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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36794	The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities / by William Dugdale ...	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing D2480; ESTC R16723	3,454,491	1,220

my power as it is Godds to make your Magestye to lyve ever young and prosperous God knowyth I woolde If it hadde bene or were in my power to make yow so ryche as ye myght enrych alle men God helpe me as I wolde do hit If it had bene or were in my power to make your Magesty so puyssant as alle the world sholde be compellyd to obey yow Christ he knowyth I wolde for so am I of alle othyr most bounde for your Magestye hath bene the most bountiful Prynce to me that ever was Kyng to his subject ye and more like a dere Father your Magestye not offendyd then a Master Such hath bene your most grave and Godly counsayle towards me at sundry tymes In that I have offendid I ax yow mercy should I now for such exceeding goodness benygnyte lib●ralitie and bounty be your Traytor nay then the greatest paynes were too little for me Should any fa●cyon or any affeccyon to any point make me a Traytor to your Magestie then alle the Devylls in Hell confound me and the Vengeance of God light upon me yf I sholde once have thought yt most gracious Soverayn Lord. To my remembrance I never spake with the Chancelour of the Augmentacyons and Throgmorton togethyr at one tyme but yf I dyde I am sure I spake never of any such matyer And your Grace knowyth what manner of man Throgmorton hath evyr bene towards yowr Grace and yowr procedyngs And what Mr. Chancelour hath bene towards me God and he best knowyth I will ne can accuse hym What I have bene towards hym your Magestye right welle knowyth I wolde in Christe I had obeyed your often most gracious grave Counsayles and Advertysements then hit had not bene with me as now hit is Yet our Lord yf hit be his wylle can do with me as he dyd with Susan who was falsly accused unto the whyche God I have only commytted my Sowle my Body and Goods at your Magestyes pleasure in whose mercye and pyetie I do holly repose me for othyr hope then in God and your Magestye I have not Sir as to your Common Welthe I have aftyr my mytte power and knowledge travayled therein havyng had no respect to persons yowr Magesty● only except and my dewtye to the same but that I have done any Injustice or wrong wyllfully I trust God shall bere my Wytnes and the World not able justly to accuse me And yet I have not done my dewtye in alle thynges as I was bounden wherefore I aske mercy Yf I have herde of any Combynacyons Convencyons or such as were Offenders of your Laws I have though not as I sholde have done for the most part revealed them and also causyd them to be pu●yshed not of Males as God shall judge me Nevertheles Sir I have medelyd in so many matyers under your Highnes that I am not able to answer th●m all But one thyng I am well assured of that willingly and wyttingly I have not had wille to offend your Highness but hard it is for me or any other medelyng as I have done to live under yowr Grace and yowr Laws but we must daylie offend and where I have offendyd I most humbly aske mercy and pardon at your Graces wyll and pleasure Amongst othyr thynges most Gracyous Soverayn Mr. Comptroller shewed me that yowr Grace shewed hym that within this fourteen dayes ye commy●ted a matyer of grete secresye which I did revele co●trary to yowr expectation Sir I do remember well the matyer which I nevyr revelyd to any creture but this I dyd Syr After your Grace had openyd the matyer fyrst to me in yowr Chamber and declared yowr lamentable fate declaryng th● thynges which yowr Highnes myslykd in the Quene at whych time I shewyd your Grace that she often desyred to speke wyth me but I durst not and ye sayd why sholde I not allegyng that I might do much good in goyng to her and to be playn wyth her in declaryng my mynde I thereupon takyng oportunitye not being a lyttil greivyd spake privylie with her Lord Chamberlayn for the whych I aske your Grace mercy desyring hym not naming yowr Grace to hym to fynde some meane that the Quene might be induced to order your Grace plesantly in her behavyour towards you thynking thereby for to have had some faultes amendyd to your Magestyes content And after that by generalle wordes the sayd Lord Chamberlayne and other of the Queens Counsayle being with me in my Chamber at Westminster for Lycens for the departure of the strange Maydens I then required them to counsayl their Maystres to use all pleasantnes to your Highnes the whych things undoubtedly weren both spokyn before your Magestye told the secrete Matyer unto me only of purpose that she myght have by love inducyd to such plesant and honorable facyons as myght have bene to yowr Graces comforte whych above all things as God knoweth I dyd most c●vyt and desire