all his Expeditions at Sea becoming thereby very expert in Navigation He was in all the Land Services of his time and followed his Father in every Embassy where he was imployed These practices made him fit for great Imployments as indeed such Imployments were fit for him because the truth was that his Father's perpetual custom of keeping his hands clean in all the great Trusts had been committed to him being ever fonder of Fame and Faithfulness than of Money or Estate he had not left his Son so superfluous a Fortune as it might have been easie for him to have suitably subsisted to his desert and great Spirit without the Favour and Assistance of his Princes But the times wherein he lived were very Active and in them usefulness made Men considered more than phancy And the discerning Queen Elizabeth thought she had a jewel in this Youth whose hopefulness and merit shone in the Eyes of every Man The first Imployment we find he had was to be one of those noble persons chose by the Queen to conduct the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain Afterward we find him a Commander of some Forces under his Father that were sent for the suppression of the Earls Rebellion And in the Registers of that Order it appears That he was chosen a Knight of the Garter in the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth In the Twenty eighth of that Queen upon the Death of the Earl of Lincoln he was made Lord High Admiral of England being at that time Lord Chamberlain as his Father had formerly been And in the Year 1588. when the King of Spain sent his greatest Fleet under the Conduct of his greatest Subject the Duke of Medina Sidonia with a design to take the Kingdom with the very sight of so formidable a power the Queen then and her admirable Council pitch'd upon this Lord Howard to be the Buckler of England making him with an extraordinary Power Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Forces on the Sea from the estimation they had of his excellent Virtues as being a Man of great Moderation much knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary throughly Valiant Industrious in Action and a Person whom the Mariners entirely loved The success gave the approbation to this choice the Spaniards appeared the Admiral gave them Battel and they were overthrown England was delivered and the Noble Lord received the Applauses his Valour and his Conduct did deserve But after this there remaining still great jealousies of future dangers from the Enmity of Spain who did design much by the Assistance of the Irish who were at that time Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for defence of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land He was also in this Year on the Fifteenth of June constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And in the Two and twentieth of October following in consideration of his Eminent Services in Anno. 1588. in defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado as afterwards of the Sacking of Cadiz in Spain and for destroying the Spanish Fleet then in the Port there he was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Mowbrays whereof some had before been Earls of that Country In the One and Fortieth Year of the same Queen this Admiral continuing still in great Reputation and there remaining some supition of the Spaniard's ill intentions he was made Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Field Forces and one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England And in these great Trusts he imploy'd his time during the Reign of this Happy and Victorious Queen And the wife Successor upon his Arrival thought it a material testimony of his kindness to the Kingdom he did Inherit to give all marks of his Esteem and Favor to those who had contributed so many Cares and Labours to the Glory and Safety thereof Therefore at his Royal Coronation he made this Earl Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in the Second Year of his Reign at the renewing the Commissions unto several Great Lords for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England he was likewise constituted one of that number But by this time the Noble Earl was grown very Antient and his Body being less able than before to support the Labours and Cares of War or of the Court he by the advice of his Friends resolved of a retreat he resigned the great Office of Admiral into the King's Hands for which he was notwithstanding allowed great Pensions for his Life and other very considerable advantages After which he was engaged in going Extraordinary Ambassador on a most splendid occasion into Spain to Make and Sign that Peace which was so agreeable to King James the First as he thence did design such an Alliance as by Marriage of his Son should make lasting Friendship between the two Crowns This was the last great occasion wherein the Earl of Nottingham did appear the rest of his Life was Peace and Prayer His Lordship departing this World at Hayling in Kent at the Age of Eighty eight Years having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two This Noble Earl had Married Two Wives His First was Katharine Cary Daughter to the Lord Hundsdon His Second was Margaret Stuart Daughter to James Earl of Murray in Scotland Issue by his First Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham who Married Katharine Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Blefso Charles Howard who by reason of his Brothers Decease without Male Issue did succeed him in his Honors and Married Mary Cockain Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell Frances Countess of Kildar Margaret Married to Sir Richard Leusson Issue by his Second Wife James Howard who died young Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham but dyed without Issue WILLIAM Lord Howard Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord Baron of Effingham CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM Lord Howard was a Youth of extraordinary expectation and had given early proof of many rare Virtues he was Active he was Ingenious he was applicable to every thing that was for the Honor of the Court or the Use of the Kingdom In the days of Queen Elizabeth the Pastimes and Triumphs of the State were very Martial Courses at the Tilt were much in fashion and Fights at the Barriers no Man had greater applause at these Exercises than this Young Lord And when Monsieur was here with his great Followers who are held Masters at these Exercises he got the esteem of all the French-Men He was with his Father at the Encounter with the Spanish Fleet though but Young at that time he was with him at the Sacking of Calis and also in most of his Embassies He was Grave of his Nature and entring into the favour of the Ministers as Man likely to be fit for Business when unhappily he fell
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
to oppose him or his Heirs For securing of which promise he delivered up his Son William in Hostage who was after returned as an assurance of the Kings trust He departed this life in the One and fortieth year of Henry the Third leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran de Newburgh Earl of Warwick William Lord Mauduit afterwards Earl of Warwick AT the Death of his Father WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the fourth of that name was thirty six years old upon the possession of the Estate and Dignity of his Ancestors he received early testimonies of the Kings trust and favour by the acceptance of a moderate relief for his Barony and his Sergeantry and reasonable time for the payment The Lords of his Family had ever the reputation of being Martial and himself was esteemed active and vigorous so as he was usually summoned to attend the King in most of his Expeditions with his power and followers In the forty seventh Year of King Henry the Third doing his homage and paying an hundred pounds for his relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick he had livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him that is to say the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had summons that year to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility But soon after the King was necessitated to leave of his Welsh Expedition to provide against the power and insolence of his Barons who were then gathering together against him at Northampton He sent therefore this Earl to make sure of his Castle of Warwick a place at that time very considerable but such was his unhappiness as wanting diligent Guards they issued out of Kenilworth under the Command of John Giffard Governour of that Castle and surprising this at Warwick slew divers of the Earls men and carried him and his Lady Prisoners to Kenilworth out of which place before he could be delivered they forced him to pay nineteen hundred Marks for his Ransome and threw down the Walls of Warwick-Castle After this unhappy accident I find no more of him than that he married Alice the Daughter of Gilbert de Segrave and dyed without Issue the Eighth of Jan. Anno 1267. 52 Hen. III. ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit Chamberlain to King Henry the Second THE direct line of those Mauduits who were Lords of Hanslape and hereditary Chamberlains of the Exchequer ending in William Lord Mauduit who came to be also Earl of Warwick and that dyed without Issue I must return to Robert the second Son of Robert Lord Mauduit who was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second to carry on the Genealogical description of that branch of these Mauduits who were Lords of Werminster from whom the Greene's of Drayton did Descend and that did flourish for many Ages in this Nation under great reputation and Authority Unto Robert Lord Mauduit who was Lord of Hanslape in the days of Henry the Second King Richard and King John there were born of the Lady Isabella Bassett two Sons William and Robert the latter of which was a Youth so esteemed for his Valour and Martial inclinations and particularly by his Father as for a foundation of a greater fortune he bestowed upon him the noble Lordship of Werminster which he had received from the Gift of his old Master King Henry the Second and his Elder Brother the Lord William Mauduit was so far from repining at the Gift as he added to his Estate of his own Grant the Mannor of Shaudedene now called Scaldene And he had moreover from the kindness of Robert de la Mare a great Lord of that Age divers Lands in Bushopstre and Tarenta in Marriage with his Daughter Agnes by whom he left Issue William Mauduit Lord of Werminster WILLIAM MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster became possessed by Inheritance from his Father his Marriage and his own acquests of the Lordships of Werminster Scaldene Samborne and Grately in the County of Wilts as also of Lands in Bushopstre Tarenta and Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop which last were of his Mothers Inheritance In the Fourteenth of King Henry the Third he was sued with Eugenia his Wife by Robert de Passlieu for detaining one Henry the Son of Henry de Cromwell whose custody he pretended to belong to him by reason of the Kings Commission but because the said Robert did not produce the same it was order'd in Court That Henry de Cromwell should remain in the Keeping of William Mauduit and his Wife Eugenia This William gave Lands in Samborne to Thomas the Son of Simon of Deene and he demised the Mannor of Grately to Galfred of Winelford There is extant a Grant unto him of a Faire yearly to be held for three days at his Lordship of Werminster that is to say on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Lawrence and of a Market to be held every Thursday at his Mannor of Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop. He married Eugenia Daughter to that Foulke Lord Fitz-Warren who was a Lord of much fame in the days of King John and of his Son Henry and left Issue Warren Mauduit Lord of Werminster Sir John Mauduit WARREN MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster received his Christian Name as has been very usual from that Noble Family of which his Mother was descended and much deference and respect was due from him thereunto as from one whence he did derive a great part of his Inheritance as the Mannors of Westbury Lye and other Lordships He was one of those Lords that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land when he was yet but Prince and we find him to have lived much in his esteem and favour as one by whom he was accompanied in most of his War-like Expeditions He was summoned to many of those Parliaments that were called in his Raign towards the latter end whereof he departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas Mauduit Lord of Werminster THOMAS Lord MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in the Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Scalden Samborne West-Hacley Lye Castle-Helgot and other great Possessions so as at that time he was accounted one of the most powerful Lords of his rank He received in the Eleventh year of King Edward the Second a Charter from that King of Free Warren for him and his Heirs to have as well upon all his Lands in Westbury Lye and Chaldcoate in the County of Wilts as upon those of Deene and Grately in the County of Southampton These are the words of the Patent He was a Lord of such fame in those days
Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
say more anon 2. Thomas who taking to Wife the Lady Margaret Douglas Daughter to Margaret Queen of Scots by her Husband the Earl of Angus Niece to King Henry was attainted of Treason upon some suspition of his intents for aspiring to the Crown and departing this life in the Tower of London 1. Nov. Anno 1537. 29. Eliz. was Buried at Thetford 3. Richard who died Anno 1517. 9. H. 8. and was Buried at Lambeth And Four Daughters Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy to Edward Earl of Derby Elizabeth to Henry Earl of Sussex and Katharine first Married to Sir Rice ap Thomas Knight but afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater Polydore Virgil pag. 567. Reckoning up those the King chose for his Council ET Thomas Howardus Comes Surriae vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa Polydore Virgil pag. 621. JAM dies Concilii ad Westmonasterium habendi advenerat ubi Henricus cum Katharina Uxore à Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo corona redimitur sacraturque Octavo Kal. Julii Anno qui fuit salutis humanae MDIX quo ejus pater è vita excesserat qui dictus est Henricus eo nomine octavus dum publicum gaudium celebratur Laetitiam moeror velut saepe Comes sequitur Margareta enim Henrici avia moritur ob cujus obitum non nihil respublica damni fecit quippe mulier erat prudentissima atque sanctissima quae cum videret Henrico per aetatem non licere suum officium praestare ita à principio providere consulere prospicere coepit ut summa imperii penes optimos quosque principes esset quo ne quid ipsa respublica detrimenti acciperet quae aliquot menses communi multorum Concilio gubernata postremo ad duos Ricardum Wintoniensem Episcopum Thomam Comitem Surreium administratio pervenit qui inter se secretas habebant simultates quas authoritatis aemulatio in dies singulos magis magisque augebat In iis diversa erant studia Wintoniensis suis amplis rebus contentus Regis tantum republicae utilitatem quaerebat Comes vero qui olim paternae haereditatis majori ex parte propter Civilia Bella Factionum Seditiones Naufragium fecerat suo interim privato commodo inservire cogebatur qui idcirco ad latus Regis quotidie adhaerens bene magna identidem ab eo beneficia habebat quae ille tam suis quam aliis postea ad arbitrium suum daret tribueret deferret Ista Wintoniensi visa sunt eo brevi tempore evasura ut Comes primas apud principem teneret omnino nisi maturè obviam ejus conatibus praeiretur id quod sibi modis omnibus faciendum deliberavit Accessit in eandem palaestram tertius Guilielmus Conton in Regio cubiculo primus Minister sed is cum magis rei familiari quà m potentiae studeret nihil dabat suspicionis Interea Christopherus Benbricus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Romam Legatus ad Julium Romanum Pontificem Mittitur Thomas Ruthal designatur Dunelmensis Episcopus WILLIAM HOWARD Peer of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord High Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy Seal and Privy Councellor to the Queens Mary and Elizabeth CHAPTER II. Baronage of England Pag. 278. Howard of Effingham HAving thus Finish'd with the Principal Stemm of this most Noble Family I come to those Collateral Branches as are not yet spoke of And first to William Son to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk of this House by Agnes his Second Wife Daughter of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Com. Linc. Knight This William in 24. H. VIII was one of the Attendants of that King to Calis and so to Boloigne at such time as he was there Magnificently received by Francis the First King of France And in 26. H. VIII sent into Scotland to present King James the Fifth with the Order of the Garter Also to acquaint him with the intended Interview betwixt King Henry and King Francis of France And intreating his Presence thereat to desire his Coming through England to accompany King Henry to Calis In 27. H. VIII he was sent with Dr. William Barlow Bishop of St. Asaph to the same King of Scots to perswade him to enterview with King Henry as also to make certain advantageous Propositions to him And in 35. H. VIII upon that unhappy Deportment of Katharine Howard his Niece Fifth Wife of King Henry for which she lost her Head being newly return'd from an Embassy into France he was Indicted as was also his Wife and the old Duthess of Norfolk for Misprision of Treason in concealing what they knew of that Queen's Behaviour therein and condemned to perpetual Imprisonment But at length through the King's Favour enlarged and in 6. Edw. VI. made Deputy of Calis being a very valiant Person and perfectly Loyal to both those Kings He had such Esteem from Queen Mary as that by Letters Patents bearing Date 11. Martii in the First Year of her Reign he was advanced to the Degree and Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Howard of Effingham as also the Twentieth of the same Month made Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Wales And upon the Second of April next ensuing took his Place in Parliament amongst the rest of the Peers Also upon the Eighth of that Month constituted Lord Admiral and Lieutenant General of all her Forces at Sea He was likewise Lord Chamberlain of her Household And in the 1. Eliz. had the same Honourable Office conferred on him by that Queen After this he was sent Ambassador with the Lord Cobham to the Spaniard into the Netherlands and in 12. Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Sussex General of those Forces then sent against the Earls of Northumberland and VVestmoreland at that Time in Rebellion In 15. Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk And by his Testament bearing Date 6. Maii 11. Eliz. being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Rygate in Com. Sur. appointing a Tomb to be there made for him And to Charles his Son and Heir bequeathed his Collar of Gold and all his Robes belonging to the Order of the Garter He Married Two Wives first Katharine Daughter and Co-heir to Sir John Broughton of Tuddington in Com. Bedf. Knight by whom he had Issue only one Daughter called Agnes Married to VVilliam Pawlet the Third Marquis of VVinchester Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Thomas Ganiage Knight which Margaret departed this Life ..... Maii Anno 1581. 23. Eliz. by whom he had Issue four Sons viz. Charles who succeeded him in his Honour VVilliam Howard of Lingfield in Com. Sur. Edward and Henry who died Young Also Five Daughters First Douglas Married first to John Lord Sheffield afterwards to Robert Earl of Leicester as hath been pretended and thirdly to Sir Edward Stafford of Grafton Knight Secondly Mary first to Edward Lord Dudley afterwards to Richard Montpession Esquire Thirdly Frances to Edward Earl of Hertford Fourthly Martha to Sir George Bourchier Knight Third Son to John Earl of Bath And Fifthly Katharine who died young And
Willielmo Domino Compton ac etiam dilictis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Knolles Milite Contrarotulatore hospitii nostri Roberto Cecilio Milite principali Secretario nostro aliis In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo secundo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo Examinatum per me S. Killingworth The History of Queen Elizabeth by Cambden Pag. 610. HE was very much offended that the Council were let loose several Papers he cast into the Fire lest as he said they should tell tales and prepared himself for defence And being now reduced to his last hope of expecting Aid from the Londoners he Fortified his House on all sides The Lord Admiral presently Besieged the House to Land-ward He assigned the Earls of Cumberland and Lincoln the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Grey the Lord Burghly the Lord Compton and others with Forces of Horse and Foot every Man his Post He himself with the Lord Effingham his Son the Lord Cobham Sir John Stanhop Sir Robert Sidney Sir Fulk Grevill seized upon the Garden by the Thames side Being now ready to assault the House he summoned him by Sidney to yield Southampton asked him to whom they should yield To their Adversaries That were to run themselves headlong to ruine Or to the Queen That were to confess themselves guilty But yet said he if the Lord Admiral will give us Hostages for our security we will appear before the Queen If not we are every one of us fully resolved to lose our lives fighting The Lord Admiral returning word by Sidney That neither were Conditions to be propounded by Rebels nor Hostages to be delivered to them signified to Essex That for the sparing the weaker sex he would permit the Countess his Wife the Lady Rich his Sister and their Waiting-Gentlewomen who filled all places with their womanish Shrieks and Lamentations to come forth Which Essex took as a favour only he desired that an hour or two's time might be granted him to fortifie the place by which they should go forth which was also granted Before the hour was expired Essex holding all things now for desparate and lost resolved to make his way out And the Lord Sands who was more aged than the rest earnestly urged him so to do often repeating that saying That the resolutest Councels are the safest That it is more honourable for Noble Persons to die fighting than by the hand of the Executioner But Essex wavering in his resolution began presently to think of yielding and gave notice that upon certain Conditions he would yield But when the Lord Admiral would admit of no conditions he said he would not give conditions but rather take them Yet Three things he requested First That they might be civilly dealt withal This the Lord Admiral promised Secondly That their cause might be justly and duly heard He answered That there was no reason to doubt thereof And Lastly That Ashton a Minister of God's Word might be with him in Prison for his Soul's comfort The Lord Admiral answered That for these things he would make intercession to the Queen When presently all the Noblemen falling upon their Knees and delivering their Swords up to the Lord Admiral yielded themselves at Ten of the Clock at Night There were no more slain but Owen Salisbury and one or two who were killed in the House by shot and as many of the Besiegers And again out of the same Pag. 659. UPON which day whether thinking on her Death or presaging what would ensue she happned to say to the Lord Admiral whom she always dearly affected My Throne hath been the Throne of Kings neither ought any other than he that is my next Heir to succeed me And the Courtiers observed That she never before more frequented Prayers and the Service of God than now WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham that was Lord High Admiral of England CHAPTER IV. HE is recorded in several Writers of the Heralds Books to have bore a part in most of the Tilts Fights at Barriers and other Marshal Games and Triumphs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Cambden's History of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Channel could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Fight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son Ibidem Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl of Essex Count Lodowick of Nassau Don Christophero a Portuguese Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Lord Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill c. Milles's Catalogue of Honour Pag. 894 895. CHARLES Howard Son of William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth one of her Privy Council and by her made Knight of the Garter who was younger Son of Thomas Howard second Duke of Norfolk one of the Lords of the Honourable Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Admiral of England was for his most right honourable Service at the Sacking of Cales with Robert Devereux Earl of Essex by Queen Elizabeth created Earl of Nottingham in right of his descent from the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Nottingham The First Wife Katharine Daughter of Henry Cary Lord Hundsdon who being Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to Queen Elizabeth one of her Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Garter was Son of William Cary by his Wife Mary Bollen Sister to Queen Anne Bollen Mother of Queen Elizabeth was first Wife unto Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham The Second Wife Margaret the Daughter of James Stuart Earl of Murray was the second Wife to Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham now living 1610. Children by his First Wife William Howard was by King James created Lord Howard of Effingham a Baron of the Parliament House who Married Anne Daughter and Heir of John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe by his Wife Katharine Daughter of Sir Robert Dormer of Eythorp in Buckingham-shire Charles Howard Knight Keeper of the Castle at Windsor Elizabeth Wife of Sir Robert Southwell of Riseing in Norfolk Knight Frances Wife of ..... Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare Margaret Wife of Sir Richard Leuson Children by his Second Wife James died lately young 1610. ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. The Second Part of the Baronage of England by Dugdale Pag. 279. THIS Noble Earl took to Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hundsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who wedded Anne Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe who died in his Father's Life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his Sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
