being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
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
having intelligence That the Scots had Intrench'd themselves on a Hill called Floden on the edge of the Mountain Cheviot and finding the Country so Forraged that he could not long continue there he sent Rouge-Cross Herald on Sunday the Fourth of September conducted by a Trumpet with instructions to tell that King That having violated his Faith and League and Hostily entred England he resolved on the Friday next following to bid him Battle if he would accept it Whereupon King James accepting the Challenge he March'd within Three Miles of Floden and discerning that the Scots still kept the Hill he sent Rouge-Cross again with a Letter subscribed by himself and his Son the Lord Admiral with divers others moving them to come down into the Plain Unto which no satisfactory Answer being given he March'd on with his Army to cut off their Victuals in case they would not draw down The Scots therefore being aware of that danger fired their Huts and dislodged covertly by the advantage of the Smoak but kept still on the higher Ground This Earl therefore traversing some Bogs and Marshes till he came to the bottom of the ascent and finding it not very steep encouraged his Men to Fight marching speedily on his Two Sons Thomas and Edmond leading the Van of the Battle himself and Sir Edward Stanly the Rear The Lord Dacres with the Horse being appointed as a reserve Whereupon the Fight began which was stoutly maintained on both sides for Three hours till at length the Scots for the better avoiding the storm of Arrows opening their Ranks the Lord Dacres came in with his Horse and put them so to it that they were constrain'd to cast themselves into a ring doing all that Valiant Men could do and no Man more than the King himself yet he lost the day himself being slain upon the place by a mortal Wound with an Arrow and another with a Bill For which memorable Service this Earl had thereupon a special Grant from King Henry to himself and the Heirs Male of his Body of an honourable augmentation to his Arms to bear on the Bend thereof the upper half of a Red Lion Depicted as the Arms of Scotland are pierced through the Mouth with an Arrow And by Letters Patent bearing date the First of February next ensuing was advanced to the Dignity of Duke of Norfolk which Title John his Father deriving his Descent through the Heirs Female of Mowbray and Seagrave from Thomas of Brotherton Son to King Edward the First did enjoy the Ceremony of his Creation being performed at Lambeth the Day following which was the Festival of Our Ladies Purification And by other Letters Patent bearing date the same First of February obtained a Grant in Special Tail of the Mannors of Acton-Burnel Holgat Abeton Millenchop Langdon Chatwall Smithecote Wolstanton Vppington and Rushbury in Comitatu Salopiae Solihull in Com. Warr. Wolverhampton in Com. Staff Birehust and Vptonlovel in Com. Wilts Erdescote in Com. Berks Honnesdon Estwike Barley and Hide in Com. Hertf. Kentcote and Kerdwike in Com. Oxon. Eastwickham in Com. Kanc. of the Castles of Balesover and Horeston and Mannor of Horsley in Com. Derb. and of the Mannors of Clipston Limby Mauncefield Wood-house and Sutton in Ashfield in Com. Nott. to be held by the Service of one Knight's Fee Upon the Second of March next following he had a new Patent by the Title of Duke of Norfolk for the Office of Lord Treasurer of England And in the Sixth Year of Henry the Eighth upon the Contract of Marriage betwixt Lewis de Longueville on the behalf of Lewis the Twelfth of France and the Lady Mary Sister to King Henry the Eighth the King himself conducting her to the Sea side recommended her to the care of this Duke who Landing with her at Boloigne brought her to Abbeville where upon the Ninth of October King Lewis himself solemnly Consummated the Marriage But in the Seventh of Henry the Eighth observing that the Kings Coffers were much exhausted by his Wars and Triumphs and not finding it easie to supply these vast Expences which in Pageants and other devices increased daily he wisely withdrew himself In the Thirteenth of Henry the Eighth 13 Maii he performed the Office of Lord High Steward upon the Tryal of Edward Duke of Buckingham and gave Sentence of Death upon him but not without Tears And in the Fourteenth of Henry the Eighth obtained a Grant in Special Tail and to his Son Thomas Earl of Surrey of the Mannors of Welles Shyringham Stafford Barningham Warham and Waveton in Com. Suff. with the Advousons of the Churches part of the Possessions of the before specified Edward Duke of Buckingham attainted By his Testament bearing date ult Maii Anno. 1520. 12. H. VIII he bequeathed his Body to be Buried in the Church of the Priory of Thetford in Com. Norf. before the High-Altar appointing that his Executors should cause a Tomb to be made and set up there with the Images of himself and Agnes his Wife thereon allowing for the charge thereof CXXXIII l VI s VIII d He also bequeathed to his Son and Heir Apparent who should be living at his Decease his great hanged Bed paled with Cloth of Gold white Damask and black Velvet broidered with these Two Letters T and A as also one suit of Hangings of the story of Hercules made for the great Chamber at Framingham in Norfolk And departing this Life at his said Castle of Framingham 21 Maii Anno 1524. 16. H. VIII had Burial in the Priory of Thetford accordingly He Married two Wives first Elizabeth Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Bourchier Lord Berners Which Elizabeth by her Testament bearing Date Nov. 6. Anno 1506. 22. H. VII bequeathed her Body to be Interr'd in the Nuns Quire of the Minoresses without Aldgate in London nigh unto the place where Anne Montgomery lay Buried appointing that no more than Twenty Torches should be used at her Burial and Months-mind also that no Dole or Money should be given at either of these Solemnities but instead thereof a Hundred Marks to be distributed to the poor folks viz. to every poor Man and Woman in the Parishes of White-Chappel and Hackney vij d. By this Elizabeth he had Issue Eight Sons 1. Thomas created Earl of Surrey in his life time 2. Sir Edward Howard Knight of the Garter 3. Edmond The other Five viz. Henry John Charles Henry and Richard all dying young And Three Daughters 1. Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford afterwards Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond 2. Muriell first Married to John Grey Viscount Lisle afterwards to Sir Thomas Knevet of Buckingham in Com. Norf. Knight And 3. Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Natural Son to King Henry the Eighth To his Second Wife he Wedded Agnes Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had Issue William afterwards created Baron Howard of Effingham of whom and his Descendants I shall
say more anon 2. Thomas who taking to Wife the Lady Margaret Douglas Daughter to Margaret Queen of Scots by her Husband the Earl of Angus Niece to King Henry was attainted of Treason upon some suspition of his intents for aspiring to the Crown and departing this life in the Tower of London 1. Nov. Anno 1537. 29. Eliz. was Buried at Thetford 3. Richard who died Anno 1517. 9. H. 8. and was Buried at Lambeth And Four Daughters Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy to Edward Earl of Derby Elizabeth to Henry Earl of Sussex and Katharine first Married to Sir Rice ap Thomas Knight but afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater Polydore Virgil pag. 567. Reckoning up those the King chose for his Council ET Thomas Howardus Comes Surriae vir Prudentia Gravitate Constantia summa Polydore Virgil pag. 621. JAM dies Concilii ad Westmonasterium habendi advenerat ubi Henricus cum Katharina Uxore à Cantuariensi Archiepiscopo corona redimitur sacraturque Octavo Kal. Julii Anno qui fuit salutis humanae MDIX quo ejus pater è vita excesserat qui dictus est Henricus eo nomine octavus dum publicum gaudium celebratur Laetitiam moeror velut saepe Comes sequitur Margareta enim Henrici avia moritur ob cujus obitum non nihil respublica damni fecit quippe mulier erat prudentissima atque sanctissima quae cum videret Henrico per aetatem non licere suum officium praestare ita à principio providere consulere prospicere coepit ut summa imperii penes optimos quosque principes esset quo ne quid ipsa respublica detrimenti acciperet quae aliquot menses communi multorum Concilio gubernata postremo ad duos Ricardum Wintoniensem Episcopum Thomam Comitem Surreium administratio pervenit qui inter se secretas habebant simultates quas authoritatis aemulatio in dies singulos magis magisque augebat In iis diversa erant studia Wintoniensis suis amplis rebus contentus Regis tantum republicae utilitatem quaerebat Comes vero qui olim paternae haereditatis majori ex parte propter Civilia Bella Factionum Seditiones Naufragium fecerat suo interim privato commodo inservire cogebatur qui idcirco ad latus Regis quotidie adhaerens bene magna identidem ab eo beneficia habebat quae ille tam suis quam aliis postea ad arbitrium suum daret tribueret deferret Ista Wintoniensi visa sunt eo brevi tempore evasura ut Comes primas apud principem teneret omnino nisi maturè obviam ejus conatibus praeiretur id quod sibi modis omnibus faciendum deliberavit Accessit in eandem palaestram tertius Guilielmus Conton in Regio cubiculo primus Minister sed is cum magis rei familiari quà m potentiae studeret nihil dabat suspicionis Interea Christopherus Benbricus Eboracensis Archiepiscopus Romam Legatus ad Julium Romanum Pontificem Mittitur Thomas Ruthal designatur Dunelmensis Episcopus WILLIAM HOWARD Peer of England Lord Baron of Effingham Lord High Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy Seal and Privy Councellor to the Queens Mary and Elizabeth CHAPTER II. Baronage of England Pag. 278. Howard of Effingham HAving thus Finish'd with the Principal Stemm of this most Noble Family I come to those Collateral Branches as are not yet spoke of And first to William Son to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk of this House by Agnes his Second Wife Daughter of Hugh Tilney and Sister and Heir to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Com. Linc. Knight This William in 24. H. VIII was one of the Attendants of that King to Calis and so to Boloigne at such time as he was there Magnificently received by Francis the First King of France And in 26. H. VIII sent into Scotland to present King James the Fifth with the Order of the Garter Also to acquaint him with the intended Interview betwixt King Henry and King Francis of France And intreating his Presence thereat to desire his Coming through England to accompany King Henry to Calis In 27. H. VIII he was sent with Dr. William Barlow Bishop of St. Asaph to the same King of Scots to perswade him to enterview with King Henry as also to make certain advantageous Propositions to him And in 35. H. VIII upon that unhappy Deportment of Katharine Howard his Niece Fifth Wife of King Henry for which she lost her Head being newly return'd from an Embassy into France he was Indicted as was also his Wife and the old Duthess of Norfolk for Misprision of Treason in concealing what they knew of that Queen's Behaviour therein and condemned to perpetual Imprisonment But at length through the King's Favour enlarged and in 6. Edw. VI. made Deputy of Calis being a very valiant Person and perfectly Loyal to both those Kings He had such Esteem from Queen Mary as that by Letters Patents bearing Date 11. Martii in the First Year of her Reign he was advanced to the Degree and Dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Howard of Effingham as also the Twentieth of the same Month made Lord Admiral of England Ireland and Wales And upon the Second of April next ensuing took his Place in Parliament amongst the rest of the Peers Also upon the Eighth of that Month constituted Lord Admiral and Lieutenant General of all her Forces at Sea He was likewise Lord Chamberlain of her Household And in the 1. Eliz. had the same Honourable Office conferred on him by that Queen After this he was sent Ambassador with the Lord Cobham to the Spaniard into the Netherlands and in 12. Eliz. accompanied the Earl of Sussex General of those Forces then sent against the Earls of Northumberland and VVestmoreland at that Time in Rebellion In 15. Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate at the Tryal of the Duke of Norfolk And by his Testament bearing Date 6. Maii 11. Eliz. being then Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of the Parish Church of Rygate in Com. Sur. appointing a Tomb to be there made for him And to Charles his Son and Heir bequeathed his Collar of Gold and all his Robes belonging to the Order of the Garter He Married Two Wives first Katharine Daughter and Co-heir to Sir John Broughton of Tuddington in Com. Bedf. Knight by whom he had Issue only one Daughter called Agnes Married to VVilliam Pawlet the Third Marquis of VVinchester Secondly Margaret Daughter of Sir Thomas Ganiage Knight which Margaret departed this Life ..... Maii Anno 1581. 23. Eliz. by whom he had Issue four Sons viz. Charles who succeeded him in his Honour VVilliam Howard of Lingfield in Com. Sur. Edward and Henry who died Young Also Five Daughters First Douglas Married first to John Lord Sheffield afterwards to Robert Earl of Leicester as hath been pretended and thirdly
others with him having a power with them of seven thousand Men being almost at their heels but also by the Earl of Warwick and the Lord Clinton with a far greater Army of Twelve thousand Men raised by the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners out of the South and middle part of the Realm in which Army besides the Earl of Warwick and Lord Admiral chief Governour of the same there were also Walter Devereux Viscount Hertford High Marshal of the Field with the Lord Willoughby of Parham Mr. Charles Howard now Lord Howard of Effingham General of the Horsemen under the Earl of Warwick young Henry Knowles Son to Sir Francis Knowles his Lieutenant Edward Horsey Captain of the Isle of Wight with five hundred Harquebusiers out of the same Isle and Captain Leighton with other five hundred Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthy Gentlemen and valiant Captains The Baronage of England Pag. 279. WHich Charles so succeeding him in 13. Eliz. his Father then living was one of those noble persons who by the command of Queen Elizabeth conducted the Lady Anne of Austria Daughter to Maximilian the Emperor from Zeland into Spain And in 16. Eliz. 24. April was Install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 28. Eliz. upon the death of Edward Earl of Lincoln Lord High Admiral of England being then also Chamberlain to the Queen as his Father had formerly been he was constituted his Successor in that great Office Whereupon in Ann. 1588. 30. Eliz. when that formidable Armado from Spain so much threatned an Invasion here he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen 's whole Fleet at Sea of whose prosperous success she had no small opinion well knowing him by his Moderation and Noble Extraction to be a person of great knowledge in Maritine Affairs Discreetly Wary througly Valiant Industrious in Action and a person whom the Mariners entirely loved And in 39. Eliz. further dangers being threatned from the Spaniard through the help of those Irish who were Rebelliously disposed he was made joint General of the English Army with Robert Earl of Essex for the Defence of this Realm both by Sea and Land vix Essex for the Land and this Lord Admiral for the Sea the first squadron being led by him the second by Essex the third by Thomas Howard and the fourth by Sir Walter Rawliegh In this Year also 15. Junii he was constituted Justice Itenerant of all the Forests South of Trent for Life And upon the 22th of October following in consideration of his eminent Services in in Ann. 1588. by defending this Realm against the Spanish Armado and afterwards in Sacking of Cadiz in Spain as also in destroying the Spainsh Fleet then in the Port there was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Nottingham as descended from the Family of Mowbray whereof some had been Earls of that County In 41. Eliz. still continuing in high reputation at Court some danger from the Spaniard being again threatned he was constituted Lieutenant General of the Queen's Field Forces And in 44. Eliz. made one of the Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England In 1. Jac. I. in order to the Solemnity of that King's Coronation he was made Lord Great Steward of England for that occasion And in 2. Jac. I. upon renewing the Commission unto seven of the great Lords for exercising that great Office of Earl Marshal was likewise constituted one of that number But in Ann. 1619. 17. Jac. I. he surrendred his Patent for the Office of Lord Admiral into the King's hands whereupon it was conferr'd on the Marquis of Buckingham This Noble Earl Married to his first Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hunsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who Wedded Anne Daughter and sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletso but died in his life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in Com. Bedf. afterwards Earl of Peterborow 2. Charles his Successor in his honours As also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Rising in Com Norf. Knight Frances first Married to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare in Ireland afterwards to Henry Lord Cobham and Margaret to Sir Richard Leveson of Trentham in Com. Staff Knight and Vice-Admiral of England To his second Wife he Married Margaret Daughter to James Steward Earl of Murrey in Scotland which Margaret was naturalized in the Parliament of 1. Jac. I. by whom he had Issue Two Sons James who died young and Sir Charles Howard Knight And died at Hayling near Croydon in Kent 13. Dec. Ann. 1624. 22. Jac. I. being at that time Eighty eight Years of Age having been Knight of the Garter Fifty two Years his Wife surviving him who afterwards Married to Sir William Munson Knight afterwards Viscount Castelmayn in Ireland To whom succeeded Charles his second Son the elder dying before him without Issue Male which Charles first took to Wife Charitie Daughter of ..... White Widow of ..... Leche a Londoner afterwards Mary Daughter to Sir William Cockaine Knight Alderman of London and thirdly Margaret Daughter to James Earl of Marrey in Scotland by whom he had Issue James who died unmarried and Charles Which Charles succeeding him in his Honours Married Arabella Daughter of ...... Smith of ....... but as yet hath not any Issue so that Francis Howard of Great-Buckham in Com. Surr. Esq Son and Heir to Sir Charles Howard Knight Son and Heir to Sir Francis Howard Knight Brother and Heir to Sir Edward Howard Knight Cup-bearer to King James the First Son and Heir to William Howard of Lingfield in Com. Surr. second Son to William Lord Howard of Effingham is his next expectant Heir Male. Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 42. ILLA tamen ut mortuo constaret Regius honos exequias ut regi amico in Templo Paulino Londini magna pompa persolvit Simulque per Carolum Baronis Howardi Effinghamii filium Francisco successori de patris obitu condolet de successoris gratia ut amicitiam nuper initam Sanctè coleret admonet Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 186. ILLI enim aliis curis erant occupatissimi Hispanus totus in nuptiis apparandis cum Anna Austriaca Imperatoris Maximiliani filia sua ipsius è sorore nepte quae hoc tempore è Zelandia Hispaniam versus solvit Ad quam per mare Britannicum in Hispaniam deducendam Elizabetha Carolum Howardum cum Bellicosa Classe selectis nobilibus misit Summa cum honoris amoris in Austriacam familiam festificatione Cambdeni Elizabetha Pag. 389. INeunte hoc anno diem obiit Edwardus Clintonus maris Praefectus sive Admirallus qui Comes Lincolniae anno MDLXXII ab Elizabetha creatus Windesorae sepultus fines sepulchrali inscriptione falsò cognominatus quod adnoto non ut arguam sed ne ipse arguar Successit in dignitate Henricus filius in maris Praefectura Carolus Effinghamius Reginae Camerarius
Willielmo Domino Compton ac etiam dilictis fidelibus Conciliariis nostris Willielmo Knolles Milite Contrarotulatore hospitii nostri Roberto Cecilio Milite principali Secretario nostro aliis In cujus rei c. Teste Regina apud Westmonasterium vicesimo secundo die Octobris Anno Regni Reginae Elizabethae tricesimo Per ipsam Reginam Concordatum cum Recordo Examinatum per me S. Killingworth The History of Queen Elizabeth by Cambden Pag. 610. HE was very much offended that the Council were let loose several Papers he cast into the Fire lest as he said they should tell tales and prepared himself for defence And being now reduced to his last hope of expecting Aid from the Londoners he Fortified his House on all sides The Lord Admiral presently Besieged the House to Land-ward He assigned the Earls of Cumberland and Lincoln the Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Grey the Lord Burghly the Lord Compton and others with Forces of Horse and Foot every Man his Post He himself with the Lord Effingham his Son the Lord Cobham Sir John Stanhop Sir Robert Sidney Sir Fulk Grevill seized upon the Garden by the Thames side Being now ready to assault the House he summoned him by Sidney to yield Southampton asked him to whom they should yield To their Adversaries That were to run themselves headlong to ruine Or to the Queen That were to confess themselves guilty But yet said he if the Lord Admiral will give us Hostages for our security we will appear before the Queen If not we are every one of us fully resolved to lose our lives fighting The Lord Admiral returning word by Sidney That neither were Conditions to be propounded by Rebels nor Hostages to be delivered to them signified to Essex That for the sparing the weaker sex he would permit the Countess his Wife the Lady Rich his Sister and their Waiting-Gentlewomen who filled all places with their womanish Shrieks and Lamentations to come forth Which Essex took as a favour only he desired that an hour or two's time might be granted him to fortifie the place by which they should go forth which was also granted Before the hour was expired Essex holding all things now for desparate and lost resolved to make his way out And the Lord Sands who was more aged than the rest earnestly urged him so to do often repeating that saying That the resolutest Councels are the safest That it is more honourable for Noble Persons to die fighting than by the hand of the Executioner But Essex wavering in his resolution began presently to think of yielding and gave notice that upon certain Conditions he would yield But when the Lord Admiral would admit of no conditions he said he would not give conditions but rather take them Yet Three things he requested First That they might be civilly dealt withal This the Lord Admiral promised Secondly That their cause might be justly and duly heard He answered That there was no reason to doubt thereof And Lastly That Ashton a Minister of God's Word might be with him in Prison for his Soul's comfort The Lord Admiral answered That for these things he would make intercession to the Queen When presently all the Noblemen falling upon their Knees and delivering their Swords up to the Lord Admiral yielded themselves at Ten of the Clock at Night There were no more slain but Owen Salisbury and one or two who were killed in the House by shot and as many of the Besiegers And again out of the same Pag. 659. UPON which day whether thinking on her Death or presaging what would ensue she happned to say to the Lord Admiral whom she always dearly affected My Throne hath been the Throne of Kings neither ought any other than he that is my next Heir to succeed me And the Courtiers observed That she never before more frequented Prayers and the Service of God than now WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Eldest Son to Charles Earl of Nottingham that was Lord High Admiral of England CHAPTER IV. HE is recorded in several Writers of the Heralds Books to have bore a part in most of the Tilts Fights at Barriers and other Marshal Games and Triumphs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Cambden's History of Queen Elizabeth Pag. 519. THE English Ships which by reason of the shallowness of the Channel could not hitherto come near them now when it was flood came in with great alacrity Essex also with his Ship thrust himself into the midst of the Fight as likewise did the Admiral himself with his Son Ibidem Pag. 521. ABout Sixty Military Men were Knighted for their Valour viz. Robert Earl of Essex Count Lodowick of Nassau Don Christophero a Portuguese Sir William Herbert Sommerset Bourk an Irish-man William Howard the Lord Admiral 's Son Robert Dudley George Devereux Henry Nevill c. Milles's Catalogue of Honour Pag. 894 895. CHARLES Howard Son of William Lord Howard of Effingham Lord Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth one of her Privy Council and by her made Knight of the Garter who was younger Son of Thomas Howard second Duke of Norfolk one of the Lords of the Honourable Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Admiral of England was for his most right honourable Service at the Sacking of Cales with Robert Devereux Earl of Essex by Queen Elizabeth created Earl of Nottingham in right of his descent from the Mowbrays Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Nottingham The First Wife Katharine Daughter of Henry Cary Lord Hundsdon who being Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to Queen Elizabeth one of her Honourable Privy Council and Knight of the Garter was Son of William Cary by his Wife Mary Bollen Sister to Queen Anne Bollen Mother of Queen Elizabeth was first Wife unto Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham The Second Wife Margaret the Daughter of James Stuart Earl of Murray was the second Wife to Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham now living 1610. Children by his First Wife William Howard was by King James created Lord Howard of Effingham a Baron of the Parliament House who Married Anne Daughter and Heir of John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe by his Wife Katharine Daughter of Sir Robert Dormer of Eythorp in Buckingham-shire Charles Howard Knight Keeper of the Castle at Windsor Elizabeth Wife of Sir Robert Southwell of Riseing in Norfolk Knight Frances Wife of ..... Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare Margaret Wife of Sir Richard Leuson Children by his Second Wife James died lately young 1610. ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. The Second Part of the Baronage of England by Dugdale Pag. 279. THIS Noble Earl took to Wife Katharine Daughter to Henry Lord Hundsdon by whom he had Issue Two Sons William who wedded Anne Daughter and Sole Heir to John Lord Saint John of Bletsoe who died in his Father's Life-time leaving Issue Elizabeth his Sole Daughter and Heir Married to John Lord