But that I openyd my mouth to any creature aftyr your Magestye committyd the Secresye thereof to me othyr then only to my Lord Admyral whych I dyde by your Graces Commandement which was upon Sunday last in the mornyng whom I then fownd as wylling and glad to seke remedye for your comfort and consolacyon and saw by hym that he did as much lament Yowr Hyghnes fate as ever dyd man and was wonderfully grevyd to see Yowr Highnes so troubelyd wyshing gretely Your comfort for the attayning whereof he sayd Your Honour Salvyd he would spend the best bloud in bys helye and yf I wolde not do the lyke ye and wyllingly dye for Your comfort I wolde I were in Hell and I woolde I sholde receive a thousand Dethis Sir This is all that I have done in that matyer and yf I have offendyd Your Magestie therein prostrate at Yowr Hyghnes fete I most lowly aske mercy and pardon of Your Highness Sir this was also layd unto my chardge at myne Examination that I had retayned contrary to Your Laws Sir what Exposycioun may be made upon Retaynowrs I know not but thys wyll I say that yf ever I retayned any man but such only as were my Houshold servants but ageynst my will God confound me But most Gracyous Soverayn I have bene so callyd on and Sewyd to by them that sayd they were my Frendes that constrayned thereto I retayned their children and frendys not as Retayners for their Fathers and Parents did promyse me to fynde them and so took I them not as Retayners to my grete chardge and for none evyll as God best knowyth interpret to the contrary who wylle most humbly besechyng Your Magestye off Pardon yf I have offendyd therein Sir I acknowledge my self to have bene a most miserable and wrechyd sinner and that I have not towards God and Your Highnes behavyd my self as I ought and sholde have done for the whych myne offence to God whyles I lyve I shall continually kall for his mercy And for myne offencys to

Castle at Plimpton and to have the Lordships of More●s and Ridleston which were the Inheritance of the Countess of Mellent which she had granted to him as also for the Lordship of Cruke which was the Dowry of the Countess of Berry and of his Fee for which he had paid fourscore pounds per annum which payment was upon this Fine to be quitted Moreover to have a Tryal by the great Assize for decision of the right betwixt the King and himself touching Rumbrug and Langele viz. eight pound Land near Southampton likewise for enjoying that twenty pound Land which was of the Normans and that he might govern his Tenants by Military service and others in the Isle of Wight according to the Law of the Land and Judgment of his Court so that they might do with their Lands as they rightfully ought In 8 Ioh. he gave to the King one hundred pound and a Palfrey for Livery of the Lordships of Reynton and Feltham which were the marriage Portion of Alice his Grand-mother And in 13 Ioh. paid one hundred seventy and eight marks for eighty nine Knights Fees in Devonshire and four pounds and one mark for three and an half in Berkshire upon levying the Scutage of Wales In 15 Ioh. he went into Poictou In 18 Ioh. the King taking notice of his great age and by reason thereof his disability to defend his Lands against Lewes of France whom the Rebellious Barons had then called in did grant that he might retain his said Lands in his own hand upon condition that Baldwin his Son should constantly remain with the King in his service Which Baldwin having wedded Margaret Daughter and Heir to Warine Fitz-Gerald and dying in the life time of his Father King Iohn gave her in marriage unto his great favorite Falk de Breant in 15 Ioh. This Earl William took to Wife Mabel Daughter to Robert Earl of Mellent and had by the gift of her Father the Lordships of Esturmenistre Moreis and ●●dlestune to hold to her and her heirs By which Mabel besides Baldwin his Son who died in his life time as hath been observed he had issue two Daughters viz. Mary the Wife of Robert de Curtenay who had in marriage the Head of his Barony in Devonshire with the Castle of Plimpton And Ioane first married to William the Son of William Briwere and after to Hubert de Burgh Chamberlain to the King who had also in marriage with her the whole Isle of Wight as also Christ Church Which Ioane died without issue This William died in 1 Hen. 3. whereupon his Castles of Caresbrock and Plimpton were committed to the trust of the Sheriff of Hantshire and others and the custody of his Lands in Hantshire Dorsetshire and Somersetshire unto Ralph de Wiliton But the Wardship of the Son and Heir of Baldwin his Son was given to Falk de Breant above mentioned who had married his Mother and held as her Dowry inter alia the Castle of Plimpton which was accounted Caput Honoris Comitatus Devon upon whose death which hapned in 9 Hen. 3. she the said Margaret had Livery of her Dowry by her first Husband Baldwin before mentioned she