into Possession of the Lordships of Estpullham Westpullham Childeckford Divelish Duntish Winterborn Whitechurch and Newton in the County of Dorset and of Estoket in Somersetshire His Wife was Margaret de Peche the Daughter of Sir William de Peche Knight who was Descended from that Gilbert de Peche that was a great * Look the Barons Letter to the Pope Baron in the time of King Edward the First Their Issue Sir John Latimer SIR JOHN LATIMER who is stiled in his Charters Lord of Estpullham had a Contest with his own Father about certain Lands which by Articles Sir Robert Latimer had bound himself to establish upon his Heirs at the time of his Marriage with Margaret the Mother of this Sir John who was the Daughter of Sir William Peche Knight by reason Sir Robert had burnt the Writings whereupon the Interest of these Lands did depend to make them appear free for an Advantage he intended to himself in a second Marriage which he did at that time design There is Extant a Bill Exhibited by Sir John Latimer complaining thereof to Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham and High Chancellor of England in the sixth year of King Henry the Fifth This Sir John Latimer Married Catharine the Daughter of Sir John Pypard by whom he left Issue Sir Nicholas Latimer SIR Nicholas Latimer we find to have been High Sheriff of the County of Dorset once in the thirty second of Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth and in those turbulent and difficult times this Office might have been indeed properly called Onus cum honore for the men so imployed were at that time sought out among the richest the most popular and the most powerful that the Country would not only obey at home but follow abroad and men then depending upon the Bounty and Hospitality of the Great their Inclinations and Example were of more force than all the Cases of Law and Conscience The Prudence notwithstanding and good Fortune of Sir Nicholas Latimer did happily conduct him through the violent Reigns of three very active Princes King Henry King Edward and King Richard the Third and brought him peacefully to rest with his Fathers in the Twentieth year of King Henry the Seventh at a very great Age although with that Circumstance of leaving no Heir Male to Inherit his Lands and Family and for only Issue of the Lady Joan his Wife the Daughter of Sir John Hoddy Edith Latimer Lady Mordaunt EDITH LATIMER Lady MORDAVNT Lady of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Estoket and other Lands and Lordships EDITH LATIMER was by the Consent and Direction of her Father Married to Sir John Mordaunt in the fourteenth year of King Edward the Fourth between whom and Sir Nicholas Latimer several Agreements were made concerning his Inheritance But the hope of Male Issue and his Engagement in a second Marriage caused him so to protract the Settlement as being surpriz'd with Death he left his Estate under several great Incumbrances which notwithstanding the Kings Interest in the same upon pretence of some Debts due to him from the said Sir Nicholas were at last overcome and mastered by the Industry and Prudence of Sir John Mordaunt and the Lands and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford and Estoket left by him to the Lords Mordaunts that were his Successors She outliv'd her first Husband and was again Married to Sir Thomas Carew of Devonshire who was slain in a Sea-Fight on the Coast of Britain in the fourth year of King Henry the Eighth being at that time Captain of the Noble Ship called the Regent which was burnt in the same Occasion Issue by her first Husband John the first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joan Mordaunt Married to Sir Giles Strangeways of Dorsetshire WILLIAM Lord Latimer Surnamed le Riche ALICIA de Ledet William Ld. Latimer Sibill de Huntingfeild Sr. Iohn Latimer Second Sonne Ioane de Govis Sr. Nicolas Latimer William Ld. Latimer Elizabeth de Botetort Sr. Robert Latimer Catherine Hull William Latimer William Ld. Latimer Chamberlaine to E. 3 Elizabeth Fitz Allan Sr. Robert Latimer Margeret Peche Margeret Latimer Elizabeth Latimer Daughter and Heire Iohn Lord Nevill Sr. Iohn Latimer Catherine Pipard Sr Nicolas Latimer Ioane Hoddy Edith Latimer Sr. Iohn Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY Hollinshead Page ON the Kings part these persons are named to stand with him against the Barons First Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Hugh Bigod Lord Chief Justice Philip Basset William de Valence Jeffrey de Lusignian Peter de Savoy Robert Wallerand John Mancell Jeffrey Langley John Gray William Latimer Henry Percy Doctor Powel's History of Wales Page 371. WHen the Archbishop could not conclude a Peace he denounced the Prince and his Complices Accursed Then the King sent his Army by Sea to the Isle of Man or Anglesey which they won and slew such as resisted them for the chiefest men served the King as their Oath was So they came over against Bangor where the Arm of the Sea called Menay which divideth the Isle from the main Land is narrowest at the place called Moely-donn and there made a Bridge of Boats and Planks over the Water where before Julius Agricola did the like when he subdued the Isle to the Romans and not between Man and Britain as Polydore Virgil ignorantly affirms This Bridge accomplished so that well threescore men might pass over in a Front William Latimer with a great number of the best Souldiers and Lucas de Thany Steward of Gascony with his Gascoins and Spaniards whereof a great number was come to serve the King passed over the Bridge and there saw no stir of Enemies but as soon as the Sea began to flow down came the Welshmen from the Hills and set upon them fiercely and either slew or chased them to the Sea to drown themselves for the Water was so high they could not attain the Bridge saving William Latimer alone whose Horse carried him to the Bridge and so he escaped Henricus Knighton Canonicus Leicestriensis de Eventibus Angliae Pag. 2497. HIS auditis mox Rex Edwardus quingentos armatos viginti mille peditum misit in Vasconium cum Domino Johanne de Sancto Johanne qui ejusdem Terrae olim Senescallus extiterat cum Domino Johanne de Britanniâ illo Milite strenuissimo Willielmo le Latimer qui apud Portsmouth omnibus ad Expeditionem tantam necessariis paratis posuerunt se in mare circa Festum beati Petri ad vincula irruente vento contrario dispersae sunt naves per partes Cornubiae iterúmque collectae apud Plumeneye circa Festum beati Dionysii ventis vela iterum relaxabant post multa variáque Tempestatum discrimina
cum pertinentiis integrè remanebunt rectis Haeredibns praedicti Johannis tenendum de Capitalibus Dominis Feodi illius per Servitia quae ad praedicta Tenementa Passagium praedictum pertinent imperpetuum Surrey Hertford Kanciae Charta Joannae quae fuit Uxor Johannis le Latimer Militis NOverint universi per praesentes quòd ego Joanna quae fui Uxor Johannis le Latimer Militis recepi de Thomâ Herewauld quadraginta tres solidos quatuor denarios de redditu Paschae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum undecimo proveniente de terris tenementis quae de me tenet in Wolwich de quibus quidem quadraginta solidis quatuor denariis fateor me esse plenariè pacatum praedictum Thomam esse quietum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Datum apud Westmonasterium die Martis proximâ post Festum Sancti Barnabae Apostoli Anno Regni Regis supradicto SIGILLVM DNAE IOHANNAE LATIMER Sir Robert Latimer Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Charta Johannis Mundayne Nicolai Gurthop Capellanorum SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd nos Johannes Mundayne Nicolaus Gurthop Capellani tradidimus concessimus Roberto Latimer Chivalier Catharinae Uxori ejus medietatem Manerii de Childeckford cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum iisdem Roberto Catharinae haeredibus de corpore ipsius Catharinae exeuntibus de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita consueta in perpetuum Et si contingat quòd praedicta Catharina obierit sine haerede de Corpore suo exeunte tunc omnia praedicta tenementa cum pertinentiis integrè remaneant rectis haeredibus ejusdem Catharinae tenenda de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per Servitia inde debita consueta in perpetuum In cujus rei Testimonium Sigilla nostra praesentibus apposuimus His Testibus Richardo Turberville Johanne Attehall Militibus Johanne Moore Johanne Stippleton Thomâ de la Were aliis Datum apud Childeckford in Festo Sancti Johannis Baptistae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi tertii post Conquestum Tricesimo Secundo Charta Catharinae Latimer SCiant praesentes futuri quod ego Catharina quondam Uxor Domini Roberti Latimer in purâ ligeâ viduitate meâ dedi concessi hac praesenti chartâ confirmavi Margaretae filiae meae pro homagio servitio suo totam Terram meam cum homagiis servitiis liberorum hominum villanorum quam habui in Rotherhead quae mihi accidebat Jure haereditario ex parte Domini Roberti de Hull patris mei cum omnibus pertinentiis suis ad dictam Terram spectantibus vel quae de jure in posterum spectare poterunt in viis semitis pratis pascuis pasturis boscis caeteris aliis locis libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus dictis Terris pertinentibus habendum tenendum dictam Terram cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de me Haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis liberè quietè pacificè honorificè integrè haereditariè in perpetuum Reddendo indè annuatim mihi haeredibus meis à dicta Margareta haeredibus suis unum par Chirothecarum de pretio unius denarii vel unum denarium in Festo Paschae pro omni servitio seculari exactione demanda omnimodò mihi pertinente Salvo tamen servitio Regali quantum pertinet ad tantam Terram in eodem feodo Et si praedicta Catharina sine haerede de se exeunte in fata decesserit tota praedicta Terra cum pertinentiis ad Robertum Latimer Fratrem suum vel haeredes suos revertatur Ego verò Catharina praedictam totam Terram cum omnibus praenominatis pertinentiis servitiis tà m liberorum quà m villanorum dictae Catharinae haeredibus suis ut praedictum est exeuntibus contra omnes homines foeminas pro praedicto servitio warrantizabo acquietabo defendam in perpetuum Et ut haec mea Donatio Concessio praesentis Chartae Confirmatio rata sit stabilis hanc praesentem Chartam Sigilli mei Impressione roboravi His Testibus Radulpho de Rochford Ricardo de Turberville Rogero de Attehall Militibus Willielmo Jolliot Johanne Strode Elisâ Martin Thomâ de Winterborne Roberto Clerico aliis Datum apud Rotherheath die Lunae proximâ post Festum Purificationis Beatae Mariae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Tertii post conquestum Tricesimo quarto Sir Robert Latimer Knight Lord of Duntish and other Lands and Lordships Mr Prinn's Abridgment of Records Page 106. THE 21th day of May the King gave thanks to the Lords and Commons for their coming and aid granted on which day all the Lords and sundry of the Commons Dined with the King after which Dinner Sir John de Lee was brought before the King Lords and Commons next aforesaid to Answer to certain Objections following and first to the Complaint of William Latimer as followeth The King had granted the Wardship of Robert Latimer the Son and Heir of Sir Robert Latimer with certain Mannors during the same Minority to the Bishop of Sarum whose Estate the same William had and after the King granted the same to Sir John de Lee. The same William surmised that the said Sir John being of Power sent for him to London where he by duress of Imprisonment inforced the said William to Surrender his Estate to him And by Recognizance therefore the same Sir John excuseth himself for that the Grant was made unto him the which was not allowed for that the said William was not put out by due Process of Law Another matter was objected against the said Sir John for that during such time as he was Steward of the Kings House he should cause sundry men to be attached and to come before him as before the Kings Council in places where he pleased where being out of Council he caused men to answer as to things before the Council That he as Steward having thereby Authority only within the Verge did notwithstanding cause sundry to be attached out of the Verge as John Goddard and others making them to Answer in the Marshalsey of things done out of the Verge and othersome committed to the Tower of his own Authority as John Sibill Edmund Urdsales and others That he had of his own Authority against the Justices Commandment discharged out of Newgate Hugh Lavenham Purveyor who had appealed sundry men of Felony That he bargained with Sir Nicholas Lovayn for the Keeping of the Mannor of Rainham in Kent the which the same Sir Nicholas claimed to hold during the Minority of the Son and Heir of John Saunton where the said John of Lee knew that the said Mannor was holden of the King in Chief as of the Castle of Dover Of all which points for that the same Sir John could not purge himself he was Commanded to the Tower of London there
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-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
vel per ipsum solum qualitercunque in hac parte factorum sive perpetratorum Et de eo quòd ipse fuit de assensu consilio favore abbettamento Comitiva vi retinentia seu adhaesione praedictorum Ducis Comitum in materiis praedictis vel earum aliqua seu aliqua parcella aut aliquibus dependentiis earundem ac pro omnibus aliis proditionibus seditionibus insurrectionibus feloniis murdris raptibus mulierum roberiis depraedationibus latrociniis homicidiis incendiis transgressionibus inobedientiis rebellionibus forstallariis confoederationibus conspirationibus cambipartiis ambidextriis falsitatibus negligentiis deceptionibus quibuscunque Nobis seu alicui de regno nostro actis vel illatis unde idem Henricus judicatus impetitus rectatus accusatus vel appellatus existit vel esse poterit quoquo modo in futuo Et etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis actionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei indè concedimus Nolentes quòd praefatus Henricus aut haeredes vel executores sui aut terrarum suarum Tenentes ratione aliquorum praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem coram Nobis haeredibus nostris in Parliamentis nostris vel haeredum nostrorum vel in quibuscunque aliis locis vel placeis nostris coram quibuscunque Judicibus Justiciariis Ministris vel Officiariis Nostris vel haeredum nostrorum quibuscunque inde futuris temporibus impetantur occasionentur inquietentur molestentur in aliquo seu graventur sed ab omnibus praemissis penitus sint quieti absoluti exonerati imperpetuum aliquo statuto seu ordinatione in contrarium praemissorum seu alicujus eorundem quovis modo factis non obstantibus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilecto fideli Militi nostro Henrico Greene Maneria de Cosgrave Preston Capes in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum pertinentiis ac reversionem Manerii de Kibworth in Comitatu Leicestriae cum pertinentiis cum feodis Militum advocationibus Ecclesiarum omnibus aliis franchesiis libertatibus ad Maneria illa pertinentibus sive spectantibus quae quidem Maneria Thomae nuper Comitis Warwici extiterunt Nobis ratione judicii contra ipsum in Parliamento nostro redditi forisfacta existunt Habendum tenendum praefato Henrico haeredibus masculis de corpore suo exeuntibus praedicta Maneria cum pertinentiis cum feodis advocationibus franchesiis libertatibus praedictis de Nobis haeredibus nostris aliis Dominis feodorum per servitia indè debita consueta adeò liberè integrè sicut praedictus Thomas ante haec tempora habuit ac tenuit Maneria supradicta In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas Nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo octavo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per Breve de privato Sigillo Carta Regis Ricardi Secundi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia nostra speciali concessimus dilectis fidelibus Militibus nostris Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene placeam vel Hospitium quae vel quod fuit Johannis Domini de Cobham infra Civitatem nostram Londini ad Nos pertinet per forisfacturam ejusdem Johannis Domini de Cobham Habendum dictis Johanni Bussy Henrico Greene pro termino vitae eorum alterius eorum diutiùs viventis dictam placeam sive Hospitium unà cum omnibus Schoppis sellariis solariis eisdem Hospitio sive placeae adjacentibus ac cum omni redditu ad dictam Placeam sive Hospitium aliquo modo pertinente Et cum stuffura in eadem placea sive Hospitio existente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Salopiam tricesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo primo Roderham Per ipsum Regem Hollinshead in Chronicle of England Page 498. WHen the Lord Governour Edmund Duke of York was advertised that the Duke of Lancaster kept still the Sea and was ready to arrive but where he meant first to set foot on land there was not any that understood the certainty he sent for the Lord Chancellor Edmund Stafford Bishop of Exeter and for the Lord Treasurer William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and other of the King 's Privy Council as John Bushie William Bagot Henry Greene and John Russell Knights Of these he required to know what they thought good to be done in this matter concerning the Duke of Lancaster being in the Seas Their advice was To depart from London to St. Albans and there to gather an Army to resist the Duke in his landing But to how small purpose their Counsel served the conclusion thereof plainly declared for the most part that were called when they came protested that they would not fight against the Duke of Lancaster whom they knew to be evil dealt withal The Lord Treasurer Bagot Bushie and Greene perceiving that the Commons would cleave unto and take part with the Duke slipped away leaving the Lord Governour of the Realm and the Lord Chancellor to make what shift they could for themselves Bagot got him to Chester and so escaped into Ireland the other fled to the Castle of Bristol in hopes there to be in safety Again out of the same Chronicle and the same Page AT the same present there was arrested and committed to safe custody the Bishop of Norwich Sir William Elman and Sir Walter Burley Knights Lawrence Drew and John Golofer Esquires On the morrow after the foresaid Dukes with their power went toward Bristol where at their coming they shewed themselves before the Town and Castle being a huge multitude of people There were enclosed within the Castle the Lord William Scroope Earl of Wiltshire and Treasurer of England Sir Henry Greene and Sir John Bushie Knights who prepared to make resistance but when it would not prevail they were taken and brought forth bound as Prisoners into the Camp before the Duke of Lancaster On the morrow next ensuing they were arraigned before the Constable and Marshal and found guilty of Treason for misgoverning the King and Realm and forthwith had their heads smit off Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England pag. 49. treating of Coats of Arms and of the different Bearing of them by persons of the same
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
Ancient Families as also that for any Advantage or Prerogative the House of Mordaunt is oblig'd but only to Vertue to Antiquity and to Truth A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY OF THE House of Alno or Alneto Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD To the House of Alno or Alneto is ascribed for Arms Argent a Lion Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing Or three Martlets Azure Of the Name Antiquity Greatness Alliances Posssesions and Arms of the House of Alno or de Alneto THE Lords of this House received their Appellation from Alnetum a Town in France of which at the time of the Conquest or a little before they had the Dominion In those elder and little curious times they were often indifferently called of Alno Alnoto and Alneto and the Antiquity of this Name hereby appears to be so great as there are few that by just proofs can be traced to a higher Degree The Quality Prerogative and Greatness of this House was such as besides the Liberties they had upon their own Lands of peculiar Courts and particular Justice the Chief thereof had the Priviledge of Banner-bearing Ferendi Banneriam which was the same as is called in high Dutch a Banner heer and was at that time the greatest that could be in the Fortune of any Man who was not an immediate Sovereign and as much as to say a Power of obliging his Kindred his Relations and his Vassals to follow him to those Wars whereunto he should be pleased to engage There did belong unto it in Propriety within the Dutchy of Normandy a Town and Castle called at that time Alnetum they had great Lands in the Territory of Pont-Audomare and large Possessions in the Vicounty of Contonville In the Stile used by this Family in their Deeds and Transactions after they came into England whereof I have seen divers that are extant and well preserved are all the circumstances of Dignity as omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quam Anglicis and in their Seals were engraven their Images like Knights at Arms in Military Postures as was then in peculiar use with the great men of that time Their Alliances did also answer all the other parts of their Greatness for of four they contracted after their Arrival in this Country one was with a very Famous House and the other three with Families of the greatest and most eminent Nobility Vide Cam. Re. p. 276. But I am so far from undertaking to ascertain the Arms they bore as I am obliged to say I believe there were very few if any in Hereditary use at that time of their Conjunction with the House of Mordaunt which was about the end of the Reign of Henry the Second or in the beginning of King Richard the First Yet I shall not forbear to apply those that have been ascribed to them from very many Ages as may appear by several Pedegrees with other pieces of Sculpture and Painting remaining at this day in divers Churches and Noble Houses of this Kingdom which were Argent a Lyon Rampant Gules charged on the Shoulder with a Shield bearing in a Field Or three Martlets Azure PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO Lord of Turvey Maydford and other Lands and Lordships PAINE of ALNO or de ALNETO was one of those Illustrious Adventurers which came over with William Duke of Normandy to the Conquest of England in whose Service the Valour of our Hero prov'd so considerable as in the Partition this Prince did after make to his Followers he had allotted to him for his share several fair Lands and large Possessions and among the rest the Noble Lordship of Turvey in the County of Bedford with the Royalties and Priviledges belonging thereunto As the Advowson of the Church the Jurisdiction of many Families that held thereof in Villanage the particular Courts Leet and Baron the right of Free-Warren and Free-Fishing for a long and great Tract with those of Waifs Strays and Felons Goods It containing in the whole Four Thousand Five Hundred Fifty five Aeres of rich and fertile Land with a Treasure of fair Woods growing upon the same After that to the disorder of the War there had succeeded a Settlement in the Kingdom Paine of Alno did receive in Marriage as the Crown of all his Virtue Emelina de Burdet from the hands of her Father Sir Hugh de Burdet another great Companion of this Conquest and as her Portion the Town and Lordship of Maydford in the County of Northampton being part of those Lands which the said Sir Hugh had received for his Service from the Bounty and Acknowledgment of King William the First This Family of Burdet was of great Antiquity having possessed a very Honourable Rank in the Dutchy of Normandy before the Conquest For we find Sir William de Burdet Father or Ancestor to this Sir Hugh de Burdet to be mentioned in that antient Roll which contains the Names of all the Lords that owed Knights-Service to the Dukes of that Country and it had the Fortune for many Ages to produce men Famous and Renowned for Military Valour and Virtue Their Issue Henry of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Herbert of Alneto that was a Witness to a Charter whereby King Henry the First gave Lands to St. Peters and St. Maries in Exeter HENRY de ALNETO Succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships for we find by a Charter which is extant how be did confirm several Grants of Lands in Turvey that had been given to the Church of St. James in Northampton and to the Canons of that place by Robert the Son of Durand and his Heirs by his Brother Herbert and by others It appears that he gave to the Priory of our Blessed Lady of Luffield within the County of Northampton in the Forest of Whittlewood one Messuage with the Appurtenances in the Town of Maydford He married into the House of Lisors Lizures or de Lusoris as is seen by a Deed wherein Ralph de Caines does Witness that he was present when the Lord William de Lizures did give to Sir Henry of Alneto his Lands in Lichborow and Everton to him and to his Heirs to be begotten on the Body of his Daughter Agnes on Condition That if it did so fall out as he should die without Issue of the said Agnes they should then revert to him and his lawful Successors This William de Lizures was a great Baron at that time Chief Forester of the County of Northampton and of so great Authority in that Country as it occasioned a Letter to be written to him from Queen Elianor the Wife of King Henry the First wherein she prays him for the Love of her to protect one Malgerius a Monk and his Followers at that time retired within his Jurisdiction He was the Son of the Lord Foulke de Lizures that in the time of Henry the First had the Custody of the Forests of Rokingham
Selveston and Huntingdon and that was Heir to another William that came in with the Conqueror and held by Baronage several great Possessions We find no further of this Henry of Alneto than that he left for the Support of his House and Succession Halenald of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh de Alneto HALENALD of ALNETO flourished in the Reign of King Stephen and the Second Henry He was a great Benefactor to the Monasteries of St. Needs and Caldwell in the County of Bedford to which he gave several fair Possessions for the good of his Soul and those of his Father and Mother whose Bodies he expresses did rest in the first of those places He married the Lady Philippa of Pinkney one of the Daughters of Gilbert de Pinkney a very great Lord of that Age and who held by Baronage the Lordships of Wappiam and Wedon This Gilbert being the Son of Ralph the Son of Gilo that came into England with so great Power in the Service and Company of King William the First Of the Decease of Halenald of Alneto there is no mention but he had Issue William of Alneto Lord of Turvey and Maydford Hugh of Alneto Alexander of Alneto SIR WILLIAM of ALNETO with Sir Adam de Bavent and Sir Ranulph de Archis Knights as they are termed in the Charter were Witnesses to a Deed made by Bartholomew de Crec in the Reign of King Henry the Second wherein he gave Lands to the Monastery of St. Osithes in Chich for the Soul of Hervey de Glanvill his Mothers Grandfather This Sir William besides his other fair Possessions held of Robert de Beamount Earl of Leicester the Castle of Raunston and it seems being a bold and active man he happen'd to have so offended Ranulph the great Earl of Chester upon some of whose Jurisdictions he was a Borderer as oblig'd that Earl in the memorable Agreement made between him and that forementioned Earl Robert to insist upon the demolishing of the Castle of Raunston and bringing of William of Alneto to a Tryal in his Court if he should have cause of action against him unless for the said Demolishment and endeavour of Tryal William of Alneto should recede from his Fidelity to the Earl of Leicester In which case he oblig'd himself to give him afterward no Protection This William of Alneto was one of the Noble Knights that did Accompany King Richard the First in his Voyage to the Holy Land for which we find he made very Honourable preparations Of his Success or Return we are ignorant but after his Death it appears that his Brother Hugh was oblig'd to Testify of the Dower and Marriage of his Wife the Lady Joyce of Engain who was Daughter of Richard the Fourth Lord of that Family This House of Engain or de Ingannio held Blatherweeke Colon and divers other Lordships by the Tenure of Baronage They were then and many Ages after of great Power and Dignity in this Kingdom It appears She had afterwards a Difference with the Prior and Monks of Luffield about a Wood called Harts-Grove which was composed according to the Expression of the Deed by the Interposition of good men Their Issue Hugh de Alneto Alice of Alneto Sarah of Alneto HUGH the Son of Sir William of Alneto did in his time become possessed of the Lordship of Turvey and Maydford with the other Lands and Interest belonging to that Family It may be conjectured he did never marry certain it is he left no lawful Issue his Estate coming to be inherited by his two Sisters and there remains of him only a Testimony of his Continuance in that Piety which was Hereditary to his Family and his particular Addiction to the Church of St. Neods by his large concession of several Lands to that Monastery ALICIA the Eldest Sister of Hugh de Alneto was the Wife of Eustace Mordaunt and after the Death of her Brother inherited the Moyety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey and of all the Royalties and Priviledges that did belong unto it By reason of the Division with Sarah of Alneto the other Sister that married Robert of Ardres this Lordship continued after for some years under the Laws and Priviledges of two distinct Mannors The one called Mordaunts-Mannor the other Ardres-Mannor until the fourteenth year of Edward the Third at what time they were re-united by the Care and Industry of Robert Mordaunt who did exchange with Thomas of Ardres his Mannor of Shephale in the County of Hertford for the Lands and Mannors of the said Thomas in Turvey Their Issue William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Radwell Felmersham Esthall and Yerdley Agnes Mordaunt Concerning the House of Ardres AND now by reason of the Alliance of Robert of Ardres and Eustace Mordaunt proceeding from the Marriages of these two Sisters and the Kindred that thence did after grow among their Descendants I think it very proper to mention the Honourable Original of this Family in England which after subsisted with much reputation here for many Generations Arnold the Second called the Old Lord of the Castle Town and Territory of Ardres in Picardy was a Nobleman of Great Renown Reputation and Authority and that held his Lands with Sovereign Jurisdiction making War on his Neighbours and giving Laws to his own Subjects at his pleasure as may be found in the History of this Family written by Andrew du Chesne At the undertaking of the Conquest of England he was introduc'd by Eustace Earl of Bologne with his Brother Sir Jeffrey of Ardres into the Service of King William the First who for their great and useful endeavours bestowed upon them besides their Stipends and other considerable allowances Stevinton Dokesford Tedford Toleshond and Hoiland of which Sir Jeffrey of Ardres did afterward exchange his part with his Brother Arnold for the Land of Markisis in France of which He and his Descendants had from that time their Appellations and the Lands in England were left by Arnold Lord of Ardres to his two Younger Sons Elinantus and William who as the History relates were begotten of an English Virgin during his aboad in this Kingdom and it is certain that one of these Lordships particularly that of Stevinton was enjoyed by this Family their Descendants under the Name of Ardres many Ages afterwards PAGANUS DE ALNETO To whom King WILLIAM gave the Lordshipp of Turvey And Hugh de Burdett 10th his daughter Emetina the towne of Maydford HENRY de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Agness de Lisures HERBERT de Alneto ALAN de Alneto Ld. of Turvey Phillippa de Pinkney HENRY de Alneto HUGH de Alneto WILLIAM de Alneto L d of Turvey Ioyce of Engain ALEXANDER de Alneto ALICE de Alneto EUSTACE de Alordaunt HUGH de Alneto Lord of Turvey died without Issue GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of Alno or de Alneto Historiae Normannorum
