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
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
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
being incognito would not be perswaded from personally paying her his Complements and those respects which a General Reputation did declare were due to her Royal Qualities He made her then a visit in the Forms under all the state to himself and with all the consideration to her that could be possible This drew on a necessity of a Visit from her Highness to the Queen and indeed she was receiv'd at Versailles by their Majesties with all imaginable circumstances of Honor and Consideration and there entertain'd with that Royal profusion and magnificence accustomed from that great Monarch towards such Guests and on such occasions The Queen of France return'd the visit of her Royal Highness And this afterwards drew on the consideration of receiving and giving visits to the other great Princesses of the Royal. House wherein was much circumspection to be had about Punctilio's and Formalities But being in the King of France's House the Marriage made upon his account and his Favours continually employ'd upon all concern'd in this Affair it was thought but a just and necessary return to give unto those of his Royal Blood what respects could be paid without lessening the Dutchess of York or practising any undue condescentions Mediums were then found and expedients for all pretences visits were made by Madmoiselle Madmoiselle de Montpensier and Madame de Guise and repay'd to them again after which and the receipt of very Royal Presents from the King her Royal Highness began her Journey from Paris on the _____ of October was defray'd by the King's Officers till she came on board the King of England's Yachts which attended her at Calice and in all the Provinces and Towns she passed she was met and received by the Governours and Magistrates as if she had been the Queen of France To Calice she came at last and there in company of her Mother her Uncle and all that came with her out of Italy Embark'd in the Katherine Yacht whence in few hours they arrived at Dover upon the Sands whereof the Duke her Husband did attend her and upon her landing she took possession of his Heart as well as of his Arms and was thence conducted by him to her lodging After she had reposed her self his Royal Highness that had provided so to confirm this matter as the malice of any Age to come should have no pretence to call it into Question led out his Dutchess into the great Room before his Bed-chamber and there in presence of all the Lords who had attended him from London of all the Country Gentlemen who were come to see him and what it could contain of the Citizens of Dover he Married again his Wife after the forms of the Church of England by the hands of Dr. Nathanael Crew at this time Bishop of Durham After which and that they had Supp'd together they were lawfully put to Bed for the final consummation of this undertaking And here the Earl of Peterborow ended this great service which through so many difficulties brought to the Duke the fairest Lady in the World and to England a Princess of the greatest Example and Vertue This little Court the second day after the Marriage began their journey to London where by the King the Queen and the Loyal party of the Court they were receiv'd with the countenance and satisfaction honest Men could expect But clouds hung upon the brows of many others who had a mind to punish what they could not hinder and great device there was how to mortifie the Earl of Peterborow that had prov'd the instrument of bringing a Popish Princess into England Great wait was set upon it by some Eminent persons But his Lordship having had the King's Commission for all he did they found there was nothing to be wrought upon it without attacking the King's Prerogative in that part and so though the Parliament began to sit within two days the greatest effect of all the noise came to end but in a Libel What passed in this Parliament is the business of another story and how it came to be dissolv'd but when it was so here did soon appear that great conjuncture where on a sudden his Royal Highness took a resolution to leave the practice and profession of the Church of England Upon what grounds this was resolv'd and with whose concurrence is yet a secret and a mystery But from hence his open enemies took occasion to act against him with greater assurance and his private ones to declare themselves more freely than they had done before He did not at first proclaim he was a Roman Catholick but by little and little not denying he was such and having left the exercise of all his charges to avoid the Oaths it became an uncontested conclusion he was of that perswasion The succeeding Spring and Summer proved full of domestick contrivances great effects of Faction did appear The Envy of the Duke of Monmouth play'd by many little resorts of clandestine Creatures to all the secret prejudice it could against the Duke who on the contrary misled by his desire to please the King or insinuation of ambodexters about himself gave all the testimonies of love and value for that young Viper and besides the publick countenance he gave to him contributed in all he could to his greatness and advantage The Earl of Peterborow constantly declared his Opinion of this proceeding how prejudicial any encrease of Power or Reputation in this young Man would in time prove to his Royal Highness and always foretold he would some time or other become his rival even to the Crown it self From hence and his faithful adherence to his Master's interests he became the most particular object of that Duke's hatred which upon all occasions he shew'd to him and his near Relations and indeed he so managed his advantages in this dislike as during the last Raign kept his Lordship from all the rewards and acknowledgments his long and faithful services to the King and the Crown might justly have pretended to Several Parliaments were assembled after this in each of which the Faction improved that especially which design'd the ruine of the Crown and establishment of a Common-wealth against the prevalency whereof there was but the Duke's fidelity to the King his Brother his valor and vigilancy that did oppose It was he that stood up in every Parliament for the King 's just Power and Prerogative against popular invasion it was he encouraged the King's faithful Friends and his fainting Ministers and it was in him alone the Enemies of the Crown found resistance He made them desperate at last and to accomplish their designs they saw it was impossible without his ruine This did seem a great undertaking to destroy a Prince such as he such in his Birth such in his Merit and Vertues and such in the esteem of all just and reasonable Men. But the zeal of these Common-wealth-Men made them find nothing impossible their resolution was great in this particular their
them were used in no Nation anciently but among the Romans and were taken up in France and England only about the Conquest or a little before under King Edward the Confessor and in Scotland not before that time unto which the Learned of that Nation do refer the Antiquity of their Sirnames although Buchanan doth suppose they were not in use in that Kingdom many years after likewise he saith That the better sort even from the Conquest by little and little took Sirnames so as they were not setled among the common people fully till about the time of Edward the Second but still varied according to the Father's Name as Richardson if the Father were Richard Hodgson if the Father were Roger or in some other respect And from thenceforth began to be established upon their Posterity This he says will seem strange to some of the English and of the Scotish Nations who like the Arcadians think their Sirnames as Ancient as the Moon or at least to reach many an Age before the Conquest But they that think it most strange he says will hardly find any Sirnames that descended to their Posterity before that time neither have they seen he fears any Deed or Donation before the Conquest but subsigned with Crosses and single Names in this manner ✚ Ego Eadredus confirmavi ✚ Ego Edmundus consolidavi likewise for Scotland in an old Book of Duresm in the Charter whereby Edgar Son of King Malcome gave Lands near Coldingham to that Church in the Year One thousand ninety seven the Scotish Nobility witnesses thereunto had no other Sirnames than the Christian Names of their Fathers for they Signed ✚ Gulphi filii Memani ✚ Culverti filii Donecani ✚ Olavi filii Oghe As for himself he says he never found any Hereditary Names before the Conquest neither any that he knew and yet both he and divers of his acquaintance had pored and pusled over many an old Record and Evidence to satisfy themselves therein But he says about the time of the Conquest he observed the very Beginning as it were of many Sirnames which are thought very Ancient whereas it may be proved That their lineal Progenitors bore other Names within these Six Hundred Years Warren and Mortimer he says are accounted Names of Great Antiquity yet the Father of them for they were Brethren which first bore those Names was Walter de Sancto Martino He that first bore the Name of Clifford from his Habitation was the Son of Richard the Son of Puntz a Noble Norman who had no other Name and so having instanced in many he concludes he could exemplify in sundry more which shortly after the Conquest took these Sirnames when their Fathers had none at all or else most different whatsoever their Posterity do overwene of the Antiquity of their Names as if in the continual Mutability of the World Conversion of States and fatal Periods of Families Five Hundred Years were not a sufficient continuance for a Name when but very few have reached thereunto These are the words of the Famous Cambden that Oracle of Antiquity in his Treatise of Sirnames amongst others of his Remains which I have thought fit to set down that the peruser of these my ensuing Genealogies being prepossessed with a of what length of time can by Proof be afforded to any such pretence there having been assuredly no Sirnames before the Conquest may upon comparison be fit to make a Difference between what shall be here exposed without other Ornaments than the unquestionable Truths their extant Evidences shall impose upon them and those other specious Fables which Fast and Flattery have produc'd to the Prejudice of ancient Probity undervaluing of true Nobleness and Scandal of the Heroick Science So there remains to speak but of the Etymologies or Derivations of these Names which their great Age and Continuance has left very uncertain having been taken up as will be proved among the first of Sirnames I shall only offer as grounds of a probable conjecture thereupon That as Names were usually taken from Places from Offices from Actions from Conditions of the Mind Complexions of the Body and sundry other means as you will find in this rare Antiquary's Treatise thereof and as Noble of the one as of the other So the marks between them seem to have been but the words of De and Le preceding the first intimating the Derivation from a place either of the persons Possession or of his Birth the latter of an Office or occasional Sobriquet upon some incidence or action which was in that beginning of Names amongst the greatest very usual as for Example whereas Jeffrey de Mandeville Bertran de Verdun William de Warren and Roger de Mortimer were so named from Places William Le Marshall Walter Le Steward William Le Latimer and Robert Le Despencer with other great Families were of Offices Hugh Le Bigot Robert Le Manduit Hamon Le Strange and Robert Le Blond upon incidents of the Mind the Manners of the fortune and of the Person received livewise the Appellations which afterward remained to their Posterity And thus although a positive Derivation I shall not undertake to give unto the words it may be supposed upon some like occasion to these latter the Names of which we treat did first arise since they had in the Assumers of them the Additions of Le or De and all of them we find under these Appellations to have received from their Princes their Parents or their Relations the Lands and Lordships of which they were first possessed as shall with the Succession of their Posterities and their Inherited Houses be herein demonstrated and from them an uninterrupted Succession by which their Arms and Lands were engrafted into the House of Mordaunt There shall be set forth the Arms that are ascribed to them and which were born by their Descendants the Actions they atchieved the Dignities with which they were honoured and the Lands and Lordships they did acquire with divers of their Seals Tombs and Images I shall begin with the first Alliance from whose Heir General there descended Arms and Land the Description whereof I shall set forth to the Conjunction with the Paternal House after which shall be expos'd in a Genealogical Line the Arms of the Descent and its Alliances whereunto shall succeed all the Proofs of the first House and in the same Method what concerns the rest of the Inherited Houses in their Order In the Ornaments of Arms and Distinctions in Heraldry there may be in this Treatise a difference from what in some kinds is generally practised in this Country But they being according to the use of those Nations that at present in things of this Nature are very curious and refined and altogether concordant with reason and the proportion of things and qualities I hope that difference will give occasion for no exception After all in this Method I suppose that Men may find a certain way to perserve the Memory and Esteem of
inde rectis haeredibus ejusdem Roberti Latimer in perpetuum Virtute quarundam Traditionis Dimissionis Confirmationis idem Robertus Latimer fuit inde seisitus de tali Statu inde obiit seisitus post cujus mortem dictus Johannes Latimer in eisdem Manerio Terris Tenementis cum pertinentiis ut in remanere suum praedictum introivit inde seisitus fuit Et postea idem Johannes Latimer de tali Statu inde obiit seisitus post cujus mortem dicta Margareta se tenuit in eisdem Maneriis Terris Tenementis inde seisita fuit sic jam in praesenti inde seisita existit Noveritis me praedictum Nicolaum Latimer ratificâsse approbâsse per praesentes confirmâsse praefatae Margaretae Matri meae Statum Possessionem Jus Titulum interesse quae quos eadem Margareta habet tenet de in omnibus singulis Maneriis Terris Tenementis Redditibus Servitiis Reversionibus cum suis pertinentiis secundùm formam Concessionis praedictae remanere inde mihi haeredibus meis in perpetuum Et ego verò praefatus Nicolaus haeres meus omnia singula praedicta Maneria Terras Tenementa Redditus Servitia Reversiones cum suis pertinentiis praefatae Margaretae contra omnes Gentes Warrantizabimus Acquietabimus in perpetuum per praesentes defendemus In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto meo Sigillum meum apposui Datum Vicesimo Die Julii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum Vicesimo septimo SIGILLVM NICOLAI LATIMER MILITIS An Arbitration made by George Duke of Clarence upon a reference between Sir Nicholas Latimer and Sir Edward Grey GEORGE Duke of Clarence and Lord of Richmond To all those to whom our Writing Indented shall come Greeting Where certain variances and debates have been hanging betwixt Edward Grey Knight and Nicholas Latimer Knight of and upon the Right Title and Possession of the Mannor of Lokston with the Appurtenances in the County of Somerset For which Variances and Debates to be appeased the Parties aforesaid have compromitted and also bound them to stand to the Arbitrement Ordinance and Judgment of us the said Duke like as in two Obligations in one of which the said Edward is bounden to the said Nicholas and in the other the said Nicholas is bounden to the said Edward in two hundred pounds with several Conditions to abide our Award as in the premisses more plainly is contained We the said Duke taking upon us to Arbitre in the premisses have heard the Allegations Titles and Replications of the said Parties of and in the premisses and by good deliberation them understanding Wherefore we Award Ordain and deem that the said Nicholas Latimer Knight shall have occupy and peaceably enjoy the said Mannor of Lokston with the Appurtenances to him and his Heirs without interruption or claim of the said Edward and his Heirs For the which premisses we Award Ordain and deem that the said Nicholas shall be bound in a Statute of the Staple before the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist next coming to the said Edward in an hundred pounds to be paid to him in Michaelmas next coming and the said Edward before the said Feast shall by his Deed grant to the said Nicholas that if the said Nicholas or his Executors pay or do to be payed to the said Edward or his Assigns at the Feast of Saint Michael next coming after the date hereof or within a Month then next following twenty five pounds in the Parish Church of Saint Ewing next within Newgate of London and at the Feast of Pasch then next following or within a Month then next ensuing in the same Church twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael then next following or within a Month then next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Pasch then next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Pasch next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings and at the Feast of Saint Michael next following or within a Month next ensuing in the same Church other twelve pounds ten shillings that then the same Statute to be void and of none effect or else to stand in his strength and vertue Also we Award that the said Edward shall at every day of payment aforesaid deliver to the Bearer of the said money toward his cost six shillings eight pence In Witness to which thing to either part of this our Award Indented we have set our Seal Given the twentieth day of June in the eighth year of my Lords Reign King Edward the Fourth Doctor Fullers History of the Worthies of England Page 287. In his Catalogue of Sheriffs for Dorsetshire SIR Nicholas Latimer was High Sheriff of Dorsetshire in the thirty second year of King Henry the Sixth and again in the eleventh year of King Edward the Fourth The Title of Sir John Mordaunt Knight to the Mannors of Duntish and Devilish in the County of Dorset and Estoket in Somersetshire which late were Sir Nicholas Latimers FIrst the said Sir Nicholas bargained with William Hardyng for the Mannor of Devilish and Enfeoffed him Sole of the same so that by that Hardyng was Intituled to that Mannor in Anno xiv o Ed. iv ti whose bargain was unknown to Sir John Mordaunt till Anno viij o of Henry vijth at which time he bought the Moity of the Title of Hardyng therein Anno ij do Ricardi Tertii Sir John Mordaunt and Sir Nicholas Bargained for the Mannor of Devilish that the Feoffees thereof should stand seized of the same Mannor to the use of the said Sir Nicholas for Term of his Life And if he happen to have Issue Male then after the Death of Sir Nicholas they should stand seized thereof to the use of that Issue Male and of the Heirs Males of his Body begotten and for lack of such Issue to the use of the said John Mordaunt and Edith and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edith begotten Then in Anno vij to of King Henry the Seventh it was Bargained between the said Sir Nicholas contrary to the said former Bargains and Sir John Turbervile That Sir Nicholas should Enfeoffee John Talower as well of the said Mannor of Devilish as of all the said other Mannors and of the Mannor of Estpullham in Fee Against whom John Smith should recover the same Mannors and after that Recovery should make Estate by Deed and by Fine to Sir Nicholas of all the Mannors to him and the Heirs Males of his Body begotten the Remainder to Sir John Turbervile and his Heirs which Estate was made to Talower
