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
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
to oppose him or his Heirs For securing of which promise he delivered up his Son William in Hostage who was after returned as an assurance of the Kings trust He departed this life in the One and fortieth year of Henry the Third leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran de Newburgh Earl of Warwick William Lord Mauduit afterwards Earl of Warwick AT the Death of his Father WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the fourth of that name was thirty six years old upon the possession of the Estate and Dignity of his Ancestors he received early testimonies of the Kings trust and favour by the acceptance of a moderate relief for his Barony and his Sergeantry and reasonable time for the payment The Lords of his Family had ever the reputation of being Martial and himself was esteemed active and vigorous so as he was usually summoned to attend the King in most of his Expeditions with his power and followers In the forty seventh Year of King Henry the Third doing his homage and paying an hundred pounds for his relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick he had livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him that is to say the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had summons that year to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility But soon after the King was necessitated to leave of his Welsh Expedition to provide against the power and insolence of his Barons who were then gathering together against him at Northampton He sent therefore this Earl to make sure of his Castle of Warwick a place at that time very considerable but such was his unhappiness as wanting diligent Guards they issued out of Kenilworth under the Command of John Giffard Governour of that Castle and surprising this at Warwick slew divers of the Earls men and carried him and his Lady Prisoners to Kenilworth out of which place before he could be delivered they forced him to pay nineteen hundred Marks for his Ransome and threw down the Walls of Warwick-Castle After this unhappy accident I find no more of him than that he married Alice the Daughter of Gilbert de Segrave and dyed without Issue the Eighth of Jan. Anno 1267. 52 Hen. III. ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit Chamberlain to King Henry the Second THE direct line of those Mauduits who were Lords of Hanslape and hereditary Chamberlains of the Exchequer ending in William Lord Mauduit who came to be also Earl of Warwick and that dyed without Issue I must return to Robert the second Son of Robert Lord Mauduit who was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second to carry on the Genealogical description of that branch of these Mauduits who were Lords of Werminster from whom the Greene's of Drayton did Descend and that did flourish for many Ages in this Nation under great reputation and Authority Unto Robert Lord Mauduit who was Lord of Hanslape in the days of Henry the Second King Richard and King John there were born of the Lady Isabella Bassett two Sons William and Robert the latter of which was a Youth so esteemed for his Valour and Martial inclinations and particularly by his Father as for a foundation of a greater fortune he bestowed upon him the noble Lordship of Werminster which he had received from the Gift of his old Master King Henry the Second and his Elder Brother the Lord William Mauduit was so far from repining at the Gift as he added to his Estate of his own Grant the Mannor of Shaudedene now called Scaldene And he had moreover from the kindness of Robert de la Mare a great Lord of that Age divers Lands in Bushopstre and Tarenta in Marriage with his Daughter Agnes by whom he left Issue William Mauduit Lord of Werminster WILLIAM MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster became possessed by Inheritance from his Father his Marriage and his own acquests of the Lordships of Werminster Scaldene Samborne and Grately in the County of Wilts as also of Lands in Bushopstre Tarenta and Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop which last were of his Mothers Inheritance In the Fourteenth of King Henry the Third he was sued with Eugenia his Wife by Robert de Passlieu for detaining one Henry the Son of Henry de Cromwell whose custody he pretended to belong to him by reason of the Kings Commission but because the said Robert did not produce the same it was order'd in Court That Henry de Cromwell should remain in the Keeping of William Mauduit and his Wife Eugenia This William gave Lands in Samborne to Thomas the Son of Simon of Deene and he demised the Mannor of Grately to Galfred of Winelford There is extant a Grant unto him of a Faire yearly to be held for three days at his Lordship of Werminster that is to say on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Lawrence and of a Market to be held every Thursday at his Mannor of Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop. He married Eugenia Daughter to that Foulke Lord Fitz-Warren who was a Lord of much fame in the days of King John and of his Son Henry and left Issue Warren Mauduit Lord of Werminster Sir John Mauduit WARREN MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster received his Christian Name as has been very usual from that Noble Family of which his Mother was descended and much deference and respect was due from him thereunto as from one whence he did derive a great part of his Inheritance as the Mannors of Westbury Lye and other Lordships He was one of those Lords that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land when he was yet but Prince and we find him to have lived much in his esteem and favour as one by whom he was accompanied in most of his War-like Expeditions He was summoned to many of those Parliaments that were called in his Raign towards the latter end whereof he departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas Mauduit Lord of Werminster THOMAS Lord MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in the Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Scalden Samborne West-Hacley Lye Castle-Helgot and other great Possessions so as at that time he was accounted one of the most powerful Lords of his rank He received in the Eleventh year of King Edward the Second a Charter from that King of Free Warren for him and his Heirs to have as well upon all his Lands in Westbury Lye and Chaldcoate in the County of Wilts as upon those of Deene and Grately in the County of Southampton These are the words of the Patent He was a Lord of such fame in those days
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis ââââtisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur
Third obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the days of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year Antiquities of Warwickshire fol. 305 306. Of Waleran the Earl of Warwick HE had two Wives Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice Daughter of John de Harcourt but Widow of John de Limesie before mentioned and departing this life in the sixth of King John left divers Children of which Henry his eldest Son succeeded in the Earldom Waleran another Son had the Mannors of Gretham and Cottesmore in the County of Rutland with certain Lands in Worcestershire but dyed without Issue Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife wedded William Mauduit of Hanslape in the County of Bucks and had by her Fathers appointment the Mannor of Wanton now called Walton Mauduit in this County for her Marriage Portion as is evident by King John's confirmation thereof to him bearing Date the thirtieth of November in the tenth year of his Reign WILLIAM MAVDVIT Earl of Warwick Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lordships Baronage of England Page 399. BUT in the one and fortieth of Henry the Third he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in the County of Bucks as also of the Mannor of Bergedon and Hundred of Wrangedike with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham in the County of Rutland as likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartleigh in the County of Southampton leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of Age. Which William in the forty first year of Henry the Third had so much favour from the King in payment of a Debt of two hundred Marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serjeanty he held videlicet a hundred Pounds for his Relief of his Barony and fifty Marks for his Serjeanty as that it was accepted of fifty Marks per annum The next year following this William had Summons to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the Incursions of the Welsh and in the forty seventh of Henry the Third doing his Homage and paying a hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him videlicet the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Lands and Mannors thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility Mille 's Catalogue of Honor page 798. William Maledoctus commonly called Mauduit Lord and Baron of Hanslape Cousin and Heir to Margery Countess of Warwick videlicet the Son of Alice the Sister of Henry the Father of the said Margery became Earl of Warwick after the Death of the foresaid Margery in the Reign of Henry the Third who long before had honour'd him with the Sword of Knighthood in the year 1233. and in the eighteenth of his Reign He dyed without Issue the fourth day of the Ides of January in the year 1268. and of Henry the Third the fifty second leaving his Sister Isabell his Heir Alice the Daughter of Gilbert Lord Segrave was Wife to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit that was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Carta Domini Roberti Mauduit RObertus Mauduit Domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Roberto Mauduit filio meo juniori Manerium totam terram meam de Werminster quae Rex Henricus Dominus meus mihi concessit tenendum sibi haeredibus suis in perpetuum liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè ab omni servitio salvo quod domino Regi pertinet in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Isti sunt Testes Dominus Johannes de Knovill Dominus Ricardus de Verdun Robertus de Sancto Laudo Alexander Pipard Thomas filius Johannis Henricus Transard Stephanus Camerarius Herveius Dapifer SIGILLVM DNI ROBERTI MAUDUIT Carta Domini Willielmi Mauduit Camerarii Regis WIllielmus Mauduit domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hac carta mea praesenti confirmâsse Fratri meo Roberto Mauduit pro servitio suo Manerium de Scaudedene cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè in bosco in campis in pratis in pascuis in viis in semitis in omnibus ad Manerium illud pertinentibus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius Militis Testibus Ranulpho de Glanvilla Gilberto Pipard Bertram de Verdun Willielmo de Bend Radulpho filio Stephani Eustachio filio Stephani Johanne Mauduit Beberto filio Richardi Gaufrido de Insula Roberto Burell Roberto Mauncell Roberto Mauduit filio meo Willielmo filio Walteri Willielmo Nepote aliis multis SIGILLVM DNI WILLI MAUDUIT CAMERARII REGIS Monasticon Anglicanum Pars Secunda pag. 409. 36. 43. inter concessiones de Mayden Bradley EX dono Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum pertinentiis in Bushopstree Ex dono Agnetis de la Mare quae fuit Uxor Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum messuagio Curtelagio in Tarrenta WILLIAM MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Placita de Banco Term. Pasch Anno 14 H. III. in pella Scaccarii Regis remanent Rot. 15. RObertus de Passleu per Attornatum suum petit versus Willielmum Mauduit Eugeniam Uxorem ejus quòd reddant ei Henricum filium haeredem Henrici Cromwell cujus custodia ad eum pertinet ratione commissionis Domini Regis quod inde fecit dicit c. Sed quia dictus Robertus non ostendit dictam commissionem dicta custodia remansit penes dictos Willielmum Eugeniam Charta Regis Henrici Tertii HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae
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
seid Erle my Lord for Gods love remember that ye put not your soule in charge in yevynge your Landes from the heires Whereunto the seid Erle at all tymes answered and said to this Deponent Robert I may as well yeve these Landes where I will as I may yeve the Gowne of my back For as for the heirs of Veere they shall never inherit them Also this Deponent seith that at suche tyme that the seid Erle was sick this Deponent contynewelly abode with him by whyche seasson this Deponent never knew the seid Erle chaunge his mind in this behalfe And this Deponent also seith that on Pahne-Sunday eve whyche was the eve of our Lady-daye of the Annuntiation and also whyche was the daye next before the decesse of the seid Erle this Deponent asked of the seid Erle whether he had made his Wyll or nay whyche Erle then seid that he had made noon as yet but that he would doe And that this Deponent asked how his Lordship was minded with Drayton and with all his Fee simple Lands whereof he commaunded this Deponent before that tyme to bere witnesse whyche Erle then seid that it was oon of the greatest causes why he would chaunge his Wyll for as his mind had been to his Cossen Erle of Shrewsbury soe should it contynewe for ever commaunding this Deponent and other there present to testifye that his last Wyll was and should be that his Cossen George Erle of Shrewsbury should have his Manoir of Drayton and all other his Fee simple Landes to him and to his heires for ever after the detts payd and the Wyll of the seid Erle performed Then present at the speaking of the seid wordes William Pemberton yet lyving and divers others decessed Whereupon the seid Erle went to other cogitations at what tyme noe man thought that the seid Erle should have decessed so shortly as he did but trusted that the seid Erle shuld have lyved muche longer than he did albeit on the morrow about ten of the clock what tyme the Preist was at Masse and reding of the Passion the sed Erle departed to Gods mercy without any chaungyng of his Wyll or mind concernyng the premisses as far as this Deponent knewe or understood But this Deponent seith that about seven of the Clock in the mornyng of the seid Palme-Sunday John Mordaunt Serjeaunt at Law came to the seid Erle and asked him how he did whyche Erle then seid well as it pleaseth God and then the seid Mordaunt departed againe from thence And about ten of the Clock then next followyng the seid Mordaunt came againe to the seid Erle with a Wyll made in the name of the seid Erle whyche Wyll the seid Mordaunt then red to the seid Erle when he was anoyled and in extreme peynes of deth soe that the seid Erle neither herde nor understode what the said Mordaunt red wherein as by the seid redyng it appeared to this Deponent that nether the Manoir of Drayton nether any parte of the Fee simple Landes of the seid Erle were expressed in the seid Wyll And after the seid redyng of the seid Wyll the seid Erle was deed or a man perfetly might seye a Pater Noster and Ave Maria and oon Crede And more he knoweth not Deposition of William Pemberton WIlliam Pemberton Gentilman of the age of forty yeares or more sworne and examined seith that he was brought up of a chyeld with Edward Stafford late Erle of Wiltshyre and in his servyse as sume tyme his kerver and sume tymes lay in bed with the seid Erle when it pleased him by the space of twenty yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also he seith that many and divers tymes the seid Erle shewed and reported to this Deponent that noon of the chylderen or heires of Vere shuld inheret his Manoir of Drayton or eny parte of his other Fee simple Landes but that his Cossen the Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heires for ever the seid Manoir with all his other Fee simple Lands all his detts payd and his Wyll performed Also this Deponent seith that the day next before the decesse of the seid Erle the seid Erle rehersed the seid wordes before this Deponent Robert Merbury and others now decessed wyllinge and charging them to bere witnesse whensoever ever they shuld be called that his full myend and last Wyll was and shuld be that his Cossyn George Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Fee simple Landes to him and to his heires for ever after his detts paid and his Wyll performed And he seith in vertue of his othe and as he shall answere before God he was continewelly present with the seid Erle from the seid tyme of the foreseid speking of the seid wordes by the seid Erle unto that the seid Erle was deed about ten of the Clock before noon on Palm-Sondaye and whyche was our Lady day Annuntiation aboute whyche tyme the Preist beyng at Masse was redyng of the Passion by all whyche seasson this Deponent never knewe herd or understoode that the seid Erle changed his wyll or myend ether in word or dede in that behalfe And more he knoweth not Deposition of Henry Caine. HEnry Caine Yoman of the age of eight and forty yeres and more sworne and examyned seith that he was Grome of the Chamber to the seid Erle by the space of seven yeres and after that this Deponent was Yoman of the Chamber with the seid Erle by the space of other seven yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of the decesse of the seid Erle by whyche seasson after Blackhethe Feld as well at Drayton as at Palenall and divers other places this Deponent divers and meny tymes hath herd the seid Erle openly declare for his wyll before this Deponent and divers others of his fellowes bothe Yomen and Gromes of the Chamber that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heires for ever the Manoir of Drayton and other his Fee simple Landes after his Detts payd and his Wyll performed commaundnig this Deponent and other his fellowes to record and testifye the premysses Also this Deponent seith that the seid Erle aboute a moneth before his decesse gave lycense to this Deponent to goe to Newark upon Trent for suche besinesses as this Deponent there had to doe about whyche seasson this Deponent came to the Erle of Shrewsbury lyeing at Wynfeld at whose coming the seid Erle demaunded of this Deponent how his Cossyn Erle of Wiltshyre did Whereunto this Deponent aunswering seid that at his departing from the seid Erle of Wiltshyre he was metely in goode helthe whyche Erle of Shrewsbury then seid that the understode that the seid Erle of Wiltshyre shuld be decessed And then this Deponent seid that he would ryde streyht to his seid Lordes place to knowe the certente and to bryng redy word againe to the seid Erle of Shrewsbury
