acknowledge that I am much unsatisfied my self as to that point but having no clearer light to guide me better I have adventured to place them as they are wholly dissavowing any determination of my own therein as to superiority or precedence professing that could I have fixed them with more exactness I had much rather have so done As to the defects in the Matches and Issue of some who have lived or yet live in these times I must attribute it chiefly to the want of such Publick Enteries of them as have formerly that is to say before the beginning of the late unhappy Troubles in Ann. 1640. been made in the Office of Armes as also for lack of that opportunity of address unto such as might have given me better Instruction therein And therefore shall desire that those who are or may be concerned in that kind of whom I am properly to make mention in the other Parts of of this Historical Work now 〈◊〉 for the Press will take some care to cause such Entries to be made as may preserve the memory of them to future times Whereunto having access I may make use of what is most necessary And as to the memorable Actions of those who have lived in these later times if it shall be thought I have not been so Copious in making mention of them as I might I desire it may be considered that the Reign of King James did not afford very much And that the greatest part of King Charles the First 's was calm and peaceable until the prevalent party in that unhappy Long Parliament being tainted with Presbyterean Principles raised such an insurrection as destroyed many Thousands and at length terminated in the horrid murther of that most pious and excellent King Touching the chief Actors wherein it is yet too early to discourse But in the next Age 't is like that those subtile Artifices whereby they first got Power into their bloody Hands and their transcendent Oppressions and Cruelties when they had gained it may be faithfully represented to the life by some more able Pen to the end that Posterity may not be ignorant that it was under the specious pretence of asserting the Established Religion the Laws of the Land and Liberties of the Subjects that they allured the people to their assistance Si enim saith the Monk of Westminster where he puts a Period to his History of that time in which he lived de potentibus vera dicuntur Scripturae commendentur Bella parantur ei Si taceantur vel si bona pro malis annotentur mutilabitur de blandimentis adulationibus falsitationibus graviter Opus totale condemnabitur redarguetur Again whereas it might be expected that I should have ascended much higher in my discourse of some Families than I have done perhaps from the Norman Conquest presuming them to have been Orginally French and that there is some colour for it in regard their names are found in divers Coppies of that Memorial commonly called The Roll of Battail-Abby To this I Answer that there are great Errors or rather Falsâ—ties in most of those Copies by atributing the derivation of many from the French who were not at all of such Extraction but meerly English as by their Surnames taken from several places in this Realm is most evident But such hath been the subtilty of some Monks of old that finding it acceptable unto most to be reputed descendants to those who were Companions with Duke William in that memorable Expedition whereby he became Conqueror of this Realm as that to gratify them but not without their own advantage they inserted their namâ—â— into that antient Catalogue Perhaps also some may think that there is not enough said in honour of their own respective Families comparatively with others To such I Answer that many there have been who though raised to Honour for their personal merits did descend from Ancestors of eminent note in the World for divers Ages yet not Peers of this Realm of whom I could not justly be silent Again no rational person can judge that all men in all times have been alike active in the World therefore of them which lived privately how can we expect to find more than we now discerne of such who are our own Contemporaries Besides as all the parts of the habitable World were Successfully Planted and Peopled And as all Nations had their proper and peculiar times and not their beginnings at one and the self same instant so had every Family its respective time in its deserved Exaltation And as to those whose personal virtues have been conspicuous that they have worthily merited advancement to Honour however the present Age may look upon them with less esteem than such as can derive themselves from a long Descent of noble Ancestors Posterity will assuredly set an higher value on them For Malo tibi Pater sit Thersites dummodo tu sis Eacidi similis Vulcaniaque Arma capessas Quam te Thersiti similem producat Achilles ¶ There is much wanting to this Work I acknowledge that might have been gathered from those magnificent Tombes and other venerable Memorials wherewith the Monasteries of England did plentifully abound had there been sufficient notice taken of them