King and from which Elizabeth descended to the Mordaunts the Noble Lordships of Drayton Thrapston Addington Sudburgh Islip Luffwick Slipton and many other great Possessions Many disputes notwithstanding arose about the pretences of these Heirs even with the greatest Lords in England as the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shrewsbury but the Credit of Sir John Mordaunt and his interest with the King joyn'd to his Wisdom and great Knowledge in the Laws had ever influence upon them But after his decease they set up great pretences to Drayton and the Green 's Lands and the Young Mordaunt soon found how much his Fathers Life had conduc'd to the settlement of that Estate In the Agitations of the Establishment whereof and the Agreements made with those great Lords he spent the remainder of King Henry the Seventh's Reign and was by that time become a person greatly accomplish'd After this King's Death he apply'd himself wholly to the farther designs of the Honor and Advantage of his House and made his Court to the Young Successor follow'd him in his First Wars and got so successfully into his Favour and Opinion as upon his return he received the gratification of a Patent containing the grant of several Noble Privileges and Immunities Among the rest to be Pilo Copertus in the presence of the King or of any of his Judges Ministers or Magistrates The Consideration he was at this time in appears by several Letters directed to him when he was yet but a private Gentleman He was Knighted by him after this and made a Privy Councellor wherein his Wisdom Fidelity and Zeal to his Majesty's Service were very Exemplary He was at one time Surveyor General of the King's Woods and Wood-sails and the Chief in another Commission for providing Necessaries for the Fortifications of Calice and the other Ports and Castles within the English Pale in the Country of Picardy and in many other matters he was Employ'd of great Importance wherein he so behaved and discharg'd himself as his generous Master thought fit for a reward of his many Services to take him into the Illustrious Dignity of the Peerage calling him by Writ a Baron into the Parliament in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign After this upon the Revolutions which happned by the change of the Church Government whereunto he was not able to shew that compliance which others of more supple tempers did condescend to do his Favour did decline and his Master's Kindness to him So as being retired to his own House and Country he did not remain without several mortifications which his Enemies of the prevailing Faction that Govern'd in the Court did endeavour to put upon him several hard Letters he received from the King about matters which they imputed to him concerning his backwardness in suppressing the Interest of the Old Religion and as the last endeavor of their Revenge they strove to make the King oblige him to an Exchange of the Noble Lordship of Drayton and the other Towns lying about it of his Wives Antient Inheritance and that he had in his Old Age settled against all Competitors at great Labour and Charges with certain of the Abby Lands newly acquired unto the Crown with which his Conscience as well as his Interest were altogether incompatible From this oppression he had not been able to have defended himself notwithstanding all his great Friends and Antient Services if the King's Death had not succeeded which in this point set him at liberty The Reign of King Edward he spent in peace But at the beginning of Queen Mary he labor'd a little under an imputation of his Enemies who would alledge he favoured the Dudleys and the claim of the Lady Jane but it was blown off with the improbability of an Inclination so contrary to his Principles and Profession and he lived out her time too and to the Second Year of her Successor Queen Elizabeth when he being very Old departed this Life in great Honor and Happiness Leaving Issue by his Wife the Lady Elizabeth Vere Sir John Mordaunt his Son and Heir Edmund Mordaunt William Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of Oakely and that Married Agnes Booth George Mordaunt from whom are the Mordaunts of the Hill Married to Cecilia Harding Edith Mordaunt Married to John Elms. Anne Mordaunt Married to John Fisher Margaret Mordaunt Married to Edmond Fettyplace Dorothy Mordaunt Married to Thomas Moore Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Silvester Danvers Winifreid Mordaunt Married to John Cheyney of Chesham Boys Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to Queen Mary CHAPTER XIII JOHN MORDAVNT was the early fruits of his Father's Marriage with the Lady Elizabeth Vere and the Lord Mordaunt being but young himself when his Son was born this John grew up to early Manhood while his Father was yet in the vigor of his own years and so they had the happiness to live long together in the same Generation The Lord Mordaunt in the time of his favor had the opportunity to purchase of the King at an easie rate the Marriage of Elly Fitz-Lewis who had become Heir of that Antient Family by the untimely Death of her Brother as has been expressed in the relation appertaining thereunto She was a very rich and considerable Fortune bringing with her the noble Lordship of Westhorndon and many other fair possessions And unto this Lady he Married John Mordaunt his Eldest Son who with his Wife lived long in his Father's life time upon her Estate in great Plenty and Reputation He had for several Years participated with the Lord Mordaunt much of King Henry's Favour and in the Twenty fourth Year of his Reign and in the same wherein his Father was made a Baron he was summoned to come and receive at his Majesty's hands the Honourable Order of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne of Bollen which he did at that time in fellowship of the Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Waters the Lord Hastings and the Lord Mounteagle But with his Father being entirely addicted to the old Religion the change that succeeded in the one produc'd the same in both their Fortunes which was to retire to their Houses from all further applications in that Reign and at home Sir John Mordaunt continued likewise during that of the young Successor But at the Death of King Edward and the early difficulties of Queen Mary he was of the first that put themselves into the Field at the head of the Essex Men where his interest and reputation was very great offering unto her his and their Services in defence of her Person and Government at the Castle of Framingham in Suffolk where she was then retired in expectation of being assaulted by the Troops raised in behalf of the Faction of the Lady Jane and her Husband upon whom the Dukes of Suffolk and Northumberland intended to settle the Crown of England The considerableness of
SUCCINCT GENEALOGIES OF THE Noble and Ancient Houses of Alno or de Alneto Broc of Shephale Latimer of Duntish Drayton of Drayton Mauduit of Werminster Greene of Drayton Vere of Addington Fitz-Lewes of Westhornedon Howard of Effingham And Mordaunt of Turvey Justified by Publick Records Ancient and Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs and Enriched with divers Sculptures of Tombs Images Seals and other Curiosities By ROBERT HALSTEAD HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE LUCEM TUAM DA NOBIS LONDON Printed in the Year of Our Lord MDCLXXXV W. BURRELL To my LORD THE Lord HENRY EARL of PETERBOROW PEER of ENGLAND LORD MORDAVNT Lord Baron of TVRVEY Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of His Majesty's Bed-Chamber Lord High Steward to the QUEEN Lord Lieutenant of the County of NORTHAMPTON one of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy-Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER My LORD THE Love and Protection Your Lordship has ever shown to Letters and Antiquity has long since demanded some return from the Melancholy Porers upon Wax and Parchment Ours is not gay and enlightned like the Muse of Poetry It may want Flattery and Wit but it is very Capable of Truth and Gratitude We aspire not to the imitation of Oracles foretelling Greatnesses that are to come but in a heavy way of pusling on old Characters revive dead Glories that have long been lost and by a kind of Sacred Magick salute Mens Eyes with the dear Images of Famous Ancestors Your Lordship that has such a share in our Antiquities cannot but delight to see several Famous Knights whence You descend enter this Nation with the Great Norman and by their Valour win those Lands which from them have devolv'd unto your Lordship Nor will it be less pleasing to perceive a perseverance in those Virtues from their Successors shewing on several Occasions Magnanimity Valour Fidelity Prudence and other Effects of estimable Wisdom and Generosity that have so long preserved the Fruits of their first Labours to Your Lordship's use I am sure it will be agreeable to Your Lordship at least so far as to procure Your Pardon for any Errors may have unwillingly fallen into the Endeavours of My LORD Your Lordship 's most obedient and most humble Servant ROB. HALSTEAD THE PREFACE THERE is here presented to the view of the Reader a Genealogical Description of certain Ancient and Noble Houses of which though I have seen several Pedigrees deduc'd yet they being old wanted those necessary and real Ornaments the Curiosity and Learning of these latter times have afforded Compositions of this Nature there having been omitted in them an insertion of proofs the material Circumstance which has only power to make considerable any effect of the Heroick Science Wherefore these being Families in reality and truth so rich in Records and Evidence the Proofs of whose own Antiquity with the Greatness and Splendor of their Alliances being so numerous and so unquestionable I have thought it a Debt to Truth and History having come through my Curiosity in matters of this kind to a Sight and Knowledge of them to be a means they should be expos'd unto the World for the Entertainment and Instruction of such as may delight in things of this Nature and the Honor of those Families that are descended from them But to prevent a Suspicion of any such affectation of Greatness or Antiquity as in others may have caus'd a Deduction of Genealogies by corrupt and prostituted Art from before the Conquest before the Danes before the Saxons from some British or other Potentates I desire it should be known that I am an Antiquary by Inclination not Profession that although I have purchased verity out of Ancient and Authentick Records I sell no Fables from my own Brain and less from the Phancies of others that I esteem nothing but Truths and those so much as if any have lost their Proofs though there I pity them I use them not but consider them as unhappy Orphans out of the Guard of their Parents in a possibility at least to have been corrupted And truly the endeavours of many Artists to give specious beginnings unto Pedigrees whose heads by just Proofs they could not attain unto has not only among the knowing brought the Science under much Scandal but even prejudiced the Esteem and Opinion of those Families the streams of whose Story from the Impurity of the Head have been judged to be corrupted all along So as certainly it is not the business of any Genealogy to be put to the hazard of blushing for a false Original since those have been esteemed the Noblest Families unto which a beginning could not be found at all but that as far as Truths could possibly be trac'd have always continued in their Countries under a Noble Name and Signalized in the Provinces where they lived and that when as by a Succession lawfully proved of between four and five hundred Years they give to the top of a Pedigree a Gentleman of Name and Arms. It is enough not to have Him denied that thence shall be so descended through a Succession of Great and Illustrious Alliances to be within the Highest Rank of Honour and Nobility Therefore such as have so much truth for the Ornament of their Houses and because some few have more will have recourse to Fable for its assistance to a vain and unjust Ambition deserve the inseparable reward of their Folly which will be the abuse being discover'd to have together with the Impostures even the veritable part involved in Contempt and Disesteem For these reasons there is not here pretended any primary Extractions from such suppos'd Originals whence like others I should have been forc'd to bring them down by Invention and not by Proof introducing an Unfortunate Wanderer Younger Brother or Nephew unto some Unhappy Prince that for a disastrous reason fled his Country and chang'd his Name because I can prove no such thing any more than many that notwithstanding their probabilities were less than those which the large Rewards they received for their Services the Noble kind of stile they used in their Donations the Dignity that appeared in their Seals and the Marks of their own great Bounties would have afforded to the Concluders of an Extraordinary Greatness in the Persons of whom I am to treat have yet taken pretence with much Ceremony and Ornament to abuse Tradition with such Romances But you shall be here presented with several Great and Famous Knights most of which were Country-men or Companions of the Conqueror but all of them Men notable for Valour and Vertue in the Reigns of those Princes under whom they flourished And now as concerning their Names to manifest they need not yield to the Antiquity of any Cambden's Remains in his Treatise of Sirnames pag. 131 135 136 137. You shall see what the Learned Cambden affirms He says That Sirnames given for difference in Families and continued as Hereditary in
potestate ad procedendum in eisdem juxta leges nostras civiles maritimas ac consuetudinem Curiae principalis nostrae Admiralitatis Angliae praedictae ab antiquo usitatas tam ex officio mere mixto vel promoto seu ad alicujus partis instantiam prout casus exiget expediens visum fuerit Volumus etiam per praesentes concedimus quòd praefatus Dominus Howard magnus Admirallus noster Angliae Praefectus Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ac ejus locum tenentes ac caeteri ejus officiarii ministri praedicti habeant cognitionem decisionem de wreco maris magno seu parvo ac de morte supervisione visu corporum mortuorum quarumcunque personarum in mare vel fluminibus publicis portubus aquis dulcibus seu crecis quibuscunque infra fluxum maris vel aquae praedictae ad plenitudinem per dicta regna nostra dominia praedicta ac jurisdictionem Admiralitatis nostrae praedictae custodiendum conservandum statutis nostris de wreco maris de officio Coronatoris annis tertio quarto Edwardi Primi atque Statutis de bonis spoliatis super mare venientibus in hoc Regnum nostris Angliae anno vicesimo septimo Edwardi Tertii progenitorum nostrorum quondam Regni Angliae respectivè editis provifis atque cognitionem de mahemio in locis praedictis infra fluxum maris aquae ad plenitudinem contingent cum potestate etiam puniendi delinquentes in ea parte quoscunque juxta juris exigentiam ac Curae Admiralitatis nostrae praedictae consuetudinem eò quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo vel certitudine praemissorum sive eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus per nos seu aliquem progenitorum nostrorum praefato Domino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Praefecto generali Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minimè facta existit aut aliquo Statuto actu ordinatione provisione prohibitione sive restrictione praesentibus literis nostris patentibus sive alicui parti seu clausulae in eisdem expressis vel insertis repugnantibus derogatoriis aut contrariis quibuscunque in contrarium factis editis ordinatis sive provisis seu aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque in aliquo non obstante mandantes firmiter strictè tenore praesentium percipientes atque per dictum magnum Admirallum Praefectum nostrum generalem ex parte nostra percipi mandari volentes universis singulis Proceribus Dominis Justiciariis Majoribus Vicecomitibus Capitaneis Senescallis Ballivis Custodibus Gaolorum carcerum nostrorum quorumcunque Constabulariisque ac caeteris Ministris fidelibus Subditis Ligeis nostris quibuscunque eorum cujuslibet infra libertates extra quod praefato Dimino Howard magno Admirallo nostro Angliae Praefecto generali Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum ac officiariorum deputatis ministris suis quibuscunque eorum cuilibet in dicto officio Admiralitatis nostrae assignatis seu assignandis circa executionem praemissorum intendentes auxiliantes faventes pariter obedientes sint ac quòd mandatis praeceptis quibuscunque eis vel eorum alicui ex parte nostra per dictum Dominum Howard magnum Admirallum nostrum Angliae ac Praefectum generalem Classis Marium nostrorum praedictorum vel ejus nomine directè pareant sub poena contemptûs istarum literarum nostrarum patentium ac sub periculo incumbentium In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo die Martii Anno Regni Reginae Mariae primo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo examinatum per me S. Killingworth Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 28. JAM illa annos nata XXV usu adversitate efficacissimis magistris edocta prudentiam supra aetatem comparuerat cujus primum specimen in Conciliariis deligendis dedit In sanctius enim Concilium sibi adscivit Nicolaum Heathum Archiepiscopum Eboracensem quem dixi magna prudentia modesto ingenio virum Guilielmum Pawletum Wintoniae Marchionem summum Angliae Thesaurarium Henricum Fitz-Alanum Arundeliae Franciscum Talbottum Salopiae Edwardum Stanleium Derbiae Guilielmum Herbertum Penbrochiae Comites Edwardum Baronem Clintonum maris Praefectum Guilielmum Baronem Howardum Effinghamium Cubicularium Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 19. AD Hispanum in Belgio mittitur Baro Cobhamus cum documentis in eandem sententiam necnon cum diplomate quo Comes Arundeliae Thurlbeius Episcopus Eliensis D. Wottonus à Maria ad pacem Cameraci tractandam nuper delegati Reginae nomine denuo delegantur illisque Guilielmus Baro Howardus Effinghamius adjungitur Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 31. HINC visum ut ad castellum Cameracense de componendis controversiis pace concilianda agerent utrique delegati Pro Regina Angliae Thurlbeius Episcopus Eliensis Guilielmus Baro Howardus Effinghamius Reginae cubicularius supremus Nicolaus Wottonus Ecclesiarum metropolitanarum Cantuariae Eboraci Decanus Pro rege Galliae Carolus Cardinalis à Lotharyngia Archiepiscopus Dux Rihemensis Par primus Franciae Annas Dux Montmorentius Par Conestabilus magnus Magister Franciae Jacobus Albonus Dominus à St. Andraea Marchio Fronsac Franciae Marescallus Johannes Morvillerius Episcopus Aurelianensis Claudius Albospinaeus in Privato Concilio Secretarius Ex eodem iterum Pag. 209. INter pares appellatur ad judicium nepotis Ducis Norfolciae Ex eodem iterum Pag. 243. PRincipio hujus anni spiritum edidit Guilielmus Baro Howard Effinghamius privati Sigilli Custos Thomae Howardi Bellicosi illius Norfolciae Ducis de secunda Uxore Agnete Tilneia filius vir fidei spectatissimae animi invicti qui primum Caleti Praefectus in Baronum numerum à Regina Maria adstitus magnus Angliae Admirallus constitutus Cui postea Cubicularius erat ut etiam Elizabethae donec aetate fractus Sussexio paucis ante obitum mensibus cesserit privati Sigilli Custos factus qui in Anglia quartus est ut dixi honoris gradus Successit in Baroniae honore Carolus filius qui postea Reginae Cubicularius magnus itidem Angliae Admirallus CHARLES HOWARD Earl of Nottingham Peer and Lord High Admiral of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord Chamberlain to the Queen Lord Justice and Heir of all her Majesties Forests Parks and Chaces on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of Her Majesties most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER III. Hollinshed in the Life of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 1212. About the Rebellion of the Earls of Westmoreland and Northumberland AND the twentieth of December they came to Hexam from whence the Rebels were gone the Night before to Neworth where they counselled with Edward Dacres concerning their own weariness and also how they were not only pursued by the Earl of Sussex and
