to oppose him or his Heirs For securing of which promise he delivered up his Son William in Hostage who was after returned as an assurance of the Kings trust He departed this life in the One and fortieth year of Henry the Third leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran de Newburgh Earl of Warwick William Lord Mauduit afterwards Earl of Warwick AT the Death of his Father WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the fourth of that name was thirty six years old upon the possession of the Estate and Dignity of his Ancestors he received early testimonies of the Kings trust and favour by the acceptance of a moderate relief for his Barony and his Sergeantry and reasonable time for the payment The Lords of his Family had ever the reputation of being Martial and himself was esteemed active and vigorous so as he was usually summoned to attend the King in most of his Expeditions with his power and followers In the forty seventh Year of King Henry the Third doing his homage and paying an hundred pounds for his relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick he had livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him that is to say the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Mannors and Lands thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had summons that year to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast-day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility But soon after the King was necessitated to leave of his Welsh Expedition to provide against the power and insolence of his Barons who were then gathering together against him at Northampton He sent therefore this Earl to make sure of his Castle of Warwick a place at that time very considerable but such was his unhappiness as wanting diligent Guards they issued out of Kenilworth under the Command of John Giffard Governour of that Castle and surprising this at Warwick slew divers of the Earls men and carried him and his Lady Prisoners to Kenilworth out of which place before he could be delivered they forced him to pay nineteen hundred Marks for his Ransome and threw down the Walls of Warwick-Castle After this unhappy accident I find no more of him than that he married Alice the Daughter of Gilbert de Segrave and dyed without Issue the Eighth of Jan. Anno 1267. 52 Hen. III. ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit Chamberlain to King Henry the Second THE direct line of those Mauduits who were Lords of Hanslape and hereditary Chamberlains of the Exchequer ending in William Lord Mauduit who came to be also Earl of Warwick and that dyed without Issue I must return to Robert the second Son of Robert Lord Mauduit who was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second to carry on the Genealogical description of that branch of these Mauduits who were Lords of Werminster from whom the Greene's of Drayton did Descend and that did flourish for many Ages in this Nation under great reputation and Authority Unto Robert Lord Mauduit who was Lord of Hanslape in the days of Henry the Second King Richard and King John there were born of the Lady Isabella Bassett two Sons William and Robert the latter of which was a Youth so esteemed for his Valour and Martial inclinations and particularly by his Father as for a foundation of a greater fortune he bestowed upon him the noble Lordship of Werminster which he had received from the Gift of his old Master King Henry the Second and his Elder Brother the Lord William Mauduit was so far from repining at the Gift as he added to his Estate of his own Grant the Mannor of Shaudedene now called Scaldene And he had moreover from the kindness of Robert de la Mare a great Lord of that Age divers Lands in Bushopstre and Tarenta in Marriage with his Daughter Agnes by whom he left Issue William Mauduit Lord of Werminster WILLIAM MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster became possessed by Inheritance from his Father his Marriage and his own acquests of the Lordships of Werminster Scaldene Samborne and Grately in the County of Wilts as also of Lands in Bushopstre Tarenta and Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop which last were of his Mothers Inheritance In the Fourteenth of King Henry the Third he was sued with Eugenia his Wife by Robert de Passlieu for detaining one Henry the Son of Henry de Cromwell whose custody he pretended to belong to him by reason of the Kings Commission but because the said Robert did not produce the same it was order'd in Court That Henry de Cromwell should remain in the Keeping of William Mauduit and his Wife Eugenia This William gave Lands in Samborne to Thomas the Son of Simon of Deene and he demised the Mannor of Grately to Galfred of Winelford There is extant a Grant unto him of a Faire yearly to be held for three days at his Lordship of Werminster that is to say on the vigil the day and the morrow of St. Lawrence and of a Market to be held every Thursday at his Mannor of Castle-Holgot in the County of Salop. He married Eugenia Daughter to that Foulke Lord Fitz-Warren who was a Lord of much fame in the days of King John and of his Son Henry and left Issue Warren Mauduit Lord of Werminster Sir John Mauduit WARREN MAUDUIT Lord of Werminster received his Christian Name as has been very usual from that Noble Family of which his Mother was descended and much deference and respect was due from him thereunto as from one whence he did derive a great part of his Inheritance as the Mannors of Westbury Lye and other Lordships He was one of those Lords that accompanied King Edward the First into the Holy Land when he was yet but Prince and we find him to have lived much in his esteem and favour as one by whom he was accompanied in most of his War-like Expeditions He was summoned to many of those Parliaments that were called in his Raign towards the latter end whereof he departed this life leaving Issue by his Wife Elizabeth de Lisle Thomas Mauduit Lord of Werminster THOMAS Lord MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in the Lordships of Werminster Westbury Grately Scalden Samborne West-Hacley Lye Castle-Helgot and other great Possessions so as at that time he was accounted one of the most powerful Lords of his rank He received in the Eleventh year of King Edward the Second a Charter from that King of Free Warren for him and his Heirs to have as well upon all his Lands in Westbury Lye and Chaldcoate in the County of Wilts as upon those of Deene and Grately in the County of Southampton These are the words of the Patent He was a Lord of such fame in those days
Third obliging himself by a special Writing to serve the King faithfully all the days of his life and never to oppose him or his Heirs for the better securing of that promise he delivered up William his Son in Hostage Whereupon the King soon after so far trusted him that he restored back that Hostage the next ensuing year Antiquities of Warwickshire fol. 305 306. Of Waleran the Earl of Warwick HE had two Wives Margaret the Daughter of Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Alice Daughter of John de Harcourt but Widow of John de Limesie before mentioned and departing this life in the sixth of King John left divers Children of which Henry his eldest Son succeeded in the Earldom Waleran another Son had the Mannors of Gretham and Cottesmore in the County of Rutland with certain Lands in Worcestershire but dyed without Issue Alice his Daughter by Alice his last Wife wedded William Mauduit of Hanslape in the County of Bucks and had by her Fathers appointment the Mannor of Wanton now called Walton Mauduit in this County for her Marriage Portion as is evident by King John's confirmation thereof to him bearing Date the thirtieth of November in the tenth year of his Reign WILLIAM MAVDVIT Earl of Warwick Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and divers other Lordships Baronage of England Page 399. BUT in the one and fortieth of Henry the Third he departed this life being then seized of the Mannor of Hanslape in the County of Bucks as also of the Mannor of Bergedon and Hundred of Wrangedike with certain Lands of thirty pounds per annum value lying in Cottesmore and Gretham in the County of Rutland as likewise of four Carucates of Land in Hartleigh in the County of Southampton leaving Issue by Alice his Wife Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick William his Son and Heir at that time thirty six years of Age. Which William in the forty first year of Henry the Third had so much favour from the King in payment of a Debt of two hundred Marks due from him as well for his Relief as for the Serjeanty he held videlicet a hundred Pounds for his Relief of his Barony and fifty Marks for his Serjeanty as that it was accepted of fifty Marks per annum The next year following this William had Summons to attend the King at Chester well accoutred with Horse and Arms to oppose the Incursions of the Welsh and in the forty seventh of Henry the Third doing his Homage and paying a hundred pounds for his Relief as Son and Heir to Alice the Daughter of Waleran Earl of Warwick had Livery of all the Lands belonging to that Earldom whereof John de Plessets Earl of Warwick dyed seized and which by hereditary right were descended to him videlicet the Castle and Honor of Warwick and all the Lands and Mannors thereto belonging Whereupon by the Title of Earl of Warwick he had the same year summons to attend the King at Worcester on the Feast day of St. Peter ad Vincula well fitted with Horse and Arms thence to march into Wales against Lewelin ap Gryffin at that time in Hostility Mille 's Catalogue of Honor page 798. William Maledoctus commonly called Mauduit Lord and Baron of Hanslape Cousin and Heir to Margery Countess of Warwick videlicet the Son of Alice the Sister of Henry the Father of the said Margery became Earl of Warwick after the Death of the foresaid Margery in the Reign of Henry the Third who long before had honour'd him with the Sword of Knighthood in the year 1233. and in the eighteenth of his Reign He dyed without Issue the fourth day of the Ides of January in the year 1268. and of Henry the Third the fifty second leaving his Sister Isabell his Heir Alice the Daughter of Gilbert Lord Segrave was Wife to William Mauduit Earl of Warwick ROBERT MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster second Son to Robert Lord Mauduit that was Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Carta Domini Roberti Mauduit RObertus Mauduit Domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus meis Francis Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse Roberto Mauduit filio meo juniori Manerium totam terram meam de Werminster quae Rex Henricus Dominus meus mihi concessit tenendum sibi haeredibus suis in perpetuum liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè ab omni servitio salvo quod domino Regi pertinet in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Isti sunt Testes Dominus Johannes de Knovill Dominus Ricardus de Verdun Robertus de Sancto Laudo Alexander Pipard Thomas filius Johannis Henricus Transard Stephanus Camerarius Herveius Dapifer SIGILLVM DNI ROBERTI MAUDUIT Carta Domini Willielmi Mauduit Camerarii Regis WIllielmus Mauduit domini Regis Camerarius omnibus hominibus suis tam Francis quà m Anglicis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse concessisse hac carta mea praesenti confirmâsse Fratri meo Roberto Mauduit pro servitio suo Manerium de Scaudedene cum omnibus pertinentiis libertatibus suis sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum de me Haeredibus meis liberè quietè honorificè in bosco in campis in pratis in pascuis in viis in semitis in omnibus ad Manerium illud pertinentibus per servitium dimidiae partis feodi unius Militis Testibus Ranulpho de Glanvilla Gilberto Pipard Bertram de Verdun Willielmo de Bend Radulpho filio Stephani Eustachio filio Stephani Johanne Mauduit Beberto filio Richardi Gaufrido de Insula Roberto Burell Roberto Mauncell Roberto Mauduit filio meo Willielmo filio Walteri Willielmo Nepote aliis multis SIGILLVM DNI WILLI MAUDUIT CAMERARII REGIS Monasticon Anglicanum Pars Secunda pag. 409. 36. 43. inter concessiones de Mayden Bradley EX dono Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum pertinentiis in Bushopstree Ex dono Agnetis de la Mare quae fuit Uxor Roberti Mauduit unam virgatam Terrae cum messuagio Curtelagio in Tarrenta WILLIAM MAVDVIT Lord of Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Placita de Banco Term. Pasch Anno 14 H. III. in pella Scaccarii Regis remanent Rot. 15. RObertus de Passleu per Attornatum suum petit versus Willielmum Mauduit Eugeniam Uxorem ejus quòd reddant ei Henricum filium haeredem Henrici Cromwell cujus custodia ad eum pertinet ratione commissionis Domini Regis quod inde fecit dicit c. Sed quia dictus Robertus non ostendit dictam commissionem dicta custodia remansit penes dictos Willielmum Eugeniam Charta Regis Henrici Tertii HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Dominus Hiberniae Dux Normanniae
pleaded the King's Cause in defence of his imprisoning certain Bishops which was there laid to his Charge But it fell out that in the succeeding year he was slain in London in a tumult raised by the Seditious Citizens He married Adeliza the Daughter of Gilbert of Clare by whom he had Issue Aubrey de Vere the first Earl of Oxford Sir Robert de Vere Roetia Vere the Wife of Jeffery de Magnavilla Earl of Essex MY business being to deduce the Descent of the Veres that were Lords of Drayton and Addington and not of the Earls of Oxford I am obliged to return to ROBERT de VERE the second Son of the forementioned Aubrey to whom his Father left for his provision and Inheritance the Lordships of Drayton Luffwyck Slipton Islip both the Addingtons and the Land of Twyvell which latter they had held of the Abby of Thorney We find this Robert in a Charter of his under the stile of Robert the Son of Aubrey the Kings Chamberlain did acknowledge to hold the Land of Twyvell for so long as he should live from Robert the Lord Abbot of Thorney and the Monks of that House by the same Covenants under which his Father before him held the same and that for the Tenths of the five Carucates which his Father had given to Saint Mary of Thorney to wit of Drayton Islip and Addington that were of his dominion he did grant the same to God Saint Mary and the Monks of Thorney There is extant of his another Charter wherein by the name of Robert the Son of Aubrey in the first year of the Reign of King Henry the younger in the presence of his own Son Henry he did quit-claim the Mannor of Twyvell to the Monastery of Thorney which gift was after confirm'd by Pope Alexander the third He was one of the most faithful and vigorous assertors of the interest and pretences of Matilda the Empress and the Prince her Son against King Stephen during the heats of all the differences appertaining to that contest and of such esteem were the effects of his Valour and generous endeavours as obliged that Princess to promise him a Barony valuable with that given to Jeffery de Vere and other Lands of equal consideration within a year after she should come to enjoy the Realm of England He Married Matilda the Daughter of the Lord Robert de Furnell with whom her Father gave in free Marriage divers Lands in Cranford by whom he had Issue Sir Henry de Vere And William de Vere HENRY the Son of Robert de Vere that was Lord of Drayton Addington and other Lordships was bred up under the care and conduct of his Cousin the great William de Magnavilla Earl of Essex and Albemarle who was the Son of Roesia de Vere Countess of Essex his Fathers Sister Henry de Vere did give himself to a dependance upon this Earl who was a man of great military fame in that time and from his example and precept became a Knight of much renown and valour For his first essay in Arms he slew with his own hand Ralph de Vaux in an encounter near the City of Gysors who was the Son of a great Lord that would have fortified a strong House of his too near the Borders and had besides injured his Cousin the Earl of Albemarle the King 's Chief Governor in those parts the words are verbis dehonestavit amaris He was made Constable of the Castle and City of Gysors where he commanded with much reputation till that after the death of his Father he was called home to the care of a considerable fortune of his own where we find him afterwards to have been one of those that sided with King John being then but Earl of Moriton against the proud Bishop of Ely whom King Richard had left behind him to govern the Land in his absence being by the same Bishop amongst diverse others of the great Lords of that time excommunicated He had in Marriage with one of the Daughters of a great Lady whose name was Hildeburga ....... the Mannor of Mutford and thirty pounds Land in Ampton which she held of the Barony of Bouden that did belong to her Father Baldwin of Boxo a great Lord of that time Their Issue Sir Walter de Vere Lord of Drayton Sir Robert de Vere Lord of Addington WE find not any Lands were left by his Father unto ROBERT the second Son of Sir Henry de Vere but it is to be esteemed that he inherited no small part of his Vertue and his Valour since his own merits acquired him such a fortune as was sufficient to maintain his descendants in much splendor and reputation for many Ages He was bred up to that renowned calling wherein every well born man aspired to an excellence in that heroick Age Fame in Arms being an Ornament without which no great man could appear with any advantage but it was the subsistance and only hopes of their younger Brothers And herein this Robert did succeed so well as he became the Favorite to the great Warriers of that time from several of which he received great gifts of Lands whose values were in that Age very considerable to engage him in their interests and dependance as those in Dalentune from the Lord Jeffery de Lucy the Lordships of Addington and Twyvell from his Uncle William de Vere and the noble Lordship and Market Town of Thrapston from the Lord Baldwin de Wake in Marriage with his Aunt the Lady Margaret to which King Henry the Third did after in his favour and in the twenty ninth of his Reign grant by his Charter divers liberties and priviledges After the death of his first Wife he contracted a new Marriage with a Lady whose name was Elena that is conjectured to have been of the highest quality from her Seals her stile the complements used towards her in the applications of Ranulph Earl of Chester Jeffery of Lucy and other of the greatest Lords by whom in their deeds she was ever treated with the stile of Nobilis Domina Elena de Vere and it is believed she was that Elena the Daughter of Roger de Quincy the last Earl of Winchester and Widow to Alan de la Zouch a great Lord in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton by the interest she had in several Lands of those shires belonging to that Family as also by other probabilities collected from a Letter that is extant and a rare Antiquity of her Sisters the Lady Margaret Countess of Lincoln and Pembroke to this Sir Robert her Husband being on his Voyage to the Holy Land The friendship he had contracted with the Famous William Longespé Earl of Salisbury natural Grandson to King Henry the Second who had been chosen Captain of those English that were sent unto that enterprise could not suffer so illustrious an undertaking to be unaccompanied with his Sword He attended that Prince in quality of his Standard-bearer and was slain together with his Captain in
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
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
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
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
