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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

Matrimonio copulavit cum Domino Johanne Mordaunt Milite Filio suo Primogenito cui illius jure devenit tota Haereditas hujus clarae antiquae Familiae Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon In a Book called Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brooke page 405. AUbrey de Vere after the banishment and death of Robert Duke of Ireland his Nephew was the tenth Earl of Oxford Lord Bulbec and Samford 1393. But the Chamberlainship of England saith Mills which his Ancestors held in fee he surrendred to King Richard the Second who bestowed the same upon John Holland Duke of Exeter his half Brother by the Mother He married Alice Daughter of John Lord Fitzwater of Woodham-water in Essex and had Issue Richard Earl of Oxford and John that dyed without Issue and Alice a Daughter that was married to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight This Aubery dyed in the first Year of Edward the Fourth and was buried in the Priory of Earls Colne in Essex in the Year 1400. In the same Book of Augustine Vincent page 450. JOhn Mountacute Knight Son and Heir of Sir John Mountacute Knight and Nephew and Heir of William Earl of Salisbury his Uncle was the third Earl of Salisbury of that Name and was one of the Noble men that conspired the death of King Henry the Fourth at a Justs held at Oxford but being disclosed divers of them were put to death and this John and Thomas Holland Earl of Kent flying to Circester were by the rude Townsmen there brought into the Market-place and had their heads smitten off The first Year of Henry the Fourth He married Maud Daughter and Heir of Sir Adam Francis and Widow of Sir Allan Boxhull Knight Lieutenant of the Tower and had Issue Thomas Mountacute Earl of Salisbury Richard that dyed young and three Daughters Anne the eldest was first married to Sir Richard Hanckford and after to Sir John Fitz-Lewis Knight and thirdly to John Holland Earl of Huntington and Duke of Exeter Margaret the second was married to William Lord Ferrers of Groby and Elizabeth the third was married to Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Carta Johannis Montgomeri Militis Dominae Annae Ducissae Exon. HAEC Indentura tripartita facta quintodecimo die mensis Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum vicesimo septimo Testatur Quòd Johannes Montgomeri Miles nomine Cofeoffat ' ac Domina Anna Ducissa Exon nomine Elizabethae Fitz-Lewis Filiae ejusdem Ducissae ac nomine dict feoffat dimiserunt ad firmam tradiderunt Thomae Greene Johanni Mongeham Cun ' Tellur ' London omnia illa Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' in Enfield in Com' Middlesex in Villa de Hatfield Episc ' Esenden in Com' Hertford vocat ' Hornbeingate Blountiis nuper recuperat ' in Curia Domini Regis per dictum Johannem Mountgomeri Militem Lodovicum John Militem jam defunct ' ac alios Habend ' tenend ' omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinent ' praefat ' Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executor ' Assignat ' eorum à Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli ultimo praeterito ante dat' praesent ' usque ad finem decem Annorum extunc proximè sequent ' plenar ' complend ' reddend ' inde annuatim in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Pauli Londin ' praefato Johanni Montgomeri Haeredibus Assignatis suis pro parte sua sex Libras Sterling praefatae Ducissae pro parte dictae Elizabethae Haeredum suarum sex Libras Sterling ad Festa Paschae Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per aequales portiones durante termino praedicto Nec non solvendo supportando Domino nostro Regi omnibus aliis omnia singula dicta Terras Tenementa incumbr ' Et si contingat dictos annuos redditus aut eorum alterum post aliquem terminum quo ut praefert ' solvi debeant per unum mensem aretro fore non solut ' in parte vel in toto contra formam praedictam durante anno praedicto extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Montgomery dictae Ducissae ac eorum utrique seu Attornat ' eorum in omnibus praedictis Terris Tenementis cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis in qualibet parcella eorundem intrare distringere districtiones sic captas licet asportare abducere fugare penes se retinere quousque eis de praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus arrearagiis eorundem plenariè fuerit satisfact ' persolut ' Et si sufficiens districtio pro praedictis annuis redditibus cum omnibus inde arrearagiis ibidem adtunc non numeratur extunc bene licebit praefato Johanni Mountgomery ac dictae Ducissae nec non praedict ' Feoffat ' in omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis reintrar ' illaque rehabere possidere ut in eorum statu pristino dictósque Thomam Johannem Mongeham Executores Assignatos suos inde totaliter expellere amovere hac Indentura in aliquo non obstante Et praedictus Johannes Montgomery omnia praedicta Terras Tenementa cum omnibus eorum pertinentiis praefatae Thomae Johanni Mongeham Executoribus Assignatis eorum pro praedictis annuis reddit ' modo formâ praedict ' contra omnes Gentes warrantizabimus per totum dictum terminum In cujus rei testimonium unae parti hujus Indenturae tripartitae penes dictos Thomam Greene