Howard Knight of the Bath He had also Issue four Daughters 1 Elizabeth first married to William Earl of Banbury and afterwards to Edward Lord Vaux 2 Frances to Robert Earl of Essex from whom being divorced she became the Wife of Robert Earl of Somerset 3 Katherine to William Earl of Salisbury 4 and Margaret who deceased in her Childhood And departing this life at his House near Charing-Cross 28. Maii An. 1626. 2 Car. 1. was buried at Walden To whom succeeded Theophilus his Son and Heir who in his Fathers life time bore the title of Lord Howard of Walden and in 8 Iac. 26 Martii was made Governour of the Isle of Geresey and Castle of Cornet for life This Theophilus was installed Knight of the Garter shortly after the beginning of King Charles the firsts reign and married Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir to George Lord Hume of Barwick Earl of Duâ—bar in Scotland by whom he had Issue four Sons Iames made Knight of the Bath in An. 1625. at the Coronation of King Charles the first Thomas George and Henry And five Daughters Catherine married to George Lord Aubigny Elizabeth to Algernon Earl of Northumberland Margaret to Roger Earl of Orrory in Ireland Anne to Thomas Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Walsingham of Scadbury in Com. Cantii Knight and Frances to Edward Villers a younger Son to Sir Edward Villers Knight who was Brother of the half blood to George late Duke of Buckingham And departing this life 3 Iunii in An. 1640. was buried at Walden Which Iames succeeding him in his Honours married two Wives 1 Susanna Daughter to Henry Earl of Holand by whom he had Issue one only Daughter surviving named Essex married to Edward Griffyn Son and Heir to Sir Edward Gryffin of Dingley in Com. Northt Knight He secondly married Barbara Daughter to Sir Edward Villers before mentioned and Widow of ... Son and Heir to the Lord Wenman by whom he hath only one Daughter named Elizabeth married to ... Felton one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to our present Soveraign King Charles the Second Howard Earl of Berk-shire ¶ HAving now done with the chief branch of this House of Suffolk I come to Thomas second Son to the before-specified Thomas Earl of Suffolk and of Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Henry Knevet of Charlton in Com. Wilts Knight This Thomas upon the 23 of Ianuary 19 Iac. being advanced to the titles of Lord Howard of Charlton and Vicount Andover was before the end of that Kings reign installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter also 1 Febr. 5 Car. 1. created Earl of Berkshire And having married Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs to William Lord Burghley Son and Heir to Thomas Earl of Exeter by her had Issue eight Sons viz. Sir Charles Howard Knight of the Bath commonly called Lord Andover 2 Thomas 3 Henry 4 William 5 Edward 6 Sir Robert Howard Knight 7 Philip 8 Iames and 9 Algernon And four Daughters Elizabeth married to Iohn Dreyden Esq Diana ... Frances to Conyers Darcy Son and Heir to Conyers Lord Darcie and Coniers and Mary And departing this life upon the sixteenth day of Iuly An. 1669. was buried in the Abby Church at Westminster To whom succeeded Charles his Son and Heir who in his Fathers life time had summons to divers Parliaments by the title of Lord Howard of Charlton and married Dorothy second Daughter of Thomas Vicount Savage by whom he hath had Iâ—â—ue three Sons Thomas Henry and Iohn who died in their youth as also two Daughters Anne married to Sir Henry Bedingfield Son and Heir to Sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxborough in Com. Norf. and Elizabeth who died young Lord Howard of Escrick ¶ THE next is Sir Edward Howard Knight another Son of the before specified Thomas Earl of Suffolk This Sir Edward upon the 29 of April 4 Car. 1. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Howard of Escrick in Com. Ebor. by reason he did possess that Lordship which came to Thomas Earl of Suffolk his Father by the marriage of Elizabeth the eldest Daughter and Coheir to Sir Henry Knevit of Charlton in Com. Wiltes Knight as heir to Thomas Lord Knevit of Escrick her Uncle who died without Issue as I shall shew in due place and Married Mary one of the Daughters of Iohn Lord Butler of Bramfeild in Com. Hertf. by whom he had Issue three Sons viz. Thomas William and Sir Cecill Howard Knight As also Anne a Daughter Married to Charles now Earl of Carlisle And departing this life 24 Apr. an 1675. was buried at the Savoy in the Suburbs of London To whom succeeded Thomas his eldest Son who Married Elizabeth Daughter to Iohn late Earl of Peterborough Howard Earl of Carlisle ¶ I Lastly come to the Lord William Howard third Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk by Margaret his second Wife Daughter and Heir to Thomas Lord Audley of Walden This William taking to Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas and Sister and Coheir to George Lord Dacres of Gillesland in her right became possess'd of Naworth-Castle in Com. Cumbr. the chief and antient seat of the Lord Dacres in that Northern Tract which still continues to his descendents and being restored in blood by Act of Parliament 1 Iac. had Issue by the same Elizabeth 1. Sir Philip Howard Knight his Son and Heir 2. Sir William Howard of Brafferton in Com. Ebor. Knight 3. Sir Francis Howard Knight and divers other who died young As also three Daughters Mary Married to Sir Iohn Winter Son and Heir to Sir Edward Winter of Lydney in Com. Glouc. Knight Elizabeth to Sir Henry Bedingfeild of Oxborough in Com. Norf. Baronet and Margaret to Sir Thomas Cotton of Conington in Com. Hunt Baronet And departing this life ... Augusti an 1640. was buried at Ereistocke in Cumâ—erland Which Sir Philip dying in his Father's life time left Issue by Mary his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Câ—rrell of Harting in Com. Suss. Knight three Sons 1. Sir William Howard Knight 2. Iohn and 3. Philip slain at Rowton-Heath in the service of King Charles the First As also two Daughters Elizabeth Married to Bartholmew Fromund of Cheme in Com. Surr. Esq and Alathea to Thomas Lord Fairfax of Emeley in Ireland Which Sir William took to Wife Maâ—y the eldest Daughter of William Lord Evre by whom he had Issue five Sons William who died in his life time Charles Philip Thomas and Iohn And five Daughters Mary Married to Sir Ionathan Atkyns Knight Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Gower of Stittenham in Com. Ebor. Knight Catherine to Sir Iohn Lawson of Broughton in Com. Ebor. Knight Frances to Sir George Downing of East-Hatley in Com. Contâ—br Knight and Baronet and Margaret to the Earl of Leven in Scotland Which Charles having been highly instrumental for the happy restoration
Hugh de Say certified the Knights Fees belonging to this Honor in 12 Hen. 2. to be in number Twenty three In Right of this Margery he had also the Lordships of Temetbury Clifton Sapy Cure Iadefen Sheâ—deslegh Sutton Stanfort Crolea Estwood Purshull and Aumbrug in Com. Wigor which were given to him by the King with the said Margery to be held by the service of Six Knights Fees and a fifth part This Robert in 17 Ioh. obtained likewise a Grant from the King of all those Lands in Berewic in Com. Suss. which did formerly belong to Mabel de Say Mother of Margery his Wife and then in the Possession of Robert Marmion the younger And moreover of all those Lands in Herleveston in Com. Linc. which did belong to Robert de Mortimer of Norfolk then in Arms with the Rebellious Barons but died not long after For in 3 Hen. 3. this Margery surviving him had an Assignation of her Dowry out of all his Lands lying in the County of Essex And in 15 Hen. 3. was married to William de Stutevil To this Robert succeeded Hugh de Mortimer his Son and Heir who in 43 Hen. 3. upon the death of William de Stutevil Husband to Margery de Say his Mother paying One hundred pound for his Releif had Livery of all those Lands of her Inheritance which he the said William held as Tenant by the curtesie of England during his life In 44 Hen. 3. this Hugh being one of the Barons Marchers received command to repair personally to his House at Ricards Castle and there to attend the direction of Roger Lord Mortimer of Wigmore whom the King had then constituted Captain-General of all his Forces in those parts to oppose the Hostilities of Lewelin Prince of Wales And in 47 Hen. 3. had a farther command together with the rest of the Barons Marchers to go against the said Lewelin who had at that time possessed himself of certain Castles belonging to the Kings good Subjects In 48 Hen. 3. after that fatal Battle of Lewes wherein the King and Prince were both made Prisoners by the Rebellious Barons Montfort coming down with a powerful Army into the Marches of Wales to succor Lewelin his Adherent and Consederate This Hugh seeing the Lands and Houses of the Lord Mortiner of Wigmore wasted by those Forces was constrained to deliver up his House at Ricards Castle unto him But the Battle of Evesham not long after ensuing wherein those Rebellious Lords were utterly vanquished this Hugh who had stood firm to the King throughout the whole time of those troubles had then a peaceable fruition of his estate and in 51 Hen. 3. obtained a Charter from the King for a Market every week upon the Saturday at his Mannor of Bureford in Com. Salop. as also a Fair yearly upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of the Blessed Virgin And after this scil in 1 Edw. 1. executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Salop and Stafford for the greatest part of that year This being the substance of what I have found memorable of him I shall now only take notice that for the health of the Souls of his Ancestors and Successors he made a Grant to the Monks of Worcester of certain Lands in Alesweshey sealed with his Arms viz. Barry of six Pieces charged with Flower de Luces William his Brother being a witness thereto And that he departed this life in 3 Edw. 1. leaving Robert his Son and Heir Twenty two years of age who had soon after Livery of his Lands paying One hundred pound for his Releif Of which Robert all that I can say is That in 10 Edw. 1. he was in that expedition then made into Wales and died in 15 Edw. 1. Whereupon Ioyce his Wife surviving him had an Assignation of the Mannors of Bureford in Com. Salop and Coderugg in Com. Wigorn. for her Dower leaving Hugh his Son and Heir and William a younger Son Which William by reason that he enjoyed the Lordship of Ashby in Com. Leicest commonly called Ashby de la Zouch whereof Robert his Father had been possessed by the gift of Alan la Zouch his Uncle viz. ... assumed the sirname of Zouch and was vulgarly called William la Zouch of Mortimer of whom I shall speak farther by and by But I return to Hugh This Hugh in 24 Edw. 1. doing his homage had Livery of his Lands and having had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons in 25 27 Edw. 1. in the same Twenty seventh year went to the Wars of Scotland but departed this life in 32 Edw. 1. leaving Ioan his eldest Daughter Twelve years of age and Margaret the younger Eight his next Heirs and being then seised of the Mannors of Wychebaud and Coderugg in Com. Wigorn. parcel of the Mannor of Bureford likewise of the antient site of the Castle and Town of Blethenagh and Column of Blethenagh in Wales also of the Castle and Town of Ricards Castle with its appurtenances and the Hamlets adjoying viz. Bachecote More Overton Wolferton and Whitebrok in Com. Salop. Acroft Wapelith Coumbe Tyteley Rode and Calcop in Com. Heref. As also joyntly with Maud his Wife and to his own Heirs of the Mannors of Boreworth in Com. Salop. Nyminton in Com. Devon Hobrugge in Com. Essex and Norton juxta Daventrey in Com. Northamp Whereupon the said Maud had the Mannor of Wychebaud the site of the Town and Castle of Blethenagh in the Column of Blethenagh in Wales together with the said Column assigned for her Dowry She likewise held in Dower the Mannors of Bureford in Com. Salop. Ambredon in Com. Essex Eudinton in Com. Oxon. Lutlinton in Com. Gloc. and Imeney in Com. Wigorn. All which upon her death the same year divolved to Ioan then the Wife of Thomas de Bykenore and Margaret Wife of Geffrey Cornwail Daughters and Heirs to the above mentioned Hugh Of which Lordships as also of those whereof William de Mortimer of Ham died seised whose Heirs they the said Ioan and Margaret likewise were Partition being made in 3 Edw. 2. she the said Margaret had for her Purparty assigned unto her the moity of the Mannor of Bureford together with the moities of the Mannors of Niminton and Codrugge as also the Mannors of Ambreden Hobrugge and Norton with divers Messuages and Lands in other places the rest falling to the share of Ioan her elder Sister Wife of Thomas de Bikenore as hath been observed but had no issue by him as it seems For plain it is that she afterwards taking to Husband Richard Talbot a younger Son to Richard Lord Talbot of Eccleswel in Com. Heref. her posterity by him enjoyed Ricards-Castle and the rest of the Lands of her Inheritance Zouch of Mortimer I Come now to William the
that present year at Hampton-court for defence of his own private causes he procured seditions Bills to be written in counterfeit bands and secretly to be dispersed in divers parts of the Realm beginning thus Good people intending thereby to raise the Kings Subjects to Rebellion and open War 22. that the Kings Privy Council did consult at London to come to him and move him to reform his Government But he hearing thereof declared by his Letters in divers places that they were high Traytors to the King 23. That he declared untruly as well to the King as to other young Lords attending his person that the Lords at London intended to destroy the King and desired the King never to forget to revenge it and required the young Lords to put the King in remembrance thereof with intent to make Sedition and Discord between the King and his Nobles 24. That at divers times and places he said That the Lords of the Council at London intend to Kill me but if I die the King shall die and if they famish me they shall famish him 25. That of his own head he removed the King so suddainly from Hampton-court to Windsore without any provision there made that he was thereby not only in great fear but cast into a dangerous disease 26. That by his Letters he caused the Kings people to assemble in great numbers in Armor after the manner of War to his ayde and defence 27. That he caused his Servants and Friends at Hampton-court and Windsore to be apparalled in the Kings Armor when the Kings Servants and Guard went unarmed 28. That he intended to fly to Iernsey and Wales and laid Post-Horses and Men and a Boat to that purpose Now albeit saith my Author there was little doubt but that some of these Articles were meerly devised others inlarged or wrested or others inforced by odious interpretation yet he subscribed with his own hand that he did acknowledge his offences contained in them and humbly upon his knees submitted himself to the Kings Mercy As also in like manner intreated the Lords to be a means to the King that he would conceive that his offences did proceed rather from negligence rashness or other indiscâ—etion than from any malicious thought tending to Treason and that he would take some gracious way with him his Wife and Children not according to extremity of Laws but after his great clemency and mercy This was written with his own hand 23 Dec. An. 3 Edw. Regis My Author also thus goeth on To this I make no other defence but intreat the Reader not to condemn him for perishing so weakly and for that he who should have lost his Life to preserve his Honor cast away both his Life and his Honor together Notwithstanding for that present his Blood was respited but he was stripped of his great Offices of Protector Trasurer and Marshall lost all his Goods and near two thousand pounds Lands After this he sent Letters to the Lords of the Council wherein he acknowledged himself much favoured by them in that they had brought his cause to be finable which although it was to him importable yet as he never did intend to contend with them nor in any action to justifie himself as well for that he was none of the wisest and might easily err as for that it is scarce possible for any Man in great place so to bear himself that all his Actions in the Eye of Justice should be blameless so he did then submit himself wholy to the Kings Mercy and their discretions for some moderation desiring them to conceive that what he did amiss was rather through rudeness and for want of Judgment than from any malicious meaning and that he was therefore ready both to do and suffer what they should appoint Finally he did again most humbly upon his knees intreat pardon and favor assuring them that they should ever find him so lowly to their Honors and obedient to their Orders as that he would thereby make amends for his former follies Which subjection of his wrought such compassion towards him from the King that he was forthwith released from his Imprisonment his Fines pardoned his goods and lands restored exeept such as had been given away the malice of the Lords being either appeased or their power not sufficient to resist Within a short time after which he was entertained and feasted by the King with a great shew of favor and sworn again of the Privy-Council and a seeming perfect amity made betwixt him and the Lords and that all might appear to be knit up in a comical conclusion his Daughter was soon after joyned in Marriage with the Lord L'Isle Son and Heir to the Earl of Uarwick and the Earl himself made Lord Admiral of England 3 Iunii Ann. 1550. 4 E. 6. But these ill cemented affections continued not long firm bursting out into open enmity the next ensuing year insomuch as he resolved to Murther the Earl of Warwick then newly made Duke of Northumberland as some report and to that end under colour of a visit came privily armed to his Lodging attended by Seconds where he found him in his Bed but being courteously entertained and with smooth Language did not execute what he purposed Whereupon at his departure one of the Company asking him whether he had done the feat and he saying No the party replyed then you are undone Northumâ—erland therefore being now in title of Honor inferior to none and superiour to all in authority and power could not restrain his haughty hopes of aspiring to an absolute command but before he could level directly at his Mark it was thought fit that this Duke should be taken away Speeches were therefore spread abroad that he had caused himself to be proclaimed King in divers Countries Which though they were known to be false yet the very naming him so to be either as desired by himself or esteemed worthy by others brought with it a distastful relish apt enough to cause a suspition of truth After this he was charged to have persuaded divers of the Nobility to choose him Protector at the next Parliament For which being questioned he neither held silence as he might nor confidently denied it but entangled himself in his doubtful tale Sir Thomas Palmer a great Creature of Northumberlands also affirmed that being upon a Journey with him towards the North in case Sir William Herbert Master of the Horse had not assured him that he should receive no harm he would have raised the people and that he had sent the Lord Grey before to know who would be his friends Also that the Duke of Northumberland the Marquess of Northampton and the Earl of Pembroke should have been invited to Banquet and that if they had come slenderly attended then to have been set upon by the way if strongly then that their Heads should have been cut off at the place of their Feasting He likewise farther declared that
Fotherby Dean of Canterbury By neither of which wives having any issue he departed this life at London 20 Nov. An. 1660. and was buried in St. Martins Church near Canterbury within which Parish the Lordship of Mote is scituate where his last wife surviving him hath erected a noble Monument to his memory Lord Finche of Daventre OF this Family viz. Son and Heir of Sir Heneage Finch Knight Recorder of London and Speaker of the House of Commons in Parliament an 1625. 1 Car. 1. fourth Son to Sir Moyle Finch of Eastwell Baronet and the Lady Elizabeth Countess of Winchelsey his Wife is Sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet who being a great proficient in the Study of the Laws in that Honourable Society of the Inner Temple London was upon the happy Restoration of our present Sovereign King Charles the Second 6 Iunii in the twelfth year of his Majesties reign made his Sollicitor General and the next year following Autumn-Reader in the before specified Inne of Court Upon the seventh of Iune an 1660. 12 Car. 2. by the name of Sir Heneage Finch of â—aunston in Com. Buck. Knight he was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet and upon the tenth day of May an 1670. 22 Car. 2. constituted the Kings Attorney General Also upon the ninth of November an 1673. made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal Shortly after which he was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Finch of Daventre in Com. Northt being then owner of that Mannour by Letters Patents bearing date the tenth day of Ianuary 25 Car. 2. He married Elizabeth Daughter of Daniel Harvy Merchant of London by whom he hath Issue now living 〈◊〉 Sons 〈◊〉 Daniel Heneage William Charles Edward Henry and Robert Edward Iohn and Thomas being deceased He hath also had Issue four Daughters Elizabeth married to Samuel Grimston Son and Heir to Sir Herbottle Grimston Baronet Master of the Rolls Mary and Anne deceased and another Mary now surviving Lord Grey of Werke 21 Iac. THat this Family hath been antient in Northumberland and famous for divers Military exploits is evident from many authorities though none thereof did attain to the dignity of Peerage till of late In King Edward the seconds time Thomas de Grey being Governour of the Castles of Couper and Fife in Scotland came into that Realm shortly after his Coronation And with xxvi men broke through those Forces which Gualter de Bickerton had laid to entrap him Other particulars no less memorable were these viz. that at the Siege of Stryvelin upon the Rescue of Henry Lord Beaumont of whose retinue he then was he received a dangerous wound under his Eyes Likewise that he was afterwards taken prisoner by Thomas Randolph Earl of Murray And Governour of Norham where he was twice besieged by the Scots once for near six months and the other for full seven Likewise that he slew one Cryâ—â—es a Scottish-Admiral who had been a great Robber at Sea Moreover that in 19 E. 3. he had a Charter of Free-Warren throughout all his Lordships of Fenton Nosbytte Dodington North-â—iddleton Middlemost-Middleton South-Middleton Howyke â—worth Heddon and Hankill in that County And that he routed the Earls of March and Sutherland upon their invasion of the North whilst King E. 3. was at the Siege of Tournay Another Thomas there was who in 2 H. 5. being in that conspiracy with Henry Lord Scrope on the behalf of the French suffered death for the same To whom succeeded Sir Raphe Grey of Worke who was Knighted at Leicester upon Whiâ—sunday in 4 H. 6. by Iohn Duke of Bedford the King himself then receiving that honour from the same hand This was that Sir Raphe who soon after raised the Siege which the King of Scots had laid to Roxborough There was one of this Family a man of great note in the time of King E. 4. who being charged by a Gentleman of Scotland of Adultery with the Queen of Scots came with a Band of a thousand men to Edenburgh and there cast down his Glove to encounter in the Lists with his Accuser but departed without Fighting And in 6 E. 6. another Sir Raphe Grey of Chillingham in Com. Northumb. Knight then made Warden of the West Marches towards Scotland From whom descended another Raphe who by Isabell his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas Grey of Horton Knight had Issue William Grey of Chillingham aforesaid Esq who upon the xv day of Iune 1619. 17 Iac. was advanced to the degree of Baronet and afterwards viz. 11 Febr. 21 Iac. to the honour of a Baron by the title of Lord Grey of Werke and to the Heirs Male of his body Which William married Anne the Daughter and Coheir to Sir Iohn Wentworth of Gosleild in Com. Essex Baronet and departing this life upon the 29 of Iuly An. 1674. was buried at Epping in Essex By which Anne he had Issue divers Sons and Daughters but of these his Sons Raphe only survived him and of his Daughters Catherine only the rest dying young or unmarried who became first the Wife of Sir Edward Moseley of Hough in Com. Lanc. Baronet and afterwards of Charles eldest Son to Dudley Lord North since summoned to Parliament by the title of Lord Grey of Roulston Which Raphe now Lord Grey of Werke married Catherine Daughter to Sir Edward Forde of Hartling in Com. Sussex Knight Widdow of Alexander Colepeper eldest Son to Iohn Lord Colepeper by whom he had Issue now living three Sons Forde who hath married Mary Daughter of George Lord Berkley Raphe and Charles and one Daughter called Mary and departing this life upon the fifteenth day of Iune an 1675. was buried at Harting in Com. Sussex Burgh Earl of St. Albans 22 Iac. OF this Family which derive their descent from William Fitz-Aldelme Sewer to King Henry the second was Richard Burgh Earl of Clanrikard in Ireland who by Letters Patents bearing date 3 Apr. 22 Iac. was advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Somerhill as also to the dignity of a Vicount by the name of Vicount Tunbridge and upon the 23 of August 4 Car. 1. created Earl of St. Albans at which time he had likewise other Irish Honours conferred upon him viz. Baron of Imaudy in the Province of Conaght and Vicount of Galloway This Richard Earl of St. Albans married Frances the sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Francis Walâ—ingham Knight one of the principal Secretaries of State to the late Queen Eliz. Widdow of Robert Earl of Essex by whom he had Issue Vlick his Son and Successor in these Honours and one only Daughter called Honora who became the second Wife of Iohn late Marquess of Winchester He died 12 Nov. an 1636. and was buried at Tonbridge in Kent within which parish
his service with which he encountred a strong party of those rebellious Invaders the Scots at Corbridge in Northumberland and put them to the worst Next being Commander in chief of those Troops which the King sent from Oxford against that great Rebel of Lincolnshire Colonel Rosseter he gave him the â—oyl Thence marching against the Lord Fairfax and putting him to the rout he relieved Pontâ—ract-Castle at that time besieged by a numerous Body of the Northern-Rebels And after all this firmly adhering to that good King of blessed memory untill necessity prompted his Majesty to cast himself upon his Native-subjects the Scots so that he could not serve him farther in this Realm he betook himself to Foreign paâ—s till he did discern a fitter opportunity And then couragiously attempting the strong Garrison of Barwick upon â—wede and that well fortified City of Carlisle he reduced them both to his Majesties obedience After which having raised new Forces for his service he did great things and attempted greater but soon after through the powerfulness of the Enemy the King's Interest sinking more and more his Armies being totally scattered he became their Prisoner Whence making his escape with no little difficulty he again got beyond Sea there with most exemplary loyalty attending our present Sovereign in his most low and desperate condition In consideration therefore of these his great Actings and Sufferings he was by Letters Patent bearing date a Bruges in Flanders upon the fourth day of February in the tenth year of his Majesties Reign which was about two years preceding his happy Restoration advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Langdale of Holme in Spaldyngmoore and to the Heirs male of his body He marryed Lenox the Daughter of Sir Iohn Rhodes of Barlborough in Com. Derb. Knight and by her left Issue two Sons Marmaduke and Philip the rest dying young as also two Daughters Lenox and Mary And departing this life in his House at Holme in the East-riding of Yorkshire 5 August 1661. was buried at Sancton near adjacent To whom succeeded Marmaduke his Son and Heir who married Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas Savage of Beeston in Com. Cestr. Esq Brother to Iohn late Earl Rivers and by her hath Issue one Son named Marmaduke and two Daughters Iane married to Michael Anne of Frickley in Com. Ebor. Esq and Elizabeth to Hugh Smithson Esq Son and Heir to Sir Ierome Smithson of Stanwick in the same County Baronet Lord Crofts 10 Car. 2. THE next in order of time who had the Title of a Baron of this Realm conferred upon him by our present Sovereign then in Foreign parts was William Crofts Esq the lineal Heir male of that ancient Famimily which had for divers Ages flourished at Saâ—ham in the County of Suffolk whereof many were dignified with the Honour of Knighthood and by females descended from the first Lord Wentworth of Netâ—lested as also from the Montacutes sometime Earls of Salisbury and Nevills Earls of Westmorland Which William having been brought up in the Court of England from his youth became Master of the Horse to his Royal Highness the Duke of York Next to be Captain of the Guard to the late Queen-Mother and afterwards Gentleman of the Bed-chamber to his Majesty that now is In all which imployments behaving himself with great fidelity he was at length sent Embassadour into Poland where he managed that high Affair then committed to his trust with singular prudence and dexterity In consideration of which notable services he was by Letters-patent bearing date at Bruxells in Brabant upon the 18. of May in the tenth year of his Majesties Reign advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Crofts of Saxâ—am He marryed two Wives first Dorothy the Daughter to Sir Iohn Hobert of Intwood in Com. Norf. Baronet Son and Heir to Sir Henry Hobert Knight and Baronet sometime Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas Widow of Sir Iohn Hele Knight Secondly Elizabeth Daughter of William Lord Spenser but by neither of these hath had any Issue Lord Berkley of Stratton 10 Car. 2. ABout the same time likewise his Majesty taking into his Princely consideration the eminent merits of Sir Iohn Berkley of Bruton in the County of Sâ—merset Knight descended from the most noble and ancient Barons Berkley of Berkley-Castle of whom I have already spoke in the first Volume of this work who being Governour to his Royal Highness Iames Duke of York and managing his Affairs in his tender years most seasonably approved his Loyalty to the late King Charles of blessed memory in a very high measure First by putting himself in Arms on his part at the beginning of the late unparallel'd Rebellion for which cause he suffered Imprisonment for a time Next by his opportune though hazardous adventure in bringing a considerable supply of Arms and Ammunition out of Holland in the Year 1642. which he then safely landed in the parts of Holderness for his Majesties service After this being made General of his Majesties Forces in Cornwall joining with Sir Ralph Hopton Knight afterwards Lord Hopton he obtained divers Victories against the Rebels of those western-Counties in the several Battels of Bradock Saltash Launceston and Stratâ—on as also at Modbury in the County of Devon And laying strong siege to Exeter after divers bold skirmishes with the Enemy at length not only reduced it to his Majesties obedience but most valiantly repulst their Fleet then at â—opsham under the command of Robert Earl of Warwick taking three of their Ships in that Harbour whereupon he was constituted Governour of that great City General of all his Majesties Forces in Devonshire In consideration therefore of these his most loyal and successful services he was by Letters-Patent bearing date at Bruxells in Brabant upon the 19. of May in the tenth year of his Majesties Reign advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Berkley of Stratton Since which time being constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he arrived there in April 1670. and having undergone that Trust for about the space of 3 years is now Embassadour in France He marryed Christian the Daughter of Sir Andrew Riccard Knight President of the East-India Company and Widow of Henry Lord Kensington Son to Henry late Earl of Holland by whom he hath Issue four Sons Charles Iohn and William now living and Maurice who died young As also one Daughter called Anne Iames Duâ—e of York 11 Car. â— THis most Illustrious bâ—â—â—ch of the Royal Family that is to â—y Second Son to the late King Charles the First of blessed memory having been by 〈◊〉 Renowned Father created Duke of York 〈◊〉 Letters-Pattents bearing date at Oxford 〈◊〉 Ian. in the Nineteenth year of his Reign iâ— farther augmentation to his
THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND OR An Historical Account OF THE LIVES and most Memorable ACTIONS of Our English Nobility In the SAXONS time to the NORMAN Conquest And from thence of those who had their rise before the end of King HENRY the Third's Reign DEDUCED From Publick Records Antient Historians and other Authorities BY WILLIAM DUGDALE NORROY King of Arms. Nam genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Ovid. TOME the First LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Abel Roper Iohn Martin and Henry Herringman at the Sun in Fleetstreet the Bell in S. Pauls Churchyard and at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1675. SERENISSIMO CELSISSIMOQVE CAROLO SECUNDO Dei Gratiâ MAGNAE BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE MONARCHAE Fidei Defensori GULIELMUS DUGDALUS NORROY Rex Armorum MAJESTATI Ejus Humillimus ac Fidelis Subditus Servus HOC OPUS D. D. THE PREFACE THere having been so much and so well in general already spoken in few words by that great Orator Cicero in commendation of History That it is the Witness of times past the Voice of Antiquity the Light of Truth and the Life of Memory to offer more were superfluous Most certain we are that every one naturally is desirous of Knowledge and Experience teacheth us That the gaining thereof is not any way better then by observing the success which hath attended the Actions of other Men. Ailred an old Monk of Rievaulx who lived in the time of King Stephen and Henry the Second in his Preface to the History of King Edward the Confessors life tells us That by Recording the Lives and Actions of the Good those who come after have encouragement to imitate their Vertues and that nothing more inciteth the mind of Man to an emulation of others then to hear the report of their noble Atchievements conceiving that by doing the like they may reap the like benefit It is said of Demetrius Phalaraeus that he advised King Ptolomy to provide himself of Books touching his Kingdom and such as did Treat of Military Actions to the end that therein he might read what his Friends durst not admonish him of And that when Alphonsus King of Aragon lay sick at Capua reading the famous Acts of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius he grew so much pleased therewith that upon his recovery he said Farewel Avicen farewel Hippocrates and all other Physitians and long live Quintus Curtius the Restorer of my Health Of what relates to Kings and Soveraign Princes the Volumes which have been already written are large and numerous nor hath there been a neglect to preserve the memory of others though of inferior rank who have been famous in their times it being accounted a generous disposition in all Men to endeavor to know whence their Forefathers were For besides what we find of such dispersedly occurring in our Publick Histories and Annals Divers there are of whom a particular account hath been given as to their Marriages and Issue For instance of some great Families in Bretaigne by Augustine du Paz Of the Houses of Chastillon Guines Ardres and many other by Andrew du Chesne And of ours in this Realm by the Learned and Iudicius Robert Glover long since Somerset Herald in imitation of Claude Paradine his Alliances Genealogicks which with great exactness being performed was afterwards made publick by Thomas Mills his near Kinsman and Executor The like also of the Marriages and Issue of the Nobility of England with-some Historical Notes did Ralph Brook sometime York Herald accomplish in An. 1619. afterwards Reprinted with Corrections I wish I could not say with too sharp and severe Reflections by Augustine Vincent at that time Windsore Herald who in his Epistle Dedicatory to the then Earl of Arundel and Surrey Earl Marshal of England intimates his purpose of somewhat touching The Baronage of England and lives of such as had been Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter For the effecting whereof he had no small advantage by his free access to the Publick Records in the Tower of London being then a Clerk in that Office though what progress he made in either of these I never yet saw Of the Right Noble and Antient Family of Berkley of Berkley Castle in Com. Gloc. there hath that been done in an Historical way by the special Industry of a worthy Gentleman lately deceased which I heartily wish may be a Pattern for some others to follow it being faithfully extracted partly out of Publick Records and partly from the great mass of antient Charters and other Memorials still remaining in Berkley Castle I must ingenuously acknowledge that I had not any thoughts of attempting this Work here made publick until by God Almighties disposal attending the late King Charles the First of Blessed Memory in His Garison at Oxford according to the duty of my place and continuing in his service there from the beginning of November An. 1642. until the end of June 1646. I had both leisure and opportunity of perusing many excellent Histâ—â—â—â—al Manuscrips choicely preserved in the Famous Bodleian Library and sundry Colledges there whence having gathered a large stock of fit materials in order to such a Work I grew encouraged to proceed farther and thereupon betook my self to a diligent search into those old Records in the Tower of London Office of the Rolls Exchequer and sundry other publick places Next into that incomparable Treasury of most antient and choice Manuscripts which the late Right Worthy Sir Robert Coâ—ton Baronet had in his time happily get together And after that into divers other no less estimable which with much charge had been gained by the Right Honorable the late Lord Hatton and by his especial favor freely communicated to me likewise into that elaborate Collection from the Pipe-Rolls made by Mr. Roger Dodsworth my late deceased Friend and into sundry other whereunto my Quotations do refer Amongst which those of the before specified Robert Glover formerly Somerset Herald most opportunely acquired from several hands wherein they lay obscured were not the least A task indeed of such importance and weight for so at length I found it to be that though I had thus fitted my self with materials conducing thereto I could hardly be perswaded to undertake But considering at last that these my Collections which had been no small charge and pains to me were not like to be of such use to those unto whose hands they might hereafter come as to my self I resolved to put them in order and to begin the Work As to its Title The Baronage of ENGLAND some perhaps may doubt whether it be suitable and proper to it by reason it contains all other superior Dignities from a Baron to a Duke inclusive It is therefore to be noted That all those Degrees were antiently comprehended under that appellation and that this First Volume relates only to such
and to the great Infamy of the Kings Highness and the Realm c. if redress should not be had thereof So that without such small Houses were utterly suppressed and the Religious persons therein committed to great and honourable Monasteries of Religion where they might be compelled to live Religiously for Reformation of their lives there could no redress nor Reformation be in that behalf In consideration therof therefore for these are the very words of the Act the Kings most Royal Majesty being supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England daily studying and devising the Increase Advancement and Exaltation of true Doctrine and Virtue in the said Church to the only Glory and Honour of God c. Considering also that divers great Monasteries wherein thanks be to God Religion was well kept and observed were destitute of such full numbers of Religious persons as they might keep did think good that a plain Declaration should be made of the premisses Whereupon the Lords and Commons by great deliberation finally resolved that it should be much more to the pleasure of Almighty God and Honour of this Realm that the possessions of such small Religious Houses c. should be converted to better uses c. and thereupon did humbly desire that it might be Enacted that his Majesty should have and enjoy to him and his Heirs for ever all and singular such Monasteries c. to the pleasure of Almighty God and to the Honour and Profit of this Realm But when by this device which I thought not impertinent here to set forth they followed the Chase with quicker speed in Order to the full fruition of all the rest Which they accomplished within less then three years after by Instruments of Surrender from the respective Covents partly through corrupting the chief in each of them with large Pensions during their lives and partly by terror to such as were not plyant Which being affected to secure what was done all possible haste was made not only to demolish those goodly Structures wherein they did inhabit but the totall Fabricks of their very Churches wherein some of the Kings of this Realm and most of the Nobility and other persons of chief Note were honourably Entombed And then to disperse their possessions into sundry Lay-Hands either by free Gift easy purchases or Advantageous Exchanges and this for fear lest they might ever return to be again imployed unto such uses as the Piety of their well-meaning Founders did Originally designe them Nor did this ravenous practise make a stop here but after the Reformation began in the time of King Edward the Sixth which abolished Indulgences Prayers for the Dead and many of those Devices then called Piae Fraudes which had been used in the Church whereby the temporal profit of the Lay-man was thought to be not a little impared they fell to work again under the specious pretence of taking away those things out of other places as were then thought unnecessary and superstitious Whereby such spoil and destruction was made in the Cathedrals Collegiate and Parochial-Churches of the Nation by defacing those Monuments of the Dead where any gain was to be had as that few of them whereon any Portraicture in Brass or Copper or Epitapths in such mettle had been engraved were permitted to remain but were barbarously torne away and sold to common Brasiers and Tinkers In so much as Complaint being made thereof to Queen Elizabeth she issued out two Proclamations the one in the Second year of her Reign and the other in the Fourteenth for putting a restraint to this execrable dealing But alas all too late that mischief being done which could not be repaired Such hath been we see the specious Mask which Covetousness puts on viz. to pretend Purity Sanctity and the Honor of God but under those holy Veiles to perpetrate the greatest Villanies imaginable Consonant whereunto it cannot easily be forgotten what we have seen of this kind acted over again in our own times In which those few Memorials of the dead that were left undestroyed before have been by the horrid rapine of those Holy-pretended Zealots then in Armes throughout all the Cathedrals of this Realm and most Parochial Churches almost totally eradicated With what difficulty length of time and expence the Materials for this Work have been got together there are not many I am sure that can well Iudge And yet I must expect no less than the censure of some who would have it thought that they know much if they do hit upon any thing that I have not seen and perhaps will tax me with negligence or worse for omitting it though it be as unlikely that I should have cognisance thereof as 't is to know what money another man hath in his Pocket Others there are I doubt who will be apt to blame me for representing the piety of antient times in such sort as I have done looking upon it as vain and superstitious But whatsoever the opinion of those may be as to matter of Merit I think it safest to judge the most charitably of all men As it is much satisfaction to my self that after so many years travel and pains I have thus far brought to light the most remarkable Actions of divers worthy men who have long since flourished in this Realm and been famous in their generations which till now for the most part have lain buried in the depth and darkness of Oblivion So it will be to all other I am sure who have any sense or regard for the Honour of their dead Ancestors and likewise encourage some publick Spirits of greater abilities and better Interest to pursue the work thus begun by doing right in due time to those of this Later age touching whom I have made but a brief mention for the reasons before expressed Some perhaps there are who may be doubtfull as to the certainty of divers things which are related in this Historical Work from the Credit of our Chronologists whose usual course hath been to magnifie the eminent Actions of the Worthies in their times with Hyperbolical Encomiums as they did also the Piety of the Religious unto little less than Miracle But if for this respect what is of that kind delivered shall be esteemed meerly fictitious the renowned Enterprises of those elder Ages would be not a little obscured For though to beget the higher Honor to the same of Heroick men those antient Writers the Monks did assume a Poetical liberty in extolling their glorious Exploits somewhat farther than strictly they ought to the end that the greater Veneration should be had to their Memories if for that reason those their Reports shall be totally exploded there is nothing more certain than that much of Truth will be utterly lost As to what I have related which is beyond the memory of those who have been or are my own Contemporaries my Authorities are exactly quoted But as to what hath happened within that time it is upon their credit
married Alice Sister by the Mothers side to King Henry the Third for she was Daughter to Hugh le Brun Earl of March second Husband to the Kings Mother In An. 1248. 32 Hen. 2. he was one of the great Earls who met in the Parliament held at London on the Octaves of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin in which Parliament the King was freely told of his many high exactions from the Clergy and Laity In An. 1254. 38 Hen. 3. this Earl Iohn answered One hundred and twenty pound for Sixty Knights Fees for which he then gave Aid to the King upon making his eldest Son Knight with Edmund de Lacy took shipping at Dover and sailed to Bourdeaux And in An. 39 Hen. 3. was one of those who adhered to the King in oppressing the people as our Historians do report Moreover in 40 H. 3. he was with other of the cheifest Peers in Westminster-Hall when the Archbishop of Canterbury and divers other Bishops pronounced solemn Excommunication there with Candles lighted against all that should violate the Great Charter and Charter of the Forest. In which year he had the Tertium Denarium of the County of Surrey yielded him by the Kings Precept then sent to the Barons of the Exchequer In An. 1258. 42 H. 3. when the Rebellious Barons came with such a power to the Parliament at Oxford as that they compelled the King to submit to those Provisions which they then made there he with William Valence and others refused to comply with them And the same year had Summons with the rest of the great Men of England to attend the King at Chester thence to march against Leweline Prince of Wales for restraining his hostile Incursions In 46 Hen. 3. he was one of those who upon the Agreement betwixt the King and the Rebellious Barons did on the Kings part set his Seal for Confirmation of the Accord then made And the next ensuing year had the Castle of Pevenesel committed to his custody In An. 1264. 48 Hen. 3. he was amongst others on the Kings part in the Castle of Rochester immediately after Easter when Simon Mountfort Earl of Leâ—cester and certain of the Rebellious Barons laid siege thereto and joyned with divers other of the great Lords in that Submission to the Award which Lewes King of France was to make betwixt the King and the Barons concerning those Ordinances called Provisiones Oxonii But the same year being with Prince Edward in the Van of the Royal Army at that fatal Battle of Lewes notwithstanding he with William Valence Earl of 〈◊〉 did there unworthily desert him at the very beginning of the fight and fled to 〈◊〉 Castle and thence into France yet the Rebellious Barons having by that days success got the King into their hands seised upon his Castle of Lewes and all the rest of his Possessions Whereupon finding no security here he fled beyond Sea whence returning with Valence in May the next ensuing year and landing in Pembâ—okeshire he sent the Prior of Monmouth unto Hereford where Mountfort Earl of Leâ—cesteâ— had the King and Prince in custody to move for the restitution of his Lands in regard he had done nothing which might deserve the forfeiture of them as the Prior then alledged To whom the answer then returned was That if he would come himself in person thither and submit to a tryal in the Kings Court he should have safe conduct so to do Which deeming not safe he confederated with Clare Earl of Glocester then faln off from Mountfort and other of the Barons who stood for the Royal Interest and upon the escape of Prince Edward from Hereford out of the hands of Mountfort joyning with him and his forces at Ludlow had benefit of that glorious Victory at â—vesham upon the fourth of August following in which Mountfort Earl of Leâ—cester being slain the King was freed from that restraint wherein after the Battle of Lewes he had been so long kept by the power of those Rebellious Barons But after this scil in An. 1268. 52 Hen. 3. all things relating to the Publick Being in quiet some of the great Men fell at private discord with one another amongst which it is reported That upon a difference betwixt this Iohn Earl of Warren and Henry de Lacy afterwards Earl of Lincoln touching a certain Pasture they raised what forces they could purposing to fight for it Whereupon the King having notice thereof commanded that his Judges should either judicially or by an amicable Agreement compose the same Who accordingly upon inquiry by the Oaths of the Countrey adjudged the Right thereof to Lacy. About the same time also there fell out no small contest betwixt this our Earl and Sir Alan la Zouch an eminent Baron touching some title of Land Whereupon discerning that he mast submit to the Justice of the Law having first passionately vented himself in foul language at length assaulted Sir Alan and his Son in Westminster-Hall with such violence that he almost killed the one and much wounded the other And having so done fled to his Castle at Rigare but Prince Edward pursued him so close with a strong power resolving to vindicate this injury thus done to the Kings Authority that our Earl seeing it in vain to make opposition met the Prince on foot and with great humility imploring mercy afterwards made his Peace with the King promising satisfaction to the persons injured Which promise was not meerly verbal for it appeareth that he did by a special Instrument bearing date at Creyndone in 54 Hen. 3. oblige himself to come to Prince Edward into the Kings Court and stand to the judgment thereof for that offence lately by him committed against Sir Alan la Zouch and Sir Roger his Son at Westminster and to perform in every point unto his Soveraign Lord the King and all others whatsoever his Peers should deem fit in reference to them and likewise to themselves As also whatsoever the Kings Justices should judge requisite to be done by him in reference to themselves and not to depart the Court until he should both do and receive what was rightful and just according to the Laws and Customs of this Realm And this he did undertake thereby to do upon penalty of forfeiting all his Possessions in England unto the King and his Heirs and of incurring the sentence of Excommunication by all or any the Archbishops Bishops and Prelates of the Land as the King should make choice of to pronounce the same against him and when and wheresoever he should please Whereupon a fine of Ten thousand marks was laid upon him for that misdemeanor Which afterwards by the favor of the King was not only reduced to Eight thousand and four hundred marks
the Fee and Service of Roger de Beauchamp of Riby All the Fee and Service of Raph the Son of Begon and of Wrath all the Fee and Service of Henry de Campain of Catenay and lastly the whole Fee and Service of William de Saillay And besides all this he was by that King made Governor of the Castle of Bamburgh in Northumberland and others in those Northern parts But after the death of King Henry when Stephen began to Reign the Scene was altered for that King considering as it is like in what esteem he had been with King Henry and therefore suspecting that he would be more cordial to Maud the Empress the rightful Heir to her Father than to him who was in truth but an usurper took from him the Governorship of Bamborough and those other Castles which gave him such distaste that he thenceforth adhered to his Enemies And in 3 Steph. when David King of Scots invaded the North with a mighty Army King Stephen being then in the South brought to his assistance all the power he could raise delivering into his hands the Castle of Alnwike which is the strongest and greatest Fort in all those parts marching also with him into Yorkshire with purpose to do the like by Malton For which respect Henry Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon Son to the same David King of Scotland not only confirmed to him all those Lands lying in Northumberland which he held in capite of King Henry the First and King Stephen or any other but bestowed on him Brentune Proportune â—achesten and Scrimestan with their Appurtenances to hold as amply as the said Earl Henry himself did possess them the very day that he wedded the Sister of the Earl Warren and likewise gave him five Knights Fees more which Robert de Nuvant held But notwithstanding such his adherence to the King of Scots he was afterwards reconciled to King Stephen as it seems for in 5 Steph. it appeareth that he held Burgh and â—â—aresburgh two great Lordships in the North Riding of Yorkmire in Ferme of the King and was at that time a Justice Itinerant together with Walter Espec a great Baron in those parts And having to his second Wife married Agnes the Daughter and Heir to William Fitz-Nigel Baron of Halton and Constable of Chester he obtained from Ranulph Earl of Chester the second of that name a Grant of the whole Barony of Halton as also of the Constablerie of Chester to himself and his heirs By which Grant he was likewise constituted cheif Counsellor to that Earl above all the Nobles of that Countrey to hold as freely and firmly as he the said William Fitz-Nigel enjoyed the same in the times of Earl Hugh and Earl Richard or in the time of Ranulph de Bricasard As to the pious Works of this Eustace they were great and many For besides his gift of Twenty shillings Rent in Serâ—â—ngham to the Monks of S. Peters at Glocester and of one Ox-gang of Land to the Church of Flâ—meburhe now Flamborough as also of the Churches of Cuton and Scalleby to the Canons of Bridlingtoa he Founded the Monastery of Alnwike in Northumberland and likewise those of Walton and Malton in Com. Ebor. and amply endowed them with Lands and Revenues But after all this in An. 1157. 3 Hen. 2. being in that expedition then made into Wales he was there unhappily slain with this honorable character viz. That he was Vir Magnus grandevus atque inter primos Angliae Proceres divitiarum sapientiae titulis refulgens A great and aged Man and of the cheifest English Peers most eminent for his Wealth and Wisdom Leaving issue by the Lady Beatrice his first Wife two Sons viz. William sirnamed de Vesci and Geffrey and by Agnes his second Wife a Son called Richard Fitz-Eustace from whom the Noble Family of Clavering as also that of Laci Earl of Lincoln do derive their Descents Which William de Uesci the eldest Son afterwards called William de Vesci Senior was Sheriff of Northumberland from 3 Hen. 2. to 15 H. 2. inclusive so likewise in 16 H. 2. for half the year and for Lancashire the other half In 12 Hen. 2. upon levying the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter this William then residing in Yorkshire certified his Knights Fees De veteri Feoffamento to be in number twenty for which in 14 Hen. 2. he accounted Seventeen pound thirteen shillings and for his Fees De novo Feoffamento Eight and twenty shillings six pence In 18 Hen. 2. he paid Four and twenty pound six shillings and eight pence for the Scutage of Ireland in regard he neither went in person thither nor sent any Soldiers In An. 1174. 20 Hen. 2. upon that Invasion of the Scots he joyned with Ranulph de Glanvil Bernard Bailiol and Robert de Stutevil and giving them Battle near â—lnwike routed their whole Army So that the King himself was then taken prisoner And about that time obtained from William Earl of Northâ—mberland Brother to Malcolme the Fourth King of Scotland the Grant of a Market at S. Walerick called New Bigging in that County This William confirmed to the Canons and Nuns at Walton Malton and Wiâ—tâ—â—â—gham of the Gilbertine Order the gift of Eustace his Father of the Church of Wâ—â—â—â—â—gham with the Mannor House and two Mills there as also of the Hamlet of â—ington and likewise of the Churches of Walton and Malton with the Chappels thereto appertaining and of his own Charity bestowed on them the Church of Ancastâ— To the Knights Templars he gave the Churches of Caithorp and Normanton and to the Canons of Semplingham and Nuns of Ormesby the Hermitage of Spaidingholme with divers Lands set forth by Metes and Bounds And having wedded Burga the Sister of Robert de Stutevil Lord of Knaresburgh had with her in marriage the Town of Langton and had issue a Son called Eustace Another Wife he had called Agnes Daughter to William King of Scotland by whom he had issue a Son called William and died in 31 Hen. 2. Eustace his Son and Heir being then Fourteen years old who accomplishing his full age in 2 Rich. 1. gave Two thousand three hundred marks for Livery of his Lands with liberty to marry whom he would and in the same year paid Twelve pound three shillings four pence upon collecting the Scutage of Wales In 6 Rich. 1. being with the King in Normandy he was acquitted of that Scutage then assessed for his Redemption In 8 Rich. 1. he answered Twenty four pound six shillings eight â—pence upon collection of the second Scutage of Normandy Upon the death of Richard the First Iohn Earl of Moreton his Brother succeeding him and having imployed Hubert
to the King That Iohn de Moubray his Father having been retained by Indenture to serve King Edward the Second in his Wars with Covenant to receive certain Wages and Fees for the same which were never paid and now Petitioning that he might have the arrears thereof obtained an Assignation of them out of the Exchequer In the same year upon that danger which then appeared on the Coast of Sussex from the number of French and others hovering thereabouts he received special command to repair to his Mannor of Brember with Horse and Arms for the defence of those parts In 13 Edw. 3. he was with the King in the third Bataglia of his Army drawn up against the French at Uyronfosse which retreated without fighting And in 14 Edw. 3. being constituted Governor of Barwick upon â—wede was retained by Indenture to continue there from the first of May for the one whole Twelve Moneth having for the Guard thereof One hundred and twenty Men at Arms One hundred Hobelers and Two hundred Archers of the which he was to provide of his own proper Retinue Sixty Men at Arms whereof Ten to be Knights Twenty Hobelers and Sixty Archers But of this number it appears that there were Three Banerets and Ten Knights and that there being One thousand nine hundred eighty nine pounds five shillings due to him by those Covenants the Bishop of Durham H. de Percy and Ralph de Nevil two great Barons of the North were commanded to take care for the payment thereof In 16 Edw. 3. the King amongst other Letters to his Nobles sent to this Iohn to provide Forty Men at Arms and Forty Archers for his service in that great expedition then designed into France appointing him to be at London on the Octaves of S. Hillary there to treat and agree with his Council touching the wages for those his Soldiers in that service In which he attended the King and was with him at the Siege of Nantz in Britanny In 17. Edw. 3. he had the like command to provide as many Men at Arms and Archers for the Wars of France In 20 Edw. 3. he joyned his Forces unto those of the Archbishop of York with divers other great Lords and was in that memorable Battle against David King of Scots with his Army of Sixty thousand near Durham whom they utterly vanquished and took prisoner himself with the Lord Leyburne and the Sheriff of Yorkshire then commanding the third Battalia of the English Host. And the same year attended the King into France for raising the Siege of Aguâ—ilon In 21 Edw. 3. he was again in the Scotish Wars And in 26 Edw. 3. being cheif of the Commissioners in Yorkshire for guarding the Sea-Coasts against the French then threatning an invasion was also charged to find Thirty Men for Gowherland in Wales In 29 Edw. 3. he was in the Marches of Scotland upon the Kings special service And in 34 Edw. 3. being with the King in his Army at Bourge â—e Royne two leagues from Paris the King taking his way thence to Montlehery This Lord Moubray with the Lord Nevil and some others laid themselves in the Ambushment about three leagues from Paris expecting that the French would issue out which hapning accordingly they skirmished with them and had the victory But after this I find no farther mention of him than that the stile which he used in his Charters was Dominus Insulae de Haxiholme de Honoribus de Gowher de Brember and that he died at York of the Pestilence 4 Octob. 35 Edw. 3. then seized of the ruinous Castle at Bedford as also of the Mannors of Willington Hammes Broumham and Lyntelade in that County Likewise of Threske Woodhall Kirkby-Malsart and Burton in Lonesdale in Com. Ebor. Of the Mannor of Eppeworth with the whole Isle of Axholme in Com. Linc. And morcover of the Castle of Brember with its Members in Sussex the Hundreds of Bruâ—ford Stening Greensteed Borghbeck the half Hundreds of Cysewrithe and Fishersgate As also of the Towns of Brember and Shogham of the Mannors of Beding Kingsberne Findone Wassington Knap Greensteed Horsham the Park of Beanbush in le Sele as also of S. Leonards Chase. And that he was buried in the Gray-Friers at Bedford leaving issue by Ioan his Wife one of the Daughters of Henry Earl of Lancaster Iohn de Moubray his Son and Heir who was born at Eppeworth before mentioned in ann 1326. and of full age when his Father died Which Iohn doing his Homage soon after had livery of his Lands This is that Iohn who took to Wife Elisabeth the Daughter and Heir to Iohn Lord Segrave by Margaret his Wife Daughter and and sole Heir to Thomas of Brotherton second Son to King Edward the first Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England By which marriage a great inheritance in Lands with addition of much honor came to this Noble Family As to his publique imployments the first that I meet with is that in 30 Edw. 3. his Father then alive he was in Britanny in the Warr made there by King Edward against the French And that in 41 Ed. 3. he was again in the Warrs of France As also one of the great Lords there who made Oath for the observance of those Articles of Peace then concluded on betwixt King Edward and the French Shortly after which scil in 42 E. 3. taking a journey to the Holy-Land he had the hard fate to be slain by the Turks in his passing near Constantinople upon the Feast day of S. Dennis 42 E. 3. leaving issue Iohn his Son and Heir but four years of age and somewhat more who in 48 Edw. 3. had licence to travail beyond Sea Shortly after which his Mother died This Iohn was created Earl of Nottingham on the day of King Richard the seconds Coronation with this special clause in the Charter of his Creation viz that all his Lands and Tenements whereof he was then possessed or should afterwards purchase should be held sub Honore Comitali and as parcel of his Earldom In 2 R. 2. he joyned his forces with the Earl of Northumberland and entred Scotland but died within few years after under age at Loâ—don the Tuesday next preceding the Feast of S. Valentine 6 R. 2. and was buried in the Church of the Friers Carmelites neaâ— Fleetstreet To whom succeeded Thomas his Brother and Heir then seventeen years of age who had that Christian name by the appointment of his Mother for the reverence she bore to S. Thomas of Canterbury his Godfathers at the Font being Robert then Abbot of Fountaius and Geffrey Abbot of Salley This Thomas created also Earl of Notingham in 6 R. 2. as his Brother had been
Hastings in Sussex all the Prebends belonging to that Church which were granted to them by Henry his Grandfather and likewise gave them divers Lands Rents and Tithes which lay in sundry other places He married ... Daughter to William Lord of Sollei eldest Son to the Earl of Bloys and by her having issue four Sons and one Daughter departed this life in the year 1139. 4 Steph. to whom succeeded in this Earldom of Ewe and other his Honors Iohn his Son and Heir who in 10 Henr. 2. was one of the Witnesses of that Recognition which King Henry the second made of the peoples Liberties And in 12 Henr. 2. upon levying of the Ayd for marrying the Kings Daughter he certified that he had fifty six Knights Fees and that his Father had sixty in the Rape of Hastings of which he was enfeoft in the time of King Henry the first whereof the Bishop of Thester held four for which in 14 Hen. 2. he paid forty four pounds six shillings and eight pence And moreover that he had of his own demesne six Knights Fees more of antient Feoffment scil temp Henr. 1. This Iohn married Alice Daughter of William de Albini Earl of Arundell and died in an 1170 17 Hen. 2. leaving issue Henry Earl of Ewe his Son and Heir then within age as it seems for the year following upon levying the Scutage of Ireland the Earl of Arundel accounted sixty six pounds and ten shillings for the Knights Fees belonging to him Which Alice for the health of the Souls of William Earl of Arundell her Father Queen Adeliza her Mother Iohn Earl of Augi her first Husband Godfrey her Brother Maude and Murgery her Daughters as also her own Soul and the Soul of Alâ—â—â—ed de S. Martin her second Husband gave to the Monks of Robertsbrigge all her Lands in Snargate This Henry Earl of Ewe for the health of his Soul and the Soul of his Brother Robert gave likewise to those Monks of Robertsbrigge his Lordship of Worthe with the valley adjoyning to the Forest of Bristling which gift Iohn his Brother did confirme as also the grant of Sâ—argale Marsh belonging to the Lordship of Bilsintone given formerly by Alice his Mother and Henry his Brother adding the Lordships of Mapellesdemne and Cumdenne of his own gift In 6 R. 1. this Earl Henry paid sixty two pounds and ten shillings upon levying the Scutage for the Kings redemption but farther of him I cannot say The next who succeeded in this Earldom of Ewe was Ralph de Ysendon in right of Alice his Wife Daughter and Heir to the last Earl Henry Which Ralph confirmed to the Canons of Robertsbrigge all the grants of his Predecessors which had been made unto them both in the Rape of Hastings and in Kent in as ample manner as Henry late Earl of Ewe had done In 1 Hen. 3. this Ralph had Livery of the Castle of Tickhill then in the Kings hands and in 3 Hen. 4. of the Mannor of Gretewell whereof he was seized in the beginning of the Warr betwixt King Iohn and the Barons in which year he died whereupon Alice his Widow for the health of her Soul and the Soul of the same Ralph de Yssondon Earl of Ewe her husband and the Soul of Ralph her Son confirmed to the Monks of Roche in Comit. Ebor. all such Lands as lay in the Barony of Tikhill and belonged to them She also Ratified the grant made by Iohn Earl of Ewe her Grandfather unto the Monks of Fulcardimont in Normandy viz. the tenth part of all her Revenues in England in lieu whereof those Monks did receive an yearly Rent In 29 H. 3 this Alice paid sixty two pound ten shillings for sixty two Knights Fees and an half upon levying the Aid for marrying the Kings Daughter as also sixty pounds and fifteen shillings more for sixty Knights Fees and three parts for the Honor of Tikhill and had issue by her said Husband a Son called William and Maude a Daughter marryed to Alfonsus Son to Iohn K. of Ierusalem which Alfonsus by her had issue Iohn Earl of Ewe But this Alice in her Widowhood making forfeiture to the King William her Son also adhering to the King of France the Honor of Tikhill escheated to the Crown whereupon King Henry gave it to Prince Edward his eldest Son Which Edward bestowed m it upon Henry of Almaine Son to Richard Earl of Cornwal Mortimer THe first of this name that I have observed is Roger de Mortimer by some thought to be the Son of William de Warren by others of Walter de S. Martin Brother of that William Which Roger was Founder of the Abbey of S. Victor in Normandy The next is Ralph de Mortimer Son I presume to this Roger which Ralph accompanied Duke William hither upon his first invasion of this Realm being one of the chiefest Commanders in his whole Army and shortly after that signal Conquest as the most puissant of his Captains was sent into the Marches of Wales to encounter with Edrich Earl of Shrewsbury as also Lord of Wigmore and Melenithe in regard he would not submit to the Norman Yoak whom after great toil and a long Siege in Wigmore Castle he at length subdued and delivered captive to that King whereupon he enjoyed all his Lands And having so done strongly fortified the Castle of Dynethe in Melenithe formerly built by the same Edrich This Ralph also conquered Elvel and did his homage to King William for it But in An. 1088. 1 Wil. Ruf. he joyned with Bernard Newmarch and Roger de Lacy in that Rebellion begun by Odo Earl of Kent on the behalf of Robert Curthose and with the assistance of the Welsh did much mischeif in Worcestershire as also towards the Borders of Wales But about two years after he came off to the King and with Robert Earl of Ewe and Walter Giffard fortified his Houses in Normandy against Curthose Likewise in 4 Hen. 1. the King then passing into Normandy with divers other great persons who held Lands of him there he joyned with them in giving him an honorable reception professing himself ready to serve him to the utmost And upon that commotion in Normandy raised by Curthose being made General of those Forces which King Henry the First sent thither he vanquished the Army of Curthose and brought him prisoner to the King And lastly after these adventures ordained the Foundation of an Abbey at Wigmore constituting his Son Hugh Heir to all his Lands in England as also his sole Executor and committed him to the education of Sir Oliver Merlimond a sage and worthy Knight The structure of which
there two days and and two nights naked and then buryed at the Gray-Friers in London but many years after translated to Wigmore Some particulars there are in this Story of his apprehension which do not directy agree with what is related by our common Chroniclers but this with them is not worthy observation viz. d that this Judgement and Sentence so passed upon him without ever being heard as had formerly been practised in the case of Thomas Earl of Lancaster at Pontfract and after him the Despensers and Edmund Earl of Kent wherein 't is well known he himself had a hand Being thus cut off the Castle Town and Honor of Dynebegh with the Cantreds of Ros Reywynok Kaermor and Commot of Dymnach all forfeited by this his attainder were upon the eighteenth of Ianuary following bestowed on the before specified Sir William de Montacute This great buâ— unhappy Man left issue four Sons viz. Edmund his eldest Son who had not the title of Earl of March his Fathers attainder being not reversed in his time 2. Sir Roger 3. Sir Geffrey Lord of Cowyth and Iohn slain in a Tournament at Shrewsbury And seven Daughters viz. Katherine Wife of Thomas de Beaucamp Earl of Warwick Ioan married to Iames Lord Audley Agnes to Lawrence de Hastings Earl of Pembroke Margaret to Thomas Son and Heir of Maurice Lord Berkley Maude to Iohn the Son and Heir of Iohn de Cherleton Lord of Powys Blanche to Peter de Grandison and Beatrix first to Edward Son and Heir to Thomas of Brotherton Earl Marshall of England and afterwards to Sir Thomas de Braose Which Edmund with his two Brothers Roger and Geffrey was Knighted by King Edward the third at the solemnity of his Coronation and took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere commonly called the rich Lord Badlesmere of Ledes by whom he had issue two Sons Roger who succeeded him and Iohn who died in his Infancy This Edmund recovered divers lands setled at his Marriage which upon the death of his Father were witheld but died in the flower of his youth at Stanton-Lacy upon the 26 Kal. of Ian. anno 1331. 5 Edw. 3. leaving Elizabeth his Wife surviving who afterwards was married to William de Bohun Earl of Northampton Which Elizabeth in 6 E. 3. had an assignation of her dowry out of the Lands of her late Husband viz. the Castle of Kentles and Dominion of Melenyth with the Commot of Duder in the Marches of Wales and died in 30 E. 3. whereupon the third part of the Mannor of â—rendone in Comit. Buck. the Castle and Mannor of Kentles and Cantred of Melenyth the Mannor of Arleys in Comit. Staff and Cleobury in Com. Salop. then came to Roger her Son and heir Which Roger though but three years of age at his Fathers death giving security for the paiment of two hundred and fifty pounds per annum during his minority had a Grant from the King in 15 Edw. 3. of the Castle of Radnor as also of the Territories of Warthremoun Prestemede Knyghton and Norton in Wales which were of his Inheritance But during his minority his Castles of Knoklas and Pulith in the Marches of Wales were committed to William de Bohun Earl of Northampton who had married his Mother And the year next ensuing though he was not yet of full age through the mediation of that Earl his Homage was accepted whereupon he had Livery of the Castle of Wigmore In 20 Edw. 3. he attended the King into France to rescue those in Aguâ—lon and being landed with him at Hoggs in Normandy did there receive the Honor of Knighthood together with Prince Edward and many other Honorable persons the more to encourage him to Fight for the rights of the English Crown And the same year though he had not made proof of his full age yet in respect of his laudable services the King was pleased to take his Homage and make Livery to him of all the rest of his Lands excepting those which Elizabeth his Mother then Wife of the before specified Earl of Northampton held in Dower In 26 Edw. 3. upon another Expedition into France he was charged with forty men out of his Territories of Warthrymion Radnor and Wigmore And in 28. Ed. 3. procured a Charter for a weekly Market every Munday at his Lordship of Hamalhowe in Comit. Southamp as also a Fair yearly on Midsumer-day In which year likewise in the Parliament held at Westminster he obtained a reversall of the Judgement given against his Grandfather Roger late Earl of Marche as erroneous and utterly void whereupon he thenceforth bore the title of Earl of Marche and moreover had restitution of the Castles and Lordships of Blenlâ—veny and Bulkedinas whereof his said Grandfather had been formerly seized as also of all his other Lands which by that forfeiture came to the Crown and had been bestowed on Sir William de Montacute afterwards created Earl of Salisbury And did the same year contract with Richard Earl of Arundell that Edmund his Son and Heir should espouse Alice one of the Daughters of that Earl her portion being three thousand marks Upon which restoration it was by inquisition found that the said Roger Earl of Marche so attainted as hath been shewed died upon Munday next after the Feast of S. Catherine the Virgin and that he was then seized of the Mannors of Stratfeâ—â—e-Mortimer and Woghfeld as parcel of the Mannor of Wigmore as also of the Mannor of Newbury and Moitie of that Town all in Com. Berks. Likewise of the Mannors of Clifton upon Temede and Odingley in Comit. Wigorn. of the Mannors of Noke Mawrdyn and Wynâ—â—eton with the Advowson of the Church of Wynfreton in Com. Hereford of the Castle and Mannor of Nerberth and the third part of the Town of S. Clier with the Advowson of the Church the third part of the Commots of Amgeyd and Pentunyok and the third part of the town of 〈◊〉 in Com. Heref. Of the Castles and Dominions of Blenseveny and Bulkedinas in the Marches of Wales as also of the Castle and Mannor of Montgomery with the Mannor and Hundred of Chirbury in Com. Salop. The next year following this Roger thus lately restored was made Constable of Dovor Castle and Warden of the Cinque ports and attended the King in his expedition then made into France In 30 Edw. 3 doing his Homage he had Livery of all the Lands of Ioane Countess of Marche his Grandmother who then departed this Life viz. of the Mannor of Stanton-Lacy juxta Ludlow the moity of the Mannor of Ludlow and Advowson of the moity of the Church as also the Castle of Ludlow which she had by Inheritance as Daughter and Heir to Peter de Genevill of the Castle of Dolvareyn and
that of Boteler after the marriage of the Heir of Virdon and as Mr. Camden in his Remains hath of others observed Suitable whereunto let us see what Du Tillet faith Guilliaume sire de Dampierre espousa Margaret Comtesse de Flandres Hainau second File de Baudowin Empereur de Greece De lui sout descendus les Comtes de Flandres lesquaels se tindreut au surnom de Flandres a cause de la dit Comtesse Marguerite que avoit tiltre plus honorable que son mary le quel avoit laisse celuy de Bourbâ—n poua prendre celuy de son partage qui estoit le Sâ—igneurie de Dampierre en Champaigne telle estoit la facon du temps This Hervey de Stafford was with the King at the Seige of Bitham Castle in Lincolnshire in 5 Hen. 3. And in 17 Hen. 3. when Richard Mareschal Earl of Pemâ—roke taking upon him to reform some things amiss in the Government put himself in arms and joyned in new commotions with the Welch he being then one of the Barons Marchers gave up Iohn de Stafford his Son in Hostage other of those Barons doing the like to be kept in safe custody till the Realms should be again setled in quiet But departed this life in 21 Hen. 3. Petronill his Wife Sister to William de Ferrers Earl of Derby being then great with Child Whereupon the King by his precept to the Sheriff of Warwickshire reciting that by reason she was so near the time of her delivery as that she could not come in person to do her Fealty for her Dowry commanded that he should go to her and receive her Fealty as his Deputy and make assignation unto her of such Lands within his precincts as according to a reasonable extent should be though meet The like precept had the Sheriff of Staffordshire To this last mentioned Hervy Lord Stafford succeeded Hervey his Son and Heir who in 21 Hen. 3. paid five hundred Marks fine to the King for his Relief and livery of those Lands which by hereditary descent after the death of Hervey his Father belonged to him but withal that he might have liberty to marry with whom he should think fit After which it was not long ere he died without issue so that Robert his brother then his next Heir had Livery of all his Lands in 25 Hen. 3. paying an hundred pounds for his Releif and doing homage Which Robert upon collection of the Aid for â—arrying the Kings Daughter paid sixty pounds for those sixty Knights Fees he then had and in 37 H. 3. was in that expedition then made into Gascoine Moreover in 38 Hen. 3. upon levying the Ayd for making the Kings eldest Son Knight he paid an hundred and twenty pounds more and in 42 Henr. 3. had summons to attend the King at Chester on Munday preceding the Feast of Saint Iohn Baptist well fitted with Horse and Arms to restrain the insolencies of the Welch The like Summons he had in 44 Henr. 3. to be at Shrewsbury upon the Feast day of the Nativity of our Lady And gave to the Monks at Wotton in Comitat. Warr. which was then become a Cell to that Priory-Alien at Conches in Normandy certain parcells of Land lying in Wotton and Uilenhale This Robert took to Wife Alice one of the Daughters and at length Coheirs to Thomas Corbet of Caus in Comit. Salop. and departing this Life in 10 Edw. 1. was buryed before the Altar of S. Iohn Baptist in the Priory at Stone leaving Nicholas his Son and Heir who the same year was in that expedition then made into Wales and in 12 Ed. 1. obtained a discharge for a hundred pounds of those debts which by his Father and himself were due to the Kings Exchequer being then to attend the K. beyond Sea And in 13 Edw. 1. had a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesâ—e Lands at Wotton before specified then written Waghnes-Wotton and Ciesho in Com. Warr. as also at Madeley in Com. Staff In 15 Edw. 1. he had Summons to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to attend the King into Wales the King being at that time beyond Sea having constituted Edmuâ—d Earl of Cornwall his Lieutenant in his absence which Edmund advancing thither with a powerful Army against Rese ap Griffith who then Rood in open hostility against Pain Tiptoft Warden of the Kings Castles in those parts demolished his Castle of Droselan but by the fall of itsWalls divers persons were Killed amongst whom this Nicholas Lord Stafford was one After which viz. in 22 E. 1. Edmund his Son and Heir performing his Homage had Livery of his Lands This Edmund in 25 Edw. 1. was in that expedition then made by the King into Gascoine and in 26 Edw. 1. received command amongst divers other eminent persons to be at York upon Whitsunday sufficiently provided of Horse and Arms to march against the Scots The like Summons he had in September following to furnish himself accordingly against Whitson-Eve then next eâ—suing and to be at 〈◊〉 in order to his advance into Scotland In 31 Edw. 1. he was again in those Scottish Wars when the King Wintered in that Realm or maintained some Souldiers there at that time for it appears that in 9 Edw. 2. when the Scutage for that Expedition of 31 Edw. 1. was collected those who then held his Lands for which it was required were discharged upon proof of the service done there And in 34 E. 1. had Summons amongst others of the Peers to be at 〈◊〉 on the morrow after Trinity Sunday there to advise with the King touching an Aid for the making his eldest Son Knight After which also ere many days he had another Summons to be at Carlisle on the Quindesme of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist sufficiently accoutred with Horse and Arms and to march with the Kings Forces against Robert de Brus then Rebelliously assuming the Title of King of Scotland This Edmund was first summoned to Parliament amongst the Barons of England in 27 Edw. 1. and afterwards not omitted till his death But all that I can farther say of him is That he wedded Margaret the Daughter of Ralph Lord Basset of Oraiton by reason whereof her Descendants after her death became Heirs to that Estate Of which Margaret it appears That she afterwards became the Wife of Sir Thomas Pipe And whereas she had the right of Presentation of two Clerks in the Abbey of Bordesley to celebrate Divine Service there perpetually for the health of her Soul as also for the Souls of her Heirs and Ancestors that one of them being then dead she presented one Ingeram de Lichfield a Monk of that Covent in