he renewed old Claims much to the displeasure and discontent of the King Among the rest he revived an ancient pretence of the See of Canterbury to the Castle and Honour of Saltwood which Sir Ralph de Broc for his own as well as the Kings Interest did peremptorily oppose From hence great and personal Enmities did arise between the Archbishop and himself to that Degree as the King in the subsequent variances that fell out afterward between Becket and him could reasonably find no man so proper to oppose unto his insolent Arrogance as Sir Ralph de Broc who had a Reputation and Interest in that County Superiour to most of his time and the Conscience of a Souldier not apt to be puzl'd or obstructed with Scruples incident to men of milder Callings hence it was that he was made the man of Terrour of Seizure and Chastisement to the Archbishop and all his Adherents when their Endeavours were in Opposition to the King and his Authority and this was the reason of all the reprobate Characters he did receive from several Monkish Authors of that time which may be perused amongst the proofs He died notwithstanding happy and safe from all their Censures in the favour and service of his Prince and in Marriage of a Lady called Damata the Daughter of one William de Gorom who by the Stile of his Charter appears to have been a man of much Dignity and Power in those days from whom he received in free Gift to him his Wife and their Heirs the Land of Staplehurst Their Issue Robert de Broc Edelina de Broc Married to Stephen of Turnam a great Baron and in much Authority in the Reign of King John being at that time Seneschall of Poictou in the Kingdom of France ROBERT the Son of Ralph de Broc at the Arrival of the Insolent Archbishop out of banishment received early marks of his Revenge and Indignation For upon Christmas day in the Seventeenth Year of King Henry the Second we find he was Excommunicated by his own mouth together with Nigell de Sackville for some Offences pretended to have been done to that Prelate during the late Contests whose Death soon after Executed by certain Knights of the Court set himself and his Family out of the reach of his farther displeasure This Sir Robert de Broc became a famous Knight and in much Employment under King Richard the First in whose Reign we find he was stiled Marshal of England He Married to his first Wife Margaret of Beauchamp or de bello Campo one of the Daughters of Richard de Beauchamp who gave in free Marriage besides other things certain Lands and Rents in the Town of Chestersham His Second Wife was Margery de Crec who becoming the Heir of Walter her Father by occasion that her Brother William happened to suffer under the Laws brought unto him the Forrestership of Cannoc and the Lordship of Misterton in the County of Warwick which preferment was procured unto him by the particular favour of the King Issue by his first Wife Laurence de Broc Issue by his second Wife Margery Married to Hugh de Loges to whom descended Misterton and all the Lands of their Mothers Inheritance SIR Laurence de Broc flourished in the Reign of King John and King Henry the Third to whose Interests he did constantly adhere The Reputation and Authority which he had in the Counties of Suffolk Cambridge Huntington and Buckingham were of no small use to the Affairs of the Crown during the various Troubles of that long Reign He augmented notwithstanding the Fortune left him by his Predecessors having purchased the Mannors of Bridsthorn Herdwick and Wedon from the Prior of Saint Saviours of Bermundsey and received from Robert Mallet a Lord of that Age in Marriage with his Daughter Milicent certain Lands in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge on condition That if they did not prove to the value they were asserted to be worth their Deficiency was then to be made good out of the Lands that were held by the said Robert Mallet in Quenton in the County of Buckingham Their Issue Hugh de Broc SIR Hugh de Broc succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships and we find he followed the famous King Edward the First in divers of his Wars his Name being upon the Lists of several Expeditions which were made in that Reign into Wales Gascony and Scotland He Married Agnes de Montepiconis a Lady descended from one of the most ancient and Noble Families that was among the Normans as whose Predecessors had been Lords of the Honour which bare that name in the Dutchy of Normandy and whose immediate Ancestor came over with King William the First in quality of his Dapifer or Sewer an Office of Eminent Dignity at that time in the Kings House Their Issue Laurence de Broc SIR Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale after the decease of his first Wife whose Christian Name was Ellen Married another Lady of the same appellation that was the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot and of Cassandra one of the Heirs of the Famous Knight Sir Giles of Argentine who gave him the Mannor of Maudlins and other Lands as a Portion to which end a Fine was suffer'd in the Thirtieth Year of Edward the First In the third Year of King Edward the Second a Patent pass'd unto this Sir Laurence de Broc to have Free-Warren and all the Rights thereof upon his Lands in Chessham Aumondsham Bridsthorn Hardwick and Wedon in the County of Buckingham and in the seventh of the same Reign he Levied a Fine to his Son Ralph and Elizabeth his Wife He lived unto the Reign of King Edward the Third and left to Inherit his Lands and Lordships Sir Ralph de Broc Lord of Shephale OF this Ralph de Broc or the Transactions of his Life there remains little Testimony So whether he died early or that the Evidences of them cannot appear by reason of the length of time since the Alienation of these Lands it is uncertain but true it is That in him did terminate this Name and Family who having Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Hussey left no Male-Issue and only three Daughters Joanne Married to Thomas Rokesby that died without Issue Elena Married to Edmund Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Agnes Married to Sir Henry of Brussels ELena de Broc was in the Seven and twentieth Year of King Edward the Third Married to Edmund Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of divers other Lordships She brought into his House the Moity of all her Fathers Lands there accruing to her Husband for her Share in Cambridgshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborn in Buckinghamshire divers Lands in Elsburg Bridsthorn Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham with sundry other Lands in Hartfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephale Their Issue Robert Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Sr. RANULPH de BROC Governor of the Castle of Agenet
cum pertinentiis integrè remanebunt rectis Haeredibns praedicti Johannis tenendum de Capitalibus Dominis Feodi illius per Servitia quae ad praedicta Tenementa Passagium praedictum pertinent imperpetuum Surrey Hertford Kanciae Charta Joannae quae fuit Uxor Johannis le Latimer Militis NOverint universi per praesentes quòd ego Joanna quae fui Uxor Johannis le Latimer Militis recepi de Thomâ Herewauld quadraginta tres solidos quatuor denarios de redditu Paschae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum undecimo proveniente de terris tenementis quae de me tenet in Wolwich de quibus quidem quadraginta solidis quatuor denariis fateor me esse plenariè pacatum praedictum Thomam esse quietum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Westmonasterium die Martis proximâ post Festum Sancti Barnabae Apostoli Anno Regni Regis supradicto SIGILLVM DNAE IOHANNAE LATIMER Sir Robert Latimer Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Charta Johannis Mundayne Nicolai Gurthop Capellanorum SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd nos Johannes Mundayne Nicolaus Gurthop Capellani tradidimus concessimus Roberto Latimer Chivalier Catharinae Uxori ejus medietatem Manerii de Childeckford cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum iisdem Roberto Catharinae haeredibus de corpore ipsius Catharinae exeuntibus de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita consueta in perpetuum Et si contingat quòd praedicta Catharina obierit sine haerede de Corpore suo exeunte tunc omnia praedicta tenementa cum pertinentiis integrè remaneant rectis haeredibus ejusdem Catharinae tenenda de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per Servitia inde debita consueta in perpetuum In cujus rei Testimonium Sigilla nostra praesentibus apposuimus His Testibus Richardo Turberville Johanne Attehall Militibus Johanne Moore Johanne Stippleton Thomâ de la Were aliis Datum apud Childeckford in Festo Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum Tricesimo Secundo Charta Catharinae Latimer SCiant praesentes futuri quod ego Catharina quondam Uxor Domini Roberti Latimer in purâ ligeâ viduitate meâ dedi concessi hac praesenti chartâ confirmavi Margaretae filiae meae pro homagio servitio suo totam Terram meam cum homagiis servitiis liberorum hominum villanorum quam habui in Rotherhead quae mihi accidebat Jure haereditario ex parte Domini Roberti de Hull patris mei cum omnibus pertinentiis suis ad dictam Terram spectantibus vel quae de jure in posterum spectare poterunt in viis semitis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis caeteris aliis locis libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus dictis Terris pertinentibus habendum tenendum dictam Terram cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de me Haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis liberè quietè pacificè honorificè integrè haereditariè in perpetuum Reddendo indè annuatim mihi haeredibus meis à dicta Margareta haeredibus suis unum par Chirothecarum de pretio unius denarii vel unum denarium in Festo Paschae pro omni servitio seculari exactione demanda omnimodò mihi pertinente Salvo tamen servitio Regali quantum pertinet ad tantam Terram in eodem feodo Et si praedicta Catharina sine haerede de se exeunte in fata decesserit tota praedicta Terra cum pertinentiis ad Robertum Latimer Fratrem suum vel haeredes suos revertatur Ego verò Catharina praedictam totam Terram cum omnibus praenominatis pertinentiis servitiis tà m liberorum quà m villanorum dictae Catharinae haeredibus suis ut praedictum est exeuntibus contra omnes homines foeminas pro praedicto servitio warrantizabo acquietabo defendam in perpetuum Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio praesentis Chartae Confirmatio rata sit stabilis hanc praesentem Chartam Sigilli mei Impressione roboravi His Testibus Radulpho de Rochford Ricardo de Turberville Rogero de Attehall Militibus Willielmo Jolliot Johanne Strode Elisâ Martin Thomâ de Winterborne Roberto Clerico aliis Datum apud Rotherheath die Lunae proximâ post Festum Purificationis Beatae Mariae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Tertii post conquestum Tricesimo quarto Sir Robert Latimer Knight Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Mr Prinn's Abridgment of Records Page 106. THE 21th day of May the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their coming and aid granted on which day all the Lords and sundry of the Commons Dined with the King after which Dinner Sir John de Lee was brought before the King Lords and Commons next aforesaid to Answer to certain Objections following and first to the Complaint of William Latimer as followeth The King had granted the Wardship of Robert Latimer the Son and Heir of Sir Robert Latimer with certain Mannors during the same Minority to the Bishop of Sarum whose Estate the same William had and after the King granted the same to Sir John de Lee. The same William surmised that the said Sir John being of Power sent for him to London where he by duress of Imprisonment inforced the said William to Surrender his Estate to him And by Recognizance therefore the same Sir John excuseth himself for that the Grant was made unto him the which was not allowed for that the said William was not put out by due Process of Law Another matter was objected against the said Sir John for that during such time as he was Steward of the Kings House he should cause sundry men to be attached and to come before him as before the Kings Council in places where he pleased where being out of Council he caused men to answer as to things before the Council That he as Steward having thereby Authority only within the Verge did notwithstanding cause sundry to be attached out of the Verge as John Goddard and others making them to Answer in the Marshalsey of things done out of the Verge and othersome committed to the Tower of his own Authority as John Sibill Edmund Urdsales and others That he had of his own Authority against the Justices Commandment discharged out of Newgate Hugh Lavenham Purveyor who had appealed sundry men of Felony That he bargained with Sir Nicholas Lovayn for the Keeping of the Mannor of Rainham in Kent the which the same Sir Nicholas claimed to hold during the Minority of the Son and Heir of John Saunton where the said John of Lee knew that the said Mannor was holden of the King in Chief as of the Castle of Dover Of all which points for that the same Sir John could not purge himself he was Commanded to the Tower of London there
inde rectis haeredibus ejusdem Roberti Latimer in perpetuum Virtute quarundam Traditionis Dimissionis Confirmationis idem Robertus Latimer fuit inde seisitus de tali Statu inde obiit seisitus post cujus mortem dictus Johannes Latimer in eisdem Manerio Terris Tenementis cum pertinentiis ut in remanere suum praedictum introivit inde seisitus fuit Et postea idem Johannes Latimer de tali Statu inde obiit seisitus post cujus mortem dicta Margareta se tenuit in eisdem Maneriis Terris Tenementis inde seisita fuit sic jam in praesenti inde seisita existit Noveritis me praedictum Nicolaum Latimer ratificâsse approbâsse per praesentes confirmâsse praefatae Margaretae Matri meae Statum Possessionem Jus Titulum interesse quae quos eadem Margareta habet tenet de in omnibus singulis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis Reversionibus cum suis pertinentiis secundùm formam Concessionis praedictae remanere inde mihi haeredibus meis in perpetuum Et ego verò praefatus Nicolaus haeres meus omnia singula praedicta Maneria Terras Tenementa Redditus Servitia Reversiones cum suis pertinentiis praefatae Margaretae contra omnes Gentes Warrantizabimus Acquietabimus in perpetuum per praesentes defendemus In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Datum Vicesimo Die Julii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum Vicesimo septimo SIGILLVM NICOLAI LATIMER MILITIS An Arbitration made by George Duke of Clarence upon a reference between Sir Nicholas Latimer and Sir Edward Grey GEORGE Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond To all those to whom our Writing Indented shall come Greeting Where certain variances and debates have been hanging betwixt Edward Grey Knight and Nicholas Latimer Knight of and upon the Right Title and Possession of the Mannor of Lokston with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset For which Variances and Debates to be appeased the Parties aforesaid have compromitted and also bound them to stand to the Arbitrement Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Duke like as in two Obligations in one of which the said Edward is bounden to the said Nicholas and in the other the said Nicholas is bounden to the said Edward in two hundred pounds with several Conditions to abide our Award as in the premisses more plainly is contained We the said Duke taking upon us to Arbitre in the premisses have heard the Allegations Titles and Replications of the said Parties of and in the premisses and by good deliberation them understanding Wherefore we Award Ordain and deem that the said Nicholas Latimer Knight shall have occupy and peaceably enjoy the said Mannor of Lokston with the Appurtenances to him and his Heirs without interruption or claim of the said Edward and his Heirs For the which premisses we Award Ordain and deem that the said Nicholas shall be bound in a Statute of the Staple before the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming to the said Edward in an hundred pounds to be paid to him in Michaelmas next coming and the said Edward before the said Feast shall by his Deed grant to the said Nicholas that if the said Nicholas or his Executors pay or do to be payed to the said Edward or his Assigns at the Feast of Saint Michael next coming after the date hereof or within a Month then next following twenty five pounds in the Parish Church of Saint Ewing next within Newgate of London and at the Feast of Pasch then next following or within a Month then next ensuing in the same Church twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael then next following or within a Month then next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Pasch then next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Pasch next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings that then the same Statute to be void and of none effect or else to stand in his strength and vertue Also we Award that the said Edward shall at every day of payment aforesaid deliver to the Bearer of the said money toward his cost six shillings eight pence In Witness to which thing to either part of this our Award Indented we have set our Seal Given the twentieth day of June in the eighth year of my Lords Reign King Edward the Fourth Doctor Fullers History of the Worthies of England Page 287. In his Catalogue of Sheriffs for Dorsetshire SIR Nicholas Latimer was High Sheriff of Dorsetshire in the thirty second year of King Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth The Title of Sir John Mordaunt Knight to the Mannors of Duntish and Devilish in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire which late were Sir Nicholas Latimers FIrst the said Sir Nicholas bargained with William Hardyng for the Mannor of Devilish and Enfeoffed him Sole of the same so that by that Hardyng was Intituled to that Mannor in Anno xiv o Ed. iv ti whose bargain was unknown to Sir John Mordaunt till Anno viij o of Henry vijth at which time he bought the Moity of the Title of Hardyng therein Anno ij do Ricardi Tertii Sir John Mordaunt and Sir Nicholas Bargained for the Mannor of Devilish that the Feoffees thereof should stand seized of the same Mannor to the use of the said Sir Nicholas for Term of his Life And if he happen to have Issue Male then after the Death of Sir Nicholas they should stand seized thereof to the use of that Issue Male and of the Heirs Males of his Body begotten and for lack of such Issue to the use of the said John Mordaunt and Edith and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edith begotten Then in Anno vij to of King Henry the Seventh it was Bargained between the said Sir Nicholas contrary to the said former Bargains and Sir John Turbervile That Sir Nicholas should Enfeoffee John Talower as well of the said Mannor of Devilish as of all the said other Mannors and of the Mannor of Estpullham in Fee Against whom John Smith should recover the same Mannors and after that Recovery should make Estate by Deed and by Fine to Sir Nicholas of all the Mannors to him and the Heirs Males of his Body begotten the Remainder to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs which Estate was made to Talower
against whom John Smith sued several Writs of Entry to recover the Premisses accordingly Hanging this Writ of Entry Sir John Mordaunt sued a Subpoena against Sir Nicholas Sir John Turbervile and John Smith and disclosed his Bargain of Devilish and desired an Injunction in Chancery thereof that they should not proceed in the Recovery So he had an Injunction for two or three Terms and when Sir John Mordaunt had proved his Bargain by the great favour that my Lord Chancellor bore to Turbervile the Injunction was Released and Smith proceeded in the Recoveries and had Judgment against all Conscience and all Precedents like before that time as it was said And I think it appeared in Chancery that Turbervile and Smith had knowledge of the Bargains between Sir Nicholas and Hardyng and Mordaunt before the Bargain made between him and Sir Nicholas After these Recoveries Sir Nicholas sued a Subpoena against John Smith to Execute the State Tayl to Sir Nicholas according to the trust and express words of the Indenture which Estate he would never Execute nor Sir Nicholas could ever have Judgment thereof in the Chancery by the labour of Sir John Turbervile and the great favour that my Lord Chancellor bare to Turbervile which favour appeareth in as much as before the Recovery and after the Recovery all the time of that Suit hanging during the Life of the said Lord Chancellor it appeared of Record in the Chancery and was confessed by all Parties That that Estate should have been made to Sir Nicholas by express words in the Indenture When Sir John Mordaunt perceived that Sir Nicholas could not obtain his Estate then in the fifteenth year of Henry the Seventh he bought Hardyngs whole Title to Devilish of Nicholas Hardyng Heir to William Hardyng Then died my Lord Chancellor after that Bargain and then died the Wife of Sir Nicholas Latimer that was old and past Child-bearing but she was like to have over-liv'd Sir Nicholas And then in the end of Anno xv o Sir John Mordaunt was called into the Kings House and went thither wholly at Michaelmas Anno xvio. Then Married Sir Nicholas a young Gentlewoman of twenty years of Age by the which it was doubted as well by Sir John Turbervile as by Sir John Mordaunt That Sir Nicholas's Wife might have Issue Male and for that neither of them trusted so surely to come to the Inheritance according to the Title that either of them had as they did in the Life of the old Wife of Sir Nicholas And from the Death of the Lord Morton and of Sir Nicholas's Wife Sir John Turbervile feared that Sir Nicholas by help of Sir John Mordaunt should cause the State Tayl to be Executed to Sir Nicholas and that was one cause that he was glad to Bargain with John Smith that though such Judgment had been given John Smith should not Execute it but stand still seized to the use that he recovered it for And that for his so doing if Sir John Turbervile died without Issue of his Body begotten John Smith should have the Fee-Simple of all the same Mannors to the use of the same John Smith and his Heirs for ever Another Consideration why Sir John Turbervile should depart with the Fee-Simple to John Smith was for that John Smith should labour Sir Nicholas with more diligence for his own Interest in the Fee-Simple to have changed his Estate in Tayl to a State for Term of Life and for that he should have the Fee-Simple for lack of Issue of Sir John Turbervile At this time was not the Fee-Simple so greatly to be regarded for that it was openly known that Mr. Turbervile intended to Marry where he might have Issue And also Sir John Turbervile feared that my Lady Latimer should have had Issue Male and for that should John Smith labour to have the Estate of Sir Nicholas changed to a State for Term of Life Upon these Considerations and others and for other things here under-written It was Covenanted and Bargained between Sir John Turbervile and John Smith in Winter Anno xvii o of Henry the Seventh That for the Reversion of the Mannor of Snodland in Kent of the yearly value of twenty Marks as it is said which Sir John Turbervile had to him and to the Heirs of his Body and for lack of such Issue it should remain to John Smith in Fee which Reversion John Smith should Surrender and Release all his Right therein to such use as Sir John Turbervile would Assign And for that also that John Smith should Release an Annuity of ten Marks which he had for Term of Life out of the same Mannor It was Covenanted That John Smith should stand still seized of all the said Latimers Lands to the use of Sir John Turbervile and of the Heirs of his Body begotten and for lack of such Issue to the use of John Smith and his Heirs in Fee of which Bargain Sir John Mordaunt knew not till September Anno xviij o of Henry the Seventh But William Mordaunt Brother to Sir John Mordaunt which at the Commandment of the said Sir John had many times broken with John Smith that Sir John Mordaunt his Brother might redeem the Title of Sir John Turbervile in the Premisses by the means of the said John Smith without whom Sir John Turbervile would make no Bargain Agreed and Bargain'd with John Smith in Trinity Term or else Easter Term Anno xvii o Henrici vii mi That for the Mannor of Estpulham to be made sure to John Smith and his Heirs from Sir John Mordaunt and his Heirs discharged of the Title of one John Crokerne which Crokerne pretended Title to the Moity thereof whether Sir John Turbervile lived or died If Sir Nicholas died without Issue Male That for lack of Issue of Sir John Turbervile lawfully begotten John Mordaunt should have all the Residue of Latimers Lands to him and to his Heirs for ever This Bargain and Agreement John Smith rehearsed and agreed to at the Dutchy Chamber Door in the Life of Sir John Turbervile to Sir John Mordaunt in the presence of William Mordaunt on the Morrow after the Agreement between William and John Smith had And the said William at the first Agreement and on the Morrow the said John Mordaunt also desired to know of John Smith how he could make that sure if Sir John Turbervile died And thereto John Smith Answered That they should know that another time but not then and said Doubt ye not but live he or die he ye shall be sure of that I have said and thus they departed And before the next Term died Sir John Turbervile in the beginning of Anno xviii o of Henry the Seventh After the said Bargain Agreed between John Mordaunt and John Smith by the means of William Mordaunt the sixth day of September after Turberviles Death John Mordaunt sent word to Smith into the West Country of Turberviles death willed him to come to London as soon as he might and to
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
Luffwic cum pertinentiis de quibus scilicet quinque jacent supra Drayton in Campo scilicet de Burweden inter diviram croftum Palini in escambia septem selionum terrae quas idem Henricus mihi dedit pro iisdem quinque selionibus praedictis Tenendum habendum dicto Henrico Haeredibus suis liberè quietè haereditariè Et quòd ego haeredes mei vel aliquis per nos clameum vel calumpniam in praedictis sex selionibus habere non possimus in posterum In testimonium hujus praesenti scripto Impressionem Sigilli mei apposui His Testibus Willielmo de Drayton Galfrido fratre suo Roberto filio Walteri Petro de Holt Henrico Duffen Willielmo Chauntrell Willielmo filio ejus Clerico aliis Charta Henrici filii Walteri de Drayton SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Henricus filius Walteri de Draytona dedi concessi hac praesenti carta mea confirmavi Deo Sanctae Mariae Hospitali Sancti Johannis Baptistae de Northamptona Fratribus ibidem Deo servientibus pro salute animae meae omnium Antecessorum Successorum meorum in liberam puram perpetuam eleemosynam sex seliones terrae in Campo de Luffwic ad Hardesmede juxta pratum praedicti Hospitalis Tenendas habendas liberè quietè de me haeredibus meis sibi successoribus suis in perpetuum Et ego praedictus Henricus haeredes mei praedictam terram praedicto Hospitali praedictis fratribus contra omnes gentes de omnibus secularibus servitiis acquietabimus defendemus exactionibus Quod autem ratum stabile permaneat praesenti scripto meum apposui Sigillum Hiis Testibus Domino Richardo de Watervilla Hugone filio Baldewini de Luffwic Symone filio Galfridi de Sliptona Thoma Clerico de Sliptona Simone filio Willielmi Heward Philippo de Adington multis aliis Ex Bundello Escaetorum de Anno tricesimo septimo Henrici Tertii Numero 52. INquisitio facta Anno Regni Regis Henrici tricesimo septimo die Jovis proximo ante festum Sancti Bartholomei Apostoli apud Drayton per sacramentum proborum legalium hominum subscriptorum videlicet Richardi de Aldwincle Radulphi de Craneford Radulphi Basset de Islipton Henrici Clerici de eadem Roberti filii Willielmi de Luffwic Walteri de Hemyan de eadem Willielmi de Drayton Hugonis de Akell Roberti de Sutton Walteri de Fleming Richardi Knight de Wykingstorp Walteri filii Hugonis quantum terrae Henricus de Drayton de Domino Rege tenuit in Capite quantum de aliis per quod servitium quantum terrae illae valeant per annum in omnibus terrae exitibus quis propinquior Haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis Qui Juratores dicunt quòd praedictus Henricus tenuit in Capite de Domino Rege in Drayton Islep duas carucatas terrae cum uno tofto in Drayton de Roberto filio Willielmi de Luffwic per unum denarium per annum homagium in iisdem in Adington Twyvell Reseburgh per servitium dimidii feodi Militis Et dicunt quòd omnes praedictae terrae dicti Henrici valent per annum in omnibus exitibus terrae quindecim libras Et quòd Baldewinus filius dicti Henrici propinquior ejus haeres est quod est aetatis triginta annorum Et in testimonium hujus praedicti Inquisitores huic Inquisitioni Sigilla sua apposuerunt Datum die anno loco supradictis Convenit cum Recordo Guilielmus Ryley Sir BALDWIN of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penes Comitem de Peterborow BAldewinus filius haeres Henrici de Drayton fecit Regi fidelitatem de omnibus terris tenementis quae idem Henricus tenuit de Rege in Capite mandatum est Abbati de Persore Jacobo Frisell Escaetori Regis quòd capiant securitatem de praedicto Baldewino de Centum solidis pro Relevio suo Teste Alianora Regina Et habet terram in Comitatu Northampton Ex Bundello Escaetorum de Anno 37. Henrici Tertii Pipe Nota oblata Northampt. BAldewinus filius haeres Henrici de Drayton quinquaginta solidos pro Relevio suo de omnibus terris tenementis quae idem Henricus tenuit de Rege in Capite Conventio inter Clementem de Leyton Baldewinum de Drayton ANNO ab Incarnatione Domini millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo secundo ad festum Sancti Michaelis facta est Conventio inter Clementem de Leyton ex una parte Baldewinum filium Domini Henrici de Drayton ex altera parte videlicet quòd idem Clemens assensu spontaneâ voluntate Ceciliae uxoris suae tradidit demisit praedicto Baldewino pro viginti sex Marcis Argenti quas ipse Baldewinus eidem Clementi dedit prae manibus wardum Maritagium Willielmi filii Joselini de Islep omnium haeredum praedicti Willielmi succedentium casu contingente quòd praedictus infra plenam aetatem obierit cum toto tenemento redditu Escaetis sine ullo retinamento quae descensa fuerint vel eisdem haeredibus infra praedictam plenam aetatem descendere poterint Et cum tota dote dictae Ceciliae eidem pertinente in dicta villa de Islep de praedicto tenemento Hoc tamen adjecto quòd praedictus Willielmus secundum quod decet de Consilio Consensu praedictorum Clementis Ceciliae maritetur Ita scilicet quòd praedicta Consilium consensus dictorum Clementis Ceciliae nihil impediant quin praenotatus Baldewinus de praedicto Maritagio se possit approbare in omni loco quo praedictus Willielmus per Maritagium sui non disparagetur Habendum tenendum praedictum tenementum tam de praedicto wardo quà m de praedicta dote cum maritagio praedicti Willielmi sive aliorum haeredum praedictum Willielmum succedentium casu contingente quòd ipse Willielmus infra plenam aetatem moriatur usque ad plenam aetatem eorundem haeredum faciendo Dominis Capitalibus feodi servitium eidem tenemento annexum finitâ autem plenâ aetate praedicti Willielmi vel aliorum haeredum totum praenominatum tenementum cum domibus haeredi tunc temporis proximo vel praedictis Clementi Ceciliae eo statu quo illud recepit vel meliori integrè cum praedictis pertinentiis sine ulla molestia vel contradictione praedictus Baldewinus vel haeredes sui vel eorum assignati plenè restituent Et verò praedictus Clemens haeredes sui praedicto Baldewino haeredibus suis vel eorum assignatis sicut supradictum est contra omnes homines foeminas warrantizabunt praedictum tenementum cum praedicto Maritagio Ut autem ista Conventio rata stabilis perseveret praedicti Clemens Baldewinus affidaverunt ad majorem hujus rei
