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
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
Hang'd never remembring to crave the benefit of his Clergy which is by some observed to be a just judgment of God upon him for having so much wrong'd the Church and all Learning and had his Head smitten off upon a Scaffold at Tower-Hill After which it was not long ere Infirmities seized upon the King from whom this Duke was little absent and so ordering the matter that whilst he languisht Gilford Dudley his fourth Son did marry with the Lady Iane Grey Eldest Daughter to Henry Duke of Suffolk by Frances Daughter to Mary second Sister to King Henry the Eighth and that a Patent was sealed for the same Lady Iane's Succession to the Crown for drawing whereof and excluding his two Sisters with fair pretences the assistance of the Lord Chief Justice Mountagu and Secretary Cecil were used Which Letters Patents were subscribed by all the Privy-Council as also by the greatest part both for number and power of the Nobility the King 's learned Council and all the Judges at the Common Law excepting Sir Iames Hales one of the Justices of the Common Pleas Some being guided by particular Interest for that they were possess'd of so much Monastery and Chantry-land which if Religion should have been altered through Queen Maries coming to the Crown they might have been in danger to lose and others by fear of or obligation to this Duke then so potent and almost absolute in Government of the State that 't was supposed he could make any title good either by his Authority or his Sword And having thus design'd unto himself the power of a King for no less he would have had in Cafe the Lady Iane had been Queen he contrived to get the Princess Mary into his hands causing the King to write his Letters for her coming to him in his sickness But she being made sensible of the Plot when she was within half a days journey of London diverted her course another way After which the King immediately dying he caused the Lady Iane to be Proclaimed Queen But the Tide of the peoples affections flowing towards Mary the Kings Eldest Sister she was likewise Proclaimed first by the Citizens of Norwich and afterwards in the Counties of Buck. and North. neither was there want of numbers in sundry parts of the Realm that began to put themselves in Arms on her behalf It being therefore now no sitting still as Champion for Queen Iane with a Commission under the great Seal of England He marcht out of London with six hundred Horse to suppress any power which should appear for Queen Mary having a promise from the Lords of more Forces to be sent after him But before he came to encounter the opposite party such a change he discern'd in the affections of his own Souldiers whereof many forsook him that to daub up the matter he return'd to Cambridge and there without either Herald or Trumpet accompanied with the Mayor and Marquess of Northampton he Proclaim'd Queen Mary himself in the Market-place and in token of joy threw up his Cap. But all this would no whit secure him for the very next day the Earl of Arundel coming thither from Queen Mary arrested him of Treason Whence he was with three of his Sons Iohn Ambrose and Henry convey'd to the Tower of London and from that place ere long to his Arraignment Where being condemn'd for a Traytor he suffered Death on Tower Hill 22 Aug. and was buried in the Tower-Church by Iohn Cock then Lancaster-Herald who having been his old Servant was willing to shew some respect to him dead from whom whilst living he had received many favours and therefore beg'd his Head only from the Queen that he might bury it in the Tower upon which Suit he had also his whole Body given him Some who write of his Death do affirm that at his end he professed the Romish Religion and it is said that for a witness of his Faith he voucht Dr. Heath Archbishop of Yorke afterwards Lord Chancellor Yet that being much blinded by ambition and apprehending that the alteration of Religion might be a chief means for the accomplishing of his Worldly ends he told Sir Anthony Brown afterwards Vicount Mountagu when he moved him for restoring the Romiâ—â— Religion that albeit he knew the same Religion to be truâ— yet seeing a new Religion was begun Run dog run Devil he would go forward It is also said that having two days before received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper upon the xxii of August he was brought to the place of Execution Where by the perswasion of the before-specified Nicholas Heath soon afterwards Archbishop of York making his own Funeral Oration to the people he acknowledged himself guilty and craving pardon for his unseasonable ambition admonished the standers by that they should embrace the Religion of their fore-fathers rejecting that of later date which had occasioned all the miseries of the forepassed thirty years And for prevention for the â—uture if they desired to present their Souls unspotted to God and were truly affâ—cted to their countrey they should expel those Trumpets of Sedition the preachers of the reformed Religion As for himself he professed that whatsoever he might pretend his conscience was fraught with the Religion of his Fathers and for testimony thereof he appealed to his good friend the Bishop of Winchester But being blinded with Ambition he had been contented to make wrack of his conscience by temporizing for which he professed himself sincerely repentant and acknowledged the desert of his death By what artifice he gain'd the Castle of Dudley in Com. Staff with divers fair Lordships thereto belonging I have briefly toucht in my discourse of that Lord Dudley who was his contemporary Which place he much affected by reason of his descent from the antient Lords thereof and beautified it with those Buildings on the North side called the New-work He likewise adorned the Gate-house Tower with the Arms of Malpas Someri and the Lion Rampant assumed by him for the Coat of Sutton curiously cut in large Shields of Stone and fixed in the wall over the Port-cullice By Iane his Wife Daughter and sole Heir to Sir Edward Guilford Knight Warden of the Cinque-Ports who had his wardship as hath been observ'd he had issue eight Sons and five Daughters viz. Henry who died at the siege of Boloin Iohn who had the title of Earl of Warwick in his Fathers life-time Ambrose afterwards created Earl of Warwick and Robert Earl of Leicester as I shall shew by and by Guilford who suffered death in 1 Mariae as his Father did another Henry slain at St. Quintins in 4 M. and Charles who died a child His Daughters were these Mary Wife of Sir Henry Sidney Knight of the Garter and Lord President of 〈◊〉 from whom the now Earl of Leicester is descâ—nded Katherine Wife to Henry Hastings Earl of Huntington Margaret Temperance and
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
and 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
was slaim Which Grant of Hetlege in Suffolk was confirmed by the same Lady Elflede his Wife After him Harold Son to Earl Godwyne was Earl of this County but upon the death of Earl Godwyne his Father the Earldom of the West Saxons being given to him he quitted this of Essex unto Algar Son to Leofric Earl of Chester of which Algar I purpose to speak under the title of the Earls of Mercia Earls of East Angles or Norfolk THe first Earl of this Province of whom I have seen any mention is Aethelstan who was then Half-Koning id est Semi-Rex and this was in the time of Aethelstan King of England Which Earl Aethelstan taking to Wife a certain Woman named Alfwen afterwards Nurse to King Edgar had by her four Sons viz. Ethelwold Alfwold Ethelsine and Ailwine This Earl Aethelstan in his later days devoting himself to a Religious life was shorn a Monk in the Abbey of Glastonbury in Somersetshire The name of his Wife was Alwen but whose Daughter is not exprest Foundress of the Nunnery of Chateriz in Cambridgshire Which Alwen gave Weston to the Monks of Ramsey but was buried at Chateriz To Aethelstan succeeded in this Earldom his eldest Son Ethelwold by some called Ethelwolfe in the time of King Edgar of whom there is this memorable Relation viz That King Edgar after the death of that fair Lady Elflede his Queen having heard how great same Alfrida Daughter to Ordgar Earl of Devon had for her beauty privately sent this Earl Ethelwolfe as his cheif Confident to see if she was such a one as general report had represented her to be Who accordingly took his journey to her Fathers House in those parts and finding her in all respects really to be no less than had been exprest of her he bethought himself how to delude the King and obtain her for his Wife and thereupon made his Addresses to Earl Ordgar her Father to that purpose Who being an aged and an infirm Man and discerning this Ethelwolfe to be a comely person and skilful in the exercise of Arms concluded That he might be a fit match for this his sole Daughter and Heir as being able to defend her Rights and thereupon gave his assent thereto upon condition That the King would assent Having thus far proceeded Ethelwolfe returns and tells the King That indeed she was a Lady of a beautiful Countenance but much deformed of Body whereupon the King being content to let her alone Ethelwolfe intreated his good will that he might have her himself by which means a fair accession of Lands and Riches might come to his own Estate and soon obtained his desire Whereupon within a short space after he took her to Wife and begetting upon her a Son prevailed with the King to be one of his Godfathers Having thus accomplished his desires first in the enjoyment of a Son and next in this Alliance to the King by that Spiritual Kinred he then revealed to his Wife the whole story how he had deluded the King who had so great a desire to have married heâ— which much abated her after affections to him though she made no words thereof But at length it so hapned that the truth of this Earl Ethelwolfs actings in this business being fully made known at Court the King hasted speedily into Devonshire under colour of Hunting in those parts and returned not till he had seen this fair Lady with whose beauty he became so enamored that he caused a place of entertainment to be prepared for her and her Husband near the Wood wherein he was to hunt unto which he was no sooner returned from his sports but he saw her with his little God-son whom Ethelwolfe soon presented to him the King thereupon embracing her in his Arms and kissing her After which being enflamed with the love of her he had little rest his thoughts tending to nothing so much as the full enjoyment of her For the accomplishing therefore of that his desire he calls a Parliament within eight days following at Salisbury in which all his Nobles of the Land being met he proposed to their consideration the safe custody of Northumberland against the irruptions of the Danes Whereupon this Earl Ethelwolfe was resolved on for the custody of York and the parts adjacent But so the design was laid that he should never return back as it seems for passing through the Forest of Werwelle in Hantshire he was set upon by certain armed Men sent thither by the King to lie in wait for him and there barbarously murthered The news whereof was no sooner brought to the Court than that the King sent for that beautiful Lady and with great joy made her his wife the same day both of them wearing Crowns on their Heads But on the morrow morning Dunstan Archbishop of Canterbury afterwards better known by the name of Saint Dunstan came into the Kings Lodging Chamber and boldly asked him who that was that he had there in Bed with him and it being answered The Queen the good Archbishop plainly replied That it was against the Laws of God and Holy Church thus adulterously to lie with her whose Son he had been Godfather to in regard of their Spiritual Kinred After which time she never loved S. Dunstan yet he ceased not to admonish the King of that fault though to little purpose All that I have farther to say of this fair Alfrida is First That she bore unto King Edgar two Sons Edmund who died in his childhood and Ethelred commonly called the Vnready who at his Baptism pist in the Font whereupon this holy Man S. Dunstan prophecied That in him the Dominion of the English should have its period wherein he was not much wide as our Historians do tell And secondly That to expiate the murther of Earl Ethelwold her Husband she Founded a Monastery of Nuns at Werewelle beforementioned To this Earl Ethelwold so murthered as hath been said succeeded Ethelwine by some called Egelwine or Ailwine his youngest Brother in this Earldome which Ailwine was the pious Founder of that great Abbey of Ramsey in Huntingdonshire at the special instance of Oswald Archbishop of York whereunto he then gave Two hundred Hides of Land This is that pious Earl Ethelwine who when Elfare Earl of Mercia and divers other great Men upon the death of the good King Edgar being blinded with gifts would have turned out those Abbots and Monks out of the Monasteries which had been therein placed by that King stoutly stood up with his Brother Alfwold and Earl Brithnoth then Earl of ... and opposed the same in an open Synod affirming That they would never endure that the Monks should be expelled the Kingdom who were the Supporters of all Religion therein whereupon he was termed Dei Amicus This was also that famous Ailwine who had the title of Totius Angliae Aldermannus id
for she was a Whore and the Kings affections to her were unlawful and adulterous and bury her out of the Church with other common people to the end that Religion be not vilified and that other Women may be terrified from such adulterous practises Whereupon they did so It is said elswhere that her Body was buried in the Chapter-house of that Nunnery with this Epitaph Hic jacet in Tumbâ Rosa mundi non Rosa munda Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet I now come to Walter de Clifford the eldest Son of the last Walter This Walter whilst his Father lived was called Walter de Clifford junior and took to Wife Agnes the sole Daughter and Heir to Roger de Cundi Lord of the Mannors of Cavenby and Glentham in Com. Linc. by Alice his Wife Lady of Horn Castle in that County sole Daughter and Heir to William de Cheney Lord of Cavenby and Glentham in the Conquerors time as is said By whom he had issue four Sons viz. Walter Roger Giles and Richard In 1 8 9 17 Ioh. then called Walterus junior he was Sheriff of Herefordshire But all that I have farther seen of him is That by the consent of Agnes his Wife he confirmed to the Monks of Barklings in Com. Linc. certain Lands lying in Cavenby and Glentham which they had purchased from the Abbots of Lykes and Neuhus as also that he gave to the Gilbertines at Brodholme in Com. Nottingh the Church of S. Helen at Hornhag and site of a Mill in the Moor betwixt Hornhag and Drengesha And departed this life in 7 Hâ—n â— as it seems for it appears that Walter his Son and Heir then accounting one hundred pound for his Relief had Livery of the Barony descended to him by the death of his Father But in consideration of his good and faithful services to that King had a discharge of Fourscore and fourteen pounds and six shillings thereof And in 12 Hen. 3. was constituted Governor of the Castles of Caermerdin and Cardigan Moreover in 13 Hen. 3. upon levying the Scutage of Kery in Wales he was acquitted for nine Knights Fees and in 14 H. 3. obtained the Kings Precept to the Barons of his Exchequer to discharge him of twenty four pound which he had borrowed in Ireland in the time of King Iohn and likewise of ten marks more as part of his Relief In 16 Hen. 3. upon the death of Roger his younger Brother he gave one hundred pound Fine to the King for the Wardship and Marriage of his Heir But in 17 Hen. 3. adhering to Richard Maresebal Earl of Pembroke then in Arms upon specious pretences which the King looked upon as Rebellious he was outlâ—wed and his Lands bestowed on those Poictovins who then bore all the sway Whereupon command was given to the Sheriff of Shropshire to seise his Castle and Mannor of Corfham Howbeit this displeasure lasted not long for the year following his Castle of Clifford which he