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A54500	Succint genealogies of the noble and ancient houses of Alno or de Alneto, Broc of Stephale, Latimer of Duntish, Drayton of Drayton, Mauduit of Westminster, Green of Drayton, Vere of Addington, Fitz-Lewes of Westhornedon, Howard of Effingham and Mordaunt of Turvey justified by publick records, ancient and extant charters, histories and other authentick proofs, and enriched with divers sculptures of tombs, images, seals, and other curiosities / by Robert Halstead.	Peterborough, Henry Mordaunt, Earl of, 1624?-1697.	1685 (1685)	Wing P1693; ESTC R21912	735,945	788

the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the

them were used in no Nation anciently but among the Romans and were taken up in France and England only about the Conquest or a little before under King Edward the Confessor and in Scotland not before that time unto which the Learned of that Nation do refer the Antiquity of their Sirnames although Buchanan doth suppose they were not in use in that Kingdom many years after likewise he saith That the better sort even from the Conquest by little and little took Sirnames so as they were not setled among the common people fully till about the time of Edward the Second but still varied according to the Father's Name as Richardson if the Father were Richard Hodgson if the Father were Roger or in some other respect And from thenceforth began to be established upon their Posterity This he says will seem strange to some of the English and of the Scotish Nations who like the Arcadians think their Sirnames as Ancient as the Moon or at least to reach many an Age before the Conquest But they that think it most strange he says will hardly find any Sirnames that descended to their Posterity before that time neither have they seen he fears any Deed or Donation before the Conquest but subsigned with Crosses and single Names in this manner ✚ Ego Eadredus confirmavi ✚ Ego Edmundus consolidavi likewise for Scotland in an old Book of Duresm in the Charter whereby Edgar Son of King Malcome gave Lands near Coldingham to that Church in the Year One thousand ninety seven the Scotish Nobility witnesses thereunto had no other Sirnames than the Christian Names of their Fathers for they Signed ✚ Gulphi filii Memani ✚ Culverti filii Donecani ✚ Olavi filii Oghe As for himself he says he never found any Hereditary Names before the Conquest neither any that he knew and yet both he and divers of his acquaintance had pored and pusled over many an old Record and Evidence to satisfy themselves therein But he says about the time of the Conquest he observed the very Beginning as it were of many Sirnames which are thought very Ancient whereas it may be proved That their lineal Progenitors bore other Names within these Six Hundred Years Warren and Mortimer he says are accounted Names of Great Antiquity yet the Father of them for they were Brethren which first bore those Names was Walter de Sancto Martino He that first bore the Name of Clifford from his Habitation was the Son of Richard the Son of Puntz a Noble Norman who had no other Name and so having instanced in many he concludes he could exemplify in sundry more which shortly after the Conquest took these Sirnames when their Fathers had none at all or else most different whatsoever their Posterity do overwene of the Antiquity of their Names as if in the continual Mutability of the World Conversion of States and fatal Periods of Families Five Hundred Years were not a sufficient continuance for a Name when but very few have reached thereunto These are the words of the Famous Cambden that Oracle of Antiquity in his Treatise of Sirnames amongst others of his Remains which I have thought fit to set down that the peruser of these my ensuing Genealogies being prepossessed with a of what length of time can by Proof be afforded to any such pretence there having been assuredly no Sirnames before the Conquest may upon comparison be fit to make a Difference between what shall be here exposed without other Ornaments than the unquestionable Truths their extant Evidences shall impose upon them and those other specious Fables which Fast and Flattery have produc'd to the Prejudice of ancient Probity undervaluing of true Nobleness and Scandal of the Heroick Science So there remains to speak but of the Etymologies or Derivations of these Names which their great Age and Continuance has left very uncertain having been taken up as will be proved among the first of Sirnames I shall only offer as grounds of a probable conjecture thereupon That as Names were usually taken from Places from Offices from Actions from Conditions of the Mind Complexions of the Body and sundry other means as you will find in this rare Antiquary's Treatise thereof and as Noble of the one as of the other So the marks between them seem to have been but