major looked to have kept the state in the Hall forgetting that hee was out of his owne liberties for the Bishops place was an exempt place as it had beene used saith Iohn Stow in all places of the City and liberties of the same out of the Kings presence the Lord Grey of Ruthine then Treasurer of England unknowne to the Sergeants and against their willes as they said was placed in the highest roome whereupon the Major Aldermen and Commons departed This Edmund doth Matthew Parker in the life of Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterbury make to be Treasurer in the Third yeare of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1463. which may well enough stand with the former being Treasurer to Iohn Earle of Worcester in the 3. yeare of the King For upon removing of the said Earle in the 3. yeare of Edward the 4. came this Lord Grey in place The words of which said Matthew Parker with a
note of An. Do. 1463. in the margent are in this order Edwardus Rex duobus jam annis faeliciter gesto regno parliamentuÌ„ West monasterij tenuit quo etiam tempore Archiepiscopus which was Thomas Bourchier the brother of Henry Bourchier Earle of Essex Clerus in synodo convenerunt In hac synodo Iohannes Comes Wigorniae Henricus Comes Essexiae D. Edmundus Grey Thesaurarius Angliae D. Humfridus Cromwell D. Wenlocke D. Iohannes Prior sancti Iohannis Robertus Stillington Legum doctor custos privati sigilli regis consiliarij allatis literis regijs petierunt a clero decerni regi ad Scotos repellendos subsidium Quod quidem gratissimis omnium animis tam munifico regi concessum est qui superiori anno ecclesiae immunitates atque jura iniquis judiciorum calumnijs uti in Iohanne Stafford antea diximus convulsa labefactata diplomate regio restauravit Besides which thus writeth Iohn Whethamstead that learned Abbat of Saint Albons of this Lord Grey declaring in what authority he was at first in the daies of Henry the sixt and then in the raigne of Edward the fourth His words be these In the 36. yeare of Henry the sixt Venerunt tres viri monachi de caenobio Cluniacensi quibus ad audiendum eorum nuntium missi sunt episcopus Dunelmensis custos privati sigilli Dominus Edmondus Grey de Ruthine Secretarius regis quibus isti viri dixerunt eorum adventum esse ob tria Primo ad aperiendum quomodo reges Angliae praecipue Henricus secundus fuerunt tam magni benefactores ad eorum ecclesiam ut potius pro nunc dicatur earum patronus praecipuus fundator Secundo venerunt ad petendum possessionem confirmationem bonorum illorum quae dicti progenitores eis contulerant per tempus non paucum jamdudum a manibus eorum detenta distracta erant Tertio ad impetrandum liberam licentiam ad ingrediendum singula loca religiosa ob eorum caenobio dependentia quae per nobiles progenitores reges posita fuerunt sub eorum regimime Sed nihil hic eis gratum fuit actum itu at tristes discederunt Out of which words of Whethamsted may other things bee gathered besides the doings of the Lord Grey as that the Kings of England and specially Henry the second have been great benefactors and founders of the Charterhouse Monkes with many moe matters contained in the same which I referre to the wise learned reader which made me the willinger to set down his words so largely Moreover the same Whethamsted continuing the Historie of Henry the sixt writeth of the battle of Northampton wherein was this Lord Gray in this sort In praelio Northamptonensi Edmundus Grey dominus Ruthine corpore licet praesens even as the Lord Stanly was in the battell fought betwixt Richard the third and Henry Earle of Richmond after King by the name of Henry the seventh in campi domini regis Henrici Sexti steterat cor tamen ejus non erat rectum in eo neque omnino fidelis habitus aut inventus fuit Nam venientibus turmis dictis ad fossam circumvallationis ipsam non multum prompte propter elevationem ver ticis in parte ulteriore ascendere valentibus occurrit ipsis dominus cum suis copijs obvians porrigendoque ipsis dextran traxit eos per manus in campum Martium juxta votum suum Thus much Whethamsted of Edmond Grey Lord Ruthine who was made Earle of Kent in the fifth yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1464. This Edmond Grey being Lord Hastings Weisford and Ruthine before he had the honour of this Earledome did by his Deed of Indenture dated the eighteenth of November in the 25. yeare of Henry the sixt in An. Do. 1446. give to Iohn Pinchbecke Prior of Duffefield in Northamptonshire in Almes during the life of the said Prior his Feild called Challocke to keepe the obits of Sir Iohn Grey father to the said Sir Edmond and of Dame Constance the widow of the Earle Marshall and daughter of Iohn Holland Duke of Excester and Earle of Huntington mother to the said Sir Edmund with masse c. as such other Collects as the said Edmond should deliver unto the said Prior. Sir Walter Blunt Knight who was the first Lord Montjoy possessed the place of Lord Treasurership of England in the fifth yeare of Edward the fourth which fell in Anno Dom. 1465. Of this man is mention made in the Booke of the Law called Long Quinto of Edward the fourth Hee married the daughter of Sir Iohn Biron and had yssue William Iohn and Iames. Sir Richard Woodvile Knight Chamberlaine to the King and Constable of England was made Barron on the ninth of May in the second yeare of Henry the sixt in An. Dom. 1424. and was after created Earle of Rivers in the fift yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1465. who thus advanced was after Lord Treasurer in the 6. 7. and 8. of Edward the fourth In which 8. yeare of Edward the fourth Thomas Cooke late Major of London was accused of Treason and arraigned for the same who after he had beene many times purged theref was yet at last found guilty and by this Lord Rivers then Lord Treasurer so handled as that hee could not be delivered untill hee had paid 8000. pound to the king and 800. pound to the Queene This Lord Treasurer married Iaquet the widow of Iohn Duke of Bedford daughter to Peter of Lucenburgh Earle of Saint Paule by whom hee had yssue Richard Earle Rivers Anthony Lord Scales in the right of his wife Edward Woodvile Knight slaine at the battell of Saint Albine in Britaine in â—he third yeare of Henry the seventh Lionell Bishop of Salisbury Margaret married to Thomas Earle of Arundale Margaret married to William Herbert Earle of Huntington Anna first married to William Bourchier Earle of Essex and after to George Gray Earle of Kent Iaquet married to Iohn Lord Strange Elizabeth married to Sir Iohn Greie younger son to the Lord Greie of Ruthine and after the death of the said Sir Iohn Greie to King Edward the fourth and Katherine married to Henry Duke of Buckingham Besides all which I have read of one Iohn which was sonne to this Earle Rivers which Iohn married the old Dutchesse of Norfolke and was beheaded with his father the truth wherof I leave to further triall This Richard Earle Rivers Lord Treasurer in the ninth yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1469. was by Robert Hiltard who named himselfe Robert of Kidesdale taken in the forrest of Deane as some have others say at Grafton and from thence brought to Northhampton and there was beheaded Iohn Longstrother Prior of Saint Iohns Ierusalem in England possessed the place of Lord Treasurer of the Realme in the ninth yeare of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1469. for in the same yeare hee gave place to the Bishop
of Elie. William Grey Bishop of Elie was after the translation of Thomas Bourchier from Elie to Canterbury advanced to that See by Nicholas the fifth then Bishop of Rome who gave it to the said Bishop being then procurator too for King Henry the 6. at Rome in the yeare of our redemption 1454. This man was Lord Treasurer in the ninth yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1469. in which office he continued untill the 11. yeare of Edward the fourth or thereabouts This Greie was borne of the noble house of the Lord Greyes of Codnor as saith Bale and travelled into Italie to attaine great learning where he heard the noble Clerke Guarinus Veronensis reade in Ferraria Hee continued Bishop of Elie 24. yeares 11. Moneths and two daies departing this life at Durham the fourth of August in An. Dom. 1478. as I have read and was buried at Elie betweene two Marble pillars having bestowed great sommes of money upon the reparations of that famous Belfrie of the Church of Elie and upon other ornaments of the same Church Henry Bourchier Earle of Essxe did the third time possesse the honorable place of the Lord Treasurership of England in the 11. yeare of Edward the fourth in which office hee continued as I gather 12. yeares being all the residue of the life of Edward the fourth who departed this world about the ninth day of Aprill in An. Dom. 1483. which Bourchier being made Earle of Essex in