had given up as a pledge for his fidelity was rendred to him again In 25 Hen. 3. upon that accord made betwixt Senena Wife of Griffith Son of Lewelin Prince of North Wales and King Henry this Walter was one of the Pledges for her in the name of her Husband that full performance should be made thereof In 38 Hen. 3. upon the Aid then levied for making the Kings eldest Son Knight he answered for nine Knights Fees In 41 Hen. 3. being one of the Barons Marches he was commanded to assist Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford in defending the Marches of Wales betwixt Montgomery and the Earl of Glocesters Lands In 42 Hen. 3. he had command to attend the King at Chester upon Monday next before the Feast of S Iohn Baptist with Horse and Arms to oppose the hostile Incursions of the Welsh In 44 Hen. 3. he was required with other of the Barons Marchers to assist Roger de Mortimer in defence of the Marches against the like Incursions In 47 Hen. 3. he had command to be at Hereford upon the third day after the Epiphany well appointed with Horse and Arms for defence of those parts against the Welsh And at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor Wife to King Henry the Third with the rest of the Barons Marchers he claimed as Ius Marchiae to carry the Canopy which belonged to the Barons of the Cinque Ports As to his Works of Piety he gave to the Canons of Haghmon in Shropshire his Mills at Culmitone and Sinetune for the maintenance of their Kitchin with one Yard-Land in Sinetune and a Messuage there belonging to those Mills To the Monks of Dore all Nanteglas and â—arleturmaur a large Territory set forth in his Grant by Metes and Bonds as also divers Lands in Cantersclyff And on the Nunns of Acornbury in Herefordshire he bestowed certain Lands in Corsham He married Margaret Daughter to Lewelyn Prince of Wales and Widow of Iohn de Braose Which Margaret surviving him bequeathed her Heart to be Buried in the Church of the Nunns at Acornbury with fifteen marks Sterling for performing the solemnity at the sepulture thereof and left issue by her one onely Daughter his Heir called Maud first married to William de Longspe Earl of Sarum who had with her in Frank-marriage â—ulmintone in Comit. Salop. then vallued at twenty eight pounds eight shillings and two pence but in case it did not reach then to be made out in Corfham in part of two hundred pounds per annum which he was to give her and afterwards to Sir Iohn Giffard of Brimsfield Which Maude by his consent gave to the Canons of Barlings in Com. Linc. the Lordships of Cavenby and Glentham in that County This Walter died in 48 Hen. 3. Having now finished my discourse of him I come to Roger his Brother from whom the succeeding Barons of this Family did descend In 15 Ioh. this Roger had the Honor of Kinton in Com. Heref. committed to his custody And in 1 Hen. 3. had a Grant of the Mannor of Axeford part of the Possessions of Ralph de la Bruere then in Armes against the King to hold during pleasure In 13 Hen. 3. upon levying the scutage of Kery he was acquitted for nineteen Knights Fees which were of the inheritance of Sibill his Wife Daughter and Coheir of Robert de Ewyas a great Baron in Herefordshire Widow of ... Tregoz in regard he was personally in that Expedition In 14 Hen. 3. he attended the King into Britanny and being there obtained a Grant of the Marriage of Hawyse the Widow of Iohn Boterell for the behoof of Roger his Son and Heir But more I cannot say of him then that by the advice of Sibill his Wife
H. 8. had a special Livery of his Lands After which viz. in 36 H. 8. he was in that Expedition then made into France and one of the Commanders under Iohn Lord Russell then Lord Privy-Seal in the Rere of that Army which besieg'd Montreul and upon the taking of Boloigne by the King himself the same year was made Commander in chief of that place Moreover in 1 E. 6. being Marshal of the Field and Captain-General of the Horse for that Army then sent into Scotland he march'd in the Head thereof and gave the first Charge upon the Enemy And in 2 E. 6. fortified Haddington fired Dalkeith and won the Castle spoiled much of the Country about Edenburgh Lowthian and Meers fired Muscleborough fortified Lowder and took Yester And the same year upon those Commotions rais'd in divers parts of England in opposition to the Reformation being sent into Oxfordshire with Fifteen hundred Horse and Foot the Gentlemen of the Country resorted to him in such numbers in regard he was so generally known to be a Man of Valour and Fortune that many of the Seditious dispersing themselves the rest were slain or taken Howbeit after this viz. in 5 E. 6. he was attached as a Favourer of the Duke of Somerset and committed to the Tower But this Storm when the Duke of Somerset's Head was off lasted not he being the Person chiefly aimed at by those that then bore the greatest sway for the year next following he was made Deputy of Calais and Governour of the Castle of Gisnes in Picardy In 1 Mariae he accompanied the Duke of Northumberland with those Forces wherewith he march'd from London on the behalf of the Lady Iane Gray whom upon the death of King Edward the Sixth most of the Lords of the Council had proclaimed Queen And to him it was that the Duke then discerning Multitudes of People to stand gazing at them said Do you see my Lord what a Conflux of People here is drawn together to see us march and yet of all this Multitude you hear not so much as one that wisheth us Success Furthermore being Captain of the Castle at Guisnes which was strongly besieg'd after the French had taken Calais he defended it with great Valour much longer than could well have been expected against such a Powerful Army but at length his Soldiers through despair mutinying he was constrain'd to yield it up upon such Terms as the Enemy would give viz. That himself with all his Captains and Officers should remain Prisoners at the disposal of the Duke of Guise at that time General of the French-Forces and the Common-Soldiers to march away with their Arms and Baggage whither they pleased So that being thereupon given to the Marshal Strozzy and by him sold to Monsieur de Randan and from him to his Brother the Count of Rouchefoucalt he continued Prisoner until he was redeemed for Twenty four thousand Crowns which did much weaken his Estate How he came to be attainted I have not seen but in 1 Eliz. he was restored in Blood And in 2 Eliz. being then one of the Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter and having so valiantly defended Guisnes as before is said he was constituted Governour of the Town and Castle of Barwick upon Twede as also Warden of the East and Middle-Marches towards Scotland Soon after which being likewise made General of the English Army then sent into that Realm in aid of the Scots against the French who had made an Invasion there with great Forces on purpose to subvert the ancient State of that Kingdom and to annex it unto the Crown of France he besieged Leith and at length forced the French to depart But after this he lived not long for it appears that he died upon the fourteenth of December Anno 1562. 5 Eliz. at Cheston besides Waltham in Hertfordshire in the House of his Son-in-Law Henry Denny Esq and was buried in the Parish-Church there near to the Communion-Table leaving Issue by Mary his Wife Daughter to Charles Earl of Worcester two Sons viz. Arthur and William and one Daughter called Honora Wife of the same Henry Denny Which Arthur being with his Father at the Siege of Leith was there wounded in the Shoulder by a Musket-Bullet And in 15 Eliz. was one of the Peers for Trial of the Duke of Norfolk In 23 Eliz. being made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland he march'd into Ophalia against O-Conero a great Rebel and reduc'd him and others then in Arms in those Parts to Obedience Moreover in 29 Eliz. he was one of the Commissioners for Trial of the Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay and the next ensuing year when Secretary Davison to palliate Queen Elizabeth's intention to take her Life away was question'd in the Star-Chamber for delivering the Warrant for her Execution which he did as 't was said not onely without the Queen's privity but contrary to her express Command this Lord Grey being a great Zealot for Religion made a large Speech in the defence of Davison and to justifie the Expediency of her death Likewise in 31 Eliz. Anno 1588. upon that danger of the Spanish-Invasion having the reputation of a most expert Soldier he was one of the Council of War appointed to consult for the defence of the Ports and Havens And by his Testament bearing date 14 Oct. 35 Eliz. appointing no certain place for his Burial departed this Life at Whaddon upon the same day where he was buried leaving Issue by the Lady Iana Sibylla Morisâ—n an Alien born but Endenized in 18 Eliz. Thomas his Son and Heir Who in 40 Eliz. upon another danger from the Spaniard design'd against Ireland put himself into the Queens Fleet to prevent their Landing And in 43 Eliz. was one of the Lords sent to the Earl of Essex when he made that Insurrection which cost his Head and was shut up in Essex-house whilst the Earl march'd into London But in 2 Iac. being one of those Conspirators with the Lord Cobham Sir Walter Raleigh and others that had design'd to take the King and Prince to the Tower of London and thence to Dovor-Castle whereby they might obtain a Toleration of the romish-Romish-Religion and remove some Counsellors of State as 't was then said was attained of Treason and long afterwards viz. 6 Iulii Anno 1614. died in the Tower being the last Lord Grey of Wilton Grey of Ruthyn I Now come to Roger de Grey Son to Iohn Lord Grey of Wilton by his second Wife This Roger in 12 E. 2. was in that Expedition then made into Scotland and sate in the Parliament held at Yorke in
of Leicester the Castle of Kenilworth the Honor Earldom and Castle of Lancaster with the Forests of Wiresdale and Lonesdale Newcastle under Lime the Mannor Castle and Forest of Pickering the Mannor of Saltby and Town of Gomecester vulgò Godmanchester with the Rent of the Town of Huntingdon And in 19 Edw. 1. obtained a Charter for a Fair every year at his Mannor of Pickering in Com. Ebor. upon the Eve Day and Morrow after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross as also for another at Esingwold in the same County upon the Eve and Festival of our Lady and Free-Warren at Melleburne in Com. Derb. In 20 Edw. 1. he obtained another Grant for life of the Castle Town and Honor of Monmouth as also of the Castles of Grossemont and Skenefrith Blanch-Castell with the Mannors of Redley and Menstreworth the Remainder to his three Sons viz. Thomas Henry and Iohn successively Intail But this Grant he surrendred back the same year And in 21 Edw. 1. procured License to make a Castle of his House in the Parish of S. Clements Danes in Comit. Middles called the Savoy And founded that House of Nuns called the Minoresses without Aldgate in the Suburbs of London He was also the cheif builder of the Gray-Friers House in Preston in Amundernesse in Com. Lanc. Moreover the same year for reconciling the differences betwixt King Edward and the King of France he was sent to treat with the two Queens Whereupon it was concluded that six Castles should be delivered up to the King of France but the King of France falling off from that Agreement he returned Shortly after which the Welsh putting themselves in Arms and entring upon the Earl of Glocesters Lands of Glamorgan he attended the King with his Army into those parts And in 24 Edw. 1. being sent with the Earl of Lincoln and twenty six Bannerets into Gascoigne they sate down before Bourdeaux But seeing no likelihood of its render after some skirmishes marched thence to Langon which was soon given up to them Thence to Bayon where they were honorably received but having many Soldiers which they could not keep together by reason that their treasure was exhausted he grew much troubled in mind and thereupon falling sick departed this life about the Feast of Pentecost commanding that his Body should not be buried till his debts were paid After which Truce being made his Corps was carried into England and buried in the Abby Church of Westminster where there was an honorable Monument erected to his memory which is yet to be seen This great Earl by Blanch his second Wife Daughter to Robert Earl of Artois third Son to Lewes the Eighth King of France Widow of Henry King of Naâ—arre Earl of Champaigne and Bry had issue three Sons viz. Thomas Henry and Iohn and a Daughter Which Iohn died in France with his Sister without issue And surviving him had for her Dowry an Assignation of the Mannors of Crepton Durfield with its Members viz. Southwood Holebroke Hey-Egge Beaurepair Allerwasleigh Edricheshay New Bigging and Holland with the whole Forest of Duffield as also the Mannor of Hertindon with Croudecote all in Com. Derb. Likewise certain Lands in Bunteshale Bracington Spondon Penrewich with the Hundred of Gresele and certain Lands in Newbald with the Advowson of the Church of Duffield in the same County Likewise the Mannor of Raundes with its Members viz. Scarwigge Ringestead and Harâ—grave in Com. Northampt. And the Advowsons of the Churches of Raundes in the same County Wolftanton and Tatenhull in Com. Staff and Torpedener in Com. Leic. I now come to Thomas his eldest Son and immediate Successor who in 26 Edw. 1. doing his homage being then reputed by the King to be of full age had Livery of his Lands excepting the Dowry of Blanch his Mother and thereupon marched into Scotland the King himself being then in that expedition Being Sheriff of Lancashire by inheritance he substituted Richard de Hoghton his Deputy in that Office And in 28 Edw. 1. obtained License to have a Market every week on the Saturday at his Mannor of Yoxhall in Com. Staff As also for a Fair yearly to be there held upon the Eve Day and Morrow of S. Swithin and likewise for a Fair yearly at Higham Ferrers in Comit. Northampt. upon the Eve of S Michael the Day and Morrow following In this twenty eighth year he was again in the Wars of Scotland so likewise in 31 32 and 34 Edw. 1. In which last year he obtained another License for a Market every week upon the Tuesday at his Mannor of Wirksworth in Com. Derb. And a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady As also for Free-Warren in all his Demesn Lands at Staunford in Com. Northumbr In 1 Edw. 2. he had a Grant for a Fair at Leicester every year on the Morrow after the Feast of the Holy Trinity and fourteen days following And in 2 Edw. 2. for a Market on the Wednesday every week at Uttoxeter in Com. Staff As also for a Fair there on the Eve Day and Morrow of S. Mary Magdalen Likewise for a Market and Fair at his Mannor of Stapleford in Com. Leic. In 4 Edw. 2. having married Alice the sole Daughter and Heir to Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln doing his fealty he had Livery a of the Castle of Denbigh and all other the Lands of her Inheritance his homage for them being performed the next ensuing year upon Thursday after the Feast of S. Bartholomew in the presence of divers Bishops Earls and Barons and other of the Kings Council in a certain Chamber within the House of the Fryers-Preachers in London In 5 Edw. 2. he was the cheif of those Nobles that entred into a Combination against Piers dâ— Gaveston the Kings great favorite under colour of defending Religion and restoring the Peoples Liberties And being thereupon made choice of for their General sent Messengers to the King requiring the delivery of this Piers unto them or to banish him the Realm It is said That Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln whose Daughter and Heir he had married as is observed gave him in charge upon his Death-Bed that he should maintain his quarrel against the same Piers And that thereupon he joyned with the Earl of Watwick and caused him to be put to death 29 Junii An. 1312. 5 Edw. 2. In 8 Edw. 2. he obtained a Charter for a Market every week upon the Friday at his Mannor of Burton-Stather in Com. Linc. And two Fairs the one to begin on Alballow Eve and to continue the next day and thirteen days after the other on the Eve of the Holy Trinity the day
