affinity The same year also he was constituted Admiral of the Kings Fleet to the Westwards and in 20 Edw. 3. did again attend the King in his Wars of France being one of the cheif Commanders under Edward the Black Prince in that famous Battle of Cressie where the English obtained lasting honor In 22 Edw. 3. he was constituted one of the Kings Commissioners to treat with certain Flemings and likewise with the Earl of Flanders touching certain differences then betwixt them As also one of the Ambassadors sent to confer with the Ambassadors of Philip de Valois in the Popes presence concerning thâ— form of that Truce which had been made betwixt King Edward and the same Philip. And in 26 Edw. 3. was charged with eighty Lanciers out of his Territories of Oswaldstry Clun and Chirke well armed and arrayed for service in France He was likewise constituted one of the Commissioners for guarding the Sea Coasts in Surrey and Sussex as also for the arraying of Men in the Counties of Saloy and Stafford And the next year upon the Twenty fourth of October did his homage to the King in the Palace at Westminster for his Barony of Bromfield and Yale In 28 Edw. 3. by Indenture made betwixt this Earl and Roger de Mortimer Earl of March it was agreed that Edmond his Son and Heir should take to Wife Alice the Daughter of the â—ame Roger and that she should have three thousands marks for her portion viz. one thousand at the Sealing of that Agreement upon their Marriage at seven years of age one thousand marks more and at their accomplishing the age of thirteen years the remaining thousand marks And the same year was again sent to Rome to see that Agreement ratified by the Pope which had been made betwixt the Kings of England and France wherein was contained That the King of England should enjoy all his Lands in the Dutchy of Aquitane which the French had unjustly detained in case he did totally quit his claim to that Realm Moreover in the Parliament held this year it being adjudged that Edmund Earl of â—rundel his Father was unjustly put to death in 1 Edw. 3. He was thereupon fully restored as Heir unto him And in 34 Edw. 3. in consideration of the great expence he had been at in guarding the Sea Coasts of Sussex when the French threatned an Invasion there was exempted from the charge at which his Mannor of Medmenham had been then taxed for arraying of Men at Arms and Archers for the Kings service at Sea In 46 Edw. 3. with the Prince the Duke of Lancaster and divers other of the Nobility he again attended the King into France for the relief of Thouars but being crossed by contrary Winds after nine weeks stay at Sea returned And in 47 Edw. 3. was retained by Indenture together with Iohn his Brother to serve the King in his Fleet with forty Men at Armes and forty Archers for one whole year Of which Men at Arms four to be Knights and thirty four Esquires In 49 Edw. 3. this Earl procured License from the King to Found a Chantry in his Chappel at Arundel for a certain number of Priests and Clerks and to endow it with Rent of one hundred and seven marks per annum out of his Lordships of Augemering Wepham and Warncamp in Com. Suss. And by his Testament bearing date 5 Dec. the same year bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chapter-House of the Priory at Lewes near to the Tomb of Eleanor de Lancaster his Wife appointing that his Funeral should be solemnised without any Men at Arms Horses Herse or other Pomp likewise to have but five Torches with their Mortersâ— as was about the Corps of his Wife and no more then five hundred marks to be expended thereon Moreover he bequeathed two hundred pound to purchase Lands and Rents for the Monks of Lewes or else one or two Churches to be appropriated to that Monastery for the maintenance of two Monks to celebrate two Masses perpetually every day for the Souls of his Father and Mother his Wife with their Children and Successors and all Christian People in the Chappel of S. Thomas the Martyr in that House or else in the Chappel of our Lady on the North of the great Church the one Mass of our Lady the other of the Holy Ghost And that every Prior of that House at the first entrance upon his Government should swear to see the same punctually performed Likewise a thousand marks to purchase Lands of one hundred and seven marks per annum value for the maintenance of six Priests and three Choristers to celebrate Divine Service every day by Note in the Chappel of his Castle at Arundel and pray for the Souls of his Father and Mother his Wife and Children their Successors and all Christians And to rise every day in Summer at the Sun-rising and in Winter at break of the day to their Mattins by Note as also to perform their Masses high and low and other Divine Services according to the direction of his Executors By this Testament he gave to his Son Thomas then Bishop of Ely two thousand marks To his Son Iohn five thousand marks with all the stock upon his Lands at his decease To Ioane his Daughter two thousand marks To Alice his other Daughter three thousand marks To Iohn the Son of his Son Iohn five hundred marks To Wilâ—iam likewise another Son of his Son Iohn five hundred marks To the eldest Daughter of his said Son Iohn a thousand marks To Henry and Edward younger Sons of his Son Iohn each five hundred marks To his Nephews and Neices the Sons and Daughters of Sir Roger le Strange and to his Sister Aleyne la Strange Wife of the said Roger a thousand and a hundred marks over and above a thousand marks more paid to them already To Richard his Son and Heir his best Coronet charging him on his Blessing to keep it during his life and then to leave it to his Heir and so to remain from Heir to Heir Lords of Arundel in remembrance of him To Ioan his Daughter his second Coronet with the like charge to keep it all her life and then that it continue to her Heir and so from Heir to Heir as abovesaid And to Alice his Daughter his third Coronet upon the like conditions And departed this life 9 Kal. Febr. An. 1375. 49 Ed. 3. By Isabel his first Wife whom he repudiated as hath been observed he had issue a Daughter called Philippa married to Sir Richard Sergeaux of ... in Com. Cornub. Knight And by Eleanor his second Daughter to Henry Earl of Lancaster Widow of Iohn Lord Beaumont three Sons viz. Richard who succeeded him in his Lands and Honors Iohn of whom I shall speak further by and by and Thomas Bishop of Ely but afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury and
called Mary and died in 3 Hen. 7. Which Thomas succeeding him in his Lands and Honors in 5 Hen. 7. was sent over into Flanders amongst divers other of the English Nobles in aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French He had also Summons to Parliament by the name of Thomas Arundel de Matravers Chivalier in 22 Edw. 4. And 1 Hen. 7. his Father being then alive And having married Margaret the Daughter of Richard Widvile Earl Rivers had issue by her two sons viz. William and Edward and two Daughters Margaret the Wife of Iohn de la Pole Earl of Lincoln and Ioane married to George Nevill Lord Bergavenny This Earl Thomas by his Testament bearing date 12 Octob. An. 1524. 16 Hen. 8. bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Chancel of his Collegiate Church at Arundel where the Corps of his Lady lay interred constituting William Lord Matravers his Son one of his Executors and departing this life in his Park at Dauley 25 Octob. An. 1524. 16 Hen. 8. was buried in the same Collegiate Church at Arundel Which William in 2 Hen. 8. his Father living and then called Sir William Arundel Knight Lord Matravers having Wedded Anne the Sister to Henry Earl of Northumberland obtained a Grant to himself and Heirs of his Body from the King of the Mannors of Warbâ—â—ton Duriate and Dunpole in Com. Somers and Hunton in Com. Southampt To hold by the service of a Red Rose yearly And in 16 Hen. 8. upon the death of his Father had a special Livery of all his Castles Lordships and Lands In 22 Hen. 8. this Earl William was one of the Lords in Parliament who subscribed that Letter sent to Pope Clement the Seventh whereby he might easily discern that In case he did not comply with King Henry in that cause of his Divorce from Queen Catherine his Supremacy here would be shaken off And in 33 Hen. 8. when the King by Cromwels Policy obtruded much of the Monastery Lands upon his Nobles and others in exchange for Lands of their own he had in lieu of the Mannors of Shillingley Hâ—â—ernhoo Palingham Wollavington Alversham Codham Bignore Stopeham â— and Eartham with four Woods in Sussex the Inheritance of the site of the Priory of Micheâ—ham with all the Buildings thereto belonging as also all the Lands in Michelham Arungton Hailesham Hellingley Chedingley Pewensey Westham Willingdon Sharnford Fockington and Ievington in the same County all which were esteemed at the time of the dissolution of that Priory the Demesn Lands thereof As also the Mannors of Michelham Parkgate Sharnford and Down-Ashe Cawdeane and Holiwich in the same County and in Kent with the Water-Mill of Michelham Parkgate And moreover all the Lands called Sextery-Lands lying in the Towns of Hellingley Willingdon Ievington and Hailesham in that County of Sussex with the Advowson of the Rectory of Ripe lately pertaining to the Monastery of Lewes And likewise all those Mannors and Lordships of Swanborough and Horsted in Com. Suss. Imberhorne in the County of Sussex and Surrey and the Parks called Horsted Park in Com. Suss. belonging also to the said Monastery of Lewes This Earl William by his Testament bearing date 23 Ian. An. 1543. 35 Hen. 8. gave to direction thereby for his Burial but making the Lady Anne his Wife and Henry Lord Matravers his Son his Executors departed this life at Downley in the Parish of Singleton in Com. Suss. upon the twenty third of the same Moneth of Ianuary and was buried at Arundel By his first Wife Anne Daughter to Henry Earl of Northumberland he had issue Henry his Son and Heir and likewise two Daughters Anne and Catherine who died unmarried And by Elizabeth his second Wife Daughter to Robert Willoughby Lord Brook two Daughters Margaret and Elizabeth who died also unmarried Which Henry who succeeded him having been in 36 Hen. 8 Field-Marshal of the Kings Army at the Siege of Boâ—â—â—gne was in 38 Hen. 8. constituted one of the Assistants to that Kings Executors And in 4 Ed. 6. upon a Peace concluded by the King with the Scots and French wherein also the Emperor was comprehended was one of the Hostages for Ratification of the Articles About this time after the Duke of Somerset Uncle to the King and Protector was brought to the Block by Dudley Earl of Warwick the chief contriver in his Tragedy he endeavored to draw this Earl to his party who at that time was discountenanced and therefore by Warwick singled out as the most fit person for his purpose But after many secret Conferences which were often held betwixt them in the night seeing that he could not prevail he found means to discharge him from the Council and to confine him to his house objections being framed against him that he had taken away Bolts and Locks at Westminster and given away the Kings Stuff being Lord Chamberlain for which he was fined at twelve thousand pounds to be paid by a thousand pounds yearly and the next year following committed to the Tower upon pretence that he had been one of those who did conspire to draw in some of the Lords unto the Lord Pagets house under colour of a Banquet there to take off their heads This Earl Henry after the death of King Edward the Sixth cordially inclined to the Right of Mary the eldest Daughter of King Henry and when that Dudley then Duke of Northumberland was gone out towards Cambridge with what power could at present be had on the behalf of the Lady Iane Grey whom through his influence the Lords of the Council had proclaimed Queen upon a meeting of divers Lords at Baynards Castle in that despeâ—ate juncture of time he bitterly inveighed against him laying open his injustice and cruelty in the time of King Edward and declaimed boldly against that treacherous act of his touching the disherison of the Daughters of King Henry Which stout Speech put such a courage into the rest of the Lords then present that they forthwith resolved to maintain the Right of Mary against all opposers and accordingly proclaimed her Queen in Cheapside Moreover he was again made Constable of England for the day immediately preceding the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Likewise High Steward of England for the fifteenth of Ianuary on which day she was solemnly Crowned and soon after that one of her Privy Council But in 3 Eliz. having fed himself with some hopes of obtaining Queen Elizabeth for his Wife and failing therein after he had spent much upon these vain imaginations his Friends in Court failing him he grew troubled in mind and thereupon to wear off the grief got leave to travel In 11 Eliz. being constituted one of the Commissioners to
inquire of the murther of Henry Lord Darley Husband to Mary Queen of Scots he shewd not himself inclinable to judge that Queen guilty thereof as some did He was likewise a great favorer of the Duke of Norfolks marriage with the same Queen as some other of the Nobles then were for which in 14 Eliz. he suffered imprisonment After which I have not seen any thing of him much memorable until 22 Eliz. That by his Testament bearing date 30 Decemb. in that year he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Quire of the Collegiate Church at Arundel appointing that a memorial in Brass and Gilt should be there affixed upon his Fathers Tomb. And having married two Wives first Catherine the Daughter of Thomas Grey Marquess Dorset by whom he had issue Henry who died at Brussels in his life time Ioane married to Iohn Lord Lumley and Mary to Thomas Duke of Norfolk and to his second Wife Mary Daughter of Sir Iohn Arundel of Lanherâ—e in Com. Cornub. Knight Widow of Robert Earl of Sussex by whom he had no issue he departed this life 25 Febr. the same year being then sixty eight years of age and was buried at Arundel with his Ancestors where he hath a noble Monument in the Epitapth whereon his principal imployments and Honors are sum'd up viz. That he was one of the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter and of the Privy Council to King Henry the Eighth King Edward the Sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Governor of Calaâ—s and Marshal of King Henry the Eighths Army when he besieged Boloigne as also Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold And at the Coronation of King Edward the Sixth exercised the Office of Marshal of England being afterwards made Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold Moreover That he was High Constable of England at the Coronation of Queen Mary afterwards Steward of her Houshold and President of the Council and so to Queen Elizabeth Talbot THe first mention I find of this name is in that Grant which Walter Gifford Earl of Buckingham in the Conquerors time made to the Monks of Cerasie in Normandy where Richard Talbot is mentioned amongst the witnesses thereto The next is of Geffrey Talbot who in the time of King Henry the First held twenty Knights Fees of the King which Walter de Meduana possessed in Henry the Seconds time and gave the half of his Lordship of Little Wroteham in Kent to the Monks of Rochester This Geffrey being banished by King Stephen exercised much cruelty in his Military actings on the behalf of Maud the Emprâ—sâ— joyning with Gilbert de Lacy his Kinsman in his design for taking the City of Bath But failing therein and being thereupon taken prisoner he mollified the King by complaining of very hard usage which had provoked him so to flie out and was thereupon received to favor Of this Geffrey I also find that in 3 Steph. still taking part with Maud the Empress and her Son Henry then Duke of Normandy he fortified the Castle of Hereford against King Stephen I come now to Hugh Talbot whom I take to be Brother to Geffrey To this Hugh in 19 H. 1. did Hugh the Son of Gerard de Gornay then in Rebellion against that King commit the custody of the Castle of Pleiâ—â—e But all that I have farther seen of him is That having been a Benefactor to the Monks of Beaubeck in Normandy at length he took the habit of a Monk in that Monastery Leaving issue three Sons viz. Richard William and Hugh Which Richard in An. 1153. 18 Steph. ratified his Fathers gifts to those Monks And about the beginning of Henry the Seconds Reign obtained from that King a Grant of the Lordship of Lintone in Com. Heâ—ef Which Grant King Richard the First for two hundred marks afterwards confirmed To this Richard succeeded Gilbert Talbot his Son and Heir who in 12 Hen. 2. held one Knights Fee in Lintone of Robert de Ewyas Which Gilbert in 5 Rich. 2. had other Lands given him in Lintone for the custody of the Castle of Ludlow And in 1 Ioh. gave a Fine of forty shillings that he might not go beyond Sea as also that he might have the Scutage of his own Demesns In 7 Ioh. this Gilbert paid ten marks for his Scutage then assessed at two marks for each Knights Fee But farther of him I have not seen then that he had issue Richard who married Aliva the Daughter of Alan Basset of Wickombe in Com. Buck. Sister to Philip Basset Justice of England and Widow of Dru de Montacute In 18 Hen. 3. William Talbot had the custody of the Castle at Bristoll and was Sheriff of Glocestershire for the one half of that year as also for the 19 20 21 Hen. 3. But I return to the before specified Richard Talbot and Aliva succeeded Gilbert their Son and Heir Which Gilbert in 44 Hen. 3. was made Governor of the Castles of Grosmund Skenfrith and Blancminster And in 45 Hen. 3. was constituted one of the Justices Itinerant for the County of Hereford Moreover in 47 Hen. 3. upon the disturbances which the Welsh then made upon the Marches he was commanded by the King to fortifie the Castles abovementioned as also the Castle of Monmouth And having married Guenthlian or Guendoline the Daughter of Rhese ap Griffith Prince of Wales For which respect his Descendants ever afterwards relinquishing their Paternal Arms viz. Bende of ten peices Argent and Gules bore the Lion rampant Or in a Field Gules with a Bordure engrailed of the first which were the Arms of the said Rhese and his Ancestors Princes of Wales departed this life in 2 Edw. 1. being then seised of the Mannor of Longâ—ope and Redleg in Com. Gloc. As also of the Mannor of Eccleswell and Lintone in Com. Heref. Leaving Richard his Son and Heir of twenty four years of age Which Richard then doing his homage had Livery of his Lands And in 10 Edw. 1. was in that expedition then made into Wales as also in the Wars of Gaâ—coigne in 24 and 25 Edw. 1. in which last mentioned year he was constituted Governor of the Castle of Cardiffe The same year he was also again in Gascoigne and before the end thereof had Summons to attend Prince Edward upon the day of S. Nicholas at Newcastle upon â—ine to prevent an Incursion of the Scots Moreover in 29 Edw. 1. being in that great Council then held at Lincoâ—n he subscribed that Letter to the Pope for asserting the Right of King Edward to the Superior Dominion of the Realm of Scotland This Richard married Sarah the Daughter of William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick
Com. Suthampt. leaving Fulke his Son and Heir nineteen years of age Which Fulke departed this Life in his Minority upon Sunday next after the Feast of the Dedication of St. Iohn Baptist the same year leaving Iohn his Brother and Heir seventeen years of age and thirty Weeks being then seised of the Mannor of Claghton in Com. Suthampt. as also of the Mannors of Wrâ—cwardine and Hulton in Com. Salop. Elizabeth his Wife surving Which Elizabeth had for her Dowrie an Assignation of the moytie of the Mannors of Beggesworth in Com. Glouc. as also of the moytie of the Mannor of Broughton in Com. Wiltes with Five Marks yearly Rent to be receiv'd out of the Mannor of Corfhaâ— in Com. Salop. and afterwards married twice viz. to Iohn Lord Ferrers of Chartley and to Reginald Lord Cobham But I return to Iohn This Iohn making proof of his Age and doing his Homage in 28 E. 3. had Livery of his Lands And having married Mary Daughter to Richard Earl of Arundell departed this Life xii Maii 35 E. 3. being then seised of the moytie of the Mannor of Ashton juxta Codford in Com. Wiltes as also of the Chace of Clee the Town of Sutton Madok the Mannor of Corfham and Hay of Ernestre in Com. Salop. leaving Iohn his Son and Heir six years of age Whose Wardship for his Body and Lands was thereupon committed to the said Richard Earl of Arundell In 36 E. 3. this Iohn though thus in Minority obtain'd the King's Charter for a Fair to be held yearly at Whitchurch upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of the Apostles Simon and Iude. And having married Isabell the Daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick departed this Life before he arrived to the age of xxi years viz. 3 Aug. 49 E. 3. being then seised of the Mannors of Chaloughron in Com. Suthampt. as also of Whitchurch Dodington Cheswardyne and Sâ—range Betton in Com. Salop. leaving Elizabeth his Daughter and Heir one year old and upwards Which Elizabeth became the Wife of Thomas Moubray Earl of Notingham but died 23 Aug. 7. R. 2. without Issue being then seised of the Mannors of Beggeworth in Com. Glouc. Weston Turvile in Com. Buck. Broughton in Com. Wiltes Wrokwardyne Dodinton and Whitchurch in Com. Salop. leaving Ankaret the Daughter of Iohn Lord Strange of Blakmere Sister to Iohn Lord Strange of Blakmere Father of the said Elizabeth her Aunt and Heir then xxii years of age and Wife of Sir Richard Talbot Knight Having now done with this Line of Blakmere I come lastly to Eubulo le Strange a younger Son to Iohn le Strange of Knokyn the Fourth of that Name and of Maud his Wife Daughter and Heir to Roger D'eivill In 19 E. 2. this Eubulo receiv'd the Order of Knighthood by Bathing c. having Robes allow'd him out of the King's Wardrobe as a Banneret And in 1 E. 3. was in the Wars of Scotland being of the Retinue with Roger de Mortimer Having married Alice the Daughter and at length Heir to Henry de Laci Earl of Lincolne Widow of Thomas Earl of Lancaster in 5 E. 3. he obtain'd from the King a Grant to himself and her and to her own Heirs of the Mannors of Colham and Eggewere in Com. Midd. Midlengton and Burncestre in Com. Oxon. Halton Horblings Scarthou Saltfleâ—by le Frithe Castor and Bolinbroke with the Soke and Marish in Com. Linc. as also of the Custody of the Castle and Gaol there and xx l. yearly Rent for the third Peny of that County Likewise of the Mannor of Wadenho in Com. Northampt. Holburne in the Suburbs of London of the Castle and Mannor of Clifford and Mannor of Glasbury in the Marches of Wales of the Mannor of Oberton and certain Lands in Mailer-Saisnek of the Castle and Mannor of Elâ—esmere with the Hundred and Hamlets of Colnere and Hampton in the Marches of Wales of the Mannor of Grauncestre in Com. Cantabr and Mannor of Wadington in Com. Linc. to hold by the Service of two Knights Fees In 7 E. 3. he was again in the Scottish-Wars So likewise in 8 and 9 E. 3. And having been summon'd to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm from 20 E. 2. till 9 E. 3. inclusive departed this Life the same year leaving Roger le Strange of Knokyn senior his Cousin and next Heir of full age This Eubulo had a younger Brother called Hamon whom Iohn Lord Strange of Knokyn his eldest Brother by his Deed bearing date on Saturday next after the Feast of the Blessed Virgin in 3 E. 2. enfeoffed in the Mannor of Hunstanton in Com. Norâ—â— from which Hamon the Stranges of Hunstanton are Lineally descended Astley IN 12 H. 2. Philip de Estley upon the Assessment of that Aid for Marrying the King's Daughter was certified to hold three Knights Fees of William then Earl of Warwick de veteri Feoffamento whereof his Grandfather had been enfeoffed in King Henry the First 's time the Lordships he possessed being these viz. Astley which gave the Sir-name to the Family Wedington Hill-Morton Milverton and Merston Iabet in the County of Warr. all held by the Service of Laying Hands on the Earls Stirrop when he did get up on or alight from Horseback To this Philip succeeded Thomas his Son and Heir who holding certain Lands of the Honour of Leicester became a kind of Bailiff to Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester as may be seen by a Fine of Fourscore Marks and a Palfrey to the King in 9 Ioh. to be discharged of the Profits required of him for that Earls Lands during the time he had to do with them In 12 Ioh. this Thomas de Astley gave C Marks to the King to the end he might not then go beyond-Sea the Record doth not express whither but I presume it was into Ireland in regard the King went thither at that time with a great Army and setled that Realm in Obedience to him Howbeit in 17 Ioh. being in Arms with the Rebellious Barons he was sent Prisoner to the Castle of Bedsord whereof Falcase de Breant had at that time the Custody his Lands being then seised for that Transgression but returning to his Obedience in 1 H. 3. were again restored to him After which he became so much trusted as that in 5 H. 3. he was constituted a Commissioner for seising into the King's Hands all the Demesns whereof King Iohn was possessed at the beginning of his Wars with the Barons as also to take Eschaeâ—s viz. as well those Lands belonging to Normans and Britons as other Strangers which came to the King's Hands or his Fathers either before that War in that War or after
