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
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
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
Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted
indeed the very Heir and of this Family it was which is so very admirable where Fortune and Virtue that are so oft at odds about the Creatures they intend to raise did both concur to make the Lords thereof so very Great with so little Envy Great they were as all the greatest Dignities could make them they had been Generals in the Field Admirals at the Sea Counsellors at the Board Ambassadors abroad Commissioners in the most important Treaties and borne the greatest Offices in the Houses of their Kings but greater far in that their Noble Qualities and Virtuous Actions did deserve them so as they seemed made to adorn those Honours which might well at first have been designed to illustrate other Men. For their Descent it was several ways derived from the Beds of Kings they took Marriages from the Crown and gave Wives into the Arms of Princes Their Estates were suitable to their other Greatness and the Rewards of their Services such as became the acknowledgment of generous Princes After all which I know not what could obstruct the Lustre of this House unless it were the Malignity of Oblivion or want of Friends within the House of Fame to obviate which these short Memorials are thought fit to be Recorded by a Servant and honourer of their Descendants THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Surrey Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter CHAPTER I. THOMAS HOWARD who was afterward the Second Duke of Norfolk from whom more immediately the Howards of Effingham do Descend being the greatest and most happy Subject of his time it were not amiss for example sake to shew by what Education and Practices he became fit for such a Fortune for he was certainly the Son of Virtue and Chance or Favour had little share in his Prosperity He was by a prudent Father as soon as he was fit for Study committed to the severity of the Schools to the end a great Spirit under discipline might be acquainted with the moderations that are to be used in the course of Humane Life as that he should apply himself to obtain the Favour of the Muses whose Graces if he could acquire they would certainly be to him of use or comfort in every Fortune After he had such a tincture of Letters as was necessary for a Man that was neither design'd for the Pulpit nor the Bar the Lord Howard his Father sent him out of the Country where there was little improvement to be made besides enabling himself in the conduct of mean Sports or meaner Inclinations He addressed him to the Court where he was soon received in the quality of Page or Henchman to King Edward the Fourth continuing there till he came to Mans estate in perpetual practice of those Exercises that are necessary to fit a Man for the Knowledge and use of Arms of all which when he was become a Master he was ambitious to shew his Learning upon a proper Stage And hearing that the Duke of Burgundy one of the nearest and most considerable Allies of the Crown of England was undertaking a War against Lewis the Eleventh at that time King of France He begged leave of the King his Master to go into that Service in Company of other considerable Gentlemen of his own Country who desired to gain Knowledge and Experience in that great Art to be the better able afterward when there should be occasion to serve their own Prince and Country They were received with all the courtesie they could expect from that War-like Prince and had every Encouragement young Adventurers could pretend to in such an undertaking The young Howard did particularly advance into the Favour of the Duke by his extraordinary application to what he came for being the first in every occasion that could possibly gain him either Honor or Experience And thus he continued in this Service till the end of that War at which time he returned home to his own King loaden with the Rewards and Praises of the Duke of Burgundy King Edward as well for the desert of the Young Gentleman as to give Example and Encouragement to other of his Subjects for enabling themselves by such generous untertakings upon his Arrival did distinguish him by several Graces and took him into an Office at that time very considerable to be the Esquire of his Body whose duty it was to attend the King at his making ready both Morning and Evening and afterward he made him Knight He continued from thenceforth to follow King Edward in all his Fortunes he Fought by his side at the Field in Lincoln-shire at Banbury Field and was with him at Warwick when he was taken Prisoner by the Earl of that place And after the Kings escape into Flanders and that all the ways were so be-set as it was over hard for any of his Servants to get after him Sir Thomas Howard was fain to take sanctuary at Saint Johns in Colchester for the true love that he bore King Edward where he remained till the Kings Return upon which he immediately resorted to him and went with him to Barnet Field at which he was sore hurt The King after this being settled in the Throne and designing to go over into France with an Army Royal he sent thither before divers Gentlemen and having great opinion of the Conduct and Experience of Sir Thomas Howard from the Service he had seen under the Duke of Burgundy as because he had been with himself in so many Fields and Businesses he commanded him to go over with them that nothing might be done without his Advice till the Kings own Arrival And when King Edward and King Lewis met at the Barriers upon the River of Somme the said Sir Thomas Howard was with King Edward by the King's Commandment in that Occasion and no Man else save only the Chancellor of England the Chancellor of France and Sir Thomas Cheyny Sir John Howard the Father of Sir Thomas had before this been made Lord Howard and lived always exercised in the greatest Employments having just pretentions to the Honors and Lands of the Great and Antient House of Mowbray as Son and Heir to Margaret the Eldest Daughter to Thomas Mowbray the last Duke of Norfolk But Sir Thomas Howard his Son of whom we Treat having acquired noble Possessions of his own by his Services and his Wife's Inheritance who was Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney did about this time desire the King's leave to retire from Court which having obtained he came into Norfolk and dwelt during the rest of King Edward's days at a House of his Wife 's called Ashwoldsthorpe where he kept an honourable House in favour of the whole Shire The Lord Howard his Father being yet alive and so continuing many Years after What was the inducement to this retreat is still uncertain but it is constant that the last Years of King Edward were so full of Faction
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
Whereupon at the coming of this Deponent to Drayton his seid Lord was deed and buryed and diverse of his fellowes both Yomen and Gromes of the Chamber now decessed without asking of eny question by this Deponent seid to him that their Lord and Master had yeven and bequethed to the Erle of Shrewsbury and to his heires for ever his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Fee simple Landes after his Detts paid and his Wyll performed And that the seid Erle of Wiltshyre had requyred the seid Erle of Shrewesbury to be good Lord and Master to them as he trusted verelye he would be Whereupon this Deponent tooke his Horse and returned to Wynfeld foresaid where this Deponent shewed to the seid Erle of Shrewsbury how the seid Erle of Wilteshyre had bequeathed and wylled to him Drayton with other his Fee simple Landes in manner and forme as he hath above deposed And more he cannot depose Deposition of William Boyes WIlliam Boyes Yoman of the age of eight and forty yeares and more sworne and examyned seith that he was Servant to the seid Erle of Wilteshyre as beyng Usher of his Hall and keeper of his Parke at Drayton by the space of twenty yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also this Deponent seith that the seid Erle aboute two dayes before he leyd him downe of the sycknesse whereof he dyed walked into his Parke of Drayton and seid to this Deponent that his mynde and last Wyll was and shuld bee that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Landes in Fee simple to have to hyme and to his Heyres for ever after his Detts payde and his Wylle performyd whyche words this Deponent as he seith hath herd the seid Erle speke above forty tymes commandynge this Deponent to beer wytnesse thereof sayeing also that he would have his seid Cossyn Shrewsbury to socor and help this Deponent and other his feloes if theye shuld nede of Mastershyp or Lordshyp and so he woold require his seid Cossyn soo to doo Alsoe he seith that he never knewe or herd that the seid Erle any tyme changed his seid mynde and Wylle in eny poyent thereof but that he ever contynewed in the same mynde duryng his lyfe And more he knoweth not Deposition of Chrystopher Myddylton CHrystopher Myddylton of the age of forty five yeres and above sworne and examyned seith in vertue of his othe that he was Grome of the styrop to the Erle of Wilteshyre by the space of six yeres or more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also he seith thet he herd the seid Erle as well in takeing his journeye towerd Blackhethe feeld as after his returnynge from thence at Drayton Bakenall and in other places dyvers times reporte and seye that noone of the heyres of Veer shuld inherit his Manoir of Drayton or any other his Fee-simple Landes though he shuld be drawen in Hell But that his last Wylle was and ever shuld be that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have the seid Manoir and all his Fee simple Landes to him and to his heyres for ever after his Detts payd and his Wylle performed whyche he woold yeve to his seid Cossyn for a remembrance trustyng he woold be good Lord to his Servauntes whyche Erle to the knowlege or understandyng of this Deponent never changed his seid Wylle or myend in that behalfe Also he seith that aboute a wyke or more after the burying of the seid Erle Thomas Mountegue one of the Feoffees and Executors of the seid Erle came to this Deponent at a place in Drayton called the Bareheed demaunding of this Deponent how he woold doo whereunto this Deponent aunswering seid that he knew not howe to doo nether whether to goo as yeat whyche Mountegue then seid that he thought that William Merbury his old Master woold have this Deponent this Deponent seid that Master Mordaunt Serjaunt had desired his Servys and had offered to him good wages but he had not agreyed to take them nor knewe not whether he so woold And whyche Mountegue then seid to this Deponent thou knowest that I am oon of the Feoffees in my Lordes Landes and alsoe oon of his Executors and knew as moche of his myend as summe other did and yeat I am not callyd to Councell for there is now in the towre here in the place at Drayton Master Mordaunt Serjaunt Sir Thomas Cheneye William Merbury and other suche as plesyth them which wyll not let me bee pryveye what they doo there But what they doo or intend to doo I cannot tell or whether they wyll change my Lordes Wylle in any thing But this I know of troth that oure Lord and Master's myend was at the tyme of his deth that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have this Manoir here of Drayton and all other his Fee simple Landes after his Detts payde and his Wylle performyd And then this Deponent seid to the seid Mountegue that he dyverse tymes hath herd his seid Lord sey and reporte the same And more he knoweth not Deposition of Thomas Cade THomas Cade Clarke Parson of Buckworth in the Diocesse of Lincolne of th'age of forty eight yeres and more sworne and examyned the first day of the Moneth of Marche in the fifth yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Eight upon the testament and last wyll of Edward late Erle of Wiltes seith and deposeth that he knew well and perfetly the seid Erle insomoche this Deponent was his household Chaplayne by the space of seven yeres and more And as concernyng the makyng of the Testament and last Wyll of the seid Erle this Deponent seith that he can nothing depose of the contents thereof but affirmeth the twenty fourth day of Marche then being Palm-Sonday in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety and eight this Deponent was present at the Manoir of Drayton the day and yere aboveseid in a high Chamber in whyche Chamber the seid Erle lay sick and there in the presence of this Deponent the seid Testament and last Wyll was engrosed in Parchment by one Philip Foster and presented and delyvered unto the Handes of the seid Erle and then and there in presence of this Deponent the seid Testament and last Wyll was soe sealed with his accustomed square Signet graved with a ramping Bere upon a Berewerdes Staffe then being present at the sealing of the seid Testament and last Wyll John Mordaunt Serjeaunt at the Law Robert Wittelbury William Marbury Philip Foster James Walbef Master William Hylde then Master of the College of Foderinghay this Deponent and others more whose names he perfetly remembreth not Also this Deponent affirmeth that the seid Testament and last Wyll of the seid Erle soe Sealed was his last Wyll and Testament and that he never made after that tyme any other Testament neither solempne in wryting nor nuncupative by word and that he renounced all other Wylls and
Prince King John the disorderly rigours of whose Government was become unsufferable to the greatest part of the Nation He was at first received with all the applause which sometimes follows Novelties of this nature He was crown'd at London He had Homage done him and Allegiance sworn as to a lawful King He proceeded with their assistance in divers warlike Undertakings wherein he had admirable success and acted in all the other Parts of the Government as one who expected to be soon establish'd During this time among the great Lords of his Party there happened to be one who to all his Concerns was most useful and to his Person most officious This Lord whose Name is omitted out of respect to the Descendants of his Family had no Issue of his own and only for his Heirs three beautiful Sisters The youngest whereof whose Name was Philippe by her admirable Qualities had so engaged the Prince's love as it made the Conquest of her heart to share his cares with that of the Kingdom But against a King that was young and seemed happy it was not strange that a Lady did not long resist She yielded at last and the Prince enjoyed the effects and her misfortune began to appear together She found her self with Child and by the fatal loss of the Battel of Lincoln that her Lover was like to be abandoned by his Friends and by his fortune He was obliged to retire to London whence from the Tower where he had refug'd himself he made Conditions to depart home in safety by relinquishing to the young King Henry his farther pretences The poor Lady left in this condition owned her disaster to her Brother who pitying her state from the greatness and merit of the Author gave her a comfortable assurance of his kindness and protection She was after secretly delivered and the Child named Lewis Which Fruit of her Loves being nourished under this Great Lords Care and Education he having no Children of his own afore his death bestowed upon the Youth the noble Lordship of Westhornedon with divers other Lands in the County of Essex obliging him to bear himself and transmit to his Descendants the Name of Fitz-Lewis for ever after Among his three Sisters this Lord coming to dye did leave his vast Inheritance with whom the Lady Philippe hath her share and her misfortune either conceal'd or else gilded over with the advantages of her Riches did not hinder her from being afterwards married to an Husband of great Quality in whom she was happy for her time and brought him a Posterity whence are descended some of the greatest Lords that flourish in this Age. Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis having been bred under his Uncle in the Notion of a more distant relation than in the truth of the matter he did indeed stand towards him at the time of that Lord's death found himself possessed by his favour and affection with such an Estate as was capable to support the generous inclinations of his heart which did altogether incline him to the love and practice of Armes the only application of Gentlemen in that Age and therefore he made himself very considerable especially toward the end of that Kings Reign where he attained the Honour of Knighthood and having allied himself to a very notable Family by his Marriage with Margaret of Essex he left Issue Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis flourished in the days of King Edward the First and followed him in several of his Expeditions He won his Spurs in the first Scotch War and became after very considerable in his Country when he married Elizabeth de Harpden an Inheritrix whose Lands did plentifully add to his former Patrimony but after the death of this great King we find he was unfortunately drawn into the adherence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and that he did unhappily perish in the War caused by that Rebellion leaving to succeed him his Son Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships RIchard Fitz-Lewis being with divers others through the Grace and favour of King Edward the Third restored to his Rights and Lands that had been seised upon pretence of his Father's trespass in the former Reign he became much considered from his own merit and the opulency of his fortune notably encreased by the accession of his Mothers Inheritance He was very useful to the Government of his Country during the King's absence in his long Wars and always contributed his best cares towards the service and supplies of the King's occasions from the Parts where he had interest being always zealous for the honour of his Prince and Country He married Elizabeth de Baude a Lady of a Family very antient and considerable both from their Riches and good same whose true Name was de Baden but corruptly otherwise called and by her he left his Son Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THE great consideration wherein this Family was in these days held may be judged by the alliance contracted by Sir John Fitz-Lewis who to his first Wife took Alice the Daughter of Aubery the tenth Earl of Oxford and to his second Anne Mountague Daughter of John the third Earl of Salisbury of that House and that was after his death Dutchess of Exeter Issue by his first Wife Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis married to Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk Sir HENRY FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry Fitz-Lewis that had signalized himself in an adherence to the House of Lancaster was so esteemed by the chief Supporters of that Faction as he had given him in Marriage by Edmund the noble Duke of Somerset the Lady Eleanor his youngest Daughter by whom he had Issue Mary the second Wife of Anthony Woodville Earl of Rivers But for want of Issue Male his intailed Lands descended to his Brother Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis with the other Interests of that Family Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis liv'd in his Brother's time in Marriage with a Lady called Margaret Stonore of whose life and actions we are ignorant but it is recorded He left Issue his Son and Heir Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THis Richard Fitz-Lewis appears to have had some Controversie with his Cousen Mary Countess of Rivers about his Inheritance by a Judgment recorded in his behalf whereby he was declared Heir of all the entailed Lands of that Family she to inherit only such as had been her Father 's by Gift or acquired by proper Purchace Richard Fitz-Lewis was a busie man in his time much imployed in the interest of King Henry the Seventh against the Usurper with whom he was in immediate action at the
between the power of the Queen and her Kindred and the Ambition of his Brothers as it was not strange that Wise Men should desire to withdraw from the difficulties of keeping well with both or the danger of disobliging either In this condition remained the House of Howard at the death of Edward the Fourth and for some time after till the Ambition of King Richard with the Arts and Practices subservient thereunto had through Blood and Violence made way unto the Crown and that the Young King was destroyed with his Brother and as many of the great Lords as were like to have taken part with the unhappy Prince The new King after this being one of the most Politick as well as the most daring Princes in the World was not ignorant of the ill Actions he had committed nor of the consequences they were like to have he knew all the Friends he could make would be little enough to sustain him against the potent Enemies he had created And therefore he made it now his business to gain among the Nobles and among the People every Man that had Parts or Interests suitable to his occasions To this end knowing the Lord Howard and his Son had from the latter Years of King Edward been retired from the Court not oversatisfied and in no good Correspondence with the Queens Kindred which he had been forced to suppress He thought from the great interest they had and their exceeding reputation for Wisdom and Valour they were the sittest persons to be gained and the likeliest to adhere to him of any other He therefore invited them to Court and as an earnest of his Favour and dependance he created the Father Duke of Norfolk with the restitution of the Lands of his Mother's Inheritance and makes the Son at the same time Earl of Surrey They were also from thenceforth the chief in all his Councils and with this proceeding he captivates their grateful Hearts and makes them resolve to stand by him in every Fortune After King Richard had Reigned two years in all the endeavours that could be practised by a Wise Ruler to get his faults to be forgotten and to oblige his People by doing Justice and making good Laws and favouring particulars as far as was in his power he found notwithstanding from every part Clouds a-gathering in order to a Storm Abroad the Earl of Richmond sought for Aid at Home the Duke of Buckingham and other great Lords prepared to assist him In fine towards the end of the Second Year of his Reign that Earl Landed in England and at last the King was forced to see his Crown set at Com-promise in the Fortune of a Bloody Battel at Bosworth was the Fatal Field whereat this Criminal King was as prodigal of his own Blood as he had been of other Mens All that could be performed by the conduct of a Captain or the Valour of a Souldier he put in practice to save that Crown which had cost so many Crimes And when by the overthrow of some Troops and desertion of others he found it could not be as one that scorned to out-live his Power and his Fortune he threw himself into the Arms of Death as the only refuge against humane miseries John Duke of Norfolk his faithful Friend and Subject with his Son the Earl of Surrey Fought both this day in behalf of their Benefactor and the Duke who led on the Archers and had his post at the head of the Foot was there slain upon the place in performing that duty to which he was called by his Honor and his Gratitude The Earl toward the end of the day overcome by his own Valour which had spent his strength and spirits in continual exercise of Heroick Actions but that disdained to save his Life by flying from the Fortune of his Friends was taken by his Enemies and brought a Prisoner to the Victorious King The Earl of Surrey was at this time in the vigor of his youth Tall Strong and Graceful of a flourishing Health and Constitution and esteemed one of the best Men of Arms of that Age He was of a high Spirit but had a sober Aspect and was nothing dejected by his ill Fortune King Henry was surprized though not undelighted with the sight of a Man so extraordinary and after having said some thing to the other Prisoners of Quality he called for the Earl and ask'd him How he durst engage in the Service of so Vnjust and Cruel a Tyrant To whom the Earl Replied That King Richard was in the Throne before he came into his Interest and if he had found the Crown of England upon a Bush he would have Fought for it The King did not seem exasperated with so bold an Answer and with the rest he did dismiss him to the charge of those in whose custody he was to be conveyed to the Tower Within these fatal Walls which seemed built for the restraint of Hero's the Earl of Surrey was detained Three Years During which Imprisonment he often with gratitude acknowledged the Goodness and Care of the Duke his Father who had given him such a share of Learning as did enable him during that solitude to divert himself with the Records and Notions of Philosophy and other useful and esteemable Studies He had acquiesced in the determination of Heaven and the destruction of his Master who leaving no Heir to pretend a right to his farther Services this Earl did believe he might well submit to his Authority whom God had made a Conqueror who was now Crown'd and whose Royal Virtues did deserve that he should Reign He therefore refused all the invitations were made him by the King's Enemies and the Malecontents of that time of which there were many and those very potent to enter into the intriegues of their Faction He would not hear of the Dutchess of Burgundy nor of the Earl of Lincoln And when a great Consternation arose upon that Prince's Invasion and the Armies approach towards Stoake in Lincoln-shire in order to Fight with the King and his Forces the Lieutenant of the Tower offer'd the Earl his Liberty to have gone where he pleased but he generously refused it and said He would never leave to be a Prisoner but by his consent that had thought him worthy of such a punishment And so he continued till the King's return from the Battel of Stoake who having been informed of his submissive and modest behaviour during so long an Imprisonment and of the other great Capacities of the Earl which would render him very useful to any Prince that should imploy him he took him out of the Tower and made him one of his Privy-Council being as Polidore the Historian says Vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa In the Fourth Year of this King he was restored by Act of Parliament to the Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands that were of his Wife's Inheritance But after this he began to be set at the head of
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
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
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
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Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. 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Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHAÌ CA LIS IVSTICI VS OMNIVM FORES VM ET MARCA VM TRENTAM An Indenture Tripartite for the Settlement of the Estate of Henry Lord Mordaunt THIS Indenture Tripartite made the Fourth Day of January in the Year of our Soveraign Lord James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith that is to say Of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth between the Right honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt on the the First Part and Thomas Lock of Grays-Inn in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and John Rowe of London Gentleman on the Second Part and the Right honourable Edward Earl of Worcester of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Master of the King's Majesty's Horse and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Knight Sir Edward Ratcliff Knight Sir Thomas Compton Knight and George Sherley Esquire on the Third Part Witnesseth That the said Lord Mordaunt as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he beareth to his Children hereafter in these Presents named and for the continuance of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned in the name and blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it shall please God And for the better supportation of the Honour and Dignity of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the Heirs of his Body as also for the better Maintenance and Provision in living and Portions to be had made and raised for the Younger Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters and for the payment of the Debts which the said Lord Mordaunt shall owe or any others shall stand chargeable for the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of his Death and for other causes and considerations him thereunto specially moving Doth for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner and form following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will leave and suffer to descend unto such person and persons as shall happen to be Heir or Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of the Death of the said Lord Mordaunt all these his Lordships and Maners of Netherbery Collesden Carlills and Throgmorton in Roxton and the Maner of Woodend and the Maner or Farm of Kempstonborn and his other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Roxton Cranfield and Bereford in the County of Bedford with their and every their Appurtenances Rights and Members to the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to either of them belonging and to the Advowson of the Church of Meppersall in the said County of Bedford and the Maners of Thrapston Gale Ringsted and Raundes and of Much-Addington Luffwick Islip and Slipton in the County of Northampton with their and every and either of their Appurtenances Royalties and Commodities to the same Maners and to every of them belonging and appertaining and the Chauntries of Much-Addington aforesaid and Luffwick-Mills and the Maner of Drayton and all the demeasne Lands to the said Maner belonging or appertaining in the said County of Northampton The Capital or Mansion-House of the said Lord Mordaunt in Drayton aforesaid and the Parks called Drayton and Sudburgh-Parks and one Close called the Great Pasture and another Close called the Mile-close one Close called the Lymekill-Close another called Clay-Close another called the Warren-Close and another called the Horse-Close leading from Drayton-house to Luffwick only excepted And one Free Rent of Thirty three Shillings two Pence half penny or thereabouts issuing out of certain Lands in Barton and another Free Rent of Thirty eight Shillings and eight Pence issuing out of certain Lands in Stanwick in the aforesaid County of Northampton and also the Maner of Clifton Reynes with the Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham to the end That the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the same Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments before mentioned shall and may have and receive the full benefit of Wardship primer Seisure and Livery as the case shall require happening or to happen by or upon the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Which said Maners Lands Tenements amounting to the full third part of the aforesaid Lord Mordaunt's Maners Lands Tenements and Revenues the said Lord Mordaunt doth for that
