The Wife of Sir Henry Greene was Katharine the Daughter of Sir John and Sister of Sir Simon of Drayton Their Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Norton that Married Mary Daughter of Richard Lord Talbot and Sister to John the first Earl of Shrewsbury from whom were those Greenes that for several generations flourished afterwards at that place in great reputation Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Greene Married to William Lord Zouch of Totnes Nicholas Greene. Richard Greene. Amabila Greene Married to Sir Ralph Reynes Lord of Clifton HAving only exposed the descent and succession of those Greenes that were Lords of Drayton I shall proceed to HENRY the second Son of Sir Henry Greene who in his Father's life-time and by his procurement was invested by his Cousin Sir John of Drayton in the chief seat and Lordship of that place with all the Towns Lands Liberties and Priviledges belonging thereunto upon condition that from thenceforth he should bear his Name and his Arms according as to that purpose the same Sir John had formerly covenanted with Sir Henry the Father of this Sir Henry Greene. Now this being among his other Children the delight and hopes of his old Father he was by him endowed with great and noble possessions as besides the Mannor of Drayton of which were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with certain Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle those of Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Batteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottington Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places and he was moreover by his provident care Married to Matilda Daughter and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Mauduit that was Lord of Werminster Westbury Lye Grateley Dychurch and other fair Possessions all which with the blood and Arms of that Antient and Noble House by this Alliance devolved into his Family The ambition of the young Henry Greene fomented by these favours of fortune drew him to the Court where he resolutely joyn'd his hopes and expectations to the fate of that unhappy Prince King Richard the Second at whose hand he had received the honour of Knighthood The merits of his person soon acquired him the nearest favour of this King and those of his mind the approbation and encouragement of all his Council into the number whereof he was chosen for his great faithfulness and abilities And when the Conspiracies of divers of the turbulent and seditious Lords had obliged the King to condemn some and banish others he conferr'd several parcels of their confiscated Lands upon Sir Henry Greene as the Mannors of Kibworth Cotgrave and Preston Capes that appertained to Thomas Earl of Warwick those of Knighton Cuvelle and Bulkington in the County of Wilts by reason of the attainder of Richard Earl of Arundell and the Place of the Lord Cobham in London with all its furniture to the end he might secure the fidelity of those about him by exemplary satisfaction for their services and hazards And indeed had not the perversness of this Kings Planet which obstinately prosper'd the Rebellion of his Enemies overwhelm'd all his hopes there was not any greatness unto which the deserts of this Sir Henry might not have well attained But at last when the Duke of Lancaster's fortune came like a torrent bearing down all before it Sir Henry Greene that had possessed himself of the Castle of Bristol and meant to defend it for his Master to the uttermost was taken by his perfidious Garrison and delivered bound to the Duke who knowing his constancy to be dangerous and unchangeable caused him to be beheaded the next day with the Earl of Wiltshire and Sir John Bushey His Issue Ralph Greene Lord of Drayton John Greene who by his Brothers death without Issue became after Lord of that place Mary Greene Married to Sir Jeffrey Lutterill Eleanor Greene Married to John Fitz-Williams of Sprofsburgh SIR Henry Greene had in his life-time made such generous use of his fortune and the favour of King Richard as found its reward from the gratitude of several great men he had obliged who contributed their instigations to the inclination of the succeeding King which was much bent to favour the unfortunate Family of the deceased Gentleman whose person fidelity and gratitude had been so exemplary and who lost his life but for his adherence to a King that had been his Master and Benefactor In the very first year therefore of King Henry the Fourth his eldest Son RALPH GREENE was restored by Act of Parliament to the Lordship of Drayton and all the rest of those Lands that were the inheritance of his Father or his Mother the Lady Matilda de Mauduit And several Instruments are extant of the grace and clemency of this Prince to himself and the other Children of Sir Henry Greene. This Family coming again to flourish in the County of Northampton Ralph Greene was in the eight year of King Henry the Fourth chosen to serve in the then considerable Office of High Sheriff for that Shire and he is found to have been employed in divers important occasions for the service of King Henry the Fifth and particularly in the first year of his Reign to have been joyn'd in Commission with William Lord Roos of Hamlock for suppressing the Rebellion and Insurrections of William Perwich and his adherents who in a Hostile manner had fallen upon several of the Kings Subjects and Officers more especially on James Bellers in his return from the last Parliament where he had served for Knight of the Shire as also to have been again Sheriff in the second of that King At last having by a provident care and many generous endeavours restored his Family to its ancient splendor and those great Possessions belonging thereunto he dyed in the sixth year of Henry the Fifth without any Issue of his Wife who was Catharine the Daughter of Ankitell Malliory Lord of Winwick and that took after to her second Husband the famous Sir Simon Felbrigg who in the Reign of King Henry the Fifth was one of the Knights and Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter JOHN GEENE for want of Issue from his Brother Ralph came to possess the Lands and Lordships belonging to that Family except what was comprehended in the Jointure of the Lady Felbrigg who had been his Brothers Wife Concerning whom there are extant divers transactions as testimonies of the considerable provision had been made for her in that Estate and as one whom his Fathers misfortunes had prepared for the love of a private life he applyed himself to enjoy the happiness of his House and Country living in a free Estate and fortunate Marriage with Margaret the Daughter of Walter Greene of Bridgnorth till he departed this life in the eleventh year of King Henry the Sixth He left Issue Ralph Greene that dyed in his youth Henry Greene afterwards Lord of Drayton Margery Greene Married to Sir Henry Huddlestone Isabella Greene Married to Sir Richard
vel per ipsum solum qualitercunque in hac parte factorum sive perpetratorum Et de eo quòd ipse fuit de assensu consilio favore abbettamento Comitiva vi retinentia seu adhaesione praedictorum Ducis Comitum in materiis praedictis vel earum aliqua seu aliqua parcella aut aliquibus dependentiis earundem ac pro omnibus aliis proditionibus seditionibus insurrectionibus feloniis murdris raptibus mulierum roberiis depraedationibus latrociniis homicidiis incendiis transgressionibus inobedientiis rebellionibus forstallariis confoederationibus conspirationibus cambipartiis ambidextriis falsitatibus negligentiis deceptionibus quibuscunque Nobis seu alicui de regno nostro actis vel illatis unde idem Henricus judicatus impetitus rectatus accusatus vel appellatus existit vel esse poterit quoquo modo in futuo Et etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis actionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei indè concedimus Nolentes quòd praefatus Henricus aut haeredes vel executores sui aut terrarum suarum Tenentes ratione aliquorum praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem coram Nobis haeredibus nostris in Parliamentis nostris vel haeredum nostrorum vel in quibuscunque aliis locis vel placeis nostris coram quibuscunque Judicibus Justiciariis Ministris vel Officiariis Nostris vel haeredum nostrorum quibuscunque inde futuris temporibus impetantur occasionentur inquietentur molestentur in aliquo seu graventur sed ab omnibus praemissis penitus sint quieti absoluti exonerati imperpetuum aliquo statuto seu ordinatione in contrarium praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem quovis modo factis non obstantibus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilecto fideli Militi nostro Henrico Greene Maneria de Cosgrave Preston Capes in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum pertinentiis ac reversionem Manerii de Kibworth in Comitatu Leicestriae cum pertinentiis cum feodis Militum advocationibus Ecclesiarum omnibus aliis franchesiis libertatibus ad Maneria illa pertinentibus sive spectantibus quae quidem Maneria Thomae nuper Comitis Warwici extiterunt Nobis ratione judicii contra ipsum in Parliamento nostro redditi forisfacta existunt Habendum tenendum praefato Henrico haeredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus praedicta Maneria cum pertinentiis cum feodis advocationibus franchesiis libertatibus praedictis de Nobis haeredibus nostris aliis Dominis feodorum per servitia indè debita consueta adeò liberè integrè sicut praedictus Thomas ante haec tempora habuit ac tenuit Maneria supradicta In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per Breve de privato Sigillo Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilectis fidelibus Militibus nostris Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene placeam vel Hospitium quae vel quod fuit Johannis Domini de Cobham infra Civitatem nostram Londini ad Nos pertinet per forisfacturam ejusdem Johannis Domini de Cobham Habendum dictis Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene pro termino vitae eorum alterius eorum diutiùs viventis dictam placeam sive Hospitium unà cum omnibus Schoppis sellariis solariis eisdem Hospitio sive placeae adjacentibus ac cum omni redditu ad dictam Placeam sive Hospitium aliquo modo pertinente Et cum stuffura in eadem placea sive Hospitio existente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Salopiam tricesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Hollinshead in Chronicle of England Page 498. WHen the Lord Governour Edmund Duke of York was advertised that the Duke of Lancaster kept still the Sea and was ready to arrive but where he meant first to set foot on land there was not any that understood the certainty he sent for the Lord Chancellor Edmund Stafford Bishop of Exeter and for the Lord Treasurer William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and other of the King 's Privy Council as John Bushie William Bagot Henry Greene and John Russell Knights Of these he required to know what they thought good to be done in this matter concerning the Duke of Lancaster being in the Seas Their advice was To depart from London to St. Albans and there to gather an Army to resist the Duke in his landing But to how small purpose their Counsel served the conclusion thereof plainly declared for the most part that were called when they came protested that they would not fight against the Duke of Lancaster whom they knew to be evil dealt withal The Lord Treasurer Bagot Bushie and Greene perceiving that the Commons would cleave unto and take part with the Duke slipped away leaving the Lord Governour of the Realm and the Lord Chancellor to make what shift they could for themselves Bagot got him to Chester and so escaped into Ireland the other fled to the Castle of Bristol in hopes there to be in safety Again out of the same Chronicle and the same Page AT the same present there was arrested and committed to safe custody the Bishop of Norwich Sir William Elman and Sir Walter Burley Knights Lawrence Drew and John Golofer Esquires On the morrow after the foresaid Dukes with their power went toward Bristol where at their coming they shewed themselves before the Town and Castle being a huge multitude of people There were enclosed within the Castle the Lord William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and Treasurer of England Sir Henry Greene and Sir John Bushie Knights who prepared to make resistance but when it would not prevail they were taken and brought forth bound as Prisoners into the Camp before the Duke of Lancaster On the morrow next ensuing they were arraigned before the Constable and Marshal and found guilty of Treason for misgoverning the King and Realm and forthwith had their heads smit off Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England pag. 49. treating of Coats of Arms and of the different Bearing of them by persons of the same
Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted
indeed the very Heir and of this Family it was which is so very admirable where Fortune and Virtue that are so oft at odds about the Creatures they intend to raise did both concur to make the Lords thereof so very Great with so little Envy Great they were as all the greatest Dignities could make them they had been Generals in the Field Admirals at the Sea Counsellors at the Board Ambassadors abroad Commissioners in the most important Treaties and borne the greatest Offices in the Houses of their Kings but greater far in that their Noble Qualities and Virtuous Actions did deserve them so as they seemed made to adorn those Honours which might well at first have been designed to illustrate other Men. For their Descent it was several ways derived from the Beds of Kings they took Marriages from the Crown and gave Wives into the Arms of Princes Their Estates were suitable to their other Greatness and the Rewards of their Services such as became the acknowledgment of generous Princes After all which I know not what could obstruct the Lustre of this House unless it were the Malignity of Oblivion or want of Friends within the House of Fame to obviate which these short Memorials are thought fit to be Recorded by a Servant and honourer of their Descendants THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Surrey Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter CHAPTER I. THOMAS HOWARD who was afterward the Second Duke of Norfolk from whom more immediately the Howards of Effingham do Descend being the greatest and most happy Subject of his time it were not amiss for example sake to shew by what Education and Practices he became fit for such a Fortune for he was certainly the Son of Virtue and Chance or Favour had little share in his Prosperity He was by a prudent Father as soon as he was fit for Study committed to the severity of the Schools to the end a great Spirit under discipline might be acquainted with the moderations that are to be used in the course of Humane Life as that he should apply himself to obtain the Favour of the Muses whose Graces if he could acquire they would certainly be to him of use or comfort in every Fortune After he had such a tincture of Letters as was necessary for a Man that was neither design'd for the Pulpit nor the Bar the Lord Howard his Father sent him out of the Country where there was little improvement to be made besides enabling himself in the conduct of mean Sports or meaner Inclinations He addressed him to the Court where he was soon received in the quality of Page or Henchman to King Edward the Fourth continuing there till he came to Mans estate in perpetual practice of those Exercises that are necessary to fit a Man for the Knowledge and use of Arms of all which when he was become a Master he was ambitious to shew his Learning upon a proper Stage And hearing that the Duke of Burgundy one of the nearest and most considerable Allies of the Crown of England was undertaking a War against Lewis the Eleventh at that time King of France He begged leave of the King his Master to go into that Service in Company of other considerable Gentlemen of his own Country who desired to gain Knowledge and Experience in that great Art to be the better able afterward when there should be occasion to serve their own Prince and Country They were received with all the courtesie they could expect from that War-like Prince and had every Encouragement young Adventurers could pretend to in such an undertaking The young Howard did particularly advance into the Favour of the Duke by his extraordinary application to what he came for being the first in every occasion that could possibly gain him either Honor or Experience And thus he continued in this Service till the end of that War at which time he returned home to his own King loaden with the Rewards and Praises of the Duke of Burgundy King Edward as well for the desert of the Young Gentleman as to give Example and Encouragement to other of his Subjects for enabling themselves by such generous untertakings upon his Arrival did distinguish him by several Graces and took him into an Office at that time very considerable to be the Esquire of his Body whose duty it was to attend the King at his making ready both Morning and Evening and afterward he made him Knight He continued from thenceforth to follow King Edward in all his Fortunes he Fought by his side at the Field in Lincoln-shire at Banbury Field and was with him at Warwick when he was taken Prisoner by the Earl of that place And after the Kings escape into Flanders and that all the ways were so be-set as it was over hard for any of his Servants to get after him Sir Thomas Howard was fain to take sanctuary at Saint Johns in Colchester for the true love that he bore King Edward where he remained till the Kings Return upon which he immediately resorted to him and went with him to Barnet Field at which he was sore hurt The King after this being settled in the Throne and designing to go over into France with an Army Royal he sent thither before divers Gentlemen and having great opinion of the Conduct and Experience of Sir Thomas Howard from the Service he had seen under the Duke of Burgundy as because he had been with himself in so many Fields and Businesses he commanded him to go over with them that nothing might be done without his Advice till the Kings own Arrival And when King Edward and King Lewis met at the Barriers upon the River of Somme the said Sir Thomas Howard was with King Edward by the King's Commandment in that Occasion and no Man else save only the Chancellor of England the Chancellor of France and Sir Thomas Cheyny Sir John Howard the Father of Sir Thomas had before this been made Lord Howard and lived always exercised in the greatest Employments having just pretentions to the Honors and Lands of the Great and Antient House of Mowbray as Son and Heir to Margaret the Eldest Daughter to Thomas Mowbray the last Duke of Norfolk But Sir Thomas Howard his Son of whom we Treat having acquired noble Possessions of his own by his Services and his Wife's Inheritance who was Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney did about this time desire the King's leave to retire from Court which having obtained he came into Norfolk and dwelt during the rest of King Edward's days at a House of his Wife 's called Ashwoldsthorpe where he kept an honourable House in favour of the whole Shire The Lord Howard his Father being yet alive and so continuing many Years after What was the inducement to this retreat is still uncertain but it is constant that the last Years of King Edward were so full of Faction
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
Willielmo Domino Compton ac etiam dilictis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Knolles Milite Contrarotulatore hospitii nostri Roberto Cecilio Milite principali Secretario nostro aliis In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo secundo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo Examinatum per me S. Killingworth The History of Queen Elizabeth by Cambden Pag. 610. HE was very much offended that the Council were let loose several Papers he cast into the Fire lest as he said they should tell tales and prepared himself for defence And being now reduced to his last hope of expecting Aid from the Londoners he Fortified his House on all sides The Lord Admiral presently Besieged the House to Land-ward He assigned the Earls of Cumberland and Lincoln the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Grey the Lord Burghly the Lord Compton and others with Forces of Horse and Foot every Man his Post He himself with the Lord Effingham his Son the Lord Cobham Sir John Stanhop Sir Robert Sidney Sir Fulk Grevill seized upon the Garden by the Thames side Being now ready to assault the House he summoned him by Sidney to yield Southampton asked him to whom they should yield To their Adversaries That were to run themselves headlong to ruine Or to the Queen That were to confess themselves guilty But yet said he if the Lord Admiral will give us Hostages for our security we will appear before the Queen If not we are every one of us fully resolved to lose our lives fighting The Lord Admiral returning word by Sidney That neither were Conditions to be propounded by Rebels nor Hostages to be delivered to them signified to Essex That for the sparing the weaker sex he would permit the Countess his Wife the Lady Rich his Sister and their Waiting-Gentlewomen who filled all places with their womanish Shrieks and Lamentations to come forth Which Essex took as a favour only he desired that an hour or two's time might be granted him to fortifie the place by which they should go forth which was also granted Before the hour was expired Essex holding all things now for desparate and lost resolved to make his way out And the Lord Sands who was more aged than the rest earnestly urged him so to do often repeating that saying That the resolutest Councels are the safest That it is more honourable for Noble Persons to die fighting than by the hand of the Executioner But Essex wavering in his resolution began presently to think of yielding and gave notice that upon certain Conditions he would yield But when the Lord Admiral would admit of no conditions he said he would not give conditions but rather take them Yet Three things he requested First That they might be civilly dealt withal This the Lord Admiral promised Secondly That their cause might be justly and duly heard He answered That there was no reason to doubt thereof And Lastly That Ashton a Minister of God's Word might be with him in Prison for his Soul's comfort The Lord Admiral answered That for these things he would make intercession to the Queen When presently all the Noblemen falling upon their Knees and delivering their Swords up to the Lord Admiral yielded themselves at Ten of the Clock at Night There were no more slain but Owen Salisbury and one or two who were killed in the House by shot and as many of the Besiegers And again out of the same Pag. 659. UPON which day whether thinking on her Death or presaging what would ensue she happned to say to the Lord Admiral whom she always dearly affected My Throne hath been the Throne of Kings neither ought any other than he that is my next Heir to succeed me And the Courtiers observed That she never before more frequented Prayers and the Service of God than now WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham that was Lord High Admiral of England CHAPTER IV. HE is recorded in several Writers of the Heralds Books to have bore a part in most of the Tilts Fights at Barriers and other Marshal Games and Triumphs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Cambden's History of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Channel could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Fight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son Ibidem Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl of Essex Count Lodowick of Nassau Don Christophero a Portuguese Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Lord Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill c. Milles's Catalogue of Honour Pag. 894 895. CHARLES Howard Son of William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth one of her Privy Council and by her made Knight of the Garter who was younger Son of Thomas Howard second Duke of Norfolk one of the Lords of the Honourable Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Admiral of England was for his most right honourable Service at the Sacking of Cales with Robert Devereux Earl of Essex by Queen Elizabeth created Earl of Nottingham in right of his descent from the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Nottingham The First Wife Katharine Daughter of Henry Cary Lord Hundsdon who being Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to Queen Elizabeth one of her Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Garter was Son of William Cary by his Wife Mary Bollen Sister to Queen Anne Bollen Mother of Queen Elizabeth was first Wife unto Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham The Second Wife Margaret the Daughter of James Stuart Earl of Murray was the second Wife to Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham now living 1610. Children by his First Wife William Howard was by King James created Lord Howard of Effingham a Baron of the Parliament House who Married Anne Daughter and Heir of John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe by his Wife Katharine Daughter of Sir Robert Dormer of Eythorp in Buckingham-shire Charles Howard Knight Keeper of the Castle at Windsor Elizabeth Wife of Sir Robert Southwell of Riseing in Norfolk Knight Frances Wife of ..... Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare Margaret Wife of Sir Richard Leuson Children by his Second Wife James died lately young 1610. ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. The Second Part of the Baronage of England by Dugdale Pag. 279. THIS Noble Earl took to Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hundsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who wedded Anne Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe who died in his Father's Life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his Sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord
he was forc'd to depart once more from thence to conduct her home according as he had engaged himself to do In order to this he Embarked upon the Friggat the accomodations as well as the safety whereof was esteem'd more proper for both the Voyage and the Company difficulties having been experienced in the last passage aboard the Yatchts which were esteem'd would not have been so dangerous in this other sort of Embarkation His Highness proceeded then but Providence shew'd that all pre-cautions are vain and let the wise take what care they can the event and success of all things are ever in her power For the Duke had not sailed far being over or near the Coast of Yarmouth when from many circumstances of negligence or ill conduct in those who had the leading of that sailing affair the Duke's Ship struck upon a Sand and in a short time sunk down to rights all perishing in this occasion except such as could swim or had the extraordinary fortune to be saved by Boats which may be thought to have had enough to do in so distracted and divided a conjuncture But the Duke himself was preserv'd with a few in his own Pinnace by the care and Loyalty of the Seamen who would neither intrude themselves nor suffer others for their safeties to expose that of a Prince so considerable His Highness came after safely to Land at Leith and once again into the Arms of his incomparable Dutchess who was half dead though she saw him live at the fears of that which though it was now past she had heard had been once so near After some days stay they together left Scotland for the last time and came together to London where they were received with all the joy honest Men could express The Summer they spent with the King at which time was discovered the first part of the desperate Phanatick Plot divers Accusations there were and the Lord Russel was Tryed Condemned and Executed Many were Imprison'd and a great consternation appear'd upon all that Party The Earl of Peterborow was in the mean time restor'd to his place in Council and his part in the Summers actions consisted in causing Presentments to be made and Indictments in his own Country for examples sake of such as had been of Shaftsbury's Party and appear'd disaffected to the Crown with settling the Magistracy and Offices of the Militia in faithful hands so as by the end of the Year of one of the most perverse and worst enclin'd Countries of all England he did with the pains care and diligence that he apply'd render it the most exemplary and readiest to serve the King of any other In October ensuing he attended the Duke his Master to New-market and was with his Highness at the time when that fortunate Fire broke out which burnt that Town and preserv'd the King and his Brother by hastening their return to London sooner than was intended By which the assault of Rye was prevented and those measures disconcerted which in consequence were design'd to the ruine of the Kingdom and all those that loved the Royal House and the Government He continued to serve his Master with the same zeal and concern the rest of the days of King Charles at whose Sickness and sudden Death he was present and a witness of that tenderness wherewith the dying King resign'd his Dominions and all his Interest to his loving Brother as the right of his inheritance by all the Laws both of God and Man After the King's decease great endeavours were used to prevent the Earl of Peterborow from succeeding to the place under the new King wherein he had served his Majesty while he was Duke the space of twenty years together but his Master was too just and generous not to stick to his old Servant that had run so many fortunes and hazards with him He did then give his Lordship the Gold Key and thereby establish'd him Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman and Governor of his Bed-Chamber The Earl served his Majesty afterward at his Royal Coronation in bearing before him St. Edward's Scepter and after the ensuing Parliament and the passing the Bill of Attainder against the Duke of Monmouth one Evening when his Lordship expected nothing less his Majesty with a bounty and graciousness never to be forgotten took him aside and ask'd If he did not remember a promise that had once been made him to which the Earl replied He had a memory only for what pleased his Majesty who answered He had not forgotten the Garter he should have had after his attendance on him at the Sole-Bay Fight and he should find he was as mindful of old Promises as ancient Service Some days being past the King commanded the Earl's attendance at a Chapter in Whitehall and there caused him to be Invested with the George and Garter after which his Lordship was sent into the Country to raise Troops against the Rebellion wherein he did very exemplary Service to his Majesty and upon his return he with the Duke of Norfolk and the Lord Treasurer was Installed in the Royal Castle of Windsor to all the purposes and privileges which do appertain to the Noble Order of the Garter Henry Earl of Peterborow had Issue by his Wife the Lady Penelope Obrien two Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt that dyed in the Twelfth year of her Age. Mary Mordaunt Married to Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk OSBERT le MORDAUNT a Norman Knight Osmond le Mordawnt Elena Fortis Baldwin Mordaunt Eustace le Mordaunt Alice of Alne Robert Mordaunt William de Mordaunt Amicia de Olney Agnes Mordaunt William de Merdaunt Rese de Wake Richard Merdaunt William Merdaunt Rebert de Mordaunt Ieane de Bray Nichalas Mordaunt Richard Mordaunt Edmund de Mordaunt Elena de Broc Rebert de Mordaunt Agnes le Ejlrange ãâã Mordaunt ãâã Cheney ãâã of ãâã Boys Edmund Fettyplace Margaret Mordaunt John Denton John Radney of Radney Stoak Anne Mordaunt John Fisher Robert de Mordaunt Elizabeth de Holdenby Cassandria Mordaunt a Nun in the Monestery of Elnestow Elizabeth Mordaunt William Mordaunt Margaret Pec. Maud Mordaunt Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Hempsted Anne Huntington Sr. John Mordaunt Edith Latimen Eliz Mordaunt Sr. Willm. Brown Ld. of Abess Reading in Essex William Mordaunt John 1st Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Vere Robert Mordaunt Amye de Vere Johanna Mordaunt Giles Strangway Ld. of Melborne in Com Dorsell Edith Mordaunt Iohn Elmes Ld. of Lilford George Mordaunt of the Hill Cicely Harding John 2d. Lord Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Edmund Mordaunt Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Oakley Agness Booth ãâã Mordaunt ãâã Strangway ãâã Melborne ãâã Dorsell ãâã Mordaunt ãâã of Oakley ãâã Booth Dowthy Mordaunt Thomas Moore Ld. of Bampton Eliz Mordaunt Silvester Danvers Anne Mordaunt Clement Tanfield Eliz Mordaunt George Monox Lewes Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Darcy Margaret Mordaunt Willm. Acclam Ursula Mordaunt Tho Welbore of Clavering in Essex Mary Mordaunt Thomas Mancell Lord of Morgan Henry Lord Mordaunt Margaret Compton Catherine Mordaunt Iohn Honingham
SUCCINCT GENEALOGIES OF THE Noble and Ancient Houses of Alno or de Alneto Broc of Shephale Latimer of Duntish Drayton of Drayton Mauduit of Werminster Greene of Drayton Vere of Addington Fitz-Lewes of Westhornedon Howard of Effingham And Mordaunt of Turvey Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs and Enriched with divers Sculptures of Tombs Images Seals and other Curiosities By ROBERT HALSTEAD HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE LUCEM TUAM DA NOBIS LONDON Printed in the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXV W. BURRELL To my LORD THE Lord HENRY EARL of PETERBOROW PEER of ENGLAND LORD MORDAVNT Lord Baron of TVRVEY Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of His Majesty's Bed-Chamber Lord High Steward to the QUEEN Lord Lieutenant of the County of NORTHAMPTON one of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER My LORD THE Love and Protection Your Lordship has ever shown to Letters and Antiquity has long since demanded some return from the Melancholy Porers upon Wax and Parchment Ours is not gay and enlightned like the Muse of Poetry It may want Flattery and Wit but it is very Capable of Truth and Gratitude We aspire not to the imitation of Oracles foretelling Greatnesses that are to come but in a heavy way of pusling on old Characters revive dead Glories that have long been lost and by a kind of Sacred Magick salute Mens Eyes with the dear Images of Famous Ancestors Your Lordship that has such a share in our Antiquities cannot but delight to see several Famous Knights whence You descend enter this Nation with the Great Norman and by their Valour win those Lands which from them have devolv'd unto your Lordship Nor will it be less pleasing to perceive a perseverance in those Virtues from their Successors shewing on several Occasions Magnanimity Valour Fidelity Prudence and other Effects of estimable Wisdom and Generosity that have so long preserved the Fruits of their first Labours to Your Lordship's use I am sure it will be agreeable to Your Lordship at least so far as to procure Your Pardon for any Errors may have unwillingly fallen into the Endeavours of My LORD Your Lordship 's most obedient and most humble Servant ROB. HALSTEAD THE PREFACE THERE is here presented to the view of the Reader a Genealogical Description of certain Ancient and Noble Houses of which though I have seen several Pedigrees deduc'd yet they being old wanted those necessary and real Ornaments the Curiosity and Learning of these latter times have afforded Compositions of this Nature there having been omitted in them an insertion of proofs the material Circumstance which has only power to make considerable any effect of the Heroick Science Wherefore these being Families in reality and truth so rich in Records and Evidence the Proofs of whose own Antiquity with the Greatness and Splendor of their Alliances being so numerous and so unquestionable I have thought it a Debt to Truth and History having come through my Curiosity in matters of this kind to a Sight and Knowledge of them to be a means they should be expos'd unto the World for the Entertainment and Instruction of such as may delight in things of this Nature and the Honor of those Families that are descended from them But to prevent a Suspicion of any such affectation of Greatness or Antiquity as in others may have caus'd a Deduction of Genealogies by corrupt and prostituted Art from before the Conquest before the Danes before the Saxons from some British or other Potentates I desire it should be known that I am an Antiquary by Inclination not Profession that although I have purchased verity out of Ancient and Authentick Records I sell no Fables from my own Brain and less from the Phancies of others that I esteem nothing but Truths and those so much as if any have lost their Proofs though there I pity them I use them not but consider them as unhappy Orphans out of the Guard of their Parents in a possibility at least to have been corrupted And truly the endeavours of many Artists to give specious beginnings unto Pedigrees whose heads by just Proofs they could not attain unto has not only among the knowing brought the Science under much Scandal but even prejudiced the Esteem and Opinion of those Families the streams of whose Story from the Impurity of the Head have been judged to be corrupted all along So as certainly it is not the business of any Genealogy to be put to the hazard of blushing for a false Original since those have been esteemed the Noblest Families unto which a beginning could not be found at all but that as far as Truths could possibly be trac'd have always continued in their Countries under a Noble Name and Signalized in the Provinces where they lived and that when as by a Succession lawfully proved of between four and five hundred Years they give to the top of a Pedigree a Gentleman of Name and Arms. It is enough not to have Him denied that thence shall be so descended through a Succession of Great and Illustrious Alliances to be within the Highest Rank of Honour and Nobility Therefore such as have so much truth for the Ornament of their Houses and because some few have more will have recourse to Fable for its assistance to a vain and unjust Ambition deserve the inseparable reward of their Folly which will be the abuse being discover'd to have together with the Impostures even the veritable part involved in Contempt and Disesteem For these reasons there is not here pretended any primary Extractions from such suppos'd Originals whence like others I should have been forc'd to bring them down by Invention and not by Proof introducing an Unfortunate Wanderer Younger Brother or Nephew unto some Unhappy Prince that for a disastrous reason fled his Country and chang'd his Name because I can prove no such thing any more than many that notwithstanding their probabilities were less than those which the large Rewards they received for their Services the Noble kind of stile they used in their Donations the Dignity that appeared in their Seals and the Marks of their own great Bounties would have afforded to the Concluders of an Extraordinary Greatness in the Persons of whom I am to treat have yet taken pretence with much Ceremony and Ornament to abuse Tradition with such Romances But you shall be here presented with several Great and Famous Knights most of which were Country-men or Companions of the Conqueror but all of them Men notable for Valour and Vertue in the Reigns of those Princes under whom they flourished And now as concerning their Names to manifest they need not yield to the Antiquity of any Cambden's Remains in his Treatise of Sirnames pag. 131 135 136 137. You shall see what the Learned Cambden affirms He says That Sirnames given for difference in Families and continued as Hereditary in
inde rectis haeredibus ejusdem Roberti Latimer in perpetuum Virtute quarundam Traditionis Dimissionis Confirmationis idem Robertus Latimer fuit inde seisitus de tali Statu inde obiit seisitus post cujus mortem dictus Johannes Latimer in eisdem Manerio Terris Tenementis cum pertinentiis ut in remanere suum praedictum introivit inde seisitus fuit Et postea idem Johannes Latimer de tali Statu inde obiit seisitus post cujus mortem dicta Margareta se tenuit in eisdem Maneriis Terris Tenementis inde seisita fuit sic jam in praesenti inde seisita existit Noveritis me praedictum Nicolaum Latimer ratificâsse approbâsse per praesentes confirmâsse praefatae Margaretae Matri meae Statum Possessionem Jus Titulum interesse quae quos eadem Margareta habet tenet de in omnibus singulis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis Reversionibus cum suis pertinentiis secundùm formam Concessionis praedictae remanere inde mihi haeredibus meis in perpetuum Et ego verò praefatus Nicolaus haeres meus omnia singula praedicta Maneria Terras Tenementa Redditus Servitia Reversiones cum suis pertinentiis praefatae Margaretae contra omnes Gentes Warrantizabimus Acquietabimus in perpetuum per praesentes defendemus In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Datum Vicesimo Die Julii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum Vicesimo septimo SIGILLVM NICOLAI LATIMER MILITIS An Arbitration made by George Duke of Clarence upon a reference between Sir Nicholas Latimer and Sir Edward Grey GEORGE Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond To all those to whom our Writing Indented shall come Greeting Where certain variances and debates have been hanging betwixt Edward Grey Knight and Nicholas Latimer Knight of and upon the Right Title and Possession of the Mannor of Lokston with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset For which Variances and Debates to be appeased the Parties aforesaid have compromitted and also bound them to stand to the Arbitrement Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Duke like as in two Obligations in one of which the said Edward is bounden to the said Nicholas and in the other the said Nicholas is bounden to the said Edward in two hundred pounds with several Conditions to abide our Award as in the premisses more plainly is contained We the said Duke taking upon us to Arbitre in the premisses have heard the Allegations Titles and Replications of the said Parties of and in the premisses and by good deliberation them understanding Wherefore we Award Ordain and deem that the said Nicholas Latimer Knight shall have occupy and peaceably enjoy the said Mannor of Lokston with the Appurtenances to him and his Heirs without interruption or claim of the said Edward and his Heirs For the which premisses we Award Ordain and deem that the said Nicholas shall be bound in a Statute of the Staple before the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming to the said Edward in an hundred pounds to be paid to him in Michaelmas next coming and the said Edward before the said Feast shall by his Deed grant to the said Nicholas that if the said Nicholas or his Executors pay or do to be payed to the said Edward or his Assigns at the Feast of Saint Michael next coming after the date hereof or within a Month then next following twenty five pounds in the Parish Church of Saint Ewing next within Newgate of London and at the Feast of Pasch then next following or within a Month then next ensuing in the same Church twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael then next following or within a Month then next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Pasch then next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Pasch next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings that then the same Statute to be void and of none effect or else to stand in his strength and vertue Also we Award that the said Edward shall at every day of payment aforesaid deliver to the Bearer of the said money toward his cost six shillings eight pence In Witness to which thing to either part of this our Award Indented we have set our Seal Given the twentieth day of June in the eighth year of my Lords Reign King Edward the Fourth Doctor Fullers History of the Worthies of England Page 287. In his Catalogue of Sheriffs for Dorsetshire SIR Nicholas Latimer was High Sheriff of Dorsetshire in the thirty second year of King Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth The Title of Sir John Mordaunt Knight to the Mannors of Duntish and Devilish in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire which late were Sir Nicholas Latimers FIrst the said Sir Nicholas bargained with William Hardyng for the Mannor of Devilish and Enfeoffed him Sole of the same so that by that Hardyng was Intituled to that Mannor in Anno xiv o Ed. iv ti whose bargain was unknown to Sir John Mordaunt till Anno viij o of Henry vijth at which time he bought the Moity of the Title of Hardyng therein Anno ij do Ricardi Tertii Sir John Mordaunt and Sir Nicholas Bargained for the Mannor of Devilish that the Feoffees thereof should stand seized of the same Mannor to the use of the said Sir Nicholas for Term of his Life And if he happen to have Issue Male then after the Death of Sir Nicholas they should stand seized thereof to the use of that Issue Male and of the Heirs Males of his Body begotten and for lack of such Issue to the use of the said John Mordaunt and Edith and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edith begotten Then in Anno vij to of King Henry the Seventh it was Bargained between the said Sir Nicholas contrary to the said former Bargains and Sir John Turbervile That Sir Nicholas should Enfeoffee John Talower as well of the said Mannor of Devilish as of all the said other Mannors and of the Mannor of Estpullham in Fee Against whom John Smith should recover the same Mannors and after that Recovery should make Estate by Deed and by Fine to Sir Nicholas of all the Mannors to him and the Heirs Males of his Body begotten the Remainder to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs which Estate was made to Talower
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
Father had his Wardship purchased by his Mother the Lady Elizabeth Vere of Edward the black Prince for the summe of twenty pounds who by his Charter which is extant did grant the custody of his Lands with his Marriage to his dear and well beloved Elizabeth that was the Wife of Robert de Vere those are the words of the Deed on condition it might be without disparagement There are remaining Covenants hereupon agreed unto between the said Robert and his Mother as also a Petition from the said Lady to Queen Isabel for her protection against Sir Henry Greene a man of great power by whom the Minor and her self were oppressed in some circumstances of the rights that did belong unto them When this Robert had attained to mans estate he confirmed to his Uncle's Wife the Lady Alice de Vere the agreement had been made with her by his Father He became afterwards much considered from his Vertue and noble qualities and in the eighteenth year of Richard the Second he served his Country in the Office of High Sheriff and did much adhere to the King in those difficulties which happened in his Reign Yet there fell out about this time a quarrel between him and a Knight of great Authority called Sir Edmund Noone on whom having made an assault wherein the said Edmund was wounded it caused him trouble for a time and an Imprisonment in the Fleet upon pretence of the Riot but the matter being composed by Friends he afterward recovered the King's grace and his liberty He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John de Tay of a noble Family and descended from antient Barons of that Name by whom having had but one Daughter called Margaret he gave her for Wife to Thomas Ashby Lord of Lovesby in the County of Leicester with his Lordships of Thrapston and Addington to them and the heirs of their bodies but it falling out that she dyed without Issue His Lands he had setled upon them returned to his Brother Baldwin and his heirs as being his lawful successors SIR BALDWIN de VERE being for many years a younger Brother appli'd himself to the Wars and a dependence upon great Princes for the support of his fortune We find him in the fourth year of King Henry the Fourth to have been Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey under that noble Prince Edward Earl of Rutland and of Corke and who was afterwards Duke of York He followed this illustrious Hero in all the succeeding Wars of that Age and fought by his side at the time he fell with so much glory in the famous Battel of Agencourt after whose death he had confirm'd unto him by King Henry the Fifth an annuity of twenty marks by the year that had been granted to him by that Duke for his life out of his inheritance in the Customs of Linnen Leather and Skins in the Port of Kingston upon Hull to be received at the hands of the Collectors thereof during the Minority of Richard the Son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge After this his fortune or rather his setled affection to the relations and interests of the House of York carried him into the Kingdom of Ireland where in the second year of King Henry the Sixth he was constituted Treasurer of his Liberties by the Lord Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster and at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which by his Letters Patents that are extant and other testimonies does appear After the death of the Earl of March and the return of Sir Baldwin Vere into England the fortunes of Love as well as those of Armes did contribute to the advantage and establishment of this worthy and industrious Knight for he fell into the favour of a young Lady the Daughter and heir of Sir John Kingston alias Mohun who brought him the Mannors of Barkloe Overhall and Hoakenhanger that were of her inheritance And in conclusion his Brothers Death without Issue male made him possession of the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and the other Lands belonging to that Family So as having no more to desire at the hands of fortune he departed this life full of years and happiness leaving Issue Sir Richard Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston Elizabeth Vere Amy Vere AFTER the decease of Sir Baldwin de Vere RICHARD his Son came to inherit the Estate and interests of that Family He met with some trouble in the beginning about this accession which came to his Father for want of Issue male from his Uncle Sir Robert de Vere who notwithstanding had made over the Lordships of Addington and Thrapston to certain Trustees for the security of the Portion promised to his Daughter Margaret that had been married to a Gentleman of consideration one Thomas Ashby of the County of Leicester And these Trustees happening to be men of the highest rank and of most power in the Kingdom as the Earls of Hereford and Stafford the Lord Beaumont the Lord Cromwel and the Lord Zouch and not a little partial to Thomas Ashby and his Wife Margaret it was no easy matter to procure a resignation of their interest But his Cousin Margaret coming to dye without Issue and having given testimony of her desire to have justice done unto her lawful successor those noble Lords were induced upon some fair agreement with Thomas Ashby to redemise to Richard de Vere the Mannor of Aldington and the other Lands wherein they had been formerly enfeoffed Soon after this Richard de Vere was setled in his fortune he contracted an alliance in the Family of Greene the most considerable among the Gentlemen of that tract by marrying Isabella one of the Daughters of John Greene who stiled himself Lord of Herdwick in the days of his Brother Ralph that was Lord of Drayton and from whose death without Issue male his descendants came to be possest of a great and noble Patrimony The great Lords of the Church being no easie neighbours in that age from their exceeding interest and authority and this Sir Richard de Vere being a man of a great spirit and of a Family unaccustomed to unreasonable submissions there arose a contest between him and the Lord Abbot of Croyland which made much noise about certain bordering pretences How it was ended does not appear but soon after this Sir Richard de Vere departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella Greene Sir Henry de Vere Baldwin Vere Constance Married to John Butler Lord of Woodhall Elizabeth Vere Married to William Dounhalle Margaret Vere Married to John Verners of Essex Amy Vere Married to John Ward of Irtlingborow Elena Vere Married to Thomas Isham of Pitchtsley HENRY the eldest Son of Sir Richard Vere with the Estate of his Father inherited the Suit and Difference with the Lord Abbot of Croyland and by his endeavours to defend his interests in that affair he incurr'd the displeasure of King Richard III. which was particularly testified in a Letter to himself and in some
