more plainly shall appear Which recoveries of the said Mannors and other the premisses were had for the only surety of payment of one thousand pounds to the use of the late noble King of Memory Henry the Seventh our most dear Father by the said John Mordaunt Son and Heir of John Mordaunt Knight Deceased to be paid And after the said thousand pounds were fully content and paid then ye and your joint Recoverers should be Recoverers or Feoffees to the use of the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son and his Heirs for ever as by certain and divers Covenants in certain Indentures specified between Giles Dawbeny late Lord Dawbeny for the part of our said dearest Father of the one party and the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son of the other party made the xxth day of January the year of the Reign of our said Father the twenty second more plainly may appear Of the which sum of a thousand pounds four hundred pounds were paid to the use of our said Father to John Heyron Knight late Treasurer of the Chamber of our said Father by the said John Mordaunt the Son And we for certain Causes and Considerations us moving have remised and pardoned two hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds to the same Sir John Mordaunt the Son And one hundred pounds parcel of the said thousand pounds the said Sir John Mordaunt the Son hath paid to Sir Harry Wyat Knight Treasurer of our Chamber to our use And for three hundred pounds residue of the said thousand pounds the same John Mordaunt the Son by the name of John Mordaunt Knight is bounden by several Obligations to certain persons to our use for the sure payment of the same three hundred pounds to be paid to our use as by the same several Obligations thereof made and remaining with the same Sir Harry Wyat to our use it may appear Wherefore we signifie unto you that our Pleasure is and we will and Command you that ye without any delay do seal the said two Releases and deliver them as your Deeds to the bringer of them to the use of the said Sir John the Son And these our Letters Signed with our Hand and Sealed with our Seal shall be your sufficient Warrant and discharge in that behalf Yeven under our Signet at our Mannor of Greenwich the _____ A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of DRAYTON Justified by Ancient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Drayton were Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules Of the Name Original Descent Possessions Alliances and Arms of the House of Drayton THE Mannor of Drayton being one of the fairest and most Noble of the Country wherein it lies both for its Commodities Situation and the Royalties belonging thereunto was in the dayes of those Kings that did precede the Conquest among the Possessions of one Oswinus a famous Saxon. But upon the distribution of the Lands acquired by King William it became part of the Estate of Aubrey de Vere who first Entred England with that Prince From this Earl Aubrey the Elder for so he was termed the Lordship of Drayton did descend to Earl Aubrey the Second who was Father to the first Earl of Oxford Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England and from him it was given in Partage as a Foundation of his Fortune to Robert his second Son with the Lordships of Adington the greater and the less as likewise the Lands he held in Twyvell of the Abbey of Thorney and other fair possessions This Mannor and Lordship consisted at that time of a fair ancient Castle encompassed with four large high Walls Embattailed round with such Fortifications as were necessary both for resistance and offence It had as parcels thereof very useful Demesnes a Park a Warren and flourishing Woods besides the Villages of Luffwick Islip Slipton and certain Lands in the Parishes of Aldwinkle and Tichmarsh in each of which the Lords had Courts of their own the Advowsons of the three Churches belonging thereunto with free Warren upon all those Lands and free Fishing for a long Tract upon the River of Avon To this Robert de Vere Lord of Drayton did succeed Sir Henry de Vere who left his Inheritance to Sir Walter de Vere his Son who from the Excellency of the place and his great love thereunto did assume the Name thereof to remain to him and his Posterity ever after A thing in those days very usual as may be instanced in several Examples too long for this Occasion This Sir Walter de Vere having among other Heroes of that time design'd his Application to the Holy War took for his Arms as a mark of his Intention Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules which was afterwards constantly born by the Successors of this Family and under that same Name and Ensign did flourish a fair Posterity of several Noble Knights which upon this Lordship of Drayton did long live in much honour and opulency in possession of that Noble Mannor with other Lands in Sudborow in Brigstock and in Irtlingborow in the County of Northampton of fair possessions in Luton and Flamstead in Bedfordshire of the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Stoke-Goldington in the County of Huntingdon and of the Lordship of Southnewenton in Oxfordshire Their Alliances were not less Illustrious than their Original they having been contracted with the Houses of Bassett and de la Zouch of the great and ancient Baronage and other Families famous for high Actions and the faithful Service of their Princes This Lordship notwithstanding with its Name and Arms came afterwards to be incorporate into the House of Greene and by them as to what is most remarkable through a fatal revolution of humane things after near four hundred years unto the Original Veres again by Isabella Greene who being Married to Sir Richard Vere that was Lord of Thrapston and Adington and descended from Robert Brother of that Walter we first mentioned by the Issue which she brought Created such a Title as for default of Posterity from Constance Countess of Wiltshire the Daughter of the last Sir Henry Green the Lordship of Drayton came to Elizabeth Grandchild of this Richard Vere and by her to the Mordaunts that were descended from her Sir WALTER of DRAYTON Lord of Drayton Luffwick Islip Addington Twyvell and other Lands and Lordships WAlter de Vere the eldest Son of Henry the Son of Robert that was second Son of Aubrey Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of England being then very young and in the Life-time of Sir Henry his Father did attend King Richard the First into the Holy Land and on that Occasion assum'd for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrail'd Gules After he had there won his Spurs by divers generous Actions and received the Honour of Knighthood at the hand of that victorious King he returned home with several Companions of that