Giles did survive his Father and possessed his Acquisitions by a Charter wherein he gave to his Brother Osbert who from some occasion was call'd Le Mordaunt and was the beginner of this House and Name the Lordship of Radwell in the County of Bedford and other Lands that were of his Father's Partition And from this Osbert all the Mordaunts do derive as will appear by a continued Series of Extant Proofs He lived after to a great Age and being engaged in assistance with the first Conquerors of Ireland we find him to have received from the Gift of Harvey de Montmorency who is stiled Marescallus Domini Regis totius Hiberniae the Lordship of Balinaeeros Tobenere and many great Possessions When or where he died doth not appear but He left Issue Osmund Mordaunt And Baldwin Mordaunt Which latter was a Witness to many Antient Charters that are Extant OSMVND le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham and Chellington CHAPTER II. OSMVND le MORDAVNT flourished in the time of Henry the Second and became possessed of the Lordship of Radwell of the Town of Felmarsham of Lands in Wahull and other places which were of those his Father Osbert did possess in this Kingdom and it is possible may have been a younger Brother and that an elder Son of Osbert Mordaunt did remain settled upon his Lands in Ireland under some other Name However he was a Knight of much Renown as may appear by the Alliance he contracted with one of the most famous Knights of his time Sampson Fortis of whom was held many Fees by Knight Service This Sampson was so called from his great Strength and Valour being a great Champion and Associate in War with Simon de Saint Lis and David of Scotland and the Earls of Huntington and Northampton and was Lord of several Towns and Villages of Chellington among the rest which he gave in Marriage to Osmund Mordaunt with his Daughter Ellen of whom the said Osmund had Issue Eustace Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt EVSTACE le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell Felmarsham Chellington of the Moiety of the Noble Lordship of Turvey as of Lands in Wahull and in Brayfield CHAPTER III. EVSTACE le MORDAVNT was a Valiant and a Fortunate Knight he did Accompany King Richard the First among the Troops that followed him into the Holy Land and served in all the Enterprises of that Expedition At his return he found his Father Deceased and a Devolution to him of his Inheritance He began with an Action of Piety in acknowledging the mercy of his Return and Establishment and gave under the Name of Eustachius le Mordaunt certain Lands in Turvey in free pure and perpetual Alms to the Church of St. John Baptist and St. John Evangelist of Caldwell and the Canons of that place for the good of his Soul for that of Alice his Wife and for that of all his Ancestors and Successors He had indeed by his merit and worthiness acquired a Wife out of the House of Alno or de Alneto who from the Conquest had been Lords of Turvey and other fair Possessions which by the death of Hugh of Alno without Issue were devolved to Two beautiful Sisters Alice and Sarah whereof he Married the first the second being the Wife of Sir Richard of Ardres and with this Lady he became possessed of the Moiety of that Noble Lordship from thenceforth called Mordaunts Mannor having a large Extent and very particular privileges He had a Sute with Gilbert Fitz-Williams in the Ninth Year of Richard the First about some Lands in Radwell which was Adjudged on his behalf and granted several Lands in Turvey for their Homages and Service and other considerations to William Cooke to Simon of Turvey to Raignold le Bray and to others Toward his latter end about the Sixteenth Year of King Henry the Third he had a Contest with Sir John de Traylly and the Cause was decided against him and we find he died near that time Leaving Issue William Mordaunt Agnes Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Felmarsham Esthull Radwell of Lands in Wahull and in Yerdley CHAPTER IV. WILLIAM de MORDAVNT for from this time in the old Deeds the le is changed into the de after the death of Eustace became Lord of the Lordships of Radwell Turvey and several other Lands In the Twenty ninth of Henry the Third he paid a Releif to the Lord William de la Church and the Lady Matilda de Traylly his Wife for certain Lands he held I suppose they were those about which Eustace his Father was cast in the behalf of John de Traylly in the Sixteenth of the said King's Reign About the same time Henry the Son of Fulk Huriel Roger le Soc of Wybaudston and Albreda the Daughter of Robert of Saint George do by several Deeds Release and Quit Claim to this William under the stile of William de Mordaunt their Lord divers Rights and Lands And Richard of Ardres unto the said William for such proprieties the Lords of this Mannor of Turvey had in these and after-times Gives Grants and Confirms for Six Marks of Silver which he gave to him in Gersumam one of his Villanes called Adam Pite with all his sequel and procreation gotten and to be gotten for ever There passes afterward between William Mordaunt and Hugh Poore Prior of the Monastery of St. Neads an exchange of divers Lands with an advantage given by the said William in free pure and perpetual Alms. And as the last testimony of him there is Extant an Accompt given unto him under the Seal of one William de Wikely who terms himself therein Serviens Willielmi de Mordaunt in Manerio suo de Turvey Dated the Ninth of Edward the First Not long after which he is supposed to have deceased Amice of Olney the Daughter of Sir William of Olney was the Wife of William Mordaunt and by her he had the Lordship of Esthull and a Mannor with diverse Lands in Yerdley which last had been given her Father by John Scot Earl of Huntington a Prince of the House of Scotland Her Husband is stiled in a Deed wherein Matilda the Daughter of Lettice of Esthull does remit unto him and Amice his Wife her Right and Claim to certain Lands Lord of that place The Charter runs Willielmo de Mordaunt Domino de Esthull Amiciae Vxori suae Sir William of Olney the Father of this Amice was one of the Sons of that Sir Richard Sutton that flourished in the time of Henry the Third from whence the Lords of Dudley did descend He assumed the Name of Olney from certain Lands he held therein that his Father had received from the Grant of Ralph Earl of Chester After the death of William Mordaunt this Amice took into her Second Bed Aegidio de Albeny Lord of Demster and under the Name of Amicia de Albeny she Granted afterwards in the Ninth Year of Edward the Second unto William Mordaunt her Son and to Robert the Son of the
France This Gilo had Issue Ralph his Son and Heir who in the fifth of King Stephen gave a Fine to the King for Livery of his Fathers Lands To this Ralph Succeeded Gilbert de Pinkney his Son and Heir who in the third fifth and sixth of Henry the Second was Sheriff of Barkshire and in the twelfth of Henry the Second upon the Assessment of that Aid levied for marrying the Kings Daughter Certified his Knight-Fees to be ex vetere Feoffamento eleven in Number and in those de novo three and a half To this Gilbert Succeeded Henry to that Henry Robert and to him divers others until the time of that Henry de Pinkney who made King Edward the first his Heir and enfeoffed him with all his Lands and Lordships Atlas novus Pars Quarta or Britannia Cambdeni Folio 236. ET inde Wedon Napiham vidimus quos Familia de Pinkney per Baroniam tenuêrunt donec Henricus de Pinkney Regem Edwardum primum haeredem scripsisset quem optimum Principem multi mali haeredem scripserunt Willielmus de Alnoto or Alneto Lord of TVRVEY and MAYDFORD Charta Willielmi de Alneto SCIANT praesentes futuri Quòd Ego Willielmus filius Halenaldi de Alnoto Concessi hac meâ Chartâ Confirmavi in perpetuam liberam Eleemosynam Deo Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti Monachis de Becoi in eâ Deo servientibus pro Salute mei meorum Donationem patris mei quam ipse fecit eidem Ecclesiae de Terris illius hidae in villâ de Turveiâ quae vocantur Muclepit scilicet Tredecim acras quae vocantur Gores de Dominio illam dimidiam virgatam Terrae quam tenuit Robertus filius Ailmari in quadrantes Terrae unam quam tenuit Radulphus Dulcere unam quam tenuit Gilbertus filius Gaufridi unam quam tenuit Radulphus Coquus sic Charta Patris mei testatur Quare volo praedicti Monachi praedictas Terras habeant teneant in perpetuum liberè quietè pacificè honorificè cum omnibus illarum Terrarum pertinentiis Hi sunt Testes Hugo filius Willielmi Robertus de sancto Georgio Robertus Persona de Hacley Eustachius Capellanus Ricardus Francis Willielmus Harell Elias de Alnotho Willielmus Igellry Hugo de Alnotho Johannes de Wimbis Bertramus de Gebrug Marcinus SIGILLVM WILLI FILII HALENALDI DANO The Baronage of England Pag. 38. In the Articles made between Ranulph Earl of Chester and Robert Earl of Leicester MOreover that Rauston-Castle should be demolished unless Earl Ranulph should be otherwise content and if any person should hold that Castle against the Earl of Leicester Earl Ranulph to give his real Assistance for the destroying it That if Earl Ranulph should have cause of Action against William of Alneto the Earl of Leicester should bring him to Trial in his Court so long as he should hold any Lands of him and in case the said William should recede from his Fidelity unto the Earl of Leicester for demolishing that Castle or for bringing him to such Trial in his Court Earl Ranulph not to give William de Alneto any Protection Charta Willielmi de Alnotho EGO Willielmus de Alnotho Dominus de Turveiâ Notum omnibus fieri volo Quòd dum arriperem iter Jerusalem in Capitulo sancti Neoti constitutus pro salute animae meae Antecessorum meorum Concessi hac Chartâ meâ Confirmavi in perpetuam liberam Eleemosynam omnes Donationes quas Pater meus Avus vel aliquis Parentum meorum aliquo tempore dederunt concesserunt Deo Ecclesiae sancti Neoti Monachis de Becoi in eâ Deo servientibus Concessi etiam iisdem Monachis Decimas omnium Boscorum meorum Nemorum consistentium in Turveiâ Concessi etiam iisdem Monachis summarium unum habere in Nemore quod dicitur Hudwike ad mortuum Nemus in meis aliis Nemoribus Ut autem haec Concessio rata inconcussa permaneat praesentem cartulam sigilli mei munimine roboravi Data anno Gratiae M.C.XC. His Testibus Willielmo Ruffo Vice-Comite de Bedford Fulcone de Trailly Thomâ de Lega Stephano de Oreby Gervasio de Hobrigg Thomâ de Papiâ Johanne de Elnesto Ogero filio Stephani Ernulpho Presbytero Ricardo Dapifero Charta Hugonis de Alno IN Nomine sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Ego Hugo de Alneto notum facio praesentibus futuris Fratrem meum Willielmum de Alneto in Uxorem accepisse Dominam Jocosam de Engannio secundum Ecclesiae morem ei Dotem assignasse Maydford videlicèt cum principali situ totum Manerium cum omnibus Appenditiis quam Dotem ipse in praesentiâ meâ illi recognovit Prece igitur Domini Ricardi fratris ejus pro honestate Dominae Honestatis ipsius Testimonio praesentibus sigillum meum apposui His Testibus Domino Stephano de Bellocampo Domino Thomâ de Kaines Gervasio Le Fitz Nigell Hugone de Deringhall Ricardo de Bedford Henrico de Billing Stephano Forrestario multis aliis Charta Jocosae Dominae de Maydford JOcosa Domina de Maydford Uxor quondam Domini Willielmi de Alno Omnibus ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint salutem Noveritis quod cùm querela verteretur inter Me ex unâ parte Monachos de sanctâ Mariâ de Luffield ex alterâ parte super quaedam nemora quae sunt in Dominio de Maydford quorum videlicet Nemorum unum vocatur Hartsgrove alterum vocatur Maydenwood tandem bonis viris intervenientibus compositum est in hunc modum Praedictum Nemus de Maydenwood remaneat in Forrestâ vendetur de Septimo anno in Septimum annum accipiemus Ego haeredes mei post decessum meum medietatem denariorum istius Venditionis Prior dicti Monachi alteram medietatem Actum apud Maydford Anno Gratiae MCXCIV Hugo de Alnoto Lord of TVRVEY and of MAYDFORD OMnibus Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae filiis Hugo de Alnoto filius Willielmi de Alnoto Salutem Noverit Universitas vestra me concessisse praesenti Chartâ meâ confirmâsse Ecclesiae Sancti Neoti Monachis in eâ Deo Servientibus illam virgatam Terrae quam tenuit Willielmus Faber in villa de Turveia Messuagium cum Crosto quod est juxta illud Messuagium quod fuit Aliciae Camerariae illam quarteram terrae quam tenuit Johannes filius Roberti filii Baldewini quatuor acras ad implementum praedictae quarterae pro prato Messuagio quod ei deerant scilicet duas acras ad Kokesfort quas Alicia Cameraria tenuit integras sicut jacent duas acras in Langfurlong juxta Culturam quae vocatur Hangre ex parte Aquilonis Has Terras Concessi confirmavi praedictis Monachis tenendas liberè quietè salvo Servitio Domini Regis Insuper Concessi Confirmavi jam dictis Monachis illam dimidiam virgatam Terrae quam tenuit
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
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
Draytonorum terras possidet Ad istorum Draytonorum caput sub marmore plano jacet vir quidam generosus Gilbertus Segrave A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MAUDUIT THAT WERE LORDS of WERMINSTER Justified by Publick Records Extant Charters Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Armes of the House of Mauduit were Chequy Or and Azure a Bordure Gules Of the Original Descent Greatness Possessions Honours Alliances and Arms of the House of Mauduit that were Lords of Werminster THIS House was originally of the Dukedom of Normandy where it flourished before the Conquest under the name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith as much as to say Evil taught and upon occait was written in the Latine tongue Maledoctus a sobriquet of which the grounds do not remain in story A Lord of this name came over with King William the First under the appearance of much reputation and interest He is recorded to have been in immediate service at the Battel where King Harold was slain and to have been one of those Lords to whom the Conquerour gave Lands for their notable services The Actions performed by those of this House have been famous their successes various the remembrance of their Lords illustrating story with the variety of their fortunes There had been in this Family great marks of the love and confidence of their Princes They were promoted to Dignities and trusted in employments of most importance There were of them had been Lords of much power that had been Governours of Provinces that had been Chamberlains and held the highest Offices in the Houses of their Kings that had been great Earls and all of them allyed to Families of most Power and Nobleness After the introduction of the hereditary use of Arms in this House they were differently born for William Lord Mauduit who was Earl of Warwick bore in a Field Argent two Barre Gules in the time of King Henry the Third But William Lord Mauduit his Cousin and contemporary from whom the Lords of Werminster did descend gave in a Bordure Gules Chequy Or and Azure This House notwithstanding and all its greatness took an end about the beginning of King Richard the Second leaving only to inherit their Name Armes and Possessions Matilda de Mauduit that was married to Sir Henry Greene of Drayton from whom to the Veres that were Lords of Adington descended all their pretensions and from them to the Mordaunts that by the marriage of Elizabeth Vere came to inherit the Arms and Lands of those two Noble Families WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the First Lord of Hanslape and other Great Lands and Lordships AMong those Heroes that did accompany King William the First unto the Conquest of England was a Lord of the Name of Mauduit Manduit or Malduith in the Latine termed Maledoctus Whether it was the William here mentioned or his Father it matters not but sure we are that at the time of the general Surveigh iâ— the Raign of that King this William Lord Mauduit is found to have possessed seven faâ—â— Lordships in Hampshire And coming afterwards by the merit of many great Serviceâ— and the favour of King Henry the First to be his Chamberlain he obtained from hiâ— a Grant of all the Lands whereof Micael de Hanslape dyed seized with Maude thâ— Daughter of the said Micael in Marriage Their Issue Robert Mauduit William Mauduit ROBERT MAUDUIT succeeded his Father in all his Lands and Lordships as also in the Office of Chamberlain but the near trust wherein he lived with King Henry the First having caused him to be one of those Lords that were appointed to accompany his Children in their return out of France he was drowned in that unhappy passage from Harflew into England with those unfortunate and much lamented Princes FOR want of Issue male of the Lord Robert Mauduit WILLIAM his younger Brother came to inherit the Estate that he had left and the Office of Chamberlain was likewise bestowed upon him by Henry Duke of Normandy afterward King by the name of Henry the Second with all the Lands belonging thereunto as well in Normandy as in England This William had likewise by Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury that is of his Exchequer with livery and all other its appurtenances He had moreover in consideration of his good services divers other great Lordships bestowed upon him and also the Constablery of Richege in Fee And after Henry by the death of King Stephen obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William all the premisses When he dyed I find not but he left Issue Robert Lord Mauduit AFter the Death of William Lord Mauduit the second of that name ROBERT his Son came to inherit all his great Possessions as likewise the Office of Chamberlain with what ever did belong thereunto And as an addition to his Fortunes King Henry the Second bestowed upon him by his Charter the noble Mannor of Werminster a Lordship at that time of much value and greatly priviledged which by another Charter was after confirmed by King Richard the First eldest Son and successor to King Henry After the Death of which King Richard upon what motives we do not find this Robert Lord Mauduit became involved in Confederacy with many of the great Barons who were at that time in Rebellion against King John And in the first year of King Henry the Third the Honor of Hanslape with its appurtenances which was the head of his Barony appears to have been granted away to Robert de Braboef for support in the Kings service during his pleasure But before the sixth year of that King this Robert Mauduit died leaving Issue by his Wife Isabella the Daughter of the Lord Thurstan Bassett William Lord Mauduit Robert Mauduit to whom his Father gave the noble Lordship of Werminster WILLIAM Lord MAUDUIT the third of that name after the death of his Father was Lord of the Honor of Hanslape and divers other fair Lands and Lordships as also hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Having been bred under his Father and in the rebellion of those Lords that made War in the time of King John he continued the same course after that Lords decease fortifying his Castles and his Houses in favour of the associated Barons particularly that of Hanslape which was taken and demolished by Falcatius de Breant a renouned Souldier of that Age and a bold asserter of the Kings Authority For which and other contumacies he was with other of the Lords Excommunicated by the Pope But all this allayed not his turbulent spirit but he still persisting in his Rebellion was actually at the Battle of Lincoln where the power of the Lords being totally vanquished he was taken Prisoner But after this he returned to his obedience and enjoyed his Estate by the Kings Grace and in the seventeenth Year of Henry the Third he obliged himself by a special writing to serve the King faithfully all his life and never more
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
per Arenas Corpora verò pereuntium nulla Perierunt etiam cum Filio Regis Frater suus Ricardus Nothus Comes cum Filia Regis quae fuerat Uxor Rotronis Ricardus Comes Cestrensis cum Uxore sua Nepte Regis Sorore Theobaldi Comitis Nepotis Regis Periit Othoel Magister filii Regis Galfridus Ridel Robertus Malduit Willielmus Bigot multÃque alii principales Viri Nobiles quoque foeminae quamplures cum Regiis pueris non paucis Militaris numeri C. XL. Nautarum L. cum tribus Gubernatoribus Navis Solus quidem Macellarius tabulâ Naufragii pendens evasit WILLIAM Lord MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. WHat became of this Daughter I find not but the Office of Chamberlain Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards King by the Name of Henry the Second bestowed on William Brother to that Robert and likewise all the Lands belonging thereto as well in Normandy as in England and in particular the Castle and Honor of Portchester with all the Lands of Micael de Hanslape in as ample manner as King Henry the First had given them to his Father as also Bergedon now called Berwedon in the County of Rutland with the whole Soake which Queen Maude gave to the afore-specified Maude and which Maude the Empress restored to the said William Furthermore this William had by the Grant of the said Duke the Chamberlainship of his Treasury id est of the Exchequer with Livery and all other its appurtenances viz. the Castle of Portchester and all the Lands to the said Chamberlainship and Castle appertaining both in England and Normandy in as full a manner as William his Father and Robert his Brother ever held them And after Henry by the Death of King Stephen had obtained the Crown he confirmed to this William the whole Barony of which his Father dyed seized as well in England as in Normandy viz. Hanslape in Com. Buck. with its appurtenances Bergedon with the Hundred in Com. Rut. and Maneton in Com ...... with all others the Lands which he had formerly given his Father at Nottingham as also Scaldene and Herleby with their appurtenances with the Land at Roan and all other Lands and Tenures in Normandy When he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert ROBERT MAVDVIT Chamberlain to King Henry the Second Lord of Hanslape Werminster and other Lands and Lordships Carta Regis Henrici Secundi HEnricus Rex Anglorum omnibus fidelibus suis Francis Anglis Salutem Sciatis me dedisse praesenti Carta confirmasse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster sibi Haeredibus suis tenendum quidquid ibi habebam de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum manerium illud habeant teneant de me Haeredibus meis sicut illud tenebam bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco plano in pratis pascuis in aquis Molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis aliis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus T. Eliensi J. Norwicensi B. Exoniensi Episcopis Convenit cum Recordo Gulielmis Prinne Carta Regis Ricardi Primi RIcardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Dux Normanniae Aquitaniae Comes Andegaviae Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Comitibus Baronibus Justiciariis Vicecomitibus Ministris omnibus fidelibus totius Angliae Salutem Sciatis me concessisse hac praesenti Carta confirmâsse Roberto Mauduit Camerario meo pro servitio suo Manerium de Werminster quod Dominus Rex pater meus ei dedit tenendum sibi Haeredibus suis de me Haeredibus meis per servitium unius Militis Quare volo firmiter praecipio quòd idem Robertus Haeredes sui post eum Manerium illud habeant teneant de nobis haeredibus nostris sicut illud dominus Rex pater noster tenebat bene in pace liberè quietè integrè plenariè honorificè per praedictum servitium in bosco in plano in pratis in pascuis in aquis in molendinis in vivariis stagnis piscariis in viis semitis in omnibus aliis locis rebus ad illud pertinentibus cum omnibus libertatibus liberis consuetudinibus suis Testibus H. Dunelmensi H. Sarisburiensi J. Norwicensi Episcopis Galfrido filio Petri Waltero filio Roberti The Baronage of England Page 398. WHen he dyed I find not but to him succeeded Robert who took part with the Rebellious Barons in King Johns time as it seems for it appears that in the first of Henry the Third the King Granted his whole Honor id est the Barony of Hanslape with its appurtenances to Henry de Braboef for his support in his service during pleasure But before the sixth of Henry the Third this Robert dyed whereupon Isabella his Widow one of the Heirs to Thurstan Basset gave twenty Marks for her purparty of her Fathers Lands leaving William his Son and Heir who before the end of the year giving security for payment of his Relief viz. a hundred Pounds had Livery of his Lands WILLIAM MAVDVIT Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer Lord of Hanslape and other Lands and Lordships Baronage of England Page 398. THis William in the seventeenth of King John was constituted Governour of Rokingham Castle But the same year taking part with the Rebellious Barons he made a Garison of his House of Hanslape as it seems for it is said that the next ensuing year Falcatius de Breant who was then a bold Soldier and one that stood stoutly to the King took it and demolish'd it upon the fourth of the Calends of December Which hardning him in his Rebellious Actings he was amongst others of that party Excommunicated by the Pope Nor did the death of King John which happened the same year allay the heat of his turbulent disposition for it is apparent that he still persisted therein and being in Arms against King Henry the Third in the Battle of Lincoln in the first of Henry the Third the whole power of that Rebellious party being utterly vanquished he was there taken Prisoner But after this returning to his due obedience he enjoyed his Estate and in the seventh of Henry the Third making a Park at his Mannor of Hanslape had out of Salcey Forest of the Kings Gift five Does for storing of the same In the tenth of Henry the Third doing his Homage for those Lands that descended to him by the Death of Isabella Basset his Mother he had Livery of them and in the seventeenth of Henry the