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
and his Horse was shot in the shoulder The end and consequences of this Fight is known in Story The King return'd to Oxford the Earl of Essex to London and the Lord Mordaunt remain'd at Court the ensuing Winter The young Lord had not attained the full age that might capacitate him to sit in Parliament but the Earl his Father being deceased and he succeeding to his dignity of Earl of Peterborow it pleased his Majesty to dispense with a year of that time and by Writ to call him to fit in the Oxford Parliament It was in this Assembly the Earl of Peterborow shew'd the fruits of a Generous Education his Manners were grave and decent his Judgment sound his Learning above his Years and his Quality and he spoke so as satisfied much and affected those that heard him In fine the Great and Unfortunate Charles took such an impression from his proceedings as had the King out-liv'd the disorders of that Age the Earl of Peterborow had been certainly both employ'd and cherish'd by him After this Session he follow'd the King in the Expeditions of the succeeding Summer He was engag'd in the Fight at Cropradey he was with him in the West at Exeter and in Cornwall where the Parliaments Army was Besieg'd their Generals shifted for themselves by Sea and their Troops passed by the King's Army on conditions The Winter following was employ'd by this Earl in an Action very considerable to him which was his Marriage with a beautiful young Lady of great birth called Penelope Obrien only Daughter to Barnaby Earl of Thomond part of whose Portion was at that time very useful to him his Mother being then alive and in possession of most of his Estate and the rest sequester'd and in the Parliament Quarters The next Spring he carried his Lady to Bristol a place in appearance of most safety and farther from the Scene of the War which was likely as it did fall out to be more Northward Here he happn'd to be about the time of the Fight at Leicester where the good King was worsted and from whence his greater misfortune began to flow Upon the King's retreat Westward the Earl of Peterborow to be more free to follow him in all his Fortunes got a Pass for his Lady to go to London to agitate among his Relations some supplies towards enabling him for his subsistance and to furnish him towards certain designs he had for his Majesty's Service He went with the King after this for Wales but losses and defections coming now more and more upon his Majesty every day he retired again to Oxford and Winter drawing nigh the Earl took that Season to pass into Ireland where was a considerable remainder of his Wife's Portion with which he intended to pass into France unto the Queen being then at Paris to Negotiate the interests he had at Court and after to return Unto all this he had not only the King's leave but such Passes and Letters of Recommendation from his Majesty and the Principal Secretary the Earl of Bristol as will for ever bear honourable testimony of this Earl's behavior He did then prosecute his journey which was in all things very fortunate though full of particular adventures too long for this relation He pass'd into Ireland came into Thomond in the Province of Munster where his Father-in-law lived and carried thence the Moneys he did demand Embark'd at Galloway in Cannaught for France after extraordinary sufferance and hazards at Sea landed at Saint Mallows and came afterwards to Paris where he was received by the Queen with that kindness and concern as was due to a Man who had adher'd so faithfully and so long to the King her Husband and all his Interests By this time every Post brought news of the King's misfortunes who having been at last forced to quit Oxford and the few Troops he had left had cast himself upon the Protection of the Scotch Army Here to well judging people seem'd to be an end of all the hopes of the Royal Party who had reason to fear what was the present Interest and was like to be the resolution of that People After some time then every one as in a Shipwrack seeking for a Plank whereon they might save themselves the Earl of Peterborow upon discourse with the Queen and the King's Secretary that was then in France had not only their leave but their advice to make it his business to get admission to come home into England and compound for his Estate as the rest of the Cavaliers in England did The Earl's Mother that always liv'd in the Parliament Quarters and had many Friends among them procur'd his desire So that with the young Countess his Wife at that time with him in France he repair'd home and at last by a very severe composition in Money for which he was fain to sell and mortgage many of his Lands he made such a kind of Peace as that wherewith the Lords and Gentlemen of the King's Party were at that time forc'd to be contented In the care then of his Fortune composing of domestick differences and providing as well as he could against future accidents the Earl of Peterborow spent his time till the King came to be abandon'd by those false Scots and deliver'd into the hands of the Parliament He happn'd to be residing upon his Noble Lordship of Turvey at the time the King was taken from Holmby and brought on his way towards London His Majesty happn'd one Night in his journey to be lodg'd at Ampthill where it was design'd he should rest a day or two at hearing hereof the Earl's House not being above seven Miles from thence he thought it his duty to endeavour to see his Sacred Master and try if he could have occasion to be useful to him in any kind He rose then and by Eleven of the Clock came to the House where the King lay Not without some difficulty he got to be admited where he was and he found his Majesty going to the Prayers usual before his Dinner After they were perform'd he kneel'd down for the honor of his Majesty's Hand but had only opportunity for the ordinary Complements being overlook'd by the Officers appointed to observe the addresses and behavior of all that did approach him Chearfulness there was not much in the King's looks but no disorder grave they were but distinguishing to any he took for Friends and injur'd goodness appear'd in every motion The Dinner was soon brought up during which the Earl waited by him and near the end of it the Officers withdrew and all except the Guards of the Door The Earl quickly took the opportunity of asking his Majesty If there were any thing wherein he might be serv'd with the hazard of his Life and Fortune The King Answer'd He was not in a place to take any measures but would have him advise with those that were his Friends The Earl said no more by reason of the Villainous Jaylers returning so
Relief gave him out of his Pocket Ten Guinneys and so he was for that time dismiss'd Immediately his Highness acquainted the King with the whole particulars and circumstances and delivered the Paper into his Majesty's Hands but desired he would not admit a Man of that Character for whom no body could answer into his presence but rather send him to be examined by his Secretary and farther directed as he should see occasion But the King found something extraordinary enough in this adventure to give him a curiosity to see and speak with Willoughby himself and after unknown to the Duke commanded Mr. Halsey to bring him to him How he behaved himself to the King or what he said is not well known but his Majesty was then so satisfied as he order'd him to the care of the Secretary of State from whom he had several Summs of Money for his incouragement and had him after by the admission of Mr. Cheffin into more private and secret discourses with him The Earl of Peterborow thought now having perform'd what was incumbent upon him in this occasion that he was wholly out of the affair having left it in the natural channel of such matters the Secretary's Office and expected no more trouble upon that account when one Morning Dangerfield came to his Lodging and under pretence of a great dissatisfaction complained That there was no care taken at the Secretary's for enabling him to perform the great service of discovery he had undertaken since he was deny'd a General Warrant to search where he should think fit or indeed any House or Lodging unless he would positively swear he knew to be therein such Papers or Instruments as would import to the purpose he did alledge His Lordship told him then that he had done what appertained to him he had brought him into the hands of the Ministers who had their own methods and whom he could not direct so as now he could interpose no more in that affair but left him to his Applications and Good Fortune He seem'd unsatisfied and went muttering away and after this his Lordship heard no more of him till one Evening the poor Cellier whose meaning and intentions were certainly very good came to the Earl's Lodging in great disorder to acquaint him that this Willoughby or Dangerfield was come in the Messenger's hands before the Council accused for having convey'd Papers into the Lodging of one Mansell and pretended to have found them there and indeed not having been able to procure the Warrant he would have had he made a pretence of coming to search for forbidden Goods and it is to be doubted would have play'd some such trick for his justification if the whole was not rather a design of the Earl of Shaftsbury to give him means by the access he had to the Duke and the Earl of applying the Scandalous Accusation he did afterwards contrive The Earl told Mrs. Cellier That if he had done any indirect thing or used any means he could not justifie he would not endeavour to support him nor countenance any proceeding that was not according to Justice and to Truth and he must expect to stand or fall by his own merits The poor Woman that was still in hopes he was honest and zealous in what he did pretend caused her Husband and her Son to give Bail for his appearance the next Council In the mean time he came again that Night after the Earl was in bed asserted his intentions for the King's Service and desired care might be taken to prevent his suffering for a desire to serve his Majesty The Earl told him He had taken unjustifiable ways that gave Men occasion to suspect the Truth of his Information and had waved all the methods whereby he had at first undertaken to proceed so as he was oblig'd to desert him and he had now only to provide for his safety as he should think fit He retired with utterance of some passionate words and if he did not understand with them before without doubt went then immediately into the interests and directions of Shaftsbury Oates Waller Mansell and the rest of the Authors of that pretended Popish Plot upon whose instigation he undertook the placing that sham contrivance in the Meal-Tubb of Mrs. Cellier that it might be found by them where the Earl was accused of intending the Assassination of the Earl of Shaftsbury and the Scandals and Accusations were to be cast upon divers other persons of Quality This he undertook at the next meeting of Council and with great pretensions of Repentance own'd himself for the obtaining of more credit to have been a Popish Instrument His Royal Highness unto whom it was a mortification to have been induced to speak or give any appearance of belief to such a wretch was by this time upon his first Journey into Scotland but the Earl remain'd behind that he might not seem to fly from any of their Aspersions and to be ready to serve the Duke in the approaching Parliament in every of those occasions wherein his interest might be concern'd But as soon as he was gone the Earl of Shaftsbury complain'd of the Earl of Peterborow to the King in Council for having been Abettor if not Author of a Contrivance wherein several great Men were intended to have been involved and a Murther that was particularly designed for himself His Lordship was summon'd to come and answer the Accusation which he did at the day appointed in the Council-Chamber and had the fortune so to overthrow the Impudence of his accuser by his ingenuous and candid Narration as he was dismiss'd by his Majesty and the major part of the Council to the shame of those would have had him sent to the Tower and the particular honor of his Lordship After this came on the Parliament the hardships against the Lords in the Tower did encrease Dangerfield exhibited a new Accusation and a Narrative the first to the Parliament the other to the People The Earl of Peterborow contested for the protection of Innocence and after defended himself and his Master Among other things the Villain accus'd the Duke to have given him Twenty pounds to kill the King and the Earl to have been privy and conscious of the offer The knowledge the World had of the Duke's Vertue and Loyalty made the credit of it to be detested by most of his very Enemies And the Earl so satisfied the House of Lords and the King by his plain and generous Defence as it obliged them to dismiss the Accusation to the shame and confusion of Dangerfield and all those that did abet and set him on And his Majesty standing by him at the time of this Contest told his Lordship openly That for all that had been said he would always trust his life sooner in his hands than in any of theirs who had been so ready to abet and countenance his Enemies In the same day was brought in afterwards by the Lord Russel that impudent Bill of
Anno Regni nostri quadragesimo quinto Per billam Curiae Wardorum Liberationum de data praedicta authoritate Parlamenti Egerton Norr d Coram Auditoribus Curiae Wardorum Liberationum dominae Reginae termino Michaelis Anno Regni ejusdem dominae Reginae quadragesimo quinto 1602. Examinatur per Walterium Took Auditores Examinatur per Will. Curles Auditores In Memorandis Scaccarii de anno quadragesimo quarto Reginae nunc Elizabethae videlicet inter Recorda de termino Sancti Michaelis rotulo ex parte Remembratorum Thesaurarii Charta Caroli Comitis de Nottingham Magni Admiralli Angliae Capitalis Justiciarii ac Justiciarii itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham CArolus Comes Nottingham Baro Howard de Effingham magnus Admirallus Angliae c. Capitalis Justiciarius ac Justiciarius itinerans omnium Forestarum Chacearum Parcorum Warrenarum Domini Regis citra Trentham Omnibus ad quos praesentes pervenerint Salutem Sciatis me praefatum Carolum Comitem Nottinghamiae pro diversis causis rationibus me specialiter moventibus constituisse ordinasse per praesentes in loco meo posuisse ac deputasse dilectum mihi perhonorabilem Henricum Dominum Mordaunt de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae meum verum legitimum Deputatum ad exercendum exequendum occupandum officium Justiciarii itinerantis in per totum illam Forestam Domini Regis nunc vocatam per nomen de Rockingham Forest in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae ac metas limites ejusdem Et ad faciendum peragendum quicquid ad officium praedictum pertinet durante solummodo beneplacito meo Dans concedens dicto meo Deputato plenam autoritatem meam ad agendum exequendum perficiendum perimplendum omnia fingula concernentia Forestam praedictam ac omnia alia spectantia ad officium praedictum loco vice mea ad omnes intentiones proposita ac in tam amplis modo forma prout ego legitimè facere seu exequi possim per leges hujus Regni si personaliter ibidem interessem In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum officii mei praedicti praesentibus apposui Data decimo nono die Junii 1603 Anno Regni serenissimi Domini nostri Jacobi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis primo F. Rich. Bellingham CAROLVS COM NOTING BARO HOWARD DE EFFINGHĀ CA LIS IVSTICI VS OMNIVM FORES VM ET MARCA VM TRENTAM An Indenture Tripartite for the Settlement of the Estate of Henry Lord Mordaunt THIS Indenture Tripartite made the Fourth Day of January in the Year of our Soveraign Lord James by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendor of the Faith that is to say Of England France and Ireland the Sixth and of Scotland the Two and fortieth between the Right honourable Henry Lord Mordaunt on the the First Part and Thomas Lock of Grays-Inn in the County of Middlesex Gentleman and John Rowe of London Gentleman on the Second Part and the Right honourable Edward Earl of Worcester of the most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Master of the King's Majesty's Horse and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council Roger Earl of Rutland Sir Francis Fane Knight Sir Edward Ratcliff Knight Sir Thomas Compton Knight and George Sherley Esquire on the Third Part Witnesseth That the said Lord Mordaunt as well for and in consideration of the natural Love and Fatherly Affection which he beareth to his Children hereafter in these Presents named and for the continuance of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned in the name and blood of him the said Lord Mordaunt so long as it shall please God And for the better supportation of the Honour and Dignity of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the Heirs of his Body as also for the better Maintenance and Provision in living and Portions to be had made and raised for the Younger Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters and for the payment of the Debts which the said Lord Mordaunt shall owe or any others shall stand chargeable for the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of his Death and for other causes and considerations him thereunto specially moving Doth for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner and form following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will leave and suffer to descend unto such person and persons as shall happen to be Heir or Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt at the time of the Death of the said Lord Mordaunt all these his Lordships and Maners of Netherbery Collesden Carlills and Throgmorton in Roxton and the Maner of Woodend and the Maner or Farm of Kempstonborn and his other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Roxton Cranfield and Bereford in the County of Bedford with their and every their Appurtenances Rights and Members to the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to either of them belonging and to the Advowson of the Church of Meppersall in the said County of Bedford and the Maners of Thrapston Gale Ringsted and Raundes and of Much-Addington Luffwick Islip and Slipton in the County of Northampton with their and every and either of their Appurtenances Royalties and Commodities to the same Maners and to every of them belonging and appertaining and the Chauntries of Much-Addington aforesaid and Luffwick-Mills and the Maner of Drayton and all the demeasne Lands to the said Maner belonging or appertaining in the said County of Northampton The Capital or Mansion-House of the said Lord Mordaunt in Drayton aforesaid and the Parks called Drayton and Sudburgh-Parks and one Close called the Great Pasture and another Close called the Mile-close one Close called the Lymekill-Close another called Clay-Close another called the Warren-Close and another called the Horse-Close leading from Drayton-house to Luffwick only excepted And one Free Rent of Thirty three Shillings two Pence half penny or thereabouts issuing out of certain Lands in Barton and another Free Rent of Thirty eight Shillings and eight Pence issuing out of certain Lands in Stanwick in the aforesaid County of Northampton and also the Maner of Clifton Reynes with the Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham to the end That the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors of the same Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments before mentioned shall and may have and receive the full benefit of Wardship primer Seisure and Livery as the case shall require happening or to happen by or upon the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt Which said Maners Lands Tenements amounting to the full third part of the aforesaid Lord Mordaunt's Maners Lands Tenements and Revenues the said Lord Mordaunt doth for that