before their fatal dissolution which by their Inscriptions would have clearly ascertained the times of Death places of Sepulture divers Matches many Children and some memorable Actions of the persons there Interred and which through their ruine are now utterly lost the Figures whereof by Prints from Copper-Plates might likewise have been no small ornament thereto But so great a prevalency hath the Evil of Lucre had upon the Hearts of worldly men that occasion was taken in the time of King Henry the eighth to make what secular advantages they could from the miscarriages of others And though the Project at first was to accomplish what they brought to pass at last yet did they not discover those their ravenous intentions untill a proper season For having 〈◊〉 far as could be packed the members of the House of Commons in that notable Parliament begun at Westminster 3 Novemb. 21 Hen. 8. and continued by Prorogation untill the fourteenth of April 27 Hen. 8. As also insinuated to most of the Nobility and other persons of quality what temporal benefit they should acquire by the Dissolution of the Religious Houses after divers subtile practises made use of to effect what they had thus closely designed they suggested to the people That For as much as manifest Sin Vicious Carnal and Abominable living hath been daily used and committed in such little and small Abbies c. Where the Congregation of such Religious persons was under the number of Twelve whereby the Governors of such Houses and their Covents did spoil destroy consume and utterly waste as well those Monasteries c. their Lands c. as the Ornaments of their Churches Goods and Chattels to the high displeasure of Almighty God slander of good Religion and
I triumph beseeching him that his Church in this Realm being now reformed according to the Institution of the antient Primitive the Members thereof may conform their lives to the purity of its received Doctrine More he would have said but a strange Tumult and suddain consternation of the Assembly interrputed him which being passed over he suffered with admirable constancy neither by voice gesture nor contenance shewing himself any way dejected or moved at the apprehention of death That his death was generally lamented is manifest many there were who kept Handkarchefs dipped in his Blood as so many sacred Reliques Amongst the rest a sprightful Dame two years after when the Duke of Northumberland was led captive through the City for his opposition against Queen Mary run to him in the Streets and shaking out her bloody Hankerchief before him said Behold the Blood of that worthy Man that good Vncle of that excellent King which shed by thy treacherous machination now at this instant begins to revenge it self upon thee As for his life saith Godwin he was a pious just Man very zealous in point of Reformation very sollicitous of the Kings safety every way good and careful of the Weal publick only a little tainted with the Epidemique of those times who thought it Religion to reform the Church as well in its exuberancy of means as of superstitious Ceremonies whereof not a few of our Cathedrals to this day complain Thus far Goodwin He had two Wives the first called Katherine Daughter and Co-heir to Sir William Fillol of Woodland in Com. Dors. Knight by whom he had Issue two Sons Edward Seamour of Bery-Pomeric in Com. Devon and Iohn the posterity of which Edward do still remain in thole parts The second Anne Daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope of Shelford in Com. Nott. Knight by whom he had Issue three Sons Edward afterwards Earl of Hertford Henry who Married Ioane Daughter to Thomas Earl of Northumberland and another Edward And six Daughters Anne fifth married to Iohn Dudley commonly called Earl of Warwick eldest Son to Iohn Duke of Northumberland and afterwards to Sir Edward Vmpton Knight of the Bath Margaret and Iane who died unmarried Mary first Wedded to Andrew Rogers eldest Son to Sir Richard Rogers of Brianston in Com. Dors. Knight and after to Sir Henry Payton Knight Catherine died unmarried and Elizabeth who became the second Wife to Sir Richard Knightley of Fausley in Com. North. Knight ¶ I should now go on with the Descendants of this great Duke but considering that Thomas his younger Brother had no Issue shall first take notice of what is most memorable of him In 32 H. 8. upon that triumphal justing at Westminster on May day being then a Knight he was one of the Challengers to all comers from France Flanders Scotland and Spaine And in the Month of Iuly 35 H. 8. accompanied Sir Iohn Wallap as Marshal with six thousand Men which were sent over in aid of the Emperor against the French In which year being one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Privy Chamber he was also constituted Master of the Ordnance for life with the fee of two hundred Marks per annum and eight pence per diem for two servants attending him in that Office And in 37 H. 8. obtained a Grant of a certain Mansion scituate in the Strand without Temple-Bar then called Hampton-Place alias Bath-place parcel of the possessions of William late Earl of Southampton but since coming to the Earls of Arundel for that respect called Arundel-House In 38 H. 8. he was Knight Marshal of thole Foprces sent into France under the conduct of Eeward Earl of Hertford as also one of those whom the King upon his death-bed appointed Assistants to his Executors especially in matters of great consequence and in 1 E. 6. 