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
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
Veere Lord of Thrapston and Adington unto whose posterity as you will find for default of Issue in the Heirs of Henry and Margery descended afterwards all the Lands of the Greenes and the Mauduits SIR HENRY GREENE by the death of John his Father became possessed of the Lordship of Drayton whereof were parcels the Towns of Luffwick Islip and Slipton with Lands in Titchmarsh and Aldwincle of those of Grafton Hardwick Sudborow with Lands in Harringworth and Irtlingburgh all of them in the County of Northampton of Wamingdon and Emerton in the County of Buckingham Chalton in Bedfordshire Buckworth in Huntingtonshire of Werminster Westbury Lye Dychurch and other Lands in Wiltshire and of Grateley in the County of Southampton which together did at that time make up one of the most considerable Estates that was then in the possession of any Gentleman in the Kingdom of England He lived upon his Mannor and Lordship of Drayton in the County of Northampton in much estimation and authority the most considerable Office of which Country he did exercise in very difficult and different Reigns being High Sheriff therein in the thirteenth of Henry the Sixth and again in the fifth year of King Edward the Fourth in both whereof he was by his good fortune preserved from that ruine under which many Gentlemen and their Estates did sink through those accidents that were incident to the disastrous partialities of that uncertain Age. He had been engaged in the Marriage of two Wives the first was Constance Pawlett the second Margaret Roos from the first whereof he had no Issue and from the latter only one Daughter named Constance who after having been sought in vain by the greatest men of that Age became at last from her Fathers love to the illustrious House of Buckingham the possession of the Lord John Stafford second Son to the High and Mighty Prince Humphrey Duke of Buckingham for so he was ever styled unto whom she brought all those fair Possessions that were of her Fathers Inheritance CONSTANCE GREENE according to her Fathers intention did after his Death bring to the Possession of her Husband the Lord John Stafford the Lordship of Drayton and the rest of those Lands that had belonged to the Families of the Greenes and the Mauduits which by her Father had been setled upon her and her Heirs so as for default of such they should revert to the right Heirs of Henry Greene. The Lord John Stafford who had been himself as well as the Duke his Father and his Family engaged all along in the Lancastrian Faction in divers of their Battels had yet the fortune upon the establishment of King Edward the Fourth to acquire such a part in the favour of that Valiant and Victorious King as induced him in the ninth year of his Reign to create him Earl of Wiltshire to make him afterwards one of the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter and employ him during his life in several actions of greatest trust and confidence as joyning him a Commissioner with the Earl of Northumberland to treat with the Ambassadors of James the Third King of Scotland upon certain complaints of grievances of both Realms who after having lived in great reputation for valour and prudence departed this life in the thirteenth year of that King leaving Issue by his Wife Constance Edward Stafford Earl of Wiltshire EDWARD Earl of Wiltshire was a Minor at the Death of his Father and his Estate and interests for several years governed by the Executors which we find to have been very great as composed between forty and fifty fair Mannors of the Inheritance of his Father and of his Mother the Lady Constance Greene. When he came to Age he proved a Nobleman of exceeding hopes and much addicted to all the generous ways of Arms and Chivalry but it happened that being earnest to go assist the King at Black-heath field against the Cornish Rebels at that time headed by the Lord Audeley in the thirteenth year of his Reign whither he carried a noble band of men picked out of his Tenants and Countrymen it so fell out as by over-heating himself or other excess of exercise occasioned in that action he fell into such a sickness as could never after be mastered to any degree of recovery and that after having permitted him to languish for some time took him out of this world in the ..... year of his Age and of that Kings Reign the fourteenth He Married Margaret the Daughter of John the second Viscount Lisle by whom he had no Issue so as those fair Lordships and Possessions belonging aforetime to the Mauduits and the Greenes did of course descend to Elizabeth Anne Constance and Etheldred the Daughters and Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that had been Lord of Adington and Thrapston as next of kin to Sir Henry Greene being Grandchildren to his Sister Isabella the Wife of Sir Richard Vere the successors of Margery his other Sister leaving no Issue after them Sr. THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other lands Lordships Sr. Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton Lucie de la Zouch Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Buckton Catharine of Drayto Amabila Greene Sr. Richard Reynes Lord of Clifton Sr. Thomas Greene Lord of Norton Marie Talbot Sr. Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Matilda de Manduit Sr. Nicholas Greene Mary Bruce of Exton Margaret Greene William Lord Zouch of Totnes Elenor Greene Sr. Iohn Fitzivilliams of Sprotsburgh Marie Greene Sr. Ieffery Lutterell Iohn Greene Ld. of Drayton by the Death of his brother Margaret Greene of Bridgnorth Rauf Greene Ld. of Drayton Catherine Mallory S. P. Elizabeth Greene Thomas Cotton of Lancashire Margery Greene Sr. Henry Huddleston Isabella Greene. Sr. Richard Vere Ld. of Adington Henry Greene Lord of Drayton Margaret Roos Elizabeth Huddleston Sr. Thomas Cheney S. P. Sr. Henry Vere Ld. of Adington Isabella Tresham Censtance Greene Lady of Drayton Iohn Stafford Earle of Wiltsheir Elizabeth Vere by the death of the E of Wilt Their Lady of Drayton Iohn Ld. Mordaunt Edward Stafford Earle of Wiltsheire Lord of Drayton Margaret Grey S. P. Iohn 2d. Ld. Mordaut Lord of Drayton Elly Fitzlewis GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of GREENE THAT WERE Lords of Drayton Drawn out of Extant Charters Records Histories and other Authentick Proofs GENEALOGICAL PROOFS Of the HOUSE of GREENE Sir THOMAS GREENE Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships IN an Antient Pedegree of this Family among the Evidences of the Earl of Peterborow is placed as the head thereof Sir Thomas Greene Lord of Buckton affirmed to have lived upon that Lordship in the time of King Edward the First Sir THOMAS GREENE second of that Name Lord of Buckton and other Lands and Lordships Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 295. ONE Thomas de Buckton which was in truth Thomas Greene de Buckton is recorded in the Catalogue of those Officers to have been High Sheriff of Northhamptonshire in the fifth year of
assignatis suis contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Cartae meae Sigillum meum apposui Hiis Testibus Johanne Lassell Roberto ap Thomelyn Johanne Kybyore aliis Dat' apud Drayton decimo die Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Henrici Quarti post Conquestum quinto Carta Radulphi Greene. OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens hoc Scriptum indentatum pervenerit Radulphus Greene filius Henrici Greene Militis Salutem in Domino Cùm Johannes Westbury senior habeat teneat quoddam Manerium in Westbury vocatum le Mauduits Manner cum suis pertinentiis Exceptis Curia releviis finibus escaetis boscis Brokwyselis advocatione Capellae ejusdem Manerii cum suis pertinentiis ad terminum vitae praedicti Johannis ex dimissione Henrici Greene patris mei Radulphi Greene Noveritis me praedictum Radulphum concessisse reversionem praedicti Manerii cum suis pertinentiis exceptis superiùs exceptis post mortem praedicti Johannis Willielmo Westbury Johanni Westbury filiis praedicti Johannis Westbury senioris Habendum tenendum ad terminum vitae eorundem de Capitalibus Dominis seodi illius per servitia indè debita consueta Reddendo inde annuation praedicto Radulpho haeredibus suis octodecim libras legalis monetae ad Festa Sancti Michaelis Annuntiationis beatae Mariae aequis portionibus necnon faciendo inde omnia alia onera servitia dicto Manerio incumbentia durante termino vitae praedictorum Willielmi Johannis Et praedicti Willielmus Johannes sustentabunt dictum Manerium competenter sine vasto vel destructione faciendo per totum terminum praedictum statum suum praedictum nulli dimittent sine licentia praedicti Radulphi vel haeredum suorum Et si praedictus Redditus aretro sit per unum mensem post aliquem terminorum praedictorum vel si aliquod vastum inde factum suerit seu si praedicti Willielmus Johannes statum suum praedictum alicui dimiserint sine licentia praedicti Radulphi vel haeredum suorum bene liceat praedicto Radulpho haeredibus suis praedictum Manerium cum pertinentiis reintrare illud in pristino statu suo tenere vel pro redditu praedicto in eodem Manerio distringere si maluerint districtiones sic captas asportare fugare quocunque sibi placuerit Et praedictus Radulphus haeredes sui praedictum Manerium cum suis pertinentiis exceptis hiis quae superiùs excipiuntur praefatis Willielmo Johanni post mortem praedicti Johannis Westbury senioris modo forma supradictis contra omnes gentes warrantizabunt acquietabunt defendent In cujus rei testimonium partes praedictae hiis Indenturis Sigilla sua apposuerunt Dat' in Festo Apostolorum Simonis Judae Anno Regni Regis Henrici Quarti post Conquestum octavo SIGILLVM RADVLPHI GRENE Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 295. RAlph Greene was High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the eighth year of King Henry the Fourth and in the second year of King Henry the Fifth Carta Regis Henrici Quarti HEnricus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd dum summi Regis gratiam Nobis postquam Regni gubernacula suscepimus non nostris meritis sed suâ ineffabili bonitate variè infusam claro oculo conspicimus ad gratiarum munera nostris subditis impendenda solertiùs excitamur Ut igitur nostri affectus affectum sortiatur caritásque mutua sine qua frustra habentur caetera inter cunctos ligeos Nostros diversis dissentionibus in Regno nostro nuper subortis earum instigante auctore non modicè perturbatos nisi manum remedii apponamus veresimiliter perturbandos in futurum celeriùs vigeat constantiùs solidetur dicti etiam ligei nostri corda assumant alacriora erga Nos haeredes nostros in fide dilectione fideliùs permanere de gratia nostra speciali pardonavimus Radulpho Greene Armigero ligeo nostro Angliae sectam pacis nostrae quae ad Nos versus ipsum pertinet pro omnimodis proditionibus insurrectionibus rebellionibus feloniis misprisionibus offensis impetitionibus transgressionibus per ipsum ante Festum Conversionis Sancti Pauli proximè praeteritum factis sive perpetratis murdris raptibus mulierum exceptis unde indictatus rectatus vel appellatus existit Ac etiam Utlagariis si quae in ipsum hiis occasionibus fuerint promulgatae firmam pacem nostram ei indè concedimus Dum tamen idem Radulphus non sit probator notorius Latro in prisona pro latrociniis absque debita manucaptione seu traditione in Ballivum Ita tamen quòd stet rectus in Curia nostra si qui versus eum loqui voluerint de praemissis vel aliquo praemissorum Pardonavimus etiam eidem Radulpho omnimoda escapia selonum ante festum praedictum minimè adjudicata ac omnimodas donationes alienationes perquisitiones per ipsum de aliquibus terris tenementis de Nobis in Capite tentis absque licentia Regia Ac omnimodos ingressus per ipsum in haereditatem suam post mortem antecessorum suorum absque debita prosecutione ejusdem extra manus Regias ante idem festum factos exceptis illis terris tenementis quae ad manum mortuam absque licentia Regia alienantur In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Julii Anno Regni nostri decimo Hogham Per ipsum Regem Carta Regis Henrici Quarti HEnricus Dei gratiâ Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis quòd cùm Anno Regni nostri primo Dilectus Armiger noster Radulphus Greene liberationem habuerit in Cancellaria nostra per brevia nostra ut filius haeres in talliato Henrici Greene Chivaler qui ad mortem apud Bristol vicesimo nono die Julii Anno Regni carissimi Domini Consanguinei nostri Richardi nuper Regis Angliae ultimi praedecessoris nostri defuncti vicesimo tertio adjudicatus fuit de omnibus Maneris tenementis redditibus servitiis reversionibus cum omnibus feodis homagiis wardis maritagiis advocationibus franchesiis juribus libertatibus quibuscunque eisdem aliqualiter spectantibus cum pertinentiis suis quae fuerunt praedicti Henrici in Anglia tam de illis in quibus ipse statum habuit sibi haeredibus de corpore suo procreatis quà m de illis quae tenuit per legem Angliae de jure praedicti Radulphi post mortem Matildae nuper Uxoris praedicti Henrici matris praedicti Radulphi ac in Parliamento tento apud Westmonasterium decimo nono die Novembris Anno
begotten and for default of issue of the said Herry the remainder to my right heirs in tail be sufficient estate by the said Feoffes to him to be made Also I will that then the said Rauf my Son have the said Manner of Grateley with the avowson and appurtenances to him and to his heirs in tail and for default of issue of his body the remainder to my right heirs intail be sure and sufficient Estate to him be my said Feoffes to be made Also I will that there be rered and sold out of my Woods of Herdwyk and Grafton to the value of the summe of two hundred pounds to the marriages of Margery and Isabell my Daughters even to be departed between them and if the tone dye not married then the tother to have the whole summe of two hundred pounds so that they will be married by the counseil and ordinance of the said Margaret my Wife Thomas Wydevyll William Tresham Walter Greene and William Aldwyncle Also I will that Margaret my Wife Thomas Wydevill William Tresham Walter Greene and William Aldwyncle have the governance ordinance and oversight of the sale of the said woods for the said summe to be rered And after that summe so rered I will that the said Magaret my Wife have all the remainant of the said woods to her awn use to fell it down and do therewith what she will without peachment of waste Also I will that the said Margaret have the keeping cost and charge of my said Daughters till time that they be married Also I will that the said Margaret my Wife have her Dowry of all my Manners Londs Tenements and Rents with all the appurtenances in Wiltshire Moreover in case that my Sister my Lady Felbrigg dye mine heir being within age I will that then William Aldwyncle and William Marshall Clerk Feoffes of the Manners Londs and Tenements with appurtenances that shall fall to me and to mine heirs after the decease of my said Lady Felbrigg do rere and gather up yearly all the Rents and profits coming of the said Manners Londs and Tenements to the marriages of my said Daughters till the time that mine heir be of age And furthermore I charge mine heir by my blessing that he let none this Will to be performed nor be not against it in no manner or wise And if mine heir will let this Will or do the contrary there against in any manner or degree I will that then my said Feoffes hold and keep in their own hands and possession all the said Manners Londs Tenements and Rents with all the appurtenances to dispose them for my soul and for the souls of my auncesters after their discretions And moreover I will that Margaret my Wife have all my goods moveable and unmoveable to her own profit and disposition at her own list HENRY GREENE third of that name Lord of Drayton and other Lands and Lordships Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 296. HENRY Greene of Drayton who gave for his Arms Argent a Cross Engrailed Gules was High-Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the twenty third of Henry VI. and again in the fourth year of Edward IV. Carta Henrici Greene. OMnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens Scriptum indentatum pervenerit Henricus Greene Armiger Willielmus Aldwyncle Galfridus de Sancto Germano de Broughton Salutem Cùm Domina Katherina Felbrigg nuper uxor Radulphi Green de Drayton in Comitatu Northamptoniae Armigeri Willielmus Yelverton unus Justiciarius Domini Regis Nicolaus Appylyerd Johannes Dam habeant teneant Maneria de Buckworth in Comitatu Huntingtoniae Manerium de Emberton in Comitatu Cantabrigiae Manerium de Alba Rothyng in Comitatu Essexiae Maneria de Chalton Culworth cum redditibus in Farendysh in Comitatu Bedfordiae Manerium de Wabenden vocatum Greenes Maner Manerium de Wolfton Manerium de Emberton in Comitatu Buckinghamiae cum pertinentiis ad terminum vitae dictae Katherinae Reversione inde Nobis praefatis Henrico Willielmo Aldwyncle Galfrido spectante Noveritis nos praefatos Henricum Willielmum Aldwyncle Galfridum statum possessionem praedictae Dominae Katherinae Willielmi Yelverton Nicolai Johannis Dam de in omnibus singulis Maneriis supradictis cum pertinentiis ratificâsse approbâsse tenore praesentium confirmâsse Habenda tenenda eadem Maneria cum omnibus singulis eorum pertinentiis praefatis Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni Dam ad terminum vitae dictae Katherinae Et ulteriùs concessimus pro Nobis haeredibus nostris praedictae Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni Dam quòd pro aliquo vasto in aliquo Manerio Maneriorum praedictorum faciendo usque ad summam quadraginta solidorum de caetero non impetantur graventur nec molestentur Et insuper noveritis Nos praefatum Henricum Willielmum Aldwyncle Galfridum concessisse antedictis Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni quòd bene licebit eisdem Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni durante vitâ dictae Katherinae prostituere maeremium ad reparandum Maneria praedicta tenementa eisdem Maneriis pertinentia Necnon subboscum Wrangles Sheredelbode pro clausuris in Maneriis praedictis fiendis pro focali suo ibidem ardendo prostituere succidere absque impetitione vasti inde per Nos vel haeredes nostros vel per aliquos nostrum versus ipsam Dominam Katherinam Willielmum Yelverton Nicolaum Johannem prosequenda Ac insuper Noveritis Nos praefatum Henricum Willielmum Aldwyncle Galfridum remisisse relaxâsse omnino pro Nobis haeredibus nostris imperpetuum quietum clamâsse praefatis Dominae Katherinae Willielmo Yelverton Nicolao Johanni omnimodas actiones reales personales ratione alicujus vasti ante datum praesentium facti quas versus ipsos Dominam Katherinam Willielmum Yelverton Nicolaum Johannem unquam habuimus habemus seu quovismodo habere poterimus in futurum à principio mundi usque in diem Confectionis praesentium In cujus rei testimonium uni parti hujus Scripti indentati penes praefatam Dominam Katherinam Willielmum Yelverton Nicolaum Johannem remanenti Nos praedicti Henricus Willielmus Aldwyncle Galfridus Sigilla nostra apposuimus Alteri verò parti ejusdem Scripti indentati penes Nos residenti dicta Domina Katherina Willielmus Yelverton Nicolaus Johannes Dam Sigilla sua apposuerunt Dat' septimo die Maii Anno Regni Regis Henrici Sexti post Conquestum tricesimo primo Froddesham Carta Henrici Greene. TO all manner of men to whom this Writing may come be it known where before this time that William Aldwincle Esquire hath enfeffed Master Walter Dove and other in two Assartes called Langhill and Ferthingeshaw in the County of Northampton to the use of the same William to have and to hold to them and to their heirs for evermore And now on late time the
