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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54500	Succint genealogies of the noble and ancient houses of Alno or de Alneto, Broc of Stephale, Latimer of Duntish, Drayton of Drayton, Mauduit of Westminster, Green of Drayton, Vere of Addington, Fitz-Lewes of Westhornedon, Howard of Effingham and Mordaunt of Turvey justified by publick records, ancient and extant charters, histories and other authentick proofs, and enriched with divers sculptures of tombs, images, seals, and other curiosities / by Robert Halstead.	Peterborough, Henry Mordaunt, Earl of, 1624?-1697.	1685 (1685)	Wing P1693; ESTC R21912	735,945	788

Surety of his most Royal Person and the maintenance of the Common Wealth of his Majesties most Loyal and obedient Subjects Given at London the Eighth of October the Third Year of his Highness's most Noble Reign Ri. Rich Cant. Will. Saint-John W. Northampton J. Warwick Arundell F. Shrewsbury Thomas Southampton Will. Petres Nicholas Wotton John Baker A Letter from the Lord Mordaunt to Queen Mary To the most High Mighty and Excellent the Queen's Majesty IT may please your most Excellent Majesty of your most abundant and accustomed Goodness to be a good and most gracious Sovereign Lady to me your Faithful Obedient and True Subject and to pardon me of my rude Writing unto your most Excellent Highness coacted and constrained so for to do for Declaration unto your said most Princely and gracious Goodness of such things as your most Excellent Highness hath been informed of against me First That your Highness should be much offended with me for that I was so prompt and ready for to set forth Proclamation of the Title of the late Usurper Lady Jane and to reject your most gracious Highness's Letters and Proclamation And also That I should stay the Country that they should not repair to your most Excellent Highness as their Hearts were bent which Surmises are in every part and in the whole not true Most humbly submitting my self to your most merciful gracious Goodness and to such Order as shall be taken by your Highness and your most Honourable Council for Declaration of my truth to your most Excellent Highness in this behalf and according to my abounden Duty as an Old Man by your most gracious Sufferance dwelling here in your County of Bedford shall pray to God daily for the prosperous Preservation of your most Imperial Reign long to continue This Third of August 1553. Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant and Subject John Mordaunt A Letter from Queen Mary to the Lord Mordaunt dispencing him to come to the Parliament in the First Year of her Reign To our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen RIght Trusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where we lately addressed our Writ unto you for your Attendance at our next Parliament to be holden at Westminster the First day of October next We let you wit that in consideration of your Age and Impotency we have thought good to License you and by these presents do give you License to be absent from our said Parliament our said Writ or any thing contained therein notwithstanding And these our Letters shall be your sufficient Warrant and Discharge in that behalf Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Fourteenth Day of September in the First Year of our Reign A Letter from the Queen to the Lord Mordaunt Sir John Mordaunt and others To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt to our Trusty and welbeloved Counsellor Sir John Mordaunt Knight and to our Trusty and welbeloved Sir Edward Saunders and Sir John Saint-John Knights and to every of them Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where it hath pleased Almighty God so to direct our Heart that a Treaty is of late concluded for a Marriage to be solemnized within this our Realm between our dearest Cousin the Prince of Spain and Us with such Covenants Parts and Agree ments for the preservation of the Laws Liberty Surety and Honour of our Realm as may appear by the Articles herewith sent unto you We understand that certain ill-disposed Persons meaning under the pretence of Mislike of this Marriage to Rebel against the Catholick Religion and Divine Service restored within this our Realm and to take from us their Sovereign Lady and Queen that Liberty which is not denied to the meanest Woman in the choice of their Husbands cease not to spread many false vile and untrue Reports of our said Cousin and others of that Nation moving and stirring our good and Loving Subjects by these and sundry other devilish ways to Rebel and enter a new Commotion to the great peril of our Person and utter Subversion of our whole Realm if speedy Remedy be not provided For remedy thereof and to the intent our Loving Subjects may the better understand this unnatural Conspiracy and the falsehood thereof Our pleasure is You shall not only cause the said Articles herewith sent to be Published in all parts of that our County sending abroad Copies and by such other good means as you may think best but also that you and every of you taking diligent heed to the Preservation of the Peace and Charge committed unto you do cause the Authors and Spreaders of these or any other false Bruits and Rumors to be apprehended and committed to Ward otherwise punished as the Quality of their Offences shall merit For the better doing whereof our Pleasure is You shall assemble together immediately upon the sight of these our Letters taking such order for Division of your selves into sundry Hundreds and parts and for the Publication of the said Articles Admonition of any good Subjects and Stay of the rest as may best stand to the Quiet of that our Country whereby you shall shew your selves our good and obedient Subjects which we will always be glad to consider towards you as occasion may serve Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Twenty fourth day of Jamary the First Year of our Reign A Letter from Queen Mary to the Lord Mordaunt To our Right trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Mary the Queen By the Queen TRusty and welbeloved we greet you well And where we be sundry ways informed That Thomas Wyat and some others have of late by spreading abroad most false and vain Rumors procured to stir our subjects of our County of Kent to rise against our Crown and Dignity Royal. Albeit we have already taken such Order as we doubt not shall be sufficient to repress and overthrow this unnatural Conspiracy Yet nevertheless have we thought convenient to require you to put your self in convenient Order and Readiness with as many of your Servants and Tenants as ye can make both on Horseback and on Foot to be in readiness to march and set forwards upon one hours Warning either against the the said Rebels or such other ways as shall be signified unto you by Us. And in the mean time to have good regard to the good Order and Quiet of the parts where ye dwell causing all such Idle and Leud Persons as shall either by spreading of false Rumors or by any other means attempt to stir or disquiet our Loving Subjects to be Apprehended and Punished as the Quality of their Offences shall deserve Given under our Signet at our Maner of St. James's the Six and twentieth day of January the First Year of our Reign A Letter from the King and Queen to the Lord Mordaunt To our Trusty and welbeloved the Lord Mordaunt Philip and Mary the