16 Feb. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Seymour of Sudley as also made Lord high Admiral of England But soon after this he fell For having Married Catherine Parr the Widdow of the deceased King great emulation hapned betwixt Anne the Wife of his elder Brother Edward Duke of Somerset at that time Protector of the King and Realm the Duke being a person mild free open and no ways malicious this Thomas then Admiral naturally turbulent fierce and ambitious conceiving himself of the two the fitter for publick Government whereupon presently after the death of King Henry through his own over-weaning conceits he resolved to add a luster to his good parts by Marrying the Lady Elizabeth as yet indeed fearce Marriageable but Protector wisely considering how rash and perillous this Project was frustrated that design And by his after Marriage with Catherine a most beautiful and noble Lady abounding with Wealth befitting her dignity most Men were confident that the gulf of his vast desires would have been satisfied But the Law whereby he was condemned though peradventure enacted by strength of â—action will manifest the contrary Having therefore thus fortified himself with Money and Friends and deeming his Brothers lenity to be 〈◊〉 he began to behold him with the eye of contempt and to cast about how to disposâ—ss him of the Saddle and being of like degree in consanguinity to the King to enjoy the seat himself To the furtherance of which project he held it conducible secretly to villifie and traduce the Protectors actions to corrupt the Kings servants especially if in any degree of favor by fair words and large promises by degrees to assure himself of the Nobility to secure his Castle of Holt with a Magazin of warlick provision but above all to take care for Money the nerves of War and assurance of Peace Tâ—â—se things having been ordered with exact diligence and for supply of coyne the Exchequer mightily pilled he unmasked himself to some of the Nobility signifying his intent of setling himself at the Stern by forcible seising on the Kings person Nay his madness so transported him that to one of them conditionally that his assistance were not wanting to the advancement of his designs he promised that the King should marry his Daughter In the mean time the Queen his Wife being in September 2 E. 6. delivered of a Daughter died in Child Bed but not without suspition of Poyson for after her death he more importunately sought the Lady Elizabeth than ever eagerly endeavoring to procure her consent to a clandestine Marriage as was that with the deceased Queen and not untill after the Nuptials to crave the assent of the King or Lords of the Council But this his project being opportunely discovered and a Parliament assembled he was by the authority thereof committed to the Tower and without any trial condemned Shortly after which the Parliament being on the fourteenth of March An. 1549 3 E. 6. dissolved he was on the sixth day after publickly beheaded having first vehemently protested that he never
Halifax He first Married Dorothy Daughter to Henry Lord Spenser Earl of Sunderland by whom he hath Issue three Sons Henry William and George and one Daughter called Anne Secondly Gertrude Daughter to William Pierpont of â—horesby in Com. Nott. Esq second Son to Robert late Earl of Kingston upon Hull Wentworth Earl of Strafford 4 Car. 1. ABout the beginning of the Reign of King Charles the First Sir Thomas Wentworth Baronet Son and Heir to Sir William Wentworth of Wentworth-Woodhouse in Com. Ebor. Baronet the chief branch of that antient Family being a person of a fair Estate and one of the Knights for that spacious Shire in divers Parliaments did by his management of sundry Conferences with the House of Lords in those great Conventions and otherwise make his abilities so conspicuous as that the King having notice thereof soon chose him into the number of his Privy Council and in short time discerning his parts to be such as did worthily merit some special mark of Honour by his Letters Paâ—ents bearing date 22 Iulii in the fourth year of his Reign first advanced him to the Title of Baron Wentworth of Wenâ—worth Woodhouse Next viz. upon the tenth day of December following to that of Vicount-Wentworth After this constituted him Lieutenant of Ireland and upon the 12 th of Ianuary in the xv th year of his Reign to the farther dignities of Baron of Raâ—y by reason of his Descent from that great Family of Nevill sometime Lords of that place and Earl of Strafford and lastly elected him into that honourable Society of Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter Which great Trust of that Lieutenancy he underwent with such gravity and prudence administring Justice impartially to every one as gave no little satisfaction to his Majesty and all good people And upon that Insurrection of the Scots in an 1639. being call'd back from that charge after he had form'd an Army there of eight thousand men which might have been useful to that Kingdom had not those who design'd his destruction prevented it was constituted Lieutenant-General of those Forces then raised for the repâ—lling of those Invaders who had at that time possess'd themselves of some of the Northern Counties But the good King considering that it was not a Foreign Enemy who had thus entred this Realm and therefore deeming it safest to call a Parliament here by the advice whereof he might receive best direction how to get them out found the leading Members in that unhappy Convention secretly confederated with that rebellious people whose Principles being Anti-Monarchical nothing but the absolute extirpation of the Religion establisht and the total ruine of this peaceful Government whereby they might share the Revenues both of Church and King would serve their turn To which end the removal of every impediment in their way being design'd they first began with this incomparable person exhibiting a Charge of High-Treason against him Whereupon he was brought to Tryal before his Peers but when they came to the particulars of proof though they searcht into all the actions of his life from the first time that he ever had any publick imployment of Trust and found nothing that amounted to a considerable misdemeanour Nevertheless by diveâ—â— unjustifiable devices they at length passed a special Bill for his Attainder but with this particular clause that the like should never be drawn into practice again And having so done by sundry other indirect practises extorted from that good King his Royal assent thereto and then cut off his Head at Tower-Hill upon the 12 th of May ensuing an 1641. An Act in truth of such Injustice and Cruelty as that not only some of those who had been seduced to concur with them therein when they themselves afterwards came to be destroy'd by the hands of the Common Executioner infinitely bewailed and repented of but which lay heavy upon the Conscience of that most pious and devout Martyr the King himself when he suffered Death by that barbarous Generation in whose destruction they had design'd the utter ruine and extirpation of this formerly long-flourishing and famous Monarchy But the particulars of the unhappy sufferingâ— of this worthy person and the steps by which his and those Enemies to Monarchy did tread in order to the accomplishing their pâ—â—nicious purposes I leave to the relation of some more able Pen which may transmit them to future ages in due time it being not yet so needful to bring them upon the Stage of this World considering that there are many yet alive who cannot forget what themselves have seen so lately acted and whom it will highly concern to impart what they know thereof to their immediate descendents This most noble Earl married three Wives First Margaret Daughter to Francis Earl of Cumberland by whom he had no Issue Secondly Arabella Daughter to Iohn Earl of Clare by whom he had Issue one Son called William and two Daughters the Lady Anne married to Edward Lord Rockingham and the Lady Arabella to Iustin Macarti Son to Donâ—gh Earl of Clancarti And lastly Elizabeth Daughter to Sir Godfrey Rodes of Great Houghton in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Margaret Being thus barbarously cut off his Body was carried to Wentworth Woodhouse and there buried To whom succeeded William his Son and Heir who married the Lady Anne the eldest of the three Daughters of that most Heroick and truly Loyal Iames Earl of Derby who suffered death also by the hands of those Antimonarchists and since the restoration of our present Sovereign hath by him been honoured with an election and Investiâ—ure into the Society of the Knights of the most noble Order of the Garter and one of his Privy Council Francis Lord Dunsmore Earl of Chichester 4 Car. 1. AMongst the many whose ample Fortunes did much conduce to those advancements which their Posterity afterwards obtained to several eminent Titles of Honour Sir Thomas Lâ—igh Knight was not the least who being Son to Roger Leigh of Wellington in Com. Salop. dâ—scended by a younger Branch from that antient Family of the Leigâ—s of High-Leigh in Cheshire and bred up under Sir Rouland Hill an opulent Merchant of London became at length his Factor beyond Sea and underwent that trust so well that Sir Rouland having no Issue matcht Alice his Niece Daughter to ... Barker of Hâ—ghmon in Shropshire unâ—o him and bestowed upon his Children the substance of his estate Which Sir Thomas being â—ord Mayer of London in the first year of 〈◊〉 Elizâ—beths reign departed this life in that Câ—ty 17 November 14 Eliz. and was buried in Merâ—ers-Chapell with this Epitaph upon his Tomb Sir Thomas Lâ—igh bi civil life All offices did bâ—are Which in this City worshipfull Or honourable were Whâ—m as God blessed with great wealth So losses did be feâ—le Yet nâ—ver châ—ng'd he constant minde Tho' Fortune turn'd her wheele Learning he lov'd and helpâ— the poore