Montegue Willielmo Pemberton haeredibus assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae uxoris ejus Humfridi Browne Georgii Browne Johannis Browne Etheldredae uxoris ejus haeredum ipsarum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum Jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton ac de in omnibus aliis maneriis terris tenementis reditibus reversionibus Boscis pratis pascuis pasturis aliis haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum aut alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae aut in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts nobis factis sive habitis salvis omnino reservatis nobis haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habemus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per Jus haereditarium per aliquem antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wilts facta sive habita ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis pro alius nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod Jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum eorum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi in perpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Marcii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury In the first South Window of the Chancell in St Peters Church of Luffwick In the Second South Window In the first Window on the North side of the Chancell In the second Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window on the South side of the said Chancell In the East Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window of the Chappell at Drayton In the first Window on the South side of the Chappell In the Second Window on the South Side of the Chappell In the lesser Window of Drayton Hall In the greater Window of Drayton Hall A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of that HOUSE of VERE Of which were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the Veres of Addington were of Vere Charged upon the Center with an Escucheon bearing Argent a Cross Gules Of the Original Descent Possessions Alliances Actions and Arms of the House of Vere which were Lords of Addington and Thrapston THE VERES that were Lords of Addington and Thrapston had their Original from Sir Robert de Vere who was second Son to Aubrey Earl of Guisnes Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England Which granted it will not after be denied but their extraction was as great as any thing from whence an English Subject could derive I shall not enter upon exaggeration of the Greatness and advantages of the House of Oxford they having been such as with which I think few other can be comparable but leave them to some fortunate Author who by faithfully exposing their truths unto the world may do himself honour and the Nation too I shall only pursue what may concern those Veres of which I treat and with whom I came to be acquainted by perusing the Evidences in the House of Drayton and unto this Family I am obliged to tell the Reader that I think there does belong an attribution of as much Honour and Esteem as any of their Quality could pretend unto They have always produced Knights famous for their prowess for their fidelities and for their prudence They appear in many considerable expeditions abroad in France in Palestine in Scotland in Wales in the most notable Offices at home Governing under their Princes the Countries where they lived They enter into the most eminent Alliances with the Houses of Wake Bassett Seagrave Clifford and De la Souche and they have always possessed many great Mannors and noble Lordships Besides which in the whole space of their durance here there remains not on their memories the least spot of reproach or prejudice but as all things are ordained to have an end it was the fortune of this House to terminate in the Lady Elizabeth Vere Daughter and Heir to the last Sir Henry Vere who being marryed to John the first Lord Mordaunt brought into his Family the Honor the Blood the Lands and the Arms of this House which were of Vere charged on the Center with a Shield bearing Argent a Cross Gules always born by the Lords of this Family in memory of their Ancestor Sir Robert de Vere who was slain with his General in a fight in Palestine being at that time Standard-bearer to William Longespé the famous Earl of Salisbury that was Grandson to King Henry the Second and the fair Lady Rosamond AVBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes Chief Justiciar and Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First AUBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes was Chief Justiciar of England under King Henry the First which in that time was the greatest Office of the Crown whoever was invested in it did exceed all the Noblemen in dignity and in power all the Magistrates And he was also Chamberlain to King Henry the First after the death of Robert Mallet Besides the other great possessions which his Father Earl Aubrey the elder and himself had acquired at the Conquest he held the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Addington and Twyvell in the County of Northampton This Aubrey was among the great men of his time in the highest esteem for wisdom and experience and always lived of nearest use and Counsel to those Princes with whom he was Contemporary He was sent in the fourth year of King Stephen to that memorable Council of Winchester unto which the King himself had been cited by his own Brother then Bishop of that See where with great force and eloquence he
pleaded the King's Cause in defence of his imprisoning certain Bishops which was there laid to his Charge But it fell out that in the succeeding year he was slain in London in a tumult raised by the Seditious Citizens He married Adeliza the Daughter of Gilbert of Clare by whom he had Issue Aubrey de Vere the first Earl of Oxford Sir Robert de Vere Roetia Vere the Wife of Jeffery de Magnavilla Earl of Essex MY business being to deduce the Descent of the Veres that were Lords of Drayton and Addington and not of the Earls of Oxford I am obliged to return to ROBERT de VERE the second Son of the forementioned Aubrey to whom his Father left for his provision and Inheritance the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Slipton Islip both the Addingtons and the Land of Twyvell which latter they had held of the Abby of Thorney We find this Robert in a Charter of his under the stile of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Kings Chamberlain did acknowledge to hold the Land of Twyvell for so long as he should live from Robert the Lord Abbot of Thorney and the Monks of that House by the same Covenants under which his Father before him held the same and that for the Tenths of the five Carucates which his Father had given to Saint Mary of Thorney to wit of Drayton Islip and Addington that were of his dominion he did grant the same to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Thorney There is extant of his another Charter wherein by the name of Robert the Son of Aubrey in the first year of the Reign of King Henry the younger in the presence of his own Son Henry he did quit-claim the Mannor of Twyvell to the Monastery of Thorney which gift was after confirm'd by Pope Alexander the third He was one of the most faithful and vigorous assertors of the interest and pretences of Matilda the Empress and the Prince her Son against King Stephen during the heats of all the differences appertaining to that contest and of such esteem were the effects of his Valour and generous endeavours as obliged that Princess to promise him a Barony valuable with that given to Jeffery de Vere and other Lands of equal consideration within a year after she should come to enjoy the Realm of England He Married Matilda the Daughter of the Lord Robert de Furnell with whom her Father gave in free Marriage divers Lands in Cranford by whom he had Issue Sir Henry de Vere And William de Vere HENRY the Son of Robert de Vere that was Lord of Drayton Addington and other Lordships was bred up under the care and conduct of his Cousin the great William de Magnavilla Earl of Essex and Albemarle who was the Son of Roesia de Vere Countess of Essex his Fathers Sister Henry de Vere did give himself to a dependance upon this Earl who was a man of great military fame in that time and from his example and precept became a Knight of much renown and valour For his first essay in Arms he slew with his own hand Ralph de Vaux in an encounter near the City of Gysors who was the Son of a great Lord that would have fortified a strong House of his too near the Borders and had besides injured his Cousin the Earl of Albemarle the King 's Chief Governor in those parts the words are verbis dehonestavit amaris He was made Constable of the Castle and City of Gysors where he commanded with much reputation till that after the death of his Father he was called home to the care of a considerable fortune of his own where we find him afterwards to have been one of those that sided with King John being then but Earl of Moriton against the proud Bishop of Ely whom King Richard had left behind him to govern the Land in his absence being by the same Bishop amongst diverse others of the great Lords of that time excommunicated He had in Marriage with one of the Daughters of a great Lady whose name was Hildeburga ....... the Mannor of Mutford and thirty pounds Land in Ampton which she held of the Barony of Bouden that did belong to her Father Baldwin of Boxo a great Lord of that time Their Issue Sir Walter de Vere Lord of Drayton Sir Robert de Vere Lord of Addington WE find not any Lands were left by his Father unto ROBERT the second Son of Sir Henry de Vere but it is to be esteemed that he inherited no small part of his Vertue and his Valour since his own merits acquired him such a fortune as was sufficient to maintain his descendants in much splendor and reputation for many Ages He was bred up to that renowned calling wherein every well born man aspired to an excellence in that heroick Age Fame in Arms being an Ornament without which no great man could appear with any advantage but it was the subsistance and only hopes of their younger Brothers And herein this Robert did succeed so well as he became the Favorite to the great Warriers of that time from several of which he received great gifts of Lands whose values were in that Age very considerable to engage him in their interests and dependance as those in Dalentune from the Lord Jeffery de Lucy the Lordships of Addington and Twyvell from his Uncle William de Vere and the noble Lordship and Market Town of Thrapston from the Lord Baldwin de Wake in Marriage with his Aunt the Lady Margaret to which King Henry the Third did after in his favour and in the twenty ninth of his Reign grant by his Charter divers liberties and priviledges After the death of his first Wife he contracted a new Marriage with a Lady whose name was Elena that is conjectured to have been of the highest quality from her Seals her stile the complements used towards her in the applications of Ranulph Earl of Chester Jeffery of Lucy and other of the greatest Lords by whom in their deeds she was ever treated with the stile of Nobilis Domina Elena de Vere and it is believed she was that Elena the Daughter of Roger de Quincy the last Earl of Winchester and Widow to Alan de la Zouch a great Lord in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton by the interest she had in several Lands of those shires belonging to that Family as also by other probabilities collected from a Letter that is extant and a rare Antiquity of her Sisters the Lady Margaret Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke to this Sir Robert her Husband being on his Voyage to the Holy Land The friendship he had contracted with the Famous William Longespé Earl of Salisbury natural Grandson to King Henry the Second who had been chosen Captain of those English that were sent unto that enterprise could not suffer so illustrious an undertaking to be unaccompanied with his Sword He attended that Prince in quality of his Standard-bearer and was slain together with his Captain in
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to ââake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
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
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
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
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
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
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
Radulpho filio Stephani Nicolao de Overton Willielmo de Stanford Nicolao Serviente Osberto Clerico Out of the Register of the Monastery of our Blessed Lady of Luffield in the County of Northampton within the Forest of Whittlewood Henricus de Alneto dedit ibidem unum Messuagium cum Pertinentiis Priorat de Luffield In the forementioned Register of our Blessed Lady of Luffield under the Title of Maydford is thus contained Henry the Son of Henry of Alneto Lord of Maydford gave a Messuage with the Appurtenances in that place to Galfrid of Bradden the Son of Henry of Norton Witness Sir Ralph de Blompton Baldwin de Norton William de Clairvall William de Pinkney Robert de Alneto and others Charta Matildae Reginae MAtilda Angliae Regina Monasticon dnglicanum Pars prima fol. 521. Vitali Ingannio Willielmo de Lusoris Salutem Mando vobis precor ut pro amore mei deportetis istum Malgerium Monachum Servientes suos in Luffildam quandò hoc est quòd Rex ei ibi remanere concessit ità ut inde vobis grates faciam Teste Episcopo Lincolniae apud Oxenford The Baronage of England Pag. 597. In the time of Henry the First Foulk the Son of William de Lizures confirmed that Grant which had been made by Roger de Stibington of all his Tithes to the Monks of Thorney and in the fifth of Henry the Second he had the Custody of all the Forests of Rockingham Selveston and Huntingdon By Alice his Wife Sister of William de Auberville he left William his Son and Heir who gave two hundred Marks for the Forestership of Northampton by which Office he was obliged to follow the King to his Wars well provided with Horse and Arms with his Horn hanging about his Neck Of this Family was Hugh de Lizures by reason of whose Debts to the Chequer King John in the Fourteenth of his Reign Granted his Castle of Benefield in Comitatu Northampton and all his Lands with all the Stock therein unto John de Bassingburn for satisfaction of them Halenald de Alno or of Alneto Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Alnoti de Alnoto SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd Ego Alnotus filius Domini Henrici de Alnoto Concessi Dedi hac meâ Chartâ Confirmavi Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti Monachis ibi Deo rectè famulantibus pro Animabus patris matris meae quorum corpora ibi requiescunt pro Salute mei omnium meorum in perpetuam puram liberam Eleemosynam in villâ de Turveiâ tresdecem Acras Terrae de Dominio meo scilicet totam illam Terram quae vocatur Gores totam illam dimidiam Virgatam Terrae quam tenuit de me Ranulphus Butero illam quadrantem Terrae quam de me Gilbertus filius Gaufridi totam illam demedietatem Terrae quam tenuit de me Radulphus Coquus Quare volo firmiter praecipio quatenus praedicti Monachi praedictas Terras habeant in perpetuum possideant liberè quietè pacificè honorificè in messuagiis in terris in pratis in pascuis in exitibus in communitatibus in omnibus aliis suis pertinentiis Hi sunt Testes Ewanus Clericus Eustachius Capellanus Sancti Neoti Rogerus Presbyter de Turveiâ Robertus de Bid Willielmus filius Rogeri Henricus frater ejus Helias de Alnot Henricus frater ejus Radulphus de Sayfield Rogerus de Escalariis Johannes de Papiâ Adam Caun Willielmus filius Alexandri de Coldington cum multis aliis Charta Halenaldi de Alno NOtum est omnibus tà m praesentibus quà m futuris Quòd Ego Halenald de Alno Dedi Concessi in liberam perpetuam Eleemosynam pro Salute animae meae meorum antecessorum Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Baptistae de Caldiwell Canonicis Deo ibidem famulantibus decem acras Terrae arabilis in Turveiâ in Culturâ meâ quae vocatur Swethmanstoching coram me Roberto Priore de Caldewell pluribus aliis per perticam mensuratas quae jacent simul ex parte Occidentali ità Quòd Ego haeredesque mei defendemus warrantizabimus hanc Terram eis ut puram Eleemosynam erga omnes homines concessimus warrantizare debemus ut liberè intrent redeant ad praedictam Terram colendam indè portandam sicuti voluerunt absque damno bladi nostri volo igitur haec Concessio Conventio eis firma stabilisque permaneat in perpetuum Ego Halinald id tenere Juravi praesenti Chartâ Sigilli mei Testimonio confirmavi Quod si Ego vel aliquis haeredum meorum Donationem praedictam temerariè perfregerit excommunicatus permaneat quoad praedictae Ecclesiae Satisfactionem perfecerit Hujus Donationis sunt Testes Nicolaus Archiaconus de Bedford Robertus Clericus de Wilshamsted Magister Johannes Ascaneus Decanus Bodin Decanus Nicolaus Decanus Ricardus Capellanus de Salden multi alii SIGILL HALENALDI DAVNO Charta Halenaldi de Alneto NOtum est omnibus tà m futuris quà m praesentibus Quòd Ego Halenald de Alno fateor me recepisse de Domino Henrico de Pinkney fratre meo octingentas marcas legalis Monetae ad liberandam Terram suam de Mortonâ quae mihi pro tantâ pecuniâ obligata stabat per Dominum Gilbertum Patrem ejus quando Philippam filiam suam mihi dedit in Maritagium De qua quidem Solutione fidelitèr soluta fateor me plenariè esse solutum praedictum Dominum Henricum de Pinkney quoscunque suos per praesentes in perpetuum fore quietos In cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Domino Henrico de claris Vallibus Domino Thomâ de Blompton Ricardo de Molesford Nicolao Wac Thoma filio Ricardi Thoma de Finoden Johanne Weston cum multis aliis Inter Certificationes factas de Feodis Militum per totam Angliam remanen in Scaccario Charta Alexandri de Alno DOmino suo Regi Anglorum Alexander de Alno Salutem Servitia Praecepistis mihi quatenùs vobis intimarem Servitium feodi mei perinde vestra ratum habeat Reverentia quomodo totum quod feodi mei est per Servitium unius Militis se defendit sic tantum Antecessores mei vestris Antecessoribus fecêrunt Item sciat vestra Dignitas Quòd Ego post mortem Regis Henrici nullum Militem feoffavi Sed pater meus fratri suo Hugoni de Alno partem Terrae de suo Dominico dedit ut si necesse esset Servitium unius Militis faceret ad totam Terram patris mei defendendam ista Donatio ità fuit illi haeredibus suis in tempore Willielmi Regis Baronage of England Folio 556. IN the time of King Henry the first Gilo de Pinkney gave certain Lands lying in Wedon in the County of Northampton to the Monks of St. Lucian at Belvare in
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
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
cum pertinentiis integrè remanebunt rectis Haeredibns praedicti Johannis tenendum de Capitalibus Dominis Feodi illius per Servitia quae ad praedicta Tenementa Passagium praedictum pertinent imperpetuum Surrey Hertford Kanciae Charta Joannae quae fuit Uxor Johannis le Latimer Militis NOverint universi per praesentes quòd ego Joanna quae fui Uxor Johannis le Latimer Militis recepi de Thomâ Herewauld quadraginta tres solidos quatuor denarios de redditu Paschae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum undecimo proveniente de terris tenementis quae de me tenet in Wolwich de quibus quidem quadraginta solidis quatuor denariis fateor me esse plenariè pacatum praedictum Thomam esse quietum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Westmonasterium die Martis proximâ post Festum Sancti Barnabae Apostoli Anno Regni Regis supradicto SIGILLVM DNAE IOHANNAE LATIMER Sir Robert Latimer Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Charta Johannis Mundayne Nicolai Gurthop Capellanorum SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd nos Johannes Mundayne Nicolaus Gurthop Capellani tradidimus concessimus Roberto Latimer Chivalier Catharinae Uxori ejus medietatem Manerii de Childeckford cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum iisdem Roberto Catharinae haeredibus de corpore ipsius Catharinae exeuntibus de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita consueta in perpetuum Et si contingat quòd praedicta Catharina obierit sine haerede de Corpore suo exeunte tunc omnia praedicta tenementa cum pertinentiis integrè remaneant rectis haeredibus ejusdem Catharinae tenenda de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per Servitia inde debita consueta in perpetuum In cujus rei Testimonium Sigilla nostra praesentibus apposuimus His Testibus Richardo Turberville Johanne Attehall Militibus Johanne Moore Johanne Stippleton Thomâ de la Were aliis Datum apud Childeckford in Festo Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum Tricesimo Secundo Charta Catharinae Latimer SCiant praesentes futuri quod ego Catharina quondam Uxor Domini Roberti Latimer in purâ ligeâ viduitate meâ dedi concessi hac praesenti chartâ confirmavi Margaretae filiae meae pro homagio servitio suo totam Terram meam cum homagiis servitiis liberorum hominum villanorum quam habui in Rotherhead quae mihi accidebat Jure haereditario ex parte Domini Roberti de Hull patris mei cum omnibus pertinentiis suis ad dictam Terram spectantibus vel quae de jure in posterum spectare poterunt in viis semitis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis caeteris aliis locis libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus dictis Terris pertinentibus habendum tenendum dictam Terram cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de me Haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis liberè quietè pacificè honorificè integrè haereditariè in perpetuum Reddendo indè annuatim mihi haeredibus meis à dicta Margareta haeredibus suis unum par Chirothecarum de pretio unius denarii vel unum denarium in Festo Paschae pro omni servitio seculari exactione demanda omnimodò mihi pertinente Salvo tamen servitio Regali quantum pertinet ad tantam Terram in eodem feodo Et si praedicta Catharina sine haerede de se exeunte in fata decesserit tota praedicta Terra cum pertinentiis ad Robertum Latimer Fratrem suum vel haeredes suos revertatur Ego verò Catharina praedictam totam Terram cum omnibus praenominatis pertinentiis servitiis tà m liberorum quà m villanorum dictae Catharinae haeredibus suis ut praedictum est exeuntibus contra omnes homines foeminas pro praedicto servitio warrantizabo acquietabo defendam in perpetuum Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio praesentis Chartae Confirmatio rata sit stabilis hanc praesentem Chartam Sigilli mei Impressione roboravi His Testibus Radulpho de Rochford Ricardo de Turberville Rogero de Attehall Militibus Willielmo Jolliot Johanne Strode Elisâ Martin Thomâ de Winterborne Roberto Clerico aliis Datum apud Rotherheath die Lunae proximâ post Festum Purificationis Beatae Mariae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Tertii post conquestum Tricesimo quarto Sir Robert Latimer Knight Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Mr Prinn's Abridgment of Records Page 106. THE 21th day of May the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their coming and aid granted on which day all the Lords and sundry of the Commons Dined with the King after which Dinner Sir John de Lee was brought before the King Lords and Commons next aforesaid to Answer to certain Objections following and first to the Complaint of William Latimer as followeth The King had granted the Wardship of Robert Latimer the Son and Heir of Sir Robert Latimer with certain Mannors during the same Minority to the Bishop of Sarum whose Estate the same William had and after the King granted the same to Sir John de Lee. The same William surmised that the said Sir John being of Power sent for him to London where he by duress of Imprisonment inforced the said William to Surrender his Estate to him And by Recognizance therefore the same Sir John excuseth himself for that the Grant was made unto him the which was not allowed for that the said William was not put out by due Process of Law Another matter was objected against the said Sir John for that during such time as he was Steward of the Kings House he should cause sundry men to be attached and to come before him as before the Kings Council in places where he pleased where being out of Council he caused men to answer as to things before the Council That he as Steward having thereby Authority only within the Verge did notwithstanding cause sundry to be attached out of the Verge as John Goddard and others making them to Answer in the Marshalsey of things done out of the Verge and othersome committed to the Tower of his own Authority as John Sibill Edmund Urdsales and others That he had of his own Authority against the Justices Commandment discharged out of Newgate Hugh Lavenham Purveyor who had appealed sundry men of Felony That he bargained with Sir Nicholas Lovayn for the Keeping of the Mannor of Rainham in Kent the which the same Sir Nicholas claimed to hold during the Minority of the Son and Heir of John Saunton where the said John of Lee knew that the said Mannor was holden of the King in Chief as of the Castle of Dover Of all which points for that the same Sir John could not purge himself he was Commanded to the Tower of London there