the words of De and Le preceding the first intimating the Derivation from a place either of the persons Possession or of his Birth the latter of an Office or occasional Sobriquet upon some incidence or action which was in that beginning of Names amongst the greatest very usual as for Example whereas Jeffrey de Mandeville Bertran de Verdun William de Warren and Roger de Mortimer were so named from Places William Le Marshall Walter Le Steward William Le Latimer and Robert Le Despencer with other great Families were of Offices Hugh Le Bigot Robert Le Manduit Hamon Le Strange and Robert Le Blond upon incidents of the Mind the Manners of the fortune and of the Person received livewise the Appellations which afterward remained to their Posterity And thus although a positive Derivation I shall not undertake to give unto the words it may be supposed upon some like occasion to these latter the Names of which we treat did first arise since they had in the Assumers of them the Additions of Le or De and all of them we find under these Appellations to have received from their Princes their Parents or their Relations the Lands and Lordships of which they were first possessed as shall with the Succession of their Posterities and their Inherited Houses be herein demonstrated and from them an uninterrupted Succession by which their Arms and Lands were engrafted into the House of Mordaunt There shall be set forth the Arms that are ascribed to them and which were born by their Descendants the Actions they atchieved the Dignities with which they were honoured and the Lands and Lordships they did acquire with divers of their Seals Tombs and Images I shall begin with the first Alliance from whose Heir General there descended Arms and Land the Description whereof I shall set forth to the Conjunction with the Paternal House after which shall be expos'd in a Genealogical Line the Arms of the Descent and its Alliances whereunto shall succeed all the Proofs of the first House and in the same Method what concerns the rest of the Inherited Houses in their Order In the Ornaments of Arms and Distinctions in Heraldry there may be in this Treatise a difference from what in some kinds is generally practised in this Country But they being according to the use of those Nations that at present in things of this Nature are very curious and refined and altogether concordant with reason and the proportion of things and qualities I hope that difference will give occasion for no exception After all in this Method I suppose that Men may find a certain way to perserve the Memory and Esteem of

all his Expeditions at Sea becoming thereby very expert in Navigation He was in all the Land Services of his time and followed his Father in every Embassy where he was imployed These practices made him fit for great Imployments as indeed such Imployments were fit for him because the truth was that his Father's perpetual custom of keeping his hands clean in all the great Trusts had been committed to him being ever fonder of Fame and Faithfulness than of Money or Estate he had not left his Son so superfluous a Fortune as it might have been easie for him to have suitably subsisted to his desert and great Spirit without the Favour and Assistance of his Princes But the times wherein he lived were very Active and in them usefulness made Men considered more than phancy And the discerning Queen Elizabeth thought she had a jewel in this Youth whose hopefulness and merit shone in the Eyes of every Man The first Imployment we find he had was to be one of those noble persons chose by the Queen to conduct the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain Afterward we find him a Commander of some Forces under his Father that were sent for the suppression of the Earls Rebellion And in the Registers of that Order it appears That he was chosen a Knight of the Garter in the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth In the Twenty eighth of that Queen upon the Death of the Earl of Lincoln he was made Lord High Admiral of England being at that time Lord Chamberlain as his Father had formerly been And in the Year 1588. when the King of Spain sent his greatest Fleet under the Conduct of his greatest Subject the Duke of Medina Sidonia with a design to take the Kingdom with the very sight of so formidable a power the Queen then and her admirable Council pitch'd upon this Lord Howard to be the Buckler of England making him with an extraordinary Power Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Forces on the Sea from the estimation they had of his excellent Virtues as being a Man of great Moderation much knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary throughly Valiant Industrious in Action and a Person whom the Mariners entirely loved The success gave the approbation to this choice the Spaniards appeared the Admiral gave them