Prince King John the disorderly rigours of whose Government was become unsufferable to the greatest part of the Nation He was at first received with all the applause which sometimes follows Novelties of this nature He was crown'd at London He had Homage done him and Allegiance sworn as to a lawful King He proceeded with their assistance in divers warlike Undertakings wherein he had admirable success and acted in all the other Parts of the Government as one who expected to be soon establish'd During this time among the great Lords of his Party there happened to be one who to all his Concerns was most useful and to his Person most officious This Lord whose Name is omitted out of respect to the Descendants of his Family had no Issue of his own and only for his Heirs three beautiful Sisters The youngest whereof whose Name was Philippe by her admirable Qualities had so engaged the Prince's love as it made the Conquest of her heart to share his cares with that of the Kingdom But against a King that was young and seemed happy it was not strange that a Lady did not long resist She yielded at last and the Prince enjoyed the effects and her misfortune began to appear together She found her self with Child and by the fatal loss of the Battel of Lincoln that her Lover was like to be abandoned by his Friends and by his fortune He was obliged to retire to London whence from the Tower where he had refug'd himself he made Conditions to depart home in safety by relinquishing to the young King Henry his farther pretences The poor Lady left in this condition owned her disaster to her Brother who pitying her state from the greatness and merit of the Author gave her a comfortable assurance of his kindness and protection She was after secretly delivered and the Child named Lewis Which Fruit of her Loves being nourished under this Great Lords Care and Education he having no Children of his own afore his death bestowed upon the Youth the noble Lordship of Westhornedon with divers other Lands in the County of Essex obliging him to bear himself and transmit to his Descendants the Name of Fitz-Lewis for ever after Among his three Sisters this Lord coming to dye did leave his vast Inheritance with whom the Lady Philippe hath her share and her misfortune either conceal'd or else gilded over with the advantages of her Riches did not hinder her from being afterwards married to an Husband of great Quality in whom she was happy for her time and brought him a Posterity whence are descended some of the greatest Lords that flourish in this Age. Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis having been bred under his Uncle in the Notion of a more distant relation than in the truth of the matter he did indeed stand towards him at the time of that Lord's death found himself possessed by his favour and affection with such an Estate as was capable to support the generous inclinations of his heart which did altogether incline him to the love and practice of Armes the only application of Gentlemen in that Age and therefore he made himself very considerable especially toward the end of that Kings Reign where he attained the Honour of Knighthood and having allied himself to a very notable Family by his Marriage with Margaret of Essex he left Issue Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis flourished in the days of King Edward the First and followed him in several of his Expeditions He won his Spurs in the first Scotch War and became after very considerable in his Country when he married Elizabeth de Harpden an Inheritrix whose Lands did plentifully add to his former Patrimony but after the death of this great King we find he was unfortunately drawn into the adherence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and that he did unhappily perish in the War caused by that Rebellion leaving to succeed him his Son Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships RIchard Fitz-Lewis being with divers others through the Grace and favour of King Edward the Third restored to his Rights and Lands that had been seised upon pretence of his Father's trespass in the former Reign he became much considered from his own merit and the opulency of his fortune notably encreased by the accession of his Mothers Inheritance He was very useful to the Government of his Country during the King's absence in his long Wars and always contributed his best cares towards the service and supplies of the King's occasions from the Parts where he had interest being always zealous for the honour of his Prince and Country He married Elizabeth de Baude a Lady of a Family very antient and considerable both from their Riches and good same whose true Name was de Baden but corruptly otherwise called and by her he left his Son Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THE great consideration wherein this Family was in these days held may be judged by the alliance contracted by Sir John Fitz-Lewis who to his first Wife took Alice the Daughter of Aubery the tenth Earl of Oxford and to his second Anne Mountague Daughter of John the third Earl of Salisbury of that House and that was after his death Dutchess of Exeter Issue by his first Wife Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis married to Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk Sir HENRY FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry Fitz-Lewis that had signalized himself in an adherence to the House of Lancaster was so esteemed by the chief Supporters of that Faction as he had given him in Marriage by Edmund the noble Duke of Somerset the Lady Eleanor his youngest Daughter by whom he had Issue Mary the second Wife of Anthony Woodville Earl of Rivers But for want of Issue Male his intailed Lands descended to his Brother Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis with the other Interests of that Family Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis liv'd in his Brother's time in Marriage with a Lady called Margaret Stonore of whose life and actions we are ignorant but it is recorded He left Issue his Son and Heir Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THis Richard Fitz-Lewis appears to have had some Controversie with his Cousen Mary Countess of Rivers about his Inheritance by a Judgment recorded in his behalf whereby he was declared Heir of all the entailed Lands of that Family she to inherit only such as had been her Father 's by Gift or acquired by proper Purchace Richard Fitz-Lewis was a busie man in his time much imployed in the interest of King Henry the Seventh against the Usurper with whom he was in immediate action at the
between the power of the Queen and her Kindred and the Ambition of his Brothers as it was not strange that Wise Men should desire to withdraw from the difficulties of keeping well with both or the danger of disobliging either In this condition remained the House of Howard at the death of Edward the Fourth and for some time after till the Ambition of King Richard with the Arts and Practices subservient thereunto had through Blood and Violence made way unto the Crown and that the Young King was destroyed with his Brother and as many of the great Lords as were like to have taken part with the unhappy Prince The new King after this being one of the most Politick as well as the most daring Princes in the World was not ignorant of the ill Actions he had committed nor of the consequences they were like to have he knew all the Friends he could make would be little enough to sustain him against the potent Enemies he had created And therefore he made it now his business to gain among the Nobles and among the People every Man that had Parts or Interests suitable to his occasions To this end knowing the Lord Howard and his Son had from the latter Years of King Edward been retired from the Court not oversatisfied and in no good Correspondence with the Queens Kindred which he had been forced to suppress He thought from the great interest they had and their exceeding reputation for Wisdom and Valour they were the sittest persons to be gained and the likeliest to adhere to him of any other He therefore invited them to Court and as an earnest of his Favour and dependance he created the Father Duke of Norfolk with the restitution of the Lands of his Mother's Inheritance and makes the Son at the same time Earl of Surrey They were also from thenceforth the chief in all his Councils and with this proceeding he captivates their grateful Hearts and makes them resolve to stand by him in every Fortune After King Richard had Reigned two years in all the endeavours that could be practised by a Wise Ruler to get his faults to be forgotten and to oblige his People by doing Justice and making good Laws and favouring particulars as far as was in his power he found notwithstanding from every part Clouds a-gathering in order to a Storm Abroad the Earl of Richmond sought for Aid at Home the Duke of Buckingham and other great Lords prepared to assist him In fine towards the end of the Second Year of his Reign that Earl Landed in England and at last the King was forced to see his Crown set at Com-promise in the Fortune of a Bloody Battel at Bosworth was the Fatal Field whereat this Criminal King was as prodigal of his own Blood as he had been of other Mens All that could be performed by the conduct of a Captain or the Valour of a Souldier he put in practice to save that Crown which had cost so many Crimes And when by the overthrow of some Troops and desertion of others he found it could not be as one that scorned to out-live his Power and his Fortune he threw himself into the Arms of Death as the only refuge against humane miseries John Duke of Norfolk his faithful Friend and Subject with his Son the Earl of Surrey Fought both this day in behalf of their Benefactor and the Duke who led on the Archers and had his post at the head of the Foot was there slain upon the place in performing that duty to which he was called by his Honor and his Gratitude The Earl toward the end of the day overcome by his own Valour which had spent his strength and spirits in continual exercise of Heroick Actions but that disdained to save his Life by flying from the Fortune of his Friends was taken by his Enemies and brought a Prisoner to the Victorious King The Earl of Surrey was at this time in the vigor of his youth Tall Strong and Graceful of a flourishing Health and Constitution and esteemed one of the best Men of Arms of that Age He was of a high Spirit but had a sober Aspect and was nothing dejected by his ill Fortune King Henry was surprized though not undelighted with the sight of a Man so extraordinary and after having said some thing to the other Prisoners of Quality he called for the Earl and ask'd him How he durst engage in the Service of so Vnjust and Cruel a Tyrant To whom the Earl Replied That King Richard was in the Throne before he came into his Interest and if he had found the Crown of England upon a Bush he would have Fought for it The King did not seem exasperated with so bold an Answer and with the rest he did dismiss him to the charge of those in whose custody he was to be conveyed to the Tower Within these fatal Walls which seemed built for the restraint of Hero's the Earl of Surrey was detained Three Years During which Imprisonment he often with gratitude acknowledged the Goodness and Care of the Duke his Father who had given him such a share of Learning as did enable him during that solitude to divert himself with the Records and Notions of Philosophy and other useful and esteemable Studies He had acquiesced in the determination of Heaven and the destruction of his Master who leaving no Heir to pretend a right to his farther Services this Earl did believe he might well submit to his Authority whom God had made a Conqueror who was now Crown'd and whose Royal Virtues did deserve that he should Reign He therefore refused all the invitations were made him by the King's Enemies and the Malecontents of that time of which there were many and those very potent to enter into the intriegues of their Faction He would not hear of the Dutchess of Burgundy nor of the Earl of Lincoln And when a great Consternation arose upon that Prince's Invasion and the Armies approach towards Stoake in Lincoln-shire in order to Fight with the King and his Forces the Lieutenant of the Tower offer'd the Earl his Liberty to have gone where he pleased but he generously refused it and said He would never leave to be a Prisoner but by his consent that had thought him worthy of such a punishment And so he continued till the King's return from the Battel of Stoake who having been informed of his submissive and modest behaviour during so long an Imprisonment and of the other great Capacities of the Earl which would render him very useful to any Prince that should imploy him he took him out of the Tower and made him one of his Privy-Council being as Polidore the Historian says Vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa In the Fourth Year of this King he was restored by Act of Parliament to the Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands that were of his Wife's Inheritance But after this he began to be set at the head of
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
to Sir Edward Stafford of Grafton Knight Secondly Mary first to Edward Lord Dudley afterwards to Richard Montpession Esquire Thirdly Frances to Edward Earl of Hertford Fourthly Martha to Sir George Bourchier Knight Third Son to John Earl of Bath And Fifthly Katharine who died young And departing this Life at Hampton-Court 11. Jan. 15. Eliz. was honourably Buried at Rygate in Surrey upon the 29th of the same Month. A Patent whereby Queen Mary does create William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor Archiepiscopis Episcopis Ducibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciarils Vicecomitibus Praepositis Ministris omnibus Ballivis Fidelibus suis salutem Cum enim praeteritorum Magnifica gesta Principum saltem qui sua Industria atque Virtute famam nobis reliquere Immortalem ad mentem revocemus nil Prudentius nil laude Dignius pro prospero atque Felici ipsorum Statu Salute securoque Successu eos fecisse arbitramur qui quando Fideles Diligentes strenuosque suos servientes Facultatibus Regimine Honore condigne remunerari caeterisque praeferre decreverint sicque sua iis Beneficia juxta eorum Virtutes atque Merita benignè conferre curarunt Nos eorum mores imitantes non solum Nobilitatem atque Constantiam imo probitatem ac in Armis strenuitatem caeterasque virtutes Domini Willielmi Howard militis nostri intime dilecti non modica cum deliberatione maturè considerantes ipsum Willielmum Howard in Baronum Parliamenti Regni nostri Angliae ex mero motu gratiaque nostris ordinavimus deputavimus creavimus constituimus prout per praesentes ordinamus deputamus creamus constituimus atque titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham locumque in singulis Parliamentis infra idem Regnum nostrum Angliae posthac celebrandis caeteraque jura Privilegiaque nostra ipsius Regni Baronibus ejusdem ex Lege consuetudine aliove quovis pacto pertinentia eidem Willielmo damus concedimus eisque ipsum adeo liberè amplè uti gaudere sicut unquam aliquis Baro hujus Regni nostri usus fuit aut debuit volumus habendum hujusmodi statum titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham praedicta atque locum in Parliamentis praedictis ac caetera praemissa praefato Willielmo haeredibus suis masculis de corpore suo excuntibus in perpetuum eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore animi aut de certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Willielmo ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime factum existit Aliquo statuto actu ordinatione provisione sive restrictione inde in contrarium ante haec editis factis seu ordinatis seu provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quaqunque in aliquo non obstante his testibus Reverend ' in Christo Patre ac praedilecto fideli Conciliario nostro Stephano Wintoniensi Episcopo summo nostro Angliae Cancellario charissimis consanguineis Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Marchione Winton praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Thesaurario nostro Angliae Henrico Comite Arundel praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Domino senescallo Hospitii nostri Johanne Comite Bedford praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Custode privati sigilli nostri Henrico Comite Sussex Willielmo Comite Pembroke praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite praedilectis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Domino Paget de Bewdesert praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Reverendo in Christo Patre Cutberto Dunelmens Episcopo Johanne Gage praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Domino Camerario nostro Roberto Rotchester Milite contrarotulatore Hospitii nostri Henrico Jernynham Milite Vicecamerario nostro Willielmo Petre Milite uno Primariorum Secretariorum nostorum Johanne Bourne Milite altero Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium undecimo die Martii Anno Regni nostri primo per ipsam Reginam Sigillum Eden Herbert's History of Henry the Eighth pag. 535. BUT it rested not here for the Lord William Howard the Queen's Uncle newly returned from an Embassage in France and his Wife and the old Dutchess of Norfolk and divers of the Queen's and the said Dutchess's Kindred and Servants and a Butter-Wife were Indicted of Misprision of Treason as concealing this Fact and condemned to perpetual Prison though yet by the King's Favour some of them were at length Released Commission of Queen Mary To be High Admiral of England MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina omnibus ad quos c. Salutem Sciatis quod nos ob certas causas considerationes nos specialiter moventes ac in consideratione boni veri fidelis Servitii per dilectum Conciliarium nostrum Willielmum Howard Militem Dominum Howard de Effingham ante haec tempora facti impensi de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard officium magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem Villae nostrae in Cales ac Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum ac ipsum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum nostrarum eorundem Villae nostrae Cales Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum necnon praefectum generalem Classis Marium dictorum Regnorum nostrorum Angliae Hiberniae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem fecimus constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes facimus constituimus ordinamus Et ulterius sciatis quod nos de Gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae praefecto Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum omnia omnimodas jurisdictiones autoritates libertates officia feoda proficua vadia emolumenta wrecum maris maris ejectum regardia advantagia commoditates praeminentia quaecunque eidem officio magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae ac aliorum locorum Dominiorum praedictorum qualitercunque spectantia pertinentia sive incumbentia vel aliquo modo ab antiquo perantea debita sive consueta necnon tam bona catalla quorumcunque praedictorum piratorum homicidarum felonum qualitercunque infra nostram jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae Angliae inferius limitatam delinquentium quam bona debita catalla omnium singulorum eorum manutenentium accessariorum consulentium auxiliantium vel assistentium quorumcunque
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. between the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath Sir Oliver Luke of Hawnes in the County of BEdford Knight and Sir Samuel Luke of Woodend in the said County of Bedford Knight of the other part Witnesseth That the said Countess Dowager for the settling of the Mannor and Lands hereafter mentioned in the Name and Blood of her the said Countess And in consideration of the summ of Five shillings of lawful Money of England to her in hand paid by the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke whereof she acknowledgeth the receipt and for divers other good causes and considerations her the said Countess hereunto especially moving hath Granted Bargained Aliened Sold Enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Alien Sell Enfeoffe and Confirm unto the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke all that the Mannor of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh in the County of Surrey with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and all Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Commons Wasts Warrens Courts Court-Leet view of Frankpledge Privileges Goods of Felons Deodands Franchises Profits Emoluments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Mannor belonging or appertaining or as part parcel or member thereof commonly accepted reputed taken or known and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of her the said Countess Dowager scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh aforesaid Godstone Cateram and Horne or any of them in the said County of Surrey To Have and to Hold the said Mannor Lands and Premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke their Heirs and Assigns for ever to the use behoof intents and purposes and with upon and under such limitations as are hereafter in and by these presents limited expressed and declared and to and for no other use intent meaning or purpose whatsoever That is to say To the Use of the said Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow for and during the Term of her Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after her Decease then to the Use and Behoof of Henry Earl of Peterborow Son and Heir Apparent of the said Countess for and during the Term of Fourscore and nineteen Years if the said Earl of Peterborow shall so long live without Impeachment of Wast And afterwards to the Use of the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke for the Life of the said Earl of Peterborow upon Trust and to the intent that the Contingent Remainders herein after limited may not be prevented defeated or destroyed without the Consent of the said Countess And nevertheless That the said Earl of Peterborow may have and receive the Rents and Profits of the said Mannor and Premises for the term of his Life And after the Decease of the said Earl of Peterborow to the Use of the Daughter or Daughters and Younger Son or Sons of the Body of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten And of and for such Estate and Estates either in Fee Simple Fee Tail for Life or Lives or Years or otherwise of the said Mannor and Premises and every or any Part or Parcel thereof And to the intent that such Son or Sons Daughter or Daughters may have and receive such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money out of the Premises or any Part thereof as the said Earl of Peterborow at any time during his Life by any Writing or Writings under his Hand and Seal testified by Two or more Witnesses shall limit and appoint And for Default of such Limitation and Appointment or as the Estates so limited shall respectively end and determine and charged or chargeable with such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money as shall be so limited Then to the Use and Behoof of the First Son of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Second Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Second Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Third Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Third Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of the Fourth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fourth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Fifth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fifth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of all and every such other Son or Sons of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten as they shall be in Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs of their several and respective Bodies lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of the Daughter or Daughters of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of such Daughter or Daughters lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Esq Second Son of the said Countess for and during the term of his Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after his Decease then to the use and behoof of the First Son of the said John Mordaunt lawfully to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully to be begotten And for default
his enemies wish'd that he should be and objections were not wanting from many of them that were in place to speak and in right to be heard in Occasions and Councels of that nature against any seem'd proper to his Friends for his Alliance Some of them 't was said wanted Fortune others were not of Quality enough and there were those that were not bred in the Religion of the Country which in certain Men was not easie to digest At last the good King who it were to have been wish'd had in more things follow'd his own good nature and judgment accepted the proposition made from Spain by Sir Mark Ogniaty at that time Agent here out of Flanders of a Marriage and Treaty to that purpose with the Young Archduchess of Inspruk which was believed would have answered all the objections of Honor Fortune and Fruitfulness more than any Princess that had been propos'd This could not apparently be refused by the Ministers who found the King did himself desire his Brother's Marriage and that the Duke was resolv'd to have a Wife at any rate Therefore the expedient for its hindrance was to propose a Creature of their own one that follow'd the Court and the favor of it by birth a Stranger not concern'd what became of the Succession of England to be sent over in quality of Negotiator of this business This Man was engaged in the affair whom they did manage as they pleased they made him advance it one day and retard it another and at last he did contribute by his skill to so long delays as it became apparent by divers signs of the Empress's ill health that she was not like long to live From that time the Emperor who thought it just he should provide for his own happiness in the first place began to cast his thoughts upon this Princess and his Council for his satisfaction as well as the interest of his House by reuniting the concerns of Inspruk that had been the Appennage of those Archdukes did wholly give their approbation of that conditional intention in case of the Empress's death So that when the Court of England was in expectation of a final conclusion of this Treaty the cunning Negotiator did procure the appearance of it to stop the Mouths of dissatisfied Men and the clamors would have been upon a rupture after a years suspence and chargeable Treaty so as the Duke being then upon the Sea immediately after his Engagement of Sole Bay in the last Dutch War the Envoy at Vienna sent word The Treaty was now ended and there wanted only an Extraordinary Embassador from the King to come to demand and Marry the Archduchess according to the forms towards bringing her into England contenting the King in that affair and making the Duke happy Hereupon his Royal Highness who had long in his mind pitch'd upon the Earl of Peterborow to undertake and manage this great trust not only as the first person about him for his Birth and Quality but as a Man whom he knew could never be corrupted to act or omit any thing might prove contrary to his intention or his service did now declare he should with the King's leave be alone employ'd and trusted as Extraordinary Embassador in perfecting this matter which so nearly did concern him The Earl did at that time attend the Duke in his own Ship He had been with him the whole Expedition and was particularly participant of all the Honors and Hazards of that bloody Battel wherein the Noble Earl of Sandwich lost his life and so many brave Gentlemen in either Party And from off this Fleet it was he commanded the Earl to repair to the King and entreat his orders to the Ministers for preparing Monies Instructions and Instruments that might enable him to proceed upon his journey in order to bring home the Princess had been so much desired At his arrival and first Audience of the King upon this affair he found His Majesty not so warm as he did expect he would not trust the Earl entirely with his indifference but let fall some doubtful words as it were to sound Whether he would comply with more delays But when he found by the steddiness of his Lordship's Answers That he did expect an ingenuous proceeding for his Master's satisfaction His Majesty a little abruptly broke off the Discourse and bid him repair to the Ministers who should have orders to dispatch him with as much speed as the preparations would admit He address'd himself in the first place to the Lord Treasurer who for all his concurrence with the Duke to other ends and enterests by which he had gain'd a most particular share in his Credit and Favour yet he was certainly no friend to this nor wish'd success to any other Foreign proceeding and did comply with if not foment the King's inclination to a farther delay in the affair Whether it was that he would not appear to the approaching Parliament author of a Match of which he thought they were not like to approve or that he hoped the over-long delays would weary the Duke and make him at last content to take up with some Lady for whom this Lord had a favor in the Court at home Certain it is That he receiv'd the Earl's pressing desires for a dispatch with a colder kind of moroseness than he could have imagin'd and in a way as did seem to expect from the Earl an understanding of some thing he was not willing plainly to express The Duke seem'd to believe the obstructions did proceed from the insinuations of another Minister with whom he had long been out upon many other accounts but he being in most things competitor with the Lord Treasurer was glad to have occasion to justifie himself in a thing so tender to the Duke at the reasonable cost of the other and to set the Saddle on the right Horse The account the Earl of Peterborow gave to his Highness of these Affairs brought him with as much hast as matters would admit from the Fleet to the Town And when he arrived the business was so pressed on his side as the Ministers were driven to break or comply with his desires But it is most true That in all the matters expected from the Treasurer he was more dry more stiff and more scarce than was agreeable to the good opinion it was necessary for him to preserve in the Duke's Mind and the Earl of Peterborow was fain to make use of his competitor who had a desire at that time to justifie himself to the Duke and had also much interest with the King to procure from his Majesty upon reasons of publick honor more large allowances than the Treasurer would otherwise have made who thought to have pinch'd the Earl and made his business uneasie on that part for not complying with him in an indirect sufferance of those delays to take place which might have obstructed the Duke's Marriage in any Foreign part whatsoever However those difficulties were
Relief gave him out of his Pocket Ten Guinneys and so he was for that time dismiss'd Immediately his Highness acquainted the King with the whole particulars and circumstances and delivered the Paper into his Majesty's Hands but desired he would not admit a Man of that Character for whom no body could answer into his presence but rather send him to be examined by his Secretary and farther directed as he should see occasion But the King found something extraordinary enough in this adventure to give him a curiosity to see and speak with Willoughby himself and after unknown to the Duke commanded Mr. Halsey to bring him to him How he behaved himself to the King or what he said is not well known but his Majesty was then so satisfied as he order'd him to the care of the Secretary of State from whom he had several Summs of Money for his incouragement and had him after by the admission of Mr. Cheffin into more private and secret discourses with him The Earl of Peterborow thought now having perform'd what was incumbent upon him in this occasion that he was wholly out of the affair having left it in the natural channel of such matters the Secretary's Office and expected no more trouble upon that account when one Morning Dangerfield came to his Lodging and under pretence of a great dissatisfaction complained That there was no care taken at the Secretary's for enabling him to perform the great service of discovery he had undertaken since he was deny'd a General Warrant to search where he should think fit or indeed any House or Lodging unless he would positively swear he knew to be therein such Papers or Instruments as would import to the purpose he did alledge His Lordship told him then that he had done what appertained to him he had brought him into the hands of the Ministers who had their own methods and whom he could not direct so as now he could interpose no more in that affair but left him to his Applications and Good Fortune He seem'd unsatisfied and went muttering away and after this his Lordship heard no more of him till one Evening the poor Cellier whose meaning and intentions were certainly very good came to the Earl's Lodging in great disorder to acquaint him that this Willoughby or Dangerfield was come in the Messenger's hands before the Council accused for having convey'd Papers into the Lodging of one Mansell and pretended to have found them there and indeed not having been able to procure the Warrant he would have had he made a pretence of coming to search for forbidden Goods and it is to be doubted would have play'd some such trick for his justification if the whole was not rather a design of the Earl of Shaftsbury to give him means by the access he had to the Duke and the Earl of applying the Scandalous Accusation he did afterwards contrive The Earl told Mrs. Cellier That if he had done any indirect thing or used any means he could not justifie he would not endeavour to support him nor countenance any proceeding that was not according to Justice and to Truth and he must expect to stand or fall by his own merits The poor Woman that was still in hopes he was honest and zealous in what he did pretend caused her Husband and her Son to give Bail for his appearance the next Council In the mean time he came again that Night after the Earl was in bed asserted his intentions for the King's Service and desired care might be taken to prevent his suffering for a desire to serve his Majesty The Earl told him He had taken unjustifiable ways that gave Men occasion to suspect the Truth of his Information and had waved all the methods whereby he had at first undertaken to proceed so as he was oblig'd to desert him and he had now only to provide for his safety as he should think fit He retired with utterance of some passionate words and if he did not understand with them before without doubt went then immediately into the interests and directions of Shaftsbury Oates Waller Mansell and the rest of the Authors of that pretended Popish Plot upon whose instigation he undertook the placing that sham contrivance in the Meal-Tubb of Mrs. Cellier that it might be found by them where the Earl was accused of intending the Assassination of the Earl of Shaftsbury and the Scandals and Accusations were to be cast upon divers other persons of Quality This he undertook at the next meeting of Council and with great pretensions of Repentance own'd himself for the obtaining of more credit to have been a Popish Instrument His Royal Highness unto whom it was a mortification to have been induced to speak or give any appearance of belief to such a wretch was by this time upon his first Journey into Scotland but the Earl remain'd behind that he might not seem to fly from any of their Aspersions and to be ready to serve the Duke in the approaching Parliament in every of those occasions wherein his interest might be concern'd But as soon as he was gone the Earl of Shaftsbury complain'd of the Earl of Peterborow to the King in Council for having been Abettor if not Author of a Contrivance wherein several great Men were intended to have been involved and a Murther that was particularly designed for himself His Lordship was summon'd to come and answer the Accusation which he did at the day appointed in the Council-Chamber and had the fortune so to overthrow the Impudence of his accuser by his ingenuous and candid Narration as he was dismiss'd by his Majesty and the major part of the Council to the shame of those would have had him sent to the Tower and the particular honor of his Lordship After this came on the Parliament the hardships against the Lords in the Tower did encrease Dangerfield exhibited a new Accusation and a Narrative the first to the Parliament the other to the People The Earl of Peterborow contested for the protection of Innocence and after defended himself and his Master Among other things the Villain accus'd the Duke to have given him Twenty pounds to kill the King and the Earl to have been privy and conscious of the offer The knowledge the World had of the Duke's Vertue and Loyalty made the credit of it to be detested by most of his very Enemies And the Earl so satisfied the House of Lords and the King by his plain and generous Defence as it obliged them to dismiss the Accusation to the shame and confusion of Dangerfield and all those that did abet and set him on And his Majesty standing by him at the time of this Contest told his Lordship openly That for all that had been said he would always trust his life sooner in his hands than in any of theirs who had been so ready to abet and countenance his Enemies In the same day was brought in afterwards by the Lord Russel that impudent Bill of
or good Cause of Breach herein I have not gone so far but as yet I may return by your Lordships better Advice I have sent you again the Book of Articles and somewhat added by Cousin John Yate unto them if your Lordship thinketh not these sufficient I shall desire your Lordship to add more unto them which being but reasonable I trust Mr. Denton will assent thereto And what your further pleasure is herein I shall defire your Lordship to certifie by your Letters by this bearer my Servant And further to disclose your whole mind herein to Mr. Denton at his next repair unto your Lordship whereby ye shall bind me to pray for you I would have seen your Lordship before this if I had not been letted by Sickness But I intend by God's Grace shortly to wait upon you In the mean time I shall desire your Lordship and my good Lady my Mother of your Blessings Thus our Lord send you both long Life From Besellesly the Tenth day of November by your Obedient and Loving Daughter Margaret Fettyplace A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That where upon the special Zeal and Affection which we bear to the Common-Wealth of this our Realm and Furniture of the same with some more Store if it shall please God of our lawful Posterity we did lately at the Suit and Contemplation of some of our Nobles and Counsel resolve eftsoons to Marry and have thereupon concluded by God's Grace a Marriage between Us and the most Excellent Princess the Lady Anne of Cleves-Juliers Forasmuch as we suppose that the same Dame Anne shall shortly arrive at our Town of Calice to be Transported unto this our Realm for the consummation of the said Marriage Considering that it shall be requisite and necessary both for our Honour and for the Honour of our said Realm That she shall be Honourably received and met at sundry places at the said arrival We have named and appointed you to be one of these Noble Personages whom we have thought meet in this affair to attend upon Us or to accompany such others of our Nobles and Counsel as shall meet her before she shall come to our Presence Wherefore we shall desire and pray you to put your self in such order as you may be at our City of London the Eighth Day of December there to know our further pleasure concerning the place of your Attendance bringing with you honestly furnished Twenty Servants wherein you shall do unto us acceptable service Given under our Signet at Westminster the Four and twentieth day of November A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That minding earnestly to have a Marriage concluded between our Trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Humphrey Ratclif Knight Son to our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Sussex Great Chamberlain of England and Mistress Rich Neice and Heir to our trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Michael Fisher Knight Albeit we doubt not of the conformity of the said Sir Michael having written our mind and pleasure to him in that behalf yet knowing that the same taking you for his assured Friend will be much advised by you in this and other his private affairs We have thought meet not only to signifie this our purpose and pleasure unto you but also to desire and pray you at this our especial Contemplation to extend your Favour and good Advice to the same in such sort as we may perceive that you tender our Pleasure according to the good Expectation we have of you accordingly Given under our Signet at our House of Hampton-Court the Second day of March the Two and thirtieth Year of our Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Cheyne ARticles of Agreement made the Twenty third day of October the Three and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth between John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the one Party and Robert Cheyne Esquire on the other Party of and for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had between Winefred Mordaunt Daughter of the said Lord and John Cheyne Son and Heir apparent to the said Robert First The said Lord to apparel his said Daughter the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The said Robert to apparel his said Son the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The costs and charges of the said Marriage and for two days after to be be at the costs and charges of the said Lord the said Robert to find Dishes of Fowl at his pleasure Item The said Robert shall make Estate of certain Closes parcel of a Pasture called Hellesthorp in the Parish of Drayton and Wyning in the County of Buckingham to the value of Twenty Pounds by the Year to the said John and Winefred to have to them during the Life of Margaret Cheyne Widow Mother to the said Robert Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of certain Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Six Pounds fourteen Shillings parcel of the Maner of Grove in the County of Buckingham to have to them during the life of the said Margaret Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of his Maners of Drayton Beauchamp and all his Lands and Tenements in Drayton Beauchamp in the County of Buckingham which Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances the said Robert promiseth to be of the clear yearly value of Forty Pound over all yearly Reprises and Charges and of the Maner of Cuggenho in the County of Northampton Which Maners Lands and Tenements together shall be to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds to have to them and to their Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten by the said John And for lack of such Issue to remain to the Heirs Males of the said Robert That is to say The said Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances of the yearly value of Sixty Pounds immediatly after the Death of the said Margaret Mother to the said Robert and Twenty Pounds in Cuggenho after the Death of the said Robert Also it is agreed That the said John shall pay yearly to the said Robert his Father as much Money of the Issues of the Fruits of the said Maner of Drayton as the said Maner shall amount above the clear yearly value of Fifty Marks during the life of the said Robert Item The said Robert shall leave to the said John in Possession Reversion and Use after the decease of the said Margaret his Mother Mary his Neice and John Cheyne Esquire his Brother and Robert Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Buckingham
Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Ducis Et illa remiserunt quietum clamaverunt de ipsis Johanne Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus ipsius Ducis in perpetuum Et pro hac Recognitione Remissione quieta Clamatione Fine Concordia iidem Dux Elianora concesserunt praedictis Johanni Willielmo praedicta Visum franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis Et illa iis reddiderunt in eadem Curia Habendum tenendum eisdem Johanni Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi in perpetuum Reddendo inde praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus ipsius Ducis annuatim tres solidos ad duos anni terminos videlicet ad festa Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Paschae equis portionibus solvendos Et praedicti Johannes Willielmus concedunt pro se haeredibus suis quòd si contingat praedictum redditum trium solidorum à retro fore ad aliquod dictorum festorum quo solvi debeat non solutum tunc bene licebit praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus assignatis ipsius Ducis in omnia terras tenementa ipsorum Johannis Willielmi eorum alterius in Turveia praedicta intrare distringere districtiones sic captas abducere asportare effugare penes se retinere quousque de redditu praedicto arreragiis ejusdem sibi fuerit plenariè satisfactum persolutum Et praeterea iidem Dux Elianora concesserunt pro se haeredibus ipsius Elianorae quòd ipsi warrantizabunt acquietabunt defendent praedicta Visum franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta praefatis Johanni Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi contra omnes homines in perpetuum Quae omnia ad requisitionem Johannis Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt tenore praesentium duximus exemplificanda In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum nostrum ad Brevia in Banco praedicto sigillandum deputatum praesentibus apponi fecimus Teste E. Montague apud Westmonasterium duodecimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri tricesimo septimo Wellisborn An Acquittance or Bill from Robert Cheyne to the Lord Mordaunt for Four hundred and fifty Marks THIS Bill made the Twelfth day of April the Thirty seventh Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Witnesseth That I Robert Cheyne Esquire have received the day and Year above-written of John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford One hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England in full Satisfaction Contentation and Payment of Four hundred pounds to be due to me the said Robert at the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof And also in full Contentation Satisfaction and payment of Four hundred and fifty Marks due to me the said Robert for Marriage had and solemnized between John Cheyne my Son and Heir apparent and Winefred one of the Daughters of the said Lord as by certain Indentures of Covenants of Marriage bearing date the Seventeenth Day of November the Six and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord made between the said John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and me the said Robert Cheyne on the other Party amongst other things more plainly may appear Of the which Summ of One hundred Marks in full Contentation Satisfaction and Payment of the said Hundred pounds and of all the said Four hundred and fifty Marks I the said Robert do knowledge and confess my self by these presents to be well and truly Satisfied Contented and Paid by the said Lord And thereof and of every part thereof do Acquit Discharge and Release the said John Mordaunt Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors and every of them by these presents In Witness whereof to this present Bill I the said Robert have put my Seal and Subscribed my Name the said Twelfth Day of April above-specified Robert Cheyne A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And whereas it is come unto our knowledge That sundry Persons as well Religious as Secular Priests and Curates in their Parishes and other places of this our Realm do daily asmuch as in them is set forth and extol the Jurisdiction and Authority of the Bishop of Rome otherwise called the Pope sowing their Seditious Pestilent and false Doctrine praying for him in the Pulpit and making of him a God to the great Deceit Illuding and Seducing of our People and Subjects bringing them thereby into Error Sedition and evil Opinions more preferring the said Laws Jurisdiction and Authority of the said Bishop of Rome than the most Holy Laws and precepts of Almighty God We therefore minding not only to provide an Unity and Quietness to be had and continued amongst our People and Subjects but also greatly coveting and desiring them to be brought to a Perfection and knowledge of the meer Verity and Truth and no longer to be seduced nor blinded with any such superstitious and falle Doctrine of an Earthly Usurper of God's Law We will therefore and command you That where and whensoever ye shall find apperceive know or hear tell of any such Seditious Persons that in such wise do Spread Teach Preach and set forth any such pernitious Doctrine to the Exaltation of the power of the said Bishop of Rome bringing thereby our People and Subjects into Error Grudge and Murmuration that ye without delay do Apprehend and take them or cause them to be Apprehended and taken and so committed to Ward there to remain without Bail or Mainprise until upon your Advertisement thereof to us or our Council ye shall receive answer of our further Pleasure in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of reenwich the Tenth Day of April An Act of John Lord Mordaunt by which he does constitute his Proxies to the Parliament the Duke of Somerset the Lord Paulet and the Lord Russel PAteat universis per praesentes quod quidem Ego Johannes Mordaunt miles Dominus Mordaunt virtute Brevis cujusdam à regia Majestate mihi directi ad apparendum personalitèr interessendum in Parlamento suo inchoato apud Westmonasterium quarto die Mensis Novembris Anno Regni ejusdem Domini Regis primo summonitus fuerim justis legitimis causis in praesentiarum impeditus Regiae etiam Majestati ex parte mea declaratis à sua Regia Majestate vicissim
Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo quinto Per billam Curiae Wardorum Liberationum de data praedicta authoritate Parlamenti Egerton Norr d Coram Auditoribus Curiae Wardorum Liberationum dominae Reginae termino Michaelis Anno Regni ejusdem dominae Reginae quadragesimo quinto 1602. Examinatur per Walterium Took Auditores Examinatur per Will. Curles Auditores In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno quadragesimo quarto Reginae nunc Elizabethae videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis rotulo ex parte Remembratorum Thesaurarii Charta Caroli Comitis de Nottingham Magni Admiralli Angliae Capitalis Justiciarii ac Justiciarii itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham CArolus Comes Nottingham Baro Howard de Effingham magnus Admirallus Angliae c. Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. Rich. Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHAÌ CA LIS IVSTICI VS OMNIVM FORES VM ET MARCA VM TRENTAM An Indenture Tripartite for the Settlement of the Estate of Henry Lord Mordaunt THIS Indenture Tripartite made the Fourth Day of January in the Year of our Soveraign Lord James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith that is to say Of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth between the Right honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt on the the First Part and Thomas Lock of Grays-Inn in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and John Rowe of London Gentleman on the Second Part and the Right honourable Edward Earl of Worcester of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Master of the King's Majesty's Horse and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Knight Sir Edward Ratcliff Knight Sir Thomas Compton Knight and George Sherley Esquire on the Third Part Witnesseth That the said Lord Mordaunt as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he beareth to his Children hereafter in these Presents named and for the continuance of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned in the name and blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it shall please God And for the better supportation of the Honour and Dignity of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the Heirs of his Body as also for the better Maintenance and Provision in living and Portions to be had made and raised for the Younger Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters and for the payment of the Debts which the said Lord Mordaunt shall owe or any others shall stand chargeable for the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of his Death and for other causes and considerations him thereunto specially moving Doth for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner and form following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will leave and suffer to descend unto such person and persons as shall happen to be Heir or Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of the Death of the said Lord Mordaunt all these his Lordships and Maners of Netherbery Collesden Carlills and Throgmorton in Roxton and the Maner of Woodend and the Maner or Farm of Kempstonborn and his other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Roxton Cranfield and Bereford in the County of Bedford with their and every their Appurtenances Rights and Members to the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to either of them belonging and to the Advowson of the Church of Meppersall in the said County of Bedford and the Maners of Thrapston Gale Ringsted and Raundes and of Much-Addington Luffwick Islip and Slipton in the County of Northampton with their and every and either of their Appurtenances Royalties and Commodities to the same Maners and to every of them belonging and appertaining and the Chauntries of Much-Addington aforesaid and Luffwick-Mills and the Maner of Drayton and all the demeasne Lands to the said Maner belonging or appertaining in the said County of Northampton The Capital or Mansion-House of the said Lord Mordaunt in Drayton aforesaid and the Parks called Drayton and Sudburgh-Parks and one Close called the Great Pasture and another Close called the Mile-close one Close called the Lymekill-Close another called Clay-Close another called the Warren-Close and another called the Horse-Close leading from Drayton-house to Luffwick only excepted And one Free Rent of Thirty three Shillings two Pence half penny or thereabouts issuing out of certain Lands in Barton and another Free Rent of Thirty eight Shillings and eight Pence issuing out of certain Lands in Stanwick in the aforesaid County of Northampton and also the Maner of Clifton Reynes with the Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham to the end That the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the same Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments before mentioned shall and may have and receive the full benefit of Wardship primer Seisure and Livery as the case shall require happening or to happen by or upon the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Which said Maners Lands Tenements amounting to the full third part of the aforesaid Lord Mordaunt's Maners Lands Tenements and Revenues the said Lord Mordaunt doth for that
supervidendum Ac etiam ad proclamandum ordinandum diligenter examinandum quod omnes finguli hujusmodi homines ad arma ac homines armati sagittarii in monstris hujusmodi armaturis propriis non alienis armentur sub pena amissionis eorundem exceptis duntaxat illis qui ad expensas aliorum armari debent ut praedictum est ad omnes singulos quos in hac parte inveneritis contrarios sea rebelles arrestandum capiendum ac eos in prisonis nostris committendum in iisdem moraturos quousque de eorum punitione aliter duxerimus ordinandum Et ideo vobis districtius quo possumus super fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemim injungimus mandamus quod statim visis praesentibus vos ipsos melius securius quo poteritis arraiari parari coram nobis ad ipsos dies loca quo videritis magis competentes expedientes pro populo nostro minus damnosas Et omnes homines in patria commorantes per quos arraiatio hujusmodi melius fieri compleri poterit venire vocari facias arraiari armari muniri eos sic armatos munitos in arraiatione hujusmodi teneri facias Et insuper figna vocata Bekins poni facias in locis consuetis per quae gentes patriae de adventu rebellium praedictorum poterunt congruis temporibus praemuniri Ac eosdem homines sic arraiatos munitos cum periculum imminuerit in defensione regni patriae praedictae de tempore in tempus tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi magis necesse fuerit duci facies Ita quod pro defectu defensionis arraiationis sive ductionis dictorum hominum vel per negligentiam vestram damna patriae praedictae per rebelles praedictos a modo non eveniat ullo modo pro posse vestro Damus autem universis singulis Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Justiciariis Pacis Majoribus Ballivis Constabulariis Ministris aliis Fidelibus ligeis nostris Comitatus praedicti tam infra libertates quam extra tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatum quod nobis in omnibus singulis praemissis faciendum explendum intendentes sint consulentes auxiliantes Et Vicecomiti Comitatus praedicti quod ad aptos dies loca quos ad hoc ordinaveritis venire faciat coram vobis omnes illos in Comitatu praedicto per quos arraiatio assessio ordinatio melius poterint fieri compleri Si illos quos pro rebellione sua capi arrestari contigerit in prisona nostra custodiat sicut praedictum est In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium tertio die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sextodecimo Per Dominum Custodem magni Sigilli Angliae virtute Warrantii regii Willis A Letter from King Charles the First to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow To our Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow Charles R. RIght Trusty and welbeloved Cousin we greet you well Whereas we are desirous to speak with you concerning some affairs much importing the Peace and good of this our Kingdom which being of more than ordinary consequence will admit of no delay we therefore will and command you upon your Allegiance that setting aside all other occasions whatsoever you fail not forthwith to repair hither to us when we shall acquaint you with the particular cause of our sending for you which is of that importance as is neither fit to be imparted to you by Letter nor will bear any delay or excuse And for the ready observance of this our command these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at our Court at York the Twentieth of May. 1642. My Lord I pray you fail not to make haste C. R. HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord MORDAVNT Lord Baron of Turvey Grome of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord High-Steward to the Queen Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton One of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER CHAPTER XVII A Declaration of King Charles the First against the Alienating of the Lordship and Priory of Rygate from Henry Earl of Peterborow Charles R. WHereas our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow by his Humble Petition hath represented to us That his Mother the Countess of Peterborow is seized of certain Lands whereto he is Inheritable by vertue of an Entail of the gift of the Crown and that the Reversion expectant thereof is in us And that his said Mother upon displeasure conceived against him prevailed with his Father the late Earl of Peterborow about the time of his Death to leave much of his Estate to her who now endeavours to have power to cut off the Entail of the Crown 's gift tending to his the said now Earl of Peterborow's Disinherison therein which without our consent she cannot accomplish And therefore the said Henry now Earl of Peterborow humbly prays the with-holding of our Consent therein Forasmuch as we have special cause to tender the good and advantage of the said now Earl of Peterborow and that by act of Parliament provision is made That such Entails shall not be cut off to bar the Posterity whose Advancement was thereby intended We therefore hereby declare to all and every whom it may concern our Unwillingness That the said Earl should be prejudiced in the benefit of the said Entail contrary to the intent of the Giver and of the said Parliament And we will and require our Council at Law the Clerks of our Signet and other Seals and all others whom it may concern to take knowledge of the Premises and if by any means or ways endeavours shall be used by the said Countess or others for a Reversion of the said Entail Lands that they or any of them fail not to mind us of the same whereby no Grant thereof may pass without the said Earl's notice and our more full consideration and express orders upon the same first had and obtained Given at Hampton-Court the One and twentieth Day of September 1647. A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament in the Twelfth Year of King Charles the Second CArolus secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Peterborow salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem octavo die Maii proxime futurum teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus dicti
Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendum mandavimus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatum utrinque concilium impensurum Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negociorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo tertio A Letter from the Duke of Albemarle To the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow or to the Officer in chief with his Regiment My LORD UNderstanding there are some dissatisfied Officers lately disbanded who are endeavouring to bring the Souldiers into mischief if special care be not taken to prevent the same and so the Souldiers will loose their Arrears besides the dishonour that will fall upon the Officers in whose Regiment it happens I desire you will be careful to keep the Officers of your Regiment with their Commands And if they hear any Officers or Souldiers speak discontented words to take away their Arms and secure them and you are to acquaint the Officers and Souldiers that though they be shortly to be reduced yet they will receive Arrears before disbanding And there is an Act of Parliament that they may set up their Trades in any City or Town corporate I desire you to acquaint the Captains of each Company under your command herewith and that they may be careful to observe the same I remain Cockpit 11 September 1660. Your Lordship 's very humble Servant ALBEMARLE If your Lordships occasions will not give you leave you need not repair to your Regiment A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General and Governor of Tangier CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting Whereas we intend forthwith to settle and secure our City of Tangier and the Territories and Dominions adjacent in or near the Coasts of Barbary or the Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco some or one of them in the continent of Africa and for that purpose have resolved by and with the advice of our Privy Council forthwith to raise draw forth and transport thither such Forces of Horses and Foot as we shall judge necessary for our service in defence of the said City of Tangier and our Dominions and Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco Know ye therefore That we reposing an especial trust and confidence in your Honour's Courage Wisdom and Fidelity have constituted and ordained and by these our Letters Patents do make constitute ordain and appoint you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General of all Forces both Horse and Foot raised or to be raised and now sent or which hereafter shall be sent by our Royal Authority or Commissions and of all other Forces whatsoever which are or shall remain or be drawn into our City of Tangier or any other of our Dominions or Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco and of all Forts Castles Cities or other parts or places whatsoever which by your good conduct and success shall be reduced to our obedience and subjection And we do hereby give and grant unto you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow our Captain-General full power and authority by beat of Drum Proclamation or otherwise in our Name to raise lift arm array and put under Command such or so many Voluntiers both of Horse and Foot within this our Kingdom of England or any other our Kingdoms or Dominions as shall make up and compleat the number defigned by us in the establishment for that Service and to give Commission to Officers and Commanders to be set over them and conduct lead and imbark the said Officers and Souldiers to be transported to our said City of Tangier and to remove and cashier any such Officers or Souldiers as to you shall seem convenient And we do further by these Presents give full Power and Authority to you our said Captain-General from time to time to muster exercise and train our said Forces and all other our Armies and Forces which you shall there raise or entertain into our service or which shall be sent to you from hence or any other place and to drive train conduct and lead out or otherwise imploy the Natives or other Inhabitants if need shall require and with them to defend our said City of Tangier and any other our Dominions which already are or hereafter shall be in our Power or Possession and to lead them forth against any Enemies Rebels and Traytors and them to fight kill and slay and subdue to our Obedience and to invade surprise and reduce such Towns Forts Castles or Countries as shall declare or maintain any Hostility against us or that may endanger the Peace or Security of our City or Territories aforesaid and to possess and strenghten them with Forts or Garrisons or otherwise raze dismantle or disable them as to you shall seem expedient and to arm discipline and entertain into your Service all such as you shall think fit to receive under your Command out of any the Kingdoms Dominions or Territories aforesaid And we do further by these Presents ordain and appoint you one of our Vice-Admirals with power to give ordain and command to all our Naval Forces and Commanders at Sea that shall be appointed by us or our Authority to attend the service of our said City of Tangier and upon the Coast of Africa and likewise to require them by your Orders or Instructions to prosecute any design which you shall judge to be for our service and also when and where ye shall think meet to appoint constitute and keep a Court of Admiralty and appoint Judges and Officers for the same for the hearing and determining all Maritime Causes belonging to the Jurisdiction of a Court-Admiral as it is exercised in England And for the better discipline of the Forces under your Command both by Land and Sea We do hereby give you full Power and Authority to ordain publish and execute Laws and Ordinances-Martial according to the Constitutions and Practices of a Court-Martial and to punish by death or otherwise or to pardon Offences as in your discretion you shall judge meet And we do hereby give unto you all such further Powers Preheminences and Authorities as to a Captain-General or to one of our Vice-Admirals do any ways appertain or belong And we do by these our Letters Patents make ordain and constitute you our chief Governor of our said City of Tangier and Subburbs thereof and of all other Cities Towns Villages Forts Castles
Garrison and Interests you may find it necessary to resort in person to our Royal Presence either to inform us of the Grounds and Probabilities of further Designs to the good and advancement of our Dominions there and to take our Commands and Directions thereupon or to solicit and procure such other supplies and necessaries as the occasion and subsistence of our said City and Garrison shall require We do enable you by our license which by these presents we do grant unto you to repair unto us when you shall see convenient leaving behind you to govern in your absence a Deputy fit for that place or such a one as before your departure from hence or hereafter we shall signifie and direct unto you IX If which we cannot expect any accident should intervene whereby he City of Tangier should fail to be delivered to you you are then to return home with the Forces under your command if by joint advice after meeting with the Earl of Sandwich you shall not agree upon some further design for our service Charta Regis Caroli Secundi Potestatem Concedendi Bellum faciendi vel Pacem cum Regibus vel Principibus Africae CArolus Secundus Dei gratia magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus singulis ad quos hae litterae pervenerint salutem Cum indole naturae atque instituto regiminis omnes homines prae caeteris Principes ad pacem concordiam inter dissitas nationes conciliandam ac fovendam animos studiaque sua applicare debeant non solum quia talis humani generis consensus ad univerlam incolumitatem Commercii incrementum navigandi securitatem quam maxime facit sed etiam quia Dei Optimi Maximi gloria ex hujusmodi mediis mirifice crescit dilatatur Nos satis conscii regiam Celsitudinem ad tales curas praecipue destinatam ac constitutam esse nec minus pro nostra statione commode ut putamus ad illiusmodi fines promovendos id unice operam dare atque eo contendere decrevimus ut longinquae terrae atque adeo universus orbis si fieri possit cum nostra Britannia manus animos sinceros amplexus conjungat Sciatis igitur quod nos probitate ac fide nobilissimi Viri perquam fidelis praedilecti consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Civitatis nostrae Tingitanae in Africa omniumque circumcirca regionum portuum littorum pagorum Capitanei-Generalis Praefecti nec non in iisdem oris ac littoribus Vice-admirali nostri confidentes eundem Henricum Comitem de Peterborow nostrum verum indubitatum Plenipotentiarium constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes constituimus ordinamus Dante 's eidem virtute praesentium facultatem authoritatem mandatum generale ac speciale per se per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos cum quolibet Rege Principe Dynasta Civitate vel Statu in Regnis de Sus Fez Morocco vel qualibet alia per Africam ditione supremam aut sufficientem potestatem habente pacem vel inducias prout quandocunque quotiescunque ipse dictus Comes è re nostra esse judicaverit faciendi amicitiamque vel antiquam renovandi vel novam ineundi pro nostrorum Regnorum Subditorum Mercatorum bono commercio commodo atque de super quibuscunque articulis capitulis causis conditionibus pacis amicitiae faederis commerciorum restauratione aut stabilimento cum dictis Regibus Principibus Dynastis Civitatibus aut Statibus vel quibuslibet eorum respective sub modis formis provisionibus cautionibus securitatibus quas ad formam stabilem Conventorum observationem necessarias aut idoneas putaverit atque de aliis ad veram sinceram pacificationem amicitiam mercutaraeque exercitationem spectantibus hinc inde conciliandi tractandi concordandi paciscendi conveniendi finaliter concludendi Denique omnia alia nostro nomine gerendi exercendi firmandi quae ad servitium nostrum spectant opportuna salubria videbuntur Promittentes bona fide in Verbo Regio quicquid per dictum nostrum Capitaneum Generalem Plenipotentiarium Henricum Comitem de Peterborow vel per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos legittime constitutos actum gestum conventum conclusum fuerit nos ratum gratum ac acceptum habituros neque contra ipsorum aliquae vel aliquid contraventuros imo ipsa defensuros inviolabiliter observaturos atque observari curaturos facturos In quorum Testimonium literas hasce scribi manu nostra propria signatas regni nostri Angliae sigilli majoris additione communiri volumus Quae dabantur in Palatio nostro Westmonasteriensi vicesimo primo die Novembris Anno Domini milesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo primo Signat CAROLUS R. His Majesty's Warrant for Two thousand Pounds as a free Gift to the Earl of Peterborow CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer now and for the time being greeting Whereas by our Letters of Privy Seal bearing date the Thirteenth of September last past we gave order for payment of Three thousand eight hundred Pounds Sterling unto our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin the Earl of Peterborow our Govenor of Tangier by way of Inprest as his own pay and for raising of One hundred Horses and Fifteen hundred Foot for our Service in Tangier aforesaid Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby require and authorize you to allow Two thousand Pounds of the said Three thousand eight hundred Pounds as a free Gift from us unto the said Earl of Peterborow in consideration of the great expence he was at in Preparatives and personal Provisions for our Service in that expedition to be passed to him without accompt and his own pay to continue and go on notwithstanding our said Privy Seal of the Thirteenth of September last and to be accompted and allowed unto him from the term and according to the tenor of the Establishment for our said Garrison of Tangier and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace at Westminster the Fifteenth Day of February in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow THE Wind coming contrary you will have prevented that Perplexity which otherwise I judge ye would have been in by the mistake of Secretary Maurice his Letter the King's Direction to him was To send to you to Sail to Tangier when you had a Thousand Men which he by mistake wrote Lisbon The King hath ordered Secretary Nicholas to write to you and to certifie that mistake to which I refer you Order was given on Saturday last to quicken down the rest of the Merchant-Ships which I
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms
locorum firmiter injungimus velint dicto Legato nostro Extraordinario liberam eundi transeundi redeundi commorandique prout occasio postulaverit copiam facere unà cum Comitatu Famulitio Equis Sarcinis Rebusque omnibus eidemque simul omnibus humanitatis officiis adesse favere id quod nos pari vel alio Officiorum genere occasione quacunque universis fingulis grati referemus Dabantur è Palatio nostro de Whitehall Secundi die Augusti Anno Domini 1673. Regnique nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Regis ARLINGTON An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy Councellor At the Court at Hampton-Court the Tenth Day of July 1674. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Highness Prince RVPERT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Ogle Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Arlington Lord Maynard Lord Berkeley Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Mountague Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. of the Ordnance Mr. Speaker THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board accordingly Robert Southwell The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regimet of Horse Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and to be called the Regiment of our dear Brother JAMES Duke of York consisting of Eight Troops and each Troop of Threescore Men besides Officers And we do also constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment as Collonel and the said Troop as Captain into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well Officers as Souldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively And you are from time to time to observe such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from our General of our Forces or other Superior Officer according to the Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of February 1677 8. in the Thirtieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command H. Coventry Entred with the Comissioner-General of Musters A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 30. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia ex advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem sexto die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod confideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus super dictis negociis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quinto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Grimston Pengry A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto perquam fideli Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam actum in Parliamento nostro inchoato tento apud Westmonasterium Octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo tertio ibidem continuato usque ad decimum nonum diem Maii proxime sequentem abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii proxime sequentem Intitulatum An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum inactitatum existit inter alia quod nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus Locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Bervici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes habebunt plenam authoritatem potestatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem Actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam infra aliquem alium Comitatum Locos praedictos ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerint secundum Directiones de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentis specificatis plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parliamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate ac authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentem nostrum pro Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae in omnibus locis corporatis privilegiatis aliis locis quibuscunque infra dictum Comitatum nostrum Northamptoniae Et tenore praesentium ac virtute ejusdem Actus plenam potestatem authoritatem tibi damus
as was intended by the said Settlement for a Jointure In Witness whereof the Parties above-named have to these Present Indentures Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above-written An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy-Counsellor At the Court at Whitehall the Twenty eighth Day of February 1682. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Albemarle Duke of Beaufort Lord Chamberlain Earl of Oxford Earl of Chesterfield Earl of Sunderland Earl of Clarenden Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Ailesbury Earl of Conway Earl of Nottingham Earl of Rochester Lord Dartmouth Mr. Secretary Jenkins Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Godolphin THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board and signed accordingly John Nicholas A Copy of the Oath taken by the Earl of Peterborow as Groom of the Stole YOU shall Swear by the Holy Evangelists and by the Contents of this Book and by the Faith that you bear unto Almighty God To be a true Servant unto Our Sovereign Lord JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. You shall know nothing that shall be any ways hurtful or prejudicial to the King's Majesty's Royal Person State Crown or Dignity but you shall hinder it what in you lyeth or else reveal the same with all convenient speed to the King's Majesty or some of his Most Honourable Privy Council You shall serve the King truly and faithfully in the place whereunto you are called as Groom of the Stole to His Majesty and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber So help you God and the Contents of this Book A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 1 mo Jacobi Secundi JAcobus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo nono die Maii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum Vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi vestrumque Consilium impensuri Et hoc ficut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo quarto die Februarii Anno Regni nostri primo Churchill Pengry A Letter from King James the Second to the Earl of Peterborow Commanding his Attendance at the Coronation To Our Right trusty Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Iames R. RIght Trusty and Welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Whereas We have appointed the 23d day of April next for the Solemnity of Our Coronation These are therefore to Will and Command you all Excuses set apart That you make your Personal Attendance on Us at the time above-mentioned furnished and appointed as to your Rank and Quality appertaineth there to do and perform such Services as shall be required and belong to you And whereas We have also resolved That the Coronation of Our Royal Consort the Queen shall be Solemnized on the same Day We do further hereby require the Countess your Wife to make her Personal Attendance on Our said Royal Consort at the time and in the manner aforesaid Whereof you and she are not to fail And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 23d Day of March 1684 5. in First Year of Our Reign A Letter from the Duke of Norfolk to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he should bear St. Edward's Scepter at the Coronation For the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow MY LORD HIS Majesty having appointed your Lordship to bear St. Edward's Scepter in the Proceeding at his Majesty's Coronation This is to desire your Lordship to meet in the House of Lords at His Majesty's Palace of Westminster on Thursday the Three and twentieth of April Instant by Eight of the Clock in the Morning in your Robes and with your Coronet in order to the performance of His Majesty's Pleasure I am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant NORFOLK and MARSHAL An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for Raising the Militia of the County of Northampton To Our Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow our Lieutenant of our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby require you to give order and take care That the Militia Troops of Horse in your Lieutenancy be forthwith raised And as to the Foot We think it requisite they should be in such a readiness that they may be immediately called together to March or obey such other Orders as they shall receive for Our Service And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for the seizing of suspected Persons To Our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Our Lieutenant for Our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Authorise and Direct you to give Order forthwith for the seizing and apprehending all disaffected and suspicious Persons and particularly all Non-Conformist Ministers and such Persons as have served against Our Royal Father and late Royal Brother of Blessed Memory and for sending them in safe Custody to the Prison at Oxford to be secured there till further Order And for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June in the First Year of Our Reign 1685. By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND Our Will and Pleasure also is That you give order for securing all the Horses belonging to any Persons which shall be so seized The Earl of Peterborow's
Ancient Families as also that for any Advantage or Prerogative the House of Mordaunt is oblig'd but only to Vertue to Antiquity and to Truth A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY OF THE House of Alno or Alneto Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD To the House of Alno or Alneto is ascribed for Arms Argent a Lion Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing Or three Martlets Azure Of the Name Antiquity Greatness Alliances Posssesions and Arms of the House of Alno or de Alneto THE Lords of this House received their Appellation from Alnetum a Town in France of which at the time of the Conquest or a little before they had the Dominion In those elder and little curious times they were often indifferently called of Alno Alnoto and Alneto and the Antiquity of this Name hereby appears to be so great as there are few that by just proofs can be traced to a higher Degree The Quality Prerogative and Greatness of this House was such as besides the Liberties they had upon their own Lands of peculiar Courts and particular Justice the Chief thereof had the Priviledge of Banner-bearing Ferendi Banneriam which was the same as is called in high Dutch a Banner heer and was at that time the greatest that could be in the Fortune of any Man who was not an immediate Sovereign and as much as to say a Power of obliging his Kindred his Relations and his Vassals to follow him to those Wars whereunto he should be pleased to engage There did belong unto it in Propriety within the Dutchy of Normandy a Town and Castle called at that time Alnetum they had great Lands in the Territory of Pont-Audomare and large Possessions in the Vicounty of Contonville In the Stile used by this Family in their Deeds and Transactions after they came into England whereof I have seen divers that are extant and well preserved are all the circumstances of Dignity as omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quam Anglicis and in their Seals were engraven their Images like Knights at Arms in Military Postures as was then in peculiar use with the great men of that time Their Alliances did also answer all the other parts of their Greatness for of four they contracted after their Arrival in this Country one was with a very Famous House and the other three with Families of the greatest and most eminent Nobility Vide Cam. Re. p. 276. But I am so far from undertaking to ascertain the Arms they bore as I am obliged to say I believe there were very few if any in Hereditary use at that time of their Conjunction with the House of Mordaunt which was about the end of the Reign of Henry the Second or in the beginning of King Richard the First Yet I shall not forbear to apply those that have been ascribed to them from very many Ages as may appear by several Pedegrees with other pieces of Sculpture and Painting remaining at this day in divers Churches and Noble Houses of this Kingdom which were Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing in a Field Or three Martlets Azure PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of Turvey Maydford and other Lands and Lordships PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO was one of those Illustrious Adventurers which came over with William Duke of Normandy to the Conquest of England in whose Service the Valour of our Hero prov'd so considerable as in the Partition this Prince did after make to his Followers he had allotted to him for his share several fair Lands and large Possessions and among the rest the Noble Lordship of Turvey in the County of Bedford with the Royalties and Priviledges belonging thereunto As the Advowson of the Church the Jurisdiction of many Families that held thereof in Villanage the particular Courts Leet and Baron the right of Free-Warren and Free-Fishing for a long and great Tract with those of Waifs Strays and Felons Goods It containing in the whole Four Thousand Five Hundred Fifty five Aeres of rich and fertile Land with a Treasure of fair Woods growing upon the same After that to the disorder of the War there had succeeded a Settlement in the Kingdom Paine of Alno did receive in Marriage as the Crown of all his Virtue Emelina de Burdet from the hands of her Father Sir Hugh de Burdet another great Companion of this Conquest and as her Portion the Town and Lordship of Maydford in the County of Northampton being part of those Lands which the said Sir Hugh had received for his Service from the Bounty and Acknowledgment of King William the First This Family of Burdet was of great Antiquity having possessed a very Honourable Rank in the Dutchy of Normandy before the Conquest For we find Sir William de Burdet Father or Ancestor to this Sir Hugh de Burdet to be mentioned in that antient Roll which contains the Names of all the Lords that owed Knights-Service to the Dukes of that Country and it had the Fortune for many Ages to produce men Famous and Renowned for Military Valour and Virtue Their Issue Henry of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Herbert of Alneto that was a Witness to a Charter whereby King Henry the First gave Lands to St. Peters and St. Maries in Exeter HENRY de ALNETO Succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships for we find by a Charter which is extant how be did confirm several Grants of Lands in Turvey that had been given to the Church of St. James in Northampton and to the Canons of that place by Robert the Son of Durand and his Heirs by his Brother Herbert and by others It appears that he gave to the Priory of our Blessed Lady of Luffield within the County of Northampton in the Forest of Whittlewood one Messuage with the Appurtenances in the Town of Maydford He married into the House of Lisors Lizures or de Lusoris as is seen by a Deed wherein Ralph de Caines does Witness that he was present when the Lord William de Lizures did give to Sir Henry of Alneto his Lands in Lichborow and Everton to him and to his Heirs to be begotten on the Body of his Daughter Agnes on Condition That if it did so fall out as he should die without Issue of the said Agnes they should then revert to him and his lawful Successors This William de Lizures was a great Baron at that time Chief Forester of the County of Northampton and of so great Authority in that Country as it occasioned a Letter to be written to him from Queen Elianor the Wife of King Henry the First wherein she prays him for the Love of her to protect one Malgerius a Monk and his Followers at that time retired within his Jurisdiction He was the Son of the Lord Foulke de Lizures that in the time of Henry the First had the Custody of the Forests of Rokingham
Scriptores antiqui Pag. 1031. Inter nomina Militum ferentium Bannerias in Normanniâ Fulco de Alneto In the same Book Pag. 1040. under the Title of Feoda Normanniae Ballia Pontis-Audomari Hugo de Alneto tertium Militem In the same Book under the same Title Pag. 1041. Milites de Honore Pontis-Audomari in Feodo Comitis de Mellent Johan de Alneto tertium Militem Rex habet In the same Book under the Title of Scriptum de Servitiis Militum quae debentur Duci Normanniae Pag. 1046. in Feodo Moritonii Simon de Alneto ii Milites ad suum Servitium 4. Milit. PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of TVRVEY and of MAYDFORD Charta Pagani de Alneto EGO Paganus de Alneto notum facio omnibus hominibus meis de Turveiâ Quod dilecto meo Richardo Mansell dedi concessi in feodo omnia Tenementa Adami le Croile sicut ipse Adam eadem dum viveret tenebat quod ut firmum habeatur praedicto Richardo tradidi praesentem Chartulam Sigilli mei Charactere munitam His Testibus Stephano de Bidun Galfrido Filio Rogeri Willielmo fratre ejus Thomâ Kaun Richardo filio Stephani Herveyo de Sancto Georgio Stephano de Bosco Richardo Camerario Charta Pagani de Alneto PAganus de Alneto omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis salutem Sciatis quod Ego assentiente Henrico filio meo concessi dilecto meo fideli Gerino de Sayfeild Scutifero omnia Tenementa quae Nicolaus Gerin Baldewinus Ribell tenuerunt in Turveiâ sibi Haeredibus suis tenenda de me haeredibus meis per Servitium duodecim sagittas reddendi annuatim ad Natalis Festum pro omni Servitio His Testibus Johanne de Escalers Reginaldo de Papiâ Roberto de Norho Thomâ filio ejus Stephano de Pixhull Rogero Moly Andreo Selvage Roberto filio Thomae Ricardo filio Roberti Johanne Clerico Inter Fines de Rege Ricardo Primo Pagano de Alneto Hugo de Burdet dedit villam de Maydford Charta Hugonis de Burdet HUgo de Burdet omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis salutem Sciatis me dedisse Pagano de Alneto cum Emelinâ filiâ meâ villam meam de Maydford tam liberam quà m illam recepi ex Donatione Domini mei Willielmi Regis honorificè haereditariè ab omni servitio salvo quod ad Dominum Regem pertinet sibi Haeredibus suis de dictâ Emelina exeuntibus in perpetuum His Testibus Domino Stephano de Valoniis Domino Ricardo de Lusoris Ricardo de Alno Thomâ filio Johannis Ernulpho de Eggelfeld Henrico de Bradden Herveyo filio Ricardi Stephano filio Thomae Ricardo Camerario Hugone filio Ernulphi Johanne filio Pagani Thoma Camerario Willielmo Clerico Charta Pagani de Alneto PAganus de Alneto Omnibus hominibus suis amicis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Notum sit vobis me dedisse concessisse assentiente Uxore meâ Emelinâ Henrico filio meo primogenito Herberto filio meo pro homagio suo Terram meam in Lavendenâ per Servitium tertiae partis Militis liberè quietè honorificè pro omnibus Servitiis quare volo firmiter praecipio Quòd praedictus Herbertus habeat praedictam Terram de me haeredibus meis cum omnibus pertinentiis praedictae Terrae pertinentibus in omnibus rebus per praenominatum Servitium hanc Terram Ego Paganus de Alneto haeredes mei warrantizabimus praenominato Herberto filio meo haeredibus suis His Testibus Philippo de Clunes Thomâ de Lichebury Roberto de Cameris Rogero filio Roberti Willielmo fratre ejus Philippo filio Rogeri Radulpho parvo Nicolao Beco Thomâ de Bosumer Monasticon Anglicanum Pars secunda Folio 231. To a Charter of King Henry the First giving Lands to St. Peter and St. Maries in Exeter is a Witness Herbertus de Alneto Historiae Normannorum Scriptores antiqui pag. 1033. in the Catalogue of their Names that came over with the Conqueror Hugo de Burdet In eodem Libro William Burdet held Lands in Normandy in Ballia de Bleville Burtons Description of Leicestershire Folio 196. Sir William Burdet undertakes a Voyage to the Holy Land about the End of Henry the Second In eodem Libro Folio 32. Sir William and Sir Robert Burdet Served in the long Wars of King Edward the First In eodem Libro Folio 197. Sir Nicholas Burdet Governour of Eureux and Chief Butler of Normandy was Slain at the Battel of Pontoize In eodem Libro in eodem Folio Thomas Burdet was Beheaded by King Edward the Fourth for his faithful Friendship to George Duke of Clarence under pretence of the words spoken concerning the Horns of the white Buck of Arrow HENRY of ALNETO Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Henrici de Alneto NOtum sit omnibus hominibus meis amicis Quòd Ego Henricus de Alneto concedo Sigilli mei munimine confirmo Donationem quam Robertus filius Durandi Gilbertus Haeres suus secerunt Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi de Northampton Canonicis ejusdem loci in perpetuam Eleemosynam scilicet quatuor acras Terrae ad Pirum propter quam Donationem Canonici praedicti dederunt quatuordecem Solidos sicuti Charta sua testatur Praeterea confirmo praedictae Ecclesiae octo acras Terrae unam de Bosco quas Herbertus Frater meus dedit praedictae Ecclesiae in perpetuam Eleemosynam propter quam Donationem Canonici dederunt ei Uxori ejus de cujus dote fuit illa Terra viginti duos Solidos sicuti Charta Herberti Domini sui testatur Confirmo etiam dictae Ecclesiae unam acram Terrae quam Ricardus de Papiâ dedit Canonicis ejusdem Ecclesiae in Eleemosynam perpetuam quae jacet in Pixhullâ juxta octo acras quas Herbertus dedit eis propter quam dederunt eidem Ricardo duos solidos Hujus Confirmationis sunt Testes Willielmus Sacerdos de Brumham Ricardus Sacerdos de Turveiâ Willielmus Sacerdos de Stevinton Willielmus de Blosvillâ Alexander Dalnod Radulphus Mansell Nicolaus de Staggesden Charta Radulphi de Kaines OMnibus Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Filiis hoc Scriptum praesens visuris vel audituris Radulphus de Kaines Salutem Sciatis quòd obligatus ad respondendum non possum dediscere quin praesens fui quando bonae memoriae Dominus Willielmus de Lusoris Chartâ quadam Authenticâ Sigilli sui Munimine roboratâ Dedit concessit Domino Henrico de Alneto Terras suas in Lichborough Everton sibi haeredibus suis ex corpore Agnetae filiae ipsius Willielmi procreandis Eâ Conditione Quòd si pervenisset ut dictus Dominus Henricus obiret sine haerede de corpore praedictae Agnetae procreatae tunc Terrae istae redirent sibi Domino Willielmo rectis haeredibus suis In cujus rei Testimonium Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Widone filio Walerani
sancto Georgio Willielmo Mancell Galfrido de Bosco Petro Matherbe Andreo de Aversham Thomâ filio Stephani Petro Camerario Roberto Harlac Concerning the House of Ardres Histoire de la Maison de Gand de Guisnes par Andre du Chesne Pag. 29. ARnoal premier du nom Seigneur d'Ardres succeda Arnoal dit le Viel fitz de luy de Mahaut de Marquise sa premiere femme du vivant de son pere il fut introduit par Eustache Conte de Bologne au Service de Guilliaume le Conquerant Roy d'Angleterre qui en recompense de ses bons agreables Services luy donna plusieurs belles terres en son Royaume Dans la mesme Histoire Pag. 97. Enfans naturells d'Arnoal 2d dit le Viel Seigneur d'Ardres ELinant d'Ardres nasquist en Angleterre au Temps qu' Arnoal son pere y demeuroit suivant la cour de Guilliaume le Conquerant pour sa Valleur merita d'estre Honoré de l'Ordre de Chevallerie Guilliaume d'Ardres fut aussi procree en Angleterre faict Chevallier Preuves du livre troisieme de l' Histoire de la Maison de Guisnes Pag. 149. Quomodo Arnoldus filius Arnoldi acquisivit Terram in Anglia ARnoldus autem filius ejus adolescentes jam exsuperans annos in robur coepit crescere virile jam factus miles patris sui Arnoldi per omnia mores sequens vestigia à patre parum aut nihil in militiae gloriâ discrepare videbatur Fuit igitur Arnoldus filius Arnoldi miles in armis strenuissimus Unde opitulante Boloniensi Comite Eustachio inter commilitones Anglorum Regis Willielmi qui Angliam bello armis in virorum viribus debellavit acquisivit annumeratus est primus ei plurimis servivit annis Vocatus est autem ab eodem Rege Willielmo Gaufridus frater ejusdem Arnoldi qui simul sub Hectorinae Probitatis Clypeo diutius ei servierunt Servientes igitur ambo fratres Arnoldus videlicet Gaufridus jam dicto Regi tantam ejus adepti sunt gratiam quod praeter quotidiana stipendia munuscula quae ipsis contulit innumerabilia contulit eis in perpetuitatis concessit Feodum Stebingtoniam pertinentias ejus Dokesvuordiam Tropintoniam Ledefordiam Toleshondiam Hoilandiam Interim autem dum in Anglia in Servitio Regis moram faceret Arnoldus tres filios in tribus puellis genuit Quarum Elinantus Willielmus milites fuerunt Quomodo Arnoldus senex dedit Gaufrido Fratri suo Terram de Markisia Gaufridus reliquit ei partem Terrae suae in Anglia Pag. 157. ARnoldus autem filius ejusdem Arnulphi Advocati cognomento senex vel vetulus acceptâ satis prudenter de morte patris consolatione Ardeae Dominus effectus est Ardensis Ecclesiae praepositus commutatâ quantoties à fratre suo Gaufrido comparata quam pro militiae servitio Munus Munium à Rege supranominato Angliae in Anglia perquisierant simul acceperant Terrâ fratri suo Gaufrido Terram Markisiae cum pertinentiis ejus quae ex parte matris ejus ei contigerat haereditario jure concessit habendam Sicque Gaufrido haeredibus ejus deputata est Markisia Arnoldus igitur Ardeae factus Dominus Flandrensis Curiae compar Socius Flandrensem Curiam frequentavit Flandrensium Nobiles quanto potuit studio honoravit ut eorum Opitulatione Hinniacenses Exclusenses ipsum perfidiae nefas dedignantes in illum contumaces rebelles apud Flandrensem Comitem maxime sibi acquireret A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY OF THE House of BROC Justified by Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Broc were Argent upon a Bend Sable a Luer Or. Of the Name Antiquity Greatness Succession Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Broc ALthough we cannot find the Original of the House of Broc nor under what Advantages it came into this Kingdom yet in the first mention thereof it appears with such Prerogatives as cannot but render it very considerable The Chief of it Sir Ralph de Broc is represented to Us in Story to have been a Lord of Castles Mannors Lands Lordships and great Possessions to have been trusted with the Government of Royal Places to have been a Valiant a Faithful and a Renowned Knight and to have been of near Confidence Trust and Employment under one of the Greatest of the English Kings His own Alliance was very advantagious that of his Children contracted with Great Men and Famous Houses and the Marriages of his whole Succession Honourable and Useful There had been in the Possession of this Family from the Reign of King Henry the Second at what time lived Sir Ralph de Broc to the twenty ninth Year of Edward the Third when the Lands thereof fell to Heirs Female the Castle and Lordship of Agenet in the County of Suffolk the Lands of Staplehurst and Cambdene in Kent the Mannor of Fealburgh in Hampshire the Lordship of Ravensdene in Bedfordshire the Lands of Bridsthorne Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham in the County of Buckingham the Mannor of Shephale in Hertfordshire with those of Treversham and Fulborne in the County of Cambridge So as the Antiquity of this Family considered the Esteem wherein divers famous Knights thereof were held by several of the Greatest Kings its Opulence and the Noble Houses whereunto it was Allied it cannot but be thought Worthy by its Bloud and Arms to Honour any Family that shall be descended from it In order whereunto the subsequent Succinct Genealogy is here transmitted to Posterity RANULPH de BROC Lord of the Castle of Agenet and Constable of the Castle and Honour of Saltwood SIR RALPH de BROC Lord of the Castle of Agenet in the County of Suffolk lived in the Reign of King Henry the Second and by his Fortune and his Valour acquired a particular Interest in the Favour and Confidence of that King After the disgrace of Henry of Essex who was vanquished in Combat by Robert of Montford by whom he had been Challenged for having cast down the Kings Standard and fled at the Fight of Kinsilth in Wales the Constableship of the Castle and Honour of Saltwood having been confiscate with the rest of his Estate and Offices was by the Kings Bounty confer'd upon Sir Ralph de Broc who had done remarkable Service in that Occasion wherein after he had been sometime setled it fell out that the famous Becket having left the Seals and Ministry of England and become Archbishop of Canterbury began to competize with his old Master from a pretended Sovereignty of Spiritual Jurisdiction He did endeavour not only to uphold all the pretences of the Church to Powers that did much diminish the Authority of the Crown but did stretch them to the utmost Rigour and in matters wherein his Predecessors had submitted to the foregoing resolute Princes
he renewed old Claims much to the displeasure and discontent of the King Among the rest he revived an ancient pretence of the See of Canterbury to the Castle and Honour of Saltwood which Sir Ralph de Broc for his own as well as the Kings Interest did peremptorily oppose From hence great and personal Enmities did arise between the Archbishop and himself to that Degree as the King in the subsequent variances that fell out afterward between Becket and him could reasonably find no man so proper to oppose unto his insolent Arrogance as Sir Ralph de Broc who had a Reputation and Interest in that County Superiour to most of his time and the Conscience of a Souldier not apt to be puzl'd or obstructed with Scruples incident to men of milder Callings hence it was that he was made the man of Terrour of Seizure and Chastisement to the Archbishop and all his Adherents when their Endeavours were in Opposition to the King and his Authority and this was the reason of all the reprobate Characters he did receive from several Monkish Authors of that time which may be perused amongst the proofs He died notwithstanding happy and safe from all their Censures in the favour and service of his Prince and in Marriage of a Lady called Damata the Daughter of one William de Gorom who by the Stile of his Charter appears to have been a man of much Dignity and Power in those days from whom he received in free Gift to him his Wife and their Heirs the Land of Staplehurst Their Issue Robert de Broc Edelina de Broc Married to Stephen of Turnam a great Baron and in much Authority in the Reign of King John being at that time Seneschall of Poictou in the Kingdom of France ROBERT the Son of Ralph de Broc at the Arrival of the Insolent Archbishop out of banishment received early marks of his Revenge and Indignation For upon Christmas day in the Seventeenth Year of King Henry the Second we find he was Excommunicated by his own mouth together with Nigell de Sackville for some Offences pretended to have been done to that Prelate during the late Contests whose Death soon after Executed by certain Knights of the Court set himself and his Family out of the reach of his farther displeasure This Sir Robert de Broc became a famous Knight and in much Employment under King Richard the First in whose Reign we find he was stiled Marshal of England He Married to his first Wife Margaret of Beauchamp or de bello Campo one of the Daughters of Richard de Beauchamp who gave in free Marriage besides other things certain Lands and Rents in the Town of Chestersham His Second Wife was Margery de Crec who becoming the Heir of Walter her Father by occasion that her Brother William happened to suffer under the Laws brought unto him the Forrestership of Cannoc and the Lordship of Misterton in the County of Warwick which preferment was procured unto him by the particular favour of the King Issue by his first Wife Laurence de Broc Issue by his second Wife Margery Married to Hugh de Loges to whom descended Misterton and all the Lands of their Mothers Inheritance SIR Laurence de Broc flourished in the Reign of King John and King Henry the Third to whose Interests he did constantly adhere The Reputation and Authority which he had in the Counties of Suffolk Cambridge Huntington and Buckingham were of no small use to the Affairs of the Crown during the various Troubles of that long Reign He augmented notwithstanding the Fortune left him by his Predecessors having purchased the Mannors of Bridsthorn Herdwick and Wedon from the Prior of Saint Saviours of Bermundsey and received from Robert Mallet a Lord of that Age in Marriage with his Daughter Milicent certain Lands in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge on condition That if they did not prove to the value they were asserted to be worth their Deficiency was then to be made good out of the Lands that were held by the said Robert Mallet in Quenton in the County of Buckingham Their Issue Hugh de Broc SIR Hugh de Broc succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships and we find he followed the famous King Edward the First in divers of his Wars his Name being upon the Lists of several Expeditions which were made in that Reign into Wales Gascony and Scotland He Married Agnes de Montepiconis a Lady descended from one of the most ancient and Noble Families that was among the Normans as whose Predecessors had been Lords of the Honour which bare that name in the Dutchy of Normandy and whose immediate Ancestor came over with King William the First in quality of his Dapifer or Sewer an Office of Eminent Dignity at that time in the Kings House Their Issue Laurence de Broc SIR Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale after the decease of his first Wife whose Christian Name was Ellen Married another Lady of the same appellation that was the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot and of Cassandra one of the Heirs of the Famous Knight Sir Giles of Argentine who gave him the Mannor of Maudlins and other Lands as a Portion to which end a Fine was suffer'd in the Thirtieth Year of Edward the First In the third Year of King Edward the Second a Patent pass'd unto this Sir Laurence de Broc to have Free-Warren and all the Rights thereof upon his Lands in Chessham Aumondsham Bridsthorn Hardwick and Wedon in the County of Buckingham and in the seventh of the same Reign he Levied a Fine to his Son Ralph and Elizabeth his Wife He lived unto the Reign of King Edward the Third and left to Inherit his Lands and Lordships Sir Ralph de Broc Lord of Shephale OF this Ralph de Broc or the Transactions of his Life there remains little Testimony So whether he died early or that the Evidences of them cannot appear by reason of the length of time since the Alienation of these Lands it is uncertain but true it is That in him did terminate this Name and Family who having Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Hussey left no Male-Issue and only three Daughters Joanne Married to Thomas Rokesby that died without Issue Elena Married to Edmund Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Agnes Married to Sir Henry of Brussels ELena de Broc was in the Seven and twentieth Year of King Edward the Third Married to Edmund Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of divers other Lordships She brought into his House the Moity of all her Fathers Lands there accruing to her Husband for her Share in Cambridgshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborn in Buckinghamshire divers Lands in Elsburg Bridsthorn Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham with sundry other Lands in Hartfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephale Their Issue Robert Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Sr. RANULPH de BROC Governor of the Castle of Agenet
xiii iv 0 0 De les tenants de Berkhamstede 0 xxxvi 0 0 0 De la dame Portrer 0 viii 0 0 0 De Johanne Pedifat 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo Cohesdele 0 ii vii 0 0 De Johanne Redbourn 0 ii 0 0 0 De Johanne Cokevyle 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo de Asheld 0 xiv 0 0 0 De Roberto at Shore 0 xvi x 0 0 Ove lour homages services custumez forpris Grenelands iii. measons devant nomes Pars Edmundi Mordaunt Elene sa femme ET les avanditz Edmunde Elyn averont del ' heritage Elene le Maner de Shephale ove les appartenantz les terres de Rigmerfeld Blakelond avant nomes jades parcel de Stevenach de la rent du Mannor de Maudelyn vii l. xiv s. 1 d. ob quadrans Cest assavoir  l. s. d. ob q. De Waltero Powell 0 0 x 0 0 De Johanne Sokereseyn 0 iii x 0 0 De John 0 ii 0 0 0 De Nicolao Oysell 0 vi i 0 0 De Johanne Mollyns Chevalier 0 viii viii 0 0 De Roberto Gravely 0 ii 0 0 0 De Johanne Carrier 0 0 iii 0 0 De Johanne 0 0 xviii 0 0 De Johanne Godele 0 iv iv 0 0 De Waltero Garnhon 0 0 xviii 0 0 De Stevenne Marten 0 0 iii 0 0 De Johanne Gardiner 0 0 xvii 0 0 De Johanne Drake 0 ii viii 0 0 Del molen lable de Mussenden 0 xv 0 0 0 De Waltero Blakwell 0 vi vi i 0 De Thoma Shepherd 0 0 xvii 0 0 De Johanne Blakwell 0 xi i 0 0 De Juliana Blakwell 0 0 xv 0 0 De Rauff Glarnik 0 0 xxii 0 0 De Elizabetha Blakwell 0 0 xx 0 0 De Raff Coke 0 viii v i 0 De Johanne White 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo May. 0 0 ix 0 0 De Johanne Cole 0 0 ix 0 0 Et de les tenantz de Esylbirghe iii ix viii 0 0 Ove lour homages services lour Custumes ET aussy si les advantdits Thomas Johan Edmunde Elyne ou aucun d'eux sont distourbes par les fermiers de Stevenach de Shephale de mesme les Mannors à la fyne de v. ans apres la fesance de cestes en deinz le terme de leur ferme de xviii Marcz par an donque voet ladite Agneyse que soit à volonte les avantdits Thomas Johan Edmunde Elyne de reentre les Tenements advantdits aller à novell departisment nient contredisants Et touts les reversions de quelle partie que eux sont sont purparties entre les parties avantdits quant eus escherront ou null d'eux escherra quant iiii s. de rente issant de la terre de William le Shepherd xx s. rente issant de la terre que Thomas Trayerr tient demeureront en commun entre les parteners avantdits à departir quant il leur plaira En Tesmoignage de quelle chose les parteners susdits entrechangeablement ont mis leur seaulx Date à Maudelyn le lundy prochain devant la feste de la Conversion de St. Paul L'an du Reigne Edward troisieme apres la Conqueste vintisme Out of an Ancient Pedigree among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow IN tempore Regis Henrici secundi Vir erat praepotens maximae Authoritatis Nomine Ranulphus de Broc qui Castellanus erat Castri de Agenet Constabularius Castri Honoris de Saltwood Iste Ranulphus habuit exitum Robertum de Broc qui suo tempore Marescallus fuit Angliae floruit regnantibus Ricardo primo Johanne Regibus Robertus habuit exitum Laurentium de Broc qui fuit tempore Henrici tertii qui habuit exitum Hugonem qui fuit plenae aetatis anno tertio Edwardi primi postea Hugo habuit exitum Laurentium qui fuit decimo quinto Edwardi Secundi ante qui quidem Laurentius habuit exitum Ranulphum qui duxit in uxorem Elizabetham Hussey qui peperit Elenam quae fuit uxor Edmundi Mordaunt Agnetem uxorem Domini Henrici de Bruxells Johannam praedicta Johanna obiit sine prole A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Latimer were Gules a Cross Fleure Or. Of the Name Antiquity Descent Greatness Succession Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Latimer that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham THE Name of Latimer had ever of old in all Histories Charters and other Occasions of being mentioned the Addition of le preceding to it as Willielmus le Latimer and the English of that word which is in its proper Language Latimer is by Antiquaries rendred to be Interpreter Also by all the Histories Records and Catalogues that mention the Lords and Knights who enter'd England with the Conquerour it is testified that a Nobleman bearing this Name whether from his Office or otherwise was a Companion in that Glorious Enterprize From which time they flourished upon the Lands and Lordships acquired in that Occasion so as about the Reign of King Richard the First they became rank'd among the greatest and most Eminent of the Nobility of England and for several Generations there were not any had a greater share in the Commands Employments and Counsels of the Crown it producing Famous and Victorious Generals Wise and Happy Counsellors and Officers that prov'd of great Honour and Advantage to all the Affairs wherein they were imployed From William Lord Latimer who was Chief of this House and a great Baron in the Reign of King Edward the First did descend those Latimers of which I treat by Sir John Latimer his second Son who were Lords of Govis a Noble Signiory in the Dutchy of Normandy under the Jurisdiction of the Balliage of Caen of the Mannors and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Winterborne Till Rivell Bocland and Whitchurch in the County of Dorset Cravestock with Lands in Estshene Mortlack and Wimbledon in the County of Surrey They had Possessions in Bisbey and Hartsned in Hertfordshire they had the Lordship of Wolwich in Kent and of the free passage over the River of Thames in that place In possession of most whereof they long liv'd with great Honour often performing with much Reputation the principal Offices of those Countries when they were call'd unto them for the Service of their Kings and the Kingdom and unto these at last became Heir and Successor John the first Lord Mordaunt by his Mother the Lady Edith sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer the last of this Branch who for their Arms bare ever Gules a Crosse Fleure Or being the same with that was given by the Ancient and Illustrious House of which they were Descended WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY THE Original and History of the Ancient Lords of the Name of Latimer having been the