the first yeare of Edward the fourth in An. Dom. 1461. married Elizabeth daughter of Richard de Conisburge Earle of Cambridge the sister of Richard Duke of Yorke by whom hee had yssue William Lord Bourchier Thomas Iohn Henry and Humphery Knights Sir Richard Wood Knight whom some call Sir Iohn Wood being before under Treasurer in the 23. yeare of Edward the fourth was in the same yeare made Knight about a Moneth before the death of the said King Edward the fourth This man did possesse the place of the Lord Treasurer of England as I gather out of the record of Pellis exitus of that yeare in the second yeare of the Raigne of King Richard the third being the yeare of our redemption 1484. which office I suppose that hee kept untill the said Richard the third was slayne by Henry Earle of Richmond afterward King of England by the name of Henry the Seventh Sir Reignold Brey Knight the sonne of Richard Brey Physician as some have noted to King Henry the sixt being servant to Margret Countesse of Richmond mother to Henry the seventh was for the fidelity of his Lady and good service in furthering King Henry the 7. to the Crowne received into great favour with the said King and made Lord Treasurer of England as appeareth by the record of Pellis exitus made under his name in the first yeare of Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1485. besides which Office hee had many other offices and honours part whereof were that he was Treasurer of the Kinges warres that he was one of the executors to King Henry the seventh that hee was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of the King and created a Banneret at Blacke-heath field Hee died in the 18. yeare of the prudent Prince King Henry the seventh being in An. Dom. 1503. and was honorably buried at Windsor Sir Iohn Dinham Kinght the son of Sir Dinham Knight a faithfull servant to the house of Yorke aswell in ayding the Duke of Yorke to whom Edward the fourth sonne to the said Duke of Yorke in the second yeare of his raigne had given one Annuity of 30. pound per Annum did after the death of the said Edward the fourth in the second yeare of Henry the seventh possesse the place of Lord Treasurer of England in An. Dom. 1486. and so continued vntill in An. 16. Henry the seventh and then gave place to Thomas Earle of Surrey Of which Lord Dinham thus writeth Leland Dominus Dinham primus fuit fundator sancti Nicholas alias Hortland He was created Lord Dinham in the first yeare of Edward the 4. shortly after the Coronation of the said King in An. Dom. 1461. He dyed in Anno 16. of the same King Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1500. and the 30. day of Ianuary was brought to the Gray Fryers in London and there buried He married Elizabeth daughter of the Lord Fitzwater by whom he had yssue George and Phillip and Sir Thomas Dinham his base sonne that married one of the daughters and heires of Sir Iohn Ormond Which Thomas was buried at Ashring Three miles from Berkhamsted besides which children this Lord Dinham or Denham for so I finde both written in Chronicles had by his legitimate wife divers daughters which were Margaret married to Nicholas Baron of Carew Ioane married to the Lord Zouch Elizabeth married to the Lord Fitz Warren and Katherine married to Sir Thomas Arundell of Cornewall Knight Here I thinke it not amisse to say somewhat of a note which I have seene that maketh Iohn Touchet Lord Audley Treasurer of England which note is this Iohn Touchet Lord Audley Treasurer of England dyed the 26. day of December in An. Do. 1490. falling in the sixt yeare of Henry the seventh and had issue Iames Lord Audley beheaded the 28. of Iune in An. Dom. 1497. being the 12. yeare of Henry the seventh Thomas Howard the sonne of Iohn Lord Howard created the first Duke of Norfolke of that name in the time of Richard the Third was at the same time also created Earle of Surrey This man after the slaughter of his father at Bosworth field when the Tyrant Richard the third was slaine by Henry the seventh was after received into such favour with the said King Henry the seventh that hee was advanced to be Lord Treasurer of England in the 16. yeare of Henry the seventh in An. Dom. 1500. Which place hee continued all the life of the said King Henry the seventh who died in the 24. yeare of his raigne being in An. Do. 1509. After which for the good service hee used in the time of King Henry the seventh King Henry the 8. permitted him to keepe that Office which he possessed untill the 15. yeare of King Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1523. This man was created Duke of Norfolke on Candlemas day in the fift yeare of Henry the 8. being in An. Dom. 1513. at what time also his sonne Thomas Howard was made Earle of Surrey This Duke was advanced to that honour in recompence of the death of the King of Scots and for the good service that hee did against that Nation in the said 5. yeare of Henry the 8. with an augmentation of his armes the Armes of Scotland in medio benda Armorum proprij Nominis of Howard Touching which victory of the death of the King of Scots Buchanan Lib. 13. writeth to this effect That the said Thomas Howard as a note of the conquest gave to his servants to weare on their left arme being
a white Lyon the beast which he beare before as the proper Ensigne of that house standing over a Red Lion the peculiar note of the Kingdome of Scotland and tearing the same Red Lyon with his pawes This Tho. Duke of Norfolke married two wives his first wife was Elizabeth the daughter of Fredericke Tilney Knight by whom he had issue Thomas Earle of Surrey after Duke of Norfolk Edward slaine at Brest Admiral of England and Edmond Howard with Elizabeth married to Thomas Bulline Earle of Wiltshire and Muriell married to Iohn Grey Lord Lisle His second wife was Agnes daughter of Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had yssue William Lord Howard of Effingham with many others This Thomas Duke of Norfolke died in the 16. yeare of King Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1544. and was buried at Thetford in Norfolke Thomas Howard sonne to the said Thomas Duke of Norfolke being Earle of Surrey possessed the place of the Lord Treasurer in the 15. yeare of Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1523. the which office he continued in the 38. yeare of the said King in An. Dom. 1546. in the which yeare on the 28. of Ianuary the said King Henry died so that this Duke and his father were Lord Treasurers of England almost 48. yeares But about some few daies more then a Moneth before the death of the said King that is to say on the 12. day of December this Duke with his sonne Henry Earle of Surrey were committed to the Tower the one by water the other by land Shortly after which the said Henry was beheaded at Tower-hill the 19. day of Ianuary about 9. dayes before the death of the King And the Duke remained as condemned to perpetuall prison till the beginning of the Raigne of Queene Mary who then set him at liberty He married for his first wife Anne the daughter of King Edward the fourth but had Thomas that died young after he married Elizabeth daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham by whom hee had yssue Henry Earle of Surrey beheaded as before Thomas Viscount Bindon and Mary married to Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond Hee died about the beginning of the Raigne of Queene Mary Edward Seymer Earle of Hartford was after the death of King Henry the 8. made Lord Treasurer of England in the first yeare of King Edward the sixt in An. Dom. 1546. in which yeare hee was also made protector of England and Duke of Somerset of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker calling him Regni Camerarium in the life of Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury in these words pag. 397. In testamento meaning King Henry the 8. Edwardo Principi minori novem annis nato haeredi suo Sexdecem tutores ex Episcopis solos Thomam Cranmerum Cantuariensem archiepiscopum Cuthbertum Tonstallum Dunelmensem Episcopum dedit And a little after pag. 398. followeth Verum pluribus ut diximus ei minori that was King Edward a patre constitutis curatoribus ne numero suo atque multitudine ad dissentiones faciles essent proclives unus electus est qui ex consilijs reliquorum impuberis regis tutelam solus administraret Is futit Edwardus Seimerus Comes Herefordiensis totius regni Camerarius regisque Auunculus Qui suscepta tutela regis totius regni atque dominiorum suorum proctteor Somerseti Dux nuncupatus atque creatus est This Duke of Somerset being Treasurer of England continued in the same office untill his death which was more then 4. yeares and was beheaded in the fift yeare of Edward the sixt in An. Dom. 1551. Sir William Paulet Knight Marquesse of Winchester was made Lord Treasurer upon the death of the Duke of Somerset in