to the Government he forcibly took Robert Tresilian out of Sanctuary at Westminster whereunto he had fled to seure himself In 15 R. 2. he was again put in Commission with Iohn Duke of Lancaster and others to treat of Peace with the French But in that Parliament of 21 R. 2. he was one of those who being impeach'd of Treason by the King had Judgment pronounc'd against him Nevertheless obtained Pardon at that time being sent prisoner to the Isle of Iersey In this Parliament saith Thomas Walsingham continued at Salisbury the Lord Cobham a very old Man just and upright was condemn'd for no other reason but for being one of those who in 10 R. 2. was one whom the great Lords then powerful deputed to enquire into the miscarriages in Government and soon after together with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Iohn Lovel and Iohn Devereux was sent to the King to require the delivery of Michael de la Pole Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland and others by whom he had been seduced to the hurt of the whole Realm He was a great Benefactor to the Fabrick of Rochester-Bridge and having been summon'd to Parliament from 1 R. 2. to 8 Hen. 4. inclusive departed this life 10 Ian. 9 Hen. 4. being then seised of the Mannors of Chussebury and Bynkâ—all in Com. Wiltes Also of the Mannors of Cobham Cowlyng Bekkeâ—e Pole Stone Bromhei and Hundred of Shamele in Com. Cantii leaving Ioane his Grand-daughter viz. daughter of Ioane his daughter by Sir Iohn de la â—ole Knight his next heir Thirty yeares of age â—ormerly Married to Sir Gerard Bâ—aybroke Knight but at that time Wife of Sir Nicholas Hawberk Knight which Iâ—ane afterwards Married to Sir Iohn Old-castle Knight This last mention'd Iohn had a younger brother called Thomas who by his Testament bearing date 13 Kal. Ian. 41 Ed. 3. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of St. Mary Magâ—alen at Coâ—â—ham and gave to the Chantry-Priests there One hundred shillings To his brother Iohn Lord Cobham he gave an Horse and to his other brother Reginald then Rector of the Church of Coâ—lyng another Horse A word now of Sir Iohn Oldcastle who thus Married the Neice and Heir to the last Lord Cobham and by reason thereof assum'd the Title of Lord Cobham This Sir Iohn Oldcastle was Sheriff of Herefordshire in 8 Hen. 4. and had summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm in 11 12 14 of that King's Reign So likewise in 1 Hen. 4. and in the same 12 th year of King Hen. 4. was sent beyond Sea with the Earl of Arundel and a considerable Force to aide the Duke of Burgundy against the French But in 1 Hen. 5. being tainted in his Religion by those pretended Holy Zealots then called Lollâ—â—ds he became one of the chief of that Sect which at that time gave no little disturbance to the peace of the Church for which he was cited to appear before the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Whereupon betaking himself to his Castle at Couâ—â—ng he was shortly after apprehended and brought before that Archbishop and others in the Cathedral of Sâ— Paul and there by reason of his obstinacie in those dangerous Tenets received the Sentence of an Heretick Under the Cloak of this Sanctity it was that he and his party design'd to Murther the King upon Twelf-night then keeping his Christmass at Eltham and to destroy the Monasteries of Westminster and St. Alâ—ans as also the Cathedral of St. Paul in London with all the Houses of Friers in that City to which end about Fourscore of his party were found in Armes in the night time expecting no less than Twenty five thousand the next day to appear with them in St. Giles Fields Which pernicious purpose being seasonably prevented divers of them suffered death at that time But this Oldcastle escaping luk'd privily for a time in sundry places and endeavoured to raise new Commotions Wherein failing of that success he expected in An. 1417. 5 Hen. 5. the King being then in his Wars of France he incited the Scots to an Invasion of this Realm Which through the vigilancy of Iohn Duke of Bedford the King's brother and his Liâ—utenant here in his Absence was happily prevented And at length being taken in Wales within the Territory of the Lord Powys was brought to his Trial. Where having Judgment of Death pronounc'd against him viz. to be Drawn Hang'd and Burnt on the Gallows and accordingly brought to the place of Execution he desired Sir Thomas Erpingham that in case he saw him risen again the third day after that then he would be a means to procure favour for the rest of his Sect. ¶ I now come to Reginald de Cobham Son of Iohn de Cobham by Ioane his Wife daughter of 〈◊〉 de Nevill In 2 Edw. 3. this Reginald was sent by the King into Brabant upon business of great importâ—â—ce having Three hundred pounds assign'd unto him for his charges in that journey And in 3 Edw. 3. attended him in his Expedition then made into France In 11 Edw. 3. he was in the Battel of Cagant against the French And in recompence of his service and great expences in his last imployment beyond Sea had an Assignation of One hundred pounds out of the Fifteenth and Tenth at that time granted to the King in Parliament In the same year he was also at Uironfosse in France in the Rereward of the English Army then drawn up for Battel In 11 Edw. 3. being in that Expedition made into Flanders was sent back into England by King Edward upon a special occasion with direction to make a speedy return And meriting highly for his service in divers parts was in 13 E. 3. advanced to the dignity of a Banneret having for his better support thereof the Mills situate under the Castle at Oxford and the Meadow called Ring's-mede adjoyning for terme of life given to him Besides this he had the Mannor of â—ippenham in Com. Buck. granted to him also for life And in farther remuneration of those his servicesâ— obtain'd the sum of Fifty pounds being an Arrear of the Ferme of that Town them due In 14 Edw. 3. he procured a Charter for Free-warren in all the Demesn-lands within his Lordships of Orkesdenne Shorham Eyâ—esforde â—hedingstane Hevere Penherst Couden Leghte Edenbregge Aldinton Thornham Wethling Cherring Lenham Nevegate Halgesco Frendesbury and Stoke in Com. Cantii Grensted and Hertfeld in Sussex and Lingefeld in Com. Surr. In this year being again in the King's service in Flanders he was by reason of his great wisdom and fidelity sent to the Pope upon a special Embassie About this time also of whilst King Edward by the help of the
de Altâ—â—vipa Clerk in 6 Ioh were constituted Bayliffs for the Counties of Salop and Staff id est substitutes unto that great Man Geffrey Fitz-Piers then Sheriff of those Shires and so continued till 14 Ioh. inclusive In 8 Ioh. being Chamberlain to the King he obtained from him a Grant of the mannors of 〈◊〉 and Norton and in 14 Ioh. of the Lordships of Welinton and Snawbury in Com. Salop. And the next year following when the Barons were so powerful that the King discerned himself too weak to cope with them he was with Raphe Fitz-Nicholas an eminent person in that time sent by him privily unto Admiralius Murmelius great King of â—phâ—ca Marrochia and Spaine to offer this whole Realm of England unto him to hold by a certain Tribute as also to signify unto him that he would quit the Christian Religion and submit to the Law of Mahomet in case he might have the assistance of that Infidel against those potent Men. Upon his return from which Embassie he compounded with Stephen de Staunton and Robert de Stauton his Son and Heir for their Title to the Honor of Montgomery with the Mannors of 〈◊〉 Pulton 〈◊〉 and â—â—deham thereto belonging and had the Kings confirmation thereof Unto which Honor he claimed some Title by descent from Baldwin de Bollers to whom it had been given by King Henry the First with Sibill de Faleise that Kings Niece and sprung from the same Baldwin by his second Wife About this time also he obtained the wardship of William Fitz-Allen Lord of Clun in Com. Salop. and gave his Daughter Mary in Marriage to him but in consideration thereof he was constrained to pay the King five thousand marks for the performance of which payment Ranulph Earl of Chester and several other persons of Note became his Sureties And in 17 Ioh. which was the chief year of that Kings contest with the Barons received command to march unto Tamworth Castle situate on the Confines of Warwick and Staff shires thence to take out all the Prisoners Horse Arms and Ammunition and having so done to lay it level with the ground After which ere long he departed this lifeâ— whereupon his Lordships of Erdington and Aston near unto it were assigned to Roese de Cockfeild his Widdow for her support until such time as her Dowrie should be set forth leaving Giles his Son and Heir from whom in 14 H. 3. the King accepted of five pounds per annum to be paid into his Exchequer until all his Fathers Debts should be satisfied or that the King should please to require them In 35 H. 3. this Giles was one of the Justicesâ— Itinerant for the City of London and in 36 H. 3. constituted one of the Justices of the Court of Common-Pleas as also one of the Justices of Assize in the County of Warwick from 34 until 51 H. 3. inclusive And having been a Benefactor to the Canons of St. Thomas juxta Stafford had a Covenant from them that they should admit of one Canon into their House at his presentation and his Heirs successively there to celebrate Divine Service perpetually at the Altar of St. Thomas the Martyr for the health of his Soul as also for the Souls of his Father and Mother and all his Ancestors And likewise that at the celebration of the Mass of our Lady in the Collect for the dead his name should be alwaise remembred and after his decease registred in their Martyrologue and his Anniversary there duly kept in as ample manner as for their own Patron To the Monks of Tykford in com Buck. he had likewise been a special friend as may seem by their assignation of one Monke of that Covent at their own proper charge to sing for his Soul and the Souls of his Parents To this Giles succeeded Henry his Son and Heir who Married Maud one of the Daughters and at length Co-heirs to Roger de Someri Baron of Dubley one of the Co-heirs also to Nicholas Daughter and Co-heir to Hugh de Albini Earl of â—rundel In 5 E. 1. this Henry was in that Expetion then made into Wales and of the Retinue with William de Beauchamp Earl of Warwick This Henry for the health of his Soul and the Soul of her the said Maud gave to the Nuns of Catesby in Com. North. towards the support of the charge of their Habits and relief of poor people the perpetual patronage of the Church of Yerdley in Com. Wigorn. to the intent that the Fruits of it should be appropriated to their use in consideration whereof they covenanted with him that so soon as they could obtain an Appropriation thereof they would thenceforth appoint one of the Canons of that House to celebrate Divine Service daily for the Souls of him and Maud his Wife and for the Souls of Giles his Father with all their Ancestors and Successors And likewise solemnly keep the Anniversary of him the said Henry and of the Lady Roese his Sister and after his decease bury his Body in their Chapel of St. Edmund before the Altar there And departed this life in 10 E. 1. leaving the same Maud surviving who afterwards Married to William de Bifeild and Henry his Son and Heir who doing his Homage in 23 E. 1. had Livery of his Lands and in 30 E. 1 upon the death of Maud his Mother performing his Homage also had Livery of the Lands of her Inheritance In 34 E. 1. this Henry was one of those who received the order of Knighthood with Prince Edward by Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies and thereupon attended him in that Expedition then made into Scotland That which I find farther of him most memorable is that in 9 E. 3. he had Summons to Parliament amongst the Barons of this Realm and not afterwards as also that by Ioane his Wife one of the Daughters and Heirs to Sir Thomas de 〈◊〉 of Wolvey in Com. War Knight he had Issue Giles his Son and Heir who not appearing in 19 E. 3. to receive the Honor of Knighthood before the Feast of St. Laurence had his pardon for that neglect But having no Summons to Parliament nor any of his Descendâ—nts I shall here put a period to my discourse of this Family Swynnerton 11 Edw. 3. OF this Family which was of great Antiquity in Com. Staff assuming its Surname from a Lordship of large extent so called many were Knights amongst which was Roger de Swinerton who in 34 E. 1. had a Charter for free-warren in all his Demesn-Lands at his said Mannor of Swinerton as also for keeping a Market there upon the Wednesday every week and a Fair yearly upon the Festival of our Ladies Assumption and in 4 E. 2. was in the Wars of Scotland
the Dores should be shut upon them saying Have patience a while I will go into the City and acquaint the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs with the cause thereof and then return And accordingly leaving special Guards in the House rode with his Sword the rest accompanying him and taking with them as they passed the Earl of Bedford and Lord Cromwell cryed out For the Queen for the Queen saying also that his Life was sought not making any stay till he came to the House of Sheriff Smith in Fanchurch-street intreating the Citizens to Arm themselves But all in vain for instead of aid the Sheriff on whose assistance he much depended would not be seen getting out by a back door to the Lord Mayor The Lord Burghley with Garter King of Arms following and proclaiming him with all his Adherents Traytors The like did the Earl of Cumberland and Sir Thomas Gerard Knight-Marshal in other parts of the City Finding himself therefore in this forlorne condition he returned to Ludgate but being there stopt made back to Queen-Hithe and so got to Essex-House by Boats Where discerning that the Lord Keeper and the other Privy-Councellors whom he had shut up were set at liberty and returned to White-Hall in great perplexity he endeavored to fortifie the House But the Lord Admiral with considerable Forces suddainly besetting it after several Overtures whereby he would have made his conditions which would not be admitted he with the rest of his Adherents yielded themselves Whereupon it being about ten of the clock at night he was first carried to Lambeth-House and afterwards to the Tower of London And upon the nineteenth of the same Month of February brought to Westminster Hall where before the Lord Buckâ—urst then Lord High Treasurer of England constituted High Steward for that occasion being tryed by his Peers and found guilty of the Treason laid to his charge he had Sentence of death pronounced against him and accordingly lost his Head within the Tower of London upon the 25 th day of the same Month being at that time about thirty four years of age This hapned to be the end of this popular Man unto whose Story it will not be improper to add what is farther said of him by a person of great observation in his time viz. That the Queen being then grown old and the King of Scots not much regarded by the English nor well obeyed by his natural Subjects he began to look up towards the Crown unto which a Title was drawn for him as the direct Heir to Thomas of Woodstoke Duke of Gloucester one of the younger Sons to King Edward the Third This Man the Puritans cry up with most infinite praises both in their Pulpits and Pamphlets telling him that he was not only great in Honor and the Love of the people but temporis expectatione major far greater in the Expectation which his friends had of him And he accordingly applies himself to those of the Puritan Faction admits them to places of most Trust and Credit about his person keeps open House for Men of those opinions to resort unto under pretence of hearing Sermons and hearing no Sermons with more zeal and edification than those which seemed to attribute a power to Inferiour Magistrates for curbing and controling their undoubted Sovereign Which questionless must needs have ended in great disturbance to the Church and State if he had not been outwitted by Sir Robert Cecil Sir Walter Raleigh and the rest of their Party in the Court by whom he was first shifted over into Ireland and at last brought upon the Scaffold not to receive a Crown but to lose his Head which hapned very oportunely for King Iames of Scotland whose entrance might have been opposed and his Title questioned if this ambitious Man had prospered in his undertakings which he conducted generally with more heat than Judgment By Frances his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Francis Walâ—ingham one of the Queens Principal Secretaries of State and Widdow of Sir Philip Sydney he left Issue one Son called Robert and two Daughters viz. Frances who became the Wife of William Earl of Hertford afterwards Marquess of Hertford and Duke of Somerset and Dorothy first Married to Sir Henry Shirley of Stanton Harold in Com. Leic. Baronet but after to William Stafford of Blatherwick in Com. North. Esquire Which Robert with his said Sisters Frances and Dorothy were by Act of Parliament in 1 Iac. restored in Blood and Honor. After which this last mentioned Robert took to Wife the Lady Frances Second Daughter to Thomas Howard Earl of Suff. but that Marriage being nullified in 11 Iac. she soon Wedded Sir Robert Carr Knight of the Garter and Earl of Somerset whereupon though long after viz. in An. 1631. 