Battel and they were overthrown England was delivered and the Noble Lord received the Applauses his Valour and his Conduct did deserve But after this there remaining still great jealousies of future dangers from the Enmity of Spain who did design much by the Assistance of the Irish who were at that time Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for defence of this Kingdom both by Sea and Land He was also in this Year on the Fifteenth of June constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And in the Two and twentieth of October following in consideration of his Eminent Services in Anno. 1588. in defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado as afterwards of the Sacking of Cadiz in Spain and for destroying the Spanish Fleet then in the Port there he was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Mowbrays whereof some had before been Earls of that Country In the One and Fortieth Year of the same Queen this Admiral continuing still in great Reputation and there remaining some supition of the Spaniard's ill intentions he was made Lieutenant General of all the Queen's Field Forces and one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England And in these great Trusts he imploy'd his time during the Reign of this Happy and Victorious Queen And the wife Successor upon his Arrival thought it a material testimony of his kindness to the Kingdom he did Inherit to give all marks of his Esteem and Favor to those who had contributed so many Cares and Labours to the Glory and Safety thereof Therefore at his Royal Coronation he made this Earl Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in the Second Year of his Reign at the renewing the Commissions unto several Great Lords for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England he was likewise constituted one of that number But by this time the Noble Earl was grown very Antient and his Body being less able than before to support the Labours and Cares of War or of the Court he by the advice of his Friends resolved of a retreat he resigned the great Office of Admiral into the King's Hands for which he was notwithstanding allowed great Pensions for his Life and other very considerable advantages After which he was engaged in going Extraordinary Ambassador on a most splendid occasion into Spain to Make and Sign that Peace which was so agreeable to King James the First as he thence did design such an Alliance as by Marriage of his Son should make lasting Friendship between the two Crowns This was the last great occasion wherein the Earl of Nottingham did appear the rest of his Life was Peace and Prayer His Lordship departing this World at Hayling in Kent at the Age of Eighty eight Years having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two This Noble Earl had Married Two Wives His First was Katharine Cary Daughter to the Lord Hundsdon His Second was Margaret Stuart Daughter to James Earl of Murray in Scotland Issue by his First Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham who Married Katharine Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Blefso Charles Howard who by reason of his Brothers Decease without Male Issue did succeed him in his Honors and Married Mary Cockain Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell Frances Countess of Kildar Margaret Married to Sir Richard Leusson Issue by his Second Wife James Howard who died young Charles Howard afterwards Earl of Nottingham but dyed without Issue WILLIAM Lord Howard Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham Lord Baron of Effingham CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM Lord Howard was a Youth of extraordinary expectation and had given early proof of many rare Virtues he was Active he was Ingenious he was applicable to every thing that was for the Honor of the Court or the Use of the Kingdom In the days of Queen Elizabeth the Pastimes and Triumphs of the State were very Martial Courses at the Tilt were much in fashion and Fights at the Barriers no Man had greater applause at these Exercises than this Young Lord And when Monsieur was here with his great Followers who are held Masters at these Exercises he got the esteem of all the French-Men He was with his Father at the Encounter with the Spanish Fleet though but Young at that time he was with him at the Sacking of Calis and also in most of his Embassies He was Grave of his Nature and entring into the favour of the Ministers as Man likely to be fit for Business when unhappily he fell