the Bishop of Winchester and Ely Wilâ—iam de Valence Earl of Pembroke and others to treat of Peace betwixt the Kings of England and France and continued in Gascome in the Kings service for a great part of that year And for his good service in those parts had a special Livery of the Lands of William the Son of Warine de Montchensâ— whose Daughter and Heir called Diâ—nysia he had married though she was not then of full age In 26 Edw. 1. this Hugh was sent by the King to the Court of Rome upon some important business and in 27 Edw. 1. obtained a Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesne-Lands within his Lordships of Haâ—wode in Com. Norf. as also of Hasingbroke and Phanges in Com. Essex In 29 Edw. 1. he was imployed with Iohn Earl Warren and others to treat with certain Embassadors of the King of France touching Peace with the Scots And in 32 Edw. 1. being returned into England did his Fealty to the King for those Lands which were of the Inheritance of Dionysia his Wife whereof he had formerly livery In 34 Edward 1. he was imployed in the Scottish Warrs But by this Dionysia it seems he had no issue for upon her death in 7 E. 2. Adomare de Valence Son of the Lady Ioane de Valence was found to be her next Heir she then dying seized of the Mannors of East-Hanyngfeld West-Hanyngfeld Stanford and Fenge with the Advowsons of those Churches as also of the Mannors of Rodeswell Great-Fordham and Thuritone with the Advowson of the Church of Thuritone all in Com. Essex Of Thomas the younger Brother to this Hugh it appears that in 32 Edw. 1. he was in the Warrs of Scotland And that in 34 Ed. 1. having received the Order of Knighthood with Prince Edward by Bathing and divers other sacred ceremonies he attended him into Scotland Moreover that afterwards scilicet in 12 Ed. 2. he was again in Scotland And that he married Agnes the Widow of Pain Tiptoft And of Alice the Widow of the last Earl Robert I find that she had for her Dowry an assignation of the Mannors of Aldham Lavenham and Cokefeld in Com. Suff. Castle-Canefeld and Bumsted in Com. Essex and Abyton magna in Com. Cantabr I now come to Robert Son and Successor to the last Earl Robert In 24 Edward 1. this Robert doing his Homage had livery of his Lands And in 26 E. 1. was in that expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 27 Edw. 1. And in 3 Edw. 3. obtained the Kings Charter for a Court-Leet at his Mannor of Thesham in Com. Buck. with all those profits and advantages which the Sheriff of that County had wont to enjoy there paying yearly five Marks to the King into his Exchequer As also another Charter for his Tenants of Lavenham in Comitat. Suff. to be Toll-free throughout all England This Earl Robert died in 5 Edw. 3. leaving no issue by Margaret his Wife Daughter of Roger Mortimer Earl of March whereupon Iohn his Nephew then eighteen years of age being Son of Alfonsus his younger Brother became his Heir Which Iohn was in that expedition made into Scotland in 8 Edw. 3. So likewise in 9 and 10 Edw. 3. and in 14 Edward 3. attended the King into Flanders In which year he obtained the Kings Charter for a Market upon the Wednesday every week at his Mannor of Levenhales in Com. Heref. for himself and Maude his Wife and her Heirs As also a Faâ—r yearly upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and for five days following And in 15 Edw. 3. was at that great Feast and Justing in London which King Edward the third caused to be made as it was said for the love of the Countess of Salisbury Moreover the same year he had an assignation out of the Subsidy then levied of three hundred pounds in part of a greater summe due to him for his services in the Kings Warrs beyond-Sea And in 16 Edw. 3. was again in the Warrs of France in which service he had forty Men at Arms himself accounted one Banneret nine Knights twenty nine Esquires and thirty Archers on Horsback with an allowance of fifty six Sacks of Wooll for the Wages of himself and his retinue In 17 Edward 3. he accompanied Henry de Lancaster Earl of Derby and divers other great Lords into Scotland for raising the Seige of Loughmaban Castle And in 18 Edw. 3. being appointed by the King to go with the Earl of Derby into Gascoine he was at the taking of Bergerath After which passing to assail the Castle of Pellegrue being taken in his Tent by night he was soon enlarged in exchange for the Viscount of Bonquentyne and some others Whereupon he marched with the Earl of Derby to Auberoche then beseiged by the French and releived it But about the Feast of the Blessed Virgin returning out of Britanny was by tempest cast upon the Coast of Connacht in Ireland where he and all his company suffered much misery from those barbarous people there who pillaged them of all they had In 19 Edw. 3. he was again in France being then reteined by Indenture to serve the King with eighty Men at Arms whereof himself to be one three Bannerets twenty seven Knights the rest Esquires and eighty Archers on Horseback And in 20 E. 3. attended the K. into France to the releif of Aguilon Thence sent to the aid of Iohn de Montfort who laid claim to the Dukedom of Britanny And in 21 Edw. 3. was again in the French Warrs In 26 Edw. 3. upon some danger of Invasion by the French he was joyned in Commission with William de Bohun Earl of Northampton for arraying and arming of Men in the Counties of Essex and Hartford in order to the defence of the Sea-coasts and in 29 E. 3. attended the K. into Gascoine Where continuing till 30 Ed. 3. he then was with Prince Edward in the Battle of Poytiers and had forty Spears under his command After all which viz. in 33 E. 3. on Friday the Feast of All-Saints he made his Testament at Bentleâ— in Essex and thereby bequeathing his Body to be buryed in the Chapel of Our Lady within the Priory of Colne on the South side of the Quire at the Head of Iohn and Robert his Sons who dying in his lifetime were there Interred appointed that four hundred Marks Sterling left by his Ancestors in Aid of the Holy-Land should be paid by his Executors with all convenient speed Moreover towards the building of that Church at Coâ—ne he gave an hundred Marks and for reedifying the Chapel called the Newâ—Abby in Castle-Hengham an hundred Marks to the
28 Iulii Anno 1562. 4 Eliz. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of â—arles-Colne departing this life the same year To whom succeeded Edward his Son and Heir who in 29 Eliz. was one of the Peers by special Commission appointed to try Mary Queen of Scots then Prisoner in England for her life And in Anno 1588. 31 Eliz. one of the chief persons in the Queens Fleet imployed against the great Navy of Spaniards then threatning an Invasion which thereupon was dissipated and destroyed by the English Forces Which Earl Edward had two Wives viz. Anne Daughter to William Cecil Lord Burghley Lord Treasurer of England on whom he begat three Daughters viz. Elizabeth married to William Earl of Derby Bridget to Francis Lord Norris of Ricot afterwards created Earl of Berkshire and Susan to Philip Herbert Earl of Montgomery And to his second Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Trentham of Rouceter in Com. Staff Esq one of the Maids of Honor to Q. Eliz. by whom he had issue one Son called Henâ—y This Edward being an intire friend to Thomas Duke of Norfolk when he discerned his Life in danger upon what was laid to his charge touching the Q. of Scots whereof our Historians of that time do give some account earnestly interceded with the Lord Treasurer Burghley his Wives Father and one of the chiefest States-men of that time for the preserving him from destruction but prevailing not grew so highly incensed against Burghley knowing it was in his power to save him that in great indignation he said he would do all he could to ruin his Daughter and accordingly not only forsook her Bed but sold and consumed that great Inheritance descended to him from his Ancestors leaving very little for Henry his Son and Successor And died 24 Iunii An. 1604. 2 Iac. Which Henry married Diana the second Daughter to William Cecill Earl of Exeter and died at the Seige of Breda in the Netherlands in ann 1625. without issue Whereupon Robert Vere Son and Heir of Hugh Son and Heir of Aubery by Margaret the Daughter of Iohn Spring of Lanham in Com. Suff. who was the second Son to Iohn the fifth of that name Earl of Oxfoâ—d after the death of this E. Henry was in the Parliament held at Westminster Ann. 2 Car. 1. restored to this title of Earl of Oxford Much dispute there was in that Parliament between this Robert and Robert then Lord Willoughby of Eresby touching this title of Earl as also touching the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sanford and Badlesmere and Office of Lord Great Chamberlain of England this Robert making claim to them all as Heir male of the Family and Robert Lord Willoughby as Son and Heir to Mary the sole Heir female But at length after Councel on each part divers times heard and the Authority of Records and antient Evidences produced first the Title of Earl was Clearly adjudged to this Robert de Vere and the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sanford and Badlesmere descending to the Heirs female to be in the Kings disposal by reason that Iohn the fourth E. of Oxfoâ—d having three Sisters his Heirs the Honor could not be divided But as to the Office of Lord Great Chamberlain it was referred to the Judges then attending in Parliament to consider thereof and make report upon these two points first whether that Robert E. of Oxford who made the entail thereof temp R. 2. upon the Heir male were at that time seised of it or not Secondly admitting that he was then whether such an Office might be conveyed by way of limiting of uses Upon which Reference there being only five Judges then attending in Parliament and the rest in their Circuits 3 of them viz. Justice Doderidge Yelverton and Baron Trevor declared their opinions for the Heir General and gave their Reasons for the same but the other two viz. the Lord cheif Justice Crew and Sir John Walter Lord Cheif Baron for the Heir male The major part therefore thus declaring the Lords voted accordingly whereupon Robert Lord Willoughby was admitted into the House 13 Apr. 2 Car. 1. with his Staff of that Office and took his place above all the Barons according to the Act of Parliament of 31 Hen. S. cap. 10. And Robert de Vere having received his Writ of Summons dated 14 April the same year came into the Parliament the day next following and had his place next to the Earl of Arundell This Robert took to Wife Beatrix van Hemmema of Freezland and was slain at the Seige of Maestricht ann ... By which Hemmema he had issue three Sons viz. Aubrey who succeeded him in his Honors as also Horace and Francis who died young And likewise three Daughters Mary Magdalen and Susan who all died young This last mentioned Aubrey took to Wife Anne one of the two Daughters and Coheirs of Paul Viscount Banning which Anne died without issue And shortly after the Restauration of our present Sovereign King Charles the second being elected one of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter was made Lord Lieutenant of the County of Essex and one of his Majesties most honorable Privy-Councel After which he married Diana Daughter to George Kirke one of the Grooms of the Bed-Chamber to King Charles the first of blessed memory Mandevill UPon the first arrival here of Duke William the Norman amongst other his Companions in that signal Expedition there was a famous Souldier called Geffrey de Magnavil assuming that surname from the Town of Magnavill which he then possessed This Geffrey fighting courageously in that Battle against King Harold where Duke William was victorious hewed down his Adversaries on every side for which great service he was aptly rewarded with divers fair Lordships by the Conquerors Gift as may appear from what he enjoyed at the time of the general Survey viz. in Berkshire four in Suffolk twenty six in Middlesex seven in Surrey one in Oxfordshire three in Cambridgshire nine in Hertfordshire nineteen in Northamptonshirâ— seven in Warwickshire two and in Essex forty whereof Waldene was one which afterwards became the cheif seat of his Descendants This Geffrey was by King William made Constable of the Tower of London which trust he held during all his time And for the Souls health of Athelaise his first Wife by whom he had his Children and good estate of himself and Leceline his second Wife with the consent of that King founded a Monastery for Benedictine Monks at Hurley in Berkshire whereunto he gave the whole Lordship of Hurley and the Woods adjoyning thereto as also the Church of Waltham and divers other Lands Osmund then Bishop of Salisbury dedicating the same Which House became a Cell to that great Abby of S. Peter at Westminster To this Geffrey succeeded
Albemarie After this scil in An. 1182. 28 Hen. 2. he was sent Ambassador to the Emperor Frederick the Second to qualifie his wrath towards Henry Duke of Saxony And in An. 1188. 33 H. 2. again attended King Henry into France where he skirmished valiantly with William des Barres Dreu de Merlou and other stout Soldiers of that Realm About the same time also he burnt the Town of St. Clere belonging to the King of France and laid wast a pleasant Garden which the King himself had newly caused to be made Moreover at the Coronation of King Richard the First he carried the great Crown of Gold adorned with precious Stones of extraordinary value He was also one of the three Earls which with two Barons were sent to King Philip of France in his Parliament held at St. Dionis to sollicite his assistance in recovery of the Holy Land And upon the going of King Richard thither was in a General Council held at Pipwel in Com. Northampt. joyned in that great Office of Justice of England with Hugh de Pusac Bishop of Durham Being a person cheifly disposed to Military imployments he spent his time for the most part in Normandy where he had the custody of divers Forts and Castles for King Henry Whence he was sent Ambassador into Flanders And to his second Wife married Christian Daughter to Robert Lord Fitz-Walter who after his death was wedded to Reymund de Burgh I now come to his Works of Piety To the Knights Hospitalers he gave his Lordship of Chippenham excepting the Church which belonged to the Monks of Walden and those Lands belonging to the Nuns of Chicksand within the precincts thereof As also five Bucks yearly to be received betwixt the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist and S. Michael and five Does betwixt the Feast of S. Michael and Lent out of his Park at Enfield To the Monks of Westminster he gave the Church of Sabrihteswrde in pure Alms to the Monks of Reading certain Lands in Ketenden to the Nuns of Clarkenwell One hundred shillings Rent out of his Mannor of Edelmeton as also the Rents of his improved Lands in Hethle To the Monks of Colne he confirmed two parts of the Tithes of all his Demesns in Roings formerly given to them by Alberic de Vere his Grand-father And was the sole Founder of the Monastery at Stoneley in Com. Huntendon And after all this coming to the Garrison of Rullivale in Normandy he there took an Inventory of his Plate and Goods Which done ere long he declared his Testament whereby he gave to the Monks of Walden the one half of his Lordship of Walden with his Mill and a little Park there and the services of his Tenants as also all the Vestments Books Chalices Vessels and other Ornaments belonging to his Chappel with his great Horse likewise three marks of Gold one hundred pounds in Silver and a Cup of Gold And then drawing near his end having received the Sacrament of Extream Vnction and the Body of our Lord he called together his Kinred and Servants and gave them charge with his hands lifted up on high to convey his Body to Walden in England there to be buried But Henry de Vere his Kinsman standing by told him That the difficulty of the passage was such that it could not be done To whom he replied If you cannot it is because you have no mind to effect what I a dying man desire then take my Heart and carry it thither Soon after which departing this life at Roan in Normandy viz. 18 Cal. Decemb. An. 1190. 2 Rich. 1. without issue his Body was sent to the Abbey of Mortimer in Normandy with much Gold and Silver and there interred in the Chapter-house and his Heart to Walden according to his desire and buried in the Chapter-house of that Monastery This last mentioned Earl William had a Sister called Alice married to Iohn de Lacy Constable of Chester and Lord of Halton She was also called Alice de Vere But it seems she was his Sister by the half Blood for certain it is that Beatrix his Ant viz. his Fathers Sister Wife of William de Say became his Heir of which Beatrix and her Descendants I shall speak in due place Mandevill of Mershwood A Branch of this Family was the same William de Mandevill I presume who in 3 Ioh. gave a Fine of one hundred marks to have a Tryal in the Kings Court upon that Sute which his Father began against Henry de Tilly for the Honor of Merthwood in Com. Dorset But with condition that in case he should recover it then to give five hundred marks Which Barony Robert de Mandevill Son to the same William as it is like did recover For in 13 Ioh. he accounted to the King One hundred eighty three pounds six shillings eight pence five Palfreys and three Norway Goshawks for it This Robert in 2 Hen. 3. with Robert Manduit and William Cumin upon Collection of the first Scutage of that King paid two marks for one Knights Fee in Funtell in Com. Wilts formerly belonging to Gerard Gifford Which Barony of Funtell was resigned up to King Iohn by Andrew Gifford who possessed it by Hereditary Right with the consent of him the said Robert de Mandevill Robert Manduit William Cumin and William de Fontains the right Heirs thereto retaining only the Vavassories And in 38 Hen. 3. upon collection of the Aid for making the Kings eldest Son Knight paid 29 l. for fourteen Knights Fees an half and fourth part belonging to the Honor of Mershwood But in 48 Hen. 3. this Robert for I presume it to be him was in the Battle of Lewes with the Rebellious Barons against the King Howbeit in 49 Hen. 3. by the Mediation of Philip Basset who had been Justice of England about three years before he obtained pardon for that transgression Having seen no more of this Robert I come to Geffrey de Mandevill his Brother I suppose for he was his contemporary This Geffrey in 17 Ioh. was in Arms against the King whereupon his Mannors of Perresfield and Maple Durham in Com. Southamp were seised and first given to Savaric de Maleleone but within few Moneths after to Roger la Zusche Moreover in 18 Ioh. he was in the number of those who were specially excommunicated by the Pope for that transgression This Geffrey held the Lordships of Merthwood and Eddicote in Com. Dorâ—et of the King in capite by Barony and the Service of two Knights in the Kings Army and sold them unto Iohn Gervase and his Heirs reserving twenty pound per annum Rent And in 42 Hen. 3. amongst others
night and a Dinner on the next day and that money should be distributed to the poor according to the discretion of his Executors Also thirty Trentals to be sung for his Soul with all possible speed that might be after his decease and a thousand Masses in like sort viz. of the Trinity of the Holy Ghost of the Nativity of our Savior of the Holy Cross of the five Festivals of our Lady of the Resurection of the Ascention of Corpus Christi of the Angels of All-Saints and of Requiem of every feast sixty seven Masses five in the whole excepted By this Testament he likewise gave to the King an Image of the Blessed Virgin with two Cruets silver and gilt made in the fashion of two Angels To the Archbishop of Canterbury a Tablet of Gold To the Colledge of our Lady at Warwick before mentioned a Cross with the pedestal silver and gilt and enameled with the Story of our Saviors Passion and a precious stone called a Berill Bound with silver and enameled to put the Host into also his best Censer with a Chalice two Cruets of silver gilt with a Bason and a piece of silver enameled To his Colledge of Elmeley a Vestment To Richard his Son and Heir his Benediction and these particulars viz. a Bed of Silk embroidered with Bears and his Arms with all belonging thereto A ... wrought with the Arms and Story of Guy of Warwick his Sword Harness and Ragged-staves likewise Moreover he appointed that the Sword and Coat of Mail sometime belonging to the famous Guy with his Cup of the Swan and the Knives and Saltsellars for the Coronation of a King should be and remain to his said Son and his Heirs after him To his Daughter Beauchamp his best Nouche To his Brother of Bergavenny and his Sisters of Suffolk and Clifford and to his Neice Katherine Beauchamp the Nunn at Shouldham each of them some gift of his according to his Executors liking to the end that his memory might be preferred by them And to his Cousin le Despencer a pair of Pater-nosters of Coral with Buckles of Gold This Earl being also a Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter having a great reputation for his valor publick-spiritedness piety and Charity as Rous affirmeth departed this life upon the 8 of April anno 1401. 2 H. 4. and lyeth buried in the South part of the Collegiate Church at Warwick under a fair monument of Marble with Margaret his Wife Daughter to William Lord Ferrers of Groby Which Margaret by her Testement bearing date 28 Novemb. Anno 1406. 8 Hen. 4. bequeathed her body to sepulture there also appointing that at the solemnizing of her Exequies there should be five Tapers containing five pound of Wax burning about it from the beginning of Service on the Eve before her Funeral till the high Mass of Requiem on the morrow after and at the same time twenty Torches to be held burning by twenty poor men about her Herse but to remain afterwards for the high Altar and other Altars of that Church for the honor of God according to antient custom and right Which noble Lady died 22 Ian. anno 1406. 8 Hen. 4. Earl Richard her Son being then 25 years of age Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny BUt before I proceed with my discourse of of him I shall take notice of William Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny the younger Son of Thomas Earl of Warwick and Katherine Mortimer and his posterity In 40 Edw. 3. this William attended Iohn Duke of Lancaster with his Forces into Spain And when the English Army was drawn up to give battle to the King of Castile the Duke of Lancaster said to him Sir William behold yonder your Enemies this day ye shall seem a good Knight or else dye in the quarrel And in 44 Edw. 3. served the King in his Warrs of France being then a Knight and of the retinue to Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster In 47 Edw. 3. he was in that expedition made into France by the same Duke of Lancaster Moreover in 1 R. 2. he was constituted governor of the Castle and County of Pembroke and the same year served in the Kings Navy at Sea under the conduct of the Duke of Lancaster to oppose the hostilities of the French who had at that time invaded the Isle of Wight and made divers bold attempts upon the Coast of Sussex In 3 Ric. 2. he was in that Expedition then made into France in ayd of the Duke of Britanny And in 4 Ric. 2. being then Lord Chamberlain to the King he had in consideration of his services done and to be done the grant of two hundred pounds per annum for his life He was likewise the same year retained by Indenture to serve the King in the parts of Portugal and Spain with two hundred Men at Armes and two hundred Archers for one quarter of a year under the command of Edmund de Langley Earl of Cambridge being then Marshal of the Host. And in 5 Ric. 2. continued still in the Kings service beyond-Sea So likewise in 6 R. 2. and was then reteined to serve under the command of that warlike Bishop of Norwich scil Henry Spenser at that time Victorious in Flanders but in regard he did not receive the full summe of five hundred marks before hand according to his agreement with that Bishop he declined the Service In 7 R. 2. he was made Captain of Calais and reteined by Indenture for the safe custody thereof with an hundred and forty men at Armes on Horseback whereof himself with nine other Knights to be part of the number an hundred and fifty Archers on Horse-back an hundred men at Armes and an hundred and eighty three Archers on Foot as also four Esq on Horse-back with condition that twenty Men at Armes and ten Archers on Horse-back with ten Archers on Foot belonging to the Treasurer of Calaâ—s should be under his command in relation to that service In consideration whereof he was for his own wages to have â—our shillings per diâ—m for the rest of his Knights two shillings and Men at Armes on Horse back twelve pence which retainer was for two years but the next ensuing year the same Covenants were renewed for three years more and in 11 and 12 R. 2. for each of those years singly In the same 7 year of â— 2 wherein he was thus first retained King Richard constituted him one of his Commissioners to treat of Peace with the King of France So likewise in 9 R. 2. Being thus fixed at Calais he took by times no less than forty eight vessels from the French whereof two were laden with Spices and some with white Herrings bound for Scâ—iuse In this year also he again attended the Duke of Lancaster into Spain for recovery of the Inheritance of the Kingdom of
by Act of Parliament in the Three and twentieth of His Reign which was the next year ensuing that Creation of the Duke of Warwick qualified it much inconvenience had risen upon it Therefore For appeasing the contention and strife moved betwixt them for that preheminence those are the words of the Act it was established That from the second of December then next following they should take place of each other by turn viz. One that year and the other next and so as long as they lived together the Duke of Warwick to have the first years precedency and he who should survive to have place of the others Heir-male as long as he lived And from that time that the Heir-male of each should take place of other according as it might happen he had Livery of his Lands before him After which he had a Grant in Reversion from the death of Humphrey Duke of Glocester of the Isles of Gernsey Iersey Serke Erm and Aureney for the yearly Rent of a Rose to be paid at the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist as also of the Mannor and Hundred of Bristol in Com. Gloc. for the yearly Rent of Sixty pounds and likewise of all the Kings Castles and Mannors within the Forest of Deane for the Rent of One hundred pound per annum To all which Honors he had this farther added viz. to be Crowned King of the Isle of Wight by the Kings own hand But this hopeful Branch the sole Heir-male to this great Earldom was cropt in the flower of his youth before the fruits of his heroick disposition could be fully manifested to the World For upon S. Barnabas-day scil 11 Iunii An. 1445. 23 Hen. 6. being but Twenty two years of age he died at Hanley the place of his birth and was buried in the Abby of Tewksbury about the midst of the Quire at the head of Prince Edward Son and Heir to King Henry the Sixth In his Fathers life time when he was scarce ten years of age being then called by the name of the Lord Despenser he wedded Cecily Daughter to Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury whose Portion was Four thousand seven hundred marks which Cecily afterwards scil 27 Hen. 6. married to Iohn Lord Tiptoft by whom he left issue one only Daughter called Annâ— born at Kaerdiff in the Moneth of February An. 1439. Which Anne being about two years old at his death was committed to the tutelage first of Queen Margaret and afterwards of William de la Pole Duke of Suffolk and had the title of Countess of Warwick but did not long survive for I find that 3 Ian. An. 1449. 27 Hen. 6. she departed this life at Newelme in Oxfordshire a Mannor of that Duke of Suffolk and was buried in the Abby of Reading next to the Grave of Constance Lady Despenser her Great Grandmother Daughter to Edmund of Langley Duke of York Whereupon Anne her Aunt born at Caversham in Oxfordshire 3 Id. Iuly An. 1429. 7 Hen. 6. Sister of the whole Blood to the late Duke of Warwick became Heir to this Earldom being at that time the Wife of Richard Nevil Earl of Sailsbury before-mentioned having been wedded to him the same year that Henry her Brother married Cecily his Sister Which Richard by reason of that Marriage and in respect of his special Services about the Kings peron and likewise in the Wars of Scotland for so doth the Patent import had upon the three and twentieth of Iuly next following the death of the before mentioned Anne his Wives Neice the Dignity and Title of Earl of Warwick confirmed and declared to him and his said Wife and to her Heirs with all preheminencies that any of their Ancestors before the Creation of Henry Duke of Warwick used Beauchamp of Alcester and Powyk I Now come to Walter de Beauchamp a younger Son to William de Beauchamp of Eâ—mley by Isabel his Wife Sister and Heir to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick Which Walter having purchased the moity of the Mannor of Alcester in Com. War from Peter Fitz-Herbert in 56 Hen. 3. made that place one of his principal Seats the other being at Powyke in Worcestershire This Walter was an eminent Man in his time In 53 Hen. 3. being signed with the Cross for a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land he had a Legacy of two hundred marks bequeathed to him by his Father for his better performance of that voyage And in 21 Edw. 1. obtained a Charter from the King for a Fair to be kept yearly at this his Mannor of Alcester for eight days beginning on the Eve of S. Giles and for seven days after In 24 Edw. 1. he was Steward of the Houshold to that King and in 25 Edw. 1. attended him into Flanders In 26 Edw. 1. he had Summons amongst other great Men to be at Carlisle upon Whitson Eve well furnished with Horse and Arms to march against the Scots and was the same year with the King in that famous Battle at Faukirk In 27 Edw. 1. he was again in Scotland and in 28 Edw. 1. had a Charter for Free Warren in all his Demesn Lands at Alcester and Powyke granted unto him as also in divers other places in Worcestershire In 29 Edw. 1. he was one of those Lords in the Parliament at Lincoln who then signified to the Pope under their respective Seals the superiority of King Edward over the Realm of Scotland being there stiled Dominus de Alcester In 30 Edw. 1. he obtained another Charter to alter the yearly Fair at Aâ—cester from the Eve of S. Giles the Abbot unto the Eve of S. Faith the Virgin and to continue for seven days after In 31 Edw. 1. he attended the King again into Scotland and was at that famous Siege of Caerlaverok This Walter had to Wife Alice the Daughter of ... Tony which marriage in regard they were within the fourth degree of consanguinity was after ratified by Godfrey Bishop of Worcester and the children begot between them decreed legitimate by him who had authority so to do from the Pope in regard they knew nothing of that impediment at the time of the Contract made and departing this life 14 Cal. Martii 31 Edw. 1. was buried in the Gray Friers near Smithfield in the Suburbs of London To him succeeded Walter his Son and Heir who in 32 Edw. 1. was in that expedition then made into Scotland and in 34 Edw. 1. being again in Scotland he departed thence before the War was at an end for which respect his Lands Goods and Chattels were seised by the King But the next year after he obtained pardon for that transgression In 4 Edw. 2. this Walter went again to the Wars of Scotland so likewise in 7 Edw. 2. In 10 Edw. 2. upon the
burial twenty five poor men to pray for her five of which to hold Torches about her Herse and every one of them to have at the Dirige a peny and at the Morrow-Mass a peny And farther willed that at the Dirige upon the day of her Burial there should be thirteen Priests and thirteen Clerks in Surplesses So likewise at the Morrow-Mass each Priest to have for his labour six pence and each Clerk two pence But I return to Sir Richard Beauchamp Son and heir to the last mentioned Iohn This Sir Richard wedded Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford Knight in the private Chappel of his Mannor-house at Beauchamps-Court by virtue of a special Licence from the Bishop of Worcester by which Elizâ—beth he had issue three Daughters his Heirs viz. Elizabeth married to Sir Robert Willoughby Lord Brooke first summoned to Parliament by that Title in 7 Hen. 7. Anne to Richard Ligon and Margaret to William Rede Beauchamp of Holt. I come now to Iohn de Beauchamp of Holt in Worcestershire a younger Son to William de Beauchamp of Eâ—meley by Isabel his Wife Daughter and heir to William de Mauduit Earl of Warwick which Iohn had this Lordship of Holt by the gift of his Father to hold to himself and the Heirs of his body by the Wife he then had And in 25 E. 1. was in that expedition then made into Gascoigne together with William Earl of Warâ—ick and Walter de Beauchamp his Brethren and the next year following in the Wars of Scotland To him succeeded Richard de Beauchamp who in 1 Edw. 3 died seised of this Mannor of 〈◊〉 leaving Iohn his Son and Heir eight years of age Which Iohn in 12 Ed. 3. was in that expedition then made into Flanders and in 20 Edw. 3. in that into France In 37 E. 3. he was in another then made into Gascoigne and of the Retinue of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick where he continued the next ensuing year In 33 Edw. 3. he was again in the Warrs of France In 42 E. 3. he was once more in the Warrs of France and in 46 Ed. 3. attended Iohn Duke of Lancaster into Spain In 6 R. 2. being then one of the Esquires of the K. Chamber which I take to be the same that is now called Esquire for the body he had in consideration of his good services done and to be done the grant of an annuity of twenty pounds per annum issuing out of the mannor of Sutton in the Forest of Macklesfeild in Cheshire And in 9 R. 2 for the like consideration and because he did receive the order of Knighthood at such time as the King first displayed his Banner in Scotland he obtained a grant for an hundred marks per annum for his better support of that dignity to enjoy for terme of life and to be received out of the Kings Rents and Revenues in North-UUales And furthermore considering the great expence he had been at in fitting himself with a Competent retinue of men at Armes and Archers to attend the King in a Voiage-Royal into Scotland as also for that he surendred his patent of that hundred marks per annum Annuity before mentioned he had in recompence thereof a grant of the Commotes of Dyulâ—ien and Kemeltemain in Caernarvonshire to hold for terme of his life And within the space of that year being then Knight of the Kings Chamber was constituted Justice of North-Wales having likewise a special Charter for divers Liberties and priviledges as well in Vert and Venison as other things within his Lordship and Fee of Kederminster in Com. Wigorn. Moreover in 11 R. 2. being then Steward of the Kings Household in consideration also of his services he obtained a grant of all the Mannors and Lands belonging to the Priory of Deorhurst in Gloucestershire then seised into the Kings hands as all other Priories-alien were by reason of his Wars with France and within five dayes following viz. 10 Oct. for the considerations aforesaid and for the place he held at that Kings Coronation as also for his greater honor in Counsells and Parliaments he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm to hold to himself and the heirs male of his body by the title of Lord Beauchamp of Kydermyster being the first man that was ever created a Baron of England by Patent But this honor he enjoyed not long for the same year divers of the great Lords having raised a powerful Army came up to London and there mustering their men in sight of the Tower where the King then lodged forced him to call a Parliament wherin through their potency they did what they list causing Sir Robert Tresilian Chief Justice of the Kings Bench Court and divers others to be attainted of Treason of which number this Iohn Lord Beauchamp was one who being first committed to close imprisonment in Dover Castle and for that he had been long before unfaithful to King Edward the third and unto Lionel Duke of Clarence as was then alledged he received sentence of death viz. to be drawn hanged and quartered but by favor was only beheaded on Tower hill leaving by Ioane his Wife Daughter and Heir to Robert le Fitzwith Iohn his Son and Heir ten years of age during whose minority this Lordship of Holt was committed to the custody of Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick of whom it was held Which Iohn when he came to mans estate viz. in 22 R. 2. attended the King in that Voyage then by him made into Ireland and in 8 H. 4. executed the Office of Escheator for the County of Worcester So likewise in 1 Hen. 5. And died on Tuesday next after the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle 8 Hen. 5. being then seised of the mannors of Bobenhuâ—â— Shulton Bernangre and Shotswell in Com. Warr. as also of the Mannors of Holt and Hanley juxta Temedbury in Com. Wigorn. leaving one sole Daughter and Heir called Margaret then twenty years of age Which Margaret was first married to Iohn Pauncefott and afterwards to Iohn Wysham Beauchamp of Bletsho I Now come to Roger de Beauchamp Grandson to Walter de Beauchamp of Alcester In 20 Ed. 3. this Roger was in the Wars of France and the next year following obtained the Kings confirmation of the Mannor of Lydeard Tregoz in Com. Wilts unto himself and Sibil his Wife and to the Heirs male of their two bodies lawfully begotten which had been granted to them by Peter de Grandison Which Sibil was Daughter of Sibil Wife of William de Grandison and she of Mabel 〈◊〉 of the four Sisters and Coheirs of Otto de Grandison In 21 Edw. 3 he
to Sir Richard Vere Kt. Next that Sir Ralph upon that Invasion of the Scots in 12 Rich. 2. being with his elder Brother Henry Hoâ—â—pur at Newcastle upon Tine boldly issued out against them and worthily shared in the glory of that victory obtained by their valiant conduct where William Douglas their General lost his life Moreover that in 14 Rich. 2. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to treat with those from France and Scotland for observance of the Truce formerly made betwixt this and both those Realms And lastly that in 18 Rich. 2. he had a Grant of the custody of Barwick uâ—on Twede to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body I now return to Henry the eldest S on This Henry shortly after the Coronation of King Richard the Second at which time his Father was advanced to the Title of Earl received the Order of Knighthood and in 8 Rich. 2. was constituted one of the Commissioners for guarding of the Marches toward Scotland as also in 9 Rich. 2. Governor of Barwick and again Warden of the Marches During which time he was so active against the Scots that he gave them little rest whereupon he was in derision commonly by them called Hotspur In this nineth year upon intelligence that the King of France had a purpose to besiege Calais being so famous for his Military skill and valor he was amongst others sent thither for the defence of that place and having staid there a while without any action grew so impatient that he made several excursions into Picardy and the parts adjacent whence he brought much booty But at length seeing no likelihood of any Siege there he returned back into England In 11 Rich. 2. there being those at Court who envied the fame which he had gained by his valor against the Scots caused the King to send him to Sea there to repel the French that threatned an Invasion Which service he readily undertook and returned with much honor In the same year the Scots invading this Realm upon the East March and doing great spoil by burning and plunder he encountering them near â—olston towards Newcastle uâ—on Tine slew the Earl Douglas with his own hands and mortally wounded the Earl of Murret but preâ—â—ing over-forward was at length taken prisoner by the Earl of Daâ—bar together with his Brother Ralph and carried into Scotland Froisard relateth the story of this skirmish thus The Scots saith he having invaded England and being come into the Bishoprick of Durham the Earl of Northumberland sent his two Sons viz. Sir Henry and Sir Ralph to Newcastle to which place the Countrey were appointed to come whereupon ensued divers light skirmishes betwixt the English and them and many proper feats of Arms done Amongst others saith he there fought hand to hand the Earl Douglas and Sir Henry Percy and by force of Arms the Earl won Sir Henry's Penon Whereupon Sir Henry and all the English were sore displeased the Earl saying to him Sir I shall bear this token of your prowess into Scotland and shall set it on high on my Castle of Alquest that it may be seen aâ—ar off Which so proâ—â—â—ked the Percies that after divers bold adventures against the Scotch Fâ—rces at length they obtained the Victory and slew the Earl James Douglas but Sir Ralph Percy was therein wounded and taken prisoner by a Scotch Knight And after this in another encounter this Sir Henry Percy fighting valiantly with the Lord Mountcumber a stoâ—t Knight of Scotland was by him taken prisoner But long he continued not in that restraint For in 12 Rich. 2. which was the next ensuing year it appears that he was again constituted Warden of the East Marches In 13 Rich. 2. this Henry being again at Calais made several excursions towards Boloigne and from thence went to Brest in Britanny where he first raised the Siege of that pâ—â—ce and after won two Bastiles there one of Timber which he demolished and another of Stone which he better fortified And the same year was made General Warden of the West Marches and soon after of the East March as also Governor of Carliâ—â—e In this year likewise he was retained to serve the King both in times of Peace and War from the second of Ianuary during his whole life for which he had a Grant of one hundred pound per annum out of the Exchequer And in 16 R. 2. being recalled from Calais was again made Warden of the East Marches as also Governor of Barwick In the same year likewise he was constituted Governor of Bourdeaux and in 17 Rich. 2. one of the Commissioners to treat of Peace with the Scots In 19 Rich. 2. he was imployed into France and in 22 Rich. 2. being again made General-Warden of the East Marches met the Duke of Lancaster at his landing in Holderness Soon after which King Richards deposal ensuing the Duke of Lancaster obtained the Crown In the first year of whose Reign this Henry was constituted Warden of the West Marches Sheriff of Northumberland Governor of the Town of Barwick and Castle of Rokesburgh Justice of Cheâ—ter Northwales and Flintshire and had a Grant of the Castle and Lordship of Baumburgh with the Fee-farm of that Town for term of his life Moreover in the same year he was made Constable of the Castles of Chester Flint Conway and Caernarvon and Sheriff of Flintshire for life and obtained a Grant of the whole County and Dominion of Anglesey As also of the Castle of Beaumarys with the Mannors Lands Fee-farms and Rents thereto belonging to hold also for term of his life And in 3 Hen. 4. was with his Father in that memorable Battle against the Scots at Halâ—idon Hill where the English obtained a signal Victory But soon after that the Scene much changed for this stout and high spirited Horspur through the solicitation of his Uncle Thomas Percy Earl of Worcester whom King Richard the Second had so highly advanced as I shall hereafter shew joyned with him in conspiring the ruine of King Henry To which end they first made plausible pretences that they did not at all depart from their allegiance nor raise those Forces which they had then got into Arms for any other purpose but the safeguard of themselves and better Government of the Realm Giâ—ing out that the Impositions and Taxes granted to the King for the defence of the Land were diverted to other uses and unprofitably consumed Adding that through the malicious suggestions of their Enemies the King was so displeased with them that they could not be admitted to manifest their innocency and to be legally justified by their Peers until the Lords
Chancellor of England and four Daughters viz. Alice married to Thomas Holland afterwards Earl of Kent to whom and the Heirs of their two Bodies in 38 Edw. 3. the King granted the Mannors of Kirkby Moresheved Buttercramp and Cropton She is likewise said to have been the Wife of Henry de Beaufort who was afterwards the rich Cardinal before he took orders Eleanor died young Ioane Wife of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Mary wedded to Iohn Lord Strange of Blackmere Which Iohn his second Son was afterwards a Banneret and in 1 Rich. 2. retained to serve the King in his Fleet at Sea for a quarter of an year with two hundred Men at Arms and two hundred Archers whereof twenty nine Knights and one hundred seventy Esquires he being then also Marshal of England and of the Retinue unto Thomas of Woodstock Earl of Buckingham Uncle to the King This Iohn took to Wife Eleanor the Daughter of Iohn Lord Maltravers Sister and Heir to Henry Lord Maltravers and was summoned to Parliament in 1 2 3 Rich. 2. in the last of which years being sent with divers Knights and others in aid of the Duke of Britanny he perished by Shipwrack about the Feast day of S. Nicholas It is reported that before he hoised Sail he plundered the Countrey people and being utterly cursed by them for so doing this miserable fate soon overtook him By the said Eleanor his Wife he left issue a Son called Iohn Which Iohn had likewise issue Iohn Son and Heir who upon the death of Thomas Earl of Arundel without issue being his next Heir-male possessed the Castle of Arundel and divers other Lordships by vertue of an Entail made by Richard Earl of Arundel in 21 Edw. 3. as I shall more fully shew anon and by reason thereof had the title of Earl of Arundel But I return to Richard Son and Heir to the last Earl Richard This Earl Richard being constituted Admiral of the Kings Fleet to the Westwards in 1 Rich. 2. and soon after that to the Southwards was retained by Indenture to serve the King at Sea for one quarter of an year in the Company of Iohn Duke of Lancaster King of Caâ—â—â—le And in 7 Rich. 2. was in that expedition then made into Scotland About which time he procured License of the King to imploy what Agents he should please to the Abbess and Covent of Almenesches Alien to treat and conclude with them for the purchase of certain Lands part of the Possessions of the Priory of Leveminster in Sussex belonging to those Nuns As also a Charter for a weekly Market at his Mannor of Estangmering in Sussex upon the Saturday and a Fair yearly upon the Eve and Day of the Apostles Peter and Paul He also obtained the Kings farther License to travel into Forein parts and there to continue as long as he should think fit But if he did then travel he staid not long abroad for in 8 R. 2. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of Scotland And in 9 R. 2. joyned in Commission with Thomas D. of Lancaster for the tryal of Michael de la Pole and some other of the Kings Favorites whom the Commons in Parliament had then charged with divers high crimes Whereupon De la Pole was adjudged to suffer death and his estate to be confiscate In 10 Rich. 2. being made Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet to the West and Northward he received the moity of that Tenth then given to the King in Parliament by the Clergy as also the moity of that Fifteen given by the Laity for the Publick service of the Realm in a Naval expedition And putting to Sea upon Sunday the Eve of our Ladies Ascension encountred with a great Fleet of Flemings French and Spaniards and after a sharp fight got the victory wherein he took of Ships great and small no less then an hundred all laden with Wines containing Nineteen thousand Tuns which he brought into the Port of Orwell and other Havens And after this having new rigged his Navy arrived at Brest in Britanny where he soon took one of those Forts which the French had newly raised against the Castle there and burnt the other And having then victualled that Castle for a year and recruited the Garrison with all necessaries returned into England with great honor though much envied by the Duke of Ireland and others that bore great sway at Court who did all they could to deprave him by speaking sleightly of these his noble exploits And not only so but growing more insolent the King being totally guided by them they conspired the death of divers great persons of which this Earl was one So that now there being no other help but that either those haughty spirited men must be supprest or many of the most eminent Noblemen ruined This Earl with the Earls of Warwick and Derby resolved to put themselves in Arms. The King therefore discerning their purpose forthwith deliberated how he might destroy them before they had united their distinct Forces and to that end sent the Earl of Northumberland and others with him to Rigate Castle where this Earl then was with resolution there to surprise him But when Northumberland got thither and saw what strength he had he returned without any attempt upon him After which some were sent to take him by night and bring him to the King or at least to murther him The Lords therefore being in this strait having raised a great power soon met at Haringay Park near Highgate in Com. Middl. wherewith the King being alarmd and mediation made for a peaceable composure of these discontents they came to Westminster and upon expostulation with them by the King touching this their Insurrection told him it was for his and the Kingdoms advantage and to take from him those Trayterous persons viz. The Duke of Ireland and other his favorites who were enemies to the Commonwealth the issue whereof for the present terminated in the ruine of divers who had so mis-guided the King as in due place I shall shew The tide therefore then running with these Lords this Earl was by general consent in the Parliament of 11 Rich. 2. made Governor of the Castle and Town of Brest in Britanny as also the Kings Lieutenant in those parts And shortly after being Admiral made Lieutenant as also Captain-General of his Fleet at Sea with Commission to treat of Peace with Iohn de Montâ—ort then Duke of Britanny and hoising sail after Whitsontide soon met with the Enemy of whose Ships he sunkâ— and took fourscore entred the Isle of Bâ—as which he burnt and spoiled and likewise the Islands
then reversed And being made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Henry the fourth the same year obtained a Charter for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at his Mannor of Sâ—orghton in Sussex as also three Faires yearly one on the Feast day of St. Philip and Iacob the second on Wednesday in Whitson-week and the third upon St. Martin's day in Winter In 6 Hen. 4. this Thomas married Beatrix an illegitimate Daughter to the King of Portugall upon the morrow after the Feast of St Katherine the Wedding being kept at London where the King and Queen were also present The same year likewise he had by the bounty of King Henry a Grant of the Mannors of Plumpton and Berkomp with the Advouson of those Churches which came to the Crown by the forfeiture of Thomas Lord Bardolf then attainted for Rebellion And in 12 H. 4. was sent with divers men at Armes and Archers to the Duke of Burgundie's aid against the Duke of Orleance Moreover in 1 H. 5. he was made Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports as also Lord Treasurer of England But not long after growing infirm by his Testament bearing date 10 Octob. Ann. 1415. 3 Hen. 5. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the quire of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity at Arundel under a certain Tombe there to be new made for him Also willing that a fair Monument should be erected by his Executors over the Body of his Father Likewise appointing an hundred and thirty pounds six shillings and eight pence to be bestowed at his Funeral and in celebrating of Masses for his Soul Furthermore in regard of a certain vow which he had made to S. Iohn of Bridlington when he was there with King Henry the fifth at such time as he was Prince viz. that he would once every year personally offer to that Saint or send the summe of five marks during his life he directed that his Executors should forthwith pay all the arrearages thereof besides the costs of the Messenger upon that errand And likewise that they should cause a certain Chappel to be built at the Gate called Mary-Gate in Arundell in honor of the Blessed Virgin Appointing also that those Soldiers who were with him at Hareflew in France should have all their arrears Likewise that all those Lands and Tenements in the possession of Robert Pobellowe and Thomas Harling Priests by virtue of his Fathers Feoffement should be amortized for the benefit of the Hospital at Arundell And upon the 13 of October following departed this life without issue being the seised of the Castle and Mannor of Castâ—e-Acre in Com. Norff. as also of the Mannor of Milham and of the Hundreds of Landiche and South-Grenhow in the same County Likewise of the Mannors of High-Rothyng Ovisham Cowyke in Sheringe Yonge Margaret Wolfamston juxta Gykewell and Canefeld parva in Comit. Essex of the Mannor of Berewyke juxta Berkweye in Com. Herâ—f of the Mannors of Clone Oswaldestre Ruton Bokenhall and Clombury in Com. Salop. And in the said County of Salop and Marches of UUales of the Mannors of Doditon Heythe Stretton Lydeleye Conede Acton rounde Wrockcestre Upton Hints Shrawardyn Clongoneford Sonford Osleton with the Castles of Dynas-bran and Leons and Land of Bromfield and Yale In the County of Sussex of the Castle of Arundell the Mannors of East-Dene Sangelton Sanstede Bourne Palyngham Lege Wollavyngton Alnetedesham Coking Leveminster Poling Wepham Ostham Scorteton Preston Eastham Tonet Westham Tonet UUalbedyng Pynkhurst Foer Overfold with the Hundreds of Westburne Singelton Eastbourne Boxe Stokebruge Anesford Bury Rotherbruge West-Estwrith and Poling as also of the Castle and Lordship of Lewes The Mannors of Alington Hundeden Northese Ratemeld Meching Rotingden Brightelmeston Pokeham Clayton â—ymer Pycombe Midleton Dichengre Cokefeld Worthe and Seford in the same County Of the Castle of Riegate with the Mannors of Bechesworthe and Docking in Com. Surr. and the Mannors of Knighton Kynele and Bulkindon in Comit. Wilts leaving Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk then the Wife of Sir Gerard Vseflete Knight Ioane Lady Bergavenny and Margaret the Wife of Sir Rowland Lenthale Knight his Sisters and next Heires the said Elizabeth and Ioane being at that time forty yeares of age and upwards and Margaret thirty three Beatrix his wife then also surviving who afterwards became the Wife of Iohn Holland Earl of Huntendon Upon the death of which Thomas Earl of Arundell thus without issue the right of this Earldom by reason of an Entail of the Castle of Arundell and Lands thereto belonging made by Richard Earl of Arundell his Grandfather 21 Edw. 3. resorted to Sir Iohn Fitz-Alan otherwise called Sir Iohn Arundell Knight Cousin and next Heir male to the said Thomas viz. Son and Heir of Iohn Son and Heir of Iohn second Son to the before specified Earl Richard But before I proceed to speak of him I shall say something of Iohn his Father who died in the lifetime of Earl Thomas In 1 R. 2. Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland resigning the Staff of his Office of Marshal of England and retiring this Iohn then called Sir Iohn Arundell Knight having stoutly defended the Town of Southampton against the French was substituted in his stead and in 2 Ric. 2. made one of the Kings Commissioners for giving satisfaction to the Scots in what they had been injured by the English contrary to the Articles of Truce made betwixt both Nations in the time of King Edward the third and David de Bruys King of that Realm and having been summoned to Parliament in 1 2 and 3 Ric. 2. was in the last of those years constituted one of the principal Commanders of those Forces at that time sent beyond Sea in aid of the Duke of Brittany where he did much mischief by plundring not sparing the Nunns He likewise in those his military employments grew so prophane that he took away the Chalices from the Altars for which outrages he and his Companions were Excommunicated But upon his return towards England before the end of that year he perished by Shipwrack with many of his party upon the fifteenth day of December being then seised of the Mannors of Aynho in Com. Northamp Postlyng in Comit. Cantii Byker Ellingham Osberwyke Newstede Wollore also of the moity of the Mannors of Newnham Akyld Newham Caupland Yemrum Trollop Killom Ankirchester Prossen and Palteston in Glendale in Com. ... Likewise of the Mannors of Coklington Stoke Tristre Boyeford Hyneforde and the Baliwick of the Forest of Selewode in Com. Somers of the Mannors of East Morden Worthe Wolcombe Phelpesâ—on Up-Wimborne Frome Whitfield Langton in Purbeck Lodres Wodeton in Mershwoodvale and Lychet Matravers in Com. Dors. Brandon in Com. Warw. Codelawe in Com. Suss. Bockland in Com. Surr. Shernton Codeford Boyton Corton Winterborn-Stoke Cotes
called Mary and died in 3 Hen. 7. Which Thomas succeeding him in his Lands and Honors in 5 Hen. 7. was sent over into Flanders amongst divers other of the English Nobles in aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French He had also Summons to Parliament by the name of Thomas Arundel de Matravers Chivalier in 22 Edw. 4. And 1 Hen. 7. his Father being then alive And having married Margaret the Daughter of Richard Widvile Earl Rivers had issue by her two sons viz. William and Edward and two Daughters Margaret the Wife of Iohn de la Pole Earl of Lincoln and Ioane married to George Nevill Lord Bergavenny This Earl Thomas by his Testament bearing date 12 Octob. An. 1524. 16 Hen. 8. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of his Collegiate Church at Arundel where the Corps of his Lady lay interred constituting William Lord Matravers his Son one of his Executors and departing this life in his Park at Dauley 25 Octob. An. 1524. 16 Hen. 8. was buried in the same Collegiate Church at Arundel Which William in 2 Hen. 8. his Father living and then called Sir William Arundel Knight Lord Matravers having Wedded Anne the Sister to Henry Earl of Northumberland obtained a Grant to himself and Heirs of his Body from the King of the Mannors of Warbâ—â—ton Duriate and Dunpole in Com. Somers and Hunton in Com. Southampt To hold by the service of a Red Rose yearly And in 16 Hen. 8. upon the death of his Father had a special Livery of all his Castles Lordships and Lands In 22 Hen. 8. this Earl William was one of the Lords in Parliament who subscribed that Letter sent to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby he might easily discern that In case he did not comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce from Queen Catherine his Supremacy here would be shaken off And in 33 Hen. 8. when the King by Cromwels Policy obtruded much of the Monastery Lands upon his Nobles and others in exchange for Lands of their own he had in lieu of the Mannors of Shillingley Hâ—â—ernhoo Palingham Wollavington Alversham Codham Bignore Stopeham â— and Eartham with four Woods in Sussex the Inheritance of the site of the Priory of Micheâ—ham with all the Buildings thereto belonging as also all the Lands in Michelham Arungton Hailesham Hellingley Chedingley Pewensey Westham Willingdon Sharnford Fockington and Ievington in the same County all which were esteemed at the time of the dissolution of that Priory the Demesn Lands thereof As also the Mannors of Michelham Parkgate Sharnford and Down-Ashe Cawdeane and Holiwich in the same County and in Kent with the Water-Mill of Michelham Parkgate And moreover all the Lands called Sextery-Lands lying in the Towns of Hellingley Willingdon Ievington and Hailesham in that County of Sussex with the Advowson of the Rectory of Ripe lately pertaining to the Monastery of Lewes And likewise all those Mannors and Lordships of Swanborough and Horsted in Com. Suss. Imberhorne in the County of Sussex and Surrey and the Parks called Horsted Park in Com. Suss. belonging also to the said Monastery of Lewes This Earl William by his Testament bearing date 23 Ian. An. 1543. 35 Hen. 8. gave to direction thereby for his Burial but making the Lady Anne his Wife and Henry Lord Matravers his Son his Executors departed this life at Downley in the Parish of Singleton in Com. Suss. upon the twenty third of the same Moneth of Ianuary and was buried at Arundel By his first Wife Anne Daughter to Henry Earl of Northumberland he had issue Henry his Son and Heir and likewise two Daughters Anne and Catherine who died unmarried And by Elizabeth his second Wife Daughter to Robert Willoughby Lord Brook two Daughters Margaret and Elizabeth who died also unmarried Which Henry who succeeded him having been in 36 Hen. 8 Field-Marshal of the Kings Army at the Siege of Boâ—â—â—gne was in 38 Hen. 8. constituted one of the Assistants to that Kings Executors And in 4 Ed. 6. upon a Peace concluded by the King with the Scots and French wherein also the Emperor was comprehended was one of the Hostages for Ratification of the Articles About this time after the Duke of Somerset Uncle to the King and Protector was brought to the Block by Dudley Earl of Warwick the chief contriver in his Tragedy he endeavored to draw this Earl to his party who at that time was discountenanced and therefore by Warwick singled out as the most fit person for his purpose But after many secret Conferences which were often held betwixt them in the night seeing that he could not prevail he found means to discharge him from the Council and to confine him to his house objections being framed against him that he had taken away Bolts and Locks at Westminster and given away the Kings Stuff being Lord Chamberlain for which he was fined at twelve thousand pounds to be paid by a thousand pounds yearly and the next year following committed to the Tower upon pretence that he had been one of those who did conspire to draw in some of the Lords unto the Lord Pagets house under colour of a Banquet there to take off their heads This Earl Henry after the death of King Edward the Sixth cordially inclined to the Right of Mary the eldest Daughter of King Henry and when that Dudley then Duke of Northumberland was gone out towards Cambridge with what power could at present be had on the behalf of the Lady Iane Grey whom through his influence the Lords of the Council had proclaimed Queen upon a meeting of divers Lords at Baynards Castle in that despeâ—ate juncture of time he bitterly inveighed against him laying open his injustice and cruelty in the time of King Edward and declaimed boldly against that treacherous act of his touching the disherison of the Daughters of King Henry Which stout Speech put such a courage into the rest of the Lords then present that they forthwith resolved to maintain the Right of Mary against all opposers and accordingly proclaimed her Queen in Cheapside Moreover he was again made Constable of England for the day immediately preceding the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Likewise High Steward of England for the fifteenth of Ianuary on which day she was solemnly Crowned and soon after that one of her Privy Council But in 3 Eliz. having fed himself with some hopes of obtaining Queen Elizabeth for his Wife and failing therein after he had spent much upon these vain imaginations his Friends in Court failing him he grew troubled in mind and thereupon to wear off the grief got leave to travel In 11 Eliz. being constituted one of the Commissioners to
domini Strange de Blackmere Mareschalli Franciae qui obiit in bello apud Burdews vij â— Julij MCCCCLIII The next year following viz. 32 Hen. 6. Margaret his Wife surviving had her Dowry assigned to her and departing this life 14 Iune 7 Edw. 4. left Thomas Talbot Vicount l'Isle Son of Iohn Vicount l'Isle her Son who was slain with his Father in the Battle of Chastillion then nineteen years of age her next Heir For which Margaret who lieth buried in a certain place called Iesus Chappel scituate within the Cathedral of S. Paul in London it was intended that a fair Monument of an a hundred pound value should have been erected but instead thereof this Inscription only remained upon a Pillar there viz. Here before the Image of Iesus lyeth the right Worshipful and Noble Lady Margaret Countess of Shrewsbury late Wife of the true and victorious Knight John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury Which Worshipful Man died in Guien for the right of this Land She was the first Daughter and one of the Heirs of the right Famous and Renowned Knight Richard Beauchamp late Earl of Warwick which died in Roan and of Dame Elizabeth his Wife the which Elizabeth was Daughter and Heir to Thomas late Lord Berkley on his side and on her Mothers side Lady l'Isle and Tyes Which Countess passed from this World the fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord 1468. On whose Soul Iesus have mercy Amen The issue which this great Earl had by Maud his first Wife was as followeth Thomas who died in his life time in France Iohn who succeeded him in his Lands and Honors and Sir Christopher Talbot Knight And by Margaret his second Wife Daughter of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick another Iohn who was created Baron l'Isle and afterwards Vicount Sir Humphrey Talbot and Sir Lewes both Knights On which Sir Lewes he Intailed the Mannors of Penyard Credenhill and Strangeford in Com. Heref. I now come to Iohn his Successor in this Earldom In 4 Hen. 6. the King himself being made a Knight at Leicester on Whitsonday by the Duke of Bedford his Uncle amongst divers other noble Persons Knighted this Iohn then Lord Talbot After which viz. in 20 Hen. 6. he went to the Wars of France and in 24 Hen. 6. was made Chancellor of Ireland all this being in the life of his Father In 32 Hen. 6. his Father then dead he had Livery of his Lands his homage being respited In 35 Hen. 6. he was made Lord Treasurer of England And in 38 Hen. 6. 19 Dec. in consideration of the charge he had been at in the Kings service obtained a Grant â— of a hundred marks per annum during his life out of the Revenues of the Lordship of Wakefield in Com. Ebor. then in the Crown by reason of the forfeiture of Richard Duke of York But of this Grant he had little benefit for upon the tenth of Iuly next ensuing he was slain in the Battle of Northampton with Christopher his Brother fighting there stoutly for the Lancastrian Interest and buried in the Priory of Wyrksop within the Chappel of our Lady with this Epitaph Sepulchrum magnanimi atque praepotentis domini domini Iohannis de Talbot Comitis Salopiae secundi ex Regio sanguine ducentis originem Qui Henrico Regi fidissimus Bello apud Northamptoniam gesto ante signa strenuè pugnans honestâ morte occidit die decimo Iulii anno domini nostri Iâ—esu Christi MCCCCLX cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen Salopiae Comitis Lapis hic tegit ossa Iohannis Cui nihil antiquius quà m fuit alma fides Hic ut serviret Regi tormenta subivit Intrepidus ferri sanguineamque necem Ergo licet parvum condat sua Viscera saxum Virtus Angligenum lustrat in omne solum This Iohn first married Catherine one of the Daughters and Heirs to Sir Edward Burnall Knight Son of Hugh Lord Burnel and secondly Elizabeth Daughter of Iames Earl of Ormond by whom he left issue five Sons viz. Iohn his Son and Successor in this Earldom at that time twelve years old and upwards Sir Iames Talbot Knight Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton in Com. Wigorn. Knight Banneret and Captain of Calais Christopher Archdeacon of Chester and Rector of Whitchurch and George As also two Daughters viz. Anne Wife of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon in Com. Derb. Knight and Margaret Which Elizabeth in 39 Hen. 6. had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Castle and Lordship of Sheffield in Com. Ebor. with its members the Mannors of Southhagh Bradfield Ecclesfield Halifield Granow Whiston and Treton as also four Messuages twenty Acres of Land and five Acres of Meadow in Rotheram in the same County likewise one Messuage in London called Furnivals Inne And departed this life on Saturday next following the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the thirteenth of Edward the Fourth I should now come to Iohn the third of that name Earl of Shrewsbury Son and Heir to the last mentioned Iohn but before I proceed with my discourse of him I shall look back to Iohn Son of Iohn the first Earl of Shrewsbury by Margaret his second Wife This Iohn in respect of his descent from Margaret Daughter and Heir to Warine Gerard Lord l'Isle by Alice his Wife Daughter and Heir of Henry Lord Tyes Wife of Thomas Lord Berkley Father of Elizabeth Wife of Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Father of Margaret Mother of him the said Iohn was created Baron 〈◊〉 26 Iuly 22 Hen. 6. Sibi haeredibus assignatis by reason that he possessed the Mannor of Kingston l'Isle in Com. Berks. And afterwards sâ—il 30 Octob. 30. Hen. 6. Viscount l'Isle Sibi haeredibus masculis de corpore sâ—o Of whom that which I conceive to be most remarkable is That the year next ensuing scil 31 Hen. 6. his Father being then constituted Lieutenant of the Dutchy of Aquitane and he one of the Captains there under him as hath been already observed he was by Indenture retained to serve the King there for one quarter of a year with two Bannerets four Knights seventy three Men at Arms on Horsback and eight hundred Archers on Foot receiving for himself six shillings per diem for his two Bannerets four shillings apiece for his seven Knights two shillings for the Men at Arms twelve pence and for the Archers six pence apiece As also that he married Ioane Daughter and Coheir of Thomas Chedder of Chedder in Com. Somers Esquire Widow of Richard Stafford Esquire and that he was slain with his Father in the Battle at Castillion beforementioned Being then seised of the Mannors of Wrocwardine Cheswordine Sutton Madoc Brogton Tassley Abberbury and 〈◊〉 in Com. Salop. Moreover that he left
King Edwards right to the superiority in Dominion of the Realm of Scotland in which he is written Robertus de Clifford Castellanus de Appelby And in 24 E. 1. being in the Scotish Warrs with King Edward worthily shared in the Glory of that signal Victory which the English then obtained at â—unbar upon Saturday next after the Feast of St. Mark In the 25 of Ed. 1. upon the death of Richard Fitz-Iohn a great Baron in Essex this Robert de Clifford Son of Isabel the Daughter and Coheir of Robert de Vipount by Isâ—bel his Wife Sister and Coheir to Richard Fitz-Iohn was found to be one of the Cousins and next heires to the same Richard Fitz-Iohn Moreover after this the same year a little before Christmass he was sent with an hundred men at Armes and twenty thousand foot from Carlisle to plunder in Scotland whence having made great spoil in Anandale by burning of whole Towns and much â—laughter he returned on Christmas Eve with store of Booty And the same year was constituted Justice of all the Kings Forests beyond Trent In 26 Edw. 1. he was made Governor of Notingham Castle and went again to the Warrs in Scotland And in 27 Edw. 1. being constituted the Kings Lieutenant and Captain-general in the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland and Lancaster as also throughout all Anandale and the Marches of Scotland was joyned in Commission with the Bishop of Durâ—am and divers other great Lords to conâ—ider of Garisoning the Castles in that Realm as also for guarding of the Marches And the same year upon partition of the Lands of Richard Fitz-Iohn had assigned unto him in right of Isabel his Mother deceased and to Idonea de Leyburne his Aunt the Lordship of Multon in Northamptonshire the Hamlet of Cinteleberwe in Com. Buck. the Mannor of Wyntreslawe in Com. Wilts the Rent of ten pounds fifteen shillings and nine pence out of the Mannors of Potâ—ers-pirye in Com. Northampt. the Hamlet of Agmondesham in Com. Buck. excepting thirty four shillings and four pence yearly Rent paid out of it to Richard de Burgh Earl of Ulvesâ—er and likewise the Mannor of Cleydone in Com. Buck. In 28 Edw. 1. he was again in the Warrs of Scotland so also in 32 and 33 Ed. 1. and in 34 Edw. 1. in consideration of his many great Services obtained a Grant from the the King of the Borrough of Hertilpole and of all the Lands of Robert de Brus Earl of Carrick then called an Enemy and Rebel lying in the Bishoprick of Durham and belonging to the Mannor of Herte formerly given to this Robert de Clifford for the like services In the same year the King himself marching towards Scotland with a great Army sent this Robert with Aymer Earl of Pembroke and some others before him against Robert de Brus who then assumed the title of King of Scotland in derogation of King Edward and in farther remuneration of his services gave him the Lands of Christopher de Seyton then attainted which lay in Skelton and Alemby in Cumberland as also all those Lands in Lambindy which were of the inheritance of Erminia Mother of the same Christopher In this 35 of Edw. 1. being again in Scotland he came to the King when he lay on his death-bed at Burgh upon the Sands in Cumberland being one of the Lords then desired to take care that Piers Gaveston might not any more return into England to debauch Prince Edward In 1 Ed. 2. he was again made Governor of Notingham Castle in which year by a special Instrument under his Seal bearing date at Boloigne the last day of Ianuary he joyned with that great Prelate Anthony then Bishop of Durham the Earles of Lincolne Warren and Pembroke the Lords Tibetot Gray and Botetourt whereby they engaged themselves to support the honor and dignity of the King with their Lives and Fortunes In 2 Edw. 2 he was first constituted Warden of the Marches of Scotland towards Carlisle and afterwards Captain-general and Governor of that whole Realm with power to give protection to all those who should submit to King Edwards Authority In 3 Edw. 2. he had a Grant for Life of the Castle of Skypton in Cravene performing the like services to the Crown as the Earles of Albemarle formerly Lords thereof used to do As also of two hundred pounds per annum Lands with the Knights Fees and Advousons of Churches belonging to that Castle and that after his life an hundred pounds per annum of those Lands should remain to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begâ—◠〈◊〉 And the next year following obtained anotâ—â— Grant that his Heirs should enjoy so many 〈◊〉 â—ousons of those Churches as according to a râ—table proportion did belong to the same hundred pounds per annum But within the compass of that year in exchange for certain Lands in Monmouth the Valley of Monmouth with the Town and Wood of Hodenake he obtained the Inheritance of the Castle Mannor Lands Knights Fees and Advousons of Churches above expressed as by the Kings special Charter dated at Newcastle upon Tine 7 Sept. 4 Edw. 2. appeareth In the same year receiving Command amongst other the great men to be at Rokesbâ—â—â—â— in Scotland well fitted with Horse and Armes to march against the Scots together with Robert de Brus attended with sixty men at Armes he was there accordingly And in 6 Edw. 2 was joyned in Commission with the Earl of Hereford and others to continue a Treaty begun at Markyate with Lodowike E. of Eureux the Bishop of Poitou and others concerning matters of great importance touching the King himself and some of the chief men in England which Treaty was to be held at London but none of the Commissioners or any of their retinue were to lodge within the City And sate in all the Parliaments from 28 E. 1. till 7 Ed. 2. inclusive This Robert was one of those potent men who joyned with Thomas Earl of Lancaster in putting Piers de Gaveston that great favorite of King Edward to death for which transgression he had his pardon about this time And in 7 E. 2. was again in the Warrs of Scotland and there slain in that fatal Battle at Banâ—ock-moore near Stryvelyn with many other gallant English men but his body was sent to King Edward then at Barwick to be buried as he should think fit leaving Roger his Son fifteen years of age during whose minority the King granted the custody of the Castles of Skypton in Craven Appelby Bruham and Pendragon as also two parts of the Lands and profits of the Shirifalty of Westmorland to Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Henry de Percy and Bartholomew de Badlesmere and unto Maude his Widdow Aunt and one of the Heirs
to Thomas Son of Richard de Clare Steward of the Forest of Essex assigned the Mannor of â—emedbury in Comit. Heref. the Castle of Burgh upon Staynemore the Lordships of Soureby and Wynton the third part of Temple Soureby the third part of the Out-Wood of Whinefell all in the County of Westmorland and the third part of the revenue of the Cornage of the same County the Hamlets of Holme Crokeris Elsawe and Skybden and the moity of the Hamlet of Syghilesdon together with the third part of certain Messuages and Tenements in Sâ—clton in Com. Cumber to hold in Dower Which Maude was afterwards married to Robert de Welle a great Baron in Lincolneshire This last mentioned Roger before he was full twenty one years of age viz. in 13 Edw. 2. marched into Scotland in that Expedition then made thither But after this being drawn into the party of Thomas Earl of Lancaster as also into that Consultation at Pontfract where that Earl was advised to go to his own Castle at Dunstanburgh in Northumberland and observing that he refused so to do lest he should be suspected to hold intelligence with the Scots he drew his Dagger and threatned to kill him with his own hands if he would not goe with them Whereupon thus forced the Earl went to his own and all their sorrows for in his March at Borrowbriâ—â— receiving an utter overthrow by the Kings forces he was taken Prisoner and with him amongst other this our Roger de Clifford who soon after suffered death for the same with the Lord Moubray at York After which the King granted two parts of his House in London called Cliffords-Inne which by this his forfaiture came to the Crown unto Robert de Welle before-mentioned to hold during pleasure and bestowed his Lordship of Kings-Meburne in Westmorland and Grendon in Northumberland upon Anthony de Lucy for term of life and the Castle and Honor of Skypton upon Geffrey le Scrope This Roger who thus died had been summoned to Parliament in 13 and 14 Edw. 2. To whom succeeded Robert de Clifford his Brother and next Heir in Blood who in 1 Edw. 3. upon the death of Maude his Mother was twenty two years of age and then doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands And in 3 Edw. 3. obtained from Idonea his Great-Aunt the other of the Coheirs to Robert de Vipount by purchase and Exchange all her right and title to her purparty in Westmorland she being then the Wife of Iohn de Crumbwel Which Idonea afterwards dyed without Issue whereby likewise the right thereunto by descent divolved to him In 4 Edw. 3. he procured the Kings Charter for a Market upon Thursday every week at his Mannor of Burgh upon Staynemore in Westmorland and a Fair yearly to begin two dayes before the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle and to continue for the day and morrow after In 7 Edw. 3. being in the Warrs of Scotland in conâ—ideration of his great expences and losses which he had before that time sustained in the Kings service Command was sent to the Kings Purveyor of Victual at Barwick upon Twede to give him one Tunn of Wine and six Quarters of Wheat out of the Stores there for his better support in that employment About this time Edward de Baliol King of Scotland hunting in the Woods and Chases of this Robert was entertained by him at his Castles of Applevy and Brougham In 8 Edw. 3. he was joyned in Commission with Ranulph de Dacre in the Government of Carlisle and wardenship of the Marches adjacent with power to make choyce of able men for the security of both and the next year following was constituted sole Warden of the Marches of umâ—erlaâ—â— and Westmorland as also Captain-General of all the forces of those Countreys for resisting the power of the Scots In 14 Edw. 3. he gave the Moity of the Hamlet of Winderton in Com. Warw. to the Canons of Haghmon in Shropshire And in 15 Edw. 3. was again in the Scotish Warrs but in 18 Edw. 3. upon the Thursday next after the Ascension of our Lord he departed this life being then seised p of the moity of the Mannor of Schaldeford the moity of the Mannor of Tarente-Russendon and the moity of the Hundred of Cnokesdyche in Com. Dors. as also of the Mannors of Brugge upon Weye Temedbury and Severn-Stoke in Com. Heref. of the Castle and Mannor of Skypton in â—ravene and the Mannor of Maltby in Com. Ebor. of the Castles of Brouham and Appelby with divers other Lordships in Westmorland of the Mannor of 〈◊〉 in Cumberland and of the Mannors of Hert and Hertnesse in the Bishoprick of Durham Isabel his Widow Daughter of Maurice Lord Berkeley afterwards married to Sir Thomas Musgrave Knight then holding a certain Mansion in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West in the Suburbs of London which after his death she demised to the Apprentises of the Bench by that name the Students of Law there being then called for the Rent of ten pounds per annum leaving Robert his Son and Heir thirteen years of age whose Wardship with the Shiriffalty of Westmorland were thereupon committed to Ralph de Nevill a great Baron of that time and two younger Sons viz. Roger and Thomas afterwards a Knight and Grandfather to Richard Bishop of Woâ—cester Which Robert then took to Wife Eufemia Daughter of the same Ralph who afterwards became the Wife of Sir Walter de Hâ—sâ—arton Knight but died before he attained to his full age Whereupon Roger his Brother succeeded him in the Inheritance and in 25 Edw. 3. obtained a grant for a Market upon the Friday every week and two Fairs yearly one on the day of St. Mark the Evangelist and morrow after and the other on St. Luke's day and the morrow after at his Mannor of Kirkby-Stephan in Com. Westmorl and upon the tenth of August 28 E. 3. made proof of his age After which viz. the next ensuing year he was in that Expedition then made into Gascoigne with Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick whose Daughter Maude he had wedded In 30 E. 3. he was one of those Northern Barons who received command to repair to the marches of Scotland for defence of those parts against the Scots and in 31 Ed. 3. had Livery of his Lands In 33 Edw. 3. he was again in Gascoigne so also in 34. In 40 Edw. 3. he made the Park at Skypton and inclosed there five hundred Acres of Land in Greâ—â—il and Lysterfeld together with Caider Woods In 43 Edw. 3. was in that Expedition then made into France In 44 Edw. 3. was constituted one of the Wardens of the West-Marches of Scotland
