every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
say more anon 2. Thomas who taking to Wife the Lady Margaret Douglas Daughter to Margaret Queen of Scots by her Husband the Earl of Angus Niece to King Henry was attainted of Treason upon some suspition of his intents for aspiring to the Crown and departing this life in the Tower of London 1. Nov. Anno 1537. 29. Eliz. was Buried at Thetford 3. Richard who died Anno 1517. 9. H. 8. and was Buried at Lambeth And Four Daughters Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy to Edward Earl of Derby Elizabeth to Henry Earl of Sussex and Katharine first Married to Sir Rice ap Thomas Knight but afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater Polydore Virgil pag. 567. Reckoning up those the King chose for his Council ET Thomas Howardus Comes Surriae vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa Polydore Virgil pag. 621. JAM dies Concilii ad Westmonasterium habendi advenerat ubi Henricus cum Katharina Uxore à Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo corona redimitur sacraturque Octavo Kal. Julii Anno qui fuit salutis humanae MDIX quo ejus pater è vita excesserat qui dictus est Henricus eo nomine octavus dum publicum gaudium celebratur Laetitiam moeror velut saepe Comes sequitur Margareta enim Henrici avia moritur ob cujus obitum non nihil respublica damni fecit quippe mulier erat prudentissima atque sanctissima quae cum videret Henrico per aetatem non licere suum officium praestare ita à principio providere consulere prospicere coepit ut summa imperii penes optimos quosque principes esset quo ne quid ipsa respublica detrimenti acciperet quae aliquot menses communi multorum Concilio gubernata postremo ad duos Ricardum Wintoniensem Episcopum Thomam Comitem Surreium administratio pervenit qui inter se secretas habebant simultates quas authoritatis aemulatio in dies singulos magis magisque augebat In iis diversa erant studia Wintoniensis suis amplis rebus contentus Regis tantum republicae utilitatem quaerebat Comes vero qui olim paternae haereditatis majori ex parte propter Civilia Bella Factionum Seditiones Naufragium fecerat suo interim privato commodo inservire cogebatur qui idcirco ad latus Regis quotidie adhaerens bene magna identidem ab eo beneficia habebat quae ille tam suis quam aliis postea ad arbitrium suum daret tribueret deferret Ista Wintoniensi visa sunt eo brevi tempore evasura ut Comes primas apud principem teneret omnino nisi maturè obviam ejus conatibus praeiretur id quod sibi modis omnibus faciendum deliberavit Accessit in eandem palaestram tertius Guilielmus Conton in Regio cubiculo primus Minister sed is cum magis rei familiari quà m potentiae studeret nihil dabat suspicionis Interea Christopherus Benbricus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Romam Legatus ad Julium Romanum Pontificem Mittitur Thomas Ruthal designatur Dunelmensis Episcopus WILLIAM HOWARD Peer of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord High Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy Seal and Privy Councellor to the Queens Mary and Elizabeth CHAPTER II. Baronage of England Pag. 278. Howard of Effingham HAving thus Finish'd with the Principal Stemm of this most Noble Family I come to those Collateral Branches as are not yet spoke of And first to William Son to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk of this House by Agnes his Second Wife Daughter of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Com. Linc. Knight This William in 24. H. VIII was one of the Attendants of that King to Calis and so to Boloigne at such time as he was there Magnificently received by Francis the First King of France And in 26. H. VIII sent into Scotland to present King James the Fifth with the Order of the Garter Also to acquaint him with the intended Interview betwixt King Henry and King Francis of France And intreating his Presence thereat to desire his Coming through England to accompany King Henry to Calis In 27. H. VIII he was sent with Dr. William Barlow Bishop of St. Asaph to the same King of Scots to perswade him to enterview with King Henry as also to make certain advantageous Propositions to him And in 35. H. VIII upon that unhappy Deportment of Katharine Howard his Niece Fifth Wife of King Henry for which she lost her Head being newly return'd from an Embassy into France he was Indicted as was also his Wife and the old Duthess of Norfolk for Misprision of Treason in concealing what they knew of that Queen's Behaviour therein and condemned to perpetual Imprisonment But at length through the King's Favour enlarged and in 6. Edw. VI. made Deputy of Calis being a very valiant Person and perfectly Loyal to both those Kings He had such Esteem from Queen Mary as that by Letters Patents bearing Date 11. Martii in the First Year of her Reign he was advanced to the Degree and Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Howard of Effingham as also the Twentieth of the same Month made Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Wales And upon the Second of April next ensuing took his Place in Parliament amongst the rest of the Peers Also upon the Eighth of that Month constituted Lord Admiral and Lieutenant General of all her Forces at Sea He was likewise Lord Chamberlain of her Household And in the 1. Eliz. had the same Honourable Office conferred on him by that Queen After this he was sent Ambassador with the Lord Cobham to the Spaniard into the Netherlands and in 12. Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Sussex General of those Forces then sent against the Earls of Northumberland and VVestmoreland at that Time in Rebellion In 15. Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk And by his Testament bearing Date 6. Maii 11. Eliz. being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Rygate in Com. Sur. appointing a Tomb to be there made for him And to Charles his Son and Heir bequeathed his Collar of Gold and all his Robes belonging to the Order of the Garter He Married Two Wives first Katharine Daughter and Co-heir to Sir John Broughton of Tuddington in Com. Bedf. Knight by whom he had Issue only one Daughter called Agnes Married to VVilliam Pawlet the Third Marquis of VVinchester Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Thomas Ganiage Knight which Margaret departed this Life ..... Maii Anno 1581. 23. Eliz. by whom he had Issue four Sons viz. Charles who succeeded him in his Honour VVilliam Howard of Lingfield in Com. Sur. Edward and Henry who died Young Also Five Daughters First Douglas Married first to John Lord Sheffield afterwards to Robert Earl of Leicester as hath been pretended and thirdly
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
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
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
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 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 Cheney 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 Strangway 〈◊〉 Melborne 〈◊〉 Dorsell 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 of Oakley 〈◊〉 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 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 â—aunt 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
vel debuerunt In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Datum sub Magno Sigillo nostro apud Whitehall Decimo nono die Januarii Anno Regni praecharissimi Domini Mariti nostri Jacobi Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. primo Annoque Domini 168⅚ May it please Your Majesty This containeth a Grant from Your Majesty to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the Offices of High Steward and Keeper of Your Courts Leet c. and of General and Chief Bayliff of all Your Majesty's Honours Maners and Lands now or hereafter within the Kingdom of England To hold during Your Majesty's Pleasure with the Annual Fee of Twenty Pounds for the said Office of High Steward and all other profits to the said several Offices belonging And is done by virtue of your Majesty's Warrant to me directed bearing Date the First Day of January 1685 6. Ro. North. OF THE Collateral BRANCHES That have issued out of the HOUSE OF MORDAUNT OF THE Collateral BRANCHES That have issued out of the HOUSE OF MORDAUNT HAVING deduc'd the Succict Genealogies of all the Houses whence were descended and whereunto were Heirs the Mordaunts that were Lords of Turvey in the County of Bedford as likewise particularly that of the same Noble Family and justified them by the Extant and Unquestionable Proofs inserted all along in the foregoing Works I have thought it indispensably necessary to declare the descents of those Branches also that at several times proceded from the Chief House and that in other Countries upon Lordships of their own have since made separated Families and continued in Worthy Estimation to this day That in case of accidents though very improbable which might conduce to the extinction of the Eldest Family there might remain Lights to the right of Succession for preventing future Controversies and wrongful or mistaken Pretences though it cannot be expected instruments of Proof should be inserted here as in the former they remaining in the hands of the Owners who willingly part not with the Evidences of their Estates out of their power or live at such distance as would make it too uneasie or troublesom Here shall therefore hereunto be annexed the Pedegrees of these Collaterals with all the Truth and Justness imaginable to the end those Gentlemen concern'd in them may know what is their Rank in point of Time and the Grounds of any Pretences they can justly make upon any Accidents may happen for the future The Decent of the Mordaunts that were Lords of Wybaldstone Will m Mordaunt Ld. of Turven Rossia de Wake Robert Mordaunt Ld. of Turvey Eldest Sonne Iolianna de Bray Sr. Will Mordaunt Ld. of Wybaldston Mary de Bosco Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Wubaldstone Eleanar Conquest Gohn Mordaunt Ld. of Wubaldston Eliz Raunstou Matilda Mordaunt Filia Heres The Decent of the Mordaunts who were L ds of Hempstead Massingham Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Turvey Agness Peck Sr. John Mordaunt Ld. of Turroen Eldest Sonue Edith Latimer Will m Mordaunt Ld. of hempsted Anne Huntington Robert Nordaunt Ld. of Hempsted Margaret Pooly Sr l'Estrange Mordaunt Knt. and Baronett Margarett Charles Sr Robert Mordaut Knt. Baronett Amie Southerton Henry Mordaunt Barbara Catthrop Will m Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt Eliz Rowse Sr. Charles Mordaunt K Bar. Catherine Talmach l'Estrange Mordaunt Catlin Edmund Mordaunt Lewis Alordaut Sr. John Mordaunt Anne Risely Henry Mordaunt The Decent of the Mordaunts which were Lords of Oakley John the first Ld. Mordaunt Elizabeth vere John the 2d. Ld. Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Oakely Agnes Booth George Mordaunt Ld. of the Hill Caldcaut Cicely Harding Edm Mordaunt Ld. of Oakely Eliz Sturley Sr. Charles Mordaunt Ld. of Oakly Eliz Snagg S. P. John Mordaut Ld. of Oakely Eliz Pudsey Charles Mordaut Ld. of Oakely Eliz Strozzy Sr. John Mordaunt Eliz Adams John Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt John Mordaunt The Decent of the Mordaunts who were L. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Vere Iohn the 2 Lord Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Edm Mordaut Second Sonne Sine Prole George Mordaut Fourth Sonne Cicely Harding Willm. Mordaunt Third Sonne Agnes Booth Lewes Mordaunt Iane Ncedam Eliz. Mordaunt Edw Maynard Lewes Mordaunt George Mordaut Anne Smith Charles Mordaunt George Mordaunt Eliz Everard Iohn Mordaunt Sonne heire The Decent of the Mordaunts that were Lords of Hardwick Henry Lord Mordaunt Margaret Compton John Eark of Peterborow Eliz Howard James Mordaut Gostwick John Mordaunt Barbara Ludlous Henry Mordaunt Sonne Heire The Decent of the Mordaunts that were L ds of Rygate Iohn L d Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Eliz Howard Henry Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian Iohn Ld. Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Cary. George Mordaunt Osmond Mordaunt Charles Ld. Viscout Mordaunt Cary Fraiser Henry Mordaunt Lewes Mordaunt Martin Henry Mordaunt Iohn Mordaunt Sonne Heire
SUCCINCT GENEALOGIES OF THE Noble and Ancient Houses of Alno or de Alneto Broc of Shephale Latimer of Duntish Drayton of Drayton Mauduit of Werminster Greene of Drayton Vere of Addington Fitz-Lewes of Westhornedon Howard of Effingham And Mordaunt of Turvey Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs and Enriched with divers Sculptures of Tombs Images Seals and other Curiosities By ROBERT HALSTEAD HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE LUCEM TUAM DA NOBIS LONDON Printed in the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXV W. BURRELL To my LORD THE Lord HENRY EARL of PETERBOROW PEER of ENGLAND LORD MORDAVNT Lord Baron of TVRVEY Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of His Majesty's Bed-Chamber Lord High Steward to the QUEEN Lord Lieutenant of the County of NORTHAMPTON one of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER My LORD THE Love and Protection Your Lordship has ever shown to Letters and Antiquity has long since demanded some return from the Melancholy Porers upon Wax and Parchment Ours is not gay and enlightned like the Muse of Poetry It may want Flattery and Wit but it is very Capable of Truth and Gratitude We aspire not to the imitation of Oracles foretelling Greatnesses that are to come but in a heavy way of pusling on old Characters revive dead Glories that have long been lost and by a kind of Sacred Magick salute Mens Eyes with the dear Images of Famous Ancestors Your Lordship that has such a share in our Antiquities cannot but delight to see several Famous Knights whence You descend enter this Nation with the Great Norman and by their Valour win those Lands which from them have devolv'd unto your Lordship Nor will it be less pleasing to perceive a perseverance in those Virtues from their Successors shewing on several Occasions Magnanimity Valour Fidelity Prudence and other Effects of estimable Wisdom and Generosity that have so long preserved the Fruits of their first Labours to Your Lordship's use I am sure it will be agreeable to Your Lordship at least so far as to procure Your Pardon for any Errors may have unwillingly fallen into the Endeavours of My LORD Your Lordship 's most obedient and most humble Servant ROB. HALSTEAD THE PREFACE THERE is here presented to the view of the Reader a Genealogical Description of certain Ancient and Noble Houses of which though I have seen several Pedigrees deduc'd yet they being old wanted those necessary and real Ornaments the Curiosity and Learning of these latter times have afforded Compositions of this Nature there having been omitted in them an insertion of proofs the material Circumstance which has only power to make considerable any effect of the Heroick Science Wherefore these being Families in reality and truth so rich in Records and Evidence the Proofs of whose own Antiquity with the Greatness and Splendor of their Alliances being so numerous and so unquestionable I have thought it a Debt to Truth and History having come through my Curiosity in matters of this kind to a Sight and Knowledge of them to be a means they should be expos'd unto the World for the Entertainment and Instruction of such as may delight in things of this Nature and the Honor of those Families that are descended from them But to prevent a Suspicion of any such affectation of Greatness or Antiquity as in others may have caus'd a Deduction of Genealogies by corrupt and prostituted Art from before the Conquest before the Danes before the Saxons from some British or other Potentates I desire it should be known that I am an Antiquary by Inclination not Profession that although I have purchased verity out of Ancient and Authentick Records I sell no Fables from my own Brain and less from the Phancies of others that I esteem nothing but Truths and those so much as if any have lost their Proofs though there I pity them I use them not but consider them as unhappy Orphans out of the Guard of their Parents in a possibility at least to have been corrupted And truly the endeavours of many Artists to give specious beginnings unto Pedigrees whose heads by just Proofs they could not attain unto has not only among the knowing brought the Science under much Scandal but even prejudiced the Esteem and Opinion of those Families the streams of whose Story from the Impurity of the Head have been judged to be corrupted all along So as certainly it is not the business of any Genealogy to be put to the hazard of blushing for a false Original since those have been esteemed the Noblest Families unto which a beginning could not be found at all but that as far as Truths could possibly be trac'd have always continued in their Countries under a Noble Name and Signalized in the Provinces where they lived and that when as by a Succession lawfully proved of between four and five hundred Years they give to the top of a Pedigree a Gentleman of Name and Arms. It is enough not to have Him denied that thence shall be so descended through a Succession of Great and Illustrious Alliances to be within the Highest Rank of Honour and Nobility Therefore such as have so much truth for the Ornament of their Houses and because some few have more will have recourse to Fable for its assistance to a vain and unjust Ambition deserve the inseparable reward of their Folly which will be the abuse being discover'd to have together with the Impostures even the veritable part involved in Contempt and Disesteem For these reasons there is not here pretended any primary Extractions from such suppos'd Originals whence like others I should have been forc'd to bring them down by Invention and not by Proof introducing an Unfortunate Wanderer Younger Brother or Nephew unto some Unhappy Prince that for a disastrous reason fled his Country and chang'd his Name because I can prove no such thing any more than many that notwithstanding their probabilities were less than those which the large Rewards they received for their Services the Noble kind of stile they used in their Donations the Dignity that appeared in their Seals and the Marks of their own great Bounties would have afforded to the Concluders of an Extraordinary Greatness in the Persons of whom I am to treat have yet taken pretence with much Ceremony and Ornament to abuse Tradition with such Romances But you shall be here presented with several Great and Famous Knights most of which were Country-men or Companions of the Conqueror but all of them Men notable for Valour and Vertue in the Reigns of those Princes under whom they flourished And now as concerning their Names to manifest they need not yield to the Antiquity of any Cambden's Remains in his Treatise of Sirnames pag. 131 135 136 137. You shall see what the Learned Cambden affirms He says That Sirnames given for difference in Families and continued as Hereditary in
procreatis liberè in pace in perpetuum de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita consueta reddendo inde annuatim mihi in totam vitam meam viginti solidos ad quatuor anni terminos principales aequis portionibus Et ego verò praedictus Alanus Basset omnia praedicta terras Tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedictis Waltero Luciae Uxori suae Haeredibus suis inter eosdem legitimè procreatis contra omnes mortales warrantizabo in perpetuum Et si contingat praedictos Walterum Luciam absque haeredibus inter eosdem legitimè procreatis decedere volo quòd omnia predicta terrae Tenementa cum omnibus suis pertinentiis mihi haeredibus meis vel meis Assignatis absque impedimento vel contradictione alicujus revertentur In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti cartae indentatae Sigilla nostra alternatim apposuimus His testibus Dominis Willielmo de Pinkeney Richardo de Engain Militibus Henrico Gubion Thomâ de Loton Willielmo de Weston Gervasio de Everdon Gilberto de Herdwick Roberto Bernac Henrico de Avenell Anselmo de Clopton Stephano de Philgrave Thoma de Tichmerch Andrea filio Stephani Herberto filio Willielmi Richardo filio Herberti aliis Carta Walteri de Draytona OMnibus Sanctae matris Ecclesiae filiis tam praesentibus quà m futuris ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit Walterus de Drayton Salutem Noveritis Universitas vestra me concessisse hac praesenti carta meac onfirmâsse pro salute animae meae Uxoris meae omnium antecessorum successorum meorum Deo Sanctae Mariae Sancto Johanni Baptistae beatis pauperibus Hospitalis Sancti Johannis de Northhampton fratribus ibidem Deo servientibus totam terram de feodo meo de Sliptona quam Willielmus Avunculus meus dedit praedicto Hospitali in liberam perpetuam eleemosynam salvo servitio meo His Testibus Domino Gervasio de Suthbroc Henrico de Atenestone Hugone fratre suo Radulpho Capellano Richardo filio suo Philippo Diacono Willielmo Clerico de Upton multis aliis WALTERUS de DRAYTONA This Effigies of Ancient Painting uppon Glass is at this time extant in the further Windoe of the North Isle of St. Peters Church in Luffwick being the Parish Church and Parcell of the Noble Mannor of Drayton whence this same WALTER being the sonne of Henry the sonne of Robert the second sonne of Earle AUBERY de VERE Great Chamberlaine and Lord Cheif Iustice of England did first assume his Name Sir HENRY of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships In magno Rotulo de Anno decimo tertio Regis Johannis de Scutagio Scotiae assiso ad viginti solidos HAeredes Walteri de Drayton de feodo dimidii Militis de feodo quod fuit Roberti filii Alberici decem solidos Ibidem sub Titulo de Scutagio Walliae assiso ad duas marcas HAeredes Walteri de Drayton reddiderunt compotum de una marca de dimidio feodi Anno secundo Henrici Tertii de primo Scutagio assiso ad duas marcas VIcecomes reddidit compotum de duabus marcis de una marca de Haerede Walteri de Drayton In Libro rubro feodorum de Scaccario HEnricus de Drayton tenet in Islip Adington Drayton dimidium feodi Militis Et Baldwinus de Vere tenet inde quartam partem de dimidio feodi in Adington Northamptonshire In magno Rotulo de Anno vicesimo nono Henrici Tertii AUxilium Regis ad primogenitam filiam ejus maritandam scilicet de quolibet Scutagio viginti solidos Idem Vicecomes reddit compotum de decem solidis de Henrico de Drayton de dimidio feodi Fines tricesimo primo Henrici Tertii MS. REX cepit homagium Henrici de Drayton qui duxit Uxorem Ivettam filiam alteram Haeredum Willielmi Burdon de medietate feodi Militis videlicet quod dictus Willielmus tenuit de Rege in Capite Carta Willielmi filii Roberti de Drayton SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Willielmus filius Roberti de Drayton concessi praesenti carta mea confirmavi Domino Henrico de Drayton quatuor seliones in Campo de la Lound super le Plegsland inter terram ejusdem Henrici terram Dominae Isabellae de Bournebon in escambium trium selionum in le Woodfield abuttantium in Plumpwell Broc inter terram Willielmi filii Matildae de Luffwick terram Hugonis Wacestare de Slipton Tenendum habendum dicto Henrico Haeredibus suis suis Assignatis de me haeredibus meis liberè quietè bene in pace nomine excambii pro omni consuetudine seculari exactione Ego verò dictus Willielmus Haeredes mei dicto Henrico Haeredibus suis eorum Assignatis dictas quatuor seliones contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus Ut autem haec Concessio hujus praesentis cartae Confirmatio rata stabilis in perpetuum perseveret praesens scriptum Impressione sigilli mei corroboravi His Testibus Radulpho de Blossvilla Willielmo filio Osmondi de Sudbury Waltero Novo-homine Galfrido de Drayton Hugone Waycestare Johanne filio Simonis aliis Carta Henrici filii Thomae de Drayton SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Henricus filius Thomae de Drayton quietum clamavi relaxavi Domino Henrico de Drayton Militi pro una marca argenti quam mihi dedit prae manibus totum Jus clameum quod habui vel habere potui in una dimidia virgata terrae in Campis de Drayton cum tofto crofto in dicta villa de Drayton omnibus aliis dictae terrae pertinentiis quod etiam Jus mihi contingebat nomine haereditatis dicti Thomae quondam Patris mei cujus haeres propinquior sum Ita etiam quòd ego nunquam nec aliquis haeredum meorum nec aliquis pro nobis in dicta virgata terrae cum dictis pertinentiis clameum vel calumniam imponemus per quod dictus Dominus Henricus vel Haeredes sui vel eorum Assignati elongentur vel implacitentur Et ego verò dictus Henricus Haeredes mei dicto Domino Henrico Haeredibus suis eorum Assignatis nominatam Terram cum dictis pertinentiis contra omnes gentes in perpetuum warrantizabimus Et ut haec quieta clamatio relaxatio rata stabilis perseverer huic scripto praesenti Impressionem Sigilli mei apposui His Testibus Radulpho de Blossvilla Willielmo Novo-homine Roberto filio Walteri Petro de Holt Henrico Clerico de Islip Willielmo de Drayton Johanne filio Simonis Carta Willielmi de Musta SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Willielmus de Musta de Aldewincle demisi concessi praesenti cartâ meâ confirmavi Domino Henrico de Drayton sex seliones terrae in Campis de
Draytonorum terras possidet Ad istorum Draytonorum caput sub marmore plano jacet vir quidam generosus Gilbertus Segrave A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT THAT WERE LORDS of WERMINSTER Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Mauduit were Chequy Or and Azure a Bordure Gules Of the Original Descent Greatness Possessions Honours Alliances and Arms of the House of Mauduit that were Lords of Werminster THIS House was originally of the Dukedom of Normandy where it flourished before the Conquest under the name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith as much as to say Evil taught and upon occait was written in the Latine tongue Maledoctus a sobriquet of which the grounds do not remain in story A Lord of this name came over with King William the First under the appearance of much reputation and interest He is recorded to have been in immediate service at the Battel where King Harold was slain and to have been one of those Lords to whom the Conquerour gave Lands for their notable services The Actions performed by those of this House have been famous their successes various the remembrance of their Lords illustrating story with the variety of their fortunes There had been in this Family great marks of the love and confidence of their Princes They were promoted to Dignities and trusted in employments of most importance There were of them had been Lords of much power that had been Governours of Provinces that had been Chamberlains and held the highest Offices in the Houses of their Kings that had been great Earls and all of them allyed to Families of most Power and Nobleness After the introduction of the hereditary use of Arms in this House they were differently born for William Lord Mauduit who was Earl of Warwick bore in a Field Argent two Barre Gules in the time of King Henry the Third But William Lord Mauduit his Cousin and contemporary from whom the Lords of Werminster did descend gave in a Bordure Gules Chequy Or and Azure This House notwithstanding and all its greatness took an end about the beginning of King Richard the Second leaving only to inherit their Name Armes and Possessions Matilda de Mauduit that was married to Sir Henry Greene of Drayton from whom to the Veres that were Lords of Adington descended all their pretensions and from them to the Mordaunts that by the marriage of Elizabeth Vere came to inherit the Arms and Lands of those two Noble Families WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and other Great Lands and Lordships AMong those Heroes that did accompany King William the First unto the Conquest of England was a Lord of the Name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith in the Latine termed Maledoctus Whether it was the William here mentioned or his Father it matters not but sure we are that at the time of the general Surveigh iâ— the Raign of that King this William Lord Mauduit is found to have possessed seven faâ—â— Lordships in Hampshire And coming afterwards by the merit of many great Serviceâ— and the favour of King Henry the First to be his Chamberlain he obtained from hiâ— a Grant of all the Lands whereof Micael de Hanslape dyed seized with Maude thâ— Daughter of the said Micael in Marriage Their Issue Robert Mauduit William Mauduit ROBERT MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Lordships as also in the Office of Chamberlain but the near trust wherein he lived with King Henry the First having caused him to be one of those Lords that were appointed to accompany his Children in their return out of France he was drowned in that unhappy passage from Harflew into England with those unfortunate and much lamented Princes FOR want of Issue male of the Lord Robert Mauduit WILLIAM his younger Brother came to inherit the Estate that he had left and the Office of Chamberlain was likewise bestowed upon him by Henry Duke of Normandy afterward King by the name of Henry the Second with all the Lands belonging thereunto as well in Normandy as in England This William had likewise by Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury that is of his Exchequer with livery and all other its appurtenances He had moreover in consideration of his good services divers other great Lordships bestowed upon him and also the Constablery of Richege in Fee And after Henry by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William all the premisses When he dyed I find not but he left Issue Robert Lord Mauduit AFter the Death of William Lord Mauduit the second of that name ROBERT his Son came to inherit all his great Possessions as likewise the Office of Chamberlain with what ever did belong thereunto And as an addition to his Fortunes King Henry the Second bestowed upon him by his Charter the noble Mannor of Werminster a Lordship at that time of much value and greatly priviledged which by another Charter was after confirmed by King Richard the First eldest Son and successor to King Henry After the Death of which King Richard upon what motives we do not find this Robert Lord Mauduit became involved in Confederacy with many of the great Barons who were at that time in Rebellion against King John And in the first year of King Henry the Third the Honor of Hanslape with its appurtenances which was the head of his Barony appears to have been granted away to Robert de Braboef for support in the Kings service during his pleasure But before the sixth year of that King this Robert Mauduit died leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella the Daughter of the Lord Thurstan Bassett William Lord Mauduit Robert Mauduit to whom his Father gave the noble Lordship of Werminster WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the third of that name after the death of his Father was Lord of the Honor of Hanslape and divers other fair Lands and Lordships as also hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Having been bred under his Father and in the rebellion of those Lords that made War in the time of King John he continued the same course after that Lords decease fortifying his Castles and his Houses in favour of the associated Barons particularly that of Hanslape which was taken and demolished by Falcatius de Breant a renouned Souldier of that Age and a bold asserter of the Kings Authority For which and other contumacies he was with other of the Lords Excommunicated by the Pope But all this allayed not his turbulent spirit but he still persisting in his Rebellion was actually at the Battle of Lincoln where the power of the Lords being totally vanquished he was taken Prisoner But after this he returned to his obedience and enjoyed his Estate by the Kings Grace and in the seventeenth Year of Henry the Third he obliged himself by a special writing to serve the King faithfully all his life and never more
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
Third obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the days of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year Antiquities of Warwickshire fol. 305 306. Of Waleran the Earl of Warwick HE had two Wives Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice Daughter of John de Harcourt but Widow of John de Limesie before mentioned and departing this life in the sixth of King John left divers Children of which Henry his eldest Son succeeded in the Earldom Waleran another Son had the Mannors of Gretham and Cottesmore in the County of Rutland with certain Lands in Worcestershire but dyed without Issue Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife wedded William Mauduit of Hanslape in the County of Bucks and had by her Fathers appointment the Mannor of Wanton now called Walton Mauduit in this County for her Marriage Portion as is evident by King John's confirmation thereof to him bearing Date the thirtieth of November in the tenth year of his Reign WILLIAM MAVDVIT Earl of Warwick Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lordships Baronage of England Page 399. BUT in the one and fortieth of Henry the Third he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in the County of Bucks as also of the Mannor of Bergedon and Hundred of Wrangedike with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham in the County of Rutland as likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartleigh in the County of Southampton leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of Age. Which William in the forty first year of Henry the Third had so much favour from the King in payment of a Debt of two hundred Marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serjeanty he held videlicet a hundred Pounds for his Relief of his Barony and fifty Marks for his Serjeanty as that it was accepted of fifty Marks per annum The next year following this William had Summons to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the Incursions of the Welsh and in the forty seventh of Henry the Third doing his Homage and paying a hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him videlicet the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Lands and Mannors thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility Mille 's Catalogue of Honor page 798. William Maledoctus commonly called Mauduit Lord and Baron of Hanslape Cousin and Heir to Margery Countess of Warwick videlicet the Son of Alice the Sister of Henry the Father of the said Margery became Earl of Warwick after the Death of the foresaid Margery in the Reign of Henry the Third who long before had honour'd him with the Sword of Knighthood in the year 1233. and in the eighteenth of his Reign He dyed without Issue the fourth day of the Ides of January in the year 1268. and of Henry the Third the fifty second leaving his Sister Isabell his Heir Alice the Daughter of Gilbert Lord Segrave was Wife to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit that was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Carta Domini Roberti Mauduit RObertus Mauduit Domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Roberto Mauduit filio meo juniori Manerium totam terram meam de Werminster quae Rex Henricus Dominus meus mihi concessit tenendum sibi haeredibus suis in perpetuum liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè ab omni servitio salvo quod domino Regi pertinet in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Isti sunt Testes Dominus Johannes de Knovill Dominus Ricardus de Verdun Robertus de Sancto Laudo Alexander Pipard Thomas filius Johannis Henricus Transard Stephanus Camerarius Herveius Dapifer SIGILLVM DNI ROBERTI MAUDUIT Carta Domini Willielmi Mauduit Camerarii Regis WIllielmus Mauduit domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hac carta mea praesenti confirmâsse Fratri meo Roberto Mauduit pro servitio suo Manerium de Scaudedene cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè in bosco in campis in pratis in pascuis in viis in semitis in omnibus ad Manerium illud pertinentibus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius Militis Testibus Ranulpho de Glanvilla Gilberto Pipard Bertram de Verdun Willielmo de Bend Radulpho filio Stephani Eustachio filio Stephani Johanne Mauduit Beberto filio Richardi Gaufrido de Insula Roberto Burell Roberto Mauncell Roberto Mauduit filio meo Willielmo filio Walteri Willielmo Nepote aliis multis SIGILLVM DNI WILLI MAUDUIT CAMERARII REGIS Monasticon Anglicanum Pars Secunda pag. 409. 36. 43. inter concessiones de Mayden Bradley EX dono Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum pertinentiis in Bushopstree Ex dono Agnetis de la Mare quae fuit Uxor Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum messuagio Curtelagio in Tarrenta WILLIAM MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Placita de Banco Term. Pasch Anno 14 H. III. in pella Scaccarii Regis remanent Rot. 15. RObertus de Passleu per Attornatum suum petit versus Willielmum Mauduit Eugeniam Uxorem ejus quòd reddant ei Henricum filium haeredem Henrici Cromwell cujus custodia ad eum pertinet ratione commissionis Domini Regis quod inde fecit dicit c. Sed quia dictus Robertus non ostendit dictam commissionem dicta custodia remansit penes dictos Willielmum Eugeniam Charta Regis Henrici Tertii HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae
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
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
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