7 Car. 1. he espoused Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir William Paâ—let of Eddington in Com. Wilts Knight one of the natural Sons of William the third Marquess of Winchester of that Family by whom he had Issue Robert a Son who died an Infant That the discontent which this Earl took upon his first Wifes behaviour towards him which produced that Nullity occasioned him to retire and then viz. in Iuly An. 1621. to go into the Palatinate there to exercise himself in the discipline of War is not unknown to many and that being there he became tainted with some Calvinistical principles there are few I suppose but do believe Nevertheless so great a confidence had the late King Charles the first of blessed Memory in his loyalty as that upon the first Insurrection of the Scots in An. 1639. he made him Lieutenant General of his Army in that Northern Expedition and afterwards Lord Chamberlain of his Houshold How it came to pass therefore that he was drawn off from his due Allegiance to that pious King in An. 1642 and accepted of a Commission to be General of those Forces then raised by Authority of the unhappy Long Parliament at that time fitting under the specious pretence of Safety to the Kings Royal Person preservation of the Religion here by Law established defence of the Laws and Liberty of the Subject How likewise and for what time he acted for them in that capacity how also he fell off and how he dyed which was not without suspition of poyson I leave to the relation of such faithful pens as may more properly represent it to the World in the next Age than now concluding my story of him that his death hapned at Essex House in London 14 Sept. An. 1646. and that he had thereupon a most magnificent Funeral at the charge of that Parliament upon the 22 day of October then next ensuing the proceeding being performed in great State unto the Abby Church of Westminster where he lyeth buried in St. Pauls Chapel Northward of the Capella Regum but without any Issue By reason whereof the Dignity of
prohibited the Abbess of that House to admit her or that she should be admitted any where else Nevertheless notwithstanding this when she arrived to her lawful age she did profess her self a Nun there but the other two viz. Elizabeth and Isabell died before the 10 th of Henry the Fifth unmarried I come now to William brother and heir to the last mentioned Michael In 4 H. 5. this William was reteined by Indenture to serve the King in his wars of France with Thirty men at Armes whereof himself to be one five Knights twenty four Esquires and ninety Archers In the same year he was again reteined to serve him for one quarter of that year with twenty six men at Armes himself and one Knight being part of the number and fifty two Archers And continuing there in 5 H. 5. had of his Retinue Thirty Spears and Ninety Archers In remuneration of which services he then obtained a grant to himself and the heirs male of his body of the Castles of Hambor and Brequebec with their Appurtenances as also of all the Fees and Inheritances which Sir Fulke Paynell Knight possessed within the Dutchy of Normandy being then of the yearly value of Three thousand and five hundred Scutes In 6 H. 5. this William as brother and heir to the said Michael who died in his Minority and in Ward to the King made proof of his age and having thereupon Livery of his Lands his Homage being respited was at the siege of Roan and in the 8 H. 5. again in the King's service in France So likewise in 9 H. 5. And upon the death of that King which hapned soon after was left in France with the Earl of Salisbury for the defence of those Castles and Towns which that victorious King had gained there Also in 1 H. 6. Elizabeth and Isabel two of the daughters and coheirs of Michael his brother being dead in their minority and Catherine the third daughter having assumed the Habit of Religion in the Nunnery of Brusiard Catherine the Widdow of the said Michael being then also dead he had Livery of the Lands of that Inheritance performing his Homage In 1 H. 6. this William being in the wars of France marcht with the Earl of Salisbury to the siege of Pont-Meulan and in 2 H. 6. to the relief of Cravant then besieg'd by the French having Four thousand men under their command and giving Battel to them near Uernoil flew Two thousand and took Four thousand prisoners whereof the Duke of Alanzon their General was one In 3 H. 6. upon taking the City of Maine he was left Governor thereof And in 5 H. 6. was sent with Six thousand Men to Montargis in the Territory of Orleans unto which he laid siege but without success About this time being Governor of Mans and discerning that the Citizens had betrayed it to the French he retreated to the Castle and was shortly after releived by the Lord Talbot And in 6 H. 6. accompanying the Earl of Salisbury with Ten thousand men towards Orieans they took the Town of Genville and soon after the Castle by render also the Town of Baugencie the Towns of Meaun upon Loire Iargeaulx thereupon delivering up their Keys Shortly after which they sate down before Orleans and upon the death of the Earl of Salisbury there slain was by the Duke of Bedford then Regent of France appointed Captain of that siege Which in 7 H. 6. he quitted and marcht to Iergeaux with Four hundred men Whereupon the French following him assaulted that Town and slew many amongst which Alexander his Brother was one himself and Iohn his other Brother being both taken prisoners But he was soon enlarged as it seems for it appears that in 7 H. 6. he was again in those wars So likewise in 8 H. 6. At which time he besieged Aumarle and after twenty four sharp Assaults had it together with the Castle delivered up to him Shortly after which he accompanied the Duke of Burgundy and Earl of Arundel to the siege of Campeigne And in 9 H. 6. attended that King at his solemn Coronation in Paris So likewise in 10 H. 6. in that Expedition then by him made into those parts In 13 H. 6. being sent Embassador to Arâ—as to treat of Peace with the French he had License to take with him Gold Silver Plate and Jewels to the value of Two thousand pounds And in 14 H. 6. was joyn'd in Commission with the Duke of York-and others to proceed in that Treaty Moreover after the French King had recovered Paris St. Dennis and divers other places of note thereabouts he accompanied the Earl of Salisbury and others into Normandy with Eight thousand men being at that time retein'd to serve the King in his wars of France and Normandy with one Knight Thirty seven men at Armes and One hundred and sixty Archers By reason whereof he obtain'd a special exemption from his service in the King's Houshold and attendance on his Person with this farther favour that in case any Lordships or Lands should descend unto him during his employment in those wars he might have Livery of them though absent by any of his Attorneys In 15 H. 6. this Earl William having married Alice the daughter and heir of Thomas Chancer Widow of Sir Iohn Phelip Knight doing his Fealty had Livery of her Lands and obtained License from the King to Found a certain Hospital at Ewelme in Com. Oxon. a Lordship of her Inheritance consisting of two Priests and thirteen poor men and endowed it with the Mannors of Mershe in Com. Buck. Connok in Com. Wiltes and Ramrugg in Com. Southampt which Hospital was called Gods-house In 16 H. 6. being appointed one of the Lords of the King's Privy-Council and having formerly in recompence of his services done and to be done obtain'd the Grant of an Annuity of One hundred pounds for his life the King farther taking into consideration his great expences in those Offices and Imployments as by himself or his Deputies he had undergone did grant that for the discharge of the same as also of the Fees and Wages which either himself or any else had been at no more than Sixty pounds should be deducted out of that Hundred pound The same year also he procured a Grant for the custody of the Honor of Wyrmgay with all the Lands thereto belonging Likewise of the Mannors of Stow Bardolf and North Rungeton parcel of the Possessions of Thomas Lord Bardolf formerly attainted to hold for seven years In this year he got License to hold a Market every week upon the Tuesday at his Mannor of Hoke Norton in Com. Oxon. As also
Upon the Death of King Edward the Sixth and Proclaiming the Lady Iane Grey Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk to be Queen he was one of the Chief who first appeared for Queen Mary And in 2 Mariae upon that great Insurrection of the Kentish-men and others which was headed by Sir Thomas Wyat in opposition to that Queen's Marriage with King Philip of Spain he was made General of the Forces then rais'd for their suppression Whereupon Wyat being taken suffered death In 4 5 Ph. M. he brought a thousand Horse four thousand Foot and two thousand Pioners to the English Army at the Siege of St. Quintins in Picardy being Captain-General in that Service And upon the Death of Queen Mary was made choice of for one of the Privy-Council to Queen Elizabeth as also great Master of her Houshold But here I shall take notice of a very great mischief which had like to have befallen him about this time Towards the later end of King Edward the Sixths Reign that ambitious and then most powerful man Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland being not any way able of himself to pretend so much as a shadow of Right to the Crown yet aimed at confirming the succession thereof in his own Family doubting not to remove those two obstacles the Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth Daughters to King Henry by questioning their Births And next for the Queen of Scots descended from Margaret the eldest Daughter of King Henry the Seventh he was little solicitous by reason of the continual enmity betwixt the English and that Nation so that a little shew of Reason he thought might put her by specially considering her contract to the French whose insolent Government he was confident would never be brook't by the English And as to Frances the Daughter to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk by Mary Dowager of France the other Daughter of King Henry the Seventh then Married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset afterwards Duke of Suffolk he projected the removal of that rub by matching the Lord Guilford Dudley his fourth Son to the Lady Iane Grey Suffolk's Daughter And because a Right of Inheritance might be pretended whereby the Dutchess of Suffolk her self in reason ought to be preferr'd before her Daughter he imparted his design to Suffolk and undertook to perswade the King not only to disherit his Sisters by Will and Testament but thereby to declare the Lady Iane his next and immediate Successor Suffolk therefore biting at this bait and the next Plot being to draw in the chiefest of the Nobility by contracting Affinity with them and so to procure the general assent of them all upon the very same day that the Lady Iane was thus Married to the Lord Guilford Dudley Northumberland caused the two youngest Daughters of the Duke of Suffolk to be thus Married Katherine to the Lord Henry eldest Son to this William Earl of Pembroke and Mary who was crook-back'd to Martin Keys the King's Groom-Porter And at the same time also Married the Lady Catherine his own eldest Daughter to Henry Lord Hastings eldest Son to the Earl of Huntington But this contrivance had but a sad Issue unto that excellent Lady Iane and her Husband as also to that ambitious Duke himself who had been the original framer thereof Nor prov'd it better to the Duke of Suffolk who was thus drawn in as is very well known to those who are any whit acquainted with the History of that time It seems that at the solemnity of this Marriage betwixt the Lord Henry this Earls Son and the Lady Catherine Grey they were both of them very young and that the consummation thereof was not till some time after Queen Elizabeth began her Reign For amongst those Fragmenta regalia publisht by Sir Robert Naunton Knight pag. 12 13. I find this passage By a Letter written upon his Sons Marriage with the Lady Katherine Grey he had like utterly to have lost himself But at the instant of the consummation as apprehending the unsafety and danger of intermarriage with the Bloud-Royal he fell at the Queens feet where he both acknowledg'd his presumption and projected the Cause and the Divorce together So quick he was at his work that in the time of Repudiation of the said Lady Grey he clapt up a Marriage for his Son the Lord Herbert with Mary Sidney Daughter to Sir Henry Sidney Lord Deputy of Ireland the blow falling on Edward Earl of Hertford who to his cost took up the divorced Lady of whom the Lord Beauchamp was born and William now Earl of Hertford is descended This William Earl of Pembroke is said to have been the first mover of that Marriage of the Duke of Norfolk to the Queen of Scots though without any evil purpose which exposed him also to no little danger It is observed by the same Sir Robert Naunton in his Fragmenta regalia pag. 19. that this Earl and the old Marquess of Winchester William Paâ—let were ever of the King's Religion and over-zealous Professors and that 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 Subject from the Norman-Conquest to their own times Whereunto hath been prettâ—y replyed that they lived in time of dissolution As for himself he Married two Wives First Anne Daughter to Thomas Lord Parr of Kendal Sister to Katherine Parr sixth Wife to King Henry the Eight as also Sister and Coheir to William Marquess of Northampton by whom he had Issue two Sons Henry who succeeded him in his Honours and Sir Edward Herbert of Poole-Castle for so it was antiently called but afterwards Red-Castle and Powys-Castle in Com. Montgom Knight Likewise one Daughter call'd Anne who became the Wife of Francis Lord Talbot Son and Heir to George the sixth Earl of Shrewsbury His second Wife was Anne Daughter to George the Fourth Earl of Shrewsbury Widdow of Peter Compton Son and Heir to Sir William Compton Knight by whom he had no Issue And departing this life at Hampton-Court 17 Martii an 1569. 12 Eliz. it being his Clymacterical Year was buried on the North-side of the Quire in St. Paul's Cathedral at London where a goodly Monument was afterwards erected to his memory with this Epitaph Guil. Herberto Pembrochiae Comiti Equiti aurato praenobilis Ordinis Anglici Henrico octavo à Cubiculis Edwardo sexto Regi Equitum Magistro Walliae Praefidi Tumultu Occidentali cum Russello Grayo Baronibus paribus auspiciis summo Rerum praeposito Mariae Reginae contra perduelles ac Expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius Exercitus Duci Bis summo in agro Caletum limitum praefecto Elizabethae Reginae Officiorum seu magno Regiae Magistro Pariter dominae