Radulpho filio Stephani Nicolao de Overton Willielmo de Stanford Nicolao Serviente Osberto Clerico Out of the Register of the Monastery of our Blessed Lady of Luffield in the County of Northampton within the Forest of Whittlewood Henricus de Alneto dedit ibidem unum Messuagium cum Pertinentiis Priorat de Luffield In the forementioned Register of our Blessed Lady of Luffield under the Title of Maydford is thus contained Henry the Son of Henry of Alneto Lord of Maydford gave a Messuage with the Appurtenances in that place to Galfrid of Bradden the Son of Henry of Norton Witness Sir Ralph de Blompton Baldwin de Norton William de Clairvall William de Pinkney Robert de Alneto and others Charta Matildae Reginae MAtilda Angliae Regina Monasticon dnglicanum Pars prima fol. 521. Vitali Ingannio Willielmo de Lusoris Salutem Mando vobis precor ut pro amore mei deportetis istum Malgerium Monachum Servientes suos in Luffildam quandò hoc est quòd Rex ei ibi remanere concessit ità ut inde vobis grates faciam Teste Episcopo Lincolniae apud Oxenford The Baronage of England Pag. 597. In the time of Henry the First Foulk the Son of William de Lizures confirmed that Grant which had been made by Roger de Stibington of all his Tithes to the Monks of Thorney and in the fifth of Henry the Second he had the Custody of all the Forests of Rockingham Selveston and Huntingdon By Alice his Wife Sister of William de Auberville he left William his Son and Heir who gave two hundred Marks for the Forestership of Northampton by which Office he was obliged to follow the King to his Wars well provided with Horse and Arms with his Horn hanging about his Neck Of this Family was Hugh de Lizures by reason of whose Debts to the Chequer King John in the Fourteenth of his Reign Granted his Castle of Benefield in Comitatu Northampton and all his Lands with all the Stock therein unto John de Bassingburn for satisfaction of them Halenald de Alno or of Alneto Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Alnoti de Alnoto SCiant praesentes futuri Quòd Ego Alnotus filius Domini Henrici de Alnoto Concessi Dedi hac meâ Chartâ Confirmavi Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti Monachis ibi Deo rectè famulantibus pro Animabus patris matris meae quorum corpora ibi requiescunt pro Salute mei omnium meorum in perpetuam puram liberam Eleemosynam in villâ de Turveiâ tresdecem Acras Terrae de Dominio meo scilicet totam illam Terram quae vocatur Gores totam illam dimidiam Virgatam Terrae quam tenuit de me Ranulphus Butero illam quadrantem Terrae quam de me Gilbertus filius Gaufridi totam illam demedietatem Terrae quam tenuit de me Radulphus Coquus Quare volo firmiter praecipio quatenus praedicti Monachi praedictas Terras habeant in perpetuum possideant liberè quietè pacificè honorificè in messuagiis in terris in pratis in pascuis in exitibus in communitatibus in omnibus aliis suis pertinentiis Hi sunt Testes Ewanus Clericus Eustachius Capellanus Sancti Neoti Rogerus Presbyter de Turveiâ Robertus de Bid Willielmus filius Rogeri Henricus frater ejus Helias de Alnot Henricus frater ejus Radulphus de Sayfield Rogerus de Escalariis Johannes de Papiâ Adam Caun Willielmus filius Alexandri de Coldington cum multis aliis Charta Halenaldi de Alno NOtum est omnibus tà m praesentibus quà m futuris Quòd Ego Halenald de Alno Dedi Concessi in liberam perpetuam Eleemosynam pro Salute animae meae meorum antecessorum Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Baptistae de Caldiwell Canonicis Deo ibidem famulantibus decem acras Terrae arabilis in Turveiâ in Culturâ meâ quae vocatur Swethmanstoching coram me Roberto Priore de Caldewell pluribus aliis per perticam mensuratas quae jacent simul ex parte Occidentali ità Quòd Ego haeredesque mei defendemus warrantizabimus hanc Terram eis ut puram Eleemosynam erga omnes homines concessimus warrantizare debemus ut liberè intrent redeant ad praedictam Terram colendam indè portandam sicuti voluerunt absque damno bladi nostri volo igitur haec Concessio Conventio eis firma stabilisque permaneat in perpetuum Ego Halinald id tenere Juravi praesenti Chartâ Sigilli mei Testimonio confirmavi Quod si Ego vel aliquis haeredum meorum Donationem praedictam temerariè perfregerit excommunicatus permaneat quoad praedictae Ecclesiae Satisfactionem perfecerit Hujus Donationis sunt Testes Nicolaus Archiaconus de Bedford Robertus Clericus de Wilshamsted Magister Johannes Ascaneus Decanus Bodin Decanus Nicolaus Decanus Ricardus Capellanus de Salden multi alii SIGILL HALENALDI DAVNO Charta Halenaldi de Alneto NOtum est omnibus tà m futuris quà m praesentibus Quòd Ego Halenald de Alno fateor me recepisse de Domino Henrico de Pinkney fratre meo octingentas marcas legalis Monetae ad liberandam Terram suam de Mortonâ quae mihi pro tantâ pecuniâ obligata stabat per Dominum Gilbertum Patrem ejus quando Philippam filiam suam mihi dedit in Maritagium De qua quidem Solutione fidelitèr soluta fateor me plenariè esse solutum praedictum Dominum Henricum de Pinkney quoscunque suos per praesentes in perpetuum fore quietos In cujus rei Testimonium praesentibus sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Domino Henrico de claris Vallibus Domino Thomâ de Blompton Ricardo de Molesford Nicolao Wac Thoma filio Ricardi Thoma de Finoden Johanne Weston cum multis aliis Inter Certificationes factas de Feodis Militum per totam Angliam remanen in Scaccario Charta Alexandri de Alno DOmino suo Regi Anglorum Alexander de Alno Salutem Servitia Praecepistis mihi quatenùs vobis intimarem Servitium feodi mei perinde vestra ratum habeat Reverentia quomodo totum quod feodi mei est per Servitium unius Militis se defendit sic tantum Antecessores mei vestris Antecessoribus fecêrunt Item sciat vestra Dignitas Quòd Ego post mortem Regis Henrici nullum Militem feoffavi Sed pater meus fratri suo Hugoni de Alno partem Terrae de suo Dominico dedit ut si necesse esset Servitium unius Militis faceret ad totam Terram patris mei defendendam ista Donatio ità fuit illi haeredibus suis in tempore Willielmi Regis Baronage of England Folio 556. IN the time of King Henry the first Gilo de Pinkney gave certain Lands lying in Wedon in the County of Northampton to the Monks of St. Lucian at Belvare in
he renewed old Claims much to the displeasure and discontent of the King Among the rest he revived an ancient pretence of the See of Canterbury to the Castle and Honour of Saltwood which Sir Ralph de Broc for his own as well as the Kings Interest did peremptorily oppose From hence great and personal Enmities did arise between the Archbishop and himself to that Degree as the King in the subsequent variances that fell out afterward between Becket and him could reasonably find no man so proper to oppose unto his insolent Arrogance as Sir Ralph de Broc who had a Reputation and Interest in that County Superiour to most of his time and the Conscience of a Souldier not apt to be puzl'd or obstructed with Scruples incident to men of milder Callings hence it was that he was made the man of Terrour of Seizure and Chastisement to the Archbishop and all his Adherents when their Endeavours were in Opposition to the King and his Authority and this was the reason of all the reprobate Characters he did receive from several Monkish Authors of that time which may be perused amongst the proofs He died notwithstanding happy and safe from all their Censures in the favour and service of his Prince and in Marriage of a Lady called Damata the Daughter of one William de Gorom who by the Stile of his Charter appears to have been a man of much Dignity and Power in those days from whom he received in free Gift to him his Wife and their Heirs the Land of Staplehurst Their Issue Robert de Broc Edelina de Broc Married to Stephen of Turnam a great Baron and in much Authority in the Reign of King John being at that time Seneschall of Poictou in the Kingdom of France ROBERT the Son of Ralph de Broc at the Arrival of the Insolent Archbishop out of banishment received early marks of his Revenge and Indignation For upon Christmas day in the Seventeenth Year of King Henry the Second we find he was Excommunicated by his own mouth together with Nigell de Sackville for some Offences pretended to have been done to that Prelate during the late Contests whose Death soon after Executed by certain Knights of the Court set himself and his Family out of the reach of his farther displeasure This Sir Robert de Broc became a famous Knight and in much Employment under King Richard the First in whose Reign we find he was stiled Marshal of England He Married to his first Wife Margaret of Beauchamp or de bello Campo one of the Daughters of Richard de Beauchamp who gave in free Marriage besides other things certain Lands and Rents in the Town of Chestersham His Second Wife was Margery de Crec who becoming the Heir of Walter her Father by occasion that her Brother William happened to suffer under the Laws brought unto him the Forrestership of Cannoc and the Lordship of Misterton in the County of Warwick which preferment was procured unto him by the particular favour of the King Issue by his first Wife Laurence de Broc Issue by his second Wife Margery Married to Hugh de Loges to whom descended Misterton and all the Lands of their Mothers Inheritance SIR Laurence de Broc flourished in the Reign of King John and King Henry the Third to whose Interests he did constantly adhere The Reputation and Authority which he had in the Counties of Suffolk Cambridge Huntington and Buckingham were of no small use to the Affairs of the Crown during the various Troubles of that long Reign He augmented notwithstanding the Fortune left him by his Predecessors having purchased the Mannors of Bridsthorn Herdwick and Wedon from the Prior of Saint Saviours of Bermundsey and received from Robert Mallet a Lord of that Age in Marriage with his Daughter Milicent certain Lands in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge on condition That if they did not prove to the value they were asserted to be worth their Deficiency was then to be made good out of the Lands that were held by the said Robert Mallet in Quenton in the County of Buckingham Their Issue Hugh de Broc SIR Hugh de Broc succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships and we find he followed the famous King Edward the First in divers of his Wars his Name being upon the Lists of several Expeditions which were made in that Reign into Wales Gascony and Scotland He Married Agnes de Montepiconis a Lady descended from one of the most ancient and Noble Families that was among the Normans as whose Predecessors had been Lords of the Honour which bare that name in the Dutchy of Normandy and whose immediate Ancestor came over with King William the First in quality of his Dapifer or Sewer an Office of Eminent Dignity at that time in the Kings House Their Issue Laurence de Broc SIR Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale after the decease of his first Wife whose Christian Name was Ellen Married another Lady of the same appellation that was the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot and of Cassandra one of the Heirs of the Famous Knight Sir Giles of Argentine who gave him the Mannor of Maudlins and other Lands as a Portion to which end a Fine was suffer'd in the Thirtieth Year of Edward the First In the third Year of King Edward the Second a Patent pass'd unto this Sir Laurence de Broc to have Free-Warren and all the Rights thereof upon his Lands in Chessham Aumondsham Bridsthorn Hardwick and Wedon in the County of Buckingham and in the seventh of the same Reign he Levied a Fine to his Son Ralph and Elizabeth his Wife He lived unto the Reign of King Edward the Third and left to Inherit his Lands and Lordships Sir Ralph de Broc Lord of Shephale OF this Ralph de Broc or the Transactions of his Life there remains little Testimony So whether he died early or that the Evidences of them cannot appear by reason of the length of time since the Alienation of these Lands it is uncertain but true it is That in him did terminate this Name and Family who having Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Hussey left no Male-Issue and only three Daughters Joanne Married to Thomas Rokesby that died without Issue Elena Married to Edmund Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Agnes Married to Sir Henry of Brussels ELena de Broc was in the Seven and twentieth Year of King Edward the Third Married to Edmund Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of divers other Lordships She brought into his House the Moity of all her Fathers Lands there accruing to her Husband for her Share in Cambridgshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborn in Buckinghamshire divers Lands in Elsburg Bridsthorn Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham with sundry other Lands in Hartfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephale Their Issue Robert Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Sr. RANULPH de BROC Governor of the Castle of Agenet
erat in Custodiâ Ranulphi de Broc duxerunt insomnem Charta Willielmi de Goram OMnibus hominibus suis amicis tà m Francis quà m Anglicis tà m futuris quà m praesentibus Willielmus de Goram Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Terram meam de Staplehurst Terram illam quam teneo de Willielmo Comite Ranulpho de Broc Damatae filiae meae haeredibus eorum tenendum tam liberè quietè quà m illam Ego teneo de praedicto Willielmo Comite scilicèt Servitium faciendo dimidiae partis unius militis His Testibus Gervasio filio Bernardi Henrico filio Thomae Willielmo de Harlec Alano de Criol Stephano de Poisoter Henrico de Bertsted Roberto Selvage cum multis aliis Charta Damatae de Broc SCiant tà m futuri quà m praesentes Quòd Ego Damata Uxor quondam Domini Ranulphi de Broc Robertus de Broc filius meus fuimus in illo loco in quo dictus Ranulphus vir meus Dominus dedit Fulconi de Bollard Terram suam in Combdenâ in feodo haereditate cum omnibus pertinentiis tenendum ab eo haeredibus suis homagium suum cepit accipitrem quandam in recognitionem ei dedit Servitio quartae partis militis Ego vero Damata Robertus filius meus hanc Donationem per istam Chartam confirmamus concedimus petitionem Fulconis de Bollard Testibus Willielmo de Sanctâ Mardaliâ Roberto de Bethrinden Thomâ de Harlebec Ricardo de Auberville Henrico de la Hyde Roberto de Ham Andreo filio Thomae Stephano Tore Johanne Clerico Inter Placita coram Concilio Regis die Sancti Johannis Baptistae in tres Septimanas anno vigesimo Septimo Henrici Tertii Rotul 20. EDelina de Broc opponit versus Sibyllam de Broc quòd tenebat Finem factum apud Winton Tempore Regis Johannis inter ipsam Sibyllam Stephanum de Turnham ipsam Edelinam de rationabili parte quae clamat versus ipsos Stephanum Edelinam de haereditate Ranulphi de Broc Patris Edelinae Sibyllae de rationabili parte Sibyllae quam ipsa clamat versus eosdem Stephanum Edelinam de totâ haereditate Damatae de Goram matris ipsorum Edelinae Sibyllae Sibylla non venit Baronage of England Page 663. I Come now to Stephen of Turnham Brother of the forementioned Robert This Stephen ratified his Fathers Grants to the Canons of Combwell for the health of the Souls of King Henry the Second King Richard the First his own Soul and the Soul of his Wife In the three and thirtieth of Henry the Second this Stephen being Seneschal of Poictou observing that the King of France had won Four Castles belonging to the King of England and thereupon marched to Maine with purpose to gain it by assault set fire upon the Suburbs by which means the Flames getting over the Walls almost consumed the whole City In the Sixth of King John with Edelina his Wife he had Livery of the Mannor of Fealburgh in the County of Southampton which was the inheritance of Damieta her Mother then Deceased but departed this Life in the Sixteenth of that Kings Reign for then did the same Edelina his Widow give Sixty Marks and one Palfrey for liberty to Marry with whom she should like best Robert de Broc That was Stiled Marshal of England and Forrester of Cannoc Rogerus de Hoveden parte posteriori Pag. 299. BEatus verò Thomas Archiepiscopus eo die Cantuariae residens post Sermonem ad populum factum excommunicavit Robertum de Broc qui die praecedente amputaverat caudam Sommerii sui Imagines Historiarum Authore Radulpho de Diceto Page 555. DIE Natalis Domini Thomas Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus Sermonem habiturus ad populum ascendit in Pulpitum Sermone completo orationibus consuetis scilicèt pro Domino Papâ pro Rege populique salute fusis ad Dominum Nigellum de Sackville Robertum quoque de Broc qui Equam quandam ipsius Archiepiscopi ad dedecus ignominiam ejus decurtaverant accensis candelis solemniter excommunicavit Charta Roberti de Broc NOtum sit omnibus Sanctae Ecclesiae Fidelibus tà m praesentibus quà m futuris Quòd Ego Robertus de Broc pro salute meâ Margaritae Uxoris meae Domini Ranulphi de Broc patris mei Laurentii filii mei pro animâ Domini Ricardi de Bellocampo patris Margaritae Uxoris meae Dedi Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli de Newnham Canonicis regularibus ibidem Deo servientibus Ecclesiam meam de Ravensden cum omnibus pertinentiis suis praecipio quòd de me haeredibus meis aeternè in pace teneant His Testibus Domino Stephano de Turnham Domino Roberto de Lega Domino Thomâ Basset Eliâ filio Ricardi Johanne filio Stephani Gervasio de Ambly Thomâ de Stowbridge Willielmo filio Willielmi Nicolao filio Rogeri Andreo Clerico Antiquities of Warwickshire Page 347. Speaking of Walter de Broc Lord of Chesterton TO this Walter succeeded William his Son and Heir who gave to the Monks of Radmore in the same Forrest of Cannoc afterwards translated to Stonly all his Lands in Werly in the County of Stafford In Consideration whereof he was made partaker of the whole benefit of the Cestertian Order and promis'd that his Body should have Sepulture in their Monastery On the Canons of Killingworth he confer'd the Church of Chesterton and granted to the Knights Templars a Yard Land in this Lordship but ill fate attended him for he suffer'd under the hand of Justice though for what appears not Whereupon the Lands were Seized into the Kings hands who gave them in Marriage to one Robert de Broc being a man of note in his days For he is stiled Marescallus Angliae Forrestarius de Cannoc who gave to the Monastery of Stonly a Messuage and half a Yard Land lying in Radway in this County and died in the Fifth Year of Richard the First leaving Issue Margery his Daughter and Heir Married to Hugh de Loges who in the Seventh of that King paid sixty Marks Fine towards raising that great Sum of Money for the Kings Redemption for which he had the Custody of the Forrest of Cannoc with his House of Grimbaldsdon Sir Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale Charta Domini Roberti Mallet ROBERTUS MALLET omnibus hominibus amicis suis Salutem Sciatis me memetipsum haeredes meos obligâsse perfacere Laurentio de Broc in libero maritagio cum Milicentâ filiâ meâ ducentos solidatos Terrae in loco competenti ex illis quos teneo in Comitatibus Cantabrigiae Huntingdoniae sibi haeredibus suis de dictâ Milicentâ filiâ meâ exeuntibus hoc erit circa Festum beatae Mariae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Vigesimo Septimo Et si Ego Robertus Mallet vel haeredes mei praedictos ducentos Solidatos Terrae in iisdem Comitatibus praedicto Laurentio de Broc
xiii iv 0 0 De les tenants de Berkhamstede 0 xxxvi 0 0 0 De la dame Portrer 0 viii 0 0 0 De Johanne Pedifat 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo Cohesdele 0 ii vii 0 0 De Johanne Redbourn 0 ii 0 0 0 De Johanne Cokevyle 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo de Asheld 0 xiv 0 0 0 De Roberto at Shore 0 xvi x 0 0 Ove lour homages services custumez forpris Grenelands iii. measons devant nomes Pars Edmundi Mordaunt Elene sa femme ET les avanditz Edmunde Elyn averont del ' heritage Elene le Maner de Shephale ove les appartenantz les terres de Rigmerfeld Blakelond avant nomes jades parcel de Stevenach de la rent du Mannor de Maudelyn vii l. xiv s. 1 d. ob quadrans Cest assavoir  l. s. d. ob q. De Waltero Powell 0 0 x 0 0 De Johanne Sokereseyn 0 iii x 0 0 De John 0 ii 0 0 0 De Nicolao Oysell 0 vi i 0 0 De Johanne Mollyns Chevalier 0 viii viii 0 0 De Roberto Gravely 0 ii 0 0 0 De Johanne Carrier 0 0 iii 0 0 De Johanne 0 0 xviii 0 0 De Johanne Godele 0 iv iv 0 0 De Waltero Garnhon 0 0 xviii 0 0 De Stevenne Marten 0 0 iii 0 0 De Johanne Gardiner 0 0 xvii 0 0 De Johanne Drake 0 ii viii 0 0 Del molen lable de Mussenden 0 xv 0 0 0 De Waltero Blakwell 0 vi vi i 0 De Thoma Shepherd 0 0 xvii 0 0 De Johanne Blakwell 0 xi i 0 0 De Juliana Blakwell 0 0 xv 0 0 De Rauff Glarnik 0 0 xxii 0 0 De Elizabetha Blakwell 0 0 xx 0 0 De Raff Coke 0 viii v i 0 De Johanne White 0 0 xii 0 0 De Willielmo May. 0 0 ix 0 0 De Johanne Cole 0 0 ix 0 0 Et de les tenantz de Esylbirghe iii ix viii 0 0 Ove lour homages services lour Custumes ET aussy si les advantdits Thomas Johan Edmunde Elyne ou aucun d'eux sont distourbes par les fermiers de Stevenach de Shephale de mesme les Mannors à la fyne de v. ans apres la fesance de cestes en deinz le terme de leur ferme de xviii Marcz par an donque voet ladite Agneyse que soit à volonte les avantdits Thomas Johan Edmunde Elyne de reentre les Tenements advantdits aller à novell departisment nient contredisants Et touts les reversions de quelle partie que eux sont sont purparties entre les parties avantdits quant eus escherront ou null d'eux escherra quant iiii s. de rente issant de la terre de William le Shepherd xx s. rente issant de la terre que Thomas Trayerr tient demeureront en commun entre les parteners avantdits à departir quant il leur plaira En Tesmoignage de quelle chose les parteners susdits entrechangeablement ont mis leur seaulx Date à Maudelyn le lundy prochain devant la feste de la Conversion de St. Paul L'an du Reigne Edward troisieme apres la Conqueste vintisme Out of an Ancient Pedigree among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow IN tempore Regis Henrici secundi Vir erat praepotens maximae Authoritatis Nomine Ranulphus de Broc qui Castellanus erat Castri de Agenet Constabularius Castri Honoris de Saltwood Iste Ranulphus habuit exitum Robertum de Broc qui suo tempore Marescallus fuit Angliae floruit regnantibus Ricardo primo Johanne Regibus Robertus habuit exitum Laurentium de Broc qui fuit tempore Henrici tertii qui habuit exitum Hugonem qui fuit plenae aetatis anno tertio Edwardi primi postea Hugo habuit exitum Laurentium qui fuit decimo quinto Edwardi Secundi ante qui quidem Laurentius habuit exitum Ranulphum qui duxit in uxorem Elizabetham Hussey qui peperit Elenam quae fuit uxor Edmundi Mordaunt Agnetem uxorem Domini Henrici de Bruxells Johannam praedicta Johanna obiit sine prole A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Latimer were Gules a Cross Fleure Or. Of the Name Antiquity Descent Greatness Succession Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Latimer that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham THE Name of Latimer had ever of old in all Histories Charters and other Occasions of being mentioned the Addition of le preceding to it as Willielmus le Latimer and the English of that word which is in its proper Language Latimer is by Antiquaries rendred to be Interpreter Also by all the Histories Records and Catalogues that mention the Lords and Knights who enter'd England with the Conquerour it is testified that a Nobleman bearing this Name whether from his Office or otherwise was a Companion in that Glorious Enterprize From which time they flourished upon the Lands and Lordships acquired in that Occasion so as about the Reign of King Richard the First they became rank'd among the greatest and most Eminent of the Nobility of England and for several Generations there were not any had a greater share in the Commands Employments and Counsels of the Crown it producing Famous and Victorious Generals Wise and Happy Counsellors and Officers that prov'd of great Honour and Advantage to all the Affairs wherein they were imployed From William Lord Latimer who was Chief of this House and a great Baron in the Reign of King Edward the First did descend those Latimers of which I treat by Sir John Latimer his second Son who were Lords of Govis a Noble Signiory in the Dutchy of Normandy under the Jurisdiction of the Balliage of Caen of the Mannors and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Winterborne Till Rivell Bocland and Whitchurch in the County of Dorset Cravestock with Lands in Estshene Mortlack and Wimbledon in the County of Surrey They had Possessions in Bisbey and Hartsned in Hertfordshire they had the Lordship of Wolwich in Kent and of the free passage over the River of Thames in that place In possession of most whereof they long liv'd with great Honour often performing with much Reputation the principal Offices of those Countries when they were call'd unto them for the Service of their Kings and the Kingdom and unto these at last became Heir and Successor John the first Lord Mordaunt by his Mother the Lady Edith sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer the last of this Branch who for their Arms bare ever Gules a Crosse Fleure Or being the same with that was given by the Ancient and Illustrious House of which they were Descended WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY THE Original and History of the Ancient Lords of the Name of Latimer having been the
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
to remain as Prisoner until he had made Fines at the Kings Will and Commandment given to Sir Allen of Buxhal Constable of the Tower to keep him accordingly And so the Lords and Commons departed After that the said Sir John being brought to Westminster before the Kings Council and being there demanded of the same William Latimer made Answer That as freely as the King had granted to him the Wardship aforesaid so freely did he Surrender the same into the Kings hands Whereupon by the same Council it was Ordered that the Wardship aforesaid should be reseized into the Kings hands and delivered unto the said William Latimer according to the Grant made to the said Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by the said William to the said Sir John should be void saving the Kings Right Charta Johannis de Rochford SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes de Rochford Consanguineus Roberti de Hull Militis dedi concessi hac praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto filio Roberti Latimer Militi Manerium de Stoket juxta villam de monte acuto in Comitatu Somersetiae cum pertinentiis medietatem Manerii de Childakford cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Dorsetiae unà cum Feodis Militum Advocationibus Ecclesiarum quae ad praedictum Manerium medietatem Manerii pertinent seu pertinere possunt Habendum tenendum omnia praedicta Manerium de Stoket medietatem Manerii de Childakford una cum Feodis Militum Advocationibus Ecclesiarum praedictarum cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praedicto Roberto filio Roberti haeredibus de Corpore suo legitimè procreatis in perpetuum de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita consueta Et si contingat praedictum Robertum filium Roberti sine haerede de corpore suo procreato decedere Volo Concedo quòd omnia praedicta Manerium de Stoket medietas Manerii de Childakford unà cum Feodis Militum Advocatione Ecclesiarum praedictarum cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis Margaretae Sorori praedicti Roberti filii Roberti haeredibus de corpore suo legitimè procreatis remaneant in perpetuum Tenenda de Capitalibus Dominis feodi illius per servitia inde debita de jure consueta Et si contingat praedictam Margaretam sine haerede de corpore suo legitimè procreato decedere Volo Quòd omnia praedicta Manerium de Stoket medietas Manerii de Childakford unà cum feodis Militum Advocationibus Ecclesiarum praedictarum ac omnibus eorum pertinentiis mihi haeredibus meis remaneant in perpetuum Et ego verò praedictus Johannes haeredes mei omnia praedicta Manerium de Stoket Medietatem Manerii de Childakford unà cum Feodis Militum Advocationibus Ecclesiarum praedictarum cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedictis Roberto filio Roberti Margaretae Sorori ejus in formâ praedictâ warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus in perpetuum His Testibus Johanne Chydyok Johanne Atte-Hale Militibus Willielmo Winterborne Johanne Briming Henry Atte-Moure Henry Alleyn Johanne Spencer aliis Data apud Childakford Die Jovis proximâ post Festum Sancti Martini Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Tertii post Conquestum Tricesimo Sexto Protestatio per Dominum Robertum Latimer in Cancellariâ facta MEmorandum Quòd cùm per quandam Inquisitionem coram Thomâ de la Bere virtute Commissionis Domini Edwardi nuper Regis Angliae avi Domini Regis nunc eidem Thomae directè retornatam compertum fuisset Quòd Catharina quae fuit Uxor Roberti Latimer Chivalier obiit seisita in Dominico suo ut de feodo de medietate Manerii de Childakford cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Dorsetiae de medietate Advocationis Ecclesiae ejusdem villae Et quòd Robertus filius Roberti Latimer Chivalier est haeres propinquior ejusdem Catharinae Idem Robertus filius Roberti sperans aliud Jus sibi ad medietatem dicti Manerii Advocationis praedictae competere quà m per dictam Inquisitionem est compertum petit liberationem dictae medietatis Manerii cum pertinentiis ac Advocationis praedictae Protestando quòd si imposterum sibi constare poterit ipsum Robertum aliud Jus seu Titulum in Tenementis praedictis habere quà m suprà compertum quòd ipse intendit esse ad largum suum dictam medietatem Manerii cum pertinentiis Advocationem praedictam meliori Jure Titulo quae sibi competere poterint clamare liberatione ejusdem medietatis Manerii ac Advocationis praedictae sibi in eâdem Cancellariâ ad prosecutionem suam factâ non obstante nec sibi seu haeredibus suis praejudicante Quae quidem Protestatio sibi in Cancellariâ praedictâ de assensu Curiae conceditur Indentura inter Dominum Robertum Latimer Margaretam uxorem ejus ex unâ parte Willielmum Cadbury Johannem Pury ex alterâ HAEC Indentura facta apud Duntish die Lunae in Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno Regni Regis Henrici quarti post Conquestum Quinto inter Robertum Latimer Margaretam uxorem ejus ex unâ parte Willielmum Cadbury Johannem Pury ex alterâ parte Testatur Quòd die Anno supradictis praefati Robertus Margareta Uxor ejus tradiderunt ad firmam concesserunt praedictis Willielmo Cadbury Johanni Pury totum Manerium suum de Stoket cum pertinentiis suis in Stoket praedicta ad terminum vitae praedictorum Willielmi Johannis Salvis in omnibus eisdem Roberto Margaretae Wardis Releviis Maritagiis Escaetis Servitiis Redditibus quibuscunque proventuris liberorum Tenentium Salvis etiam praedictis Roberto Margaretae haeredibus ipsius Roberti Finibus Herietis simùl cum amerciamentis Tenentium in Villanagio pro eorum ruinositate Tenementorum Excepto tamèn quòd idem Willielmus Johannes recipient habebunt ex concessione gratiosâ praedictorum Roberti Margaretae unam Libram Cerae duo paria Chirothecarum unam Libram dimidiam Cumini de libero reditu proventuro ex certis parcellis dicto Manerio ab antiquo incumbentibus Praedicti item Robertus Margareta concesserunt eisdem Willielmo Johanni annuum reditum sexdecim denariorum recepturum de quodam libero Tenemento Thomae Bolar unà cum reditu annuo octo denariorum proventuro de libero Tenemento Johannis Gregory Ità tamèn Quod cùm Seneschallus praedictorum Roberti Margaretae ad dictum Manerium de Stoket praedicta accesserit pro Curiis inibi tenendis praefati Willielmus Cadbury Johannes Pury pro se suis micas expensas Statibus competentibus illorum sumptibus eorum propriis supportabunt Ità quòd praedicti Willielmus Johannes nulli tradent Statum suum in parte neque in toto absque licentiâ speciali praedictorum Roberti Margaretae nec ullum facient vastum nec destructionem in
finish in Writing the said Bargain And Smith by his Letter dated the fourteenth day of September sent Answer to John Mordaunt and disclosed upon what ground he had made such Agreement and Bargain to John Mordaunt and William and then disclosed his Bargain made to him by Sir John Turbervile which he had under his Sign Manual and his Seal and upon that in Michaelmas Term following Anno xviij o John Mordaunt and Smith ingrossed their Indenture and accomplished their Bargain and their Bargain was known and spoken of both in Court and other places also And the Kings Grace nothing said nor did nor shewed any thing to John Mordaunt till Hilary Term then next In Hilary Term Anno xviij o the King took displeasure with Mordaunt that he would intermeddle with the Lands and make not him privy thinking that John Smith at the Death of Turbervile had stood seized of the Lands to the use of Turbervile in Fee for lack of Issue Male of Latimer then living and said That Turbervile ought him great Money and that he would have the Reversion in recompence of his Money and willed John Mordaunt to forsake his Bargain which he would not do Wherefore the King was sore displeased with him and caused Smith to come by Privy Seal to make a Feoffment to the Kings use of the Lands which he would not but disclosed to the King all the Premisses that be here in Writing as he hath said and reported And the same Smith sometime threaten'd and sometime entreated gave Attendance upon the King till he agreed to make a Feoffment as the King would desire Whereupon a Deed was devised in Paper by which John Smith should Enfeoffe Lord Daubeny Master Lovell Master Bray and Master Seymore in Fee and Sir William Seymore would have had it to the Kings use whereto John Smith would not agree then it was drawn and no use expressed and at the desire of John Mordaunt the Copy was sent to William Mordaunt to see and he entertained To the same use that John Smith then was seized And with great difficulty the Deed was so made by Smith and sealed in Trinity Term Anno decimo octavo About Michaelmas Anno decimo nono Lord Aubeny and Master Lovell took a State by that Deed at that time Master Bray and Master Seymore being dead And thus it continued all the Life of John Mordaunt who died in September Anno vicesimo and all the Life of Sir Nicholas Latimer who died without Issue Male at Lent Anno vicesimo From the Death of Sir Nicholas by Colour of the said Feoffment and by Colour that the Kings Grace said Sir John Turbervile should owe him much Mony at his Decease without any Title and against Law and Conscience of his Royal Power the Kings Grace took the Profits of these Lands till Summer Anno vicesimo primo in Trinity Term. And because the Heir and William Mordaunt and William Gascoigne Executors to John Mordaunt were so far in Debt to the King and sued and on Exigent for the same were so troubled with the King and about the Testament of John Mordaunt that they minded not Latimers Lands to trouble the King nor them by Suit till they had somewhat pacified their other troubles And in Trinity Term Anno vicesimo primo the Lord Aubeny and others sued several Writs of Subpoena against the said Executors and Heir and against John Smith to have compelled them to deliver the Evidences upon Livery of which Writs upon Sute made to the King by the Executors the King Commanded them to sue to Dudley and though the Executors shewed the King that they had as good leave the Land for the hard dealing they knew of Dudley the King compelled them to sue to Dudley who Ordered them to pay the Kings Majesty and to pay two hundred pounds yearly or else they must have delivered the Evidences and abidden the Kings Displeasure as Dudley said and also must have Released and for Surety of Payment thereof there was Land recovered by my Lord of Winchester and Sir Robert Throgmorton and others named for the Heir of Mordaunt Of which Money the Executors paid to the King four hundred pounds whereby the Will of John Mordaunt is yet not performed whereof they are now to have Restitution and to be discharged of two hundred pounds more residue And that my Lord of Winchester and others may Release to the persons named in the Recoveries to the use of the Heir of Mordaunt according to Right and good Conscience And Dudley said expresly the Deed was to the Kings Use and the Executors fearing whether Smith had made any new Deed or not and also not knowing whether the Estate had been delivered by the Deed in which the use was express'd or not desired to see the Deed and he shewed it and thereby it appeared the use was to the same use as Smith was Enfeoffed and that notwithstanding by the Menaces and Craft of Dudley they were compelled to agree and indent to give the King c. The Report of Richard Eliott the Kings Serjeant at Law John Erneley the Kings Attorney and of John Porte the Kings Sollicitor upon the sight of the Evidence of Sir John Mordaunt for all such Mannors Lands and Tenements as were late Sir Nicholas Latimer's Knight FIrst It appears that Sir Nicholas Latimer Knight by his Deed Enfeoffed William Hardyng of the same Mannor above-written in Fee Dated decimo sexto die Januarii Anno Edwardi quarti decimo quarto Item After that by his Indenture bearing date the same Year and the seventeenth day of January rehearsing the said Feoffment The said William Harding granted that if the said Sir Nicholas within twelve Years then next following paid to the said William Hardyng one hundred and twenty pounds that then the said Sir Nicholas should have again the said Mannor to him and to his Heirs Item the Premisses notwithstanding The said Sir Nicholas by Indenture bargained and sold the said Mannor to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Edith his Wife Daughter of the said Sir Nicholas and to the Heirs of their Body begotten for lack of Issue Male of the Body of the said Sir Nicholas lawfully begotten c. Dated the second of Richard the Third Memorandum That Sir John Mordaunt after bargained with the same William Hardyng and Nicholas his Son for their Interest and Title that they had in the said Mannor of Devilish as by Indenture thereof made plainly may appear For the Mannors of Devilish For the Mannors of Duntish For the Mannors of Estpullham For the Mannors of Estoket First It appeareth that the said Sir Nicholas Latimer bargained and sold all these said Mannors above-written to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs for the sum of a thousand Marks upon Condition That if the said Sir Nicholas died without Heir Male of his Body lawfully begotten And upon the same Bargain it was Covenanted That John Smith should recover the said Mannors and Execute the Estates
