and received the profit thereof to whom the King would have regiven the seale in Anno dom 1229 being the three and twentieth yeare of his raigne but Nevill would not receive it This man dyed in the yeare of Christ 1243 being Anno 27 Henry 3 at his Palace at London not farre from the new Temple Geofrey the Templer and John de Lexington were made keepers of the great Seale but shortly af er this Geofrey had the Seale taken from him because he grew in dislike of the Nobility in continually provoking them to anger Hugh Pateshall Cannon of Pauls is by Mathew Paris Fol 656 called Chancellor in Anno 23 Henry 3 Which I much doubt to be true of his man shall be more saide in the Treasurers of England Simon the Norman keeper of the great Seale in Anno 23 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1229 he had the Seale shortly taken from him and was banished the Court because he would not seale the Patent whereby Thomas Earle of Flanders might take foure pence for every Sacke of Wooll that came out of England into Flanders This Simon dyed in the yeare of Christ 1249 being in Anno 33 Henry 3. Richard Grasse or Grossus Abbat of Evesham the said Simon expelled had the keeping of the great Seale in Anno 23 Henry 3 he kept the Seale three yeares and being chosen Bishop of Chester hee resigned the Seale in Anno dom 1242 being the 26 yeare of Henry the third he dyed being wise and learned in the Canon Law in the same yeare in Gascoigne in a Citty called in Latine Riola or Rigula where he was buried John de Lexington was againe made keeper of the Great Seale in Anno 26 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1242 to execute that Office Ralphe Nevill being in life and still Chancellor but in the Kings disgrace shortly after which this Nevill dyed This Iohn Lexington dyed in Anno dom 1252 being in Anno 41 Henry 3. Ranulfe Briton as I read is saide to be Chancellor and Treasurer of the Chamber about the 37 yeare of Henry the third being in Anno dom 124â— I suppose that he only had the keeping of the great Seale as the rest had before him during the life of Raphe Nevill and so I leave him to the judgement of others sith Matthew Paris continually nameth him Treasurer and once Chancellor who sodainly dyed after dinner beholding players at Dice in Anno dom 1246 being in Anno 30 Henry 3 Of whom thus writeth the saide Matthew Paris in his greater history Fol. 934 Ranulphus Brito quondam Dominus familiarissimus Regi Reginae multis posthabitis nobilibus ejusdem Cancellarius specialis quum post mensalem refectionem aleatores certatim inspexisset colludentes laethalis apoplexia inexpectato vulnere corruit sugillatus Silvester de Eversden received the great Seale in Anno 29 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1246 he was Vice-chancellor and consecrated Bishop of Carleil being a man most cunning in the custome of the Chancery in Anno dom 1247. being in Anno 31 Henry 3. Iohn Mansell Treasurer of Yorke Parson of Maidstone in Kent Parson of Wigan Chancellor of Paules Master or Ruler of Beverley Chiefe Iustice of England one of the privy Counsell to Henry the third his Chaplaine Ambassador into Spaine and a worthy souldier crossed to goe to Ierusalem who at one feast had two Kings two Queenes and I know not how many Noblemen and whose spirituall livings were about 4000 Markes of yearely revennewes â—s I have gathered he was at the will aâ—â—â—â—stance of the King made keeper of the great Seale as Vice-chancellor for Matthew Paris saith Custodiam sigilli regij accepit Cancellarij vices acturus officium about Anno 31 Henry 3 in Anno dom 1247 he built an house of regular Cannons at Rumney one of the Cinque Ports in Kent To this man King Henry the third in Anno 30 of his raigne did grant that his Towne of Wigan should be a Burrough John de Lexington being after chiefe Iâ—stice of the Forrest from the River of Trent Southward was againe keeper of the great Seale untill some part of the 32 yeare of Henry the third in Anno dom 1248. John Mansell againe keeper of the great Seale who at Woodstocke in the 32 yeare of Henry the third did receive the great Seale of the said John Lexington which he kept as I suppose and that with some good proofe untill the 33 yeare of the said King being in anno dom 1248 Of which John Mansell thus writeth an old anonymall Chronicle concerning the Barons warres Sed Johannes Mansell multarum in Anglia ecclesiarum Rector seu potius incubator reddituum quoque quorum non erat numerus possessor magnificus ita quod ditior eo clericus non videbatur in orbe episcopali puta dignitate minime insignitus metu Baronum aufugit latenter ultra mari de Turri London in qua Rex Angliae Regina sua tunc temporis tenuerunt se Quem quum Henricus filius regis Alemaniae fugientem insequeretur ipse capitur quum applicuisset Bononiae a Magistro Geâ—ardo de fines procuratore ut putabatur reginae Radulphus de Diceto was Chancellor as I reade and suppose much about this time William of Kilkenny being a modest wise and faithfull man learned in the Canon and Civill Lawes was made keeper of the great seale in Anno dom 1250. being in Anno 34 Henry 3 He was elected to the Bishopricke of Elie as saith the History of Elie the 18 Calends of September in Anno dom 1255 being about anno 39 Henry 3. But others say that he being then Vice-chancellor was elected Bishop of Elie in anno dom 1254 being anno 38 Henry 3 after that he had faithfully and to his great commendation used and borne the great seale he was consecrated to that Bishopricke in anno dom 1255 and dyed in anno dom 1256 being about anno 41 Henry 3 whose heart was buried at Elie. Henry de Wingham was made Chancellor in anno 39 Henry 3 and continued in annis 41 42 Henry 3 in which yeare as some have and in the 43 of Henry the third as others have he was chosen Bishop of Winchester upon condition that he should give place to Athelmer halfe brother to King Henry the third and sonne to Hugh Brunne Earle of Marshe and of Eleanor King Henry the third his Mother being banished by the Barons if that he should againe come into England and then leave the bishopricke of Winchester unto him which he did upon the comming againe of the said Athelmer into England and for that cause was after chosen Bishop of London in Anno dom 1259 being in Anno 33 Henry 3. and still Chancellor and is buried in Pauls on the South side of the Quire next to Eustachius Bishop of London in a Monument of Marble with this inscription on the wall to tell who it was Hic jacet Henricus de Wingham
qui multa bona contulit ministris ecclesiae sanccti Pauli Iohannes de Fontibus or Iohn defontnes was Bishop of Elie and Treasurer in the Ninth and Eleventh yeares of King Henry the Third and before as I take it this man being Abbat of Fontnes and as authors say Vir simplex justus ac recedens a malo was at Westminster made Bishop of Elie in An. Dom. 1220 hee died after that hee had beene Bishop five yeeres and odde monethes in An. Do. 1225. being the Ninth yeare of Henry the Third and was buried in the Church of Elie toward the Altar of Saint Andrew Walter Malclarke or Lacke latine Treasurer of England was made Bishop of Carleil in An. Dom. 1223. being about the seventh yeare of Henry the third who in An. Dom. 1233. being the seventeenth of the said King was by the counsell of Peter de Laroches Bishop of Winchester not onely removed from his office of Treasurership but also put to the fine of 100. markes which he paid with the losse of certaine holdes given him by Charter during his life After which hee would have fled beyond the Seas but entring the Shippe at Dover hee and all his were staid and evilly intreated by the Kings servants This man in An. Do. 1246. being the 30. yeare of Henry the Third did on the day of Peter and Paul at Oxenford enter into the habit of the Fryer preachers After which in An. Dom. 1248. being about the 32. of Henry the Third he surrendred his soule to God Ranulph Briton by some is made Treasurer of England but untruely as I suppose for in truth he was but Treasurer of the chamber for any thing I can learne and removed from that place in the sixteenth yeare of King Henry the third in An. Do. 1232. in whose place came Peter de Rivall Of this Ranulph is mention had in the Chancellers Besides which about this time I reade that Hubert de Burgo was Treasurer for thus writeth Iohannes Londoniensis Rex about An. Dom. 1232. fecit ipsum which was Hubert de Burgo suum Institiarium principalem totius Angliae postea Thesaurarium Peter de Oriall in Latine called Petrus de Rivallis was Treasurer of the Chamber and Treasurer of the King Chamberline of England and Ireland Guardian of all the Forrests of England of all the Escheats of