he renewed old Claims much to the displeasure and discontent of the King Among the rest he revived an ancient pretence of the See of Canterbury to the Castle and Honour of Saltwood which Sir Ralph de Broc for his own as well as the Kings Interest did peremptorily oppose From hence great and personal Enmities did arise between the Archbishop and himself to that Degree as the King in the subsequent variances that fell out afterward between Becket and him could reasonably find no man so proper to oppose unto his insolent Arrogance as Sir Ralph de Broc who had a Reputation and Interest in that County Superiour to most of his time and the Conscience of a Souldier not apt to be puzl'd or obstructed with Scruples incident to men of milder Callings hence it was that he was made the man of Terrour of Seizure and Chastisement to the Archbishop and all his Adherents when their Endeavours were in Opposition to the King and his Authority and this was the reason of all the reprobate Characters he did receive from several Monkish Authors of that time which may be perused amongst the proofs He died notwithstanding happy and safe from all their Censures in the favour and service of his Prince and in Marriage of a Lady called Damata the Daughter of one William de Gorom who by the Stile of his Charter appears to have been a man of much Dignity and Power in those days from whom he received in free Gift to him his Wife and their Heirs the Land of Staplehurst Their Issue Robert de Broc Edelina de Broc Married to Stephen of Turnam a great Baron and in much Authority in the Reign of King John being at that time Seneschall of Poictou in the Kingdom of France ROBERT the Son of Ralph de Broc at the Arrival of the Insolent Archbishop out of banishment received early marks of his Revenge and Indignation For upon Christmas day in the Seventeenth Year of King Henry the Second we find he was Excommunicated by his own mouth together with Nigell de Sackville for some Offences pretended to have been done to that Prelate during the late Contests whose Death soon after Executed by certain Knights of the Court set himself and his Family out of the reach of his farther displeasure This Sir Robert de Broc became a famous Knight and in much Employment under King Richard the First in whose Reign we find he was stiled Marshal of England He Married to his first Wife Margaret of Beauchamp or de bello Campo one of the Daughters of Richard de Beauchamp who gave in free Marriage besides other things certain Lands and Rents in the Town of Chestersham His Second Wife was Margery de Crec who becoming the Heir of Walter her Father by occasion that her Brother William happened to suffer under the Laws brought unto him the Forrestership of Cannoc and the Lordship of Misterton in the County of Warwick which preferment was procured unto him by the particular favour of the King Issue by his first Wife Laurence de Broc Issue by his second Wife Margery Married to Hugh de Loges to whom descended Misterton and all the Lands of their Mothers Inheritance SIR Laurence de Broc flourished in the Reign of King John and King Henry the Third to whose Interests he did constantly adhere The Reputation and Authority which he had in the Counties of Suffolk Cambridge Huntington and Buckingham were of no small use to the Affairs of the Crown during the various Troubles of that long Reign He augmented notwithstanding the Fortune left him by his Predecessors having purchased the Mannors of Bridsthorn Herdwick and Wedon from the Prior of Saint Saviours of Bermundsey and received from Robert Mallet a Lord of that Age in Marriage with his Daughter Milicent certain Lands in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge on condition That if they did not prove to the value they were asserted to be worth their Deficiency was then to be made good out of the Lands that were held by the said Robert Mallet in Quenton in the County of Buckingham Their Issue Hugh de Broc SIR Hugh de Broc succeeded his Father in his Lands and Lordships and we find he followed the famous King Edward the First in divers of his Wars his Name being upon the Lists of several Expeditions which were made in that Reign into Wales Gascony and Scotland He Married Agnes de Montepiconis a Lady descended from one of the most ancient and Noble Families that was among the Normans as whose Predecessors had been Lords of the Honour which bare that name in the Dutchy of Normandy and whose immediate Ancestor came over with King William the First in quality of his Dapifer or Sewer an Office of Eminent Dignity at that time in the Kings House Their Issue Laurence de Broc SIR Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale after the decease of his first Wife whose Christian Name was Ellen Married another Lady of the same appellation that was the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot and of Cassandra one of the Heirs of the Famous Knight Sir Giles of Argentine who gave him the Mannor of Maudlins and other Lands as a Portion to which end a Fine was suffer'd in the Thirtieth Year of Edward the First In the third Year of King Edward the Second a Patent pass'd unto this Sir Laurence de Broc to have Free-Warren and all the Rights thereof upon his Lands in Chessham Aumondsham Bridsthorn Hardwick and Wedon in the County of Buckingham and in the seventh of the same Reign he Levied a Fine to his Son Ralph and Elizabeth his Wife He lived unto the Reign of King Edward the Third and left to Inherit his Lands and Lordships Sir Ralph de Broc Lord of Shephale OF this Ralph de Broc or the Transactions of his Life there remains little Testimony So whether he died early or that the Evidences of them cannot appear by reason of the length of time since the Alienation of these Lands it is uncertain but true it is That in him did terminate this Name and Family who having Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John Hussey left no Male-Issue and only three Daughters Joanne Married to Thomas Rokesby that died without Issue Elena Married to Edmund Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Agnes Married to Sir Henry of Brussels ELena de Broc was in the Seven and twentieth Year of King Edward the Third Married to Edmund Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey in the County of Bedford and of divers other Lordships She brought into his House the Moity of all her Fathers Lands there accruing to her Husband for her Share in Cambridgshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborn in Buckinghamshire divers Lands in Elsburg Bridsthorn Herdwick Wedon Chessham and Aumondsham with sundry other Lands in Hartfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephale Their Issue Robert Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Sr. RANULPH de BROC Governor of the Castle of Agenet
into Possession of the Lordships of Estpullham Westpullham Childeckford Divelish Duntish Winterborn Whitechurch and Newton in the County of Dorset and of Estoket in Somersetshire His Wife was Margaret de Peche the Daughter of Sir William de Peche Knight who was Descended from that Gilbert de Peche that was a great * Look the Barons Letter to the Pope Baron in the time of King Edward the First Their Issue Sir John Latimer SIR JOHN LATIMER who is stiled in his Charters Lord of Estpullham had a Contest with his own Father about certain Lands which by Articles Sir Robert Latimer had bound himself to establish upon his Heirs at the time of his Marriage with Margaret the Mother of this Sir John who was the Daughter of Sir William Peche Knight by reason Sir Robert had burnt the Writings whereupon the Interest of these Lands did depend to make them appear free for an Advantage he intended to himself in a second Marriage which he did at that time design There is Extant a Bill Exhibited by Sir John Latimer complaining thereof to Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham and High Chancellor of England in the sixth year of King Henry the Fifth This Sir John Latimer Married Catharine the Daughter of Sir John Pypard by whom he left Issue Sir Nicholas Latimer SIR Nicholas Latimer we find to have been High Sheriff of the County of Dorset once in the thirty second of Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth and in those turbulent and difficult times this Office might have been indeed properly called Onus cum honore for the men so imployed were at that time sought out among the richest the most popular and the most powerful that the Country would not only obey at home but follow abroad and men then depending upon the Bounty and Hospitality of the Great their Inclinations and Example were of more force than all the Cases of Law and Conscience The Prudence notwithstanding and good Fortune of Sir Nicholas Latimer did happily conduct him through the violent Reigns of three very active Princes King Henry King Edward and King Richard the Third and brought him peacefully to rest with his Fathers in the Twentieth year of King Henry the Seventh at a very great Age although with that Circumstance of leaving no Heir Male to Inherit his Lands and Family and for only Issue of the Lady Joan his Wife the Daughter of Sir John Hoddy Edith Latimer Lady Mordaunt EDITH LATIMER Lady MORDAVNT Lady of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford Estoket and other Lands and Lordships EDITH LATIMER was by the Consent and Direction of her Father Married to Sir John Mordaunt in the fourteenth year of King Edward the Fourth between whom and Sir Nicholas Latimer several Agreements were made concerning his Inheritance But the hope of Male Issue and his Engagement in a second Marriage caused him so to protract the Settlement as being surpriz'd with Death he left his Estate under several great Incumbrances which notwithstanding the Kings Interest in the same upon pretence of some Debts due to him from the said Sir Nicholas were at last overcome and mastered by the Industry and Prudence of Sir John Mordaunt and the Lands and Lordships of Duntish Divelish Estpullham Childeckford and Estoket left by him to the Lords Mordaunts that were his Successors She outliv'd her first Husband and was again Married to Sir Thomas Carew of Devonshire who was slain in a Sea-Fight on the Coast of Britain in the fourth year of King Henry the Eighth being at that time Captain of the Noble Ship called the Regent which was burnt in the same Occasion Issue by her first Husband John the first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joan Mordaunt Married to Sir Giles Strangeways of Dorsetshire WILLIAM Lord Latimer Surnamed le Riche ALICIA de Ledet William Ld. Latimer Sibill de Huntingfeild Sr. Iohn Latimer Second Sonne Ioane de Govis Sr. Nicolas Latimer William Ld. Latimer Elizabeth de Botetort Sr. Robert Latimer Catherine Hull William Latimer William Ld. Latimer Chamberlaine to E. 3 Elizabeth Fitz Allan Sr. Robert Latimer Margeret Peche Margeret Latimer Elizabeth Latimer Daughter and Heire Iohn Lord Nevill Sr. Iohn Latimer Catherine Pipard Sr Nicolas Latimer Ioane Hoddy Edith Latimer Sr. Iohn Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of LATIMER of Duntish WILLIAM Lord LATIMER Lord Baron of CORBY Hollinshead Page ON the Kings part these persons are named to stand with him against the Barons First Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford Hugh Bigod Lord Chief Justice Philip Basset William de Valence Jeffrey de Lusignian Peter de Savoy Robert Wallerand John Mancell Jeffrey Langley John Gray William Latimer Henry Percy Doctor Powel's History of Wales Page 371. WHen the Archbishop could not conclude a Peace he denounced the Prince and his Complices Accursed Then the King sent his Army by Sea to the Isle of Man or Anglesey which they won and slew such as resisted them for the chiefest men served the King as their Oath was So they came over against Bangor where the Arm of the Sea called Menay which divideth the Isle from the main Land is narrowest at the place called Moely-donn and there made a Bridge of Boats and Planks over the Water where before Julius Agricola did the like when he subdued the Isle to the Romans and not between Man and Britain as Polydore Virgil ignorantly affirms This Bridge accomplished so that well threescore men might pass over in a Front William Latimer with a great number of the best Souldiers and Lucas de Thany Steward of Gascony with his Gascoins and Spaniards whereof a great number was come to serve the King passed over the Bridge and there saw no stir of Enemies but as soon as the Sea began to flow down came the Welshmen from the Hills and set upon them fiercely and either slew or chased them to the Sea to drown themselves for the Water was so high they could not attain the Bridge saving William Latimer alone whose Horse carried him to the Bridge and so he escaped Henricus Knighton Canonicus Leicestriensis de Eventibus Angliae Pag. 2497. HIS auditis mox Rex Edwardus quingentos armatos viginti mille peditum misit in Vasconium cum Domino Johanne de Sancto Johanne qui ejusdem Terrae olim Senescallus extiterat cum Domino Johanne de Britanniâ illo Milite strenuissimo Willielmo le Latimer qui apud Portsmouth omnibus ad Expeditionem tantam necessariis paratis posuerunt se in mare circa Festum beati Petri ad vincula irruente vento contrario dispersae sunt naves per partes Cornubiae iterúmque collectae apud Plumeneye circa Festum beati Dionysii ventis vela iterum relaxabant post multa variáque Tempestatum discrimina
Illustrious Enterprize and soon after his Arrival was married to Lucy one of the Daughters of the Lord Gilbert Basset of Welden a Neighbour to his Fathers Lordship of Drayton and who was at that time a great Baron in England After the Death of Sir Henry his Father which happened about the fifth year of this Reign he became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of his Inheritance and from that his chief Seat as was in those days very usual did assume the name of Drayton to remain to him and his Descendants ever after It appears by a Charter of his which is extant that under the name of Walter the Son of Henry the Son of Robert he did give and grant to his Uncle William de Vere all the Lands of Twyvel which his Grandfather Robert held the day he dyed for half a Knights Fee and all the Land of Addington which was likewise held by his said Grandfather for a quarter of a Knights Fee to him and the Heirs of his Body lawfully begotten on condition That for default of such Heirs they should return to him and his Successors For the Entrance Gift and Recognition whereof the Charter expresses the foresaid William to have given one Ring of Gold In the sixth year of King Richard the First he paid his Suitage towards Redemption of the King so he did towards the War of Normandy for the Fee of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Chamberlain And in the first of King John he paid Suitage for half a Knights Fee to another Norman Expedition He either built or restored the fair Church of Saint Peters in Luffwick and we find an Ancient Monument yet remaining in a Glass-window of the North-side of that Church representing the Image of a Knight kneeling before the Altar all Armed after the manner of that Age bearing the Arms he had assum'd and presenting thereunto the exact Model of that Church under which is written as will appear in the Proofs Walterus de Draytona He died in the Twelfth Year of that King leaving Issue by the forementioned Lucy his Wife Sir Henry of Drayton Sir Henry of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry of Drayton was under Age at the Death of his Father but succeeded afterwards to all his Lands and Lordships He became a Knight of much esteem in his time and was in all transactions treated with the stile of Dominus Henricus de Draytona Several of which are extant as a Quit-claim of certain Lands from Ismena the Daughter of Gervise of Luffwick A Deed of Exchange of Lands in Luffwick with William the Son of Robert of Drayton for others in the Lordship of Woodford Another Relaxation from one Henry the Son of Thomas of Drayton and a Demise of certain Lands from William de Musta His Wife Ivetta was the Daughter of Sir William de Bourdon and in the Twelfth of Henry the Third the King received his Homage for half a Knights Fee that accru'd to him in her right which Lands her Father had held in Capite We find that he Deceased in the Thirty fourth Year of that King His Issue Sir Baldwin of Drayton Sir Baldwin of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AFter the decease of Sir Henry of Drayton his Son Baldwin became possessed of all his Lands by Right of Inheritance and he did Homage to the King for those Lordships that he held of him in Capite Whereupon was issued out a Mandate to that Abbot of Persore and to James Frizill the Kings Escheator that he should receive Security of the foresaid Baldwin for a hundred Shillings for his relief unto which was Witness Eleanor the Queen In the same year which was that of One thousand two hundred fifty two he purchased of Clement de Leighton the Wardship of William the Son of Peter the Son of Joselin and of all the Heirs of the said William in Succession And in the first year of the Reign of King Edward the First he made over to one Roger of Stow-Merchant the profits of the Lands and Lordships which appertained to Robert the Son of Baldwin de Vere whose Custody by reason of the Minority of the said Robert did belong to him There flourished in his time in the Counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge a Noble Knight called Robert of Gimeges in possession of a fair Inheritance who dying without Issue-Male his Lands came to be divided between his two Daughters of which Idonea was married to Sir Baldwin of Drayton and Emma to Sir Hugh de Bovi which Baldwin and Idonea had Issue Sir John of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships SIR John of Drayton was at the death of his Father twenty two years old as by his Office does appear He lived unto the twentieth year of King Edward the I. being the thirty eighth of his own Age having allied himself to a Family at that time very considerable for great interest and reputation by taking to Wife Philippe the Daughter of Sir Ralph and Sister to Sir Robert of Arderne than both of which there was not any among the Gentlemen of England that had served the King or his Father more considerably in the Civil Wars of that time Their Issue Sir Simon of Drayton Katharine of Drayton married to Sir Henry Greene Chief Justice of England Sir Simon of Drayton Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships AT the death of Sir John of Drayton Simon his Son and Heir was nine years old King Edward the First then reigning in his twentieth Year who sent Precepts to the Sheriffs of those Countries wherein he had Lands to seize them into his hands till he should give other directions We hear no more of this Simon until the Fifteenth of King Edward the Second at which time we find him in possession of his Lordship of Drayton by a Fine he suffered in that year whereby he acknowledged the right thereof to be in one Robert le Penitour Clerk which Robert yielded the same Mannor again to the said Simon and Margaret his Wife to hold of our Lord the King by the services due during their times and after their decease to remain to John Son of the said Simon and the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to remain to the Heirs of the Bodies of the said Simon and Margaret and for default of such Issue then to the right Heirs of the said Simon We find him afterwards possessed in the beginning of King Edward the Third of the Lordships of Luffwick Islipp and Slipton that he had Lands in Irtlingborow in Sudborow and in Brigstock in the County of Northampton how he held the Lordships of Bottlebridge Stoke-Goldington Overton Longville and Molesworth in Huntingdon-shire and that he had also fair Possessions in Luton and Flamstead in the County of Bedford In most of which that he might have free Warren and the priviledges