Knight his Son and Heir should have his Coller of the Order or Gold with the George of Diamonds thereto belonging Likewise all other his small Chains of Gold with the Georges of Gold to them appertaining as also all his Garters of the Order of Gold and Robes belonging thereto and all his Parliament-Robes To Anne his Wife he gave all his Houshold-stuff at Cowling-Castle and departed this life at Cobham-Hall on Thursday 29 Sept. An. 1558. 5 6 Ph. M. leaving Issue eight Sons viz. Sir William Broke Knight George Thomas Iohn Henry Thomas the younger Edmund and Edward and two Daughters Elizabeth second Wife of William Parr Marquefs of Northampton and Katherine Which Sir William succeeding him in his Lands and Honour married Dorothy Daughter to George Lord Bergaveny by Mary his third Wife Daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham And being Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports upon the death of Queen Mary was sent to the Spaniard in the Netherlands to signifie her rightful succession to the Crown of this Realm as also to make known that William Lord Howard of Effingham was by her added to the Earl of Arundel and others constituted Commissioners to treat of Peace at Cambray In 14 Eliz. this William being one of the Lords commited to the Tower of London for complying with the Duke of Norfolk in his design of marrying the Queen of Scotland upon hope of pardon discovered all he knew therein And in 21 Eliz. was sent with Secretary Walâ—ingham into the Netherlands to treat of Peace betwixt the Confederates of the United Provinces and the King of Spain but returned without success Again in 31 Eliz. he was implied thither with Henry Earl of Derby upon the like errand And on the 24 of Febr. 39 Eliz. being Constable of Dover-Castle and Warden of the Cinque-Ports as also Lord Chamberlain of the Houshold to that Queen and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter declared his Testament whereby he bequeathed his Body to be buried in the Church of Cobham with his Ancestours and departing this life soon after was accordingly buried there upon the fifth of April next ensuing This William Lord Cobham by Frances his Wife Daughter of ... Newton left Issue Henry who was also Warden Henry who was also Warden of the Cinque-Ports in 43 Eliz. About which time upon the Insurrection of the Earl of Essex it was given out by those who were friends to Essex that he and Sir Walter Raleigh deâ—igned the death of that Earl And in 1 Iac. which was soon after had a far greater crime laid to his Charge viz. that he and George his Brother with the Lord Grey of Wilton and the same Sir Walter Raleigh did conspire to kill the King and thereupon by an Insurrection to alter Religion subvert the Government and procure an Invasion by strangers For which having their Tryal at Winchester in the month of November next following they were found guilty And had judgment of Death pronounced against them George his Brother being thereupon beheaded and both of them attainted But the Execution of this Henry and some of the other was through the Kings great clemency superseded so that he lived many years after but in great misery and poverty and died in Ianuary An. 1619. leaving William Broke Son of his Brother George his next Heir Which William in An. 1610. 7 Iac. was restored in blood yet not to enjoy the title of Lord Cobham without the Kings special grace But in succeeding time so great was the merit of Sir Iohn Broke of Hekinton in Com. Linc. Knight Grandson and next Heir Male to George Lord Cobham who died in Queen Maries days suffering not a little for his exemplary Loyalty to the King in the times of the late unhappy defection that he was advanced to the tiâ—le and dignity of Lord Cobham to enjoy as amply as any of his Ancestours had done and to the Heirs Male of his body as by the Kings Letters Patent bearing date at Oxford 3 Ian. 20 Car. 1. doth appear Which Ihon died without Issue Lewes de Bruges Earl of Winchester 12 E. 4. THough the distresses wherewith King Edward the fourth stood miserably encompassed when in the tenth year of his reign he fled to Charles de Valois Duke of Burgundy in a Cock-boat were exceeding great yet did his entertainment by that noble Duke who had married Margaret his Sister and other Honourable Persons much mitigate the sorrow at that time unavoidably attending him Amongst which that reception he had from Lewes de Bruges Lord of Gruthuse and Prince of Sâ—eenhuse Lord also of Avelghien Spiers Aemstede and Eestampe did not a little raise his drooping Spirits who passionately commiâ—erating his then unhappy and indeed desperate condition manifested his real sense thereof not only by affording him all free and generous welcom during his stay there but upon his return frankly offering to serve him in Battel for the recovery of his right could hardly be disswaded from putting himself upon that hazardous adventure In grateful acknowledgment therefore of those his signal favours within little less than two years after coming into England in the month of September he was not only received with great honour for this his singular humanity but as a farther testimony of what sense the whole Realm had thereof the House of Commons in Parliament by the mouth of William Alyngton their Speaker besought the King that in consideration of these his great deserts he would confer upon him some special mark of Honour Whereupon on the 13 of October next following he advanced him to the title of Earl of Winchester in the Parliament Chamber by Cincture with a Sword And for the better support of that dignity granted to him and the Heirs Male of his Body the sum of two hundred pounds annually xx l. thereof to be yearly paid out of the Issues and Râ—venues of the County of Southampton and Clxxx l. yearly out of the Customes received in the Port of Southampton at Easter and Michaelmass by even portions And after this upon the third of November ensuing though he was a person noble by Birth and in testimony thereof in his own Country bore such Ensigns of Honour which we here call Arms Nevertheless forasmuch as by those Arms he could not in this Realm nor in any other parts of the World be known for an English Earl he granted to him another Patent and to the Heirs male of his Body Earls of Winchester of these Arms thus blazoned viz. Azure dix Mascles d'Oâ— enormè d'une Canton de Armes de Angleterre cestasavoir de Gules a une Lipard passant d'Or armee d'Azure Which are lively depicted in colours in that Roll wherein his Patent for them is
Northampton there should be laid a Stone somewhat raised in height with the Arms of his Father and Mother thereon and an Inscription for the doing whereof he bequeath'd ten pounds Also that there should be founded at Gaynesburgh an Hospital for five poor Bedemen for evermore Every one of them to receive for his support a penny a day and to have every other year a Gown of iiis. ivd. price Which poor men to be chosen of such as had done him service and service to his Heirs and for lack of such then of those who have been Tenants within the Town of Gaynesburgh unto him or to his Heirs and come to poverty The which five Bedemen to be daily present at the Mass of his Chantry-Priest and to help him to say De profundis in audience and such of them as were learned their Pater-noster Ave and Creed at the least Furthermore he willed in case his Son Thomas should be living at the day of his Burial that he have to his Chamber with xl1. the one half in Plate and the other in Houshold-stuff Likewise that his Daughter the Lady Fitz Hugh have a Book of gold enamel'd and that his Godson Thomas the eldest Son to his Son Sir Edward have a Cross of gold set with an Emeraude in the midst which was his Mothers And that his Daughter Anne should have another Cross of gold which was his Wives set with Stones and a great Ruby in the midst Shortly after which he died for the Probate thereof bears date upon the nineteenth of May following leaving Issue by the before-specified Margaret his Wife Daughter to Thomas Lord Roos of Kendall and Widdow of Sir Thomas Botreaux Knight two Sons Sir Edward Borough Knight and Thomas and two Daughters ... Wife of the Lord Fitz Hugh and Anne Which Sir Edward Married Anne the sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Cobham Knight and by her left Issue Thomas his Son and Heir who being Summon'd to Parliament in 21 H. 8. after the first sitting thereof viz. 3 Nov. was admitted into the House 2 Dec. next following This Thomas by Anne his Wife Daughter of Sir William Tirwhit of Ketilby in Com. Linc. Knight had Issue Thomas his Son and Heir who Married Elizabeth Daughter of Sir David Owen Knight But she breaking the Bonds of Wedlock as it seems had several Children begotten on her by some other person whereupon he obtain'd a special Act of Parliament in 34 H. 8. for the Bastardizing of them and by his Testament bearing date at Ewston in Com. Suff. 14 Febr. 4 E. 6. whereby no place is appointed for his Burial makes mention of Alice his Wife as also of Henry his Son and Heir of William a younger Son and of Sir Thomas Burgh Knight another Son deceased Likewise of Dorothy his Daughter and of Sir Anthony Nevil Knight his Son in Law the Probate whereof bears date 20 Nov. following Which Alice surviving him Married to Edmund Rokewod and by her Testament dated 24 Martii an 1558. 5 4 Ph. M. bequeath'd her Body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Ewston by her Husband Rokewode appointing that her Executors should find an honest Priest to pray and sing for her Soul and the Souls of both her Husbands as also for the Souls of her Father and Mother during the space of seven years Likewise that they should make another Tomb where the Lord Burgh her Husband lay buried But Henry his eldest Son in case he succeeded him did not long enjoy the Honour For it appears that in 15 Eliz. William bore the Title of Lord Burgh and was one of the Peers who sate in Judgment upon the Duke of Norfolk Which William by Katherine his Wife Daughter to Edward Earl of Lincoln had Issue Sir Iohn Borough Knight who died in his life time and Thomas Which Thomas succeeding him in 36 Eliz. was imploy'd Embassador into Scotland to incite King Iames against the Spanish Faction there and to procure such an association of the Protestants as might preserve him and that Religion from all Foreign practises He was likewise Governour of the Brill in Flanders as also in 40 Eliz. made Lieutenant of Ireland and departing this life shortly after left his three Daughters his Heirs Elizabeth Married to George Cobham a younger Son to William Lord Cobbams Frances and Anne Cheney 3 H. 7. THough none of this name stood rank't with the Peers of this Realm until the time of King Henry the Seventh yet were they of eminent note many Ages before For Raphe de Caineto id est Chency came into England with William the Conqueror but from him I have not seen any Descendents other than Females There was also in the days of King Henry the First Roger de Cheney who gave the Tithes of Munstre now called Minstre Lovel in Com. Oxon. with the Tyths of all his Wools in that County to the Monks of Eynsham Likewise soon after that another Raphe de Chenei who bestow'd on the Monks of Lewes in Com. Suss. one Hide of Land with the Mill at Bardesey for the Soul of Emme his Wife as also the Church of Bristelmeston with the Tiths of all he had in that Town And in 5 H. 2. William de Chenei then Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk who continued so till 9 H. 2. inclusive In 9 and 10 E. 1. Iohn de Chenei had also the Sheriffalty of Buck. and Bedford Shires And in 15 E. 2. William de Chenei being in that Insurrection with Thomas Earl of Lancaster suffered Death at York with others of that party Moreover it appears that in 1 H. 4. that King to manifest his right to the Crown of this Realm sent amongst others Sir Iohn Cheney Knight and Iohn Cheney Esq to the Court of Rome Which Sir Iohn Chenei in 5 H. 4. was Speaker of that Parliament then met at Cobentre called Parliamentum indoctorum the Parliament of illiterate men But to come to Sir Iohn Cheney Knight of whom I am here chiefly to speak who was Son to Iohn Cheney of Sherland within the Isle of Shepey in Kent by Alianore his Wife Daughter and Heir to Sir Robert de Shotisbroke Knight and Sister to Margaret Dutchess of Somerset The first mention I find of him is in 3 R. 3. upon a very honourable occasion he being then in Arms for Henry Earl of Richmund at Bosworth-field where King Richard himself encountring with him after he had overthrown Sir William Brandon the Earl of Richmund's Standard-Bearer though this Sir Iohn was a person of very great strength fell'd him to the ground Therefore upon that Earl's obtaining the Crown by his happy Victory that day he was made choice of for one of his
her one Son called Henry and two Daughters Anne Married to Henry now Earl of Norwich Earl Marshal of England And Elizabeth to William Earl of Powys He secondly Married the Lady Margaret O Bryen Daughter to Henry Earl of Thomond by whom he had Issue one Daughter called Mary which died in her Infancy And departing this life 3 Aprilis an 1667. was buried at Ragland To him succeeded Henry his Son and Heir now Lord President of Wales and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter who Married Mary the Daughter of Arthur Lord Capell Widdow of Henry Lord Beauchamp by whom he hath had Issue four Sons 1. Henry who died young 2. Charles called Lord Herbert of Ragland 3. Edward and 4. Another Henry who died young Likewise two Daughters Elizabeth who died in her Childhood and Mary Maners Earl of Rutland 5 H. 8. THough none of this Family arrived to the dignity of Peerage until the Reign of King Henry the Eighth yet were they persons of great note in Northumberland for many Ages before for in 25 H. 2. Henry de Maners paid Lxxx. Marks for Livery of his Father's Lands in that County From which Henry descended Robert de Maners of Ethale in that Shire who in 15 E. 3. obtained Licence of the King to fortify his Mannor-House there with an embatailled Wall of Lime and Stone And from him Iohn de Maners who in 1 H. 5. was Constituted Sheriff of the same County Which Iohn with Iohn his Son being guilty of the Death of William Heron Esq and Robert Atkynson at Etall as it seems though how is not expressed and prosecuted for the same by Sir Robert de Vmfravile Knight and Isabel then the Widdow of William Heron at length upon a Reference made by the persons on each part concern'd unto Iohn then Prior of Durham and Thomas Prior of Tinmouth there was an Award made bearing date 28 Sept. 9 H. 6. That the same Iohn Maners and Iohn his Son should cause five hundred Masses to be sung for the health of the Soul of the said William Heron within one year then next ensuing and pay unto Sir Robert de Vmfravile and Isabel to the use of her the said Isabel and the Children of the same William Heron CC. Marks in money This Iohn de Maners died seised of that Lordship of Erall in 17 H. 6. leaving Robert his Son and Heir Which Robert in consideration of his special services perform'd in the Marches toward Scotland had in 27 H. 6. a joint grant with Sir Henry de Percie Knight of all the goods and Chatals of Sir Robert de Ogle Knight who was then Outlaw'd In 33 H. 6. this Robert was made Sheriff of Northumberland so likewise in 3 E. 4. being at that time a Knight In which year Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick and Salisbury in consideration of his services done and to be done granted him an Annuity of xx Marks out of the Revenues of his Lordship of Barnard-Castle to be enjoy'd during his life And the next year following was Constituted Deputy to Richard Dâ—ke of Gloucester then Admiral of England Ireland and Aquitane for all the Sea-Coasts in the Bishoprick of Durâ—am from the Mouth of Tese to the Mouth of Twede And by Dame Alianore his Wife Daughter of Thomas and Sister and Coheir to Edmund Lord Roos had Issue George who had thereupon the Title of Lord Roos Which George took to Wife Anne the sole Daughter and Heir to Sir Thomas St. Leger Knight and Anne Dutchess of Exeter his Wife Sister to King Edward the Fourth And by his Testament bearing date 26 Oct. an 1513. 