the fift yeare of Edward the sixt in An. Dom. 1551. Which office hee kept by the space of Twenty yeares and more a longer time then ever any other Treasurer had done before except the two last Dukes of Norfolke This man being a man of extreame age as attaining to the yeares Ninetie Seven died Lord Treasurer of England the tenth of March in An. Dom. 1571. being the 14. yeare of the Raigne of the famous Queene Elizabeth at his Mannor of Basing Hee in his life time did see the Children of his Childrens Children growne to the number of One Hundred and Three a rare blessing of God to men of his calling He maried Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William Capell Knight by whom he had issue Iohn Marquesse of Winchester Thomas Chidiocke and Giles Alice married to Richard Stowell Margaret married to Sir William Berkeley Margery married to Richard Waller and Eleanor married to Sir Richard Perckshall Sir William Cecill Knight principall Secretary of State created Lord Burghley upon the death of the Marquesse of Winchester was made Lord Treasurer of England the 13. Iuly 1572. being in the 14. yeare of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth and continued in that office during his life being also elected unto that most noble Order of the Garter Chancellor of the Vniversity of Cambridge and a Commissioner for the Office of Earle Marshall of of England Thomas Sackvill Barron Buckhurst heire Male of that ancient Familie that have flourished in a continued series from the Conquest and comming over out of Normandie deserved Nobly in that action was made Lord Treasurer the 15. of May in the 41. yeare of Queene Elizabeth and continued in that office during his life Hee was after by King Iames Created Earle of Dorcet the 13. of March 1603. being Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford Sir Robert Cecill second son to William Lord Burghley being Principal Secretary of State to Queene Elizabeth and after to King Iames was by the said king created Baron Cecill of Essendon the 13. of May 1603. vicount Cranborne the 20. of August 1604. and Earle of Salisbury the 4. of May in the sixt yeare of King Iames and upon the death of the Earle of Dorcet hee was made Lord Treasurer of England and continued in the place till his death Thomas Lord Howard of Walden second sonne to Thomos Howard Duke of Norfolke created Earle of Suffolke by King Iames being then Lord Chamberlaine and Knight of the Garter was made Lord Treasurer of England the 12. of Iuly in the 12. yeare of the raigne of King Iames. Sir Henry Montague Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench was made Lord Treasurer of England the 14. of December in the 18. yeare of King Iames and the 19. day of the same moneth and yeare he was Created Baron of Kimolten Castle in Huntington-shire and Vicount Mandevile and immediately after the Coronation of King Charles he was created Earle of Manchester Lyonell Lord Cranfield of Cranfield in the County of Bedford so created by Letters Patents bearing date the 9. of Iuly 1621. was made Lord Treasurer the 19. of October following and created Earle of Middlesex the 19. of October 1622. Sir Iames Ley Knight and Baronet Lord Cheife Iustice of the Kings Bench was made Lord Treasurer of England the 22. of December in the 22. yeare of the raigne of King Iames and upon the 31. day of the same Moneth he was created Baron Ley of Ley in Devonshire and immediately after the Coronation of King Charles he was created Earle of Marleburgh in Wiltsshire Richard Lord Weston Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the remove of the Earle of Marleburgh was made Lord Treasurer of England upon the 15. day of Iuly in the 4. yeare of King Charles and was after that created Earle of Portland in Dorcetshire by Letters Patents bearing date the 17. day of February in the eighth yeare of the raigne of King Charles Vpon the death of the said Earle of Portland his Majestie appointed Commissioners for the said office viz. William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Henry Earle of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Francis Lord Cottington Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Iohn Cooke and Sir Francis Windebank Knights Principall Secretaries of State The right reverend Father in God William Iuxon first Lord Bishop of Hereford then translated to London and made deane of the Kings Chappel and called to be of the Privy Councell and was made Lord Treasurer of England the Ninth day of March 1635. FINIS
Lord Chancellor of England at his returne from beyond the Seas in the first yeare of King Henry the seventh being in Anno Dom. 1485 after which he was advanced to the Arch-bishopricke of Canterbury he dyed in Anno Dom. 1499 in Anno 15 of Henry the seaventh as hath Matthew Parker William Warham Advocate in the Arches Master of the Rolles Bishop of London and then Archbishop of Canterbury was before his advancement to the See of Canterbury made Chancellor of England in the time of Henry the seaventh in which office he continued until about the latter end of the seaventh yeare of King Henry the Eight At what time surrendring the Seale by reason of his age and weakenesse the same was delivered to Thomas Woolsey Thomas Woolsey sometimes Chapleine to Henry Deane Archbishop of Canterbury after the Kings Almoner and Abbat of S. Austins who possessing many other Abbies and Bishoprickes was advanced to the government of the great Seale about the beginning of the 8 yeare of King Henry the eight being in Anno Dom. 1516 to hold the same during his life as I gather in which office yet he continued not above thirteene yeares untill Anno 21 of King Henry the 8 being in Anno Dom. 1529. During which time of his Chancellorship in Anno 19 of King Henry the eight being Anno Dom. 1527. he went into France representing the King of Englands Person to set order for the delivery of Pope Clement the seaventh and Francis the French King at what time he carried the great Seale over the Seas to Calis Which Seale hee left with Doctor Taylor Master of the Rolles to keepe the same at Calis untill the Cardinalls returne out of the French Dominions He died in Leicester Abbey not without suspicion of poison as was thought which he had prepared for himselfe and given to his Apothecary to deliver when hee called for it the two and twentieth of King Henry the eight in Anno Dom. 1530. Thomas More Knight Chancellor of the Dutchie of Lancaster was advanced to the honour of Chancellorship of England in Anno Dom. 1529 being in Anno 21 of King Henry the eight In which office this rare witted Knight to use Erasmus his epitheton and learned Chancellor continued not ful three yeares but in Anno 24 of the said King with much labour and earnest suit he left his office Touching which it will not be impertinent to set downe the words of Matthew Parker in the lives of the Bishops of Canterbury in the life of Thomas Cranmer writing after this manner Interearex dum Papae meditabatur excidium singulorum de papali authoritate sensus iudiciis haud obscuris collegit Inter quos Thomas Morus quia regis conatus pontificiis valde suspectus fuit Cancellarii munere venia regis aegre impetrata sese abdicavit Thomas Audeley Atturney of the Dutchie of Lancaster Serjant at the law as most affirme and speaker of the Parliament was made Knight and Keeper of the great Seale the fourth of June in Anno 24 of the raigne of King Henry the eight in Anno dom 1â—32 not long after which he was made Lord Chancellor of England This man in the tenth yeare of his Chancellorship being in Anno dom 1542 and Anno 35 Henry 8 changing the name of Buckingham Colledge in Cambridge did name it the Colledge of S. Mary Magdalen and endowed it with some possessions He dyed on May Eeve in Anno dom 1544 being in Anno 35 Henry 8. Thomas Wriothesly Knight of the Garter Sonne to William Wriothesly Yorke Herald and Grand-childe to John Wriothesly Garter King of Armes being created Baron at Hampton Court on the first day of Ianuary in the 35 yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the eight in Anno dom 1543. was after advanced to the honour of the great seale and Chancellorship of England about the beginning of May in Anno 36 Henry 8 being in Anno dom 1544 in which office hee did continue untill the death of the said King Henry the eight And in the beginning of the raigne of King Edward the sixt he was the sixt of March remooved and the seale was delivered to William Paulet Lord S. John of Basing This Thomas Lord Wriothesly being created Earle of Southampton by King Edward the sixt died at his house of Lincolne place in Holborne the 30 of Iuly in the 4 yeare of the said King Edward in the yeare 1550 and was buried at S. Andrewes in Holborne William Paulet Knight being first Steward of the lands of the Bishopricke of Winchester then Treasurer of the houshold Lord Sent-John