Duc remayning the foresaid Henry Greene hath sett his Seall and to that othir parte of the same Endentures with the said Henry remayning the said Duc hath sett his Seall Yeven the day and yere abovesaid Ultima Voluntas Henrici Greene. THIS is the Will of me Henry Greene Squyer made the third day of September the seaventh yere of the Reigne of King Edward the Fourth upon the Maner of Sudburgh and all the Londs and Tenements with theire appurtenances that byn of my purchase in Sudburgh aforesaid in the Counte of Northampton Thorpe beside Petirburgh Marham Wittelsey Southorp and Luffwyck and of the woodes called Langhyll and Ferthyngshaw in the same Counte and of all othir woodes whâ—che I bought of William Aldwyncle and in the handes of divers persones by Testemenâ— made to theyme for myne use as it appereth in severall dedes to performe my will Whereupon first I will that my Feoffes of and in my Londs and Tenements in Thorpe beside Petirburgh after my decesse make estate of theyme to Margaret my wyfe for terme of her lyve the remaindre thereof to Constance my Doughter to have to her and to the heirs of her body begotyn and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heires Item I will that my Feoffes of the Londs and Tenements in Wittelsey Southorp and Marham of my purchase after my decesse make estate of them to Margaret my wyfe for terme of her lyfe the remaindre thereof to Robert Wittelbury and to the heirs of his body begotyn and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heirs And I will that my Feoffes of the Londs and Tenements in Luffwyk of my purchase called Coles Thynge and Befviles Thynge after my decesse make estate to my Lord John of Buckingham and to my Lady his wyfe and to the heires comyng betwix theyme and for defaute of suche issue the remaindre thereof to my right heires for ever if my said Lord nor Lady nor theyr heires nor any othir by theyme procuryng assentyng or commandement in any part hereof lett not my will to be performyd and if they or any of theyme lett my said will to be performyd then I will that theire estate thereyn be void and that the same Londs and Tenements be sold and disposed by mine Executours in dedes of Charite Item I will that two Priestes shall be made sure ether of them to have fourtene marks yerely on the charges of my purchased Londs or Rentes perpetually to syng in the Parysh Chirche of Luffwyk and to doe othir devyne service there and pray for the sowles of me and of Sir Henry Greene Justice and othir of myne Auncestres and Benefactors and all Crystyn sowles And if hit shall happyn no suche xxiiij marks yerely to be purchesid hereafter be me then I will they shall have sewerly to theyme and they re successours for evermore xxiiij marks yerely perpetuelly of my Maner of Sudburgh Item I will that Thomas Haldenby shall have a sufficiant graunte of one annuite of xiiij marks to have to hym for terme of his lyfe to be taken of the revenue of my Maner of Houghton in the Counte of Northampton if he make his Lettres Patents that he hath of like graunte by me made to hym to be taken of the Maners of Hardewyk and Grateley to be surrendid and cancellid and he to doe lyke service as is contenyd in his said first Lettres Patentes Item I will that Margaret my wyfe after my decesse have the Maneres of Buckworth in the Counte of Huntyngton and Herdewyk in the Counte of Northampton with othir Londs and Tenements before expressed for terme of hir lyve the remayndre of theyme to my right heires Item I will that my Feoffees of my Woods and Assartes called Langhill and Farthingshaw and Tolkithorpewoode after my decesse make a state of my said Lord John and Dame Constance his wyfe my Doughter and to the heires of the body of the same Dame Constance comyng and for defaute of suche issue the remayndre of theyme to the right heires of me the said Henry Greene. In witnesse whereof to these Presents I set the Seal of myne Armes Yeven the daie and yere abovesaid SIGILLVM HENRICI GRENE ARMIGIRI Carta Margaretae Relictae Henrici Greene. NOverint Universi per Praesentes me Margaretam quae sui uxor Henrici Greene Armigeri defuncti fecisse ordinâsse loco meo posuisse Dilectos mihi in Christo Robertum Wittelbury Armigerum Jacobum Barlowe meos veros legitimos Attornatos conjunctim divisim ad recipiendum pro me nomine meo de Thoma Lenton Katherina filia Roberti Long consanguinea haerede Willielmi Aldwyncle Armigeri defuncti vel de eorum in hac parte Attornatis plenam pacificam possessionem seisinam de in Manerio de Comberton cum suis pertinentiis in Comitatu Cantabrigiae secundùm vim formam effectum cujusdam Cartae indentatae per praefatum Thomam Katherinam mihi prefatae Margaretae ad terminum vitae meae inde confectae Ratum gratum habens habitura totum quicquid praedicti Attornati mei nomine meo fecerint aut alter eorum fecerit in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium Praesentibus Sigillum meum apposui Datum vicesimo sexto die mensis Maii Anno Regni Regis Edwardi Quarti post Conquestum nono The Tombe of Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Extant in St. Peters Church in Luffwick CONSTANCE GREENE Countess of Wiltshire Lady of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Antiquities of Warwickshire Page 729. Writing of Maxton Castle WITHIN the body thereof is a little Chapel in which by special dispensation of Reynold Boaters then Bishop of this Diocess was solemnized the Marriages of John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury and Katharine Stafford one of the Daughters of the said Duke in the thirty sixth year of King Henry the Sixth and of John Stafford one of his younger Sons after created Earl of Wiltshire and Constance the Daughter of Henry Green Esquire Baronage of England Page 174. Stafford Earl of Wiltshire IN the ninth of Edward the Fourth the fifth of January John Stafford a younger Son to Humphrey Duke of Buckingham was created Earl of Wiltshire and in the twelfth of Edward the Fourth joyned in Commission with the Earl of Northumberland and others to treat with the Ambassadors of James the third King of Scotland upon certain complaints of grievances from each Realm And having married Constance the Daughter and heir of Sir Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Knight departed this life the eight of May the thirteenth of Edward the Fourth leaving Edward his Son three years of age being then seized joyntly with the said Constance of the Manors of Southo in Com. Hunt of Newinton-Blosmaville Clifton and Pollicote in Comitatu Bucks of the Manors of Stamford Rivers Tracies Suttons Piggesland Bottelles and Briggs in Comitatu
that unfortunate Fight where the Christians did receive so great a defeat under the Command and Conduct of Robert Earl of Artois the French Kings Brother Particular honours were done to the memory of Sir Robert de Vere by the greatest Men of that Age and there was ever after retain'd for the Arms of his Successors Lords of Addington and Thrapston in a Shield Argent a Cross Gules which in order to that War he had assumed and in memory of the occasion wherein this their Ancestor had faln with so much glory His Issue Sir Baldwin de Vere Sir John de Vere THE Lady Ellen being then the Widow of Sir Robert de Vere applied her whole thoughts to the good and advantage of her Children the dear remainders of so noble a Husband to which end she contriv'd to establish BALDWIN the eldest of them in an Alliance with the Lord Gilbert de Seagrave at that time the Chief Subject in England by reason of his Office which was great Justiciar and a man besides in extraordinary favour with the King Which Gilbert contracted with her for the Marriage of the said Baldwin with his Daughter Margaret obliging himself to give her a hundred Marks for her consent thereunto and as a Portion to her Son his Lands in Aleby and Melton in the County of Leicester With the years of the young Baldwin de Vere there grew up in his mind all those inclinations for Arms and Piety to which the Knights of his House had been so accustomed and the Fields of Palestine were the scenes whereon these vertues were usually presented In the company then of other Heroick Pilgrims he went thither to pay his first vows and to win his Spurs where after several generous adventures the effects of two years spent in that hazardous warfare he returned to his own House to enjoy the esteem and honour he had acquired After which he received from the grant of Ralph the great Earl of Chester the Lordship of Tywa and seventeen Virgates of Land in that Town with all the men holding the same and their sequels Which gift was after confirmed by particular Charter from King Henry the Third He had likewise from the Lord Robert Fitz Walter the Land of Bishopscote to hold by the service of half a Knights Fee Besides other testimonies of the love and value of diverse great Lords of that time There is likewise extant an Agreement between him and the Lord Abbot of Peterborow about the liberties of Thrapston concerning which there had been a difference And as the last testimony of him there is extant a Charter from Henry the Lord Abbot of Croyland granting him liberty to erect a Chapel in his Court at Addington upon certain conditions His Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin Vere SIR ROBERT de VERE was a Minor at the death of his Father thereby becoming a Ward for his Mannor of Addington to his Cousin Sir Baldwin of Drayton under whose conduct having passed those years which were to bring him to lawful age it appears he was much bound to him for his Education which produced such generous qualities as made him very considerable He applied himself much to the War which we find by the appearance of his name in several Lists of those Knights that accompanied King Edward the First in his Expeditions into Wales and Scotland He exercised the Office of High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the thirtieth year of that King and he dyed seised of the Lordships of Thrapston of Addington of Sudburgh of Melton of Tywa of Twyvell of Bishopscote and other Lands and Lordships He had Married Anne the Daughter of Sir Roger of Watervill by whom he had Issue Randal de Vere RANDAL or RANULPH de VERE after the death of Sir Robert his Father became possessed of all his Lands and Lordships And in the third year of King Edward the Third we find him to have been summoned by the Kings Justices to answer by what Warrant he held and exercised certain Customs and Liberties in his Lordship of Thrapston Which upon his appearance and production of the Charter were reserved and he dismissed In the ninth year of the same King an Inquisition passed upon the value of his Lands in Thrapston and Addington and in the twelfth by his Charter dated on the Friday being the Feast of Saint Edmund he granted and gave to the Lord Henry then Bishop of Lincoln and to Agnesse that was the Wife of Sir Richard de Waldgrave the custody of the Lands and Tenements which the said Richard had held of him in the Town of Twyvell that did belong to him by reason of the minority of Thomas the Son of the said Richard and Agnesse as likewise the Marriage of the said Thomas for a certain summe of Money paid to him by the forementioned Lord Henry and Agnesse The Wife of Sir Randall de Vere was ...... Their Issue Sir John de Vere Sir Robert de Vere Randal de Vere Idonea de Vere JOHN de VERE in the life time of his Father Sir Ranulph being as then but young was married to a Lady whose name was Alice Clifford and for his subsistance setled in possession of the Lordship of Twyvell and other Lands of his Fathers Inheritance But the spirit and inclinations of this House being predominant in his nature and disposition they would not suffer him to remain at home but postposing to the love of Honour and the War all considerations of ease and interest he followed the noble King Edward into his first Wars with France where for his service he acquired the honour of Knighthood and after having given extraordinary proofs of his valour in divers occasions it was his fortune to be slain in the famous Battel of Crecy among other Heroes who fought in that place for the honour of their King and Country and leaving no Issue behind him he was succeeded by his Brother Sir Robert de Vere BY the death without Issue of Sir John de Vere we find that his Brother ROBERT came to inherit the Lordships of Addington Thrapston Sudburgh Melton Aleby Kemington Hokenhanger with the rest of the Lands and possessions belonging to that House There were several transactions that passed between the Lady Alice de Vere that was the Widow of his Brother and him about agreements for setling of her Thirds in the Lordships of Thrapston Addington and other places which were performed with much mutual respect and Justice on either side and at last ended in a fair accord and composition for the whole Several other marks there do remain of the Justice Oeconomy and Prudence of this Robert de Vere whom we find to have married Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Robert de Northburgh and to have deceased in the three and fortieth year of King Edward the Third leaving Issue Robert de Vere Baldwin de Vere ROBERT the Son of Robert de Vere Lord of Addington and Thrapston being a minor at the death of his
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
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
into a consuming Sickness that after some time brought him to his end in the Life-time of his Father to the great mortification of that Noble Lord and of all the rest of his Relations leaving by his Wife the Lady Anne Saint John Daughter and sole Heir of the Lord John Saint John of Blefso for his sole Heir Elizabeth Howard ELIZABETH HOWARD Countess of Peterborow CHAPTER V. ELIZABETH HOWARD was the only Daughter and Sole Heir of William Lord Howard eldest Son to the Admiral and she was Inheritable to all the Lands that at his Marriage had been settled upon her Father and to what ever else had not by Will or otherwise been disposed of by her Grand-Father to any of his other Sons And if Margaret Stuart Countess of Nottingham the Admiral 's Second Wife had not by being present with the old Lord at the time of his Death been possessed of his personal Estate which was vast in Jewels Plate and all kind of Precious Moveables she had proved the greatest Fortune of her time However she was possessed at her Marriage with the Castle of Dunnington with the Park and a large Lordship of fair Revenues that had Royalties of great Extent and Consideration She had the Noble Lordship of Blechingleigh in expectance after her Mother and the Priory of Rygate after the death of the Countess of Nottingham all which she lived to enjoy She was a Lady of extraordinary Beauty in her time and before she was Married the hopes and expectation of every one that was Great and Considerable in England But her Mother being of a Family that was of Kindred as well as Neigbourhood to the Mordaunts of Turvey proved favourable to the Merits the Person and Noble Qualities of the Lord Mordaunt afterward Earl of Peterborow to whom she gave in Marriage her Daughter and all her pretences This Lady had much Wit and a great Spirit which inclined her to be Generous and Bountiful to a degree of a little too much valuing the uncertain applause of needy persons She lived in Unhappy Times the Rebellion beginning and ending in her days dying after the King's Restauration in the Year .... leaving Issue by her Husband John Earl of Peterborow Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick Elizabeth Tilney Thomas Howard the second Duke of Norfolk Agnes Tilney Anne Daughter to K. Edward the 4th Thomas Howard third Duke of Norfolk Elizabeth Stafford Catherine Broughton William Lord Howard Baron of Effingham Margaret Gammage Agnes Howard William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester Catherme Cary. Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham Margaret Stuart Sr. Willm. Howard of Hingfeild Frances bouldwell Doaglas Howard Iohn Lord Sheffield Mary Howard Edward Lord Dudley Frances Howard Edw Seymour Earle of Hertford Martha Howard Sr. George Bourcher Margaret Howard Sr Rich. Leueson Frances Howard Henry Fitzgerald Earle of Kildare Eliz Howard Sr. Robt. Southwell Charles Howard E. of Nottingham Mary Cockaine Will m Ld. Howard Baron of Effingham Catherine St. Iohn Charles Howard 3d Earle of Nottingham Smith Eliz Howard Iohn Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Henry Mordaunt Earle of Peterborow Penelope Obrian GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Testimonies GENEALOGICAL PROOFS OF THE DESCENT and SUCCESSION Of the HOUSE of HOWARD of Effingham THOMAS HOWARD Second Duke of Norfolk Lord High Treasurer and Earl Marshal of England CHAPTER I. The Baronage of England Part II. pag. 267. Mentioning the Will of Margaret Dutchess of Norfolk ORdaining her Son-in-Law Thomas Earl of Surrey surviver of this her Testament to whom she gave a Cup of Gold and a Cross with the Pots of Silver Gilt. The probate of which Will bears Date the Thirtieth of December 1494. Which Thomas being Squire of the Body to King Edward the Fourth his Father then living was retained to serve in his Wars in the Fifteenth of Edward the Fourth with six Men at Arms and Two hundred Archers And the next ensuing Year constituted Sheriff of the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk he was also created Earl of Surrey at such time as John his Father was made Duke of Norfolk by King Richard the Third And though he took part with that King and Fought valiantly on his behalf at Bosworth Field where he was taken Prisoner yet did King Henry the Seventh afterwards receive him into Favour and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council being a person of great Prudence Gravity and Constancy whom he served faithfully during the whole time of his Reign In the Fourth Year of Henry the Seventh he was in Parliament restored to his Title of Earl of Surrey and to all those Lands which were of his Wifes Inheritance And the same Year upon the Insurrection in the North occasioned by the assessing of a Subsidy wherein the Earl of Northumberland was Murdered through the fury of the Multitude he was sent with a strong power for the suppressing thereof And in the Eighth of Henry the Seventh was again imployed into the North to restrain the incursions of the Scots In the Thirteenth of Henry the Seventh upon the Siege of Norham Castle by those bold Invaders being then in York-shire he March'd towards them but before he could reach to Norham they quited their ground and retired into their own Country whereupon he followed them with his Army and made great spoil within their borders About this time he made partition with Maurice Brother of William Marquess of Berkley of the Lands which came to them by Inheritance by reason of their Descent from the Coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk And in the Fifteenth of Henry the Seventh attended the King and Queen to Calis In the Sixteenth of Henry the Seventh 25 Junii he had that great Office of Lord Treasurer of England conferr'd on him And in the Two and twentieth of Henry the Seventh obtained a Special Livery of all the Lands whereof his Father died seized In the First of Henry the Eighth being likewise made one of the Privy Council to that King he had his Patent for Lord Treasurer renewed And in the Second of Henry the Eighth was constituted Earl Marshal of England for Life In the Fourth of Henry the Eighth upon that Expedition then made by that King into France at which time Therouane and Tourney were taken he was sent Northwards to prevent the Scots Incursions during the Kings absence But before he got far enough to make resistance King James the Fourth of Scotland having entred the borders with a powerful Army took Norham Castle Of which this Valiant Earl being advertised he made the more speed thitherwards his Army consisting of Twenty six thousand appointing Thomas his Son then Lord Admiral to come by Sea and meet him at or near Alnwick in Northumberland Which he accordingly did bringing with him a Thousand stout Men some say Five thousand Hereupon