So also in 45. E. 3. And likewise in 46 and 50 Edw. 3. In 47. E. 3. he was again in the Warrs of France with Iohn Duke of Lancaster And in 51 E. 3. was made Shiriff of Cumberland and Governor of the Castle of Carlisle So also in 1 Ric 2. being then also constituted one of the Wardens of the East and West Marches towards Scotland In 3 Ric. 2. he was again made one of the Wardens of the West-Marches So also in 4 R. 2. and 5 R. 2. and likewise of the East-Marches from the great Road leading to the Sea from Newcastle upon Tine excepting the Towns and Castles of Alnewike and Weâ—keworâ—h as also Governor of the Castle a◠〈◊〉 In 7 Ric. 2. he was again constituted one of the Wardens of the West-Marches And in 8 Ric. 2. being then a Baneret was reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Scottish Warrs for forty dayes as also again constituted one of the Wardens of the West-Marches Which Command he had likewise in 9 R. 2. Moreover he had summons to all the Parliaments from 31 E. 3. until 12 R. 2. inclusive and upon the thirteenth of Iuly 13 Ric. 2. departed this life being then seised of the Mannor of Brugge Solers in Comitat. Heref. of the Castle and Mannor of Skypton in â—ravene the Forest of Berden the Chase of Holden the Town of Sylesdon with the Hamlets of Swarthowe and Brontweyt the Town of Skybeden the Mannor of Malthy and the Advowson of Bolton-Priory in Com. Ebor. Likewise of the Mannors of Hert and Hertilpole with the Towns of Elwyke Stranton and Brerton in Com Northumb. of the third part of the Mannor of Skelton with Alanby parcel thereof in Comit. Cumbr. of the Castle and Mannor of Appelby the Castle of Burgh the Mannors of Langeton and Wynton the Castle of Pendragon and Mannor of Kyngs-Meburne the Castle of Burgham and Wood of Qwynfell the Mannors of Cabergh Herteleye Musgrave Magna Murtone Mulgrave Parva Crosseby Gerard Souleby Helbeck Ascome Warthe-Coope the moity of the Mannor of Wateby the Mannors of Overtone and Sandford Helton Bacon Askeby-Wyenderwayth Askeby Cotesford Askeby parva Crossby Rundewyth Naceby Smerdale Heppe Bampton Patrick Bampton Candale Helton Fletham Clifeton the third part of the Mannor of Burgham the Mannors of Duston Brampton Bolton Yanewithe â—nokalsock Clibburne Talboys Colbye Hoffe Ormeshed New-Bigging Milneburne Kirkeby Thore Crakanthorpe Louther Meburne Clibburne Herny Burton Merton and Querton with the Office of Shriffalty of Westmorland leaving Thomas his Son and Heir then twenty six years of age And two Daughters viz. Mary married to Sir Philip Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse in Com. Ebor. Knight and Margaret to Sir Iohn Melton Knight Contemporary with this last mentioned Roger was Iohn de Clifford his Brother as I Ghess who in 33 Edw. 3. was in that Expedition then made into Gascoigne And in 44 Ed 3. again in the Warrs of France and of the retinue of Sir Robert Knolles Knight being then called Iohn de Clifford de Ewyas In 51 Edw. 3. upon testimony of divers of the English Peers in Parliament of the singular valor of this Iohn then a Knight and of his special services in the Warrs of France the King at the instance of those Peers and of the whole Commons of England then assembled in Parliament pardoned him the murther of Iohn de Coupland About this time there was likewise another Knight of this Family called Sir Thomas de Clifford a younger Brother as I think of this last mentioned Iohn which Sir Thomas in 43 E. 3. was of the retinue of William de Windsore in the Warrs of Ireland And in 3 R. 2. was in that Expedition then made into Britanny being of the retinue with Thomas de Percy In 7 Ric. 2. this Sir Thomas was reteined to serve the King in his Warrs in the Marches of Scotland having divers of the Kings Tenants at Peâ—reth in Cumberland under his Command in that service and did by Indenture covenant with Sir Iohn Lowther of Louther in Com. Westmorl Knight touching the Government of Thomas Clifford his Son and Heir and his men as well in Warr as Peace ¶ But I return to Thomas Son and Heir to the before-mentioned Roger. This Thomas was before his Fathers death much excercised in military affairs for in 8 R. 2. being then a Knight of the Kings Chamber he was constituted Governor of the Castle of Carlisle for life and in 9 Ric. 2. joyned with Ralph Son to the Lord Nevill in the custody of the same Castle and City In 10 Ric. 2 he obtained leave of the King to practise himself in all feats of Armes as well on foot as on Horseback in any place within the Marches of Scotland betwixt the twenty eighth of Ianuary and Easter following And having so done he challenged a famous Knight of France called Sire Bursigande the eldest Son of the Sire de Bursigande to try his skill in sundry feats of Armes particularly expressed in a Letter sent to him under his Seal Moreover having obtained leave to perform his devoir therein he procured the King to send an Herauld called Northampton into France for transacting of that affair and in May following went first to Calais and thence farther to manifest his skill and Valour in those Tournaments and other feats of Armes whereunto he had chalenged Sire Bursigande But this Thomas being in favor with King Richard was amongst others in 12 R. 2. through the prevalency of Thomas Duke of Gloucester and other great men expelled the Court. Howbeit in 13 Ric. 2. doing his Homage he had Livery of his Lands and in that year having received a Chalenge from the French to exercise certain feats of Armes was prohibited by the King to do ought therein without the special leave of Henry Earl of Northumberland This Gallant man had Summons to the several Parliaments held in 13 14 and 15 R. 2. but died in the flower of his youth viz. 18 Aug. 15 Ric. 2. leaving issue by Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas Lord Rosse of Hamlake Iohn his Son and Heir then scarce three years of age as also a Daughter called Maude who became the second Wife to Richard Earl of Cambridge and afterwards of Iohn Nevill Lord Latimer This last mentioned Thomas had two younger Brothers viz. Sir William Clifford Knight who in 5 Hen. 4. was Governor of the Town of Barwicke upon Twede and married Anne one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Thomas Lord Bardolfe in whose right he had the Mannor of Byrling in Suâ—sex and divers other Lands part of the possessions of the same Lord Bardolf Which Sir William died in 6 Hen. 5. without issue leaving Iohn Lord Clifford his Cousin
Remainder to Thomas Clifford late of Asperton Esquire Cosin to him the said Earl the Remainder to George Brother of the said Thomas c. The Remainder to William Clifford of London c. And for default of issue by him the said Williâ—â— to Henry Clifford of Borscombe in Com. Wilts c. had two Wives First Eleanor Daughter and Coheir to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk by Mary Queen of France Second Daughter to King Henry the Seventh by whom he had issue Margaret married to Henry Stanley then Lord Strange but afterwards Earl of Derby as also two Sons viz. Henry and Charles who died young His second Wife was Anne Daughter to William Lord Dacres of Gillesland by whom he had issue George and Francis and three Daughters viz. Frances married to Philip Lord Wharton Eleanor and Mary who both died young This last mentioned Henry upon that Insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland in An. 12 Eliz. joyned with the Lord Scroope in fortifying of Câ—rlisle against them And by his Testament gave to Frances his Daughter two thousand pounds if she should marry an Earl or an Earls Son and Heir two thousand marks if a Baron and eight hundred if a Knight And departing this life 8 Ian. An. 1569. 12 Eliz. at Brougham Castle in Westmorland was buried at Skipton To whom succeeded George his Son and Heir at that time somewhat above the age of eleven years and residing at Battaii in Sussex with the Viscount Mountague who had married his Mothers Sister Being thus in minority his Wardship was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Francis Russell the second Earl of Bedford of that Family And being for his better education sent to the University of Cambridge had Dr. Iohn Whitgift afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury for his Tutor his cheifest delight being in the study of the Mathematicks which afterwards inclined him much unto Sea-Voyages and Navigation whereby and with building of Ships Hors-racing Tilting and the like expensive exercises it was observed that he wasted more of his estate then any one of his Ancestors And in An. 1586. 29 Eliz. he was one of the Peers that â—ate in Judgment upon Mary Queen of Scotland at â—odringhay His first voyage was to Slâ—â—yse in ... An. 1587. to assist Sir Roger Williams against the Duke of Parma His second in An. 1588. when the Spanish Navy threatned an Invasion here wherein he did great service His third to the Isles of Tercera and Azores where he took the Fort of Fyalâ—a and received a dangerous wound His fourth to the Coasts of Spain and his last to S. Iohn de Porâ—atica where he won the Town with great honor and returned safe into England about the beginning of October An. 1598. He was elected Knight of the Garter in An. 1592. 34 Eliz. In 43 Eliz. he was in Arms in the City of London upon the Insurrection of Robert Earl of Essex for his apprehension And having married Margaret third Daughter to Francis Earl of Bedford before mentioned by her had issue two Sons Francis Lord Clifford who dying young was buried in the Vault at Skipton and Robert also Lord Clifford who likewise died young and was buried at heneys in Buckinghamshire in the Vault with his Mothers Ancestors Moreover he had issue by the said Margaret one only Daughter and Heir called Annâ— By his last Will and Testament bearing date 19 Octob. An. 1605. 3 Iac. seeing his two Sons thus deceased in his life time and no issue to survive him but the Lady Anne before specified he gave all his Leases Goods and Chattles unto Robert then Earl of Salisbury Edward Lord Wotton and others for payment of his Debts and raising the sum of fifteen thousand pounds as a Portion fot that his Daughter And all his Castles Mannors and Lands to Sir Francis Clifford Knight his Brother and to the Heirs-male of his Body Provided That if he the said Sir Francis should die without Heirmale so that those Castles Mannors c. should come to his Daughter that then the sum of four thousand pounds should be paid to Maâ—â—aret and Frances Daughters to his said Brother Sir Francis Clifford And departing this life at the Savoyâ— in the Suburbs of London upon the thirtieth day of the â—ame Moneth of October was honorably buried in the Vault at Skipton in â—raven with his Ancestors upon the thirtieth of March following leaving the same Lady Anne his sole Daughter and Heir surviving and then about the age of fifteen years and nine Moneths Margaret his Wife being deceased long before viz. 24 May An. 1616. and buried at Appleby Which Lady Margaret by her last Will and Testament bearing date the twenty seventh of April next preceding her death appointed That if she did depart this life in Westmorland her Body should be interred in the Parish Church where her dear Brother Francis Lord Russell lay And farther Willed That to the Alms-houses which she had taken order to be perfected a Capital Messuage and Lands lying in Harwood and Stocâ—â—on should be purchased for the endowment thereof After which within a short time viz. Upon the four and twentieth of May then next ensuing she departed this life and was buried at 〈◊〉 where there is now a noble Monument erected to her memory by her Daughter the Countess Dowager of 〈◊〉 To the last Earl George succeeded in that Dignity by vertue of the Intail thereof upon the first Creation of their Grandfather which was to the Heirs-male of his Body Francis his Brother who took to Wife Grisold Daughter of Thomas Hughes of Uxbridge in Com. Middles Esquire Widow of Edward Nevill Lord Bergavenny commonly called The Deaf Which Grisold died at Lonsborough in Com. Ebor. 16. Iune An. 1613. and lieth buried in the Church there And by her had issue one Son called Henry and two Daughters viz. Margaret married to Sir Thomas Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse in Com. Ebor. Knight and Baronet afterwards Earl of Straâ—â—ord and Frances second Wife to Sir Gâ—rvase Clifton of Clifton in Com. Nottingh Knight and Baronet by whom she had divers Children This Earl Francis died at Skipâ—on Castle ... An. 1641. and lies buried with his Ancestors in the Vault of that Chancel To whom succeeded Henry his only Son before mentioned who married Frances only Daughter to Robert Cecil Earl of Salisbury Lord High Treasurer of England and departing this life at York 11 Decemb. An 1643. lies also buried in the same Vault at Skipton with his Ancestors his Lady dying thereupon the fourteenth of February following by whom he left issue one only Daughter his Heir called Elizabeth born in Skipton Castle ... Sept. An. 1613. and married 5 Iuly An. 1635. to Richard Boyle
of Hereford his seeming Friend and Kinsman by conâ—anguinity being treacherously seised on stripped naked exposed to scorn put into Fetters and thrice drawn up by a Rope about his Neck on a Gallows at his own Castle Gates with threats that if he would not deliver up that his Castle to the Earl he should suffer a miserable death And when he was by this barbarous usage almost dead carried to prison there to suffer farther tortures I now come to Roger his Son This Roger in An. 1146. 11 Steph. gave to the Abby of S. Peters at Glocester the Church of S. Leonards at Stanley with the assent of Sabrath the Prior and the Covent at that time there And in 12 Hen. 2. upon the Aid then assessed for marrying the Kings eldest Daughter certified his Fees to be two and an half De Veteri Feoffamento besides two Knights Fees of his own Demesn in Coberley as also one Fee in Stanley with one Hide at Chederinton in Dursley one Hide in Osleword half a hide in Duddington three Hides and an half In Slimbrigge three Hides which by the Kings consent he gave to Maurice the Son of Robert Fitz-Harding who had married Alice his Daughter and morever certified That the Cistercian Monks had Kingswood by the Grant of William de Berkley for which he did the service of one Knight though he received none from them And for all these in 14 Hen. 2. upon payment of the before-specified Aid he answered a hundred shillings This last mentioned Roger called Rogerus junior had two younger Brothers viz. Philip and Oliver In 2 Rich. 1. he paid an hundred marks for his Relief and in 6 Rich. 1. gave a Fine of forty marks for not attending the King with his Army into Normandy as also seven pound ten shillings upon payment of the Scutage at that time levied for the Kings redemption In 8 Rich. 1. he gave a Fine of sixty marks for License to marry Hawise the Mother of Ralph de Sumery and in 1 Ioh. forty marks for eight Knights Fees which he held in Demesn to the end he might not be compelled to go beyond Sea with Horse and Arms in the expedition at that time made In 13 Ioh. he paid seven pound ten shillings upon levying the Scutage of Scotland and fifteen marks for the Scutage of Wales About which time it was certified that there belonged six Knights Fees and an half to this his Honor of Dursley Where or how the Male-line of this Noble Family ceased I shall not trouble my self with the inquiry in regard the Barony was gone before for Robert Fitz-Harding a powerful Man in his time obtaining a Grant of the Castle and Honor of Berkley from Henry Duke of Normandy Son of Maud the Empress possessed himself thereof Whereupon his Descendants assumed that sirname which together with that Castle and Barony continueth to them in the very Male-line to this day Being therefore according to my method to speak next of this Robert I may not omit to take notice That Harding his Father is by some said to have been the youngest Son to one of the Kings of Denmark and by others Ex Regiâ prosapiâ Regum Daniae ortus Descended from the Royal Line of those Kings which little differs in point of honor and dignity And that accompanying Duke William of Normandy in that signal expedition which he made into England he was in that memorable Battle with him against King Harold wherein being victor he thenceforth became King of this Realm But all I have farther seen of this Harding is That after that Conquest he held Witenhort now called Whetenhurst in Com. Gloc. of Earl Brictrick in mortgage and that he died 6 Nov. 16 Hen. 1. I return therefore to Robert commonly called Robert Fitz Harding This Robert firmly adhering to Maud the Empress and her Son Henry Duke of Normandy had in remuneration of his fidelity and services done unto them in their great contests with King Stephen from the said Duke afterwards King by the name of Henry the Second first a Grant of the Mannor of Betthone and a hundred pound Lands in Berkley and after that the whole Lordship of Berkley and all that territory thereabouts called Berkley Hernesse thereunto belonging Of which Lordship and Territory Roger de Berkley owner of Dursley who held it of the Crown in Fee-Farm was then devested in regard that he took part with King Stephen So likewise of Dursley by reason of his refusal to pay the Fee-Farm of Berkley above expressed But through the Mediation of divers Lords of this Realm Roger obtaining Dursley again ceased not to vex this Robert Fitz-Harding for Berkley so taken from him as hath been observed Whereupon complaint being made to Duke Henry he wrought this following Agreement betwixt them viz. That Roger should give Alice his Daughter in marriage to Maurice the Son of this Robert Fitz-Harding together with the Town of Slimbrigge as a Portion Which accord being made at Bristol in the House of him the said Robert Fitz-Harding in the presence of King Stephen and Duke Henry it was then farther covenanted That she the said Alice should have twenty pound Land of the Fee of Berkley for her Dowry And in case the said Maurice should die before the accomplishment of that Agreement the like performance should hold for the next Son of the same Robert Fitz-Harding So likewise in case Alice should depart this life the like Covenants to be observed for her next Sister Morever it was then farther concluded That the eldest Son of that Roger should take to Wife one of the Daughters of the said Robert Fitz-Harding and receiving ten pound ten shillings Land in Dursley by way of Portion to make her a Dowry of the Mannor of Siston near Bristoll Other Sons this Harding before-specified had viz. Nicholas who in 12 Hen. 2. residing in Somersetshire held there two Knights Fees and an half of the King Elias Iordan and Maurice as also three Daughters Agnes the Wife of Hugh de Haselee Maud and Cicely But I proceed with Robert This Robert after Henry Duke of Normandy by the death of King Stephen arrived to the Crown of this Realm obtained a Confirmation of his former Grant for Berkley and Berkley-Hernesse to hold to himself and his heirs by the service of five Knights Fees And in the twelfth of that Kings Reign upon the Assessment of the Aid for marrying of Maud the Kings Daughter to Henry the Emperor certified the Knights Fees he then held to be in number five but that Roger de Berkley then held certain Lands belonging to the Honor of Berkley for which he performed to him no service scil Oseword and half Niwetone with all the Fee of Bernard the Chaplain For
of St. Austines beforementioned with his Ancestors leaving issue by Iane his Wife Daughter of William de Ferrers the younger Earl of Derby and of Margaret his second Wife Daughter and Coheir to Roger de Quinci Earl of Winchester four Sons and two Daughters Which Iane had for her marriage portion the Mannor of Coston in Com. Leicest and Eynesbury in Com. Hunt but died before him viz. 19 Martii Anno 1309 3 E. 2. and was buried in the Abby of St. Austines before-specified in the Arch betwixt the Vestry and the South Isle for whose Soul he gave ten Quarters of Wheat and Beans in Dole to his poorest Tenants in every of his Mannors His Sons were these viz. Maurice who succeeded him Iohn Lord of Wymundham in Com. Leic Iames a Doctor in Divinity and Rector of Slymbridge but afterwards Bishop of Exeter His Daughters Isabell and Margaret who both died unmarried Which Maurice being of a milittary disposition in his very youth was in the several Tournaments held at Worcester Dunstaple Stanford Blithe and Winchester And in 23 Edw. 1. in that expedition then made into Wales with his Father In 24 at the Siege of Barwick In 25 with his Father in Flanders In 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 and 34 Ed. 1. again in the Warrs of Scotland In 35 Edw. 1. he accompanied his Father to the Court of Rome in that Embassy wherein he was then employed with the Bishop of Worcester as I have already observed In 1 Edw. 2. he attended the King into France with his Father In 2 Edw. 2. he was summoned to the Parliament held at Westminster his Father then living In 3 Edw. 2. he had summons with his Father to be at Newcastle upon Cine upon Michaelmas-day to march against the Scots In 6 Edw. 2. he was made Governor of Gloucester In 7 Edw. 3. he marched again into Scotland being of the retinue to Adomare de Valence In 8 Edw. 2. he was constituted Captain and Governor of the Town and Castle of Barwick upon Cwede In 9 E. 2. he was made Justice of South-Wales having all the Castles therein committed to his Custody In 10 Edw. 2. he raised a thousand Foot in those parts two hundred more out of the Forest of Deane and an hundred besides out of Gowherland in Wales All which were by the Kings special Precept directed to come to North-Allerton in Yorkshire upon the Munday next after St. Matthew's day in 11 Edw. 2. In which service also were Thomas and Maurice his two Sons all of the retinue of Roger de Mortimer with whom they then marched into Scotland In 13 Edw. 2. being stiled dileciÌ„us consanguineus Regis he was made Steward of the Dutchy of Aquitane and had for his wages an assignation of two thousand pounds Tournois In 15 Edw. 2. adhering to Thomas Earl of Lancaster and others who put themselves in Armes upon pretence of reforming what was amiss in the Government he joyned with the Lord Audley and both with Mortimer to whom they were Brothers by affinity viz. by marriage of their Children and harrassed the Lands Houses and Castles of the two Spencers Plundring their Goods and driving away their Stock and Chattel which at that time was exceeding great the particulars of which outrages aâ—e expressed in the Parliament Roll of 21 R. 2. But declining to submit to the Kings obedience upon special summons his Castles and Lands were seized and committed to the custody of others whom the King better trusted And after this having Letters of safe conduct together with Mortimer and three other to come to the King and confer amicably with him he was sent prisoner to the Castle of Wallingford but Mortimer and the rest to the Tower of London Whereupon Thomas and Maurice his two Sons made great devastation and spoils upon the Spencers Lands And the year following Sir Iohn de Goldington and others attempted his rescue but without success so that continuing still a prisoner there he departed this life upon the 31 of May Anno 1326. 19 Ed. 2. and being thence carried to the Abby of St. Austines near Bâ—â—stoll was buried in the South Isle of that Conventual Church under the Arch before the dore of the Quire This is all I shall say of him other then that he built a Friery in a place called the Dolmes an Island in Severne not far from his Mannor of Portbury and that having two Wives viz. Eve Daughter of Eudo la Zouch and Milisent his Wife Daughter and Coheir to William de Cantilupe who died upon St. Nicholas day scil 5 Decemb. Ann. 1314. 8 Edw. 2. and was buried in the Parish Church of Portbury and secondly Isabell Daughter to Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who died without any Children he left issue five Sons viz. Thomas the eldest who succeeded him 2. Maurice from whom the Berkleys of Stoke-Giffard in Com. Glouc. Bruton in Com. Somers and Boycourt in Kent are descended 3. Iohn who was with his Father and two elder Brothers in Scotland in 28 Ed. 1. So likewise in 29 31 and 32 Edw. 1. and in France with them 1 Edw. 2. from whom the Berkleys of Shropshire are descended 4. Eudo Rector of Lamprudevaur in the Diocese of St Davids in Wales And 5. Peter a Prebend of the Cathedral Church at Wâ—lls He had also one only Daughter called Isabell who became the Wife of Robert Lord Clifford ¶ I should now go on with what I have tâ— say of Thomas son and Heir to the last Lord Maurice de Berkley But considering that Maurice the second Son from whom are descended the Berkleys of Stoke-Gifford Bruton and Boycourt was a person of such great note in his time I shall take leave to observe some particulars of him This Maurice in 1 Edw. 3. had restitution of his Lands which were seized on for his activeness in that Rebellion of Thomas Earl of Lancaster whereof I have already given some touch and was constituted Governor of Proudhou-Castle in Northumberland In 2 Edw. 3. he was made Constable of the Tower of Lonâ—on and Governor of the Castle at Gloucester And was in those days in such high esteem for Martial Feats that amongst other the accoutrements prepared for certain Justs and Tournaments in 3 Edw. 3. divers surcotes were depicted with his Armes In 4 Edw. 3. he was reteined to serve the King during life in his Warrs with fourteen men at Armes and in time of Peace with his own person only for which he had a Grant of ninety pounds per annum out of the Exchequer and likewise of the Ferme of Andover And in 5 Edw. 3. had in confideration
down to take up his Sword the French Squyer did pick his Sword at him and by happen strooke him through both the Thighs so that the Knight fell to the Earth and could not help himself And Iohn alighted from his Horse and took the Knights Sword that lay on the Ground and came to him and demanded if he would yeild him or not The Knight then demanded his name Sir said he I hight Iohn of Helenes but what is your name Certainly said the Knight my name is Thomas and I am Lord of Berkley a fair Castle on the River of Severne in the Marches of Wales Well Sir quoth the Squyer then ye shall be my Prisoner and I shall bring you in safeguard and I shall see that you shall be healâ—d of your hurt Well said the Knight I am content to be your prisoner for ye have by Law of Armes won me Thâ—re he sware to be his prisoner Rescue or no Rescue Then the Squyer drew forth the Sword out of the Knights Thighs and the wound was open Then he wrapped and bound the Wound and set him on his Horse and so brought him fayr and easy to Chaterlerant and there tarried more than fifteen days for his sake and did give him remedy for his hurt And when he was somewhat amendyd then he hate him â— Lytter and so brought him at his ease to his house in Picardy There he was more than a year till he was perfectly hole And when he departed he payd for his ransome six thousand Nobles and so this Squyer was made a Knight by reason of the profit he had of the Lord Berkley For payment of which summe Henry D. of Lancaster and Sir Frank de Hale were his sureties After this scil in 33 Edw. 3. he was in another expedition then made into France Thus far for his military employments As to his domestick retinue who took wages and Livery he had no less then twelve Knights sometimes more each of them having two servants and a Page and twenty four Esquires who had each of them one man and a Page I come now to his works of Piety In 11 Edw. 3. he gave certain Lands in Porthury to the Vicar of that Church for ever to celebrate the Anniversary of the Lady Eve his Mother upon St. Nicholas day by Placebo and Dirige with a Mass. And to the two Chaplains there if present two pence a piece Also to do the like upon the Anniversary of Margaret his Wife and his own when he should depart hence He likewise gave thirty shillings per annum out of his Mannor of Bedminster as also a Messuage in Bristoll for a Priest to sing in the Abby Church of St. Austines for the soul of the Margaret his own Soul and all the faithful deceased Also a Messuage fifty acres of Land and forty shillings Rent in Portbury for a Priest to sing in our Lady Chappel there for the Souls of all his Ancestors himself his Successors and all the faithful deceased In 17 Edw. 3. he founded a Chantrey in the Chappel of S. Maurice at Neuport near Berkley endowing it with divers Lands and Rents in Berkley Wotton Alkington and Hull The like Chantry in his Mannor of Side Another in the Chappel of Wortley in the Parish of Wotton A fourth in the Chappel of Cambridge in the Parish of Slymbridge He also gave to the Chantrey-Priest of our Lady in the Church of Berkley and to his successors divers Lands in Hamme to hold an Anniversary on the day of Petronilla the Virgin for the Lord Maurice his Father in Berkley Church As also for Margaret his Wife and for himself after his decease The like Chantrey in 9 Edw. 3. he founded in the Chappel of St. Katherine Pulle near Bristoll endowing it with Lands in Portbury Eston and Bedminster And the same year another in the Church of Overe In 20 Edw. 3. he gave divers Lands in the Suburbs of Bristoll to the Friers-Hermites of Bristoll And purchased of the Abbot of St. Austins a place within that Monastry for a Priest of his own to dwell in and to pray for the Souls of all the faithful departed endowing the Priest with competent Lands In 21 Edw. 3. he erected an Hermitage in Bedminster And gave to the Warden of S. Catherines at Bedminster a parcel of Land near to his Hospital to pray for the Souls of his Father and Mother and for the Soul of Margaret his Wife In 22 Edw. 3. he Founded another Chantry in the Abby of S. Augustines endowing it with divers Lands to sing for the Soul of Margaret his late Wife and his own Soul And upon Palm-Sunday in 23 Edw. 3. he offered to our Lady at Berkley in Berkley Church a pound of Wax Pro Candelâ caritatis and a Bushel of fine Wheat Pro Pane benedicto which he afterwards continued as did also his Successors for many Generations In 24 Edw. 3. he Founded a like Chantry at Worcester In 25 Edw. 3. he gave divers Lands to the Chantry of Shepperdine by Hill in the confines of Berkley Hundred for the better maintenance of the Priest singing there And in 26 Edw. 3. gave a yearly Rent of three pound six shillings eight pence to a Priest to sing for the Soul of Margaret his Wife in S. Augustines Church in Bristoll The like Rent to another Priest to sing for her in the Monastery of Remsham This Thomas had two wives first Margaret one of the Daughters to Roger de Mortimer Earl of March by whom he had issue four sons viz. Maurice Roger Thomas and Alphonsus and a Daughter called Ioane who became the Wife of Sir Reginald Cobham Knight having for her portion two thousand pounds in Money and the Mannor of Langley Burell Which Margaret died 5 May An. 1337. 11 Edw. 3. and was buried in the great Tomb under the Arch between the elder Chappel of our Lady and the North Isle in the Abby of S. Augustines by Bristoll His second Wife was Katherine Daughter of Sir Iohn Clivedon Knight and Widow of Sir Peter le Veel Knight by whom he had issue Thomas Maurice Edmund and Iohn Which Catherine long surviving him Founded a Free-School and a Chantry at Woâ—ton under Eâ—ge as also S. Andrews Chantry in Berkley Church and held during her life of her said Husbands Grant Inter alia the Mannors of Beveâ—ston Tockington Over Compton Greenfield and Kings Weston in Com. Gloc. All which after her death came to Sir Iohn Berkley then her only Son the rest dying young in the life time of their Father ¶ This Thomas the third after his Said second Marriage and issue by that venter by vertue of the Kings License levied a Fine Term. Pasch. 23 Edw. 3. to one William Side and other of
his Chaplains and Servants of his Castle of Berkley together with the Mannors of Berkley Hamme Appleridge Alkinton Hinton Wotton Simondsal Camme Cowley Slimbridge and Upton S. Leonard As also of the Hundred of Berkley and the Advowson of the Churches of Wotton and Slimbrigge with a render back to himself for life and after to Maurice his Son and Heir Apparent and to the Heirs-male of his Body with Remainder to the Heirs-male of the Body of himself by Catherine his second Wife c. The like Fine was levied by him in Trin. Term 26 Edw. 3. of the Mannor and Hundred of Portbury Which upon what foresight cannot be determined did happen to be the preservation of the Castle and Honor to the Heirs-male of his Family Having thus prudently setled the cheifest part of his estate and spent the most of his age in those Military imployments Which much added to his same he departed this life upon the twenty seventh of October being the eve of Simon and Iude in An. 1361. 35 Edw. 3. and was buried in Berkley Church near to the Grave of Catherine his last Wife leaving Maurice his eldest Son to succeed him whose Homage the King respited Roger Thomas and Alfonsus dying without issue ¶ This Maurice in 11 Edw. 3. being then but seven years of age was taken into Scotland by his Father and there Knighted And the year following though but eight years old married Elizabeth the Daughter of Hugh le Despenser In 16 Edw. 3. he was in that voyage of Granado and there continued till 18 Edw. 3. And in 20 21 Edw. 3. was still beyond the Seas In 29 Edw. 3. he attended Prince Edward into Gascoigne And in 30 Edw. 3. being with his Father in the Battle of Poictâ—ers was sore wounded This is all that I have seen in reference to his Warlike Actions Touching his Devotions it appears That in 14 Edw. 3. when he was but ten years of age he obtained License of the King to found a Chantry in the Church of Came and to endow it with two Messuages two yard Land and five pound Rent in Berkley Came and Wotton And that in 23 Edw. 3. he gave divers Lands in Portbury unto one Walter Rope his Chaplain to pray daily in the Chappel there for the good estate of his Father and of the Lady Catherine then his Wife Likewise of himself and Elizabeth his own Wife as also for the Souls of the Lord Maurice and Lady Eve his Grand-father and Grand-mother and for the Soul of the Lady Margaret his own Mother The like Grant he made of divers Lands in Portbury in 28 Edw. 3. unto Richard March his Chaplain And in 40 Edw. 3. gave to William Winchcomb his Chaplain an House opposite to the Gate of S. Augustines Abby near Bristoll with a Garden and Dove-house as also divers Houses in Broadstreet within the Town of Bristoll to pray in that Monastery and especially for the Soul of the Lady Margaret his Mother Moreover to the end that the two Chappels one of our Lady the other of S. Iohn Baptist Founded in his Castle at Berkley might be renewed and frequented at due hours he procured an Indulgence from Pope Vrban the Second of forty days Remission of Pennance to every one who should repair thereto on the Festivals of the year to hear Masses and devoutly say three Aves or give any Vestments or Ornaments thereto And having wedded Elizabeth Daughter of Hugh Lord Spenser as is before observed by whom he had issue four Sons viz. Thomas his eldest Son and immediate Successor Iames from whom the Male-line of this Noble Family sprung Iohn who with Thomas his elder Brother was in that expedition of Britanny 4 Rich. 2. but died without issue and Maurice who attended Edward Prince of Wales in his French Wars As also three Daughters viz. Catherine a Nun at Wherwell Agnes and Elizabeth who died unmarried departed this life 8 Iune 42 Edw. 3. and was buried in the Abby of S. Augustines near Bristoll never thorowly cured of those wounds he received in the Battle of Poictiers as it seems being then seised of the Mannors of Wendon Magna in Com. Essex Bedminster Portbury and Porteshed in Com. Somers Of the Castle Town and Hundred of Berkley with its Members viz. Ham Appulrug Alkinton Hinton Slimbridge Covel Upton S. Leonard and Acton Ilger in Com. Gloc. As also of the Mannor of Aure with its Appurtenances viz. Etelow and Blakney and of the Hundred of Blideslaw and Mannor of Hurst in the same County Thomas his Son and Heir before-mentioned being at that time fifteen years of age Which Thomas making proof of his age in 48 Edw. 3. had Livery of his Inheritance and the same year was in that expedition then made into France being of the Retinue unto Edmund de Mortimer Earl of March In 2 Rich. 2. he was imployed by Sea and Land in the Wars of France and Spain In 3 Rich. 2. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France with an hundred Men at Arms and as many Archers under the conduct of Thomas of 〈◊〉 Earl of Buckingham then the Kings Lieutenant in those parts In 4 Rich. 2. he was sent into Britanny with a Regiment of Men at Arms and Archers his third Brother Sir Iohn accompanying him the Earl of Buckingham being still General In 8 Rich. 2. he was retained to serve the King in his Wars with Scotâ—and for forty days In 10 Rich. 2. he entertained the King at Berkley Castle In 16 Rich. 2. his Wife being dead he procured leave to travel beyond Sea with fifteen persons in his train and a thousand marks in Money for his support in that journey In 18 Rich. 2. he obtained a Grant for another Fair at his Town of Berkley every year upon the Eve and Day of the Invention of the Holy Cross. And being at Flint Castle upon the Resignation of King Richard the Second on Michaelmass day following testified the same in his presence in the Tower of London And the morrow after upon meeting of the three Estates in Parliament a Bishop Abbot Earl Baron and Knight being the Representatives chosen to receive the same there he was the only Baron appointed for that purpose In 2 Hen. 4. obtained a Charter for Free-Warren in his Lordships of Weston Walton Porteshed and Charlton juxta Wroxale in Com. Somerset In 3 Hen. 4. he received command to meet the King at â—ereâ—ord to march against Owen Glendowâ— In 4 Hen. 4. he was constituted one of the Wardens for the Marches of Wales against the incursions of Glendowr with power to command the Sheriffs of six Counties to be attendant on him as need should require In 5 Hen. 4.
Body begotten they ought to descend to Iames de Berkley then living as Cosin and next Heir-male to Thomas the Son of Maurice And that the said Iames Cosin and Heir-male to Thomas as above is expressed being then of full age had Livery of the Premisses c. his homage being respited By what therefore hath been already observed it is apparent that to Elizabeth the only Daughter of the said Thomas the Fourth all the Lands which came by her Mother as also all those whereof her Father died seised in Fee-simple or Fee-tail General which were about thirty Lordships in the Counties of Glocester Somerset Bucks Wilts Northampton Devon Cornwal Oxon Berks the City of London Bristoll and other places besides Advowsons of Churches c. descended As also that the said Iames his Cosin and next Heir-male was by vertue of the before specified Entail to enjoy the Castle and Barony with all those other Lordships contained in the said Fine But before I come to speak of this Iames I think it expedient to take some notice of Iames his Father who so died in the life time of his elder Brother in regard that by him the Male-line of this Noble and Antient Family became thus preserved This Iames the Father was a Knight and married Elizabeth sometimes written Isabel the Daughter and Heir of Sir Iohn Bloet Knight and of the Lady Catherine Wogan his Wife by whom he had the Mannors of Raglan Talgarth Tore Edishall Straddewy and others as also the Mannor of Daglingworth in Com. Gloc. To this Sir Iames and Elizabeth King Henry the Fourth in the first year of His Reign confirmed the Town and Castle of Raglan in Com. Monmouth which Earl Richard Son to Earl Gilbert had given to Walter Bloet his Ancestor and his Heirs temp H 2. In 4 Hen. 4. he was made Governor of the Castle of Tretour in Wales and required to fortifie it against the great Rebel Owen Glendowr By his Testament bearing date at Bristoll on the morrow after the Feast of S. Dunstan An. 1404. 5 Hen. 4. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Abby of S. Augustines near Bristoll in his Fathers Tomb and gave six marks to find â— Priest to celebrate Divine Service there for the health of his Soul To Iames his Son he gave all his Habiliments pertaining to War constituting Isabel his Wife and him the said Iames his Son his Executors and departed this life 13 Iunii 6 Hen. 4. leaving issue Iames his said Son his Heir and Maurice a younger Son who died without issue ¶ Which Iames then aged twenty three years and upwards had likewise from his Father and Mother divers other Lordships and Lands than what descended to him by the Entail beforementioned viz. The Mannors of Ragland Talgarth Tore Edishall Stradway with some other in Wales and Dalingworth in Com. Gloc. As also by other means the Mannors of Sages Little Marshfield and Arlingham in that County But the Earl of Warwick and his Wife being at Wotton or Berkley Castle at the time of the death of Thomas the fourth and having thereby advantage to take away what of the Evidences they pleased possessed themselves of Berkley Castle and all other the Lands and Lordships so Intailed on the Heir-male as hath been observed And having so done procured a Grant from the King of the custody of all those Lands as long as they should remain in the Crown under such a value as they should be rated at in the Offices to be thereupon found And not only so but the next ensuing year obtained as absolute discharge of that Rent Whereupon he kept Courts in the name of himself and his Wife without any respect at all had to the Kings Grant she pretending a clear right to them all as also to the Barony And notwithstanding that this Iames upon a Writ of Diem clusit extremum by him sued out after much opposition by the Earl of Warwick was found Heir and Rightful Inheritor to the Castle of Berkley and all those twelve Lordships mentioned in that Fine of the Three and twentieth of Edward the third and had Livery accordingly Awarded Yet did that Earl and his Wife retain the said Castle Lordship and Mannors until upon a Remonstrance of his Right King Henry the Fifth commanded possession to be given unto him But after the death of that King the Earl of Warwick entred again upon the Mannor of Wotton and other Lordships and laid siege to the Castle of Berkley in which siege many were hurt and slain Whereupon by mediation of Friends there being a Reference to Philip Morgan then Bishop of Worcester and Sir Iohn Iuyn afterward Lord Cheif Justice of the Court of Kings Bench they Awarded that the said Earl should during his natural life retain the Mannors of Wotton Cowley and Simondshale and that the rest comprised in the before specified Fine should be to the said Iames and the Heirs-male of his Body But notwithstanding all this through the potency of that Earl this Iames could not according to the course of Law obtain Livery of those Lands out of the Kings hands Nor could it be any wonder considering how powerful a Man the Earl of Warwick was in those days and that many of the Servants to the late Lord Thomas were so obsequious to him exercising all their skill to give him countenance in this business One of them viz. Lionel Sea-brooke sometime Steward of the House to the said Lord Thomas in 6 Hen. 5. deposing before the Major of Southampton that his Lord and Master deceased the year before his death shewed him an old Deed of Entail of the Castle and Lordship of Berkley made by Robert Fitz-Harding which he then read and that his Lord snatched it from him saying He knew the Contents thereof And another about the same viz. Iohn Bone Vicar of Berkley and one of the Executors of the same Lord Thomas made Oath before the Major of Bristoll that the said Lord Thomas about the time of his passage into Britanny to conduct the Queen into England Enfeoffed him and others of the Castle Lordship and Hundred of Berkley and all his Lands in Glocestershire as also of the Hundred of Portbury the third part of the Mannor of Portesheved the Mannors of Walton and Bedminster with the Hundreds of Bedminster and Harclive to hold in Fee without any condition likewise that Livery and Seism was executed thereupon and Courts hâ—ld by those Feoffees accordingly By means of which Affidavits the Earl of Warwick took such encouragement and confidence that in 6 Hen. 5. he procured a Confirmation of those antient Charters made by King Iohn touching the Mannor and Barony of Berkley and all Berkley-Hernesse and thereupon with the assistance of divers servants of the said deceased Lord Thomas besieged Berkley Castle But by
came to Milford-Haven with an hundred and forty Sail he burnt fifteen of that Fleet and in 9 Hen. 5. was summoned to Parliament amongst other the Peers of this Realm So likewise to all the Parliaments of King Henry the Sixth's time And married three Wives first ... Daughter to Humphrey Stafford of Hoke in Dorsetshire by the directions of his Uncle Thomas Lord 〈◊〉 in 3 Hen. 5. but she died young without issue Secondly Isabel eldest Daughter of Thomas Moubray Duke of Norfolk and Marshal of England Widow of Henry Ferrers Son and Heir of William Lord Ferrers of Groby who died in his Fathers life time Which Marriage was solemnised in 2 Hen. 6. by whom he had issue four Sons and three Daughters This Noble Lady being barbarously imprisoned at Glocester by Margaret Countess of Shrewsbury as hath been already observed died in the Castle there upon Saturday before the Feast day of S. Michael the Arch-Angel An. 1452. 31 Hen. 6. and lieth buried in the Quire of the Grey-Friers within that City Thirdly Ioane Sister to Iohn the second Earl of Shrewsbury and Daughter to Iohn slain at Chatillion Which marriage was contrived out of a politick respect viz. to draw from Margaret the Countess his greatest adversary her chiefest props viz. her Son in Law and Daughter Which Ioane had no issue by him but surviving became the Wife of Edmund Hungerford Esquire This Iames Lord Berkley died at Berkley Castle about the end of November Anno 1463. 3 Edw. 4. and lyeth buried under a Tomb of Alablaster in a Chappel on the South side of the high Altar in the Parish Church of Berkley which Chappel he built By his second Wife he had all his Issue viz. four Sons and three Daughters viz. William and Maurice who succeeded Iames imprisoned in France with his Father and Bretheren and there slain as already hath been observed and Thomas prisoner also in France and Ransomed who was progenitor to the Berkleys of Worcestershire and Herefordshire Of his Daughters Elizabeth was the Wife of Thomas Burdet of Arrow in Comit. Warw. Esq Isabel of Thomas Trye of Hardwik in Com. Glouc. Esq and Alice of Richard Arthur of Claâ—ton near Portbury in Com Somers Esq. ¶ I come now to William his eldest Son and immediate successor who about the thirteenth year of his age attended c Henry the Cardinal Bishop of Winâ—â—â—ster In 17 Hen. 6. he went to Calais and there received the Order of Knighthood and at the time of his Fathers death was thirty eight years of age but unmarried This William stood in such favor with King Edward the fourth that he was advanced by him to the dignity of a Viscount scil 21 Apr. 21 Edw. 4. and soon after for his attendance at Councels had a grant from that King of an hundred marks per annum during his life to be received out of the Customs in the Port of Bristoll Nor was he for a while in less favor with King Richard the third being by him created Earl of Notingham 28 Iunii in the first year of his Reigne But soon after adhering to Henry Duke of Buckingham in his design for the pulling down of King Richard seeing those forces which the Duke had raised in order thereto to desert him for his security against the rage of King Richard he fled into Britanny unto Henry Earl of Richmund together with divers others who were well-wishers to that Earl for which respect shortly after that Earl had obtained the Crown of this Realm by the name of Henry the seventh he was constituted Earl Marshal of England with limitation of that great Office to the Heirs male of his Body and a Fee of twenty pounds Per annum And in 4 H. 7. advanced to the dignity of a Marquess Thus much as to his Titles Being in such favor with King Edward the fourth he exhibited a Pitition to him whereby making claim to the Mannors of Wotton Simondsall Cowâ—cy Newleys and Sagestond he represented the imprisonment of his Father Bretheren and himself by the Earl of Shrewsbury and his Countess through the Treachery of Rice the Porter of Berkley Castle and thereby complained that they were constâ—â—ined to Scal Writings and acknowledge Statutes in fifteen thousand pounds and upwards and moreover set forth the barbarous usage of his Mother by imprisonment at Gloucester where by duress she lost her life The King therefore referring the business to the Lord Chancellor for examination and report Margaret the Countess in her own defence complained against him for his riotous entry into her house at Wotton and the mischief he did there by defacing it and carrying away her goods for satisfaction whereof certain Statutes were acknowledged as the confessed but never paid But after this scil in 6 Ed. 4. he again complained by a Bill in Chancery against that Countess alledging that â—he had practised with one Chamberlain to murder him as he was to ride to London as also with one Holt his own servant who had the keeping of Berkley Castle to exclude him and keep it to her â—e â—hoof Which charge she in her answer denied affirming that Chamberlain's business was only to arrest him acknowledging her practise with Holt with justification that the right to that Castle was hers But before any Witnesses were herein examined the Countess died viz. 14 Iunii an 1468. 7 Ed. 4. And by her death left to Thomas Talbot Viscount L'isle her Grandson those Mannors of Wotton and Simondsall with the Borough of Wotton the moity of the Mannor of Eriyngham and divers Messuages and Lands in Erlyngham Cromhall Alkington Hurst Dursley Nibley Thorncliffe Kingescote the sixth part of the Mannor of Acton Ilger and divers Lands in Horwode and Morcote as also the Mannor of Wike by Arlingham Sagersplace and Sagesâ—ond in Slymbridge the Hundred of Wotton heretofore called the Hundred of Berkley and Advouson of the Church of Wotâ—on in Com. Glouc. To all which this Lord William pretended title though by partition betwixt this Countess and the Dutchess Eleanore and Elizabeth her other Sisters they were allotted to her in lieu of other Lands allotted to them Which Thomas Viscount L'isle was then nineteen years of age and upwards and at that time Married unto Margaret the Daughter of William Herbert E. of Pembroke In this year also died the Dutchess Eleanore and Ioane the Widdow of Iohn Talbot Viscount L'isle whereupon the King committed the custody of those Lands and Lordships during the minority of the before-specified Thomas Viscount L'isle unto the said E. of Pembroke But it was not long after ere this young Viscount L'isle arrived to his full age and thirsting after the Castle of Berkley practised with one Thomas Holt the keeper of Whitley Park and one Maurice King
Porter of the Castle to betray it into his hands one Robert Veel the Viscount's Engineer being likewise an active person in that design giving Bond to Maurice King in the summe of an hundred pounds that so soon as the work should be accomplished he should be made keeper of Wotton Park with the Fee of five Marks per annum during his life But this Plot being discovered by Maurict King so much perplexed the Viscount L'isle that he forthwith sent this Lord Berkley a Challenge requiring him of Knighthood and Manhood to appoint a day and to meet him half way to try their quarrel and title to eschew the shedding of Christian Blood or to bring the same day the utmost of his power This Letter of Challenge under the hand of that Viscount was sent 19 Martii 10 Ed. 4. he being then not fully twenty two years of age having sued out his Livery upon the fourteenth of Iuly before and his Wife then with Child of her first-born Unto which the Lord Berkley returned this answer in Writing viz. that he would not bring the tenth man he could make and bid him to meet on the morrow at Nybley-Green by eight or nine of the Clock which standeth saith he on the Borders of the Livelode that thou keepest untruly from me Whereupon they accordingly met and the Viscount L'isle's Vizor being up he was slain by an Arrow shot through his head After which the very same day the Lord Berkley advanced to Wotton and rifling the House took thence many Writings and Evidences of the said Viscounts own Lands with a sute of Arras Hangings wherein his Armes and the Armes of the Lady Ioane his Mother Daughter and Coheir to Thomas Chedder were wrought and brought them to Berkley Castle To this Skirmish came divers from Bristoll Thornbury the Forest of Deane and other places to the number of about a thousand which exceeded what the Viscount brought But the business did not so end for the Widdow of the Viscount L'isle brought her appeal against this William Lord Berkley and against Maurice and Thomas his two Brethren for thus killing her Husband with an Arrow through his Head and a Dagger in his left Side as she alleadged Whereupon in the Parliament of 12 Ed. 4. upon Petitions on all parts it was enacted that for the appeasing of these variances c. thus moved and of long time continued the said Lord Berkley should quietly enjoy the Mannor and Borrough of Wotton under Edge with the Mannors of Simondshall and Arlingham paying to the said Margaret the Viscountess an hundred pounds yearly at St. Peters Church in Gloucester at four usual Feasts in the year After which she the said Viscountess married Henry Bodrugan of Bodrugan in Cornwall Nor did this yet determine the Controversie for Sir Edward Grey Knight second Son to Elizabeth Lady Ferrers Daughter to the Lady Isabel this Lord William's Mother who by marriage with Elizabeth eldest Sister and Coheir of the said Thomas Talbot Viscount L'isle was in her right created Baron L'isle 14 Martii 15 Edw. 4. and afterwards Viscount L'isle by King Richard the third Margaret her other Sister and Coheir being dead without issue began new sutes for those Lands which at length through the mediation of Thomas Marquess Dorset elder Brothers Son to the said Lord Grey as also friend and kinsman to this Lord William were determined by agreement 25 Feb. 21 Edw 4. in manner following viz. that the Lands so claimed should remain to this Lord William then Viscount Berkley and to the Heirs male of his Body with remainder to the said Lord L'isle and Elizabeth his Wife and to the Heirs of her the said Elizabeth for ever And that the said Viscount Berkley should grant an Annuity of twenty pounds per annum to them and to the Heirs of the said Elizabeth issuing out of those Lands but to cease upon the death of Margaret Vicountess L'isle and then to be an hundred pounds per annum But from this Agreement they afterwards fell off And in 1 Hen. 7. he had a Grant of the Office of Marshall of England to himself and the Heirs male of his Body in as ample manner as Iohn Duke of Norfolk held it This Lord William at length Marquess Berkley as hath been already shewed gave certain Lands to the Nunns of Walling-Wells in Com. Nott. in respect whereof they granted to accept of him and his Heirs for ever as one of their Founders He was also a benefactor to the Monks of Worcester for which cause they made him partaker of all their Prayers and Almes To the Friers Austines in London he gave an hundred pounds in money in consideration whereof they were to say two Masses presently and for ever at the Altar of our Lady and St. Iames where the Body of Iane Countess of Notingham his former Wife lay buried between those Altars He had three Wives first Elizabeth Daughter of Reginald West Lord La Warre from whom he was divorsed by Iohn Carpenter Bishop of Worcester before he had any issue by her Secondly Iane Widdow of Sir William Willoughby Knight Daughter of Sir Thomas Strangways Knight by whom he had issue Thomas and Katherine who both died young and were buried in the Chappel of Berkley-Church with their Grandfather the Lord Iames. Which Iane e died on St. Matthias day 1 R. 3. and was buried in the Friers-Austines in London betwixt the Altars of our Lady and St. Iames. Thirdly Anne Daughter of Iohn Fienes Lord Dacres of the South who surviving him after married to Sir Thomas Brandon Knight and died 10 Sept. 13 Hen. 7. without any issue But long before her death doubting that he should have no Children and taking occasion to except against his Brother Maurice for not marrying with a person of honorable parentage by an Indenture bearing date 10 Dec. 3 Hen. 7. he covenanted to assure the Castle and mannor of Berkley together with the Mannors of Hamme Appuâ—rugge Hurst Slymbridge and Cowley for want of issue of his own Body unto King Henry the seventh and the Heirs male of his Body and for default of such issue to his own right Heirs Likewise the Mannors of Came Alkington Hinton and Portbury to the use of himself and Anne his then Wife and the Heirs of his Body and for want of such to the King ut supra in lieu whereof the King gave him leave to convey twenty five of his other Lordships to whom he pleased By this assurance he setled for want of issue of his own Body upon that King and the Heirs Male of his Body his Castle of Berkley twelve Mannors and three Advousons all in the County of Gloucester two Mannors in the County of Somerset four in the County of Warwick eight in the County of Leicester six
in the County of Derby four in the County of Essex five Mannors a Forest a Chace and a Barony in the County of Sussex two Mannors in the County of Surrey four in the County of Huntington one in the County of Hertford three in the County of Cambridge another Barony and four Mannors in the County of Bedford and others in some other Counties as also divers Lands in Calais Ireland and Wales with certain Hundreds Royalties and Knights fees in consideration whereof he obtained the Office of Earl Marshal and title of Marquess to himself and the Heirs male of his Body And besides all this he sold away and gave divers Lands and Lordships to Sir William Stanley Lord Chamberlain of that Kings Houshold and others Also to Sir Reginald Bray Kt. his Mannor of Hamme in Comit. Bedf. with Kensington and Maryborne in Com. Midd. as rewards of his Court-favors Moreover to Thomas Stanley Earl of Derby for the like respect in default of issue of his own Body he gave the Mannors of Donyngton Thwayts Threske Hovingham Kirkby-Malsard and Burton in Lonesdale in Com. Ebor. As also the Mannors of Wenge Segrave in Pen and Marlow in Comit. Buck. the Mannors of Denge alias Dengy in Com. Essex Epworth Belton Haxey Ouston and UUrote in Com. Linc. Alspath in Mereden in Comit. Warw. Slagham in Com. Suss. and Wisselee in Comit. Surr. to hold to the said Earl and the Heirs of his Body He likewise setled the Mannors of Hinton and Kenet in Com. Cantabr to the use of himself for life the remainder to Richard Willuby for life then to the Heirs of his own body the remainder to the Heirs male of the Body of the said Richard Willughby So also the Mannor of Caloudon in Com. Warw. to the same parties with the like remainders To his then Wife the Lady Anne he by his Will devised all his Messuages and Lands in the City of London paying two hundred marks to the Friers-Austines there and his house at Chelsey in Com. Midd. to Iohn Whiting and his heirs The Mannor of Great Chesterford he also setled on himself and the said Anne his Wife and the heirs of his own body the remainder to the King and the Heirs male of his body and having so done built a fair House thereon which Mannors so given to the King were all established by Act of Parliament in 7 Hen. 7. so that he left nothing for his Heir And by his Testament bearing date 5 Feb. ann 1491. 7 Hen. 7. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of the Friers Austines in London thereby also willing that his Executors should ordain two Friers perpetually to sing in the White Friers in Fleetstreet in the suburbs of London at the Altar of Sâ— Gasion there to pray for his Soul and for the Souls of his Father and Mother his Wives Soul and the Soul of his Son Sir Thomas Berkley for evermore Likewise another Frier perpetually to sing in the Gray-Friers at Gloucester to pray for his own Soul and the Souls aforesaid Towards the building of which Gray-Friers he gave twenty pounds Moreover he willed that his Executors should purchase Lands to the value of ten marks yearly therewith to find a perpetual Chantry at the Altar of our Lady of Pitie in Edworth in Com. Linc. to pray for the Souls aforesaid for ever Likewise that they should purchase more Lands to the value of twenty two marks therewith to find two perpetual Priests at Longbrigge one of them daily to sing in the Chappel of the Trinity there and the other in the Chappel of the Church of Berkley where his Father and his said Son lay buried to pray for their Souls for evermore and to dispose of an hundred marks in building an House at Longbridge for those Priests to dwell in as also to buy Ornaments and Vestments for that Chappel of Longbridge forty marks Lastly he willed that his Executors should purchase a Pardon from Rome as large as might be had for plein remission of the sins of all those who would be confessed and contrite at Longbridge from Even-song to Even-song in the Feast of the Trinity and there say three Pater Nosters and three Aves for his Soul and the Souls aforesaid And departing this life on St. Valentines-day viz. 14 Febr. Anno 1491. 7 Hen. 7. without issue was accordingly buried in the Friers Augustines at London Maurice his Brother being his next Heir but enjoyed nothing of the Honour having incurred his displeasure for the reasons before expressed the Castle of Berkley with those Lands and Lordships which were the body of that antient Barony being by this Marquess given as is before observed to King Henry the seventh and the issue male from him descending Which Maurice being thus disherited became as active as he could for the regaining of what in strictness of Law was his right having for his better help to support himself in such Suits wherein he became afterwards for that end engaged in the fourteenth of Henry the Seventh together with Thomas Earl of Surrey as Cosins and Heirs to George Bewes Brother of Agnes Mother of Isabel Widdow of Sir Walter Cokesey Knight Livery of all the Mannors and Lands belonging to the said George Agnes and Isabel. By which suits through his prudence and diligent prosecution of them he first recovered the Mannor of Sages lying in the Parish of Slimbrigge it being evident that it was no part of the Mannor of Slymbrigge so passed by Fine and otherwise to King Henry the seventh as aforesaid Likewise twenty two marks yearly rent in Frampton upon Severne which did not pass in these settlements Next of the Lands setled upon Anne the last Wife of the Marquess for life c. he got the possession of the Mannors of Wenge Segrave in Pen and Little Marlow in Com. Buck. as also of the Mannors of Sileby Mountsorrel and the hundred of Goscote in Com. Leicest and some other Lands And whilst these were in controversy the Mannors of â—etebury in Comit. Glouc. Maningeford Braose in Com. Wiltes the moity of the Mannors of Leigh Cothorne and Gate Burton in Com. Linc. as also of Wovers-thorpe in Com Ebor. descended to him as one of the two Coheirs of the Lord Braose which the better enabled him to look after the rest And after this making title to those Lands which were given by his Brother the Marquess to Thomas Earl of Derby they came to reference by the mediation of friends and knisfolk whereupon an Award was made by Sir Iohn Fyneux Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and Sir Thomas Frowyk Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas whereby he got the Lordships of Wenge and Segrave in Pen in Comitat. Buck. as also of Hovyngham Donyngton and Twaytes in Com. Ebor. Nor was it long after that ere he recovered the Mannor of Chesterford in Essex where the said Marquess was building at his
death and likewise the fourth part of the Mannors of Brighthemston Cleiton Middleton Meching Seford and Alington and the fourth part of the moity of the Mannors of Cokefield Hunden and Lymer Also the fourth part of the moity of the Chase of Cleres the Forest of Worthe the Borrough and Barony of Lewes the profits of the Court of Nomans-land and of thirty six shillings and two pence Rent in Iford in Com. Sussex Moreover of the Fourth part of the Mannors of Reâ—gate and Dorkyng and the fourth part of the moity of the Toll of Gilford and Southwark in Comit. Surr. with the fourth part of the Mannor of Cyborne alias Maryâ—orne in Com. Midd. all which inter alia his Brother the Marquess had conveyed to the King He likewise recovered the Mannor of Boseham in Sussex as Coheir to Thomas of Brotherton Brother to King Edward the second and the Mannor of Fenny-Stanton in Com. Hunt as Coheir to Iohn Lord Segrave as also the Advouson of the Church of Wotton and Slymbridge in Comit. Gloue and some other Lands and Lordships This Maurice took to Wife Isabel the Daughter of Philip Meade Esq then an Alderman of Bristoll descended of the Meades of Meades-place in Feyland in the Parish of Wraxall near Portbury in Com. Somers she being the Widdow of ... who had for her portion certain Lands in Somersetshire some at Thornbury in Gloucestershire and a Lease of Meades-place in Com. Somers for twenty one years Which Marriage was the pretended occasion which William Marquess Berkley took thus to disherit this his Brother alleadging it to be base and of mean Blood This Isabel gave to the Friers-Augustines in London sixty two pounds thirteen shillings and four pence towards the repair of their House in consideration whereof they obliged themselves and their successors to celebrate the Anniversary of her and her Husband and to pray for the Souls of the Father of this Lord Maurice and the Lady Isabel his Mother for ever And departing this life at Coventre in 8 Hen. 8 was Buried in the Church of the said Augustin-Friers in London But this Maurice the fifth died sooner viz. ... 22 H 7. and was buried in the Church of those Friers-Augustines being then seized of these Lordships and Lands viz. The Borrough and Mannor of Tethury-Sages twenty two marks Rent in Frampton Lands in Chornbury the Mannor of Daglingworth the Mannor of Upton St. Leonards in Com â—louc The Mannors of Wenge and Segrave in Pen in Com. Buck The Mannors of Denge and Bridgwith in Comitat. Essex The Mannors of Hovingham Donyâ—gton Cwaytes and Wynesthorpe in Com. Ebor. The Mannors of Brethy Lynton Coton Reâ—peâ—don Rostlaston Ashburne and Hâ—wys in Com. Derb. The Mannors of Melton-Moubray Cold-Overton Segrave Witherley Sileby Mount-Sorell Dalby Chaucumb Hundred of Goscote Advousons of the Churches of Cold-Overton Segrave Howby Regworth Sutton Bonington and some others in Comit. Leic. The Mannors of Thurlaston Fleckenâ—o and Aspley in Com. War The Mannor of Caloudon within the liberties of the City of Coventre The Mannors of Auconbury-Weston Fenny-Stanton Hilton Guy-Hirne and Murroe in Comit. Hunt The Mannors of Boseham and Buckfield Thorney Funtington Bew-bustie with the Park in Com. Suff. The Mannors of Hinton Kenet and Kentford in Com. Cantab. Norff. The Mannor of Maningford-Braose in Com. Wiltes A Messuage in Church-Street in Beckley Four pounds Rent out of the Mannor of Bromley in Com. Surr. And fifteen Houses with four Gardens in Calais Leaving issue three Sons viz. Maurice who succeeded him Thomas successor of Maurice and Iames who left two Daughters and Heirs viz. Mary first married to Sir Thomas Perrot Knight and afterwards to Sir Thomas Iones Knight As also Anne Wife of Sir William Dennis of Dirham Knight Which Maurice was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Henry the eighth and in 4 Hen. 8. was sworn Knight for the Body of that King And the same year 30 Apr. having four hundred and eleven able men of his retinue himself accounted accompanied Thomas Gray Marquess Dorset then the Kings Lieutenant General into Eascoyn and Guyen In 6 Hen. 8. he attended the Lady Mary the Kings sister into France to her marriage with King Lewes the twelfth In 6 and 7 H. 8. he was Sheriff of the County of Gloucester And in the same seventh year was constituted Lieutenant of the Castle of Calais and Captain of fifty Men at Armes there In 14 Hen. 8. he was summoned to Parliament but had not the place of his Ancestors in regard that the Castle of Berkley and those Lordships belonging thereto which originally were the Body of that antient Barony then remained in the Crown by virtue of that entail so made by William Marquess Berkley before-mentioned and the next ensuing year sent him amongst divers other Lords and eminent persons into France with that Army under the Command of the Duke of Suffolk to joyn with those forces of the Emperor whereof Florence de Egmond Count de Bure was General designed to Conquer what they could in those parts By reason of which summons he then sate in Parliament meerly as a new Baron in the lowest place of which he had no joy considering the eminency of his Ancestors and the precedence which they ever had but in point of prudence he was necessitated to submit being thereunto perswaded by his councel-learned as appeareth by an original Letter written to him by Iohn Fitz-Iames then Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer and others Which Letter bears date 6 Maii Ann. Dom. 1523. 15 Hen. 8. This Lord Maurice took to Wife Katherine the Daughter of Sir William Berkley of Stoke-Giffard Knight By whom he had no issue and departing this life at Calais upon the twelfth of September in the year abovesaid was there buried in Trinity-Chappel within the Parish of St. Nicholas leaving her the said Katherine alive who shortly afterward scil 6 Sept. 18 H. 8. by her last Will and Testament bequeathed her body to be buried within the Chappel of our Lady in the Monastry of Dertford in Kent thereby appointing that a Tombe should be made over the Grave of her Mother in the Black-Friers at Bristoll as also a Tombe for her self in that Chappel of Dertford price twenty marks Likwise that a Priest should there sing for her Soul by the space of four years receiving eight pounds per annum salary for his pains and died the same year ¶ To this Last mentioned Maurice succeeded Thomas his Brother and Heir who in 16 H. 8. had special Livery of all those Lands which by his said Brother Maurice's death without issue lawfully descended to him but of age he was long before for in ann 1513. 5 Hen. 8. he had a command in the English Army in that notable Battle with the Scots at Flodden-Field in which Iames
the fourth then King of that Realm was slain and for his special service there received the honor of Knighthood at the hands of Thomas Earl of Surrey the then General In 14 Hen. 8. he executed the Sheriffs Office for the County of Glocester And in 22 Hen. 8. was one of those Lords who subscribed a Letter to Pope Clement the seventh importuning him to give his definitive sentence in that cause of Matrimony concerning the King and Queen Katherine which not only to the two Universities of this Realm but divers other in forrein parts as also many learned men had deemed unlawful being there placed next after the Lord Dacre and next before the Lord Morley And in 24 Hen. 8. was made Constable of Berkley-Castle in which year by his Testament bearing date 11 Ian. he ordained that his Body should be buried without great pomp or pride in the Parish Church of Mangotts-field in Com. Glouc. near to the place where he used to kneel under the partition between the Quire and his own Chappel and afterwards viz. within one quarter of a year be brought to the Abby of St. Augustines near Bristoll and there buried near unto his first Wife Willing that the Executors of Maurice Lord Berkley his Brother should pay to the Abbot and Covent of that House all Legacies by him the said Maurice given He likewise bequeathed to the Lady Cecilie then his Wife his Chain with the Cross And appointed his Executors to find a Priest to sing where his Body should be buried for the space of ten years as also that they should bestow forty pounds upon a Tombe to be raised over his Grave This Lord Thomas married two Wives first Elianore Daughter of Sir Marmaduke Constable of ... in Com. Ebor. Knight Widow of Iohn Iâ—gelby Esq Son and Heir to Sir William Ingelby Knight Secondly Cecilie Widow of Richâ—â—d Rowdon of ... in Comâ— Glouc. Esq And departing this life 22 Ianâ—â—r Ann. 1532. 24 Hen. 8. was first buried at Mangoâ—s-field but afterwards removed to that new Tombe which he had set up in the Abby Church of St. Augustines near Bristoll leaving issue two Sons and two Daughters viz. Thomas his Son and Heir who succeeded him and Maurice who taking to Wiâ—e Frances the Daughter and Coheir of Richard Rowdon Brother and Heir of Walter Son of Iohn left issue by her Sons and Daughters The Daughters were these Mary married to Sir Robert Throgmorton of Coughton in Com. Warw. Knight and Iane to Sir Nicholas Poinz of Acton Knight Which Thomas being of full age had Livery of his Lands the same year and had also two Wives first Mary the Daughter of George Lord Hastings by whom he had no issue and secondly Anne Daughter to Sir Iohn Savage of Frodsham in Com. Cester Knight and departing this life at Stone in his journey from his House at Yale in Gloucestershire towards London 19 Sept. An. 1534 26 H. 8. was there buried leaving issue Elizabeth a Daughter then scarce three quarters of a year old afterwards married to Thomas Boteler Earl of Ormund and Henry a Son born nine weeks and four days after his death Which Henry by the death of King Edward the sixth the last heir male to King Henry the seventh came to 〈◊〉 Berkley-Castle and all those other Lordâ—hips so given to that King by William Marquess Berkley as hath been observed and by the special Grace and Favor of of Queen Mary had Livery of them in 1 2 Phil. Mar. before he arrived to his full age Which Castle and Lordships had rested in the Crown by the space of sixty one years four months and twenty days and were then of the value of six hundred eighty seven pounds and five shillings per annum in old Rent not accounting the Parks and Chases in them contained This Henry thus repossessing the old Barony of his Ancestors being summoned by Writ to Parliament in 4 5 Phil. Mar. was there placed 25 Ian. He first took to Wife Katherine third Daughter to Henry Howard Earl of Surrey by Frances his Wife Daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford Which Katherine died at Calaudon 7 Apr. Ann. 1596. 38 Eliz. and was buried in the North Isle of S. Michaels Church in Coventre Secondly Iane Daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope Knight Widow of Sir Roger Tounsend Knight who survived him and died 3 Ian. Ann. 1617. 15 Iae. without issue By Katherine his first Wife he had issue two Sons viz. Thomas born at Caloudon 11 Iulii Ann. 1575. 17 Eliz. and Ferdinand who dying at â—ale in Gloucestershire was there buried And four Daughters viz. Mary Wife of Iohn Zouch Son and Heir to Sir Iohn Zouch of Codnore in Com. Derb. Knight and Frances Wife of George Shirley of Aâ—â—well in Com. Northamp Esquire afterwards a Baroner Which Thomas married Elizabeth only Child of Sir George Carey Knight then Knight Marshal and Governor of the Isle of Wight Son to Henry Lord Hunsdon and after his Fathers death Lord Hunsdon Chamberlain of the Queens Houshold and Knight of the Garter But all that I have seen farther memorable of this Thomas is that upon the death of Queen Elizabeth he rode into Scotland to carry the News thereof to King Iames and being made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of that King died at Caloudon 22 Novemb. 9 Iac. and was buried in St. Michaels Church in Coventre near to the Grave of his Mother in his Fathers lifetime leaving issue George his Son and Heir and Theophila a Daughter married to Sir Robert Coke Knight Son and Heir to Sir Edward Coke Knight Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. This Henry Lord Berkley lived to a very great age for his death hapâ—ed not till the 26 Nov. An. 1613. 11 Iac. at Caloudon before-mentioned Whence his Body was honorably conveyed to Berkley and buried in the Chancel there over which a Fair Tombe hath since been erected to his Memory To whom succeeded George his Grandson and next Heir who took to Wife Elizabeth the second Daughter and Coheir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudburne in Comit. Suff. Kt. 13 Apr. 12 Iac. he being then of the age of thirteen years and she nine Which George departed this life ... Ann. 1658. leaving issue two Sons viz. Charles drowned at Sea in his passage towards Diepe in France ... Ian. Ann. 1640. unmarried and George now Lord Berkley As also Elizabeth a Daughter married to Edward Coke Son and Heir to Iohn Coke of Holkham in Com. Norf. Esquire Son of Sir Edward Coke Knight sometimes Chief Justice of the Kings Bench. This George now Lord Berkley took to Wife Elizabeth the eldest Daughter and Coheir to Iohn Maâ—â—ingberd Merchant of London of the East-India Company and hath issue by her two Sons viz. Sir Charles Berkley made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of
Botolph without Algate This Thomas Lord d'Arcy had Summons to the Parliaments of 1 6 21 Hen. 8. Of his Descendants all that I shall observe is That George his eldest Son being restored in Blood with the title of Lord d'Arcy to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body in 2 Edw. 6. by his Testament bequeathed his Body to be buried iâ— the Quire at Bempton near to his Wife appointing that a convenient Tomb should be made and set over them both according to his estate and degree Also that to Agnes Fairfax his Daughter he gave a hundred marks as also his best wrought Silk Carpet bordered with Crimson Velvet which she made To Mary his Daughter a hundred marks to his Daughter Dawney his best Cup and to Elizabeth Clare and Mary his other Daughters certain Anâ—â—al Rents out of part of his Lands for divers years And that he died 28 August 4 5 Phil. Ma. Moreover that from him descended Iohn Lord d'Arcy of Aston in the West Riding of Yorkshire who departed this life without Issue-male ... Iuly An. 1635. 11 Car. 1. as the Descent hereunto annexed doth shew Furthermore that Sir Arthur d'Arcy Knight second Son to the said Lord Thomas in 25 Hen. 8. upon Information given to the King that the Emperor Charles the Fifth had threatned War against England and treated secretly with Iames the Fourth King of Scotland for his aid therein was upon expiration of the then five years Truce permitted to enter the Borders and to forage that Countrey which he did burning divers Towns and carrying away much booty as also that the same year in September following he was made Captain of the Isle of Iersey and in 5 Edw. 6. Lieutenant of the Tower of London And that having married Mary Daughter and Coheir to Sir Nicholas Carew of Bedington in Com. Surr. Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter he died ... April 3 Eliz. and was buried in the Church of S. Botolph without Algate before mentioned And lastly That his Grandson Sir Conyers d'Arâ—y of Hornby Castle in Com. Ebor. Knight being the principal Male-branch then remaining of this ancient and noble Family Henry the eldest Son leaving issue one only Daughter setting forth by his Petition to King Charles the First in that Parliament begun at Westminster 3 Novemb. An. 1640. That after the Attainder of Thomas Lord d'Arcy his Great Grand-father in 29 Hen. 8. Sir George d'Arcy Knight eldest Son to the said Thomas being restored in Blood by King Edward the Sixth obtained a Grant of the title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy to himself and the heirs-male of his Body and that by the death of Iohn Lord d'Arcy late of Aston in Com. Ebor. without Issue-male in the eleventh of His Reign the title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy was utterly extinct did humbly desire That being Grandchild and Heir-male to the before specified Sir Arthur d'Arcy Knight and likewise Son and Heir of Elizabeth Daughter and Coheir of Iohn Lord Conyers Lineal-heir to Margery Daughter and Coheir to Philip Lord d'Arcy Son of Iohn Lord d'Arcy one of the Barons of this Realm in the time of King Henry the Fourth His Majesty would be pleased to declare restore and confirm to him the said Sir Conyers d'Arcy and to the Heirs-male of his Body the stile title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy with such place preeminence and precedency as the said Iohn Lord d'Arcy had and by right from his Ancestors then enjoyed Whereunto His said Majesty graciously condiscending He did by His Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 10 August in the Seventeenth year of His Reign declare restore and confirm unto him the said Sir Conyers d'Arcy Knight and to the Heirs-male of his Body lawfully begotten the stile title and dignity of Lord d'Arcy so enjoyed by his Ancestor Iohn Lord d'Arcy as aforesaid whereupon he had Summons to Parliament accordingly Marmion IN the time of the Norman Conqueror Robert Marmion having by the gift of that King the Castle of Tamwort◠〈◊〉 Com. Warr. with the Territory adjacent thence expelled those Nuns he found there unto a place called Oldbury about four miles distant After which within the compass of a Twelvemoneth as it is said making a costly entertainment at Tamworth Castle for some of his Friends amongst which was Sir Walter de Somervile Lord of Whichover in Com. Staff his sworn Brother it hapned That as he lay in his Bed S. Edith appeared to him in the habit of a veiled Nun with a Crosier in her hand and advertised him That if he did not restore the Abby of Polesworth which lay within the Territories belonging to his Castle of Tamworth unto her Successors he should have an evil death and go to Hell And that he might be the more sensible of this her admonition she smote him on the side with the point of her Crosier and so vanished away Moreover that by this stroke being much wounded he cryed out so loud that his Friends in the House arose and finding him extreamly tormented with the pain of his wound advised him to confess himself to a Priest and vow to restore them to their former possession Furthermore that having so done his pain ceased and that in accomplishment of his vow accompanied with Sir Walter de Somervile and the rest he forthwith rode to Oldbury and craving pardon of the Nuns for the injury done brought them back to Polesworth desiring That himself and his friend Sir Walter de Somervile might be reputed their Patrons and have burial for themselves and their heirs in the Abby viz. The Marmions in the Chapter-house and the Somerviles in the Cloyster However some circumstances in this story may seem fabulous the substance of it is certainly true for it expresly appeareth by the very words of his Charter that he gave to Osanna the Prioress Ad Religionem instaurandam Sanctimonialium ibi Ecclesiam S. Edithae de Polesworth cum pertinentiis ita quod Conventus de Aldeberia ibi sit manens For the establishing of the Religion of those Nuns there the Church of S. Edith of Polesworth with its appurtenances so that the Covent of Oldbury should remain in that place And likewise bestowed on them the whole Lordship of Polesworth with its Demesns in Waverton which Grant King Stephen afterwards confirmed Moreover with Milisent his Wife he gave to the Monks of Bardney in Com. Linc. for the health of the Soul of his Father and Mother his own his wifes Soul and the Souls of their heirs the Town of Butegate near Bardney To this Robert succeeded Robert his Son and Heir to whom King Hâ—nry the First by his Charter bearing date at Eanoc in Com. Staff granted Free-Warren in all his Lands within the County of Warwick as Robert his Father had and particularly at Tamworth This last mentioned Robert possessed