all the Ports of the sea and of all the Prises of England and Ireland being so deare to the King as saith Matthew Westminster that Expulsis castrorum custodibus per totam ferè Angliam Rex omnia sub ipsius Petri custodia commendarat This man was made Treasurer after Walter Malclarke in An. Do. 1233. being about the 17. yeare of King Henry the third and in the 18. yeare of King Henry the third who as I gather was together with Peter Bishop of Westminster Stephen de Segrave and Robert Parslew called to accounts in An. Dom. 1234. for the Kings treasure and seale evilly imployed and kept whereupon Peter de Revallis hid himselfe in the Cathedrall Church of Winchester which Peter Bishop of Winchester and Peter de Rivallis the King removed by the perswasion of Edmund of Abindon Bishop of Canterbury as they before had removed Walter Malclarke After which it seemeth that growing in o favour againe this Petrus de Rivalis was in An. Dom. 1257. being the 41. of King Henry the third made Treasurer of the Chamber For thus writeth Matthew Paris Circa festum sancti Michaelis which in An. Dom. 1257. Mortuo Hurtaldo Domini Regis consiliario clerico speciali ac Thesaurario de camera Regis subrogatur Petrus de Rivallis Vnder this Peter de Rivallis did Robert Passelew keepe the Kings Treasure Touching which Robert Passelew writeth Matthew Parker Quo etiam tempore which was in An. Dom. 1244. being about the 18. yeare of King Henry the third Robertus de Passelew qui in thesauris regiis custodiendis augendis totus versatâ—s est coque nomine Regi charus ab Ecclesiae Cathedralis Cicestrensis canonicis qui Regi placere studuerant Cicestrensis Episcopus electus est Quod Bonifacius Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus indigne tulit Episcopis provinciae suae convocatis in difficillimis quibusdam nodosis quaestionibus per Lincolniensem Episcopum compositis serio examinavit deinde electione rescissa hunc Robertum repulit Richardum quendam de Wiz loco suo inconsulto Rege substituit Next writeth Matthew Westminster that in An. Dom. 1233. being the 17. of Henry the third the Nobility accused many of the Kings Counsellors amongst whom they placed Robertum Passelew Thesaurarium Againe a little after he saith Et sic absondit se iterum Robertus Passelew qui post WalteruÌ„ Carleolensem officium thesaurarij administraverat Of whose death Matthew Paris writeth thus Eodem quoque anno which was 1252. being the 35. yeare of Henry the third Octavo Idus Iunij obijt apud Waltham Robertus Passelew archidiaconus Lewis Hugh Pateshall Treasurer of the Exchequer which was Treasurer of the greene wax or of the Seale was also treasurer to the King in the 18. and 19. yeares of his raigne and after made Iustice of all England as Matthew Paris hath set downe in these words Rex autem fretus consilio saniori in An. Dom. 1234. being the 18. yeare of Henry the third Hugonem de Pateshall clericum filium videlicet Simonis de Pateshall qui quandoque habenas moderabatur totius regni Iustitiarij virum fidelem honestum loco praedictorum which were Stephen Segrave chiefe Iustice of England and Peter de Rivallis Treasurer subrogavit Administraverat enim idem Hugo officium Scaccarij antea laudabiliter secundum quod appellatur secretum sigillum custodiendo definitam pecuniam a vicecomitibus recipiendo quare plenior fides est ei adhibita paterna fidelitate testimonium fidei perhibente Hee was confirmed Bishop of Coventry in An. Dom. 1240. being the 24. yeare of Henry the third who having beene the Kings Treasurer before did now with great solemnity take his leave of the Barons of the Exchequer with teares and they all rose up and kissed him Of whose election in An. Dom. 1230. to that Bishopricke thus further writeth the said Matthew touching the Moonkes of Coventry Eligerunt secundum praedictam formam dominum Hugonem de Pateshall c. canonicum sancti Pauli London domini Regis Cancellarium in Episcopum custodem animarum suarum Concerning whom I collected this note out of the Register of Westminster that Phillip Coleville Knight the sonne of William Coleville the sonne of Agnes Foliot gave to Richard Abbat of Westminster all his part of the inheritance which was Robert Foliots brother to the said Agnes in London Mortan and Chalneie witnesses Raph Bishop of Chichester Chanceller and Hugh Pateshall Treasurer in the 19. of the reigne of Henry the third which Pateshall Matthew Westminster in the yeare of grace 1234. calleth Summum thesaurarium Galfridus
Templarius whom some will have Treasurer but this man is more spoken of amongst the Chancellors William Haverhull a Cannon of Pauls Church in London was made Treasurer to King Henry the third in An. Dom. 1240. being the 24. yeare of the raigne of the said King Henry in which place he continued in the 28. yeare of the raigne of King Henry the third being in An. Do. 1244 he dyed at London in An. 1252. being the 36. yeare of the raigne of King Henry the third as saith the addition to Matthew Paris fol. 1128. After which the said Author fol. 1226. laied his death in the yeare 1256. being the 39. yeare of King Henry the third such error is crept into Histories by the negligence of the transcriber but I suppose the first note of his death to bee the truer because the same is confirmed by Matthew West speaking in the said yeare 1252. of the death of this man for whose Epitaph these following verses were made Hic jacet Haverhulle jaces protothesaurarie Regis Hinc Haverhulle gemis non Paritura talem Fercula culta dabas empyrea vina pluebas A modo sit Christus cibus esca tibi I have also read a note of one William Haverhull which might be this man which saith that William Haverhull the sonne of Brithmarus de Haverhull gave houses in Cheapeside to the Abby of Westminster and that one Thomas de Haverhull was the sonne and heire of William Haverhull Richard de Barking Abbat of Westminster as witnesseth the lives of the Abbats was one speciall Counceller to Henry the third Chiefe Baron of the Exchequer and Treasurer of England who I suppose did follow William Haverhull for his death which happened on the 23. day of November in the 30. yeare of King Henry the third in An. Dom. 1246. after that he had beene Abbat 24. yeares must needes prove him to be Treasurer before Phillip Lovell yea and peradventure which is most likely before Hugh Pateshall yet Matthew Paris speaking of the death of Haverhulla wil needs have Phillip Lovel to succeed William Haverhul as after shall appeare This Richard de Barking was buried in Westminster Church before the middle of the Altar in our Ladies Chappell in a tombe of Marble which after in the time of William Colechester Abbat of that place was pulled downe by Fryer Combe a sacrist of that house of Westminster who laid a faire plaine Marble stone over him with this present Epitaph thus inscribed Richardus Barking prior postinclitus Abbas Henrici Regis prudens fuit ille minister Hujus erat prima laus insula rebus opima Altera laus eque Thorp census Ocham decimaeque Tertia Mortone castrum simili ratione Et regis quarta de multis commoda charta Clementis festo mundo migravit ab isto M. Domini C. bis xl sextoque sub anno Cui detur venia parte pia vergo Maria. Philip Luvell or Lovell was in this order advanced to the office of Treasurer as appeareth by the words of Matthew Paris upon the death of William Haverhull Et cum crederetur quod Dominus Rex Iohannem Franciscum officio Wilhelmi which was Haverhull subrogaret fabricatis rumoribus quod idem Iohannes in partibus remotis Angliae Borealibus ut contra quosdam religiosos plantaverat obiisset constituit Dominus Rex Philippum Lovell clericum virum prudentem foecundum generosum in loco memorati Wilielmi suum thesaurarium quod factum est apud sanctum Albanum procurante ut dicitur Iohanne Mansell amico Philippi speciali This man was Treasurer in the 35. and so untill the 42. yeare of Henry the third and was in the same yeare deposed by the Barons Hee dyed at Hamesley in An. Dom. 1259. whose executors were Philip Lovell and Robert de Mercenton But his goods after his death the King commanded to be confiscate Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster mention who were the Queenes Treasurers about that time thus obijt Walterus de Brudellejusdem Reginae thesaurarius which hee placeth in An. Dom. 1255. being the 39. yeare of King Henry the third Of the second person Chacepore thus writeth Matthew West in An. Dom. 1254. Veniens autem Rex ad mare nec ventum habens prosperum apud Boloniam moratus est invitus vbi obijt Petrus Chaceporc natione Pictavensis Reginae thesaurarius Regis clericus consiliarius specialis These two Treasurers of the Queenes are supposed by some but not rightly to have