command all and singular our Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects meet and apt for the Wars within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without to whom it shall appertain that they and every of them with their Power and Servants from time time shall be attending and assisting counselling helping and at the commandment as well of you our said Lieutenant as of your said Deputies or any two or more of them as abovesaid in the execution hereof as they and every of them tender our pleasure and will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of our Reign Willis A Commission for Constituting Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Northampton JOHN Earl of Peterborow Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton to all to whom these presents shall come sendeth Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Whereas the King 's most Excellent Majesty by his Highness's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign hath made constituted and ordained me the said Earl of Peterborow to be his Majesty's Lieutenant of his Highness's County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without And because there may be just cause for me to be attendant upon his Majesty's Person or to be otherwise imployed in his Service whereby the said Service of Lieutenancy to me committed cannot be by me in Person executed in such sort as his Majesty hath appointed Therefore his Majesty hath given unto me for my better Aid and Assistance and for the better performance and execution of this Service full power and authority to appoint assign and constitute by my Writing under my Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as I in my discretion shall from time to time think fit to be my Deputies in the said Service in the said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without giving unto my said Deputy Lieutenants or to any two or more of them full power and authority in my absence to do and execute in his Majesty's said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid all and every thing and things mentioned in his Majesty's said Commission by me to be done and executed Know ye therefore That I the said John Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Northampton according to the tenor and purport of the said Commission have assigned constituted and appointed and by these Presents do assign constitute and appoint Sir Rowland Saint-John Knight of the Bath Sir Rowland Egerton Knight and Baronet Sir Lewis Watson Knight and Baronet Sir Hatton Farmer Knight Sir Thomas Cave Knight Sir Robert Hatton Knight William Elmes Esquire and Charles Cokeyne Esquire to be my Deputies in the said Service within the said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And whatsoever the said Sir Rowland Saint-John Sir Rowland Egerton Sir Lewis Watson Sir Hatton Farmer Sir Thomas Cave Sir Robert Hatton William Elmes and Charles Cokeyne together or any two or more of them shall execute or do by force of the said Commission within the said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid I the said Earl of Peterborow do by authority of his Majesty's said Commission allow and approve the same in all points and every thing as if I my self were there present in Person And the better to enable my said Deputies according to his Majesty's will and pleasure in that behalf I do by commandment of his Majesty deliver unto them and every of them a true Transcript of the said Commission subscribed with my Hand In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal at Arms the One and twentieth day of July in the said Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign that now is Annoque Domini 1640. J. Peterborow SIGILLVM IOHANNIS COMITIS DE PETRIBVRGO DNÌ„I BARONIS DE TVRVEY A Commission of Array to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow CArolus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Johanni Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Sciatis quod cum quidam Rebelles regni nostri Scotiae regnum nostrum Angliae cum posse non modico hostiliter ingressi fuerunt Nos malitiae hujusmodi Rebellionis gratia nobis favente divina resistere ac pro salvatione defensione nostri regni praedicti ligeorum nostrorum ejusdem disponere ordinare volentes ut tenemur Assignavimus vos ad arraiandum triandum omnes singulos homines ad arma ac homines armatos sagittarios in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae commorantes infra libertates extra Et ad armari faciendum omnes illos qui de suo corpore sunt potentes habiles ad armandum qui de suo proprio habent unde seipsos armare possint videlicet quilibet eorum juxta status facultates suas Et ad assidendum apportionandum juxta avisamentum discretiones vestras ac etiam ad distringendum omnes illos qui in terris bonis sunt potentes pro debilitate corporum ad laborandum impotentes ad inveniendum juxta quantitatem terrarum bonorum suorum prout rationabiliter portare poterint salvo statu suo armaturas hominibus ad arma ac hominibus armatis ac arcus sagittas Ita quod illi qui morabuntur seu morari poterunt ad domum suam propriam in patria sua super defensionem ejusdem regni contra rebelles praedictos si periculum eveniat non capiant vadia nec expensas pro mora sua apud domus suas praedictas Et ad hoc dictos homines ad arma homines armatos sagittarios fic arraiatos injunctos continue in arraiatione ut in millenis centenis vintenis alias prout conveniens fuerit necesse teneri poni faciendum Et eos tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi quotiens necesse fuerit ad dictos rebelles expellendum debellandum destruendum de tempore in tempus cum aliquod periculum immineat mandandum injungendum ad monstrum sive monstrationem eorundem hominum ad arma ac hominum armatorum sagittariorum de tempore in tempus quotiens indiguerit diligenter faciendum
supervidendum Ac etiam ad proclamandum ordinandum diligenter examinandum quod omnes finguli hujusmodi homines ad arma ac homines armati sagittarii in monstris hujusmodi armaturis propriis non alienis armentur sub pena amissionis eorundem exceptis duntaxat illis qui ad expensas aliorum armari debent ut praedictum est ad omnes singulos quos in hac parte inveneritis contrarios sea rebelles arrestandum capiendum ac eos in prisonis nostris committendum in iisdem moraturos quousque de eorum punitione aliter duxerimus ordinandum Et ideo vobis districtius quo possumus super fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemim injungimus mandamus quod statim visis praesentibus vos ipsos melius securius quo poteritis arraiari parari coram nobis ad ipsos dies loca quo videritis magis competentes expedientes pro populo nostro minus damnosas Et omnes homines in patria commorantes per quos arraiatio hujusmodi melius fieri compleri poterit venire vocari facias arraiari armari muniri eos sic armatos munitos in arraiatione hujusmodi teneri facias Et insuper figna vocata Bekins poni facias in locis consuetis per quae gentes patriae de adventu rebellium praedictorum poterunt congruis temporibus praemuniri Ac eosdem homines sic arraiatos munitos cum periculum imminuerit in defensione regni patriae praedictae de tempore in tempus tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi magis necesse fuerit duci facies Ita quod pro defectu defensionis arraiationis sive ductionis dictorum hominum vel per negligentiam vestram damna patriae praedictae per rebelles praedictos a modo non eveniat ullo modo pro posse vestro Damus autem universis singulis Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Justiciariis Pacis Majoribus Ballivis Constabulariis Ministris aliis Fidelibus ligeis nostris Comitatus praedicti tam infra libertates quam extra tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatum quod nobis in omnibus singulis praemissis faciendum explendum intendentes sint consulentes auxiliantes Et Vicecomiti Comitatus praedicti quod ad aptos dies loca quos ad hoc ordinaveritis venire faciat coram vobis omnes illos in Comitatu praedicto per quos arraiatio assessio ordinatio melius poterint fieri compleri Si illos quos pro rebellione sua capi arrestari contigerit in prisona nostra custodiat sicut praedictum est In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium tertio die Septembris Anno Regni nostri sextodecimo Per Dominum Custodem magni Sigilli Angliae virtute Warrantii regii Willis A Letter from King Charles the First to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow To our Right trusty and welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow Charles R. RIght Trusty and welbeloved Cousin we greet you well Whereas we are desirous to speak with you concerning some affairs much importing the Peace and good of this our Kingdom which being of more than ordinary consequence will admit of no delay we therefore will and command you upon your Allegiance that setting aside all other occasions whatsoever you fail not forthwith to repair hither to us when we shall acquaint you with the particular cause of our sending for you which is of that importance as is neither fit to be imparted to you by Letter nor will bear any delay or excuse And for the ready observance of this our command these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at our Court at York the Twentieth of May. 1642. My Lord I pray you fail not to make haste C. R. HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord MORDAVNT Lord Baron of Turvey Grome of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord High-Steward to the Queen Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton One of the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the GARTER CHAPTER XVII A Declaration of King Charles the First against the Alienating of the Lordship and Priory of Rygate from Henry Earl of Peterborow Charles R. WHereas our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow by his Humble Petition hath represented to us That his Mother the Countess of Peterborow is seized of certain Lands whereto he is Inheritable by vertue of an Entail of the gift of the Crown and that the Reversion expectant thereof is in us And that his said Mother upon displeasure conceived against him prevailed with his Father the late Earl of Peterborow about the time of his Death to leave much of his Estate to her who now endeavours to have power to cut off the Entail of the Crown 's gift tending to his the said now Earl of Peterborow's Disinherison therein which without our consent she cannot accomplish And therefore the said Henry now Earl of Peterborow humbly prays the with-holding of our Consent therein Forasmuch as we have special cause to tender the good and advantage of the said now Earl of Peterborow and that by act of Parliament provision is made That such Entails shall not be cut off to bar the Posterity whose Advancement was thereby intended We therefore hereby declare to all and every whom it may concern our Unwillingness That the said Earl should be prejudiced in the benefit of the said Entail contrary to the intent of the Giver and of the said Parliament And we will and require our Council at Law the Clerks of our Signet and other Seals and all others whom it may concern to take knowledge of the Premises and if by any means or ways endeavours shall be used by the said Countess or others for a Reversion of the said Entail Lands that they or any of them fail not to mind us of the same whereby no Grant thereof may pass without the said Earl's notice and our more full consideration and express orders upon the same first had and obtained Given at Hampton-Court the One and twentieth Day of September 1647. A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament in the Twelfth Year of King Charles the Second CArolus secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo suo Henrico Comiti Peterborow salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem octavo die Maii proxime futurum teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum magnatibus proceribus dicti
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms
in the Year that is to say At the Feast of the Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary St. John the Baptist and St. Michael the Archangel and the Birth of our Lord God by even and equal Portions the First payment thereof to commence and begin from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two Wherefore we do hereby require authorize and command the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of our said Exchequer and all other the Officers and Ministers there for the time being to make due payment of the said Annuity or yearly Pension of one thousand Pounds on the Feast-days above-mentioned And these Presents or the Inrolment thereof shall be unto them and every of them a sufficient Warrant and Discharge for the payment of the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds from time to time accordingly any Act Statute Provision Proclamation Restraint or other matter or thing heretofore had made enacted or provided to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the One and thirtieth Day of March in the Fifteenth Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal HOWARD Irrotulatur in Thesaurarii receptis Scaccarii Domini Regis Caroli Secundi quarto die Junii Anno Regni sui decimo quinto Rob. Long. Irrotulatur inter Recorda Domini Regis Caroli Secundi infra recepta Scaccarii sui remanentia in Officio Clerici Thesaurarii Clerici Willielmi decimo quinto die Junii 1663. Annoque Domini Regis decimo quinto W. Wardour A Commission of King Charles the Second Constituting John Earl of Exeter and Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenants of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilectis per quidem fidelibus Consanguineis nostris Johanni Comiti de Exeter Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam Actum in Parlamento nostro inchoato apud Westmonasterium octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo octavo ibidem tento usque ad decimum octavum diem Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo quarto abinde per separales prorogationes continuato intitulatum An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum enactitatum existit inter acta ordinaria nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Barvici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes plenam habebunt potestatem authoritatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora ac eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam in aliquibus aliis Comitatibus locis praedictis ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerunt secundum directiones quales ipsi de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem actu contentas specificatas plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parlamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem ac potestate authoritate in eodem actu contentis specificatis Nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus vos praefatum Johannem Comitem de Exeter Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentes nostros per in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae per in omnibus Comitatibus Burgis Libertatibus Locis Incorporatis Privilegiatis ac aliis locis quibuscunque infra Comitatum illum limites vel proficua ejusdem Et tenore praesentium ac virtute actus praedicti plenam potestatem authoritatem vobis damus concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per actum Parlamenti praedicti enactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentes per nos vigore illius actus nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo vobis mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum actus Parliamenti illius in hac parte procedatis ea omnia faciatis exequemini cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo primo die Maii Anno Regni nostri decimo Per ipsum Regem Barker Testimony of Council for the Earl of Peterborow's having been sworn in order to the Lieutenancy At the Court at Whitehall the 13th of June 1666. PRESENT The King 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Royal Highnes the DUKE of TORK Earl of Craven Earl of Lawlerdale Earl of Middeton Lord Viscoum Fitzharding Lord Arlington Lord Berkeley Mr. Vice-Chamberlain Mr. Secretary Maurice THis Day the Right honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Oath appointed by the Act for ordering of the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom to be taken by the Lords Lieutenants of the respective Counties and his Lordship is joined with the Right Honourable John Earl of Ezeter in the place of Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and it is ordered that the same be entred in the Register of Council causes Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall June 30. 1666. My LORD HIS Majesty being pressed by the likelihood of a speedy Invasion from abroad by the united Force of France and Holland and being assured by all his Intelligence That the Dutch have Inbarked in their Fleet now upon our Coast Sevea or Eight thousand Land-men with all Necessaries accordingly besides what they expect from the Preparations of France hath resolved among other Expedients occurring to him to raise distinct Troops of Horse to be afterwards incorporated in Regiments as he shall see cause and commanded me to transmit to your Grace this inclosed Commission recommending to you the raising of them with all possible