into Possession of the Lordships of Estpullham Westpullham Childeckford Divelish Duntish Winterborn Whitechurch and Newton in the County of Dorset and of Estoket in Somersetshire His Wife was Margaret de Peche the Daughter of Sir William de Peche Knight who was Descended from that Gilbert de Peche that was a great * Look the Barons Letter to the Pope Baron in the time of King Edward the First Their Issue Sir John Latimer SIR JOHN LATIMER who is stiled in his Charters Lord of Estpullham had a Contest with his own Father about certain Lands which by Articles Sir Robert Latimer had bound himself to establish upon his Heirs at the time of his Marriage with Margaret the Mother of this Sir John who was the Daughter of Sir William Peche Knight by reason Sir Robert had burnt the Writings whereupon the Interest of these Lands did depend to make them appear free for an Advantage he intended to himself in a second Marriage which he did at that time design There is Extant a Bill Exhibited by Sir John Latimer complaining thereof to Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham and High Chancellor of England in the sixth year of King Henry the Fifth This Sir John Latimer Married Catharine the Daughter of Sir John Pypard by whom he left Issue Sir Nicholas Latimer SIR Nicholas Latimer we find to have been High Sheriff of the County of Dorset once in the thirty second of Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth and in those turbulent and difficult times this Office might have been indeed properly called Onus cum honore for the men so imployed were at that time sought out among the richest the most popular and the most powerful that the Country would not only obey at home but follow abroad and men then depending upon the Bounty and Hospitality of the Great their Inclinations and Example were of more force than all the Cases of Law and Conscience The Prudence notwithstanding and good Fortune of Sir Nicholas Latimer did happily conduct him through the violent Reigns of three very active Princes King Henry King Edward and King Richard the Third and brought him peacefully to rest with his Fathers in the Twentieth year of King Henry the Seventh at a very great Age although with that Circumstance of leaving no Heir Male to Inherit his Lands and Family and for only Issue of the Lady Joan his Wife the Daughter of Sir John Hoddy Edith Latimer Lady Mordaunt EDITH LATIMER Lady MORDAVNT Lady of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Estoket and other Lands and Lordships EDITH LATIMER was by the Consent and Direction of her Father Married to Sir John Mordaunt in the fourteenth year of King Edward the Fourth between whom and Sir Nicholas Latimer several Agreements were made concerning his Inheritance But the hope of Male Issue and his Engagement in a second Marriage caused him so to protract the Settlement as being surpriz'd with Death he left his Estate under several great Incumbrances which notwithstanding the Kings Interest in the same upon pretence of some Debts due to him from the said Sir Nicholas were at last overcome and mastered by the Industry and Prudence of Sir John Mordaunt and the Lands and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford and Estoket left by him to the Lords Mordaunts that were his Successors She outliv'd her first Husband and was again Married to Sir Thomas Carew of Devonshire who was slain in a Sea-Fight on the Coast of Britain in the fourth year of King Henry the Eighth being at that time Captain of the Noble Ship called the Regent which was burnt in the same Occasion Issue by her first Husband John the first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joan Mordaunt Married to Sir Giles Strangeways of Dorsetshire WILLIAM Lord Latimer Surnamed le Riche ALICIA de Ledet William Ld. Latimer Sibill de Huntingfeild Sr. Iohn Latimer Second Sonne Ioane de Govis Sr. Nicolas Latimer William Ld. Latimer Elizabeth de Botetort Sr. Robert Latimer Catherine Hull William Latimer William Ld. Latimer Chamberlaine to E. 3 Elizabeth Fitz Allan Sr. Robert Latimer Margeret Peche Margeret Latimer Elizabeth Latimer Daughter and Heire Iohn Lord Nevill Sr. Iohn Latimer Catherine Pipard Sr Nicolas Latimer Ioane Hoddy Edith Latimer Sr. Iohn Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY Hollinshead Page ON the Kings part these persons are named to stand with him against the Barons First Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Hugh Bigod Lord Chief Justice Philip Basset William de Valence Jeffrey de Lusignian Peter de Savoy Robert Wallerand John Mancell Jeffrey Langley John Gray William Latimer Henry Percy Doctor Powel's History of Wales Page 371. WHen the Archbishop could not conclude a Peace he denounced the Prince and his Complices Accursed Then the King sent his Army by Sea to the Isle of Man or Anglesey which they won and slew such as resisted them for the chiefest men served the King as their Oath was So they came over against Bangor where the Arm of the Sea called Menay which divideth the Isle from the main Land is narrowest at the place called Moely-donn and there made a Bridge of Boats and Planks over the Water where before Julius Agricola did the like when he subdued the Isle to the Romans and not between Man and Britain as Polydore Virgil ignorantly affirms This Bridge accomplished so that well threescore men might pass over in a Front William Latimer with a great number of the best Souldiers and Lucas de Thany Steward of Gascony with his Gascoins and Spaniards whereof a great number was come to serve the King passed over the Bridge and there saw no stir of Enemies but as soon as the Sea began to flow down came the Welshmen from the Hills and set upon them fiercely and either slew or chased them to the Sea to drown themselves for the Water was so high they could not attain the Bridge saving William Latimer alone whose Horse carried him to the Bridge and so he escaped Henricus Knighton Canonicus Leicestriensis de Eventibus Angliae Pag. 2497. HIS auditis mox Rex Edwardus quingentos armatos viginti mille peditum misit in Vasconium cum Domino Johanne de Sancto Johanne qui ejusdem Terrae olim Senescallus extiterat cum Domino Johanne de Britanniâ illo Milite strenuissimo Willielmo le Latimer qui apud Portsmouth omnibus ad Expeditionem tantam necessariis paratis posuerunt se in mare circa Festum beati Petri ad vincula irruente vento contrario dispersae sunt naves per partes Cornubiae iterúmque collectae apud Plumeneye circa Festum beati Dionysii ventis vela iterum relaxabant post multa variáque Tempestatum discrimina
find no man who can speak in it to your profit But as touching the Pedigree of John Camell and Richard Garnsay I have Examined as followeth that is to say Richard Garnsay Son and Heir of the aforesaid Richard sayes that he once had certain Evidence concerning the Land that Moleyns laid claim unto which Evidence with a Release made by him he delivered to Sir Nicholas Latimer promising him thirty three shillings four pence which money he never had notwithstanding at my desire if you think his Title may do you good or profit he is contented to do for you as much as in him lies and farther I cannot know of either of your Pedigrees but as I have afore written to you Also as touching John Reade that you writ to me which gave Moleyns the Land in Fee Tayl I can in no wise hear of the same Reade but the Country sayes that one Moleyns was in possession a while there but he was Disseised by Sir Nicholas Latimer again but farther I cannot know Also my Lady your Mother hath given Giles Peny the Buck that you wrote to her for Sir Also I have moved my Lady many times that you might have Latimers Lands to Farm which in no wise she will agree unto yet I have done therein as much as I can for she sayes that she will be Mistress of her own Lands during her Life Farther I pray you to have me recommended to my Sister your Wife and to my Uncle William Mordaunt And I yours to my little power as knoweth Jesus who always preserve you From Dorchester the third day of October Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi quinto By me Yours Giles Strangeways The Petition of the Lady Edith Carewe To the King our Soveraign Lord. IN most humble wise beseecheth Your Highness and most Noble Grace your poor Oratrice Dame Edith Carewe Widow sometime the wife of Sir John Mordaunt Knight That whereas the same Sir John Mordaunt at the time of his Death left and gave to your said Oratrice then his Wife in Plate Jewels ready Money and Stuff to the value of a Thousand Marks and above to have to her own proper Use and Behove By force whereof she was thereof possessed accordingly and afterward she being possessed thereof took to Husband your late Servant Sir John Carewe Knight which Sir John Carewe afterwards by Chance of War was perished and lost on the Sea in the Service of Your Grace At which time he lost not only his Personage on the Sea but also lost his substance of such Goods as to your said Oratrice was left by her former Husband which the said Sir John Carewe then had with him to Sea both Plate Money and also his Apparel as well necessary Apparel to his Body as other Apparel that he had bought with the said Goods for the defence of his Body in your said Wars By means whereof your said Oratrice is left little or nothing worth in substance of Goods And the aforesaid Sir John Carewe in his life borrowed and had of your Grace by way of Prest Two Hundred Pounds for the repayment whereof he was and stood bound by his Writing Obligatory to the Use of your Grace And so it is Gracious Sovereign Lord that the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury as Ordinary hath sequestred and made Seizure of all the Goods that belonged to the said Sir John Carewe within this your Realm at the time of his death which Goods by a true Inventory taken have been extended and valued to the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And forasmuch as your said Oratrice is now left a poor Widow by reason of the Premisses and never had nor hath any Preferment nor other Benefit by the said Sir John Carewe neither in Possessions nor in Goods in consideration whereof That it would please your Highness of your abundant grace and benign pity to direct your gracious Letters missive to the said Archbishop of Canterbury reciting by the same Letters That the mind and pleasure of your Grace is to accept and take the aforesaid Hundred and Fourscore Pounds in full recompence and satisfaction as well of the said Two Hundred Pounds as of all other Debts which the said Sir John Carewe ought unto your Grace at the time of his Death which Debts ought to have first preferment in payment by the Order of your Laws before any payment of any Debts that the said Sir John Carewe ought at the time of his death to any persons And further by the same your Gracious Letters to command the aforesaid Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver or cause to be delivered the aforesaid Goods attaining the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds to your said Oratrix to have to her own proper use of the gift of you And farther that it may please your Gracious Highness to direct your Warrant to be signed with your most victorious hand unto your Servant John Heyron commanding him by the same to deliver or cause to be delivered the foresaid Writings Obligatory of Two Hundred Pounds to your said Oratrix to the intent that she may deliver them to the said Archbishop of Canterbury for his discharge as Ordinary of and for the payment and delivery of the said Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And this at the Reverence of God and in the way of Charity And your said Oratrix shall pray to God for the prosperous continuance of your Royal Estate and for the preservation of the same The Kings Warrant signed with his hand to Thomas Lucas to release unto Sir John Mordaunt the Latimers Lands that had stood ingaged to King Henry the Seventh for a thousand pounds HENRY the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To Thomas Lucas Esquire Greeting Where ye and the Right Reverend Father in God our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councellor Richard Bishop of Winchester with Sir William Gascoigne Knight and others now Deceased by divers Writs of Entry in the post recovered the Mannors of Devilish Estpullham and Duntish with the Appurtenances in the County of Dorset and certain other Lands and Tenements in Devilish Estpullham and Duntish aforesaid Bokeland Helton and Milborn Saint Andrew in the said County of Dorset And also the Mannor of Estoket with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset the Mannor of Turvey with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and also certain other Lands and Tenements in Turvey aforesaid And also the Mannor of Burnton and Newton per mare with the Appurtenances in the County of Northumberland and certain other Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the said County of Northumberland against Sir John Mordaunt by the name of John Mordaunt Esquire John Jenor and others as by the Records thereof exemplified under the Seal of our Common-Bench and also by two Releases which Releases the said John Mordaunt shall shew unto you signed with our hand
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
tertia parte dictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cùm acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae de Dominis Capitalibus feodorum liberè quietè bene in pace Jure haereditario imperpetuum per servitia inde debita consueta Et Ego praedictus Robertus haeredes mei omnia praedicta terras tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis unà cum tertia parte supradictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cum acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus imperpetuum defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio concessio praesentis Cartae meae Confirmatio ratae stabiles imperpetuum permaneant istam praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Willielmo de Mandeville Johanne Hussege Roberto Plagenet Waltero Setwale Rogero Marnion Roberto Swotyng Johanne Bernard aliis Data apud Westbury die Veneris proximo ante Festum beatae Margaretae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi Nono Hollinshed his Chronicle of England Page 329. THere were Letters intercepted about the same time which a Messenger brought out of Scotland three closed and three open for there were six in all The King sent them to the Archbishop of Canterbury who by his commandment published them in open Audience at London The first was closed with the Seal of the Lord Thomas Randulfe Earl of Murrey Lord of Annandale and of Man Lieutenant to Robert le Bruce King of Scotland which contained a Sase-conduct for Sir Thomas Topclive Chaplain and one to be Associate with him to come into Scotland and to return from thence in safety The second was sealed with the Seal of Sir James Dowglas for a like Safe-conduct for the same persons The third was closed with the Seal of the said Earl of Murrey for the Safe-conduct of the Lord John de Mowbray and the Lord John de Clifford and forty Horses with their Pages for their safe coming unto the said Earl into Scotland for their abiding there and returning back The fourth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed to King Arthur The fifth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed unto the Lord Ralph Nevill The sixth had no direction but the tenour thereof was this as followeth You shall understand my Lord that the communication beforehand had is now brought to effect for the Earl of Hereford the Lords Roger Damoriae Hugh de Audelie the younger Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford John Gifford Henry Teis Thomas Mauduit John de Willington and all others are come to Pomfret and are ready to make you good assurance so that you will perform Covenant with them to wit for your coming to aid us and to go with us into England and Wales to live and dye with us in our quarrel We therefore beseech you to assign us day and place where we may meet and we will be ready to accomplish fully our business and we beseech you to make us a Safe-conduct for thirty Horses that we may with safety come to your parts Again in the same Chronicle Page 330. IN this Fight was slain the Earl of Hereford the Lord William de Sullye with Sir Roger de Bunghfeild and divers others and there were taken Thomas Earl of Lancaster the Lord Roger Clifford Son to that Roger which dyed in the Battel of Bannocksborne in Scotland the Lord Gilbert Talbot the Lord John Mowbray the Lord Hugh de Willington the Lord Thomas Mauduit the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Philip Darey the Lord Thomas Wither the Lord Henry de Willington the Lord Hugh de Knovill the Lord Philip de Beche the Lord Henry de Leiburne the Lord Henry de Bradburne the Lord John de Beckes the Lord Thomas Lovell the Lord William Fitz-William Robert de Waterville John de Strickland Odnell Heron Walter Pavely of Stretton and a great number of other Esquires and Gentlemen This Battel was fought on the fifteenth day of March in the year 1322. after the accompt of them that begin the year at the Circumcision which was in the said fifteenth year of this Kings Reign And again Page 331. of the same Chronicle ON the same day the Lord William Tuchet the Lord William Fitz-William the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Henry Bradborne and the Lord William Chenie Barons with John Page an Esquire were drawn and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortly after Roger Lord Clifford John Lord Mowbray and Sir Gosein de Eevill Barons were drawn and hanged at York At Bristol were executed in like manner Sir Henry de Willington and Sir Henry Mountfort Baronets And at Gloucester the Lord John Gifford and Sir William Elmebrige Knight And at London the Lord Henry Teies Baron At Winchelsey Sir Thomas Culpepper Knight At Windsor the Lord Francis de Aldham Baron And at Canterbury the Lord Bartholomew de Badelismere and the Lord Bartholomew de Ashborneham Barons Also at Cardif in Wales Sir William Fleminge Knight was executed Divers were executed in their Countries as Sir Thomas Mauduit and others Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem Pag. 2547. Ex Henrici Knighton Canonici Leicestrensis Chronico de Eventibus Angliae Part of the Charge against Hugh le Despenser at his Arraignment ET Faitez prendre mon tres honourable Seignour le bon Count de Lancastre Thomas que estoit cousin Germain à nostre Seigneur le Roy de ses freres Uncle à tres honourable de France de sa soere Madame Isabelle Royne d' Angleterre si lui faitez faussement emprisoner despoilier touz lez sons en sa sale proprement deins sa Castele de Pomfrete par vostre reall povare que vous avez purpris nostre Seigneur le Roy luy faitez juger par une faulse recorde encontre leye resone la grant Chartre Ensi faites mordrer martirizer moirir de dure morte piteouse Et cest malvys cruelté tirantie faistez al si digne persone ne vous poez sauler del sanck dez cristenez espandier Ency faitez en mesme tiele journeye pour mon dit Seigneur plus tormentyr sez Baronz sez chivaleuz se enaux vennancez trayner pendre puis juger al mort par cel fausse recorde encontre leye resone pendre dispituosement sans mercy come Monsieur Wareyne del Lyle Monsieur William Tocher Monsieur Thomas Maydut Monsieur Henry de Bradburne Monsieur William Chornel Monsieur Bartholomew de Ashburne à Londres Monsieur Henry Teies à Windesore Monsieur Francis de Aldham à Gloucester le Seignour Gifforde Monsieur Roger de Elmesbrigge à Bristoll Monsieur Henry de Willington Monsieur
Veere Lord of Thrapston and Adington unto whose posterity as you will find for default of Issue in the Heirs of Henry and Margery descended afterwards all the Lands of the Greenes and the Mauduits SIR HENRY GREENE by the death of John his Father became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton whereof were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle of those of Grafton Hardwick Sudborow with Lands in Harringworth and Irtlingburgh all of them in the County of Northampton of Wamingdon and Emerton in the County of Buckingham Chalton in Bedfordshire Buckworth in Huntingtonshire of Werminster Westbury Lye Dychurch and other Lands in Wiltshire and of Grateley in the County of Southampton which together did at that time make up one of the most considerable Estates that was then in the possession of any Gentleman in the Kingdom of England He lived upon his Mannor and Lordship of Drayton in the County of Northampton in much estimation and authority the most considerable Office of which Country he did exercise in very difficult and different Reigns being High Sheriff therein in the thirteenth of Henry the Sixth and again in the fifth year of King Edward the Fourth in both whereof he was by his good fortune preserved from that ruine under which many Gentlemen and their Estates did sink through those accidents that were incident to the disastrous partialities of that uncertain Age. He had been engaged in the Marriage of two Wives the first was Constance Pawlett the second Margaret Roos from the first whereof he had no Issue and from the latter only one Daughter named Constance who after having been sought in vain by the greatest men of that Age became at last from her Fathers love to the illustrious House of Buckingham the possession of the Lord John Stafford second Son to the High and Mighty Prince Humphrey Duke of Buckingham for so he was ever styled unto whom she brought all those fair Possessions that were of her Fathers Inheritance CONSTANCE GREENE according to her Fathers intention did after his Death bring to the Possession of her Husband the Lord John Stafford the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of those Lands that had belonged to the Families of the Greenes and the Mauduits which by her Father had been setled upon her and her Heirs so as for default of such they should revert to the right Heirs of Henry Greene. The Lord John Stafford who had been himself as well as the Duke his Father and his Family engaged all along in the Lancastrian Faction in divers of their Battels had yet the fortune upon the establishment of King Edward the Fourth to acquire such a part in the favour of that Valiant and Victorious King as induced him in the ninth year of his Reign to create him Earl of Wiltshire to make him afterwards one of the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter and employ him during his life in several actions of greatest trust and confidence as joyning him a Commissioner with the Earl of Northumberland to treat with the Ambassadors of James the Third King of Scotland upon certain complaints of grievances of both Realms who after having lived in great reputation for valour and prudence departed this life in the thirteenth year of that King leaving Issue by his Wife Constance Edward Stafford Earl of Wiltshire EDWARD Earl of Wiltshire was a Minor at the Death of his Father and his Estate and interests for several years governed by the Executors which we find to have been very great as composed between forty and fifty fair Mannors of the Inheritance of his Father and of his Mother the Lady Constance Greene. When he came to Age he proved a Nobleman of exceeding hopes and much addicted to all the generous ways of Arms and Chivalry but it happened that being earnest to go assist the King at Black-heath field against the Cornish Rebels at that time headed by the Lord Audeley in the thirteenth year of his Reign whither he carried a noble band of men picked out of his Tenants and Countrymen it so fell out as by over-heating himself or other excess of exercise occasioned in that action he fell into such a sickness as could never after be mastered to any degree of recovery and that after having permitted him to languish for some time took him out of this world in the ..... year of his Age and of that Kings Reign the fourteenth He Married Margaret the Daughter of John the second Viscount Lisle by whom he had no Issue so as those fair Lordships and Possessions belonging aforetime to the Mauduits and the Greenes did of course descend to Elizabeth Anne Constance and Etheldred the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that had been Lord of Adington and Thrapston as next of kin to Sir Henry Greene being Grandchildren to his Sister Isabella the Wife of Sir Richard Vere the successors of Margery his other Sister leaving no Issue after them Sr. THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other lands Lordships Sr. Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton Lucie de la Zouch Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Buckton Catharine of Drayto Amabila Greene Sr. Richard Reynes Lord of Clifton Sr. Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Matilda de Manduit Sr. Nicholas Greene Mary Bruce of Exton Margaret Greene William Lord Zouch of Totnes Elenor Greene Sr. Iohn Fitzivilliams of Sprotsburgh Marie Greene Sr. Ieffery Lutterell Iohn Greene Ld. of Drayton by the Death of his brother Margaret Greene of Bridgnorth Rauf Greene Ld. of Drayton Catherine Mallory S. P. Elizabeth Greene Thomas Cotton of Lancashire Margery Greene Sr. Henry Huddleston Isabella Greene. Sr. Richard Vere Ld. of Adington Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Roos Elizabeth Huddleston Sr. Thomas Cheney S. P. Sr. Henry Vere Ld. of Adington Isabella Tresham Censtance Greene Lady of Drayton Iohn Stafford Earle of Wiltsheir Elizabeth Vere by the death of the E of Wilt Their Lady of Drayton Iohn Ld. Mordaunt Edward Stafford Earle of Wiltsheire Lord of Drayton Margaret Grey S. P. Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaut Lord of Drayton Elly Fitzlewis GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of GREENE THAT WERE Lords of Drayton Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of GREENE Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships IN an Antient Pedegree of this Family among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow is placed as the head thereof Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton affirmed to have lived upon that Lordship in the time of King Edward the First Sir THOMAS GREENE second of that Name Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 295. ONE Thomas de Buckton which was in truth Thomas Greene de Buckton is recorded in the Catalogue of those Officers to have been High Sheriff of Northhamptonshire in the fifth year of
said Master Walter and other Feffees of the said William by the desire and agreement of the same William have made a state of the said two Assartes to William Lord Lovell Knight and other to the use of Henry Greene Esquire to have and to hold to them and to their heirs for evermore Also that where before this time that the same Henry hath enfeffed the said William Aldwyncle in his Manner of Luffwick with all his other Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Luffwyck to have and to hold them to him for term of his life the remainder of them to William Lucy Knight and others to them and to their heirs for evermore to the use of the said Henry And afterward the said William Aldwyncle at the desire of the said Henry surrendered all his Estate and released all right and claim that he had in the same Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances to the said William Lucy and other Feffees to the said Henry Nevertheless I the said Henry grant to the said William Aldwyncle the said two Assartes for term of his life without impeachment of any waste and the said Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances for term of his life and over that I pray and require as well my said Feffees that now be in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes and over each of them as any other that shall be hereafter to the use of me or my heirs to make a state to the said William Aldwyncle in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes with their appurtenance for the term of his life in the form abovesaid at such time reasonable as he shall desire of them so to do In witness hereof I the same Henry set to the Seal of my Arms. Given the tenth day of October the year of King Henry the VI. after the Conquest the three and thirtieth Carta Regis Henrici Sexti HEnricus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia Nostra speciali ex certa scientia mero motu nostris pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus Henrico Greene Armigero aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero filio haeredi Johannis Greene aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero Consanguineo haeredi Radulphi Greene alias dicto Henrico Greene nuper Vicecomiti Northamptoniae seu quocunque alio nomine censeatur omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante nonum diem Julii ultimo praeteritum contra formam statutorum de libertatibus pannorum capitiorum factos sive perpetratos unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu imprisonamenta statutis praedictis non obstantibus Et insuper ex motu scientia nostris praedictis pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico sectam pacis nostrae quae ad Nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus murdris raptibus mulierum rebellionibus insurrectionibus feloniis conspirationibus Cambipartiis manutenentiis imbraciariis ac aliis transgressionibus negligentiis offensis extortionibus misprisionibus ignorantiis contemptibus concelamentis forisfacturis deceptionibus per ipsum Henricum ante dictum nonum diem Julii qualitercunque factis sive perpetratis ac etiam Utlagarias si quae in ipsum Henricum hiis occasionibus seu earum aliqua fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum Et ulterius pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimoda Escapia felonum Catalla felonum fugitivorum Catalla Utlagatorum felonum de se deodanda vasta impetitiones ac omnimodos articulos itineris destructiones transgressiones de viridi vel venatione venditiones boscorum infra forestas extra aliarum rerum quarumcunque ante dictum nonum diem Julii infra Regnum nostrum Angliae Marchias Walliae eventa evenientia Unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu in forisfacturas bonorum catallorum aut imprisonamenta seu amerciamenta Comitatuum villarum vel singularium personarum vel in onerationem liberi tenementi eorum qui nunquam transgressi fuerunt ut haeredum executorum vel terrae tenentium Escaetorum Vicecomitum Coronatorum aliorum hujusmodi omne id quod ad Nos versus ipsum Henricum pertinet seu pertinere poterit ex causis supradictis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas donationes alienationes perquisitiones per ipsum de terris tenementis de Nobis vel progenitoribus nostris quondam Regibus Angliae in Capite tentis ac etiam omnimodas donationes perquisitiones ad manum mortuam factas habitas absque licentia Regia Necnon omnimodas inquisitiones ingressus in haereditatem suam in parte vel in toto post mortem Antecessorum suorum absque debita prosecutione ejusdem extra manum regiam ante eundem nonum diem Julii factos unà cum exitibus proficuis inde medio tempore perceptis Et insuper pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas poenas ante dictum nonum diem Julii forisfactas coram Nobis seu Concilio nostro Cancellario Thesaurario seu aliquo Judicum nostrorum pro aliqua causa omnes alias poenas tam Nobis quà m carissimo nostro Patri defuncto per ipsum Henricum pro aliqua causa ante eundum nonum diem Julii forisfactas ad opus nostrum levandas ac omnimodas securitates pacis ante eundem nonum diem Julii similiter forisfactas ac etiam tertias tertiarum tertias omnimodorum prisonariorum in guerra captorum Nobis dicto nono die Julii qualitercunque debitas pertinentes seu spectantes per eundem Henricum Necnon omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante eundem nonum diem Julii contra formam tam quorumcunque statutorum ordinationum provisionum ante dictum nonum diem Julii factorum seu editorum de perquisitionibus acceptationibus lectionibus publicationibus notificationibus executionibus quibuscunque quarumcunque literarum bullarum Apostolicarum ante dictum nonum diem Julii omnium aliorum statutorum ordinationum provisionum praetextu quorum aliqua secta versus eundem Henricum per billam vel per breve de praemunire facta seu alio modo quocunque pro aliqua materia ante eundem nonum diem Julii fieri valeat quà m quorumcunque aliorum statutorum fact ' sive perpetrat ' statutis ordinationibus provisionibus illis non obstantibus literis
that unfortunate Fight where the Christians did receive so great a defeat under the Command and Conduct of Robert Earl of Artois the French Kings Brother Particular honours were done to the memory of Sir Robert de Vere by the greatest Men of that Age and there was ever after retain'd for the Arms of his Successors Lords of Addington and Thrapston in a Shield Argent a Cross Gules which in order to that War he had assumed and in memory of the occasion wherein this their Ancestor had faln with so much glory His Issue Sir Baldwin de Vere Sir John de Vere THE Lady Ellen being then the Widow of Sir Robert de Vere applied her whole thoughts to the good and advantage of her Children the dear remainders of so noble a Husband to which end she contriv'd to establish BALDWIN the eldest of them in an Alliance with the Lord Gilbert de Seagrave at that time the Chief Subject in England by reason of his Office which was great Justiciar and a man besides in extraordinary favour with the King Which Gilbert contracted with her for the Marriage of the said Baldwin with his Daughter Margaret obliging himself to give her a hundred Marks for her consent thereunto and as a Portion to her Son his Lands in Aleby and Melton in the County of Leicester With the years of the young Baldwin de Vere there grew up in his mind all those inclinations for Arms and Piety to which the Knights of his House had been so accustomed and the Fields of Palestine were the scenes whereon these vertues were usually presented In the company then of other Heroick Pilgrims he went thither to pay his first vows and to win his Spurs where after several generous adventures the effects of two years spent in that hazardous warfare he returned to his own House to enjoy the esteem and honour he had acquired After which he received from the grant of Ralph the great Earl of Chester the Lordship of Tywa and seventeen Virgates of Land in that Town with all the men holding the same and their sequels Which gift was after confirmed by particular Charter from King Henry the Third He had likewise from the Lord Robert Fitz Walter the Land of Bishopscote to hold by the service of half a Knights Fee Besides other testimonies of the love and value of diverse great Lords of that time There is likewise extant an Agreement between him and the Lord Abbot of Peterborow about the liberties of Thrapston concerning which there had been a difference And as the last testimony of him there is extant a Charter from Henry the Lord Abbot of Croyland granting him liberty to erect a Chapel in his Court at Addington upon certain conditions His Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin Vere SIR ROBERT de VERE was a Minor at the death of his Father thereby becoming a Ward for his Mannor of Addington to his Cousin Sir Baldwin of Drayton under whose conduct having passed those years which were to bring him to lawful age it appears he was much bound to him for his Education which produced such generous qualities as made him very considerable He applied himself much to the War which we find by the appearance of his name in several Lists of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First in his Expeditions into Wales and Scotland He exercised the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the thirtieth year of that King and he dyed seised of the Lordships of Thrapston of Addington of Sudburgh of Melton of Tywa of Twyvell of Bishopscote and other Lands and Lordships He had Married Anne the Daughter of Sir Roger of Watervill by whom he had Issue Randal de Vere RANDAL or RANULPH de VERE after the death of Sir Robert his Father became possessed of all his Lands and Lordships And in the third year of King Edward the Third we find him to have been summoned by the Kings Justices to answer by what Warrant he held and exercised certain Customs and Liberties in his Lordship of Thrapston Which upon his appearance and production of the Charter were reserved and he dismissed In the ninth year of the same King an Inquisition passed upon the value of his Lands in Thrapston and Addington and in the twelfth by his Charter dated on the Friday being the Feast of Saint Edmund he granted and gave to the Lord Henry then Bishop of Lincoln and to Agnesse that was the Wife of Sir Richard de Waldgrave the custody of the Lands and Tenements which the said Richard had held of him in the Town of Twyvell that did belong to him by reason of the minority of Thomas the Son of the said Richard and Agnesse as likewise the Marriage of the said Thomas for a certain summe of Money paid to him by the forementioned Lord Henry and Agnesse The Wife of Sir Randall de Vere was ...... Their Issue Sir John de Vere Sir Robert de Vere Randal de Vere Idonea de Vere JOHN de VERE in the life time of his Father Sir Ranulph being as then but young was married to a Lady whose name was Alice Clifford and for his subsistance setled in possession of the Lordship of Twyvell and other Lands of his Fathers Inheritance But the spirit and inclinations of this House being predominant in his nature and disposition they would not suffer him to remain at home but postposing to the love of Honour and the War all considerations of ease and interest he followed the noble King Edward into his first Wars with France where for his service he acquired the honour of Knighthood and after having given extraordinary proofs of his valour in divers occasions it was his fortune to be slain in the famous Battel of Crecy among other Heroes who fought in that place for the honour of their King and Country and leaving no Issue behind him he was succeeded by his Brother Sir Robert de Vere BY the death without Issue of Sir John de Vere we find that his Brother ROBERT came to inherit the Lordships of Addington Thrapston Sudburgh Melton Aleby Kemington Hokenhanger with the rest of the Lands and possessions belonging to that House There were several transactions that passed between the Lady Alice de Vere that was the Widow of his Brother and him about agreements for setling of her Thirds in the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and other places which were performed with much mutual respect and Justice on either side and at last ended in a fair accord and composition for the whole Several other marks there do remain of the Justice Oeconomy and Prudence of this Robert de Vere whom we find to have married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Robert de Northburgh and to have deceased in the three and fortieth year of King Edward the Third leaving Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin de Vere ROBERT the Son of Robert de Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston being a minor at the death of his
in contrarium factis editis sive ordinatis non obstantibus In cujus rei testimonium c. Sub Sigillo Magno An Indenture septipartite between Edward Duke of Buckingham and the Coheirs of Greene and Vere THis Indenture septipartite made the second Day of September in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Between the Right Noble Prince Edward Duke of Buckingham Earl of Herford Stafford and Northampton on the one partie Margaret Countesse of Wiltes late Wife of Edward late Earl of Wiltes on the second partie Thomas Cheyne of Artlingburgh Knight and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Margery Hodleston Daughter and oon of the Heirs of John Greene and Sister and oon of the Heirs of Herry Greene late Lord of Drayton in the County of Northampton on the third partie Richard Gilford Knight Comptroller of the Kings most honourable Houshold Garden of Audre youngest Daughter of Henry Vere late of Great Addington in the County of Northampton Esquire Son and Heir of Isabell Daughter and another of the Heirs of the said John Greene and Sister and another of the Heirs of the said Herry Greene on the fourth part Alice Lady Fits Hugh late the Wife of William Fits Hugh Knight Lord Fits Hugh Garden of Constance the third Daughter of the said Harry Vere now married to John Parre on the fifth Partie John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford oon of the Kings Sergeants at Law Garden of Elizabeth first and eldest Daughter of the said Harry Vere and married to John Mordaunt Son and Heir Apparent of the same John Mordaunt of the sixth partie And the same John Mordaunt Garden alsoe of Amye second Daughter of the same Henry Vere now married to Robert Mordaunt second Son to the same John Mordaunt the Fader of the seventh partie Witnesseth That where upon Communication and Agreement of Marriage had and concluded between Edward late Earl of Wiltes and the said Margaret Countesse of Wiltes It was fully covenanted bargained and agreed That the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the same late Earl of suche yerely value as Sir Reynald Grey Knight would name And alsoe such other as the said Sir Reynald would name And after the said Sir Reynald by the assent and agreement of the said late Earl named that the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes to the yearly value of three hundred Marks above all Charges and after the same naming a Youes was made to the same Edward and Margaret and to other persons for terme of life of the same Margaret to the use and behoof of the same Margaret of the Mannors of Newton Blosmavile Clifton Watershall Brafeld and Policote in the County of Bucks Sutton Peggislond Botellis Tracies and Stamford-rivers in the County of Essex Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the Right Noble Prince Humphrey Duke of Bucks Aile to the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes and bene of the yearely value of one hundred twenty one Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And towards the recompence of the residue of the said Joynture the said Edward late Earl and Margaret and other had Estate of the Mannors of Wamiden Empton and Moche Wolston in the County of Bucks and Chalton in the County of Bedford Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the said Herry Greene and be of the yerely value of forty one Pounds ten Shillings eleven Pence All which Mannors Lands and Tenements as well such as were late of the sayd late Duke of Bucks as of the sayd Herry extend to the yerely value of one hundred sixty three Pounds fower Shillings and three Pence And soe the sayd Margaret now Countesse lacked of her Joynture to her belonging by reason of the same Covenant Bargain and Agreement thirty six Pounds fifteen Shillings nine Pence And whereas after that the sayd Earl in his life for the tender favour and love which he had to the sayd Edward now Duke of Buckingham was in very mind and fully agreed that the sayd Joynture Lands and Tenements that were of the Inheritance of the sayd Duke of Bucks should be changed and that the sayd Margaret now Countesse should have in recompence of them other Mannors Lands and Tenements that were of the same Herry Greene of like value And where Estate was made to Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires Robert Bayston Clerk Thomas Montague John Freman and one John Feld Clerk now dead of and in the Mannors of Raunds Ringstede Cotes Stawike Luffwike Sudburgh and Harringworth in the County of Northampton Emton and Mochewolston in the County of Bucks Chalton in the County of Bedford Warmester Westbury Grately Dichrich in the Countye of Wiltes and Southampton Buckworth in the County of Huntington and Combton in the County of Cambridge and of all other Lands and Tenements which sometime were of the sayd Constance late Wife of John late Earl of Wiltes and Moder to the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes in the sayd Countyes of Northampton Wiltes Southampton Bedford Bucks Huntington and Cambridge To have to them and to their Heirs for ever to the use of the said Edward late Earl and of his Heirs And where alsoe Estate was before that made of and in the said Mannors of Wamiden Emton Mochewolston and Chalton in the Countyes of Bedford and Bucks and of divers other Lands and Tenements in the same Countyes the which late were of the sayd Harry Greene to the sayd Edward and Margaret then his Wife Johane Vicountesse Lesle John Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire Thomas Kebell one of the Kings Sergeants at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Humphrey Connesby Thomas Frowike Sergeants at Law John Tichbourne John Smith John Gardiner Thomas Bayall and Thomas Haywode To have to them for terme of life of the sayd Margaret the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes And of the residue of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements whereof the sayd Robert Wittelbury and his Cofeffez were infeossed they were satisfied thereof at the time of the death of the sayd Edward late Earle and yet thereof be seised And where alsoe the sayd Edward Duke of Bucks hath before this time pretended Title to part of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other Mannors Lands and Tenements late of the sayd Edward late Earle of the Greenes Lands as Cosyne and next Heir to the sayd Edward late Earle of the Faders side of the sayd late Earle And where alsoe the same Countesse claymeth to have dower of parcel of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements over and beside her sayd Joynture And where alsoe the sayd Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader as moche as in them is for their interest for causes comprized in their Indentures have promissed to the sayd Sir
JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon Camden's Britannia page 205 treating of the County of Essex THorndon quondam Habitatio Clarae Familiae Fitz-Lewis quorum ultimus si qua fides vulgò incensis fortuitò Aedibus Nuptiali Festivitate misero incendio periit ELY FITZ-LEWIS and JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Lord and Lady of Westhornedon A Will or Testament of John Lord Mordaunt THIS is the last Will of John Mordaunt Knight Son and Heir apparent of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt confirming the order disposition and demise as well of my Goods and Chattels as of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances that I have and am seised of Estate of Fee-simple in the Counties of Essex Northampton and Somerset or elsewhere within the Realm of England First I will and demise that all my parts portion and demand Right Title Possession and Interest that I have of and in the Mannors of Granham otherwise called Bishop Wokenton in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhal to Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed within the County of Essex with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or hath been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Grangeham otherwise called Bishop Wokengton Greice Brumford in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhall unto Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed in the County of Essex together with the Advowsons of the said Mannors to Dame Joan my Wife To have and to hold and enjoy the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the said Dame Joan and her Assigns for term of her natural life Also I will and demise That all my Right Title Possession Interest that I have of and in the Mannor of Westhornedon and Gingeraps and also Cranham in the said County of Essex the reversion of the said Mannor of Cranham after the decease of Dame Joan my Wife with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods and Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or haye been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps with the Advowsons belonging to the said Mannors To have hold and enjoy the Premisses with all Rights Revenues Profits Uses Commodities Emoluments and Arrearages of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements Ways Meadows Pastures and other Hereditaments and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father and to Edmond Mordaunt my Executors and to the Surviver of them and to the Executors of the Surviver for term of thirty Years next ensuing after my death without impeachment of Waste to the intent that they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses and every part thereof coming and growing from time to time during the said Term shall find and provide to my Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt Margaret Mordaunt Anne Mordaunt Ursula Mordaunt and every of them sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging Apparel Learning and other Necessaries for them until they be married and also give and deliver to every of them towards their several Marriages the Summ of four hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be paid to every of them at the day of their several Marriages If that my said Executors have loned or at any time or times hereafter the said Marriages as it may be loned of the Issues and Profits of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps And if it shall so chance that one or two of my said Daughters to dye and depart out of this transitory life unmarried I will that her or their Parts Portions and Summs of Money that to her or to them by this my last Will and Testament did belong shall remain grow come and be deemed amongst the other of my Daughters which shall so fortune to overlive And if it shall so chance that more of my said Daughters than two to dye and depart out of this transitory life I will that their Parts and Portions shall remain still in the hands of my Executors to be delivered to my Son and Heir when he cometh to two and twenty Years of Age. And if I chance to depart to God without Issue Male then I will that the moyety of the said money equally to be divided amongst my said Daughters which at that time shall chance to be alive and the residue to be distributed in deeds of Charity according to the discretion of my Executors my said Lord and Father and my Brother Edmond Mordaunt Furthermore I will that if any of my said Daughters happen to marry her self against the will and appointment of my Executors the said Lord Edmond Mordaunt or the Survivors or the Survivor of them within the Age of twenty one Years or if any of the said Daughters doe refuse any lawful marriage tendered or offered by my Executors the said Lord and Edmond Mordaunt my Brother or by the Survivors or Survivor of them within the said Age of one and twenty Years to the intent to marry themselves at their own pleasure That then I will That she or they shall tarry for her or their part until the time that all my Daughters be set forth and married and then to be delivered to my said Daughter or Daughters so marrying themselves or to the Children of her or them according to the discretion of my Executors the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them And further I will and demise that my said Executors with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses during the said term shall find a Priest to sing Mass in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid to pray for my Soul and Dame Ely my late Wife deceased and all Christian Souls And also shall distribute every Year during the said term to the help and sustentation of the poor and needy people in Westhornedon Gingeraps Cranham and Nevendon according to the discretion of my Executors And also give and distribute unto the maintaining of High-ways and Bridges wheresoever my Executors shall think most meet and convenient any where within the County of Essex Also I do demise unto the said Edmond Mordaunt my Brother the reversion of certain Lands and Tenements Pasture Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments in Coume and Sturmest in the County of Somerset with the appurtenances which I the said Sir John did purchase of one Richard Matthew one of the Sons of Robert Matthew deceased which Joan Matthew Widow doth now claim for to hold for term of her life as parcel of her Joynture To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs in as large and ample manner as ever Robert Matthew did hold or occupy the premisses upon this Condition following that is to say that the said Edmond or his Heirs shall make or cause to be made within two years after the death of the said Joan Matthew in the Church of Westhornedon of the North
side of the Altar a Tomb of Marble meet and convenient to serve for the Sepulcher at the Feast of Easter and also that the said Edmond shall pay or cause to be paid during the space of twelve years next and immediately after the decease and death of the said Joan Matthew Widow every year six Pounds eight Shillings four Pence to my Executors toward the performance of this my last Will. Also I will That the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond shall receive my Aunt Petre's Pension and during the said term shall find her Meat Drink and Cloathing and other Necessaries meet for her Degree during her life as long as she shall be content to be at my Executors appointment And if it chance that she will refuse to be ruled after the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond or the Survivor of them then I will that my Executors shall suffer her to receive her own Pension and to deliver her thirty three Shillings four Pence yearly and to go whither she will And if it chance that she happen to over-live the said term that I do demise unto her yearly four Pounds Rent to be perceiv'd and taken out of my Mannor of Westhornedon aforesaid at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions And if it chance the said Rent of three Pound to be behind unpaid by the space of a Month after any of the said days of Payment that then I will and grant that the said Petres or her Assigns shall enter into the said Mannor of Westhornedon and there to distrain and the distress so taken to carry away and to retain until she be fully satisfied and paid of the Rent and the Arrearages of the said Rent if any shall appear to be behind Furthermore I will that the said Lord and the said Edmond shall suffer my Heir when he comes to the Age of two and twenty years to have occupy and enjoy all the premisses so that the said Heir will be bound by such ways and means as shall be demised or thought most convenient by the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors of the Survivor to perform the execution of this my last Will the residue of this my last Will which shall chance to be at that time unperformed allowing unto my Executors all their Costs and Charges had or sustained in executing of this my last Will and that hath not been taken and lowed of the Issues and Profits of the foresaid Lands and Tenements any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Occasions of Disagreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis Mordaunt THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Ely Fitz-Lewis Daughter and sole Heir unto Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid thirteen hundred Marks Her Lands which she had by Descent were five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir apparent for the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the last Lord Mordaunt might then have had divers great Summs of money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Ely then his Wife to levy a Fine of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Ely then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Ely then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Ely Mordaunt dyed after whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Johan Mordaunt now his Wife after which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a recovery of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to trust of himself for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after his decease to trust of such as at pleasure himself to appoint for the term of ninety two Years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore to the intent that not only he but also my Lady his Wife may declare their wills thereof during the same ninety two Years whereof the late Lord Mordaunt had certain intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed or appointed Whereupon the late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estate of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such recovery thereof to the disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being right Heir of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and the bringing of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the right course of Inheritance again did suffer recoveries of his own Lands to the uses and upon condition following To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt and of his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was married and after to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of his Executors until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the death of the said late Lord Mordaunt and further to the same Executors for twelve Years towards the performance of his Will And after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life to the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queens Majesty as much money as shall amount to one Years value of the full third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier season thereof and twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it
