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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30714	The survey and antiquitie of the towne of Stamford in the county of Lincolne with its ancient foundation, grants, priviledges, and severall donations thereunto belonging : also a list of the aldermens names, and the time when they were chosen : with the names of 10 Lord Majors (of the Hon. city of London) borne in the foresaid county of Lincolne / written by Richard Butcher, Gent. ...	Butcher, Richard, 1583-1665?	1646 (1646)	Wing B6261; ESTC R2120	34,702	55

of Armes ●●s●ulped in the store about it as the Armes of Castil● and L●●n ●ua●●ered being the paternall coat of the King of Spain and divers other Hatchments belonging to that Crown which envious time hath so defaced that only the ruins appeare to my eye and therefore not to be described by my pen This Crosse is called the Queens-Crosse and was erected in this place by King Edward the first about Anno Dom. 1293. The occasion of this erection was in memory of El●nor daughter to Fardinand the third of that name King of Castil● and wife of the said King Edward the first a most Religious Chast and vertuous Lady who as the story goes when her husband was wounded with an invenomed arrow at the Warres in Palestine with her own mouth she sucked the poyson out of the wound and so healed her Lord when all his Chyrurgions Physitians had left the wound for mor●●ll This Queen fal●ing sick at H●rdeley beyond Lincolne there dyed the 9th of November 1290 and her Corpes being brought from thence to be buried at Westminster in every place whne the same rested by the way King Edward the first shortly after caused in memory of her a most sumptuous Crosse of stone to be erected neer the place some of which are standing and remaining if not lately destroyed till this day as at Lincolne Grantham Stamford Waltham and Charing-Crosse neer unto Westminster yet appeareth At the upper end of the middle quire of this Church of St. Maries in Stamford there stands a monument more curious for the workmanship then for the matter whereof it is framed having no superscription nor Armes to de●ote unto us who the party was that it was made for He lyeth in Armour Cap●pe The tradition is that he was a Knight who went by the name of Sir Daniel Phillips a great man for Henry Earle of Richmond in the battaile against the Tyrant Richard the third But I suppose he was one of a more higher rank and of the blood Royall for at his feet there is a Lyon Co●chant and round about the Tombe Roses the culler not perceived supported by a Grayhound and a Dragon being hatchments of honour appertayning to the Crown of England At the upper end of the midle quite in the glasse window did stand before they were lately defaced three Scu●chions of Armes the first Gules a ●esse betwixt six crosse Crossees de Or being the coat Armor of B●●champ sometimes Earle of Warwicke likewise another coat viz● Argent a Pesse between three Cressents Gules which is the coat of Oagle of Pinchback in the County of Lincolne from which family as to me appeares the Baron Oagles of the North are descended because these Oagles of Lincolnshire bear the paternall coate without difference the third is Azure● Crosse fitched between 2. Eagles wing Or in the midle window on the South side of the said Church before the same was defaced there stood the coat Armor of Shelton of Norfolke viz● Azure a Crosse Or. Upon the North side of the golden Quire in this Church in the Wall of the fame there is a Monument lying in Armor Cap●pe but having neither Scutchion not superscription s●●ing that in the glasse window neer to the same there sometimes and but lately their stood a shield of Armes Sable three Lyons pawe● cupped and erected Argent armed Gules which Coat belongs to the name of Vsher and this makes me to conceive that this party was of that Family In the midst of the flore of the said golden Quire lies buried under a faire stone of blew Marble plated very curiously with Brasse work William Hi●km●n sometimes Alderman of Stamford who at hi● own cost and ch●●ges did gild over the roof of the said Quire the full portrature both of him and his wife in Brasse did lately lie fixed upon the same stone In the upper window of the quire of St. Georges Church are portrayed kneeling as in St. Georges Chappell at Winsor before the picture of that Saint Edward the third his Queen the Prince of Wales and Henry Duke of L●ncaster all in their Robes of the Order of the Garter and in the windowes on each side