purpose limit assign and set forth by these Presents And the said Lord Mordaunt doth further by these Presents for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and for every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will on this side and before the Feast day of Saint Andrew the Apostle now next ensuing the day of the date hereof at the costs and charges of the said Lord Mordaunt by Fine or Fines in due form of law to be levied before the King's Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common-pleas at Westminster whereupon Proclamations shall and may be had according to the Statutes in that case made and provided recognized and acknowledged all those other Maners Lordships Messuages Mills Lands Tenements Rents Fee-Farms Royalties Courtleets Franchizes Fairs Liberties Advowsons and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned expressed and declared that is to say The Maners of Turvey Carleton Chillington Delwike Staggesden Duckford Jempses Bosomes Stasmore Wilchamsted and Westcotton with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances and the Parks of Turvey and Delwike and the Free Warren in Turvey and Staggesden and all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Towns Parishes Villages and Hamlets of Turvey Wilchamsted alias Wilshamsteed Carleton Chillington Delwike Duckford Staggesden Stanford alias Jempses Bosomes Steventon and Westcotton in the foresaid County of Bedford with all the Rights Members and Appurtenances to the same Maners Lands or Tenements or any of them appertaining or belonging And the Maner of Snelston with the Appurtenances in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham or in both or in one of them and all those Pastures and Meadow Grounds and Closes called Snelston in the said Counties or in one of them and all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Parishes of Lavenden Brayfield alias Coldbrayfield and Harrold in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham and all those the Maners and Farms of Walterhall Oldlayton Brayfield Coldbrayfield Willen Wolston Parva Woughton upon the Green aliàs Woughkington upon the Green Lavenden and the Castle Maner in Lavenden with their and every of their Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham And all that the Free Warren with the Appurtenances in Lavenden and Brayfield otherwise called Brafeld next Lavenden Olney and Warrington in the said County of Buckingham And all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt the Maner of Clifton Raynes aliàs Week's Fee with the Appurtenances excepted in the foresaid County of Buckingham And all those the Maners of Hardwike Grafton and Sudburgh with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances in the County of Northampton and the Parks called Drayton-Park and Sudborow-Park aforesaid and the Capital Messuage or Mansion-house of Drayton aforesaid and the Closes aforesaid to the said Mansion-house adjoining or lying near unto the same And the Parsonages of Denford and Ringsteed And all those Lands called the Assart-Lands in the County of Northampton And all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents and Services of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Parishes of Hard-wike Grafton Alwinkle Sudburgh Tychmarch and Denford in the foresaid County of Northampton to be the Right of the said Thomas Lock and John Row as those which the said Thomas Lock and John Row shall have of the gift of the said Lord Mordaunt with general Warranties for the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs against all Men Which Fine so or in any other sort to be levied and all other Fine or Fines which shall be levied of the Premises or of any part thereof by the said Lord Mordaunt to the said Thomas Lock and John Row abovenamed or to either of them on this side the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle aforesaid shall be and enure and shall be taken to be and enure and the Parties Cognizees therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized for ever of all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Fine or Fines to be comprised to the use of them the said Thomas Lock and John Row and of their Heirs for ever and to no other use Yet withal upon this Trust and Confidence That they the said Thomas and John shall and will permit and suffer them the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley upon one or more Writ or Writs of Entry Sur dessein in le post to be brought or prosecuted out of his Majesty's Court of Chancery by and in the names of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley against the said Thomas and John retornable before the King's Majesties Justices of his Highness's Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster to recover from and against them the said Thomas and John according to the usual course of common Recoveries used for Assurance of Lands all and singular or any part or parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised or contained by such name or names and quantities as in the said Writ or Writs of Entry shall be contained In which Recoveries the said Thomas and John shall appear as Tenants and vouch over to Warranty the said Lord Mordaunt and the said Lord Mordaunt shall appear and vouch over the common Vouchee who shall appear gratis and after inparlance depart in despite of the Court according to the form and course of common Recoveries in such cases used And all the said Parties are agreed by these Presents to demeane themselves either in the course aforesaid or in some other course that a perfect common Recovery with such Vouchees as is aforesaid may and shall be had and suffered of the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised in all points and to all intents and purposes according to the usual order and form of common Recoveries for assurance of Land Which said Recovery or Recoveries so or in any other manner to be Sued Prosecuted or Executed of the Maners Lands Rents Tenements and Hereditaments or of any part thereof and the Execution of them or every of them and all and every other Recovery or Recoveries to be had sued and prosecuted of the Premises or of any part thereof against the said Thomas and John as Tenants and the said Lord Mordaunt as Vouchee on this side the Feast of St. Andrew and the full force and Execution of them and either of them shall be judged esteemed deemed and taken to be and ever remain to the use hereafter expressed and declared and to no other intents or purposes that is to say
As for and concerning all and singular the said Maners Lordships Lands Tenements Rectories Advowsons Rents and Hereditaments whatsoever in the said Fine or Fines Recovery or Recoveries or in any of them to be mentioned and expressed to the use of the said Henry Lord Mordaunt for and during the term of his natural Life without impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt as concerning the Maners of Turvey Staggesden Carleton Chillington Snelston Lavenden aliàs the Castle-Maner of Lavenden Delwike Bosomes and Westcotton with their and every of their Appurtenances aforesaid after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt the said Recovery and Recoveries shall be and enure and the Recoverers and their Heirs and the Survivors of them shall stand seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof to the use of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley and their Assigns for and during the Life of the Lady Margaret now Wife to the said Lord Mordaunt and from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt and Lady Margaret then to the use of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley and of their Executors Administrators and Assigns for and during the term of One and twenty Years from the Day of the decease of the Survivor of them the said Lord Mordaunt and Lady Mordaunt if no Heir of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt shall before the end of the said One and twenty Years accomplish such Age as that the same Heir by the laws of this Realm may have and sue Livery out of the Hands of our Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty that now is his Heirs and Successors of and for such of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as is before in these Presents limited and appointed to descend And from and after the exspiration of the said term of One and twenty Years or in the time wherein such Heir shall come to such Age which of them soever shall first happen then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Son and Heir apparent of the now Lord Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten and to be begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said John Mordaunt for ever And as for and concerning the Maner of Hardwike with the Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton and the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in Hardwike aforesaid from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt then the said Recovery and Recoveries and the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized of the said Maner of Hardwike and of every part thereof and of all the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in Hardwike aforesaid to the use of themselves the said Recoverers and of their Executors and Administrators until such time as James Mordaunt Esquire second Son of the said Lord Mordaunt shall or should accomplish his full Age of One and twenty Years and afterwards to the use of the said James Mordaunt for and during the natural life of the said James Mordaunt and then to the use of that and such Wife of the said James Mordaunt as the said James Mordaunt shall happen to leave behind him at the time of the death of the said James Mordaunt for and during the natural life of that and such Wife of the said James Mordaunt And afterwards to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt And for default of Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Mordaunt for ever And as for and concerning the Maner of Furnells in Ramides and Ringsted with the Appurtenances and the Parsonages of Denford and Ringsted in the County of Northampton from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt the said Recovery shall be and the said Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part thereof to the use of themselves the said Recoverers and of their Executors and Administrators for during and until such time as Henry Mordaunt Esquire third Son of the said Lord Mordaunt shall or should attain to his Age of One and twenty Years and then to the use of him the said Henry Mordaunt and after the decease of the said Henry Mordaunt to the use of that and such Wife of the said Henry Mordaunt as the said Henry Mordaunt shall happen to leave behind him at the time of the decease of the said Henry Mordaunt for and during the natural Life of that and such Wife And afterwards to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt for ever And as for and concerning the foresaid Maner of Woughton upon the Green aliàs Woughington upon the Green and Willen and the Advowson of the Rectory or Parsonage of Woughton with the Appurtenances in the said County of Buckingham from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Then the said Recovery shall be and enure and the said Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part thereof to the use of themselves the said Recoverers and of their Executors and Administrators for and during and until such time as Lewis Mordaunt Esquire Fourth Son of the said Lord Mordaunt shall or should attain to his full Age of One and twenty Years and then to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for term of the natural Life of the said Lewis Mordaunt and after the decease of the said Lewis Mordaunt then to the use of that and such Wife of the said Lewis as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall happen to leave behind him at the time of the death of the said Lewis for and during the natural Life of that and such Wife and after to the use of the said John Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And
for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And as for and concerning all other the Maners Lordships Rents Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the foresaid Counties of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton and in every of them whereof no use after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt is before in and by these Presents limited and appointed The Recovery and Recoveries aforesaid shall be and enure and the Recoverers therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof after the death and decease of the said Lord Mordaunt to the use of them the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators and Assigns to the end and until that they shall and may have gathered levied and received of the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and of the other Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Lord Mordaunt before in these Presents to the said Recoverers limited and appointed so much Money as shall and will satisfy to pay such Debts Portions and Summs of Money as are hereafter in these Presents mentioned and expressed And as concerning what Debts and Summs of Money and Portions are meant by the said Lord Mordaunt to be raised and paid as well with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before mentioned as also with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before limited for the life of the said Lady Mordaunt after her decease and of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises limited to the said James Henry and Lewis until they shall or should respectively come to their Age of One and twenty Years The said Lord Mordaunt doth by these Presents express the same to be such as followeth that is to say All such Debts as the said Lord Mordaunt shall justly owe at the time of his decease together with all the necessary Costs Charges and Expences which they the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley shall necessarily expend disburse pay or lay out in about or concerning the same and such other Summ and Summs of Money as the said Lord Mordaunt by a note in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Lord Mordaunt shall limit and appoint to be paid and disbursed And also the several Summs and Portions hereafter following videlicet The Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of lawful English Money for and unto the use of Elizabeth Mordaunt Eldest Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And the Summ of Two thousand Pounds lawful English Money for and to the use of Frances Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which shall first happen And also the Summ and Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful Money of England for and unto the use of Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And moreover the like Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful English Money for and unto the use of Anne Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And also the several Summ and Summs of Two thousand Pounds a piece to each and every of the Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters which hereafter shall happen to be Born to the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid at his her or their several Ages of One and twenty Years or Days of their Marriages which of them shall first happen But it is nevertheless meant and intended That if any of the said Children so appointed to have take and receive Portions as aforesaid shall happen to dye before the several time and times limited and appointed for the payment thereof That then his her or their Portions so deceasing shall not be paid at all to the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of the Children so dying but the same shall go to the benefit of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And also the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Executors and Administrators shall after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt yearly allow and pay unto the said James Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt and Lewis Mordaunt Sons of the said Lord Mordaunt for and towards their maintenance from the time of the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt until every of them severally shall attain and come to their several Ages of One and twenty Years aforesaid or Days of Marriages aforesaid the several yearly Summs following videlicet Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feasts of All-Saints called Hallowmas-Day to the said James Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feast aforesaid to the said Henry Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the aforesaid Feast to Lewis Mordaunt during his minority and also Fifty Pounds a piece yearly and at the Feast aforesaid to every Son and Sons hereafter to be Born unto the said Lord Mordaunt during the minority of such Son and Sons respectively And if it shall happen the said Lady Margaret do dye before the foresaid Daughters of the foresaid Lord Mordaunt or any of them shall attain to her or their several Ages or Times aforesaid on or at which her or their several Portions aforesaid be or ought to be paid Then the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall yearly pay at the Feast of All-Saints aforesaid unto such of the Daughter and Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt then not attained to the Age and Time of her having or wherein she ought to have and to be paid her foresaid Portion according to the appointment of these Presents the yearly Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece for and towards her and their Maintenance respectively to and unto the time when by the appointment and limitation of these Presents her or their said Portions ought to be paid as aforesaid And also the like Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece at the Feast aforesaid and in manner and sort aforesaid unto all and every the Daughters and Issue Females of the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter happening to be born unto the said Lord Mordaunt either in the life time of the said Lord Mordaunt or after his death And it is further the absolute Meaning and Intent of
and their Heirs and Assigns shall be and stand seized of all the Maners Lands Tenements Royalties and Hereditaments whatsoever in the said Fine or Fines mentioned and expressed to be comprized in the same and to those uses intents and purposes and upon the same Limitations and Payments as the said Recovery and Recoveries are in and by these Presents meant mentioned and expressed and as the true intent meaning and purpose of these Presents be and are intended mentioned or meant to be limited and appointed and that to all intents and purposes whatsoever In Witness whereof to the first part of these Presents with the said Thomas Lock John Row Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Henry Lord Mordaunt hath put to his Hand and Seal And to the second part of these Presents with the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley remaining the said Thomas Lock and John Row have put their Hands and Seals And to the third part with them the said Henry Lord Mordaunt Thomas Lock and John Row remaining the said Edward Earl of Worcester Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley have put their Hands and Seals the Day and Year above-written Annoque Domini 1608. Vltima Voluntas Henrici quarti Domini Mordaunt IN the Name of God Amen The Sixth Day of February in the Sixth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. videlicet of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth Annoque Domini 1608. I Henry Lord Mordaunt knowing the Days of Mans Life to be few and my self to be now Summoned by languishing Sickness the messenger of Death and God knows how soon I shall yeild up my Soul unto the Hands of my God and Saviour do therefore while I am praised be God in perfect Memory make publish and divulge this my last Will and Testament Wherein and whereby I commit and commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God my Body to be Buried at Turvey amongst my Ancestors there lying Buried and for the clearing of my Conscience before God and Man and to give a publick satisfaction to the World concerning such and those Imputations which lately have been laid upon me and for which I have in a high degree been censured I mean the late Gunpowder Treason which fact for the Heinousness thereof in the Offenders therein I do loath to remember and now sorrow to repeat therefore at this time when all hope or desire of long Life hath forsaken and now Almighty God into whose Hands I am instantly yeilding up my Soul is my immediate Judge to witness with me that I lie not I do solemnly Protest before God and his Angels and that without all Equivocation or Duplicity whatsoever that I am innocent of that Fact and guiltless of all Foreknowledge thereof and although I know that this Protestation of mine cannot without the gracious Mercy of my Prince and Sovereign the King's Majesty extenuate or mitigate the greatness of my past Censure Yet herein I comfort my self that I live and that in the time of my dying Innocence to publish and express the truth and grief of my trouble which I hope will suffice to cleanse the stain thereof from my Name and House and so to leave the Reputation of my Name and House as I found it spotless from being defamed or disreputed with the Knowledge Acting or Assenting unto any dishonourable disloyal or dishonest Action whatsoever And whereas I have lately by Fine or other Conveyance in Law settled my Estate and Living amongst my Children and Family according to my own mind and good liking as by an Indenture Tripartite dated the Fourth day of January last made between me on the first part Thomas Lock and John Row on the second part and the Right Honourable the Earls of Worcester and Rutland and some others on the third part I do heartily intreat my said Honourable Friends and all others in the said Indentures mentioned and to be trusted that they would carefully according to my Trust in them severally reposed and as the case shall fall out execute and see performed my said Plot and Project for the benefit of my said Children and Family and for the performance of my other Intentions therein expressed And I do right heartily intreat my Righ Honourable and welbeloved Brother-in-law the Lord Compton whom for that purpose I have left out of the said Indenture that he would be pleased to have a care and regard unto the executing and performing of my said Project that the Issues and Profits of my Maners Lands and Revenues in the said Indentures mentioned may be truly disposed according as the same by me in my said Indenture be appointed And I do give to the said Lord Compton for his pains Item I do Will and bequeath unto my Son John Mordaunt all my necessary Household and Implements of Household which and wherewith my several Houses of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of Drayton in the County of Northampton be now furnished withal which said necessary Household and Implements of Household I Will shall go and remain with my said Houses from Heir to Heir Item I do further Will and Bequeath all other the Legacies and Portions in a Schedule to this my present Will filed mentioned devised and bequeathed and I do make Sole Executor of this my Will the Right Honourable the Lord Compton In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first above-written SIGILLVM HENRICI DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Fourth of that Name Fifth Lord MORDAVNT Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI A Pardon and Release Granted to John Lord Mordaunt of a Fine in the Star-Chamber set upon Henry Lord Mordaunt his Father JAMES by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Commissioners of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors for the time being and to all other the Officers Ministers and Subjects of us our Heirs and Successors to whom it shall or may appertain Greeting Whereas in our Court of Star-Chamber before our Counsel there the Third Day of June in the Fourth Year of our Reign of England France and Ireland there were brought to the Bar as Prisoners from our Tower of London Henry Lord Mordaunt late deceased and Edward Lord Sturton against whom Sir Edward Coke
Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendum mandavimus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractatum utrinque concilium impensurum Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negociorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo octavo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo tertio A Letter from the Duke of Albemarle To the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow or to the Officer in chief with his Regiment My LORD UNderstanding there are some dissatisfied Officers lately disbanded who are endeavouring to bring the Souldiers into mischief if special care be not taken to prevent the same and so the Souldiers will loose their Arrears besides the dishonour that will fall upon the Officers in whose Regiment it happens I desire you will be careful to keep the Officers of your Regiment with their Commands And if they hear any Officers or Souldiers speak discontented words to take away their Arms and secure them and you are to acquaint the Officers and Souldiers that though they be shortly to be reduced yet they will receive Arrears before disbanding And there is an Act of Parliament that they may set up their Trades in any City or Town corporate I desire you to acquaint the Captains of each Company under your command herewith and that they may be careful to observe the same I remain Cockpit 11 September 1660. Your Lordship 's very humble Servant ALBEMARLE If your Lordships occasions will not give you leave you need not repair to your Regiment A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General and Governor of Tangier CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting Whereas we intend forthwith to settle and secure our City of Tangier and the Territories and Dominions adjacent in or near the Coasts of Barbary or the Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco some or one of them in the continent of Africa and for that purpose have resolved by and with the advice of our Privy Council forthwith to raise draw forth and transport thither such Forces of Horses and Foot as we shall judge necessary for our service in defence of the said City of Tangier and our Dominions and Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco Know ye therefore That we reposing an especial trust and confidence in your Honour's Courage Wisdom and Fidelity have constituted and ordained and by these our Letters Patents do make constitute ordain and appoint you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow Captain-General of all Forces both Horse and Foot raised or to be raised and now sent or which hereafter shall be sent by our Royal Authority or Commissions and of all other Forces whatsoever which are or shall remain or be drawn into our City of Tangier or any other of our Dominions or Territories in or near the said Kingdoms of Sus Fez and Morocco and of all Forts Castles Cities or other parts or places whatsoever which by your good conduct and success shall be reduced to our obedience and subjection And we do hereby give and grant unto you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow our Captain-General full power and authority by beat of Drum Proclamation or otherwise in our Name to raise lift arm array and put under Command such or so many Voluntiers both of Horse and Foot within this our Kingdom of England or any other our Kingdoms or Dominions as shall make up and compleat the number defigned by us in the establishment for that Service and to give Commission to Officers and Commanders to be set over them and conduct lead and imbark the said Officers and Souldiers to be transported to our said City of Tangier and to remove and cashier any such Officers or Souldiers as to you shall seem convenient And we do further by these Presents give full Power and Authority to you our said Captain-General from time to time to muster exercise and train our said Forces and all other our Armies and Forces which you shall there raise or entertain into our service or which shall be sent to you from hence or any other place and to drive train conduct and lead out or otherwise imploy the Natives or other Inhabitants if need shall require and with them to defend our said City of Tangier and any other our Dominions which already are or hereafter shall be in our Power or Possession and to lead them forth against any Enemies Rebels and Traytors and them to fight kill and slay and subdue to our Obedience and to invade surprise and reduce such Towns Forts Castles or Countries as shall declare or maintain any Hostility against us or that may endanger the Peace or Security of our City or Territories aforesaid and to possess and strenghten them with Forts or Garrisons or otherwise raze dismantle or disable them as to you shall seem expedient and to arm discipline and entertain into your Service all such as you shall think fit to receive under your Command out of any the Kingdoms Dominions or Territories aforesaid And we do further by these Presents ordain and appoint you one of our Vice-Admirals with power to give ordain and command to all our Naval Forces and Commanders at Sea that shall be appointed by us or our Authority to attend the service of our said City of Tangier and upon the Coast of Africa and likewise to require them by your Orders or Instructions to prosecute any design which you shall judge to be for our service and also when and where ye shall think meet to appoint constitute and keep a Court of Admiralty and appoint Judges and Officers for the same for the hearing and determining all Maritime Causes belonging to the Jurisdiction of a Court-Admiral as it is exercised in England And for the better discipline of the Forces under your Command both by Land and Sea We do hereby give you full Power and Authority to ordain publish and execute Laws and Ordinances-Martial according to the Constitutions and Practices of a Court-Martial and to punish by death or otherwise or to pardon Offences as in your discretion you shall judge meet And we do hereby give unto you all such further Powers Preheminences and Authorities as to a Captain-General or to one of our Vice-Admirals do any ways appertain or belong And we do by these our Letters Patents make ordain and constitute you our chief Governor of our said City of Tangier and Subburbs thereof and of all other Cities Towns Villages Forts Castles