expedition And your Lordship being pleased to certifie me what place you will appoint for their Rendezvous his Majesty will forthwith send a Commission to Muster them when they shall amount to the number of Thirty and accordingly receive them into pay with their Officers of which I beseech your Lordship to let me be informed with all speed I am with all truth Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON Your Lordship signifying to me the Names of such Persons as you shall chuse for Officers care shall be taken for Commissions to be forthwith dispatched for them A Commission from King Charles the Second to raise a Company consisting of Fourscore Horse to be an independent Troop Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing a special trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop of Horse consisting of Eighty Common Troopers besides Officers which you are hereby authorized to raise arm and diligently exercise keeping your Souldiers in good Order and Discipline Commanding them hereby to obey you as their Captain and your self to observe such Order and Directions as you shall receive from time to time from us or our General according to the discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Thirtieth Day of June in the Eighteenth Year of our Reign 1666. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Letter from the Lords of the Council to Henry Earl of Peterborow AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship Whereas the present State of affairs may require the speedy Calling together of the Forces of the several Counties in order to the securing the Kingdom from Foreign Invasion the Enemy already appearing with a Fleet of Ships upon the Coast we have thought fit to give you notice thereof to the end speedy Warning may be given for all the Horse and Foot of that County to be in a readiness to march at a short notice to such place as your Lordship shall find most convenient or shall be ordered from hence for opposing the Enemy if he shall make any attempt to Land and for defence of the County And for their Encouragement and such as shall supply them for their March his Majesty hath declared his Royal pleasure and required us to signifie to your Lordship that during the said Forces continuing in Service after their Rendezvousing and marching upon the occasion aforesaid they shall be in his Majesty's pay as the rest of his Forces We are by his Majesty's directions farther to acquaint you That upon serious consideration had of the Act Intituled An Act for ordering the Forces in the several Counties in this Kingdom it doth appear That any of the said Forces have been formerly in actual service for a month or more and were provided with a Months pay yet nevertheless they in their Persons are to appear and serve whensoever they shall be thereto Summoned as by the said Act doth appear under penalty therein mentioned And for the easing of his Majesty's Charge we pray and require your punctual Care and Diligence in the constant Raising the Monies designed for furnishing Ammunition and other Necessaries and the Fines due from Defaulters upon the said Act and to have the same in readiness to answer Emergences and not doubting of your Lordships Compliance with these his Majesty's Commands we bid your Lordship heartily farewel From the Court at Whitehall the Eleventh Day of June 1667. Your Lordship 's very loving Friends Bath Craven Dorchester Fitz-Harding Ashley J. Bridgwater Anglesey Lawderdale T. Clifford Arlington Will. Maurice W. Coventry R. Brown Since the writing hereof finding that your Lordship amongst some others the Lords Lieutenants of this Kingdom have failed to return to this Board a List of the several Troops and Companies of Militia in the County under your care with the numbers of them severally as you were required We do pray and require your Lordship the next Post after the receipt hereof as you tender the Safety of his Majesty's Kingdoms to send the same unto us and therein also express as many of the Commissioned Officers Names as your Lordship can by that time ascertain Richard Brown A Letter from the Earl of Arlington Principal Secretary of State to Henry Earl of Peterborow Whitehall 1667. My LORD HIS Majesty commands me to signifie his Pleasure to you that forthwith your Lordship repair to your Lieutenancy there with all diligence to put your Militia and other Troops into such a posture as may best secure the Quiet and Peace of the Country and render them capable to comply with such Orders and Directions as your Lordship shall from time to time receive from his Majesty of which as of all things else that may relate to his Majesty's Service his Majesty desires to receive frequent and particular Advice on all occasions from your Lordship I am with much Truth and Affection My LORD Your Lordship's Most Humble Servant ARLINGTON The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Foot Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow greeting We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct have thought fit to constitute and appoint as by these Presents we do constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Foot to be raised for our Service the same to consist of Ten Companies and each Company of Sixty Men besides Officers You are carefully to discharge the Duty of a Collonel by exercising the said Regiment in Arms both Officers and Souldiers and keeping them in good Order and Discipline and we do hereby command them to obey you as their Collonel And we do further constitute and appoint you to be Captain of one of the Companies of the said Regiment and you are from time to time to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from us according to the Rule and Discipline of War pursuant to the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall this Twenty third Day of January in the Twenty fourth Year of our Reign 1672 3. By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON A Commission for the Earl of Peterborow to be Extraordinary Embassador to the Emperor for the Marriage of the Archdutchess with the Duke of York CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Quandoquidem nobis visum fuerit pro singulari illo animi affectu quo prosequimur semperque sumus prosecuti Augustam
locorum firmiter injungimus velint dicto Legato nostro Extraordinario liberam eundi transeundi redeundi commorandique prout occasio postulaverit copiam facere unà cum Comitatu Famulitio Equis Sarcinis Rebusque omnibus eidemque simul omnibus humanitatis officiis adesse favere id quod nos pari vel alio Officiorum genere occasione quacunque universis fingulis grati referemus Dabantur è Palatio nostro de Whitehall Secundi die Augusti Anno Domini 1673. Regnique nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Ad mandatum serenissimi Domini Regis ARLINGTON An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy Councellor At the Court at Hampton-Court the Tenth Day of July 1674. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY His Highness Prince RVPERT Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Monmouth Duke of Lauderdale Marquess of Dorchester Earl of Ogle Earl of Ossory Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Arlington Lord Maynard Lord Berkeley Mr. Secretary Coventry Mr. Mountague Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy Mr. of the Ordnance Mr. Speaker THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board accordingly Robert Southwell The Earl of Peterborow's Commission for being Collonel of a Regimet of Horse Charles R. CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Councellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing trust and confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and to be called the Regiment of our dear Brother JAMES Duke of York consisting of Eight Troops and each Troop of Threescore Men besides Officers And we do also constitute and appoint you to be a Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment as Collonel and the said Troop as Captain into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well Officers as Souldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively And you are from time to time to observe such Orders and Directions as you shall receive from our General of our Forces or other Superior Officer according to the Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of February 1677 8. in the Thirtieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command H. Coventry Entred with the Comissioner-General of Musters A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 30. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia ex advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem sexto die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod confideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus super dictis negociis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo quinto die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Grimston Pengry A Commission constituting Henry Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Praedilecto perquam fideli Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Cum per quendam actum in Parliamento nostro inchoato tento apud Westmonasterium Octavo die Maii Anno Regni nostri Decimo tertio ibidem continuato usque ad decimum nonum diem Maii proxime sequentem abinde tunc prorogato usque ad decimum Octavum diem Februarii proxime sequentem Intitulatum An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom factum editum ac authoritate ejusdem declaratum inactitatum existit inter alia quod nos haeredes successores nostri de tempore in tempus ut occasio requirerit emanabimus emanare potuimus separales Commissiones Locumtenentium talibus personis quales nos haeredes successores nostri idoneas putabimus fore Locumtenentes nostros pro separalibus respectivis Comitatibus Civitatibus Locis Angliae Dominii Walliae villae Bervici super Twedam Qui Locumtenentes habebunt plenam authoritatem potestatem ad convocandum omnes tales personas ad talia tempora eas armare arraiare in tali modo qualiter postea in eodem Actu expressum declaratum existit ac ipsas in Cohortes Turmas Regimenta formare in casu Insurrectionis Rebellionis aut Invasionis ipsas ducere conducere disponere vel duci conduci disponi causare tam infra praedictos separales Comitatus Civitates Loca pro quibus respective commissionati fuerint quam etiam infra aliquem alium Comitatum Locos praedictos ad supprimendum omnes tales Insurrectiones Rebelliones repellendum Invasiones quales fore contigerint secundum Directiones de tempore in tempus à nobis haeredibus successoribus nostris recipient prout per Actum illum inter separales alias potestates authoritates in eodem contentis specificatis plenius liquet apparet Sciatis igitur quod nos virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parliamenti praedicti ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate ac authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus facimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Locumtenentem nostrum pro Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae in omnibus locis corporatis privilegiatis aliis locis quibuscunque infra dictum Comitatum nostrum Northamptoniae Et tenore praesentium ac virtute ejusdem Actus plenam potestatem authoritatem tibi damus
as was intended by the said Settlement for a Jointure In Witness whereof the Parties above-named have to these Present Indentures Interchangeably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above-written An Order for the Earl of Peterborow's being Sworn a Privy-Counsellor At the Court at Whitehall the Twenty eighth Day of February 1682. PRESENT The KING 's Most Excellent MAJESTY Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper Lord Privy-Seal Duke of Albemarle Duke of Beaufort Lord Chamberlain Earl of Oxford Earl of Chesterfield Earl of Sunderland Earl of Clarenden Earl of Bath Earl of Craven Earl of Ailesbury Earl of Conway Earl of Nottingham Earl of Rochester Lord Dartmouth Mr. Secretary Jenkins Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Godolphin THIS Day the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow was by His Majesty's special Command Sworn one of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy-Council and took his place at the Board and signed accordingly John Nicholas A Copy of the Oath taken by the Earl of Peterborow as Groom of the Stole YOU shall Swear by the Holy Evangelists and by the Contents of this Book and by the Faith that you bear unto Almighty God To be a true Servant unto Our Sovereign Lord JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. You shall know nothing that shall be any ways hurtful or prejudicial to the King's Majesty's Royal Person State Crown or Dignity but you shall hinder it what in you lyeth or else reveal the same with all convenient speed to the King's Majesty or some of his Most Honourable Privy Council You shall serve the King truly and faithfully in the place whereunto you are called as Groom of the Stole to His Majesty and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber So help you God and the Contents of this Book A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 1 mo Jacobi Secundi JAcobus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo Consiliario nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo nono die Maii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum Vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi vestrumque Consilium impensuri Et hoc ficut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium decimo quarto die Februarii Anno Regni nostri primo Churchill Pengry A Letter from King James the Second to the Earl of Peterborow Commanding his Attendance at the Coronation To Our Right trusty Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Iames R. RIght Trusty and Welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Whereas We have appointed the 23d day of April next for the Solemnity of Our Coronation These are therefore to Will and Command you all Excuses set apart That you make your Personal Attendance on Us at the time above-mentioned furnished and appointed as to your Rank and Quality appertaineth there to do and perform such Services as shall be required and belong to you And whereas We have also resolved That the Coronation of Our Royal Consort the Queen shall be Solemnized on the same Day We do further hereby require the Countess your Wife to make her Personal Attendance on Our said Royal Consort at the time and in the manner aforesaid Whereof you and she are not to fail And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 23d Day of March 1684 5. in First Year of Our Reign A Letter from the Duke of Norfolk to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he should bear St. Edward's Scepter at the Coronation For the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow MY LORD HIS Majesty having appointed your Lordship to bear St. Edward's Scepter in the Proceeding at his Majesty's Coronation This is to desire your Lordship to meet in the House of Lords at His Majesty's Palace of Westminster on Thursday the Three and twentieth of April Instant by Eight of the Clock in the Morning in your Robes and with your Coronet in order to the performance of His Majesty's Pleasure I am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant NORFOLK and MARSHAL An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for Raising the Militia of the County of Northampton To Our Right Trusty and welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow our Lieutenant of our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby require you to give order and take care That the Militia Troops of Horse in your Lieutenancy be forthwith raised And as to the Foot We think it requisite they should be in such a readiness that they may be immediately called together to March or obey such other Orders as they shall receive for Our Service And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Sixteenth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND An Order from King JAMES the Second to the Earl of Peterborow for the seizing of suspected Persons To Our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Our Lieutenant for Our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We Greet you well Our Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby Authorise and Direct you to give Order forthwith for the seizing and apprehending all disaffected and suspicious Persons and particularly all Non-Conformist Ministers and such Persons as have served against Our Royal Father and late Royal Brother of Blessed Memory and for sending them in safe Custody to the Prison at Oxford to be secured there till further Order And for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June in the First Year of Our Reign 1685. By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND Our Will and Pleasure also is That you give order for securing all the Horses belonging to any Persons which shall be so seized The Earl of Peterborow's
Commission for being Collonel of a Regiment of Horse Iames R. JAMES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Greeting We reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty Courage and good Conduct do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be a Collonel of a Regiment of Horse raised and to be raised for our Service and likewise to be Captain of a Troop in the said Regiment You are therefore to take the said Regiment and Troop into your Care and Charge and duly to Exercise as well the Officers as Soldiers in Arms and to use your best endeavour to keep them in good Order and Discipline And we do hereby Command them to obey you as their Collonel and Captain respectively and you to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from time to time as you shall receive from Us or any your Superior Officer according to the Rules and Discipline of War in pursuance of the Trust we repose in you Given at our Court at Whitehall the Twentieth Day of June 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND A Letter from the Earl of Sunderland to the Earl of Peterborow about Marching his Three Troops to Colebrook Whitehall 30th June 1685. MY LORD HIS Majesty Commands me to acquaint your Lordship That He thinks it convenient you should be near His Person and therefore would have you repair hither so soon as you can conveniently As to the Three Troops of Horse which your Lordship so well approves of He would have them forthwith ordered to march to Colebrook to be in Quarters there and doubts not but you will leave such directions with the rest of the Militia as may be most requisite for His Majesty's Service I wish your Lordship a good Journey and am MY LORD Your Lordships Most Faithful humble Servant SVNDERLAND The King's Warrant to Discharge the Prisoners at Oxford To Our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Earl of Peterborow Our Lieutenant for Our County of Northampton Iames R. RIght Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor We greet you well Whereas We did by our former Letters authorize and require you to give Order for seizing and apprehending all disaffected and suspicious Persons and particularly all Non-conformist Ministers and such Persons as have served against Our Royal Father and late Royal Brother of blessed Memory and for securing them and their Horses And it having pleased God to Bless Our Arms with Success against the Rebels so that they are entirely defeated and the Chiefs taken Our Will and Pleasure is That you forthwith give Order for discharging all such Persons so secured who where taken up upon Suspicion only and for restoring their Horses to them But as to those who stand particularly accused of having any way corresponded with or otherwise abetted the Rebels You are to direct that they be continued Prisoners that they may be Tryed at the Assizes or elsewhere as shall be thought fit and for so doing this shall be your Warrant And so We bid you heartily Farewel Given at Our Court at Whitehall the 16th Day of July 1685. in the First Year of Our Reign By His Majesty's Command SVNDERLAND A Letter from the Bishop of Sarum to the Earl of Peterborow intimating the King's Pleasure that he attend at a Chapter of the Order of the Garter May it please your Lordship HIS Majesty Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter having Commanded me to signifie to your Lordship That a Chapter shall be held at Whitehall on Friday next being the One and thirtieth Day of July at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon These are humbly to give Notice thereof to your Lordship to appear there in your Mantle only Your Lordships In all Obedience Seth Sarum Praenob Ord. Gart. Canc. July 29. 1685. A Patent of High Steward and Chief Bayliff to the Queen's Majesty Granted to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow Mary R. MAria Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regina Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quod nos magnam Fidelitatem Integritatem praedilecti perquam fidelis Cognati Consiliarii nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Custodis Stolae charissimi Domini Mariti nostri considerantes Nec non pro diversis Causis Considerationibus nos ad hoc specialiter moventibus De gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus eidem Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Officium Capitalis Seneschalli vel Seneschalliae omnium singulorum quae nunc sunt vel imposterum fuerint Honorum Maneriorum Dominiorum nostrorum infra hoc Regnum Angliae ac Custodiam sive Officium tenendi Curias Leetiae Visifranciplegii Leetiae Honorum Maneriorum Dominiorum praedictorum eorum cujuslibet Ac ipsum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow Capitalem Generalem Seneschallum nostrum in Curiis nostris Visifranciplegii Leetiae infra Honores Dominia Maneria Hereditamenta nostra praedicta facimus constituimus ordinamus per praesentes Et ulterius de liberiori gratia nostra dedimus concessimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus praefato Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Officium Generalis Capitalis Ballivi omnium singulorum praemissorum cujuslibet eorum Habendum tenendum gaudendum exercendum Officia praedicta quodlibet eorum per se vel per sufficientem Deputatum suum five sufficientes Deputatos suos quamdiu Nobis placuerit Percipiendum annuatim in pro exercitio Officii praedicti Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Viginti Libras bonae legalis Monetae Angliae Solvendum per manus Thesaurarii sive Receptoris nostri Generalis ad Festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Annunciationis Beatae Mariae Virginis per aequales portiones Nec non percipiendum annuatim pro exercitio Officiorum praedictorum Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Generalis Capitalis Ballivi omnia Vada Feoda Proficua Advantagia Emolumenta quaecunque eisdem Officiis vel alicui eorum aliquo modo spectantia aut pertinentia adeò liberè tam amplis modo forma prout Henricus Comes de Arlington nuper Capitalis Generalis Seneschallus Ballivus Excellentissimae Principis Catharinae Reginae vel aliquis alius seu aliqui alii antehaec locum tenens vel locum tenentes Generalis Capitalis Seneschalli Generalis Capitalis Ballivi alicujus Reginae Consortis Regis Angliae pro tempore existentis Officia praedicta habens seu habentes habuit percepit vel gavisus fuit habuerunt perceperunt vel gavisi fuerunt aut de jure habere percipere vel gaudere debuit