the said Quire are portrayed acco●ding to the first institution the first Knights of that Order that were made kneeling in their Garter Robes upon their Surcoates of Armes which said Order was unded by the said Edward the third the names of the first Knights of this Order are set down in order Edward the third Edward Prince of Wales Henry Duke of Lancaster 〈◊〉 Earle of Warwicke Cap●tain● De Bouch● ●aphe Earle of Stafford William de Mount●ac●te Earle of Salisbury Roger de Mortimor Earle of March Iohn de I●sula Bartholmew Burwash Iohn de-Belle Campo Iohn de Mohum Hugh Courtney Thomas Holland Iohn Gray Richard Fitz-Symon Miles Stapleton Thomas Walle Hugh Wrothesley Nigellus Loring Iohn Chandos Iames Audley Otho Holland Henry Eme Zachetus Dabridgcourt William Paganell In the Windowes of the said Church in sundry places appeares the Coat Armor of divers ancient and Noble Families there is the Coat of Earle Warren the ancient Lord and owner of Stamford Checkie Or and Azure There is likewise the Armes of Sapcote who bears Sable a Pidgion Coat erected Argent The Armes of Le Grosse being Or a Ccheverne betwixt three Roses Gules is likewise placed in the lower Window of the said Church towards the South There is likewise in an other window on the same side the Coat Armor of Molene●x of Haughton in the County of Nottingham who beares Azure A Crosse Moly●e quarter pierced Argent Which severall Monuments of Armes were here placed either in regard the bearers of them were benefactors to this Church or had Lands and possessions in the same Parish In this Church of All-Saints I observe not any Monument of Stone worth the noting and very few Monuments of Armes in the Windowes The Armes of the Town of Stamford Gules three Lyons passant Or impaled to Earle Warren Or and Azure Checky stands on the North side of the lowest window West on the South side of the same window stands the Armes of the Marchants of the Staple being Nebile of six pieces Argent and Sable a chief Azure charged with a Lyon passant Argent my conjecturall reason is touching the placing of these Armes in this window that the said window was first built at the joint charge of the Town and of William Brown who was as hereafter shal appeare a great benefactor to this Church and was a Marchant of the Staple For the parishes of St. Iohns and St. Michaels in Stamford I doe not observe any Mon●ment worth the noting neither in the quires bodies or windowes of the said Churches There is in the upper end of the midle Quire of this Church of S. Martins neer Stamford a stately Mausolean Monument built in the memory of VVilliam Cecell Lord Burley standing just over the Vault in which

Lord of this Town in the time of K. Iohn standing upon his Castle walls in Stamford viewing the faire prospe●● of the River and Medowes under the same saw two Bulls fighting for one Cow a Butcher of the Town the owner of one of th●se Bulls with a great ●asti●●e Dog accidentally comming by set his Dog upon his owne Bull who forced the same Bull up into the Towne which no sooner was come within the same but all the Butchers Dogs both great and small followed in the pursuit of the Bull which by this time made starke mad with the noise of the people and the fiercenesse of the Dogs ran over Man woman and child that stood in his way this caused all the Butchers and others in the Town to rise up as it were in a tumult making such an hideous noise that the sound therof came into the Castle into the ear●s of Earle Warren who presently thereupon mounted on Horseback rid into the Town to see the businesse which then appearing to his humour very delightfull he gave all those Medowes in which the two Bulls were at the first found fighting which we now call the Castle Medowes perpetually as a Common to the Butchers of the Town after the first grasse is eaten to keepe their Ca●tle in till the time of slaughter Upon this Condition that as upon that Day on which this sport first began which was as J said before that day Sixe weekes before Christmas the Butchers of the town should from time to time yearly for ever find a mad Bull for the continuance of that sport An ominous thing to the Towne for some of the Lords of the same of his succession though not of his Descent have since upon their hornes of greatnesse tossed the best of the Burgesses out of their gownes and why Because the Burgesses were no● Foxes otherwise they would not have suffered themselves to have been so abused by such Buls whose eare● were longer then their hornes And so much for the sports