Gules to him and his posterity ever after In the first mention of this Family we find it in a very flourishing condition possessed of the Mannor of Buckton from which the Lords thereof did take their usual style as also of the Lordships of Hey-borne Heydmoncourt Dodington Ashby Mares and Greenes Norton the latter whereof was held by particular obligation of holding up the Lord's right hand towards the King upon Christmas day whereever he should be at that time in England And of these was Lord Sir Thomas of Buckton or Sir Thomas Greene of Buckton who lived in the Reign of King Edward the First Of these Greenes we find divers to have been qualified from their riches their power and the esteem they held for the principal employments in the Countries where they lived One Sir Thomas Greene being recorded to have been High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the third year of King Edward the Third an age when that Office was not as in these days but esteemed equal even to the care of Princes His Son Sir Henry Greene came nearer to the Throne He was employed in the gravest actions of State He had been a Councellour to the famous King Edward the Third and came at last to be Lord Chief Justice of England There was another even a second Son to this Chief Justice Sir Henry Greene of Drayton who came to try all the vicissitudes within the power of fortune that in his time had been an object of the nearest favour and confidence of a great King that had participated of the Honours the delights and riches of the Courts and came at last to be overwhelmed and to lose his life in the disasters of an unhappy Master There were also of these Greenes that from the examples of others came to understand the happiness of retired lives that giving themselves to the practice of Oeconomical Virtues became repairers of those ruines which ambition and unquietness do often make in well establisht fortunes and that became afterwards famous for extraordinary Wealth and Prudence and to deserve the following characters from the Learn Camden in his description of Britain Page 237. writing of Northamptonshire Magis ad ortum viculis omnia sunt aspersa inter quos nominatissimi sunt Blisworth sedes Wakorum qui ex illustri illa prosapia Baronum de Wake Estotevile enati Pateshull quae clarissimae quondam familiae nomen fecit Greenes Norton à Greenis viris superiori seculo ob opes clarissimis denominata antea nisi me fallo Norton Dany quòd tenebatur in Capite à Rege per servitium levandi manum dextram erga regem annuatim in die natalis Domini ubicunque fuerit in Anglia And again Pag. 239. Inde Adington olim Verorum Thorpston vulgo Thrapston Alluit huicque appositum Drayton aedes superiori seculo Henrici Greene postea per filiam ejus Johannis Edwardi Stafford Comitum Wiltoniae nunc verò Baronis Mordaunt ad quem à Greenis maximi nominis in hoc agro nobilibus haereditariò devenit Among the other advantages of this House the great blood of which it was participant did honour it very much it having had the fortune to ally it self to the great Houses of Stafford de la Zouch Mauduit Talbot Ferrers of Chartley and Rosse all of the illustrious and old Nobility But at last coming to the fortune of all transitory things it concluded in another Sir Henry Greene who dying without Issue male the Arms blood and inheritance of this Family came by a Daughter to the Veres that were Lords of Adington and from them by another Heir to the present Earl of Peterborow Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships A Knight of this Family named Sir Thomas Greene that was Lord of Buckton and other fair Possessions flourished in the County of Northampton about the beginning of King Edward the First We find him recited in an antient Catalogue of the Knights who followed that King in his first expedition against the Scots The Name of his Wife does not appear but he had Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton THomas of Buckton who was indeed Sir THOMAS GREENE of Buckton is recorded to have been High Sheriff for the County of Northampton in the fifth year of Edward the Third an Office that unto those days had been of great trust and reputation and was justly esteemed honos sine onere He Married Lucie the Daughter of Eudo or Ivon de la Zouch and of Millesent one of the Sisters and Heirs of George de Cantelupe Lord of Abergavenny with whom he had in free Marriage nine Messuages one Toft and four Virgates of Land with their appurtenances in Harringworth which House of de la Zouch was lineally descended from the famous Alan who was once Earl and Soveraign of Little Britain He had after her decease to his second Wife Christian of Ireby Children by his first Wife Sir Henry Greene. By his second Wife Nicholas Greene who Married one of the Heirs of Bruce of Exton THE first mention that we find of this Sir HENRY GREENE was upon an occasion where in the Reign of King Edward the Third he was joyned a Commissioner with the Earl of Oxford to examine certain abuses whereof there was great complaint in the Diocese of Canterbury He was much employed and in special trust and authority under those Ministers the King left to govern the Land here during his absence in all the long Wars he made in France and in the thirty fourth year of his Reign he was sent with Sir William Shardshall a man of great credit in those days to enquire into that great cause of Thomas Lild the turbulent Bishop of Ely against whom the Lady Wake of Lydell the Kings nearest Cousin and a Princess of great merit and interest did complain for the murther of her Servant William Holmes and other misdemeanors About this time the testimony he had given during a long service of his integrity wisdom and great abilities did occasion his advancement to the Office of Lord Chief Justice of England He was Speaker of the House of Lords in the two Parliaments of the thirty sixth and thirty seventh of the same King's Reign He became at last of the King 's nearest Councels and such was his good fortune and the effects of the worthy and industrious endeavours of his life as made the Estate he left to his Posterity one of the most considerable in that Age He dying possessed of his antient Mannor of Buckton Greenes Norton East Neaston Heydmoncourt Heyborne Ashby Mares and Dodington with Lands in Whittlebury Paulespery Pisford and Northampton the Lordships of Drayton Luffwick Islip Slipton Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Boteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottingham Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places full of years riches and estimation in the forty third year of King Edward the Third
bullis de exemptionibus duntaxat exceptis Ac etiam pardonavimus remisimus relaxavimus eidem Henrico omnimodos fines adjudicatos amerciamenta exitus forisfactos relevia scutagia ac omnimoda debita compota praestita arreragia firmarum compotorum Nobis ante octavum diem Julii Anno Regni nostri vicesimo sexto qualitercunque debita pertinentia Necnon omnimodas actiones demandas quas Nos solus vel Nos conjunctim cum aliis personis vel alia persona habemus seu habere poterimus versus ipsum Henricum pro aliquibus hujusmodi finibus amerciamentis exitibus releviis scutagiis debitis compotis praestitis arreragiis ante eundem octavum diem Julii Nobis debitis ac etiam Utlagariis in ipsum Henricum promulgatis pro aliqua causarum supradictarum omnimodis debitis compotis Nobis debitis pertinentibus quae vigore literarum nostrarum Patentium seu brevium nostrorum de magno vel privato Sigillo aut per estallamenta sive assignationes respectuata existunt omnino exceptis Et quòd praesens pardonatio nostra quoad praemissa seu aliquod praemissorum non cedat in dampnum praejudicium vel derogationem alicujus alterius personae quà m personae nostrae duntaxat nec quòd praesens pardonatio nostra nec aliqua hujusmodi pardonatio nostra ad aliquos magnos computantes nostros qui nunc sunt vel qui nuper fuerunt videlicet ad Thesaurarium Cales Hospitii nostri Vitellarios Cales Camerarios Cestriae North Walliae South Walliae Custodes Gardrobae Hospitii nostri aut Custodes magnae Gardrobae nostrae aut Custodes sive Clericos operationum nostrarum Constabularios Burdegales