Father had his Wardship purchased by his Mother the Lady Elizabeth Vere of Edward the black Prince for the summe of twenty pounds who by his Charter which is extant did grant the custody of his Lands with his Marriage to his dear and well beloved Elizabeth that was the Wife of Robert de Vere those are the words of the Deed on condition it might be without disparagement There are remaining Covenants hereupon agreed unto between the said Robert and his Mother as also a Petition from the said Lady to Queen Isabel for her protection against Sir Henry Greene a man of great power by whom the Minor and her self were oppressed in some circumstances of the rights that did belong unto them When this Robert had attained to mans estate he confirmed to his Uncle's Wife the Lady Alice de Vere the agreement had been made with her by his Father He became afterwards much considered from his Vertue and noble qualities and in the eighteenth year of Richard the Second he served his Country in the Office of High Sheriff and did much adhere to the King in those difficulties which happened in his Reign Yet there fell out about this time a quarrel between him and a Knight of great Authority called Sir Edmund Noone on whom having made an assault wherein the said Edmund was wounded it caused him trouble for a time and an Imprisonment in the Fleet upon pretence of the Riot but the matter being composed by Friends he afterward recovered the King's grace and his liberty He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John de Tay of a noble Family and descended from antient Barons of that Name by whom having had but one Daughter called Margaret he gave her for Wife to Thomas Ashby Lord of Lovesby in the County of Leicester with his Lordships of Thrapston and Addington to them and the heirs of their bodies but it falling out that she dyed without Issue His Lands he had setled upon them returned to his Brother Baldwin and his heirs as being his lawful successors SIR BALDWIN de VERE being for many years a younger Brother appli'd himself to the Wars and a dependence upon great Princes for the support of his fortune We find him in the fourth year of King Henry the Fourth to have been Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey under that noble Prince Edward Earl of Rutland and of Corke and who was afterwards Duke of York He followed this illustrious Hero in all the succeeding Wars of that Age and fought by his side at the time he fell with so much glory in the famous Battel of Agencourt after whose death he had confirm'd unto him by King Henry the Fifth an annuity of twenty marks by the year that had been granted to him by that Duke for his life out of his inheritance in the Customs of Linnen Leather and Skins in the Port of Kingston upon Hull to be received at the hands of the Collectors thereof during the Minority of Richard the Son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge After this his fortune or rather his setled affection to the relations and interests of the House of York carried him into the Kingdom of Ireland where in the second year of King Henry the Sixth he was constituted Treasurer of his Liberties by the Lord Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster and at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which by his Letters Patents that are extant and other testimonies does appear After the death of the Earl of March and the return of Sir Baldwin Vere into England the fortunes of Love as well as those of Armes did contribute to the advantage and establishment of this worthy and industrious Knight for he fell into the favour of a young Lady the Daughter and heir of Sir John Kingston alias Mohun who brought him the Mannors of Barkloe Overhall and Hoakenhanger that were of her inheritance And in conclusion his Brothers Death without Issue male made him possession of the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and the other Lands belonging to that Family So as having no more to desire at the hands of fortune he departed this life full of years and happiness leaving Issue Sir Richard Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston Elizabeth Vere Amy Vere AFTER the decease of Sir Baldwin de Vere RICHARD his Son came to inherit the Estate and interests of that Family He met with some trouble in the beginning about this accession which came to his Father for want of Issue male from his Uncle Sir Robert de Vere who notwithstanding had made over the Lordships of Addington and Thrapston to certain Trustees for the security of the Portion promised to his Daughter Margaret that had been married to a Gentleman of consideration one Thomas Ashby of the County of Leicester And these Trustees happening to be men of the highest rank and of most power in the Kingdom as the Earls of Hereford and Stafford the Lord Beaumont the Lord Cromwel and the Lord Zouch and not a little partial to Thomas Ashby and his Wife Margaret it was no easy matter to procure a resignation of their interest But his Cousin Margaret coming to dye without Issue and having given testimony of her desire to have justice done unto her lawful successor those noble Lords were induced upon some fair agreement with Thomas Ashby to redemise to Richard de Vere the Mannor of Aldington and the other Lands wherein they had been formerly enfeoffed Soon after this Richard de Vere was setled in his fortune he contracted an alliance in the Family of Greene the most considerable among the Gentlemen of that tract by marrying Isabella one of the Daughters of John Greene who stiled himself Lord of Herdwick in the days of his Brother Ralph that was Lord of Drayton and from whose death without Issue male his descendants came to be possest of a great and noble Patrimony The great Lords of the Church being no easie neighbours in that age from their exceeding interest and authority and this Sir Richard de Vere being a man of a great spirit and of a Family unaccustomed to unreasonable submissions there arose a contest between him and the Lord Abbot of Croyland which made much noise about certain bordering pretences How it was ended does not appear but soon after this Sir Richard de Vere departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella Greene Sir Henry de Vere Baldwin Vere Constance Married to John Butler Lord of Woodhall Elizabeth Vere Married to William Dounhalle Margaret Vere Married to John Verners of Essex Amy Vere Married to John Ward of Irtlingborow Elena Vere Married to Thomas Isham of Pitchtsley HENRY the eldest Son of Sir Richard Vere with the Estate of his Father inherited the Suit and Difference with the Lord Abbot of Croyland and by his endeavours to defend his interests in that affair he incurr'd the displeasure of King Richard III. which was particularly testified in a Letter to himself and in some
Prince King John the disorderly rigours of whose Government was become unsufferable to the greatest part of the Nation He was at first received with all the applause which sometimes follows Novelties of this nature He was crown'd at London He had Homage done him and Allegiance sworn as to a lawful King He proceeded with their assistance in divers warlike Undertakings wherein he had admirable success and acted in all the other Parts of the Government as one who expected to be soon establish'd During this time among the great Lords of his Party there happened to be one who to all his Concerns was most useful and to his Person most officious This Lord whose Name is omitted out of respect to the Descendants of his Family had no Issue of his own and only for his Heirs three beautiful Sisters The youngest whereof whose Name was Philippe by her admirable Qualities had so engaged the Prince's love as it made the Conquest of her heart to share his cares with that of the Kingdom But against a King that was young and seemed happy it was not strange that a Lady did not long resist She yielded at last and the Prince enjoyed the effects and her misfortune began to appear together She found her self with Child and by the fatal loss of the Battel of Lincoln that her Lover was like to be abandoned by his Friends and by his fortune He was obliged to retire to London whence from the Tower where he had refug'd himself he made Conditions to depart home in safety by relinquishing to the young King Henry his farther pretences The poor Lady left in this condition owned her disaster to her Brother who pitying her state from the greatness and merit of the Author gave her a comfortable assurance of his kindness and protection She was after secretly delivered and the Child named Lewis Which Fruit of her Loves being nourished under this Great Lords Care and Education he having no Children of his own afore his death bestowed upon the Youth the noble Lordship of Westhornedon with divers other Lands in the County of Essex obliging him to bear himself and transmit to his Descendants the Name of Fitz-Lewis for ever after Among his three Sisters this Lord coming to dye did leave his vast Inheritance with whom the Lady Philippe hath her share and her misfortune either conceal'd or else gilded over with the advantages of her Riches did not hinder her from being afterwards married to an Husband of great Quality in whom she was happy for her time and brought him a Posterity whence are descended some of the greatest Lords that flourish in this Age. Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis having been bred under his Uncle in the Notion of a more distant relation than in the truth of the matter he did indeed stand towards him at the time of that Lord's death found himself possessed by his favour and affection with such an Estate as was capable to support the generous inclinations of his heart which did altogether incline him to the love and practice of Armes the only application of Gentlemen in that Age and therefore he made himself very considerable especially toward the end of that Kings Reign where he attained the Honour of Knighthood and having allied himself to a very notable Family by his Marriage with Margaret of Essex he left Issue Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis flourished in the days of King Edward the First and followed him in several of his Expeditions He won his Spurs in the first Scotch War and became after very considerable in his Country when he married Elizabeth de Harpden an Inheritrix whose Lands did plentifully add to his former Patrimony but after the death of this great King we find he was unfortunately drawn into the adherence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and that he did unhappily perish in the War caused by that Rebellion leaving to succeed him his Son Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships RIchard Fitz-Lewis being with divers others through the Grace and favour of King Edward the Third restored to his Rights and Lands that had been seised upon pretence of his Father's trespass in the former Reign he became much considered from his own merit and the opulency of his fortune notably encreased by the accession of his Mothers Inheritance He was very useful to the Government of his Country during the King's absence in his long Wars and always contributed his best cares towards the service and supplies of the King's occasions from the Parts where he had interest being always zealous for the honour of his Prince and Country He married Elizabeth de Baude a Lady of a Family very antient and considerable both from their Riches and good same whose true Name was de Baden but corruptly otherwise called and by her he left his Son Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THE great consideration wherein this Family was in these days held may be judged by the alliance contracted by Sir John Fitz-Lewis who to his first Wife took Alice the Daughter of Aubery the tenth Earl of Oxford and to his second Anne Mountague Daughter of John the third Earl of Salisbury of that House and that was after his death Dutchess of Exeter Issue by his first Wife Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis married to Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk Sir HENRY FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry Fitz-Lewis that had signalized himself in an adherence to the House of Lancaster was so esteemed by the chief Supporters of that Faction as he had given him in Marriage by Edmund the noble Duke of Somerset the Lady Eleanor his youngest Daughter by whom he had Issue Mary the second Wife of Anthony Woodville Earl of Rivers But for want of Issue Male his intailed Lands descended to his Brother Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis with the other Interests of that Family Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis liv'd in his Brother's time in Marriage with a Lady called Margaret Stonore of whose life and actions we are ignorant but it is recorded He left Issue his Son and Heir Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THis Richard Fitz-Lewis appears to have had some Controversie with his Cousen Mary Countess of Rivers about his Inheritance by a Judgment recorded in his behalf whereby he was declared Heir of all the entailed Lands of that Family she to inherit only such as had been her Father 's by Gift or acquired by proper Purchace Richard Fitz-Lewis was a busie man in his time much imployed in the interest of King Henry the Seventh against the Usurper with whom he was in immediate action at the
indeed the very Heir and of this Family it was which is so very admirable where Fortune and Virtue that are so oft at odds about the Creatures they intend to raise did both concur to make the Lords thereof so very Great with so little Envy Great they were as all the greatest Dignities could make them they had been Generals in the Field Admirals at the Sea Counsellors at the Board Ambassadors abroad Commissioners in the most important Treaties and borne the greatest Offices in the Houses of their Kings but greater far in that their Noble Qualities and Virtuous Actions did deserve them so as they seemed made to adorn those Honours which might well at first have been designed to illustrate other Men. For their Descent it was several ways derived from the Beds of Kings they took Marriages from the Crown and gave Wives into the Arms of Princes Their Estates were suitable to their other Greatness and the Rewards of their Services such as became the acknowledgment of generous Princes After all which I know not what could obstruct the Lustre of this House unless it were the Malignity of Oblivion or want of Friends within the House of Fame to obviate which these short Memorials are thought fit to be Recorded by a Servant and honourer of their Descendants THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Surrey Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter CHAPTER I. THOMAS HOWARD who was afterward the Second Duke of Norfolk from whom more immediately the Howards of Effingham do Descend being the greatest and most happy Subject of his time it were not amiss for example sake to shew by what Education and Practices he became fit for such a Fortune for he was certainly the Son of Virtue and Chance or Favour had little share in his Prosperity He was by a prudent Father as soon as he was fit for Study committed to the severity of the Schools to the end a great Spirit under discipline might be acquainted with the moderations that are to be used in the course of Humane Life as that he should apply himself to obtain the Favour of the Muses whose Graces if he could acquire they would certainly be to him of use or comfort in every Fortune After he had such a tincture of Letters as was necessary for a Man that was neither design'd for the Pulpit nor the Bar the Lord Howard his Father sent him out of the Country where there was little improvement to be made besides enabling himself in the conduct of mean Sports or meaner Inclinations He addressed him to the Court where he was soon received in the quality of Page or Henchman to King Edward the Fourth continuing there till he came to Mans estate in perpetual practice of those Exercises that are necessary to fit a Man for the Knowledge and use of Arms of all which when he was become a Master he was ambitious to shew his Learning upon a proper Stage And hearing that the Duke of Burgundy one of the nearest and most considerable Allies of the Crown of England was undertaking a War against Lewis the Eleventh at that time King of France He begged leave of the King his Master to go into that Service in Company of other considerable Gentlemen of his own Country who desired to gain Knowledge and Experience in that great Art to be the better able afterward when there should be occasion to serve their own Prince and Country They were received with all the courtesie they could expect from that War-like Prince and had every Encouragement young Adventurers could pretend to in such an undertaking The young Howard did particularly advance into the Favour of the Duke by his extraordinary application to what he came for being the first in every occasion that could possibly gain him either Honor or Experience And thus he continued in this Service till the end of that War at which time he returned home to his own King loaden with the Rewards and Praises of the Duke of Burgundy King Edward as well for the desert of the Young Gentleman as to give Example and Encouragement to other of his Subjects for enabling themselves by such generous untertakings upon his Arrival did distinguish him by several Graces and took him into an Office at that time very considerable to be the Esquire of his Body whose duty it was to attend the King at his making ready both Morning and Evening and afterward he made him Knight He continued from thenceforth to follow King Edward in all his Fortunes he Fought by his side at the Field in Lincoln-shire at Banbury Field and was with him at Warwick when he was taken Prisoner by the Earl of that place And after the Kings escape into Flanders and that all the ways were so be-set as it was over hard for any of his Servants to get after him Sir Thomas Howard was fain to take sanctuary at Saint Johns in Colchester for the true love that he bore King Edward where he remained till the Kings Return upon which he immediately resorted to him and went with him to Barnet Field at which he was sore hurt The King after this being settled in the Throne and designing to go over into France with an Army Royal he sent thither before divers Gentlemen and having great opinion of the Conduct and Experience of Sir Thomas Howard from the Service he had seen under the Duke of Burgundy as because he had been with himself in so many Fields and Businesses he commanded him to go over with them that nothing might be done without his Advice till the Kings own Arrival And when King Edward and King Lewis met at the Barriers upon the River of Somme the said Sir Thomas Howard was with King Edward by the King's Commandment in that Occasion and no Man else save only the Chancellor of England the Chancellor of France and Sir Thomas Cheyny Sir John Howard the Father of Sir Thomas had before this been made Lord Howard and lived always exercised in the greatest Employments having just pretentions to the Honors and Lands of the Great and Antient House of Mowbray as Son and Heir to Margaret the Eldest Daughter to Thomas Mowbray the last Duke of Norfolk But Sir Thomas Howard his Son of whom we Treat having acquired noble Possessions of his own by his Services and his Wife's Inheritance who was Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney did about this time desire the King's leave to retire from Court which having obtained he came into Norfolk and dwelt during the rest of King Edward's days at a House of his Wife 's called Ashwoldsthorpe where he kept an honourable House in favour of the whole Shire The Lord Howard his Father being yet alive and so continuing many Years after What was the inducement to this retreat is still uncertain but it is constant that the last Years of King Edward were so full of Faction
between the power of the Queen and her Kindred and the Ambition of his Brothers as it was not strange that Wise Men should desire to withdraw from the difficulties of keeping well with both or the danger of disobliging either In this condition remained the House of Howard at the death of Edward the Fourth and for some time after till the Ambition of King Richard with the Arts and Practices subservient thereunto had through Blood and Violence made way unto the Crown and that the Young King was destroyed with his Brother and as many of the great Lords as were like to have taken part with the unhappy Prince The new King after this being one of the most Politick as well as the most daring Princes in the World was not ignorant of the ill Actions he had committed nor of the consequences they were like to have he knew all the Friends he could make would be little enough to sustain him against the potent Enemies he had created And therefore he made it now his business to gain among the Nobles and among the People every Man that had Parts or Interests suitable to his occasions To this end knowing the Lord Howard and his Son had from the latter Years of King Edward been retired from the Court not oversatisfied and in no good Correspondence with the Queens Kindred which he had been forced to suppress He thought from the great interest they had and their exceeding reputation for Wisdom and Valour they were the sittest persons to be gained and the likeliest to adhere to him of any other He therefore invited them to Court and as an earnest of his Favour and dependance he created the Father Duke of Norfolk with the restitution of the Lands of his Mother's Inheritance and makes the Son at the same time Earl of Surrey They were also from thenceforth the chief in all his Councils and with this proceeding he captivates their grateful Hearts and makes them resolve to stand by him in every Fortune After King Richard had Reigned two years in all the endeavours that could be practised by a Wise Ruler to get his faults to be forgotten and to oblige his People by doing Justice and making good Laws and favouring particulars as far as was in his power he found notwithstanding from every part Clouds a-gathering in order to a Storm Abroad the Earl of Richmond sought for Aid at Home the Duke of Buckingham and other great Lords prepared to assist him In fine towards the end of the Second Year of his Reign that Earl Landed in England and at last the King was forced to see his Crown set at Com-promise in the Fortune of a Bloody Battel at Bosworth was the Fatal Field whereat this Criminal King was as prodigal of his own Blood as he had been of other Mens All that could be performed by the conduct of a Captain or the Valour of a Souldier he put in practice to save that Crown which had cost so many Crimes And when by the overthrow of some Troops and desertion of others he found it could not be as one that scorned to out-live his Power and his Fortune he threw himself into the Arms of Death as the only refuge against humane miseries John Duke of Norfolk his faithful Friend and Subject with his Son the Earl of Surrey Fought both this day in behalf of their Benefactor and the Duke who led on the Archers and had his post at the head of the Foot was there slain upon the place in performing that duty to which he was called by his Honor and his Gratitude The Earl toward the end of the day overcome by his own Valour which had spent his strength and spirits in continual exercise of Heroick Actions but that disdained to save his Life by flying from the Fortune of his Friends was taken by his Enemies and brought a Prisoner to the Victorious King The Earl of Surrey was at this time in the vigor of his youth Tall Strong and Graceful of a flourishing Health and Constitution and esteemed one of the best Men of Arms of that Age He was of a high Spirit but had a sober Aspect and was nothing dejected by his ill Fortune King Henry was surprized though not undelighted with the sight of a Man so extraordinary and after having said some thing to the other Prisoners of Quality he called for the Earl and ask'd him How he durst engage in the Service of so Vnjust and Cruel a Tyrant To whom the Earl Replied That King Richard was in the Throne before he came into his Interest and if he had found the Crown of England upon a Bush he would have Fought for it The King did not seem exasperated with so bold an Answer and with the rest he did dismiss him to the charge of those in whose custody he was to be conveyed to the Tower Within these fatal Walls which seemed built for the restraint of Hero's the Earl of Surrey was detained Three Years During which Imprisonment he often with gratitude acknowledged the Goodness and Care of the Duke his Father who had given him such a share of Learning as did enable him during that solitude to divert himself with the Records and Notions of Philosophy and other useful and esteemable Studies He had acquiesced in the determination of Heaven and the destruction of his Master who leaving no Heir to pretend a right to his farther Services this Earl did believe he might well submit to his Authority whom God had made a Conqueror who was now Crown'd and whose Royal Virtues did deserve that he should Reign He therefore refused all the invitations were made him by the King's Enemies and the Malecontents of that time of which there were many and those very potent to enter into the intriegues of their Faction He would not hear of the Dutchess of Burgundy nor of the Earl of Lincoln And when a great Consternation arose upon that Prince's Invasion and the Armies approach towards Stoake in Lincoln-shire in order to Fight with the King and his Forces the Lieutenant of the Tower offer'd the Earl his Liberty to have gone where he pleased but he generously refused it and said He would never leave to be a Prisoner but by his consent that had thought him worthy of such a punishment And so he continued till the King's return from the Battel of Stoake who having been informed of his submissive and modest behaviour during so long an Imprisonment and of the other great Capacities of the Earl which would render him very useful to any Prince that should imploy him he took him out of the Tower and made him one of his Privy-Council being as Polidore the Historian says Vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa In the Fourth Year of this King he was restored by Act of Parliament to the Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands that were of his Wife's Inheritance But after this he began to be set at the head of
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
to Sir Edward Stafford of Grafton Knight Secondly Mary first to Edward Lord Dudley afterwards to Richard Montpession Esquire Thirdly Frances to Edward Earl of Hertford Fourthly Martha to Sir George Bourchier Knight Third Son to John Earl of Bath And Fifthly Katharine who died young And departing this Life at Hampton-Court 11. Jan. 15. Eliz. was honourably Buried at Rygate in Surrey upon the 29th of the same Month. A Patent whereby Queen Mary does create William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor Archiepiscopis Episcopis Ducibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciarils Vicecomitibus Praepositis Ministris omnibus Ballivis Fidelibus suis salutem Cum enim praeteritorum Magnifica gesta Principum saltem qui sua Industria atque Virtute famam nobis reliquere Immortalem ad mentem revocemus nil Prudentius nil laude Dignius pro prospero atque Felici ipsorum Statu Salute securoque Successu eos fecisse arbitramur qui quando Fideles Diligentes strenuosque suos servientes Facultatibus Regimine Honore condigne remunerari caeterisque praeferre decreverint sicque sua iis Beneficia juxta eorum Virtutes atque Merita benignè conferre curarunt Nos eorum mores imitantes non solum Nobilitatem atque Constantiam imo probitatem ac in Armis strenuitatem caeterasque virtutes Domini Willielmi Howard militis nostri intime dilecti non modica cum deliberatione maturè considerantes ipsum Willielmum Howard in Baronum Parliamenti Regni nostri Angliae ex mero motu gratiaque nostris ordinavimus deputavimus creavimus constituimus prout per praesentes ordinamus deputamus creamus constituimus atque titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham locumque in singulis Parliamentis infra idem Regnum nostrum Angliae posthac celebrandis caeteraque jura Privilegiaque nostra ipsius Regni Baronibus ejusdem ex Lege consuetudine aliove quovis pacto pertinentia eidem Willielmo damus concedimus eisque ipsum adeo liberè amplè uti gaudere sicut unquam aliquis Baro hujus Regni nostri usus fuit aut debuit volumus habendum hujusmodi statum titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham praedicta atque locum in Parliamentis praedictis ac caetera praemissa praefato Willielmo haeredibus suis masculis de corpore suo excuntibus in perpetuum eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore animi aut de certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Willielmo ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime factum existit Aliquo statuto actu ordinatione provisione sive restrictione inde in contrarium ante haec editis factis seu ordinatis seu provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quaqunque in aliquo non obstante his testibus Reverend ' in Christo Patre ac praedilecto fideli Conciliario nostro Stephano Wintoniensi Episcopo summo nostro Angliae Cancellario charissimis consanguineis Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Marchione Winton praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Thesaurario nostro Angliae Henrico Comite Arundel praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Domino senescallo Hospitii nostri Johanne Comite Bedford praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Custode privati sigilli nostri Henrico Comite Sussex Willielmo Comite Pembroke praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite praedilectis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Domino Paget de Bewdesert praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Reverendo in Christo Patre Cutberto Dunelmens Episcopo Johanne Gage praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Domino Camerario nostro Roberto Rotchester Milite contrarotulatore Hospitii nostri Henrico Jernynham Milite Vicecamerario nostro Willielmo Petre Milite uno Primariorum Secretariorum nostorum Johanne Bourne Milite altero Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium undecimo die Martii Anno Regni nostri primo per ipsam Reginam Sigillum Eden Herbert's History of Henry the Eighth pag. 535. BUT it rested not here for the Lord William Howard the Queen's Uncle newly returned from an Embassage in France and his Wife and the old Dutchess of Norfolk and divers of the Queen's and the said Dutchess's Kindred and Servants and a Butter-Wife were Indicted of Misprision of Treason as concealing this Fact and condemned to perpetual Prison though yet by the King's Favour some of them were at length Released Commission of Queen Mary To be High Admiral of England MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina omnibus ad quos c. Salutem Sciatis quod nos ob certas causas considerationes nos specialiter moventes ac in consideratione boni veri fidelis Servitii per dilectum Conciliarium nostrum Willielmum Howard Militem Dominum Howard de Effingham ante haec tempora facti impensi de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard officium magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem Villae nostrae in Cales ac Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum ac ipsum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum nostrarum eorundem Villae nostrae Cales Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum necnon praefectum generalem Classis Marium dictorum Regnorum nostrorum Angliae Hiberniae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem fecimus constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes facimus constituimus ordinamus Et ulterius sciatis quod nos de Gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae praefecto Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum omnia omnimodas jurisdictiones autoritates libertates officia feoda proficua vadia emolumenta wrecum maris maris ejectum regardia advantagia commoditates praeminentia quaecunque eidem officio magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae ac aliorum locorum Dominiorum praedictorum qualitercunque spectantia pertinentia sive incumbentia vel aliquo modo ab antiquo perantea debita sive consueta necnon tam bona catalla quorumcunque praedictorum piratorum homicidarum felonum qualitercunque infra nostram jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae Angliae inferius limitatam delinquentium quam bona debita catalla omnium singulorum eorum manutenentium accessariorum consulentium auxiliantium vel assistentium quorumcunque
Elizabeth in English Pag. 516. NOT many days passed before a far greater and more choice Army was raised in England into which many Noblemen and Gentlemen voluntarily listed themselves For a constant rumor grew every day stronger and stronger That the Spaniard with all his might and main prepared for War against England and Ireland encouraged the rather because he was now in possession of Calice from whence it was but a short cut over into England Hawkin's and Drake's voyage had had ill success and the Irish Rebels earnestly urged the succours out of Spain The queen to scatter this Storm that was gathering supposed it the best course to set upon the Enemy in his own Ports and to that end rigged a Fleet of 150 Ships whereof 17 were of her Navy-Royal 22 Low-Country Ships which the Confederate Estates joyned with hers the rest Pinnaces and Victualers In these were 6360 Souldiers under pay Volunteer Gentlemen 1000 Seamen 6772 besides Low-Country-men Robert Earl of Essex and Charles Howard Lord Admiral of England who were at great Charges towards this expidition out of their own Estates were made Commanders in chief with equal Authority under the title of Generals yet so as the Lord Admiral should have the principal Authority and Dignity at Sea the Earl of Essex at Land To these were joyned for a Council of War the Lord Thomas Howard Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Francis Vere Sir George Carew and Sir Coniers Clifford The whole Fleet was divided into four Squadrons the first the Lord Admiral commanded the Earl of Essex the second the Lord Thomas Howard the third and Sir Walter Raleigh the fourth The Officers of the Army were Sir Francis Vere Lieutenant-General or Marshal Sir John Wingfield Quarter-master-general Sir George Carew Master of the Ordnance Sir Coniers Clifford Serjant-major The Colonels were Robert Earl of Sussex Sir Christopher Blunt Sir Thomas Gerrard Sir Richard Wingfield Sir Edward Wingfield Captain of the Volunteers and Anthony Astley Secretary of the Council of War who was to register the Councels with every Man's Reasons and to record all their Actions and Enterprises Again out of the same Pag. 518. UPON Sunday the 20th of June betimes in the Morning they cast Anchor near Saint Sebastian's Chappel on the West side of the Island Essex full of courage and youthful heat was of opinion That the Forces were presently to be Landed Raleigh and especially the Lord Admiral were of a contrary mind which Lord never approved of rash and heady Councels yet upon much intreaty he consented that some should make trial Whether they could conveniently Land there but all in vain the Sea beating violently with vast Waves upon the Shoar Again out of the same Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Chanal could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Eight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son In the Miranora they Fought smartly from break of day till noon when the Spaniards their Galleons being shot through and through and miserably torn and many Men slain in them resolved to fire their Ships or run them a ground Many of the Seamen for fear cast themselves over-board some whereof got to the shoar some were taken some drowned others as they swam cried for Quarter and the Admiral pitying them many of them were saved Again out of the same Pag. 520. AT the same instant almost the Lord Admiral with the Lord Thomas Howard Sir William Paget Raleigh Sir Robert Southwell Richard Levison Philip Woodhouse Robert Mansfield and the Sea-men Sir Edward Hobby bearing the Flag before them following hastily entred the Town Now did the Spaniards give over Fighting and retired into the Castle and Town-house The Town-house was presently yielded the other the next day after upon these conditions That the Citizens should depart in safety with the Garments they wore and the rest should go to the Souldiers for pillage That 520000 Ducats should be paid for their ransom and for the payment thereof Forty of the principal Citizens should be sent as hostages into England Shortly after Proclamation was made That no Man should offer violence to the Spaniards The Women Church-men and Citizens were conveyed to Porta Santa Maria. Again out of the same Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl Sussex Count Lodowick of Nassan Don Christophero a Portuguese King Antonio's Son Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill Edwin Rich Richard Levison Anthony Astley Henry Lennard Horace Vere Arthur Throgmorton Miles Corbet Edward Conway Oliver Lambert Anthony Cook John Townsend Christopher Heydon Francis Popham Philip Woodhouse Alexander Clifford Morrice Barkley Charles Blunt George Gifford Robert Cross James Scudamore Vrian Leigh John Lea Richard Weston Richard Wainman James Wotton Richard Rudal Robert Mansell William Mounson John Bowles Edward Bowes Humphrey Druell Amias Preston Robert Remington Alexander Ratcliffe John Buck John Morgan John Aldrige William Ashinden Matthew Brown Thomas Acton Thomas Gates John Stafford Gillie Merrick Thomas Smith William Pooly Thomas Palmer John Lovell John Gilbert William Harvey John Grey John Vanduvenvord Melchior Lebben Peter Regemort Nicholas Medkirk A Patent constituting Charles Lord Howard of Effingham Earl of Nottingham ELizabetha Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina c. Universis singulis Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vice-comitibus Episcopis Baronibus ac omnibus aliis ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Cum hi quos divina providentia in Monarchia Regali solio constituit collocavit ut in terris quasi Vicarii coelestis illius Majestatis benè justè piè decent salutariter praesint regno atque quaecunque suae custodiae gubernationi regimini divinitùs mandatae commissae sunt Ipsique monarchae in monarchia sua idem repraesentant quod oculi in corpore quorum officium est dirigere omnia corporis membra ita summi monarchae principes tanquam oculi reipublicae intentivè circumspicere perlustare debeant omnes status ordines imperii sui sine quibus haud dubiè nullam civilem administrationem nullam politiae gubernationem institui aut fieri posse fatendum est Atque usque necessaria est ordinum in magnis imperiis conservatio postquam viderint statum ordinem nobilitatis temporis diuturnitate antiquitate vel aliter convulsum immunitum conquassatum aut ut multa humaniter accidunt morte afflictum debilitatum maturè resarcire instaurare augere amplificare ita quòd aliis quos cum virtutis suae tum generis majorum suorum gloria nobilitavit ad nobilitatem honorem accitis ordinem statum in nitore splendore suo perpetuatim conservent Jam idcirco videntes illustrem ordinem
Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. between the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath Sir Oliver Luke of Hawnes in the County of BEdford Knight and Sir Samuel Luke of Woodend in the said County of Bedford Knight of the other part Witnesseth That the said Countess Dowager for the settling of the Mannor and Lands hereafter mentioned in the Name and Blood of her the said Countess And in consideration of the summ of Five shillings of lawful Money of England to her in hand paid by the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke whereof she acknowledgeth the receipt and for divers other good causes and considerations her the said Countess hereunto especially moving hath Granted Bargained Aliened Sold Enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Alien Sell Enfeoffe and Confirm unto the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke all that the Mannor of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh in the County of Surrey with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and all Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Commons Wasts Warrens Courts Court-Leet view of Frankpledge Privileges Goods of Felons Deodands Franchises Profits Emoluments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Mannor belonging or appertaining or as part parcel or member thereof commonly accepted reputed taken or known and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of her the said Countess Dowager scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh aforesaid Godstone Cateram and Horne or any of them in the said County of Surrey To Have and to Hold the said Mannor Lands and Premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke their Heirs and Assigns for ever to the use behoof intents and purposes and with upon and under such limitations as are hereafter in and by these presents limited expressed and declared and to and for no other use intent meaning or purpose whatsoever That is to say To the Use of the said Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow for and during the Term of her Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after her Decease then to the Use and Behoof of Henry Earl of Peterborow Son and Heir Apparent of the said Countess for and during the Term of Fourscore and nineteen Years if the said Earl of Peterborow shall so long live without Impeachment of Wast And afterwards to the Use of the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke for the Life of the said Earl of Peterborow upon Trust and to the intent that the Contingent Remainders herein after limited may not be prevented defeated or destroyed without the Consent of the said Countess And nevertheless That the said Earl of Peterborow may have and receive the Rents and Profits of the said Mannor and Premises for the term of his Life And after the Decease of the said Earl of Peterborow to the Use of the Daughter or Daughters and Younger Son or Sons of the Body of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten And of and for such Estate and Estates either in Fee Simple Fee Tail for Life or Lives or Years or otherwise of the said Mannor and Premises and every or any Part or Parcel thereof And to the intent that such Son or Sons Daughter or Daughters may have and receive such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money out of the Premises or any Part thereof as the said Earl of Peterborow at any time during his Life by any Writing or Writings under his Hand and Seal testified by Two or more Witnesses shall limit and appoint And for Default of such Limitation and Appointment or as the Estates so limited shall respectively end and determine and charged or chargeable with such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money as shall be so limited Then to the Use and Behoof of the First Son of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Second Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Second Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Third Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Third Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of the Fourth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fourth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Fifth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fifth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of all and every such other Son or Sons of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten as they shall be in Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs of their several and respective Bodies lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of the Daughter or Daughters of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of such Daughter or Daughters lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Esq Second Son of the said Countess for and during the term of his Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after his Decease then to the use and behoof of the First Son of the said John Mordaunt lawfully to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully to be begotten And for default
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
Assigns to pay yearly to the said Silvester Twenty Pounds for his finding at the pleasure and liberty of the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns And it is further Agreed between the said Parties that where the said Dame Anne alloweth to the said Lord Mordaunt in the price of the Marriage of the said Silvester One Hundred Marks for and towards the finding of the said Silvester his Wife and Children during the Non-age of the said Silvester over and beside the said Six hundred Marks which the said Lord Mordaunt hath paid and is bound to pay to the said Dame Anne as before appeareth For the said Marriage the said Lord Mordaunt Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That if it fortune the said Dame Anne to die and decease within the space of Three Years next after the date hereof whereby the said Silvester and Elizabeth his Wife shall have Lands and Tenements in the County of Cornwall to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds as by this Indenture it doth appear That then the said Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall content and pay or cause to be contented and paid to the Executors or Assigns of the said Dame Anne yearly Ten Pounds during as many of the said Three Years as shall remain after the decease of the said Dame Anne as is aforesaid In witness c. A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we be informed that the Pestilent Idol Enemy of all Truth and Usurpator of Princes the Bishop of Rome perceiving his most detestable doings to begin now to appear to all our good Subjects which fully minded in his Rage do seek all the ways to him possible to Rob and Spoil this our Realm as heretofore he hath accustomed and to Invert the good Religion of the same with the Torment and Disherison of all our good Subjects We let you witt That intending to put the same our Realm both by Sea and Land in such a readiness as shall be necessary towards his Malicious and Devilish purpose which by all meanes he laboureth to Cloak and Colour pretending only in Words the advancement of true Religion without any the disturbance of our People to the intent he may blind their honest and simple Eyes and so the more easily compass his most Cruel and Devilish Enterprize We have among other our loving Subjects appointed you to furnish unto us to do us service on the Sea the number of Forty able Persons And therefore we will and desire you that immediately upon the sight hereof ye will furnish unto us the said number whereof as many of them to be Archers and Gunners as you can make well Harnished to do us service as before and the same to be in a readiness with Habiliments meet for them upon one hours warning whensoever our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Southampton our Admiral of England shall by his Letters give you admonition or call for the same and in the mean time with all diligence to make unto him your Certificate of the same your number whereby you shall deserve our hearty thanks Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Seventh day of April A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And cannot a little marvel to hear that notwithstanding our sundry Advertisements lately made unto you for the doing of your Duty and such Office and Administration as in our Common-Wealth is committed to you and others the said Justices of the Peace within this our said Realm many things be nevertheless rather directed at will and pleasure than either upon any just Contemplation of Justice or with any regard to the good Admonitions which heretofore we have set forth for the Advancement of the same Minding yet once again before we shall correct the Leudness of the Offendors in this behalf with any Extremities of the Law to give a new general Admonition to the intent no Man shall have colour of Excuse by Ignorance we have thought meet to write these our Letters unto you and every of you of all Sorts and Degrees and by the same to desire and pray you yet nevertheless to Charge and Command you upon your duties of Allegiance That for the repairing of all things negligently passed and then avoiding of all such danger as may for lack thereof happen unto you you shall have special care and study to the due and just Observation of the Points following First We have with our great Study Travel and Labour expelled the Usurped Power of Rome with all the Branches and Dependents upon the same Our pleasure is That you shall have principal regard that the privy Maintainers of that Papistical Faction may be tried out and brought to Justice for by sundry Arguments it is evident to us That there wanteth not a number that in that matter and dependances of the same retain their old feigned Fantasies and Superstitions muttering in Corners as they dare to the maintenance and upholding of it what Countenance so ever they shew outward for the avoiding of danger of Law those kind of Men we would have tried out as the most Cankered and Venomous Worms that be in our Common-Wealth both for that they be apparent Enemies to God and manifest Traitors unto us and to our whole Realm Workers of Mischief and Sedition within the same Secondly You shall have vigilant Eye That all Raisers of Bruits and Rumors that may in any wise touch Us our Honour or Surety or touch the State of our Realm or the Mutation of any Law or Custom thereof may be apprehended and punished to the Example of others disposed to the like Evil. Thirdly You shall have special regard That all Sturdy Vagabond and Valiant Beggars may be punished according to the Statute lately made for that purpose your default in the Execution whereof proceeding upon an inconsiderate Piety to one evil person without respect of the great Multitude that live in honest and lawful sort hath bred no small Inconvenience in our Common-Wealth And to the intent you may more exactly put this Statute in Execution where by the Statute it is appointed that Common-watches shall be kept from the Ascension-tide till Michaelmas Our pleasure is That you shall not only see the said Watches duely and substantially kept according to the limitation of the said Statute but also that you shall continue the said Watches for this Year till Allhallowtide Having also special regard That if any Remissions or Resistance shall chance to be made upon any Watches or other Officers the Offendors therein may be produced to Justice for their condign Punishment Fourthly Our Pleasure and most dread Commandment is That all respects set
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
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
Three and fiftieth Young Pye Per breve de privato Sigillo In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno xviij Regis nunc Jacobi videliâ—et inter Recorda de termino Paschae rotulo ex parte Remem Thesauri reman intratum A Deed of Jointure made for the Countess of Peterburgh before Marriage THis Indenture Tripartite made the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Years of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith that is to say of England France and Ireland the Nineteenth and of Scotland the Four and fiftieth Between the Right Honourable Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Baron of Turvey on the first part the Right Honourable Lady Anne Howard of Effingham and Sir Francis Fane of Apethorp in the County of Northampton Knight and Sir Oliver Luke of Woodend in the County of Bedford Knight on the second part and Henry Lovell of Blechmichleigh in the County of Surrey Esquire and Henry Stanley of the Inner-Temple London Esquire of the third part Witnesseth That whereas there is a Marriage intended and agreed by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Lord Mordaunt and Elizabeth Howard Sole Daughter and Heir of William Lord Howard of Effingham deceased and Heir apparent of the said Lady Anne Howard in consideration whereof and for the love and affection which he the said Lord Mordaunt doth bear unto the said Elizabeth Howard in case she survive and over-live the said Lord Mordaunt and for the making and providing a competent Jointure and Livelihood to the said Elizabeth Howard in case she survive and over-live the said Lord Mordaunt fit for her Honour and Degree and for setling and continuing of the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments hereafter in these Presents expressed to continue in the Issues Name and Blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it please God as hereafter in these Presents is mentioned He the said John Lord Mordaunt for himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth Covenant Grant Promise and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns and every of them by these Presents That he the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs at their or some of their own proper Costs and Charges in the Law in this side or before the Feast of Pentecost commonly called Whitsontide next ensuing the date hereof shall and will acknowledge and levy one or more Fine or Fines with Proclamations according to the Statute in that Case provided before the King's Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster in due form of Law according to the common course of Fines in such Cases used unto the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and the Heirs of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley of all those his Maners of Drayton Islip Ringsted Furnels in Raundes Addington Slipton and Luffwick in the County of Northampton with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances and of the Capital Messuage or Mansion-House of Drayton aforesaid with the Appurtenances and of the Rectories or Parsonages of Slipton Denford and Ringsted and of the Rectory of Luffwick in the said County of Northampton with their and every of their Appurtenances and of all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt lying and being in the several Towns Parishes and Hamlets of Drayton Ringsted Islip Raundes Addington Slipton Luffwick and Denford in the County of Northampton and of all the Rights Members Royalties and Appurtenances to the said Maners Parsonages Lands or Tenements or any of them in any wise appertaining or belonging and of all that his Maner or Farm of Kemston-burn in the County of Bedford with all the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereto appertaining and of all those his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments being Freehold in Cranfield in the said County of Bedford By which Fine or Fines with Proclamations he the said Lord Mordaunt shall acknowledge the said Maners Parsonages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances by such name or names and by such quantity and number of Acres as shall be meet and convenient to be the Right of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley as those which the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley have of the gift of the said Lord Mordaunt and shall remise and quit claim to the same from him and his Heirs to the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and the Heirs of them the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley with Warranty against him the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs and all claiming from by or under them or any of them Which Fine or Fines in form aforesaid or in any other manner to be levied and all other Fine or Fines which shall be of the Premises or any part thereof levied by the said Lord Mordaunt to the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley or either of them on this side the said Feast of Pentecost shall be and enure and shall be deemed and taken to be and enure and the said Cognizees therein their Heirs and Assigns shall from and immediately after the levying and engrossing of the said Fine or Fines stand and be seized of all the said Maners Parsonages and Premises and of every part and parcel thereof to the use of the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley and of their Heirs for ever To the only intent and purpose That the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley shall stand and be adjudged perfect Tenants of the Freehold of the said Maners and other the Premises and of every part thereof until a perfect Recovery may be lawfully had and executed of the Maners and Premises against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley And the said Lord Mordaunt for himself his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors and Assigns That the above-named Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke shall and may before the said Feast of Pentecost at the proper Costs and Charges in the Law of him the said Lord Mordaunt Commence and Prosecute one or more Writs of Entry Sur disseisin in le post against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley retornable before the King's Majesty's Justices of his Highness's Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster according to the usual course of common Recoveries whereby they shall demand against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley the said Maners Parsonages Lands and other the Premises by such name and names number and quantity of Acres as shall be thought meet and requisite Unto which Writ or Writs the said Henry Lovel and Henry Stanley shall appear in proper person or by their Attorney or Attornies lawfully authorised and shall Vouch to Warranty the said Lord Mordaunt And the said Lord Mordaunt agreeth That he shall appear in proper person upon the same Voucher or by
otherwise saved and kept harmless from time to time of and from all Titles Estates Troubles Charges and other Incumbrances whatsoever had made suffered or done by the said Lady Anne Howard or any claiming by from or under her or by her means assent or procurement the Leases now in being which she according to the liberty and power annexed to her Estate hath made only foreprized and excepted In witness whereof to the first part of these Presents with the said Lady Anne Howard Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley remaining the said John Lord Mordaunt hath put his Hand and Seal and to the second part of these Presents with the said Lord Mordaunt Henry Lovel and Henry Stanley remaining the said Lady Anne Howard Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke have put their Hands and Seals and to the third part remaining with the said Lord Mordaunt Lady Anne Howard Sir Francis Fane Sir Oliver Luke the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley have put to their Hands and Seals the Day and Year above-written J. Mordaunt Charta Caroli primi Regis constituendo Johannem Dominum Mordaunt Comitem de Peterborow CArolus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Archiepiscopis Ducibus Marchionibus Comitibus Vicecomitibus Episcopis Baronibns Militibus Praepositis liberis Hominibus ac omnibus Officiariis Ministris ac Subditis nostris quibuscunque ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Nihil magis Regium esse censemus quà m qui se inter Proceres Regni tùm Virtutum cumulo tùm Generis splendore eminentiores ad praeclara Regi officia fideliter praestandi assiduos promptiores se exhibent eos ad altiores honorum gradus libentius evehere tum ut illi qui se sic honoratos sentiant majori conatu animo alacriori indies ad res optimè gerendas se proniùs accingant tùm ut alii eorum exemplo freti acrius contendant se dignores reddere favorem Principis sui intensiorem augusta virtutum praemia tà m reverà mereri quà m feliciter exequi Inde est quod nos intuitu Regio personam pernobilis Johannis Mordaunt Baronis Mordaunt de Turveia pensiculatius contemplantes eumque tà m suipsius quà m majorum nobilitate eaque non minus vera quam vetusta conspicientes Ita etiam eximiis animi Dotibus quae virum praestantissimum constituunt insigniter praeditum agnoscimus egregia scilicet morum Suavitate Prudentia justè temperata cum Gravitate Judicii acumine quibus inprimis accedit ut demum ea quae singularem in eum nostri Favorem Gratiam peperere apertius profiteamur obsequiosi sed ejusmodi qui virum optimum Principis sui amantissimum decuit animi constans fidelissimum officium tum erga praecharissimum gloriosae memoriae Patrem nostrum tum ergo nos ipsos qui tanti nunquam sane intermissi amoris fideique meritum non magis non remunerare possumus quam ejusdem esse planè immemores Quocirca ne Viro undequaque nobilissmo tam multipliciter merenti virtutis praemium honoris incrementum condignum ut par est adiiceremus eundem Johannem Mordaunt Baronem Mordaunt de Turveia ad celsiorem Dignitatis gradum scilicet ad Comitis titulum statum honorem gradum evehendum duximus censuimus Sciatis igitur quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia ac mero motu nostris praefatum Johannem Baronem Mordaunt de Turveia praedicta ad statum dignitatem stilum titulum honorem Comitis de Peterborow in Comitatu nostro de Northampton ereximus praefecimus creavimus ipsumque Johannem Comitem de Peterborow praedicta facimus constituimus praeficimus creamus per praesentes eidemque Johanni nomen statum gradum stilum dignitatem titulum honorem Comitis de Peterborow praedicta imposuimus dedimus praebuimus ac per praesentes imponimus damus ac praebemus ac ipsum Johannem hujusmodi nomine statu gradu stilo dignitate titulo honore Comitis de Peterborow per gladii Cincturam cape honoris ac Circuli aureii impositionem insignimus investimus realiter nobilitamus per praesentes Habendum tenendum eadem nomen statum gradum stilum dignitatem titulum honorem Comitis de Peterborow praedicta cum omnibus singulis Praeheminentiis Honoribus caeterisque hujusmodi nomini statui gradui stilo dignitati titulo honori Comitis pertinentibus sive spectantibus praefato Johanni Haeredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus in perpetuum Volentes per praesentes concedentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris quod praedictus Johannes haeredes sui masculi praedicti nomen statum gradum stilum dignitatem titulum honorem praedicta successive gerant hâ—beant eorum quilibet habeat gerat per nomen Comites de Peterborow successive vocentur nuncupentur eorum quilibet vocetur nuncupetur Et quod idem Johannes haeredes sui masculi praedicti successive Comitis de Peterborow in omnibus teneantur ut Comites tractentur reputentur eorum quilibet teneatur tractetur reputatur Habeantque teneant possideant dictus Johannes haeredes sui masculi praedicti eorum quilibet habeat teneat possideat Sedem Locum Vocem in Parlamentis publicis Comitiis atque Conciliis nostris haeredum successorum nostrorum infra Regnum nostrum Angliae inter alios Comites ut Comes de Peterborow Necnon dictus Johannes haeredes sui masculi praedicti gaudeant utantur eorum quilibet gaudeat utatur per nomen Comitis de Peterborow omnibus singulis talibus Juribus Privilegiis Preheminentiis Immunitatibus statui Comitis in omnibus rite de jure pertinentibus quibus caeteri Comites dicti Regni nostri Angliae ante haec tempora melius honorificentius quietius usi sunt gavisi seu in praesenti gaudent utuntur Et quia crescente status dignitatis celsitudine necessario crescunt sumptus onera grandiora ut idem Johannes haeredes sui masculi praedicti meliùs decentiùs honorificentiùs statum praedicti Comitis de Peterborow onera ipsi Johanni haeredibus suis masculis incumbentia manutenere supportare valeant eroum quilibet valeat Ideo de uberiori gratia nostra dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus praefato Johanni haeredibus suis masculis praedictis in perpetuum Feodum seu annualem Redditum Viginti librarum praefato Johanni haeredibus suis masculis praedictis de Exitibus Proficuis Reventionibus magnae parvae Custumae Subsidii nostri nobis concessis seu debitis seu in posterum
supervidendum Ac etiam ad proclamandum ordinandum diligenter examinandum quod omnes finguli hujusmodi homines ad arma ac homines armati sagittarii in monstris hujusmodi armaturis propriis non alienis armentur sub pena amissionis eorundem exceptis duntaxat illis qui ad expensas aliorum armari debent ut praedictum est ad omnes singulos quos in hac parte inveneritis contrarios sea rebelles arrestandum capiendum ac eos in prisonis nostris committendum in iisdem moraturos quousque de eorum punitione aliter duxerimus ordinandum Et ideo vobis districtius quo possumus super fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemim injungimus mandamus quod statim visis praesentibus vos ipsos melius securius quo poteritis arraiari parari coram nobis ad ipsos dies loca quo videritis magis competentes expedientes pro populo nostro minus damnosas Et omnes homines in patria commorantes per quos arraiatio hujusmodi melius fieri compleri poterit venire vocari facias arraiari armari muniri eos sic armatos munitos in arraiatione hujusmodi teneri facias Et insuper figna vocata Bekins poni facias in locis consuetis per quae gentes patriae de adventu rebellium praedictorum poterunt congruis temporibus praemuniri Ac eosdem homines sic arraiatos munitos cum periculum imminuerit in defensione regni patriae praedictae de tempore in tempus tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi magis necesse fuerit duci facies Ita quod pro defectu defensionis arraiationis sive ductionis dictorum hominum vel per negligentiam vestram damna patriae praedictae per rebelles praedictos a modo non eveniat ullo modo pro posse vestro Damus autem universis singulis Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Justiciariis Pacis Majoribus Ballivis Constabulariis Ministris aliis Fidelibus ligeis nostris Comitatus praedicti tam infra libertates quam extra tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatum quod nobis in omnibus singulis praemissis faciendum explendum intendentes sint consulentes auxiliantes Et Vicecomiti Comitatus praedicti quod ad aptos dies loca quos ad hoc ordinaveritis venire faciat coram vobis omnes illos in Comitatu praedicto per quos arraiatio assessio ordinatio melius poterint fieri compleri Si illos quos pro rebellione sua capi arrestari contigerit in prisona nostra custodiat sicut praedictum est In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium tertio die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sextodecimo Per Dominum Custodem magni Sigilli Angliae virtute Warrantii regii Willis A Letter from King Charles the First to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow To our Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow Charles R. RIght Trusty and welbeloved Cousin we greet you well Whereas we are desirous to speak with you concerning some affairs much importing the Peace and good of this our Kingdom which being of more than ordinary consequence will admit of no delay we therefore will and command you upon your Allegiance that setting aside all other occasions whatsoever you fail not forthwith to repair hither to us when we shall acquaint you with the particular cause of our sending for you which is of that importance as is neither fit to be imparted to you by Letter nor will bear any delay or excuse And for the ready observance of this our command these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at our Court at York the Twentieth of May. 1642. My Lord I pray you fail not to make haste C. R. HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord MORDAVNT Lord Baron of Turvey Grome of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord High-Steward to the Queen Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton One of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER CHAPTER XVII A Declaration of King Charles the First against the Alienating of the Lordship and Priory of Rygate from Henry Earl of Peterborow Charles R. WHereas our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow by his Humble Petition hath represented to us That his Mother the Countess of Peterborow is seized of certain Lands whereto he is Inheritable by vertue of an Entail of the gift of the Crown and that the Reversion expectant thereof is in us And that his said Mother upon displeasure conceived against him prevailed with his Father the late Earl of Peterborow about the time of his Death to leave much of his Estate to her who now endeavours to have power to cut off the Entail of the Crown 's gift tending to his the said now Earl of Peterborow's Disinherison therein which without our consent she cannot accomplish And therefore the said Henry now Earl of Peterborow humbly prays the with-holding of our Consent therein Forasmuch as we have special cause to tender the good and advantage of the said now Earl of Peterborow and that by act of Parliament provision is made That such Entails shall not be cut off to bar the Posterity whose Advancement was thereby intended We therefore hereby declare to all and every whom it may concern our Unwillingness That the said Earl should be prejudiced in the benefit of the said Entail contrary to the intent of the Giver and of the said Parliament And we will and require our Council at Law the Clerks of our Signet and other Seals and all others whom it may concern to take knowledge of the Premises and if by any means or ways endeavours shall be used by the said Countess or others for a Reversion of the said Entail Lands that they or any of them fail not to mind us of the same whereby no Grant thereof may pass without the said Earl's notice and our more full consideration and express orders upon the same first had and obtained Given at Hampton-Court the One and twentieth Day of September 1647. A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament in the Twelfth Year of King Charles the Second CArolus secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Peterborow salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem octavo die Maii proxime futurum teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus dicti
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
in the Year that is to say At the Feast of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary St. John the Baptist and St. Michael the Archangel and the Birth of our Lord God by even and equal Portions the First payment thereof to commence and begin from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two Wherefore we do hereby require authorize and command the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of our said Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers there for the time being to make due payment of the said Annuity or yearly Pension of one thousand Pounds on the Feast-days above-mentioned And these Presents or the Inrolment thereof shall be unto them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge for the payment of the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds from time to time accordingly any Act Statute Provision Proclamation Restraint or other matter or thing heretofore had made enacted or provided to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal HOWARD Irrotulatur in Thesaurarii receptis Scaccarii Domini Regis Caroli Secundi quarto die Junii Anno Regni sui decimo quinto Rob. Long. Irrotulatur inter Recorda Domini Regis Caroli Secundi infra recepta Scaccarii sui remanentia in Officio Clerici Thesaurarii Clerici Willielmi decimo quinto die Junii 1663. Annoque Domini Regis decimo quinto W. Wardour A Commission of King Charles the Second Constituting John Earl of Exeter and Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenants of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis per quidem fidelibus Consanguineis nostris Johanni Comiti de Exeter Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam Actum in Parlamento nostro inchoato apud Westmonasterium octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo octavo ibidem tento usque ad decimum octavum diem Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo quarto abinde per separales prorogationes continuato intitulatum An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum enactitatum existit inter acta ordinaria nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Barvici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes plenam habebunt potestatem authoritatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora ac eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam in aliquibus aliis Comitatibus locis praedictis ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerunt secundum directiones quales ipsi de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem actu contentas specificatas plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parlamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem ac potestate authoritate in eodem actu contentis specificatis Nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus vos praefatum Johannem Comitem de Exeter Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentes nostros per in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae per in omnibus Comitatibus Burgis Libertatibus Locis Incorporatis Privilegiatis ac aliis locis quibuscunque infra Comitatum illum limites vel proficua ejusdem Et tenore praesentium ac virtute actus praedicti plenam potestatem authoritatem vobis damus concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per actum Parlamenti praedicti enactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentes per nos vigore illius actus nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo vobis mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parliamenti illius in hac parte procedatis ea omnia faciatis exequemini cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo Per ipsum Regem Barker Testimony of Council for the Earl of Peterborow's having been sworn in order to the Lieutenancy At the Court at Whitehall the 13th of June 1666. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Royal Highnes the DUKE of TORK Earl of Craven Earl of Lawlerdale Earl of Middeton Lord Viscoum Fitzharding Lord Arlington Lord Berkeley Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Maurice THis Day the Right honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath appointed by the Act for ordering of the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom to be taken by the Lords Lieutenants of the respective Counties and his Lordship is joined with the Right Honourable John Earl of Ezeter in the place of Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and it is ordered that the same be entred in the Register of Council causes Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall June 30. 1666. My LORD HIS Majesty being pressed by the likelihood of a speedy Invasion from abroad by the united Force of France and Holland and being assured by all his Intelligence That the Dutch have Inbarked in their Fleet now upon our Coast Sevea or Eight thousand Land-men with all Necessaries accordingly besides what they expect from the Preparations of France hath resolved among other Expedients occurring to him to raise distinct Troops of Horse to be afterwards incorporated in Regiments as he shall see cause and commanded me to transmit to your Grace this inclosed Commission recommending to you the raising of them with all possible