Garrison and Interests you may find it necessary to resort in person to our Royal Presence either to inform us of the Grounds and Probabilities of further Designs to the good and advancement of our Dominions there and to take our Commands and Directions thereupon or to solicit and procure such other supplies and necessaries as the occasion and subsistence of our said City and Garrison shall require We do enable you by our license which by these presents we do grant unto you to repair unto us when you shall see convenient leaving behind you to govern in your absence a Deputy fit for that place or such a one as before your departure from hence or hereafter we shall signifie and direct unto you IX If which we cannot expect any accident should intervene whereby he City of Tangier should fail to be delivered to you you are then to return home with the Forces under your command if by joint advice after meeting with the Earl of Sandwich you shall not agree upon some further design for our service Charta Regis Caroli Secundi Potestatem Concedendi Bellum faciendi vel Pacem cum Regibus vel Principibus Africae CArolus Secundus Dei gratia magnae Britanniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus singulis ad quos hae litterae pervenerint salutem Cum indole naturae atque instituto regiminis omnes homines prae caeteris Principes ad pacem concordiam inter dissitas nationes conciliandam ac fovendam animos studiaque sua applicare debeant non solum quia talis humani generis consensus ad univerlam incolumitatem Commercii incrementum navigandi securitatem quam maxime facit sed etiam quia Dei Optimi Maximi gloria ex hujusmodi mediis mirifice crescit dilatatur Nos satis conscii regiam Celsitudinem ad tales curas praecipue destinatam ac constitutam esse nec minus pro nostra statione commode ut putamus ad illiusmodi fines promovendos id unice operam dare atque eo contendere decrevimus ut longinquae terrae atque adeo universus orbis si fieri possit cum nostra Britannia manus animos sinceros amplexus conjungat Sciatis igitur quod nos probitate ac fide nobilissimi Viri perquam fidelis praedilecti consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Civitatis nostrae Tingitanae in Africa omniumque circumcirca regionum portuum littorum pagorum Capitanei-Generalis Praefecti nec non in iisdem oris ac littoribus Vice-admirali nostri confidentes eundem Henricum Comitem de Peterborow nostrum verum indubitatum Plenipotentiarium constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes constituimus ordinamus Dante 's eidem virtute praesentium facultatem authoritatem mandatum generale ac speciale per se per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos cum quolibet Rege Principe Dynasta Civitate vel Statu in Regnis de Sus Fez Morocco vel qualibet alia per Africam ditione supremam aut sufficientem potestatem habente pacem vel inducias prout quandocunque quotiescunque ipse dictus Comes è re nostra esse judicaverit faciendi amicitiamque vel antiquam renovandi vel novam ineundi pro nostrorum Regnorum Subditorum Mercatorum bono commercio commodo atque de super quibuscunque articulis capitulis causis conditionibus pacis amicitiae faederis commerciorum restauratione aut stabilimento cum dictis Regibus Principibus Dynastis Civitatibus aut Statibus vel quibuslibet eorum respective sub modis formis provisionibus cautionibus securitatibus quas ad formam stabilem Conventorum observationem necessarias aut idoneas putaverit atque de aliis ad veram sinceram pacificationem amicitiam mercutaraeque exercitationem spectantibus hinc inde conciliandi tractandi concordandi paciscendi conveniendi finaliter concludendi Denique omnia alia nostro nomine gerendi exercendi firmandi quae ad servitium nostrum spectant opportuna salubria videbuntur Promittentes bona fide in Verbo Regio quicquid per dictum nostrum Capitaneum Generalem Plenipotentiarium Henricum Comitem de Peterborow vel per Commissarios aut Procuratores suos legittime constitutos actum gestum conventum conclusum fuerit nos ratum gratum ac acceptum habituros neque contra ipsorum aliquae vel aliquid contraventuros imo ipsa defensuros inviolabiliter observaturos atque observari curaturos facturos In quorum Testimonium literas hasce scribi manu nostra propria signatas regni nostri Angliae sigilli majoris additione communiri volumus Quae dabantur in Palatio nostro Westmonasteriensi vicesimo primo die Novembris Anno Domini milesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo primo Signat CAROLUS R. His Majesty's Warrant for Two thousand Pounds as a free Gift to the Earl of Peterborow CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of our Exchequer now and for the time being greeting Whereas by our Letters of Privy Seal bearing date the Thirteenth of September last past we gave order for payment of Three thousand eight hundred Pounds Sterling unto our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin the Earl of Peterborow our Govenor of Tangier by way of Inprest as his own pay and for raising of One hundred Horses and Fifteen hundred Foot for our Service in Tangier aforesaid Our will and pleasure is and we do hereby require and authorize you to allow Two thousand Pounds of the said Three thousand eight hundred Pounds as a free Gift from us unto the said Earl of Peterborow in consideration of the great expence he was at in Preparatives and personal Provisions for our Service in that expedition to be passed to him without accompt and his own pay to continue and go on notwithstanding our said Privy Seal of the Thirteenth of September last and to be accompted and allowed unto him from the term and according to the tenor of the Establishment for our said Garrison of Tangier and these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Privy Seal at our Palace at Westminster the Fifteenth Day of February in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow THE Wind coming contrary you will have prevented that Perplexity which otherwise I judge ye would have been in by the mistake of Secretary Maurice his Letter the King's Direction to him was To send to you to Sail to Tangier when you had a Thousand Men which he by mistake wrote Lisbon The King hath ordered Secretary Nicholas to write to you and to certifie that mistake to which I refer you Order was given on Saturday last to quicken down the rest of the Merchant-Ships which I
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms
locorum firmiter injungimus velint dicto Legato nostro Extraordinario liberam eundi transeundi redeundi commorandique prout occasio postulaverit copiam facere unà cum Comitatu Famulitio Equis Sarcinis Rebusque omnibus eidemque simul omnibus humanitatis officiis adesse favere id quod nos pari vel alio Officiorum genere occasione quacunque universis fingulis grati referemus Dabantur è Palatio nostro de Whitehall Secundi die Augusti Anno Domini 1673. Regnique nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Regis ARLINGTON An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy Councellor At the Court at Hampton-Court the Tenth Day of July 1674. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Highness Prince RVPERT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Ogle Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Arlington Lord Maynard Lord Berkeley Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Mountague Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. of the Ordnance Mr. Speaker THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board accordingly Robert Southwell The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regimet of Horse Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and to be called the Regiment of our dear Brother JAMES Duke of York consisting of Eight Troops and each Troop of Threescore Men besides Officers And we do also constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment as Collonel and the said Troop as Captain into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well Officers as Souldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively And you are from time to time to observe such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from our General of our Forces or other Superior Officer according to the Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of February 1677 8. in the Thirtieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command H. Coventry Entred with the Comissioner-General of Musters A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 30. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia ex advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem sexto die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod confideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus super dictis negociis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quinto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Grimston Pengry A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto perquam fideli Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam actum in Parliamento nostro inchoato tento apud Westmonasterium Octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo tertio ibidem continuato usque ad decimum nonum diem Maii proxime sequentem abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii proxime sequentem Intitulatum An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum inactitatum existit inter alia quod nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus Locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Bervici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes habebunt plenam authoritatem potestatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem Actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam infra aliquem alium Comitatum Locos praedictos ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerint secundum Directiones de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentis specificatis plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parliamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate ac authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentem nostrum pro Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae in omnibus locis corporatis privilegiatis aliis locis quibuscunque infra dictum Comitatum nostrum Northamptoniae Et tenore praesentium ac virtute ejusdem Actus plenam potestatem authoritatem tibi damus
as was intended by the said Settlement for a Jointure In Witness whereof the Parties above-named have to these Present Indentures Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above-written An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy-Counsellor At the Court at Whitehall the Twenty eighth Day of February 1682. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Albemarle Duke of Beaufort Lord Chamberlain Earl of Oxford Earl of Chesterfield Earl of Sunderland Earl of Clarenden Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Ailesbury Earl of Conway Earl of Nottingham Earl of Rochester Lord Dartmouth Mr. Secretary Jenkins Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Godolphin THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board and signed accordingly John Nicholas A Copy of the Oath taken by the Earl of Peterborow as Groom of the Stole YOU shall Swear by the Holy Evangelists and by the Contents of this Book and by the Faith that you bear unto Almighty God To be a true Servant unto Our Sovereign Lord JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. You shall know nothing that shall be any ways hurtful or prejudicial to the King's Majesty's Royal Person State Crown or Dignity but you shall hinder it what in you lyeth or else reveal the same with all convenient speed to the King's Majesty or some of his Most Honourable Privy Council You shall serve the King truly and faithfully in the place whereunto you are called as Groom of the Stole to His Majesty and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber So help you God and the Contents of this Book A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 1 mo Jacobi Secundi JAcobus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo nono die Maii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum Vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi vestrumque Consilium impensuri Et hoc ficut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo quarto die Februarii Anno Regni nostri primo Churchill Pengry A Letter from King James the Second to the Earl of Peterborow Commanding his Attendance at the Coronation To Our Right trusty Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Iames R. RIght Trusty and Welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Whereas We have appointed the 23d day of April next for the Solemnity of Our Coronation These are therefore to Will and Command you all Excuses set apart That you make your Personal Attendance on Us at the time above-mentioned furnished and appointed as to your Rank and Quality appertaineth there to do and perform such Services as shall be required and belong to you And whereas We have also resolved That the Coronation of Our Royal Consort the Queen shall be Solemnized on the same Day We do further hereby require the Countess your Wife to make her Personal Attendance on Our said Royal Consort at the time and in the manner aforesaid Whereof you and she are not to fail And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 23d Day of March 1684 5. in First Year of Our Reign A Letter from the Duke of Norfolk to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he should bear St. Edward's Scepter at the Coronation For the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow MY LORD HIS Majesty having appointed your Lordship to bear St. Edward's Scepter in the Proceeding at his Majesty's Coronation This is to desire your Lordship to meet in the House of Lords at His Majesty's Palace of Westminster on Thursday the Three and twentieth of April Instant by Eight of the Clock in the Morning in your Robes and with your Coronet in order to the performance of His Majesty's Pleasure I am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant NORFOLK and MARSHAL An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for Raising the Militia of the County of Northampton To Our Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow our Lieutenant of our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby require you to give order and take care That the Militia Troops of Horse in your Lieutenancy be forthwith raised And as to the Foot We think it requisite they should be in such a readiness that they may be immediately called together to March or obey such other Orders as they shall receive for Our Service And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for the seizing of suspected Persons To Our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Our Lieutenant for Our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Authorise and Direct you to give Order forthwith for the seizing and apprehending all disaffected and suspicious Persons and particularly all Non-Conformist Ministers and such Persons as have served against Our Royal Father and late Royal Brother of Blessed Memory and for sending them in safe Custody to the Prison at Oxford to be secured there till further Order And for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June in the First Year of Our Reign 1685. By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND Our Will and Pleasure also is That you give order for securing all the Horses belonging to any Persons which shall be so seized The Earl of Peterborow's
Ancient Families as also that for any Advantage or Prerogative the House of Mordaunt is oblig'd but only to Vertue to Antiquity and to Truth A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY OF THE House of Alno or Alneto Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD To the House of Alno or Alneto is ascribed for Arms Argent a Lion Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing Or three Martlets Azure Of the Name Antiquity Greatness Alliances Posssesions and Arms of the House of Alno or de Alneto THE Lords of this House received their Appellation from Alnetum a Town in France of which at the time of the Conquest or a little before they had the Dominion In those elder and little curious times they were often indifferently called of Alno Alnoto and Alneto and the Antiquity of this Name hereby appears to be so great as there are few that by just proofs can be traced to a higher Degree The Quality Prerogative and Greatness of this House was such as besides the Liberties they had upon their own Lands of peculiar Courts and particular Justice the Chief thereof had the Priviledge of Banner-bearing Ferendi Banneriam which was the same as is called in high Dutch a Banner heer and was at that time the greatest that could be in the Fortune of any Man who was not an immediate Sovereign and as much as to say a Power of obliging his Kindred his Relations and his Vassals to follow him to those Wars whereunto he should be pleased to engage There did belong unto it in Propriety within the Dutchy of Normandy a Town and Castle called at that time Alnetum they had great Lands in the Territory of Pont-Audomare and large Possessions in the Vicounty of Contonville In the Stile used by this Family in their Deeds and Transactions after they came into England whereof I have seen divers that are extant and well preserved are all the circumstances of Dignity as omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quam Anglicis and in their Seals were engraven their Images like Knights at Arms in Military Postures as was then in peculiar use with the great men of that time Their Alliances did also answer all the other parts of their Greatness for of four they contracted after their Arrival in this Country one was with a very Famous House and the other three with Families of the greatest and most eminent Nobility Vide Cam. Re. p. 276. But I am so far from undertaking to ascertain the Arms they bore as I am obliged to say I believe there were very few if any in Hereditary use at that time of their Conjunction with the House of Mordaunt which was about the end of the Reign of Henry the Second or in the beginning of King Richard the First Yet I shall not forbear to apply those that have been ascribed to them from very many Ages as may appear by several Pedegrees with other pieces of Sculpture and Painting remaining at this day in divers Churches and Noble Houses of this Kingdom which were Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing in a Field Or three Martlets Azure PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of Turvey Maydford and other Lands and Lordships PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO was one of those Illustrious Adventurers which came over with William Duke of Normandy to the Conquest of England in whose Service the Valour of our Hero prov'd so considerable as in the Partition this Prince did after make to his Followers he had allotted to him for his share several fair Lands and large Possessions and among the rest the Noble Lordship of Turvey in the County of Bedford with the Royalties and Priviledges belonging thereunto As the Advowson of the Church the Jurisdiction of many Families that held thereof in Villanage the particular Courts Leet and Baron the right of Free-Warren and Free-Fishing for a long and great Tract with those of Waifs Strays and Felons Goods It containing in the whole Four Thousand Five Hundred Fifty five Aeres of rich and fertile Land with a Treasure of fair Woods growing upon the same After that to the disorder of the War there had succeeded a Settlement in the Kingdom Paine of Alno did receive in Marriage as the Crown of all his Virtue Emelina de Burdet from the hands of her Father Sir Hugh de Burdet another great Companion of this Conquest and as her Portion the Town and Lordship of Maydford in the County of Northampton being part of those Lands which the said Sir Hugh had received for his Service from the Bounty and Acknowledgment of King William the First This Family of Burdet was of great Antiquity having possessed a very Honourable Rank in the Dutchy of Normandy before the Conquest For we find Sir William de Burdet Father or Ancestor to this Sir Hugh de Burdet to be mentioned in that antient Roll which contains the Names of all the Lords that owed Knights-Service to the Dukes of that Country and it had the Fortune for many Ages to produce men Famous and Renowned for Military Valour and Virtue Their Issue Henry of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Herbert of Alneto that was a Witness to a Charter whereby King Henry the First gave Lands to St. Peters and St. Maries in Exeter HENRY de ALNETO Succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships for we find by a Charter which is extant how be did confirm several Grants of Lands in Turvey that had been given to the Church of St. James in Northampton and to the Canons of that place by Robert the Son of Durand and his Heirs by his Brother Herbert and by others It appears that he gave to the Priory of our Blessed Lady of Luffield within the County of Northampton in the Forest of Whittlewood one Messuage with the Appurtenances in the Town of Maydford He married into the House of Lisors Lizures or de Lusoris as is seen by a Deed wherein Ralph de Caines does Witness that he was present when the Lord William de Lizures did give to Sir Henry of Alneto his Lands in Lichborow and Everton to him and to his Heirs to be begotten on the Body of his Daughter Agnes on Condition That if it did so fall out as he should die without Issue of the said Agnes they should then revert to him and his lawful Successors This William de Lizures was a great Baron at that time Chief Forester of the County of Northampton and of so great Authority in that Country as it occasioned a Letter to be written to him from Queen Elianor the Wife of King Henry the First wherein she prays him for the Love of her to protect one Malgerius a Monk and his Followers at that time retired within his Jurisdiction He was the Son of the Lord Foulke de Lizures that in the time of Henry the First had the Custody of the Forests of Rokingham
Scriptores antiqui Pag. 1031. Inter nomina Militum ferentium Bannerias in Normanniâ Fulco de Alneto In the same Book Pag. 1040. under the Title of Feoda Normanniae Ballia Pontis-Audomari Hugo de Alneto tertium Militem In the same Book under the same Title Pag. 1041. Milites de Honore Pontis-Audomari in Feodo Comitis de Mellent Johan de Alneto tertium Militem Rex habet In the same Book under the Title of Scriptum de Servitiis Militum quae debentur Duci Normanniae Pag. 1046. in Feodo Moritonii Simon de Alneto ii Milites ad suum Servitium 4. Milit. PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of TVRVEY and of MAYDFORD Charta Pagani de Alneto EGO Paganus de Alneto notum facio omnibus hominibus meis de Turveiâ Quod dilecto meo Richardo Mansell dedi concessi in feodo omnia Tenementa Adami le Croile sicut ipse Adam eadem dum viveret tenebat quod ut firmum habeatur praedicto Richardo tradidi praesentem Chartulam Sigilli mei Charactere munitam His Testibus Stephano de Bidun Galfrido Filio Rogeri Willielmo fratre ejus Thomâ Kaun Richardo filio Stephani Herveyo de Sancto Georgio Stephano de Bosco Richardo Camerario Charta Pagani de Alneto PAganus de Alneto omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis salutem Sciatis quod Ego assentiente Henrico filio meo concessi dilecto meo fideli Gerino de Sayfeild Scutifero omnia Tenementa quae Nicolaus Gerin Baldewinus Ribell tenuerunt in Turveiâ sibi Haeredibus suis tenenda de me haeredibus meis per Servitium duodecim sagittas reddendi annuatim ad Natalis Festum pro omni Servitio His Testibus Johanne de Escalers Reginaldo de Papiâ Roberto de Norho Thomâ filio ejus Stephano de Pixhull Rogero Moly Andreo Selvage Roberto filio Thomae Ricardo filio Roberti Johanne Clerico Inter Fines de Rege Ricardo Primo Pagano de Alneto Hugo de Burdet dedit villam de Maydford Charta Hugonis de Burdet HUgo de Burdet omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis salutem Sciatis me dedisse Pagano de Alneto cum Emelinâ filiâ meâ villam meam de Maydford tam liberam quà m illam recepi ex Donatione Domini mei Willielmi Regis honorificè haereditariè ab omni servitio salvo quod ad Dominum Regem pertinet sibi Haeredibus suis de dictâ Emelina exeuntibus in perpetuum His Testibus Domino Stephano de Valoniis Domino Ricardo de Lusoris Ricardo de Alno Thomâ filio Johannis Ernulpho de Eggelfeld Henrico de Bradden Herveyo filio Ricardi Stephano filio Thomae Ricardo Camerario Hugone filio Ernulphi Johanne filio Pagani Thoma Camerario Willielmo Clerico Charta Pagani de Alneto PAganus de Alneto Omnibus hominibus suis amicis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Notum sit vobis me dedisse concessisse assentiente Uxore meâ Emelinâ Henrico filio meo primogenito Herberto filio meo pro homagio suo Terram meam in Lavendenâ per Servitium tertiae partis Militis liberè quietè honorificè pro omnibus Servitiis quare volo firmiter praecipio Quòd praedictus Herbertus habeat praedictam Terram de me haeredibus meis cum omnibus pertinentiis praedictae Terrae pertinentibus in omnibus rebus per praenominatum Servitium hanc Terram Ego Paganus de Alneto haeredes mei warrantizabimus praenominato Herberto filio meo haeredibus suis His Testibus Philippo de Clunes Thomâ de Lichebury Roberto de Cameris Rogero filio Roberti Willielmo fratre ejus Philippo filio Rogeri Radulpho parvo Nicolao Beco Thomâ de Bosumer Monasticon Anglicanum Pars secunda Folio 231. To a Charter of King Henry the First giving Lands to St. Peter and St. Maries in Exeter is a Witness Herbertus de Alneto Historiae Normannorum Scriptores antiqui pag. 1033. in the Catalogue of their Names that came over with the Conqueror Hugo de Burdet In eodem Libro William Burdet held Lands in Normandy in Ballia de Bleville Burtons Description of Leicestershire Folio 196. Sir William Burdet undertakes a Voyage to the Holy Land about the End of Henry the Second In eodem Libro Folio 32. Sir William and Sir Robert Burdet Served in the long Wars of King Edward the First In eodem Libro Folio 197. Sir Nicholas Burdet Governour of Eureux and Chief Butler of Normandy was Slain at the Battel of Pontoize In eodem Libro in eodem Folio Thomas Burdet was Beheaded by King Edward the Fourth for his faithful Friendship to George Duke of Clarence under pretence of the words spoken concerning the Horns of the white Buck of Arrow HENRY of ALNETO Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Henrici de Alneto NOtum sit omnibus hominibus meis amicis Quòd Ego Henricus de Alneto concedo Sigilli mei munimine confirmo Donationem quam Robertus filius Durandi Gilbertus Haeres suus secerunt Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi de Northampton Canonicis ejusdem loci in perpetuam Eleemosynam scilicet quatuor acras Terrae ad Pirum propter quam Donationem Canonici praedicti dederunt quatuordecem Solidos sicuti Charta sua testatur Praeterea confirmo praedictae Ecclesiae octo acras Terrae unam de Bosco quas Herbertus Frater meus dedit praedictae Ecclesiae in perpetuam Eleemosynam propter quam Donationem Canonici dederunt ei Uxori ejus de cujus dote fuit illa Terra viginti duos Solidos sicuti Charta Herberti Domini sui testatur Confirmo etiam dictae Ecclesiae unam acram Terrae quam Ricardus de Papiâ dedit Canonicis ejusdem Ecclesiae in Eleemosynam perpetuam quae jacet in Pixhullâ juxta octo acras quas Herbertus dedit eis propter quam dederunt eidem Ricardo duos solidos Hujus Confirmationis sunt Testes Willielmus Sacerdos de Brumham Ricardus Sacerdos de Turveiâ Willielmus Sacerdos de Stevinton Willielmus de Blosvillâ Alexander Dalnod Radulphus Mansell Nicolaus de Staggesden Charta Radulphi de Kaines OMnibus Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Filiis hoc Scriptum praesens visuris vel audituris Radulphus de Kaines Salutem Sciatis quòd obligatus ad respondendum non possum dediscere quin praesens fui quando bonae memoriae Dominus Willielmus de Lusoris Chartâ quadam Authenticâ Sigilli sui Munimine roboratâ Dedit concessit Domino Henrico de Alneto Terras suas in Lichborough Everton sibi haeredibus suis ex corpore Agnetae filiae ipsius Willielmi procreandis Eâ Conditione Quòd si pervenisset ut dictus Dominus Henricus obiret sine haerede de corpore praedictae Agnetae procreatae tunc Terrae istae redirent sibi Domino Willielmo rectis haeredibus suis In cujus rei Testimonium Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Widone filio Walerani
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
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
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