Salisbury and upon the Imprisonment of the same Sir Thomas in 38 H. 6. whose Lands and Goods were seised into the Kings hands for his rebellious actings found so much favor as that she had an assignation of two hundred pounds per annum out of those which were of her own Dowrie By her Testament bearing date 18 Iulii An. 1497. 12 H. 7. she bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Church of the Colledge of â—atshail before the high Altar on the right hand of her Uncle Raphe Lord Cromwell under a stone there ready provided by her for the same appointing that if she should dye in the Parish of Taâ—shal her Solemn Obsequies except Burial should be done in that Church and accordingly lyeth there with this Epitaph upon 〈◊〉 Tomb-stone 〈…〉 Matilda nuper domina 〈…〉 Roberti domini de 〈…〉 hares illustris domini Radulphi nuper domini Cromwell militis fundatoris hujus collegii quae obiit 30 die Augusti An. Dom. MCCCCXCVII cujus animae propitietur Deus Amen ¶ The Issue Male of the principal branch of this noble Family being thus extinct Sir Robert Willughby Knight Son of Thomas by Ioane his Wife Daughter of Sir Richard Arundell Knight a younger Brother to this last Robert Lord Willughby became the next Heir Male and died 30 Maii 5 E. 4. being then seised of the Mannor of â—raundon in Com. War Wichampton in Com. Dorset Bredfeld Sogenho Wodbrigg Wykes Vfford Combes Ufford Benge Parham Baudeseye Ketilberghe and Wyndervile as also of the Hundred of Staunford in Com. Suff. and of the Mannor of Ronghton in Com. Norff. leaving Sir Robert Willughby Knight his Son and Heir sixteen years of age which Sir Robert was also found Cousin and Heir to Alianore the other Daughter of Sir Richard Arundell Knight his Mothers Sister who died without Issue Cecilie his Wife Daughter of Leo Lord Welles surviving But this last mentioned Sir Robert Willughby enjoyed his Inheritance not long for upon the twenty fourth of March 7 E. 4. he departed this life being then within age leaving Christopher his Brother and Heir fourteen years old Which Christopher in 14 E. 4. making proof of his age had Livery of his Lands his Homage being respited and by his Testament bearing date 1 Nov. An. 1498. 14 H. 7. appointed that his Body should be buried in the Church of the Nuns at Campsey in Com. Suff. before the high Altar where his Father lay interred bequeathing to the Prioress there twenty pounds To every of the old Nuns six shillings and eight pence To each of the young Nuns three shillings and four pence To the Master of the Chantry there forty shillings To every Priest there to sing Mass of Requiem and Dirige in the Quire for his Soul ten shillings For the making another Tombe for Robert late Lord Willughby his Uncle at Metyngham ten Marks and to William Willughby his eldest Son or to him who after his death should be his Heir half his Plate and Jewels The Probate whereof bears date 13 Iulii An. 1499. This Chriâ—topher had also two other Sons Charles and Thomas Which Thomas being an industrious Student in the Common Laws of this Realm was advanced to the State and degree of a Serjeant at Law in Trin. Term. 13 H. 8. And to be the Kings Serjeant 28 Apr. 22 H. 8. Likewise one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas 9 Oct. 29 H. 8. from whom Sir Percinal Wilâ—ughby Knight late of Wollaton in Com. Nott. and Middleton in Com. Warr. by the Marriage of the eldest Daughter and Co-heir to Sir Francis Wilâ—ughby Knight did lineally descend But I return to William Son and Heir of Christopher This William in 19 H. 7. had a special Livery of his Fathers Lands And at length by the failer of of Issue Male of the Lord Welles came to be one of his Co-heirs Cecilie his Mother being one of the Daughters of Leo Lord Welles whose Grandson Robert Lord Welles dying without Issue left Ioane his Sister and Heir Married to Richard Hastings Esquire as I have elsewhere shewed Whereupon in 14 H. 7. the Lord Welles his Lands being then shared amongst those Co-heirs this William had Livery of the Mannors of Sayns-Park Hall and Hemâ—ales in Theydon Geâ—â—on as also of the Mannor of Madeley in Iâ—ping in Com. Essex for his purparty And in 3 H. 8. a War being then designed with France on the behalf of Ferdinand King of Arragon and Thomas Grey Marquess Dorset constituted General of the English Army he accompanying him in that Expedition arrived at 〈◊〉 a Port of 〈◊〉 with purpose to invade Guyen After this in 5 H. 8. after the taking of Therouene being with the King at the Siege of Tournay upon the yeilding thereof accompanyed with the Lords L'isle and Bergavenny and six hundred Men he entred that City by the Kings appointment By his Testament bearing date 4 Maii 18 H. 8. he appointed his Body to be buried in the Collegiate-Church of Spilesâ—y and to the Church of Parham for his Tithes and Offerings negligently forgotten bequeathed four pounds Appointing that the Lady Mary Salines his Wife a Spaniard who had been a Maid of Honor to Queen Catherine first Wife of King H. 8. should have and enjoy for term of her life his Mannors and Lordships of Hellow Abye Swabye UUelles Alforde Parteney and Thedâ—lthorpe in Com. Linc. UUalcote UUheatacre and UUheatacre Burrough in Com. Norff. Ufford Bredfelde Sogennowe UUinderfelde UUoodâ—ridge Oâ—ford UUykes Vfford and Cambys in Com. Suff. according to the Covenants of Marriage made betwixt her and him And as to the residue of all his other Mannors viz. Eresby 〈◊〉 Toynton Willoughby Steping the great Hanby Fulâ—â—stowe Beke Fullistowe Arsick Safâ—â—et Haven â—okerington Frisâ—eney Yngolmells Westerkele Stykford Ratheby Skyrbeâ—â— the Tâ—lle in Boston Dubledike in Gosberkirke otherwise called Gosberton and Pinchebeke in Com. Linc. Rowton in Com. Norff. and Parham in Com. Suff. Also the reversion of his Mannors of Egefelde in Com. Norff and Wesâ—ringe in Com. Linc. after the decease of his Brother Iohn Willughby and Cecilie his Wife with the reversion of his Mannor of Baâ—â—esâ—y in Com. Suff. after the decease of his Brother George Willughby and Anastace his Wife Likewise that his Mannors of Orby Brugh Hoggisthorp Skidbrok Beâ—cheforth and Folteby in Com. Linc. should go to the performance of his Will And after the decease of Thomas Willughby and Bridget his Wife and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten that the Mannor of Brandon in Com. War should remain for performance of his Will and payment of his Debts Furthermore that a Tombe should be set up For himself and his Wife at Spillesby-Colledge and another at Meâ—ingham for the late Lord Willoughby Sir Robert his nigh Kinsman And that there should be bestowed upon his
date the Friday next after Ascension-day An. 1369 43 E. 3 bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Church of Poynings near to the Grave of the said Michael Lord Poynings her Husband towards the North. She likewise gave to the new building of that Church one hundred Marks and to Thomas her son one hundred Marks until he should be of full age and then to be also given towards the building of the same Church To Elizabeth her Daughter a drinking cup of Silver with a cover enameled and gilt as also an Ewer of the same sute To Richard her other Son two Basyns and two Ewers of Silver and farther to the same Thomas and Richard as also to Agnes her Daughter four pieces of Silver of one sure and departed this life the sixteenth of May next following Which Thomas so succeeding his Father made proof of his age in 44. E. 3. and thereupon doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands But all that I have farther seen of him is that in 47 E. 3. he was in that Expedition then made into Flanders and that by his Testament bearing date at Slagham upon Simon and Iude's day the next ensuing year he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the midst of the Quire of the Abby at St. Radegunds in Kent of his own Patronage before the high Altar appointing that a fair Tombe should be placed over his Grave with the Image of a Knight thereon made of Alablaster and one hundred pounds to be given to that Abby part for the doing thereof and the remainder to be disposed â—f in Masses and Prayers for his Soul To Blanch de Moâ—broy his Wife he gave the third part of his Goods with all his Plate and Housholdstuff excepting a cup of Gold for the Lady Bardolf his Sister and another for the Lady Dacom his other Sister To Richard his Brother he bequeathed twelve Dishes and as many Saucers of Silver with all his Armor appointing that ten Annets and Trentals of Gregorie should be fung in the Churches of Poynings and Slagham within one year after his death and died in 49 E. 3. leaving the said Richard his Brother and Heir seventeen years of age having setled the Mannors of Poynings Pengeldene Perchyng magna Perchyng parva Hengelton Slagham Crowelle Twynem and Waldern with six Marks of of Rent in Ifeld in Com. Suss. as also of the Mannor of Horsmynden in Com. Cantii upon certain Feoffees to the use of Blaâ—ch his Wife during her life Which Blanch shortly after Married to Sir Iohn de Warthe Knight and in 10 R. 2. upon the prevalency of the great Lords amongst divers other eminent persons was expell'd the Court But I return to Richard This Richard making proof of his age in 4 R. 2. and doing his Homage had Livery of his Lands and in 9 R. 2. accompanyed Iohn of Gâ—nt Duke of Lancaster into Spaine By his Testament bearing date 10 Iunii An. 1387 10 R. 2 he also bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Parish Church at Poynings on the right hand the Tombe of Thomas Lord Poynings his Brother and gave ten Marks for the celebration of twenty Trentals for his Soul and all Christian Souls within the space of one year after his death To Ioane his Daughter for her Marriage two hundred Marks To the Infant wherewith his Wife was then with Child in case it should be a Daughter one hundred pounds appointing that if he should dye in such place as that his Body could not be buried at Poynings to the end that his friends afar off might take notice thereof there should be a Stone of Marble provided with an Escocheon of his Arms and an Helmet under his Head with an Inscription declaring his Name and the time of his death ordaining moreover that the Patronage of the Church at Eâ—â—yng should be sold and the Money raised thereby to be bestowed in Masses and Trentals for the Souls of his Father Mother Grandfather Brother Sisters and all his Allies as also for the Souls of Sir Thomas Heryngaunt Richard Poynings his Uncle Robert Boteler and Iohn de Lye and for his own and all Christian Souls Likewise that the Lady Isabel his Wife Daughter of Sir Robert de Grey then called Fitz-Payne should have the Mannor of Wrentham called Northalle in Com. Suff. during her life and that the Mannors of Preston juxta Ferlee and West-Dene in Com. Suff. the Mannors of Ifeld Peverell and Leveland in Com. Suff. and Surr. with the Rents of Staundene and Combesdene in the Isle of Shepeye should be reteined by his Executors for the space of twenty years for the payment of his Debts and Marriage of his younger Children But after this he went once more into Spaine with Iohn Duke of Lancaster where he died as it seems for the Probate of his Testament bears date 26 Sept. the same year leaving Issue by the said Lady Isabell his Wife Daughter and Heir to Robert Lord Fitz-Pain as also Heir to Elizabeth her Mother Daughter and Heir to Sir Guy de Briâ—n the younger Knight Robert his Son and Heir then in minority whose Wardship was granted to Richard Earl of Arundel Which Isabel upon the death of the said Robert Lord Fitz-Pain her Father in 17 R. 2. had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance her Homage being respited and departed this life upon the eleventh day of April the same year leaving the before-specified Robert de Poynings her Son and Heir fourteen years of age being then seised of the Mannors of Whisshese in Com. Surr. Stourton in Com Wilts Acford Fitz-Pain in Com. Dors. Stoke Cursy Radewey Carey Cherleton Staple Coden and Spekinton with the Hundred of Canyngton in Com. Somers Chynting Perchyng parva Ashcombe Wetsmeston Walerne Doddes Bedyngham with the third part of Mannors of Poynings Hangleton and Twynem in Com. Suss. as also of the third part of the Mannors of Westwode Totynton and Eccles with the Mannors of Rokesâ—e Terlingham and Newynton in Com. Cantii But I return to Robert her Son This Robert in 10 H. 4. upon the death of Blanch the Widdow of his Unkle Sir Thomas de Poynings Knight who died without Issue doing his Homage had Livery of all the Lands which she held in Dower and in 4 H. 5. was by Indenture reteined to serve the King in his Wars of France with thirty Men at Arms and sixty Archers In 8. H. 5. he was one of the persons assigned to conduct the Duke of Bourbon then in England to Diepe in Normandy and to that end to take so many Ships from the Port of Shorham in Com. Suss. as should be requisite for his passage thither And in 2 H. 6. being reteined to serve the King with sixty men at Arms and an hundred and eighty Archers for half a year he was with Iohn Duke of Bedford at
an obscure Creeke what through the treachery of some of his servants and the Master of the Ship he was apprehended and committed prisoner to the Tower And being thus imprisoned a Charge was brought against him into the Star-Chamber that he had supported Romish-Priests contrary to Law As also that he held Intelligence with Cardinal Alen and Parsons the Jesuit the Queens enemies Likewise that he had by a publick writing declin'd the Justice of the Realm with purpose to be gone Whereupon though he professed his Allegiance to the Queen and love to his Countrey excusing himself for his ignorance of the Laws through his Zeal to divine contemplations and submitted himself to the censure of that Court they fined him at ten thousand pounds and doom'd him to imprisonment during the Queens pleasure And as if all this had not been enough upon suspicion that he favoured the Spaniard in 32 Eliz. he was brought to his Tryal by his Peers in Westminster-Hall before Henry Earl of Derby Lord High Steward for that occasion The substance of his charge being that he had contracted a strict friendship with Cardinal Alen and Parsons the Jesuit and other trayterous people who had conspired the ruine of their Prince and Country by stirring up both Forreiners as well as Subjects for restoring the Romish-Religion Also that he had sent Letters to Cardinal Alen by Weston alias Burgesse the Priest for advancing the Catholick cause and upon that account resolved to quit the Realm That he was privy to the Bull of Sixtus Quintus the Pope whereby he had excommunicated the Queen and exposed this Realm to the Spaniard That being a prisoner in the Tower he had caused Mass to be celebrated for the good success of the Spanish Fleet and likewise for that purpose had conceived private prayers To which hepleaded Not guilty But being found guilty had Sentence of death pronounced against him being then but thirty three years of age Whence being carried back to the Tower and his Execution forborn he totally applied himself to his devotions and to an austere and strict course of life until the nineteenth of November An. 1595. 38 Eliz. that he there died leaving Issue by Anne his Wife Daughter of Thomas and Sister and Coheir to George Lord Dacres of Gillesland Thomas his only Child Which Thomas being restored in blood in the Parliament held at Westminster 1 Iac. and to all such Titles of Honour and Precedence as the before specified Philip Earl of Arundel his Father lost by his attainder As also to the Honour State and Dignity of Earl of Surrey and to such dignity of Baronies only as Thomas late Duke of Norfolk his Grandfather lost by his attainder was installed Knight of the most noble order of the Garter 13 Maii An. 1611. 9 Iac. After which he travelled with his Lady into Italy but in November An. 1614 12 Iac. returned And upon the 29 of Aug. 19 Iac. was constituted Earl Marshal of England for life with a pension of two thousand pounds per annum Whereupon reviving that honorable Court which had antiently been held by the Constable and Marshall jointly wherein remedy was given for such abusive provocations as might occasion no little bloodshed by Duels or other more mischievous ways of revenge and some scruple being made as to the Jurisdiction of the Earl-Marshal alone without the Constable the next ensuing year he obtained other Letters Patent bearing date 1 Aug. 20 Iac. whereby that King after mature advice had with the Lords of his Council upon the point did declare that in the vacancy of the Constable of England the Earl Marshal had the like jurisdiction in that Court as both Constable and Marshal jointly ever exercised commanding him to proceed accordingly Which he thereupon did with much Honour to himself and his authority and to the great satisfaction of the Nobility and Gentry of this Realm in cases where they received such affronts and injuries for which by the rule of the Common Law no redress could be had until by the Votes of a predominant party in the late Long-Parliament his jurisdiction in that Court was blasted This most noble Earl a little before the Coronation of King Charles the first was join'd in Commission with William Earl of Pembroke to make such persons Knights of the Bath as the King should then think fit to call to that dignity And in 9 Car. 1. constituted Chief Justice of all the Forests North of Trent Moreover in 16 Car. 1. he was made General of the Army then raised to march into the North the Scots at that time being in Arms with no small numbers And by reason of his special services and great merits as also in respect of his lineal descent from Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk a younger Son to King Edward the first was by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford 6 Iunii in the 20. year of the same Kings reign advanced to the title of Earl of Norfolk Shortly after which discerning the flames of War occasion'd by the prevalent party in the late Long Parliament more and more to increase his age being also such as rendred him not fit for further military imployments he obtained leave from the King to travel Whereupon going to Padua in Italy he there departed this life upon the 4 day of October An. 1646. After which his Corps being brought over into England was buried at Arundel in Sussex Leaving Issue by the Lady Alathea his Wife one of the Daughters and Coheirs to Gilbert Earl of Shrewsbury two sons surviving 1 Henry called Lord Moubray and Maltravers and secondly Sir William Howard Knight of the Bath who by reason of his marriage with Mary Sister and sole Heir to Henry Lord Stafford was by Letters Patent bearing date 12 Sept. 16 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Stafford and she the said Mary of a Baroness And by other Letters Patent bearing date 11 Nov. next ensuing to the dignity and title of Vicount Stafford the other Sons of the said Thomas Earl of Arundel viz. Iames Thomas Gilbert and Charles dying all in his life time Which William so created Vicount Stafford hath Issue by her three Sons Henry Iohn and Francis and five Daughters 1 Alathea 2 Isabella married to Iohn Marquess of Winchester 3 Vrsula 4 Mary and 5 Anastasia I now come to Henry Lord Moubray and Maltravers for by those Titles he was summon'd to Parliament in his Fathers life time This Henry succeeding his Father in his Honours took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter to Esme Steward Lord d'Aâ—gbignie and Earl of March afterwards Duke of Lenox and by her had Issue nine Sons viz. Thomas Henry Philip Charles Talbot Edward Francis Bernard and Esme And three Daughters viz. the Lady Anne who died young the Lady