Johannem Mongeham remanent ' dict' Johannes Montgomery Ducissa Sigilla sua apposuerunt alteris verò partibus ejusdem Indenturae tripartitae penes dict' Johannem Montgomery Ducissam alternatim reman ' dict' Thom ' Greene Johannes Mongeham Sigilla sua apposurunt Dat' die anno supradictis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS HENRY FITZ-LEWIS MARY Conutess of Rivers and Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lords of Westhornedon Vincent's Discovery of the Errours of Ralph Brook page 432. THomas Bledlow Alderman of London and others gave certain Lands called Okefield and Shortcroft in Nevengden in Essex to Henry Fitz-Lewis son of Sir Lewis John Knight and Eleanor his Wife and to the Heirs of their two Bodies coming and for want of such Issue to the right Heirs of Henry By virtue whereof he was thereof seised and so dyed the ninth of May 1480 in the twentieth of Edward the Fourth Upon whose death for Lands intailed to the Heirs Males the Jury find Richard Fitz-Lewis Son of Lewis Fitz-Lewis Son of Sir Lewis John Knight to be Cousen and next Heir but for the other that was given sibi Haeredibus to the Heirs general they deliver upon their Oaths Quòd Domina Maria Comitissa Rivers Uxor Anthonii Widevyle Domini Rivers est Filia propinquior Haeres praedicti Henrici Fitz-Lewis aetatis 15 annorum which plainly shews he had a second Wife called Mary Daughter and Heir of Henry Fitz-Lewis although here omitted

several maintenances until their several Marriages I do Will Give Bequeath and Devise by this my Last Will and Testament unto my loving Friends Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires and to their Heirs for ever Two parts of my Maners of Carleton and Chillington in the County of Bedford in Three parts to be divided which I lately purchased of the Lord Vaux the Land Meadow and Common thereto belonging lying in the Fields of Turvey only excepted Also I will give and bequeath unto the said Edward Watson and John Wake and to their Heirs for ever Two parts of my Maner of Stacheden otherwise called Delwike in the County of Bedford in three parts to be divided lately by me purchased of Master William Cornwallis Esquire and Lucy his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs of Sir John Nevill Knight Lord Latimer deceased and also two parts of my Maner and Closes of Snelson in the Parish of Lawenden in the County of Buckingham commonly called Snelson-Pastures in three parts to be divided or as much of my said Maners of Carleton and Chillington Stacheden called Delwike and Snelson-Pastures as shall amount unto two full parts of all the said Maners Closes and Pastures in three parts to be divided To the intent and purpose and upon special Trust and Confidence That if my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs do not yearly pay to each of my Daughters for their several maintenances until their several Marriages the foresaid Summs of Fifty Pounds a piece with their several Meat Drink and Lodging or One hundred Marks a Year a piece without Meat and Drink so that each of them may quietly have and receive Fifty Pounds a Year and Meat and Drink or a Hundred Marks a piece without Meat and Drink according to my true meaning as aforesaid Then I will That the said Edward Watson and John Wake my said Executors for this purpose and their Heirs shall yearly after my death levy and receive the Rents Issues Profits of the Premises and pay unto my said two Daughters yearly as aforesaid to each of them the Summ of One hundred Marks for their several maintenance until the several days of their several Marriages and the rest remaining to deliver unto my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs And to the intent and purpose and upon special Trust and Confidence That if my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Exccutors or Assigns shall not pay the said several Summs and every part and parcel of them before by me in this my Will to my Daughters and others bequeathed at such days and times as in this my Last Will is devised mentioned declared or intended according to my true meaning as I trust and assuredly hope he will Or shall resuse make denial or use detraction or delays Then I will That the said Edward Watson and John Wake or the Survivor of them and their Heirs shall bargain and sell to any person or persons their Heirs or Assigns for ever the said two parts of my said Maners Closes and Pastures with all and singular their Appurtenances in Carleton Chillington Stacheden called Delwike and Snelson aliàs Snelson-Pastures in three parts to be divided or as much thereof and of every part and parcel thereof as shall amount or fully extend unto the just value of two parts in three parts to be divided the Land in the Field of Turvey belonging to Carleton and Chillington only excepted for and towards the payment of their said several Portions before bequeathed And my intent is That if any Summ of Money shall be remaining over and besides the Legacies aforesaid which I will first to be satisfied then within convenient time after my Executors shall have received the same my said Executors and their Heirs shall deducting their reasonable Charges pay the same over unto my Son or to such other as shall be at that time my Heir Male of my House of Drayton And for that purpose only I mean for the