beene the Kings Treasurers Iohn Crackhall Archdeacon of Bedford was Treasurer in 42 43 44. yeares of Henry the third to whom the King in the 44. of his raigne being in An. Dom. 1260. gave a Prebendary wherein being invested he was from thence removed by a former collatiō therof made to one Iohn Le Gras. The same Crackhall after died the same yeare at London Iohn Abbot of Peterborough was by the Barons in the 44. yeare of Henry the third made Treasurer as the other Officers of the King also were Nicholas of Ely was then made Chanceller and Hugh de Spencer chiefe Iustice which Office of Treasurership this Iohn continued in the 46. yeare of Henry the third 1262. Nicholas de Elic so called because he was Archdeacon of Elie was Treasurer to the King in the 47. of Henry the third being the yeare of our Lord 1263. whereof I have seene this note of Record Memorandum quod in Crastino Paschae Anno 47. Hen. Regis 3. in praesentia Rogeri le Bigot Comite Norfolke Mareschalli Angliae Hugo le Bigot Arnoldi de Berkeley Baronis de scaccario magistri Iohannis de Chisull Cancellar regis c. recepit Magister Nicholaus archidiaconus Eliensis Thesaurarius subscripta in Thesauraria domini regis c. This man as before appeareth had beene Chanceller of whom is mention made in the catalogue of the Chancellers Thomas Wimundham This man being chiefe Chanter of Lichfield was by the Barons in An. Dom. 1258. in the 41. yeare of King Henry the third made Treasurer at the Exchequer at the Seale or place where the Writts be sealed with greene waxe after which hee was Treasurer to the King in the 50 51 and 52. yeares of King Henry the third Iohn Chisull sometime Chanceller was Treasurer in the 54. yeare of Henry the third being about An. Dom. 1269. He was Deane of Pauls chosen Bishop of London in An. Dom. 1273. and consecrate to that place in the yeare of Christ 1274. in which place he continued about five yeares and died in An. Dom. 1279. being in the seventh yeare of the raigne of the victorious Prince King Edward the first of that name See more of this Chisull in the Chancellors Phillip de Elie was treasurer as appeareth by the Records of the Exchequer in the 56. yeare of King Henry the third and in the first yeare of King Edward the first partly falling in the yeare 1272. and 1273. Ioseph de Chancy whom
a white Lyon the beast which he beare before as the proper Ensigne of that house standing over a Red Lion the peculiar note of the Kingdome of Scotland and tearing the same Red Lyon with his pawes This Tho. Duke of Norfolke married two wives his first wife was Elizabeth the daughter of Fredericke Tilney Knight by whom he had issue Thomas Earle of Surrey after Duke of Norfolk Edward slaine at Brest Admiral of England and Edmond Howard with Elizabeth married to Thomas Bulline Earle of Wiltshire and Muriell married to Iohn Grey Lord Lisle His second wife was Agnes daughter of Philip Tilney Knight by whom he had yssue William Lord Howard of Effingham with many others This Thomas Duke of Norfolke died in the 16. yeare of King Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1544. and was buried at Thetford in Norfolke Thomas Howard sonne to the said Thomas Duke of Norfolke being Earle of Surrey possessed the place of the Lord Treasurer in the 15. yeare of Henry the 8. in An. Dom. 1523. the which office he continued in the 38. yeare of the said King in An. Dom. 1546. in the which yeare on the 28. of Ianuary the said King Henry died so that this Duke and his father were Lord Treasurers of England almost 48. yeares But about some few daies more then a Moneth before the death of the said King that is to say on the 12. day of December this Duke with his sonne Henry Earle of Surrey were committed to the Tower the one by water the other by land Shortly after which the said Henry was beheaded at Tower-hill the 19. day of Ianuary about 9. dayes before the death of the King And the Duke remained as condemned to perpetuall prison till the beginning of the Raigne of Queene Mary who then set him at liberty He married for his first wife Anne the daughter of King Edward the fourth but had Thomas that died young after he married Elizabeth daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham by whom hee had yssue Henry Earle of Surrey beheaded as before Thomas Viscount Bindon and Mary married to Henry Fitzroy Duke of Richmond Hee died about the beginning of the Raigne of Queene Mary Edward Seymer Earle of Hartford was after the death of King Henry the 8. made Lord Treasurer of England in the first yeare of King Edward the sixt in An. Dom. 1546. in which yeare hee was also made protector of England and Duke of Somerset of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker calling him Regni Camerarium in the life of Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury in these words pag. 397. In testamento meaning King Henry the 8. Edwardo Principi minori novem annis nato haeredi suo Sexdecem tutores ex Episcopis solos Thomam Cranmerum Cantuariensem archiepiscopum Cuthbertum Tonstallum Dunelmensem Episcopum dedit And a little after pag. 398. followeth Verum pluribus ut diximus ei minori that was King Edward a patre constitutis curatoribus ne numero suo atque multitudine ad dissentiones faciles essent proclives unus electus est qui ex consilijs reliquorum impuberis regis tutelam solus administraret Is futit Edwardus Seimerus Comes Herefordiensis totius regni Camerarius regisque Auunculus Qui suscepta tutela regis totius regni atque dominiorum suorum proctteor Somerseti Dux nuncupatus atque creatus est This Duke of Somerset being Treasurer of England continued in the same office untill his death which was more then 4. yeares and was beheaded in the fift yeare of Edward the sixt in An. Dom. 1551. Sir William Paulet Knight Marquesse of Winchester was made Lord Treasurer upon the death of the Duke of Somerset in the fift yeare of Edward the sixt in An. Dom. 1551. Which office hee kept by the space of Twenty yeares and more a longer time then ever any other Treasurer had done before except the two last Dukes of Norfolke This man being a man of extreame age as attaining to the yeares Ninetie Seven died Lord Treasurer of England the tenth of March in An. Dom. 1571. being the 14. yeare of the Raigne of the famous Queene Elizabeth at his Mannor of Basing Hee in his life time did see the Children of his Childrens Children growne to the number of One Hundred and Three a rare blessing of God to men of his calling He maried Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William Capell Knight by whom he had issue Iohn Marquesse of Winchester Thomas Chidiocke and Giles Alice married to Richard Stowell Margaret married to Sir William Berkeley Margery married to Richard Waller and Eleanor married to Sir Richard Perckshall Sir William Cecill Knight principall Secretary of State created Lord Burghley upon the death of the Marquesse of Winchester was made Lord Treasurer of England the 13. Iuly 1572. being in the 14. yeare of the reigne of Queene Elizabeth and continued in that office during his life being also elected unto that most noble Order of the Garter Chancellor of the Vniversity of Cambridge and a Commissioner for the Office of Earle Marshall of of England Thomas Sackvill Barron Buckhurst heire Male of that ancient Familie that have flourished in a continued series from the Conquest and comming over out of Normandie deserved Nobly in that action was made Lord Treasurer the 15. of May in the 41. yeare of Queene Elizabeth and continued in that office during his life Hee was after by King Iames Created Earle of Dorcet the 13. of March 1603. being Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter and Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford Sir Robert Cecill second son to William Lord Burghley being Principal Secretary of State to Queene Elizabeth and after to King Iames was by the said king created Baron Cecill of Essendon the 13. of May 1603. vicount Cranborne the 20. of August 1604. and Earle of Salisbury the 4. of May in the sixt yeare of King Iames and upon the death of the Earle of Dorcet hee was made Lord Treasurer of England and continued in the place till his death Thomas Lord Howard of Walden second sonne to Thomos Howard Duke of Norfolke created Earle of Suffolke by King Iames being then Lord Chamberlaine and Knight of the Garter was made Lord Treasurer of England the 12. of Iuly in the 12. yeare of the raigne of King Iames. Sir Henry Montague Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench was made Lord Treasurer of England the 14. of December in the 18. yeare of King Iames and the 19. day of the same moneth and yeare he was Created Baron of Kimolten