to the great Infamy of the Kings Highness and the Realm c. if redress should not be had thereof So that without such small Houses were utterly suppressed and the Religious persons therein committed to great and honourable Monasteries of Religion where they might be compelled to live Religiously for Reformation of their lives there could no redress nor Reformation be in that behalf In consideration therof therefore for these are the very words of the Act the Kings most Royal Majesty being supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England daily studying and devising the Increase Advancement and Exaltation of true Doctrine and Virtue in the said Church to the only Glory and Honour of God c. Considering also that divers great Monasteries wherein thanks be to God Religion was well kept and observed were destitute of such full numbers of Religious persons as they might keep did think good that a plain Declaration should be made of the premisses Whereupon the Lords and Commons by great deliberation finally resolved that it should be much more to the pleasure of Almighty God and Honour of this Realm that the possessions of such small Religious Houses c. should be converted to better uses c. and thereupon did humbly desire that it might be Enacted that his Majesty should have and enjoy to him and his Heirs for ever all and singular such Monasteries c. to the pleasure of Almighty God and to the Honour and Profit of this Realm But when by this device which I thought not impertinent here to set forth they followed the Chase with quicker speed in Order to the full fruition of all the rest Which they accomplished within less then three years after by Instruments of Surrender from the respective Covents partly through corrupting the chief in each of them with large Pensions during their lives and partly by terror to such as were not plyant Which being affected to secure what was done all possible haste was made not only to demolish those goodly Structures wherein they did inhabit but the totall Fabricks of their very Churches wherein some of the Kings of this Realm and most of the Nobility and other persons of chief Note were honourably Entombed And then to disperse their possessions into sundry Lay-Hands either by free Gift easy purchases or Advantageous Exchanges and this for fear lest they might ever return to be again imployed unto such uses as the Piety of their well-meaning Founders did Originally designe them Nor did this ravenous practise make a stop here but after the Reformation began in the time of King Edward the Sixth which abolished Indulgences Prayers for the Dead and many of those Devices then called Piae Fraudes which had been used in the Church whereby the temporal profit of the Lay-man was thought to be not a little impared they fell to work again under the specious pretence of taking away those things out of other places as were then thought unnecessary and superstitious Whereby such spoil and destruction was made in the Cathedrals Collegiate and Parochial-Churches of the Nation by defacing those Monuments of the Dead where any gain was to be had as that few of them whereon any Portraicture in Brass or Copper or Epitapths in such mettle had been engraved were permitted to remain but were barbarously torne away and sold to common Brasiers and Tinkers In so much as Complaint being made thereof to Queen Elizabeth she issued out two Proclamations the one in the Second year of her Reign and the other in the Fourteenth for putting a restraint to this execrable dealing But alas all too late that mischief being done which could not be repaired Such hath been we see the specious Mask which Covetousness puts on viz. to pretend Purity Sanctity and the Honor of God but under those holy Veiles to perpetrate the greatest Villanies imaginable Consonant whereunto it cannot easily be forgotten what we have seen of this kind acted over again in our own times In which those few Memorials of the dead that were left undestroyed before have been by the horrid rapine of those Holy-pretended Zealots then in Armes throughout all the Cathedrals of this Realm and most Parochial Churches almost totally eradicated With what difficulty length of time and expence the Materials for this Work have been got together there are not many I am sure that can well Iudge And yet I must expect no less than the censure of some who would have it thought that they know much if they do hit upon any thing that I have not seen and perhaps will tax me with negligence or worse for omitting it though it be as unlikely that I should have cognisance thereof as 't is to know what money another man hath in his Pocket Others there are I doubt who will be apt to blame me for