Thesaurarium terrae nostrae Hiberniae receptores Ducatus nostri Lancastriae Ducatus nostri Cornubiae tam generales quà m particulares quo ad aliqua hujusmodi officia sua seu hujusmodi occupationes suas aut alicujus earundem tangentia ullo modo se extendat In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium quarto decimo die Octobris Anno Regni nostri tricesimo quarto Kirkeham Per ipsum Regem Indentura inter Ducem Buckinghamiae Henricum Greene pro maritagia Constanciae filiae praedicti Henrici THIS Indenture made the nineteenth day of January in the yere of the Reigne of King Henry the Sixth after the Conquest the six and thirtieth between the high and myghty Prynce Humfrey Duc of Buks on that oon partie and Henry Greene Squyer on that othir partie Witnesseth That it is accorded and agreed between the said parties in the fourme that followeth that is to wite That John oon of the Sonnes of the said Duc shall by the grace of God wedde and take to wyfe Constance Doughter and heire apparant to the said Henry Greene before the fest of Lammasse next comyng and the said Constance shall take to Husband the said John byfore the same fest and the said Duc shall bere all the costes of the same Mariage And the said Duc graunteth by these presents for the said mariage to be had in the fourme aforesaid that he shall make or doo to be made before the fest of the Nativite of Seynt John Baptiste next comyng to William Katesby Knyght Henry Greene Squyer Thomas Littilton Thomas Bylling Serjaunts of Law Thomas Wake Squyer Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford a sufficient and lawful Estate in and of Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the yearly value of four hundred marks over all maner charges and repryses the ordinarie charges of ordinarie officers onely except to have to theyme and to theire heirs for evermore And the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe shall before the said fest of Seynt John by Fine to be rered in the Kyngs Courte at the costes of the said Duc between theyme and the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford beying seised of the same Manoirs Londs and Tenements before the said feoffament made to theyme knowlage the same Monoirs Londs and Tenements to be the right of the said William Catesby as tho that the same William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William have of the yeft of the said Duc and my Lady his wyfe And the same Duc and my Lady and the heirs of my said Lady shall warant the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said William Henry Thomas Thomas Thomas Robert and William and to the heirs of the said Willam Catesby for evermore Item The said Duc shall doo and cause Humfrey his sonne and heire apparaunt by his dede sufficient in Law enrolled in the Kyngs Courte of Record to ratefye and confirme the state of the said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford and to the heirs of oon of theyme accordyng to the said fyne of and in the Londs and Tenements comprised in the same fyne with a clause of Warantie according to the same Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements shall graunte sufficiently by theire dede to suche persones as the said Henry Greene shall name an annuyte of three hundred markes goying oute of all the said Londs and Tenements to be perceyved for terme of the lyfes of Margaret wyfe to the said Henry John and Constance and everyche of theyme longest lyvyng the same annuyte to begynne to be levable at suche tymes as the same John and Constance or outher of theyme or any outher by the sturringe excitation or commandemente of theyme or of outher of theyme durynge the lyfe of the said John or elles the said Constance after the decesse of the said John beyng not relyvered to her said Fader as is hereafter writen disturbe or interrupte in any wise after the deth of the said Henry the Estates made or to be made by the said Henry or by other at his desire to the said Margaret his wyfe or to other his servants for terme of theire lyfes of three hundred markes worth land by yere beneth excepted or any part thereof or elles disturbe or interrupte the last will of the said Henry to be made by hyme of Londs by hyme purchased or to be purchased or of his movable goodes and if noe suche disturbance or interruption be the said graunte to be voide Item The said William Catesby Henry Greene Thomas Littilton Thomas Billyng Thomas Wake Robert Tanfeld and William Cumberford soe being seised of the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements after the said graunte of Annuyte and within three monethes after the said mariage had shall make Estate by dede endented of all the said Manoirs Londs and Tenements to the said Duc to have to him for terme of his lyfe withoute impechment of waste the remayndre thereof after his decesse to the
in contrarium factis editis sive ordinatis non obstantibus In cujus rei testimonium c. Sub Sigillo Magno An Indenture septipartite between Edward Duke of Buckingham and the Coheirs of Greene and Vere THis Indenture septipartite made the second Day of September in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Between the Right Noble Prince Edward Duke of Buckingham Earl of Herford Stafford and Northampton on the one partie Margaret Countesse of Wiltes late Wife of Edward late Earl of Wiltes on the second partie Thomas Cheyne of Artlingburgh Knight and Elizabeth his Wife Daughter and Heir of Margery Hodleston Daughter and oon of the Heirs of John Greene and Sister and oon of the Heirs of Herry Greene late Lord of Drayton in the County of Northampton on the third partie Richard Gilford Knight Comptroller of the Kings most honourable Houshold Garden of Audre youngest Daughter of Henry Vere late of Great Addington in the County of Northampton Esquire Son and Heir of Isabell Daughter and another of the Heirs of the said John Greene and Sister and another of the Heirs of the said Herry Greene on the fourth part Alice Lady Fits Hugh late the Wife of William Fits Hugh Knight Lord Fits Hugh Garden of Constance the third Daughter of the said Harry Vere now married to John Parre on the fifth Partie John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford oon of the Kings Sergeants at Law Garden of Elizabeth first and eldest Daughter of the said Harry Vere and married to John Mordaunt Son and Heir Apparent of the same John Mordaunt of the sixth partie And the same John Mordaunt Garden alsoe of Amye second Daughter of the same Henry Vere now married to Robert Mordaunt second Son to the same John Mordaunt the Fader of the seventh partie Witnesseth That where upon Communication and Agreement of Marriage had and concluded between Edward late Earl of Wiltes and the said Margaret Countesse of Wiltes It was fully covenanted bargained and agreed That the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the same late Earl of suche yerely value as Sir Reynald Grey Knight would name And alsoe such other as the said Sir Reynald would name And after the said Sir Reynald by the assent and agreement of the said late Earl named that the said Countesse should have in Joynture for terme of her life Mannors Lands and Tenements of the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes to the yearly value of three hundred Marks above all Charges and after the same naming a Youes was made to the same Edward and Margaret and to other persons for terme of life of the same Margaret to the use and behoof of the same Margaret