aliquo per quod vastum vel destructio possit reperiri Praedicti quoque Willielmus Cadbury Johannes Pury domos aedificia in dicto Manerio de Stoket constructa bene competenter sumptibus eorum propriis manutenebunt sustinebunt adeò bono statu quo illa receperunt seu meliore in fine dimittent Habendum tenendum praedictum Manerium de Stoket praedicta cum pertinentiis suis ut saepe dictum est praedictis Willielmo Cadbury Johanni Pury ad terminum vitae utriusque eorum uni eorum qui diutiùs vixerit de praedictis Roberto Margaretâ haeredibus ipsius Roberti reddendo indè annuatìm praefatis Roberto Margaretae haeredibus ipsius Roberti octo marcas legalis monetae ad quatuor anni terminos principales per aequales portiones Et praedicti Willielmus Johannes supportabunt sumptibus eorum propriis omnia onera dicto Manerio incumbentia qualiacunque fuerint Et si praedictus reditus octo Marcarum in parte vel in toto post aliquem terminum aretrò fuerit tunc bene liceat praedictis Roberto Margaretae haeredibus sive assignatis ipsius Roberti in praedicto Manerio distringere quascunque districtiones in dicto Manerio inventas in hac parte captas secum abinde ducere penes se retinere donec reditus aretrò simul cum arreragiis expensis dampnis eis fuerit satisfactum Et si praedictus reditus octo marcarum fuerit aretrò in parte vel in toto post aliquem terminum per tres septimanas aut Statum suum absque licentiâ speciali praedictorum Roberti Margaretae in parte vel in toto alicui tradiderint seu vastum vel destructionem in Domibus Arboribus Terris Tenementis Clausis Clausuris Pratis Pascuis seu Pasturis aut aliis quibuscunque per quod vastum seu destructio reperiri possint fecerint vel si singula Onera dicto Manerio incumbentia non solverint tunc bene liceat praedictis Roberto Margaretae haeredibus ipsius Roberti in dicto Manerio suo de Stoket saepe dicta cum omnibus singulis suis pertinentiis reintrare ad libitum illorum penes se retinere ut in statu suo pristino his scriptis indentatis interim non obstantibus Et praedicti Robertus Margareta haeredes Assignati ipsius Roberti memoratum Manerium de Stoket cum pertinentiis suis praefatis Willielmo Cadbury Johanni Pury in formâ supradictâ ad terminum vitae utriusque eorum seu unius diutiùs viventis contra omnes Gentes warrantizabunt acquietabunt defendent In cujus rei Testimonium partes praedictae his scriptis bipartitis Sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt His Testibus Yvo fitz Warren Johanne Moigae Militibus Waltero Tonges Johanne de la Lynde multis aliis Data die Anno loco supradictis Charta Roberti Latimer SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Robertus Latimer Margareta Uxor mea assensu consensu Domini Willielmi Peche patris dictae Margaretae concessimus remisimus omninò quietum clamavimus pro nobis haeredibus nostris Domino Willielmo Atte-hall totum servitium Escaieta de toto Tenemento quod Nicolaus de Palton Elizabetha Uxor ejus habuerunt de Feoffamento nostro in Winterborne cum omnibus ejus pertinentiis Concessimus etiam remisimus eidem Domino Willielmo Custodiam Maritagium Terrarum haeredum dicti Nicolai de omnibus Terris quas Robertus habuit in praedictâ villâ cum suis pertinentiis Habendum Tenendum dicto Domino Willielmo omnia praedicta tam in Servitiis Wardis Releviis Maritagiis Escaietis cum omnibus suis pertinentiis omnibus diebus vitae suae sicut ego vel haeredes mei in aliquo casu habere poterimus In cujus rei Testimonium has literas meas feci patentes Sigillo meo Sigillatas His Testibus Johanne de Copleston Vicecomite Roberto de Turberville Johanne de Raleigh Militibus Roberto Martin Thomâ Hussey Nicolao de la Linde Thomâ Frampton multis aliis Data apud Winterborne die Lunae proximâ ante Festum Simonis Judae Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi Nono Sir John Latimer Knight Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Billa Johannis Latimer exhibita in Cancellariâ A tres Reverend Pere en Dieu l'Eveque de Duresme Chancellier d'Angleterre SUpplie humblement Jean Latimer fitz au Robert Latimer Chevallier que comme sur le treat del Mariage faict per entre le dit Robert pere al dit suppliant Margaret sa mere la fille Sire Guilliaume de Peche devant le Mariage entre eux faict par leurs amis pour faire les Heirs des les Corps de dits pere mere enheritable de les Mannoirs c. par bargayn accord faitz per entre eux pour graunde somme d'argent c'est assavoir c. al dit Pere del suppliant avant dit pour le mariage sa mere dont il estoit pleynement premys affirme que le dit Robert Latimer al dit suppliant enfeffera de les dites Mannoirs c. W. B. en fee reprendreit un estat a luy a dit sa femme a les heirs de leur Corps engendrez les queux feffement reprise de estat ent furent faites accordant a les bargayn promesse avant-dites Puys apres les dites Robert Latimer la dite sa femme avoient issu de leur corps engendrez leur fitz d'issue heir apparent le suppliant avant-dit la dite morust apres quelle mort le dit Robert Pere audit suppliant par maluys excitation des diverses persones pour disheriter le dit suppliant pour faire enheritables issues de celle que le dit Robert al pris depuys en ce a faict comburer les faites de les feffements reprise del estat avant dit Et sur ceo ent a fait alienation a diverses persones en verisemble disherison du dit suppliant si Dieu luy doigne de survivre son dit Pere en tant que les ditez faitz de feffement reprise d'estates sont destructes s'il n' ast vostre tresgracieux socours en ceste partye que pleise c. de considerer les premisses sur ceo pourvoir pour le dit Robert par Breve nostre Seigneur le Roy par vostre tressage discretion en affaire de comparer devant vous en la Chancellarie nostre Seigneur le Roy au certeyn jour d'estre examiné de les premisses perissent qu'il poet estre conuz de record de sa conisance qu'il y avoit fiels faites de feffement reprise de estats accordantz la bargaine de mariage promesse avant ditz Et sur ceo de ordeyner juste due redresse remedye al dit suppliant solon ceo que droit bon
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
finish in Writing the said Bargain And Smith by his Letter dated the fourteenth day of September sent Answer to John Mordaunt and disclosed upon what ground he had made such Agreement and Bargain to John Mordaunt and William and then disclosed his Bargain made to him by Sir John Turbervile which he had under his Sign Manual and his Seal and upon that in Michaelmas Term following Anno xviij o John Mordaunt and Smith ingrossed their Indenture and accomplished their Bargain and their Bargain was known and spoken of both in Court and other places also And the Kings Grace nothing said nor did nor shewed any thing to John Mordaunt till Hilary Term then next In Hilary Term Anno xviij o the King took displeasure with Mordaunt that he would intermeddle with the Lands and make not him privy thinking that John Smith at the Death of Turbervile had stood seized of the Lands to the use of Turbervile in Fee for lack of Issue Male of Latimer then living and said That Turbervile ought him great Money and that he would have the Reversion in recompence of his Money and willed John Mordaunt to forsake his Bargain which he would not do Wherefore the King was sore displeased with him and caused Smith to come by Privy Seal to make a Feoffment to the Kings use of the Lands which he would not but disclosed to the King all the Premisses that be here in Writing as he hath said and reported And the same Smith sometime threaten'd and sometime entreated gave Attendance upon the King till he agreed to make a Feoffment as the King would desire Whereupon a Deed was devised in Paper by which John Smith should Enfeoffe Lord Daubeny Master Lovell Master Bray and Master Seymore in Fee and Sir William Seymore would have had it to the Kings use whereto John Smith would not agree then it was drawn and no use expressed and at the desire of John Mordaunt the Copy was sent to William Mordaunt to see and he entertained To the same use that John Smith then was seized And with great difficulty the Deed was so made by Smith and sealed in Trinity Term Anno decimo octavo About Michaelmas Anno decimo nono Lord Aubeny and Master Lovell took a State by that Deed at that time Master Bray and Master Seymore being dead And thus it continued all the Life of John Mordaunt who died in September Anno vicesimo and all the Life of Sir Nicholas Latimer who died without Issue Male at Lent Anno vicesimo From the Death of Sir Nicholas by Colour of the said Feoffment and by Colour that the Kings Grace said Sir John Turbervile should owe him much Mony at his Decease without any Title and against Law and Conscience of his Royal Power the Kings Grace took the Profits of these Lands till Summer Anno vicesimo primo in Trinity Term. And because the Heir and William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne Executors to John Mordaunt were so far in Debt to the King and sued and on Exigent for the same were so troubled with the King and about the Testament of John Mordaunt that they minded not Latimers Lands to trouble the King nor them by Suit till they had somewhat pacified their other troubles And in Trinity Term Anno vicesimo primo the Lord Aubeny and others sued several Writs of Subpoena against the said Executors and Heir and against John Smith to have compelled them to deliver the Evidences upon Livery of which Writs upon Sute made to the King by the Executors the King Commanded them to sue to Dudley and though the Executors shewed the King that they had as good leave the Land for the hard dealing they knew of Dudley the King compelled them to sue to Dudley who Ordered them to pay the Kings Majesty and to pay two hundred pounds yearly or else they must have delivered the Evidences and abidden the Kings Displeasure as Dudley said and also must have Released and for Surety of Payment thereof there was Land recovered by my Lord of Winchester and Sir Robert Throgmorton and others named for the Heir of Mordaunt Of which Money the Executors paid to the King four hundred pounds whereby the Will of John Mordaunt is yet not performed whereof they are now to have Restitution and to be discharged of two hundred pounds more residue And that my Lord of Winchester and others may Release to the persons named in the Recoveries to the use of the Heir of Mordaunt according to Right and good Conscience And Dudley said expresly the Deed was to the Kings Use and the Executors fearing whether Smith had made any new Deed or not and also not knowing whether the Estate had been delivered by the Deed in which the use was express'd or not desired to see the Deed and he shewed it and thereby it appeared the use was to the same use as Smith was Enfeoffed and that notwithstanding by the Menaces and Craft of Dudley they were compelled to agree and indent to give the King c. The Report of Richard Eliott the Kings Serjeant at Law John Erneley the Kings Attorney and of John Porte the Kings Sollicitor upon the sight of the Evidence of Sir John Mordaunt for all such Mannors Lands and Tenements as were late Sir Nicholas Latimer's Knight FIrst It appears that Sir Nicholas Latimer Knight by his Deed Enfeoffed William Hardyng of the same Mannor above-written in Fee Dated decimo sexto die Januarii Anno Edwardi quarti decimo quarto Item After that by his Indenture bearing date the same Year and the seventeenth day of January rehearsing the said Feoffment The said William Harding granted that if the said Sir Nicholas within twelve Years then next following paid to the said William Hardyng one hundred and twenty pounds that then the said Sir Nicholas should have again the said Mannor to him and to his Heirs Item the Premisses notwithstanding The said Sir Nicholas by Indenture bargained and sold the said Mannor to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Edith his Wife Daughter of the said Sir Nicholas and to the Heirs of their Body begotten for lack of Issue Male of the Body of the said Sir Nicholas lawfully begotten c. Dated the second of Richard the Third Memorandum That Sir John Mordaunt after bargained with the same William Hardyng and Nicholas his Son for their Interest and Title that they had in the said Mannor of Devilish as by Indenture thereof made plainly may appear For the Mannors of Devilish For the Mannors of Duntish For the Mannors of Estpullham For the Mannors of Estoket First It appeareth that the said Sir Nicholas Latimer bargained and sold all these said Mannors above-written to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs for the sum of a thousand Marks upon Condition That if the said Sir Nicholas died without Heir Male of his Body lawfully begotten And upon the same Bargain it was Covenanted That John Smith should recover the said Mannors and Execute the Estates
more plainly shall appear Which recoveries of the said Mannors and other the premisses were had for the only surety of payment of one thousand pounds to the use of the late noble King of Memory Henry the Seventh our most dear Father by the said John Mordaunt Son and Heir of John Mordaunt Knight Deceased to be paid And after the said thousand pounds were fully content and paid then ye and your joint Recoverers should be Recoverers or Feoffees to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son and his Heirs for ever as by certain and divers Covenants in certain Indentures specified between Giles Dawbeny late Lord Dawbeny for the part of our said dearest Father of the one party and the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son of the other party made the xxth day of January the year of the Reign of our said Father the twenty second more plainly may appear Of the which sum of a thousand pounds four hundred pounds were paid to the use of our said Father to John Heyron Knight late Treasurer of the Chamber of our said Father by the said John Mordaunt the Son And we for certain Causes and Considerations us moving have remised and pardoned two hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds to the same Sir John Mordaunt the Son And one hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son hath paid to Sir Harry Wyat Knight Treasurer of our Chamber to our use And for three hundred pounds residue of the said thousand pounds the same John Mordaunt the Son by the name of John Mordaunt Knight is bounden by several Obligations to certain persons to our use for the sure payment of the same three hundred pounds to be paid to our use as by the same several Obligations thereof made and remaining with the same Sir Harry Wyat to our use it may appear Wherefore we signifie unto you that our Pleasure is and we will and Command you that ye without any delay do seal the said two Releases and deliver them as your Deeds to the bringer of them to the use of the said Sir John the Son And these our Letters Signed with our Hand and Sealed with our Seal shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the _____ A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Justified by Ancient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Drayton were Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules Of the Name Original Descent Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Drayton THE Mannor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble of the Country wherein it lies both for its Commodities Situation and the Royalties belonging thereunto was in the dayes of those Kings that did precede the Conquest among the Possessions of one Oswinus a famous Saxon. But upon the distribution of the Lands acquired by King William it became part of the Estate of Aubrey de Vere who first Entred England with that Prince From this Earl Aubrey the Elder for so he was termed the Lordship of Drayton did descend to Earl Aubrey the Second who was Father to the first Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it was given in Partage as a Foundation of his Fortune to Robert his second Son with the Lordships of Adington the greater and the less as likewise the Lands he held in Twyvell of the Abbey of Thorney and other fair possessions This Mannor and Lordship consisted at that time of a fair ancient Castle encompassed with four large high Walls Embattailed round with such Fortifications as were necessary both for resistance and offence It had as parcels thereof very useful Demesnes a Park a Warren and flourishing Woods besides the Villages of Luffwick Islip Slipton and certain Lands in the Parishes of Aldwinkle and Tichmarsh in each of which the Lords had Courts of their own the Advowsons of the three Churches belonging thereunto with free Warren upon all those Lands and free Fishing for a long Tract upon the River of Avon To this Robert de Vere Lord of Drayton did succeed Sir Henry de Vere who left his Inheritance to Sir Walter de Vere his Son who from the Excellency of the place and his great love thereunto did assume the Name thereof to remain to him and his Posterity ever after A thing in those days very usual as may be instanced in several Examples too long for this Occasion This Sir Walter de Vere having among other Heroes of that time design'd his Application to the Holy War took for his Arms as a mark of his Intention Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules which was afterwards constantly born by the Successors of this Family and under that same Name and Ensign did flourish a fair Posterity of several Noble Knights which upon this Lordship of Drayton did long live in much honour and opulency in possession of that Noble Mannor with other Lands in Sudborow in Brigstock and in Irtlingborow in the County of Northampton of fair possessions in Luton and Flamstead in Bedfordshire of the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Stoke-Goldington in the County of Huntingdon and of the Lordship of Southnewenton in Oxfordshire Their Alliances were not less Illustrious than their Original they having been contracted with the Houses of Bassett and de la Zouch of the great and ancient Baronage and other Families famous for high Actions and the faithful Service of their Princes This Lordship notwithstanding with its Name and Arms came afterwards to be incorporate into the House of Greene and by them as to what is most remarkable through a fatal revolution of humane things after near four hundred years unto the Original Veres again by Isabella Greene who being Married to Sir Richard Vere that was Lord of Thrapston and Adington and descended from Robert Brother of that Walter we first mentioned by the Issue which she brought Created such a Title as for default of Posterity from Constance Countess of Wiltshire the Daughter of the last Sir Henry Green the Lordship of Drayton came to Elizabeth Grandchild of this Richard Vere and by her to the Mordaunts that were descended from her Sir WALTER of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton Luffwick Islip Addington Twyvell and other Lands and Lordships WAlter de Vere the eldest Son of Henry the Son of Robert that was second Son of Aubrey Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of England being then very young and in the Life-time of Sir Henry his Father did attend King Richard the First into the Holy Land and on that Occasion assum'd for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrail'd Gules After he had there won his Spurs by divers generous Actions and received the Honour of Knighthood at the hand of that victorious King he returned home with several Companions of that