but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to â—â—ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the
and his Horse was shot in the shoulder The end and consequences of this Fight is known in Story The King return'd to Oxford the Earl of Essex to London and the Lord Mordaunt remain'd at Court the ensuing Winter The young Lord had not attained the full age that might capacitate him to sit in Parliament but the Earl his Father being deceased and he succeeding to his dignity of Earl of Peterborow it pleased his Majesty to dispense with a year of that time and by Writ to call him to fit in the Oxford Parliament It was in this Assembly the Earl of Peterborow shew'd the fruits of a Generous Education his Manners were grave and decent his Judgment sound his Learning above his Years and his Quality and he spoke so as satisfied much and affected those that heard him In fine the Great and Unfortunate Charles took such an impression from his proceedings as had the King out-liv'd the disorders of that Age the Earl of Peterborow had been certainly both employ'd and cherish'd by him After this Session he follow'd the King in the Expeditions of the succeeding Summer He was engag'd in the Fight at Cropradey he was with him in the West at Exeter and in Cornwall where the Parliaments Army was Besieg'd their Generals shifted for themselves by Sea and their Troops passed by the King's Army on conditions The Winter following was employ'd by this Earl in an Action very considerable to him which was his Marriage with a beautiful young Lady of great birth called Penelope Obrien only Daughter to Barnaby Earl of Thomond part of whose Portion was at that time very useful to him his Mother being then alive and in possession of most of his Estate and the rest sequester'd and in the Parliament Quarters The next Spring he carried his Lady to Bristol a place in appearance of most safety and farther from the Scene of the War which was likely as it did fall out to be more Northward Here he happn'd to be about the time of the Fight at Leicester where the good King was worsted and from whence his greater misfortune began to flow Upon the King's retreat Westward the Earl of Peterborow to be more free to follow him in all his Fortunes got a Pass for his Lady to go to London to agitate among his Relations some supplies towards enabling him for his subsistance and to furnish him towards certain designs he had for his Majesty's Service He went with the King after this for Wales but losses and defections coming now more and more upon his Majesty every day he retired again to Oxford and Winter drawing nigh the Earl took that Season to pass into Ireland where was a considerable remainder of his Wife's Portion with which he intended to pass into France unto the Queen being then at Paris to Negotiate the interests he had at Court and after to return Unto all this he had not only the King's leave but such Passes and Letters of Recommendation from his Majesty and the Principal Secretary the Earl of Bristol as will for ever bear honourable testimony of this Earl's behavior He did then prosecute his journey which was in all things very fortunate though full of particular adventures too long for this relation He pass'd into Ireland came into Thomond in the Province of Munster where his Father-in-law lived and carried thence the Moneys he did demand Embark'd at Galloway in Cannaught for France after extraordinary sufferance and hazards at Sea landed at Saint Mallows and came afterwards to Paris where he was received by the Queen with that kindness and concern as was due to a Man who had adher'd so faithfully and so long to the King her Husband and all his Interests By this time every Post brought news of the King's misfortunes who having been at last forced to quit Oxford and the few Troops he had left had cast himself upon the Protection of the Scotch Army Here to well judging people seem'd to be an end of all the hopes of the Royal Party who had reason to fear what was the present Interest and was like to be the resolution of that People After some time then every one as in a Shipwrack seeking for a Plank whereon they might save themselves the Earl of Peterborow upon discourse with the Queen and the King's Secretary that was then in France had not only their leave but their advice to make it his business to get admission to come home into England and compound for his Estate as the rest of the Cavaliers in England did The Earl's Mother that always liv'd in the Parliament Quarters and had many Friends among them procur'd his desire So that with the young Countess his Wife at that time with him in France he repair'd home and at last by a very severe composition in Money for which he was fain to sell and mortgage many of his Lands he made such a kind of Peace as that wherewith the Lords and Gentlemen of the King's Party were at that time forc'd to be contented In the care then of his Fortune composing of domestick differences and providing as well as he could against future accidents the Earl of Peterborow spent his time till the King came to be abandon'd by those false Scots and deliver'd into the hands of the Parliament He happn'd to be residing upon his Noble Lordship of Turvey at the time the King was taken from Holmby and brought on his way towards London His Majesty happn'd one Night in his journey to be lodg'd at Ampthill where it was design'd he should rest a day or two at hearing hereof the Earl's House not being above seven Miles from thence he thought it his duty to endeavour to see his Sacred Master and try if he could have occasion to be useful to him in any kind He rose then and by Eleven of the Clock came to the House where the King lay Not without some difficulty he got to be admited where he was and he found his Majesty going to the Prayers usual before his Dinner After they were perform'd he kneel'd down for the honor of his Majesty's Hand but had only opportunity for the ordinary Complements being overlook'd by the Officers appointed to observe the addresses and behavior of all that did approach him Chearfulness there was not much in the King's looks but no disorder grave they were but distinguishing to any he took for Friends and injur'd goodness appear'd in every motion The Dinner was soon brought up during which the Earl waited by him and near the end of it the Officers withdrew and all except the Guards of the Door The Earl quickly took the opportunity of asking his Majesty If there were any thing wherein he might be serv'd with the hazard of his Life and Fortune The King Answer'd He was not in a place to take any measures but would have him advise with those that were his Friends The Earl said no more by reason of the Villainous Jaylers returning so
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
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
concern of a great Author who has transfer'd to Posterity the Memorials of the Baronage of England I shall undertake to write nothing but what may immediately appertain to those Latimers that were Lords of Duntish in the County of Dorset and in whose Lands and Blood by an Hereditary Descent the House of Mordaunt has had so near an Interest For an Introduction hereunto I must notwithstanding relate how in the Reign of King Edward the First there flourished in this Realm a famous Baron called William Latimer who had divers great Possessions devolv'd unto him by right of his Ancestors and sundry others by the Acquisition of his own Valour and Virtue He had been bred a Companion in Arms to that Prince from the time he was first made Knight and served with him in his Fathers Defence during all the Civil Wars of that Kings Reign He assum'd in his Company the Sacred Cross and became Partaker of his Journey to the Holy Land and after King Henry's Death he continued with his Famous Master under the greatest Esteem for Valour and all Military Virtue of any Knight in his time This William Latimer was one of the Kings Chief Captains in those Wars which produc'd the final Subduction of Wales and particularly in that occasion where the Isle of Anglice was won in the eleventh year of his Reign and when his Affairs in Gascony began so to sink as it seemed necessary for their Support to employ the Experience and Vigour of a great Commander the Lord William Latimer was Chosen by the King in the twenty second year of his Reign to be joined to the Youth and Heat of his Nephew the Lord John of Brittain in the Government of that Country and the Forces to be sent into it he being upon this occasion termed in the History of Henry Knighton Canon of Leicester de Eventibus Angliae Miles ille strenuissimus Willielmus le Latimer The year following he attended thither again the King himself in his great Expedition as he did in most of his Wars against the Scots particularly at Faukerk where he was Victorious After which he was appointed Commissioner to fortify the Castles of that Realm And as he was Eminent in all the happy Actions of War atchieved in that Age we find him so no less in every great Affair of State It appearing he signed amongst the great Barons of the Kingdom several publick Instruments as particularly that Letter written to Pope Boniface the Eighth about the Kings Right to be Superiour Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland He Married Alicia de Ledet one of the Heirs of Walter de Ledet a great Baron of that time and that was Lord of Braybrooke in the County of Northampton who brought into his Family her part of a large and rich Inheritance Their Issue William Lord Latimer Baron of Corby Sir John Latimer Lord of Duntish Estpullham and other Lands and Lordships Thomas Latimer that died without Issue Nicholas Latimer to whom his Mother after the Death of her Husband gave all the Lands of her Inheritance in the Counties of Leicester and Northampton THE Descent of the Latimers that were Lords of Duntish and Estpullham being the business of my Intention I shall here proceed with Sir John Latimer the second Son of the aforementioned Lord William who flourished in the Reign of King Edward the Second in Possession of several Noble Lordships that were left to his Inheritance by the Care and Kindness of his Father he had Lands in Eastshene in Mortlac and in Wimbledon in the County of Surrey in Wolwich in Kent besides great Possessions in Dorsetshire which latter did devolve to him in the Right of the Lady Joan de Govis his Wife who was one of the Daughters of Sir William de Govis a Lord of a Noble Patrimony in the Kingdom of France and that had likewise fair Lands in England which he Inherited from his Mother the Lady Beatrice of Lincoln one of the Heirs of a great House that had been very famous in the foregoing Ages From this Marriage arose the most notorious Contention of that time between this Sir John Latimer and Sir Peter Desmonstiers of the Dutchy of Normandy about the Fief and Lordships of Govis in that Country having been the Chief Seat and part of the Inheritance of Sir William de Govis that was Father-in-Law to them both Whereupon divers Transactions past in the Courts of Judicature of either Kingdom and there are Extant relating to this difference several Orders Grants and Instruments under the Seals of both the Kings Edward the Second and King Philip. Their Issue Sir Robert Latimer William Latimer Nicholas Latimer ROBERT the Son of Sir John Latimer after the Decease of his Father became possest of all his Estate and Interests To which by his Marriage with Catharine the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Hull he did join divers other fair Possessions as the Mannor of Childeckford and Estpullham in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire all which in the thirty second year of Edward the Third he did receive from John Gurthop and Edward Mundeine who it should seem were possess'd thereof in trust on Condition that if he should die without Issue of the said Catharine they would then return to her right Heirs This Robert Latimer had very honourably served King Edward the Third in several Military Occasions wherein he atchieved the Honour of Knighthood and having returned in safety from the Battel of Poictiers Deceased at his Mannor of Duntish in the thirtieth year of that Kings Reign leaving Issue Sir Robert Latimer Margaret Latimer SIR ROBERT LATIMER being under Age at the Death of his Father was by King Edward the Third granted in Wardship with all the Lordships of his Inheritance to Ralph of Ergum then Bishop of Salisbury who transmitted the same to William Latimer the Uncle of this Robert The King afterwards ignorantly as is supposed granted again the Wardship to Sir John de Lee who was at that time Steward of his House which Sir John presuming of his Credit and Power in Court sent for William Latimer to London and by Duress of Imprisonment forc'd him to Surrender the Estate in that Wardship unto him William Latimer complained to the Parliament then sitting in the forty second year of that King unto which Sir John would have excused himself from the Grant that had been made him by his Master but it was not allowed because William Latimer was not put out by due Process of Law for which and other things Sir John de Lee was Committed to the Tower afterwards when it had born several Debates in the Council it was Ordered that the Wardship should be reseized into the King's hands and delivered to William Latimer according to the Grant made by the Bishop and that all Recognizances and Conveyances made by this William to the said Sir John should be void saving to the King his Right When Robert Latimer came at Age he Entred
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
securitatem tam Baldewinus quà m Clemens hujusmodi scrptis Conventionibus impressiones sigillorum suorum mutuò apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Watervil Domino Rogero de Hyda Domino Gilberto de Daneford Richardo de Audewincle Reginaldo de Beumer Roberto filio Fulconis Luca de Trapston Johanne Walleraunde Johanne Clerico de Luffwic Henrico de Islip Clerico aliis Pipe nota oblata quadragesimo secundo Henrici Tertii Scutagium Walliae HEnricus de Drayton debet viginti solidos de dimidio Feodi Baldewinus filius haeres habet quietantiam Regis Tower Escheats 6 E. 1. n o 16. BAldewinus de Drayton tenet Drayton Luffwick Islip in Comitatu Northampton Conventio inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Rogerum de Stowmarcant ANno Regni Regis Edwardi Filii Regis Henrici primo ad Festum Sancti Michaelis convenit inter Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton Militem ex una parte Rogerum de Stowmarcant Clericum ex altera videlicet quòd dictus Dominus Baldewinus tradidit vendidit demisit ad firmam dicto Rogero quibuscunque assignatis suis terram Dominicam suam cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Adinton quam idem Baldewinus habuit ex warda filii bonae memoriae Baldewini de Vere cum Curiae aedificiis terris Homagiis redditibus Eschaetis wardis releviis herietis pratis pascuis pasturis omnibus aliis ad dictum Dominicum pertinentibus excepto servitio Domini Johannis de Vere Warda Relevia ejusdem si contigerit Habendum tenendum dicto Rogero suis Assignatis de dicto Domino Baldewino de Drayton haeredibus suis bene in pace liberè quietè à dicto Festo Sancti Michaelis usque ad finem termini duodecim annorum proximè sequentium plenè complendorum Dictus verò Dominus Baldewinus haeredes sui eidem Rogero suis quibuscunque assignatis totum dictum Dominicum cum omnibus suis pertinentris ut praedictum est quae ad ipsum pertinent ratione praedictae wardae usque ad finem dicti termini super omnes terras tenementa sua contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt defendent à Sectis universarum Curiarum Hundredorum acquietabunt Pro hac autem traditione venditione dimissione dicti tenementi warrantizatione dedit dictus Rogerus dicto Domino Baldewino centum marcas Argenti prae manibus Praeterea Dominus Baldewinus concessit eidem Rogero suis assignatis tertiam partem Dominici in Adington quam habuit nomine dotis de Matilda relicta quondam Baldewini Vere defuncti prout continetur in quodam Scripto inter Dominum Nicholaum Dodingesel virum dictae Matildae ipsum Dominum Baldewinum de Drayton confecto sigillo Nicholai appenso Et dictus Rogerus dictam partem Dominici sumptibus suis usque ad terminum praedictorum annorum in tali statu quo recepit secundùm visum Bonorum Legalium virorum sustinebit In hujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Scripto ad modum Chirographi confecto mutuò sigilla sua apposuerunt Hiis testibus Domino Reginaldo de Wahul Domino Willielmo Hay Domino Johanne de Vere Domino Symone de Watervil Domino Symone de Eyleswritch Rectore Ecclesiae de Trapston Rogero de Venneng Rogero de Tingwick aliis Out of the Collection of Mr. Roger Dodsworth is this Ancient Pedigree of the Draytons SIR Robert of Gimeges held Staggesden in the County of Bedford of the King in Capite by the third part of a Knights Fee and he held the Mannors of Bottlebrigg and Overton-Longville in Norman Cross Hundred in the County of Huntington by the service of half a Knights Fee He married Sibyl the Daughter of Hugh de Lizures who lived after him as appears by an Inquisition of the fortieth year of Henry the Third He gave to Sir Hugh de Bovi with his Daughter Emma the Moity of the Mannor of Bottlebrigg and to Baldwin of Drayton with Idonea another of his Daughters the other Moity William his Son and Heir was Lord of Staggesden and had Issue Robert of Gimeges that dyed without Issue Robert of Gimeges Lord of Staggesden and Bottelbrigg Emma of Gimeges Hugh de Bovi William of Gimeges Robert of Gimeges dyed without Issue 8 E. 3. Idonea of Gimeges Baldwin of Drayton Sir John of Drayton Philip of Arderne Escaetria de Anno sexto Edwardi Primi numero decimo sexto INquisitio facta apud Bottlebrigg die Jovis in Crastino Apostolorum Petri Pauli Anno Regni Regis Edwardi sexto per praeceptum Domini Regis coram Willielmo le Moigne Vicecomite Huntingdon Reginaldo Thurnston de Swangrit Johanne de Fraunchome de Stilton Willielmo de Menill Galfrido de Welledon Galfrido Stockman Willielmo Cokelm Roberto le Frankhome Roberto de Bedhampton Galfrido le Hunt Johanne Lokerel Johanne Cocum Idone de Gathe Qui dicunt per Sacramentum suum quòd Baldewinus de Drayton tenuit in Comitatu Huntingdon de Roberto de Gimeges quatuor viginti acras Terrae quoddam Messuagium septem acras prati unius pretium acrae terrae arabilis sex denarii pretium Messuagii quatuor solidi pretium acrae prati quatuor solidi Piscaria valent per annum duos solidos Tolnetum per aquam terram valet sex denarios Sunt ibi quatuor liberi homines quorum redditus est per annum sex solidi sex denarii Item perquisita Curiae de Bottlebrigg valent per annum duos solidos Haec omnia praedicta tenuit de Roberto de Gimeges Item idem tenuit in Villa de Overton-Longville de Domino Willielmo de Karby unum Messuagium quod valet per annum duodecim denarios unum Columbarium quod valet per annum duos solidos quatuor viginti acras Terrae pretium acrae sex denarii septem acras prati pretium acrae quatuor solidi Item sunt ibi redditus consuetudines septem liberorum hominum in Overton valent per annum quinquaginta sex solidos sex denarios Et dicunt quòd Johannes filius dicti Baldewini est ejus haeres propinquior est de aetate viginti duorum annorum ampliús Convenit cum Recordo Guilielmus Ryley Sir JOHN of DRAYTON first of that Name Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Charta Roberti de Arderne SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus de Arderne dedi concessi hac meâ praesenti Chartâ confirmavi Johanni filio Domini Baldewini de Drayton cum Philippa filiâ meâ totam Terram meam in Wappenham quae fuit de Jure Dominae Aliciae matris meae mihi ab ea haereditariè descendebat cum omnibus pertinentiis suis libertatibus Tenendam de me haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis de dicta Philippa filia mea exeuntibus liberè haereditariè honorificè per servitium tertiae partis unius Militis