Castle in Huntington-shire and Vicount Mandevile and immediately after the Coronation of King Charles he was created Earle of Manchester Lyonell Lord Cranfield of Cranfield in the County of Bedford so created by Letters Patents bearing date the 9. of Iuly 1621. was made Lord Treasurer the 19. of October following and created Earle of Middlesex the 19. of October 1622. Sir Iames Ley Knight and Baronet Lord Cheife Iustice of the Kings Bench was made Lord Treasurer of England the 22. of December in the 22. yeare of the raigne of King Iames and upon the 31. day of the same Moneth he was created Baron Ley of Ley in Devonshire and immediately after the Coronation of King Charles he was created Earle of Marleburgh in Wiltsshire Richard Lord Weston Chancellor of the Exchequer upon the remove of the Earle of Marleburgh was made Lord Treasurer of England upon the 15. day of Iuly in the 4. yeare of King Charles and was after that created Earle of Portland in Dorcetshire by Letters Patents bearing date the 17. day of February in the eighth yeare of the raigne of King Charles Vpon the death of the said Earle of Portland his Majestie appointed Commissioners for the said office viz. William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Henry Earle of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Francis Lord Cottington Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Iohn Cooke and Sir Francis Windebank Knights Principall Secretaries of State The right reverend Father in God William Iuxon first Lord Bishop of Hereford then translated to London and made deane of the Kings Chappel and called to be of the Privy Councell and was made Lord Treasurer of England the Ninth day of March 1635. FINIS
because I know not his surname Philip Chancellor to King Stephen about the fourth yeare of his raigne being in Anno dom 1139. witnesse to many Deeds which King Stephen made to the Monkes of Elie and to Nigellus the Bishop of that See Reinold Abbat of Walden whom I have seene in one anonymall briefe Chronicle M S to be termed Chancellor but in what time he lived or what other name he had I doe not yet know but by the course of the history much about this time John Chancellor of England in the time of King Henry the second Thomas Becket made Chancellor as some write in the first yeare of the raigne of King Henry the second others say in the fourth yeare but the best authours agree that he gave over the Seale in Anno dom 1162 being in the eight yeare of the victorious Prince King Henry the second against the will of the Prince he dyed in Anno dom 1170. Ralphe Warnevile Archdeacon of Roane and Treasurer of the Church of Yorke was made Chancellor about the yeare 1173 being in Anno 8 Henry the second Of this man speaketh Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster Walterus de Constantijs Archdeacon of Oxford Bishop of Lincolne in Anno dom 1182 from whence he was advanced in Anno dom 1184 being in Anno 31 Henry the second unto the Arch-bishopricke of Rome Geofry the bastard sonne to King Henry the second after he had surrendred the Bishopricke of Lincolne whereof he was never consecrate Bishop but kept the place and received the revenues was made Chancellor much about Anno 26 Henry the second in Anno dom 1181. William Longchampe the proud Bishop of Elie Legat of England for the Bishop of Rome cheife Iustice of the South and West parts of England Deputy of that part of the Realm when Richard the first went to the warres of the holy Land was made Chancellor in Anno 1 Richard the first being in Anno Dom. 1191 of the sumptuous feast of whose inthronization thus writeth Ferthulphus or Ferculphus by the way of comparison Praevisis alijs Eliensia festa videre Est quasi praevisa noste videre diem He dyed in the yeare of Christ 1197 going to Rome in the Abbey of Pimie being of the Charterhouse order about which time in Anno 6 Richard the first there was a Vice-chancellor called Malus Catulus Eustachius Deane of Salisbury was Chancellor of England being elected Bishop of Ely in the third Ides of August in Anno dom 11â—6 being in Anno 9 Richard 1 Of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury contrary to that which others affirme writing that Eustachius succeeded William Longchampe in the Office of Chancellor and in the Bishopricke of Ely The words of Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert be these Hubertus deposito magistratu civili ecclesiae curae totus vacabat consecravitque postea Robertum de Solopesbi episcopum Banchorensem Eustachium qui in cancellarij munere ei successit Eliensem episcopum VVestmonasterij debita accepta ab utroquesubjectionis professione Hubert Walter or Walter Hubert for such a transmutation of the name is used by authors being first Bishop of Salisbury and then Archbishop of Canterbury was made Chancellor shortly after the Coronation of King John which was in Anno dom 1199 at what time a certaine Nobleman saide unto him in scorne I have often seene of a Chancellor made a Bishop but I never before saw an Archbishop made a Chancellor Simon or rather Hugh of which is more hereafter Arch-deacon of Wels in the first yeare of King John after as I suppose that Hubert had left the Office being so disgraced and abased as he thought was witnesse to a Deed in which King John granted to the Cittizens of Yorke a guildhall hanse and other liberties as I have seene noted in the Copy of the same Charter for which cause I have set it downe as another man although in truth I am fully resolved that this Simon and the Hugh following were all one person leaving it yet for every mans Iudgement Hugh de Wels Archdeacon of Wels witnesse to the Deed in which King John in the sixt yeare of his raigne confirmed to the Monastery of Westminster Gistslep or Islep in Oxfordshire in which house Edward the Confessor was borne he was made Bishop of Lincolne about Anno 10 of the raigne of King John in Anno dom 1209 and dyed in the yeare of our Lord 1235. Walter Gray chosen Bishop of Chester in anno dom 1210 was Bishop of Worcester and after Bishop of York a man of extream age was made Chancellor in the seaventh yeare of King Iohn as one anonymal Chronicle saith to hold that Office during his life Others say that he was made Chancellor in anno dom 1209 being the tenth yeare of King John after Hugh de Wels. But I suppose hee surrendred that Patent to hold it during his life when he came to be Bishop of Yorke Richard de Marischo whom Mathew Paris termeth Tholenarius as it were Toll-gatherer or Treasurer if you list being Archdeacon of Northumberland was Chancellor in the fourth yeare of King John as appeareth by a Deed that I have seene and further he was made Chancellor in Anno 15 of King John in which Office he continued to the 17 yeare of the said King and as some do write during King John his life and died about the kalends of May in Anno dom 1226 in Anno 10 of the long raigne of King Henry the third as some have but the Booke of Durham saith that he was made Bishop of that See by Gwado the Legat and consecrated by Walter Gray Bishop of Yorke in Anno dom 1214. being about Anno 16 of King John and dyed sodainely at Peterborough the first day of May in Anno dom 1226 being the t nth yeare of King Henry the third after that he had beene Bishop of Durham nine yeares For whom this formall Epitaph was made Culmina qui cupi tis laudes pompasque sui tis Et sedata si t is si me pensare veli tis Qui populos regi tis memores super omnia si tis Quod mors immi tis non parcit honore poti tis Vobis praeposi tis similis fueram bene sci tis Quod sum vos eri tis ad me currendo veni tis Ralphe Nevill was confirmed Chancellor as it seemeth by the whole consent of the Nobility in Anno dom 1226 being about Anno 10 Henry 3 after which he was made Bishop of Chichester in Anno 11 Henry 3 being in Anno dom 1227 or as hath Mathew VVestminster he was made Bishop of Chichester in Anno dom 1223 being before Chancellor after which the King in Anno 22 of his raigne offended with Nevill tooke from him the great Seale and delivered it to Geofry of the Temple as hath Mathew Paris and Iohn de Lexington although that the said Nevill remained still Chancellor