expedition And your Lordship being pleased to certifie me what place you will appoint for their Rendezvous his Majesty will forthwith send a Commission to Muster them when they shall amount to the number of Thirty and accordingly receive them into pay with their Officers of which I beseech your Lordship to let me be informed with all speed I am with all truth Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON Your Lordship signifying to me the Names of such Persons as you shall chuse for Officers care shall be taken for Commissions to be forthwith dispatched for them A Commission from King Charles the Second to raise a Company consisting of Fourscore Horse to be an independent Troop 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 Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing a special trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop of Horse consisting of Eighty Common Troopers besides Officers which you are hereby authorized to raise arm and diligently exercise keeping your Souldiers in good Order and Discipline Commanding them hereby to obey you as their Captain and your self to observe such Order and Directions as you shall receive from time to time from us or our General according to the discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Thirtieth Day of June in the Eighteenth Year of our Reign 1666. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Henry Earl of Peterborow AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas the present State of affairs may require the speedy Calling together of the Forces of the several Counties in order to the securing the Kingdom from Foreign Invasion the Enemy already appearing with a Fleet of Ships upon the Coast we have thought fit to give you notice thereof to the end speedy Warning may be given for all the Horse and Foot of that County to be in a readiness to march at a short notice to such place as your Lordship shall find most convenient or shall be ordered from hence for opposing the Enemy if he shall make any attempt to Land and for defence of the County And for their Encouragement and such as shall supply them for their March his Majesty hath declared his Royal pleasure and required us to signifie to your Lordship that during the said Forces continuing in Service after their Rendezvousing and marching upon the occasion aforesaid they shall be in his Majesty's pay as the rest of his Forces We are by his Majesty's directions farther to acquaint you That upon serious consideration had of the Act Intituled An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties in this Kingdom it doth appear That any of the said Forces have been formerly in actual service for a month or more and were provided with a Months pay yet nevertheless they in their Persons are to appear and serve whensoever they shall be thereto Summoned as by the said Act doth appear under penalty therein mentioned And for the easing of his Majesty's Charge we pray and require your punctual Care and Diligence in the constant Raising the Monies designed for furnishing Ammunition and other Necessaries and the Fines due from Defaulters upon the said Act and to have the same in readiness to answer Emergences and not doubting of your Lordships Compliance with these his Majesty's Commands we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court at Whitehall the Eleventh Day of June 1667. Your Lordship 's very loving Friends Bath Craven Dorchester Fitz-Harding Ashley J. Bridgwater Anglesey Lawderdale T. Clifford Arlington Will. Maurice W. Coventry R. Brown Since the writing hereof finding that your Lordship amongst some others the Lords Lieutenants of this Kingdom have failed to return to this Board a List of the several Troops and Companies of Militia in the County under your care with the numbers of them severally as you were required We do pray and require your Lordship the next Post after the receipt hereof as you tender the Safety of his Majesty's Kingdoms to send the same unto us and therein also express as many of the Commissioned Officers Names as your Lordship can by that time ascertain Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall 1667. My LORD HIS Majesty commands me to signifie his Pleasure to you that forthwith your Lordship repair to your Lieutenancy there with all diligence to put your Militia and other Troops into such a posture as may best secure the Quiet and Peace of the Country and render them capable to comply with such Orders and Directions as your Lordship shall from time to time receive from his Majesty of which as of all things else that may relate to his Majesty's Service his Majesty desires to receive frequent and particular Advice on all occasions from your Lordship I am with much Truth and Affection My LORD Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Foot 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 Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct have thought fit to constitute and appoint as by these Presents we do constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Foot to be raised for our Service the same to consist of Ten Companies and each Company of Sixty Men besides Officers You are carefully to discharge the Duty of a Collonel by exercising the said Regiment in Arms both Officers and Souldiers and keeping them in good Order and Discipline and we do hereby command them to obey you as their Collonel And we do further constitute and appoint you to be Captain of one of the Companies of the said Regiment and you are from time to time to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from us according to the Rule and Discipline of War pursuant to the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall this Twenty third Day of January in the Twenty fourth Year of our Reign 1672 3. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Commission for the Earl of Peterborow to be Extraordinary Embassador to the Emperor for the Marriage of the Archdutchess with the Duke of York CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Quandoquidem nobis visum fuerit pro singulari illo animi affectu quo prosequimur semperque sumus prosecuti Augustam
then you shall advertise the said Sir Bernard of the precise Orders we have given you not to detain your self longer there and according to his answer either pursue your Journey on to the Court of the Emperor or return back into France dismissing your Equipage so as to lessen your expence as far as you can and in your return home again you are to follow such further Instructions and Directions as you shall receive from our said most dear Brother III. When you shall have received an assurance of his Imperial Majesty's entire Concurrence and Approbation of the Marriage you shall take your leave there of him and proceed on to the Court of the Archdutchess of Inspruck taking along with you Sir Bernard Gascoign for your Assistance in this and your further Transactions and being arrived there concert with the Archdutchess Dowager the Marrying the Princess her Daughter in the Name of our said most dear Brother according to the Proxy he shall give you to that effect and in a word performing all other Ceremonies that shall be conducing to that Affair with all regard to such an occasion and the value we put upon it IV. Being arrived at the Court of Inspruck you shall make all fitting Complements to both the Archdutchesses in our Name suitable to the occasion delivering to them our Letters and afterwards adjust and concert with such Minister or Ministers as shall be appointed to Treat with you according to the Powers herewith given you all the Circumstances and Ceremonies requisit towards the compleating of the Marriage and the bringing the Young Princess hither into England with as much speed and convenience as an Affair of that nature will permit Advertising us from time to time by express Couriers or otherwise of your Agreements and Progress therein that nothing may be found wanting on our part to satisfie the World of the value we have of his and her Marriage with our most dear Brother resorting further to those particular Instructions and Directions you shall receive from him therein V. In the performance of this our Embassy you shall take a special care of our Dignity not yeilding the Hand to any Embassador of any Crowned King whatsoever but on the other side avoiding prudently all unnecessary occasions of Competition not to discompose your Negociation thereby unless you are unavoidably provoked thereunto And if in your way going or coming it shall befal you to see any Princes of the Empire even the Electors themselves you shall take care to stipulate before hand the manner of your Reception so as it may not be inferior to what they have given to the Embassadors of any Crown'd Head demanding especially the Hand of them in their own Palaces when you shall be visited in any of the Courts by the Envoys Ordinary or Extraordinary Residents c. of any Princes you shall deny the Hand to them in your own House it being a Rule now Established By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON C. R. 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 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 Anno Regni nostri Decimo quarto abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii tunc 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 plenam habebunt potestatem authoritatem 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 ac in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam in aliquo alio Comitatu locis praedictis ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerunt secundum Directiones quales ipsi de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentas specificatas plenius liquet apparet Cumque nos per Commissionem sive Literas Patentes nostras sub magno Sigillo nostri Angliae confectas gerentes data Vicesimo primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo octavo virtute secundum formam tenorem effectum Actus Parlamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate authoritate in eodem actu contentis specificatis nominaverimus fecerimus assignaverimus praedilectum ac perquam fidelem Consanguineum nostrum Johannem Comitem Exoniae te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentes nostros per in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae per in omnibus Civitatibus Burgis Libertatibus Locis incorporatis privilegiatis ac in aliis locis quibuscunque infra Comitatum illum limites praecincta ejusdem Et tenore Commissionis sive Literarum nostrarum Patentium praedictarum ac virtute Actus praedicti plenam potestatem authoritatem dederimus concesserimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Acta Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentes per nos vigore actus illius nominandum constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum prout pet eandem Commissionem sive Literas nostras Patentes praedictas plenius liquet apparet Cumque ratione longitudinis Comitatus nostri Northamptoniae praedictae magnaeque distantiae separatim fuere partem ejusdem Comitatus Locumtenentibus nostri praedicti non tam commode insunt conjunctim quam separatim divisim possint quod etiam in aliis nonnullis Comitatibus hujus Regni nostri Angliae experti sumus Cumque dictus Comitatus noster Northamptoniae in duas partes sive
locorum firmiter injungimus velint dicto Legato nostro Extraordinario liberam eundi transeundi redeundi commorandique prout occasio postulaverit copiam facere unà cum Comitatu Famulitio Equis Sarcinis Rebusque omnibus eidemque simul omnibus humanitatis officiis adesse favere id quod nos pari vel alio Officiorum genere occasione quacunque universis fingulis grati referemus Dabantur è Palatio nostro de Whitehall Secundi die Augusti Anno Domini 1673. Regnique nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Regis ARLINGTON An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy Councellor At the Court at Hampton-Court the Tenth Day of July 1674. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Highness Prince RVPERT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Ogle Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Arlington Lord Maynard Lord Berkeley Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Mountague Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. of the Ordnance Mr. Speaker THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board accordingly Robert Southwell The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regimet of Horse Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and to be called the Regiment of our dear Brother JAMES Duke of York consisting of Eight Troops and each Troop of Threescore Men besides Officers And we do also constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment as Collonel and the said Troop as Captain into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well Officers as Souldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively And you are from time to time to observe such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from our General of our Forces or other Superior Officer according to the Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of February 1677 8. in the Thirtieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command H. Coventry Entred with the Comissioner-General of Musters A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 30. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia ex advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem sexto die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod confideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus super dictis negociis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quinto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Grimston Pengry A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto perquam fideli Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam actum in Parliamento nostro inchoato tento apud Westmonasterium Octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo tertio ibidem continuato usque ad decimum nonum diem Maii proxime sequentem abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii proxime sequentem Intitulatum An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum inactitatum existit inter alia quod nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus Locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Bervici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes habebunt plenam authoritatem potestatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem Actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam infra aliquem alium Comitatum Locos praedictos ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerint secundum Directiones de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentis specificatis plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parliamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate ac authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentem nostrum pro Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae in omnibus locis corporatis privilegiatis aliis locis quibuscunque infra dictum Comitatum nostrum Northamptoniae Et tenore praesentium ac virtute ejusdem Actus plenam potestatem authoritatem tibi damus
concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Actum Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentem per nos vigore Actus illius nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia facias exequaris cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Per breve de privato Sigillo Barker A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 31. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo septimo die Octobris proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo quarto die Julii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo primo Grimston Pengry A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 32. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Oxoniam vicesimo primo die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo secundo Grimston Pengry The Jointure of the Countess of Peterborow in Turvey THIS Indenture made the Sixth Day of August in the _____ Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred _____ Between the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey the Honourable William Mountague Esquire Brother to the Lord Mountague of Boughton Sir William Farmer of Easton in the County of Northampton Baronet and Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath of the other part Whereas the Maner of Turvey and certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Turvey in the County of Bedford except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs were settled or intended to be settled upon Penelope Countess of Peterborow for her natural Life for her Jointure and in lieu of her Dower and Thirds of the Estate of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and a certain Decree hath been made in the High Court of Chancery for the Establishing the same for her Jointure accordingly and it is the intent and purpose of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow that the same shall be enjoyed accordingly Now witness these Presents That the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and in consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of Lawful Money of England by the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents well and truly unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors and Administrators for ever by these Presents and for divers other good Causes and Considerations him thereunto moving hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Admininistrators and Assigns all the Maner or reputed Maner of Turvey in the County of Bedford and all Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow situate lying and being in Turvey aforesaid or accepted reputed taken demised or known as part or parcel of the said Maner of Turvey aforesaid except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs To have and to hold the said Maner of Turvey and all the Premises in Turvey aforesaid except as before is excepted unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns from and after the death of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and during and unto the full end and term of Ninety nine Years from thence ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended if she the said Penelope Countess of Peterborow shall so long live Nevertheless upon this special Trust and Confidence That the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall permit and suffer the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to be received and taken in pursuance of and according to the said Decree and according
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
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
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis â—â—â—â—tisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur
appurtenancas be lefte in the rule of myne Executors to suche time as my detts be payed And that soe doon I wyll that the revenues and profites of the said Manoir with the appurtenaunces yerely remayne to the rule of my said Executors to the use and profite of my sonne and heire durynge the tyme and space of his nonage And than the said Manoir with the appurtenaunces be delivered to my sonne and heire and to the ryght heires of his body lawfully comynge And for lak of suche issue to my Nevue Thomas Talbot and to the heirs of his body lawfully comyng And for lak of such issue the remayner to my Lord my Nevue of Buckingham and to the ryght heires of him And whereas eny maner of dett or dute is owyng to me by obligation or otherwise with all such arrerages as be behynde due to me of all my Lyflode or possessions with all such issues and profites and revenues as is grown of lyvelode of this Ester Terme laste paste I wyll it be gadered and levyed by myne Executors to the performyng of my Wyll and it for to be disposid for me as theyme think it best And the residue all my Goods and Catalles moveable wheresoever they be after my Fynurell expences and all costes and charges performed and doon and all my bequstes within written well and trewly done and fulfyllyd I give then to the discretion of myne Executors to be doon for me as theyme seemes best and most helth of my sowle And of this my present Testament I make and ordeyne myne Executors that is to say the most Reverent Fader in God my Lord Cardenall and my most interest beloved Lady and Moder my cheff Executors my Fader Walter my Lord Mountjoy the Master of the Colage of Foderingham Master John Geoffrey Oliver Sutton William Merbury and Rauf Tykhull Indentura facta inter Constanciam Comitissam de Wilts Thomam Billing Capitalem Justiciar Dom. Regis ad Placita c. alios facta HAEC Indentura facta inter Constanciam Comitissam Wilts ex parte una Thomam Billing Capitalem Justiciarium Domini Regis ad Placita coram ipso Rege tenenda Richardum Tunstall Militem Willielmum Catesby Militem Johannem Catesby Servientem Domini Regis ad legem Nicolaum Griffen Armigerum Robertum Wittelbury Armigerum Willielmum Catesby Armigerum Thomam Merys Armigerum Richardum Welby Thomam Babyngton Oliverum Sutton Simonem Burton ex parte altera testatur Quòd praefata Comitissa tradidit ad firmam dimisit praefatis Thomae Richardo Willielmo Johanni Nicolao Roberto Willielmo Thomae Richardo Thomae Olivero Simoni Manerium suum de Alba Rothynge cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae una cum advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Manerium de Grafton juxta Warton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Northamptoniae una cum advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Maneria de Warminster Westbury Dycherigge cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Wilts Habenda tenenda praedicta Maneria cum omnibus singulis eorum pertinentiis una cum advocationibus Ecclesiarum praedictarum praedictis Thomae Richardo Willielmo Johanni Nicolao Roberto Willielmo Thomae Richardo Thomae Olivero Simoni assignatis suis à festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimò praeterito ante datum praesentium usque ad finem terminum septem annorum extunc proximè sequentium plenariè completorum Reddendo inde praefatae Comitissae vel Assignatis suis centum viginti libras legalis monetae Angliae annuatim durante termino praedicto ad duos anni terminos videlicet ad festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones Et si contingat dictam annuam firmam centum viginti librarum aretro fore in parte vel in toto post aliquod festum festorum praedictorum quo solvi debeat per sex septimanas tunc bene liceat licebit praedictae Comitissae assignatis suis in omnibus praedictis Maneriis cum omnibus singulis eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem distringere districtiones sic captas licitè abducere effugare asportare penes se retinere quousque de praedicto annuali redditu una cum arreragiis si quae fuerint plenariè sibi fuerit satisfactum persolutum In cujus rei Testimonium tam praefata Comitissa quà m praefati Thomas Richardus Willielmus Johannes Nicolaus Robertus Willielmus Thomas Richardus Thomas Oliverus Simon praesentibus Indenturis Sigilla sua alternatim apponi fecerunt Dat' vicesimo die Martii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti post Conquestum quarto decimo EDWARD STAFFORD Earl of Wiltshire Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow MEmorandum That in the sixt yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King Henry the Seaventh the Tennants and Inhabitants of Luffwycke and Sudburgh were in variance strife and debate for the occupation of Luffwyke Leyse perteynyng to Luffwycke and for the occupation of Brigsyleyes perteyning to Sudburgh insomuch that the Tennants and Inhabitants of Luffwycke did impounde a flock of Shepe of Sudburgh sayeing that they had noe Common of their Leyse And in like wise the Tennants and Inhabitants of Sudburgh did impounde a flock of Shepe of Luffwycke sayeing that they had noe Common of their sayd Brigsyleyes And for as much as the Earle of Wiltes was chiefe Lorde of both the Lordships the Inhabitants of both Townes sued to him and his Councell for reformation and pacefyeing of the said variance strife and debate And when he had heard their request he sayd to them that he would by the advise of his Councell take a good and an indifferent direction and order betwixt the said parties And then he commanded his Councell to goe to the said Leyes in variance and call before them the Inhabitants of both Townes and view the ground and set such directions betwixt the said Inhabitants of both Townes that there should be noe more variance for Common of the said Leyes after that tyme. The which Councellers tooke a direction that the Tennants of Luffwycke should have and occupy their owne Leyes in peace without disturbance or clayme of Common of the Tennants of Sudburgh And in like wise the Tennants of Sudburgh should have and occupy the sayd Brigsyleyes in peace without disturbance or clayme of Common of the Tennants of Luffwycke And over that they said Yee been all my Lordes Tennants and it is his pleasure that yee shall live in rest as good neighbours should doe And after the sayd order and direction it have been used and kepte from the sayd sixt yeare till Midsommer now last past Carta Edwardi Comitis Wilts SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Edwardus Comes Wilts dedi concessi hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto Wittelbury Armigero Willielmo Marbury Armigero Willielmo Felde Clerico Roberto Bayston Clerico Thomae Montegu Johanni Freeman Maneria
Shilling and four Pence wherefore they be bound by obligation to Sir Reynold Bray and to Sir Thomas Lovel to pay and content before the Fest of Christmas next following to the Kinges use for the lycense of the mortisment of two Chauntries in Plasshe and Luffwick and after that doon and the said William and Thomas saved harmelesse as I have indentyd with them the which wyll appere and furthermore suertie for redy payment I wyll the said William Merbury and Thomas Mountegu have in their keeping my two Flaggons two gylte Potts six Bollys gylt with Covers and other Plate to make Chevysaunce to pay the King and they so savyd harmelesse then I wyll my Feoffes stand and be Feoffes unto the perfourment of this my last Wyll as well of theis as of other and I wyll the seid my Executours to sell my woodes at Langhyll Farthyngshawe Hotland Bullaks and Colys woode and all my woodes growing being and belongyng to Bakenho Grymsbury Malberne or eny oder place such as was purchased of William Eton by my Lord my Fader Item I wyll my Executours have all my moveable Goodes unbequeathed as well Juels Plate Stuffe to pay my Detts and to performe this my last Wyll Item I wyll my Lord of Buckingham have all my Stuffe that I left in his place in Bredstrede except my Robys of Astate and Robys of Parlement the which Robys of Astate I wyll thay be gevyn to Churches whereas I was Patron there as most nede is by the discretion of myne Executours and the other Robys and Furris to be sold and the money takyn to pay my Detts and perfourme my Wyll Item I wyll my Lord and Cossen of Shrewsbury have my Collar of the Kings Livery and my Unkyll Wittelbury oon of my Bollys of Silver with a Cover that I bought last myne Aunte his Wyfe to have a playne stonding cup of Silver gylt that is used to be carried with me Item I will the Church of Luffwyck have my Trapper of Cloth of Gold and my auter Clothes of Tawney Damask Item I wyll the Church of Newenton have the outside of my Goune of Crymson Velvet to make a Cope and I will the Church of Graston have the lynyng of black Damask in the same to make a Vestyment and a Cope Item I wyll that Margret my wyfe have as much Plate as I had with her in marriage my Fether-bed in the Chappel Chamber the Tester Sealer and Counterpoynt of the same Carpets of the same my two great Carpets two Cushyns of tawny Damaske two Payr of fyne Shetes and three Payr of other Shetes my fyne cloth of Diaper my Bed of Cloth of Gold and Velvet that was in London and my Pelows of the best so that my Detts may be content with other my Goodes and revenues of my Londes and with that she leve and take not the third part of my Goodes but suffer myne Executours to have them at their liberty to perfourme my wyll Item I wyll that every Gentilman and Gentilwoman have forty shillings every Yeoman twenty shillings and every Grome ten shillings Item I wyll that my howsold be kept thirty days after my decesse if there be whereof so to doe Item I wyll that Mr. William Feld Master of the Collage of Foderinghay have oon of my bollys of Silver that I bought last Item I wyll that my Detts and my revenues of my Londes be receyved by myne Executours to pay my Detts and perfourme my wyll Item I wyll that my poor Kin and Servaunts have and be relyved before any other by the discretion of myne Executours Item I wyll that my Executours give and graunt a annuite of forty Shillings by Dede out of my Londes that my Lord my Fader purchased of William Eton in Bedfordshire unto my welbeloved Servaunt Edward Bruet and the kepeing of my Manor and Conynger of Drayton for terme of his lyfe Item I wyll that all my Juells Plate and other stuff unbequethed be sold by myne Excutours to perfourme this my last Wyll Item I wyll that all my Brigandyrs and Harnes be distributed among my Yomen and Gromes after the discretion of my Executours And of this my present last Wyll I make my Executors my entireley belovid Uncle Robert Wittelbury Mr. William Feld Master of the Collage of Fotheringhay William Merbury Thomas Mountegu and John Blake Item I desire and pray my good Lord and Cossen the Erle of Shrewsbury to be surveyer of this my last Wyll and to be good Lord unto my wyfe and pore servauntes as my singular trust is in him And I wyll that every of myne Executours that will minister this my last Wyll to have six Poundes thirteene Shillinges and four Pence In witnesse whereof I the said Erle have put to my Seale Item I wyll that my Feoffes graunt by Dede or Patent a Annuite unto my right welbeloved Servaunt Philip Frost of fifty three Shillings four Pence for terme of his life out of my Londes and Tenements in Luffwycke for the good and long service that he hath doon unto me Item I wyll that my Londes and Tenements that I purchased in Luffwycke of the wyfe of William Chambre called Cottingham's Tenement and Ridayes Close with the appurtenances and the Londes and Tenements in the same Towne that I purchased of the heirs of Oliver Sutton be sold to pay my Detts and to perfourme this my last Wyll Item That my welbeloved Servaunt Robert Wilkinson have forty Shillings out of my Londes in Islip for terme of his lyfe The Tombe of Edward Stafford Earle of Wiltsheire and Lord of Drayton Extant in S. t Peters Church in Luffwick Copia Statutorum Cantariae Edwardi Comitis Wilts de Villa Luffwycke UNiversis Sanctae matris Ecclesiae filiis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Robertus Wittelbury Armiger Willielmus Marbury Armiger Thomas Mountagu Gentilman Executores testamenti ultimae Voluntatis nobilis memoriae Edwardi Stafford nuper Comitis Wiltshyre defuncti Salutem in Domino sempiternam Ad Universitatis vestrae notitiam deducimus ac tenore praesentium volumus deduci quòd praefatus nobilis Dominus Edwardus nuper Comes Wiltshyre duas Cantarias perpetuas unam videlicet Cantariam perpetuam de duobus Capellanis divina in Ecclesia parochiali de Luffwycke in Comitatu Northamptoniae Lincolniensis Dioceseos aliam Cantariam perpetuam de uno Capellano in Ecclesia beatae Mariae de Plassey in Comitatu Essexiae pro salubri statu Domini nostri Regis Henrici Septimi moderni Dominae Elizabethae Reginae Angliae praefatique Edwardi Comitis Wiltshyre dum viverent pro animabus ipsorum postquam ab hac luce subtracti fuerint pro animabus certarum aliarum personarum per ipsum Comitem nominatarum inferiùs expressatarum omnium fidelium defunctorum juxta ordinationem in ea parte faciendam celebraturis facere fundare creare erigere stabilire voluit intendebat ad hoc se disposuit Atque
seid Erle my Lord for Gods love remember that ye put not your soule in charge in yevynge your Landes from the heires Whereunto the seid Erle at all tymes answered and said to this Deponent Robert I may as well yeve these Landes where I will as I may yeve the Gowne of my back For as for the heirs of Veere they shall never inherit them Also this Deponent seith that at suche tyme that the seid Erle was sick this Deponent contynewelly abode with him by whyche seasson this Deponent never knew the seid Erle chaunge his mind in this behalfe And this Deponent also seith that on Pahne-Sunday eve whyche was the eve of our Lady-daye of the Annuntiation and also whyche was the daye next before the decesse of the seid Erle this Deponent asked of the seid Erle whether he had made his Wyll or nay whyche Erle then seid that he had made noon as yet but that he would doe And that this Deponent asked how his Lordship was minded with Drayton and with all his Fee simple Lands whereof he commaunded this Deponent before that tyme to bere witnesse whyche Erle then seid that it was oon of the greatest causes why he would chaunge his Wyll for as his mind had been to his Cossen Erle of Shrewsbury soe should it contynewe for ever commaunding this Deponent and other there present to testifye that his last Wyll was and should be that his Cossen George Erle of Shrewsbury should have his Manoir of Drayton and all other his Fee simple Landes to him and to his heires for ever after the detts payd and the Wyll of the seid Erle performed Then present at the speaking of the seid wordes William Pemberton yet lyving and divers others decessed Whereupon the seid Erle went to other cogitations at what tyme noe man thought that the seid Erle should have decessed so shortly as he did but trusted that the seid Erle shuld have lyved muche longer than he did albeit on the morrow about ten of the clock what tyme the Preist was at Masse and reding of the Passion the sed Erle departed to Gods mercy without any chaungyng of his Wyll or mind concernyng the premisses as far as this Deponent knewe or understood But this Deponent seith that about seven of the Clock in the mornyng of the seid Palme-Sunday John Mordaunt Serjeaunt at Law came to the seid Erle and asked him how he did whyche Erle then seid well as it pleaseth God and then the seid Mordaunt departed againe from thence And about ten of the Clock then next followyng the seid Mordaunt came againe to the seid Erle with a Wyll made in the name of the seid Erle whyche Wyll the seid Mordaunt then red to the seid Erle when he was anoyled and in extreme peynes of deth soe that the seid Erle neither herde nor understode what the said Mordaunt red wherein as by the seid redyng it appeared to this Deponent that nether the Manoir of Drayton nether any parte of the Fee simple Landes of the seid Erle were expressed in the seid Wyll And after the seid redyng of the seid Wyll the seid Erle was deed or a man perfetly might seye a Pater Noster and Ave Maria and oon Crede And more he knoweth not Deposition of William Pemberton WIlliam Pemberton Gentilman of the age of forty yeares or more sworne and examined seith that he was brought up of a chyeld with Edward Stafford late Erle of Wiltshyre and in his servyse as sume tyme his kerver and sume tymes lay in bed with the seid Erle when it pleased him by the space of twenty yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of his decesse Also he seith that many and divers tymes the seid Erle shewed and reported to this Deponent that noon of the chylderen or heires of Vere shuld inheret his Manoir of Drayton or eny parte of his other Fee simple Landes but that his Cossen the Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heires for ever the seid Manoir with all his other Fee simple Lands all his detts payd and his Wyll performed Also this Deponent seith that the day next before the decesse of the seid Erle the seid Erle rehersed the seid wordes before this Deponent Robert Merbury and others now decessed wyllinge and charging them to bere witnesse whensoever ever they shuld be called that his full myend and last Wyll was and shuld be that his Cossyn George Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have his Manoir of Drayton with all his other Fee simple Landes to him and to his heires for ever after his detts paid and his Wyll performed And he seith in vertue of his othe and as he shall answere before God he was continewelly present with the seid Erle from the seid tyme of the foreseid speking of the seid wordes by the seid Erle unto that the seid Erle was deed about ten of the Clock before noon on Palm-Sondaye and whyche was our Lady day Annuntiation aboute whyche tyme the Preist beyng at Masse was redyng of the Passion by all whyche seasson this Deponent never knewe herd or understoode that the seid Erle changed his wyll or myend ether in word or dede in that behalfe And more he knoweth not Deposition of Henry Caine. HEnry Caine Yoman of the age of eight and forty yeres and more sworne and examyned seith that he was Grome of the Chamber to the seid Erle by the space of seven yeres and after that this Deponent was Yoman of the Chamber with the seid Erle by the space of other seven yeres and more whyche was to the tyme of the decesse of the seid Erle by whyche seasson after Blackhethe Feld as well at Drayton as at Palenall and divers other places this Deponent divers and meny tymes hath herd the seid Erle openly declare for his wyll before this Deponent and divers others of his fellowes bothe Yomen and Gromes of the Chamber that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heires for ever the Manoir of Drayton and other his Fee simple Landes after his Detts payd and his Wyll performed commaundnig this Deponent and other his fellowes to record and testifye the premysses Also this Deponent seith that the seid Erle aboute a moneth before his decesse gave lycense to this Deponent to goe to Newark upon Trent for suche besinesses as this Deponent there had to doe about whyche seasson this Deponent came to the Erle of Shrewsbury lyeing at Wynfeld at whose coming the seid Erle demaunded of this Deponent how his Cossyn Erle of Wiltshyre did Whereunto this Deponent aunswering seid that at his departing from the seid Erle of Wiltshyre he was metely in goode helthe whyche Erle of Shrewsbury then seid that the understode that the seid Erle of Wiltshyre shuld be decessed And then this Deponent seid that he would ryde streyht to his seid Lordes place to knowe the certente and to bryng redy word againe to the seid Erle of Shrewsbury