according to the same Covenants to Sir Nicholas Latimer and to the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten with the remainder as is abovesaid Data Indentura Anno septimo Henrici Septimi Item It appeareth by Writing in Paper Sealed and Subscribed with the hand of Sir John Turbervile That he granted a Bargain with John Smith for certain Lands in the County of Kent That if the said Sir John Turbervile died without Issue of his Body lawfully begotten That then the said John Smith should have all the said Mannors to him and to his Heirs Dated decimo quarto die Octobris Anno decimo septimo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain so made between John Turbervile and John Smith the said John Smith bargained and sold all the said Mannors to Sir John Mordaunt Knight and his Heirs except the Mannor of Estpullham with divers Covenants as it appeareth by the said Indenture Data Anno decimo octavo Henrici Septimi Item After the said Bargain the Kings Grace that dead is without Cause or Colour would have caused John Smith to have Enfeoffed the Lord Daubeny and other of the said Mannors to the use of the Kings Grace and his Heirs which he refused so to do because he had made the former Bargain and by Advice of the Councel of the said King And to satisfie the same Kings Appetite for the time the said John Smith Enfeoffed Giles Lord Daubeny and others to them and their Heirs and Assigns to the use following That was Ad eosdem hujusmodi usus intentiones prout ego praefatus Johannes Smith die Confectionis praesentium in eisdem seisitus existo in praesens habeo in praemissis vel in aliquo praemissorum Which uses and intents upon the true Examination of the Premisses appear plainly to be to the use of Sir John Mordaunt Knight and of his Heirs for ever Memorandum That we the said Richard Eliott John Ernley and John Porte having seen and examined all and every of the Premisses and by the tenor and sight of all the Premisses it appeareth evidently That the King had no Title nor at any time had to any of the said Mannors nor to any part of them And all that is here under-written is to shew the truth as appeareth after by the shewing of John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight ITem All the Premisses notwithstanding the Kings Grace after the Decease of the said Sir John Mordaunt and of Sir Nicholas Latimer caused the said Lord Daubeny and others to sue several Writs of Subpoena as well against John Mordaunt Son and Heir of the said Sir John and William Mordaunt one of the Executors of the said Sir John as against the said John Smith The said Lord Daubeny and other surmizing by their Bill in the Chancery That they had bought all such Right as one Walter Turbervile should have to the said Mannors as Cozen and next Heir to the said Sir John Turbervile Whereas the said Lord Daubeny and others had never any such Bargain of the said Walter And though he had made such Bargain with the said Lord it had been clearly void because the said Sir John Turbervile before his death sold all the said Mannors as above is expressed Item The Subpoena was sued to the intent That the said John Mordaunt the Son William Mordaunt and John Smith should have been compelled to deliver all such Evidences as they or any of them had concerning the same Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs And also that the said John Mordaunt the Son and John Smith should release to the said Lord Daubeny and others all such Right as they or any of them had in the said Mannors to the Use of the King and of his Heirs except that they would compound with the King to give him such Monies as he would desire Item The said William perceiving the Premisses and that the Kings Grace against all good Right and Conscience desired and would have the Premisses performed sued to the Kings Grace to have him good Lord to the said John Mordaunt the Son and that he should not be compelled against all Right and good Conscience to release his said Right nor to deliver any such Evidences And by that Suit he was commanded to sue to Edward Dudley to know farther the Kings Pleasure by the which Edward it was shewed to the said John Mordaunt and William That the Kings Grace would have Twelve Hundred Pounds or else the Lands and the Evidences And for fear of the loss of the Lands and that they should have been compelled to deliver the Evidences the said John Mordaunt the Son was agreeable to indent with the Kings Grace to give him a Thousand Pounds and Master Dudley said that he would pay the Two Hundred Pounds residue in hand And to have therefore the said John Mordaunt the Sons Interest in Estpullham whereto the said John Mordaunt had no Title Item Upon this Master Dudley caused the Indenture to be made up by the which Indenture John Mordaunt should have had a years Rent and a half then remaining in the Kings hands which he never had And also the Thousand Pounds should not have been paid till certain Covenants contained in the same Indenture had been performed on the Kings part which to this day was never performed and no penny ought to have been paid by the Indenture And yet that notwithstanding they were called upon and were compelled to pay Four Hundred Pounds thereof at several times for the which Money they have sued to have restitution and to be discharged of the residue and to have the Indenture delivered because it appeareth That there is no cause that the Kings Grace should have had any penny which Restitution and Indenture with a Release of the Right of the Persons named for the King in the same Indenture she said John Mordaunt yet desireth for Charity and in discharging of the Kings Soul that dead is A Letter from Sir Giles Strangewayes To my Right Worshipful Brother Mordaunt RIght Worshipful Brother I heartily recommend me unto you Sir As touching the Releases of John Latimer I have them ready Sealed by him and all the names of them that were present at his release and delivery of the same Sir I would ere this time have sent it you but I durst trust no Messenger but my self For with Gods good Grace I trust this Term to be at London and then to bring it to you my self Also as touching the Land that ye have lately bought of one Narborow within Devilish according to your desire and writing I my self have taken possession thereof for your behoof and also retained the Tenants to you by a penny in the presence of Sir Thomas Trenchard Knight Robert Sturges Esquire and others Also as for the Pedigree of William Juell and Thomas Lond I have done the best that in me lies to have known it howbeit I can
find no man who can speak in it to your profit But as touching the Pedigree of John Camell and Richard Garnsay I have Examined as followeth that is to say Richard Garnsay Son and Heir of the aforesaid Richard sayes that he once had certain Evidence concerning the Land that Moleyns laid claim unto which Evidence with a Release made by him he delivered to Sir Nicholas Latimer promising him thirty three shillings four pence which money he never had notwithstanding at my desire if you think his Title may do you good or profit he is contented to do for you as much as in him lies and farther I cannot know of either of your Pedigrees but as I have afore written to you Also as touching John Reade that you writ to me which gave Moleyns the Land in Fee Tayl I can in no wise hear of the same Reade but the Country sayes that one Moleyns was in possession a while there but he was Disseised by Sir Nicholas Latimer again but farther I cannot know Also my Lady your Mother hath given Giles Peny the Buck that you wrote to her for Sir Also I have moved my Lady many times that you might have Latimers Lands to Farm which in no wise she will agree unto yet I have done therein as much as I can for she sayes that she will be Mistress of her own Lands during her Life Farther I pray you to have me recommended to my Sister your Wife and to my Uncle William Mordaunt And I yours to my little power as knoweth Jesus who always preserve you From Dorchester the third day of October Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi quinto By me Yours Giles Strangeways The Petition of the Lady Edith Carewe To the King our Soveraign Lord. IN most humble wise beseecheth Your Highness and most Noble Grace your poor Oratrice Dame Edith Carewe Widow sometime the wife of Sir John Mordaunt Knight That whereas the same Sir John Mordaunt at the time of his Death left and gave to your said Oratrice then his Wife in Plate Jewels ready Money and Stuff to the value of a Thousand Marks and above to have to her own proper Use and Behove By force whereof she was thereof possessed accordingly and afterward she being possessed thereof took to Husband your late Servant Sir John Carewe Knight which Sir John Carewe afterwards by Chance of War was perished and lost on the Sea in the Service of Your Grace At which time he lost not only his Personage on the Sea but also lost his substance of such Goods as to your said Oratrice was left by her former Husband which the said Sir John Carewe then had with him to Sea both Plate Money and also his Apparel as well necessary Apparel to his Body as other Apparel that he had bought with the said Goods for the defence of his Body in your said Wars By means whereof your said Oratrice is left little or nothing worth in substance of Goods And the aforesaid Sir John Carewe in his life borrowed and had of your Grace by way of Prest Two Hundred Pounds for the repayment whereof he was and stood bound by his Writing Obligatory to the Use of your Grace And so it is Gracious Sovereign Lord that the most Reverend Father in God the Archbishop of Canterbury as Ordinary hath sequestred and made Seizure of all the Goods that belonged to the said Sir John Carewe within this your Realm at the time of his death which Goods by a true Inventory taken have been extended and valued to the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And forasmuch as your said Oratrice is now left a poor Widow by reason of the Premisses and never had nor hath any Preferment nor other Benefit by the said Sir John Carewe neither in Possessions nor in Goods in consideration whereof That it would please your Highness of your abundant grace and benign pity to direct your gracious Letters missive to the said Archbishop of Canterbury reciting by the same Letters That the mind and pleasure of your Grace is to accept and take the aforesaid Hundred and Fourscore Pounds in full recompence and satisfaction as well of the said Two Hundred Pounds as of all other Debts which the said Sir John Carewe ought unto your Grace at the time of his Death which Debts ought to have first preferment in payment by the Order of your Laws before any payment of any Debts that the said Sir John Carewe ought at the time of his death to any persons And further by the same your Gracious Letters to command the aforesaid Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver or cause to be delivered the aforesaid Goods attaining the Summ of one Hundred and Fourscore Pounds to your said Oratrix to have to her own proper use of the gift of you And farther that it may please your Gracious Highness to direct your Warrant to be signed with your most victorious hand unto your Servant John Heyron commanding him by the same to deliver or cause to be delivered the foresaid Writings Obligatory of Two Hundred Pounds to your said Oratrix to the intent that she may deliver them to the said Archbishop of Canterbury for his discharge as Ordinary of and for the payment and delivery of the said Hundred and Fourscore Pounds And this at the Reverence of God and in the way of Charity And your said Oratrix shall pray to God for the prosperous continuance of your Royal Estate and for the preservation of the same The Kings Warrant signed with his hand to Thomas Lucas to release unto Sir John Mordaunt the Latimers Lands that had stood ingaged to King Henry the Seventh for a thousand pounds HENRY the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland To Thomas Lucas Esquire Greeting Where ye and the Right Reverend Father in God our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councellor Richard Bishop of Winchester with Sir William Gascoigne Knight and others now Deceased by divers Writs of Entry in the post recovered the Mannors of Devilish Estpullham and Duntish with the Appurtenances in the County of Dorset and certain other Lands and Tenements in Devilish Estpullham and Duntish aforesaid Bokeland Helton and Milborn Saint Andrew in the said County of Dorset And also the Mannor of Estoket with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset the Mannor of Turvey with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and also certain other Lands and Tenements in Turvey aforesaid And also the Mannor of Burnton and Newton per mare with the Appurtenances in the County of Northumberland and certain other Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the said County of Northumberland against Sir John Mordaunt by the name of John Mordaunt Esquire John Jenor and others as by the Records thereof exemplified under the Seal of our Common-Bench and also by two Releases which Releases the said John Mordaunt shall shew unto you signed with our hand
securitatem tam Baldewinus quà m Clemens hujusmodi scrptis Conventionibus impressiones sigillorum suorum mutuò apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Watervil Domino Rogero de Hyda Domino Gilberto de Daneford Richardo de Audewincle Reginaldo de Beumer Roberto filio Fulconis Luca de Trapston Johanne Walleraunde Johanne Clerico de Luffwic Henrico de Islip Clerico aliis Pipe nota oblata quadragesimo secundo Henrici Tertii Scutagium Walliae HEnricus de Drayton debet viginti solidos de dimidio Feodi Baldewinus filius haeres habet quietantiam Regis Tower Escheats 6 E. 1. n o 16. BAldewinus de Drayton tenet Drayton Luffwick Islip in Comitatu Northampton Conventio inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Rogerum de Stowmarcant ANno Regni Regis Edwardi Filii Regis Henrici primo ad Festum Sancti Michaelis convenit inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Militem ex una parte Rogerum de Stowmarcant Clericum ex altera videlicet quòd dictus Dominus Baldewinus tradidit vendidit demisit ad firmam dicto Rogero quibuscunque assignatis suis terram Dominicam suam cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Adinton quam idem Baldewinus habuit ex warda filii bonae memoriae Baldewini de Vere cum Curiae aedificiis terris Homagiis redditibus Eschaetis wardis releviis herietis pratis pascuis pasturis omnibus aliis ad dictum Dominicum pertinentibus excepto servitio Domini Johannis de Vere Warda Relevia ejusdem si contigerit Habendum tenendum dicto Rogero suis Assignatis de dicto Domino Baldewino de Drayton haeredibus suis bene in pace liberè quietè à dicto Festo Sancti Michaelis usque ad finem termini duodecim annorum proximè sequentium plenè complendorum Dictus verò Dominus Baldewinus haeredes sui eidem Rogero suis quibuscunque assignatis totum dictum Dominicum cum omnibus suis pertinentris ut praedictum est quae ad ipsum pertinent ratione praedictae wardae usque ad finem dicti termini super omnes terras tenementa sua contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt defendent à Sectis universarum Curiarum Hundredorum acquietabunt Pro hac autem traditione venditione dimissione dicti tenementi warrantizatione dedit dictus Rogerus dicto Domino Baldewino centum marcas Argenti prae manibus Praeterea Dominus Baldewinus concessit eidem Rogero suis assignatis tertiam partem Dominici in Adington quam habuit nomine dotis de Matilda relicta quondam Baldewini Vere defuncti prout continetur in quodam Scripto inter Dominum Nicholaum Dodingesel virum dictae Matildae ipsum Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton confecto sigillo Nicholai appenso Et dictus Rogerus dictam partem Dominici sumptibus suis usque ad terminum praedictorum annorum in tali statu quo recepit secundùm visum Bonorum Legalium virorum sustinebit In hujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto ad modum Chirographi confecto mutuò sigilla sua apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Wahul Domino Willielmo Hay Domino Johanne de Vere Domino Symone de Watervil Domino Symone de Eyleswritch Rectore Ecclesiae de Trapston Rogero de Venneng Rogero de Tingwick aliis Out of the Collection of Mr. Roger Dodsworth is this Ancient Pedigree of the Draytons SIR Robert of Gimeges held Staggesden in the County of Bedford of the King in Capite by the third part of a Knights Fee and he held the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Overton-Longville in Norman Cross Hundred in the County of Huntington by the service of half a Knights Fee He married Sibyl the Daughter of Hugh de Lizures who lived after him as appears by an Inquisition of the fortieth year of Henry the Third He gave to Sir Hugh de Bovi with his Daughter Emma the Moity of the Mannor of Bottlebrigg and to Baldwin of Drayton with Idonea another of his Daughters the other Moity William his Son and Heir was Lord of Staggesden and had Issue Robert of Gimeges that dyed without Issue Robert of Gimeges Lord of Staggesden and Bottelbrigg Emma of Gimeges Hugh de Bovi William of Gimeges Robert of Gimeges dyed without Issue 8 E. 3. Idonea of Gimeges Baldwin of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Philip of Arderne Escaetria de Anno sexto Edwardi Primi numero decimo sexto INquisitio facta apud Bottlebrigg die Jovis in Crastino Apostolorum Petri Pauli Anno Regni Regis Edwardi sexto per praeceptum Domini Regis coram Willielmo le Moigne Vicecomite Huntingdon Reginaldo Thurnston de Swangrit Johanne de Fraunchome de Stilton Willielmo de Menill Galfrido de Welledon Galfrido Stockman Willielmo Cokelm Roberto le Frankhome Roberto de Bedhampton Galfrido le Hunt Johanne Lokerel Johanne Cocum Idone de Gathe Qui dicunt per Sacramentum suum quòd Baldewinus de Drayton tenuit in Comitatu Huntingdon de Roberto de Gimeges quatuor viginti acras Terrae quoddam Messuagium septem acras prati unius pretium acrae terrae arabilis sex denarii pretium Messuagii quatuor solidi pretium acrae prati quatuor solidi Piscaria valent per annum duos solidos Tolnetum per aquam terram valet sex denarios Sunt ibi quatuor liberi homines quorum redditus est per annum sex solidi sex denarii Item perquisita Curiae de Bottlebrigg valent per annum duos solidos Haec omnia praedicta tenuit de Roberto de Gimeges Item idem tenuit in Villa de Overton-Longville de Domino Willielmo de Karby unum Messuagium quod valet per annum duodecim denarios unum Columbarium quod valet per annum duos solidos quatuor viginti acras Terrae pretium acrae sex denarii septem acras prati pretium acrae quatuor solidi Item sunt ibi redditus consuetudines septem liberorum hominum in Overton valent per annum quinquaginta sex solidos sex denarios Et dicunt quòd Johannes filius dicti Baldewini est ejus haeres propinquior est de aetate viginti duorum annorum ampliús Convenit cum Recordo Guilielmus Ryley Sir JOHN of DRAYTON first of that Name Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Charta Roberti de Arderne SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus de Arderne dedi concessi hac meâ praesenti Chartâ confirmavi Johanni filio Domini Baldewini de Drayton cum Philippa filiâ meâ totam Terram meam in Wappenham quae fuit de Jure Dominae Aliciae matris meae mihi ab ea haereditariè descendebat cum omnibus pertinentiis suis libertatibus Tenendam de me haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis de dicta Philippa filia mea exeuntibus liberè haereditariè honorificè per servitium tertiae partis unius Militis
Third obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the days of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year Antiquities of Warwickshire fol. 305 306. Of Waleran the Earl of Warwick HE had two Wives Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice Daughter of John de Harcourt but Widow of John de Limesie before mentioned and departing this life in the sixth of King John left divers Children of which Henry his eldest Son succeeded in the Earldom Waleran another Son had the Mannors of Gretham and Cottesmore in the County of Rutland with certain Lands in Worcestershire but dyed without Issue Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife wedded William Mauduit of Hanslape in the County of Bucks and had by her Fathers appointment the Mannor of Wanton now called Walton Mauduit in this County for her Marriage Portion as is evident by King John's confirmation thereof to him bearing Date the thirtieth of November in the tenth year of his Reign WILLIAM MAVDVIT Earl of Warwick Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lordships Baronage of England Page 399. BUT in the one and fortieth of Henry the Third he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in the County of Bucks as also of the Mannor of Bergedon and Hundred of Wrangedike with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham in the County of Rutland as likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartleigh in the County of Southampton leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of Age. Which William in the forty first year of Henry the Third had so much favour from the King in payment of a Debt of two hundred Marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serjeanty he held videlicet a hundred Pounds for his Relief of his Barony and fifty Marks for his Serjeanty as that it was accepted of fifty Marks per annum The next year following this William had Summons to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the Incursions of the Welsh and in the forty seventh of Henry the Third doing his Homage and paying a hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him videlicet the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Lands and Mannors thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility Mille 's Catalogue of Honor page 798. William Maledoctus commonly called Mauduit Lord and Baron of Hanslape Cousin and Heir to Margery Countess of Warwick videlicet the Son of Alice the Sister of Henry the Father of the said Margery became Earl of Warwick after the Death of the foresaid Margery in the Reign of Henry the Third who long before had honour'd him with the Sword of Knighthood in the year 1233. and in the eighteenth of his Reign He dyed without Issue the fourth day of the Ides of January in the year 1268. and of Henry the Third the fifty second leaving his Sister Isabell his Heir Alice the Daughter of Gilbert Lord Segrave was Wife to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit that was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Carta Domini Roberti Mauduit RObertus Mauduit Domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Roberto Mauduit filio meo juniori Manerium totam terram meam de Werminster quae Rex Henricus Dominus meus mihi concessit tenendum sibi haeredibus suis in perpetuum liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè ab omni servitio salvo quod domino Regi pertinet in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Isti sunt Testes Dominus Johannes de Knovill Dominus Ricardus de Verdun Robertus de Sancto Laudo Alexander Pipard Thomas filius Johannis Henricus Transard Stephanus Camerarius Herveius Dapifer SIGILLVM DNI ROBERTI MAUDUIT Carta Domini Willielmi Mauduit Camerarii Regis WIllielmus Mauduit domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hac carta mea praesenti confirmâsse Fratri meo Roberto Mauduit pro servitio suo Manerium de Scaudedene cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè in bosco in campis in pratis in pascuis in viis in semitis in omnibus ad Manerium illud pertinentibus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius Militis Testibus Ranulpho de Glanvilla Gilberto Pipard Bertram de Verdun Willielmo de Bend Radulpho filio Stephani Eustachio filio Stephani Johanne Mauduit Beberto filio Richardi Gaufrido de Insula Roberto Burell Roberto Mauncell Roberto Mauduit filio meo Willielmo filio Walteri Willielmo Nepote aliis multis SIGILLVM DNI WILLI MAUDUIT CAMERARII REGIS Monasticon Anglicanum Pars Secunda pag. 409. 36. 43. inter concessiones de Mayden Bradley EX dono Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum pertinentiis in Bushopstree Ex dono Agnetis de la Mare quae fuit Uxor Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum messuagio Curtelagio in Tarrenta WILLIAM MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Placita de Banco Term. Pasch Anno 14 H. III. in pella Scaccarii Regis remanent Rot. 15. RObertus de Passleu per Attornatum suum petit versus Willielmum Mauduit Eugeniam Uxorem ejus quòd reddant ei Henricum filium haeredem Henrici Cromwell cujus custodia ad eum pertinet ratione commissionis Domini Regis quod inde fecit dicit c. Sed quia dictus Robertus non ostendit dictam commissionem dicta custodia remansit penes dictos Willielmum Eugeniam Charta Regis Henrici Tertii HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae
The Wife of Sir Henry Greene was Katharine the Daughter of Sir John and Sister of Sir Simon of Drayton Their Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Norton that Married Mary Daughter of Richard Lord Talbot and Sister to John the first Earl of Shrewsbury from whom were those Greenes that for several generations flourished afterwards at that place in great reputation Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Greene Married to William Lord Zouch of Totnes Nicholas Greene. Richard Greene. Amabila Greene Married to Sir Ralph Reynes Lord of Clifton HAving only exposed the descent and succession of those Greenes that were Lords of Drayton I shall proceed to HENRY the second Son of Sir Henry Greene who in his Father's life-time and by his procurement was invested by his Cousin Sir John of Drayton in the chief seat and Lordship of that place with all the Towns Lands Liberties and Priviledges belonging thereunto upon condition that from thenceforth he should bear his Name and his Arms according as to that purpose the same Sir John had formerly covenanted with Sir Henry the Father of this Sir Henry Greene. Now this being among his other Children the delight and hopes of his old Father he was by him endowed with great and noble possessions as besides the Mannor of Drayton of which were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with certain Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle those of Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Batteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottington Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places and he was moreover by his provident care Married to Matilda Daughter and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Mauduit that was Lord of Werminster Westbury Lye Grateley Dychurch and other fair Possessions all which with the blood and Arms of that Antient and Noble House by this Alliance devolved into his Family The ambition of the young Henry Greene fomented by these favours of fortune drew him to the Court where he resolutely joyn'd his hopes and expectations to the fate of that unhappy Prince King Richard the Second at whose hand he had received the honour of Knighthood The merits of his person soon acquired him the nearest favour of this King and those of his mind the approbation and encouragement of all his Council into the number whereof he was chosen for his great faithfulness and abilities And when the Conspiracies of divers of the turbulent and seditious Lords had obliged the King to condemn some and banish others he conferr'd several parcels of their confiscated Lands upon Sir Henry Greene as the Mannors of Kibworth Cotgrave and Preston Capes that appertained to Thomas Earl of Warwick those of Knighton Cuvelle and Bulkington in the County of Wilts by reason of the attainder of Richard Earl of Arundell and the Place of the Lord Cobham in London with all its furniture to the end he might secure the fidelity of those about him by exemplary satisfaction for their services and hazards And indeed had not the perversness of this Kings Planet which obstinately prosper'd the Rebellion of his Enemies overwhelm'd all his hopes there was not any greatness unto which the deserts of this Sir Henry might not have well attained But at last when the Duke of Lancaster's fortune came like a torrent bearing down all before it Sir Henry Greene that had possessed himself of the Castle of Bristol and meant to defend it for his Master to the uttermost was taken by his perfidious Garrison and delivered bound to the Duke who knowing his constancy to be dangerous and unchangeable caused him to be beheaded the next day with the Earl of Wiltshire and Sir John Bushey His Issue Ralph Greene Lord of Drayton John Greene who by his Brothers death without Issue became after Lord of that place Mary Greene Married to Sir Jeffrey Lutterill Eleanor Greene Married to John Fitz-Williams of Sprofsburgh SIR Henry Greene had in his life-time made such generous use of his fortune and the favour of King Richard as found its reward from the gratitude of several great men he had obliged who contributed their instigations to the inclination of the succeeding King which was much bent to favour the unfortunate Family of the deceased Gentleman whose person fidelity and gratitude had been so exemplary and who lost his life but for his adherence to a King that had been his Master and Benefactor In the very first year therefore of King Henry the Fourth his eldest Son RALPH GREENE was restored by Act of Parliament to the Lordship of Drayton and all the rest of those Lands that were the inheritance of his Father or his Mother the Lady Matilda de Mauduit And several Instruments are extant of the grace and clemency of this Prince to himself and the other Children of Sir Henry Greene. This Family coming again to flourish in the County of Northampton Ralph Greene was in the eight year of King Henry the Fourth chosen to serve in the then considerable Office of High Sheriff for that Shire and he is found to have been employed in divers important occasions for the service of King Henry the Fifth and particularly in the first year of his Reign to have been joyn'd in Commission with William Lord Roos of Hamlock for suppressing the Rebellion and Insurrections of William Perwich and his adherents who in a Hostile manner had fallen upon several of the Kings Subjects and Officers more especially on James Bellers in his return from the last Parliament where he had served for Knight of the Shire as also to have been again Sheriff in the second of that King At last having by a provident care and many generous endeavours restored his Family to its ancient splendor and those great Possessions belonging thereunto he dyed in the sixth year of Henry the Fifth without any Issue of his Wife who was Catharine the Daughter of Ankitell Malliory Lord of Winwick and that took after to her second Husband the famous Sir Simon Felbrigg who in the Reign of King Henry the Fifth was one of the Knights and Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter JOHN GEENE for want of Issue from his Brother Ralph came to possess the Lands and Lordships belonging to that Family except what was comprehended in the Jointure of the Lady Felbrigg who had been his Brothers Wife Concerning whom there are extant divers transactions as testimonies of the considerable provision had been made for her in that Estate and as one whom his Fathers misfortunes had prepared for the love of a private life he applyed himself to enjoy the happiness of his House and Country living in a free Estate and fortunate Marriage with Margaret the Daughter of Walter Greene of Bridgnorth till he departed this life in the eleventh year of King Henry the Sixth He left Issue Ralph Greene that dyed in his youth Henry Greene afterwards Lord of Drayton Margery Greene Married to Sir Henry Huddlestone Isabella Greene Married to Sir Richard