of the Mannors of Newton Blosmavile Clifton Watershall Brafeld and Policote in the County of Bucks Sutton Peggislond Botellis Tracies and Stamford-rivers in the County of Essex Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the Right Noble Prince Humphrey Duke of Bucks Aile to the said Edward late Earl of Wiltes and bene of the yearely value of one hundred twenty one Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And towards the recompence of the residue of the said Joynture the said Edward late Earl and Margaret and other had Estate of the Mannors of Wamiden Empton and Moche Wolston in the County of Bucks and Chalton in the County of Bedford Which Mannors Lands and Tenements were sometimes of the said Herry Greene and be of the yerely value of forty one Pounds ten Shillings eleven Pence All which Mannors Lands and Tenements as well such as were late of the sayd late Duke of Bucks as of the sayd Herry extend to the yerely value of one hundred sixty three Pounds fower Shillings and three Pence And soe the sayd Margaret now Countesse lacked of her Joynture to her belonging by reason of the same Covenant Bargain and Agreement thirty six Pounds fifteen Shillings nine Pence And whereas after that the sayd Earl in his life for the tender favour and love which he had to the sayd Edward now Duke of Buckingham was in very mind and fully agreed that the sayd Joynture Lands and Tenements that were of the Inheritance of the sayd Duke of Bucks should be changed and that the sayd Margaret now Countesse should have in recompence of them other Mannors Lands and Tenements that were of the same Herry Greene of like value And where Estate was made to Robert Wittelbury William Merbury Esquires Robert Bayston Clerk Thomas Montague John Freman and one John Feld Clerk now dead of and in the Mannors of Raunds Ringstede Cotes Stawike Luffwike Sudburgh and Harringworth in the County of Northampton Emton and Mochewolston in the County of Bucks Chalton in the County of Bedford Warmester Westbury Grately Dichrich in the Countye of Wiltes and Southampton Buckworth in the County of Huntington and Combton in the County of Cambridge and of all other Lands and Tenements which sometime were of the sayd Constance late Wife of John late Earl of Wiltes and Moder to the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes in the sayd Countyes of Northampton Wiltes Southampton Bedford Bucks Huntington and Cambridge To have to them and to their Heirs for ever to the use of the said Edward late Earl and of his Heirs And where alsoe Estate was before that made of and in the said Mannors of Wamiden Emton Mochewolston and Chalton in the Countyes of Bedford and Bucks and of divers other Lands and Tenements in the same Countyes the which late were of the sayd Harry Greene to the sayd Edward and Margaret then his Wife Johane Vicountesse Lesle John Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire Thomas Kebell one of the Kings Sergeants at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Humphrey Connesby Thomas Frowike Sergeants at Law John Tichbourne John Smith John Gardiner Thomas Bayall and Thomas Haywode To have to them for terme of life of the sayd Margaret the Remainder thereof to the right Heirs of the sayd Edward late Earl of Wiltes And of the residue of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements whereof the sayd Robert Wittelbury and his Cofeffez were infeossed they were satisfied thereof at the time of the death of the sayd Edward late Earle and yet thereof be seised And where alsoe the sayd Edward Duke of Bucks hath before this time pretended Title to part of the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and other Mannors Lands and Tenements late of the sayd Edward late Earle of the Greenes Lands as Cosyne and next Heir to the sayd Edward late Earle of the Faders side of the sayd late Earle And where alsoe the same Countesse claymeth to have dower of parcel of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements over and beside her sayd Joynture And where alsoe the sayd Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt the Fader as moche as in them is for their interest for causes comprized in their Indentures have promissed to the sayd Sir
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
Provisions necessary to the maintenance of the Town or that his Head turn'd round under the divers difficulties of so great a charge having never before commanded alone such a Garrison nor so considerable a place did shew so much confusion and such unsteadiness in his Orders as after brought his Life and Honour into question and lost him in the Opinion of the King and the Chief Officers of the Army Succors had been promised to the relief of this Town and at last a considerable body of Horse and Foot was sent in hopes to raise the Siege an attempt whereof was made at Causam Bridge but so unsuccessfully as after the loss of many Souldiers and divers Gentlemen and brave Officers the King's Troops were forc'd to Retreat leaving the Town in a much worse condition than it was before the Garrison and Inhabitants being much disheartned by such a disappointment There were great disputes afterwards whether it proceeded from the want of number and strength in the Party that was sent or the neglect if not a worse reflection upon the Commander for not Sallying out upon the Enemy with what might have been spared of the Garrison at the same time they were so vigorously assailed by his Majesty's Troops on the other side And this some did affirm to have been concerted at the time of the undertaking But the Colonel now beginning to despond of any farther endeavors were intended to releive the Town and finding his Men dissatisfied his Ammunition wasted â—nd his provision grown very short he demanded a Treaty which the Enemy easily condescended to well knowing an attempt to take a Town by force wherein were so many and so good Men if it did succeed was like to be at a rate would prove â—â—â—y dear And Commissioners being appointed on either side it was agreed The â—â—â—arrison should march out with Arms Bag and Baggage Flying Colours and Balle en Bouche The only thing was found weak and mean in the Commander among the conditions was That such as had from a certain time left the Parliament Service were to be abandon'd to their reprisal and resentment an Article calculated on purpose for delivery of this Young Lord. To which the Commander so ancitient and so great a pretended Friend had condescended with very small resistance the dishonor of which was afterward at his Tryal before the Court Martial at Oxford with very much exaggeration laid to his charge The night before the surrender it may be imagin'd the Lord Mordaunt was in no small concern how to escape the danger of being seiz'd by the Enemy according to the right they had so to do by reason of the Articles Divers ways were proposed for his escape whereof some seem'd too mean others too precipitate At last he resolv'd to take the Habit Arms Horse and Apparel of an ordinary Trooper and at adventure to march in the Rank of such a one even under inspection of the Earl of Essex himself before whom all the Troops were to march away This the next morning he put in practice and was so successful as to pass clear without any discovery or obstruction although the General had employ'd divers to search for him among the Troops and that his Father had sent of his own domesticks to assist in his seisure as well to vindicate himself from any suspicion