of Basing Lord great Master of the Kings house afterwards Earle of Wiltshire Marquesse of Winchester and Treasurer of England being of the Privie Councell to King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt Queen Mary and Queene Elizabeth had the keeping of the great seale committed unto him the seaventh day of March in the yeare of our Lord 1547 being the first yeare of the raigne of the young King Edward the sixt which seale he had in Custody about seaven moneths untill the 23 or 24 of October following at what time Sr. Richard Rich was made Lord Chancellor Sir Richard Rich Knight A Gentleman well descended and alyed in Hampshire created Lord Rich was advanced to the dignity of Lord Chancellor of England about the 23 of October in Anno dom 1547 being the first yeare of the raigne of the noble King Edward the sixt in which place he remained about five yeares Thomas Goodericke or Godericke being Bishop of Elie had the great Seale delivered unto him and was made Lord Chancellor of England the 20 of December as John Stow hath noted in his Chronicle in Anno dom 1551 being Anno 5 Edward 6 in which office he continued all the life of the said King Edward who died in Iuly Anno dom 1553 being the seaventh yeare of his raigne and about one moneth after untill the 13 or 14 day of August in which Queene Mary made Stephen Gardiner her Chancellor Sir Nicholas Hare Master of the Rolles had at the comming of Queene Mary to the Crowne the great Seale after the death of King Edward as Lord Keeper by the space of a fortnight and shortly after was Stephen Gardiner made Chancellor Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester was in August in Anno dom 1553 being the first yeare of the raigne of Queene Mary made Chancellor of England This man going in ambassage unto Calis left the great seale in the custody of William Paulet Marquesse of Winchester which Bishop after his returne into England continued in that office all the time of his life which he ended the 19 of November in Anno dom 1555 being the third yeare of Queene Mary After which the great seale lying in her Majesties custody shee on the New-yeares day following made a new Chancellor Nicholas Heath Bishop of Rochester Almoner to the King Ambassador into Germany Bishop of Worcester President of Wales and Archbishop of
Yorke was upon New-yeares day in Anno dom 1555 being the third yeare of the raigne of Queene Mary advanced to the honorable dignity of Chancellorship But Queene Mary deceasing on the 17 day of November in Anno dom 1558 and the sixt yeare of her governement this Heath upon the placing of Queene Elizabeth upon the throne of the English governement was remooved from his Office and Master Bacon advanced Nicholas Bacon Esquire Atturney of the Court of Wardes was made Knight and Lord Keeper of the great seale the 22 of December in Anno dom 1558 being the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth Which name of Lord Keeper he still kept during his life and the time of his Office In whose time there was an Act of Parliament established to make the power of the Keeper of the great seale equall with the authority of the Chancellor This man continued in this office and worthily executed the same being a man of rare wit and deepe experience during the time of his life which continued untill the 20 of February in Anno dom 1578. after the Accompt of England being the one and twentith yeare of Queene Elizabeth which place this man kept eighteene yeares Thomas Bromlie the generall Sollicitor of Queene Elizabeth a Councellor of the Law and one of the Inner Temple was advanced to the dignity of Lord Chancellor on the 25 day of Aprill in Anno dom 1579 being in Anno 21 Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton being Vice-chamberlaine to Queene Elizabeth was constituted Lord Chancellor of England and Keeper of the graat seale upon Sunday the 29. day of Aprill in the 29 yeare of the said Queenes raigne Anno dom 1587. John Puckring Serjant at law was made Knight and sworne of the privy Councell at Greenewich upon Sunday the 28. day of May in the 34. yeare of Queene Elizabeth and at the same time was made Lord Keeper of the great seale of England Sir Thomas Egerton Knight being Master of the Rolles had the great seale of England delivered unto him at Greenewich and sworne of the Privy Councell upon the 6 of May 1596 being in the 38. of Queene Elizabeth and so continued in both those places till the first yeare of King James who created him Baron of Elsmere at Hampton Court 21 Iuly 1603 and made him Lord Chancellor and lastly created him into the dignity of Vicount Brackley the 7. day of November 1616 but severed the place of Master of the Rolles which was given to Edward Bruce Lord Kinlosse Sr. Francis Bacon Knight Atturney generall to King Iames and at the same time of the Privy Councell second sonne of Sr. Nicholas Bacon sometime Lord Keeper of the great seale upon the 7 of March 1616 in the 14 yeare of King James a few dayes before the death of the former Lord Chancellor had the great seale committed to him and being created a Baron by the title of Lord Verulam at Wansted the 12 of July 1617 was made Lord Chancellor the 4 of January following and made Vicount of St. Alban the 20 of Ianuary 1620. Vpon the removall of the Lord Chancellor Bacon who was displaced by the Parliament in Lent the 18 yeare of King Iames. The keeping of the great Seale was committed to Henry vicount Mandevile Lord President of the Councell Lodowicke Duke of Richmond and Lenox Lord Steward of the Kings house William Earle of Pembroke Lord Chamberlaine of the Kings house and Sir Iulius Caesar Knight Master of the Rols who continued the custody thereof till July following John Williams Doctor of Divinity Deane of Westminster and one of the Privy Counsell and after that consecrated Bishop of Lincolne was made Lord keeper of the great seale of England the 10 day of Iuly in the 19 yeare of King James Sir Thomas Coventry Knight eldest sonne to Sr. Thomas Coventry Knight one of the Iustices of the Common pleas being the Kings Atturney Generall was made Lord keeper of the great seale of England the first day of November in the first yeare of King Charles and Created Baron Coventry of Allesborough in the County of Worcester the 10 of Aprill in the 4 yeare of King Charles whose exempler vertues in the execution of this great office to the honour of his Majestie and the generall good of the Kingdome I cannot mention without due Attributes and fearing as I justly may that I shall rather shew mine owne defects than be able to set them forth in due characters I shall with much security discharge my selfe in this kinde by reciting the preamble of his Majesties Letters Patents for Creating his Lordship into the dignity of a Baron and Peere of this Realme Rex c. Archiepiscopis Ducibus c. ad quos praesentes literae provenerint Salutem Officio curae Regali nihil magis arbitramur convenire quam virtutum praemia viris illustribus â—itè disponere ac illos Honoribus attollere qui de Rege Republicâ optimè meruerunt Perspicimus enim Coronam nostram Regiam quam plurimum honorari locupletari cum viros cordatos Consilio prudentiâ virtutibus illustres ac praesertim in administrandâ Justicia strenuos insignes ad Honoris dignitatis gradus vocamus erigimus Nos igitur in personâ praedilecti per quam fidelis Consiliarij nostri Thomae Coventry Militis Custodis Magni Sigilli nostri Angliae gratissima dignissima servitia quae idem Consiliarius noster tam praecharissimo Patri nostro Jacobo Regi beatae memoriae per multos annos quam nobis ab ipsis Regni nostri primis auspicijs fidelissimè prudentissimè praestitit impendit indiesque impendere non desistit Nec non circumspèctionem prudentiam strenuitatem dexteritatem integritatem industriam constantiam fidelitatem ipsius Thomae Coventry Militis erga nos Coronam nostraÌ„ Animo benigno Regali intimè râ—colentes pro gratiae nostrae erga praefatum Consiliarium pignore Nec non virtutum benemeritorum ejusdem encomio posteris suis relinquendum ipsum in Procerum hujus Regni nostri Angliae numerum ascribendum decrevimus Sciatis itaque quod nos de gratia nostrâ speciali ac ex certâ scientia mero motu nostris praefatum Thomam Coventry Militem ad statum gradum dignitatem Honorem Baronis Coventry de Alesborough in Comitatu nostro Wigorniensi ereximus perficimus creavimus Jpsumque Thomam Coventry Militem Baronem Coventry de Alesborough praedicta tenore praesentium erigimus perficimus creamus Jn cujus rei c. T. R. apud Westm decimo die Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Caroli quarto per ipsum Regem FINIS Custodes Rotulorum 23. Ed. 1. ADAM de Osgodby Clerke 10. Ed. 2. William Ayremyne after Keeper of the great Seale 17. Ed. 2. Richard de Ayremyne 20. Ed. 2. Henry de Clyffe Clerke after keeper of the great Seale died the 7 of King Edward the third 7. Ed. 3.