que cestes lettres verrount Henry Greene Salutz en Dieu Come Monsieur Johan de Drayton granta rendi à moi tote la rente ensemblement ove les services seignoures custums altres appurtinances quele il auvit en Islip que fut parcel de Manour de Drayton A avoir tener à moi à mes heires à tousiours Le quele rente le dit Monsieur Johan avoit de mon lees altres mes confeffes del dit Manoir à tener à terme de trente anz Nient meins jeo voit graunte per cet fait que si le dit Monsieur Johan moi paie cessant livores lendemain del Feste de Sainct Michael l'Archangel apres les trente anz procheins à vener pleinment passes le primer terme de trente annz comenseant al Feste de Sainct Michael prochein apres la date dicestes de refeffer le dit Monsieur Johan del rente susdite ensemblement ove les services seignories custumes autres appurtenances à tener tanque à les trente annz susditz pleinment accomples sur les conditions contenuz en le primer fait du lees del terme des trent annz susditz En tesmoignance dicestes le dit Monsieur Johan à ycestes ad mys son Seal per yceux testmoignes Nicholas Greene Thomas Pavely Robert de Isham altres Donne à Cotes le Lundi procheine apres le Feste del Decollation de Sainct Johan le Baptiste l'an du Reign le Roy Edward Tierce puis le Conquest trente ouitiesme Cotton's Abridgment of Records Page 92. Anno 36º Edwardi Tertii AT this day for that sundry of the Lords were not come in the presence of the King and the Lords the Parliament was adjourned unto another day At which day Sir Henry Greene the Kings Chief Justice in the presence of the King Lords and Commons declared the causes of the Parliament viz. for redress of matters touching the Church for observation of the peace for the affairs of Scotland and for enhauncing the prices of Wool Out of the same Abridgment Page 96. Anno 37 Edwardi Tertii FOR that sundryof both Houses were not the same day come Sir Henry Greene the Kings Chief Justice in the presence of the King Lords and Commons continued the Parliament until Friday ensuing Carta Domini Henrici Greene. SCiant praesentes futuri quod Ego Henricus Greene Miles dedi concessi hâc praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Henrico filio meo Matildae Uxori ejus haeredibus de corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis Manerium meum de Buckton in Comitatu Buckinghamiae cum omnibus servitiis omnium liberorum tenentium meorum villanorum simul cum omnibus reversionibus tenentium meorum ad terminum vitae vel annorum in Manerio praedicto sive in Villa praedicta ac etiam omnia alia terras tenementa redditus servitia simul cum omnibus reversionibus tenentium meorum ad terminum vitae vel annorum quae habeo in Crowley Chichley Schirrinthon Olney Filgrave Habenda omnia praedicta Maneria terras tenementa redditus servitia simul cum reversionibus omnium tenentium meorum ad terminum vitae vel annorum praedictis Henrico filio meo Matildae Uxori ejus haeredibus de corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis sub hac conditione quod si praedictus Henricus filius meus obierit sine haerede de praedicta Matilda Uxore sua exeunte vel exitus si quis fuerit obierit praedicta Matilda habuerit rationabilem dotem suam de centum marcatis terrae tenementorum vel redditus in quibus praedictus Henricus filius meus vir praedictae Matildae est vel erit feoffatus in feodo per me vel per alios nomine meo etiam omnia tenementa de haereditate praedictae Matildae quae sibi post mortem Johannis Mauduit avi sui post mortem Thomae Mauduit patris sui jure haereditario descendebant Et quae Juliana Uxor Johannis Mauduit Johanna Uxor Thomae Mauduit tenent separatim ad terminum vitae vel feodo talliato sunt eidem Matildae descensa Et ipsa de eisdem corporaliter possessa Tunc omnia praedicta tenementa redditus servitia similiter cum reversionibus omnium tenentium meorum ad terminum vitae vel annorum cum omnibus suis pertinentiis praedictis Henrico Matildae haeredibus de corporibus suis exeuntibus sub conditione forma praenominata de me haeredibus meis per servitium unius Rosae per annum ad Festum Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptistae annuatim solvendum Et faciendo pro me haeredibus meis Capitalibus Dominis feodorum servitia inde debita consueta Ita quod si obierint sine haerede de corporibus suis exeunte tunc omnia praedicta Maneria terrae tenementa redditus servitia similiter cum reversionibus mihi haeredibus meis revertantur Et Ego verò praefatus Henricus haeredes mei omnia praedicta Maneria terras tenementa redditus servitia simul cum omnibus reversionibus supradictis praefatis Henrico filio meo Matildae Uxori suae haeredibus de corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis sub forma conditionibus supradictis warrantizabimus defendemus imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Cartae Sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Reginaldo de Grey Domino de Wilton super Wayam Henrico filio ejus Willielmo la Zouch de Braumfield Thoma Reynes Willielmo de Quinton Militibus Johanne de Drayton Johanne de Olney aliis Datum apud Buckton die Jovis in Festo Assumptionis beatae Mariae Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Tertii à Conquestu tricesimo octavo Ex Henrici Knighton Canonici Leicestrensis Chronica de Eventibus Angliae PArum ante haec tempora orta est discordia inter fratrem Thomam de Lysle Heliensem Episcopum Dominam la Wake Nam homines Episcopi succenderant unum Manerium Dominae la Wake homines ejus interfecerant Et Domina Conquesta est Regi de suo gravamine Justiciarii missi sunt ad inquirendum in causa scilicet Dominus Henricus Greene Dominus Willielmus Schardeshull alii Et Episcopus venit coram eis compertum est quod fuit in toto culpabilis Carta Domini Henrici Greene. SCiant praesentes futuri quod Ego Henricus Greene Miles dedi concessi hâc praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Henrico filio meo Matildae Uxori ejus haerebus de corporibus eorum legitimè procreatis Manerium meum de Emberton in Comitatu Buckinghamiae cum omnibus servitiis omnium liberorum tenentium meorum Villanorum simul cum reversionibus omnium tenentium meorum ad terminum vitae vel annorum in Manerio praedicto sive in Villa praedicta ac etiam omnia alia terras tenementa redditus
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
Montegue Willielmo Pemberton haeredibus assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae uxoris ejus Humfridi Browne Georgii Browne Johannis Browne Etheldredae uxoris ejus haeredum ipsarum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum Jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton ac de in omnibus aliis maneriis terris tenementis reditibus reversionibus Boscis pratis pascuis pasturis aliis haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum aut alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae aut in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts nobis factis sive habitis salvis omnino reservatis nobis haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habemus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per Jus haereditarium per aliquem antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wilts facta sive habita ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis pro alius nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod Jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum eorum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi in perpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Marcii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury In the first South Window of the Chancell in St Peters Church of Luffwick In the Second South Window In the first Window on the North side of the Chancell In the second Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window on the South side of the said Chancell In the East Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window of the Chappell at Drayton In the first Window on the South side of the Chappell In the Second Window on the South Side of the Chappell In the lesser Window of Drayton Hall In the greater Window of Drayton Hall A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of that HOUSE of VERE Of which were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the Veres of Addington were of Vere Charged upon the Center with an Escucheon bearing Argent a Cross Gules Of the Original Descent Possessions Alliances Actions and Arms of the House of Vere which were Lords of Addington and Thrapston THE VERES that were Lords of Addington and Thrapston had their Original from Sir Robert de Vere who was second Son to Aubrey Earl of Guisnes Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England Which granted it will not after be denied but their extraction was as great as any thing from whence an English Subject could derive I shall not enter upon exaggeration of the Greatness and advantages of the House of Oxford they having been such as with which I think few other can be comparable but leave them to some fortunate Author who by faithfully exposing their truths unto the world may do himself honour and the Nation too I shall only pursue what may concern those Veres of which I treat and with whom I came to be acquainted by perusing the Evidences in the House of Drayton and unto this Family I am obliged to tell the Reader that I think there does belong an attribution of as much Honour and Esteem as any of their Quality could pretend unto They have always produced Knights famous for their prowess for their fidelities and for their prudence They appear in many considerable expeditions abroad in France in Palestine in Scotland in Wales in the most notable Offices at home Governing under their Princes the Countries where they lived They enter into the most eminent Alliances with the Houses of Wake Bassett Seagrave Clifford and De la Souche and they have always possessed many great Mannors and noble Lordships Besides which in the whole space of their durance here there remains not on their memories the least spot of reproach or prejudice but as all things are ordained to have an end it was the fortune of this House to terminate in the Lady Elizabeth Vere Daughter and Heir to the last Sir Henry Vere who being marryed to John the first Lord Mordaunt brought into his Family the Honor the Blood the Lands and the Arms of this House which were of Vere charged on the Center with a Shield bearing Argent a Cross Gules always born by the Lords of this Family in memory of their Ancestor Sir Robert de Vere who was slain with his General in a fight in Palestine being at that time Standard-bearer to William Longespé the famous Earl of Salisbury that was Grandson to King Henry the Second and the fair Lady Rosamond AVBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes Chief Justiciar and Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First AUBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes was Chief Justiciar of England under King Henry the First which in that time was the greatest Office of the Crown whoever was invested in it did exceed all the Noblemen in dignity and in power all the Magistrates And he was also Chamberlain to King Henry the First after the death of Robert Mallet Besides the other great possessions which his Father Earl Aubrey the elder and himself had acquired at the Conquest he held the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Addington and Twyvell in the County of Northampton This Aubrey was among the great men of his time in the highest esteem for wisdom and experience and always lived of nearest use and Counsel to those Princes with whom he was Contemporary He was sent in the fourth year of King Stephen to that memorable Council of Winchester unto which the King himself had been cited by his own Brother then Bishop of that See where with great force and eloquence he
pleaded the King's Cause in defence of his imprisoning certain Bishops which was there laid to his Charge But it fell out that in the succeeding year he was slain in London in a tumult raised by the Seditious Citizens He married Adeliza the Daughter of Gilbert of Clare by whom he had Issue Aubrey de Vere the first Earl of Oxford Sir Robert de Vere Roetia Vere the Wife of Jeffery de Magnavilla Earl of Essex MY business being to deduce the Descent of the Veres that were Lords of Drayton and Addington and not of the Earls of Oxford I am obliged to return to ROBERT de VERE the second Son of the forementioned Aubrey to whom his Father left for his provision and Inheritance the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Slipton Islip both the Addingtons and the Land of Twyvell which latter they had held of the Abby of Thorney We find this Robert in a Charter of his under the stile of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Kings Chamberlain did acknowledge to hold the Land of Twyvell for so long as he should live from Robert the Lord Abbot of Thorney and the Monks of that House by the same Covenants under which his Father before him held the same and that for the Tenths of the five Carucates which his Father had given to Saint Mary of Thorney to wit of Drayton Islip and Addington that were of his dominion he did grant the same to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Thorney There is extant of his another Charter wherein by the name of Robert the Son of Aubrey in the first year of the Reign of King Henry the younger in the presence of his own Son Henry he did quit-claim the Mannor of Twyvell to the Monastery of Thorney which gift was after confirm'd by Pope Alexander the third He was one of the most faithful and vigorous assertors of the interest and pretences of Matilda the Empress and the Prince her Son against King Stephen during the heats of all the differences appertaining to that contest and of such esteem were the effects of his Valour and generous endeavours as obliged that Princess to promise him a Barony valuable with that given to Jeffery de Vere and other Lands of equal consideration within a year after she should come to enjoy the Realm of England He Married Matilda the Daughter of the Lord Robert de Furnell with whom her Father gave in free Marriage divers Lands in Cranford by whom he had Issue Sir Henry de Vere And William de Vere HENRY the Son of Robert de Vere that was Lord of Drayton Addington and other Lordships was bred up under the care and conduct of his Cousin the great William de Magnavilla Earl of Essex and Albemarle who was the Son of Roesia de Vere Countess of Essex his Fathers Sister Henry de Vere did give himself to a dependance upon this Earl who was a man of great military fame in that time and from his example and precept became a Knight of much renown and valour For his first essay in Arms he slew with his own hand Ralph de Vaux in an encounter near the City of Gysors who was the Son of a great Lord that would have fortified a strong House of his too near the Borders and had besides injured his Cousin the Earl of Albemarle the King 's Chief Governor in those parts the words are verbis dehonestavit amaris He was made Constable of the Castle and City of Gysors where he commanded with much reputation till that after the death of his Father he was called home to the care of a considerable fortune of his own where we find him afterwards to have been one of those that sided with King John being then but Earl of Moriton against the proud Bishop of Ely whom King Richard had left behind him to govern the Land in his absence being by the same Bishop amongst diverse others of the great Lords of that time excommunicated He had in Marriage with one of the Daughters of a great Lady whose name was Hildeburga ....... the Mannor of Mutford and thirty pounds Land in Ampton which she held of the Barony of Bouden that did belong to her Father Baldwin of Boxo a great Lord of that time Their Issue Sir Walter de Vere Lord of Drayton Sir Robert de Vere Lord of Addington WE find not any Lands were left by his Father unto ROBERT the second Son of Sir Henry de Vere but it is to be esteemed that he inherited no small part of his Vertue and his Valour since his own merits acquired him such a fortune as was sufficient to maintain his descendants in much splendor and reputation for many Ages He was bred up to that renowned calling wherein every well born man aspired to an excellence in that heroick Age Fame in Arms being an Ornament without which no great man could appear with any advantage but it was the subsistance and only hopes of their younger Brothers And herein this Robert did succeed so well as he became the Favorite to the great Warriers of that time from several of which he received great gifts of Lands whose values were in that Age very considerable to engage him in their interests and dependance as those in Dalentune from the Lord Jeffery de Lucy the Lordships of Addington and Twyvell from his Uncle William de Vere and the noble Lordship and Market Town of Thrapston from the Lord Baldwin de Wake in Marriage with his Aunt the Lady Margaret to which King Henry the Third did after in his favour and in the twenty ninth of his Reign grant by his Charter divers liberties and priviledges After the death of his first Wife he contracted a new Marriage with a Lady whose name was Elena that is conjectured to have been of the highest quality from her Seals her stile the complements used towards her in the applications of Ranulph Earl of Chester Jeffery of Lucy and other of the greatest Lords by whom in their deeds she was ever treated with the stile of Nobilis Domina Elena de Vere and it is believed she was that Elena the Daughter of Roger de Quincy the last Earl of Winchester and Widow to Alan de la Zouch a great Lord in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton by the interest she had in several Lands of those shires belonging to that Family as also by other probabilities collected from a Letter that is extant and a rare Antiquity of her Sisters the Lady Margaret Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke to this Sir Robert her Husband being on his Voyage to the Holy Land The friendship he had contracted with the Famous William Longespé Earl of Salisbury natural Grandson to King Henry the Second who had been chosen Captain of those English that were sent unto that enterprise could not suffer so illustrious an undertaking to be unaccompanied with his Sword He attended that Prince in quality of his Standard-bearer and was slain together with his Captain in
Father had his Wardship purchased by his Mother the Lady Elizabeth Vere of Edward the black Prince for the summe of twenty pounds who by his Charter which is extant did grant the custody of his Lands with his Marriage to his dear and well beloved Elizabeth that was the Wife of Robert de Vere those are the words of the Deed on condition it might be without disparagement There are remaining Covenants hereupon agreed unto between the said Robert and his Mother as also a Petition from the said Lady to Queen Isabel for her protection against Sir Henry Greene a man of great power by whom the Minor and her self were oppressed in some circumstances of the rights that did belong unto them When this Robert had attained to mans estate he confirmed to his Uncle's Wife the Lady Alice de Vere the agreement had been made with her by his Father He became afterwards much considered from his Vertue and noble qualities and in the eighteenth year of Richard the Second he served his Country in the Office of High Sheriff and did much adhere to the King in those difficulties which happened in his Reign Yet there fell out about this time a quarrel between him and a Knight of great Authority called Sir Edmund Noone on whom having made an assault wherein the said Edmund was wounded it caused him trouble for a time and an Imprisonment in the Fleet upon pretence of the Riot but the matter being composed by Friends he afterward recovered the King's grace and his liberty He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John de Tay of a noble Family and descended from antient Barons of that Name by whom having had but one Daughter called Margaret he gave her for Wife to Thomas Ashby Lord of Lovesby in the County of Leicester with his Lordships of Thrapston and Addington to them and the heirs of their bodies but it falling out that she dyed without Issue His Lands he had setled upon them returned to his Brother Baldwin and his heirs as being his lawful successors SIR BALDWIN de VERE being for many years a younger Brother appli'd himself to the Wars and a dependence upon great Princes for the support of his fortune We find him in the fourth year of King Henry the Fourth to have been Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey under that noble Prince Edward Earl of Rutland and of Corke and who was afterwards Duke of York He followed this illustrious Hero in all the succeeding Wars of that Age and fought by his side at the time he fell with so much glory in the famous Battel of Agencourt after whose death he had confirm'd unto him by King Henry the Fifth an annuity of twenty marks by the year that had been granted to him by that Duke for his life out of his inheritance in the Customs of Linnen Leather and Skins in the Port of Kingston upon Hull to be received at the hands of the Collectors thereof during the Minority of Richard the Son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge After this his fortune or rather his setled affection to the relations and interests of the House of York carried him into the Kingdom of Ireland where in the second year of King Henry the Sixth he was constituted Treasurer of his Liberties by the Lord Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster and at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which by his Letters Patents that are extant and other testimonies does appear After the death of the Earl of March and the return of Sir Baldwin Vere into England the fortunes of Love as well as those of Armes did contribute to the advantage and establishment of this worthy and industrious Knight for he fell into the favour of a young Lady the Daughter and heir of Sir John Kingston alias Mohun who brought him the Mannors of Barkloe Overhall and Hoakenhanger that were of her inheritance And in conclusion his Brothers Death without Issue male made him possession of the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and the other Lands belonging to that Family So as having no more to desire at the hands of fortune he departed this life full of years and happiness leaving Issue Sir Richard Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston Elizabeth Vere Amy Vere AFTER the decease of Sir Baldwin de Vere RICHARD his Son came to inherit the Estate and interests of that Family He met with some trouble in the beginning about this accession which came to his Father for want of Issue male from his Uncle Sir Robert de Vere who notwithstanding had made over the Lordships of Addington and Thrapston to certain Trustees for the security of the Portion promised to his Daughter Margaret that had been married to a Gentleman of consideration one Thomas Ashby of the County of Leicester And these Trustees happening to be men of the highest rank and of most power in the Kingdom as the Earls of Hereford and Stafford the Lord Beaumont the Lord Cromwel and the Lord Zouch and not a little partial to Thomas Ashby and his Wife Margaret it was no easy matter to procure a resignation of their interest But his Cousin Margaret coming to dye without Issue and having given testimony of her desire to have justice done unto her lawful successor those noble Lords were induced upon some fair agreement with Thomas Ashby to redemise to Richard de Vere the Mannor of Aldington and the other Lands wherein they had been formerly enfeoffed Soon after this Richard de Vere was setled in his fortune he contracted an alliance in the Family of Greene the most considerable among the Gentlemen of that tract by marrying Isabella one of the Daughters of John Greene who stiled himself Lord of Herdwick in the days of his Brother Ralph that was Lord of Drayton and from whose death without Issue male his descendants came to be possest of a great and noble Patrimony The great Lords of the Church being no easie neighbours in that age from their exceeding interest and authority and this Sir Richard de Vere being a man of a great spirit and of a Family unaccustomed to unreasonable submissions there arose a contest between him and the Lord Abbot of Croyland which made much noise about certain bordering pretences How it was ended does not appear but soon after this Sir Richard de Vere departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella Greene Sir Henry de Vere Baldwin Vere Constance Married to John Butler Lord of Woodhall Elizabeth Vere Married to William Dounhalle Margaret Vere Married to John Verners of Essex Amy Vere Married to John Ward of Irtlingborow Elena Vere Married to Thomas Isham of Pitchtsley HENRY the eldest Son of Sir Richard Vere with the Estate of his Father inherited the Suit and Difference with the Lord Abbot of Croyland and by his endeavours to defend his interests in that affair he incurr'd the displeasure of King Richard III. which was particularly testified in a Letter to himself and in some
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
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
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
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
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
tandem circa Festum Apostolorum Simonis Judae applicuerunt in Vasconia apud Castellam quae situatur in littore fluminis de Gerunde dedÃtque se eis Regi Angliae Dominus Urbis illius eos cum laetitiâ magnâ suscepit benignè tractavit In eodem Pag. 2498. ET tunc primò Angli extraxerunt equos è navibus cum in mari mansissent decem septem Hebdomadas aliquos dies tandem verò refocillatis hominibus equis demiserunt etiam se Angli quasi in duas partes remanserúntque in eodem loco ut populum Terrae sibi attraherent Dominus Johannes de Britanniâ Dominus Willielmus le Latimer cum trecentis equestribus septem millibus Electorum Hollinshead Page 310. IN the nine and twentieth of King Edward the First the Barons of England wrote a Letter to Pope Boniface about certain Liberties of the Crown which among the rest was signed by William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Monasticon Anglicanum Pars prima Folio 678. RObertus de Braybrooke quondam Vicecomes Northamptoniae emit de vetere Eustachio de Watford pratum quod vocatur Sandford reddendo inde annuatim duos solidos Iste Robertus genuit Henricum de Braybrooke qui Henricus dedit dictum pratum Domui de Daventree ad firmam perpetuam pro sex marcis dimidia annuatim sibi haeredibus suis solvendis centum annis elapsis ultra Dictus Henricus genuit Wiscardum Ledet qui sumpsit cognomen ex matre suâ Christianâ Ledet Domina de Warden Iste Wiscardus genuit Walterum Ledet iste Walterus genuit de Ermendrua de Insula duas filias videlicet Aliciam Christianam sorores Alicia desponsata fuit Domino Willielmo le Latimer qui genuit ex eâ quatuor filios videlicet Dominum Willielmum Dominum Johannem Dominum Thomam Dominum Nicolaum Milites Cui Nicolao Domina mater sua Alicia post mortem mariti sui Domini Willielmi dedit omnes Terras suas Tenementa quae habuit in Comitatibus Northamptoniae Leicestriae Sir JOHN LATIMER second Son of WILLIAM Lord LATIMER The Baronage of England Page 413. mentioning Aluered of Lincoln TO this last mentioned succeeded another Aluered who in the first of King John was one that held the Castle of Winchester for the King and to him another Aluered his Son and Heir Which Aluered in the twenty fourth of Henry the Third paid a hundred pounds for his relief and in the forty second of Henry the Third had Summons to attend the King at Chester well furnished with Horse and Arms to restrain the Incursions of the Welsh but died in the forty eighth of that King being seized of the Mannors of Winterborne and Langton in the County of Dorset with the Advowson of the Church of Ackford Duntish and the Chappel of Duntish as also of the Mannor of Celles which was given in frank-Marriage with Maud his Mother Likewise the Mannor of Norton also given in frank-Marriage with Albreda his Grandmother and two Knights Fees in Bardolston and Pinford leaving Robert Fitzpaine Son of Margery his Eldest Sister Beatrice the Wife of William de Govis his second Sister and Albreda de Lincoln his third Sister his Heirs all of full Age and Joan his Wife surviving who had the Mannors of Ackford and Duntish with the Advowsons of the Churches of those Lordships assigned for her Dower which Robert Fitzpain and William de Govis for their good Service on the Kings behalf in the Battel of Lewes were in the forty eighth of Henry the Third acquitted from the payment of the relief due upon the Death of the before-specified Aluered of Lincoln their Uncle An ancient Letter to Sir John Latimer from Gervaise de Cingal his Steward AMon treschier Seigneur Jean le Latimer Gervaise de Cingal son Seneshal salutz Je vous fais a scavoir que le Baillif de Caen rapella vostre cause qu'estoit en l'Assise de Cornue la mist en l'Assise de Fallaise qui fust le Jeudy avant la Sainte Croix en Septembre il nous la renvoya de Jeudy en Jeudy ensuivant encontre ma volonte Et le Baillif ne fust pas a la dite journe si y fust Monseigneur de la Miafle Monseigneur Eustace de Piron Monseigneur Robert des Monstiers le jeune l'Attorney Madame sa Feme qui requirent le Viconte qui estoit au lieu du Baillif que Monseigneur Jean le Latimer Madame sa Feme leur fussent appelle Et vostre Attorney si apparut pour vous dit ledit Attorney qu'il ne tenoit point le Viconte pour Juge en la cause de son Maistre Et que le Baillif en est Juge comme connoisses sur ce le Viconte nous renvoya par devant son Maistre le Baillif de son office a Baieux au Mardy devant le Saint Michel a laquelle journe je fus moy vostre Attorney nous nous compleimismes du Viconte de Fallaise qu'on avoit remise vostre cause hors du Siege de Fallaise ou elle se devoit determiner de son droit plusieurs raisons proposa devant le Baillif dont nous mismes en conseil a la presence de Monsieur Robert des Monstiers le jeune de l'Attorney sa feme de Monsieur Piere de la Miafle de Monsieur Eustace de Piron fut jugé par Conseil que nous ne disions chose par quoy les Chevaliers ne deusent ..................................... ......................... lesquelles leur fist jurer sur les Saincts Evangiles qu'il diroit bien loyaument sur ce qu'en estoit contenu en un memoire d'Eschequier Et si c'estoit leur entente que le Contract qu'avoit este faict entre vous Monsieur des Monstiers Et si c'estoit leur entente que le payement se fist en la foible monoye ou en la forte si eux reconnoissoyent que se fussent leurs Sceaux qui estoit a une lettre qu'eux avoyent envoyé a Laurens la Reuide eux dirent que ouy leur de mandat ' on si eux avoyent dit en la maniere qui estoit contenue en la dite lettre eux dirent que ouy si euxvouloyent perseverer vous condamnerent en la somme de mille livres en la forte monoye sur ce eux requistrent que vostre Attorney fist emmende du desbat que vous metties que la forte monoye ne fut paye en l'Eschequier sur ce l'Attorney ammanda contre ma volonte apres que l'ammande fust faict eux redirent que vostre desbat fust chest ............ cella comme elle 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thereof King Edward the Third granted him a Patent to that effect in the first year of his Reign He had been Seneschal to Queen Isabel the Kings Mother in all her Forests between Stamford and Oxford as appears by a Brieve directed to him by the King for the tenth of all the Venison that should be taken in the County of Northampton to be delivered to the Abbot of Peterborow according as had been granted by his Ancestors He was pardoned by that same King with his Son John William the Son of Thomas Seymar Richard Molesworth Simon his Squire and other of his friends for his breach of the Kings peace and the death of John of Overton Longville whom he had slain in a Quarrel with other circumstances that certifie the particular favour was born him by that Prince He was afterward with one Sr William Nocton as being one of the most eminent Knights in the Bishoprick of Ely joined with Sir William Shareshull Sir Henry Greene and Sir William Thorpe in the Kings Commission to hear and determine of the felony and misdemeanour of Thomas Lild Bishop of that Diocess who was not only esteemed accessary to the death of William Holmes Servant to the Lady Wake of Lydell that was killed by his Officer Ralph Carcless She being a Princess of that time eminent for great birth as well as Beauty and rare Qualities and the Daughter of Henry Plantagenet Earl of Lancaster but that moreover stood in great and exemplary Contempt against the King himself For the demeanor of Sir Simon in which matter in his duty and compliance to the Kings Commands and Interest he incurred with the rest of the Commissioners the several censures and indignation of the Pope which proceeded even to Excommunication and other great Penalties from which his merit towards the King by his Conduct in that Affair nor the Power of so great a Prince was able to protect him He did finally give and grant in the eighteenth year of King Edward the Third unto Robert the Prior of the Church of Saint Maries of Pavenston and to the Covent of that place two parts of his Mannor of Stoke-Goldington with the Advowson of the Church of that Town out of Devotion to God and the Blessed Virgin and for the good of his Soul to be there prayed for and for the Souls of his Ancestors and Benefactors His Wife was Margaret Daughter to Sir John and Sister to Sir Gilbert of Lindsey Their Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships UNto Sir Simon of Drayton did succeed Sir John of Drayton his Son in the sole Lordship of that place as also in his other Possessions in the Counties of Northampton Huntingdon and Oxford Moved by what inducement it does not appear but this Sir John of Drayton did in the eighth year of King Edward the Third purchase a Licence of Alienation for enabling him to settle upon Sir Henry Greene then Chief Justice of England and that had Married his Fathers Sister his antient Mannor and Lordship of Drayton with those Lands in the Towns adjoining that did belong unto it In consequence whereof it was conveyed unto him with the Reversion to Henry the second Son of the said Sir Henry Greene whom he calls his Cousin and for default of Issue in him to the right Heirs of Sir Henry the Father But it is found notwithstanding by a Deed of this Sir John that in the Life-time of Sir Henry Greene the Chief Justice he did render the Possession of the Chief Seat and the Mannor of Drayton with all the Demesnes the Lands Meadows Pastures and the Park thereunto belonging unto Sir Henry Greene his Cousin the Son of the Chief Justice on Condition that he should ever after bear his Name and his Armes in performance of that Agreement that had before been made between the Father of the said Sir Henry and himself which was the reason why the Greenes of Drayton instead of Azure three Bucks Or which was the Armes of their Family and those born by the Greenes of Norton descended from Sir Thomas Green the Elder Brother did bear ever after for their Coat Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules being that of Drayton which by this Agreement they were obliged to assume The Wife of Sir John of Drayton was Christian the Daughter of Sir Gilbert of Lindsey his Mothers Niece Their Issue Baldwin of Drayton whose Posterity for divers Ages did flourish afterwards Possessors of the Lordships of Stoke-Goldington Bottlebrigg Molesworth and Overton Longville in the County of Huntingdon and South-Newington in Oxfordshire where they had a fair Patrimony and lived in great Estimation WALTER de VERE The Eldest sonne of Henry ye. sonne of Robert that was ye. second sonne of AUBERY de Vere Great Chamberlaine and Lord Cheife Iustice of England who from his Cheife Seat Assumed that Name to him and his decendants Lucie Bassett Sr. HENRY of Drayton Iuetta de Bourdon Sr. Baldwin of Drayton Idonia de Gimeges Sr. Iohn of Drayton Philipa of Arderne Sr. Simon of Drayton Margaret of Lindsey Catharine of Drayton Sr. Henry Greene. Sr John of Drayton Cristian of Lindsey Sr Henry Greene Matilda de Mandnir Sr Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Baldwin of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 488. inter Confirmationes Regis Witlafii ITem Domum Oswini Militis in Draytonâ videlicet octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Quinque lineae infrá ET Donum Wulnoti Dapiferi mei in Adingtonâ videlicet duas Hidas terrae Piscariam cum Advocatione Ecclesiae ejusdem Villae in alia Adingtona ex dono ejusdem unam Virgatam terrae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 492. inter Confirmationes Beoredi Regis SImiliter confirmo praedicto Monasterio de Croilandiâ de dono Oswini Militis in Draytona octo Hidas terrae quatuor Virgatas Ecclesiam ejusdem Villae Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Historia Ingulphi Abbatis Croilandiae Pag. 498. inter Confirmationes Abbatis Turketuli Abbatiae Croilandiae IN Draytona unam Carucatam terrae sex Acras Prati quatuor Salinas AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND The Baronage of England Page 190. THis last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Fater to the Monks of Abington and being in high Esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his Heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honour of Eye in Suffolk