find no man who can speak in it to your profit But as touching the Pedigree of John Camell and Richard Garnsay I have Examined as followeth that is to say Richard Garnsay Son and Heir of the aforesaid Richard sayes that he once had certain Evidence concerning the Land that Moleyns laid claim unto which Evidence with a Release made by him he delivered to Sir Nicholas Latimer promising him thirty three shillings four pence which money he never had notwithstanding at my desire if you think his Title may do you good or profit he is contented to do for you as much as in him lies and farther I cannot know of either of your Pedigrees but as I have afore written to you Also as touching John Reade that you writ to me which gave Moleyns the Land in Fee Tayl I can in no wise hear of the same Reade but the Country sayes that one Moleyns was in possession a while there but he was Disseised by Sir Nicholas Latimer again but farther I cannot know Also my Lady your Mother hath given Giles Peny the Buck that you wrote to her for Sir Also I have moved my Lady many times that you might have Latimers Lands to Farm which in no wise she will agree unto yet I have done therein as much as I can for she sayes that she will be Mistress of her own Lands during her Life Farther I pray you to have me recommended to my Sister your Wife and to my Uncle William Mordaunt And I yours to my little power as knoweth Jesus who always preserve you From Dorchester the third day of October Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi quinto By me Yours Giles Strangeways The Petition of the Lady Edith Carewe To the King our Soveraign Lord. IN most humble wise beseecheth Your Highness and most Noble Grace your poor Oratrice Dame Edith Carewe Widow sometime the wife of Sir John Mordaunt Knight That whereas the same Sir John Mordaunt at the time of his Death left and gave to your said Oratrice then his Wife in Plate Jewels ready Money and Stuff to the value of a Thousand Marks and above to have to her own proper Use and Behove By force whereof she was thereof possessed accordingly and afterward she being possessed thereof took to Husband your late Servant Sir John Carewe Knight which Sir John Carewe afterwards by Chance of War was perished and lost on the Sea in the Service of Your Grace At which time he lost not only his Personage on the Sea but also lost his substance of such Goods as to your said Oratrice was left by her former Husband which the said Sir John Carewe then had with him to Sea both Plate Money and also his Apparel as well necessary Apparel to his Body as other Apparel that he had bought with the said Goods for the defence of his Body in your said Wars By means whereof your said Oratrice is left little or nothing worth in substance of Goods And the aforesaid Sir John Carewe in his life borrowed and had of your Grace by way of Prest Two Hundred Pounds for the repayment whereof he was and stood bound by his Writing Obligatory to the Use of your Grace And so it is Gracious Sovereign Lord that the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury as Ordinary hath sequestred and made Seizure of all the Goods that belonged to the said Sir John Carewe within this your Realm at the time of his death which Goods by a true Inventory taken have been extended and valued to the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And forasmuch as your said Oratrice is now left a poor Widow by reason of the Premisses and never had nor hath any Preferment nor other Benefit by the said Sir John Carewe neither in Possessions nor in Goods in consideration whereof That it would please your Highness of your abundant grace and benign pity to direct your gracious Letters missive to the said Archbishop of Canterbury reciting by the same Letters That the mind and pleasure of your Grace is to accept and take the aforesaid Hundred and Fourscore Pounds in full recompence and satisfaction as well of the said Two Hundred Pounds as of all other Debts which the said Sir John Carewe ought unto your Grace at the time of his Death which Debts ought to have first preferment in payment by the Order of your Laws before any payment of any Debts that the said Sir John Carewe ought at the time of his death to any persons And further by the same your Gracious Letters to command the aforesaid Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver or cause to be delivered the aforesaid Goods attaining the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds to your said Oratrix to have to her own proper use of the gift of you And farther that it may please your Gracious Highness to direct your Warrant to be signed with your most victorious hand unto your Servant John Heyron commanding him by the same to deliver or cause to be delivered the foresaid Writings Obligatory of Two Hundred Pounds to your said Oratrix to the intent that she may deliver them to the said Archbishop of Canterbury for his discharge as Ordinary of and for the payment and delivery of the said Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And this at the Reverence of God and in the way of Charity And your said Oratrix shall pray to God for the prosperous continuance of your Royal Estate and for the preservation of the same The Kings Warrant signed with his hand to Thomas Lucas to release unto Sir John Mordaunt the Latimers Lands that had stood ingaged to King Henry the Seventh for a thousand pounds HENRY the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To Thomas Lucas Esquire Greeting Where ye and the Right Reverend Father in God our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councellor Richard Bishop of Winchester with Sir William Gascoigne Knight and others now Deceased by divers Writs of Entry in the post recovered the Mannors of Devilish Estpullham and Duntish with the Appurtenances in the County of Dorset and certain other Lands and Tenements in Devilish Estpullham and Duntish aforesaid Bokeland Helton and Milborn Saint Andrew in the said County of Dorset And also the Mannor of Estoket with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset the Mannor of Turvey with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and also certain other Lands and Tenements in Turvey aforesaid And also the Mannor of Burnton and Newton per mare with the Appurtenances in the County of Northumberland and certain other Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the said County of Northumberland against Sir John Mordaunt by the name of John Mordaunt Esquire John Jenor and others as by the Records thereof exemplified under the Seal of our Common-Bench and also by two Releases which Releases the said John Mordaunt shall shew unto you signed with our hand
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
totam terram illam tenementum quae habuimus in Villa de Gravenshull quam quidem terram septem villani nostri tenere consueverint liberè quietè integrè sine aliquo retenemento cum omnibus suis pertinentiis faciendo inde nobis haeredibus nostris servitium vicesimae partis feodi unius Militis pro omni servitio exactione seculari in perpetuum ut praedictum est His Testibus Domino Thoma de Clare Johanne de Muscegros Roberto de Turberville Hugone de Turberville Hugone filio Otonis Roberto de Turberville filio Rogero de Reymes aliis Datum per manum nostram apud Bristol nono die Decembris Anno Regni Domini Regis patris nostri quinquagesimo secundo Carta Dominae Margeriae de Insula SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Margeria de Insula dedi concessi hac praesenti Carta mea confirmavi Elizabethae de Mauduit filiae meae totam illam terram tenementum quae habui in Villa de Kildewate quam quidem terram pater meus Johannes de Verdon quondam emit de Domino Roberto de Muscegros mihi dedit in liberum Maritagium tenenda habenda sibi haeredibus suis de me haeredibus meis liberè quietè bene in pace in perpetuum reddendo inde annuatim ipsa haeredes sui mihi haeredibus meis unum obulum ad festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae pro omnibus servitiis Sectis Curiarum wardis releviis omnibus aliis secularibus exactionibus quae contingere possunt Et ego verò dicta Margeria haeredes mei dictam terram tenementum cum pertinentiis dictae Elizabethae haeredibus suis contra omnes mortales per praedictum servitium in perpetuum warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio praesentis Cartae meae confirmatio perpetuae firmitatis robur obtineant praesentem Cartam Sigilli mei impressione roboravi His Testibus Domino Warino de Bassingburne Hugone Lovel Waltero Simenhede Johanne Russell Militibus Johanne de la Grane Petro de Stane Johanne de Stane Galfrido de Bolyntom Willielmo de Sandhurst aliis Declaratio Domini Warini Mauduit de homagio Petri de Langford PAteat universis per praesentes quòd ego Warinus Mauduit Capitalus Dominus de parva Tenton die Mercurii proxima post Festum Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi vicesimo in aula mea De Werminster recepi Homagium Petri de Langford Tenentis mei pro terra de parva Tenton praedicta praesentibus Domino Johanne de Muscegros Thoma Mauduit filio meo Henrico Pennistone Waltero Setwale Simone de Harwell Waltero Leffry Johanne Berenford Thoma de Redland aliis In cujus rei Memoriam praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Werminster die Anno supradictis OUT of a very Antient Manuscript and a List therein of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land is Dominus Warinus Mauduit THOMAS MAVDVIT Lord Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Domini Thomae Mauduit SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Thomas Mauduit filius Domini Warini Mauduit dedi concessi hac praesenti Carta confirmavi Waltero Stoner libero homini meo unam virgatam terrae in Scaldene cum omnibus pertinentiis suis pro Homagio servitio suo illam scilicet dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Radulphus Junnens quondam tenuit cum Messuagio Curtelagio cum una Crofta cum omnibus aliis pertinentiis suis illam dimidiam virgatam terrae quam Robertus Made tenuit cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sine Messuagio Curtelagio Habendum tenendum de me haeredibus meis vel meis assignatis sibi haeredibus suis vel suis assignatis liberè quietè pacificè in Bosco in plano in viis in semitis in pasturis in omnibus aliis locis exceptis à Curia mea segetibus meis Habebunt etiam dictus Walterus Beatricia Uxor sua haeredes sui vel assignati centum oves unum Multonem quieto de Herbagio seu cujusmodi animalia voluerint in pasturis ejusdem villae decem Boves vel Vaccas sive aliqua animalia cujusmodi voluerint quietos de Herbagio decem porcos quietos de Panagio ubicumque porci Liberorum Hominum pascent duos equos vel equas quietos de Herbagio Habendum tenendum liberè quietè pacificè sicut praenominatum est pro omni servitio exactione demanda ad me vel ad haeredes meos pertinentibus reddendo inde annuatim mihi haeredibus meis vel meis assignatis ipsi haeredes sui vel sui assignati unum Par albarum Chirothecarum vel unum denarium ad Pascha vel infra octavas Paschae sine Calumnia Volo etiam concedo quòd dictus Walterus haeredes sui vel assignati habeant liberum introitum exitum ad omnes terras sine Calumnia Et si ita fortè contigerit quòd dictus Walterus sine Haerede de Beatrice Uxore sua decesserit supradicta Beatricia totam praedictam terram cum omnibus pertinentiis suis sicut praenominatum est habeat cuicumque voluerit superstite concessum est legat ' vel Assignat ' exceptâ Domo Religiosa Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio Cartae meae Confirmatio firma stabilis in perpetuum permaneat praesenti Scripto Sigillum meum apposui his Testibus Radulpho de Rale Willielmo de Grimsted Symone de Melbourne Willielmo filio Gervasii Ada de la Hyde Thoma Spencer Andreo Camerario aliis multis Datum apud Scaldene die Annuntiationis beatae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici SIGILLVM DNI THOMAE MAUDUIT Carta Roberti Mauduit SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus Mauduit concessi quietam clamavi de me haeredibus meis Domino Thomae Mauduit fratri meo haeredibus suis totam terram meam de Westhastie cum toto adquestu meo sine ullo retinemento in excambiis terrae suae de Knovenhill quam ipse Thomas Mauduit dominus meus frater haeredes sui mihi haeredibus meis de Uxore mea progenitis concesserunt quietam clamaverunt Carta sua confirmaverunt Itaque nolo quod praedictus Thomas Mauduit Dominus meus frater vel haeredes sui per me vel per aliqââââ haeredum meorum in aliquo vexentur Hanc concessionem quietam Clamation ââ praesenti Scripto Sigilli mei munimine confirmavi his Testibus Willielmo de Warblintune Nicholao de Haveresham Willielmo de la Mare Nicholao de la Mare Waltero de la Mare Willielmo Parsona de Gratele Richardo filio Alveredi Hugone de Ho ... Richardo de Aulvine Petro de Warblintune multis aliis Carta
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
nostrae Libertatis nostrae praedictae apud Trym vicesimo septimo die Septembris Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti secundo A Letter from the Earl of March Lieutenant of Ireland to Baldwin Vere To Our Well-beloved Baldewin Vere Treasurer of our Liberty of Marche the Earl of Marche and of Ulster Lieutenant of Ireland WEll-beloved We greet you well And we woll and charge you that you don send out Precepts to all Our Homagers wythinn our Liberte of Inithe to come and doe theyr homages unto Us at Trym upon Munday or Tewysday next comeing without ony faile or excusation made the contrary Write at Develin the eleventh day of October Testamentum Baldewini de Vere IN Dei nomine Amen Die Lunae proximo post Festum Sancti Andreae Apostoli Anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo vicesimo quarto Ego Baldewinus de Vere condo Testamentum meum in hunc modum Imprimis lego animam meam Deo Omnipotenti beatae Mariae Matri suo omnibus Sanctis eorum corpus meum ad sepeliendum in Capella beatae Mariae in Ecclesia omnium Sanctorum de Addington magna optimum meum animal nomine Principalis ut consuetudo loci expostulat Item lego summo Altari ibidem pro decimis meis oblitis viginti Denarios Item lego uni Lampadi in dicta Ecclesia ardenti duodecim denarios Item lego Lumini beatae Mariae ibidem duodecim denarios Item lego in Cera circa Sepulturam meam duodecim Libras Item lego Elenae Uxori meae omnia Mobilia mea in Anglia extra ad terminum vitae suae volo quòd post decessum ejusdem Elenae eadem sint partita inter Richardum Vere Filium meum Elizabetham Annam Filias meas videlicet praefato Richardo one Salt-saler of Silver one douzin Sponys one gylt Kuppe standing with three Angels in the fotte one white pese covered with a gylt Knoppe with two sengel peses Item dicto Richardo two Brochis of Gold Item Elizabethae Filiae meae one Saltsaler one douzin Sponys a gylt Kuppe enamylled with a seye one Potte of Silver standing with three Brochis of Gold and three Ringys of Gold Item lego Annae Filiae meae one Saltseller of Silver with gylt brinkes and a deck spice with one gylt fotte enamylled in the middest for Spice gylt above with Levereds Headis one douzin Sponys one Potte of Silver standing one gylt Kuppe standing with a Bird on the Cover anoder gylt Cupp standing with a knoppe on the Cover an Ouche of Gold with an Egyle in the meddis set about with Stone and Perle three Rings of Gold and two Brochis of Gold enamylled with white Item lego Edwardo Filio meo optimam meam Togam Penulatam Item lego Garialo Filio unum Cyphum Argentatum Item lego ad distribuendum pauperibus pro salute animae meae tredecim solidos quatuor denarios Residuum verò Bonorum meorum non legatorum lego Elenae Uxori meae Willielmo Aldewincle Willielmo Fellesan Parsonae Ecclesiae de Islip Johanni Barton ad distribuendum pro salute animae meae omnium Benefactorum meorum Item Ordino constituto meos Executores praefatos Elenam Willielmum Willielmum Johannem In cujus rei testimonium praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Dat' die Anno supradicto SIGILLVM BALDEWINI DE VER Carta Elenae quae fuit Uxor Baldewini de Vere HAEC Indentura testatur Quòd Elena quae fuit Uxor Baldewini Vere de Addington tradidit concessit ad firmam dimisit Rogero Salpyn de Luffwyk Molendina sua aquatica de Thrapston cum les holmes omnibus proficuis salicum in eisdem holmes crescentium cum omnibus aliis proficuis pertinentiis eisdem Molendinis pertinentibus Ac etiam tradidit concessit ad firmam dimisit eidem Rogero tota separalia Piscaria sua in Ripariis Aquis de Thrapston quae sunt extra Villam praedictam cum omnibus les Fishing holmes proficuis salicum in eisdem holmes crescentium cum duabus Acris Terrae in Campis de Thrapston cum omnibus aliis proficuis pertinentiis eisdem Piscariis pertinentibus Habendum tenendum praedicta Molendina Piscaria praedicta cum omnibus les holmes proficuiis salicum praedictarum cum Terris praedictis aliis pertinentiis suis praefato Rogero Haeredibus Executoribus suis à Festo Sancti Michaelis ultimo praeterito usque in finem decem annorum proximè sequentium plenariè completorum Reddendo annuatim praefatae Elenae Haeredibus Assignatis suis quatuor Libras legalis Monetae ad quatuor anni terminos videlicet ad Festa Natalis Domini Paschae Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae Sancti Michaelis per aequales portiones Et etiam satisfaciendo solvendo Capitalibus Dominis annuatim liberum redditum pro praedictis Molendinis durante termino praedicto Et si praedictus redditus aretro fuerit in parte vel in toto ad aliquem terminum ultra unum mensem non solutus quòd extunc bene liceat praefatae Elenae Haeredibus Assignatis suis in praedictis Molendinis Piscariis cum les holmes Terris praedictis cum pertinentiis suis reintrare in pristino statu suo retinere praesentibus Indenturis non obstantibus Et praedictus Rogerus Salpyn Haeredes sui praedicta Molendina Piscaria cum les holmes Terras cum pertinentiis suis sustentabunt reparabunt in omnibus Custagiis sumptibus suis propriis durante termino praedicto ea in adeo bono statu reparatu in fine termini sui vel meliori dimittet quà m illa recepit à praedicta Elena Et praedicta Elena Haeredes sui praedicta Molendina aquatica Piscaria cum les holmes Terris cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in forma supradicta durante termino praedicto contra omnes Gentes warrantizabunt defendent Et ad omnes istas Concessiones Conventiones supradictas bene fideliter tenendas complendas quaelibet pars supradicta obligat se Articulo in decem Libris legalis Monetae In cujus rei Testimonium partes praedictae hiis Indenturis Sigilla sua alternatim apposuerunt Dat' apud Addington die Mercurii proximo post Festum Sancti Dionysii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum quarto Ista continentur in Fenestra Sancti Nicolai in Ecclesia de Addington Orate pro Anima Baldewini Vere qui istam Capellam fecit obiit primo die Mensis Augusti Anno Domini MCCCCLXXXVI In eadem Fenestra continentur ista Arma Arma Vere two Labels Gold Arma Barkelow Sir RICHARD de VERE first of that Name Lord of Thrapston Addington and other Lands and Lordships Indentura inter Thomam Asheby Richardum de Vere THis Indenture made betwix Thomas Asheby of Louesby in the County of Leicester
vel habere poterimus versus ipsum Richardum pro aliquibus hujusmodi finibus amerciamentis exitibus releviis scutagiis debitis compotis praestitis arreragiis ante dictum vicesimum nonum diem Septembris Anno Regni nostri nono nobis vel Progenitoribus praedictis aut aliis nuper ut praemittitur Regibus seu eorum alicui debitis Ac etiam Utlegariis in ipsum Richardum promulgatis pro aliqua causarum supradictarum Proviso semper quòd praesens Pardonatio nostra se non extendat ad praedictum Richardum quoad captionem asportationem abductionem seu detentionem aliquorum Bonorum seu Catallorum nostrorum quorumcunque per ipsum Richardum habit ' sive detent ' dummodo Bona Catalla illa nostra citra quartum diem Martii Anno Regni nostri undecimo capta asportata seu abducta fuerint nec ad ipsum Richardum quoad captionem asportationem abductionem seu detentionem aliquorum Bonorum seu Catallorum aliquorum praedictorum Rebellium Inimicorum nostrorum qui guerram contra nos aliquo modo levaverunt citra quartum diem Martii supradictum per ipsum Richardum habit ' detent ' nec ad ipsum Richardum quoad aliquas transgressiones negligentias misprisiones contemptus concelamenta forisfacturas aut deceptiones in stapula nostra ad Cales aut in aliquibus Merchandizis ad stapulam illam pertinentibus per ipsum Richardum facta sive perpetrata in deceptionem seu laesionem nostram aliquo modo citra dictum vicesimum nonum diem Septembris nec ad aliquam personam seu aliquas personas virtute vel authoritate alicujus Parliamenti nostri de alta proditione attinctam vel attinctas post hujusmodi attinctionem ad beneficium Legis nostrae per nullam authoritatem alicujus Parliamenti nec per aliquas Literas nostras Patentes habilitatas nec restitutas Nec ad aliquos magnos computantes nostros qui nunc sunt aut nuper fuerunt videlicet ad Majorem Societatem stapulae nostrae praedictae aut Majorem Constabularem Societatem stapulae nostrae praedictae Thesaurarii Cales Hospitii nostri vel Progenitorum dictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum seu eorum alicujus Vitellarios Cales Camerarios nostros Cestriae Northwalliae Southwalliae Custodes Garderobae Hospitii nostri vel Progenitorum praedictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum seu eorum alicujus aut Custodes sive Clericos magnae Garderobae nostrae vel Progenitorum praedictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum seu eorum alicujus Clericos sive Custodes Hanaperii Cancellariae nostrae qui nunc sunt aut nuper fuerunt vel Executores aut Administratores Bonorum Catallorum eorundem Clericorum sive Custodum vel eorum alicujus Clericos operationum nostrarum vel Progenitorum praedictorum aut aliorum nuper ut praemittitur Regum vel eorum alicujus Thesaurarios Terrae nostrae Hiberniae Receptores Ducatûs nostri Lancastriae Ducatûs nostrae Cornubiae tam generales quà m particulares quoad aliqua hujusmodi Officia seu hujusmodi Occupationes suos seu alicujus eorundem tangentia ullo modo se extendat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quinto die Maii Anno Regni nostri duodecimo Irrotulatur in memorandis Scaccarii de Anno duodecimo Regis Edwardi Quarti videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis Rotulo quinquagesimo tertio ex parte Rememoratoris Thesaurarii HENRY de VERE second of that Name Lord of Addington Thrapston and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Septimi HEnricus Deigratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quod per manucaptionem Johannis Boteler de Wotton in Comitatu Hertfordiae Gentilman Willielmi Coteler de Billing in Comitatu Northamptoniae Gentilman confirmavimus Henrico Vere Armigero Custodiam Manerii sive Dominii de Gedyngton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Northamptoniae Habendum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli proximo futuro usque ad finem termini septem Annorum ex tunc proximè sequentium plenariè completorum Reddendo inde nobis per Annum pro custodia praedicta viginti tres Libras novem Denarios unum Obolum prout nobis responsum est octo Denarios ultra de incremento per Annum ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones Proviso semper quod si aliquis aliis plus dare voluerit de incremento per Annum pro Custodia praedicta fine fraude vel malo ingenio quòd ex tunc dictus Henricus tantum pro eadem solvere teneatur si custodiam voluerit habere supradictam In cujus rei testimoninm has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri primo Curteis Per Billam Thesaur ' de dato praedicto authoritate Parliamenti To the Right Honourable and my singular good Lord my Lord Chancellor of England RIght honourable and my most singular good Lord I recommend me to your good Lordship in as humble manner as I can Please it your good Lordship to understand That where one Thomas Watts hath compleyned afore your Lordship and other of the Kings Councel ayenst Harry Vere Squyer of divers injuries and wrongs supposed that he shuld doe to him in the coming of the Kings Grace into this Lond for the whyche injuries and wronges the said Thomas had at that tyme a Privy Seal and of his own offer and desire prayed me to sett him and the said Harry at accord And the said Harry Vere to appear And the said Thomas kept still his Privy Seal And for soe much as he was my Servaunt att the tyme I att a Sessions in the second Yere of our said Soveraigne Lord at Northampton afore Sir Thomas Greene John Throgmorton Richard Knightly and other Gentilmen there present made a their own agreement and accorde of matters desires and greves depending betwix the said partyes from the beginning of the World unto that day of accord as well of the part of the said Harry as of the said Thomas And alsoe whereas the said Thomas shuld late surmiis unto your Lordship that the said Henry should desire me to goe to the house of the said Thomas in Rothewell att my goeing toward the King att his last Journay Northwarde to slee or destroye the said Thomas It was never soe desired by the said Henry nor noon of his of me nor of noon of myne nor I never thought no suche entent to him nor to noon other but according to the Kings comandement and his Lawes and thereto I shall be ready to answer as well for my declaration as for the declaration of the said Henry in all the
premisses whansoever it pleas the Kings Highnes and your Lordship to comande me And Almighty God ever preserve your good Lordship to your most hertes pleasure Written at Haroweden the fower and twentyeth Day of October By your own Servant Nicholas Vaus The Answer of Henry Vere Esquire to the Bill of Complaint of Thomas Watts THE said Henry saith by protestation That the said Bill of Complaint is insufficient and compriseth matter slaunderous For the declaration of the trouth of the premisses the said Henry saith That the said Thomas Watts before the said twentye sixthe day of August specified in the said Bill that the said Compleynent in the dayes of King Richard late in dede and not in right King of England took from the said Henry riotously with thirty persons defensibly arrayed certeyn Timber Hey-Rekes Peese-Rekes with much other Stuff of Howshold to the value of eleven Marks and more And alsoe the said Thomas in lyke riotous wise resevyd of the Rents of the said Henry ten Mark in Ekton Barton and Wouleston within the Counte of Northampton for the whyche the said Henry compleyned to the Kings Grace imediately after his first feld And it pleased the Kings Grace among other of his Highnes Comandemenâs to comand the said Henry to bring the same Thomas to him to answer to the premisses And the said Henry by reason of the same Comandement with two persons harnessed came from his first Feld unto the House of the said Thomas to the entent to execute the Kings said Comandements then and there being John Tresham Esquier the Viccar of the said Town of Rothewell John Dove and one Cowper and many others and they knowing the premisses and knowing for trouth that the said Thomas of and in the premisses and many other had offended the said Henry desired the said Henry to take some reasonable weye and end with the said Thomas in eschewing further expences and troubles At the whych time the said Viccar and John Dove by the special desire of the said Thomas brought unto the said Henry ten Mark And the said Thomas by his Servant sent the same Black Horse specified in his said Bill to the said Henry in full recompence of such injuries as been afore rehersed All which matters and every eche one of them the said Henry is ready to prove as this Court will award and prayeth to be dismissEd out of this Court with his reasonable Costs and expence for his wrongful vexation Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 296. HEnry Vere was High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the first Year of Henry the Seventh To the Right Worshipful Maister Vere Shrese of Northamptonshire be this Letter delivered c. MAister Shrefe After due recommendation with my service in my most herty manner I pray yow that for as mikyl as the Ferme of all th' assarts within the Forest of Rokyngham was granted to my Brother Sir William Stoke and Richard Burton yontly and to other of them longer lyffing and my sayd Brother whom God hath called from this World nothyng medled with the gadryng up of the deutes of the same but onely Richard Burton like as he said unto yow at Stamford but lately that he would charge himself with them and discharge my Brother in that behalfe It may please yow in that manner-wise and after that Forme to make returne of your Writte And as for my Brothers Lyvelode within the Shyre it is but littyl he purchased and bought two Cottages in Rokyngham of lityl value and a Meese in Kyrtby also two Closes one beside Pipwell and one at Brigstock and here is all the livelode that he had in the Shyre for that livelode that was my Moders in Warmington and elsewhere she gaf hit to me twenty Yere ago and my Broder had never ado the with but by myn assignement and for myn behofe In this and in other thinges concerning me and myn I pray yow shew your kindly favor and I shall so dele with yow at our next meetyng in Northamptonshyre that ye shall hold yow ryght well content From Lincoln the twentyeth Day of March. And as for Newys with us This day my Lady of Northumbyrland came to the King to Lincoln and brought to the Kings Grace with hyr hyr eldest Sonne a goodly yong Lord. On Munday cum sevenyght the Kyng is preposed toward Nottingham there to tary six or seaven dayes and from thence to take his journay toward York c. Yours to his power Thomas Stoke To his Worshipful Brother Henry Vere be this Bill delivered at Addington RYght Worshipful Brodyr I recommend me unto yow and to my Sister your Wife hertily desiring to here of your welfares the which Almightie God preserve to his plesure and yowr hertes desire Sure I have spokyn with Maister Catesby and he hath promissed me to be as frendly to yow in yowr matter as he can He is ryding with my Lord Chamberlyn this Morning toward the Kyng Watts calleth for the processe and therefore I went to Maister Catesby this morning when he took his Horse and fete a Tokyn from him to Watts that he shuld cale noe more on the processe till he come to Towne ayene and that shall be when the King come and that shall be within fourteen dayes and if ye come up then he will see an end betwix you and the other Gentilman the Jewe and so I think best yow doe for anoder man cannot labour your mattir soe well to yowr intent as yowr self sure As for your Suite against Beke they have yeven yow none Answere as yet There is an Exigent out against Parson Edward Davy sure I pray yow remember my Brother Barners for I sent him word That ye would send him ten Pounds within fourteen dayes after Alhallow-Day Brother whereas yow wrote unto me that ye were not in hertes ese ye have made me very hevye of that tydings but I trust to God in the next Bill ye shall send me better comforte And sure at the reverence of God whatsoever adverfityes befall yow take them lytely and set them not to yowr herte and then remedye them as ye think best for if ye set them to yowr herte ye shall hurt your selfe and that shall plese syche as be the causes thereof and all syche as love yow not and shall discomforte all syche as be yowr frendes and Lovers Wherefore I will avise yow to take that way that may comforte yowr frendes and lovers and displese yowr foes No more to yow at this tyme but I shall be at yowr comandement both here and elswhere be God's Grace who have yow in his kepeing At London on Symond Jude is Evyn Be your Brother and Servant Baldwyn Vere To my Right Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Gentilman RYght Trusty and Welbeloved I commend me unto yow And whereas I have perceived by my Right Welbeloved Sir Thomas Thornton Parson of Addington in the County of Northampton how that he of