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
toke him onely to that Wyll and wold the same to stand for his last Wyll and Testament and none other seying alsoe that the seid Erle was at the tyme of the sealing of the seid Testament and last Wyll in perfite minde and good remembrance And at the same tyme the seid Erle delivered the seid Testament and last Wyll soe perfitly engrosed and sealed unto the handes of William Merbury one of the seid Erles Executours in the name of all other his Executours This done as above is written the seid Erle prayed and required this Deponent that he wold housell him and thereunto this Deponent answered and seid these words following My Lord I have made every thing in full redynesse to goe to Masse if ye be so pleased and at the same Masse to consecrate an hooste and when Masse is done to housell you Nay seid the same Erle I pray you let me not tarry soe long And thereupon this Deponent went downe into the Chapell and brought the Sacrament up to the seid Erles lodging Chamber and set it upon the cupborde there redy prepared for the same and came to the same Erle lyeing in his bed and seid to him these words following My Lord I have brought to you your Maker and Redeemer as ye have desired me to doe and forasmoche as every Preist that shall take upon him to minester the same Sacrament to eny Christen man ought to examine the faith of soche person as it shall be minstred unto I doe require of you that I may know what faith is in you and how ye believe Whereunto the seid Erle answered and seid I believe in Almighty God Creatour and Maker of Hevyn and Erthe and in Jesus Christe his onely begoten Son and so in effect he answered fourthe to all the twelve Articles of the Faith with many other good and contryte wordes and seid these wordes following to this Deponent and to all other then being present there I pray you witnesse with me and looked on side to th'oder folkes being in the Chamber and all you And after these wordes the seid Erle with contrite herte made a general knowledge to God seying Confiteor Deo beatae Mariae c. Then this Deponent by suche authorite as to him was yeven unto the seid Erle graunted and gave absolution and that done the seid Erle received the Sacrament by the handes of this Deponent with great reverence and meekenesse of heart And after that the seid Erle commaunded this Deponent to goe to Masse in the seid Erles Chamber where at that tyme the seid Erle lay and for because the seid Chamber was sumewhat close the seid Erle commaunded certen panes of the window of the seid Chamber to be taken downe and to th'entente that more fresh ayre shuld coume in commaunded that the window shuld be set open in whyche window this Deponent then seid Masse and for because there came so moche winde in at the seid window this Deponent spake to Philip Foster to help him at that tyme to sing that when he should come to the consecration of the hoste that then the seid Philip shuld shut the said window and soe to remaine shut till this Deponent had used And when this Deponent had begun his Masse the seid Erle of his owne minde perceiving that the winde was noyense to this Deponent in seying his Masse commaunded the seid window to be shut before he came to the Epistle in the seid Masse And after Masse ended there went a Chaplaine of the seid Erles to high Masse in the Chapell whose name was Sir John Bukmaster and at the passion tyme of the seid high Masse so seid in the seid Chapell by the seid Sir John Bukmaster there came to this Deponent one of the seid Erles Servaunts called Robert Wilkinson and seid to this Deponent these words following Fader for the reverence of God come to my Lord for he is in the paines of dethe And thereupon this Deponent departed oute of the seid Chapell into the seid Erles Chamber and found there noe creature but himself onely And this Deponent lighted a fise of wax that was hallowed and seid these wordes following In manus tuas Domine c. And in that same moment the seid Erle departed to God oute of this present lyfe And thus this Deponent left the deed body of the seid Erle whose soule God absolve And more he knoweth not Deposition of James Walbef JAmes Walbef of Osneye in the Countie of Oxford Gentleman of th'age of fifty yeres sworne and examined upon the Testament and last Wyll of Edward late Erle of Wiltes seith that he was Auditor to Edward late Erle of Wilts whose soule Jesus pardon And this Deponent seith that he was present at the Manoir of Drayton on Palme-Sonday in the morning the fourteenth yere of the Reigne of our late Sovereigne Lord King Henry the seventh in the Chamber where the seid Erle lay sick on his dethbed at whyche tyme the seid Erles last Wyll was brought forthe by one Philip Foster sometyme beyng Schole-master and Servaunt to the seid Erle At whych tyme John Mordaunt then Sarjeaunt at the Law there being present after the seid Wyll was read demaunded and asked of the seid Erle whether that his full minde was that that Wyll shuld clerely stand for his last Wyll or noe and if he would renounce all manner of other Wylls Whereunto the seid Erle answered and seid that he did renownce all other Wylls and that he would hold him to that Testament onely and that it should stande to be ferme and stable for his last Wyll and Testament and none other with an articule whyche the seid Erle caused to be put into the ende of his Wyll that Robert Wilkinson shuld have an annuitie of forty shillings for terme of his lyfe and also the seid Erle recyted certen articules of his Wyll in especial as hereafter followeth that is to sey that the seid Philip Foster shuld have an annuitie of four marks for terme of his lyfe as this Deponent remembreth and also that Edward Bruet then Grome of his Chamber shuld have an annuitie of forty shillings for terme of his lyfe and that all Fees whyche were graunted by Dede or by Patent by his Fader his Moder or his Graundfader Greene or by himself shuld be held ferme and stable for terme of theire lyyes to whome they were graunted And after this done the seid Wyll was sealed with a Sygnet of Gold the print whereof was a Bere as this Deponent remembereth the whyche Sygnet was in his powche under his bedes head at that tyme. And after it was sealed the seid Erle delivered it to the handes of William Marbury Esquier one of his Executours in the presence of diverse of his household Servaunts And after the seid Wyll was soe red sealed and delivered to the seid William Marbury the seid Erle desired to be howselled and then and there one Sir Thomas Cade then Chaplain to the
Henrici Greene Patris praedictae Constanciae nuper Comitissae matris praedicti Edwardi nuper Comitis Et dicunt insuper Juratores praedicti quòd praedicta Elizabetha nuper uxor dicti Thomae Cheyne Militis obiit tertio die Aprilis Anno Regni Henrici nuper Regis Angliae septimi decimo septimo sine exitu de corpore suo exeunte post cujus mortem medietas omnium maneriorum praedictorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum eorum pertinentiis descendebant praefatis Elizabethae uxori Johannis Mordaunt Annae Constanciae uxori Johannis Parre Etheldredae ut Consanguineis haeredibus dictae Elizabethae Cheyne videlicet ut filiabus haeredibus dicti Henrici filii Isabellae sororis dictae Margeriae matris dictae Elizabethae Cheyne Et dicunt Juratores praedicti quòd dicta Constancia nuper uxor dicti Johannis Parre obiit ...... die Augusti Anno Regni dicti Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae Septimi decimo septimo sine exitu de corpore suo exeunte post cujus mortem quarta pars praedictorum Maneriorum advocationis ac caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis descendebant praefatis Elizabethae Mordaunt Annae Etheldredae ut sororibus haeredibus ipsius Constanciae Parre Et dicunt ulteriùs Juratores praedicti quòd dicta Anna cepit in vitum Humphridum Browne habuerunt exitum Georgium Browne Et quòd dicta Anna postea obiit videlicet decimo quinto die Septembris Anno Regni dicti Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae Septimi vicesimo secundo Et quòd idem Georgius Browne est aetatis sex annorum ampliús Et dicunt Juratores praedicti quod praedictum Manerium de Drayton cum pertinentiis tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per quae servitia juratores praedicti penitus ignorant Et quòd Willielmus Merbury exitus proficua ejusdem Manerii à tempore mortis dicti Edwardi nuper Comitis usque primum diem Octobris Anno Regni Domini Henrici dicti nuper Regis Angliae Septimi vicesimo octavo percepit habuit Et quod Robertus Merbury à dicto primo die Octobris usque ad diem hujus Inquisitionis percepit habuit Et ulteriùs dicunt quòd praedictum Manerium de Luffwyck cum advocatione ejusdem Ecclesiae de Luffwyck cum eorum pertinentiis tenetur de Abbate de Peterburgh per fidelitatem per quae alia servitia Juratores praedicti penitus ignorant Et quòd dictus Willielmus Merbury exitus proficua ejusdem Manerii à tempore mortis dicti Edwardi nuper Comitis usque dictum primum diem Octobris dicto Anno vicesimo octavo percepit habuit Et quòd Robertus Wittelbury à dicto primo die Octobris usque primum diem Maii Anno Regni Domini Regis nunc primo exitus proficua ejusdem Manerii percepit habuit Et quod ....... Clement ...... uxor ejus exitus proficua à dicto primo die Maii usque diem hujus Inquisitionis perceperunt habuerunt Et dicunt Juratores praedicti quòd praedicta Ecclesia de Luffwyck vacavit circa decimum octavum diem Octobris Anno Regni Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae vicesimo quarto Et quòd Johannes Mordaunt ad eandem Ecclesiam praesentavit Willielmum Hamswayte Capellanum qui ad suam praesentationem fuit admissus institutus inductus In cujus c. Et postea praedictus Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus prosecuti fuerunt breve de forma donationis in distender versus Thomam Mountegue Willielmum Pemberton de Manerio de Drayton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu praedicto continuatur processus quousque praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus recuperaverunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis versus praedictum Thomam Mountegue Willielmum Pemberton prout pro termino Trinitatis Anno octavo Henrici Octavi apparet Virtute cujus recuperationis ipsi Johannes Mordaunt Johannes Browne intraverunt in Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis Et aliàs praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus prosecuti fuerunt breve de forma donationis in distender versus Thomam Mountegue de Manerio de Luffwyck cum pertinentiis in Comitatu praedicto continuatur processu quousque praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus recuperaverunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis versus praedictum Thomam Mountegue prout pro termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno octavo Regis octavi apparet Virtute cujus quidem recuperationis praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Johannes Browne intraverunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Mannor of Drayton TO all Christian people to whom this present writing Indented shall come heare or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there have been diverse variances and debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earle of Shrewsbury on th' one partie and John Mordaunt Squire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cossyns and heires to the Right Honourable Edward late Erle of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Erle and Daughter and heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Squire and Humphrey Browne Squire late Husband to Amye and George Browne his Son and heir apparent and Son and heir to the same Amye another Cossyn and another of the heirs to the said Erle of Wilshire after the forme aforesaid and Sir Wistan Browne Knight and John Browne his Son and heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cossyn and heir to the same Erle after the manner abovesaid on th' other partie of and upon the right title reversion and possession as well to the aforesaid Mannor of Drayton with th' appurtenances as of all other Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were to the said Constance or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to th' use of them or th' other of them which Mannors Lands Tenements the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury claimeth by a Will supposed to be made by the said Erle of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Erle of Wiltshire should Will to the said Erle of Shrewsbury all his Fee-simple Land Whereupon the foresaid parties have compromitted themselves to abide th' Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named and chosen by and between the aforesaid parties to award ordain and deme as well of and upon the premisses as for and upon all manner
pleaded the King's Cause in defence of his imprisoning certain Bishops which was there laid to his Charge But it fell out that in the succeeding year he was slain in London in a tumult raised by the Seditious Citizens He married Adeliza the Daughter of Gilbert of Clare by whom he had Issue Aubrey de Vere the first Earl of Oxford Sir Robert de Vere Roetia Vere the Wife of Jeffery de Magnavilla Earl of Essex MY business being to deduce the Descent of the Veres that were Lords of Drayton and Addington and not of the Earls of Oxford I am obliged to return to ROBERT de VERE the second Son of the forementioned Aubrey to whom his Father left for his provision and Inheritance the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Slipton Islip both the Addingtons and the Land of Twyvell which latter they had held of the Abby of Thorney We find this Robert in a Charter of his under the stile of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Kings Chamberlain did acknowledge to hold the Land of Twyvell for so long as he should live from Robert the Lord Abbot of Thorney and the Monks of that House by the same Covenants under which his Father before him held the same and that for the Tenths of the five Carucates which his Father had given to Saint Mary of Thorney to wit of Drayton Islip and Addington that were of his dominion he did grant the same to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Thorney There is extant of his another Charter wherein by the name of Robert the Son of Aubrey in the first year of the Reign of King Henry the younger in the presence of his own Son Henry he did quit-claim the Mannor of Twyvell to the Monastery of Thorney which gift was after confirm'd by Pope Alexander the third He was one of the most faithful and vigorous assertors of the interest and pretences of Matilda the Empress and the Prince her Son against King Stephen during the heats of all the differences appertaining to that contest and of such esteem were the effects of his Valour and generous endeavours as obliged that Princess to promise him a Barony valuable with that given to Jeffery de Vere and other Lands of equal consideration within a year after she should come to enjoy the Realm of England He Married Matilda the Daughter of the Lord Robert de Furnell with whom her Father gave in free Marriage divers Lands in Cranford by whom he had Issue Sir Henry de Vere And William de Vere HENRY the Son of Robert de Vere that was Lord of Drayton Addington and other Lordships was bred up under the care and conduct of his Cousin the great William de Magnavilla Earl of Essex and Albemarle who was the Son of Roesia de Vere Countess of Essex his Fathers Sister Henry de Vere did give himself to a dependance upon this Earl who was a man of great military fame in that time and from his example and precept became a Knight of much renown and valour For his first essay in Arms he slew with his own hand Ralph de Vaux in an encounter near the City of Gysors who was the Son of a great Lord that would have fortified a strong House of his too near the Borders and had besides injured his Cousin the Earl of Albemarle the King 's Chief Governor in those parts the words are verbis dehonestavit amaris He was made Constable of the Castle and City of Gysors where he commanded with much reputation till that after the death of his Father he was called home to the care of a considerable fortune of his own where we find him afterwards to have been one of those that sided with King John being then but Earl of Moriton against the proud Bishop of Ely whom King Richard had left behind him to govern the Land in his absence being by the same Bishop amongst diverse others of the great Lords of that time excommunicated He had in Marriage with one of the Daughters of a great Lady whose name was Hildeburga ....... the Mannor of Mutford and thirty pounds Land in Ampton which she held of the Barony of Bouden that did belong to her Father Baldwin of Boxo a great Lord of that time Their Issue Sir Walter de Vere Lord of Drayton Sir Robert de Vere Lord of Addington WE find not any Lands were left by his Father unto ROBERT the second Son of Sir Henry de Vere but it is to be esteemed that he inherited no small part of his Vertue and his Valour since his own merits acquired him such a fortune as was sufficient to maintain his descendants in much splendor and reputation for many Ages He was bred up to that renowned calling wherein every well born man aspired to an excellence in that heroick Age Fame in Arms being an Ornament without which no great man could appear with any advantage but it was the subsistance and only hopes of their younger Brothers And herein this Robert did succeed so well as he became the Favorite to the great Warriers of that time from several of which he received great gifts of Lands whose values were in that Age very considerable to engage him in their interests and dependance as those in Dalentune from the Lord Jeffery de Lucy the Lordships of Addington and Twyvell from his Uncle William de Vere and the noble Lordship and Market Town of Thrapston from the Lord Baldwin de Wake in Marriage with his Aunt the Lady Margaret to which King Henry the Third did after in his favour and in the twenty ninth of his Reign grant by his Charter divers liberties and priviledges After the death of his first Wife he contracted a new Marriage with a Lady whose name was Elena that is conjectured to have been of the highest quality from her Seals her stile the complements used towards her in the applications of Ranulph Earl of Chester Jeffery of Lucy and other of the greatest Lords by whom in their deeds she was ever treated with the stile of Nobilis Domina Elena de Vere and it is believed she was that Elena the Daughter of Roger de Quincy the last Earl of Winchester and Widow to Alan de la Zouch a great Lord in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton by the interest she had in several Lands of those shires belonging to that Family as also by other probabilities collected from a Letter that is extant and a rare Antiquity of her Sisters the Lady Margaret Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke to this Sir Robert her Husband being on his Voyage to the Holy Land The friendship he had contracted with the Famous William Longespé Earl of Salisbury natural Grandson to King Henry the Second who had been chosen Captain of those English that were sent unto that enterprise could not suffer so illustrious an undertaking to be unaccompanied with his Sword He attended that Prince in quality of his Standard-bearer and was slain together with his Captain in
Thomam de Abburbirie Dominum de Aula ex parte altera videlicet Quòd praedictus Magister Thomas aut haeredes sui dicto Domino Roberto seu haeredibus suis absque Calumpnia vel contradictione dimittent terras tenementa in magna Tywa in Comitatu Oxoniae quae idem Magister Thomas aliquando habuit ex dimissione dono dicti Domini Roberti Ita tamen si praedictus Robertus aut haeredes sui dicto Thomae aut haeredibus suis seu assignatis suis in quindena Sancti Michaelis in unum annum proximo futurum prae manibus solverint apud Steple Aston sexies viginti marcas Sterlinghorum Et tunc post solutionem praedictam praedicto Magistro seu certo Attornato praedictis loco termino integraliter factam dictae terrae tenementa sine mora dicto Roberto aut haeredibus suis dimittantur deliberentur praedictum Feoffamentum pro nullo habeatur Si verò praedictus Robertus aut haeredes sui in praedictam solutionem in toto vel in parte defecerint die loco praenominatis extunc dictus Thomas aut haeredes sui ad reddendum dictas terras aut tenementa praefato Roberto aut haeredibus suis nullatenus ullo tempore tenebuntur Et sciendum quod praedjctus Dominus Robertus tenetur ad liberandum dicto Magistro Thomae plenam bonam quietam clamantiam Domini Johannis de Vere patris sui de praedictis tenementis in Tywa Ità quòd statutum de centum libris in quibus idem Robertus eidem Thomae tenetur quòd est in manibus Johannis de Hotot ex consensu dictorum Thomae Roberti nunquam eidem Roberto liberetur donec praedicta quieta-clamantia liberata fuerit dicto Thomae aut suo certo Attornato In cujus rei testimonium utraque pars huic Scripto indentato Sigillum suum apposuit alternatim Datum apud Steple Aston in praedicto Festo beati Petri Anno Regis praenotato Hiis testibus Dominis Henrico de Williamscote Waltero de Wychul Militibus Johanne de Aula de Nortlega Henrico de Dichele Johanne Filio Simonis le Mestre de Dadington aliis Carta Roberti Gilkamor PAteat universis per praesentes me Robertum de Gilkamor Collectorem Scutagii Dominae Isabellae Reginae Angliae ad opus dictae Dominae meae recepisse de Domino Roberto de Vere Milite sexaginta solidos Sterlinghorum pro tribus Scutagiis dimidii feodi Militis quod praefatus Dominus Robertus tenet de feodo Thomae Wake in Thrapston in Comitatu Northamptoniae scilicet pro Guerra Domini Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici annorum vicesimi octavi tricesimi primi tricesimi quarti de quibus quidem sexaginta solidis nomine praefatae Dominae meae fateor me fore satisfactum In cujus rei testimonium praesentibus Sigillum meum est appensum Datum apud Addington die Lunae proximo ante Festum Sancti Michaelis Anno Regni Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi decimo Carta Roberti de Vere NOtum sit omnibus tam praesentibus quà m futuris quòd Ego Robertus de Vere Dominus de Thrapston dedi concessi hoc praesenti Scripto meo confirmavi pro me executoribus imperpetuum Ranulfo filio meo haeredi omnia bona Catalla in Manerio meo de Thrapston inventa die confectionis praesentium Ità quòd nec Ego Executores mei nec aliquis nomine meo in dictis bonis Catallis de caetero exigere vel clamare poterimus sed imperpetuum sumus exclusi In cujus rei testimonium Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Thrapston die Dominico proximo ante Festum Sancti Marci Evangelistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Edwardi tertio decimo In an ancient Manuscript among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow is this Pedigree inserted Rogerus de Waterville Anna nupta Roberto Vere Domino de Thrapston Elizabeth nupta Henrico de Tichmarsh Johanna nupta Thomae de Thorp RANVLPH de VERE first of that Name Lord of Thrapston Addington Twyvell Sudburgh Tywa Melton and other Lands and Lordships The Priviledges and Liberties of the Town of Thrapston INTER Recorda in Curia Receptae Scaccarii sub Custodia Thesaurarii Camerariorum ibidem residentia inter alia continetur ut sequitur videlicet in quadam Baga de quo waranto intitulata North. Bedd ss Placita de quo waranto coram Galfrido le Scrop sociis suis Justiciariis Domini Regis Itinerantibus apud Northampton die Lunae proximo post Festum Omnium Sanctorum Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Tertii à Conquestu tertio Rotulo primo Scrop ...... ss Ranulphus de Vere summonitus fuit ad respondendum Domino Regi de placito quo waranto clamat habere libertates subscriptas in Thrapston videlicet quod ipse Haeredes sui habeant imperpetuum singulis annis unam Feriam apud Manerium de Thrapston duraturam per tres dies videlicet in Vigilia in die in Crastino Sancti Jacobi Apostoli cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus ad praedictam Feriam pertinentibus Et etiam habere ibidem Mercatum qualibet septimana per diem Martis singulis annis cum omnibus ad dictum Mercatum spectantibus Et etiam habere ibidem visum Franciplegii bis per annum videlicet semel post Pascham iterum post Festum Sancti Michaelis cum omnibus ea tangentibus c. Et Ranulphus venit quoad praedictam Feriam dicit quòd Dominus Henricus Rex Proavus Domini Regis nunc per Cartam suam quam profert concessit confirmavit cuidam Roberto de Vere Antecessori praedicti Ranulphi cujus haeres ipse est quòd ipse haeredes sui habeant imperpetuum singulis annis unam Feriam apud Manerium suum de Thrapston duraturam per tres dies videlicet in Vigilia in die in Crastino Sancti Jacobi Apostoli cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus ad hujusmodi Feriam pertinentibus Et eo waranto clamat ipse habere praedictam Feriam c. Et quoad praedictum Mercatum Visum dicit quòd illae libertates sunt fuerunt ab antiquo pertinentes ad praedictum Manerium de Thrapston de quo quidem Manerio cum pertinentiis simul cum libertatibus praedictis quidam Baldewinus de Wake feoffavit quendam Robertum de Vere Proavum praedicti Ranulphi Et de ipso Roberto descendit praedictum Manerium ad quod c. cuidam Baldewino ut Filio haeredi Et de ipso Baldewino cuidam Roberto ut filio haeredi Et de ipso Roberto descendit praedictum Manerium ad quod c. isti Ranulpho ut filio haeredi c. Et dicit quòd tam ipse omnes Antecessores sui praedicti à tempore feoffamenti praedicti usque nunc quà m etiam praedictus Baldewinus de Wake
in contrarium factis editis sive ordinatis non obstantibus In cujus rei testimonium c. Sub Sigillo Magno An Indenture septipartite between Edward Duke of Buckingham and the Coheirs of Greene and Vere THis Indenture septipartite made the second Day of September in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Between the Right Noble Prince Edward Duke of Buckingham Earl of Herford Stafford and Northampton on the one partie Margaret Countesse of Wiltes late Wife of Edward late Earl of Wiltes on the second partie Thomas Cheyne of Artlingburgh Knight and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Margery Hodleston Daughter and oon of the Heirs of John Greene and Sister and oon of the Heirs of Herry Greene late Lord of Drayton in the County of Northampton on the third partie Richard Gilford Knight Comptroller of the Kings most honourable Houshold Garden of Audre youngest Daughter of Henry Vere late of Great Addington in the County of Northampton Esquire Son and Heir of Isabell Daughter and another of the Heirs of the said John Greene and Sister and another of the Heirs of the said Herry Greene on the fourth part Alice Lady Fits Hugh late the Wife of William Fits Hugh Knight Lord Fits Hugh Garden of Constance the third Daughter of the said Harry Vere now married to John Parre on the fifth Partie John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford oon of the Kings Sergeants at Law Garden of Elizabeth first and eldest Daughter of the said Harry Vere and married to John Mordaunt Son and Heir Apparent of the same John Mordaunt of the sixth partie And the same John Mordaunt Garden alsoe of Amye second Daughter of the same Henry Vere now married to Robert Mordaunt second Son to the same John Mordaunt the Fader of the seventh partie Witnesseth That where upon Communication and Agreement of Marriage had and concluded between Edward late Earl of Wiltes and the said Margaret Countesse of Wiltes It was fully covenanted bargained and agreed That the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the same late Earl of suche yerely value as Sir Reynald Grey Knight would name And alsoe such other as the said Sir Reynald would name And after the said Sir Reynald by the assent and agreement of the said late Earl named that the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes to the yearly value of three hundred Marks above all Charges and after the same naming a Youes was made to the same Edward and Margaret and to other persons for terme of life of the same Margaret to the use and behoof of the same Margaret of the Mannors of Newton Blosmavile Clifton Watershall Brafeld and Policote in the County of Bucks Sutton Peggislond Botellis Tracies and Stamford-rivers in the County of Essex Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the Right Noble Prince Humphrey Duke of Bucks Aile to the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes and bene of the yearely value of one hundred twenty one Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And towards the recompence of the residue of the said Joynture the said Edward late Earl and Margaret and other had Estate of the Mannors of Wamiden Empton and Moche Wolston in the County of Bucks and Chalton in the County of Bedford Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the said Herry Greene and be of the yerely value of forty one Pounds ten Shillings eleven Pence All which Mannors Lands and Tenements as well such as were late of the sayd late Duke of Bucks as of the sayd Herry extend to the yerely value of one hundred sixty three Pounds fower Shillings and three Pence And soe the sayd Margaret now Countesse lacked of her Joynture to her belonging by reason of the same Covenant Bargain and Agreement thirty six Pounds fifteen Shillings nine Pence And whereas after that the sayd Earl in his life for the tender favour and love which he had to the sayd Edward now Duke of Buckingham was in very mind and fully agreed that the sayd Joynture Lands and Tenements that were of the Inheritance of the sayd Duke of Bucks should be changed and that the sayd Margaret now Countesse should have in recompence of them other Mannors Lands and Tenements that were of the same Herry Greene of like value And where Estate was made to Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires Robert Bayston Clerk Thomas Montague John Freman and one John Feld Clerk now dead of and in the Mannors of Raunds Ringstede Cotes Stawike Luffwike Sudburgh and Harringworth in the County of Northampton Emton and Mochewolston in the County of Bucks Chalton in the County of Bedford Warmester Westbury Grately Dichrich in the Countye of Wiltes and Southampton Buckworth in the County of Huntington and Combton in the County of Cambridge and of all other Lands and Tenements which sometime were of the sayd Constance late Wife of John late Earl of Wiltes and Moder to the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes in the sayd Countyes of Northampton Wiltes Southampton Bedford Bucks Huntington and Cambridge To have to them and to their Heirs for ever to the use of the said Edward late Earl and of his Heirs And where alsoe Estate was before that made of and in the said Mannors of Wamiden Emton Mochewolston and Chalton in the Countyes of Bedford and Bucks and of divers other Lands and Tenements in the same Countyes the which late were of the sayd Harry Greene to the sayd Edward and Margaret then his Wife Johane Vicountesse Lesle John Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire Thomas Kebell one of the Kings Sergeants at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Humphrey Connesby Thomas Frowike Sergeants at Law John Tichbourne John Smith John Gardiner Thomas Bayall and Thomas Haywode To have to them for terme of life of the sayd Margaret the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes And of the residue of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements whereof the sayd Robert Wittelbury and his Cofeffez were infeossed they were satisfied thereof at the time of the death of the sayd Edward late Earle and yet thereof be seised And where alsoe the sayd Edward Duke of Bucks hath before this time pretended Title to part of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other Mannors Lands and Tenements late of the sayd Edward late Earle of the Greenes Lands as Cosyne and next Heir to the sayd Edward late Earle of the Faders side of the sayd late Earle And where alsoe the same Countesse claymeth to have dower of parcel of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements over and beside her sayd Joynture And where alsoe the sayd Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader as moche as in them is for their interest for causes comprized in their Indentures have promissed to the sayd Sir
Battel of Bosworth and upon the success of that Field knighted for his service He bare afterward much rule in his Country during that King's Reign being High Sheriff of Essex in the ninth Year thereof not long after which he departed this life leaving Issue by Mary the Daughter of Sir John Hurleston John Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis being a Youth of singular expectation and coming by a course of Years to a fitness for such a Marriage as might continue his Family in a probability both of a fair succession and a plentiful Fortune a Match was to those ends contrived by the advice of his Friends wherein all useful purposes did concur in the person of Anne Lovell a beautiful Virgin the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Lovell Knight but in the accomplishment thereof even on the fatal Wedding-Night by what miserable accident it is not said the house wherein the celebration was performed was set on fire the suddenness and fury whereof was such with the time of the Night and the effects of the preceding jollities as rendred it impossible to be extinguished till it had destroyed the Lovers the Guests and the Edifice wherein they did repose so as John perishing so unhappily without an Heir his Estate descended to his Sister Ely Fitz-Lewis ELY FITZ-LEWIS Lady of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships ELY Fitz-Lewis being left the fortunate Heir of an unhappy Brother who perished on his Wedding-Night became intitled thereby to a free and fair Estate in the County of Essex upon whom were suddenly cast the eyes of many Pretenders but Sir John Mordaunt afterwards Lord Mordaunt having at that time much interest in Court for divers services rendred by his Father and himself obtained her Wardship of King Henry the Seventh and gave her afterwards in Marriage to Sir John Mordaunt his eldest Son from whom the present Earl of Peterborow is descended LEWES Prince of France After King Lewis the Eight By a Noble English Virgin Sr. Lewis Fitzlewes Margaret of Essex Sr. Iohn Fitzlewes Eliz de Harpden Aubury de Vere the tenth Earle of Oxford Alice Filzwater Sr. Richard Fitzlewes Eliz de Baude Iohn Mountacute the 3d. Earle of Salisbury Maud Francoys Alice de Vereo Sr. John Fitzlewes Anne de Mountacute Sr. Henry Fitzlewes Eleonor de Beaufort Sr. Lewes Fitzlewes Margaret Stoner Eliz Fitzlewes Sr. Iohn Wingfeild Mary Fitzlewes Second Wife to Anthony Woddvill Earle of Rivers Sir Richard Fitzlewes Mary Hurlestone John Fitzlewes Anne Lovell Elly Fitzlewes Iohn 2d. Lord. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS OF WESTHORNEDON Lewis Prince of France Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Sir John Fitz-Lewis and Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis An antient Latine Pedigree found among the Evidences of Fitz-Lewis DOminus Ludovicus de Francia dum in Anglia moram fecit coronatus fuit habuit ex Philippa Filia cujusdam nobilis pulcherrima de qua erat perditissimus Dominum Ludovicum Fitz-Lewis cui Pater Matris qui praeter tres Sorores nullos habuit Heredes post recessum dicti Principis Francorum quòd spem Juvenis de virtute sua dederat reliquit ad sustentationem Manerium de Westhornedon in Comitatu Essexiae Iste Ludovicus floruit in tempore Henrici tertii ex Uxore sua Margareta de Essexia reliquit Haeredem Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui cum Baronibus militavit contra Edvardum secundum Bello peribat in Comitiva Comitis Lancastriae Filium tamen genuit ex Maria de Harpden Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui clementiâ Successoris ad Haereditatem praetentiones restitutus evasit ditissimus Maternis opibus colendissimus vixit linquendo Haeredem ex Uxore Agnete de Baude Dominum Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui virtute opibus ita erat spectabilis ut ab Alberico decimo Comite Oxoniae in Uxorem accepisse meruit Aliciam Filiam suam post obitum dictae Aliciae in alteram Uxorem Annam Filiam Johannis de Montacuto tertio istius nominis Comite Sarum quae fuit postea Ducissa de Exon ex quarum prima genuit Henricum Fitz-Lewis Johannem ex altera Elizabetham nuptam Johanni Wingfield de Comitatu Suffolciae Militi Dominus Henricus Fitz-Lewis Miles erat strenuissimus ita addictus Principibus Domûs Lancastriae ut Ducibus istius partialitatis charissimus semper existit cum eiisdem militavit eorum Fortunae fuit particeps tandem pro virtute bene meritis sibi data erat in Uxorem Eleanora Filia Edmundi de Beaufort Ducis de Somerset ex qua genuit Mariam Uxorem Anthonii de Woodville primi Comitis de Ripariis sed obiit sine Haerede Masculo unde sibi successit Dominus Ludovicus Fitz-Lewis Frater ejus qui fuit Haeres omnium Terrarum quas tenebat in feudo de qua non extant altera sed quòd duxit in Uxorem Margaretam Stonore ex qua genuit Dominum Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui Manerium de Westhornedon ac alias Terras nobiles tenuit Jure Haereditario post mortem Patris ad consanguineam ejus Mariam Comitissam de Ripariis tantummodo descenderunt Terrae illae quae Henrico Patris sui datae essent aut industriâ ejus vel propriis pecuniis partae Miles insignis fuit iste Richardus in suo tempore multósque labores pericula pro Rege suo Patria subivit tandem annorum satur quievit in Domino linquendo exitum ex Maria de Hurleston Johannem Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis Johannes Fitz-Lewis cui Natura formam dedit egregiam educatio indolem cùm perventus fuit ad aetatem quam idoneam Amici aestimârunt ad subeundum Matrimonii Jugum ut iis spes non deesset propagandi Familiam tam claram in Provincia tanti nominis oculos affines conjecerunt super Virginem omnimodo spectabilem formâ stirpe virtutibus quam elegerunt sicut materiam hujus Familiae futurae felicitatis Tractaverunt cum Patre Domino Roberto de Lovell Milite conclusis pactibus in Domo Patris infelicissimum celebrârunt Matrimonium quia post mediam Noctem omnibus somno immersis miserrimum erupit Incendium quod tam vorax fuit subitum violentum ut parvo tempore Domum Hospites cum Sponso miserrima Conjuge consumpsit sic ut Domina Ely Fitz-Lewis Soror unica hujus Johannis alibi tunc infirmitate detenta hujus causâ infortunii Haeres ditissima devenit nominis Armorum Haereditatis Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis ratione minoris aetatis Warda ob obitum Patris devenit Domini Regis qui ejus Custodiâ Johannem Dominum Mordaunt gratificavit qui in illo tempore spectabilem in Aula fuit ob egregia merita Patris sui versus Regem Coronam qui quidem Johannes eam in