of England which office he held in the 35. yeare of Edward the third and 36. who being Bishop of London as hath Matthew Parker was in An. Dom. 1361. being the thirty fifth yeare of Edward the third by the Pope made Bishop of Ely where he sate five yeares and was after in An. Dom. 1366 being in the 40. yeare of Edward the third chosen Bishop of Canterbury and consecrated in An. Dom. 1367. as saith the same Matthew Parker On which day of his consecration he demanded homage of the Earle Stafford of Thomas Rosse Iohn Tirhill Robert Brockhill and Raphe Sentleger Knights for their Lands which they held of the Sea of Canterbury Shortly after which in An. Dom. 1368. being the 42. yeare of Edward the third he was made Cardinall and died at Avimere the 22 day of Iuly about An. Dom. 1376. being in the 50. yeare of King Edward the third and was buried besides Avinion in a place which he had raised from the foundation Three yeares after which his bones were brought to Westminster where at this day hee hath a worthie Tombe on the south side of the Shrine amongst the Kings on whose Tombe the Moonkes of Westminster did sometime place this Epitaphe in the remembrance of him Simon de Langham sub petris his tumulatus Istius Ecclesiae monachus fuerat prior abbas Sede vacante fuit electus Londoniensis Praesul insignis eligi sed postea primas Totius regni magnus regis que minister Nam Thesaurarius Cancellarius ejus Ac Cardinalis in Roma Presbiter iste Postque Praenestinus est factus episcopus atque Nuntius ex parte Papae transmittitur istuc Orbe dolente pater quem nunc revocare nequimus Magdalanae festo milleno septuageno Et ter centeno sexto Christi ruit anno Hunc Deus absolvat de cunctis quae male gessit Et meritis matris sibi caelica gaudia donet Of this man I have treated in the collection of all the Chancellers of England Iohn Barret made Bishop of Worcester in An. Do. 1362. being the 36. yeare of Edward the third was Treasurer of England in the 37. yeare of Edward the third in which office he continued being Treasurer in Michaelmas Tearme in the 38. yeare of Edward the third which fell in An. Dom. 1364. and so hee continued till the 43. yeare of Edward the third still Treasurer He was made Bishop of Bath in An. Dom. 1363. in which Bishoppricke he remained three yeares and was by Vrbane the 6. then Bishop of Rome translated from Bath to Elie in An. Dom. 1366. being the 40. yeare of Edward the 3. in which place hee sate sixe yeares and being a very old man and having beene Treasurer about sixe yeares hee died at Hatfield the seventh Ides of Iune in An. Dom. 1373. in the 47. yeare of Edward the third hee was buried in the Church of Elie besides the high Altar on the south part Thomas de Brantington being Treasurer for the King in the parts of Guisnes martches and Calis in An. Dom. 1367. being in the 41. yeare of Edward the third was made Bishop of Exeter by speciall Letters of the King in An. Dom. 1358. being the 43. yeare of Edward the third and was Lord Treasurer of England in the 44. and 45. yeares of Edward the third which 45. beeing in An. Dom. 1371. he was in a Parliament at the Petition of the Lords removed at which time also there passed a Law that the Chancellor Treasurer and Clarke of the Privy seale should no more be spiritual men but that secular men should have those offices Sir Richard Scroope Lord of Bolton and Chancellor of England was Treasurer of England in the 46. yeare of Edward the third and then gave place to Sir Robert Aston Knight This Richard made out of the ground the Castle of Bolton consisting of foure great strong towers of other stately lodgings which Castell was erecting 18. yeares the charges whereof came yearely unto a Thousand Marks which was 18. thousand Markes or 12000. pound which Castle hee finished before Richard the second died He bought the heire general of S. Quintine that was owner of Horneby Castle in Richmondshire which heire hee was content one Conyers a servant of his should marry and have the preferment of that ward so Horneby Castle came to the Coniers of which the first Lord was William Coniers grandfather to him that died in the time of Queene Mary without heire male whereby his inheritance came to his three daughters which William the first Lord Coniers of that name did much cost upon Horneby Castle being before but a meane thing I have read of this Lord Scroope that hee had a sonne called William whereof wee will speake more hereafter that was Earle of Wiltsshire who being beheaded in his fathers life left no issue behind him After which the father surviving was made Treasurer to the King and died in honour althoug he was not restored to his dignity of Chancellership but at what time he should be the second time Treasurer after the death of his sonne William in the time of Henry the fourth I cannot as yet certainely learne But it may bee that hee was againe Treasurer in the ninth yeare of Henry the fourth for that I finde not by any former search who then possessed that place It seemeth that he had two wives the one the daughter of the Lord Spenser the other the daughter of Michaell de la Poole Earle of Suffolke called Blanch. Hee had three sonnes for whom hee bought of the King the three daughters and heires of Robert Lord Tiptoft whereof the eldest daughter Margaret was married to Roger his second sonne the second daughter was married to William his eldest sonne the third daughter called Millescent was married to Stephen the third sonne of the said Richard Sir Robert Ashton Knight Constable of Dover Castle and Lord warden of the Cinque Ports was Lord Treasurer in the 50. and 51. yeare of King Edward the third in Michaelmas terme which was the last Michaelmas tearme wherein the King raigned being in An. Dom. 1376. of which name there was also one that was chiefe Baron in the time of Edward the second as I have read Henry Wake or Wakefield being made Bishop of Worcester in An. Do. 1375. being in the 49. yeare of Edw. the 3. was made Lord Treasurer of England in An. Dom. 1376. in the 51. yeare of Edward the third in which office hee continued part of Easter terme in the first yeare of Richard the second being in An. Dom. 1378. he died in An. Dom. 1395. as saith Walsingham Thomas Brantington Bishop of Excester was made Lord Treasurer in first yeare of Richard the second towards the latter end of Easter tearme being in An. Dom. 1378. as I compute it from which place he was shortly removed in the second yeare of Richard the second Richard Earle of Arundell and Surry made Lord Treasurer of England in the
quondam episcopus hujus ecclesiae qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sancti Pauli Walter Merton Chancellor in Anno 44 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1260. Nicholas of Elie made Chancellor by the Barons in Anno dom 1260 and Walter Merton displaced But King Henry the third disdaining to have Officers appointed him by his subjects did in the month of October following in Anno dom 1260. or rather 1261 deprive the said Nicholas and replaced the said Walter Merton Walter Merton Bishop of Rochester the second time made Chancellor as before appeareth John de Chesill Arch-deacon of London and Treasurer of England was made keeper of the great seale in Anno dom 1264 in Anno 48 Henry 3. This man was consecrated Bishop of London in Anno dom 1274 the third Kalends of May as hath Matthew Westminster he dyed in Anno dom 1279 the fourth Ides of February in Anno 7 of King Edward the first Thomas de Cantelupe borne of the noble house of the Lords Cantelupes the sonne of William Cantelupe and Millecent which as saith Leland drew her originall from the Countesses of Yorke being Arch-deacon of Stafford was Doctor and afterward Bishop of Hereford in Anno dom 1276 and before that made Chancellor after the feast of S. Peters Chaire in Anno dom 1265 being in anno 49 Henry 3 he dyed beyond the Seas comming from the Court of Rome in anno dom 1278 being in anno 6 Edward 1 or more truely as others have in anno 1283 being anno 11 Edward 1 whose bones were brought to Hereford Walter Gifford Bishop of Bath and Wels whom many doe call William did injoy the state of the Chancellor in anno dom 1266 being