out of dette and danger I pray yow think not but that I hope and trust to God to have a Heire or Heires of my Body lawfully begotten though it fortune me not to have any by this Woman And that I think not nor intend not if God fortune me to have such Issue to disinheryte them nor noon other that shall fortune to be myne next Heire But if God fortune me live I purpose to leve them as moche as I found and more of myne owne purchase with the Grace of Jhesu who preserve yow and yours both Body and Soule Your loveing Brodyr John Tresham To my Right Welbeloved Cousen Sir Harry Vere Sheriff of the County of Northampton RYght Welbeloved I comend me to yow Forasmuch as I am enformed that John Robyns of Multon is vexed and troubled by certeyn persons there wrongfully and against Conscience I will and desire ye that ye will succour the same John in his Right and not suffer him soe to be wronged otherwise than may accorde with Lawe and Conscience soe that he may have and enjoy that he hath Right to in quiet rest and peace Written at London the two and twentyeth day of February Oxynford To my Right Welbeloved Cousyn Sir Henry Vere RYght Welbeloved Cousyn I comende me to yow thankyng yow for yowr good will and disposition shew'd to me by your Servant this Berer whereby I understand that ye haveing knowleche that I sent for my Frendes and Lovers thought that I shuld have sent for yow in like manner I have therein shewed my mynde and entent to yowr seyd Servant to whom ye may yeve credence in that behalfe not doubtyng but myne entent was at soche tyme as I would call such as be towards and reteyned to me to have then sent for yow And soo hereafter I entend to doo as well for yow as for all suche other there as be towards me whereto I desyre yow and theym to shewe yowr good willes and to be ready to do the King service in my Company when ye shall thereto be desired Written at the Abbay of Stretford the four and twentyeth day of February Oxynford To my right entirely beloved Cousen Henry Vere Squier RYght intirely beloved Cousyn I comende me hertely to yow And forasmoche as I truste that ye think I take yow for my Kynnesman as ye may certeynly be sure that I so do and that I here by reporte that ye be gretely greved and vexed with sikenes whereof I am right sory howbeit I think by Godis Grace ye shall do right well Neverthelesse I understand that ye have yong Gentilwomen to yowr Daughters whych be my Kynneswomen I therefore woll think that howsoevyr God dispose for yow that ye shuld be content that I myght have the Rule and Governaunce of theym or some of theym consydering that they be of my blode desyring yow especially that ye wyll soe dispofe yowr selfe not doubting but that I shall be as gode Lorde to theym that ye wylle putt in my Rule and cherish theym as I wolde doe myne owne delyverryng the same to my right trusty Servaunt Thomas Lowthe by him to be conveyed to me yevyng him credence alsoe in that he shall shewe to yow ferther according to my mynd in this behalfe And Almighty God preserve yow Written at Colne the last day of April Yowr Cosen Oxynford Carta Edwardi Comitis Wilts OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum pervenerit Edwardus Comes Wilts salutem Noveritis nos praefatum Comitem remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quietum clamâsse Henrico Vere Armigero Haeredibus Assignatis suis totum jus titulum clameum statum interesse seu demandum quae unquam habuimus habemus seu in futuro habere poterimus de in omnibus illis Terris Tenementis Pratis Pascuis Pasturis Redditibus Servitiis cum suis pertinentiis quibuscunque in Villis in Campis de Farnedich Addington parva in Comitatibus Bedfordiae Northamptoniae jacentibus quae praefatus Henricus nuper habuit ex dono concessione confirmatione Johannis Babington Militis Roberti Witilbury Thomae Meris Armigerorum Oliveri Sutton Gentilman prout in quadam Carta inde facta pleniùs testatur Ita quod nec nos praefatus Edwardus Comes Wilts nec Haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius nomine nostro aliquod jus titulum clameum statum interesse seu demandum in praedictis Terris Tenementis Pratis Pascuis Pasturis Redditibus Servitiis cum suis pertinentiis quibuscunque nec in aliqua parcella eorundem de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus in futuro sed inde ab omni actione juris titulo clameo demando sumus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes Et nos praefatus Comes Wilts Haeredes nostri omnia illa praedicta Terras Tenementa Prata Pascua Pasturas Redditus Servitia cum suis pertinentiis quibuscunque praefato Henrico Vere Haeredibus Assignatis suis contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus in perpetuum defendemus In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Cartae meae Sigilla nostra apposuimus Hiis Testibus Georgio Dalyson Armigero Willielmo Merbury Armigero Willielmo Dounhale Armigero Johanne Walker Datum duodecimo die Mensis Junii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi post Conquestum Angliae septimo Testamentum ultima Voluntas Henrici Vere TO all trew Christen pepul to whom this present Writing shall come see or here Henry Vere of Addington Knight sendeth greteing in our Lord evalersting Know ye Me the foreseyd Henry my last Will and Testament is That the Will of my Fadyr be performed if any be behynd Alsoe I will that six Pounds yerely be paid out of my Fee-simple-Land to my Chantre for a Preste there to sing for ever for me and my Auncestors I will that my Obsequies be performyd yerely be the same Preste and five Pence to be delivered to five poor men in the Worshepe of the five wounds of Christ and once in the Yere a ....... for all my Auncestors and to dele five Pence to five poor pepul in the Worchepe of the five sorrows of our Lady I will that my Chantre Preste say daily in the seid Cherch or Cherchyard Placebo and Dirige and our Ladys Psalter except a lawful scuse lett him Alsoe I will that my Tombe be made in our Ladys Chappell with a Vault in the Wall of Alybaster and the Tombe of the same with a Picter insolid on them I will that iii Trantalls be song for me be my seventh day whensoever it plese God that I depart the World Alsoe I will that if I owe any man any money that it be payed And alsoe if any man can or will say that I have done him wrong or withhould any money from him in the way of bargaynyng or communing let him be agreed with as ye here the Cause Alsoe I will that my Wyfe have
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
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
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
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
he took his leave and departed home full of indignation against the Times the Nation and Fortune resolving though he were at ease and had made his peace to expose Wife Estate Quiet and his Life upon any undertaking wherein there should be a reasonable appearance of relieving the best of Kings What ensued after this is the King's Story and that of other Men. I shall only relate that after his being at Hampton-Court his escape thence and unfortunate detention in the Isle of Wight the Transactions with the Army and many other Contrivances there came at last to be designed a Rising in his favour to be begun in Surrey of which Henry Earl of Holland was to be General To this there was much contributed in Money and Counsels by the Presbyterian Party and herein under assurances of great partakers the Earl of Peterborow was again engaged who on his part fail'd not to be at the Rendezvous according to appointment in the head of a Hundred Horse well Arm'd and provided that came to follow him out of his own Country But of such numbers as others had undertaken there were so many fail'd as at the Muster and Survey of that Rendezvous it gave a great discouragement to those that did appear which caus'd divers that came in to the first Meeting even of the Surrey Gentlemen after the recess of one Night never to return again The Earl of Holland notwithstanding still in hopes from the great promises wherewith he had been deluded marched on into the Country and the first Night Quarter'd at Darking expecting for the next day great supplies and accession of of Men out of that Country and the City but the succeeding Morning produced no more armed Men nor any change to his desperate condition And being now past any retreat from his Engagement he march'd back towards Kingston in order by passing the River at that Bridge to procede Northward into such Countries wherein he hoped he should find more zealous and trusty Friends But in the Afternoon as he made a small halt upon the way he had Intelligence That Sir Michael Lucy's Regiment of Horse and some other Forces were on their march to overtake and Charge him and by that time he reached Kingston Heath their Scouts appear'd as he was ready to march into the Town The Enemies Troops arriving thereupon he had not time to draw up his few Forces as he should have done but they were Charged and routed in a short time the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to the Duke of Buckingham was killed in the Lane and most of the rest dispers'd to shift for themselves the best they could be able The Earl of Peterborow with Five or Six Gentlemen Volunteers of his Troop had Charged quite through the Enemies Men and were so far engaged That the Enemy being got between them and the Town it was unpossible for them to reach back unto the Bridge or their own flying Party and Night being come on they shelter'd themselves in a Gentleman's House near by and by means of good Guides got the next Night to London where they lay conceal'd in expectation of hearing how and where they might meet with their Friends again The Fortune of the Earl of Holland and the rest of the Party which got from Kingston every body knows and how he was taken at St. Needs and afterwards lost his Head The hopes of this Design being thus unfortunately disappointed and Messengers and Spies employ'd every where to seek and seize all the considerable Persons engag'd or suspected to have contributed to this attempt the Earl of Peterborow whom they did intend to make an example was forc'd to abscond as well as he was able He did it in a Chirurgeon's House called Mr. Lowe by whom he was very faithfully served till by the frequentation of the Earl's Mother the House began to be suspected and there was then procur'd for him a lodging at the Printers in Black-Friars where he lay till a safe passage was provided for him to get below Gravesend where he was received into a small Fisher's Boat which conveighed him to Flushing in Zealand There escaped with the Earl John Mordaunt his Brother afterwards Viscount Mordaunt and Mr. William Stafford of Blatherwick a young Gentleman of Fortune who both follow'd him in this occasion and having presented themselves to the Prince of Wales who was then at the Hague they were all receiv'd by his Highness the Princes of Orange his Sister and his Aunt the Queen of Bohemia and all the Princes their Children with that consideration that appertain'd to persons who were Martyrs for their Service having lost their Estates ventur'd their lives and expos'd all their Friends to vindicate the Honor and Authority of their House and relieve the King out of Prison Winter now did approach and it was in that dead time when the King's Affairs were in their last and worst condition The Duke of Hamilton had been routed and taken the Scotch Army dissipated Colchester was surrendred Lord Capell a Prisoner and Lisle and Lucas Executed In fine to this succeeded the Tryal of the Lords Hamilton Holland and Capell their Murder and after that never to be execrated enough of the King himself and in consequence a seeming settlement of that horrid power of the succeeding Common-wealth At this time the Earl of Peterborow was retired to the City of Antwerp because his Estate being all for the second time sequestred he could withdraw no such subsistance as might enable him to follow the young King as he did desire and the Prince was not Master of so much Treasure and Revenues as he might spare wherewith to maintain such Men without Employment in his Service and the expectation of his remaining hopes lying then in Scotland he was forc'd to employ the Moneys he had to entertain and encourage the Men of interest in that Nation The Earl of Peterborow then being from the young King whom he was not able to follow and in a condition very necessitous useless to his Prince and unprofitable to himself he was advised by all his Friends to try if at any expence he could make way with some of power in England to be admitted to a second Composition His Wife the Countess being an Ingenuous and Industrious Lady found means to obtain it upon notice whereof the Earl acquainting the King and his Ministers therewith had his Majesty's leave and approbation to provide for himself the best he could and to submit to the general Fortune and Condition of his Party He return'd then and after many extreme and perverse difficulties paid another great Composition and was once again settled in the possession of his Fortune In the retirement then to his own House the payment of great Debts acquir'd upon Publick accounts and settlement of his Fortune this Earl spent those years which remain'd between the King's Murther and the Restoration of his Son But upon the return of King Charles the Second the Lord Viscount
malice greater than that and their cunning greater than either They knew the admirable Qualities of this Prince they knew his Valor his Justice his Temperance his love of business his indefatigableness in all honourable undertakings they knew also that against a Man so qualified no Truth could prevail they were then resolved to have recourse to falsehood and to the Devil the Father of Lyers one of whose chief Favorites was become Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper the late Earl of Shaftsbury This person was a Man of little stature in his youth well enough shaped of countenance agreeable grace he had in all his manners of application which were to every body soft and plausible He was very well Learn'd and particularly understood the Laws he was exceeding Eloquent a great Master he was of words and the Language and knew powerfully to apply them to every purpose His voice was harmonious and of the sweetness thereof he did likewise make use in his intent to charm the Auditors when he intended to cast false colours upon any thing But with this he was Proud as Lucifer and Ambitious beyond what ever enter'd into the designs of any Man impatient of every Power but his own of any Man's reputation false to that degree as he did not esteem any Promise any Engagement any Oath of other use than to serve a purpose and none of these of consequence to bind a Man farther than it was his interest and for Religion of which for a tool he made most use he had never any as appear'd by the private practices of his whole life For he was ever vicious to his power And for his Cruelty it was never less to those he hated than intentions of total ruine and extirpation in which he was inexorable and it was never known he forgave or was reconcil'd to any Man This Man from a condition obnoxious enough to the King and his party had prepar'd the way of his Peace before the Restoration of King Charles the Second by an Alliance with a great Man esteem'd of much merit in the Royal Interest the Earl of Southampton by whose influence it was not only made but his Uncle which that Lord was becoming Treasurer he procur'd for him the next considerable place in that omnipotent post which was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer and it was so much the more considerable as the Earl being very infirm in effect he did exercise both places His Parts and his Activity which to give him his due were both very extraordinary appear'd in all occasions of Council and Parliament so as the King took opinion of his great Abilities which as soon as he did perceive his first design became to undermine the Chancellor whose compliance and friendship to the Earl of Southampton had occasion'd his being let into Business and the Government and his first malice to his Royal Highness excepting that which those that knew him did believe he always bore to the whole Royal House was grounded upon the obstruction his interest gave to such clandestine prejudices as might have been wrought against his Father-in-law which then the Chancellor was But after this he became as far as he durst oppos'd to the Duke on every occasion joyn'd himself to and party that seem'd contrary and took all Men by the Hands that he thought bore him secret unkindness and if there were prejudicial whispers and insinuations to be apply'd unto the King no Man knew to do it with more dexterity than this Lord for he could kill with courtesie and so ruine a Man's Reputation with Praises The Earl of Shaftsbury under these capacities having try'd various successes in his Fortune and finding the Duke's Genious in opposition to his Establishment began to enter upon the undertaking of that famous contrivance of the pretended Popish Plot wherein he had for assistant another Great Earl whose Name I shall omit for the sake of some that went before him and of others that may come after His chief Instruments were Doctor Tongue and the memorable Titus Oates It was about the end of Summer in the Year _____ when the late King Charles the Second was at his Castle of Windsor in possession of that peace and quietness he did so much affect where there was conveyed to him by the officiousness of his then Chief Minister the Earl of Danby notice of certain Papers and other Instruments containing the substance of a Conspiracy wherein his Life and Government were said to be concern'd Herein many of the Duke's Creatures and Servants did undergo Reflection and the Aspertion the Calumny and the Slander reach'd even unto all the Catholicks of England there are Reasons pro and con to make Men think the King sometimes did and other times did not give credit to any thing of this nature But soon hereupon he removed to London it being near the time he usually went to divert himself with the Races at New-market and stay'd longer than he did intend upon pretence of searching into this matter to satisfie the World what there was of Reality or Fiction in it But that which did appear to make Men doubt of his Opinion of the thing was the treating the Examinations with two much seriousness and application and his not stifling and putting an end to it before his going to New-market This made many doubt of his intentions toward the Duke and of his resolution to suffer his Ministers and his Brother's Enemies to make advantage of it to his prejudice For all the endeavours could be used would not prevail towards stopping a Journey of Recreation for a matter so important as the discovery of this imposture would have proved when otherwise there had been time enough to have perform'd it between that and the sitting of the Parliament if to that purpose it had been well employ'd But the King would go and in the Interim Godfrey was kill'd by himself or by some other which made a noise so great as at his Majesties return there was no way to hinder the acceptance of this Ball which was play'd into the hands of the Parliament and the Duke's Enemies to the end they might maintain a Game intended and undertaken for the ruine of the Government the person of the Duke and indeed of the King himself and all the Royal House But now the cry began to rise Oates put in his Accusations and his Narrative and notwithstanding all the Contradictions and even Impossibilities they did contain they had countenance and encouragement Coleman was seized his Letters and his Papers they were exposed the Duke's Enemies would have them Read and Printed that they might reflect upon his Designs and the Influence he had upon the King The Queen was accused and all the Catholicks Bedloe came in upon the false inventions of the death of Godfrey many other became Evidences suborn'd and maintain'd by the Costs and Arts of Shaftsbury Monmouth and their Party The Test was fram'd to exclude the Duke and the Catholick Lords out
of Parliament The Duke had much to do to get an exemption for himself as a respect to the advantage of his High Birth The Lords Powis Stafford Arundell and Petres were after accused of High Treason and many others In fine Hell was broke loose Malice Revenge and Ambition were supported by all that Falsehood and Perjury could contrive And lastly it was the most deplorable time that ever was seen in England But during all these Troubles the Earl of Peterborow continued firm industrious and diligent to all that could be of use and service to the Duke his Master he exposed himself in Parliament by perpetual opposition of that party he got the ill-will of the City and he made himself obnoxious to the Enemies of the Duke and his Religion in all the Provinces of England he stood up for the Innocent he to his power supported the oppressed and he declared for publick justice against publick malice and publick partiality After this things came to that height as the King was induced to send his Brother out of England whether it were he thought he was not able to protect him against the aversion of the People and Parliament or that he was weary of being urged to those generous ways of defending his Interest and Prerogative which the Duke was always ready to suggest unto him And to this he was urged by his Ministers his Minions and his Mistress The Duke then was forced to retire into Holland and after into Flanders the Earl of Peterborow remaining behind to serve his Master in what might occur in Parliament but at the instance of the prevailing party he was immediately with the rest of his Royal Highness's Friends excluded out of the Privy Council whereof before he had of some years been a Member he fell then to working by himself and all his Friends to strengthen the interest his Master had left behind he endeavour'd to make him Creatures he disabused several that had taken prejudices upon false suggestions And in fine braved his Enemies by all the important oppositions he could make against them and when the Parliament was up and that there was no more opportunity to serve him here his Lordship follow'd him into his Exile with his Wife and Family resolved to run his Fortune and support as well as he could the consequences of their displeasure who were like to be offended at such an adherence And indeed he was no sooner gone than he began to feel the weight of their resentment for there was a Pension he had given him from the King under the Great Seal of England of a Thousand pound by the Year for valuable consideration and which he had constantly received for divers Years from the date thereof that was immediately stopp'd and forbid farther to be paid by the influencing malice of the Earls of Essex and Shaftsbury He constantly then attended his Royal Highness during his stay in those Countries and at an expence as did no dishonor to his Master his Country nor the Quality of which he was and upon his Highness's notice of the King his Brother's being sick and the resolution he took thereupon to repair into England he with the Lord Churchil alone came over with him unto Windsor leaving the Dutchess and the Court at that time behind them I mention this as an introduction to an accident which after happen'd wherein his Lordship and his Royal Master had like to have been much concern'd which was effectually as shall be here set down Upon the Earl of Peterborow's arrival at London after a day or two he went to visit a noble Lady of his acquaintace the Countess of Powis who with her Family were in affliction by reason of the unjust Imprisonment and Oppression of the Earl her Husband at that time in the Tower After some discourses of the times and of the straits wherein it was believed the King the Duke and the Royal Family were all by reason of the seditious proceedings in Parliament and the disaffection had been raised towards them by the wicked Arts of their Enemies her Ladiship ask'd Whether his Lordship did not believe it might be a service to His Majesty and his Highness if some of the considerable leaders in those proceedings and designs could be taken off from their Malice and introduc'd into the King's Service and the endeavours of honestly astssiing the Crown The Earl gave his approbation of the proposition and said He did believe it would be so and that encouragement ought to be given to those that were capable to effect any such matter Her Ladiship told him then she knew an ingenious Woman who from the Calling of a Mid-wife had opportunity of frequenting domestically many considerable Families and that was intimately acquainted even with the Earl of Shaftsbury from whom she had been sometimes trusted with messages if not propositions to his Royal Highness himself although nothing had succeeded thereupon This Woman she said was passionately concern'd for the King and the Duke and had every where made it her business to soften their Enemies and make them Creatures She acquainted her Ladiship That she found divers of them susceptible of reason and to be taken off but they all feared an imaginary implacability in the Duke's Nature and that advancing his power they should but promote their own prejudices by giving him thereby opportunities of revenging the injuries they might formerly have done him So as if by receiving one or two of them into grace from the submissions they should make the rest might be disabused of the error they were in from the conceit of his revengeful Nature she did much believe it would prove of very good effect The Earl of Peterborow told the Countess of Powis he would willingly see this Woman and if the Men she named were considerable enough he would undertake upon due submissions beginning with one to make the rest see the Duke was the most gracious Prince in the World the most ready to forgive and the gladest to reclaim any Gentleman out of an ill proceeding wherein he might have been engaged through mistakes evil Counsel or Company or other Accidents that sometimes have influence over humane nature This Woman whose name was Cellier met the Earl at the same place the next day and affirming all the Countess had said told his Lordship That the fittest Man to begin withal was one Sir Robert Payton The Earl knew this Gentleman had been a Factious a Turbulent and a Discontented Man he had been turn'd out of some Employments by the endeavours and power of certain Ministers which he did after resent and endeavour to revenge upon the Government He had grown very popular presided at dangerous Clubs and carried the being Knight of the Shire for Middlesex against all the endeavours of the Court and the Loyal Party He was dangerously bold and industrious in the Parliament and his Lordship thought it not an ill service to take him off A time was appointed for
Exclusion from the Succession to the Crown against his Royal Highness It endur'd a strong and long debate Of powerful Eloquence and great parts were the Duke's Enemies who did assert the Bill but a Noble Lord appear'd against it who that day in all the force of Speech in Reason in Arguments of what could concern the publick or the private interests of Men in Honor in Conscience in Estate did out-do himself and every other Man and in fine his conduct and his parts were both victorious and by him all the wit and malice of that party was overthrown After this Henry Lord Viscount Stafford was brought to his Tryal as the chief of those Lords that had been accused of so many Treasons in the particulars of whose Impeachment there appear'd so many improbabilities in the Witnesses such reasons to render them of no belief and in the Prosecutors so much Malice Interest and Partiality as it was impossible to the Earl of Peterborow for Conscience sake not to endeavour his justification though to the uttermost offence of so powerful and prevailing a party He came to the House the last day of his Tryal and would go down into the Hall to exercise his right of Judicature though he were sick of a Fever from the pain of his Arm that was out of joint though he was perswaded and threatned from it and in scorn of that iniquity did not remove till he had voted for publick Justice against popular Tyranny and Oppression This Parliament after this Lords Condemnation came to be Dissolv'd and the Earl being then no more either of Council or Court retired to Drayton in Northamptonshire where his Master had commanded him to stay till the approaching Parliament was to meet that had been appointed for to sit at Oxford It was about this time the Faction began to prepare for Action They began to find the King more sensible of his danger and their intentions than ever he had been They began to lose the hold they had upon his Mistresses and his Ministers and that the false Minions of his Court began many of them to lose their esteem and be suspected by him whilst he began to harken to honester Men and that were better instructed in the True principles of his Interest and Government They believed the Assembling of the Parliament of Oxford was calculated for to evade their power in London and that at last they were like to find the King not so complying to his own Ruine as they might desire and possibly were made to expect some Months before They thought themselves then ready and ripe for violence they intended to put the end of their Assosiations into practice and a Man of their party came not to Oxford without more Friends and Arms than had been needful for them at any other time Upon noise whereof the Lords and Friends of the Crown did in some measure do so on the other side being willing to secure themselves from insults of their Adversaries if they should be attempted and it look'd in a degree like one of those Parliaments call'd in the Barons days The Earl of Peterborow came to this Assembly from his House more provided than ordinary in proportion to the care and intentions of the other honest Lords And I have heard him say That meeting the King by chance at his first arrival to the Town he thought him better attended and under an appearance of more Resolution and Majesty than ever he had seen in him before The King entred then upon the Parliament and indeed such was his love to quiet and the publick peace as he was ready to have granted more than had ever been fit for them to ask But they were now as it pleased God so exalted in their opinion of their power and interest as they would have all and were resolved to leave him but the empty name of King and without power to maintain that longer than it should seem convenient He was forc'd then and on a sudden to dissolve this Parliament also and to betake himself to their Councels who undertook to make him live without it And so he came to spend at London and Windsor the ensuing Summer Enrag'd the Party became at this and look'd upon him to have escaped their hands by the Art and Contrivance of his new Cabinet and so as by the methods they took for his subsistance he was not like to come suddenly into their power again And now the Faction found that both the Brothers were to be destroy'd before they could attain the power was thought necessary for them so they then fell to the fatal consultations of plain Rebellion open Murther and such other pious Expedients as did suit with their refined Consciences which the Year after broke out by the discovery of the Enterprise of Rye and publick appearance of the Rebellions of Monmouth and Argile But upon the dissolution of this Parliament the Earl of Peterborow went back to his House and employ'd the rest of that Summer in disabusing many Gentlemen of the opinion they had receiv'd of the candor and innocence of that Parties intentions and in procuring Addresses to encourage the King and discountenance the disloyal Faction In October his Royal Highness sent for his Lordship to come and attend him in Scotland which he did with all his Family and with that affection as made it doubtful whether his Journey might not have proved a means to have excluded him from ever returning home again Indeed in this fluctuation of affairs where not only the Court and Council were divided but even the King 's own Thoughts and Inclinations it was dangerous to be so far distant from the Court and many of the Earl's Enemies whereof he had some were very potent did afford him such ill offices to his Majesty as when his Royal Highness did write to the King about any of the Earl's interests he could never procure any answer during all the time of his absence But the Winter wore out at last and the Duke was invited home Those that had least interest in the Council were for his return those that had most were against it under specious pretences But the true reason was They had a mind to keep their Power which they thought his Quality his Parts and Inclination to business would if not at first yet in some time very much diminish or eclipse He Embark'd the _____ of March at Leith in his own Yatcht and attended by the Earl of Peterborow and divers other Noble Lords of both the Kingdoms and setting Sail from thence under the sufferance of very tempestuous weather landed at Yarmouth where with the applause and duties of that Town and all the adjacent Countries he was received and thence passed to New-market meeting there the King and with that joy which was natural to him because he truly loved his Brother above all other things It was from hence he accompanied his Majesty to London but having left the Dutchess at Edenburgh