The Wife of Sir Henry Greene was Katharine the Daughter of Sir John and Sister of Sir Simon of Drayton Their Issue Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Norton that Married Mary Daughter of Richard Lord Talbot and Sister to John the first Earl of Shrewsbury from whom were those Greenes that for several generations flourished afterwards at that place in great reputation Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Greene Married to William Lord Zouch of Totnes Nicholas Greene. Richard Greene. Amabila Greene Married to Sir Ralph Reynes Lord of Clifton HAving only exposed the descent and succession of those Greenes that were Lords of Drayton I shall proceed to HENRY the second Son of Sir Henry Greene who in his Father's life-time and by his procurement was invested by his Cousin Sir John of Drayton in the chief seat and Lordship of that place with all the Towns Lands Liberties and Priviledges belonging thereunto upon condition that from thenceforth he should bear his Name and his Arms according as to that purpose the same Sir John had formerly covenanted with Sir Henry the Father of this Sir Henry Greene. Now this being among his other Children the delight and hopes of his old Father he was by him endowed with great and noble possessions as besides the Mannor of Drayton of which were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with certain Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle those of Wolston Wamingdon Chalton Haughton Batteshaseall with Lands in Harringworth Cottington Middleton Carlton Isham Pichteley Harrowden Hardwick Raunds Ringstead Coates Titchmarsh and sundry other places and he was moreover by his provident care Married to Matilda Daughter and sole heiress of Sir Thomas Mauduit that was Lord of Werminster Westbury Lye Grateley Dychurch and other fair Possessions all which with the blood and Arms of that Antient and Noble House by this Alliance devolved into his Family The ambition of the young Henry Greene fomented by these favours of fortune drew him to the Court where he resolutely joyn'd his hopes and expectations to the fate of that unhappy Prince King Richard the Second at whose hand he had received the honour of Knighthood The merits of his person soon acquired him the nearest favour of this King and those of his mind the approbation and encouragement of all his Council into the number whereof he was chosen for his great faithfulness and abilities And when the Conspiracies of divers of the turbulent and seditious Lords had obliged the King to condemn some and banish others he conferr'd several parcels of their confiscated Lands upon Sir Henry Greene as the Mannors of Kibworth Cotgrave and Preston Capes that appertained to Thomas Earl of Warwick those of Knighton Cuvelle and Bulkington in the County of Wilts by reason of the attainder of Richard Earl of Arundell and the Place of the Lord Cobham in London with all its furniture to the end he might secure the fidelity of those about him by exemplary satisfaction for their services and hazards And indeed had not the perversness of this Kings Planet which obstinately prosper'd the Rebellion of his Enemies overwhelm'd all his hopes there was not any greatness unto which the deserts of this Sir Henry might not have well attained But at last when the Duke of Lancaster's fortune came like a torrent bearing down all before it Sir Henry Greene that had possessed himself of the Castle of Bristol and meant to defend it for his Master to the uttermost was taken by his perfidious Garrison and delivered bound to the Duke who knowing his constancy to be dangerous and unchangeable caused him to be beheaded the next day with the Earl of Wiltshire and Sir John Bushey His Issue Ralph Greene Lord of Drayton John Greene who by his Brothers death without Issue became after Lord of that place Mary Greene Married to Sir Jeffrey Lutterill Eleanor Greene Married to John Fitz-Williams of Sprofsburgh SIR Henry Greene had in his life-time made such generous use of his fortune and the favour of King Richard as found its reward from the gratitude of several great men he had obliged who contributed their instigations to the inclination of the succeeding King which was much bent to favour the unfortunate Family of the deceased Gentleman whose person fidelity and gratitude had been so exemplary and who lost his life but for his adherence to a King that had been his Master and Benefactor In the very first year therefore of King Henry the Fourth his eldest Son RALPH GREENE was restored by Act of Parliament to the Lordship of Drayton and all the rest of those Lands that were the inheritance of his Father or his Mother the Lady Matilda de Mauduit And several Instruments are extant of the grace and clemency of this Prince to himself and the other Children of Sir Henry Greene. This Family coming again to flourish in the County of Northampton Ralph Greene was in the eight year of King Henry the Fourth chosen to serve in the then considerable Office of High Sheriff for that Shire and he is found to have been employed in divers important occasions for the service of King Henry the Fifth and particularly in the first year of his Reign to have been joyn'd in Commission with William Lord Roos of Hamlock for suppressing the Rebellion and Insurrections of William Perwich and his adherents who in a Hostile manner had fallen upon several of the Kings Subjects and Officers more especially on James Bellers in his return from the last Parliament where he had served for Knight of the Shire as also to have been again Sheriff in the second of that King At last having by a provident care and many generous endeavours restored his Family to its ancient splendor and those great Possessions belonging thereunto he dyed in the sixth year of Henry the Fifth without any Issue of his Wife who was Catharine the Daughter of Ankitell Malliory Lord of Winwick and that took after to her second Husband the famous Sir Simon Felbrigg who in the Reign of King Henry the Fifth was one of the Knights and Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter JOHN GEENE for want of Issue from his Brother Ralph came to possess the Lands and Lordships belonging to that Family except what was comprehended in the Jointure of the Lady Felbrigg who had been his Brothers Wife Concerning whom there are extant divers transactions as testimonies of the considerable provision had been made for her in that Estate and as one whom his Fathers misfortunes had prepared for the love of a private life he applyed himself to enjoy the happiness of his House and Country living in a free Estate and fortunate Marriage with Margaret the Daughter of Walter Greene of Bridgnorth till he departed this life in the eleventh year of King Henry the Sixth He left Issue Ralph Greene that dyed in his youth Henry Greene afterwards Lord of Drayton Margery Greene Married to Sir Henry Huddlestone Isabella Greene Married to Sir Richard
Montegue Willielmo Pemberton haeredibus assignatis suis ad usum eorundem Johannis Mordaunt Elizabethae uxoris ejus Humfridi Browne Georgii Browne Johannis Browne Etheldredae uxoris ejus haeredum ipsarum Elizabethae Georgii Etheldredae totum Jus nostrum statum titulum clameum interesse demandum quae habemus seu unquam habuimus de in Manerio de Drayton ac de in omnibus aliis maneriis terris tenementis reditibus reversionibus Boscis pratis pascuis pasturis aliis haereditamentis quibuscunque cum eorum pertinentiis quae nuper fuerunt praedictae Constanciae aut praedicti Henrici sive alicujus alterius sive aliquorum aliorum ad eorum aut alterius eorum usum in dicto Comitatu Northamptoniae seu in aliquo alio Comitatu infra Regnum Angliae aut in Marchiis eorundem quae nos praefatus Georgius Comes vel haeredes nostri aliquo modo habere poterimus in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis aut in eorum aliquo cum eorum pertinentiis ratione alicujus donationis legationis seu per ultimam voluntatem praefati Edwardi nuper Comitis Wilts nobis factis sive habitis salvis omnino reservatis nobis haeredibus nostris omni clameo jure titulo interesse demando quae habemus seu habere poterimus in praemissis seu in eorum aliquo nobis per descensum aut per Jus haereditarium per aliquem antecessorum nostrorum cujus vel quorum haeres nos praefatus Georgius Comes existimus seu ratione alicujus alterius tituli quem habere poterimus aliter quà m per ultimam voluntatem legationem sive donationem praedicti Comitis Wilts facta sive habita ita quòd nec nos praefatus Georgius Comes nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis pro alius nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod Jus statum titulum clameum interesse seu demandum de aut in praedictis Maneriis ac caeteris praemissis cum eorum pertinentiis nec in aliqua eorum parcella ex causis praedictis de caetero exigere clamare seu vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris tituli clamei interesse aut demandi seu aliquid inde petendi simus exclusi in perpetuum per praesentes In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Dat' vicesimo quarto die Marcii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Octavi post Conquestum sexto G. Shrewsbury In the first South Window of the Chancell in St Peters Church of Luffwick In the Second South Window In the first Window on the North side of the Chancell In the second Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window on the South side of the said Chancell In the East Window on the North side of the Chancell In the East Window of the Chappell at Drayton In the first Window on the South side of the Chappell In the Second Window on the South Side of the Chappell In the lesser Window of Drayton Hall In the greater Window of Drayton Hall A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of that HOUSE of VERE Of which were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the Veres of Addington were of Vere Charged upon the Center with an Escucheon bearing Argent a Cross Gules Of the Original Descent Possessions Alliances Actions and Arms of the House of Vere which were Lords of Addington and Thrapston THE VERES that were Lords of Addington and Thrapston had their Original from Sir Robert de Vere who was second Son to Aubrey Earl of Guisnes Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Lord Chief Justice of England Which granted it will not after be denied but their extraction was as great as any thing from whence an English Subject could derive I shall not enter upon exaggeration of the Greatness and advantages of the House of Oxford they having been such as with which I think few other can be comparable but leave them to some fortunate Author who by faithfully exposing their truths unto the world may do himself honour and the Nation too I shall only pursue what may concern those Veres of which I treat and with whom I came to be acquainted by perusing the Evidences in the House of Drayton and unto this Family I am obliged to tell the Reader that I think there does belong an attribution of as much Honour and Esteem as any of their Quality could pretend unto They have always produced Knights famous for their prowess for their fidelities and for their prudence They appear in many considerable expeditions abroad in France in Palestine in Scotland in Wales in the most notable Offices at home Governing under their Princes the Countries where they lived They enter into the most eminent Alliances with the Houses of Wake Bassett Seagrave Clifford and De la Souche and they have always possessed many great Mannors and noble Lordships Besides which in the whole space of their durance here there remains not on their memories the least spot of reproach or prejudice but as all things are ordained to have an end it was the fortune of this House to terminate in the Lady Elizabeth Vere Daughter and Heir to the last Sir Henry Vere who being marryed to John the first Lord Mordaunt brought into his Family the Honor the Blood the Lands and the Arms of this House which were of Vere charged on the Center with a Shield bearing Argent a Cross Gules always born by the Lords of this Family in memory of their Ancestor Sir Robert de Vere who was slain with his General in a fight in Palestine being at that time Standard-bearer to William Longespé the famous Earl of Salisbury that was Grandson to King Henry the Second and the fair Lady Rosamond AVBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes Chief Justiciar and Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First AUBREY de VERE Earl of Guisnes was Chief Justiciar of England under King Henry the First which in that time was the greatest Office of the Crown whoever was invested in it did exceed all the Noblemen in dignity and in power all the Magistrates And he was also Chamberlain to King Henry the First after the death of Robert Mallet Besides the other great possessions which his Father Earl Aubrey the elder and himself had acquired at the Conquest he held the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Addington and Twyvell in the County of Northampton This Aubrey was among the great men of his time in the highest esteem for wisdom and experience and always lived of nearest use and Counsel to those Princes with whom he was Contemporary He was sent in the fourth year of King Stephen to that memorable Council of Winchester unto which the King himself had been cited by his own Brother then Bishop of that See where with great force and eloquence he
others from certain Lords of his Council Several rigours he suffered from this King joyn'd to the indignation of Mankind that had been drawn upon him by his injustice and cruelty incited Sir Henry Vere to be particularly active in the introducing of King Henry the Seventh to whose service he brought a resolute Band of his Tenants and Country-men at whose Head he fought himself in that decisive Day where at Bosworth the unhappy Richard lost both his Kingdom and his Life He thereupon received the Honour of Knighthood at the hands of the victorious King and because of his fidelity and interest was made High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in that first year of his Reign He married Isabella Tresham the Daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham who was Lord of Rushton and of a Family at that time very considerable in the Country where they lived for their Riches and Authority by whom he left only five Daughters Elizabeth Lady Mordaunt Amy married to Robert Mordaunt and after to Humphrey Browne Son of Sir Wistan Browne of Abess Roading Constance to John Parr Lord of Horton Etheldred Married to John Brown that was a Judge Audrey who dyed unmarried ELIZABETH the first of the Daughters and heirs of Sir Henry de Vere was about the eleventh year of King Henry the Seventh Married to John the eldest Son of that Sir John Mordaunt who was Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to that King There came unto her by composition with some of the partners and want of Issue in other the greatest part of the interest of these Sisters and indeed it was a large Inheritance compos'd of the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Islip Slipton Sudburgh Thrapston both the Addingtons Grafton Hardwick Werminster and sundry other Lands She also brought into her Husbands House the Blood and the Arms of the Noble and Ancient Families of these Veres of the Greenes of Drayton and of the Mauduits that were Lords of Werminster She was a fortunate Lady left a numerous Posterity and from her is lineally descended and is heir and Successor the present Earl of Peterborow AUBERY DE VERE Earle of Guisnes Cheife Iusticiar of England great Chamberlaine to King Henry ye. first Adeliza de Clare Aubery de Vere 1st E. of Oxford Eufemia de Cantelup Sr. Robert de Vere Matilda de Furnel Rossia de Vere Jeffery de Magnaville Earle of Essex Sr. Henry de Vere Hildeburga Sr. Robert de Vere Margaret de Wake Walter de Vere Ld. of Drayton Lucia Basset Sr. Baldwin de Vere Margaret de Seagrave Sr. Iohn de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Anne de Waterville Sr. Baldwin de Vere Sr. Randall de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Northburgh Randol de Vere Idonea de Vere Sr. Robert de Vere Elizabeth de Tay. St. Baldwin de Vere Elena de Mohun alius Kingston Margaret de Vere Thomas Ashby S. P. Sr. Richard de Vere Isabella Greene. Elizabeth de Vere Amy de Vere Elena de Vere Thomas â—sham L d of Pichfley Ann de Vere Iohn Ward L d of Irtlingborow Margaret de Vere Iohn Berners Elizabeth de Vere William Dounhall Sr. Henry de Vere Isabella Tresham Baldwin de Vere Constance de Vere Iohn Boteler Ld. of Woodhall Constance de Vere Iohn Par. Elizabeth de Vere Iohn I st Ld. Mordaunt Amie de Vere HumphryBrowne Etheldred de Vere Iohn Browne Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of that HOUSE of VERE Whence were the LORDS of Addington and Thrapston Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of VERE AUBREY de VERE Great Chamberlain to King Henry the First and Chief Justice of ENGLAND Spelmanni Glossarium Page 337 338. ALbericus de Vere Comes de Guisnes Camerarius Angliae Portgravius ut perhibetur Londini pater Abrici primi Comitis Oxonii Angliae ponitur Justiciarius Spelmanni Glossarium de Capitali Angliae Justiciario qualis olim quantus fuit JUstitia totius Angliae alià s Capitalis Angliae Justiciarius quantus hic olim fuit usquequaque non liquet Dignitate omnes Regni proceres potestate omnes superabat Magistratus The Baronage of England Page 190. THIS last mentioned Albery called Albericus Junior confirmed all those Grants made by his Father to the Monks of Abingdon and being in high esteem with King Henry the First was by him made Lord Great Chamberlain of all England to hold the same Office in Fee to himself and his heirs with all Dignities and Liberties thereto belonging as honourably as Robert Mallet Lord of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk or any other before or after him held the same and with such Liveries and Lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office Being also one of the Kings Justices Tempore Henrici Primi Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Page 248. Carta Alberici Regis Camerarii EGO Albericus Regis Camerarius terram de Twyvell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Guntero Monachis de Thorneya per talem conventionem teneo ad firmam ut per unumquemque annum eis sex libras pro ea reddam ante Nativitatem quatuordecem solidos ante Pascham quatuordecem solidos ad Vincula Sancti Petri extremos quatuordecem solidos Insuper pro remissione peccatorum meorum illis de una mea decima scilicet de Islip unoquoque anno ad Festivitatem Sancti Michaelis decem solidos reddam Totum verò surplus quod miserim in eadem Villa ultrà quà m recepi in extremo die vitae meae pro salvatione animae meae Sanctae Mariae Patribúsque meis simul cum terra eorum concedo solidum quietum ab omni Calumnia De alia terra quam pro servitio dimidii Militis in eadem Villa de Willielmo de Blosvilla teneo in feodo de dimidio unius Hidae quam certè emi pretio Sanctam Mariam meósque fratres post me concedo esse Haeredes in quantum id eis concedere possum Hujus Conventionis sunt testes Hardewin de Escaetere Radulphus Dapiser Willielmus de Whitlesege Simonio fratres illius loci alii quamplures Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penès Comitem de Peterborow ALbericus de Twyvell Camerarius Regis dedit Ecclesiae de Thorney duas Garbas decimae trium Villarum de Islip Addington Drayton de Dominico suo The Baronage of England Page 190. Writing of Earl Aubrey HE in the Fifth of Stephen with Richard Basset then Justice of England executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Surrey Cambridge Huntington Essex Hartford Northampton Leicester Norfolk Suffolk Buckingham and Bedford and gave to the Monks of Thorney in Comitatu Canter certain Lands in Islip But before the end of this year he was killed in London leaving Issue by Adeliza his Wife Daughter of Gilbert of Clare three Sons Alberic his Son and Heir ....... a Cannon of Saint
twenty five Marks of Quit-Rent out of the Mannor of Thrapston Lands and Tenements or twenty Pounds in Land during hyr life and that she have twenty Mark in money for hyr Chambre so that she aske ne take no stofe out of the Mannor of Addington Alsoe I will that as in Shepe Nete and allodyr Cattell she have hyr part accordyng to the Lawe and let hyr chuse whedyr she will have twenty Pound in Land or the said Quit-Rente Alsoe I will that she have the two littel Salts that goe daily abroad with the Silver Spones and a Pese that Thomas Ashe have Alsoe I will that all such Goods as I have in the Mannor of Addington unbequest remayne to the said Mannor while the World last or the said Goods endure that is to say Bedding Chests Tables Brasse Pewter and a Coffer of Plate with Harnesse Gold Rings Owches and a Chene of Gold with other Jewels in the same Coffer Alsoe I will that my Dawter Elizabeth have the same Mannor in parte of hyr Chose and all my purchased Land in the same Towne and also in Addington parva more than hyr chose to meynteyn the seyd Mannor Alsoe I will that my Dawters Anne Constance and Audre have an odyr Coffer called a Gardewyn with certain Plate a Chene Girdyll and odyr Stoffe to be partyd among them when they come to Age and if the one dye the t' other to depart it than if one dye the t'other to have all if they all depart the said Coffer to remain to the Mannor again Alsoe I will that William Marbyry have the Rule and the gyding of my Children till they come to Age to gyde themselves Alsoe I will that the said William have the Receits of my Land till the said Children come to lawful Age alsoe the kepyng of all other moveable Goods that I have bequeathed to them and when they come to lawful Age or els happyn to be marry'd then to deliver to them syche as I have besett them as he think most profit to them Alsoe if it happe the said William Marbyry decesse ere all this be fulfilled and performed then I will that the foresaid William Marbyry to chose or to assigne such a person or persons as he can bethink best with the avise of Mr. John Bloxham if he be then alive or els of Sir Thomas Thornton now Parson of Addington Alsoe I will that if it happe my Children all decesse and noe Issue of them then I will that my Goods and Stoffe in my Mannor of Addington and odyr not delivered to them be sould and done for my soule and the soules of my Fadyr and my Modyr and all Christen soules and if there be any of nere kin that have need in their Marriage I will that they be holpyd and succuryd before odyrs Alsoe I will that eche of my Sisters have ten Shillings and eche of their Children six Shillings eight Pence alsoe William Marbyry during his life three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence Alsoe Robert Marbyry to be Steward of all my Lands haveing for his Fee six and twenty Shillings eight Pence for terme of life Alsoe I will that my Servaunts that will byde till our Lady Day shall have their Wages and eche of them three Shillings four Pence over their Wages Alsoe I will that John Daundely have every Yere three Shillings four Pence to pray for me dureing his life Alsoe any Preste that comes to the Day of my Beriall seventh Day or Months every one six Pence a pese Alsoe every odyr Clarke two Pence Alsoe I will and I charge my Children that they nor none of them nor no odyr shall troble ne vex William Marbyry whom I have made Receyver of my Londes and of all odyr Goods for to call him to accompt or reckynnyng but to make it after his owne Conscience and soe I put my trust in him Alsoe I will that there be given twenty Shillings to the Abbey of Crowland to pray for me Item to Sir Thomas Whotton six Shillings eight Pence besides his Wages Alsoe I will that if that Maister William Marbyry may not have the Rule ne the Marriage of my Children to syche as he will with his counseil so if any of my Children will not be rulyd be him then my Executors shall have my purchased Land in their kepeing and possession unto the time that my Will be fulfilled and than to gyff hit to them or one of them as they think best in all manner of things the Stoffe both Plate and all odyr to dispose them for my soule Alsoe I will that William Dounhall have the Lond that I shuld have in Harawld for the Wyfe of William Milner terme of hyr life as they of Harawld and I have agre Alsoe I will that myn Executors be suffred to receyve the profitts as well of all my Londs in Fee-tayl as of my Londs in Fee-simple ....... my Children to be kept and maryed be their assents then I will all such Goods as I have assigned to remaine in the Mannor of Addington aforesaid be taken and kept be my said Executors and the profitts of my Londs in Fee-simple unto the time my Children be of reasonable Age and then to dispose the said Goods and profitts of Londs after their discretion as they find cause and se my Childrens disposition Provided alway that and my said Executors may not have and receyve the revenue and profitts of Londs aforesaid to performe this my last Will then I will they see it performyd with my moveable Goods and the revenues and profitts of my Fee-simpul Lands SIGILLVM HENRICI DE VER Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 298. HEnry Vere was the Son of Richard Vere of Addington Esquire by Isabel his Wife Sister and at last sole Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton Esquire of whom formerly This Henry was after Knighted and dying without Issue Male Elizabeth his Daughter and Coheir was married to John first Lord Mordaunt to whom she brought Drayton in this Country and other fair Lands as the Partage of her Portion Here lyeth the Body of Sr Henry Vere Knt. who was once Lord of this 〈◊〉 He was Father of Elizabeth Wife to Iohn the first Lord Mordaunt vnto whom his eldest Daughter Coheire did decend the Greatest part of his Ancient 〈◊〉 In heritance On whose Soule God have Mercy ELIZABETH VERE Lady Mordaunt Lady of Drayton Thrapston Addington and Inheritrix of all the Lands that belonged to the Greenes and Veres her Predecessors Specialis Liberatio Terrarum Greene Vere assignata per Regem H.R. REX c. omnibus c. Sciatis quòd Nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia mero motu nostris concessimus licentiam dedimus ac per praesentes damus concedimus pro nobis Haeredibus nostris quantum in nobis est dilectis fidelibus nostris Thomae Cheyne Militi Elizabethae Uxori ejus Filiae
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