thereof King Edward the Third granted him a Patent to that effect in the first year of his Reign He had been Seneschal to Queen Isabel the Kings Mother in all her Forests between Stamford and Oxford as appears by a Brieve directed to him by the King for the tenth of all the Venison that should be taken in the County of Northampton to be delivered to the Abbot of Peterborow according as had been granted by his Ancestors He was pardoned by that same King with his Son John William the Son of Thomas Seymar Richard Molesworth Simon his Squire and other of his friends for his breach of the Kings peace and the death of John of Overton Longville whom he had slain in a Quarrel with other circumstances that certifie the particular favour was born him by that Prince He was afterward with one Sr William Nocton as being one of the most eminent Knights in the Bishoprick of Ely joined with Sir William Shareshull Sir Henry Greene and Sir William Thorpe in the Kings Commission to hear and determine of the felony and misdemeanour of Thomas Lild Bishop of that Diocess who was not only esteemed accessary to the death of William Holmes Servant to the Lady Wake of Lydell that was killed by his Officer Ralph Carcless She being a Princess of that time eminent for great birth as well as Beauty and rare Qualities and the Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster but that moreover stood in great and exemplary Contempt against the King himself For the demeanor of Sir Simon in which matter in his duty and compliance to the Kings Commands and Interest he incurred with the rest of the Commissioners the several censures and indignation of the Pope which proceeded even to Excommunication and other great Penalties from which his merit towards the King by his Conduct in that Affair nor the Power of so great a Prince was able to protect him He did finally give and grant in the eighteenth year of King Edward the Third unto Robert the Prior of the Church of Saint Maries of Pavenston and to the Covent of that place two parts of his Mannor of Stoke-Goldington with the Advowson of the Church of that Town out of Devotion to God and the Blessed Virgin and for the good of his Soul to be there prayed for and for the Souls of his Ancestors and Benefactors His Wife was Margaret Daughter to Sir John and Sister to Sir Gilbert of Lindsey Their Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships UNto Sir Simon of Drayton did succeed Sir John of Drayton his Son in the sole Lordship of that place as also in his other Possessions in the Counties of Northampton Huntingdon and Oxford Moved by what inducement it does not appear but this Sir John of Drayton did in the eighth year of King Edward the Third purchase a Licence of Alienation for enabling him to settle upon Sir Henry Greene then Chief Justice of England and that had Married his Fathers Sister his antient Mannor and Lordship of Drayton with those Lands in the Towns adjoining that did belong unto it In consequence whereof it was conveyed unto him with the Reversion to Henry the second Son of the said Sir Henry Greene whom he calls his Cousin and for default of Issue in him to the right Heirs of Sir Henry the Father But it is found notwithstanding by a Deed of this Sir John that in the Life-time of Sir Henry Greene the Chief Justice he did render the Possession of the Chief Seat and the Mannor of Drayton with all the Demesnes the Lands Meadows Pastures and the Park thereunto belonging unto Sir Henry Greene his Cousin the Son of the Chief Justice on Condition that he should ever after bear his Name and his Armes in performance of that Agreement that had before been made between the Father of the said Sir Henry and himself which was the reason why the Greenes of Drayton instead of Azure three Bucks Or which was the Armes of their Family and those born by the Greenes of Norton descended from Sir Thomas Green the Elder Brother did bear ever after for their Coat Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules being that of Drayton which by this Agreement they were obliged to assume The Wife of Sir John of Drayton was Christian the Daughter of Sir Gilbert of Lindsey his Mothers Niece Their Issue Baldwin of Drayton whose Posterity for divers Ages did flourish afterwards Possessors of the Lordships of Stoke-Goldington Bottlebrigg Molesworth and Overton Longville in the County of Huntingdon and South-Newington in Oxfordshire where they had a fair Patrimony and lived in great Estimation WALTER de VERE The Eldest sonne of Henry ye. sonne of Robert that was ye. second sonne of AUBERY de Vere Great Chamberlaine and Lord Cheife Iustice of England who from his Cheife Seat Assumed that Name to him and his decendants Lucie Bassett Sr. HENRY of Drayton Iuetta de Bourdon Sr. Baldwin of Drayton Idonia de Gimeges Sr. Iohn of Drayton Philipa of Arderne Sr. Simon of Drayton Margaret of Lindsey Catharine of Drayton Sr. Henry Greene. Sr John of Drayton Cristian of Lindsey Sr Henry Greene Matilda de Mandnir Sr Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Baldwin of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 488. inter Confirmationes Regis Witlafii ITem Domum Oswini Militis in Draytonâ videlicet octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Quinque lineae infrá ET Donum Wulnoti Dapiferi mei in Adingtonâ videlicet duas Hidas terrae Piscariam cum Advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Villae in alia Adingtona ex dono ejusdem unam Virgatam terrae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 492. inter Confirmationes Beoredi Regis SImiliter confirmo praedicto Monasterio de Croilandiâ de dono Oswini Militis in Draytona octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 498. inter Confirmationes Abbatis Turketuli Abbatiae Croilandiae IN Draytona unam Carucatam terrae sex Acras Prati quatuor Salinas AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND The Baronage of England Page 190. THis last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Fater to the Monks of Abington and being in high Esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his Heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honour of Eye in Suffolk
securitatem tam Baldewinus quà m Clemens hujusmodi scrptis Conventionibus impressiones sigillorum suorum mutuò apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Watervil Domino Rogero de Hyda Domino Gilberto de Daneford Richardo de Audewincle Reginaldo de Beumer Roberto filio Fulconis Luca de Trapston Johanne Walleraunde Johanne Clerico de Luffwic Henrico de Islip Clerico aliis Pipe nota oblata quadragesimo secundo Henrici Tertii Scutagium Walliae HEnricus de Drayton debet viginti solidos de dimidio Feodi Baldewinus filius haeres habet quietantiam Regis Tower Escheats 6 E. 1. n o 16. BAldewinus de Drayton tenet Drayton Luffwick Islip in Comitatu Northampton Conventio inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Rogerum de Stowmarcant ANno Regni Regis Edwardi Filii Regis Henrici primo ad Festum Sancti Michaelis convenit inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Militem ex una parte Rogerum de Stowmarcant Clericum ex altera videlicet quòd dictus Dominus Baldewinus tradidit vendidit demisit ad firmam dicto Rogero quibuscunque assignatis suis terram Dominicam suam cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Adinton quam idem Baldewinus habuit ex warda filii bonae memoriae Baldewini de Vere cum Curiae aedificiis terris Homagiis redditibus Eschaetis wardis releviis herietis pratis pascuis pasturis omnibus aliis ad dictum Dominicum pertinentibus excepto servitio Domini Johannis de Vere Warda Relevia ejusdem si contigerit Habendum tenendum dicto Rogero suis Assignatis de dicto Domino Baldewino de Drayton haeredibus suis bene in pace liberè quietè à dicto Festo Sancti Michaelis usque ad finem termini duodecim annorum proximè sequentium plenè complendorum Dictus verò Dominus Baldewinus haeredes sui eidem Rogero suis quibuscunque assignatis totum dictum Dominicum cum omnibus suis pertinentris ut praedictum est quae ad ipsum pertinent ratione praedictae wardae usque ad finem dicti termini super omnes terras tenementa sua contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt defendent à Sectis universarum Curiarum Hundredorum acquietabunt Pro hac autem traditione venditione dimissione dicti tenementi warrantizatione dedit dictus Rogerus dicto Domino Baldewino centum marcas Argenti prae manibus Praeterea Dominus Baldewinus concessit eidem Rogero suis assignatis tertiam partem Dominici in Adington quam habuit nomine dotis de Matilda relicta quondam Baldewini Vere defuncti prout continetur in quodam Scripto inter Dominum Nicholaum Dodingesel virum dictae Matildae ipsum Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton confecto sigillo Nicholai appenso Et dictus Rogerus dictam partem Dominici sumptibus suis usque ad terminum praedictorum annorum in tali statu quo recepit secundùm visum Bonorum Legalium virorum sustinebit In hujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto ad modum Chirographi confecto mutuò sigilla sua apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Wahul Domino Willielmo Hay Domino Johanne de Vere Domino Symone de Watervil Domino Symone de Eyleswritch Rectore Ecclesiae de Trapston Rogero de Venneng Rogero de Tingwick aliis Out of the Collection of Mr. Roger Dodsworth is this Ancient Pedigree of the Draytons SIR Robert of Gimeges held Staggesden in the County of Bedford of the King in Capite by the third part of a Knights Fee and he held the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Overton-Longville in Norman Cross Hundred in the County of Huntington by the service of half a Knights Fee He married Sibyl the Daughter of Hugh de Lizures who lived after him as appears by an Inquisition of the fortieth year of Henry the Third He gave to Sir Hugh de Bovi with his Daughter Emma the Moity of the Mannor of Bottlebrigg and to Baldwin of Drayton with Idonea another of his Daughters the other Moity William his Son and Heir was Lord of Staggesden and had Issue Robert of Gimeges that dyed without Issue Robert of Gimeges Lord of Staggesden and Bottelbrigg Emma of Gimeges Hugh de Bovi William of Gimeges Robert of Gimeges dyed without Issue 8 E. 3. Idonea of Gimeges Baldwin of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Philip of Arderne Escaetria de Anno sexto Edwardi Primi numero decimo sexto INquisitio facta apud Bottlebrigg die Jovis in Crastino Apostolorum Petri Pauli Anno Regni Regis Edwardi sexto per praeceptum Domini Regis coram Willielmo le Moigne Vicecomite Huntingdon Reginaldo Thurnston de Swangrit Johanne de Fraunchome de Stilton Willielmo de Menill Galfrido de Welledon Galfrido Stockman Willielmo Cokelm Roberto le Frankhome Roberto de Bedhampton Galfrido le Hunt Johanne Lokerel Johanne Cocum Idone de Gathe Qui dicunt per Sacramentum suum quòd Baldewinus de Drayton tenuit in Comitatu Huntingdon de Roberto de Gimeges quatuor viginti acras Terrae quoddam Messuagium septem acras prati unius pretium acrae terrae arabilis sex denarii pretium Messuagii quatuor solidi pretium acrae prati quatuor solidi Piscaria valent per annum duos solidos Tolnetum per aquam terram valet sex denarios Sunt ibi quatuor liberi homines quorum redditus est per annum sex solidi sex denarii Item perquisita Curiae de Bottlebrigg valent per annum duos solidos Haec omnia praedicta tenuit de Roberto de Gimeges Item idem tenuit in Villa de Overton-Longville de Domino Willielmo de Karby unum Messuagium quod valet per annum duodecim denarios unum Columbarium quod valet per annum duos solidos quatuor viginti acras Terrae pretium acrae sex denarii septem acras prati pretium acrae quatuor solidi Item sunt ibi redditus consuetudines septem liberorum hominum in Overton valent per annum quinquaginta sex solidos sex denarios Et dicunt quòd Johannes filius dicti Baldewini est ejus haeres propinquior est de aetate viginti duorum annorum ampliús Convenit cum Recordo Guilielmus Ryley Sir JOHN of DRAYTON first of that Name Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Charta Roberti de Arderne SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus de Arderne dedi concessi hac meâ praesenti Chartâ confirmavi Johanni filio Domini Baldewini de Drayton cum Philippa filiâ meâ totam Terram meam in Wappenham quae fuit de Jure Dominae Aliciae matris meae mihi ab ea haereditariè descendebat cum omnibus pertinentiis suis libertatibus Tenendam de me haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis de dicta Philippa filia mea exeuntibus liberè haereditariè honorificè per servitium tertiae partis unius Militis
Draytonorum terras possidet Ad istorum Draytonorum caput sub marmore plano jacet vir quidam generosus Gilbertus Segrave A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT THAT WERE LORDS of WERMINSTER Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Mauduit were Chequy Or and Azure a Bordure Gules Of the Original Descent Greatness Possessions Honours Alliances and Arms of the House of Mauduit that were Lords of Werminster THIS House was originally of the Dukedom of Normandy where it flourished before the Conquest under the name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith as much as to say Evil taught and upon occait was written in the Latine tongue Maledoctus a sobriquet of which the grounds do not remain in story A Lord of this name came over with King William the First under the appearance of much reputation and interest He is recorded to have been in immediate service at the Battel where King Harold was slain and to have been one of those Lords to whom the Conquerour gave Lands for their notable services The Actions performed by those of this House have been famous their successes various the remembrance of their Lords illustrating story with the variety of their fortunes There had been in this Family great marks of the love and confidence of their Princes They were promoted to Dignities and trusted in employments of most importance There were of them had been Lords of much power that had been Governours of Provinces that had been Chamberlains and held the highest Offices in the Houses of their Kings that had been great Earls and all of them allyed to Families of most Power and Nobleness After the introduction of the hereditary use of Arms in this House they were differently born for William Lord Mauduit who was Earl of Warwick bore in a Field Argent two Barre Gules in the time of King Henry the Third But William Lord Mauduit his Cousin and contemporary from whom the Lords of Werminster did descend gave in a Bordure Gules Chequy Or and Azure This House notwithstanding and all its greatness took an end about the beginning of King Richard the Second leaving only to inherit their Name Armes and Possessions Matilda de Mauduit that was married to Sir Henry Greene of Drayton from whom to the Veres that were Lords of Adington descended all their pretensions and from them to the Mordaunts that by the marriage of Elizabeth Vere came to inherit the Arms and Lands of those two Noble Families WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and other Great Lands and Lordships AMong those Heroes that did accompany King William the First unto the Conquest of England was a Lord of the Name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith in the Latine termed Maledoctus Whether it was the William here mentioned or his Father it matters not but sure we are that at the time of the general Surveigh iâ the Raign of that King this William Lord Mauduit is found to have possessed seven faââ Lordships in Hampshire And coming afterwards by the merit of many great Serviceâ and the favour of King Henry the First to be his Chamberlain he obtained from hiâ a Grant of all the Lands whereof Micael de Hanslape dyed seized with Maude thâ Daughter of the said Micael in Marriage Their Issue Robert Mauduit William Mauduit ROBERT MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Lordships as also in the Office of Chamberlain but the near trust wherein he lived with King Henry the First having caused him to be one of those Lords that were appointed to accompany his Children in their return out of France he was drowned in that unhappy passage from Harflew into England with those unfortunate and much lamented Princes FOR want of Issue male of the Lord Robert Mauduit WILLIAM his younger Brother came to inherit the Estate that he had left and the Office of Chamberlain was likewise bestowed upon him by Henry Duke of Normandy afterward King by the name of Henry the Second with all the Lands belonging thereunto as well in Normandy as in England This William had likewise by Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury that is of his Exchequer with livery and all other its appurtenances He had moreover in consideration of his good services divers other great Lordships bestowed upon him and also the Constablery of Richege in Fee And after Henry by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William all the premisses When he dyed I find not but he left Issue Robert Lord Mauduit AFter the Death of William Lord Mauduit the second of that name ROBERT his Son came to inherit all his great Possessions as likewise the Office of Chamberlain with what ever did belong thereunto And as an addition to his Fortunes King Henry the Second bestowed upon him by his Charter the noble Mannor of Werminster a Lordship at that time of much value and greatly priviledged which by another Charter was after confirmed by King Richard the First eldest Son and successor to King Henry After the Death of which King Richard upon what motives we do not find this Robert Lord Mauduit became involved in Confederacy with many of the great Barons who were at that time in Rebellion against King John And in the first year of King Henry the Third the Honor of Hanslape with its appurtenances which was the head of his Barony appears to have been granted away to Robert de Braboef for support in the Kings service during his pleasure But before the sixth year of that King this Robert Mauduit died leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella the Daughter of the Lord Thurstan Bassett William Lord Mauduit Robert Mauduit to whom his Father gave the noble Lordship of Werminster WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the third of that name after the death of his Father was Lord of the Honor of Hanslape and divers other fair Lands and Lordships as also hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Having been bred under his Father and in the rebellion of those Lords that made War in the time of King John he continued the same course after that Lords decease fortifying his Castles and his Houses in favour of the associated Barons particularly that of Hanslape which was taken and demolished by Falcatius de Breant a renouned Souldier of that Age and a bold asserter of the Kings Authority For which and other contumacies he was with other of the Lords Excommunicated by the Pope But all this allayed not his turbulent spirit but he still persisting in his Rebellion was actually at the Battle of Lincoln where the power of the Lords being totally vanquished he was taken Prisoner But after this he returned to his obedience and enjoyed his Estate by the Kings Grace and in the seventeenth Year of Henry the Third he obliged himself by a special writing to serve the King faithfully all his life and never more