present Writing shall come John Mordaunt of Turvey of the County of Bedford Gentilman sendeth greeting in our Lord God Whereas Margaret Mordaunt my Moder holdeth the Maners called Mordaunts-maner and Dardres-maner and divers Lands and Tenements called Maunsellis Blatherwykes and divers other Lands and Tenements with the appurteneces in the Parish of Turvey aforesaid from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth after the Conquest the nineteenth unto the end and term of fourty Years then next following the reversion thereof to me the said John belonging Know ye me the said John to have given and by this my present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey aforesaid the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances the Rent unto the said Lessee reserved To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore And Whereas the said Margaret holdeth the Mills of Turvey with divers Holmes and Waters from Year to Year yielding to me therefore yearly ten Pounds of Lawful Money and ... Son William Ball holdeth divers Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances called Wellynz for the Term of six Years Know ye me the said John Mordaunt to have given and granted to the said Thomas Vynter John Vynter John Poley and Richard the reversion of the said Mills Holmes Waters Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And I the said John Mordaunt and my Heirs all the said Maners Mills Waters Holmes Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas and John Vynter John Poley and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for ever In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the six and twentieth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth SIGILLVM IOHANNIS MORDAVNT Charta Johannis Mordaunt TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing shall come John Mordaunt greeting in God Whereas one Hugh Jacob holdeth the Maner of Botelers in the Parish of Walden within the County of Essex with the appurtenances except three Acres and a half of arable Land half an Acre of Meede a Close called Horsecroft and eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the eleventh unto the end and Term of sixteen Years then next following of the demise of William Mordaunt Fader to me the said John which after the Death of the said William to me the said John as Son and Heir to the said William ought to descend Know ye me the said John to have given and granted and by this present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey the reversion of the said Maner with the appurtenances except before excepted to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And also I give and grant and by this present Deed confirm unto the said Thomas King John Vynter John Poley and to Richard Stevynson the said three Acres and a half of Land half an Acre of Meede the Close called Horsecroft eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent with the appurtenances To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore of the chief Lords of the Fee by the services due and accustomed And I the said John and my Heirs the said Maner with the appurtenances to the said Thomas John John and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for evermore In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the twenty sixth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentilman By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forsomuch as Wee with God's Grace intend to bring into our obeysance our Castles kept by our Traytors and Rebels in the North Parts of our Land and therefore will in our Person remove to Morrow towards these said Parties to stablish the means that may best serve thereunto We pray you heartily that you being accompanied with as many Persons defensibly arrayed as may goodly accord with your ease meet with us at Leicestre the tenth day of May next coming furnished with good for yours and their expences to attend upon us from thence for the space of two Months for the said cause And that natheless ye be ready with the said Persons in the said array upon the warning of a day next after the fourth day of May to attend upon us as the case shall require for the said intent Not failing hereof as our trust is in you and as ye tender the assured rest of our said Land Given under our Signet at our Tower of London the Twenty fifth of April A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt and William Salisbury To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt and William Salisbury and to every of them By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forasmuch as by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this our Land late assembled at our Palace of Westminster we be fully determined by God's Grace to address us in Person with Host Royal toward the parties of our Enemies and Rebels of Scotland at the beginning of this next Sommer to subdue and do them the annoyance possible both by Sea and Land in saving as well this our Land from such inconveniencies as else were like to ensue as the Honour of Us and of our Blood and true Liegemen inhabited and inherited within this our Land Wee having perfect and certain Trust of your Good-will Aid and Assistance to this our great Voyage and knowing how useful and necessary your presence shall be to us in the same will and desire you right effectually and natheless charge you in the straitest wise that incontinent upon the sight of this our Writing ye dispose you to serve Us personally in Our said Voyage accompanied and apparelled for the War according to your degree so and in such wise that by the first day of May next coming ye be ready and readily pass forward with Us in the said Journey so accompanied as aforesaid and that in giving credence to the Bearers hereof ye send Us by them your Intent and Mind and what assistance we shall be sure to have of you in this behalf as Our very trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Tower of London the eighteenth day of February And howbeit
we purpose by God's help to set forward upon our Journey the said first day of May next coming yet natheless We be content that ye be with Us at Our Town of Newcastle the last day of the said Month of May. A Letter from King Henry the Seventh to John Mordaunt Gentleman To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentleman of our County of Bedford By the King TRusty and welbeloved We greete you wele And whereas we have directed Our Commission and certain Instructions in Writting to Our trusty and welbeloved Maister Walter Felde Clerk Thomas Fouler Squier and others to do and exercise in Our Name and the usual wele of this Our Realm such things as be comprised in the said Commissions and Instructions We for the great trust we have in you desire and heartily pray you that at such season as Our said Commissioners shall repair unto these parties to execute the said Commandment Ye upon the sight of the said Commission and Instructions which our said Commissioners shall shew unto you be unto them in all things concerning the same Counseling Aiding and Assisting Exhorting and by your discretion and wisdom moving and inducting all such Persons as Our said Commissioners shall name unto you to the good accomplishment of Our other Letters at this same time sent unto them and to Our said Commissioners by Us delivered not failing hereof in any wise as Our special trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Castle of Windsor the three and twentieth day of January The Indenture of Marriage between William Mordaunt and Anne Huntington THis Indenture tripartited made the fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the seventh between Thomas Huntington of Hempsteed next beside Radwinter in the County of Essex Esquire oon that oon John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire and William Mordaunt his Younger Broder oon that second Partie and Robert Parys of Little Lynton in the County of Cantebrig Esquire and John Parys Son and Heir apparent of the said Robert oon that third Partie Witnesseth That the said William by the Grace of God shall take to his Wife Anne one of the Daughters and Heirs apparent of the said Thomas Huntington and Margaret his Wife and likewise the same Anne by the Grace of God shall take to her Husband the said William The Solemnization of the said Matrimony to be had and done by the fifth day of June next coming at the Cost and Charges of the said William as well in Apparel as in Meat and Drink and other Charges It is also assented covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said Thomas Huntington shall have to him for Term of his Life without Impeachment of wast all the Maners of Crochemans in the County of Cantebrig and all other Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Mochesampford little Sampford Mocheradwinter little Radwinter Fynchingfeld Ashdon Barklowe Stevyngton Bimsted Helionbimsted next beside Mocheradwinter in the County of Essex and Trumpyngton Cambridge Newnham next besides Cambridge Saweston Baburgham Wittelff Trippolo and Cleyhithe in the said County of Cantebrig and elsewhere in the said Counties of Essex and Cantebrig whereof the said Thomas Huntington or any other Person or Persons to his use at this time stand or be seized And after his Decease all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and Appurtenances shall be go and remain to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife the Elder Daughter and oon of the Heirs apparent of the said Thomas Huntington and of Margaret his Wife and to the said William and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret now Wife to the said John Parys and Anne lawfully and generally begotten And for default of Issue of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten all her part of the premises shall be go and remain to the said Anne and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And likewise in default of Issue of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten all her part of the premises shall be go and remain to the said Margaret now Wife of the said John Parys and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of Issue of the Bodies of the said Margaret and of the said Anne lawfully begotten all the said Maners Tenements and other Premises with the Apputenances shall be go and remain to the said Thomas Huntington and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of Issue all the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances shall be go and remain to the right Heirs of the Body of Robert Huntington Son of Walter Huntington lawfully begotten and to the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain to Catherine now Wife of John Wetham and Sister to the said Walter Huntington and to the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Thomas Huntington for ever And for the further accomplishment of the same the said Thomas Huntington before the Feast of the Assension of our Lord God next coming shall make or cause to be made to George Nicolls John Jenour and Thomas Thorpe and to their Heirs a sufficient and lawful Estate of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their appurtenances to the said use and intent as by the Councel of the said John Mordaunt and Robert Parys shall be devised And the same Thomas Huntington before the Feast of Saint Martin in Winter next coming shall suffer all such Recoveries to be had by William Fyndern Knight William Thyne Esquire John Mordaunt Esquire Thomas Frowyke Esquire Robert Tyrall Esquire Richard Higham Esquire Robert Bradbury Gentilman John Vynter Gentilman and William Gascoigne Gentilman or by and against such of them as then shall be in Life to make sure all the said Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents abovesaid And the said Thomas shall do and suffer to be done in the same Recoveries at such time as reasonably shall be devised by the said William Mordaunt and John Parys their Heirs and Assigns at the Cost and Charges of the said William and John It is also assented and agreed between the said Parties that the said William Fyndern and the other Demandents before rehearsed shall at the assignment desire or according to the last Will of the said Thomas Huntington make a Grant or Grants of forty Shillings by Year yearly going out of the said Maners of Crochemans with the Appurtenances in the County of Essex and of other forty Shillings by Year yearly going out of the said Maner of Trumpyngton with the Appurtenances in the County of Cantebrig to oon two three or four Persons severally or jointly at the Pleasure of the said Thomas Huntington to be named during the
Lives of them to whom it shall be so granted It is also agreed that the said Thomas Huntington by the assent and agreement of the said Robert Parys and John Parys his Son and John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt his Brother that at the pleasure of the said Thomas Huntington they shallcause all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to be divided into two equal Parts and that Division of equally done and made the said John Parys and William Mordaunt shall thereof make choice as by the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and Robert Parys and other Friends shall be devised and agreed and after that Division and choice so made and had the said William Fyndern William Cheyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke Robert Tyrall Richard Higham Robert Bradbury John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances alted to the said William and Anne and by them so chosen to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Decease to the use and behoof there I the said William Mordaunt and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the useand behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And in like wise after division in form aforesaid made and had the said William Fyndern William Thyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of the said Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances so allotted to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and by them so chosen to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington for term of Life without any Impeachment of Waste And after his Decease to the use and behoof there of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And if no Partition be made and agreed to of the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the Life of the said Thomas Huntington that then it is agreed between the said Parties that after his Decease the said William Mordaunt and Anne or oon of them or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten shall make equal Partition of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances and after that Partition so made the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife or the said Margaret or the Heirs of the same Margaret lawfully begotten shall chuse at their pleasure oon of the Part so divided to hold it in severalty and the said William Mordaunt and Anne or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten to have the other Part thereof so divided and to hold it in severalty according and in like Form and Estates with the remainder of every of the said Parties over as is limited above and as they should have holden it if they had had choice of the same after Partition made by the said Thomas Huntington Also it is agreed and covenanted That the said Thomas Huntington at the Costs and Charges of the said William Mordaunt and John Parys shall cause all the Charters Escripts Muniments and Writings concerning the Premises These Indentures only excepted to be indifferently seen and divided and the Evidences belonging to every of the said parties after division and choice thereof in Form aforesaid made to be laid in the Abbey of Walden by themselves if the Abbot and Covent of the same place will thereto agree to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life and after his Decease to be delivered to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and William Mordaunt and Anne and the Heirs of the said Mordaunt and Anne according to the choice of such Estates as is aforesaid And if the Abbot and Covent of Walden aforesaid will not thereto agree then the same Evidences to be laid in some other place in safeguard as shall be divised by the said Thomas Huntington John Parys and William Mordaunt to the said use and intent For the which premises well and truly to be performed the said William Mordaunt shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington three hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in form following that is to say at the Sealing of these Indentures one hundred Marks of lawful Money of England and over that for payment of the residue of the said Money the said William Mordaunt before the said day of Marriage shall cause the said John Mordaunt his Brother and John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne Gentilmen to be bound jointly and severally in three several Obligations every of them containing the summ of forty Pounds whereof the day of payment of the first Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety five and the day of payment of the second Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety six and the day of payment of the third Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred and ninety seven And over that the said William Mordaunt shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne before the said day of
Marriage for payment of thirteen Pound six shillings eight pence residue of the said three hundred Marks to be bound jointly and severally to the said Thomas Huntington in a fourth Obligation payable the first day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety eight It is also covenanted and agreed between the said Parties and the said Thomas Huntington granteth by these Presents That if the said William Mordaunt die before any of the said days of payment specified in any of the said Obligations then having none Issue begotten of the Body of the said Anne That thence all the said Obligations whereof the days of payment shall come after his Death shall be void and the payments of them to cease except always That if the said Anne be with child at the time of the decease of the said William Mordaunt that then as long as that Child lives the payment to hold and the Obligations to be good and in strength and if that Child happen to die then all the Obligations whereof the days of payment shall be to come at the time of the death of the said Child shall be void and the payment of them shall cease And the said John Mordaunt and William grant by these presents That they shall make or cause to be made before the said day of Marriage to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the body of the said William lawfully begotten and to the use and behoof of the said William and Anne and of their Heirs aforesaid as sure sufficient and lawful estate of the Maner of Wodend otherwise called Rokesden Wodend with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth and Collesden in the same County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements in Chichmersh and Clopton in the County of Northampton whereof the said John Mordaunt or any other to the use of the said John or of his Heirs at the making of these Presents being sealed as shall be devised by the Learned Councel of the said Thomas Huntington at the costs and charges of the said William Mordaunt And moreover the said William shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne to be bound to the said Thomas Huntington in an Obligation of a hundred pounds to make or cause to be made before the First day of April that shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety eight an Enfeoffment and lawful Estate of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of an hundred and six Shillings and eight pence over all Charges to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said William Mordaunt lawfully begotten and wherefore afore this time certain Covenants were made and had between the said Thomas Huntington and Robert Parys upon Marriage had between the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and thereupon the said Robert Parys payed to the said Thomas Huntington an hundred and forty Pounds of lawful Money of England and also promised a Jointure of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of twenty Marks then immediately to be paid to the said Margaret and after his Decease to have a further Jointure of Ten Marks for Term of her Life which Jointure in all should be of the Yearly Value of twenty Pounds which is well and truly executed and performed and for that the said Thomas Huntington should leave to his Heirs Lands and Tenements to the Yearly Value of an Hundred Marks as in an Old pair of Indentures made between the said Robert Parys on the one Partie and the said Thomas Huntington on the other Partie among other more plainly appeareth which Covenants the said Robert Parys hath renounced and released and by these Presents now renounceth and releaseth unto the said Thomas Huntington It is now assented and agreed between the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and William Mordaunt for the Premises to be performed to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife as is abovesaid That all the Covenants comprised in the Old Indentures of the part of the said Robert Parys to be performed and the Indenture of the same for the part of the said Robert shall be and stand in their force And moreover that William Fyndern Knight and others that be now enfeoffed in the Maner of Hildersham and of other Lands and Tenements in Hildersham in the said County of Cantebrig shall be and stand seoffed thereof to the use of the said Margaret for a Jointure for Term of her Life of Lands and Rents in Hildersham aforesaid and to the Yearly Value of ten Marks over and beside the Jointure of twenty Pounds to be had after the Death of the said Robert Parys and the said Robert Parys shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington ten Pounds of lawful Money of England in Form following That is to say Yearly five Marks at the Feast of Hallowmesse till the said ten Pounds be payed In Witness whereof to the part of these Indentures remaining with the said Thomas Huntington the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt and Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals To the second part of these Indentures remaining with the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals And to the third part of these Indentures remaining with the said Robert Parys and John Parys the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt have set to their Seals the said Fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh John Mordaunt William Mordaunt John Parys Junctura Annae uxoris Willielmi Mordaunt SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes Mordaunt de Turveia Armiger dedi concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo juniori Annae Huntington filiae Thomae Huntington de Hempsted Armigeri Manerium meum de Wodend cum pertinentiis nec non omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia mea cum suis pertinentiis in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth Collesden in Comitatu Bedfordiae quae nuper fuerunt Johannis Carlile Dedi etiam concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae omnia terras tenementa mea cum suis pertinentiis in Tychmerch Clopton in Comitatu Northamptoniae quae nuper fuerunt Thomae Hunt Habendum tenendum omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis Et ego praedictus Johannes Mordaunt haeredes mei omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis
existunt seu seisitus existat ad usum earundum Margaretae Katharinae seu earum alicujus ad terminum vitae earum seu earum alicujus reversione inde in re nomine facto vel in usu praefatae Johannae Sayntmaur haeredibus suis spectante habendum tenendum dicta dominia maneria terras tenementa advocationes caetera praemissa cum suis pertinentiis ad custodiam eorundem ac reversionem omnium ac singulorum praemissorum cum acciderint vel acciderit praefato Johanni Mordaunt executoribus assignatis suis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi Sayntmaur quousque dicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Ac omnes singulas reversiones praedictas omnium praedictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis immediate post mortem dictarum Margaretae Katharinae earum cujuslibet cum acciderit quousque praedicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit Et si dicta Johanna obierit antequam ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit haerede suo infra aetatem existente tunc volumus concedimus per praesentes eidem Johanni Mordaunt quòd idem Johannes Mordaunt executores assignati sui habeant custodiam maritagium hujusmodi haeredis custodiam tam omnium singulorum dictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis cum acciderint ut praedictum est custodiam reversionum praedictarum cum pertinentiis suis usque ad plenam legitimam aetatem hujusmodi haeredis sic infra aetatem existentis sic de haerede in haeredem quousque aliquis haeres hujusmodi haeredum ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Concedimus etiam dicto Johanni Mordaunt omnia exitus proficua omnium singulorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum suis pertinentiis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi huc usque provenientia sive crescentia absque aliquo compoto sive aliquo alio nobis aut haeredibus nostris pro praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum reddendo faciendo seu solvendo Eo quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut aliquo alio valore ceu certitudine praemissorum vel alicujus eorum parcellae aut de vero valore dictorum maritagiorum eorum cujuslibet aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus praefato Johanni ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime facta existit aut aliquo alio statuto actu sive ordinatione ceu restrictione in contrarium factis editis sive provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium c. An Indenture between Sir John Mordaunt and Wistan Brown about the Wardship of Thomas Leventhorp THIS Indenture made the Twelfth day of September the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey on the one Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas Thomas Leventhorp late of Whethamsted in the County of Hertford held certain Lands and Tenements in the said County of our Sovereign Lord the King by grant Serjeanty and had Issue John Leventhorp and divers other Children and dyed the said John being his Son and Heir within Age by the death of the which Thomas the King our Sovereign Lord ought to have the custody of the said John and of all the Lands and Tenements of the said Thomas whereof he dyed seized and of all the other Lands of the same Thomas of which he made no Will nor otherwise disposed And howbeit that at the making of these Presents there is no Office found in any Shire after the death of the said Thomas whereby the Kings Highness may be lawfully intitled to the said John Leventhorp Yet that notwithstanding our said Sovereign Lord by his Bill Assigned hath Given and Granted to the said John Mordaunt the Custody of the said John Leventhorp and of all his Lands and Tenements with the Issues and Profits of the same Lands and Tenements from the Death of the said Thomas to the said John Mordaunt To have to him and to his Assigns till the said John Leventhorp come to his full Age and further as long as the said Lands and Tenements shall happen to be in the Kings Hands And so from Heir to Heir till one of the Heirs of the said Thomas shall come to his full Age. The said John Mordaunt hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents Bargaineth Giveth and Selleth to the said Wistan all such Right Title Possessions and Interest as he hath or hereafter shall have in the Wardship of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp and the Marriage of the same be it Son or Daughter or Daughters To have to the said Wistan from the Date of these Presents as long as the Interest of the said John Mordaunt should endure by reason of the Kings Grant Provided That the same Heirs shall not be Married by the said Wistan to any other Person but to be Married with one of the Children begotten between the same Wistan and Elizabeth his Wife Sister to the said John Mordaunt And for lack of such Issue or such Marriage the same John Mordaunt to have again the Marriage of the same Heirs of the said Thomas to his own Use if it be Male immediately after he be fully of the Age of Twentie Years and if it be Female or Females after they be of the Age of Fourteen Years without any thing paying therefore this Indenture notwithstanding for as much as the said Wistan shall take the Issues and Profits of the said Lands all the mean time without any thing paying for the same And the said John Granteth by these Presents That he shall assent what in him is at the Costs and Charges of the same Wistan to cause the Offices to be found after the Death of the said Thomas according to the truth of the Testaments And after these Offices so found to get Grant by the Kings Letters Patents to the same John Mordaunt of the Ward and Custody abovesaid according to his said Bill Assigned And after that Patent made then the same John shall Grant the said Ward and Marriage of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp with the Custody of his Lands to the said Wistan and his Assigns to be Married as is above limited For the which Premises well and truly to be performed the said Wistan shall pay to the said John Mordaunt and his Assigns a Hundred Pound of lawful Money to be payed and delivered in form following That is to say whereas the said Humphrey is indebted to the said Wistan in One Hundred Pound for divers Considerations and Covenants made between the said Wistan and Humphrey upon the advancement of the same Humphrey to the Marriage of Amey Mordaunt
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