divers other Priests standing round about them After his installation he returned to the dispatche of the affaires of the Kingdome committing the charge of his Bishoppricke to one Ralph sometime a Moonke of Glastenbury and now become an Apostata Great contention was betweene this man and King Stephen Hee bought the Treasurership for the Summe of Foure Hundred Markes of Henry the second for his sonne Richard filius Nigelli or Fitz Neale otherwise called Richard of Elie. He governed the Bishoppricke Sixe and Thirty yeeres as some say and builded Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge Trivet affirmeth that he died in the yeere of Christ One Thousand One Hundred Sixty and Nine and the Fifteenth of King Henry the second after that he had governed Sixe and Thirty yeares he was honorably buried in the Church of Saint Ethelred of Elie before the Altar dedicated to the Holy Crosse Richard of Elie or Fitz Neale sonne of the said Nigellus Bishop of Elie was made Treasurer to King Henry the second by the purchase of his father Nigellus when the King went to the warres of Tolous Of whom the Historie of Elie writeth That after the buriall of Nigellus his Father this Richard being also an enemy of the Church of Elie as his father had beene before made hast to passe over the Seas to King Henry the second fearing that some evill would be prepared against him if the Church should have sent any other thither before him At whose comming to the King he accused the Monkes of many things and did therewith so edge the King against them that the King sending into England charged by Wunndrus one of his Chaplens that the Prior of Elie should bee deposed and the Moonkes with all their goods to be proscribed banished This man being Treasurer to King Henry the second the Treasure of the said Henry the second at his death came unto One Hundred Thousand Markes notwithstanding the excessive charges of the King many waies Which Richard being Bishop of London by the name of Richard the Third and the Kings Treasurer was chosen to that See in the yeare of our redemption One Thousand Eightie and Nine beeing the first yeere of King Richard the first and was consecrated Bishop at Lambeth by Baldwine Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeare of Christ 1190. He died the fourth Ides of September in the yeare of grace 1198. being the Ninth yeere of King Richard the first William of Elie being of kinne to the last Richard Bishop of London was Treasurer to King Richard the first and to King Iohn To which William then Treasurer Richard his kinsman the Bishop of London An. Do. 1196. being the seventh yeere of the raigne of Richard the first and the said number of yeares of the governement of the said Richard in the Bishoppricke of London did give all his houses in Westminster which the said William did long after give to the Abbat and Moonkes of Westminster as by the Charter thereof appeares in this sort abridged Vniversis Christi fidelibus ad quos praesens scriptum pervenerit Gulielmus de Elie quondam Regum Angliae Thesaurarius salutem Noverit universitas vestra me dedisse c. Deo Monachis Westminster c. pro animabus Richardi Iohannis Regum Angliae pro amima Richardi London Episcopi c. Domos meas curiam cum pertinentibus in villa Westminster c. quas habui ex dono Richardi Episcopi London quae sunt de feodo Westminster c. Testis Eustachius Fauconbridge Domini Regis Thesauraius c. He dyed in the yeare of Christ One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty Two being the Sixt yeare of the long reigne of King Henry the Third As noteth Matthew Paris and Westminster who write that then Objit Gulielmus Eliensis Angliae Thesaurarius A Deane of Pauls was Treasurer to the King as appeares by Matthew Parker in the life of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury writing after this manner Eodem tempore which was a time between the creating of Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeere of Christ 1194. being the sixt yeere of Richard the first and the death of the said Richard the first which fell in the yeare of Christ 1199. Ecclesiae Paulina Decanus aerarij regi custos fuit sive ut vocant Thesaurarius and so goeth on with a discourse of his miserable death Walter Gray Bishop of Worcester whom some call Treasurer in the Eleventh of King Iohn Geffery Archdeacon of Norwich Treasurer to King Iohn who forsooke his Master the King beeing excommunicated by the Pope as writeth Matthew Parker in the life of Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury in these following words Inter quos meaning the Bishops which durst not openly publish the excommunication of the King but secretly cast libels about the high waies which gave notice thereof quam ad fiscum Regium Gaufridus Norvicensis Archidia conus negotijs regijs intendens sedisset coepit assidentibus exponere excommunicationis sententiam in Regemjam latam affirmavitque non esse tutum Capellanis Ecclesiasticis dignitatibus beneficijsque affectis servire Regi amplius Ideoque aulam deserens ad Ecclesiastica beneficia quae Regis servitio acquisierat secessit Rex hunc tam proditorie a se deficientem per Willielmum Talbot Militem prehendi ad se reduci fecit cumque in publica custodia servatum donec sive paenae siue conscientiae taedio pertaesus vitae fuit expiravit detinuit whose manner of death is in this sort set downe by Mat. Paris Pag. 305. that he was committed to prison Vbi post dies paucos Rege praefato which was King Iohn jubente capa indutus plumbea tam victualium penuria quam ipsius capae ponderositate compressus migravit ad dominum Much about this time as I suppose which was An. Do. 1209. being about the Eleventh yeere of King Iohn the Chequer was by the King removed from London to Northampton in hatred of the Londoners untill Christmas Iohn Ruthall Custos Officij Thesaurarij as is proved out of the Records of the Exchequer had that office the third yeere of Henry the third in the yeare 1219. Eustachius de Fauconbridge a Iustice to receive fines Chanceller of the Exchequer and Treasurer to Henry the Third was by the Bishop of Rochester consecrated Bishop of London in An. Do. 1221. being the fifth yeare of King Henry the Third which Eustachius in the yeere 1222. with the Deane and Chapiter of London had great suites against William Abbat of Westminster he was Treasurer in the third yeere of King Henry the third being about An. Do. 1219. he died the day before the Kalends of November in An. Dom. 1228. being the 13. of King Henry the third and is buried on the south side of the Queere of Pauls besides Henry Wengham under a faire Monument of Marble over whom on the wall is this inscription Hicjacet Eustachius de Fauconbridge quondam Episcopus hujus Ecclesiae
on anomynall author calleth Iohn Chancy but not rightly as I suppose was Treasurer in the second yeare of King Edward the first being in An. Dom. 1274. William Gifford Bishop of Bathe and Welles was Treasurer to Edward the first hee was removed to Yorke in An. Dom. 1275. This man is by many Chronicles and that perhaps most truely called Walter Gifford He dyed in the 7. yeare of King Edward the first being An. Dom. 1279. as hath Nicholas Trivet Of this man see more in the Chancellers of England Robert Burnell Bishop of Bathe and Welles Chanceller of England and Treasurer to King Edward the first is by the Welsh-history pag. 328. called chiefe Iustice of England Leland reporteth that an Abbat told him how that a Bishop Burnell built the Castle of Acton Burnell Of this man more is spoken in the Chancellors of England Ioseph de Chancy the second time Treasurer to King Edward the first in the sixth yeare of the said King in An. Dom. 1278. was also Prior of Saint Iohns of Ierusalem in Anglia as I take it and by another name called the Lord of Saint Iohns or of the Knights of the Rhodes in England Thomas Becke Archdeacon of Dorcester was Treasurer in the seventh yeare of Edward the first in An. Dom. 1278. as some have but 1279. as other have by the witnesse of Leland out of a Moonke of Glastenbury in his booke De assertione Arthuri reciting the words of the said Moonke in this sort An. Dom. 1267. Edvardus Rex Henrici Tertij filius venit cum Regina sua Glasconiam Die vero Martis proxima sequenti fuit Rex tota Curia accepta sumptibus Monasterij Quo die in crepusculo fecit apperiri sepulcrum inclyti Arthuri ubi in duabus cïstis imaginibus armis eoruÌ„ depictis ossa dicti Regis mirae grossitudinis separata invenit Imago quidem Reginae coronata imaginis regiae corona fuit prostrata cum abscissione sinistrae auriculae vestigijs plagae unde moriebatur Inventa est scriptura superhis singulis manifesta In crastino viz. Die Mercurij Rex ossa regis Regina ossa reginae pallijs pretioâ—is revoluta in suis cistis recludentes sigilla sua apponentes praeceperunt idem sepulchrum ante majus altare celeriter collocari retentis externis capitibus propter populi devotionem apposita hujusmodi scriptura Haec sunt ossa nobilissimi Regis Arthuri quae Anno Dominicae incarnationis 1278. decimo tertio Calendas Maij per Dominum Edvardum Regem Angliae illustrem hic fuerunt sic collocatae praesentibus Leonora serenissima ejuseum Regis consorte filia Domini Ferandi Regis Hispaniae Magistro VVilliam de Middleton nunc Norwicensi electo Magistro Thoma de Becke Archidiacono Dorsitensi predicti regis Thesaurario Domino Henrico Lasciae Comite Lincolniae Domino Amideo comite Subaudiae multis magnatibus Angliae Thus farre the Moonke of Glastenbury Richard Warren or de Ware Abbat of Westminster was made Abbat about An. Do. 1260. being about the 44. yeare of Henry the third who was made Treasurer as hath Iohn de Eversden An. Dom. 1280. being the 8. yeare of Edward the first which yeare 1280. some doe falsely make to fall in 10. some in 11. of Edward the first which contrariety hath onely risen by the default of the transcriber But most certaine it is that he was Treasurer in the 9. 