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
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
potestate ad procedendum in eisdem juxta leges nostras civiles maritimas ac consuetudinem Curiae principalis nostrae Admiralitatis Angliae praedictae ab antiquo usitatas tam ex officio mere mixto vel promoto seu ad alicujus partis instantiam prout casus exiget expediens visum fuerit Volumus etiam per praesentes concedimus quòd praefatus Dominus Howard magnus Admirallus noster Angliae Praefectus Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ac ejus locum tenentes ac caeteri ejus officiarii ministri praedicti habeant cognitionem decisionem de wreco maris magno seu parvo ac de morte supervisione visu corporum mortuorum quarumcunque personarum in mare vel fluminibus publicis portubus aquis dulcibus seu crecis quibuscunque infra fluxum maris vel aquae praedictae ad plenitudinem per dicta regna nostra dominia praedicta ac jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae praedictae custodiendum conservandum statutis nostris de wreco maris de officio Coronatoris annis tertio quarto Edwardi Primi atque Statutis de bonis spoliatis super mare venientibus in hoc Regnum nostris Angliae anno vicesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii progenitorum nostrorum quondam Regni Angliae respectivè editis provifis atque cognitionem de mahemio in locis praedictis infra fluxum maris aquae ad plenitudinem contingent cum potestate etiam puniendi delinquentes in ea parte quoscunque juxta juris exigentiam ac Curae Admiralitatis nostrae praedictae consuetudinem eò quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo vel certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Praefecto generali Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minimè facta existit aut aliquo Statuto actu ordinatione provisione prohibitione sive restrictione praesentibus literis nostris patentibus sive alicui parti seu clausulae in eisdem expressis vel insertis repugnantibus derogatoriis aut contrariis quibuscunque in contrarium factis editis ordinatis sive provisis seu aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante mandantes firmiter strictè tenore praesentium percipientes atque per dictum magnum Admirallum Praefectum nostrum generalem ex parte nostra percipi mandari volentes universis singulis Proceribus Dominis Justiciariis Majoribus Vicecomitibus Capitaneis Senescallis Ballivis Custodibus Gaolorum carcerum nostrorum quorumcunque Constabulariisque ac caeteris Ministris fidelibus Subditis Ligeis nostris quibuscunque eorum cujuslibet infra libertates extra quod praefato Dimino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae Praefecto generali Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ac officiariorum deputatis ministris suis quibuscunque eorum cuilibet in dicto officio Admiralitatis nostrae assignatis seu assignandis circa executionem praemissorum intendentes auxiliantes faventes pariter obedientes sint ac quòd mandatis praeceptis quibuscunque eis vel eorum alicui ex parte nostra per dictum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae ac Praefectum generalem Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum vel ejus nomine directè pareant sub poena contemptûs istarum literarum nostrarum patentium ac sub periculo incumbentium In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo die Martii Anno Regni Reginae Mariae primo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo examinatum per me S. Killingworth Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 28. JAM illa annos nata XXV usu adversitate efficacissimis magistris edocta prudentiam supra aetatem comparuerat cujus primum specimen in Conciliariis deligendis dedit In sanctius enim Concilium sibi adscivit Nicolaum Heathum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem quem dixi magna prudentia modesto ingenio virum Guilielmum Pawletum Wintoniae Marchionem summum Angliae Thesaurarium Henricum Fitz-Alanum Arundeliae Franciscum Talbottum Salopiae Edwardum Stanleium Derbiae Guilielmum Herbertum Penbrochiae Comites Edwardum Baronem Clintonum maris Praefectum Guilielmum Baronem Howardum Effinghamium Cubicularium Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 19. AD Hispanum in Belgio mittitur Baro Cobhamus cum documentis in eandem sententiam necnon cum diplomate quo Comes Arundeliae Thurlbeius Episcopus Eliensis D. Wottonus à Maria ad pacem Cameraci tractandam nuper delegati Reginae nomine denuo delegantur illisque Guilielmus Baro Howardus Effinghamius adjungitur Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 31. HINC visum ut ad castellum Cameracense de componendis controversiis pace concilianda agerent utrique delegati Pro Regina Angliae Thurlbeius Episcopus Eliensis Guilielmus Baro Howardus Effinghamius Reginae cubicularius supremus Nicolaus Wottonus Ecclesiarum metropolitanarum Cantuariae Eboraci Decanus Pro rege Galliae Carolus Cardinalis à Lotharyngia Archiepiscopus Dux Rihemensis Par primus Franciae Annas Dux Montmorentius Par Conestabilus magnus Magister Franciae Jacobus Albonus Dominus à St. Andraea Marchio Fronsac Franciae Marescallus Johannes Morvillerius Episcopus Aurelianensis Claudius Albospinaeus in Privato Concilio Secretarius Ex eodem iterum Pag. 209. INter pares appellatur ad judicium nepotis Ducis Norfolciae Ex eodem iterum Pag. 243. PRincipio hujus anni spiritum edidit Guilielmus Baro Howard Effinghamius privati Sigilli Custos Thomae Howardi Bellicosi illius Norfolciae Ducis de secunda Uxore Agnete Tilneia filius vir fidei spectatissimae animi invicti qui primum Caleti Praefectus in Baronum numerum à Regina Maria adstitus magnus Angliae Admirallus constitutus Cui postea Cubicularius erat ut etiam Elizabethae donec aetate fractus Sussexio paucis ante obitum mensibus cesserit privati Sigilli Custos factus qui in Anglia quartus est ut dixi honoris gradus Successit in Baroniae honore Carolus filius qui postea Reginae Cubicularius magnus itidem Angliae Admirallus CHARLES HOWARD Earl of Nottingham Peer and Lord High Admiral of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Lord Justice and Heir of all her Majesties Forests Parks and Chaces on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of Her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER III. Hollinshed in the Life of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 1212. About the Rebellion of the Earls of Westmoreland and Northumberland AND the twentieth of December they came to Hexam from whence the Rebels were gone the Night before to Neworth where they counselled with Edward Dacres concerning their own weariness and also how they were not only pursued by the Earl of Sussex and
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
King and from which Elizabeth descended to the Mordaunts the Noble Lordships of Drayton Thrapston Addington Sudburgh Islip Luffwick Slipton and many other great Possessions Many disputes notwithstanding arose about the pretences of these Heirs even with the greatest Lords in England as the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury but the Credit of Sir John Mordaunt and his interest with the King joyn'd to his Wisdom and great Knowledge in the Laws had ever influence upon them But after his decease they set up great pretences to Drayton and the Green 's Lands and the Young Mordaunt soon found how much his Fathers Life had conduc'd to the settlement of that Estate In the Agitations of the Establishment whereof and the Agreements made with those great Lords he spent the remainder of King Henry the Seventh's Reign and was by that time become a person greatly accomplish'd After this King's Death he apply'd himself wholly to the farther designs of the Honor and Advantage of his House and made his Court to the Young Successor follow'd him in his First Wars and got so successfully into his Favour and Opinion as upon his return he received the gratification of a Patent containing the grant of several Noble Privileges and Immunities Among the rest to be Pilo Copertus in the presence of the King or of any of his Judges Ministers or Magistrates The Consideration he was at this time in appears by several Letters directed to him when he was yet but a private Gentleman He was Knighted by him after this and made a Privy Councellor wherein his Wisdom Fidelity and Zeal to his Majesty's Service were very Exemplary He was at one time Surveyor General of the King's Woods and Wood-sails and the Chief in another Commission for providing Necessaries for the Fortifications of Calice and the other Ports and Castles within the English Pale in the Country of Picardy and in many other matters he was Employ'd of great Importance wherein he so behaved and discharg'd himself as his generous Master thought fit for a reward of his many Services to take him into the Illustrious Dignity of the Peerage calling him by Writ a Baron into the Parliament in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign After this upon the Revolutions which happned by the change of the Church Government whereunto he was not able to shew that compliance which others of more supple tempers did condescend to do his Favour did decline and his Master's Kindness to him So as being retired to his own House and Country he did not remain without several mortifications which his Enemies of the prevailing Faction that Govern'd in the Court did endeavour to put upon him several hard Letters he received from the King about matters which they imputed to him concerning his backwardness in suppressing the Interest of the Old Religion and as the last endeavor of their Revenge they strove to make the King oblige him to an Exchange of the Noble Lordship of Drayton and the other Towns lying about it of his Wives Antient Inheritance and that he had in his Old Age settled against all Competitors at great Labour and Charges with certain of the Abby Lands newly acquired unto the Crown with which his Conscience as well as his Interest were altogether incompatible From this oppression he had not been able to have defended himself notwithstanding all his great Friends and Antient Services if the King's Death had not succeeded which in this point set him at liberty The Reign of King Edward he spent in peace But at the beginning of Queen Mary he labor'd a little under an imputation of his Enemies who would alledge he favoured the Dudleys and the claim of the Lady Jane but it was blown off with the improbability of an Inclination so contrary to his Principles and Profession and he lived out her time too and to the Second Year of her Successor Queen Elizabeth when he being very Old departed this Life in great Honor and Happiness Leaving Issue by his Wife the Lady Elizabeth Vere Sir John Mordaunt his Son and Heir Edmund Mordaunt William Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of Oakely and that Married Agnes Booth George Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of the Hill Married to Cecilia Harding Edith Mordaunt Married to John Elms. Anne Mordaunt Married to John Fisher Margaret Mordaunt Married to Edmond Fettyplace Dorothy Mordaunt Married to Thomas Moore Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Silvester Danvers Winifreid Mordaunt Married to John Cheyney of Chesham Boys Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII JOHN MORDAVNT was the early fruits of his Father's Marriage with the Lady Elizabeth Vere and the Lord Mordaunt being but young himself when his Son was born this John grew up to early Manhood while his Father was yet in the vigor of his own years and so they had the happiness to live long together in the same Generation The Lord Mordaunt in the time of his favor had the opportunity to purchase of the King at an easie rate the Marriage of Elly Fitz-Lewis who had become Heir of that Antient Family by the untimely Death of her Brother as has been expressed in the relation appertaining thereunto She was a very rich and considerable Fortune bringing with her the noble Lordship of Westhorndon and many other fair possessions And unto this Lady he Married John Mordaunt his Eldest Son who with his Wife lived long in his Father's life time upon her Estate in great Plenty and Reputation He had for several Years participated with the Lord Mordaunt much of King Henry's Favour and in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign and in the same wherein his Father was made a Baron he was summoned to come and receive at his Majesty's hands the Honourable Order of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne of Bollen which he did at that time in fellowship of the Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Waters the Lord Hastings and the Lord Mounteagle But with his Father being entirely addicted to the old Religion the change that succeeded in the one produc'd the same in both their Fortunes which was to retire to their Houses from all further applications in that Reign and at home Sir John Mordaunt continued likewise during that of the young Successor But at the Death of King Edward and the early difficulties of Queen Mary he was of the first that put themselves into the Field at the head of the Essex Men where his interest and reputation was very great offering unto her his and their Services in defence of her Person and Government at the Castle of Framingham in Suffolk where she was then retired in expectation of being assaulted by the Troops raised in behalf of the Faction of the Lady Jane and her Husband upon whom the Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland intended to settle the Crown of England The considerableness of
meeting of the Parliament the Earl with his Son came to Town here the Young Lord began to be acquainted with Great Men and gave such early testimonies of his Prudence Generosity and Zeal for the concerns of 〈◊〉 Crown as acquired him the particular notice and esteem of the King with the Favor of the first Men of the Court who from the pregnant appearances of his merit began severally to wish and design him into their Alliance The Parliament growing now every day into greater heats than other and the Earl apprehending the consequences of the Factious Proceedings of that time thought it not amiss to have his Son free from the beginnings of the Troubles that he might the better discern to what they were like to tend He sent him therefore into France to learn his Exercises and acquire those Improvements were necessary for the qualification of a young Man whose Birth and Fortune was so considerable The young Lord out-did the expectation of his Parents and became Master of every quality was necessary for him to possess But after too years spent in that Kingdom England his own Country was now in a flame the Rebellion broke out and a Battel had been fought yet it was far from a decision and the War like to draw out in length And the Earl his Father not knowing by what accidents his Fortune might be so intercepted or encomber'd as it would be out of his power to maintain his Son abroad as he did desire thought it best to recal him home But at the time he had the unwelcome orders for his return he receiv'd worse News which was That of his Father's being engag'd in the Parliament party It had like to have made the Lord Mordaunt desperate it was a stroke he look'd upon as sent from Heaven to punish him and his Family for all their Sins But he was then resolv'd to expiate that Crime by the hazard of all could be dear to any Man and to wash out his Father's Faults with his own Blood that with his Life he was resolv'd to expose in support of the good King and his Authority But to enable him thereunto it was necessary he should at present obey and dissemble too so he return'd and was receiv'd into the Embraces of his Friends as one they hoped to make useful to their designs and the party wherewith they were engag'd And to the end they might charm the Inclinations of the Young Lord whom they found to be Active Generous and fond of Business and Command the Earl his Father who was then Field Marshal of the Army and had besides a Regiment of Foot and a Troop of Horse did consign the command of the Troop to the charge of his Son that he might busie himself therewith and practise the Trade of a Souldier under the Command of Robert Earl of Essex at that time Captain General of all the Parliament Forces The Lord Mordaunt receiv'd a Commission to that purpose and in appearance busied himself a whole Winter in the Care of the Troop but in the mean time by the intermise of a Noble Gentleman called Sir John Manwood whom he had known abroad he cultivated a correspondence at the Court made the King understand That the colour of his engagement in that Army was but to enable him the better and more usefully to make his escape from the Party and so settled the understanding of his proceeding and intentions there as he was sure to be receiv'd with open Arms at Oxford when ever it would be fit for him to quit the Rebels In order hereunto the Lord Mordaunt retired to Henly which was at that time his Quarters and intending to leave the Parliament Army prepar'd his Servants his Equipage and all other necessaries which could be useful in the future Service he intended to his King and Country And so upon the Twenty first day of April in the Year 1643 in company only of a French Gentleman that had been his Lieutenant and Fifteen Servants with about Twenty good Horses he rode into the King's Quarters and came into the Town of Reading which was at that time well Fortified and whereof Sir Arthur Aston an experienced Souldier was tâ—â— Governor After he had made and receiv'd the Complements usual upon such an occasion he intended to have left that place and pursued his Journey to the Court but there happ'ning to be at that time in the Garrison and in a Post very considerable an old Friend and Acquaintance of the Earl his Father's called Colonel Richard Fielding the Treatment the Respect and the Attendance he paid to the Lord Mordaunt would not permit him decently to leave that place without affording to a particular Friend of his Family his company for a day longer He stay'd therefore the next day which was employ'd in seeing the Works in being enform'd of the condition of the place and understanding the designs of the Enemy But in the Evening Intelligence was brought them That the Earl of Essex was upon his March with his Army and Train of Artillery in order to Besiege the Town Hereupon the Lord Mordaunt's business not being in that place he resolv'd to have departed in the Morning But his Friend the Colonel who had business himself at Oxford did much desire to accompany his Lordship to the Court and no way believing the Intelligence of the Enemies approach for many reasons which he did alledge he assur'd him That if he would but stay another day he would take leave of the Governor and not fail to attend his Lordship to Oxford which he thought would be very much for his Lordships Service and convenience The young Lord let himself be perswaded and pass'd the night in expectation of the morrow's Journey But by the break of day he heard the Alarm and now the whole Garrison was employ'd in preparation to receive the Enemy whose Scouts appear'd and that were upon their March ready to invest the Town This render'd it now too late to leave that place where was like to be occasion of serving the King by Fighting in defence of it and encouraging the Souldiers who love to see Great Men participate of their toils and hazards This young Lord prepar'd then to do the part of a Volunteer wherein he had soon occasion to signalize himself by the sudden advance of the Enemy the Earl of Essex with his whole Army sitting down before this Town upon the 25th day of April just Three days after the arrival of the Lord Mordaunt The next day there was a Sally resolv'd upon wherein the Young Lord went out with a Musquet on his Shoulder and so distinguish'd himself in this first adventure as made him admir'd and lov'd by all the Garrison The day after by an accident the Governour was hurt and so as it made him uncapable of farther Function and in his default the whole command of the place devolv'd upon Colonel Richard Fielding who whether it were that he did really want the
Provisions necessary to the maintenance of the Town or that his Head turn'd round under the divers difficulties of so great a charge having never before commanded alone such a Garrison nor so considerable a place did shew so much confusion and such unsteadiness in his Orders as after brought his Life and Honour into question and lost him in the Opinion of the King and the Chief Officers of the Army Succors had been promised to the relief of this Town and at last a considerable body of Horse and Foot was sent in hopes to raise the Siege an attempt whereof was made at Causam Bridge but so unsuccessfully as after the loss of many Souldiers and divers Gentlemen and brave Officers the King's Troops were forc'd to Retreat leaving the Town in a much worse condition than it was before the Garrison and Inhabitants being much disheartned by such a disappointment There were great disputes afterwards whether it proceeded from the want of number and strength in the Party that was sent or the neglect if not a worse reflection upon the Commander for not Sallying out upon the Enemy with what might have been spared of the Garrison at the same time they were so vigorously assailed by his Majesty's Troops on the other side And this some did affirm to have been concerted at the time of the undertaking But the Colonel now beginning to despond of any farther endeavors were intended to releive the Town and finding his Men dissatisfied his Ammunition wasted â—nd his provision grown very short he demanded a Treaty which the Enemy easily condescended to well knowing an attempt to take a Town by force wherein were so many and so good Men if it did succeed was like to be at a rate would prove â—â—â—y dear And Commissioners being appointed on either side it was agreed The â—â—â—arrison should march out with Arms Bag and Baggage Flying Colours and Balle en Bouche The only thing was found weak and mean in the Commander among the conditions was That such as had from a certain time left the Parliament Service were to be abandon'd to their reprisal and resentment an Article calculated on purpose for delivery of this Young Lord. To which the Commander so ancitient and so great a pretended Friend had condescended with very small resistance the dishonor of which was afterward at his Tryal before the Court Martial at Oxford with very much exaggeration laid to his charge The night before the surrender it may be imagin'd the Lord Mordaunt was in no small concern how to escape the danger of being seiz'd by the Enemy according to the right they had so to do by reason of the Articles Divers ways were proposed for his escape whereof some seem'd too mean others too precipitate At last he resolv'd to take the Habit Arms Horse and Apparel of an ordinary Trooper and at adventure to march in the Rank of such a one even under inspection of the Earl of Essex himself before whom all the Troops were to march away This the next morning he put in practice and was so successful as to pass clear without any discovery or obstruction although the General had employ'd divers to search for him among the Troops and that his Father had sent of his own domesticks to assist in his seisure as well to vindicate himself from any suspicion of connivance with his Son as to divert the young Lord from his intended Engagement among the Cavaliers from which the Countess his Mother was at that time very averse He marched in company of the Troops till he came to Wallingford where he saw Prince Rupert the first time whom he found much enflamed against Colonel Fielding He complemented the Young Lord with a particular sence he express'd to have of the hazards whereunto by these mean Articles he was expos'd The Lord Mordaunt came the next day to Oxford where he presented himself to the King and was receiv'd with that goodness which was natural to one of the best Kings that ever Reign'd After which he apply'd himself in his respects to the Ministers became acquainted with the Great Officers of the Army and though he had lost some of his Servants his Baggage his Money and which was worst all his Horses whereof there were some very excellent these necessaries having been known at their march out of the Town and were all seized by the General 's Order as the Goods of a Dissertor whom himself they could not find yet the Lord Mordaunt esteem'd himself a gainer upon the whole having by this generous testimony of his Loyalty gained an opportunity of justifying himself with the good Opinion and esteem of all the Worthy and Ingenuous persons of the Court. His next care was to repair the losses of those necessaries which were useful to the method of Service he did intend Horses Arms and Money towards which the kind care of the Noble Lady Mordaunt his Grandmother that had always been a zealous Catholick did much enable him and he was soon after in a condition to follow the King in all his Marches and Expeditions whereof the first was when he advanc'd from Oxford to Bristol to take possession of that important City that had been delivered up by Colonel Fines and there to settle a strong Garrison and his Authority After which and his return to Oxford he follow'd the King to the Siege of Gloucester wherein he endeavour'd to advantage his Experience with the observation of every Action and Proceeding was practised in that occasion and so signaliz'd his application towards enabling him for the future Service of his Prince as gain'd him much honor from all that did observe him But after the disappointments and ill success of this enterprise and that by the approach of the Parliament Army the Siege was forc'd to be raised to the shame of those had engag'd the King upon the undertaking upon the assurance of a present delivery the Lord Mordaunt follow'd his Majesty to Newbery where the King engaged in Battel with the Parliament Forces The Two Armies lay the first Night in fight one of another and by break of day they began to skirmish The Fight soon became very fierce the young Lord shew'd his Valor and Bravery in several parts but particularly when among other generous Volunteers he put himself in the first Rank of the Prince's Troop then Commanded by Sir Richard Crane when it went to Charge the Great body of the Parliament's Foot which had Cannon planted before it all loaden with Case Shot for the better reception of their Enemies It was an occasion never to be forgotten for at the first charge of the Horse they were saluted with such a Fire as killed and dismounted above Fourscore at one Volley There it was the Earl of Sunderland was slain and so many considerable persons hurt and disabled The Lord Mordaunt was shot in the Arm wounded with a Pike in the Thigh had several honourable marks made in the Coat that cover'd his Arms
and his Horse was shot in the shoulder The end and consequences of this Fight is known in Story The King return'd to Oxford the Earl of Essex to London and the Lord Mordaunt remain'd at Court the ensuing Winter The young Lord had not attained the full age that might capacitate him to sit in Parliament but the Earl his Father being deceased and he succeeding to his dignity of Earl of Peterborow it pleased his Majesty to dispense with a year of that time and by Writ to call him to fit in the Oxford Parliament It was in this Assembly the Earl of Peterborow shew'd the fruits of a Generous Education his Manners were grave and decent his Judgment sound his Learning above his Years and his Quality and he spoke so as satisfied much and affected those that heard him In fine the Great and Unfortunate Charles took such an impression from his proceedings as had the King out-liv'd the disorders of that Age the Earl of Peterborow had been certainly both employ'd and cherish'd by him After this Session he follow'd the King in the Expeditions of the succeeding Summer He was engag'd in the Fight at Cropradey he was with him in the West at Exeter and in Cornwall where the Parliaments Army was Besieg'd their Generals shifted for themselves by Sea and their Troops passed by the King's Army on conditions The Winter following was employ'd by this Earl in an Action very considerable to him which was his Marriage with a beautiful young Lady of great birth called Penelope Obrien only Daughter to Barnaby Earl of Thomond part of whose Portion was at that time very useful to him his Mother being then alive and in possession of most of his Estate and the rest sequester'd and in the Parliament Quarters The next Spring he carried his Lady to Bristol a place in appearance of most safety and farther from the Scene of the War which was likely as it did fall out to be more Northward Here he happn'd to be about the time of the Fight at Leicester where the good King was worsted and from whence his greater misfortune began to flow Upon the King's retreat Westward the Earl of Peterborow to be more free to follow him in all his Fortunes got a Pass for his Lady to go to London to agitate among his Relations some supplies towards enabling him for his subsistance and to furnish him towards certain designs he had for his Majesty's Service He went with the King after this for Wales but losses and defections coming now more and more upon his Majesty every day he retired again to Oxford and Winter drawing nigh the Earl took that Season to pass into Ireland where was a considerable remainder of his Wife's Portion with which he intended to pass into France unto the Queen being then at Paris to Negotiate the interests he had at Court and after to return Unto all this he had not only the King's leave but such Passes and Letters of Recommendation from his Majesty and the Principal Secretary the Earl of Bristol as will for ever bear honourable testimony of this Earl's behavior He did then prosecute his journey which was in all things very fortunate though full of particular adventures too long for this relation He pass'd into Ireland came into Thomond in the Province of Munster where his Father-in-law lived and carried thence the Moneys he did demand Embark'd at Galloway in Cannaught for France after extraordinary sufferance and hazards at Sea landed at Saint Mallows and came afterwards to Paris where he was received by the Queen with that kindness and concern as was due to a Man who had adher'd so faithfully and so long to the King her Husband and all his Interests By this time every Post brought news of the King's misfortunes who having been at last forced to quit Oxford and the few Troops he had left had cast himself upon the Protection of the Scotch Army Here to well judging people seem'd to be an end of all the hopes of the Royal Party who had reason to fear what was the present Interest and was like to be the resolution of that People After some time then every one as in a Shipwrack seeking for a Plank whereon they might save themselves the Earl of Peterborow upon discourse with the Queen and the King's Secretary that was then in France had not only their leave but their advice to make it his business to get admission to come home into England and compound for his Estate as the rest of the Cavaliers in England did The Earl's Mother that always liv'd in the Parliament Quarters and had many Friends among them procur'd his desire So that with the young Countess his Wife at that time with him in France he repair'd home and at last by a very severe composition in Money for which he was fain to sell and mortgage many of his Lands he made such a kind of Peace as that wherewith the Lords and Gentlemen of the King's Party were at that time forc'd to be contented In the care then of his Fortune composing of domestick differences and providing as well as he could against future accidents the Earl of Peterborow spent his time till the King came to be abandon'd by those false Scots and deliver'd into the hands of the Parliament He happn'd to be residing upon his Noble Lordship of Turvey at the time the King was taken from Holmby and brought on his way towards London His Majesty happn'd one Night in his journey to be lodg'd at Ampthill where it was design'd he should rest a day or two at hearing hereof the Earl's House not being above seven Miles from thence he thought it his duty to endeavour to see his Sacred Master and try if he could have occasion to be useful to him in any kind He rose then and by Eleven of the Clock came to the House where the King lay Not without some difficulty he got to be admited where he was and he found his Majesty going to the Prayers usual before his Dinner After they were perform'd he kneel'd down for the honor of his Majesty's Hand but had only opportunity for the ordinary Complements being overlook'd by the Officers appointed to observe the addresses and behavior of all that did approach him Chearfulness there was not much in the King's looks but no disorder grave they were but distinguishing to any he took for Friends and injur'd goodness appear'd in every motion The Dinner was soon brought up during which the Earl waited by him and near the end of it the Officers withdrew and all except the Guards of the Door The Earl quickly took the opportunity of asking his Majesty If there were any thing wherein he might be serv'd with the hazard of his Life and Fortune The King Answer'd He was not in a place to take any measures but would have him advise with those that were his Friends The Earl said no more by reason of the Villainous Jaylers returning so
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