Mordaunt the Earl's Brother and the Lady his Wife called before her Mariage Mrs Elizabeth Cary had by much officiousness and many endeavors during the King's Exile acquired a great share in his favour but most of all with the King 's Chief Minister the Lord Chancellor Hide afterwards Earl of Clarendon and having great and incomposable differences with the Earl of Peterborow about the settlement of his Estate whereunto against his will they pretended to Inherit they had to encline them to their partiality in case the decision of any of the differences should come to depend on them done sundry ill offices to the Earl so as at the King 's first Arrival he receiv'd marks enough of the King's coldness and the ill impressions they had taken But the Earl of Peterborow who could speak well having means by some Friends of the contrary Faction to have access to the King soon dispersed those Clouds and convinced his Majesty of the Art and Malice of his Enemies and of the untruth of those suggestions which were partly the cause that enclin'd the King and his Minister to suffer the remainders of Rygate to be taken out of the Crown by which the Earl lost one of the Noblest Houses in the South of England and such Lands and Revenues belonging to that Priory as were worth a Thousand Pound of yearly Revenues The King after this promised proportionable Recompence to the Earl and by the interposition of the Lord Chancellor had given him a Commission for Captain General of the King's Forces to be sent into Africa and to be Governor of the City of Tangier To this undertaking then the Earl of Peterborow wholly applied himself and although from the Division of the Councel which did at that time consist of two very powerful Factions neither of them much favouring what ever the other did propose great obstructions and difficulties did arise unto the Earl both in the preparations that were necessary and in the after performance of several things that were undertaken yet with his industry and diligence he overcame the envy and secret opposition of that affair Embarking the ...... of ...... with Three Thousand Three Hundred Men under his conduct and proportionable Provisions for them of every sort and landing at Tangier the ...... of ...... took possession of it for the King of England and establish'd himself Governor thereof The History of his Government there being too long for this place I shall only say That for the time he stay'd there was never place kept in better order better paid better provided for nor where all sorts of Men had better Justice or Protection It is true Two reasons made him desire to be recall'd the first That his spirit and his endeavours were so limited as that little Honor was to be obtain'd by his residence in that place having not Troops enough to march or attempt any thing into the Country nor Money enough to design such Fortifications or so proceed with the business of the Mole as might render the Town safe against an undertaking Army or the Sea advantageous to a Trading Fleet. But the chief Thorn in his Foot was the Envy and Malice of some considerable Enemies at home who endeavor'd to support an under Officer of his own in his pretension of competition to some powers that were incompatible with his Honor and Authority And they engaged the best and otherwise the justest Prince in the World so to favor what that Officer did aim at as the Earl must have submitted to his Adversaries or encurr'd the last enmity from that person for whom he had the greatest service and veneration that could be Seeing it was like to come to that extremity the Earl of Peterborow desired leave to lay down his Government and return It was so agitated by his Friends as that he had it granted with all the circumstances of honor and kindness that could be as appears by a Letter of Thanks under the King's Hand for his faithful and good Services and in consideration thereof he had under the Great Seal of England a Pension granted him for his life of a Thousand Pound by the Year Upon his return he found the King engag'd in a War that was like to prove very fierce between himself and the States of the United Provinces And resolving to acknowledge the King's Bounties on every occasion that should present it self by the constant offer of his Service he desired the Command of a Ship to serve in that conjuncture and it was granted with acknowledgments for the Example But upon notice thereof among the Men of Quality it was so much and so suddenly followed as it put a necessity upon the King to refuse it to others of as great merit and zeal as could be or to have his Fleet commanded for the most part by Men of greater Quality than Experience This put a stop even to the Earl's pretension But since he could not serve in that capacity he was resolv'd to go a Volunteer which he hid in the Ship and company of the Noble Earl of Sandwich they first setting to Sea from Portsmouth But the Fleet soon returning by reason of the lateness of the Season his Lordship did so too remaining that Winter making his court to the Princes The next Expedition which the succeeding Summer did produce he went again to Sea in good earnest and because it was a Second-rate Ship of good force and