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
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
anno 4 Edward 3 who being sent in the sixt yeare of his raigne in anno dom 1332 Ambassador beyond the Seas about the affaires of the King and Kingdome did not like Cardinall Woolsey the Chancellor in the dayes of King Henry the 8 presumptuously carry the great Seale with him beyond the seas but left the same in his absence with others who both could and would answere the well or evill using thereof whiles he was in France This man continued in the Office untill the Eight yeare of Edward the third Richard de Bury otherwise called Richard de Angervile being borne in a little village besides S Edmundsbury commonly cald the Bury Abbey was so surnamed Bury of that place had to his Father Sr. Richard Angervile Knight This man being first kept at schoole by his Vncle Sr. Iohn VVillobie Priest was afterward Treasurer of England Chancellor and Bishop of Durham to which place of Chancellor-ship hee was advanced in the yeare 1334 being in anno 8 Edward 3 which office he received by the Kings gift at VVestminster in which yeare he was inthronized being first consecrated Bishop in anno do 1333 in the Bishoprick of Durham by William Cowton Prior of Durham He kept the See 11 yeares two moneths and twelve dayes and died in the yeare 1345 and was buryed in the South angle of the Church at Durham John Stratford the second time Lord Chancellor being now Archbishop of Canterbury was installed therein at York in anno dom 1335 being the ninth yeare of the Raigne of King Edward the third Robert de Stratford or Strafford as some have written but as I thinke corruptly being Archdeacon of Canterbury which Office was first ordeined by Anselme Archbishop of the said Citty was made Chancellor of England on the 24 day of March anno dom 1336 being in anno 11 Edward 3 He was after made Bishop of Chichester desiring to be remooved from that office of Chancellorship which was granted unto him Whereupon he surrendred up the Seale unto the said King Edward 3 in the 12 yeare of his Raigne being in anno dom 1338. Richard de Bintworth chosen Bishop of London and confirmed by John Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury at Oxford the tenth kalends of Iune 1338 was at Waltham advanced to the honour of Lord Chancellor in the moneth of July in the said yeare 1338 being the 12 yeare of King Edward the third John Stratford the third time Lord Chancellor of England in which Office he did not long continue Robert Bishop of Chichester being the foresaid Robert Stratford was againe made Lord Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1340 being anno 14 of the raigne of Edward the third who was put out of that Office and should with the Treasurer of England have beene sent into France for a pledge for the payment of certaine sommes of money Robert de Bourchier borne of the honourable house of the Lord Bourchiers was in the Towre of London made Lord Chancellor of England in December in anno 14 Edward 3 being in anno dom 1340 though some say hee was made Chancellor in anno 15 of the saide King Robert Perning Pernicke or Pernwicke also Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1341 bing in anno 15 Edward 3 he dyed in the yeare 1343 being in anno 17 of the said King This man was a Serjant in the third yeare of Edward the third when he began to plead as a Serjant in which he continued untill anno 11 Edward 3 and was after that Iustice Treasurer and Chancellor and dyed in the common plees being Chancellor sitting and arguing amongest the Iustices as appeares in the Law books of those yeares of Edward the third of whom is last mention made in the 17 yeare of Edward the third where hee is named Chancellor Robert de Saddington Knight was invested with the dignity of Lord Chancellor after the death of Perning in anno dom 1343 and in anno 17 Edward 3 He was elected to be Bishop of Canterbury and so was installed but never received the Pall. There was also one Richard Saddington Knight Treasurer of England of whom I have spoken in my discourse of the Lord Treasurers John Offord or Vfford Deane of Lincolne was made Chancellor of England in anno dom 1345. being anno 19 Edward 3 Hee dyed in the moneth of May in anno dom 1349 being the 23 yeare of the Raigne of that victorious King Edward the third John Thorsby Bishop of Worcester Archbishop of Yorke and Cardinall was installed in the seat of the Lord Chancellor in anno dom 1349 being anno 23 Edward 3 who at his great suit was discharged of the Office of Chancellor by delivery of the great Seale in