after the decease of the said Edith and thereupon immediately after the payment of the said Two hundred Marks all and singular the Promises Covenants and Agreements on the Party of the said John Elmes to be performed to be utterly void and of none effect In Witness whereof c. John Mordaunt John Elmes A Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Sir John Mordaunt To my welbeloved Friends Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet the King's Counsellors AFter my hearty commendations these shall be to advertise you That the King hath appointed this present bearer Roger Ratclif to be Keeper of the Maner and Park of Birdsnest and Overseer of the Forest of Leicester with such Wages Pasturage and Commodity as is appointed and contained in your Memorial over and besides this the King's pleasure is That he shall be Steward of the Five Hundreds and other Lordships belonging to the Honour of Leicester within the same County with the Fee of Three Pound Six Shillings and Eight Pence by the Year The King's pleasure also is That he shall be Keeper and Porter of the Castle of Leicester with such Fee as shall be accorded now ye be ascertained of the premises the King's mind is That ye shall see this said trusty Servant Roger Ratclif to be put in possession of the foresaid Rooms accordingly giving unto him credence in such things as on the King 's and my behalf he shall declare unto you And thus heartily fare ye well At the King's Maner of Richmond the Twenty Fourth of May. Your Loving Friend THOMAS Cardinalis Eboracensis A Letter from Cardinal Wolsey to Sir John Mordaunt To my trusty and welbeloved Friends Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet the King's Counsellors RIght welbeloved I commend me unto you in my hearty manner and have received your Letters dated at Leicester the Twelfth day of this Instant Moneth the continue whereof I have shewed unto the King's Highness who for your good endeavour discreetly and substantially used in the affairs to you committed there giveth unto you great thanks praying you so to persevere and continue to the final perfection of the same And whereas amongst other things ye writ That by reason that the Lady Hungersord compelled by sickness is yet removed no further out of the Castle of Leicester than into the Colledge of Newark the Lord John Gray remaineth still in Birdsnest affirming that he will in no wise depart from thence till such time as the Lady Hungerford doth also remove from Leicester the King's Highness doth much marvel hereof for considering that the said Lady and her Husband be departed out of the Castle and that without danger of her Life she cannot so soon pass out of the Town as she would do the said Lord John and the Lady his Wife ought not to make such refusal ye shall therefore shew unto him that the King's pleasure is he and the Lady his Wife without further contradiction do depart from Birdsnest as he tendereth the King's pleasure and as soon as the Lady Hungerford shall move without danger of Life ye shall also cause her and her Husband to do the semblable out of Leicester wherein the King's trust is he will use no colourable excuse or fained delay and therewith the said Lord John must be contented as reason is I refer you therefore to see this accomplished accordingly proceeding also to the residue of your business with diligence and effect as appertaineth And fare ye heartily well At my place of the More the Sixteenth day of June Your Loving Friend THOMAS Cardinalis Eboracensis Charta Johannis Cottisford Rectoris Collegii de Lincolne in Vniversitate Oxoniensi OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos presens scriptum pervenerit Johannis Cottisford Custos sive Rector Collegii beatae Mariae omnium Sanctorum Lincolniae in Universitate Oxoniensi Scolares ejusdem Collegii salutem in Domino sempiternam Sciatis nos praefatum Custodem sive Rectorem Scolares unanimi assensu consensu nostris deputasse ordinasse per praesentes constituisse Johannem Mordaunt de Turvey in Comitatu Bedfordiae militem capitalem Senefcallum nostrum maneriorum nostrorum de Skeney Petesthoo in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac omnium aliorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum nostrorum cum eorum pertinentiis in eodem Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac eidem Johanni officium Senescalliae omnium maneriorum praedictorum damus concedimus per praesentes Habendum exercendum occupandum officium illud per praefatum Johannem Mordaunt aut per suum sufficientem Deputatum durante vita ipsius Johannis Percipiendum annuatim praefato Johanni Mordaunt pro termino vitae suae pro officio praedicto exercendo viginti solidos nomine feodi sui de exitibus proficuis praedictorum maneriorum cum pertinentiis per manus Receptorum Ballivorum Firmariorum sive Occupatorum maneriorum praedictorum vel eorum alicujus pro tempore existentis de festo Annunciationis beatae Mariae Virginis Sancti Michaelis Archangeli aequis portionibus solvendum primo termino solutionis inde incipiente de festo Annunciationis beatae Mariae praefixi futuri post datum praesentium Volumus concedimus per praesentes quod si ac quotiens contingat praedictum annualem redditum viginti solidorum à retro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum Solutionis quo ut proefertur solvi debeat per unum mensem insolutum quod tunc bene liceat licebit praefato Johanni Mordaunt Assignatis suis in omnibus praedictis maneriis terris tenementis cum eorum pertinentiis intrare distringere districtionesque sic captas licitè asportare abducere effugare penes se retinere quousque eundem Johannem assignati sui de annuali redditu sive feodo praedicto sic à retro existente insoluto de omnibus inde arreragiis plenariè fuerit satisfactum persolutum Deinsuper omnibus singulis Ballivis Firmariis Tenentibus nostris mandamus quod praefato Johanni Mordaunt aut suo in hac parte Deputato in executione praedicti officii sint intendentes obedientes assistentes auxiliantes in omnibus prout decet in ad utilitatem dicti Rectoris successoris aut successorum suorum Ratum gratum habentes habituri totum quicquid idem Johannes Mordaunt aut in hac parte suus Deputatus in debito officio Senescalliae debitè fecerit aut duxerit faciendum dummodo nihil fecerit contra voluntatem ejusdem Rectoris successoris vel successorum suorum In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro Sigillum nostrum commune apponi fecimus Data Oxoniae in Collegio nostro ante-dicto Tricesimo die mensis Decembris Henrici octavi post Conquestum duodecimo Memorandum That Sir John Mordaunt Promiseth and Granteth That he himself or his Deputy shall keep yearly Courts upon the said Maners Lands and Tenements if the said
our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt and Sir William Paulet Knights our Counsellors Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And will and command you That for the enstoring the Park of our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Hastings ye deliver or cause to be delivered unto him or his Assigns in that behalf Three hundred of quick Deer to be taken of our Gift in our Chace of Leicester and within our Park there called Leicester Fryth And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf or at all times hereafter any restraint or commandment heretofore made or had the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh Day of April the Seventeenth Year of our Reign A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our trusty and right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales Henry R. By the King HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight Master and Surveyor of our Woods and Wood-sales within our County of Hertford and in his absence to his Deputy or Deputies there Greeting Forasmuch as we have not only commanded our welbeloved Servant Hector Asheley Master and Controuler of our Works at our Maner of Hunesdone in our said County of Hertford to fell and cut down or to cause to be felled and cut down with all diligence in either of our said Parks there such and as many Oaks as he from time to time shall think needful and expedient as well for Pale for the inclosing of a Paddok within our old Park of Hunesdone for a Winter pasture there as also for the empaling of the Parsons ground within our new Park at Hunesdone but also we by these presents for certain causes and considerations us specially moving have freely given and granted unto our said Servant all the Lops and Tops of the said Oaks and of every of them without any thing therefore paying or accompt yeilding unto us or our use at any time hereafter We will therefore and command you and every of you to permit and suffer the said Hector Asheley to have use and enjoy the whole effect of this our commandment and gift without any your challenge lett or interruption to the contrary as ye tender our pleasure And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of Beaulieu the Twelfth day of August the Nineteenth Year of our Reign Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnricus Octavus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Rex Fidei Defensor Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus dilectis fidelibus suis Majori Civitatis suae Londini Johanni Mordaunt militi Conciliario nostro Christophero Hales Solicitori nostro Rogero Wygston Armigeris Salutem Quia accepimus quod Johannes Gysours filius Johannis Gysours Armigeri Fatuus Idiota in vita sua fuit quod regimen sui ipsius terrarum tenementorum suorum non sufficit quod ipse in fatuitate sua magnam partem terrarum tenementorum suorum alienavit in exheredationem suam nostri prejudicium manifestum nos indemnitati nostrae perspicere volentes vobis mandamus quod ad loca ubi terrae tenementa illa infra civitatem Londinum existunt in propriis personis vestris accedatis de statu suo qualis ille erat dum in humanis agebat viis modis quibus poteritis informari omnes affines cognatos vicinos suos circumspectè examinetis Et nihilominus per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de civitate praedicta per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit diligenter inquiratis utrum idem Johannes Gysours junior fatuus idiota in vita sua fuisset nec ne si sic utrum à nativitate sua seu ab alio tempore si ab alio tempore à quo tempore qualiter quomodo si lucidis gaudebat intellectualibus si idem Johannes in eodem statu existens terras tenementa aliqua vendiderit seu alienaverit nec ne quid pro eisdem recepit si sic vendiderit tunc quae terrae tenementa ubi vel in vel quibus in quorum vel cujus manibus terrae tenementa sic alienata existunt qualiter quo modo quae terrae quae tenementa haeredibus suis adhuc remanent de quo vel de quibus tam terrae tenementa sic alienata quam terrae tenementa sibi retenta teneant per quod servicium qualiter quomodo quantum valeant per annum in omnibus exitibus quis propinquior haeres ejus sit cujus aetatis inquisitionem inde distinctè apertè factam nobis in Cancelaria nostra sub sigillis vestris sigillis eorum per quos fuerit sine dilatione mittatis hoc breve c. Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto die Maii Anno Regni vicesimo Newman Charta Regis Henrici Octavi HEnry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England and of France Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To our Right welbeloved Counsellors Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Roger Wigston Esquire and to our welbeloved Robert Harward Thomas Borett and John Duke greeting Know ye that we having Trust and Confidence in your Wisdoms Fidelities and Circumspections have appointed deputed and authorised you and by these presents give unto you and two of you and to such Persons bringers hereof as ye shall substitute name and assign in your place and absence full Power and Authority to take and provide to and for the use of our Fortifications Munitions Buildings and Reparations of our Ordnances and other things concerning as well the Safeguard Defence and Tuition of our Town and Marches of Caleys the Castles of Guysnes Hammes and Newnambrigge as also other necessaries and requisites of and for the same purpose to be taken and had not only within our Lordships Maners Woods and Parks and other Grounds within our Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex but also to be taken and had within any Lordships Maners Lands and Tenements of any other Person or Persons within the said Counties of Kent Sussex and Essex at convenient and reasonable prices and by this we give unto you and two of you full Power and Authority in manner and form above-specified to take Carpenters Workmen Artificers and Labourers apt and convenient for Felling and Squaring of the said Timber and Trees to the use aforesaid and also all manner of Carriages as well by Sea and Salt-Waters as also by Fresh-Waters
Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and Twentieth Day of April Alliance between Mordaunt and More THIS Indenture made the Two and twentieth day of January in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland Between John More of Haddon in the Parish of Bampton in the County of Oxford Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the other Party Witnesseth That the said Parties being agreed in manner and form as hereafter followeth That is to say The said John More doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That Thomas More his Son and Heir apparent shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt if the said Dorothy thereto will agree and consent And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That the said Dorothy by the like Grace shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Thomas More if the said Thomas More thereto will consent and agree The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy Mordaunt before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof at the indifferent Costs and Charges of the said John More and Lord Mordaunt And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Thomas More in all things as shall be meet and convenient for the Degree of the said Thomas More the day of the said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Dorothy in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Dorothy the said day of Marriage so to be solemnized and had And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That the same John More his Heirs or Assigns before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date of these Presents or within Fifteen days next ensuing the said Feast of Easter shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Thomas Audely Knight Lord Chancellor of England Sir Henry Parker Gyles Strangesways John Mordaunt the Younger William Gascoign Thomas Bernardyston Knights Edmond Fettyplace Roger More John Elmes Esquires William More Clerk John Gostwyke Robert More second Son of the said John More Thomas Spilman Robert Latimer Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Downhall Gentlemen Thomas Lewes and George Caldwell their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in the Maner of Whaddon otherwise called Charles's Maner in Whaddon in the County of Cantebrigge and of and in the Maner of Ladybury in Whaddon aforesaid and of and in all other his Maners Lands and Tenements Hereditaments Woods Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in Whaddon aforesaid Knesworth Melreth Melburn Basingburn Moredon Abyngdon Crawdon Wympole and Crewell in the said County of Cantebrigge All which Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents To be of the clear yearly value of Forty eight Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Reprizes going out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances before expressed The said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand Feoffees and seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the said Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents hereafter following That is to say To the use of the said John More and his Heirs until such time as Marriage be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And after such Marriage had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy then immediately the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and to be seized of and in the Site of the Maner and Maner place of the said Maner of Whaddon called Charles's Maner with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the same Maner belonging or appertaining with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Fourteen Pounds And of and in certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now in the Tenure of one William Fox to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances called Lady-place to the clear yearly value of Fifty three Shillings four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Payne to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Pounds and ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Richard Crepyn to the clear yearly value of Ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Twenty six Shillings eight Pence All which Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances parcel of the Premises amount to the clear yearly value of Forty Marks to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John More for ever And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Newman to the clear yearly value of Twenty four Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Borolman to the clear yearly value of Forty Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenences now in the Tenure of John Astemore to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds three Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Dickons to the clear yearly value of Three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence And of and in divers Lands and Tenements now in the Tenure of John Alleyn to the clear value of Thirteen Shillings four pence also parcel of the Premises amounting in the whole to the Summ of Twenty Marks to the use of the said John More during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after the Death of the
said John More to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said John More and of his Heirs for ever And of all other the said Lands and Tenements residue of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before expressed to the use of the said John More for the term of his Life without Impeachment of wast The Remainder after his decease to the said Thomas More and his Heirs for ever discharged of all former Rights Titles Claims Uses Dowers Demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these Presents That he the said John More his Heirs and Assigns shall from time to time during the space of Three Years make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied such further Assurances and Surety to the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns or to any other Person or Persons by the said Lord his Heirs Executors or Assigns to be limitted and named of and in the Maners Lands Tenements and other the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the uses and intents before expressed and declared as shall be devised by the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by his or their learned Council in the law at the costs and charges in the law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That he the said John More before the said Feast of Pentecost shall make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied to the said Sir Thomas Audely Sir Gyles Strangeways and other his said Co-feoffees before named their Heirs and Assigns a good sure sufficient and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple of and in all his said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and all other his Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Oxford That is to say Of the Maner of More with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton of the Maner of Haddon with their Appurtenances in Bampton of the Maner of Esthall otherwise called Asthall and Astally and of all other his Maners Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton Staunton Harecourt Bampton Clanfield Norton Asthall Esthall and Astally in the said County of Oxford or elsewhere within the said County of Oxford except certain Lands and Tenements in Handborough to such uses and intents as hereafter followeth That is to say Of and in the said Maner of More in More and Moreton to the use of the said John More and of Jane now Wife to the said John More for term of their lives and of the longest liver of them without Impeachment of wast during the Life of the said John More And after the Death of the said John More and of Jane his Wife then the said Feoffees their Heirs or Assigns or the over-liver of them his Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof as at the date of these present Indentures made And of and in the Maner of Haddon in Bampton the Maner of Esthall Asthall and Astally and of all the said Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments and other the Premises before rehearsed in Bampton Esthall Asthall and Astally the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the longest liver of them and his Heirs to be continue and stand Feoffees thereof to the use of the said John More for term of his Life without Impeachment of wast the Remainder after his Death to the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Assigns by these presents That he shall suffer all other his Maners Lands Tenements and all other his Hereditaments with all and singular their Appurtenances whatsoever they be whereof he or any other be seized of in Right Title Possession or in Use other then before expressed and declared except one yearly Rent of Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings which the said John More hath out of the Maner of Newbolt in the County of Northampton now in the Tenure of Sir William Newenham Knight which Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings is parcel of the Jointure of the said Jane Wife of the said John More to come grow and descend in Demeasn Possession Reversion Remainder or in Use immediately after the Death of the said John More and of the said Jane his Wife to the said Thomas More and to his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made discharged of all former Rights Titles Uses and demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of that Fee or Fees hereafter to be due only except Provided always That if the said Jane now Wife to the said John More fortune to decease that then it shall be lawful to the said John More to make a Jointure of and in the Maner of More and Moreton to any Wife or Wives that hereafter the said John More shall fortune to Marry during the Life or Lives of the said Wife or Wives any Covenant Grant Use or Article before expressed to the contrary notwithstanding For all which Covenants Grants and Agreements on the part of the said John More his Heirs Executors and Assigns for to be truly observed performed fulfilled and kept the said John Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents To pay or cause to be paid to the said John More his Executors or Assigns Four hundred and fifty Marks of lawful Money of England That is to say at the day of Marriage had and solemnized one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England And at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady then next coming One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England And so yearly at the said Feast of the Purification of our Lady One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England unto the time the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be to the said John More his Executors or Assigns truly contented and paid In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid interchangeably have put to their Seals and Sign Manual to these present Indentures the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and
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
Inheritance of the same that is to say Langhill Farthinshalve Otteland Bullay Shyningegappe The said Humphrey and George are agreed to take in Allowance of their parts and third part of the Maners before mentioned and allotted to the said Sir John the third of the Maners next ensuing and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same in the Compartnery Inprimis The third part of the Maner of Warmister cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Westbury cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Gratley cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Fyfees Verden cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Dichericho cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Hardwick cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Comberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Rympton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Lands of Woodford cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Grafton Grately and Dichericho And the said Humphrey and George be contented to take in Allowance and Recompence for their third part of the Maners Places Buildings and Houses of Drayton these Parcels following The third part of the Maner of Houghton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Lands in Irclinburgh cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Adyngston cum pertinentiis It is further agreed between the said Parties to abide the Ordinance of Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Highman for the Woods and wast Ground of Sudburgh and Warmister and the Inheritance of the same Woods It is also agreed between the said Parties That all Annuities and Rents Charges and the Profits and Rents of such Maners Lands and Tenements as be in Reversion shall be paid born and sustained indifferently by the said Parties in like manner as it hath been in times past and that all Evidences concerning only the premises to be delivered to the said Parties to whom the said Maners and other the premises be allotted Signata manu propriâ Domini Mordaunt John Mordaunt The Claim and Surmise that the Lord Parre maketh for to have the Freeborde of Drayton-Park to the King's use from the Lord Mordaunt FIrst the Lord Parre saith That one Sir John Karr Knight was Keeper of the Little Park of Brykestock divers Years and after the death of the said Sir John then the Lord Parre entred So that the Lord Parre saith That these Sixty Years there was no claim made to the Freeborde by any of the Lords of Drayton and if any of the Lords of Drayton had pretended any such Right they would have fâlled the Wood in their times For answer thereunto the Lord Mordaunt saith That he doth much marvel that the Lord Parre would claim the premises upon so small a ground for he cannot prove That ever the said Sir John Karr or any of his Keepers or the said Lord Parre or any his Keepers did fall sell or give any of the Wood growing of the said Freeborde these Sixty Years For this is true that John Stafford and Edward Stafford Earls of Wilts and the Executors of the said Edward Stafford and the Lord Mordaunt and other his Co-partners as in the right of their Deyffs did at all times take the Lops and Shreds of the Trees of the said Wood growing of the said Freeborde for mending and repairing of the Hedges and Ditches of Drayton-Park and never no business made to the contrary but the time that the Lord Parre conceived divers displeasures against the said Lord Murdaunt for that intent that the Lord Mordaunt should grant unto him a Fee for term of his life and also for to have divers other manner of Liberties and Pleasures at the hands of the Lord Mordaunt in Grafton-Park-Chase and in other Woods of the said Lord and of his said Drayton And after that the said Lord Parre perceived that the Lord Mordaunt would not be agreeable to the same then the Lord Parre began to pick quarrels against the Lord Mordaunt and his Servants and among other things for the said Wood growing of the Freebord of Drayton Park caused one John Allen Keeper at that time of the Park of Brykestock to fell certain Bushes and Woods whereof some of them did grow within the bottom of the Ditch and some did grow otherwise upon the bare Bank of Drayton Park And also caused the said Allen for to pluck down the Pale of Drayton Park to make a common way through Drayton Park for my Lord Parre and his Servants And yet the Lord Mordaunt's Servants carried the said Wood so fellen unto Drayton-Maner And the Lord Parre not pleased therewith found default at the Pale of Drayton-Park which was there made by Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight and would never rest by complaining to the Council and by setting of pains in the King's Court of Swanymote unto the time that the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners were fain to pull down the old Pale and to make a new Pale there of a Man's length which was done And also the Lord Mordaunt saith That the Lord Parre many times and often discharged the said Lord for to give him all the Woods growing upon the said brink of the Ditch Freeborde and in the bottom of the Ditch and also all the Wood growing upon the Bank it self to the intent that the Lord Parre would have sold that Wood to his own profit And forasmuch as the Lord Mordaunt denied the Lord Parre for to have it of his Gift The Lord Parre said he would be about with the Lord Mordaunt And upon that refusal and denial the Lord Parre began to seek and invent how he might do the Lord Mordaunt all the Displeasure that might be devised and for accomplishment of part of his purpose the said Lord Parre spake to his Cousin Sir Wistan Brown Knight who was one of the Wardens and had the Custody of the Heirs of the Maners of Drayton and Drayton-Park and to Sir Humphrey Brown Knight who was Tenant by Courtesie of the third part of the said Maner and Park and did get a Grant of their parts of Drayton-Park and had liberty for to Hunt and Hawk in all the Maners and Vere's Lands for their two part And thus having such rule took upon him for to fell certain Woods of the brink of Drayton-Park the bottom of the Ditch and of the Bank-self and commanded one Rowland Slade otherwise called Rowland Smith Servant to the said Lord Parre and Keeper of the Nether-park for to fell a Tree growing within the Ditch of Drayton-park which Rowland caused one Richard Slade otherwise called Richard Smith Brother to the said Rowland for to fell the said Tree Whereupon the Lord Mordaunt spoke to the Lord Parre for the said Tree and shewed him That Rowland had done naught in so doing Whereupon the Lord Parre said to the Lord Mordaunt What have you to do therein I have as good authority and power for Two parts as
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