accommodation he was order'd aboard the Vnicorn Commanded by one Captain ...... Tidiman wherein he remain'd during that great Fight of the Third of June in the Year .... where to his immortal glory the present Great King James the Second shew'd more personal Valor and Conduct than any other Prince of the House of England since the Conquest who had kill'd by his side the Earl of Faymouth his Brother's Favorite and his own his first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber the Lord Muskery the generous Mr. Boyle with many other Gentlemen and Souldiers The behavior of the Earl in the Ship where he Sail'd was not unsuitable to his Quality and the other actions of his life He encouraged the Souldiers with his Actions and his Words too and the Captain in truth of not too forward a Nature did perhaps more than otherwise he would to hide from his Men the great difference there was between the intrepidity of the Earl and his own circumspection In fine there was nothing scandalous but his Lordship did not look upon it as good Fortune to have accompanied a Man no more sollicitous to get Glory in so great an occasion for that purpose The Earl of Peterborow after his Engagement by Sea had it intimated to him by a private Friend about the Duke That if he thought he could apply himself to a Court-life wherein attendance would be necessary and a particular devotion to all the interests of his Master he believed his Highness would not be unwilling to engage his Lordship in his Service even in

House of Esté so considerable a part of its State and Riches resting upon the violent usurpation of the Dutchy of Ferara and other Lands belonging to those Princes so as the interest of Religion apart the Popes and their Nephews do consider this Family as the least their Friend of any other in Italy And do believe If their Alliance to any Royal or Potent House should by their support offer them a fair occasion to recover their Dominions they might be induc'd to use other means than Preces Lacrimae to recover their own even from the Successor of St. Peter It seem'd time then to press on this Affair to a conclusion wherefore the Earl against that Night did desire again that he might see the Princess to which purpose he was at the time appointed conducted up to the Palace as he was before and found the Princess with her Mother He did approach her with the respects he thought due to his future Mistriss and having made her the Complements were proper he ask'd her pardon if he was made an Instrument to discompose her quiet and in some sort to cross her Enclinations but he thought before from the sight of her Picture and was now much more confirm'd in the Opinion by the view of her self That it was the only way to make happy a Prince whose Love and Application when she came to know him would be well able to make amends for what she might now in some measure esteem a sufferance She answer'd with a little fierceness That she was obliged to the King of England and the Duke for their good opinion but she could not but wonder why from so many Princes of more merit who would esteem that Honor and be ready to embrace it they should persist in endeavouring to force the Enclinations of another for whom it was impossible to agree to a proposition of that nature and that had vow'd her self as much as was in her power to another sort of life out of which she could never think she should be happy She desir'd his Excellency and even as he thought with Tears in her Eyes That if he had interest in his Masters he would oblige her by endeavouring yet to divert any farther persecution of a Maid who had an invincible aversion for Marriage There were Princesses enough she said in Italy and even in that House that would not be unworthy so great an Honor and that from the esteem they might have thereof would deserve it much better than she could do The Earl began to be a little peek'd at expressions he thought something too earnest in opposition of what he did desire He told her then he begg'd her pardon if he could not obey her he might have been induced to it before he saw her but it was now impossible He could not believe from what he did perceive of her That she was made for other end than to give Princes to the World which should honor it with Characters of high Vertue and Merit That his Country had need of such and he would now hazard the offending her by persisting in his demand since if he did incur her indignation he was sure at last she would not own it because it would prove to be for making her one of the most happy Princesses in Europe The Princess Mary of Esté appear'd to be at this time about Fourteen Years of Age she was tall and admirably shaped her Complexion was of the last fairness her Hair black as Jet so were her Eye-brows and her Eyes but the latter so full of light and sweetness as they did dazle and charm too