11. and part of 12. of the said Edward the first This man going to Rome for his consecration brought from thence certaine workemen and rich purphury stones whereof and by whom hee made that rare pavement containing a discourse of the whole world which is at this day most beautifull and to be seene at Westminster before the communion table a thing of that singularity curiousnesse and rarenesse that England hath not the like againe in which pavement are circularly written in letters of brasse these Ten verses following Si lector posita prudenter cuncta revolvat Hinc finem primi mobilis inveniet Sepes trina canes equos homines super addas Cervos corvos aquilas immania cete Mundum quodque sequens praeeuntis triplicat annos Sphericus archetypum globum hic monstrat microcosmum Christi milleno bis centeno duodeno Cum sexageno subductis quatuor anno Tertius Henricus Rex urbs Odoricus abbas Hos compegere purphyreos lapides Which Abbot with those workemen and those stones did also frame the shrine of Edward the Confessor with these verses carved out of stone and also guilded set about the same Shrine or Monument Anno milleno Domini cum Septuageno Et bis centeno cum completo quasi deno Hoc opus est factum quod Petrus duxit in actum Romanus civis Homo causam noscere si vis Rex fuit Henricus sancti praesentis amicus This Abbat died the second day of December in An. Dom. 1283. being the 12. of Edward the first after that hee had governed the Monastery 23. yeares and more and was buried there at Westminster in the aforesaid plaine pavement of Purphury on the North side neere unto the Tombe as is yet well to be seene of Odomer or Aimer de Valence Earle of Pembrooke on which grave is ingraven this briefe Epitaph here insuing Abbas Richardus de Wara qui requiescit Hic portat lapides quos hic portavit ab urbe Walter Wenlocke Abbat of Westm. whom Matthew Westm calleth William de Wenlock was made Abbath of Westminster after the death of Richard de Ware and was Treasurer to King Edward the first as hath the Register of the lives of the Abbat of Westminster and other records that I have seene Which office it seemeth hee had meane time betweene the 12. and 14. yeares of Edward the first as I suppose This man after that he had beene Abbat 26. yeares lacking sixe dayes died the 25. day of December on the Christmas day at night in his mannor of Piriford in Gloucestershire in the first yeare of Edward the son of Edward which was Edward the second in An. Do. 1307. and was buried in the Church of Westminster besides the high Altar then standing without the South dore of Saint Edwards Shrine before the Presbiterie there under a plaine pavement a Marble stone decently adorned with this Epitaph to his high commendation Abbas Walterus jacet hic sub marmore tectus Non fuit Austerus sed mitis famine rectus A Bishop of Coventrie and Lichfield was Treasurer of England in the 14. yeare of Edward the first being An. Dom. 1286. in whose place the same yeare came Iohn Kerkbie Iohn Kerkbie Deane of Winburne and Archdeacon of Coventrie and Treasurer to King Edward the first was on the seventh Kalends of August in An. Do. 1286. being the 14. yeare of the said Edward then at Paris made Bishop of Elye whom Leland the Refiner of all names doth in his Comment vpon his song
THE CATALOGVE OF THE CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND THE LORD Keepers of the Great Seale AND THE LORD TREASVrers of England With a Collection of divers that have beene Masters of the Rolles By J. P. Summerset Herald Printed at London by Tho. Cotes and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke in Pauls Church-yard 1636. CRESCAM UT PROSIM CONSTANTER ET PRUDENTER The Right honble Sr Alex Campbell of Cesnok one of the Senators of the Colledge of Justice and one of the Lords of Her Maties most honble Pray Counsell Exchequer c 17â—7 To the right Honorable and excellent Lord Thomas Howard Earle of Arundell and Surrey Primer Earle and Earle Marshall of England Baron Howard Mowbray Segrave Brewes of Gower Fitzallan Clun Oswalderstree Maltravers and Greystock Iustice in Eyre of all the Kings Forrests Parkes and Chaces beyond the River of Trent Lievetenant generall to his Majestie in the Provinces of Norfolke Sussex Surrey Northumberland Westmerland and Cumberland of the Privy Councell to his Maiestie in England Scotland and Ireland and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter MY LORD I Have received many encouragements by Friends that have perused these Collections to render them to the publicke which cannot bee done without your Lordships approbation and permission to the Presse The Catalogues of the great officers in France long since printed have offorded much contentment and do worthily preserve the memory of such as merited in those places and their qualities And as I have no other but the same end in the publishing of these So I will comfort my selfe with an humble hope that it will give no discontentment The incouragements your Lordship hath conferred up on the office of Armes in generall my selfe in particular with a bountifull hand may give your Lordship just occasion to expect some fruite of our indeavours If these may passe in that estimate but for blossomes it will be more then they demerite And if your Lordship shall conceive them worthy to bee communicated to the world I most humbly crave leave that they may passe under Dedication to your Lordship which grace and favour will give them life and acceptation and very much incourage and comfort Most noble Lord To Your thrice humble and most obliged servant IOHN PHILIPOT Summerset Herald To my very loving friends the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers at Stationers Hall in London these LEt the Catalogue of the Chancellors of England the Lord Keepers of the great Seale and Lord high Treasurers of England Collected by Iohn Philipot Summerset be printed Arundell and Surry Arundell House the 16. of March 1635. CANDIDE ET CONSTANTER MErcedem meritis postponis legibus aurum Quod nunc prodigii pondus instar habet Consilio multis opibus succurris egenti The Preface THE Catalogue or Series of the Chancellors of England hath beene with much care and diligence laboured by Robert Glover Somerset Herauld of Armes and after him by Francis Thinne Lancaster Herauld whose M. S Collections J have by me and in them a thankfull commemoration is made of Mr. Thomas Talbots kinde assistance hee being Clerke of the Records in the Tower of London where the Charters and their Dates that afford the exactest testimonies of them are to be found for many Ages past So that J shall not neede to cite the vouchers and proofes at large Neither will I be so false to my selfe or my Reader as to conceale that the worthy and reverend Antiquarie Sr. Henry Spilman Knight in his Glossary hath summarily mentioned them The nature of the Office is most accurately described by him in that worke and also by Mr. William Camden Clarenceux King of Armes in his History of Great Brittaine in the description and definition of the severall Courts of Justice in this Kingdome to which J referre those that desire to be particularly informed in that kinde Pollidor Virgill would perswade us the Office and name of Chancellor was not known in this Kingdome till after the Norman Conquest and the Author of the Catalogue of Bishops is positive in that opinion speaking of Swithen Bishop of Winchester the opinion of whose piety procured him the title of a Saint But the contrary is most cleere and evident as by the Authorities hereafter mentioned will appeare to which I referre my Reader A CATALOGVE OF THE CHANCELLORS of England from the time of the SAXON Kings TVrketill was Chancellor to King Ethelbald who began his reigne in the yeere 718. this Turketill gave six Mannors to the Abbey of Croiland St. Swithen Bishop of Winchester was Chancellor and chiefe of Councell to the great Monarch King Egbert who began his reigne about the yeere 802. Wolfinus was Chancellor