Henrici Greene Patris praedictae Constanciae nuper Comitissae matris praedicti Edwardi nuper Comitis Et dicunt insuper Juratores praedicti quòd praedicta Elizabetha nuper uxor dicti Thomae Cheyne Militis obiit tertio die Aprilis Anno Regni Henrici nuper Regis Angliae septimi decimo septimo sine exitu de corpore suo exeunte post cujus mortem medietas omnium maneriorum praedictorum advocationum caeterorum praemissorum cum eorum pertinentiis descendebant praefatis Elizabethae uxori Johannis Mordaunt Annae Constanciae uxori Johannis Parre Etheldredae ut Consanguineis haeredibus dictae Elizabethae Cheyne videlicet ut filiabus haeredibus dicti Henrici filii Isabellae sororis dictae Margeriae matris dictae Elizabethae Cheyne Et dicunt Juratores praedicti quòd dicta Constancia nuper uxor dicti Johannis Parre obiit ...... die Augusti Anno Regni dicti Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae Septimi decimo septimo sine exitu de corpore suo exeunte post cujus mortem quarta pars praedictorum Maneriorum advocationis ac caeterorum praemissorum cum pertinentiis descendebant praefatis Elizabethae Mordaunt Annae Etheldredae ut sororibus haeredibus ipsius Constanciae Parre Et dicunt ulteriùs Juratores praedicti quòd dicta Anna cepit in vitum Humphridum Browne habuerunt exitum Georgium Browne Et quòd dicta Anna postea obiit videlicet decimo quinto die Septembris Anno Regni dicti Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae Septimi vicesimo secundo Et quòd idem Georgius Browne est aetatis sex annorum ampliús Et dicunt Juratores praedicti quod praedictum Manerium de Drayton cum pertinentiis tenetur de Domino Rege in Capite per quae servitia juratores praedicti penitus ignorant Et quòd Willielmus Merbury exitus proficua ejusdem Manerii à tempore mortis dicti Edwardi nuper Comitis usque primum diem Octobris Anno Regni Domini Henrici dicti nuper Regis Angliae Septimi vicesimo octavo percepit habuit Et quod Robertus Merbury à dicto primo die Octobris usque ad diem hujus Inquisitionis percepit habuit Et ulteriùs dicunt quòd praedictum Manerium de Luffwyck cum advocatione ejusdem Ecclesiae de Luffwyck cum eorum pertinentiis tenetur de Abbate de Peterburgh per fidelitatem per quae alia servitia Juratores praedicti penitus ignorant Et quòd dictus Willielmus Merbury exitus proficua ejusdem Manerii à tempore mortis dicti Edwardi nuper Comitis usque dictum primum diem Octobris dicto Anno vicesimo octavo percepit habuit Et quòd Robertus Wittelbury à dicto primo die Octobris usque primum diem Maii Anno Regni Domini Regis nunc primo exitus proficua ejusdem Manerii percepit habuit Et quod ....... Clement ...... uxor ejus exitus proficua à dicto primo die Maii usque diem hujus Inquisitionis perceperunt habuerunt Et dicunt Juratores praedicti quòd praedicta Ecclesia de Luffwyck vacavit circa decimum octavum diem Octobris Anno Regni Domini Henrici nuper Regis Angliae vicesimo quarto Et quòd Johannes Mordaunt ad eandem Ecclesiam praesentavit Willielmum Hamswayte Capellanum qui ad suam praesentationem fuit admissus institutus inductus In cujus c. Et postea praedictus Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus prosecuti fuerunt breve de forma donationis in distender versus Thomam Mountegue Willielmum Pemberton de Manerio de Drayton cum pertinentiis in Comitatu praedicto continuatur processus quousque praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus recuperaverunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis versus praedictum Thomam Mountegue Willielmum Pemberton prout pro termino Trinitatis Anno octavo Henrici Octavi apparet Virtute cujus recuperationis ipsi Johannes Mordaunt Johannes Browne intraverunt in Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis Et aliàs praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus prosecuti fuerunt breve de forma donationis in distender versus Thomam Mountegue de Manerio de Luffwyck cum pertinentiis in Comitatu praedicto continuatur processu quousque praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Elizabetha uxor ejus Georgius Browne Johannes Browne Etheldreda uxor ejus recuperaverunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis versus praedictum Thomam Mountegue prout pro termino Sanctae Trinitatis Anno octavo Regis octavi apparet Virtute cujus quidem recuperationis praedicti Johannes Mordaunt Johannes Browne intraverunt Manerium praedictum cum pertinentiis An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Mannor of Drayton TO all Christian people to whom this present writing Indented shall come heare or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there have been diverse variances and debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earle of Shrewsbury on th' one partie and John Mordaunt Squire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cossyns and heires to the Right Honourable Edward late Erle of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Erle and Daughter and heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Squire and Humphrey Browne Squire late Husband to Amye and George Browne his Son and heir apparent and Son and heir to the same Amye another Cossyn and another of the heirs to the said Erle of Wilshire after the forme aforesaid and Sir Wistan Browne Knight and John Browne his Son and heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cossyn and heir to the same Erle after the manner abovesaid on th' other partie of and upon the right title reversion and possession as well to the aforesaid Mannor of Drayton with th' appurtenances as of all other Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were to the said Constance or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to th' use of them or th' other of them which Mannors Lands Tenements the foresaid Erle of Shrewsbury claimeth by a Will supposed to be made by the said Erle of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Erle of Wiltshire should Will to the said Erle of Shrewsbury all his Fee-simple Land Whereupon the foresaid parties have compromitted themselves to abide th' Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named and chosen by and between the aforesaid parties to award ordain and deme as well of and upon the premisses as for and upon all manner
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
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
th' appurtenances for the considerations in these Indentures to th' use of the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife for terme of their lifes onely and either of them longer living onely without impeachment of waste dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife and after their decease to th' use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Daughter of the sayd John Greene in like manner and forme and of like Estate as the Heirs of the sayd Herry Greene Fader of the sayd Constance late Countesse was inheritable to the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements after the decease of the same Countesse to the use of the right Heirs of the same Isabel Vere Daughter of the same John Greene in manner and forme and of like tenure and Estates as is aforesayd of the other moyety of the same Mannors Lands and Tenements And the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife John Mordaunt the younger and Elizabeth his Wife Robert Mordaunt and Amye his Wife John Parre and Constance his Wife and Audre Vere and every of them before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall further do and suffer and cause to be done to make the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements afore appoynted to the sayd Countesse sure to the sayd Margaret Stafford Countesse of Wiltes Johan Vicountesse Lesle John Grey Vicount Lesle Thomas Grey Esquire John Bretteyn Clerk Thomas Frowyke Sergeant at Law Edward Hungerford Esquire Thomas Marrow and John Gardiner and to their Heirs to the uses aforesayd as by the Counsel learned of the sayd Countesse before the sayd sixteenth day of July next coming shall be advised at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Countesse And over that is covenanted bargained and agreed between the sayd Parties that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife dureing their lives shall have the Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park of Drayton the Conyngre and the Oxe-Pasture Provided that they shall therein doe no waste And over that that the sayd Sir Thomas Cheyne and Elizabeth his Wife shall have for terme of their lives onely and of every of them longest living without impeachment of wast dureing the life of the sayd Elizabeth his Wife the Moyte of all other Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches or Libertyes of the same the which late were of the same Herry Greene and after their decease the sayd Mannor of Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture and all the same Moyety of all other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements within the Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to goo and grow to the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere Moder to the sayd Herry Vere and to their Heirs for ever in manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was heretable to the same And that the sayd Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere shall have the other Moyte of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales and the Marches of the same to them and to their Heirs in the manner and forme and of like Estate as the sayd Herry Greene had therein or was inheritable thereunto And that all such persons as were late inseoffed by the sayd late Earle or be now seised or hereafter shall be seised of and in the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements in England Wales or the Marches of the same and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with their appurtenances shall be and stand feoffed and seised of the same to the same intents and uses aforesaid And over that that before the sixteenth day of December next comeing shall not lett John Fisher one of the Kings Sergeants at Law William Mordaunt William Gascoyne Wistan Broun John Mulso and William Lane to recover all the same other Mannors Lands and Tenements and the same Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture with th' appurtenances ayenst the sayd Elizabeth Cheyne Elizabeth Mordaunt Amy Mordaunt Constance Parre and Audree Vere and ayenst all such persons as be or then shall be their Husbands and ayenst all Feoffez thereof to their use in such manner and forme as shall be a vised by the learned Counsell of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fitz Hugh and John Mordaunt the Father at the Costs and Charges of the same Sir Thomas the sayd Recoverez to be of the Moyete of all the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements with their appurtenances and of the sayd Mannor of Drayton in Drayton the Park Conyngre and Oxe-Pasture for the Considerations comprised in this Indenture to the use of the sayd Sir Thomas and Elizabeth for the terme of their lives and either of them longest living onely And after their decease to the use and behoof of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabell Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd And of the other Moyete of the residue of the sayd other Mannors Lands and Tenements to the use of the right Heirs of the sayd Isabel Vere of like Estate as is aforesayd for ever Provided alway that the sayd Margaret Countesse of Wiltes shall have for terme of her life the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements to her appoynted by these Indentures and alsoe her Title and Interesse of Dower of the Lands late of Thomas Tresham any thing conteyned in these Indentures notwithstanding and notwithstanding the sayd Recovere And where the sayd now Duke hath before this time pretended right and title to such Mannors Lands and Tenements as late were of the same Henry Greene as Cosyn and right Heir of the sayd Edward late Earle of Wiltes of the Faders side of the same Earle The sayd Duke now covenanteth by these Presents that he in consideration of all the premisses ymediately upon the sealing of theis Indentures by his Fyne and several Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled on record at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Sir Thomas Sir Richard Alice Lady Fits Hugh and John Mordaunt Sergeant shall release all his right and title in all the Mannors Lands and Tenements with th' appurtenances late of the sayd Herry Greene within this Realme of England Wales and the Marches of the same to such persons and to their Heirs and in such wise and with warranty ayenst the Abbot of Chester and his Successors as the same Thomas Richard Alice and John shall name at the Costs and Charges of the sayd Thomas Richard Alice and John three two or one of them And the sayd Countesse and all other persons haveing any thing to the use of the sayd Countesse of and in the sayd Mannors of Newton Blosmevile Clifton Wathall Brafield and Policote and in all other Mannors Lands and Tenements which late were of the sayd Humphrey late Duke of Buckingham and afterwards of the sayd
come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot two of the Kings Justices send gretyng in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers variances and debates moved and had betwyne the Right Honourable Lord George Earle of Shrewsbury on th' one party and John Mordaunt Esquyer and Elizabeth his Wife oon of the Cosynes and Heires of the Right Honourable Edward late Earle of Wiltshire oon his Moders side that is to say by Constance Moder of the sayd Earle and Daughter and Heire of Henry Greene of Drayton in the Countye of Northampton Esquier and Humfrey Brown Esquier late Husband to Amye and George Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Sonne and Heire to the same Amye another Cosyne and another of the Heires of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire after the forme aforesayd and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Sonne and Heyre apparent and Audree his Wife the third Cosyne and Heire to the fame Earle after the manner abovesayd on the other party of and upon the Right Title Reversion Inheritance and Possession as well of the foresayd Mannor of Drayton with th' appurtenances as of all other Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their appurtenances in the sayd Countye of Northampton or elsewhere which late were to the sayd Constance or to the sayd Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or th' other of them which Mannors Lands and Tenements the aforesayd Earle of Shrewsbury claymeth by a Will supposed to be made by the sayd Earle of Wiltshire by which Will the foresayd Earle of Wiltshire should will to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury all his Fee-simple Lond Whereupon the foresayd Partyes have compromitted themselfe to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the sayd Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliott Arbitrators indifferently named and chosen by and betwyne the foresayd Partyes To award ordein and deme as well of and upon the premisses as for and upon all manner Evidences Charter Escripts Writeings and Aminiments concerning the premisses or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suites Quarrels and Demands had or moved betwyne the foresayd Partyes or other Servaunts or Frynds before the Date of these Presents concerning the premisses And we the sayd Arbitrators takeing upon us th' auctority and power to award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses calling before us the Counsells of the foresayd Partyes hereing and seeing their Tytyls Answers Replications Evidences Proffes and all other their Alleadgeances concerning their foresayd Tytyls and Interesse by good deliberation and by consent of the sayd Partyes award ordein and deme of and upon the premisses in manner and forme following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humfrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earle of Wiltshire and sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will And in that Will there is no Clause whereby the same Earle of Shrewsbury should have any of his Mannors Lands or Tenements as by the same more playnly appeareth And alsoe they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deedes and other Writings proveing the aforesayd Mannor of Drayton and other the sayd Mannors Lands and Tenements and Hereditaments to be yeven in tayle to the Auncestors of the sayd Constance Moder of the sayd Earle of Wiltshire And the sayd Earle of Wiltshire had and enjoyed the same by reason of the same Tayles And that the sayd Elizabeth and George Brown and Audree be Cousyns and next Heyres to the same Constance Moder to the sayd Earle of Wiltshire and to the same Earle on his Moders side and heritable to the foresayd Mannors and other the premisses by reason of the same Tayles Wherefore we award ordein and deme that the aforesayd Elizabeth George Brown and Audree shall have and enjoy all the foresayd Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the premisses to them and to their Heires according to their foresayd Tytylls of Inheritance And that the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall by his severall Deedes sufficient in the Law to be enrolled release unto the sayd John Mordaunt and Elizabeth Humfrey Brown George Brown and John Brown Audree his Wife and to such persons or person as they shall name to the use of the sayd Elizabeth George and Audree and their Heires and all such Right Tytyl Clayme Interest and Demand as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or any person or persons to his use hath in the foresayd Mannors Lands and Tenements or other the premisses by reason of any guift or Will in the premisses or any part of them made by the aforesayd Earle of Wiltshire to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury at the Costs and Charges of the sayd John Mordaunt John and George Brown in all things And furthermore the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the sayd John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown John and George Brown or to their Deputy or Deputies in London all such Charters Evidences and Writeings as he to his own use or any other to his use to his knowledge hath only concerning the premisses as soon as it may be conveniently done For the which Releases and other things above-specified and for other Costs and Charges which the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury hath had by occasion of the premisses We the sayd Arbitrators award ordein and deme That the sayd Sir Wistan John Mordaunt Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes two hundred Marks of lawful money in forme following that is to say The sayd John Mordaunt shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle of Shrewsbury his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct George the Martyr next comeing after the Date above-written at the Rode of the North-Door in the Cathedrall-Church of Pauls in the Citty of London betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the Clock of the same Day a hundred Marks And the foresayd Wistan Humfrey Brown and John Brown shall content and pay to the foresayd Earle his Executors or Assignes in the Day of the Feast of Sainct Andrew the Apostle then next ensueing at the sayd Rode in the same Church betwyne the howrs of nine and eleven of the same day a hundred Marks residue of the foresayd two hundred Marks Alsoe we award ordein and deme that the sayd John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Brown Humfrey and John Brown by their Deede and Deedes as sufficient as the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury or his Counsell shall advise shall release to the sayd Earle of Shrewsbury and to as many persons as the sayd Earle shall name and appoynt in Writeing before the Feast of Sainct Michael th' Arch-Angel next comeing after the Date hereof which hath done laboured or spoken for the
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