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
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
Curia de Thrapstona facto justicia aliqua emerserit facienda Justicia illa fiet apud Undell Catalla Indictati erunt Baldewini haeredum suorum salvis Abbati Conventui omnibus ad praedicta Hundreda pertinentibus quae scilicet emergere poterunt de hominibus aliorum in Thrapstona praeterquam de hominibus praedicti Baldewini haeredum suorum sicut praedictum est salvis praedicto Baldewino haeredibus suis omnibus quae ad mercatum suum pertinent Et ut haec concessio Abbatis Conventus rata permaneat imperpetuum praedicti Abbas Conventus praesenti Scripto penes Baldewinum haeredes suos retinendo Sigilla sua apposuerunt Et ne praedictus Baldewinus vel haeredes sui cessare possint à solutione praedictae dimidiae marcae ad praedictum terminum pro praedicta concessione nec ultra praedictam concessionem aliquid exigere vel contra eam aliquid facere vel ad se plus possint attrahere quà m eis praeconcessum est praedictus Baldewinus praesenti Scripto penes praedictum Abbatem Conventum retinendo Sigillum suum apposuit Et sciendum quòd nec praedictus Baldewinus nec aliquis haeredum suorum poterit unquam aliquo tempore furcas levare apud Thrapstonam Hiis testibus Sir ROBERT de VERE third of that Name Lord of Thrapston Addington Twyvell Sudburgh Tywa Melton and other Lands and Lordships Carta Roberti de Vere SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus de Vere dedi concessi praesenti Carta mea confirmavi Henrico le Permiter de Addington pro homagio servitio suo unam dimidiam virgatam terrae dimidiam acram terrae quae jacet super Sciteshill cum pertinentibus Illam scilicet dimidiam virgatam quam Richardus pater dicti Henrici tenuit de voluntate assensu Baldewini de Vere patris mei Habendam tenendam de me haeredibus meis sibi haeredibus suis de se legitima uxore sua procreatis integrè liberè quietè reddendo inde annuatim mihi haeredibus meis tres solidos scilicet ad Festum omnium Sanctorum octodecim denarios in septimana Paschae octodecim denarios pro omni seculari servitio salvo forinseco domini Regis servitio Et Ego Robertus haeredes mei praedicto Henrico haeredibus suis de se legitima uxore sua procreatis dimidiam praedictam virgatam terrae cum pertinentiis dimidiam acram contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus Ita quòd si dictus Henricus le Permiter sine haerede de se moriatur dicta dimidia virgata terrae dimidia acra cum omnibus pertinentiis mihi haeredibus meis revertentur Hiis testibus Richardo de Gatesdene Magistro Simone Parsona de Addington Willielmo de Treyly Luca de Thrapston Eustachio de Irtlingburgh Johanne Clerico de Addington multis aliis Et ad majorem confirmationem huic Scripto Sigillum meum apposui per visum testium supradictorum Carta Roberti de Vere SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus Vere Miles Dominus de Addington dedi concessi hac praesenti Cartâ meâ indentatâ confirmavi Johanni filio meo haeredibus de corpore suo exeuntibus legitime Manerium meum de Twyvell cum wardis releviis Escaetis Maritagiis boscis hayis pratis semitis viis libertatibus cum Nativis meis cum totis sequelis eorum tam procreatis quà m procreandis dicto Manerio spectantibus in Comitatu Northamptoniae Habendum tenendum praedictum Manerium cum wardis releviis Escaetis maritagiis boscis hayis pratis semitis viis libertatibus cum Nativis meis cum totis sequelis eorum tam procreatis quà m procreandis dicto Manerio spectantibus in Comitatu Northamptoniae praedicto Johanni haeredibus de corpore suo legitimè exeuntibus reddendo inde annuatim Baldewino fratri meo haeredibus suis unum par calcarium deauratorum ad Festum Natalis Domini pro omnibus servitiis Et Ego praedictus Robertus haeredes mei praedictum Manerium cum omnibus libertatibus ut praedictum est praefato Johanni haeredibus suis de corpore suo legitimè exeuntibus contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus defendemus Et si contingat quòd praedictus Johannes sine haerede de corpore suo legitimè exeunte obierit tunc volo concedo quòd praedictum Manerium de Twyvell in Comitatu Northamptoniae cum wardis releviis Escaetis Maritagiis boscis semitis hayis pratis piscariis libertatibus cum Nativis Villenagii dicto Manerio spectantibus praefato Baldewino fratri meo haeredibus suis remaneat imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Cartae Sigillum meum apposui Hiis testibus Domino Gilberto Tolthorp de Deneford Milite Rogero de ........ Milite Willielmo Hotot de Clopton Milite Willielmo de Nowers Milite Henrico de Tychmerche aliis Carta Domini Roberti de Vere OMnibus Christi fidelibus praesens Scriptum visuris vel audituris Dominus Robertus de Vere Dominus de Thrapston salutem in Domino sempiternam Noverit Universitas vestra me concessisse dimisisse Henrico filio Galfridi de Thrapston Gealae uxori suae unum Messuagium in Villa de Thrapston terram cum suis pertinentiis quam Robertus de Thrapston pater ejus quondam tenuit ad totam vitam dictorum Henrici Gealae uxoris suae faciendo inde annuatim octo solidos argenti ad quatuor terminos anni videlicet ad Festum Sancti Petri Apostoli duos solidos ad Festum Sancti Michaelis duos solidos ad Festum Sancti Thomae duos solidos ad Pascha florida duos solidos forinseca servitia quae Robertus consueta facere solebat Ego verò dictus Robertus haeredes mei dictum Messuagium cum dicta terra adjacente eorum pertinentiis dictis Henrico Gealae uxori suae dum vixerint warrantizabimus Dicti etiam Henricus Geala uxor ejus domos aedificia muros alia dicto Messuagio firmaria in bono statu sustinebunt In cujus rei testimonium huic Scripto Sigillum meum apposui Hiis testibus Willielmo Jordein de Barnwell Willielmo Perpetuo Vicario de Addington Johanne filio Lucae de Thrapston Thoma de Wolston in Thrapston Johanne le Franc Thoma de Addington aliis SIGILLVM ROBERTI DE VER Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 295. SIR Robert de Vere was High-Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the thirtieth year of King Edward the First Conventio inter Dominum Robertum de Vere Thomam de Abburbirie ANNO Regni Regis Edwardi filii Regis Henrici tricesimo primo in Festo beati Petri ad Vincula sic convenit inter Dominum Robertum de Vere Dominum de Sudburgh Militem ex parte una Magistrum
ainxi le dit Monsieur Henry à pris une grant pece del terre la dite Elizabeth illecques pour faire enlarger les fosses de son molins awere la dite terre issint tient contre la volunte la dite Elizabeth à ses domages de cinquant livres Et vous plaise pour l'amour de Dieu en oeuvre de Charité eider la dite Elizabeth à avoir droit raison de ses torts susdites Carta Roberti de Vere SCiant praesentes futuri quòd Ego Robertus Vere de Thrapston dedi concessi praesenti Cartâ meâ confirmavi Thomae de Preston Militi Johanni de Preston Waltero Waldgrave haeredibus assignatis eorum illam tertiam partem omnium illarum terrarum tenementorum reddituum servitiorum cum omnibus libertatibus pertinentiis suis quam dicta Alicia le Vere tenuit nomine dotis ad terminum vitae suae in Villis campis de Thrapston Addington magna in Comitatu Northamptoniae post decessum Domini Johannis le Vere Militis nuper viri sui quae quaedam tertia pars terrarum tenementorum reddituum servitiorum praedictorum cum omnibus pertinentiis suis mihi haereditariè accedebat post decessum praedictae Dominae Aliciae le Vere ut consanguineo haeredi praedicti Domini Johannis le Vere Avunculi mei Habendam tenendam dictam tertiam partem terrarum tenementorum reddituum servitiorum praedictorum cum libertatibus pertinentiis suis praefatis Thomae de Preston Johanni de Preston Waltero Waldgrave haeredibus assignatis eorum imperpetuum de capitalibus Dominis feodorum illorum per servitia inde debita de Jure consueta Et Ego verò praedictus Robertus le Vere haeredes mei praedictam tertiam partem terrarum tenementorum reddituum servitiorum cum libertatibus pertinentiis suis praefatis Thomae de Preston Johanni de Preston Waltero Waldgrave haeredibus assignatis eorum ut praedictum est contra omnes gentes warrantizabimus imperpetuum In cujus rei testimonium huic praesenti Cartae Sigillum meum apposui Hiis testibus Dominis Johanne Holand Milite Domino de Thorp Watermil Henrico Greene Johanne Raunds Richardo Chamberlain Militibus Thomâ Greene Johanne Raunds aliis Data apud Thrapston die Sabbati proximo ante Festum Conversionis Sancti Pauli Anno Regni Regis Richardi Secundi post Conquestum Angliae duodecimo SIGILLVM ROBERTI DE VER Doctor Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 139. in his Catalogue of Sheriffs for the County of Leicester RObert de Vere was High-Sheriff of that County in the Eighteenth Year of Richard the Second Carta Regis Richardi RIchardus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae omnibus Ballivis fidelibus suis ad quos praesentes Literae pervenerint Salutem Sciatis Quòd cùm Robertus Vere de Thrapston pro eo quòd non venit in Curiam nostram coram Justiciariis nostris de Banco ad satisfaciendum nobis de redemptione sua occasione cujusdam transgressionis Edmundo Noon Chevalier per praefatum Robertum alios vi armis factae unde convictus est in exigendis positus fuisset in Comitatu Norfolciae ad Utlagandum ea occasione postmodum Utlagatus sicut per tenorem Recordi processus Utlagariae praedictae quem coram nobis in Cancellariam nostram venire fecimus est compertum Jamque idem Robertus Prisonae nostrae de Fleet se reddiderit coram praefatis Justiciariis occasione praedictâ in eadem moretur Ac allegaverit praedictum Edmundum per quoddam Scriptum suum quod idem Robertus in curia praedicta coram praefatis Justiciariis protulit remisisse relaxâsse eidem Roberto omnimodas actiones personales quas erga ipsum habuit seu aliquo modo habere potuit ab origine mundi usque diem confectionis Scripti praedicti ratione transgressionis praedictae Et quia nesciebat an Scriptum praedictum fuit factum ipsius Edmundi necne praeceptum fuit Vicecomiti nostro Comitatûs praedicti quòd scire faciat praefato Edmundo quòd esset in curia nostra praedicta coram praefatis Justiciariis ad certum diem jam praeteritum ad agnoscendum vel dedicendum Scriptum praedictum ad faciendum ulteriùs repiendum quod Curia nostra consideraverit in hac parte Ad quem diem Vicecomes retornavit quòd scire fecit praefato Edmundo essendi coram praefatis Justiciariis in forma praedicta Idémque Edmundus ad diem illum solempniter vocatus non venit sicut dilectus fidelis noster Robertus de Cherleton Capitalis Justiciarius noster de Banco praedicto nos in dicta Cancellaria nostra ad mandatum nostrum certificavit Nos pietate moti pardonavimus eidem Roberto Utlagariam praedictam firmam pacem nostram ei inde concedimus Ita tamen quòd nobis satisfaciat de redemptione sua supradicta In cujus rei testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste Edmundo Duce Eborniae Custode Angliae apud Westmonasterium octavo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri decimo octavo Irrotulatur termino Paschae Anno decimo tertio Rotulo cxxxviij Indentura inter Dominam Aliciam de Vere Robertum filium Roberti de Vere HAEC Indentura facta inter Aliciam quae fuit uxor quondam Johannis de Vere Chevalier ex parte una Robertum filium Roberti Vere de Addington ex altera parte Testatur Quòd praefata Alicia concessit tradidit ad firmam dimisit praefato Roberto illam tertiam partem proficuorum quorumcunque Mercatorum Feriarum de Thrapston assignatorum eidem Aliciae nomine dotis tenendam post mortem praefati Johannis Mariti sui Concessit etiam eidem Roberto tertiam partem proficuorum provenientium de communi Furno ejusdem Villae cum quodam Cottagio situato in le Draperie quam Emma tempore quondam tenuit Habendum tenendum capiendum omnia praedicta proficua Mercatorum Feriarum Furni cum dicto Cottagio praefato Roberto ad totam vitam praefatae Aliciae Reddendo inde eidem Aliciae annuatim duas marcas bonae legalis monetae ad quatuor anni terminos per aequales portiones videlicet ad Festum Purificationis beatae Mariae dimidiam marcam ad Festum Pentecostes dimidiam marcam ad Vincula Augusti dimidiam marcam ad Festum Sancti Martini in hyeme dimidiam marcam prima solutione incipiente ad Festum Purificationis beatae Mariae proximè futurum post datum praesentium Et praefatus Robertus faciet supportabit pro praefata Alicia omnia ea quae pro dicta quantitate dictorum Mercatorum Feriarum Furni Cottagii sumptibus suis propriis incumbent legaliter usualiter facienda Et si contingat praedictum redditum dimidii marcae ad aliquem terminum
premisses whansoever it pleas the Kings Highnes and your Lordship to comande me And Almighty God ever preserve your good Lordship to your most hertes pleasure Written at Haroweden the fower and twentyeth Day of October By your own Servant Nicholas Vaus The Answer of Henry Vere Esquire to the Bill of Complaint of Thomas Watts THE said Henry saith by protestation That the said Bill of Complaint is insufficient and compriseth matter slaunderous For the declaration of the trouth of the premisses the said Henry saith That the said Thomas Watts before the said twentye sixthe day of August specified in the said Bill that the said Compleynent in the dayes of King Richard late in dede and not in right King of England took from the said Henry riotously with thirty persons defensibly arrayed certeyn Timber Hey-Rekes Peese-Rekes with much other Stuff of Howshold to the value of eleven Marks and more And alsoe the said Thomas in lyke riotous wise resevyd of the Rents of the said Henry ten Mark in Ekton Barton and Wouleston within the Counte of Northampton for the whyche the said Henry compleyned to the Kings Grace imediately after his first feld And it pleased the Kings Grace among other of his Highnes Comandemenâ—s to comand the said Henry to bring the same Thomas to him to answer to the premisses And the said Henry by reason of the same Comandement with two persons harnessed came from his first Feld unto the House of the said Thomas to the entent to execute the Kings said Comandements then and there being John Tresham Esquier the Viccar of the said Town of Rothewell John Dove and one Cowper and many others and they knowing the premisses and knowing for trouth that the said Thomas of and in the premisses and many other had offended the said Henry desired the said Henry to take some reasonable weye and end with the said Thomas in eschewing further expences and troubles At the whych time the said Viccar and John Dove by the special desire of the said Thomas brought unto the said Henry ten Mark And the said Thomas by his Servant sent the same Black Horse specified in his said Bill to the said Henry in full recompence of such injuries as been afore rehersed All which matters and every eche one of them the said Henry is ready to prove as this Court will award and prayeth to be dismissEd out of this Court with his reasonable Costs and expence for his wrongful vexation Fuller's History of the Worthies of England Page 296. HEnry Vere was High Sheriff of the County of Northampton in the first Year of Henry the Seventh To the Right Worshipful Maister Vere Shrese of Northamptonshire be this Letter delivered c. MAister Shrefe After due recommendation with my service in my most herty manner I pray yow that for as mikyl as the Ferme of all th' assarts within the Forest of Rokyngham was granted to my Brother Sir William Stoke and Richard Burton yontly and to other of them longer lyffing and my sayd Brother whom God hath called from this World nothyng medled with the gadryng up of the deutes of the same but onely Richard Burton like as he said unto yow at Stamford but lately that he would charge himself with them and discharge my Brother in that behalfe It may please yow in that manner-wise and after that Forme to make returne of your Writte And as for my Brothers Lyvelode within the Shyre it is but littyl he purchased and bought two Cottages in Rokyngham of lityl value and a Meese in Kyrtby also two Closes one beside Pipwell and one at Brigstock and here is all the livelode that he had in the Shyre for that livelode that was my Moders in Warmington and elsewhere she gaf hit to me twenty Yere ago and my Broder had never ado the with but by myn assignement and for myn behofe In this