of connivance with his Son as to divert the young Lord from his intended Engagement among the Cavaliers from which the Countess his Mother was at that time very averse He marched in company of the Troops till he came to Wallingford where he saw Prince Rupert the first time whom he found much enflamed against Colonel Fielding He complemented the Young Lord with a particular sence he express'd to have of the hazards whereunto by these mean Articles he was expos'd The Lord Mordaunt came the next day to Oxford where he presented himself to the King and was receiv'd with that goodness which was natural to one of the best Kings that ever Reign'd After which he apply'd himself in his respects to the Ministers became acquainted with the Great Officers of the Army and though he had lost some of his Servants his Baggage his Money and which was worst all his Horses whereof there were some very excellent these necessaries having been known at their march out of the Town and were all seized by the General 's Order as the Goods of a Dissertor whom himself they could not find yet the Lord Mordaunt esteem'd himself a gainer upon the whole having by this generous testimony of his Loyalty gained an opportunity of justifying himself with the good Opinion and esteem of all the Worthy and Ingenuous persons of the Court. His next care was to repair the losses of those necessaries which were useful to the method of Service he did intend Horses Arms and Money towards which the kind care of the Noble Lady Mordaunt his Grandmother that had always been a zealous Catholick did much enable him and he was soon after in a condition to follow the King in all his Marches and Expeditions whereof the first was when he advanc'd from Oxford to Bristol to take possession of that important City that had been delivered up by Colonel Fines and there to settle a strong Garrison and his Authority After which and his return to Oxford he follow'd the King to the Siege of Gloucester wherein he endeavour'd to advantage his Experience with the observation of every Action and Proceeding was practised in that occasion and so signaliz'd his application towards enabling him for the future Service of his Prince as gain'd him much honor from all that did observe him But after the disappointments and ill success of this enterprise and that by the approach of the Parliament Army the Siege was forc'd to be raised to the shame of those had engag'd the King upon the undertaking upon the assurance of a present delivery the Lord Mordaunt follow'd his Majesty to Newbery where the King engaged in Battel with the Parliament Forces The Two Armies lay the first Night in fight one of another and by break of day they began to skirmish The Fight soon became very fierce the young Lord shew'd his Valor and Bravery in several parts but particularly when among other generous Volunteers he put himself in the first Rank of the Prince's Troop then Commanded by Sir Richard Crane when it went to Charge the Great body of the Parliament's Foot which had Cannon planted before it all loaden with Case Shot for the better reception of their Enemies It was an occasion never to be forgotten for at the first charge of the Horse they were saluted with such a Fire as killed and dismounted above Fourscore at one Volley There it was the Earl of Sunderland was slain and so many considerable persons hurt and disabled The Lord Mordaunt was shot in the Arm wounded with a Pike in the Thigh had several honourable marks made in the Coat that cover'd his Arms
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
a Brother to the Duke of Wirtenbergue was under the protection and care of the Crown of France by reason of the great merits of her Father's Services and it was believed would have stood fairer than any for its assistance to the preferment of this Match if that of the Dutchess of Guise and Princess of Modena did not take place She was of middle Stature Fair Complection with brown Hair the Figure of her Face turn'd very agreeably her Eyes Gray her Looks Grave but Sweet and in her person she had the motions of a Woman of Quality and well bred But above all she had the appearance of a Maid in the ripeness of her Youth of a Sanguine and Healthful Constitution fit to bring strong Children and such as might be like to live and prosper Although there was much modesty in all her behavior yet she was not scarce of her discourse and spoke well and pertinently to every thing His Lordship not being now unsatisfied with this interview and believing that except the Princess of Modena he had neither seen nor heard of any thing more proper for what might capacitate the person of a Wife he began to enquire of the Fortune might be expected with her But of that although some concern'd for her did give out That by several ways there might be expected from her Friends Fifty or Threescore Thousand Pounds yet he confessed he could never find any reasonable bottom upon which to build such an assurance Yet a Marriage being his chief business and a probability of Children he gave according to his Trust and the Duke's Command the truest Character he was able of her and her circumstances His Highness hereupon having a concurring account of this Princess from others he had charg'd with the Enquiry as well as his Lordship seem'd so satisfied with it as he gave order to the Earl of Peterborow to proceed in his application to the Princess and to give hopes to her and her Friends That he would send sudden orders to demand her in the usual Forms And from the earnestness of the Duke's Expressions he himself did believe he should in two or three Posts have been capacitated thereunto He obey'd and found every day new contentments in the conversation of the Princess so as he doubted not there would have risen from this commerce a satisfaction both to his Master's Interests and Enclination But on a sudden unexpected orders gave a change to this affair an Express brought directions to the Earl That leaving Paris privately with as little company as was possible he should repair incognito to Dusseldorpe the Residence of the Duke of Newburgh and that there he should try to get a fight of the Princess his Daughter who had been earnestly recommended to his Highness as a Princess fittest of any for his Alliance This was believ'd did proceed from the Service France did at that time expect from the Duke her Father whose Country and Troops were at that time adjacent to those parts of Flanders and Holland where the King made a very sharp War And it was earnestly supported by divers persons of much interest in our Court who had been formerly obliged or at present gain'd to promote the satisfaction of that Duke But the Earl had orders from His Royal Highness to give him a perfect Character of that Princess her Person as to what he could see of her Parts Manners and Enclinations as he could any ways learn with the reposition of so great a Trust as he did assure him if he found her not answering the Character had been given her he should have immediate Orders to return and to bring home the Princess of Wirtenbergue of whom we have spoke before The Earl who was nothing but Duty and Faithfulness to the Duke obey'd his new Orders with all the diligence imaginable he took Post accompanied only with an Italian Gentleman one Signior Varasani his Gentleman of the Horse and one that serv'd him in his Chamber He arrived in two days at Metts whence by Water he came to Cullen At the time Sir Lionel Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson were Embassadors Plenipotentiary at that City He did not intend to have seen these Ministers having no Orders to communicate nor Advice to take of them But walking alone in the Street after his arrival he met Sir Joseph in his Coach who without considering he was not in a condition to be publickly taken notice of light and complemented the Earl in the Street of which unseasonable respect his Lordship deliver'd himself by his desire that he would forbear it any farther But after this he did privately visit those Embassadors but without communicating his Business or Intentions He prepar'd then for his Voyage to Dusseldorpe pretending at the House where he lay a curiosity to see the Court and Habitation of a Soveraign Prince not above .......... from that City who had the Reputation of being Wise and Generous and to live in all the State and Order suitable to his condition and the greatness of his House The Master of the House provided him a convenient Guide acquainted with the Town he was to see and the ways and passages to it So one Morning the Earl his Companion the Seiur Varasani and too Servants Embarked upon the Rhine and in an ordinary Boat were carried down the River to the Walls of Dusseldorpe They were examined at the Gate and giving account that they were Strangers brought by curiosity to see the place were admitted and by a Souldier conducted to an Inn where they stay'd to repose themselves and take their measures for a farther proceeding They thereupon sent their Guide to enquire the method of approaching the Palace and the Prince who brought word There would be that day a greater difficulty than usual by reason the Prince and Court were to be employ'd in seeing an Anniversary Contest among the Citizens and other persons of that place which should soonest Shoot down the Papegay or Parrot a thing made in similitude of such a Bird from a very high Pole which was to be performed with much Method and Ceremony and the Victor to have the usual reward of his address But that before the beginning of the undertaking the Prince was to be entertained at Evening Service in the Jesuits Church with very rare Musick to which the Dutchess and Princess did likewise resort so as the Earl might have a fair view of them there and what else was considerable in the Court and that he would conduct them to a Station proper for that end This was readily accepted by his Lordship and his Companion who were by their Guide placed in a fair passage part of a Cloyster whereby they were to pass After some expectation the Duke arrived preceded with the State and Ceremony was suitable to a Soveraign Quality he had his Wife by the Hand the Princess follow'd and a considerable Train of Ladies and Cavaliers well dressed and in good order The Princess was
prevail did undertake it The Princess then at last gave her self up to the will of her Friends a day was set for the Solemnity and his Excellency had liberty to visit her Highness in he own appartment The Earl of Peterborow instead of making a publick Entry which the little preparation he had made by reason of his being incognito would not well admit was notwithstanding in the noblest manner that place was capable of brought to his audience of the Dutchess Regent and the Duke her Son who was but Twelve years old by the Prince Renaldo of Esté the young Duke's Uncle and all that were great or considerable in that Court and indeed the Ceremony Attendance State Guards and other Appurtenances were in that Order and Magnificence as might have become a Prince of far greater Revenue and Territories and herein all the marks of Soveraignty did appear which are usual with Princes who are independant but of God He delivered the King his Master's Letter to their Highnesses in the usual form and after having made a Speech suitable to the occasion retired as he came only instead of being conducted to his Coach he was led into a very noble apartment which was design'd now to entertain his Excellency in quality of Extraordinary Embassador all the time he would have occasion to stay in Modena and therein indeed with great Plenty and Magnificence he was served in all necessary kinds at the Expence of that Generous Princess But now other things being concluded and the Earl pressing his departure the Day for the Marriage was assign'd being the _____ of September Against which the Earl had betimes prepared himself in habit and Equipage suitable to the occasion and about Eleven of the Clock he was fetch'd at his Lodging by the Duke accompanied by his Uncle the Prince Renaldo and all the considerable Cavaliers of the Court and conducted to a Chamber near the Chapel where he reposed himself till so much of the Service was done as seem'd obnoxious to the Religion he did profess after which he was led to the Chapel where the Princes expected him and there between them was perform'd the Ceremony design'd for a perpetual Marriage between this admirable Princess and the Duke of York his Master After which he led her by the Hand to her Apartment and there taking his leave he went to repose himself till he was fetch'd to accompany these Princes at the Dinner That did succeed about One of the Clock and as to the Ceremony of it it was perform'd at a long Table over the upper end whereof was a rich Cloth of State under which in representation of a Bridegroom the Earl of Peterborow sate with the Princess the Duke Dutchess and other Princes of that House sitting on either side according to their degrees This Dinner was served with all the care and curiosity that was possible for any thing of that nature to be contriv'd What the Sea could afford though it was not near and what the Rivers and the Lakes was there what the Land could produce or the Air of Italy was not wanting and all this was made more excellent by the Courtesie and good Humor of the Princes But it ended at last and all arose in order to a greater liberty for Conversation That had also a conclusion for that time too and the company for their repose retired every one to their Apartment and to his Excellency's he was conducted after the same ceremony as he was brought to Dinner To the honor of the Night was dedicated Dancing and a Ball whereunto all the Beauties of that Court did resort It was perform'd with the Order and Ornaments suitable to the other parts of the Entertainment being much to the satisfaction and esteem of all the Strangers that did see it The next Day in a very formal Cavelcade the Duke and his Excellency rode to the Cathedral where a solemn Service and Te Deum was sung in honor of the accomplishing of this Marriage And two or three other days more were spent in triumphal Shows and other testimonies of Publick Rejoycing After all which the time of undertaking the departure being come the Dutchess Mother would by all means accompany her Daughter into England and it could not be diverted by any means although it proved chargeable to her and of ill Consequence to her concerns in that Government Passes were obtained from the Kings of France and Spain and the Italian Princes through whose Territories her Royal Highness was to pass to travel incognito but with orders to provide any accomodations should be necessary for her service She began then this happy voyage the _____ of September in the Year 1673. accompanied by the Dutchess Regent the Duke her Brother his Excellency and the Prince Renaldo of Esté with whatever was Noble and considerable among their own Subjects as many other Men of Quality