Mordaunt the Earl's Brother and the Lady his Wife called before her Mariage Mrs Elizabeth Cary had by much officiousness and many endeavors during the King's Exile acquired a great share in his favour but most of all with the King 's Chief Minister the Lord Chancellor Hide afterwards Earl of Clarendon and having great and incomposable differences with the Earl of Peterborow about the settlement of his Estate whereunto against his will they pretended to Inherit they had to encline them to their partiality in case the decision of any of the differences should come to depend on them done sundry ill offices to the Earl so as at the King 's first Arrival he receiv'd marks enough of the King's coldness and the ill impressions they had taken But the Earl of Peterborow who could speak well having means by some Friends of the contrary Faction to have access to the King soon dispersed those Clouds and convinced his Majesty of the Art and Malice of his Enemies and of the untruth of those suggestions which were partly the cause that enclin'd the King and his Minister to suffer the remainders of Rygate to be taken out of the Crown by which the Earl lost one of the Noblest Houses in the South of England and such Lands and Revenues belonging to that Priory as were worth a Thousand Pound of yearly Revenues The King after this promised proportionable Recompence to the Earl and by the interposition of the Lord Chancellor had given him a Commission for Captain General of the King's Forces to be sent into Africa and to be Governor of the City of Tangier To this undertaking then the Earl of Peterborow wholly applied himself and although from the Division of the Councel which did at that time consist of two very powerful Factions neither of them much favouring what ever the other did propose great obstructions and difficulties did arise unto the Earl both in the preparations that were necessary and in the after performance of several things that were undertaken yet with his industry and diligence he overcame the envy and secret opposition of that affair Embarking the ...... of ...... with Three Thousand Three Hundred Men under his conduct and proportionable Provisions for them of every sort and landing at Tangier the ...... of ...... took possession of it for the King of England and establish'd himself Governor thereof The History of his Government there being too long for this place I shall only say That for the time he stay'd there was never place kept in better order better paid better provided for nor where all sorts of Men had better Justice or Protection It is true Two reasons made him desire to be recall'd the first That his spirit and his endeavours were so limited as that little Honor was to be obtain'd by his residence in that place having not Troops enough to march or attempt any thing into the Country nor Money enough to design such Fortifications or so proceed with the business of the Mole as might render the Town safe against an undertaking Army or the Sea advantageous to a Trading Fleet. But the chief Thorn in his Foot was the Envy and Malice of some considerable Enemies at home who endeavor'd to support an under Officer of his own in his pretension of competition to some powers that were incompatible with his Honor and Authority And they engaged the best and otherwise the justest Prince in the World so to favor what that Officer did aim at as the Earl must have submitted to his Adversaries or encurr'd the last enmity from that person for whom he had the greatest service and veneration that could be Seeing it was like to come to that extremity the Earl of Peterborow desired leave to lay down his Government and return It was so agitated by his Friends as that he had it granted with all the circumstances of honor and kindness that could be as appears by a Letter of Thanks under the King's Hand for his faithful and good Services and in consideration thereof he had under the Great Seal of England a Pension granted him for his life of a Thousand Pound by the Year Upon his return he found the King engag'd in a War that was like to prove very fierce between himself and the States of the United Provinces And resolving to acknowledge the King's Bounties on every occasion that should present it self by the constant offer of his Service he desired the Command of a Ship to serve in that conjuncture and it was granted with acknowledgments for the Example But upon notice thereof among the Men of Quality it was so much and so suddenly followed as it put a necessity upon the King to refuse it to others of as great merit and zeal as could be or to have his Fleet commanded for the most part by Men of greater Quality than Experience This put a stop even to the Earl's pretension But since he could not serve in that capacity he was resolv'd to go a Volunteer which he hid in the Ship and company of the Noble Earl of Sandwich they first setting to Sea from Portsmouth But the Fleet soon returning by reason of the lateness of the Season his Lordship did so too remaining that Winter making his court to the Princes The next Expedition which the succeeding Summer did produce he went again to Sea in good earnest and because it was a Second-rate Ship of good force and accommodation he was order'd aboard the Vnicorn Commanded by one Captain ...... Tidiman wherein he remain'd during that great Fight of the Third of June in the Year .... where to his immortal glory the present Great King James the Second shew'd more personal Valor and Conduct than any other Prince of the House of England since the Conquest who had kill'd by his side the Earl of Faymouth his Brother's Favorite and his own his first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber the Lord Muskery the generous Mr. Boyle with many other Gentlemen and Souldiers The behavior of the Earl in the Ship where he Sail'd was not unsuitable to his Quality and the other actions of his life He encouraged the Souldiers with his Actions and his Words too and the Captain in truth of not too forward a Nature did perhaps more than otherwise he would to hide from his Men the great difference there was between the intrepidity of the Earl and his own circumspection In fine there was nothing scandalous but his Lordship did not look upon it as good Fortune to have accompanied a Man no more sollicitous to get Glory in so great an occasion for that purpose The Earl of Peterborow after his Engagement by Sea had it intimated to him by a private Friend about the Duke That if he thought he could apply himself to a Court-life wherein attendance would be necessary and a particular devotion to all the interests of his Master he believed his Highness would not be unwilling to engage his Lordship in his Service even in
the first and most honorable place in his Court at that time vacant by the so late death of the Lord of Muskery who was Groom of the Stool and first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber And this person did offer himself if the Earl did esteem the occasion to be an instrument of proposing the matter and bringing it about His Lordship that was surprized did not at first embrace it with that warmth the Gentleman did expect who thought to have thereby put such an obligation upon the Earl as might deserve some extaordinary acknowledgment for he was not altogether uninterest'd and had several considerations of his own which excited the appearance of his friendship in this matter But the Earl told his Friend he desired a few days to consider of the business and to inform himself of the nature and commodities of the place that he might see how such an Employment would quadrate with the condition of his Affairs and Fortune having at that time a Mother a live who kept away the most confiderable part of his Estate so as if he had not with the place some such emolument as might equal the encrease of Expence would grow upon him by the change of his condition and application he should insensibly draw himself into such circumstances as would afterwards become uneasie The Earl of Peterborow in the mean time by the advice of his Friends did not haste away from the Fleet as soon as the Fight was done as weary of the Fatigue or impatient of the strait living aboard but staid to attend the Duke to the Court and his reception as he had come out only to wait upon his Highness and to shew a particular devotion to so great a Prince He came then with him to Whitehall and was a witness of the kind reception he had from so dear a Brother And his Highness presented the Earl to the King as a particular partaker of the Honor as well as the hazards of that great occasion who thereupon received from His Majesty very signal Thanks and Commendations Some days were now past during the consideration the Earl had employ'd about the proposition was made him by his Friend at Sea concerning the Duke's Service and indeed according to the information he receiv'd he did not judge the allowances were like to be made him would support the extraordinary charges would arise from that condition So as unwilling to bring a burthensome Service to a Master he did rather desire to make more easie a declension of that affair became more sutiable to his inclination When one Morning about a week after happ'ning to visit another Friend upon whose judgment candor and experience he had a much greater dependance and acquainting him with the answer he did intend to make he was by many important reasons over-ruled as to a change of his resolution and perswaded to embrace the occasion of entring into the Interests and Service of his Royal Highness This Gentleman was a Servant to the Duke himself and much nearer than the first to every part of his Favor and Inclination And having occasions that were like for divers times to keep him distant from the Court he thought by introducing the Earl of Peterborow to establish a Friend who would maintain his interests and pretences there in his absence very usefully And it is true that he had those that did prove then and after very confiderable to himself and many others He did then undertake the management of this accord and acquainted the Duke with the Earl's desire to be his Servant with which he did suggest so many reasons as made his Highness resolve notwithstanding some little dislike of the Earl's demur to receive him with that kindness and encouragement as was suitable to his Birth and Quality There was some little dissatisfaction in the minds of the first proposer and others of his Faction to find the Earl introduc'd and not by them thinking his actions and dependance would prove accordingly But by whom it was they could not guess and it was for some time a secret From thenceforth the Earl applied himself close to the Duke's Service and Interests He attended him in the Plague Year to York and afterwards to Oxford He participated of the Frowns and Smiles were applied to every variation of his Fortune In the Parliaments which did succeed he did not only adhere but appear in all his interests he avoided not the hard looks were given to those that durst endeavour the protection of his Father-in-Law the Earl of Clarendon and stood by his defence when he was abandon'd by such as were fed and cloath'd by the Fortunes and Favours he had procur'd them He opposed the Bill for Divorce of the Lord Ross sollicited by the Court not in favor of that Lord now Earl of Rutland but as an introduction to a greater that was intended whereby the Duke 's Right to the Succession would have been cut off by an act unusual in this Kingdom and esteem'd unlawful in every other These proceedings got the Earl of Peterborow the opinion of being more particularly tyed to the Duke's Service by affection than every one would have had him Such as envied the vertue of this Prince desiring he should have the forms of Greatness in his Service but not the zeal the duty nor the true sincerity that should sustain it The Earl of Peterborow was not a Man to act for him in one occasion for his Service and to betray him in another for his own advantage He was ever concern'd for the Duke in the first place but for his own Reputation in the second And though it is true he would have dyed for the Duke in a great occasion yet it is certain his own honor would have had some share in the sacrifice With these principles and in actions suitable unto them he continued in his Royal Highnesses Service several Years and although he was esteem'd by all the Ministers he had not many marks of their favor who think the dependants upon the Brother and Presumptive Heir of a King rejoyce not over-much to see that power in them which naturally as his due the others would have devolv'd upon their Master However he lived well with all and they with him Though the World saw well by the little acquisitions he made of Honors or Advantage that he did serve his Master with the least design of interest of any person that ever did approach him About the Year ..... it fell out that Anne Duchess of York departed this life and by those that were friends to the Duke and the Government it was thought fit that another should be sought to supply by her fruitfulness the want of Issue Male which Providence to that time had denyed to the felicity of the Royal House All concurr'd in the profession that this was necessary but not every one in their endeavours to accomplish it The accession of Sons like to live would have made the Duke more considerable than
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
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
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
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
or the Bishop of Duresme our Secretary before the Feast of Saint John Baptist next coming at the farthest like as we have semblably written to all Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of every Shire within this our Realm and therefore fail ye not to accomplish the premises as ye tender our honour and the surety of us and of our Realm and Subjects so and in such wise that by our preparation of a good number of able Men we may understand your towardly mind to do unto us service which shall be remembred according to your deserts and these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet ye well So it is upon the even of Philip and Jacob last passed a great number of insolent Apprentices and malicious Journey-men of their sensual Appetites and rancorous Dispositions against Aliens and Strangers Artificers and others Inhabited within our City of London suddainly assembled themselves within our said City in the night time under colour of Maying breaking up entring and robbing the houses of sundry French and Dutch men making also great Comminations to other Strangers to the marvellous Inquietation and Commotion of our said City and Disturbances of our Peace within the same And albeit the same Commotion and Rebellious Assembly by the Mayor Sheriffs and other substantial and well disposed Citizens with and by the Policies Powers and Assistance of the Noble Men and others of our Council was not only forthwith repressed and pacified but also a great Number of the Malefactors and Offenders taken and according to our Laws and their Demerits openly convicted and put to execution so that it is now throughly pacified and put in Quietness our Lord be thanked Yet we thought right expedient to advertise you thereof as well for the Declaration of the Truth in putting all Sinister and Seditious Bruits to silence if any such shall be made by indisposed Persons as also that ye by your Wisdom should not only foresee and have good espial in the place and Countries near adjoyning to you to know the disposition of our Subjects if upon untrue reports they should be stirred to any semblable Commotions by perverse Councel against Merchants Strangers or upon any other ground or cause But also by your wisdom and power with the assistance of other faithful Servants and Subjects in these parts forthwith to repress the same by taking as well the principal mover and stirrers thereof as also the offenders accompanying them for such unlawful intent and purpose committing them to Ward And also advertising us thereof with all speedy diligence as our special Trust is in you and as ye intend to do unto us acceptable service and pleasure to be remembred hereafter accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Third day of May. An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Maner of Drayton TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing Indented shall come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers Variances and Debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earl of Shrewsbury on the one Partie and John Mordaunt Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cousins and Heirs to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Earl and Daughter and Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Esquire and Humphrey Brown Esquire late Husband to Amey and George Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Son and Heir to the same Amey another Cousin and another of the Heirs of the said Earl of Wiltshire after the form aforesaid and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cousin and Heir to the same Earl after the manner abovesaid on the other Partie of and upon the Right Title Reversion and Possession as well of the foresaid Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances as of all other Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were the said Constance's or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or the other of them Which Maners Lands and Tenements the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury claimed by a Will supposed to be made by the said Earl of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Earl of Wiltshire should will to the said Earl of Shrewsbury all his Fee simple Land Whereupon the foresaid Parties have compromitted themselves to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named by and between the foresaid Parties to Award Ordain and Deem as well of and upon the Premises as for and upon all manner of Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Amuniments concerning the Premises or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid Parties or their Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the Premises And we the foresaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises calling before us the Counsels of the foresaid Parties hearing and seeing their Titles Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegiances concerning their foresaid Titles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said Parties Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises in manner and form following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earl of Wiltshire and Sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will. And in that Will there is no clause whereby the same Earl of Shrewsbury should have any of his Maners Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the aforesaid Maner of Drayton and other the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be given in Tayle to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire who had and enjoyed the same by reason of the said Tayles and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Brown and Audrey be Cousins and next Heir to the same Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire and to the same Earl on his Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Maners and other the Premises by reason of the said Tayles Wherefore we Award
that time had Interest in the Moiety of the Premises as in the right of his Wife agreed with the Executors of the said Earl for the Premises And so after that the same Sir Thomas had the said Drayton-Park in which Sir Thomas's days none of the said Keepers did fell or take any such Wood at that time growing of and upon the said Ditches And also the Keepers of the said Sir Thomas walked their Ring-walk within the said Little Park of Brikestock all the said Sir Thomas Cheyne's time And after that Sir Thomas Cheyne deceased then came the premises into the Hands of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners who entred into the premises and also into the Maner of Drayton then being in the Tenure of Robert Marburn Gentleman and the said Lord would have occupied the said Maner of Drayton and put out the said Robert Marburn wherewith the said Robert took displeasure with the said Lord Mordaunt And the said Robert Marburn to the intent he would occupy the said Maners still in his Hands Entitled George late Earl of Salop to the premises by a false Will nuncupative which the same Robert Surmised that the said Edward Earl of Wilts should make Whereupon the said Maner of Drayton-Park and other Premises were in contention divers Years And after that the said Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners agreed with the said Earl of Salop and so had the said Maner Park and other the Premises quietly without any Interruption Claim Challenge or Demand to the Premises or any part or parcel thereof made thereunto by any of the King's Keepers or Officers of the said Little Park of Brikestock and walked the Ring-Walk within the said Park of Brikestock and made the Hedges Pale Ring unto the time that one John Allen Keeper of the King's Park of Brikestock by the commandment of the Lord Parre that now is caused certain Wood to be felled whereof some of the said Wood did grow within the bottom of the Ditch and some otherwise which Wood was carried by the Lord Mordaunt's Servants to Drayton-Maner And after that one Richard Slade otherwise called Richard Smith Brother to one Rowland Slade did fell a Tree in the bottom of Drayton-Park-Ditch by the commandment of the said Rowland at that time being Keeper of the said Nether-Park of Brikestock Whereupon the said Lord Mordaunt shewed the said Lord Parre and the said Lord Parre said That Rowland did it by his commandment and that he the said Lord Parre might lawfully command the said Rowland so to do for two parts which he assured belonged to the Browns parts as well as the Lord Mordaunt did command his Servants to meddle for his Two parts and so the Lord Parre from time to time did permit and suffer the said Keepers for to do all the displeasures to the said Lord Mordaunt and his Servants that might be devised or imagined for that intent and purpose that the said Lord Parre would have had the rule of Drayton-Park himself And James Stevenson saith That at another time which was about the time of the Insurrection in Lincolnshire that the said Rowland did fell certain Wood growing in the bottom of Drayton-Park-Ditch Whereupon the said James went to the Lord Parre for to know his pleasure who made answer to the said James as followeth videlicet What have you to do therewith Then said James Sir I come to know your pleasure and whether it be your pleasure that your Servants shall so enterprize upon my Master's Ground or not No said the Lord Parre I shall make your Master and you answer also So the said James departed from the Lord Parre at that time And where the said Drayton-kark since the first making of the said Park hath been always Ditched and Hedged and so did continue all the days and time of Sir Simon de Drayton and Sir Henry Greene Knight Henry Greene Son of the said Sir Henry Greene Sir Ralph Greene Knight John Greene and Henry Greene Esquires and also in the days of John Stafford and Edward Stafford late Earls of Wilts and in the days of Robert Wittlebury William Marbury and Thomas Mountague Esquires Executors of the Testament and Last Will of the said Edward Stafford and always used to be Hedged and the Ditches scowred by the Owners of the said Drayton-Park and in all their days and time no default found in the said Freebord Hedges and Ditches by any of the Keepers of the said little Park of Brikestock but that the owners of Drayton-Park did scowre the Ditches and Hedges of the same used their Freebord took profits of all manner of Wood and Thorn growing in and upon the said Ditches and Freeborde unto the time that the said Drayton-Park came to the Possession of one Sir Thomas Cheyne Knight who had the said Drayton-Park as in the right of his Wife And in the days and time of the said Sir Thomas Cheyne the Keeper of the said little Park found default in the said Sir Thomas Cheyne for not scowring of the said Ditches and for not well repairing of the Hedges of the same Drayton-Park forasmuch as the Hedges of Drayton-Park at that time were thinly made and very low And also the said Keeper of the little Park surmised That the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and his Keeper of Drayton-Park did stand between both the Hedges of Drayton-Park and Killed the King's Deer which were accustomably used for to Feed in the said little Park and did train the King 's Deer out of the said little Park into Drayton-Park and surmised and laid to the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and his Servants charge divers Misdemeanours as Breaking into the said little Park of Brikestock with their Bows Arrows Hounds and Grey-hounds over and beside that the said Keepers of the said little Park of Brikestock complained in the King's Court of Swanymote upon the said Sir Thomas Cheyne and upon his Servants as well for Killing of Deer as also for to mend the said Ditches and Hedges by a day prefixed and said to the said Sir Thomas Cheyne that If the said Ditches and Hedges were not amended that then they would inform the King's Grace King Henry the Seventh of their misdemeanours Whereupon the said Sir Thomas Cheyne considered to himself and among his Friends That he would not have the King's displeasure in that behalf by the advice of his Friends caused a Pale to be set upon the top of Drayton-Park Ditch which was the first Pale that ever was set there after the making of the said Park for before that pale so set there the said Drayton-park was ever Ditched Quickset and Hedged which Pale so set by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne continued all the life of the said Sir Thomas and long time after without any default found thereat or at any of the Freeborde Ditches and Hedges of the said Drayton-Park unto the Tenth Year of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth at which time
Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo quinto Per billam Curiae Wardorum Liberationum de data praedicta authoritate Parlamenti Egerton Norr d Coram Auditoribus Curiae Wardorum Liberationum dominae Reginae termino Michaelis Anno Regni ejusdem dominae Reginae quadragesimo quinto 1602. Examinatur per Walterium Took Auditores Examinatur per Will. Curles Auditores In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno quadragesimo quarto Reginae nunc Elizabethae videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis rotulo ex parte Remembratorum Thesaurarii Charta Caroli Comitis de Nottingham Magni Admiralli Angliae Capitalis Justiciarii ac Justiciarii itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham CArolus Comes Nottingham Baro Howard de Effingham magnus Admirallus Angliae c. Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. Rich. Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHĀ 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
his Attorney sufficiently authorised and shall Vouch over to Warranty the common Voucher who shall appear gratis and imparle and then make default and 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 so to demean themselves either in the course aforesaid or in some other course that a perfect common Recovery with such Vouchers as aforesaid may and shall be had and suffered of the said Maners Parsonages and other the Premises with the Appurtenances in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised in all points and to all intents and purposes according to the usual form of Recoveries for the Assurances of Land and that Seisin shall be thereof had And it is fully concluded condescended and agreed by and between all and every the parties to these Presents for them and their several Heirs and every of the said parties doth severally Covenant and Conclude to and with the others and their several Heirs That the said Recoverers and their Heirs shall from and immediately after the suffering and perfecting of the said Recovery or Recoveries stand and be seized of the said Maners Rectories and Premises with the Appurtenances and of every part and parcel thereof and that the said Recovery or Recoveries and all and every other Recovery and Recoveries to be Sued Prosecuted or Executed of the Premises or of any part thereof against the said Henry Lovell and Henry Stanley as Tenants and the said Lord Mordaunt as Voucher on this side the Feast of St. John Baptist next ensuing the date hereof shall be and enure and shall be adjudged deemed and taken to be and enure to the uses hereafter expressed limited and declared and to no other use intent or purpose that is to say To the use of John Lord Mordaunt for and during the term of his natural Life without Impeachment of Wast And from and after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt then to the use of the said Elizabeth Howard for and during the term of her natural Life for her Provision Maintenance and Jointure And after the decease of the said Elizabeth Howard then to the use of the Heirs Males of the said Lord Mordaunt on the Body of the said Elizabeth Howard lawfully begotten And for default and want of such Heirs then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt for ever And the said Lord Mordaunt for him his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns doth further Covenant Grant Promise and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors and Assigns that the said Maners Rectories Lands and Hereditaments and other the Premises with the Appurtenances are now and from time to time after the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt shall remain continue and be to the said Elizabeth during the term of her natural Life of the clear yearly value of One thousand Pounds over and above all Charges and Reprises And that he the said Lord Mordaunt will cause and procure a Surrender Release or some other Act or Acts to be had and done whereby all or any Estate or Estates now in being which may let or hinder any ways the knowledging levying and suffering of the said Fine or Fines Recovery or Recoveries or any of them or the Execution or Operation thereof according to the true meaning of these Presents may be extinguished and purchased before the time and times that the said Fines and Recoveries or any of them shall be acknowledged or suffered and also that he the said Lord Mordaunt hath not heretofore acknowledged suffered or done nor hereafter shall acknowledg suffer or do any Act or Thing whereby the said Maners Rectories Lands Tenements and Premises shall not nor may not after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt and solemnization of the said Marriage remain and continue to the said Elizabeth Howard during her Estate hereby limited and to such Uses Intents and Purposes as in this Indenture are mentioned and expressed according to the true meaning thereof And also that she the said Elizabeth Howard during her Estate aforesaid shall peaceably and quietly have hold and enjoy all and singular the Premises and every part thereof discharged or otherwise from time to time well and sufficiently saved and kept harmless of and from all manner of former Bargains Estates Titles Conditions Charges and other Incumbrances whatsoever had made suffered or done by the said Lord Mordaunt or Henry late Lord Mordaunt his Father or any other Person or Persons by his or their means assent or procurement And also that the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs shall and will at all and every time and times hereafter after the solemnization of the said Marriage during the Life of the said Elizabeth Howard upon reasonable request to be made by the said Lady Anne Howard her Heirs Executors or Administrators do make suffer acknowledge finish and execute all and every such further reasonable Act and Acts Thing and Things Conveyance and Conveyances in the Law for the better and more perfect Asiurance Surety and sure making of all and singular the said Maners Rectories Lands Tenements and Premises to the uses in these Presents limited and expressed as by the Council learned in the Law of the said Lady Anne Howard her Executors and Administrators shall be devised advised and required So that the said several Assurances or Conveyances or any of them extend not to hinder the said Lord Mordaunt or his Heirs to any further or other Warranty then only against them their Heirs and Assigns and so that the said Lord Mordaunt be not forced to travel from the place where he then shall abide for the doing and perfecting thereof Provided always and it is fully Concluded Granted and Agreed by and between all the parties to these Presents That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Lord Mordaunt at any time during his natural Life at his free will and pleasure to make any Lease or Leases or limit any Use or Uses for three Lives or One and twenty Years or under beginning at or before the making of the said Lease or Leases orlim iting the same Use or Uses for any number of Years so beginning and determinable upon one two or three Lives of all and singular the said Maners Rectories or Parsonages Lands Tenements and other the premises before mentioned and of every or any of them or any part or parcel thereof other than the said Capital Mansion-House in Drayton aforesaid and the Demeasns Lands Tenements and Hereditaments thereunto belonging and appertaining so as upon every such Lease or Limitation of Use there be reserved and appointed to be payable to those to whom the right thereof for the time being shall belong and appertain yearly during the said term and
terms so much Rent or more as now is reserved paid or satisfied for the same and so as no such Lease be made or Use limited dispunishable of Wast and also so as every such Lease or Use be appointed to cease and determine upon default of non-payment of the said Rent so to be reserved for the space of Eight and twenty days next after every such Lease or day of payment whereat the same Rent shall be reserved or appointed to be paid And the said Fine or Fines Recovery or Recoveries shall be and enure and the said Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke and their Heirs and Assigns and every of them and all and every other Person and Persons then standing and being seized of or in the premises so to be demised letted limited or any part or parcel thereof shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part thereof as for and concerning only all and every the same Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premises for to be demised letten or limited as is aforesaid to the use of all and every such Person and Persons their Executors Administrators or Assigns to whom any such Lease or Leases or limitation of Uses shall be so thereof made or limited and during such time and term only as the said Lease or Leases or other limitation of Uses according to the purport thereof and the meaning of these Presents are to endure and continue and according to the true intent and meaning of all and every the said Lease and Leases or limitation of Uses and of these Presents And after the Expiration of the said Lease or Leases or limitation of Uses and of every of them as they shall severally end and determine and as the same shall severally end and determine and of the Reversions thereupon except of the said Fine or Fines Recovery and Recoveries shall be and enure and the said Sir Francis Fane and Sir Oliver Luke and their Heirs and all and every other Person or Persons then standing or being seized of or in the Premises so to be demised letten or limited or any parcel thereof shall at all times from thenceforth stand and be seized of and in the same and every part thereof to such uses purposes and intents as be before in these Presents expressed and declared and as by the true intent and meaning of these Presents they should or ought to have done if no such Lease or Leases or limitations had been at any time hereof made or had And it is likewise agreed That if the Recovery or Recoveries in these Presents mentioned and expressed to be had and suffered shall not happen to be had suffered perfected and executed in the Life of the said Lord Mordaunt so as the Use and Uses shall not thereupon be effectually raised according to the true meaning hereof Then all the parties to these Presents and every of them be contented and agreed and the said Lord Mordaunt and the Cognizees aforesaid do by these Presents limit appoint and declare That the foresaid Fine and Fines in these Presents mentioned and intended to be acknowledged and levyed and the Cognizees in the said Fine and Fines and their Heirs and Assigns shall be and stand seized of all the Maners Rectories Tenements and Hereditaments and other the Premises in the said Fine or Fines mentioned to be expressed and comprised to the same and to those uses intents and purposes as the said Recovery and Recoveries are in and by these Presents meant mentioned and expressed to be and as the true intent and purpose of these Presents are intended or meant to be limited and appointed and that to all intents and purposes whatsoever And further whereas there is a certain Lease of the Priory of Rygate in the County of Surrey made by the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Nottingham to the Right Noble Lodowick Duke of Lenox and others and is intended for the Provision and Jointure of the Right Honourable the now Countess of Nottingham Wife unto the foresaid Earl and the said Lady Anne Howard with certain Sureties are bound in the Summ of Four thousand Pounds that the said Countess shall enjoy the same Priory with the Appurtenances during the term in the said Lease limited as by the Indenture of the said Lease and the said Bond may appear Now the said Lord Mordaunt for him his Executors and Assigns doth Covenant Promise and Agree to and with the said Lady Anne Howard her Executors and Assigns by these Presents That the said Countess of Nottingham shall peaceably and quietly during her Life have hold and enjoy the said Priory and every part thereof according to the purport and meaning of the said Lease so thereof made without the Interruption or Disturbance of him the said Lord Mordaunt And notwithstanding any Act or Thing to be made done or suffered by him or any claiming by from or under him And that the said Lord Mordaunt will upon reasonable request to him made seal and deliver to the said Lady Anne Howard or other whom she shall appoint a Bond of the penal Summ of Four thousand Pounds condescended to that or the like end and purpose And the said Lady Anne Howard for her self her Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and for every of them doth Covenant Promise Grant and Agree to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and every of them by these Presents That she the said Lady Anne Howard is seized of the Maner of Donnington in the County of Berks in her own Demeasne as of Free-hold of a good and sufficient Estate for the term of her own life the remainder to the said Elizabeth Howard and the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten or some other Estate of Inheritance to the said Elizabeth immediately after the decease of the said Lady Anne expectant and that she the said Lady Anne Howard before or immediately upon the Solemnization of the said Marriage and upon reasonable request made will Surrender Grant or Convey all her Estate Right and Title in the said Maner of Donnington and every part thereof to the said Elizabeth Howard or the said Lord Mordaunt or both of them at the election or appointment of the said Lord Mordaunt and in such manner and form and by such assurance as by the said Lord Mordaunt or his Council learned in the Law shall be reasonably demised advised and required at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said Lord Mordaunt And that he the said Lord Mordaunt and Elizabeth Howard or either of them to whom the said Conveyance shall be so made as aforesaid their Heirs and Assigns shall and may peaceably and quiety hold possess and enjoy the said Maner of Donnington and every part and parcel thereof during the natural Life of the said Lady Anne Howard without the Disturbance and Interruption of the said Lady Anne Howard or any claiming by from or under her and freed or discharged or