and in other thinges concerning me and myn I pray yow shew your kindly favor and I shall so dele with yow at our next meetyng in Northamptonshyre that ye shall hold yow ryght well content From Lincoln the twentyeth Day of March. And as for Newys with us This day my Lady of Northumbyrland came to the King to Lincoln and brought to the Kings Grace with hyr hyr eldest Sonne a goodly yong Lord. On Munday cum sevenyght the Kyng is preposed toward Nottingham there to tary six or seaven dayes and from thence to take his journay toward York c. Yours to his power Thomas Stoke To his Worshipful Brother Henry Vere be this Bill delivered at Addington RYght Worshipful Brodyr I recommend me unto yow and to my Sister your Wife hertily desiring to here of your welfares the which Almightie God preserve to his plesure and yowr hertes desire Sure I have spokyn with Maister Catesby and he hath promissed me to be as frendly to yow in yowr matter as he can He is ryding with my Lord Chamberlyn this Morning toward the Kyng Watts calleth for the processe and therefore I went to Maister Catesby this morning when he took his Horse and fete a Tokyn from him to Watts that he shuld cale noe more on the processe till he come to Towne ayene and that shall be when the King come and that shall be within fourteen dayes and if ye come up then he will see an end betwix you and the other Gentilman the Jewe and so I think best yow doe for anoder man cannot labour your mattir soe well to yowr intent as yowr self sure As for your Suite against Beke they have yeven yow none Answere as yet There is an Exigent out against Parson Edward Davy sure I pray yow remember my Brother Barners for I sent him word That ye would send him ten Pounds within fourteen dayes after Alhallow-Day Brother whereas yow wrote unto me that ye were not in hertes ese ye have made me very hevye of that tydings but I trust to God in the next Bill ye shall send me better comforte And sure at the reverence of God whatsoever adverfityes befall yow take them lytely and set them not to yowr herte and then remedye them as ye think best for if ye set them to yowr herte ye shall hurt your selfe and that shall plese syche as be the causes thereof and all syche as love yow not and shall discomforte all syche as be yowr frendes and Lovers Wherefore I will avise yow to take that way that may comforte yowr frendes and lovers and displese yowr foes No more to yow at this tyme but I shall be at yowr comandement both here and elswhere be God's Grace who have yow in his kepeing At London on Symond Jude is Evyn Be your Brother and Servant Baldwyn Vere To my Right Trusty and Welbeloved Henry Vere Gentilman RYght Trusty and Welbeloved I commend me unto yow And whereas I have perceived by my Right Welbeloved Sir Thomas Thornton Parson of Addington in the County of Northampton how that he of
being Martial to introduce him into the Favour of the greatest Captains of his time particulary those that were applied unto the Sea whom with his Company in every occasion he did so well humor as he became the future Hopes of that calling In intervals of Martial occasions he followed the King and Ministers who found him of so solid and useful a Temper as they thought him fit serve the Crown in any important capacity He followed the King to Boloigne at the magnificent enterview with King Francis And in the Twenty sixth of Henry the Eighth was sent into Scotland to present King James with the Order of the Garter and his Master's desire that he would come through England to accompany him and be present at the enterview The Duke his Father had been instrumental in the greatest disasters of Scotland But in those Heroick times Generous Princes had a value for Noble Enemies King James was taken with the Nature and Manners of the Lord William Howard and perceiving in his Merit much hopes of future greatness he did so cultivate his friendship as when there was business to be transacted between the Crowns that King did shew an inclination more ready to hear this Lord than any other wherefore King Henry having at that time a great desire to draw the King of Scotland to an enterview he sent him to Edenburgh in the ..... Year of his Reign together with the Bishop of St. Asaph to perswade him thereunto as also to make him propositions of very great advantage In the Three and thirtieth Year of the same King he was sent Extraordinary Ambassador into France in his discharge of which Employment having much satisfied the King and his Ministers he expected a chearful welcome at his return but from the Faults or the Misfortune of another he found such a disappointment as lodged him in the Tower instead of the Palace and gave him the Frowns due to the ill behaviour of the Queen instead of the Applauses his own endeavours had deserved For Katharine Howard the Fifth Wife of Henry the Eighth was his Niece and had in a short space after her Marriage so conducted her self as she fell into his Majesties disgrace and lost her Head Thereupon the old Dutchess of Norfolk with this Lord William and his Lady were Indicted for Misprision of Treason in concealing as was alledged what they knew of that Queen 's former behavior and Condemn'd to perpetual Imprisonment But after that for reason of State and to justifie the King something had been done under an appearance of Anger and Severity the King that knew the Lord William was never Author of that Match and that it could not be expected he should have taken great pains to hinder the Honor and Advantage of his Niece who he could not foresee would have made so ill a use of so great a good Fortune his Majesty set at liberty this Noble Lord and his Relations who had suffered this restraint Although they did remain under some sort of discouragement during the short remainder of this King's Reign who for other reasons had Beheaded the Noble Earl of Surrey that was Brother to this Lord and Imprisoned the Duke his Father a Servant and Subject that had deserved more than any other of his time But after the Death of King Henry when the State began to grow jealous of the French for designing to recover the Key of their Kingdom the considerable Town of Calis King Edward's Council cast into the Arms of the Lord William Howard and to make it safe made him Lord Deputy thereof in the Sixth Year of his Reign After the Death of King Edward the Queen his Sister being notable for the Council she chose and the Ministers and Servants she imployed in every purpose took this noble Lord into the nearest of her Trust and Confidence she knew his Valour his Experience and the opinion the World had of it and therefore thought none so fit for the great Office of High Admiral of England which she conferr'd upon him in the First Year of her Reign creating him at the same time Lord Baron of Effingham whereof in the succeeding Parliament he took his place she also made him Lord Chamberlain of her Houshold and he was afterwards Lord Privy Seal When this Queen was dead her Sister remembering the behaviour of this Lord to have been tender towards her and obliging during the times of her troubles and Persecution she conferred the same Office of Chamberlain upon him in the First Year of her Reign He was also sent by Queen Elizabeth with the Lord Cobham Ambassador to the Spaniard into the Netherlands on an important Negotiation and in the Twelfth of that Queen joyned with the Earl of Sussex in Command of those Forces that were sent to suppress the Rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland He was also one of the Peers who sate upon the Tryal of his unfortunate Nephew the Duke of Norfolk Thus after having been imployed as has been express'd in the Service of so many Kings in management of the Highest Offices and Imployments of the State he dyed full of Honor Esteem and Reputation the Fifteenth Year of Queen Elizabeth at her Palace of Hampton-Court By his Will bequeathing his Collar of Gold and his Robes of the Order to Charles his Son for he was also a Knight of the Garter and was honorably Interred in the Parish Church of Rygate He Married Two Wives The First Katharine Daughter to Sir John Braughton of Tuddington in the County of Bedford The Second Margaret Daughter of Sir John Gammage Issue by his First Wife Mary Married to William Paulet the Third Marquess of Winchester Issue by his Second Wife Charles Howard Earl of Nottingham William Howard of Lingfield Edward Howard Henry who died Young Dowglas Married to John Lord Sheffield after to the Earl of Leicester Mary Married to Edward Lord Dudly after to Richard Mountpesson Frances Married to Edward Earl of Hartford Martha Married to Sir George Burcher Knight CHARLES Lord Howard Earl of Nottingham Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Chamberlain Justice and Heir of all the Forrests on this side Trent Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of the Lords of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First CHAPTER III. CHARLES HOWARD the eldest Son of the Lord William Baron of Effingham of whom we have last Treated was bred under a Father who knew that great Birth and Dignities were things that weighed much upon those that wore them and could never be honourably supported without equal Merit and Capacities in those that would pretend to be advantaged by them He had therefore in his Youth been bred to the Theories of all the Noble Arts that could render a Man useful to his King and Country and as soon as he was of a fit strength he was thrust by his Father into the practice of them upon every necessary occasion He was with him in
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
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
the Accidents of the precedent Age had made in the Estate of his Ancestors was not induc'd by the discontent thereof to neglect what Providence had left him There remain'd to his support his Antient Lordships of Turvey that of Brayfield the Lordships of Clifton and Chellington with the Lands appertaining to the Mannor of Bottellers in Walden in the County of Suffolk He had Married Margaret the Daughter of John Peck Lord of Copull a Person of great Oeconomy and Virtue and they strove together by a provident and frugal proceeding to repair those breaches the over liberal ways of his Father had made in the Fortune of his Family Their endeavours did succeed and as an approbation thereof and a blessing thereupon Providence sent them to enjoy the fruits of their worthy Cares Three Children whose merits from their Natures and good Education made them all have as well as deserve excellent Fortunes They were Sir John Mordaunt Lord of Turvey William Mordaunt Lord of Hempstead Married to the Heir of Huntington Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Sir Wiston Brown of Abessroading Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Lord of Turvey Staggesden Chellington Clifton Brayfield and many other Lands and Lordships Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Seventh CHAPTER XI JOHN MORDAVNT Son and Heir of William Mordaunt that was Lord of Turvey being a Youth of a particular Ingenuity such as did promise both Spirit and Capacity the appearances thereof were taken hold of by his judicious Father who after his Son had received what the Method and Discipline of a Free-School could give sent him to learn the Knowledge of the Laws and to be instructed in those ways that might enable him for the most useful and publick Callings These applications were so successful as he became betimes very considerable in that way But happening to live in those days of War and Tumult and his flourishing Youth subsisting in the Reign of King Edward the Fourth he gave great proof of his Valor in matters of that nature also His Temper and Inclinations being in truth Tam Marte quam Mercurio And indeed he was an Officer in Arms as well as a Councellor in Civil Matters to Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick into whose Affairs he was introduc'd by the Lady Anne Beauchamp Countess of Warwick his Wife a Princess most Eminent in that Age for great Birth and Qualities and that in his Last Will he reckons a great Benefactress He was with this Earl at the Battel of Barnet where his Patron was Slain himself much Wounded and the Fortune of King Henry for ever overthrown After this he retired to his Studies and particularly to those of the Law whereunto he had at first design'd his applications and therein he became very Eminent His Father dying afterwards about the Fourteenth Year of King Edward the Fourth and he becoming Master of his House and his Inheritance his Prudence thenceforth and his Worthiness made him so considerable in the County of Bedford where was his usual Residence and chief Establishment as by his Interest and Reputation he govern'd that Country very much This is evident by Letters directed to him from divers Princes who required his aid to several of their Wars by his Attendance with his following of Tenants and Friends which he did successfully afford to King Henry the Seventh both at Bosworth afore he was King and at Stoake Field afterwards against the Earl of Lincoln where he resorted to him in person accompanied with a numerous Assembly of his Relations and Dependants His Services to this King with the knowledge of his Abilities were the grounds of a singular esteem his Majesty had for him which he testified in the Fifteenth Year of his Reign by taking him to live in his own Palace for the use of a private and particular Councellor and after that having received the honour of Knighthood he was made Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster with a considerable Pension a place at that time when the Lands belonging to that Dutchy were more than what does now appertain unto the Crown of great Honour and Emolument And he was made at the same time one of that King 's Privy Council Sir John Mordaunt was very notorious for his advice in matching the King's Eldest Daughter to the King of Scotland and had a great part in the direction of drawing up the Articles of that Treaty between the Two Kings a Copy whereof is yet Extant under his own Hand In fine there were few Men upon whose Counsel that Wise King depended more nor that had done him more useful and agreeable Services from whence proceded the improvement of his Fortune in this Reign For though the King was a sparing Giver unless upon great deserts yet Sir John Mordaunt had very many advantagous benefits at his Hands as may appear in the Proofs by the several Royal Gifts and Offices he bestow'd upon him So as having disengaged several Lordships that had been Morgaged or Encumbred by his Grandfather made new Acquisitions of many others by his own industry and become Master of a large Patrimony in behalf of his Wife who was the Daughter and Heir of Sir Nicholas Latimer Lord of Duntish in the County of Dorset and divers other Noble Possessions in the West of England as the head of a very Antient Family He was in the way to all the Greatness could be coveted by the Ambition of a reasonable Man But near the One and twentieth Year of King Henry the Seventh he was grown old and much wasted through the Cares and Labours incident to a Man busied in three Active Reigns So as falling Sick at London after having receiv'd particular testimonies of the care and concern of his Royal Master he departed this Life and was carried to rest with his Fathers and lyeth Buried in his own Church of Turvey under a fair Tomb of white Marble He had Issue by his Wife the Lady Edith Latimer Sir John Mordaunt first Lord Mordaunt Robert Mordaunt William Mordaunt Joane Mordaunt Married Giles Strangeways of Melbury in the County of Dorset Sir JOHN MORDAVNT Knight Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Privy Councellor to King Henry the Eighth CHAPTER XII JOHN the Eldest Son of Sir John Mordaunt that from his good Qualities was the joy of his Father's Heart as well as the hopes of his House was not like to want good Education under the Conduct of so knowing a Parent he was bred to every thing of which an ingenious Nature could be capable to Learning to Arms to Courtship attending much upon Prince Arthur till he died The first fruit of his Father's great Care towards him was the procuring of his Establishment in Marriage with Elizabeth the Eldest of the Coheirs of Sir Henry Vere that was Lord of Addington which were the noblest and most considerable Inheritrixes of that Age the Wardship of which Sir John Mordaunt his Father had obtain'd of the
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