Prince King John the disorderly rigours of whose Government was become unsufferable to the greatest part of the Nation He was at first received with all the applause which sometimes follows Novelties of this nature He was crown'd at London He had Homage done him and Allegiance sworn as to a lawful King He proceeded with their assistance in divers warlike Undertakings wherein he had admirable success and acted in all the other Parts of the Government as one who expected to be soon establish'd During this time among the great Lords of his Party there happened to be one who to all his Concerns was most useful and to his Person most officious This Lord whose Name is omitted out of respect to the Descendants of his Family had no Issue of his own and only for his Heirs three beautiful Sisters The youngest whereof whose Name was Philippe by her admirable Qualities had so engaged the Prince's love as it made the Conquest of her heart to share his cares with that of the Kingdom But against a King that was young and seemed happy it was not strange that a Lady did not long resist She yielded at last and the Prince enjoyed the effects and her misfortune began to appear together She found her self with Child and by the fatal loss of the Battel of Lincoln that her Lover was like to be abandoned by his Friends and by his fortune He was obliged to retire to London whence from the Tower where he had refug'd himself he made Conditions to depart home in safety by relinquishing to the young King Henry his farther pretences The poor Lady left in this condition owned her disaster to her Brother who pitying her state from the greatness and merit of the Author gave her a comfortable assurance of his kindness and protection She was after secretly delivered and the Child named Lewis Which Fruit of her Loves being nourished under this Great Lords Care and Education he having no Children of his own afore his death bestowed upon the Youth the noble Lordship of Westhornedon with divers other Lands in the County of Essex obliging him to bear himself and transmit to his Descendants the Name of Fitz-Lewis for ever after Among his three Sisters this Lord coming to dye did leave his vast Inheritance with whom the Lady Philippe hath her share and her misfortune either conceal'd or else gilded over with the advantages of her Riches did not hinder her from being afterwards married to an Husband of great Quality in whom she was happy for her time and brought him a Posterity whence are descended some of the greatest Lords that flourish in this Age. Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis having been bred under his Uncle in the Notion of a more distant relation than in the truth of the matter he did indeed stand towards him at the time of that Lord's death found himself possessed by his favour and affection with such an Estate as was capable to support the generous inclinations of his heart which did altogether incline him to the love and practice of Armes the only application of Gentlemen in that Age and therefore he made himself very considerable especially toward the end of that Kings Reign where he attained the Honour of Knighthood and having allied himself to a very notable Family by his Marriage with Margaret of Essex he left Issue Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis flourished in the days of King Edward the First and followed him in several of his Expeditions He won his Spurs in the first Scotch War and became after very considerable in his Country when he married Elizabeth de Harpden an Inheritrix whose Lands did plentifully add to his former Patrimony but after the death of this great King we find he was unfortunately drawn into the adherence of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and that he did unhappily perish in the War caused by that Rebellion leaving to succeed him his Son Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships RIchard Fitz-Lewis being with divers others through the Grace and favour of King Edward the Third restored to his Rights and Lands that had been seised upon pretence of his Father's trespass in the former Reign he became much considered from his own merit and the opulency of his fortune notably encreased by the accession of his Mothers Inheritance He was very useful to the Government of his Country during the King's absence in his long Wars and always contributed his best cares towards the service and supplies of the King's occasions from the Parts where he had interest being always zealous for the honour of his Prince and Country He married Elizabeth de Baude a Lady of a Family very antient and considerable both from their Riches and good same whose true Name was de Baden but corruptly otherwise called and by her he left his Son Sir John Fitz-Lewis Sir JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THE great consideration wherein this Family was in these days held may be judged by the alliance contracted by Sir John Fitz-Lewis who to his first Wife took Alice the Daughter of Aubery the tenth Earl of Oxford and to his second Anne Mountague Daughter of John the third Earl of Salisbury of that House and that was after his death Dutchess of Exeter Issue by his first Wife Sir Henry Fitz-Lewis Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Issue by his second Wife Elizabeth Fitz-Lewis married to Sir John Wingfield of Suffolk Sir HENRY FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships SIR Henry Fitz-Lewis that had signalized himself in an adherence to the House of Lancaster was so esteemed by the chief Supporters of that Faction as he had given him in Marriage by Edmund the noble Duke of Somerset the Lady Eleanor his youngest Daughter by whom he had Issue Mary the second Wife of Anthony Woodville Earl of Rivers But for want of Issue Male his intailed Lands descended to his Brother Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis with the other Interests of that Family Sir LEWIS FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships LEwis Fitz-Lewis liv'd in his Brother's time in Marriage with a Lady called Margaret Stonore of whose life and actions we are ignorant but it is recorded He left Issue his Son and Heir Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Sir RICHARD FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships THis Richard Fitz-Lewis appears to have had some Controversie with his Cousen Mary Countess of Rivers about his Inheritance by a Judgment recorded in his behalf whereby he was declared Heir of all the entailed Lands of that Family she to inherit only such as had been her Father 's by Gift or acquired by proper Purchace Richard Fitz-Lewis was a busie man in his time much imployed in the interest of King Henry the Seventh against the Usurper with whom he was in immediate action at the
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
every important business this Wise King believing he might trust a Man who had proved so faithful to another Master There having then happned a great Commotion in the North occasioned by the raising of a Subsidy and of that importance that the Earl of Northumberland was slain therein who was the greatest Lord of all those parts The King raising a great Army for suppressing of the same he gave the whole Command thereof to the Earl of Surrey and sent under his Obedience the greatest Lords and the best Captains of his Court as the Earl of Shrewsbury the Lord Hastings Sir William Stanly his Chamberlain Sir Rice ap Thomas Sir John Bourchier Sir John Savage Sir John Risely and divers others And he was after in the Eighth of the same King imployed again for suppressing the Incursions of the Scots His Deserts and great Abilities appearing every day more and more to this Sagacious King in the Sixteenth Year of his Reign he conferr'd upon him the great Office of Lord High-Treasurer of England and in the Two and twentieth of his Reign finding the Earl worthy of all the acknowledgments he could make King Henry granted him a special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died Seized Mowbrays Howards and what ever he had acquired This put him in a condition to support his great Merit his great Blood and his great-Condition And after the death of this King which soon succeeded his Young Successor King Henry the Eighth found the Earl of Surrey in a condition of Fortune and Reputation as much to do as to receive Honor from the Court or any Imployment whereunto he could be called He therefore chose him into the number of his first Counsellors renewed his Patent for Lord High-Treasurer and constituted him Earl Marshal of England for his Life In the Fourth Year of this King there happned a great Crisis of State The King was Engaged with an Army consisting of the flower of England to go for France where he Besieged and took several Towns At the same time he had cause to believe the King of Scots would enter England with his utermost Power the Defence whereof would be enough for the greatest Captain he could appoint He thereupon chose the Earl of Surrey under whose Protection he left all that could be dear to him his Country and his Wife and it falling out as he did apprehend and the Scottish King entring the Kingdom with a mighty Army the Earl with all power he could make Marched to meet him He found the King had taken Norham Castle and being resolved now to do something should render him worthy of the Trust he had received or to die in the endeavour he brought by several industries of which the Historians are very particular the Scottish Army to a necessity of Fighting Which they did under the Example and Sight of their Valiant King with all the Valour and Resolution that was possible But such was the Conduct the Valour and the Ascendant of this Earl as their Resistance did prove fruitless the whole Scottish Army was overthrown and their King who for his Valour deserved a better Fortune was slain Fighting upon the Field If ever the Action of any Subject was opportunely Fortunate to a King or his Affairs this Victory proved so to King Henry at that time Engaged in the War with so Potent an Enemy as the King of France and the consequence would have proved of the last misfortune if the Earl had otherwise succeeded The applauses of the Court of the King and Kingdom were of mighty satisfaction to the great and publick Spirit of this Earl but the Generous King forbore not to add Rewards suitable to the Great Merits of his Service He did him several Honors but as the greatest was his restitution to the Illustrious Dignity of his Ancestors the Dukedom of Norfolk of which his Father was possessed and that by his Grandmother had Descended to him from the Mowbrays in former times Dukes of that Country He gave him for the support of this Dignity many Mannors and great Lordships and continued him during the rest of his Life in the greatest Honours of the Kingdom But at last loaden with Years as well as with Felicities he yielded to Death in the Castle of Framingham the Twenty first of May in the Year 1524. in the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Eighth Having Married Two Wives The First Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Sir Frederick Tilney Knight Widow of Humphrey Burcher Lord Barners The Second Agnes Daughter of Sir Philip Tilney Knight Issue by his First Wife Thomas afterwards Duke of Norfolk The Lord Edward Howard Knight of the Garter Edmund Howard And Five that died young Elizabeth Married to Thomas Viscount Rochford Muriell Married to John Viscount Lisle Mary Married to Henry Fitz-Roy Duke of Richmond and Sommerset Issue by his Second Wife William Lord Howard of Effingham Knight of the Garter Lord Privy-Seal and Lord High-Admiral of England Thomas who Married Margaret Dowglas Daughter to the Queen of Scots which Thomas died in the Tower Richard who died young Anne Married to John Earl of Oxford Dorothy Married to Edward Earl of Darby Elizabeth Married to Henry Earl of Sussex And Katharine first Marrid to Sir Rice ap Thomas and afterwards to Henry Daubeny Earl of Bridgwater WILLIAM Lord Howard Lord Baron of Effingham Lord-High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Lord Privy-Seal and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Privy-Counsellor to Henry the Eighth to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth and eldest Son by his Second Wife to Thomas the Second Duke of Norfolk CHAPTER II. WILLIAM Lord Howard though he had the advantage of so great and so fortunate a Father yet it was not to that he owed the least part of his Fame or of his Fortune The Duke his Father loved Virtue and Industry and to a Son that would have been Great without Care or Labour he would have afforded little assistance The Earl of Surrey the Lord Howard and the Lord Edmund were the Sons of his Prudence by his Dutchess Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Philip Tilney who brought her Husband a great Inheritance But the Lord William was the Son of his Love and Born of Agnes Tilney his Second Wife that was a young Virgin Cousin to the former Dutchess and who brought in partage but her Beauty her Virtue and her Fruitfulness To this young Lord the Duke had indeed a secret partiality but his great Lands were already all to be inherited by the Children of his First Wife and it was the principle in those days for Great Men to do little in detriment of them that were to sustain their Names and Dignities He resolved then so to cultivate the Virtue and noble Inclinations of the young William as should make him deserve any Fortune what ever his own were like to be He gave him therefore admirable Education and thrust him betimes into the World He made use of his Inclination
Mordaunt of Turvey afterwards Earl of Peterborow and Charles his Successor in his Honors as also three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Robert Southwell of Wood-Riseing Frances first to Henry Fitz-Gerald Earl of Kildare and Margaret to Sir Richard Levison of Trentham and Vice-Admiral of England An Indenture by which Elizabeth Countess of Peterborow doth settle the Mannor of Blechingleigh upon her Son Henry Earl of Peterborow THis Indenture made the Four and twentieth day of April Anno Domini 1648. and in the Four and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. between the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath Sir Oliver Luke of Hawnes in the County of BEdford Knight and Sir Samuel Luke of Woodend in the said County of Bedford Knight of the other part Witnesseth That the said Countess Dowager for the settling of the Mannor and Lands hereafter mentioned in the Name and Blood of her the said Countess And in consideration of the summ of Five shillings of lawful Money of England to her in hand paid by the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke whereof she acknowledgeth the receipt and for divers other good causes and considerations her the said Countess hereunto especially moving hath Granted Bargained Aliened Sold Enfeoffed and Confirmed and by these Presents doth Grant Bargain Alien Sell Enfeoffe and Confirm unto the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke all that the Mannor of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh in the County of Surrey with the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging and all Houses Lands Tenements Hereditaments Commons Wasts Warrens Courts Court-Leet view of Frankpledge Privileges Goods of Felons Deodands Franchises Profits Emoluments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said Mannor belonging or appertaining or as part parcel or member thereof commonly accepted reputed taken or known and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of her the said Countess Dowager scituate lying and being in the Parishes of Blechingly alias Bletchingley alias Blechingleigh aforesaid Godstone Cateram and Horne or any of them in the said County of Surrey To Have and to Hold the said Mannor Lands and Premises with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances to the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke their Heirs and Assigns for ever to the use behoof intents and purposes and with upon and under such limitations as are hereafter in and by these presents limited expressed and declared and to and for no other use intent meaning or purpose whatsoever That is to say To the Use of the said Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Peterborow for and during the Term of her Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after her Decease then to the Use and Behoof of Henry Earl of Peterborow Son and Heir Apparent of the said Countess for and during the Term of Fourscore and nineteen Years if the said Earl of Peterborow shall so long live without Impeachment of Wast And afterwards to the Use of the said Henry Earl of Arundel Sir Becham Saint John Sir Oliver Luke and Sir Samuel Luke for the Life of the said Earl of Peterborow upon Trust and to the intent that the Contingent Remainders herein after limited may not be prevented defeated or destroyed without the Consent of the said Countess And nevertheless That the said Earl of Peterborow may have and receive the Rents and Profits of the said Mannor and Premises for the term of his Life And after the Decease of the said Earl of Peterborow to the Use of the Daughter or Daughters and Younger Son or Sons of the Body of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten And of and for such Estate and Estates either in Fee Simple Fee Tail for Life or Lives or Years or otherwise of the said Mannor and Premises and every or any Part or Parcel thereof And to the intent that such Son or Sons Daughter or Daughters may have and receive such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money out of the Premises or any Part thereof as the said Earl of Peterborow at any time during his Life by any Writing or Writings under his Hand and Seal testified by Two or more Witnesses shall limit and appoint And for Default of such Limitation and Appointment or as the Estates so limited shall respectively end and determine and charged or chargeable with such Rent or Rents Summ or Summs of Money as shall be so limited Then to the Use and Behoof of the First Son of the said Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Second Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Second Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Third Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Third Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of the Fourth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fourth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the Use and Behoof of the Fifth Son of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such Fifth Son lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Issue then to the Use and Behoof of all and every such other Son or Sons of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully to be begotten as they shall be in Priority of Birth and of the several and respective Heirs of their several and respective Bodies lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of the Daughter or Daughters of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow lawfully begotten or to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body or Bodies of such Daughter or Daughters lawfully to be begotten And for default of such Heirs then to the use and behoof of John Mordaunt Esq Second Son of the said Countess for and during the term of his Natural Life without Impeachment of or for any manner of Wast And after his Decease then to the use and behoof of the First Son of the said John Mordaunt lawfully to be begotten and of the Heirs of the Body of such First Son lawfully to be begotten And for default
which Service and the example of it the Queen did so esteem as upon her coming into the Government she took him into the Dignity of a Privy Councellor wherein he served during her short Reign And so much favor she had for him and the Lady Joane his Second Wife that had God afforded her a longer life there was no advancement he might not have expected under her Countenance and Government But about this time it pleased God to punish this Family with a Division in it self Sir John Mordaunt after the death of his first Wife the Lady Elly Fitz-Lewis who left him only one Son for the stay of her House called Lewis after the Sirname of her Family Married the Lady Johanne his Second Wife who was the Daughter of Sir John Farmer of Eston Neston in the County of Northampton and at that time the Widow of .......... and that likewise when she was a Maid attended upon Queen Mary then but Princess This Lady Johanne had Children of her own and of them a beautiful Daughter to whom the young Lewis Mordaunt as is should seem had made Love and as it was pretended to the passing of some engagement His Mother therefore greedy of such an establishment for her Child press'd hard for a proceeding unto Marriage but the young Man who had his chief dependance upon the old Lord Mordaunt his Grand-Father who was entire Master of the great inheritance comprehended in the Shires of Northampton and Bedford whereupon he lived at a distance from his Son durst not for all his Father's Commands engage in a matter of that Nature without his leave and Council that Lord ever loving to be a Master of all the interests of his Family so as when he became acquainted with his Sons intentions finding the subject far short of what he design'd for his Grandson both in Relations and Advantage it was rejected by him with the circumstances of severe commands and menaces both to his Son and Grandson which latter he recall'd unto his own House and Custody Hereupon the Lady whom the disparagement of her Daughter did much concern engag'd into those passions might be expected from an offended Woman she exasperated her Husband both against his Father and his Son Lewis and the testimonies of very great differences are extant in several instruments so that the Father would out of displeasure have alienated from his Son the Fitz-Lewis's Lands which were of his own Mother's Inheritance And the Grandfather intended to have disinherited Sir John Mordaunt of all the Mordaunt's Lands infinitely of greater consequence At last mutual fears of General ruine by disagreement made the peace and they both concurr'd in Marrying the young Lewis Mordaunt to Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy After which his Grandfather the old Lord Mordaunt dying in the Second of Elizabeth this second Lord John his successor surviv'd to the 13th of the same Queen Leaving Issue by his First Wife Lewis Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Married to George Monox By his Second Wife Margaret Mordaunt Married to William Aclam Anne Mordaunt Married to Clement Tanfield Vrsula Mordaunt Married to Thomas Welbore of Clavering in Essex Sir LEWIS MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XIV LEWIS Lord MORDAVNT after his Father's Decease succeeded unto a Noble and Free Fortune to the Mordaunts to the Latimers to the Veres to the Greenes and to the Fitz-Lewis's Lands comprehending an interest in the Counties of Bedford Buckingham Hartford Northampton Essex Dorset and Sommerset in every of which he had fair Seats and Lordships He had a large Soul and a Disposition incompatible with either Craft or Servitude and would by no means subject the happiness of his mind to an uncertain Ambition nor give up his freedom by applying himself to the arts and ways of the Court but rather chose to enjoy the Fortune he had received from his Ancestors in the peace and opulency of his House and Country He was a person of great Nobleness Justice and Affability very well parted and ingenuous He was the Idol of the Province where he lived and by his proceeding drew unto him more respect than all the Great Men of those parts He lived indeed in much magnificence and in a port that was a pattern for the Great Men of that time so as his Hospitality is to this day famous although he was not immediately of the Court yet as a Peer and a great Councellor he had his part in most of the great actions of that Reign and as an instance of the great Prerogative of the Baronage of England he was call'd by the Queen's Summons to sit one of the Judges of the Life and Fortunes of that great and unfortunate Princess Mary Queen of Scotland unto whose Sentence he did most unwillingly concur And upon the like occasion he was again a Judge in the Arraignment of that great Subject Thomas Duke of Norfolk He sate in many Parliaments and Commanded the Troops of those parts assembled at the general Rendezvouz that were prepar'd against the Spanish Invasion He was besides this a Lover of Art and an Encourager of Learning as also a Builder and added much to the Noble old Castle of Drayton the beloved Seat of his Grandmother and although I cannot say but he did Alienate from his Family several great Possessions as the Fitz-Lewis's which were His Mother's and the Latimer's Lands which were the Possessions of his Great Grandmother yet it cannot be denyed but what he spent was employ'd with honor Though he was no Courtier yet he was much honor'd by them all and he had a near Friendship with the Earl of Leicester and the Lord Chancellor Hatton He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Arthur Darcy Knight who was Brother to the Lord Darcy of the North and that passed with much honour several great Employments in that Reign He lived a long and prosperous life and departed out of this World soon after the entry of King James the First and lies Buried in his Church of Turvey under a Tomb of Black Marble His Issue Henry Lord Mordaunt Mary Mordaunt Married to Sir Thomas Mancell of Morgan Katherine Mordaunt Married to John Henningham Elizabeth Mordaunt HENRY Lord MORDAVNT Peer of England and Lord Baron of Turvey CHAPTER XV. HENRY Lord Mordaunt the only Son of his Father after whose decease he Inherited his Honor and his Lands was of a Family wherein it was hard to extinguish their Inclination to the old Religion and besides he had married the Lady Margaret Compton Daughter to Henry Lord Compton and the Lady Frances Hastings that had been bred to much Strictness and Zeal therein The Incompatibility of his Religion with the Favour of the Court and the Employments thereof made him satisfied with the enjoyment of his great Estate and large Possessions whereupon he lived in the exercise of great Nobleness and Hospitality and in continual Expressions and Testimonies of Duty and Service to the Crown