was provided by the same Book that if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of five hundred Marks per annum within six Months after the Feast of Saint Andrew next ensuing the Date of the same Book to Sir Robert Throckmorton and other the Recoverers and their Heirs of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands that is to say parcel thereof to the value of three hundred Marks or under to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt and my Lady now his Wife for the term of their lives disponishable of waste during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt and after their deceases to the use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the Fitz-Lewis And the remanent part thereof to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste And after his decease to the use of his Will for the term of ten years and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of all such and so much of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now Lord Mordaunt by that Book should be unto the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste And after the said several uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's shall be ended and determined as is abovesaid and as the same shall severally end and determine the uses thereof be further appointed as followeth that is to say Unto the first Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt in lawful marriage begotten and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten And after to the second Son of the said Lewis Mordaunt on lawful marriage begotten and to the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten with divers remainders over the last remainder thereof being appointed to the right Heirs of the said Lewis Mordaunt for ever And to the intent that my Lady Mordaunt now Wife to the now Lord Mordaunt should have goodwill that the Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as aforesaid the late Lord Mordaunt did grant unto her for the augmentation of her Joynture to make it up four hundred Marks a year an yearly Rent of an hundred Marks by the year during her life with a Clause of distress in his own Land for the not payment thereof upon Condition that the Fitz-Lewis's Lands should be assured as is aforesaid Shortly after this Book thus agreed upon and sealed one part thereof was sent to the now Lord Mordaunt that he might thereby perfectly understand what his Father had done and the premisses notwithstanding he would not assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he ought to have done within the said six Months by reason whereof the uses of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands appointed to the now Lord Mordaunt did cease through the wilful default of the now Lord Mordaunt and the same came to the said Lewis Mordaunt Memorandum That the Conveyances of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands as is aforesaid was of the mere motion circumspection and providence of the late Lord Mordaunt for the causes aforesaid without any seeking of the said Lewis Mordaunt who neither would nor durst move the said late Lord Mordaunt his Grandfather being a wise man in such a matter Now the premisses considered it may appear that the said Lewis hath not done any thing whereby to offend his Father except it be in refusing to marry his Mother-in-Laws Daughter which his Father offered him in marriage which he liked not or else in receiving the benevolence of his Grandfather unprocured of his part The Causes of the late Lord Mordaunt's doings and the doings of the now Lord Mordaunt towards the late Lord Mordaunt his Father and towards the Fitz-Lewis's Lands may plainly appear in the Articles abovesaid The Book was delivered to the now Lord Mordaunt within twelve days after the beginning of the six Months so as he had all the six Months saving twelve days to consider thereupon and to have made assurance of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands accordingly Another Will of Sir John Mordaunt of Westhornedon IN the Name of God Amen The twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred forty and nine and in the third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and Ireland the supreme Head I Sir John Mordaunt of Westhornedon in the County of Essex Knight being of whole mind and perfect remembrance thanks be to God do make my Testament and last Will in manner and form following First I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and my Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid by Dame Ely Mordaunt my late Wife trusting through the merits of Christ's Passion to be saved And the doings and ordering of my Funeral-expences I commit to the order and disposition of Dame Joan now my Wife whom I make and ordain by this my present Testament my sole Executrix And first as concerning the devise and bequest of my Lands and Tenements I give and bequeath to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father the said Joan my Wife and to Edmond Mordaunt my Brother all that my Mannor of Westhornedon and all my Right Title and Possession that I have in the said Mannor with the appurtenances with all those my Lands and Tenements called Fieldhouse and Maundes now in the manurance occupation and tenure of John Wright of Keldon in the said County of Essex The reversion of the Mannor of Wantons in Bumpsted ad Turr ' with Purbysher and Whytley set lying and being in thé Town of Bumpsted ad Turr ' and Burdbroke which Dame Joan my Wife doth hold for the time of her life as Parcel of her Joynture with all and singular Rights Members Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements and Advowsons Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or have been in times past reputed taken or known as Part or Parcel of the said Mannor of Westhornedon and Wantons in the said County of Essex And all other my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Town of Westhornedon Easthornedon Tholderdyche Warley magna Bumpsted Sturmer and Burdbroke in the said County of Essex To have hold and enjoy all the Premisses with their Members and Appurtenances and every Part and Parcel thereof to the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt and to their Heirs and Assigns upon the Conditions following that is to wit That they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses shall find and provide or cause to be
all his Expeditions at Sea becoming thereby very expert in Navigation He was in all the Land Services of his time and followed his Father in every Embassy where he was imployed These practices made him fit for great Imployments as indeed such Imployments were fit for him because the truth was that his Father's perpetual custom of keeping his hands clean in all the great Trusts had been committed to him being ever fonder of Fame and Faithfulness than of Money or Estate he had not left his Son so superfluous a Fortune as it might have been easie for him to have suitably subsisted to his desert and great Spirit without the Favour and Assistance of his Princes But the times wherein he lived were very Active and in them usefulness made Men considered more than phancy And the discerning Queen Elizabeth thought she had a jewel in this Youth whose hopefulness and merit shone in the Eyes of every Man The first Imployment we find he had was to be one of those noble persons chose by the Queen to conduct the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain Afterward we find him a Commander of some Forces under his Father that were sent for the suppression of the Earls Rebellion And in the Registers of that Order it appears That he was chosen a Knight of the Garter in the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth In the Twenty eighth of that Queen upon the Death of the Earl of Lincoln he was made Lord High Admiral of England being at that time Lord Chamberlain as his Father had formerly been And in the Year 1588. when the King of Spain sent his greatest Fleet under the Conduct of his greatest Subject the Duke of Medina Sidonia with a design to take the Kingdom with the very sight of so formidable a power the Queen then and her admirable Council pitch'd upon this Lord Howard to be the Buckler of England making him with an extraordinary Power Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Forces on the Sea from the estimation they had of his excellent Virtues as being a Man of great Moderation much knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary throughly Valiant Industrious in Action and a Person whom the Mariners entirely loved The success gave the approbation to this choice the Spaniards appeared the Admiral gave them Battel and they were overthrown England was delivered and the Noble Lord received the Applauses his Valour and his Conduct did deserve But after this there remaining still great jealousies of future dangers from the Enmity of Spain who did design much by the Assistance of the Irish who were at that time Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for defence of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land He was also in this Year on the Fifteenth of June constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And in the Two and twentieth of October following in consideration of his Eminent Services in Anno. 1588. in defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado as afterwards of the Sacking of Cadiz in Spain and for destroying the Spanish Fleet then in the Port there he was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Mowbrays whereof some had before been Earls of that Country In the One and Fortieth Year of the same Queen this Admiral continuing still in great Reputation and there remaining some supition of the Spaniard's ill intentions he was made Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Field Forces and one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England And in these great Trusts he imploy'd his time during the Reign of this Happy and Victorious Queen And the wife Successor upon his Arrival thought it a material testimony of his kindness to the Kingdom he did Inherit to give all marks of his Esteem and Favor to those who had contributed so many Cares and Labours to the Glory and Safety thereof Therefore at his Royal Coronation he made this Earl Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in the Second Year of his Reign at the renewing the Commissions unto several Great Lords for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England he was likewise constituted one of that number But by this time the Noble Earl was grown very Antient and his Body being less able than before to support the Labours and Cares of War or of the Court he by the advice of his Friends resolved of a retreat he resigned the great Office of Admiral into the King's Hands for which he was notwithstanding allowed great Pensions for his Life and other very considerable advantages After which he was engaged in going Extraordinary Ambassador on a most splendid occasion into Spain to Make and Sign that Peace which was so agreeable to King James the First as he thence did design such an Alliance as by Marriage of his Son should make lasting Friendship between the two Crowns This was the last great occasion wherein the Earl of Nottingham did appear the rest of his Life was Peace and Prayer His Lordship departing this World at Hayling in Kent at the Age of Eighty eight Years having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two This Noble Earl had Married Two Wives His First was Katharine Cary Daughter to the Lord Hundsdon His Second was Margaret Stuart Daughter to James Earl of Murray in Scotland Issue by his First Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham who Married Katharine Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Blefso Charles Howard who by reason of his Brothers Decease without Male Issue did succeed him in his Honors and Married Mary Cockain Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell Frances Countess of Kildar Margaret Married to Sir Richard Leusson Issue by his Second Wife James Howard who died young Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham but dyed without Issue WILLIAM Lord Howard Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord Baron of Effingham CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM Lord Howard was a Youth of extraordinary expectation and had given early proof of many rare Virtues he was Active he was Ingenious he was applicable to every thing that was for the Honor of the Court or the Use of the Kingdom In the days of Queen Elizabeth the Pastimes and Triumphs of the State were very Martial Courses at the Tilt were much in fashion and Fights at the Barriers no Man had greater applause at these Exercises than this Young Lord And when Monsieur was here with his great Followers who are held Masters at these Exercises he got the esteem of all the French-Men He was with his Father at the Encounter with the Spanish Fleet though but Young at that time he was with him at the Sacking of Calis and also in most of his Embassies He was Grave of his Nature and entring into the favour of the Ministers as Man likely to be fit for Business when unhappily he fell
having intelligence That the Scots had Intrench'd themselves on a Hill called Floden on the edge of the Mountain Cheviot and finding the Country so Forraged that he could not long continue there he sent Rouge-Cross Herald on Sunday the Fourth of September conducted by a Trumpet with instructions to tell that King That having violated his Faith and League and Hostily entred England he resolved on the Friday next following to bid him Battle if he would accept it Whereupon King James accepting the Challenge he March'd within Three Miles of Floden and discerning that the Scots still kept the Hill he sent Rouge-Cross again with a Letter subscribed by himself and his Son the Lord Admiral with divers others moving them to come down into the Plain Unto which no satisfactory Answer being given he March'd on with his Army to cut off their Victuals in case they would not draw down The Scots therefore being aware of that danger fired their Huts and dislodged covertly by the advantage of the Smoak but kept still on the higher Ground This Earl therefore traversing some Bogs and Marshes till he came to the bottom of the ascent and finding it not very steep encouraged his Men to Fight marching speedily on his Two Sons Thomas and Edmond leading the Van of the Battle himself and Sir Edward Stanly the Rear The Lord Dacres with the Horse being appointed as a reserve Whereupon the Fight began which was stoutly maintained on both sides for Three hours till at length the Scots for the better avoiding the storm of Arrows opening their Ranks the Lord Dacres came in with his Horse and put them so to it that they were constrain'd to cast themselves into a ring doing all that Valiant Men could do and no Man more than the King himself yet he lost the day himself being slain upon the place by a mortal Wound with an Arrow and another with a Bill For which memorable Service this Earl had thereupon a special Grant from King Henry to himself and the Heirs Male of his Body of an honourable augmentation to his Arms to bear on the Bend thereof the upper half of a Red Lion Depicted as the Arms of Scotland are pierced through the Mouth with an Arrow And by Letters Patent bearing date the First of February next ensuing was advanced to the Dignity of Duke of Norfolk which Title John his Father deriving his Descent through the Heirs Female of Mowbray and Seagrave from Thomas of Brotherton Son to King Edward the First did enjoy the Ceremony of his Creation being performed at Lambeth the Day following which was the Festival of Our Ladies Purification And by other Letters Patent bearing date the same First of February obtained a Grant in Special Tail of the Mannors of Acton-Burnel Holgat Abeton Millenchop Langdon Chatwall Smithecote Wolstanton Vppington and Rushbury in Comitatu Salopiae Solihull in Com. Warr. Wolverhampton in Com. Staff Birehust and Vptonlovel in Com. Wilts Erdescote in Com. Berks Honnesdon Estwike Barley and Hide in Com. Hertf. Kentcote and Kerdwike in Com. Oxon. Eastwickham in Com. Kanc. of the Castles of Balesover and Horeston and Mannor of Horsley in Com. Derb. and of the Mannors of Clipston Limby Mauncefield Wood-house and Sutton in Ashfield in Com. Nott. to be held by the Service of one Knight's Fee Upon the Second of March next following he had a new Patent by the Title of Duke of Norfolk for the Office of Lord Treasurer of England And in the Sixth Year of Henry the Eighth upon the Contract of Marriage betwixt Lewis de Longueville on the behalf of Lewis the Twelfth of France and the Lady Mary Sister to King Henry the Eighth the King himself conducting her to the Sea side recommended her to the care of this Duke who Landing with her at Boloigne brought her to Abbeville where upon the Ninth of October King Lewis himself solemnly Consummated the Marriage But in the Seventh of Henry the Eighth observing that the Kings Coffers were much exhausted by his Wars and Triumphs and not finding it easie to supply these vast Expences which in Pageants and other devices increased daily he wisely withdrew himself In the Thirteenth of Henry the Eighth 13 Maii he performed the Office of Lord High Steward upon the Tryal of Edward Duke of Buckingham and gave Sentence of Death upon him but not without Tears And in the Fourteenth of Henry the Eighth obtained a Grant in Special Tail and to his Son Thomas Earl of Surrey of the Mannors of Welles Shyringham Stafford Barningham Warham and Waveton in Com. Suff. with the Advousons of the Churches part of the Possessions of the before specified Edward Duke of Buckingham attainted By his Testament bearing date ult Maii Anno. 1520. 12. H. VIII he bequeathed his Body to be Buried in the Church of the Priory of Thetford in Com. Norf. before the High-Altar appointing that his Executors should cause a Tomb to be made and set up there with the Images of himself and Agnes his Wife thereon allowing for the charge thereof CXXXIII l VI s VIII d He also bequeathed to his Son and Heir Apparent who should be living at his Decease his great hanged Bed paled with Cloth of Gold white Damask and black Velvet broidered with these Two Letters T and A as also one suit of Hangings of the story of Hercules made for the great Chamber at Framingham in Norfolk And departing this Life at his said Castle of Framingham 21 Maii Anno 1524. 16. H. VIII had Burial in the Priory of Thetford accordingly He Married two Wives first Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Bourchier Lord Berners Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing Date Nov. 6. Anno 1506. 22. H. VII bequeathed her Body to be Interr'd in the Nuns Quire of the Minoresses without Aldgate in London nigh unto the place where Anne Montgomery lay Buried appointing that no more than Twenty Torches should be used at her Burial and Months-mind also that no Dole or Money should be given at either of these Solemnities but instead thereof a Hundred Marks to be distributed to the poor folks viz. to every poor Man and Woman in the Parishes of White-Chappel and Hackney vij 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. Edmond The other Five viz. Henry John Charles Henry and Richard all dying young And Three Daughters 1. Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford afterwards Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond 2. Muriell first Married to John Grey Viscount Lisle afterwards to Sir Thomas Knevet of Buckingham in Com. Norf. Knight And 3. Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Natural Son to King Henry the Eighth To his Second Wife he Wedded Agnes Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had Issue William afterwards created Baron Howard of Effingham of whom and his Descendants 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 suspition of his intents for aspiring to the Crown and departing this life in the Tower of London 1. Nov. Anno 1537. 29. Eliz. was Buried at Thetford 3. Richard who died Anno 1517. 9. H. 8. and was Buried at Lambeth And Four Daughters Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy to Edward Earl of Derby Elizabeth to Henry Earl of Sussex and Katharine first Married to Sir Rice ap Thomas Knight but afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater Polydore Virgil pag. 567. Reckoning up those the King chose for his Council ET Thomas Howardus Comes Surriae vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa Polydore Virgil pag. 621. JAM dies Concilii ad Westmonasterium habendi advenerat ubi Henricus cum Katharina Uxore à Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo corona redimitur sacraturque Octavo Kal. Julii Anno qui fuit salutis humanae MDIX quo ejus pater è vita excesserat qui dictus est Henricus eo nomine octavus dum publicum gaudium celebratur Laetitiam moeror velut saepe Comes sequitur Margareta enim Henrici avia moritur ob cujus obitum non nihil respublica damni fecit quippe mulier erat prudentissima atque sanctissima quae cum videret Henrico per aetatem non licere suum officium praestare ita à principio providere consulere prospicere coepit ut summa imperii penes optimos quosque principes esset quo ne quid ipsa respublica detrimenti acciperet quae aliquot menses communi multorum Concilio gubernata postremo ad duos Ricardum Wintoniensem Episcopum Thomam Comitem Surreium administratio pervenit qui inter se secretas habebant simultates quas authoritatis aemulatio in dies singulos magis magisque augebat In iis diversa erant studia Wintoniensis suis amplis rebus contentus Regis tantum republicae utilitatem quaerebat Comes vero qui olim paternae haereditatis majori ex parte propter Civilia Bella Factionum Seditiones Naufragium fecerat suo interim privato commodo inservire cogebatur qui idcirco ad latus Regis quotidie adhaerens bene magna identidem ab eo beneficia habebat quae ille tam suis quam aliis postea ad arbitrium suum daret tribueret deferret Ista Wintoniensi visa sunt eo brevi tempore evasura ut Comes primas apud principem teneret omnino nisi maturè obviam ejus conatibus praeiretur id quod sibi modis omnibus faciendum deliberavit Accessit in eandem palaestram tertius Guilielmus Conton in Regio cubiculo primus Minister sed is cum magis rei familiari quà m potentiae studeret nihil dabat suspicionis Interea Christopherus Benbricus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Romam Legatus ad Julium Romanum Pontificem Mittitur Thomas Ruthal designatur Dunelmensis Episcopus WILLIAM HOWARD Peer of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord High Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy Seal and Privy Councellor to the Queens Mary and Elizabeth CHAPTER II. Baronage of England Pag. 278. Howard of Effingham HAving thus Finish'd with the Principal Stemm of this most Noble Family I come to those Collateral Branches as are not yet spoke of And first to William Son to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk of this House by Agnes his Second Wife Daughter of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Com. Linc. Knight This William in 24. H. VIII was one of the Attendants of that King to Calis and so to Boloigne at such time as he was there Magnificently received by Francis the First King of France And in 26. H. VIII sent into Scotland to present King James the Fifth with the Order of the Garter Also to acquaint him with the intended Interview betwixt King Henry and King Francis of France And intreating his Presence thereat to desire his Coming through England to accompany King Henry to Calis In 27. H. VIII he was sent with Dr. William Barlow Bishop of St. Asaph to the same King of Scots to perswade him to enterview with King Henry as also to make certain advantageous Propositions to him And in 35. H. VIII upon that unhappy Deportment of Katharine Howard his Niece Fifth Wife of King Henry for which she lost her Head being newly return'd from an Embassy into France he was Indicted as was also his Wife and the old Duthess of Norfolk for Misprision of Treason in concealing what they knew of that Queen's Behaviour therein and condemned to perpetual Imprisonment But at length through the King's Favour enlarged and in 6. Edw. VI. made Deputy of Calis being a very valiant Person and perfectly Loyal to both those Kings He had such Esteem from Queen Mary as that by Letters Patents bearing Date 11. Martii in the First Year of her Reign he was advanced to the Degree and Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Howard of Effingham as also the Twentieth of the same Month made Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Wales And upon the Second of April next ensuing took his Place in Parliament amongst the rest of the Peers Also upon the Eighth of that Month constituted Lord Admiral and Lieutenant General of all her Forces at Sea He was likewise Lord Chamberlain of her Household And in the 1. Eliz. had the same Honourable Office conferred on him by that Queen After this he was sent Ambassador with the Lord Cobham to the Spaniard into the Netherlands and in 12. Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Sussex General of those Forces then sent against the Earls of Northumberland and VVestmoreland at that Time in Rebellion In 15. Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk And by his Testament bearing Date 6. Maii 11. Eliz. being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Rygate in Com. Sur. appointing a Tomb to be there made for him And to Charles his Son and Heir bequeathed his Collar of Gold and all his Robes belonging to the Order of the Garter He Married Two Wives first Katharine Daughter and Co-heir to Sir John Broughton of Tuddington in Com. Bedf. Knight by whom he had Issue only one Daughter called Agnes Married to VVilliam Pawlet the Third Marquis of VVinchester Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Thomas Ganiage Knight which Margaret departed this Life ..... Maii Anno 1581. 23. Eliz. by whom he had Issue four Sons viz. Charles who succeeded him in his Honour VVilliam Howard of Lingfield in Com. Sur. Edward and Henry who died Young Also Five Daughters First Douglas Married first to John Lord Sheffield afterwards to Robert Earl of Leicester as hath been pretended and thirdly
potestate ad procedendum in eisdem juxta leges nostras civiles maritimas ac consuetudinem Curiae principalis nostrae Admiralitatis Angliae praedictae ab antiquo usitatas tam ex officio mere mixto vel promoto seu ad alicujus partis instantiam prout casus exiget expediens visum fuerit Volumus etiam per praesentes concedimus quòd praefatus Dominus Howard magnus Admirallus noster Angliae Praefectus Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ac ejus locum tenentes ac caeteri ejus officiarii ministri praedicti habeant cognitionem decisionem de wreco maris magno seu parvo ac de morte supervisione visu corporum mortuorum quarumcunque personarum in mare vel fluminibus publicis portubus aquis dulcibus seu crecis quibuscunque infra fluxum maris vel aquae praedictae ad plenitudinem per dicta regna nostra dominia praedicta ac jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae praedictae custodiendum conservandum statutis nostris de wreco maris de officio Coronatoris annis tertio quarto Edwardi Primi atque Statutis de bonis spoliatis super mare venientibus in hoc Regnum nostris Angliae anno vicesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii progenitorum nostrorum quondam Regni Angliae respectivè editis provifis atque cognitionem de mahemio in locis praedictis infra fluxum maris aquae ad plenitudinem contingent cum potestate etiam puniendi delinquentes in ea parte quoscunque juxta juris exigentiam ac Curae Admiralitatis nostrae praedictae consuetudinem eò quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo vel certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Praefecto generali Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minimè facta existit aut aliquo Statuto actu ordinatione provisione prohibitione sive restrictione praesentibus literis nostris patentibus sive alicui parti seu clausulae in eisdem expressis vel insertis repugnantibus derogatoriis aut contrariis quibuscunque in contrarium factis editis ordinatis sive provisis seu aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante mandantes firmiter strictè tenore praesentium percipientes atque per dictum magnum Admirallum Praefectum nostrum generalem ex parte nostra percipi mandari volentes universis singulis Proceribus Dominis Justiciariis Majoribus Vicecomitibus Capitaneis Senescallis Ballivis Custodibus Gaolorum carcerum nostrorum quorumcunque Constabulariisque ac caeteris Ministris fidelibus Subditis Ligeis nostris quibuscunque eorum cujuslibet infra libertates extra quod praefato Dimino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae Praefecto generali Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ac officiariorum deputatis ministris suis quibuscunque eorum cuilibet in dicto officio Admiralitatis nostrae assignatis seu assignandis circa executionem praemissorum intendentes auxiliantes faventes pariter obedientes sint ac quòd mandatis praeceptis quibuscunque eis vel eorum alicui ex parte nostra per dictum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae ac Praefectum generalem Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum vel ejus nomine directè pareant sub poena contemptûs istarum literarum nostrarum patentium ac sub periculo incumbentium In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo die Martii Anno Regni Reginae Mariae primo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo examinatum per me S. Killingworth Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 28. JAM illa annos nata XXV usu adversitate efficacissimis magistris edocta prudentiam supra aetatem comparuerat cujus primum specimen in Conciliariis deligendis dedit In sanctius enim Concilium sibi adscivit Nicolaum Heathum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem quem dixi magna prudentia modesto ingenio virum Guilielmum Pawletum Wintoniae Marchionem summum Angliae Thesaurarium Henricum Fitz-Alanum Arundeliae Franciscum Talbottum Salopiae Edwardum Stanleium Derbiae Guilielmum Herbertum Penbrochiae Comites Edwardum Baronem Clintonum maris Praefectum Guilielmum Baronem Howardum Effinghamium Cubicularium Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 19. AD Hispanum in Belgio mittitur Baro Cobhamus cum documentis in eandem sententiam necnon cum diplomate quo Comes Arundeliae Thurlbeius Episcopus Eliensis D. Wottonus à Maria ad pacem Cameraci tractandam nuper delegati Reginae nomine denuo delegantur illisque Guilielmus Baro Howardus Effinghamius adjungitur Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 31. HINC visum ut ad castellum Cameracense de componendis controversiis pace concilianda agerent utrique delegati Pro Regina Angliae Thurlbeius Episcopus Eliensis Guilielmus Baro Howardus Effinghamius Reginae cubicularius supremus Nicolaus Wottonus Ecclesiarum metropolitanarum Cantuariae Eboraci Decanus Pro rege Galliae Carolus Cardinalis à Lotharyngia Archiepiscopus Dux Rihemensis Par primus Franciae Annas Dux Montmorentius Par Conestabilus magnus Magister Franciae Jacobus Albonus Dominus à St. Andraea Marchio Fronsac Franciae Marescallus Johannes Morvillerius Episcopus Aurelianensis Claudius Albospinaeus in Privato Concilio Secretarius Ex eodem iterum Pag. 209. INter pares appellatur ad judicium nepotis Ducis Norfolciae Ex eodem iterum Pag. 243. PRincipio hujus anni spiritum edidit Guilielmus Baro Howard Effinghamius privati Sigilli Custos Thomae Howardi Bellicosi illius Norfolciae Ducis de secunda Uxore Agnete Tilneia filius vir fidei spectatissimae animi invicti qui primum Caleti Praefectus in Baronum numerum à Regina Maria adstitus magnus Angliae Admirallus constitutus Cui postea Cubicularius erat ut etiam Elizabethae donec aetate fractus Sussexio paucis ante obitum mensibus cesserit privati Sigilli Custos factus qui in Anglia quartus est ut dixi honoris gradus Successit in Baroniae honore Carolus filius qui postea Reginae Cubicularius magnus itidem Angliae Admirallus CHARLES HOWARD Earl of Nottingham Peer and Lord High Admiral of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Lord Justice and Heir of all her Majesties Forests Parks and Chaces on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of Her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER III. Hollinshed in the Life of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 1212. About the Rebellion of the Earls of Westmoreland and Northumberland AND the twentieth of December they came to Hexam from whence the Rebels were gone the Night before to Neworth where they counselled with Edward Dacres concerning their own weariness and also how they were not only pursued by the Earl of Sussex and
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
he took his leave and departed home full of indignation against the Times the Nation and Fortune resolving though he were at ease and had made his peace to expose Wife Estate Quiet and his Life upon any undertaking wherein there should be a reasonable appearance of relieving the best of Kings What ensued after this is the King's Story and that of other Men. I shall only relate that after his being at Hampton-Court his escape thence and unfortunate detention in the Isle of Wight the Transactions with the Army and many other Contrivances there came at last to be designed a Rising in his favour to be begun in Surrey of which Henry Earl of Holland was to be General To this there was much contributed in Money and Counsels by the Presbyterian Party and herein under assurances of great partakers the Earl of Peterborow was again engaged who on his part fail'd not to be at the Rendezvous according to appointment in the head of a Hundred Horse well Arm'd and provided that came to follow him out of his own Country But of such numbers as others had undertaken there were so many fail'd as at the Muster and Survey of that Rendezvous it gave a great discouragement to those that did appear which caus'd divers that came in to the first Meeting even of the Surrey Gentlemen after the recess of one Night never to return again The Earl of Holland notwithstanding still in hopes from the great promises wherewith he had been deluded marched on into the Country and the first Night Quarter'd at Darking expecting for the next day great supplies and accession of of Men out of that Country and the City but the succeeding Morning produced no more armed Men nor any change to his desperate condition And being now past any retreat from his Engagement he march'd back towards Kingston in order by passing the River at that Bridge to procede Northward into such Countries wherein he hoped he should find more zealous and trusty Friends But in the Afternoon as he made a small halt upon the way he had Intelligence That Sir Michael Lucy's Regiment of Horse and some other Forces were on their march to overtake and Charge him and by that time he reached Kingston Heath their Scouts appear'd as he was ready to march into the Town The Enemies Troops arriving thereupon he had not time to draw up his few Forces as he should have done but they were Charged and routed in a short time the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to the Duke of Buckingham was killed in the Lane and most of the rest dispers'd to shift for themselves the best they could be able The Earl of Peterborow with Five or Six Gentlemen Volunteers of his Troop had Charged quite through the Enemies Men and were so far engaged That the Enemy being got between them and the Town it was unpossible for them to reach back unto the Bridge or their own flying Party and Night being come on they shelter'd themselves in a Gentleman's House near by and by means of good Guides got the next Night to London where they lay conceal'd in expectation of hearing how and where they might meet with their Friends again The Fortune of the Earl of Holland and the rest of the Party which got from Kingston every body knows and how he was taken at St. Needs and afterwards lost his Head The hopes of this Design being thus unfortunately disappointed and Messengers and Spies employ'd every where to seek and seize all the considerable Persons engag'd or suspected to have contributed to this attempt the Earl of Peterborow whom they did intend to make an example was forc'd to abscond as well as he was able He did it in a Chirurgeon's House called Mr. Lowe by whom he was very faithfully served till by the frequentation of the Earl's Mother the House began to be suspected and there was then procur'd for him a lodging at the Printers in Black-Friars where he lay till a safe passage was provided for him to get below Gravesend where he was received into a small Fisher's Boat which conveighed him to Flushing in Zealand There escaped with the Earl John Mordaunt his Brother afterwards Viscount Mordaunt and Mr. William Stafford of Blatherwick a young Gentleman of Fortune who both follow'd him in this occasion and having presented themselves to the Prince of Wales who was then at the Hague they were all receiv'd by his Highness the Princes of Orange his Sister and his Aunt the Queen of Bohemia and all the Princes their Children with that consideration that appertain'd to persons who were Martyrs for their Service having lost their Estates ventur'd their lives and expos'd all their Friends to vindicate the Honor and Authority of their House and relieve the King out of Prison Winter now did approach and it was in that dead time when the King's Affairs were in their last and worst condition The Duke of Hamilton had been routed and taken the Scotch Army dissipated Colchester was surrendred Lord Capell a Prisoner and Lisle and Lucas Executed In fine to this succeeded the Tryal of the Lords Hamilton Holland and Capell their Murder and after that never to be execrated enough of the King himself and in consequence a seeming settlement of that horrid power of the succeeding Common-wealth At this time the Earl of Peterborow was retired to the City of Antwerp because his Estate being all for the second time sequestred he could withdraw no such subsistance as might enable him to follow the young King as he did desire and the Prince was not Master of so much Treasure and Revenues as he might spare wherewith to maintain such Men without Employment in his Service and the expectation of his remaining hopes lying then in Scotland he was forc'd to employ the Moneys he had to entertain and encourage the Men of interest in that Nation The Earl of Peterborow then being from the young King whom he was not able to follow and in a condition very necessitous useless to his Prince and unprofitable to himself he was advised by all his Friends to try if at any expence he could make way with some of power in England to be admitted to a second Composition His Wife the Countess being an Ingenuous and Industrious Lady found means to obtain it upon notice whereof the Earl acquainting the King and his Ministers therewith had his Majesty's leave and approbation to provide for himself the best he could and to submit to the general Fortune and Condition of his Party He return'd then and after many extreme and perverse difficulties paid another great Composition and was once again settled in the possession of his Fortune In the retirement then to his own House the payment of great Debts acquir'd upon Publick accounts and settlement of his Fortune this Earl spent those years which remain'd between the King's Murther and the Restoration of his Son But upon the return of King Charles the Second the Lord Viscount
malice greater than that and their cunning greater than either They knew the admirable Qualities of this Prince they knew his Valor his Justice his Temperance his love of business his indefatigableness in all honourable undertakings they knew also that against a Man so qualified no Truth could prevail they were then resolved to have recourse to falsehood and to the Devil the Father of Lyers one of whose chief Favorites was become Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper the late Earl of Shaftsbury This person was a Man of little stature in his youth well enough shaped of countenance agreeable grace he had in all his manners of application which were to every body soft and plausible He was very well Learn'd and particularly understood the Laws he was exceeding Eloquent a great Master he was of words and the Language and knew powerfully to apply them to every purpose His voice was harmonious and of the sweetness thereof he did likewise make use in his intent to charm the Auditors when he intended to cast false colours upon any thing But with this he was Proud as Lucifer and Ambitious beyond what ever enter'd into the designs of any Man impatient of every Power but his own of any Man's reputation false to that degree as he did not esteem any Promise any Engagement any Oath of other use than to serve a purpose and none of these of consequence to bind a Man farther than it was his interest and for Religion of which for a tool he made most use he had never any as appear'd by the private practices of his whole life For he was ever vicious to his power And for his Cruelty it was never less to those he hated than intentions of total ruine and extirpation in which he was inexorable and it was never known he forgave or was reconcil'd to any Man This Man from a condition obnoxious enough to the King and his party had prepar'd the way of his Peace before the Restoration of King Charles the Second by an Alliance with a great Man esteem'd of much merit in the Royal Interest the Earl of Southampton by whose influence it was not only made but his Uncle which that Lord was becoming Treasurer he procur'd for him the next considerable place in that omnipotent post which was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer and it was so much the more considerable as the Earl being very infirm in effect he did exercise both places His Parts and his Activity which to give him his due were both very extraordinary appear'd in all occasions of Council and Parliament so as the King took opinion of his great Abilities which as soon as he did perceive his first design became to undermine the Chancellor whose compliance and friendship to the Earl of Southampton had occasion'd his being let into Business and the Government and his first malice to his Royal Highness excepting that which those that knew him did believe he always bore to the whole Royal House was grounded upon the obstruction his interest gave to such clandestine prejudices as might have been wrought against his Father-in-law which then the Chancellor was But after this he became as far as he durst oppos'd to the Duke on every occasion joyn'd himself to and party that seem'd contrary and took all Men by the Hands that he thought bore him secret unkindness and if there were prejudicial whispers and insinuations to be apply'd unto the King no Man knew to do it with more dexterity than this Lord for he could kill with courtesie and so ruine a Man's Reputation with Praises The Earl of Shaftsbury under these capacities having try'd various successes in his Fortune and finding the Duke's Genious in opposition to his Establishment began to enter upon the undertaking of that famous contrivance of the pretended Popish Plot wherein he had for assistant another Great Earl whose Name I shall omit for the sake of some that went before him and of others that may come after His chief Instruments were Doctor Tongue and the memorable Titus Oates It was about the end of Summer in the Year _____ when the late King Charles the Second was at his Castle of Windsor in possession of that peace and quietness he did so much affect where there was conveyed to him by the officiousness of his then Chief Minister the Earl of Danby notice of certain Papers and other Instruments containing the substance of a Conspiracy wherein his Life and Government were said to be concern'd Herein many of the Duke's Creatures and Servants did undergo Reflection and the Aspertion the Calumny and the Slander reach'd even unto all the Catholicks of England there are Reasons pro and con to make Men think the King sometimes did and other times did not give credit to any thing of this nature But soon hereupon he removed to London it being near the time he usually went to divert himself with the Races at New-market and stay'd longer than he did intend upon pretence of searching into this matter to satisfie the World what there was of Reality or Fiction in it But that which did appear to make Men doubt of his Opinion of the thing was the treating the Examinations with two much seriousness and application and his not stifling and putting an end to it before his going to New-market This made many doubt of his intentions toward the Duke and of his resolution to suffer his Ministers and his Brother's Enemies to make advantage of it to his prejudice For all the endeavours could be used would not prevail towards stopping a Journey of Recreation for a matter so important as the discovery of this imposture would have proved when otherwise there had been time enough to have perform'd it between that and the sitting of the Parliament if to that purpose it had been well employ'd But the King would go and in the Interim Godfrey was kill'd by himself or by some other which made a noise so great as at his Majesties return there was no way to hinder the acceptance of this Ball which was play'd into the hands of the Parliament and the Duke's Enemies to the end they might maintain a Game intended and undertaken for the ruine of the Government the person of the Duke and indeed of the King himself and all the Royal House But now the cry began to rise Oates put in his Accusations and his Narrative and notwithstanding all the Contradictions and even Impossibilities they did contain they had countenance and encouragement Coleman was seized his Letters and his Papers they were exposed the Duke's Enemies would have them Read and Printed that they might reflect upon his Designs and the Influence he had upon the King The Queen was accused and all the Catholicks Bedloe came in upon the false inventions of the death of Godfrey many other became Evidences suborn'd and maintain'd by the Costs and Arts of Shaftsbury Monmouth and their Party The Test was fram'd to exclude the Duke and the Catholick Lords out
of Parliament The Duke had much to do to get an exemption for himself as a respect to the advantage of his High Birth The Lords Powis Stafford Arundell and Petres were after accused of High Treason and many others In fine Hell was broke loose Malice Revenge and Ambition were supported by all that Falsehood and Perjury could contrive And lastly it was the most deplorable time that ever was seen in England But during all these Troubles the Earl of Peterborow continued firm industrious and diligent to all that could be of use and service to the Duke his Master he exposed himself in Parliament by perpetual opposition of that party he got the ill-will of the City and he made himself obnoxious to the Enemies of the Duke and his Religion in all the Provinces of England he stood up for the Innocent he to his power supported the oppressed and he declared for publick justice against publick malice and publick partiality After this things came to that height as the King was induced to send his Brother out of England whether it were he thought he was not able to protect him against the aversion of the People and Parliament or that he was weary of being urged to those generous ways of defending his Interest and Prerogative which the Duke was always ready to suggest unto him And to this he was urged by his Ministers his Minions and his Mistress The Duke then was forced to retire into Holland and after into Flanders the Earl of Peterborow remaining behind to serve his Master in what might occur in Parliament but at the instance of the prevailing party he was immediately with the rest of his Royal Highness's Friends excluded out of the Privy Council whereof before he had of some years been a Member he fell then to working by himself and all his Friends to strengthen the interest his Master had left behind he endeavour'd to make him Creatures he disabused several that had taken prejudices upon false suggestions And in fine braved his Enemies by all the important oppositions he could make against them and when the Parliament was up and that there was no more opportunity to serve him here his Lordship follow'd him into his Exile with his Wife and Family resolved to run his Fortune and support as well as he could the consequences of their displeasure who were like to be offended at such an adherence And indeed he was no sooner gone than he began to feel the weight of their resentment for there was a Pension he had given him from the King under the Great Seal of England of a Thousand pound by the Year for valuable consideration and which he had constantly received for divers Years from the date thereof that was immediately stopp'd and forbid farther to be paid by the influencing malice of the Earls of Essex and Shaftsbury He constantly then attended his Royal Highness during his stay in those Countries and at an expence as did no dishonor to his Master his Country nor the Quality of which he was and upon his Highness's notice of the King his Brother's being sick and the resolution he took thereupon to repair into England he with the Lord Churchil alone came over with him unto Windsor leaving the Dutchess and the Court at that time behind them I mention this as an introduction to an accident which after happen'd wherein his Lordship and his Royal Master had like to have been much concern'd which was effectually as shall be here set down Upon the Earl of Peterborow's arrival at London after a day or two he went to visit a noble Lady of his acquaintace the Countess of Powis who with her Family were in affliction by reason of the unjust Imprisonment and Oppression of the Earl her Husband at that time in the Tower After some discourses of the times and of the straits wherein it was believed the King the Duke and the Royal Family were all by reason of the seditious proceedings in Parliament and the disaffection had been raised towards them by the wicked Arts of their Enemies her Ladiship ask'd Whether his Lordship did not believe it might be a service to His Majesty and his Highness if some of the considerable leaders in those proceedings and designs could be taken off from their Malice and introduc'd into the King's Service and the endeavours of honestly astssiing the Crown The Earl gave his approbation of the proposition and said He did believe it would be so and that encouragement ought to be given to those that were capable to effect any such matter Her Ladiship told him then she knew an ingenious Woman who from the Calling of a Mid-wife had opportunity of frequenting domestically many considerable Families and that was intimately acquainted even with the Earl of Shaftsbury from whom she had been sometimes trusted with messages if not propositions to his Royal Highness himself although nothing had succeeded thereupon This Woman she said was passionately concern'd for the King and the Duke and had every where made it her business to soften their Enemies and make them Creatures She acquainted her Ladiship That she found divers of them susceptible of reason and to be taken off but they all feared an imaginary implacability in the Duke's Nature and that advancing his power they should but promote their own prejudices by giving him thereby opportunities of revenging the injuries they might formerly have done him So as if by receiving one or two of them into grace from the submissions they should make the rest might be disabused of the error they were in from the conceit of his revengeful Nature she did much believe it would prove of very good effect The Earl of Peterborow told the Countess of Powis he would willingly see this Woman and if the Men she named were considerable enough he would undertake upon due submissions beginning with one to make the rest see the Duke was the most gracious Prince in the World the most ready to forgive and the gladest to reclaim any Gentleman out of an ill proceeding wherein he might have been engaged through mistakes evil Counsel or Company or other Accidents that sometimes have influence over humane nature This Woman whose name was Cellier met the Earl at the same place the next day and affirming all the Countess had said told his Lordship That the fittest Man to begin withal was one Sir Robert Payton The Earl knew this Gentleman had been a Factious a Turbulent and a Discontented Man he had been turn'd out of some Employments by the endeavours and power of certain Ministers which he did after resent and endeavour to revenge upon the Government He had grown very popular presided at dangerous Clubs and carried the being Knight of the Shire for Middlesex against all the endeavours of the Court and the Loyal Party He was dangerously bold and industrious in the Parliament and his Lordship thought it not an ill service to take him off A time was appointed for