Mordaunt the Earl's Brother and the Lady his Wife called before her Mariage Mrs Elizabeth Cary had by much officiousness and many endeavors during the King's Exile acquired a great share in his favour but most of all with the King 's Chief Minister the Lord Chancellor Hide afterwards Earl of Clarendon and having great and incomposable differences with the Earl of Peterborow about the settlement of his Estate whereunto against his will they pretended to Inherit they had to encline them to their partiality in case the decision of any of the differences should come to depend on them done sundry ill offices to the Earl so as at the King 's first Arrival he receiv'd marks enough of the King's coldness and the ill impressions they had taken But the Earl of Peterborow who could speak well having means by some Friends of the contrary Faction to have access to the King soon dispersed those Clouds and convinced his Majesty of the Art and Malice of his Enemies and of the untruth of those suggestions which were partly the cause that enclin'd the King and his Minister to suffer the remainders of Rygate to be taken out of the Crown by which the Earl lost one of the Noblest Houses in the South of England and such Lands and Revenues belonging to that Priory as were worth a Thousand Pound of yearly Revenues The King after this promised proportionable Recompence to the Earl and by the interposition of the Lord Chancellor had given him a Commission for Captain General of the King's Forces to be sent into Africa and to be Governor of the City of Tangier To this undertaking then the Earl of Peterborow wholly applied himself and although from the Division of the Councel which did at that time consist of two very powerful Factions neither of them much favouring what ever the other did propose great obstructions and difficulties did arise unto the Earl both in the preparations that were necessary and in the after performance of several things that were undertaken yet with his industry and diligence he overcame the envy and secret opposition of that affair Embarking the ...... of ...... with Three Thousand Three Hundred Men under his conduct and proportionable Provisions for them of every sort and landing at Tangier the ...... of ...... took possession of it for the King of England and establish'd himself Governor thereof The History of his Government there being too long for this place I shall only say That for the time he stay'd there was never place kept in better order better paid better provided for nor where all sorts of Men had better Justice or Protection It is true Two reasons made him desire to be recall'd the first That his spirit and his endeavours were so limited as that little Honor was to be obtain'd by his residence in that place having not Troops enough to march or attempt any thing into the Country nor Money enough to design such Fortifications or so proceed with the business of the Mole as might render the Town safe against an undertaking Army or the Sea advantageous to a Trading Fleet. But the chief Thorn in his Foot was the Envy and Malice of some considerable Enemies at home who endeavor'd to support an under Officer of his own in his pretension of competition to some powers that were incompatible with his Honor and Authority And they engaged the best and otherwise the justest Prince in the World so to favor what that Officer did aim at as the Earl must have submitted to his Adversaries or encurr'd the last enmity from that person for whom he had the greatest service and veneration that could be Seeing it was like to come to that extremity the Earl of Peterborow desired leave to lay down his Government and return It was so agitated by his Friends as that he had it granted with all the circumstances of honor and kindness that could be as appears by a Letter of Thanks under the King's Hand for his faithful and good Services and in consideration thereof he had under the Great Seal of England a Pension granted him for his life of a Thousand Pound by the Year Upon his return he found the King engag'd in a War that was like to prove very fierce between himself and the States of the United Provinces And resolving to acknowledge the King's Bounties on every occasion that should present it self by the constant offer of his Service he desired the Command of a Ship to serve in that conjuncture and it was granted with acknowledgments for the Example But upon notice thereof among the Men of Quality it was so much and so suddenly followed as it put a necessity upon the King to refuse it to others of as great merit and zeal as could be or to have his Fleet commanded for the most part by Men of greater Quality than Experience This put a stop even to the Earl's pretension But since he could not serve in that capacity he was resolv'd to go a Volunteer which he hid in the Ship and company of the Noble Earl of Sandwich they first setting to Sea from Portsmouth But the Fleet soon returning by reason of the lateness of the Season his Lordship did so too remaining that Winter making his court to the Princes The next Expedition which the succeeding Summer did produce he went again to Sea in good earnest and because it was a Second-rate Ship of good force and accommodation he was order'd aboard the Vnicorn Commanded by one Captain ...... Tidiman wherein he remain'd during that great Fight of the Third of June in the Year .... where to his immortal glory the present Great King James the Second shew'd more personal Valor and Conduct than any other Prince of the House of England since the Conquest who had kill'd by his side the Earl of Faymouth his Brother's Favorite and his own his first Gentleman of his Bed-Chamber the Lord Muskery the generous Mr. Boyle with many other Gentlemen and Souldiers The behavior of the Earl in the Ship where he Sail'd was not unsuitable to his Quality and the other actions of his life He encouraged the Souldiers with his Actions and his Words too and the Captain in truth of not too forward a Nature did perhaps more than otherwise he would to hide from his Men the great difference there was between the intrepidity of the Earl and his own circumspection In fine there was nothing scandalous but his Lordship did not look upon it as good Fortune to have accompanied a Man no more sollicitous to get Glory in so great an occasion for that purpose The Earl of Peterborow after his Engagement by Sea had it intimated to him by a private Friend about the Duke That if he thought he could apply himself to a Court-life wherein attendance would be necessary and a particular devotion to all the interests of his Master he believed his Highness would not be unwilling to engage his Lordship in his Service even in
his enemies wish'd that he should be and objections were not wanting from many of them that were in place to speak and in right to be heard in Occasions and Councels of that nature against any seem'd proper to his Friends for his Alliance Some of them 't was said wanted Fortune others were not of Quality enough and there were those that were not bred in the Religion of the Country which in certain Men was not easie to digest At last the good King who it were to have been wish'd had in more things follow'd his own good nature and judgment accepted the proposition made from Spain by Sir Mark Ogniaty at that time Agent here out of Flanders of a Marriage and Treaty to that purpose with the Young Archduchess of Inspruk which was believed would have answered all the objections of Honor Fortune and Fruitfulness more than any Princess that had been propos'd This could not apparently be refused by the Ministers who found the King did himself desire his Brother's Marriage and that the Duke was resolv'd to have a Wife at any rate Therefore the expedient for its hindrance was to propose a Creature of their own one that follow'd the Court and the favor of it by birth a Stranger not concern'd what became of the Succession of England to be sent over in quality of Negotiator of this business This Man was engaged in the affair whom they did manage as they pleased they made him advance it one day and retard it another and at last he did contribute by his skill to so long delays as it became apparent by divers signs of the Empress's ill health that she was not like long to live From that time the Emperor who thought it just he should provide for his own happiness in the first place began to cast his thoughts upon this Princess and his Council for his satisfaction as well as the interest of his House by reuniting the concerns of Inspruk that had been the Appennage of those Archdukes did wholly give their approbation of that conditional intention in case of the Empress's death So that when the Court of England was in expectation of a final conclusion of this Treaty the cunning Negotiator did procure the appearance of it to stop the Mouths of dissatisfied Men and the clamors would have been upon a rupture after a years suspence and chargeable Treaty so as the Duke being then upon the Sea immediately after his Engagement of Sole Bay in the last Dutch War the Envoy at Vienna sent word The Treaty was now ended and there wanted only an Extraordinary Embassador from the King to come to demand and Marry the Archduchess according to the forms towards bringing her into England contenting the King in that affair and making the Duke happy Hereupon his Royal Highness who had long in his mind pitch'd upon the Earl of Peterborow to undertake and manage this great trust not only as the first person about him for his Birth and Quality but as a Man whom he knew could never be corrupted to act or omit any thing might prove contrary to his intention or his service did now declare he should with the King's leave be alone employ'd and trusted as Extraordinary Embassador in perfecting this matter which so nearly did concern him The Earl did at that time attend the Duke in his own Ship He had been with him the whole Expedition and was particularly participant of all the Honors and Hazards of that bloody Battel wherein the Noble Earl of Sandwich lost his life and so many brave Gentlemen in either Party And from off this Fleet it was he commanded the Earl to repair to the King and entreat his orders to the Ministers for preparing Monies Instructions and Instruments that might enable him to proceed upon his journey in order to bring home the Princess had been so much desired At his arrival and first Audience of the King upon this affair he found His Majesty not so warm as he did expect he would not trust the Earl entirely with his indifference but let fall some doubtful words as it were to sound Whether he would comply with more delays But when he found by the steddiness of his Lordship's Answers That he did expect an ingenuous proceeding for his Master's satisfaction His Majesty a little abruptly broke off the Discourse and bid him repair to the Ministers who should have orders to dispatch him with as much speed as the preparations would admit He address'd himself in the first place to the Lord Treasurer who for all his concurrence with the Duke to other ends and enterests by which he had gain'd a most particular share in his Credit and Favour yet he was certainly no friend to this nor wish'd success to any other Foreign proceeding and did comply with if not foment the King's inclination to a farther delay in the affair Whether it was that he would not appear to the approaching Parliament author of a Match of which he thought they were not like to approve or that he hoped the over-long delays would weary the Duke and make him at last content to take up with some Lady for whom this Lord had a favor in the Court at home Certain it is That he receiv'd the Earl's pressing desires for a dispatch with a colder kind of moroseness than he could have imagin'd and in a way as did seem to expect from the Earl an understanding of some thing he was not willing plainly to express The Duke seem'd to believe the obstructions did proceed from the insinuations of another Minister with whom he had long been out upon many other accounts but he being in most things competitor with the Lord Treasurer was glad to have occasion to justifie himself in a thing so tender to the Duke at the reasonable cost of the other and to set the Saddle on the right Horse The account the Earl of Peterborow gave to his Highness of these Affairs brought him with as much hast as matters would admit from the Fleet to the Town And when he arrived the business was so pressed on his side as the Ministers were driven to break or comply with his desires But it is most true That in all the matters expected from the Treasurer he was more dry more stiff and more scarce than was agreeable to the good opinion it was necessary for him to preserve in the Duke's Mind and the Earl of Peterborow was fain to make use of his competitor who had a desire at that time to justifie himself to the Duke and had also much interest with the King to procure from his Majesty upon reasons of publick honor more large allowances than the Treasurer would otherwise have made who thought to have pinch'd the Earl and made his business uneasie on that part for not complying with him in an indirect sufferance of those delays to take place which might have obstructed the Duke's Marriage in any Foreign part whatsoever However those difficulties were
of Parliament The Duke had much to do to get an exemption for himself as a respect to the advantage of his High Birth The Lords Powis Stafford Arundell and Petres were after accused of High Treason and many others In fine Hell was broke loose Malice Revenge and Ambition were supported by all that Falsehood and Perjury could contrive And lastly it was the most deplorable time that ever was seen in England But during all these Troubles the Earl of Peterborow continued firm industrious and diligent to all that could be of use and service to the Duke his Master he exposed himself in Parliament by perpetual opposition of that party he got the ill-will of the City and he made himself obnoxious to the Enemies of the Duke and his Religion in all the Provinces of England he stood up for the Innocent he to his power supported the oppressed and he declared for publick justice against publick malice and publick partiality After this things came to that height as the King was induced to send his Brother out of England whether it were he thought he was not able to protect him against the aversion of the People and Parliament or that he was weary of being urged to those generous ways of defending his Interest and Prerogative which the Duke was always ready to suggest unto him And to this he was urged by his Ministers his Minions and his Mistress The Duke then was forced to retire into Holland and after into Flanders the Earl of Peterborow remaining behind to serve his Master in what might occur in Parliament but at the instance of the prevailing party he was immediately with the rest of his Royal Highness's Friends excluded out of the Privy Council whereof before he had of some years been a Member he fell then to working by himself and all his Friends to strengthen the interest his Master had left behind he endeavour'd to make him Creatures he disabused several that had taken prejudices upon false suggestions And in fine braved his Enemies by all the important oppositions he could make against them and when the Parliament was up and that there was no more opportunity to serve him here his Lordship follow'd him into his Exile with his Wife and Family resolved to run his Fortune and support as well as he could the consequences of their displeasure who were like to be offended at such an adherence And indeed he was no sooner gone than he began to feel the weight of their resentment for there was a Pension he had given him from the King under the Great Seal of England of a Thousand pound by the Year for valuable consideration and which he had constantly received for divers Years from the date thereof that was immediately stopp'd and forbid farther to be paid by the influencing malice of the Earls of Essex and Shaftsbury He constantly then attended his Royal Highness during his stay in those Countries and at an expence as did no dishonor to his Master his Country nor the Quality of which he was and upon his Highness's notice of the King his Brother's being sick and the resolution he took thereupon to repair into England he with the Lord Churchil alone came over with him unto Windsor leaving the Dutchess and the Court at that time behind them I mention this as an introduction to an accident which after happen'd wherein his Lordship and his Royal Master had like to have been much concern'd which was effectually as shall be here set down Upon the Earl of Peterborow's arrival at London after a day or two he went to visit a noble Lady of his acquaintace the Countess of Powis who with her Family were in affliction by reason of the unjust Imprisonment and Oppression of the Earl her Husband at that time in the Tower After some discourses of the times and of the straits wherein it was believed the King the Duke and the Royal Family were all by reason of the seditious proceedings in Parliament and the disaffection had been raised towards them by the wicked Arts of their Enemies her Ladiship ask'd Whether his Lordship did not believe it might be a service to His Majesty and his Highness if some of the considerable leaders in those proceedings and designs could be taken off from their Malice and introduc'd into the King's Service and the endeavours of honestly astssiing the Crown The Earl gave his approbation of the proposition and said He did believe it would be so and that encouragement ought to be given to those that were capable to effect any such matter Her Ladiship told him then she knew an ingenious Woman who from the Calling of a Mid-wife had opportunity of frequenting domestically many considerable Families and that was intimately acquainted even with the Earl of Shaftsbury from whom she had been sometimes trusted with messages if not propositions to his Royal Highness himself although nothing had succeeded thereupon This Woman she said was passionately concern'd for the King and the Duke and had every where made it her business to soften their Enemies and make them Creatures She acquainted her Ladiship That she found divers of them susceptible of reason and to be taken off but they all feared an imaginary implacability in the Duke's Nature and that advancing his power they should but promote their own prejudices by giving him thereby opportunities of revenging the injuries they might formerly have done him So as if by receiving one or two of them into grace from the submissions they should make the rest might be disabused of the error they were in from the conceit of his revengeful Nature she did much believe it would prove of very good effect The Earl of Peterborow told the Countess of Powis he would willingly see this Woman and if the Men she named were considerable enough he would undertake upon due submissions beginning with one to make the rest see the Duke was the most gracious Prince in the World the most ready to forgive and the gladest to reclaim any Gentleman out of an ill proceeding wherein he might have been engaged through mistakes evil Counsel or Company or other Accidents that sometimes have influence over humane nature This Woman whose name was Cellier met the Earl at the same place the next day and affirming all the Countess had said told his Lordship That the fittest Man to begin withal was one Sir Robert Payton The Earl knew this Gentleman had been a Factious a Turbulent and a Discontented Man he had been turn'd out of some Employments by the endeavours and power of certain Ministers which he did after resent and endeavour to revenge upon the Government He had grown very popular presided at dangerous Clubs and carried the being Knight of the Shire for Middlesex against all the endeavours of the Court and the Loyal Party He was dangerously bold and industrious in the Parliament and his Lordship thought it not an ill service to take him off A time was appointed for