Garter And departing this life in 17 H. 8. was buried in the before specified Chapell where his Monument yet remaineth To whom succeeded Henry his Son and Heir Which Henry in 12 H. 8. his Father then living bearing the title of Lord Herbert upon that famous Enterview Betwixt Ardres and Guisnes by King Henry and Francis the first of France where all Feats of Arms were exercised for the space of forty days on Horse and Foot was one of the Challengers on the part of the English And in 15 H. 8. accompanied the Duke of Suffolk General of the English Forces then sent into France at which time divers Castles and strong places were by him won In which service he merited so well as that he had â—he honour of Knighthood conferred on him by that Duke And in 17 H. 8. shortly after his Fathers death was apointed one of the Commissioners for concluding a Peace with the French In 18 H. 8. he had a special Livery of all the Lands which either by the death of his Father or Elizabeth his Mother Daughter and Heir to William Earl of Huntington did by Inheritance descend to him In 22 H. 8. he was one of the Peers who subscribed that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the seventh intimating to him that the loss of his Supremacy here would be endangered in case he did not comply with King Henry in that business of his divorce from Queen Katherine And in 5 E. 6. accompanied the Marquess of Northampton into France who being then sent Embassador to that King presented him with the Order of the Garter This Henry Married Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Antbony Browne Knight Standard-Bearer to King Henry the Seventh and by her had Issue four Sons William his Son and Heir Thomas who died in the Tower of London Sir Charles Somerset Knight Standard-Bearer to the Band of Pensioners in the time of Queen Elizabeth and Francis slain at Musselborough-field 1 E. 6. As also four Daughters Eleanore Married to Sir George Vaughan Knight Lucie to Iohn Nevil Lord Latimer Anne to Thomas Percie Earl of Northumberland and Iane to Sir Edward Mansel of Morgan in Com. Glamorgan Knight and departing this life 26 Nov. 3 E. 6. was buried at Ragland Which William succeeding him in his Honours was Install'd Knight of the Garter in the time of King Edward the Sixth and in 16 Eliz. sent by that Queen into France with a Font of pure gold for the Christening of a Daughter to Iames the Fifth King of that Realm as also to stand in the Queens stead as one of the Sureties In 29 Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate upon Tryal of the Queen of Scots He Married Christian Daughter to Edward Lord North by whom he had Issue Edward his only Son and Heir and two Daughters Elizabeth Married to William a younger Son of William Lord Windsor and Lucie to Henry Herbert Son of Sir Thomas Herbert of Wynestow in Com. Montgom Knight And by his Testament bearing date 1 Febr. an 1587. 30 Eliz. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Ragland appointing that a Tomb of Marble should be made over his Grave After which upon the 22th of the same Month of Febr. he departed this life and was buried there accordingly To whom succeeded Edward his Son and Heir Which Edward in 33 Eliz. was sent Embassador to King Iames the Sixth of Scotland to congratulate his Marriage and safe return from Denmark as also to signify unto him that he was made choice of with the King of France to be one of the Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter and upon the 21th of April 43 Eliz. was made Master of the Horse being the best â—â—â—â—eman and Tilter of the times which great Offâ—â—â—â— he had likewise conferr'd upon him 15 Ian. 1 Iac. with the Fee of C. marks per annum for life and in 2 Iac. was Constituted one of the Lords Commissioners for exercising the Office of Earl Marshal of England But upon the first of Ianuary 13 Iac. resigning that Office of Master of the Horse he was the day next following made Lord Privy Seal and in 15 Iac. 27 Martii had a new Grant of that Office of Lord Privy Seal with the Fee of fifteen hundred pounds per annum for life Whereupon in Ianuary 18 Iac. receiving Command to sit in the Court of Requests with the Masters there the King deeming it unfit that so great a Magistrate should not have a seat of Judicature he took his place there accordingly upon the seventh of February which was towards the end of Hillary â— Term next following This Earl being also Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Wedded the Lady Elizabeth Daughter to Francis Earl of Huntington by Katherine his Wife Daughter and Heir to Henry Poole Lord Montacute and by her had Issue six Sons William who died in his life time unmarryed Henry who succeeded him in his Honours Sir Thomas Somerset Sir Charles Somerset and Sir Edward Somerset Knights of the Bath and Christopher who died unmarried He had likewise six Daughters Elizabeth Married to Sir Henry Guilford of Hemsted in Com. Cantii Knight Catherine to William Lord Petre Anne to Sir Edward Winter of Lydney in Com. Glouc. Knight Frances to William Morgan of Llanternam in Com. Monmouth Esq Blanch to Thomas Son and Heir to Thomas Lord Arundel of Wardour and Katherine to Thomas Lord Windsore And departing this life at his House in the Strand 3 Martii an 1627. was buried at Ragland Which Henry so succeeding him being a person of a most noble and generous disposition ample fortune and perfectly loyal manifested his dutiful affections to the late King Charles the First of blessed memory by very large supplies when the predominant party in the late long Parliament had reduced him to extream necessities In consideration whereof and of his personal merits otherwife he was by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford 2 Nov. in the eighteenth year of that Kings Reign advanced to the Title of Marquess of Worcester This Henry Married Anne Daughter and sole Heir to Iohn Lord Russel Son and Heir to Francis Earl of Bedford and by her had Issue nine Sons viz. Edward who succeeded him in his Honours Sir Iohn Somerset Knight Thomas and Charles William Henry Frederick Francis and Iames who died young and three Daughters Elizabeth Married to Iohn Vicount Mountagu Anne a Nun at Antwerpe and Mary who died unmarried And departing this life ... An. 1647. was buried at Ragland Which Edward so succeeding him first Married Elizabeth Daughter to Sir William Dormer of Wing in Com. Buck Knight eldest Son to Robert Earl of Caernarvon which Sir William died before his Father and had Issue by
Earl of Wiltshire and Ormund viz. Wiltshire to the Heirs Male of his Body and Ormund to his Heirs General And upon the 24 th of Ianuary following was made Lord Privy-Seal Soon after which he was again sent Embassadour to the Emperour Charles the fifth And having married Elizabeth Daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norf. departed this life in 30 H. 8. By whom he had Issue one Son called George and two Daughters Which George bearing the title of Vicount Rochford in his Fathers life time amongst other of the Nobles of England sitting in Parliament in 22 H. 8. subscribed that Declaration sent to Pope Clement the seventh whereby intimation was given to his Holiness that his Supremacy here would be much endangered unless he did comply with the King in that business of his divorce from Queen Katherine And in 24 H. 8. the King having privately married the Lady Anne his Sister whom he had created Marchioness of Pembroke was sent over to the King of France to acquaint him therewith as also to desire him not to fail his promise and likewise to intreat his advice how it might be best to publish it since it could not be long concealed In 25 H. 8. he was imploied with the Duke of Norf. to attend the designed enterview betwixt the Pope and the King of France In 26 H. 8. he was made Constable of Dover-Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports Before the end of which year he obtained a grant in Fee of the Mannour of South in Kent which came to the Crown by the Daughter of Edward Duke of Buckingham And in 27 H. 8. was again sent Embassador into France to qualify those demands which the King had made upon that overture for a marriage betwixt the Duke of Angolesme third Son to the King of France and the Princess Elizabeth King Henry's Daughter But soon after being committed to the Tower 2 Maii arraigned and beheaded 17 Maii having no Issue he was buried in St. Peters Chapell there The occasion this The Kings affections being withdrawn from Queen Anne Sister to this Vicount Rochford and placed on the Lady Iane Seamour in order to the free enjoyment of the Lady Iane he took occasion to remove Queen Anne Whereupon he caused her to be commited to the Tower arraigned condemned and put to death What was laid to her charge is not expressed by our Historians 'T is said that upon a Justs held at Greenwich upon the first of May that year this Vicount Rochford her Brother was the chief Challenger and Henry Norris principal defendent and that the King suddenly departed thence no cause appearing unless it were the Queens letting her Handkerchief fall which the King perceived to be taken up by one supposed her Favorite who wip't his Face with it The Daughters of this Thomas Earl of Wiltshire were this Anne and another called Mary Wife of William Carey Esquire of the Body to King Henry 8. from whom the Earls of Dover and Monmouth are descended Of these this Anne in 5. H. 8. attended the Lady Mary the Kings Sister into France to her marriage with King Lewes the xii th and after the solemnizing thereof at Abbevile when divers of her servants were sent back continued still with her But being a great beauty the King himself divers years after she being then one of Queen Catherine's Maids of Honour became so enamoured of her as that he resolved to make her his Wife and in order thereto by his own absolute power to break the bonds of his marriage with Queen Catherine by a formal Divorce quitting the Popes Supremacy by reason he would not comply therein and for her greater Honour advanced her to the title of Marchioness of Pembroke 1 Sept. 24 H. 8. with place and precâ—dence above all other persons of that degree Soon after which he solemnly married her viz. 25 Ian. 24 H. 8. But this suddain greatness she enjoied not long For after he had seen another in whom he more delighted he took occasion to rid her out of the way as before is observed Parker Lord Morley and Montegle 21 H. 8. HAving in my discourse of the Family of Morley shewed how the title of Lord Morley descended through the Issue of a second Son of that stock to Alice the Sister and Heir of Henry Lovel Which Alice became the Wife of Sir William Parker Knight I now come to Henry Parker Son and Heir to the same William and Alice This Henry had summons to Parliament in 21 H. 8. by the title of Lord Morley and in 22 H. 8. being one of the Peers at that time sitting in Parliament subscribed that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the seventh whereby intimation was given to his Holiness that unless he did comply with King Henry in that cause of his divorce from Queen Katherine the farther acknowledgment of his Supremacy in this Realm would be in danger and in 25 H. 8. upon a dispute in Parliament betwixt him and the Lord Dacres of Gillesland for precedence had judgment therein given on his behalf He married Alice Daughter to Sir Iohn St. Iohn of Bletso in Com. Bedf. Knight and by her had Issue Henry made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Queen Anne Bullen in 25 H. 8. Which Henry having married Grace Daughter and Heir to ... Newport of ... in Com. Hertf. Knight died in his Fathers life time leaving Issue Henry his Son and Heir and two Daughters Iane married to George Lord Rochford Son to Thomas Bullen Earl of Wiltshire and Ormund and ... to Sir Iohn Shelton Knight Which last mentioned Henry took to Wife Elizabeth Daughter of Edward Earl of Derby and by her had Issue Edward his Son and Heir and two Daughters Alice married to Sir Thomas Barington Knight and Mary to Sir Edward Leventhorpe Knight This Edward Lord Morley being summon'd to Parliament in 23 Eliz. took his place there upon the sixteenth of Ianuary and in 29 Eliz. was one of the Peers who gave judgment of death upon Mary Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay So likewise upon Philip Earl of Arundel in 32 Eliz. as also upon Robert Earl of Essex in 43 Eliz. He married Elizabeth the sole Daughter and Heir of William Stanley Lord Montegle fifth Son to Thomas Earl of Derby and departing this life at Sâ—epney in Com. Midd. 1 Apr. an 1618. 16 Iac. was buried in the Parish-Church there leaving Issue three Sons William his successor in that honour Henry and Charles and three Daughters Mary married to Thomas Abington of Hinlip in Com. Wigorn Esq Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Barlow of Barlow in Com. Lanc. Knight and Frances to Christopher Danby of Leighton in Com. Ebor. Esq
discountenanc'd endeavoured to draw him to his party and saw his labour fruitless he procur'd his confinement By his Testament bearing date 20 Iulii the same year he bequeath'd to the King his rich Collar of the Garter and to Sir William 〈◊〉 Knight afterwards Earl of Pembroke all his Garters and Georges He took to wife Iane the sole daughter and heir of William Cheney and by her had issue Henry his son and successor and five daughters Mary first married to William Shelley of 〈◊〉 in Com. Suss. Esquire and afterwards to ... Lyster son and heir to Sir Michael Lyster Knight Elizabeth to Thomas Earl of Sussex Katherine to Thomas Cornwallis Groom-porter at the Court Mabel to Sir Walter Sands Knight and Anne And departing this life at his House there called Lincoln-place in Hoâ—â—urne but afterwards Southampton-House 30 Iulii An. 1550. 4 E. 6 was buried in a Vault under the Quire near the high-Altar of St. Andrews Church in Holburne where he had a fair Monument erected to his memory The Armes which this Earl used were Azure a plain Cross Or betwixt four Falcons closed Argent which bearing 't is like he first took from his being sometime Faucon Herauld To him succeeded Henry his only son whose well-wishes to Thomas Duke of Norfolk in order to his marriage with the Queen of Scots to whom and her Religion he stood not a little affected occasion'd him no little trouble This Henry by his Testament bearing date 29 Iunii An. 1581. 23 Eliz. bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Chapel of the parish-Church at â—ichfeild in Com. Southampt where his mother lay interred Appointing that the said Chapel should be new altered and finished by his Exâ—cutors with new sides and windowes of stone the roofe playstered like his house at Dogmersfelde the floore faire paved and divided with Iron-grates from the Church Also that twâ— faire Monuments should be made there the one for his Father whose Body he willed to be thither brought and Mother the other for himself with portraitures of white Alablaster or the like for defraying the charges of which Chapel and Monuments he assigned a Thousand Marks He likewise directed that there should be gâ—ven to poor people within his several Lordships the sum of Two hundred pounds of lawful English-money to the intent that every of them should pray for the good estate of his Soul the Souls of his Ancestors and all Christian Souls And having married Mary daughter to Anthony Vicount Mountagu by her had issue one son called Henry and Mary a daughter married to Thomas Lord Arundel of Wardour After which departing this life at Ythel in Com. Southampt he was buried at Cichfeild as by his Testament had been appointed Which Henry so succeeding him in his Honors in 40 Eliz. was in that Voyage with Robert Earl of Essex to Cadez c. And the next ensuing year accompanying him into Ireland Essex then being Deputy of that Realm was made General of the Horse in his Army there But from that command he was shortly by the Queens special appointment removed Whereupon he returned together with that Earl who was then highly discontented into England and went speedily into the Netherlands whence being soon recalled he confederated with Essex in those his desperate Projects appearing with him in that Insurrection he then made in London For which being first imprisoned in Lambeth-House and afterwards in the Tower he was brought to his Tryal by his Peers Thomas Lord Buckhurst then Lord Treasurer being constituted Lord High Steward for that occasion Where excusing himself as to any evil design affirming that what he did was out of his meer affection to that Earl he implored the Queens Mercy Which he afterwards obtained For though he was found guilty of that Traiterous attempt then laid to the charge of Essex and his complices which cost the other his head no Execution was done upon him So that escaping that perillous Rock in 1 Iac. he was restored by Act of Parliament and enlarged of his Imprisonment and upon the second of Iuly next ensuing instal'd Knight of the Garter Likewise made Captain of the Isle of Wiht and Castle of Caresbroke And by that Kings special grace and favour obtain'd a new Patent bearing date 21 Iulii for the Title and Dignity of Earl of Southampton with the like Rights and Priviledges as he formerly enjoyed divers years after which viz. in 17 Iac. he was sworn of the Privy-Council This Earl married Elizabeth the daughter of Iohn Vernon of Hodnet in Com. Salop. Esquire sister to Sir Robert Vernon Knight by whom he had issue two sons Iames who died in the Netherlands in his life time and Thomas and three daughters Penelope married to VVilliam Lord Spenser of Wormleighton Anne to Robert VVallop of Farley in Com. Southampt Esquire son of Sir Henry VVallop Knight and Elizabeth to Sir Thomas Estcourt Knight one of the Masters in Chancery And departing this life in the Netherlands 10 Nov. An. 1624. 22 Iac. was buried in the Chapel at Tichfeild with his Ancestors Which Thomas succeâ—ding him in his Honors married three wives first Rachel married to Daniel de Massey Baron of Ruvigny a French-woman and by her had issue two sons Charles and Henry who died young and three daughters Elizabeth married to Edward Noel eldest son to Baptist Vicount Campden Rachel first to Francis son and heir to Richard Earl of Carbury in Ireland and afterwards to William second son to William Earl of Bedford and Magdalen who died young His second wife was Elizabeth daughter and coheir to Francis Lord Dunsmore Neice and coheir to Iohn Lord Butler of Hatfeild VVoodhall Which Francis was soon after created Earl of Chichester whereupon this Earl upon the advancement of the said Francis to that dignity at Oxford 3 Iunii 20 Car. 1. obtain'd an Entail of the same Honor for lack of issue-male of him to himself and the issue-male of his own body by her the said Elizabeth By whom he had issue four daughters viz. Audrey who departed this life unmarried Penelope who died young Elizabeh wedded first to Iosceline Earl of Northumberland afterwards to Raphe son and heir to Edward Lord Mâ—untagu of Boughton and another Penelope who died in her Infancie He lastly married the Lady Frances daughter to William Duke of Somerset widow of Richard Vicount Molineux but by her had no issue This Earl being a person of much prudence and sincere affections to King Charles the First whom he faithfully served throughout that redious time of his perplext condition by the late Calamitous Troubles upon the happy Restoration of our present Sovereign King Charles the Second was deservedly made choice of for one of the Knights Companions of the most Noble