anno 50 Henry 3 he was translated from Bath to Yorke in anno dom 1259 being in anno 49 Henry 3 and dyed the 7 kalends of May in the xij yeare of his Bishopricke in anno dom 1277 being in anno 6 Edward 1 or as Nicholas Trivet in anno dom 1279. being the 7 yeare of King Edward 1. Geofry Gifford was Chancellor also in anno 51 Henry 3 being in anno dom 1267 This man was Bishop of Worcester about anno dom 1299 where he sate 34 yeares 4 moneths 4 dayes and dyed in the yeare 1304 being about the 32 yeare of King Edward the first John de Chesill was the second time honoured with the place of the Chancellor in anno dom 1268 being the 53 yeare of King Henry the third Richard de Middleton so surnamed of the place where he was borne was advanced to the Office of the Chancellorship in the said anno 53 Henry 3 in the moneth of July in anno dom 1268 and was also as appeareth by a Charter which I have seene witnesse to the same Deed in anno 54 Henry 3 who as farre as I can gather dyed in August in anno dom 1271 being anno 56 of the long governement of King Henry the third John de Kirby after the death of Richard Middleton was made keeper of the great seale in the said anno 56 Henry 3 It is very probable that this was the same John Kirby which after was Bishop of Elie and Treasurer of England Walter Merton the third time made Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1273 being the first yeare of the raigne of that famous Prince King Edward the first of that name He was Bishop of Rochester and founded Merton Colledge in Oxford and dyed the yeare of Christ 1278 being the sixt yeare of the raign of King Edward the first Robert Burnell the eleaventh Bishop of Bath and Wels after the uniting of those two Sees in one by Iohn de Toures in Anno dom 1272 was made Bishop of Bath in the yeare of our Lord as saith Eversden 1274 chosen Arch-bishop of Canterbury in Anno dom 1278 but rejected by the Pope He was Chancellor in Anno 2 Edward 1 in which place it seemeth that he long continued of whom thus writeth an anonymall Chronicle Dominus Edmundus Comes Cornubiae fundavit novum studium ordinis Cisterciensis apud Oxonias monachos de Thame primo ibidem introduxit dedit eis prima donatione Manerium de Erdington secit dedicare locum Abbatiae Tertij Jdus Decembris per Dominum Robertum Burnell eposcopum Bathon Wels Cancellarium regis posuit fundamentum novae ecclesiae eodem die Northosneiae This Bishop was required with the sonne of Edward the first and Gilbert de Clare Earle of Gloucester in the time of Edward the first to bee delivered for pledges for Lheweline Prince of Wales for his safe returne if he came to the parliament whereunto he was sommoned by the said King Edward In the time of this Chancellor the Court of Chancery was kept at Bristow This man dyed in Anno dom 1293 being Anno 21 Edward 1. John de Langton was made Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1293 being the 21 yeare of the victorius King Edward the first in which office he remained untill the death of the said King being in Anno dom 1302 He was made Bishop of Chichester about Annis 26 or 27 Edward 1. being in Anno dom 1298 or rather 1299 And in the said yeare 1299 he was before chosen Bishop of Elye but rejected by the Pope who made him Archdeacon of Canterbury From which Langton King Edward did take the great seale in the thirtieth yeare before said and delivered it to John Drokenford John Drokenford keeper of the Wardrope was made keeper of the great Seale in the thirtieth yeare as before in which office he continued from about the 15 day of August untill Michaelmas William de Grinefeild Deane of Chichester and Canon of Yorke was advanced to the place of Chancellor in Anno Dom. 1302. being about Anno. 30. Edward 1. which Office was given unto him at Saint Radigunds as saith Anonymus M.S. He was after chosen Bishop of Yorke in Anno dom 1303. who in the yeare of our Lord 1308 buried the body of the said King Edward the first in Westminster though the King dyed in Anno dom 1307. This Bishop dyed in Anno dom 1315 being about the sixt yeare of King Edward the second at Cawood after that he had beene Bishop nine yeares eleaven moneths and two dayes and was buried in S. Nicholus Porch at Yorke receiving his consecration at Rome in Anno dom 1305 after that he had beene there two yeares of Pope Clement This Greinfeild was a man very eloquent and pithie and Prudent in Counsell William de Hamilton Deane of Yorke was created Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1305 being the 33 yeare of that noble prince King Edward the first this William dyed in Anno dom 1307 being about Anno 35 of the said King at the Abbey of Fontnesse in Yorkshire being a man that well deserved of the Common wealth Ralphe de Baldocke chosen Bishop of London in Anno dom 1303 was confirmed at Titneshall by Robert of Winchelsey Bishop
of Canterbury and consecrated at Lyons by Peter of Spaine Bishop of Alba the third Calends â—f February in anno dom 1305 Hee was made Lord Chancellor of England after the death of the said William Hamilton in the said 35 yeare of King Edward the first and received the great Seale in the Rogation weeke following being some foure or five weekes after he was advanced to that Office at the Exchequer shortly after which dyed King Edward the first for which cause the saide Baldocke sent the great Seale to King Edward the second then at Carliel by reason of his fathers death This Baldocke dyed on S. James Eeve in anno dom 1313 being anno 7 Edward 2. Iohn Langton Bishop of Chichester againe made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1307. being the first yeare of King Edward of Carnarvà n in which office it seemeth that he continued untill Anno dom 1310 being in Anno 3 Edward 2. William Melton having two others joyned with him had the great Seale delivered unto them for a certaine time to execute all such things as were to be done therewith during the Kings pleasure This man was a Canon of Yorke Provost of Beverly Treasurer of England and Archbishop of Yorke as saith Anonymus M.S. He was consecrated Bishop of Yorke at Rome where he tarried two yeares for the same he was a man never wearied with travell He first of all the Bishops of Yorke after a long controversie betwixt the Deane and Cannons of Yorke visited the chapter by due order he was wise rich severe in correction gentle familiar and humble he finished the West part of the Church of S. Peters in Yorke with 300 pound he was Archbishop of Yorke 22 yeares five or sixe moneths and two dayes he dyed at Cawood on S Georges Eeve in Anno dom 1330 and was buried in the Minster of Yorke neere the Font. Walter Reinolds Bishop of Worcester Treasurer of England and Archbishop of Canterbury was made keeper of the great Seale and Chancellor of England on the sixt of July Anno dom 1310 being anno 3 Edward 2. John de Sandall Clerke Bishop of Winchester and Treasurer was at Yorke made Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1314. being anno 8 Edward 2 in which place he continued two yeares and more some part thereof being after that he was made Bishop of Winchester as I gather and then delivered backe the seale at Westminster in anno dom 1317 being in anno 11 Edward 2 Of this man is more spoken in the Treasurers of England John Hotham Bishop of Elie was created Lord Chancellor of England in anno dom 1317 being in anno 11 Edward 2 In which Office he continued untill anno dom 1319 being anno 13 Edward 2 During whose governement of the See of Elie in anno dom 1341 the steeple fell downe which made such a terrible noise and shaking of the ground that it was supposed to be some earth-quake He dyed of the palsey in anno dom 1336 being anno 10 Edward 3. John Salmon Bishop of Norwich was advanced to be Chancellor in anno dom 1319 being anno 13 Edward 2 against whom the Nobles rebelled for the misdemenour of Piers Gaveston the Gascoigne Earle of Cornwall In this yeare 1319 as saith one Anonymal Chronicler M.S. was William Airemine Keeper of the seale Vice-chancellor taken prisoner by the Scots The words of the which Author for the more certainety thereof we have here set downe Episcopus Eborum episcopus Eliae thesaurarius