pertinentiis praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis contra omnes homines warrantizabimus acquietabimus defendemus in perpetuum per praesentes Noveritis insuper me praefatum Johannem Mordaunt attornâsse constituisse in loco meo posuisse dilectos mihi in Christo Henricum Handson Richardum Stevynson conjunctim divisim meos veros legitimos attornatos ad intrandum in omnia singula manerium terras tenementa praedicta cum suis pertinentiis seisinam nomine meo in iisdem capiendum post hujusmodi seisinam sic inde captam habitam seisinam de iisdem nomine meo praefatis Willielmo Mordaunt Annae haeredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi legitimè procreatis deliberandum secundum vim formam effectum hujus praesentis Chartae meae ratum gratum habendum totum quicquid iidem Attornati mei fecerint seu eorum alter fecerit nomine meo in praemissis In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Chartae meae sigillum meum apposui Data ultimo die Januarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi post Conquestum decimo Per me Johannem Mordaunt Charta Regis Henrici Septimi Ad constituendum Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium ad legem HEnricus Dei Gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus Hiberniae Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Sciatis quòd nos ex mero motu scientia nostra constituimus Johannem Mordaunt unum servientium nostrorum ad legem nec non cessimus eidem Johanni officium unius servientium nostrorum ad legem habendum occupandum exercendum dictum officium nec non ad essendum unum servientium nostrorum ad legem quamdiu nobis placuerit capiendum accipiendum annuatim pro officio illo exercendo ab eodem Johanne vadia feoda vesturam regarda dicto officio debita seu pertinentia prout alii servientes ad legem pro hujusmodi officio exercendo percipient seu habere vel percipere debent In cujus rei Testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium vicesimo quinto die Novembris Anno Regni Regis nostri undecimo Charta Edwardi Ducis Buckinghamiae EDwardus Dux Buckinghamiae Comes Herfordiae Northamptoniae Omnibus ad quos praesens Scriptum nostrum pervenerit Salutem Sciatis nos praefatum ducem remisisse relaxâsse omnimodo pro nobis haeredibus nostris in perpetuum quietum clamâsse Johanni Mordaunt de Turveia in Comitatu Bedfordiae uni servientium Domini regis ad legem haeredibus assignatis suis totum jus nostrum statum titulum seu clameum quae unquam habuimus habemus vel in futurum habere poterimus de in quinquaginta acris terrae duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis separali piscaria in aqua de Ose cum pertinentiis in Turveia praedicta de in duabus acris terrae aqua coopertis de separali piscaria in aqua de Ose in Brafeld juxta Lauenden alias vocata Coldbrafeld in Comitatu Buckinghamiae quae omnia singula idem Johannes Mordaunt habuit ex dono feoffamento Edwardi Comitis Wilts consanguinei nostri quibus omnibus fingulis praemissis idem Johannes Mordaunt seisitus existit Ità quòd nec nos praefatus Dux nec haeredes nostri nec aliquis alius pro nobis seu nomine nostro aliquod jus titulum seu clameum de in praedictis terris tenementis aquis separalibus piscariis caeteris praemissis de caetero exigere vel vendicare poterimus sed ab omni actione juris statûs tituli vel clamei seu aliquid inde petendi sumus in perpetuum exclusi per praesentes Et nos verò praefatus Dux haeredes nostri omnia praedicta terras tenementa aquam separales piscarias cum pertinentiis caetera praemissa praefato Johanni Mordaunt haeredibus assignatis suis contra Abbatem Sancti Petri Monasterii successores suos warrantizabimus acquietabimus in perpetuum defendemus per praesentes In cujus rei Testimonium huic praesenti Scripto nostro duplicato sigillum nostrum apponi fecimus Data undecimo die Februarii Anno Regni Regis Henrici septimi quarto decimo An Indenture between John Mordaunt of Turvey and John Tresham of Rushton THIS Indenture made the Twenty first day of March in the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh between John Mordaunt of Turvey one of the King's Serjeants at the Law on the oon partie and John Tresham of Rushton in the County of Northampton Esquire on the other partie Witnesseth That it is agreed covenanted and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Mordaunt shall endeavour him to get the Marriage of Elizabeth Vere to Marry with John Mordaunt the younger Son and Heir apparent of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant and Amey Vere to Marry with Robert Mordaunt the Second Son of the said John Mordaunt the Serjeant which Elizabeth and Amey being Daughters to my Sister Isabel and to give Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the said Elizabeth Vere for term of her Life to the yearly Value of Twenty Pound and to give to the said Amey Lands and Tenements in Jointure to the yearly Value of Ten Pounds for term of her Life for the which Marriage and Jointure and other Considerations the said John Tresham granteth That in case he be disposed to sell any of his Maners Lands and Tenements within the County of Northampton or elsewhere within the Realm of England That then the same John Mordaunt shall have it and all Maners Lands and Tenements Woods Rents and Services that he shall be disposed for to sell after the rate of Fifteen Years purchace of the clear yearly Value of the same Lands and Tenements to be sold It is also agreed and bargained between the said Parties That the said John Tresham at his pleasure shall give to Isabel Daughter of Sir James Haryngton now his Wife all his Lands Tenements Pastures and Hereditaments in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them for the term of her Life and to give unto Isabel Tresham and Clemens Tresham Daughters begotten between the said John Tresham and Isabel Daughter of the said Sir James all the said Maners Lands and Tenements in Lyneden Churchfeld Owndell Warmyngton Stoke Doyle Aldwyncle Ryngsted Stanwig and Church-Brampton or part of them to have to them and to the Heirs of their Bodies begotten And for default of Issue of both their Bodies begotten the same Maners Lands and Tenements to remain to the said Isabel Sister of the said John Tresham for term of her Life the remainder thereof for default of such Issue or if there be no such Gift made of the same to remain to the said
twenty Years to come grow descend in possession Reversion or in Use to the said Edmond and to his Heirs for ever Provided alway That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace at his liberty to make a Jointure to any other Woman that he shall fortune hereafter to Marry if the said Dorothy now his Wife fortune to decease of and in Maners Lands and Tenements parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks to the yearly value of Forty Pounds for term of Life of the same Woman only Provided also That it shall be lawful to the said John Fettyplace for to declare his Will of the said Maners Lands and Tenements of the value of Three hundred twenty five Marks during the Non-age of the said Edmond and during the Non-age of the next Heir of the said Edmond if the said Edmond fortune to decease before he shall accomplish the Age of twenty one Years And also for to declare his last Will of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Forty Marks parcel of the said Three hundred and five and twenty Marks for the term of Ten Years after the decease of the said John Fettyplace And after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and twenty Years for the preferment of the Younger Sons and Daughters of the said John Fettyplace and for the contentation and payment of his Debts Provided also That it shall be lawful for the said John Fettyplace for to give to every of his Younger Sons which shall fortune to be in Life at the time of the Death of the said John Fettyplace severally by himself Ten Marks parcel of the said Three hundred twenty five Marks during their lives only And if any of them happen to decease that then after the Death of every of them that Ten Marks of him that is so Dead to come go and return to the said Edmond and his Heirs for ever For the which Premises and also for other Covenants Grants and Agreements on the Party of the said John Fettyplace his Executors and Assigns for to be performed and kept the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors and Assigns shall pay cause or do to be paid to the said John Fettyplace his Executors or Assigns Six hundred Marks of lawful Money of England in manner and form following that is to say One hundred pounds of lawful Money of England at the sealing of these present Indentures of the which Hundred Pounds the said John Fettyplace acknowledgeth himself by these Presents to be truly contented and payed And the said Sir John Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns thereof to be quit and discharged by these presents And at the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle next coming after the date of these presents Fifty Marks of lawful Money of England at the Feast of Pentecost which shall be in the Year of our Lord God a Thousand five hundred and twenty five or within twelve days next following the same Feast One hundred Marks of lawful money of England and so yearly at the Feast of Pentecost or within Twelve days next following after the same Feast One hundred Marks until the time that the said Six hundred Marks be truly contented and paid And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Edmond during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye before the said Marriage had between them and before carnal copulation that then Thomas second Son of the said John Fettyplace or he which at that time shall be Heir apparent to the said John Fettyplace shall Marry and take to Wife the said Margaret if the said Margaret will thereto agree and the Law of the Church will so suffer and permit the same and to have like Covenants Grants and Agreements for to be made between the said John Fettyplace and Sir John Mordaunt as well for the payments to be made as for the Marriage of the said second Son or the next Heir apparent of the said John Fettyplace at that time being as the said Sir John should have had if the said Edmond had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That if the said Margaret during the Life of the said John Fettyplace do dye after Marriage had between the said Edmond and the said Margaret and before carnal copulation that then the said Edmond shall marry and take to his Wife Dorothy Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Sir John Mordaunt if the said Dorothy will thereto agree and the Laws of the Church the same will suffer with like Covenants Grants and Agreements and also payments of the same summ of Six hundred Marks as then is and shall be paid for the Marriage of the said Dorothy as should have been if the said Margaret had lived And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth That the said Sir John Mordaunt his Executors or Assigns shall have the keeping and custody of the said Edmond until the time that the said Edmond come to his age of One and twenty Years and that the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall have the said Twenty pounds to the use of the said Sir John his Executors and Assigns any Covenant or Grant in these present Indentures to the contrary made notwithstanding to and for the finding of the said Edmond and Margaret And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Edmond Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond unto the time that the said Edmond come to the age of One and twenty Years And the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said John Fettyplace shall have the keeping custody and rule of the said Margaret as long as it shall please the said John Fettyplace to have her for which the said Sir John shall content and pay to the said John Fettyplace for the finding of the said Margaret as long as the said Margaret shall be in the House or at the finding of the said John Fettyplace Ten Marks of lawful Money of England And if the said John Fettyplace be not disposed to have the said Margaret and to find her himself that then the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns shall at their Costs and Charges find the said Margaret Apparel Meat and Drink and all other things necessary and convenient for the said Margaret unto the time that the said Edmond come to the full age of One and twenty Years And it is further agreed between the said Parties That after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the full age of One and twenty Years that then the said Edmond shall receive and take the Profits of the said Twenty Pounds And also all other parcels as be appointed by these Indentures for the Jointure of
said John More to the use of the said Thomas More and Dorothy and of the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the said John More and of his Heirs for ever And of all other the said Lands and Tenements residue of the said Maners Lands and Tenements before expressed to the use of the said John More for the term of his Life without Impeachment of wast The Remainder after his decease to the said Thomas More and his Heirs for ever discharged of all former Rights Titles Claims Uses Dowers Demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these Presents That he the said John More his Heirs and Assigns shall from time to time during the space of Three Years make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied such further Assurances and Surety to the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs or Assigns or to any other Person or Persons by the said Lord his Heirs Executors or Assigns to be limitted and named of and in the Maners Lands Tenements and other the said Premises with the Appurtenances to the uses and intents before expressed and declared as shall be devised by the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by his or their learned Council in the law at the costs and charges in the law of the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs Executors and Assigns by these presents That he the said John More before the said Feast of Pentecost shall make do suffer and levy or cause to be made done suffered and levied to the said Sir Thomas Audely Sir Gyles Strangeways and other his said Co-feoffees before named their Heirs and Assigns a good sure sufficient and lawful Estate in the law in Fee-simple of and in all his said Maners Lands Tenements Rents Reversions and Services and all other his Hereditaments with their Appurtenances in the said County of Oxford That is to say Of the Maner of More with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton of the Maner of Haddon with their Appurtenances in Bampton of the Maner of Esthall otherwise called Asthall and Astally and of all other his Maners Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions Services and Hereditaments with the Appurtenances in More and Moreton Staunton Harecourt Bampton Clanfield Norton Asthall Esthall and Astally in the said County of Oxford or elsewhere within the said County of Oxford except certain Lands and Tenements in Handborough to such uses and intents as hereafter followeth That is to say Of and in the said Maner of More in More and Moreton to the use of the said John More and of Jane now Wife to the said John More for term of their lives and of the longest liver of them without Impeachment of wast during the Life of the said John More And after the Death of the said John More and of Jane his Wife then the said Feoffees their Heirs or Assigns or the over-liver of them his Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof as at the date of these present Indentures made And of and in the Maner of Haddon in Bampton the Maner of Esthall Asthall and Astally and of all the said Lands Tenements Woods Waters Rents Reversions and Services and Hereditaments and other the Premises before rehearsed in Bampton Esthall Asthall and Astally the said Feoffees their Heirs and Assigns or the longest liver of them and his Heirs to be continue and stand Feoffees thereof to the use of the said John More for term of his Life without Impeachment of wast the Remainder after his Death to the said Thomas More and his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made And the said John More for him his Heirs Executors and Assigns doth Covenant and Grant to and with the said Lord Mordaunt his Heirs and Assigns by these presents That he shall suffer all other his Maners Lands Tenements and all other his Hereditaments with all and singular their Appurtenances whatsoever they be whereof he or any other be seized of in Right Title Possession or in Use other then before expressed and declared except one yearly Rent of Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings which the said John More hath out of the Maner of Newbolt in the County of Northampton now in the Tenure of Sir William Newenham Knight which Nine Pounds sixteen Shillings is parcel of the Jointure of the said Jane Wife of the said John More to come grow and descend in Demeasn Possession Reversion Remainder or in Use immediately after the Death of the said John More and of the said Jane his Wife to the said Thomas More and to his Heirs according to such Estates of Inheritance thereof at the date of these present Indentures made discharged of all former Rights Titles Uses and demands and of all other Charges and Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents Customs and Services to the Chief Lords of that Fee or Fees hereafter to be due only except Provided always That if the said Jane now Wife to the said John More fortune to decease that then it shall be lawful to the said John More to make a Jointure of and in the Maner of More and Moreton to any Wife or Wives that hereafter the said John More shall fortune to Marry during the Life or Lives of the said Wife or Wives any Covenant Grant Use or Article before expressed to the contrary notwithstanding For all which Covenants Grants and Agreements on the part of the said John More his Heirs Executors and Assigns for to be truly observed performed fulfilled and kept the said John Lord Mordaunt doth Covenant and Grant by these Presents To pay or cause to be paid to the said John More his Executors or Assigns Four hundred and fifty Marks of lawful Money of England That is to say at the day of Marriage had and solemnized one hundred Pounds of lawful Money of England And at the Feast of the Purification of our Lady then next coming One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England And so yearly at the said Feast of the Purification of our Lady One hundred Marks of lawful Money of England unto the time the said Summ of Four hundred and fifty Marks be to the said John More his Executors or Assigns truly contented and paid In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid interchangeably have put to their Seals and Sign Manual to these present Indentures the Day and Year above-written A Letter from King Henry the Eighth to the Lord Mordaunt To our trusty and
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