securitatem tam Baldewinus quà m Clemens hujusmodi scrptis Conventionibus impressiones sigillorum suorum mutuò apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Watervil Domino Rogero de Hyda Domino Gilberto de Daneford Richardo de Audewincle Reginaldo de Beumer Roberto filio Fulconis Luca de Trapston Johanne Walleraunde Johanne Clerico de Luffwic Henrico de Islip Clerico aliis Pipe nota oblata quadragesimo secundo Henrici Tertii Scutagium Walliae HEnricus de Drayton debet viginti solidos de dimidio Feodi Baldewinus filius haeres habet quietantiam Regis Tower Escheats 6 E. 1. n o 16. BAldewinus de Drayton tenet Drayton Luffwick Islip in Comitatu Northampton Conventio inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Rogerum de Stowmarcant ANno Regni Regis Edwardi Filii Regis Henrici primo ad Festum Sancti Michaelis convenit inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Militem ex una parte Rogerum de Stowmarcant Clericum ex altera videlicet quòd dictus Dominus Baldewinus tradidit vendidit demisit ad firmam dicto Rogero quibuscunque assignatis suis terram Dominicam suam cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Adinton quam idem Baldewinus habuit ex warda filii bonae memoriae Baldewini de Vere cum Curiae aedificiis terris Homagiis redditibus Eschaetis wardis releviis herietis pratis pascuis pasturis omnibus aliis ad dictum Dominicum pertinentibus excepto servitio Domini Johannis de Vere Warda Relevia ejusdem si contigerit Habendum tenendum dicto Rogero suis Assignatis de dicto Domino Baldewino de Drayton haeredibus suis bene in pace liberè quietè à dicto Festo Sancti Michaelis usque ad finem termini duodecim annorum proximè sequentium plenè complendorum Dictus verò Dominus Baldewinus haeredes sui eidem Rogero suis quibuscunque assignatis totum dictum Dominicum cum omnibus suis pertinentris ut praedictum est quae ad ipsum pertinent ratione praedictae wardae usque ad finem dicti termini super omnes terras tenementa sua contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt defendent à Sectis universarum Curiarum Hundredorum acquietabunt Pro hac autem traditione venditione dimissione dicti tenementi warrantizatione dedit dictus Rogerus dicto Domino Baldewino centum marcas Argenti prae manibus Praeterea Dominus Baldewinus concessit eidem Rogero suis assignatis tertiam partem Dominici in Adington quam habuit nomine dotis de Matilda relicta quondam Baldewini Vere defuncti prout continetur in quodam Scripto inter Dominum Nicholaum Dodingesel virum dictae Matildae ipsum Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton confecto sigillo Nicholai appenso Et dictus Rogerus dictam partem Dominici sumptibus suis usque ad terminum praedictorum annorum in tali statu quo recepit secundùm visum Bonorum Legalium virorum sustinebit In hujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto ad modum Chirographi confecto mutuò sigilla sua apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Wahul Domino Willielmo Hay Domino Johanne de Vere Domino Symone de Watervil Domino Symone de Eyleswritch Rectore Ecclesiae de Trapston Rogero de Venneng Rogero de Tingwick aliis Out of the Collection of Mr. Roger Dodsworth is this Ancient Pedigree of the Draytons SIR Robert of Gimeges held Staggesden in the County of Bedford of the King in Capite by the third part of a Knights Fee and he held the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Overton-Longville in Norman Cross Hundred in the County of Huntington by the service of half a Knights Fee He married Sibyl the Daughter of Hugh de Lizures who lived after him as appears by an Inquisition of the fortieth year of Henry the Third He gave to Sir Hugh de Bovi with his Daughter Emma the Moity of the Mannor of Bottlebrigg and to Baldwin of Drayton with Idonea another of his Daughters the other Moity William his Son and Heir was Lord of Staggesden and had Issue Robert of Gimeges that dyed without Issue Robert of Gimeges Lord of Staggesden and Bottelbrigg Emma of Gimeges Hugh de Bovi William of Gimeges Robert of Gimeges dyed without Issue 8 E. 3. Idonea of Gimeges Baldwin of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Philip of Arderne Escaetria de Anno sexto Edwardi Primi numero decimo sexto INquisitio facta apud Bottlebrigg die Jovis in Crastino Apostolorum Petri Pauli Anno Regni Regis Edwardi sexto per praeceptum Domini Regis coram Willielmo le Moigne Vicecomite Huntingdon Reginaldo Thurnston de Swangrit Johanne de Fraunchome de Stilton Willielmo de Menill Galfrido de Welledon Galfrido Stockman Willielmo Cokelm Roberto le Frankhome Roberto de Bedhampton Galfrido le Hunt Johanne Lokerel Johanne Cocum Idone de Gathe Qui dicunt per Sacramentum suum quòd Baldewinus de Drayton tenuit in Comitatu Huntingdon de Roberto de Gimeges quatuor viginti acras Terrae quoddam Messuagium septem acras prati unius pretium acrae terrae arabilis sex denarii pretium Messuagii quatuor solidi pretium acrae prati quatuor solidi Piscaria valent per annum duos solidos Tolnetum per aquam terram valet sex denarios Sunt ibi quatuor liberi homines quorum redditus est per annum sex solidi sex denarii Item perquisita Curiae de Bottlebrigg valent per annum duos solidos Haec omnia praedicta tenuit de Roberto de Gimeges Item idem tenuit in Villa de Overton-Longville de Domino Willielmo de Karby unum Messuagium quod valet per annum duodecim denarios unum Columbarium quod valet per annum duos solidos quatuor viginti acras Terrae pretium acrae sex denarii septem acras prati pretium acrae quatuor solidi Item sunt ibi redditus consuetudines septem liberorum hominum in Overton valent per annum quinquaginta sex solidos sex denarios Et dicunt quòd Johannes filius dicti Baldewini est ejus haeres propinquior est de aetate viginti duorum annorum ampliús Convenit cum Recordo Guilielmus Ryley Sir JOHN of DRAYTON first of that Name Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Charta Roberti de Arderne SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus de Arderne dedi concessi hac meâ praesenti Chartâ confirmavi Johanni filio Domini Baldewini de Drayton cum Philippa filiâ meâ totam Terram meam in Wappenham quae fuit de Jure Dominae Aliciae matris meae mihi ab ea haereditariè descendebat cum omnibus pertinentiis suis libertatibus Tenendam de me haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis de dicta Philippa filia mea exeuntibus liberè haereditariè honorificè per servitium tertiae partis unius Militis
Draytonorum terras possidet Ad istorum Draytonorum caput sub marmore plano jacet vir quidam generosus Gilbertus Segrave A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT THAT WERE LORDS of WERMINSTER Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Mauduit were Chequy Or and Azure a Bordure Gules Of the Original Descent Greatness Possessions Honours Alliances and Arms of the House of Mauduit that were Lords of Werminster THIS House was originally of the Dukedom of Normandy where it flourished before the Conquest under the name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith as much as to say Evil taught and upon occait was written in the Latine tongue Maledoctus a sobriquet of which the grounds do not remain in story A Lord of this name came over with King William the First under the appearance of much reputation and interest He is recorded to have been in immediate service at the Battel where King Harold was slain and to have been one of those Lords to whom the Conquerour gave Lands for their notable services The Actions performed by those of this House have been famous their successes various the remembrance of their Lords illustrating story with the variety of their fortunes There had been in this Family great marks of the love and confidence of their Princes They were promoted to Dignities and trusted in employments of most importance There were of them had been Lords of much power that had been Governours of Provinces that had been Chamberlains and held the highest Offices in the Houses of their Kings that had been great Earls and all of them allyed to Families of most Power and Nobleness After the introduction of the hereditary use of Arms in this House they were differently born for William Lord Mauduit who was Earl of Warwick bore in a Field Argent two Barre Gules in the time of King Henry the Third But William Lord Mauduit his Cousin and contemporary from whom the Lords of Werminster did descend gave in a Bordure Gules Chequy Or and Azure This House notwithstanding and all its greatness took an end about the beginning of King Richard the Second leaving only to inherit their Name Armes and Possessions Matilda de Mauduit that was married to Sir Henry Greene of Drayton from whom to the Veres that were Lords of Adington descended all their pretensions and from them to the Mordaunts that by the marriage of Elizabeth Vere came to inherit the Arms and Lands of those two Noble Families WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and other Great Lands and Lordships AMong those Heroes that did accompany King William the First unto the Conquest of England was a Lord of the Name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith in the Latine termed Maledoctus Whether it was the William here mentioned or his Father it matters not but sure we are that at the time of the general Surveigh iâ— the Raign of that King this William Lord Mauduit is found to have possessed seven faâ—â— Lordships in Hampshire And coming afterwards by the merit of many great Serviceâ— and the favour of King Henry the First to be his Chamberlain he obtained from hiâ— a Grant of all the Lands whereof Micael de Hanslape dyed seized with Maude thâ— Daughter of the said Micael in Marriage Their Issue Robert Mauduit William Mauduit ROBERT MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Lordships as also in the Office of Chamberlain but the near trust wherein he lived with King Henry the First having caused him to be one of those Lords that were appointed to accompany his Children in their return out of France he was drowned in that unhappy passage from Harflew into England with those unfortunate and much lamented Princes FOR want of Issue male of the Lord Robert Mauduit WILLIAM his younger Brother came to inherit the Estate that he had left and the Office of Chamberlain was likewise bestowed upon him by Henry Duke of Normandy afterward King by the name of Henry the Second with all the Lands belonging thereunto as well in Normandy as in England This William had likewise by Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury that is of his Exchequer with livery and all other its appurtenances He had moreover in consideration of his good services divers other great Lordships bestowed upon him and also the Constablery of Richege in Fee And after Henry by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William all the premisses When he dyed I find not but he left Issue Robert Lord Mauduit AFter the Death of William Lord Mauduit the second of that name ROBERT his Son came to inherit all his great Possessions as likewise the Office of Chamberlain with what ever did belong thereunto And as an addition to his Fortunes King Henry the Second bestowed upon him by his Charter the noble Mannor of Werminster a Lordship at that time of much value and greatly priviledged which by another Charter was after confirmed by King Richard the First eldest Son and successor to King Henry After the Death of which King Richard upon what motives we do not find this Robert Lord Mauduit became involved in Confederacy with many of the great Barons who were at that time in Rebellion against King John And in the first year of King Henry the Third the Honor of Hanslape with its appurtenances which was the head of his Barony appears to have been granted away to Robert de Braboef for support in the Kings service during his pleasure But before the sixth year of that King this Robert Mauduit died leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella the Daughter of the Lord Thurstan Bassett William Lord Mauduit Robert Mauduit to whom his Father gave the noble Lordship of Werminster WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the third of that name after the death of his Father was Lord of the Honor of Hanslape and divers other fair Lands and Lordships as also hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Having been bred under his Father and in the rebellion of those Lords that made War in the time of King John he continued the same course after that Lords decease fortifying his Castles and his Houses in favour of the associated Barons particularly that of Hanslape which was taken and demolished by Falcatius de Breant a renouned Souldier of that Age and a bold asserter of the Kings Authority For which and other contumacies he was with other of the Lords Excommunicated by the Pope But all this allayed not his turbulent spirit but he still persisting in his Rebellion was actually at the Battle of Lincoln where the power of the Lords being totally vanquished he was taken Prisoner But after this he returned to his obedience and enjoyed his Estate by the Kings Grace and in the seventeenth Year of Henry the Third he obliged himself by a special writing to serve the King faithfully all his life and never more
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis â—â—â—â—tisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur
per Arenas Corpora verò pereuntium nulla Perierunt etiam cum Filio Regis Frater suus Ricardus Nothus Comes cum Filia Regis quae fuerat Uxor Rotronis Ricardus Comes Cestrensis cum Uxore sua Nepte Regis Sorore Theobaldi Comitis Nepotis Regis Periit Othoel Magister filii Regis Galfridus Ridel Robertus Malduit Willielmus Bigot multÃque alii principales Viri Nobiles quoque foeminae quamplures cum Regiis pueris non paucis Militaris numeri C. XL. Nautarum L. cum tribus Gubernatoribus Navis Solus quidem Macellarius tabulâ Naufragii pendens evasit WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. WHat became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Portchester with all the Lands of Micael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the First had given them to his Father as also Bergedon now called Berwedon in the County of Rutland with the whole Soake which Queen Maude gave to the afore-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the said William Furthermore this William had by the Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of the Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Portchester and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them And after Henry by the Death of King Stephen had obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony of which his Father dyed seized as well in England as in Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its appurtenances Bergedon with the Hundred in Com. Rut. and Maneton in Com ...... with all others the Lands which he had formerly given his Father at Nottingham as also Scaldene and Herleby with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy When he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert ROBERT MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Secundi HEnricus Rex Anglorum omnibus fidelibus suis Francis Anglis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse praesenti Carta confirmasse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum quidquid ibi habebam de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum manerium illud habeant teneant de me Haeredibus meis sicut illud tenebam bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in aquis Molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis aliis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus T. Eliensi J. Norwicensi B. Exoniensi Episcopis Convenit cum Recordo Gulielmis Prinne Carta Regis Ricardi Primi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris omnibus fidelibus totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me concessisse hac praesenti Carta confirmâsse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster quod Dominus Rex pater meus ei dedit tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum Manerium illud habeant teneant de nobis haeredibus nostris sicut illud dominus Rex pater noster tenebat bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus H. Dunelmensi H. Sarisburiensi J. Norwicensi Episcopis Galfrido filio Petri Waltero filio Roberti The Baronage of England Page 398. WHen he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the Rebellious Barons in King Johns time as it seems for it appears that in the first of Henry the Third the King Granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances to Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the Third this Robert dyed whereupon Isabella his Widow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty Marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of the year giving security for payment of his Relief viz. a hundred Pounds had Livery of his Lands WILLIAM MAVDVIT Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. THis William in the seventeenth of King John was constituted Governour of Rokingham Castle But the same year taking part with the Rebellious Barons he made a Garison of his House of Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcatius de Breant who was then a bold Soldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolish'd it upon the fourth of the Calends of December Which hardning him in his Rebellious Actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King John which happened the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Arms against King Henry the Third in the Battle of Lincoln in the first of Henry the Third the whole power of that Rebellious party being utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his Estate and in the seventh of Henry the Third making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings Gift five Does for storing of the same In the tenth of Henry the Third doing his Homage for those Lands that descended to him by the Death of Isabella Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in the seventeenth of Henry the
Third obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the days of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year Antiquities of Warwickshire fol. 305 306. Of Waleran the Earl of Warwick HE had two Wives Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice Daughter of John de Harcourt but Widow of John de Limesie before mentioned and departing this life in the sixth of King John left divers Children of which Henry his eldest Son succeeded in the Earldom Waleran another Son had the Mannors of Gretham and Cottesmore in the County of Rutland with certain Lands in Worcestershire but dyed without Issue Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife wedded William Mauduit of Hanslape in the County of Bucks and had by her Fathers appointment the Mannor of Wanton now called Walton Mauduit in this County for her Marriage Portion as is evident by King John's confirmation thereof to him bearing Date the thirtieth of November in the tenth year of his Reign WILLIAM MAVDVIT Earl of Warwick Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lordships Baronage of England Page 399. BUT in the one and fortieth of Henry the Third he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in the County of Bucks as also of the Mannor of Bergedon and Hundred of Wrangedike with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham in the County of Rutland as likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartleigh in the County of Southampton leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of Age. Which William in the forty first year of Henry the Third had so much favour from the King in payment of a Debt of two hundred Marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serjeanty he held videlicet a hundred Pounds for his Relief of his Barony and fifty Marks for his Serjeanty as that it was accepted of fifty Marks per annum The next year following this William had Summons to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the Incursions of the Welsh and in the forty seventh of Henry the Third doing his Homage and paying a hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him videlicet the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Lands and Mannors thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility Mille 's Catalogue of Honor page 798. William Maledoctus commonly called Mauduit Lord and Baron of Hanslape Cousin and Heir to Margery Countess of Warwick videlicet the Son of Alice the Sister of Henry the Father of the said Margery became Earl of Warwick after the Death of the foresaid Margery in the Reign of Henry the Third who long before had honour'd him with the Sword of Knighthood in the year 1233. and in the eighteenth of his Reign He dyed without Issue the fourth day of the Ides of January in the year 1268. and of Henry the Third the fifty second leaving his Sister Isabell his Heir Alice the Daughter of Gilbert Lord Segrave was Wife to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit that was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Carta Domini Roberti Mauduit RObertus Mauduit Domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Roberto Mauduit filio meo juniori Manerium totam terram meam de Werminster quae Rex Henricus Dominus meus mihi concessit tenendum sibi haeredibus suis in perpetuum liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè ab omni servitio salvo quod domino Regi pertinet in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Isti sunt Testes Dominus Johannes de Knovill Dominus Ricardus de Verdun Robertus de Sancto Laudo Alexander Pipard Thomas filius Johannis Henricus Transard Stephanus Camerarius Herveius Dapifer SIGILLVM DNI ROBERTI MAUDUIT Carta Domini Willielmi Mauduit Camerarii Regis WIllielmus Mauduit domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hac carta mea praesenti confirmâsse Fratri meo Roberto Mauduit pro servitio suo Manerium de Scaudedene cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè in bosco in campis in pratis in pascuis in viis in semitis in omnibus ad Manerium illud pertinentibus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius Militis Testibus Ranulpho de Glanvilla Gilberto Pipard Bertram de Verdun Willielmo de Bend Radulpho filio Stephani Eustachio filio Stephani Johanne Mauduit Beberto filio Richardi Gaufrido de Insula Roberto Burell Roberto Mauncell Roberto Mauduit filio meo Willielmo filio Walteri Willielmo Nepote aliis multis SIGILLVM DNI WILLI MAUDUIT CAMERARII REGIS Monasticon Anglicanum Pars Secunda pag. 409. 36. 43. inter concessiones de Mayden Bradley EX dono Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum pertinentiis in Bushopstree Ex dono Agnetis de la Mare quae fuit Uxor Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum messuagio Curtelagio in Tarrenta WILLIAM MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Placita de Banco Term. Pasch Anno 14 H. III. in pella Scaccarii Regis remanent Rot. 15. RObertus de Passleu per Attornatum suum petit versus Willielmum Mauduit Eugeniam Uxorem ejus quòd reddant ei Henricum filium haeredem Henrici Cromwell cujus custodia ad eum pertinet ratione commissionis Domini Regis quod inde fecit dicit c. Sed quia dictus Robertus non ostendit dictam commissionem dicta custodia remansit penes dictos Willielmum Eugeniam Charta Regis Henrici Tertii HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae
totam terram illam tenementum quae habuimus in Villa de Gravenshull quam quidem terram septem villani nostri tenere consueverint liberè quietè integrè sine aliquo retenemento cum omnibus suis pertinentiis faciendo inde nobis haeredibus nostris servitium vicesimae partis feodi unius Militis pro omni servitio exactione seculari in perpetuum ut praedictum est His Testibus Domino Thoma de Clare Johanne de Muscegros Roberto de Turberville Hugone de Turberville Hugone filio Otonis Roberto de Turberville filio Rogero de Reymes aliis Datum per manum nostram apud Bristol nono die Decembris Anno Regni Domini Regis patris nostri quinquagesimo secundo Carta Dominae Margeriae de Insula SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Margeria de Insula dedi concessi hac praesenti Carta mea confirmavi Elizabethae de Mauduit filiae meae totam illam terram tenementum quae habui in Villa de Kildewate quam quidem terram pater meus Johannes de Verdon quondam emit de Domino Roberto de Muscegros mihi dedit in liberum Maritagium tenenda habenda sibi haeredibus suis de me haeredibus meis liberè quietè bene in pace in perpetuum reddendo inde annuatim ipsa haeredes sui mihi haeredibus meis unum obulum ad festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae pro omnibus servitiis Sectis Curiarum wardis releviis omnibus aliis secularibus exactionibus quae contingere possunt Et ego verò dicta Margeria haeredes mei dictam terram tenementum cum pertinentiis dictae Elizabethae haeredibus suis contra omnes mortales per praedictum servitium in perpetuum warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio praesentis Cartae meae confirmatio perpetuae firmitatis robur obtineant praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Domino Warino de Bassingburne Hugone Lovel Waltero Simenhede Johanne Russell Militibus Johanne de la Grane Petro de Stane Johanne de Stane Galfrido de Bolyntom Willielmo de Sandhurst aliis Declaratio Domini Warini Mauduit de homagio Petri de Langford PAteat universis per praesentes quòd ego Warinus Mauduit Capitalus Dominus de parva Tenton die Mercurii proxima post Festum Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo in aula mea De Werminster recepi Homagium Petri de Langford Tenentis mei pro terra de parva Tenton praedicta praesentibus Domino Johanne de Muscegros Thoma Mauduit filio meo Henrico Pennistone Waltero Setwale Simone de Harwell Waltero Leffry Johanne Berenford Thoma de Redland aliis In cujus rei Memoriam praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Werminster die Anno supradictis OUT of a very Antient Manuscript and a List therein of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land is Dominus Warinus Mauduit THOMAS MAVDVIT Lord Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Domini Thomae Mauduit SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Thomas Mauduit filius Domini Warini Mauduit dedi concessi hac praesenti Carta confirmavi Waltero Stoner libero homini meo unam virgatam terrae in Scaldene cum omnibus pertinentiis suis pro Homagio servitio suo illam scilicet dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Radulphus Junnens quondam tenuit cum Messuagio Curtelagio cum una Crofta cum omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis illam dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Robertus Made tenuit cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sine Messuagio Curtelagio Habendum tenendum de me haeredibus meis vel meis assignatis sibi haeredibus suis vel suis assignatis liberè quietè pacificè in Bosco in plano in viis in semitis in pasturis in omnibus aliis locis exceptis à Curia mea segetibus meis Habebunt etiam dictus Walterus Beatricia Uxor sua haeredes sui vel assignati centum oves unum Multonem quieto de Herbagio seu cujusmodi animalia voluerint in pasturis ejusdem villae decem Boves vel Vaccas sive aliqua animalia cujusmodi voluerint quietos de Herbagio decem porcos quietos de Panagio ubicumque porci Liberorum Hominum pascent duos equos vel equas quietos de Herbagio Habendum tenendum liberè quietè pacificè sicut praenominatum est pro omni servitio exactione demanda ad me vel ad haeredes meos pertinentibus reddendo inde annuatim mihi haeredibus meis vel meis assignatis ipsi haeredes sui vel sui assignati unum Par albarum Chirothecarum vel unum denarium ad Pascha vel infra octavas Paschae sine Calumnia Volo etiam concedo quòd dictus Walterus haeredes sui vel assignati habeant liberum introitum exitum ad omnes terras sine Calumnia Et si ita fortè contigerit quòd dictus Walterus sine Haerede de Beatrice Uxore sua decesserit supradicta Beatricia totam praedictam terram cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sicut praenominatum est habeat cuicumque voluerit superstite concessum est legat ' vel Assignat ' exceptâ Domo Religiosa Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio Cartae meae Confirmatio firma stabilis in perpetuum permaneat praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui his Testibus Radulpho de Rale Willielmo de Grimsted Symone de Melbourne Willielmo filio Gervasii Ada de la Hyde Thoma Spencer Andreo Camerario aliis multis Datum apud Scaldene die Annuntiationis beatae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici SIGILLVM DNI THOMAE MAUDUIT Carta Roberti Mauduit SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus Mauduit concessi quietam clamavi de me haeredibus meis Domino Thomae Mauduit fratri meo haeredibus suis totam terram meam de Westhastie cum toto adquestu meo sine ullo retinemento in excambiis terrae suae de Knovenhill quam ipse Thomas Mauduit dominus meus frater haeredes sui mihi haeredibus meis de Uxore mea progenitis concesserunt quietam clamaverunt Carta sua confirmaverunt Itaque nolo quod praedictus Thomas Mauduit Dominus meus frater vel haeredes sui per me vel per aliqâ—â—â—â— haeredum meorum in aliquo vexentur Hanc concessionem quietam Clamation â—â— praesenti Scripto Sigilli mei munimine confirmavi his Testibus Willielmo de Warblintune Nicholao de Haveresham Willielmo de la Mare Nicholao de la Mare Waltero de la Mare Willielmo Parsona de Gratele Richardo filio Alveredi Hugone de Ho ... Richardo de Aulvine Petro de Warblintune multis aliis Carta
tertia parte dictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cùm acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae de Dominis Capitalibus feodorum liberè quietè bene in pace Jure haereditario imperpetuum per servitia inde debita consueta Et Ego praedictus Robertus haeredes mei omnia praedicta terras tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis unà cum tertia parte supradictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cum acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus imperpetuum defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio concessio praesentis Cartae meae Confirmatio ratae stabiles imperpetuum permaneant istam praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Willielmo de Mandeville Johanne Hussege Roberto Plagenet Waltero Setwale Rogero Marnion Roberto Swotyng Johanne Bernard aliis Data apud Westbury die Veneris proximo ante Festum beatae Margaretae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi Nono Hollinshed his Chronicle of England Page 329. THere were Letters intercepted about the same time which a Messenger brought out of Scotland three closed and three open for there were six in all The King sent them to the Archbishop of Canterbury who by his commandment published them in open Audience at London The first was closed with the Seal of the Lord Thomas Randulfe Earl of Murrey Lord of Annandale and of Man Lieutenant to Robert le Bruce King of Scotland which contained a Sase-conduct for Sir Thomas Topclive Chaplain and one to be Associate with him to come into Scotland and to return from thence in safety The second was sealed with the Seal of Sir James Dowglas for a like Safe-conduct for the same persons The third was closed with the Seal of the said Earl of Murrey for the Safe-conduct of the Lord John de Mowbray and the Lord John de Clifford and forty Horses with their Pages for their safe coming unto the said Earl into Scotland for their abiding there and returning back The fourth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed to King Arthur The fifth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed unto the Lord Ralph Nevill The sixth had no direction but the tenour thereof was this as followeth You shall understand my Lord that the communication beforehand had is now brought to effect for the Earl of Hereford the Lords Roger Damoriae Hugh de Audelie the younger Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford John Gifford Henry Teis Thomas Mauduit John de Willington and all others are come to Pomfret and are ready to make you good assurance so that you will perform Covenant with them to wit for your coming to aid us and to go with us into England and Wales to live and dye with us in our quarrel We therefore beseech you to assign us day and place where we may meet and we will be ready to accomplish fully our business and we beseech you to make us a Safe-conduct for thirty Horses that we may with safety come to your parts Again in the same Chronicle Page 330. IN this Fight was slain the Earl of Hereford the Lord William de Sullye with Sir Roger de Bunghfeild and divers others and there were taken Thomas Earl of Lancaster the Lord Roger Clifford Son to that Roger which dyed in the Battel of Bannocksborne in Scotland the Lord Gilbert Talbot the Lord John Mowbray the Lord Hugh de Willington the Lord Thomas Mauduit the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Philip Darey the Lord Thomas Wither the Lord Henry de Willington the Lord Hugh de Knovill the Lord Philip de Beche the Lord Henry de Leiburne the Lord Henry de Bradburne the Lord John de Beckes the Lord Thomas Lovell the Lord William Fitz-William Robert de Waterville John de Strickland Odnell Heron Walter Pavely of Stretton and a great number of other Esquires and Gentlemen This Battel was fought on the fifteenth day of March in the year 1322. after the accompt of them that begin the year at the Circumcision which was in the said fifteenth year of this Kings Reign And again Page 331. of the same Chronicle ON the same day the Lord William Tuchet the Lord William Fitz-William the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Henry Bradborne and the Lord William Chenie Barons with John Page an Esquire were drawn and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortly after Roger Lord Clifford John Lord Mowbray and Sir Gosein de Eevill Barons were drawn and hanged at York At Bristol were executed in like manner Sir Henry de Willington and Sir Henry Mountfort Baronets And at Gloucester the Lord John Gifford and Sir William Elmebrige Knight And at London the Lord Henry Teies Baron At Winchelsey Sir Thomas Culpepper Knight At Windsor the Lord Francis de Aldham Baron And at Canterbury the Lord Bartholomew de Badelismere and the Lord Bartholomew de Ashborneham Barons Also at Cardif in Wales Sir William Fleminge Knight was executed Divers were executed in their Countries as Sir Thomas Mauduit and others Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem Pag. 2547. Ex Henrici Knighton Canonici Leicestrensis Chronico de Eventibus Angliae Part of the Charge against Hugh le Despenser at his Arraignment ET Faitez prendre mon tres honourable Seignour le bon Count de Lancastre Thomas que estoit cousin Germain à nostre Seigneur le Roy de ses freres Uncle à tres honourable de France de sa soere Madame Isabelle Royne d' Angleterre si lui faitez faussement emprisoner despoilier touz lez sons en sa sale proprement deins sa Castele de Pomfrete par vostre reall povare que vous avez purpris nostre Seigneur le Roy luy faitez juger par une faulse recorde encontre leye resone la grant Chartre Ensi faites mordrer martirizer moirir de dure morte piteouse Et cest malvys cruelté tirantie faistez al si digne persone ne vous poez sauler del sanck dez cristenez espandier Ency faitez en mesme tiele journeye pour mon dit Seigneur plus tormentyr sez Baronz sez chivaleuz se enaux vennancez trayner pendre puis juger al mort par cel fausse recorde encontre leye resone pendre dispituosement sans mercy come Monsieur Wareyne del Lyle Monsieur William Tocher Monsieur Thomas Maydut Monsieur Henry de Bradburne Monsieur William Chornel Monsieur Bartholomew de Ashburne à Londres Monsieur Henry Teies à Windesore Monsieur Francis de Aldham à Gloucester le Seignour Gifforde Monsieur Roger de Elmesbrigge à Bristoll Monsieur Henry de Willington Monsieur
sui similiter defuncti tertiam partem medietatis Manerii de Dycherych quae valet per Annum in omnibus exitibus viginti solidos Reversione inde spectante post decessum dictae Julianae rectis haeredibus praedicti Johannis Mauduit quae quidem tertia pars tenetur de Domino Rege ut de Manerio suo de Hampstead Marchal per servitium Militare Et dicunt quòd non tenuit aliqua alia terras sive tenementa dicto die quo obiit de Domino Rege in Capite in Dominico suo ut de feodo nec in servitio nec de aliquo alio in Comitatu praedicto Et dicunt quòd praedicta Juliana obiit Vicesimo die Aprilis proximo praeterito Et dicunt quòd Matill Uxor Henrici Greene Militis aetatis viginti quatuor annorum amplius est consanginea haeres praedictorum Johannis Julianae videlicet filia Thomae Mauduit filii haeredis Johannis Mauduit Julianae est haeres propinquior tam praedicto Johanni quà m praedictae Julianae In cujus rei testimonium praedicti Jurati huic Inquisitioni Sigilla sua apposuerunt Data die Anno loco supradictis Altera Inquisitio post mortem Julianae Uxoris Johannis Mauduit INquisitio capta apud Andevere decimo die Maii Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi post Conquestum secundo coram Thoma Illeston Escaetore Domini Regis in Comitatu Southampton virtute brevis Domini Regis eidem Escaetori inde directi huic Inquisitioni consuti per Sacramentum Thomae Bockland aliorum onerati jurati super Sacramentum suum dicunt quòd Juliana quae fuit Uxor Johannis Mauduit non tenuit aliqua terras sive tenementa in Dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit de haereditate Comitis Hereford in Capite ut conjunctim feoffata cum Johanne Mauduit nuper viro suo similiter defuncto sibi praefato Johanni haeredibus dicti Johannis Mauduit de Croceke cum pertinentiis in Comitatu praedicto per servitium Militare quod quidem Manerium valet per Annum in omnibus exitibus decem Marcas Et dicunt quòd non sunt aliqua alia terrae sive tenementa in Comitatu praedicto de Domino Rege in Capite nec in servitio nec de aliquo alio dicto die quo obiit Et dicunt quòd praedicta Juliana obiit vicesimo die Aprilis proximo praeterito Et dicunt quòd Matill Uxor Henrici Greene Militis aetatis viginti quatuor annorum amplius est consanguinea haeres propinquior tam praefato Johanni quà m praefatae Julianae videlicet filia Thomae Mauduit filii haeredis praedictorum Johannis Mauduit Julianae In cujus rei testimonium praedicti Juratores huic inquisitioni Sigilla sua apposuerunt Data die loco Anno supradictis Praeceptum Regis Vicecomiti ad liberandum Henrico Greene Militi marito Matildae de Mauduit diversa Maneria REX dilecto sibi Thomae de Illeston Escaetori suo in Comitatu Wilts South-hampton Quia accepimus per Inquisitionem quam per te fieri fecimus quòd Juliana quae fuit Uxor Johannis Mauduit defuncta non tenuit aliqua terras seu tenementa in Dominico suo ut de feodo in Comitatibus praedictis die quo obiit set quòd tenuit de praedicto conjunctim feoffata cum Johanne Mauduit quondam viro suo similiter defuncto sibi haeredibus de corporibus suis exeuntibus Manerium de Werminstre cum pertinentiis ac unum messuagium duas carucatas terrae viginti acras prati centum acras bosci centum solidatas redditûs cum pertinentiis in Westbury Advocationem Capellae ejusdem villae de nobis in Capite per servitium Militare per finem inde in Curia Domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae avi nostri de licentia sua levatum ac tertiam partem medietatis Manerii de Dicherich in dicto Comitatu Wilts in dorem post mortem praedicti Johannis de haereditate ejusdem Johannis similiter de nobis ut de Manerio nostro de Hampstead Marchal per servitium Militare nec non Manerium de Cracele cum pertinentiis in dicto Comitatu Southampton similiter ut conjunctim feoffata cum praefato Johanne sibi haeredibus dicti Johannis de haeredibus Humfridi de Bohun nuper Comitis Hereford infra aetatem in custodia nostra existentibus per servitium Militare quódque Matilla filia Thomae Mauduit filii haeredis praedictorum Johannis Julianae quam Henricus Greene Miles duxit in Uxorem est haeres eorundem Johannis Julianae propinquior plenae aetatis cepimus homagium fidelitatem praefati Henrici nobis in hac parte debitâ ratione prolis inter ipsum praefatam Matill procreatae eisdem Henrico Matillae Maneria terras tenementa medietatem praedicta cum pertinentiis ac Advocationem praedictam reddidimus Et ideo tibi praecipimus quòd acceptâ securitate à praefatis Henrico Matilla de rationabili relevio suo nobis solvendo ad scaccarium nostrum eisdem Henrico Matillae de Maneriis terris tenementis medietate praedictis cum pertinentiis in balliva tua ac Advocationem praedictam quae per morten praefatae Julianae capta sunt in manum nostram plenam seisinam habere facias salvo jure cujuslibet Teste Rege aqud Westmonasterium decimo nono die Maii Anno Regis Richardi Secundi secundo Per breve de privato Sigillo A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of GREENE THAT WERE LORDS of DRAYTON Justified by Publick Records Antient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Greene were Azure Three Bucks Trippant Or of the Lords of Drayton of that Name Drayton and Mauduit quarterly Of the Original Antiquity Name Arms Alliances Greatness and Possessions of the house of Greene. OF the Original of the House of Greene we have no certain information but it is apparent they assumed their Name and Arms from an allusion to their principal and beloved Lordship which was Buckton or the Town of Bucks in the County of Northampton being in the Hundred of Spellho a place memorable for the excellency of its soil and situation as a spatious and delightful Green upon which at the desire of the Lords was yearly held and exercised a Fair with particular and extraordinary priviledges Hence they were called Greene or of the Green And from Buckton or the Town of Bucks they have assumed for their Arms in a Field Azure three Bucks trippant Or until the division of the Family in the two Sons of Sir Henry Greene the great Chief Justice the second whereof Sir Henry Greene the younger had been obliged by his Cousin Sir John of Drayton upon his becoming invested in that Lordship to change his own Arms and assume those of his Family which were Argent a Cross Engrailed
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
The Wife of Sir Henry Greene was Katharine the Daughter of Sir John and Sister of Sir Simon of Drayton Their Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Norton that Married Mary Daughter of Richard Lord Talbot and Sister to John the first Earl of Shrewsbury from whom were those Greenes that for several generations flourished afterwards at that place in great reputation Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Greene Married to William Lord Zouch of Totnes Nicholas Greene. Richard Greene. Amabila Greene Married to Sir Ralph Reynes Lord of Clifton HAving only exposed the descent and succession of those Greenes that were Lords of Drayton I shall proceed to HENRY the second Son of Sir Henry Greene who in his Father's life-time and by his procurement was invested by his Cousin Sir John of Drayton in the chief seat and Lordship of that place with all the Towns Lands Liberties and Priviledges belonging thereunto upon condition that from thenceforth he should bear his Name and his Arms according as to that purpose the same Sir John had formerly covenanted with Sir Henry the Father of this Sir Henry Greene. Now this being among his other Children the delight and hopes of his old Father he was by him endowed with great and noble possessions as besides the Mannor of Drayton of which were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with certain Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle those of Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Batteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottington Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places and he was moreover by his provident care Married to Matilda Daughter and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Mauduit that was Lord of Werminster Westbury Lye Grateley Dychurch and other fair Possessions all which with the blood and Arms of that Antient and Noble House by this Alliance devolved into his Family The ambition of the young Henry Greene fomented by these favours of fortune drew him to the Court where he resolutely joyn'd his hopes and expectations to the fate of that unhappy Prince King Richard the Second at whose hand he had received the honour of Knighthood The merits of his person soon acquired him the nearest favour of this King and those of his mind the approbation and encouragement of all his Council into the number whereof he was chosen for his great faithfulness and abilities And when the Conspiracies of divers of the turbulent and seditious Lords had obliged the King to condemn some and banish others he conferr'd several parcels of their confiscated Lands upon Sir Henry Greene as the Mannors of Kibworth Cotgrave and Preston Capes that appertained to Thomas Earl of Warwick those of Knighton Cuvelle and Bulkington in the County of Wilts by reason of the attainder of Richard Earl of Arundell and the Place of the Lord Cobham in London with all its furniture to the end he might secure the fidelity of those about him by exemplary satisfaction for their services and hazards And indeed had not the perversness of this Kings Planet which obstinately prosper'd the Rebellion of his Enemies overwhelm'd all his hopes there was not any greatness unto which the deserts of this Sir Henry might not have well attained But at last when the Duke of Lancaster's fortune came like a torrent bearing down all before it Sir Henry Greene that had possessed himself of the Castle of Bristol and meant to defend it for his Master to the uttermost was taken by his perfidious Garrison and delivered bound to the Duke who knowing his constancy to be dangerous and unchangeable caused him to be beheaded the next day with the Earl of Wiltshire and Sir John Bushey His Issue Ralph Greene Lord of Drayton John Greene who by his Brothers death without Issue became after Lord of that place Mary Greene Married to Sir Jeffrey Lutterill Eleanor Greene Married to John Fitz-Williams of Sprofsburgh SIR Henry Greene had in his life-time made such generous use of his fortune and the favour of King Richard as found its reward from the gratitude of several great men he had obliged who contributed their instigations to the inclination of the succeeding King which was much bent to favour the unfortunate Family of the deceased Gentleman whose person fidelity and gratitude had been so exemplary and who lost his life but for his adherence to a King that had been his Master and Benefactor In the very first year therefore of King Henry the Fourth his eldest Son RALPH GREENE was restored by Act of Parliament to the Lordship of Drayton and all the rest of those Lands that were the inheritance of his Father or his Mother the Lady Matilda de Mauduit And several Instruments are extant of the grace and clemency of this Prince to himself and the other Children of Sir Henry Greene. This Family coming again to flourish in the County of Northampton Ralph Greene was in the eight year of King Henry the Fourth chosen to serve in the then considerable Office of High Sheriff for that Shire and he is found to have been employed in divers important occasions for the service of King Henry the Fifth and particularly in the first year of his Reign to have been joyn'd in Commission with William Lord Roos of Hamlock for suppressing the Rebellion and Insurrections of William Perwich and his adherents who in a Hostile manner had fallen upon several of the Kings Subjects and Officers more especially on James Bellers in his return from the last Parliament where he had served for Knight of the Shire as also to have been again Sheriff in the second of that King At last having by a provident care and many generous endeavours restored his Family to its ancient splendor and those great Possessions belonging thereunto he dyed in the sixth year of Henry the Fifth without any Issue of his Wife who was Catharine the Daughter of Ankitell Malliory Lord of Winwick and that took after to her second Husband the famous Sir Simon Felbrigg who in the Reign of King Henry the Fifth was one of the Knights and Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter JOHN GEENE for want of Issue from his Brother Ralph came to possess the Lands and Lordships belonging to that Family except what was comprehended in the Jointure of the Lady Felbrigg who had been his Brothers Wife Concerning whom there are extant divers transactions as testimonies of the considerable provision had been made for her in that Estate and as one whom his Fathers misfortunes had prepared for the love of a private life he applyed himself to enjoy the happiness of his House and Country living in a free Estate and fortunate Marriage with Margaret the Daughter of Walter Greene of Bridgnorth till he departed this life in the eleventh year of King Henry the Sixth He left Issue Ralph Greene that dyed in his youth Henry Greene afterwards Lord of Drayton Margery Greene Married to Sir Henry Huddlestone Isabella Greene Married to Sir Richard
vel per ipsum solum qualitercunque in hac parte factorum sive perpetratorum Et de eo quòd ipse fuit de assensu consilio favore abbettamento Comitiva vi retinentia seu adhaesione praedictorum Ducis Comitum in materiis praedictis vel earum aliqua seu aliqua parcella aut aliquibus dependentiis earundem ac pro omnibus aliis proditionibus seditionibus insurrectionibus feloniis murdris raptibus mulierum roberiis depraedationibus latrociniis homicidiis incendiis transgressionibus inobedientiis rebellionibus forstallariis confoederationibus conspirationibus cambipartiis ambidextriis falsitatibus negligentiis deceptionibus quibuscunque Nobis seu alicui de regno nostro actis vel illatis unde idem Henricus judicatus impetitus rectatus accusatus vel appellatus existit vel esse poterit quoquo modo in futuo Et etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis actionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei indè concedimus Nolentes quòd praefatus Henricus aut haeredes vel executores sui aut terrarum suarum Tenentes ratione aliquorum praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem coram Nobis haeredibus nostris in Parliamentis nostris vel haeredum nostrorum vel in quibuscunque aliis locis vel placeis nostris coram quibuscunque Judicibus Justiciariis Ministris vel Officiariis Nostris vel haeredum nostrorum quibuscunque inde futuris temporibus impetantur occasionentur inquietentur molestentur in aliquo seu graventur sed ab omnibus praemissis penitus sint quieti absoluti exonerati imperpetuum aliquo statuto seu ordinatione in contrarium praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem quovis modo factis non obstantibus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilecto fideli Militi nostro Henrico Greene Maneria de Cosgrave Preston Capes in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum pertinentiis ac reversionem Manerii de Kibworth in Comitatu Leicestriae cum pertinentiis cum feodis Militum advocationibus Ecclesiarum omnibus aliis franchesiis libertatibus ad Maneria illa pertinentibus sive spectantibus quae quidem Maneria Thomae nuper Comitis Warwici extiterunt Nobis ratione judicii contra ipsum in Parliamento nostro redditi forisfacta existunt Habendum tenendum praefato Henrico haeredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus praedicta Maneria cum pertinentiis cum feodis advocationibus franchesiis libertatibus praedictis de Nobis haeredibus nostris aliis Dominis feodorum per servitia indè debita consueta adeò liberè integrè sicut praedictus Thomas ante haec tempora habuit ac tenuit Maneria supradicta In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per Breve de privato Sigillo Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilectis fidelibus Militibus nostris Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene placeam vel Hospitium quae vel quod fuit Johannis Domini de Cobham infra Civitatem nostram Londini ad Nos pertinet per forisfacturam ejusdem Johannis Domini de Cobham Habendum dictis Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene pro termino vitae eorum alterius eorum diutiùs viventis dictam placeam sive Hospitium unà cum omnibus Schoppis sellariis solariis eisdem Hospitio sive placeae adjacentibus ac cum omni redditu ad dictam Placeam sive Hospitium aliquo modo pertinente Et cum stuffura in eadem placea sive Hospitio existente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Salopiam tricesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Hollinshead in Chronicle of England Page 498. WHen the Lord Governour Edmund Duke of York was advertised that the Duke of Lancaster kept still the Sea and was ready to arrive but where he meant first to set foot on land there was not any that understood the certainty he sent for the Lord Chancellor Edmund Stafford Bishop of Exeter and for the Lord Treasurer William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and other of the King 's Privy Council as John Bushie William Bagot Henry Greene and John Russell Knights Of these he required to know what they thought good to be done in this matter concerning the Duke of Lancaster being in the Seas Their advice was To depart from London to St. Albans and there to gather an Army to resist the Duke in his landing But to how small purpose their Counsel served the conclusion thereof plainly declared for the most part that were called when they came protested that they would not fight against the Duke of Lancaster whom they knew to be evil dealt withal The Lord Treasurer Bagot Bushie and Greene perceiving that the Commons would cleave unto and take part with the Duke slipped away leaving the Lord Governour of the Realm and the Lord Chancellor to make what shift they could for themselves Bagot got him to Chester and so escaped into Ireland the other fled to the Castle of Bristol in hopes there to be in safety Again out of the same Chronicle and the same Page AT the same present there was arrested and committed to safe custody the Bishop of Norwich Sir William Elman and Sir Walter Burley Knights Lawrence Drew and John Golofer Esquires On the morrow after the foresaid Dukes with their power went toward Bristol where at their coming they shewed themselves before the Town and Castle being a huge multitude of people There were enclosed within the Castle the Lord William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and Treasurer of England Sir Henry Greene and Sir John Bushie Knights who prepared to make resistance but when it would not prevail they were taken and brought forth bound as Prisoners into the Camp before the Duke of Lancaster On the morrow next ensuing they were arraigned before the Constable and Marshal and found guilty of Treason for misgoverning the King and Realm and forthwith had their heads smit off Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England pag. 49. treating of Coats of Arms and of the different Bearing of them by persons of the same