per Arenas Corpora verò pereuntium nulla Perierunt etiam cum Filio Regis Frater suus Ricardus Nothus Comes cum Filia Regis quae fuerat Uxor Rotronis Ricardus Comes Cestrensis cum Uxore sua Nepte Regis Sorore Theobaldi Comitis Nepotis Regis Periit Othoel Magister filii Regis Galfridus Ridel Robertus Malduit Willielmus Bigot multÃque alii principales Viri Nobiles quoque foeminae quamplures cum Regiis pueris non paucis Militaris numeri C. XL. Nautarum L. cum tribus Gubernatoribus Navis Solus quidem Macellarius tabulâ Naufragii pendens evasit WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. WHat became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Portchester with all the Lands of Micael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the First had given them to his Father as also Bergedon now called Berwedon in the County of Rutland with the whole Soake which Queen Maude gave to the afore-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the said William Furthermore this William had by the Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of the Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Portchester and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them And after Henry by the Death of King Stephen had obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony of which his Father dyed seized as well in England as in Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its appurtenances Bergedon with the Hundred in Com. Rut. and Maneton in Com ...... with all others the Lands which he had formerly given his Father at Nottingham as also Scaldene and Herleby with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy When he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert ROBERT MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Secundi HEnricus Rex Anglorum omnibus fidelibus suis Francis Anglis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse praesenti Carta confirmasse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum quidquid ibi habebam de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum manerium illud habeant teneant de me Haeredibus meis sicut illud tenebam bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in aquis Molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis aliis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus T. Eliensi J. Norwicensi B. Exoniensi Episcopis Convenit cum Recordo Gulielmis Prinne Carta Regis Ricardi Primi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris omnibus fidelibus totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me concessisse hac praesenti Carta confirmâsse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster quod Dominus Rex pater meus ei dedit tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum Manerium illud habeant teneant de nobis haeredibus nostris sicut illud dominus Rex pater noster tenebat bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus H. Dunelmensi H. Sarisburiensi J. Norwicensi Episcopis Galfrido filio Petri Waltero filio Roberti The Baronage of England Page 398. WHen he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the Rebellious Barons in King Johns time as it seems for it appears that in the first of Henry the Third the King Granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances to Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the Third this Robert dyed whereupon Isabella his Widow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty Marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of the year giving security for payment of his Relief viz. a hundred Pounds had Livery of his Lands WILLIAM MAVDVIT Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. THis William in the seventeenth of King John was constituted Governour of Rokingham Castle But the same year taking part with the Rebellious Barons he made a Garison of his House of Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcatius de Breant who was then a bold Soldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolish'd it upon the fourth of the Calends of December Which hardning him in his Rebellious Actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King John which happened the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Arms against King Henry the Third in the Battle of Lincoln in the first of Henry the Third the whole power of that Rebellious party being utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his Estate and in the seventh of Henry the Third making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings Gift five Does for storing of the same In the tenth of Henry the Third doing his Homage for those Lands that descended to him by the Death of Isabella Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in the seventeenth of Henry the
tertia parte dictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cùm acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae de Dominis Capitalibus feodorum liberè quietè bene in pace Jure haereditario imperpetuum per servitia inde debita consueta Et Ego praedictus Robertus haeredes mei omnia praedicta terras tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis unà cum tertia parte supradictarum terrarum dictorum tenementorum cum suis pertinentiis cum acciderit supradictis Domino Thomae Elizabethae Uxori suae Johanni filio eorum haeredibus supradicti Domini Thomae contra omnes mortales warrantizabimus imperpetuum defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio concessio praesentis Cartae meae Confirmatio ratae stabiles imperpetuum permaneant istam praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Willielmo de Mandeville Johanne Hussege Roberto Plagenet Waltero Setwale Rogero Marnion Roberto Swotyng Johanne Bernard aliis Data apud Westbury die Veneris proximo ante Festum beatae Margaretae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi Nono Hollinshed his Chronicle of England Page 329. THere were Letters intercepted about the same time which a Messenger brought out of Scotland three closed and three open for there were six in all The King sent them to the Archbishop of Canterbury who by his commandment published them in open Audience at London The first was closed with the Seal of the Lord Thomas Randulfe Earl of Murrey Lord of Annandale and of Man Lieutenant to Robert le Bruce King of Scotland which contained a Sase-conduct for Sir Thomas Topclive Chaplain and one to be Associate with him to come into Scotland and to return from thence in safety The second was sealed with the Seal of Sir James Dowglas for a like Safe-conduct for the same persons The third was closed with the Seal of the said Earl of Murrey for the Safe-conduct of the Lord John de Mowbray and the Lord John de Clifford and forty Horses with their Pages for their safe coming unto the said Earl into Scotland for their abiding there and returning back The fourth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed to King Arthur The fifth was closed with the Seal of James Dowglas directed unto the Lord Ralph Nevill The sixth had no direction but the tenour thereof was this as followeth You shall understand my Lord that the communication beforehand had is now brought to effect for the Earl of Hereford the Lords Roger Damoriae Hugh de Audelie the younger Bartholomew de Badelismere Roger de Clifford John Gifford Henry Teis Thomas Mauduit John de Willington and all others are come to Pomfret and are ready to make you good assurance so that you will perform Covenant with them to wit for your coming to aid us and to go with us into England and Wales to live and dye with us in our quarrel We therefore beseech you to assign us day and place where we may meet and we will be ready to accomplish fully our business and we beseech you to make us a Safe-conduct for thirty Horses that we may with safety come to your parts Again in the same Chronicle Page 330. IN this Fight was slain the Earl of Hereford the Lord William de Sullye with Sir Roger de Bunghfeild and divers others and there were taken Thomas Earl of Lancaster the Lord Roger Clifford Son to that Roger which dyed in the Battel of Bannocksborne in Scotland the Lord Gilbert Talbot the Lord John Mowbray the Lord Hugh de Willington the Lord Thomas Mauduit the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Philip Darey the Lord Thomas Wither the Lord Henry de Willington the Lord Hugh de Knovill the Lord Philip de Beche the Lord Henry de Leiburne the Lord Henry de Bradburne the Lord John de Beckes the Lord Thomas Lovell the Lord William Fitz-William Robert de Waterville John de Strickland Odnell Heron Walter Pavely of Stretton and a great number of other Esquires and Gentlemen This Battel was fought on the fifteenth day of March in the year 1322. after the accompt of them that begin the year at the Circumcision which was in the said fifteenth year of this Kings Reign And again Page 331. of the same Chronicle ON the same day the Lord William Tuchet the Lord William Fitz-William the Lord Warren de Lisle the Lord Henry Bradborne and the Lord William Chenie Barons with John Page an Esquire were drawn and hanged at Pomfret aforesaid and then shortly after Roger Lord Clifford John Lord Mowbray and Sir Gosein de Eevill Barons were drawn and hanged at York At Bristol were executed in like manner Sir Henry de Willington and Sir Henry Mountfort Baronets And at Gloucester the Lord John Gifford and Sir William Elmebrige Knight And at London the Lord Henry Teies Baron At Winchelsey Sir Thomas Culpepper Knight At Windsor the Lord Francis de Aldham Baron And at Canterbury the Lord Bartholomew de Badelismere and the Lord Bartholomew de Ashborneham Barons Also at Cardif in Wales Sir William Fleminge Knight was executed Divers were executed in their Countries as Sir Thomas Mauduit and others Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem Pag. 2547. Ex Henrici Knighton Canonici Leicestrensis Chronico de Eventibus Angliae Part of the Charge against Hugh le Despenser at his Arraignment ET Faitez prendre mon tres honourable Seignour le bon Count de Lancastre Thomas que estoit cousin Germain à nostre Seigneur le Roy de ses freres Uncle à tres honourable de France de sa soere Madame Isabelle Royne d' Angleterre si lui faitez faussement emprisoner despoilier touz lez sons en sa sale proprement deins sa Castele de Pomfrete par vostre reall povare que vous avez purpris nostre Seigneur le Roy luy faitez juger par une faulse recorde encontre leye resone la grant Chartre Ensi faites mordrer martirizer moirir de dure morte piteouse Et cest malvys cruelté tirantie faistez al si digne persone ne vous poez sauler del sanck dez cristenez espandier Ency faitez en mesme tiele journeye pour mon dit Seigneur plus tormentyr sez Baronz sez chivaleuz se enaux vennancez trayner pendre puis juger al mort par cel fausse recorde encontre leye resone pendre dispituosement sans mercy come Monsieur Wareyne del Lyle Monsieur William Tocher Monsieur Thomas Maydut Monsieur Henry de Bradburne Monsieur William Chornel Monsieur Bartholomew de Ashburne à Londres Monsieur Henry Teies à Windesore Monsieur Francis de Aldham à Gloucester le Seignour Gifforde Monsieur Roger de Elmesbrigge à Bristoll Monsieur Henry de Willington Monsieur
sui similiter defuncti tertiam partem medietatis Manerii de Dycherych quae valet per Annum in omnibus exitibus viginti solidos Reversione inde spectante post decessum dictae Julianae rectis haeredibus praedicti Johannis Mauduit quae quidem tertia pars tenetur de Domino Rege ut de Manerio suo de Hampstead Marchal per servitium Militare Et dicunt quòd non tenuit aliqua alia terras sive tenementa dicto die quo obiit de Domino Rege in Capite in Dominico suo ut de feodo nec in servitio nec de aliquo alio in Comitatu praedicto Et dicunt quòd praedicta Juliana obiit Vicesimo die Aprilis proximo praeterito Et dicunt quòd Matill Uxor Henrici Greene Militis aetatis viginti quatuor annorum amplius est consanginea haeres praedictorum Johannis Julianae videlicet filia Thomae Mauduit filii haeredis Johannis Mauduit Julianae est haeres propinquior tam praedicto Johanni quà m praedictae Julianae In cujus rei testimonium praedicti Jurati huic Inquisitioni Sigilla sua apposuerunt Data die Anno loco supradictis Altera Inquisitio post mortem Julianae Uxoris Johannis Mauduit INquisitio capta apud Andevere decimo die Maii Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi post Conquestum secundo coram Thoma Illeston Escaetore Domini Regis in Comitatu Southampton virtute brevis Domini Regis eidem Escaetori inde directi huic Inquisitioni consuti per Sacramentum Thomae Bockland aliorum onerati jurati super Sacramentum suum dicunt quòd Juliana quae fuit Uxor Johannis Mauduit non tenuit aliqua terras sive tenementa in Dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit de haereditate Comitis Hereford in Capite ut conjunctim feoffata cum Johanne Mauduit nuper viro suo similiter defuncto sibi praefato Johanni haeredibus dicti Johannis Mauduit de Croceke cum pertinentiis in Comitatu praedicto per servitium Militare quod quidem Manerium valet per Annum in omnibus exitibus decem Marcas Et dicunt quòd non sunt aliqua alia terrae sive tenementa in Comitatu praedicto de Domino Rege in Capite nec in servitio nec de aliquo alio dicto die quo obiit Et dicunt quòd praedicta Juliana obiit vicesimo die Aprilis proximo praeterito Et dicunt quòd Matill Uxor Henrici Greene Militis aetatis viginti quatuor annorum amplius est consanguinea haeres propinquior tam praefato Johanni quà m praefatae Julianae videlicet filia Thomae Mauduit filii haeredis praedictorum Johannis Mauduit Julianae In cujus rei testimonium praedicti Juratores huic inquisitioni Sigilla sua apposuerunt Data die loco Anno supradictis Praeceptum Regis Vicecomiti ad liberandum Henrico Greene Militi marito Matildae de Mauduit diversa Maneria REX dilecto sibi Thomae de Illeston Escaetori suo in Comitatu Wilts South-hampton Quia accepimus per Inquisitionem quam per te fieri fecimus quòd Juliana quae fuit Uxor Johannis Mauduit defuncta non tenuit aliqua terras seu tenementa in Dominico suo ut de feodo in Comitatibus praedictis die quo obiit set quòd tenuit de praedicto conjunctim feoffata cum Johanne Mauduit quondam viro suo similiter defuncto sibi haeredibus de corporibus suis exeuntibus Manerium de Werminstre cum pertinentiis ac unum messuagium duas carucatas terrae viginti acras prati centum acras bosci centum solidatas redditûs cum pertinentiis in Westbury Advocationem Capellae ejusdem villae de nobis in Capite per servitium Militare per finem inde in Curia Domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae avi nostri de licentia sua levatum ac tertiam partem medietatis Manerii de Dicherich in dicto Comitatu Wilts in dorem post mortem praedicti Johannis de haereditate ejusdem Johannis similiter de nobis ut de Manerio nostro de Hampstead Marchal per servitium Militare nec non Manerium de Cracele cum pertinentiis in dicto Comitatu Southampton similiter ut conjunctim feoffata cum praefato Johanne sibi haeredibus dicti Johannis de haeredibus Humfridi de Bohun nuper Comitis Hereford infra aetatem in custodia nostra existentibus per servitium Militare quódque Matilla filia Thomae Mauduit filii haeredis praedictorum Johannis Julianae quam Henricus Greene Miles duxit in Uxorem est haeres eorundem Johannis Julianae propinquior plenae aetatis cepimus homagium fidelitatem praefati Henrici nobis in hac parte debitâ ratione prolis inter ipsum praefatam Matill procreatae eisdem Henrico Matillae Maneria terras tenementa medietatem praedicta cum pertinentiis ac Advocationem praedictam reddidimus Et ideo tibi praecipimus quòd acceptâ securitate à praefatis Henrico Matilla de rationabili relevio suo nobis solvendo ad scaccarium nostrum eisdem Henrico Matillae de Maneriis terris tenementis medietate praedictis cum pertinentiis in balliva tua ac Advocationem praedictam quae per morten praefatae Julianae capta sunt in manum nostram plenam seisinam habere facias salvo jure cujuslibet Teste Rege aqud Westmonasterium decimo nono die Maii Anno Regis Richardi Secundi secundo Per breve de privato Sigillo A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of GREENE THAT WERE LORDS of DRAYTON Justified by Publick Records Antient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Greene were Azure Three Bucks Trippant Or of the Lords of Drayton of that Name Drayton and Mauduit quarterly Of the Original Antiquity Name Arms Alliances Greatness and Possessions of the house of Greene. OF the Original of the House of Greene we have no certain information but it is apparent they assumed their Name and Arms from an allusion to their principal and beloved Lordship which was Buckton or the Town of Bucks in the County of Northampton being in the Hundred of Spellho a place memorable for the excellency of its soil and situation as a spatious and delightful Green upon which at the desire of the Lords was yearly held and exercised a Fair with particular and extraordinary priviledges Hence they were called Greene or of the Green And from Buckton or the Town of Bucks they have assumed for their Arms in a Field Azure three Bucks trippant Or until the division of the Family in the two Sons of Sir Henry Greene the great Chief Justice the second whereof Sir Henry Greene the younger had been obliged by his Cousin Sir John of Drayton upon his becoming invested in that Lordship to change his own Arms and assume those of his Family which were Argent a Cross Engrailed
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
vel per ipsum solum qualitercunque in hac parte factorum sive perpetratorum Et de eo quòd ipse fuit de assensu consilio favore abbettamento Comitiva vi retinentia seu adhaesione praedictorum Ducis Comitum in materiis praedictis vel earum aliqua seu aliqua parcella aut aliquibus dependentiis earundem ac pro omnibus aliis proditionibus seditionibus insurrectionibus feloniis murdris raptibus mulierum roberiis depraedationibus latrociniis homicidiis incendiis transgressionibus inobedientiis rebellionibus forstallariis confoederationibus conspirationibus cambipartiis ambidextriis falsitatibus negligentiis deceptionibus quibuscunque Nobis seu alicui de regno nostro actis vel illatis unde idem Henricus judicatus impetitus rectatus accusatus vel appellatus existit vel esse poterit quoquo modo in futuo Et etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis actionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei indè concedimus Nolentes quòd praefatus Henricus aut haeredes vel executores sui aut terrarum suarum Tenentes ratione aliquorum praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem coram Nobis haeredibus nostris in Parliamentis nostris vel haeredum nostrorum vel in quibuscunque aliis locis vel placeis nostris coram quibuscunque Judicibus Justiciariis Ministris vel Officiariis Nostris vel haeredum nostrorum quibuscunque inde futuris temporibus impetantur occasionentur inquietentur molestentur in aliquo seu graventur sed ab omnibus praemissis penitus sint quieti absoluti exonerati imperpetuum aliquo statuto seu ordinatione in contrarium praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem quovis modo factis non obstantibus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilecto fideli Militi nostro Henrico Greene Maneria de Cosgrave Preston Capes in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum pertinentiis ac reversionem Manerii de Kibworth in Comitatu Leicestriae cum pertinentiis cum feodis Militum advocationibus Ecclesiarum omnibus aliis franchesiis libertatibus ad Maneria illa pertinentibus sive spectantibus quae quidem Maneria Thomae nuper Comitis Warwici extiterunt Nobis ratione judicii contra ipsum in Parliamento nostro redditi forisfacta existunt Habendum tenendum praefato Henrico haeredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus praedicta Maneria cum pertinentiis cum feodis advocationibus franchesiis libertatibus praedictis de Nobis haeredibus nostris aliis Dominis feodorum per servitia indè debita consueta adeò liberè integrè sicut praedictus Thomas ante haec tempora habuit ac tenuit Maneria supradicta In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per Breve de privato Sigillo Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilectis fidelibus Militibus nostris Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene placeam vel Hospitium quae vel quod fuit Johannis Domini de Cobham infra Civitatem nostram Londini ad Nos pertinet per forisfacturam ejusdem Johannis Domini de Cobham Habendum dictis Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene pro termino vitae eorum alterius eorum diutiùs viventis dictam placeam sive Hospitium unà cum omnibus Schoppis sellariis solariis eisdem Hospitio sive placeae adjacentibus ac cum omni redditu ad dictam Placeam sive Hospitium aliquo modo pertinente Et cum stuffura in eadem placea sive Hospitio existente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Salopiam tricesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Hollinshead in Chronicle of England Page 498. WHen the Lord Governour Edmund Duke of York was advertised that the Duke of Lancaster kept still the Sea and was ready to arrive but where he meant first to set foot on land there was not any that understood the certainty he sent for the Lord Chancellor Edmund Stafford Bishop of Exeter and for the Lord Treasurer William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and other of the King 's Privy Council as John Bushie William Bagot Henry Greene and John Russell Knights Of these he required to know what they thought good to be done in this matter concerning the Duke of Lancaster being in the Seas Their advice was To depart from London to St. Albans and there to gather an Army to resist the Duke in his landing But to how small purpose their Counsel served the conclusion thereof plainly declared for the most part that were called when they came protested that they would not fight against the Duke of Lancaster whom they knew to be evil dealt withal The Lord Treasurer Bagot Bushie and Greene perceiving that the Commons would cleave unto and take part with the Duke slipped away leaving the Lord Governour of the Realm and the Lord Chancellor to make what shift they could for themselves Bagot got him to Chester and so escaped into Ireland the other fled to the Castle of Bristol in hopes there to be in safety Again out of the same Chronicle and the same Page AT the same present there was arrested and committed to safe custody the Bishop of Norwich Sir William Elman and Sir Walter Burley Knights Lawrence Drew and John Golofer Esquires On the morrow after the foresaid Dukes with their power went toward Bristol where at their coming they shewed themselves before the Town and Castle being a huge multitude of people There were enclosed within the Castle the Lord William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and Treasurer of England Sir Henry Greene and Sir John Bushie Knights who prepared to make resistance but when it would not prevail they were taken and brought forth bound as Prisoners into the Camp before the Duke of Lancaster On the morrow next ensuing they were arraigned before the Constable and Marshal and found guilty of Treason for misgoverning the King and Realm and forthwith had their heads smit off Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England pag. 49. treating of Coats of Arms and of the different Bearing of them by persons of the same