representing the piety of antient times in such sort as I have done looking upon it as vain and superstitious But whatsoever the opinion of those may be as to matter of Merit I think it safest to judge the most charitably of all men As it is much satisfaction to my self that after so many years travel and pains I have thus far brought to light the most remarkable Actions of divers worthy men who have long since flourished in this Realm and been famous in their generations which till now for the most part have lain buried in the depth and darkness of Oblivion So it will be to all other I am sure who have any sense or regard for the Honour of their dead Ancestors and likewise encourage some publick Spirits of greater abilities and better Interest to pursue the work thus begun by doing right in due time to those of this Later age touching whom I have made but a brief mention for the reasons before expressed Some perhaps there are who may be doubtfull as to the certainty of divers things which are related in this Historical Work from the Credit of our Chronologists whose usual course hath been to magnifie the eminent Actions of the Worthies in their times with Hyperbolical Encomiums as they did also the Piety of the Religious unto little less than Miracle But if for this respect what is of that kind delivered shall be esteemed meerly fictitious the renowned Enterprises of those elder Ages would be not a little obscured For though to beget the higher Honor to the same of Heroick men those antient Writers the Monks did assume a Poetical liberty in extolling their glorious Exploits somewhat farther than strictly they ought to the end that the greater Veneration should be had to their Memories if for that reason those their Reports shall be totally exploded there is nothing more certain than that much of Truth will be utterly lost As to what I have related which is beyond the memory of those who have been or are my own Contemporaries my Authorities are exactly quoted But as to what hath happened within that time it is upon their credit
then a Knight he was Comptroller of the Kings Houshold and in 25 H. 8. sent with the Duke of Norfolk to attend King Francis the First of France unto his intended Enterview with the Pope at Marsielles In 29 H. 8. at the Creation of Edward Prince of Wales he was made Treasurer of the Kings Houshold and the next ensuing year by Letters Patent bearing date 9 Martii advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord St. Iohn Shortly after which being summoned to Parliament scilicet in 31 H. 8. he took his place there upon the 28 th of Aprill In 32 H. 8. he was made Master of the Wards 26 Iulii which Office was confirm'd to him in 34 H. 8. with the Fee of Two hundred pounds per annum he being the first on whom it was bestowed after the establishment of that Court by authority of Parliament Shortly after which viz. in 35 H. 8. he was install'd Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And in 36 H. 8. being in that great Expedition then made unto Boloine was with the King at the taking thereof He was also constituted one of that King's Executors Likewise appointed of the Councill to his son and successor Prince Edward And upon the removal of the Earl of Southampton from his office of Lord Chancellor in 1 E. 6. being then Lord great Master of the Houshold had the custody of the Great Seale untill the 30 th of November following that the Lord Rich was made Lord Chancellor Moreover upon the 19 th of January 3 E. 6. he was created Earl of Wiltshire and upon the first of February 4 E. 6. constituted Lord Treasurer of England Lastly upon the 12 th of October 5 E. 6. he was honoured with the Title of Marquess of Winchester Soon after which he sate as High Steward of England upon the Tryal of the Duke of Somerset being also Lord President of the Council for some part of that King's Reign Upon the death of King Edward and Proclaiming the Lady Iane Grey when the Duke of Northumberland was gone towards the parts of Suffolk with hopes to suppress those who were then risen on the behalf of Q Mary he was one of the cheif of them that met in Council at Baynard's-Castle and thereupon caused Proclamation to be made of Q. Mary's Title Whereupon he gain'd so much upon her affections that she soon after renew'd his Patent for the Office of Lord Treasurer The like favour he obtain'd from Queen Elizazabeth in the first year of her Reign This Honourable Person was born in the year 1483. 1 R. 3. and living till he had fully accomplisht the age of Ninety and seven years saw an hundred and three persons of his own Generation After which departing this life at his Mannor-House of Basing 10 Martii An. 1571. 