nuper Vicecomitis Lisle Elizabethae uxoris ejus ac Nobis praefatae Johannae Vicecomitissae Lisle Thomae Grey Armigero Thomae Kevell servienti Domini Regis ad legem Edwardo Hungerford Armigero Humfrido Conyngesby Thomae Frowyk Johanni Titchbourne Johanni Smyth Johanni Gardyner Thomae Byall Thomae Heywoode Maneria sua de Waterhale Brafeld Pollycote Wanden Emberton Wolston magna cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac Manerium suum de Chalton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Bedfordiae ac etiam Maneria sua de Suttons Pyggesland Tracyes Stamford Ryvers cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae Necnon omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatibus praedictis quae inter alia praefatus Robertus Wittelbury Armiger Willielmus Marbury Armiger Thomas Mountegu Johannes Freeman ac Willielmus Feld Clericus Robertus Bayston Clericus nuper habuerunt sibi haeredibus suis ex dono feoffamento dicti Comitis prout per quandam Cartam sibi inde confectam pleniùs apparet qui quidem Willielmus Feld Robertus Bayston totum jus suum in maneriis terris tenementis praedictis ac caeteris praemissis praefatis Roberto Wittelbury Willelmo Marbury Thomae Mountegu Johanni Freeman remiserunt relaxaverunt prout per eorum scriptum inde sibi confectum similiter apparet Habendum tenendum praedicta Maneria terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum pertinentiis praefatis Comiti Margaretae uxori suae ac Nobis praesatae Johannae Johanni Vicecomiti Lisle Thomae Grey Thomae Kevell Edwardo Hungerford Humfrido Conyngesby Thomae Frowyk Johanni Titchbourne Johanni Smyth Johanni Gardyner Thomae Byall Thomae Heywoode pro termino vitae ejusdem Margaretae remanere inde praefato Comiti haeredibus assignatis ejusdem Comitis imperpetuum prout in eadem carta plenius liquet Noveritis Nos praefatos Johannam Vicecomitissam Lisle Johannem Vicecomitem Lisle Thomam Grey Thomam Kevell Edwardum Hungerford Humfridum Conyngesby Thomam Frowyk Johannem Titchbourne Johannem Smyth Johannem Gardyner Thomam Byall Thomam Heywoode remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro Nobis haeredibus nostris imperpetuum quietum clamâsse praefato Edwardo Comiti Wilts Margaretae uxori suae totum jus titulum clameum demaundam interesse nostra de in omnibus praedictis Maneriis de Waterhall Brafeld Pollycote Wanden Emberton Wolston magna cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac Manerio de Chalton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Bedfordiae ac etiam Maneriis de Suttons Pyggesland Tracyes Stamford Ryvers cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae Necnon de omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatibus praedictis Ita quòd nec Nos praefati Johanna Vicecomitissa Lisle Johannes Vicecomes Lisle Thomas Grey Thomas Kevell Edwardus Hungerford Humfridus Conyngesby Thomas Frowyk Johannes Titchbourne Johannes Smyth Johannes Gardyner Thomas Byall Thomas Heywoode nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro Nobis seu nomine nostro aliquid juris vel clamei in praedictis Maneriis terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus praedictis caeteris praemissis cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de caetero exigere seu vendicare poterimus in futuro set ab omni actione juris clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium Sigilla nostra apposuimus ....... die mensis ....... Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi post Conquestum Angliae quarto decimo Ultima Voluntas Edwardi Comitis Wilts IN the name of God Amen The two and twentieth day of March in the yeare of oure Lord one thousand four hundred nynety and eight I Edward Erle of Wyltshire of hole minde and good memory bequeth my sowle to Almighty God my Creator and Saviour to our Lady Seint Marie and to all the holy company of Hevyn and my body to be beryed within the Chyrche of Seint Peter in Luffwycke in our Lady I le by me Graundfader Greene and wyll myne Executors make a convenient Tombe to be made for me Item I wyll that the last Wyll of my Lord my Fader my Lady my Moder and my Graundfader Greene be performed Item I wyll that where Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires William Feld Clarke Robert Bayston Clarke Thomas Mountegu and John Freeman been seasid of the Manors of Buckworth Comberton Raundes Ryngsted Irtlingborough Haringworth and Hardewyke in the Counties of Huntingdon Cambridge and Northampton and of oder Landes and Tenements Woodes Meadowes and Pastures in Buckworth Comberton Raundes Rygsted Irtlingborough Hardewycke and Haringworth in the Counties aforesaid in there Demesne as of Fee to the use of me and myne heires and whereas Margaret my Wyfe John Viscounte Lisle and other Cofeffes been seasid of the Manors of Stamford Ryvers Piggesland Tracyes and Suttons in the County of Essex and of the Manors of Newington Blosmavyle and Pollicote in the County of Bucks and of certaine Londes and tenements woodes medowes and pastures belongyng and appartaynyng unto the seid Manors in their demesne as of Fee to the use of me and of Margaret my wyfe for terme of hur lyfe for certaine causes and considerations I wyll that the seid Robert Wittelbury William Merbury William Feld Clarke Robert Bayston Clarke Thomas Mountagu and John Freeman that the foreseid Robert Wittelbury and all the seid Cofeoffes abovenamed and all other Feoffes in the seid Manors Londes and tenements woodes medowes and pastures shall be and stand Feoffes in all the seid Manors Londs and tenements medowes and pastures in Buckworth Comberton Raundes Ringsted Irtlingborough Hardwyke and Haringworth to the intent following That is to sey That I wyll the seid Margaret my wyfe shall have and enjoy all the profites and revenues of the seid Manors of Buckworth Comberton Ringsted Irtlingborough Hardwyck and Haringworth with their appurtynances for terme of her lyfe with this condition that she make no tytle cleyme nor interesse in noon of the Manors of Stamford Ryvers Pyggesland Tracyes Suttons Newenton Blosmavile and Policote the which I wyll shall descend unto my Lord of Buckingham and his heires and I besech my seid Lord to suffer my wyfe to have the Manors of Newynton Blosmavile for terme of her lyfe and to be good Lord unto her and my Servaunts Item I wyll that all such Annuities and Fees as be graunted by Dede or Patentes by my Lord my Fader my Lady my Moder my Grandfader Greene and me be had ferme and stable for terme of their lyfe without lett or interruption Item I wyll that my Feoffes that now been or hereafter shall be suffer William Merbury and Thomas Mountegu to take and receyve the revenues and profites of my Londes Tenements Woods Medowes and Pastures in Luffewicke and Islip unto they be content and saved harmelesse ayenst the King for the Det of One hundred and twenty nine Pounds one
Father had his Wardship purchased by his Mother the Lady Elizabeth Vere of Edward the black Prince for the summe of twenty pounds who by his Charter which is extant did grant the custody of his Lands with his Marriage to his dear and well beloved Elizabeth that was the Wife of Robert de Vere those are the words of the Deed on condition it might be without disparagement There are remaining Covenants hereupon agreed unto between the said Robert and his Mother as also a Petition from the said Lady to Queen Isabel for her protection against Sir Henry Greene a man of great power by whom the Minor and her self were oppressed in some circumstances of the rights that did belong unto them When this Robert had attained to mans estate he confirmed to his Uncle's Wife the Lady Alice de Vere the agreement had been made with her by his Father He became afterwards much considered from his Vertue and noble qualities and in the eighteenth year of Richard the Second he served his Country in the Office of High Sheriff and did much adhere to the King in those difficulties which happened in his Reign Yet there fell out about this time a quarrel between him and a Knight of great Authority called Sir Edmund Noone on whom having made an assault wherein the said Edmund was wounded it caused him trouble for a time and an Imprisonment in the Fleet upon pretence of the Riot but the matter being composed by Friends he afterward recovered the King's grace and his liberty He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John de Tay of a noble Family and descended from antient Barons of that Name by whom having had but one Daughter called Margaret he gave her for Wife to Thomas Ashby Lord of Lovesby in the County of Leicester with his Lordships of Thrapston and Addington to them and the heirs of their bodies but it falling out that she dyed without Issue His Lands he had setled upon them returned to his Brother Baldwin and his heirs as being his lawful successors SIR BALDWIN de VERE being for many years a younger Brother appli'd himself to the Wars and a dependence upon great Princes for the support of his fortune We find him in the fourth year of King Henry the Fourth to have been Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey under that noble Prince Edward Earl of Rutland and of Corke and who was afterwards Duke of York He followed this illustrious Hero in all the succeeding Wars of that Age and fought by his side at the time he fell with so much glory in the famous Battel of Agencourt after whose death he had confirm'd unto him by King Henry the Fifth an annuity of twenty marks by the year that had been granted to him by that Duke for his life out of his inheritance in the Customs of Linnen Leather and Skins in the Port of Kingston upon Hull to be received at the hands of the Collectors thereof during the Minority of Richard the Son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge After this his fortune or rather his setled affection to the relations and interests of the House of York carried him into the Kingdom of Ireland where in the second year of King Henry the Sixth he was constituted Treasurer of his Liberties by the Lord Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster and at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which by his Letters Patents that are extant and other testimonies does appear After the death of the Earl of March and the return of Sir Baldwin Vere into England the fortunes of Love as well as those of Armes did contribute to the advantage and establishment of this worthy and industrious Knight for he fell into the favour of a young Lady the Daughter and heir of Sir John Kingston alias Mohun who brought him the Mannors of Barkloe Overhall and Hoakenhanger that were of her inheritance And in conclusion his Brothers Death without Issue male made him possession of the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and the other Lands belonging to that Family So as having no more to desire at the hands of fortune he departed this life full of years and happiness leaving Issue Sir Richard Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston Elizabeth Vere Amy Vere AFTER the decease of Sir Baldwin de Vere RICHARD his Son came to inherit the Estate and interests of that Family He met with some trouble in the beginning about this accession which came to his Father for want of Issue male from his Uncle Sir Robert de Vere who notwithstanding had made over the Lordships of Addington and Thrapston to certain Trustees for the security of the Portion promised to his Daughter Margaret that had been married to a Gentleman of consideration one Thomas Ashby of the County of Leicester And these Trustees happening to be men of the highest rank and of most power in the Kingdom as the Earls of Hereford and Stafford the Lord Beaumont the Lord Cromwel and the Lord Zouch and not a little partial to Thomas Ashby and his Wife Margaret it was no easy matter to procure a resignation of their interest But his Cousin Margaret coming to dye without Issue and having given testimony of her desire to have justice done unto her lawful successor those noble Lords were induced upon some fair agreement with Thomas Ashby to redemise to Richard de Vere the Mannor of Aldington and the other Lands wherein they had been formerly enfeoffed Soon after this Richard de Vere was setled in his fortune he contracted an alliance in the Family of Greene the most considerable among the Gentlemen of that tract by marrying Isabella one of the Daughters of John Greene who stiled himself Lord of Herdwick in the days of his Brother Ralph that was Lord of Drayton and from whose death without Issue male his descendants came to be possest of a great and noble Patrimony The great Lords of the Church being no easie neighbours in that age from their exceeding interest and authority and this Sir Richard de Vere being a man of a great spirit and of a Family unaccustomed to unreasonable submissions there arose a contest between him and the Lord Abbot of Croyland which made much noise about certain bordering pretences How it was ended does not appear but soon after this Sir Richard de Vere departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella Greene Sir Henry de Vere Baldwin Vere Constance Married to John Butler Lord of Woodhall Elizabeth Vere Married to William Dounhalle Margaret Vere Married to John Verners of Essex Amy Vere Married to John Ward of Irtlingborow Elena Vere Married to Thomas Isham of Pitchtsley HENRY the eldest Son of Sir Richard Vere with the Estate of his Father inherited the Suit and Difference with the Lord Abbot of Croyland and by his endeavours to defend his interests in that affair he incurr'd the displeasure of King Richard III. which was particularly testified in a Letter to himself and in some
centum acrae terrae arabilis valent per annum triginta tres solidos quatuor denarios per acram quatuor denarios Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem decem acrae prati falcabilis valent per annum quindecim solidos per acram octodecim denarios Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem decem liberè tenentes qui reddunt per annum scilicet ad terminum Natalis Domini Paschae Apostolorum Petri Pauli Sancti Michaelis quinquaginta solidos quatuor denarios aequis portionibus Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem decem Nativi qui reddunt per annum ad terminos praedictos sexaginta solidos octo denarios non operantur sunt ibidem septem Cottagia quae reddunt per annum quindecim solidos ad terminos praedictos Item dicunt quòd sunt placita perquisita Curiae quae valent per annum cum duobus visibus Franciplegii viginti solidos Et est ibidem unum Molendinum aquaticum quod reddit per annum sex libras ad dictos terminos Et est ibidem unum Mercatum cum una Feria quod valet per annum tredcim libras sex solidos octo denarios ad terminos praedictos Summa xxix l vi s viijd. Item dicunt quòd idem Ranulphus habet unum Manerium in Addington quod tenet de Domino Simone de Draytone per servitium quarterii unius Militis valet Capitale Messuagium per annum decem solidos Et est ibidem unum Columbarium quod valet per annum quatuor solidos Et est ibidem unum Gardinum cùm fructus acciderit quod valet per annum quatuor solidos quatuor denarios Item dicunt quòd est ibidem unum Molendinum in dicto Gardino quod valet per annum tredecim solidos quatuor denarios Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem in Dominico sexaginta acrae terrae arabilis quae valent per annum viginti solidos per acram quatuor denarios Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem sex acrae prati falcabilis quae valent per annum novem solidos per acram octodecim denarios Item dicunt quòd sunt ibidem duo liberè tenentes qui reddunt per annum duos solidos ad terminos Sancti Michaelis Paschae Et sunt ibidem septem Nativi qui reddunt per annum triginta solidos videlicet ad terminos Natalis Domini Paschae Apostolorum Petri Pauli Sancti Michaelis aequis portionibus Et operantur valent opera septem solidos Summa iiij l xviij s viijd. SS Summa totalis xxxiiij l xv s iiijl. JOHN de VERE first of that Name who died without Issue and ROBERT de VERE fourth of that Name Lords of Addington Thrapston and other Lands and Lordships Carta Roberti de Vere HAEC Indentura facta inter Robertum le Vere ex una parte Aliciam quae fuit Uxor Johannis le Vere Militis ex altera parte Testatur Quod praedictus Robertus concessit assignavit praedictae Aliciae rationabilem dotem suam sibi contingentem de Manerio de Thrapston post mortem Johannis le Vere Militis quondam viri sui videlicet tertiam partem Capitalis Messuagii dicti Manerii tertiam partem totius Dominciae terrae arabilis tertiam partem totius prati tertiam partem totius pasturae dicti Manerii prout jacent in singulis suis locis Et sexaginta sex solidatos obolatum annui redditus percipiendos de liberis tenentibus Nativis Cottagiis dicti Manerii cum omnibus suis Juribus pertinentiis videlicet de tenemento quod Thomas Boszoun tenuit duos solidos de tenemento quod Johannes Croil tenuit septendecim solidos unum denarium de tenemento quod Richardus le Wright tenuit quatuor solidos de Tenemento quod Willielmus le Masson tenuit duodecim denarios de tenemento quod Thomas de Weston tenuit sex solidos novem denarios de tenemento quod Johannes Wagge tenuit quinque solidos de Tenemento quod Johannes Mahen tenuit septem solidos quatuor denarios de Tenemento quod Thomas Fasham tenuit septem denarios de Tenemento quod Willielmus de Foixton tenuit septem denarios de Tenemento quod Johannes le Milner tenuit sex denarios de Tenemento quod Willielmus de Kettering tenuit duodecim denarios de Tenementis quae Alicia le Vinter tenuit in bondagio quatuor solidos de Tenemento quod Henricus Asser tenuit in bondagio tres solidos de Tenemento quod Willielmus Cade tenuit in bondagio quatuor solidos octo denarios de Tenemento quod Mabile le Cooke tenuit in bondagio quatuor solidos de Tenemento quod Johannes le Wright tenuit in bondagio quatuor solidos de Tenemento quod Letilbred tenuit in bondagio sex denarios obolum Et etiam idem Robertus concessit assignavit eidem Aliciae tertiam partem proficuum Molendinorum Mercatorum Nundinarum Curiarum Visuum Franciplegii Et etiam tertiam partem omnium singulorum proficuum quovismodo ratione Dominii dicti Manerii accidentium percipiendam per manus firmariorum Habenda tenenda omnia praedicta tenementa praedictae Aliciae concessa assignata cum omnibus suis pertinentiis ad terminum vitae dictae Aliciae nomine dotis suae de praedicto Manerio sibi contingente Praeterea idem Robertus concessit dimisit praefatae Aliciae ad totam vitam suam quadraginta solidatos annui redditus cum pertinentiis in Thrapston pro dote sua sibi contingente de Manerio de Kimington in Comitatu Hertfordiae post mortem praedicti Johannis de Vere Militis quondam viri praedictae Aliciae percipiendos de tenentibus dicti Manerii de Thrapston videlicet de Roberto Raunds octo solidos de Richardo Jekk duos solidos sex denarios de Johanne Vynter octo solidos novem denarios de Willielmo de Kettering quatuor solidos tres denarios de Thoma Westburgh tres solidos de Henrico Bedeoke tres solidos tres denarios de Thoma Vynter octo denarios de Willielmo Holme octo denarios de Johanne Swon octo denarios Habendos tenendos praedictos quadraginta solidatos annui redditus cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praefatae Aliciae ad totam vitam suam pro dote sua dicti Manerii de Kymington Et idem Robertus concessit pro se haeredibus suis praedictos quadraginta solidatos annui redditus cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praefatae Aliciae ad terminum vitae suae contra omnes gentes warrantizare Pro qua quidem concessione dimissione assignatione dictorum quadraginta solidatorum annui redditus praedicta Alicia remisit relaxavit omnino pro se haeredibus suis quietum clamavit praedicto Roberto haeredibus suis imperpetuum totum jus suum clameum quod habuit seu aliquo
faciendam Item lego Fabricae alae beatae Mariae Ecclesiae antedictae duo quarteria Ordei Et quòd residuum bonorum meorum scilicet non legatorum lego Elizabethae uxori meae pro sustentatione liberorum meorum Ita quòd primò solvantur debita mea in quantum possint quòd exequiae circa funaria mea fiant secundum bonam dispositionem Executorum meorum Hujus autem testamenti mei ordino facio constituo meos Executores dictam Elizabetham Uxorem meam Robertum de Northburgh fratrem suum Simonem de Northburgh quòd ipsi faciant in omnibus sicut viderint melius Deo placere pro anima mea expedire Datum apud Addington tertio decimo die Julii Anno Domini Millesimo trecentesimo sexagesimo nono In cujus rei testimonium hoc praesens Testamentum meum Sigillo meo signavi ROBERT de VERE fifth of that Name Lord of Addington Thrapston and other Lands and Lordships Carta Edwardi Principis Walliae EDward aisne filz du Roy d'Angleterre de France Prince de Gales Duc de Cornwaill Counte de Cestre A touz ceux que cestes verrount ou orrount Saluz Sachez Nous pour vingt livres a paier à nous par les mains du Gardein de nos fees en Countée de Northampton qui pour le temps sit per manere que sensuit c'est à scavoir à la Pasque prochein venant dix marcz à la Saint Michel prochein ensuant dix marcz à la Pasque lors prochein ensuant dix marcz avoir grauntez venduz à noftre chere bien amée Elizabeth que fut femme de Robert de Vere la Garde du Corps des terres de Robert filz heir du dit Robert estanz en nostre main à cause de son meyndre age à avoir jouir tantque à plein age du dit heir ensemble ove son mariage à marier sans disparager reservez à nous fees des Chevaliers Advousons des Eglises Reversions Forfaitures Eschetes Donné par tesmoignance de nostre Privy Seal à Londres le quatuorsieme jour de Fevrier l'an du Regne de nostre tres redoubte Seigneur Pere le Roy d'Angleterre quarante noef de France trente six S edwardi primogeniti regis angl fran principis Wall ducis cornub sl comti cestr Covenants which were between Elizabeth the Wife of Robert de Vere and Robert her Son CEaux sont les Covenants taylés accordés entre Elizabeth qui fut femme à Robert le Vere d'une part Robert son fitz d'autre part grauntanz assentanz à fermement tener en touz pointz come ensuit C'est à scavoir pour ceo que l'avantdit Elizabeth en a fait gree fyn pour la garde le Mariage de l'avantdit Robert son fitz à nostre Seigneur le Prince qui par ses Lettres Patentes ad granté la dite garde le Mariage de à l'avantdit Robert l'avantdit Elizabeth pour la luy doner mesmes cestuy Robert grante lealment promette qu'il ne voudroit ne voet marier ne contract de covenant Matrimonial à nul part faire ne tretter encontre le gré la volonté ou licence de l'avantdit Elizabeth expressement apertement estre granté autrement sei tiendra desmarié de contract Matrimonial deslie attandant la volonté d' Elizabeth au mesmé tams qu' à son plein age lealment en dewe maniere prové Et si l'avantdit Elizabeth pregne tallent de marier le dit Robert luy offre convenable Mariage sans disparagement il ne le doibt refuser mais agreablement accepter assenter les Covenants Matrimonials selon la volonté le profit Elizabeth accomplir Et si auviegne que Dieu defend que l'avantdit Elizabeth devir a devant qu' elle à le dit Robert Mariée ou le profit de son Mariage come devant dit en est receue mesmes cest Robert donnera payera vingt livres de leal monoye en ayde del Mariage d'une de ses soeurs filles d' Elizabeth à quelle qu'il sera par la dite Elizabeth en vie ou par testement à coe faire assigné Et outre ceo le dit Robert ne luy mesprendra de travailler ne challenger par plee ne autrement la dite Elizabeth de terre ou tenement touchant son heritage dont elle est enfeoffée ne la feroit estre travaillée dont elle seroit endamagé A cestes Covenants firmement tenir en tous points garder pour bon accord les parties avantdits sont entreassies l'avantdit Robert quand temps viendra qu'il sera pas l'avantdit Elizabeth requis demandé fera un bon sureté telle quelle mesme cette Elizabeth par le Conseil ordonance de Monsieur Thomas de Preston Monsieur Hugo de Northburgh Thomas de Pincback John de Lenton voudrent ordeigner Et en tesmoignance de quelle chose les parties avantdits à ceste Endenture ont mis leurs Seales le dit Robert à plein sa fei Donné à Londres en Fleetstreet en la Paroche Saint Bride le disiesme jour de Feurier l'an du Regne du Roy Edward le Tierz puis le Conqueste quarante neofieme A Petition from the Lady Elizabeth Vere Wife to Sir Robert de Vere to Queen Isabel Mother of King Edward the Third A SA tres-honorée tres-gracieuse Dame Madame la Mere de nostre Seigneur le Roy supplie humblement Elizabeth qui fust la femme de Robert Vere Que come elle tient de vous certaines terres tenements en la Ville de Thrapston enfeoffes avesque Nadgaires son dit Baron par quoy Robert le fils heire le dit Robert Vere estoit en vostre garde à tant la dite Elizabeth par une grande somme d'argent avoit achetes heirs d'ycelle issint il semble au dite Elizabeth que vous deves ayder la dite Elizabeth a avoir droit raison de ce que la ou Robert son dit Baron avoit fait une fosse en ses prées de Thrapston pour leau couryer par icelles fosse en le grant Rivere salvation de ses dites prées Illeques ove la fosse Henry Greene Chevalier qui ores est ad fait estopper issint que leaure ne puisse en icelles issir par quoy le dite Elizabeth perdra le profit de les dites prées cet ses veisins ceux de leurs prées pour long temps Et par cause que Robert son fils venoit illoeques ovesques autres Gents pour debriser ouster les dittes estroupes le dit Monsieur Henry luy vouliet avoir tue les autres Gents se il les pouvoit avoir pris