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
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
per Arenas Corpora verò pereuntium nulla Perierunt etiam cum Filio Regis Frater suus Ricardus Nothus Comes cum Filia Regis quae fuerat Uxor Rotronis Ricardus Comes Cestrensis cum Uxore sua Nepte Regis Sorore Theobaldi Comitis Nepotis Regis Periit Othoel Magister filii Regis Galfridus Ridel Robertus Malduit Willielmus Bigot multÃque alii principales Viri Nobiles quoque foeminae quamplures cum Regiis pueris non paucis Militaris numeri C. XL. Nautarum L. cum tribus Gubernatoribus Navis Solus quidem Macellarius tabulâ Naufragii pendens evasit WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. WHat became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Portchester with all the Lands of Micael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the First had given them to his Father as also Bergedon now called Berwedon in the County of Rutland with the whole Soake which Queen Maude gave to the afore-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the said William Furthermore this William had by the Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of the Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Portchester and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them And after Henry by the Death of King Stephen had obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony of which his Father dyed seized as well in England as in Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its appurtenances Bergedon with the Hundred in Com. Rut. and Maneton in Com ...... with all others the Lands which he had formerly given his Father at Nottingham as also Scaldene and Herleby with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy When he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert ROBERT MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Secundi HEnricus Rex Anglorum omnibus fidelibus suis Francis Anglis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse praesenti Carta confirmasse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum quidquid ibi habebam de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum manerium illud habeant teneant de me Haeredibus meis sicut illud tenebam bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in aquis Molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis aliis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus T. Eliensi J. Norwicensi B. Exoniensi Episcopis Convenit cum Recordo Gulielmis Prinne Carta Regis Ricardi Primi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris omnibus fidelibus totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me concessisse hac praesenti Carta confirmâsse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster quod Dominus Rex pater meus ei dedit tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum Manerium illud habeant teneant de nobis haeredibus nostris sicut illud dominus Rex pater noster tenebat bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus H. Dunelmensi H. Sarisburiensi J. Norwicensi Episcopis Galfrido filio Petri Waltero filio Roberti The Baronage of England Page 398. WHen he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the Rebellious Barons in King Johns time as it seems for it appears that in the first of Henry the Third the King Granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances to Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the Third this Robert dyed whereupon Isabella his Widow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty Marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of the year giving security for payment of his Relief viz. a hundred Pounds had Livery of his Lands WILLIAM MAVDVIT Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. THis William in the seventeenth of King John was constituted Governour of Rokingham Castle But the same year taking part with the Rebellious Barons he made a Garison of his House of Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcatius de Breant who was then a bold Soldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolish'd it upon the fourth of the Calends of December Which hardning him in his Rebellious Actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King John which happened the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Arms against King Henry the Third in the Battle of Lincoln in the first of Henry the Third the whole power of that Rebellious party being utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his Estate and in the seventh of Henry the Third making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings Gift five Does for storing of the same In the tenth of Henry the Third doing his Homage for those Lands that descended to him by the Death of Isabella Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in the seventeenth of Henry the
Veere Lord of Thrapston and Adington unto whose posterity as you will find for default of Issue in the Heirs of Henry and Margery descended afterwards all the Lands of the Greenes and the Mauduits SIR HENRY GREENE by the death of John his Father became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton whereof were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle of those of Grafton Hardwick Sudborow with Lands in Harringworth and Irtlingburgh all of them in the County of Northampton of Wamingdon and Emerton in the County of Buckingham Chalton in Bedfordshire Buckworth in Huntingtonshire of Werminster Westbury Lye Dychurch and other Lands in Wiltshire and of Grateley in the County of Southampton which together did at that time make up one of the most considerable Estates that was then in the possession of any Gentleman in the Kingdom of England He lived upon his Mannor and Lordship of Drayton in the County of Northampton in much estimation and authority the most considerable Office of which Country he did exercise in very difficult and different Reigns being High Sheriff therein in the thirteenth of Henry the Sixth and again in the fifth year of King Edward the Fourth in both whereof he was by his good fortune preserved from that ruine under which many Gentlemen and their Estates did sink through those accidents that were incident to the disastrous partialities of that uncertain Age. He had been engaged in the Marriage of two Wives the first was Constance Pawlett the second Margaret Roos from the first whereof he had no Issue and from the latter only one Daughter named Constance who after having been sought in vain by the greatest men of that Age became at last from her Fathers love to the illustrious House of Buckingham the possession of the Lord John Stafford second Son to the High and Mighty Prince Humphrey Duke of Buckingham for so he was ever styled unto whom she brought all those fair Possessions that were of her Fathers Inheritance CONSTANCE GREENE according to her Fathers intention did after his Death bring to the Possession of her Husband the Lord John Stafford the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of those Lands that had belonged to the Families of the Greenes and the Mauduits which by her Father had been setled upon her and her Heirs so as for default of such they should revert to the right Heirs of Henry Greene. The Lord John Stafford who had been himself as well as the Duke his Father and his Family engaged all along in the Lancastrian Faction in divers of their Battels had yet the fortune upon the establishment of King Edward the Fourth to acquire such a part in the favour of that Valiant and Victorious King as induced him in the ninth year of his Reign to create him Earl of Wiltshire to make him afterwards one of the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter and employ him during his life in several actions of greatest trust and confidence as joyning him a Commissioner with the Earl of Northumberland to treat with the Ambassadors of James the Third King of Scotland upon certain complaints of grievances of both Realms who after having lived in great reputation for valour and prudence departed this life in the thirteenth year of that King leaving Issue by his Wife Constance Edward Stafford Earl of Wiltshire EDWARD Earl of Wiltshire was a Minor at the Death of his Father and his Estate and interests for several years governed by the Executors which we find to have been very great as composed between forty and fifty fair Mannors of the Inheritance of his Father and of his Mother the Lady Constance Greene. When he came to Age he proved a Nobleman of exceeding hopes and much addicted to all the generous ways of Arms and Chivalry but it happened that being earnest to go assist the King at Black-heath field against the Cornish Rebels at that time headed by the Lord Audeley in the thirteenth year of his Reign whither he carried a noble band of men picked out of his Tenants and Countrymen it so fell out as by over-heating himself or other excess of exercise occasioned in that action he fell into such a sickness as could never after be mastered to any degree of recovery and that after having permitted him to languish for some time took him out of this world in the ..... year of his Age and of that Kings Reign the fourteenth He Married Margaret the Daughter of John the second Viscount Lisle by whom he had no Issue so as those fair Lordships and Possessions belonging aforetime to the Mauduits and the Greenes did of course descend to Elizabeth Anne Constance and Etheldred the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that had been Lord of Adington and Thrapston as next of kin to Sir Henry Greene being Grandchildren to his Sister Isabella the Wife of Sir Richard Vere the successors of Margery his other Sister leaving no Issue after them Sr. THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other lands Lordships Sr. Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton Lucie de la Zouch Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Buckton Catharine of Drayto Amabila Greene Sr. Richard Reynes Lord of Clifton Sr. Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Matilda de Manduit Sr. Nicholas Greene Mary Bruce of Exton Margaret Greene William Lord Zouch of Totnes Elenor Greene Sr. Iohn Fitzivilliams of Sprotsburgh Marie Greene Sr. Ieffery Lutterell Iohn Greene Ld. of Drayton by the Death of his brother Margaret Greene of Bridgnorth Rauf Greene Ld. of Drayton Catherine Mallory S. P. Elizabeth Greene Thomas Cotton of Lancashire Margery Greene Sr. Henry Huddleston Isabella Greene. Sr. Richard Vere Ld. of Adington Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Roos Elizabeth Huddleston Sr. Thomas Cheney S. P. Sr. Henry Vere Ld. of Adington Isabella Tresham Censtance Greene Lady of Drayton Iohn Stafford Earle of Wiltsheir Elizabeth Vere by the death of the E of Wilt Their Lady of Drayton Iohn Ld. Mordaunt Edward Stafford Earle of Wiltsheire Lord of Drayton Margaret Grey S. P. Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaut Lord of Drayton Elly Fitzlewis GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of GREENE THAT WERE Lords of Drayton Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of GREENE Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships IN an Antient Pedegree of this Family among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow is placed as the head thereof Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton affirmed to have lived upon that Lordship in the time of King Edward the First Sir THOMAS GREENE second of that Name Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 295. ONE Thomas de Buckton which was in truth Thomas Greene de Buckton is recorded in the Catalogue of those Officers to have been High Sheriff of Northhamptonshire in the fifth year of
said Master Walter and other Feffees of the said William by the desire and agreement of the same William have made a state of the said two Assartes to William Lord Lovell Knight and other to the use of Henry Greene Esquire to have and to hold to them and to their heirs for evermore Also that where before this time that the same Henry hath enfeffed the said William Aldwyncle in his Manner of Luffwick with all his other Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Luffwyck to have and to hold them to him for term of his life the remainder of them to William Lucy Knight and others to them and to their heirs for evermore to the use of the said Henry And afterward the said William Aldwyncle at the desire of the said Henry surrendered all his Estate and released all right and claim that he had in the same Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances to the said William Lucy and other Feffees to the said Henry Nevertheless I the said Henry grant to the said William Aldwyncle the said two Assartes for term of his life without impeachment of any waste and the said Manner Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances for term of his life and over that I pray and require as well my said Feffees that now be in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes and over each of them as any other that shall be hereafter to the use of me or my heirs to make a state to the said William Aldwyncle in the said Manner Lands Tenements and Assartes with their appurtenance for the term of his life in the form abovesaid at such time reasonable as he shall desire of them so to do In witness hereof I the same Henry set to the Seal of my Arms. Given the tenth day of October the year of King Henry the VI. after the Conquest the three and thirtieth Carta Regis Henrici Sexti HEnricus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd de gratia Nostra speciali ex certa scientia mero motu nostris pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus Henrico Greene Armigero aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero filio haeredi Johannis Greene aliàs dicto Henrico Greene Armigero Consanguineo haeredi Radulphi Greene alias dicto Henrico Greene nuper Vicecomiti Northamptoniae seu quocunque alio nomine censeatur omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante nonum diem Julii ultimo praeteritum contra formam statutorum de libertatibus pannorum capitiorum factos sive perpetratos unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu imprisonamenta statutis praedictis non obstantibus Et insuper ex motu scientia nostris praedictis pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico sectam pacis nostrae quae ad Nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus murdris raptibus mulierum rebellionibus insurrectionibus feloniis conspirationibus Cambipartiis manutenentiis imbraciariis ac aliis transgressionibus negligentiis offensis extortionibus misprisionibus ignorantiis contemptibus concelamentis forisfacturis deceptionibus per ipsum Henricum ante dictum nonum diem Julii qualitercunque factis sive perpetratis ac etiam Utlagarias si quae in ipsum Henricum hiis occasionibus seu earum aliqua fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum Et ulterius pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimoda Escapia felonum Catalla felonum fugitivorum Catalla Utlagatorum felonum de se deodanda vasta impetitiones ac omnimodos articulos itineris destructiones transgressiones de viridi vel venatione venditiones boscorum infra forestas extra aliarum rerum quarumcunque ante dictum nonum diem Julii infra Regnum nostrum Angliae Marchias Walliae eventa evenientia Unde punitio caderet in demandam debitum seu in finem redemptionem aut in alias poenas pecuniarias seu in forisfacturas bonorum catallorum aut imprisonamenta seu amerciamenta Comitatuum villarum vel singularium personarum vel in onerationem liberi tenementi eorum qui nunquam transgressi fuerunt ut haeredum executorum vel terrae tenentium Escaetorum Vicecomitum Coronatorum aliorum hujusmodi omne id quod ad Nos versus ipsum Henricum pertinet seu pertinere poterit ex causis supradictis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas donationes alienationes perquisitiones per ipsum de terris tenementis de Nobis vel progenitoribus nostris quondam Regibus Angliae in Capite tentis ac etiam omnimodas donationes perquisitiones ad manum mortuam factas habitas absque licentia Regia Necnon omnimodas inquisitiones ingressus in haereditatem suam in parte vel in toto post mortem Antecessorum suorum absque debita prosecutione ejusdem extra manum regiam ante eundem nonum diem Julii factos unà cum exitibus proficuis inde medio tempore perceptis Et insuper pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodas poenas ante dictum nonum diem Julii forisfactas coram Nobis seu Concilio nostro Cancellario Thesaurario seu aliquo Judicum nostrorum pro aliqua causa omnes alias poenas tam Nobis quà m carissimo nostro Patri defuncto per ipsum Henricum pro aliqua causa ante eundum nonum diem Julii forisfactas ad opus nostrum levandas ac omnimodas securitates pacis ante eundem nonum diem Julii similiter forisfactas ac etiam tertias tertiarum tertias omnimodorum prisonariorum in guerra captorum Nobis dicto nono die Julii qualitercunque debitas pertinentes seu spectantes per eundem Henricum Necnon omnimodas transgressiones offensas misprisiones contemptus impetitiones per ipsum Henricum ante eundem nonum diem Julii contra formam tam quorumcunque statutorum ordinationum provisionum ante dictum nonum diem Julii factorum seu editorum de perquisitionibus acceptationibus lectionibus publicationibus notificationibus executionibus quibuscunque quarumcunque literarum bullarum Apostolicarum ante dictum nonum diem Julii omnium aliorum statutorum ordinationum provisionum praetextu quorum aliqua secta versus eundem Henricum per billam vel per breve de praemunire facta seu alio modo quocunque pro aliqua materia ante eundem nonum diem Julii fieri valeat quà m quorumcunque aliorum statutorum fact ' sive perpetrat ' statutis ordinationibus provisionibus illis non obstantibus literis
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
nuper Vicecomitis Lisle Elizabethae uxoris ejus ac Nobis praefatae Johannae Vicecomitissae Lisle Thomae Grey Armigero Thomae Kevell servienti Domini Regis ad legem Edwardo Hungerford Armigero Humfrido Conyngesby Thomae Frowyk Johanni Titchbourne Johanni Smyth Johanni Gardyner Thomae Byall Thomae Heywoode Maneria sua de Waterhale Brafeld Pollycote Wanden Emberton Wolston magna cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac Manerium suum de Chalton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Bedfordiae ac etiam Maneria sua de Suttons Pyggesland Tracyes Stamford Ryvers cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae Necnon omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatibus praedictis quae inter alia praefatus Robertus Wittelbury Armiger Willielmus Marbury Armiger Thomas Mountegu Johannes Freeman ac Willielmus Feld Clericus Robertus Bayston Clericus nuper habuerunt sibi haeredibus suis ex dono feoffamento dicti Comitis prout per quandam Cartam sibi inde confectam pleniùs apparet qui quidem Willielmus Feld Robertus Bayston totum jus suum in maneriis terris tenementis praedictis ac caeteris praemissis praefatis Roberto Wittelbury Willelmo Marbury Thomae Mountegu Johanni Freeman remiserunt relaxaverunt prout per eorum scriptum inde sibi confectum similiter apparet Habendum tenendum praedicta Maneria terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum pertinentiis praefatis Comiti Margaretae uxori suae ac Nobis praesatae Johannae Johanni Vicecomiti Lisle Thomae Grey Thomae Kevell Edwardo Hungerford Humfrido Conyngesby Thomae Frowyk Johanni Titchbourne Johanni Smyth Johanni Gardyner Thomae Byall Thomae Heywoode pro termino vitae ejusdem Margaretae remanere inde praefato Comiti haeredibus assignatis ejusdem Comitis imperpetuum prout in eadem carta plenius liquet Noveritis Nos praefatos Johannam Vicecomitissam Lisle Johannem Vicecomitem Lisle Thomam Grey Thomam Kevell Edwardum Hungerford Humfridum Conyngesby Thomam Frowyk Johannem Titchbourne Johannem Smyth Johannem Gardyner Thomam Byall Thomam Heywoode remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro Nobis haeredibus nostris imperpetuum quietum clamâsse praefato Edwardo Comiti Wilts Margaretae uxori suae totum jus titulum clameum demaundam interesse nostra de in omnibus praedictis Maneriis de Waterhall Brafeld Pollycote Wanden Emberton Wolston magna cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Buckinghamiae ac Manerio de Chalton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Bedfordiae ac etiam Maneriis de Suttons Pyggesland Tracyes Stamford Ryvers cum pertinentiis in Comitatu Essexiae Necnon de omnibus terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatibus praedictis Ita quòd nec Nos praefati Johanna Vicecomitissa Lisle Johannes Vicecomes Lisle Thomas Grey Thomas Kevell Edwardus Hungerford Humfridus Conyngesby Thomas Frowyk Johannes Titchbourne Johannes Smyth Johannes Gardyner Thomas Byall Thomas Heywoode nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro Nobis seu nomine nostro aliquid juris vel clamei in praedictis Maneriis terris tenementis redditibus reversionibus praedictis caeteris praemissis cum omnibus suis pertinentiis de caetero exigere seu vendicare poterimus in futuro set ab omni actione juris clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus exclusi imperpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium Sigilla nostra apposuimus ....... die mensis ....... Anno Regni Regis Henrici Septimi post Conquestum Angliae quarto decimo Ultima Voluntas Edwardi Comitis Wilts IN the name of God Amen The two and twentieth day of March in the yeare of oure Lord one thousand four hundred nynety and eight I Edward Erle of Wyltshire of hole minde and good memory bequeth my sowle to Almighty God my Creator and Saviour to our Lady Seint Marie and to all the holy company of Hevyn and my body to be beryed within the Chyrche of Seint Peter in Luffwycke in our Lady I le by me Graundfader Greene and wyll myne Executors make a convenient Tombe to be made for me Item I wyll that the last Wyll of my Lord my Fader my Lady my Moder and my Graundfader Greene be performed Item I wyll that where Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires William Feld Clarke Robert Bayston Clarke Thomas Mountegu and John Freeman been seasid of the Manors of Buckworth Comberton Raundes Ryngsted Irtlingborough Haringworth and Hardewyke in the Counties of Huntingdon Cambridge and Northampton and of oder Landes and Tenements Woodes Meadowes and Pastures in Buckworth Comberton Raundes Rygsted Irtlingborough Hardewycke and Haringworth in the Counties aforesaid in there Demesne as of Fee to the use of me and myne heires and whereas Margaret my Wyfe John Viscounte Lisle and other Cofeffes been seasid of the Manors of Stamford Ryvers Piggesland Tracyes and Suttons in the County of Essex and of the Manors of Newington Blosmavyle and Pollicote in the County of Bucks and of certaine Londes and tenements woodes medowes and pastures belongyng and appartaynyng unto the seid Manors in their demesne as of Fee to the use of me and of Margaret my wyfe for terme of hur lyfe for certaine causes and considerations I wyll that the seid Robert Wittelbury William Merbury William Feld Clarke Robert Bayston Clarke Thomas Mountagu and John Freeman that the foreseid Robert Wittelbury and all the seid Cofeoffes abovenamed and all other Feoffes in the seid Manors Londes and tenements woodes medowes and pastures shall be and stand Feoffes in all the seid Manors Londs and tenements medowes and pastures in Buckworth Comberton Raundes Ringsted Irtlingborough Hardwyke and Haringworth to the intent following That is to sey That I wyll the seid Margaret my wyfe shall have and enjoy all the profites and revenues of the seid Manors of Buckworth Comberton Ringsted Irtlingborough Hardwyck and Haringworth with their appurtynances for terme of her lyfe with this condition that she make no tytle cleyme nor interesse in noon of the Manors of Stamford Ryvers Pyggesland Tracyes Suttons Newenton Blosmavile and Policote the which I wyll shall descend unto my Lord of Buckingham and his heires and I besech my seid Lord to suffer my wyfe to have the Manors of Newynton Blosmavile for terme of her lyfe and to be good Lord unto her and my Servaunts Item I wyll that all such Annuities and Fees as be graunted by Dede or Patentes by my Lord my Fader my Lady my Moder my Grandfader Greene and me be had ferme and stable for terme of their lyfe without lett or interruption Item I wyll that my Feoffes that now been or hereafter shall be suffer William Merbury and Thomas Mountegu to take and receyve the revenues and profites of my Londes Tenements Woods Medowes and Pastures in Luffewicke and Islip unto they be content and saved harmelesse ayenst the King for the Det of One hundred and twenty nine Pounds one
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
others from certain Lords of his Council Several rigours he suffered from this King joyn'd to the indignation of Mankind that had been drawn upon him by his injustice and cruelty incited Sir Henry Vere to be particularly active in the introducing of King Henry the Seventh to whose service he brought a resolute Band of his Tenants and Country-men at whose Head he fought himself in that decisive Day where at Bosworth the unhappy Richard lost both his Kingdom and his Life He thereupon received the Honour of Knighthood at the hands of the victorious King and because of his fidelity and interest was made High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in that first year of his Reign He married Isabella Tresham the Daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham who was Lord of Rushton and of a Family at that time very considerable in the Country where they lived for their Riches and Authority by whom he left only five Daughters Elizabeth Lady Mordaunt Amy married to Robert Mordaunt and after to Humphrey Browne Son of Sir Wistan Browne of Abess Roading Constance to John Parr Lord of Horton Etheldred Married to John Brown that was a Judge Audrey who dyed unmarried ELIZABETH the first of the Daughters and heirs of Sir Henry de Vere was about the eleventh year of King Henry the Seventh Married to John the eldest Son of that Sir John Mordaunt who was Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to that King There came unto her by composition with some of the partners and want of Issue in other the greatest part of the interest of these Sisters and indeed it was a large Inheritance compos'd of the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Sudburgh Thrapston both the Addingtons Grafton Hardwick Werminster and sundry other Lands She also brought into her Husbands House the Blood and the Arms of the Noble and Ancient Families of these Veres of the Greenes of Drayton and of the Mauduits that were Lords of Werminster She was a fortunate Lady left a numerous Posterity and from her is lineally descended and is heir and Successor the present Earl of Peterborow AUBERY DE VERE Earle of Guisnes Cheife Iusticiar of England great Chamberlaine to King Henry ye. first Adeliza de Clare Aubery de Vere 1st E. of Oxford Eufemia de Cantelup Sr. Robert de Vere Matilda de Furnel Rossia de Vere Jeffery de Magnaville Earle of Essex Sr. Henry de Vere Hildeburga Sr. Robert de Vere Margaret de Wake Walter de Vere Ld. of Drayton Lucia Basset Sr. Baldwin de Vere Margaret de Seagrave Sr. Iohn de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Anne de Waterville Sr. Baldwin de Vere Sr. Randall de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Northburgh Randol de Vere Idonea de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Tay. St. Baldwin de Vere Elena de Mohun alius Kingston Margaret de Vere Thomas Ashby S. P. Sr. Richard de Vere Isabella Greene. Elizabeth de Vere Amy de Vere Elena de Vere Thomas â—sham L d of Pichfley Ann de Vere Iohn Ward L d of Irtlingborow Margaret de Vere Iohn Berners Elizabeth de Vere William Dounhall Sr. Henry de Vere Isabella Tresham Baldwin de Vere Constance de Vere Iohn Boteler Ld. of Woodhall Constance de Vere Iohn Par. Elizabeth de Vere Iohn I st Ld. Mordaunt Amie de Vere HumphryBrowne Etheldred de Vere Iohn Browne Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of that HOUSE of VERE Whence were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of VERE AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND Spelmanni Glossarium Page 337 338. ALbericus de Vere Comes de Guisnes Camerarius Angliae Portgravius ut perhibetur Londini pater Abrici primi Comitis Oxonii Angliae ponitur Justiciarius Spelmanni Glossarium de Capitali Angliae Justiciario qualis olim quantus fuit JUstitia totius Angliae alià s Capitalis Angliae Justiciarius quantus hic olim fuit usquequaque non liquet Dignitate omnes Regni proceres potestate omnes superabat Magistratus The Baronage of England Page 190. THIS last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Father to the Monks of Abingdon and being in high esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord Great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk or any other before or after him held the same and with such Liveries and Lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office Being also one of the Kings Justices Tempore Henrici Primi Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Page 248. Carta Alberici Regis Camerarii EGO Albericus Regis Camerarius terram de Twyvell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Guntero Monachis de Thorneya per talem conventionem teneo ad firmam ut per unumquemque annum eis sex libras pro ea reddam ante Nativitatem quatuordecem solidos ante Pascham quatuordecem solidos ad Vincula Sancti Petri extremos quatuordecem solidos Insuper pro remissione peccatorum meorum illis de una mea decima scilicet de Islip unoquoque anno ad Festivitatem Sancti Michaelis decem solidos reddam Totum verò surplus quod miserim in eadem Villa ultrà quà m recepi in extremo die vitae meae pro salvatione animae meae Sanctae Mariae Patribúsque meis simul cum terra eorum concedo solidum quietum ab omni Calumnia De alia terra quam pro servitio dimidii Militis in eadem Villa de Willielmo de Blosvilla teneo in feodo de dimidio unius Hidae quam certè emi pretio Sanctam Mariam meósque fratres post me concedo esse Haeredes in quantum id eis concedere possum Hujus Conventionis sunt testes Hardewin de Escaetere Radulphus Dapiser Willielmus de Whitlesege Simonio fratres illius loci alii quamplures Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penès Comitem de Peterborow ALbericus de Twyvell Camerarius Regis dedit Ecclesiae de Thorney duas Garbas decimae trium Villarum de Islip Addington Drayton de Dominico suo The Baronage of England Page 190. Writing of Earl Aubrey HE in the Fifth of Stephen with Richard Basset then Justice of England executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Surrey Cambridge Huntington Essex Hartford Northampton Leicester Norfolk Suffolk Buckingham and Bedford and gave to the Monks of Thorney in Comitatu Canter certain Lands in Islip But before the end of this year he was killed in London leaving Issue by Adeliza his Wife Daughter of Gilbert of Clare three Sons Alberic his Son and Heir ....... a Cannon of Saint
JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon Camden's Britannia page 205 treating of the County of Essex THorndon quondam Habitatio Clarae Familiae Fitz-Lewis quorum ultimus si qua fides vulgò incensis fortuitò Aedibus Nuptiali Festivitate misero incendio periit ELY FITZ-LEWIS and JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Lord and Lady of Westhornedon A Will or Testament of John Lord Mordaunt THIS is the last Will of John Mordaunt Knight Son and Heir apparent of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt confirming the order disposition and demise as well of my Goods and Chattels as of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances that I have and am seised of Estate of Fee-simple in the Counties of Essex Northampton and Somerset or elsewhere within the Realm of England First I will and demise that all my parts portion and demand Right Title Possession and Interest that I have of and in the Mannors of Granham otherwise called Bishop Wokenton in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhal to Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed within the County of Essex with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or hath been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Grangeham otherwise called Bishop Wokengton Greice Brumford in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhall unto Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed in the County of Essex together with the Advowsons of the said Mannors to Dame Joan my Wife To have and to hold and enjoy the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the said Dame Joan and her Assigns for term of her natural life Also I will and demise That all my Right Title Possession Interest that I have of and in the Mannor of Westhornedon and Gingeraps and also Cranham in the said County of Essex the reversion of the said Mannor of Cranham after the decease of Dame Joan my Wife with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods and Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or haye been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps with the Advowsons belonging to the said Mannors To have hold and enjoy the Premisses with all Rights Revenues Profits Uses Commodities Emoluments and Arrearages of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements Ways Meadows Pastures and other Hereditaments and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father and to Edmond Mordaunt my Executors and to the Surviver of them and to the Executors of the Surviver for term of thirty Years next ensuing after my death without impeachment of Waste to the intent that they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses and every part thereof coming and growing from time to time during the said Term shall find and provide to my Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt Margaret Mordaunt Anne Mordaunt Ursula Mordaunt and every of them sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging Apparel Learning and other Necessaries for them until they be married and also give and deliver to every of them towards their several Marriages the Summ of four hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be paid to every of them at the day of their several Marriages If that my said Executors have loned or at any time or times hereafter the said Marriages as it may be loned of the Issues and Profits of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps And if it shall so chance that one or two of my said Daughters to dye and depart out of this transitory life unmarried I will that her or their Parts Portions and Summs of Money that to her or to them by this my last Will and Testament did belong shall remain grow come and be deemed amongst the other of my Daughters which shall so fortune to overlive And if it shall so chance that more of my said Daughters than two to dye and depart out of this transitory life I will that their Parts and Portions shall remain still in the hands of my Executors to be delivered to my Son and Heir when he cometh to two and twenty Years of Age. And if I chance to depart to God without Issue Male then I will that the moyety of the said money equally to be divided amongst my said Daughters which at that time shall chance to be alive and the residue to be distributed in deeds of Charity according to the discretion of my Executors my said Lord and Father and my Brother Edmond Mordaunt Furthermore I will that if any of my said Daughters happen to marry her self against the will and appointment of my Executors the said Lord Edmond Mordaunt or the Survivors or the Survivor of them within the Age of twenty one Years or if any of the said Daughters doe refuse any lawful marriage tendered or offered by my Executors the said Lord and Edmond Mordaunt my Brother or by the Survivors or Survivor of them within the said Age of one and twenty Years to the intent to marry themselves at their own pleasure That then I will That she or they shall tarry for her or their part until the time that all my Daughters be set forth and married and then to be delivered to my said Daughter or Daughters so marrying themselves or to the Children of her or them according to the discretion of my Executors the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them And further I will and demise that my said Executors with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses during the said term shall find a Priest to sing Mass in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid to pray for my Soul and Dame Ely my late Wife deceased and all Christian Souls And also shall distribute every Year during the said term to the help and sustentation of the poor and needy people in Westhornedon Gingeraps Cranham and Nevendon according to the discretion of my Executors And also give and distribute unto the maintaining of High-ways and Bridges wheresoever my Executors shall think most meet and convenient any where within the County of Essex Also I do demise unto the said Edmond Mordaunt my Brother the reversion of certain Lands and Tenements Pasture Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments in Coume and Sturmest in the County of Somerset with the appurtenances which I the said Sir John did purchase of one Richard Matthew one of the Sons of Robert Matthew deceased which Joan Matthew Widow doth now claim for to hold for term of her life as parcel of her Joynture To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs in as large and ample manner as ever Robert Matthew did hold or occupy the premisses upon this Condition following that is to say that the said Edmond or his Heirs shall make or cause to be made within two years after the death of the said Joan Matthew in the Church of Westhornedon of the North
side of the Altar a Tomb of Marble meet and convenient to serve for the Sepulcher at the Feast of Easter and also that the said Edmond shall pay or cause to be paid during the space of twelve years next and immediately after the decease and death of the said Joan Matthew Widow every year six Pounds eight Shillings four Pence to my Executors toward the performance of this my last Will. Also I will That the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond shall receive my Aunt Petre's Pension and during the said term shall find her Meat Drink and Cloathing and other Necessaries meet for her Degree during her life as long as she shall be content to be at my Executors appointment And if it chance that she will refuse to be ruled after the said Lord Mordaunt and Edmond or the Survivor of them then I will that my Executors shall suffer her to receive her own Pension and to deliver her thirty three Shillings four Pence yearly and to go whither she will And if it chance that she happen to over-live the said term that I do demise unto her yearly four Pounds Rent to be perceiv'd and taken out of my Mannor of Westhornedon aforesaid at the Feast of the Annunciation of our Lady and Saint Michael the Archangel by even Portions And if it chance the said Rent of three Pound to be behind unpaid by the space of a Month after any of the said days of Payment that then I will and grant that the said Petres or her Assigns shall enter into the said Mannor of Westhornedon and there to distrain and the distress so taken to carry away and to retain until she be fully satisfied and paid of the Rent and the Arrearages of the said Rent if any shall appear to be behind Furthermore I will that the said Lord and the said Edmond shall suffer my Heir when he comes to the Age of two and twenty years to have occupy and enjoy all the premisses so that the said Heir will be bound by such ways and means as shall be demised or thought most convenient by the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them or the Executors of the Survivor to perform the execution of this my last Will the residue of this my last Will which shall chance to be at that time unperformed allowing unto my Executors all their Costs and Charges had or sustained in executing of this my last Will and that hath not been taken and lowed of the Issues and Profits of the foresaid Lands and Tenements any thing in this my last Will and Testament to the contrary notwithstanding Occasions of Disagreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis Mordaunt THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Ely Fitz-Lewis Daughter and sole Heir unto Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid thirteen hundred Marks Her Lands which she had by Descent were five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir apparent for the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the last Lord Mordaunt might then have had divers great Summs of money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Ely then his Wife to levy a Fine of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Ely then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten and for default of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Ely then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Ely Mordaunt dyed after whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Johan Mordaunt now his Wife after which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a recovery of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to trust of himself for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after his decease to trust of such as at pleasure himself to appoint for the term of ninety two Years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore to the intent that not only he but also my Lady his Wife may declare their wills thereof during the same ninety two Years whereof the late Lord Mordaunt had certain intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed or appointed Whereupon the late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estate of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such recovery thereof to the disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being right Heir of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and the bringing of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the right course of Inheritance again did suffer recoveries of his own Lands to the uses and upon condition following To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt and of his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was married and after to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be married unto at the time of his death To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of his Executors until the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next ensuing the death of the said late Lord Mordaunt and further to the same Executors for twelve Years towards the performance of his Will And after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without impeachment of waste and after to the use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life to the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queens Majesty as much money as shall amount to one Years value of the full third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier season thereof and twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
all his Expeditions at Sea becoming thereby very expert in Navigation He was in all the Land Services of his time and followed his Father in every Embassy where he was imployed These practices made him fit for great Imployments as indeed such Imployments were fit for him because the truth was that his Father's perpetual custom of keeping his hands clean in all the great Trusts had been committed to him being ever fonder of Fame and Faithfulness than of Money or Estate he had not left his Son so superfluous a Fortune as it might have been easie for him to have suitably subsisted to his desert and great Spirit without the Favour and Assistance of his Princes But the times wherein he lived were very Active and in them usefulness made Men considered more than phancy And the discerning Queen Elizabeth thought she had a jewel in this Youth whose hopefulness and merit shone in the Eyes of every Man The first Imployment we find he had was to be one of those noble persons chose by the Queen to conduct the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain Afterward we find him a Commander of some Forces under his Father that were sent for the suppression of the Earls Rebellion And in the Registers of that Order it appears That he was chosen a Knight of the Garter in the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth In the Twenty eighth of that Queen upon the Death of the Earl of Lincoln he was made Lord High Admiral of England being at that time Lord Chamberlain as his Father had formerly been And in the Year 1588. when the King of Spain sent his greatest Fleet under the Conduct of his greatest Subject the Duke of Medina Sidonia with a design to take the Kingdom with the very sight of so formidable a power the Queen then and her admirable Council pitch'd upon this Lord Howard to be the Buckler of England making him with an extraordinary Power Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Forces on the Sea from the estimation they had of his excellent Virtues as being a Man of great Moderation much knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary throughly Valiant Industrious in Action and a Person whom the Mariners entirely loved The success gave the approbation to this choice the Spaniards appeared the Admiral gave them Battel and they were overthrown England was delivered and the Noble Lord received the Applauses his Valour and his Conduct did deserve But after this there remaining still great jealousies of future dangers from the Enmity of Spain who did design much by the Assistance of the Irish who were at that time Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for defence of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land He was also in this Year on the Fifteenth of June constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And in the Two and twentieth of October following in consideration of his Eminent Services in Anno. 1588. in defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado as afterwards of the Sacking of Cadiz in Spain and for destroying the Spanish Fleet then in the Port there he was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Mowbrays whereof some had before been Earls of that Country In the One and Fortieth Year of the same Queen this Admiral continuing still in great Reputation and there remaining some supition of the Spaniard's ill intentions he was made Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Field Forces and one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England And in these great Trusts he imploy'd his time during the Reign of this Happy and Victorious Queen And the wife Successor upon his Arrival thought it a material testimony of his kindness to the Kingdom he did Inherit to give all marks of his Esteem and Favor to those who had contributed so many Cares and Labours to the Glory and Safety thereof Therefore at his Royal Coronation he made this Earl Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in the Second Year of his Reign at the renewing the Commissions unto several Great Lords for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England he was likewise constituted one of that number But by this time the Noble Earl was grown very Antient and his Body being less able than before to support the Labours and Cares of War or of the Court he by the advice of his Friends resolved of a retreat he resigned the great Office of Admiral into the King's Hands for which he was notwithstanding allowed great Pensions for his Life and other very considerable advantages After which he was engaged in going Extraordinary Ambassador on a most splendid occasion into Spain to Make and Sign that Peace which was so agreeable to King James the First as he thence did design such an Alliance as by Marriage of his Son should make lasting Friendship between the two Crowns This was the last great occasion wherein the Earl of Nottingham did appear the rest of his Life was Peace and Prayer His Lordship departing this World at Hayling in Kent at the Age of Eighty eight Years having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two This Noble Earl had Married Two Wives His First was Katharine Cary Daughter to the Lord Hundsdon His Second was Margaret Stuart Daughter to James Earl of Murray in Scotland Issue by his First Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham who Married Katharine Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Blefso Charles Howard who by reason of his Brothers Decease without Male Issue did succeed him in his Honors and Married Mary Cockain Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell Frances Countess of Kildar Margaret Married to Sir Richard Leusson Issue by his Second Wife James Howard who died young Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham but dyed without Issue WILLIAM Lord Howard Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord Baron of Effingham CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM Lord Howard was a Youth of extraordinary expectation and had given early proof of many rare Virtues he was Active he was Ingenious he was applicable to every thing that was for the Honor of the Court or the Use of the Kingdom In the days of Queen Elizabeth the Pastimes and Triumphs of the State were very Martial Courses at the Tilt were much in fashion and Fights at the Barriers no Man had greater applause at these Exercises than this Young Lord And when Monsieur was here with his great Followers who are held Masters at these Exercises he got the esteem of all the French-Men He was with his Father at the Encounter with the Spanish Fleet though but Young at that time he was with him at the Sacking of Calis and also in most of his Embassies He was Grave of his Nature and entring into the favour of the Ministers as Man likely to be fit for Business when unhappily he fell
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
to Sir Edward Stafford of Grafton Knight Secondly Mary first to Edward Lord Dudley afterwards to Richard Montpession Esquire Thirdly Frances to Edward Earl of Hertford Fourthly Martha to Sir George Bourchier Knight Third Son to John Earl of Bath And Fifthly Katharine who died young And departing this Life at Hampton-Court 11. Jan. 15. Eliz. was honourably Buried at Rygate in Surrey upon the 29th of the same Month. A Patent whereby Queen Mary does create William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor Archiepiscopis Episcopis Ducibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciarils Vicecomitibus Praepositis Ministris omnibus Ballivis Fidelibus suis salutem Cum enim praeteritorum Magnifica gesta Principum saltem qui sua Industria atque Virtute famam nobis reliquere Immortalem ad mentem revocemus nil Prudentius nil laude Dignius pro prospero atque Felici ipsorum Statu Salute securoque Successu eos fecisse arbitramur qui quando Fideles Diligentes strenuosque suos servientes Facultatibus Regimine Honore condigne remunerari caeterisque praeferre decreverint sicque sua iis Beneficia juxta eorum Virtutes atque Merita benignè conferre curarunt Nos eorum mores imitantes non solum Nobilitatem atque Constantiam imo probitatem ac in Armis strenuitatem caeterasque virtutes Domini Willielmi Howard militis nostri intime dilecti non modica cum deliberatione maturè considerantes ipsum Willielmum Howard in Baronum Parliamenti Regni nostri Angliae ex mero motu gratiaque nostris ordinavimus deputavimus creavimus constituimus prout per praesentes ordinamus deputamus creamus constituimus atque titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham locumque in singulis Parliamentis infra idem Regnum nostrum Angliae posthac celebrandis caeteraque jura Privilegiaque nostra ipsius Regni Baronibus ejusdem ex Lege consuetudine aliove quovis pacto pertinentia eidem Willielmo damus concedimus eisque ipsum adeo liberè amplè uti gaudere sicut unquam aliquis Baro hujus Regni nostri usus fuit aut debuit volumus habendum hujusmodi statum titulum nomen stilum Baronis Howard de Effingham praedicta atque locum in Parliamentis praedictis ac caetera praemissa praefato Willielmo haeredibus suis masculis de corpore suo excuntibus in perpetuum eo quod expressa mentio de vero valore animi aut de certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu per aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Willielmo ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime factum existit Aliquo statuto actu ordinatione provisione sive restrictione inde in contrarium ante haec editis factis seu ordinatis seu provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quaqunque in aliquo non obstante his testibus Reverend ' in Christo Patre ac praedilecto fideli Conciliario nostro Stephano Wintoniensi Episcopo summo nostro Angliae Cancellario charissimis consanguineis Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Marchione Winton praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Thesaurario nostro Angliae Henrico Comite Arundel praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Domino senescallo Hospitii nostri Johanne Comite Bedford praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite ac Custode privati sigilli nostri Henrico Comite Sussex Willielmo Comite Pembroke praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite praedilectis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Domino Paget de Bewdesert praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Reverendo in Christo Patre Cutberto Dunelmens Episcopo Johanne Gage praenobilis ordinis Garterii Milite Domino Camerario nostro Roberto Rotchester Milite contrarotulatore Hospitii nostri Henrico Jernynham Milite Vicecamerario nostro Willielmo Petre Milite uno Primariorum Secretariorum nostorum Johanne Bourne Milite altero Primariorum Secretariorum nostrorum Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium undecimo die Martii Anno Regni nostri primo per ipsam Reginam Sigillum Eden Herbert's History of Henry the Eighth pag. 535. BUT it rested not here for the Lord William Howard the Queen's Uncle newly returned from an Embassage in France and his Wife and the old Dutchess of Norfolk and divers of the Queen's and the said Dutchess's Kindred and Servants and a Butter-Wife were Indicted of Misprision of Treason as concealing this Fact and condemned to perpetual Prison though yet by the King's Favour some of them were at length Released Commission of Queen Mary To be High Admiral of England MARIA Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina omnibus ad quos c. Salutem Sciatis quod nos ob certas causas considerationes nos specialiter moventes ac in consideratione boni veri fidelis Servitii per dilectum Conciliarium nostrum Willielmum Howard Militem Dominum Howard de Effingham ante haec tempora facti impensi de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa Scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard officium magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem Villae nostrae in Cales ac Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum ac ipsum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae Hiberniae Walliae ac Dominiorum Insularum nostrarum eorundem Villae nostrae Cales Marchiarum nostrarum ejusdem Normanum Gastonum Aquitanum necnon praefectum generalem Classis Marium dictorum Regnorum nostrorum Angliae Hiberniae ac Dominiorum Insularum eorundem fecimus constituimus ordinavimus ac per praesentes facimus constituimus ordinamus Et ulterius sciatis quod nos de Gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes pro nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris damus concedimus eidem Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae praefecto Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum omnia omnimodas jurisdictiones autoritates libertates officia feoda proficua vadia emolumenta wrecum maris maris ejectum regardia advantagia commoditates praeminentia quaecunque eidem officio magni Admiralli nostri Angliae Hiberniae ac aliorum locorum Dominiorum praedictorum qualitercunque spectantia pertinentia sive incumbentia vel aliquo modo ab antiquo perantea debita sive consueta necnon tam bona catalla quorumcunque praedictorum piratorum homicidarum felonum qualitercunque infra nostram jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae Angliae inferius limitatam delinquentium quam bona debita catalla omnium singulorum eorum manutenentium accessariorum consulentium auxiliantium vel assistentium quorumcunque
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
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
said William five Virgates and five Acres of Land in Yerdly with the five Villanes that then occupied the same Their Issue William de Mordaunt And Richard de Mordaunt WILLIAM de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chicheley Clifton Yerdley Esthull and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER V. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT the Son of William Lord of Turvey and of Esthull in the Fourteenth year of Edward the First purchased the Mannor of Chicheley and diverse Messuages therein of William the Son of Samson le Mansell and of Gualfridus de Stachesden In the Twenty second of the said King's Reign he had a dispute with the Lord Reignald de Gray then a great person and from whom the Earls of Kent are descended who continue to this day large possessions in those parts It was about a Fishing of a certain part in the River Ouse joyning to the Lord Grey his Lands which by reciprocal Indenture was accorded that it should be thenceforth free unto them both And in the Twenty fifth of the same Henry he obtained a Patent to Empark certain Lands in his Lordship of Turvey The last Act of his we find to be in the Eleventh Year of Edward the Second at which time he made a Grant Release and Quit-claim for ever unto God the Church of St. Need's and the Monks of that House of all his Right and Claim which he had or could have unto three Messuages Eighty eight Acres of Land and One Acre of Meadow in Turvey with their Appurtenances for the which he together with his partner Hugh of Ardres had Sued the Prior of that place in the King's Court as also fo other Lands and Tenements which the said Monks held of his Fee and in his Fee all which Lands their Predecessors had received from the Gift of his Ancestors in the said Village saving always to him and to his Heirs and unto Hugh of Ardres his partner the Services due unto them Roesia or Rose de Wake was the Wife of this William Mordaunt She was the Daughter of Sir Ralph de Wake who was Lord of Clifton which was a Family in those and elder times when there were no Dukes and but few Earls in England and the Degree of the Baronage wherein several of that Name sate was so illustrious did yield to few in splendor of dignity greatness of power and opulency of fortune It had brought forth a number of Hero's famous for Valour and Wisdom It had become worthy the Alliance of the Royal House And had Fortune persevered in her own work and not always delighted in the change and subversion of great Families there had not any in probaility arrived at greater eminency With this Roesia there was at that time given in part of Portion the Land and Mannor in Clifton which to this day remain unto the Mordaunts under the Name of Wake 's Mannor unto which a very Noble Royalty and Privilege do belong Their Issue Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Yerdley Knotting Chicheley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VI. IN the Sixteenth Year of Edward the Second while William Mordaunt his Father was yet alive Hugo Bossard that was Lord of Knotting did Enfeoffe ROBERT the Son of William Mordaunt of all his Homages Services Natives and other Royalties of his Mannor of Knotting to him and to his Heirs Several Records and Rolls of his Court are extant that express upon the decease of his Father the Homages he received and the Noble Royalties which in Right of his Mannors he was invested in He was Lord of the Lordships of Turvey of Chicheley of Esthull of Yerdley of Clifton and of Knotting We find that he made over in the Seventeenth of Edward the Third in trust unto one William Campion of Stachesden all his Lands and Tenements which he had and held of the Fee of Gloucester in Turvey in Lands in Houses in Woods in Gardens in Meadows in Pastures in Paths in Ways and in Reversions in Homages in Wards and in Releiffs in Escheats in Rents of the Freemen and of the Villanes of their sequels and of all other things these are the words of the Deed. And the same William Campion does by another Deed return to Robert Mordaunt and to Johane his Wife all the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Services for the Term of his life with the Reversion over to Edmond Mordaunt Son and Heir to the said Robert and Johane Dated of the same Year The first Wife of Robert Mordaunt was one Mary of Rutland unto whom he was Married in his Father's time as we find by a Deed Dated of the Thirteenth of Edward the First wherein one Robert de Hulier of Turvey does sell unto them and the Heirs of their Bodies a certain piece of Land but she dyed early without leaving him any Issue His Second Wife was Johane de Bray the Daughter of Roger de Bray that was Lord of Silesho which Brayes were a Family of a long continuance in that Tract Their Issue Edmond de Mordaunt their only Son EDMOND de MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chillington Staggesden Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VII EDMOND de MORDAVNT flourished in the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third at which time we find several transactions that past between him Sir Henry of Brussels and others about the Lands that came unto him in Right of his Wife But in the Twenty ninth of this King there happened a memorable dispute between this Edmond and one Roger Cooke of Newton Blosmavile that is at this day upon Record in the Court of Exchequer which I have seen there and taken a Copy thereof under the Hand of the Keeper of those Records Edmond de Mordaunt was Attach'd to Answer in the Term of St. Michael unto this Roger Cooke upon a Plea of Trespass by Bill and thereupon the said Roger came in his own person and complain'd That our Edmond upon a certain day in the Twenty Ninth of the said King's Reign had come into his House and had taken away by force the words are vi Armis scilicet gladiis c. a large proportion of Wooll Carpets and Linen Cloth and Forty Shillings in Money Whence he expresses himself to have been damnified in the Sum of One Hundred Shillings and thereupon produces his Sute In order whereunto Edmond Mordaunt comes likewise in his own person and defends the Force and the Injury Alledging That the aforesaid Roger unto his Bill ought not to be Answered Because he said he was a Native of him the said Edmond of his Mannor of Turvey in the County of Bedford And that his Ancestors from time without mind were and had been seized of the Ancestors of the said Roger as of their Natives of the Mannor aforesaid And likewise the said Edmond had been seized of Roger himself as of one of the Natives of his said Mannor And he desired Judgment Whether the said Roger were for these causes to be answered unto his Bill