maintenance of my Daughters and for the sale of my said Land as aforesaid if need so require I will that Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires and I will that _____ shall be my Supervisors for whose care in that behalf I give _____ And if my Son Henry depart this World without Heir Male my Daughters or any of them then surviving then my will is That my Daughter Katherine shall have in Augmentation of her Portion Five hundred Pounds more over and above her former Legacies And my Daughter Elizabeth also shall have Five hundred Pounds more beside her former Legacies And Arthur Maunsell if he be then alive shall have the like Summ of Five hundred Pounds otherwise I will the same to be divided between my Daughter Mary's two Sons Arthur and Henry Maunsell and that Edward Watson and John Wake and their Heirs my Executors also for this purpose shall stand seized of two parts of my Fee-simple Lands until such time as my Daughters be paid their Legacies by the next Heirs to whom my Son shall leave the same if my Son die without a Son But if my Son Henry have a Son that shall survive him then these three last Legacies bequeathed unto my Daughters Katherine and Elizabeth and the Children of my Daughter Mary touching their last bequests of Five hundred Pounds a piece shall be meerly void Nevertheless my Will is That though he have a Son my Daughters shall have their former Legacies and Portions according to my true meaning as aforesaid And my full Meaning and Will is That the Charges of my several Daughters Marriages in Meat Drink and Apparel according to their degrees shall be defrayed and born at the Costs and Charges of my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs or such other to whom my Lands by vertue hereof shall descend Which if he or they shall refuse or not do Then I Will That Edward Watson and John Wake my Executors or the Survivor of them or their Heirs shall see performed out of such Lands as before and hereafter I have willed and devised to them and their Heirs as occasion shall serve And thus having disposed of my worldly Goods and taken order for my Daughters Portions and Debts which I wish to be first paid having a special care that all and every Person or Persons to whom I have sold any manner of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall quietly and peaceably enjoy the same according to my true intent and meaning Although my trust and hope is my Son and Heir and his and their Heirs and all those that are or shall be Heir or Heirs Males to John Lord Mordaunt my late Grandfather to John Lord Mordaunt my Father deceased to my self or to my Son Henry Mordaunt shall and will quietly and peaceably permit and suffer all those Person and Persons and their Heirs to whom I have sold any Maners Lands or Tenements as aforesaid to have hold and enjoy the same and every part and parcel of them to them and their Heirs for ever

Islands Lands and Countries which now are or which hereafter during this our Commission shall be delivered or reduced to our obedience within any of the Kingdoms aforesaid And we do hereby give you Authority to make approve and execute such Laws and Ordinances making the same as near as may be conformable to the Laws of England for the better carrying on of the Civil Government of our said City of Tangier or any other Cities or Places which are or shall happen to be under your command and may best stand with the peace and good government of the People and Places commanded by you and to punish pardon or remit Offences against any of the Laws or Ordinances aforesaid And we do hereby further authorize you to entertain Trade and to give license to others to Trade and to proceed by such ways and means for the advance and encouragement of Trade as you in your discretion shall think fit until you shall receive further or other Directions from us And to appoint and establish Officers proper for the administration of publick Justice as may best suit with your Interest and with such Instructions as you shall receive from us from time to time and to impose and raise such reasonable Taxes Contributions Customs or other Payments as you shall judge necessary to our affairs And our will and pleasure is That all Confiscations Prizes Goods Merchandizes condemned by a Court of Admiralty and all other Forfeitures Customs or other Payments or Profits which shall be taken by you be put into account which account shall be transmitted hither unto us or to such as we shall appoint once every Year and that ye imploy the proceeds thereof to our Service for the supply of the Magazines or Forces under your Command until we shall order you to dispose otherwise of the same And we do further impower you under your Hand and Seal to appoint your Deputy or Deputies by what Name or Qualities you shall think fit to execute all or any of those Powers and Authorities by these Presents granted unto you and we do give to such person and persons so appointed by you full Power and Authority to do and execute whatsoever he or they respectively shall be by you appointed to do or execute To have hold exercise and enjoy the said Offices of Captain-General Chief Governor and Vice-Admiral and all and every the Powers and Authorities aforesaid by you and by your Deputy and Deputies as aforesaid during our will and pleasure And further