his friends married Avice his younger Sister to Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield Knight upon condition that he the said Robert and 〈◊〉 his Mother enfeoffing them the said Iohn and Avice and the Heirs of their two bodies lawfully begotten of the reversion of all their Lands the issue of the said Sir Iohn Grey and Avice should bear the surname of Marmion as in my discourse of that Family of Grey is already observed Which Maud founded a Chantry at West-Tanfeld in Com. Ebor. consisting of a Master or Warden and three Priests to pray for her Soul as also for the Soul of her Husband and of Robert her Son and for the good estate of Avice de Grey and Sir Iohn Marmion her Son and Heir with Elizabeth his Wife and all their Ancestors Of these Marmions all that I have else to observe is that there were divers Tombs of them at West-Tanfield in Com. Ebor. where they had a Castle which by descent came to the Lord Fitz-Hugh Basset OF this name were several families but whether sprung from one stock I cannot say The first I meet with is Osmund Basset of whom this following mention is made by my Author viz. that in the first year that the Abby of St. Ebrulf at Utica in Normandy viz. Ann. 1050 was founded William and Robert the Sons of Geroi descended from the noble line of the Franks and Bretayns with divers of their kindred and Barons meeting there and having consultation for the good of that Monastery thus begun determined that each of them should dispose of himself and his personal estate thereunto and not to give or â—ell any thing belonging to the Church before the Monks of that Abby had the refusal of it Amongst which devout men parties to this agreement was this Osmund Basset The next is William sometime Abbot of St. Benedicts at Holme in Suffolk After him I come to Ralph Basset one of those of whom it is said by Ord. Vitalis that King Henry the first at the very beginning of his reign de Ignobili stirpe illustravit ac de Pulvere ut ita dicam extulit datâque multiplici facultate super Consules illustres oppidanos exaltavit raised from a very low condition and conferring on him an ample estate exalting him above Earles and other eminent men This is he that under the same King Henry had that high place and Office of Justice of England whose Authority was so great that he sate in what Court he pleased and where else he thought fit for the administration of Justice as from many instrances may be sufficiently seen But all that I have farther to say of him is that in 21 Hen. 1. he was a benefactor to the Abby of Eynsham in Oxfordshire by adding one more Monk to that Covent and giving one Carucate of Land in Chinolton in Com Notting and ten Oxon for his maintenance which Land was parcel of his Lordship of Coleâ—â—une now called Colston Basset near at hand Also that he had such a veneâ—ble respect to the Monks of Abendon in Berkshire that he determined to enter into a Monastick life there and in the same Abby to be buried Acoording to which resolution falling sick at Northampton he called for a Monks habit and being asked of what order replied as before he had resolved appointing that his body should be buried there Moreover disposing at that time of his personal estate he sent no small summe to Abendon giving likewise thereunto four Hides of of Land in Chedelesworth whereupon he was honorably buried in the Chapter-house there To this Ralph succeeded Richard Basset his Son and Heir who likewise had that great Office of Iustice of England in the later time of King Henry the first and all King Stephens reign and abounding in wealth built a strong Castle upon some part of his Inheritance lying at Moâ—terol in Normandy In 5 Steph. this Richard underwent the Sheriffs Office for Surrey Cambridge and Huntendonshire with Alberic de Vere So likewise for Essex Hertford Buckingham Bedford Norfolk Suffolk Northampton and Leicestershires Moreover he gave to the King at that time the summ of forty pounds for the Custody of the Lands of Geffrey Ridel as also two hundred marks and six light Horses for Livery of the Lands which his Brother Nicholas Basset held of the King in Capite And having wedded Maud the sole Daughter and Heir of the same Geffrey Ridel by Geva his Wife Daughter to Hugh Earl of Chester with her founded the Abby of Lande in Leicestershire for the health of the Soul of King William the Conqueror left issue Geffrey his eldest Son who from his Mother bore the name of Ridel and Ralph another Son who continuing the sirname of Basset was that Ralph as I ghess who underwent the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Warwick and Leicester in 6 and 7 H. 2. And had Drayton near Tamworth in Staffordshire of his Mothers inheritance which Lordship Hugh Earl of Chester gave to Geffrey Ridel with Geva his Daughter in Frank-marriage To this Geffrey sirnamed Ridel succeeded Richard his Son which Richard reassuming the name of Basset seated himself at Weldon in Northamptonshire and left issue Ralph who in 2 Hen. 3. upon levying the first Scutage for the King paid thirty marks for fifteen Knights fees he then held Which Ralph had issue another Ralph who in 42 Hen. 3 had Livery of his Lands then doing his Homage and the same year accounted thirty pounds to the King for fifteen Knights Fees upon levying the Scutage of Wales To whom succeeded Richard who died in 4 Edw. 1. and left issue Ralph which Ralph had Livery of his Lands the same year performing his Homage and died in 23 Edw. 1. leaving Richard his Son and Heir who had then livery of his Lands In 34 Edw. 1 this Richard was in that expedition then made into Scotland being of the retinue to Adomare de Valence Earl of Pembroke But being again in Scotland was there slain in that great defeat which the English had in the â—â—ttle of Strivelyn leaving Ralph his Son and Heir in minority whose wardship was granted to Richard de Grey Which Ralph making proof of his age in 15 Edw. 2. had Livery of his Lands and in 15 Edw. 3. departed this life then seized of the Mannors of Weldon and Weston juxta Ashele in Com. Northamp held of the King in Capite by Barony as also of the Patronage of the Priory of Launde leaving issue by Ioane his Wife Daughter of Richard de la Pole Citizen of London Ralph his Son and Heir fifteen years of age who had Livery of his Lands the same
Cambridge and divers other of the English Nobles in Britanny in the service of the Duke viz. Iohn de Montfort where they had great success in taking several places After which by his Testament bearing date at Lanblethian upon the sixth of November the same year he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Abby of Tewksbury near his Ancestors on the South part and gave to Elizabeth his Wife his great Bed of Camaka-blu with Griffons as also another Bed of Camaka striped with white and black and all the furniture belonging thereto Moreover to the Abbot and Covent of that House of Tewksbury he gave a whole sute of his best Vestments as also two gilt Chalices and a Hanap gilt likewise the Ewre wherein to put the Body of Christ on Corpus Christi day which was given him by the King of Franâ—â— This Edward was summoned to Parliament from 31 to 39 Edw. 3. inclusive and departed this life in his Castle of Kaerdiff upon Martinmass day 49 Edw. 3. a great Baron and a good Knight quoth Froissard and was buried at Tewksbury before the door of the Vestry near the Quire for whom his Wife built for a Tomb the Chappel of the Holy Trinity being then seised of the Mannor of Knibworth in Com. Ebor. Winterton in Com. Warr. Yelvertoft in Com. Northampt. Peverelthorp in Com. Notting Bockland and Great Marlow in Com. Buck. Carleton Middleton Clopton Welneton Parva Blaxsale Swinland Witonesham Cokefield and Fenhale in Com. Suff. Rotherfield in Com. Suss. Chetilhampton in Com. Devon Sherston in Com. Wilts Stanford in Com. Berks. Ashele in Com. Southampt Boreford Shupton Caversham and the Hundred of Chadelington in Comitat. Oxon. Upton upon Severn 〈◊〉 and Hanley in Com. Wigorn. The Mannor and Borough of Tewksbury as also of the Mannors of Fairford and Sobbury in Com. Gloc. The Castle of Ewyas in Com. Heref. The Mannors of Costineston and Cogan in the Marches of Wales the Lordships of Glamorgan and Morganok the Castle of Kaerdiff the Mannors of Rooche Bonyarton Whitchurch the Castle of Keirfilley the Castle of Lantrissan the Mannors of Cloun Glincotheny Cumbrehenok the Castle of Laâ—blethian the Mannor of Talman and the Castle and Mannor of Nethe leaving Thomas his Son and Heir then two years of age and four Daughters viz. Cicely who died young Elizabeth first married to Iohn Arundel and afterwards to the Lord Zouch Anne to Hugh Hastings and after to Thomas Morley and Margaret to Robert Ferrers Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh surviving him who had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Castle and Town of Keirfilly the Territory of Seâ—gh above and below Cangh in the Marches of Wales the Hamlet of Rothery and Enysnaylglen the Mannors of Whitchurch Talban and Town of Coubrugge the Castle and Mannor of Lanblethian and Territory of Ruthin all in the Marches of Wales the Borough of Tewksbury and Mannor of Fairford in Com. Gloc. The Forein Court of Bristoll the Castle and Mannor of Hanley and Mannor of Bischley in Com. Wigorn. the Mannor of Stanford in Comit. Berks The Mannor of Yelvertoft in Com. Northampt. and Hundred of Chadelington in Com. Oxon. Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing date 4 Iulii An. 1409. 10 Hen. 4. wherein she stiles her self Elizabeth de Burghersh Dame le Despenser bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Church of our Lady at Tewksbury betwixt Edward Lord Despenser her Husband and Thomas le Despenser her Son Appointing her interment to be within three days after her decease and that a black Cloth with a white Cross should be laid over her Corps with five 〈◊〉 about it and no more during the office of Burial Likewise that a Stone of Marble should be placed over her Grave with her Portraiture thereon She also appointed that seven of the most honest Priests that could be found should sing for her by the space of one whole year next after her death and each of them for so doing to receive five pounds Moreover she willed that a thousand Masses should be sung for her To the Lady Morley her Daughter she bequeathed her best Chalice to the Lady Margaret Ferrers her Daughter two Chargeons and twelve Dishes of Silver to her Daughter Philippa a Bed of red Worsted with all the furniture appertaining thereto and to Elizabeth her Grand-daughter Daughter to the before specified Margaret two other Chargeons twelve Dishes and six Sawcers of Silver Which Testament was proved upon the tenth of August then next ensuing But I return to Thomas whose Wardship was in 1 Rich. 2. granted to Edmund Earl of Cambridge the Kings Uncle to the end he should marry his Daughter This Thomas commonly called Thomas Lord Despenser of Glamorgan and Morganok was in that expedition of Ireland in 18 Rich. 2. But in 20 Rich. 2. with divers other great Lords viz. Edward Earl of Rutland Thomas Moubray Earl of Nottingham c. he was arrested at Nottingham by the Kings command and charged with High Treason certain persons being suborned who were to prosecute them in the ensuing Parliament Howbeit the next year following the Scene was changed for this Thomas amongst others then advanced to great titles of Honor was created Earl of Glocester by reason of his descent from Gilbert de Clare sometime Earl of Glocester viz. Son of Edward Son of Edward Son of Hugh who in 15 Edw. 2. was adjudged to be disherited and banished the Realm for ever by Eleanor one of the Sisters and Coheirs of the said Gilbert and exhibiting his Petition in the same Parliament for revocation of the Judgment of Exile against his great Grand-father Hugh le Despenser had it granted In which Petition it appears that the said Hugh was then possessed of no less then fifty nine Lordships in sundry Counties twenty eight thousand Sheep one thousand Oxen and Steers one thousand and two hundred Kine with their Calves forty Mares with their Colts of two years one hundred and sixty Draught-Horses two thousand Hogs three thousand Bullocks forty Tuns of Wine six hundred Bacons fourscore Carcasses of Martinmass Beef six hundred Muttons in his Larder ten Tuns of Cider Armor Plate Jewels and ready Money better then ten thousand pounds thirty six Sacks of Wooll and a Library of Books This Earl took to Wife Constance the Daughter of Edmund of Langley Duke of York and upon his Creation of Earl obtained a Grant from the King to himself and her and to the Heirs-male of his own Body of the Castle and Mannor of Elmley the Mannors of Wickwane Graftonâ— Flenorth Albodely Seintley Magna Cumberton and Elmley Lovet then in the Crown by reason of a Judgment in Parliament against Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick And in 22 Rich. 2. attended the King into Ireland But the next year following though he was one
Robert married Isabell Daughter of David Earl of Huntingdon one of the four Sisters and Coheirs to Iohn sirnamed Scot Earl of Huntingdon and last Count Palatine of Chester Which Isabell in 25 H. 3. had a Grant from the King of the Mannors of Writele and Hatfield in Com. Essex with half the Hundred of Haâ—field in exchange for those Lands which descended to her by the death of her Brother Iohn Scot Earl of Chester before mentioned And by her had issue Robert who in 34 Hen. 3. was one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas and in 36 Hen. 3. doing his homage had Livery of the Lands of his Mothers Inheritance In 38 Hen. 3. as one of the Coheirs to Iohn Scot Earl of Nuntingdon upon Assessment of the Aid for making the Kings eldest Son Knight he paid twenty pounds for ten Knights Fees which he had of the Honor of Peverell of London in the Counties of Essex and Hertford And in 39. Hen. 3. was constituted Sheriff of Cumberland and Governor of the Castle of Carlisle In 41 Hen. 3. he had amongst others Summons to attend the King at Bristol on the Octaves of S. Peter thence to march into Wales but being at that time in Scotland he was excused and had Scutage of all his Tenants by Military Service according to the rate of forty shillings for each Knights Fee by reason of that expedition This Robert had to Wife Isabell one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester And in 48 Hen. 3. when many of the Barons put themselves in Arms upon pretence of asserting the Laws of the Land and the Peoples liberties being one of those who stood firm to the King He marched with him from Oxford to Northampton where the Rebellious Barons then were with a great power and upon the Assault of that Town made prisoners And soon after that when the Barons through the help of the Londoners gave Battle to the King at Lewes in Sussex where they had the fortune to prevail He was together with the King himself and divers other great Lords taken prisoner having at that time together with Iohn Comyn the command of those Scotch Auxiliaries which were then there in the Kings service But it being not long after that the King recovered all by that happy Victory at Evesham in the nine and fortieth of His Reign he was in 51 Hen. 3. again made Governor of the Castle at Carlisle In 5 10 Edw. 1. he performed service in Wales for one Knights Fee in Writele and Hatfield in Essex And in 12 Edw. 1. executed the Sheriffs Office for the County of Cumberland so likewise for three parts of the thirteenth year of that Kings Reign In 19 Edw. 1. after the death of Alexander the Third King of Scotland which hapned in An. 1286. being one of the Competitors for the Crown of that Realm the decision of which Claim was referred to King Edward the First as Superior Lord thereof he alleaged That he was the immediate Son of Isabel the second Daughter and that Iohn Baillol the other cheif Competitor was but the Son of Deorvorgill Daughter of Margaret the eldest Daughter of David Earl of Huntingdon Brother of William sometime King of Scotland so that he stood one degree nearer in consanguinity then Baillol Whereunto Baillol replying That by reason his Mother who was next Heir could not Reign he ought to have it by lineal descent the Right was adjudged to him by the forty chosen Peers viz. Twenty of Scotland and as many of England With which decision this Robert being not pleased he refused in the presence of King Edward to do homage to Baillol and thereupon gave up all his Lands in Anandale to Robert his eldest Son begotten on the Sister of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester Who also refusing to do the like homage he said to Robert his second Son begotten on the Daughter of the Earl of Carrick Take thou my Land in Scotland whereof accepting he did his homage accordingly It is said by others That this Claim of our Robert was grounded upon certain expressions made by Alexander King of Scotland Son of William before mentioned who despairing of issue of his own Body did in the presence of divers persons declare him to be his Heir In this business of the Competition it is also said That he bore himself very bold of his Kinsmen in that Realm and sent specially for Iohn Comyn another of the Competitors to meet with him at the Grey Fryers in Dunfriez where telling him his mind he bad him take his Inheritance of Carrick and assist him to be King of Scotland Or let me have thine quoth he and I will help thee to be King And that Comyn not consenting thereto was slain as also his Uncle who then stroke this Robert de Brus such a blow That had he not been well harnessed he had been likewise slain In 22 Edw. 1. this Robert then stiled Robert de Brus de Anandale amongst others had Summons to repair to Portsmouth upon the first day of September well fitted with Horse and Arms to attend the King in an expedition at that time designed into France but this year upon Good-Friday he departed this life in Anandale Christian his Wife surviving who in 24 Edw. 1. had an Assignation of the Mannor of Great Badew in Essex and Kemston in Bedfordshire for her Dowry leaving Robert his Son and Heir Which Robert soon after doing his homage had Livery of his Lands This Robert in 54 Hen. 3. being called Robert de Brus junior his Father then living and signed with the Cross amongst divers other eminent persons attended Prince Edward into the Holy Land and in 23 Edw. 1. was made Governor of the Castle at Carlisle In 23 24 25 Edw. 1. he was summoned to the Parliament in England and in the same twenty fifth year being called Robert de Brus senior in regard of Robert de Brus his younger Brother Earl of Carrick the King acknowledging his constant fidelity commanded Livery of his Lands in Scotland which it seems had been seised into his hands In 26 Edw. 1. he was in that expedition then made into Scotland so likewise in 27 31 E. 1 But in 32 Edw. 1. departing this life he was buried in the Abby of Holmcoltram in Cumberland being then seised of the Mannors of Writele and Notfield in Bromeshbery in Com. Essex As also of the Mannor of Caldecote in Com. Hunt With the Advowson of the Church leaving Robert de Brus then Earl of Carrick his Brother and Heir twenty three years of age who soon after doing his homage had Livery of
likewise of the Mannor of Eard with the Advowson of the Church in the County of Kent as also of the Mannor of Halnaked in Com. Sussex Which Hugh being Executor of his said Fathers Testament in 5 Edw. 3. representing to the King by his humble Petition that whereas his Father had served King Edward the Second in his Wars both in Gaâ—coigne and Scotland according to the tenor of a certain Indenture whereby he was retained with that King as well in times of War as Peace upon certain wages then agreed on for himself and those of his retinue and to have recompence for as many Horses as should be lost in such service as also to receive in times of Peace such wages as other Bannerets of the Kings Houshold had And moreover that divers sums of Money due to him both for his wages and loss of Horses in those Wars were then in arrear did thereupon obtain the Kings Precept to the Lord Treasurer and Barons of his Exchequer to account with him for the same and to make satisfaction for what should be found in arrear But this Hugh lived not long for it appears that in 11 Edw. 3. he departed this life being then seised of the Mannors of Berâ—ham Bradham Walberton Woodcote and Middilton in Com. Suss. Basing Chauton Warneford Ludesheet and Bromleigh in Com. Southampt As also of sixteen Knights Fees in the County of Kent and that Mirabell his Wife had her Dowry in all those Lands and Fees leaving Edmund his Son and Heir four years of age Which Edmund died in his minority and in Ward to the King in 21 Edw. 3. Whereupon Elizabeth his Wife surviving him had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Mannors of Walberton in Com. Suss. Aâ—botsâ—one and Bromley in Com. Southampt And twenty six shillings one penny yearly Rent out of the Mannor of Basing in Com. Southampt And Margaret the Wife of Iohn de S. Philiâ—ert with Isabell the Wife of Henry de Burghâ—rsh his Sisters became his Heirs Betwixt whom Partition of the Lands of their Inheritance being made in 21 Edw. 3. Iohn de S. Philibert and Margaret had for her purparty the Mannor of Basing with the Bailiwick of the Forest of Pambere in Com. Southampt the Parks of Privet and Morgaston likewise a certain Pool in Shireburne in the same County as also the Mannor of Shotwell in Com. Berks. assigned to her And the said Henry de Burghersh and Isabell his Wife the Mannor of Halnaked with the Appurtenances in Com. Suss. the Mannors of Bernham and Middilton in the same County with ten pounds yearly Rent issuing out of the Mannor of Newbery in Com. Kanc. And one Acre of Land lying in the West Field within the Mannor of Basing before specified so likewise of the Knights Fees And of the Reversion of the other Lands viz. which Gerard de I'Isle and Elizabeth his Wife held as the Dowry of the before specified Elizabeth from her former Husband Edmund de S. Iohn Brother of the said Margaret and Isabell the said Iohn de S. Philibert and Margaret his Wife had the Mannors of Shireburne Abbotstone Bromleigh Chauton and Ludesheet in Com. Southampt And Lucâ—s de Poynings and Isabell his Wife Henry de Burghersh being dead and he the said Lucas then her Husband the Mannor of Eard Iuxta Deptford in Com. Cantii with Walberton Bridham and Woodcote in Com. Suss. assigned to them After which ere long the said Margaret Wife of Iohn de S. Philibert departed this life viz. 19 Octob. 35 Edw. 3. leaving Iohn her Son and Heir three years of age who likewise died upon the thirteenth of November next ensuing so that then the before specified Isabell Sister of her the said Margaret Wife of Lucas de Poynings became Heir to the whole Inheritance whereupon he the said Lucas de Poynings having issue by her and doing his homage had Livery of all those Lands so descended to her as well by the death of her Sister Margaret as by the death of Iohn Son of the said Margareâ— Port. BEsides this Port of Basing there was another Baron of that name called Adam who residing in herefordshire certified his Knights Fees in 12 Hen. 2. to be in number twenty one a fourth part and two fifths De Veteri Feoffamento as also one Knights Fee and two thirds De Novo Which Adam in 20 Hen. 2. upon collection of the Scutage of Ireland paid twenty two pounds thirteen shillings for his Fees De Veteri Feoffamento and thirty three shillings four pence for those De Novo in regard he was neither in that expedition nor sent any Soldiers thither But in 6 Riâ—h 1. William de Braose upon collection of the Scutage for that Kings Redemption paid twenty two pounds thirteen shillings for those Fees though by what title he had them appears not so likewise upon collection of the first Scutage of King Iohn And after him Reginald de Braose upon collection of the first Scutage of King Henry the Third paid forty five marks six shillings six pence for the same Fees which were of the Barony of Adam de Port as the Record expresseth Engaine THe first of this Family taken notice of by our publick Records is Richard Ingaine who possessed Senelai in Buckinghamshire and Redinges in Huntendonshire in the time of King William the Conqueror Unto whom succeeded Vitalis Engaine and likewise Richard Engaine for the Daughter of which Richard together with his Office in the Forest Hugh de Auco or Owe gave the King at that time three hundred pounds fine This Richard being Lord of Blatherwic in Comit. Northamp in King Henry the seconds time and other Lands in those parts founded a little priory for Canons Regular of the order of St. Augustine at a certain place then called Hymel Castle but since Finsheved about a mile Eastward from Blatherwic In 2 3 Ric. 1. he had the Sheriffalty of Northamptonshire and having married Sarra a Daughter to the Earl of Oxford departed this life upon the 9. Kal. of May An. 1208. 10 Ioh. leaving issue two Sons Richard and Vitalis Which last mentioned Richard being one of those who adhered to the rebellious Barons in 17 Ioh. had his Lands seised into the Kings hands for that transgression and died soon after To whom succeeded Vitalis his Brother and Heir who having also been with his Brother Richard in Armes against King Iohn sped as he did as to the seizure of his Lands but in 1 Hen. 3. those storms being over had restitution of them again In 26 Hen. 3. this Vitalis Engaine made partition with William de Cantilupe Baron of Bergavenny of the Mannor of Badisundesfield in Suffolk
of York until the King should settle Lands of three hundred Marks per Annum value in consideration of the Castle of Werke which he the said William had granted unto the King as is before observed The Lands which were of the Inheritance of Margery his Wife being these viz. the Mannor of Aderly in Shropshire the Mannors of Chrilham Hothfield and Wulrington in Kent the moity of the Mannor of Tarent-Ruyâ—â—chenton and the moity of the Hundred of Conekeshyrie in Dorsetshire the Mannor of Chyngford in Essex the Mannor of Chalbestone in Bedfordshire the Mannor of Hakeford with the Advowson of the Church in Norfolk as also the Mannors of Whitwell and Watton the moity of the Mannors of Holt and Cleye with the Advowson of the Church of Cleye and the moity of the Mannor of Hoghten in the same County Which Margery had for her Dowry these Lands following assigned unto her viz. the Mannors of Uâ—â—ington and Melton in Com. Linc. Botelesford in Com. Leic. Ros in Holderness Garton with its members viz North-Dalton Naburn and Tibethorne and the Mannors of Seton Storthwayt and Fulford in Com. Ebor. as also divers Tenements and Rents in Wartre Methelburne Herlethorpe and Folkeâ—thorpe belonging to those Mannors of Seton and Storlethwayte Touching Margaret one of his Daughters I find that in 6 Edw. 3. there were certain Covenants made betwixt him and Sir Edward de Bohun Brother to William de Bohun Earl of Northhampton viz. That he the said Edward should take her to Wife and enfeoffe her of the Mannors of Upabene in the County of Wilts or of two hundred Marks per Annum Land to hold during her life And now before I proceed farther I shall say something of Iohn the younger Brother of the last mentioned William in regard he was a person so eminent in his time This Iohn being of the party of Queen Isabell and those other whom the King at the instigation of the Spensers had banished landed with her and the Prince who had then for the better carrying on their designs made a Contract with Philippa Daughter to the Earl of Henault at Ypswich on the tenth Calends of October 20 Edw. 2. And being likewise in great favour with the young King upon the deposal of Edward the Second was not only constituted Steward of his houshold in the first year of his Reign but imployed into Scotland in that Expedition made thither the same year his Brother Thomas being also with him in that service and moreover was one of those 12 Lords by whom it was resolved the King being young should be governed In 2 Edw. 3. he was made Governour of Somerton-Castle in Lincolnshire In 7 Edw. 3. he was again in Scotland with his Father upon the King's service So also in 9 Edw. 3. In 10 Edw. 3. he was constituted Admiral of the Seas from the River of Thames Northwards In 11 Edw. 3. he served the King in Gastoigne and the same year had a Charter for Free-warren granted to him in all his Demesn Lands at Touxford Warsop and Aston in Com. Nott. and in Hornlegh and Hornton in Com. Oxon. as also to hunt the Fox Wolf Hare and Cat throughout the King's Forest of Notinghamshire And in 12 E. 3. upon his Petition to the King in Parliament whereby he represented the charge he had been at in arraying of men in divers parts of the Realm whilst he was Admiral command was given to the Lord Treasurer and Barons of the King's Exchequer to make him allowance for the same In that year also he was again imployed beyond the Seas in the King's service and had summons to Parliament from 1 Edw. 3. until the eleventh of that King's Reign inclusive but departed this life before the end thereof without any Issue of his body so that William de Ros his elder Brother became his Heir being then fifty years of age The Lands whereof he died seised being those of his own Inheritance viz. The Mannor of â—arsop in Com. Nott. the Mannors of Wadton Kellyng Salthous in Com. Norff. and the Mannors of Gedeney Gaixhill Steynton Poynton and Lexham in the same County As also the Mannors of Thornton in Craden Thurmanhalle with the moity of the Mannor of Cliffe in Com. Ebor. in right of Margaret his Wife of whose Inheritance they were Upon whose death his Brother William representing to the King that the Goods and Chattels of this Iohn were seised by his Officers for Debt and desiring some allowance out of them for defraying his Funeral expences in consideration of his former faithful services and now at last in regard he dyed beyond-Sea in his personal attendance upon the King in the parts of Brabant and Flanders obtained two hundred Marks for that end And the next year ensuing doing his Homage had Livery of all those Lands above-mentioned whereof he died seised in his own right saving to Margaret his Widow her reasonable Dower which was the third part of the Mannor of Wadton in Com. Norff. the third part of certain Lands in Boston and Skyrbeck in Com. Linc. the third part of the Mannor of Weston juxâ—a Otteley in Com. Ebor. with certain Lands in Bayldon in that County and the third part of the Mannor of Warsop in Com. Nott. ¶ I now come to William de Ros Son and Heir to the last William In 17 Edw. 3. his Father being lately deceased and â—e in minority Raphe Lord Nevill for the sum of a thousand and three hundred Marks had a Grant of the custody of two parts of all his Lands In which year this Raphe sent twenty men at Arms and twenty Archers beyond Sea amongst others for the King's service In 20 Edw. 3. he was in that great Expedition made by King Edward the Third for raising the Siege of Aguyllon which the Duke of Normandy had laid with an hundred thousand men The same year he was one of those Lords who led the second Brigade in that famous Battel of 〈◊〉 where the King obtained a glorious victory And being returned into England before Winter was one of the chief Commanders in the fourth Brigade of the English Army which gave Battel to the Scots at Beawre-parke near Nevills-Cross by some called the Battel of New-Castle upon Tine where David de Bruse King of Scots with many of the Nobles of that Realm were taken Prisoners And in 21 Edw. 3. went again into France with Edward Prince of Wales commonly called the Black Prince the Town of Calais being then Besieged and taken by the English So also in 23 Edw. 3. the King himself hasting thither at that time for preventing the French from regaining of Calaâ—s and the next year following upon proof of his age had Livery of his Lands in which year
Tichemershe Hinton juxta Brakele Hulls with the Mannor and Hundred of King's-Sutton in Com. North ton and Broughton in Com. Leic. leaving William his Son and Heir 17 years of age Which William in 4 Hen. 5. was by Indenture retained to serve the King with six men at Arms and eight Archers in his Wars of France and before the end of that year to serve him in his Fleet at Sea with two men at Arms himself accounted and four Archers Moreover in 9 Hen. 5. he was again in those Wars of France and in 1 Hen. 6. doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance by descent both from Iohn Lord Lovell his Father and Maude the Daughter and Heir of Robert de Holand his Grandmother being then twenty four years of age This William was summoned to Parliament from 3 Henry 6. till 33 Henry 6. inclusive and having married Alice one of the Daughters of Sir Iohn Deincourt Knight Sister and Coheir to William Lord Deincourt Widow of Raphe Boteler Lord Sudley performing his Fealty in 2 Hen. 6. had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance After which viz. in 8 Hen. 6. he was retained by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France with twenty nine men at Arms and eighty Archers and in 21 Hen. 6. procured License to deafforest his Woods called Minsterwoods in Com. Oxon. with two Fields thereto adjoyning and to impark them But in 24 Hen. 6. in consideration of his eminent services in Foreign parts as well in the time of King Henry the Fifth as this King as also by reason of his infirmity of body he obtained an especial exemption from coming to Parliament for the whole term of his life Howbeit in 28 Hen. 6. notwithstanding this special Priviledge he was made Constable of Walingford Castle and departed this world upon the 13 th of Iune 33 Hen. 6. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir twenty two years of age Alice his Wife still surviving who the very same year upon the death of Margaret her Sister Wife of Raphe Lord Cromwell without Issue was found to be her next Heir by which means divers fair Lordships and Lands descended to her whereof she had special Livery soon after The Lands whereof this William Lord Lovell died seised were these viz. the Mannors of Ketherhythe and Berâ—undsey in Com. Surr. Wolverhampton in Com. Staff Waltham Parva called Powers-mannor and Burnells in Berle in Com. Hertf. Kesyngdon-Basset in Com. Glouc. Wevilcate called Butlers-Court in Com. ... Mynster-Lovell Dokelyngton Norton-Bruyn and Cheleston in Com. Oxon. Denford in Com. Berks. Elcombe Blackgrove Mighenden Wigtetcote Sulthorpe Whythyll Uffecote Erdescote and Knoke in Com. Wilts The third part of the Chase of Charnewood in Com. Leic. The Mannors of Cranleye and Broughton-Lovell in Com. Buck. The Mannors of Holgate Clee-Saint Margaret Wolstanton Prestes-weston Ardulveston Bollylye Longfeld Uppington Wotton Onebury Welton Sutton Corston Abbeton Ewdon-Burneâ—l Benthall Millingchope Bushbury Longedon Condovere Astewall Hope-Bowdlers Wiggecote Chatwall Smethecote Chelton Acton-Keyner Tasseley Konton Ambâ—ston Pulleleye Kammeshurst Streford-Cantelope Acton-Burnell and Acton-Pigot in Com. Salop. the Borough of Brakele the Hundred of Sutton alias King's-Sutton the Mannors of Pokebroke Duston Tychemershe King's-Sutton and Halls in Com. Northt And of the Inheritance of Alice his Wife of the Mannors of Askeham and Drynghouse within the Liberty of the City of York and Mannor of Baynton in Com. Ebor. of the Mannors of â—â—gges Herdewyke Kotherfeld Somerton the moity of the Mannor of Fringford and fourth part of the Mannor of Stanlake in Com. Oxon. Of the Mannor of Ordton alias Ulverton in Salihull in Com. War Of the Mannors of Shovyndon Est-claydon Bold-claydon Woburne and Fryngford in Com. Buck. as also of the Mannor of 〈◊〉 in Com. Cantii And joyntly with the said Alice of the Castle and Mannor of Wardour and Mannors of Bridesâ—ursh Ubbedon and Wamburghe in Com. Wilts ¶ I now come to Iohn his Son and Heir This Iohn in 34 Hen. 6. then a Knight had Livery of his Lands his Homage being respited And in 38 Hen. 6. in consideration of his good services obtained a Patent from the King to be chief Forester of the Forest of Whichwode in Com. North â—â—â— But before the end of that year the Scene suddenly changed for upon the landing of the Dake of York and those of his party this Iohn Lord Lovell accompanying the Lord Scales and Hungerford to London in hope to gain the Citizens for King Henry failing therein were constrained to flee to the Tower for refuge Soon after which the Yorkists prevailed every where to the total ruine of King Henry and most of his Friends so that of this Iohn I have not afterwards seen any thing further memorable till his death which hapned 9 Ian. 4 Edw. 4. he being then seised of the Mannor of Yoxball in Com. Staff Denford and Pole in Com. Berks. Mynster-Loveil 〈◊〉 Paâ—ve Dukeâ—â—gton Norton-Bryne and the Mannor of Wybâ—scote called 〈◊〉 Court in Com. Oxon. Baynton called Deincourts-Mannor and Wald-Newton upon the Woulds in Com. Ebor. Of the Mannors of Halls Brackley King's-Sutton and Tichemersh in Com. North ton Of the Mannors of Holgore Clee â—S Margaret Wolstanton Prestes-Weston Bollyleye Longford Uppinton Pullileye Wotton Walton Sutton Corston Abeton Edon-â—urnell Beithall Millinchope Bushbury Longedon Cundovere Astwall Hope-Bowdeler Chatwall Smethecote Acton-Keigner Tasseley-Cantelope Acton-Burnell and Stretfeld in Com. Salop. as also of the moity of the Mannor of Askham-Bryan in the County of the City of York leaving Issue Francis his Son and Heir by Ioane his Wife Sister of William Viscount Beaumont his Son and Heir nine years of age Which Francis in 22 Edw. 4. went with Richard Duke of Gloucester then Lieutenant General of the English Army into Scotland and before the end of that year viz. upon the 4 th of Ianuary was advanced to the dignity of Viscount Lovell Moreover being a great Friend and Favourer of King Richard the Third in those his unjust and bloody practices whereby he attained the Crown he was advanced to the office of Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold And being thereupon made Constable of the Castle of Wâ—â—â—ngford had the custody of that Honour as also of the Honour of S. Waleries granted to him and was likewise constituted chief Butler of England And having thus twisted Interests with him adventured himself in Battel for him at Bosworthfield where that King being slain and his Army totally routed he made shift to escape with his life and thence fleeing to S. Iohns at Colchester in Essex took Sanctuary there for a while but deeming that no safe place privily got away to Sir Thomas Broughton's house in Lancashire and there lurked for some months and so into
Crowland he did them great wrong in many respect leaving Issue by Ada his second Wife one Son called Thomas and Iulian a Daughter married to Robert le Vavasour Which Thomas in 25 Hen. 3. paying forty pounds for his Relief had Livery of his Lands This Thomas de Multon in 36 Hen. 3. being then Forester of Cumberland by descent from the before-specified Ada his Mother Daughter and Coheir to Hugh de Morevill gave a Fine of four hundred Marks to the King for trespassing in that stomes and Services his Tenants had used to perform and to do to him and his Ancestors for their Lands in Coupland And the same year obtained a Grant from the King to himself and Ada his Wife Daughter and Coheir to Hugh de Morvile of the Forestership of Cumberland with its Appâ—rtenances without any Partition to be made thereof with Ioane her other Sister and farther granted unto them the Purparty of her the said Ioane in all her Father's Lands This Richard likewise gave to the King the next year following nine hundred Marks and five Palfries to have Livery of the Purparty belonging to her the said Ada of the whole Inheritance which belonged to Roger de Morvill her Father and to enjoy the Forestership of Cumberland as amply as Hugh de Morvill Father of Roger had it without any Partition to be thereof made And in 10 Ioh. gave a good Palfrey to the King for the Grant of a Fair at his Mannor of Renglas every year upon the Feast-day of S. Iames the Apostle and a weekly Market every Saturday Moreover he gave to the Monks of Calder in Cumberland the moity of his Mill at Ikelingâ—on And by an ample Charter to his Burgesses of Egrâ—mont granted unto them divers Immunities and Priviledges viz. that they should not go beyond the Gates of his Castle there upon any Summons either with the Lord or his Steward to take distresses in Coupland Also that in the time of War they should not be obliged to find any more than twelve armed men for forty days for the defence of that Castle at thâ—ir own proper costs Likewise that they should not give Aid unless for making his eldâ—st Son Knight marrying one of his Daughters or towards his own ransom in case he were taken Prisoner and at such other times as his Tenants by Military service gave Aid Moreover that they should be quit of Pawnage for their Hogs in certain of his Woods But by this Chartâ—r he obliged them to grind at his Mills and to give the thirteenth part for Toll of their own Corn and of that which they should buy the sixteenth part and upon the Purchase of any Burgage the Buyer to give him four pence at the taking Possession Adding also divers good Orders and Rules for their better Government in that Borough which for brevity I omit But in 15 Ioh. or before he departed this life for then did Ada his Widow give a Fine of five hundred Marks for Livery of her Paternal Inheritance as also for her Dowry of his Lands and that she might not be compelled to marry again After which she took to Husband Thomas de Multon without the King's Licence by reason whereof the Castle of Egremont and other the Lands whereof she was possessed were seised into the King's hands But afterwards upon Composition he had Livery of them again and obtaining the Wardship of the two Daughters and Heirs of the said Richard de Lucie married them to his two Sons viz. Annâ—bell to his eldest Son Lambert de Multon and Alice to Alan de Multon the younger Son the Lands which by the death of him the said Richard so descending unto them and afterwards divided being the Mannors of Egremond Aspatrick Caldebec Brathwayâ— and Husacre in Com. Cumbr. ¶ Of which Lambert de Multon and his Descendents I have spoke under the title of Multon of Egremont Lucie of Cokermouth I Now come to Thomas the Son of Alan de Multon who by reason that Alice his Mother was one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Richard de Lucie of Egremont assumed the sirname of Lucie This Thomas married Isabell one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Adam de Bolteby a great man in Northumberland and in 16 Edw. 1. doing his Fealty had Livery of all the Lands which were of the Inheritance of Alice his Mother But died in 3â— Edw. 1. being then seised of the Mannor of Langley in Com. Northumb. which came to him by the marriage of her the said Isabell. He likewise died seised of the Mannor of Aspatrik and Royalty of the Liberty of Allerdale in Com. Cumbr. as also of the Mannor of Caldebek leaving Thomas his Son and Heir twenty four years of age Which Thomas doing his Homage the same year had Livery of his Lands and in 34 Edw. 1. was in the Wars of Scotland But in 2 Edw. 2. died without Issue whereupon Anthony his Brother being found his next Heir and at that time twenty five years of age doing his Homage had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance excepting those which Christian the Widow of him the said Thomas held in Dower viz. the third part of the Mannors of Balnes Brathwayt Aspatrik and Caldebek in Com. Cumbr. as also the third part of the Mannor of Langele and Villages called Fourstones and Allerwashe in Com. Northumb. Which Aâ—thony in 34 Edw. 1. was together with his Brother Thomas in the Scotish Wars and in 4 Edw. 2. received command with divers other noble persons to fit himself with Horse and Arms and to be at Roâ—borough within the month after the Nativity of Saint Iohn Baptist thence to march against the Scots In 7 Edw. 2. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and in 10 Edw. 2. joyned in Commission with William Lord Dacre for defence of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmerland against the Incursions of the Scots In 11 Edw. 2. bâ—ing made Sheriff of Cumberland he was constituted sole Guardian of that County and of Westmerland and in 12 Edw. 2. again made Sheriff of Cumberland as also Governour of the Castles of Earlisle and Cokermouth In 16 Edw. 2. being again made Sheriff of Cumberland and Governour of the Castle of Carlisle he was also constituted Governour of the Castle of Appleby and likewise of the Castle and Honour of Egremond and the same year obtained from the King a Grant in Fee of the Castle and Honour of Cockermouth with the Mannor of Papcastre pertaining thereto to hold by the service of one Knights Fee Moreover the next ensuing year he obtained a Charter for a weekly Market on the Tuesday at his Mannor of Heydonbrigge in Com. Northumb. and a Fair yearly on
Money Also That a Priest being one of that Covent should daily say a Mass of Requiem at an Altar to be ordained in the said Abby for his Soul and the Souls before rehearsed Moreover That his Executors at the time of his Burial or before so soon as notice might come to them of his Dâ—ath in all haste should procure a thousand Priests to say a thousand Placebo's and Dirges as also a thousand Masses for his Soul â—vâ—ry Priest to have for so doing vi d. And that all that Service be done on one day if reasonably possible Likewise That C l. should be disposed to Poor Folk after his Decease and to the Freres of Notingham Northampton Leicester and Derby Furthermore Whereas George Earl of Shrewsbury whose Wardship and Marriage he had obtained by the King's Lâ—tters Patents had married Anne his Daughter he willed That if the said Earl should die before any Carnal knowledge betwixt him and her had that then Thomas Brother to the same Earl should take her to Wife in case the Law of the Church would allow it And likewise ordained That his Feoffees should make an Estate immediately after his Decease unâ—o Kâ—therine his Wife of the Mannors of Stokâ— D'aubeney Wilberston and Sutton in Com. Northampt. Edmonton in Totenham in Com. Midd. Kiâ—kâ—y Lubbesthorpe Braunston Bagwâ—rth Thornton and the Parks of Bagworth and Kirby in Com. Leic. and of the Mannors of Welborne and Assakby in Com. Linc. for term of her Life so that she release her Dowrie in the Mannors of Bewyke Thurkilby Barow Bolton Percy Fyncheley the Rape of Hastings Everiâ—gham-Fee the Hundred of Framland and all other Lands before assigned to perform his Will This his untimely Death hapned on Fryday 13 Iunii 1 Edw. 5. the Bastard for so the Inquisition calls him he dying then seised of the Castle Lordship and Rape of Hastings in Com. Suss. of the Mannors of Burton-Hastings and Drakenage in Com. Warr. of the Mannor and Lordship of Bewmaner with the Mannors of Barowe Querndon Whitwyke Rotby Stâ—chaston Hewton Dokelscote Donyngton Merkseld and Whitington of the Office of Steward of the Honour of Leicester of the Mannors of Shepeshed Botisford Ashâ—y lâ— Zouche Bagâ—orâ—h Thornton Kirby Lubbesthorpe Fleckne◠〈◊〉 Newton Harcourt Braundston Ashbâ— parva and the Hundred of Framland all in Com. Leic. of the Mannor of Lyghe and Office of Chief Forester in the County of Rutland Of the Mannors of Welford Stoke D'aubency and Sutton in Com. Northampt. Of the Mannors of Hekyn on Folkyngham the Castle and Lordship of Belvoir with the Mannors of Welborne Lavington Saperton Avelthorpe Asâ—ake by Birthorpe Repinghale Kirkby Walcote Graby Hadyngton and the third part of the Mannor of Bicar in Com. Linc. Of the Castle and Mannor of Slingesâ—y with the Mannors of Bewâ—ke Formonby Allerstane and Wodehaue in Com. Ebor. Of the Mannors of Dronefelde in Com. Derb. and of the Mannors of Lameley Bleseby â—â—rrone Giopesmore Arnall and Everyngham Fee in Com. Nott. leaving Issue by Katherine his Wife Daughter of Richard Nevill Earl of Salisbury Widow of William Lord Bonvile Edward his Son and Heir at that time xvii years of age and upwards as also Richard and William two younger Sons and Anne a Daughter married to George Earl of Shrewsbury No sooner was this Lord Hastings thus destroy'd than that the Protâ—ctor to countenance the Fact sent speedily for divers eminent Citizens and at their coming appearâ—d to them accompanied with the Duke of â—uckingham in old Harness and told them That the Lord Hastings with others of his Party having conspired to murther him and that Duke upon that very day as they sate in Council he was advertised thereof before ten of the clock that Morning and therefore became necessitated in that exigent to put on what Harness was next at hand And the better to satisfie the People therein he forthwith sent an Herald at Arms to declare through the City of London the Tenor of that Conspiracy and that the Lord Hastings had a purpose after the accomplishment of that his designed Murther of him and the Duke to take upon him the Government of the young King and the Realm Moreover That he had been an evil Counsellor to the late King Edward the Fourth and that he had also lived Adulterously with Shore's Wife Also That she was one of the Persons in that Plot with him and That he lay with her the very preceding Night Adding That in case his Execution should have been delay'd some Commotion might have hapned for his Rescue But this Proclamation being so plausibly Penn'd fair Engrossed and Publish'd within two hours after his Death made it clearly manifest that the Design for thus cutting him off was privily laid before-hand It is said by some That the real cause of the Protector 's thus dealing with him was That knowing him to be an Enemy to the Queen and all her Kindred as Buckingham also was he easily allur'd him to condescend that Rivers the young King 's Maternal Uncle and Grey his half Brother should first be severed from him then Imprison'd and lastly to avoid future inconvenience wrought his consent to cut off their Heads And having gone thus far urg'd that Argument so far viz. To depress those whom they had injur'd and destroy those whâ—m they had depress'd as nothing but the Death of the young King himself could fashion the Conclusion And though he had satisfied Buckingham That whensoever the King and his Brother should arrive to able years they would take a most severe Revenge of that unpardonable Wrong thus done to their Uncle and Brother yet with this Lord Hastings whose Fidelity to his Masters Sons was without suspicion he took another course which was by Catesby to sound him and in case he found him not plyable then to kill him sitting in Council and if that failed to make use of the Hangman in cutting off his Head Besides all this I am further to observe That in Anno 1477. 17 E. 4. the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of our Lady at Leicester by their Instrument bearing date 12 Febr. whereunto their Common Seal is affix'd covenanted That whensoever he should fortune to depart this Life they would keep a special Obit for him in their Church upon the day of his Funeral As also every year to celebrate his Anniversary for the health of his Soul and the Soul of the Lady Catherine his Wife And that the Provost of that Collegiate Church should yearly upon that day at the end of Mass pay to the Dean iii s. iv d. and to every Canon then present ii s. To every Vicar of that Quire then also present xii d. To every Clerk vi d. To every Chorister iv d. Likewise to the Virger iv d. And to every poor Man and Woman then being in the Almshouse within that College a Peny our of the Issues and Profits
find That whereas this Henry was in the King's Service in the Wars of Gascoigne from the Feast of St. Peter ad Vincula in Anno 17 Edw. 2. until the Feast of St. Mary Magdalen then next following within which time his Father died viz. on the Feast-day of the Apostles Simon and Iude so that he could not come to take possession of his Inheritance fallen to him thereby so soon as accustomably he should have done King Edward the Third therefore in the first year of his Reign taking consideration of that his Service remitted to him a Debt of Clii l. owing to the Exchequer he being also the same year in his Wars of Scotland In 16 E. 3. the King intending a Voyage-Royal into France and to take Shipping with his Army at Portsmonth upon the first of March sent his Precept to this Henry to attend him there accordingly with Twenty Men at Arms and Twenty Archers Whether he was in that Expedition or not I am uncertain for it is evident that he died the same year being then seised of one Messuage and forty Acres of Land in Braddon in Com. Northampt. of the Mannors of Eton and Waterhall in Com. Buck. Purle in Com. Essex Kemple in Com. Glouc. Gylling in Com. Hunt which was given to Iohn de Grey Justice of Chester and Emme his Wife and to Râ—ginald their Son and his Heirs whereby it descended to Iohn the Son of the said Reginald and from that Iohn to this Henry his Son and Heir Aston Grey in Com. Wiltes and Wilton upon Weye with the Advowson of the Church of Peterstowe in the Marches of Wales leaving Reginald his Son and Heir thirty years of age Which Reginald in 19 E. 3. being a Baneret upon that Expedition which the King then made into France had command to prepare himself and all his Retinue so that he might be in readiness to set Sail with him thither upon the Feast-day of St. Laurence the same year But of this Reginald I have not seen any thing farther memorable till his death other than that he was summon'd to the several Parliaments from 17 until 34 E. 3. inclusive and that he departed this Life upon Tuesday in Whitson-week in 44 E. 3. being then seised of a certain Mannor in Hemingby in Com. Linc. as also of the Mannors of Stretton and Shirland in Com. Derb. Mundene in Com. Hertf. Porth-pole juxta Holburne in Com. Midd. Purle with the Hamlet of Giberake in Com. Essex Wilton super Waye in the Marches of Wales Hertfordingbury in Com. Hertf. Towsland in Com. Hunt Eyton and Waterball in Com. Buck. and Eston Grey in Com. Wiltes leaving Henry his Son and Heir xxviii years of age and Maude his Widow who had for her Dowrie assign'd to her out of his Estate the Mannor of Shirland in Com. Derb. Towsland in Com. Hunt and Hemyngby in Com. Linc. Which Henry then doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands This Henry in 40 E. 3. his Father then living was of the Retinue of Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster in that Expedition then by him made into Gascoigne and in 50 E. 3. was summon'd to Parliament by the Name of Henry de Grey de Shirland Chivalier And departed this Life upon Saturday next before the Feast of St. George in 19 R. 2. leaving Richard his Son and Heir by Elizabeth his Wife then three years of age which Elizabeth had the Mannor of Purle with divers Lands in Great Legâ—es in Com. Essex as also the fourth part of the Mannor of Olney in Com. Buck. assign'd to her for her Dowrie And Margaret a Daughter Wife to Iohn Lord Darcy This last-mention'd Richard being so young at his Fathers death came not into action of a long time for till 3 H. 5. I find no mention oâ— him but then he was of the Retinue with Thomas Earl of Dorset Uncle to the King and Lieutenant of Normandy in his Expedition thither Nor from that time until the twentieth of Henry the Sixth that he made his Testament at Blechelee the twelfth of August Anno 1442. whereby he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church of our Lady at Blechelee and gave his Mannor of Baryll-Hall in Com. Essex to Margaret his Wife to hold during her Life and died upon the Munday next preceding the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the same year being then seised of the Castle and Mannor of Wilton in Com. Hereâ— of the Mannor of Port-pole called Grays-Inn in Com. Midd. of the Mannors of Shirland and Stretton in Com. Derb. Hemmyngby in Com. Linc. Aston Grey in Com. Wiltes Shenley Aston Clintâ—n Morton Sherington Water-Eaton and Water-Hall in Com. Buck. Purle Seires South-house le Hyde Snorham Weldebernes Lathingden-bernes and Aâ—resflote in Com. Essex Berton in Com. Cantabr with Towestond and Gilling in Com. Hunt leaving Reginald his Son then twenty one years of age Margaret his second Wife surviving him Which Reginald the next ensuing year had Livery of his Lands doing his Homage And in 30 H. 6. the said Margaret died viz. 16 Ian. leaving William de Grey her Son and Heir then nineteen years of age To the last-mentioned Richard succeeded Reginald his Son and Heir before-mentioned But of him I find nothing more than that he had Issue Iohn who was retain'd by Indenture in 14 E. 4. to serve the King in his Dutchy of Normandy and Realm of France for one whole year beginning upon the one and twentieth of November with six Spears and fifty Archers In 1 R. 3. this Iohn obtain'd a Grant from the King of the Mannor of Wilsamstede in Bedfordshire and to the Heirs-male of his Body And in 11 H. 7. fought stoutly at Black-Heath against the Cornish-men then in Rebellion under the leading of Iames Lord Audley In 12 H. 7. he was again retain'd to serve the King in his Wars of Scotland under the Command of Giles Lord D'aubeny Captain-General of the King's Army for that Expedition with one Lance four Demi-lances and fifty Bows and Bills for CCxc Miles with one Lance four Demi-lances and fifty Bows and Bills for CClxvi Miles and with two Lances eight Demi-lances and two hundred Bows and Bills for CC Miles And departing this Life 2 Martii Anno ... was buried in the White-Fryers at London To this Iohn succeeded Edmund his Son and Heir who in 22 H. 7. had a special Livery of his Lands This Edmund by his Testament bearing date 5 Maii 3 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Blecheley and died the same year leaving Issue four Sons George Thomas Richard and William Which William in regard the rest of his Brothers died successively without Issue became Heir to the Estate and Honour and in 20
to attend him whereof he took no notice insomuch as the King directed his Precept to the Sheriff of Gloucestershire to go to his Castle of Thornbury and require him to be at Gloucester on Friday the third of April 14 E. 2. He so slighted the Summons as that Command was given to seise his Lands yet in 1 E 3. upon his Allegation in Parliament that there were divers Errors in the prosecution which had been against him he had full restitution of them again In 7 E. 3. there being great difference betwixt this Hugh de Alditheley and William le Zouche of Mortimer they armed all the power they could make against each other In this year he was in that Expedition then made into Scotland so also in 9 E. 3. In 10 E. 3. being in the King's Service in Scotland he had Twenty Hogsheads of Wine sent him in part of his Wages for which he was by Indenture obliged to serve the King in his Wars there In 11 E. 3 he was in Parliament Created Earl of Gloucester being that year in the Scottish Wars And shortly after in consideration of his good Services in Scotland had half a years respit for the payment of such Debts as he then owed to the King It is observable that the most antient Grant whereby some Revenue hath been given out of the Profits of the County for the better support of the Dignity of an Earl is that which was given to this Hugh by his Creation-Charter before cited it being in lieu of the Tertium Denarium de placitis Comitatus which anciently the Earls had In 13 E. 3. he was amongst others assigned to array all the able Men of Esseâ— for the Defence of the Sea-Coasts there against an Invasion then feared The same year being with the King in France and constituted one of the Marshals of the English Host he was in that part of the Royal Army drawn up for Battail at Uironfosse and ledby King Edward himself And in 14 E. 3. beingsent into Flanders upon the Kings Service was in that memorable Sea-Fight before Sluyce between the English and French In 15. E. 3. being Ambassador beyond Sea he had two hundred and thirty Marks allow'd him for his expences in that Journey In 16 E. 3. he wasone of those great Men who then went into Britanny upon the Kings Service his Troop consisting of an hundred Men at Arms himself accounted for one one Baneret twenty Knights seventy eight Eiqâ—â—â—â— as also an hundred Archers on Horsâ—back He was there also in 17 E. 3. Moreover the same year he was sent with the Earl of â—â—â—â—câ—ster and divers other great Lords into Scotland to raise the Siege of Loughmaban Castle and Died in 21 E. 3. leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife before mentioned one onely Daughter called Margaret his sole Heir then thirty years of Age and Wife of Raphe Lord Stafford ¶ Of this Family also was Iames de Alditheley who had summons to Parliament after the eldest branch went off with Daughters and Heirs from 8 H. 5. until 33 H. 6. inclusive This Iames was likewise a Military Man and served the King in his French Wars In 7 H. 5. he covenanted to attend him with Twenty Men at Arms and Sixty three Archers on Horseback for one whole year for which he was to receive 289 l. 3 s. 6 d. ob Shortly after which he reteined Richard Venables Esq to serve him for one h â—lf year in the Realm of France with Six Men at Arms and Eighteen Archers covenanting to pay him for himself and his Men at Arms twelve pence a day and for the Archers six pence a day In 9 H. 5. he was again in France in that Kings Service Moreover in 2 H. 6. he was made Justice of South-Wales And in 9 H. 6. served the King again in his French Wars Montfort OF this Family the First that setled in this Realm was Simon Great-grand child to Almaric an illegitimate Son to Robert King of France viz. Son to Almaric Earl of Montfort Son of Simon de Montfort Son of the said Almaric who had the Town of Montfort by the Gift of the King his Father whence he assumed that place for his Sirname who was commonly called Simon the Bald and having taken to W. Amicia one of the two Sisters and Coheirs to Robert Fitz-Parnel Earl of Leicester upon partition of the Lands belonging to that Honour made in 8 Ioh. betwixt her the said Amicia and Margaret her Sister then Married to Saier de Quinci enjoyed the Moiety of that Earldome with the Honour of Hinkley for her purpartie as also the Stewardship of England in right thereof Which Partition was then confirmed scil in 8 Io. by King Iohn reserving to him the said Simon the Third Penny of that County id est de placitis Comitatus and the Stewardship of England provided that forty pounds per annum Lands of this purpartie should remain to the same Saiâ—er de Quinci over and above the purpartie of Margaret his Wife until this Simon could obtain Livery of his purpartie of those Lands in Normandy belonging to the said Robet Fitz-Parnell And likewise provided that after the Death of the two Countesses of Leicester then living viz Petronill the Mother and Lauretta the Wife to Earl Robert the Lands which they held in Dowry should be equally shared betwixt them But notwithstanding the great Inheritance and Honour he had by this Marriage he became disobedient to King Iohn adhering to the French for which respect he was dispossessed of the Earldom of Leicester as also of the Honour of Hinkley and banish'd the Realm the Earldom being thereupon given to Ranulpb Earl of Chester Being thus disherited and banish'd that which I do in the next place find memorable of him is that in Anno 1209. 11 Ioh. the Pope having then incited the Christians against those Hereticks called Albigenses the Earl of Tholose being the Christian General besieged Carthose and took it and upon his return made this Simon then sign'd with the Cross to fight against those Hereticks Governour of that Countrey he bearing at that time the Title of Earl of Montfort Likewise that after this within few years King Iohn committed the custody of all his Lands with the Forest unto Ranulph then Earl of Chester to be kept to his the said Simon 's use And lastly that in Anno 1219. 3 H. 3. Lewis King of France then besieging the City of Tholose this Simon being with him was slain with a stone from a Sling But our Historian is somewhat mistaken in point of time for it is evident that he died in 2 H. 3. and not bearing the Title of Earl of Leicester whereupon Stephen
and three days after And in 9 Edw. 2. had License to make a Castle of his Mannor-House at Dunstaâ—burgh in Com. Northumbr In 10 Edw. 2. he was again in the Scotish Wars and in 11 Edw. 2. having command to raise two thousand Foot well armed out of his own Lands and Fees and to bring them to the King at Newcastle within one Moneth after the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist he retained by Indenture Sir Hugh Menill Knight to serve him in Peace and War for the term of his whole life viz. In the Wars of England Ireland Scotland and Wales with three Men at Arms well mounted armed and arrayed covenanting to allow him Harness for his own Body and recompence for what Arms and Horses should be lost in the War in his service As also Apparel and Saddles Livery of Hay and Oats for his Hâ—rses and the like Wages for so many Grooms as he gave to his other Bachellors And in time of Peace upon his going to Parliament or elswhere Livery of Hay and Oats for four Horses and Wages for the like number of Grooms And over and above all this an Annuity of ten marks The like Retainer had Sir Iohn de Ewre to sâ—rve him with ten Men at Arms in time of War whereof three to be Knights allowing them bouch of Court with Livery of Hay Oats Horsshooes and Nails as other Bannerets usually had And in time of Peace attending him to Parliament or other Assemblies with all his Knights in Livery to have Dyet in his Hall as also Hay Oats Horsshooes and Nails for eight and twenty Horse and Wages for as many Grooms with Livery of Wine and Candlâ—s for his Chamber And when he should come himself with one Knight then to have bouch of Court with Hay and Oats for seven Horses Wages for so many Grooms and Livery of Wine and Candles for his Chamber But the grudge still remaining betwixt the King and this Earl in 10 Edw. 2. two Cardinals were sent into England from the Pope to reconcile them Which being done the Conditions on the Kings part were soon broken whereupon Discontents more and more increased Nevertheless shortly after this viz. in 12 E. 2. Queen Eleanâ—r late Wife to King Henry the Third having formerly out of her intire affection to this Thomas and Henry his Brother her Grandsons given unto them and their Heirs a certain part of the Earldom of Province which by right of Inheritance descended to her from her Father and Mother with jurisdiction of a meer and mixt Empire and all Rights and Priviledges thereto belonging And for defect of issue by them to revert to her Heirs Kings of England he obtained a Confirmation thereof from the King bearing date the fifth day of Iune the same year But that favor did no whit qualifie those Discontents which were harbored in his Brest towards the King which more and more increasing at length viz. in 14 Edw. 2. broke out openly he then appearing the principal of those who confederated together for the destruction of such as they called Traytors to the Realm whereof the two Spensers were the cheif charging them with misleading the King to the great damage of the people and engaging themselves to live and die with each other For the cause of Iustice for that term they gave to their design against those persons In which juncture there hapning a great quarrel betwixt Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and William de Braose an eminent Baron in the Marches of Wales about a certain Territory called â—owher-Land lying in those parts Roger de Mortimer the Uncle and Roger the Nephew delt with Braose for his title thereto Iohn de Moubray also who had married the Daughter of Braose sole heir to that Land accounting his to be the better right likewise putting in his Claim But whilst they were thus in contest for it Hugh le Despenser the younger the great Favorite and powerful Man of that time taking advantage of these their differences entred upon it and excluded them both Which insolent Act so alarmed the Earl of Hereford that he presently complained thereof to this Thomas Earl of Lancaster Who thereupon drawing in divers of the Nobility to his â—ide came to Shirebuâ—ne Whence with Banners displayed he marched to S. Albans preâ—ending to reform what was amiss in the Government Where staying for three days he sent the Bishops of Ely Hereford and Chichâ—ster to the King then at London requiring that he would banish the Spensers as persons highly censured by the people for divers great misdemeanors as also to afford Letters of Indempnity to himself and all others who were parties in that Insurrection Which being denied they forthwith marched to London and there appeared so formidable that by the advice of the Queen and those Bishops the King at length assented insomuch as the Edict for their banishment was forthwith published by the Earl of Hereford in Westminster-Hall But not long after the Tide turned the other way for the next ensuing year viz. 15 Edw. 2. the King raising a powerful Army divers of this Earls Confederates fell off by reason of some displeasure which he had taken against the Lord Badlesmere and submitted Whereupon those who stood firm marched with him first to Glocester and thence to Burton upon Trent and so to his Castle at Tuâ—bury about four miles distant doing much spoil to the Countrey in their passage In which journey having with him a certain Knight called Sir Robert de Holland whom he had taken out of his Buttery and preferred to two thousand marks per annum he sent him into Lancashire to bring up Five hundred men out of those parts but instead of bringing them to him he conducted them to the King The King therefore having notice of their motion pursued them with all his power first marching down to Coventry and thence to Leichfield to which place on the morrow after S. Chads day the two Spensers came to him with all their strength which so startled this Earl That upon the sixth Ides of March he placed Foot on each side the Bridge at Burton to hinder the Kings passage over Trent By reason whereof he was constrained to ford the River at Walton about three miles above which being made known to this Earl he drew out his Men from Cutbury Castle expecting aid from the before specified Sir Robert de Holland and others who had promised their help And when he saw they failed him fled Northwards Whereupon the King coming to â—uâ—bury sealed a Commission bearing date there 11 Martii to Edmund Earl of Kent and Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey requiring them forthwith to pursue and arrest him and all his party As also to
contrary to his Promise given he caus'd the Heads of this Richard and Sir Thomas Dimock to be forthwith cut off Of which cruel Act so soon as Sir Robert had notice he Marcht to the next Village standing a while doubtful whether he should fight until the Earl of â—arwicâ— came up with his Forces considering the King did out-number him But at length taking courage he put his Men in Array and fought stoutly for some houres till many of them forsaking him he was taken prisoner and thereupon with his Brother Dimock forthwith beheaded This Richard was summon'd to Parliament by the name of Richard Welles Lord Willoughby from 33 H. 6. to 6 Edw. 4. inclusive His son Robert being thus cut off and without issue left Elizabeth his VVife daughter of Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners surviving Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing date 2d Oct. 10 Edw. 4. which was the next ensuing year bequeath'd her Body to be buryed in the Church of the Fryers at Doncaster where the Body of her said Husband lay Interred Of which Testament she constituted Executors Margerie Lady Berners her Mother and Sir Humphrey Bourchier Knight To this Sir Robert Welles succeeded Ioane his Sister as Heir then Married to Richard Hastings Esquire Brother to William Lord Hastings Chamberlain of the Houshold to King Edward the Fourth which Richard in 10 E. 4. had so much favor from that King that he obtained a special Livery of all the Castles Lordships Mannors and Lands whereof her Father Richard Lord Welles and Willoughty or Sir Robert Welles Knight her Brother or either of them were possess'd at the time of their respective Deaths and which by right ought to have descended to her the said Ioane and this without any Writ of Diem clausit extremum c. Which Mannors and Lands as appeareth by the Inquisition taken in 15 E. 4. mentioning the Attainder of the said Richard and Sir Robert in the Parliament held at Westminster 12 E 4. were as followes viz. Skendelby Comberworth Gawsell Willoughby Hoggesthorpe Ingoldmelles Cokerington Hawneby Trusthorpe Sutton Bunthorpe Welles Alford UUitherne Conyngesholme Graynesby Bradeley Hellowe Abye Pinchebek Belcheford Fulstowe Arsyke Swabye Orbye Burghe Partenay Ratheby Toyntone UUesterkele Stykeford Fowlstowe-Beke Saltflet-Haven Somercotes Carleton Screvelby Fenton Plesseley Toste Steping-magna Thedelthorpe Eresbye Handelby Hiptoft-Hall and Saltfletby in Com. Lincoln ¶ Having thus done with the chief branch of this Noble Family I come to Iohn Son of Leo Lord Welles by Margaret Dutchess of Somerset his Second Wife This Iohn in 1 R. 3. put himself in Arms for Henry Earl of Richmund but seeing the Duke of Buckingham who did the like unhappily betray'd fled with the Marquess of Dorset and others into Britanny And standing thus faithful to that Earl upon his arrival to the Crown by the Name of Henry the Seventh was made Constable of Rockingham-Castle having therewith also a Grant of the Stewardship of the Forest. Moreover in 3 H. 7. having then the Title of Vicount UUelles though the time of his Creation appeareth not on Record he obtain'd a Grant in special tail of the Mannor of Braunceton in the County of the City of Lincolne also of the Mannor of Blankney in Com. Linc. and Rusby in Com. Salop. late Francis Lord Lovel's attainted Likewise of the Mannor of East-Deping part of the possession of Roger Wake and of the Mannors of Bulwyke and Haryngworth in Com. Northampt. part of the Possessions of Iohn Lord Zouche Having Married Cecelie Daughter to King Edward the Fourth he had Summons to Parliament from 3 to 12 H. 7. inclusive And by his Testament bearing date 8 Feb. An. 1498. 14 H. 7. bequeath'd his Body to be Buried as the King and Queen and the Lady Margaret Countess of Richmund and Derby the Kings Mother and his own Wife should think fit Appointing that the said Lady Cecilie his Wife should have all his Castles Mannors c. during her Life And died 9 Feb. An. 1498. 14 Hen. 7. being St. Apolline's day at Paâ—mers-place in St. Sythes in London whereupon he was Buried in our Ladies Chapel at UUestminster leaving issue one sole Daughter called Anne who died ... and was Buried in the Augustine-Friers at London Leiburne 27 Edw. 1. IN 10 R. 1. Robert de Leeburne being dead Stephen de Turnbam gave three hundred Marks Fine to the King for the Wardship and Marriage of his Heir And in 9 Ioh. Margaret de Leeburne his Widdow I presume gave one hundred pounds and two Palfreys for licence to Marry again To Robert succeeded Roger his Son and Heir who in 17 Ioh adhering to the Rebellious Barons then in Arms was taken Prisoner amongst other of them in Rochester-Castle and committed to the safe custody of Iohn Mareschall This Roger Married Elianore one of the Daughters of the before specified Stephen de Turnham and in 36 H. 3. being in that notable Tourneament then held at Walden in Com. Essex Encountered with Ernauld de Mountenei a valiant Knight and unhappily run his Lance into his Throat under his Helment it wanting a Coller whereupon Mountney fell from his Horse and died presently insomuch as it was then supposed by some That in regard his Lance had not a Socket on the Point he did it purposely in revenge of a broken Leg he had received from Mountney Tilting with him in a former Tourneament After which the next ensuing year he attended the King in his Expedition then made into Gascoine And in 44 H. 3. was made Constable of the Castle at Bristol But in 46 H. 3. favouring the part of those turbulent Spirited Barons who were then grown powerful he was one of them whom the King by his Precpt prohibited to meet at any Tourneament without his special License Whereupon appearing openly on their side he took his Oath at Oxford to adhere firmly unto them for which together with the rest he underwent the Sentence of Excommunication by the Archbishop of Canterbury But not long after this being drawn off by Rewards as was said he forsook them Whereupon in 48 Hen 3. 26 Nov. he was made Warden of the Cinque-Ports and in December following became one of the undertakers together with Prince Edward and divers of the great Lords that the King should stand to the Arbitrement of the King of France touching the Ordinances of Oxford But the Barons declining that Award he farther manifested his Fidelity to the King by his eminent Actions in the ensuing War First at Northampton the same year being in Arms with him at the taking of that Town and Castle where the Barons had a notable Defeat And shortly after that upon the Assault of Rochester-Castle by those Barons where he received some dangerous Wounds