of Stamford CHAP. XI A list of the Names and Succession of the Aldermen of Stamford since the time of the ●irst incorporation of that Towne by Letters Patents in order according to the Yeare of our Lord in which each of them governed   Anno   1 1461 George Chapman   1462 Iohn Browne Esquire 1 1463 Iohn Gregory 1 1464 William Hickman 1 1465 Robert Haunce 1 1466 William Browne Esquire 2 1467 VVilliam Hickman 2 1468 George Chapman   1469 Thomas Rayston 2 1470 William Browne Esquire 2 1471 Iohn Gregory 2 1472 Robert Haunce   1473 John Neale   1474 Alexander Dye●   1475 Iohn Gibbes 1 1476 Iohn Dick●ns Esquire 1 1477 Henry Cooke Esquire   1478 Robert Skinner 3 1479 VVilliam Hickman 3 1480 George Chapman 3 1481 Robert Haunce 1 1482 Christopher Browne Esq. 2 1483 Iohn Dick●ns Esquire   1484 David Malpas   1485 Iohn Steede   1486 Thomas Keyston 2 1487 Henry Cooke Esquire   1488 Iohn Freebarne 1 1489 Thomas Phillip   1490 VVilliam Gaywood 2 1491 Christopher Brown Esq. 1 1492 Nicholas Bilsden 3 1493 Iohn Dickons Esquire 1 1494 Thomas Edwards Esq.   1495 VVilliam Ratcliffe Esq.   1496 Iohn Cleypoole   1497 Richard Cannell   1498 Robert Crant 2 1499 Thomas Phillip 2 1500 Ieffery Hampton 3 1501 Nicholas Bilsden 2 1502 Christopher Brown Esq. 1 1503 VVilliam Ratcliffe Esq.   1504 David Cecell Esquire   1505 Nicholas Trigge Gent. 1 1506 Thomas La●y Gent. 1 1507 Iohn Cobbe   1508 Iohn Hardgrave 1509 Iohn Tyard   1510 Richard Wastling Esq.   1511 Robert Martingdale 3 1512 William Ratcliffe Esq. 1 1513 Iohn Lea Gent.   1514 VVilliam Rankell 2 1515 David Cecell Esquire 2 1516 Iohn Cobbe 1 1517 Maurice Iohnson 1 1518 Thomas Crosse   1519 Iohn Thomas 2 1520 Iohn Hardgrave Esquire 1 1521 Henry Lacy Gent. 4 1522 William Ratcliffe Esq. 2 1523 Iohn Lea Gent. 1 1524 Andrew Canne   1525 Edward Browne Esq. 3 1526 David Cecell Esquire 2 1527 Maurice Iohnson 3 1528 Iohn Hardgrave Esq. 2 1529 Thomas Crosse 3 1530 Iohn Lea Gent. 2 1531 Henry Lacy Gent. 1 1532 Thomas Watson   1533 Richard Engham 1 1534 Roger Beale   1535 Thomas Gedney   1536 Robert Hand 2 1537 Andrew Canne 3 1538 Maurice Iohnson 2 1539 He●ry Lacy Gent. 2 1540 Thomas Watson   1541 Iohn Fenton 1 1542 Iohn Allen 2 1543 Roger Beale   1544 William Button   1545 Robert Winwick 1 1546 Nicholas Wiles   1547 Henry Lea Gent.   1548 William Wiles 3 1549 Thomas Watson   1550 Andrew S●arre   1551 William Fenton 1 1552 William Camponet 2 1553 Iohn Allen 1 1554 Raph Harrup   1555 Henry Ta●pian 2 1556 Nicholas Wiles   1557 Francis Thorney 1 1558 Iohn Haughton   1559 Iohn Ryder   1560 William Bagget 1 1561 Henry Inman   1562 Thomas Ball 2 1563 Raph Harrup 2 1564 William Camponet 1 1565 Godfrey Dawson 2 1566 Iohn Haughton   1567 Gregory Burton   1568 Alexander Antony 1 1569 Reynold Harrison 2 1570 Henry Inman   1571 Iohn Backhouse   1572 Richard Barton   1573 William Lacy Gent.   1574 Iohn Hawkins 3 1575 Iohn Haughton 3 1576 William Camponet 2 1577 Godfrey Dawson 1 1578 Iohn Elmes Gent. 1579 Richard Eveley   1580 Iohn Wimblesby 4 1581 Iohn Haughton 2 1582 Reynald Harrison 1 1583 Richard Shute Gent. 1 1584 Robert Meadowes 1 1585 William Clarke   1586 Lawrence Wilsbey 1 1587 Toby Loveday   1588 Anthony Gu●son   1589 Robert Langton 1 1590 Robert Ramsden 2 1591 Richard Shute Gent. 3 1592 Richard Shute Gent. ib.   1593 VVilliam Watson 2 1594 Robert Mead●wes   1595 Cutb●rt Greenbury 2 1596 William Clarke 1 1597 Lyonel Fetherston   1598 Nicholas Lambe 2 1599 Iohn Elmes Gent. 3 1600 Robert Meadowes 2 1601 Toby Loveday 1 1602 William Salter Gent.   1603 Reynald Waters Gent. 2 1604 William Salter Gent. 3 1605 William Clarke   1606 Iohn Loveday 2 1607 Robert Ramsden 1 1608 Iohn Browne Esquire 2 1609 Lyonell Fetherston 1 1610 Thomas Iack-son 1 1611 Robert Whatton   1612 Francis Cole   1613 Robert Fawcet 3 1614 Toby Loveday   1615 Thomas Watson Gent.   1616 Toby Aslocke 1 1617 Edmund Corker 3 1618 William Salter Gent. 2 1619 Iohn Browne Esquire 2 1620 Thomas Grason 2 1621 Thomas Iackson 2 1622 Robert Whatton 1 1623 Peter Fullwood 1 1624 Henry Rastell Gent.   1625 Vincent Hall   1626 Henry D●the Gent. 2 1627 Nicholas Lambe 2 1628 Peter Fullwood 2 1629 Edmund Corker 2 1630 Richard Wolphe   1631 Vincent Hall   1632 Iohn Atton   1633 Edward Cammocke   1634 Thomas Palmer   1635 Abraham Fdlkener 2 1636 Henry Eldred 2 1637 Henry Rastell Gent.   1638 Richard Wolphe   1639 Leonard Cole   1640 Ieremy Cole   1641 Richard Langton Gent. 2 1642 Robert Cammocke 3 1643 Edward Cammocke   1644 Vincent Hall   1645 Richard Damalt● CHAP. XII The Names of such Lincolnshire-men as