Order of the Garter and constituted Lord High Treasurer of England 8 Sept. 12 Car. 2. And departing this life at Southampton-House near Hoâ—burne in the Suburbs of London 16 Maii An. 1667. was buried at Tichfeild with his Ancestors Evers 35 Hen. 8. THat this Surname was first assumed from the Lordship of Evre in Com. Buck. where Hugh a younger son to one of the Bacons of Werkworth in Com. Northumb which Barons were afterwards known by the name of Clavering did seat himself in the time of King Henry the Third is out of doubt To which Hugh succeeded Iohn his son and heir who in 35 E. 1. obtain'd a Charter for Free-warren in all his Demesn-lands at Esby in Cleveland in Com. Ebor. And in 8 E. 2. was in that Expedition made into Scotland This Iohn being a Knight in 10 E. 2. was then constituted one of the King's Commissioners to Treat for a Truce with the Scots and in 12 E. 2. serv'd again in the Scottish-Wars From him descended Sir Raphe Evre Knight who having married Catherine one of the three daughters and coheirs of Sir William de Aton Knight in 13 R. 2. made partition with the other coheirs of those Lands which were of their Inheritance he being at that time Sheriff of Northumberland and Governor of the Castle at Newcastle upon Tine and in 15 R. 2. Sheriff of Yorkshire as also Constable of the Castle at York So likewise in 19 R. 2. and again of Northumberland in 21 R. 2. To whom succeeded Raphe his son and heir Which Raphe had issue Sir William de Evre Knight who married Maud a daughter to Henry Lord Fitz-Hugh and had issue by her Sir Raphe Evre Knight his son and heir slain at Tâ—uton-Field in 1 E. 4. From whom descended Sir William Evre K t made Captain of the Town and Castle of Baâ—wick upon Twede in 30 H. 8. And afterwards being Warden of the East-Marches towards Scoâ—land by Letters Patents bearing date at Westminster 24 Febr. 35 H. 8. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm By Elizabeth his wife daughter to Christopher Lord Willoughby of Eresby he had issue two sons Raphe and Henry and three daughters Anne married to Anthony Thorpe of Conye Thorpe in Com Ebor. Esquire Muriel to George Bowes Esquire afterwards to VVilliam VVieliff of VVicliff Esquire and Margerie to VVilliam Buckton of Bellingsholme in Holderness Which Raphe the eldest son being a Knight in 28 H. 8. was made Constable of 〈◊〉 Castle where he behaved himself so couragiously upon the siege thereof the same year in holding c it out for the space of full six weeks against those Northern-Rebels then in Armes by reason of the dissolution of the lesser Monasteries the preceding year calling that their Insurrection The Pilgrimage of Grace though he had not other assistance therein than his own Houshold-servants nor any other Food for the last Twenty dayes but bread and water as that the King for his good service there made him Commander in Chief of all his Forces appointed for guarding the Marches towards Scoâ—land which he defended with great reputation for divers years And in An. 1544. 36 H. 8. being encouraged by the success which the Lord Dacres and others had in the taking of Dumfrize and the spoiles by them got in that part of the Country In the Winter following with the men of Tindale and Ridsdale he entred upon another part and laid all waste betwixt Iedburgh and Relsou then spoiled 〈◊〉 and afterwards returning to London mov'd for a Reward for this Service Whereupon by the Duke of Norfolk's advice the King gave him as much Land as he could win from the Scots Wherewith he grew so animated as that the next Spring viz. in An. 1545. he entred Scotland again with about Four thousand men But being encountred at Halydorrigg by the Earl of Arran who with three distinct Bataglia's beset him he there lost his life together with the Lord Ogle and many other brave men leaving issue by Margerie his wife daughter of Raphe Bowes of Stretlam in the Bishoprick of Durham Esquire three sons VVilliam Raphe and Thomas and two daughters Frances afterwards married to Robert Lambton of Lambton in Com. Palat. Dunelm Esquire and Anne to Lancelot Merfeild But I return to VVilliam Lord Evers his father still living In 5. E. 6. the Marquess of Northampton being sent Embassador into France and to carry the Order of the Garter to the King of that Realm he was one of the Lords appointed to attend him thither And in 6 E. 6. constituted Warden of the Middle-Marches toward Scotland under Iohn Dudley then Duke of Northumberland Moreover in 4 and 5 Ph. M. he was again made Captain of Barwic upon Twede So likewise in 1 Eliz. And in 12 Eliz. appointed to lead the Rereward of those Forces then sent under the command of the Earl of Sussex President of the North against the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland at that time in Rebellion When he died I find not but to him succeeded William his Grandson viz. eldest son to Sir Raphe Evre Knight so slain in Scotland as before is observed In 29 Eliz. this VVilliam Lord Evre was constituted one of the Commissioners with Edward Earl of Rutland and others to treat of a League with the Scots whereupon they met with the Commissioners of that Realm at Barwick in Iuly the same year And in An. 1592. 34 Eliz. by his Testament bearing date 22 Dec. bequeath'd to Raphe his son and heir Fifteen hundred pounds towards the building of an House at Iarrom After which viz. 12 Feb. An. 1593. 36 Eliz. he departed this life leaving issue by Margaret his wife daughter of Sir Robert Dimock Knight four sons Raphe his son and heir 2. Francis who married Elizabeth daughter of Iohn Leonard of Knoll in Com. Cantii 3. VVilliam 4. Charles and three daughters 1. Anne wife of Iohn Malory Esquire son and heir to Sir VVilliam Malory Knight Mary married to Richard Goodrick of Ribstan in Com. Ebor. Esquire and Martha to VVilliam Ayrmin Esquire Which Raphe took to wife Mary the only daughter of Sir Iohn Dauney of Cessay in Com. Ebor. Knight and in 5 Iac. was constituted the King's Lieutenant within the Principallity of Wales and left l issue William who by Lucia his wife daughter of Sir Andrew Noell of Dalby in Com. Leic. Knight had issue two sons Raphe and William and a daughter callâ—d Mary married to Sir William Howard K t grandson to the Lord William Howard of Naworth Which Raphe having married Catherine the daughter to Thomas Lord Arundel of Wardour died in his fathers life time leaving issue VVilliam
which hath for many ages flourisht in the West of England and been of eminent note in those parts for apparent it is by the general survey taken shortly after the Norman Conquest that Roger de Arundel did at that time possess twenty eight Lordships in Somersetshire and that Robert de Arundel in 5 Steph. upon Collection of that Tax called Dane gelt then levyed in the Counties of Dors. and Wilts paid fifty eight shillings Likewise that he gave the Church of Dissam with two hides of Land to the Canons of Taunton Also that in 7 H. 2. another Roger answered forty pounds for the Knights fees he then held Moreover that in 13 Ioh. Robert Fitz-pain who then had the moytie of the fees of Gerbert de Perci accounted for thirty marks for fifteen Knights fees of the old fees of Roger de Arundell and Robert de Newburgh for as many Furthermore that in 44 H. 3. Raphe de Arundel executed the Sheriffs Office for the County of Cornwall on the behalf of Richard Earl of Cornwall then King of Almaine Long after this also scil in 10 H. 4. I find that the Seneschal of Henault coming into England to seek adventures id est to perform certain feats of Arms Sir Richard Arundel Knight was one of those who answered him And that in 7 H. 5. Sir Iohn Arundel of Cornwall Knight being in the Kings Fleet at sea was of the Retinue with Sir Hugh Courtney Knight son and heir to the Earl of Dâ—von also that the same Sir Iohn departed this life on Tuesday next ensuing the Feast of the Epiphany 13 H. 6. seised of the Mannors of Carmenou Wyngenton Kenell Tremblyts Treboyth Coverton Creleyr Lanherne Nansladron Langoran Lambran Tregarne Conderowe Penweres also of the hundred of Penwith in com Cornub. and of the Mannors of Morchard Yoweton Luseghe Brompton Lodiswill Sprecombe and Bokeland Kynham in com Devon leaving Iohn his grandson son of Iohn who died in his life time his next heir twenty years of age To whom succeeded Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne Knight which Sir Thomas by Catherine his wife daughter and coheir to Iohn Lord Dynham had issue Sir Iohn Arundel Knight of the Bath who departed this life in 36 H. 8. leaving issue by his first wife two sons Iohn from whom those of Lanherne in Cornwall are descended and Sir Thomas Arundell Knight to whom he gave Wardour-Castle in com Wilts antiently belonging to the Family of St. Martin and afterwards to Willoughby Lord Brooke Which Sir Thomas in 5 E. 6. being charged together with Edward Duke of Somerset for conspiring the murther of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland and some other of the Lords lost his Head for the same shortly after By Catherine his second wife daughter of Sir Thomas Greneville Knight the same Sir Iohn had issue Mary a daughter first married to Robert Earl of Sussex and afterwards to Henry Earl of Arundell This Sir Thomas so beheaded took to wife Margaret one of the daughters and coheirs to the Lord Edmund Howard third son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk and by her had issue Sir Mathew Arundell Knight who lyeth buried at Tysbury in com Wilts leaving issue by Margaret his wife daughter to Henry Willoughby of Wollaton in com Not. Esquire Thomas his son and heir Which Thomas serving in Hungary against the Turks manifested his courage in so high a manner though then but a young man that as a reward of his Prowess Rodulph the second advanced him to the honor of Count of the Empire for that he had behaved himself manfully in the Field as also in the assaulting of divers Cities and Castles shewed great proof of his valor and that in forcing the Water-Tower near Strigonium he took from the Turks their Banner with his own hand as are the words of that Emperors Charter so that every of his Children and their descendents of both sexes should for ever enjoy that title have vote in all Imperial Diets purchase Lands within the Dominions of the Empire list any voluntary Souldiers and not to be put to any tryal but in the Imperial Chamber Whereupon when he returned into England there being great dispute amongst the Peers of this Realm whether such a dignity so given him by a Forreign Prince should be allowed of here as to place and precedence or any other Priviledge and voted in the Negative King Iames in the third year of his Reign taking into consideration his singular merits by his Letters Patents bearing date 4 Maii created him a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Arundel of Wardour with limitation of that honor to the heirs male of his body the ceremony of his Creation being performed at Grenewich This Thomas Lord Arundell first married Mary daughter to Henry Earl of Southampton and by her had issue Thomas his son and heir and William Arundell of Hornisham in com Wilts As also Elizabeth a daughter married to Sir Iohn Philipot Knight And to his second wife Anne daughter of Miles Philipson of Crooke in com Westmor Esquire widow of ... Thoroughgood and by her had issue three sons Mathew Thomas and Frederick who all died within age and six daughters Catherine married to Raphe son and heir to William Lord Evre Mary to Sir Iohn Somerset Knight second son to Edward late Earl of Worcester Anne to Cecill Lord Baltamore Frances to Iohn Earl of Shrewsbury Margaret to Iohn Fortescue of Salden Esquire and Clare to Humphrey Weld Esquire and departing this life at Wardour Castle An. 1639. lyeth buried at Tysbury before-mentioned To whom succeeded Thomas his son and heir who married Blanch fifth daughter to Edward Earl of Worcester and dying in his late Majesties Garrison at Oxford in An. 1643. was also buried at Tisbury leaving issue Henry his son and heir who succeeded him in his Honors and two daughters Catherine married to Francis Cornwallis Esquire and Anne to Roger Vanghan Esquire Which Henry now Lord Arundell married Cecilie the daughter of Sir Henry Compton Knight of the Bath widow of Sir Iohn Fermour of Somerton in com Oxon. Knight and by her hath issue two sons Thomas who married Mary the daughter of Thomas Spenser of Ufton in com War widow of Robert Lucie late of Cherlecote in com War Esquire and Henry as also Cecilie a daughter now a Nun. Carew Earl of Totneis 3 Iac. OF this Family of great Antiquity in the Western parts of England taking its surname from Carew-Castle in Pembrookshire was Sir George Carew Knight made Captain of the Tower of Ruysbanke at 〈◊〉 in 31 H. 8. which command Sir Iohn Pecche and Sir Nicholas Carew Knight formerly had From which Sir George descended another
And lastly Hesther the second daughter and coheir to Gideon le Lou Lord of the Mannor of Columbiers in Normandy widow of Iames Richer Lord of the Mannor of Cambernon in the same Province but by neither of these hath had any issue Which Sir Francis his only son hath had two wives first Lucie the youngest daughter to Sir Robert Carr of Sleford in com Linc. K t by whom he had issue two daughters Mary and Denzilla who died in their Infancies Secondly Ann the eldest daughter and coheir to Sir Francis Pile of Compton Beauchamp in com Berks. Baronet by whom he hath had issue Iane a daughter who died young and one son named Denzil Roper Lord Tenham 1 Iac. OF this Family which hath been of great antiquity in Kent was Iohn Roper of Eitham in that Country Esquire Son of Iohn Roper Attorney-general to King Henry the Eighth who took to wife Iane the daughter of Sir Iohn Fineux Knight Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench in part of King Henry the Seventh and beginning of King Henry the Eighth s Reigh and coheir to her mother daughter and coheir to William Apulderfeild Esquire Which Iohn had issue two sons William Roper of Eltham sometime Clerk of the King's Bench who married Margaret the daughter of the famous Sir Thomas Moore Knight at that time Lord Chancellor of England from whom the Ropers of UUelhall are descended and Christopher Roper of the Lodge in Linsted who by Elizabeth daughter to Christopher Blore of Kenham in com Cantii Esquire had issue Iohn Which Iohn upon the ninth of Iuly An. 1603. 1. Iac. received the honor of Knighthood Also upon the ninth of Iuly 14 Iac. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Tenham a fair Mannor of his own inheritance in those parts And departing this life about the end of August An. 1618. 16 Iac. left issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir to Iohn Parke of Malmaine in com Cantii Esquire Christopher his son and heir and two daughters Elizabeth married to George son and heir of William Lord Vaux and Iane to Sir Robert Lovel Knight This Christopher thus succeeding him in his honor married Catherine the daughter to Iohn Sebourne of Sutton St. Michael in com Heref. Esquire and by her had issue two sons Iohn and William and four daughters Bridget married to Sir Robert Hurleston of Sawson in com Cantabr Knight Mary Abbess of the English Nunnery at Gant in Flanders Catherine wedded to Sir Robert Thorold of the Heath in com Linc. Knight and Elizabeth first to Iohn Plunket an Irishman and afterwards to ... Bagnall Which Iohn being made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Henry Prince of Wales and upon his death succeeding him married Mary daughter to William Lord Peter and by her had issue three sons Christopher Francis and William and four daughters 1. Catherine who died unmarried 2. Elizabeth wedded to Sir Iohn Arundel of Lanherne in com Cornub. Knight Mary a Nun at Gant in Flanders and Margaret who died young and departing parting this life 10 Feb. 1627. was buried at Lingâ—â—ed in Kent To whom succeeded Christopher his son and heir who married first Mary daughter to Sir Francis Englefeild of Wotton Basset in com Wilts Knight by whom he had issue Iohn a son who died young and a daughter called Frances His second wife was Philadelphia a daughter to Knolles of Grove-place in Hantshire by whom he had issue three sons viz. Christopher now Lord Tenham Henry who died young and Thomas And departing this life 23 October Anno 1673. was buried at Lingired in Kent with most of his Ancestors Whereupon Christopher now Lord Tenham his eldest surviving son succeeded him in his honor Which Christopher married Elizabeth the daughter to Francis Vicount Mountagu and by her hath issue Catherine a daughter Stanhope Earl of Chesterfeild 14 Iac. THat this Family hath been of great Antiquity in Notinghamshire though not arriv'd to the dignity of Peerage till of late times is evident from sundry authorities For in 48 E. 3. Iohn Stanhope of Rampton underwent the Office of Eschaetor for that County and Derbyshire which was then not inferior to that of Sheriff From whom descended another Iohn who married Elizabeth the daughter and heir of Stephen Maluvel cosin and heir to Iohn Lungvilers grandson to Thomas Lungvilers who had summons to Parliament in 16 E. 3. Which Iohn had issue Richard who in 6 H. 4. being a Knight was Sheriff of those Counties From whom descended Sir Edward Stanhope Knight Which Sir Edward in 18 H. 7. was made Constable of Sandale-Castle in com Ebor. whose second son Michael Stanhope Esquire afterwards Knight in 31 H. 8. obtain'd a Grant of the Mannor of Shelford in Com. Nott. with its members parcel of the possessions of the then dissolved Monastery there with the Rectories of Shelford Saxendale Sedlyng Burton Ioys and North Muskham in that County Rowceby and UUestburgh in Com. Linc. Elwaston and Okebroke in Com. Derb. and to the heirs male of his body by Ann his wife This Sir Michael Stanhope had issue Sir Thomas Stanhope of Shelford in com Nott. Knight as also divers other children sons and daughters Which Sir Thomas took to wife Margaret daughter and coheir to Sir Iohn Port of Etwall in com Derb. Knight And had issue Iohn who in 38 Eliz. was constituted Treasurer of the Chamber to that Queen for life and in 42 Eliz. being then a Knight was made Constable of the Castle of Coichester in com Essex for life Which Sir Iohn by Cordell his wife daughter and heir to Richard Allington Esquire by Ioane his wife Sister and heir to Sir William Cordell of Long Melford in com Suff. Knight had issue Philip his son and heir who by Letters-patents bearing date 7 Nov. 14 Iac. being at that time a Knight was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Stanhope of Shelford and upon the fourth of August 4 Car. 1. created Earl of Chesterfeild This Earl married two wives first Catherine daughter to Francis Lord Hastings son and heir to George Earl of Huntington by whom he had issue eleven sons of which Iohn Charles Edward William Thomas Michael and George died young or before they came to ripe years Philip was slain at Shelford-House in the time of the late Wars being then in Armes for the King and Ferdinando lost his life at Bridgâ—oâ—d about the same time in His late Majesties service Henry became his heir apparent but died in his life time and Arthur the youngest survived him As also two daughters Sarab married to Sir Richard Houghton of Houghton Tower in com Lanc. Baronet and
THE BARONAGE OF ENGLAND OR An Historical Account OF THE LIVES and most Memorable ACTIONS of Our English Nobility In the SAXONS time to the NORMAN Conquest And from thence of those who had their rise before the end of King HENRY the Third's Reign DEDUCED From Publick Records Antient Historians and other Authorities BY WILLIAM DUGDALE NORROY King of Arms. Nam genus proavos quae non fecimus ipsi Vix ea nostra voco Ovid. TOME the First LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Abel Roper Iohn Martin and Henry Herringman at the Sun in Fleetstreet the Bell in S. Pauls Churchyard and at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange 1675. SERENISSIMO CELSISSIMOQVE CAROLO SECUNDO Dei Gratiâ MAGNAE BRITANNIAE FRANCIAE HIBERNIAE MONARCHAE Fidei Defensori GULIELMUS DUGDALUS NORROY Rex Armorum MAJESTATI Ejus Humillimus ac Fidelis Subditus Servus HOC OPUS D. D. THE PREFACE THere having been so much and so well in general already spoken in few words by that great Orator Cicero in commendation of History That it is the Witness of times past the Voice of Antiquity the Light of Truth and the Life of Memory to offer more were superfluous Most certain we are that every one naturally is desirous of Knowledge and Experience teacheth us That the gaining thereof is not any way better then by observing the success which hath attended the Actions of other Men. Ailred an old Monk of Rievaulx who lived in the time of King Stephen and Henry the Second in his Preface to the History of King Edward the Confessors life tells us That by Recording the Lives and Actions of the Good those who come after have encouragement to imitate their Vertues and that nothing more inciteth the mind of Man to an emulation of others then to hear the report of their noble Atchievements conceiving that by doing the like they may reap the like benefit It is said of Demetrius Phalaraeus that he advised King Ptolomy to provide himself of Books touching his Kingdom and such as did Treat of Military Actions to the end that therein he might read what his Friends durst not admonish him of And that when Alphonsus King of Aragon lay sick at Capua reading the famous Acts of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius he grew so much pleased therewith that upon his recovery he said Farewel Avicen farewel Hippocrates and all other Physitians and long live Quintus Curtius the Restorer of my Health Of what relates to Kings and Soveraign Princes the Volumes which have been already written are large and numerous nor hath there been a neglect to preserve the memory of others though of inferior rank who have been famous in their times it being accounted a generous disposition in all Men to endeavor to know whence their Forefathers were For besides what we find of such dispersedly occurring in our Publick Histories and Annals Divers there are of whom a particular account hath been given as to their Marriages and Issue For instance of some great Families in Bretaigne by Augustine du Paz Of the Houses of Chastillon Guines Ardres and many other by Andrew du Chesne And of ours in this Realm by the Learned and Iudicius Robert Glover long since Somerset Herald in imitation of Claude Paradine his Alliances Genealogicks which with great exactness being performed was afterwards made publick by Thomas Mills his near Kinsman and Executor The like also of the Marriages and Issue of the Nobility of England with-some Historical Notes did Ralph Brook sometime York Herald accomplish in An. 1619. afterwards Reprinted with Corrections I wish I could not say with too sharp and severe Reflections by Augustine Vincent at that time Windsore Herald who in his Epistle Dedicatory to the then Earl of Arundel and Surrey Earl Marshal of England intimates his purpose of somewhat touching The Baronage of England and lives of such as had been Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter For the effecting whereof he had no small advantage by his free access to the Publick Records in the Tower of London being then a Clerk in that Office though what progress he made in either of these I never yet saw Of the Right Noble and Antient Family of Berkley of Berkley Castle in Com. Gloc. there hath that been done in an Historical way by the special Industry of a worthy Gentleman lately deceased which I heartily wish may be a Pattern for some others to follow it being faithfully extracted partly out of Publick Records and partly from the great mass of antient Charters and other Memorials still remaining in Berkley Castle I must ingenuously acknowledge that I had not any thoughts of attempting this Work here made publick until by God Almighties disposal attending the late King Charles the First of Blessed Memory in His Garison at Oxford according to the duty of my place and continuing in his service there from the beginning of November An. 1642. until the end of June 1646. I had both leisure and opportunity of perusing many excellent Histâ—â—â—â—al Manuscrips choicely preserved in the Famous Bodleian Library and sundry Colledges there whence having gathered a large stock of fit materials in order to such a Work I grew encouraged to proceed farther and thereupon betook my self to a diligent search into those old Records in the Tower of London Office of the Rolls Exchequer and sundry other publick places Next into that incomparable Treasury of most antient and choice Manuscripts which the late Right Worthy Sir Robert Coâ—ton Baronet had in his time happily get together And after that into divers other no less estimable which with much charge had been gained by the Right Honorable the late Lord Hatton and by his especial favor freely communicated to me likewise into that elaborate Collection from the Pipe-Rolls made by Mr. Roger Dodsworth my late deceased Friend and into sundry other whereunto my Quotations do refer Amongst which those of the before specified Robert Glover formerly Somerset Herald most opportunely acquired from several hands wherein they lay obscured were not the least A task indeed of such importance and weight for so at length I found it to be that though I had thus fitted my self with materials conducing thereto I could hardly be perswaded to undertake But considering at last that these my Collections which had been no small charge and pains to me were not like to be of such use to those unto whose hands they might hereafter come as to my self I resolved to put them in order and to begin the Work As to its Title The Baronage of ENGLAND some perhaps may doubt whether it be suitable and proper to it by reason it contains all other superior Dignities from a Baron to a Duke inclusive It is therefore to be noted That all those Degrees were antiently comprehended under that appellation and that this First Volume relates only to such