thereupon undertaking to pay the Debts of her last Husband Falk de Breant by three hundred marks per annum till they should be fully satisfied This Margaret by some called Margery in her pure Widowhood for the health of the Soul of Warine Fitz-Gerald her Father and the Souls of Alice de Curcy her Mother gave to the Canons of Bolton in Yorkshire her Mills at Hare●ode in that County And in 36 Hen. 3. An. 1252. departed this life upon the sixth Nones of October Matthew Paris affirms that she was by King Iohn the Tyrant as he calls him who stuck at no wicked act constrained to marry that impious ignoble and base conditioned man Falk de Breant against her Will of which marriage he says one wrote these following lines at that time Lex connectit eos amor concordia Lecti Sed Lex qualis Amor qualis Concordia qualis Lex exlex Amor exosus concordia discors And goeth on thus That on a time being in Bed with him he dreamed that a Stone of an extraordinary bigness like a Thunderbolt burst out of the Tower of the Church at S. Albans and falling upon him crusht him to pieces Whereupon starting out of his sleep and with great amazement trembling she asked him what the matter was and how he did To whom he answered I have in my time undergone many perils but never was so much terrified as in this Dream And having told her all particulars she replied That he had grievously offended S. Alban by polluting that Church with blood and plundering the Abby and therefore advised him for preventing a more grievous revenge to reconcile himself to that holy Martyr Wherefore lodging then at Luyton he forthwith arose and went to S. Albans and having sent for the Abbot fell upon his knees with tears and holding up his hands said Lord have mercy upon me for I have grievously offended God and his Blessed Martyr S. Alban but to a sinner there is mercy Let me therefore by your leave speak to your Covent in Chapter to ask pardon of them in your presence for what I have done Whereunto the Abbot consented admiring to see such Lamb-like humility in a Woolf Therefore putting off his apparel he entred the Chapter-house bearing a Rod in his hand and confessing his fault which he said he did in time of War received a lash by every one of the Monks upon his naked Body And when he had put on his cloaths again he went and sate by the Abbot and said This my Wife hath caused me to do for a Dream but if you require restitution for what I then took I will not hearken to you And so he departed the Abbot and Monks being glad that they were so rid of him without doing them any more mischeif This Margaret held the Lordships of Pishoo Niweham South-Lamheth Wrokeshale and Christechirche in Dower from Baldwine sometime Earl of Devonshire her Husband and came at last to be the Wife of Robert Aguillon but died not till 20 Edw. 1. by which it is evident that she lived to a very great age I now come to Baldwin Son of Baldwin who died in his Fathers life time In 11 Hen. 3. Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester and Hertford gave a Fine of two thousand marks to the King for leave to marry his eldest Daughter to this young Earl Whereupon all his Demesn Lands which were then esteemed at two hundred pound per annum value were committed to the Guardianship of the same Earl of Glocester the rest being in the hands of Savaric de Male-leone till he

his cheif residence was one seven in Glocestershire eight in Here●ordshire besides the Castle of ●●●fford which William Fitz-Osberne Earl of Hereford had newly built upon a piece of waste Ground and nineteen in Norfolk Being a devout Man he gave to the Monks of U●ica in Normandy two Lordships lying in Worcestershire viz. Caldecote and ●●winton to the Monks of B●c his Mannor of Wrotham and to the Monks of Conchis his Mannor of Leve with the Tithes of his D●mesin Lands throughout all his other Lordships Moreover to the Monks of West Acre in Norfolk a Cell to Lewes in Sussex he gave all those Lands which Oliver the Priest held of him By Elizabeth or Isabell as some call her the Daughter of Simon de Montfort who surviving him became a Nun in the Abby of Alta Brueria he left issue Ralph his Son and Heir Roger his elder Son dying in his youth and Godechild a Daughter first married to Robert Earl of Mellent and afterwards to Baldwin Son of Eustace Earl of Bolein and departing this life 9 Kal. Apr. An. 1102. 