5 H. 8. bequeath'd his Body to be buried in the Church next unto the place where he should happen to die To the Abby of Rievaulx he thereby gave fifty Marks To the Abby of Kirkham fifty Marks and to the Abby of Wartre all in Yorkeshire fifty Marks to the intent that every of those Abbies should find an honest Priest to say Mass daily for his Soul by the space of seven years next after his decease and once every year perform his Obit in every of their Churches for his Soul and his Friends Souls Before the end of which year being with King Henry the Eighth at the Sieges of Therouene and Tournay he there fell sick and died and was buried near the high Altar in the Priory of Haliwell within the Suburbs of London leaving Issue by the said Anne his Wife Thomas Maners Lord Roos who in 14 H. 8. was Constituted Warden of the East-Marches toward Scotland and in 16 H. 8. had a special Livery of all the Mannors Castles and Lands descended to him from the Lady Alianore his Grandmother Sister and Coheir to Edmund Lord Roos as also from Isabel the other Sister and Coheir to the said Edmund Which Thomas was advanced to the Title and Dignity of Earl of Rutland upon the 28 th of Iune 17 H. 8. at the King 's Royal Palace of Bâ—idewell in the City of London and had thereupon an Augmentation to his antient Arms by reason of his Descent from the Sister of King Edward the Fourth viz. in chief querterly Azure and Gules on the first two Flower de Luces Or and on the second a Lyoâ— passant-gardant of the first The third as the second the fourth as the first In 22 H. 8. being one of the Peers then sitting in Parliament he subscribed that Declaration then sent to Pope Clement the Seventh Whereby he had intimation that unless he did comply with King Henry in that business of his Divorce from Queen Katherine the loss of his Supremacy in England would be much endangered Upon the Insurrection in Lincolâ—shire in 28 H. 8. occasion'd by the dissolution of the lesser Monasteries and certain Injunctions in matters of Religion he received Command together with the Earls of Shrewsbury and Huntington to require them by Proclamation upon peril of their lives to return to their due obedience And soon after that upon the like in Yorkeshire called The Pilgrimage of Grace offered his service in order to the suppreâ—â—ing thereof In 32 H. 8. he was Constituted Chief Justice in Eyre of all the King's Forests beyond Trent And in 33 H. 8. obtain'd a grant of the Mannor of Muston in Com. Leic. part of the possessions of the late dissolved Priory of Osulveston in that County Likewise of the â—annors of Waltham and Croxton in the samâ— County as also of the Mannors of Upwell Outwell Elme and Emnithe in the Counties of Norff. and Suff. part of the possessions of the late dissolved Monastery of Nun-Earon in Com. War Also of the Mannour of Braunston in Com. Northt part of the possessions of the Abby of Lilshull in Com. Salop. and of the Mannours of Billesdale and Helmesley with
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
Popes Supremacy and restoring it to the Crown of this Realm he was the only person who with the Earl of Shrewsbury then voted against it Again in 3 Eliz. being highly esteemed for his great Prudence though earnestly devoted to the Romish Religion as a person the more acceptable he was employed Ambassador into Spaine to satisfie the King of those Realms under his power what just cause Queen Elizabeth had to send an Army into Scotland where he laid open the necessity of the War and that the Religion than brought into England was no other then what was warranted by the Holy Scripture and agreeable to the four Oâ—cumenical Councils faintly also requiring that the antient Burgundian League made betwixt the English and that Kings Ancestors might be renewed But all that I have found farther memorable of him is that he was one of the Peers which sate upon Tryal of the Queen of Scots and having wedded two Wives first Iane daughter to Robert Earl of Sussex had issue by her Anthony his son and heir and a daughter called Mary first married to Henry Wriothâ—sley Earl of Southampton next to Sir Thomas Heneage Knight Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth lastly to Sir William Harvey Knight and Baronet created Lord Harvey of Rosse in Ireland And to his second Wife Magdalen Daughter to William Lord Dacres of Gillesland by whom he had Issue three sons viz. Sir George Brown Knight Thomas and Henry and three daughters Elizabeth wife of Sir Robert Dormer Knight afterwards Lord Dormer Mabel the second and Iane married to Sir Francis Lacon of Willey in com Salop. Knight and that departing this life at Horsley in com Sur. 19 Oct. An. 1592. 34 Eliz. he was buryed at Coudray Which Anthony his eldest son by Iane his first wife married Mary daughter to Sir William Dormer of Ethorp in com Buck. Knight and had Issue by her three sons Anthony Iohn and William and three daughters Dorothy Iane and Catherins but died in the life time of his Father scil ult Iunii An. 1592. 34 Eliz. she the said Mary surviving who afterwards married to Sir Edmund Vuedale Kâ— and lastly to Sir Thomas Gerard Knight To the before-specified Anthony Vicount Mountagu succeeded therefore in his Lands and Honor Anthony his Grandson viz. son of Anthony his eldest son so deceased in his life time by Mary his wife daughter of Sir William Dormer Knight Which Anthony took to wife Iane daughter to Thomas Sackvile Earl of Dorset Lord Treasurer of England and departing this life 23 Oct. An. 1629. 5 Car. 1. was buried at Midherst in Com. Suss. leaving Issue Francis his son and heir and six Daughters Mary first married to William Lord St. Iohn of Basing son and heir to William Marquess of UUinchester and afterwards to William second son to Thomas Lord Arundel of UUardour Catherine to William Tirwhit of Retilby in com Linc. Esquire Anne add Lucie both Nuns beyond sea Frances wedded to Iohn Blomer of Hethorp in Com. Glouc. Esquire and Mary to Robert Petre son and heir to the Lord Petre of UUrittle in Com. Essex afterwards Lord Petre. Which Francis now Vicount Mountague took to wife Elizabeth daughter to Henry late Marquess of UUorcester by whom he had issue two sons Francis and Henry and Elizabeth a daughter married to Christopher Lord Tenham Carey Lord Hunsdon 1 Eliz. OF this Family antiently seated at Cokkinton in Devonshire was the same William Carey who being in the Battel of Tewksbury in 10 E. 4. on the part of the Lancastrians upon the loss of that day was taken in the Church whereunto with others he fled for sanctuary and notwithstanding promise of pardon lost his Head This William had two wives viz. Anne the daughter of Sir William Paulet Knight from whom those of Eockington did descend and Alice the daughter of Sir Baldwin Fulford Ktby whom he had issue Thomas and he two sons Sir Iohn Carye Knight and William Which Sir Iohn by ... his wife sister of Sir Anthony Denny Knight left issue Sir Edward Carye Knight who by Catherine his wife daughter of Sir Henry Kâ—evet Knight and widdow of Henry Lord Paget had issue Henry afterwards created Vicount Falkland and made Deputy of Ireland Which Henry departing this life in An. 1633. 9 Car. 1. lest issue by Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir to Sir Laurence Tanfield Knight Lord chief Baron of the Exchequer Lucius his son and heir who married Letice the daughter of Richard Morison of Tooly-Park in Com Leâ—â— Esquire and being a person eminently learned and of exquisite parts was made choice of by the late King Charles of Blessed Memory for one of his Principal Secretaries of State Shortly after which out of the great zeal to his Majesties service in the rebellious times adventuring himself in the Battle of Newberie 20 Sept. An 1643. he there lost his life ¶ Having said thus much touching the descendents of Sir Iohn Carey the eldest son of Thomas I now come to William his second son This William being Esquire of the Body to King Henry the Eighth took to wife Mary daughter to Thomas â—ullen Earl of UUiltshire Sister to the Lady Anne second wife to King Henry the Eighth by whom he had Issue one son called Henry as also Catherine a daughter married to Sir Francis Knolles Knight of the Garter and dyed of the sweating sickness in An. 1528. 20 H. 8. being then of the Bed-chamber to that King Which Henry his Son in regard of his near Alliance to Queen Elizabeth being her Sisters son was knighted soon after her coming to the Crown and upon the thirteenth of Iannary next following advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Hunsdon and took his place in Parliament upon the twenty fifth of the same month accordingly In 5 Eliz. he was sent with the Order of the Garter to the King of France then at Lyons And in 10 Eliz. being made Governor of the Town and Castle of Barwick upon that Insurrection of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland which hapned shortly after marcht thence and had a smart skirmish with them at the River Gelt being then General of the Horse nevertheless they got from him into Scotland whereupon he prevailed with the Queen to proclaim pardon to all those whom they had drawn in to them in that desperate adventure And the next ensuing year accompanied the Earl of Sussex Lieutenant-General of the North in making divers Inroads into that Realm Also about two years after being still Governor of Barwick having
of August the same year confirmed in his office of Master of the Wards In 2 Iac. 20 Aug. he was created Vicount Cranburne at Whitehail being the first of that degree that ever used a Coronet and in 3 Iac. 4 Maii Earl of Salisbury at Greenwich Also 4 Maii 6 Iac. Lord Treasure of England he was likewise Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge And having married Elizabeth daughter of William Brooke Lord Cobham by whom he had issue one son called William and Frances a daughter married to Henry Lord Clifford then son and heir apparent to Francis Earl of Cuâ—berland dyed at Marlborough on sunday 24 Maii An. 1612. 10 Iac. and was buried at Hatfeild in com Hertf. To whom succeeded William his son and heir which William took to Wife Catherine the youngest daughter to Thomas Howard Earl of Suffolk by whom be had issue seaven sons Iames who died young Charles Robert Philip William Algernon and Edward and five daughters Anne wife of Algernon Earl of Northumberland and Elizabeth married to William Earl of Devon David who died unmarried Catherine to Philip Lord L'isle son and heir to Robert Earl of Leicester and Mary to William Lord Sandys Which Charles dying in his life time married Iane daughter and coheir to Iames Maxwell one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to King Charles the first afterwards made Earl of Derlton in Scotland and by her had issue seven sons viz. Iames who succeeded his Grandfather as also Robert Charles William Edward Henry and George all dead unmarried Likewise five daughters Catherine married to the Earl of Renoule in Scotland Frances Diana Penelope and Elizabeth who all three dyed young This William Earl of Salisbury being Knight of the Garter died the third of December An. 1668. and was buried at Hatfeild before-mentioned To whom succeeded Iames his grandson who married Margaret one of the daughters to Iohn now Earl of Rutland and by her hath issue four sons Iames Robert William and Charles and four daughters Catherine Francis Mary and Margaret Bartu Lord Willoughby of Eresby 22 Eliz. HAving in my discourse of the antient Lords Willoughby already shewed that Catherine the sole Daughter and heir to William the last Lord Willoughby of Ereâ—by first became the fourth wife of Charles Braundon Duke of Suffolk but by him left no surviving issue and afterwards of Richard Bartue Esquire from whom by her a noble off-spring is since descended I shall now take notice of what I have seen most memorable of this Richard As to his Parentage he was son to Thomas Bertu of Berested in Kent Captain of Hurst-Castle in the Isle of Wiht and had his Education first in Corpus Christ Coll. Oxon. of which House he was a Fellow and afterwards under Thomas Wriothesley Earl of Southampton sometime Lord Chancellor of England Being a person singularly accomplisht as may seem by his abilities in the French Italian and Latin Tongues he happily gained the affections of this great Dutchess a Lady most zealous for the Reformation begun in the time of King Edward the sixth Which being discerned by Stephen Gardner after that by Queen Mary he was restored to his Bishoprick of Winchester he was sent for by him in the first year of her Reign and amongst some questions touching his Religion askt Whether the Lady his Wife was now as ready to set up Mass as she had been to pull it down when in her progress she caused a Dog in a Rochet to be carried and called by his name Whereupon having advertisement by his friends that the Bishop meant to call the Dutchess his wife to an account of her Faith and fore-seeing the danger he made means to get the Queens licence to travail beyond sea under colour of looking after such Debts as were due from the Emperor to the late Duke of Suffolk his Ladies former Husband And having obtained it passed the â—eas at Dover about the beginning of Iune the same year leaving her behind who afterwards in Ianuary next ensuing went by five of the clock in the morning from her house in Barbâ—can in the habit of a mean Merchants wife to Lyon-Key taking with her her only daughter an Infant of one years old four of her meanest Men servants viz. one a Greek by birth an Horse-Rider the second a Joyner the third a Brewer the fourth a fool belonging to her Kitching also one Gentlewoman and one Laundress Thence passing to Leigh in Essex she there took Ship and after much tossing by contrary winds and no little danger by searchers landed in Brabant where she apparail'd her self and her women like those of that Country with Hukes And thence with her Husband whom she met there went to Santon in â—leveland Where staying a while and discerning that they were like to be questioned for their Religion by the Bishop of Arras they were necessitated to hast away on foot with the Child and two of the servants to Wesel a Hanse-Town in the Duke of Cleve's Dominion priviledged with a Company of the Still-yard London-Merchants to which place divers Walloons were also fled having for their Minister one Francis Perusel who had formerly received some curtesies in England from this Dutchess But being got thither extreamly weather beaten with rain and going from Inn to Inn for lodging could obtain none by reason he was suspected for a Lance-Knight and she his woman Resolving therefore to get shelter in the Church-Porch and to buy Coals to warm them there they hapned in the way to hear two young men speak Latine of whom in that Language inquiring to some Walloons house they were happily brought to the very house where Mr. Perusel had supped that night and then was In which being kindly entertained they changed Apparel with the good man and his wife and hired a House in that Town having got a protection from the Magistrats for their stay there But being at length known they could not with safety continue longer by reason of the Lord Pagets contrivance with the Duke of Brunswick to surprize them who was topass that way with some Troops for the Arch-Dukes service against the French Of which having private notice by Sir Iohn Mason the English Resident in the Netherlands they suddenly hasted to a Town called Winherm in High-Dutch-land in the Palsgâ—ave's dominion where they staid till their necessaries began to fail But at length in the midst of their despair received Letters from the Palatine of Uilua and the King of Pole who had heard of their distress by a Baron named Iohn Alasco sometime Resident in England with tender of large Curtesies in order to this great journey they consulted with Dr. Barlow afterwards Bishop of Chichester offering to make him their companion therein and thereupon sent