nuper Vicecomitis Lisle Elizabethae uxoris ejus ac Nobis praefatae Johannae Vicecomitissae Lisle Thomae Grey Armigero Thomae Kevell servienti Domini Regis ad legem Edwardo Hungerford Armigero Humfrido Conyngesby Thomae Frowyk Johanni Titchbourne Johanni Smyth Johanni Gardyner Thomae Byall Thomae Heywoode Maneria sua de Waterhale Brafeld Pollycote Wanden Emberton Wolston magna cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac Manerium suum de Chalton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Bedfordiae ac etiam Maneria sua de Suttons Pyggesland Tracyes Stamford Ryvers cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae Necnon omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatibus praedictis quae inter alia praefatus Robertus Wittelbury Armiger Willielmus Marbury Armiger Thomas Mountegu Johannes Freeman ac Willielmus Feld Clericus Robertus Bayston Clericus nuper habuerunt sibi haeredibus suis ex dono feoffamento dicti Comitis prout per quandam Cartam sibi inde confectam pleniùs apparet qui quidem Willielmus Feld Robertus Bayston totum jus suum in maneriis terris tenementis praedictis ac caeteris praemissis praefatis Roberto Wittelbury Willelmo Marbury Thomae Mountegu Johanni Freeman remiserunt relaxaverunt prout per eorum scriptum inde sibi confectum similiter apparet Habendum tenendum praedicta Maneria terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum pertinentiis praefatis Comiti Margaretae uxori suae ac Nobis praesatae Johannae Johanni Vicecomiti Lisle Thomae Grey Thomae Kevell Edwardo Hungerford Humfrido Conyngesby Thomae Frowyk Johanni Titchbourne Johanni Smyth Johanni Gardyner Thomae Byall Thomae Heywoode pro termino vitae ejusdem Margaretae remanere inde praefato Comiti haeredibus assignatis ejusdem Comitis imperpetuum prout in eadem carta plenius liquet Noveritis Nos praefatos Johannam Vicecomitissam Lisle Johannem Vicecomitem Lisle Thomam Grey Thomam Kevell Edwardum Hungerford Humfridum Conyngesby Thomam Frowyk Johannem Titchbourne Johannem Smyth Johannem Gardyner Thomam Byall Thomam Heywoode remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro Nobis haeredibus nostris imperpetuum quietum clamâsse praefato Edwardo Comiti Wilts Margaretae uxori suae totum jus titulum clameum demaundam interesse nostra de in omnibus praedictis Maneriis de Waterhall Brafeld Pollycote Wanden Emberton Wolston magna cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac Manerio de Chalton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Bedfordiae ac etiam Maneriis de Suttons Pyggesland Tracyes Stamford Ryvers cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae Necnon de omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatibus praedictis Ita quòd nec Nos praefati Johanna Vicecomitissa Lisle Johannes Vicecomes Lisle Thomas Grey Thomas Kevell Edwardus Hungerford Humfridus Conyngesby Thomas Frowyk Johannes Titchbourne Johannes Smyth Johannes Gardyner Thomas Byall Thomas Heywoode nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro Nobis seu nomine nostro aliquid juris vel clamei in praedictis Maneriis terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus praedictis caeteris praemissis cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de caetero exigere seu vendicare poterimus in futuro set ab omni actione juris clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium Sigilla nostra apposuimus ....... die mensis ....... Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi post Conquestum Angliae quarto decimo Ultima Voluntas Edwardi Comitis Wilts IN the name of God Amen The two and twentieth day of March in the yeare of oure Lord one thousand four hundred nynety and eight I Edward Erle of Wyltshire of hole minde and good memory bequeth my sowle to Almighty God my Creator and Saviour to our Lady Seint Marie and to all the holy company of Hevyn and my body to be beryed within the Chyrche of Seint Peter in Luffwycke in our Lady I le by me Graundfader Greene and wyll myne Executors make a convenient Tombe to be made for me Item I wyll that the last Wyll of my Lord my Fader my Lady my Moder and my Graundfader Greene be performed Item I wyll that where Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires William Feld Clarke Robert Bayston Clarke Thomas Mountegu and John Freeman been seasid of the Manors of Buckworth Comberton Raundes Ryngsted Irtlingborough Haringworth and Hardewyke in the Counties of Huntingdon Cambridge and Northampton and of oder Landes and Tenements Woodes Meadowes and Pastures in Buckworth Comberton Raundes Rygsted Irtlingborough Hardewycke and Haringworth in the Counties aforesaid in there Demesne as of Fee to the use of me and myne heires and whereas Margaret my Wyfe John Viscounte Lisle and other Cofeffes been seasid of the Manors of Stamford Ryvers Piggesland Tracyes and Suttons in the County of Essex and of the Manors of Newington Blosmavyle and Pollicote in the County of Bucks and of certaine Londes and tenements woodes medowes and pastures belongyng and appartaynyng unto the seid Manors in their demesne as of Fee to the use of me and of Margaret my wyfe for terme of hur lyfe for certaine causes and considerations I wyll that the seid Robert Wittelbury William Merbury William Feld Clarke Robert Bayston Clarke Thomas Mountagu and John Freeman that the foreseid Robert Wittelbury and all the seid Cofeoffes abovenamed and all other Feoffes in the seid Manors Londes and tenements woodes medowes and pastures shall be and stand Feoffes in all the seid Manors Londs and tenements medowes and pastures in Buckworth Comberton Raundes Ringsted Irtlingborough Hardwyke and Haringworth to the intent following That is to sey That I wyll the seid Margaret my wyfe shall have and enjoy all the profites and revenues of the seid Manors of Buckworth Comberton Ringsted Irtlingborough Hardwyck and Haringworth with their appurtynances for terme of her lyfe with this condition that she make no tytle cleyme nor interesse in noon of the Manors of Stamford Ryvers Pyggesland Tracyes Suttons Newenton Blosmavile and Policote the which I wyll shall descend unto my Lord of Buckingham and his heires and I besech my seid Lord to suffer my wyfe to have the Manors of Newynton Blosmavile for terme of her lyfe and to be good Lord unto her and my Servaunts Item I wyll that all such Annuities and Fees as be graunted by Dede or Patentes by my Lord my Fader my Lady my Moder my Grandfader Greene and me be had ferme and stable for terme of their lyfe without lett or interruption Item I wyll that my Feoffes that now been or hereafter shall be suffer William Merbury and Thomas Mountegu to take and receyve the revenues and profites of my Londes Tenements Woods Medowes and Pastures in Luffewicke and Islip unto they be content and saved harmelesse ayenst the King for the Det of One hundred and twenty nine Pounds one
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
others from certain Lords of his Council Several rigours he suffered from this King joyn'd to the indignation of Mankind that had been drawn upon him by his injustice and cruelty incited Sir Henry Vere to be particularly active in the introducing of King Henry the Seventh to whose service he brought a resolute Band of his Tenants and Country-men at whose Head he fought himself in that decisive Day where at Bosworth the unhappy Richard lost both his Kingdom and his Life He thereupon received the Honour of Knighthood at the hands of the victorious King and because of his fidelity and interest was made High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in that first year of his Reign He married Isabella Tresham the Daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham who was Lord of Rushton and of a Family at that time very considerable in the Country where they lived for their Riches and Authority by whom he left only five Daughters Elizabeth Lady Mordaunt Amy married to Robert Mordaunt and after to Humphrey Browne Son of Sir Wistan Browne of Abess Roading Constance to John Parr Lord of Horton Etheldred Married to John Brown that was a Judge Audrey who dyed unmarried ELIZABETH the first of the Daughters and heirs of Sir Henry de Vere was about the eleventh year of King Henry the Seventh Married to John the eldest Son of that Sir John Mordaunt who was Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to that King There came unto her by composition with some of the partners and want of Issue in other the greatest part of the interest of these Sisters and indeed it was a large Inheritance compos'd of the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Sudburgh Thrapston both the Addingtons Grafton Hardwick Werminster and sundry other Lands She also brought into her Husbands House the Blood and the Arms of the Noble and Ancient Families of these Veres of the Greenes of Drayton and of the Mauduits that were Lords of Werminster She was a fortunate Lady left a numerous Posterity and from her is lineally descended and is heir and Successor the present Earl of Peterborow AUBERY DE VERE Earle of Guisnes Cheife Iusticiar of England great Chamberlaine to King Henry ye. first Adeliza de Clare Aubery de Vere 1st E. of Oxford Eufemia de Cantelup Sr. Robert de Vere Matilda de Furnel Rossia de Vere Jeffery de Magnaville Earle of Essex Sr. Henry de Vere Hildeburga Sr. Robert de Vere Margaret de Wake Walter de Vere Ld. of Drayton Lucia Basset Sr. Baldwin de Vere Margaret de Seagrave Sr. Iohn de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Anne de Waterville Sr. Baldwin de Vere Sr. Randall de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Northburgh Randol de Vere Idonea de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Tay. St. Baldwin de Vere Elena de Mohun alius Kingston Margaret de Vere Thomas Ashby S. P. Sr. Richard de Vere Isabella Greene. Elizabeth de Vere Amy de Vere Elena de Vere Thomas âsham L d of Pichfley Ann de Vere Iohn Ward L d of Irtlingborow Margaret de Vere Iohn Berners Elizabeth de Vere William Dounhall Sr. Henry de Vere Isabella Tresham Baldwin de Vere Constance de Vere Iohn Boteler Ld. of Woodhall Constance de Vere Iohn Par. Elizabeth de Vere Iohn I st Ld. Mordaunt Amie de Vere HumphryBrowne Etheldred de Vere Iohn Browne Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of that HOUSE of VERE Whence were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of VERE AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND Spelmanni Glossarium Page 337 338. ALbericus de Vere Comes de Guisnes Camerarius Angliae Portgravius ut perhibetur Londini pater Abrici primi Comitis Oxonii Angliae ponitur Justiciarius Spelmanni Glossarium de Capitali Angliae Justiciario qualis olim quantus fuit JUstitia totius Angliae alià s Capitalis Angliae Justiciarius quantus hic olim fuit usquequaque non liquet Dignitate omnes Regni proceres potestate omnes superabat Magistratus The Baronage of England Page 190. THIS last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Father to the Monks of Abingdon and being in high esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord Great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk or any other before or after him held the same and with such Liveries and Lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office Being also one of the Kings Justices Tempore Henrici Primi Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Page 248. Carta Alberici Regis Camerarii EGO Albericus Regis Camerarius terram de Twyvell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Guntero Monachis de Thorneya per talem conventionem teneo ad firmam ut per unumquemque annum eis sex libras pro ea reddam ante Nativitatem quatuordecem solidos ante Pascham quatuordecem solidos ad Vincula Sancti Petri extremos quatuordecem solidos Insuper pro remissione peccatorum meorum illis de una mea decima scilicet de Islip unoquoque anno ad Festivitatem Sancti Michaelis decem solidos reddam Totum verò surplus quod miserim in eadem Villa ultrà quà m recepi in extremo die vitae meae pro salvatione animae meae Sanctae Mariae Patribúsque meis simul cum terra eorum concedo solidum quietum ab omni Calumnia De alia terra quam pro servitio dimidii Militis in eadem Villa de Willielmo de Blosvilla teneo in feodo de dimidio unius Hidae quam certè emi pretio Sanctam Mariam meósque fratres post me concedo esse Haeredes in quantum id eis concedere possum Hujus Conventionis sunt testes Hardewin de Escaetere Radulphus Dapiser Willielmus de Whitlesege Simonio fratres illius loci alii quamplures Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penès Comitem de Peterborow ALbericus de Twyvell Camerarius Regis dedit Ecclesiae de Thorney duas Garbas decimae trium Villarum de Islip Addington Drayton de Dominico suo The Baronage of England Page 190. Writing of Earl Aubrey HE in the Fifth of Stephen with Richard Basset then Justice of England executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Surrey Cambridge Huntington Essex Hartford Northampton Leicester Norfolk Suffolk Buckingham and Bedford and gave to the Monks of Thorney in Comitatu Canter certain Lands in Islip But before the end of this year he was killed in London leaving Issue by Adeliza his Wife Daughter of Gilbert of Clare three Sons Alberic his Son and Heir ....... a Cannon of Saint
sayd Earle in his foresayd Cause All Actions of Trespass Debates and Demands personal had or done before the Date of these Presents at the Costs and Charges of the Earle of Shrewsbury And the sayd Earle and all the foresayd persons which hath done spoken or laboured any for the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury in or for his Tytyl or possession of the premisses or any part of them shall be for ever discharged against the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt and Elizabeth his Wife Humfrey Brown George Brown John Brown and Audree his Wife and every of them of all Actions Trespasses and Demands personal which they have or might have ayenst the sayd Earle or the foresayd other persons for any cause had or done touching the premisses afore the Date of these Presents In witnesse whereof the foresayd Arbitrators to every part of these Indentures of their Award have put their Seals this twentieth Day of March in the sixth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth A Release from the Earl of Shrewsbury to John Mordaunt of all his Right concerning the Mannor of Drayton OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Nos Georgius Comes Salopiae salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Georgium Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxori ejus uni Consanguinearum Haeredum Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes ex parte Matris ejusdem Edwardi videlicet Filii Constanciae Filiae Haeredis Henrici Greene nuper de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Humfrido Brown Georgio Brown Filio Haeredi apparenti dicti Humfridi Filio Haeredi Amiae alterius Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Johanni Brown Etheldredae Uxori ejus tertiae Consanguinearum Haeredum dicti Edwardi ex parte dictae Constanciae Thomae Montague Willielmo Pemberton Haeredibus Assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxoris ejus Humfridi Brown Georgii Brown Etheldredae Uxoris ejus Haeredum ipsorum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton Ac de in omnibus aliis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis Reversionibus Boscis Pratis Pascuis Pasturis aliis Haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum vel alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae seu in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel Haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wiltes nobis factis sive habitis Salvis omnino reservatis nobis Haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habuimus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per jus haereditarium per aliquem Antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum Haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wiltes nobis facta sive habita Ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec Haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione Juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Martii Anno Regni Regis Henrici octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Justified by Antient and Authentick Testimonies By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Fitz-Lewis were Argent a Cheveron Sable between three Trefoils of the same Of the Original Descent Noble Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Fitz-Lewis ALthough the House of Fitz-Lewis has been possessed of Advantages in its Original Alliances noble Possessions and continuance that might do honour to the pretences of any Successor whatsoever Yet I was doubtful whether I should insert it among the other Genealogies they being all so strong in extant and apparent Proofs and to this there remaining only Fragments in my power by reason that with Westhornedon and the other of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands there were delivered to the Lord Peters a prudent and wary Purchaser all the Records Deeds and Papers which did belong to that Family there having and by chance only continued among the Evidences of the Lord Lewis Mordaunt who did sell that Estate an ancient though very authentick Pedigree Yet with the help thereof and some other Pieces that have been gathered by accident there being so great a conviction of the value of this splendid Family I have thought it a due to its Memory and Descendants to establish the remembrance of it The Family of Fitz-Lewis through the power of Nature if not under the Laws of Marriage does derive from Royal Bloud being descended of Charles the VIII King of France who was a great King in his time through the person of a Lady that was of high Nobility in this Nation though her Name shall be unmentioned out of respect to other great Families which by her after-marriages to a noble Husband are descended from her It was endowed with many fair Possessions Lands and Lordships It was allied by Marriages to the greatest of all the English Lords and deserv'd to be honour'd by the famous Camden in his Provincial Description thereof with the Epithet of Clara Familia Fitz-Lewis so as I doubt not but my endeavours herein will be acceptable to such as are curious in things of this nature and particularly to the noble Persons concerned in the Bloud and Succession of the Family LEWIS Prince of France who came afterwards to be King LEWIS VIII LEwis Prince of France commonly at that time called Monsieur Lovis de France and in Latine Instruments Dominus Ludovicus de Francia having in the Year 1251. been called into England by several of the greatest Lords of the Kingdom in opposition to their natural
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
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
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