Exclusion from the Succession to the Crown against his Royal Highness It endur'd a strong and long debate Of powerful Eloquence and great parts were the Duke's Enemies who did assert the Bill but a Noble Lord appear'd against it who that day in all the force of Speech in Reason in Arguments of what could concern the publick or the private interests of Men in Honor in Conscience in Estate did out-do himself and every other Man and in fine his conduct and his parts were both victorious and by him all the wit and malice of that party was overthrown After this Henry Lord Viscount Stafford was brought to his Tryal as the chief of those Lords that had been accused of so many Treasons in the particulars of whose Impeachment there appear'd so many improbabilities in the Witnesses such reasons to render them of no belief and in the Prosecutors so much Malice Interest and Partiality as it was impossible to the Earl of Peterborow for Conscience sake not to endeavour his justification though to the uttermost offence of so powerful and prevailing a party He came to the House the last day of his Tryal and would go down into the Hall to exercise his right of Judicature though he were sick of a Fever from the pain of his Arm that was out of joint though he was perswaded and threatned from it and in scorn of that iniquity did not remove till he had voted for publick Justice against popular Tyranny and Oppression This Parliament after this Lords Condemnation came to be Dissolv'd and the Earl being then no more either of Council or Court retired to Drayton in Northamptonshire where his Master had commanded him to stay till the approaching Parliament was to meet that had been appointed for to sit at Oxford It was about this time the Faction began to prepare for Action They began to find the King more sensible of his danger and their intentions than ever he had been They began to lose the hold they had upon his Mistresses and his Ministers and that the false Minions of his Court began many of them to lose their esteem and be suspected by him whilst he began to harken to honester Men and that were better instructed in the True principles of his Interest and Government They believed the Assembling of the Parliament of Oxford was calculated for to evade their power in London and that at last they were like to find the King not so complying to his own Ruine as they might desire and possibly were made to expect some Months before They thought themselves then ready and ripe for violence they intended to put the end of their Assosiations into practice and a Man of their party came not to Oxford without more Friends and Arms than had been needful for them at any other time Upon noise whereof the Lords and Friends of the Crown did in some measure do so on the other side being willing to secure themselves from insults of their Adversaries if they should be attempted and it look'd in a degree like one of those Parliaments call'd in the Barons days The Earl of Peterborow came to this Assembly from his House more provided than ordinary in proportion to the care and intentions of the other honest Lords And I have heard him say That meeting the King by chance at his first arrival to the Town he thought him better attended and under an appearance of more Resolution and Majesty than ever he had seen in him before The King entred then upon the Parliament and indeed such was his love to quiet and the publick peace as he was ready to have granted more than had ever been fit for them to ask But they were now as it pleased God so exalted in their opinion of their power and interest as they would have all and were resolved to leave him but the empty name of King and without power to maintain that longer than it should seem convenient He was forc'd then and on a sudden to dissolve this Parliament also and to betake himself to their Councels who undertook to make him live without it And so he came to spend at London and Windsor the ensuing Summer Enrag'd the Party became at this and look'd upon him to have escaped their hands by the Art and Contrivance of his new Cabinet and so as by the methods they took for his subsistance he was not like to come suddenly into their power again And now the Faction found that both the Brothers were to be destroy'd before they could attain the power was thought necessary for them so they then fell to the fatal consultations of plain Rebellion open Murther and such other pious Expedients as did suit with their refined Consciences which the Year after broke out by the discovery of the Enterprise of Rye and publick appearance of the Rebellions of Monmouth and Argile But upon the dissolution of this Parliament the Earl of Peterborow went back to his House and employ'd the rest of that Summer in disabusing many Gentlemen of the opinion they had receiv'd of the candor and innocence of that Parties intentions and in procuring Addresses to encourage the King and discountenance the disloyal Faction In October his Royal Highness sent for his Lordship to come and attend him in Scotland which he did with all his Family and with that affection as made it doubtful whether his Journey might not have proved a means to have excluded him from ever returning home again Indeed in this fluctuation of affairs where not only the Court and Council were divided but even the King 's own Thoughts and Inclinations it was dangerous to be so far distant from the Court and many of the Earl's Enemies whereof he had some were very potent did afford him such ill offices to his Majesty as when his Royal Highness did write to the King about any of the Earl's interests he could never procure any answer during all the time of his absence But the Winter wore out at last and the Duke was invited home Those that had least interest in the Council were for his return those that had most were against it under specious pretences But the true reason was They had a mind to keep their Power which they thought his Quality his Parts and Inclination to business would if not at first yet in some time very much diminish or eclipse He Embark'd the _____ of March at Leith in his own Yatcht and attended by the Earl of Peterborow and divers other Noble Lords of both the Kingdoms and setting Sail from thence under the sufferance of very tempestuous weather landed at Yarmouth where with the applause and duties of that Town and all the adjacent Countries he was received and thence passed to New-market meeting there the King and with that joy which was natural to him because he truly loved his Brother above all other things It was from hence he accompanied his Majesty to London but having left the Dutchess at Edenburgh
Iames Mordaunt Gostwick Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Eliz Howard Lewis Mordaunt Smith Frances Mordaunt Sr. Thomas Nevill Eldest Son to Henry Lord Abergeveny John Lord Viscount Mord âaunt Elizabeth Cary Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penclope Obrian Eliz Mordaunt Tho Lord Heward of Escrick Mary Mordaunt Dutchess of Norfolk Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of MORDAUNT Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of MORDAUNT OSBERT le MORDAVNT First of that Name Lord of Radwell CHAPTER I. Charta Eustachii de Sancto Aegidio EUstachius de Sancto Aegidio omnibus hominibus Amicis suis tam Francigenis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse hac praesenti Chartâ confirmâsse Osberto dicto le Mordaunt fratri meo pro homagio servitio suo terram meam de Radwell cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus ejus Tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè haereditariè sicut illam Ego inter alia recepi ac tenui de donatione munificentia Willielmi Illustrissimi Regis Angliae pro servitiis quae Pater meus in Conquestu Ego sibi fecimus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius militis pro omni servitio seculari Ego verò praedictus Eustachius de Sancto Aegidio haeredes mei praedictam terram praedicto Osberto Haeredibus ejus contra omnes homines foeminas warrantizabimus His Testibus Ranulpho filio Thomae Herveio filio Richardi Willielmo Breto Johanne Calvo Rogero le Puer Johanne Pippard Richardo le Mole multis aliis Charta Osberti le Mordaunt OSbertus le Mordaunt omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hâc praesenti Chartâ confirmâsse Baldewino le Mordaunt filio meo juniori ad terminum vitae suae medietatem Terrae meae de Radwell cum redditibus servitiis libertatibus ad eandem pertinentibus Ità ut illam occupet dimittat obliget vel aliquo modo proficua extrahat Quando illi tamen obire contigerit volo ut mihi terra illa revertat vel haeredibus meis liberè quietè sine impedimento In cujus rei Testimonium praesenti Chartae Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Joscelino Malherbe Thoma Marescallus Galfrido de Castello Roberto Forestarius Willielmo Piscatore Nicolao de Sancto Laude Johanne Presbiter Richardo Pincerno aliis Ex Antiquo MS. è manu propria Johannis Mordaunt Militis Cancellarii Ducatus Lancastriae sub titulo Le Titre de tous le terres tenements qui fuerent allienez par mes Ancestres Charta tamen Extat De Terris in Hibernia Charta Hervei de Montemorenci Marescalli Domini Regis totius Hiberniae HErveius de Montemorenci Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae omnibus Amicis atque Hominibus suis tam Francigenis quà m Anglicis tam Wallensibus quà m Hibernensibus Salutem Sciatis me dedisse hac praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmâsse Osberto Roberti filio quandam villam in Hubarchi quae vocatur Balmacros atque dimidiam villam quae vocatur Chilmor totam aliam terram quae fuit Radulphi de Tobenere die quâ defunctus fuit cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sine ulla retentione dedi praedicto Osberto propter homagium suum servitium quod mihi fecit sibi haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis .... ........... atque de alia terra quae est inter Insulam ....... feudum quindecim Militum per servitium trium Militum quod mihi faciet quandam domum ei firmabo intra illa ubi melius fuerit Concilio meo ac aliorum amicorum suorum hoc insumonsa quare volo quòd praedictus Osbertus post eum Haeredes sui praedictum feudum quindecim Militum per praedictum servitium trium Militum sine ulla occasione teneat bene honorificè liberè in pace quietè integrè scilicet in bosco in plano in viis in semitis in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in stagnis in Ripis in piscariis in piscinis in omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus feudo illo pertinentibus velut unquam Radulphus praedictus liberiùs tenuit velut ille in Hibernia qui meliùs liberiùs de feudo Comitis Richardi Nepotis mei in Hibernia tenet Teste Roberto le Puer Rogero le Puer Willielmo le Puer Roberto de Estova Henrico Clement Alario Mallemains Hugone Strangio Alexandro de Berlin Rogero le Butler Richardo Hay Willielmo le Bruce Nicolao filio ejus Hugone de Hargrave Richardo Wallense Rogero .... OSMOND le MORDAVNT First of that Name Lord of the Lordship of Radwell CHAPTER II. Charta Osmundi le Mordaunt OSmundus le Mordaunt omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Salutem Sciat Universitas vestra me concessisse confirmâsse Baldewino le Mordaunt fratri meo ad terminum vitae suae medietatem terrae de Radwell quam Osbertus le Mordaunt pater noster ei concessit cum redditibus servitiis libertatibus sicut in Charta sua continetur quae idem Baldewinus tenet de praedicto Osberto patre nostro Et ut haec concessio confirmatio rata inconcussa permaneat eam praesenti Scripto Sigilli mei appositione roboravi His Testibus Roberto de Camfrey Thoma de Novo Porto Adam de Camuille Elias de Hacley Roberto Sertor Willielmo Mancell Guido Sertor Richardo de Wahull multis aliis Charta Sampsonis Fortis SAmpson Fortis omnibus hominibus Amicis suis tam futuris quam praesentibus Salutem Notum fit vobis me dedisse concessisse Osmundo le Mordaunt haeredibus suis legitimè procreatis ex corpore Helenae filiae meae totam terram de Chillington quam Robertus pater meus tenuit die quo obiit per servitium dimidii feodi Militis Tenendum de me haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis liberè honorificè ab omni exactione salvo servitio Domini Regis quantum ad tantam terram pertinet Hi sunt Testes Walterus de Timainill Huardus de Levendena Robertus de Blosvilla Walterus Dizell Baldewinus Mordaunt Robertus filius Stephani Allanus Bellet Rogerus de Longo prato Almericus de Hallem Bonifacius Scriptor SIGILLVM SAMSONIS FORTIS EVSTACE le MORDAVNT First of that Name Lord of Turvey and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER III. Charta Willielmi de Alno OMnibus hominibus Amicis suis praesentibus futuris Willielmus de Alno Salutem Notum sit vobis quòd Ego dedi concessi Eustachio le Mordaunt cum Alicia filia mea primogenita medietatem omnium terrarum mearum Villae meae de Turveia
Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere their Sisters and to their Heirs for ever And in case the said John Tresham make no sale of his Maners Lands and Tenements as is aforesaid That then immediately after his decease and the decease of Isabel his Sister all his Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Realm of England not sold to the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant as is abovesaid shall remain go and grow to the said Elizabeth Vere Amey Vere and Constance Vere and to their Heirs for ever And the said John Mordaunt shall pay for reversion of the Premises sold or to be sold by the said John Tresham to the same John Mordaunt Serjeant after the rate of half Fifteen Years Purchace as is abovesaid In witness whereof to these present Indentures the said Parties interchangeably have set their Seals the same Twenty fifth Day and Year abovesaid And in case the said John Tresham hereafter have any Issue Male of the Body of the said Isabel by him begotten That then the said Issue Male shall have all the same Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig Church-Brampton or part of them if it shall please the same John Tresham to make any such Gift Entail Extracta per me Nicolaum Hardyng verbatim xxv die Januarii decimo nono Henrici Septimi A Letter from the Prince to John Mordaunt his Attorney By the Prince TRusty and right wele beloved we greet you wele And understand by your late Letters directed unto our Councel that ye have endeavoured you diligently to perform such matters and businesses concerning our profit according to our desires in our Letters directed to you for the which we give unto you our great thanks praying you to persevere and continue And whereas in your said Letters among other matters is contained That Richard Empson hath found that Ingleton held certain Hamlets and Parcels of Lands of my most dread Lord and Fader the King by Knights Service whereby he intendeth to defeat us as it seemeth of the Ward of the said Ingleton to our Prejudice with whom we charge you severely in our Name to travers for divers considerations and specially for that our Councel have had of late more perfit knowledge That the said Ward rightfully appertaineth unto us than they knew or had understanding for the which and other great matters whereof we shall be ascertained we intend within brief time to send some of our Councel unto my most dread Lord and Fader instructed to the intent we may know his pleasure concerning the same We will also That in our Name ye take Actions against Ward Waste and Sefnian for such Wards as they detaining have by craft concealedly hid and kept from us wherewith we be nothing pleased nor content And as for the hundred and three score Pounds resting in the hands of Nicholas Nynes due unto us we pray you on our behalf to charge the said Nicholas to send the same surely to us in all convenient hast and to give credence to our trusty servant Thomas Canceller chief Clerk of our Kitchin in such things as he on our behalf shall shew unto you whereby ye shall greatly please us Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaudley the Twenty third day of May. Articles of Marriage between Sir Wistan Brown and Elizabeth Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Twentieth day of September in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey oon of the Kings Serjeants at the Law on the oon Partie and William Brown of Abbesroding in the County of Essex Esquire on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas it was promised concluded and agreed between the Friends of the said William and the said John Mordaunt and other Friends of Elizabeth Sister of the said John Mordaunt That the said William should take to Wife the said Elizabeth and upon the same Marriage concluded and was promised as well by the Friends of the said William as by the said William he then being of the Age of sixteen Years or thereabout and of good and sad discretion That the said Elizabeth should have a Jointure of Maners Lands and Tenements late Robert Brown's Father to the said William to the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and that of the same Maners Lands and Tenements so of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings and also of other Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins which before that time were laid to Mortgage by the said Robert to William Capell Knight for a Debt and Forfeit to the said Sir William and afterward redeemed by the said John at his labor and Instance for the summ of Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the which Eight Pounds Six Shillings and Eight Pence the said John Mordaunt payed to the said Sir William and the said John Mordaunt should have and take the Profits into his own hand from the time of the said agreement and concluding of Marriage unto the time the said William come to his full Age of One and Twenty Years which Lands in the whole were promised to be of the yearly Value of Eight Pounds over all Charges to the said John And also it was farther agreed That the said Elizabeth over and besides Maners Lands and Tenements to the said yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings should have a Jointure in the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins if the said William when he came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years would agree That she should have the said Lands and Tenements in the Saint Martins term of her Life and after that the said William came to his full Age of One and Twenty Years he oftentimes assented and agreed That the same Elizabeth should have the said Lands in the Saint Martins in Jointure and by these Presents confesseth and granteth That he agreed and granted and at the time of concluding the said Marriage the Maners of Rokewodhall and Stokhall and all Lands and Tenements in Abbesroding Bauchamproding High-Laffare Little-Laffare and Maehing in the County of Essex except Hobberlerkey which were the said Robert Brown's were promised to be of the yearly Value of Ten Pound Four Shillings over all Charges were assigned to be the said Jointure of the said Elizabeth and after were given in Jointure by Sir Thomas Boughchier Knight John Bardefeld and other Enfeoffes to the said William and Elizabeth his Wife for term of Life of the said Elizabeth And the said William took Seizing and Possession for him and the said Elizabeth at Abbesroding aforesaid The same Elizabeth her Friends verily believing the same Maners Lands and Tenements had then been of the yearly Value of Ten Pounds Four Shillings according to the said Promise and also as it was agreed upon between the same Parties upon the said Marriage concluded That the reversion of the said Manners of Rokewodhall Stokhall and all Lands and
or the Bishop of Duresme our Secretary before the Feast of Saint John Baptist next coming at the farthest like as we have semblably written to all Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of every Shire within this our Realm and therefore fail ye not to accomplish the premises as ye tender our honour and the surety of us and of our Realm and Subjects so and in such wise that by our preparation of a good number of able Men we may understand your towardly mind to do unto us service which shall be remembred according to your deserts and these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet ye well So it is upon the even of Philip and Jacob last passed a great number of insolent Apprentices and malicious Journey-men of their sensual Appetites and rancorous Dispositions against Aliens and Strangers Artificers and others Inhabited within our City of London suddainly assembled themselves within our said City in the night time under colour of Maying breaking up entring and robbing the houses of sundry French and Dutch men making also great Comminations to other Strangers to the marvellous Inquietation and Commotion of our said City and Disturbances of our Peace within the same And albeit the same Commotion and Rebellious Assembly by the Mayor Sheriffs and other substantial and well disposed Citizens with and by the Policies Powers and Assistance of the Noble Men and others of our Council was not only forthwith repressed and pacified but also a great Number of the Malefactors and Offenders taken and according to our Laws and their Demerits openly convicted and put to execution so that it is now throughly pacified and put in Quietness our Lord be thanked Yet we thought right expedient to advertise you thereof as well for the Declaration of the Truth in putting all Sinister and Seditious Bruits to silence if any such shall be made by indisposed Persons as also that ye by your Wisdom should not only foresee and have good espial in the place and Countries near adjoyning to you to know the disposition of our Subjects if upon untrue reports they should be stirred to any semblable Commotions by perverse Councel against Merchants Strangers or upon any other ground or cause But also by your wisdom and power with the assistance of other faithful Servants and Subjects in these parts forthwith to repress the same by taking as well the principal mover and stirrers thereof as also the offenders accompanying them for such unlawful intent and purpose committing them to Ward And also advertising us thereof with all speedy diligence as our special Trust is in you and as ye intend to do unto us acceptable service and pleasure to be remembred hereafter accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Third day of May. An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Maner of Drayton TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing Indented shall come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers Variances and Debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earl of Shrewsbury on the one Partie and John Mordaunt Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cousins and Heirs to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Earl and Daughter and Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Esquire and Humphrey Brown Esquire late Husband to Amey and George Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Son and Heir to the same Amey another Cousin and another of the Heirs of the said Earl of Wiltshire after the form aforesaid and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cousin and Heir to the same Earl after the manner abovesaid on the other Partie of and upon the Right Title Reversion and Possession as well of the foresaid Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances as of all other Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were the said Constance's or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or the other of them Which Maners Lands and Tenements the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury claimed by a Will supposed to be made by the said Earl of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Earl of Wiltshire should will to the said Earl of Shrewsbury all his Fee simple Land Whereupon the foresaid Parties have compromitted themselves to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named by and between the foresaid Parties to Award Ordain and Deem as well of and upon the Premises as for and upon all manner of Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Amuniments concerning the Premises or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid Parties or their Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the Premises And we the foresaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises calling before us the Counsels of the foresaid Parties hearing and seeing their Titles Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegiances concerning their foresaid Titles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said Parties Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises in manner and form following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earl of Wiltshire and Sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will. And in that Will there is no clause whereby the same Earl of Shrewsbury should have any of his Maners Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the aforesaid Maner of Drayton and other the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be given in Tayle to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire who had and enjoyed the same by reason of the said Tayles and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Brown and Audrey be Cousins and next Heir to the same Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire and to the same Earl on his Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Maners and other the Premises by reason of the said Tayles Wherefore we Award
Sir John or his Deputy thereto be required by the said Rector and Scholars or by their Successors according as it hath been there used in times past in all the foresaid Maners in the said County of Buckingham requiring for him or his Deputies only the Fee rehearsed This Patent by William Shyrby and Henry Brown which William and Henry had it at the Hands of Sir Richard Lyster Gentleman William Shyrby Per me Henricum Brown Alliance between Mordaunt and Fettyplace THIS Indenture made the First day of July in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth Between John Fettyplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Knight on the other Party Witnesseth That the said John Fettyplace hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth Bargain and Sell to the said Sir John the Marriage of Edmond Fettyplace And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said Edmond before the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady next coming after the date of these presents shall Marry and take to Wife Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Margaret thereto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents that the said Margaret shall Marry and take to Husband before the foresaid Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the said Edmond if the said Edmond thereto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast at the Costs and Charges of the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John Fettyplace Covenaneth and Granteth by these presents That his Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Edmond for the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Margaret for the day of the said Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Margaret And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Gyles Strangeways Sir William Gascoign Knights Thomas Englefield one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law Edward Eynes John Elmes Edward Purfray Philip Fettyplace and William Fettyplace of Maydencote Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Gentlemen Thomas Nethercote and John Duke and to them their Heirs and Assigns and to the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns such a sufficient sure and lawful Estate of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the County of Kent to the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds discharged of all former Bargais Sales Jointures Dowers Uses Judgments Executions Recognisances Statutes-Merchants Statutes of the Staple and of all other Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by their Learned Counsel at the costs and charges in the Law of the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns be it by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise The same Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to such Uses and Intents as hereafter follow That is to say Of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Twenty Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof immediately upon the Marriage had and solemnized to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof from the date of these present Indentures to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father unto the time that the said Edmond his Son and Heir apparent come to the full Age of One and twenty Years And after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the said Age of One and twenty Years and after the Death of Dame Alice Besellys Widow that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Twenty Pounds residue of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father for term of Life of the same John Fettyplace the Father without Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said John Fettyplace the Father And immediately after the Death of the said John Fettyplace the Father and after the said Edmond shall come and be of the Age of One and twenty Years that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And the said John Fettyplace the Father Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall leave Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly value of Three hundred and twenty five Marks over and beside the said fifty Pounds before appointed for the Jointure in the County of Berks Oxfordshire or elsewhere within the Realm of England immediately after the decease of the said John Fettyplace and of Dorothy his Wife and after the decease of Dame Alice Besellys Widow and after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and
the said Margaret to the only use of the said Edmond according to the Covenants comprized and specified in these Indentures In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these present Indentures interchangably have put to their Seals and Sign Manuals the Day and Year above-written John Fettyplace Alliance between Mordaunt and Fisher THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth between Michael Fisher of Clyfton in the County of Bedford Esquire on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey of the said County of Bedford Knight on the other Partie Witnesseth That the said Michael hath Covenanted and Granted and by these Presents Covenanteth and Granteth to the said Sir John That John Fisher Son and Heir apparent of the said Michael and of Margaret his Wife shall by the Grace of God before the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Six Marry and take to Wife Anne Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Anne thereunto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That the said Anne shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Fisher if the said John Fisher thereunto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast of Saint Michael at the costs and charges of both the said Parties truly to be borne And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to the said Sir John That he his Executors or Assigns shall Apparel the said John Fisher his Son at the said day of Marriage in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said John Fisher And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents to the said Michael That he his Executors or Assigns shall Apparel the said Anne at the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Anne And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Sir John by these presents That the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns shall before the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming after the date hereof make cause or do to be made to John Spelman Serjeant at the Law John Elmes Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh Gentlemen and Sir William Rymer Clerk to them their Heirs and Assigns or to the one of them their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law at the costs and charges of the said Michael and of the said Sir John by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs or Assigns or by their learned Counsel of and in these his Maners of Westlyngworth Clifton and Felinshin with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and of and in all Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth and Felinshin in the said County of Bedford And also the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Sir John by these presents That the said Michael his Heirs or Assigns shall before the said Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming after the date hereof make cause or do to be made to the said John Spelman John Elmes Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh and Sir William Rymer to leave them their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law at the whole costs and charges of the said Michael and of the said Sir John by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs or Assigns or by their learned Counsel of and in certain Pastures Lands and Tenements being in Clopton in the County of Kent to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds over all charges discharged of all former Bargains Sales Statutes and of all other Incumbrances and Charges made by the said Michael only To have and to hold to the said John Spelman John Elmes Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Thomas Fitzhugh and Sir William Rymer Clerk their Heirs and Assigns to such uses and intents as hereafter ensueth That is to say Immediately after the solemnization of the said Marriage had to stand and be seized of the said Maner of Westlyngworth and of and in all Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Westlyngworth aforesaid to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the said John Fisher hath accomplished the age of Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in the said Maners of Clifton and of and in all Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Clifton to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after that the said John Fisher hath accomplished the age of Twenty and three Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in Felinshin aforesaid to the clear yearly value of Four Pound six Shillings and eight Pence parcel of the said Lands and Tenements in Felinshin of the value of Eleven Pounds to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the said John Fisher shall come to his age of One and Twenty Years then the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid to the yearly value of Four Pound six Shillings and eight Pence to the use of the said John Fisher and of the said Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And immediately after the death of the said Michael the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of and in all other Lands and Tenements in Felinshin aforesaid residue of the said Lands and Tenements in Felinshin of the value of Ten Pounds and above of and in all the said Closes Lands and Tenements in Clopton aforesaid parcel of the Maner of Clopton to the use of the said John Fisher and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Fisher lawfully begotten And the said Michael Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if it happen the said John Fisher after the said Marriage had and solemnized to
our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And will and command you That for the enstoring the Park of our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Hastings ye deliver or cause to be delivered unto him or his Assigns in that behalf Three hundred of quick Deer to be taken of our Gift in our Chace of Leicester and within our Park there called Leicester Fryth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf or at all times hereafter any restraint or commandment heretofore made or had the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Seventeenth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales Henry R. By the King HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales within our County of Hertford and in his absence to his Deputy or Deputies there Greeting Forasmuch as we have not only commanded our welbeloved Servant Hector Asheley Master and Controuler of our Works at our Maner of Hunesdone in our said County of Hertford to fell and cut down or to cause to be felled and cut down with all diligence in either of our said Parks there such and as many Oaks as he from time to time shall think needful and expedient as well for Pale for the inclosing of a Paddok within our old Park of Hunesdone for a Winter pasture there as also for the empaling of the Parsons ground within our new Park at Hunesdone but also we by these presents for certain causes and considerations us specially moving have freely given and granted unto our said Servant all the Lops and Tops of the said Oaks and of every of them without any thing therefore paying or accompt yeilding unto us or our use at any time hereafter We will therefore and command you and every of you to permit and suffer the said Hector Asheley to have use and enjoy the whole effect of this our commandment and gift without any your challenge lett or interruption to the contrary as ye tender our pleasure And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaulieu the Twelfth day of August the Nineteenth Year of our Reign Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnricus Octavus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Rex Fidei Defensor Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus dilectis fidelibus suis Majori Civitatis suae Londini Johanni Mordaunt militi Conciliario nostro Christophero Hales Solicitori nostro Rogero Wygston Armigeris Salutem Quia accepimus quod Johannes Gysours filius Johannis Gysours Armigeri Fatuus Idiota in vita sua fuit quod regimen sui ipsius terrarum tenementorum suorum non sufficit quod ipse in fatuitate sua magnam partem terrarum tenementorum suorum alienavit in exheredationem suam nostri prejudicium manifestum nos indemnitati nostrae perspicere volentes vobis mandamus quod ad loca ubi terrae tenementa illa infra civitatem Londinum existunt in propriis personis vestris accedatis de statu suo qualis ille erat dum in humanis agebat viis modis quibus poteritis informari omnes affines cognatos vicinos suos circumspectè examinetis Et nihilominus per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de civitate praedicta per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis utrum idem Johannes Gysours junior fatuus idiota in vita sua fuisset nec ne si sic utrum à nativitate sua seu ab alio tempore si ab alio tempore à quo tempore qualiter quomodo si lucidis gaudebat intellectualibus si idem Johannes in eodem statu existens terras tenementa aliqua vendiderit seu alienaverit nec ne quid pro eisdem recepit si sic vendiderit tunc quae terrae tenementa ubi vel in vel quibus in quorum vel cujus manibus terrae tenementa sic alienata existunt qualiter quo modo quae terrae quae tenementa haeredibus suis adhuc remanent de quo vel de quibus tam terrae tenementa sic alienata quam terrae tenementa sibi retenta teneant per quod servicium qualiter quomodo quantum valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus quis propinquior haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis inquisitionem inde distinctè apertè factam nobis in Cancelaria nostra sub sigillis vestris sigillis eorum per quos fuerit sine dilatione mittatis hoc breve c. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto die Maii Anno Regni vicesimo Newman Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our Right welbeloved Counsellors Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Roger Wigston Esquire and to our welbeloved Robert Harward Thomas Borett and John Duke greeting Know ye that we having Trust and Confidence in your Wisdoms Fidelities and Circumspections have appointed deputed and authorised you and by these presents give unto you and two of you and to such Persons bringers hereof as ye shall substitute name and assign in your place and absence full Power and Authority to take and provide to and for the use of our Fortifications Munitions Buildings and Reparations of our Ordnances and other things concerning as well the Safeguard Defence and Tuition of our Town and Marches of Caleys the Castles of Guysnes Hammes and Newnambrigge as also other necessaries and requisites of and for the same purpose to be taken and had not only within our Lordships Maners Woods and Parks and other Grounds within our Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex but also to be taken and had within any Lordships Maners Lands and Tenements of any other Person or Persons within the said Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex at convenient and reasonable prices and by this we give unto you and two of you full Power and Authority in manner and form above-specified to take Carpenters Workmen Artificers and Labourers apt and convenient for Felling and Squaring of the said Timber and Trees to the use aforesaid and also all manner of Carriages as well by Sea and Salt-Waters as also by Fresh-Waters
Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and Twentieth Day of April Alliance between Mordaunt and More THIS Indenture made the Two and twentieth day of January in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland Between John More of Haddon in the Parish of Bampton in the County of Oxford Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the other Party Witnesseth That the said Parties being agreed in manner and form as hereafter followeth That is to say The said John More doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That Thomas More his Son and Heir apparent shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt if the said Dorothy thereto will agree and consent And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That the said Dorothy by the like Grace shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Thomas More if the said Thomas More thereto will consent and agree The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy Mordaunt before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof at the indifferent Costs and Charges of the said John More and Lord Mordaunt And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Thomas More in all things as shall be meet and convenient for the Degree of the said Thomas More the day of the said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Dorothy in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Dorothy the said day of Marriage so to be solemnized and had And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That the same John More his Heirs or Assigns before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date of these Presents or within Fifteen days next ensuing the said Feast of Easter shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Thomas Audely Knight Lord Chancellor of England Sir Henry Parker Gyles Strangesways John Mordaunt the Younger William Gascoign Thomas Bernardyston Knights Edmond Fettyplace Roger More John Elmes Esquires William More Clerk John Gostwyke Robert More second Son of the said John More Thomas Spilman Robert Latimer Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Downhall Gentlemen Thomas Lewes and George Caldwell their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in the Maner of Whaddon otherwise called Charles's Maner in Whaddon in the County of Cantebrigge and of and in the Maner of Ladybury in Whaddon aforesaid and of and in all other his Maners Lands and Tenements Hereditaments Woods Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in Whaddon aforesaid Knesworth Melreth Melburn Basingburn Moredon Abyngdon Crawdon Wympole and Crewell in the said County of Cantebrigge All which Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents To be of the clear yearly value of Forty eight Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Reprizes going out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances before expressed The said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand Feoffees and seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the said Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents hereafter following That is to say To the use of the said John More and his Heirs until such time as Marriage be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And after such Marriage had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy then immediately the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and to be seized of and in the Site of the Maner and Maner place of the said Maner of Whaddon called Charles's Maner with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the same Maner belonging or appertaining with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Fourteen Pounds And of and in certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now in the Tenure of one William Fox to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances called Lady-place to the clear yearly value of Fifty three Shillings four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Payne to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Pounds and ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Richard Crepyn to the clear yearly value of Ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Twenty six Shillings eight Pence All which Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances parcel of the Premises amount to the clear yearly value of Forty Marks to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John More for ever And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Newman to the clear yearly value of Twenty four Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Borolman to the clear yearly value of Forty Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenences now in the Tenure of John Astemore to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds three Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Dickons to the clear yearly value of Three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence And of and in divers Lands and Tenements now in the Tenure of John Alleyn to the clear value of Thirteen Shillings four pence also parcel of the Premises amounting in the whole to the Summ of Twenty Marks to the use of the said John More during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after the Death of the
and upon those grounds with a respect to the avoiding of all dangers that by the contrary part may ensue you will apply your self to be so vigilant as the points contained in the said Proclamation and all others meet to be remembred for the Maintenance and Conservation of Justice may be put in use and duely observed according to your Allegiance and to the Commandment of the same By the doing hereof ye shall satisfie a good duty towards God you shall preserve your Estimation towards us you shall honestly serve your Country and you shall save your own to your self and to your posterity By the other part you shall offend God you shall displease us put out your Estimation with all the rest in danger Wherefore eftsoons we require you to remember your self touching these things in such wise as we may have cause both to remember you again with Favour and to think you a Man worthy the same and to have Authority with others in our Common-Wealth accordingly Willing you for your better instruction to get a Copy of our said Proclamation and in such wise to note the special points of the same as you may the better put it in due Execution without failing as we trust in you Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the Ninth Day of March the Twentieth and nine Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as by the inestimable Goodness and Grace of Almighty God we be delivered and brought in Child-bed of a Prince conceived in most lawful Matrimony between my Lord the King's Majesty and Us Doubting not but for the Love and Affection which ye bear unto us and to the Common-Wealth of this Realm the knowledge thereof should be Joyous and glad Tidings unto you We have thought good to certifie you of the same to the intent ye might not only render unto God condign Thanks and Praise for so great a Benefit but also continually Pray for the long Continuance and Preservation of the same here in this Life to the Honour of God Joy and Pleasure of my Lord the King and Us and the Universal Well Quiet and Tranquillity of this whole Realm Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Hampton-Court the Twelfth Day of October Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers THIS Indenture made the Twentieth Day of October in the Nine and Twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland and in Truth Supream Head of the Church of England Between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey in the County of Wiltshire on the one Party and the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford on the other Party Witnesseth That it is fully Covenanted Condescended Bargained Concluded and Agreed between the said Parties and either of them Covenanteth Bargaineth Granteth and Agreeth for them their Heirs and Executors to and with the others in manner and form following That is to say Where the said Dame Anne for a Marriage already had done and solemnized between one Silvester Danvers Son and Heir of Thomas Danvers Esquire Deceased Son and Heir of the said Dame Anne hath received of the said Lord Mordaunt Four hundred Marks Sterling whereof the said Dame Anne knowledgeth her self to be fully satisfied contented and paid and the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors thereof to be acquitted and discharged and also the said Dame Anne by these presents knowledgeth her self to have received of the said Lord Mordaunt several Obligations for the payment of Two hundred Marks For the which Summ and payments already paid and to be paid The said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That where she the said Dame Anne is seized of and in certain Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall of the clear yearly value of Fifty Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Expences that the said Dame Anne shall before the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord next coming after the date hereof make or cause to be made to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and Edmond Fettyplace Esquire and to their Heirs for ever a good sufficient sure and Lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in all and singular the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and all and singular other the Premises with the Appurtenances to the said Sir Anthony Hungerford and Edmond Pettyplace and to their Heirs for ever discharged of all former Bargains Uses Sales Jointures Dowers Titles Statutes Statutes of the Staple Uses Wills Arrearages of Rents Judgments Alienations without License Intrusions not suing of Livery out of the King's Hands Entries Fines Forfeits and that the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments be at the making thereof to the clear yearly value of Forty Pounds over and above all charges going out of the same Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of the Fee from thence forth to be due only excepted to the intent and upon condition That the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace or the Survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns shall immediately and incontinently after such Estate made to them by the said Dame Anne within Ten days next after the same Feast make or cause to be made to the same Dame Anne a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate of all the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises with the Appurtenances To have and to hold the said Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments with the Appurtenances to the said Dame Anne and her Assigns for term of Life of the said Dame Anne without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof after the said Dame Anne to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the said Silvester for ever discharged in manner and form before rehearsed And the said Dame Anne Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That the said Dame Anne within Fifteen Days after she hath the Estate of the Premises made to her by the said Sir Anthony and Edmond Fettyplace and by the survivors of them their Heirs and Assigns with the remainder as before is expressed that the said Dame Anne by her sufficient Deed or Deeds in the Law shall Grant an Annuity or Annual Rent of Forty Pounds by the Year going out of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances yearly to be paid
apart you shall bend your self to the advancement of Common Justice between party and party both that our good Subjects may have the benefit of our Laws sincerely ministred to them and that all evil doers may be punished as the same Act doth prescribe and limit To which Points if you shall upon this monition and advertisement give such diligent Regard as you may satisfie your duty in the same leaving and exchanging from henceforth all disguised Corruptions we shall be content the more easily to put in oblivion all your former Remissions and Negligences But on the other part if we shall perceive That this kind of gentle Proceeding can work no good effect in you nor any of you whom we put in Trust under us assure your self that the next Advice shall be of so sharp a sort as shall bring with it a just Punishment of those that shall be found Offenders in this behalf Requiring you therefore not only for your own part to wax a new man if you shall in your own Conscience perceive that ye have not done your duty as appertained but also to exhort others of your sort and condition in this Administration whom you shall perceive to digress from the true Execution of their Offices rather to reconcile and conform themselves to satisfie with gentle Monition then upon any Affection Respect or Displeasure to do any such thing as shall hereafter minister unto them such Repentance as will not percase when it should light in their Neck be redoubled Finally Our pleasure is That you shall have special regard that no Man use any unlawful Games but that every Man apply himself to use the Long-Bow as the Law in that behalf requireth wherein you shall shew your self a Man of good Inclination and deserve our right hearty Thanks accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Oaking the One and Twentieth of July the Thirtieth Year of our Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Denton A Letter from the Lord Mordaunt to his Daughter Fettyplace DAughter Fettyplace After all hearty Commendations these shall be to advertise you That this present Second Day of November Mr. Denton delivered me a Bill of Articles and a Paper ready drawn concerning the Declaration of the said Articles setting forth more at large whereby it appeareth That ye and he be very forward towards Marriage and hath desired my good Will for the same and hath shewed me that he hath caused the King's Graces Letters to be directed to you in his Favour of the same The Articles be made between Thomas Denton on the one part the Lord Mordaunt Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight Edward Fettyplace and Alexander Fettyplace Esquires In the which Articles nor in the Indenture of Paper any mention is made of any Jointure that ye shall have by Mr. Denton nor yet what Goods he shall leave you if God call him to his Mercy before you Also there is no mention made that he shall leave you in Goods of your own as good as he finds you so that upon Marriage had and determined all your Goods and Chattels shall be his and at his distribution and pleasure Many other things are to be remembred by the advice of Wiser Men than I am which can give you better Counsel and better Advertisement than I can do or write to you Albeit I would ye should do well and so I pray God send you Grace to do I pray you with all speed send me your mind in the premises And that I may have Mr. Hungerford's advice by his Letter for the same that yet I may know something of your mind at the latter end of the Feast although that I be not made privy to the first beginning and to the first Communication but ye do like a wise Woman Conclude and Agree and then ask Counsel of your Friends Mr. Hungerford knoweth all and I think verily he would ye should do well albeit I do not know whether be be privy to it by you or by Mr. Denton or by both Thus fare ye and all yours as well as I would do my self to God's pleasure who grant you of his goodness his Blessing and his Grace to do well And I do give you my Blessing with all my heart Written the Third Day of November A Letter from Margaret Fettyplace to her Father the Lord Mordaunt To the Right Honourable and my singular good Lord and Father my Lord Mordaunt at Turvey RIght Honourable and my singular good Lord and Father Very glad to hear of your good Amendment and Welfare which I pray God daily increase It may please your Lordship to be advertised that I have received your Lordships Letters whereby I perceive that Mr. Denton hath delivered to your Lordship both a Book of certain Articles and a Paper ready drawn concerning the Declaration thereof which Book I have received from your Lordship wherein is wholly contained such Requests as I made unto him For my Lord this is the very Truth That about Saint Bartholomew-day last past it was his chance to be at Ratcote at which time he first made motion to me herein And for his furtherance therein not only delivered unto me the King's Majesties Letter most favourably made in his behalf but also other like Letters from my Lord Saint-Johns whom as your Lordship knoweth I have found of late my very great and earnest Friend Whereupon I as I thought my duty was not minding to make to the King 's said Letters an unadvised and suddain Answer desired a time to make a further answer thereunto intending at that time to repair unto your Lordship for your Advice therein but being immediately after taken with Sickness I was thereby constrained to tarry at home and for that time to take advice of other of my Friends in these parts who both considering the King 's said Letters and also his Honesty and Towardness counselled me not to refuse his suit but upon certain Requests which they advised me to make unto him to enter further into Communication Whereupon I made these Articles and about Michaelmas last past at his repair unto me I delivered him the same shewing him at that time that if he would be thereunto bound as by my Friends should be thought meet and further repair unto your Lordship and therein obtain your Favour without whom as I then shewed him I would be loth to bestow my self I could be content to accept his suit which he promised to do This my Lord is all that I have done and as I trust he will claim no further promise of me so that I shall desire your Lordship not to esteem me of such lightness that I will unadvisedly bestow my self and then ask Counsel I hope your Lordship hath at all times found me conformable to your pleasure which I have been glad and will be glad at all times to follow defiring your Lordship to conceive none other opinion of me And if in this matter your Lordship perceiveth or knoweth any just