Covent and that he died the Sixth Kalends of August in the year of Christ 1094. And was honorably buried in the Châ—â—ch of that Monastery But others say that he was slain by the Welsh between Cardiff and Brecknock ¶ Though Robert Sirnamed de Belesme was the Eldest Son of Earl Roger last mentioned yet in respect he had only that great Inheritance by his Father and Mother which lay in Normandy and not those Honors in England till afterwards I shall first speak of Hugh de Montgomery his younger Brother because he next succeeded in these Earldoms of Arundel and Shrewsbury whom the Welsh called Hugh Goch by reason of his Red Hair This Hugh in the life time of his Father possessed the Mannor of Wrfeld in Staffordshire He likewise was in that Conspiracy with Robert de Molbray and others for the murthering of King William Rufus in Northumberland having placed divers armed Men in a Wood there of purpose to effect their design which being made known to the King the principal of them were brought to condign punishment and others forced to open theâ—r Purses for regaining that Kings favor amoâ—gst which this Hugh gave Three thousand pounds But of him I find nothing farther memorable than that Action wherein he lost his life in An. 1098. 12 Wil. Ruf. which was thus The Welsh growing powerful and committing many outrages upon the Marches this Earl raising the power of Shropshire joyned with Hugh Earl of Chester and the strength of that County and marched into Angâ—esey where they made most miserable destruction and in a very barbarous and cruel manner cutting off the Hands and Feet of some the Privy Members of others and putting out the Eyes of many and amongst these they took one Kâ—ured a Priest by whose counsels the Welsh had been much guided in those their enterprises and after they had cut off his Stones and his Tongue they pulled out one of his Eyes But this horrid and savage dealing went not long unrevenged for within a few days after Magnus King of Norway Son of Olaus Son to Harold Harfagar having gotten the Orchads and the Isle of Man failed with a few Ships unto the Coasts of Anglesey intending there to have landed but finding opposition he let flie his Arrows at those that were on shore by one of which this Earl was slain That he there lost his 〈◊〉 all Historians agree but the circumstances thereof are somewhat variously delivered Ordericus Vitalis relating it thus viz. That Magnus King of Norway being at Sea with Six Ships directing his course towards England did much Alarm the people on divers Coasts and that there then was great hostility betwixt the English and Welsh at that time Whereupon the power of Châ—shire and Shropshire was raised and ready for Battle in the Countrey of â—â—yannoh nâ—ar the Sea Coast. To which place this Hugh de Montgomery first coming with his Troops expecting Auxiliaries from the Neighboring parts staid there many days circumspectly guarding the Countrey against the Incursions of the Welsh and Norwegians During which stay it hapned that the Inhabitants thereabouts discerned the Norwegians near at hand and in danger of landing ran up and down in no little fear which caused this Earl Hugh to ride near the brink of the shore in order to the Marshalling his Soldiers for the better opposing their entrance but it so fell out that as he sate thus on Horsback he was shot by an Arrow from one of their Ships and falling down into the Water then flowing lost his life After which within few days his Body being carried to Shrewsbury was there buried in the Cloyster of the Abbey with great lamentation Howbeit Giraldus Cambrensis in his Description of Anglesey takes notice of another Circumstance but attributeth it to Hugh Earl of Chester who was at that time in Wales with this our Earl and not to him which is a gross mistake as to the person There is saith he in this Isle viz. Anglesey a Church of S. Teuredaucus the Confâ—ssor in which Earl Hugh after he had subjugated these parts of Wales having kennelled his Dogs all night found them every one mad next morning and that he himself died a miserable death within a Moneth after For hearing that certain Pirates were come to the Haven of this Island in Long-Boats and making hast to oppose their Landing The principal Commander of them called Magnus standing at the fore end of the Boat with a Bow in his hand let flie an Arrow at our Earl then armed Cap a Pe so that no entrance could be made except through his Helmet at the Sights for his Eyes but so fatally was that Arrow directed that it passed through his Head-peice upon his Right Eye and piâ—rcing his Brain caused him to fall headlong into the Sea ¶ I come now to Robert de Belesme Eldest Son to Roger de Montgomery who upon his Fathers death had those Lands and Honors of his which lay in Normandy as hath been observed and now upon the death of Hugh his younger Brother these Earldoms of Arundel and Shrewsbury in England The first mention I find of this Robert is in An. 1073. which was in the Sixth of the Conquerors Reign the King having then heard of much wrong done to his Norman Subjects by some Neighboring powers fearing also an Invasion from them and Insurrections at home prepared a considerable Army wherewith advancing to Mayne and in his passage besieging the Castle of Fresnay he there girt this Robert de Belesme with the Sword of Knighthood After which he grew in so great esteem with that King that he conferred much honor upon him so that he excelled most of the Nobility of Normandy in glory having very great possession there and many strong Castles Nevertheless no sooner was the Conqueror dead but his Turbulent and Rebellious disposition began to shew it self for he then seised upon the Garrisons of Allencioâ— and Belesme with divers other strong Holds and joyned with Odo Earl of Kent and those other on his party against King William Rufus on the behalf of Robert Curthose and was with them in the Castle of Rochester at that time Howbeit when Earl Roger his Father fell off from them upon the fair promises of Rufus this his Son complied with him also but going soon after with Henry Earl of Constance into Normandy and Duke Robert hearing that he was thus reconciled to his Brother Rufus and by Oath obliged to him taking counsel with Odo Bishop of Bayeâ—x before they could act any thing he caused him to be seised on as he came a shore and committed him to close imprisonment The news whereof being brought to the Earl his Father he by Licence from King William
famous League betwixt the King of France and King Edward wherein the Spaniard and divers other were included and by Oath did undertake for King Edwards observance thereof In 17 Edw. 3. he was one of those who attended Henry Earl of Lancaster in his expedition into Scotland for raising the Siege of Loughmabon Castle then made by the Scots which being effected he was constituted Governor thereof In the same year he was again in Britanny in the Kings service so also in 19 20 Ed. 3. being then with the King to raise the Siege of Aguillon In which last mentioned year King Edward having advertised the Pope that the King of France had violated the League lately made and thereupon invading that Kingdom this Earl attended him and having passed the River of Seâ—ne slew Five hundred of those who opposed his Repair of the Bridges over that stream In the same Twentieth of Edward the Third he was in the second Battalia of King Edwards Army in that famous Battle of â—ressey in France wherein two Kings viz. of Boheâ—â—â— and 〈◊〉 with divers great Dukes and Counts lost their lives and the King of England obtained a glorious victory Wherein as also both before and after that memorable fight he approved himself a right valiant and expert Commander In 21 Edw. 3. he was again in the Kings service beyond Sea So also in 22 Edw. 3. And in consideration that King Edward did at his request grant to Humphrey de Bohun his Brother Earl of Hereford the Inheritance of the Lordships of Uphaven and Send in Wiltshire whereof Edward his other Brother had a Grant to himself and the Heirs male of his Body but died without issue he remitted to the said King Two thousand marks of the Money due to himself for his service in Britanny In 23 Edw. 3. he was again constituted one of the Kings Commissioners to treat with the Commissioners of the King of France upon a Truce betwixt King Edward and him In 24 Edw. 3. he was made Warden of the Marches towards Scotland And in 25 Ed. 3. one of the Commissioners appointed to treat with the great Men of Scotland for the inlargement of David Brus and making a final Peace betwixt England and Scotland In 26 Edw. 3. this Earl together with Iohn de Vere Earl of Oxford was in Commission for Arraying of Soldiers in the Counties of Essex and Hartford to oppose the French then threatning an Invasion and was himself charged with the providing of thirty Men at Arms with Lances in respect of his Lordship of Melenith in Wales In 27 Edw. 3. he was in that expedition then made into Scotland and one of the Commissioners who were appointed to meet with the Nobles of that Realm to treat with them touching the delivery of David de Bruys called King of Scots still prisoner in England So also in 28 Edw. 3. the said David being yet detained In 29 Edw. 3. he was also in the Kings service in Scotland And the same year upon King Edwards passing over to 〈◊〉 attended him thither as also thence to S. 〈◊〉 expecting the King of Franâ—e in those parts with his Army but finding him not there wasted the Countrey adjacent In 30 Edw. 3. he was again constituted a Commissioner to treat with the Nobility and Commons of Scotland for the enlargement of David de Brus still a prisoner and for a final Pâ—ace betwixt both Kingdoms In 32 Edw. 3. he was again in Gascoigne so also in 33 34 Edw. 3. By which instances it plainly appeareth that he was a person of great action in his time especially in Military affairs But with more I have not met concerning him than that he with Elizabeth his Wife gave the perpetual Patronage of the Priory of 〈…〉 to the Abbot and Covent of 〈◊〉 and their Successors and that departing this life upon the sixteenth of September Aâ— 1360. â— 34 〈◊〉 3. he was buriâ—d in the said Abbey of 〈◊〉 on the Northside of the Presbytery leaving issue by the said 〈◊〉 Daughter of Bâ—rth 〈◊〉 de Bâ—dlesmere one of the Coheirs to Giles her Brother and Widow to Edmund de 〈◊〉 one only Son viz. Humphrey then nineteen years of age and one Daughter called Elizabeth married to Richard Son and Heir to Edmund Earl of Arundel Of Elizabeth the Wife of this great Earl it is memorable That in her Husbands life time and by his leave she making her Testament ult Maii An. 1356. 30 Edw. 3. bequeathed her Body to be buried in the Quire of the Friers-Preachers at London and gave to that Church one hundred marks sterling as also a Cross made of the Wood of the very Cross of our Saviour which she usually carried about her wherein was contained one of the Thorns of his Crown Moreover two fair Altar Cloaths of one suit two of Cloth of Gold one Chalice one Missal one Grail and one Silver Bell likewise thirty one Ells of Linnen Cloth for making of Albes one Pulpitary one Portfory and an holy Water-Pot of Silver To the Friers-Preachers at Oxford an hundred marks two whole Vestments with two whole Copes thereto appertaining two Cloths of Gold of one suit and a Chalice To the Friers-Preachers of Cambridge fifty pounds to those of â—helmsford twenty pounds and of 〈◊〉 twenty pounds and likewise an hundred and fifty marks to be distributed to several other Covents of the same Order of Friers in such sort as Frcre David de Stirington should think best for her Souls health To the Grey-Friers in London five marks to the Carmelites five marks to the Augustines five marks and to the Church of Rochford one pair of Vestments which she used on Holidays in her own Chappel The cheifest of her other Legacies being these viz. To the Earl of Hereford a Tablet of Gold with the form of a Crucifix thereon to Humphrey her Son a Cup of Silver gilt with two Basins and one Ewer of Silver to Elizabeth her Daughter a Bed of Red Worsted embroidered to her Sister the Countess of Oxford a Black Horse and a Nouch to her Sister Roos a Set of Bâ—ads of Gold and Jet with a Firmaile And that she lieth buried in the old Church of the Black-â—riers near Ludgate in the City of London ¶ Which Humphrey her son by the death of his Uncle viz. Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Esseâ— without issue as hath been observed succeeded him in those Earldoms as also in the Office of Constable of England and by descent from William his Father was Earl of Northampton who being not then of full age was committed to the Guardianship of Richard Earl of Arundel Whereupon he had License from the King to travel and the next year after being of full age had
Hospitalars died untimely upon the Nones of April Anno 1176 22 Henr. 2. and was buried in the Chapter-house at Gloucester as may seem by this Inscription on the Wall there Hic Iacet Ricardus Strongbow filius Gilberti Comitis de 〈◊〉 Leaving issue as some say one Son scarce three years old to be his Heir But by others it is reported that being by Treachery abused and wounded he departed this life the fifth year after his acquisition of the Province of Lemster viz. 21 Henr. 2. as also that he was buried at Dublin leaving issue one only Daughter called Isabel who remained in Ward to the King for the space of fourteen years and then was given in marriage to William Marshal who thereupon became Earl of Pembroke as also Lord of 〈◊〉 together with the whole Province of Lemster and all the inheritance of the same Richard Strongbow I now return to Richard Uncle of this Richard Strongbow and eldest Son to Gilbeâ—re de Tonebrigge This Richard in Anno. 1124 24 Henr. 1. translated the Monks out of his Castle at Clare into the Church of St. Augustine at Stoke and bestowed on them a little Wood called Stokeâ—ho likewise every year a Doe out of his Parke at Hunedene Likewise he commanded that all his Barons and other Tenants should permit them to dispose of their respective Tithes how they pleased and gave them the Church of Coveham in exchange for that of Denham As also the Ermitage at Standune On the Knights Templars he bestowed a certain Rent issuing out of â—aidoche in Comitat. Bedf. And founded the Priory of Conebrigge in Kent This is he who first had the title of Earl of Hertford and being one of those who by power of the Sword entred Waâ—eâ— there planted himself and became Lord of vast Teritories as also of divers Castles in those parts Moreover growing thereupon ambitious and requiring greater matters of the King then he could obtain he broke out in Rebellion and marched thither where being entrapped by the Welch he was unhappily slain leaving issue by ... his Wife Sister to Ranulph the second Earl of Chester three Sons Gilbert Roger and ... and a Daughter called Alice Wife of Cadwalader ap Griffith ap Conan Prince of North Wales This Gilbert who had also the title of Earl of Clare gave to the Monks of Lira in Normandy the Church of â—edeham to the Monks of Stoke Clâ—re in Comitat. Suff. the Church of â—ures To the Monks of Lewes in Suâ—sex the Church of Tonebruge and to the Knights Hospitalars the Church of Staundone in Hertfordshire And in Anno 1145. 8 Steph. was an Hostage for his Uncle Ranulph Earl of Chester Moreover continuing unfaithful to that King he was at length taken Prisoner and so kept for a long time till he had delivered up all his strong Holds After which scil in ann 1151. he died without issue and was buried in that Cell at â—are which Gilbert his Grandfather had given to the Monks of Bec in Normandy To which Gilbert succeeded Roger his Brother who having likewise the Title of Earl of 〈◊〉 in 3. H. 2. came to the King and desired that he might have such Lands in Wales as he could win Whereunto the King assenting he marched with a great Army to Cardigan and fortifying divers Castles thereabouts In 9 Hen. 2. this Roger being summoned to Westmâ—nster by Thomas Becket then Archbishop of Canterbury to do him Homage for the Castle of Tonebruge through the K. diswasion he refused so to do alledging that it rather belonged to the King as held by military service than to the Archbishop In 10 Hen. 2. he was one of the Earles present at the Kings recognition of the antient Customes and Liberties confirmed by his Ancestors This Earl Roger in 12 Hen. 2. upon levying the aid for marrying the Kings Daughter certified his Knights fees to be one hundred forty nine Touching his works of piety certain it is that they were many for it appears that he gave to the Monks of S. Augustine in Canterbury a Stagg every year out of his Forest of Tonebrugge To the Monks of Lewes the Church of Blechingley To the Canons of Lanthony the one moity of the Church of Bernyâ—â—tone for the maintenance of thirteen Lepers To the 〈◊〉 of S. Neots a Cell to Bec in Normandy the Church of Berton To the Knights Templars the Churches of Stradmurik and Trestrahio with an hundred acres of Land and three Burgages in Cardigan To the Knights Hospitalars the Mannor of 〈◊〉 with the whole Soke and Church of that Town as also his 〈◊〉 at Staundone situate Northwards from the Gate and likewise the Church of Haâ—lo and Mill of â—oucestre with certain Lands And acquitted the Canons of Sulby in Com. Northâ—mp of all manner of Toll for whatsoever they might buy or sell in his Market of Rowel He married Maud the Daughter of Iames de S. Hillary Which Maud for the health of the Soul of the said Earl her Husband gave to the Nuns of Godstow a mark of Silver She likewise gave to the Nuns of Buckland in yearly Rent of Thirteen shillings four pence to be paid out of the Preceptory of Kercbroke Which Preceptory with the Church of Kercbroke and two Yard Land in Durcote and likewise the Mannor of Greenham she gave to the Knights Hospitalars And surviving him married to William de Albiny Earl of Arundel To this laâ—t Earl Roger who died in An. 1173. 19 Hen. 2. succeeded Richard his Son and Heir Which Richard in 20 Hen. 2. when young Henry whom the King had crowned in his own life time began to rebel upon suspition of his Fidelity came in to his aid and approved himself a Loyal Subject And upon Collection of the Scutage of Wales in 2 Ric. 1. answered Sixty pounds seventeen shillings eleven pence In 6 Rich. 1. he was with the King in Normandy in that expedition then made thither And in 7 Rich. 1. gave One thousand pounds to the King for Livery of the Lands of his Mothers Inheritance with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Earl Gifford deducting for so much as his Mother and the Earl of Arundel had passed away Whereupon he obtained a Joynt-grant together with William Mareschal Earl of Pembroke of all those Lands both in England and Normandy of which he was to have the head or cheif Seat in England and William Mareschal and Isabel his Wife Daughter and Heir to Richard Earl of Strigul the head or cheif Seat in Normandy all the residue both in England and Normandy to be equally divided betwixt them This Richard had to Wife Amicia Daughter to the
Castile as the right of Constance his Wife In 10 R. 2. he was made Captain of the Castles of Pembroke and Kâ—â—garan in Wales And in 11 R. 2. being still Captain of Calais was constituted one of the K. Commissioners to treat of Peace with the E. of Flanders So likewise in 13 R. 2. And the same year made a notable salley out of Calais towards Boâ—oâ—â—ne in which he slâ—w and took many of the French After this he took fourteen French Vessels bound for Sciule whereof one was for the most part laden with Horse-shooes another with Torches Wax-lights and other necessaries in order to an attempt upon England then intended by the French About this time there being no small discontent by many of the great Lords by reason of the ill Government the King looking upon this William de Beauchamp as a favorer of those haughty spirited men sent his Letters to him to render up his Government at Calais and by the same messenger sent other Letters to the King of France But he refused to render his Commission saying that he received that charge and trust publickly from the King in the presence of his Nobles and therefore would not quit it in a private manner seising upon those Letters so sent to the King of France which he conveyed into England unto the Duke of Gloucester And when Iohn de la Pole Brother to Michael Earl of Suffolk a great favorite whom the King had made Captain of Calais came thither to enter upon that charge this William laid hold on him and brought him over into England whereat the King took such offence that he committed this our William to custody but upon second thoughts soon enlarged him After this scil in 1 Henr. 4. he was made Justice of South-Wales for life and Governor of the Castle and County of Pembroke and Lordship of Tineby of the Castle and Lordship of Kilgaran and County of â—sterlowe also for life paying to the Exchequer seventy marks per annum To the Collegiate Church of Warwick of his Ancestors foundation he gave for the good estate of King Richard the second and of Queen Anne his consort likewise for the good estate of himself and Ione his Wife during their lives and for the health of all their Souls afterwards the Advowsons of the Churches of Spellesbury and Chadsley-Corbet in Worcestershire And having been made Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter as also summoned to Parliament from 16 Ric. 2. until 8 H. 4. inclusive by the name of William Beauchamp de Bergavenny Chivalier being then possessed of the Castle of Bergaveâ—â—y and other Lands which Iohn de Hastings Earl of Pembroke had intailed upon him as in my discourse of that Earl is shewed he made his Testament 25 April Ann. 1408 9 H. 4. and thereby bequeathed his body to be buried in the Church of the Friers-Preachers commonly called the Black-Friers at Hereford next and beneath the Tomb of the same Iohn de Hastings Earl of Pembroke appointing that five Tapers should be hung about his Body as soon as might be after his death Moreover that twenty four poor men should be cloathed in black and each of them to hold a Torch in his hand receiving two pence a piece for that service To which place of his Burial he bequeathed twenty marks or more as his Executors should think fit as also an hundred pounds for the charge of his Funeral directing that ten thousand Masses should be sung for his Soul in all the hast that might be after his death by the most honest Priests that could be got and that four good Priests should be found by the space of ten years to sing for his Soul and for the Soul of his Lord Sir Iohn Hastings Earl of Pembroke and for all the Souls for whom he had obligation He likewise gave to his poor Tenants within his Lordships an hundred pound To Ioane his Wife a pair of Basons covered and over-gilt having the Armes of Warwick and Arundell empaled on them To Richard his Son his best Sword and Harness for the Justs of Peace which belonged to Warr. To Ioane and Elizabeth his Daughters a thousand marks a peice to their marriage And constituting Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas then Earl of Arundell Ioane his own Wife with others his Executors departed this life upon Friday the 8 of May. 12 H. 4. being then seised of the Sâ—ke of Oswaâ—dâ—eâ— in Com. Nott. the Mannor of Suâ—terfeid and Aston Cantlow in Com. Warw. the Mannors of Padyngtone in Com. Surr. Wridlington in Com. Suff. Worsfield in Com. Salop. Fordham Eaâ—-Hanyngfeld West-Hanyngfeld Choriton Redswell and South-Hanyngfeld in Com. Essex Speâ—lesbury in Com. Oxon. Keâ—emarton in Com. Glouc. Chadsley Corbet Pyriton Power Neshington Beauchamp Herington Purwil Dunclent Rushoâ— and Feâ—enham with the custody of the Forest as also of the Mannors of Shireevestench and Kiderminster all in Com. Wigorn. and of the Castles of Bergevenny and Grosmund in the Marches of Wales leaving issue by Ioane his Wife one of the Daughters to Richard Earl of Arundell Richard Beauchamp his Son and Heir then fourteen years of age Which Richard shortly after his Fathers death viz. upon the day of the seven Sleepers Anno 1411. took to wife Isabel Sister and Heir to Richard son and heir to Thomas late Lord Despencer Cousin and Heir of Elizabeth Wife of Edward Lord le Despencer Mother of the said Thomas But before I proceed with my discourse of this Richard I shall take leave to transcribe part of the Testament of Ioane his Mother who was Daughter to Richard Earl of Arundell and one of the Sisters and Coheirs to Thomas Earl of Arundell as also Widow of Humphrey de Boâ—un Earl of Hereford Essex and Northampton in regard that by it the greatness and state wherein the Nobility of England in those dayes lived may in some sort be discerned IN the name of the blessed Trynyte Fader Sonn and Holy Ghoast the tenth day of Ianyver in the yeer of our Lord 1434. I Johanne Beauchamp Lady of Bergavenny as a meke Daughter of Holi Chirche full in the Christen Fayth and belive hool in minde and body blessed be God considering that the freel condition of this wrechid and unstable lief ys ful of perels and the yend and conclusion thereof is not elies but Deth fro the which no persone of none astate schall escape and therfore purposing with the leve of God to dyspose such goods as of his grace he hath lent me in such use as might be most to hys plesauns and profit of my Soule and alle theirs that I am bounden to I have ordeyned and make my Testament and last Will in this forme First I Bequethe my Soule to the mercy of my blessed Saviour and maker Ihesu Chryst through the beseechyng of his blessed Moder