Battel of Bosworth and upon the success of that Field knighted for his service He bare afterward much rule in his Country during that King's Reign being High Sheriff of Essex in the ninth Year thereof not long after which he departed this life leaving Issue by Mary the Daughter of Sir John Hurleston John Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis JOHN FITZ-LEWIS Lord of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships JOhn Fitz-Lewis being a Youth of singular expectation and coming by a course of Years to a fitness for such a Marriage as might continue his Family in a probability both of a fair succession and a plentiful Fortune a Match was to those ends contrived by the advice of his Friends wherein all useful purposes did concur in the person of Anne Lovell a beautiful Virgin the Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Lovell Knight but in the accomplishment thereof even on the fatal Wedding-Night by what miserable accident it is not said the house wherein the celebration was performed was set on fire the suddenness and fury whereof was such with the time of the Night and the effects of the preceding jollities as rendred it impossible to be extinguished till it had destroyed the Lovers the Guests and the Edifice wherein they did repose so as John perishing so unhappily without an Heir his Estate descended to his Sister Ely Fitz-Lewis ELY FITZ-LEWIS Lady of Westhornedon and other Lands and Lordships ELY Fitz-Lewis being left the fortunate Heir of an unhappy Brother who perished on his Wedding-Night became intitled thereby to a free and fair Estate in the County of Essex upon whom were suddenly cast the eyes of many Pretenders but Sir John Mordaunt afterwards Lord Mordaunt having at that time much interest in Court for divers services rendred by his Father and himself obtained her Wardship of King Henry the Seventh and gave her afterwards in Marriage to Sir John Mordaunt his eldest Son from whom the present Earl of Peterborow is descended LEWES Prince of France After King Lewis the Eight By a Noble English Virgin Sr. Lewis Fitzlewes Margaret of Essex Sr. Iohn Fitzlewes Eliz de Harpden Aubury de Vere the tenth Earle of Oxford Alice Filzwater Sr. Richard Fitzlewes Eliz de Baude Iohn Mountacute the 3d. Earle of Salisbury Maud Francoys Alice de Vereo Sr. John Fitzlewes Anne de Mountacute Sr. Henry Fitzlewes Eleonor de Beaufort Sr. Lewes Fitzlewes Margaret Stoner Eliz Fitzlewes Sr. Iohn Wingfeild Mary Fitzlewes Second Wife to Anthony Woddvill Earle of Rivers Sir Richard Fitzlewes Mary Hurlestone John Fitzlewes Anne Lovell Elly Fitzlewes Iohn 2d. Lord. Mordaunt GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS THAT WERE Lords of Westhornedon Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of FITZ-LEWIS OF WESTHORNEDON Lewis Prince of France Sir Lewis Fitz-Lewis Sir John Fitz-Lewis and Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis An antient Latine Pedigree found among the Evidences of Fitz-Lewis DOminus Ludovicus de Francia dum in Anglia moram fecit coronatus fuit habuit ex Philippa Filia cujusdam nobilis pulcherrima de qua erat perditissimus Dominum Ludovicum Fitz-Lewis cui Pater Matris qui praeter tres Sorores nullos habuit Heredes post recessum dicti Principis Francorum quòd spem Juvenis de virtute sua dederat reliquit ad sustentationem Manerium de Westhornedon in Comitatu Essexiae Iste Ludovicus floruit in tempore Henrici tertii ex Uxore sua Margareta de Essexia reliquit Haeredem Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui cum Baronibus militavit contra Edvardum secundum Bello peribat in Comitiva Comitis Lancastriae Filium tamen genuit ex Maria de Harpden Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui clementiâ Successoris ad Haereditatem praetentiones restitutus evasit ditissimus Maternis opibus colendissimus vixit linquendo Haeredem ex Uxore Agnete de Baude Dominum Johannem Fitz-Lewis qui virtute opibus ita erat spectabilis ut ab Alberico decimo Comite Oxoniae in Uxorem accepisse meruit Aliciam Filiam suam post obitum dictae Aliciae in alteram Uxorem Annam Filiam Johannis de Montacuto tertio istius nominis Comite Sarum quae fuit postea Ducissa de Exon ex quarum prima genuit Henricum Fitz-Lewis Johannem ex altera Elizabetham nuptam Johanni Wingfield de Comitatu Suffolciae Militi Dominus Henricus Fitz-Lewis Miles erat strenuissimus ita addictus Principibus Domûs Lancastriae ut Ducibus istius partialitatis charissimus semper existit cum eiisdem militavit eorum Fortunae fuit particeps tandem pro virtute bene meritis sibi data erat in Uxorem Eleanora Filia Edmundi de Beaufort Ducis de Somerset ex qua genuit Mariam Uxorem Anthonii de Woodville primi Comitis de Ripariis sed obiit sine Haerede Masculo unde sibi successit Dominus Ludovicus Fitz-Lewis Frater ejus qui fuit Haeres omnium Terrarum quas tenebat in feudo de qua non extant altera sed quòd duxit in Uxorem Margaretam Stonore ex qua genuit Dominum Richardum Fitz-Lewis qui Manerium de Westhornedon ac alias Terras nobiles tenuit Jure Haereditario post mortem Patris ad consanguineam ejus Mariam Comitissam de Ripariis tantummodo descenderunt Terrae illae quae Henrico Patris sui datae essent aut industriâ ejus vel propriis pecuniis partae Miles insignis fuit iste Richardus in suo tempore multósque labores pericula pro Rege suo Patria subivit tandem annorum satur quievit in Domino linquendo exitum ex Maria de Hurleston Johannem Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis Johannes Fitz-Lewis cui Natura formam dedit egregiam educatio indolem cùm perventus fuit ad aetatem quam idoneam Amici aestimârunt ad subeundum Matrimonii Jugum ut iis spes non deesset propagandi Familiam tam claram in Provincia tanti nominis oculos affines conjecerunt super Virginem omnimodo spectabilem formâ stirpe virtutibus quam elegerunt sicut materiam hujus Familiae futurae felicitatis Tractaverunt cum Patre Domino Roberto de Lovell Milite conclusis pactibus in Domo Patris infelicissimum celebrârunt Matrimonium quia post mediam Noctem omnibus somno immersis miserrimum erupit Incendium quod tam vorax fuit subitum violentum ut parvo tempore Domum Hospites cum Sponso miserrima Conjuge consumpsit sic ut Domina Ely Fitz-Lewis Soror unica hujus Johannis alibi tunc infirmitate detenta hujus causâ infortunii Haeres ditissima devenit nominis Armorum Haereditatis Fitz-Lewis Ely Fitz-Lewis ratione minoris aetatis Warda ob obitum Patris devenit Domini Regis qui ejus Custodiâ Johannem Dominum Mordaunt gratificavit qui in illo tempore spectabilem in Aula fuit ob egregia merita Patris sui versus Regem Coronam qui quidem Johannes eam in
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
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
one Estate for One and twenty Years of the said Mannor and Premises granted to Francis late Earl of Bedford Oliver late Earl of Bullingbrooke Sir Henry Compton and Sir Rowland Saint John to Commence immediately from and after the Decease of the said Countess Dowager for the raising of Four thousand Pounds for the Portion of the Lady Elizabeth Howard Daughter of the said Countess according to the Purport and true Meaning of One Indenture bearing Date the First Day of November in the Fourteenth Year of His now Majesty's Reign as by the said Indenture may appear And that the Uses Estates and Limitations herein before mentioned shall be Subject to and Charged with the said Rent-Charge of Three hundred Pounds per Annum and term of One and twenty years any thing in these Presents contained to the contrary notwithstanding In witness whereof the parties above named have to these present Indentures Interchangably set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above written E. PETERBOROW Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Tho. Farrer Will. Preston Sam. Holland A SUCCINCT GENEALOGY Of the HOUSE of MORDAUNT Justified by Antient and Extant Charters Publick Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs By ROBERT HALSTEAD The Arms of the House of Mordaunt were Argent a Cheveron Sable between Three Stars Waved of the same Of the Name Antiquity Descent Alliance Possessions Greatness Actions and Arms of the House of Mordaunt IN the Preface to these Genealogies there has been exposed to the Reader the Nature and Antiquity of Sur-names and the grounds causes and occasions upon which they were assum'd in general To ascribe why the Lords of this House took to themselves the Name of Mordaunt is not in my power but that they did so near Six hundred Years ago and have continued it to their descendants unto this very day will be as easie as to read the unquestioned Proofs shall be exposed upon that matter The obvious and natural conjecture will be the quality of the occasion where they first appeared an occasion of War Chivalry and Conquest a Souldier a younger Brother and a brave fellow set out to make a Fortune by adventures of Arms it was proper to such a one dare mortem to Wound Kill and Destroy his Enemy whence le Mordaunt which was the first Epithet assum'd by Osbert the beginner of that House might appear no unproper sobriquit for him that did deserve it The descent of this Osbert is not affirm'd to be certain neither by one of who detestes to advantage his undertaking by any thing he cannot prove but it is evident his Father Robert was a great deserver in the Conquest and that by the assistance he brought Duke William and the share he acquired as the reward of his labour He bore the illustrious appellation of de Sancto Aegidio or of Saint Giles which at that time was the Name of the Soveraign Earls and Princes of Tholouse of which House he was in all probability a Son a Brother or a near Relation and from his Brother Eustace the eldest Son of this Robert our Osbert did receive several noble provisions as the Lordship of Radwell that of Brayfield with Lands in Wahull in Lavendon and in other parts and for the Blood of the Gentlemen who were his descendants it has been so fortunately pure as never to have been mis-allyed since the first knowledge of the Family but the chiefs thereof have always Married into Names of great Authority and Nobleness as that of Fortis Alno Olney who were of the first Conquerors those of Wake L'Estrange Latimer Vere Darcy and Howard all of the prime Nobility And as they have taken Wives out of the greatest Families so they have given them to the chiefest Gentlemen and prime Houses of England to Strangeways to Fettyplace to Browns to Henningham to Mansell to Danvers to Radney to Nevill and to Howard To these circumstances has been added their felicity that by the Prudent Conduct of their Affairs and successful undertakings they have ever flourished in an eminent degree of Riches and opulency They had been before the time of the first Sir John Mordaunt Lords of great Mannors Lands and Lordships but from his time to which was design'd the exaltation of this Family and his Alliance with the House of Latimer his Sons with the Heir of Vere and his Grandsons with the Inheritrix of Fitz-Lewis The Riches and Patrimony of this House was such as there was scarce a Gentleman in England whose Estate was comparable to it After this as the occasion of their coming into this Kingdom was the Military Service of a victorious Prince so the Lords of this House have continued to serve divers of their Kings in their Wars they have served them likewise in their Councils they have deserved to be called into the supreme Dignity of the Peerage and thereby made hereditary Grandees Judges and Councellors in which they have remain'd for divers Ages There have been of them Privy Councellors to several of the greatest Kings Ministers of State Captains Ambassadors and Governours of Provinces And in all these qualities they have served without reproach So as if Antiquity of Original Illustrious Derivance Descent from noblest Blood great Alliances high Dignities and Employments worthy Actions and large Possessions be of Virtue to make a Family considerable there will be little cause for Envy to bark at my endeavouring to establish the Honour and Memory thereof according to what is due to the merit of a Name so Illustrious For the Arms of this House from the time they have been in use and born hereditarily in Families were Argent a Cheveron Sable between Three Stars Waved of the same OSBERT le MORDAVNT Lord of Radwell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER I. IN the Year 1066. against which Providence had prepared so great a change for the People and Government of England as did ensue by their subjection to the total Conquest of a Victorious Prince At that time among the other Hero's who joyn'd their hopes and assistance to the Fortunes of the famous William Duke of Normandy there was a Noble Knight called Robert of Saint Giles in the Latin Tongue Robertus de Sancto Aegidio who brought to his Service Fourscore Knights Milites out of the South parts of France and joyn'd himself to the Duke 's other Troops at the Imbarcation for this great undertaking Of this Robert of Saint Giles no more is extant of what he was than the assurance that the Soveraign Earls and Princes of Tholouse did all at that time use the Name and Appellation of Saint Giles or De Sancto Aegidio That the Attendance of Fourscore Kinghts was an Equipage suitable to a Prince Adventurer and that after his labors in this War he was rewarded by the generous Conqueror with great Lands and noble Possessions How long this Robert of Saint Giles lived or remain'd in this Kingdom we cannot tell but we find his Son Eustace of Saint
And Roger could not deny but that he was a Native of the said Edmond's Therefore it was concluded That Roger should receive no advantage by his Bill but remain at the mercy of Edmond Mordaunt Pro falso clamore suo Helena de Broc was the Wife of Edmond Mordaunt unto whom she was Married the Twenty seventh of Edward the Third She was the Daughter and one of the Heirs of Sir Ralph de Broc who was a Knight of a most Antient Descent and Lord of very fair and large Possessions All his Lands were upon his Decease divided between Helena Mordaunt and Agnes another of his Daughters the wife of Sir Henry de Brussels There did accrue to Edmond Mordaunt for the part of Helena his Wife in Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots with several Lands in Cambridge Treversham and Fulborne in Buckinghamshire diverse Lands in Elsburgh Bridsthorne Hardwick and Wedon Chesham and Aumundsham with sundry other in Hertfordshire and the entire Mannor of Shephaell She was a Noble Inheritrix and besides her Lands brought into the House of Mordaunt both the Blood and Arms of the Pirots and the Argentines two successions which fell unto her Family by the Heirs of those Names the first being Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Ralph Pirot who was Wife to Laurence de Broc her Grandfather the other the Mother of the same Elizabeth named Cassandra the sole Heir of Sir Giles of Argentine Their Issue Robert Mordaunt their only Son ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chicheley Shephaell and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER VIII ROBERT MORDAVNT after the Death of his Father had not only the Fortune of possessing a large and plentiful Inheritance but of enjoying it betimes he being hardly of full age when he came in succession thereunto He inherited in Bedfordshire the Lordship of Turvey that of Clifton and Chicheley with Lands in Elsburgh Wedon Hardwick Chesham Welpool and Aumundsham in the County of Bucks In Cambridgeshire half the Mannor of Mallots besides Lands in Treversham and Julborne And in Northamptonshire the Lordship of Yerdley besides the entire Mannor of Shephaell and other Lands in Hertfordshire It was the Fortune of this Robert Mordaunt to unite the Antient Lordship of Turvey which for the space of One Hundred and ninety five Years had till then been divided into Two Mannors and Jurisdictions by the Names of Mordaunt's Mannor and Ardres's Mannor ever since the Reign of King Richard the First when it was parted with the rest of the Alno's Lands between Alice and Sarah de Alno the Two Heirs of that House For in the Forty ninth of Edward the Third an exchange was made by Deed of Indenture between Thomas de Ardres and Robert Mordaunt in which the said Thomas gave and granted all his Lands Tenements and their appurtenances in Turvey to the said Robert in Fee and Exchange for all the Lands which Robert had in Shephaell which were of the inheritance of her Mother Helena de Broc This Robert Mordaunt had Married Agnes L'Estrange the Daughter and one of the Heirs of John L' Estrange that was Lord of Ampton Timworth and Brokeley and of Elizabeth who was Sister and Heir of William Botteler of Walden The other Daughter of John L' Estrange was Elizabeth that Married John Warren and by whose death without Issue the Lordships of Ampton Timworth Brokeley with that of Walden which was of those Bottelers Lands devolved entirely to Agnes Mordaunt and to the Heirs of her body Agnes Mordaunt after the Death of Robert her Husband Married again to Thomas de Fodringay as appears by a Deed bearing Date the Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle in the twentieth Year of Richard the Second wherein Thomas of Ardres granted to Thomas de Fodringay and Agnes his Wife a certain Annuity for term of the Life of the said Agnes in Exchange for her Dower in Shephaell The Issue of Robert Mordaunt and Agnes his Wife Robert Mordaunt Cassandra Mordaunt a Nun in the Monastery of Elueston ROBERT MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Clifton Chellington Brayfield Ampton Timworth Brokeley and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER IX ROBERT MORDAVNT the Third of his Name giving way to that Spirit which led him to the generous but uncertain applications of this life and being enclined to the War which flourished in that Martial Age he became a Favourite dependant upon that Famous Prince Edward Duke of York who was after slain at the Battel of Agincourt as appears by an Extant Deed where by Covenant he was with one William Mirefield retain'd to serve him in the Wars of France with a certain number of Archers and Lances He out-liv'd those Services and continued during the Civil Broils of his own Country an asserter of the Claim and Interest of the House of York Whether it were by the Expences incident to such undertakings or otherwise he proved a great Alienator of many noble Lordships and Possessions that descended to him by his Ancestors In the Sixth Year of King Henry the Sixth Agnes de Fodringay and Robert Mordaunt her Son released with Warranty all their right to the Mannor of Timworth in the County of Suffolk Dated the Tenth of February In the Eleventh of the said King he made away all his Lands in Elsburgh to Thomas Chaucer Esq Peter Fettyplace and Thomas Ramsey And in the seventeenth by a Deed bearing Date the Fourth of June he Alienated to one John Austin the Moiety of the Mannor of Mallots in Hinton in the County of Cambridge with its appurtenances and all the rest of those Lands which the said Robert held in the Towns and in the Fields of Hinton Cambridge Treversham and Julborne in the said County And lastly he sold in the same Year to Thomas Cheyney Esq all his Lands and Tenements in Chesham and Aumundsham Yet this King's Reign abounding in occasions of Expence and Troubles since it was never free from exhausting Wars abroad till it became the scene of more destructive Civil ones at home excuses may be render'd for what was unavoidable Notwithstanding he left a competent Estate to his Successor And Deceased in in the Twenty seventh Year of this King He had Married Elizabeth of Holdenby the Daughter of Robert Holdenby of Holdenby which Family was of an Antient standing in the County of Northampton and flourished at this time in very Noble Possessions for we find that Robert Holdenby the Brother of Elizabeth Mordaunt held the Mannors of Burton Brimmington and Ramston with Lands in Would and in Clipston in Guilden Morton Kilmersh and West-Haddon in Northampton Oxhampton Wepsmade in Dunstable and in Holdenby And this Elizabeth surviving Robert Mordaunt took to her Second Husband Robert Tanfield of Gayton in the County of Northampton Esquire The Issue of Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Lord of Turvey Maud Mordaunt Elizabeth Mordaunt WILLIAM MORDAVNT Lord of Turvey Chellington Clifton Brayfield Bottellers and other Lands and Lordships CHAPTER X. WILLIAM MORDAVNT after those wastes
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
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
a Brother to the Duke of Wirtenbergue was under the protection and care of the Crown of France by reason of the great merits of her Father's Services and it was believed would have stood fairer than any for its assistance to the preferment of this Match if that of the Dutchess of Guise and Princess of Modena did not take place She was of middle Stature Fair Complection with brown Hair the Figure of her Face turn'd very agreeably her Eyes Gray her Looks Grave but Sweet and in her person she had the motions of a Woman of Quality and well bred But above all she had the appearance of a Maid in the ripeness of her Youth of a Sanguine and Healthful Constitution fit to bring strong Children and such as might be like to live and prosper Although there was much modesty in all her behavior yet she was not scarce of her discourse and spoke well and pertinently to every thing His Lordship not being now unsatisfied with this interview and believing that except the Princess of Modena he had neither seen nor heard of any thing more proper for what might capacitate the person of a Wife he began to enquire of the Fortune might be expected with her But of that although some concern'd for her did give out That by several ways there might be expected from her Friends Fifty or Threescore Thousand Pounds yet he confessed he could never find any reasonable bottom upon which to build such an assurance Yet a Marriage being his chief business and a probability of Children he gave according to his Trust and the Duke's Command the truest Character he was able of her and her circumstances His Highness hereupon having a concurring account of this Princess from others he had charg'd with the Enquiry as well as his Lordship seem'd so satisfied with it as he gave order to the Earl of Peterborow to proceed in his application to the Princess and to give hopes to her and her Friends That he would send sudden orders to demand her in the usual Forms And from the earnestness of the Duke's Expressions he himself did believe he should in two or three Posts have been capacitated thereunto He obey'd and found every day new contentments in the conversation of the Princess so as he doubted not there would have risen from this commerce a satisfaction both to his Master's Interests and Enclination But on a sudden unexpected orders gave a change to this affair an Express brought directions to the Earl That leaving Paris privately with as little company as was possible he should repair incognito to Dusseldorpe the Residence of the Duke of Newburgh and that there he should try to get a fight of the Princess his Daughter who had been earnestly recommended to his Highness as a Princess fittest of any for his Alliance This was believ'd did proceed from the Service France did at that time expect from the Duke her Father whose Country and Troops were at that time adjacent to those parts of Flanders and Holland where the King made a very sharp War And it was earnestly supported by divers persons of much interest in our Court who had been formerly obliged or at present gain'd to promote the satisfaction of that Duke But the Earl had orders from His Royal Highness to give him a perfect Character of that Princess her Person as to what he could see of her Parts Manners and Enclinations as he could any ways learn with the reposition of so great a Trust as