to King Athelstone who began his raigne in the yeare 924. This King inriched the Monastary of Malmesbury in Wiltshire with large and ample indowments and bestowed great immunities upon the Towne And in the Charter and grant of those Liberties ths Wolfinus is a witnesse with the title of Chancellor Turketill was Chancellor to the said King Athelstone and so continued under King Edmund who began his raigne in the yeare 940. and after the death of King Edmund he was Chancellor to King Edred the space of two yeares Adulthus Chancellor to King Edgar who began his raigne in Anno Dom. 959. Of this man speaketh Hugo Petro Burgensis and Leland calleth this Adulph Cancellarium Archigrammatum Chancellor or chiefe Secretary Alsius or Aelsius the second Abbat of Elie Chancellor to King Ethelred who began his raigne in Anno Dom. 979. This man being by Ethelwold Bishop of Winchester consecrated Abbat by the appointment of the said King Ethelred or Egelred and being then Abbat of Elie when Ethelred gave out his commandement that the Abbat of Elie should then and for ever be Chancellor I doubt not to place him here amongst the Chancellors the proofe of which matter I have here verbatim set downe out of the second booke of the history of Elie. Statuit which was Ethelred atque concessit quatenus ecclesiam de Elie ex tunc semper in regis curia cancellarij ageret dignitatem quod etiam alijs sancti videlicet Augustini Glasconiae ecclesijs constituit ut Abbates istorum caenobiorum vicissim adsignatis succedendo temporibus annum trifarie dividerent cum sanctuarijs caeteris ornamentis ministrando c. Leofricus Bathonicus Chancellor to Edward the Confessor in Anno Dom. 1045. and some yeares before this man was Bishop of Cridington in Cornewall which see was after translated to Excester Wifinus or Wolfinus Chancellor to Edward the Confessor in the latter end of the said yeare 1045 being the third yeare of his raigne Resenbaldus or Rembaldus for I take them both by many and ancient authorities to be all one man was Chancellor to Edward the Confessor and Seale-bearer witnesse amongst others to many Deedes which I have seene of the Confessors some dated in Anno dom 1066 and some
Yorke was upon New-yeares day in Anno dom 1555 being the third yeare of the raigne of Queene Mary advanced to the honorable dignity of Chancellorship But Queene Mary deceasing on the 17 day of November in Anno dom 1558 and the sixt yeare of her governement this Heath upon the placing of Queene Elizabeth upon the throne of the English governement was remooved from his Office and Master Bacon advanced Nicholas Bacon Esquire Atturney of the Court of Wardes was made Knight and Lord Keeper of the great seale the 22 of December in Anno dom 1558 being the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth Which name of Lord Keeper he still kept during his life and the time of his Office In whose time there was an Act of Parliament established to make the power of the Keeper of the great seale equall with the authority of the Chancellor This man continued in this office and worthily executed the same being a man of rare wit and deepe experience during the time of his life which continued untill the 20 of February in Anno dom 1578. after the Accompt of England being the one and twentith yeare of Queene Elizabeth which place this man kept eighteene yeares Thomas Bromlie the generall Sollicitor of Queene Elizabeth a Councellor of the Law and one of the Inner Temple was advanced to the dignity of Lord Chancellor on the 25 day of Aprill in Anno dom 1579 being in Anno 21 Elizabeth Sir Christopher Hatton being Vice-chamberlaine to Queene Elizabeth was constituted Lord Chancellor of England and Keeper of the graat seale upon Sunday the 29. day of Aprill in the 29 yeare of the said Queenes raigne Anno dom 1587. John Puckring Serjant at law was made Knight and sworne of the privy Councell at Greenewich upon Sunday the 28. day of May in the 34. yeare of Queene Elizabeth and at the same time was made Lord Keeper of the great seale of England Sir Thomas Egerton Knight being Master of the Rolles had the great seale of England delivered unto him at Greenewich and sworne of the Privy Councell upon the 6 of May 1596 being in the 38. of Queene Elizabeth and so continued in both those places till the first yeare of King James who created him Baron of Elsmere at Hampton Court 21 Iuly 1603 and made him Lord Chancellor and lastly created him into the dignity of Vicount Brackley the 7. day of November 1616 but severed the place of Master of the Rolles which was given to Edward Bruce Lord Kinlosse Sr. Francis Bacon Knight Atturney generall to King Iames and at the same time of the Privy Councell second sonne of Sr. Nicholas Bacon sometime Lord Keeper of the great seale upon the 7 of March 1616 in the 14 yeare of King James a few dayes before the death of the former Lord Chancellor had the great seale committed to him and being created a Baron by the title of Lord Verulam at Wansted the 12 of July 1617 was made Lord Chancellor the 4 of January following and made Vicount of St. Alban the 20 of Ianuary 1620. Vpon the removall of the Lord Chancellor Bacon who was displaced by the Parliament in Lent the 18 yeare of King Iames. The keeping of the great Seale was committed to Henry vicount Mandevile Lord President of the Councell Lodowicke Duke of Richmond and Lenox Lord Steward of the Kings house William Earle of Pembroke Lord Chamberlaine of the Kings house and Sir Iulius Caesar Knight Master of the Rols who continued the custody thereof till July following John Williams Doctor of Divinity Deane of Westminster and one of the Privy Counsell and after that consecrated Bishop of Lincolne was made Lord keeper of the great seale of England the 10 day of Iuly in the 19 yeare of King James Sir Thomas Coventry Knight eldest sonne to Sr. Thomas Coventry Knight one of the Iustices of the Common pleas being the Kings Atturney Generall was made Lord keeper of the great seale of England the first day of November in the first yeare of King Charles and Created Baron Coventry of Allesborough in the County of Worcester the 10 of Aprill in the 4 yeare of King Charles whose exempler vertues in the execution of this great office to the honour of his Majestie and the generall good of the Kingdome I cannot mention without due Attributes and fearing as I justly may that I shall rather shew mine owne defects than be able to set them forth in due characters I shall with much security discharge my selfe in this kinde by reciting the preamble of his Majesties Letters Patents for Creating his Lordship into the dignity of a Baron and Peere of this Realme Rex c. Archiepiscopis Ducibus c. ad quos praesentes literae provenerint Salutem Officio curae Regali nihil magis arbitramur convenire quam virtutum praemia viris illustribus â—itè disponere ac illos Honoribus attollere qui de Rege Republicâ optimè meruerunt Perspicimus enim Coronam nostram Regiam quam plurimum honorari locupletari cum viros cordatos Consilio prudentiâ virtutibus illustres ac praesertim in administrandâ Justicia strenuos insignes ad Honoris dignitatis gradus vocamus erigimus Nos igitur in personâ praedilecti per quam fidelis Consiliarij nostri Thomae Coventry Militis Custodis Magni Sigilli nostri Angliae gratissima dignissima servitia quae idem Consiliarius noster tam praecharissimo Patri nostro Jacobo Regi beatae memoriae per multos annos quam nobis ab ipsis Regni nostri primis auspicijs fidelissimè prudentissimè praestitit impendit indiesque impendere non desistit Nec non circumspèctionem prudentiam strenuitatem dexteritatem integritatem industriam constantiam fidelitatem ipsius Thomae Coventry Militis erga nos Coronam nostraÌ„ Animo benigno Regali intimè râ—colentes pro gratiae nostrae erga praefatum Consiliarium pignore Nec non virtutum benemeritorum ejusdem encomio posteris suis relinquendum ipsum in Procerum hujus Regni nostri Angliae numerum ascribendum decrevimus Sciatis itaque quod nos de gratia nostrâ speciali ac ex certâ scientia mero motu nostris praefatum Thomam Coventry Militem ad statum gradum dignitatem Honorem Baronis Coventry de Alesborough in Comitatu nostro Wigorniensi ereximus perficimus creavimus Jpsumque Thomam Coventry Militem Baronem Coventry de Alesborough praedicta tenore praesentium erigimus perficimus creamus Jn cujus rei c. T. R. apud Westm decimo die Aprilis Anno Regni Regis Caroli quarto per ipsum Regem FINIS Custodes Rotulorum 23. Ed. 1. ADAM de Osgodby Clerke 10. Ed. 2. William Ayremyne after Keeper of the great Seale 17. Ed. 2. Richard de Ayremyne 20. Ed. 2. Henry de Clyffe Clerke after keeper of the great Seale died the 7 of King Edward the third 7. Ed. 3.