him with Letters of Thanks to the Palatine and some Jewels for a Present to sollicite the King of Pole that under his Seale they might enjoy what favours he had by his Letters so honourably offered Which being granted they set forth from Winheim in April An. 1557 3 4 Ph. M. towards Frankford but in their travel underwent divers great hardships with no little danger of their lives by the Lantgrave's Soldiers who by reason of a quarrel for a Spaniel which they had along with them thrust Boare-speares into the Waggon where the Dutchess with her Child and the other Women were and upon the pursuit of this Richard into a Village had murthered him but that he forsook his Horse and ran up a Ladder set to a Garret-window near the top of an house By which meanes escaping their sudden fury one of the Burgh masters came to him and brought another person who could speak Latine to whom submitting himself he presently dispatcht Letters to the Lantgrave and Earl of Erbagh dwelling within eight miles who thereupon repairing thither shew'd them such respect as properly belong'd to persons of their quality so that they passed on quietly towards Poland where they receiv'd curteous entertainment from the King and were honorably placed in the Earldome of Crozan in Sanogelia In which place having the absolute power of Governning they continued in great quietness and honor till the death of Queen Mary which shortly after hapned and then return'd into England In the time of those their Travels this most noble Lady brought him a Son whom by reason of his forrein birth he named Peregrinde His daughter whom he carried with him being called Susanna afterwards married to Reginald Earl of Kent and next to Sir Iohn Wingfeild Knight Which Peregrine was made a free Denizen in the Parliament of 1 Eliz. And upon the death of Catherine his mother hapning 19 Sept. An. 1580. 22 Eliz. having summons to that Parliament begun at Westminster by Prorogation upon the Sixteenth of Ianuary next ensuing as Lord Willoughby of Eresby took his place in the Horse according to the seniority of that Honor. Being thus possess'd of that great Inheritance and Dignity and having married Mary the daughter to Iohn Earl of Oxford by Margaret his second wife sister and heir of the whole blood to Earl Edward in An. 158â— 25 〈◊〉 to gether with the Earl of Leicester and divers other honourable persons he attended the Duke of Anâ—ou to Antwerp by the Queen's command which Duke had stay do 〈◊〉 England three Moneths in hopes of gaâ—â—ing her in marriage And before the end of that year was sent to Frederick the second King of Denmarkâ— with the Ensigns of the most Noble Order of the Garter In 29 Eliz. at the siege of Zutphen in the Netherlands upon a sharp encounter with the Forces of that Garrison in a Salley he overthrew George Cressiat at that time Commander in chief of the Horse and took him prisoner and in 30 Eliz. upon the â—â—ecess of Robert Earl of Leicester then General of the English Auxiliaries in those Provinces had the chief command of them in his stead After which in 31 Eliz. he most valiantly defended Bergen ap Zoam whereunto the Prince of Parma laid siege and for a farther encouragement to valour at that time conferr'd the honor of Knighthood upon Sir Francis Vere Sir Thomas Knolls and some others Sir Robert Naunton in his Fragmenta Kegalia says that he was one of the Queen's first Sword-men and a great Master of the Art Military In 32 Eliz. he was one of the Peers which sate upon Tryal of Philip Earl of Arundel and the same year sent General of Four thousand Auxiliaries into France in aide of the King of Navarr By his Testament bearing date at Barwick 17 Aug. An. 1599. 41 Eliz. he bequeath'd his body to be buried in the Parish-Church of Spillesby in Com. Linc. He also gave to Peregrine one of his younger sons afterwards Knight of the Bath that Ring with a Diamond which he had from the King of France when he served him there with a charge upon his blessing to transmit it to his heirs And departed this life in An. 1601. as seemeth by the Probate of that Testament leaving issue Robert his son and heir and three other besides Peregrine viz. Henry Vere and Roger as also Catherine a daughter married to Sir Lewes Watson of Rokingham-Castle in Com. North. Knight Which Robert in 1 Iac. having then summons to Parliament as Lord Willoughby of Eresâ—y upon the seventh of May took his place accordingly And thereupon making his claime to the Earldome of Oxford as also to the Titles of Lord Bulbeck Sandford and Badlesmere and to the Office of Lord High Chamberlain of England as son and heir to Mary the sole heir female of that great Family After much dispute had judgement on his behalf for that Office of Lord High Chamberlain as in my discourse of the Family of Vere Earl of Oxford is more fully shewed And being admitted into the House with his Staff upon the thirteenth of April the same year was seated above all the other Barons After which viz. 22 Nov. in the second year of King Charles the First he was advanc'd to the dignity of an Earl by the Title of Earl of Lindsey And in April 6 Car. 1. elected into the Society of the most Noble Order of the Garter Also in 7 Car. 1. made Constable of England 24 Nov. in order to the Tryal of the Lord Rea and David Ramsey in the Court Military Which Patent was revoked 20 Maii next ensuing And in 11 Car. 1. constituted Lord Admiral of the Kings whole Fleet. Also in 18 Car. 1. General of the Kings Royal Army for suppressing that unparallel'd Insurrection then raised by the practises of certain Members of that unhappy Long Parliament begun at Westminster 3 d Nov. An. 1640. under pretence of defending the Religion by Law establisht the Laws of the Land Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament Whereupon being in the Head of his Command in the Battel of Kineton fought upon the 23 d of October An. 1642. and there receiving a mortal wound he was taken prisoner and brought to Warwick-Castle where he departed this life the same night After which his Corps was carried to Edenham in Com. Linc. and there buried Leaving issue by Elizabeth his wife the only child of Edward Lord Mountagu of Boughton by Elizabeth his first wife daughter of Sir Iohn Geffrey Knight Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer eight sons viz. Sir Mountagu and Sir Roger Knights of the Bath Peregrine Francis Robert Henry Vere and Edward and five daughters Catherine Elizabeth Anne Sophia and Mary Which Sir Mountagu bearing the
to ... Cart a Divine Mary and Diana who died young Elizabeth wife of ... Vicount Strangford in Ireland Frances and Isabella Of which sons Philip who beareth the Title of Vicount L'isle married Catherine daughter to William Earl of Salisbury by whom he hath had issue a son called Robert who married Elizabeth daughter to Iohn Earl of Bridgwater and two daughters Dorothy the wife of Thomas second son to Sir Thomas Cheeke of Pergo in Com. Essex Knight and Elizabeth who died young Knolles Earl of Banbury 1 Iac. THough none of this Family arrived to the honor of Peerage till the beginning of King Iames his Reign yet were some of them men of great note in their times for Robert Knolles who was at first a person but of a low fortune betaking himself to a Military course of life made such advantage by the troubles in Normandy and Britanny as that in 32 E. 3. abounding with riches gotten by the Wars he became an eminent Commander e in those parts Whereupon in 41 E. 3. he was chosen by Prince Edward commonly called the Black-Prince to accompany him into Spain to the aid of Don Pedro then King of Castile and Leon against Henry the Bastard-son of King Alfonsus his father And in 44 E. 3. was made General of all those Forces which King Edward at that time sent into France In 1 R. 2. he was Governor of the Castle at Brest in Britanny and in 3 R. 2. went with Thomas of Wodstoke Earl of Buckingham and divers other brave men in aid of the Duke of Britanny against the French Whereupon landing at Calaâ—s they marcht quite through France without resistance This Robert also in 4 R. 2. upon that dangerous Insurrection of Iack Straw and his followers led on the Citizens of London for the suppressing thereof And besides these his Military Actions which made him famous in those dayes he built that stately Bridge over the River Medway near Rochester in Kent commonly called Rochester-Bridge and enlarged the House of Friers-Carmelites commonly called the White-Friers in the City of London He likewise Founded a Collegiate-Church of Secular Priests at Pontfract in Com. Ebor. And departing this life at his Mannor of Scene-Thorpe in Com. Norff. about the Festival of the Blessed Virgin 's Assumption in An. 1407. 7 H. 4. was buried with the Lady Constance his wife in the body of the Church at the White-Friers which he had newly builded From which Robert descended another Robert who in 9 H. 8. being then one of the Gentlemen-Huishers of the Privy Chamber had a Lease for certain years form the King to himself and Lettice his wife of the Mannor of Rothetfeild Gray commonly called Greys in Com. Oxon. and left issue Francis his son and heir Which Francis in 30 H. 8. obtain'd a Grant of that Lordship in Fee and in 34 H. 8. was one of that King's Gentlemen-Pensioners But upon the Reformation set on foot by King Edward the Sixth became so zealous for the Religion then profess'd as that when Queen Mary began to Reign and grew severe towards the Reformed he fled into Germany For which respect he had such esteem from Queen Elizabeth who stood totally affected to the Reformation as that in the first year of her Reign he was made choice of for one of her Privy-Council and shortly after that Vice-Chamberlain of her Houshold next Captain of the Guard afterwards Treasurer of her Houshold and lastly Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter It is also memorable of him that in 11 Eliz. he was trusted with the custody of the Queen of Scots then Prisoner at Bolton-Castle in Yorkshire and that in 29 Eliz. he was one of those who by Commission sate in judgment upon that unfortunate Lady Likewise that by Catherine his wife daughter of William Carie Esquire of the Body to King Henry the Eighth by Mary his wife daughter of Thomas Bullen Earl of UUiltshire as also sister to the Lady Anne second wife to King H. 8. he had issue William his son and heir and divers other Children Which William in 41 Eliz. being one of the Delegates for making Pace with the Dutch in 43 Eliz. was made Treasurer of her Houshold And in 1 Iac. by Letters Patent bearing date 13 Maii was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of Lord Knolles of Grays in com Oxon his chief seat the ceremony of his Creation being performed in the Tower of London Also upon the tenth of October An. 1614. 12 Iac. made Master of the Wards And within a short time following Knight of the Garter Moreover upon the seventh of November 14 Iac. he was raised to the dignity of a Vicount by the title of Vicount Wallingford and upon the 18 of August 2 Car. 1. created Earl of Banbury He first married Dorothy daughter of Edmund Lord Bray sister and coheir to Iohn Lord Bray widdow of Edmund Bruges Lord Chandos by whom he had no issue and afterwards * Elizabeth eldest daughter to Thomas Earl of Suffolk by whom he had likewise no issue as the Certificate subscribed by her the said Elizabeth who survived him doth testifie And departing this life 25 Maii An. 1632. being then eighty eight years of age lyeth buried in the Church of Grays before-mentioned But notwithstanding this her Certificate and an Inquisition taken after his death importing as much it was not long after ere she married Nicholas Lord Vaux and produced two Sons viz. Edward who by reason of a suddain quarrel hapning on the Road-way betwixt Calais and Gravelin was there slain and buried in the Church of the Friers Minims at Calais the other Nicholas was frequently called Earl of Banbury but never had summons to Parliament Lord Wotton 1 Iac. OF this Family the first touching whom I have seen any considerable mention is Robert Wetton of Bocton Malherbe in Com. Cantii Knight who by Anne his wife daughter and coheir of Henry Belknap had issue two sons Sir Edward Wotton Knight and Nicholas Doctor of Law both of them persons famous in their times Which Sir Edward being of the Privy-Council to Henry the Eighth was in 37 of that Kings Reign made Treasurer of the Town and Marches of Calais as also constituted one of his Executors and by him assigned to be of Council to Prince Edward his son and successor being a person of such great abilities that he might have been Lord Chancelloor of England but that he modestly declined it Nor was his Brother Nicholas inferiour to him in point of learning and other excellent endowments being likewise of the Privy-Council to that King and one of his Executors as also his
dayes he dyed at his House in Cornbury-Park in the County of Oxford in the 71 year of his Age. Laus Deo Sacred Marble safely keep His Dust who under thee must sleep Vntill the years again restore Their Dead and time shall be no more Meane while if He which all things â—ears Does ruine thee or if thy Tears Are shed for him dissolve thy frame Thou art requited for his fame His vertue and his worth shall be Another Monument to thee G. Herbert Lord Gerard of Bromley 1 Iac. IN the first year of Queen Mary Gilbert Gerard a branch of the antient Family of the Gerards of Brin in Com. Lanc. which derive their descent from the great Geraldine-stock in Ireland having been a Student of Gray's Inne for some years was at length by reason of his profound Learning and Knowledge in the Laws made choice of for the Autumn-Reader there in the first year of Queen Maries Reign and in 2 and 3 Ph. M. joyn'd with Nicholas Bacon afterwards Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in the office of Treasurer for that Society In the time of which Queen as by credible Tradition I have heard upon the Lady Elizabeth's being question'd at the Council-Table he was permitted to plead there on her behalf and perform'd his part so well as that he suffred imprisonment for the same in the Tower of London during the remaining terme of Queen Maries Reign For which faithful service and other his great merits upon the 22 th of Iune in the first year of Queen Elizabeth he was constituted her Attorney-general and Knighted in 21 Eliz. In which trust he continued until the 23 d of her Reign and then upon the 30 th of May was made Master of the Rolls This Sir Gilbert built that stately Quadrangular Fabrick of Stone Leaded on the roof at Gerard's Bromley in Com. Staff his principal seat And by his Testament bearing date 8 Ian. An. 1592. 