Abbas beatae Mariae Eborum Abbas de Selbie Decanus Eborum Dominus Willielmus Arymanee Vice-Cancellarius Angliae ac dominus Johannes Dabeham cum 8000 ferme hominum tam equitum quam peditum Civibus properanter civitatem egredientes quoddam flumen Swale nuncupatum sparsis cuneis transeuntes indispositis seu potius confusis ordinibus cum adversarijs congressi sunt Scoti siquidem in Marte gnari amplitudinem eorum exercitus caute regentes in nostris agminibus strictis audacter irruerunt nostrorum denique in brevi laceratis cuneis atque dissipatis corruerunt ex nostris tam in ore gladij quam aquarum scopulis suffocati plusquam 4000. capti sunt domini Johannes de Pabeham dominus Willielmus de Arymenee ut praefertur de Cancellaria c. Which William Ayrmenee was also in the said 15 of Edward 2. one of the Keepers of the great Seale as I have seene registred Robert Baldocke Archdeacon of Middleton a man evilly beloved and whom the old English Chronicle remembers with ill attributes was made Chancellor of England in anno 17 Edward 2 at the Castle of Pickering in Yorkeshire he was after made Bishop of Norwich and did his fealty for restitution of his Temporalties in anno 19 of the said King Edward the second at Woodstocke in Oxfordshire he was apprehended in anno 20 Edward 2 being in anno dom 1326 or as others have in the yeare 1325 And first committed to the custody of Adam Tarleton or de Orleton bishop of Hereford and after was put in the prison of the Newgate of London in which 20 yeare of King Edward the second the great seale was againe delivered to William Arymenee who as I suppose was then also made Bishop of Norwich and this Baldocke deposed from that see Of which Baldocke thus writeth a Polythronicon of Durham Robertus de Baldocke Cancellarius anno 1325 captus cum Hugonibus de Despensers quia clericus fuit sacerdos in nova porta Londiniarum poni fecit Edwardus Princeps Isabella mater ejus ubi pro nimia miseria mortuus fuit infra breve John Hotham bishop of Elie the second time was at Westminster made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1326 being the first yeare of the Raigne of that King that intituled himselfe King of England and France but he continued not long in the same Office for he was removed in the second yeare of the said King being in anno dom 1328 He was elected Bishop in anno dom 1316 in which place he ruled twenty yeares and died in anno dom 1336 of the palsey at Summersham being buried in the Church of Elie under a goodly monument of stone with the Image of a bishop carved out of Alabast r upon his Tombe Henry Cliffe Master of the Rolles had the charge and Keeping of the great Seale of England in the said yeare of Christ 1328 being the second yeare of King Edward the third and was the Kings Chancellor also Henry de Burgh Burghwash or Burghurst Nephew to Sr. Bartholmew Bladismere baron of Leedes in Kent having beene Treasurer of England enjoyed the honour of the Chancellor in the second yeare of King Edward the third being in anno dom 1328. and was made Chancellor at Northampton which Office he did not long enjoy John Stratford Bishop of Winchester and after of Canterbury and sometime Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of the Realm in anno dom 1330 being in
his raigne by his Letters Patents to confirme the said house to the said William and his successors Masters of the Rolles And whereas by the Patent of Edward the third the Master of the Rolles was appointed and installed in that house by the Chancellor it is to be noted that the same manner of induction and instalment continued as long as the Master of the Rolles was of the Clergy as I have seene set downe by others and as the Presidents of those instalments and the Writts themselves extant of record doe well prove Sir Richard Scroope Knight Lord of Bolton having beene Lord Treasurer in the time of the deceased King Edward the third was now in October about the latter end of the yeare 1378 or the beginning of the yeare 1379. being the second yeare of the after deposed King Richard the second made Lord Chancellor and had the great Seale delivered unto him who in the third yeare of the said King at a Parliament did surrender up his office Of this man is more set downe in the discourse of the Treasurers Simon Sudbury so surnamed of the place of his birth but by descent called Tibold the sonne of Nicholas Tibold descended of a gentleman like race dwelling at Sudbury in Suffolke This Simon was Archbishop of Canterbury and made Chancellor about the yeare of Christ 1380. in the third yeare of Richard the second and was by the Rebells beheaded in the Tower of London in the fourth yeare of the disquieted government of that unfortunate but valiant King Richard the second After whom in the fifth yeare of the said King was R. Bishop of London whereof I have seene and taken a note which Bishop was as I conjecture and have some authority to prove Robert Braybrooke which followeth and was made Chancellor againe after Sir Richard Scroope R. Bishop of London Chancellor the fifth yeare of King Richard the second at which time Robert Braybrooke was Bishop of London Sir Richard Scroope Knight Lord of Bolton made Chancellor againe about the latter end of November by the Lords of the Parliament as I take it in the fifth yeare of the raigne of King Richard last mentioned and was the yeare following being about Anno dom 1383 againe deposed from his office and the King receiving the seale kept it a certaine time and therewith sealed such grants and writings as pleased him and in the end delivered the same to Robert Braybrooke Of this man see more in the Treasurers Robert Braybrooke Bishop of London made Lord Chancellor in September following the moneth of July when Sir Richard Scroope was deposed was advanced to that dignity on S. Matthews Eeve in the sixt yeare of the raigne of the said King Richard the second in which he continued not longer then the March following as hath Anonymus M.S. he was consecrated Bishop of London the fifth of January Anno dom 1381 he dyed the 17. of August in Anno dom 1404 being the fifth yeare of King Henry the fourth Michael de la Poole or at Poole as hath Thomas Walsingham was made Chancellor in the moneth of March in Anno 6. of the said King Richard the second and was made Earle of Suffolke in the ninth yeare of the said King being after deposed from his office of Chancellorship at his owne and earnest request in the tenth yeare of the said King This man having fled the Realme for that he was pursued by the Nobility dyed at Paris in Ann. 13. of Richard the second being in Anno dom 1389 of whom that worthy Poet Sir John Gower living at that time in his Booke intituled Vox Clamantis composed these verses Est comes elatus fallax cupidus sceleratus Fraudes per mille stat Cancellarius ille Hic proceres odit eorum nomina rodit Morsibus a tergo fit tandem profugus ergo Sic Deus in caelis mala de puteo Michaelis Acriter expurgat ne plus comes ille resurgat Thomas Arundell of the noble house of the Earles of Arundell was first Bishop of Elie and then of Yorke and lastly of Canterbury he was made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno 10 of the raigne of the unfortunate King Richard 2 which was about Anno dom 1386 in which office he remayned about two yeares William Wickham was againe made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno 12 Richard 2 but was in the end remooved from thence in September in the 15 yeare of the troublesome governement of the said King Richard Thomas Arundell aforesaid was the second time created Lord Chancellor of England in the saide 15 yeare of Richard 2 in place of William Wickham in which office he remained about five yeares and was deposed and banished the Realme in the 20 yeare of the said King Richard John Scarle Scirlee or Serle Master of the Rolles of the Chancery and Keeper of the great Seale hee was Chancellor or in the place of Chancellor in the first yeare of the raigne of King Henry the fourth being in Anno dom 1399. Edmund Stafford Keeper of the Privie Seale Bishop of Excester and sometime Bishop of Rochester and lastly Bishop of Yorke and borne of the noble house of the