command all and singular our Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects meet and apt for the Wars within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without to whom it shall appertain that they and every of them with their Power and Servants from time time shall be attending and assisting counselling helping and at the commandment as well of you our said Lieutenant as of your said Deputies or any two or more of them as abovesaid in the execution hereof as they and every of them tender our pleasure and will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of our Reign Willis A Commission for Constituting Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Northampton JOHN Earl of Peterborow Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton to all to whom these presents shall come sendeth Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Whereas the King 's most Excellent Majesty by his Highness's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign hath made constituted and ordained me the said Earl of Peterborow to be his Majesty's Lieutenant of his Highness's County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without And because there may be just cause for me to be attendant upon his Majesty's Person or to be otherwise imployed in his Service whereby the said Service of Lieutenancy to me committed cannot be by me in Person executed in such sort as his Majesty hath appointed Therefore his Majesty hath given unto me for my better Aid and Assistance and for the better performance and execution of this Service full power and authority to appoint assign and constitute by my Writing under my Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as I in my discretion shall from time to time think fit to be my Deputies in the said Service in the said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without giving unto my said Deputy Lieutenants or to any two or more of them full power and authority in my absence to do and execute in his Majesty's said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid all and every thing and things mentioned in his Majesty's said Commission by me to be done and executed Know ye therefore That I the said John Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Northampton according to the tenor and purport of the said Commission have assigned constituted and appointed and by these Presents do assign constitute and appoint Sir Rowland Saint-John Knight of the Bath Sir Rowland Egerton Knight and Baronet Sir Lewis Watson Knight and Baronet Sir Hatton Farmer Knight Sir Thomas Cave Knight Sir Robert Hatton Knight William Elmes Esquire and Charles Cokeyne Esquire to be my Deputies in the said Service within the said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And whatsoever the said Sir Rowland Saint-John Sir Rowland Egerton Sir Lewis Watson Sir Hatton Farmer Sir Thomas Cave Sir Robert Hatton William Elmes and Charles Cokeyne together or any two or more of them shall execute or do by force of the said Commission within the said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid I the said Earl of Peterborow do by authority of his Majesty's said Commission allow and approve the same in all points and every thing as if I my self were there present in Person And the better to enable my said Deputies according to his Majesty's will and pleasure in that behalf I do by commandment of his Majesty deliver unto them and every of them a true Transcript of the said Commission subscribed with my Hand In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal at Arms the One and twentieth day of July in the said Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign that now is Annoque Domini 1640. J. Peterborow SIGILLVM IOHANNIS COMITIS DE PETRIBVRGO DNÌ„I BARONIS DE TVRVEY A Commission of Array to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow CArolus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Johanni Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Sciatis quod cum quidam Rebelles regni nostri Scotiae regnum nostrum Angliae cum posse non modico hostiliter ingressi fuerunt Nos malitiae hujusmodi Rebellionis gratia nobis favente divina resistere ac pro salvatione defensione nostri regni praedicti ligeorum nostrorum ejusdem disponere ordinare volentes ut tenemur Assignavimus vos ad arraiandum triandum omnes singulos homines ad arma ac homines armatos sagittarios in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae commorantes infra libertates extra Et ad armari faciendum omnes illos qui de suo corpore sunt potentes habiles ad armandum qui de suo proprio habent unde seipsos armare possint videlicet quilibet eorum juxta status facultates suas Et ad assidendum apportionandum juxta avisamentum discretiones vestras ac etiam ad distringendum omnes illos qui in terris bonis sunt potentes pro debilitate corporum ad laborandum impotentes ad inveniendum juxta quantitatem terrarum bonorum suorum prout rationabiliter portare poterint salvo statu suo armaturas hominibus ad arma ac hominibus armatis ac arcus sagittas Ita quod illi qui morabuntur seu morari poterunt ad domum suam propriam in patria sua super defensionem ejusdem regni contra rebelles praedictos si periculum eveniat non capiant vadia nec expensas pro mora sua apud domus suas praedictas Et ad hoc dictos homines ad arma homines armatos sagittarios fic arraiatos injunctos continue in arraiatione ut in millenis centenis vintenis alias prout conveniens fuerit necesse teneri poni faciendum Et eos tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi quotiens necesse fuerit ad dictos rebelles expellendum debellandum destruendum de tempore in tempus cum aliquod periculum immineat mandandum injungendum ad monstrum sive monstrationem eorundem hominum ad arma ac hominum armatorum sagittariorum de tempore in tempus quotiens indiguerit diligenter faciendum
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
Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Horse Iames R. JAMES 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 Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing especial 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 likewise to be Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment and Troop into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well the Officers as Soldiers 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 to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from time to time as you shall receive from Us or any your Superior Officer according to the Rules and Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND A Letter from the Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Peterborow about Marching his Three Troops to Colebrook Whitehall 30th June 1685. MY LORD HIS Majesty Commands me to acquaint your Lordship That He thinks it convenient you should be near His Person and therefore would have you repair hither so soon as you can conveniently As to the Three Troops of Horse which your Lordship so well approves of He would have them forthwith ordered to march to Colebrook to be in Quarters there and doubts not but you will leave such directions with the rest of the Militia as may be most requisite for His Majesty's Service I wish your Lordship a good Journey and am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Faithful humble Servant SVNDERLAND The King's Warrant to Discharge the Prisoners at Oxford 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 Whereas We did by our former Letters authorize and require you to give Order for 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 securing them and their Horses And it having pleased God to Bless Our Arms with Success against the Rebels so that they are entirely defeated and the Chiefs taken Our Will and Pleasure is That you forthwith give Order for discharging all such Persons so secured who where taken up upon Suspicion only and for restoring their Horses to them But as to those who stand particularly accused of having any way corresponded with or otherwise abetted the Rebels You are to direct that they be continued Prisoners that they may be Tryed at the Assizes or elsewhere as shall be thought fit and for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily Farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 16th Day of July 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND A Letter from the Bishop of Sarum to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he attend at a Chapter of the Order of the Garter May it please your Lordship HIS Majesty Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter having Commanded me to signifie to your Lordship That a Chapter shall be held at Whitehall on Friday next being the One and thirtieth Day of July at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon These are humbly to give Notice thereof to your Lordship to appear there in your Mantle only Your Lordships In all Obedience Seth Sarum Praenob Ord. Gart. Canc. July 29. 1685. A Patent of High Steward and Chief Bayliff to the Queen's Majesty Granted to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow Mary R. MAria Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quod nos magnam Fidelitatem Integritatem praedilecti perquam fidelis Cognati Consiliarii nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Custodis Stolae charissimi Domini Mariti nostri considerantes Nec non pro diversis Causis Considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus De gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus eidem Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Officium Capitalis Seneschalli vel Seneschalliae omnium singulorum quae nunc sunt vel imposterum fuerint Honorum Maneriorum Dominiorum nostrorum infra hoc Regnum Angliae ac Custodiam sive Officium tenendi Curias Leetiae Visifranciplegii Leetiae Honorum Maneriorum Dominiorum praedictorum eorum cujuslibet Ac ipsum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Capitalem Generalem Seneschallum nostrum in Curiis nostris Visifranciplegii Leetiae infra Honores Dominia Maneria Hereditamenta nostra praedicta facimus constituimus ordinamus per praesentes Et ulterius de liberiori gratia nostra dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus praefato Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Officium Generalis Capitalis Ballivi omnium singulorum praemissorum cujuslibet eorum Habendum tenendum gaudendum exercendum Officia praedicta quodlibet eorum per se vel per sufficientem Deputatum suum five sufficientes Deputatos suos quamdiu Nobis placuerit Percipiendum annuatim in pro exercitio Officii praedicti Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Viginti Libras bonae legalis Monetae Angliae Solvendum per manus Thesaurarii sive Receptoris nostri Generalis ad Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Annunciationis Beatae Mariae Virginis per aequales portiones Nec non percipiendum annuatim pro exercitio Officiorum praedictorum Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Generalis Capitalis Ballivi omnia Vada Feoda Proficua Advantagia Emolumenta quaecunque eisdem Officiis vel alicui eorum aliquo modo spectantia aut pertinentia adeò liberè tam amplis modo forma prout Henricus Comes de Arlington nuper Capitalis Generalis Seneschallus Ballivus Excellentissimae Principis Catharinae Reginae vel aliquis alius seu aliqui alii antehaec locum tenens vel locum tenentes Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Generalis Capitalis Ballivi alicujus Reginae Consortis Regis Angliae pro tempore existentis Officia praedicta habens seu habentes habuit percepit vel gavisus fuit habuerunt perceperunt vel gavisi fuerunt aut de jure habere percipere vel gaudere debuit
dictam Cantariam praestiti praestandi bene honestè pacificè mutuò se habeant atque gerant quòd neuter ipsorum Capellanorum cum altero Capellano socio suo verbosus sit vel contumeliosus neque rixas aut verba opprobriosa seu contumeliosa quoquomodo inter se seminaverit Volumus insuper statuimus ordinamus Nos Executores supranominati quòd praemissa omnia singula per Nos ut praefertur statuta ordinata caeteraque imposterum statuenda ordinanda quaecunque per dictos duos Capellanos eorúmque successores quoscunque praefatae Cantariae Capellanos perpetuis futuris temporibus plene fideliter inviolabiliter observentur quatenus facultates possessionum bonorum dictae Cantariae sufficere valeant in hac parte facultatem tamen potestatem praemissa omnia singula per Nos ut praemittitur statuta ordinata ac imposterum statuenda ordinanda interpretandi declarandi eisdémque addendi ac ea corrigendi emendandi reformandi Nobis Executoribus antedictis duobus nostrum reservamus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium Sigilla nostra praesentibus apposuimus Dat' primo die mensis Martii Anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo primo Anno Regni Regis dicti Domini nostri Henrici Septimi post Conquestum Angliae decimo septimo ET Nos Willielmus permissione divinâ Lincolniensis Episcopus dictae Cantariae erectionem fundationem ordinationem superiùs expressatas vidimus inspeximus Et quia Nobis evidenter constat hujusmodi Cantariae fundationem ordinationem tendere in divini cultûs augmentum ac salutem animarum omnium fidelium defunctorum praesertim nobilis Domini Edwardi Stafford nuper Comitis Wiltshyre aliarum Nobilium personarum in dicta fundatione specialiter expressarum Idcirco ejusdem Cantariae fundationem ordinationem erectionem supra specificatam ac omnia singula in eis statuta ordinata contenta auctoritate nostrâ ordinariâ pontificiali pro Nobis successoribus nostris quantum in Nobis est ad forum spectat Ecclesiasticum ex certa scientia ac ad omnem juris effectum qui inde sequi poterit quomodolibet seu debebit in futurum ratificamus approbamus confirmamus ac vires perpetuae firmitatis obtinere volumus In quorum testimonium praemissorum Sigillum nostrum praesentibus est appensum Dat' in Pallatio nostro Lincolniensi vicesimo octavo die mensis Martii Anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo secundo nostrae translationis anno septimo Depositions of Robert Merbury and others Facta fuit sequens examinatio secretè sigillatim testium subscriptorum octavo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi secundo in quadam alta Camera Domûs solite residentiae venerabilis viri Magistri Johannis Yong Magistri sive Custodis Rotulorum Cancellariae dicti Domini Regis per eundem Magistrum Johannem Guidonem Palmes servientem ad Legem Johannem Grueleye Attornatum dicti Domini Regis Johannem Port Solicitatorem causarum ejusdem Domini Regis Antonium Babyngton Generosum de super ultima voluntate Edwardi Stafford nuper Comitis Wiltshyre concernente Manerium suum de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae ac omnia alia terras tenementa sua in feodo simplici existentia RObert Merbury Esquyer of th'age of sixty one yeres or more sworne and examyned the day and yere aboveseid seith and deposeth on his othe that he was servaunt to Edward Stafford late Erle of Wiltshyre in the rome of Gentilman-usher of his Chamber by the space of twenty five yeres or more whyche was at the tyme of the decese of the seid Erle Also he seith that the seid Erle about suche tyme that he should ryde towerd Blackhethe Feld had caused a Dede to be made of his seid Manor of Drayton to the use of my Lady his Wyfe for terme of her lyfe forsomuche the seid Erle in the morning when he should departe towerd the seid Feld being in the Chapell Chamber this Deponent beyng present called his seid Lady to him deliveryng the seid Dede to her Whereupon she then looked and kest it from her unto the floor saying that she would not say gramercy therefore excepte she should have Warmester and then she as she seid would thank him therefore Whereupon this Deponent at the commandement of the seid Erle tooke up the seid Dede and delivered it to the seid Erle whyche Erle then broke the Seall from it and did cast it oute of the window into the Moote there saying to his seid Lady that suche a person shuld have it of his gyft whyche he trusted shuld yeve to him a better gramercy for it than she did whyche Erle then departed into the great Chamber and called this Deponent to him commaundyng and chargyng this Deponent as he shuld answer before God to testifye bere witnesse and openly declare if ought then good shuld come to the said Erle at the seid Feld that his full mind and last Wyll was and shuld be that his Cossyn Erle of Shrewsbury shuld have to him and to his heirs for ever the seid Manor of Drayton and all his other Fee symple Landes after his detts were payd and his Wyll performed And so the said Erle departed then taking his horse towerd the seid Feld at whyche tyme this Deponent rode with him a certen space of the waye Whereupon at suche tyme that this Deponent should take his leave of the seid Erle he seid to this Deponent Robert forget not to bere witnesse of that thing whereof I spake to thee in the great Chamber concernyng my Manoir of Drayton and all my other Fee simple Landes to whome this Deponent answeryng seid that he would remember his Commaundement and soe departed from the seid Erle returnyng to Drayton foreseid to waite upon the foreseid Lady accordyng to the commaundement of the seid Erle And he seith that immediately after the comeynge of the seid Earle from Blackhethe Feld to Drayton foreseid and assoone as his Boots were drawen of he called to him this Deponent demaunding of this Deponent whether he remembred the words whyche the seid Erle spake to him before that tyme in the seid great Chamber when he was going toward Blackhethe Feld concerning Drayton and his other Fee simple Landes Whereunto this Deponent answeryng seid that he remembred them well desireyng the seid Erle to knowe wheder it were his plesure to contynewe still in the same mind or nay Whyche Erle then seid that he contynewed in that mind and so would doe while he lyved charging this Deponent to bere witnesse thereof whatsoever soden aventur or chaunce shold happen or come to the seid Erle Also this Deponent seith that after the seid words spoken he was contynewelly in howsehold with the seid Erle duringe his lyfe and never knewe him change his seid mind in that behalfe forsomoche this Deponent divers tymes would say to the
unde dicunt quòd praedicti Galfridus Henricus Vere Capellanus dederunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis praefato Roberto Vere Elizabethae Uxori ejus Haeredibus de Corporibus suis exeuntibus in forma praedicta per quod donum iidem Robertus Vere Elizabetha fuerunt inde seisiti in Dominico suo ut de feodo jure per formam c. tempore pacis tempore Domini _____ nuper Regis Angliae _____ post Conquestum capiendo inde ex _____ ad valentiam c. Et de ipsis Roberto Vere Elizabetha Uxore ejus descendit jus per formam c. cuidam Roberto ut Filio Haeredi c. Et de ipso Roberto Filio descendit jus per formam c. cuidam Margaretae ut Filiae Haeredi c. Et de ipsa Margareta eo quòd obiit sine Haerede de Corpore suo exeunte resorciebatur jus per formam c. cuidam Baldewino ut consanguineo Haeredi c. videlicet ut Fratri praedicti Roberti Fratris praedictae Margaretae de ipso Baldewino descendit jus per formam c. cuidam Ricardo ut Filio Haeredi c. Et de ipso Ricardo descendit jus per formam c. cuidam Henrico ut Filio Haeredi c. Et de ipso Henrico descendit jus per formam c. istis Elizabethae Mordaunt Amiae Brown Etheldredae Vere quae nunc petunt simul cum c. ut Filiabus Haeredibus c. Et quòd post mortem c. Et inde producunt sectam c. Et praedicti Thomas Cheyne Johannes Bloxham Johannes Walker per Thomam Spriotte Attornatum suum ven ' defend ' jus suum quando c. Et nichil dicunt in barram sive praeclusionem praedictae Actionis praedictorum Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Uxoris ejus Humfridi Brown Amiae Etheldredae per quod iidem Thomas Cheyne Johannes Bloxham Johannes Walker remanent versus praefatos Johannem Mordaunt Elizabetham Uxorem ejus Humfridum Brown Amiam Etheldredam inde indefensi Ideo cons ' est quòd praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha Uxor ejus Humfridus Brown Amia Etheldreda recuperent seisinam suam versus praefatos Thomam Cheyne Johannem Bloxham Johannem Walker de Manerio praedicto cum pertinentiis Et nichil de misericordia eorundem Thomae Cheyne Johannis Johannis quia venerunt primo die per suum c. Mordaunt Termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi vicesimo Rotulo Dviii North. ss JOhannes Mordaunt Elizabetha Uxor ejus Humfridus Browne Amia Uxor ejus Etheldreda Vere per Willielmum Gylbert Attornatum suum petunt versus Thomam Cheyne Militem Johannem Bloxham Capellanum Johannem Walker duodecim Messuagia quadraginta Acras Terrae sex Acras Prati viginti solidatos redditus cum pertinentiis in parva Addington de quibus Ricardus Vere Avus praedictarum Eiizabethae Amiae Etheldredae cujus Haeredes ipsae sunt fuit seisitus in Dominico suo ut de Feodo die quo obiit c. Et unde dicunt quòd praedictus Ricardus Avus c. fuit seisitus de Tenementis redditu praedictis cum pertinentiis in Dominico suo ut de feodo jure tempore pacis tempore Domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae Quarti post Conquestum Capiendo inde exp ' _____ ad valentiam c. Et de ipso Ricardo descendit feodum c. cuidam Henrico ut Filio Haeredi c. Et de ipso Henrico descendit feodum c. istis Elizabethae Amiae Etheldredae quae nunc petunt similiter c. ut Filiabus Haeredibus c. Et de quibus c. Et inde producunt sectam c. Et praedicti Thomas Johannes Bloxham Johannes Walker per Thomam Spriotte Attornatum suum ven ' defend ' jus suum quando c. Et nichil dicunt in barram sive praeclusionem praedictae Actionis praedictorum Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Humfridi Amiae Etheldredae per quod iidem Thomas Johannes Bloxham Johannes Walker remanent versus praefatos Johannem Mordaunt Elizabetham Humfridum Amiam Etheldredam inde indefensi Ideo cons ' est quòd praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha Humfridus Amia Etheldreda recuperent sectam suam versus praefatos Thomam Cheyne Johannem Bloxham Johannem Walker de Tenementis redditu praedictis cum pertinentiis Et nichil de misericordia eorundem Thomae Johannis Johannis quia venerunt primo die per suum c. Mordaunt Termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi vicesimo Rotulo Dviii North. ss JOhannes Mordaunt Elizabetha Uxor ejus Humfridus Browne Amia Uxor ejus Etheldreda Vere per Willielmum Gylbert Attornatum suum petunt versus Thomam Cheyne Militem Johannem Bloxham Capellanum Johannem Walker quatuordecim Messuagia quadraginta Acras Terrae octo Acras Prati decem octo solidatos redditus cum pertinentiis in Wolleston Craneford Herdwyk Farnedishe de quibus Ricardus Vere Avus praedictarum Elizabethae Amiae Etheldredae cujus Haeredes ipsae sunt fuit seisitus in Dominico suo ut de feodo die quo obiit c. Et unde dicunt quòd praedictus Ricardus Avus c. fuit seisitus de Tenementis redditu praedictis cum pertinentiis in Dominico suo ut de feodo jure tempore pacis tempore Domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae quarti post Conquestum Capiendo inde exp ' _____ ad valentiam c. Et de ipso Ricardo descendit feodum c. cuidam Henrico ut Filio Haeredi c. Et de ipso Henrico descendit feodum c. istis Elizabethae Amiae Etheldredae quae nunc petunt similiter c. ut Filiabus Haeredibus c. Et de quibus c. Et inde producunt sectam c. Et praedicti Thomas Johannes Bloxham Johannes Walker per Thomam Spriotte Attornatum suum veniunt defendunt jus suum quando c. Et nichil dicunt in barram sive praeclusionem praedictae actionis praedictorum Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae Humfridi Amiae Etheldredae per quòd iidem Thomas Johannes Bloxham Johannes Walker remanent versus praefatos Johannem Mordaunt Elizabetham Humfridum Amiam Etheldredam inde indefensi Ideo cons ' est quòd praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha Humfridus Amia Etheldreda recuperent sectam suam versus praefatos Thomam Cheyne Johannem Bloxham Johannem Walker de Tenementis redditu praedictis cum pertinentiis Et nichil de misericordia eorundem Thomae Johannis Johannis quia venerunt primo die per suum c. An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Mannor of Drayton TO all Christian people to whom this present Writing indented shall
come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot two of the Kings Justices send gretyng in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers variances and debates moved and had betwyne the Right Honourable Lord George Earle of Shrewsbury on th' one party and John Mordaunt Esquyer and Elizabeth his Wife oon of the Cosynes and Heires of the Right Honourable Edward late Earle of Wiltshire oon his Moders side that is to say by Constance Moder of the sayd Earle and Daughter and Heire of Henry Greene of Drayton in the Countye of Northampton Esquier and Humfrey Brown Esquier late Husband to Amye and George Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Sonne and Heire to the same Amye another Cosyne and another of the Heires of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire after the forme aforesayd and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Audree his Wife the third Cosyne and Heire to the fame Earle after the manner abovesayd on the other party of and upon the Right Title Reversion Inheritance and Possession as well of the foresayd Mannor of Drayton with th' appurtenances as of all other Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances in the sayd Countye of Northampton or elsewhere which late were to the sayd Constance or to the sayd Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or th' other of them which Mannors Lands and Tenements the aforesayd Earle of Shrewsbury claymeth by a Will supposed to be made by the sayd Earle of Wiltshire by which Will the foresayd Earle of Wiltshire should will to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury all his Fee-simple Lond Whereupon the foresayd Partyes have compromitted themselfe to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the sayd Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliott Arbitrators indifferently named and chosen by and betwyne the foresayd Partyes To award ordein and deme as well of and upon the premisses as for and upon all manner Evidences Charter Escripts Writeings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suites Quarrels and Demands had or moved betwyne the foresayd Partyes or other Servaunts or Frynds before the Date of these Presents concerning the premisses And we the sayd Arbitrators takeing upon us th' auctority and power to award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsells of the foresayd Partyes hereing and seeing their Tytyls Answers Replications Evidences Proffes and all other their Alleadgeances concerning their foresayd Tytyls and Interesse by good deliberation and by consent of the sayd Partyes award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses in manner and forme following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humfrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earle of Wiltshire and sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will And in that Will there is no Clause whereby the same Earle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more playnly appeareth And alsoe they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deedes and other Writings proveing the aforesayd Mannor of Drayton and other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and Hereditaments to be yeven in tayle to the Auncestors of the sayd Constance Moder of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire And the sayd Earle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same Tayles And that the sayd Elizabeth and George Brown and Audree be Cousyns and next Heyres to the same Constance Moder to the sayd Earle of Wiltshire and to the same Earle on his Moders side and heritable to the foresayd Mannors and other the premisses by reason of the same Tayles Wherefore we award ordein and deme that the aforesayd Elizabeth George Brown and Audree shall have and enjoy all the foresayd Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premisses to them and to their Heires according to their foresayd Tytylls of Inheritance And that the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall by his severall Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled release unto the sayd John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humfrey Brown George Brown and John Brown Audree his Wife and to such persons or person as they shall name to the use of the sayd Elizabeth George and Audree and their Heires and all such Right Tytyl Clayme Interest and Demand as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresayd Mannors Lands and Tenements or other the premisses by reason of any guift or Will in the premisses or any part of them made by the aforesayd Earle of Wiltshire to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the sayd John Mordaunt John and George Brown in all things And furthermore the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the sayd John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown John and George Brown or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writeings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premisses as soon as it may be conveniently done For the which Releases and other things above-specified and for other Costs and Charges which the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premisses We the sayd Arbitrators award ordein and deme That the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes two hundred Marks of lawful money in forme following that is to say The sayd John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct George the Martyr next comeing after the Date above-written at the Rode of the North-Door in the Cathedrall-Church of Pauls in the Citty of London betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the Clock of the same Day a hundred Marks And the foresayd Wistan Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the sayd Rode in the same Church betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the same day a hundred Marks residue of the foresayd two hundred Marks Alsoe we award ordein and deme that the sayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Brown Humfrey and John Brown by their Deede and Deedes as sufficient as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or his Counsell shall advise shall release to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury and to as many persons as the sayd Earle shall name and appoynt in Writeing before the Feast of Sainct Michael th' Arch-Angel next comeing after the Date hereof which hath done laboured or spoken for the
Wokingdon Episcopi with all and singular their Appurtenances sett lying and being in the Parishes of Kinton Bulvan Easthornedon Westhornedon and Cranham otherwise called Bishops Wokingdon in the County of Essex aforesaid which the said Dame Joan doth hold for term of her life as Parcel of her Joynture and all and all manner of Lands Tenements Meadows Pastures Feedings Commons Woods Underwoods and all other Hereditaments to the said Mannors appertaining or belonging to my Son Edmond Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten upon Condition that if my said Son Edmond his Heirs or Assigns do aliene grant with Warranty discontinuance suffer any recovery or suffer to be done any Act or Acts thing or things to the intent to barr his or their Heir or Heirs or him or them in the reversion of the said Mannors of Amys Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi with their appurtenances or of any Part or Parcel thereof or of any other Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments devised to the said Edmond by this my last Will and Testament That then it shall be lawful to my Heirs to enter into the said Mannors Lands Tenements and all other Hereditaments alienated discontinued or recovered in manner and form abovesaid and into every part and parcel thereof and the same to retain and keep in manner and form as though no such devise had been made And the said Edmond and his Heirs thereof to expel and put out for ever Provided always that if any alienation discontinuance or recovery be had and made in manner and form abovesaid without fraud covyn or deceit to make his Wife or Wives Joynture for term of her and their life or lives to the preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons for the marrying of his or their Daughter or Daughters and for the Payment of his or their Debts so that the said Edmond and his Heirs of his Body make or cause the Fee-simple of such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments recovered and discontinued to such use to be made sure to my Heirs to remain come and grow to them immediately after the death of my said Son Edmond or of the Heirs of his Body or immediately after the death of his said Wife or Wives the Money levied for the marrying of his or their said Daughter or Daughters for the Payment of his or their Debt or Debts or the Preferment of his or their younger Son or Sons Then I will that mine Heirs shall take no benefit or advantage of any such discontinuance recovery act or acts thing or things assurance or assurances had or made for the aforesaid intents or purposes without fraud or covyn by way of Entry or otherwise any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Furthermore if my said Son Lewis or his Heirs of his Body being of the Age of one and twenty years or more shall lawfully offer and tender to give grant and assure within two years after the death of the said Dame Joan or after the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall accomplish the Age of one and twenty years the Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys in the County of Essex and the Mannor of Belhalf in the County of Norfolk with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Wymbyshe Walden Thaxsted and Radwynter in the County of Essex and Belhalf Billinford or elsewhere in the County of Norfolk which hath or shall descend remain or come to my said Son Lewis from my late Wife Dame Ely Mordaunt to my said Son Edmond or if he chance to dye to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten To have and to hold the said Mannor of Typtosts and Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and the Premisses to my Son Edmond and to the Heirs of his Body in like Estate Degree and with like Condition as I have devised unto the said Edmond the Mannors of Cranham otherwise Wokingdon Episcopi Amys and other the Premisses above mentioned That then if the said Edmond or the Heirs of his Body shall refuse to receive and take the said Mannors of Typtosts Pinkneys Belhalf Billingford and other the Premisses being lawfully tendered and offered to him or them by the said Lewis or the Heirs of his Body in manner and form abovesaid Then I will that immediately after the said assurance made or the said denial that the devise of my Mannors of Cranham otherwise called Wokingdon Episcopi and Amys aforesaid and all other my devises made to my said Son Edmond by this my last Will to be void and of none effect any thing in this my last Will or Testament to the contrary notwithstanding And further I will that if my said Son Lewis Mordaunt or the Heirs of his Body do not tender and be contented to make unto my said Son Edmond Mordaunt or to the Heirs of his Body within the time above-mentioned a good sure and sufficient Estate in manner and form above-mentioned at the Costs and Charges of the said Lewis or his Heirs of or in the Mannors of Typtosts and Pinkneys and other the Premisses Then I give and devise to my said Son Edmond Mordaunt the said Mannors of Cranham and Amys and all other the Premisses before devised to him To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever Also I will that after this my last Will and Testament performed concerning the Premisses all manner of Costs and Charges had and sustained by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns about the defence and execution of the same Will and Testament payed and discharged That then the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or their Assigns shall infeosse or otherwise assure the Premisses above-mentioned and every part and parcel thereof to the only use of his Heirs and their Heirs for ever the said assurance to be had and made at the only Costs and Charges in the Law of my said Heirs A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Justified by Publick Records Charters Deeds Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the House of Howard were Quarterly Howard Brotherton Warren and Mowbray Of the Original Greatness Actions Honors Alliances Possessions and Arms of the House of Howard of Effingham I Would have the Reader know That I presume not here to declare the Honors and Advantages which belong to the Illustrious House of Howard it would be too great a task for one much abler that could have access unto those lights which might direct him in such an undertaking but much more for a stranger who does only pretend to trace out those Genealogies among the proofs of which he has been conversant and that particularly appertain to the House of Mordaunt It is therefore of the Howards of Effingham of which I am to Treat from whence the Earl of Peterborow is not only Descended but of which he is