as Heir to his Brother Iohn whose Wardship was granted to Edmund the Kings Brother This Henry being under age in 15 Edw. 1. at such time as the King made his expedition into Wales was acquitted of one hundred and twenty pound required from him for the Scutage then levied upon that occasion And in 22 Edw. 1. being then of age had thereupon Livery of them as also Summons to be at Portsmouth upon the first of September well fitted with Horse and Arms to attend the King into Gascoigne In 24 Edw. 1. being constituted Governor of all Galloway in Scotland he was in the Battle of Dunbar where the English then obtained a memorable Victory And the same year had a Charter of Free-Warren in all his Demesn Lands within the Lordship of Tadcaster in Com. Ebor. In 25 Edw. 1. the Earl Warren then General of all the Rings Forces beyond Trent having raised a great power in Yorkshire sent this Henry his Nephew with the Forces of Carlisle into Scotland who coming to Are endeavored to dispose the Inhabitants of Galloway to Peace But hearing that the Scots were advanced near Irwine about four miles distant he marched towards them Whereupon discerning themselves too weak they submitted In this year upon the Kings confirmation of the Great Charter and Charter of the Forests with the Articles thereupon he was one of the Peers that undertook for the Safe-guard of the Earls of Hereford and Norfolk and other of the Nobility who had stickled hard for the obtaining thereof But in 26 Edw. 1. he marched again into Scotland and the next year following being sent to York there to meet with the Bishop of Durham and Earl of Lincoln as also with some of the Nobles of Scotland to consult about the fortifying and manning of the Castles in Scotland he obtained in consideration of his great and faithful services a Grant of all the Lands as well in England as in Scotland which were the Inheritance of Ingelram de Baillol deceased and which did by Inheritance belong to Ingelram de Vmfranvill then in Rebellion In 28 Edw. 1. he was again in the Wars of Scotland So also in 31 Edw. 1. And then obtained a Charter for a Market upon the Saturday every week at his Mannor of Pokelington in Com. Ebor. And two Fairs one on the Eve and Feast-day of All-Saints and the other on the Eve and Feast-day of S. Margaret the Virgin Likewise in 32 Edw. 1. at Primchale near Spoford a Market on the Tuesday every week and a Fair yearly on the Eve and Feast-day of S. Michael as also a Market upon the Thursday at Wandesford in the same County and a Fair yearly on the Eve and Day of S. Mary Magdalen In 34 Edw. 1. being again sent into Scotland to oppose Robert de Brus then newly Crowned King there he was besieged at Kenâ—yr but shortly after relieved by those Forces which the King himself sent from Lanercost in Cumberland This Henry purchased the Mannor of â—uerindon upon 〈◊〉 from Anthony Beke Bishop of Durham And in 2 Edw. 2. obtained License to fortifie his Houses at Spoford and Lekingfield in Com. Ebor. As also that at Petworth in Com. Sussex He likewise in 3 Edw. 2. purchased from the same Bishop the Honor of Alnwike wherewith William de Vesci Lord thereof had intrusted that Bishop for the behoof of Iohn de Vesci his illegitimate Son the Bishop not performing the trust by reason of some scandalous words exprest towards him by that Iohn which Grant the King confirmed In 4 Edw. 2. he was again in Scotland and the same year procured the Kings Charter for Free-Warren in all his Demesn Lands within his Lordships of Settle Gigleswick Routhweii Maâ—â—um Arnecliff Buckden and Tadcaster in Com. Ebor. In 5 Ed. 2. he was made Governor of the Castle of Baumburgh in Com. Northumbr As also of the Castle of Scardebourgh in Com. Ebor. And in 7 Edw. 2. marched again into Scotland So likewise in 8 Edw. 2. In which year also upon the death of Robert Lord Clifford he was constituted one of the Commissioners together with Guy de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Bartholmew de Badlesmere in the custody of the Castles of Skipton in Craven Appeâ—â—y Bruham and Pendragon and likewise of two parts of the profits of the County of Westmorland by reason of the minority of Roger de Clifford Son and Heir to the said Robert Moreover having thus acquired the Honor of Alnwike he repaired the Castle there and the better to secure his title therein obtained a Release from Sir Gilbert de Aton Knight Coâ—in and Heir to William de Vesci of all his Right thereto He likewise purchased the Lordship of Corbrigge in Com. Northumbr And did so well deserve of King Edward that he obtained the Earldom of Carryk at his hands with all the Castles Mannors and Lands whereof Robert de Brus was possessed at the time when he was slain by Iohn Comyn He purchased also from Henry de Fishburne Son and Heir to Constance Daughter and Heir of Henry de Baillol the Mannor of Uere in Galoway as also Red-Castle in Anegos As to his Works of Piety he Founded a Chantry for two Priests in the Chappel of Semar for the health of the Soul of Eleanor his Mother and all his Ancestors To the Monks of Fountains he gave certain Lands in Malgum Moore and to the Monks of Salley the Advowson of the Church of Gairgrave And by Eleanor his Wife Daughter of Richard Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel had issue two Sons viz. Henry and William and departing this life in 8 Edw. 2. was buried in the Abby of Fountains before the High Altar leaving Henry his Son and Heir at that time sixteen years of age Which Eleanor the same year he died laid claim to certain Lands in Wresill and Ergom in Com. Ebor. As also in Claxby and Slotheby in Com. Linc. Against William de Percy who then held them Which William vouched a Grant from the said Henry her Husband and challenged Warranty thereupon from Henry her Son and Heir at that time under age And had for her Dower the Mannors of Clecop Gigleswike Lekinfield Naâ—erton the third part of the Mannor of Wâ—therby certain Lands in Bukeden as also the Mannor of Thurstanby with the Perquisites of the Court of Gisburne and Chase there Twenty nine shillings eight pence half-penny Rent in Westby Pathenale Swinden and Stainford-Scotain in Com. Ebor. And Six shillings eight pence yearly Rent in Louthford and Leggesby in Com. Linc. assigned unto her I now come to Henry Son and Heir to the last mentioned Henry and Eleanor In 9 Edw. 2. he obtained a
to whom the King directed his Letters by which he required him to send his Seal for ratifying thereof in case he could not then personally repair unto him And in 47 Hen. 3. upon those hostile Incursions then made by the Welsh received Summons as did other of the Barons-Marchers to come to Hereford on the third day after the Epiphany well fitted with Horse and Arms for defence of the Marches And after that another Summons to prepare himself with Horse and Arms to attend Iames de Aldithele one other of the Barons-Marchers at Ludlow for preventing the like Incursions Nevertheless soon after this viz. in 48 H. 3. adhering to the Rebellious Barons he was with some of them in the Castle at Rochester but long he did not continue there For it appears that before the end of that year being in Arms for the King in the Battle of Lewes he was with him taken prisoner This Iohn died in 52 Hen. 3. as it seems leaving issue by Maud his Wife Daughter of Roese de Verdun Iohn his Son and Heir then twenty two years of age who doing his homage had Livery of his Lands paying a hundred pound for his releif for his own Barony in Shropshire and elswhere as also twenty five pound for the fourth part of the Barony of Hugh de Albiny late Earl of Arundel Of which laâ—â— mentioned Iohn I have seen no more then that he departed this life upon Friday preceding the Annunciation of our Lady 54 Hen. 3. leaving issue by Isabel de Mortimer his Wife Richard his Son and Heir five years of age upon the Feast day of S. Blase Shortly after which viz. in 1 Edw. 1. the custody of the Castle of Blancminster and all other the Lands of this last deceased Iohn were committed to Iohn de Oxinden and the Wardship of the said Richard granted to Roger de Mortimer Howbeit Isabel his Mother in 8 Edw. 1 obtained the custody of the Castle and Honor of Arundel during his minority so likewise of the Castle of Blancminster and Hundred of Oswaldster Yet within two years after Edmund de Mortimer Son to the before specified Roger procured the Kings Grant for the custody of Arundel Castle as also of the Castle and Hundred of Oswaldstry But in 13 Edw. 1. this Richard was out of Ward and obtained a Grant for a Fair at his Mannor of Arundel in Sussex upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross. That this Richard thus possessing the Castle of Arundel thereupon enjoyed the Honor viz. the title of Earl without any formal Creation or other Investiture is clear enough from sundry Authorities First from the Letters of Protection which he had in 26 Edw. 1. upon that expedition then made into Scotland wherein he was he being therein called Richardus filius Alani Comes Arundell Next by that Precept in 29 Edw. 1. directed to him from the King whereby taking notice that he had raised certain Forces to march against Fouke Fitz-Warine a great Baron in Shropshire he is therein also sâ—iled Comes Arundell and required under the penalty of forfeiting whatsoever he held of the King to forbear any act of hostility against him the said Foukâ— As also by the Inquisition taken after his death the next ensuing year wherein he is likewise so called Moreover That Iohn his Ancestor had before him that title is evident from the Kings Mandate to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer in 35 Edw. 1. to enquire what debts Edmund then Earl of Arundel Son and Heir to this last mentioned Richard stood charged with either in his own name or in the name of any of his Ancestors In which Mandate there is this expression Quod idem Edmundus nobis tenetur ad Scaâ—carium praedictum in Ciiil. xvi â— ixd. de duobus debitis quae inveniuntur in Rotulis Scaccarii nostri praedicti sub nomine Iohannis filii Alani quondam Comitis Arundelliae Antecessoris praedicti Edmundi c. And lastly from the Act of Parliament in 11 Hen. 6. which declareth That all who had been possessed of the Castle and Honor of Arundel were Earls thereof without any other Creation But of this Richard Earl of Arundel I have no more to say then that he took to Wife Alizon Daughter to the Marquess of Saluce in Italy and left issue by her Edmund his Son and Successor sixteen years of age in 30 Ed. 1. As also two Daughters viz. Maud Wife to Philip Lord Burnel and Margaret to William Boteler of Wemme Which Edmund in 34 Edw. 1. having received the honor of Knighthood with Prince Edward and divers persons of note by the solemn Ceremony of Bathing c. attended the King in his expedition at that time made into Scotland So likewise in 35 Edw. 1. In 3 4 Edw. 2. he was again in the Wars of Scotland and in 5 Edw. 2. obtained the Kings Charter for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at his Mannor of Ruiton in the Marches of Wales with a Fair yearly on the Eve and Day of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist and three days next following About this time it was that Thomas Earl of Lancaster took upon him to redress what was amiss in the Government divers of the Nobility adhering to him in that design whereof this Earl was one But notwithstanding he so appeared therein in 10 Edw. 2. he was constituted Lieutenant and Captain General to the King from Crent Northwards as far as Roxborough in Scotland In 11 Edw. 2. he was charged with providing two hundred Foot for the Kings service in Scotland out of his Territories of Blancminster and Clun And in 12 13 Edw. 2. marched again into Scotland in which Wars and other his imployments he performed his trust so well as that in 15 Edw. 2. the King bestowed on him and the Heirs-male of his Body all those Houses near Algate within the City of London as also the Mannor of Ideshale in Com. Salop. Which by the forfeiture of Bartholmew de Badlesmere a great Baron in â—ent were escheated to the Crown So likewise the Mannor of Eâ—worth in the Isle of Axhoâ—me and all the Lands besides within that Isle which did belong to Iohn Lord Moubray and which by his Rebellion were then forfeited with all other Lands there which belonged to any other Rebel As also the Castle Mannor and Lands of Chirke the Castle and Mannor of Dolverne and likewise those Lands of â—ery and Kâ—dwey in the Marches of Wales which were part of the Possessions of Roger Lord Mortimer of Wigmore and also escheated by his Rebellion Moreover he stood in so great favor with that King and was so far trusted by him that in 18 Edw. 2. he
then reversed And being made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Henry the fourth the same year obtained a Charter for a Market every week upon the Wednesday at his Mannor of Sâ—orghton in Sussex as also three Faires yearly one on the Feast day of St. Philip and Iacob the second on Wednesday in Whitson-week and the third upon St. Martin's day in Winter In 6 Hen. 4. this Thomas married Beatrix an illegitimate Daughter to the King of Portugall upon the morrow after the Feast of St Katherine the Wedding being kept at London where the King and Queen were also present The same year likewise he had by the bounty of King Henry a Grant of the Mannors of Plumpton and Berkomp with the Advouson of those Churches which came to the Crown by the forfeiture of Thomas Lord Bardolf then attainted for Rebellion And in 12 H. 4. was sent with divers men at Armes and Archers to the Duke of Burgundie's aid against the Duke of Orleance Moreover in 1 H. 5. he was made Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports as also Lord Treasurer of England But not long after growing infirm by his Testament bearing date 10 Octob. Ann. 1415. 3 Hen. 5. he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the quire of the Collegiate Church of the Holy Trinity at Arundel under a certain Tombe there to be new made for him Also willing that a fair Monument should be erected by his Executors over the Body of his Father Likewise appointing an hundred and thirty pounds six shillings and eight pence to be bestowed at his Funeral and in celebrating of Masses for his Soul Furthermore in regard of a certain vow which he had made to S. Iohn of Bridlington when he was there with King Henry the fifth at such time as he was Prince viz. that he would once every year personally offer to that Saint or send the summe of five marks during his life he directed that his Executors should forthwith pay all the arrearages thereof besides the costs of the Messenger upon that errand And likewise that they should cause a certain Chappel to be built at the Gate called Mary-Gate in Arundell in honor of the Blessed Virgin Appointing also that those Soldiers who were with him at Hareflew in France should have all their arrears Likewise that all those Lands and Tenements in the possession of Robert Pobellowe and Thomas Harling Priests by virtue of his Fathers Feoffement should be amortized for the benefit of the Hospital at Arundell And upon the 13 of October following departed this life without issue being the seised of the Castle and Mannor of Castâ—e-Acre in Com. Norff. as also of the Mannor of Milham and of the Hundreds of Landiche and South-Grenhow in the same County Likewise of the Mannors of High-Rothyng Ovisham Cowyke in Sheringe Yonge Margaret Wolfamston juxta Gykewell and Canefeld parva in Comit. Essex of the Mannor of Berewyke juxta Berkweye in Com. Herâ—f of the Mannors of Clone Oswaldestre Ruton Bokenhall and Clombury in Com. Salop. And in the said County of Salop and Marches of UUales of the Mannors of Doditon Heythe Stretton Lydeleye Conede Acton rounde Wrockcestre Upton Hints Shrawardyn Clongoneford Sonford Osleton with the Castles of Dynas-bran and Leons and Land of Bromfield and Yale In the County of Sussex of the Castle of Arundell the Mannors of East-Dene Sangelton Sanstede Bourne Palyngham Lege Wollavyngton Alnetedesham Coking Leveminster Poling Wepham Ostham Scorteton Preston Eastham Tonet Westham Tonet UUalbedyng Pynkhurst Foer Overfold with the Hundreds of Westburne Singelton Eastbourne Boxe Stokebruge Anesford Bury Rotherbruge West-Estwrith and Poling as also of the Castle and Lordship of Lewes The Mannors of Alington Hundeden Northese Ratemeld Meching Rotingden Brightelmeston Pokeham Clayton â—ymer Pycombe Midleton Dichengre Cokefeld Worthe and Seford in the same County Of the Castle of Riegate with the Mannors of Bechesworthe and Docking in Com. Surr. and the Mannors of Knighton Kynele and Bulkindon in Comit. Wilts leaving Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk then the Wife of Sir Gerard Vseflete Knight Ioane Lady Bergavenny and Margaret the Wife of Sir Rowland Lenthale Knight his Sisters and next Heires the said Elizabeth and Ioane being at that time forty yeares of age and upwards and Margaret thirty three Beatrix his wife then also surviving who afterwards became the Wife of Iohn Holland Earl of Huntendon Upon the death of which Thomas Earl of Arundell thus without issue the right of this Earldom by reason of an Entail of the Castle of Arundell and Lands thereto belonging made by Richard Earl of Arundell his Grandfather 21 Edw. 3. resorted to Sir Iohn Fitz-Alan otherwise called Sir Iohn Arundell Knight Cousin and next Heir male to the said Thomas viz. Son and Heir of Iohn Son and Heir of Iohn second Son to the before specified Earl Richard But before I proceed to speak of him I shall say something of Iohn his Father who died in the lifetime of Earl Thomas In 1 R. 2. Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland resigning the Staff of his Office of Marshal of England and retiring this Iohn then called Sir Iohn Arundell Knight having stoutly defended the Town of Southampton against the French was substituted in his stead and in 2 Ric. 2. made one of the Kings Commissioners for giving satisfaction to the Scots in what they had been injured by the English contrary to the Articles of Truce made betwixt both Nations in the time of King Edward the third and David de Bruys King of that Realm and having been summoned to Parliament in 1 2 and 3 Ric. 2. was in the last of those years constituted one of the principal Commanders of those Forces at that time sent beyond Sea in aid of the Duke of Brittany where he did much mischief by plundring not sparing the Nunns He likewise in those his military employments grew so prophane that he took away the Chalices from the Altars for which outrages he and his Companions were Excommunicated But upon his return towards England before the end of that year he perished by Shipwrack with many of his party upon the fifteenth day of December being then seised of the Mannors of Aynho in Com. Northamp Postlyng in Comit. Cantii Byker Ellingham Osberwyke Newstede Wollore also of the moity of the Mannors of Newnham Akyld Newham Caupland Yemrum Trollop Killom Ankirchester Prossen and Palteston in Glendale in Com. ... Likewise of the Mannors of Coklington Stoke Tristre Boyeford Hyneforde and the Baliwick of the Forest of Selewode in Com. Somers of the Mannors of East Morden Worthe Wolcombe Phelpesâ—on Up-Wimborne Frome Whitfield Langton in Purbeck Lodres Wodeton in Mershwoodvale and Lychet Matravers in Com. Dors. Brandon in Com. Warw. Codelawe in Com. Suss. Bockland in Com. Surr. Shernton Codeford Boyton Corton Winterborn-Stoke Cotes