twenty five Marks of Quit-Rent out of the Mannor of Thrapston Lands and Tenements or twenty Pounds in Land during hyr life and that she have twenty Mark in money for hyr Chambre so that she aske ne take no stofe out of the Mannor of Addington Alsoe I will that as in Shepe Nete and allodyr Cattell she have hyr part accordyng to the Lawe and let hyr chuse whedyr she will have twenty Pound in Land or the said Quit-Rente Alsoe I will that she have the two littel Salts that goe daily abroad with the Silver Spones and a Pese that Thomas Ashe have Alsoe I will that all such Goods as I have in the Mannor of Addington unbequest remayne to the said Mannor while the World last or the said Goods endure that is to say Bedding Chests Tables Brasse Pewter and a Coffer of Plate with Harnesse Gold Rings Owches and a Chene of Gold with other Jewels in the same Coffer Alsoe I will that my Dawter Elizabeth have the same Mannor in parte of hyr Chose and all my purchased Land in the same Towne and also in Addington parva more than hyr chose to meynteyn the seyd Mannor Alsoe I will that my Dawters Anne Constance and Audre have an odyr Coffer called a Gardewyn with certain Plate a Chene Girdyll and odyr Stoffe to be partyd among them when they come to Age and if the one dye the t' other to depart it than if one dye the t'other to have all if they all depart the said Coffer to remain to the Mannor again Alsoe I will that William Marbyry have the Rule and the gyding of my Children till they come to Age to gyde themselves Alsoe I will that the said William have the Receits of my Land till the said Children come to lawful Age alsoe the kepyng of all other moveable Goods that I have bequeathed to them and when they come to lawful Age or els happyn to be marry'd then to deliver to them syche as I have besett them as he think most profit to them Alsoe if it happe the said William Marbyry decesse ere all this be fulfilled and performed then I will that the foresaid William Marbyry to chose or to assigne such a person or persons as he can bethink best with the avise of Mr. John Bloxham if he be then alive or els of Sir Thomas Thornton now Parson of Addington Alsoe I will that if it happe my Children all decesse and noe Issue of them then I will that my Goods and Stoffe in my Mannor of Addington and odyr not delivered to them be sould and done for my soule and the soules of my Fadyr and my Modyr and all Christen soules and if there be any of nere kin that have need in their Marriage I will that they be holpyd and succuryd before odyrs Alsoe I will that eche of my Sisters have ten Shillings and eche of their Children six Shillings eight Pence alsoe William Marbyry during his life three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence Alsoe Robert Marbyry to be Steward of all my Lands haveing for his Fee six and twenty Shillings eight Pence for terme of life Alsoe I will that my Servaunts that will byde till our Lady Day shall have their Wages and eche of them three Shillings four Pence over their Wages Alsoe I will that John Daundely have every Yere three Shillings four Pence to pray for me dureing his life Alsoe any Preste that comes to the Day of my Beriall seventh Day or Months every one six Pence a pese Alsoe every odyr Clarke two Pence Alsoe I will and I charge my Children that they nor none of them nor no odyr shall troble ne vex William Marbyry whom I have made Receyver of my Londes and of all odyr Goods for to call him to accompt or reckynnyng but to make it after his owne Conscience and soe I put my trust in him Alsoe I will that there be given twenty Shillings to the Abbey of Crowland to pray for me Item to Sir Thomas Whotton six Shillings eight Pence besides his Wages Alsoe I will that if that Maister William Marbyry may not have the Rule ne the Marriage of my Children to syche as he will with his counseil so if any of my Children will not be rulyd be him then my Executors shall have my purchased Land in their kepeing and possession unto the time that my Will be fulfilled and than to gyff hit to them or one of them as they think best in all manner of things the Stoffe both Plate and all odyr to dispose them for my soule Alsoe I will that William Dounhall have the Lond that I shuld have in Harawld for the Wyfe of William Milner terme of hyr life as they of Harawld and I have agre Alsoe I will that myn Executors be suffred to receyve the profitts as well of all my Londs in Fee-tayl as of my Londs in Fee-simple ....... my Children to be kept and maryed be their assents then I will all such Goods as I have assigned to remaine in the Mannor of Addington aforesaid be taken and kept be my said Executors and the profitts of my Londs in Fee-simple unto the time my Children be of reasonable Age and then to dispose the said Goods and profitts of Londs after their discretion as they find cause and se my Childrens disposition Provided alway that and my said Executors may not have and receyve the revenue and profitts of Londs aforesaid to performe this my last Will then I will they see it performyd with my moveable Goods and the revenues and profitts of my Fee-simpul Lands SIGILLVM HENRICI DE VER Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 298. HEnry Vere was the Son of Richard Vere of Addington Esquire by Isabel his Wife Sister and at last sole Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton Esquire of whom formerly This Henry was after Knighted and dying without Issue Male Elizabeth his Daughter and Coheir was married to John first Lord Mordaunt to whom she brought Drayton in this Country and other fair Lands as the Partage of her Portion Here lyeth the Body of Sr Henry Vere Knt. who was once Lord of this 〈◊〉 He was Father of Elizabeth Wife to Iohn the first Lord Mordaunt vnto whom his eldest Daughter Coheire did decend the Greatest part of his Ancient 〈◊〉 In heritance On whose Soule God have Mercy ELIZABETH VERE Lady Mordaunt Lady of Drayton Thrapston Addington and Inheritrix of all the Lands that belonged to the Greenes and Veres her Predecessors Specialis Liberatio Terrarum Greene Vere assignata per Regem H.R. REX c. omnibus c. Sciatis quòd Nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris concessimus licentiam dedimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quantum in nobis est dilectis fidelibus nostris Thomae Cheyne Militi Elizabethae Uxori ejus Filiae
Prince King John the disorderly rigours of whose Government was become unsufferable to the greatest part of the Nation He was at first received with all the applause which sometimes follows Novelties of this nature He was crown'd at London He had Homage done him and Allegiance sworn as to a lawful King He proceeded with their assistance in divers warlike Undertakings wherein he had admirable success and acted in all the other Parts of the Government as one who expected to be soon establish'd During this time among the great Lords of his Party there happened to be one who to all his Concerns was most useful and to his Person most officious This Lord whose Name is omitted out of respect to the Descendants of his Family had no Issue of his own and only for his Heirs three beautiful Sisters The youngest whereof whose Name was Philippe by her admirable Qualities had so engaged the Prince's love as it made the Conquest of her heart to share his cares with that of the Kingdom But against a King that was young and seemed happy it was not strange that a Lady did not long resist She yielded at last and the Prince enjoyed the effects and her misfortune began to appear together She found her self with Child and by the fatal loss of the Battel of Lincoln that her Lover was like to be abandoned by his Friends and by his fortune He was obliged to retire to London whence from the Tower where he had refug'd himself he made Conditions to depart home in safety by relinquishing to the young King Henry his farther pretences The poor Lady left in this condition owned her disaster to her Brother who pitying her state from the greatness and merit of the Author gave her a comfortable assurance of his kindness and protection She was after secretly delivered and the Child named Lewis Which Fruit of her Loves being nourished under this Great Lords Care and Education he having no Children of his own afore his death bestowed upon the Youth the noble Lordship of Westhornedon with divers other Lands in the County of Essex obliging him to bear himself and transmit to his Descendants the Name of Fitz-Lewis for ever after Among his three Sisters this Lord coming to dye did leave his vast Inheritance with whom the Lady Philippe hath her share and her misfortune either conceal'd or else gilded over with the advantages of her Riches did not hinder her from being afterwards married to an Husband of great Quality in whom she was happy for her time and brought him a Posterity whence are descended some of the greatest Lords that flourish in this Age. Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis having been bred under his Uncle in the Notion of a more distant relation than in the truth of the matter he did indeed stand towards him at the time of that Lord's death found himself possessed by his favour and affection with such an Estate as was capable to support the generous inclinations of his heart which did altogether incline him to the love and practice of Armes the only application of Gentlemen in that Age and therefore he made himself very considerable especially toward the end of that Kings Reign where he attained the Honour of Knighthood and having allied himself to a very notable Family by his Marriage with Margaret of Essex he left Issue Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis flourished in the days of King Edward the First and followed him in several of his Expeditions He won his Spurs in the first Scotch War and became after very considerable in his Country when he married Elizabeth de Harpden an Inheritrix whose Lands did plentifully add to his former Patrimony but after the death of this great King we find he was unfortunately drawn into the adherence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and that he did unhappily perish in the War caused by that Rebellion leaving to succeed him his Son Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships RIchard Fitz-Lewis being with divers others through the Grace and favour of King Edward the Third restored to his Rights and Lands that had been seised upon pretence of his Father's trespass in the former Reign he became much considered from his own merit and the opulency of his fortune notably encreased by the accession of his Mothers Inheritance He was very useful to the Government of his Country during the King's absence in his long Wars and always contributed his best cares towards the service and supplies of the King's occasions from the Parts where he had interest being always zealous for the honour of his Prince and Country He married Elizabeth de Baude a Lady of a Family very antient and considerable both from their Riches and good same whose true Name was de Baden but corruptly otherwise called and by her he left his Son Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THE great consideration wherein this Family was in these days held may be judged by the alliance contracted by Sir John Fitz-Lewis who to his first Wife took Alice the Daughter of Aubery the tenth Earl of Oxford and to his second Anne Mountague Daughter of John the third Earl of Salisbury of that House and that was after his death Dutchess of Exeter Issue by his first Wife Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis married to Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk Sir HENRY FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry Fitz-Lewis that had signalized himself in an adherence to the House of Lancaster was so esteemed by the chief Supporters of that Faction as he had given him in Marriage by Edmund the noble Duke of Somerset the Lady Eleanor his youngest Daughter by whom he had Issue Mary the second Wife of Anthony Woodville Earl of Rivers But for want of Issue Male his intailed Lands descended to his Brother Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis with the other Interests of that Family Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis liv'd in his Brother's time in Marriage with a Lady called Margaret Stonore of whose life and actions we are ignorant but it is recorded He left Issue his Son and Heir Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THis Richard Fitz-Lewis appears to have had some Controversie with his Cousen Mary Countess of Rivers about his Inheritance by a Judgment recorded in his behalf whereby he was declared Heir of all the entailed Lands of that Family she to inherit only such as had been her Father 's by Gift or acquired by proper Purchace Richard Fitz-Lewis was a busie man in his time much imployed in the interest of King Henry the Seventh against the Usurper with whom he was in immediate action at the
Battel of Bosworth and upon the success of that Field knighted for his service He bare afterward much rule in his Country during that King's Reign being High Sheriff of Essex in the ninth Year thereof not long after which he departed this life leaving Issue by Mary the Daughter of Sir John Hurleston John Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis being a Youth of singular expectation and coming by a course of Years to a fitness for such a Marriage as might continue his Family in a probability both of a fair succession and a plentiful Fortune a Match was to those ends contrived by the advice of his Friends wherein all useful purposes did concur in the person of Anne Lovell a beautiful Virgin the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Lovell Knight but in the accomplishment thereof even on the fatal Wedding-Night by what miserable accident it is not said the house wherein the celebration was performed was set on fire the suddenness and fury whereof was such with the time of the Night and the effects of the preceding jollities as rendred it impossible to be extinguished till it had destroyed the Lovers the Guests and the Edifice wherein they did repose so as John perishing so unhappily without an Heir his Estate descended to his Sister Ely Fitz-Lewis ELY FITZ-LEWIS Lady of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships ELY Fitz-Lewis being left the fortunate Heir of an unhappy Brother who perished on his Wedding-Night became intitled thereby to a free and fair Estate in the County of Essex upon whom were suddenly cast the eyes of many Pretenders but Sir John Mordaunt afterwards Lord Mordaunt having at that time much interest in Court for divers services rendred by his Father and himself obtained her Wardship of King Henry the Seventh and gave her afterwards in Marriage to Sir John Mordaunt his eldest Son from whom the present Earl of Peterborow is descended LEWES Prince of France After King Lewis the Eight By a Noble English Virgin Sr. Lewis Fitzlewes Margaret of Essex Sr. Iohn Fitzlewes Eliz de Harpden Aubury de Vere the tenth Earle of Oxford Alice Filzwater Sr. Richard Fitzlewes Eliz de Baude Iohn Mountacute the 3d. Earle of Salisbury Maud Francoys Alice de Vereo Sr. John Fitzlewes Anne de Mountacute Sr. Henry Fitzlewes Eleonor de Beaufort Sr. Lewes Fitzlewes Margaret Stoner Eliz Fitzlewes Sr. Iohn Wingfeild Mary Fitzlewes Second Wife to Anthony Woddvill Earle of Rivers Sir Richard Fitzlewes Mary Hurlestone John Fitzlewes Anne Lovell Elly Fitzlewes Iohn 2d. Lord. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS OF WESTHORNEDON Lewis Prince of France Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Sir John Fitz-Lewis and Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis An antient Latine Pedigree found among the Evidences of Fitz-Lewis DOminus Ludovicus de Francia dum in Anglia moram fecit coronatus fuit habuit ex Philippa Filia cujusdam nobilis pulcherrima de qua erat perditissimus Dominum Ludovicum Fitz-Lewis cui Pater Matris qui praeter tres Sorores nullos habuit Heredes post recessum dicti Principis Francorum quòd spem Juvenis de virtute sua dederat reliquit ad sustentationem Manerium de Westhornedon in Comitatu Essexiae Iste Ludovicus floruit in tempore Henrici tertii ex Uxore sua Margareta de Essexia reliquit Haeredem Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui cum Baronibus militavit contra Edvardum secundum Bello peribat in Comitiva Comitis Lancastriae Filium tamen genuit ex Maria de Harpden Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui clementiâ Successoris ad Haereditatem praetentiones restitutus evasit ditissimus Maternis opibus colendissimus vixit linquendo Haeredem ex Uxore Agnete de Baude Dominum Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui virtute opibus ita erat spectabilis ut ab Alberico decimo Comite Oxoniae in Uxorem accepisse meruit Aliciam Filiam suam post obitum dictae Aliciae in alteram Uxorem Annam Filiam Johannis de Montacuto tertio istius nominis Comite Sarum quae fuit postea Ducissa de Exon ex quarum prima genuit Henricum Fitz-Lewis Johannem ex altera Elizabetham nuptam Johanni Wingfield de Comitatu Suffolciae Militi Dominus Henricus Fitz-Lewis Miles erat strenuissimus ita addictus Principibus Domûs Lancastriae ut Ducibus istius partialitatis charissimus semper existit cum eiisdem militavit eorum Fortunae fuit particeps tandem pro virtute bene meritis sibi data erat in Uxorem Eleanora Filia Edmundi de Beaufort Ducis de Somerset ex qua genuit Mariam Uxorem Anthonii de Woodville primi Comitis de Ripariis sed obiit sine Haerede Masculo unde sibi successit Dominus Ludovicus Fitz-Lewis Frater ejus qui fuit Haeres omnium Terrarum quas tenebat in feudo de qua non extant altera sed quòd duxit in Uxorem Margaretam Stonore ex qua genuit Dominum Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui Manerium de Westhornedon ac alias Terras nobiles tenuit Jure Haereditario post mortem Patris ad consanguineam ejus Mariam Comitissam de Ripariis tantummodo descenderunt Terrae illae quae Henrico Patris sui datae essent aut industriâ ejus vel propriis pecuniis partae Miles insignis fuit iste Richardus in suo tempore multósque labores pericula pro Rege suo Patria subivit tandem annorum satur quievit in Domino linquendo exitum ex Maria de Hurleston Johannem Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis Johannes Fitz-Lewis cui Natura formam dedit egregiam educatio indolem cùm perventus fuit ad aetatem quam idoneam Amici aestimârunt ad subeundum Matrimonii Jugum ut iis spes non deesset propagandi Familiam tam claram in Provincia tanti nominis oculos affines conjecerunt super Virginem omnimodo spectabilem formâ stirpe virtutibus quam elegerunt sicut materiam hujus Familiae futurae felicitatis Tractaverunt cum Patre Domino Roberto de Lovell Milite conclusis pactibus in Domo Patris infelicissimum celebrârunt Matrimonium quia post mediam Noctem omnibus somno immersis miserrimum erupit Incendium quod tam vorax fuit subitum violentum ut parvo tempore Domum Hospites cum Sponso miserrima Conjuge consumpsit sic ut Domina Ely Fitz-Lewis Soror unica hujus Johannis alibi tunc infirmitate detenta hujus causâ infortunii Haeres ditissima devenit nominis Armorum Haereditatis Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis ratione minoris aetatis Warda ob obitum Patris devenit Domini Regis qui ejus Custodiâ Johannem Dominum Mordaunt gratificavit qui in illo tempore spectabilem in Aula fuit ob egregia merita Patris sui versus Regem Coronam qui quidem Johannes eam in
side of the Altar a Tomb of Marble meet and convenient to serve for the Sepulcher at the Feast of Easter and also that the said Edmond shall pay or cause to be paid during the space of twelve years next and immediately after the decease and death of the said Joan Matthew Widow every year six Pounds eight Shillings four Pence to my Executors toward the performance of this my last Will. Also I will That the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond shall receive my Aunt Petre's Pension and during the said term shall find her Meat Drink and Cloathing and other Necessaries meet for her Degree during her life as long as she shall be content to be at my Executors appointment And if it chance that she will refuse to be ruled after the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond or the Survivor of them then I will that my Executors shall suffer her to receive her own Pension and to deliver her thirty three Shillings four Pence yearly and to go whither she will And if it chance that she happen to over-live the said term that I do demise unto her yearly four Pounds Rent to be perceiv'd and taken out of my Mannor of Westhornedon aforesaid at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions And if it chance the said Rent of three Pound to be behind unpaid by the space of a Month after any of the said days of Payment that then I will and grant that the said Petres or her Assigns shall enter into the said Mannor of Westhornedon and there to distrain and the distress so taken to carry away and to retain until she be fully satisfied and paid of the Rent and the Arrearages of the said Rent if any shall appear to be behind Furthermore I will that the said Lord and the said Edmond shall suffer my Heir when he comes to the Age of two and twenty years to have occupy and enjoy all the premisses so that the said Heir will be bound by such ways and means as shall be demised or thought most convenient by the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors of the Survivor to perform the execution of this my last Will the residue of this my last Will which shall chance to be at that time unperformed allowing unto my Executors all their Costs and Charges had or sustained in executing of this my last Will and that hath not been taken and lowed of the Issues and Profits of the foresaid Lands and Tenements any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Occasions of Disagreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis Mordaunt THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Ely Fitz-Lewis Daughter and sole Heir unto Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid thirteen hundred Marks Her Lands which she had by Descent were five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir apparent for the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the last Lord Mordaunt might then have had divers great Summs of money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Ely then his Wife to levy a Fine of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Ely then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Ely then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Ely Mordaunt dyed after whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Johan Mordaunt now his Wife after which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a recovery of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to trust of himself for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after his decease to trust of such as at pleasure himself to appoint for the term of ninety two Years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore to the intent that not only he but also my Lady his Wife may declare their wills thereof during the same ninety two Years whereof the late Lord Mordaunt had certain intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed or appointed Whereupon the late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estate of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such recovery thereof to the disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being right Heir of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and the bringing of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the right course of Inheritance again did suffer recoveries of his own Lands to the uses and upon condition following To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt and of his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was married and after to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of his Executors until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the death of the said late Lord Mordaunt and further to the same Executors for twelve Years towards the performance of his Will And after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life to the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queens Majesty as much money as shall amount to one Years value of the full third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier season thereof and twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
vel impedimento nostro vel haeredum nostrorum quorumcunque Dum tamen bosci illi terra illa intra metas foresti nostri non existent In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Salisburiam Anno Regni nostri vicesimo quinto Finis facta inter Willielmum Mordaunt Thomam filium Warini de Bosco HAEC est finalis concordia facta in curia Domini Regis apud Westmonasterium à die Paschae in tres septimanas Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Edwardi septimo coram Willielmo de Bereford Lamberto de Frikingham Johanne de Benstede Henrico le Scroope Willielmo Inge Johanne Bacun Justiciariis aliis Domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem praesentibus inter Willielmum de Mordaunt de Turveia querentem Thomam filium Warini de Bosco deforciantem De tribus messuagiis centum viginti acris terrae quatuor acris prati duabus acris pasturae cum pertinentiis in Turveia unde placitum conventionis summonitus fuit inter eos in eadem Curia scilicet quòd praedictus Thomas recognovit praedictam terram cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Willielmi illa ei reddidit in eadem Curia habendum tenendum eidem Willielmo haeredibus fuis de capitalibus Dominis feodi illius quae ad illa tenementa pertinent imperpetuum Et praeterea idem Thomas concessit pro se haeredibus suis quòd ipsi warrantizabunt eidem Willielmo haeredibus suis praedicta tenementa cum pertinentiis contra omnes homines imperpetuum Et pro hac recognitione redditione warantia fine concordia idem Willielmus dedit praedicto Thomae unum Espervarium sorum Charta Amiciae de Aubeny EGO Amicia de Aubeny dedi Willielmo de Mordaunt filio meo Roberto filio ejusdem Willielmi quinque messuagia quinque virgatas terrae cum quinque nativis qui praedicta messuagia tenuerunt habenda in feodo Data apud Coventreyam die Veneris proxima post Festum Sancti Thomae Martyris Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Secundi nono Charta Willielmi de Mordaunt OMnibus Christi fidelibus praesens Scriptum visuris vel audituris Salutem in Domino sempiternam Noverit universitas vestra me remisisse relaxasse omnimodò pro me haeredibus meis quietum clamasse imperpetuum Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti monachis ibidem Deo servientibus totum jus clameum quod habui vel aliquo modo habere potui in tribus messuagiis quadraginta octo acris terrae unâ acrâ prati cum pertinentiis in Turveia de quibus Priorem loci praedicti coram Justiciariis Domini Regis de Banco per breve Proavi unà cum Hugone de Ardres perticipe meo implacitavi praeterea remisi quietum clamavi eisdem monachis eorum successoribus totum jus clameum quod habui vel habere potui in omnibus aliis terris tenementis quae iidem monachi habent in feodo meo de feodo meo in omnibus terris tenementis quae homines eorum tenent de ipsis de feodo meo quae quidem terrae tenementa iidem monachi eorum praedecessores aliquo tempore habuerint de donis antecessorum meorum in villa praedicta Ità quòd nec ego Willielmus nec haeredes mei nec aliquis nomine meo seu nomine haeredum meorum aliquid juris dampnum seu calumpniam in praedictis tribus messuagiis quadraginta octo acris terrae una acra prati cum pertinentiis nec in aliquibus aliis terris seu tenementis quae iidem monachi habent in feodo meo de feodo meo nec quae homines ipsorum tenent de ipsis de donis praedictis de caetero clamare vendicare habere nec exigere poterimus imperpetuum salvis tamen mihi haeredibus meis Hugone de Ardres perticipe meo servitiis si quae indè debentur nobis In cujus rei testimonium praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Domino Johanne de Pabenham Domino Waltero de Ba Militibus Johanne de Chetindon Henrico de Lega Willielmo Paslew Richardo de Stratteford Willielmo Thorold Johanne Sylvester Stephano Wichard aliis Datum apud Sanctum Neotum die Dominica proxima post Festum Apostolorum Simonis Judae Anno Domini millesimo trecentesimo septimo decimo Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Ewardi undecimo ROBERT de MORDAVNT First of that Name Lord of Turvey Clifton Chicheley and other Lands CHAPTER VI. Charta Hugonis Bossard Domini de Knotting SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Hugo Bossard Dominus de Knotting dedi concessi hac praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto filio Willielmi de Mordaunt homagia servitia mea in Knotting scilicet homagium servitium Willielmi Begree servitium septemdecim denariorum sexdecim denariorum à Reginaldo Caponis novem denariorum de Johanne de Bentele de Simone Hardles duodecim denariorum de Waltero filio Margeriae sex solidorum undecim denariorum de Henrico Bossard duodecim denariorum de Willielmo Paxtone seniore sex Capones de Uxore Willielmi Bercarii duodecim denarios de Johanne Huggron sex denarios de Hugone Michael duos solidos septem denarios obulum de Gilberto Cowper unum denarium quadrantem de Willielmo Paxtone juniore duos solidos quatuor dies in ductura de Richardo Bercario de Willielmo Wariner decem solidos de Waltero Abraham duodecim denarios de Johanne Maranuts duodecim denarios quatuor dies in ductura de Johanne Anore octodecim denarios de Johanne Mayris duodecim denarios quatuor dies in ductura de Rolando Michaelis duodecim denarios de Johanne Fabro duodecim denarios dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Richardus de Roule tenet cum dicto Richardo omnibus catallis suis sequelis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Richardus Barker tenet cum dicto Richardo omnibus catallis suis sequelis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Johannes filius Willielmi tenet cum dicto Johanne omnibus catallis suis sequelis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Henricus filius Hugonis tenet cum dicto Henrico omnibus catallis suis sequelis eorum Unum messuagium duos acras terrae quae Juliana le Blount tenet cum dicta Juliana omnibus catallis suis sequelis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Gilbertus le Cowper tenet cum dicto Gilberto omnibus catallis suis sequelis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae de Richardo Noreys cum dicto Richardo omnibus catallis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae de Hugone Michael cum dicto Hugone omnibus catallis sequelis eorum Dimidiam virgatam terrae de Johanne filio Hugonis Michael