Marriage and the Lands and Tenements of the said Amey or any of them And that the said John Mordaunt shall have the whole Interesse of the said Humphrey that he shall have of all Advowsons belonging to the said Amey till she come to the Age of Three and twenty Years full and the said Humphrey giveth and bindeth himself by these Presents That he shall be of Councel to his power and cunning with the said John Mordaunt and John Mordaunt the Son during the Life of the said Humphrey without any Money Fee or other Reward taking for his labour In Witness whereof the Parties abovesaid to these Indentures interchangeably have set their Seals the Day and Year abovesaid and that the said Humphrey shall continue at his Book Per me Humphredum Brown Per me Wistanum Brown Extracta decimo quarto Maii Henrici octavi vicesimo quarto coram Doctore Olyver An Indenture between Henry Strangeways and John Mordaunt for a Marriage between Gyles Strangeways his Son and Jane the Daughter of the said John THIS Indenture made the Eighth Day of February in the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between Henry Strangeways Esquire on the oon Partie and John Mordaunt of Turvey Gentleman on the other Partie Witnesseth That it is Bargained Accorded and Agreed between the said Parties in form following that is to say The said Henry Granteth and Covenanteth by these Presents That Gyles Son and Heir apparent of the said Henry and of Dorothy late his Wife Daughter of john Arundell of Chideok Knight shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to Wife Jane Daughter to the said John and Edith his Wife Daughter and one of the Heirs of Nicholas Latimer of Duntish Knight if the same Jane thereto will agree And in like wise the said John Covenanteth and Granteth by these Presents that the said Jane by the Grace of God shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Gyles if the same Gyles thereto shall agree The Solemnization of the said Matrimony to be done at such time as the said Henry and John Mordaunt shall agree at the Costs and Charges of the same Henry and John indifferently except the said John Moudaunt shall find Meat and Drink and the said Henry and his Heirs shall cause as sure and lawful Estate to be made to the said John Mordaunt and Jane William Carant of Tomer Esquire William Mordaunt Brother to the said John Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan Brown and Reynold Holdy for term of Life of the same Jane within two Months next after the decease of Elianor ...... Mother of the said Henry or at any time after when the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require of Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Somerset and Dorset or the one of them to the yearly Value of an hundred Marks over all Charges to have to them for Term of Life of the same Jane as shall be advised by the learned Councel of the said John Mordaunt or his Heirs And it is Covenanted between the said Parties during the Life of the said Elianor That the said Henry shall find the said Gyles to School Court and in all other Places in all manner of things convenient for his Degree And the said John shall find the said Jane according to her Degree Furthermore it is Covenanted and Granted between the said Parties that immediately after the said Estate made of the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold in form aforesaid That the said Henry shall take the Issues and Profits of Fifty Mark Land parcel of the said hundred Mark Land to their own uses six Years after the said Estate made to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold the said Henry finding the said Gyles and the said John Mordaunt finding the said Jane as is aforesaid And the said Henry Granteth further That he shall cause to be made within three months next after the Death of the said Elianor or at any time after when the same John Mordaunt or his Heirs shall require to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold a sufficient and lawful Estate of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark over and beside the said other Maners Lands and Tenements before specified to the yearly Value of a hundred Mark to have to them and to their Heirs to the use of the said Henry during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after his Decease to the use of the said Jane for Term of Life in full recompence of all her Dower of all the Maners Lands and Tenements to which the said Jane should be entituled by the Law of the Inheritance of the said Gyles And the said Henry shall cause and suffer as well the reversion of the said Maners Lands and Tenements to the Value of the said two hundred Marks severally demised to the said John Mordaunt Jane William Carant William Mordaunt William Gascoigne Wistan and Reynold in Deed or in Use As all other Maners Lands and Tenements whereof the said Elianor or any other person to her use is now seized of Estate of Inheritance and also the Maner of Todrington which is of the yearly Value of Twenty eight Pounds immediately after the Decease of the said Elianor and Henry in Deed or in Use to come grow or descend immediately after the Decease of the said Elianor and Henry to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to John Brother of the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten And for default of such Issue to the right Heirs of the said Henry for ever Which Lands and Tenements the said Henry promises in the whole to be of the yearly Value of Eight hundred Marks over all Charges And so the said John Mordaunt accepts them to be of the same yearly Value It is also Covenanted Bargained and Agreed between the said Parties That whereas the said Henry late purchased the Maners of Melbury Samford and Melbury Osmond and all the Lands Tenements and Advowsons in Melbury Samford and Melbury Osmond in the County of Dorset late Browning's to him and to his Heirs for ever if Catharine now Wife of the said Henry Decease without Issue Male of her Body by the said Henry begotten that then all the said Maners Lands Tenements and Advowsons late Browning's with the appurtenances after the decease of the said Henry and Catharine now his Wife and of William Browning and after the Issue Male of the said Catharine by the said Henry begotten if any such shall be spent and determined shall go and grow to the said Gyles and to the Heirs of his Body begotten and for default of such Issue to the said John
existunt seu seisitus existat ad usum earundum Margaretae Katharinae seu earum alicujus ad terminum vitae earum seu earum alicujus reversione inde in re nomine facto vel in usu praefatae Johannae Sayntmaur haeredibus suis spectante habendum tenendum dicta dominia maneria terras tenementa advocationes caetera praemissa cum suis pertinentiis ad custodiam eorundem ac reversionem omnium ac singulorum praemissorum cum acciderint vel acciderit praefato Johanni Mordaunt executoribus assignatis suis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi Sayntmaur quousque dicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Ac omnes singulas reversiones praedictas omnium praedictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis immediate post mortem dictarum Margaretae Katharinae earum cujuslibet cum acciderit quousque praedicta Johanna ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit Et si dicta Johanna obierit antequam ad plenam legitimam aetatem suam pervenerit haerede suo infra aetatem existente tunc volumus concedimus per praesentes eidem Johanni Mordaunt quòd idem Johannes Mordaunt executores assignati sui habeant custodiam maritagium hujusmodi haeredis custodiam tam omnium singulorum dictorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis cum acciderint ut praedictum est custodiam reversionum praedictarum cum pertinentiis suis usque ad plenam legitimam aetatem hujusmodi haeredis sic infra aetatem existentis sic de haerede in haeredem quousque aliquis haeres hujusmodi haeredum ad plenam legitimam aetatem pervenerit Concedimus etiam dicto Johanni Mordaunt omnia exitus proficua omnium singulorum dominiorum maneriorum terrarum tenementorum caeterorum praemissorum cum suis pertinentiis à tempore mortis praedicti Willielmi huc usque provenientia sive crescentia absque aliquo compoto sive aliquo alio nobis aut haeredibus nostris pro praemissis seu aliquo praemissorum reddendo faciendo seu solvendo Eo quòd expressa mentio de vero valore annuo aut aliquo alio valore ceu certitudine praemissorum vel alicujus eorum parcellae aut de vero valore dictorum maritagiorum eorum cujuslibet aut de aliis donis sive concessionibus praefato Johanni ante haec tempora factis in praesentibus minime facta existit aut aliquo alio statuto actu sive ordinatione ceu restrictione in contrarium factis editis sive provisis aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia quacunque non obstante In cujus rei Testimonium c. An Indenture between Sir John Mordaunt and Wistan Brown about the Wardship of Thomas Leventhorp THIS Indenture made the Twelfth day of September the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey on the one Partie and Wistan Brown and Humphrey Brown his Brother on the other Partie Witnesseth That whereas Thomas Leventhorp late of Whethamsted in the County of Hertford held certain Lands and Tenements in the said County of our Sovereign Lord the King by grant Serjeanty and had Issue John Leventhorp and divers other Children and dyed the said John being his Son and Heir within Age by the death of the which Thomas the King our Sovereign Lord ought to have the custody of the said John and of all the Lands and Tenements of the said Thomas whereof he dyed seized and of all the other Lands of the same Thomas of which he made no Will nor otherwise disposed And howbeit that at the making of these Presents there is no Office found in any Shire after the death of the said Thomas whereby the Kings Highness may be lawfully intitled to the said John Leventhorp Yet that notwithstanding our said Sovereign Lord by his Bill Assigned hath Given and Granted to the said John Mordaunt the Custody of the said John Leventhorp and of all his Lands and Tenements with the Issues and Profits of the same Lands and Tenements from the Death of the said Thomas to the said John Mordaunt To have to him and to his Assigns till the said John Leventhorp come to his full Age and further as long as the said Lands and Tenements shall happen to be in the Kings Hands And so from Heir to Heir till one of the Heirs of the said Thomas shall come to his full Age. The said John Mordaunt hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents Bargaineth Giveth and Selleth to the said Wistan all such Right Title Possessions and Interest as he hath or hereafter shall have in the Wardship of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp and the Marriage of the same be it Son or Daughter or Daughters To have to the said Wistan from the Date of these Presents as long as the Interest of the said John Mordaunt should endure by reason of the Kings Grant Provided That the same Heirs shall not be Married by the said Wistan to any other Person but to be Married with one of the Children begotten between the same Wistan and Elizabeth his Wife Sister to the said John Mordaunt And for lack of such Issue or such Marriage the same John Mordaunt to have again the Marriage of the same Heirs of the said Thomas to his own Use if it be Male immediately after he be fully of the Age of Twentie Years and if it be Female or Females after they be of the Age of Fourteen Years without any thing paying therefore this Indenture notwithstanding for as much as the said Wistan shall take the Issues and Profits of the said Lands all the mean time without any thing paying for the same And the said John Granteth by these Presents That he shall assent what in him is at the Costs and Charges of the same Wistan to cause the Offices to be found after the Death of the said Thomas according to the truth of the Testaments And after these Offices so found to get Grant by the Kings Letters Patents to the same John Mordaunt of the Ward and Custody abovesaid according to his said Bill Assigned And after that Patent made then the same John shall Grant the said Ward and Marriage of the Heirs of the said Thomas Leventhorp with the Custody of his Lands to the said Wistan and his Assigns to be Married as is above limited For the which Premises well and truly to be performed the said Wistan shall pay to the said John Mordaunt and his Assigns a Hundred Pound of lawful Money to be payed and delivered in form following That is to say whereas the said Humphrey is indebted to the said Wistan in One Hundred Pound for divers Considerations and Covenants made between the said Wistan and Humphrey upon the advancement of the same Humphrey to the Marriage of Amey Mordaunt
Sir John or his Deputy thereto be required by the said Rector and Scholars or by their Successors according as it hath been there used in times past in all the foresaid Maners in the said County of Buckingham requiring for him or his Deputies only the Fee rehearsed This Patent by William Shyrby and Henry Brown which William and Henry had it at the Hands of Sir Richard Lyster Gentleman William Shyrby Per me Henricum Brown Alliance between Mordaunt and Fettyplace THIS Indenture made the First day of July in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth Between John Fettyplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Knight on the other Party Witnesseth That the said John Fettyplace hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth Bargain and Sell to the said Sir John the Marriage of Edmond Fettyplace And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said Edmond before the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady next coming after the date of these presents shall Marry and take to Wife Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Margaret thereto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents that the said Margaret shall Marry and take to Husband before the foresaid Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the said Edmond if the said Edmond thereto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast at the Costs and Charges of the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John Fettyplace Covenaneth and Granteth by these presents That his Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Edmond for the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Margaret for the day of the said Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Margaret And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Gyles Strangeways Sir William Gascoign Knights Thomas Englefield one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law Edward Eynes John Elmes Edward Purfray Philip Fettyplace and William Fettyplace of Maydencote Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Gentlemen Thomas Nethercote and John Duke and to them their Heirs and Assigns and to the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns such a sufficient sure and lawful Estate of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the County of Kent to the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds discharged of all former Bargais Sales Jointures Dowers Uses Judgments Executions Recognisances Statutes-Merchants Statutes of the Staple and of all other Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by their Learned Counsel at the costs and charges in the Law of the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns be it by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise The same Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to such Uses and Intents as hereafter follow That is to say Of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Twenty Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof immediately upon the Marriage had and solemnized to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof from the date of these present Indentures to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father unto the time that the said Edmond his Son and Heir apparent come to the full Age of One and twenty Years And after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the said Age of One and twenty Years and after the Death of Dame Alice Besellys Widow that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Twenty Pounds residue of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father for term of Life of the same John Fettyplace the Father without Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said John Fettyplace the Father And immediately after the Death of the said John Fettyplace the Father and after the said Edmond shall come and be of the Age of One and twenty Years that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And the said John Fettyplace the Father Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall leave Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly value of Three hundred and twenty five Marks over and beside the said fifty Pounds before appointed for the Jointure in the County of Berks Oxfordshire or elsewhere within the Realm of England immediately after the decease of the said John Fettyplace and of Dorothy his Wife and after the decease of Dame Alice Besellys Widow and after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and
Given under our Signet at our Maner of Greenwich the Five and Twentieth Day of April Alliance between Mordaunt and More THIS Indenture made the Two and twentieth day of January in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and of France King Defender of the Faith Lord of Ireland Between John More of Haddon in the Parish of Bampton in the County of Oxford Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the other Party Witnesseth That the said Parties being agreed in manner and form as hereafter followeth That is to say The said John More doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents to and with the said Lord Mordaunt That Thomas More his Son and Heir apparent shall by the Grace of God Marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt if the said Dorothy thereto will agree and consent And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That the said Dorothy by the like Grace shall Marry and take to her Husband the said Thomas More if the said Thomas More thereto will consent and agree The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy Mordaunt before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof at the indifferent Costs and Charges of the said John More and Lord Mordaunt And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Thomas More in all things as shall be meet and convenient for the Degree of the said Thomas More the day of the said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And in like manner the said Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said John More by these presents That he at his proper costs and charges shall apparel the said Dorothy in all things that shall be necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Dorothy the said day of Marriage so to be solemnized and had And the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That the same John More his Heirs or Assigns before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date of these Presents or within Fifteen days next ensuing the said Feast of Easter shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Thomas Audely Knight Lord Chancellor of England Sir Henry Parker Gyles Strangesways John Mordaunt the Younger William Gascoign Thomas Bernardyston Knights Edmond Fettyplace Roger More John Elmes Esquires William More Clerk John Gostwyke Robert More second Son of the said John More Thomas Spilman Robert Latimer Nicholas Hardyng and Richard Downhall Gentlemen Thomas Lewes and George Caldwell their Heirs and Assigns a good sufficient sure and lawful Estate in the Law in Fee-simple of and in the Maner of Whaddon otherwise called Charles's Maner in Whaddon in the County of Cantebrigge and of and in the Maner of Ladybury in Whaddon aforesaid and of and in all other his Maners Lands and Tenements Hereditaments Woods Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in Whaddon aforesaid Knesworth Melreth Melburn Basingburn Moredon Abyngdon Crawdon Wympole and Crewell in the said County of Cantebrigge All which Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the Premises with the Appurtenances the said John More doth Covenant and Grant for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents To be of the clear yearly value of Forty eight Pounds over and above all yearly Charges and Reprizes going out of the said Maners Lands and Tenements and other the Premises with their Appurtenances before expressed The said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to be and stand Feoffees and seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements and all other the said Premises with their Appurtenances to the uses and intents hereafter following That is to say To the use of the said John More and his Heirs until such time as Marriage be had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy And after such Marriage had and solemnized between the said Thomas More and Dorothy then immediately the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns to stand and to be seized of and in the Site of the Maner and Maner place of the said Maner of Whaddon called Charles's Maner with all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to the same Maner belonging or appertaining with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Fourteen Pounds And of and in certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now in the Tenure of one William Fox to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances called Lady-place to the clear yearly value of Fifty three Shillings four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Payne to the clear yearly value of Three hundred Pounds and ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of Richard Crepyn to the clear yearly value of Ten Shillings And of and in certain Lands now in the Tenure of Anthony Bennes to the clear yearly value of Twenty six Shillings eight Pence All which Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances parcel of the Premises amount to the clear yearly value of Forty Marks to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John More for ever And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Newman to the clear yearly value of Twenty four Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of William Borolman to the clear yearly value of Forty Shillings And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenences now in the Tenure of John Astemore to the clear yearly value of Four Pounds three Shillings and four Pence And of and in certain Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances now in the Tenure of John Dickons to the clear yearly value of Three Pounds six Shillings eight Pence And of and in divers Lands and Tenements now in the Tenure of John Alleyn to the clear value of Thirteen Shillings four pence also parcel of the Premises amounting in the whole to the Summ of Twenty Marks to the use of the said John More during his Life without Impeachment of wast And after the Death of the