he did assure him if he found her not answering the Character had been given her he should have immediate Orders to return and to bring home the Princess of Wirtenbergue of whom we have spoke before The Earl who was nothing but Duty and Faithfulness to the Duke obey'd his new Orders with all the diligence imaginable he took Post accompanied only with an Italian Gentleman one Signior Varasani his Gentleman of the Horse and one that serv'd him in his Chamber He arrived in two days at Metts whence by Water he came to Cullen At the time Sir Lionel Jenkins and Sir Joseph Williamson were Embassadors Plenipotentiary at that City He did not intend to have seen these Ministers having no Orders to communicate nor Advice to take of them But walking alone in the Street after his arrival he met Sir Joseph in his Coach who without considering he was not in a condition to be publickly taken notice of light and complemented the Earl in the Street of which unseasonable respect his Lordship deliver'd himself by his desire that he would forbear it any farther But after this he did privately visit those Embassadors but without communicating his Business or Intentions He prepar'd then for his Voyage to Dusseldorpe pretending at the House where he lay a curiosity to see the Court and Habitation of a Soveraign Prince not above .......... from that City who had the Reputation of being Wise and Generous and to live in all the State and Order suitable to his condition and the greatness of his House The Master of the House provided him a convenient Guide acquainted with the Town he was to see and the ways and passages to it So one Morning the Earl his Companion the Seiur Varasani and too Servants Embarked upon the Rhine and in an ordinary Boat were carried down the River to the Walls of Dusseldorpe They were examined at the Gate and giving account that they were Strangers brought by curiosity to see the place were admitted and by a Souldier conducted to an Inn where they stay'd to repose themselves and take their measures for a farther proceeding They thereupon sent their Guide to enquire the method of approaching the Palace and the Prince who brought word There would be that day a greater difficulty than usual by reason the Prince and Court were to be employ'd in seeing an Anniversary Contest among the Citizens and other persons of that place which should soonest Shoot down the Papegay or Parrot a thing made in similitude of such a Bird from a very high Pole which was to be performed with much Method and Ceremony and the Victor to have the usual reward of his address But that before the beginning of the undertaking the Prince was to be entertained at Evening Service in the Jesuits Church with very rare Musick to which the Dutchess and Princess did likewise resort so as the Earl might have a fair view of them there and what else was considerable in the Court and that he would conduct them to a Station proper for that end This was readily accepted by his Lordship and his Companion who were by their Guide placed in a fair passage part of a Cloyster whereby they were to pass After some expectation the Duke arrived preceded with the State and Ceremony was suitable to a Soveraign Quality he had his Wife by the Hand the Princess follow'd and a considerable Train of Ladies and Cavaliers well dressed and in good order The Princess was
not well to be discern'd by reason of the Hoods were over her Face But passing after into the body of the Church the Earl had a farther view into a Gallery above where the Duke sate to hear the Service The Office and Musick at an end the Court retir'd in the order it had come and all went out to be spectators of the Shooting but his Lordship retired to his Inn not being in a condition or desiring to be seen publickly abroad Near six of the Clock that divertisement had an end and our Guide having acquainted some under Officer of the Court that Two Gentlemen of the English Embassadors Train that were at Cullen and had come to see that Town were desirous to have a sight of the Court and do Reverence to the Prince he was told That he might bring them They came then to the Palace under his conduct and being met by a Gentleman in the Inner-Court he took them out of the Hands of the Townsman and carried them up into a large Room where after some attendance they were led into another whereinto the Prince came unto them The Duke of Newburgh seem'd to be at that time near Forty Years of Age of competent Stature well shap'd well dress'd and of a most obliging behavior He had a Suit after the French fashion of a Grey Stuff with Diamond Buttons a Diamond Hatband and a Diamond Sword and about his Neck in a Black Ribbon hung the Order of the Golden Fleece He did receive their Complements with much Courtesie which they paid with all Respect and of himself began to entertain them with divers Questions about their Journey the Embassadors and proceeding of the Treaty at Cullen and afterwards insensibly fell upon England the Court thereof the Princes and its other concerns He enquir'd concerning the Duke of York and his Marriage where was Monsieur de Peterborow and if he continued at Paris after the disappointment of the Treaty of Inspruk to all which questions having been answered he said afterward He heard the Duke was like to be Married to an English Lady they assur'd him they heard of no such thing At last he took his leave of them with much civility and when he was departed they ask'd the Gentleman if they might have the farther favor of seeing the Dutchess and the young Princess who having told them he would enquire he left them and after some stay return'd to let them know they should be admitted Towards which they were carried and introduc'd into an upper Room where seem'd to expect them the Dutchess of Newburgh accompanied with the young Princess her eldest Daughter The Earl made her his complements with the greatest respect of which he was capable whereunto her Highness as he was told in her own Tongue made all suitable returns but said That being not vers'd in the French Tongue she defired her Daughter the Princess might interpret between them at which the Princess did approach and help'd to carry on the conversation and with intention as he thought to shew her capacity in that Language They all by that time as he had reason afterward to believe suspecting the Earl of being some other person and having more design in his little Voyage than was pretended The Dutchess of Newburgh was a Princess in his Opinion of about five or six and thirty years of a middle stature light brown Hair enclining to be Fat great characters of goodness in her countenance and was such a one as might be proper for a good Wife without qualities over subtile or Courtly as might be found in the spirits of Ladies bred in France or Italy The Princess her Daughter was suppos'd to be about Eighteen years of Age of middle stature she had likewise very light Hair and was of an exceeding Fair Complexion her Eyes were of a light blueish gray the turn of her Face more round than oval that part of her Neck he saw was white as Snow but upon the whole at those Years she was enclining to be Fat In discourse she render'd to his Lordship readily her Mother's sence and spoke her own aptly enough She had the appearance of one that might be proper enough for a good Wife and that possibly was fit for Generation But the great genius did not appear of Business or Conversation for which she has been praised since she came to sit upon the greatest Throne of Europe After a due time the Earl of Peterborow did from hence too take his leave with all the circumstances of respect were due to persons of that Quality But at his departure he found himself much more attended by Gentlemen and with greater respect than at his arrival And he was pressed to stay Supper by the Chief Officers of the House even to a degree of being like to have it imposed upon him But his Resolution of not receiving any farther Engagement made him in the civillest manner he could break thorow all that and got him liberty to retire to his Inn where after he had made a very ill Supper there came to enquire for him under pretence of a Visit from a Countryman a young Gentleman one Hamilton that wore a Gold Key by his side and was said to be much in the Duke's favor and of his Bed-Chamber This Mr. Hamilton seem'd every way to try what he could get out of the Earl and by his discourse his Lordship perceiv'd his proceedings had puzled the Court But withal That they were suspicious of his satisfactions by reason his Lordship declined to receive greater favors from them than was just necessary however he departed civilly and his Lordship to his rest The Earl was impatient to be gone in the Morning and having a Waggon ready the ordinary way of Travelling in that Country he came by Land to Cullen whence his Lordship immediately dispatch'd an Express for England with the success and account of his Journey In answer whereunto his Lordship had immediate Orders to return with all speed to Paris with an assurance That at his arrival there he should meet directions to demand to marry and to bring home the Princess Mary Anne of Wirtenbergue As has been said there were a great party in the Court of England engaged to promote the Marriage of Newburgh but there was another that moved strongly to promote Madmoiselle D' Alboeuf Daughter to the Duke of that Name who was a Cadet Prince of the House of Lorain which was the Dutchess of Portsmouth who was then and continued to his end the favorite Mistress of King Charles II. and she who wanted neither cunning nor Counsel considering the transitoriness of humane condition and particularly of humane affections and not knowing how soon her retreat might be necessary into her own Country did wisely endeavor to oblige therein and make all the Friends she could So to engage the House of Lorain and Boullion she had wrought with the King not only to consent to the Marriage but to order the Earl
desire of seeing Italy so as there was no occasion for her Highness or any others concerning themselves in his motions The Gentlemen departed and the Earl immediately gave an account to the King and the Duke his Master of what had happen'd and the discouragement he had met and though he directed his Servants and Equipage to remain at Lyons till farther orders yet he resolv'd himself to proceed as far as Turnin where resided an Embassador of France who had the reputation of presiding over the French affairs in Italy to whom he might communicate what had happen'd and to take some measures with him about his farther proceeding He repaired immediately to the Embassador's House after his arrival at that City and enquired of him Whether he had any orders to assist him in the affair in question wherein the World esteem'd the King his Master the chief mover The Embassador assur'd his Lordship he had never been made acquainted with that business and that if his Master were concern'd in it it was likely he design'd to send some Man of Quality on purpose who would be particularly instructed in the management thereof But he said that to his particular surprise he had two days before receiv'd a Letter from the Dutchess of Modena wherein she pray'd him That if his Lordship came to Turin and did confer or advise with him upon that matter he would signifie to his Lordship an impossibility in the accomplishing of it for the reasons had been before expressed in the Letter his Lordship had at Lyons received from Nardi This second appearance of an averse proceeding began very much to discourage the Earl of Peterborow and after he had given an account thereof to the Court he was in doubt what to do or how to make any farther advances But the French Embassador who though unimploy'd in this affair did now believe his Master much concern'd in bringing it about advised the Earl to a little patience and that continuing the pretence of a casual Traveller he would advance his Journey down the Po to an agreeable City called Plaisance where he might find occasion to remain and entertain himself till he had farther orders The Earl follow'd his Counsel arriv'd at the place agreed on and lodged himself as conveniently as he could to the appearance of a private Traveller but for all his caution the Second or Third day after he came to Plaisance one of the Servants brought him word one Morning how there was a Gentleman desired the favor of being admitted to him who came from the Dutchess of Modena The Earl sent immediately to have him introduced and it proved the same Nardi himself who had written the first Letter to his Brother at Lyons He had the appearance of an ingenious Man who spoke well and was practised in all Italian civilities He presented now to his Lordship a Letter from the Dutchess her self wherein she wrote That having heard of his Journey into those parts with the end and causes thereof she thought it her part before a great King and his Minister should expose themselves in the demand of a thing which could not be accomplish'd out of respect to them to manifest the reasons of it that she might be excused from seeming any ways the cause of their dissatisfaction There was likewise in her Letter repeated what was contain'd in hers to the Embassador with something more but to all she added That indeed there were other Princesses besides her Daughter to one of which if the King his Master did think fit it was possible he might be admitted to address himself And however in the mean time if his Lordship would come and divert himself in that Court she should esteem her self favour'd by his reception and he should be very welcome The Earl after having excused himself to the Dutchess from the trouble his coming into those parts seem'd to cause unto her Highness and thanked her for the Honor she did in the rest with a fair excuse he told her again There was no cause for the first because he was but a private Traveller without design or orders to disquiet any body with pretences were not agreeable to them nor indeed with any of that nature which might answer the latter also So Nardi return'd with a seeming satisfaction at that time But the next day his Lordship receiv'd a Letter from the French Embassador at Turnin whereby he acquainted him That there was now by the King of France's Order upon the way the Marquess of Angeao design'd by his Majesty to come with most pressing desires to the Dutchess for a consent and conclusion to this Match and to assist his Lordship with all the offices and endeavours imaginable This did much satisfie the Earl of Peterborow if on the neck thereof there had not come an Express out of England to assure him of the same as to the part of Monsieur d' Angeao but with direction That when he came instead of the young Princess from whom they took it all the difficulties did arise they should demand an Aunt of hers which in all manner of circumstances was inferior to her and from divers considerations improper for the Duke's occasions This sudden change in the Affair did infinitely mortifie the Earl whose Head turn'd round under this variety of uncertainties But he had but to obey and be patient And now some days after came Nardi again with new Complements from the Dutchess and Expressions how glad that Court should be if the Honor was supposed to be intended to the Daughter might be transferr'd on any other Princess of that Family for it seems they had been enform'd that something of that kind had been listned to in France The Earl that was in expectation of his French assistant who was not yet near continued still upon his first guard owning no Orders at all but alledged the cause of his stay to be a little Indisposition which he expected should soon pass and return'd the Dutchess his Duty and humble Thanks for the honor of her Civilities About a week after this another new Express came out of England countermanding again the last directions and assuring the sudden arrival of Monsieur d' Angeao who was to use the uttermost power of the King of France's mediation in demand of the Princess's Daughter and no other Whereof if at last they should come to fail the Earl was then commanded to return to Paris without any farther delay Accordingly about a week after the Marquess of Angeao came and the Morning of his arrival hastned to Visit and Complement the Earl at his Lodging acquainting him That his Commission was to assist him in his Negotiation with all the offices of France which he would improve with his best industry This Marquess was a Man of good appearance very cunning and bred to all the Arts and Confidence of Courts It was soon concerted between them That this Envoy should go first to Modena having had formerly some acquaintance with
that Dutchess when as one of the Cardinal 's Neices she remain'd in France and there try the power of his Reasons and Perswasions to which if the Dutchess proved inflexible the Earl from the knowledge thereof might return without exposing either himself or his Character And if he did succeed it would make way for his Lordship to declare his pretences to assume his Character and be receiv'd into that Court with the Honor and Respect due to his Dignity and Business The Marquess departed the next Morning and with such dexterity did demonstrate to the Princes of that House their true interest both in constantly deserving the Protection of the King his Master and the Alliance of England that all the Court and Council became desirous of it except a cunning Jesuit that was Confessor to the Dutchess and indeed her chief Minister one Father Garimbert that was a Subject born of the Duke of Parma's and always much influenced by that Family This Garimbert whether it were that he desired to make the Match with the other Princess who was Daughter to a Lady of the House of Parma or else that he was engaged as some did suspect to cross this Match at the secret desire of that Family who thought so Royal an Alliance would advance a Neighbour Prince in Honor and Power above that balance whereunto they wish'd it should be kept unto their own Italian Princes being not only very jealous and emulous of their Neighbors but subtle too He did all he could to make averse unto it both the Dutchess and the Princess her self But the reason of the thing was so strong in it self as at last it did over-rule the Dutchess and all that were concern'd in her Service and Councels The Marquess of Angeao wrote then to the Earl of Peterborow how all difficulties being overcome he might now take off the mask and advance to Modena where his addresses would be receiv'd and the Dutchess wrote to him also to the same effect with all the respectful Invitation that was suitable They declar'd there remain'd now only one difficulty which was in obtaining a Dispensation from the Pope for Celebration of a Marriage with a Catholick Princess to a Prince not declar'd of the same Religion of which notwithstanding they did not seem to doubt But the Earl not knowing the delays or even the repture might proceed from this pretence refused to appear publickly in that Court till that difficulty were overcome but consented to come privately thither where he might incognito see and converse with the Princes and their Ministers The Abbot of Angeao Brother to the Marquess being gone to Rome to negotiate the Dispensation with his Holiness and the Cardinal Nephew in the mean time His Lordship advanced then privately to Modena and about a Mile out of the Town was met by Nardi the under Secretary with a Coach and Six Horses into which the Earl being receiv'd he was carried into the City and set down at the Palace of ............ who was Brother to the Bishop of Modena of which he was put in possession in the name of the Dutchess there to remain till his Lordship should think fit to appear in publick and assume his Character The Earl did expect to have had a House where he might have lived at his own Expence and under the care and government of his proper Officers But he found there several appartments all nobly furnish'd for himself and the rest of his followers according to the quality of every Man and each Office full of the Dutchess's Servants with Provisions suitable for keeping a noble House and at the time of Supper there was a Table for himself another for his Steward and superior Attendants with a third for Livery-Men and others all nobly provided with that plenty and magnificence as at first did not please his Lordship seeming contrary to his intentions of being private and giving cause of discourse to Men of a proceeding that was not ordinary The Earl told Nardi That this was contrary to what he had desired but he reply'd That though the Dutchess in publick at his Lordship's instance omitted to pay him the respects that were due to him yet she was not tyed from serving him her own way in all the accomodations were necessary to his living and subsistance wherein he would have found difficulty his Servants being strangers and wanting the advantage of the Language In the mean time the Abbot was at work in his Negotiation at Rome to procure a Dispensation the Earl of Peterborow was receiv'd incognito to the sight and conversation of the Dutchess He was led thither the first time by Nardi alone who fetch'd him up to the Palace in a private Coach and by a back way led him up into an appartment where he found the Dutchess standing with her Back to a Table whom he approach'd with the Respect was due to a Soveraign Princess in her own House she received him likewise with much courtesie and Chairs being set the Earl began to expose the true cause of his coming and how he was furprized to find a difficulty in a thing the World judged to be so advantageous to all the Parties The Dutchess did seem to excuse her self much upon the aversion her Daughter had to a Married life and the great desire she had to be Religious she said likewise That the Princess was young and of a Constitution not very strong and that besides the Italian Princes depending much upon the reputation of Zeal for the Catholick Religion there would be difficulties in obtaining a Dispensation for an Alliance with a Prince though never so great that was not declar'd of the same Church let the Opinion of his true Faith be what it would To every particular of these his Excellency answer'd what he thought proper and so as her Highness confessed to have appeased the greatest difficulties of her own thoughts and so much as if the Abbot's Negotiation in obtaining the Dispence did prove successful she knew not but that they might proceed to a happy conclusion This first Conversation ended with the Earl's desire of being favour'd with a sight of the young Princess whose possession he had so long thought necessary for his Master's happiness and the Dutchess's having promised it for the succeeding Evening So he retired home in the same manner and way as he arrived But now from Rome there was advice by the Abbot of Angeao of great difficulties that arose in the consultations of this Affair The French Embassador the Duke d' Estrée favour'd the Marriage with all the Power of the French Faction so did the Cardinal Barbarin and the other Friends and Allies of the House of Esté But his Holiness himself was very averse and Cardinal Altieri who was the governing Nephew a profest and violent opposer Various pretences were alledged for excuse of this obstinacy but the true cause was the jealousie of the See of Rome concerning any encrease of Greatness to the