their Chambers and that Night were Bathed and Shriven according to the Old Usage of England and the next Day in the Morning the King Dubbed them according to the Ceremonies thereto belonging Whose Names ensue The Marquess of Dorset the Earl of Darby the Lord Clifford the Lord Fitz-Water the Lord Hastings the Lord Mounteagle Sir John Mordaunt the Lord Vaux Sir Henry Parker Sir William Windsor Sir Francis Weston Sir Thomas Arundell Sir John Hulston Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Savill Sir George Fitz-Williams Sir John Tindal Sir Thomas Jermine Stow 's Chronicle page 610. 40. THE same Twelfth of July word was brought to the Council being then in the Tower with the Lady Jane That the Lady Mary Eldest Daughter to King Henry the Eighth was at Kenhinghall-Castle in Norfolk and with her the Earl of Bath Sir Thomas Wharton Son to the Lord Wharton Sir John Mordaunt Son to the Lord Mordaunt Sir William Drury Sir John Shelton Sir Henry Beddingfield Mr. Henry Jermingham Mr. John Sutierd Mr. Richard Treston Mr. Serjeant Morgan and Mr. Glement Higham A Letter from Queen Mary to Sir John Mordaunt and to the Lady his Wife To our Trusty and Right welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to the Lady his Wife Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and right welbeloved we greet you well And whereas we have received certain Advertisements That our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain was Embarqued at the Groyne Six Days past Forasmuch as we considering that the Wind serving as it doth it cannot be but that he is near the Coast of this our Realm We have therefore thought good both to signifie unto you the Premises and also to require you to put your self in Order withal Diligence to repair hither towards our Court to the intent ye may give your Attendance upon us at the Solemnity of this our Marriage as shall appertain whereof we require you not to fail Given under our Signet at our Maner of Bishopswaltham the Fifteenth Day of July the Second Year of our Reign Vltima voluntas Johannis Secundi Domini Mordaunt probata IN the Name of God Amen The Sixteenth Day of April in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith I Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt calling to Remembrance the uncertain State of these our Transitory Lives and minding to reduce and set in order such Goods Chattels and other things as God hath endued me withal being somewhat weak in Body yet thanks be to God of perfect Remembrance do make my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following First I do bequeath my Soul to Almighty God my only Maker and Redeemer my Body to be Buried within the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford in such decent Order and Sort and with such Funeral Charges and Expences as by mine Executors shall be thought meet and convenient for my Estate and Degree Item I will chiefly and above all things That mine Executors shall pay or cause to be paid unto all and every Person and Persons unto whom I shall at the Day of my Decease be indebted and all and every such Summ and Summs of Money as I shall owe unto them or any of them Item I give and bequeath unto Vrsula my Daughter Four hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of England to be paid her by my Executors at such time as they conveniently may And in the mean time I Will That mine Executors shall find unto the said Vrsula sufficient and convenient Meat Drink Apparel and Clothing necessary for her Degree Item I give unto George Monox and to Humphrey his Son Forty Marks of good and lawful Money of England to be bestowed upon a Bason and Ewre of Silver Guilt parcel Guilt Item I give and bequeath unto Anne Actem one of the Daughters of Margaret Actem my Daughter Two hundred Marks of good and lawful Money of England at the Day of her Marriage or at her Age of Eighteen years which of them shall happen and if it happen the said Anne Actem to dye before her Marriage or before she shall accomplish the Age of Eighteen years then the Gift to her to be void And then my Will is That the said Two hundred Marks bequeathed unto the said Anne Actem shall be imployed and bestowed among the rest of the Sons and Daughters of my said Daughter Margaret Actent as shall be then living Item I give and bequeath unto the rest of the Sons and Daughters of the foresaid Margaret Actem my Daughter Six Pounds thirteen Shillings and four Pence a piece to every of them at their several Ages of Eighteen years Item I will and bequeath to every one of my Servants being no Officers One years Wages over and besides the Wages as shall be unto them due at the time of my Decease Item I will to Anne Witney my Wife's Daughter Forty Pounds Item I will to Mary Price Fifty Marks towards her Marriage Item I will to the Three Children of Henry Witney Five Marks a piece Item I will That my Executors shall bestow Two hundred and fifty Pounds of good and lawful Money of England upon an I le to be builded and made upon the South-side of the Church of Turvey within the County of Bedford aforesaid and for a Tomb for me to be erected and set up within the said I le Item Whereas I the said Sir John Mordaunt Knight Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife and Sir Lewis Mordaunt Knight by the name of Lewis Mordaunt Esquire by one Indenture Tripartite bearing date the Third Day of November the Fifth year of the Reign of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty that now is did amongst other things Infeoff Sir William Peter and Sir Henry Tervel Knights John Talbot Thomas Lucas Edward Tirrel George White Thomas Brownly and Thomas Nichols Esquires and their Heirs of all and singular the Maners Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of me the said John Lord Mordaunt within the County of Essex late the Inheritance of Sir Richard Fitz-Lewis Knight Deceased to certain Uses as by the same Indenture Tripartite bearing date as is aforesaid more at large it doth and may appear Amongst which the Maners of Cranham Gingeraff Tiptofts and Amies in the County of Essex and all Lands and Tenements known by the name or names of Amies and Nokehall and the Farms called Pinkneys and Wareleys with their Appurtenances and all those Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Brownfordmagna in the County of Essex then late in the occupation of one Rowland Walhead or of his Assigns or appointed after the decease of me John Lord Mordaunt and Lady Joan my Wife unto the use and behoof of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of me the said John Lord Mordaunt for the term of Ten years next ensuing the decease of me the said John Lord Mordaunt and the Lady
for default of such Issue then to the use of the Heirs Males of the Body of the said Lord Mordaunt lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue then to the use of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And as for and concerning all other the Maners Lordships Rents Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Lord Mordaunt in the foresaid Counties of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton and in every of them whereof no use after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt is before in and by these Presents limited and appointed The Recovery and Recoveries aforesaid shall be and enure and the Recoverers therein their Heirs and Assigns shall stand and be seized thereof and of every part and parcel thereof after the death and decease of the said Lord Mordaunt to the use of them the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators and Assigns to the end and until that they shall and may have gathered levied and received of the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and of the other Maners Lands and Tenements of the said Lord Mordaunt before in these Presents to the said Recoverers limited and appointed so much Money as shall and will satisfy to pay such Debts Portions and Summs of Money as are hereafter in these Presents mentioned and expressed And as concerning what Debts and Summs of Money and Portions are meant by the said Lord Mordaunt to be raised and paid as well with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before mentioned as also with the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises before limited for the life of the said Lady Mordaunt after her decease and of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Premises limited to the said James Henry and Lewis until they shall or should respectively come to their Age of One and twenty Years The said Lord Mordaunt doth by these Presents express the same to be such as followeth that is to say All such Debts as the said Lord Mordaunt shall justly owe at the time of his decease together with all the necessary Costs Charges and Expences which they the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley shall necessarily expend disburse pay or lay out in about or concerning the same and such other Summ and Summs of Money as the said Lord Mordaunt by a note in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the said Lord Mordaunt shall limit and appoint to be paid and disbursed And also the several Summs and Portions hereafter following videlicet The Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of lawful English Money for and unto the use of Elizabeth Mordaunt Eldest Daughter of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And the Summ of Two thousand Pounds lawful English Money for and to the use of Frances Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which shall first happen And also the Summ and Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful Money of England for and unto the use of Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And moreover the like Summ or Portion of Two thousand Pounds of like lawful English Money for and unto the use of Anne Mordaunt another of the Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid unto her at her Age of One and twenty Years or at the Day of her Marriage which of them shall first happen And also the several Summ and Summs of Two thousand Pounds a piece to each and every of the Children of the said Lord Mordaunt both Sons and Daughters which hereafter shall happen to be Born to the said Lord Mordaunt to be paid at his her or their several Ages of One and twenty Years or Days of their Marriages which of them shall first happen But it is nevertheless meant and intended That if any of the said Children so appointed to have take and receive Portions as aforesaid shall happen to dye before the several time and times limited and appointed for the payment thereof That then his her or their Portions so deceasing shall not be paid at all to the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such of the Children so dying but the same shall go to the benefit of the right Heirs of the said Lord Mordaunt And also the said Earls Sir Francis Fane Sir Edward Ratcliff Sir Thomas Compton and George Sherley their Executors and Administrators shall after the death of the said Lord Mordaunt yearly allow and pay unto the said James Mordaunt Henry Mordaunt and Lewis Mordaunt Sons of the said Lord Mordaunt for and towards their maintenance from the time of the decease of the said Lord Mordaunt until every of them severally shall attain and come to their several Ages of One and twenty Years aforesaid or Days of Marriages aforesaid the several yearly Summs following videlicet Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feasts of All-Saints called Hallowmas-Day to the said James Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the Feast aforesaid to the said Henry Mordaunt during his said minority and Fifty Pounds yearly at the aforesaid Feast to Lewis Mordaunt during his minority and also Fifty Pounds a piece yearly and at the Feast aforesaid to every Son and Sons hereafter to be Born unto the said Lord Mordaunt during the minority of such Son and Sons respectively And if it shall happen the said Lady Margaret do dye before the foresaid Daughters of the foresaid Lord Mordaunt or any of them shall attain to her or their several Ages or Times aforesaid on or at which her or their several Portions aforesaid be or ought to be paid Then the said Recoverers their Executors Administrators or Assigns shall yearly pay at the Feast of All-Saints aforesaid unto such of the Daughter and Daughters of the said Lord Mordaunt then not attained to the Age and Time of her having or wherein she ought to have and to be paid her foresaid Portion according to the appointment of these Presents the yearly Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece for and towards her and their Maintenance respectively to and unto the time when by the appointment and limitation of these Presents her or their said Portions ought to be paid as aforesaid And also the like Summ of One hundred Pounds a piece at the Feast aforesaid and in manner and sort aforesaid unto all and every the Daughters and Issue Females of the said Lord Mordaunt hereafter happening to be born unto the said Lord Mordaunt either in the life time of the said Lord Mordaunt or after his death And it is further the absolute Meaning and Intent of
command all and singular our Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Headboroughs and all other our Officers Ministers and Subjects meet and apt for the Wars within our said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without to whom it shall appertain that they and every of them with their Power and Servants from time time shall be attending and assisting counselling helping and at the commandment as well of you our said Lieutenant as of your said Deputies or any two or more of them as abovesaid in the execution hereof as they and every of them tender our pleasure and will answer the contrary at their utmost Perils In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of our Reign Willis A Commission for Constituting Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Northampton JOHN Earl of Peterborow Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton to all to whom these presents shall come sendeth Greeting in our Lord God everlasting Whereas the King 's most Excellent Majesty by his Highness's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date at Westminster the Sixteenth Day of July in the Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign hath made constituted and ordained me the said Earl of Peterborow to be his Majesty's Lieutenant of his Highness's County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without And because there may be just cause for me to be attendant upon his Majesty's Person or to be otherwise imployed in his Service whereby the said Service of Lieutenancy to me committed cannot be by me in Person executed in such sort as his Majesty hath appointed Therefore his Majesty hath given unto me for my better Aid and Assistance and for the better performance and execution of this Service full power and authority to appoint assign and constitute by my Writing under my Hand and Seal such sufficient and meet Persons as I in my discretion shall from time to time think fit to be my Deputies in the said Service in the said County of Northampton and all corporate and priviledged places within the limits and precincts of the same County as well within Liberties as without giving unto my said Deputy Lieutenants or to any two or more of them full power and authority in my absence to do and execute in his Majesty's said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid all and every thing and things mentioned in his Majesty's said Commission by me to be done and executed Know ye therefore That I the said John Earl of Peterborow Lord Lieutenant of the said County of Northampton according to the tenor and purport of the said Commission have assigned constituted and appointed and by these Presents do assign constitute and appoint Sir Rowland Saint-John Knight of the Bath Sir Rowland Egerton Knight and Baronet Sir Lewis Watson Knight and Baronet Sir Hatton Farmer Knight Sir Thomas Cave Knight Sir Robert Hatton Knight William Elmes Esquire and Charles Cokeyne Esquire to be my Deputies in the said Service within the said County of Northampton and in all corporate and priviledged places within the Limits and Precincts of the said County as well within Liberties as without And whatsoever the said Sir Rowland Saint-John Sir Rowland Egerton Sir Lewis Watson Sir Hatton Farmer Sir Thomas Cave Sir Robert Hatton William Elmes and Charles Cokeyne together or any two or more of them shall execute or do by force of the said Commission within the said County of Northampton and the places priviledged as aforesaid I the said Earl of Peterborow do by authority of his Majesty's said Commission allow and approve the same in all points and every thing as if I my self were there present in Person And the better to enable my said Deputies according to his Majesty's will and pleasure in that behalf I do by commandment of his Majesty deliver unto them and every of them a true Transcript of the said Commission subscribed with my Hand In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal at Arms the One and twentieth day of July in the said Sixteenth Year of his said Majesty's Reign that now is Annoque Domini 1640. J. Peterborow SIGILLVM IOHANNIS COMITIS DE PETRIBVRGO DNÌ„I BARONIS DE TVRVEY A Commission of Array to the Right Honourable John Earl of Peterborow CArolus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Johanni Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Sciatis quod cum quidam Rebelles regni nostri Scotiae regnum nostrum Angliae cum posse non modico hostiliter ingressi fuerunt Nos malitiae hujusmodi Rebellionis gratia nobis favente divina resistere ac pro salvatione defensione nostri regni praedicti ligeorum nostrorum ejusdem disponere ordinare volentes ut tenemur Assignavimus vos ad arraiandum triandum omnes singulos homines ad arma ac homines armatos sagittarios in Comitatu nostro Northamptoniae commorantes infra libertates extra Et ad armari faciendum omnes illos qui de suo corpore sunt potentes habiles ad armandum qui de suo proprio habent unde seipsos armare possint videlicet quilibet eorum juxta status facultates suas Et ad assidendum apportionandum juxta avisamentum discretiones vestras ac etiam ad distringendum omnes illos qui in terris bonis sunt potentes pro debilitate corporum ad laborandum impotentes ad inveniendum juxta quantitatem terrarum bonorum suorum prout rationabiliter portare poterint salvo statu suo armaturas hominibus ad arma ac hominibus armatis ac arcus sagittas Ita quod illi qui morabuntur seu morari poterunt ad domum suam propriam in patria sua super defensionem ejusdem regni contra rebelles praedictos si periculum eveniat non capiant vadia nec expensas pro mora sua apud domus suas praedictas Et ad hoc dictos homines ad arma homines armatos sagittarios fic arraiatos injunctos continue in arraiatione ut in millenis centenis vintenis alias prout conveniens fuerit necesse teneri poni faciendum Et eos tam ad costeram maris quam alia loca ubi quotiens necesse fuerit ad dictos rebelles expellendum debellandum destruendum de tempore in tempus cum aliquod periculum immineat mandandum injungendum ad monstrum sive monstrationem eorundem hominum ad arma ac hominum armatorum sagittariorum de tempore in tempus quotiens indiguerit diligenter faciendum