but their happening a conjuncture which rendered those of his profession under much suspicion and jealousy from the Proceedings of that Conspiracy called The Gunpowder Treason which if it had succeeded would have been of so cruel a consequence This worthy Lord was envolv'd in the unhappy troubles it produc'd to most of his perswasion For upon surmise of his holding correspondence with the Traytors the innocent Lord in the Seventh Year of King James the First was seized in his House and committed Prisoner to the Tower for which there could be never produc'd other grounds than his professed Religion his being absent from that Parliament which was upon leave and some neighbourly correspondences he had held with Sir Everard Digby and certain others of the conspirators which were but slender Reasons for so large Sufferings His Lordship thereupon was severely Fined and so long kept a Prisoner that by the distruction of his Health it brought him finally to his Grave after which his Innocency sufficiently appear'd to convince his persecutors of the Injustice of their severe dealings His Issue John Lord Mordaunt first Earl of Peterborow James Mordaunt first married to Mary Tirringham after to ....... Gostwick from whom is descended John Mordaunt of ...... in the County of Leicester Lewis Mordaunt that dyed without Issue by his Wife ...... Smith the Widow of Sir Robert Throgmorton Frances Mordaunt married to Sir Thomas Nevill Eldest Son of the Lord Abarganey Elizabeth that dyed unmarried Margaret that dyed unmarried Anne that dyed unmarried JOHN Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton CHAPTER XVI JOHN Lord Mordaunt being young and under years at the Death of his Father and remaining in the care and government of his Mother the Lady Margaret Mordaunt who was a Zealous as well as a Publick Professor of the obnoxious and suspected Religion after he came of an age capable of taking important impressions was by the command of King James the First as an act of State taken out of that Lady's custody and committed to be brought up in the House and under the direction of his Grace George Abbot at that time Archbishop of Canterbury Where he lived for a while till he was thought fit to be sent to improve his Studies at Oxford In this University this young Lord flourished in the liking and esteem of every body He enjoy'd many perfections of Body and Mind He was very Beautiful Ingenious Affable and Applicable to all was good and useful and there he remain'd the Star of the University till King James the First coming to Oxford in a Progress took him from that place to follow the Court designing him to such kind of farther improvement as might render him in time more useful to his Service and the Government The first testimony he gave him of his Favour was to quit him of the Fine had been imposed upon his Father of Ten Thousand Pounds for his being suspiciously absent from the dangerous Parliament and to set him at liberty from any burthens of Obligations might come upon him by reason of his Wardship of which by the King's Command he was discharg'd He commanded his attendance in his first Journey he made back to Scotland during which that Gracious King gave him so many particular marks of his Favour and Kindness As to standers by Fortune and occasion never seem'd to present themselves to any with more fairness to be taken hold upon than to this young Lord. But in fine he was not born to the advancement of his House and a humor he had which was averse to Constraint and indulgent to all his own Passions gave way afterward to anothers entrance into Favour who was design'd for all the Greatness England could give Notwithstanding the Great and Unfortunate Charles Son and Successor to this King conferr'd upon him the Dignity of an Earl under the Title of Peterborow gave him the Lieutenancy and Government of the Province where he lived besides many invitations to his nearest Affairs and Councils But the destiny of this Lord carried him to other purposes for having Married Elizabeth Howard the Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham and sole Heir to that Family which had bred so many Admirals and Great Officers of State he was invited by her that had receiv'd some disgust at Court and was a Lady of a very haughty Spirit to take part with those unhappy Reformers who at last destroy'd all they pretended to amend and this Lord with much regret for having been engag'd among those unfortunate Politicians at last ended his life of a Consumption in the Second Year of the Civil War leaving Issue Henry Earl of Peterborow John Lord Viscount Mordaunt Married to Elizabeth Cary. Elizabeth Mordaunt Married to Thomas Lord Howard of Escrick HENRY Earl of PETERBOROW Peer of England Lord Mordaunt Lord Baron of Turvey Groom of the Stole and First Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to King JAMES the Second Lord Lieutenant of the County of Northampton and One of the Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council CHAPTER XVII HENRY Lord Mordaunt although at his coming into the World he found the greatest part of Men enclined to Rebellion and defire of change both in the Government of Church and State Yet having been bred under well principled Masters in the Royal College of Eaton in the Company of several young Lords of great Quality whose Education was inspected by the Learned and Memorable Sir Henry Wotton at that time retired from sundry Embassies and Employments to the Provostship of that place He received such a tincture of Duty to his Prince and Love to the Monarchy as neither Hazards Disappointments Hard Usage nor any difficult Circumstances could ever afterward extinguish I leave the particulars of his Childhood and early Youth and come to meet him at his first appearance in the City of York where he accompanied his Father who came to attend the King at his Great Council which he had called in order to take Resolutions about the Scotch War and the ensuing Parliament The English Army that had been Raised for the Defence of the Kingdom lay Encamped about the Town among the Souldiers this young Lord continually appear'd at the Musters at the Reviews and at the Exercises whereat he was always present and being not then in his Seventeenth Year he intended if the War had proceeded to have personally engaged in all the Actions and Successes of it In the Assemblies of the Council he did ever constantly attend to hear the Debates of the most important matters were agitated there being admitted thereunto in Quality of a Peer's Son who had all place behind the King as in Parliament But at last the Cessation being made and a Parliament resolv'd upon the King return'd to London and the Young Lord with his Father to his House in order to ●●ake preparation for their attendance in that occasion The time come for the