November in anno 30 of the said King being in anno dom 1356 after hee had kept that place almost by the space of 7 yeares He in the 10 yeare of his Bishopricke on the third kalends of August beganne the frame of the Quire in S Peters Church in Yorke and laid the first stone thereof to which he gave an Hundred poundes He dyed at Thorpe and was buryed at Yorke in anno dom 1363 or as others have 1373 after that he had beene Archbishop one and twenty yeares and one and twenty dayes William de Edington Bishop of Winchester Lord Treasurer of England was made Chancellor of England in November in anno dom 1356 in anno 30 of King Edward the third Simon Langham Abbat of Westminster Bishop of Elie Archbishop of Canterbury and Treasurer of England was made Lord Chancellor in February in anno dom 1363 being the seaven and thirthieth yeare of the governement of King Edward the third Of this Simon were these verses made when he was removed from Elie to the Bishopricke of Canterbury Exultent caeli quia Simon transit ab Eli Cujus in adventum flent in kent millia centum Of whom also because he richly endowed the Abbey of Westminster with great gifts of singular cost and value a certaine Monke compiled these verses Res es de Langham tua Simon sunt data quondam Octingentena librarum millia dena Of this man is more spoken in the following discourse of the Lord Treasurers of England William de Wickeham so called of the place of his Birth whom Leland maketh Treasurer of England which by any possible meanes cannot be so for any thing that I can yet learne This man being Bishop of Winchester and advanced to that place in anno dom 1367 in anno 41 Edward 3 in which place he sate seaven and thirty yeares was sometime keeper of the privie seale and made also Chancellor of England in Anno dom 1367 being the 41 yeare of Edward the third in which Office he remained about foure yeares and in March in the yeare 1371 being the 45 of King Edward the third did deliver up the great Seale to the King at Westminster Hee was buried in the body of Winchester Church which he new built
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
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
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
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.
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
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
the sixt and of Edward the fourth was committed to prison by the King first sending for him to come to his presence Whereupon hee going to the King and resting on an hill from whence he did behold Sudley Castle said It is thou it is thou Sudley Castle and not I which am the traitor After which comming to the King hee resigned the said Sudley Castle into his handes Which Castle came after to Iasper Duke of Bedford is now 1635. in the possession of Giles Bridges Lord Shandois This Ralph being made Baron in the 20. yeare of Henry the sixt married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir Iohn Northberry by whom he had issue Thomas his son that died without issue leaving his Two Sisters to bee his heires whereof the Eldest daughter was married to Sir Iohn Northberry whose heire generall was maried to John Halwell of Devonshire who had issue Ioane his daughter and heire married to Edmund Lord Bray of whose heires generall are descended the Lord Cobham Lord Chandos Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshall Sir Percivall Hart of Kent The other Sister married to Sir Hamond Bellknap of whom is descended the Lord Wootton of Bocton Maleherbe in Kent The which Ralph Lord Butler of Sudley was vexilifer and high butler of England and steward in house to Henry the sixt Marmaduke Bishop of Carlile was made Lord Treasurer of England in the 25. yeare of Henry the sixt in which office hee continued about two yeares in the 27. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1448. or as some have 1449. Iames Fynes created at Bury Baron and of Say of Seale on the 3. of March in the 25. yeare of King Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1446. was Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Treasurer of England in the 28. yeare of Henry the sixt and was from thence removed as some have in An. 29. of the said King And was by the Rebells of Kent Iacke Cade and his fellowes taken of out the Tower to the Guildhall where hee was arraigned before the Major and other the Kings Iustices who desiring to be tried by his Peeres was by the Rebells forceably taken from the Officers and beheaded at the standard in Cheape Which his beheading some doe attribute to the 28. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1450. He had issue Sir William Fines Knight and one daughter married to Sir William Cromer Knight Sheriffe of Kent beheaded at that time also with his father in law Of which Cromer Sir Iames Cromer of Kent Knight descended Iohn Lord Beuchamp a person of great worthinesse possessed the place of the Treasurership of England in the 29. and 30. yeare of Henry the sixt Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester possessed the place of the Lord Treasurer in the 31. and 32 yeare of Henry the sixt Of whom is more mention made hereafter Iames Butler the sonne of Iames Earle of Ormond being Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond possessed the office of the Lord Treasurer of England in the 33. of Henry the sixt falling in An. Dom. 1455. Henry Vicount Bourchier borne of the noble house of the Bourchiers the sonne of William Bourchier Earle of Ewe in Normandy was Lord Treasurer of England in the 33. yeare of Henry the sixt in which office he did not long remaine Iohn Talbot Earle of Sherwsbury the sonne of Iohn Talbot the first Earle of Shrewesbury of that name possessed the place of the Treasurership of England in the 35. and 36. yeare of Henry the sixt and then gave place to the Earle of Wiltshire This Earle was slaine at the battle of Northampton in the 38. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1460. He married Elizabeth the daughter of Iames Butler Earle of Ormond and had issue Iohn Earle of Shrewesbury Iames Gilbert Christopher and George Anne married to Sir Henry Vernon and Margaret This man was buried in the Priory of Worksop Iames Butler sonne to Iames the fourth of that name Earle of Ormond was the second time made Lord Treasurer of England about the 37. yeare of Henry the sixt in which office he continued as I suppose in the 38. yeare of the said King In which yeare hee conveyed himselfe out of England into Duchland for feare of the Nobility as the Duke of Yorke and others that rebelled against the King sending backe his souldiers into England which he had before assembled upon the Sea but after he returned into England and was againe put to flight at Mortimers Crosse by Edward Earle of March after King by the name of King Edward the fourth He was made Earle of Ormond in the 39. of Henry the sixt being his last yeare Hee married Elinor the daughter of Edmund Duke of Somerset diep without yssue being beheaded at Newcastle in An. Do. 1461. in the first yeare of Edward the fourth Henry Viscount Bourchier was Lord Treasurer of England the second time in the 39. yeare of Henry the sixt being in An. Dom. 1460. who upon the deposition of the said King by Edward the fourth was also removed from the said office Thrmas Bourchier made Lord Treasurer of England in the first yeare of Edward the fourth in An-Dom 1461. continued not long in that office but gave place to Iohn Earle of Worcester Iohn Tiptoft Earle of Worcester the second tyme possessed the place of the Lord Treasurership of England in the second and third yeare of Edward the fourth Edmund Lord Grey of Ruthine the sonne of Iohn Lord Grey of Ruthine did enjoy the office of Lord Treasurership of England in the fourth yeare of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1464. This man secretly in heart forsaking the part of King Henry the sixt for injuries received at his hands ayded the said Edward the fourth and was the chiefe meanes whereby hee attained the Crowne in Michaelmas Tearme in the said fourth yeare of this King there was a Sergeants feast held in Holbourne in the Bishop of Ely his House to which the Maior and Aldermen repaired being bidden thither But when the Major looked to have kept the state in the Hall forgetting that hee was out of his owne liberties for the Bishops place was an exempt place as it had beene used saith Iohn Stow in all places of the City and liberties of the same out of the Kings presence the Lord Grey of Ruthine then Treasurer of England unknowne to the Sergeants and against their willes as they said was placed in the highest roome whereupon the Major Aldermen and Commons departed This Edmund doth Matthew Parker in the life of Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterbury make to be Treasurer in the Third yeare of Edward the fourth in Anno Dom. 1463. which may well enough stand with the former being Treasurer to Iohn Earle of Worcester in the 3. yeare of the King For upon removing of the said Earle in the 3. yeare of Edward the 4. came this Lord Grey in place The words of which said Matthew Parker with a