14 Eliz. he was buried in the Church there It is reported that being sometime ask'd how he did to stand in those perillous times wherein such great changes and alterations had been both in Church and State he answered By being a William and not an Oake It is observed by a very learned person and sometime Secretary of State that this Marquess served under four Princes in such various and changeable seasons as no time nor any age hath yeilded the like President And truly saith he the old man taught them all especially William Earl of Pembroke for they two were ever of the King's Religion and over-zealous Professors and being younger brothers yet of Noble Houses they spent what was left them and came on trust to the Court Where upon the bare stock of their Wits they began to traffick for themselves and prospered so well that they got spent and left more than any Subjects from the Norman-conquest in their own times He married two wives first Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William Capel Knight Lord Mayor of London in An. 1509. 1 H. 8. and by her had issue four sons 1. Iohn commonly called Lord St. Iohn who succeeded him in his Honors 2. The Lord Thomas Paulet of Cosyngton in Com. Somers who married Mary the daughter and coheir to Thomas Moore of Melpesh in Com. Dors. 3. The Lord Chediok Paulet of Wade in Com. Southampt made Governor of the Town and Castle of Portsmouth in 1. Mariae and 1. Eliz. Which Lord Chediok married Anne daughter to Sir Thomas White of South-Warnborne in Com. Southampt Knight And Fourthly the Lord Giles Paulet who married Mary the daughter and coheir to Nicholas Trapps a wealthy Goldsmith in London He had also issue by the same Elizabeth four daughters Alice married to Richard Stowell of Cotherston in Com. Somers Esquire Margaret to Sir William Berkley of ... in Com. ... Knight Margerie to Sir Richard Waller of Old Stoke in Com ... Esquire and Eleanor to Sir Richard Peck sall Knight Master of the buck-Hounds His second Wife was Winifride daughter of Sir Iohn Bruges Knight Widow of Sir Richard Sackvile Knight Chancellor of the Exchequer but by her he had no issue To him succeeded Iohn his son and heir who being summon'd to Parliament in 15 Eliz. was the same year one of the Peeres upon Tryal of the Duke of Norffolk and by his Testament bearing date in 20 Eliz. bequeath'd his body to be buried in the parish Church of Basing in the Sepulcher there ordained by his Father for himself and his posterity appointing a Thousand pounds to be bestowed on the charge of his Funeral This Iohn married Elizabeth one of the daughters and coheirs to Robert Willoughby Lord Brooke by whom he had issue four sons William his immediate successor Sir George Paulet of Crundall in Com. Southampt Knight Richard and Thomas As also two daughters Mary married to Henry Lord Cromwell of Okham in Com Rutl. and Elizabeth first wedded to Sir William Courtney of Powderham in Com. Devon Knight and afterwards to Sir Henry Oughtred Knight And departing this life at Chelsey in Com. Midd. 4 Nov. An. 1576. 18 Eliz. was buried at Basing To whom succeeded William his eldest son who in An. 1575. 17 Eliz. his father then living being summoned to Parliament by the Title of Lord St. Iohn of Basing married Anne daughter to William Lord Howard of Effyngham by Katherine his wife daughter and coheir to Sir Iohn Broughton of Tudington in Com. Bedf. Knight By which Anne he had issue William his only son and two daughters Anne married to Sir Thomas Dennis of ... in Com. Devon Knight and Katherine to Sir Giles Wroughton of Broad Hinton in Com. Southampt Knight He had also four natural sons by one Mistriss Lambert a
the second who succeeded him in his Honors and Iames who died in his infancy the three daughters being these Frances married to Sir William Maynard Knight and Baronet afterwards created Lord Maynard Mary and Elizabeth who both died young Secondly Elizabeth daughter to Edward Boughton of Causton in com War Esquire and widow of Sir Richard Wortley of UUortley in Com. Ebor. Knight by whom he had issue Sir Iohn Cavendish made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of Prince Charles but died in his youth This VVilliam Earl of Devonshire died upon the third day of March An. 1625. and was buried at Endsore before-mentioned To whom succeeded VVilliam his son and heir which VVilliam took to wife Christian daughter to Edward Lord Bruce of Kinlosse in Scotland Master of the Rolls in this Realm and by her had issue three sons first VVilliam secondly Charles a valiant Collonel for the King in those Wars whereunto his Majesty was necessitated for his own defence against the several Armies raised by the prevalent Party in the late Long Parliament in which he had the hard fate to be slain near Gainesborough in com Linc. about the begining of August An. 1643. thirdly Henry who died young also one daughter called Anne married to Robert Lord Rich son and heir to Robert Earl of UUarwick And departing this life at his house near Bishopsgate in the suburbs of London 20 Iunii An. 1628. 