And Roger could not deny but that he was a Native of the said Edmond's Therefore it was concluded That Roger should receive no advantage by his Bill but remain at the mercy of Edmond Mordaunt Pro falso clamore suo Helena de Broc was the Wife of Edmond Mordaunt unto whom she was Married the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third She was the Daughter and one of the Heirs of Sir Ralph de Broc who was a Knight of a most Antient Descent and Lord of very fair and large Possessions All his Lands were upon his Decease divided between Helena Mordaunt and Agnes another of his Daughters the wife of Sir Henry de Brussels There did accrue to Edmond Mordaunt for the part of Helena his Wife in Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborne in Buckinghamshire diverse Lands in Elsburgh Bridsthorne Hardwick and Wedon Chesham and Aumundsham with sundry other in Hertfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephaell She was a Noble Inheritrix and besides her Lands brought into the House of Mordaunt both the Blood and Arms of the Pirots and the Argentines two successions which fell unto her Family by the Heirs of those Names the first being Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot who was Wife to Laurence de Broc her Grandfather the other the Mother of the same Elizabeth named Cassandra the sole Heir of Sir Giles of Argentine Their Issue Robert Mordaunt their only Son ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chicheley Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VIII ROBERT MORDAVNT after the Death of his Father had not only the Fortune of possessing a large and plentiful Inheritance but of enjoying it betimes he being hardly of full age when he came in succession thereunto He inherited in Bedfordshire the Lordship of Turvey that of Clifton and Chicheley with Lands in Elsburgh Wedon Hardwick Chesham Welpool and Aumundsham in the County of Bucks In Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots besides Lands in Treversham and Julborne And in Northamptonshire the Lordship of Yerdley besides the entire Mannor of Shephaell and other Lands in Hertfordshire It was the Fortune of this Robert Mordaunt to unite the Antient Lordship of Turvey which for the space of One Hundred and ninety five Years had till then been divided into Two Mannors and Jurisdictions by the Names of Mordaunt's Mannor and Ardres's Mannor ever since the Reign of King Richard the First when it was parted with the rest of the Alno's Lands between Alice and Sarah de Alno the Two Heirs of that House For in the Forty ninth of Edward the Third an exchange was made by Deed of Indenture between Thomas de Ardres and Robert Mordaunt in which the said Thomas gave and granted all his Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Turvey to the said Robert in Fee and Exchange for all the Lands which Robert had in Shephaell which were of the inheritance of her Mother Helena de Broc This Robert Mordaunt had Married Agnes L'Estrange the Daughter and one of the Heirs of John L' Estrange that was Lord of Ampton Timworth and Brokeley and of Elizabeth who was Sister and Heir of William Botteler of Walden The other Daughter of John L' Estrange was Elizabeth that Married John Warren and by whose death without Issue the Lordships of Ampton Timworth Brokeley with that of Walden which was of those Bottelers Lands devolved entirely to Agnes Mordaunt and to the Heirs of her body Agnes Mordaunt after the Death of Robert her Husband Married again to Thomas de Fodringay as appears by a Deed bearing Date the Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle in the twentieth Year of Richard the Second wherein Thomas of Ardres granted to Thomas de Fodringay and Agnes his Wife a certain Annuity for term of the Life of the said Agnes in Exchange for her Dower in Shephaell The Issue of Robert Mordaunt and Agnes his Wife Robert Mordaunt Cassandra Mordaunt a Nun in the Monastery of Elueston ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chellington Brayfield Ampton Timworth Brokeley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER IX ROBERT MORDAVNT the Third of his Name giving way to that Spirit which led him to the generous but uncertain applications of this life and being enclined to the War which flourished in that Martial Age he became a Favourite dependant upon that Famous Prince Edward Duke of York who was after slain at the Battel of Agincourt as appears by an Extant Deed where by Covenant he was with one William Mirefield retain'd to serve him in the Wars of France with a certain number of Archers and Lances He out-liv'd those Services and continued during the Civil Broils of his own Country an asserter of the Claim and Interest of the House of York Whether it were by the Expences incident to such undertakings or otherwise he proved a great Alienator of many noble Lordships and Possessions that descended to him by his Ancestors In the Sixth Year of King Henry the Sixth Agnes de Fodringay and Robert Mordaunt her Son released with Warranty all their right to the Mannor of Timworth in the County of Suffolk Dated the Tenth of February In the Eleventh of the said King he made away all his Lands in Elsburgh to Thomas Chaucer Esq Peter Fettyplace and Thomas Ramsey And in the seventeenth by a Deed bearing Date the Fourth of June he Alienated to one John Austin the Moiety of the Mannor of Mallots in Hinton in the County of Cambridge with its appurtenances and all the rest of those Lands which the said Robert held in the Towns and in the Fields of Hinton Cambridge Treversham and Julborne in the said County And lastly he sold in the same Year to Thomas Cheyney Esq all his Lands and Tenements in Chesham and Aumundsham Yet this King's Reign abounding in occasions of Expence and Troubles since it was never free from exhausting Wars abroad till it became the scene of more destructive Civil ones at home excuses may be render'd for what was unavoidable Notwithstanding he left a competent Estate to his Successor And Deceased in in the Twenty seventh Year of this King He had Married Elizabeth of Holdenby the Daughter of Robert Holdenby of Holdenby which Family was of an Antient standing in the County of Northampton and flourished at this time in very Noble Possessions for we find that Robert Holdenby the Brother of Elizabeth Mordaunt held the Mannors of Burton Brimmington and Ramston with Lands in Would and in Clipston in Guilden Morton Kilmersh and West-Haddon in Northampton Oxhampton Wepsmade in Dunstable and in Holdenby And this Elizabeth surviving Robert Mordaunt took to her Second Husband Robert Tanfield of Gayton in the County of Northampton Esquire The Issue of Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Maud Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chellington Clifton Brayfield Bottellers and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER X. WILLIAM MORDAVNT after those wastes
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
present Writing shall come John Mordaunt of Turvey of the County of Bedford Gentilman sendeth greeting in our Lord God Whereas Margaret Mordaunt my Moder holdeth the Maners called Mordaunts-maner and Dardres-maner and divers Lands and Tenements called Maunsellis Blatherwykes and divers other Lands and Tenements with the appurteneces in the Parish of Turvey aforesaid from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth after the Conquest the nineteenth unto the end and term of fourty Years then next following the reversion thereof to me the said John belonging Know ye me the said John to have given and by this my present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey aforesaid the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances the Rent unto the said Lessee reserved To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore And Whereas the said Margaret holdeth the Mills of Turvey with divers Holmes and Waters from Year to Year yielding to me therefore yearly ten Pounds of Lawful Money and ... Son William Ball holdeth divers Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances called Wellynz for the Term of six Years Know ye me the said John Mordaunt to have given and granted to the said Thomas Vynter John Vynter John Poley and Richard the reversion of the said Mills Holmes Waters Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And I the said John Mordaunt and my Heirs all the said Maners Mills Waters Holmes Lands and Tenements with the appurtenances unto the said Thomas and John Vynter John Poley and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for ever In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the six and twentieth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth SIGILLVM IOHANNIS MORDAVNT Charta Johannis Mordaunt TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing shall come John Mordaunt greeting in God Whereas one Hugh Jacob holdeth the Maner of Botelers in the Parish of Walden within the County of Essex with the appurtenances except three Acres and a half of arable Land half an Acre of Meede a Close called Horsecroft and eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent from the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the eleventh unto the end and Term of sixteen Years then next following of the demise of William Mordaunt Fader to me the said John which after the Death of the said William to me the said John as Son and Heir to the said William ought to descend Know ye me the said John to have given and granted and by this present Deed confirmed to Thomas King Parson of the Moyite of the Church of Turvey John Vynter of Kerdington John Poley of Bydenham and to Richard Stevynson of Turvey the reversion of the said Maner with the appurtenances except before excepted to have to them and to their Heirs for evermore And also I give and grant and by this present Deed confirm unto the said Thomas King John Vynter John Poley and to Richard Stevynson the said three Acres and a half of Land half an Acre of Meede the Close called Horsecroft eight Shillings four Pence and one Pound of Pepper of free Rent with the appurtenances To have and perceive to them and to their Heirs for evermore of the chief Lords of the Fee by the services due and accustomed And I the said John and my Heirs the said Maner with the appurtenances to the said Thomas John John and Richard and to their Heirs shall warrant for evermore In witness whereof I put my Seal Witness John Richardson William Bargeman William Everard Given at Turvey the twenty sixth day of September in the Year of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth the one and twentieth A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Gentilman By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forsomuch as Wee with God's Grace intend to bring into our obeysance our Castles kept by our Traytors and Rebels in the North Parts of our Land and therefore will in our Person remove to Morrow towards these said Parties to stablish the means that may best serve thereunto We pray you heartily that you being accompanied with as many Persons defensibly arrayed as may goodly accord with your ease meet with us at Leicestre the tenth day of May next coming furnished with good for yours and their expences to attend upon us from thence for the space of two Months for the said cause And that natheless ye be ready with the said Persons in the said array upon the warning of a day next after the fourth day of May to attend upon us as the case shall require for the said intent Not failing hereof as our trust is in you and as ye tender the assured rest of our said Land Given under our Signet at our Tower of London the Twenty fifth of April A Letter from King Richard the Third to John Mordaunt and William Salisbury To our Trusty and Welbeloved John Mordaunt and William Salisbury and to every of them By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greete you wele And forasmuch as by the advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this our Land late assembled at our Palace of Westminster we be fully determined by God's Grace to address us in Person with Host Royal toward the parties of our Enemies and Rebels of Scotland at the beginning of this next Sommer to subdue and do them the annoyance possible both by Sea and Land in saving as well this our Land from such inconveniencies as else were like to ensue as the Honour of Us and of our Blood and true Liegemen inhabited and inherited within this our Land Wee having perfect and certain Trust of your Good-will Aid and Assistance to this our great Voyage and knowing how useful and necessary your presence shall be to us in the same will and desire you right effectually and natheless charge you in the straitest wise that incontinent upon the sight of this our Writing ye dispose you to serve Us personally in Our said Voyage accompanied and apparelled for the War according to your degree so and in such wise that by the first day of May next coming ye be ready and readily pass forward with Us in the said Journey so accompanied as aforesaid and that in giving credence to the Bearers hereof ye send Us by them your Intent and Mind and what assistance we shall be sure to have of you in this behalf as Our very trust is in you Given under Our Signet at Our Tower of London the eighteenth day of February And howbeit
Lives of them to whom it shall be so granted It is also agreed that the said Thomas Huntington by the assent and agreement of the said Robert Parys and John Parys his Son and John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt his Brother that at the pleasure of the said Thomas Huntington they shallcause all the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises to be divided into two equal Parts and that Division of equally done and made the said John Parys and William Mordaunt shall thereof make choice as by the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and Robert Parys and other Friends shall be devised and agreed and after that Division and choice so made and had the said William Fyndern William Cheyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke Robert Tyrall Richard Higham Robert Bradbury John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances alted to the said William and Anne and by them so chosen to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Thomas Huntington during his Life without impeachment of Wast And after his Decease to the use and behoof there I the said William Mordaunt and Anne and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the useand behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And in like wise after division in form aforesaid made and had the said William Fyndern William Thyne John Mordaunt Thomas Frowyke John Vynter and William Gascoigne to stand and be seized of the said Part of the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances so allotted to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and by them so chosen to the use and behoof of the said Thomas Huntington for term of Life without any Impeachment of Waste And after his Decease to the use and behoof there of the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Margaret lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the right Heirs of the Body of the said Robert Huntington lawfully begotten and of the Heirs of the Bodies of those Heirs lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Catharine and of the Heirs of her Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use and behoof there of the said Thomas Huntington and of his Heirs for ever And if no Partition be made and agreed to of the said Maners Lands and Tenements in the Life of the said Thomas Huntington that then it is agreed between the said Parties that after his Decease the said William Mordaunt and Anne or oon of them or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten shall make equal Partition of all the said Maners Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances and after that Partition so made the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife or the said Margaret or the Heirs of the same Margaret lawfully begotten shall chuse at their pleasure oon of the Part so divided to hold it in severalty and the said William Mordaunt and Anne or the Heirs of the Body of the said Anne lawfully begotten to have the other Part thereof so divided and to hold it in severalty according and in like Form and Estates with the remainder of every of the said Parties over as is limited above and as they should have holden it if they had had choice of the same after Partition made by the said Thomas Huntington Also it is agreed and covenanted That the said Thomas Huntington at the Costs and Charges of the said William Mordaunt and John Parys shall cause all the Charters Escripts Muniments and Writings concerning the Premises These Indentures only excepted to be indifferently seen and divided and the Evidences belonging to every of the said parties after division and choice thereof in Form aforesaid made to be laid in the Abbey of Walden by themselves if the Abbot and Covent of the same place will thereto agree to the use of the said Thomas Huntington during his Life and after his Decease to be delivered to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and William Mordaunt and Anne and the Heirs of the said Mordaunt and Anne according to the choice of such Estates as is aforesaid And if the Abbot and Covent of Walden aforesaid will not thereto agree then the same Evidences to be laid in some other place in safeguard as shall be divised by the said Thomas Huntington John Parys and William Mordaunt to the said use and intent For the which premises well and truly to be performed the said William Mordaunt shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington three hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in form following that is to say at the Sealing of these Indentures one hundred Marks of lawful Money of England and over that for payment of the residue of the said Money the said William Mordaunt before the said day of Marriage shall cause the said John Mordaunt his Brother and John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne Gentilmen to be bound jointly and severally in three several Obligations every of them containing the summ of forty Pounds whereof the day of payment of the first Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety five and the day of payment of the second Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety six and the day of payment of the third Obligation shall be the First day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred and ninety seven And over that the said William Mordaunt shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne before the said day of
Marriage for payment of thirteen Pound six shillings eight pence residue of the said three hundred Marks to be bound jointly and severally to the said Thomas Huntington in a fourth Obligation payable the first day of February in the Year of our Lord God one thousand four hundred ninety eight It is also covenanted and agreed between the said Parties and the said Thomas Huntington granteth by these Presents That if the said William Mordaunt die before any of the said days of payment specified in any of the said Obligations then having none Issue begotten of the Body of the said Anne That thence all the said Obligations whereof the days of payment shall come after his Death shall be void and the payments of them to cease except always That if the said Anne be with child at the time of the decease of the said William Mordaunt that then as long as that Child lives the payment to hold and the Obligations to be good and in strength and if that Child happen to die then all the Obligations whereof the days of payment shall be to come at the time of the death of the said Child shall be void and the payment of them shall cease And the said John Mordaunt and William grant by these presents That they shall make or cause to be made before the said day of Marriage to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the body of the said William lawfully begotten and to the use and behoof of the said William and Anne and of their Heirs aforesaid as sure sufficient and lawful estate of the Maner of Wodend otherwise called Rokesden Wodend with the Appurtenances in the County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth and Collesden in the same County of Bedford and all the Lands and Tenements in Chichmersh and Clopton in the County of Northampton whereof the said John Mordaunt or any other to the use of the said John or of his Heirs at the making of these Presents being sealed as shall be devised by the Learned Councel of the said Thomas Huntington at the costs and charges of the said William Mordaunt And moreover the said William shall cause the said John Mordaunt John Vynter Thomas Laventhorp and William Gascoigne to be bound to the said Thomas Huntington in an Obligation of a hundred pounds to make or cause to be made before the First day of April that shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand four hundred and ninety eight an Enfeoffment and lawful Estate of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of an hundred and six Shillings and eight pence over all Charges to the said William Mordaunt and Anne and to the Heirs of the Body of the said William Mordaunt lawfully begotten and wherefore afore this time certain Covenants were made and had between the said Thomas Huntington and Robert Parys upon Marriage had between the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife and thereupon the said Robert Parys payed to the said Thomas Huntington an hundred and forty Pounds of lawful Money of England and also promised a Jointure of Lands and Tenements to the Yearly value of twenty Marks then immediately to be paid to the said Margaret and after his Decease to have a further Jointure of Ten Marks for Term of her Life which Jointure in all should be of the Yearly Value of twenty Pounds which is well and truly executed and performed and for that the said Thomas Huntington should leave to his Heirs Lands and Tenements to the Yearly Value of an Hundred Marks as in an Old pair of Indentures made between the said Robert Parys on the one Partie and the said Thomas Huntington on the other Partie among other more plainly appeareth which Covenants the said Robert Parys hath renounced and released and by these Presents now renounceth and releaseth unto the said Thomas Huntington It is now assented and agreed between the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and William Mordaunt for the Premises to be performed to the said John Parys and Margaret his Wife as is abovesaid That all the Covenants comprised in the Old Indentures of the part of the said Robert Parys to be performed and the Indenture of the same for the part of the said Robert shall be and stand in their force And moreover that William Fyndern Knight and others that be now enfeoffed in the Maner of Hildersham and of other Lands and Tenements in Hildersham in the said County of Cantebrig shall be and stand seoffed thereof to the use of the said Margaret for a Jointure for Term of her Life of Lands and Rents in Hildersham aforesaid and to the Yearly Value of ten Marks over and beside the Jointure of twenty Pounds to be had after the Death of the said Robert Parys and the said Robert Parys shall pay to the said Thomas Huntington ten Pounds of lawful Money of England in Form following That is to say Yearly five Marks at the Feast of Hallowmesse till the said ten Pounds be payed In Witness whereof to the part of these Indentures remaining with the said Thomas Huntington the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt and Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals To the second part of these Indentures remaining with the said John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt the said Thomas Huntington Robert Parys and John Parys have set to their Seals And to the third part of these Indentures remaining with the said Robert Parys and John Parys the said Thomas Huntington John Mordaunt and William Mordaunt have set to their Seals the said Fourteenth day of February the tenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh John Mordaunt William Mordaunt John Parys Junctura Annae uxoris Willielmi Mordaunt SCiant praesentes futuri quòd ego Johannes Mordaunt de Turveia Armiger dedi concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi Willielmo Mordaunt fratri meo juniori Annae Huntington filiae Thomae Huntington de Hempsted Armigeri Manerium meum de Wodend cum pertinentiis nec non omnia terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia mea cum suis pertinentiis in Rokesden Bereford Chalnestre Colmorth Collesden in Comitatu Bedfordiae quae nuper fuerunt Johannis Carlile Dedi etiam concessi hac praesenti Charta mea confirmavi praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae omnia terras tenementa mea cum suis pertinentiis in Tychmerch Clopton in Comitatu Northamptoniae quae nuper fuerunt Thomae Hunt Habendum tenendum omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis Et ego praedictus Johannes Mordaunt haeredes mei omnia singula manerium terras tenementa redditus reversiones servitia cum suis
fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Oxford secundo die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sexto Per ipsum Regem de data praedicta autoritate Parliamenti Toung Irrotulatur in Memorandis Scaccarii de Anno nono Regis Henrici octavi videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sanctae Trinitatis rotulo ..... Ex parte Remem Thesaurum A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we intend that our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots shall now shortly repair unto our City of London at whose coming our mind is That she be honourably accompanied and conveyed from Shire to Shire by such Noble-men and other Gentlemen as be Inhabitants of those paris amongst whom we have appointed you to accompany and attend upon our said Sister from the Town of Stony-stratford to Saint Albans We therefore will and desire you to put your self in a readiness so that against the Fourteenth day of April ye be at our said Town of Stonystratford there to meet with our said dearest Sister and from thence to attend upon her till her coming to the said Town of Saint Albans Not failing hereof as ye intend to do unto us honour and pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Two and twentieth day of March. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we understand that at the time of the late repair hither of our dearest Sister the Queen of Scots ye according to our Letters to you then Addressed right thankfully acquitted your self in giving your Attendance for Her conducting and honourable conveyance We therefore give unto you our special thanks And where it is appointed that our said dearest Sister shall now return unto the Realm of Scotland we will and desire you to put your self in a readiness likewise to accompany and conduct her at this her said return from our Castle of Windsor where she intendeth to be the Sixteenth day of this Moneth so to attend upon her to Stony-stratford whereby ye shall deserve a further thanks to be remembred accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Eight day of May. A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well Forasmuch as a right-great and Honourable Ambassaor shall within short time repair unto our Presence out of France at which season it is requisite and right expedient that our Court be Honourably furnished with Lords and other Nobles for the receiving and entertaining of the said Ambassador We therefore have appointed you among others to give your Attendance in our said Court at their coming Wherefore we will that forthwith upon the sight of these our Letters ye put your self in such a readiness in your best aray that ye may be here with us by the Twentieth day of this instant Month at the farthest without failing thus to do as ye tender our Honour and Pleasure Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Tenth day of August Alliance of Mordaunt and Elmes THese be the Articles and Agreements had made and concluded the Twelfth day of February the Eleventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth between John Elmes Son and Heir of William Elmes Esquire and Son and Heir apparent of Elizabeth now Wife to Thomas Pygott Esquire one of the Kings Serjeants at Law and late the Wife of the said William and one of the Daughters and Heirs of John Iwardely Esquire Deceased on the one Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Esquire on the other Partie for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had and solemnized between the said John Elmes and Edith Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said John Mordaunt First it is agreed That the said John Elmes shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Wife the said Edith if the said Edith thereunto shall agree and assent And in the like manner the said Edith shall by the same Grace of God Marry and take to Husband the said John Elmes if the said John Elmes will agree and assent thereto The said Marriage to be had and solemnized before the Feast of All-Saints next coming after the date of these present Agreements Item It is agreed by these Presents between the said Parties That the Costs and Charges of the same Marriage as in Meat and Drink and other such things convenient and necessary for the same shall be at the Costs of the same John Mordaunt Item It is also agreed by these Presents That the said John Elmes shall Apparel himself at his pleasure and at his own Costs and Charges And in like manner the said John Mordaunt shall Apparel the said Edith at the same day of Marriage at the proper Costs and Charges of the said John Mordaunt Item The said John Elmes Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents That he before the Feast-day of All-Saints shall at the Costs and Charges in the Law of the said John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns make cause or do to be made to the said John Mordaunt Robert Brudenell Knight one of the Justices of our Sovereign Lord the King at the Pleas before him to be holden Thomas Pygott one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law and to William Gascoign Esquire Walter Luke Nicholas Gardiner John Spencer Robert Latimer Gentlemen and to their Heirs and at all time and times after the said Feast of All-Saints within the space of Eight Years when the said John Elmes thereto shall be required by the said John Mordaunt or by by his Heirs or by his Executors or by his Assigns a sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise of Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly Value of Threescore Pounds over all yearly Charges and of such Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances of the Inheritance of the said John Elmes as by the said John Mordaunt shall be named and appointed the said Persons to be and stand seized of Fifty Pounds parcel of the said Summ of Threescore Pounds to the use of the said John Elmes and of the said Edith Mordaunt after their said Marriage had of the Heirs of the Body of the said John Elmes lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the Heirs of the Body of the said William Elmes And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said William according to the Old Interest thereof And of Ten Pounds residue of the said Threescore Pounds that the said Feoffees shall stand
approbatis quo minus in dicto Parlamento apparere personalitèr interesse valeam Nobilem principem Edwardum Ducem Somerset totius Angliae Protectorem simulque personae Regiae Majistatis Gubernatorem nobiles viros Willielmum Paulet militem Dominum Southamptoniae Magnum Magistrum Hospitii Domini Regis Dominum Russell privati Sigilli Domini Regis Custodem meos veros legitimos Actores Factores Procuratores nomino facio constituo Dans concedens eisdem conjunctim divisim plenam authoritatem potestatem tractandi assentiendi seu dissentiendi ac omnia alia generalitèr faciendi Rempublicam concernentia prout eisdem vel alteri eorum videbitur melius expediri nomine meo vice meâ prout ego ipse facere possum aut deberem si personaliter interessem Promittoque me gratum ratum habiturum totum quicquid dicti Procuratores mei statuerint seu fecerint vel alter eorum statuerit seu fecerit in hac parte In cujus rei testimonium sigillum meum praesentibus apposui Datum apud Articles of Agreement between the Lord Mordaunt and his Son William Mordaunt THIS Indenture made the Ninteenth day of May the Second Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Churches of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Between the Right Honourable John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and William Mordaunt the third Son of the said John Lord Mordaunt of the other party Witnesseth That where the said John Lord Mordaunt for the great entire and natural Love that he hath and beareth to the said William is contented to do what in him is to buy get and obtain the Custody Ward and Marriage of the Body and Lands of one Agnes Booth Cousin and next Heir of John Booth Clerk That is to say Daughter and Heir of Charles Booth Brother of the said John Booth Clerk that in consideration of the Premises and for such costs and charges that the said John Lord Mordaunt shall sustain and bear and be at for obtaining and getting of the said premises The said William Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns That he the said William after the same William shall by the Grace of Almighty God Marry and take to Wife the said Agnes Booth the same William shall suffer the said John Lord Mordaunt to take and perceive all the Issues and profits which shall yearly come grow and arise of the Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments which the said William as in the right of the said Agnes may have or hereafter shall have within the Realm of England during the Espousals between the same William and Agnes without Let Impeachment Suit Vexation Interruption or in any other manner of wise to be Expulsed Sued Vexed Inquieted or Disturbed by the same William to the time that the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath and shall plenarily and fully wholly and entirely have received perceived and taken of the Issues and profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes all such Summs of Money which the same John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns hath ar hereafter shall pay for the obtaining and getting of the Ward and Marriage of the said Agnes and all manner of Costs Charges and Expences concerning the same or any part or parcel thereof Provided always and the said John Lord Mordaunt is so pleased That the said William shall have yearly Forty Marks of the Issues and Profits of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other Hereditaments of the said Agnes towards the living and finding of the said William and Agnes to be paid to the said William and Agnes at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also where the said William standeth bound to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors and Assigns in the Summ of One thousand Pound Sterling by his Obligation bearing date the day of these Presents The said John Lord Mordaunt Granteth unto the said William That if the said William doth well and truly observe perform fulfil and keep all and singular Covenants Grants and Agreements specified and comprised in these present Indentures which of the part and behalf of the said William are to be performed fulfilled kept and done And also if the said William from time to time do make cause or do to be made such other further good sufficient Surety to the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns for the sooner Payment Contentation and Satisfaction of the said Summs of Money so said further expended and paid by the said John Lord Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns without Trouble Suit Vexation of the said William or of any other by his procurement assent or agreement And also if the said William Mordaunt during the natural Life of the same John Lord Mordaunt be Governed Ruled Ordered and Demained in all Causes by the same John Lord Mordaunt That then the said Obligation of the said Summ of One thousand Pounds to be utterly void and of none effect or else to stand in its full Strength and Vertue In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid have enterchangably set their Seals and Signs-Manual the Day and Year above-written John Mordaunt A Division of Lands and Tenements between the Lord Mordaunt Sir Humphrey Brown and others THIS is the Agreement for a Partition to be had between Sir John Mordaunt Knight and Elizabeth his Wife on the one party and Sir Humphrey Brown Serjeant at the Law and George Brown his Son on the other party of all the Maners Lands and Tenements hereafter following The said Sir John Mordaunt is agreed to take in allowance of his part a third part of the Maners hereafter mentioned and allowed to the said Humphrey and George the third part of the Maners hereafter next following and the third part of all the Lands and Tenements occupied with the same Inprimis The third part of the Maners of Drayton and Luffwick Islip and Slipton with all the Members and Appurtenances with the Advowsons of the Churches of Luffwick and Islip The third part of the Maner of Sudburgh in Reversion The third part of the Maner of Thrapston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Emberton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Woolston cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Wavendon cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Thalton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maners of Rawnes Ringsted and Cotton cum pertinentiis The third part of the Maner of Buckworth cum pertinentiis The Advowsons of the Churches of Buckworth and Woolston The third part of the Woods following and the