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
he took his leave and departed home full of indignation against the Times the Nation and Fortune resolving though he were at ease and had made his peace to expose Wife Estate Quiet and his Life upon any undertaking wherein there should be a reasonable appearance of relieving the best of Kings What ensued after this is the King's Story and that of other Men. I shall only relate that after his being at Hampton-Court his escape thence and unfortunate detention in the Isle of Wight the Transactions with the Army and many other Contrivances there came at last to be designed a Rising in his favour to be begun in Surrey of which Henry Earl of Holland was to be General To this there was much contributed in Money and Counsels by the Presbyterian Party and herein under assurances of great partakers the Earl of Peterborow was again engaged who on his part fail'd not to be at the Rendezvous according to appointment in the head of a Hundred Horse well Arm'd and provided that came to follow him out of his own Country But of such numbers as others had undertaken there were so many fail'd as at the Muster and Survey of that Rendezvous it gave a great discouragement to those that did appear which caus'd divers that came in to the first Meeting even of the Surrey Gentlemen after the recess of one Night never to return again The Earl of Holland notwithstanding still in hopes from the great promises wherewith he had been deluded marched on into the Country and the first Night Quarter'd at Darking expecting for the next day great supplies and accession of of Men out of that Country and the City but the succeeding Morning produced no more armed Men nor any change to his desperate condition And being now past any retreat from his Engagement he march'd back towards Kingston in order by passing the River at that Bridge to procede Northward into such Countries wherein he hoped he should find more zealous and trusty Friends But in the Afternoon as he made a small halt upon the way he had Intelligence That Sir Michael Lucy's Regiment of Horse and some other Forces were on their march to overtake and Charge him and by that time he reached Kingston Heath their Scouts appear'd as he was ready to march into the Town The Enemies Troops arriving thereupon he had not time to draw up his few Forces as he should have done but they were Charged and routed in a short time the Lord Francis Villiers Brother to the Duke of Buckingham was killed in the Lane and most of the rest dispers'd to shift for themselves the best they could be able The Earl of Peterborow with Five or Six Gentlemen Volunteers of his Troop had Charged quite through the Enemies Men and were so far engaged That the Enemy being got between them and the Town it was unpossible for them to reach back unto the Bridge or their own flying Party and Night being come on they shelter'd themselves in a Gentleman's House near by and by means of good Guides got the next Night to London where they lay conceal'd in expectation of hearing how and where they might meet with their Friends again The Fortune of the Earl of Holland and the rest of the Party which got from Kingston every body knows and how he was taken at St. Needs and afterwards lost his Head The hopes of this Design being thus unfortunately disappointed and Messengers and Spies employ'd every where to seek and seize all the considerable Persons engag'd or suspected to have contributed to this attempt the Earl of Peterborow whom they did intend to make an example was forc'd to abscond as well as he was able He did it in a Chirurgeon's House called Mr. Lowe by whom he was very faithfully served till by the frequentation of the Earl's Mother the House began to be suspected and there was then procur'd for him a lodging at the Printers in Black-Friars where he lay till a safe passage was provided for him to get below Gravesend where he was received into a small Fisher's Boat which conveighed him to Flushing in Zealand There escaped with the Earl John Mordaunt his Brother afterwards Viscount Mordaunt and Mr. William Stafford of Blatherwick a young Gentleman of Fortune who both follow'd him in this occasion and having presented themselves to the Prince of Wales who was then at the Hague they were all receiv'd by his Highness the Princes of Orange his Sister and his Aunt the Queen of Bohemia and all the Princes their Children with that consideration that appertain'd to persons who were Martyrs for their Service having lost their Estates ventur'd their lives and expos'd all their Friends to vindicate the Honor and Authority of their House and relieve the King out of Prison Winter now did approach and it was in that dead time when the King's Affairs were in their last and worst condition The Duke of Hamilton had been routed and taken the Scotch Army dissipated Colchester was surrendred Lord Capell a Prisoner and Lisle and Lucas Executed In fine to this succeeded the Tryal of the Lords Hamilton Holland and Capell their Murder and after that never to be execrated enough of the King himself and in consequence a seeming settlement of that horrid power of the succeeding Common-wealth At this time the Earl of Peterborow was retired to the City of Antwerp because his Estate being all for the second time sequestred he could withdraw no such subsistance as might enable him to follow the young King as he did desire and the Prince was not Master of so much Treasure and Revenues as he might spare wherewith to maintain such Men without Employment in his Service and the expectation of his remaining hopes lying then in Scotland he was forc'd to employ the Moneys he had to entertain and encourage the Men of interest in that Nation The Earl of Peterborow then being from the young King whom he was not able to follow and in a condition very necessitous useless to his Prince and unprofitable to himself he was advised by all his Friends to try if at any expence he could make way with some of power in England to be admitted to a second Composition His Wife the Countess being an Ingenuous and Industrious Lady found means to obtain it upon notice whereof the Earl acquainting the King and his Ministers therewith had his Majesty's leave and approbation to provide for himself the best he could and to submit to the general Fortune and Condition of his Party He return'd then and after many extreme and perverse difficulties paid another great Composition and was once again settled in the possession of his Fortune In the retirement then to his own House the payment of great Debts acquir'd upon Publick accounts and settlement of his Fortune this Earl spent those years which remain'd between the King's Murther and the Restoration of his Son But upon the return of King Charles the Second the Lord Viscount
Mordaunt the Earl's Brother and the Lady his Wife called before her Mariage Mrs Elizabeth Cary had by much officiousness and many endeavors during the King's Exile acquired a great share in his favour but most of all with the King 's Chief Minister the Lord Chancellor Hide afterwards Earl of Clarendon and having great and incomposable differences with the Earl of Peterborow about the settlement of his Estate whereunto against his will they pretended to Inherit they had to encline them to their partiality in case the decision of any of the differences should come to depend on them done sundry ill offices to the Earl so as at the King 's first Arrival he receiv'd marks enough of the King's coldness and the ill impressions they had taken But the Earl of Peterborow who could speak well having means by some Friends of the contrary Faction to have access to the King soon dispersed those Clouds and convinced his Majesty of the Art and Malice of his Enemies and of the untruth of those suggestions which were partly the cause that enclin'd the King and his Minister to suffer the remainders of Rygate to be taken out of the Crown by which the Earl lost one of the Noblest Houses in the South of England and such Lands and Revenues belonging to that Priory as were worth a Thousand Pound of yearly Revenues The King after this promised proportionable Recompence to the Earl and by the interposition of the Lord Chancellor had given him a Commission for Captain General of the King's Forces to be sent into Africa and to be Governor of the City of Tangier To this undertaking then the Earl of Peterborow wholly applied himself and although from the Division of the Councel which did at that time consist of two very powerful Factions neither of them much favouring what ever the other did propose great obstructions and difficulties did arise unto the Earl both in the preparations that were necessary and in the after performance of several things that were undertaken yet with his industry and diligence he overcame the envy and secret opposition of that affair Embarking the ...... of ...... with Three Thousand Three Hundred Men under his conduct and proportionable Provisions for them of every sort and landing at Tangier the ...... of ...... took possession of it for the King of England and establish'd himself Governor thereof The History of his Government there being too long for this place I shall only say That for the time he stay'd there was never place kept in better order better paid better provided for nor where all sorts of Men had better Justice or Protection It is true Two reasons made him desire to be recall'd the first That his spirit and his endeavours were so limited as that little Honor was to be obtain'd by his residence in that place having not Troops enough to march or attempt any thing into the Country nor Money enough to design such Fortifications or so proceed with the business of the Mole as might render the Town safe against an undertaking Army or the Sea advantageous to a Trading Fleet. But the chief Thorn in his Foot was the Envy and Malice of some considerable Enemies at home who endeavor'd to support an under Officer of his own in his pretension of competition to some powers that were incompatible with his Honor and Authority And they engaged the best and otherwise the justest Prince in the World so to favor what that Officer did aim at as the Earl must have submitted to his Adversaries or encurr'd the last enmity from that person for whom he had the greatest service and veneration that could be Seeing it was like to come to that extremity the Earl of Peterborow desired leave to lay down his Government and return It was so agitated by his Friends as that he had it granted with all the circumstances of honor and kindness that could be as appears by a Letter of Thanks under the King's Hand for his faithful and good Services and in consideration thereof he had under the Great Seal of England a Pension granted him for his life of a Thousand Pound by the Year Upon his return he found the King engag'd in a War that was like to prove very fierce between himself and the States of the United Provinces And resolving to acknowledge the King's Bounties on every occasion that should present it self by the constant offer of his Service he desired the Command of a Ship to serve in that conjuncture and it was granted with acknowledgments for the Example But upon notice thereof among the Men of Quality it was so much and so suddenly followed as it put a necessity upon the King to refuse it to others of as great merit and zeal as could be or to have his Fleet commanded for the most part by Men of greater Quality than Experience This put a stop even to the Earl's pretension But since he could not serve in that capacity he was resolv'd to go a Volunteer which he hid in the Ship and company of the Noble Earl of Sandwich they first setting to Sea from Portsmouth But the Fleet soon returning by reason of the lateness of the Season his Lordship did so too remaining that Winter making his court to the Princes The next Expedition which the succeeding Summer did produce he went again to Sea in good earnest and because it was a Second-rate Ship of good force and accommodation he was order'd aboard the Vnicorn Commanded by one Captain ...... Tidiman wherein he remain'd during that great Fight of the Third of June in the Year .... where to his immortal glory the present Great King James the Second shew'd more personal Valor and Conduct than any other Prince of the House of England since the Conquest who had kill'd by his side the Earl of Faymouth his Brother's Favorite and his own his first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber the Lord Muskery the generous Mr. Boyle with many other Gentlemen and Souldiers The behavior of the Earl in the Ship where he Sail'd was not unsuitable to his Quality and the other actions of his life He encouraged the Souldiers with his Actions and his Words too and the Captain in truth of not too forward a Nature did perhaps more than otherwise he would to hide from his Men the great difference there was between the intrepidity of the Earl and his own circumspection In fine there was nothing scandalous but his Lordship did not look upon it as good Fortune to have accompanied a Man no more sollicitous to get Glory in so great an occasion for that purpose The Earl of Peterborow after his Engagement by Sea had it intimated to him by a private Friend about the Duke That if he thought he could apply himself to a Court-life wherein attendance would be necessary and a particular devotion to all the interests of his Master he believed his Highness would not be unwilling to engage his Lordship in his Service even in
the first and most honorable place in his Court at that time vacant by the so late death of the Lord of Muskery who was Groom of the Stool and first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber And this person did offer himself if the Earl did esteem the occasion to be an instrument of proposing the matter and bringing it about His Lordship that was surprized did not at first embrace it with that warmth the Gentleman did expect who thought to have thereby put such an obligation upon the Earl as might deserve some extaordinary acknowledgment for he was not altogether uninterest'd and had several considerations of his own which excited the appearance of his friendship in this matter But the Earl told his Friend he desired a few days to consider of the business and to inform himself of the nature and commodities of the place that he might see how such an Employment would quadrate with the condition of his Affairs and Fortune having at that time a Mother a live who kept away the most confiderable part of his Estate so as if he had not with the place some such emolument as might equal the encrease of Expence would grow upon him by the change of his condition and application he should insensibly draw himself into such circumstances as would afterwards become uneasie The Earl of Peterborow in the mean time by the advice of his Friends did not haste away from the Fleet as soon as the Fight was done as weary of the Fatigue or impatient of the strait living aboard but staid to attend the Duke to the Court and his reception as he had come out only to wait upon his Highness and to shew a particular devotion to so great a Prince He came then with him to Whitehall and was a witness of the kind reception he had from so dear a Brother And his Highness presented the Earl to the King as a particular partaker of the Honor as well as the hazards of that great occasion who thereupon received from His Majesty very signal Thanks and Commendations Some days were now past during the consideration the Earl had employ'd about the proposition was made him by his Friend at Sea concerning the Duke's Service and indeed according to the information he receiv'd he did not judge the allowances were like to be made him would support the extraordinary charges would arise from that condition So as unwilling to bring a burthensome Service to a Master he did rather desire to make more easie a declension of that affair became more sutiable to his inclination When one Morning about a week after happ'ning to visit another Friend upon whose judgment candor and experience he had a much greater dependance and acquainting him with the answer he did intend to make he was by many important reasons over-ruled as to a change of his resolution and perswaded to embrace the occasion of entring into the Interests and Service of his Royal Highness This Gentleman was a Servant to the Duke himself and much nearer than the first to every part of his Favor and Inclination And having occasions that were like for divers times to keep him distant from the Court he thought by introducing the Earl of Peterborow to establish a Friend who would maintain his interests and pretences there in his absence very usefully And it is true that he had those that did prove then and after very confiderable to himself and many others He did then undertake the management of this accord and acquainted the Duke with the Earl's desire to be his Servant with which he did suggest so many reasons as made his Highness resolve notwithstanding some little dislike of the Earl's demur to receive him with that kindness and encouragement as was suitable to his Birth and Quality There was some little dissatisfaction in the minds of the first proposer and others of his Faction to find the Earl introduc'd and not by them thinking his actions and dependance would prove accordingly But by whom it was they could not guess and it was for some time a secret From thenceforth the Earl applied himself close to the Duke's Service and Interests He attended him in the Plague Year to York and afterwards to Oxford He participated of the Frowns and Smiles were applied to every variation of his Fortune In the Parliaments which did succeed he did not only adhere but appear in all his interests he avoided not the hard looks were given to those that durst endeavour the protection of his Father-in-Law the Earl of Clarendon and stood by his defence when he was abandon'd by such as were fed and cloath'd by the Fortunes and Favours he had procur'd them He opposed the Bill for Divorce of the Lord Ross sollicited by the Court not in favor of that Lord now Earl of Rutland but as an introduction to a greater that was intended whereby the Duke 's Right to the Succession would have been cut off by an act unusual in this Kingdom and esteem'd unlawful in every other These proceedings got the Earl of Peterborow the opinion of being more particularly tyed to the Duke's Service by affection than every one would have had him Such as envied the vertue of this Prince desiring he should have the forms of Greatness in his Service but not the zeal the duty nor the true sincerity that should sustain it The Earl of Peterborow was not a Man to act for him in one occasion for his Service and to betray him in another for his own advantage He was ever concern'd for the Duke in the first place but for his own Reputation in the second And though it is true he would have dyed for the Duke in a great occasion yet it is certain his own honor would have had some share in the sacrifice With these principles and in actions suitable unto them he continued in his Royal Highnesses Service several Years and although he was esteem'd by all the Ministers he had not many marks of their favor who think the dependants upon the Brother and Presumptive Heir of a King rejoyce not over-much to see that power in them which naturally as his due the others would have devolv'd upon their Master However he lived well with all and they with him Though the World saw well by the little acquisitions he made of Honors or Advantage that he did serve his Master with the least design of interest of any person that ever did approach him About the Year ..... it fell out that Anne Duchess of York departed this life and by those that were friends to the Duke and the Government it was thought fit that another should be sought to supply by her fruitfulness the want of Issue Male which Providence to that time had denyed to the felicity of the Royal House All concurr'd in the profession that this was necessary but not every one in their endeavours to accomplish it The accession of Sons like to live would have made the Duke more considerable than