that Grant made to his Ancestor by King Iohn of Gowher-Land before-mentioned but granted that he and they should thenceforth enjoy all Regal Jurisdiction Liberties and Priviledges there in as ample manner as Gilbert de Clare Son to Richard de Clare sometime Earl of Glocester had in all his Land of Glamorgan In 34 Edw. 1. he was again in the Scotish Wars And in 4 Edw. 2. in that expedition then made into Scotland having Summons to be at Roxborough within a Moneth after the Feast of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist at the Parliament then to be there held and thence to march with Horse and Arms against the Scots In 8 Edw. 2. he had the like Summons to be at Newcastle upon Tine well accoutred with Horse and Arms upon the Feast of the Blessed Virgin to march against the Scots And in 11 Edw. 2. was charged with an hundred Foot Soldiers to the Wars of Scotland for his Lands in Gowher which Soldiers were to be at Newcastle upon the morrow after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. In 14 Edw. 2. this William of whom Thomas of Walsingham gives this Character viz. That he was Perdives à parentelá sed dissipator substantia sibi relictae a Person who had a large patrimony but a great unthrift did set on sale that Noble Territory of his called Gowher-Land Whereupon the Earl of Hereford in regard of its vicinity to his other Lands contracted with him for it and having obtained the Kings License intended to take possession thereof likewise the two Mortimers viz. Roger the Uncle and Roger the Nephew in regard it lay convenient for them went to him and made a bargain with him for it Notwithstanding which Iohn de Moâ—bray who had married Aliva the sole Daughter and Heir Apparent to this William accounted himself secure enough thereon by vertue of a special Grant thereof formerly made by this William de Braose unto him the said Iohn and Aliva and to the Heirs of their two Bodies lawfully begotten with Remainder to Humphrey de Boâ—un Earl of Hereford and Essex and his Heirs But Hugh de Spenser the younger having fixed his eye upon it in regard it adjoyned to his estate in those parts being then the Kings Chamberlain and a great favorite at Court possessed himself thereof which occasioned so great a discontent from those other Noblemen who had dealt for it that they addressed themselves unto Thomas Earl of Lancaster with no small complaints of the injury Which in short occasioned that unhappy Insurrection that at length terminated in the loss of the Lives and Estates of many brave Men and in particular of that Noble Earl of Lancaster as in my story of him shall be more fully shewn After which this Hugh de Spenser purchased from the same Aliva Coheir-Female to the last mentioned William the Inheritance of all those Lordships wherein Mary her Grand-mother had an estate for life viz. Findon Wassington Bedinges West Greenstead and Kingesbernes parcel of the Barony of Brembre Which Mary died in 19 Edw. 2. Of this William all that I have seen else is That he was summoned to the several Parliaments from 25 Edw. 1. until the sixteenth of Edward the Second inclusive and that he took to Wife Aliva the Daughter of Thomas de Moulton by whom he had issue Aliva the Wife of Iohn de Moubray and Ioane the Wife of Iohn de Bohun of â—â—dherst So that Peter being his next Brother and Heir-male and dying without issue Thomas his third Brother became heir to what was left Which Thomas was in that Rebellion with Thomas Earl of Lancaster and thereupon prisoner at York but bailed by Ralph de Cohham And in 18 Edw 2. was in that expedition then made into Gascoigne being of the retinue of Iohn de Warren Earl of Surrey Moreover in 1 Edw. 3. he went again into Scotland being also of the retinue to the same Earl of Surrey Likewise in 16 Edw. 3. he was of the retinue of Richard Earl of Arundel in another expedition into Scotland And in 19 Edw. 3. went into France in that expedition then made thither So likewise in 21 Edw. 3. And in 26 Edw. 3. was in Commission with Richard Earl of Arundel and Michael Poynings for defence of the Maritime parts in Sussex But of him I have seen no more then that he was summoned to the several Parliaments of 16 22 23 26 27 Edw. 3. And that he departed this life upon Wednesday next after the Feast of S. Barnabas the Apostle An. 35 Edw. 3. leaving issue by Beatrix his Wife Daughter of Roger de Mortimer Widow of Edward Son to Thomas of Brotherton Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England Iohn his Son and Heir then twenty two years of age and Thomas a younger Son Which Iohn wedded Elizabeth Daughter of Edward de Mountague but died without issue so that Thomas came at length to be Heir and a Knight Which Thomas dying in his minority left Ioane his Sister heir to the estate who dying also issueless Elizabeth the Wife of Sir William Heron Knight came to be her Heir being Daughter of Beatrix Sister of Sir Thomas Bâ—aose Knight Father of Thomas Brother of the said Ioane Lancaster Barons of Kendal THat the old Barons of Kendal did derive their descent from Ivo Tailboys is evident from the Register of Cockersand Abby whereunto some of them were Benefactors Which Ivo gave to the Monks of S. Maries Abby at York three Carucates of Land in Clartune Likewise the Church of Kirkby Stephen with three Carucates and the Tithes there in Winton two Oxgangs of Land and the Tithes also the Church of Kirkby in Kendal with the Lands thereunto belonging the Church of Hoton-Roff the Church of Bathum and Land called Haverbeck the Church of Button and one Carucate of Land and the Church of Clapham with one Carucate He is said to be the Father of one Ethred and he of Ketell and he of Gilbert and he of William Which William probably as Governor of Lancaster Castle did first assume the surname of Lancaster This William gave to the Monks of S. Bees in Cumberland a certain place called Smartâ—hef And in K. Henry the Seconds time coming to an Accord with the Abbot of Furnes for an exact Boundary of his Barony of Kendal from the Teritorry of that Abby which was then set forth by certain Metes and Limits he had out of that part allotted to the Monks both Venison and Hawks assigned to him and his heirs He was also a great Benefactor to divers other Religious Houses For to the Hospital of Comngshed in Com Lanc. he gave certain Lands in Uliverstan of a
he came to his Estate with Walter Bishop of Durham Henry Earl of Northumberland and others in that Treaty for Peace betwixt the King and his Adversaries the Scots In 4. Hen. 4. he was one of those who on the behalf of the Lord Grey of Ruthyn undertook for the raising of ten thousand Marks for his ransom the same Lord Grey being then a prisoner in Wales In the same year upon the 29 th of September he was constituted Lord Treasurer of England in which office he continued until 15 April 7 Hen. 4. And in 6 Hen. 4. in consideration of his good and acceptable service to the King obtained a Grant of an hundred Marks per Annum to be paid during his life out of the Exchequer In 13. Hen. 4. being one of the King's Council and in such esteem that his residence near the Court was thought necessary he had the Town of Chyngilford in Essex assigned unto him for lodging of his Servants and Horses In this year it was that he exhibited his complaint in Parliament against Robert Tirwhit one of the Justices of the King's Bench for withholding from him and his Tenants of his Mannor of Melton-Roos in Com. Linc. certain Common of Pasture and Turbary in â—rawdy in the same County and with laying wait for him with five hundred men Whereupon Sir Robert Tirwhit confessing his fault in the presence of the King and craving pardon for the same offered to stand to the order of two Lords of the kindred of this William Lord Ross and such as he should chuse Whereunto the King assenting he made choice of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Richard Lord Grey then Lord Chamberlain of the King's houshold who having heard the proofs of what was alledged did ordain and award touching the same Common of Pasture and Turbary that both parties should stand to the Ordinance and Arbitrement of Sir William Gascoine Knight then chief Justice of the King's Bench who at the costs of both parties should come to the same place of Common at such reasonable time as it might like this William Lord Ross to assign And that at the same time the said Robert Tirwhit should bring two Tuns of Gascoigne Wine to Melton-Roos and afterwards upon some other day to be assigned by this William Lord Ross should also bring to the same place two fat Oxen and twelve fat Sheep to be spent on a Dinner amongst them who should then come thither And moreover that he the said Robert Tirwhit should then cause to come thither all the Knights Esquires and Yeomen of his party and in the presence of this Lord Ross and all other that there should be to rehearse all the words which he had spoken to the King in the same Parliament and specially that he should say to this William Lord Ross. My Lord Roos I know well that you being of such Birth Estate and Might that if you had liked you might have comen to the foresaid Law-day in such a way that I had been of no might to have made any party but that it like you to come in such a case having consideration to your degree and of all that by sinister information I having doubt of harm of my body in mine intent for Salvation of my self did assemble those persons that here be and others moe not for to do any harm ne offence to you my Lord the Roos and that I will here excuse me as ye will devise that forasmuch as I am a Iustice that more than a common man should have had me more discreetly and peacefully I know well that I have failed and offended you my Lord the Roos whereof I beseech you of grace and mercy and offer you five hundred Marks to be paid at your will And they farther ordained that this being done this Lord Ross should say At reverence of the King who hath shewed himself to be a good and righteous Lord I will take nothing of the said Robert but the foresaid nine Oxen and Sheep for the dinner of them that have been here present And furthermore that this William Lord Ross in the presence of all persons then there being should openly forgive him the said Robert and all other that in the array abovesaid were assembled their offences and trespasses except only four persons viz. Sir Richard Haunsard Knight William Keble Roger Warneston and Roger Keble Son of the same William Which four persons they ordained that the said Robert Tirwhit should bring at the appointment of the Lord Ross to his Castle of Belvoir there to acknowledge their offences and submit themselves to the same Lord Ross praying him of grace and mercy And this submission being thus made the Lord Ross to do so to them as that they should hold themselves well satisfied with his favour and grace This William Lord Ross was summoned to all the Parliaments from 18 Ric. 2. till 1 Hen. 5. inclusive And by his Testament dated 22 February An. 1412. 14 Hen. 4. bequeathed his Body to sepulture in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury near unto the Chapel ordained for the Chantry of Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury in case he should depart this life in London or thereabouts But if he should dye within the Diocess of Lincoln then his Body to be buried in the Priory of Belvoir and if in the Diocess of York then in the Priory of Kievaulx By which Testament he also bequeathed four hundred pounds for the finding of ten honest Chaplains to pray for his Soul and for the Souls of his Father Mother Brethren and Sisters as also for the Souls of all his Friends and Good-doers but specially for the Soul of his brother Thomas for the space of eight years within his Chapel in Belvoir-Castle to the end that one of them should every day celebrate a Mass with Note and for that time to be accounted as Dean amongst them and all the other nine subject and obedient to him To the Lady Beatrice his Mother he gave a gilt Cup with a cover and a white knop on it and dying at Belvoir the first of September Anno 1414. 2 Hen 5. was buried in the midst of the Quire of that Priory leaving Issue by Margaret his Wife daughter of Sir Iohn Arundell Knight five Sons viz. Iohn William Thomas Robert and Richard and three Daughters viz. Alice Margaret and Elizabeth Which Margaret surviving him had her Dowry assigned in February next following and dyed not till 3 Iulii 17 Hen. 6. This Iohn Lord Ross Son and Heir to the last mentioned William in 4 Hen. 5. was retained to serve the King in that Expedition which he was then to make in person into the Realm of France with ten men at Arms himself accounted for one the rest Esquires as also with thirty Arches and to take Shipping at Southampton on the first day of May being then scarce eighteen years of age as
to serve the King during his Life for the Fee of CC l. per Annum he had a Grant of the Town Castle and Bertone of Marlebergh to hold for Life in lieu thereof Likewise in 18 R. 2. he was again by Indenture retain'd to serve that King in his Wars beyond the Seas with Thirty Men at Arms Forty Archers on Horseback and Ten Archers on Foot In 19 R. 2. being made Lord Chamberlain of the King's Houshold he was one of the Embassadors sent to contract a Marriage for King Richard with Isabell eldest Daughter to Charles the Sixth King of France In 20 R. 2. he was again made Governour of Quenesburgh-Castle for Life as also of the Castle of Beaumarys and in 21 R. 2. Chamberlain of Ireland Whereupon he also had a Grant of the Castle of Bamburgh with the Fee-Farm of that Town for Life Soon after which upon the Confiscation of the Estates of those Great Lords who pretended to be Reformers of what was amiss in the Government he obtain'd a Grant to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body of the Castle Town and Lordship of Bernard-Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham as also of the Mannors of Middilton and Gaynesford part of the Possessions of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and being thereupon advanc'd to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Wiltshire by Letters Patents bearing date 29 Septemb. the Title of Earl of Salisbury which is the Principal Town of that County being at that time in William de Moâ—tacute obtain'd a Grant of the Mannors of Welkhampstowe and Lowehalle in Com. Essex with all the Hamlets thereto belonging likewise of Paynescastell with the whole Territory of Elbylond Colnem Albrede Elvel Royll and 〈◊〉 with their Appurtenances in Wales with their Commotes Mannors and Lands pertaining thereto all which were part of the Possessions of the said Thomas Beauchamp Earl of Warwick then attainted Shortly after which he was constituted Justice of Chester North-Wales and Flynt And had a Grant of the Office of Surveyor of all the Forests within the Principality of Chester as also of the Lordships of Bromefeild Yale Chirkland and Oswestre Likewise of the Hundred of the Eleven Towns and of the Lordships of Shrawardyn Keynardesley and Eggerley late Richard Earl of Arundel's attainted to hold for Life Also another Grant to himself and the Heirs-male of his Body of the Lordship of Bernard-Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham with the Mannors of Midleton and Gaynesford in Com. Ebor. and of the Castle of Dalâ—ley with the Chace called Welington-Hay in Com. Salop. part of the Possessions of Richard Earl of Arundel then attainted to hold for the space of twenty years Moreover before the end of that year in order to that Expedition which the King soon after made into Ireland he was by Indenture retain'd to serve him in that Journey for half a year with Forty Men at Arms and an hundred Archers on Horseback and to be Shipt to and fro at the King's Charge Whereupon he receiv'd a Quarters Pay in hand for himself and his Retinue and in 22 R. 2. was made Captain of the Castle of Calais for the term of fifteen years as also Constable of the Castle at Guisnes for ten years Likewise Constable of the Castle of Knaresburgh and Warden of the Forest with the Park there late part of the Possessions of Iohn Duke of Lancaster to hold till such time as Henry of Lancaster Duke of Hereford should by Law recover them out of the King's hands and lastly Treasurer of the King's Exchequer But as his rise to this Wealth and advancement to Greatness and Honour was quick and hasty so was his Fall as sudden and unexpected For before the revolution of one year hearing that the Duke of Lancaster was upon the Sea and ready to Land being one of the Chief of Counsel to that unfortunate King Richard the Second he advised That they should remove from London to St. Albans and there raise Forces to resist the Duke Which being endeavoured accordingly those who came in to him thither bearing a fair respect to the Duke resolv'd to do him no harm Whereupon with some other discerning a dangerous Cloud approaching he forthwith fled to the Castle of Bristoll But within a short space the Duke Landing at Ravenspur in Yorkshire carried all before him and pursuing these Fugitives took them at Bristoll where though some escaped Death this Earl had no favour being there Beheaded the next day after and attainted in Parliament 1 H. 4. Turnham IN the time of King Henry the Second Robert de Turnham having large Possessions in Kent founded the Priory of Cumbwell in that County for Canons-Regular of St. Augustine's Order and left Issue two Sons viz. Robert and Stephen Which last mentioned Robert being with King Richard the First in that famous Expedition of his to the Holy-Land had the Command of the one half of those Gallies which compassed the Isle of Cyprus and upon the taking of it with the Emperour thereof Prisoner was joyn'd with Richard de Camvill in the Government of that Place Moreover upon the death of the same Richard who going without the King's leave to the Siege of Acon there died being the sole Governour thereof he rais'd a considerable Power and giving Battel to the new Emperour conquer'd him and hang'd him on a Gallows After which in 4 R. 1. upon that Accord made betwixt the Emperour of Almaine and King Richard whereby the King was to be set at liberty from that Restraint wherein he had been kept since his Surprisal in his Return from the Holy Land this Robert de Turnham being an intimate Servant to King Richard was sent into England with the King's Harness and by reason of his notable Services performed in that Journey upon Collection of the Scutage levied in 6 R. 1. for payment of King Richard's Ransom had a special Discharge for what did thereupon wax due from him In this year he executed the Sheriff's Office for the County of Surrey the one half thereof So likewise for the two next ensuing years in the last of which he was acquitted from the third Scutage of Normandy In 9 R. 1. there hapning a great Controversie between this Robert and Philip then Bishop of Durham touching the Lordship of Cliff viz. Whether he had a real Right in the Inheritance thereof or held it only as Tenant to the Bishop it came to a Trial at Yorke before Hugh Bardulf Roger Harundell and Geffrey Haget at that time Justices-Itinerant where by a Jury of Twelve Men it was found that he had a clear Title thereto in right of Ioane his Wife Daughter of William Fossard In 9 and 10 R. 1. he
this Realm in 1. and 4 E. 3. And 2 E. 3. was constituted Governor of the Castle of â—arekenny In 3 E. 3. he obtained a Grant of all the Castles Mannors and Lands of Iohn Giffard of Brimmesfeld which divolved to the King by Eschaet for want of Heirs by the said Iohn Giffard and the same year was made Constable of Corf Castle in Com. Dors. In 4 E. 3. the King gave Licence to Iohn de Cailleâ—e to enfeoffe this Iohn Maltravers in the before-specified Castle and Mannor of Carecknyn in South-Wales and in the Castel of Brymffield in Com. Glouc. But soon after this his Lands were seised by the King for some great offence for in 5 E. 3. Agnes his Wife by the Kings special favor as the Record expresseth obtained Livery of those Lands wherewith she had been endowed by Iohn de Argentine and Iohn de Nerford her former Husbands as also of those which were belonging to this Iohn and had been so seised for his transgression But he came afterwards in favor again as it seems for in 16 E. 3 he served the King in his Wars of France in the Retinue of Maurice de Berkley and in 21 E. 3. obtained License for a Market every week upon the Munday at his Mannor of Wichampton in Com. Dors. and a Fair there every year on the Festival of our Ladies Assumption In which year he was again in the Wars of France So likewise in 22 E. 3. and in 23 E. 3. was made Governor of Garnesey Ieresey Serke and Aureney with the adjacent Isles but departed this life the same year leaving Henry his Son and Heir one year old and upwards being then seised of two parts of the Mannor of East Mordon and Luchet Matravers in com Dors. Iohn his Father surviving him to whom I again return which Iohn being thus pardoned as hath been observed in 26 E. 3. was made Governor of the Isles of Garnesey Ieresey Serk and Aureney and in 29 E. 3. was in that Expedition then made into France But farther I have not seen any thing memorable of him than that in 35 E. 3. he founded an Hospital at Bowes in the Isle of Gernesey for poor Men and Women and that he departed this life 16 Feb. 38 E. 3. leaving Ioane the Wife of Sir Iohn de Kaynes Knight then twenty two years of age and Alianore the Wife of Iohn the Son of Richard Earl of Arundel then nineteen years of age his Cosins and next Heirs viz. Daughters of Iohn his Son who died in his life time being then seized together with Agnes his Wife of the Mannors of East-Mordon Wodeton in Mersh Wodenal Lodres Frome-Whitefeld Lychet-Matravers Langeton in Purbeck Phelpeston two parts of the Mannor of Up-Wymburne and other Lands there as also in Egreton Wâ—lcombe and More with the Advousons of the Churches of all those Mannors Which Agnes was formerly Wife of Iohn de Argentine and by her Testament bearing date at London in the Parish of St. Iohn Zacharie 18 Feb. An. 1374. 49 E. 3. bequeathed her body to be buried in the Church of Lychetâ— Matravers near to the Grave of her Husband in case she should depart this life in the Counties of Dorset or Wiltes But if in Hertf. or Cambridgsh then in the Priory of Wylmundle appointing that every Priest who should say Mass at her Funeral should be rewarded according to the discretion of her Executors and that no Cloth of Gold be put upon her Corps nor any more than five Tapers each of five pound weight about it To the fabrick of the Church at Lychet Matravers she gave fourty shillings To Iohn her Son a Dozer of green poudered with Dolphins and Swans with four Cousters of the same sute Likewise her great Cup with a Cover one Dragenall six Dishes six Pottengers six Saucers two Pitchers two Pottels all of Silver but after his decease to remain to the Priory of UUylmundâ—ey and to Margaret his Wife a Tablet of Espicerie It seems that this Agnes was a Second Wife to Iohn Lord Matravers senior and that he had Issue by her a Son called also Iohn which Iohn in 42 E. 3. was in that Expedition made into France As also in 43 E. 3. being then of Hoke in Com. Dors. and in the Retinue of William de Montacute Earl of Salisbury and departed this life 15 Iunii 9 R. 2. being then seiseâ— of the Mannor of Crawell in Com. Oxon. Myddel-Thinnek in Com. Sommers Houke Stapelford Over-Kentcombe Frome Voucherche Cherleton juxta Dorchester West-Chikerell Gorewill South-Pourton Bodecombe Mulburne Deverell UUelcombe Matravers and Burcumbe in Com. Dors. leaving Maud the Wife of Peter de la Mare eighteen years of age and Elizabeth Matravers eight years of age his next Heirs Which Elizabeth in 10 R. 2. was committed to the tuition of Iohn Wadham with purpose that she might be Married to Iohn Lovel when the King should think fit But afterwards became the Wife of Humphrey Stafford Son to Sir Humphrey Stafford Knight who had Married Elizabeth her Mother Frevile 1 Edw. 3. THis Family antiently of ... in Com. Cantabr though but one of them had ever Summons to Parliament was of eminent note some ages before that time and afterwards For in 15 H. 3. Baldwin de Frevile having obtained the Wardship of Lucia the Daughter and Heir of Richard de Scalers for which he gave two hundred Marks soon after made her his Wife and in 30 H. 3. upon collection of the Ayde for Marrying the Kings Daughter paid fifteen pound for those fifteen Knights Fees which were of her Inheritance To this Baldwin succeeded Richard his Son and Heir who in 42 H. 3. having been in that Expedition then made into UUaâ—es obtained a discharge for the Scutage at that time due thereupon And to him another Baldwin which Baldwin dying without Issue Alexander his Brother became his Heir and possessing fair Lands in Com. Norff. and Heref. of his Inheritance took to Wife Joane Daughter of Mazere Wife of Raphe de Cromwell Which Mazere was Daughter of Philip Mazmion In 29 E 1. this Alexander was in that Expedition made into Scotland So likewise in 31 32 and 34 E. 1. And in 3 E. 2. upon partition of the Lands of the Inheritance of Isabell the Wife of William Walraund in right of Ioane his Wife one of the Cosins and Heirs to her the said Isabell had the Mannors of UUinterburne and Asserton with certain Lands in Yatesbury in Com. Wilts And in 8 E. 2. received command to be at Newcastel upon Tine upon the Festival of the blessed Virgins Assumption well fitted with Horse and Arms to march against the Scots But farther I have not seen of him then that he had Summons to Parliament