Michael de Worth Ianuary 20. 11. Ed. 3. Iohn de Saint Paul Aprill 28. 14. Ed. 3. Thomas de Evesham Tuesday after the feast of Circumcision 36. Ed. 3. David de Wollere 45. Ed. 3. William Burstall Iuly 22. ◠Rich. 2. Iohn de Waltham Clerke after Bishop of Salisbury 8. Ri. 2. Iohannes de Burton Clerke Octo. 24 1. Ri. 2. Thomas Stanley Clerke 3. Ri. 2. Iohn Scarle or Serle after keeper of the great Seale ◠Hen. 4. Nicholas Bubwith Septem 24. 6. Hen. 4. Iohannes Wakering Clerke after keeper of the great Seale 3. Hen. 5 Simon Garnastead Clerke Iune 3. 2. Hen. 6 Iohannes Franke Clerke October 18 17. Hen. 6 Iohannes Stopinden Clerke Nov. 13 25. Hen. 6 Thomas Kirkby had the Reversion March 29 he was in 28 and 33 H. 6. 1. Ed. 4. Robert de Kirkham Clerk December 23 after Lord Chancellor 49. Hen. 6 William Morland Clerke Februa 22. 1. Ed. 14 Iohn Alcocke Deane of the free Chappell at S. Stevens in Westminster Aprill 29 after Lord Chancellor 12. Ed. 4. Iohn Morton Clerke Doctor of Law March 16 made Bishop of Ely 18 of Edward 4 Ianuary 4 after Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury 18. Ed. 4 Robert Morton Clerke 7. Hen. 7 William Kliot Iohn Blithe Clerke Thomas Barow Doctor of Law after keeper of the great Seale as some have it 9 Hen. 7 William Warham Clerke after Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury 17 Hen. 7 William Barow Doctor of Law mentioned in the Glasse window in the Chappell of the Rolles 1503. 20 Hen. 7 Christopher Beinbrig Clerke No 15 1 Hen. 8. Iohn young Clerke Ianuary 12. 8 Hen. 8. Cuthbert Tunstall Clerke after Bishop of Duresme March 12 14 Hen. 8 Iohn Clerke Clerke October 20 15 Hen. 8 Thomas Hanniball Clerke Octo. 19 19 Hen. 8 Iohn Taylor Clerke October 19. 26 Hen. 8 Thomas Cromwell Esquire after created Earle of Essex c. October 6 28 Hen. 8 Christopher Hales Esquire after Knighted Iune 10 33 Hen. 8 Robert Suthwell Esquire Iuly 1 4 Edw. 6 Iohn Beaumont Esquire Decem. 13. 6. Edw. 6 Robert Bowes Knight Iune 16. 1 M. Q. Nicholas Hare Knight September 18 keeper of the great Seale 4 5 Phi. M. 23 Eli. Q. William Cordell Knight Novem. 5 Gilbert Gerard Knight Thomas Egerton Knight after keeper of the great Seale and Lord Chancellor Edward Bruce Lord Kinlosse Thomas Phillips Knight Serjant at Law Iulius Caesar Knight Chancellor of the Kings Exchecker which place he left when he was Master of the Rolles Dudley Digges of Chilham Castle in the County of Kent Knight 1636. FINIS Honoratissimo Reverendissimo Dom. in Christo Patri Dr. Guilielmo Iuxon Speciali Dietatis providentia Praesuli Londinensi Totius Angliae Archithesaurario Et è Secretioribus regiis Arcanis Conciliario Pientissimo virtutis Assertori strenuo politioris literaturae vindici Religionis syncerae propugnatori Acerrimo Ioh. Philipot Fecialis Regius a Provincia Sommerset tensi Denominatus Dignitatis vestrae cultor humilimus Hanc Thesurariorum Seriem DICIT DEDICAT CONSECRAT A CATALOGVE OF THE LORD TREASVRERS OF ENGLAND DVnstane Archbishop of Canterbury was Treasurer to Eadred or Eldred King of England who began his raigne in the yeare nine hundred forty and sixe of whom thus writeth Matt. Parker in his booke of the Archbishops of Canterbury in the life of Odo Severus the two and twentieth Bishop of that see Edmundo the King of England defuncto Eadredus corona regia ab Odone redimitus rem publicam administrans Dunstanum ut in ejus vita patebit tam singulari amore prosequutus est ut omnes regni thesauros illius custodiae commendaret This man was canonized a Saint and the Goldsmiths of London are incorporated into the Society and fellwoship of Saint Dunstan Hugolme was Treasurer and Chamberlaine to Edward the Confessor hee gave Deane and South-bright to Westminster which Edward the Confessor did afterward confirme to that house Odo halfe brother to William the Conqueror Earle of Kent Bishop of Baieux and chiefe Iustice of England was Treasurer in the time of the Conqueror who had at his death as saith Anonymus M. S. Sixtie Thousand Pounds Excepto auro gemmis vasis Palijs Geofry Clinton Treasurer and Chamberline to Henry the first Hee about the thirteenth yeare of Henry the first in the yeare of our Lord One Thousand one Hundred and Twelve did found the Priory of Kenelworth and was after accused of treason in the one and thirtieth yeare of the raigne of the said Henry the first but as it seemed restored in short time after to the Kings favour Ranulph Bishop of Durham was Treasurer to the King whom Florensius Wygorniensis calleth Praecipuum Regis placitatorem Regni exactorem whose last word Exactor some men doe english Treasurer Of this man is more said in the Chancellors of England Roger Bishop of Sarisbury Treasurer and Chanceller of England as appeareth by Leland writing in this sort Roger Bishop of Sarum Treasurer and Chanceller to Henry the first made the Castle of Vies such a costly and so strong a fort as was never before nor since set up by any Bishop of England The Keepe or Dungeon of it set upon a hill cast by hand is a peece of worke of incredible cost Besides which to prove the same Roger Treasurer at the later end of the Raigne of Henry the first together with William de Pontlearch at the entring of King Stephen into England Thus writeth one Anonymall chronicle M. S. Stephanus cum intravit Angliam Rogerum Sarisburiensem Willielmum de Pontlearijs Custodes Thesaurorum ad se traduxit Which William de Pontlearch was a witnesse with William Stigill to a certaine Charter which Ranulph Bishop of Durham made to the Monkes of Durham commonly called S. Cuthberts Monkes wherein he confirmed to them Blakestone Standropp and Sandropshire with the wood of Henworth on the East part of Mareburne as farre as it goeth to the Sea This Roger Bishop of Salisbury died in the yeere of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirtie and Nine being about the fourth yeare of King Stephen of whom mention is made in the Chancellers of England Nigellus the second Bishop of Elye Nephew to Roger Bishop of Sarum and Treasurer to Henry the first was advanced unto that Bishoppricke of Elie in the yeere of our redemption One Thousand one Hundred Thirtie and Three the first Calends of Iune being the Three and Thirtieth yeere of the raigne of Henry the first at whose going downe to be installed in the said Bishopricke hee was received with such joy that all the whole street of Ely through which hee should passe was hanged with curtaines and carpets with seates set on each side and the Monkes Cannons and Clerkes meeting him with procession with