his enemies wish'd that he should be and objections were not wanting from many of them that were in place to speak and in right to be heard in Occasions and Councels of that nature against any seem'd proper to his Friends for his Alliance Some of them 't was said wanted Fortune others were not of Quality enough and there were those that were not bred in the Religion of the Country which in certain Men was not easie to digest At last the good King who it were to have been wish'd had in more things follow'd his own good nature and judgment accepted the proposition made from Spain by Sir Mark Ogniaty at that time Agent here out of Flanders of a Marriage and Treaty to that purpose with the Young Archduchess of Inspruk which was believed would have answered all the objections of Honor Fortune and Fruitfulness more than any Princess that had been propos'd This could not apparently be refused by the Ministers who found the King did himself desire his Brother's Marriage and that the Duke was resolv'd to have a Wife at any rate Therefore the expedient for its hindrance was to propose a Creature of their own one that follow'd the Court and the favor of it by birth a Stranger not concern'd what became of the Succession of England to be sent over in quality of Negotiator of this business This Man was engaged in the affair whom they did manage as they pleased they made him advance it one day and retard it another and at last he did contribute by his skill to so long delays as it became apparent by divers signs of the Empress's ill health that she was not like long to live From that time the Emperor who thought it just he should provide for his own happiness in the first place began to cast his thoughts upon this Princess and his Council for his satisfaction as well as the interest of his House by reuniting the concerns of Inspruk that had been the Appennage of those Archdukes did wholly give their approbation of that conditional intention in case of the Empress's death So that when the Court of England was in expectation of a final conclusion of this Treaty the cunning Negotiator did procure the appearance of it to stop the Mouths of dissatisfied Men and the clamors would have been upon a rupture after a years suspence and chargeable Treaty so as the Duke being then upon the Sea immediately after his Engagement of Sole Bay in the last Dutch War the Envoy at Vienna sent word The Treaty was now ended and there wanted only an Extraordinary Embassador from the King to come to demand and Marry the Archduchess according to the forms towards bringing her into England contenting the King in that affair and making the Duke happy Hereupon his Royal Highness who had long in his mind pitch'd upon the Earl of Peterborow to undertake and manage this great trust not only as the first person about him for his Birth and Quality but as a Man whom he knew could never be corrupted to act or omit any thing might prove contrary to his intention or his service did now declare he should with the King's leave be alone employ'd and trusted as Extraordinary Embassador in perfecting this matter which so nearly did concern him The Earl did at that time attend the Duke in his own Ship He had been with him the whole Expedition and was particularly participant of all the Honors and Hazards of that bloody Battel wherein the Noble Earl of Sandwich lost his life and so many brave Gentlemen in either Party And from off this Fleet it was he commanded the Earl to repair to the King and entreat his orders to the Ministers for preparing Monies Instructions and Instruments that might enable him to proceed upon his journey in order to bring home the Princess had been so much desired At his arrival and first Audience of the King upon this affair he found His Majesty not so warm as he did expect he would not trust the Earl entirely with his indifference but let fall some doubtful words as it were to sound Whether he would comply with more delays But when he found by the steddiness of his Lordship's Answers That he did expect an ingenuous proceeding for his Master's satisfaction His Majesty a little abruptly broke off the Discourse and bid him repair to the Ministers who should have orders to dispatch him with as much speed as the preparations would admit He address'd himself in the first place to the Lord Treasurer who for all his concurrence with the Duke to other ends and enterests by which he had gain'd a most particular share in his Credit and Favour yet he was certainly no friend to this nor wish'd success to any other Foreign proceeding and did comply with if not foment the King's inclination to a farther delay in the affair Whether it was that he would not appear to the approaching Parliament author of a Match of which he thought they were not like to approve or that he hoped the over-long delays would weary the Duke and make him at last content to take up with some Lady for whom this Lord had a favor in the Court at home Certain it is That he receiv'd the Earl's pressing desires for a dispatch with a colder kind of moroseness than he could have imagin'd and in a way as did seem to expect from the Earl an understanding of some thing he was not willing plainly to express The Duke seem'd to believe the obstructions did proceed from the insinuations of another Minister with whom he had long been out upon many other accounts but he being in most things competitor with the Lord Treasurer was glad to have occasion to justifie himself in a thing so tender to the Duke at the reasonable cost of the other and to set the Saddle on the right Horse The account the Earl of Peterborow gave to his Highness of these Affairs brought him with as much hast as matters would admit from the Fleet to the Town And when he arrived the business was so pressed on his side as the Ministers were driven to break or comply with his desires But it is most true That in all the matters expected from the Treasurer he was more dry more stiff and more scarce than was agreeable to the good opinion it was necessary for him to preserve in the Duke's Mind and the Earl of Peterborow was fain to make use of his competitor who had a desire at that time to justifie himself to the Duke and had also much interest with the King to procure from his Majesty upon reasons of publick honor more large allowances than the Treasurer would otherwise have made who thought to have pinch'd the Earl and made his business uneasie on that part for not complying with him in an indirect sufferance of those delays to take place which might have obstructed the Duke's Marriage in any Foreign part whatsoever However those difficulties were
overcome allowances were made for the Earl's Equipage and provision of Money design'd for the maintenance of the Embassie Orders were given for Commissions and Instructions And after the Earl had served His Majesty in Raising for him a Regiment of Foot whereof he was to be Colonel design'd for carrying on the Dutch War his affairs being all in a readiness for proceeding on his Embassie he did on the _____ of March in the Year _____ under the Character of Embassador Extraordinary to the Emperor depart from London on that employment having in his custody Jewels of his Royal Highness's particular Cabinet to the value of Twenty Thousand Pound intended for a present to the young Archduchess of Inspruk The Earl arrived at Dover the next day and under a very fair passage came the day following to Calles where having stay'd too Nights in providing for his farther proceeding to Paris on the Third day in the Morning an Express came to him from the Court bringing Letters of assurance from thence and from Germany too That the Empress was dead and the long Treaty of Inspruk broken off by reason the Emperor was now resolv'd to have that Princess for himself The Earl had notwithstanding Letters from his Royal Highness and from the Earl of Arlington by the King's Command That notwithstanding this he should proceed to Paris remaining quiet there under his own particular character attending their farther Commands whereby he was like to be employ'd to procure a Princess that might be a fit Wife for the Duke out of some other Family His Lordship obey'd and after being settled at Paris he had advice from his Royal Highness That there had been proposed to him Four Wives with whom since it was impossible for him to be acquainted he did command his Lordship to endeavor by all the diligence he could use to get sight and knowledge of them or at least their Pictures with the most impartial relations of their Manners and Dispositions The First of these was the Dutchess of Guise whom France most particularly wish'd to favor into this Alliance the next the young Princess of Modena only Sister to the present Duke of that City and Country the Third a Lady called Madmoiselle de Rais and the Fourth Mary Anne Princess of Wirtenbergue This was a great trust to the performance whereof was requisite both Honesty and Discretion the first To render unconsider'd all the advantages might be propos'd to make partial the person trusted against the interest and satisfaction of his Master and the latter To find out and judge what might be most expedient and agreeable to his true humor and circumstances The first and the latter of these did recide at Paris the Dutchess of Guise at her own House and the Princess of Wirtenbergue as a Pensioner in the Monastery of ....... but the Princess of Modena was with her Mother in Italy and Madmoiselle de Rais at her Relations some Hundred Miles distant from Paris The Dutchess of Guise he saw at Court she was the youngest Daughter of Gaston of Bourbon Duke of Orleans the King of France his Uncle but a Princess for whom he knew the Duke had no inclination she not being only low and ill shap'd but under the appearance of a feeble Complection so as though she had much reputation for Innocence and Vertue her Constitution did not promise a likelihood of either many or strong Children and that end appearing to the Earl the chief business of the Duke and of England too all the favor of France a share whereof he might have tasted from the merit of a recommendator to this Alliance could not induce him to promote a matter contrary to the ends of his Trust and the Duke's Service The Princess of Modena Mary of Esté his Lordship could not see but by the means of a Scotch Gentleman that had been conversant in the House of Conty one Mr. Conn he was introduced into the Palace of that Prince whose Wife had been one of the young Princess of Modena's nearest Relations and there he saw her Picture that had been lately sent thither from that Court It bore the appearance of a young Creature about Fourteen years of Age but such a light of Beauty such Characters of Ingenuity and Goodness as it surprized the Earl and fixt upon his Phancy That he had found his Mistress and the Fortune of England An ill Picture he saw of Madmoiselle de Rais but being at such distance as he could not know her self or have any perfect relation of her circumstances he sought no farther encouragement in that matter His whole thoughts were turned upon the young Princess of Modena with whose Character that he might be the better acquainted by the means of the forementioned Mr. Conn he got a meeting such as might seem accidental with a Gentleman called the Abbot Richini a Man that was employ'd at Paris in Negotiating the interests of the House of Esté and it was in a private but commodious place for such an interview in the Cloysters of the Great Charter-House in Paris After usual Complements they fell upon divers indifferent Discourses and by degrees that made it casual coming to matters of England and the Duke's being a Widower with the necessity of another Marriage we talk'd of Divers Princesses that the World named as proper for a Match so Illustrious The Earl had occasion hereupon to enquire of him What Children there were in the House of Esté he told him only too A Son that was the present Duke as yet a Minor and a Daughter of about Fourteen Years of Age to whom although he attributed many excellences yet he endeavour'd to make them useless to us by saying The Dutchess her Mother but more strongly her own Enclinations did design her to a Religious life and that she did seem resolv'd not to Marry This affirmation was an extream blow to the hopes and desires of the Earl of Peterborow and of which he was forced to give an account together with the esteem and great value he had for the Character that from all hands he had received of this young Princess But after this he was induc'd by the Duke 's particular direction to make his access to the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue that had likewise as has been said been recommended to his consideration This Lady whose Father had been slain in the War and her Mother retired at that time into Flanders of which Country she was did remain in a Monastery of Ladies in company of several others of great Quality And the Earl was introduc'd to a fight of her by Father Gilbert Talbot at that time newly entred into Orders of Priesthood and an acquaintance of her Confessor She was perswaded to receive his Lordship by way of a Visit in the manner as is usual at the Grate of a Parlor design'd to give the Ladies opportunities of speech at seasonable times with their Friends and Relations This Princess who was Daughter of
Exclusion from the Succession to the Crown against his Royal Highness It endur'd a strong and long debate Of powerful Eloquence and great parts were the Duke's Enemies who did assert the Bill but a Noble Lord appear'd against it who that day in all the force of Speech in Reason in Arguments of what could concern the publick or the private interests of Men in Honor in Conscience in Estate did out-do himself and every other Man and in fine his conduct and his parts were both victorious and by him all the wit and malice of that party was overthrown After this Henry Lord Viscount Stafford was brought to his Tryal as the chief of those Lords that had been accused of so many Treasons in the particulars of whose Impeachment there appear'd so many improbabilities in the Witnesses such reasons to render them of no belief and in the Prosecutors so much Malice Interest and Partiality as it was impossible to the Earl of Peterborow for Conscience sake not to endeavour his justification though to the uttermost offence of so powerful and prevailing a party He came to the House the last day of his Tryal and would go down into the Hall to exercise his right of Judicature though he were sick of a Fever from the pain of his Arm that was out of joint though he was perswaded and threatned from it and in scorn of that iniquity did not remove till he had voted for publick Justice against popular Tyranny and Oppression This Parliament after this Lords Condemnation came to be Dissolv'd and the Earl being then no more either of Council or Court retired to Drayton in Northamptonshire where his Master had commanded him to stay till the approaching Parliament was to meet that had been appointed for to sit at Oxford It was about this time the Faction began to prepare for Action They began to find the King more sensible of his danger and their intentions than ever he had been They began to lose the hold they had upon his Mistresses and his Ministers and that the false Minions of his Court began many of them to lose their esteem and be suspected by him whilst he began to harken to honester Men and that were better instructed in the True principles of his Interest and Government They believed the Assembling of the Parliament of Oxford was calculated for to evade their power in London and that at last they were like to find the King not so complying to his own Ruine as they might desire and possibly were made to expect some Months before They thought themselves then ready and ripe for violence they intended to put the end of their Assosiations into practice and a Man of their party came not to Oxford without more Friends and Arms than had been needful for them at any other time Upon noise whereof the Lords and Friends of the Crown did in some measure do so on the other side being willing to secure themselves from insults of their Adversaries if they should be attempted and it look'd in a degree like one of those Parliaments call'd in the Barons days The Earl of Peterborow came to this Assembly from his House more provided than ordinary in proportion to the care and intentions of the other honest Lords And I have heard him say That meeting the King by chance at his first arrival to the Town he thought him better attended and under an appearance of more Resolution and Majesty than ever he had seen in him before The King entred then upon the Parliament and indeed such was his love to quiet and the publick peace as he was ready to have granted more than had ever been fit for them to ask But they were now as it pleased God so exalted in their opinion of their power and interest as they would have all and were resolved to leave him but the empty name of King and without power to maintain that longer than it should seem convenient He was forc'd then and on a sudden to dissolve this Parliament also and to betake himself to their Councels who undertook to make him live without it And so he came to spend at London and Windsor the ensuing Summer Enrag'd the Party became at this and look'd upon him to have escaped their hands by the Art and Contrivance of his new Cabinet and so as by the methods they took for his subsistance he was not like to come suddenly into their power again And now the Faction found that both the Brothers were to be destroy'd before they could attain the power was thought necessary for them so they then fell to the fatal consultations of plain Rebellion open Murther and such other pious Expedients as did suit with their refined Consciences which the Year after broke out by the discovery of the Enterprise of Rye and publick appearance of the Rebellions of Monmouth and Argile But upon the dissolution of this Parliament the Earl of Peterborow went back to his House and employ'd the rest of that Summer in disabusing many Gentlemen of the opinion they had receiv'd of the candor and innocence of that Parties intentions and in procuring Addresses to encourage the King and discountenance the disloyal Faction In October his Royal Highness sent for his Lordship to come and attend him in Scotland which he did with all his Family and with that affection as made it doubtful whether his Journey might not have proved a means to have excluded him from ever returning home again Indeed in this fluctuation of affairs where not only the Court and Council were divided but even the King 's own Thoughts and Inclinations it was dangerous to be so far distant from the Court and many of the Earl's Enemies whereof he had some were very potent did afford him such ill offices to his Majesty as when his Royal Highness did write to the King about any of the Earl's interests he could never procure any answer during all the time of his absence But the Winter wore out at last and the Duke was invited home Those that had least interest in the Council were for his return those that had most were against it under specious pretences But the true reason was They had a mind to keep their Power which they thought his Quality his Parts and Inclination to business would if not at first yet in some time very much diminish or eclipse He Embark'd the _____ of March at Leith in his own Yatcht and attended by the Earl of Peterborow and divers other Noble Lords of both the Kingdoms and setting Sail from thence under the sufferance of very tempestuous weather landed at Yarmouth where with the applause and duties of that Town and all the adjacent Countries he was received and thence passed to New-market meeting there the King and with that joy which was natural to him because he truly loved his Brother above all other things It was from hence he accompanied his Majesty to London but having left the Dutchess at Edenburgh