or the Bishop of Duresme our Secretary before the Feast of Saint John Baptist next coming at the farthest like as we have semblably written to all Lords Knights Esquires and Gentlemen of every Shire within this our Realm and therefore fail ye not to accomplish the premises as ye tender our honour and the surety of us and of our Realm and Subjects so and in such wise that by our preparation of a good number of able Men we may understand your towardly mind to do unto us service which shall be remembred according to your deserts and these our Letters shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalf A Letter from King Henry the Eight to John Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved John Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet ye well So it is upon the even of Philip and Jacob last passed a great number of insolent Apprentices and malicious Journey-men of their sensual Appetites and rancorous Dispositions against Aliens and Strangers Artificers and others Inhabited within our City of London suddainly assembled themselves within our said City in the night time under colour of Maying breaking up entring and robbing the houses of sundry French and Dutch men making also great Comminations to other Strangers to the marvellous Inquietation and Commotion of our said City and Disturbances of our Peace within the same And albeit the same Commotion and Rebellious Assembly by the Mayor Sheriffs and other substantial and well disposed Citizens with and by the Policies Powers and Assistance of the Noble Men and others of our Council was not only forthwith repressed and pacified but also a great Number of the Malefactors and Offenders taken and according to our Laws and their Demerits openly convicted and put to execution so that it is now throughly pacified and put in Quietness our Lord be thanked Yet we thought right expedient to advertise you thereof as well for the Declaration of the Truth in putting all Sinister and Seditious Bruits to silence if any such shall be made by indisposed Persons as also that ye by your Wisdom should not only foresee and have good espial in the place and Countries near adjoyning to you to know the disposition of our Subjects if upon untrue reports they should be stirred to any semblable Commotions by perverse Councel against Merchants Strangers or upon any other ground or cause But also by your wisdom and power with the assistance of other faithful Servants and Subjects in these parts forthwith to repress the same by taking as well the principal mover and stirrers thereof as also the offenders accompanying them for such unlawful intent and purpose committing them to Ward And also advertising us thereof with all speedy diligence as our special Trust is in you and as ye intend to do unto us acceptable service and pleasure to be remembred hereafter accordingly Given under our Signet at our Maner of Richmond the Third day of May. An Award between the Earl of Shrewsbury and John Mordaunt concerning the Maner of Drayton TO all Christian People to whom this present Writing Indented shall come hear or see Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Two of the Kings Justices send greeting in our Lord. Whereas there hath been divers Variances and Debates moved and had between the Right Honourable Lord George Earl of Shrewsbury on the one Partie and John Mordaunt Esquire and Elizabeth his Wife one of the Cousins and Heirs to the Right Honourable Edward late Earl of Wiltshire on his Mothers side that is to say by Constance Mother of the said Earl and Daughter and Heir of Henry Greene of Drayton in the County of Northampton Esquire and Humphrey Brown Esquire late Husband to Amey and George Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Son and Heir to the same Amey another Cousin and another of the Heirs of the said Earl of Wiltshire after the form aforesaid and Sir Wistan Brown Knight and John Brown his Son and Heir apparent and Audrey his Wife the third Cousin and Heir to the same Earl after the manner abovesaid on the other Partie of and upon the Right Title Reversion and Possession as well of the foresaid Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances as of all other Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Northampton or elsewhere which late were the said Constance's or to the foresaid Henry Greene or to any other person or persons to the use of them or the other of them Which Maners Lands and Tenements the foresaid Earl of Shrewsbury claimed by a Will supposed to be made by the said Earl of Wiltshire by which Will the foresaid Earl of Wiltshire should will to the said Earl of Shrewsbury all his Fee simple Land Whereupon the foresaid Parties have compromitted themselves to abide the Award Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Robert Brudenell and Richard Elliot Arbitrators indifferently named by and between the foresaid Parties to Award Ordain and Deem as well of and upon the Premises as for and upon all manner of Evidences Charters Escripts Writings and Amuniments concerning the Premises or any part of them and of all manner of Actions Suits Quarrels and Demands had or moved between the foresaid Parties or their Servants or Friends before the date of these presents concerning the Premises And we the foresaid Arbitrators taking upon us the authority and power to Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises calling before us the Counsels of the foresaid Parties hearing and seeing their Titles Answers Replications Evidences Proves and all other their Allegiances concerning their foresaid Titles and Interess by good deliberation and by consent of the said Parties Award Ordain and Deem of and upon the Premises in manner and form following that is to say Forasmuch as the foresaid John Mordaunt Sir Wistan Humphrey Brown George and John Brown have shewed to us the said Arbitrators a Will supposed to be made by the same Earl of Wiltshire and Sealed with his Seal in which Will he revoked all former Wills and willed that same Will to stand in his full strength and virtue and for his last Will. And in that Will there is no clause whereby the same Earl of Shrewsbury should have any of his Maners Lands or Tenements as by the same more plainly appeareth And also they have shewed unto us fair and sufficient Deeds and other Writings proving the aforesaid Maner of Drayton and other the said Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be given in Tayle to the Ancestors of the said Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire who had and enjoyed the same by reason of the said Tayles and the foresaid Elizabeth and George Brown and Audrey be Cousins and next Heir to the same Constance Mother to the said Earl of Wiltshire and to the same Earl on his Mothers side and heritable to the foresaid Maners and other the Premises by reason of the said Tayles Wherefore we Award
or good Cause of Breach herein I have not gone so far but as yet I may return by your Lordships better Advice I have sent you again the Book of Articles and somewhat added by Cousin John Yate unto them if your Lordship thinketh not these sufficient I shall desire your Lordship to add more unto them which being but reasonable I trust Mr. Denton will assent thereto And what your further pleasure is herein I shall defire your Lordship to certifie by your Letters by this bearer my Servant And further to disclose your whole mind herein to Mr. Denton at his next repair unto your Lordship whereby ye shall bind me to pray for you I would have seen your Lordship before this if I had not been letted by Sickness But I intend by God's Grace shortly to wait upon you In the mean time I shall desire your Lordship and my good Lady my Mother of your Blessings Thus our Lord send you both long Life From Besellesly the Tenth day of November by your Obedient and Loving Daughter Margaret Fettyplace A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved Counsellor the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That where upon the special Zeal and Affection which we bear to the Common-Wealth of this our Realm and Furniture of the same with some more Store if it shall please God of our lawful Posterity we did lately at the Suit and Contemplation of some of our Nobles and Counsel resolve eftsoons to Marry and have thereupon concluded by God's Grace a Marriage between Us and the most Excellent Princess the Lady Anne of Cleves-Juliers Forasmuch as we suppose that the same Dame Anne shall shortly arrive at our Town of Calice to be Transported unto this our Realm for the consummation of the said Marriage Considering that it shall be requisite and necessary both for our Honour and for the Honour of our said Realm That she shall be Honourably received and met at sundry places at the said arrival We have named and appointed you to be one of these Noble Personages whom we have thought meet in this affair to attend upon Us or to accompany such others of our Nobles and Counsel as shall meet her before she shall come to our Presence Wherefore we shall desire and pray you to put your self in such order as you may be at our City of London the Eighth Day of December there to know our further pleasure concerning the place of your Attendance bringing with you honestly furnished Twenty Servants wherein you shall do unto us acceptable service Given under our Signet at Westminster the Four and twentieth day of November A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King RIght trusty and welbeloved we greet you well Letting you witt That minding earnestly to have a Marriage concluded between our Trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Humphrey Ratclif Knight Son to our Right trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin and Counsellor the Earl of Sussex Great Chamberlain of England and Mistress Rich Neice and Heir to our trusty and welbeloved Servant Sir Michael Fisher Knight Albeit we doubt not of the conformity of the said Sir Michael having written our mind and pleasure to him in that behalf yet knowing that the same taking you for his assured Friend will be much advised by you in this and other his private affairs We have thought meet not only to signifie this our purpose and pleasure unto you but also to desire and pray you at this our especial Contemplation to extend your Favour and good Advice to the same in such sort as we may perceive that you tender our Pleasure according to the good Expectation we have of you accordingly Given under our Signet at our House of Hampton-Court the Second day of March the Two and thirtieth Year of our Reign Alliance between Mordaunt and Cheyne ARticles of Agreement made the Twenty third day of October the Three and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King Henry the Eighth between John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of the one Party and Robert Cheyne Esquire on the other Party of and for a Marriage by the Grace of God to be had between Winefred Mordaunt Daughter of the said Lord and John Cheyne Son and Heir apparent to the said Robert First The said Lord to apparel his said Daughter the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The said Robert to apparel his said Son the day of the Marriage at his costs and charges Item The costs and charges of the said Marriage and for two days after to be be at the costs and charges of the said Lord the said Robert to find Dishes of Fowl at his pleasure Item The said Robert shall make Estate of certain Closes parcel of a Pasture called Hellesthorp in the Parish of Drayton and Wyning in the County of Buckingham to the value of Twenty Pounds by the Year to the said John and Winefred to have to them during the Life of Margaret Cheyne Widow Mother to the said Robert Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of certain Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Six Pounds fourteen Shillings parcel of the Maner of Grove in the County of Buckingham to have to them during the life of the said Margaret Item That the said Robert shall make Estate to the said John and Winefred of his Maners of Drayton Beauchamp and all his Lands and Tenements in Drayton Beauchamp in the County of Buckingham which Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances the said Robert promiseth to be of the clear yearly value of Forty Pound over all yearly Reprises and Charges and of the Maner of Cuggenho in the County of Northampton Which Maners Lands and Tenements together shall be to the yearly value of Sixty Pounds to have to them and to their Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten by the said John And for lack of such Issue to remain to the Heirs Males of the said Robert That is to say The said Maner of Drayton with the Appurtenances of the yearly value of Sixty Pounds immediatly after the Death of the said Margaret Mother to the said Robert and Twenty Pounds in Cuggenho after the Death of the said Robert Also it is agreed That the said John shall pay yearly to the said Robert his Father as much Money of the Issues of the Fruits of the said Maner of Drayton as the said Maner shall amount above the clear yearly value of Fifty Marks during the life of the said Robert Item The said Robert shall leave to the said John in Possession Reversion and Use after the decease of the said Margaret his Mother Mary his Neice and John Cheyne Esquire his Brother and Robert Maners Lands and Tenements in the Counties of Buckingham
Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Ducis Et illa remiserunt quietum clamaverunt de ipsis Johanne Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus ipsius Ducis in perpetuum Et pro hac Recognitione Remissione quieta Clamatione Fine Concordia iidem Dux Elianora concesserunt praedictis Johanni Willielmo praedicta Visum franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis Et illa iis reddiderunt in eadem Curia Habendum tenendum eisdem Johanni Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi in perpetuum Reddendo inde praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus ipsius Ducis annuatim tres solidos ad duos anni terminos videlicet ad festa Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Paschae equis portionibus solvendos Et praedicti Johannes Willielmus concedunt pro se haeredibus suis quòd si contingat praedictum redditum trium solidorum à retro fore ad aliquod dictorum festorum quo solvi debeat non solutum tunc bene licebit praedictis Duci Elianorae haeredibus assignatis ipsius Ducis in omnia terras tenementa ipsorum Johannis Willielmi eorum alterius in Turveia praedicta intrare distringere districtiones sic captas abducere asportare effugare penes se retinere quousque de redditu praedicto arreragiis ejusdem sibi fuerit plenariè satisfactum persolutum Et praeterea iidem Dux Elianora concesserunt pro se haeredibus ipsius Elianorae quòd ipsi warrantizabunt acquietabunt defendent praedicta Visum franciplegii Assisam panis cervisiae Catalla Waiviata Straiata Felonum Fugitivorum Utlagatorum Deodandorum Thesaurum inventum cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta praefatis Johanni Willielmo haeredibus ipsius Willielmi contra omnes homines in perpetuum Quae omnia ad requisitionem Johannis Mordaunt militis Domini Mordaunt tenore praesentium duximus exemplificanda In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum nostrum ad Brevia in Banco praedicto sigillandum deputatum praesentibus apponi fecimus Teste E. Montague apud Westmonasterium duodecimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri tricesimo septimo Wellisborn An Acquittance or Bill from Robert Cheyne to the Lord Mordaunt for Four hundred and fifty Marks THIS Bill made the Twelfth day of April the Thirty seventh Year of the Reign of our most dread Soveraign Lord Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God King of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith and in Earth of the Church of England and also of Ireland Supream Head Witnesseth That I Robert Cheyne Esquire have received the day and Year above-written of John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford One hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England in full Satisfaction Contentation and Payment of Four hundred pounds to be due to me the said Robert at the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof And also in full Contentation Satisfaction and payment of Four hundred and fifty Marks due to me the said Robert for Marriage had and solemnized between John Cheyne my Son and Heir apparent and Winefred one of the Daughters of the said Lord as by certain Indentures of Covenants of Marriage bearing date the Seventeenth Day of November the Six and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord made between the said John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt on the one party and me the said Robert Cheyne on the other Party amongst other things more plainly may appear Of the which Summ of One hundred Marks in full Contentation Satisfaction and Payment of the said Hundred pounds and of all the said Four hundred and fifty Marks I the said Robert do knowledge and confess my self by these presents to be well and truly Satisfied Contented and Paid by the said Lord And thereof and of every part thereof do Acquit Discharge and Release the said John Mordaunt Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Executors and every of them by these presents In Witness whereof to this present Bill I the said Robert have put my Seal and Subscribed my Name the said Twelfth Day of April above-specified Robert Cheyne A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Henry R. By the King TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And whereas it is come unto our knowledge That sundry Persons as well Religious as Secular Priests and Curates in their Parishes and other places of this our Realm do daily asmuch as in them is set forth and extol the Jurisdiction and Authority of the Bishop of Rome otherwise called the Pope sowing their Seditious Pestilent and false Doctrine praying for him in the Pulpit and making of him a God to the great Deceit Illuding and Seducing of our People and Subjects bringing them thereby into Error Sedition and evil Opinions more preferring the said Laws Jurisdiction and Authority of the said Bishop of Rome than the most Holy Laws and precepts of Almighty God We therefore minding not only to provide an Unity and Quietness to be had and continued amongst our People and Subjects but also greatly coveting and desiring them to be brought to a Perfection and knowledge of the meer Verity and Truth and no longer to be seduced nor blinded with any such superstitious and falle Doctrine of an Earthly Usurper of God's Law We will therefore and command you That where and whensoever ye shall find apperceive know or hear tell of any such Seditious Persons that in such wise do Spread Teach Preach and set forth any such pernitious Doctrine to the Exaltation of the power of the said Bishop of Rome bringing thereby our People and Subjects into Error Grudge and Murmuration that ye without delay do Apprehend and take them or cause them to be Apprehended and taken and so committed to Ward there to remain without Bail or Mainprise until upon your Advertisement thereof to us or our Council ye shall receive answer of our further Pleasure in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of reenwich the Tenth Day of April An Act of John Lord Mordaunt by which he does constitute his Proxies to the Parliament the Duke of Somerset the Lord Paulet and the Lord Russel PAteat universis per praesentes quod quidem Ego Johannes Mordaunt miles Dominus Mordaunt virtute Brevis cujusdam à regia Majestate mihi directi ad apparendum personalitèr interessendum in Parlamento suo inchoato apud Westmonasterium quarto die Mensis Novembris Anno Regni ejusdem Domini Regis primo summonitus fuerim justis legitimis causis in praesentiarum impeditus Regiae etiam Majestati ex parte mea declaratis à sua Regia Majestate vicissim