Elizabeth in English Pag. 516. NOT many days passed before a far greater and more choice Army was raised in England into which many Noblemen and Gentlemen voluntarily listed themselves For a constant rumor grew every day stronger and stronger That the Spaniard with all his might and main prepared for War against England and Ireland encouraged the rather because he was now in possession of Calice from whence it was but a short cut over into England Hawkin's and Drake's voyage had had ill success and the Irish Rebels earnestly urged the succours out of Spain The queen to scatter this Storm that was gathering supposed it the best course to set upon the Enemy in his own Ports and to that end rigged a Fleet of 150 Ships whereof 17 were of her Navy-Royal 22 Low-Country Ships which the Confederate Estates joyned with hers the rest Pinnaces and Victualers In these were 6360 Souldiers under pay Volunteer Gentlemen 1000 Seamen 6772 besides Low-Country-men Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Howard Lord Admiral of England who were at great Charges towards this expidition out of their own Estates were made Commanders in chief with equal Authority under the title of Generals yet so as the Lord Admiral should have the principal Authority and Dignity at Sea the Earl of Essex at Land To these were joyned for a Council of War the Lord Thomas Howard Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Vere Sir George Carew and Sir Coniers Clifford The whole Fleet was divided into four Squadrons the first the Lord Admiral commanded the Earl of Essex the second the Lord Thomas Howard the third and Sir Walter Raleigh the fourth The Officers of the Army were Sir Francis Vere Lieutenant-General or Marshal Sir John Wingfield Quarter-master-general Sir George Carew Master of the Ordnance Sir Coniers Clifford Serjant-major The Colonels were Robert Earl of Sussex Sir Christopher Blunt Sir Thomas Gerrard Sir Richard Wingfield Sir Edward Wingfield Captain of the Volunteers and Anthony Astley Secretary of the Council of War who was to register the Councels with every Man's Reasons and to record all their Actions and Enterprises Again out of the same Pag. 518. UPON Sunday the 20th of June betimes in the Morning they cast Anchor near Saint Sebastian's Chappel on the West side of the Island Essex full of courage and youthful heat was of opinion That the Forces were presently to be Landed Raleigh and especially the Lord Admiral were of a contrary mind which Lord never approved of rash and heady Councels yet upon much intreaty he consented that some should make trial Whether they could conveniently Land there but all in vain the Sea beating violently with vast Waves upon the Shoar Again out of the same Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Chanal 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 Eight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son In the Miranora they Fought smartly from break of day till noon when the Spaniards their Galleons being shot through and through and miserably torn and many Men slain in them resolved to fire their Ships or run them a ground Many of the Seamen for fear cast themselves over-board some whereof got to the shoar some were taken some drowned others as they swam cried for Quarter and the Admiral pitying them many of them were saved Again out of the same Pag. 520. AT the same instant almost the Lord Admiral with the Lord Thomas Howard Sir William Paget Raleigh Sir Robert Southwell Richard Levison Philip Woodhouse Robert Mansfield and the Sea-men Sir Edward Hobby bearing the Flag before them following hastily entred the Town Now did the Spaniards give over Fighting and retired into the Castle and Town-house The Town-house was presently yielded the other the next day after upon these conditions That the Citizens should depart in safety with the Garments they wore and the rest should go to the Souldiers for pillage That 520000 Ducats should be paid for their ransom and for the payment thereof Forty of the principal Citizens should be sent as hostages into England Shortly after Proclamation was made That no Man should offer violence to the Spaniards The Women Church-men and Citizens were conveyed to Porta Santa Maria. Again out of the same Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl Sussex Count Lodowick of Nassan Don Christophero a Portuguese King Antonio's Son Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill Edwin Rich Richard Levison Anthony Astley Henry Lennard Horace Vere Arthur Throgmorton Miles Corbet Edward Conway Oliver Lambert Anthony Cook John Townsend Christopher Heydon Francis Popham Philip Woodhouse Alexander Clifford Morrice Barkley Charles Blunt George Gifford Robert Cross James Scudamore Vrian Leigh John Lea Richard Weston Richard Wainman James Wotton Richard Rudal Robert Mansell William Mounson John Bowles Edward Bowes Humphrey Druell Amias Preston Robert Remington Alexander Ratcliffe John Buck John Morgan John Aldrige William Ashinden Matthew Brown Thomas Acton Thomas Gates John Stafford Gillie Merrick Thomas Smith William Pooly Thomas Palmer John Lovell John Gilbert William Harvey John Grey John Vanduvenvord Melchior Lebben Peter Regemort Nicholas Medkirk A Patent constituting Charles Lord Howard of Effingham Earl of Nottingham ELizabetha Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina c. Universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vice-comitibus Episcopis Baronibus ac omnibus aliis ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Cum hi quos divina providentia in Monarchia Regali solio constituit collocavit ut in terris quasi Vicarii coelestis illius Majestatis benè justè piè decent salutariter praesint regno atque quaecunque suae custodiae gubernationi regimini divinitùs mandatae commissae sunt Ipsique monarchae in monarchia sua idem repraesentant quod oculi in corpore quorum officium est dirigere omnia corporis membra ita summi monarchae principes tanquam oculi reipublicae intentivè circumspicere perlustare debeant omnes status ordines imperii sui sine quibus haud dubiè nullam civilem administrationem nullam politiae gubernationem institui aut fieri posse fatendum est Atque usque necessaria est ordinum in magnis imperiis conservatio postquam viderint statum ordinem nobilitatis temporis diuturnitate antiquitate vel aliter convulsum immunitum conquassatum aut ut multa humaniter accidunt morte afflictum debilitatum maturè resarcire instaurare augere amplificare ita quòd aliis quos cum virtutis suae tum generis majorum suorum gloria nobilitavit ad nobilitatem honorem accitis ordinem statum in nitore splendore suo perpetuatim conservent Jam idcirco videntes illustrem ordinem
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
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
And Roger could not deny but that he was a Native of the said Edmond's Therefore it was concluded That Roger should receive no advantage by his Bill but remain at the mercy of Edmond Mordaunt Pro falso clamore suo Helena de Broc was the Wife of Edmond Mordaunt unto whom she was Married the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third She was the Daughter and one of the Heirs of Sir Ralph de Broc who was a Knight of a most Antient Descent and Lord of very fair and large Possessions All his Lands were upon his Decease divided between Helena Mordaunt and Agnes another of his Daughters the wife of Sir Henry de Brussels There did accrue to Edmond Mordaunt for the part of Helena his Wife in Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborne in Buckinghamshire diverse Lands in Elsburgh Bridsthorne Hardwick and Wedon Chesham and Aumundsham with sundry other in Hertfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephaell She was a Noble Inheritrix and besides her Lands brought into the House of Mordaunt both the Blood and Arms of the Pirots and the Argentines two successions which fell unto her Family by the Heirs of those Names the first being Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot who was Wife to Laurence de Broc her Grandfather the other the Mother of the same Elizabeth named Cassandra the sole Heir of Sir Giles of Argentine Their Issue Robert Mordaunt their only Son ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chicheley Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VIII ROBERT MORDAVNT after the Death of his Father had not only the Fortune of possessing a large and plentiful Inheritance but of enjoying it betimes he being hardly of full age when he came in succession thereunto He inherited in Bedfordshire the Lordship of Turvey that of Clifton and Chicheley with Lands in Elsburgh Wedon Hardwick Chesham Welpool and Aumundsham in the County of Bucks In Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots besides Lands in Treversham and Julborne And in Northamptonshire the Lordship of Yerdley besides the entire Mannor of Shephaell and other Lands in Hertfordshire It was the Fortune of this Robert Mordaunt to unite the Antient Lordship of Turvey which for the space of One Hundred and ninety five Years had till then been divided into Two Mannors and Jurisdictions by the Names of Mordaunt's Mannor and Ardres's Mannor ever since the Reign of King Richard the First when it was parted with the rest of the Alno's Lands between Alice and Sarah de Alno the Two Heirs of that House For in the Forty ninth of Edward the Third an exchange was made by Deed of Indenture between Thomas de Ardres and Robert Mordaunt in which the said Thomas gave and granted all his Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Turvey to the said Robert in Fee and Exchange for all the Lands which Robert had in Shephaell which were of the inheritance of her Mother Helena de Broc This Robert Mordaunt had Married Agnes L'Estrange the Daughter and one of the Heirs of John L' Estrange that was Lord of Ampton Timworth and Brokeley and of Elizabeth who was Sister and Heir of William Botteler of Walden The other Daughter of John L' Estrange was Elizabeth that Married John Warren and by whose death without Issue the Lordships of Ampton Timworth Brokeley with that of Walden which was of those Bottelers Lands devolved entirely to Agnes Mordaunt and to the Heirs of her body Agnes Mordaunt after the Death of Robert her Husband Married again to Thomas de Fodringay as appears by a Deed bearing Date the Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle in the twentieth Year of Richard the Second wherein Thomas of Ardres granted to Thomas de Fodringay and Agnes his Wife a certain Annuity for term of the Life of the said Agnes in Exchange for her Dower in Shephaell The Issue of Robert Mordaunt and Agnes his Wife Robert Mordaunt Cassandra Mordaunt a Nun in the Monastery of Elueston ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chellington Brayfield Ampton Timworth Brokeley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER IX ROBERT MORDAVNT the Third of his Name giving way to that Spirit which led him to the generous but uncertain applications of this life and being enclined to the War which flourished in that Martial Age he became a Favourite dependant upon that Famous Prince Edward Duke of York who was after slain at the Battel of Agincourt as appears by an Extant Deed where by Covenant he was with one William Mirefield retain'd to serve him in the Wars of France with a certain number of Archers and Lances He out-liv'd those Services and continued during the Civil Broils of his own Country an asserter of the Claim and Interest of the House of York Whether it were by the Expences incident to such undertakings or otherwise he proved a great Alienator of many noble Lordships and Possessions that descended to him by his Ancestors In the Sixth Year of King Henry the Sixth Agnes de Fodringay and Robert Mordaunt her Son released with Warranty all their right to the Mannor of Timworth in the County of Suffolk Dated the Tenth of February In the Eleventh of the said King he made away all his Lands in Elsburgh to Thomas Chaucer Esq Peter Fettyplace and Thomas Ramsey And in the seventeenth by a Deed bearing Date the Fourth of June he Alienated to one John Austin the Moiety of the Mannor of Mallots in Hinton in the County of Cambridge with its appurtenances and all the rest of those Lands which the said Robert held in the Towns and in the Fields of Hinton Cambridge Treversham and Julborne in the said County And lastly he sold in the same Year to Thomas Cheyney Esq all his Lands and Tenements in Chesham and Aumundsham Yet this King's Reign abounding in occasions of Expence and Troubles since it was never free from exhausting Wars abroad till it became the scene of more destructive Civil ones at home excuses may be render'd for what was unavoidable Notwithstanding he left a competent Estate to his Successor And Deceased in in the Twenty seventh Year of this King He had Married Elizabeth of Holdenby the Daughter of Robert Holdenby of Holdenby which Family was of an Antient standing in the County of Northampton and flourished at this time in very Noble Possessions for we find that Robert Holdenby the Brother of Elizabeth Mordaunt held the Mannors of Burton Brimmington and Ramston with Lands in Would and in Clipston in Guilden Morton Kilmersh and West-Haddon in Northampton Oxhampton Wepsmade in Dunstable and in Holdenby And this Elizabeth surviving Robert Mordaunt took to her Second Husband Robert Tanfield of Gayton in the County of Northampton Esquire The Issue of Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Maud Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chellington Clifton Brayfield Bottellers and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER X. WILLIAM MORDAVNT after those wastes
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
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
fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Oxford secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sexto Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parliamenti Toung Irrotulatur in Memorandis Scaccarii de Anno nono Regis Henrici octavi videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sanctae Trinitatis rotulo ..... Ex parte Remem Thesaurum 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 you well And forasmuch as we intend that our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots shall now shortly repair unto our City of London at whose coming our mind is That she be honourably accompanied and conveyed from Shire to Shire by such Noble-men and other Gentlemen as be Inhabitants of those paris amongst whom we have appointed you to accompany and attend upon our said Sister from the Town of Stony-stratford to Saint Albans We therefore will and desire you to put your self in a readiness so that against the Fourteenth day of April ye be at our said Town of Stonystratford there to meet with our said dearest Sister and from thence to attend upon her till her coming to the said Town of Saint Albans Not failing hereof as ye intend to do unto us honour and pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Two and twentieth day of March. 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 you well And forasmuch as we understand that at the time of the late repair hither of our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots ye according to our Letters to you then Addressed right thankfully acquitted your self in giving your Attendance for Her conducting and honourable conveyance We therefore give unto you our special thanks And where it is appointed that our said dearest Sister shall now return unto the Realm of Scotland we will and desire you to put your self in a readiness likewise to accompany and conduct her at this her said return from our Castle of Windsor where she intendeth to be the Sixteenth day of this Moneth so to attend upon her to Stony-stratford whereby ye shall deserve a further thanks to be remembred accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Eight day of May. 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 you well Forasmuch as a right-great and Honourable Ambassaor shall within short time repair unto our Presence out of France at which season it is requisite and right expedient that our Court be Honourably furnished with Lords and other Nobles for the receiving and entertaining of the said Ambassador We therefore have appointed you among others to give your Attendance in our said Court at their coming Wherefore we will that forthwith upon the sight of these our Letters ye put your self in such a readiness in your best aray that ye may be here with us by the Twentieth day of this instant Month at the farthest without failing thus to do as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Tenth day of August Alliance of Mordaunt and Elmes THese be the Articles and Agreements had made and concluded the Twelfth day of February the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir apparent of Elizabeth now Wife to Thomas Pygott Esquire one of the Kings Serjeants at Law and late the Wife of the said William and one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Iwardely Esquire Deceased on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Partie for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Elmes and Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt First it is agreed That the said John Elmes shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Wife the said Edith if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in the like manner the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes if the said John Elmes will agree and assent thereto The said Marriage to be had and solemnized before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these present Agreements Item It is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the Costs of the same John Mordaunt Item It is also agreed by these Presents That the said John Elmes shall Apparel himself at his pleasure and at his own Costs and Charges And in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall Apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the Feast-day of All-Saints shall at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the said John Mordaunt Robert Brudenell Knight one of the Justices of our Sovereign Lord the King at the Pleas before him to be holden Thomas Pygott one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law and to William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Gardiner John Spencer Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs and at all time and times after the said Feast of All-Saints within the space of Eight Years when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt or by by his Heirs or by his Executors or by his Assigns a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly Value of Threescore Pounds over all yearly Charges and of such Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances of the Inheritance of the said John Elmes as by the said John Mordaunt shall be named and appointed the said Persons to be and stand seized of Fifty Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Threescore Pounds to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith Mordaunt after their said Marriage had of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said William according to the Old Interest thereof And of Ten Pounds residue of the said Threescore Pounds that the said Feoffees shall stand
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
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