he was forc'd to depart once more from thence to conduct her home according as he had engaged himself to do In order to this he Embarked upon the Friggat the accomodations as well as the safety whereof was esteem'd more proper for both the Voyage and the Company difficulties having been experienced in the last passage aboard the Yatchts which were esteem'd would not have been so dangerous in this other sort of Embarkation His Highness proceeded then but Providence shew'd that all pre-cautions are vain and let the wise take what care they can the event and success of all things are ever in her power For the Duke had not sailed far being over or near the Coast of Yarmouth when from many circumstances of negligence or ill conduct in those who had the leading of that sailing affair the Duke's Ship struck upon a Sand and in a short time sunk down to rights all perishing in this occasion except such as could swim or had the extraordinary fortune to be saved by Boats which may be thought to have had enough to do in so distracted and divided a conjuncture But the Duke himself was preserv'd with a few in his own Pinnace by the care and Loyalty of the Seamen who would neither intrude themselves nor suffer others for their safeties to expose that of a Prince so considerable His Highness came after safely to Land at Leith and once again into the Arms of his incomparable Dutchess who was half dead though she saw him live at the fears of that which though it was now past she had heard had been once so near After some days stay they together left Scotland for the last time and came together to London where they were received with all the joy honest Men could express The Summer they spent with the King at which time was discovered the first part of the desperate Phanatick Plot divers Accusations there were and the Lord Russel was Tryed Condemned and Executed Many were Imprison'd and a great consternation appear'd upon all that Party The Earl of Peterborow was in the mean time restor'd to his place in Council and his part in the Summers actions consisted in causing Presentments to be made and Indictments in his own Country for examples sake of such as had been of Shaftsbury's Party and appear'd disaffected to the Crown with settling the Magistracy and Offices of the Militia in faithful hands so as by the end of the Year of one of the most perverse and worst enclin'd Countries of all England he did with the pains care and diligence that he apply'd render it the most exemplary and readiest to serve the King of any other In October ensuing he attended the Duke his Master to New-market and was with his Highness at the time when that fortunate Fire broke out which burnt that Town and preserv'd the King and his Brother by hastening their return to London sooner than was intended By which the assault of Rye was prevented and those measures disconcerted which in consequence were design'd to the ruine of the Kingdom and all those that loved the Royal House and the Government He continued to serve his Master with the same zeal and concern the rest of the days of King Charles at whose Sickness and sudden Death he was present and a witness of that tenderness wherewith the dying King resign'd his Dominions and all his Interest to his loving Brother as the right of his inheritance by all the Laws both of God and Man After the King's decease great endeavours were used to prevent the Earl of Peterborow from succeeding to the place under the new King wherein he had served his Majesty while he was Duke the space of twenty years together but his Master was too just and generous not to stick to his old Servant that had run so many fortunes and hazards with him He did then give his Lordship the Gold Key and thereby establish'd him Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman and Governor of his Bed-Chamber The Earl served his Majesty afterward at his Royal Coronation in bearing before him St. Edward's Scepter and after the ensuing Parliament and the passing the Bill of Attainder against the Duke of Monmouth one Evening when his Lordship expected nothing less his Majesty with a bounty and graciousness never to be forgotten took him aside and ask'd If he did not remember a promise that had once been made him to which the Earl replied He had a memory only for what pleased his Majesty who answered He had not forgotten the Garter he should have had after his attendance on him at the Sole-Bay Fight and he should find he was as mindful of old Promises as ancient Service Some days being past the King commanded the Earl's attendance at a Chapter in Whitehall and there caused him to be Invested with the George and Garter after which his Lordship was sent into the Country to raise Troops against the Rebellion wherein he did very exemplary Service to his Majesty and upon his return he with the Duke of Norfolk and the Lord Treasurer was Installed in the Royal Castle of Windsor to all the purposes and privileges which do appertain to the Noble Order of the Garter Henry Earl of Peterborow had Issue by his Wife the Lady Penelope Obrien two Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt that dyed in the Twelfth year of her Age. Mary Mordaunt Married to Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk OSBERT le MORDAUNT a Norman Knight Osmond le Mordawnt Elena Fortis Baldwin Mordaunt Eustace le Mordaunt Alice of Alne Robert Mordaunt William de Mordaunt Amicia de Olney Agnes Mordaunt William de Merdaunt Rese de Wake Richard Merdaunt William Merdaunt Rebert de Mordaunt Ieane de Bray Nichalas Mordaunt Richard Mordaunt Edmund de Mordaunt Elena de Broc Rebert de Mordaunt Agnes le Ejlrange 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 Cheney 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Boys Edmund Fettyplace Margaret Mordaunt John Denton John Radney of Radney Stoak Anne Mordaunt John Fisher Robert de Mordaunt Elizabeth de Holdenby Cassandria Mordaunt a Nun in the Monestery of Elnestow Elizabeth Mordaunt William Mordaunt Margaret Pec. Maud Mordaunt Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Hempsted Anne Huntington Sr. John Mordaunt Edith Latimen Eliz Mordaunt Sr. Willm. Brown Ld. of Abess Reading in Essex William Mordaunt John 1st Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Vere Robert Mordaunt Amye de Vere Johanna Mordaunt Giles Strangway Ld. of Melborne in Com Dorsell Edith Mordaunt Iohn Elmes Ld. of Lilford George Mordaunt of the Hill Cicely Harding John 2d. Lord Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Edmund Mordaunt Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Oakley Agness Booth 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 Strangway 〈◊〉 Melborne 〈◊〉 Dorsell 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 of Oakley 〈◊〉 Booth Dowthy Mordaunt Thomas Moore Ld. of Bampton Eliz Mordaunt Silvester Danvers Anne Mordaunt Clement Tanfield Eliz Mordaunt George Monox Lewes Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Darcy Margaret Mordaunt Willm. Acclam Ursula Mordaunt Tho Welbore of Clavering in Essex Mary Mordaunt Thomas Mancell Lord of Morgan Henry Lord Mordaunt Margaret Compton Catherine Mordaunt Iohn Honingham
purpose limit assign and set forth by these Presents And the said Lord Mordaunt doth further by these Presents for him his Heirs Executors and Administrators and for every of them Covenant and Grant to and with the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley in manner following that is to say That he the said Lord Mordaunt shall and will on this side and before the Feast day of Saint Andrew the Apostle now next ensuing the day of the date hereof at the costs and charges of the said Lord Mordaunt by Fine or Fines in due form of law to be levied before the King's Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common-pleas at Westminster whereupon Proclamations shall and may be had according to the Statutes in that case made and provided recognized and acknowledged all those other Maners Lordships Messuages Mills Lands Tenements Rents Fee-Farms Royalties Courtleets Franchizes Fairs Liberties Advowsons and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter in these Presents mentioned expressed and declared that is to say The Maners of Turvey Carleton Chillington Delwike Staggesden Duckford Jempses Bosomes Stasmore Wilchamsted and Westcotton with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances and the Parks of Turvey and Delwike and the Free Warren in Turvey and Staggesden and all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Towns Parishes Villages and Hamlets of Turvey Wilchamsted alias Wilshamsteed Carleton Chillington Delwike Duckford Staggesden Stanford alias Jempses Bosomes Steventon and Westcotton in the foresaid County of Bedford with all the Rights Members and Appurtenances to the same Maners Lands or Tenements or any of them appertaining or belonging And the Maner of Snelston with the Appurtenances in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham or in both or in one of them and all those Pastures and Meadow Grounds and Closes called Snelston in the said Counties or in one of them and all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Parishes of Lavenden Brayfield alias Coldbrayfield and Harrold in the Counties of Bedford and Buckingham and all those the Maners and Farms of Walterhall Oldlayton Brayfield Coldbrayfield Willen Wolston Parva Woughton upon the Green aliàs Woughkington upon the Green Lavenden and the Castle Maner in Lavenden with their and every of their Appurtenances in the County of Buckingham And all that the Free Warren with the Appurtenances in Lavenden and Brayfield otherwise called Brafeld next Lavenden Olney and Warrington in the said County of Buckingham And all other Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of him the said Lord Mordaunt the Maner of Clifton Raynes aliàs Week's Fee with the Appurtenances excepted in the foresaid County of Buckingham And all those the Maners of Hardwike Grafton and Sudburgh with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances in the County of Northampton and the Parks called Drayton-Park and Sudborow-Park aforesaid and the Capital Messuage or Mansion-house of Drayton aforesaid and the Closes aforesaid to the said Mansion-house adjoining or lying near unto the same And the Parsonages of Denford and Ringsteed And all those Lands called the Assart-Lands in the County of Northampton And all other the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Rents and Services of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the several Parishes of Hard-wike Grafton Alwinkle Sudburgh Tychmarch and Denford in the foresaid County of Northampton to be the Right of the said Thomas Lock and John Row as those which the said Thomas Lock and John Row shall have of the gift of the said Lord Mordaunt with general Warranties for the said Lord Mordaunt and his Heirs against all Men Which Fine so or in any other sort to be levied and all other Fine or Fines which shall be levied of the Premises or of any part thereof by the said Lord Mordaunt to the said Thomas Lock and John Row abovenamed or to either of them on this side the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle aforesaid shall be and enure and shall be taken to be and enure and the Parties Cognizees therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized for ever of all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the said Fine or Fines to be comprised to the use of them the said Thomas Lock and John Row and of their Heirs for ever and to no other use Yet withal upon this Trust and Confidence That they the said Thomas and John shall and will permit and suffer them the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley upon one or more Writ or Writs of Entry Sur dessein in le post to be brought or prosecuted out of his Majesty's Court of Chancery by and in the names of the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley against the said Thomas and John retornable before the King's Majesties Justices of his Highness's Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster to recover from and against them the said Thomas and John according to the usual course of common Recoveries used for Assurance of Lands all and singular or any part or parcel of the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised or contained by such name or names and quantities as in the said Writ or Writs of Entry shall be contained In which Recoveries the said Thomas and John shall appear as Tenants and vouch over to Warranty the said Lord Mordaunt and the said Lord Mordaunt shall appear and vouch over the common Vouchee who shall appear gratis and after inparlance depart in despite of the Court according to the form and course of common Recoveries in such cases used And all the said Parties are agreed by these Presents to demeane themselves either in the course aforesaid or in some other course that a perfect common Recovery with such Vouchees as is aforesaid may and shall be had and suffered of the said Maners Lands Tenements Rents and Hereditaments in the same Fine or Fines to be comprised in all points and to all intents and purposes according to the usual order and form of common Recoveries for assurance of Land Which said Recovery or Recoveries so or in any other manner to be Sued Prosecuted or Executed of the Maners Lands Rents Tenements and Hereditaments or of any part thereof and the Execution of them or every of them and all and every other Recovery or Recoveries to be had sued and prosecuted of the Premises or of any part thereof against the said Thomas and John as Tenants and the said Lord Mordaunt as Vouchee on this side the Feast of St. Andrew and the full force and Execution of them and either of them shall be judged esteemed deemed and taken to be and ever remain to the use hereafter expressed and declared and to no other intents or purposes that is to say
domum Austriacam ut votis charissimi Fratris nostri unici Ducis Eboracensis gratum faceremus serenissimam principem Claudiam Feliciam Archiducissam de Inspruck ab invictissimo potentissimo Principe ac Domino Domino Leopoldo divina favente Clementia Romanorum Imperatore semper Augusto per Ablegatum nostrum Extraordinarium Bernardum Gasconi Equitem auratum in matrimonium dicto Fratri nostro charissimo deposcere Cumque Majestas sua Caesarea rem ipsam amplexus in tantum desideriis nostris obsecutus sit ut projectum Tractatus de matrimonio praedicto olim ineundo per Commissarios Caesareae suae Majestatis Ablegatum nostrum Extraordinarium antedictum jam conclusum subsignatum sit Sciatis quod nos eidem proposito rei hujusce ad optatum finem sine mora perducendae firmiter insistentes nec non ut externis omnibus Ceremoniis solennitatibus ad hujusmodi opus requisitis plene satisfaciamus simul ut quo modo tam in ipsam Principis antedictae personam quam in novos hosce Affinitatis nexus inter nos augustam illam domum jam contrahendas affecti sumus palam omnibus faciamus Fide Virtute Prudentia Meritis praedilecti perquam fidelis Consanguinei nostri Henrici Comitis de Peterborow Paris Angliae Domini Baronis Mordaunt de Turveia Locumtenentis pro nobis in provincia Civitate Northamptoniae plurimum confisi eundem Comitem de Peterborow nominavimus constituimus deputavimus uti per praesentes constituimus deputamus nostrum verum certum indubitatum Legatum sive Ambassiatorem Extraordinarium Deputatum Commissarium Procuratorem Dante 's ei concedentes omnem omnimodam potestatem authoritatem pariter ac mandatum generale simul speciale ita tamen ut generale speciale non deroget neque è contra pro nobis nostro nomine tam serenissimam principem Claudiam Feliciam Archiducissam de Inspruck antedictam solenniori modo in uxorem Fratri nostro charissimo Duci Eboracensi praedicto postulandi adeoque in eum finem Articulos quosvis ulteriores sive contractum matrimonialem prout videbitur necessarium cum iis qui à Caesarea sua Majestate nec non ex parte serenissimae Archiducissae Claudiae Feliciae antedictae vel etiam ex parte serenissmae Archiducissae viduae matris suae ad id erunt sufficienti authoritate instructi conveniendi tractandi concludendi subsignandi quam nomine vice dicti Fratris nostri charissimi proque ipso Archiducissam antedictam vi Literarum procuratoriarum ipsi à praedicto Fratre nostro charissimo in eum finem concessarum iisque quibus convenerit modo forma desponsandi eandemque Principem ita ut praefertur desponsatam in hoc Regnum nostrum Angliae eo modo quo illustribus suis natalibus dignitati par erit deducendi omnia denique ac singula faciendi praestandique quae ad optatum hoc opus Nuptiarum ad finem effectum quantocius perducendi dictamque Principem ita ut praefertur domum deducendi videbuntur necessaria tam amplis omnimoda modo ac forma ut ipsi si praesentes illic essemus prorsus facere possemus etiamsi istiusmodi illae fuerint quae particularem magis potestatem mandatum à nobis specialius requirerent Spondentes in Verbo Regio promittentes nos quaecunque à dicto nostro Legato Extraordinario vi praesentium concludi contigerint ea omnia rata grara accepta ea qua convenerit forma solennitate habituros In quorum fidem testimonium has Literas nostras Manu nostra Regia signatas magno Angliae sigillo communiri fecimus Dabantur in Palatio nostro Westmonasteriensi Vigesimo quarto Die mensis Februarii Anno Domini 1672 3 Regni nostri Vigesimo quinto CAROLUS R. Instructions for our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow going in quality of our Embassador Extraordinary to his Imperial Majesty Given at our Court at Whitehall the Twenty seventh Day of February 1672 3. Charles R. I. HAving for many Months past treated privately and in a preliminary manner a Marriage betwixt our most dear Brother James Duke of York and Albany our High Admiral of all our Dominions c. and the most serene Archdutchess Claudia Felicia of Inspruck by the means of our Trusty and welbeloved Sir Bernard Gascoign Knight our Envoy Extraordinary to his Imperial Majesty and finding now at last that the matter is brought to a great probability of Succeeding by what our said Envoy hath notified to us and the Powers we have given to him for the same bearing date the Twenty seventh Day of January last past and being desirous to finish and compleat the same we have resolved of sending you in quality of our Extraordinary Embassador to his Imperial Majesty with full Powers and Instructions openly and avowedly to demand of him the said Princess in a Marriage with our said most dear Brother and to treat and conclude the same according to the Powers given herewith under our Great Seal and those others you shall receive from our said most dear Brother Promising anew as we have expressed in our aforesaid Plenipotentiary Power sent to Sir Bernard Gascoign to ratifie the same as soon as he shall send hither the Project signed by the Commissioners appointed to treat with him and to transmit it to his Imperial Majesty the Ratifications whereof you shall see exchanged on both sides before you proceed to a final Conclusion of the said Marriage in such a form as shall be agreed on II. To this effect you shall Transport your self with all convenient speed you can from hence to Strasburgh by the way of France and there expect if the knowledge thereof cannot be sooner imparted to you the hearing from Sir Bernard Gascoign that all the Points are compleatly adjusted as is aforesaid till when you shall detain your self there giving an account of your arrival to Sir Bernard Gascoign and the occasion of your stay there If on the one side you shall understand from the said Sir Bernard that the Treaty and Project of Marriage is signed according to our direction a Copy of whose Plenipotentiary Power to effect the same is herewith delivered you then you shall without delay proceed on in your Journey towards the Court of his Imperial Majesty and there taking upon you the quality of our Extraordinary Embassador demand your publick Audience in the accustomed formes accompanying your discourse therein with those Complements that are most suitable to the occasion and the present conjuncture of our Affairs the condition whereof with relation to them shall be herewith exposed to you But if on the other hand you understand from the said Sir Bernard that new delays are interposed in this Affair viz. That the Ministers have not signed the Project in the terms we have directed Sir Bernard Gascoign to do it