2 Hen. 1. was buried with his Ancestors in the Abby of Conchis before mentioned Which Ralph took to Wife Iudith one of the Daughters to Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland and had with her the Lordships of Welcomstow in Essex and Kertling vulgarly called Carthlage in Cambridgshire and some other Lands by whom he had issue two Sons viz. Roger and Hugh and divers Daughters He had also another Wife called Margaret who in 10 Hen. 2. accounted to the King for the surplusage of the Revenue of Welcomstow Which Margaret was sixty years of age in 32 Hen. 2. This last mentioned Roger gave to the Monks of Conchis his Lordship of Weretham in England as also the Church and Tithes of that Mannor with the Mill and Moors thereto adjoyning likewise Forty Acres of Land in Ostenton and whatsoever else he had in that Township He likewise founded that little Monastery of Nuns dedicated to S. Giles in the Wood near Flamstead in Hertfordshire And having divers sharp skirmisnes with Robert Earl of Leicester and Gu●leran Earl of Mellent about the beginning of King Stephens Reign was at length by them taken prisoner But those quarrels being afterwards put to an end by a peaceable composure he had his liberty and about two years after was brought by them to King Stephen and honorably reconciled unto him By ... his Wife Daughter to the Earl of Henault this Robert had in marriage twenty pounds Lands in Bercolt of the gift of King Henry the First He had likewise a Grant from King Henry the Second of one hundred shillings Land in Holcham in Com. Norf. and departed this life in An. 1162. 8 Hen. 2. leaving issue by ... his second Wife Daughter to Robert Earl of Leicester a Son called Roger then of tender years Which Roger in 6 Rich. 1. upon levying the Scutage for that Kings Redemption accounted forty shillings for his Lands in Sussex and in 1. Ioh. obtained a Charter to himself and Constance the Daughter of Richard Vicount Bellomont a Kinswoman to the King and to their Heirs of the Lordship of Alrichescote in Com. Devon Which King Henry the First gave unto Constance his Daughter Grand-mother to the before specified Constance in Confirmation of that Grant thereof which had been made unto them the said Roger and Constance before he attained the Crown of this Realm So likewise of Lands to the value of forty pounds per annum which had been due to him from King Iohn from the time he was Earl of Moreton and then also obtained the Mannor of Saham in Norfolk by the gift of that King To him succeeded Ralph his Son and Heir as I guess who was in Arms against King Iohn with the rest of the Rebellious Barons of that time as it seems For in 18 Ioh. I find that the King granted unto Walerand Teys the Mannor of ●lamstead which was his cheif Seat towards the charge of defending the Castle of Berkamstead Of this Ralph and his younger Brother Roger a valiant and expert Soldier the Monk of S. Albans makes this notable relation viz. That in the Moneth of Ianuary An. 1128. 12 Hen. 3. Roger lying on his Death Bed near Reading in Berkshire his Brother Ralph desired to have some Conference with him and being then distant thirty miles rode with all speed to come to his life But when he got thither finding him speechless and void of sense with great lamentation he cryed out My dear Brother I conjure thee in the name of God that thou speak to me adding That he would never eat again unless he might have some discourse with him And that thereupon the dead man sharply rebuked him for thus disquieting his spirit by those importunate clamors telling him that he then beheld with his eyes the torments of evil men and the joys of the Blessed and likewise the great punishment whereunto he himself miserable wr●tch was destined And going on in their discourse Ralph replied Shalt not thou then be saved Yes quoth Roger for I have done one good work though but a little one that is to say a small gift to the honor of the Blessed Virgin for which through Gods mercy I trust for redemption But quoth Ralph may not those punishments whereunto thou art designed be mitigated with good Works Masses and Alms Deeds Yes quoth Roger Why then quoth Ralph I do faithfully promise thee that for the health of our Souls and the Souls of our Ancestors I will found a Religious House for good Men to inhabite who for the health of our Souls shall always pray unto God Whereunto Roger replied I stand much in need of such helps but do desire you to promise nothing herein that you will not effectually perform And so bidding him farewel gave up the ghost After which his Brother in fulfilling of what he had expressed built a Monastery in the Western part of England and amply endowed it with Lands and Revenues In 17 Hen. 3. upon that loss which the Kings Army then in Herefordshire received by the power and strenght of Richard Earl Marshall and his complices the King constituted this Ralph with Iohn de Monmouth his Generals of all those Forces which were at that time in the Confines of Wales and gave him Maud Castle in Herefordshire which was his own before by right Moreover in 22 Hen. 3. he sent his Precept to him thereby requiring his personal attendance at Oxford with the rest of the Barons Marchers upon the Tuesday next ensuing the Quinzime of Easter there to confer touching those dangers which were then impending from the Welsh But the next ensuing year viz. in An. 1239. 23 H. 3. being signed