and Northampton to the clear yearly value of Two hundred and twenty Pounds Item That the said Robert shall be bound by Recognisance to the said Lord in the Summ of a Thousand Pounds that his Maners Lands and Tenements and Hereditaments which he hath within the Realm of England after the decease of the same Robert shall Descend Remain and come to the said John his Son and to his Heirs clearly discharged of all former Bargains Sales Jointures Dowers Judgments Recognisances Statutes and of all other Charges and Incumbrances had made done or suffered to be had made or done by the said Robert or by any other by his Assent or Agreement Provided always That it shall be lawful to the said Robert to make a Jointure of Lands and Tenements parcel of his Inheritance of the yearly value of Forty Pounds in Chessham Boys and Amersham in the County of Buckingham to any his Wife or Wives only for term of Life And also the said Robert at his pleasure to give Lands and Tenements in Chessham Boys to the value of Twenty Pounds to his Youngest Son or Sons for term of Life of the said Margaret And after the decease of the said Margaret the said Robert to be at liberty to give to his Younger Son or Sons Lands and Tenements in Cuggenho in the County of Northampton to the like yearly value of Twenty Pounds Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said Robert for to Entail the Maner of Grove to the Heirs Males of the said Robert's Body lawfully begotten The said Lord to find the said John Cheyne and Winefred Meat and Drink for themselves their Servants and Children during Three Years next after the Marriage solemnized And the said Robert to find them other Three Years next ensuing at his costs and charges Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said Robert to declare his Will of a Field called Trinity-Field parcel of a Pasture called Hellythorp of the Issues and Profits going out of the same Ground saving the sure Inheritance to the said John Cheyne his Son and Heir apparent For the which Premises the said Lord doth Covenant and Grant to pay to the said Robert Four hundred and fifty Marks yearly That is to say At the day of the Marriage a hundred Pound and every Year after a Hundred Marks at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady until the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be fully contented and paid to the said Robert his Executors or Assigns Provided That the Fifty Marks before rehearsed shall be paid to the said John Cheyne the Younger and Winefred at such time as they shall begin to keep House toward their charges and taking up of Household Item That the said Lord shall be bound by Recognisance to the said Robert in the Summ of Four hundred Pounds for the payment of Four hundred and Fifty Marks at such Days as is before limited 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 forasmuch as by the manifold Injuries wrought and Displeasures done unto us our Realm and Subjects by the Scots we have been inforced lately to enter into open War and hostility with the same which we intend and purpose God willing unless the Nobles of Scotland shall conform themselves to Reason to prosecute in such sort as shall redound to our Honour and to the Common Wealth of our Realm and Subjects To the intent we may the better know the Forces of our said Realm and thereby put the same in such order and readiness as they may serve us in this Enterprize as the case shall require We have thought meet and necessary to have special Musters taken of all our people and thereupon also to have such plain and perfect Certificate made as shall declare what may be trusted to in that behalf Wherefore our Pleasure and Commandment is That you by vertue and authority hereof shall with all convenient diligence take the Musters of all the able Men as well Horsemen as Footmen which you can make and furnish both of our Tenants inhabiting upon Farms Holds and Tenemenrs within any Office whereof you have the Stewardship under Us if you have any such and also of your own Servants and Tenants dwelling upon your own Tenements and the same so taken to certifie in writing to our Counsel attendant upon our Person with all possible diligence with a special Note and Declaration to be expressed in the said Certificate how many of the said Persons be furnished with Horses to occupy a Spear or a Javelin how many be Archers and how many be Billmen and how many Principal Men may be picked out of every sort out of the whole number All which persons our pleasure is you shall put in such a readiness as they may set forth upon one hours warning whensoever you shall receive commandment from us in that behalf foreseeing that in these Musters and Certificate you meddle not in any wise with any Mariners forasmuch as we purpose to reserve the same for our Furniture by Sea And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Palace of Westminster the last day of March the Four and thirtieth Year of our Reign A grant of Deodands and other Liberties in Turvey HEnricus Octavus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor in Terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae Supremum Caput Omnibus ad quos praesentes Litterae nostrae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quòd inter Recorda pedes Finium cum proclamatione secundum formam Statuti inde editi provisi de termino sancti Hilarii Anno Regni Henrici Regis Septimi decimo septimo continetur sic Bedfordiae scilicet Haec est finalis Concordia facta in Curia Domini regis apud Westmonasterium in crastino Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Henrici regis Angliae Franciae Septimi à Conquestu decimo septimo coram Thoma Woode Willielmo Danvers Johanne Vavasour Johanne Fisher Justiciariis postea in Octavis Sancti Hilarii anno regni ejusdem Henrici regis decimo nono ibidem concessa Recordata coram Thoma Frowyk praefatis Willielmo Johanne Johanne Justiciariis aliis Domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibi praesentibus inter Johannem Mordaunt Willielmum Mordaunt Querentes Edwardum Ducem Buckinghamiae Elianoram uxorem ejus Deforciantes De Visu Franciplegii Assisa panis cervisiae Catallis Waiviatis Straiatis Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesauro invento cum pertinentiis in Turveia Unde placitum Conventionis summonitum fuit inter eos in eadem Curia scilicet Quod praedicti Johannes Willielmus recognoverint praedicta Visum Franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata
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
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
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
Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after their deceases to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt for ever And of all the residue of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which lately were the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or Freehold jointly or severally or otherwise in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last Day of August in the said Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to such Person and Persons and to such use and uses as by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son shall be declared in Writing for and during the space of Ten Years or under and not above so that the same to be declared first for and to the Payment of his Debts And after his Debts paid then to and for the Advancement of his Children Unmarried and after his Debts paid and his Children Unmarried advanced then for the Performance of the Legacies of the same Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after the same Ten Years ended and expired then to the proper use and behoof of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the same Dame Eilzabeth Mordaunt for ever And also That if the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son doth convey and assure unto the said Lewis Mordaunt to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt all the Estate Right Title Interest which the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son hath in and to the Maner of Snelson in the County of Buckingham and in and to all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Snelson aforesaid and in Turvey Harold Lavenden and Brafeld or elsewhere to the said Maner of Snelson belonging which were sometime George the Earl of Kents in the County of Buckingham and Bedford And also do permit and suffer the said Lewis Mordaunt quietly to have hold occupy and enjoy all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which be conveyed or assured unto the said Lewis according to the true intent and meaning as well of certain Indentures Quadripartite made between me the said John Lord Mordaunt on the one Party and the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols on the other Party bearing date the last Day of August in the Second Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is as also of other Conveyances and Assurances made by me unto the said Lewis Mordaunt And also do permit and suffer my Executors to execute and perform my Will without any Impeachment or Disturbance That then my Executors shall well and truly content and pay or cause to be contented and paid unto the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son within One whole Year next after such lawful and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis the Summ of Three thousand Marks of Lawful Money of England towards the payment of his Debts and Advancement of his Children Unmarried And further That then the said Lewis Mordaunt shall assure or cause to be assured unto the said Dame Joan now Wife to my Son Sir John Mordaunt one yearly Rent of One hundred Marks during her Life with a sufficient clause of Distress in Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the yearly value of One hundred Pounds for the not payment thereof at Two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also my Will is That all my Funeral Debts Legacies and Charges of this my Last Will and Testament paid and discharged that the said Lewis Mordaunt shall have all the residue of my Goods Plate and Chattels whatsoever they be Executores Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Johannis Mordaunt Militis Domini Mordaunt tertio decimo die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo anno regni Reginae Elizabethae quarto Robertus Tirewhite miles Henricus Darcy Armiger Thomas Nichols Generosus Ludovicus Mordaunt Armiger Georgius Mordaunt Armiger Johannes Ashecomb Generosus Thomas Darcy Armiger Quilibet Executorum praedictorum assumens super se onus Testamenti mei habebit viginti libras Also I make Sir Robert Catlin Knight and my loving Cousin Justice Anthony Brown Supervisors of this my Last Will and Testament and I give to either of them Ten Pounds for their pains taken herein these being Witness John Hatcher Thomas Larkin Robert Pemberton John Moreton Edward Knight Robert Bennet and John Richardson SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT In the Parish Church of Turvey Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Third of that Name Second Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt the Younger Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we are determined upon the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and do to be Celebrated at Westminster with all due Circumstances of Honor the Coronation of our most dear and welbeloved Wife the Lady Anne our Queen as to her Estate and Dignity doth appertain at which time it hath been accustomed to advance to the Honor of Knighthood to be made and ordered with the Ceremonies of the Bath such of the Nobility as was at that time by the Sovereign thought convenient for the same And therefore minding to pretermit nothing that might set forth the Honor of the said Coronation and thinking you right able and worthy to receive that Degree have appointed you to be one of those whom we intend to advance to such Honor. And therefore our Pleasure is That ye being advertised hereof do make such Preparation against the time aforesaid and put your self in such a Readiness as shall be requisite for you in the acceptation of the said Order and as for the Honor thereof hath been used and accustomed Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and twentieth Day of April Hollinshead 's Chronicle page 931. No. 50. ON Fryday at Dinner served the King all such as were appointed by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath which after Dinner were brought to
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
vel debuerunt In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Datum sub Magno Sigillo nostro apud Whitehall Decimo nono die Januarii Anno Regni praecharissimi Domini Mariti nostri Jacobi Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. primo Annoque Domini 168â
May it please Your Majesty This containeth a Grant from Your Majesty to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the Offices of High Steward and Keeper of Your Courts Leet c. and of General and Chief Bayliff of all Your Majesty's Honours Maners and Lands now or hereafter within the Kingdom of England To hold during Your Majesty's Pleasure with the Annual Fee of Twenty Pounds for the said Office of High Steward and all other profits to the said several Offices belonging And is done by virtue of your Majesty's Warrant to me directed bearing Date the First Day of January 1685 6. Ro. North. OF THE Collateral BRANCHES That have issued out of the HOUSE OF MORDAUNT OF THE Collateral BRANCHES That have issued out of the HOUSE OF MORDAUNT HAVING deduc'd the Succict Genealogies of all the Houses whence were descended and whereunto were Heirs the Mordaunts that were Lords of Turvey in the County of Bedford as likewise particularly that of the same Noble Family and justified them by the Extant and Unquestionable Proofs inserted all along in the foregoing Works I have thought it indispensably necessary to declare the descents of those Branches also that at several times proceded from the Chief House and that in other Countries upon Lordships of their own have since made separated Families and continued in Worthy Estimation to this day That in case of accidents though very improbable which might conduce to the extinction of the Eldest Family there might remain Lights to the right of Succession for preventing future Controversies and wrongful or mistaken Pretences though it cannot be expected instruments of Proof should be inserted here as in the former they remaining in the hands of the Owners who willingly part not with the Evidences of their Estates out of their power or live at such distance as would make it too uneasie or troublesom Here shall therefore hereunto be annexed the Pedegrees of these Collaterals with all the Truth and Justness imaginable to the end those Gentlemen concern'd in them may know what is their Rank in point of Time and the Grounds of any Pretences they can justly make upon any Accidents may happen for the future The Decent of the Mordaunts that were Lords of Wybaldstone Will m Mordaunt Ld. of Turven Rossia de Wake Robert Mordaunt Ld. of Turvey Eldest Sonne Iolianna de Bray Sr. Will Mordaunt Ld. of Wybaldston Mary de Bosco Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Wubaldstone Eleanar Conquest Gohn Mordaunt Ld. of Wubaldston Eliz Raunstou Matilda Mordaunt Filia Heres The Decent of the Mordaunts who were L ds of Hempstead Massingham Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Turvey Agness Peck Sr. John Mordaunt Ld. of Turroen Eldest Sonue Edith Latimer Will m Mordaunt Ld. of hempsted Anne Huntington Robert Nordaunt Ld. of Hempsted Margaret Pooly Sr l'Estrange Mordaunt Knt. and Baronett Margarett Charles Sr Robert Mordaut Knt. Baronett Amie Southerton Henry Mordaunt Barbara Catthrop Will m Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt Eliz Rowse Sr. Charles Mordaunt K Bar. Catherine Talmach l'Estrange Mordaunt Catlin Edmund Mordaunt Lewis Alordaut Sr. John Mordaunt Anne Risely Henry Mordaunt The Decent of the Mordaunts which were Lords of Oakley John the first Ld. Mordaunt Elizabeth vere John the 2d. Ld. Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Oakely Agnes Booth George Mordaunt Ld. of the Hill Caldcaut Cicely Harding Edm Mordaunt Ld. of Oakely Eliz Sturley Sr. Charles Mordaunt Ld. of Oakly Eliz Snagg S. P. John Mordaut Ld. of Oakely Eliz Pudsey Charles Mordaut Ld. of Oakely Eliz Strozzy Sr. John Mordaunt Eliz Adams John Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt John Mordaunt The Decent of the Mordaunts who were L. of ãâã ãâã ãâã Iohn Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Vere Iohn the 2 Lord Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Edm Mordaut Second Sonne Sine Prole George Mordaut Fourth Sonne Cicely Harding Willm. Mordaunt Third Sonne Agnes Booth Lewes Mordaunt Iane Ncedam Eliz. Mordaunt Edw Maynard Lewes Mordaunt George Mordaut Anne Smith Charles Mordaunt George Mordaunt Eliz Everard Iohn Mordaunt Sonne heire The Decent of the Mordaunts that were Lords of Hardwick Henry Lord Mordaunt Margaret Compton John Eark of Peterborow Eliz Howard James Mordaut Gostwick John Mordaunt Barbara Ludlous Henry Mordaunt Sonne Heire The Decent of the Mordaunts that were L ds of Rygate Iohn L d Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Eliz Howard Henry Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian Iohn Ld. Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Cary. George Mordaunt Osmond Mordaunt Charles Ld. Viscout Mordaunt Cary Fraiser Henry Mordaunt Lewes Mordaunt Martin Henry Mordaunt Iohn Mordaunt Sonne Heire
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
and Constable of the Castle Honor of Saltwood Damata de Gorum Edelina de Broc Stephen of Turnam Sr. ROBERT de BROC Marshall of England and Forrester of Cannock Margaret of Beauchamp Sr. Laurence de Broc L d of Shephale Milicent de Mallet Sr. Hugh de Broc Ld. of Shephale Agnes de Montepiconis Sr. Laurence de Broc Ld. of Shephale Elena de Pirot Sr. Rauf de Broc Ld. of Shephale Elizabeth Hussey Johanna de Broc Thomas Rokeshy Ellena de Broc Edmond Mordaunt L d of Turvey Agnes de Broc Henry de Brussels GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE House of BROC Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE House of BROC RANULPH de BROC Lord of the Castle of Agenet and Constable of the Castle and Honour of Saltwood Hollinshead Page 89 60. THE Earl of Leicester therefore Landing at Walton the 21. of September passed thorough the County at Fremmingham where he was received of Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk and after that another Fleet of Flemmings were arrived for their Aid they went to Ipswich where when they had remained a few days and augmented their Forces by certain Bands of Men of War that belonged to Earl Bigod they went to the Castle of Agenet that belonged to Ralph de Broc which they took spoiled and burned and then returned to Fremmingham Doctor Powells History of Wales Page 207. IN this first Voyage of King Henry against the Welshmen he was put in great danger of his Life in a Streight at Counsilth not far from Flint where Henry of Essex whose Office by Inheritance was to bear the Standard of England cast down the same and fled which thing encouraged the Welshmen in such sort that the King being sore distressed had much ado to save himself and as the French Chronicle saith was fain to Flee of whose part Eustace fitz John and Robert de Courcey Two Worthy Knights with divers other Noblemen and Gentlemen were Slain Hollinshead History of England Page 67. THose which escaped in returning back not knowing that the King passed through the Streights without danger declared to their Fellows that followed and were approaching to the said Streights that the King and all the residue was lost These News so discomforted the Companies that Henry of Essex that bore the King's Standard by right of Inheritance threw down the same and fled which dishonourable Deed was afterwards laid to his Charge by one Robert de Montford with whom by Order of the King he fought a Combat in Tryal of the Quarrel and was overcome but yet the King qualifying the rigour of the Judgment by mercy pardoned his Life and appointed him to be Shorn a Monk and put into the Abby at Reading taking his Lands and Possessions into his hands as forfeited Villare Cantianum Folio 298. Concerning the Castle and Honour of Saltwood THere was here formerly a Magnificent Castle which time hath much demolished and a Park well stored with Deer now vanished and gone Many Mannors in this Tract are held thereof by Knights Service which justly made it accounted and called an Honour In the time of King Henry the Second Henry of Essex Baron of Raleigh Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports pro tempore and the King's Standard-Bearer by Right of Inheritance held this Castle of the Arch-bishop Who having in a light Skirmish against the Welsh in Flintshire not only cast away his Courage but his Standard also was appealed of High Treason and in a Legal Duell vanquished by his Challenger and being possessed with Regret and Shame contracted from his Defeat shrowded himself in a Cloister and put on a Monk's Coul forfeiting a goodly Patrimony and Livelihood which was Escheated to King Henry the Second Charta Regis Henrici Secundi HENRICUS Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris Fidelibus suis totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me Dedisse Concessisse Ranulpho de Broc Officium Constabularii in Castro Honore de Saltwood cum omnibus Libertatibus Proficuis eidem Officio pertinentibus Tenendum sibi pro toto tempore vitae suae Quare volo firmitèr praecipio quòd ipse hoc praedictum habeat teneat bene in pace honorificè liberè sicut illud unquà m Henricus de Essex meliùs liberiùs tenuit Testibus Ricardo de Humet Constabulario Roberto Marmion Widone de Sancto Walerico Willielmo de Porth Gerardo de Camvillo Manasero Bisset Dapifero Historiae Anglicanae decem Scriptores Page 1314. QUAe etiam tunc temporis Ecclesia habuit cum tempore exilii Sancti Thomae Tyrannus ille Radulphus de Broc ex praecepto Regis custodiret Episcopatum Historiae Anglicanae decem Scriptores in Chronica Gervasii Page 1398. REX autem Angliae Henricus admodum supra modum iratus eo quòd ipse in Nuntiis suis Petitionibus tà m à Rege Franciae quà m à Domino Papâ esset repulsus jussit furore plenus res reditus Archiepiscopi omnium suorum confiscari totámque Cognationem suam omnes qui cum quovis Titulo contingebant exilio damnari nulli igitur Statui Fortunae vel Ordini ista crudelitas pepercit Nam Mulieres in puerperio decumbentes pueri quoque jacentes in Cunis acti sunt in Exilium Senes cum Junioribus propulsi sunt domibus eorum rebus in exterminium datis adulti quoque coacti sunt jurare quòd absque diversione vel diverticulo Pontiniacum peterent Archiepiscopo suo Regis autem proditori se praesentarent ut ipse solus tot angustias Cordis sustineret quot causa sui coexules egentes viderit Processit ulterior furor immanis nam publicè terrore Laicae prohibitum est ne quis eum non dico Donis vel Scriptis visitaret sed ne quis pro eo in Anglicanâ Ecclesiâ oraret Exercebantur istae hujusmodi Enormitates per quendam filium Perditionis Ranulphum de Broc quem Rex ad custodiendum imò ad destruendum commendaverat Archiepiscopatum Hac itaque acceptâ potestate associatis sibi nequioribus se circumquaque grassabantur Oderat enim Archiepiscopum ex antiquo ideóque crudelitate non poterat satiari In eadem Chronica Gervasii Page 1414. ERant autem hi quatuor Generis Nobilitate conspicui militiâ praeclari Regi admodum familiares ut Socii quorum Nomina sunt haec Reginaldus filius Ursi Willielmus de Tracy Ricardus Brito Hugo de Morvillâ cum festinatione nimiâ descenderunt praedicti quatuor milites ad Mare sine impedimento aliquo vel morâ transpositi applicuerunt juxta Dovariam in loco qui portus Canum appellatur gloriabantur admodum de tam facili transitu ut si Deo malignitatis suae placeret conspiratio adeóque liberum eis praeparasset introitum noctem illam in Castro de Saltwood quod