Staffords was made Lord Chancellor of England about the moneth of March in Anno dom 1400 being about the second yeare of the usurping King Henry the fourth in which Office hee continued untill Anno dom 1403 being in Anno 4 of the said King Henry the fourth he being Keeper of the Privy Seale was made Bishop of Excester the 20 of June in Anno dom 1395 being the 21 yeare of Richard 2. Hee was consecrated at Lambeth and kept the See of Excester three and twenty yeares Hee increased two fellowship in Stapletons Inne in Oxford reformed the Statutes of the house and called it Excester Colledge Hee died the fourth of September in the seaventh yeare of King Henry the fift being in Anno dom 1419. Henry Beuford the son of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swineford made Bishop of Lincolne in Anno dom 1398 as hath Ypodigma was advanced to the dignity of Chancellor in Anno dom 1403 being the fourth yeare of King Henry the fourth his elder Brother by the daughter of the Earle of Hereford in which office he was in the fift yeare of King Henry the fourth and sixt of the same King as our Chonicles doe remember he was made Bishop of Winchester in Anno dom 1404 being the fift yeare of King Henry the fourth Thomas Langley Priest and Bishop of Durham was at Westminster made Chancellor in Anno dom 1405 being in Anno 6. of Henry the fourth in which office he continued as far as I know untill he was made Bishop of Durham which was on the 7. of May in Anno 7. of King Henry the fourth being in Anno dom 1406 he was Bishop one and thirty yeares and dyed in Anno dom 1437 being the 16. yeare of King Henry the sixt See more following Thomas Fitzalen brother to
Dom. 1407. writing in this sort Eodem anno Guido de Mone Menevensis episcopus praesentis lucis sensit eclipsim qui dum vixit magnorum malorum causa fuit William Scroope Knight Vicechamberleine to Rchard the second was Lord Treasurer hee bought of William Montacute Earle of Salisbury the I le of Man with the Crowne thereof Hee was one of those to whom King Richard the second let the Kingdome to farme he was Lord Treasurer of England in the 22. yeare of Richard the second and was after created Earle of Wiltshire in the said 21. yeare of Richard the second in An. Dom 1397. Hee was after beheaded at Bristow in the twenty three yeare of Richard the second Of which William Scroope and others thus writeth that worthy Poet Iohn Gower in his historie of Richard the second commonly taken as part of his booke intituled Vox Clamantis Dux probus audaci vultu cum plebe sequaci Regnum scrutatur si proditor inveniator Sic tres exosos magis omnibus ambitiosos Regni tortores invenerat ipse priores Ense repercussi pereunt Gren Scrop quoque Bussi Hi qui regales fuerant cum rege sodales Scrop comes miles cujus Bristolia viles Actus declarat quo mors sua fata pararat Gren quoque sorte pari statuit dux decapitari Bussi convictus similes quoque sustinet ictus Vnanimes mente pariter mors una repente Hos tres prostravit gladius quos fine voravit Sicut egerunt alijs sic hi ceciderunt Quo dux laudatur regnumque per omne jocatur Sir Iohn Northbury made Lord Treasurer in the first yeare of Henry the fourth being in An. Dom. 1399. and continued in the same in the third yeare of Henry the fourth in which yeare he was keeper of the Privie gardrobe in the Tower also Henry Bowet made Bishop of Bath about An. Do. 1401. being in the second yeare of Henry the fourth in which bishoprick he continued 8. yeares and was after at the Kings instance in An. Dom. 1407. about the eight of Henry the fourth removed to Yorke This man was Lord Treasurer of England in the fourth yeare of Henry the fourth in An. Do. 1403. in which place hee continued not above a yeare William Lord Rosse the sonne of Thomas Lord Rosse did possesse the honorable place of Lord Treasurer of England in the fifth yeare of Henry the fourth about An. Dom. 1404. and shortly after gave place to the Lord Furnivall Hee married Margaret daughter of Fitzallen Lord Matravers hee had issue Thomas Lord Rosse slaine in France in An. Dom. 1421. about the ninth yeare of Henry the sixt and many other Children Thomas Lord Furnivall kept the place and office of Lord Treasurer of England in the 6 7. and some part of the 8. yeare of Henry the fourth as in Michaelmas tearme of the said 8. yeare falling in An. Dom. 1406. after which this Lord Furnivall who had the custodie of the Castle and honor of Wigmore being in the Kings hands by reason of the wardship and minority of Edmond Mortimer Earle of March was as it seemeth removed from the Treasurership in whose roome succeeded the Bishop of London To these Lord Furnivalls did Furnivalls Inne in Holborne sometime appertaine as their mansion house being now an Inne of Chancery for young Students of the Law and Atturneis and belonging to Lincolnes Inne in Chancery-lane Nicholas Bubwith made Bishop of London in An. Dom. 1406. being in the eight yeare of Henry the fourth must bee that Bishop of London as farre as I can yet conceive who was Lord Treasurer of England in Michaelmas tearme in the 8. yeare the office of the Treasurer remained in the Kings hands and the Accompts of the said terme goe under the same title of being in the Kings hands Sir Richard Scroope Lord of Bolton wherof is so much spoken before was as I suppose the second time made Treasurer of England in the ninth yeare of Henry the fourth whereunto I am induced by this reason That first the King would not keepe that office so long in his hands as almost amounted to Two yeares but that he would bestow the same upon some other Secondly for that I reade that this Richard Scroope father to William Scroope Earle of Wiltshire beheaded by this Henry the fourth before he came to the Crowne at Bristow in the last yeare of Richard the second and in the first of this Kings raigne was after the death of the said William made Treasurer of England and so died in honour Thirdly for that I cannot see how he might be Treasurer in any yeare since the death of the said William untill the ninth yeare of Henry the fourth And lastly for that I cannot in any record or other author find any other man mentioned to supply that place in this yeare for which causes I have attempted to bestow him here and that rightly for any thing that I can yet learne Sir Iohn Tiptoft or Tiptote Knight did possesse the place and office of Lord Treasurer of England in Michaelmas tearme in the tenth yeare of Henry the fourth being in An. Do. 1408. Henry Lord Scroope of Masham and of Flaxfleet was made Lord Treasurer of England in 11. yeare of Henry the fourth being in An. Dom. 1410. as hath Walsingham in which office he continued untill the death of Henry the fourth which happened in the fourteenth yeare of the said King and in Anno Domino 1412. after the account of England but 1413. after the account of such as doe begin the yeare in Ianuary Hee rebelled against King Henry the fift and was beheaded at South-hampton in the third yeare of Henry the fifth being in An. Dom. 1415. the last of Iuly Of which Henry so conspiring against Henry the fifth I finde these verses in a written booke of parchment intituled Extractum breve de cronica Thomae Helmham Prioris Lenton de tempore regis Henrici Quinti In which verses by the capitall letters are set downe the names of the principall conspirators and the yeare of our Lord wherein the same was done being 1413. The greater Roman capitall letters in the third verse serving for the yerae of Christ and for the name Zore derived of this word Cor in the 4. verse and the English capitall letters only serving for the names of the persons in this sort couched together for common capacity Mox rex navigium parat ut mare transeat armis Scrop furit Henricus proditione fremens SCrVtans Conspirat RIMatVr OlenCla Plebi Rumpe Iugo COR Avens Res Dabit Vltra Sonum EIA Ruit Gens Avita Malis Opus Hoste Triumphat Vota voluntatis sic sacre Christe tuae Versibus his quinque praetactis Traditionem Lector scire potes hinc repetendo stude Hi tres Richardus Zorc Henry Scrupque Thomas Gray In regem surgunt proditione pares Munere Francorum corrupti terga dedere Iusto munus habet vindice quisque suum Thomas Fitzallen