There seem'd given unto them from Nature Sovereign Power power to kill and power to save and in the whole turn of her Face which was of the most graceful oval could be fram'd there was all the Features all the Beauty and all that could be great and charming in any humane Creature This Princess seem'd unsatisfied for all he could say of the Earls persistance but said no more and retired with the Dutchess after the end of the Conversation The next day his Excellency complain'd to Nardi of her Highnesses proceeding expressing dissatisfaction that having been kept in hand on pretence of the Abbot of Angeao's Negotiation for the Dispence he found now a greater difficulty would arise when that was done which was obtaining a consent from the Princess to which so lately she did express so much aversion He told him He should not find that strange nor be concern'd since the Ladies of Italy when it came to be in earnest were to have no will but that of their Friends and her Mother satisfied she would soon to have no will but that of their Friends and her Mother satisfied she would soon be brought to a more difficult matter if she thought fit The Earl then began to declare That time drew on and the meeting of the Parliament came near to which he was much circumscrib'd in his Affairs and he was obliged to come to a sudden conclusion or to depart Upon Notice whereof the Dutchess sent him notice next day of greater hopes of the young princess's concurrance whom she said had been pressed by the Duke her Brother and all her Friends so as upon the arrival of the Dispence she hoped he should be satisfied In the mean time the Treaty did proceed about the Portion which was to be Fourscore Thousand Pounds to be paid at several times according to agreements With conditions for Jointure Maintenance and other matters and upon these things there was not any disagreement But now at last came from Rome the Abbot of Angeao without the Dispensation which he could not by any means obtain by reason the Cardinal Altieri was inflexible and threats of Excommunication were issued out to any should undertake to perform or celebrate that Marriage Hereupon we were all upon the Fears and Expectation of a total Rupture The Dutchess her self a Zealous if not a Bigot Woman was in great pain about the part that might seem offensive to his Holiness or neglective of his Authority and the Princess took occasion from hence to support her unwillingness But in truth the Cardinal Barbarin of whom the Dutchess had great dependance and all the other Adherents and Relations of the House of Esté being every day more and more possessed of the Honor and Interest they were like to find in this Alliance were scandalised at the unreasonable obstinacy of the Pope and his Nephew and did franckly advise the Dutchess of Modena suddenly to make up and perfect the Marriage the peace and excuse of the thing being eafier to be had after it was done than any present Licence to be obtained for doing it The Bishop of Modena was then apply'd to for the performance but he refusing a poor English Jacobine was found Brother to Jerome White that after served the Dutchess who having nothing to lose and on whom the terror of Excommunication did not so much

Fossatum dicti Parci de Drayton tanquam pertinentem ad cundem Parcum de Drayton ac parcellam ejusdem Parci de Drayton existentem Et ulterius iidem Juratores dicunt super Sacramentum suum Quòd dictus Johannes Dominus Mordaunt ac omnes Antecessores sui ac omnes illi quorum statum idem Johannes Dominus Mordaunt in Manerio Parco de Drayton praedicto modo habet à tempore cujus contrarium memoria hominis non existit ad eorum placitum Voluntatem usi fuerunt consueverunt succidere ad usus suos convertere totum Boscum Subboscum crescentem existentem super dictam Terram vocatam le Freeborde super infra dicta Sepes Fossatum inter praedictum Parcum dicti Domini Regis de Brikestock praedictum Parcum de Drayton Dicunt etiam ulterius Juratores praedicti super Sacramentum suum quòd Custodes dicti Parci de Drayton pro tempore existientes de tempore ad cujus contrarium memoria hominis non existit ad eorum libitum placitum de tempore in tempus exire utebantur de jure exire poterunt de dicto Parco de Drayton in dictum Parcum de Brikestock apud quendam locum vocatum Snapes-Stile sic longanimiter perambulare super praedictam Terram dicti Domini Mordaunt vocatam le Freeborde jacentem ex occidentali parte dicti Parci de Drayton usque ad quendam locum in Parco de Drayton praedicto vocatum le Plumwell-Stile sic ibidem reingredi in dictum Parcum ad supervidendum utrum dictae Sepes inter dictum Parcum de Drayton dictum Parcum de Brikestock de tempore in tempus benè sufficienter reparatae existebant prout congruum fuerat necne Dicunt insuper Juratores praedicti super Sacramentum suum Quod non noscunt quod dictus Dominus Rex nunc aut aliquis