this Robert de Morle was in the Scotish VVars So likewise in 10 Edw 3. And in 12 Edw. 3. the King being then beyond-Sea was made Lieutenant of Norfolk Moreover in 13 Edw. 3. he was constituted Admiral of the King 's whole Fleet from the Mouth of Thames Northwards and the next year following upon Easter-Day giving Battel to the French near 〈◊〉 in Fâ—anders the like Sea-â—ight having never before been seen obtain'd a notable Victory In that year also he receiv'd command to send Ten Ships unto the Port of Oxwell for transporting of divers Men and Horses unto Henry de Lancaster Earl of Derby at that time in Flanders And in 15 Edw. 3. sayling with that Fleet unto Normandy and other Ships from the Cinque-ports he burnt Fourscore Ships of the Normans as also three Port-Towns and two other Villages At that time also he had an Assignation of One hundred Marks charg'd upon the Collector of the Subsidies on the South of Trent towards his disbursments as Admiral of the Northern Fleet. And in 16 Edw. 3. being still Admiral was in that great Expedition then made into France So likewise in 17 Edw. 3. with Twenty Men at Armes of his Retinue as also in 10 Edw. 3. being then in the Retinue with Hugh le Dâ—â—enser Again in 20 Edw. 3. at which time the English obtain'd that notable Victory at Cressi Also in 21 Edw. 3. In which year upon his delivery of Nine hundred and fifty Marks of Silver for the VVages of those Men at Armes and Archers whilst he was Admiral the King remitted to him all other Debts he then owed and pardoned the sum of One hundred thirty six pounds then due from him to the Exchequer In 22 E. 3. he was again made Admiral of the Northern Fleet. And in 26 E. 3. upon the danger of an Invasion then threatned by the French was joyn'd in Commission with Robert de Vfford Earl of Suffolk for Arraying of Men in Norfolk and Suffolk in order to the defence of those parts In 29 E. 3. he was made Constable of the Tower of London and again Admiral of the Fleet for the North Seas In 30 E. 3. he had a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn Lands at Burston in Com. Herâ—f And in 33 E. 3. was again in the Wars of France And having been summon'd to Parliament from 11 E. 2. to 31 E. 3. inclusive departed this life in France in 34 E. 3. then attending on the King about Mid-Lent being seised of the Mannors of Morle and Greâ—senhale in Com. Norff. And as Tenant by the Curtesie of England in right of Hawyse his VVife daughter and heir to Sir William Mareschall Knight of the Mannors of Walkerne in Com. Hertf. Hallyngbury in Com. Essex Hokeryng Swanâ—one Boxtone Hengham with the Hundreds of Forehowe and Eynesford in Com. Norff. Also of the Mannor of Grymeston in Com. Norff. the reversion thereof belonging to Thomas his younger Son who departed this life sixteen years before leaving Henry his brother and heir Fourteen years of age To this last mention'd Robert Lord Morle succeeded Sir William Morle Knight his son and heir by the before-mention'd Hawyse his first VVife being Thirty years of age at that time VVhich Sir William doing his homage the same year had Livery of all his Lands In 30 Edw. 3. which was in his Father's life-time this William being then a Knight was in that Expedition made into France with Robert de Vfford Earl of Suffolk and in 38 Edw. 3. had License to travel beyond Sea As also to grant the Office of Marshal of Ireland which descended to him by Inheritance from his Mother to Henry de Ferrers to hold so long as he should behave himself well therein And having been summon'd to Parliament from 38 Edw. 3. until 2 Rich. 2. inclusive by his Testament bearing date at Halingbury Magna in Com. Essex 26 Aug. An. 1379. 2 Rich. 2. Bequeath'd his body to be buryed in the Church of the Friers-Augustines at Norwich Appointing that two of his best Horses should be disposed of for Mortuaries viz. His best black Horse to those Friers on the day of his Funeral and his Palfrey called Don to the Rector of the Church of Hallyngbury before-mentioned He likewise bequeath'd the sum of Forty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence to seven Priests to Celebrate Divine-Service for his Soul for the space of one whole year next ensuing his decease one of them at Hallyngbury one at Swantone one at Hokeryng one at Hengham one at Folsham and one in the Chappel of Cecilie his Wife and the seventh to the Frier Richard of the Order of St. Augustine his Confessor to be equally divided among them And to Sir Thomas Morle Knight his son he bequeath'd his Principal Dorser four Costers and one Banker with his Armes Shortly after which viz. upon the 30th of April next following he departed this life being then seised of the Mannor of Great Haâ—â—yngbury and moyetie of the Mannor of Bromley in Com. Essex Walkerne in Com. Hertf. Hokeryng Buxtone Swantone Morley Aldby and Folsham in Com. Norf. leaving Sir Thomas Morley Knight his son and heir Twenty five years of age who thereupon doing his homage had Livery of his Lands Cecilie his Wife daughter to Thomas Lord Bardolph then surviving Which Cecilie by her Testament bearing date on Thursday the Eve of St. Matthew the Apostle An. 1386. 10 R. 2. bequeath'd her Body to be buryed in the Church of the Friers Augustines at Norwich where the before-specified William Lord Morle her late husband lay interred and died on Friday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle next ensuing Thomas her son and heir being then of full age Which Thomas in 4 R. 2. arriving at Calais with divers other English Lords rode with his Banner display'd And in 15 R. 2. being Marshall of â—reland was in that Expedition then made into France In 22 R. 2. he accompanyed Thomas le Despenser Earl of Gâ—ocester Thomas Perci then Earl of Worcester and divers other of the English Nobility into Ireland for the safeguard of that Realm In 3 H. 5. he was in that Expedition then made into France and in 4 H. 5. being constituted Admiral Lieutenant and Captain-General of all those Forces which were come up to London from several Ports conducted them to Southampton in order to their going into France This Thomas Lord Morle Marryed Anne daughter of Edward Lord Despenser by Elizabeth de Burghersh his Wife Which Anne was Widow of Sir Hugh de Hastings Knight And having been summon'd to Parliament from 5 Rich. 2. till 4 Hen. 5. inclusive departed this life 24th September the same year being then
In 30 Edw. 3. he was again in those Wars of Gaâ—come at which time the English obtained that signal Victory at Poytiers And being with Prince Edward upon his retreat from foraging of â—erry was set upon by an Ambuscado near unto 〈◊〉 but behaved himself so courageously in skirmishing with the Enemy that he kept them off till the Prince drew near upon the sight of whose Forces they fled In 33 Edw. 3. he attended the King again into 〈◊〉 At which time making another Excursion to Sourmussy which was fortified by a double Ditch he took it by assault and soon after by undermining the Castle obtain'd it by render In 34 Edw 3. Elizabeth his Mother then departing this life he had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited by reason of his absence in the Wars of France And for that respect had also a special respite for all his Debts In 37 Edw. 3. he was sent to Dover with divers other eminent persons to attend King Iohn of France upon his landing there thence to Canterbury and so to Etham where King Edward at that time was Shortly after which he obtain'd from the King a Grant of Two hundred pounds of that Debt which was due to him for the Count of Vendedour his prisoner In 39 Edw. 3. he was in another Expedition made into Flanders So likewise in 40 Edw. 3. And in 42 Edw. 3. upon the Peace made betwixt King Eward and the French was one of those Lords who Swore to the Articles on the King's part for the performance of them By his last Will and Testament bearing date at London 4 th April An 1369. 43 Edw. 3. he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Chappel of 〈◊〉 before the Image of the blessed Virgin Appointing that soon after his death his Corps should be to that purpose carried thither having one Taper at the head and another at the fect where it was to rest the first night Likewise that a Dirige should be there said and in the morning a Mass whereat a Noble to be offered for his Soul Moreover that two Torches should be carried along with no Corps one on the one side and the other on the other side kindled at the passing through every Town and then given to that Church wherein it should rest at night Likewise that the Charriot in which it was to be carried should be covered with red Cendall with the Lyon of his Arms thereon and his Helmet at the head and that to every Church wherein it was to rest all night the like Cloth of Condall with his Armes thereon to be left Also that every morning there should be given to the Poor of that place so much Dole as his Executors should think fit And that upon the day of his Funeral no other cover should be on his Body than that of red Cendall with the Lyon for his Armes and his Helmet as also a Taper at the Head and another at the Feet and on each side a Torch To Sir Walter Pavely he bequeath'd astanding Cup gilt with an L. upon the Cover as also his whole Sute of Armes for the Justs with his Coat of Male and Sword And departed this life 5 th April 43 Edw. 3. being then seised of the Mannor of Bekeswell in Com. Essex of the Castle and hundred of Ewyas Lacie in the Marches of Wales Of the Mannors of Heyhtredesbury Steâ—te and Colerne in Com. Wilts Of the Mannors of Welwetham Carleton Middelton Blaxole Asshe Clopton Swinlond Cokefeld and Witnesham in Com. Suff. and of the Mannor of Fenhale in the same County which he held by the Curtesie of England in right of the before-specified Cecilie his Wife Leaving Margaret his second Wife Sister to Bartholomew Lord Badlesmere surviving whom with the before-specified Walter Pavely he constituted his Executors and Elizabeth his daughter and heir Married to Edward le Despenser being then Twenty seven years of age After which viz. in 20 Rich. 2. Sir Roger de Swillington Knight obtain'd License from the King to found a Chantry consisting of five Priests one Clerk six Children in the Chappel of St. Catherine within the Cathedral Church of Lincolne for the health of the Soul of King Edward the Third and of this last mention'd Bartholonew Lord Burghersh and all his Ancestors ¶ I come now to Henry de Burghersh brother of this Bartholomew This Henry being a Knight in 21 Edw. 3. and having Married Isabell one of the sisters and coheirs to Edmund de St. Iohn had for her purpartie of the Lands of that Inheritance an Assignation of the Mannors of Bernham Halfnâ—ked and Middâ—ton in Com. Suss. as also of Forty pounds yearly Rent out of the Mannor of 〈◊〉 juxta Dertford in Com Cantii with one acre of Land in West-field within the Mannor of Baâ—yng in Com. South and departed this life in 23 E. 3. leaving Bartholomew his brother and heir Twenty six years of age and Isabel his Wife surviving afterwards Married to Lucas de Poynings ¶ Of this Family was Iohn de Burghersh who took to Wife Maud one of the daughters and heirs of Edmund Bacon of ... in Com. Essex but died before the 31 th of Edw 3. leaving issue by her a son called Iohn then within age Which Iohn as Cousin and heir to William de Kerdeston his Grandfather making proof of his age in 40 Edw. 3. had Livery of the Lands of his Inheritance lying in the Counties of Norff. and Suff. But this Livery was afterwards controverted by William de Kerdeston who laying claime to those Lands as son and heir to the before-specified William prevail'd therein In 47 Edw. 3. this Iohn de Burghershe being then a Knight was in that Expedition then made into Flanders but died in 19 Rich. 2. or before leaving issue by Ismania his Wife daughter of ... Hanham of ... in Com. Gloc. and Widow of Sir Iohn Ralegh of Nettlecombe Knight two daughters his heirs Margaret first Married to Sir Iohn Grenevil Knight and afterwards to Iohn Arundel of ... in Com. Cornub Esq. And Maude the Wife of Thomas Chaucer Which Margaret upon partition of the Lands of that Inheritance had for her purpartie an assignation of the Mannor of Ravensbury in Com. Oxon. Likewise a certain parcel of Land called Allemansland lying in Micham in Com. Surr. certain Lands in Skendelby in Com. Linc. Emelme and Tythorpe in Com. Oxon. with divers VVoods and Underwoods in Ryngefey and Tourley in Com. Buck. Thweng 35 Edw. 1. OF this Family antiently Lords of Kilton Castle in Cleveland and other large possessions in that Northern Tract of Yorâ—shiâ—e the first touching whom I find mention is Sir Robert de Thweng Knight who in 22 H. 3. upon
London so that this Duke and the rest who thought to have accomplish'd their work as they had design'd coming thither on the Sunday evening next after New-years-day in the twilight with about four hundred Men in Armes found that they were disappointed of their purpose Whereupon they went away much displeased But dissembling his discontent he rode to Sunning near â—eading where King Richard's Queen then was and in the presence of divers of her servants signing himself with his right hand on the fore-head said Bless me What is the reason that Henry of Lancaster who â—ath so much boasted of his valor doth thus shun me Adding My Lords and Friends be it known to you all that Henry of Lancaster who pursued me is now fled to the Tower of London with his sons and friends and that it is my purpose to go to King Richard my rightfull King who being escaped out of prison lieth at Pontfract with an Hundred thousand Men. And that the more credit might be given to what he said he pull'd King Henries Badges from some of his servants necks with disdain saying That hereafter none such should be used and tore off the Cresents from the Armes of such Gentlemen as wore them And so having cheered up the Queen though all in vain rode to Walingford and so to Abenton exhorting the people to put themselves in Armes for King Richards And at length came to Cirencester in the dark of the night with the like report But the Townsmen suspecting all this to be but counterfeit blockt up the Avenues the place whereunto they came and about midnight when they attempted to get privily away with Bowes and Arrowes hindred their passage Discerning therefore the danger he and the rest Arm'd themselves supposing they might easily conquer those Rusticks which after three houres fight seeing they could not do they submitted intreating that their lives might be spared till they could speak with the King But so it fell out that during this bustle a Priest of their Company presuming that if he could set some Houses on fire the Inhabitants would be so busied in quenching them that they might then have an opportunity to escape thereupon presently did so though to no purpose For the people by reason thereof grew the more enraged and letting the houses burn took this Earl with the Earl of Salisbury out of the Abby and beheaded them This hapned on Wednesday after the Feast of the Epiphany Which done they sent his Head to London where it was fet upon the Bridge But so much favour did Ioane his Wife daughter to Huge Earl of Stafford shortly after obtain that upon the second of March next ensuing she procured the King's precept to the Sheriffs of London to take it down and to deliver it to her to the end she might bury it wheresoever she should think fit And afterwards obtained farther leave that his Body interred at Cirencester might be taken up and carried to the Priory of Moutgrace before-mentioned so founded by him as before is expressed whereupon in the Parliament held the next ensuing year being attainted his Lands were seised But Ioane his Widdow obtained some favor having in 3 H. 4. for her better support a Grant for life of the Mannor of Ashford in Com. Derb. then valued at forty pounds per annum and of the Mannor of Allerton in Shirewod of the value of twenty pounds per annum of the Fee-Farm of the City of Chichester in Com. Suss. amounting to thirty six pounds per annum of the Mannor of Sutton in Com. Surr. valued at twenty pounds per annum which Grant she surrendred and in lieu thereof had an assignation of an hundred fifty eight pounds eight shillings out of the Exchequer during her life As also of two hundred Marks to maintain three Priests to celebrate Divine Service for the Soul of her said Husband and forty pounds to reward her Servants Likewise of two hundred Marks more for her self until she should have Livery of her own Lands After which she lived many years and departing this life 1 Oct. 21 H. 6. leâ—t Hamphrey Earl Stafford her Cousin and next Heir 〈◊〉 Son of Edmund her Brother thirty six years of age To this last mentioned Thomas for he dyed without Issue succeeded in the Title of Earl of Kent Edmund his Brother which Edmund for his better maintenance being then in minority obtained a Grant of two hundred Marks per annum payable out of the Mannor of Cotingham in Com. Ebor. till he should accomplish his full age Which being to slendeâ— an allowance about two years after representing to the King that he had no more then an hundred Marks per annum paid out of the Exchequer by vertue of an assignation from King Richard the Second as also the said sum of two hundred Marks per annum so granted as abovesaid to be paid out of the Mannor of Coâ—ingham and likewise certain Lands of forty pounds per annum value which came to the Crown by the death of the Lady Ioane Heseâ—yk Widdow he obtained another Grant of an hundred pounds per annum more to be paid out of the Revenues of the said Mannor of Coâ—ingham Moreover before the end of that year as Heir in tail to all those Castles Mannors and Lands whereof the before-specified Thomas his Brother died seised excepting only the Castle and Mannor of Donyngton in Coâ— Lâ—ic the Wapentak of Risâ—e in Com. Derk the Wapentak of Allerton in Com. Nott. the Mannor of Gretham with certain Lands in Staynwell the Mannors of Horblyng Segebrok and Thorley with the Free-Court of Hay and Knights Fees in Com. Linc. he obtained a special Livery by vertue of an old Entail formerly made of them to his Ancestors In 8 H. 4. this Edmund took to Wife the Lady Lucie Daughter to the Duke of Millaine in the Priory of St. Mary Overy in Suthwarke and kept his Wedding Feast in the Bishop of Winchesters House In 9. H. 4. he was constituted one of the Commissioners to Treat of Peace betwixt the King and the Duke of Britamy and was also made Lord Admiral of England But soon after this besieging the Castle and Isle of Briak in Britanny he received a mortal wound on his Head by an Arrow from a Cross-Bow 15 Sept. the same year Whereupon his Corps was brought over into England and buried with his Ancestors he being then seised of the Mannors of Ware in Com. Hertf. Ryale in Com. Rutl. Torpel Uptan juxta Castre and Eston juxta Coly-Weston in Com. North. Castre with the Soke in Com. Line Cotingham Hemelington Atan and Weton in Com. Ebor. Ashford in the Peke in Com. Derb. Allerton in Shirewode in Com. Nott. leaveing Edmund the Son of Aliamore late Countess of
Duke of Bedford then Regent of France to the Siege of Campeigne and the next ensuing year attended at the Royal Coronation of King Henry the Sixth then solemnised in Paris In 10 H. 6. he obtained the Kings special License that himself and Anne his Wife might receive the full profits of all their Lordships and Lands in Ireland notwithstanding their absence from that Realm for three years And the next year following the said Anne being dead he procured License to Marry Beatrice the Widow of Thomas Earl of Arundel illegitimate Daughter to Iohn King of Portugal Before the end of this 11 th year having a Grant of the Office of Marshal of England to hold during the Minority of Iohn son and heir to Iohn late Duke of Norffolk he went again into France And in 13 H. 6. being sent Embassador to the City of Arras to treat of Peace with the French had License to carry with him Gold Silver Plate Jewels Robes twenty four pieces of Woollen-cloth and other things to the value of six thousand pounds sterling In 14 H. 6. he was joyn'd in Commission with the Earl of Northumberlâ—nâ— for Guarding the East and West Marches toward Scotland as also constituted Admiral of England and Aquitane And in 16 H. 6. retein'd to serve the King as Lieutenant of Guien for six yeares with two Bannerets sixteen Knights two hundred and fourscore Men at Armes and two thousand Archers for the defence of those parts In 19 H. 6. representing to the King by his humble Petition That whereas King Richard the Second by several Letters Patents had granted unto Iohn late Earl of Huntington his Father and to the heirs of his body by Elizabeth his Wife lawfully begotten divers Lands and Rents to the yearly value of two thousand Marks for the better support of his dignity of Earl and that the value of the Lands which they did so possess by virtue of those Grants amounted to no more than five hundred Marks per annum In consideration therefore of his continual services in the Wars of France both in the time of King Henry the Fifth and the then present King Henry the Sixth as also by reason he had been taken Prisoner and put to a large Ransome for his liberty and for his constant services in France and in the Duchy of Aquitane he obtained a Grant â—o himself and to the heirs Male of his body of five hundred Marks to be yearly received out of the Ports of London Southampton Bristol and Kingston upon Hull Being the same year joyn'd in Commission with divers other Lords and some of the Judges to enquire of all manner of Treasons and Sorceries which might be hurtful to the King's person Not long after which viz. in 21 H. 6. he was by Letters Patents bearing date at Windsore 6 th Ian. advanc'd to the Title of Duke of Exeter which dignity his Father lost by attainder in 1 H. 4. with this special priviledge viz. That he and his heirs Male should have place and seat in all Parliaments and Councils next to the Duke of York and his heirs Male. And in 24 H. 6. was constituted Lord High Admiral of England Ireland and Aquitane for life his son Henry being also joyn'd with him for life in the Grant As also in 25 H. 6. made Constable of the Tower of London in like sort with Henry his son Before the end of which year by his Testament bearing date 16 Iulii he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in a Chapel within the Church of St. Cathâ—rine beside the Tower of London at the North end of the high Altar in a Tombe there ordained for him and Anne his first Wife as also for his sister Constance and Anne his other Wife then living He likewise bequeathed to the high Altar of the said Church a Cup of Byrel garnished with Gold Pearles and precious stones to put in the Sacrament Also a Chalice of Gold with the whole Furniture of his Chapel Appointing that another Chalice two Basins two Candlesticks of Silver with two pair of Vestments a Mass-book a Paxbred and a pair of Cruets of Silver should be delivered to that little Chappel where he so intended to be buried with his Wife and Sister for the Priests that should celebrate Divine Service therein and pray for their Soules To the Priests and Clerks and other of the House of St. Catherines for their great labour and observance on the day of his Obit and day of his Burying he bequeathed Forty Marks Ordaining that four honest and cunning Priests should be provided yearly and perpetually to Pray for his Soul in the said Chapel and for the Soul of Anne his first Wife the Soul of his Sister Constance and the Soul of Anne his present Wife when she should pass out of this World and for the Soules of all his Progenitors To his daughter Anne he bequeath'd his White Bed with Popinjayes To his son Sir Henry all the Stuff of his Wardrobe and of his Arras not bequeath'd Moreover he willed that his Feoffees of his Mannors of Steâ—yâ—â—on Berford St. Martin and Mamerâ—er after his Testament and Will performed should make an Estate to his said son Sir Henry of those Mannors provided alway that an Annuity of Forty pounds be reserved for his two Bastard sons William and Thomas And departing this life 5 th Aug. then next ensuing was buried in the same Chapel being then seised of tâ—e Mannor of Stenyngton in Com. Bedf. Atdyngton in Com. Buck. Gaddesden Magna in Com. Hertf. Blakedon Ludford Haselâ—eace with the Hundreds of Stone and Catâ—â—shaishe in Com. Somerset Likewise of the Castle and Mannor of Trâ—maton with the Mannors of 〈◊〉 and Tekebeare in Com. Cornub. as also of the Mannor of Bereford St. Martin with the Bayliwick of the Forest of â—roveley in Com. Wiltes leaving Henry his son and heir seventeen years of Age. Anne his Wife daughter of Iohn Mountague Earl of 〈◊〉 surviving who by her Testament bearing date 20 Aprilis 1457. 35 H. 6. bequeath'd her Body to be Buried in the Chapel of the Chancel of the said Church of St. Catherines beside the Tower of London where the Corps of her said Lord and Husband lay interred Expresly forbidding her Executors from making any great Feast or having a solemn Herse or any costly Lights or largess of Liveries according to the glory or vain pomp of the World at her Funeral but only to the Worship of God after the discretion of Mr. Iohn Pynchebeke Doctor in Divinity and one of her Executors Moreover she bequeath'd to the Master of St. Catherines if he were present at the Dirige and Masse on the day of her Burial Six shillings eight pence To every Brother of the said Colledge of St. Catherines being present Three shillings four pence To every Priest of the same Colledge then present Twenty pence To
Husband in his life time obtained the custody of the Mannors of Westlee in com Suff. and Dâ—kenham in com Essex which were part of the Lands whereof he died seised to hold during the Minority of the said David her Son Which David in 29 E. 3. was in that Expedition then made into France with Prince Edward then made Duke of Aquitane and in 33 E. 3. in that into Gascoigne So likewise in 43 E. 3. And having been summoned to Parliament in 39 42 and 43 E. 3. departed this life upon the tenth day of October 49 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannor of Brabourne in com Cantii Possewyke West-Lexham Stokey and Holkeham in com Norff. Gaynesburgh in com Linc. Hunteshalgh Thornton in Tindale Kildrehais UUainhopeside Newburgh as also of the Castle and Mannor of Mitford with its Members viz. the third part of the Mannor of Pont-Eland Little-Eland Calverton Valence Merdisfen Franclington Est-Kaldworth Bechfeld and Melteston in com Northumb. leaving Issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to Henry Lord Ferrers of Groby his two Daughters his Heirs viz. Elizabeth and Philippa both in Minority Elizabeth his Widdow dying the same year who was buried at Ashford in Kent with this Epitaph upon her Tombe-stone Icy gist Elizabeth Counte D'Athels le file Seigneur de Ferrers que Dieu assoit Que morust le xxii jour d'Octobre l'an du grace MCCCLxxv Whereupon Henry Lord Perci obtained the Wardship of these Co-heirs But in 5 E. 3. Elizabeth the elder of them making proof of her age had for her maintenance an assignation of the Mannor of Brabourne in com Cantii Colingham Valence in Com. Wilts Possewyke and Holkham in com Norff. Thornton with the Hamlets of Thornton Neweburgh les Bowes and les Belles UUayneshope and Wayneshopeside with the Park of Waynshope Poltrenerot Emelhoppe Keldre and Keldre-Hays parcels of the said Mannor of Thornton within the Liberty of Tindale for her purpartie and the next year following became the Wife of Sir Thomas Percie Knight a younger Son to the before-specified Henry Lord Perci being then sixteen years of age and her sister Philippa of Sir Raphe Perci Knight Brother of the same Sir Thomas Which Philippa had for her purpartie an assignation of the Mannor of Gaynesbrough in com Linc. West-Lexham and Stykanay in Com. Norff. Mitford with the custody of the Castle Framlyngtone Esheldeworth Bechfeld and North Milleburne with two parts of the Mannor of Pont Eland the Hamlet of Little Eland the Towns of Calverdon Valence and Merdesfen and Rent of Six pence from Iohn de Mitford for the Hamlet of Mollesdon as also of the Mannor of Henteshalgh with the Forest of Lowes and divers Scalings in Hunt Eland in com Northumb. And surviving him afterwards Married to Sir Iohn Halsham Knight As did also Elizabeth her elder sister her husband and wedded Sir Iohn Scrope Knight Andrew de Harcla E. of Carlisle 15 E. 2. THis Andrew was son of Michael de Harcla Sheriff of Cumberland from 13 till 16 E. 1. inclusive As also Governor of Carlisle in 24 E. 1. But until 32 E. 1. that he attended that Victorious King into Scotland in which year he totally subjected that Realm to his own Power I have not seen any other mention of him After which viz. in 4 E. 2. he served again in the Scotish-wars being then of the Retinue with Iohn de Segrave And in 6 E. 2. was constituted Governor of the Castle of Carlisle In 8 E. 2. being Warden of the Marches he was soon after made Governor of the City of Carlisle and in 11 E. 2. Sheriff of UUestmorland as also of Cumberland and Governor of the Castle at Carlisle having at that time a special commission to receive all such of the Scots to protection as should submit to the King's Obedience being likewise the next ensuing year constituted Governor of the Castle at Cokermouth And in 12 E. 2. again Governor of the City of Carlisle In 15 E. 2. he had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm and the same year upon that dangerous Insurrection made by Thomas Earl of Lancaster who then advanc'd out of Staffordshire to Burrough-brigg in Com. Ebor. being still Governor of Carlisle-Castle he Marcht thither with considerable Forces and after a sharp dispute wherein the whole strength which that Earl had there was routed and Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford slain Ibid. he took him Prisoner and carried him to the King at York whereupon he suffered death at Pontfract shortly after as did divers others Lords and persons of quality at York and other places at that time likewise taken prisoners In consideration of which service he obtain'd a special Charter to himself and the heires-Male of his body of an Annuity of Twenty pounds to be received out of the Issues of the County of Cumberland from the Sheriff of that Shire for the time being by the name and Title of Earl of Carlisle being then so created by cincture with a Sword By which Charter it was also covenanted that for the better support of the same Dignity he should have to himself and the heires-Male of his body Lands and Rents in the Counties of Cumberland and UUestmorland of a Thousand Marks per annum value and Five hundred Marks per annum more in the Marches of UUales And until such provision should be made that he should receive a Thousand Marks per annum out of the Exchequer at four times in the year viz. within the Clause of Easter the Quindesme of St. Iohn Baptist the Quindesme of St. Michael and the Octaves of St. Hillary This being the first Patent of Creation unto Honour wherein any Preamble importing the merits of the person so dignified was ever used and beareth date at Pontfract 25 Martii 15 E. 2. Besides all this he likewise obtain'd a Grant to himself and the heires-Male of his Body of the Mannor of UUerke in Tinedaâ—â— to hold by the service of one Knights Fee and paying a Sore-Goshhawke yearly into the Exchequer As also of the Castles and Mannors of Brouham Malestrung Meburne Regis Kirkby Stephen and Langeton with the Wood of UUhynnefeld the Cornage reserved to the King all in Com. Westmorl late part of the possessions of Roger Clifford and forfeited by his Rebellion Being therefor from a mean condition thus raised for he was merely a Knight of a small fortune he grew so lofty that he began to manifest that hatred publickly which he had for a long time privily borne towards Hugh le Despenser the greatest and most powerful Favourite of his time whom the King had advanced to the dignity of Earl of UUinchester in May next following And finding that the King did in such sort
ratifying the Articles concluded on in a Treaty then held by Commissioners for both Crownes And in 21 H. 8. was one of those who subscrib'd the Articles exhibited against Cardinal Wolsey Moreover in the Parliament called that year when the Commons made their Complaint against the abuses of the Clergy instancing in divers particulars and that Fisher Bishop of Rochester thereupon passionately telling the Lords That nothing now would serve with the Commons but the ruine of the Church aggravating the danger of such beginnings by the example of Bohemâ—a and that Fisher upon complaint to the King for those words excused himself as well as he could this Sir William Fitz Williams on the part of the King mediated the rest In 24 H. 8. he was Treasurer of the Kings Houshold And in 27 H. 8. sent with the Duke of Norffolk and Dr. Cox to Treat with the French upon certain Articles for a League betwixt both Crowns amongst which one was that the Duke of Angolesme third son to the King of France should Marry the Lady Elizabeth daughter to King Henry After which in 28 H. 8. being Knight of the Garter Treasurer of the Houshold and Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster he was constituted Admiral of England Wales Ireland Normandy Gascoine and Aquitane And in 29 H. 8. by other Letters-patents bearing date 18 Octobris advanced to the title and dignity of Earl of Southampton and ere long after that Lord Privy-Seale By which Title in 32 H. 8. upon some discontent betwixt King Henry and the King of France whereupon the French raised Forces in Picardy with Iohn Lord Russel then newly made high Admiral he carried over two Troopes of Northern-Horse into those parts And in 34 H. 8. by his Testament bearing date 10 Sept. bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Midherst in Com. Suss. Appointing that a new Chapel should be made by his Executors adjoyning thereto And in it a Tombe for himself and the Lady Mabell his Wife for the building whereof he assign'd Five hundred Marks And gave to the King his Coller of the Garter with his best George beset with Diamonds But before the end of this year viz. 34 H. 8. the King resolving to make a breach with Scotland an Army was raised of which the Duke of Norfolk was General Which Duke began his March thitherward accordingly Howbeit upon a motion of Peace he stay'd a while at York and there with this Earl and some others had a Treaty with certain Scotish Commissioners In which nothing being concluded they Marcht on this Earl leading the Van but when they came to Newcastle he there died Notwithstanding which so high an estimation continued to his memory that to the honor thereof his Standard was borne in the foreward throughout that whole Expedition By the before-specified Mabel his Wife daughter to Henry Lord Clifford and sister to Henry the first Earl of Cumberland he had no issue Whereupon his two Neices daughters to his brother Thomas were found to be his next heires viz. Margaret the Wife of Godfrey Fuljambe Esquire and Alice the Wife of Sir James Fuljambe Knight But he had a Natural son called Thomas Fitz-Williams alias Fisher Somervile 1 Edw. 3. OF this Family though there were but two and they the last of the Male-line who had summons to Parliament yet were they before that time men of eminent note in their dayes the first of them that came into England being Sir Gualter de Somervile a Norman who seated himself at Whichnovre in Com. Staff having that fair Lordship and Barton near to it by the Gift of King William the Conqueror From which Walter descended another Walter who by Cecilie de Limesi his Wife had issue Roger. Which Roger on Edeline his Wife daughter to Robert Boteler of Engleby begot another Roger and he a third Roger who in 5 Joâ— obtain'd a Grant of the Mannor of Alrewas one of the Lordships of the King 's antient Demesne and adjoyning to that of Whichnovre before-mentioned to hold in Fee-ferme for the old Rent and One hundred shillings increase But this Roger adhered to the Rebellious Barons about the latter end of King Iohn's Reign by reason whereof his Mannor of Stockton in Com. Warr. was given to Henry de Aldithley From which Roger descended Robert de Somervile his Grandson son of Iohn who having Married Isabel one of the daughters and coheirs of Roger de Merlay a great Baron in Northumberland in 15 E. 1. paid Fifty pounds for his Relief of the moietie of the Barony of the said Roger de Merlay and in 18 E. 1. obtain'd the King's License for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands within his Lordships of Wichenovre Tunstall Nuebolte Briddeshus Sirescote Curburgh and Edlinghal in Com. Staff Witton Windgates Horsley and Sheldes in Com. Northumb. and Stocton in Com. Warr. As also for a Market every week upon the Tuesday at his Mannor of Alrewaâ— in Com. Staff and a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow of St. Margaret the Virgin Likewise for a Market on the Monday every week at Witton in Com. Northumb and a Faire yearly on the Eve Day and Morow of St. Laurence and two dayes following And died in 25 E. 1. leaving issue Roger his son and heir Which Roger in 34 E. 1. was in the Scotish wars Whereupon in the Parliament held the next ensuing year he Petition'd to have allowance for his services done in that Expedition having then been in the retinue of Henry de Perci and Marcht from Carlisle to Karrik by the Command of Prince Edward In 8 E. 2. he receiv'd command to be at Newcastle upon Tine upon the Festival of the blessed Virgin 's Assumption well fitted with Horse and Armes to restrain the Incursions of the Scots and in 16 Edw. 2. was constituted Sheriff of Yorkshire and Governor of the Castle at York This Roger left issue Roger his son and heir who being a Knight in 1 Edw. 3. was in the wars of Scotland that year and of the retinue with Thomas Lord Wake of Lâ—del So likewise in Edw 3. But all that I can farther say of him is that he gave the Advowson of the Church of Sâ—aington to the Monks of Newmâ—nster juxta Morpeth in Com. Northumb And having been summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm in 1. E. 3. but no more departed this life 15 Cal. Feb. 10 E. 3. and was buried at Anneys Burton in Com. â—bor leaving Sir Philip de Somervile Knight his brother and heir fifty yeares of age who thereupon doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands Of which Sir Philip I
ten Constable and Marshal that his Quarrel was just repaired to the Lists and having so done sheathed his Sword which before he had held naked and putting down his vizor made a Cross on his Horse and with his Sphear in his hand entred Moreover that descending from his Horse he sate down in a chair of green Velvet at the end of the Lists there reposing himself in expectance of his Adversary Furthermore that after Proclamation made by a King at Arms that no Man should approach any part of the Lists upon pain of death except such as were appointed to order or marshal the Field a Herauld cryed Behold here is Henry of Lancaster Duke of Hereford Appellant who is entred into the Lists-Royal to do his devoir against Thomas Moubrary Duke of Norfolk upon pain to be found false and recreant Likewise that the Duke of Norfolk hovered on Horseback at the entry of the Lists his Horse being barded with crimson Velvet richly embroidered with Lyons and Mulberry-Trees and having made his Oath before the Constable and Marshal that his Qurrrel was just and true entred the Lists also and said God ayd him that hath the right and then alighting from his Horse sate down in a Chair of Crimson-velvet curtained about with white and red Damaske Also that after the Earl Marshal had viewed their Sphears to see that they were of equal length and delivered the one to this Duke and sent the other to the Duke of Norfolk by a Knight an Herald proclaimed that the Traverses and Chairs of the Champions should be removed and commanded them both in the Kings Name to mount their Horses and address themselves to the Combat Moreover that hereupon this Duke having got up and closed his Bavier and placed his Sphear in the Rest he set couragiously forward six or seven paces at the found of the Trumpet But that the Duke of Norfolk was not fully set forward when the King cast down his Warder and the Heraulds cryed Ho Ho. And that all this being done the King caused their Sphears to be taken from them commanding them again to their Chairs until he and his Council had deliberated what was best to be concluded in this case Which being done and the Heraulds crying silence the Kings Secretary Sir Iohn Bushie read the Sentence which was That this Duke should within fifteen days depart the Realm not to return for the space of ten years except the King should otherwise think fit And in regard that the Duke of Norfolk had sowed Sedition in the Kingdome he should also be gone and never return nor approach the Confines of England on pain of death Likevvise that the Revenues of his Lands should be stopped till such Moneys of the Kings Treasure as he had taken up for the Garrison of Calais vvere fully paid And that then the King calling them both before him caused them to Svvear that neither of them vvould come in place vvhere the other vvas nor keep company together in any Forreign Countrey Whereupon they departed the Duke of Norfolk going into Almaine and so to Uenice vvhere he died of grief as ' t vvas said And this Duke taking his leave of the King at Eâ—tham vvhere he had four years Release of his Banishment vvent first to 〈◊〉 and then farther into France where having an honorable reception by King Charles the Sixth he had obtain'd the only daughter to the Duke of Berry Uncle to the King in Marriage but that King Richard hindred it Being thus departed he received Letters from his Father advising him rather to go into Castâ—le than into Hungary But his Father growing sick here in England he removed not from Paris where within a short time he had advertisement of his death Soon after which it so hapned that King Richard being necessitated to go into Ireland for suppressing the Irish then in Armes this Realme grew into great distraction Whereupon the Londoners sent for this Duke promising him their assistance in case he would accept of the Government Having therefore such encourâ—gement as also considerable aide from the Duke of Britanny he took shipping at le port Blanc and landed at Ravenspur upon the mouth of Humber in Yorkshire Whereupon divers of the Northern Lords repaired k to him so that when he came to Doncaster he had a considerable Army the Commons in all places inclining to him Whence Marching to Evesham in Worcestershire and so to Berkeley in Com. Gloc. he came to Bristoll all the Castles in those parts yielding to him Of which King Richard having Advertisement he hasted back into England and landed in Wales Where finding that he was almost totally forsaken he went to Conway-Castle in Com. Caernarvon This Duke therefore understanding where he was bent his course to Chester and thence sent for a safe Conduct that he might speak with him Which being granted he imployed the Earl of Northumâ—erland upon that Affair Who proposed that a Parliament might be called wherein Justice might be had against those Enemies of the Common-wealth who had been procurers of the Duke of Glocester's death and the death of other Noble Men as also Pardon for this Duke for what he had done Soon after which he came himself thither And having mustred his Army in the sight of the Castle walkt in to the outer Ward where seeing the King come out he made a reverend obeysance towards him and going on did so a second and third time the King then taking him by the hand and bidding him welcome Whereupon humbly thanking him he said That the cause of his coming was to have restitution of his Inheritance Unto which the King readily assented and called for Wine After which mounting on Horsback they rode to Flynt and so to Chester Thence to Nantwich and so the common rode to London Where he was receiv'd with all expressions of joy But the King being sent to the Tower though a Parliament was called in his Name divers Articles were exhibited there against him whereby he was thought worthy to be Deposed with intimation how fit it might be for him to resign his Right in the Government to this Duke Seeing therefore no remedy but to assent an Instrument was drawn to that purpose as also an open Clayme to the Crown made by this Duke Whereupon he was solemnly placed on the Royal Throne But the particular Formalities at that time used in this business and what else is memorable of him after he became King by the Name of Henry thâ— Fourth I leave to the Relation of our Historians Froisard saith o That King Richard fearing his own life sent for this Duke to the Tower and bewayling his condition offer'd a Resignation of the Crown to him And that this Duke
Lordships of Halstrede Stanstede Manhale Chesterfourd Brenning Little-Fordham Markesale Messings Revenhale Tholeshunt Guynes Tholeshunt Tregos Tholeshunt Chr. Langfourd Meandayces Little-Maldon Great-Maldon Retingdon Lachindon Asshelham Ledetes Râ—iplâ— Pachinhall Wodhalle Grenstede Morton Little-Lanfare Wyfenho Ouesey Totham and Meresey In 8 R. 2. the Dominions of Flanders by the death of Lewes then Earl of that Territory being divolved to the King of England as its superior Lord in respect of his Title to the Realm of France and that the Heir thereof had not tendred his Homage as he ought to have done the King for the better safeguard of the Countrey constituted this Iohn Lord Bourchier chief Governor and Guardian thereof particularly of the Town of Gaunt at the special request of the Flemings and sent considerable Forces to that purpose thither Moreover in 9 R. 2. having been by Indenture reteined to serve the King in fortifying the Town of Calais he was then imployed thither for the safeguard thereof and in 13 R. 2. had farther commands for the Kings Service in France He had also Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 5 R 2. till 1 H. 4. inclusive but being by that time grown aged and infirm he obtained a special exemption from that Service as also for comeing to Councils during the Remainder of his life and died the same year Whereupon Sir Bartholmew de Bourchier Knights his Son and Heir had Livery of his Lands Which Sir Bartholmew had Summons to Parliament from 1 H. 4. until 10 of that Kings Reign inclusive After which it was not long ere that growing infirm and unfit for Action he obtained the like exemption from all attendance at Parliaments or other Councels and from any Military Service in Scotland or beyond the Seas and upon Wednesday 18 Maii 10 H. 4. departing this life was buried at Haulâ—â—eâ— being then seised of the Mannors of Little Bentley Bradefelde Stanstede Langeford Asheldam Onestye Fordham Knypesho in Mayland Lachenden Castle-acre Bourchiers Mannors in Retingdon Tolleshunt Maidon parva Wodhalle Lanfare parva and Grynsted in Com. Essex leaving Elizabeth his Daughter and Heir ten years of age and Idâ—ea his Wife surviving Which Idâ—ea died soon after viz. 12 Sept. 11 H. 4. Elizabeth her Daughter being then Married to Sir Hugh Staffâ—rd Knight who thereupon affirmed the Title of Lord Bourchier having Summons to Parliament by that appellation But this Elizabeth afterwards taking to Husband Sir Lewes Rossbeart Standard-bearer to King H. 5. Knight of the Garter whom she also survived died 1 Iulii 11 H. 6. without Issue and was buried with him in the Chapel of St. Paul within the Abby Church of Westminster being then seised of the Mannors of Ashildam Maldon parva Langford Onesaye Totham magna Toleshunt Fordham parva Stanstede Wodhall Pachinghall Morton Grynstede and Manhale in com Essex Bentley parva and Stanford Rivers with the Advouson of the Priory of Bilegh and Hospital of St Giles of Maldon leaving Henry Bourchier then bearing the Title of Earl of Ewe and Lord Bourchier her next Heir viz. Son of Sir William Bourchier Knight Son of William Brother of Bartholmew Father of her the said Elizabeth her next Heir twenty four years of age But I return Shortly after the death of Bartholmew Lord Bourchier viz. in 12 H. 4. Richard Giffard then Bishop of London with Iohn de Boys and some others obtained License from the King to found a perpetual Chantry for five Priests to celebrate Divine Service in the said Parish Church of Halstede for the Souls of Robert Lord Bourchier and Margaret his Wife Iohn Lord Bourchier and Maud his Wife Bartholmew Lord Bourchier and Margaret and Idonea his Wives their Parents Benefactors and all the faithful deceased Which Chantry was thereupon endowed with six Messuages seven hundred and two Acres of Land twenty nine Acres of Meadow seventy one Acres of Pasture fifty seven Acres of Wood and five pounds thirteen shillings and six pence Rent in Halstede Hengham Sibill Pebemershe Twynsted and Middilton and with the Advouson of the Church of Hengham Sibill. To this Bartholmew thus dying without Issue Male succeeded Sir William Bourchier Knight Son of William younger Brother to the said Bartholmew Which William upon the death of Alianore his Mother Daughter and Heir to Iohn de Louvain had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited And having obtained from King Henry the Fourth the Grant of an Annuitie of fifty Marks per annum payable out of the Exchequer in 1. H. 5. surrendring that Patent in consideration of his good Services performed and to be performed had a Grant of the like Pension of fifty Marks payable also out of the Exchequer for his life in case the Wars betwixt France and England should continue so long After which viz. in 3 H. 5. he was made Constable of the Tower of London for life being the same year reteyned by Indenture to serve in that Expedition which the King in person them made into Guyen with thirty Men at Arms himself accounted and eighty Archers on Horseback In 4 H. 5. he was again reteyned to serve the King in his Wars of France with forty Men at Arms himself accounted and eighty Archers and to be at Southampton on Munday 22 Iunii there to take Shipping Moreover in 5 H. 5. in consideration of his eminent Services he obtained the custody of the Mannor of Hermanville in Normandy part of the possessions of William de Harmanville Esquire deceased to hold during the minority of Charles the son and heir of the said William being at that time in the French wars as he was also in 7 H. 5. In which year upon the render of Diepe in Normandy he was constituted Governor there and by reason of his farther services in this Realm and in forrein parts had a Grant in special tail bearing date at Mante 10 Iunii of the whole County of Ewe in Normandy paying to the King and his heires at his Castle of Roan in that Dukedome one Gardebrache at the Feast of St. George every year and covenanting that he and his heires should find Ten Men at Armes and Twenty Archers thenceforth to ride with the King and his heires or his Lieutenant in those his present Wars of France This William married Anne the daughter of Thomas of UUodstoke Duke of Glocester sixth son to King Edward the Third Widow of Edmund Earl of Stafford and departed this life in 8 H. 5. being then seised of the Mannor of Estanes at the Tower in Com. Essex and divers other Lands leaving Henry his son and heir as also three other sons viz. Thomas Bishop of Ely afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury William Lord Fitz-warine and Iohn
to the Earl of Derby when he went to assault Bergerath he said to him as he sate at Dinner Sir if we were good men at Armes we should drink this evening with the French Lords in Bergerath Whereupon all that heard him answered Let us Arme. Preparations being therefore made for the assault both by Sea and Land the Town yielded After this in 19 E. 3. he was with that Earl at the relief of Auberoche and falling upon the French in their Tents utterly vanquisht their whole Host. Amongst other the Towns then won by the Earl of Derby Ryol being one this Walter found the Tombe of his Father who had been buried there Of whole death Froisard makes this Relation viz. That at a certain Tourneament before Cambray there being on both parts Five hundred Knights he Tournayed with a Knight of Gascoinâ— a Kinsman to the Bishop of Cambray and wounded him so sore as that he died soon after Which so incensed the Kindred of that Knight that upon a Pacification made he was for expiation of the Knights death to go on Pilgrimage to St. Iames And that upon his return thence finding Ryol besieged by Earl Charles of Uaâ—ois brother to King Philip it being then in the hands of the English coming back at night towards his lodging from a visit which he had made to that Earl he was murthered by some of that Knighs Kindred who lay purposely in wait for him And that upon tidings brought to the Earl he caused his Body to be buried in a little Chappel without the Town which when the Town came to be enlarged was encompassed by the Walls But I return to Walter Shortly after this he was at the taking of Mauleon where he did great service Being also in Aguylâ—on which the Duke of Normandy had besieg'd with a puissant Army he made divers Sallies out and having foraged the Countrey return'd with great honor In one of which Sallies he had a sharp encounter with the Lord Charles of Montmorency Marshal of the French Host and being encompassed by the Enemy was at length rescued by those of the Garrison who issued out to his relief In 20 E. 3. he was in that famous Battel of Cressi being an eminent Commander in the Van of the English Army and amongst the Prisoners there taken had a Knight who offered Three thousand Crownes for his Ransome Of which sum he totally acquitted him for a Pass which that Prisoner obtain'd from the King of France that he might ride through part of his Country with Twenty of his company unto Calais then besieged by the King of England Upon the winning of which strong Town 't is not a little observable that the King himself and the Prince fought under his Banner and that having got the day he had command to enter the Town with the Marshals of the Host as also that the King gave him divers Houses there In 22 E. 3. he was again constituted Admiral of all the Fleet to the Northwards and in 23 E. 3 was again in the Wars of France In which year being Marshal of the Marshalsey he obtain'd a Pardon for all such escapes as any Felons or Fugitives had made out of that Prison And in 24 E. 3 in consideration of his farther good services obtain'd a Grant of those Houses and Wharses in the Town of Leyburne within the Dutchy of Aquitane which Edmund Marcell who had been a partaker with the King's Enemies formerly possessed As also a Grant of the Mannor of Opsettlyngton in the County of Berewic which Thomas Byset a Scot in Armes against King Edward had formerly held In 26 E. 3. he was again in the Wars of France So likewise in 29 E. 3. In which year in farther consideration of his many services he obtain'd a special Pardon to himself and Margaret his Wife for her transgression in going beyond Sea contrary to the King's Prohibition And in 32 E. 3. was again in those Wars So likewise in 33 E. 3. In 34 E. 3. being at Bourg le Royn about two Leagues from Paris he obtain'd leave of the King to Skirmish at the very Barryers of Paris And in 36 E. 3. upon the death of Mary the Widow of Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norâ—folk he had in right of the before-specified Margaret his Wife one of the daughters and coheirs to that Earl an Assignation of her purpartie of the Lands which she held in Dower viz. the Castle and Mannor of Strigoil with the Town of Chepâ—â—ow and its Members in the Marches of Wales as also of the Mannor of Weston in Com. Hertf. Stonham Walton and the one Moiety of the Mannor of Kennet in Com. Suff. as also of the other Moiety lying in Com. Cantabr In 42 E. 3. upon conclusion of a Peace betwixt King Edward and the French he was one of those who made Oath for observing the Articles thereof And in 43 E. 3. was sent with the Earles of Salisbury Warwick and others from Dovor to Calais with Five hundred Men at Armes and Five hundred Archers Being a person thus eminent and active in his time he was elected into that Honourable Society of Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter He had also summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 21 E. 3. till 44 of that Kings Reign inclusive And by his Testament bearing date at Londdn upon St. Andrew's day An. 1371. 45 E. 3. bequeathed his body to be buried in the midst of the Quire of the Carthuisans commonly called the â—harte-â—hows near West 〈◊〉 in the Suburbs of London of his own Foundation but without any great Pompe Appointing that his Executors should cause Twenty Masses to be sung for his Soul and that every poor Body coming to his Funeral should have a penny to Pray for him and for the remission of his sins To Mary his Sister at that time a Nun he bequeath'd Ten pounds To his two Bastard-daughters Nuns also viz. Mailosel and Malplesant the one Two hundred Franks the other One hundred Franks To Margaret his Wife all his Silver Vessel likewise his Girdle of Gold and a Hook for a Mantle Likewise a Garter of Gold with all his Girdles and Knives Also his Beds and Dossers in his Wardrobe excepting his Folding Bed pale of Blew and Red which he gave to his daughter of Pembroke Moreover he ordained that a Tombe of Alablaster with his Image as a Knight and his Armes thereon should be made for him like unto that of Sir Iohn Beauchamp in the Cathedral of St. Paul at London as a remembrance of him and that Men might pray for his Soul And whereas the King did owe him an old Debt of a Thousand pounds by Bills of his Wardrobe he appointed that if it could be had it should be given to
she held in dowrie from the said Duke her first Husband She likewise died seised of the Mannors of Whicheford in Com. War Codecumbe in Com. Somers and Bradeworth in Com. Devon and of her Dowrie by Sir Walter Fitz-Walter Knight her last Husband of the Mannors of Shympling in Com. Suff. Hemenhale and Disse with the Hundred of Disse in Com. Norff. and of the Mannors of Wymbishe and Sherynge in Com. Essex leaving Richard Lord le Straunge of Knokyn her Cosin and next Heir forty years of age ¶ I should now proceed with Richard Duke of Yorke so found to be Heir unto the last mentioned Edward as is before observed But first do think fit to take notice of his Father viz. Richard de Coningsburgh second Son to Edmund de Langley Duke of Yorke before mentioned This Richard had that appellation from Coningsburgh in Com. Ebor. the place of his Nativity and in 7 H. 4. was one of the Ambassadors together with the Bishop of Bathe and Wells and some others sent to Treat and conclude with Isabell Queen of Denmarke and King Eric her Son touching the Dowrie of Philippa Second Daughter to King Henry the Fourth then espoused to that King as also for a perpetual League betwixt them and their Successors and in 2 H. 5. was created Earl of Cambridge in the Parliament at that time held But the next ensuing year being at Southampton with the King then shipping his Army for France having been corrupted by the French he joyned with Henry Lord Scrope and some others in a Conspiracie to murther him there Which Treasonable design being timely discovered upon Tryal by their Peers Sentence of death was pronounced against him and his Confederates who thereupon lost their Heads without the North-Gate there Thus saith T. Walsingham but others do differ in their relation as to the true reason of his intention to Murther King Henry and affirm that his main design was to raise Edmund Mortimer Earl of March to the Royal Throne as Heir to Lionel Duke of Clarence not being ignorant of some impediments in that Earl for procreation of Children and that then in time the Right would come to his own Wife Sister to the same Edmund and to her Issue as afterwards it really did Which is most likely to be true whatever hath been otherwise reported of his acknowledging what he then did to be in favor of the French King and being corrupted by him For the charge layd against him at his Tryal by the Indictment was that he together with Sir Thomas Grey of Heton in Com. Northumb. Knight upon the twentieth day of Iuly in the third year of King Henry the Fifths Reign at Southampton and divers other places had conspired with a power of Men to have gone with Edmund Earl of March into Wales and there to have procured him to assume the Supreme sway of the Realm as also to have set forth a Proclamation in his name as right Heir to the Crown against King Henry by the name of Henry of Lancaster the Usurper Likewise that pretending King Richard to be alive they had sent into Scotland for a certain Man who in his shape of body and countenance did much resemble that King with purpose to raise the people on his behalf and to seize upon divers Castles in Wales intending to Man them against King Henry This Richard de Conningsburgh had two Wives viz. Anne Daughter to Roger de Mortimer Earl of March and Maud Daughter of Thomas Lord Clifford afterwards married to Iohn Nevil Lord Latimer By this Anne he had Issue Richard a Son and a Daughter called Isabell who became the Wife of Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex Which Richard in 3 H. 5. upon the death of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March was found to be his next Heir viz. Son of Anne Sister to the same Earl and at that time fourteen years of age In 4 H. 6. being then in ward to Ioane Countess of Westmorland by virtue of the last Will and Testament of Raphe Earl of Westmorland her late Husband he had a Grant of one hundred Marks per annum over and above two hundred Marks per annum formerly assigned for his Maintainance to be paid out of the Lands of Edmund late Earl of March unto whom he was so found to be next Heir And in 8 H. 6. was made Constable of England in the absence of Iohn Duke of Bedford In 10 H. 6. the French having recovered divers places in that Realm so that there being little hope of better it was resolved to defend Normandy for the more safeguard of that Province and thought fit that he should be sent to secure the Sea-coasts others being imployed to keep the Garrisons And in 11 H. 6. though the Inquisitions after the death of Anne Widdow of Edmund Earl of March were not then returned into the Chancery by the Kings special favor he obtained Livery of all the Lands which she held in Dower of his Inheritance doing his Homage notwithstanding he had not then made proof of his age In this year he had special Licence to be absent from Ireland And in 12 H. 6. upon a great Insurrection made by the Inhabitants of Normandy was sent with the Duke of Somerset for the repressing thereof In 13 H. 6. upon the death of Iohn Duke of Bedford then Regent of France he was joyned in Commission with the Duke of Somerset in the Government of that Realm And in 14 H. 6. was reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his Wars of France and Normandy for one whole year with one Baron one Banneret seven Knights four hundred and ninety Men at Arms and two thousand two hundred Archers In 18 H. 6. he was constituted Lieutenant and Captain-General for all France and Normandy Whereupon in 20 H. 6. having an assignation of twenty thousand pounds per annum for the defence of those parts he laid Siege to Diepe but without success And in 21 H. 6. doing his Homage as Son and Heir to Anne one of the Daughters and Heirs to Alianore eldest Sister and Co-heir to Edmund Brother and Heir to Thomas Earl of Kent had Livery of his purparty of the Lands of that Inheritance The same year also he was employed with Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury and others as Embassador to Treat of Peace with the French And in 23 H. 6. being again in those parts as Regent of France and Normandy had a special dispensation to be absent from Ireland In 25 H. 6. he obtained Licence for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at his Mannor of Beaudley in Com. Wigorn. and for a Fair there yearly upon the Festival of St. Agatha the Vigin In 26 H. 6. he was constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for ten years and in 28 H. 6. by
I return to Edward who bore the title of Earl of Warwick only This Edward soon after the death of King Edward the Fourth being then about eight years of age was sent from York to the Castle of Shiriff-Hoton in that County by Richard Duke of Clocester his Uncle there to be secured that Duke then designing to Murther his two Nephews sons to King Edward the fourth and to make himself King Where he continued till Henry Earl of Richmund having slain King Richard in Battel at Bosworth-Field attain'd the Crown And then King Henry being jealous that some time or other being the last and only remaining Male-branch of the House of Yorke he might disturb his quiet caused him to be removed to the Tower of London where he was kept up in a more close and strait Imprisonment During which restraint an Insurrection being raised in Ireland under colour of setting him up as the only Male Plantaginet then alive one Lambert Simnell was instructed to personate him Whereupon to manifest that Lambert was a Counterfeit this Edward was brought forth and exposed to view in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul at London being then about fifteen years of age But afterwards viz. in 13 H. 7. upon that other endeavor by the Dutchess of Burgundy and some others who were Adversaries to the Lancastrian Family to set up Perkyn Warbeâ— another counterfeit instead of Richard the younger Son of King Edward the Fourth under colour that the said Richard had escaped that cruel Murther with his elder Brother King Edward the Fifth which t was generally believed he then suffered and got beyond Sea King Henry the Seventh to prevent any farther danger by this Edward pretended that he knew something of an Escape which Perkyn intended to have made out of the Tower whence strange Inferences were at that time raised took advantage thereby to cut off his Head Whereas in truth the real cause was that King Henry being upon a Treaty with Ferdinand King of Spaine for a Marriage on the behalf of Prince Arthur his eldest Son and the Lady Catherine Daughter to the same Ferdinand and finding that the Spaniard thought King Henry's Title to have no sure Foundation whilst this Branch of a Plantaginet was extant had a mind to dispatch him out of the World for the fairer effecting whereof a Commission was granted to Iohn Earl of Oxford then High Steward of England to Arraign him for that pretended offence Which was accordingly done 21 Nov. 15 H. 7. care being taken to instruct him that by confessing himself guilty he should be sure to find mercy from the King With which fair promises being caught he pleaded as they directed him and so betraying his life into the hands of those that so eagerly sought it had Judgment of death passed upon him and accordingly was Beheaded on Tower Hill upon the 28 th day of the same Month of November After which viz. 25 Ian. 19 H. 7. the better to countenance what was done he was attained in the Parliament then held So that all the favor he had was that being thus put to death his Body should be sent to the Abby of Bisham in Com. Berks. and there buryed with his Ancestors Which cruel dealing we may well fear to have been some cause of Gods Judgments upon K. Hen. the Seaventh's postesity as well as upon that noble Lady Katherine who became so sensible thereof when King Henry the Eighth her Second Husband prosecuted the Divorce betwixt them that she expressed as some have observed that it was the hand of God for that to clear the way to her Marriage the innocent Earl of Warwick was put to unworthy death And if it be seriously considered what befel that Earl of Oxford who gave Sentence of death upon him we may have cause enough to think that he did not well therein For having within a short time after lost the Kings favor and been fined at thirty thousand pounds for a very small offence he spent the rest of his life in discontent and departed this World without any lawful Issue ¶ I now come to Richard the other Son to the before-specified Richard Duke of Yorke and younger Brother to George Duke of Clarence This Richard being advanced to the Title of Duke of Gloucester in the Parliament held in 1 E. 4. shortly after the Coronation of that King was thereupon constituted Lord Admiral of England and for the better support of his dignity obtained a grant of the Fee Farm of Gloucester as also of the Office of Constable of Corf-Castle with the Lordship of Kyngeston Lacy in Com. Dors. Likewise of the Honor and Lordship of Richmund in Com. Ebor. Also of the Town of Chepyng-Norton in Com. Oxon. and of the Mannors of Saxton great-Campes Abiton magna and Swasham in Com. Cantab. of the Mannors of Polenethorn Penhal Tremokret Crevelyn Argalles Trewynyan and Droungolan in Com. Cornub. of the Mannors of Over-Hall and Nether-Hall in Levenham and Mannors of Aldham Preston Mendham and Cokefeld called Erles-Holl in Com. Suff. of the Castles and Mannors of Henham and Gelham parva with the Mannors of Uaux Bumstede called Countes-Medwe in Bumstede Nelion Canfeld magna Stansted Moâ—stchet Bumstede ad Turrim called Gebons Earles-Colne Creppyng Bentlegh magna Crustwiche Fyngrythe Dodynghurst Preyers Boure-Hall in Hyngham Creyes Eston-Hall Tileby Beamond Dounham and the Office of Forester in Com. Essex of the Mannors of Kensyngton and Watehurst in Com. Midd. Calverton in Com. Bedf. Milton and Paston in Com. Northampt. Market-Oâ—erton in Com. Rut. Flete and Batelesmere in Com. Cantii all which were part of the possessions of Iohn Earl of Oxford attainted And the next ensuing year another Grant of all the Castles Lordships Mannors and Lands both in England and UUales which did belong to Henry de Beaufort late Duke of Somerâ—et likewise attainted Moreover in 8 E. 4. he obtained a Grant of the Mannor of Fareley with its Members in Com. Somers Haightesbury and Tefont in Com. Wilts and of divers othe Mannors and Lordships part of the possessions of Robert Lord Hungerford attainted Likewise of the Town of Bedmynster with its Members in Com. Glouc. with all other the Lands in that County and in the Realm of England late belonging to Alianore Dutchess of Somerset and which by the attainder of Henry late Duke of Somerset and Edmund his Brother escheated to the Crown In 9 E. 4. he was made Constable of England as also Justice of North-Wales and South-Wales In 10 E. 4. Warden of the West-Marches towards Scotland Also the same year when King Edward his Brother being in such danger through the power of Nevill Earl of Warwick as I have elsewhere where shewed that he saw himself necessitated to get into Flanders he accompanied him thither in that his distress And upon his
pounds per annum to be paid out of the Customes of several Ports but the Ceremony of his Creation was perform'd at Hoseâ—ow-Lodge in Tividale by girding with a Sword and putting a Cap with a Circle of Gold upon his head the Parliament then siting at London assenting thereto At which time the King took his Homage It is said that in this Parliament the King being denied Money for the supply of his necessary occasions and that this Duke was instrumental in obstructing it there was a design to Murther him and some others who most opposed the Tax by an Invitation to a Supper at a Citizens House in London but that being forewarn'd thereof they met not there Nevertheless in 11 R. 2. he was constituted Justice of Chester and all North-Wales About this time the Duke of Ireland being very much hated by the People for corrupting the King by his evil Counsel this Duke being of alliance with the Earles of Salisbury Arundel Northumberland and Nottingham joyn'd with them against him by reason whereof he highly incurred the King's displeasure which upon recalling of Michael de la Pole who had been banish'd by the power of the great Lords more and more increased towards him Nor was this all for favouring the cause of his Neice whom the Duke of Ireland had then repudiated and taken another Wife he stood in danger of being Murthered through his malice But the great Lords growing again into power and appearing in Armes at Haringey‑ Parke he was constituted one of the Commissioners to examine the Complaints and Accusations made against sundry persons and especially of what was laid to the charge of Michael de la Pole And about that time obtain'd a grant of the Mannor of Brustwyke in Holderness with its Members in general tail as also of the Castle Town and Mannor of Okeham in Com. Rutl. with the Shrievalty of that Shire late part of the possessions of William de Bohun Earl of Northampton At this time also being very potent divers Lords and others who seem'd obnoxious were through his influence expell'd the Court and Imprisoned Nevertheless shortly after the King made a formal Reconciliation betwixt him and the Duke of Ireland But this lasted not long for the Duke of Ireland being not satisfied that any should over-top him got into Armes which necessitated this Duke to raise what Forces he could Whereupon following him into Oxfordshire after a sharp Skirmish at Radcote-Bridge he routed all his strength and forcing him to flee beyond-Sea procured an Act of perpetual Banishment against him But the next ensuing year the King getting again into Power this Duke of Glocester was put from his Council Nevertheless within a short time after he received some testimony of seeming favour by the grant of a Thousand pounds per annum to himself and the heires-male of his Body to be paid out of the Exchequer until provision could otherwise be made in Lands of that value And at the same time towards the performance thereof obtain'd a grant in special tail of St. Briavels-Castle and the Wardenship of the Forest of Dene in Com. Gloc. then valued at Eighty pounds per annum Also of Two hundred Marks per annum of the Issues of the County of Somerset and Dorset Of Two hundred and fifty pounds per annum out of the Port of London One hundred and fifty pounds per annum out of the port of Boston and Two hundred and fifty Marks per annum out of the port of Kingston upon Hull Likewise of the Castle and Town of â—ysing in Com. Norff. with a Purpartie of the Tol-boothe a Lenne then valued at One hundred and ten pounds per annum Yet not content in his mind he got License to travel intending a journey to Spruce but hindred with Tempests coasting by Denmark Norway and Scotland he arrived in Northumberland and staying a while in Tynemouth-Castle at length return'd to his Castle at Plessâ— in Essex to the great joy of the whole Realme But shortly after being design'd to go with a considerable power into Ireland he was stopt therein through certain malicious suggestions of his Enemies Nevertheless before the end of that year he was imploy'd into France as an Embassador with Iohn Duke of Lancaster there to treat of Peace betwixt this and that Realme And in 16 R. 2. obtained pardon for the sum of Nine thousand and Five hundred Marks which he had borrow'd out of the Exchequer for the service of Ireland In 17 R. 2. he attended the King in person into that Realme at which time divers of the most powerful men there submitted to obedience And the same year founded a Colledge in the parochial Church of Plessy before-mentioned consisting of nine Priests two Clerks and two Choristers which he endowed e with nine Acres of Land in Plessy and the Advouson of that Church as also with the Mannors of Bokyngfeld and Whitstaple the Advouson of the Church of Whitstaple in Com. Cancii the Mannor of Welles in Com. Hertf. and Mannor of Bernestone in Com. Essex And in 18 R. 2. being by Indenture retein'd to serve the King in his Wars of France with One hundred men at Armes whereof three to be Bannerets and eight Knights obtain'd a grant to himself and the heirs male of his Body of the Fee Ferme of the Town of Glocester and all the Fines Forfeitures and Amerciaments belonging thereto In 19 R. 2. the King being again in Ireland and a Parliament called in this Realm by his Lieutenant here this Duke representing to the Commons what want there was of Money by reason of the great expences in that Realm so farr prevailed that the Clergy gave a Tenth and the Laity a Fifteenth And in 20 R. 2. was at the Enterview near Ghysnes betwixt King Richard and the King of France Where a Peace being concluded King Richard married the daughter of the French King she being then about eight years of age But notwithstanding all this so great a rancour did the King bear towards him upon the account of the Duke of Ireland his chief Favorite so Banish'd as hath been observ'd that in An. 1397. 20 R. 2. apprehending himself at that time powerful enough there being no talk but of Peace and Tranquillity and that he stood in great likelihood to be elected Emperor of Germany his Uncles also of Lancaster and York being likewise gone from Court as that he then discovered himself to Thomas Mowbray Earl Marshal and Nottingham his greatest Confident what he had a mind to do which in short was to destroy this Duke of Glocester his own Uncle the Story whereof is thus related by Froisard viz. that to that purpose as it were on Hunting he rode to Havering
his Adversaries Having also written submissive Letters to the Queen he obtained her leave to retire to his own House under the more free custody of Richard Berkley Whereunto being removed to acquit her self of any severity injustice or prejudice towards him by her self or her Council she thought fit to call him to account not in the Star-Chamber to be fined but before some of the Lords of her Council viz. four Earls two Barons and four Judges where the particulars of the Charge laid against him were That against what he had in command he made the E. of Southampton General of the Horse Knighted sundry persons sent Forces into Munster and in stead of falling upon that great Rebel Tir-Oen treated with him contrary the dignity of the Queen and the honor of a Deputy and the more suspicious because clandestine Whereunto with great humility seriously professing his integrity he answered First as to the making of Southampton General of the Horse that he thought the Queen would have been satisfied therewith upon such reasons as he gave For his making those Knights he said it was to the end he might have persons of hoâ—or near him But going on to excuse his advancing into Munster the Lord Keeper admonished him that he should rather cast himself upon the Queens Mercy than to proceed in justifying or extenuating what he had done Alleadging that it would be esteemed a very absurd thing to palliate his Disobedience with a good intention of obeying and so pronounced him suspended from being any longer a Privy-Counsellor Earl-Marshal or Master of the Ordnance and to be committed to Custody during the Queens pleasure Whereunto all the rest of the Lords Delegates concurred But 't is said that the Queen expresly commanded that he should not be suspended from his Office of Master of the Horse All which he bore with such patience humility and expressions of his desire to relinquish the vanities of this World that the Queen having information thereof removed his Keeper from him suffering him to be free and with liberty to retire into the Country if he should think fit not coming to the Court. But this pleased him not his chief desire being to have admittance to her presence Which when he saw he could not obtain he grew more and more discontented and hearkned to the advice of Cuff and other unquiet spirits who perswaded him by force to take away those whom he esteemed his back-friends to the Queen and thereupon sent for Southampton out of the Netherlands entertained discontented Soldiers and had Sermons in his House every day by the most Zealous Preachers whereunto the Citizens resorted very much Keeping thus in his House he betook himself as he would have it thought totally to Divine Meditations Hearing of Sermons and entertaining his Friends but privately plotting by all the wayes he could the destruction of his Adversaries And to that end had in his thoughts the seizing upon the Queens Person and surprising the Tower of London the design being laid how to effect both It is not unworthy of observation that by these Sermons whereunto there was so great a concoâ—rse endeavours were used to instill into the People this Calvinistical Doctrine viz. ☞ That the Superior Magistrate hath Authority over the Sovereign Prince Of which notice being taken he was sent for to the Lord Treasurers House by one of the Secretaries of State Where divers of the Lords of the Council being purposely met intended to have admonished him that he should make use of his liberty temperately But suspecting lest upon some discovery of his purposes he should be committed to prison he excused his not going thither by pretending want of health Hereupon calling together his chiefest Confidents and intimating that some of them were ere long to be clapt in prison he asked them whether they thought it most proper to seize the Queen or to attempt the City of London and by the aid of his friends there to enter the Court or otherwise to preserve himself by flight But being neither provided of Force sufficient nor Military Engines to attempt the Court and considering that to enter there in such a sort would seem a Crime unpardonable It being also thought doubtful whether the Citizens would appear for him or not One of the company stept out by compact and assured him of assistance from the City against all his Adversaries Promising therefore to himself success therein he resolved the next day being Sunday to go into the City before the end of the Sermon at Pauls and there representing the cause thereof to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to desire their aid against his Enemies And if the Citizens should stagger thereat then to adventure themselves into some other part of the Realme but if tractable then by their help to seize the Queen After which all that night it was given out from Essex-House that the Lord Cobham and Sir Walter Raleigh conspired his death And the next morning being 8 Feb. viz. Sunday the Earls of Rutland and Southampton the Lords Sands and Mont Eagel with about three hundred Gentlemen of note coming to Essex-House he heartily welcomed them inâ—inuating to them that his life was sought and caused the House to be shut up so that none might go in or out but such as were well known The Queen therefore having notice thereof sent to the Lord Mayor of London to require the Citizens to keep their Houses and to obey command and appointed the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal the Earl of Worcester as also Sir William Knolles Comptroller of her Houshold Unkle to this Earl and the Lord Chief Justice Popham to go to Essex-House and to know the reason of this extraordinary concourse thither Who being admitted o in at the little Wicket found in the midst of the Court the Earls of Essex Rutland and Southampton with many others Whereupon the Lord Keeper turning to Essex told him upon what errand they were sent assuring him in case of wrong done to him by any Man equal right should be had But the Earl answered that his life was sought and that there were certain persons hired to murther him in his Bed Also that Letters had been forged in his name adding We are here only met to defend our selves and save 〈◊〉 Lives But whilst they were thus discoursing the multitude cryed out that he was abused and betrayed saying that the time passed away To whom the Lord Keeper turning commanded that upon their Allegiance they should lay down their Arms. Hereupon he went into the House the Lord Keeper and the rest following some in the mean time crying out Kill them throw the great Seal into the Thames Shut them up Being thus within the House he commanded that