we do hereby give and grant for us our Heirs and Successors that for whatsoever you or any by your Commission Warrant or Command shall lawfully do by vertue of this our Commission or the Instructions which you at any time shall receive from us the shewing forth of these our Letters Patents or the Inro●●ent thereof shall be in all and every of our Courts and else-where in our Dominions a sufficient Discharge and Acquittal in that behalf to you or such as shall act under you against us our Heirs and Successors and free you and them from all impeachment and other molestations for the same In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our Self at Westminster the Sixth Day of September in the Thirteenth Year of our Reign Per ipsum Regem Barker Instructions for the Earl of Peterborow General of our Army designed for Tangier in Africa I. YOU are by vertue of your Commission under our Great Seal and such Warrants and Directions as you have had from us or our Council to receive under your Command the Forces of Horse and Foot raised in England and two Regiments appointed for this service at Dunkirke and from the Rendezvous at Portsmouth wind and weather serving to sail directly to our City of Tangier II. Being there arrived you are as our General and Governor of that City and Country within the extent of your Commission to demand and receive the same with the Artillery Ammunition c. into your possession from the Governor of our Brother the King of Portugal III. You are to signifie to the Earl of Sandwich the delivery of Tangier as soon as you receive it and send some trusty Person with your Bills of Exchange for c. to Lisbon where the same is to be paid and sent by his Lordship in a good Ship to Tangier as we have directed IV. You are to endeavour to entertain into our Service such of the Portugal Horse as are willing to continue there upon the pay appointed by the establishment for Horse delivered to you And upon your Certificate to the Earl of Sandwich what summ of money is requisite to provide for them in equality with the Horse sent from England And order shall be taken to return the same to you immediately from Lisbon V. You are not to apply any of the Provisions or Pay of our Army for the support of any of the Inhabitants not in Pay but in all cases of their want or straits you are to dispose of them so any thing to the contrary notwithstanding that our City of Tangier may not be endangered thereby VI. Having given you by Commission full Power and Authority to treat and conclude upon what Conditions and Terms of Peace or Neutrality with any Prince or People of those Parts you shall judge most for our Honour and Service We are not willing to limit you further therein then that except it be in extream Accidents we expect that you refer all your agreements to our Ratification and that they be no longer binding if we refuse to give the same after notification of such our Refusal VII Our main design in putting our self to this great charge for making this addition to our Dominions being to gain to our Subjects the trade of Barbary and to enlarge our Dominions in that Sea and advance thereby the Honour of our Crown and the general Commerce and Well-fare of our Subjects you are to declare That we are graciously pleased that no Duties Customs or other Taxes whatsoever shall be laid by us or any under us upon any Goods imported or exported to or from our City of Tangier but that it shall be and remain a free Port for _____ years and you are with all convenient speed to consider and advise of the best ways and means for Encouragement and Invitation of our Subjects and Strangers to Reside and Trade And as that which we judge absolutely necessary to those ends you are speedily to consider of the making of a Mould for a sure station of Shipping and to transmit to us the Design and Estimate thereof beginning in the mean while with such preparations as the Souldiers can be perswaded to till upon consideration of your advice therein treasure shall be transmitted for that end VIII And whereas after you have received into your Power and Obedience our aforesaid City of Tangier and setled and established there in the best manner you shall be able our

of Peterborow CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith To our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin John Earl of Peterborow greeting Know ye that we for the great and singular Trust and Confidence we have in your approved Wisdom Fidelity and Circumspection have assigned made constituted and ordained and by these Presents do constitute assign make and ordain you to be our Lieutenant within our County of Northampton and in all Corporate and Priviledged places within the Precinct and Limits of the same County as well within the Liberties as without And do by these Presents give full Power and Authority unto you that you from time to time may levy gather and call together all and singular our Subjects of whatsoever State and Degree or Dignity they or any of them be dwelling or inhabiting within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits or precincts of the same County or any of them as well within Liberties as without meet and apt for the Wars and them and every of them to try array and put in Readiness and them also and every of them after their Abilities Degrees