4 Car. 2. was buryed at Alhallows Church at Derby in the Vault with Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury his Grandmother upon the eleventh of Iuly next following To this last mentioned VVilliam succeeded VVilliam his son and heir made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles the first who married Elizabeth daughter to VVilliam Earl of Salisbury by whom he had issue two sons VVilliam now Lord Cavendish and Charles who died unmarried and one daughter called Anne first married to Charles Lord Rich only son to Charles Earl of UUarwick and afterwards to Tohn Lord Burghley the only son to Iohn Earl of Exeter Which VVilliam Lord Cavendish married Mary daughter to Iames Duke of Ormund by whom he hath issue two sons VVilliam and Henry and one daughter called Elizabeth ¶ Having now done with the chief branch of this Family I come to Sir Charles Cavendish Knight third son to the first mentioned Sir VVilliam Cavendish Knight This Sir Charles Cavendish by his Testament bearing date at Welbeck in com Not. 27 Martii An. 1617 15 Iac. bequeathed all his personal estate to Catherine his wife excepting his markt Plate and Hangings whereof he gave her the use during her life which he appointed that Sir William Cavendish Knight of the Bath his son and heir should enjoy And departing this life shortly after for the Probate of this his Testament bears date upon the 20 of Iune next following was buried at Bolesover in com Derb. leaving issue by her the said Catherine who was daughter and heir to Cuthbert Lord Ogle two sons William and Charles Which William being made c Knight of the Bath in An. 1610. 8 Iac. at the â—reation of Henry Prince of Wales was afterwards scil 3 Nov. An. 1620. 18 Iac. advanced to the degree of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Ogle as also of Vicount by the title of Vicount Mansfeild And upon the seventh day of March 3 Car. 1. to the dignity of Baron Cavendish of Bolesovor and Earl of Newcastle upon Tine And being in such esteem with that incomparable King of ever blessed memory as that he was made choice of to be Governor unto the Prince his eldest son then of tender years upon that great and strange defection in An. 1642 18 Car 1. when the leading members of that unhappy Long Parliament which began at UUestminster 3 Nov. 1640. raised divers powerful Armies under colour of altering the Religion here established the Laws of the Land the Liberties of the subject and Priviledges of Parliament he first manned and fortified the Town and Port of Newcastle and Castle of Tinemouth for his Majesties service And afterwards levying other Forces in the midst of winter routed the greatest part of those Rebellious people which had made head in Yorkshire taking the most of their strong holds in that spacious County and some other places witness his Victories at Gaynesborough in com Linc. Chesterfield in Derbyshire Piercebrigg Secroft Tankersley Tadcaster Sheffeild Rotheram Yarum Beverley Cawode Selby Halifar Leedes and Bradford all in Yorkshire In which last having vanquisht their greatest Northern Army himself valiantly leading on he took twenty two great guns and many colours Moreover upon the Landing of the Queen at Burlington in Yorkshire in March An. 1642. with Arms and Ammunition which she had brought with her for supply of his Majesties wants at that time he received her there with much honor and with strong Guards conducted her safe to the King at Oxford through many and no small dangers in consideration therefore of which high services he was by Letters Patents bearing date at Oxford 27 Oct. 19 Car. 1. advanced to the dignity of Marquess of Newcastle After which persevering still in Arms during the whole time of those unhappy Wars in which he stoutly defended the City of Yorke for three months space against three powerful Armies consisting of Scots as well as English and lastly upon the loss of all suffering banishment during the long continuance of the late woful usurpation in farther consideration of these his most loyal adventures he was by our present Soveraign King Charles the Second farther advanced to more and greater titles of honor viz. to the dignity of Earl of Ogle and Duke of Newcastle 16 Martii An. 1664. 16 Car. 2 He married two wives first Elizabeth daughter and sole heir to William Basset of Blore in com Staff Esquire widdow of Henry Howard a younger son to Thomas Earl of Suffolk by whom he had issue two sons Charles and Henry and three daughters scil Iane married to Charles Cheney of Chesham Boys in com Buck. Esquire Elizabeth to Iohn Earl of Bridgwater Frances to Oliver now Earl of Bolinbroke and to his second wife Margaret daughter of Thomas Lucas of Colchester in com Essex Esquire sister to Iohn Lord Lucas but by her had no issue Which Charles took to wife ... daughter to Richard Rogers of Brianston in com Dors. Esquire but died in the life time of his Father without issue so that Henry is now his only son and heir who beareth the title of Earl of Ogle and having married Frances eldest daughter to William Pierpoint of Thoresby in com Not. Esquire second son to Robert late Earl of Kingston upon Hull by her hath issue one son called Henry and four daughters Elizabeth married to Christopher Duke of Albemarle Frances Margeret and Catherine Lord Arundel of Wardour 3 Iac. THis Family is a branch of that