the said Drayton-Park came into the Hands and Possession of the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners And the said Drayton-Park being in their hands the said Lord Parre and the King's Officers and Keepers of Brikestock-Park complained and said That the said Pale made by the said Sir Thomas Cheyne was no sufficient Pale for the Pale was so low that the Keepers of Drayton-Park might stand and did stand upon the top of the Dike of Drayton-Park and Shoot over the said Pale unto the said little Park and Killed the King's Deer being feeding within the said little Park And divers times the Lord Parre laid to the charges of the Keepers of Drayton-Park for Killing of divers and many such Deer and the Lord Parre not contented with the said Pale complained to Sir Thomas Lovel Knight at that time being Justice of the Forests for not maintaining and making a sufficient Pale or Hedge between both the said Parks And that complaint notwithstanding divers Pains were laid in the King's Grace's Court of Swanymote upon the said Lord and his Co-partners for to amend the said Pale and Hedge sufficiently Whereupon the Lord Mordaunt caused certain number of Oakes to be felled in Grafton and Grafton-Park and in other places within the bounds of Grafton for the new amending of the same Pale and Hedges and thereupon took down the old Pale and made a new Pale of a greater length and did certain costs of the Ditches of the said Park and did fell certain Thorns and other Wood for Ports Rails and Stumps for the good amending of the same new Pale which Pale so newly made continued divers Years and no default found at the same by the said Lord Parre or any of his Officers or Keepers And after this the Lord Parre's Keepers of Brikestock would in the Winter time being Frost and Snow break up the said Pale to the intent that the King 's Deer of the little Park might come into Drayton for to have their feeding there or else the said Deer would have Perished and Starved for hunger And yet the said Favour notwithstanding a new Complaint was made a new pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote That the Lord Mordaunt should amend his Pale and Hedge and scower his Ditches by a day upon pain of Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And after that within certain Years another like pain of Twenty Pounds was laid in the said Court of Swanymote for to make the said Hedges and Ditches between Drayton-Park and Brikestock-Park sufficient And the said Lord Parre at this time being Friendly with the Lord Mordaunt shewed Robert Catbyn Gentleman thereof to the intent that the Lord Mordaunt might have knowledge thereof for to make the Hedges and Ditches sufficient whereby the Lord Mordaunt might avoid the Forfeiture of the said pain of Twenty Pounds And forasmuch as such pains were so laid in the King's Graces Courts of Swanymote as well in King Henry the Seventh's days as also in the days of our late Sovereign Lord of Famous Memory King Henry the Eighth for that the said Sir Thomas Cheyne as also the Lord Mordaunt and his Co-partners should amend and repair the said Pale Hedges and Ditches of Drayton-park of that side that is between the said Drayton-park and the said Little Park of Brikestock by certain several days to them prefixed as by the Books of the said Courts of Swanymote it will more at large appear That if the Lords of Drayton-park had made any Encrochment upon the Little Park of Brikestock or of and upon any of the King's Ground that then their Encrochments should have been as well found and presented as for the amending and repairing of Drayton-park-pale and of the Hedges and Ditches of the said Wood in the said Courts of Swanymote remembred and presented A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD After my hearty Commendations where by virtue of a Commission ye procure a Freeborde to be had within the King's Majesties Little Park of Brikestock there is upon the same past a Quest and Verdit by them given which Quest and Verdit as it is taken rather serveth for your purpose than for the Conservation of the King's Majesties Right The said Commission being never Executed in my Uncle the Lord Parre's life whose Office in the said Park I now have And that neither the King's Solicitor being then in those parts nor any other his Learned Council for the Soliciting and defending of his Grace's Right was called or Privy thereunto I thought hereby notwithstanding your Proceedings in the premises to require your Lordship to forbear to meddle or intromit with any thing within the said Park until it may appear unto my Lords of the King 's most Honourable Privy Council or otherwise by the Law what you have to shew for your Claim Thus I bid your Lordship heartily well to fare from Hampton-Court the Seventeenth day of October Your Lordships Loving Friend W. North. A Letter to the Lord Mordaunt from the Lord William North. MY LORD AFter my hearty Commendations perceiving by your Letter that according to such Commission as you have already proceeded in ye be desirous to enjoy the Freeborde within the Park of Brikestock to the which Commission notwithstanding my Uncle was Privy thereby to know your Claim and Title of the said Freeborde yet if God had continued his life till it had been sitten on he would have found and caused matter to be alledged for the King as would have been for the conservation of his Majesties Inheritance By the death of whom and for lack of the King 's Learned Council to speak in his cause it is thought the thing hath not past in his Highness's behalf in such ways as it might have done And as I have heard say The King's Solicitor hath before time advised you that ye should not take upon you to Encroach upon any part of the King 's old Inheritance this being parcel of the oldest his Grace hath in those parts To the proceeding of which Commission the said Solicitor being in that Country me seemed that he should have had warning and been privy to the Execution thereof to have spoken for the King 's Right Nevertheless because it may appear that as little as I can shall be by my time done in the said Parks to the derogation of the King's Inheritance Therefore I will procure another Commission either to the foresaid Commissioners or to other Gentlemen of good Estimation at the Execution whereof some of the King 's Learned Council shall be there for the defence of his Cause and I doubt not but you against the same time will provide as shall be best for your Claim And if upon the Tryal thereof you shall have Right to the said Borde I shall be well content ye enjoy it accordingly And in the mean time I require you not to intermeddle with any thing within the said Park by virtue of
de Drayton directam ad Testes praedictos examinandum in filaciis ejusdem Cancellariae nostrae residentem in haec verba Edwardus Sextus Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae supremum Caput Dilectis fidelibus suis Edwardo Montague Militi Capitali Justiciario de Communi Banco Johanni Saint-John Thomae Tresham militibus dilecto sibi Richardo Humphrey de Drayton falutem Sciatis quod nos de Fidelitatibus providis Circumspectionibus vestris pleniùs confidentes Assignavimus vos tenore praesentium damus vobis vel tribus vestrum potestatem autoritatem ad inquirendum per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de Comitatu Northamptoniae tam infra libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit nec non ad audiendum examinandum quandam materiam in quâdam Petitione his praesentibus annexa inter Nos Johannem Mordaunt Militem Dominum Mordaunt contentam specificatam Et ideò vobis vel tribus vestrum mandamus quòd ad certos dies loca quos ad hoc provideritis Testes quoscunque quos maxime pro testificatione ejusdem materiae fore videritis evocandum coram vobis aut tribus vestrum evocandum ac ipsos Testes eorum quemlibet de super eisdem materiis circumstantiis ejusdem super eorum Sacramentis coram vobis corporalitèr praesentandis diligenter examinetis Depositionesque suas recipiatis in scriptis redigatis Et super hoc auditis inde Rationibus ac aliis viis modis quibus melius sciveritis aut poteritis eandem materiam juxta sanas discretiones vestras in forma praedicta diligenter examinandum Ac insuper vobis vel tribus vestrum mandamus quod diligentèr super praemissis facitis Inquisitionem Et eam sic factam distinctè apertè Nobis in Cancellariam nostram in Octavis Sancti Michaelis proximè futuris ubicunque tunc fuerit sub Sigillis vestris vel trium vestrum Sigillis eorum per quos factum fuit mittatis has Literas nostras Patentes unà cum Petitione praedictâ Mandamus etiam tenore praesentium Vicecomiti nostro Comitatus praedicti quòd ad certos Dies Loca quos vos vel tres vestrum ei scire facitis venire faciat coram vobis vel tribus vestrum tot tales probos homines legales de Balliva sua tam infra Libertates quam extra per quos rei veritas in praemissis melius sciri poterit inquiri In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipfo apud Westmonasterium vicesimo septimo die Junii Anno Regni nostri primo Southwell Inspeximus ulterius Certificationem praefatorum Commissariorum unà cùm Depositionibus quorundam Testium virtute Commissionis praedictae coram praefatis Commissariis captis examinatis in eâdem Cancellariâ nostrâ returnatis ac in Filaciis ejusdem Cancellariae nostrae residentibus in haec verba Depositions taken the Two and twentieth day of September in the First Year of our Soveraign Lord Edward the Sixth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth the Supream Head Before Sir Edward Mountague Knight Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas Sir Thomas Tresham Knight and Richard Humphrey Esquire by virtue of the King's Commission to them directed and to these Presents annexed exhibited on the part of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt Robert Latimer of North-Crawley in the County of Buckingham Gentleman examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he this Examinant about thirty Years past was Keeper of a Park called Drayton-park under Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt then and yet Owner of this said Park and then Master to this Examinant and at his entry into the same Office one William Boyse then of Luffwick who had been Keeper of the said Park of Drayton came to this Examinant and shewed him the Walk of the said Park of Drayton wherein he declared That he being Keeper of the said Park of Drayton walked without the Pale of Drayton-park and within the Park of Brikestock called the Little-Park from a certain place in the said Park of Brikestock called Plumwell-Gate unto a place called Snapes where he entred always again into the said Park of Drayton including always as parcel of Drayton-park and as a Freeborde to the same a certain parcel of Ground or Wood without the Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park towards the said Little-park of Brikestock And according to the same this Examinant and his Deputies Keepers there did always walk the same way during all such time as he was Keeper without any Contradiction of any Person or Persons And he saith further That the said Boyse then also declared to this Examinant That the same Boyse hath seen divers and many times the Keepers of Drayton-park fell Wood for the mending of the Pale of the same Drayton-park and for other causes upon the same Freeborde or Ground without the said park of Drayton towards and within the Little-park of Brikestock and never denied nor Impeached for the same by the Keeper of Brikestock-park nor by any other Person or Persons And more he knoweth not Thomas Jefforne of Luffwick in the County of Northampton Clerk Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he hath divers times heard one William Boyse late of Luffwick say That he the same Boyse was Keeper of a certain Park called Drayton-park in the County of Northampton under one Edward Earl of Wiltshire then Owner of the said Park And that by such time as he was Keeper there he always walked as parcel of his Walk of Drayton-park within the Park of Brikestock called the Little-park there from a certain place called Plumwell-Gate unto a place there called Snapes where alway he entred again into Drayton-park including within his Walk a parcel of Wood-Ground within the Little-park of Brikestock and adjoining to the Pale or Hedge of Drayton-park as parcel of the said Park of Drayton and then called the Freeborde of Drayton-park And the said Boyse told also the said Examinant That he was after the death of the said Earl Keeper of the said Little-Park of Brikestock under one Sir John Carr Knight at which time one John Allen was Keeper of Drayton-park and walked the same way within the Little-park of Brikestock from the said Plumwell-Gate to Snapes and including the said parcel of Wood-Ground as parcel of Drayton-park in like manner as the said Boyse and others had done before And saith further That he never knew any thing said or done to any of the said Keepers of Drayton-park for the walking of the same And more he knoweth not James Stevenson of Sudborough in the County of Northampton Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon
his Oath That he hath been Keeper of Drayton-park in the County of Northampton by the space of Eighteen Years or there-abouts under John Lord Mordaunt Owner of the said Park and at his entry into the same Park one William Boyse sometime Keeper of Drayton-park came to this Examinant and shewed to him the Walk of the same in which he declared That this Examinant should in walking of the said Park go over at a Stile in Drayton-park near to the Gate called Plumwell-Gate within the Little-park of Brikestock and so walking within the said Little-park of Brikestock unto a Stile called Snapes and including a certain parcel of Wood adjoining to the Pale of Drayton-park as parcel of Drayton-park and as a Freeborde to the said Drayton-park At which place called Snapes the said Keepers of Drayton-park always entred again into Drayton-park and ever after this Examinant walked the same Ground as parcel of Drayton park and divers and many times caused Wood to be felled within the said parcel of Wood-Ground called Freeborde without the Pale of Drayton-park and within the Little-park of Brikestock for the repairing and mending of the Pale of Drayton-park when need required which he did without any contradiction of any Person And he saith further That he knew a certain parcel of Ground called the Pingle adjoyning to the Little-Park of Brikestock sold by Master Marbury then owner of the same was all sold to the use of the said Master Marbury And at that time the Keepers of Brikestock-park nor any other person claimed or had any part or parcel of the same Wood so sold And more he knoweth not Thomas Watts of Sudborough in the County of Northampton Husbandman Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That this Examinant about Twelve Years past sold a parcel of Wood called the Snapes adjoyning to the Little Park of Brikestock to the use of one Master Marbury then Owner of the same Wood which was felled into Brikestock-park-pale at which time the Keeper of Brikestock-park nor any other person claimed or had any part of the same Wood so sold Which said Wood called Snapes is now the Inheritance of the Lord Mordaunt And more he knoweth not William Stretton of Twywell in the County of Northampton Husbandman Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he about Twelve or Fourteen Years since bought of one Richard Bayly of Luffwick a certain parcel of Wood-Ground called the Pingle in the Parish of Sudborough in the Wood called Snapes adjoyning to Brikestock-park which said Pingle this Examinant felled hard to the Pale of the Little-Park of Brikestock and carried away the same without lett or interruption of the Keepers of Brikestock-Park and without any demand made by the said Keepers of any part or parcel of the same Wood called Pingle And more he cannot depose John Wright of Godington in the County of Northampton Husbandman Sworn and Examined deposeth and saith upon his Oath That he about Twenty Years now past was Salesman to one Master Marbury of Luffwick at which time he sold for his said Master a certain parcel of Wood called the the Snapes adjoyning to the Little Park of Brikestock At which time this Examinant felled the same Wood hard to the Pale of Brikestock-park without any interruption of the Keepers of Brikestock-park or any other person or persons for to the knowledge of this Examinant the same Keepers nor any other claimed any part of the same Wood Which Wood called Snapes is now the Lord Mordaunt's And more he knoweth not Inspeximus praetereà quandam Inquisitionem indentatam super praemissis captam Filaciis Cancellariae nostrae praedictae similitèr residentem in haec verba Northampton Inquisitio indentata capta apud Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae vicesimo secundo die Septembris Anno Regni Edwardi Sexti Dei Gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hibernicae supremi Capitis primo coram Edwardo Mountague milite Capitali Justiciario dicti Domini Regis de Communi Banco Thoma Thresham Milite Richardo Humphrey de Drayton Armigero Commissionariis dicti Domini Regis virtute Commissionis ipsius Domini Regis iis directae ad inquirendum per Sacramentum proborum legalium hominum de Comitatu Northamptoniae tà m infrà libertates quà m extrà per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit Nec non ad audiendum examinandum quandam materiam in quadam Petitione praedictae Commissioni dicti Domini Regis annexa huic Inquifitioni affilata inter dictum Dominum Regem Johannem Mordaunt Militem Dominum Mordaunt contentam specificatam per Sacramentum Willielmi Dudley Armigeri Thomae Mulsho Armigeri Willielmi Marbury Armigeri Roberti Kinsman Armigeri Egidii Isham Armigeri Johannis Lenton Armigeri Georgii Thresham Armigeri Thomae Brookes de Oakely Armigeri Roberti Catlyn Generosi Grifini Salisbury Generosi Reginaldi Grenehold de Ashton Generosi Thomae Tawexer de Raundes Generosi Johannis Durrant Generosi Willielmi Burton de Woodford Generosi Gilberti Pickering Generosi Johannis Palmer de Warketon Ricardi Moreton de Oundell Matthaei Law de Brikestock Johannis Wright de Beddington Roberti Chapman de Cottingham Thomae Good de Islip Willielmi Bull de Pichley proborum legalium hominum de Comitatu praedicto Qui dicunt super Sacramentum suum Quòd dictus Dominus Mordaunt in dicta Petitione nominatus seisitus existit in Dominio suo ut de feodo de in Manerio de Drayton de in Parco de Drayton in Petitione praedictâ specificatis cum Sepibus Viis Palis Fossatis undique suffultis Nec non de quadam Terra vocata a Freeborde ultrà juxtà praedictum Fossatum extendente usque ad parcum Domini Regis vocatum le Little-Park de Brikestock in dicta Petitione similiter recitatum Quae quidem Terra vocata le Freeborde circumjacet praedictum Fossatum Sepes Palas praedicti Parci de Drayton continet in latitudine de altitudine Fossati de parco de Drayton praedicto versus infra dictum Parcum vocatum le Little-Park de Brikestock tres pedes extendit se in longitudine ex occidentali parte dicti Parci de Drayton tà m longè quà m praedictus Parcus de Drayton se extendit abuttat versus dictum Parcum vocatum le Little-park de Brikestock Et ulterius iidem Juratores dicunt super Sacramentum suum Quòd dictus Dominus de Mordaunt omnes Antecessores sui omnes illi quorum statum Johannes Dominus Mordaunt in manerio parco praedicto modo habet ac a tempore de quo non existit memoria hominis ad contrarium habuerunt usi fuerunt consueverunt habere ac de jure habere debuerunt totam illam Terram praedictam vocatam le Freeborde cum tota Vestura Proficuo ejusdem Terrae circumquaque jacentis dictum
Maunsell Scr. Probatum fuit Testamentum suprascripti coram Magistro Willielmo Drewry Curiae praerogativae Cantuariensis Commissiario apud London decimo nono die Octobris anno Domini Milesimo quingentesimo septuagesimo primo juramento Justiniani Kidd Notarii Publici Procuratoris dictae Joannae relictae Executricis in hujusmodi Testamento nominatae cui commissa fuit Administratio omnium singulorum Bonorum c. ad sancta dei Evangelia Jurata reservata potestate c. Thomae Farmer Edmundo Plowden Willielmo Goodfellow c. cum venerint c. admissuri SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT DNI BARONIS DE TVRVEY Examinatur per me Radulphum Jennings cum Registro praerogativae vigesimo primo Februarii anno Milesimo sexcentesimo quinquagesimo primo The TOMB of JOHN the Second Lord Mordaunt as it is Extant in the Church of Turvey in the County of Bedford Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight First of that Name Third Lord MORD AVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV Causes of Disagreements between John the Second Lord Mordaunt and his Son Lewis THE late Lord Mordaunt bought the Wardship of Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis Daughter and Sole Heir to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight for which he paid Thirteen hundred Marks her Land which she had by Descent was Five hundred Marks a year The late Lord Mordaunt afterwards did couple her in Marriage unto the now Lord Mordaunt then being his Son and Heir Apparent For the Marriage of which now Lord Mordaunt the late Lord Mordaunt might have had divers great Summs of Money Afterwards the late Lord Mordaunt for the better advancing of his own House procured the said now Lord Mordaunt and the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife to Levy a Fine of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to one William Hemmyng Clerk who rendred the same unto the now Lord Mordaunt and to the said Dame Elizabeth then his Wife and to the Heirs Males of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for want of such Heirs to the Heirs Males of the Body of the now Lord Mordaunt with divers Remainders over Afterwards the said now Lord Mordaunt and Dame Elizabeth then his Wife had Issue between them Lewis Mordaunt and after the said Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt dyed After whose Death the said now Lord Mordaunt took to Wife the Lady Joan Mordaunt now his Wife After which Marriage the said now Lord Mordaunt for that his said Son Lewis would not Marry his Wife's Daughter suffered a Recovery of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands to the Use of himself for the term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast and after his decease to the Use of such as it pleased him to appoint for the term of Ninety two years without any Penny of Rent paying therefore To the intent that not only he but my Lady his Wife may declare their Wills thereof during the said Ninety two years whereof the said late Lord Mordaunt had certain Intelligence not knowing how nor to whom the Fee-simple and the Inheritance thereof is bestowed and appointed Whereupon the said late Lord Mordaunt as well for Conscience sake for that he was the cause why the now Lord Mordaunt had such Estates of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as he might by the Law suffer such a Recovery thereof to the Disherison of the said Lewis Mordaunt being the right Heir of the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as also for the stay of his own Inheritance and bringing in again of the Fitz-Lewis's Lands into the right course of Inheritance again did suffer Recoveries of his own Lands to the Uses and upon Condition following To the Use of the said late Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs until the said Lewis Mordaunt was Married and after to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married unto at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of such Wife as the said Lewis Mordaunt shall be Married to at the time of his Death To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of his Executors until the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel next ensuing the Death of the late Lord Mordaunt and after to the same Executors for the term of Twelve years towards the performance of his Will and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life if he will assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands as hereafter appeareth To the Use of the late Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast and after to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life To the intent that he of the Issues and Profits thereof might fully answer to the Queen's Majesty as much Money as shall amount to One Years Rent of the full Third part of all the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands for the primier Seisin thereof and Twenty Pounds over Memorandum That it was provided in the same Book That if the now Lord Mordaunt did not assure the said Fitz-Lewis's Lands which are of the value of Five hundred Marks per annum within Six Months next ensuing the Feast of Saint Andrew next after the date of the said Book to Sir Robert Throgmorton and other the Recoverers of the late Lord Mordaunt's Lands That is to say Parcel thereof to the value of Three hundred Marks or under to the Use of the now Lord Mordaunt and the Lady his Wife for term of their lives Dispunishable of Wast during the life of the now Lord Mordaunt And after their Deceases to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and to the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis and the Remainder thereof to the now Lord Mordaunt for the term of his life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to the Use of his Will for the term of Ten years and after to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs to the Use of the right Heirs of the said Fitz-Lewis for ever That then the use of such and so much of the Lord Mordaunt's Lands as was appointed to the now
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
Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after their deceases to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of Dame Elizabeth Mordaunt for ever And of all the residue of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances which lately were the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis wherein the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son or any of them had any Estate of any manner of Inheritance or Freehold jointly or severally or otherwise in Use Possession Reversion Remainder or otherwise at any time since the last Day of August in the said Year of our Lord God One thousand five hundred fifty and eight to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son for term of his Life without Impeachment of Wast And after his decease to such Person and Persons and to such use and uses as by the last Will and Testament of the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son shall be declared in Writing for and during the space of Ten Years or under and not above so that the same to be declared first for and to the Payment of his Debts And after his Debts paid then to and for the Advancement of his Children Unmarried and after his Debts paid and his Children Unmarried advanced then for the Performance of the Legacies of the same Sir John Mordaunt my Son And after the same Ten Years ended and expired then to the proper use and behoof of the said Lewis Mordaunt and of the Heirs Males of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the same Dame Eilzabeth Mordaunt for ever And also That if the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son doth convey and assure unto the said Lewis Mordaunt to the use of the said Lewis Mordaunt all the Estate Right Title Interest which the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son hath in and to the Maner of Snelson in the County of Buckingham and in and to all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Snelson aforesaid and in Turvey Harold Lavenden and Brafeld or elsewhere to the said Maner of Snelson belonging which were sometime George the Earl of Kents in the County of Buckingham and Bedford And also do permit and suffer the said Lewis Mordaunt quietly to have hold occupy and enjoy all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which be conveyed or assured unto the said Lewis according to the true intent and meaning as well of certain Indentures Quadripartite made between me the said John Lord Mordaunt on the one Party and the said Sir Robert Throgmorton John Cheyne and Thomas Nichols on the other Party bearing date the last Day of August in the Second Year of the Reign of the Queen's Majesty that now is as also of other Conveyances and Assurances made by me unto the said Lewis Mordaunt And also do permit and suffer my Executors to execute and perform my Will without any Impeachment or Disturbance That then my Executors shall well and truly content and pay or cause to be contented and paid unto the said Sir John Mordaunt my Son within One whole Year next after such lawful and sufficient Conveyance and Assurance of the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were of the Inheritance of the said Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis the Summ of Three thousand Marks of Lawful Money of England towards the payment of his Debts and Advancement of his Children Unmarried And further That then the said Lewis Mordaunt shall assure or cause to be assured unto the said Dame Joan now Wife to my Son Sir John Mordaunt one yearly Rent of One hundred Marks during her Life with a sufficient clause of Distress in Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the yearly value of One hundred Pounds for the not payment thereof at Two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions And also my Will is That all my Funeral Debts Legacies and Charges of this my Last Will and Testament paid and discharged that the said Lewis Mordaunt shall have all the residue of my Goods Plate and Chattels whatsoever they be Executores Testamenti ultimae voluntatis Johannis Mordaunt Militis Domini Mordaunt tertio decimo die Augusti anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo sexagesimo secundo anno regni Reginae Elizabethae quarto Robertus Tirewhite miles Henricus Darcy Armiger Thomas Nichols Generosus Ludovicus Mordaunt Armiger Georgius Mordaunt Armiger Johannes Ashecomb Generosus Thomas Darcy Armiger Quilibet Executorum praedictorum assumens super se onus Testamenti mei habebit viginti libras Also I make Sir Robert Catlin Knight and my loving Cousin Justice Anthony Brown Supervisors of this my Last Will and Testament and I give to either of them Ten Pounds for their pains taken herein these being Witness John Hatcher Thomas Larkin Robert Pemberton John Moreton Edward Knight Robert Bennet and John Richardson SIGILLVM IOHANNIS DOMINI MORDAVNT In the Parish Church of Turvey Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Third of that Name Second Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Counsellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to Sir John Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved Sir John Mordaunt the Younger Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And forasmuch as we are determined upon the Feast of Pentecost next coming to keep and do to be Celebrated at Westminster with all due Circumstances of Honor the Coronation of our most dear and welbeloved Wife the Lady Anne our Queen as to her Estate and Dignity doth appertain at which time it hath been accustomed to advance to the Honor of Knighthood to be made and ordered with the Ceremonies of the Bath such of the Nobility as was at that time by the Sovereign thought convenient for the same And therefore minding to pretermit nothing that might set forth the Honor of the said Coronation and thinking you right able and worthy to receive that Degree have appointed you to be one of those whom we intend to advance to such Honor. And therefore our Pleasure is That ye being advertised hereof do make such Preparation against the time aforesaid and put your self in such a Readiness as shall be requisite for you in the acceptation of the said Order and as for the Honor thereof hath been used and accustomed Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and twentieth Day of April Hollinshead 's Chronicle page 931. No. 50. ON Fryday at Dinner served the King all such as were appointed by his Highness to be Knights of the Bath which after Dinner were brought to