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lord_n	die_v	marry_v	son_n	14,979	5	5.2710	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14273	The honourable prentice: or, This taylor is a man Shewed in the life and death of Sir John Hawekwood, sometime prentice of London: interlaced with the famous history of the noble Fitzwalter, Lord of Woodham in Essex, and of the poisoning of his faire daughter: Also of the merry customes of Dunmow, where any one may freely haue a gammon of bacon, that repents not mariage in a yeere and a day. Whereunto is annexed the most lamentable murther of Robert Hall at the high altar in Westminster Abbey.	Vallans, William.	1615 (1615)	STC 24588; ESTC S101782	18,713	40

reward thereof erected a stately Tombe and Monument with the image of a man on horsebacke as great as a mighty pillar for a Monument and testimony of his prowes in warre and his fidelity to them and their state A great part of his riches and wealth was conuerted into England where also his executors or otherwise his friends at Hunningham Syble where he was borne erected for him a tombe or Monument arched ouer and engraued the likenes of Hawkes in a wood flying This was done in the Parish Church by Robert Rokeden Senior and Robert Rokeden Iunior Iohn Cooe and to the memory of so worthy a man they builded and founded a Chauntry whith with the rest is dissolued Hée was by some called Gyouanno Agutho by some Acutho for that the Italians could not well pronounce his name in English I haue read him called in English Sir Iohn Sharpe Sir Iohn Acton and Sir Iohn Hawkewood which was indéed his name The Chronicles of Italy doe make often and honorable mention of him and our Histories doe also re member him amongst which I haue thought good to set downe the words of Thomas of Walsingham in Lattin as I find them as also of Paulus Iouius and others Thomas Walsingham Per idem tempus Papa fouebat Guerram contra dominos mediolanenses quia ipsi tirannice iniuste ●erras redditus castella de patrimonio beati Petri longo tempore detinebant Pro papa vero militabat dominus de Spencer qui laudabiliter se gessit ibidem post mortem ducis Clarentiae cum quo peruenit ad partes illas Eodem tempore Floriut miles ille egregius famosus Iohannes Hawkewood Anglicus natione habens secum albam illam comitiuam pertactam superius qui nunc contra papam nunc contra dominos mediolanenses bella gerebat cuius pars quocunque vertebat semper vincebat Multa itaque facta egregia ibidem operatus est cum suis Imo mirabilia Inauditasi quis vellet singula eius gesta enarrare Paulus Iouius Anglorum egressus patrijs Acuthus ab oris Italiae primum climata laetus adit Militiae fuerat quascunque edoctus artes Ausonia exeruit non semel ipse plagas Vt donaretur Statuae defunctus equestri Debita nam virtus praemia semper habet Nicholaus Machiavell Quo vero ab externis insidijs munitiores essent Ioannem Aguthu●● Anglum belli ducem celeberrimum quod antea papa aliisque Italis egregie operam suam nauasset ad stipendia sera vocarunt Iulius Feroldus Hawkewood Anglorum decus decus addite genti Italicae Italico praesidiumque solo Vt tumuli quondam Florentia sic simulacrì Virtutem Iouius donat Honore tuam His Picture may be seene in the Booke of Paulus Iouius de Eulogiis The Preface or Introduction IT hath euer beene held a most commendable thing to recount the Acts of auncient Nobility but much more laudable to recouer them from the deuouring iawes of all-eating time which commonly doth swallow the best actions and aduentures of elder ages and retaines onely the memory of such exploits and aduentures as the later age namely what their Grandfathers haue by hand deliuered and by tradition left to posterity The auncient Brittaines or the Welshmen had their Barths or Bardi as also their Druydes the last attentiue on their religion and sacrifices the first wholly busied and respectiue about the recording and repeating or rather singing the aduentures of their Auncestors deliuering from one to another as it were an exact Chronicle of the most notable aduentures of their Nobilitie and haue not onely amongst them but the like amongst the Galles and Cimbrians from whom the best learned suppose the Brittaines doe proceed beene had in reuerend estimation and credit but as concerning the ensuing historie which I purpose to write we need no tradition to helpe vs since there yet remaines large and ample records both Chronicles and histories printed and written manuscripts which beare testimonie of that which is hereafter deliuered Records in the Towne and seuerall Stories and Registers belonging to such houses as were by them builded or such as they haue new founded And these remaine in the hands and priuat custody of particular men but what I shall here deliuer I haue found both in old written histories in common Chronicles as also out of Records remaining as I said in the Towre of London being the aduentures of Robert Fitzwalter who liued in the daies of King Iohn and suffred the variable changes of his fortunes as by that which followeth shall appeare Whatsoeuer error I shall commit shall not be of purpose but for want of sufficient instructions which whosoeuer can or will take paines to correct and amend I will hold my selfe exceedingly well pleased and be content that first I haue aduentured to entreat of them So read and vse them at your pleasure W. V. The famous history of Robert Fitz-walter Of Robert Fitz-walter his Auncestors THat this Family of Fitzwalters hath of long time beene of honourable reputation and account need not many proofes the same not contradicted but by a general consent known to discend from Gislebert or Gilbert Lord of Clare and Tonbridge and also from Waltheof Earle of Northumberland which liued in William the Conquerors time and Iudith Countesse of Huntington who was neece to the Conqueror It is not amisse to note that our English nation vsed no Surnames till after the conquest but tooke names either of the Christian name of their parents or of the place where they were borne or of some other accident as their trade occupation or of some quality of body or mind wherewith they were endowed The first of this family of Fitzwalters that descended from the house of Clare was Robert Fitz Richard being indeed one of the younger sonnes of Richard Fitz-Gilbert Lord of Clare This Robert had a son called Walter surnamed after his fathers Christian name Fitz-Robert and he had a sonne called Robert Fitz walter being the sonne of Walter after whom this name of Fitz-walter was setled in this family whereof I entreat This Robert liued in the time of King Iohn and died Anno 1● 34. 19. H 3 and that Robert who is mentioned in this Booke was his grandchild and liued long after in the time of K. Edw. 1. Walter Fitz-walter father of this Robert was first married to Matild or Maud de Beecham and secondly to Mauld de ●ucy mother to Robert of whom I entreat whose father died An. Dom. 1198. and was buried at Dunmow where he founded a priory leauing Robert his sonne to succe●d him called Robert Fitz-walter Lord of Woodham a Towne in Essex of which name there are also two other Townes namely Woodham Ferrers and Woodham Mortimer as also this Woodham Walters whereof the Fitz walters were Lords Of his marriage and of his faire daughter Mauld or Matild I Wishingly omit his bringing vp which could not bée but according to the estate of his