who made their Court to those Princes upon different obligations and a very Princely Corteggio it was that went with them out of Modena Monsieur d' Angeao and his Brother had gone some days before to Milan and did not rejoyn the Princess till they came into Piedmont After two days the young Duke was perswaded to take his leave of his Sister and return but he did it with all that repugnancy of which an excellent nature could be capable having been ever bred together with that reciprocal kindness which nearness and merit could beget But the Princess was near being dissolv'd in tears she left her loving and hopeful Brother her happy and delicious Country with the kind companions of her youth among whom she had been bred and all these perhaps for ever her Youth and Innocence permitted her not to know whither it was she was to go to what kind of part nor among whom So compassion was to be allow'd to her Fears as well as her Enclinations and it was enough we could procure her to proceed and to be comforted Having passed then through her own Country through the Parmesan and part of the Milanese she came at last into Piedmont where the Princes were almost as it had been by Spirits for several days invisibly lodg'd and provided for after a most magnificent manner but ever at the expence of that Generous Duke till they came out of his Territories where they were met by Officers of the King of France who did accompany and defray them unto the City of Paris bringing them to lodge at the Arsenall where his Excellency was likewise provided for and had a noble Table kept for his own particular at the same Kings expence all the time of his residence there The necessity of our repair into England now drew near but her Royal Highness here fell sick and her Disease for all the power and diligence of Medicines hung so upon her as for some weeks they were not able to think of their remove And when her strength was again return'd the King of France for all her desire of
to oppose him or his Heirs For securing of which promise he delivered up his Son William in Hostage who was after returned as an assurance of the Kings trust He departed this life in the One and fortieth year of Henry the Third leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran de Newburgh Earl of Warwick William Lord Mauduit afterwards Earl of Warwick AT the Death of his Father WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the fourth of that name was thirty six years old upon the possession of the Estate and Dignity of his Ancestors he received early testimonies of the Kings trust and favour by the acceptance of a moderate relief for his Barony and his Sergeantry and reasonable time for the payment The Lords of his Family had ever the reputation of being Martial and himself was esteemed active and vigorous so as he was usually summoned to attend the King in most of his Expeditions with his power and followers In the forty seventh Year of King Henry the Third doing his homage and paying an hundred pounds for his relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick he had livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him that is to say the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had summons that year to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility But soon after the King was necessitated to leave of his Welsh Expedition to provide against the power and insolence of his Barons who were then gathering together against him at Northampton He sent therefore this Earl to make sure of his Castle of Warwick a place at that time very considerable but such was his unhappiness as wanting diligent Guards they issued out of Kenilworth under the Command of John Giffard Governour of that Castle and surprising this at Warwick slew divers of the Earls men and carried him and his Lady Prisoners to Kenilworth out of which place before he could be delivered they forced him to pay nineteen hundred Marks for his Ransome and threw down the Walls of Warwick-Castle After this unhappy accident I find no more of him than that he married Alice the Daughter of Gilbert de Segrave and dyed without Issue the Eighth of Jan. Anno 1267. 52 Hen. III. ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit Chamberlain to King Henry the Second THE direct line of those Mauduits who were Lords of Hanslape and hereditary Chamberlains of the Exchequer ending in William Lord Mauduit who came to be also Earl of Warwick and that dyed without Issue I must return to Robert the second Son of Robert Lord Mauduit who was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second to carry on the Genealogical description of that branch of these Mauduits who were Lords of Werminster from whom the Greene's of Drayton did Descend and that did flourish for many Ages in this Nation under great reputation and Authority Unto Robert Lord Mauduit who was Lord of Hanslape in the days of Henry the Second King Richard and King John there were born of the Lady Isabella Bassett two Sons William and Robert the latter of which was a Youth so esteemed for his Valour and Martial inclinations and particularly by his Father as for a foundation of a greater fortune he bestowed upon him the noble Lordship of Werminster which he had received from the Gift of his old Master King Henry the Second and his Elder Brother the Lord William Mauduit was so far from repining at the Gift as he added to his Estate of his own Grant the Mannor of Shaudedene now called Scaldene And he had moreover from the kindness of Robert de la Mare a great Lord of that Age divers Lands in Bushopstre and Tarenta in Marriage with his Daughter Agnes by whom he left Issue William Mauduit Lord of Werminster WILLIAM MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster became possessed by Inheritance from his Father his Marriage and his own acquests of the Lordships of Werminster Scaldene Samborne and Grately in the County of Wilts as also of Lands in Bushopstre Tarenta and Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop which last were of his Mothers Inheritance In the Fourteenth of King Henry the Third he was sued with Eugenia his Wife by Robert de Passlieu for detaining one Henry the Son of Henry de Cromwell whose custody he pretended to belong to him by reason of the Kings Commission but because the said Robert did not produce the same it was order'd in Court That Henry de Cromwell should remain in the Keeping of William Mauduit and his Wife Eugenia This William gave Lands in Samborne to Thomas the Son of Simon of Deene and he demised the Mannor of Grately to Galfred of Winelford There is extant a Grant unto him of a Faire yearly to be held for three days at his Lordship of Werminster that is to say on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Lawrence and of a Market to be held every Thursday at his Mannor of Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop. He married Eugenia Daughter to that Foulke Lord Fitz-Warren who was a Lord of much fame in the days of King John and of his Son Henry and left Issue Warren Mauduit Lord of Werminster Sir John Mauduit WARREN MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster received his Christian Name as has been very usual from that Noble Family of which his Mother was descended and much deference and respect was due from him thereunto as from one whence he did derive a great part of his Inheritance as the Mannors of Westbury Lye and other Lordships He was one of those Lords that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land when he was yet but Prince and we find him to have lived much in his esteem and favour as one by whom he was accompanied in most of his War-like Expeditions He was summoned to many of those Parliaments that were called in his Raign towards the latter end whereof he departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas Mauduit Lord of Werminster THOMAS Lord MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in the Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Scalden Samborne West-Hacley Lye Castle-Helgot and other great Possessions so as at that time he was accounted one of the most powerful Lords of his rank He received in the Eleventh year of King Edward the Second a Charter from that King of Free Warren for him and his Heirs to have as well upon all his Lands in Westbury Lye and Chaldcoate in the County of Wilts as upon those of Deene and Grately in the County of Southampton These are the words of the Patent He was a Lord of such fame in those days