Nevertheless Piere de Luxemburgh Earl of Conversana by reason that Philip was but young had the leading of them as also of those Auxiliaries which the Nobles of Brabant Hainault and Burgimdy had got together amounting to many Thousands Whereupon he presently besieged Brayne into which this Duke of Glocester had put his men and having won it took the Field This Duke therefore discerning so great a power against him sent an Herauld to the Duke of Burgundy by whom calling him Traytor to the King of England and France in thus giving aide to the Duke of Brabant he challeng'd him to the Combate Which being accepted and the day appointed the Duke of Burgundy made choise of the Emperor for Judge thereof and sent a safe conduct to this our Duke to go into England and fit himself for the same Upon the receiving whereof he went to Mons in Hainault to this his Dutchess where he acquainted her therewith And within four dayes after sail'd into England leaving her behind Of which the Duke of Burgundy having notice he forthwith sent the Lord Lillâ—dem to Mons to carry her thence to Gant To which place being accordingly brought though she made fair semblance to be govern'd by him yet not to go to the Duke of Brabant her husband espying her time she stole away into Holland and being well receiv'd by divers Lords there began to maintain War against the Duke of Burgundy sending to this Duke her husband for aide who thereupon transported a Thousand fighting men under the conduct of the Lord Fitzwalter With which Forces joyn'd to the Hollanders the Lord Fitzwalter giving Battel to the Duke of Burgundy receiv'd a foile As to the appointed Combate it held not Iohn Duke of Bedford riding from Paris to Calais and so into England for preventing it But that dispute touching this Iaqueline soon after ended otherwise For Pope Martin the Fifth giving Sentence that her marriage with the Duke of Brabant was good and this with out Duke of Glocester unlawful he quitted her and took to wife Eleanor Cobham daughter to Reginald Lord Cobham of Sterborough who had formerly been his Concubine And in 2 H. 6. was sent with Ten thousand soldiers into France which the King had raised to be imploy'd in the wars there under Iohn Duke of Bedford then Governor of that Realme After this in 5 H. 6. he was constituted Justice of North-Wales In 7 H. 6. the Parliament then â—itting at Westminster great complaint was made there to the House of Lords by one Mistriss Stokes and 〈◊〉 bold women against him because he suffered Iaqueline his wife to be a prisoner to the Duke of Burgundy and for keeping an Adultress In 8 H. 6. he was again constituted Lieutenant to the King in this Realm during his abode in France and obtained License to make a Castle of his Mannor-House at Wycrofte in Axminstre as also to imparke Eight hundred Acres of Land and Wood there And in 11 H. â— had a grant to himself and Alianore his wife of Two hundred Acres of Land Pasture Wood and Heath at East-Grenewich to make a Parke thereof as also to make a Castle of his House there and a Tower in the same Parke In 12 H 6. he obtain'd another grant in special taâ—l of the Lordships of Castilhou de la Marque de Mâ—ton Sauâ—â—age Castesnesse and Medok and of the Towns Castles and Lordships of Milham and Bados part of the possessions of Poncius de Castilhou deceased Likewise of the Castellanie of Mauleon and Soville and Baillage of Bort which Charles de Beaumont and Alferitz de Navarre held And in 14 H. 6. being retein'd to serve the King by Indenture with one other Duke besides himself two Earles eleven Barons twenty three Knights Four hundred and fifteen men at Armes and Four hundred forty and five Archers hearing that the Duke of Burgundy had besieged Calais he hasted thither Whereof that Duke having notice he withdrew himself in the night leaving much of his Provisions behind him About this time he obtain'd a grant for life of the Earldome of Flandeâ—s which was held of the King in Capite in right of his Crown of France And in 15 H. 6. had another grant in special tail of the Isle of Iersey as also a confirmation of that Annuity of Five hundred Marks which had been given to him formerly by King Henry the Fourth Likewise a grant for life of the Mannors of Wodstoke Hanburgh Wotton and Stonfeld with the Hundred of Wotton all in Com. Oxon. And in recompence of his vast labors costs and â—ttendance upon the King's service as well in Council as otherwise for the publick good obtain'd a grant of Two thousand Marks per annum to be received from St. George's day preceding at the Exchequer during the King's pleasure But as no great Minister of State be he never so wise just and upright can please every man and therefore is alwayes maligned by some So it fared with this great Duke Queen Margaret stomaching him not a little for having the chief hand in the Managery of those weighty affaires of that time And at length not only excluded him from farther acting therein but encouraged such as were his enemies to conspite hâ—s destruction which were chiefly De la Pole Marquess of Suffolk and the Duke of Buckingham Whereupon certain Articles were exhibited against him in open Council especially that he had caused some persons adjudg'd to die to be put to other Execution than what the Law of the Land assigned And though he made a just and rational defence to whatsoever they laid to his charge neither his Wisdome nor his Innocencie could availe For his death being resolv'd on and in case they should proceed publickly against him a Tumult feared in regard he was a Popular man and generally belov'd they caused a Paâ—â—â—ment to be called at St. Edmundsbury whereunto he being come with other of the Lords upon the second day of that Session he was arrested y by the Vicount Beaumont then Constable of England accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham and some others and put in Ward all his Servants being taken from him and thirty two of the chief of them sent to divers Prisons And the night following viz. ult Febr. was found dead in his Bed Whereupon his Body was shewed to the Lords and Commons as though he had died of an Appoplexie or some Imposthume Some thought that his life was thus taken away by strangling others that a Spit had been thrust into his fundament or by smothering betwixt two Fetherbeds or that he died for grief that he might not come openly to his Answer But though the manner of his death did not directly appear certain it is that his Corps was convey'd to St. Albans and there buried Southwards from the Shrine
Margaret the Daughter and Heir of Edward Burnell as also two Daughters Elizabeth Wife of Sir Philip Courtney Knight and Margaret of Sir Walter Rodenay Knight Of which Sir Robert there is honorable mention whilst his Father lived for in 3 H. 6. he was reteined by Indenture to serve the King under the conduct of Iohn Duke of Bedford then Regent of France in the Wars of that Countrey with twenty nine men at Arms and eighty Archers and the next ensuing year with thirty men at arms and ninety Archers Moreover in 17 H. 6. upon the death of Alianore Talbot the other Daughter and Co-heir to the before mentioned Thomas Peverel and Sister to Catherine his Mother being found to be her Cosin and next Heir he had a special Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance his Homage being respited But farther I have not seen of him then that in 31 H. 6. he arrived at Blay with Iohn Talbot Vicount Lisle also that he had Summons to Parliament from 29 H. 6. till 33 H. 6. inclusive and that by his Testament bearing date 22 Apr. An. 1459. 37 H. 6. he bequeathed his Body to be buried before the Altar of St. Osmund the Bishop and Confessor in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury Likewise that he bequeathed to the Canons-Resident Vicars Choristers Chantry-Priests and other Officers belonging to that Cathedralâ— to celebrate his Exequies and to perform all other Divine Solemnities upon the day of his burial the summe of ten pounds to be distributed amongst them in such sort as had been accustomed Also to a thousand Priests saying the Exequies for the dead commendations the seven Penetential Psalms with the wonted Litanies to each of them twelve pence To the Chantry-Priests celebrating Divine Service in the Chapel which his Father founded in that Cathedral to each of them to pray for his Soul forty shillings To Sir Robert Hungerford Knight called Lord Moleyns his Son and Heir two basins of Silver gilt To his Brother Sir Edmund Hungerford Knight two Flagons of Silver gilt with his Arms thereon To the Lady Margaret Rodeney his Sister an Image of our Lady in silver gilt with his Arms under the foot thereof To the repair of the high-way called the Causway in Stawyk Mersh which Walter Lord Hungerford his Father first caused to be made for the health of the Soul of the Lady Cathâ—rine his Wife twenty five Marks To Thomas Hungerford Son and Heir to Robert Hungerford Lord Moleyns a Bed of white Velvet embroidered upon condition that at his death he left it to his next Heir Male. To Arnold Hungerford another Son one hundred Marks and to Mary Hâ—ngerford his Daughter one hundred Marks And departed this life upon the fourteenth day of May next ensuing leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to William Lord Botreaux Sir Robert Hungerford Knight commonly called Lord Moleyns by reason of his Marriage with Alianâ—re Daughter and Heir to William Lord Moleyns his Son and Heir thirty years of age and was buried in the Cathedral at â—alisbury Of which Margaret besides her being so great an Heir and that she lived to be very aged I find much that is memorable For upon the twelfth of Ianuary 49 H. 6. which falls out to be in An. 1470. 10 E. 4. by the name of Margaret Lady Hungerford and Botreaux she declared her Will whereby she ordained that whereas by several Deeds of Feoffment she had enfeoffed divers persons of all her Mannors Castles Hundreds Lands c. in the Shires of Cornwal Devon Somerset Wiltshire c. as well of those that came to her by the death of William late Lord Botreaux her Father as of the Mannors of Haylesbury Tudryngton Hornyngesham Fenny-Sutton and Codford with the appurtenances in Wiltshire that her Feoffees should discharge and save harmless every person which at her request or at the request of her Lord and Husband had been bound for the Ransome of Robâ—rt Lord Hungerford and Moleyns her Son who was then prisoner in Guyen Furthermore that if it should please Almighty God not to suffer her so long to live as that hâ—r Chapel and Chantry of two Priests within the Cathedral at Salisbury and her Alms-House of one Priest twelve poor Men and one Woman at â—aytesbury were fully perfected and established that then such Moneys as should be of necessity taken up upon credit by her Executors for the accomplishing of those works to be paid and satisfied by her said Feoffees Furthermore that those her Feoffees should â—ake a Chapel of Lime and Stone covered with Lead for her Lord and Husband adjoining to our Lady Chapel within the said Cathedral at Saâ—â—sbury and likewise found a Chantry of two Priests to say and pray Divine Service for evermore within the said Chapel for the Soul of her said Lord and Husband and her own Soul And lastly that within the term of ten years they should found an Almes house in the Town of Haytesbury of a Schoolmaster or any other honest Priest with twelve poor Men and a Woman to pray for the Souls of Walter lâ—te Lord Hungerford and others in such manner and form as in an Ordinance thereupon to be made should be more plainly expressed And within little more than a twelve month following obtained License to found a perpetual Chantry of two Priests to celebrate Divine Service every day in a certain Chapel then newly by her built to the honor of Iesus and the Blessed Virgin his Mother within the before-specified Cathedral Church of Salisbury contiguous to the Chapel of the Holy Trinity there wherein Robert Lord Hungerford her Husband lay buried for the good estate of King Edward the Fourth Elizabeth his Queen Richard Beauchamp at that time Bishop of Salisbury during their lives in this World and afterwards for the health of their Souls as also for the good estate of her the said Margaret Ioha Cheyne of Pynne Esquire Iohn Mervyn Esquire Mr. Iames Goldwell the Popes prothonotary then Dean of Salisbury Likewise for the Souls of the said Robert Hungerford and her the said Margaret Also for the Souls of Walter late Lord Hungerford and Catherine his Wife parents of him the said Robert and for the Souls of William Lord Botreaux and Elizabeth his Wife parents of her the said Margaret Likewise for the Souls of George Westby Esquire Iohn Cheyne Iohn Mervyn and Iames Goldwell after this life and for the Souls of all the faithful deceased Which Chantry she endowed with the Mannor of Immere in Com. Wiltes and the Advouson of the free Chapel there as also with three Messuages two hundred Acres of Land three hundred Acres of Pasture eight Acres of Meadow and thirty shillings Rent in Winterborne and Hornington in the said County and Moytie of the Mannor of Folke with the Advouson of the Church of Folke in Com. Dors. And having thus done she gave thereunto these
of black bord Alisander to kneel upon Also a long Cushion and a short Cushion of Motley Cloth of gold Item Two Curtains of Linnen Cloth to cover the Images with in the Lent of elle-broad Cloth two leves of bredth and three yards of length Item An Hanging of Linnen-Cloth to cover the Pictures of the Chappel in Lent time round about from the one Arch to the other At the same time also the obtain'd the like Licence to found that Hospital at Heighresbury before-mentioned for one Chaplain twelve poor men and one Woman the Chaplain to be Warden to celebrate divine service every day in the Parish Church of Heigtesbury for the good estate of the persons above-mentioned and for the health of the Souls of all before-specified which she endowed with the Mannors of Cheverell Burnell and Cheverell Hales otherwise called Cheverell magna in the same County of Wiltes and gave thereunto xx Loads of Wood yearly out of her Wood of Southlegh in that County After which 8 Aug. an 1476. 16 E. 4. she declared her Will at Heytesbury Whence I have thought fit to take notice of the vast charge she was at in the redemption of Robert Lord Hungerford and Molyns her Son taken Prisoner in Guyen as hath been already observed as also of other her disbursements and losses which were  l. s. d. In sending Chester-Herald into France sundry times by the space of seven years and sixteen Weeks to procure his enlargement 140 00 00. In gifts and rewards to those who had part in him 733 06 08. In Apparel sent to him with an Ambling Horse to please his Friends and for healing his wounds 176 00 00. For meat and drink by the space of seven years and sixteen Weeks for himself and his Servants at xl s. a week before he was put to his finance 760 00 00. For the like board for himself and his servants by the space of LXXX weeks after he was put to his finance viz. vi s. viii d. a day 186 13 04. For his Finaunce over and above all other expences and costs 6000 00 00. For Exchange of money viii d. by the Noble for payment of his Ransome being 7690 l. paid 769 00 00. In Giâ—ts to divers Noblemen which were sureties for her upon borrowing of money to pay this Ransom and to quit those Lords harmless 945 06 00. Lost in the sale of Plate which she sold towards that payment 160 00 00. Item Paid for her Sons Expences from the time he landed in England until the time he went to Florence with Gifts and rewards to great Lords and other after he escaped out of the Tower of London and for his Licence to go to Florence 768 13 04. Paid for his Shipping and Expences 255 00 00. Paid in Expences of his Wife Children and Servants by the space of seven years and xvi weeks with the Expences of Sir Thomas Hungerford Knight Son and Heir of her said Son waiting upon the Earl of Warwick in the King's Service after the departing of King Henry arrayed and accompanied for the War 800 00 00. Paid to her said Sons Creditors to whom he was indebted before he went out of England 400 00 00. Paid and spent for the Composition of the Lands of her late Husband Robert Lord Hungerford which had been divers times seized and given to several great Lords 2160 00 00. In the charge of being under the Arrest of the Earl of Wiltshire by the Kings Command and to be restored to her Lands and Goods 400 00 00. In the loss which she sustained when she was put into the Abby of Ambresbury by the Lord Chancellor of England at the Kings Command her movable Goods of great value being there burnt viz. Beds of Cloth of gold Arras and silk Hangings for Halls and Chambers Plate money and other stuff to the value of 1000 l. more besides repairing the Lodgings so burnt 200 00 00. Item When the Duke of Clarence and the Earl of Warwick went out of England against the Kings Will She being then put in Ward to the young Dutchess of Norfolk In making means to the King to be at Syon cost her 200 00 00. Item Whereas Robert late Lord Hungerford her Husband ordained by his last will to have a Chappel for his Sepulâ—ure builded adjoining to our Lady Chappel in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury and two Priests there to be founded and livelyhood amortized therefore and his and her Obit to be kept solemnly in the said Church Which Chappel she did make accordingly and removed his Body thither into a Vault of Marble and made another Tomb for her self all this cost 497 00 00. Item In Ornaments for the said Chappel viz. three pair of Candlesticks of Silver whereof one pair gilt Three pair of Cruets whereof one pair gilt Three Pax-bredes one Bell of Silver Nine pair of Altar-Cloths Nine pair of Vestments Mass-Books Leigers and other necessaries to the Chappel 200 00 00. Item For Licence to amortize the Mannors of Immer and Homyngton in Com. Wiltes and the Mannor of Folke in Com. Dors. to the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury for maintenance of those two Priests and keeping the said Obit for ever 176 13 04. Item Whereas Walter late Lord Hungerford built an Almeshouse for xii poor men and one woman and an House for a Schoolmaster being a Priest as well to teach Grammar as to have the rule and oversight of those poor men and woman at Haytesbury in Com. Wiltes and ordained that the Mannors of Chyverell Burnell and Chyverell Halys alias Chyverell magna should be amortised to the said Schoolmaster poor men c. and their Successors This being not perform'd in his days she paid for the effecting thereof 200 00 00. Item In other sums upon other occasions which she paid all which computed amounted to 26180 marks 06s 08d But the next year following the departed this Life and was buried in the Cathedral at Salisburg I now come to Robert Son and Heir to the last Robert by this Margaret Lady Botreaux above-mentioned This Robert in 19 H. 6. which was in his Father's life time by the name of Robert Hungerford Esq having married Alianore the Daughter and Heir of Sir William Molins Knight Lord Molyns Son and Heir to Sir William Molins Knight and Margery his Wife deceased and Cousin and Heir to them the said Sir William and Margery making proof of the Age of her the said Alianore and doing his Fealty had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance And in 14 H. 6. by the name of Sir Robert Hungerford Knight Lord Molyns obtain'd a Grant of C l per annum to himself and the said Alianore his Wife and the Heirs of her the said Alianore to be paid out of the Exchequer until such times as Lands of the like value should be assigned unto them In 31 H. 6. he was amongst others retain'd to serve the King in that Expedition then
Devon Plymtre 16 15 06. Dupford 30 11 04. Langford-Leicester 26 01 08 ob q. South-Poole 25 06 06. Harleston 06 12 06. Wick-Cobham tertia pars 02 10 08. Wulmaston 02 13 04. Stanborough Hundred 06 13 04. In Com. Cornub. Codford Farley 03 09 11. Hervena mediet 01 06 03. Hilton tertia pars 02 19 09. Retyres and Hyres 02 19 11. Hendre magna parva 01 16 01. Pengelly 13 10 02 ob Parke mediet 08 11 11. Hamelethey Tresoderen mediet 09 11 00. Daunant and Nanfrith 01 10 00. Penhale 02 09 04 ob Trevigo cum aliis 02 07 11 ob Rillaton-Peverelmedietas 01 14 02 ob q. Crackhampton 13 17 06. Newland medietas 01 09 04. In Com. Buck. Stoke-poges and Estburnham 48 13 06 ob Begington 20 00 00. Chippenham 50 12 11. Cherdesley 13 02 05. Eaton and Nova Windsor 01 10 01. Ludgarshall 22 11 04. Illmere 11 17 00. Weston-Turveyle 10 00 00. In Com. Oxon. Henley super Thames 05 10 00. In Com. Wilts Britford 56 12 06. Bremelshane 02 06 04. Somerford Maudytt 36 08 07. In Com. Somers North Cadbury 64 08 01 ob q. South Cadbury 25 04 05 q. Halton 11 07 02. Holbrooke 08 00 06. Mapton Hatherley and Clopton 29 19 04. Kilmersdon2nd Walton 41 12 01 ob Hundred of Kylmersdon Babington and Welne 07 00 00. Wooton-Courtney 33 13 06. South-Petherton 40 00 00. In Com. Cornub. Bâ—treaux-Castell 07 02 04 ob Northevale 35 07 11 ob q. Lavant 45 02 07 ob q. Bodelet 57 01 08 q. Penhele 56 03 08 ob In Com. Warw. Wâ—odcote juxta Kenelworth 07 06 08. Besides all this Richard Duke of Glouc. afterwards King by the name of Richard the III. obtain'd a considerable part of the Hungerford's Lands as Farley Heightredbury c. Walter Lord Hungerford who was beheaded temp H. 8. possessing also divers fair Lordships by virtue of an Intail on the Heirs Male ¶ Having thus done with the chief Line of this Noble Faâ—ily I may not omit to take notice that Robert the last Lord Hungerford of that Christian name had a second Wife called Catherine Daughter to Reginald West Lord La Warr by whom he had Issue as before is observed two Sons Walter and Leonard and one Daughter called Fridiswide who became a Nun at Sion Which Walter upon the landing of Henry Earl of Richmund at Milford Haven in 2 R. 3. being suspected for a Well wisher to him was sent for by King Richard But being on his way towards him a little below Stony-Strasord in the Custody of Robert Brakenbury Lieutenant of the Tower of London he made his escape in the night and hasting to the Earl of Richmund met him not far from Temworth Whereupon he had his share in the benefit of that glorious Victory which was soon after obtain'd against that King at Boswarth field After which in 13 H. 7. he put himself in Arms again for King Henry against the Cornish men then risen on the behalf of Perkyn-Warbeck that Counterfeit Duke of York of whom our Historians make ample mention And afterwards being one of the Privy Council to King Henry the VIII married Iane Daughter of William Bulâ—â—rode by whom he had Issue Sir Edward Hungerford of Hayresbury in Com. Wilts Knight and Elizabeth a Daughter married to Sir Iohn Bourchier Which Sir Edward by Iane his Wife Daughter to Iohn Lord Zâ—uche of Haryngworth had Issue Walter who having Summons to Parliament in 28 H. â— there took his place 8 Iunâ—i the same year But in 31 H. 8. he was attained in Parliament and upon the 28 of Iuly 32 H. â— suffered Death on Tower-Hill with Cromwâ—ll Earl of Essex the Crimes laid to his charge being the retaining a Chaplain called William Bird who had called the King an Heretick Likewise that he had procured certain persons by Conjuration to know how long the King should live and that he had practised the Sin of Buggery Leaving Issue by Susan his first Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Danvers Kt. Sir William Hungerford of Farley-Castle in Com. Wiltes Knight Who by Anne his first Wife Daughter to Sir William Dormer of Ascot in Com. Buck. K t had Issue Edward who died young and three Daughters Susan Married to Michael Ernley of Cannings in Com. Wilts Esquire Lucia to Sir Iohn St. Iohn of Lydiard and Iane to Sir Iohn Kerne of ... in Com. Glamorgan Knight And by Alice his second Wife Daughter to William Lord Sandys two Sons Sir Edward Hungerford Knight one of the Gentlemen Pensioners to Queen Elizabeth who died without Issue and Sir Anthony Hungerford of Burton Inges in Com. Oxon. Knight As also a Daughter called Mary who became the Wife of ... Baker of ... in Com. Essex Sir Iohn Cornwall Knight Lord Fanhope 11 H. 6. AS to the Parentage of this person forasmuch as I cannot say any thing certain I shall come to what I have seen most memorable of him in order of time In 20 R. 2. being retain'd to serve the King during his Life he obtain'd a grant for C. Marks per annum to be paid out of the Cunage of Cornwall And in 2 H. 4. having behaved himself gallantly in Justing against a Frenchman at York the King himself being there present obtain'd Elizabeth his Sister Widdow of Iohn Holland Earl of Huntington in Marriage Whereupon he had a grant from Henry Prince of Wales eldest Son to King Henry the Fourth to himself and to the said Elizabeth his Wife of the Castle and Mannor of Trematon with the Mannors of Calestroke Asheburgh the Castle and Park of Restormel the Mannor of Restormel the Mannors of Penlyn and Penknyth the Burroughs and Towns of Lostwithiel and Camelford the whole Fishing of the River of Fowey with the Mannors of Tewynton Moresh and Tyntagel to enjoy during the life of her the said Elizabeth After that in consideration of his laudable Services unto King Henry the Fourth as also to the Prince his Son as well in Peace as War he obtained from the same Prince a grant of an Annuity of four hundred Marks for his own life in reversion after the death of his said Wife payable out of the before-specified Castles Mannors and Lordships And in 7 H. 4. in another Tournament held at London justed there against a ScotishKnight In 3 H. 5. he was with King Henry in that famous Bartel of Agincourt where the English were Victorious And in 5 H. 5. was constituted one of the Commissioners together with Richard Beauchamp Earl of Warwick to treat with William Lord of Mountenay Captain of the Castle of Caen in Normandy touching the surrender thereof Also in 9 H. 5. upon the return of King Henry from France he was left behind for the defence of those parts And in 4 H. 6. in consideration
the Mothers side he was advanced to the Title of Vicount L'isle 12 Martii 34 H. 8. and the same year made Lord Admiral of England for life being a person very comely and of a Spirit highly aspiring neither wanting skill industry or resolution to attempt great matters as my Author saith For in 36 H. 8. he Landed the King's Army at Leith in Scotland with a Fleet of CC Sail on which place having wasted Edenburgh they also set fire And the same year having scoured the Seas towards Scotland after the King had taken Boloin in France he was left Lieutenant there which he defended against the Daâ—lfin and his Army consisting of fifty two thousand men though the Walls were then much shattered And when the Daulsin had entred the base Town not without slaughter of divers English by a brave Salley he beat out the French again with the loss of above eight hundred of their men then esteemed the best Souldiers in that Realm In 37 H. 8. being Lord Admiral of England Wales and Ireland he was made General of all the King's Forces at Sea against the French where he offered Battail to them which they refused returning with the loss of all their cost Hereupon he landed five thousand men upon their Coast fired Treport and divers Villages thereabouts with the loss of but one man And being one of the Commissioners on the King of England's part by which the Articles of Truce were concluded in the Camp betwixt Ardres and Guisnes 7 Iunii 38 H. 8. he was afterwards sent Ambassador into France for the confirmation of them To say truth quoth Sir Iohn Howard he was the Minion of that time so as few things he attempted but he atchieved with Honour which made him the more proud and ambitious Generally he always increased both in estimation with the King and authority amongst the Nobility but doubtful whether by fatal destiny to the State or whether by his virtues or appearance of virtues as saith the same Author So that King Henry constituted him one of his Sixteen Executors Whereupon finding the Duke of Somerset Protector to the young King Edward the Sixth to be neither a person of great Wisdom or Courage he ambitiously aimed to have the full sway of all himself and therefore insinuating into his Friendship made him a shadow for accomplishing his own ends To which purpose he first obtain'd an increase of Honour being presently Created Earl of Warwick by reason of his descent through his Mother from Margaret the Eldest Daughter and Coheir to Richard Beauchamp sometime Earl of Warwick as also made Lord High Chamberlain of England and soon after a grant of Warwick-Castle with the Mannour and divers other great Lordships and Lands in that County In this first year of E. 6. being made Lieutenant General of that Army then sent into Scotland at which time the Scots were vanquisht at Hucleborough he there dub'd many Knights and was indeed the principal person for military skill and prowess upon whom the management of that War rested In 3 E. 6. he commanded all those Forces sent against Ket and his fellow-Rebells in Norfolk of which having slain about five thousand he took Ket himself and setled all in quiet there In that year also he was again made Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and in 4 E. 6. Lord Steward of the Kings Houshold And being thus elated with these Successes Commands and Trusts his ambitious mind had no bound for he mattered not whom he ruin'd so it tended to the ends he aimed at First therefore he raised discontents betwixt the Protector and the Lord Thomas Seymour his Brother so that soon after that Lord became attainted in Parliament upon pretence that he had conspired his Brother's Death and thereupon lost his Head Then put the Protector on in making such alteration both in State and Religion as that some of the Bishops opposing it were committed to Prison What vast sums did he make a shift to Pocket by despoiling the Church of her Chalices Crosses and an infinite number of consecrated Utensils with the like both of Gold and Silver as also by rich Copes and other Vestments under colour of bringing them into the King's Wardrobe For it was he who led the Protector on to those courses as 't is well known as also by Lands given to maintain Lamps and Lights and for other pious uses Which doings with the ruine of the Cloyster and Charnel at Pauls the Church in the Strand and two Bishops Houses there besides that goodly Church of St. Iohns near Smithfeild all pull'd down to build Somerset-House brought upon the Protector no little hatred and so hastned his ruine That being it which he chiefly aimed at and therefore espying so fair an opportunity wrought upon no less than eighteen of the Privy Council to join with him therein Yet such was his subtility that he accomplisht the work by others being least seen in it himself And because he could not win the Earls of Arundel and Southampton to be fit Instruments for his purpose he found means to discharge them from the Council and confine them to their Houses as also to fine the Earl of Arundel twelve thousand pounds upon suggestion that he had taken away Bolts and Locks at Westm. and given away the King's stuffe when he was Lord Chamberlain Having also been a prime Actor in the Peace made with France he was by way of reward for that service made general Warden of the North with a thousand marks per annum Lands granted unto him and C Horsemen at the King's Charge And in 5 E. 6 accompanied William Marquess of Northampton in his Embassy to the French King Yet all this seeming not enough within a while after viz. in 5 E. 6. he was constituted Earl Marshal of England 20 Apr. and 11 Oct. following Duke of Northumb. As also Warden of all the Marches towards Scotland Being therefore inferior to none of the Nobility in Titles of Honour and superior to all others in Authority and Power he could not restrain his haughty hopes from aspiring to an absolute Command But before he directly discovered his aim it was thought fit that the Duke of Somerset then Protector should be taken away whole credit with the common people though it sufficed not to bear out any bad attempt of his own as my Author observeth yet it was of force to thwart the evil practices of others and therefore Speeches were cast out that he caused himself to be proclaimed King in divers Counties and much more laid to his charge by this Dukes contrivance who when he came to his Tryal was one of his Peers Upon which though they acquitted him of Treason yet they found him guilty of Felony whereupon he had judgment to be
Hang'd never remembring to crave the benefit of his Clergy which is by some observed to be a just judgment of God upon him for having so much wrong'd the Church and all Learning and had his Head smitten off upon a Scaffold at Tower-Hill After which it was not long ere Infirmities seized upon the King from whom this Duke was little absent and so ordering the matter that whilst he languisht Gilford Dudley his fourth Son did marry with the Lady Iane Grey Eldest Daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolk by Frances Daughter to Mary second Sister to King Henry the Eighth and that a Patent was sealed for the same Lady Iane's Succession to the Crown for drawing whereof and excluding his two Sisters with fair pretences the assistance of the Lord Chief Justice Mountagu and Secretary Cecil were used Which Letters Patents were subscribed by all the Privy-Council as also by the greatest part both for number and power of the Nobility the King 's learned Council and all the Judges at the Common Law excepting Sir Iames Hales one of the Justices of the Common Pleas Some being guided by particular Interest for that they were possess'd of so much Monastery and Chantry-land which if Religion should have been altered through Queen Maries coming to the Crown they might have been in danger to lose and others by fear of or obligation to this Duke then so potent and almost absolute in Government of the State that 't was supposed he could make any title good either by his Authority or his Sword And having thus design'd unto himself the power of a King for no less he would have had in Cafe the Lady Iane had been Queen he contrived to get the Princess Mary into his hands causing the King to write his Letters for her coming to him in his sickness But she being made sensible of the Plot when she was within half a days journey of London diverted her course another way After which the King immediately dying he caused the Lady Iane to be Proclaimed Queen But the Tide of the peoples affections flowing towards Mary the Kings Eldest Sister she was likewise Proclaimed first by the Citizens of Norwich and afterwards in the Counties of Buck. and North. neither was there want of numbers in sundry parts of the Realm that began to put themselves in Arms on her behalf It being therefore now no sitting still as Champion for Queen Iane with a Commission under the great Seal of England He marcht out of London with six hundred Horse to suppress any power which should appear for Queen Mary having a promise from the Lords of more Forces to be sent after him But before he came to encounter the opposite party such a change he discern'd in the affections of his own Souldiers whereof many forsook him that to daub up the matter he return'd to Cambridge and there without either Herald or Trumpet accompanied with the Mayor and Marquess of Northampton he Proclaim'd Queen Mary himself in the Market-place and in token of joy threw up his Cap. But all this would no whit secure him for the very next day the Earl of Arundel coming thither from Queen Mary arrested him of Treason Whence he was with three of his Sons Iohn Ambrose and Henry convey'd to the Tower of London and from that place ere long to his Arraignment Where being condemn'd for a Traytor he suffered Death on Tower Hill 22 Aug. and was buried in the Tower-Church by Iohn Cock then Lancaster-Herald who having been his old Servant was willing to shew some respect to him dead from whom whilst living he had received many favours and therefore beg'd his Head only from the Queen that he might bury it in the Tower upon which Suit he had also his whole Body given him Some who write of his Death do affirm that at his end he professed the Romish Religion and it is said that for a witness of his Faith he voucht Dr. Heath Archbishop of Yorke afterwards Lord Chancellor Yet that being much blinded by ambition and apprehending that the alteration of Religion might be a chief means for the accomplishing of his Worldly ends he told Sir Anthony Brown afterwards Vicount Mountagu when he moved him for restoring the Romiâ—â— Religion that albeit he knew the same Religion to be truâ— yet seeing a new Religion was begun Run dog run Devil he would go forward It is also said that having two days before received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper upon the xxii of August he was brought to the place of Execution Where by the perswasion of the before-specified Nicholas Heath soon afterwards Archbishop of York making his own Funeral Oration to the people he acknowledged himself guilty and craving pardon for his unseasonable ambition admonished the standers by that they should embrace the Religion of their fore-fathers rejecting that of later date which had occasioned all the miseries of the forepassed thirty years And for prevention for the â—uture if they desired to present their Souls unspotted to God and were truly affâ—cted to their countrey they should expel those Trumpets of Sedition the preachers of the reformed Religion As for himself he professed that whatsoever he might pretend his conscience was fraught with the Religion of his Fathers and for testimony thereof he appealed to his good friend the Bishop of Winchester But being blinded with Ambition he had been contented to make wrack of his conscience by temporizing for which he professed himself sincerely repentant and acknowledged the desert of his death By what artifice he gain'd the Castle of Dudley in Com. Staff with divers fair Lordships thereto belonging I have briefly toucht in my discourse of that Lord Dudley who was his contemporary Which place he much affected by reason of his descent from the antient Lords thereof and beautified it with those Buildings on the North side called the New-work He likewise adorned the Gate-house Tower with the Arms of Malpas Someri and the Lion Rampant assumed by him for the Coat of Sutton curiously cut in large Shields of Stone and fixed in the wall over the Port-cullice By Iane his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Edward Guilford Knight Warden of the Cinque-Ports who had his wardship as hath been observ'd he had issue eight Sons and five Daughters viz. Henry who died at the siege of Boloin Iohn who had the title of Earl of Warwick in his Fathers life-time Ambrose afterwards created Earl of Warwick and Robert Earl of Leicester as I shall shew by and by Guilford who suffered death in 1 Mariae as his Father did another Henry slain at St. Quintins in 4 M. and Charles who died a child His Daughters were these Mary Wife of Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord President of 〈◊〉 from whom the now Earl of Leicester is descâ—nded Katherine Wife to Henry Hastings Earl of Huntington Margaret Temperance and
Children To the said Town of Trentham she likewise hath given four hundred pounds to purchase Lands of xx l. per annum value for the support of a Schoolmaster to teach the poor Children of tht Parish until they shall be fit to be placed forth for Apprentices Also to the poor of New-castle under Lime in Com. Staff x l. To the poor of Stone x l. To the poor of Eccleshall five pounds and beautifying the Church of Barlaston all in that County twenty pounds To the poor of Newport in Com Salop. x l. To the poor of Trentham and Lilshull to be distributed on the day of her Funeral fifty pounds to each Parish To the poor of Balshall and Long Itchington fifty pounds each Parish for a Dole to be paid out of the first Rents after her death She hath also given the yearly rent of one hundred and twenty pounds for the maintenance of twelve poor widdows whereof two of them to be Inhabitants of Blakesley two of Paâ—shull two of Lichbarow all in Com. Northt three of Lilshull in Com Salop. and three of Trentham in Com. Staff to be chosen by the Minister Church-Wardens and Overseers for the poor in every of those places and to each of them a Gown of Gray-cloath with these Letters K and L in blew cloth affixed thereto Likewise one hundred pounds per annum more to be paid out of the Rents and Revenues of Foxley for the placing out of ten poor Boys Apprentices six of them to be of the Parishes of Blakesley Paâ—shull and Lichbarow two of Trentham and two of Lilshull Appointing that the remainder of the Rents of that her Lordship of Foxley after all these particulars shall be paid to be to the use of the poor Inhabitants of those three parishes of Blakesly Patshull and Lichbarwe And departing this life at Trentham in Com. Salop. ... February An 1673. was buried at Lilshull in Com Salop. where her late Husband Sir Richard Leveson lieth interred Iohn de Foix Earl of Kendale 24 H. 6. BEfore I come to speak of this Iohn I shall take leave to say something of his Father whose name was Guaston de Foix. This Guaston being called Capital de la Bugh was for his military prowess advanced to the title of Earl of Longuebill in Normandy by that puissant Prince King Henry the fifth 5 Iuly in the seventh year of his Reign and soon after that put in Commission with some others to treat of a Marriage betwixt the King and Catherine the Daughter to Charles the sixth King of France which took effect Also in 4 H. 6. in consideration of his heroick adventures in his Wars and in those of King Henry the fifth he was created Earl of Benanges and made Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter But I now come to Iohn his Son This Iohn having married Margaret Neece to William de la Pole Dâ—ke of Suffolk a powerful man with Kâ—ng Henry the sixth was by the procurement of that Duke made Earl of Kendale and for her sake enricht with large possessions in England having likewise divers Castles and Lordships in the Dutchy of Guyen bestowed on him Besides which in 24 H. 6. bearing then the title of Earl of Kendale Vicount of Castilion and Lord of Grelle in consideration of his good services done and to be done he obtained a grant of CC Marks per annum to be received during his life out of the petty Customes in the port of London Of which gifts in Guyen the Castle and Castellanie of Mauleon Sole and Bailliage of de la Bort were part In 29 H. 6. upon those agreements then made with the French whereunto the English by reason of their differences at home were necessitated to submit it was concluded that Guaston the Father and this Iohn his Son should enjoy all their Lands in Aquitane given to them by the Kings of England or Dukes of Aquitane And because their intents were still to serve the King of England that the Son and Heir of this Iohn being at that time three years of age should be given up into the custody of the Earl of Foix to the intent that if at his full age he should deny subjection to the French King or depart this life before then after the decease of his Father and Grandfather all those Lands should wholly remain to the next Heir of their bloud of the French Kings obeysance Male or Female And in 39 H. 6. in consideration of his many and eminent services and the service of his Ancestors to the Kings of this Realm as also in respect of his importable losses disheâ—ison and imprisonment for almost seven years and the vast Ransome whereunto he had been exposed for his fidelity to the Crown of this Realm even to his utter ruine he obtained in order to his relief by the assent of the Lords in Parliament then assembled Licence to transport two thousand sacks of Wooll without payment of any Custome for the same But King Henry the sixth to whom and the House of Lancaster he had been thus faithful and obsequious losing all within a short time after I find no more of him than that he had been installed Knight of the Garter towards the later end of that Kings reign Stourton 26 H. 6. OF this Family which is of great antiquity in Wiltshire taking its denomination from the town of Stourton and it from the River Stoure on the bank whereof 't is situate was Iohn de Stourton who in 1 R. 2. was Sheriff for the Counties of Somerset and Dorset To whom succeeded William de Stourton Which William in 21 R. 2. having married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Iohn Moigne Knight had with her by the grant of her Father the inheritance of the Mannour of Estanes at the Mount in Com. Essex and departing this life upon the Munday next after the feast of St. Lambert 1 H. 5. being seised of that Mannour of Estanes as also of the Mannours of Bouker's Weston Tarent-villers and moitie of the Mannour of Broadway in Com. Dors. as also of the Mannours of little Merston and Merston Bigot in Com. Somers and Stourton and Poulesholt in Com. Wiltes left Iohn his Son and Heir fourteen years of age Which Iohn in 9 H. 5. making proof of his age had livery of his lands his Homage being respited and in 8 H. 6. being then a Knight was by Indenture bearing date 18. Febr. reteined to serve the King in his Wars of France with four men at Arms himself accounted and twelve Archers on Horseback receiving two shilling wages by the day for hmself xii d. a piece for his men at Armes with the reward accustomed and six pence a piece for each of his Archers In 12 H. 6. he was constituted Sheriff of Wiltshire and in 14 H. 6. again reteined to serve
after that called a Parliament wherein he attainted this Earl with all other persons who were fled out of the Realm for fear or otherwise as Enemies to him and to their Native Country Likewise foreseeing his future danger he did not only make peace with the Scots but sent over new Embassadors to the Duke of Britanny with ample rewards for the getting this Earl within the limits of his own power if possible or at least to prevail that the Duke would keep him and those of his friends which then were within his Territories in perpetual prison promising that in consideration thereof he should receive the yearly revenue of all their lands in this Realm But the Duke at that time being much out of order by reason of some infirmity Landoise his Treasurer managed all business of State and thereupon for his own private lucre accepted the offer Which being discovered by the Bishop of Ely at that time sojourning in Flanders he imploy'd Vrswyke into Brittanny to hasten this Earl out of those parts Whereupon being then at Uannes he sent immediately to King Charles the 8. desiring his leave to come into France which being granted he hasted his Nobles before to the Duke of Britanny who then lay for change of air near the borders of France under colour of a friendly visit privately giving charge to his Uncle the Earl of Pembroke the Conductor of his company that when they approacht the skirts of Britanny they should presently get into the adjacent parts of France as they accordingly did and so into Anjou where they staid this Earls coming who departed not from Uannes till two dayes after with only five servants in his company as though he had gone to make a private visit to a friend in some small Village no man suspecting that he had absolutely left the Country in regard so many Gentlemen of his followers were still in that City But after he was ridden five miles on his way turning into a solitary wood he put on the Apparel of one of his servants and as a Page rode on so till he came to Angiers By which means he escaped out of the hands of Landose who the fourth day after not knowing of his departure had provided a certain number of Souldiers under colour of serving him to have laid him fast Of which design when the Duke of Britanny heard being not a little displeased he sent for those English Gentlemen which were so left behind at Uannes and gave them money to defray the charge of their journey from thence to Angiers Being therefore thus supplied with his own Retinâ—e he took his journey to King Charles then at Langes upon the River Loyre of whom he had an Honourable reception with promise of aid And thence removed with him to Montargis Where long he had not been but that Iohn Earl of Oxford a trusty friend to the House of Lancaster who had been kept prisoner in the Castle of Hammes in Picardy getting thence by the favour of Sir Iames Blount the Governour repaired to him After this following the King of France to Paris divers English Gentlemen fled thither for fear or being there to study good literature came also and offered their service to him amongst which was Richard Fox afterwards Bishop of Winchester the Castle of Hammes being likewise delivered up to him by Blount Whereupon King Richard caused the Garrison of Calais to be sent to besiege it Which proved of no inconvenience to this Earl the Souldiers within it making their conditions to march out with Bag and Baggage which somewhat increased his Field-forces Having also obtained some few men and certain money for the payment whereof he left Thomas Marquess Dorset and Sir Iohn Vaughan in pledge he went to Roan making preparation at Harâ—lew an Haven at the mouth of Seine for his adventure into England And having soon after received intelligence out of Wales that Sir Ries ap Thomas a person of great interest in those parts and Sir Iohn Savage an expert Commander would engage themselves in his quarrel Also that Reginald Bray had gotten large sums of money for the payment of his Souldiers wishing him to make all possible speed and to land in some part of that Country Accompanied with two thousand Men he set sail from Harflew in the month of August and on the seventh day ensuing arriv'd at Milford-Haven in Pembroke-shire Whence he marcht to Dalle and so to Haverford-West where he had a joyful reception And before he went thence having News that the Town of Pembroke would assist him he marcht to Cardigan where some Welch Gentlemen came to him with all the power they could make Hereupon he sent messengers to the Lady Margaret his Mother as also to the Lord Stanley her Husband to Sir William Stanley his Brother Sir Gilbert Talbot and other his trusty friends signifying to them his intention to pass the Seâ—erue at Shrewsbury and thence directly to advance for London desiring that they would meet him by the way with all their strength In which passage to Shrewsbury Sir Ries ap Thomas whom he had promised to make Governour in chief of all Wales coming in to him with considerable Forces they marcht from Shrewsbury to Newport Where encamping his Men on an Hill near hand Sir Gilbert Talbot brought to him all the Men and Arms that the young Earl of Shrewsburies interest could make which were about two thousand Thence to Stafford where Sir William Stanley fell in with his Men. Next to Litchfield whence the Lord Stanley hearing of his approach had diâ—lodged about two days before and remov'd to Atherston being somewhat fearful to join with him too soon in regard that King Richard being then at Notingham had his Son the Lord Strange in Hostage and hearing of this Earls advance removed to Leicester Passing from Litchfield to Tamworth there came to him Sir Walter Hungerford and Sir Thomas Bourchier Knights with divers other Men of note who forsook their Captain Sir Robert Brakenbury near Stony-Stratford then on his march towards Notingham Being thus at Tamworth to make sure of the Lord Stanley he rode privately from his Army to Atherston and there meeting in a little close consulted with him in what manner to give Battel to King Richard The same day also came to him Sir Iohn Savage with divers other persons of quality King Richard therefore having intelligence of his motions marcht forthwith from Leicester to Bosworth and about two miles South of that Town marshall'd his whole Army for Battel whereof Iohn Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Earl of Surrey his Son led the Van. This Earl therefore hasting up with his Forces and placing
his Archers under the Earl of Oxfords command in the Front committed the right Wing to Sir Gilbert Talbot and the left to Sir Iohn Savage himself with Iasper Earl of Pembroke commanding the main Body the whole consisting not of above five thousand besides the power of the Stanleys the Kings being double that number Being thus put into a posture ready to begin the Fight Speeches were made on each part to encourage the Souldiers Which being ended and the Trumpets founding for the on-set the Lord Stanley came in with his men Most certain it is that this Battel was for some hours maintain'd with great courage on each part and that King Richard himself having his Crown on his Head violently charg'd through the thickest of his Adversaries aiming at nothing more than to encounter personally with this brave Earl In which adventure he overthrew his Standard and slew Sir William Brandon the Bearer thereof Then fought Hand to Hand with Sir Iohn Chency a person of great strength and afterwards set on this Earl himself who stoutly kept him at the Sword 's point But Sir William Stanley at length coming in with three thousand fresh men made the King's Forces so to give back that presently they fell into disorder In which confusion King Richard himself hapned to be slain with divers persons of great note on his part Soon after which his Crown being discovered in a Bush and set on this Earls Head by the Lord Stanley he was with great acclamations of Joy by the whole Army Proclaimed King by the name of Henry the Seventh Therefore to pursue the Story of him any farther is no part of my present business Iasper of Hatfeild Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford 31 H. 6. THis Iasper being a person most nobly descended viz. by Owen Tudor his Father from the ancient Princes of Wales and by Katherine his Mother Daughter to Charles the Sixth King of France Widdow of King Henry the Fifth from the renowned Monarchs of that Realm was born at Haâ—â—eild in Com. Hertf. as it seems and for that respect had his denomination thence Our Historians report that his first advancement to the Title of Earl of Pembroke by King Henry the Sixth his Brother by the Mother was in the Parliament held at Reading in 18 H. 6. and that Edmund of Hadham his Brother was at that time also made Earl of Richmund But it is manifest from publick Records that the Charter for erection of Edmund to that Honour bears date at the same place 23 Nov. 31 H. 6 and so 't is like did that for this Iasper though there be no notice taken of it in the Roll of that time nor in any other memorial that I have seen As to what is farther memorable of him I find that in 38 H. 6. having been at great charge in recovering the Castle of Denbigh and divers other strong Holds in Wales out of the hands of the King's Adversaries in recompence thereof he obtain'd a grant for a thousand marks to be received out of the Lordships of Denbigh and Radnor But before the revolution of one year more he was vanquisht the Yorkists in Wales being every where victorious whereupon Edward Earl of March obtaining the Crown amongst others who had been slout Assertors of the Lancastrian Interest he lost all by Attainder William Herbert of Ragland being afterwards advanced to this dignity of Earl of Pembroke as I shall farther shew in due place and was constrain'd to wander from Country to Country for a time Howbeit in 10 E. 4. Nevil Earl of Warwick falling off from King Edward the Scene changed George Duke of Clarence and with him this Iasper who adhered to Warwick landing in the West with a great power so that King Edward being constrain'd to quit the Realm he safely return'd to his Earldom in Wales And finding Henry Earl of Richmund the Son of Edmund his Brother and at that time scarce ten years of age in the Custody of William Herbert's Widdow which William having been made Earl of Pembroke by King Edward was taken in Battel by the Earl of Warwick and beheaded he brought him from her and carried him to King Henry who looking upon him prophetically said This is he who shall quietly possess what we and our Adversaries do now contend for But King Edward within less than twelve Months returning again and gaining the Victory at Barnet-field his greatest and most powerful Enemy Warwick being there flain this Iasper with Edmund Duke of Somerset and divers other of the Lancastrian party repaired to Queen Margaret then at Beaulieu in Hantshire Whence she endeavouring the recovery of that late loss at Barnet sent him into Pembrokeshires there to get together all the power he could raise Which having done and not coming in to her aid at Tewksbury as she expected she was over-powered and lost the day Whereupon he retreated to Chepstow and finding that King Edward had sent Roger Vaughan a valiant person to surprize him there he laid hands on that Roger and cut off his Head And went forthwith to Pembroke To which place Morgan ap Thomas pursued him and begirt the Town But though the favour of David ap Thomas Brother to Morgan he got thence within eight days and from Tynby a Port-Town not far off sailing with his Nephew beyond-Sea committed himself and that young Earl to the Protection of Francis Duke of Britanny Whereof when King Edward had notice he imploy'd secret Agents to that Duke with promise of large rewards in case he would deliver up either of them unto him yet all in vain for such kind reception they found there as that they continued in those parts during the whole remaining term of King Edward's Reign But Richard the Third soon after possessing the Royal Throne imploy'd other Emissaries for gaining of them into his power who agitated the business so effectually as that had not the danger been timely discovered they might have been betray'd into his cruel Hands Which design being by the vigilancy of some trusty persons happily prevented they got into France and afterwards landing safely with some Forces at Milford-Haven marching together came to Bâ—sworth-field Where King Richard being slain and Richmund assuming the â—rown this Iasper shared in the benefit of that Victory and attending him to London in reward of his many and faithful adventures was upon the Eve of Simon and Iude 27 Oct. by him Created Duke of Bedford at the Tower of London several others who had also hazarded their lives in that quarrel being then likewise worthily advanced to the like degrees and titles of Honour as in due place is declared Hereupon he was made
10 E. 4. was one of the Lords which in that great distress whereunto the King then fell fled with him from Lynne in Com. Norff. into Flanders and upon his happy return landed with him at Ravenspur in Holdernesse but was slain at Barnet-field shortly after This Sir William married Margaret the Daughter and Heir to William Wykham Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Wykham Knight by whom he had the Lordship of Broughton near Banbury in Com. Oxon. And had summons to Parliament from 29 H. 6. as before is observ'd until 9 E. 4. inclusive It is said that the last of the Lord Says which was this William for after him for divers descents none of them had summons to Parliament being in renown was twice taken prisoner whereby he suffered much and that thereupon he grew necessitated to mortgage the greatest part of his lands so that since that time the Barony became extinct and that the Heirs male of the Family were called only Fienes Consonant whereto Henry the Son and Heir of this last mentioned William residing at Broughton though he used the title of Lord Say had never summons to Parliament Which Henry died 1 Aug. 16 E. 4. leaving issue by Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir Richard Harecourt of Stanton Harecourt Knight Richard his Son and Heir two years old by reason of whose minority Thomas Brandon Esq of the Body to King H. 7. in the sixth year of that King's reign obtained his wardship and the custody of his lands and in consideration of CCCLxx l. sold the same unto Richard Croft of Chiping-Norton in Com. Oxon. Esq Whereupon he married Elizabeth the Daughter of the same Richard Croft and by her had issue one Son called Edward and three Daughters viz. Anne the Wife of Iohn Lord Zouebe of Haringworth Elizabeth of William Danvers of Culworth in Com. Northt Esq and Mary a Nun at Godstow Which Edward took to Wife Margaret the Daughter of Sir Iohn Danvers of Dantsay in Com. Wilts Knight and by her had issue Richard his Son and Heir and Elizabeth a Daughter who became the Wife of Francis Barentine Son of Sir William Barentine of Haseley in Com. Oxon. Knight This last mention'd Richard wedded Elizabeth Daughter of Sir William Farmour of East-Neston in Com. Northt Knight and by her had issue Richard his Son and Heir who married Constance the Daughter of Sir William Kingsmill Knight And being afterwards a Knight by reason of that discontinuance of summons to Parliament of his Great Grandfather Grandfather and Father though his Great-Grandfather and Grandfather had used the title of Lord Say obtained from King Iames certain Letters Patents bearing date at Hampton-Court 9 Aug. 1 Iac. whereby the said title of Baron Say and Sele was fully recognized and confirmed to him the said Sir Richard Fenys Knight and to the Heirs Male of his Body After which viz. in 22 Iac. Sir William Fenys Knight Son and Heir to the said Richard Lord Say by Letters n Patents bearing date at Westminster 7 Iuly was advanced to the title and dignity of Viscount Say and Sele And having Wedded Elizabeth Daughter to Iohn Temple of Stow in Com. Buck. Esq had issue by her four Sons Iames Nathanael Iohn and Richard and five Daughters 1 Bridget Married to Theophilus Earl of Lincoln 2 Elizabeth to Richard Norton of Southwick in Com. Sutht Esq 3 Constance to Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston in Com. Ebor. Baronet 4 Susan to Thomas Erle Son and Heir to Sir Walter Erle of Charlbury in Com. Dors. Knight and 5 Anne to Sir Charles Wolseley of Wolseley in Com. Staff Baronet And departing this life at Broughton in Com. Oxon 14 Aprilis An. 1662. lyeth there buried To whom succeeded in his Honours Iames his eldest Son Which Iames took to Wife Frances one of the Daughters and Coheirs of Edward Cecill Viscount Wimbleton and by her had issue three Sons viz. Iames and William who died in their Infancy and another William who died in France before he arrived at Mans Estate As also two Daughters Elizabeth married to Sir Iohn Twisleton of Barlow in Com. Ebor. Knight and Frances to Andrew Ellys of Alry in Com. Flint Esq And departing this World upon the fifteenth day of March An. 1673. lyeth buried at Broughton with his Ancestors The issue Male of Iames thus failing the title of Viscount Say and Sele is now divolved to William the only surviving Son of Nathanael Fienes second Son to the before specified William Lord Say and Sele by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter of Sir Iohn Elyot Knight Which William hath married Mary one of the Daughters of his Uncle Richard Fienes fourth Son to the said William late Lord Say and Sele Stanley Earl of Derby 1 E. 4. OF this Noble Family I am in the first place to observe that it is a branch of that whose chief seat hath been for many ages at Howton within the precincts of Nirrall in Cheshire and originally assumed its surname from the Lordship of Stanleigh situate in that Northern tract of Stafford-shire called the Moorelands about a Mile Eastward from the River Trent and towards the Head thereof Which Lordship was so called from the nature of the soil it being rough and stony with divers craggy Rocks about it as also originally possessed by the Lords Aldelegh of Aldelegh and together with the moitie of Balterdele a Lordship hard by given by Adam the Son of Lidulph de Aldelegh to William de Stanlegh the Son of Adam de Aldelegh his Uncle in exchange for the Mannour of Tâ—alk The descendants of which William still of Howton do yet enjoy it There is no doubt but that these whereof I am now to speak were much enricht by that fair Inheritance which came to them by the marriage of Sir Iohn Stanley Knight with Isabell the Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas Lathom of Lathom in Com. Lanc. Knight whose Ancestor was founder of the Monastery of Burscough adjacent Of which Family there was a former Sir Thomas de Lathom Knight of whom by credible Tradition it is thus reported That he begot a Son called Oskytel on a Woman who lived not far thence And that having no Child by his own Lady he designed to adopt this Oskytel for his Heir but so that he himself might not be suspected for his Father Observing therefore that an Eagle had built her Nest in a large spread Oak within his Park at Lathom he caused the Child in Swadling-cloths to be privily conveyed thither and as a wonder presently call'd forth his Wife to see it representing to her that having no issue God Almighty had thus sent him a Male-child and so preserv'd that he lookt upon it as a miracle disguising the truth so artificially from her that she forthwith took him with great â—ondness into the
called Margaret married to Robert Earl of Sussex Which Anne surviving him afterwards became the Wife of Iohn Ratcliffe Lord Fitzwalter By his Testament he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Priory of Bourscough in Com. Lanc. in case he should die within that County otherwise in the Monastery of Syon in Com. Midd. or in the Colledge of Asherugge in Com. Buck. And departing this life at Collam in Com. Midd. 24 Maii An. 1521. 13 H. 8 was buried at Syon accordingly To whom succeeded Edward his eldest surviving Son which Edward in 19 H. 8. was one of the principal persons that accompanied Cardinal Wolsey in that notable Embassy to King Francis of France then at Amiens touching the making a War in Italy to set Pope Clement the seventh at liberty at that time prisoner to the Duke of Burbon upon his sacking of Rome And in 22 H. 8. having there Livery of his Lands amongst other of the Peers subscribed that Declaration sent to the same Pope whereby they gave him intimation that unless he did comply with King Henry in that business of his divorce from Queen Catherine his Wife which he then eagerly desired the farther acknowledgment of his Supremacy here would be in much danger In 28 H. 8. upon that Insurrection of the Northern-men called the Pilgrimage of Grace the King directed his Letters to this Earl exciting him to raise what Forces he could with promise to repay his charges And in 34 H. 8. King Iames the fourth of Scotland having entertained divers of the chief Northern Rebels he was one of the Lords which for that and some other reasons entred Scotland upon the 21 of October under the conduct of the Duke of Norff. then Lieutenant-General of the English Army but staid not long there About the beginning of King Edward the sixth's Reign he was made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter And in 4 E. 6. was one of the Peers of this Realm then party to the Articles of peace made by King Edward with the Scots and French in which the Emperour was also comprehended Also in 1 Mariae constituted Lord High Steward of England for the Coronation-day of that Queen who was solemnly crowned upon the fifth of October Likewise in 2 Eliz. one of her Privy-Council This Earl married three Wives 1 Dorothy Daughter to Thomas Howard Duke of Norff. by whom he had issue three Sons and four Daughters viz. Henry who succeeded him in his Honours 2 Sir Thomas Stanley Knight who married Margaret one of the Daughters and coheirs to Sir George Vernon of Haddon in Com. Derb. Knight and Sir Edward Stanley of Eynsham in Com. Oxon. Knight His Daughters were these Anne first married to Charles Lord Stourton and after to Sir Iohn Arundel of Lanherne in Com. Cornub. Knight Elizabeth to Henry Lord Morley Mary to Edward Lord Stafford and Iane to Edward Lord Dudley To his second Wife he married Margaret Daughter of Ellis Barlow of ... in Com. Lanc. Esq by whom he had issue one Son called George who died young and two Daughters Margaret married to Iohn Iermyn of Rushbroke in Com. Suff. Esq after to Sir Nicholas Poyntz Knight and Catherine to Sir Thomas Knyvet Knight And to his third Wife Mary Daughter to George Cotten of Cumbermere in Com. Cestr. Esq by whom he had no issue Which Mary surviving him afterwards became the Wife of Henry Earl of Kent By his Testament bearing date 24 Aug. An. 1572. 14 Eliz. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Ormeskirk appointing that a Chapell and Tomb should be there erected for that purpose correspondent to his Dignity and Honour And departing this life at Lathem on Friday 24 Oct. next following was Honourably buried there on the fourth of December next following the Monastery of Bourscough where his Ancestors lay Entombed being totally demolished in that general destruction of all other the Religious Houses made in the time of King Henry the 8. To whom succeeded Henry his Son and Heir Which Henry being summon'd to Parliament in 18 Eliz. took his place there upon the 8 of February the same year and in An. 1525. 28 Eliz. was sent to carry the Ensigns of the most noble order of the Garter to the King of France In 29 Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at Fotâ—eringhay upon tryal of the Queen of Scots and in 31 Eliz. being then Knight of the Garter sent into Flanders with other Commissioners there to treat of Peace with the Prince of Parma General of the King of Spâ—ins Forces in those parts In 32 Eliz. he was constituted Lord High Steward of England upon the Tryal of Philip Earl of Arundell And having married Margaret Daughter to Henry Clifford Earl of Cumberland and of Alianore his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Charles Brandon Duke of Suff. by Mary the Queen Dowager of France one of King Henry the seventh's Daughters he begot on her three Sons Edward who dyed young as also Ferdinando and William successively Earls of Derby By his Testament bearing date 21 Sept. An. 1594. 35 Eliz. he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in his Chapell at Ormeskirk and departing this life upon the 25 of Sept. ensuing was there interred To whom succeeded Ferdinand his surviving Son and Heir who overlived him but a short time For having by his Testament bearing date 12 Apr. 36 Eliz. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in his said Chapell at Ormeskirk he departed this life in the flower of his youth soon after not without suspicion of poyson whereupon he was there interred upon the sixth of May next ensuing leaving issue by Alice his Wife Daughter to Sir Iohn Spencer of Althorpe in Com. Northt Knight three Daughters his Heirs Anne married to Grey Bruges Lord Chandos Frances to Sir Iohn Egerton Knight afterwards Earl of Bridgwater and Elizabeth to Henry Lord Hastings afterwards Earl of Huntington Whereupon William his Brother and Heir Male succeeding him in his Honours a dispute arose betwixt those Heirs Female and him touching the title to the Isle of Man The Queen therefore being not ignorant that not only divers Runagates of the English but Spaniards her Enemies might resort thither committed the charge thereof to Sir Thomas Gerard Knight afterwards Lord Gerard till that controversy should be judicially determined The decision of which point being brought before her learned Council they declared that the right thereof did solely appertain to her Majesty and that the Stanleys and Earls of Derby had no good title thereto by reason that King Henry the fourth shortly after he attain'd the Crown of this Realm upon the Outlary of William Scrope then Lord thereof bestowed it on Henry Earl of
Northumberland and upon his Rebellion about six years after granted it to Iohn Stanley for life Northumberland not then being by Parliament attainted nor his possessions adjudg'd to be confiscate As also for that about a month after Stanley and the King agreed that those Letters Patents to him for life should be surrendred and cancell'd and that he should have an estate thereof in Fee So that considering the grant for life was before such time as the King was legally intitled thereto by Northumberland's attainder they pronounced that the King could not pass unto him any estate for life as also that the other grant which had its foundation from the surrender of the estate for life could not be of any validity Whereupon the Queen referring them to the Law this Earl came to an Agreement with those Heirs Female Daughters to Ferdinando Earl of Derby before-mention'd paying them divers sums of money to quit their claim thereto as also with Thomas Lord Ellesmere then Lord Chancellour of England and Alice his Wife widdow of the same Earl Ferdinando And as to the Kings title obtained a grant from him of the said Isle with all the Regalities belonging to it unto himself and to the Lady Elizabeth his Wife for life as also to the survivor of them And after that unto Iames Lord Stanley for so he is call'd his Son and Heir and to the Heirs Male of his Body the remainder to Robert Stanley younger Brother to the said Iames and the Heirs Male of his Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Earl Which grant bears date 7 Iulii 7 Iac. and was ratified together with that agreement with the coheirs before mention'd by a special act in the Parliament begun at Westminster 19 Martii 1 Iac. and held by Prorogation until the ninth of February 7 Iac. as by the Record thereof return'd into the Chancery by Writ of Certiorare bearing date 30 Iulii 8 Iac. appeareth but I return This William was made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter in the time of that Queen and married Elizabeth eldest Daughter to Edward Earl of Oxford by whom he had Issue two Sons Iames who succeeded him in his Honours and Sir Robert Stanley Knight As also three Daughters Elizabeth who died young Anne first married to Sir Henry Portman of Orchard in Com. Somers Baronet afterwards to Sir Robert Carr Knight Earl of Ancrum in Scotland and another Elizabeth who died young And departing this life upon the 29 September An. 1642. was buried with his Ancestors at Ormeskirk To whom succeeded Iames his Son and Heir a person highly accomplisht with learning prudence loyalty and true valour Whereof none to whom he was well known are ignorant and as by this brief ensuing Narrative of the last and tragick part of his life may abundantly appear To pass by the great state wherein he lived whilst this Realm continued in peace and his wonderful Hospitality He was one of the first that repaired to the late King Charles of Blessed Memory at York when by reason of the dangerous Tumults at Westminster in the beginning of the year 1642. his Majesty became necessitated to retire thither Whence being ordered back into Lancashire to prepare for that Kings reception upon a resolution taken for setting up the Standard Royal at Warington he forthwith mustred that whole County on the three Heaths near Berry Ormskirk and Preston where he had an appearance of at least twenty thousand men at each place intending the like course in Cheshire and North-Wales by virtue of his Commission as Lord Lieutenant in those parts But in this interim the place resolv'd on for erecting the Standard being chang'd to the great disappointment of the Kings faithful Subjects in those parts and the no less encouragement of his enemies it was set up at Notingham where the Countries not coming in so freely as was expected the King by special Letters desired his Lordship to raise what men be could and to hasten to him Whose answer was that he would do his best but that the Case was then much altered a great part of the Country resolving to stand Neuters and that many others had already joined with the Rebels and seised upon Manchester All this notwithstanding amongst his own Tenants dependants and private friends he raised three Regiments of Foot and three Troops of Horse which he cloath'd and arm'd at his own charge and then posted to the King at Shrewsbury for orders how to dispose of them Whereupon his Majesty commanding him to return and forthwith to make trial of one smart assault upon Manchester and then whether he mastered that Town or not to march up to the general Camp he repaired to those his Forces drew up before that Town and upon his Summons thereof it refusing any Treaty directed an assault at four of the clock the next morning with hopes to carry it But that very night receiving commands from the King to haste to him in two days space he brought up his Regiments and Troops to his Majesty Which being disposed of under the command of other Officers he was desired to return back and take what care he could of the Country Hereupon the predominant party in that unhappy Parliament then sitting at Westminster made offer to him of the largest terms imaginable in case he would come in to them or quit the Kings service but to this he answered When I turn Traytor I may hearken to these propositions but till then let me have no more of these Papers at the peril of him that brings them this being the second time they had in that kind attempted him By this time the enemy having Garrison'd the Towns of Lancaster and Preston and in a manner brought the whole County under their power his Lordship set himself to fortifie his own House at Lathom and though his Arms and Magazine were gone made shift with the assistance of his Friends to cut off three Companies of the Enemy on Houghton Common as also to take Lancaster and Preston by storm in the former leading on his men himself with a half Pike in his hand after one repulse to the second assault which did the business Manchester having in all probability follow'd had not his Auxiliaries and his own Forces been call'd away in that very nick of time when he was ready for the attempt Soon after this upon information that the enemy had a design upon the Isle of Man he was ordered thither for the security of that place And went accordingly having first made some necessary provisioâ—s of Men Moneys and Ammunition for the protection and defence of his incomparable Lady at Lathom to whose charge he committed his Children House and other his English concerns She being therefore thus left in that House the Enemy lookt upon it as their own little expecting from a Woman being a stranger and that a place so unprovided as they
the Castle of Norwich in 11 E. 2. Moreover in 15 E. 2. he was join'd in commission with Iohn de Vauâ— to make choice of two thousand Foot-Souldiers in the Counties of Norf. and Suff. as also to conduct them to Newcastle upon Tine thence to march against the Scots and in 17 E. 2. was in the Wars of Gascoine In 19 E. 2. he was likewise one of the Commissioners for arraying of men in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk according to the Statute of Winchester and in 20 E. 2. being again appointed one of the Commissioners of Array in the County of Norfolk receiv'd command for the arming of five hundred Men Foot-Souldiers and Archers with Hactoons Bacinets and Gantlets of iron and to conduct them to the Port of Orwell in Suffolk thence to go to Sea against the French but died in 5 E. 3. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir Which Iohn in 10 E. 3. was constituted Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet from the mouth of Thames to the Northward whereupon he had an assignation of 153 l. 7 s. 6 d. for the Wages of himself with his Men at Arms and Archers in that service and in 21 E. 3. obtain'd a grant for a Market every week upon the Friday at his Mannour of Wygenhale in Com. Norf. and one Fair yearly upon the Eve and day of St. Mary Magdalen In which year he was again constituted Admiral of the whole Fleet to the Northwards To this Iohn succeeded Sir Robert Howard Knight who in 2 R. 2. was committed prisoner to the Tower for deteining Margery de Narford from Alice Lady Nevill her Grandmother with whom upon her petition to the King and Council she had been appointed to remain until the Cause of Divorce betwixt her and Iohn de Brewer should be determined in the Court of Rome This Sir Robert died 3 Iulii 12 R. 2. in his Fathers life time leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife Daughter to Robert Lord Scales Iohn his Son and Heir Which Iohn being soon afterwards a Knight was retein'd to serve the King for his life 10 Martii 12 R. 2. and by Margaret his first Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Iohn Plaiz Knight had Issue Iohn his Son and Heir Which Iohn was also a Knight and dying in his Father life time left Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir married to Iohn Earl of Oxford But after the death of the said Margaret Daughter of Sir Iohn Plaiz this Sir Iohn Howard married h to his second Wife Alice the Daughter and Heir of Sir William Tendring Knight and by her had Issue Robert Who being likewise a Knight married Margaret the Daughter and Coheir to Thomas de Moubray Duke of Norfolk but died in his Fathers life time leaving Issue Iohn Whicn Iohn in 31 H. 6. being then a Knight after the regaining of Burdeaux accompanied Iohn Talbot Vicount L'isle to Blay with twenty two thousand Men and soon after marcht with Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury to the relief of Chastillon then besieg'd by the French were that right valiant Earl had the fate to be slain And was made Sheriff of the Counties of Norf. and Suff. in 1. E. 4. as also Constable of the Castle of Norwich and one of the Kings Carvers with the Fee of xl l. per annum for that service to be received out of the Counties of Norf. and Suff. by the hands of the Sheriff for the time being Having likewise in consideration of his great services a grant in special tail of the Mannours of Leyham and Wherstede in Com. Suff. Smetheton-Hall in Com. Essex Dontishe and Donelyshe in Com. Dorset as also of the Mannour of Moyton-Hall in Com. Norf. all which were then in the Crown by the attainder of Iohn Earl of Wiltshire In 2 E. 4. being appointed together with the Lords Faâ—conbridge Clinton and others to keep the Seas having to the number of ten thousand Men in the Fleet he landed with them in Britanny where they took the Town of Conquet with the Isle of Rethe and in 8 E. 4. being then Treasurer of the Kings Houshold obtained a grant of the whole benefit of that which should accrue to the King by Coynage of Money in the City and Tower of London or elsewhere in the Realm of England to enjoy from the first of October the same year so long as he should continue in that office of Treasurer of the Houshold Also the same year with the Lord Scales Dacres and divers other persons of great quality he attended the Lady Margaret the Kings Sister into Flanders where she was solemnly married to the Duke of Burgundy And in 10 E. 4. bearing the title of Lord Howard the Lancastrians then making head again by reason of the revolt of Richard Nevill that stout Earl of Warwick the Duke of Clarence and others at that time getting into France with purpose to return powerfully he was made Captain-General of all the Kings Forces at Sea for resistance of their attempts In 11 E. 4. he was constituted Deputy-Governour of Calais and the marches adjacent unto William Lord Hastings and in 12 E. 4. first summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm In 13 E. 4. he was joined in Commission with the same Lord Hastings and others to treat with Charles Duke of Burgundy or his Agents at Bruges in Flanders for composing certain differences betwixt the subjects of England and those of that Duke And in 14 E. 4. retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in his Dutchy of Normandy and Realm of France for one whole year with xx Men at Arms and CC. Archers In which year upon the Peace concluded betwixt both Crowns it was covenanted that King Edward after the enterview and receipt of two thousand Crowns should return into England and leave in hostage till he had passed the Seas this Lord Howard and Sir Iohn Cheney Master of the Horse It was also then agreed that a Pension of six thousand Crowns should be divided betwixt the King of Englands principal servants whereof this Lord Howard had part he being at that time appointed one of the Commissioners for setting forth the place for the enterview at Picquigny which was to be upon the xxix of August following It is noted by Comines that the King of France giving great presents to all Embassadors that came to him he bestowed on this Lord Howard over and above his Pension no less than twenty four thousand Crowns in money and plate in two years Nevertheless in all his transactions he behaved himself with such fidelity and prudence as that in farther consideration thereof in 15 E. 4. he obtained a grant in special tail of the Mannours of Prestone Cokeâ—eld Aldam and Mendam in Com.