approbatis quo minus in dicto Parlamento apparere personalitèr interesse valeam Nobilem principem Edwardum Ducem Somerset totius Angliae Protectorem simulque personae Regiae Majistatis Gubernatorem nobiles viros Willielmum Paulet militem Dominum Southamptoniae Magnum Magistrum Hospitii Domini Regis Dominum Russell privati Sigilli Domini Regis Custodem meos veros legitimos Actores Factores Procuratores nomino facio constituo Dans concedens eisdem conjunctim divisim plenam authoritatem potestatem tractandi assentiendi seu dissentiendi ac omnia alia generalitèr faciendi Rempublicam concernentia prout eisdem vel alteri eorum videbitur melius expediri nomine meo vice meâ prout ego ipse facere possum aut deberem si personaliter interessem Promittoque me gratum ratum habiturum totum quicquid dicti Procuratores mei statuerint seu fecerint vel alter eorum statuerit seu fecerit in hac parte In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus apposui Datum apud Articles of Agreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son William Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Ninteenth day of May the Second Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Churches of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Between the Right Honourable John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and William Mordaunt the third Son of the said John Lord Mordaunt of the other party Witnesseth That where the said John Lord Mordaunt for the great entire and natural Love that he hath and beareth to the said William is contented to do what in him is to buy get and obtain the Custody Ward and Marriage of the Body and Lands of one Agnes Booth Cousin and next Heir of John Booth Clerk That is to say Daughter and Heir of Charles Booth Brother of the said John Booth Clerk that in consideration of the Premises and for such costs and charges that the said John Lord Mordaunt shall sustain and bear and be at for obtaining and getting of the said premises The said William Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns That he the said William after the same William shall by the Grace of Almighty God Marry and take to Wife the said Agnes Booth the same William shall suffer the said John Lord Mordaunt to take and perceive all the Issues and profits which shall yearly come grow and arise of the Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said William as in the right of the said Agnes may have or hereafter shall have within the Realm of England during the Espousals between the same William and Agnes without Let Impeachment Suit Vexation Interruption or in any other manner of wise to be Expulsed Sued Vexed Inquieted or Disturbed by the same William to the time that the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath and shall plenarily and fully wholly and entirely have received perceived and taken of the Issues and profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes all such Summs of Money which the same John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath ar hereafter shall pay for the obtaining and getting of the Ward and Marriage of the said Agnes and all manner of Costs Charges and Expences concerning the same or any part or parcel thereof Provided always and the said John Lord Mordaunt is so pleased That the said William shall have yearly Forty Marks of the Issues and Profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes towards the living and finding of the said William and Agnes to be paid to the said William and Agnes at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also where the said William standeth bound to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns in the Summ of One thousand Pound Sterling by his Obligation bearing date the day of these Presents The said John Lord Mordaunt Granteth unto the said William That if the said William doth well and truly observe perform fulfil and keep all and singular Covenants Grants and Agreements specified and comprised in these present Indentures which of the part and behalf of the said William are to be performed fulfilled kept and done And also if the said William from time to time do make cause or do to be made such other further good sufficient Surety to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns for the sooner Payment Contentation and Satisfaction of the said Summs of Money so said further expended and paid by the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns without Trouble Suit Vexation of the said William or of any other by his procurement assent or agreement And also if the said William Mordaunt during the natural Life of the same John Lord Mordaunt be Governed Ruled Ordered and Demained in all Causes by the same John Lord Mordaunt That then the said Obligation of the said Summ of One thousand Pounds to be utterly void and of none effect or else to stand in its full Strength and Vertue In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid have enterchangably set their Seals and Signs-Manual the Day and Year above-written John Mordaunt A Division of Lands and Tenements between the Lord Mordaunt Sir Humphrey Brown and others THIS is the Agreement for a Partition to be had between Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Elizabeth his Wife on the one party and Sir Humphrey Brown Serjeant at the Law and George Brown his Son on the other party of all the Maners Lands and Tenements hereafter following The said Sir John Mordaunt is agreed to take in allowance of his part a third part of the Maners hereafter mentioned and allowed to the said Humphrey and George the third part of the Maners hereafter next following and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same Inprimis The third part of the Maners of Drayton and Luffwick Islip and Slipton with all the Members and Appurtenances with the Advowsons of the Churches of Luffwick and Islip The third part of the Maner of Sudburgh in Reversion The third part of the Maner of Thrapston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Emberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Woolston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Wavendon cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Thalton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maners of Rawnes Ringsted and Cotton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Buckworth cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Buckworth and Woolston The third part of the Woods following and the
Inheritance of the same that is to say Langhill Farthinshalve Otteland Bullay Shyningegappe The said Humphrey and George are agreed to take in Allowance of their parts and third part of the Maners before mentioned and allotted to the said Sir John the third of the Maners next ensuing and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same in the Compartnery Inprimis The third part of the Maner of Warmister cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Westbury cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Gratley cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Fyfees Verden cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Dichericho cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Hardwick cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Comberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Rympton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Lands of Woodford cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Grafton Grately and Dichericho And the said Humphrey and George be contented to take in Allowance and Recompence for their third part of the Maners Places Buildings and Houses of Drayton these Parcels following The third part of the Maner of Houghton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Lands in Irclinburgh cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Adyngston cum pertinentiis It is further agreed between the said Parties to abide the Ordinance of Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Highman for the Woods and wast Ground of Sudburgh and Warmister and the Inheritance of the same Woods It is also agreed between the said Parties That all Annuities and Rents Charges and the Profits and Rents of such Maners Lands and Tenements as be in Reversion shall be paid born and sustained indifferently by the said Parties in like manner as it hath been in times past and that all Evidences concerning only the premises to be delivered to the said Parties to whom the said Maners and other the premises be allotted Signata manu propriâ Domini Mordaunt John Mordaunt The Claim and Surmise that the Lord Parre maketh for to have the Freeborde of Drayton-Park to the King's use from the Lord Mordaunt FIrst the Lord Parre saith That one Sir John Karr Knight was Keeper of the Little Park of Brykestock divers Years and after the death of the said Sir John then the Lord Parre entred So that the Lord Parre saith That these Sixty Years there was no claim made to the Freeborde by any of the Lords of Drayton and if any of the Lords of Drayton had pretended any such Right they would have fâlled the Wood in their times For answer thereunto the Lord Mordaunt saith That he doth much marvel that the Lord Parre would claim the premises upon so small a ground for he cannot prove That ever the said Sir John Karr or any of his Keepers or the said Lord Parre or any his Keepers did fall sell or give any of the Wood growing of the said Freeborde these Sixty Years For this is true that John Stafford and Edward Stafford Earls of Wilts and the Executors of the said Edward Stafford and the Lord Mordaunt and other his Co-partners as in the right of their Deyffs did at all times take the Lops and Shreds of the Trees of the said Wood growing of the said Freeborde for mending and repairing of the Hedges and Ditches of Drayton-Park and never no business made to the contrary but the time that the Lord Parre conceived divers displeasures against the said Lord Murdaunt for that intent that the Lord Mordaunt should grant unto him a Fee for term of his life and also for to have divers other manner of Liberties and Pleasures at the hands of the Lord Mordaunt in Grafton-Park-Chase and in other Woods of the said Lord and of his said Drayton And after that the said Lord Parre perceived that the Lord Mordaunt would not be agreeable to the same then the Lord Parre began to pick quarrels against the Lord Mordaunt and his Servants and among other things for the said Wood growing of the Freebord of Drayton Park caused one John Allen Keeper at that time of the Park of Brykestock to fell certain Bushes and Woods whereof some of them did grow within the bottom of the Ditch and some did grow otherwise upon the bare Bank of Drayton Park And also caused the said Allen for to pluck down the Pale of Drayton Park to make a common way through Drayton Park for my Lord Parre and his Servants And yet the Lord Mordaunt's Servants carried the said Wood so fellen unto Drayton-Maner And the Lord Parre not pleased therewith found default at the Pale of Drayton-Park which was there made by Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight and would never rest by complaining to the Council and by setting of pains in the King's Court of Swanymote unto the time that the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners were fain to pull down the old Pale and to make a new Pale there of a Man's length which was done And also the Lord Mordaunt saith That the Lord Parre many times and often discharged the said Lord for to give him all the Woods growing upon the said brink of the Ditch Freeborde and in the bottom of the Ditch and also all the Wood growing upon the Bank it self to the intent that the Lord Parre would have sold that Wood to his own profit And forasmuch as the Lord Mordaunt denied the Lord Parre for to have it of his Gift The Lord Parre said he would be about with the Lord Mordaunt And upon that refusal and denial the Lord Parre began to seek and invent how he might do the Lord Mordaunt all the Displeasure that might be devised and for accomplishment of part of his purpose the said Lord Parre spake to his Cousin Sir Wistan Brown Knight who was one of the Wardens and had the Custody of the Heirs of the Maners of Drayton and Drayton-Park and to Sir Humphrey Brown Knight who was Tenant by Courtesie of the third part of the said Maner and Park and did get a Grant of their parts of Drayton-Park and had liberty for to Hunt and Hawk in all the Maners and Vere's Lands for their two part And thus having such rule took upon him for to fell certain Woods of the brink of Drayton-Park the bottom of the Ditch and of the Bank-self and commanded one Rowland Slade otherwise called Rowland Smith Servant to the said Lord Parre and Keeper of the Nether-park for to fell a Tree growing within the Ditch of Drayton-park which Rowland caused one Richard Slade otherwise called Richard Smith Brother to the said Rowland for to fell the said Tree Whereupon the Lord Mordaunt spoke to the Lord Parre for the said Tree and shewed him That Rowland had done naught in so doing Whereupon the Lord Parre said to the Lord Mordaunt What have you to do therein I have as good authority and power for Two parts as
that time had Interest in the Moiety of the Premises as in the right of his Wife agreed with the Executors of the said Earl for the Premises And so after that the same Sir Thomas had the said Drayton-Park in which Sir Thomas's days none of the said Keepers did fell or take any such Wood at that time growing of and upon the said Ditches And also the Keepers of the said Sir Thomas walked their Ring-walk within the said Little Park of Brikestock all the said Sir Thomas Cheyne's time And after that Sir Thomas Cheyne deceased then came the premises into the Hands of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners who entred into the premises and also into the Maner of Drayton then being in the Tenure of Robert Marburn Gentleman and the said Lord would have occupied the said Maner of Drayton and put out the said Robert Marburn wherewith the said Robert took displeasure with the said Lord Mordaunt And the said Robert Marburn to the intent he would occupy the said Maners still in his Hands Entitled George late Earl of Salop to the premises by a false Will nuncupative which the same Robert Surmised that the said Edward Earl of Wilts should make Whereupon the said Maner of Drayton-Park and other Premises were in contention divers Years And after that the said Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners agreed with the said Earl of Salop and so had the said Maner Park and other the Premises quietly without any Interruption Claim Challenge or Demand to the Premises or any part or parcel thereof made thereunto by any of the King's Keepers or Officers of the said Little Park of Brikestock and walked the Ring-Walk within the said Park of Brikestock and made the Hedges Pale Ring unto the time that one John Allen Keeper of the King's Park of Brikestock by the commandment of the Lord Parre that now is caused certain Wood to be felled whereof some of the said Wood did grow within the bottom of the Ditch and some otherwise which Wood was carried by the Lord Mordaunt's Servants to Drayton-Maner And after that one Richard Slade otherwise called Richard Smith Brother to one Rowland Slade did fell a Tree in the bottom of Drayton-Park-Ditch by the commandment of the said Rowland at that time being Keeper of the said Nether-Park of Brikestock Whereupon the said Lord Mordaunt shewed the said Lord Parre and the said Lord Parre said That Rowland did it by his commandment and that he the said Lord Parre might lawfully command the said Rowland so to do for two parts which he assured belonged to the Browns parts as well as the Lord Mordaunt did command his Servants to meddle for his Two parts and so the Lord Parre from time to time did permit and suffer the said Keepers for to do all the displeasures to the said Lord Mordaunt and his Servants that might be devised or imagined for that intent and purpose that the said Lord Parre would have had the rule of Drayton-Park himself And James Stevenson saith That at another time which was about the time of the Insurrection in Lincolnshire that the said Rowland did fell certain Wood growing in the bottom of Drayton-Park-Ditch Whereupon the said James went to the Lord Parre for to know his pleasure who made answer to the said James as followeth videlicet What have you to do therewith Then said James Sir I come to know your pleasure and whether it be your pleasure that your Servants shall so enterprize upon my Master's Ground or not No said the Lord Parre I shall make your Master and you answer also So the said James departed from the Lord Parre at that time And where the said Drayton-kark since the first making of the said Park hath been always Ditched and Hedged and so did continue all the days and time of Sir Simon de Drayton and Sir Henry Greene Knight Henry Greene Son of the said Sir Henry Greene Sir Ralph Greene Knight John Greene and Henry Greene Esquires and also in the days of John Stafford and Edward Stafford late Earls of Wilts and in the days of Robert Wittlebury William Marbury and Thomas Mountague Esquires Executors of the Testament and Last Will of the said Edward Stafford and always used to be Hedged and the Ditches scowred by the Owners of the said Drayton-Park and in all their days and time no default found in the said Freebord Hedges and Ditches by any of the Keepers of the said little Park of Brikestock but that the owners of Drayton-Park did scowre the Ditches and Hedges of the same used their Freebord took profits of all manner of Wood and Thorn growing in and upon the said Ditches and Freeborde unto the time that the said Drayton-Park came to the Possession of one Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight who had the said Drayton-Park as in the right of his Wife And in the days and time of the said Sir Thomas Cheyne the Keeper of the said little Park found default in the said Sir Thomas Cheyne for not scowring of the said Ditches and for not well repairing of the Hedges of the same Drayton-Park forasmuch as the Hedges of Drayton-Park at that time were thinly made and very low And also the said Keeper of the little Park surmised That the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and his Keeper of Drayton-Park did stand between both the Hedges of Drayton-Park and Killed the King's Deer which were accustomably used for to Feed in the said little Park and did train the King 's Deer out of the said little Park into Drayton-Park and surmised and laid to the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and his Servants charge divers Misdemeanours as Breaking into the said little Park of Brikestock with their Bows Arrows Hounds and Grey-hounds over and beside that the said Keepers of the said little Park of Brikestock complained in the King's Court of Swanymote upon the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and upon his Servants as well for Killing of Deer as also for to mend the said Ditches and Hedges by a day prefixed and said to the said Sir Thomas Cheyne that If the said Ditches and Hedges were not amended that then they would inform the King's Grace King Henry the Seventh of their misdemeanours Whereupon the said Sir Thomas Cheyne considered to himself and among his Friends That he would not have the King's displeasure in that behalf by the advice of his Friends caused a Pale to be set upon the top of Drayton-Park Ditch which was the first Pale that ever was set there after the making of the said Park for before that pale so set there the said Drayton-park was ever Ditched Quickset and Hedged which Pale so set by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne continued all the life of the said Sir Thomas and long time after without any default found thereat or at any of the Freeborde Ditches and Hedges of the said Drayton-Park unto the Tenth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth at which time
the said Drayton-Park came into the Hands and Possession of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners And the said Drayton-Park being in their hands the said Lord Parre and the King's Officers and Keepers of Brikestock-Park complained and said That the said Pale made by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne was no sufficient Pale for the Pale was so low that the Keepers of Drayton-Park might stand and did stand upon the top of the Dike of Drayton-Park and Shoot over the said Pale unto the said little Park and Killed the King's Deer being feeding within the said little Park And divers times the Lord Parre laid to the charges of the Keepers of Drayton-Park for Killing of divers and many such Deer and the Lord Parre not contented with the said Pale complained to Sir Thomas Lovel Knight at that time being Justice of the Forests for not maintaining and making a sufficient Pale or Hedge between both the said Parks And that complaint notwithstanding divers Pains were laid in the King's Grace's Court of Swanymote upon the said Lord and his Co-partners for to amend the said Pale and Hedge sufficiently Whereupon the Lord Mordaunt caused certain number of Oakes to be felled in Grafton and Grafton-Park and in other places within the bounds of Grafton for the new amending of the same Pale and Hedges and thereupon took down the old Pale and made a new Pale of a greater length and did certain costs of the Ditches of the said Park and did fell certain Thorns and other Wood for Ports Rails and Stumps for the good amending of the same new Pale which Pale so newly made continued divers Years and no default found at the same by the said Lord Parre or any of his Officers or Keepers And after this the Lord Parre's Keepers of Brikestock would in the Winter time being Frost and Snow break up the said Pale to the intent that the King 's Deer of the little Park might come into Drayton for to have their feeding there or else the said Deer would have Perished and Starved for hunger And yet the said Favour notwithstanding a new Complaint was made a new pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote That the Lord Mordaunt should amend his Pale and Hedge and scower his Ditches by a day upon pain of Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And after that within certain Years another like pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote for to make the said Hedges and Ditches between Drayton-Park and Brikestock-Park sufficient And the said Lord Parre at this time being Friendly with the Lord Mordaunt shewed Robert Catbyn Gentleman thereof to the intent that the Lord Mordaunt might have knowledge thereof for to make the Hedges and Ditches sufficient whereby the Lord Mordaunt might avoid the Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And forasmuch as such pains were so laid in the King's Graces Courts of Swanymote as well in King Henry the Seventh's days as also in the days of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth for that the said Sir Thomas Cheyne as also the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners should amend and repair the said Pale Hedges and Ditches of Drayton-park of that side that is between the said Drayton-park and the said Little Park of Brikestock by certain several days to them prefixed as by the Books of the said Courts of Swanymote it will more at large appear That if the Lords of Drayton-park had made any Encrochment upon the Little Park of Brikestock or of and upon any of the King's Ground that then their Encrochments should have been as well found and presented as for the amending and repairing of Drayton-park-pale and of the Hedges and Ditches of the said Wood in the said Courts of Swanymote remembred and presented A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD After my hearty Commendations where by virtue of a Commission ye procure a Freeborde to be had within the King's Majesties Little Park of Brikestock there is upon the same past a Quest and Verdit by them given which Quest and Verdit as it is taken rather serveth for your purpose than for the Conservation of the King's Majesties Right The said Commission being never Executed in my Uncle the Lord Parre's life whose Office in the said Park I now have And that neither the King's Solicitor being then in those parts nor any other his Learned Council for the Soliciting and defending of his Grace's Right was called or Privy thereunto I thought hereby notwithstanding your Proceedings in the premises to require your Lordship to forbear to meddle or intromit with any thing within the said Park until it may appear unto my Lords of the King 's most Honourable Privy Council or otherwise by the Law what you have to shew for your Claim Thus I bid your Lordship heartily well to fare from Hampton-Court the Seventeenth day of October Your Lordships Loving Friend W. North. A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD AFter my hearty Commendations perceiving by your Letter that according to such Commission as you have already proceeded in ye be desirous to enjoy the Freeborde within the Park of Brikestock to the which Commission notwithstanding my Uncle was Privy thereby to know your Claim and Title of the said Freeborde yet if God had continued his life till it had been sitten on he would have found and caused matter to be alledged for the King as would have been for the conservation of his Majesties Inheritance By the death of whom and for lack of the King 's Learned Council to speak in his cause it is thought the thing hath not past in his Highness's behalf in such ways as it might have done And as I have heard say The King's Solicitor hath before time advised you that ye should not take upon you to Encroach upon any part of the King 's old Inheritance this being parcel of the oldest his Grace hath in those parts To the proceeding of which Commission the said Solicitor being in that Country me seemed that he should have had warning and been privy to the Execution thereof to have spoken for the King 's Right Nevertheless because it may appear that as little as I can shall be by my time done in the said Parks to the derogation of the King's Inheritance Therefore I will procure another Commission either to the foresaid Commissioners or to other Gentlemen of good Estimation at the Execution whereof some of the King 's Learned Council shall be there for the defence of his Cause and I doubt not but you against the same time will provide as shall be best for your Claim And if upon the Tryal thereof you shall have Right to the said Borde I shall be well content ye enjoy it accordingly And in the mean time I require you not to intermeddle with any thing within the said Park by virtue of
your First Commission but to forbear the same until the new Commission be had and put in Execution as shall appertain Thus I bid your Lordship well to fare from Westminster the Tenth of December Your Lordships Loving Friend W. North. An Exemplification of Depositions concerning the Freeborde of Drayton-Park EDwardus Sextus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae Supremum Caput Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Inspeximus quandam Petitionem coram nobis in Cancellaria nostra per Johannem Mordaunt militem ad Testes perpetuam rei memoriam examinandum nuper exhibitam in filaciis Cancellariae nostrae praedictae residentem in haec verba To the Right Honourable Sir William Paulet Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter Lord Saint-John Lord Grand-master of the King 's most honourable Household Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and High-Justice of all the King's Forests Chaces and Parks on this side the Trent In right humble wise sheweth unto your good Lordship your daily suppliant John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt That whereas it pleased King Edward the First sometime King of the Noble Realm of England upon the humble Suit of Simon Drayton Knight Ancestor unto your said Suppliant to grant unto the said Simon License for to Empark certain parcels of Ground then parcel of the Maner of Drayton within the County of Northampton whereof some of the said parcels were then before that time within the bounds of the Forest of Rokingham and some of them were without the Forest and that according unto the said License the said Simon made a Park now called Drayton-park for the safeguard of the Game wherein the said Simon made a Ditch double Ditch'd and Quick-set on both sides round about the said Park as well on that side which boundeth and adjoineth now on the said Forest side as on the other parts and quarters thereof as upon the sight thereof more plainly it may appear And the said Simon did leave also within the said Forest one Freeborde without the outer-side of the Ditch of the said Park to the intent to lay upon the said Freeborde all such Wood and Bushes as should be at any time thereafter requisite for the amendment of the said Hedge After the which Park of Drayton so made a Park now called the Little-Park of Brikestock was made of that parcel of the said Forest of Rokingham which bounded along against the West-side of the said Park of your said Suppliant called Drayton-park After the which said Park called Brikestock Little Park so made the Keepers of your said Suppliant's Park called Drayton-park continually and daily at their pleasure without interruption or disturbance accustomed for to go out of Drayton-park into Brikestock-park at a Stile called Snapes-Stile and so keep their walk within Brikestock-park upon the said Freeborde of Drayton-park unto a Gate within Brikestock-park called Plumwell-gate for to view and oversee the decay of the Mounds and Hedges between the said Two Parks And since the said Park of Brikestock thus made the Ancestors of your said Suppliant for the better mending of the said Park of Drayton and for the avoiding of such Contention as might arise by the occasion of a slender Fence between the said Two Parks have caused a Pale to be set upon the top of the Ditch of the said Park of Drayton in such place where before time one of the Quick-hedges did grow and by the occasion of a Pale so made the Ancestors of your said Suppliant have not so much esteemed but have suffered the Quick-hedges which were set on the outer-side of the said Ditch towards the said Park of Brikestock for lack of a pashing and cutting thereof at times convenient to grow to great Wood and Thorn And for because that Timber requisite for the making of Pale is in a manner decayed and waxeth very scant and chargeable in these parts And because your said Suppliant would also renew the double Quick-set and the double Dikes as well which do border between the said Two Parks as betwixt such other Grounds and Woods as your said Suppliant hath adjoining and bordering upon the other quarters of the said Park of Brikestock with new Ditches and Hedges Quick-set for the more sure and better fencing of the same And because also that your said Suppliant would be very sorry to be noted or reputed to contend with his Prince or to encroach or offend upon any parcel of the King's Majesty his Inheritance or to minister any occasion of Unkindness to such as be or should be Keepers unto the King's Majesty of the said Little Park of Brikestock for taking away any of their lawful Commodities or Profits Your said Suppliant doth therefore most humbly desire your good Lordship for the quiet Determination of the matter that it may please your good Lordship to award the King 's Gracious Commission unto such persons as your Lordship shall think meet and convenient for that purpose Authorising and Commanding them thereby to enquire the truth by all such ways means and manner as to their good discretion shall be thought most convenient How far the Freeborde and Ground of your said Suppliant extendeth and lyeth without the said Park of Drayton towards or within the said Little-Park of Brikestock And whether such Wood and Thorn as now groweth upon the side or brink of the Ditch of Drayton-park which lieth and bordereth next unto the said Little Park of Brikestock doth grow upon the Ground and Freeborde of your said Suppliant or upon the King's Majesties Ground And whether the King's Majesty and his Predecessors have used or ought to have any Wood that groweth on the out-side the Pale of the said Park of Brikestock towards and against the Woods and Grounds of your said Suppliant by any Prerogative or any other lawful Custom And in what place the Keepers of your said Suppliant's Park of Drayton have in times past used and may lawfully enter and pass over out of Drayton-park into the said Little-Park of Brikestock And where to depart and go to go out of the said Brikestock-park And here far from the said Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park the said Keepers of Drayton-park have used in times past and may lawfully walk for their Walk within the said Little-Park of Brikestock and to testisie under their Seals the same Inquisition or Depositions into the King's honourable Court of Chancery there to remain of Record for a perpetual memory or Remembrance and for a quiet and full Determination of the said matter And your said Suppliant shall daily pray to God for the Preservation of your Lordship in Honour long to continue Inspeximus etiam quandam Commissionem una cum Returna ejusdem dilectis Fidelibus suis Edwardo Mountague militi Capitali Justiciario de Communi Banco Johanni Saint-John Thomae Tresham militibus Ac dilecto sibi Richardo Humphrey
de Drayton directam ad Testes praedictos examinandum in filaciis ejusdem Cancellariae nostrae residentem in haec verba Edwardus Sextus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae supremum Caput Dilectis fidelibus suis Edwardo Montague Militi Capitali Justiciario de Communi Banco Johanni Saint-John Thomae Tresham militibus dilecto sibi Richardo Humphrey de Drayton falutem Sciatis quod nos de Fidelitatibus providis Circumspectionibus vestris pleniùs confidentes Assignavimus vos tenore praesentium damus vobis vel tribus vestrum potestatem autoritatem ad inquirendum per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de Comitatu Northamptoniae tam infra libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit nec non ad audiendum examinandum quandam materiam in quâdam Petitione his praesentibus annexa inter Nos Johannem Mordaunt Militem Dominum Mordaunt contentam specificatam Et ideò vobis vel tribus vestrum mandamus quòd ad certos dies loca quos ad hoc provideritis Testes quoscunque quos maxime pro testificatione ejusdem materiae fore videritis evocandum coram vobis aut tribus vestrum evocandum ac ipsos Testes eorum quemlibet de super eisdem materiis circumstantiis ejusdem super eorum Sacramentis coram vobis corporalitèr praesentandis diligenter examinetis Depositionesque suas recipiatis in scriptis redigatis Et super hoc auditis inde Rationibus ac aliis viis modis quibus melius sciveritis aut poteritis eandem materiam juxta sanas discretiones vestras in forma praedicta diligenter examinandum Ac insuper vobis vel tribus vestrum mandamus quod diligentèr super praemissis facitis Inquisitionem Et eam sic factam distinctè apertè Nobis in Cancellariam nostram in Octavis Sancti Michaelis proximè futuris ubicunque tunc fuerit sub Sigillis vestris vel trium vestrum Sigillis eorum per quos factum fuit mittatis has Literas nostras Patentes unà cum Petitione praedictâ Mandamus etiam tenore praesentium Vicecomiti nostro Comitatus praedicti quòd ad certos Dies Loca quos vos vel tres vestrum ei scire facitis venire faciat coram vobis vel tribus vestrum tot tales probos homines legales de Balliva sua tam infra Libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas in praemissis melius sciri poterit inquiri In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipfo apud Westmonasterium vicesimo septimo die Junii Anno Regni nostri primo Southwell Inspeximus ulterius Certificationem praefatorum Commissariorum unà cùm Depositionibus quorundam Testium virtute Commissionis praedictae coram praefatis Commissariis captis examinatis in eâdem Cancellariâ nostrâ returnatis ac in Filaciis ejusdem Cancellariae nostrae residentibus in haec verba Depositions taken the Two and twentieth day of September in the First Year of our Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth the Supream Head Before Sir Edward Mountague Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Tresham Knight and Richard Humphrey Esquire by virtue of the King's Commission to them directed and to these Presents annexed exhibited on the part of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt Robert Latimer of North-Crawley in the County of Buckingham Gentleman examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he this Examinant about thirty Years past was Keeper of a Park called Drayton-park under Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt then and yet Owner of this said Park and then Master to this Examinant and at his entry into the same Office one William Boyse then of Luffwick who had been Keeper of the said Park of Drayton came to this Examinant and shewed him the Walk of the said Park of Drayton wherein he declared That he being Keeper of the said Park of Drayton walked without the Pale of Drayton-park and within the Park of Brikestock called the Little-Park from a certain place in the said Park of Brikestock called Plumwell-Gate unto a place called Snapes where he entred always again into the said Park of Drayton including always as parcel of Drayton-park and as a Freeborde to the same a certain parcel of Ground or Wood without the Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park towards the said Little-park of Brikestock And according to the same this Examinant and his Deputies Keepers there did always walk the same way during all such time as he was Keeper without any Contradiction of any Person or Persons And he saith further That the said Boyse then also declared to this Examinant That the same Boyse hath seen divers and many times the Keepers of Drayton-park fell Wood for the mending of the Pale of the same Drayton-park and for other causes upon the same Freeborde or Ground without the said park of Drayton towards and within the Little-park of Brikestock and never denied nor Impeached for the same by the Keeper of Brikestock-park nor by any other Person or Persons And more he knoweth not Thomas Jefforne of Luffwick in the County of Northampton Clerk Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he hath divers times heard one William Boyse late of Luffwick say That he the same Boyse was Keeper of a certain Park called Drayton-park in the County of Northampton under one Edward Earl of Wiltshire then Owner of the said Park And that by such time as he was Keeper there he always walked as parcel of his Walk of Drayton-park within the Park of Brikestock called the Little-park there from a certain place called Plumwell-Gate unto a place there called Snapes where alway he entred again into Drayton-park including within his Walk a parcel of Wood-Ground within the Little-park of Brikestock and adjoining to the Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park as parcel of the said Park of Drayton and then called the Freeborde of Drayton-park And the said Boyse told also the said Examinant That he was after the death of the said Earl Keeper of the said Little-Park of Brikestock under one Sir John Carr Knight at which time one John Allen was Keeper of Drayton-park and walked the same way within the Little-park of Brikestock from the said Plumwell-Gate to Snapes and including the said parcel of Wood-Ground as parcel of Drayton-park in like manner as the said Boyse and others had done before And saith further That he never knew any thing said or done to any of the said Keepers of Drayton-park for the walking of the same And more he knoweth not James Stevenson of Sudborough in the County of Northampton Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon
Fossatum dicti Parci de Drayton tanquam pertinentem ad cundem Parcum de Drayton ac parcellam ejusdem Parci de Drayton existentem Et ulterius iidem Juratores dicunt super Sacramentum suum Quòd dictus Johannes Dominus Mordaunt ac omnes Antecessores sui ac omnes illi quorum statum idem Johannes Dominus Mordaunt in Manerio Parco de Drayton praedicto modo habet à tempore cujus contrarium memoria hominis non existit ad eorum placitum Voluntatem usi fuerunt consueverunt succidere ad usus suos convertere totum Boscum Subboscum crescentem existentem super dictam Terram vocatam le Freeborde super infra dicta Sepes Fossatum inter praedictum Parcum dicti Domini Regis de Brikestock praedictum Parcum de Drayton Dicunt etiam ulterius Juratores praedicti super Sacramentum suum quòd Custodes dicti Parci de Drayton pro tempore existientes de tempore ad cujus contrarium memoria hominis non existit ad eorum libitum placitum de tempore in tempus exire utebantur de jure exire poterunt de dicto Parco de Drayton in dictum Parcum de Brikestock apud quendam locum vocatum Snapes-Stile sic longanimiter perambulare super praedictam Terram dicti Domini Mordaunt vocatam le Freeborde jacentem ex occidentali parte dicti Parci de Drayton usque ad quendam locum in Parco de Drayton praedicto vocatum le Plumwell-Stile sic ibidem reingredi in dictum Parcum ad supervidendum utrum dictae Sepes inter dictum Parcum de Drayton dictum Parcum de Brikestock de tempore in tempus benè sufficienter reparatae existebant prout congruum fuerat necne Dicunt insuper Juratores praedicti super Sacramentum suum Quod non noscunt quod dictus Dominus Rex nunc aut aliquis Praedecessorum suorum ratione alterius Praerogativae sive alterius legitimae Consuetudinis peranteà habuit aut habere usus fuit seu de jure habere debuit aliquem Boscum sive Subboscum Spinas sive Arbores crescentes ex exteriore parte Paleorum sive Sepium dicti Parci de Brikestock abuttantis sive adjacentis versus aliquos Boscos sive Terras dicti Johannis Domini Mordaunt In cujus rei Testimonium tam praedicti Commissionarii quà m praefati Juratores his praesentibus Sigilla sua apposuerunt die anno loco supradictis Nos autem tenores Petitionis Commissionis Certificationis Testium Depositionum Inquifitionis praedictorum ad Requisitionem praedicti Johannis Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt duximus exemplificandum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Novembris anno Regni nostri quarto S. Southwell A Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt and to Sir John Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt and to our Loving Friend Sir John Mordaunt and to either of them AFter our right hearty Commendations for the Safe-guard and Preservation of the King's Majesty's Person which is in no small danger by the Falshood and Treason of the Duke of Somerset who nevertheless to cover the same now bruiteth abroad That we of his Majesty's Council which seek only his Highness's Preservation should intend Evil unto his Highness which God forbid trusting by that means to abuse the People and so by their helps the rather to proceed in his purpose We have thought good to require you not only as much as in you is to let the People know the Truth but also forasmuch as de doth already gather Forces to put your self in order with all the Power you may make presently to repair unto us for the Service and Surety of the King's Majesty in this great and weighty matter as to the office of good and loving Subjects appertaineth From London the Sixth of October Your Lordships assured Friends Ri. Rich Cant. Will. Saint-John W. Northampton J. Warwick Arundell F. Shrewsbury Henry Sussex Thomas Southampton T. Theyn Will. Petres R. Sadlier Edward North. John Gage Nic. Southwell Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt and to Sir John Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt and to our very Loving Friend Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to either of them AFter our most hearty Commendations Where by our former Letters we have signified unto you the state of our doings and upon occasion of such Assemblies of Men as were made by the Duke of Somerset desired you to repair towards us for the surety of his Majesty's Person you shall understand That now by the goodness of God both the King's Majesty's Person is in Health and Surety and that without any Tumult or great business the Duke also is in sure Custody Which thing as we have thought good to signifie unto you so do we pray you to stay your Numbers at home without taking any further Travel for this matter Giving you our most hearty Thanks for your good Readiness at this time and so do bid you most heartily farewel From London the Eleventh of October 1549. Your Loving Friends Will. Saint-John Will. Northampton John Warwick F. Shrewsbury Thomas Southampton Thomas Wentworth John Gage Edward North. Nicholas Wotton John Baker Edw. Montague Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt and to Sir John Mordaunt To the Sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham to the Justices of Peace of the said Counties and to all other the King's Majesty's Constables Headboroughs and other his Highness's Ministers and Subjects of the said Counties FOrasmuch as the Duke of Somerset abusing the King's Majesties Hand Stamp and Signet and howbeit that without divers of us of his Majesties Council hath sent forth divers and sundry Writings to Levy the King's Majesties Subjects and disturb the Common Peace of the Realm for the maintaining of his own Ill and Outragious doings to no small Peril of the King's Majesties Person and the disturbance of all his Majesties good and Loyal Subjects These be to will and require you nevertheless on his Majesties behalf straitly to Command and Charge you That you nor none of you Levy nor cause to Levied any number of Men by force of any such Writing or Commandment or any other Writing whatsoever except the Hands of us of his Majesties Privy Council or the more part of us shall be Subscribed to the same And further we require you on his Highness's behalf to apply your Labours and Business every of you in your several Vocations quietly and peaceably as becometh good Subjects without giving Credit to any such Rumors and Bruits as by the said Duke be untruly and falsely spread abroad to the Dishonor and Scandal of us his Majesties True and Faithful Counsellors who be and ever shall be during our Lives ready to spend our Bloods for the
Surety of his most Royal Person and the maintenance of the Common Wealth of his Majesties most Loyal and obedient Subjects Given at London the Eighth of October the Third Year of his Highness's most Noble Reign Ri. Rich Cant. Will. Saint-John W. Northampton J. Warwick Arundell F. Shrewsbury Thomas Southampton Will. Petres Nicholas Wotton John Baker A Letter from the Lord Mordaunt to Queen Mary To the most High Mighty and Excellent the Queen's Majesty IT may please your most Excellent Majesty of your most abundant and accustomed Goodness to be a good and most gracious Sovereign Lady to me your Faithful Obedient and True Subject and to pardon me of my rude Writing unto your most Excellent Highness coacted and constrained so for to do for Declaration unto your said most Princely and gracious Goodness of such things as your most Excellent Highness hath been informed of against me First That your Highness should be much offended with me for that I was so prompt and ready for to set forth Proclamation of the Title of the late Usurper Lady Jane and to reject your most gracious Highness's Letters and Proclamation And also That I should stay the Country that they should not repair to your most Excellent Highness as their Hearts were bent which Surmises are in every part and in the whole not true Most humbly submitting my self to your most merciful gracious Goodness and to such Order as shall be taken by your Highness and your most Honourable Council for Declaration of my truth to your most Excellent Highness in this behalf and according to my abounden Duty as an Old Man by your most gracious Sufferance dwelling here in your County of Bedford shall pray to God daily for the prosperous Preservation of your most Imperial Reign long to continue This Third of August 1553. Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant and Subject John Mordaunt A Letter from Queen Mary to the Lord Mordaunt dispencing him to come to the Parliament in the First Year of her Reign To our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where we lately addressed our Writ unto you for your Attendance at our next Parliament to be holden at Westminster the First day of October next We let you wit that in consideration of your Age and Impotency we have thought good to License you and by these presents do give you License to be absent from our said Parliament our said Writ or any thing contained therein notwithstanding And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Fourteenth Day of September in the First Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt Sir John Mordaunt and others To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt to our Trusty and welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to our Trusty and welbeloved Sir Edward Saunders and Sir John Saint-John Knights and to every of them Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where it hath pleased Almighty God so to direct our Heart that a Treaty is of late concluded for a Marriage to be solemnized within this our Realm between our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain and Us with such Covenants Parts and Agree ments for the preservation of the Laws Liberty Surety and Honour of our Realm as may appear by the Articles herewith sent unto you We understand that certain ill-disposed Persons meaning under the pretence of Mislike of this Marriage to Rebel against the Catholick Religion and Divine Service restored within this our Realm and to take from us their Sovereign Lady and Queen that Liberty which is not denied to the meanest Woman in the choice of their Husbands cease not to spread many false vile and untrue Reports of our said Cousin and others of that Nation moving and stirring our good and Loving Subjects by these and sundry other devilish ways to Rebel and enter a new Commotion to the great peril of our Person and utter Subversion of our whole Realm if speedy Remedy be not provided For remedy thereof and to the intent our Loving Subjects may the better understand this unnatural Conspiracy and the falsehood thereof Our pleasure is You shall not only cause the said Articles herewith sent to be Published in all parts of that our County sending abroad Copies and by such other good means as you may think best but also that you and every of you taking diligent heed to the Preservation of the Peace and Charge committed unto you do cause the Authors and Spreaders of these or any other false Bruits and Rumors to be apprehended and committed to Ward otherwise punished as the Quality of their Offences shall merit For the better doing whereof our Pleasure is You shall assemble together immediately upon the sight of these our Letters taking such order for Division of your selves into sundry Hundreds and parts and for the Publication of the said Articles Admonition of any good Subjects and Stay of the rest as may best stand to the Quiet of that our Country whereby you shall shew your selves our good and obedient Subjects which we will always be glad to consider towards you as occasion may serve Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Twenty fourth day of Jamary the First Year of our Reign A Letter from Queen Mary to the Lord Mordaunt To our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where we be sundry ways informed That Thomas Wyat and some others have of late by spreading abroad most false and vain Rumors procured to stir our subjects of our County of Kent to rise against our Crown and Dignity Royal. Albeit we have already taken such Order as we doubt not shall be sufficient to repress and overthrow this unnatural Conspiracy Yet nevertheless have we thought convenient to require you to put your self in convenient Order and Readiness with as many of your Servants and Tenants as ye can make both on Horseback and on Foot to be in readiness to march and set forwards upon one hours Warning either against the the said Rebels or such other ways as shall be signified unto you by Us. And in the mean time to have good regard to the good Order and Quiet of the parts where ye dwell causing all such Idle and Leud Persons as shall either by spreading of false Rumors or by any other means attempt to stir or disquiet our Loving Subjects to be Apprehended and Punished as the Quality of their Offences shall deserve Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Six and twentieth day of January the First Year of our Reign A Letter from the King and Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Philip and Mary the