and Faculties well and sufficiently to cause to be armed and weaponed and to take the Musters of them in places most meet for that purpose after your good discretion And also the same our Subjects so arrayed tryed and armed as well Men of Armes as other Horsemen Archers and Footmen of all kinds and degrees meet and apt for the Wars to conduct and lead as well against all and singular our Enemies as also against all and singular Rebels Traytors and other like Offenders and every of them their and every of their Adherents against us our Crown and Dignity within our said County and all corporated and priviledged places within the Limits or Precincts of the said County and every of them as well within Liberties as without from time to time as often as need shall require by your discretion And with the said Enemies Traytors and Rebels to fight and them to invade resist repress subdue slay kill and put to execution of death by all ways and means by your said good discretion And to do fulfil and execute all and singular other things which shall be requisite for the Levying and Government of our said Subjects for the Conservation of our Person and Peace so by you in form aforesaid levyed and to be levyed and to do execute and use against the said Enemies and Rebels Traytors and such other like Offenders and their Adherents as necessity shall require by your discretion the Law called the Martial Law according to the Law Martial and of such Offenders apprehended or being brought into subjection to save whom you shall think good to be saved and to slay destroy and to put to Execution of Death such and so many of them as you shall think meet by your good discretion to be put to Death And further our will and pleasure is and by these Presents we do give unto you full power and lawful authority that in case any Invasion of Enemies Insurrection Rebellion Riots Routs unlawful Assemblies or any like offences shall happen to be moved in any place of this our Realm out of the limits of this our Commission that then as often as need shall require by your good Discretion or as you shall be directed from us by any special Commandment you with such power to be levyed within the limits of your Lieutenancy as you shall think requisite or as shall be directed from us as is aforesaid shall with all diligence repair to the place where any such Invasion unlawful Assembly or Insurrection shall happen to be made to subdue repress and reform the same as well by Battel and other kind of force as otherwise by the Laws of our Realm and the Law Martial according to your discretion And further we give unto you full power and authority for the Execution of this our Commission to appoint and assign in this our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places aforesaid as well within Liberties as without Muster-masters and one Provost Martial which Provost Martial shall execute and use the Martial Law in case of any Invasion Insurrection or Rebellion in conducting any number of Men of War against the said Invaders Traytors or Rebels during the continuance of such Invasion Insurrection or Rebellion Wherefore we will and command you our said Lieutenant That with all diligence you do execute the Premises with effect And for a smuch as it may be there shall be just cause for you to be attendant on our Person or to be otherwise imployed in our Service whereby this our Service of Lieutenancy committed to your Fidelity cannot be by you in person executed in such sort as we have appointed the same Therefore we give unto you for your better aid and assistance and for the better performance and execution of this same our Service full power and authority from time to time to appoint assign and constitute by writing under your Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as you in your discretion shall from time to time think fit to be your Deputies in this our said Service in our said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And by this our present Commission We give unto such Deputies so to be by you assigned and appointed as aforesaid or to any two or more of them full power and authority in your absence to do and execute in our said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without all and every thing and things before in this our Commission assigned and appointed by you to be done and executed And our will pleasure and commandment is That your said Deputies so by you from time to time to be appointed shall immediately after your Letters of Deputation to them made as is aforesaid take care and charge to see every point of this our Commission as fully and perfectly executed in your absence as you your self ought to have done if you had been personally present And the better to enable them so to do our will and pleasure is That immediately after such Deputation to them made as aforesaid you shall deliver to them a Duplicate or true Transcript of this our Commission subscribed with your Hand And whatsoever you being present or in your absence your said Deputies or any two or more of them shall do by vertue of this our Commisson and according to the Tenor and Effect of the same touching the execution of the Premises or any part thereof the same shall be by these Presents discharged in that behalf against us our Heirs and Successors And further we will and