34 Eliz. bequeathed his body to be buried in Christian-burial and died shortly after as may seem from the probate thereof in Aprill next ensuing and lyeth buried at Ashley in Com. Staff where there is a noble Monument erected to his Memory but without any Epitaph leaving issue by Anne his wife daughter and heir to William Râ—tcliffe of UUâ—mersley in Com. Lanc. Esquire two sons Thomas and Ratâ—liffe and four daughters Frances married to Sir Richard Molineux Knight Margaret to Peter Leigh Esquire Catherine to Richard Houghton of Houghton in Com. Lanc. Esquire and Ratcliffe to ... Wingfeâ—ld of ... in Com ... All which four sons in Law had formerly been in Ward to him as I have credibly heard Which Thomas in 39 Eliz. being then a Knight and constituted Knight-Marshal of the King's Houshold for life upon the 21 th of Iuly 1 Iac. was advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Gerard of Gerard's Bromâ—ey before-mentioned Also in 14 Iac. 7 Martii to be the King's Lieutenant in the Marches of UUales commonly called Lord President He married two wives first Alice daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Rivet Knight by whom he had issue three sons Gilbert William and Iohn Secondly Elizabeth daughter of ... Woodford of ... in Com ... but had no issue by her and departing this life in An. 1618. was buried at Ashley before mentioned To whom succeeded in his honor Gilbert his son and heir who took to wife Eleanore the sole daughter and heir of Thomas Dutton of Dutton in Com. Cestr. Esquire by whom he had issue two sons Dutton and Thomas which Thomas died in his infancy and three daughters Allice married to Roger Owen son and heir to Sir William Owen of Cundover in Com. Salop. Knight Frances to Robert Nedham son and heir to Robert Vicount Kilmorey and Elizabeth to Sir Peter Leicester of Nether-Tabley in Com. Cestr. Baronet This Gilbert died An. 1622. leaving Eleanore his wife surviving who afterwards married to the said Robert Vicount Kilmorey Which Dutton his eldest son and successor had two wives first Mary daughter to Francis Earl of UUestmorland by whom he had issue only one son Charles and Mary a daughter married to Sir Anthony Cope of Hanwell in Com. Oxon. Baronet His second wife was Elizabeth daughter and coheir to Henry Earl of Thomond in Ireland by whom he had issue Elizabeth married to William Spenser of â—shton in Com. Lanc. Esquire a younger son to the Lord Spenser And dying the 22 th of Apr. An. 1640. being then 28 years of age was buried at Ashley To whom succeeded Charles his only son who married Iane the only surviving daughter and sole heir to George Digby of Sandon in Com. Staff Esquire and by her had issue one only son named Digby born 16 Iulii An. 1662. and departing this life upon the 28 th of December An. 1667. was buried at Ashley before-specified Lord Gerard of Brandon GReat-grandson to the before-mentioned Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight was Charles Gerard of Halsall in Com. Lanc. Esq viz. son and heir to Sir Charles Gerard Knight by Penelope his wife sister and coheir to Sir Edward Fitton of Gosworth in Com. Cestr. Kt. son of Raâ—cliff Gerard second son to the same Sir Gilbert by Elizabeth his wife daughter and heir to Sir Charles Somerset Knight of the Bath fourth son to Edward late Earl of UUorcester Which Charles having been trayned up in the Discipline of War from his youth in the United Provinces commonly call'd the Netherlands in the year 1642. taking notice of the danger whereunto our late Sovereign King Charls the First of blessed Memory was unhappily exposed by those armed Forces which the predominant party in the late Long Parliament had with an high hand raised against him under color of asserting the establisht Religion the Laws of the Land the Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament most loyally and opportunely repaired to His Majesty at Shrewsâ—uâ—y shortly after the erection of His Royal Standard at Notingham the same year And in a little time raising a Regiment of Foot as also a Troop of Horse at his own Charge for His Service behaved himself with great valor in divers sharp encounters First in the Battel of â—â—neton where he received some dangerous wounds and afterwards in sundry other Fights viz. at the taking of Litchâ—eild and Skirmish at Notingham-Bridge in the first Battel of Newberie and Reliefe of Newark Then as General to Prince Rupert in the parts of South-UUales where his great valor and judicious conduct made him famous for his Victories at â—aerdiffe â—idwelly and â—aermarthin and for his success in taking the Castles of Cardigan Emblin Laugherne and Roche as as also the strong Garrison of Haverford West with the Castles of Picton and Carew Besides these his personal Actings 't is not a little observable that he had two valiant Brothers viz. Edward a Colonel
Wentworth the Lord Rich the Lord Willoughby of Parham the Lord Hunsdon the Lord Russel the Lord Compton the Lords Norris Gerard Cavendish and Dormer With the Lady there was not much ado she with many teares confessing the Fact and desiring mercy But this Earl being the next day presented made some defence which served to no purpose for the Confessions of those who had suffered death already for the Fact and a Letter which he himself had sent to the King did so clearly convince him of being at least an Accessory that both himself and his Lady had Sentence of death passed upon them Nevertheless through His Majesties great Clemency their lives were spared The Issue which this Earl had by that Lady was only one daughter called Anne who at her Mothers death which hapned 23 Aug. An 1632. 8 Car. 1. was sixteen years of age and afterwards became the wife of William Earl of Bedford All that I have farther to say of him is that in Ianuary An. 1621. 19 Iac. he was freed of his Imprisonment in the Tower of London but confined to the House of the Vicount Wallingford and that departing this life ... Iulii An. 1645. he was buried upon the seventeenth day of the same moneth in the Parish-Church of St. Paul Covent-Garden in the Suburbs of London as appeareth by the Register of that Church Stuart Duke of Richmund 11 Iac. LOdowick son to Esme Stuart Duke of Lenor in Scotland and Grandson to Iohn Lord d'Aubignie younger brother to Mathew Earl of Lenor who was Grandfather to King Iames bearing the Title of Lord Darnley Tarbolton and Methven being also Lord great Chamberlain and Admiral of Scotland Lord Steward of the King's Houshold and Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter was upon the sixth of October 11 Iac. advanced to the dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord Settrington of Settrington in Com. Ebor. as also created Earl of Richmund And upon the 17 th of May 21 Iac. Earl of Newcastle upon Tine and Duke of Richmund This Lodowick married three wives First ... Rutâ—bven sister to the late Earl Gowrie in Scotland Secondly ... sister to Sir Hugh Campbell widow of Robert Montgomerie of Eglinton in that Realm and lastly Frances daughter of Thomas Vicount Howard of Bindon widow of Edward Earl of Hertford But by none of these having any issue he departed this life at Whitehall upon the eleventh day of February An. 1623. 21 Iac. as he was making ready to go to the Parliament then sitting Whereupon he had an Honourable Burial in King Henry the Seventh's Chapel at Westminster and a stately Tombe erected to his memory with this Epitaph Depositum illustrissimi excellentissimi Principis Ludovici Stuarti Esmei Leviniae Ducis silii Joannis propatrui serenissimi Regis Jacobi Nepotis Richmondiae Leviniae Ducis Novi-Castelli as Tinam Darnliae Comitis c. Magni Scotiae Camerarii Thalassiarchae hereditarie Sacri palatii Jacobi Regis Seneschalli Cubiculariorumque principalium primi Regi à sanctioribus consiliis San-Georgiani ordinis equ Scoticorumque per Gallias cataphractorum praefecâ—i Viri excelsi ad omnia magna Bonâ nati ad meliora defuncti Vixit annos 49 menses 4 dies 17. Illustrissima excellentissima princeps Francisca Richmondiae Leviniae Ducissa domini Thomae Howardi Bindoniae filia Thomae Howardi Norfolciae Ducis ex Elizabetha Edovardi Ducis Buckinghamiae filiâ Neptis Ludovici Stuarti Richmondiae Leviniae Ducis uxor Charissimi conjugii nunquam non memor conjugi optime merito sibique posuit hoc Monumentum Obiit octavo die mensis Octobris Anno Dom 1639. Which last Wife survived him and was buried in the same Royal Chapel at Westminster A younger Brother to this Duke was Esmâ— Stuart who bore the Title of Lord d'Aubignie a place so called lying in the Dutchy of Auvbergne in France by reason that Robert Stuart brother to Iohn Earl of Lenox Great-grandfather to the before-specified Iohn had that Lordship of Aubignie given unto him by King Charles the Sixth of France for his singular Valor and Military skill being Commander of certain Forces in his service Which Esme was created Lord Leighton of Leighton Bromswould in Com. Hunt and Earl of March 7 Iunii 17 Iac. And married Catherine the sole daughter and heir to Gervase Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromswould by Catherine his wife the daughter and sole heir to Sir Henry Darcy of Brimham in Com. Ebor. Knight and by her had issue seven sons Iames born at Blackfriers in London 6 Apr. An. 1612. Henry Francis George Lodowick Iohn and Bernard And four daughters Elizabeth married to Henry then called Lord Maltravers son and heir to Thomas late Earl of Arundel Catherine who died young Anne married t to Archibald Douglas son and heir to the Earl of Angus and Frances to Hierome Weston son and heir to Richard late Earl of Portland Lord Treasurer of England And succeding his Brother Lodowick in his Titles of Duke of Richmund c. departed this life the next ensuing year Of these sons Iames the eldest bearing the Title of Earl of March and Baron of Leighton Bromswould was created Duke of Richmund 8 Aâ—g An. 1641. 16 Car. 1. and to the heirs-male of his Body with remainder to all his Brothers successively and the issue-male of their bodies respectively He was also Lord Great Chamberlain and Admiral of Scotland Lord Steward of His Majesties Houshold Warden of the Cinque-ports Gentleman of the Bedchamber and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And having married the Lady Mary the only daughter to George D. of Buckingham died 30 Martii Anno 1655. and was buried with Lodowick Duke of Richmund and Lenox his Uncle on the South-side of King Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster leaving issue Esme his onely son who succeeded him in his Honors but died in France in An. 1660 being at that time about ten years of age as also Mary a daughter married to Richard Earl of Arran second son to Iames now Duke of Ormund Of the younger sons of Esme Earl of March and Duke of Richmund Henry and Francis died young Lodowick was a Religious-profest having the Title of an Abbot in France And George called Lord d'Aubignie putting himself in Armes for the King against those Forces raised by the power of those predominant Members of Parliament sitting at Westminster under colour of defending the establisht Religion the Laws of the Land Liberties of the Subject and Priviledges of Parliament was slain in the Battel of Kineton 23 Oct. An. 1642. and buried in the Quire of the Cathedral called Christs-Church in Oxford leaving issue by the Lady Catherine his wife daughter to Theophilus Earl of Suffolk Charles his son and heir and one daughter called Catherine Baroness Clifton of
Chamberlain the Earls of Arundel and Montgomery with the Vicounts L'isle Walingford and Fenton being witnesses thereto And upon the Thirtieth of Ianuary the next year following made him Lord High Admiral of England Ireland and Principality of Wales After which upon the fourth of February he was sworn of the Privy-Council As also about this time made Chief Justice in Eyre of all the Parks and Forests South of Trent Master of the King's Bench-Office High-Steward of Westminster and Constable of Windsore Castle In 21 Iac. being sent with the Prince into Spain to accelerate the marriage then in agitation with a daughter of that King they began their Journey from Court on Tuesday 18 Feb. 1623. with disguised Beards and Names viz. Thomas Smith and Iohn Smith attended only by Sir Richard Grabam Master of his Horse Riding post to Canterbury where they took fresn Horses they were stopt by the Mayor as suspicious persons whereupon this Marquess was constrain'd to take off his Beard and to tell him that he was going in that covert manner to take a private view of the Fleet being Admiral At Dovor they found Sir Francis Cottington the Prince his Secretary and M r Endymion Porter who had provided a Vessel to transport them And landed at Boâ—oâ—ne whence they rode that night to Monstruel and came to Paris on Friday following 22 Febr. Thence having spent one whole day there to view the City and Court they got to Bayâ—ne the utmost Town of France in six dayes and so in four dayes more viz. Wednesday 5 Martii to Madrid Where within a short time there had like to have hapned a great difference betwixt him and Conde d' Olivares upon pretence that he had given some intimation of the Prince his Conversion to the Romish-Religion which he dissavowed As to what passed there in reference to that Match or otherwise I shall not take upon me to make any relation referring it wholly to our Annalists only taking notice that during his stay there a Present was made to him by the Governor of that Rich Cloth of State which was borne over the King of Spain and Prince of England upon the Princes solemn entrance into that Town Also that he there receiv'd a Complemental Letter from the Pope Gregory the Fifteenth inciting him to be instrumental for restoring the Romish Religion in these Dominions Moreover that being there disrelish'd for his heighth of spirit French garb and taking upon him overmuch familiarity with the Prince he receiv'd some affronts which did not a little enrage him against the Conde de Olivares and that before his departure thence he obtained another Patent from King Iames bearing date 18 Maii 21 Iac. whereby he was created Earl of Coventre and Duke of Buckingham His departure with the Prince from Madrid was upon the 12 th of September An. 1623. and arrival at Portsmouth upon the fifth of October ensuing Upon his return he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque-ports and Steward of the Mannor of Hampton-Court That Match being thus broke 't is said that he drew the Prince to take a Popular way and to close with those of the Privy-Council and Nobility who were most opposite to Spaine and best liked by the Puritans and that thereupon he projected the calling of a Parliament to gain the greater credit with the people Which so incensed the Spaniard that their Embassadors aspersed him with a design to take off K. Iames and dispose of him to his Country-Houses and Pastimes the Prince having years and abilities sufficient for publick Government and that he had strucken in with all popular men viz. Oxford Southampton Essex Say and others endeavouring to raise an opinion of his own greatness and to lessen the King As also that thereupon they advised His Majesty to rid Himself of this Captivity But long it was not after this that King Iames died at Theobalds Whereupon he was made Lord High Steward for the Coronaâ—â—on-day of King Charles the First and sent with the Earl of Holand to the States of the United Provinces to Treat with them and with the Ministers of other Confederate-Princes touching a common diversion for recovery of the Palatinate At which time being in those parts he purchased a choice Collection of Arabick Manuscripts gained in remote Countries through the Industry and diligence of Erpinius a famous Linguist Which Manuscripts were after his death bestowed on the University of Cambridge whereof he was Chancelor whereunto he intended them As he had been the chief Favourite of King Iames so was he to King Charles whose marriage with a daughter of France being consummated by a Proxie there he was sent to conduct her into England and accordingly came to Paris upon the 24 th of May An. 1625. Also after his return he was imploy'd with the Earl of Holand to the Hague for entring a League with the States of the United Provinces against the Emperor and King of Spain But before the revolution of that year a Parliament being call'd at Westminster and therein a great noise made of sundry Grievances notwithstanding he had much pleased the people in being the chiefest Instrument for breaking the Spanish-Match the Commons fell sharply upon him as the prime cause of all Publick-miscarriages framing divers Articles against him chiefly grounded on Common Fame Against all which clamour the King Himself did most graciously vindicate him Notwithstanding all which in the Parliament at Westminster the next ensuing year the Earl of Bristoll who had been Embassador in Spain in order to the Prince's Marriage exhibited Articles against him of high concernment the House of Commons also impeaching him very sharply But therein nothing was done by reason of that Parliaments dissolution soon after That which I find in the next place most memorable of him is That the King discerning the House of Austria to aime at the ruine of the Reform'd Religion through Christendome and that they had prevailed with the French to obstruct the landing of Count Manfeild's Army contrary to promise with whom they should have joyn'd for Relief of the Palatinate which proved the loss of the whole Protestant-Party in Germany Also that notwithstanding His Majesty had by His Mediation prevailed for a Peace betwixt the King of France and his Protestant subjects that King did not only block up their Towns and Forts making great spoil upon them but seized no less than an Hundred and twenty English Ships with their Merchandize and Artillery He therefore raised considerable Forces to vindicate these their injurious dealings making this Duke General of them as also Admiral of his whole Fleet to the end that he might demand just reparation therein Whereupon setting saile from the West of England upon Wednesday 27 Iunii An. 1627. 3 Car. 1.