then told him of the rumor which had been spread amongst the People throughout England that he was not son to the Prince of Wales but rather to a Priest or Chanon For said he I have heard of certain Knights who were in the Princes House mine Vncle how that he knew well that his Wife had not truly kept her Marriage Your Mother quoth he was Cosin-german to King Edward and the King began to hate her because she could have no Generation Also she was the Kings Gossip of two Children at the Font and she that could well keep the Prince in her bandon by craft and subtilty she made the Prince to he her Husband And because she could have no childe and doubting that the Prince should be divorced from her she did so much that she was with childe with you and with another before you As of the first I cannot tell what to judge but as for you your conditions have been seen contrary from all Nobleness and Prowess of the Prince therefore it is said that ye be rather son to a Priest or Chanon for when you were gotten and borne at Burdeaux there were many young men Priests in the Princes house This is the bruit in this Country and your workes have well followed the same for ye be alwayes inclined to the Pleasures of the French-men and to take with them Peace to the confusion and dishonor of the Realm of England And because mine Vncle of Glocester and the Earl of Arundel did counsail you truly and faithfully to keep the honor of the Realme and to follow the steps of your Ancestors ye have Traytrously caused them to die As for me I have taken upon me to defend your life so long as I may for pitty and I shall pray the Londoners and the heritors of them that you have slain and banished to do the same Cousin I thank you quoth the King I trust more in you than in any other It is but right that you should do so quoth this Duke for if I had not been ye had been taken by the People and deposed with great confusion and slain by reason of your evil deeds ¶ I come now to the other Sons of Iohn of Gant Duke of Lancaster by Catherine Swinford his third and last Wife Which Sons were surnamed Beaufort from the Castle of Beaufort in France that came to the House of Lancaster by Blanch of Artois Wife to Edmund Crouchback the first Earl of Lancaster Of these sons so Legitimated as before hath been observed the eldest is Iohn who in 15 R. 2. by the name of Sir Iohn Beaufort Knight had License to travel beyond the Seas and in 18 R. 2. accompanied his Father into Gascoine In 20 R. 2. the Lord Chancellor declaring in Parliament that the King had created this Iohn Earl of Somerset he was brought in betwixt two Earles the Earl of Huntington and the Earl Marshall in a Vesture of Honor his Sword with the pomel Gilt carried before him Where the Charter of his Creation being openly read he was girt with the same Sword and doing his Homage placed between the Earl Marshall and the Earl of Warwick Moreover upon Saturday the Festival of St. Michael th' Arch-Angel the next ensuing year he was also in Parliament Created Marquess Dorset by girding with a Sword and a Circle put upon his head according to usage But his Charter of Creation to that Honor was soon vacated having in lieu thereof another bearing date the same day whereby he was Created Marquess of Somerset Nevertheless though that was the last and the other Cancelled he ever after bore the Title of Marquess Dorset and by that appellation was made Constable of Walingford-Castle and Steward of the Honor of Walingford and St. Waleries upon the 22 th of November following as also Constable of Dovor-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-ports 5 Febr. In the same year likewise he was constituted the King's Lieutenant of Aquitane and obtained a Grant to himself and Margaret his Wife and to the heires of their two bodies lawfully begotten of the Mannors of Drayton Basset Waâ—eshale Pyrie Hamstede and Barre in Com. Staff Bukby in Com Northampt Chyriel and Hinton in Com. Wilts and Neketon and Cressyngham in Com. Norff. part of the possessions of Thomas de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick then attainted In this year also 2 Febr. he was made Admiral of all the Kings Fleet both to the North and West-wards But in I H. 4. the Scene being then chang'd having been one of the Accusers of Thomas de Woodstoke Duke of Glocester his right to the Title of Marquess Dorset was made void by the Authority of that Parliament then held so that then he had no other than that of Earl of Somerset by which appellation he was the same year 7 Nov. advancâ—d to the Office of Lord Chamberlain of England and in 2 H. 4. retein'd by Indenture to serve the King in the Governourship of the Town of Kaermeâ—dyn As also fully admitted to his favour and his former estate notwithstanding the Judgment so given against him the preceding year Likewise made Captain of Calais and the Marches thereof extending into Picardy Flanders and Arâ—oys And in 3 H. 4. imployed with the Bishop of Worcester and some others to treat and accord with the Duke of Gueldres upon a League of amity betwixt the King of England and him whereupon that Duke was to do the King Homage for all his Dominions and Lands But in 4 H. 4. the Commons in Parliament petitioning for his Restitution he seemed unwilling to it in regard the name of Marquess was an Honor of such a late erection yet at length accepted it and by that Title in 8 H. 4. was constituted Admiral of the King 's whole Fleet as well for the North as West And in 5 H. 4. had an Assignation of the Isle of Thanâ—â— in Kent for the support of himself and his soldiers then abiding in the Garrison of Calais as also constituted Ambassador to Treat of Peace with the French In this year likewise he was appointed one of the Commissioners to receive all such sums of Money as were then unpaid for the Ransome of Iohn King of France taken Prisoner in the time of King Edward the Third And in 10 H. 4. the Seneschal of Henault then coming into England to seek adventures in Armes he answered him This Iohn took to Wife Margaret daughter of Thomas and one of the sisters and coheirs to Thomas Holand Earl of Kent and had for her purpartie of the Lands which by Inheritance descended to her and the other coheires an Assignation of the Mannor of Deping in Com. Linc. excepting certain Lands in Berham and Stowe Also of a certain Pasture called Cranemore three Water-mills in East Deping and West Deping Fourscore
against the Dutch on tuesday 28 Maii An. 1672 He hath also two daughters Diana married to the Baron of Mol in Flanders and Anne to Robert now Earl of Sunderland Francis Lord Verulam Vicount St. Alban 16 Iac. COnsidering that this person was so eminent for his Learning and other great abilities as his excellent works will sufficiently manifest though a short Narrative of his life is already set forth by Doctor William Raleigh his domestique Chaplain I am not willing to omit the taking notice of such particulars as are most memorable of him and therefore shall briefly recount partly from that Narrative and partly from other authorities what I have observed in order thereto As to his Parentage he was the youngest of those two male Children which Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave in com Suff. Knight had by Anne his wife one of the six daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke of Giddy-Hall in com Essex Knight a person much honoured for his Learning and being Tutor to King Edward the Sixth all those Daughters being exquisitely skilled in the Greek and Latine Tongues Which Nicholas having been a diligent Student of the Laws in Grays Inn was made the Kings Attorney in the Court of Wards in 38 H. 8. and upâ—n the death of that King which soon after hapned had his Patent for the same trust renewed by his son and successor King Edward the Sixth In the sixth year of whose Reign he was constituted Treasurer for that Noble Society of Grays-Inn whereof he had been so long a Member And being grown famous for his knowledge was shortly after viz. in 1 Eliz. made Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Knighted which Office in his time was by Act of Parliament made equal in authority with the Chancellours What I have otherwise observed of this Sir Nicholas Bacon is that being no friend to the Queen of Scots then Prisoner in England he was privy and assenting to what Hales had publisht in derogation to her title as next and lawful Successor to Queen Elizabeth asserting that of the House of Sufâ—olk before it for which Hales suffered imprisonment and had not Cecill stood his faithful friend so might he nothing being more distastful to Queen Elizabeth then a dispute upon that point Next that in 14 Eliz. upon those Proposals made by the Nobility of Scotland for her enlargement he opposed it alleadging that no security could ballance the danger thereof Lastly that upon his death which hapned in April An. 1579. 21 Eliz. this Character is given of him by the Learned Camden viz. that he was Vir praepingius ingenio acerrimo singulari prudentia summâ— eloquentia tenaci memoriâ— sacris consiliis alterum columen Of persons very corpulent most quick Wit singular Prudence admirable Eloquence special Memory and another pillar to the Privy-Council Whereupon being interred on the South side of the Quire in St. Pauls Cathedral within the City of London he had a noble Monument there erected to his memory with this â—pitaph Hîc Nicolaum ne Beconem conditum existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni seâ—undum columen exitium malis Bonis Asylum caâ—ca quem non extulit ad hunc honorem sors sed Aequitas Fides Doctrina Pietas unica prudentia Neu fortè raptum crede qui unica brevi vitâ perenni emerit duas agit vitam secundam caelites inter animas Fama implet orbem vita quâ—e illi tertia est Hac positum in arâ est corpus olim animi domus Ara dicata sempiternae memoriae Thus much touching the Parentage of this Francis his Birth being at York-House in the Strand upon the twenty second day of Ianuary An. 1560. 2 Eliz. It is observed that in his tender years his pregnancy was such as gave great indication of his future high accomplishments in so much as Queen Eliz. took notice of him and called him the young Lord Keeper also that asking him how old he was though but a Boy he answered that he was two years younger then her Majâ—sties most happy Reign As to his Education he was of Trinitie-Colledge in Cambridge under the tuition of Doctor Iohn Whitgift then Master there but afterwards the renowned Archbishop of Canterbury Where having with great proficiency spent some time he was sent into France with Sir Amias Paulet her Majesties Leiger Ambassador and thence intrusted with a message to the Queen which he performed with much approbation and so returned After this coming from Travail and applying himself to the study of the Common Law he was seated in â—rays-Inn Where in short time he became so highly esteemed for his abilities as that in 30 Eliz. being then but 28 years of age that honorable society chose him for their Lent Reader and in 32 Eliz. was made one of the Clerks of the Council In 42 Eliz. being double Reader in that House and affecting much the ornament thereof he caused that beautiful Grove of â—lmes to be planted in the Walks which yet remain And upon the 23 of Iuly 1 Iac. was Knighted at Whitehal Shortly after which viz. in 2 Iac. he was made one of the Kings Council learned having therewith a Grant of forty pounds per annum fee and in 5 Iac. constituted his Majesties Sollicitor General In 9 Iac. he was made joint Judge with Sir Thomas Vavasor then Knight Marshal of the Knight Marshal's Court then newly â—rected within the Verge of the Kings House and in 11 Iac. 27 Oct. being made Atturney General was sworn of the Privy Council In 14 Iac. he was constituted Lord Keeper of the great Seal 7 Martii being then fifty four years of age At which time the King admonisht him that he should Seal nothing rashly as also that he should judge uprightly and not extend the Royal Prerogative too high After which viz. upon the seventh day of May which was the first day of Easter Term next ensuing he made his solemn proceeding to Westminster hall in this order first the writing Clerks and inferiour Officers belonging to the Court of Chancery Next the Students of the Law Thâ—n the Gentlemen of his own Family After them the Sergeant at Arms and bearer of the Great Seal on foot Then himself on Horseback in a Gown of Purple Satin riding betwixt the Lord Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal Next divers Earls Barons and Privy Councillors Then the Judges of the Court at UUestminster whose place in that proceeding was assigned after the Privy Councellors And when he came into the Court the Lord Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal gave him his Oath the Clerk of the Crown reading it Upon the fourth of Ianuary 16 Iac. he was made Lord Chancellor of England On the eleventh of Iuly next ensuing created Lord Verulam and on the twenty seventh of Ianuary
Elizabeth first married to Sir Lewes Mansel of Margon in com Glamorgan Knight afterwards to Sir Edward Seâ—bright of Preshwode in â—om Stâ—ff Baronet And Lucie to Henry Lord Colraine His second wife was Anne daughter and heir to William Wincoot of Langham in â—om Suff. Esquire Widow of Sir Leonard Holyday Knight Alderman of London but by her he had no issue His third Margaret daughter of Iohn Crouch of Cornbury in com Hertf. Esquire Widow of Iohn Hare of Totteridge in the same County Esquire by whom he had issue two sons George Mountagu now of Horton in com Northampt and Sidney who died without issue Also one daughter named Susanna married to George Lord Chandos This Earl died ... Nov. An. 1642. and was buried at Kymbolton before-mentioned Which Edward so succeeding him having been much instrumental for the Happy Restoration of our present Soveraign King Charles the Second in remuneration of his fidelity obtained thereupon the Office of Lord Chamberlain of His Houshold He married five wives first Susanna daughter to Iohn Hill of Honiley in com Warr. and of Dorothy his wife daughter of Anthony Beaumont Esquire sister to Mary Countess of Buckingham but by her had no issue Secondly Anne daughter to Robert Earl of Warwick by whom he had issue Robert his son and heir and two daughters the Lady Frances married to Henry son to Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincolne and Anne married to Robert Earl of Holand His third Wife was Essex daughter of Sir Thomas Cheeke of Pirgo in com Essex Knight Widow of Sir Robert Bevill Knight by whom he had issue six sons Edward Henry Charles Thomas Sidney and George and two daughters viz. Essex married to ... Vicount Erwyn and Lucie His fourth wife was Eleanor daughter of Sir Richard Wortley of Wortley in com Ebor. Knight and Baronet Widow of Sir Henry Lee of Querndon in com Buck. Knight and Baronet by whom he had no issue His fifth Margaret daughter to Francis Earl of Bedford who had formerly been married to Iames Earl of Carlisle and afterwards to Robert Earl of Warwick but by her also he had on issue And departing this life 5 Maii An. 1671. being then Sixty nine yeares of age was buried at Kimbolton in com Huntington To whom succeeded Robert his son and heir who wedded Anne the daughter of Sir Christopher Yelverton of Easton Maudâ—it in com Northampt. Knight of the Bath and hath had issue by her four sons Edward and Henry which died young as also Charles and Robert and four daughters Anne Elizabeth Catherine and Eleanore ¶ To Sir Sidney Mountague youngest Brother to Edward the first Lord Mountagu succeeded Edward his son and heir of Hinchinbrooke in com Hunt Esquire Which Edward being singularly skilled in Mathematical Learning whereby he arrived to very great knowledge in Maritime affairs having by his prudent deportment in the time of the late usurpation obtained the sole command of the English Navy till then divided and disposed of under sundry petty Officers made such use of his power and interest with the Mariners in that happy juncture of time when the tyranny of those Usurpers who then ruled had caused most men to be weary of their dominion and inclined the hearts of the people generally to an obedient submission unto their lawful Soveraign as that without bloodshed or any hazardous contests he so wrought upon them that they peacefully delivered up the whole Fleet unto his Majesty King Charles the Second For which happy service and exemplary fidelity he was first made choice of for one of the Knights Companions of the most Noble Order of the Garter and shortly afterwards viz. 12 Iulii 12 Car. 2. advanced to the dignity of a baron of this Realm by the title of Lord. Mountague of St. Neots in com Hunt as also to the honour of Vicount by the name of Vicount Hinchinbrooke and likewise created Earl of Sandwich This Earl married Iemima daughter to Iohn Lord Crew of Stene in com North. by whom he had issue six sons Edward who succeeded him in his Honors Sidney Oliver Iohn Charles and Iames and four daughters Iemima married to Sir Philip Carteret Knight eldest son to Sir George Carteret Knight and Baronet Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold Pâ—ulina who died unmarried Anne wedded to Sir Richard Edgecombe of Mount-Edgecombe in com Cornub. Knight of the Bath and Catherine And serving his Majesty as Vice-Admiral with great courage and loyalty in that dangerous Fight at Sea betwixt the English Fleet and Dutch on Tuesday 28 Maii An. 1672. being at that time forty seven years of age had the unhappy â—ate then to lose his life Whereupon his Corps being brought by water to Westminster in great state was honorably interred in a fair Vault on the North side of that Collegiate Church Which Edward so succeeding him married the Lady Anne daughter to Richard Earl of Burlington by whom he hath issue two sons Edward and Richard and Elizabeth a daughter Savage Earl Riverâ— 19 Iac. OF this antient Family whole chief seat for many ages hath been partly at the Castle of Frodshom in Cheshire and partly at another noble House built of later time at Clifton on the opposite side the River and now called Rock-Savage were divers Knights bearing the name of Iohn one of which being a faithful friend to Henry Earl of Richmund contributed not a little as well in point of action as advice in order to his acquiring the Crown of this Realm commanding the left wing of his Army at Bosworth Field where that Earl obtaining the Victory was immediately Crowned King by the name of Henry the seventh but in the seventh of his Reign accompanied the Earls of Derby Shrewsbury Arundel and divers other of the English Nobility into Flanders with those Forces which were then sent in aid of Maximilian the Emperor against the French was encompassed with the Enemy at the Siege of Boloine and refusing quarter there lost his life To whom succeeded Sir Iohn Savage Knight his son and heir which Sir Iohn married Elizabeth daughter of Charles Somerset the first Earl of Worcester of that noble Family And to him another Sir Iohn Savage who took to wife Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Maners the first Earl of Rutland of that name and by her had issue Iohn and he Thomas Which Thomas being likewise a Knight and the nineteenth in number of those who were the first created Baronets in 9 Iac. having marriâ—d Elizabeth the eldest daughter and at length coheir to Thomas Lord Darcie of Chicâ— in Essex upon the advancement of the same Thomas Lord Darcie to the dignity of Vicount Colchester 5 Iulii 19 Iac. obtained likewise that title of Honor to himself and the heirs make of his body in reversion after the death of him the said Thomas Lord Darcie without issue male of his As also in 2 Car. 1.