Queen By the King and Queen RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where for certain great and weighty Causes we have Summoned our High-Court of Parliament to be holden at Westminster the Twelfth day of November next Albeit we have for that purpose caused our Writ of Summons to be addressed lately unto you amongst others Yet notwithstanding that your Age and Impotency will not well suffer you to Travel without some danger of your Health We let you wit That in consideration thereof we are pleased to give you License and by these Presents do License you our said Writ or any thing therein contained notwithstanding to stay your coming up to our said Parliament so as nevertheless you cause your Proxie to be sent in convenient time unto some such Personage as may for you and in your Name give his Voice and Consent unto such matters as shall be treated and concluded in our said Parliament And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the Twenty second Day of October the First and Second Years of our Reigns A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen By the Queen RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And albeit we have of late by such our Instructions as we have addressed forth unto the Justices of Peace of every Shire prescribed such Order as the same being well Executed shall by the Grace of God be sufficient to keep all Parts of our Realm in good Order and Quietness Yet considering the Seditious Behaviour and Testy Disposition of some sorts of Men that seek nothing else but Stirs and Commotions We have thought good for the preventing the worst to prepare to have some Power in readiness to meet with any sudden Attempt that may be offered Wherefore knowing your Fidelity and good Will to serve us and the Zeal you bear the Common Tranquility and Quietness of your Country we have specially appointed and by these Presents appoint and authorize you to Muster Levy and Prepare forthwith all your own Servants and Tenants and others under your Rule and Offices with such your Friends as shall be willing to go with you And of the same so Mustered to chuse and appoint and put in full Readiness as many able Men both on Horseback and on Foot as you may well cause to be furnished with Armor Weapons and other Necessaries giving such order that upon One hours warning they may be ready to be imployed for Repression of any sudden Tumult Stir or Rebellion within our Realm or for resisting any Foreign Invasion or otherwise for our Service as by us or our Privy Council attending about us you shall be required from time to time For the doing whereof like as these our Letters shall be sufficient Discharge as well unto you as to such as shall serve under you So do we require you to use your accustomed Diligence both in preparing your said Men and also in advertising our Council what Numbers and of what Sorts you have ready to the intent upon Knowledge thereof we may dispose of their further Service as occasion shall require Whereof we pray you not to fail as we specially trust you Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Eighth of March the Second and Third Years of our Reign Vltima Voluntas Johannis primi Domini Mordaunt probata IN Dei nomine Amen The First day of August in the Year of our Lord God One thousand Five hundred and threescore and the Second Year of the Reign of our most dread Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland c. I John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford being of good and perfect Memory thanks be given to God do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following That is to say First I bequeath my Soul to Almighty God and my Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Turvey in the Wall next above my Father 's Tomb. And I will that the Body of my Lady Elizabeth Mordaunt my late Wife deceased be removed and taken up and laid and buried again on my right side with all speed after my Departure out of this World And I will That my Executors and Administrators within one Year after my decease shall prepare for me and the said Lady Elizabeth a meet and convenient Tomb of Marble and Two Pictures of Alabaster the one for my self and the other for the said Lady Elizabeth both the said Pictures representing the State that God of his infinite Goodness hath called me hereunto in this present World which said Premises will cost as I suppose about Threescore Pounds Item I give and bequeath to be dealt in Alms the day of my Burial unto the poor Folks of the Towns of Turvey Stagesden Carleton Chillington Harold Stephinton Felmersham Radwell Lavenden Brafeld Newton-Blosmaville Hardmede Astwood Wotton and Cranfeld One hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England at the discretion of my Executors and Administrators Town of Bedford Five Pounds Olney Three Pounds And the rest of my Burial and Funeral expences I remit to the discretion of my Executors and Administrators for to do use and bestow and dispose at their Liberties and pleasures for the Wealth of my Soul Lady Elizabeth my Wife my Father Mother and all other my Friends Item I will and bequeath for my Mortuary in ready Money and for Tyths forgotten and not truely paid Five Pounds to be bestowed among poor People for to pray for the Souls of them that of right the Premises ought to be paid unto Item I give and bequeath unto the Church-Wardens and to the Inhabitants of the Town of Turvey and for and towards the Reparation of the Church and Steeple of Turvey and for the Rough-casting of the Walls of the said Church as well within the said Church as without the said Church and Steeple One hundred Marks Item I give and bequeath to the said Church-Wardens and Inhabitants to the use of the same Town all my Apparel of Cloth of Gold and all manner of Silks to be made at the Costs and Charges of my Executors or Administrators to serve God in the same Church and to no other use or purpose Over and besides Ten Pounds which I Will shall be delivered unto the same Church-Wardens and others as above for and towards the said Reparations to make the said Premises meet to serve God on high and principal Feasts I Will and bequeath to the Inhabitants of the Town of Turvey for and towards the new repairing of Turvey-Bridge as much as is within the County of Bedford Forty Pounds And of and for the repairing of the Long-Bridge within the County of Buckingham to the Reparation and keeping whereof the Towns of Hardmede Astwood Lavenden
Newton-Blosmaville and Brafeld are Contributors Twenty six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence I Will That according to my Father's Will the Seven Pounds be disposed in good Deeds in the Church and Town of Turvey for the Soul of Dame Agnes Peck Widow deceased and towards the Reparation and Amendment of the said Church of Turvey or else to buy a new Bell to Ring Day-Bell in the Morning and Curfre at Night to the Church-wardens and Inhabitants of the Town of Turvey to pray for the Souls of William Rogers late of Hills in Turvey deceased otherwise called Roger Stevenson otherwise called William Stevenson of Turvey-Hills Thirty Shillings to the said Church-Wardens and Inhabitants as is aforesaid Thirty Shillings for to pray for the Soul of Master John Cross Clerk sometime Parson of Turvey for and in full recompenee of certain Tyths and Rents due to him for certain Lands late belonging to Parnel Biddlyn and John Biddlyn her Son and Heir To the Heirs of William Bird late of Hills in Turvey aforelaid for and in full recompence of Lands purchased of William Bird his Grandfather living in Hills aforesaid Forty Shillings To the said Church-Wardens of Turvey and other Inhabitants Ten Shillings Stagden Ten Shillings and Mulsho Church Ten Shillings according to the Last Will of my Father And I Will That Six Pound thirteen Shillings four Pence be delivered to the Church-Wardens and other Inhabitants of Mulsho to the Use and Profit of the Church and of the Town and for and towards the Reparations of the said Church I give and bequeath unto the Heirs of Bateman of Turvey deceased for divers Respects which Bateman of old time was Owner of the House next the Mill in Turvey and after that it was one Whites Five Marks I give and bequeath to the next Kinsfolks of Thomas Kerby late of Heviningham-Castle in the County of Essex and of old time Clerk and Servant to my Father Twenty Shillings I give and bequeath unto John Page of Arlesey my Cousin One Ring of Gold price Ten Shillings which I owed to his Mother Cicely Page Item I give and bequeath among the Daughters of Thomas More Esquire my Son in Law begotten between the said Thomas More and Dorothy his Wife late my Daughter Forty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England Albeit the said Thomas doth Claim Fifty Marks thereof by promise of Mouth besides Writing which promise I do not remember And yet notwithstanding I will the said Forty Pounds to be paid as before without delay and to be bestowed by the said Thomas and by the advice of my Executors Item I Will That my Servant John Ashecomb for his long good and faithful Service done unto me shall have the Farm of the Maner of Lyford where he now dwelleth and doth inhabit during the space and term of One and twenty Years next after my Decease in as ample and large a manner as the said John doth now occupy the same paying yearly the accustomed Rent as he doth now pay for the same and generally keeping all Reparations of all manner of Houses belonging and occupied in the said Maner Item I Will That all such Leases as I have made promised to be made or agreed with any manner of Person or Persons whatsoever for Years and yet the said Leases not put in Writing shall be Good Stable and Effectual and stand in strength against me and my Heirs And that my Heir shall with as much Speed convenient as may be assure unto them their Leases in Writing according to my former Promise Grants and Agreements made unto them or any of them the said Leases paying such Fines as be agreed between the said Leasees and me That is to say A Lease made to Simon de Brown for term of Years of the Maner of Halfhyde for the Fine of Twenty Pounds and as yet received Ten Pounds A Lease made to John Perse of Newport-Pannel for One and twenty Years for the Fine of Six Pounds thirteen Shillings four Pence and received no part thereof A Lease of One and twenty Years made unto Robert Edwards of Turvey of the Priory Farm for the Fine of Ten Pounds the said Robert Edwards to pay yearly for his Rent Six Pound thirteen Shillings four Pence Also I will and bequeath to every of my Servants One whole Years Wages and also sufficient Meat and Drink for one whole Year to be allowed to all and every of my Servants to be spent at and within my Mansion-House of Turvey Also I will and bequeath That of all the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which late were of the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis late of Westhornedon in the County of Essex Knight otherwise Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight deceased which from him or any of his Ancestors descended remained or came to Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt deceased late Wife of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Cousin and Heir to the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight deceased wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Dame Joan now his Wife or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or for term of Life or Lives or severally in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last day of August in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight shall be within One half Year next after my decease lawfully sufficiently and assuredly conveyed and Assured unto Sir Robert Throgmorton Knight John Cheyne Esquire and Thomas Nichols Gentleman or to the Survivor or Survivors of them and to his and their Heirs discharged of all former Rights Tyths Uses Interests Charges Incumbrances and Demands had or made since the Death of the said Dame Elizabeth Leases for term of Years whereupon the old Rents and Services or more are reserved and the chief Rents and Services from thenceforth to be due to the chief Lords only excepted to the only Use hereafter following That is to say So many or so much of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which late were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis as shall amount to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Marks or under and not above and shall be named appointed and declared by the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son by a Bill Tripartite Indented Sealed and Subscribed by the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and Inrolled in any of the Queen's Majesties Courts of Records at Westminster Whereof One of the parts so Sealed and Subscribed to be delivered to the said Lewis Mordaunt and the other of the said Parts so Sealed and Subscribed to be delivered to the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols or to the Survivor or Survivors of them to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son and of the same Dame Joan now his Wife for the term of their Lives and for the term of the Life of the longest Liver of them without
their Chambers and that Night were Bathed and Shriven according to the Old Usage of England and the next Day in the Morning the King Dubbed them according to the Ceremonies thereto belonging Whose Names ensue The Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Water the Lord Hastings the Lord Mounteagle Sir John Mordaunt the Lord Vaux Sir Henry Parker Sir William Windsor Sir Francis Weston Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Hulston Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Savill Sir George Fitz-Williams Sir John Tindal Sir Thomas Jermine Stow 's Chronicle page 610. 40. THE same Twelfth of July word was brought to the Council being then in the Tower with the Lady Jane That the Lady Mary Eldest Daughter to King Henry the Eighth was at Kenhinghall-Castle in Norfolk and with her the Earl of Bath Sir Thomas Wharton Son to the Lord Wharton Sir John Mordaunt Son to the Lord Mordaunt Sir William Drury Sir John Shelton Sir Henry Beddingfield Mr. Henry Jermingham Mr. John Sutierd Mr. Richard Treston Mr. Serjeant Morgan and Mr. Glement Higham A Letter from Queen Mary to Sir John Mordaunt and to the Lady his Wife To our Trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to the Lady his Wife Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and right welbeloved we greet you well And whereas we have received certain Advertisements That our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain was Embarqued at the Groyne Six Days past Forasmuch as we considering that the Wind serving as it doth it cannot be but that he is near the Coast of this our Realm We have therefore thought good both to signifie unto you the Premises and also to require you to put your self in Order withal Diligence to repair hither towards our Court to the intent ye may give your Attendance upon us at the Solemnity of this our Marriage as shall appertain whereof we require you not to fail Given under our Signet at our Maner of Bishopswaltham the Fifteenth Day of July the Second Year of our Reign Vltima voluntas Johannis Secundi Domini Mordaunt probata IN the Name of God Amen The Sixteenth Day of April in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith I Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt calling to Remembrance the uncertain State of these our Transitory Lives and minding to reduce and set in order such Goods Chattels and other things as God hath endued me withal being somewhat weak in Body yet thanks be to God of perfect Remembrance do make my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I do bequeath my Soul to Almighty God my only Maker and Redeemer my Body to be Buried within the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford in such decent Order and Sort and with such Funeral Charges and Expences as by mine Executors shall be thought meet and convenient for my Estate and Degree Item I will chiefly and above all things That mine Executors shall pay or cause to be paid unto all and every Person and Persons unto whom I shall at the Day of my Decease be indebted and all and every such Summ and Summs of Money as I shall owe unto them or any of them Item I give and bequeath unto Vrsula my Daughter Four hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid her by my Executors at such time as they conveniently may And in the mean time I Will That mine Executors shall find unto the said Vrsula sufficient and convenient Meat Drink Apparel and Clothing necessary for her Degree Item I give unto George Monox and to Humphrey his Son Forty Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be bestowed upon a Bason and Ewre of Silver Guilt parcel Guilt Item I give and bequeath unto Anne Actem one of the Daughters of Margaret Actem my Daughter Two hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England at the Day of her Marriage or at her Age of Eighteen years which of them shall happen and if it happen the said Anne Actem to dye before her Marriage or before she shall accomplish the Age of Eighteen years then the Gift to her to be void And then my Will is That the said Two hundred Marks bequeathed unto the said Anne Actem shall be imployed and bestowed among the rest of the Sons and Daughters of my said Daughter Margaret Actent as shall be then living Item I give and bequeath unto the rest of the Sons and Daughters of the foresaid Margaret Actem my Daughter Six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence a piece to every of them at their several Ages of Eighteen years Item I will and bequeath to every one of my Servants being no Officers One years Wages over and besides the Wages as shall be unto them due at the time of my Decease Item I will to Anne Witney my Wife's Daughter Forty Pounds Item I will to Mary Price Fifty Marks towards her Marriage Item I will to the Three Children of Henry Witney Five Marks a piece Item I will That my Executors shall bestow Two hundred and fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England upon an I le to be builded and made upon the South-side of the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford aforesaid and for a Tomb for me to be erected and set up within the said I le Item Whereas I the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife and Sir Lewis Mordaunt Knight by the name of Lewis Mordaunt Esquire by one Indenture Tripartite bearing date the Third Day of November the Fifth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is did amongst other things Infeoff Sir William Peter and Sir Henry Tervel Knights John Talbot Thomas Lucas Edward Tirrel George White Thomas Brownly and Thomas Nichols Esquires and their Heirs of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of me the said John Lord Mordaunt within the County of Essex late the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight Deceased to certain Uses as by the same Indenture Tripartite bearing date as is aforesaid more at large it doth and may appear Amongst which the Maners of Cranham Gingeraff Tiptofts and Amies in the County of Essex and all Lands and Tenements known by the name or names of Amies and Nokehall and the Farms called Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances and all those Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Brownfordmagna in the County of Essex then late in the occupation of one Rowland Walhead or of his Assigns or appointed after the decease of me John Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife unto the use and behoof of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of me the said John Lord Mordaunt for the term of Ten years next ensuing the decease of me the said John Lord Mordaunt and the Lady
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was Five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir Apparent For the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the late Lord Mordaunt might have had divers great Summs of Money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers Remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan Mordaunt now his Wife After which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not Marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a Recovery of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into the right course of Inheritance again did suffer Recoveries of his own Lands to the Uses and upon Condition following To the Use of the said late Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was Married and after to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married unto at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of Twelve years towards the performance of his Will and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life To the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti Pembrochiae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon charissimo consanguineo nostro Roberto Comiti Leicestriae Magistro Equorum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti Lincolniae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam charissimo consanguineo nostro Antonio Vicecomiti Montague alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Carolo Domino Howard Magno Admirallo nostro Angliae alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Camerario nostro alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Abergavenniae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Zouche alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Morley alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Willielmo Cobham Domino Guardiano quinque Portuum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Stafford alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Arthuro Domino Grey de Wilton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Johanni Domino Lumley alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Johanni Domino Sturton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac praedilecto fideli nostro Willielmo Domino Sandes alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Domino Wentworth alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilecto fideli Ludovico nostro Mordaunt alteri Dominorum Parliamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Johanni Domino Saint-John de Bletso alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon praedilecto fideli nestro Thomae Domino Buckhurst alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac praedilecto fideli nostro Hen. Domino Compton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Francisco Knolles Militi Thesaurario Hospitii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon dilecto fideli nostro Jacobo Crosts Militi Contrarotulatori dicti Hospitii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Christophero Hatton Militi Vicecamerario nostro alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Francisco Walsingham Militi uni primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Willielmo Davison Armigero alteri Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Radulpho Sadleir Militi Cancellario Ducatus nostri Lancastriae alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon dilecto fideli nostro Waltero Myldmay Militi Cancellario Scaccarii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Amicio Pawlett Militi Capitaneo Insulae nostrae de Jersey alteri de Privato Consilio nostro dilectoque fideli nostro Johanni Wolley Armigero Secretario nostro pro lingua Latina alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Christophero Wraie Militi Capitali Justitiario ad Placita coram nobis tenenda assignato dilectisque fidelibus nostris Edmundo Anderson Militi Capitali Justitiario nostro de Banco Rogero Manwood Militi Capitali Baroni Scaccarii nostri Thomae Gawdy Militi uni Justitiariorum nostrorum ad placita eorum nobis tenenda assignato Willielmo Periam uni Justitiariorum nostrorum de Banco Salutem c. A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Lewis Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations to your Lordship We are given to understand that by occasion of an unlawful Hunting attempted by some of your Servants within Her Majesties Park of Brikestock being under the Charge and keeping of Mr. Adrian Stokes it hath so happened That two of your said Servants have been Slain or in very great danger of Death Forasmuch as it is thought that unless some speedy Order be taken therein it may so fall out that other Inconveniencies will ensue which we would be sorry to understand We have thought good to require your Lordship for preservation of Her Majesties Peace to take order That neither your self nor any of your Friends or Servants offer any further occasion of Quarrel unto the said Mr. Stokes or any of his Friends or Servants either serving in the said Park or elsewhere And further because we could be glad to understand what your Lordship is able to say in excuse of the said Fact pretended to be done by your Servants We pray you forthwith upon Receipt hereof as soon as you conveniently may all unnecessary Excuses and Delays set apart to make your Repair hither where you shall understand our further Pleasure and so desiring your Lordship hereof not to fail bid you right heartily farewel From Greenwich the Eleventh Day of July One thousand five hundred seventy and seven Your loving Friends W. Burghley E. Lincoln T. Sussex A. Warwick F. Knollys James Swtt Fra. Walsingham Alliance of Mordaunt and Maunsell THIS Indenture made the Eleventh Day of July in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Between Edward Maunsell of Morgan in the County of Glamorgan Knight of the one part and the Right honourable Lewis Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the other part Witnesseth That in consideration of a Marriage to be by God's Grace had and solemniz'd between Thomas Maunsell Esquire Son and Heir Apparent of the said Edward on the one part and Mary one of the Daughters of the said Lewis Mordaunt on the other part and for certain other good Considerations hereafter by these Presents expressed it is Covenanted Granted Condefcended and Agreed between the said Edward Maunsell and Lewis Lord Mordaunt in Manner and Form following That is to say First the said Edward Maunsell Knight for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and for every of them Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt his Executors Administrators and Assigns by these Presents That the said thomas Maunsell shall before the Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Date hereof Espouse Marry and take to Wife the said Mary Mordaunt if the said Mary and Thomas will thereunto condescend and agree and the Laws of Holy Church the same permit and suffer And the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Exeutors and Administrators and for every of them Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Edward Maunsell Knight his Executors Administrators and Assigns That the said Mary Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt shall before the said Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming Espouse Marry and take to Husband the said Thomas Maunsell if the said Thomas and
Three and fiftieth Young Pye Per breve de privato Sigillo In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno xviij Regis nunc Jacobi videliâet inter Recorda de termino Paschae rotulo ex parte Remem Thesauri reman intratum A Deed of Jointure made for the Countess of Peterburgh before Marriage THis Indenture Tripartite made the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith that is to say of England France and Ireland the Nineteenth and of Scotland the Four and fiftieth Between the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Baron of Turvey on the first part the Right Honourable Lady Anne Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Fane of Apethorp in the County of Northampton Knight and Sir Oliver Luke of Woodend in the County of Bedford Knight on the second part and Henry Lovell of Blechmichleigh in the County of Surrey Esquire and Henry Stanley of the Inner-Temple London Esquire of the third part Witnesseth That whereas there is a Marriage intended and agreed by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Lord Mordaunt and Elizabeth Howard Sole Daughter and Heir of William Lord Howard of Effingham deceased and Heir apparent of the said Lady Anne Howard in consideration whereof and for the love and affection which he the said Lord Mordaunt doth bear unto the said Elizabeth Howard in case she survive and over-live the said Lord Mordaunt and for the making and providing a competent Jointure and Livelihood to the said Elizabeth Howard in case she survive and over-live the said Lord Mordaunt fit for her Honour and Degree and for setling and continuing of the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments hereafter in these Presents expressed to continue in the Issues Name and Blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it please God as hereafter in these Presents is mentioned He the said John Lord Mordaunt for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Grant Promise and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns and every of them by these Presents That he the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs at their or some of their own proper Costs and Charges in the Law in this side or before the Feast of Pentecost commonly called Whitsontide next ensuing the date hereof shall and will acknowledge and levy one or more Fine or Fines with Proclamations according to the Statute in that Case provided before the King's Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster in due form of Law according to the common course of Fines in such Cases used unto the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and the Heirs of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley of all those his Maners of Drayton Islip Ringsted Furnels in Raundes Addington Slipton and Luffwick in the County of Northampton with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances and of the Capital Messuage or Mansion-House of Drayton aforesaid with the Appurtenances and of the Rectories or Parsonages of Slipton Denford and Ringsted and of the Rectory of Luffwick in the said County of Northampton with their and every of their Appurtenances and of all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt lying and being in the several Towns Parishes and Hamlets of Drayton Ringsted Islip Raundes Addington Slipton Luffwick and Denford in the County of Northampton and of all the Rights Members Royalties and Appurtenances to the said Maners Parsonages Lands or Tenements or any of them in any wise appertaining or belonging and of all that his Maner or Farm of Kemston-burn in the County of Bedford with all the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereto appertaining and of all those his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments being Freehold in Cranfield in the said County of Bedford By which Fine or Fines with Proclamations he the said Lord Mordaunt shall acknowledge the said Maners Parsonages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances by such name or names and by such quantity and number of Acres as shall be meet and convenient to be the Right of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley as those which the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley have of the gift of the said Lord Mordaunt and shall remise and quit claim to the same from him and his Heirs to the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and the Heirs of them the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley with Warranty against him the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs and all claiming from by or under them or any of them Which Fine or Fines in form aforesaid or in any other manner to be levied and all other Fine or Fines which shall be of the Premises or any part thereof levied by the said Lord Mordaunt to the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley or either of them on this side the said Feast of Pentecost shall be and enure and shall be deemed and taken to be and enure and the said Cognizees therein their Heirs and Assigns shall from and immediately after the levying and engrossing of the said Fine or Fines stand and be seized of all the said Maners Parsonages and Premises and of every part and parcel thereof to the use of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and of their Heirs for ever To the only intent and purpose That the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley shall stand and be adjudged perfect Tenants of the Freehold of the said Maners and other the Premises and of every part thereof until a perfect Recovery may be lawfully had and executed of the Maners and Premises against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley And the said Lord Mordaunt for himself his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors and Assigns That the above-named Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke shall and may before the said Feast of Pentecost at the proper Costs and Charges in the Law of him the said Lord Mordaunt Commence and Prosecute one or more Writs of Entry Sur disseisin in le post against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley retornable before the King's Majesty's Justices of his Highness's Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster according to the usual course of common Recoveries whereby they shall demand against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley the said Maners Parsonages Lands and other the Premises by such name and names number and quantity of Acres as shall be thought meet and requisite Unto which Writ or Writs the said Henry Lovel and Henry Stanley shall appear in proper person or by their Attorney or Attornies lawfully authorised and shall Vouch to Warranty the said Lord Mordaunt And the said Lord Mordaunt agreeth That he shall appear in proper person upon the same Voucher or by
command all and singular our Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects meet and apt for the Wars within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without to whom it shall appertain that they and every of them with their Power and Servants from time time shall be attending and assisting counselling helping and at the commandment as well of you our said Lieutenant as of your said Deputies or any two or more of them as abovesaid in the execution hereof as they and every of them tender our pleasure and will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of our Reign Willis A Commission for Constituting Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Northampton JOHN Earl of Peterborow Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton to all to whom these presents shall come sendeth Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Whereas the King 's most Excellent Majesty by his Highness's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign hath made constituted and ordained me the said Earl of Peterborow to be his Majesty's Lieutenant of his Highness's County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without And because there may be just cause for me to be attendant upon his Majesty's Person or to be otherwise imployed in his Service whereby the said Service of Lieutenancy to me committed cannot be by me in Person executed in such sort as his Majesty hath appointed Therefore his Majesty hath given unto me for my better Aid and Assistance and for the better performance and execution of this Service full power and authority to appoint assign and constitute by my Writing under my Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as I in my discretion shall from time to time think fit to be my Deputies in the said Service in the said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without giving unto my said Deputy Lieutenants or to any two or more of them full power and authority in my absence to do and execute in his Majesty's said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid all and every thing and things mentioned in his Majesty's said Commission by me to be done and executed Know ye therefore That I the said John Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Northampton according to the tenor and purport of the said Commission have assigned constituted and appointed and by these Presents do assign constitute and appoint Sir Rowland Saint-John Knight of the Bath Sir Rowland Egerton Knight and Baronet Sir Lewis Watson Knight and Baronet Sir Hatton Farmer Knight Sir Thomas Cave Knight Sir Robert Hatton Knight William Elmes Esquire and Charles Cokeyne Esquire to be my Deputies in the said Service within the said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And whatsoever the said Sir Rowland Saint-John Sir Rowland Egerton Sir Lewis Watson Sir Hatton Farmer Sir Thomas Cave Sir Robert Hatton William Elmes and Charles Cokeyne together or any two or more of them shall execute or do by force of the said Commission within the said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid I the said Earl of Peterborow do by authority of his Majesty's said Commission allow and approve the same in all points and every thing as if I my self were there present in Person And the better to enable my said Deputies according to his Majesty's will and pleasure in that behalf I do by commandment of his Majesty deliver unto them and every of them a true Transcript of the said Commission subscribed with my Hand In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal at Arms the One and twentieth day of July in the said Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign that now is Annoque Domini 1640. J. Peterborow SIGILLVM IOHANNIS COMITIS DE PETRIBVRGO DNÌI BARONIS DE TVRVEY A Commission of Array to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow CArolus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Johanni Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Sciatis quod cum quidam Rebelles regni nostri Scotiae regnum nostrum Angliae cum posse non modico hostiliter ingressi fuerunt Nos malitiae hujusmodi Rebellionis gratia nobis favente divina resistere ac pro salvatione defensione nostri regni praedicti ligeorum nostrorum ejusdem disponere ordinare volentes ut tenemur Assignavimus vos ad arraiandum triandum omnes singulos homines ad arma ac homines armatos sagittarios in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae commorantes infra libertates extra Et ad armari faciendum omnes illos qui de suo corpore sunt potentes habiles ad armandum qui de suo proprio habent unde seipsos armare possint videlicet quilibet eorum juxta status facultates suas Et ad assidendum apportionandum juxta avisamentum discretiones vestras ac etiam ad distringendum omnes illos qui in terris bonis sunt potentes pro debilitate corporum ad laborandum impotentes ad inveniendum juxta quantitatem terrarum bonorum suorum prout rationabiliter portare poterint salvo statu suo armaturas hominibus ad arma ac hominibus armatis ac arcus sagittas Ita quod illi qui morabuntur seu morari poterunt ad domum suam propriam in patria sua super defensionem ejusdem regni contra rebelles praedictos si periculum eveniat non capiant vadia nec expensas pro mora sua apud domus suas praedictas Et ad hoc dictos homines ad arma homines armatos sagittarios fic arraiatos injunctos continue in arraiatione ut in millenis centenis vintenis alias prout conveniens fuerit necesse teneri poni faciendum Et eos tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi quotiens necesse fuerit ad dictos rebelles expellendum debellandum destruendum de tempore in tempus cum aliquod periculum immineat mandandum injungendum ad monstrum sive monstrationem eorundem hominum ad arma ac hominum armatorum sagittariorum de tempore in tempus quotiens indiguerit diligenter faciendum
concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Actum Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentem per nos vigore Actus illius nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia facias exequaris cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Per breve de privato Sigillo Barker A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 31. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo septimo die Octobris proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo quarto die Julii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo primo Grimston Pengry A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 32. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Oxoniam vicesimo primo die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo secundo Grimston Pengry The Jointure of the Countess of Peterborow in Turvey THIS Indenture made the Sixth Day of August in the _____ Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred _____ Between the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey the Honourable William Mountague Esquire Brother to the Lord Mountague of Boughton Sir William Farmer of Easton in the County of Northampton Baronet and Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath of the other part Whereas the Maner of Turvey and certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Turvey in the County of Bedford except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs were settled or intended to be settled upon Penelope Countess of Peterborow for her natural Life for her Jointure and in lieu of her Dower and Thirds of the Estate of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and a certain Decree hath been made in the High Court of Chancery for the Establishing the same for her Jointure accordingly and it is the intent and purpose of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow that the same shall be enjoyed accordingly Now witness these Presents That the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and in consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of Lawful Money of England by the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents well and truly unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors and Administrators for ever by these Presents and for divers other good Causes and Considerations him thereunto moving hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Admininistrators and Assigns all the Maner or reputed Maner of Turvey in the County of Bedford and all Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow situate lying and being in Turvey aforesaid or accepted reputed taken demised or known as part or parcel of the said Maner of Turvey aforesaid except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs To have and to hold the said Maner of Turvey and all the Premises in Turvey aforesaid except as before is excepted unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns from and after the death of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and during and unto the full end and term of Ninety nine Years from thence ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended if she the said Penelope Countess of Peterborow shall so long live Nevertheless upon this special Trust and Confidence That the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall permit and suffer the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to be received and taken in pursuance of and according to the said Decree and according
and their Heirs and Assigns shall be and stand seized of all the Maners Lands Tenements Royalties and Hereditaments whatsoever in the said Fine or Fines mentioned and expressed to be comprized in the same and to those uses intents and purposes and upon the same Limitations and Payments as the said Recovery and Recoveries are in and by these Presents meant mentioned and expressed and as the true intent meaning and purpose of these Presents be and are intended mentioned or meant to be limited and appointed and that to all intents and purposes whatsoever In Witness whereof to the first part of these Presents with the said Thomas Lock John Row Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Henry Lord Mordaunt hath put to his Hand and Seal And to the second part of these Presents with the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Thomas Lock and John Row have put their Hands and Seals And to the third part with them the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Thomas Lock and John Row remaining the said Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley have put their Hands and Seals the Day and Year above-written Annoque Domini 1608. Vltima Voluntas Henrici quarti Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God Amen The Sixth Day of February in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. videlicet of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth Annoque Domini 1608. I Henry Lord Mordaunt knowing the Days of Mans Life to be few and my self to be now Summoned by languishing Sickness the messenger of Death and God knows how soon I shall yeild up my Soul unto the Hands of my God and Saviour do therefore while I am praised be God in perfect Memory make publish and divulge this my last Will and Testament Wherein and whereby I commit and commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Body to be Buried at Turvey amongst my Ancestors there lying Buried and for the clearing of my Conscience before God and Man and to give a publick satisfaction to the World concerning such and those Imputations which lately have been laid upon me and for which I have in a high degree been censured I mean the late Gunpowder Treason which fact for the Heinousness thereof in the Offenders therein I do loath to remember and now sorrow to repeat therefore at this time when all hope or desire of long Life hath forsaken and now Almighty God into whose Hands I am instantly yeilding up my Soul is my immediate Judge to witness with me that I lie not I do solemnly Protest before God and his Angels and that without all Equivocation or Duplicity whatsoever that I am innocent of that Fact and guiltless of all Foreknowledge thereof and although I know that this Protestation of mine cannot without the gracious Mercy of my Prince and Sovereign the King's Majesty extenuate or mitigate the greatness of my past Censure Yet herein I comfort my self that I live and that in the time of my dying Innocence to publish and express the truth and grief of my trouble which I hope will suffice to cleanse the stain thereof from my Name and House and so to leave the Reputation of my Name and House as I found it spotless from being defamed or disreputed with the Knowledge Acting or Assenting unto any dishonourable disloyal or dishonest Action whatsoever And whereas I have lately by Fine or other Conveyance in Law settled my Estate and Living amongst my Children and Family according to my own mind and good liking as by an Indenture Tripartite dated the Fourth day of January last made between me on the first part Thomas Lock and John Row on the second part and the Right Honourable the Earls of Worcester and Rutland and some others on the third part I do heartily intreat my said Honourable Friends and all others in the said Indentures mentioned and to be trusted that they would carefully according to my Trust in them severally reposed and as the case shall fall out execute and see performed my said Plot and Project for the benefit of my said Children and Family and for the performance of my other Intentions therein expressed And I do right heartily intreat my Righ Honourable and welbeloved Brother-in-law the Lord Compton whom for that purpose I have left out of the said Indenture that he would be pleased to have a care and regard unto the executing and performing of my said Project that the Issues and Profits of my Maners Lands and Revenues in the said Indentures mentioned may be truly disposed according as the same by me in my said Indenture be appointed And I do give to the said Lord Compton for his pains Item I do Will and bequeath unto my Son John Mordaunt all my necessary Household and Implements of Household which and wherewith my several Houses of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of Drayton in the County of Northampton be now furnished withal which said necessary Household and Implements of Household I Will shall go and remain with my said Houses from Heir to Heir Item I do further Will and Bequeath all other the Legacies and Portions in a Schedule to this my present Will filed mentioned devised and bequeathed and I do make Sole Executor of this my Will the Right Honourable the Lord Compton In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written SIGILLVM HENRICI DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Fourth of that Name Fifth Lord MORDAVNT Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI A Pardon and Release Granted to John Lord Mordaunt of a Fine in the Star-Chamber set upon Henry Lord Mordaunt his Father JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Commissioners of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to all other the Officers Ministers and Subjects of us our Heirs and Successors to whom it shall or may appertain Greeting Whereas in our Court of Star-Chamber before our Counsel there the Third Day of June in the Fourth Year of our Reign of England France and Ireland there were brought to the Bar as Prisoners from our Tower of London Henry Lord Mordaunt late deceased and Edward Lord Sturton against whom Sir Edward Coke
Knight then our Attorney General did inform for divers great Contempts and Misprisions by them committed and done against us whereupon our said Court weighing and considering the quality of their said Offences did order and adjudge The said Henry Lord Mordaunt for his Offence therein should pay to our use for a Fine the Summ of Ten thousand Marks as by the Records of the said Court of Star-Chamber it doth and may appear And whereas the said Fine of Ten thousand Marks hath not been to us yet answered and paid so as the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of our Right Trusty and Welbeloved John Lord Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Henry Lord Mordaunt deceased are chargeable subject and liable to and with the payment of the same Know ye nevertheless That we being graciously pleased to free and acquit the said John Lord Mordaunt and his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of and from the said Fine and every part thereof of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion have Pardoned Remised and Released and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Pardon Remit and Release unto the said John Lord Mordaunt by whatsoever Name or Names Sirname or Sirnames or addition of Names or Sirnames Dignity Place or Places the said John Lord Mordaunt is or lately was called or known the foresaid Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and every part and parcel of the said Ten thousand Marks And further for the more full and absolute freeing and discharging of the said John Lord Mordaunt of and from the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and of every part and parcel thereof We of our special Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion for Us our Heirs and Successors do by these Presents Pardon Remit and Release unto the said John Lord Mordaunt all and all manner of Actions Suits Informations Seisures Extents Writs Processes Judgments Executions Impetitions Claims and Demands which we now have or which We our Heirs or Successors at any time hereafter can may or might have against the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns or his or their or any of their Lordships Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts or Credits whatsoever for or in respect of the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks against or upon the said Henry Lord Mordaunt his said Father adjudged given set and imposed as aforesaid and him the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators Terrtenants and Assigns and his and their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts and Credits of for from and concerning the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks and every part and parcel thereof We do for Us our Heirs and Successors clearly and absolutely Acquit Exonerat Free and Discharge for ever by these Presents Willing and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors straitly charging and requiring our said Commissioners for our Treasury and the Treasurer Chancellor and Under-Treasurer Chamberlains Barons and Remembrancers of the Exchequer of Us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court for the time being whom it may concern and all other the Officers and Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whomsoever That he the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators Terrtenants or Assigns or any his or their Lordships Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Leases Debts Rights or Credits or any of them or any part or parcel thereof for or by reason of the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks or any part thereof be not hereafter by any of the Sheriff Under-Sheriff Bayliff or other Officers or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors in any wise Sued Vexed Extended Seized Troubled Molested Impeached Questioned or Inquieted but shall thereof be fully freely clearly and absolutely from henceforth by virtue and upon shewing forth of these Presents or the Inrolment Constat or Exemplification thereof acquitted exonerated and discharged against Us our Heirs and Successors the said Order Decree Sentence Fine and Judgment of our said Court of Star-Chamber herein before mentioned or any matter or thing therein contained or any Estreat Process Seisure or Extent heretofore awarded had or made touching the Premises or any Act Statute Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restraint whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And further We do for Us our Heirs and Successors of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion Will and Grant to the said John Lord Mordaunt by these Presents That these our Letters Patents of Pardon or the Inrolment thereof and every Clause Grant Article Matter or Thing therein contained shall be good sufficient and effectual in the Law and shall be taken construed and adjudged most strongly against Us our Heirs and Successors and most favourably benignly and beneficially to and for the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns for the full clear and absolute Pardoning Releasing Freeing and Discharging him them and every of them and his and their Maners Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Rights Debts and Credits of for from and concerning the said Fine or Summ of Ten thousand Marks so ordered decreed and adjudged as aforesaid and every part and parcel thereof And of and from all and every Writ Process Extents Seisures Executions Claims Benefits and Demands whatsoever which we now have or which we our Heirs or Successors at any time hereafter shall might or may have for touching or concerning the Premises Notwithstanding the not true or not certain or not reciting naming or mentioning the said Information wherein or upon which the said Fine was set or assessed upon the said Henry Lord Mordaunt or of the Offences or Misdemeanors or other Cause for which the same was set or assessed or of the natures or qualities of any of them And notwithstanding the not mentioning not reciting or not true and certain meaning or reciting of the just Day or time of the said Sentence or Judgment therein given as aforesaid or any Act Statute Ordinance Provision Commandment Order or Restraint or any other Incertainty Defect or Imperfection Cause Matter or Thing whatsoever to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Although express mention of the Certainty of the Premises or of any of them or of any other Gift or Grant by us or any of our Progenitors or Predecessors to the said John Lord Mordaunt before this time made in these Presents is not made Any Statute Act Ordinance Provision or Restraint heretofore had meaned ordained or provided or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding In Witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Eleventh Day of March in the seventeenth Year of Our Reign of England France and Ireland and of Scotland the