Surety of his most Royal Person and the maintenance of the Common Wealth of his Majesties most Loyal and obedient Subjects Given at London the Eighth of October the Third Year of his Highness's most Noble Reign Ri. Rich Cant. Will. Saint-John W. Northampton J. Warwick Arundell F. Shrewsbury Thomas Southampton Will. Petres Nicholas Wotton John Baker A Letter from the Lord Mordaunt to Queen Mary To the most High Mighty and Excellent the Queen's Majesty IT may please your most Excellent Majesty of your most abundant and accustomed Goodness to be a good and most gracious Sovereign Lady to me your Faithful Obedient and True Subject and to pardon me of my rude Writing unto your most Excellent Highness coacted and constrained so for to do for Declaration unto your said most Princely and gracious Goodness of such things as your most Excellent Highness hath been informed of against me First That your Highness should be much offended with me for that I was so prompt and ready for to set forth Proclamation of the Title of the late Usurper Lady Jane and to reject your most gracious Highness's Letters and Proclamation And also That I should stay the Country that they should not repair to your most Excellent Highness as their Hearts were bent which Surmises are in every part and in the whole not true Most humbly submitting my self to your most merciful gracious Goodness and to such Order as shall be taken by your Highness and your most Honourable Council for Declaration of my truth to your most Excellent Highness in this behalf and according to my abounden Duty as an Old Man by your most gracious Sufferance dwelling here in your County of Bedford shall pray to God daily for the prosperous Preservation of your most Imperial Reign long to continue This Third of August 1553. Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant and Subject John Mordaunt A Letter from Queen Mary to the Lord Mordaunt dispencing him to come to the Parliament in the First Year of her Reign To our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where we lately addressed our Writ unto you for your Attendance at our next Parliament to be holden at Westminster the First day of October next We let you wit that in consideration of your Age and Impotency we have thought good to License you and by these presents do give you License to be absent from our said Parliament our said Writ or any thing contained therein notwithstanding And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Fourteenth Day of September in the First Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt Sir John Mordaunt and others To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt to our Trusty and welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to our Trusty and welbeloved Sir Edward Saunders and Sir John Saint-John Knights and to every of them Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where it hath pleased Almighty God so to direct our Heart that a Treaty is of late concluded for a Marriage to be solemnized within this our Realm between our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain and Us with such Covenants Parts and Agree ments for the preservation of the Laws Liberty Surety and Honour of our Realm as may appear by the Articles herewith sent unto you We understand that certain ill-disposed Persons meaning under the pretence of Mislike of this Marriage to Rebel against the Catholick Religion and Divine Service restored within this our Realm and to take from us their Sovereign Lady and Queen that Liberty which is not denied to the meanest Woman in the choice of their Husbands cease not to spread many false vile and untrue Reports of our said Cousin and others of that Nation moving and stirring our good and Loving Subjects by these and sundry other devilish ways to Rebel and enter a new Commotion to the great peril of our Person and utter Subversion of our whole Realm if speedy Remedy be not provided For remedy thereof and to the intent our Loving Subjects may the better understand this unnatural Conspiracy and the falsehood thereof Our pleasure is You shall not only cause the said Articles herewith sent to be Published in all parts of that our County sending abroad Copies and by such other good means as you may think best but also that you and every of you taking diligent heed to the Preservation of the Peace and Charge committed unto you do cause the Authors and Spreaders of these or any other false Bruits and Rumors to be apprehended and committed to Ward otherwise punished as the Quality of their Offences shall merit For the better doing whereof our Pleasure is You shall assemble together immediately upon the sight of these our Letters taking such order for Division of your selves into sundry Hundreds and parts and for the Publication of the said Articles Admonition of any good Subjects and Stay of the rest as may best stand to the Quiet of that our Country whereby you shall shew your selves our good and obedient Subjects which we will always be glad to consider towards you as occasion may serve Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Twenty fourth day of Jamary the First Year of our Reign A Letter from Queen Mary to the Lord Mordaunt To our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where we be sundry ways informed That Thomas Wyat and some others have of late by spreading abroad most false and vain Rumors procured to stir our subjects of our County of Kent to rise against our Crown and Dignity Royal. Albeit we have already taken such Order as we doubt not shall be sufficient to repress and overthrow this unnatural Conspiracy Yet nevertheless have we thought convenient to require you to put your self in convenient Order and Readiness with as many of your Servants and Tenants as ye can make both on Horseback and on Foot to be in readiness to march and set forwards upon one hours Warning either against the the said Rebels or such other ways as shall be signified unto you by Us. And in the mean time to have good regard to the good Order and Quiet of the parts where ye dwell causing all such Idle and Leud Persons as shall either by spreading of false Rumors or by any other means attempt to stir or disquiet our Loving Subjects to be Apprehended and Punished as the Quality of their Offences shall deserve Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Six and twentieth day of January the First Year of our Reign A Letter from the King and Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Philip and Mary the
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
their Chambers and that Night were Bathed and Shriven according to the Old Usage of England and the next Day in the Morning the King Dubbed them according to the Ceremonies thereto belonging Whose Names ensue The Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Water the Lord Hastings the Lord Mounteagle Sir John Mordaunt the Lord Vaux Sir Henry Parker Sir William Windsor Sir Francis Weston Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Hulston Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Savill Sir George Fitz-Williams Sir John Tindal Sir Thomas Jermine Stow 's Chronicle page 610. 40. THE same Twelfth of July word was brought to the Council being then in the Tower with the Lady Jane That the Lady Mary Eldest Daughter to King Henry the Eighth was at Kenhinghall-Castle in Norfolk and with her the Earl of Bath Sir Thomas Wharton Son to the Lord Wharton Sir John Mordaunt Son to the Lord Mordaunt Sir William Drury Sir John Shelton Sir Henry Beddingfield Mr. Henry Jermingham Mr. John Sutierd Mr. Richard Treston Mr. Serjeant Morgan and Mr. Glement Higham A Letter from Queen Mary to Sir John Mordaunt and to the Lady his Wife To our Trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to the Lady his Wife Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and right welbeloved we greet you well And whereas we have received certain Advertisements That our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain was Embarqued at the Groyne Six Days past Forasmuch as we considering that the Wind serving as it doth it cannot be but that he is near the Coast of this our Realm We have therefore thought good both to signifie unto you the Premises and also to require you to put your self in Order withal Diligence to repair hither towards our Court to the intent ye may give your Attendance upon us at the Solemnity of this our Marriage as shall appertain whereof we require you not to fail Given under our Signet at our Maner of Bishopswaltham the Fifteenth Day of July the Second Year of our Reign Vltima voluntas Johannis Secundi Domini Mordaunt probata IN the Name of God Amen The Sixteenth Day of April in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith I Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt calling to Remembrance the uncertain State of these our Transitory Lives and minding to reduce and set in order such Goods Chattels and other things as God hath endued me withal being somewhat weak in Body yet thanks be to God of perfect Remembrance do make my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I do bequeath my Soul to Almighty God my only Maker and Redeemer my Body to be Buried within the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford in such decent Order and Sort and with such Funeral Charges and Expences as by mine Executors shall be thought meet and convenient for my Estate and Degree Item I will chiefly and above all things That mine Executors shall pay or cause to be paid unto all and every Person and Persons unto whom I shall at the Day of my Decease be indebted and all and every such Summ and Summs of Money as I shall owe unto them or any of them Item I give and bequeath unto Vrsula my Daughter Four hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid her by my Executors at such time as they conveniently may And in the mean time I Will That mine Executors shall find unto the said Vrsula sufficient and convenient Meat Drink Apparel and Clothing necessary for her Degree Item I give unto George Monox and to Humphrey his Son Forty Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be bestowed upon a Bason and Ewre of Silver Guilt parcel Guilt Item I give and bequeath unto Anne Actem one of the Daughters of Margaret Actem my Daughter Two hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England at the Day of her Marriage or at her Age of Eighteen years which of them shall happen and if it happen the said Anne Actem to dye before her Marriage or before she shall accomplish the Age of Eighteen years then the Gift to her to be void And then my Will is That the said Two hundred Marks bequeathed unto the said Anne Actem shall be imployed and bestowed among the rest of the Sons and Daughters of my said Daughter Margaret Actent as shall be then living Item I give and bequeath unto the rest of the Sons and Daughters of the foresaid Margaret Actem my Daughter Six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence a piece to every of them at their several Ages of Eighteen years Item I will and bequeath to every one of my Servants being no Officers One years Wages over and besides the Wages as shall be unto them due at the time of my Decease Item I will to Anne Witney my Wife's Daughter Forty Pounds Item I will to Mary Price Fifty Marks towards her Marriage Item I will to the Three Children of Henry Witney Five Marks a piece Item I will That my Executors shall bestow Two hundred and fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England upon an I le to be builded and made upon the South-side of the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford aforesaid and for a Tomb for me to be erected and set up within the said I le Item Whereas I the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife and Sir Lewis Mordaunt Knight by the name of Lewis Mordaunt Esquire by one Indenture Tripartite bearing date the Third Day of November the Fifth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is did amongst other things Infeoff Sir William Peter and Sir Henry Tervel Knights John Talbot Thomas Lucas Edward Tirrel George White Thomas Brownly and Thomas Nichols Esquires and their Heirs of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of me the said John Lord Mordaunt within the County of Essex late the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight Deceased to certain Uses as by the same Indenture Tripartite bearing date as is aforesaid more at large it doth and may appear Amongst which the Maners of Cranham Gingeraff Tiptofts and Amies in the County of Essex and all Lands and Tenements known by the name or names of Amies and Nokehall and the Farms called Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances and all those Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Brownfordmagna in the County of Essex then late in the occupation of one Rowland Walhead or of his Assigns or appointed after the decease of me John Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife unto the use and behoof of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of me the said John Lord Mordaunt for the term of Ten years next ensuing the decease of me the said John Lord Mordaunt and the Lady
consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti Pembrochiae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon charissimo consanguineo nostro Roberto Comiti Leicestriae Magistro Equorum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti Lincolniae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam charissimo consanguineo nostro Antonio Vicecomiti Montague alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Carolo Domino Howard Magno Admirallo nostro Angliae alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Domino de Hunsdon Domino Camerario nostro alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Abergavenniae alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Zouche alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Morley alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Willielmo Cobham Domino Guardiano quinque Portuum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Edw. Domino Stafford alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Arthuro Domino Grey de Wilton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Johanni Domino Lumley alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Johanni Domino Sturton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac praedilecto fideli nostro Willielmo Domino Sandes alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon praedilecto fideli nostro Henrico Domino Wentworth alteri Dominorum Parlamenti praedilecto fideli Ludovico nostro Mordaunt alteri Dominorum Parliamenti praedilectoque fideli nostro Johanni Domino Saint-John de Bletso alteri Dominorum Parlamenti necnon praedilecto fideli nestro Thomae Domino Buckhurst alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac praedilecto fideli nostro Hen. Domino Compton alteri Dominorum Parlamenti ac etiam praedilecto fideli nostro Francisco Knolles Militi Thesaurario Hospitii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon dilecto fideli nostro Jacobo Crosts Militi Contrarotulatori dicti Hospitii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Christophero Hatton Militi Vicecamerario nostro alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Francisco Walsingham Militi uni primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Willielmo Davison Armigero alteri Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Radulpho Sadleir Militi Cancellario Ducatus nostri Lancastriae alteri de Privato Consilio nostro necnon dilecto fideli nostro Waltero Myldmay Militi Cancellario Scaccarii nostri alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac dilecto fideli nostro Amicio Pawlett Militi Capitaneo Insulae nostrae de Jersey alteri de Privato Consilio nostro dilectoque fideli nostro Johanni Wolley Armigero Secretario nostro pro lingua Latina alteri de Privato Consilio nostro ac etiam dilecto fideli nostro Christophero Wraie Militi Capitali Justitiario ad Placita coram nobis tenenda assignato dilectisque fidelibus nostris Edmundo Anderson Militi Capitali Justitiario nostro de Banco Rogero Manwood Militi Capitali Baroni Scaccarii nostri Thomae Gawdy Militi uni Justitiariorum nostrorum ad placita eorum nobis tenenda assignato Willielmo Periam uni Justitiariorum nostrorum de Banco Salutem c. A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Lewis Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations to your Lordship We are given to understand that by occasion of an unlawful Hunting attempted by some of your Servants within Her Majesties Park of Brikestock being under the Charge and keeping of Mr. Adrian Stokes it hath so happened That two of your said Servants have been Slain or in very great danger of Death Forasmuch as it is thought that unless some speedy Order be taken therein it may so fall out that other Inconveniencies will ensue which we would be sorry to understand We have thought good to require your Lordship for preservation of Her Majesties Peace to take order That neither your self nor any of your Friends or Servants offer any further occasion of Quarrel unto the said Mr. Stokes or any of his Friends or Servants either serving in the said Park or elsewhere And further because we could be glad to understand what your Lordship is able to say in excuse of the said Fact pretended to be done by your Servants We pray you forthwith upon Receipt hereof as soon as you conveniently may all unnecessary Excuses and Delays set apart to make your Repair hither where you shall understand our further Pleasure and so desiring your Lordship hereof not to fail bid you right heartily farewel From Greenwich the Eleventh Day of July One thousand five hundred seventy and seven Your loving Friends W. Burghley E. Lincoln T. Sussex A. Warwick F. Knollys James Swtt Fra. Walsingham Alliance of Mordaunt and Maunsell THIS Indenture made the Eleventh Day of July in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith Between Edward Maunsell of Morgan in the County of Glamorgan Knight of the one part and the Right honourable Lewis Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the other part Witnesseth That in consideration of a Marriage to be by God's Grace had and solemniz'd between Thomas Maunsell Esquire Son and Heir Apparent of the said Edward on the one part and Mary one of the Daughters of the said Lewis Mordaunt on the other part and for certain other good Considerations hereafter by these Presents expressed it is Covenanted Granted Condefcended and Agreed between the said Edward Maunsell and Lewis Lord Mordaunt in Manner and Form following That is to say First the said Edward Maunsell Knight for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and for every of them Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt his Executors Administrators and Assigns by these Presents That the said thomas Maunsell shall before the Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Date hereof Espouse Marry and take to Wife the said Mary Mordaunt if the said Mary and Thomas will thereunto condescend and agree and the Laws of Holy Church the same permit and suffer And the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Exeutors and Administrators and for every of them Covenanteth and Granteth to and with the said Edward Maunsell Knight his Executors Administrators and Assigns That the said Mary Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt shall before the said Feast Day of Saint Michael the Archangel next coming Espouse Marry and take to Husband the said Thomas Maunsell if the said Thomas and
Mary will thereunto condescend and agree and the Laws of the Holy Church the same permit and suffer In consideration of which Marriage so to be had and solemnized the said Lewis Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth by these Presents Covenant Promise and Agree to give with his said Daughter Mary for her advancement in Marriage with the said Thomas Maunsell the Summ of Two thousand Pounds of currant Money of England to be paid to the said Edward his Executors Administrators and Assigns in manner and form following That is to say At or before the Twentieth and Five and twentieth Day of July next ensuing the Date of these Presents at the usual place of payments in the Royal Exchange within the City of London between the hours of Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon and Three of the Clock in the Afternoon of the same Day the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Two thousand Pounds and at or upon the Four and twentieth Day of February then next following at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Two thousand Pounds and at or upon the Twenty and Four and twentieth Day of August then next ensuing at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds parcel of the said Two thousand Pounds and also at or upon the Twentieth and Four and twentieth Day of February which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fourscore and three at the said place and between the said hours the Summ of Five hundred Pounds the residue of the said Two thousand Pounds in full discharge and payment thereof In consideration whereof and of the said Marriage so to be had and solemnized and for the better Maintenance of the House and Name and of the Establishment of the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Edward in his Blood And to the end his Lands and Possessions may continue in his Blood and to set down and express what part and parcel of his Inheritance shall remain after his death to Dame Jane Wife of the said Edward for her Jointure for term of her Life and likewise what Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall be limited and appointed for the Jointure of the said Mary Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt in possession presently and in Reversion after the death of the said Edward and after his Wife's death and what Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall remain to the performance of his Will for the Education and Preferment of his younger Children and payment and discharge of his Legacies and Debts and what Lands shall descend after his death and after the decease of the said Dame Jane his Wife to his said Son for the better Maintenance of his House and Blood It is meant and intended by the said Edward Maunsell hereby to be expressed and declared and now these Indentures do witness That whereas in and by one Indenture bearing Date the Eighteenth Day of September in the Three and Twentieth Year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady made between the said Edward Maunsell Knight and Dame Jane his Wife of the one party and Leyson Price of Briton-Ferry in the said County of Glamorgan Esquire and Thomas Powell of Longonoyd in the said County Gentleman of the other party it is Covenanted Granted Condescended and finally Agreed between the said Parties to the said former Indentures And the said Edward for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns and for the said Dame Jane his Wife in and by the same hath Covenanted Granted and Agreed to and with the said Leyson Price and Thomas Powell their Heirs and Assigns That he the said Edward and Dame Jane his Wife should and would before the First Day of September then next ensuing the Date of the former Indentures Acknowledge and Levy one Fine or Fines with Proclamation according to the Course of the Common-Laws of this Realm before the Queen's Majesty's Justices of he County of Glamorgan or some such like other person as should be sufficiently authorized of all and singular his Maners Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever with all and singular their Rights Members and Appurtenances c. And so being a very long Indenture it proceeds in mentioning all the Maners of which this Estate was composed and ends in form accustomed Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations The Queen's Majesty having very great and urgent Cause to communicate unto the Principals of her Nobility for the Advice of them and her Council concerning the present State of the Realm hath commanded us to signifie unto your Lordship that of the said number she hath made choice of your Lordship to be one And therefore her pleasure is That your Lordship do not fail but to come to London or to Westminster to be there the Six and twentieth of this Month at which Day your Lordship shall understand by me the Lord Chancellor where your Lordship and the rest shall Assemble about the Service of her Majesty and the Realm So we bid your Lordship right heartily farewel From Windsor-Castle the Fifteenth Day of September One thousand five hundred eighty six Your assured loving Friends T. Brumley Canc. W. Brughley W. Howard J. Hunsdon F. Cobham Chr. Hutton Anether Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt AFter our hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas her Majesty hath made special choice of your Lordship to assist at the Funeral of the late Scottish Queen in company of divers other Noblemen which is to be performed the First of August next ensuing at the City of Peterburgh These are therefore to signifie unto your Lordship that her Majesty's Pleasure is You fail not to be there the last of this Month. We are also to let you further understand That there is Order given to the Master of her Majesty's Wardrobe Mr. John Fortescue to deliver unto you or to such as you shall appoint to receive the same a certain proportion of Black as well for your self as also for certain Gentlemen and Yeomen to attend upon you and so we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court the Tenth Day of July One thousand five hundred eighty and seven Your very loving Friends Chr. Hutton Canc. W. Burghley J. Hunsdon Fr. Cobham Fr. Knollys Fr. Walsyngham A Letter from the Lord Chancellor Hutton to the Lord Lewis Mordaunt My good Lord WHereas divers Informations and sundry grievous Complaints have come unto her Majesty of outragious Huntings within her Highness's Park of Brikestock since the Decease of the Lady Anne Throgmorton and now very lately new Reports pursued with Cryes and heavy Suggestions of strange Riots Routs Bloodsheds Felonies Disorders and other like Misdemeanors done against the same
In respect that I have left and by the Grace of God means to leave to descend and come successively from Heir Male to Heir Male divers other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments lying more necessary sit and convenient for my self and them of as good or better value my Daughters Portions and other Legacies deducted as aforesaid notwithstanding yet for the better corroboration and strengthning assurance and sure making of all such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments as I have Bargained and Sold or hereafter shall Bargain or Sell to any Person or Persons whatsoever I will and devise by these Presents That from and after my decease Edward Watson and John Wake my Executors as aforesaid and their Heirs shall stand and be seized of two parts of my Maners Lands and Tenements or whereof I am seized in Fee dividable in three parts to be divided my Daughters Portions paid or Lands sold by my Executors for the payment thereof as aforesaid to the use of Henry my Son and Heir and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs Males of John Lord Mordaunt my late Grandfather and so from Heir Male to Heir Male so long as they and every one of their Heirs Males and their Assign or Assigns shall quietly permit and suffer all and every such Person and Persons to whom I have Bargained or Sold any Maners Lands or Tenements as aforesaid quietly and peaceably to have hold and enjoy the same according to my true intent and meaning without any Entry Claim Suit in Law Eviction or Interruption And lawful Request made to my Heir or Heirs or any of them by the party grieved and by Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors or some of them the Heir or Heirs of them or any of them in the presence of Ten sufficient Witnesses whereof Five to be Hundreders inhabiting within the County where mine Heir as aforesaid shall be then resident If my said Heir and Heirs doth not surcease his and their Suit and Suits Claim and Demand against any such parties grieved and make such further Assurance to the party or parties grieved as shall be reasonably required and devised at the Costs and Charges of such party grieved Then my Will full intent and meaning is That Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors and their Heirs and the Survivor and Survivors of them and his and their Heirs shall from time to time absolutely stand and be seized of two parts of my said Maners Lands and Tenements divisible in three parts to be divided of a good and perfect Estate of Inheritance in Fee-simple to the use of them their Heirs and Assigns for ever and shall have full Power and lawful Authority by vertue of these Presents to Bargain and Sell all or so much of all or any of my said Maners Lands or Tenements as my said Executors or their Heirs or the Survivors of them shall think convenient to any Person and his and their Heirs for ever and with the Money received for the same my Daughters Legacies and Portions deducted make such reasonable Satisfaction to all and every party grieved as aforesaid as by the Judgment of the Lord Chancellor of England or the Master of the Rolls for the time being shall be thought meet and convenient apportioning the Money paid with the profits they have received allowing to themselves their Costs and Charges to be expended in and about the same any thing in these Presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding Lewis Mordaunt And my Will is That my Daughters and others in this my Will mentioned being paid their Portions as aforesaid by my Executors by the sale of so much of two parts of my Fee-simple Lands as will suffice as aforesaid that then the rest of my Fee-simple Lands remaining shall rest and be in my Executors and their Heirs as aforesaid for the Assurance and sure making of the Lands I have sold which I perswade my self will suffice And my Will full Intent and Meaning is That if my Son Henry pay his Sisters parts or any part thereof and die without Heirs Males of his Body then I will my Executors and their Heirs shall stand seized of all my Fee-simple Lands until such time as the Issue Female of the said Henry or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of the said Henry be satisfied and paid all and so much of the said Summ and Summs of Money unto my Daughters and others devised as my said Son Henry his Heirs Executors or Assigns shall have paid any thing in these Presents to the contrary of this always notwithstanding And so I make an end In Witness whereof I have Subcribed my Hand and set my Seal the Day and Year aforesaid Lewis Mordaunt SIGILLVM LODOVICI MORDAVNT MILITIS DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Sealed and delivered as the Will of the aforenamed Lord Mordaunt in the presence of and allowed with the Interlinings as they be Edward Watson John Wake John Gyll Thomas Arthur Sig. Thomas Goodman ãâã ãâã ion on the North ãâã âhe Tombe PIISSIMAE MEMORIAE LUDOVICI DNÌI MORDAVNT SACRUM DEPOSITIUM LUDOVICI DNÌI MORDAVNT SUB AVITA FIDE ET CERTA FILICES RESURRECTIONIS SPE GLORIOSAM IESU CHRISTI EPIPHANIAÌ HIC EXPECTAT VXOREÌ HABUIT ELIZABETHA ARTHURIS DARCEL AEQUITIS AURATI FILIAM EX QUA SUSCEPIT HENRICUM FILIUM VNICUM ET HAEREDÌ MARIAM ET ELIZABETHAM ET POST VITAÌ FAELICITER ET SINE QUERELA PERACTAM SUIS CHARUS ET ALIENIS ANNORUM SATUR ET HONORUM AETATIS SUAE ANNO 66o. 13o. IUNII ANNO DNIÌ 1601. PIE OBDORIVIT IN DNÌO HENRY Lord MORDAVNT First of that Name Fourth Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. A special Livery granted unto the Honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt ELizabeth Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae prevenerint Salutem Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris concessimus Licentiam dedimus ac per praesentes concedimus Licentiam damus pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris quantum in nobis est praedilecto sideli Subdito nostro Henrico Mordaunt modo Domino Mordaunt filio proximo Heredi Ludovici Mordaunt Militis nuper Domini Mordaunt defuncti qui quidem Ludovicus nuper Dominus Mordaunt de nobis tenuit in Capite die quo obiit per Servitium militare quocunque nomine cognomine sive additione nominis idem Henricus modo Dominus Mordaunt nominatus sit sive nuncupatus quod idem Henricus modo Dominus Mordaunt incontinenter absque aliqua Probatione aetatis suae absque aliqua Liberatione seu Prosecutione haereditatis suae vel alicujus inde parcellae extra manus nostras haeredum vel successorum nostrorum secundum cursum Cancellariae nostrae vel secundum Legem cursum Curiae