suppose is done If the Wind continue contrary there will be an inevitable necessity for you to lend some of your Provisions to victual them for their Return which I desire you to do and oblige my self to take care for the restoring it to you again I am Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 9. 1661. A Letter from JAMES Duke of York For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I Have forborn to write to you all this while in answer to several of your Letters expecting still the dispatch of this Bearer Major Fines who hath stayed here solliciting some concerns of his Regiment which he hath now dispatched And to what you desire to know concerning such Offices in the respective Regiments as shall become vacant the King hath commanded me to tell you That when that shall happen you shall fill them up out of such of the same Regiment as by right and merit may pretend to be advanced which I hope will be a great encouragement to the whole Troops under your Command when they see no fear of others to come over their Heads And because some of the Regiments are not compleat of Souldiers according to the establishment the King would have you to keep all such Monies of the vacant places of Common-Souldiers in your Hands to be laid out in recruiting or other uses for every respective Regiment and from time to time to give an account of it here that you may receive further direction This is all I have to say to you at present but to wish you a good Voyage and to assure you that you shall ever find me to be Your very Affectionate Friend JAMES Whitehall December 20. 1661. A Letter from King Charles the Second written with his own Hand to the Earl of Peterborow For the Earl of Peterborow My Lord of Peterborow I am very well satisfied of your Care and Diligence in the imployment you are in for which I thank you very heartily and assure your self I have so just a Sence of this and all your other services as you shall find upon all occasions how much I esteem and value those who serve me faithfully I have no more to add at present only to desire you to let those honest Men know who go along with you That they shall always be in my particular Care and Protection as Persons that venture themselves in my Service and so wishing you a good Voyage I remain Your very Affectionate Friend CHARLES R. Whitehall the 21 of Dec. 1681. JAMES Duke of York and Albany Earl of Ulster Lord High-Admiral of England Ireland and Wales and the Dominions and Isles of the same of the Town of Calis and the Marches thereof of Normandy Gascoigne and Aquitaine and Captain-General of the Navies and Seas of his Majesty's Dominions and also Lord High-Admiral of his Majesty's Town of Dunkirke and of his Dominions of New-England Jamaica Virginia Barbados St. Christophers Bermudos and Antego in America and of Guinny Binny Angola in Africa and of Tangier in the Kingdom of Fez as also of all and singular his Majesty 's other Dominions whatsoever in Parts Transmarine Constable of Dover-Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth c. To Henry Earl of Peterborow BY virtue of the Power and Authority unto me granted by the King my Sovereign Lord and Brother by his Majesty's Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Twenty seventh of February in the Fourteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign I do hereby empower and authorize you the said Henry Earl of Peterborow whom I have nominated constituted and appointed to be my Vice-Admiral of the City and Port of Tangier in Africa and of the maritime Places thereunto adjacent and appertaining to appoint a Judge-Advocate Register Proctor and Marshal of the High Court of Admiralty of Tangier aforesaid for the due and orderly management of all Proceedings in the Vice-Admiralty of the said City Port and Places adjacent and belonging to Tangier aforesaid during the vacancies of the said places and until I shall think fit to give further order therein and for so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Hampton-Court August the Tenth 1662. By Command of his Highness W. Covenny JAMES The Earl of Teviot's Receipt of the Garrison of Tangier from the Earl of Peterborow WE Andrew Earl of Teviot Lord Rutherford Captain-General of his Majesty of Great Britain's Forces in Africa and Governor of Tangier by vertue of his Majesty's Commission to us and his dimission to his Excellency Henry Earl of Peterborow late Governor for his Majesty in Tangier directed do hereby acknowledge to have received of his said Excellency the Earl of Peterborow his Majesty's City and Garrison of Tangier with the Provisions Guns Arms Ammunition and other Utensils of War as by our Receipts and Commissaries Certificate more particularly appears together with the Souldiers Horse and Foot belonging to the said Garrison In witness whereof we have hereunto set our Hand and Seal the Ninth Day of June in the Fifteenth Year of his Majesty's Reign Annoque Domini 1663. TEVIOT A Grant of a Pension to the Earl of Peterborow from King Charles the Second of a Thousand Pounds by the Year for his Life CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To the Treasurer Chancellor Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and Barons of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors and to all other the Officers and Ministers of the said Court and of the Receipt there now being or which at any time hereafter shall be and to all others to whom these Presents shall appertain Greeting Know ye That we as well in consideration of the great Merit and good Service of our Right Trusty and Right welbeloved Cousin Henry Earl of Peterborow already done and performed in possessing and setling our City Fort and Garrison of Tangier in Africa as for divers other good causes and considerations us hereunto moving of our special grace certain knowledge and meer motion have given and granted and by these Presents for us our Heirs and Successors We give and grant unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow one Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds of lawful Money of England by the Year To have and yearly to perceive and receive the said Annuity or Pension of One thousand Pounds by the Year unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and his Assigns from the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God which was in the Fourteenth Year of our Reign for and during the natural Life of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow out of the Treasury of us our Heirs and Successors at the receipt of the Exchequer of us our Heirs and Successors by the Hands of the Treasurer Under-Treasurer Chamberlains and other Officers and Ministers of the said Exchequer for the time being at the Four usual Feasts or Terms
concedimus ad faciendum exequendum peragendum performandum omnia singula in aut per Actum Parlamenti praedicti inactitatum declaratum sive contentum quae ad hujusmodi Locumtenentem per nos vigore Actus illius nominandum seu constituendum aliqualiter spectant virtute ejusdem Actus faciendum exequendum peragendum seu performandum Et ideo tibi mandamus quod secundum tenorem formam effectum Actus Parlamenti illius in hac parte procedas ea omnia facias exequaris cum effectu periculo incumbente In cujus rei Testimonium has Literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vicesimo die Februarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo Per breve de privato Sigillo Barker A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 31. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Civitatem nostram Westmonasteriensem decimo septimo die Octobris proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatemus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo quarto die Julii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo primo Grimston Pengry A Writ Summoning the Earl of Peterborow to the Parliament 32. Caroli Secundi CArolus Secundus Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Rex Fidei Defensor c. Charissimo Consanguineo nostro Henrico Comiti de Peterborow Salutem Quia de advisamento assensu Concilii nostri pro quibusdam arduis urgentibus negotiis nos statum defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae concernentibus quoddam Parlamentum nostrum apud Oxoniam vicesimo primo die Martii proxime futuro teneri ordinavimus ac ibidem vobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus dicti Regni nostri colloquium habere tractatum vobis sub fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini firmiter injungendo mandamus quod consideratis dictorum negotiorum arduitate periculis imminentibus cessante excusatione quacunque dictis die loco personaliter intersitis nobiscum ac cum Praelatis Magnatibus Proceribus praedictis super dictis negotiis tractaturi veriusque Consilium impensuri Et hoc sicut nos honorem nostrum ac salvationem defensionem Regni Ecclesiae praedictae expeditionemque dictorum negotiorum diligitis nullatenus omittatis Teste meipso apud Westmonasterium Vigesimo die Januarii Anno Regni nostri Tricesimo secundo Grimston Pengry The Jointure of the Countess of Peterborow in Turvey THIS Indenture made the Sixth Day of August in the _____ Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. and in the Year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred _____ Between the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Peterborow of the one part and the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Anglesey the Honourable William Mountague Esquire Brother to the Lord Mountague of Boughton Sir William Farmer of Easton in the County of Northampton Baronet and Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath of the other part Whereas the Maner of Turvey and certain Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Turvey in the County of Bedford except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs were settled or intended to be settled upon Penelope Countess of Peterborow for her natural Life for her Jointure and in lieu of her Dower and Thirds of the Estate of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow and a certain Decree hath been made in the High Court of Chancery for the Establishing the same for her Jointure accordingly and it is the intent and purpose of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow that the same shall be enjoyed accordingly Now witness these Presents That the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and in consideration of the Sum of Five Shillings of Lawful Money of England by the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents well and truly unto the said Henry Earl of Peterborow in hand paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof doth clearly and absolutely acquit and discharge the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors and Administrators for ever by these Presents and for divers other good Causes and Considerations him thereunto moving hath Granted Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Admininistrators and Assigns all the Maner or reputed Maner of Turvey in the County of Bedford and all Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whatsoever of him the said Henry Earl of Peterborow situate lying and being in Turvey aforesaid or accepted reputed taken demised or known as part or parcel of the said Maner of Turvey aforesaid except a certain Farm and the Lands thereunto belonging in the possession of John Dobbs To have and to hold the said Maner of Turvey and all the Premises in Turvey aforesaid except as before is excepted unto the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns from and after the death of the said Henry Earl of Peterborow for and during and unto the full end and term of Ninety nine Years from thence ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended if she the said Penelope Countess of Peterborow shall so long live Nevertheless upon this special Trust and Confidence That the said Arthur Earl of Anglesey William Mountague Sir William Farmer and Sir John Nicholas their Executors Administrators and Assigns shall permit and suffer the Rents Issues and Profits thereof to be received and taken in pursuance of and according to the said Decree and according
Sir John or his Deputy thereto be required by the said Rector and Scholars or by their Successors according as it hath been there used in times past in all the foresaid Maners in the said County of Buckingham requiring for him or his Deputies only the Fee rehearsed This Patent by William Shyrby and Henry Brown which William and Henry had it at the Hands of Sir Richard Lyster Gentleman William Shyrby Per me Henricum Brown Alliance between Mordaunt and Fettyplace THIS Indenture made the First day of July in the Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth by the Grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland the Sixteenth Between John Fettyplace of Shefford in the County of Berks Esquire on the one Party and John Mordaunt of Turvey in the County of Bedford Knight on the other Party Witnesseth That the said John Fettyplace hath Bargained and Sold and by these Presents doth Bargain and Sell to the said Sir John the Marriage of Edmond Fettyplace And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That the said Edmond before the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady next coming after the date of these presents shall Marry and take to Wife Margaret Mordaunt one of the Daughters of the said Sir John if the said Margaret thereto will agree and assent And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents that the said Margaret shall Marry and take to Husband before the foresaid Feast of the Assumption of our Lady the said Edmond if the said Edmond thereto will agree and assent The said Marriage to be had and solemnized between the said Parties before the said Feast at the Costs and Charges of the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns And the said John Fettyplace Covenaneth and Granteth by these presents That his Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Edmond for the said day of Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Edmond And in like manner the said Sir John Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he his Heirs Executors or Assigns at their Costs and Charges shall apparel the said Margaret for the day of the said Marriage in all things necessary and convenient for the degree of the said Margaret And the said John Fettyplace Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he before the Feast of Easter next coming after the date hereof shall make cause or do to be made to Sir Gyles Strangeways Sir William Gascoign Knights Thomas Englefield one of the Kings Serjeants at the Law Edward Eynes John Elmes Edward Purfray Philip Fettyplace and William Fettyplace of Maydencote Esquires Nicholas Hardyng Robert Latimer Gentlemen Thomas Nethercote and John Duke and to them their Heirs and Assigns and to the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns such a sufficient sure and lawful Estate of and in Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances in the County of Kent to the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds discharged of all former Bargais Sales Jointures Dowers Uses Judgments Executions Recognisances Statutes-Merchants Statutes of the Staple and of all other Incumbrances whatsoever they be the Rents hereafter to be due to the Chief Lords of the Fee only except as shall be advised by the said Sir John his Heirs Executors or Assigns or by their Learned Counsel at the costs and charges in the Law of the said Sir John his Executors or Assigns be it by Feoffment Fine Recovery Release with Warranty Confirmation or otherwise The same Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized of and in the said Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to such Uses and Intents as hereafter follow That is to say Of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Twenty Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof immediately upon the Marriage had and solemnized to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the clear yearly value of Ten Pounds parcel of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof from the date of these present Indentures to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father unto the time that the said Edmond his Son and Heir apparent come to the full Age of One and twenty Years And after that the said Edmond hath accomplished the said Age of One and twenty Years and after the Death of Dame Alice Besellys Widow that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And of Maners Lands and Tenements to the yearly value of Twenty Pounds residue of the said Fifty Pounds the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs or Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said John Fettyplace the Father for term of Life of the same John Fettyplace the Father without Impeachment of Wast during the Life of the said John Fettyplace the Father And immediately after the Death of the said John Fettyplace the Father and after the said Edmond shall come and be of the Age of One and twenty Years that then the said Feoffees or Recoverers their Heirs and Assigns and the over-livers of them their Heirs and Assigns to stand and be seized thereof to the use of the said Edmond and Margaret and of the Heirs of the Body of the said Edmond lawfully begotten And for default of such Issue to the use of the right Heirs of the said John Fettyplace the Father for ever And the said John Fettyplace the Father Covenanteth and Granteth by these presents That he shall leave Maners Lands and Tenements with the Appurtenances to the clear yearly value of Three hundred and twenty five Marks over and beside the said fifty Pounds before appointed for the Jointure in the County of Berks Oxfordshire or elsewhere within the Realm of England immediately after the decease of the said John Fettyplace and of Dorothy his Wife and after the decease of Dame Alice Besellys Widow and after the said Edmond shall be of the Age of One and