for his Valour his Wisdom and his Authority as his Engagement with the Earl of Lancaster was esteemed a great Accession to that Prince and the Lords of his party which did at that time conspire against the favour the oppression and the ill conduct of the Spencers who governed all things under King Edward the Second But his Courage his Fidelity to his Friends and his zeal to the Quarrel he did abett carrying him into the unsuccessful Fight at Burrow-Bridge it was his fortune to be taken Prisoner involv'd in the general fate of that Action and to suffer Death at the pleasure of the Conqueror by whose Laws being attainted his Estate was Confiscated with those of the other Lords of that Confederacy His Wife was Eleanor de Knoville Daughter of that Bogo a Lord very famous in the Raign of King Edward the First Their Issue John Mauduit Lord of Werminster AT the Execution Attaindor and Confiscation of the Lord Thomas Mauduit JOHN MAUDUIT his Son was under Age The custody of whose person and Estate was during the Raign of King Edward the Second conferr'd upon one Sir John de Kingston But in the first year of King Edward the Third he was restored to his whole Inheritance by an Act of Parliament wherein it was so provided for all those who had lost their Lands by having taken up Arms against the Spencers in the Quarrel of the Earl of Lancaster He became afterwards a farther partaker of this Kings favor receiving at his hands the Honour of Knighthood And we find him to have served that then Honourable Office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in the third in the seventh in the eighth in the twelfth and in the sixteenth years of King Edward the Third He Married Julian of Bockland by whom he had Issue Thomas Mauduit that died before his Father OF THOMAS MAUDUIT the Son of Sir John there is found little other mention than that he dyed in the life of his Father having first Married Joane the Daughter of Sir .... of Basingborne by whom he had Issue and his sole Heir of the Lands Arms and Name of this Noble and Ancient Family Matilda de Mauduit MATILDA de MAUDUIT the Daughter and Sole Heir of Thomas inherited the Noble Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Samborne Dychurch Buckworth and many other great Possessions being after Married to Sir Henry Greene Lord of Drayton and one of the Favorites and Privy Councellors to King Richard the Second who afterward lost his life for his Fidelity to that Prince that had been his Master and Benefactor William Lord MAUDUIT Maud de Hanslop William Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Robert Lord Mauduit Izabell Basset William Mauduit Ld. of Hanslop Alice de Newborow Robert Mauduit Lord of Werminster Agnes de la Mara Izabell Mauduit William Beauchamp Earle of Warwick William Lord Mauduit Earle of Warwick Alice de Seagrave William Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eugenia Fitzwarrin Warrin Ld. Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas L d Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Eleanora de Knovile Sr. John Mauduit Ld. of Werminster Juliana de Bockland Thomas Mauduit Mortuus ante Latrem Joanne of Bassingbome Matilde de Mauduit Lady of Werminster Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of that HOUSE of MAUDUIT Whence were the Lords of Werminster Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT Of the House of MAVDVIT THAT a Lord of the Name of Mauduit came over with the Conqueror you will find in le Gras his Catalogue in the History of Normandy in the Roll of Battaille Abby and other places But more particularly in the Chronicle of John Brompton amongst the rest of the Ten Writers lately published fol. 963. wherein it is contained as followeth Et tunc Rex Willielmus terras Anglorum Magnatibus Militibus aliis hominibus suis Franciae Normanniae qui secum in Conquestu suo extiterant donavit quorum plurima cognomina adhuc in Anglia satis cognita frequentata sicut ea reperi scripta hic inserere dignum duxi Vous que desires à assaver Les noms des Grants dela la mer Que vindrent od le Conquerer William Bastard de grand vigeur Leurs surnoms icy vous devis Come je les trovay par escris Car des propres noms force ny a Pource qu'ils sont changes ca là Come de Eumond en Edward De Bawduin en Barnard De Godwin en Godard De Ellis en Edwin Et issint de tous autres noms Comme ils sont levé du fons Porce leur surnoms ne sont uses Et ne sont pas sounent changes Vous ay escrit ore escoutes Si vous oir les voullies Mandeville Dandeville Ounfreville Dounfreville Botuille Bascarville Eville Cleville And so he goes on till he comes to Valens Vaus Clarel Claraous Auberville S. Amans Agantes Dragants Malherbe Mauduit Brewes Chanduit And so the Author proceeds to divers others that are from our purpose WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and many other Lands and Lordships The Baronage of England Page 398. AT the time of the Conquerors general Surveigh of this Realm William Mauduit had seven Lordships in Hampshire and being afterward Chamberlain to King Henry the First obtained a Grant from him of all the Lands whereof Micael of Hanslape died seized the Inheritance whereof the said Micael had in his life time yielded to that King with Maude his Daughter who thereupon gave her in Marriage with all those Lands unto this William which William had Issue by her two Sons Robert Mauduit and William Mauduit ROBERT Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England the same page line 15. OF these Robert succeeding in the Inheritance of his Lands enjoyed also the Office of Chamberlain leaving a Daughter for whose Wardship and the exercise of that Office the Sheriff of Hampshire accounted a thousand Marks into the Exchequer Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores decem Pag. 242. ITaque Rex omnibus qui contra se insurrexerant vel devictis vel repacificatis â—â—â—â—tisque ad votum prosperè peractis quinto profectionis suae anno necdum compreto laetior solito in Angliam multo Navigio revehitur Delegaverat autem filio cunctóque illius Comitatui Navem quâ nulla in tota classe videbatur melior sed ut Eventus ostendit nulla infelicior Patre namque praeeunte paulò tardiùs sed infeliciùs sequebatur Filius Nave quippe non longè à terra in ipso velificationis impetu super scopulos in ipso Exitu delatâ dissolutâ Filius Regis cum omnibus qui secum erant interiit vi Kal. Decembris Feria quinta noctis initio apud Barbafleet Mane facto Thesaurus Regis qui in Nave fuerat invenitur