vel debuerunt In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Datum sub Magno Sigillo nostro apud Whitehall Decimo nono die Januarii Anno Regni praecharissimi Domini Mariti nostri Jacobi Secundi Dei Gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Regis Fidei Defensoris c. primo Annoque Domini 168⅚ May it please Your Majesty This containeth a Grant from Your Majesty to the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the Offices of High Steward and Keeper of Your Courts Leet c. and of General and Chief Bayliff of all Your Majesty's Honours Maners and Lands now or hereafter within the Kingdom of England To hold during Your Majesty's Pleasure with the Annual Fee of Twenty Pounds for the said Office of High Steward and all other profits to the said several Offices belonging And is done by virtue of your Majesty's Warrant to me directed bearing Date the First Day of January 1685 6. Ro. North. OF THE Collateral BRANCHES That have issued out of the HOUSE OF MORDAUNT OF THE Collateral BRANCHES That have issued out of the HOUSE OF MORDAUNT HAVING deduc'd the Succict Genealogies of all the Houses whence were descended and whereunto were Heirs the Mordaunts that were Lords of Turvey in the County of Bedford as likewise particularly that of the same Noble Family and justified them by the Extant and Unquestionable Proofs inserted all along in the foregoing Works I have thought it indispensably necessary to declare the descents of those Branches also that at several times proceded from the Chief House and that in other Countries upon Lordships of their own have since made separated Families and continued in Worthy Estimation to this day That in case of accidents though very improbable which might conduce to the extinction of the Eldest Family there might remain Lights to the right of Succession for preventing future Controversies and wrongful or mistaken Pretences though it cannot be expected instruments of Proof should be inserted here as in the former they remaining in the hands of the Owners who willingly part not with the Evidences of their Estates out of their power or live at such distance as would make it too uneasie or troublesom Here shall therefore hereunto be annexed the Pedegrees of these Collaterals with all the Truth and Justness imaginable to the end those Gentlemen concern'd in them may know what is their Rank in point of Time and the Grounds of any Pretences they can justly make upon any Accidents may happen for the future The Decent of the Mordaunts that were Lords of Wybaldstone Will m Mordaunt Ld. of Turven Rossia de Wake Robert Mordaunt Ld. of Turvey Eldest Sonne Iolianna de Bray Sr. Will Mordaunt Ld. of Wybaldston Mary de Bosco Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Wubaldstone Eleanar Conquest Gohn Mordaunt Ld. of Wubaldston Eliz Raunstou Matilda Mordaunt Filia Heres The Decent of the Mordaunts who were L ds of Hempstead Massingham Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Turvey Agness Peck Sr. John Mordaunt Ld. of Turroen Eldest Sonue Edith Latimer Will m Mordaunt Ld. of hempsted Anne Huntington Robert Nordaunt Ld. of Hempsted Margaret Pooly Sr l'Estrange Mordaunt Knt. and Baronett Margarett Charles Sr Robert Mordaut Knt. Baronett Amie Southerton Henry Mordaunt Barbara Catthrop Will m Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt Eliz Rowse Sr. Charles Mordaunt K Bar. Catherine Talmach l'Estrange Mordaunt Catlin Edmund Mordaunt Lewis Alordaut Sr. John Mordaunt Anne Risely Henry Mordaunt The Decent of the Mordaunts which were Lords of Oakley John the first Ld. Mordaunt Elizabeth vere John the 2d. Ld. Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Oakely Agnes Booth George Mordaunt Ld. of the Hill Caldcaut Cicely Harding Edm Mordaunt Ld. of Oakely Eliz Sturley Sr. Charles Mordaunt Ld. of Oakly Eliz Snagg S. P. John Mordaut Ld. of Oakely Eliz Pudsey Charles Mordaut Ld. of Oakely Eliz Strozzy Sr. John Mordaunt Eliz Adams John Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt John Mordaunt The Decent of the Mordaunts who were L. of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Vere Iohn the 2 Lord Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Edm Mordaut Second Sonne Sine Prole George Mordaut Fourth Sonne Cicely Harding Willm. Mordaunt Third Sonne Agnes Booth Lewes Mordaunt Iane Ncedam Eliz. Mordaunt Edw Maynard Lewes Mordaunt George Mordaut Anne Smith Charles Mordaunt George Mordaunt Eliz Everard Iohn Mordaunt Sonne heire The Decent of the Mordaunts that were Lords of Hardwick Henry Lord Mordaunt Margaret Compton John Eark of Peterborow Eliz Howard James Mordaut Gostwick John Mordaunt Barbara Ludlous Henry Mordaunt Sonne Heire The Decent of the Mordaunts that were L ds of Rygate Iohn L d Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Eliz Howard Henry Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian Iohn Ld. Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Cary. George Mordaunt Osmond Mordaunt Charles Ld. Viscout Mordaunt Cary Fraiser Henry Mordaunt Lewes Mordaunt Martin Henry Mordaunt Iohn Mordaunt Sonne Heire
divisiones divisus existit aut reputatur fore divisum ex antiquo captum cognitum fuit quarum una pars vocatur sive cognoscitur per nomen de le East division altera per nomen de le West division eundemque Comitatum sic partitum divisum per duos separales Locumtenentes duabus separalibus Commissionibus nostris munitos armare arraiare ordinare disponere regere gubernare secundum formam Statuti praedicti equum esse duximus Sciatis igitur quod nos ad requisitionem tam praefati Johannis Comitis Exoniae quam praefati Henrici Comitis de Peterborow pro praeventione omnium omnimodarum Controversiarum Discordiarum Misprisionum Difficultatum in conjuncta Executione officii praedicti Locumtenentis Comitatus praedicti Ac etiam virtute secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti in praesentibus praesentatum ac pro meliori executione ejusdem potestate authoritate in eodem Actu contentis specificatis nominavimus fecimus assignavimus ac per praesentes nominamus fecimus assignamus te praefatum Henricum Comitem de Peterborow per te ipsum solum non conjunctim cum praefato Johanne Comite Exoniae Locumtenentem nostrum per in dicta parte sive divisione nuncupata sive cognita per nomen de le West division Comitatus nostri Northamptoniae praedictae per in omnibus Civitatibus Burgis Libertatibus Locis incorporatis privilegiatis ac in aliis locis quibuscunque infra Divisionem illam vocatam le West division vel infra limites vel praecincta ejusdem tenore praesentium ac virtute Actus praedicti plenius separatim distinctim potestatem authoritatem tibi damus concedimus infra le West division praedictam 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 performandum seu peragendum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia singula facere exequi cum effectu infra le West division praedictam periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo sexto die Maii Anno Regni nostri Vicesimo sexto Per breve de privato Sigillo Instructions for our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow our Embassador Extraordinary to the Court of Modena Given at our Court at Whitehall the Thirty first Day of July 1673. Charles R. THE occasion failing upon which we lately Instructed you in the quality of our Extraordinary Embassador to the Court of Vienna viz. The effecting a Marriage betwixt our most dear Brother JAMES Duke of York c. and the Young Archdutchess of Inspruck and our said dear Brother desiring us now to consent to his Marriage with the Young Princess of Modena Mary d' Esté Sister to the present Duke of Modena we have thought fit hereby to enjoin and direct you to make what convenient speed you possibly can to the Court of the said Prince and introducing your self there by your Letters of Credence which we herewith send you to an Audience with the Dutchess Regent after the performance of such Complements to her on our part as will best occur to you upon the Subject open unto her our Brother's earnest desire to Espouse the Young Princess her Daughter declaring withal the sufficient Authority you have to effect the same by virtue of those Powers you will herewith receive from us and our said most dear Brother And desiring of her to appoint you some Ministers with whom you may adjust all circumstances as well relating to the Marriage as the briging the Princess hither Accordingly you shall stipulate and agree such Conditions and Articles with them for the payment of the Young Princess's Portion on their part and for the establishing of a Jointure on ours as you shall be more particularly Instructed therein by our said dearest Brother who seems to be willing to settle a Jointure of Fifteen thousand Pounds per annum Sterling Money of England and even to enlarge himself further therein if the value of her Portion hitherto not certainly known to us shall require a better and further secure this clause by referring it and the time for the payment of her Portion to the Arbitration of the most Christian King as a neutral person betwixt the parties in case you do not find it easie for you finally to conclude these Points your self These Capitulations being thus finished you shall proceed to Espouse the Princess in our Brother's name according to the Deputation and Proxy he will send you to that effect and when that Ceremony is over adjust with the Dutchess Regent or her Ministers the manner of bringing the Young Princess hither which we suspect for the avoiding of many troublesome and chargeable Ceremonies she will chuse to do Incognita consequent to which you shall leave to them the defraying the expence thereof as far as Paris or Calice whither our said Brother will resolve to send a part of his Household to receive and entertain her at his charge until she arrives in our Court assuring the Dutchess Regent and the Young Princess too of all possible evidences on our part of our tender care and affection to her agreeable to the quality of her Person and the Love we shall ever bear her as our Brother's Wife Now although it be unusual to send Extraordinary Embassadors to a single Prince in Italy of that Sphere yet we have condescended unto it to honour our most dear Brother's choice of this Princess for his Wife But that on the other side our own Dignity may not suffer thereby you must be careful at your appearance in that Court to stipulate and adjust the manner of your Reception there to the full extent of such Ceremonies as have been given to the Embassadors of France and Spain that have ever appeared there and particularly those given to the Duke de Navailles when he conducted thither a Wife to the late Duke You shall not fail to give us timely notice of all your Progress and Proceedings herein by the Hands of one of our principal Secretaries of State that if need be we may transmit to you our further Instructions and Directions for the better performance of this important Service Given at our Court at Whitehall the Thirty first Day of July One thousand six hundred seventy three in the five and twentieth Year of our Reign By his Majesty's Command ARLINGTON C. R. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster c. Instructions for the Earl of Peterborow
in his Extraordinary Embassy touching my Marriage with the Princess of Modena I. YOU are in pursuance of his Majesty's Command and Powers to that effect to make what speed you can to Modena or where-else that Court shall be and there having obtained Audience of the Dutchess Regent Duke and Princess his Sister and presented your credential Letters from his Majesty and my self which shall be sent you herewith You are to profess to them the earnest desires I have of Marrying that Young Princess and the great Affection I have conceived of her Person and Vertues with such other expressions as you judge proper for the occasion II. Your are to apply your self to that Court and the Ministers there in such sort as to expedit all you can the Conclusion of this Treaty and my Marriage to which end in Stipulating the conditions for payment of the Marriage-Portion whether as to the same it self or as to the times and methods of payment In case you find any difficulties therein you are to refer to the determination of the most Christian King who being a Neutral Person between the parties and a Friend to each will adjust this point to the mutual Satisfaction of both III. You are as a particular mark of my esteem of the Young Princess to offer for her Jointure in case she survive me the annual Rent of Fifteen thousand Pounds Sterling payable quarterly and to be given out of my whole Revenue and to be secured according to the best and most effectual Forms used in the Common Laws of England at the same time assuring the Dutchess Regent and her Ministers of my willingness to augment this Pension according to the proportion of what her Portion shall be judged to exceed it in value by the determination of the most Christian King IV. When you shall have contracted the Princess in my name you are to present to her as a token of my esteem such part of my Jewels in your custody as you shall judge convenient and on the Morning of the Day of performing the solemnity of the Marriage you shall present her with the remainder of my said Jewels as a farther pledge of my Affection and Satisfaction of what you have done for me V. When the Marriage Ceremonies are performed you shall with all convenient speed conduct the Princess at the charge of the Court of Modena to Paris or Calice rather if it may be and for avoiding many troublesome and expensive Formalities it will be advisable that she come incognita But for the better adjusting this point likewise you are to consult with the French Minister upon the place who will be fully instructed therein VI. At the same time the Princess shall arrive at Paris or Calice which you are to signify to me before hand as soon as you can compute it exactly I shall order out of the Officers and others of my Household a suitable Retinue for her to be assisting to her there and wait upon her hither always supposing you will do your utmost to inculcate to the Princess her self and the Ministers there the great inconveniences would follow her being attended with too numerous a train of Foreigners who are seldom so useful here as Natives and are obnoxious to censure upon any miscarriages but because this point is such a one as may be better handled by the French Minister you shall herein use his help VII In all things touching this matter whether expressed here or omitted you are to consult likewise the Instructions you shall have received from his Majesty on this occasion that by comparing both you may be the better guided in what you are to transact VIII You are to lose no opportunity of giving me or my Secretary constant advice of your Proceedings and Progress as well for my own Information as for your further Direction if any new matter occur not at present foreseen Finally His Majesty having left it to me more particularly to direct you the best I can in the performance of this Service so as it may speedily take effect to my satisfaction I cannot think it will be well brought to pass if you carry with you a Train or Equipage answerable to your Character of Extraordinary Embassador viz Coaches Horses Footmen and many other Officers proportionably My Opinion therefore and Direction is That you go Post to Modena by the way of Lyons and Turin incognito with such a Train as is suitable to that way of Travelling and yet with as much regard to the dignity of your Embassy as may be viz. A competent number of Gentlemen Pages and other ordinary Servants as are convenient for you dividing which by several companies they will never be far behind you especially at your arrival in the Court of Modena where it is only necessary they should be seen with you And arriving there you must without delay enter into a Conference with him that is the Minister of the most Christian King under what Character soever he be there and imparting to him freely the scope of your Errand advise with him and use his assistance in obtaining and adjusting for you such things as may facilitate all the ends thereof as well for your own dignity and convenience as the speedy accomplishment of the Marriage and all the Circumstances depending thereupon When the Marriage shall be over and that you have adjusted also the manner of the Princess's coming into France which Journey I think will most conveniently be performed by Sea to Marseilles whither the Gallies of the most Christian King will be ordered to bring her and whither you must attend her it will be fit that then or before you dismiss most of your Retinue least their Attendance may not consist with the figure the Princess may probably desire to take of Travelling incognita or embarras you in the Conveniences of your Journey retaining only as many as will fill one Coach and thus follow her all the way until she arrive at Paris or Calice at one of which places my Servants shall be appointed to attend upon her and then you shall be sure of receiving new orders from me Given under my Hand and Seal at Saint James's the First Day of August 1673. JAMES By command of his Royal Highness Jo. Werden The Earl of Peterborow's Pass from the King to go Extraordinary Embassador to Modena CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Universis singulis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem Cum praedilectus ac perquam fidelis Consanguineus noster Henricus Comes de Peterborow Legatus à nobis Extraordinarius ad Curiam serenissimi Principis Ducis de Modena proficiscatur quo tutius iter illud suscipiat conficiatque rogandos duximus omnes singulos Reges Principes tam Ecclesiasticos quam Seculares Status Respublicas liberasque Civitates Amicos nostros faederatos eorumque subditos quod subditis nostris ubique