erat in Custodiâ Ranulphi de Broc duxerunt insomnem Charta Willielmi de Goram OMnibus hominibus suis amicis tà m Francis quà m Anglicis tà m futuris quà m praesentibus Willielmus de Goram Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Terram meam de Staplehurst Terram illam quam teneo de Willielmo Comite Ranulpho de Broc Damatae filiae meae haeredibus eorum tenendum tam liberè quietè quà m illam Ego teneo de praedicto Willielmo Comite scilicèt Servitium faciendo dimidiae partis unius militis His Testibus Gervasio filio Bernardi Henrico filio Thomae Willielmo de Harlec Alano de Criol Stephano de Poisoter Henrico de Bertsted Roberto Selvage cum multis aliis Charta Damatae de Broc SCiant tà m futuri quà m praesentes Quòd Ego Damata Uxor quondam Domini Ranulphi de Broc Robertus de Broc filius meus fuimus in illo loco in quo dictus Ranulphus vir meus Dominus dedit Fulconi de Bollard Terram suam in Combdenâ in feodo haereditate cum omnibus pertinentiis tenendum ab eo haeredibus suis homagium suum cepit accipitrem quandam in recognitionem ei dedit Servitio quartae partis militis Ego vero Damata Robertus filius meus hanc Donationem per istam Chartam confirmamus concedimus petitionem Fulconis de Bollard Testibus Willielmo de Sanctâ Mardaliâ Roberto de Bethrinden Thomâ de Harlebec Ricardo de Auberville Henrico de la Hyde Roberto de Ham Andreo filio Thomae Stephano Tore Johanne Clerico Inter Placita coram Concilio Regis die Sancti Johannis Baptistae in tres Septimanas anno vigesimo Septimo Henrici Tertii Rotul 20. EDelina de Broc opponit versus Sibyllam de Broc quòd tenebat Finem factum apud Winton Tempore Regis Johannis inter ipsam Sibyllam Stephanum de Turnham ipsam Edelinam de rationabili parte quae clamat versus ipsos Stephanum Edelinam de haereditate Ranulphi de Broc Patris Edelinae Sibyllae de rationabili parte Sibyllae quam ipsa clamat versus eosdem Stephanum Edelinam de totâ haereditate Damatae de Goram matris ipsorum Edelinae Sibyllae Sibylla non venit Baronage of England Page 663. I Come now to Stephen of Turnham Brother of the forementioned Robert This Stephen ratified his Fathers Grants to the Canons of Combwell for the health of the Souls of King Henry the Second King Richard the First his own Soul and the Soul of his Wife In the three and thirtieth of Henry the Second this Stephen being Seneschal of Poictou observing that the King of France had won Four Castles belonging to the King of England and thereupon marched to Maine with purpose to gain it by assault set fire upon the Suburbs by which means the Flames getting over the Walls almost consumed the whole City In the Sixth of King John with Edelina his Wife he had Livery of the Mannor of Fealburgh in the County of Southampton which was the inheritance of Damieta her Mother then Deceased but departed this Life in the Sixteenth of that Kings Reign for then did the same Edelina his Widow give Sixty Marks and one Palfrey for liberty to Marry with whom she should like best Robert de Broc That was Stiled Marshal of England and Forrester of Cannoc Rogerus de Hoveden parte posteriori Pag. 299. BEatus verò Thomas Archiepiscopus eo die Cantuariae residens post Sermonem ad populum factum excommunicavit Robertum de Broc qui die praecedente amputaverat caudam Sommerii sui Imagines Historiarum Authore Radulpho de Diceto Page 555. DIE Natalis Domini Thomas Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus Sermonem habiturus ad populum ascendit in Pulpitum Sermone completo orationibus consuetis scilicèt pro Domino Papâ pro Rege populique salute fusis ad Dominum Nigellum de Sackville Robertum quoque de Broc qui Equam quandam ipsius Archiepiscopi ad dedecus ignominiam ejus decurtaverant accensis candelis solemniter excommunicavit Charta Roberti de Broc NOtum sit omnibus Sanctae Ecclesiae Fidelibus tà m praesentibus quà m futuris Quòd Ego Robertus de Broc pro salute meâ Margaritae Uxoris meae Domini Ranulphi de Broc patris mei Laurentii filii mei pro animâ Domini Ricardi de Bellocampo patris Margaritae Uxoris meae Dedi Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli de Newnham Canonicis regularibus ibidem Deo servientibus Ecclesiam meam de Ravensden cum omnibus pertinentiis suis praecipio quòd de me haeredibus meis aeternè in pace teneant His Testibus Domino Stephano de Turnham Domino Roberto de Lega Domino Thomâ Basset Eliâ filio Ricardi Johanne filio Stephani Gervasio de Ambly Thomâ de Stowbridge Willielmo filio Willielmi Nicolao filio Rogeri Andreo Clerico Antiquities of Warwickshire Page 347. Speaking of Walter de Broc Lord of Chesterton TO this Walter succeeded William his Son and Heir who gave to the Monks of Radmore in the same Forrest of Cannoc afterwards translated to Stonly all his Lands in Werly in the County of Stafford In Consideration whereof he was made partaker of the whole benefit of the Cestertian Order and promis'd that his Body should have Sepulture in their Monastery On the Canons of Killingworth he confer'd the Church of Chesterton and granted to the Knights Templars a Yard Land in this Lordship but ill fate attended him for he suffer'd under the hand of Justice though for what appears not Whereupon the Lands were Seized into the Kings hands who gave them in Marriage to one Robert de Broc being a man of note in his days For he is stiled Marescallus Angliae Forrestarius de Cannoc who gave to the Monastery of Stonly a Messuage and half a Yard Land lying in Radway in this County and died in the Fifth Year of Richard the First leaving Issue Margery his Daughter and Heir Married to Hugh de Loges who in the Seventh of that King paid sixty Marks Fine towards raising that great Sum of Money for the Kings Redemption for which he had the Custody of the Forrest of Cannoc with his House of Grimbaldsdon Sir Laurence de Broc Lord of Shephale Charta Domini Roberti Mallet ROBERTUS MALLET omnibus hominibus amicis suis Salutem Sciatis me memetipsum haeredes meos obligâsse perfacere Laurentio de Broc in libero maritagio cum Milicentâ filiâ meâ ducentos solidatos Terrae in loco competenti ex illis quos teneo in Comitatibus Cantabrigiae Huntingdoniae sibi haeredibus suis de dictâ Milicentâ filiâ meâ exeuntibus hoc erit circa Festum beatae Mariae Virginis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Vigesimo Septimo Et si Ego Robertus Mallet vel haeredes mei praedictos ducentos Solidatos Terrae in iisdem Comitatibus praedicto Laurentio de Broc
or any other before or after him held the same and with such Liveries and Lodgings of his Court as belonged to that Office Being also one of the Kings Justices Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Page 248. Charta Alberici Regis Camerarii EGO Albericus Regis Camerarius Terram de Twivell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Guntero Monachis de Thorneya per talem conventionem teneo ad firmam ut per unumquemque annum eis sex libras pro ea reddam ante Nativitatem quadraginta solidos ante Pascham quadraginta solidos ad Vincula Sancti Petri extremos quadraginta solidos Insuper pro remissione peccatorum meorum illis de una mea Decima scilicet de Islip unoquoque anno ad Festivitatem Sancti Michaelis decem solidos reddam Totum verò surplus quod miserim in eadem Villa ultra quà m recepi in extremo die vitae meae pro salvatione animae meae Sanctae Mariae Patribúsque meis simul cum terra eorum concedo solidum quietum ab omni Calumniâ De alia Terra quam pro servitio dimidii Militis in eadem Villa de Willielmo de Blosvilla teneo in feudo de dimidio unius Hidae quam certè emi pretio Sanctam Mariam meósque Fratres post me concedo esse Haeredes in quantum id eis concedere possum Hujus Conventionis sunt Testes Hardewin de Escatere Radulphus Dapifer Willielmus de Whitlesege Simo imo omnes Fratres illius loci alii quamplures Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penès Comitem de Peterborow ALbericus de Twivell Camerarius Regis dedit Ecclesiae de Thorney duas Garbas Decimae trium Villarum de Islip Adington Drayton de Dominico suo The Baronage of England Page 190. HE in the Fifth of King Stephen with Richard Basset then Justice of England executed the Sheriffs Office for the Counties of Surrey Cambridge Huntingdon Essex Hartford Northampton Leicester Norfolk Suffolk Buckingham and Beadford and gave to the Monks of Thorney in Com. Canter certain Lands in Islip But before the end of this year he was killed in London His Wife was Adeliza de Clare leaving Issue by Adeliza his Wife Daughter of Gilbert of Clare three Sons Alberic his Son and Heir ........ a Cannon of Saint Osiths in Chieche and Robert which Robert in the twelfth of Henry the Second upon levying the aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified that he then held half a Knights Fee He also held the Lordship of Twivell in the County of Northampton of the Monks of Thorney in Fee-Farm as his Father did ROBERT de VERE Second Son of Alberic de Vere Great Chamberlain and Chief Justice of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 417. ANNO Millesimo Centesimo Tricesimo Quinto Rex Henricus primus obiit apud Castrum Leonis sepultus fuit apud Radingas ubi Coenobium Ducentorum Monachorum condiderat in Honorem Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Robertus de Vere alii Milites de Angliâ Satellites Ministri Regis apud Pontem Audomari atque bonam Villam Feretrum Regis apud Caddomum adduxerunt Baronage of England pag. 190. Second Column Speaking of Maud the Empress SHE likewise gave to Robert de Vere the other brother of this Earl Alberic a Barony to the value of that so given to Jeffrey and other Lands of equal worth to possess within a Year after she should enjoy the Realm of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 248. Charta Roberti Filii Alberici Camerarii Regis EGO Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Regis Terram de Twivell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Roberto Monachis de Thorneia per eandem Conventionem in feodi firmam teneo per quam conventionem pater meus ante me tenuit Decimas de quinque Carucis quas pater meus Deo Sanctae Mariae Thorneyae concessit scilicet Drayton Islip Edington Deo atque Sanctae Mariae atque Monachis Thorneiae concedo Hujus conventionis sunt Testes Robertus de Jakesley Ertnoldus Willielmus de Cesterton Ogerus Terri de hominibus ipsius Roberti Hugo Waze Adam imo omnes fratres ipsius loci Ex antiquo Pergameno penes Comitem de Peterborow RObertus filius Alberici Anno primo Imperii Henrici Regis Junioris feria quinta in Hebdomada Pentecostes tempore Galterii Abbatis qui successit Gilbertum Abbatem ejusdem loci anno Domini Millesimo Centesimo Quinquagesimo quarto in praesentia Henrici filii sui quietum clamavit Manerium de Twivel Monasterio de Thorney Alexander tertius Papa Donationem confirmavit Abbati de Twivel videlicet de duabus garbis Decimarum trium villarum Islip Drayton Edington In libro rubro Feodorum de Scaccario inter Chartas Dominorum irrotulatas de annis septimo octavo decimo quarto decimo octavo Henrici Secundi à secundo octavo Richardi Primi DOmino suo Charissimo Henrico Regi Angliae Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Salutem Sciatis Domine quod Ego teneo de vobis feodum dimidium Militis Valeat In Anno octavo in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici dimidium Militis In Anno decimo quarto in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii dimidium Militis In Anno decimo octavo in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici decem solidos In Anno secundo Regis Richardi fecit Scutagium Walliae assessum ad decem solidos In Northamptonshire Robertus filius Alberici quinque solidos dimidii Militis In Anno octavo Regis Richardi Scutagium Normanniae ad viginti solidos Rotulo duodecimo adhuc communi de Termino Pasch de Anno tricesimo octavo Henrici Tertii Consideratio contra Monachos de Hortune HEnricus Avus Domini Regis concessit Chartâ suâ confirmavit Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae de Hortune Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus Tintonam Hortunam cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum cum omnibus Libertatibus liberis Consuetudinibus in quibus Robertus de Vere Adelina uxor ejus meliùs liberiùs tenuerunt iisdem Monachis per Chartam suam confirmaverunt Et ideo consideratum est quòd praedicti Monachi facient Domino Regi pro praedictis Maneriis illud idem servitium quod praedictus Robertus Adelina facere consueverint Sir HENRY de VERE the Son of Robert the second Son of Alberic Great Chamberlain of England Hollinsheads Chronicle Pag. 110. BUT in the mean time it chanced that Sir Richard de Walles a Knight of the Realm of France went about to fortifie a Castle in a Village that belong'd to him called Walles scituate between Trie and Gisors whereupon Henry de Vere Constable of Gisors under William Earl of Albemarle was nothing content therewith and therefore got a Company together and went forth to disturb the work Upon this occasion the
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
begotten and for default of issue of the said Herry the remainder to my right heirs in tail be sufficient estate by the said Feoffes to him to be made Also I will that then the said Rauf my Son have the said Manner of Grateley with the avowson and appurtenances to him and to his heirs in tail and for default of issue of his body the remainder to my right heirs intail be sure and sufficient Estate to him be my said Feoffes to be made Also I will that there be rered and sold out of my Woods of Herdwyk and Grafton to the value of the summe of two hundred pounds to the marriages of Margery and Isabell my Daughters even to be departed between them and if the tone dye not married then the tother to have the whole summe of two hundred pounds so that they will be married by the counseil and ordinance of the said Margaret my Wife Thomas Wydevyll William Tresham Walter Greene and William Aldwyncle Also I will that Margaret my Wife Thomas Wydevill William Tresham Walter Greene and William Aldwyncle have the governance ordinance and oversight of the sale of the said woods for the said summe to be rered And after that summe so rered I will that the said Magaret my Wife have all the remainant of the said woods to her awn use to fell it down and do therewith what she will without peachment of waste Also I will that the said Margaret have the keeping cost and charge of my said Daughters till time that they be married Also I will that the said Margaret my Wife have her Dowry of all my Manners Londs Tenements and Rents with all the appurtenances in Wiltshire Moreover in case that my Sister my Lady Felbrigg dye mine heir being within age I will that then William Aldwyncle and William Marshall Clerk Feoffes of the Manners Londs and Tenements with appurtenances that shall fall to me and to mine heirs after the decease of my said Lady Felbrigg do rere and gather up yearly all the Rents and profits coming of the said Manners Londs and Tenements to the marriages of my said Daughters till the time that mine heir be of age And furthermore I charge mine heir by my blessing that he let none this Will to be performed nor be not against it in no manner or wise And if mine heir will let this Will or do the contrary there against in any manner or degree I will that then my said Feoffes hold and keep in their own hands and possession all the said Manners Londs Tenements and Rents with all the appurtenances to dispose them for my soul and for the souls of my auncesters after their discretions And moreover I will that Margaret my Wife have all my goods moveable and unmoveable to her own profit and disposition at her own list HENRY GREENE third of that name Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 296. HENRY Greene of Drayton who gave for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules was High-Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the twenty third of Henry VI. and again in the fourth year of Edward IV. Carta Henrici Greene. OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum indentatum pervenerit Henricus Greene Armiger Willielmus Aldwyncle Galfridus de Sancto Germano de Broughton Salutem Cùm Domina Katherina Felbrigg nuper uxor Radulphi Green de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Willielmus Yelverton unus Justiciarius Domini Regis Nicolaus Appylyerd Johannes Dam habeant teneant Maneria de Buckworth in Comitatu Huntingtoniae Manerium de Emberton in Comitatu Cantabrigiae Manerium de Alba Rothyng in Comitatu Essexiae Maneria de Chalton Culworth cum redditibus in Farendysh in Comitatu Bedfordiae Manerium de Wabenden vocatum Greenes Maner Manerium de Wolfton Manerium de Emberton in Comitatu Buckinghamiae cum pertinentiis ad terminum vitae dictae Katherinae Reversione inde Nobis praefatis Henrico Willielmo Aldwyncle Galfrido spectante Noveritis nos praefatos Henricum Willielmum Aldwyncle Galfridum statum possessionem praedictae Dominae Katherinae Willielmi Yelverton Nicolai Johannis Dam de in omnibus singulis Maneriis supradictis cum pertinentiis ratificâsse approbâsse tenore praesentium confirmâsse Habenda tenenda eadem Maneria cum omnibus singulis eorum pertinentiis praefatis Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni Dam ad terminum vitae dictae Katherinae Et ulteriùs concessimus pro Nobis haeredibus nostris praedictae Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni Dam quòd pro aliquo vasto in aliquo Manerio Maneriorum praedictorum faciendo usque ad summam quadraginta solidorum de caetero non impetantur graventur nec molestentur Et insuper noveritis Nos praefatum Henricum Willielmum Aldwyncle Galfridum concessisse antedictis Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni quòd bene licebit eisdem Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni durante vitâ dictae Katherinae prostituere maeremium ad reparandum Maneria praedicta tenementa eisdem Maneriis pertinentia Necnon subboscum Wrangles Sheredelbode pro clausuris in Maneriis praedictis fiendis pro focali suo ibidem ardendo prostituere succidere absque impetitione vasti inde per Nos vel haeredes nostros vel per aliquos nostrum versus ipsam Dominam Katherinam Willielmum Yelverton Nicolaum Johannem prosequenda Ac insuper Noveritis Nos praefatum Henricum Willielmum Aldwyncle Galfridum remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro Nobis haeredibus nostris imperpetuum quietum clamâsse praefatis Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni omnimodas actiones reales personales ratione alicujus vasti ante datum praesentium facti quas versus ipsos Dominam Katherinam Willielmum Yelverton Nicolaum Johannem unquam habuimus habemus seu quovismodo habere poterimus in futurum à principio mundi usque in diem Confectionis praesentium In cujus rei testimonium uni parti hujus Scripti indentati penes praefatam Dominam Katherinam Willielmum Yelverton Nicolaum Johannem remanenti Nos praedicti Henricus Willielmus Aldwyncle Galfridus Sigilla nostra apposuimus Alteri verò parti ejusdem Scripti indentati penes Nos residenti dicta Domina Katherina Willielmus Yelverton Nicolaus Johannes Dam Sigilla sua apposuerunt Dat' septimo die Maii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum tricesimo primo Froddesham Carta Henrici Greene. TO all manner of men to whom this Writing may come be it known where before this time that William Aldwincle Esquire hath enfeffed Master Walter Dove and other in two Assartes called Langhill and Ferthingeshaw in the County of Northampton to the use of the same William to have and to hold to them and to their heirs for evermore And now on late time the
Father had his Wardship purchased by his Mother the Lady Elizabeth Vere of Edward the black Prince for the summe of twenty pounds who by his Charter which is extant did grant the custody of his Lands with his Marriage to his dear and well beloved Elizabeth that was the Wife of Robert de Vere those are the words of the Deed on condition it might be without disparagement There are remaining Covenants hereupon agreed unto between the said Robert and his Mother as also a Petition from the said Lady to Queen Isabel for her protection against Sir Henry Greene a man of great power by whom the Minor and her self were oppressed in some circumstances of the rights that did belong unto them When this Robert had attained to mans estate he confirmed to his Uncle's Wife the Lady Alice de Vere the agreement had been made with her by his Father He became afterwards much considered from his Vertue and noble qualities and in the eighteenth year of Richard the Second he served his Country in the Office of High Sheriff and did much adhere to the King in those difficulties which happened in his Reign Yet there fell out about this time a quarrel between him and a Knight of great Authority called Sir Edmund Noone on whom having made an assault wherein the said Edmund was wounded it caused him trouble for a time and an Imprisonment in the Fleet upon pretence of the Riot but the matter being composed by Friends he afterward recovered the King's grace and his liberty He Married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir John de Tay of a noble Family and descended from antient Barons of that Name by whom having had but one Daughter called Margaret he gave her for Wife to Thomas Ashby Lord of Lovesby in the County of Leicester with his Lordships of Thrapston and Addington to them and the heirs of their bodies but it falling out that she dyed without Issue His Lands he had setled upon them returned to his Brother Baldwin and his heirs as being his lawful successors SIR BALDWIN de VERE being for many years a younger Brother appli'd himself to the Wars and a dependence upon great Princes for the support of his fortune We find him in the fourth year of King Henry the Fourth to have been Lieutenant Governor of the Isles of Guernsey and Jersey under that noble Prince Edward Earl of Rutland and of Corke and who was afterwards Duke of York He followed this illustrious Hero in all the succeeding Wars of that Age and fought by his side at the time he fell with so much glory in the famous Battel of Agencourt after whose death he had confirm'd unto him by King Henry the Fifth an annuity of twenty marks by the year that had been granted to him by that Duke for his life out of his inheritance in the Customs of Linnen Leather and Skins in the Port of Kingston upon Hull to be received at the hands of the Collectors thereof during the Minority of Richard the Son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge After this his fortune or rather his setled affection to the relations and interests of the House of York carried him into the Kingdom of Ireland where in the second year of King Henry the Sixth he was constituted Treasurer of his Liberties by the Lord Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ulster and at that time Lord Lieutenant of Ireland which by his Letters Patents that are extant and other testimonies does appear After the death of the Earl of March and the return of Sir Baldwin Vere into England the fortunes of Love as well as those of Armes did contribute to the advantage and establishment of this worthy and industrious Knight for he fell into the favour of a young Lady the Daughter and heir of Sir John Kingston alias Mohun who brought him the Mannors of Barkloe Overhall and Hoakenhanger that were of her inheritance And in conclusion his Brothers Death without Issue male made him possession of the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and the other Lands belonging to that Family So as having no more to desire at the hands of fortune he departed this life full of years and happiness leaving Issue Sir Richard Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston Elizabeth Vere Amy Vere AFTER the decease of Sir Baldwin de Vere RICHARD his Son came to inherit the Estate and interests of that Family He met with some trouble in the beginning about this accession which came to his Father for want of Issue male from his Uncle Sir Robert de Vere who notwithstanding had made over the Lordships of Addington and Thrapston to certain Trustees for the security of the Portion promised to his Daughter Margaret that had been married to a Gentleman of consideration one Thomas Ashby of the County of Leicester And these Trustees happening to be men of the highest rank and of most power in the Kingdom as the Earls of Hereford and Stafford the Lord Beaumont the Lord Cromwel and the Lord Zouch and not a little partial to Thomas Ashby and his Wife Margaret it was no easy matter to procure a resignation of their interest But his Cousin Margaret coming to dye without Issue and having given testimony of her desire to have justice done unto her lawful successor those noble Lords were induced upon some fair agreement with Thomas Ashby to redemise to Richard de Vere the Mannor of Aldington and the other Lands wherein they had been formerly enfeoffed Soon after this Richard de Vere was setled in his fortune he contracted an alliance in the Family of Greene the most considerable among the Gentlemen of that tract by marrying Isabella one of the Daughters of John Greene who stiled himself Lord of Herdwick in the days of his Brother Ralph that was Lord of Drayton and from whose death without Issue male his descendants came to be possest of a great and noble Patrimony The great Lords of the Church being no easie neighbours in that age from their exceeding interest and authority and this Sir Richard de Vere being a man of a great spirit and of a Family unaccustomed to unreasonable submissions there arose a contest between him and the Lord Abbot of Croyland which made much noise about certain bordering pretences How it was ended does not appear but soon after this Sir Richard de Vere departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella Greene Sir Henry de Vere Baldwin Vere Constance Married to John Butler Lord of Woodhall Elizabeth Vere Married to William Dounhalle Margaret Vere Married to John Verners of Essex Amy Vere Married to John Ward of Irtlingborow Elena Vere Married to Thomas Isham of Pitchtsley HENRY the eldest Son of Sir Richard Vere with the Estate of his Father inherited the Suit and Difference with the Lord Abbot of Croyland and by his endeavours to defend his interests in that affair he incurr'd the displeasure of King Richard III. which was particularly testified in a Letter to himself and in some
JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon Camden's Britannia page 205 treating of the County of Essex THorndon quondam Habitatio Clarae Familiae Fitz-Lewis quorum ultimus si qua fides vulgò incensis fortuitò Aedibus Nuptiali Festivitate misero incendio periit ELY FITZ-LEWIS and JOHN Lord MORDAVNT Lord and Lady of Westhornedon A Will or Testament of John Lord Mordaunt THIS is the last Will of John Mordaunt Knight Son and Heir apparent of Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt confirming the order disposition and demise as well of my Goods and Chattels as of my Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances that I have and am seised of Estate of Fee-simple in the Counties of Essex Northampton and Somerset or elsewhere within the Realm of England First I will and demise that all my parts portion and demand Right Title Possession and Interest that I have of and in the Mannors of Granham otherwise called Bishop Wokenton in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhal to Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed within the County of Essex with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or hath been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Grangeham otherwise called Bishop Wokengton Greice Brumford in Nevedon Haes and Nokenhall unto Warson aliàs Walton in Bristed in the County of Essex together with the Advowsons of the said Mannors to Dame Joan my Wife To have and to hold and enjoy the Premisses with their Appurtenances to the said Dame Joan and her Assigns for term of her natural life Also I will and demise That all my Right Title Possession Interest that I have of and in the Mannor of Westhornedon and Gingeraps and also Cranham in the said County of Essex the reversion of the said Mannor of Cranham after the decease of Dame Joan my Wife with all and singular Rights Members and Appurtenances and all Lands Tenements Meadows Feedings Pastures Woods and Underwoods and other Hereditaments that be or haye been in times past reputed or taken part or parcel of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps with the Advowsons belonging to the said Mannors To have hold and enjoy the Premisses with all Rights Revenues Profits Uses Commodities Emoluments and Arrearages of all and singular the said Mannors Lands Tenements Ways Meadows Pastures and other Hereditaments and all other the Premisses with their Appurtenances to John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt my Father and to Edmond Mordaunt my Executors and to the Surviver of them and to the Executors of the Surviver for term of thirty Years next ensuing after my death without impeachment of Waste to the intent that they with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses and every part thereof coming and growing from time to time during the said Term shall find and provide to my Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt Margaret Mordaunt Anne Mordaunt Ursula Mordaunt and every of them sufficient Meat Drink and Lodging Apparel Learning and other Necessaries for them until they be married and also give and deliver to every of them towards their several Marriages the Summ of four hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be paid to every of them at the day of their several Marriages If that my said Executors have loned or at any time or times hereafter the said Marriages as it may be loned of the Issues and Profits of the said Mannors of Westhornedon and Gingeraps And if it shall so chance that one or two of my said Daughters to dye and depart out of this transitory life unmarried I will that her or their Parts Portions and Summs of Money that to her or to them by this my last Will and Testament did belong shall remain grow come and be deemed amongst the other of my Daughters which shall so fortune to overlive And if it shall so chance that more of my said Daughters than two to dye and depart out of this transitory life I will that their Parts and Portions shall remain still in the hands of my Executors to be delivered to my Son and Heir when he cometh to two and twenty Years of Age. And if I chance to depart to God without Issue Male then I will that the moyety of the said money equally to be divided amongst my said Daughters which at that time shall chance to be alive and the residue to be distributed in deeds of Charity according to the discretion of my Executors my said Lord and Father and my Brother Edmond Mordaunt Furthermore I will that if any of my said Daughters happen to marry her self against the will and appointment of my Executors the said Lord Edmond Mordaunt or the Survivors or the Survivor of them within the Age of twenty one Years or if any of the said Daughters doe refuse any lawful marriage tendered or offered by my Executors the said Lord and Edmond Mordaunt my Brother or by the Survivors or Survivor of them within the said Age of one and twenty Years to the intent to marry themselves at their own pleasure That then I will That she or they shall tarry for her or their part until the time that all my Daughters be set forth and married and then to be delivered to my said Daughter or Daughters so marrying themselves or to the Children of her or them according to the discretion of my Executors the said Lord and Edmond or the Survivors or Survivor of them And further I will and demise that my said Executors with the Issues and Profits of the Premisses during the said term shall find a Priest to sing Mass in the Parish Church of Westhornedon aforesaid to pray for my Soul and Dame Ely my late Wife deceased and all Christian Souls And also shall distribute every Year during the said term to the help and sustentation of the poor and needy people in Westhornedon Gingeraps Cranham and Nevendon according to the discretion of my Executors And also give and distribute unto the maintaining of High-ways and Bridges wheresoever my Executors shall think most meet and convenient any where within the County of Essex Also I do demise unto the said Edmond Mordaunt my Brother the reversion of certain Lands and Tenements Pasture Woods Underwoods and other Hereditaments in Coume and Sturmest in the County of Somerset with the appurtenances which I the said Sir John did purchase of one Richard Matthew one of the Sons of Robert Matthew deceased which Joan Matthew Widow doth now claim for to hold for term of her life as parcel of her Joynture To have and to hold to the said Edmond and his Heirs in as large and ample manner as ever Robert Matthew did hold or occupy the premisses upon this Condition following that is to say that the said Edmond or his Heirs shall make or cause to be made within two years after the death of the said Joan Matthew in the Church of Westhornedon of the North
found and provided for my Daughters Margaret Anne Winefryd and Ursula Mordaunt Meat Drink Apparel Learning and other Necessaries meet for their desire for them and every of them until they be married or otherwise provided for if they shall determine their minds not to marry And also shall give unto every one of them four hundred Marks at the day or days of their several Marriages or any other time or times after as yeu may be levied of the Issues and Profits of the Premisses so that they and every of them be ruled and ordered as well for their Education and bringing up until they be married as for the order and disposition for their Marriages by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond or the Survivor of them And if any of my Daughters shall determine their mind or minds not to marry but to live without a Husband then I will that the Part or Portion of her or them determined not to marry be bestowed to her or their most profit to purchase to her or them a Living during their life or lives And also shall find and provide for my Son Edmond Mordaunt Meat Drink Apparel and Learning until he come to the Age of one and twenty Years And also shall give and deliver unto the said Edmond two hundred Marks after that the said Money be levied for the Preferment of my Daughters in manner and form above-written and after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the Age of one and twenty Years so that the said Edmond will be ruled by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt and the Survivor of them until the said Age of one and twenty Years And also I will that Dame Joan my Wife shall occupy and enjoy my Mansion-house of Westhornedon with all Houses Orchards and Garden-Plats thereunto belonging for the space of nine Years next and immediately following my decease Provided always that if the said Dame Joan my Wife do depart out of this transitory World before the said Years be expired or that my Son Lewis do come to his full Age before the said time then the said term to be void any thing before to the contrary notwithstanding Also I will that if my said Daughters or any of them do marry themselves against the Will and appointment of the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and the said Edmond or the Survivor of them or if any of my said Daughters doth refuse any lawful and convenient Marriage tendered and offered by the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt or any of them to the intent to marry themself or selves at their own pleasure or pleasures that then her or their Part or Portion shall not be delivered to her or them until all and every of my said Daughters so lawfully provided for be preferred to Marriage and the Portion or Summs of Money before bequeathed to every of them be delivered and paid And if she or they dye before the said delivery then I will the said Parts or Portions to be equally divided and delivered to their Daughter or Daughters which shall so live until they be married And for lack of Daughters to the Son or Sons of my said Daughter or Daughters marrying themselves against the Will of the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond as is above-mentioned And also for Beatrice Lewis Aunt to my late Wife Dame Ely Mordaunt I will that she shall have Meat Drink Cloathing and all other Necessaries meet for her during her life so that she suffer the Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt to perceive and take one yearly Pension of three Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence granted to the said Beatrice by our late Sovereign Lord of famous Memory King Henry the Eighth And if it happen any of my said Daughters intending to marry to depart out of this life unmarried I will that her Part Portion or Summ of Money that to her shall belong by reason of any former bequest be divided and bestowed in manner and form following after that the said Summs of Money before bequeathed to my said Daughters and to my said Son Edmond be levied in manner and form abovesaid that is to say if one of my said Daughters happen to dye before Marriage then I will one hundred Marks to be delivered unto Lewis Mordaunt after that he cometh to the Age of one and twenty Years and one hundred Marks to be delivered to my said Son Edmond Mordaunt after that he hath accomplished the Age of one and twenty Years And if any of my said Sons dye before delivery made Then I will the Survivor of them shall have the part of his Brother deceased to be delivered to him after his said Age of one and twenty Years And the residue that is to say Two hundred Marks to be distributed amongst the poorest and neediest of mine and Dame Ely's my late Wife's Kinsfolk for their Preferment in Learning Marriages and other things according to the discretion of the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt or their Assigns And if any other of my said Daughters happen to depart from this transitory life I will that two hundred Marks of her Portion deceased be delivered and equally divided amongst the residue of my said Daughters then living until they be married and other two hundred Marks to be distributed in repairing of High-ways and to the Marriages of poor Maids or in other Deeds of Charity in such places as I have any Lands and Tenements in the County of Essex Norfolk Bedford or Northampton And if that all my said Daughters shall live until they be married or otherwise preferred if they intend not to marry in manner and form abovesaid Then I will that two hundred Marks be levied of the Premisses and distributed to the preferment of the poorest and neediest of my Kinsfolks or of the Kinsfolks of Dame Ely my late Wife And other two hundred Marks to be distributed in other such Deeds of Charity as is abovesaid according as by the discretion of the said Lord Mordaunt Dame Joan and Edmond Mordaunt or their Assigns shall be thought meet and convenient Also I will that if my said Son Lewis doth depart from this transitory life before all and every of my said Daughters be married or otherwise preferred in manner and form abovesaid and more than two of my said Daughters departed out of this life unmarried or afterward happen to dye before Marriage or otherwise preferred if they intend not to marry That then the Parts Portions or Summs of Money of her or them so dying before Marriage and also the said Summs of Money before bequeathed to my said Sons Lewis and Edmond by the reason of the Death of any of my said Daughters if they happen to dye before the said Summs of Money be delivered to them likewise to be bestowed in such Deeds of Charity as is abovesaid Also I will and devise the Mannors of Amys and Cranham otherwise called
overcome allowances were made for the Earl's Equipage and provision of Money design'd for the maintenance of the Embassie Orders were given for Commissions and Instructions And after the Earl had served His Majesty in Raising for him a Regiment of Foot whereof he was to be Colonel design'd for carrying on the Dutch War his affairs being all in a readiness for proceeding on his Embassie he did on the _____ of March in the Year _____ under the Character of Embassador Extraordinary to the Emperor depart from London on that employment having in his custody Jewels of his Royal Highness's particular Cabinet to the value of Twenty Thousand Pound intended for a present to the young Archduchess of Inspruk The Earl arrived at Dover the next day and under a very fair passage came the day following to Calles where having stay'd too Nights in providing for his farther proceeding to Paris on the Third day in the Morning an Express came to him from the Court bringing Letters of assurance from thence and from Germany too That the Empress was dead and the long Treaty of Inspruk broken off by reason the Emperor was now resolv'd to have that Princess for himself The Earl had notwithstanding Letters from his Royal Highness and from the Earl of Arlington by the King's Command That notwithstanding this he should proceed to Paris remaining quiet there under his own particular character attending their farther Commands whereby he was like to be employ'd to procure a Princess that might be a fit Wife for the Duke out of some other Family His Lordship obey'd and after being settled at Paris he had advice from his Royal Highness That there had been proposed to him Four Wives with whom since it was impossible for him to be acquainted he did command his Lordship to endeavor by all the diligence he could use to get sight and knowledge of them or at least their Pictures with the most impartial relations of their Manners and Dispositions The First of these was the Dutchess of Guise whom France most particularly wish'd to favor into this Alliance the next the young Princess of Modena only Sister to the present Duke of that City and Country the Third a Lady called Madmoiselle de Rais and the Fourth Mary Anne Princess of Wirtenbergue This was a great trust to the performance whereof was requisite both Honesty and Discretion the first To render unconsider'd all the advantages might be propos'd to make partial the person trusted against the interest and satisfaction of his Master and the latter To find out and judge what might be most expedient and agreeable to his true humor and circumstances The first and the latter of these did recide at Paris the Dutchess of Guise at her own House and the Princess of Wirtenbergue as a Pensioner in the Monastery of ....... but the Princess of Modena was with her Mother in Italy and Madmoiselle de Rais at her Relations some Hundred Miles distant from Paris The Dutchess of Guise he saw at Court she was the youngest Daughter of Gaston of Bourbon Duke of Orleans the King of France his Uncle but a Princess for whom he knew the Duke had no inclination she not being only low and ill shap'd but under the appearance of a feeble Complection so as though she had much reputation for Innocence and Vertue her Constitution did not promise a likelihood of either many or strong Children and that end appearing to the Earl the chief business of the Duke and of England too all the favor of France a share whereof he might have tasted from the merit of a recommendator to this Alliance could not induce him to promote a matter contrary to the ends of his Trust and the Duke's Service The Princess of Modena Mary of Esté his Lordship could not see but by the means of a Scotch Gentleman that had been conversant in the House of Conty one Mr. Conn he was introduced into the Palace of that Prince whose Wife had been one of the young Princess of Modena's nearest Relations and there he saw her Picture that had been lately sent thither from that Court It bore the appearance of a young Creature about Fourteen years of Age but such a light of Beauty such Characters of Ingenuity and Goodness as it surprized the Earl and fixt upon his Phancy That he had found his Mistress and the Fortune of England An ill Picture he saw of Madmoiselle de Rais but being at such distance as he could not know her self or have any perfect relation of her circumstances he sought no farther encouragement in that matter His whole thoughts were turned upon the young Princess of Modena with whose Character that he might be the better acquainted by the means of the forementioned Mr. Conn he got a meeting such as might seem accidental with a Gentleman called the Abbot Richini a Man that was employ'd at Paris in Negotiating the interests of the House of Esté and it was in a private but commodious place for such an interview in the Cloysters of the Great Charter-House in Paris After usual Complements they fell upon divers indifferent Discourses and by degrees that made it casual coming to matters of England and the Duke's being a Widower with the necessity of another Marriage we talk'd of Divers Princesses that the World named as proper for a Match so Illustrious The Earl had occasion hereupon to enquire of him What Children there were in the House of Esté he told him only too A Son that was the present Duke as yet a Minor and a Daughter of about Fourteen Years of Age to whom although he attributed many excellences yet he endeavour'd to make them useless to us by saying The Dutchess her Mother but more strongly her own Enclinations did design her to a Religious life and that she did seem resolv'd not to Marry This affirmation was an extream blow to the hopes and desires of the Earl of Peterborow and of which he was forced to give an account together with the esteem and great value he had for the Character that from all hands he had received of this young Princess But after this he was induc'd by the Duke 's particular direction to make his access to the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue that had likewise as has been said been recommended to his consideration This Lady whose Father had been slain in the War and her Mother retired at that time into Flanders of which Country she was did remain in a Monastery of Ladies in company of several others of great Quality And the Earl was introduc'd to a fight of her by Father Gilbert Talbot at that time newly entred into Orders of Priesthood and an acquaintance of her Confessor She was perswaded to receive his Lordship by way of a Visit in the manner as is usual at the Grate of a Parlor design'd to give the Ladies opportunities of speech at seasonable times with their Friends and Relations This Princess who was Daughter of