de me haeredibus meis reddendo indè annuatim mihi haeredibus meis unam rosam ad Festum Nativitatis Johannis Baptistae pro omnibus servitiis demandis Et faciendo pro me haeredibus meis capitalibus Dominis feodi omnia servitia indè debita de jure consueta Et concedo pro me haeredibus assignatis meis quòd praedictus Robertus de vasto vel destructione per me haeredes vel assignatos meos vel per quem alium non occasionetur implacitetur vel in aliquo gravetur sed benè liceat praedicto Roberto vastum destructionem pro voluntate in manerio praedicto in omnibus pertinentiis praedictis facere Etiam volo concedo quòd post decessum dictorum Roberti Johannae praedictum manerium cum omnibus suis pertinentiis Edmundo filio haeredi dictorum Roberti Johannae haeredibus de corpore dicti Edmundi legitimè procreatis integrè remaneat Et si ità contingat quòd absit quòd praedictus Edmundus obierit sine haeredibus de corpore suo legitimè procreatis quòd extunc praedictum manerium cum omnibus suis pertinentiis rectis haeredibus dicti Roberti Mordaunt imperpetuum remaneat sine contradictione alicujus In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Chartae Indentatae Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Johanne Dardres seniore Johanne Dardres juniore Willielmo Maunsell Willielmo Mordaunt aliis Data apud Turveiam die Martis proxima post Festum Sancti Ambrosii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum decimo septimo Charta Roberti Mordaunt HAeC Indentura testatur quòd Robertus Mordaunt de Stacheden Johanna le Bray uxor ejus concesserunt tradiderunt demiserunt Hammoni de Ibbestok de Pullokshull sex acras terrae arabilis jacentes in campo de Keching quarum duae acrae una roda similiter jacent in una placea quae vocatur Wodecroft inter bosculum Aliciae Shortfrend ex una parte quandam hayam del Braycroft ex altera parte dimidium acrae jacet in uno furlongo vocato Hubberimade furlong inter terram Johannis de Foldhe ex una parte terram Emmae quondam uxoris Hugonis Blundel ex altera parte una acra una roda jacentes in eodem furlongo inter terram Willielmi de Walkington ex una parte terram Richardi Humfrey de Pullokshull ex altera parte una acra in eodem furlongo inter terram Roberti Weystard terram Johannis filii Hugonis Blundel una acra jacet in eodem furlongo inter terram dicti Roberti Weystard ex una parte terram Johannis de Faldo ex altera parte habendum tenendum praedictas sex acras terrae cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedicto Hammoni haeredibus assignatis suis ad totum terminum vitae praedictae Johannae reddendo annuatim praedictis Roberto Mordaunt Johannae uxori suae duodecim solidos argenti ad duos anni terminos videlicet ad Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Annunciationis beatae Mariae virginis per aequales portiones pro omnibus aliis secularibus servitiis demandis Et si contingat praedictum redditum à retro esse in parte vel in toto per quindena post aliquem terminum supradictum quòd extunc benè liceat praedictis Roberto Johannae seu eorum assignatis distringere in omnibus liberis terris dicti Hammonis in campis de Pullokshull similiter in communibus de Pullok districtiones detinere quousque de praedicto redditu iis plenariè fuerit satisfactum Et praedictus Hammo haeredes sui facient annuatim durante termino supradicto pro praedictis Roberto Johanna sectam Curiae Dominae Margaretae quondam uxori Domini Radulphi filii Richardi Militis quoties Curiam tenere voluerit Et praedictus Robertus Mordaunt Johanna uxor ejus praedictas sex acras terrae cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedicto Hammoni haeredibus assignatis suis ad totum terminum vitae praedictae Johannae contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt pro redditu praedicto aquietabunt defendent In cujus rei testimonium his Scriptis indentatis alterna parte Sigillum suum apposuit His testibus Willielmo Weystard Johanne le Clarke de Pullokshull Thoma le Smith Rogero Humfrey Nicolao Weystard aliis Data apud Stacheden die Mercurii in Festo Sancti Laurentii Apostoli Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum decimo nono Sigillo fracto Charta Hugonis Wake SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Hugo Wake de Clifton Miles dedi concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi Roberto Mordaunt de Turveia nepoti meo Johannae Uxori suae haeredibus de corpore eorum legitimè procreatis omnia tenementa mea in Parocha de Clifton in uno assarto quod vocatur Knightistokking jacentia cum separalibus fossatis divisis francborcis lanceant ad unum caput super parcum de Newington ad aliud caput versus Thecheyngstokking cum hayis usque ad Wychordich inter praedictam assartam cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de capitali Domino feodi per servitia indè debita de jure consueta praedictis Roberto Johannae haeredibus de corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis Et ego praedictus Hugo haeredes mei omnia praedicta tenementa praedictis Roberto Johannae haeredibus de corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis warrantizabimus imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Chartae Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Thoma de Reynes Domino de Clifton Johanne Dardres de Turveia Thoma Borard Richardo de Hekney Johanne filio Richardi de Eleneye Johanne Coke de Clifton Johanne Toft de Astwode aliis Data apud Clifton die Mercurii in Festo Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum vicesimo nono EDMVND de MORDAVNT First of that Name Lord of Turvey Clifton Shephaell and other Lands CHAPTER VII Charta Edmundi de Mordaunt OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Edmundus Mordaunt Salutem in Domino Noveritis me remisiss relaxasse omnimodo imperpetuum quietum clamasse pro me haeredibus executoribus meis Willielmo Mordaunt seniori totum jus clameum quae habui habeo vel in futurum habere potero in tertia parte unius messuagii sexaginta acrarum terrae unius acrae prati dimidii acrae pasturae cum suis pertinentiis quae quondam fuere Magistri Warini in villa de Turveia habendum tenendum eodem Willielmo haeredibus assignatis suis imperpetuum Ità videlicet quòd nec ego praedictus Edmundus nec haeredes mei nec aliquis alius pro nobis vel nomine nostro aliquid juris vel clamei in tertia parte praedicta praedictorum messuagii terrae prati
existunt seu seisitus existat ad usum earundum Margaretae Katharinae seu earum alicujus ad terminum vitae earum seu earum alicujus reversione inde in re nomine facto vel in usu praefatae Johannae Sayntmaur haeredibus suis spectante habendum tenendum dicta dominia maneria terras tenementa advocationes caetera praemissa cum suis pertinentiis ad custodiam eorundem ac reversionem omnium ac singulorum praemissorum cum acciderint vel acciderit praefato Johanni Mordaunt executoribus assignatis suis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi Sayntmaur quousque dicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Ac omnes singulas reversiones praedictas omnium praedictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis immediate post mortem dictarum Margaretae Katharinae earum cujuslibet cum acciderit quousque praedicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit Et si dicta Johanna obierit antequam ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit haerede suo infra aetatem existente tunc volumus concedimus per praesentes eidem Johanni Mordaunt quòd idem Johannes Mordaunt executores assignati sui habeant custodiam maritagium hujusmodi haeredis custodiam tam omnium singulorum dictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis cum acciderint ut praedictum est custodiam reversionum praedictarum cum pertinentiis suis usque ad plenam legitimam aetatem hujusmodi haeredis sic infra aetatem existentis sic de haerede in haeredem quousque aliquis haeres hujusmodi haeredum ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Concedimus etiam dicto Johanni Mordaunt omnia exitus proficua omnium singulorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum suis pertinentiis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi huc usque provenientia sive crescentia absque aliquo compoto sive aliquo alio nobis aut haeredibus nostris pro praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum reddendo faciendo seu solvendo Eo quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut aliquo alio valore ceu certitudine praemissorum vel alicujus eorum parcellae aut de vero valore dictorum maritagiorum eorum cujuslibet aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus praefato Johanni ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime facta existit aut aliquo alio statuto actu sive ordinatione ceu restrictione in contrarium factis editis sive provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium c. An Indenture between Sir John Mordaunt and Wistan Brown about the Wardship of Thomas Leventhorp THIS Indenture made the Twelfth day of September the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey on the one Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas Thomas Leventhorp late of Whethamsted in the County of Hertford held certain Lands and Tenements in the said County of our Sovereign Lord the King by grant Serjeanty and had Issue John Leventhorp and divers other Children and dyed the said John being his Son and Heir within Age by the death of the which Thomas the King our Sovereign Lord ought to have the custody of the said John and of all the Lands and Tenements of the said Thomas whereof he dyed seized and of all the other Lands of the same Thomas of which he made no Will nor otherwise disposed And howbeit that at the making of these Presents there is no Office found in any Shire after the death of the said Thomas whereby the Kings Highness may be lawfully intitled to the said John Leventhorp Yet that notwithstanding our said Sovereign Lord by his Bill Assigned hath Given and Granted to the said John Mordaunt the Custody of the said John Leventhorp and of all his Lands and Tenements with the Issues and Profits of the same Lands and Tenements from the Death of the said Thomas to the said John Mordaunt To have to him and to his Assigns till the said John Leventhorp come to his full Age and further as long as the said Lands and Tenements shall happen to be in the Kings Hands And so from Heir to Heir till one of the Heirs of the said Thomas shall come to his full Age. The said John Mordaunt hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents Bargaineth Giveth and Selleth to the said Wistan all such Right Title Possessions and Interest as he hath or hereafter shall have in the Wardship of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp and the Marriage of the same be it Son or Daughter or Daughters To have to the said Wistan from the Date of these Presents as long as the Interest of the said John Mordaunt should endure by reason of the Kings Grant Provided That the same Heirs shall not be Married by the said Wistan to any other Person but to be Married with one of the Children begotten between the same Wistan and Elizabeth his Wife Sister to the said John Mordaunt And for lack of such Issue or such Marriage the same John Mordaunt to have again the Marriage of the same Heirs of the said Thomas to his own Use if it be Male immediately after he be fully of the Age of Twentie Years and if it be Female or Females after they be of the Age of Fourteen Years without any thing paying therefore this Indenture notwithstanding for as much as the said Wistan shall take the Issues and Profits of the said Lands all the mean time without any thing paying for the same And the said John Granteth by these Presents That he shall assent what in him is at the Costs and Charges of the same Wistan to cause the Offices to be found after the Death of the said Thomas according to the truth of the Testaments And after these Offices so found to get Grant by the Kings Letters Patents to the same John Mordaunt of the Ward and Custody abovesaid according to his said Bill Assigned And after that Patent made then the same John shall Grant the said Ward and Marriage of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp with the Custody of his Lands to the said Wistan and his Assigns to be Married as is above limited For the which Premises well and truly to be performed the said Wistan shall pay to the said John Mordaunt and his Assigns a Hundred Pound of lawful Money to be payed and delivered in form following That is to say whereas the said Humphrey is indebted to the said Wistan in One Hundred Pound for divers Considerations and Covenants made between the said Wistan and Humphrey upon the advancement of the same Humphrey to the Marriage of Amey Mordaunt
excambium pro quodam clauso in Turveia nuper Broughtons quae sunt omnia tenementa quae Broughton habuit in Turveia praedicta Habendum omnia praedicta terras boscos tenementa cum pertinentiis in Northcrawley praedicta excepto praeexcepto praefatae Katharinae haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus remanere inde mihi dicto Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus de corpore meo exeuntibus remanere inde Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus remanere inde praefatae Elizabethae Brown haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus remanere inde rectis haeredibus Dominae Agnetis Pekke nuper uxoris Johannis Pekke de Coupull filiae Johannis Vynter de Creke in Comitatu Northamptoniae in recompensationem medietatis manerii de Creke tenementorum in Northamptonia in eodem Comitatu Northamptoniae per me dictum Johannem Mordaunt venditae Item volo quòd nullus dictorum Johannis Mordaunt Willielmi filiorum meorum habeat statum in praedictis maneriis terris tenementis durantibus vitis suis nec eorum alicujus diutius viventis nisi tantum pro junctura uxorum suarum sed quòd iidem Johannes Willielmus tantum inde capiant exitus proficua post dictos decem annos elapsos durantibus vitis suis Item volo quòd executores faciant juncturas uxoribus eorundem Johannis Willielmi de in praedictis terris tenementis sibi separaliter in ista mea ultima voluntate assignatis aut in parcellis eorundem si quando de tanta portione inde prout per meos executores avisabitur prout teneor Elizabethae uxori praedicti Johannis Mordaunt junioris Item volo quòd dictus Willielmus Mordaunt frater meus habeat regimen dictorum filiorum meorum durante vita sua quousque filii mei pervenerint ad aetatem viginti quatuor annorum post ejus decessum alii executores mei habeant regimen eorum usque ad eandem aetatem Et volo quod si aliquid in fine dictorum decem annorum ista ultima voluntate mea perimpleta remaneat de bonis meis mobilibus aut de exitibus terrarum tenementorum meorum praedictorum aut de venditione boscorum meorum quòd tum volo quòd illud residuum remaneat ad usum dicti Johannis Mordaunt filii si tunc sit superstes aut dicto Willielmo filio meo tunc superstite ut ipsi exorent pro me animabus antecessorum meorum Item lego Johannae filiae meae uxori Aegidii Strangeways viginti libras argenti non in pecuniis sed in una pelve Ewre de argento in uno cipho cum coopertario deaurato ad valentiam viginti librarum Item volo quòd septem animae disponantur pro anima Agnetis Pekke cujus executor ego sum tenementum quinque acras terrae in Elnestowe quae valent ad majus sex libras duodecim solidos quatuor denarios assignavi Katharinae Ardres haeredibus suis in perpetuum Item lego Richardo Stevynson quatuor libras annuatim durante vita sua Thomae Kirkeby quatuor libras annuatim durante vita sua Thomae Heron quamdiu haeredi mei manerii de Turveia deservire valet annuatim quatuor libras Johanni Deyster Johannae uxori ejus victum vestitum apud Turveiam vel viginti sex solidos octo denarios per annum durante vita sua Jacobo Harris victum vestitum durante vita sua Item lego cuilibet alio servienti meo non sumenti annuali stipendio quadraginta solidos cuilibet alio servienti meo annuali sumenti stipendio integrum stipendium unius anni Et hujus praesentis Testamenti ultimae voluntatis meae executores facio ordino constituo Willielmum Mordaunt fratrem meum Johannem Vynter Willielmum Gascoign cuilibet eorum do lego viginti libras ultra expensas necessarias circa implementum istius meae ultimae voluntatis quas similiter volo quòd habeant expendent de bonis meis His Testibus praedictis Willielmo Mordaunt Willielmo Gascoign Johanne Vynter Johanne Mordaunt filio meo Wistano Brown aliis Data dicto die Jovis anno vicesimo supradicto Tenore praesentium nos Willielmus permissione divina Cantuariensis Episcopus totius Angliae primas apostolicae sedis legatus Notum facimus universis quòd sexto die mensis Decembris Anno Domini milesimo quingentesimo quarto apud Lambeth probatum fuit coram nobis ac per nos approbatum insinuatum Testamentum Johannis Mordaunt Militis defuncti praesentibus annexum habentis dum vixit mortis suae tempore bona in diversis Diocesibus nostrae Cantuariensis provinciae cujus praetextu ipsius Testamenti approbatio insinuatio ad administrationis bonorum debitorum suorum commissio nec non compoti calculi sive ratiocinii administrationis hujusmodi auditio finalisque liberatio sive demissio ab eadem ad nos solum insolidum non ad alium nobis inferiorem judicem de jure praerogativa consuetudine nostris ac Ecclesiae nostrae Christi Cantuariae quietè pacificè inconcussè in hac parte usitatis observatis legitimeque praescriptis dignoscuntur notoriè pertinere Commissaque fuit administratio omnium singulorum bonorum debitorum dicti defuncti Willielmo Mordaunt Willielmo Gascoign executoribus in hujusmodi Testamento nominatis de bene fideliter administrando eadem ac de pleno fideli inventorio omnium singulorum bonorum debitorum hujusmodi conficiendo Et nobis citra festum Natalis Domini proximo futuro exhibendo Nec non de pleno vero compoto calculo sive ratiocinio nobis aut successoribus nostris in ea parte reddendis ad sancta Dei Evangelia juratis Reservata potestate similem Commissionem faciendi Johanni Vynter etiam executori in hujusmodi Testamento nominato cum eam venerit in debita juris forma Admissurus Data die mensis Anno Domini loco praedicto nostrae translationis anno primo Sub Sigillo Officii Hic jacet Dominus Johannes Mordaunt Miles Dominus hujus villae cum Domina Editha uxore ejus filia haerede Domini Nicolai Latimer Militis qui quidem Johannes Cancellarius fuit Ducatus Lancastriae regnante Rege Henrico Septimo à Secretioribus suis Conciliis Multa meruit habuit plurima pro longa fideli servitute Obiit tandem satur dierum clarus virtute posteritate faelix in expectatione beatissimae Aeternitatis _____ die _____ Anno Domini _____ JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Second of that Name Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII Charta Regis Henrici Septimi facta Willielmo Mordaunt Willielmo Gascoign Executoribus Johannis Mordaunt Militis pro Custodia Johannis Leventhorp HEnricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae
our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And will and command you That for the enstoring the Park of our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Hastings ye deliver or cause to be delivered unto him or his Assigns in that behalf Three hundred of quick Deer to be taken of our Gift in our Chace of Leicester and within our Park there called Leicester Fryth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf or at all times hereafter any restraint or commandment heretofore made or had the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Seventeenth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales Henry R. By the King HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales within our County of Hertford and in his absence to his Deputy or Deputies there Greeting Forasmuch as we have not only commanded our welbeloved Servant Hector Asheley Master and Controuler of our Works at our Maner of Hunesdone in our said County of Hertford to fell and cut down or to cause to be felled and cut down with all diligence in either of our said Parks there such and as many Oaks as he from time to time shall think needful and expedient as well for Pale for the inclosing of a Paddok within our old Park of Hunesdone for a Winter pasture there as also for the empaling of the Parsons ground within our new Park at Hunesdone but also we by these presents for certain causes and considerations us specially moving have freely given and granted unto our said Servant all the Lops and Tops of the said Oaks and of every of them without any thing therefore paying or accompt yeilding unto us or our use at any time hereafter We will therefore and command you and every of you to permit and suffer the said Hector Asheley to have use and enjoy the whole effect of this our commandment and gift without any your challenge lett or interruption to the contrary as ye tender our pleasure And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaulieu the Twelfth day of August the Nineteenth Year of our Reign Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnricus Octavus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Rex Fidei Defensor Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus dilectis fidelibus suis Majori Civitatis suae Londini Johanni Mordaunt militi Conciliario nostro Christophero Hales Solicitori nostro Rogero Wygston Armigeris Salutem Quia accepimus quod Johannes Gysours filius Johannis Gysours Armigeri Fatuus Idiota in vita sua fuit quod regimen sui ipsius terrarum tenementorum suorum non sufficit quod ipse in fatuitate sua magnam partem terrarum tenementorum suorum alienavit in exheredationem suam nostri prejudicium manifestum nos indemnitati nostrae perspicere volentes vobis mandamus quod ad loca ubi terrae tenementa illa infra civitatem Londinum existunt in propriis personis vestris accedatis de statu suo qualis ille erat dum in humanis agebat viis modis quibus poteritis informari omnes affines cognatos vicinos suos circumspectè examinetis Et nihilominus per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de civitate praedicta per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis utrum idem Johannes Gysours junior fatuus idiota in vita sua fuisset nec ne si sic utrum à nativitate sua seu ab alio tempore si ab alio tempore à quo tempore qualiter quomodo si lucidis gaudebat intellectualibus si idem Johannes in eodem statu existens terras tenementa aliqua vendiderit seu alienaverit nec ne quid pro eisdem recepit si sic vendiderit tunc quae terrae tenementa ubi vel in vel quibus in quorum vel cujus manibus terrae tenementa sic alienata existunt qualiter quo modo quae terrae quae tenementa haeredibus suis adhuc remanent de quo vel de quibus tam terrae tenementa sic alienata quam terrae tenementa sibi retenta teneant per quod servicium qualiter quomodo quantum valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus quis propinquior haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis inquisitionem inde distinctè apertè factam nobis in Cancelaria nostra sub sigillis vestris sigillis eorum per quos fuerit sine dilatione mittatis hoc breve c. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto die Maii Anno Regni vicesimo Newman Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our Right welbeloved Counsellors Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Roger Wigston Esquire and to our welbeloved Robert Harward Thomas Borett and John Duke greeting Know ye that we having Trust and Confidence in your Wisdoms Fidelities and Circumspections have appointed deputed and authorised you and by these presents give unto you and two of you and to such Persons bringers hereof as ye shall substitute name and assign in your place and absence full Power and Authority to take and provide to and for the use of our Fortifications Munitions Buildings and Reparations of our Ordnances and other things concerning as well the Safeguard Defence and Tuition of our Town and Marches of Caleys the Castles of Guysnes Hammes and Newnambrigge as also other necessaries and requisites of and for the same purpose to be taken and had not only within our Lordships Maners Woods and Parks and other Grounds within our Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex but also to be taken and had within any Lordships Maners Lands and Tenements of any other Person or Persons within the said Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex at convenient and reasonable prices and by this we give unto you and two of you full Power and Authority in manner and form above-specified to take Carpenters Workmen Artificers and Labourers apt and convenient for Felling and Squaring of the said Timber and Trees to the use aforesaid and also all manner of Carriages as well by Sea and Salt-Waters as also by Fresh-Waters
Assigns to pay yearly to the said Silvester Twenty Pounds for his finding at the pleasure and liberty of the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns And it is further Agreed between the said Parties that where the said Dame Anne alloweth to the said Lord Mordaunt in the price of the Marriage of the said Silvester One Hundred Marks for and towards the finding of the said Silvester his Wife and Children during the Non-age of the said Silvester over and beside the said Six hundred Marks which the said Lord Mordaunt hath paid and is bound to pay to the said Dame Anne as before appeareth For the said Marriage the said Lord Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if it fortune the said Dame Anne to die and decease within the space of Three Years next after the date hereof whereby the said Silvester and Elizabeth his Wife shall have Lands and Tenements in the County of Cornwall to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds as by this Indenture it doth appear That then the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to the Executors or Assigns of the said Dame Anne yearly Ten Pounds during as many of the said Three Years as shall remain after the decease of the said Dame Anne as is aforesaid In witness c. A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we be informed that the Pestilent Idol Enemy of all Truth and Usurpator of Princes the Bishop of Rome perceiving his most detestable doings to begin now to appear to all our good Subjects which fully minded in his Rage do seek all the ways to him possible to Rob and Spoil this our Realm as heretofore he hath accustomed and to Invert the good Religion of the same with the Torment and Disherison of all our good Subjects We let you witt That intending to put the same our Realm both by Sea and Land in such a readiness as shall be necessary towards his Malicious and Devilish purpose which by all meanes he laboureth to Cloak and Colour pretending only in Words the advancement of true Religion without any the disturbance of our People to the intent he may blind their honest and simple Eyes and so the more easily compass his most Cruel and Devilish Enterprize We have among other our loving Subjects appointed you to furnish unto us to do us service on the Sea the number of Forty able Persons And therefore we will and desire you that immediately upon the sight hereof ye will furnish unto us the said number whereof as many of them to be Archers and Gunners as you can make well Harnished to do us service as before and the same to be in a readiness with Habiliments meet for them upon one hours warning whensoever our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Southampton our Admiral of England shall by his Letters give you admonition or call for the same and in the mean time with all diligence to make unto him your Certificate of the same your number whereby you shall deserve our hearty thanks Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh day of April A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And cannot a little marvel to hear that notwithstanding our sundry Advertisements lately made unto you for the doing of your Duty and such Office and Administration as in our Common-Wealth is committed to you and others the said Justices of the Peace within this our said Realm many things be nevertheless rather directed at will and pleasure than either upon any just Contemplation of Justice or with any regard to the good Admonitions which heretofore we have set forth for the Advancement of the same Minding yet once again before we shall correct the Leudness of the Offendors in this behalf with any Extremities of the Law to give a new general Admonition to the intent no Man shall have colour of Excuse by Ignorance we have thought meet to write these our Letters unto you and every of you of all Sorts and Degrees and by the same to desire and pray you yet nevertheless to Charge and Command you upon your duties of Allegiance That for the repairing of all things negligently passed and then avoiding of all such danger as may for lack thereof happen unto you you shall have special care and study to the due and just Observation of the Points following First We have with our great Study Travel and Labour expelled the Usurped Power of Rome with all the Branches and Dependents upon the same Our pleasure is That you shall have principal regard that the privy Maintainers of that Papistical Faction may be tried out and brought to Justice for by sundry Arguments it is evident to us That there wanteth not a number that in that matter and dependances of the same retain their old feigned Fantasies and Superstitions muttering in Corners as they dare to the maintenance and upholding of it what Countenance so ever they shew outward for the avoiding of danger of Law those kind of Men we would have tried out as the most Cankered and Venomous Worms that be in our Common-Wealth both for that they be apparent Enemies to God and manifest Traitors unto us and to our whole Realm Workers of Mischief and Sedition within the same Secondly You shall have vigilant Eye That all Raisers of Bruits and Rumors that may in any wise touch Us our Honour or Surety or touch the State of our Realm or the Mutation of any Law or Custom thereof may be apprehended and punished to the Example of others disposed to the like Evil. Thirdly You shall have special regard That all Sturdy Vagabond and Valiant Beggars may be punished according to the Statute lately made for that purpose your default in the Execution whereof proceeding upon an inconsiderate Piety to one evil person without respect of the great Multitude that live in honest and lawful sort hath bred no small Inconvenience in our Common-Wealth And to the intent you may more exactly put this Statute in Execution where by the Statute it is appointed that Common-watches shall be kept from the Ascension-tide till Michaelmas Our pleasure is That you shall not only see the said Watches duely and substantially kept according to the limitation of the said Statute but also that you shall continue the said Watches for this Year till Allhallowtide Having also special regard That if any Remissions or Resistance shall chance to be made upon any Watches or other Officers the Offendors therein may be produced to Justice for their condign Punishment Fourthly Our Pleasure and most dread Commandment is That all respects set