Praedecessorum suorum ratione alterius Praerogativae sive alterius legitimae Consuetudinis peranteà habuit aut habere usus fuit seu de jure habere debuit aliquem Boscum sive Subboscum Spinas sive Arbores crescentes ex exteriore parte Paleorum sive Sepium dicti Parci de Brikestock abuttantis sive adjacentis versus aliquos Boscos sive Terras dicti Johannis Domini Mordaunt In cujus rei Testimonium tam praedicti Commissionarii quàm praefati Juratores his praesentibus Sigilla sua apposuerunt die anno loco supradictis Nos autem tenores Petitionis Commissionis Certificationis Testium Depositionum Inquifitionis praedictorum ad Requisitionem praedicti Johannis Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt duximus exemplificandum per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium primo die Novembris anno Regni nostri quarto S. Southwell A Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt and to Sir John Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt and to our Loving Friend Sir John Mordaunt and to either of them AFter our right hearty Commendations for the Safe-guard and Preservation of the King's Majesty's Person which is in no small danger by the Falshood and Treason of the Duke of Somerset who nevertheless to cover the same now bruiteth abroad That we of his Majesty's Council which seek only his Highness's Preservation should intend Evil unto his Highness which God forbid trusting by that means to abuse the People and so by their helps the rather to proceed in his purpose We have thought good to require you not only as much as in you is to let the People know the Truth but also forasmuch as de doth already gather Forces to put your self in order with all the Power you may make presently to repair unto us for the Service and Surety of the King's Majesty in this great and weighty matter as to the office of good and loving Subjects appertaineth From London the Sixth of October Your Lordships assured Friends Ri. Rich Cant. Will. Saint-John W. Northampton J. Warwick Arundell F. Shrewsbury Henry Sussex Thomas Southampton T. Theyn Will. Petres R. Sadlier Edward North. John Gage Nic. Southwell Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt and to Sir John Mordaunt To our very good Lord the Lord Mordaunt and to our very Loving Friend Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to either of them AFter our most hearty Commendations Where by our former Letters we have signified unto you the state of our doings and upon occasion of such Assemblies of Men as were made by the Duke of Somerset desired you to repair towards us for the surety of his Majesty's Person you shall understand That now by the goodness of God both the King's Majesty's Person is in Health and Surety and that without any Tumult or great business the Duke also is in sure Custody Which thing as we have thought good to signifie unto you so do we pray you to stay your Numbers at home without taking any further Travel for this matter Giving you our most hearty Thanks for your good Readiness at this time and so do bid you most heartily farewel From London the Eleventh of October 1549. Your Loving Friends Will. Saint-John Will. Northampton John Warwick F. Shrewsbury Thomas Southampton Thomas Wentworth John Gage Edward North. Nicholas Wotton John Baker Edw. Montague Another Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mordaunt and to Sir John Mordaunt To the Sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham to the Justices of Peace of the said Counties and to all other the King's Majesty's Constables Headboroughs and other his Highness's Ministers and Subjects of the said Counties FOrasmuch as the Duke of Somerset abusing the King's Majesties Hand Stamp and Signet and howbeit that without divers of us of his Majesties Council hath sent forth divers and sundry Writings to Levy the King's Majesties Subjects and disturb the Common Peace of the Realm for the maintaining of his own Ill and Outragious doings to no small Peril of the King's Majesties Person and the disturbance of all his Majesties good and Loyal Subjects These be to will and require you nevertheless on his Majesties behalf straitly to Command and Charge you That you nor none of you Levy nor cause to Levied any number of Men by force of any such Writing or Commandment or any other Writing whatsoever except the Hands of us of his Majesties Privy Council or the more part of us shall be Subscribed to the same And further we require you on his Highness's behalf to apply your Labours and Business every of you in your several Vocations quietly and peaceably as becometh good Subjects without giving Credit to any such Rumors and Bruits as by the said Duke be untruly and falsely spread abroad to the Dishonor and Scandal of us his Majesties True and Faithful Counsellors who be and ever shall be during our Lives ready to spend our Bloods for the