he was forc'd to depart once more from thence to conduct her home according as he had engaged himself to do In order to this he Embarked upon the Friggat the accomodations as well as the safety whereof was esteem'd more proper for both the Voyage and the Company difficulties having been experienced in the last passage aboard the Yatchts which were esteem'd would not have been so dangerous in this other sort of Embarkation His Highness proceeded then but Providence shew'd that all pre-cautions are vain and let the wise take what care they can the event and success of all things are ever in her power For the Duke had not sailed far being over or near the Coast of Yarmouth when from many circumstances of negligence or ill conduct in those who had the leading of that sailing affair the Duke's Ship struck upon a Sand and in a short time sunk down to rights all perishing in this occasion except such as could swim or had the extraordinary fortune to be saved by Boats which may be thought to have had enough to do in so distracted and divided a conjuncture But the Duke himself was preserv'd with a few in his own Pinnace by the care and Loyalty of the Seamen who would neither intrude themselves nor suffer others for their safeties to expose that of a Prince so considerable His Highness came after safely to Land at Leith and once again into the Arms of his incomparable Dutchess who was half dead though she saw him live at the fears of that which though it was now past she had heard had been once so near After some days stay they together left Scotland for the last time and came together to London where they were received with all the joy honest Men could express The Summer they spent with the King at which time was discovered the first part of the desperate Phanatick Plot divers Accusations there were and the Lord Russel was Tryed Condemned and Executed Many were Imprison'd and a great consternation appear'd upon all that Party The Earl of Peterborow was in the mean time restor'd to his place in Council and his part in the Summers actions consisted in causing Presentments to be made and Indictments in his own Country for examples sake of such as had been of Shaftsbury's Party and appear'd disaffected to the Crown with settling the Magistracy and Offices of the Militia in faithful hands so as by the end of the Year of one of the most perverse and worst enclin'd Countries of all England he did with the pains care and diligence that he apply'd render it the most exemplary and readiest to serve the King of any other In October ensuing he attended the Duke his Master to New-market and was with his Highness at the time when that fortunate Fire broke out which burnt that Town and preserv'd the King and his Brother by hastening their return to London sooner than was intended By which the assault of Rye was prevented and those measures disconcerted which in consequence were design'd to the ruine of the Kingdom and all those that loved the Royal House and the Government He continued to serve his Master with the same zeal and concern the rest of the days of King Charles at whose Sickness and sudden Death he was present and a witness of that tenderness wherewith the dying King resign'd his Dominions and all his Interest to his loving Brother as the right of his inheritance by all the Laws both of God and Man After the King's decease great endeavours were used to prevent the Earl of Peterborow from succeeding to the place under the new King wherein he had served his Majesty while he was Duke the space of twenty years together but his Master was too just and generous not to stick to his old Servant that had run so many fortunes and hazards with him He did then give his Lordship the Gold Key and thereby establish'd him Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman and Governor of his Bed-Chamber The Earl served his Majesty afterward at his Royal Coronation in bearing before him St. Edward's Scepter and after the ensuing Parliament and the passing the Bill of Attainder against the Duke of Monmouth one Evening when his Lordship expected nothing less his Majesty with a bounty and graciousness never to be forgotten took him aside and ask'd If he did not remember a promise that had once been made him to which the Earl replied He had a memory only for what pleased his Majesty who answered He had not forgotten the Garter he should have had after his attendance on him at the Sole-Bay Fight and he should find he was as mindful of old Promises as ancient Service Some days being past the King commanded the Earl's attendance at a Chapter in Whitehall and there caused him to be Invested with the George and Garter after which his Lordship was sent into the Country to raise Troops against the Rebellion wherein he did very exemplary Service to his Majesty and upon his return he with the Duke of Norfolk and the Lord Treasurer was Installed in the Royal Castle of Windsor to all the purposes and privileges which do appertain to the Noble Order of the Garter Henry Earl of Peterborow had Issue by his Wife the Lady Penelope Obrien two Daughters Elizabeth Mordaunt that dyed in the Twelfth year of her Age. Mary Mordaunt Married to Henry Howard Duke of Norfolk OSBERT le MORDAUNT a Norman Knight Osmond le Mordawnt Elena Fortis Baldwin Mordaunt Eustace le Mordaunt Alice of Alne Robert Mordaunt William de Mordaunt Amicia de Olney Agnes Mordaunt William de Merdaunt Rese de Wake Richard Merdaunt William Merdaunt Rebert de Mordaunt Ieane de Bray Nichalas Mordaunt Richard Mordaunt Edmund de Mordaunt Elena de Broc Rebert de Mordaunt Agnes le Ejlrange 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 Cheney 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Boys Edmund Fettyplace Margaret Mordaunt John Denton John Radney of Radney Stoak Anne Mordaunt John Fisher Robert de Mordaunt Elizabeth de Holdenby Cassandria Mordaunt a Nun in the Monestery of Elnestow Elizabeth Mordaunt William Mordaunt Margaret Pec. Maud Mordaunt Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Hempsted Anne Huntington Sr. John Mordaunt Edith Latimen Eliz Mordaunt Sr. Willm. Brown Ld. of Abess Reading in Essex William Mordaunt John 1st Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Vere Robert Mordaunt Amye de Vere Johanna Mordaunt Giles Strangway Ld. of Melborne in Com Dorsell Edith Mordaunt Iohn Elmes Ld. of Lilford George Mordaunt of the Hill Cicely Harding John 2d. Lord Mordaunt Elly Fitzlewes Edmund Mordaunt Willm. Mordaunt Ld. of Oakley Agness Booth 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 Strangway 〈◊〉 Melborne 〈◊〉 Dorsell 〈◊〉 Mordaunt 〈◊〉 of Oakley 〈◊〉 Booth Dowthy Mordaunt Thomas Moore Ld. of Bampton Eliz Mordaunt Silvester Danvers Anne Mordaunt Clement Tanfield Eliz Mordaunt George Monox Lewes Lord Mordaunt Elizabeth Darcy Margaret Mordaunt Willm. Acclam Ursula Mordaunt Tho Welbore of Clavering in Essex Mary Mordaunt Thomas Mancell Lord of Morgan Henry Lord Mordaunt Margaret Compton Catherine Mordaunt Iohn Honingham
welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Signifying unto you that for certain weighty causes and considerations touching us our mind and pleasure is That all excuses laid apart ye be and personally appear at our City of London on Tuesday the Seventh day of July next coming there to tarry and demeur until ye shall know farther of our pleasure which shall be declared unto you on our behalf by the Mouth of our Chancellor Fail ye not hereof as we specially trust in you Given under our Signet at our Maner of Hampton-Court the last day of June A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt By the Queen RIght welbeloved we greet you well And whereas it hath pleased the Goodness of Almighty God of his Infinite Mercy and Grace to send unto us at this time good speed in the deliverance and bringing forth of a Princess to the great Joy Rejoyce and inward Comfort of my Lord Us and of all his good and loving Subjects of this his Realm for the which his inestimable Benevolence so shewed unto us we have no little cause to give high Thanks Laud and Praising unto our said Maker like as we do most lowly humbly and with all the inward desire of our Heart And inasmuch as we undoubtedly trust that this our good speed is to your great Pleasure Comfort and Consolation we therefore by these our Letters advertise you thereof desiring and heartily praying you to give with us unto Almighty God high Thanks Glory Laud and Praising and to Pray for the good Health Prosperity and continual preservation of the said Princess accordingly Given under our Signet at my Lord's Maner of Greenwich the Seventh day of September in the Five and twentieth Year of my Lord's Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Danvers ARticles of Agreement made devised and concluded between the Right Worshipful Dame Anne Danvers of Dauntesey and the Right Honourable Lord Mordaunt for a Marriage to be had between Silvester Danvers and Mistress Elizabeth Daughter to the said Lord Mordaunt the Twelfth day of April in the Twenty eighth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth First It is agreed between the said Parties That the said Silvester Danvers shall Marry and take to his Wife the said Elizabeth if she will thereto agree and the said Elizabeth shall take to her Husband the said Silvester if he thereto will agree and the said Marriage to be solemnized between them before the Feast of Pentecost next coming after the date hereof where it shall please the said Lord Mordaunt and the Costs of Meat and Drink at the Marriage and even of their Apparel after they are Married to be provided at the Charges of the said Lord Mordaunt Item Where the said Dame Anne is seized of Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances in the County of Cornwall all of the yearly value of Fifty Pounds she is contented to make a sufficient and sure Estate in Fee-simple of the foresaid Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances to the said value to Sir Anthony Hungerford Knight and to ............. discharged of all manner of Charges and Incumbrances made or done by the said Dame Anne on condition as hereafter followeth That is to say That the said Feoffees within Ten Days after they have their Estate shall make a sure and sufficient Estate to the said Dame Anne of the foresaid Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with their Appurtenances for term of her Life without Impeachment of Wast the Remainder thereof to the said Silvester and Elizabeth and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for lack of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne Item Further the said Dame Anne after she hath received her Estate for term of her Life of the Premises granteth to make a grant of an Annuity of Forty Pounds by the Year for the term of her said own Life to the said Silvester and Elizabeth to be had and received out of the said Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services with the Appurtenances as the said Lord will devise with a Clause of Distress to distrein in the said Lands and Tenements for lack of payment or at Three Months after any of the said Feasts limited or appointed for payment thereof as hereafter followeth And the said Forty Pounds to be paid yearly at the Feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Lady by even Portions and the first payment of the said Annuity to begin at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next after the said Silvester shall come to his full Age of One and twenty Years and the Writings to be made for the assurance of the Premises and all further Devises as shall be devised by the said Lord and the same to be done at the Costs and Charges of the same Lord Mordaunt Item All such Leases as shall be made by the said Dame Anne of any parcel of the Premises for term of her Life or Lives or Years or by Copy of Court-Roll not minishing the Rents such Services nor Customs to stand in effect according to the Grant and the same not to be altered nor devised by the said Silvester nor Elizabeth but the same to be confirmed by them when the Remainder shall be Executed if the Tenants or any of them for their own part will so require it Item The said Dame Anne shall suffer all her Maners Lands and Tenements Rents Reversions and Services of her own Inheritance with their Appurtenances that she is in possession of or any other to her use immediately after her decease to descend and remain to the said Silvester and to the Heirs of the Body of the said Silvester lawfully begotten And for lack of such Issue to remain to the right Heirs of the said Dame Anne Danvers discharged of all Incumbrances by her done her Maners of Marden and Wyfford in the County of Wiltshire with their Appurtenances only except whereof one John Danvers Son of the said Dame Anne to have the value of Twenty Pounds yearly thereof for term of his Life and Thirty Years over without Impeachment of wast yeilding to her Heirs yearly One Red Rose at the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist if it be asked and the Profits of the residue of the said Maners of Marden and Wyfford with their Appurtenances to be at the liberty of the same Dame Anne for Twelve Years after her decease to go to the performance of the last Will of the said Dame Anne Danvers for the space of the said Twelve Years next after her decease and likewise except Forty Shillings yearly for an Annuity for the term of Life of one James Vause to be paid forth of a Close or a Pasture called the Oxe-less
their reasonable Maintenances until their several Marriages and that they and each of them may have sufficient Portions for their and each of their Advancements in Marriage I Will Give and Bequeath unto them and each of them such several Parts and Portions and in such manner as hereafter followeth viz. I Will Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Katherine Mordaunt the Summ of Two thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England to be paid unto her by my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns in manner and form following viz. Five hundred Pounds at the Day of her Marriage Five hundred Pounds within Six Months after the First Payment and Five hundred Pounds within Six Months after the Second Payment and the other Five hundred Pounds being the rest and residue of Two thousand Pounds in the Eighteenth Month after her Marriage Item I will give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Mordaunt the like Summ of Two thousand Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid unto her by my said Son Henry Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns in manner and form following videlicet The Summ of Five hundred Pounds at the Day of her Marriage Five hundred Pounds more within six Months after Five hundred Pounds more within Six Months after the second payment and the other Five hundred Pounds being the rest and residue of the said Summ of Two thousand Pounds in the Eighteenth Month after her Marriage So that my meaning is They shall not have any part of the Summ of Two thousand Pounds to each of them before their several Marriages but as they shall be Married they shall be paid in form aforesaid And hereby I Advise and Charge them and each of them to make deliberate Choice of each their Husbands not rashly to match themselves without the Assent of their Brother my Son Henry Mordaunt and other their good Friends who I hope will have good care of them And if it happen my said Daughter Katherine Mordaunt to depart this Life before Marriage which God forbid then my Will and Intent is That her part and Portion to her before bequeathed shall be divided in manner and form following videlicet Five hundred Pounds to her said Sister Elizabeth Mordaunt then surviving in Augmentation of her part Two hundred Pounds to Arthur Maunsell second Son of my Daughter Mary and the residue of the foresaid Two thousand Pounds to my Son Henry Mordaunt And if it fortune my Daughter Elizabeth Mordaunt to depart this Life before Marriage which God forbid then my Will and Intent is That her part and Portion to her before bequeathed shall be divided in manner and form following To her Sister Katherine Mordaunt then surviving in Augmentation of her part the Summ of Five hundred Pounds and to Arthur Maunsell the second Son of my Daughter Mary the Summ of Two hundred Pounds and the rest and residue to my Son Henry Mordaunt Further my Will is That my said Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs shall yearly pay unto my Daughter Katherine Mordaunt for and towards her maintenance unto the day of her Marriage and that the same be solemnized the Summ of Fifty Pounds of lawful English Money at two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin by even Portions Further my Will and earnest Desire is That my said Daughter Katherine shall and may be in House and remain with my said Son Henry and be found and allowed by him sufficient Meat Drink Fire and Lodging according to her vocation for her self a Man and a Maid at the only Charges of my Son and his Heirs until the day of her Marriage and that the same be solemnized But if he and she shall not like so to do as I hope they will Then I will my Son Henry after such disliking shall yearly allow her for her Board and in lieu thereof Sixteen Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence over and besides the said yearly Summ of Fifty Pounds so that she may have a hundred Marks a year for yearly maintenance and finding until she be Married Likewise my Will is That my said Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs shall yearly pay unto my Daughter Elizabeth Mordaunt for and towards her maintenance until the day of Marriage the Summ of Fifty Pounds of lawful English Money at two Feasts in the Year that is to say At the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Annunciation of our Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin by even Portions And further my Will is That my said Daughter Elizabeth shall and may be and remain in House with my Son Henry Mordaunt and at his Charges be found and allowed sufficient Meat Drink Fire and Lodging according to her vocation for her self a Man and a Maid until the day of her Marriage and that the same be solemnized which I will shall be performed at the Costs and Charges of my Son and his Heirs But if he and she shall not like to agree or continue together as I hope they will then I Will my Son Henry Mordaunt and his Heirs after such disliking shall yearly allow my said Daughter Elizabeth for and in lieu of her Board the Summ of Sixteen Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence over and besides the Summ of Fifty Pounds before bequeathed unto her so that she may yearly have and receive One hundred Marks for her yearly maintenance and finding until she be Married Also I give and bequeath all my other Goods Chattels Jewels and Plate unbequeathed my Funeral discharged Debts paid and Legacies performed unto my loving Son Henry Mordaunt whom I Will shall be mine Executor for this purpose Upon condition that he take the Executorship upon him and enter into Obligation of the Summ of Three hundred Pounds unto my loving Friends Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires for the true performance of this my Will as aforesaid which if he shall not do within Forty Days after my decease Then I will That Edward Watson and John Wake Esquires shall be mine Executors and of my Goods to see my Funeral discharged Debts and Legacies paid and the rest of my Goods to leave unto my Son Henry Mordaunt according to my true meaning Now for the yearly maintenance of my Two Daughters Katherine and Elizabeth and each of them until their several Marriages as aforesaid and for the better Assurance and sure making of their several Portions to them before bequeathed And in respect I have disbursed the Money which I kept for my Daughters Portions in purchasing of Land building of my House lying fit and necessary for my Son and lest that my Son his Heirs Executors or Assigns should not or would not perform this my Last Will and Testament as I verily think he will and so by that means my Daughters be lest unprovided as well of their several Portions as of Allowance for their
Osiths in Chieche and Robert which Robert in the twelfth of Henry the Second upon levying the aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified that he then held half a Knights Fee He also held the Lordship of Twyvell in the County of Northampton of the Monks of Thorney in Fee-Farm as his Father did ROBERT de VERE Second Son of Alberic de Vere Great Chamberlain and Chief Justice of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 417. ANNO Millesimo Centesimo Tricesimo quinto Rex Henricus Primus obiit apud Castrum Leonis sepultus fuit apud Radingas ubi Coenobium ducentorum Monachorum condiderat in honorem Sanctae individuae Trinitatis Robertus de Vere alii Milites de Angliâ Statellites Ministri Regis apud Pontem Audomari atque bonam Villam Feretrum Regis apud Caddomum adduxerunt Baronage of England Pag. 190. Second Column Speaking of Maud the Empress SHE likewise gave to Robert de Vere the other Brother of this Earl Alberic a Barony to the value of that so given to Jeffrey and other Lands of equal worth to possess within a year after she should enjoy the Realm of England Monasticon Anglicanum pars prima Pag. 248. Charta Roberti Filii Alberici Camerarii Regis EGO Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Regis terram de Twyvell quamdiu vixero de Domino Abbate Roberto Monachis de Thorneya per eandem Conventionem in feodi firmam teneo per quam conventionem pater meus ante me tenuit decimas de quinque Carrucis quas pater meus Deo Sanctae Mariae Thorneyae concessit scilicet Drayton Islip Edington Deo atque Sanctae Mariae atque Monachis Thorneyae concedo Hujus Conventionis sunt testes Robertus de Jakesly Ertnoldus Willielmus de Cesterton Ogerus Terri de hominibus ipsius Roberti Hugo Ware Adam imo omnes fratres ipsius loci Ex antiquo Pergameni Rotulo penes Comitem de Peterborow RObertus filius Albrici Anno primo Imperii Henrici Regis Junioris feria quinta in Hebdomada Pentecostes tempore Galterii Abbatis qui successit Gilbertum Abbatem ejusdem loci Anno Domini Millesimo Centesimo Quinquagesimo quarto in praesentia Henrici filii sui quietum clamavit Manerium de Twyvell Monasterio de Thorney Alexander tertius Papa donationem confirmavit Abbati de Twyvell videdelicet de duabus garbis decimarum trium Villarum Islip Drayton Addington In libro rubro Feodorum de Scaccario inter Cartas Dominorum irrotulatas de annis septimo octavo decimo quarto decimo octavo Henrici Secundi à secundo octavo Richardi Primi DOmino suo Charissimo Henrico Regi Angliae Robertus filius Alberici Camerarii Salutem Sciatis Domine quod Ego teneo de vobis feodum dimidium Militis In Anno octavo in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Albrici dimidium Militis In Anno decimo quarto in Northamptonshire Robertus filius Albrici Camerarii dimidium Militis In Anno decimo octavo in Northamptonshire Robertius filius Albrici decem solidos In Anno secundo Regis Richardi fecit Scutagium Walliae assessum ad decem solidos In Northamptonshire Robertus filius Albrici quinque solidos dimidii Militis In Anno octavo Regis Richardi Scutagium Normanniae ad viginti solidos Rotulo duodecimo adhuc communi de Termino Pasch Anno tricessuno octavo Henrici Tertii Consideratio contra Monachos de Hortune HEnricus Avus Domini Regis concessit Cartâ suâ confirmavit Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Johannis Apostoli Evangelistae de Hortune Monachis ibidem Deo servientibus Tintonam Hortunam cum pertinentiis habendum tenendum cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus in quibus Roberus de Vere Adelina uxor ejus meliùs liberiùs tenuerunt eisdem Monachis per Cartam suam confirmaverunt Et ideo consideratum est quòd praedicti Monachi facient Domino Regi pro praedictis Maneriis illud idem servitium quod praedictus Robertus Adelina facere consueverunt Carta Roberti Furnell RObertus de Furnell omnibus hominibus Francicis Anglicis tam praesentibus quà m futuris Salutem Sciatis me dedisse hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmâsse Roberto filio Albrici de Twyvell cum Matilda filia mea in franco marriagio quatuor acras terrae in Campis de Craneford scilicet apud Wudeforddale tres rodas dimidiam rodam ad Bricluste unam rodam dimidiam ad sorte Brokilhill unam rodam super Langfurlong tres rodas juxta Havedlond Gilberti filii Brikestoni unam rodam super Hepehill juxta terram quam Hosse tenuit duas rodas apud Caldewell in parte Orientali unam rodam in Sortlundale unam rodam super Barlifurlong unam rodam super Nonishill juxta Gilberti filii Brikestoni unam rodam Tenendas de me haeredibus meis illi haeredibus suis liberè quietè honorificè in plano in pasturis in Campis in pratis in viis in semitis in omnibus libertatibus in omnibus locis Reddendo inde mihi annuatim haeredibus meis ad Festum omnium Sanctorum dimidiam libram piperis pro omnibus serviciis consuetudinibus pro omnibus rebus salvo forinseco servicio Domini Regis spectante ad cantam tenuriam Et Ego haeredes mei illas supradictas quatuor acras terrae illi haeredibus suis contra omnes homines debemus warrantizare Hiis testibus Willielmo de Hanred Radulfo de Lingevere Radulfo de Andeli Henrico filio ejus Willielmo filio Radulfi Galfrido fratre ejus Simone filio Remfrei Rogero fratre ejus Galfrido Champiun Waltero Poeir Simone de Loholm Adae Clerico Domini Abbatis de Thorneya Magistro Rogero de Glamesford Mattheo filio Hugonis sacerdotis de Twyvell Richardo filio Baldewini Hugone Halecrist Willielmo filio ejus Radulfo Malherbe de Livdenea pluribus aliis Carta Johannis Furnell SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Johannes filius Matildae filiae 〈◊〉 Furnell dedi concessi hac praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Roberto 〈◊〉 pro servitio suo viginti solidis Argenti quos mihi dedit prae manibus quatuor acras terrae in Campis de Craneford scilicet illas quatuor acras quas Robertus de Furnell dedit Matri meae in libero marriagio scilicet apud Wudefordedale tres rodas dimidiam apud Bricluste unam rodam dimidiam apud sorte Brockilhill unam rodam super Langefurlong tres rodas unam rodam juxta capucium Gilberti filii Bricstan duas rodas super Hepehill unam rodam apud Kaldewelle in parte orientali unam rodam in sorte Lundale unam rodam super Barlifurlong unam rodam super Honishill juxta terram Gilberti filii Bricstan tenendas habendas sibi haeredibus suis liberè quietè bene in