1524. 16 H. 8. had burial in the Priory of Thetford accordingly He Married two Wives First Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widdow of Humphrey Bourchier Lord Berners Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing date 6 Nov. an 1506. 22 H. 7. bequeath'd her Body to be Interred in the Nuns Quire of the Minoresses without Aldgate in London nigh unto the place where Anne Montgomerie lay buried Appointing that no more than xx Torches should be used at her Burial and Month's minde Also that no Dole or money should be given at either of those solemnities but instead thereof C. marks to be distributed to poor Folks viz. to every poor man and woman in the Parishes of White-Chapell and Hackney vii d. By this Elizabeth he had Issue eight Sons 1. Thomas Created Earl of Surrey in his life time 2. Sir Edward Howard Knight of the Garter 3. Edmund the other five viz. Henry Iohn Charles Henry and Richard all dying young And three Daughters 1. Elizabeth Married to Thomas Vicount Rochford afterwards Earl of Wiltshire and Ormund 2. Muriel first to Iohn Grey Vicount L'isle afterwards to Sir Thomas Knevet of Buckenham in Com. Norff. Knight and Mary to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmund and Somers natural Son to King Henry the Eighth To his second Wife he Wedded Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had Issue William afterwards Created Baron Howard of Efstngham of whom and his Descendents I shall 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 suspicion of his intents for aspiring to the Crown and departing this life in the Tower of London 1 Nov. an 1537. 29 Eliz. was buried at Thetford 3. Richard who died in an 1517. 9 H. 8. and was buried at Lambeth And four Daughters Anne Married to Iohn Earl of Oxford Dorothy to Edward Earl of Derby Elizabeth to Henry Earl of Sussex and Catherine first to Sir Rhese ap Thomas Knight but afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater This is in substance what I have dispersedly found to be most memorable of this great Duke But forasmuch as the Tablet fixed to his Monument at Thetford mentioneth divers other particulars well worthy of note before I farther proceed with my discourse of his Descendents I shall here exhibite a true Copy thereof Forasmoche as it is wryttyn in the Epitaphe about the Tombe here present of the high and myghty Prynce Thomas late Duke of Norffolk after his discent from his noble antecessours declared in the same in wrytyng whyche is also set out in Armes about the same Tombe that who will se farther of the maner of his lyvyng and servyce doon by hym to hys Pryncis and of hys honourable depertyng out of this world schall resorte and loke in thys Table Fyrst you schall know the seid Duke was in his yong age after he had been a sufficent season at the Gramer Schole Hencheman to King Edward the ivth and was than called Thomas Howard Son and Heire to Sir John Howard Knight after Lord Howard and after that Duke of Norffolk of right enheritance And the seid Thomas Howard whan he was at mannes age was wyth divers other Gentlemen of Englond sent to Charles Duke of Burgon in the begynnyng of the Wars betwixt Kyng Lewis of Fraunce and the seid Duke Charles and ther contynued unto th' ende of the seid Warres to hys great prayse and thankys as well of Kyng Edward hys own Soverayn Lord as of the seid Duke Charles And after the Warres doon betwyxt the seid Kyng Lewes and the seid Duke Charles than the seid Thomas Howard returned into Englond unto Kynge Edward hys Soverayn Lord and he made hym immedyately Esquyer for hys Body and he was aboute hym at hys makynge redy both Evenyng and Mornyng And afterward be made hym Knyghte at the Maryage of the Duke of York Kynge Edward hys seconde Son and so he was with the seid Kynge Edward in all hys busynes aswel at Lyncolneshire-feld and at the tyme of Banbury-felde as at all other hys busynes and also at suche tyme as the same Kynge was takyn by the Erle of Warwyke at Warwyke befor hys escape and departynge into Flaunders And after the Kyngys depertynge into Flaunders for that the coostis of England were so sett for depertynge of any other hys servantis and frendis the seid Thomas Howard was dryvin of force to take Sayntwary of Seynt Joannes in Colchester for the true service he bare unto Kâ—nge Edward And at the seid Kyngys retourne out of Flaunders the seid Sir Thomas Howard resortyd unto hym and went wyth hym to Barnet-feld and there was sore hurte And after when Kyng Edward went into Fraunce wyth hys Army-Ryall he sent thether before divers Gentylmen and for that the seid Sir Thomas Howard had good experyence aswell in hys beynge wyth Charles Duke of Burgon as in divers Feldys and busynesses wit the seid Kynge Edwarde he had therfor commandment to go over wyth them and for hys advyse and counsell tyll the seyd Kynge came over And when King Edward and Kynge Lewes mette at the Barriars upon the River of Som the seid Sir Thomas Howard was wyth Kynge Edward at the Barriars by the Kyngis Commandement and no men save only the Chaunceller of Englonde the Chanceller of France and Sir John Cheney And after the Kyngis comyng home into Englonde the seyd Sir Thomas Howard obteyned lycens of the Kyng to lye in Norfolke at an Howsse which he had in the ryght of my Lady his Wyffe called Ashewolthorpe and ther he laye and kepte an honourable Howsse in the favour of the whole Shire duryng the lyffe of the seyd Kyng Edward and at that tyme and long after hys Father was alyve And after Kyng Edwâ—â—d was ded and Kyng Edward the fyfte his Son than Kyng Richard was Kynge and then the forseid Sir Thomas Howard was hys subgette And forthat the yong Dutchesse of Norffolk whiche was very Heir thereunto was dede withoute yssuâ— and the Lord Howard father to the seid Sir Thomas Howard was rightefull Heire to the same off former discent was creatt Duke of Norfolk and he creatt Earl of Surrey and so they both served the seid Kyng Rychard truly as hys Subgettis duryng hys lyff lying at home in their own Countries and kepyng honorable Howsses and they went with hym to Bosworthe felde where the seid Kynge Rychard was slayne and also the seid Duke of Norfolk and th'afforseid Erle hurte and takyn upon the Felde and put in the Tower of London by Kyng Henry the seventh and ther contynued three yeerys and an halfe In whiche tyme of his being in the Tower the same Kyng Henry had a Felde wyth the Erle of Lyncolne in Notynghamshire besydes Newark
Richard Coniers of Norden in Com. Palat. Dunelm and Christopher Coniers of Eletham Henry Philip Robert and William and four Daughters viz. Elizabeth Married to William Fitzâ— Williams of Sprotborough Margerie to Rouland Playce and Eleanore to Thomas Merkenfeld Which Iohn his Son and Heir Married Alice Daughter and Coheir to William Nevil Lord Fauconbridge afterwards Earl of Kent and in 5 E. 4. was join'd in Commission with Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick and divers other Northern Lords to treat with the Scots touching some injuries by them done to the Subjects of this Realm contrary to the Articles of Truce agreed on by both Crowns He was also imploy'd in 13 E. 4. with Henry Earl of Northumberland and others upon the like occasion And having been Installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter in 1 R. 3. departed this life in 5 H. 7. leaving Issue two Sons William his Son and Heir and Iohn and two Daughters Anne Married to Richard Lumley and Margerie to William Bulmer Which William Coniers in 8 H. 7. accompanied Raphe Nevill Earl of Westmorland and divers other Northern Lords to raise the Siege of Norham-Castle then beleaguer'd by the Scots and in 22 H. 7. bore the Title of Lord Conyers Whereupon in 1 H. 8. he had Summons to Parliament and was made Constable of the Castles at Richmund and Middleham Having therefore such trust and power in those parts in 5 H. 8. he marcht with the Earl of Surrey against the Scots who had then invaded Northumberland Whereupon he had his share in the honour of that Victory then obtain'd at Floddon-field where King Iames the Fourth lost his Life And having Married Anne Daughter to Raphe Nevill Earl of Westmorland departed this life in 16 H. 8. leaving Sir Christopher Coniers Knight his Son and Heir and two Daughters Catherine Married to Sir Francis Bigod of Settrington Knight and Margaret to Richard Cholmley Son and Heir to Sir Roger Cholmley of Rockley Knight Which Christopher had Livery of his Lands the same year And in 22 H. 8. with the rest of the Lords then sitting in Parliament subscribed that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby 't was represented to his Holiness that in case he did not comply with King Henry in that business of his Divorce from Queen Katherine his Supremacy here could not long be owned And having Married Anne Daughter to William Lord Dacres of Gillestand departed this life in 30 H. 8. leaving Issue Iohn his Son and Heir as also Leonard a younger Son and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to George Playce of Halnaby Esq and Iane to Sir Marmaduke Constable of Everingham Knight Which Iohn in 36 H. 8. accompanied the Earl of Hertford then General of that Army sent into Scotland at which time Leith was taken by the English and he there with others Knighted In 5 E. 6. this Iohn Lord Coniers was made Warden of the West-Marches toward Scotland as also Governour of the Castle at Carlisle and in 1 Mariae Warden of the East-Marches and Governour of Barwick And having Married Maud the Daughter to Henry the first Earl of Cumberland departed this life in 3 4 Ph. M. leaving three Daughters his Heirs viz. Anne Married to Anthony Kempe of ... in Com. Cantii Elizabeth to Thomas the Son of Sir Arthur Darcie Knight and Catherine to Iohn the Son and Heir of Iohn Atherton of Atherton in Com. Lane Esq Of which three Daughters no Issue remaineth but from Elizabeth so Married to Darcie Pole Lord Mountagu 19 H. 7. THE first of this Family touching whom I have seen any thing memorable is Sir Richard Pole Knight Son of Sir Geffrey Pole Knight descended from an antient stock of that surname in some part of Wales Which Sir Richard being a valiant and expert Commander was by Indenture first retained to serve King Henry the Seventh in his Wars of Scotland in the 12th year of his Reign with five Demilances and CC. Archers and afterwards before the end of that year with six hundred men at Arms threescore Demilances and five hundred and fourty Bows and Bills And being a person much accomplisht was made chief Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to Prince Arthur and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter whereupon attending him into Wales he received Command to govern in those parts The certain time of his Death I find not but that by the Lady Margaret his Wife Daughter to George Duke of Clarence he had Issue four Sons Henry Geffrey Arthur and Reginald and one Daughter called Vrsula Married to Henry Lord Stafford Which Margaret surviving him in 5 H. 8. by her Petition to the King representing that whereas by Act of Parliament in 19 H. 7. Edward her Brother called Earl of Warwick had been declared Traytor and his Lands thereupon forfeited she humbly intreated that it would please his Highness to permit her to inherit his state and dignity she being his Sister and Heir in blood and be stiled Countess of Salisbury Which being granted she obtained his Letters Patent bearing date 14 Oct. the same year for all the Castles Mannors and Lands of Richard late Earl of Salisbury her Grandfather which came to the Crown by the attainder of the same Edward Earl of Warwick her Brother But notwithstanding that favour a most sad fate overtook her at last she being attainted for Treason in 31 H. 8. under colour of complyance with the Marquess of Exeter at that time also attainted certain Bulls from Rome being found at Cowdray her Mansion House It was also laid to her charge that the Parson of Warblyngton had conveyed Letters from her to her Son Reginald the Cardinal and that she had forbidden all her Tenants to have the New Testament in English or any new Book that the King had priviledg'd What else might be the cause is not certain but it appeareth from sufficient tâ—stimony that she behav'd her self most stoutly though seventy years of age and would not confess any thing Nevertheless she had sentence of death passed against her without ever being heard yet the Execution thereof was deferred for two years until the 27th of May an 1541. 33 H. 8. at which time she lost her Head in the Tower it being thought that the Insurrection about that time in Yorkeshire was through the instigation of the Cardinal her Son and consequently the occasion taken thus to cut her off in whom determin'd the Line of Plantaginet She being then possess'd of these following Lordships Lands and Revenues   l. s. d. In Com. Cornub. Lantyane 20 10 06. In Com. Devon Wonneford 06 19 10. Clifte S. Maryes 08 04 06 Py-Worthye 18 04 10 ob Stokenham with the
was descendable to the Heirs general he setled his Estate so as that both Honours might properly be supported And departing this life upon the 14 th of April An. 1587. 29 Eliz. lieth buried at Botsfordque leaving issue by Isabel his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas Holcroft of the Uale-Royal in Com. Cestr. Knight one sole Daughter and Heir called Elizabeth Wife of Sir William Cecil Knight commonly called Lord Burghley Son and Heir apparent to Thomas Earl of Exeter by whom he had Issue William called Lord Ros who died in Italyin An. 1618 18 â—ac unmarried Which Elizabeth departed this life 11 Maii An. 1591. and lieth buried in Westminster Abby To this last Earl Edward succeeded Iohn his Brother and Heir Male who in 29 Eliz. was made Constable of Notingham-Castle and in 30 Eliz. Lieutenant of Notinghamshire And having by his Testament bearing date 23 Febr. An. 1587. 30 Eliz. bequeathed his Body to be buried at Botsford died 21 Febr. the same year leaving Issue by Elizabeth his Wife Daughter to Francis Charlton of Apley in Com. Salop. Esq Roger his Son and Heir Francis Sir George and Sir Oliver Maners both Knights Bridget married to Robert Tirwhit of Ketilby in Com. Linc. Esq Frances to William Lord Willoughby of Parham Elizabeth to Emanuel Lord Scrope of Bolton and Mary Of which Earl Roger the Epitaph upon his Tomb at Botsford giveth this Testimony viz. that in Aâ— 1595. 37 Eliz. he began his first travels into divers parts beyond the Seas as France Italy Grâ—seland and the Low-Countries where he continued three years Afterwards that he went voluntary the Island-Voyage and that he was Colonel of Foot in the Irish wars in An. 1598. Moreover that he was made Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in the first year of King Iames Also that the same year he went Embassadour into Denmarke to the Christening of that Kings first Son and with the order of the Garter to the King himself To which I shall add that in 42 Eliz. he was made Constable of Nottingham-Castle and Chief Justice of the Forest of Shirewode In 1 Iac. Steward of the Mannour and Soke of Grantham and in 6 Iac. Chief Justice of Shirewode Forest. This Roger married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to the famous Sir Philip Sidney Knight but died without Issue 26 Iunii An. 1612. 10 Iac. Leaving Francis his Brother and Heir whose memorable actions are thus set forth upon his Monument at Botsford viz. At ten years of age he began to travel An. 1598. in France Lorayne and divers parts of Italy where he was honourably received by the Princes themselves and nobly entertain'd in their Courts In his return through Germany he had like honour done him by Ferdinand Archduke of Austria at Gratz By the Emperour Mathias in his Court at Uienna By Count Swartzembourg Lieutenant of Iavarin in Hungary By Count Rossembourg at Prague in Bohemia By the Marquess of Brandenbourg the Dukes of Saxony and other German-Princes in the Court of Berlin In An. 1604. he was made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Iames. In An. 1612. Lieutenant of Lincolnshire and afterwards Justice in Eire of all the Kings Forests and Chases on the North of Trent In An. 1616. he was made Knight of the most noble order of the Garter being the same year one of the Lords who attended King Iames by his Majesties special appointment in his journey to Scotland And in An. 1623. had the command of his Majesties great Ships and Pinnaces to bring Prince Charles out of Spain which service he happily performed To all these I shall add that discerning the Title of Lord Ros then claimed by William Cecill and accordingly enjoyed could not justly be made use of by himself as Heir Male by reason that Cecill was Son and Heir of Elizabeth the sole Daughter and Heir to Edward late Earl of Rutland who had that Title by right of descent from Elianore his Grandmother Sister and Heir to Edmund Lord Ros he procured a special Patent bearing date 22 Iulii 14 Iac. whereby in consideration that he was then possessed of the Land and Barony of Hamlake it was declared that he should therefore be accepted and called Lord Roos of Hamlake and that his Son and Heir should also enjoy the same Name and Title This Earl Francis had two Wives viz Frances Daughter and Coheir to Sir Henry Knevet of Charleton in Com. Wilts Knight Widow of Sir William Bevill of Kilkhampton in Com. Cornub. Knight by whom he had Issue one only Daughter and Heir called Catherine first married to George Duke of Buckingham and afterwards to Randulph Mac Donald Earl of Antrim in Ireland Secondly Cecilie Daughter to Sir Iohn Tufton of Hothfield in Com. Cantii Knight and Baronet Widow of Sir Edward Hungerford Knight by whom he had Issue two Sons Henry and Francis who both died in their childhood by Sorcery as 't was thought He died at Bishops-Stortford in Com. Hertf. upon the 17. day of December An. 1632. 8 Car. 1. and was buried at Botsford To whom succeeded in this Earldom Sir George Maners Knight his Brother and Heir Male. Which George married Frances the Daughter of Sir Edward Carey of Aldenham in Com. Hertf. Knight Sister to Henry Vicount Falkland and departing this life at his House in the Savoy in the suburbs of London 29 Martii An. 1641. 17 Car. 1. without Issue was buried at Botsford with his Ancestors So that the Title of Earl did thereupon resort to Iohn Maners Esq then Lord of the Mannour of Haddon in Com. Derb. his Principal Seat as next Heir Male viz. Son and Heir of Sir George Maners Knight Son of Iohn Maners Esq second Son to Thomas the first Earl of Rutland of this Family Which Iohn took to Wife Frances Daughter to Edward Lord Mountagu of Boughton and by her had Issue three Sons George and Edward who both died young and Iohn Lord Ros now living Which Iohn Lord Ros Married the Lady Anne Pierpont eldest Daughter to Henry Marquess of Dorchester but from her being lawfully divorc'd by Sentence of the Court-Christian and the Children which she bore disabled by Act of Parliament for inheriting any Lands or Honours from him the said Iohn or Iohn Earl of Rutland his Father as also enabled by that Act to marry again and that the Children by such other Nuptials shall inherit He next Wedded the Lady Diana Daughter to Robert Earl of Aylesbury Widdow of Sir Seamour Shirley of Stanton-Harold in Com. Leic. Baronet and surviving her took to Wife Catherine the Daughter to Baptist Vicount Campden by whom he hath Issue ... This Iohn Earl of Rutland had likewise Issue seven Daughters viz. Frances Married to Iohn Earl of Exeter Grace to Patricius Vicount Chaworth Dorothy to Anthony Lord Ashley Son
Parish-Church of Little-Horkysley where she willed that a Vault of Brick should be made so large as that one Body might be conveniently laid therein and over it a Tomb of gray Marble more than half the height of the Tomb wherein Dame Katherine Finderne lieth buried and upon the same three Pictures of Brass one of her self without any Coat-Armour and upon her right side the Picture of the Lord Marny her last Husband in his Coat-Armour and upon her left side the Picture of her Husband Finderne in his Coat-Armour and at the head or feet a Scripture of brass to shew the time of her decease and what stock she was of and to what men of worship married Appointing also that there should be sung by Note before her Burial such Service as was set out and appointed by the Kings book to be used at Burials with so many Priests and Clerks as her Executors should think convenient every Priest to have xii d. and every Clerk being a man helping to sing iv d. Sandys 15 H. 8. THough none of this Family arrived to the dignity of Peerage until King Henry the Eighths time yet were they persons of the Superior rank amongst the Gentry in Hantshire long before For in 6 R. 2. Sir Iohn de Sandys Knight was Sheriff of that County and Governour of Winchester-Castle as also in 18 R. 2. So likewise was Sir Walter Sandys Knight in 12 H. 4. and 1 H. 6. But it was William Sandys whose eminent Services in the time of King Henry the Seventh and King Henry the Eighth were the first step to his farther advancement both in point of Wealth and Honour For in 7 H. 7. he accompanied the Earls of Derby Shrewsbury and more of that rank besides many other of the English Nobility into Flanders in aid of Maximilian the Emperour against the French And upon that Insurrection of the Cornish-men in 12 H. 7. being then a Knight putting himself in Arms with the Earls of Essex Suffolk and others for suppressing thereof worthily shared in the honour of that Victory which they who adventured themselves against those Rebels in the Battel of Black-Heath in Kent at that time obtained The principal Seat of this Family having been antiently at the Uine near Basâ—ngstoke in Com. Sutht was for a time possess'd by that of Brocas in Marriage but this Sir William Sands recovering it new built the Mannor-House and by the Marriage of Margerie the only Child of Iohn Bray Brother and Heir to Reginald Bray of whom our Historians make mention with no little honour for his eminent services to King Henry the Seventh much increased his Estate For Reginald going to Black-Heath-field in 12 H. 7 left this Sands as his Heir and after that Battel purchased a thousand Marks per annum Lands more whereof he made no disposition so that they fell to him in her right Whereupon great controversie arising betwixt Edmund Lord Bray and this Sir William Sandys who claim'd by virtue of the Will and Bray as his Nephew and Heir Male a determination therein was at length made by the King and the Lords of the Council that they should part them equally In 4 H. 8. he was with divers other brave English-men sent by King Henry in aid of Ferdinand of Arragon against the French And in 11 H. 8. in order to the Enterview betwixt King Henry and Francis the First being then Knight of the Garter he was one of the Commissioners sent over for making a Palace before the Castle-Gate at Guisnes and being in great esteem with that King upon the Attainder of Edward Duke of Buckingham obtain'd a grant of the Mannors of Willesford and Stratton St. Margaret with the Advousons of the Churches in Com. Wilts which came to the Crown thereupon In 14 H. 8. he was Treasurer of Calais And the same year together with Sir Richard Wingfeild they then being both Knights of the Garter led the Rear of that Army sent under the Command of the Earl of Surrey into France Also upon the return thereof to Calais was with some others imploy'd in the burning of Marguison and other Towns in those parts After which upon the 27th of April 15 H. 8. he was advanc'd to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Sands at the Kings Royal Palace of Bridewell as my Author saith for there is nothing upon Record of any Patent and soon after that the same year bearing that Title accompanied the Duke of Suffolk into France who then landed at Calais with six hundred Demilances two hundred Archers on Horseback three thousand Archers on Foot five thousand Bill-men and two thousand six hundred Pioners divers other Noblemen at that time passing over with him and led the Vanâ—guard of the English Army In 17 H. 8. Charles Earl of Worcester then Lord Chamberlain to the King being very Aged this William Lord Sands obtain'd a grant of that Office in reversion after his Death and in 19 H. 8. upon the sacking of Rome by the Duke of Burbon at which time the Pope was made Prisoner Cardinal Wolsey being sent to the King of France to represent the scandal thereof to all Christendome he was one of the Lords which attended him thither Moreover in 21 H. 8. being one of the Peers then summon'd to that Parliament he subscribed with divers other to those Articles which were then exhibited to the King against that great Cardinal So likewise in 22 H. 8. to that Declaration sent by most of the Peers to Pope Clement the Seventh intimating to him the danger of losing his Supremacy here in Case he did not comply with King Henry in that business of his Divorce from Queen Katherine And in 24 H. 8. attended the King with many other of the Nobility first to Calais and then â—o Boloin where and at other places King Francis the First gave him most noble entertainment By his Testament bearing date 8 Dec. 32 H. 8. being then Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold he bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Chappel of the Holy-Ghost at Basâ—ngstoke and departed this life in an 1542. 34 H. 8. as it seemeth by the Probate thereof leaving Thomas his Son and Heir and four Daughters Which Thomas in 33 H. 8. had Livery of his Lands and Married Elizabeth the Daughter of George Maners Lord Roos by whom he had Issue two Sons first Henry and 2. Sir Walter Sandys Knight Which Henry Married Elizabeth Sister of Edward Lord Windsore and having Issue by her two Sons William and Thomas and Margerie a Daughter Married to Henry Carey of Hamworthy in Com. Dorset Esq died in his Father's life time Which William being summon'd to Parliament in 13
of the Isle of Iersey but in 28 H. 8. surrendred that trust And having Married Elizabeth Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas Cheney of Irâ—lingburgh in Com. Northt Knight had Issue by her two Sons William and Nicholas and two Daughters Anne Married to Reginald Bray of Eâ—on in Com. Northt second Son to Reginald Bray Brother to Edmund Lord Bray of 〈◊〉 in Com. Bedf. and Maud who died unmarried Which William being Summon'd to Parliament in 4 5 Ph. M. took his place there upon the xx th of Ianuary and by his Testament bearing date 20 Aug. an 1593. 35 Eliz. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Chappel on the Southside the Parish-Church of St. Peter in Irtlingburgh by his Grandfather Sir Thomas Cheney Knight appointing that a Tomb should be made in the same Chappel over his Mother's Grave Also that after his Funeral-Expences Debts and Legacies discharged the remainder of the mony due to him from Sir Thomas Cecill Knight should be imploy'd in the erecting of an Almeshouse at Irtlyngburgh and died in anno 1595. 38 Eliz. This William Lord Vaux had two Wives First Elizabeth Daughter to Iohn Beaumont of Graeedieu in Com. Leic. Esq Master of the Rolls in Chancery by whom he had Issue Henry who died in his life time and three Daughters Alianore Married to Edward Brokesby of Sholdby in Com. Leic. Esq Elizabeth a Nun at Roan in Normandy and Anne Secondly Mary Daughter to Iohn Tresham of Rushton in Com. Northt Esq on whom he begot three Sons viz. George Edward and Sir Ambrose Vaux Knight and two Daughters Muriel the Wife of George Foulshurst and Catherine Which George his eldest Son Wedded Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Iohn Roper of Welle-Place in Com. Cantii Knight afterwards Created Lord Tenham but died in his Father's life time leaving Issue three Sons Edward William and Henry and three Daughters Catherine Married to Sir Henry Nevill Knight Son and Heir to Henry Lord Bergaveny Mary to Sir George Simeon Knight and Ioice Which Edward succeeding his Grandfather took to Wife Elizabeth the Daughter of Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk Widdow of William Earl of Banbury and dying in an 1661. without any lawful Issue Nicholas Son of the same Elizabeth his Wife born in the life time of the said Earl of Banbury enjoys all his Estate Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmund and Somerset 17 H. 8. THis Henry being natural Son to King Henry the Eighth begotten on the Lady Elizabeth Tailboys Widdow of Sir Gilbert Tailboys and Daughter of Sir Iohn Blount Knight was upon the 18th of Iune 17 H. 8. first made Knight of the Garter then advanced to the dignity of Earl of Notingham as also the same day Created Duke of Richmund and Somerset the Ceremony thereof being performed at the Royal Palace call'd Bridewell in the City of London at which time he had arrived to little more than six years of age Upon the same day also he was Constituted Lieutenant-General of all the Kings Forces North of Trent and Warden of the Marches of Scotland Likewise upon the 26th of Iuly next ensuing Admiral of England And in 19 H. 8. had a new Patent for his Wardenship of the Marches of Scotland In 22 H. 8. being made Lieutenant of Ireland Sir William Skeffyngton Knight by reason of his tender years was constituted his Deputy there Having for a time his Education with Henry Earl of Surrey in the Castle of Windsore in November an 1532. 24 H. 8. they went both of them of Paris there to study In which year King Henry passing the Seas with a Royal Train to Calais for an Enterview with King Francis of France this young Duke being bravely attended met them there Making the Earl of Surrey his Companion during his abode in France there grew so great a Friendship betwixt them that he Married Mary the Sister to that Earl Daughter to Thomas Duke of Norff. but never had carnal knowledge with her It is observed by our Historians that being very personable and of great expectation he was thought to be not only for ability of Body but of mind one of the rarest youths of his time For which reason and because the King had then no Male Issue he was much cherished by him But he departed this life upon the 24 th of Iuly an 1536. 28 H. 8. being then about seventeen years of age and was buried at Thetford in Com. Norff. the King mourning for him a long time after Thomas Bullen Earl of Wiltshire 17 H. 8. AS to the Parentage of this Thomas he was Grandson to Sir Geffrey Bullen Knight a wealthy Mercer in London as also Lord Mayor of that City in an 1458. 37 H. 6. by Anne his Wife eldest Daughter and Coheir of Thomas Lord Hoo and Hastings and Son to Sir William Bullen of Blickling in Com. Norf. Knight by Margaret his Wife Daughter and Coheir to Thomas Boteler Earl of Ormund In 12 H. 7. this Thomas Bullen was in Arms with his Father and divers other persons of Note for suppressing that Insurrection of the Cornish Men then endangering the Realm And in 3 H. 8. being one of the Knights for the Kings Body was constituted Governour of the Castle at Norwich jointly with Sir Henry Wyat Knight Master of the Kings Jewel-house In 4 H. 8. he was one of the Embassadors then imploied to Maximilian the Emperour touching a War with France and in 7 H. 8. made Constable alone of that Castle at Norwich In 11 H. 8. being Embassador in France he transacted the business for that famous enterview of King Henry and Francis the first betwixt Guisnes and Ardres and in 13 H. 8. was again sent Embassador to the Emperour In 14 H. 8. being then Treasurer of the Kings Houshold he was sent Embassadour into Spain to advise with King Charles what was farther to be done in order to the War with France Where he continued in 15 H. 8. In 17 H. 8. by reason of the great affection which the King bore to the Lady Anne Bullen his Daughter upon the 18 th of Iune he was advanced to the title of Vicount Rochford at the Kings Palace of Bridewell And in 19 H. 8. accompanied the Bishop of Bath and Wells and Sir Anthony Browne Knight to the King of France with the ensigns of the most noble order of the Garter as also to take his Oath not to violate the late league formerly made In 21 H. 8. with divers other Lords he subscribed the Articles then exhibited in Parliament against Cardinal Wolsey And upon the eighth of December the same year being then Knight of the Garter was created
there any Answer return'd from them After this he wrote two Letters one in his own name to the Earl of Warwick the other in the name of those Lords at Windsore to the Lords at London in both which he so weakly complain'd expostulated intreated and yeilded under their Hand as it was sufficient to have breathed courage into any Enemy once declared against him Hereupon the Lords at London forthwith publisht a Proclamation under the hands of Seventeen of them wherein they charged the causes of all the calamities and losses which had lately before hapned and had cost the lives of many thousands of the King 's good Subjects Likewise the loss of divers Pieces beyond Sea which had been won by the great Adventure of the late King's Person and consumption of his Treasure to have been through the evil Government of this Protector and desired and in the King's Name prohibited all subjects from farther giving obedience to any of his precepts Soon after the publishing whereof they directed three Letters to Windsore one to the King himself another to this Protector and a third to the Houshold Which Letter to the Protector was guilded with many smooth words fair promises and full of hope But the other two fouly setting forth his Obstinacie Avarice Ambition his rash engagements into Wars in the Kings unsetled age and estate his negligences deceits and all other insufficiencies before-mentioned Wherewith Sir Robert Wingfeild Captain of the Guard being sent to Windsore he so well perswaded the King both of the Loyal affection of the Lords towards him and of their moderate desires against the Protector then present that he was remov'd from the King's person and a Guard set upon him till the next day when the Lords at London were appointed to be there Who came accordingly but the Earl of Warwick not with them though all moved from him Which Lords coming before the King repeated their former complaints advising him to beware of such as were both Powerful Ambitious Mischeivous and Rich Affirming that it would be better security unto him that this Power should be committed to many who cannot so readily knit together in Will or in Action as when the whole managery resideth in one Whereupon this Duke being no longer called Protector was put into their hands and commited to custody in Beauchamp's Tower within that Castle and the next day brought to London where he rode through Holburne betwixt the Earls of Southampton and Huntington followed by Lords and Gentlemen to the number of Three hundred all mounted on horsback and at Sopher-lane being received by the Lord Mayor Sheriffs Recorder and divers Knights of note with their Attendants bearing Halberts was convey'd to the Tower Where having breath'd a small time certain Lords of the Council were sent to him who after a short Preface in such termes as hate and dissimulation could temper together remembring how great the Amity had formerly been between them and of what continuance Then acknowledging what Offices and Services he had done for the Common-wealth yet enterlacing some errors and defects wherewith they seem'd to reproach him they presented to him certain Articles as from the rest of the Privy-Council desiring his pâ—â—sent Answer whether he would acknowledge them to be true or stand upon his Justification Which Articles were these 1. That he took upon him the Office of Protector upon express condition that he should do nothing in the Kings Affairs but by assent of the late King's Executors 〈◊〉 the greatest part of them 2. That contrary to this condition he did hinder Iustice and subvert Laws of his own authority as well by Letters as by other command 3. That he caused divers persons Arrested and Imprisoned for Treason Murther Manslaughter and Felony to be discharged against the Laws and Statutes of the Realm 4. That he appointed Lieutenants for Armies and other Officers for the weighty Affairs of the King under his own writing and seale 5. That he communed with Embassadors of other Realmes alone of the weighty Matters of the Realme 6. That he would taunt and reprove divers of the King 's most honorable Counsellors for declaring their advice in the King 's weighty Affairs against his opinion sometimes telling them that they were not worthy to sit in Councill and sometimes that he needed not to open weighty matters to them and that if they were not agreeable to his opinion he would discharge them 7. That against Law he held a Court of Requests in his House and did enforce divers to answer there for their Freehold and Goods and did determine of the same 8. That being no Officer without the advice of the Councill or most part of them he did dispose of the King's guift for Money grant Leases and Wards gave Bishopricks and made sale of the King's Lands 9. That he commanded Alchimye and multiplication to be practised thereby to abase the Kings coyne 10. That divers times be openly said that the Nobility and Gentry were the only cause of Dearth whereupon the people rose to reform matters of themselves 11. That against the mind of the whole Council be caused Proclamation to be made concerning Inclosures whereupon the people made divers Insurrections and destroyed many of the Kings Subjects 12. That he sent forth a Commission with Articles annexed concerning Inclosures common High-ways Cottages and such like matters giving the Commissioners authority to hear and determine those causes whereby the Laws and Statutes of the Realm were subverted and much Rebellion raised 13. That he suffered Rebels to assemble and lye armed in Camp against the Nobility and Gentry of the Realm without speedy repressing of them 14. That he did comfort and encourage divers Rebells by giving them money and promissing them Fees Rewards and Services 15. That he caused a Proclamation to be made against Law and in favor of the Rebels that none of them should be vexed or sued by any for their offences in their Rebellion 16. That in time of Rebellion he said that he liked well the actions of the Rebels and that the Avarice of Gentlemen gave occasion for the people to rise and that it was better for them to die than to perish for want 17. That he said the Lords of the Parliament were loath to reform Inclosures and other things therefore the people had good cause to reform them themselves 18. That after Declaration of the defaults of Baloine and the pieces there by such as did survive them he would never amend the same 19. That he would not suffer the Kings pieces of Newhaven and Blackness to be furnished with Men and provision albeit he was advertised of the defaults and advised thereto by the Kings Council whereby the French King was emboldned to attempt upon them 20. That he would neither give authority nor suffer Noblemen and Gentlemen to suppress Rebels in time convenients but wrote to them to speak the Rebels fair and use them gently 21. That upon the fifth of October
in 26 H. 8. Principal Secretary of State as also Master of the Rolls Shortly after this that Long Parliament then siting at Westminster began 3 Nov. 21 H. 8. and held by Prorogation till the 27 th of that Kings reign originally design'd to swallow up those vast possessions which through the bounty of divers pious Kings and many other devout people of this Nation had been bestowed on the Monasteries wherein this Cromwell had been the Principal contriver it was thought fit in order to that grand work to send visitors into all parts for making Inquisition into the demeanor of the Votaries then profess'd in any of those Religious Houses to the end that by representing them more loose in their lives than the strictness of their Rule required the less regret might be had not only to their ejection but to the utter suppression of their Orders Whereupon in October An. 1535. 27 H. 8 being sent with Doctor Lee and others upon that notable errand they put forth all who were willing to depart and all who were under the age of Twenty four year shutting up those who remained that they should not go out of their places And to them which departed assign'd Forty shillings in Money with a Priests Gown for their Habit but to the Nuns no other Apparel than secular women did use Which being done they took the Relicks and chiefest of the Jewels in every House to the King's use This grand Action being over whereupon soon ensued the dissolution of all those which had been by other Inquisitors found under the value of Two hundred pounds per annum he was shortly after viz. 2 Iulii 28 H. 8. made Lord Keeper of the King 's Privy Seale and upon the ninth of the same moneth advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the name of Lord Cromwell of Okeham in Com. Rutl. and within six dayes after viz. 15 Iulii which was the last day of the Parliament then held took his place amongst the Lords in that House Being therefore arrived to this high pitch of Honor and Trust that which I shall next observe is that the Popes Supremacie being here by authority of Parliament abolished and directly declared to be in the King divers businesses thereupon hapening which could not be dispatch'd without his Highnesses consent himself being not able to undergo the burthen thereof confer'd that Authority on this Lord Cromwell making him Vicar-general over all the Spiritualties under himself Not that he thought a Layman more fit for it than one of the Clergy but because under colour thereof he had resolv'd to put in execution some designs wherein the Clergy in probability would have moved but slowly Whereupon he became President in the Synod of that year viz. 28 H. 8. and sate above the Bishops as Head over them By the Authority of which Synod a Book was set forth wherein many points of Doctrine being proposed to be expounded by the Curates to their Parishioners mention was only made of three Sacraments viz Baptisme the Eucharist and Penance as also some Holy dayes abrogated and divers other things pertaining to Religion and Ecclesiastical Discipline somewhat changed And in September the same year sent out under the King 's Spiritual Seal certain Injunctions to the Prelates and Clergy of the Realm charging Curates to Prâ—â—ch and to Teach their Parishioners the Pater Noster Ave Creed Commandements and Articles of Faith with other Articles in the English-tongue In 29. H. 8. he was constituted Chief Justice Itinerant of all the Forests beyond Trent And in September An. 1538. 30 H. 8. sent forth Injunctions to all Bishops and Curats throughout the Realm charging them to place in every Parish-Church the Bible of the largest Volume Printed in English for all men to read on as also a Register wherein all Weddings Christenings and Burials should be entred About this time it was that he obtain'd a grant of the Castle and Lordship of Okeham in Com. Rutl. and was also made Constable of Caresbroke-Castle in the Isle of Wighâ— It is observed that in this great work for dissolution of the Religious Houses though divers of the Visitors petitioned that some might be spared as well for the virtue of the persons in them as for the benefit of the Country the poor receiving thence much releife and the richer sort good education for their children and though that worthy Man Latimer then Bishop of Worcester wisht that two or three might be left in every Shire for Pious uses yet did this Cromwell by the King's permission invade all and what betwixt Threats Gifts Perswasions Promises and whatsoever might make a man obnoxious at length obtain'd from the Abbots Priors Abesses and their Covents of all those greater Monasteries which the Act of Parliament of 27 H. 8. had not suppressed formal Surrenders under their publick Seales It is likewise not unworthy of note that he was a principal Instrument in keeping down the Clergy whom in regard of their Oathes to the Pope he usually term'd the King's half Subjects And that as to the expulsion of the Monks he said It was no more than a restoring them to their first Institution being lay and labouring persons Nor did it move him that so much strictness and austerity was enjoyn'd them in their respective Orders since he said They might keep it in any condition In recompence therefore of this high service he soon obtain'd a grant from the King in Fee of the dissolv'd Monastery of St. Osythes in Essex with all the Houses Buildings Church and other Appurtenances thereunto belonging as also of the Mannors and Lordship of Chich-St Osithes Barnton Coketwyke Wigbargh Erles Hall Westwyke Howyke Lewyke Wyershall alias Withston Hal Cannon Hall alias Can Hall Abbots Hall Cost Hall alias Costed Hall Mylâ—end Hall Broke Hall and Birche Hall with Horsey and all and singular their Members parcel of the possessions of the same Monastery of St. Osythes Likewise of the Mannor or Lordship of Chalwedon in Com. Essex parcel of the possessions of the new Hospital of our Blessed Lady without Bishopsgate in London as also of the Mannors and Lordships of Tollesbury High-Hall Abbesse-Hall and Hackley in the said County of Essex parcel of the possessions of the Monastery of Berkyng And of all that Mannor of Gorewells in Tollesbury aforesaid parcel of the possessions of the Monastery of Bylegh in that County Likewise of the Mannors of Wileghe Brightingsey alias Brykelsey Pichesaye Mondone and Grynstede in the same County parcel of the possessions of the Monastery of St. Iohn at Colchester Also of the Mannors at Dedham and Langham in the same County with the Mannor and Lordship of Stratford Juxta Higham in Com. Suff. with three Mannors the King had by the Grant of Charles Duke of Suffolk Moreover he then obtained from the
Order of the Garter and constituted Lord High Treasurer of England 8 Sept. 12 Car. 2. And departing this life at Southampton-House near Hoâ—burne in the Suburbs of London 16 Maii An. 1667. was buried at Tichfeild with his Ancestors Evers 35 Hen. 8. THat this Surname was first assumed from the Lordship of Evre in Com. Buck. where Hugh a younger son to one of the Bacons of Werkworth in Com. Northumb which Barons were afterwards known by the name of Clavering did seat himself in the time of King Henry the Third is out of doubt To which Hugh succeeded Iohn his son and heir who in 35 E. 1. obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Esby in Cleveland in Com. Ebor. And in 8 E. 2. was in that Expedition made into Scotland This Iohn being a Knight in 10 E. 2. was then constituted one of the King's Commissioners to Treat for a Truce with the Scots and in 12 E. 2. serv'd again in the Scottish-Wars From him descended Sir Raphe Evre Knight who having married Catherine one of the three daughters and coheirs of Sir William de Aton Knight in 13 R. 2. made partition with the other coheirs of those Lands which were of their Inheritance he being at that time Sheriff of Northumberland and Governor of the Castle at Newcastle upon Tine and in 15 R. 2. Sheriff of Yorkshire as also Constable of the Castle at York So likewise in 19 R. 2. and again of Northumberland in 21 R. 2. To whom succeeded Raphe his son and heir Which Raphe had issue Sir William de Evre Knight who married Maud a daughter to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh and had issue by her Sir Raphe Evre Knight his son and heir slain at Tâ—uton-Field in 1 E. 4. From whom descended Sir William Evre K t made Captain of the Town and Castle of Baâ—wick upon Twede in 30 H. 8. And afterwards being Warden of the East-Marches towards Scoâ—land by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 24 Febr. 35 H. 8. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm By Elizabeth his wife daughter to Christopher Lord Willoughby of Eresby he had issue two sons Raphe and Henry and three daughters Anne married to Anthony Thorpe of Conye Thorpe in Com Ebor. Esquire Muriel to George Bowes Esquire afterwards to VVilliam VVieliff of VVicliff Esquire and Margerie to VVilliam Buckton of Bellingsholme in Holderness Which Raphe the eldest son being a Knight in 28 H. 8. was made Constable of 〈◊〉 Castle where he behaved himself so couragiously upon the siege thereof the same year in holding c it out for the space of full six weeks against those Northern-Rebels then in Armes by reason of the dissolution of the lesser Monasteries the preceding year calling that their Insurrection The Pilgrimage of Grace though he had not other assistance therein than his own Houshold-servants nor any other Food for the last Twenty dayes but bread and water as that the King for his good service there made him Commander in Chief of all his Forces appointed for guarding the Marches towards Scoâ—land which he defended with great reputation for divers years And in An. 1544. 36 H. 8. being encouraged by the success which the Lord Dacres and others had in the taking of Dumfrize and the spoiles by them got in that part of the Country In the Winter following with the men of Tindale and Ridsdale he entred upon another part and laid all waste betwixt Iedburgh and Relsou then spoiled 〈◊〉 and afterwards returning to London mov'd for a Reward for this Service Whereupon by the Duke of Norfolk's advice the King gave him as much Land as he could win from the Scots Wherewith he grew so animated as that the next Spring viz. in An. 1545. he entred Scotland again with about Four thousand men But being encountred at Halydorrigg by the Earl of Arran who with three distinct Bataglia's beset him he there lost his life together with the Lord Ogle and many other brave men leaving issue by Margerie his wife daughter of Raphe Bowes of Stretlam in the Bishoprick of Durham Esquire three sons VVilliam Raphe and Thomas and two daughters Frances afterwards married to Robert Lambton of Lambton in Com. Palat. Dunelm Esquire and Anne to Lancelot Merfeild But I return to VVilliam Lord Evers his father still living In 5. E. 6. the Marquess of Northampton being sent Embassador into France and to carry the Order of the Garter to the King of that Realm he was one of the Lords appointed to attend him thither And in 6 E. 6. constituted Warden of the Middle-Marches toward Scotland under Iohn Dudley then Duke of Northumberland Moreover in 4 and 5 Ph. M. he was again made Captain of Barwic upon Twede So likewise in 1 Eliz. And in 12 Eliz. appointed to lead the Rereward of those Forces then sent under the command of the Earl of Sussex President of the North against the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland at that time in Rebellion When he died I find not but to him succeeded William his Grandson viz. eldest son to Sir Raphe Evre Knight so slain in Scotland as before is observed In 29 Eliz. this VVilliam Lord Evre was constituted one of the Commissioners with Edward Earl of Rutland and others to treat of a League with the Scots whereupon they met with the Commissioners of that Realm at Barwick in Iuly the same year And in An. 1592. 34 Eliz. by his Testament bearing date 22 Dec. bequeath'd to Raphe his son and heir Fifteen hundred pounds towards the building of an House at Iarrom After which viz. 12 Feb. An. 1593. 36 Eliz. he departed this life leaving issue by Margaret his wife daughter of Sir Robert Dimock Knight four sons Raphe his son and heir 2. Francis who married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Leonard of Knoll in Com. Cantii 3. VVilliam 4. Charles and three daughters 1. Anne wife of Iohn Malory Esquire son and heir to Sir VVilliam Malory Knight Mary married to Richard Goodrick of Ribstan in Com. Ebor. Esquire and Martha to VVilliam Ayrmin Esquire Which Raphe took to wife Mary the only daughter of Sir Iohn Dauney of Cessay in Com. Ebor. Knight and in 5 Iac. was constituted the King's Lieutenant within the Principallity of Wales and left l issue William who by Lucia his wife daughter of Sir Andrew Noell of Dalby in Com. Leic. Knight had issue two sons Raphe and William and a daughter callâ—d Mary married to Sir William Howard K t grandson to the Lord William Howard of Naworth Which Raphe having married Catherine the daughter to Thomas Lord Arundel of Wardour died in his fathers life time leaving issue VVilliam
Barington of Barington Hall in Com. Essex Baronet Mary to ... St. Iohn and Essex to Daniel Finch son to Heneage Lord Finch of Daventre Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England This Robert died 29 Maii An. 1659. and was also buried at Felstede To whom succeeded in his Honors Charles his brother Which Charles married Mary daughter to Richard the first Earl of â—ork in Ireâ—and and died upon the 24 th of August An. 1673. without issue so that the dignity of Earl of Warwick and those other Titles which he enjoy'd are thereupon divolved to his nearest kinsman of the male-line viz. ... now Earl of Holand Rich Earl of Holand ¶ I Now come to Henry second son to Robert the first Earl of Warwick of this Family This Henry being made Knight of the Bath at the Creation of Henry Prince of Wales in 8 Iac. was afterwards viz. 5 Nov. 15 Iac. constituted Captain of the Kings Guard the Vicount Fenton a Scotchman then surrendring that place upon composition and by Letters patent bearing date 8 Martii 20 Iac. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Kensington Immediately whereupon he was imployed into Spain Prince Charles being there at that time in order to a match with a daughter of that King And after the breach whereof was the next ensuing year sent into France to make private enquiry whether a Match there were fesible or not and of this to advertise King Iames before any Publick Treaty were had to that purpose Upon the 24 th of Sept. 22 Iac. being created Earl of Holand a Province in Lincolnshire he was shortly after installed Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And in 5 Car. made Constable of Windsore-Castle as also in An. 1639. upon the first Insurrection of the Scots constituted General of the Horse in that Expedition made by His Majesty with a Royal Army into that Realm That the benefits which this Earl enjoyed through the bounty of that King which I shall not stand here to enumerate were of no little moment there are those yet living who do very well know Some being such as 't is suppos'd that he did doubt might have made him obnoxious to the predominant party in the late Long-Parliament and that the consideration thereof caused him not only to stand neutral when His Majesty of blessed memory had most need of his help but to disswade the Earl of Essex his near kinsman then Lord Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold from continuing his attendance upon him when by reason of those unhappy Tumults which endangered the safety of His Royal Person he became necessitated first to quiâ— Whitehall and soon after to retire to a farther distance Yet at last when he visibly discerned that those great Pretenders for the Preservation of Religion and Laws had subdued all the Kings Forces and that his Majesty being made a Prisoner by them was put under strict Guards in the Isle of Wiht he then cordially put himself in Armes with some other Loyal Persons in order to the Restoration of his distressed Master But miscarrying in the design at Kingston upon Thames 7 Iulii An. 1648. was speedily pursued as also soon after taken and kept fast lockt up in the Tower of London till some time after the Cruel Martyrdome of that Good King And then being adjudged to death by the same High Court of Iustice for so they called it which had been Flesht in Blood by the Murther of their Lawful Soveraign notwithstanding all the Arguments which his Friends could use to save him whereof his preventing the Earl of Essex from continuing with the King without whose countenance they had not been able to raise an Army was not the least they caused his Head to be cut off before the Gates of Westminster-Hall upon the Ninth of March next ensuing By Isabel his wife daughter and heir to Sir Walter Cope of Kenfington in Com. Midd. Knight he left issue four sons Robert Charles Henry and Cope and five daughters Frances married to William Lord Paget Isabella to Sir Iames Thinne of Long-Lete in Com. Wilts Knight Susanna to Iames now Earl of Suffolk Mary to ... Campbel a Scotchman of the Earl of Argile's family and Diana who died unmarried Which Robert succeeding him in his Honors took to wife first ... daughter to Sir Arthur Ingram of Temple Newsam in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he had issue divers children which died in his life time He secondly married Anne daughter of Edward Earl of Manchester by whom he had issue ... And departed this life ... Aprilis Anno 1675. To whom succeeded ... his son and heir Lord Wharton 1 Edw. 6. OF this family which is of great Antiquity in the County of Weâ—â—morland taking its denomination from a fair Lordship of that name scituate upon the Bank of the River Eden was Sir Thomas Wharton Knight Governor of the Town and Castle of Carlâ—sle in 33 H. 8. In 34 H. 8. upon an Incursion of the Scots to the number of Fifteen thousand men this Sir Thomas then Warden of the Marches assisted by Sir William Musgrave appearing but with Three hundred put them into such an apprehension that the Duke of Norfolk with his whole Army were at hand that they presently fled in so great disorder that the Earls of Caâ—sills and Glenearne with divers other persons of note were taken prisoners And in 36 H. 8. with the Lord Dacres and others marching into Scotland was at the taking of Dumfrize Whence they brought away much spoil forcing the Scots to a Treaty and to give Hostages for the observance of the Articles then agreed on In 1 E. 6. being Warden of the West-Marches with the Earl of Lenox who had an Army of Five thousand men he entred Scotland and won the Church of Anan for which and other his faithful services he had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm before the end of that year And â—n 2 3 Ph. M. was constituted Warden of the Middle-marches upon the 30 th of Iuly Also upon the 16 th of December next ensuing he was made General-warden of all the Marches towards Scotland and Governor of Barwick and in 4 5 Ph. M. joyn'd with the Earl of Northumberland in the Wardenship of the Midle-marches He married two wives first Eleanore daughter to Bryan Stapleton of Wighâ—â—l in Com. Ebor. Esquire by whom he had issue Thomas his son and heir and Henry and two daughter Ioane married to William Penington of Moncaster in Com. Cumbr. Esquire and Anne to Sir Richard Musgrave of Harcla-Castle in Com. Westmorl Knight And secondly Anne the daughter of George Earl of Shrewsbury and departed this life 23 Aug. An. 1568. 10 Eliz. Which Thomas so succeeding him in his honor was 48 years of age
of that Christian name who being a Divine was first Archdeacon of Totnes in com Devon next Dean of Bristol and chief Chanter in the Cathedral at Salisbury afterwards Dean of the Kings Chapel and Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford lastly Dean of Exeter and Windsore This Dean by Anne his wife Daughter of Sir Nicholas Harvey Knight had issue George who at the age of fourteen years became a Fellow Commoner in University-Colledge Oxon. But shortly after betook himself to military imployments being in that Voiage to Cadez in An. 1596. 38 Eliz. and afterwards serving in Ireland against the Rebels of that Kingdom was made President of Munster in 43 Eliz. where joining his Forces with the Earl of Thomond he took divers Castles and strong Holds in those parts viz. Logher Crome Glane Carigâ—oile Corgrag Ruthmore and Cahit and brought the titular Earl of Desmond one of the most active Rebels there to his Tryal He was likewise a Privy Councellor and Master of the Ordnance to the Queen in that Realm Also in 1 Iac. constituted Governor of the Isle of Garnsey and Castle of Cornet And having married Ioyce the sole daughter and heir to William Clopton of Clopton in com War Esquire was by Letters Patents bearing date 4 Iunii 3 Iac. advanced to the degree and dignity of a Baron by the title of Lord Carew of Clopton After that he was made Master of the Ordinance for life and in 14 Iac. sworn of the Privy Council Being also a person of great repute for his excellent parts he was upon the fifth of February 1 Car. 1. created Farl of Totnes Besides these his noble imployments 't is not a little observable that being a great lover of Antiquities he wrote an Historical Account of all those memorable passages which hapned in Ireland during the term of those three years that he continued there intituled Hibernia pacata printed at London in An. 1633. And that he made an ample Collection of many Chronological and choice observations as also of divers exact Maps relating to sundry parts of that Realm Some whereof are now in the publick Library at Oxford but most of them in the hands of Sir Robert Shirley of Stanton Harold in com Leic. Baronet bought of his Executors And departing this life without issue upon the twenty seventh of March An. 1629. 5 Car. 1. at the Savoy in the Strand in the Suburbs of London at that time near seventy four years of age was buried at Stratford upon Avon near Clopton before-mentioned leaving Ioyce his wife surviving Which Ioyce afterwards dyed at Twyckedham in com Mid. 14 Ian. 1636. 12 Car. 1. and was also buried at Stratford Thomas Lord Knivet of Escrick 5 Iac. THis Family of Knivet antiently seated in Norfolk at length came to possess Buckenham-Castle in that County by the marriage of an heir of Clifton to whom it descended through heirs Female from William de Albini which William built it as I have elsewhere shewed shortly after the Norman-Conquest A branch whereof was Iohn Knivet made Chancellor of England and Keeper of the great Seal in 46 E. 3. Likewise another Iohn who in 10 H. 4 by Alianore his Mother daughter to Raphe Lord Basset of Weldon in Com. North. came at length to possess a fair inheritance upon partition of Bassets Lands And Sir William Knivet Knight for the body to King Henry the Eighth Also Edmund Knivet of Ashwelthorpe in com Norff. Esquire Sergeant Porter to the King who married Ioane the daughter and heir to Iohn Bourchier Lord Berners And this Sir Thomas Knivet Knight one of the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber to King Iames who in An. 1605. 3 Iac. upon that obscure intimation given by a Letter directed to the Lord Montegle of the danger which was like to besal those who should come to the ensuing Parliament being then a Justice of Peace in Westminster was sent to make search in the Vaults and Cellers underneath the House of Lords and coming about midnight thither with some few in his company found a man standing without doors in boots whereupon entring the Vaults and turning over certain billets and fagots there laid under colour of winter-fewel for Mr. Thomas Percy who had hired a house near thereunto discovered thirty six barrels of Gun-powder the person in boots being Guido Faux Mr. Percie 's servant who should have put fire to the Trayn upon the first day of the Parliament After which upon the fourth of Iuly 5 Iac. being summoned to the Parliament then siting by the title of Lord Knivet of Escrick in com Ebor. it being the last day of that Session took his place accordingly amongst the rest of the Peers of this Realm And having married Elizabeth daughter of Sir Rouland Hayward Alderman of the City of London widdow of Richard Warren of ... in com Essex Esquire departed this life without issue at his house in Bingstreet Westminster 27 Apr. 1622. Whereupon he had Burial in the Church of Stanwell in com Mid. where there is a noble monument erected to his memory with an Epitaph which informs us that he was first of the Royal Bed-Chamber to Queen Eliz. and next of Council to Queen Anne wife of King Iames. Sir Gervase Clifton Knight Lord Clifton 6 Iac. THis Sir Gervase Clifton of Layton-Bromswould in com Hunt Knight being a branch of the antient Family of Clifton of Clifton in com Not. had the title of Lord Clifton by Writ of Summons to Parliament 9 Iulii 6 Iac. but of him I have not seen any thing farther memorable than his commitment to the Tower 30 Dec. 15 Iac. by reason he expressed that he was sorry he had not stabed Sir Francis Bacon Knight then Lord Keeper of the great Seal for decreeing a case in Chancery against him and that in October An. 1618. 16 Iac. he murthered himself leaving issue by Catherine his Wife sole daughter and heir to Sir Henry Darcie of Brimham in com Ebor. Knight son and heir to Sir Arthur Darcie Knight a younger son to Thomas Lord Darcie one sole daughter and heir called Catherine who became the wife of Esme Steward Lord d'Aubigny a place in the Dutchy of Avergne in France son to Iohn Lord d'Aubigny younger Brother to Mathew Earl of Lenox in Scotland Which Esme being afterwards Earl of March as also Duke of Richmund and Lenox as in due place I shall shew by the said Catherine his wife had issue divers Sons of whom there is no issue remaining excepting of Catherine the daughter of George Lord Aubignie the fourth of them sister and sole heir to Charles Duke of Richmund and Lenox her brother lately deceased Which Catherine now the wife of Henry Lord Obrien son and heir to Henry Earl of Themond in Ireland making her claym
Leighton Bromswould married to Henry Lord Obrien son and heir to Henry Earl of Thomond in Ireland The Lord Iohn sixth son bearing Armes for the King upon the same account received divers wounds in the Fight at Bramdene near Alford in Com. Southampt 29 Martii Anno 1644. whereof he died and was buried in Christ-Church also near to his brother And lastly the Lord Bernard being Captain of His late Majesties Horse-guards fighting valiantly in the Battel of Kineton Also at Lestithiel in Cornwall And afterwards at Newherie in Com. Berks. and Navesby in Comâ—â—orthampt was for these eminent services defign'd to the dignities and titles of Baron of Newberie and Earl of Lichfeild but before this could be accomplisht being in another Fight against the Forces so raised by those members of Parliament which hapned near the City of Chester in Febr. An. 1645. was there slain and buried in the Quire at Christchurch in Oxford upon the eleventh of March next ensuing In consideration whereof and of the singular merits of George Lord d'Aubignie his Father Charles his said son and heir was by Letters-patent bearing date at Oxford 10 Dec. 21 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of Lord Stuart of Newberie and Earl of Litchfeild And by reason that the Title of Duke of Richmund was intailed upon the beforâ—-specified Iames and the heirs-male of his body with remainder to the issue-male of his younger Brothers successively did upon the death of Iames Duke of Richmund his Uncle without issue assume that Title This Charles wedded three wives first Elizabeth daughter of Richard Rogers of Brianston in Com. Dors. Esq Secondly Margaret daughter of Laurence Banaster son and heir to Sir Robert Banaster of Passenham in Com. Buck. Knight widow of William Lewes of the Uann in Com. Glamorgan Esq and lastly Frances daughter of Walter Stuart Esquire Being also Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter he was sent Embassador into Denmark in An. 1672. 24 Car. 2. and departed this life near Elsenoure in that Kingdom upon the 12 th of December that same year without issue Whereupon his body was brought over into England and buried in the Royal Chapel of King Henry the Seventh at Westminster Hay Earl of Carlisle 13 Iac. AMongst other the Natives of Scotland who were servants to King Iamesâ— and upon his attaining the Crown of this Realm attended him hither Sir Iames Hay K t was one and therefore in An 1607. 4 Iac. having through the favour and countenance of His Majesty obtain'd Honora the sole daughter and heir to Edward Lord Denny in marriage as also a grant of the name and title of Lord Hay with precedence next to the Barons of England but no place or voice in Parliament upon the 29 th of Iune in 13 Iac. he was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hay of Sauley in com Ebor. without any solemn Investiture being the first that ever was so created the Lawyers then declaring that the delivery of the Letters patent was sufficient without any ceremony And afterwards upon the 12 th of Iuly 14 Iac. was sent Embassador into France In March An. 1617. 15 Iac. he was made one of the Privy-Council and in November following married to his second wife Lucie the second daughter to Henry Earl of Northum-berland After which the next ensuing year scilicet 5 â—â—lii 16 Iac. he was farther honoured with the â—â—egree of Vicount by the name of Vico 〈…〉 and in May 17 Iac. sent Emb 〈◊〉 into Germany Whence he returâ—â—â— in Ianuary An. 1620. 18 Iac. at which time he made report that Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine was Elected king of Bohemia as also how the state of affairs then stood in those parts And in April An. 1622. 20 Iac. was again sent Embassador into France In consideration therefore of these his eminent services upon the 13 th of September following he was created Earl of Carliâ—e Besides all this he likewise was Master of the great Wardrobe Gentleman of the Robes to King Iames and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Likewise first Gentleman of the Royal Bedchamber to King Charles the First of blessed memory And departing this life at his Lodgings in Whitehall 25 Apr. An. 1636. 12 Car. 1. was buried above the Quire in St. Pauls Cathedral leaving issue one onely son called Iames surviving who succeeded him in his honors This Iames married Margaret the third daughter to Francis Earl of Bedford and died ... Octobris An 1660 without issue leaving the said Margaret surviving afterwards married to Robert Earl of Warwick and lastly to Edward Earl of Manchester Dormer Earl of Carnarvon 13 Iac. UPon that vast distribution made by King Henry the Eighth of those Lands which came to the Crown by that grand dissolution of the Monasteries in his time Sir Robert Dormer Knight in 35 of his Reign obtain'd a Grant to himself and Iane his wife in Fee of the Mannor of Wenge in Com. Buck. part of the possessions belonging to the Abby of St. Albans To which Sir Robert succeeded William made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Q. Mary who first married Mary daughter of Sir William Sidney Knight by whom he had issue one onely daughter called Ioane married to the Duke of Feria in Spain Secondly Dorothie daughter of Anthony Catesby of Whiâ—iâ—on in Com. Northampt. Esq by whom he had issue Robert his son and heir and three daughters Cathâ—rine married to Iohn Lord St. Iohn of Bletsho Mary to Anthony Vicount Mountagu and Margaret to Sir Henry Constable Knight Which Robert being a Knight in 13 Iac. was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet 10 Iunii the same year and upon the 30 th day of that moneth created a Baron of this Realm with ceremony by the Title of Lord Dormer of Wenge before-mentioned And having married Elizabeth daughter of Anthony Vicount Mountagu had issue by her three sons William his son and heir Anthony Dormer of Grovepacke in Com. Warr. Esquire and Robert Dormer of Peterley in Com. Buck. Esq As also three daughters Elizabeth married to Henry Huddleston Esq Magdalen to Sir â—â—hn Curson Knight and Catheriâ—e to Sir Iohn Carâ—â—ll Kâ—â—ght Which William took to wise the 〈◊〉 of Sir Richard Molineux of Sefton in Coâ—â— â—anc Knight and died in his life-time leaving issue Robert and one daughter called Elizabeth married to Edward Lord Herbert of Ragland afterwards Marquess of Worcester To the said Robert Lord Dormer thus surviving who departed this life ... Nov. An. 1616. 14 Iac. succeeded Robert his Grandson Which Robert by Letters-patents bearing date 2 Aug. 4 Car. 1. was advanced to the title and dignity of Vicount Ascot and Earl of Carnarvon and being a person absolutely valiant and Loyal in the