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was Five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir Apparent For the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the late Lord Mordaunt might have had divers great Summs of Money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers Remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan Mordaunt now his Wife After which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not Marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a Recovery of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into the right course of Inheritance again did suffer Recoveries of his own Lands to the Uses and upon Condition following To the Use of the said late Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was Married and after to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married unto at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of Twelve years towards the performance of his Will and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life To the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And as for and concerning all other the Maners Lordships Rents Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the foresaid Counties of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton and in every of them whereof no use after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt is before in and by these Presents limited and appointed The Recovery and Recoveries aforesaid shall be and enure and the Recoverers therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof after the death and decease of the said Lord Mordaunt to the use of them the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators and Assigns to the end and until that they shall and may have gathered levied and received of the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and of the other Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Lord Mordaunt before in these Presents to the said Recoverers limited and appointed so much Money as shall and will satisfy to pay such Debts Portions and Summs of Money as are hereafter in these Presents mentioned and expressed And as concerning what Debts and Summs of Money and Portions are meant by the said Lord Mordaunt to be raised and paid as well with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before mentioned as also with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before limited for the life of the said Lady Mordaunt after her decease and of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises limited to the said James Henry and Lewis until they shall or should respectively come to their Age of One and twenty Years The said Lord Mordaunt doth by these Presents express the same to be such as followeth that is to say All such Debts as the said Lord Mordaunt shall justly owe at the time of his decease together with all the necessary Costs Charges and Expences which they the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley shall necessarily expend disburse pay or lay out in about or concerning the same and such other Summ and Summs of Money as the said Lord Mordaunt by a note in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Lord Mordaunt shall limit and appoint to be paid and disbursed And also the several Summs and Portions hereafter following videlicet The Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of lawful English Money for and unto the use of Elizabeth Mordaunt Eldest Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And the Summ of Two thousand Pounds lawful English Money for and to the use of Frances Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which shall first happen And also the Summ and Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful Money of England for and unto the use of Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And moreover the like Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful English Money for and unto the use of Anne Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And also the several Summ and Summs of Two thousand Pounds a piece to each and every of the Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters which hereafter shall happen to be Born to the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid at his her or their several Ages of One and twenty Years or Days of their Marriages which of them shall first happen But it is nevertheless meant and intended That if any of the said Children so appointed to have take and receive Portions as aforesaid shall happen to dye before the several time and times limited and appointed for the payment thereof That then his her or their Portions so deceasing shall not be paid at all to the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of the Children so dying but the same shall go to the benefit of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And also the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Executors and Administrators shall after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt yearly allow and pay unto the said James Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt and Lewis Mordaunt Sons of the said Lord Mordaunt for and towards their maintenance from the time of the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt until every of them severally shall attain and come to their several Ages of One and twenty Years aforesaid or Days of Marriages aforesaid the several yearly Summs following videlicet Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feasts of All-Saints called Hallowmas-Day to the said James Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feast aforesaid to the said Henry Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the aforesaid Feast to Lewis Mordaunt during his minority and also Fifty Pounds a piece yearly and at the Feast aforesaid to every Son and Sons hereafter to be Born unto the said Lord Mordaunt during the minority of such Son and Sons respectively And if it shall happen the said Lady Margaret do dye before the foresaid Daughters of the foresaid Lord Mordaunt or any of them shall attain to her or their several Ages or Times aforesaid on or at which her or their several Portions aforesaid be or ought to be paid Then the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall yearly pay at the Feast of All-Saints aforesaid unto such of the Daughter and Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt then not attained to the Age and Time of her having or wherein she ought to have and to be paid her foresaid Portion according to the appointment of these Presents the yearly Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece for and towards her and their Maintenance respectively to and unto the time when by the appointment and limitation of these Presents her or their said Portions ought to be paid as aforesaid And also the like Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece at the Feast aforesaid and in manner and sort aforesaid unto all and every the Daughters and Issue Females of the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter happening to be born unto the said Lord Mordaunt either in the life time of the said Lord Mordaunt or after his death And it is further the absolute Meaning and Intent of
in the Year that is to say At the Feast of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary St. John the Baptist and St. Michael the Archangel and the Birth of our Lord God by even and equal Portions the First payment thereof to commence and begin from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two Wherefore we do hereby require authorize and command the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of our said Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers there for the time being to make due payment of the said Annuity or yearly Pension of one thousand Pounds on the Feast-days above-mentioned And these Presents or the Inrolment thereof shall be unto them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge for the payment of the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds from time to time accordingly any Act Statute Provision Proclamation Restraint or other matter or thing heretofore had made enacted or provided to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal HOWARD Irrotulatur in Thesaurarii receptis Scaccarii Domini Regis Caroli Secundi quarto die Junii Anno Regni sui decimo quinto Rob. Long. Irrotulatur inter Recorda Domini Regis Caroli Secundi infra recepta Scaccarii sui remanentia in Officio Clerici Thesaurarii Clerici Willielmi decimo quinto die Junii 1663. Annoque Domini Regis decimo quinto W. Wardour A Commission of King Charles the Second Constituting John Earl of Exeter and Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenants of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis per quidem fidelibus Consanguineis nostris Johanni Comiti de Exeter Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam Actum in Parlamento nostro inchoato apud Westmonasterium octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo octavo ibidem tento usque ad decimum octavum diem Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo quarto abinde per separales prorogationes continuato intitulatum An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum enactitatum existit inter acta ordinaria nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Barvici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes plenam habebunt potestatem authoritatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora ac eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam in aliquibus aliis Comitatibus locis praedictis ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerunt secundum directiones quales ipsi de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem actu contentas specificatas plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parlamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem ac potestate authoritate in eodem actu contentis specificatis Nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus vos praefatum Johannem Comitem de Exeter Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentes nostros per in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae per in omnibus Comitatibus Burgis Libertatibus Locis Incorporatis Privilegiatis ac aliis locis quibuscunque infra Comitatum illum limites vel proficua ejusdem Et tenore praesentium ac virtute actus praedicti plenam potestatem authoritatem vobis damus concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per actum Parlamenti praedicti enactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentes per nos vigore illius actus nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo vobis mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parliamenti illius in hac parte procedatis ea omnia faciatis exequemini cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo Per ipsum Regem Barker Testimony of Council for the Earl of Peterborow's having been sworn in order to the Lieutenancy At the Court at Whitehall the 13th of June 1666. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Royal Highnes the DUKE of TORK Earl of Craven Earl of Lawlerdale Earl of Middeton Lord Viscoum Fitzharding Lord Arlington Lord Berkeley Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Maurice THis Day the Right honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath appointed by the Act for ordering of the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom to be taken by the Lords Lieutenants of the respective Counties and his Lordship is joined with the Right Honourable John Earl of Ezeter in the place of Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and it is ordered that the same be entred in the Register of Council causes Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall June 30. 1666. My LORD HIS Majesty being pressed by the likelihood of a speedy Invasion from abroad by the united Force of France and Holland and being assured by all his Intelligence That the Dutch have Inbarked in their Fleet now upon our Coast Sevea or Eight thousand Land-men with all Necessaries accordingly besides what they expect from the Preparations of France hath resolved among other Expedients occurring to him to raise distinct Troops of Horse to be afterwards incorporated in Regiments as he shall see cause and commanded me to transmit to your Grace this inclosed Commission recommending to you the raising of them with all possible
locorum firmiter injungimus velint dicto Legato nostro Extraordinario liberam eundi transeundi redeundi commorandique prout occasio postulaverit copiam facere unà cum Comitatu Famulitio Equis Sarcinis Rebusque omnibus eidemque simul omnibus humanitatis officiis adesse favere id quod nos pari vel alio Officiorum genere occasione quacunque universis fingulis grati referemus Dabantur è Palatio nostro de Whitehall Secundi die Augusti Anno Domini 1673. Regnique nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Regis ARLINGTON An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy Councellor At the Court at Hampton-Court the Tenth Day of July 1674. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Highness Prince RVPERT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Ogle Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Arlington Lord Maynard Lord Berkeley Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Mountague Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. of the Ordnance Mr. Speaker THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board accordingly Robert Southwell The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regimet of Horse Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and to be called the Regiment of our dear Brother JAMES Duke of York consisting of Eight Troops and each Troop of Threescore Men besides Officers And we do also constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment as Collonel and the said Troop as Captain into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well Officers as Souldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively And you are from time to time to observe such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from our General of our Forces or other Superior Officer according to the Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of February 1677 8. in the Thirtieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command H. Coventry Entred with the Comissioner-General of Musters A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 30. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia ex advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem sexto die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod confideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus super dictis negociis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quinto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Grimston Pengry A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto perquam fideli Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam actum in Parliamento nostro inchoato tento apud Westmonasterium Octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo tertio ibidem continuato usque ad decimum nonum diem Maii proxime sequentem abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii proxime sequentem Intitulatum An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum inactitatum existit inter alia quod nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus Locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Bervici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes habebunt plenam authoritatem potestatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem Actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam infra aliquem alium Comitatum Locos praedictos ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerint secundum Directiones de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentis specificatis plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parliamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate ac authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentem nostrum pro Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae in omnibus locis corporatis privilegiatis aliis locis quibuscunque infra dictum Comitatum nostrum Northamptoniae Et tenore praesentium ac virtute ejusdem Actus plenam potestatem authoritatem tibi damus
concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Actum Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentem per nos vigore Actus illius nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia facias exequaris cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Per breve de privato Sigillo Barker A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 31. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo septimo die Octobris proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo quarto die Julii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo primo Grimston Pengry A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 32. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Oxoniam vicesimo primo die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo secundo Grimston Pengry The Jointure of the Countess of Peterborow in Turvey THIS Indenture made the Sixth Day of August in the _____ Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred _____ Between the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey the Honourable William Mountague Esquire Brother to the Lord Mountague of Boughton Sir William Farmer of Easton in the County of Northampton Baronet and Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath of the other part Whereas the Maner of Turvey and certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Turvey in the County of Bedford except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs were settled or intended to be settled upon Penelope Countess of Peterborow for her natural Life for her Jointure and in lieu of her Dower and Thirds of the Estate of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and a certain Decree hath been made in the High Court of Chancery for the Establishing the same for her Jointure accordingly and it is the intent and purpose of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow that the same shall be enjoyed accordingly Now witness these Presents That the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and in consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of Lawful Money of England by the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents well and truly unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors and Administrators for ever by these Presents and for divers other good Causes and Considerations him thereunto moving hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Admininistrators and Assigns all the Maner or reputed Maner of Turvey in the County of Bedford and all Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow situate lying and being in Turvey aforesaid or accepted reputed taken demised or known as part or parcel of the said Maner of Turvey aforesaid except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs To have and to hold the said Maner of Turvey and all the Premises in Turvey aforesaid except as before is excepted unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns from and after the death of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and during and unto the full end and term of Ninety nine Years from thence ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended if she the said Penelope Countess of Peterborow shall so long live Nevertheless upon this special Trust and Confidence That the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall permit and suffer the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to be received and taken in pursuance of and according to the said Decree and according
departing this Life at Hampton-Court 11. Jan. 15. Eliz. was honourably Buried at Rygate in Surrey upon the 29th of the same Month. A Patent whereby Queen Mary does create William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor Archiepiscopis Episcopis Ducibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciarils Vicecomitibus Praepositis Ministris omnibus Ballivis Fidelibus suis salutem Cum enim praeteritorum Magnifica gesta Principum saltem qui sua Industria atque Virtute famam nobis reliquere Immortalem ad mentem revocemus nil Prudentius nil laude Dignius pro prospero atque Felici ipsorum Statu Salute securoque Successu eos fecisse arbitramur qui quando Fideles Diligentes strenuosque suos servientes Facultatibus Regimine Honore condigne remunerari caeterisque praeferre decreverint sicque sua iis Beneficia juxta eorum Virtutes atque Merita benignè conferre curarunt Nos eorum mores imitantes non solum Nobilitatem atque Constantiam imo probitatem ac in Armis strenuitatem caeterasque virtutes Domini Willielmi Howard militis nostri intime dilecti non modica cum deliberatione maturè considerantes ipsum Willielmum Howard in Baronum Parliamenti Regni nostri Angliae ex mero motu gratiaque nostris ordinavimus deputavimus creavimus constituimus prout per praesentes ordinamus deputamus creamus constituimus atque titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham locumque in singulis Parliamentis infra idem Regnum nostrum Angliae posthac celebrandis caeteraque jura Privilegiaque nostra ipsius Regni Baronibus ejusdem ex Lege consuetudine aliove quovis pacto pertinentia eidem Willielmo damus concedimus eisque ipsum adeo liberè amplè uti gaudere sicut unquam aliquis Baro hujus Regni nostri usus fuit aut debuit volumus habendum hujusmodi statum titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham praedicta atque locum in Parliamentis praedictis ac caetera praemissa praefato Willielmo haeredibus suis masculis de corpore suo excuntibus in perpetuum eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore animi aut de certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Willielmo ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime factum existit Aliquo statuto actu ordinatione provisione sive restrictione inde in contrarium ante haec editis factis seu ordinatis seu provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quaqunque in aliquo non obstante his testibus Reverend ' in Christo Patre ac praedilecto fideli Conciliario nostro Stephano Wintoniensi Episcopo summo nostro Angliae Cancellario charissimis consanguineis Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Marchione Winton praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Thesaurario nostro Angliae Henrico Comite Arundel praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Domino senescallo Hospitii nostri Johanne Comite Bedford praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Custode privati sigilli nostri Henrico Comite Sussex Willielmo Comite Pembroke praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite praedilectis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Domino Paget de Bewdesert praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Reverendo in Christo Patre Cutberto Dunelmens Episcopo Johanne Gage praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Domino Camerario nostro Roberto Rotchester Milite contrarotulatore Hospitii nostri Henrico Jernynham Milite Vicecamerario nostro Willielmo Petre Milite uno Primariorum Secretariorum nostorum Johanne Bourne Milite altero Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium undecimo die Martii Anno Regni nostri primo per ipsam Reginam Sigillum Eden Herbert's History of Henry the Eighth pag. 535. BUT it rested not here for the Lord William Howard the Queen's Uncle newly returned from an Embassage in France and his Wife and the old Dutchess of Norfolk and divers of the Queen's and the said Dutchess's Kindred and Servants and a Butter-Wife were Indicted of Misprision of Treason as concealing this Fact and condemned to perpetual Prison though yet by the King's Favour some of them were at length Released Commission of Queen Mary To be High Admiral of England MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina omnibus ad quos c. Salutem Sciatis quod nos ob certas causas considerationes nos specialiter moventes ac in consideratione boni veri fidelis Servitii per dilectum Conciliarium nostrum Willielmum Howard Militem Dominum Howard de Effingham ante haec tempora facti impensi de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard officium magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem Villae nostrae in Cales ac Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum ac ipsum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum nostrarum eorundem Villae nostrae Cales Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum necnon praefectum generalem Classis Marium dictorum Regnorum nostrorum Angliae Hiberniae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem fecimus constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes facimus constituimus ordinamus Et ulterius sciatis quod nos de Gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae praefecto Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum omnia omnimodas jurisdictiones autoritates libertates officia feoda proficua vadia emolumenta wrecum maris maris ejectum regardia advantagia commoditates praeminentia quaecunque eidem officio magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae ac aliorum locorum Dominiorum praedictorum qualitercunque spectantia pertinentia sive incumbentia vel aliquo modo ab antiquo perantea debita sive consueta necnon tam bona catalla quorumcunque praedictorum piratorum homicidarum felonum qualitercunque infra nostram jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae Angliae inferius limitatam delinquentium quam bona debita catalla omnium singulorum eorum manutenentium accessariorum consulentium auxiliantium vel assistentium quorumcunque