against the Dutch on tuesday 28 Maii An. 1672 He hath also two daughters Diana married to the Baron of Mol in Flanders and Anne to Robert now Earl of Sunderland Francis Lord Verulam Vicount St. Alban 16 Iac. COnsidering that this person was so eminent for his Learning and other great abilities as his excellent works will sufficiently manifest though a short Narrative of his life is already set forth by Doctor William Raleigh his domestique Chaplain I am not willing to omit the taking notice of such particulars as are most memorable of him and therefore shall briefly recount partly from that Narrative and partly from other authorities what I have observed in order thereto As to his Parentage he was the youngest of those two male Children which Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave in com Suff. Knight had by Anne his wife one of the six daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke of Giddy-Hall in com Essex Knight a person much honoured for his Learning and being Tutor to King Edward the Sixth all those Daughters being exquisitely skilled in the Greek and Latine Tongues Which Nicholas having been a diligent Student of the Laws in Grays Inn was made the Kings Attorney in the Court of Wards in 38 H. 8. and upâ—n the death of that King which soon after hapned had his Patent for the same trust renewed by his son and successor King Edward the Sixth In the sixth year of whose Reign he was constituted Treasurer for that Noble Society of Grays-Inn whereof he had been so long a Member And being grown famous for his knowledge was shortly after viz. in 1 Eliz. made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Knighted which Office in his time was by Act of Parliament made equal in authority with the Chancellours What I have otherwise observed of this Sir Nicholas Bacon is that being no friend to the Queen of Scots then Prisoner in England he was privy and assenting to what Hales had publisht in derogation to her title as next and lawful Successor to Queen Elizabeth asserting that of the House of Sufâ—olk before it for which Hales suffered imprisonment and had not Cecill stood his faithful friend so might he nothing being more distastful to Queen Elizabeth then a dispute upon that point Next that in 14 Eliz. upon those Proposals made by the Nobility of Scotland for her enlargement he opposed it alleadging that no security could ballance the danger thereof Lastly that upon his death which hapned in April An. 1579. 21 Eliz. this Character is given of him by the Learned Camden viz. that he was Vir praepingius ingenio acerrimo singulari prudentia summâ— eloquentia tenaci memoriâ— sacris consiliis alterum columen Of persons very corpulent most quick Wit singular Prudence admirable Eloquence special Memory and another pillar to the Privy-Council Whereupon being interred on the South side of the Quire in St. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London he had a noble Monument there erected to his memory with this â—pitaph Hîc Nicolaum ne Beconem conditum existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni seâ—undum columen exitium malis Bonis Asylum caâ—ca quem non extulit ad hunc honorem sors sed Aequitas Fides Doctrina Pietas unica prudentia Neu fortè raptum crede qui unica brevi vitâ perenni emerit duas agit vitam secundam caelites inter animas Fama implet orbem vita quâ—e illi tertia est Hac positum in arâ est corpus olim animi domus Ara dicata sempiternae memoriae Thus much touching the Parentage of this Francis his Birth being at York-House in the Strand upon the twenty second day of Ianuary An. 1560. 2 Eliz. It is observed that in his tender years his pregnancy was such as gave great indication of his future high accomplishments in so much as Queen Eliz. took notice of him and called him the young Lord Keeper also that asking him how old he was though but a Boy he answered that he was two years younger then her Majâ—sties most happy Reign As to his Education he was of Trinitie-Colledge in Cambridge under the tuition of Doctor Iohn Whitgift then Master there but afterwards the renowned Archbishop of Canterbury Where having with great proficiency spent some time he was sent into France with Sir Amias Paulet her Majesties Leiger Ambassador and thence intrusted with a message to the Queen which he performed with much approbation and so returned After this coming from Travail and applying himself to the study of the Common Law he was seated in â—rays-Inn Where in short time he became so highly esteemed for his abilities as that in 30 Eliz. being then but 28 years of age that honorable society chose him for their Lent Reader and in 32 Eliz. was made one of the Clerks of the Council In 42 Eliz. being double Reader in that House and affecting much the ornament thereof he caused that beautiful Grove of â—lmes to be planted in the Walks which yet remain And upon the 23 of Iuly 1 Iac. was Knighted at Whitehal Shortly after which viz. in 2 Iac. he was made one of the Kings Council learned having therewith a Grant of forty pounds per annum fee and in 5 Iac. constituted his Majesties Sollicitor General In 9 Iac. he was made joint Judge with Sir Thomas Vavasor then Knight Marshal of the Knight Marshal's Court then newly â—rected within the Verge of the Kings House and in 11 Iac. 27 Oct. being made Atturney General was sworn of the Privy Council In 14 Iac. he was constituted Lord Keeper of the great Seal 7 Martii being then fifty four years of age At which time the King admonisht him that he should Seal nothing rashly as also that he should judge uprightly and not extend the Royal Prerogative too high After which viz. upon the seventh day of May which was the first day of Easter Term next ensuing he made his solemn proceeding to Westminster hall in this order first the writing Clerks and inferiour Officers belonging to the Court of Chancery Next the Students of the Law Thâ—n the Gentlemen of his own Family After them the Sergeant at Arms and bearer of the Great Seal on foot Then himself on Horseback in a Gown of Purple Satin riding betwixt the Lord Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal Next divers Earls Barons and Privy Councillors Then the Judges of the Court at UUestminster whose place in that proceeding was assigned after the Privy Councellors And when he came into the Court the Lord Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal gave him his Oath the Clerk of the Crown reading it Upon the fourth of Ianuary 16 Iac. he was made Lord Chancellor of England On the eleventh of Iuly next ensuing created Lord Verulam and on the twenty seventh of Ianuary
Baronet and Anne to Samuel Grimston Son and Heir to Sir Herbotle Grimston Baronet Master of the Rolls This Iohn Earl of Thanet died upon the seventh of May an 1664. and was buried at Raynham To whom succeeded Nicholas his Son and Heir who Married Elizabeth Daughter to Richard Earl of Burlington William Earl of Craven 2 Car. 1. THis William being Son and Heir to Sir William Craven Knight Merchant-Taylor and Lord Mayor of London in an 1611. 9 Iac. in his youth much affecting Military exercises was sent to the Wars of Germany by King Charles the first where he served under that great Souldier Gustavus Adolphus then King of Sweden and afterwards in the Netherlands under Henry Prince of Orange In which valiant adventures he gained such Honour as that upon his return he was by the same King Charles worthily raised to the degree and dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Craven of Hampsted Marshall in Com. Berks. 12 Martii 2 Car. 1. with remainder for want of Issue Male of his own Body to Iohn Craven and Thomas Craven his Brothers successively and to the Heirs Male of their Bodies And since that having in the time of the late unhappy troubles in this Realm when his Majesty King Charles the first of blessed memory became distressed by that shameful defection of many of his own subjects manifested his Loyalty to him in divers considerable supplies as also to our present Soveraign King Charles the second in his greatest necessities was by other Letters Patents bearing date 16 Martii 16 Car. 2. advanced to certain higher degrees of Honour viz. to the title of Vicount Craven of Uâ—fington in the same County of Berks. and Earl of Craven of Craven in Com. Ebor. And by reason that both those his Brothers were then dead without Issue with remainder of that Title of Lord Craven of Hampsted Marshall for lack of Issue Male of his own Body lawfully Begotten to Sir William Craven of Lenchwike in Com. Wigorn. Knight and to the Heirs Male of his Body and for default of such Issue to Sir Anthony Craven Knight Brother to the same Sir William and to the Issue Male of his Body And afterwards by reason that the Issue Male of the said Sir William Graven of Lenchwike Knight was then extinct in case of failer of Issue Male from the before specified Sir Anthony Craven Knight by other Letters Patents bearing date 11 December 17 Car. 2. obtained a farther grant that the said title of Lord Craven of Hampâ—ted Marshall should remain unto Sir William Craven Knight Son of Sir Thomas Craven Brother to the said Sir Anthony and to the Heirs Male of his Body for ever Iohn Lord Craven of Ryton THis Iohn the next Brother in seniority to the before-specified William Earl of Craven having a great esteem from the late King Charles the First of blessed memory was by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford 21 Martii in the eighteenth year of his reign advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Craven of Ryton in Com. Salop. he married Elizabeth Daughter to William Spenser but died without Issue Brudnell Earl of Cardigan 3 Car. 1. OF this Family whose chief seat hath for divers ages been at Dene in thâ— East part of Northampton-shire was Robert Brudâ—nel who being a person learned in the Laws was called to the state and degree of a Serjeant in the begining of Michaelmas Term 20 H. 7. and immediately thereupon viz. 25 Oct. made the Kings Serjeant Shortly after which in 1 H. 8. he was constituted one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas and in 12 H. 8. Chief Justice of that Court. This Robert by Margaret his Wife Cousin and Coheir to the valiant Sir Bertiâ—e Entwysel Knight Vicount of Brickbee in Normandy and slain in the Battel of St. Albans in the time of King Henry the sixth had Issue Sir Thomas Brudnel Knight and he Robert and he Thomas Brudnel of Dene Esq who upon the 29 th of Iune an 1611. 9 Iac. was one of that number whom King Iames then raised to the degree of Baronet at that time first instituted By reason whereof upon the 9 th of April an 1612. 10 Iac. he received the Honour of Knighthood at White-Hall And being a person generally learned and otherwise excellently qualified was by Leters Patent bearing date at Westminster 26 Apr. 3 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Brudnell of Stanton Wivill in Com. Leic. unto which King of blessed memory in the time of the late troubles he did abundantly manifest his Loyalty by raising of Souldiers and contributing what else he could to his aid in his Garrisons of Newark Lincoln and Hereâ—ord for which afterwards upon the prevailing of his adversaries he suffered a tedious imprisonment In consideration therefore of these his great services and merits he was upon the happy restoration of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second by Letters Patents bearing date 20 Apr. in the 13 th year of his reign three days before his Royal Coronation advanced to the degree of an Earl by the title of Earl of Cardigan And departed this life upon the ... day of April an 1664. being then above 80 years of age Whereupon he was buried at Dene with his Ancestors leaving Issue by Mary his Wife Daughter of Sir Thomas Trâ—sham of Rushton in Com. Northt Knight two Sons Robert his Son and Heir and Edmund who died unmarried and one Daughter called Mary married to Iohn Constable of Buâ—ton Constable in Holderness Vicount Dunbar in Scotland Which Robert now Earl of Cardigan married two Wives First Mary Daughter of Henry Constable Vicount Dunbar by whom he had Issue Mary a Daughter married to the Earl of Kenowle in Scotland He secondly married Anne Daughter of Thomas Vicount Savage by whom he hath had Issue two Sons Francis called Lord Brudnell and Ioseph who died in his Inâ—ancy and three Daughters Anna Maria married to Francis Earl of Shrewsbury Catherine and Dorothy the Wife of Charles Earl of Westmorland Bellasyse Vicount Fauconbridge 3 Car. 1. OF this Family which hath been of great Antiquity in the Northern parts of this Realm specially in the Bishoprick of Durham was Sir Henry Belasyse of Newborough in Com. Ebor. Knight Son and Hâ—ir to Sir William Belasyse of Newborough Knight Which Sir Henry in 9 Iac. 29 Iunii was made a Baronet and by Vrsula his Wife Daughter to Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton in Com. Ebor. Knight had Issue Thomas Which Thomas for his great merits having been by Letters Patents bearing date 25 Mâ—ii 3 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Fâ—uconberge faithfully adhered to that King in the times of the late unhappy troubles In consideration
Halifax He first Married Dorothy Daughter to Henry Lord Spenser Earl of Sunderland by whom he hath Issue three Sons Henry William and George and one Daughter called Anne Secondly Gertrude Daughter to William Pierpont of â—horesby in Com. Nott. Esq second Son to Robert late Earl of Kingston upon Hull Wentworth Earl of Strafford 4 Car. 1. ABout the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First Sir Thomas Wentworth Baronet Son and Heir to Sir William Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse in Com. Ebor. Baronet the chief branch of that antient Family being a person of a fair Estate and one of the Knights for that spacious Shire in divers Parliaments did by his management of sundry Conferences with the House of Lords in those great Conventions and otherwise make his abilities so conspicuous as that the King having notice thereof soon chose him into the number of his Privy Council and in short time discerning his parts to be such as did worthily merit some special mark of Honour by his Letters Paâ—ents bearing date 22 Iulii in the fourth year of his Reign first advanced him to the Title of Baron Wentworth of Wenâ—worth Woodhouse Next viz. upon the tenth day of December following to that of Vicount-Wentworth After this constituted him Lieutenant of Ireland and upon the 12 th of Ianuary in the xv th year of his Reign to the farther dignities of Baron of Raâ—y by reason of his Descent from that great Family of Nevill sometime Lords of that place and Earl of Strafford and lastly elected him into that honourable Society of Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter Which great Trust of that Lieutenancy he underwent with such gravity and prudence administring Justice impartially to every one as gave no little satisfaction to his Majesty and all good people And upon that Insurrection of the Scots in an 1639. being call'd back from that charge after he had form'd an Army there of eight thousand men which might have been useful to that Kingdom had not those who design'd his destruction prevented it was constituted Lieutenant-General of those Forces then raised for the repâ—lling of those Invaders who had at that time possess'd themselves of some of the Northern Counties But the good King considering that it was not a Foreign Enemy who had thus entred this Realm and therefore deeming it safest to call a Parliament here by the advice whereof he might receive best direction how to get them out found the leading Members in that unhappy Convention secretly confederated with that rebellious people whose Principles being Anti-Monarchical nothing but the absolute extirpation of the Religion establisht and the total ruine of this peaceful Government whereby they might share the Revenues both of Church and King would serve their turn To which end the removal of every impediment in their way being design'd they first began with this incomparable person exhibiting a Charge of High-Treason against him Whereupon he was brought to Tryal before his Peers but when they came to the particulars of proof though they searcht into all the actions of his life from the first time that he ever had any publick imployment of Trust and found nothing that amounted to a considerable misdemeanour Nevertheless by diveâ—â— unjustifiable devices they at length passed a special Bill for his Attainder but with this particular clause that the like should never be drawn into practice again And having so done by sundry other indirect practises extorted from that good King his Royal assent thereto and then cut off his Head at Tower-Hill upon the 12 th of May ensuing an 1641. An Act in truth of such Injustice and Cruelty as that not only some of those who had been seduced to concur with them therein when they themselves afterwards came to be destroy'd by the hands of the Common Executioner infinitely bewailed and repented of but which lay heavy upon the Conscience of that most pious and devout Martyr the King himself when he suffered Death by that barbarous Generation in whose destruction they had design'd the utter ruine and extirpation of this formerly long-flourishing and famous Monarchy But the particulars of the unhappy sufferingâ— of this worthy person and the steps by which his and those Enemies to Monarchy did tread in order to the accomplishing their pâ—â—nicious purposes I leave to the relation of some more able Pen which may transmit them to future ages in due time it being not yet so needful to bring them upon the Stage of this World considering that there are many yet alive who cannot forget what themselves have seen so lately acted and whom it will highly concern to impart what they know thereof to their immediate descendents This most noble Earl married three Wives First Margaret Daughter to Francis Earl of Cumberland by whom he had no Issue Secondly Arabella Daughter to Iohn Earl of Clare by whom he had Issue one Son called William and two Daughters the Lady Anne married to Edward Lord Rockingham and the Lady Arabella to Iustin Macarti Son to Donâ—gh Earl of Clancarti And lastly Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Godfrey Rodes of Great Houghton in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Margaret Being thus barbarously cut off his Body was carried to Wentworth Woodhouse and there buried To whom succeeded William his Son and Heir who married the Lady Anne the eldest of the three Daughters of that most Heroick and truly Loyal Iames Earl of Derby who suffered death also by the hands of those Antimonarchists and since the restoration of our present Sovereign hath by him been honoured with an election and Investiâ—ure into the Society of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Privy Council Francis Lord Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 4 Car. 1. AMongst the many whose ample Fortunes did much conduce to those advancements which their Posterity afterwards obtained to several eminent Titles of Honour Sir Thomas Lâ—igh Knight was not the least who being Son to Roger Leigh of Wellington in Com. Salop. dâ—scended by a younger Branch from that antient Family of the Leigâ—s of High-Leigh in Cheshire and bred up under Sir Rouland Hill an opulent Merchant of London became at length his Factor beyond Sea and underwent that trust so well that Sir Rouland having no Issue matcht Alice his Niece Daughter to ... Barker of Hâ—ghmon in Shropshire unâ—o him and bestowed upon his Children the substance of his estate Which Sir Thomas being â—ord Mayer of London in the first year of 〈◊〉 Elizâ—beths reign departed this life in that Câ—ty 17 November 14 Eliz. and was buried in Merâ—ers-Chapell with this Epitaph upon his Tomb Sir Thomas Lâ—igh bi civil life All offices did bâ—are Which in this City worshipfull Or honourable were Whâ—m as God blessed with great wealth So losses did be feâ—le Yet nâ—ver châ—ng'd he constant minde Tho' Fortune turn'd her wheele Learning he lov'd and helpâ— the poore
Brucius Edwardus situs hîc Scotus Anglus Scotus ut ortu Anglis sic oriundus avis Regno in utroque decus tulit auctus Honoribus amplis Regi à Consiliis Regni utriusqueâ—uit Conjuge Prole Nuru Genero spe reque beatus Vivere nos docuit nunc docet ecce mori Leaving Issue by Magdalen his Wife Daughter of Sir ... Clerke Knight two Sons Edward and Thomas and Christian a Daughter married to William Earl of Devonshire Which Edward was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales in an 1610. being one of the Gentlemen of his Bed-chamber And succeeding his Father in his Honour had the hard fate to be slain in a Duel by Sir Edward Sâ—ckvile Knight of the Bath afterwards Earl of Dorset Whereupon Thomas his Brother became his next heir Which Thomas was first scil 21 Iunii 9 Iac. created Earl of Elgine in Scotland and afterwards by Letters Patents bearing date 1 Aug. 17 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Râ—alm by the title of Lord Bruce of Whorlton in Com. Ebor. And having married two Wives First Anne Daughter to Sir Robert Chichester of Raleigh in Com. Devon Knight by Anne his Wife Daughter and Coheirs to Iohn Lord Harington of Exton Secondly Diana one of the Daughters and Coheirs of William commonly called Lord Burghley Son and Heir to Thomas Earl of Exeter Widow of Henry Earl of Oxford departed this life 21 December an 1663. and was buried at ... leaving Issue by Anne his first Wife Robert his Son and Heir Which Robert being Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bedford and having given much testimony of his Loyalty to the King in the late troublesome and perillous times as also been not a little instrumental for the happy Restoration of his Majesty that now is was by Letters Patenâ— bearing date at Westminster 18 Martii 16 Car. 2. advanced to divers other titles of Honour viz. Lord Bruce of Skelton in Com. Ebor. Vicount Bruce of Ampthill in Com. Bedf. and Earl of Aylesbury in Com. Buck. He married Diana Daughter to Henry Earl of Stanford and by her hath had Issue eight Sons Edward Robert Charles Henry and Bernard who died young Thomas Robert and Iames now living and eight Daughters Diana first married to Sir Seamour Shirley of Stanton Harold in Com. Leic. Baronet and after to Iohn Lord Roos Son and Heir to Iohn Earl of Rutland Anne to Sir William Rich of Sunning in Com. Berks. Baronet Christian Mary Isabella Anne Charlotte and Henrietta now living and Christiana and Elizabeth who died young Lord Newport 18 Car. 1. OF this Family which hath been long eminent in Shrop-shire was Sir Richard Newport of high-Ercall in that County Kt. who meriâ—ing highly for his many and great services to King Charles the first of blessed memory and to the Country where he lived was by Letters Patents bearing date at Bridgnorth upon the fourteenth day of October in the eighteenth year of his reign advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Newport of High Eâ—call This Richard Lord Newport having suffered much for his Loyalty in the times of the late unhappy troubles and being aged for the better security of his person from the violence of those Usurpers then predominant reâ—ired into Foreign parts and at Moulins in France departing this life 8 February an 1650. was there buried leaving Issue by Rachel his Wife Daughter to Iohn Leveson of Haling in Com. Cantii Esq Sister to Sir Richard Leveson of â—renâ—ham in Com. Staff Knight of the Bath two Sons Francis and Andrew and seven Daughters Beatrix married to Henry Bromley Son and Heir to Sir Thomas Bromley of Sâ—rawarden-Castle in Com. Salop. Knight secondly Christian who died unmarried thirdly Mary Wedded to Iohn Steventon of Boâ—hill in Com. Salop. Esq and afterwards to Francis Forester of Warlingstrete in the same County Esq fourthly Margaret to Richard Fowler of Harnage â—Grange Esq fifthly Anne to Edward Corbet Son to Sir Edward Corbet of Longnoze Knight sixthly Christian yet unmarried and seventhly Elizabeth Wife of Henry powle of Williamsthorpe in Com. Glouc. Esq To whom succeeded in this Honour Francis his eldest Son who in his Fathers life time manifested his Loyalty to the late King by taking up Arms on his behalf when numerous Forces were in all parts under specious pretences raised against him and valiantly acted in North-Wales and elsewhere until by the Fortune of War in an 1644. he became their prisoner In consideration whereof and other his personal merits he was since the happy Restoration of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second First made Comptroller next Treasurer of his Houshold and afterwards Vicount Newport of Bradford in Com. Salop. by Letters Patents bearing date 11 Mâ—rtii 27 Car. 2. And having married the Lady Diana Daughter to Francis late Earl of Bedford hath had Issue by her five Sons Richard Thomas and Francis now living with Thomas and Andrew who died young And five Daughters Elizabeth married to Sir Henry Littleton of Frankley in Com. Wigorn. Baronet Katherine who died young and Katherine Anne and Diana surviving Wilmot Earl of Rochester 19 Car. 1. IN the nineteenth year of the late King Charles the First Henry Wilmot the only Son of Charles Vicount Wilmot of Athloâ— in the Realm of Ireland being at that time Lieutenant General of the Horse in his Mâ—jesties Armies throughout all England and Wales as also famous for his military conduct was by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford upon the 29 th of Iune advanced to the â—ignity of a Baâ—on of this Realm by the title of Lord Wilmot of Adderbury in Com. Oxon. And continuing faithful to that King of blessed memory throughout the whole course of those unhappy Wars atchieved no little Honour specially in that successful Victory at Rownd-Way dowâ—e in Com. Wilts And afterwards farther manifesting his Integrity to the Crown by his ready constant and most faithful services to our present Soveraign King Charles the Second not only during the chief time of his Abode beyond the Seas in his greatest wants and distresses there but upon his coming into England in the year 1651. and loss of all his Forces at â—orcester continuing with him contriving and assisting in his miraculous escape adventuring through the greatest hazards and perils imaginable and at length through the merciful protection of Almighty God bringing him safe on Ship-board and so to land upon the Coast of France was in Testimony of these his unparallel'd services advanced to the degree of an Earl by the title of Earl of Rochester as by his Majesties Letters Patents bearing date at Paris upon the thirteenth day of December an 1652. and fourth year of his reign appeareth And was sent the same year by the said King Charles 2. to the Diet at Ratisbonne in Germany to seek assistance on his Majesties
Coheirs to Thomas late Earl of Southampton but diâ—d without Issue 2. Iohn who Married Mary Daughter and Heir to Humphrey Browne of Greene-Castle in Com. Caermarthen Esq 3. Altham And six Daughters whereof Frances and Althamia are now living the rest died young To his third Wife the Lady Alice Daughter to Iohn late Earl of Bridgwater but by her hath no Issue Smith Lord Carington 19 Car. 1. THis Family do derive themselves from Sir Michael Carington Knight Standard-Bearer to King Riâ—hard the First in the Holy-land From whom descended Iohn Carington Which Iohn about the beginning of King Henry the Fourth's Reign having stoutly adhered to the then deposed King was constrain'd to quit the Realm and after some time of abode in Foreign parts to change his name to this of Smith From whom descended Iohn Smith Esq who being the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer in the Exchequer was in 31 H. 8. constituted the second Baron in that Court And by the Marriage of Anne Daughter and Hâ—ir to Iohn Harwell of Wotton in Com. Warr. Esq much increas'd his Estate From whom by lineal succession was Sir Charles Smith Knight Who manifested his Fidelity to the late King Charles the First in the times of his great distresses by divers conâ—iderable aids In consideration whereof he was by Letters Patents bearing date 31 Oct. in the nineteenth year of his Reign advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Carington of â—oâ—ton and upon the fourth day of November following to the dignity of a Vicount by the Title of Vicount Carington of Barrefore within the Province of Connaght in Ireland This Charles Lord Carington took to Wife Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Iohn Carrill of South Harting in Com. Suss. Knight and by her had Issue four Sons Francis Carrill Iohn and Charles and five Daughters 1. Mary Married to Sir George Wiâ—â—our of Huddington in Com. Wigorn. Knight 2. Lucie who died unmarried 3. Anne 4. Margaret the Wife of Sir Francis Hâ—â—gate of Huddleston in Com. Ebor. Baronet And 5. another Mary who died unmarried And having occasion to Travel into France lodging at Pontoise was there barbarously murthered by one of his own Servants upon the one and twentieth day of February an 1664. for lucre of such money and Jewels as he then had at that place and lâ—eth Interred in the Church there with a fair Tomb of Marble erected to his memory To whom succeeded Francis his Son and Heir Which Francis Married Iuliana the Daughter of Sir Thomas Wâ—lmesley of Dunkenhalgh in Com. Lanâ— Knight and by her hath had Issue Charles who died in his Infancy Lord Widdrington 19 Car. 1. AMongst other the true hearted Royalists which in the times of the late grand defection manifested their Loyalâ—y to our late Sovereign King Charles the Firâ—â— of blessed memory Sir William Widdrington of Widdrington-Castle in Com. Northumb. Knight and Baronet was not the least who being the principal branch of a most antient and worthy Family long flourishing in that Northern-Tract raised a considerable power for his Majesties Service under the Conduct of the Right Honourable William then Earl but afterwards Marquess and Duke of Newcastle wherewith he had his share in the honour of those Victories obtain'd by that great General at â—â—dcasâ—er Yarum Seacroâ—t â—ankerfley Leedes Halifax Rotheram 〈◊〉 Chesterfeild Gaynsborough and Lincoln but chiefly at Bradford in Com. Ebor. against those numerous forces which through the influence of certain predominant members of the late unhappy Long Parliament were then most rebelliously imployed against their Lawful Sovereign In consideration whereof he was â—y Letters Patent bearing date 10 Nov. 19 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Widdrington of Blantâ—ey in Com. Linc. Continuing likewise in Arms till all was lost he suffered in the general ruine which thereupon befell all the Kings good Subjects And after that joining with the most noble Iames Earl of Derby in the month of Augâ—â—t an 1651. to make way for the safe passage of our present Sovereign King Charles the Second with â—is Army oâ—t of Scotland then marching towards Worcester being encountred by numerous Forces sent by Cromwell under the Command of Colonel Lilbâ—rne lost his life in a sharp Skirmish near Wiggaâ— in Lancashire leaving Issue by Mary his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Anthony Thorold of Blankney Knight seven Sons viz. William Henry Ephâ—aim Edward Raphe Anthony and Roger And two Daughters Mary Mâ—rried to ... Crane of Wood-Rysing in Com. Norâ—â— Esq and Iane to Sir Charles Stanley Knight of the Bath Son to Sir Robert Stanley Knight a younger Son to William late Eâ—rl of Derby To whom succeeded in his honour William his Son and Heir Which William Married Elizabeth the Daughter and Heir to Sir Peregrine Bertâ— of Eveden in Com. Linc. Knight a younger Son to Robert late Earl of Lindsey and by her hath Issue ... Prince Rupert Earl of Holderness and Duke of Cumberland 19 Car. 1. UPon that grand Defection which hapned here in an 1642. As the loyalty of many eminent Subjects was then most clearly put to the test no less were the cordial well-wishes to the late King Charles of blessed memory of his nearest kindred and chief Allies Amongst which none did more highly manifest their sense of his Sufferings than his two Royal Nephews Prince Rupert and Prince Mâ—urice younger Sons to the Illustrious Frederick late Count Palaâ—ine of the Rhene by that Excellent Princess Elizabeth his only Sister Who having from their youth been train'd up in military Exercises and therein by their eminent Services in the German-Wars deservedly gain'd the reputation of right valiant and expert Commanders most seasonably repaired to Him in order to his most necessary assistance and defence Prince Rupert being made General of his Horse and Prince Maurice Commander of some Forces in the West In which military imployments their courage and conduct became so conspicuous in sundry fierce encounters against that Rebellious generation then in Arms in most parts of this Realm as rendred them formidable to their greatest Enemies In consideration whereof and to the end that posterity might discern the sense which his Majesty then had of their known merits having first made choice of Prince Rupert into the Society of the most noble Order of the Garter he did by his Letters Patent bearing date at Oxford 19 Ianuarii in the nineteenth year of his Reign make him a free Denizen and upon the twenty fourth day of the same month advance him to the dignity of a Peer of this Realm by the title of Earl of Holdernesse and Duke of Cumberland After which this Heroick General advenâ—ured himself in many other bloody Battles till all was lost Whereupon being forced to retire into Foreign parts he most happily returned upon the joyfull Restoration of our present Soveraign King Charles
the Second whom he hath ever since with great affection and no less fidelity serv'd not only in Council but in Action as by his most couragious and prudent conduct of the whole English-Fleet in that dreadful Sea fight against the Dutch in an 1672. is very well known Lord Ward 19 Car. 1. GReat being the distresses of our late Soveraign King Charles the first of blessed memory by reason of that unparallelled defection in an 1642. so that he had little wherewith to reward or encourage such Loyal persons who in the times of those unhappy troubles stood firm and faithful to him other than by conferring on them certain Titles of dignity and honour Amongst these Humble the Son and Heir of William Ward a wealthy Goldsmith in London and Jeweller to the Queen descended from an anâ—ient Family of that name in Norfolk meriting much for his seasonable supplies at that time brought to his Majesty having married Frances the Neece and Heir to Edward Lord Dâ—â—ley was in consideration thereof first made a Knight at Oxford 24 Iunii an 1643. 19 Car. 1. and shortly after advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ward of Bermingham in Com. War as by that â—ings Letters Patent bearing date at Oxford the 23 of March next ensuing appeareth By which noble Lady he had Issue two Sons Edward and William and three Daughters Honora married to William Dilke of Maxstoke-Castle in Com. War Esq Frances to Sir William Noel of Kirby in Com. Leic. Baronet and Theodâ—sia to Sir Thomas Brerâ—ton of Hanford in Com. Cestr. Bâ—ronet And departing this life upon the fourth day of October an 1670. was buried at Hymley in Com. Staff where he then had his chief residence Which Edward succeeding in his honour married Frances Daughter to Sir William Brerâ—ton late of Hâ—nâ—ord Bâ—ronet Sister and at length Coheir to the said Sir Thomas and by her hath had Issue three Sons Iohn William and Ferdinando and two Daughters Cathâ—rine and Humblâ—tta Patric Earl of Brainford 20 Car. 1. THough in the times of the late unhappy â—roubles which had their rise from the Scoâ—s the generality of that Nation were Actors or Abeâ—â—ors in that rebellious Invasion of this Realâ— made in the year 1642. yet were there some who most loyally manifested their sincere affections to their native Soveraign by adhering to him with great fidelity throughout the whole course of these desâ—â—â—ctive Wars Of which number the right noble Patric Earl of Forth was one who from his youth having been trained â—p in the Wars of Sweden Dâ—nmarâ— Russiâ— Liâ—oniâ— Liâ—huaniâ— Poland 〈◊〉 and Germany in which he gained no little skill and honour seeing his Soveraign and these Realms in great danger of ruine by those intestine broyles most freâ—ly reâ—orted to his service First in Scotland and afterwards here where by his prudent conduct in those sharp encounters at Edge-Hill Brainford and Newbery performing the part of an expert and valiant Commander he was made General of that King Army and in farther consideration of his eminent services by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford 27 Maii 20 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of an Earl by the title of Earl of Brainford in the County of Middlesex This Earl died at Dundee in Scotland in an 1651. and was there buried leaving no other Issue than the Lady Iane a Daughter at that time surviving who is married to Iames Lord Forrester a Baron of that Realm Lord Colepeper 20 Car. 1. THat this Family hath for many past ages flourisht with great esteem in the Counties of Kent and Sussex I need not here stand to give instance and therefore shall descend to Sir Iohn Colepeper Knight the principal branch thereof who being a person of great abilities and perfectly Loyal to our late Soveraign King Charles the first of blessed memory was by him first constituted Chancellor of the Exchequer afterwards Master of the Rolls and one of his Majesties Privy Council And not forsaking him in the time of his great distresses and troubles adventured his life courageously on his behalf in the Battells of â—ineton Newbery and divers other sharp encounters In consideration whereof he was by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford 21 October in the twentieth year of his reign advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Colepeper of â—hâ—resway in Com. Linc. And after the loss of all attending our present Soveraign King Charles the Second during the greatest part of his abode beyond-Sea being also one of the Lords of his Privy Council departed this life shortly after his Majesties most happy restoration viz. upon the eleventh day of Iuly an 1660. and was buried at Hollingburne in Kent He married two Wives first Philippa Daughter of ... Snelling of ... in Com. ... Esq by whom he had Issue one Son called Alexander who took to Wife Catherine the Daughter and Heir to Sir Edward Ford of Harting in Com. Suss. Knight but died without issue in his Fathers life time and Philippa a Daughter married to Sir Thomaâ— Herlakenden of Wood-Church in Com. Cantii Esq His second Wife was Iudith Daughter to Sir Thomas Colepeper of Hollingburne in Com. Cantii Knight by whom he had Issue four Sons Thomas Iohn Cheney and Francis who died in an 1662. unmarried Also three Daughters Elizabeth married to Iames Hamilton Esqque Iudith and Philippa Which Thomas succeeding him in his Honour married Margaret the youngest Daughter and Coheir to le Seigneur Iean de Hesse of the noble Family of Hesse in the Land of Berghen near Collen in Germany by whom he hath Issue one Daughter called Catherine Lord Astley of Reading 20 Car. 1. AS to the antiquity of this Family having already in the first Volume of this work so fully discoursed there needeth nothing to be farther said than that Sir Iacob Astley Knight Son of Isaac Astley of Melton Constable in Com. Norf. Esqque of whom I am now to speak did lineally descend from Raphe de Astley a younger Son to Thomas Lord Astley of Astley in Com. War by Edith his Wife Sister and Coheir to Robert Constable sometime of Melton above mentioned This Sir Iacob having been long â—rain'd up in the discipline of War and undergone divers Military Commands in the service of Grave Maurice and his Brother Henry both Princes of Aurange not only in that great Battel of Newport and eminent Siege of Ostend but many other places was further imployed in the like kind by Christiern the fourth King of Denmark as also by the famous Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden and in all these acquired no little honour After which upon the late grand defection here in an 1642. resorting to King Charles the First of blessed memory he served him with great fidelity and courage in the Battels of â—ineton Brainford Newberie Lestithiell and several other sharp encounters being then Major General of his Majesties Royal
Army and Governour of his Garrisons of Oxford and Reading for some part of the time of those unhappy troubles In consideration whereof he was by Letters Patents bearing date 4 November in the twentieth year of that Kings reign advanced to the degree and dignity oâ— a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Astley of Reading in Com. Berks. and afterwards constituted Lieutenant General of his Majesties Forces throughout the Counties of Worcester Stafford Hereford and Salop. He married a German Lady Agnes â—mple by whom he had Issue five Sons Isaac Thomas Henry Bernard and Edward and Elizabeth a Daughter married to Sir Edward Astley of Melton Constable in Com. Norf. Knight and departing this life at Maydston in Kent an 1651. was buried in the Parish-Church there To whom succeeded Isaac his Son and Heir who married Anne the fourth Daughter to Sir Francis Stydolfe of Norbury in Com. Surr. Knight and departing this life in September an 1662. was buried also at Maâ—dston leaving Issue two Sons Iacob now Lord Astley and Francis and a Daughter which died very young Lord Clifford of Lansborough and Earl of Burlington 20 Car. 1. AMongst other whose Loyalty in the time of the late unhappy â—â—oubles ought not to be forgotten is Richard Earl of Cork in Ireland Which Richard in consideration of that real assistance and ready supply by him then seasonably given to King Charles the first of blessed memory and by reason of his marriage with the Lady Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heir to Henry late Earl of Cumberland was by Letters Patents bearing date upon the fourth of November in the twentieth year of his reign advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Clifford of Lansborough in Com. Ebor And afterwards in farther consideration of his faithful services both in England and Ireland as also for the great merits of the said Henry Earl of Cumberland who at the very beginning of those troubles raised a considerable power in opposition to those rebellious Forces then appearing of which during the continuance of his life he made use for the service of his King and Countrey was by other Letters Patents bearing date upon the twentieth day of March in the sixteenth year of the reign of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second created Earl of Burlington alias Bridlington in Com. Ebor. This Earl hath Issue by the said Elizabeth his Wife two Sons Charles and Richard and five Daughters Frances married to the Earl of Roscomon in Ireland Kaâ—herine who died in her childhood Elizabeth Wife to Nicholas now Earl of Thâ—net Anne married to Edward now Earl of Sandwich and Henrieâ—â—a to Laurence Hide second Son to Edward late Earl of Clarendâ—n Which Charles commonly called Lord Clifford of Lansborough married Iane the youngest Daughter to William late Duke of Somerset and hath Issue four Sons viz. Richard Charles Henry and William and four Daughters Frances Elizabeth Iane and Mary Lord Lucas 20 Car. 1. OF this Family which hath with no little honour flourisht for many ages in the Counties of Suffolk and Eâ—â—ex was Sir Iohn Lucas Knight a person eminently accomplish'd with learning and well vers't in sundry Languages whose perfect loyalty to the King at the beginning of the late unhappy Troubles in the year 1642. exposed him to the merciless plunder of those who were then in Arms against his Majesty By which though â—e became much disabled in yielding to him such aids and assistanceâ— as he had designed yet was he not discouraged from performing to the utmost what he could in his own person or by his best friends and nearest Allies stoutly adventuring his life in the several Fights at Lestithiell in Cornwall Newberie in Berkshire and divers other Battels In consideration whereof he was by Letters Patents bearing date 3 Ian. 20 Car. 1. advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Lucas of Shenseild in Com. Essex with limitation of that dignity for lack of Issue Male unto Sir Charles Lucas Knight his younger Brother and to the Heirs Male of his Body with remainder to Sir Thomas Lucas Knight his other Brother and the Heirs Male of his Body This Iohn Lord Lucas Married Anne Daughter to Sir Christopher Nâ—vill of Newton-St Lo in Com. Somers Knight of the Bath by whom he had Issue one sole Daughter called Mary Married to Anthony now Earl of Kent On whose behalf considering he had no Issue Male and that Sir Charles Lucas Knight his valiant Brother who had with great fidelity and courage serv'd the late King Charles the First of blessed memory as an eminent Commander in divers notable Battels upon the loss of Colchester was there most barbarously and against the Law of Arms put to Death leaving no Issue he procured form our present Sovreign on the behalf of his said Daughter and her Descendents certain Letters-Patent bearing date 7 Mâ—ii 15 Car. 2. whereby the dignity and Title of Baroness Lucas of Crudwelâ— in Com. Wiltes was conferr'd upon her and of Baron Lucas of the same place upon the Heirs Male of her Body As also that her Son and Heir by the said Earl of Kent and all other the Sons and Heirs descended from her of his Successors Earls of Kent should bear the Title of Lord Lucas of Crudwell And in default of such Issue Male that the said Title should not be suspended but enjoy'd by such of the Daughters and Coheirs if any shall be as other indivisible inheritances by the Common-Law of this Realm are usually possessed And departing this life at ... upon the ... day of ... an 1670. was buried with his Ancestors at Colchester in Essex Dying thus wihout Issue Male the Title of Lord Lucas of Shenfeild by virtue of the Limitation above-express'd devolved to Charles the Son and Heir of the said Sir Thomas Lucas Knight Which Charles hath Married Penelope one of the Daughters to Francis late Earl of Scarsdale Watson Lord Rokingham 20 Car. 1. UPon the 28 th of Ianuary an 20 Car. 1. Sir Lâ—wâ—s Wâ—tson of Rokingham-Castle in Com. Northt Knight and Baâ—onet bâ—ing a person well descended and of an ample fortune and likewise for many considerable services especially in the times of the late unhappy Troubles much deserving of the King and Country was in consideration thereof advanced â—o the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Rokingham of Rekingham in Com. Northt as by his Letters Patents then bearing date at Oxford appeareth This Leweâ— Lord Rokingham First Married Catherine Daughter to Peregrine Bertu Lord Willoâ—ghby of Eresby but by her had no Issue and afterwards Eleanore Daughter to Sir George Manners of Haddoâ— in Com. Derb. Knight Sister to Iohn Earl of Rutland by whom he had Issue Edward his Son and Heir And six Daughters viz. Grace Married to Sir Edward Barkham of West-Acre in Com. Norff. Baronet Anne who died unmarried Frances Married to
Duke of Richmund sister and heir to Esme Duke of Richmund Which Richard having couragiously given battel to the Rebels in Ireland at Carickfergus and subdued them and behaved himself with exemplary valour in the late perillous Sea-fight with the Dutch His Royal Highness the Duke of York being then Admiral was by reason of these his faithful Services created a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Butler of Weston in the County of Huntingdon by Letters-patent bearing date at Westminster upon the Twenty sevenâ—h day of August in the Twenty fifth year of his Majesties Reign And surviving that wife mâ—â—â—ried ... daughter of Iohn Ferrers 〈◊〉 Tamworth-Castle in the County of â—arwick Esquire And thirdly Iohn He had also â—â—o daughters viz. the Lady Elizabeth maâ—â—ied to Philip Earl of Chesterfeild and Mâ—ry to William Lord Cavendish son and heâ— to William Earl of Devonshire But I â—eturn to Thomas Earl of Ossory the eldest sâ—â— This Thomas having been by His Majesties Writ of Summons bearing date 14 Sept. â— 18 Car. 2 â— called to the Parliament then sittâ—ng at Westminster by the Title of Lord Buâ—â—r of Moore-Parke took his place there aâ—ordingly upon the 18 th day of September â—ext ensuing In September An. 1672. he was elected Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and upon the 17 th day of May An. 1673. was made Rere-Admiral of the Blew-Squadron of His Majesties Fleet in order to that great Sea-fight against the Dutch which hapned shortly after He married the Lady Amelia of Nassau daughter to Lewes de Nassaw Lord Beverwaert son to the Illustrious Maurice late Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau and by her hath had issue three Sons Iames and Charles another Iames dying young and four daughters now living Elizabeth married to William Earl of Derby Amelia Henrietta and Catherine two others viz. Mary and Henrietta deceasing in their Childhood Hyde Earl of Clarendon 12 Car. â— SHortly afterwards Sir Edward Hyde Knight descended from an antient Family of that name in Cheshire was in like sort advanced to sundry Titles of Honor. Having been trayn'd up to the Study of the Laws in that Honourable Society of the Middle-Temple London and manifesting his fidelity to the late King Charles of blessed memory in an eminent measure he was first made Chancellor of his Exchequer and one of His Privy-Council After the expulsion of our present Soveraign attending him in Forrein parts he was sent Embassador into Spain made his Secretary of State and lastly Lord Chancellor In all which imployments he deported himself with such prudence judgment and integrity as that soon after His Majesties Happy Restauration he was by Letters-patent bearing date upon the Third day of November in the Twelfth year of His Reign raised to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hyde of Hindon in com Wilts and to the heâ—â—s male of his body also upon the Twentieth of April next ensuing to the dignity of Vicount Cornbury in com Oxon. and Earl of Clarendon Which office of Lord Chancellor he held until towards the end of August An. 1667. that the Great Seal was taken from him and committed to the Custody of Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Whereupon he retired into France and departing this life in the City of Râ—an in Normandy 19 Dec. An. 1674. was buried on the North side of the Capella Regum in the Collegiate-Church of St. Peter at Westminster He married Frances daughter and at length sole heir to Sir Thomas Aylesbury Knight and Baronet sometime one of the Masters of the Requests and by her had issue four sons Henry commonly called Lord Cornberie Laurence now Master of the Robes to His Majesty Edward who died unmarried and Iames As also two daughters the Lady Anne married to his Royal Highness Iames Duke of York and the Lady Frances to ... Which Henry now Earl of Clarendon first took to wife Theodosia one of the daughters of Arthur late Lord Capell by whom he had issue one only son called Edward Secondly Flower daughter and sole heir to William Backhouse of Swallowfeild in com Berks. Esq widow of Sir William Backhouse Baronet Grandson to Rowland Backhouse sometime Alderman of London by whom as yet he hath no issue Annesley Earl of Anglesey 13 Car. 2. AMongst the rest of those eminent persons whom our present Soveraign for the greater splendor of His Royal Coronation advanced unto sundry degrees and Titles of Honor was Sir Arthur Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Vicount Valencia in Ireland son of Sir Francis Annesley Baronet Lord Mount-Norris and Vicount Valencia Vice-Treasurer and Secretary in that Realm to King Charles the First of blessed Memory Paternally descended from the antient and worshipful family of Annesley in the County of Notingham and by the Mother from that of Philips of Picton-Castle in Pembrokshire Which Sir Arthur in the late most perillous times having served His Majesty that now is to the no little hazard of life and Fortune with great integrity was by Letters-patent bearing date upon the twentieth day of April in the Thirteenth year of His reign created a Baron of this Kingdom by the Title of Lord Annesley of Newport Paynell in com Buck. as also raised to the dignity of an English Earl by the Title of Earl of Anglesey and to the heirs male of his body Since which time by reason of his singular prudence and fidelity he hath had that great Office of Lord Privy-Seale conferred upon him which he still enjoyeth He married Elizabeth one of the two daughters and coheirs of Sir Iames Altham Knight son and heir to Sir Iames Altham Knight sometime Baron of the King's Exchequer by whom he hath had issue seven sons viz. Iames commonly called Lord Annesley Altham Richard Arthur and Charles two other both named Arthur dying in their childhood And six daughters 1. Dorothy married to Richard Earl of â—iroen in Ireland 2. Elizabeth to Alexander Mac-Donald second son to the Earl of Antrim 3. Frances first to Iohn Wyndham of Felbrigge in com Norf. Esquire and afterwards to Sir Iohn Tompson of Haversham in com Buck. Baronet 4. Philips to Charles Lord Mohun 5. Anne and 6. Bridget who died young Which Iames Lord Annesley having wedded Elizabeth daughter to Iohn Earl of â—utland hath issue by her two sons Iames and Iohn and two daughters Frances who died in her Infancy and Elizabeth Grenevil Earl of Bathe 13 Car. 2. THat this Family is not only of very great Antiquity but famous for divers Martial exploits is evident from sundry Authorities Harmo dentatus the common Ancestor thereof who was Earl of Corboil as also Lord of Thorigny and Graneville in Normandy being lineally descended from the Warlike Rollo sometime Duke of that large Territory Which Hamon had issue two sons Robert surnamed Fitz-Hamon Earl of Corboil Lord of Thorigny and Graneville who left no issue male as
younger Son of the last mentioned Roberâ— Mortimer This William vulgarly called William la Zouch of Mortimer for the Reasons before specified in 1 Edw. 3. then possessing the Mannor of Ashby de la Zouch in Com. Leic. had a Grant of the custody of the Lands of Glamorgan and Morgannoc with power to dispose of the Towns Castles and Lordships within those Territories as he should think most meet for the Kings advantage For which service he was to receive out of the Revenue of those Lands in time of peace two hundred marks with allowance for thirty Men at Arms to besiege the Castle of Kaersilly if it should not be then rendred And in 2 Edw. 3. was made Justice of all the Forests South of Trent as also Constable of the Tower of London In 4 Edw. 3. this William and Alianore his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs to Gilbert de Clare sometime Earl of Glocester and Widow of Hugh le Despencer the younger were in Parliament restored to their Lands of Glamorgan and Morgannoc as also to the Mannors of Hanley in Com. Wigorn. and Temsbury in Com. Gloc. which were the Inheritance of her the said Alianore and had been extorted from her by Roger Mortimer Earl of March to be by him passed to the King in consideration of a thousand pounds But about this time having been a firm friend to Edmund of Woodstoke Earl of Kent Uncle to the King after the fall of that Earl was sought for by the Sheriff of Glocestershire and at length rendring himself to prison was by the Kings favor dismissed In 6 Edw. 3. with the same Alianore his Wife he accompanied the Lady Alianore the Kings Sister in her journey beyond Sea For which respect the King was pleased to accept of that debt of Three thousand six hundred sixty and six pounds thirteen shillings four pence due by him to the Exchequer to be paid by Five hundred marks per annum at Michaelmass and Easter by even portions And in 7 Edw. 3. having some difference with Hugh de Audley a great Baron-Marcher at that time he raised Forces in the Marches of Wales against the said Hugh which occasioned the King to send a special Precept to him for to desist therein In 9 Edw. 3. he was in that expedition then made into Scotland and about this time calling himself by the name of Zouch and Son of Robert de Mortimer sometime Lord of Ricards-Castle confirmed to the Canons of Haghnion in Com. Salop. the Grant of the Mill at Rochesford made to them formerly by Hugh de Say and Lucia his Wife Daughter of Walter de Clifford Son of Richard Son of Ponce his Predeceffors and the Ratification b thereof by Hugh de Mortimer his Grand-father And upon the first of March An. 1335. 10 Edw. 3. departing this life was buried in the midst of our Ladies Chappel at Theoksbury leaving issue by the before specified Alianore his second Wife a Son called Hugh the custody of whose Lands by reason of his minority were committed to Alan la Zouch of Mortimer Son to this last mentioned William by Alice de Toeny his first Wife Sister and Heir to Robert de Toeny and Widow of Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Which Alan then proving his age and performing his homage had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance And in 14 Edw. 3. attended the King into Flanders In 15 Edw. 3. this Alan was in that expedition then made into Scotland as also in that into France in 16 Edw. 3. the King being likewise there in person at that time And in 18 Edw. 3. obtained a Charter for Free Warren in all his Demesn Lands at Ashby de la Zouch Swartcâ—iffe Braâ—â—thorpe and Daâ—croâ—t in Com. Leic. Swavesey Drotton and Fulburne in Com. Cantab. Trene Nortbourne and Chillington in Com. Suss. In 20 Edw. 3. he attended the King into France and was with him as it is like in that great Battle of Cressy where the English were victorious but shortly after that viz. the same year about the Feast of All-Saints he departed this life leaving Hugh his Son and Heir Fifteen years of age and Alianore his Wife surviving The Wardship of which Hugh was committed to Iohn de Beauchamp until he should be of full age Which hapned in 34 Ed. 3. when making proof thereof and doing his homage he had Livery of his Lands And in 47 Ed. 3. accompanied Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster in his expedition then made into Flanders being at that time a Knight But this is all I have seen of him other than that he had issue one Son called Hugh and Ioyce a Daughter who took to Husband Sir Iohn Botctourt of Weoley Castle in Com. Wigorn. Knight and by the death of her Brother Hugh without issue became his Heir Mortimer of Attilbergh THe first of these Mortimers that had to do in Norfolk for ought I have seen was Robert de Mortimer who in 17 Ioh. being in Arms against the King with the Rebellious Barons forfeited his Lands in Hecleveston in Com. Linc. which were thereupon given to Robert de Mortimer of Ricards Castle in Com. Heref. But hence I must make a great leap viz. unto 11 Edw. 1. finding nothing of his descendants till that time that William de Mortimer of Attilbergh in Com. Norf. obtained the Kings Charter for a Market at Stanford in that County every week upon the Tuesday and a Fair upon Whitson-Eve Whit-Sunday and the morrow following This William in 22 Edw. 1. upon the Kings going into Gaâ—coigne received command to fit himself with Horse and Arms as the chief Men in England then did and to attend the King at Portsmouth upon the first of September to assist him against the French And in 25 Edw. 1. had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons In which year being again in France with the Earl of Lincoln to relieve Bellagard at that time besieged by the Earl of Arras he was taken prisoner and carried to Paris where he died as it seems being then called William de Mortimer of Kingstone and seised of certain Lands in Herleveston in Com. Linc. and of the Mannor of Kingstone in Com. Cantabr As also of certain Lands in Attisbergh Sculton and Bernham in Com. Norf. leaving Constantine his Son and Heir sixteen years of age Which Constantine in 4 Edw. 2. was in that expedition then made into Scotland So likewise in 7 Edw. 2. and 8 Edw. 2. And in 13 Edw. 2. had Licenâ—e to make a Castle of his House at Scultoâ— in Com. Norf. To the trust of this Constantine in 19 Edw. 2. upon the death of Thomas de
Sir Roger Hillary Knight and Widow of Sir Robert Grey of Rotherfield Knight had an Assignation of the Mannors of Cogges and Herdewyke as also of the moity of the Mannors of Somerford and Firingford with the fourth part of the Mannor of Stanlake all in Com. Oxon. for her Dowry of the Lands of the said Sir Robert Grey In 20 Ric. 2. upon the attainder and banishment of Thomas Beaâ—champ Earl of Warwick he had the Castle of Warwick with all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging committed to his custody And having had summons to Parliament from 31 Edw. 3. till 20 Ric. 2. departed this life on Friday next ensuing the Feast of the Nâ—tivity of our Lady in the same year leaving William his Cousin and Heir viz. Son of William his eldest Son by Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Iohn Deincourt Knight Son of him the said Iohn by Idâ—nea his first Wife one of the Sisters and at length Heir of William de Say Which William in 1 Hen. 4. was in that Expedition then made into Scotland and in 3 Hen. 4. in the Wars of France Moreover in 5 Hen. 4. he was of the Retinue of Iohn Earl of Somerset then Captain of Calais for the defence of that Garrison and in 6 Hen. 4. doing his Homage had Livery of his Purparty of the Lands of the before-specified William de Say whereupon he bore the title of Lord Clinton and Say and in 3 Hen. 5. attended the King in his Expedition into France In 5 Hen. 6. he was again in the Wars of France being then retained by Indenture to serve the King with twenty five men at Arms and seventy eight Archers And in â— Hen. 6. being again retained by Indenture â— serve the King with one Knight thirty eight men at Arms and three hundred Archers was in those Wars the King himself being also in person there And having been summoned to Parliament from 23 Ric. 2. till 9 Hen. 6. inclusive departed this life upon the thirtieth day of Iuly 10 Hen. 6. being seised of the Mannors of Birlingâ— and Folkeston in Com. Cantii of the Mannors of Hamme-Saye and Bukestede in Com. Suss. as also of the Castle of Maxstoke with the Hamlets of Coton and Merston juxta Kingsbury of the Mannors of Shustoke and Amington the moity of the Mannor of Piry-croft and third part of the Mannor of Pakynton-Pigot all in Com. Warr. leaving Issue by Anne his Wife Daughter of ... Lord Botreaux and Widow of Sir Fouke Fitz-waryn Knight Iohn his Son and Heir twenty two years of age Which Iohn in 12 Hen. 6. was in that Expedition then made into France but in 16 Hen. 6. passed away his Castle and Mannor of Waxstoke unto Humphrey Earl of Stafford and Anne his Wife in exchange for the Mannors of Whiston and Woodford in Com. Northt Shortly after which viz. in 19 Hen. 6. being again in the Wars of France and of the Retinue with Richard Duke of York he had the fate to be taken Prisoner where he so continued for the space of full six years and then was necessitated to give six thousand Marks for his ransom The King therefore towards his supply in raising that sum granted him special License to imploy his Agents for the buying of six hundred sacks of Wooll in England and to Transport them from London or Southampton into Lumbardy as also six hundred Woollen-cloths and to Transport them to any Foreign Country paying for every Sack and Cloth unto the King as any other Denizen used to do In 27 Hen. 6. this Iohn Lord Clinton by his Deed bearing date 1 November granted and confirmed to his Kinsman Sir Iames Fenys Knight then Lord Say and Sele and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever the name and title of Lord Say whereunto he the said Iames had a right from Idonea his great Grand-mother Daughter and Coheir to William Lord Say as also the Arms which by reason of that name title and honour he had by hereditary right or otherwise But after this viz. in 38 Hen. 6. he revolted from the King and adhered to the House of York for which his Lands were seised and he himself attainted in the Parliament then held at Coventry Howbeit in 1 Edw. 4. upon the change of that Scene being restored he soon after accompanied the Earl of Kent the Lord Audley and others into Britanny where landing with ten thousand men they won the Town of Cenquet with the Isle of Rethe and in 4 Edw. 4. attended King Edward into the North at which time he laid Siege to the Castles of Bamburgh Dunstanburgh and Alnwicke then held by the Duke of Somerset and others of the Lancastrian party By Elizabeth the Daughter of Richard Fienes Lord Dacres of the South this Iohn left Issue Iohn his Son and Heir who in 3 Hen. 8. accompanied Sir Edward Poynings Knight of the Garter whose Daughter he had married with a thousand Archers in aid of Margaret Dutchess of Savoy against the Duke of Gueldres And in 6 Hen. 8. with divers other persons of Honour and four hundred men at Arms went over to Calais for the better defence of that Garrison Moreover the same year the Lady Mary Sister to the King being married to the French King whereupon the Dolphin proclaimed Justs at Paris he accompanied the Duke of Suffolk thither they being all clad in Green-coats and Hoods to the end that they might not be known Before the end of which year scil 4 Iunii 6 Hen. 8. he died leaving Thomas his Son and Heir twenty four years of age Which Thomas being summoned to that Parliament held in 7 Hen. 8. took his place but died within two years after viz. 7 Aug. 9 Hen. 8. of the Sweating-sickness leaving Edward his Son and Heir five years of age and upwards Which Edward being the next Heir to the late Lord Say but in Ward to the King for many years by reason of his minority and being in 28 Hen. 8. at the time of the Parliament then holden arrived to his full age was set in the place of the same Lord Say viz. next before the Lord Rivers who sate next before the Lord Bergavenny and so for want of information lost his place of Lord Clinton which his Ancestors had enjoyed for a long time before In 32 Hen. 8. this Edward Lord Clinton upon the first day of May was one of the Defendants in the Justs held at Westminster which had been proclaimed in France And in 36 Hen. 8. being in that Expedition then made into Scotland with divers others was Knighted at Lieth by Edward then Earl of Hartford General of the
King's Army there In this year also he accompanied Iohn Dudley Viscount Lisle then Lord Admiral and with nine hundred men having scoured the Seas towards Scotland landed at Bolein Moreover in 1 Edw. 6. he was Admiral of the Fleet then sent into Scotland and in 4 Edw. 6. being Governour of Boloin then in scarcity of Provisions rendred it to the French upon Articles whereupon being made Lord Admiral of England for life upon the arrival of the Marshal of France at Gravesend who brought over the Order of S. Michael to King Edward he conducted him to London In 4 5 ph M. being then Knight of the Garter and stiled Lord Clinton and Say he was by Letters Patents bearing date 10 Febr. constituted Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Wales In which year in the Parliament held at Westminster there being dispute betwixt him and the Lord Stafford for preheminence it was found upon search that his Ancestors the Lords Clinton by long continuance and great antiquity had place next above the Lord Audley In 1 Eliz. this Edward was constituted one of the Queens Privy-Council and in 12 Eliz. upon that Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland being joyned with the Earl of Warwick they marched with twelve thousand men whereof those Earls having notice they fled privily into Scotland After which ere long viz. in 14 Eliz. 4 Maii he was advanced to the title of Earl of Lincoln and the next ensuing year constituted one of the Commissioners for tryal of the Duke of Norfolk Moreover in 24 Eliz. he was appointed amongst others a Commissioner to treat concerning the marriage then proposed betwixt the Duke of Anjou and Queen Elizabeth And having married three Wives first Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Iohn Blount Widow of Gilbert Lord Talboys sometime a Concubine to King Henry the Eighth secondly Vrsula Daughter of William Lord Stoerton and thirdly Elizabeth Daughter to Gerald Fitz-Girald Earl of Kildare departed this life in Anno 1584. 27 Eliz. and was buried on the South-side of the Collegiate Chapel of S. George at Windsore in Com. Berks. his Monumental Inscription there carrying erroneously the name of Fienes By which Elizabeth his first Wife he had issue three Daughters viz. Bridget married to Robert Dymock of Scrivelby in Com. Linc. Esquire Katherine to William Lord Borough and Margaret to Charles Lord Willoughby of Parham By Vrsula his second Wife he had Issue three Sons viz. Henry Edward who died unmarried and Thomas who wedded Mary Daughter of Iohn Tirrell of Warley And two Daughters viz. Anne the Wife of William Ascough Son and Heir to Sir Francis Ascough of Kelsey in Com. Linc. Knight and Frances Wife of Gyles Bruges Lord Chandos But by his third Wife Elizabeth Daughter to the Earl of Kildare he had no Issue To this Edward succeeded in that dignity of Earl Henry his Son and Heir of whom I have not seen any thing farther memorable than that he was one of the Peers in Commission for the Tryal of Mary Queen of Scots and that he married two Wives first Katherine Daughter to Francis Earl of Huntingdon by whom he had Issue two Sons viz. Thomas who succeeded him in his Honours and Edward who took to Wife Mary the Daughter of Thomas Dighton of Stourton in Com. Linc. and three Daughters viz. Elizabeth the Wife of Sir Arthur Gorge Knight and Katherine and Frances who dyed young His second Wife was Elizabeth Daughter of Sir Richard Morison K t Widow of William Son and Heir Apparent to Henry the first Lord Norris by whom he had Issue Sir Henry Clinton Knight vulgarly called Fienes I come now to Thomas Son and Heir to this last Earl Henry This Thomas married Elizabeth one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Sir Henry Knevet of Charlton in Com. Wilts Knight by whom he had Issue seven Sons viz. Henry and Thomas who died young Theophilus Edward Charles and Knevet Robert who also died young and Iohn and nine Daughters viz. Katherine who died young Elizabeth ... Frances Wife of Iohn Son and Heir to Sir Ferdinando Gorges Knight Arabella ... Lucie and Anne who died young Susanna Dorcas and Sarah And departing this life at his Castle of Tatshall in Com. Linc. 15 Ian. Anno 1618. 16 Iac. lieth buried in the Chancel of that Parish-Church To whom succeeded Theophilus who was made Knight of the Bathe at the Creation of Prince Charles An. 1616. and married Bridget one of the Daughters to William Viscount Say and Sele by whom he had Issue ... Earls of Gloucester THE first that enjoyed this Title after the Norman-conquest was Robert one of the Illegitimate Sons of King Henry the First who taking to Wife Maud by some called Mabell the eldest of the four Daughters and Heirs to Robert Fitz-Hamon had in her right the whole Honour of Gloucester as also a great Inheritance in Normandy and all the Land of Hamo Dapifer his Wifes Uncle And because it was not much honourable to be enriched with those vast Possessions without some name of Dignity he was advanced to the Earldom of Gloucester by the King his Father After which in Anno 1119. 20 Hen. 1. he attended him in that famous Battel at Brennevill against the French and in 23 Hen. 1. was with him at the taking of the Castle of Brion In Anno 1127. 28 Hen. 1. King Henry discerning all his Male issue lost and no likelihood of more Children and therefore requiring an oath of Fâ—alty unto Maud the Empress his only surviving Child and her Heirs this Earl Robert amongst others took the same accordingly It is said that King Henry on his death-bed gave him sixty thousand pounds which money lay then at Faleise And although upon the death of that King which hapned 1 Dec. Anno 1135. he forbore to come into England nevertheless before the end of that year he arrived Whereupon King Stephen who had usurped the Crown grew much perplexed and therefore to captivate the people publickly swore that he would Govern by the Laws whereupon not only the Bishops did their Fâ—alâ—y to him but this Earl performed his Homage upon condition that Stephen should permit him to enjoy his Honour Nevertheless after this viz. in Anno 1138. 3 Steph. having built the Castle of Bristoll and manned it with other strong Holds against that King he confederated with Milo Constable of England and went beyond-Sea for the Empress she being then in Anjou assuring her that within five months space she should obtain the whole Realm as the Nobility of England had formerly sworn to her Father